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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1958
Page
3
Indian Prime Minister Nehru, after requests from the Congress party, drops his plan to retire and seclude himself in the Himalayas. He cites the need to think and to counter rising opposition while acknowledging the hurtful atmosphere in public life.
Billy Graham spoke to an overflow audience at the Cow Palace in San Francisco about the sermon Jesus wrote in the sand. Officials counted over 18 000 in the 16 500 seat hall with 4900 turned away. The crusade has drawn 117000 attendees in a week and raised 34000 in six days while telecast costs exceed 75000.
Mrs. T. T. Carpenter of 1901 Texas Ave died at West Texas Hospital about 4 pm Saturday. A 75 year old resident of Lubbock for 45 years born in Mississippi in 1882 she moved from Paris in 1913. She was a member of Broadway Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband a son Ralph and four brothers and four sisters and two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are with Sanders Funeral Home.
Wichita Falls event attracts about 1200 engineers geologists and others for the 3rd Biennial Secondary Recovery Symposium. Moweley 34 construction superintendent collapsed from a heart attack Saturday while aiding sandbag efforts around a pipeline plant five miles north of Snyder. Survivors include two daughters Mrs Mary Davidson Texarkana and Mrs Evelyn Chunn Snyder.
A rain slicked U S Highway 72 north of Amarillo left Mercer Leon Morris 19 Sunray Texas dead two hours after hospital admission. In the other car five children aged 3 to 4 and two adults Jose A Martinez and Juana Mira Martinez of San Antonio were seriously or critically injured. Police believe all seven were from one family. A second item notes work beginning on an 80000 building for Union Special Machine Co in Dallas by G E Miller Construction Co president Giles E Miller.
The Harris County Grand Jury urged withholding crime information from newspapers until the police chief authorizes release. Editors across Texas condemned the idea as undemocratic censorship. Chief Carl Shuptrine said he does not favor censorship and cited public interest in openness.
The Moiseyev Dance Company wrapped a three week New York debut with an encore American square dance at the Metropolitan Opera House. The crowd clapped to Turkey in the Straw and sang Hail, hail, the gang's all here as the troupe prepared for a two month cross country tour.
In Columbia South Carolina a blind cocker spaniel named Topsy relies on a seeing eye cat named Tom. Owners Mr and Mrs W E Titlow describe how the cat leads Topsy outdoors and through the yard guiding her by sound and scent. Tom now stays close, sometimes leading from shrubbery near the Titlow home.
The Terry County project appears in Texas May road work bids with 14.5 miles on State 137 and Farm 3 near Brownfield for grading structures and surfacing. A Martin County project covers 16.3 miles on State 349 from Farm 87 to the Dawson County line. The Highway Dept. lists 1,264 miles of work for May, including 259 miles under the federal emergency program.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Calvary Baptist Church for W. L. Cleveland 78 of Brownfield who died Friday in Treadaway Danell Hospital. The Rev Warren Stowe will officiate with the Rev A J Franks assisting. Burial in Terry County Memorial Cemetery under Brownfield Funeral Home directions. Cleveland moved from Johnson community in 1939 to farm then relocated to Brownfield in 1945. Surviving are two sons five daughters four sisters 22 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.
Funeral services for F. L. Johnson 85 retired Brownfield Rt 2 farmer who died Friday in a Seminole Hospital will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Wellman community Methodist Church with Rev W H Fox of Amarillo officiating. Burial will be in Seminole Cemetery under Brownfield Funeral Home. Survivors include his wife two sons C L of Denver City and Luther of Roswell N M two sisters Mrs Kate Hazes Grand Saline and Mrs Dolly Anderson Fort Worth two daughters Mrs May Stinnett Roswell and Mrs Jewel Pates of California six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Funeral services are set for Toni Irene Allen 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Allen at Roaring Springs Methodist Church at 3 p.m. Sunday. She died Thursday at Laughlin Air Force Base Hospital Del Rio after a sudden illness. Survivors include her parents, maternal grandmother Mrs. W. A. Lewis Sr. and Elton Allen of Chicago, with out of town relatives from Tulsa Gadsden and Lubbock attending.
Harvey D. Johnson 38 died Friday night in an Odessa hospital after a short illness. Survived by wife Dorothy Holland of Tohopeka, daughter Brenda Kay 11, son Kendall 5, mother Mrs. C. C. Johnson Seminole. A 32nd Degree Mason and First Baptist Odessa member, he sold for Walker-McDonald Bit Co. of Dallas. Funeral 2 pm today at Odessa First Baptist Church. burial Seminole. Mr and Mrs J H Dyer to attend rites.
M E Ellis 86 retired farmer died 7 am Saturday at Amhe Hospital after six months illness. Funeral 3 pm today at Earth First Methodist Church with Rev Pasy Blaylock and Rev Eugene Matthews officiating. Burial in Earth cemetery directed by Lemons Funeral Home. He lived in Earth 20 years after moving from Vinson Oklahoma. Born June 26 1871 in Holly Springs Mississippi. Survived by daughter Mrs Elmer Cates Pierce City Missouri five sons S O Elmer E Morman M Ellis Monett Missouri George Ellis Pierce City Harold Eliaarth half brother Earl Blanton and half sister Mrs B H Adams plus 18 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles made a short Saturday stop in Prestwick on route to a NATO conference in Copenhagen to view the birthplace of poet Robert Burns.
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