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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1956
Page
4
The United Steelworkers study contract proposals from U S Steel Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel as June 30 strike deadline looms. A tentative counter offer nears 5 cent an hour package with wage hike and guaranteed annual wage.
In a House HUAC hearing on fraudulent Communist uses of U S passports, Paul Robeson clashs with committee members and is cited for contempt. The piece notes passports as a common Communist racket with forged first class passes selling for 3 000 to 5 000 dollars.
Los Angeles reports Jack O Leary, once frail after an appendix rupture led to an eight year hiccup siege, now lives normally. He says the hiccups stopped while watching TV and only rarely return, having sought help from over 210 doctors and receiving about 65 000 letters with advice.
Two cowboys died near Clarendon Texas when a horse threw Emmitt Johnson into a stock tank and Merle Scott who tried to rescue him followed and drowned. The accident occurred on the J A Ranch as cattle moved between pastures. Johnson was 18 from Lefors and Scott was 20 from Vega.
John Wilson, a county conservationist in Newton, solved a yard soil problem after high winds moved Iowa topsoil into roadside ditches. He gathered enough material to lay a good yard surface quickly.
Odessa Girl Scouts announce a Summer Activity Week from Monday to Friday at the Girl Scout House in Odessa. Adults and girls will learn arts and crafts folk dancing and choral music with instructors Mrs Lawrence R Fugit Becky Watts James Gambino and others guiding sessions. The program includes whittling candle making copper and aluminum foil work and plastics sketching. Local leaders assist and 95 troops and about 200 Girl Scouts are invited to participate with emphasis on working mothers without children.
Mrs. Joe Anson, 27, mother of a child fathered by a rapist airman, vows to forget the nightmare of nine months. The baby, born Tuesday, was placed with adoption authorities and will be kept out of public view. Welfare workers protect the child’s privacy as Denver and Alaska couples pursue adoption. The rapist, John D. Peters, 18, is serving 40 to 80 years in prison. Colorado law allows abortion only to protect the mother’s health.
Upton County 4 H Club hosts the All Kids Rodeo with about 100 youths under 16 in junior and senior divisions. Events include calf roping hair pulling team tying and barrel racing with no bronc riding. Rodeo ends Saturday and awards include silver buckles for each event and a hand tooled saddle for the overall champion.
Voters in Lovington approve a $1,300,000 school bond issue in a special election by 269 to 23. Funds fund physical-plant upgrades including an auditorium, with bonds issued over five years and a tax increase of $2.99 per thousand assessed value. Superintendent H C Pannell notes plans and committee figures support the plan.
A battle of songs will be held at 8 30 p m Thursday in St. John s Baptist Church 211 South Musk ingum. Competing groups are the Prayer wheel Gospel Singers and the Pilgrim Conquerors Quartet. The public is invited.
USDA reports Texas range feed at 68 per cent health on June 1, lowest for the season and seven points below the prior June 1 low. Cattle and calves at 75 per cent, ewes and lambs at 72 per cent. all below 10-year June averages as farmers enter summer with short, drying grass and poor statewide outlook.
The Texas Insurance Commission will hold hearings next month to determine if licenses should be revoked from five mutual burial and two mutual aid associations. The firms named include Ashcraft Funeral Insurance of Harlingen and Cate-Spencer Service Insurance of Sweetwater for mutual aids, plus Fair Burial Association and Keystone Burial Association of Houston, Turner Brothers Burial Association of Mount Pleasant, China Grove Burial Association of Marvin, and Plummer Burial Association of Bandera for burials. Plummer hearing set for July 1, others on July 9.
Last rites scheduled in Alvord Texas for J L Scott pioneer Hobbs resident who died in Bowie Tuesday night He was about 70 moved to Hobbs in 1928 and had been in failing health for months Services set for 230 p m with burial in an Alvord cemetery Rine Funeral Home of Alvord in charge Survivors include one sister and three brothers
In Golden Colorado a getaway car stalled at a service station as four men allegedly took 66 dollars and 46 dollars worth of spark plugs. They ordered 40 cents of gas while the owner helped, then fled. Deputies pursued and overtook them after the car would not start.
A Belleville police truck bore "Men Wanted For Police Department" signs on both sides. Civil service examinations were announced for five additional police hires and four fire department positions.
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