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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1960
Page
1
American photographer asks citizens if the United Nations has succeeded as it marks its 15th anniversary. Responses vary with opinions on peace, cooperation, and global leadership.
Marriage licenses issued for Calvin Horn ibeck and Mary Cooper. Criminal charges filed against G. B. Angin and Kefrauding Robert Gibbs for defrauding. driving while license suspended against Pearl Lindsey. appeal from corporate to district court noted. Civil cases include Eddie Lee Lockhart vs Claud Keefer for damages. Medical center lists patients admitted and dismissed on June 22 including Joyce Rubison Delia Garcia and many others. Births show Mr. and Mrs. Jerry B. Biggs announcing birth and details. City traffic accidents note injuries to Barbara Rader and Frankie Hall Treon and other couples with damages across several intersections.
Murphy Woodrow Williams and his wife Tona Williams were jailed on $5,000 and $3,000 bonds respectively after charges of mistreating the couple’s nine year old stepdaughter. Williams admitted mistreatment. Tona denies knowledge. Neighbors and a confiding neighbor alerted police.
Five Odessans from Ector County plan to attend the state convention of the Texas Justice of the Peace and Constables Association in San Angelo. Justices E. E. Nobles and A. P. Boyt from precincts three and four and constables L. B. Henson L. H. Byrd and Claude Toks will attend. Registration opens at 9 a.m. at the Cactus Hotel, with about 300 expected attendees, and the event runs through Sunday. Officers for the coming year will be chosen at the Saturday session.
Lincoln AP report says the cash box taken from the Lincoln Bible Institute was recovered on the steps of the First Coastian Church. It contained several checks but the $73 cash was gone, suggesting the thief fled with the money.
Services were held at 9am Friday in St Marys Catholic Church for Joe V Beard who died Wednesday at Medical Center Hospital. He lived in Odessa 18 years after moving from McCamey and worked as a mechanic for Delta Drilling Co. A World War II Navy veteran, he was a Catholic. Burial followed at Sunset Memorial Gardens with military rites. Survivors include his wife Zeither Beard, one son J W Beard, three sisters and three brothers, his mother Mrs Lederer Beard, and two grandchildren.
A $7,500 damage suit was filed in 70th District Court on Thursday over a June 13 traffic accident. Plaintiff Eddie Lee Lockhart seeks damages for injuries to herself and her two sons Edward G. and Randy, with Claud Keefer named as the negligent driver. The crash occurred at Jackson and Third Streets.
G. B. Anglin, North Texas, was charged Thursday in Ector County Court with defrauding by issuing a worthless check. He allegedly passed a $10 hot check to Orvin Sherman.
A 12-year-old girl was pulled from an oil storage tank near her Northwest Odessa home after fracturing her right ankle in a fall. Firemen lowered a ladder and used a rope to rescue her, then she was treated at Medical Center Hospital and released.
Six theft cases were under investigation Thursday, including oilfield equipment valued at 529 dollars reported by General American Oil Company from a doghouse on a lease at Paul Moss Ranch west of Odessa. Other losses included a 210 dollar billfold from Mrs. S. E. Perry after visiting Andrews, a 60 dollar watch from Sammie Grubber’s home, a newspaper rack stolen west of Odessa, an air conditioner motor and water pump from C. W. Finton’s residence, and three car radios taken from T. A. Cochran’s car parked on North Texas.
Mrs. Leona Mallone age 4? died in Rankin at Upton County Hospital after a year illness. Funeral at 2 p.m. Friday Schmidt Funeral Home Chapel Denton with burial Cottage Hill Cemetery near Denton. Born February 19 1876 in Knoxville Tennessee, married George N. Mallone August 19 18 9 in Cottage Hill. Survivors: three daughters Mrs ALA Pool Denton 209 Beechwood Mrs H C Carismond Denton and Mrs J M Moses Denton. one brother W F Bozarth Shafter California. two sisters Mrs Martha Cox Hereford and Mrs Mary Bamnes Val Alsyne. two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
City Council Planning Board overrode five protests to approve a special permit for a Boy Scout building at Dath and Eisenhower amid objections about noise and property values. Hearing planned for July 12 before council action.
A 27-year-old Andrews cook, Walter Warren Harden, is charged with two counts of theft in Odessa for stealing two station wagons. Police say Harden fled after being chased by a victim, Laurence Roberts of Roberts Hardware, who tracked him through Northwest Odessa and led to Harden being returned to the store. Harden also faces theft charges for taking a station wagon from J. W. Rich and selling its tires and wheels.
Odessa Fire Department answered three alarms Wednesday and Thursday. A rear residence at 210 North Texas owned by Mrs Thalia Brown burned heavily with a mattress and furnishings damaged after fumes from gasoline and paint remover ignited by a hot water heater. A mattress caught fire at 906 Del Rio in a home occupied by Pete Cuellar and a short circuit in an extension cord caused the blaze. A car fire at 17th and Grant damaged wiring and paint in a vehicle owned by J. C. Kusmeyer of 4411 Brazos.
MEMPHIS Tennessee AP A 38 year old grandmother Minnie Laura Box wife of an airman is hospitalized at Naval Hospital awaiting the birth of quadruplets due around August 21. The couple already raise four children ages 20 years to 20 months and have been married 22 years. Quadruplet births are rare about one in a million pregnancies. The Navy says the father Chief Aviation Technician Thomas A Box hoped to retire from the service in 1964 to enter the ministry but now faces uncertainty as the family prays for them.
A four engine American Airlines DC-7 narrowly arrives at Love Field, Dallas, with nose wheel and right landing gear collapsed as it touched down. Only two Continental Air Lines crew members aboard escaped injury. Pilot Capt. Thomas P. Gleason and cognot R. W. Cage, both from El Paso, ferried the plane from El Paso to Dallas. The aircraft skidded sideways and slid onto a grassy area, damaging landing gear, right wing and engines. The runway was examined by crash teams and ambulances. no ore reported.
Louisville set a new rainfall record with 5.14 inches in nine hours amid Thursday’s storm. Records from the United States Weather Bureau and local reporting estimate enormous totals and weights, noting the city’s area and the gallons per acre conversion.
Ike Scarborough testified that Mildred Ott threatened blackmail over nude pictures and a pregnancy claim. He described waiting in his driveway as Ott and Lionel Rothchild arrived in a car, then said he shot Ott when she pointed a pistol at him.
Houston UPI reports 14 year old Glenn Crosby, totally blind since age four, performs daring stunts with help from friends Rickey Caldwell and Danny Crosby. He bikes, skis behind boats on Lake Houston, climbs trees, wrestles for the Texas School for the Blind, and wins YMCA meets. Glenn credits pals Rickey and Danny for support and companionship.
A new tear gas burglar-chasing system failed to prevent a torch-cut entry at Paul Swanson's auto agency. Burglars pried into a safe, released gas, dropped the torch, and fled with about 10 000 dollars in cash and checks, according to United Press International from Gatos California.
Nashville AP report says Thomas E Parker told police he climbed a tree outside a nurses home to look for a bird nest. A nurse accused him of peeping. Police say Parker climbed about 50 feet and charged him with disorderly and offensive conduct.
Former FBI undercover agents Paul and Jane Miller discuss their decision to build a bomb shelter in their front yard and warn that the United States is in peril. Fidel Castro hints Cuba may confiscate remaining American businesses. Ford executive George Walker predicts rising popularity of compact cars. George Lincoln Rockwell signals plans to return to New York for a July 4 rally, citing Communist influence.
Police investigated five burglaries on Thursday, four of them in South Odessa taverns. Cigarette machines and a juke box were robbed at several locations on Magnolia Street. The La Fiesta Bar, Acapulco Bar, and Barralito Bar all reported break ins with unknown change taken. Gober Brothers Brick Company also reported theft of cigarettes and boots with $200 loss after a window entry.
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