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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1961
Page
1
An Associated Press survey across 60 cities finds business improving with cautious optimism but no boom. March marked the recession’s slight end, though the climb is uneven. Automakers and steel boost production. retail trade edges up. employment shows mixed progress and higher costs temper profits.
Texas Republican leaders announced a major fundraising push to finance a statewide primary in 1962 and a full campaign for the governor’s race. The plan includes 2 full time headquarters, field staff, outside help for the Kilday seat race, and a push to meet the national GOP quota. A debated move of state headquarters from Houston to Austin was postponed for decision after the fall election. U.S. Sen. John Tower spoke at a GOP breakfast with 1530 attendees.
R Homer Jones of Dallas was found burned to death in his bedroom. Officials estimated he had been dead one to two days. The body was discovered by a neighbor while Mrs Jones, visiting in Uvalde, alerted authorities after failing to reach him by long distance. The mattress on the bed was burned.
Several Odessa residents received injuries in separate mishaps. Seven year old George Kuhn III fractured a leg after slipping in a wading pool. Two year old Chevelvaia Cox drank gasoline in a garage. Others treated included Mrs. Sue Vestal after a two car crash, Mrs. Mildred McKell with a broken toe, Virgie Lowell with a broken wrist, Martha Akins burned by a stove explosion, Paula Eubanks bitten by a dog, and Katherine Holmes who swallowed a moth ball.
A cigarette in a trash can started a Saturday fire that scorched a one foot section of fence at Ira Kevil's home on East 10th. Fire crews also responded to a smoking heat issue from a police squad car at Sixth and Hillcrest. Police and fire units extinguished a separate grass and trash blaze at a Southern Ice Co. plant at 11th and Pue with no damage.
Robert G. LeTourneau, Longview industrialist and religious lay leader, told Odessa's Parker Heights Christian Church audience that business and religion mix when fueled by love of God. He urged laymen to serve the Lord through their work, noting he travels 150,000 miles annually and delivers about 250 speeches yearly. He planned additional sermons at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. today and invited the public to attend.
The Odessa American lists carrier, city, and zone rates with weekly prices for Odessa and Ector County, plus suburban zones. It also shows annual, semiannual, quarterly, and monthly rates, single copy costs, and publication details including daily issuance except Saturdays and a post office entry.
Funeral services for C M Charley Barbee aged 53 of Route One Odessa will be held at 2 30 p m today at the First Baptist Church Amherst with Rev John Rankin officiating Burial will be in Amherst Cemetery under the direction of Rix Funeral Home of Lubbock Barbee died on arrival Friday at Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital apparently from a heart attack Survivors include a son James E Barbee of Andrews three daughters Judy Lou Barbee of Odessa Mrs Avis Kinsey of El Paso and Mrs Betty Childers of Yuba City California two brothers John W Barbee of Lubbock and Jack Barbee of Odessa three sisters Mrs H T Arnold of Odessa Mrs C L Millican of Levelland and Mrs Hilton Lopez of Lubbock and five grandchildren
T. E. Nelson Jr. reported to police that vandals entered a vacant house at 2111 North Milburn and damaged an assortment of furniture. The incident occurred Saturday. Local authorities are investigating.
Three year old Louise Wade, daughter of Margarite Wade of 706 East Pearl, showed slight improvement after a skull fracture from a pickup truck collision near her south Odessa home. She was conscious part of the time and had started eating at Medical Center Hospital.
Two people died and two were injured in a two car collision two miles west of North Zulch Texas on Saturday. The deceased were Billy Ray Miller 23 Normangee and Charles Floyd 15 Port Lavaca. Injured were Grady Hayne 48 and his wife Geneva 43 of Gilmer.
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