Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 69, No. 47, Ed. 3 Thursday, April 3, 1958 Page: 1 of 11
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WICHITA FALLS
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The law requires the chief jus- earned," Rigg added.
Vain Struggle Hinted
tice. Earl Welch at this time, to
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right permitting a
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Although the proposals have tub during the height of the down.
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report on the court's performance
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HOURLY TEMPERATURE
Police Unable
To Find Clues
in Tulsa Slaying
Heavy Rain, Hail
Add to Dainage;*
Lightning Costly
Selected’* No. 2
Man Airs Refund
Totaling $7,541
Good Office Team
Meets Gaillard
Secret Voyage Is
Made From Poland
western hat. The hat is his
prize possession and he wears
it with real top hand flair.
Texas. All three twist-
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fatally shot with a stolen pis-
tol. David's brother, Robert,
12, is being held in the Wood-
ward jail, charged with mur-
der.
occurred about 10 p.m. Tuesday,
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The Weather: Clear
CAIRO IP— The newspaper Al
Schaab reported Thursday that
the United Arab republic has ob-
tained three more submarines
from the Soviet bloc.
Egypt received three Russian-
made submarines from the So-
viet union after the 1956 British-
French-Israeli invasion.
Al Shaab said the new under-
sea flotilla arrived at Alexandria
on Tuesday after a trip from
Poland made under radio silence
and off the regular sea lanes.
The vessels were reported built
in Poland and were piloted to
Alexandria by Egyptian crews.
Another deal with the commu-
nist bloc was reported by the
newspaper Al Ahram, which said
the UAR is planning to sart a
worldwide airline using Russian
TU104 jet liners. The paper said
Enid, but there are times when
he needs assistance. We feel there
are other cities that need the
same help
"Some time ago we adopted
the policy of using radar units [
die said five .38 caliber pistol
shells were found. Police Chief
Joe McGuire said the pattern of
the pistol fire indicated the vic-
tim had fought for her life and
was not shot as she lay asleep
as originally thought.
The pretty divorcee, mother of
two children, had talked with an-
other brother and her mother,
apparently hours before being
Thursday a compromise $1.8 bil-
lion anti-recession highway con-
struction bill.
The senate seemed likely to
approve the measure promptly
and send it to the White House
before congress starts a 10-day
Easter recess later Thursday.
House passage was by roll call
vote.
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ness to explain so-called second-
ary salaries drawn by officers of
Selected.
Hugh A. Carroll, deposed Se-
to keep Algerian rebels from get-
ting help in Tunisia-is being
planned.
It is understood that Premier
Gaillard agreed to the latest
efforts of the good office team
and the task is now to win agree-
ment from Tunisian President
Habib Bourguiba.
Bourguiba has refused to con-
sider allowing French troops to
take part in any such policing
operation. Neither has he been
warm to the idea of any border
inspection from the Tunisian side
rescuers searched Thursday through the tornado wreck-
age in this north Texas city for possible additional
victims of the wild storm which struck Wednesday
afternoon.
The single twister that ripped through Wichita
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Editorial Page
Everett S. Allen discusses the
opening search of the sea as
the world's new main source
of food.
By Dancing Twister
By BILL HUNTER
Times Correspondent
By HUGH HALL
A duplicator machine clicked
in the state capitol Thursday
while blushes were in order for
the state supreme court, which
discovered it was one year late
in filing a report on its perform-
ance.
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er s license," he said.
Stiffer Fines
"It appears to me
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Wearing his new cowboy hat, David Smith tries
out the tractor at the 10A ranch.
Harold Beeley flew to Tunisia
Thursday with proposals they
hope will end the bitter dispute
Three business firms were de-
stroyed and 20 others damaged
Property damage may exceed $1
million, though no official dam
age estimate is available.
Two Swerve Aside
Two other tornadoes swerved
from the city. One killed Wiley
Taylor, 55. in Dean, Texas, the
other dissipated its strength on
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the . ... of the city.
Also counting up their storm
damage under deceptively sunny
skies Thursday were residents of
the small southwestern Oklahoma
community of Elgin.
Hall Damages Roofs
The Elgin funnel claimed no
casualties, but one resident was
bruised by heavy hail during the
storm.
Lee Wells, 58, said he ran from
his home to retrieve a rolling
he supposed a copy had been eral court trusteeship now oper-
given to Payne. He immediately ating Selected, Rigg testified he
put a copy of it in Payne's hands, has received a yearly salary and
so the clerk could carry out the | $15,000 in stock dividends since
statutory duty of preparing cop-1 1949 from Chickasha Finance Co ,
but that is an expensive opera-
tion. I found Wednesday with a blanket
Recent inquiry at Payne's of- lected president, also was sched-
fice disclosed the report, which uled to testify later in the hear-
was made to the legislature a ing. conducted by special bank-
"I've still got knots on my
head," he said. "I threw up my
hands over my head and the hail
skinned the back of my hands.
Some of them (the stones) were
as big as hen's eggs."
Roofs throughout the town
were damaged and porches were
yanked from houses. Power lines
were snapped and trees broken.
School Gym Hit
Damage also was reported at
the highschool gymnasium, two
Elgin churches, a cotton gin and
the county warehouse.
In the rural area near Ce-
| gerian-Tunisian frontier, the item
now holding up settlement of the
dispute.
Car is Found
They said a car belonging to
the missing woman was found
locked in her garage near the
home of Mrs. Watkins.
After talking with neighbors,
officers speculated the slaying
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Falls left 13 injured, one
missing and at least 175
homes destroyed or dam-
aged.
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been called in for questioning
and subsequently released.
Mrs. Watkins’ former husband,
Jack Watkins, was among per-
sons who gave information at po-
lice headquarters in the search
for a clue to the slaying.
Officers have tried. in vain, to
unearth leads which might lead
to the discovery of a 40-year-old
woman friend who was supposed
to spend the night with Mrs. Wat-
kins.
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ies for distribution. | a heavy borrower from the Se-
However, the report Judge lected trust fund.
something drastically wrong with
our driver's licensing system.
"They seem to be too easy to
get, and too hard to take away.
"We also need to do some-
thing about our system of fines
in municipal court. A $20 fine is
not enough fqr many traffic vio-
lations.
"Something should he done in i
the next session of the legisla-
. ture to give cities the right to
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year ago, had not been filed with ruptcy master Phil Daugherty to
Payne. ' discover trust fund assets.
When the law was brought to Under questioning by Luther . have been appalling except for
his attention, Judge Welch said Bohannon, attorney of rthe fed-
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in the city's northside, by a
brother who had stopped to visit.
of the storm.
Wreckage Probed
Meanwhile, in Wichita Falls,
hundreds of persons probed
through storm wreckage in a
search of possible tornado vic-
tims. Thirteen were known to be
injured, one was missing and at
least 175 homes were destroyed.
Two more funnels swerved
away from the city and went on
to kill Wiley Taylor, 55, in near-
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By JIM CANTRELL
William A. Rigg, vice-president
of Selected Investments Corp ,
testified in federal district court
Thursday he pocketed $7,541 in
water contract refunds as a spe-
cial salary for services rendered
to one of Selected's affiliate
Turnover Cited
"We have a certain turnover
in traffic police personnel, so we
will need constant training. We
also have had some officers’ who
wouldn't recognize a traffic vio-
lation if they saw one or they
may be too lazy to get out of the
car"
Berry also told the Oklahoma
delegation that Enid's traffic
record system has improved in
recent years, but that there is
still room for improvement.
"One thing we need is the
team met Wednesday with
Purdie said five men, all for-
there is mer friends of the victim, had
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Forestry Pushed
WASHINGTON (INS) - Sen
Major difference between the servers along the frontier.
original senate and house ver- Diplomats feel that the other
sions was inclusion by the sen issues between France and Tu-
ate of a provision intended to msia—the withdrawal of French
curb erection of billboards along troops and the status of the
interstate highways. This provi- French naval base at Bizerte-
sion was retained in the com- will be settled by a statement
ment, a woman identified aa
Mrs. Zelda Dees was cut about
the legs by flying glass when
the storm blew seven windows
out of the house where she was
staying.
The home, located 1% miles
east of the town on U. S. 277.
belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Stewart. Their garage and chick-
en house also were demolished.
In the same area, the Ohio
Oil Co. reported the loss of three
pump houses and one engine
house.
At the George Butler resi-
dence. a mile farther south, all
the outbuildings were blown
(See STORMS-Page 2)
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By bob McMillin
(Times Staff Writer)
CHICAGO — Calling for a state traffic code that
could be adopted in Oklahoma’s smaller cities, Bryson
Berry, mayor of Enid, wound up President Eisen-
hower's midwestern traffic safety conference in the
Windy City.
Telling the Oklahoma delegation that many of the
state's smaller communities are without a uniform
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WASHINGTON U-The house; ference committee for
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"HE HASN'T SAID a word
about what happened." said the
IOA ranch "mom," Mrs.
Lowell Peach. She and her hus-
band look after David and eight
other boys who've fallen into
trouble and are being helped
50 yards of ripping out the city's
heart. As it was, the black fun- French Premier Felix Gaillard
nel went through a residential and reportedly discussed new
area on the northwest side. Plans for supervision of the Al
Trailer Park Hit
Death and destruction would
further Bourguiba is now understood
to be willing to allow neutral ob-
levy stiffer fines. and at the
same time give our municipal
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What’s Inside
House rejection ofgthe compro- table for troop withdrawal and
mise would have precluded fur- Tunisian sovereignty "in princi-
ther action on the measure un pie" over Bizerte. The French,
til April 14, when the conges- , however, would continse to gar-
sional Easter recess enis, I rison the oig Mediterranean base
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Andy Payne, clerk of the court. J companies.
was busy running off copies of Rigg said he received the
the court's report on its 1956 ] money for "checking houses and
work as required by the legisla- rents" for Home Building and
ture in a 1955 act giving the court Supply Co , a title-holding firm
three commissioners to help it financed by Selected’s trust fund.
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Storm Victims Dig Out
After Night of Terror
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Detective Inspector Jack Pur- future top hand to be. He s got
a pair of cowboy boots and a
report to the legislature, and also the bankrupt investment firm
to file a copy of the report with since 1949, was called as a wit-
the court clerk. who was direct-
ed by the statute to run off cop-
ies for distribution.
Report Not Filed
.. .... . Previously the house defeated
2,200 cases. Since then there has 222-109 an attempt to send the
(See COURT—Page 2) bill back to the senate-house con-
By BILL THOMAS
Peaceful skies soothed storm
filters throughout Oklahoma
Thursday after a turbulent night
of rain, hall and tornadoes—one
: of them a huge twister that
struck just across the Texas line,
injured 13 persons and damaged
175 homes in Wichita Falls.
The storm, which spawned three
funnels in western Oklhoma and
a $10,000 bolt of lightning in the
north, left its calling card in the
form of thundershowers in the
eastern part of the state Thurs-
day morning.
Other Cities Pounded
By Thursday afternoon, how-
ever. skies were expected to clear
and fair w e a t h e r is on tap I
throughout the stale Thursday
night
In addition to the Wichita Falls y
storm, tornadoes struck in Elgin
and Cement in the southwest. A
third was sighted in the air over
Waynoka in northwestern Okla-
homa
As the storm moved northwest,
boiling skies dumped 1.15 inches
of rain on Hennessey and loosed
a lightning holt that struck the |
home of James W. Bly, causing
an estimated $10,000 damage.
Bolt Hits Antenna
The boll apparently hit a tele-
vision antenna and filled the
home with lire, smoke and wa-
ter.
As the thunderstorms were de-
veloping, Elk City reported hail
up to three inches in diameter—
and wind gusts up to 60 mph.
Alva, Seiling, Waynoka, Cres- l
cent, Anadarko and Chickasha
all measured hailstones an inch
in diameter.
Heaviest rainfall came in Cres-
cent. where a monumental four
inches was measured. In King-
fisher, 1.25 inches splashed down
on that wheat belt at the height
traffic judge to revoke a driv- slain, police said. -
Five Men Quizzed
By BILL HARMON
(Times Stillwater Bureau)
, PERKINS—Ten-year-old Da-
vid Smith is saving his money
to buy a calf. When he -grows
up, he would like to be a
farmer.
Davjd talks about these
things at the IOA ranch, south
of1 here, where he was sent by
court order a week ago.
But he doesn't tlk about
what happened at Woodward
March 23, when two men were
Ju , Russia has agreed to sell the
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the erratic behavior of the fun- - -
nel. As if nature intended only । not been revealed, the good of pour and was battered by hail-
to tease and lash out like a spile-; fice team " meetings in London t stones.
ful child. the funnel touched the with UN Secretary General Dag
ground in only a lew spots. Hammarskjold strengthened the
At one of these—the Trailer belief that some sort of interna-
lodge—it left eight large house tional policing of the frontier-
l trailer s sprawled upside down, j
Welch filed with Payne was on Rigg said the Chickasha com- Forty-three other trailers re-
what the court did to reduce its pany is owned by himself. Mr. mained untouched. One trailer,
docket year before last. He has a
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TULSA and county ?
dents and have noticed a slow, vestigators, still baffled at the
down in traffic movement lack of clues leading to a suspect
We feel there also should be in the slaying of a 24-year-old di
a training school for traffic offi- yorcee. continued their hunt
cers in Oklahoma. We have sent Thursday for a woman believed
several men to the Northwest to be the last person to see the
ern university traffic institute, victim alive
Mrs. Betty Jane Watkins was
empty prairie.
All three tornadoes converged
on the city at 5:30 p m. Wednes-
day. I.
The one striking this cattle and I between France and Tunisia,
oil center of 107,000 came within The U. S -British good office
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This roaring tornado funnel in Wichita Falls office. A few minutes later the funnel passed within
was shot by a news cameraman atop the newspaper two blocks of the news plant. (AP Wirephoto)
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marshal of the court, released
some figures from it, but not oth-
ers showing how many opinions
each of the nine justices wrote
which was adopted and handed
down as the court's ruling.
Many Cases Pending
As of January 1, 1957, there
were 498 cases pending on the
high court's docket During last
year the court handed down 497
opinions and orders, leaving it a
net gain of one case on the
docket.
The picture of the docket, how-
ever. is brighter than it has been
since statehood, when the court
"inherited ’ several hundred
pending cases from territorial
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back to the right road at The
privately-operated ranch.
David was with his brother
when the older boy shot grocer
Floyd Blair and clerk Adrian
Wilson at the Open Air mar-
ket with one of'four guns stolen
from an army surplus store.
Authorities have blamed the
tragedy on "too much televis-
ion" and possibly neglect by
the boys' parents. Reason for
the shootings probably will
never be explained.
"WE HAVEN'T asked David
about it and we've told the
other boys not to question him
about what happened," Mrs.
Peach continued.
"We figured he will come to
us and talk when he wants to
or has to. It's probably some-
thing he needs to talk about.
We don't think he ought to be
reminded of it right now."
David hasn't mentioned his
brother or his parents, Mr. and
Mrs Robert A. Smith jr , since
coming to the ranch on order
of Woodward County Judge
James G. Young.
THE BLOND, bright eyed
youngster overcame his shy-
ness after missing a couple of
meals, Mrs Peach said, and
now pitches in at the table with
the rest of the boys.
"We don’t push the new
boys," she said "David was
pretty upset, or he seemed to
be, when he got here And he's
younger than the other boys. He
missed breakfast and lunch the
first day, but then he really ate
a good supper and he's been all
right since then."
David hasn't been given a
regular chore until he gets set-
tled in his new home, explained
Peach, the ranch "dad " He is
a senior at Oklahoma State uni-
versity.
"BUT HE'LL HAVE a job to
do around the ranch like the
other boys," Peach said, "and
with the ’ttitude he's shown so
far, he could earn his 'lop hand’
rank pretty quick.”
A boy becomes a top hand
when he learns the IOA creed
and lives by it. That means he
respects the individual and
makes the most of his own
opportunities for achievement,
earning as he learns
David's proudest achievement
so far is driving the ranch
tractor back from a good turn
on which he helped Peach-
pulling a car out of the mud.
UNTIL HE'S assigned his
daily chores, (he youngster has
been tagging along with Peach
and Earl Dickson, IOA super-
visor. on their jobs. The ranch,
a non profit enterprise, has a
dairy herd and a new Grade-A
barn.
David's answers to questions
about how he likes farm life
come in short phrases as he
flits around, under and over
the tractor in the farm yard.
He's active, if not talkative.
"I’m saving my money to
buy a calf,” he reveals. "I've
got $2 04.”
How much will it take to buy
a calf and what kind of calf
does he want"
"I don't know,” he says.
THREE TOP HANDS own
calves, Peach explains, and
David can earn up to $5 a
month to buy one when he
earns his top hand spurs. It's
evident the youngster finds it
an exciting idea.
Just how long David will
stay at the ranch is uncertain.
For that reason, he hasn't
been sent to school in Perkins
with the rest of the IOA boys.
David came straight to the
ranch from the Woodward jail
without stopping at his own
home, bringing only his "Sun-
day best” clothes and a comic
book.
But he's been outfitted in
jeans the way you'd expect a
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traffic code, Mayor Berry
declared the lack of that
facility was a crying need
for better traffic enforce-
ment.
"The smaller cities of Okla-
homa also need the assistance of
a traffic engineer to help us with
our engineering problems," Berry
said.
School Proposed
"We have a traffic engineer in
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