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HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OKLAHOMA CITY
OKLAHOMA
The Norman Transcript
1889-1960
Norman's Community Paper
For Over 70 Years
VOLUME 71 NUMBER 205
TEN PAGES
NORMAN OKLAHOMA TUESDAY MARCH 8 1960
AP AND NEA SERVICE
PRICE DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10c
Anti-American
Feeling at New
High in Havana
Herter Attacks
Implication Yanks
To Blame in Blast
By T1IK ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anti-American feeling boiled to
a new high in Cuba today It was
expected to get even worse in
the wake of Secretary of State
Christian A Jlertcr's denunciation
ol Fidel Castro
There was no immediate offi-
cial reaction to Ilertcr's censure
but officials privately predicted
C S Charge d’Affaires Daniel
Braddock might be summoned be-
loie Foreign Minister Raul Rao
lor a similar tongue laslung
Text Available
1 lei ter Monday termed as
‘baseless erroneous and mislead-
ing” Castro’s implication that the
CS government was responsible
for tlie series of explosions that
ripped the French munitions ship
La Coubre in Havana harbor Fri-
day Herter delneied the dressing
down personally to the Cuban
charge d’affaires Enrique Patter-
son and immediately made the
text of his remaiks available to
newsmen
The Cuban clearly upset by the
20-minute session in Ilertcr's of-
fice left the State Department
hurriedly He said he would report
Ilertcr’s statement to Castro with-
out comment
Herter wound up his statement
by saying “This government finds
itscll increasingly obliged to ques-
tion the good faith of your excel-
lency's government with respect
to a desue for improved relations
between our governments"
Commentators on the govern-
ment television station in Ha-
vana reported the U S secretary's
remarks mockingly
Word of Ilertcr's angry response
Mime from Washington amtd
these developments:
Officially identified bodies of the
La Coubre blast victims mounted
to 52 Many dead were still un-
identified At least a score of per-
sons were critically injured
Chapman Leaves
Don Chapman of North Bend
Neb 26 year old passenger
aboard the freighter finally flew
to Miami after a two hour air-
port detention that followed Ins
release from a 72-hour grilling
The free - lance photographer
was taken olf a Miami - bound
plane minutes before it departed
and held at tbo airport but was
released ia time to caidi the next
plane Ha told newsmen Cuban of-
ficials accused him at the last
minute of being in Cuba on Jan
1 1959 when Castro took power
Cuba's 161 sugar mills were
ordered to sound their whistles for
one hour Monday night in protest
against a proposed U S bill to re-
strict Cuba's preferential sugar
quota
Unconfirmed reixirts said an un-
identified plane coming from the
north dropped fire bombs on a
sugar plantation m Pinar del Rio
province burning more than 3000
tons of sugar cane
A State Department official said
in Washington that Chapman’s re-
lease probably eliminated the
need for discussing his case in a
formal protest
Relations at Low
Castio’s charges concerning the
munitions ship have brought Am-oncan-Cuban
relations to a new
low High State Department sourc-
es made it clear the official U S
mood has gone beyond irritation
to anger
One official said "We have tried
to show patience in our relation-
ships with Cuba despite a series
of great provocations but we are
not going to sit back and take
things like this”
Castro delivering a funeral ora-
tion lor the victims of the explo-
sion Saturday said the blast was
caused dehbeiately by parties in-
terested in keeping arms out of
Cuba Among those interested par
ties he shouted weie “officials
of the United States government"
In his remarks to the Cuban
diplomat Herter noted that the
State Department on Saturday had
conveved its shock and svmpathy
over the explosion anti offered as-
sistance in treating survivors or in
anv wav it could help
“In view of our genuine sym-
pathy and sorrow” Herter con-
tinued “the government and the
people of the I mled Stales were
profoundly shod ed when Prime
Minister Castro indicated his be-
lief that the United Stated govern-
ment was responsible for the ex-
plosion ”
Tribunal Gives
Club More Time
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The
Supreme Court today gave Jack s
Supper Club of Norman an addi-
tional 20 days to file a response
brief in it’ battle against Nor-
man's drinking club ordinance
The club contends the ordinance
—similar to many passed by ci-
ties in Oklahoma since rceal—
is unconstitutional
L’
f'A
A GIRL MUST LOOK HER BEST — In the midst of grooming her Duroc Gilt for
a Moore FFA Livestock Show Monday Janet Gross Rt 1 Moore decided to stop
and groom herself for the show Her Duroc placed third in its division (Related
Photos and story on Page 2) (Transcript Photo)
Rain Rids State
Of Snow Cover
Warming Trend
Expected To End
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Drizzle today and rain tonight
and Wednesday will wash away
the last of the snow cover in Okla-
homa the Weather Bureau says
The warming trend however
was expected to end Wednesday
if a low pressure area now over
tlie Rockies travels far enough
south
Precipitation Light
Precipitation the past 24 hours
has been general but light
Monday's high temperature was
51 degrees at Ardmore and tlie
overnight low was 29 at Gage
Highs today should range from
tlie low 40s m the north to the 50s
in the south Lows tonight will be
35-45
(A trace of moisture — and the
threat of more — clouded the
Norman weather picture today
Tlie latest forecast calls for freez-
ing rain or snow tonight and
cooler temperatures Wednesday
The mercury isn’t expected to
climb out of the 30s Wednesday
(Monday’s weather picture was
the brightest in Norman since
Feb 22 when a pleasant 55-degree
reading was recorded It
was 39 Monday
Temperatures Moderate
(The overnight low of 32 de-
grees was the warmest since
Feb 19 when a low of 35 was
reported It was 35 at noon to-
day) Cold weather persisted across
wide areas in the eastern half of
the nation today but some warm-
er air appeared on tlie way
Temperatures moderated in (
some areas east of the Rockies ! extend the city limits a mile
but generally unseasonable cold north of Robinson Street between I
was the rule in most areas into US 77 and a point a half-mile
tlie Southeast Slowly rising tern- east of SII 77H A small tract
peratures were indicated for most west of the Forest Hills Addition
of the central part of the country (See Page 2 Column 5)
Whites
HOUSTON Tex (APt-Four
masked white youths hung a
Negro man from a tree by his
heels Monday night and
scratched two series of KKKs
into his chest and stomach
after beating him with chains
the Negro told police
Felton Turner 27 said he
freed himself from ropes
around his ankles and wrists
staggered to a night watch-
man's shack and telephoned po-
lice A doctor at Jefferson Davis
Hospital said Turner was treat-
ed and released this morning
The six Ks ranged from l'l
inches to 3 inches in length
and went from Turner's chest
to his stomach the doctor said
Rope marks were on the Ne-
gro's wrists and ankles
Police said Turner told them
he was walking near his home
in a Negro residential area at
10 15 p m when two masked
white youths leaped from a car
and gabbed him They carried
guns and forced him into the
back seat of a sedan
Two other masked white
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4
Children Victims
8 Die As Train Hurls
Auto into Icy Lake
BERLIN Conn ’(AP)— A passenger train collided with a station
wagon today killing seven school child) en and an adult
The automobile carrying the children and a woman driver was
hurled into Sil'er Lake an ice-crusted live-foot-deep pond beside
Norton Lane
Police tentatively identified the dead as Mrs Emily Whitaker ot
Berlin and seven state wards all Negroes At least three ot the
bodies were held by the submerged wreckage Tn the pond Skin
divers were called
None of the passengers aboard the train— the New Haven Rail-
road's No 97 bound from Springfield Mass to New York— was
injured
The accident occurred at an unprotected grade crossing on
Norton Lane just oft the Wilbur Cross Parkway on a roadway
covered with Half an inch of snow
It was near the homo of Mrs Whitaker and her husband John
who were cited by the Catholic Transcript in 1957 for their care ot
foster school children
The crash killed some of the
car’s occupants Police reports in-
dicated the others may have died
under water
Whitaker was watching from a
window of his home 100 yards
away when he saw the diesel en-
gine and the 1955 station wagon
pile together
He ran to the scene but was
helpless
The vehicle was thrown over a
10-foot embankment into the pond
Beat Slash Negro
youths were in the front seat
Turner told officers
Turner said he struggled to
free himself but the youths
gagged him and beat him to
the floor with chains
They took him to a wooded
area where he was tied and
hung from the tree by his
heels he said There they beat
him with chains and rope cut
off his jacket and shirt and
scratched the Ks on his stom-
ach and chest with a knife
As the white youths were
leaving one of them told Turner
that if he tried to escape one
of them would kill him the
Negro said
Turner worked the ropes off
his feet and hands and made
his way to a nearby night-
watchman’s shack
Police Lt Breckenridge Por-
ter said Turner's wounds could
not have been self-inflicted
Turner ' ne-’ 'old po
lice that a red-haired youih in
the front of the car told him
they were hired to do a job
because of publicity Texas
Southern University Negro stu
Three of the children were hurled
from the car one landing on the !
embankment and two skidding
across the ice on the pond
The five other occupants were
trapped in the car
Parts of the station wagon were notices which jereated Lindsey
strewn for a fifth of a mile along
the railroad tracks
Bulletin
A hearing on the Norman
Reservoir ' project has been
scheduled for March 21 and 22
by the reclamation sub-committee
of the House Interior and
Insular Affairs Committee Rep
John Jarman announced in
Washington this afternoon
dents received over sit-ins at a
lunch counter at Houston in the
past few days
A group of students from the
all-Negro university staged their
first sit-in Friday at a lunch
counter in a supermarket The
sit-ins spread to a drug store
Saturday and a third store
Monday All were peaceful
Houston schools have 170000
students About 50000 are Ne-
groes An integration suit is pendng i
before U S Dis-t Judge Ben
Connally but he has given no
indication when he would hand
down a decision
The sit-ins were in stores
near the univresity on the op-
posite side of town from where
Turner was beaten
Turner who has a 3-month-old
son is not a student at the
university
A doctor at the hospital said
Turner suffered one bad cut on
his head and bruises and minor
cuts on the lips right shoulder
and across the chest These
were in addition to the Ks on
his chest and stomach
(See Related Story on Page 2)
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fi wo
Lyndon Offers
To Cease Long
Rights Sessions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Demo-
cratic Leader Lyndon B John-
son of Texas offered today to
cease round-the-clock sessions of
the Senate if Southerners would
agree to a series of votes on civil
rights legislation
Johnson in a bristling ex-
change with Sen Spessard L Hol-
land (D-Fla) denied he was try-
ing to wear down Dixie senators
or was risking their health and
lives by the continuous sessions
Delay Okayed
He predicted that eventually—
be would not guess when— a ma-
jority of the Senate will force a
i vote on the controversial issues
At 4 o’clock tins morning John-
son had put over on a 53-4 roll
call a seven-minute adjournment
of the Senate which had been in
practically continuous session ex-
cept for Sunday since the previ-
ous Monday
Johnson said at the time he was
serving notice on absentee sena-
tors that business issues might
come up at any time
But Holland interpreted tiie ac-
tion as amounting “to tin owing
in the sponge” by Johnson and
Republican Leader Everett M
Dirksen of Illinois
“We are getting nowhere” Hol-
land taunted Johnson adding that
supporters of civil rights legisla-
tion could not even agree upon
what bill they wanted
No Sponge
If they could they would vole
to limit debate by cloture a move
requiring 67 senators’ appioval if
all 100 voted
"The senate)' from Texas (John-
son 1 does not throw in the
sponge” Johnson said grimly to
Holland adding that eventually
the country will understand that
a “few senators” are blocking a
vole and a majority of the Senate
will act
Holland white-haired former
Flonda judge had begun a
speech at 946 a m with a re-
minder that he had warned lead-
ers that round-the-clock sessions
were dangerous to the health and
lives of senators many of them
past 60
City Changes
Street Names
One Norman street was named
and le narnes of two others were
changed Monday by City Manager
Grover L Morris The new names
will become effective in 30 days
In accordance with city ordi-
nance Morris had published legal
formed by Lindsey Street 24th I champion steer and grand cham-
Avenue and Lindsey Drive
Lindale Avenue was changed to
Lindale Street from Wylie Road
east to Avondale Drive Morris
said this change was made in ae
cordance with the city’s master
street plan which calls for streets
to run east and west and avenues
north and south Lindale on the
west side of Wylie already is des-
ignated Lindale Street he added
Renamed To Conform
Dorchester Drive between
Moods Avenue and Canterbury
Avenue just south of Robinson
Street was changed to Hayes
Street to conform to the name of
a street on the same line further
to tlie east
Between the old Hayes Street
and tlie new one (but not connect-
ed to either) is another street
also labeled Dorchester Drive It
runs north from Highland Park-
way in the Woodslawn First Addi-
tion and then curves west on a
line with Hayes Morris said
the east-west section of this street
also may be renamed Hayes at a
later date but this action would
require that houses along this part
of the street be renumbered
Earlier Morris changed the
names of three streets in the Nor-
mandy Acres Addition in order
to eliminate confusion with simi-
larly named streets in other parts
of the city Normandy Avenue
was changed to 26th Avenue
Southwest and Paik Circle was
made an extension of Butler
Drive The street connecting Os-
(See Page 2 Column 8) 1
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PRIZE MONEY PILES UP — Jaycee President Charles Hooper (right) and Harry
Wallace a member of the Jaycee planning committee for the Cleveland County
Junior Livestock Show count out the prize money for the show Winners will re-
ceive 1200 silver dollars in prizes (Transcript Photo)
Dollars Await
Show Entries
Livestock Judging
Due on Thursday
Big prize money — 1200 silver
dollars — will be awarded Thurs-
day to winners in the annual
Cleveland County Junior Live-
stock Show
Sponsored by the Norman Jun-
ior Chnmher of Commerce with
financial aid from the Norman
Chamber of Commerce the show
promotes community interest in
agriculture and encourages rural
youngslers to better livestock
pt act ices Vernon Frye county
agent said
Future Fanners of America and
4-H Club members will start ex-
hibiting their animals at 1 pm
Wednesday at tlie county fair-
grounds Judging will be Thursday after-
noon Dwight Stephens director
of tlie Ft Reno Livestock Re-
search Station will judge sheep I
and beef and Alton Perry Pauls I sar8e Plcked he ncn UP about
Valley agricultural extension 1 11 P m (EST) Sunday about 1000
agent will judge sw me
Frye said the number of entries
in the show will be about the
same as last year 275
“In addition to drawing interest
of townspeople in the agricultural
field the show often affords the
young owner a first opportunity to
appear with his stock in public”
Frve said
! The Cleveland Counlv Cat'le-
LCM
The soldiers reorted their craft
had been cuppled and swept
southward by a severe storm the
night of Jan 17 off Etorofu-to Is-
land in the Kuriles just north of
men’s Association will present a 1 the Japanese island of Hokkaido 000 for buildings and repairs That
trophy to the owner of the grand The Navy estimated the men : almost doubles the amount for
pion heifer
The Farmers Union will present
trophies to the owner of the grand
champion barrow and the grand
champion wether
Nixon Set To Crash South
By JACK BHL
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice
President Richard M Nixon is
making an all-out effort to crash
into the South in the Novem-
ber election
With the Republican presiden-
tial nomination all but wrapped
up Nixon already has under
way a campaign pointed at Tex-
as Florida and Virginia as key
states
The 46 electoral votes repre-
sented in those three states
could be decisive if New oik's
45 votes go the Demon at s
Nixon hopes that difleremes
with New Tork Gov Nelson A
Rockefeller have been pa'ihed
up But he isn’t sure
Rockefeller has warmed
somewhat but not enough to be
entirely reassuring since the
New York governor withdrew
as a potential rival for the presi-
dential nomination with a blast
at the GOP Old Guard
As a precautionary measure
Nixon has taken steps to ca-h
in on the South's dissatisfaction
with most of tlie aspirant far
E"T3 II iij
Sake $17
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s'
School Vote Discussed
$16 Million Budget
Gets Tentative Okay
The Norman Board of Education Monday right approved a tenta-
tive budget of $1661000 for the fiscal year beginning in July arid
made plans for tlie school district election on March 22
A new board member will be elected at that time and voters also
will be given an opportunity to decide on two five-mill levies Reve-
nue from One levy would go into an emergency fund and money from
the other would increase the building fund Each it was estimated
would add approximately $80000 to the school funds
Filing of candidates for board membership doses Saturday Only
O L (Bud) Harris the In-
one
cumbent has filed
To be eligible to file J Don
Garrison superintendent of
schools said candidates must re-
side in the area of the school
district that lies outside the city
limits
In Cleveland County the dis-
trict includes an area 'bounded on
tlie north by a line three miles
north and parallel to Robinson
Street on tlie west and south by
the South Canadian River and
un tlie east by a line 1(4 miles
east and parallel to 12th Avenue
East plus four sections east of
this line and south of S1L 9 In
McClain County the district in-
cludes 11 sections just across tlie
miles west-northwest of Midway south Canadian River
Is-lcmd I Garrison pointed out however
Weak and emaciated the Rus-1 that the new board members re-
siuns were in a 50-foot landing tention of the office might re-
cratt similar to tlie U S Navy's quire a ruling by the attorney
J The Keai fsarge put the men un-
der medical care
The carrier is en route from j
Japan to San Francisco where it 1
( is due about March 15 I
the Democratic presidential
nomination These have grown
out of the current controversy
in Congress over civil rights
legislation
Tlie theory in tlie Nixon camp
is that hens John F Kennedy
1 D Mass' Hubert H Humphrey
D-Minn' Stuart Symington (D-
Mo) and Lyndon B Johnson of
Texas the Senate majority
loader will have been fjiced
to vote for civil rights amend-
ments and motions that will
male them anathema to the
average Dixie voter
Nivjr's barkers are trading on
the psychological gambit that
Southerners would rather vote
for an all-out Republican advo-
cate of t'vil rights than for a
LVmoe rat they may regard as a
renegade to tlieir cause
The Nixon men do not dis-
count the fact that Adlai E
htev in-on twire the party nom-
inee will not have been em-
hro led in tins controversy
Mere'y because of this so far
as the South is concerned they
tear S'evenson mote than any
eaer Democrat
-
general in the event his area
should be annexed to the city dur-
ing his term of office
The budget approximately
$158000 more than that set for
the current year calls for $100-
such use in the current budget
An item of $l00u for libraries
and audio-visual materials was
questioned by Dr John Miles
who said he believes the amount
(See Page 2 Column 2)
But tiie Nixon camp’s view is
that Stevenson is fading They
agree with many other profes-
sional politicians that the Dem-
ocratic race now is between
Kennedy and Johnson
For this reason they are hap-
py to report the results of polls
that they say indicate only
Johnson could beat Nixon in Tex-
as and Virginia In the same
breath they express the opinion
that Johnson won’t be the op-
posing nominee
Nixon’s supporters hired pro-
fessional pollsters to operate in
Virginia They came up with
the forecast that Nixon would
beat Kennedy 52-48 take Steven-
son 54-46 dispose of Symington
53-47 but lose to Johnson 54-46
In Texas the N'txon supporters
depend on Johnson’s own poll
It shows that of all the Demo-
cratic hopefuls the Senate ma-
jority leader alone can defeat
Nixon in the Lone Star voting
Since this poll cost Johnson's
friends $22000 to assemble it is
widely accepted as being as ac-
curate as it is possible to get in
such ventures
Young Gunman
Forces Group
To Enter Vault
VALLIANT (AP) - A young
bandit waving a Tommy gun
methodically robbed the Farmer
State and Guaranty Bank of about
$17250 today
Two men were sought In the
bold holdup which occurred at
9:30 am
Bank Vice President J W Pe-
ters made the estimate of the loss
but said the exact amount would
not be known until an audit was
completed
Man Described
The sheriff’s office described
the masked man tlie only one who
entered the bank in this McCur-
tain County town in extreme south-
east Oklahoma as in his middle
20s short and wearing a grey hat
with a feather in the band
Conflicting reports had the pair
making a getaway in a Cadillac
going west and a Ford traveling
north
About three hours after the hold-
up a 1957 Ford believed used as
the getaway car was found
wrecked and abandoned four mile
northwest of here
Bank President O W Cecil
Peters two women employes (Ed-
na McLaughlin and Eleanor Wil-
son) and four customers were in
the bank at the time of the rob-
bery The vice president said when
the gunman entered be an-
nounced: “This ‘is a holdup and I mean
business"
Door Not Locked
Tlie bandit made Mrs McLaugh-
lin remove the money from tha
one teller’s cage then went to the
vault and got all he could carry
the official said Then Peters add-
ed: “After he made us enter tha
vault he slammed the door but
for some reason did not throw the
lock We had no trouble getting
out None of us was hurt There
was a second man in a car out-
side” Peters said the robber took
about 450 half dollars 400 23-ccnt
pieces 10 $100 bills and the rest
in 5 10 and 20 dollar bills
Road Petition
Held Sufficient
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A
constitutional highway commission
petition was held sufficient today
by Secretary of State Bill Chris-
tian Christian tossed out a protest
filed by Sen George Miskovsky
Oklahoma City
He said the protest “was not
made in good faith but was made
for the purpose of delay"
Miskovsky said he would appeal
to the Supreme Court
The secretary of state said he
was not yet ready to rule on suf-
ficiency of the reapportionment
petition
“This one is complicated by an-
other motion to strike” he said
Attorney Sid White Monday
moved that Miskovsky’s protest to
reapportionment be stricken on
grounds it was lot filed in good
faith
He contended it did not consti-
tute a legal protest because of
this
The senator a foe of Gov J
Howard Edmondson protested ail
the administration’s initiative pe-
tition He asked for 90 days to check
the signatures
Today in Norman
Weather readings: Monday
high 39 overnight low 32 to-
day at noon 35 Moisture: Trace
-'r v
Forecast Mostly cloudy with
fog drizzle or rain through Wed-
nesday Low tonight 35 to 42
rV -cV £
City Commission 8 pm City
Hall
v V -X
Co B 120th Engineer Bn 730
p m National Guard Armory
r'-
4th Observation Bn 730 pm
Army Reserve Center
-- -y
Don Cossacks 815 pm Holm-
berg Auditorium
Wednesday Kiwaait Club
inoon Lockett UoteL
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