NEWS CITY NEWS THE ODESSA AMERICAN WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1958 Largest Afternoon Circulation Between Fort Worth and El Pase PAGE TWENTY-NINE Totaling Demo Candidates Pay Filing Fees A total 1 of $7,511.50 in filing fees has been paid to cover the cost of the July Democratic primary, Ector County Chairman C. 0. (Buck) Mann said Monday. A total of 30 candidates in the race paid the amount. One of the candidates for constable in precinct three, Marvin Medlock of Goldsmith, said Monday he had dropped out of the race.
Medlock said he has "all I can do now." He is manager of utilities for the city of Goldsmith. At a meeting of the Ector ty Democratic Executive Committee Monday, the committee 'attempted to learn if the filing fee of County Surveyor Kenneth Esmond could be lowered. Mrs. J. G.
Matthews, secretary of the committee, said' the group voted to contact the attorney office to see if the fee could be lowered. Mann said a question over. the fee arose after it was learned the fee was never more than $100. The fee now is set at $425. Esmond has already paid the $425.
He is the only candidate for the race. The tees, based on five per cent as a matter. of record 35, 1507- East 23rd. Damages $15. Final Plans Due On Hiahway Shop DISTRICT COUBT Divorce suits filed: Jesse Lee Melot vs.
Hazel B. Melot: Mary Rebecca Wicker vs. D. Wicker; Manuel M. Herrera vs.
Lydia M. Herrera; Norma J. Huff vs. Ernest L. Huff, COUNTY COURT Marriage licenses issued: Richard Daniel Simpson and Josephine OrCivil suits filed: H.
E. Hall Jerry Wharton and wife Mary Wharton, damages; Thurman Sterling Rutledge vs. Department of Safety, stay order: J. S. L.
Lloyd, 204 305 Sunset vs. T. Lee, East Va. 48th, damages; W. Don Maxwell W.
E. Kaiser, $238.90 suit on an account Criminal cases filed: Patricio Rios, 21, 914 Honeysuckle, driving while Mrs. Lawrence Shepperd, 415 Patterson, defrauding with worthless check, MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL Patients Admitted May 19 Mra. Maurice J. Martel, John W.
Gentz, Mrs. Edmond B. McCuiston, Jack A. co*ker, Joann Layland, Mrs. Howells Ballard, Mrs.
Russell H. Perine, Mrs. Roger I. Pruitt, Dulce Nobres Quintela, Everett C. Wayne Flourney.
Robert Hoover, Keck, Patrick William Casey, Mrs. Sidney 0. Timmons, Sam E. Holloman, Mrs. Della Redman, Joseph Richard Erwin, Kenneth Mitchell, Lisa Lea Gillespie, Lonnie Wayne Wagnon, Mrs.
Otho Powell, Mrs. Joe H. Clark, Bowman Lewis Smith Jr. Marguerite Spickelmier, William Ennis Wade Hayward Shipley, Mrs. Miles, Charles L.
Ashby, Fred Ackiss, Richard Dewayne Parson, Jesse L. Beam, Mrs. Harvey Gene Andrews, Roy Albert Wheat. Mrs. William Rayo Thompson, Mrs.
Roy 0. Cobb, Mrs. Maudie M. Alsup, Mrs. Clarence Marion Adams, Mrs.
J. Frank Corry, Bryan W. Hodges, Mrs. Ardeh Parker, Mrs. Earnest W.
Greer, John R. Steadmon, William Thomas Howard. Patients Discharged May 19 Mrs. David W. Ellison, Mrs.
Marvin 0. Garner, Mra. Ira C. Fletcher, Mrs. Floyd O.
Bolen, Mrs. Chester Matthew Holloway. Mrs. John F. Woodward, Jane Bob Donaghey, D.
Mrs. Fidel Robert Tijerine, Mrs. Wickliffe, Paul David Blair, Hammack, Mrs. T. H.
Allen, Bonnie Lee Hisey, Jimmy Max McWhorter, Steven Glenn Poyner, Rex Mrs. Henry Ray Wylie, Mrs. Eldon Ratliff, Mrs. Katy Hummel. Haddon C.
Ratto, Thomas M. White, Gloria Broussard, Mrs. Morris Bricker, John Robert Chambers, Charles William Tyler, Mrs. Delbert T. Howell, Wayne Mrs.
Jerry Stephen Silhavy, William DarCook, Mrs. William F. Shields, Mrs. W. William F.
Rumbaugh, William Boyd Lomax Phillips, Mrs. 'Robert and baby. Mrs. Lee G. Morgan and baby, Mrs.
William J. Blackmon and baby, Mrs. Richard J. Hubble and baby, Mrs. Chon Jiminez and baby, Mrs.
M. C. Bryant and baby. Births May 19 Mr. and Daniel Giesler, 1803 East 48rd, boy, 3 oZ8.
John R. Hodgens, 515 West 25th, boy, 7 5 ozs. R. 8. Ervin, 904 North Grant, girl, 6 Donald P.
McCourt, Midland, boy, ozs, Armano Acosta, 411 South 8am Houston, girl, 5 7 025. Roland Goforth, 921 East 11th, girl, 8 21 CITY TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Fourth and Bernice Drivers of cars: Judy Margaret Phillips, 17, 701 North Bernice; Mary Rogers Grindrod, 56. 401 North Bernice. $350. Grant near 14th-William Ranny Orren, 16, 1900 North Tom Green; Robert Charles Porter, 17,, 1419 Glenwood.
Damages $100. East County and 17th-Drivers of cars: Florenee Porter Roy, 32, 3723 North Everglade: Ache Wingo Ligon, 46, 2713 Kay. Damages $200. Seventh and McKinley-Drivers of cars: Donald Gene Asay, 34, 2408 Beechwood: Birdie Owens Smith, 40. 7304 Maurene.
Damages $675. Golder and 17th-Drivers of cars: Clinton Herring Lackey. 52,, 2304 North. Golder: Richard Carl Smith, 17. 1415 block Rosewood.
South Damages Muskingum- $850. 100 Driver of car: Grace Buzbee Adams, 59, 223 East 16th: operator of diesel locomotive, L. N. Brooks, 57, Big Spring Damages $450. Texas near Third--Drivers of cars: Ray Smith, 25, 1700 South Grant; George Vincent Willoughby, Final plans for the Texas Highway Department's new shop building to be located on U.S.
80 near Headlee Rd. were being drafted here Tuesday after approval by the department. Preliminary plans for the building to cost over $300,000 were approved in a meeting of architects and department officials over the weekend in Austin. Groos, Clift and Ball are architects on the new shop building. of the annual salaries of the offices, were as follows: County comm ssioner in precincts two and four, $291 65; justice of the peace in precincts one and two, $160; justice in precinct three, $240; justice precinct four, $15; constable in precinct three, $75; county judge, county treasurer, district clerk and county clerk, $425; district judge, $775; national representative, $70, and state representative, $50.
Mann said the county would receive a small portion of the filing fees of the three candidates for the court of civil appeals in El Paso. Women Doctors Tell Of Soviet Medical Feats FOUNDERS REGISTER- -Julius Henderson, 77,511 West Olive, was one of the first Odessa old-timers to register for Founders Week Tuesday in the courthouse lobby. Henderson, one of 24 old-timers who had registered by noon Tuesday, has lived in Odessa since 1885. Taking registrations is Mrs. Charles Hart, 2400 Catalina, president of the women's auxiliary of the Ector County Sheriff's Posse, which is sponsoring an old-timers party Thursday night at the posse clubhouse on Andrews Highway.
Oldest residents to register Tuesday were Mrs. Mollie Glenn, 93, 1001 North Lincoln, and Mrs. Alice Ham, 91, 115 Casa Grande. College Faculty Members Rehired Regents of Odessa College Monday night re-elected 45 teachers and administrators, accepted resignations of two teachers and approved hiring of two replacements. Martha Lou Hubbard, social ence instructor, resigned to get married, and Robert M.
Smith, chemistry instructor, resigned to take a position at York College in Nebraska, college officials said. Named to replace Glenn Smith, golf coach who resigned to enter private business, was Jimmy Russell, golf coach at Palo Duro high school in Amarillo. David G. Hunt of Dallas, teacher at Greenhill school in Dallas was named to replace Miss Hubbard. In other action, the board: Met with James Dyke, librarian at.
Eastern New Mexico University who was hired by the board as a consultant on the proposed new library for the college. The board told to go ahead and prepare a program of the college's needs program to be used by architects in working up costs and plans for the proposed library. Re-appointed the firm of Criswell and Muns to do the annual auditing for the college. Authorized Dr. Murry Fly, president, to hire necessary teachers for summer school at the college.
Approved a new policy to allow $100 more a year in salary for instructors holding an L.A. degree. L.A. degree is for 30 hours scholastic work past a masters degree. Dr.
Fly said only one instructor at the college had such degree. Approved vouchers for April totaling $133,108. Instructors and administrators re-elected were: Mrs. Lois Ball, J. Parker Vogue Clyde H.
Chisum, Dulan Clegg, Elaine Conlee, Mrs. Ruth Duncan, Dr. Wallace E. Duncan, Everett Fixley, Mrs. Betty Friesing-, er, James S.
Furr, Mary Louise Gilmour, Roy, L. Glass, George R. Hunt, Richard E. Johnston, James Kemp, J. R.
Kroschewsky, Robert L. Martin. Health Clinics Underway Here Pre- school- health clinics. for children entering the first grade in September were held at Ross Elementary School Monday and Tuesday and will be held at Burnet Elementary Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Similar clinics be held at Dowling on Monday and Tuesday of next week.
The clinics will be held from 9 a.m. to 11. a.m, only on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Burnet Elementary, but will be held, in the mornings and afternoons, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and 1 p. at Dowling Elementary School Monday and Tuesday.
Head school nurse Mrs. Avalyn Whitmire said parents should bring their children to any one of the schools where the clinics are being held. The clinic at Dowling will be the last one to be held this school year. In the clinics school nurses check the sight, hearing height, weight and teeth of the child, and any defects noted are reported to parents, who may have the child examined by their family physician. MOSCOW U.
S. Women doctors touring Soviet medical institutions told today of watching Soviet scientists bring a dead dog back to life. They said scientists drained the blood from the dog. They waited! five minutes, then revived the animal and it barked. A similar experiment was reported last January in the magazine Ogonyek.
The magazine quoted Prof. V. A. Negovaky as saying dogs have been revived up to an hour after their hearts have stopped beating. There have been cases where humans have been revived five or six minutes after heart stoppage.
Dr. Jean Henley of Columbia University said that what they had seen so far led her to believe the Russians had come along much faster in the medical field than the United States. She and five other women arrived last Wednesday on a visit in exchange for a tour six Soviet women doctors made in the United States last fall. The other American doctors are Leona Baumgartner, New York City health commissioner; Helen Taussig, Johns Hopkins UniversiBaltimore; Esther C. Marting, University of Cincinnati; Margaret Sloan of the National Research Council, Washington; and Thelma Dunn of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Dr. Henley said Soviet equipment, personnel and techniques are more re than adequate. She added that the Russians were most eager to show off their experiments and their results. Drilling Concern Is Burglarized Sheriff's deputies Tuesday reported the burglary of the office of Parker Drilling Alabama and Golder, from which some 50 checks were taken. Entry was gained by removing a window screen and lifting the window, reports showed.
Ted B. Houck reported the burglary Tuesday to officers. He said amounts ranging to $100 each, but added he did not know the total amount of the checks. Deputies said the checks were written to a former employes who had not called for them. The checks are regular company payroll checks, deputies added, drawn on a Tulsa, bank.
Two Fire Calls Answered Here Firemen Tuesday reported that two Monday fire calls ended with slight damage to automobiles here. Clay McKinnis, 3115 Eisenhower, Monday night reported a fire in his 1957 sedan, Firemen said a jug of water in the back seat had ignited a tiny smouldering fire from rays of the sun. Slight damage to the back seat was reported. R. K.
Doran, 1406 East 18th, reported the second call Monday night after his 1956 auto backfired through the carburetor, setting it afire. Slight damage was reported. The auto was at 2506 Andrews Highway. Is Almost Fatal Swatting Moth SOUTH AMBOY, N. J.
P- Mrs. Roman Fernecz tried to bag a moth with a hammer. A few minutes later she called police and announced: "I don't think my husband is breathing." Officers found the husband out cold on the floor. The woman explained that she had tried to swat the moth but had connected instead with her husband's finger. Fernecz was revived and treated for the bruised finger at a' hospital.
The moth is still at large. NEW FHA OFICERS makers of America were Pictured from left are Horton, 1609 North Sam of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crenalt, Mrs.
R. E. Kincanon, 3409 and Mrs. G. A.
Harrison, Hendricks, Ann Croft, FHA Installs New Officers Newly-elected officers of the Odessa High School Future Homeinstalled Monday night at a banquet in the Lincoln Hotel ballroom. Carol Horton, 17, recording secretary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
Houston; Janice Holloway, 17, corresponding secretary, daughter Holloway, 1120 Harris; Vanita Chenault, 17, president, daughter of 1101 Garnet: LaVona Kincanon, 17, treasurer, daughter of Mr. and North Golder; and Mary Harrison, 16 vice, president, daughter of Mr. 301 North McKinney. Other officers not in the picture are Helen Betty Bevel and Glendya Green. (American Staff Photo) Leaders Study C-C's Vacancy Chamber of Commerce officials Tuesday were still studying the question of replacing late As sistant Manager Larry Trimble.
Trimble died of a gunshot wound in his office on May 13. J. Walker Owens, chamber manlager, Tuesday said he had discussed the replacement with Clint Lackey, president, but no decision had been reached. Owens said the final action would be up to the chamber's executive committee, which might meet about the "first of June to discuss this." He said, at this time -the committee might want to discuss reorganization of its top-level offices or replacing Trimble. Owens said the chamber might now seek an assistant manager to be in 1 charge of industrial matters, rather than replacing Trimble, who was in charge of civic development.
Victim Of Fire Improves Here Tim Bundage, 56, 312 Wabash, Tuesday was in fair condition at Medical Center Hospital where he was admitted Sunday suffering burns about the eyes, face, right hand and foot. Bundage told physicians he had been burned in a Saturday night fire which razed his trailer house residence. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital Sunday morning. Hospital sources said the victim showed improvement Tuesday but remained in fair condition. His eye apparently had not been impaired by the burns, hospital sources said.
Suspect Enters Plea Of Guilty Patricio Rios, 21, 914 kle, pleaded guilty Monday, in Ec-, tor County Court to a charge of driving while intoxicated. He was fined $101.90 including court costs and sentenced to 10 days in jail. Rios was arrested at 7 p.m. Sunday 10 miles west of Odessa on U. S.
Highway 80 by Highway Patrolmen Melton Rasberry and A. J. McReynolds. He was charged with the offense Monday in county court. Suspect Jailed In Petty Theft Otis Harrell, 35, Plains Hotel, Tuesday remained in city jail in lieu of $50 in fines after conviction on charges of drunk and petty theft.
He was fined $25 on each charge. Det. Russell Baker, Crime Prevention Bureau, Monday night said he caught the subject in the act of going through Baker's automobile. Police say they recovered some tools taken from Baker's auto. Official To Visit Tom Heflin of Baytown, grand chancellor of Texas of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, will make his official visit at 8 p.m.
today at the local lodge hall at 210 West 21st Street, Jack Gindt, Odessa chancellor commander, invited all, members to attend the I meeting. Youths Admit Crime Series W. H. Montogmery, Dr. Luis Morton, Mrs.
Marjorie Morris, Ms. Hariette McClendon, Bobbie Jo Norment, Mary I. Roach, John Ed Roberts, Mrs. Jamesena Sulsci-livan, Bettye Travis, Neele Vaught. Hugh L.
Waldrum, John 0. West, Mrs. Madeline Berry, Mrs. Helen Corley, Larry Etheridge, Ms. Belle Holm, L.
E. McColloch, Paul Peck, Thomas M. Rees, Jean Richardson, Robert Smith, Nathan A. Ivey, M. M.
Plexco Buster Anderson, Billy 0. Boyles, Dr. J. Strickland, Jack Tyer and Les Webel. Bond Pending In Case Here No bond had been set Tuesday in the case Billy Dan 23, of Tulia, arrested last Saturday on charges of child desertion.
Davis has- been in county 'jail since his arrest in Tulia. 1 He was charged with the offense in Justice of the Peace Thomas D. Murphy's court. He is charged with deserting his two children March 23. Youths Quizzed By Detectives City Crime Prevention Bureau detectives Tuesday were questioning 13-year-old and 18-year-old brothers, in connection with keys and money missing from the Englehart Riding Academy, on South Grandview.
Det. C. A. Dodson said some $39 was missing from the soft drink vending machine at the academy. He said previous to the discovery of the missing money several keys to the machine were found missing.
The locks had been changed, he said, but inventory showed the funds gone. Both youths, former employes of the academy, were released to parents after questioning. Vandals Strike Odessa Concern Sheriff's deputies Tuesday were investigating a reported case off vandalism at the yards of the L. Farmer West County Rd. and Clements.
Deputies said recent reports of gasoline thefts had been investigated also. Monday night, deputies said Tuesday, the yards were entered and truck's windshield smashed with a hammer. A. E. Beard, of the company's offices, 300 South Grant, reported the incident.
Group Discusses Building Funds Methods of raising funds for proposed school building for tally retarded children were dis cussed at a meeting of the mian Council for Mentally Retarded Children Monday, The council voted not to take any action until the board of directors has met. The group also discussed plans for constructing a float for the Independence Day Festival here Newly-elected officers of the Odessa High School Future Homemakers of America were installed at a banquet Monday night in the Lincoln. Hotel ballroom, with the members and their mothers attending the formal affair. Vanita Chenault is the new president, succeeding Joyce Eady. Three girls were given annual awards of the FHA.
Janice Holloway and Caroline Harris were named as the best members, and Mary Harrison as the most promising member. Entertainment was provided by members of the group, some singing, others. playing the piano. Newly-installed officers are Mary Harrison, vice- president; LaVona Kincanon, treasurer; Carol Horton, recording secretary; Janice Holloway, corresponding secretary; Helen Hendricks, his-, torian; Ann Croft, parliamentariand; Glendya Betty Green, Bevel, chaplain. reporter; and Weekend Rains Push Lake Level BIG SPRING -(Staff) Light showers during the weekend added slightly to the level of Lake J.
B. Thomas, Colorado River Municipal Water District officials said Tuesday. Lake J. B. Thomas will serve Odessa with about half of its water supply in the future.
First flow of water from the lake to Odessa is expected some time this week. Another 1,400 acre feet came into the reservoir of the CRMWD this weekend and inched the level to within inches of the service spillway level. Elevation Monday was 2,257.21, an increase of .17 of a foot during the weekend. With 197,400 acre feet on hand, the lake is now 96.8 per cent of capacity. So far this year, the lake has impounded 34,000 acre feet of water or more than 11 billion gallons.
I Three Odessa teenagers ted Monday to city and county juvenile authorities to committing a total of 13 school burglaries and a series of thefts during the past several years. The youths, two of them 14. and the third 13, gave, written statements to the authorities admitted the burglaries, most of them at Zavala Elementary, at Pine and Clifford. North Cowden Resident Dies NORTH COWDEN (Staff) Bryan Wiant Hodges, 58, resident of North Cowden for about 12 yea died at 7 p.m. Monday night after an illness of one day in Medical Center Hospital of Odessa, An employe of Sinclair Oil Hodges was stricken while on the job.
Cause of his death was listed as a heart attack. Funeral services will be in the Temple Baptist Church under direction of Rix Funeral Home. Rev. Curtis Thorpe will officiate, but time of the services had not been determined. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Hodges; two sens, Bryan E. Hodges, Oklahoma City; Bill C. Hodges, Odessa; two daughters, Mrs. John L. Hadley, Corpus Christi; Mrs.
J. Wagoner, Odessa; one sister, Mrs. Jim Woolfinger, Musokgee, four brothers, L. G. of Beggs Oklahoma; J.
D. of Cleveland, C. E. of Oklahoma City and H. D.
of Goodriver, Ore. Injured In Fall Wayne Flournoy, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B.
Flournoy, 2419 Beechwood, Tuesday was in good condition in Medical Center Hospital here suffering a fractured left wrist sustained in a fall while skating. The three youths were arrested last weekend in connection with the theft of 29 sacks of drilling mud from Permian Mud Company, 1005 West Murphy, last Dec. 14, A fourth youth, Ralph Edward Walters, 17, 1116 Sherwood, has been charged with felony theft in Justice of the Peace E. E. Nobles' court in connection with the drilling mud.
Nobles said" no bond had been set Tuesday, Walters has been in county jail since Saturday afternoon. One of the 14-year-old boys admitted most of the school burglaries. He said he broke into Zavala or three years ago" and got $2. He said subsequent burglaries netted him about $11.60. The youth said he also broke into Ector High School last summer but didn't take anything.
The youth also said he had taken four records from Cabell's Minit Market at Crane and Clements, "four or five candy bars" from Everybody's Store and some soft drink bottles from Safeway and Sears Food Market. The boy also admitted to a series of thefts of soft drink bottles from private residences and of fender skirts and hub caps. The other 14-year-old said he had broken into Zavala three times and Travis Elementary, 1400 South Lee, where he said he took a number of pens and pencils. The 13-year-old youth said he had broken into Zavala three times in the last several months, taking $1.50 and a small toy top. The three were still in custody Tuesday.
Toastmasters Meet R. C. Patterson was named best speaker of the night Monday as the Wildcat Toastmasters met at The Lincoln Hotel. Other speakers were Louis Gray, Maurice Rogers and Jim Reed. Toastmaster was D.
0. Baker, and Jim Stevenson was topicmasIter. FLIES TO VOTE-President Eisenhower is strapped into his seat just before takeoff by Army helicopter from the White House to Gettysburg, Tuesday where he voted in the Pennsylvania Republican primary. After casting his ballot the President flew to, Harrisburg, Pa, vie helicopter, then boarded the Presidential plane Columbine to continue his flight to New York. Eisenhower will confer with business leaders prior to the major economy speech to the nation tonight.
(United Press Telephoto).
