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SHARING THE DEEP CONCERN — Above is a reproduction of a
cartoon drawn by Bruce Russell and published Oct. 7 in the Los An-
geles Times expressing the deep concern of an entire nation in the
face of news of the critical illness of Speaker Sam Rayburn. The
Los Angeles staff cartoonist has granted the request of The Sam
Rayburn Library for the original drawing of the cartoon and it is be-
ing framed to hang permanently in the library. The Daily Favorite
also is indebted to Cartoonist Russell and the Times for a mat of the
cartoon and it is reproduced here with full credit to them. It is a
standout among the many fine tributes being paid by writers and
artists to Speaker Rayburn.
ENm
Plans Move Ahead
For Barbecue to
Honor Guardsmen
by bob cantrell
Our thanks go to Mrs. 0. L.
Smith of the Cross Roads commun-
ity today.
Mrs. Smith brought us a sack of
grist mill corn meal and a big
plate of ripe persimmons Wednes-
day afternoon.
It was Mrs. Smith who was shell-
ing the corn to take to the grist
mill the other day when a neigh-
bor was surprised to hear of such
a thing.
The meal was ground from yel-
low corn and was much finer than
the grist mills used to produce, but
the mills of today are equipped
to take out the coarse husks.
Mrs. Smith said the persimmons
were a bit slow ’in ripening this
year due to the fact that warm
weather hung on so long and there
were some late rains.
We passed the persimmons
around but found a lot of the of-
fice force didn’t enjoy them.
They were the small native va-
riety and not those great big Jap-
anese persimmons.
P. S. — We haven’t had corn
bread from the meal yet, but we’ll
get some in the next few days.
A note from George R. (Ray)
Rice, 105 Moffett Blvd., Mountain
View, ICalif., asks about subscrip-
tion rates to The Daily Favorite.
“I guess I am just like all of
the other home town guys who
have joined the service, we would
like to keep up with what is going
on hack home,” Rice writes.
“Don’t hit. I’m government prop-
erty,” is Capt. Kenneth Hall’s
warning to anyone who starts to
Slap him on the back.
Mrs. Vayden Fletcher says the
problem of a Christmas present for
her mother has been solved.
‘‘She lost her watch the other
day and we’ll all go in together
and get her a new one,” she said
as she dug into a box of old rec-
ords seeking the papers on a san-
ity hearing some 12 years ago.
Schools Receive
Surplus Foods
More surplus commodities have
been received at the office of
County Superintendent Jim Moul
ton for distribution to the schools
of the county for use in their
lunchrooms.
Commodities received included
26 cases of peas, 73 cases of green
beans and 26 bales of corn meal.
Determined to Live ...
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Plans moved ahead today for a
barbecue honoring members of the
Bonham unit of the 49th Division,
Texas National Guard, to be held
at the Bonham ViFW Hall Satur-
day night.
Tickets for the barbecue are on
sale at McKnight Drug and at the
Bonham Chamber of Commerce
and a number of persons also have
them for sale, J. C. Magourik,
who is in charge of the affair,
said.
Maguorik said that a short pro-
gram would be arranged honoring
the members of the unit who have
been called into active Federal
duty. The exact date of the unit’s
departure for Fort Polk, La., has
not been determined.
/The chairman said some 130
members of the guard unit and
their wives would be guests at the
barbecue. He said the large num-
ber of the men being honored
naturally limited the number of
tickets that could be sold for the
occasion.
Serving on the committee in ad-
dition to Maguorik are J. F. Mc-
Knight, County Judge Choice
Moore, Dudley Jackson, John Ar-
ledge and John Van Kirk.
Judge Moore said that it was
planned to have a short program
which would be on the light side.
Ernie’s of Greenville will do the
catering for the event.
The Honey Grove Chamber of
Commerce, churches and other or-
ganizations of that city are hon-
oring members of the Honey Grove
unit with a dinner in the armory
there tonight.
Airport Benefits
Talked for Lions
An effort is being made to have
Bonham included as a stop on one
of the smaller feeder airlines. Bry-
an Baker, chairman of the Cham
her of Commerce airport commit-
tee, told members of the Bonham
Lions club Thursday noon.
Baker made the statement in
comments following the showing of
a film which showed the value of
the small plane to salesmen in call-
ing on their customers over a wide
area.
Baker also told the club that
the committee had in mind addi
tional plans to improve the facili-
ties at Jones Field.
“We expect to have a represen-
tative of the FAA here next week
to inspet the field and make cer-
tain recommendations regarding
the needs and give up pointers on
how we may improve the stand-
ards of the field,” he said.
Baker said that a line operating
out of Tulsa, Okla., had asked
permit to inaugurate the feeder
flights.
Crash Survivor Aided
Searchers with Lights
PROVO, Utah (UPI)—A coura-
geous pilot who had nothing but
snowballs to eat as he lay in-
jured in a wrecked plane for four
days was rescued today from the
9,200 - foot level of a towering
mountain near here.
Joel T. Hone y, 52, Needles,
Calif., was determined not to die.
Although he had a broken hip,
broken jaw and possible broken
ankle, he signalled to search air-
craft with a flashlight and later
helped ground crews find him
with the same light. In seeming
19'Receive Votes
For Speaker
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Nineteen
persons, including House Door-
keeper William M. ((Fis-hbait)
Miller, have drawn votes in
congressional straw pool to select
the most likely successor to
Speaker Sam Rayburn.
Roll Call, a privately published
Capitol Hill weekly newspaper,
mailed questionnaires to all 434
House members. It said Tuesday
that 162 Democrats and 90 Re-
publicans replied.
Democratic Leader John W.
McCormack, Mass., collected the
largest number of votes from
Democrats, 65- Other votes were
Wilbur D. Mills, Ark., 27; Rich-
ard W. Bolling, Mo., 19; Carl
Albert, Okla., 13; Albert Rains,
Ala., 6; Francis E. Walter, Pa.,
5, and Hale Boggs, La., 2.
Reps. Harold D. Cooley, D-
N. C., Ross Bass, Tenn., Oren
Harris, Ark., Eugene Keogh, N.Y.,
Adam Clayton Powell, N. Y., Mel-
vin Price, 111., and Byron Rogers
Colo., each drew one vote.
Roll Call said it started the
poll before it knew that Rayburn
was seriously ill with cancer.
Four Men Killed
In Plane Crash
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (UPI)—Four
men were killed Wednesday when
their light plane crashed 20 miles
southwest of Las Vegas.
Police said all four were be-
lieved to be from Amarillo, Tex
Dutch Allee of Amarillo, co-
owner of the plane—a Piper
Caribbean—said today I. J. Smith
Dr. Walter Patton, Jack Newboy,
and Bob Bilderback, all of Ama-
rillo, were aboard the plane
Wednesday when it left Amarillo.
good spirits, he gave instructions
to rescuers who carried him two
miles by stretcher to an ambu-
lance.
“I could have lasted until the
weekend,” the injured man told
rescuers.
Honey, a fireman on the Santa
Fe Railway, crashed Saturday
afternoon during a snow storm
while flying to visit his son,
Bruce, 27, a senior at Brigham
Young University.
Father-Son Reunited
Bruce was in the first party to
reach the plane. The father and
son were reunited joyfully, but
four days later than intended.
“I knew you’d be alive,” said
Bruce when he faced his father.
He had insisted throughout the
four-day search his father still
was alive.
Honey told rescuers he had
spotted a hole in the clouds sur-
rounding Mt. Timpanogos and
was turning toward it when his
passenger, William Royal, about
45, also of Needles, panicked and
grabbed the plane’s controls.
/The single engine craft nosed
into the mountain in an aspen
grove and Royal was killed.
Knocked Out
Honey was knocked uncon-
scious. When he revived he
crawled into the plane’s baggage
compartment and put on three
pairs of trousers and as much
other heavy clothing as he could
pull around him. He also lighted
signal flares of gasoline on the
plane’s wings.
!He packed his leg and hip in
snow to ease the pain. He tore
clothing into strips, tied snow-
balls on for weight and tried to
throw them over tree limbs to act
as streamers and attract atten-
tion.
DALLAS, Tex. (UPI) — House
Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, dying
of cancer, was making a “mi-
raculous” recovery today from
pneumonia which put him in a
coma, only 24 hours ago.
John Holton, Rayburn’s admin-
istrative assistant, described Ray-
burn’s improvement, as miracu-
lous. Two bulletins issued by his
physicians reflected steady im-
provement.
The second bulletin, issued at
12:30 p. m., said Rayburn’s con-
dition, after a “complete
change,” had progressed from
critical to “still serious.”
He was lucid, taking liquid nour-
ishment and “responding very
nicely” to treatments for his pneu-
monia. His physicians plan to re-
sume giving him an experimental
cancer-remission drug.
The first bulletin, at 9 a. m.
said:
“Mr. Rayburn is out of coma.
H^ is definitely improved and the
major change occurred this morn-
ing. He looks and appears strong-
er this morning and recognizes
his family and associates. His
temperature is normal. His pulse,
blood pressure and respiration
have remained unchanged since
the change for the better.”
Rayburn’s basic ailment— the
cancer which has spread through
at least half his body—remains
the same. There ,is no hope.
Might Slow Progress
Doctors hoped that by giving
Rayburn an experimental cancer
remission drug they might slow
the progress of the malignancy
enough to allow him to return to
his Bonham, Tex., home to spend
his last days.
They bad given him three
doses of the special drug when
the pneumonia struck Wednesday.
They had to stop the drug and
fight the pneumonia.
His temperature went up to 103
degrees. He was in coma. But
with the help of a breathing ma-
chine, oxygen and antibiotic
drugs, “Mr. Sam” began to re-
cover.
Dr. Robert F. Short Jr., a per-
sonal friend of Rayburn, is in
charge of his case. Rayburn is in
Baylor University Medical Center.
“He is wide awake,” Holton
said today after Dr. Short issued
the 9 a.m. bulletin.
Rayburn had taken three one-a-
day doses of the experimental
drug “5 fluoro-uracil” when the
pneumonia developed and the
drug had to be discontinued. With
it, doctors hoped to arrest the
cancer enough in 10 to 14 treat-
ments and build up the speaker’s
strength sufficiently to let him
leave the hospital and spend his
remaining days at home.
Short said Rayburn has not
been told he has cancer.
Kennedy Says Nation
Is Neither Red
Nor Dead
CHAPEL HULL, N. C. (UPI)
President Kennedy said today the
American people can be assured
of being “neither Red nor dead”
if the country faces its risks “un-
deterred by fanatics at home or
abroad.”
In an off-the-cuff but significant
speech at the University of North
Carolina, Kennedy said it was
time to face the issues of the
world “as they are, not as we
would like them to be.”
He recalled slogans from past
U.IS- history such as “54-40 or
fight,” and said it now would be
dangerous illusion to think
American problems could be en-
compassed in a single slogan
such as “total victory.”
The United States, he said, must
have policies based on both “firm-
ness and flexibility.”
Kennedy said that in the nu-
clear age for the first time in
history two powers have the ca-
pacity to destroy one another.
While seeking peace, he said, the
United States does not “intend to
let the free world be blown to
pieces.”
Watch for Danger
Before an audience of 35,000 in
the sunlit university stadium, the
President said that “we should
keep our eye on both our dangers J
and our opportunities.” ' I
/He said the American people
must take the long view, distin-
guishing the long range from the
temporary.
“If we can face up to the risks”
undeterred by fanatics at home
or abroad, he said, “we shall be
neither Red nor dead.”
The “neither Red nor dead”
phrase he used was coined from
the slogan of the anti - nuclear
pacifists in Britain—“better Red
than dead.”
Kennedy flew from Washington
to Raleigh, then rode 17 miles at
the head of a motorcade in the
White House bubbletop limousine
to- the stadium.
At cross roads along the way,
he was greeted by throngs lining
the roadside. Trees on the hill-
sides had begun to take on au-
tumn color.
Seeking Defector . . .
Commie Police
Cross Barriers
BERLIN (UPI)—Ten Commun-
ist policemen led by an officer
crossed into West Berlin territory
early today searching for a de-
fector. West Berlin police chased
them back without firing a shot.
Officials said the Communist
patrol entered West Berlin terri-
tory at 3 a.m. along the -French
sector and surrounded a small
house.
Frightened residents of the
house called police and two West
Berlin squad cars rushed to the
scene.
Officials said the Commun-
ists at first claimed they were on
East Berlin territory and then
said they were searching for a
defected Communist border
guard.
Fireboat Stoned
West German youths hurled
stones and drove off a Commun-
ist fireboat trying to douse a
flaming cross put up at the spot
died
U. S. Orders Mare
Troops to Europe
where two East Germans
trying to swim to freedom.
The Communist boat chugged
to within a few yards of the em-
bankment and turned a powerful
stream of water on the cross, set
up by West Berlin youths.
The young West Berliners
guarding the cross showered the
fireiboat with stones and it finally
veered off into the middle of the
river.
A sign by the cross says: “Here
two men were hunted to death by
Communist concentration cam-p
guards.”
Mayor Willy Brandt flew to the
West German capital of Bonn to
report his impression that the
American people are “deeply de-
termined” to defend this isolated
city.
'West German confidence in
United States firmness has be-
gun to revive sharply as a result
of recent statements by a number
of American diplomats and poli-
ticians.
Still of high concern to officials
here is that some border incident
might explode out of proportion.
West Berlin police are doing what
they can to prevent this.
Another 10,000 Will
Be Transferred
/
Kennedy‘Praises
North Carolina
RALEIGH, N. C. (UPI)—Pres-
ident Kennedy, stressing econom-
ic strength as well as military
toughness on a flying visit to
North Carolina, today praised this
state’s “most vigorous” advances
in industrial and business devel-
opment.
“What North Carolina is doing
with its economy,” he said, his
administration “is trying to do
for the country.”
“This country cannot stand still,
we must move forward,” he said.
The President spoke in brief
five- minute ceremonies opening,
by remote control, to North Car-
lina’s Trade Fair in Charlotte.
Responds To Questions
He said Rayburn began respond-
ing to questions Wednesday night
and that his temperature began
dropping—approaching normal. It
was the pneumonia, he said, that
caused “Mr. Sam’s” condition to
be changed from serious to crit-
ical.
IShort said the pneumonia was
considered a “major” setback.
iHe and other physicians had
hoped that the “5 fluoro-uracil”
would prolong his life -weeks or
perhaps months. Rayburn had
been anxious to leave the hospi-
tal. His family would like to take
him back to Bonham to spend his
last days in his white colonial
home and watch the white-faced
cattle on his ranch that he loves.
Weather Continues
Warm in Bonham
Child is Taken to
Bonham Hospital
A 5-months-o'ld baby was being
treated in a Bonham hospital for
malnutrition today.
The child, weighing only five
pounds, was brought to the hospi-
tal by Sheriff Hoyt Ivey and Depu-
ty Troy McNear Wednesday after-
noon after they were called to the
Telephone community to investi-
gate a reported whipping of the
child’s mother by the father who
fled. Officers were seeking the
father.
Sheriff Ivey said the couple had
been living in the Telephone com-
munity for a month or longer.
The sheriff said the couple had
two other children, one two years
old and the other one year old.
Fannin county officers also were
asked to be on the lookout for two
Mexican men who escaped from
Lamar county.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The De-
fense Department has ordered an-
other 10,000 troops to Europe,
bringing to 50,000 the number of
men to be sent overseas to back
America’s position in Berlin.
Within little more than a month
from now, all 50,000—plus hund-
reds of thousands of tons of equip-
ment—should be in Europe.
The big movement -began on
Wednesday with the arrival of the
first 500 -troops at Cherbourg,
France.
3rd Cavalry Gets Nod
Later, Defense -Secretary
Robert iS. McNamara ordered an-
other 10,000, including 2,600-man
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment,
whose fame goes back to -the In-
dian Wars, and illl Air National
Guard fighter squadrons to
Europe.
The 3rd Armored, commanded
by Col. Donald H. iCowle-s of West-
field, Mass., is now-at Ft. Meade,
Md. It traces Its lineage to a fa-
mous cavalry outfit in the Indian
Wars and one that raced across
France at the head of the 3rd
army in World War II.
The air units, McNamara said,
“will result in a significant in-
crease in the tactical fighter
strength in Europe.
Heavy Equipment Shipped
“Certain heavy equipment and
vehicles required by both armored
and infantry divisions will be
shipped to Europe and held in
readiness there,” he said.
“This pre-positioning of several
thousand track and wheeled ve-
hicles and more than 100,000 tons
of equipment will permit move-
ment of Army divisions to Europe
in a matter of days should the
need arise,” McNamara said. _
He is known to be considering
sending as many as six more di-
visions to Europe if necessary.
The United States now has five
divisions in Germany.
20,000 Draftees
WOf'Be Called
For November
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Defense Department has asked
the Selective Service System -to
provide 20,000 draftees for the
Army in November.
The department said Wednesday
the Navy, Air Force and Marine
Corps would continue to rely on
volunteers through November.
(The -same Army quota previous-
ly was set for October. The -total
of draft quotas set since t h e
start of the Berlin crisis — the
four months beginning in August
— now stands at 78,000.
Soviet Envoy to
Face Dressing Down
After Second Win
Warriors Play Wildcats
The weather is expected to con-
tinue mild in the Bonham area
through Friday, the U. S. Weather
Bureau forecast says.
Skies will be partly cloudy but
no mention is made of precipita-
tion.
A mass of Canadian cold air that
had been expected to bring cold
weather to the state over the week-
end was fading fast in the Texas
Panhandle today and will have
little, if any, effect on tempera-
tures.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS —
Partly cloudy through Friday.
The Bonham Purple Warriors will
be seeking their second win of the
1961 football -season Friday night
as they open their District 6-AAA
schedule in a game with the Sul-
phur Springs Wildcats on B. P.
Weaks Field at 7:30 p.m.
Though they are playing at home,
the Warriors will be the underdogs
in the game with the Wildcats who
hold a win over the Commerce
Tigers who spanked the Warriors
18-14 last Friday night.
The Wildcats will boast a weight
advantage in both the line and
backfield for Friday night’s scrap
and the Warriors will have to play
.one of their better games of the
Reason to post a win.
Bonham looked good in an 8-0
Plano and Commerce on successive
Fridays.
Sulphur Springs defeated Com-
merce and then absorbed losses at
the hands of Jesuit, Gladewater,
Gainesville and Mesquite.
Bonham’s defense appeard to
fall apart in the last quarter at
Commerce and on offense the War-
riors were able to pick up only 24
yards rushing in the last half.
The Warriors have put in long
hours on both offense and defense
this week and Coaches Jack Mc-
Elhannon and Nolan Ashmore are
hoping for a better performance
from the Warriors in both phases
of the game Friday night.
Bonham likely will go with a
backfield made u$ of Roland Rain-
loss to Terrell, then edged Lewis- ey, Bill Terry, John Woodruff and
ville 13-12 and dropped games to1 Leslie Spoon with Bob Finley,
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AMSTERDAM (UPI) — Soviet
Ambassador P. K. Ponomarenko
fle-w back today to Moscow where
he may face some embarrassing
questions about a Russian scien-
tist who defected to the West
here this week.
(Ponomarenko, who was punched
in the nose by a Dutch police-
man in an airport fracas over
custody of the wife of defector
Alexei Goluib, left unexpectedly
aboard a Moscow-bound airliner.
“I will discuss -the Golub case
in Moscow, but I expect to be
back here in two weeks’ time,”
Ponomarenko told newsmen as
he boarded the plane.
The Soviet embassy at The
Hague had said that Ponomaren-
ko was going home to attend the
Communist congress next week.
But he left amid increasing spec-
ulation that the defector, a 35-
year-old biochemist, may have
ranked high in Soviet science.
Cramer Biggers, Danny Harris,
Mike Southerland, Lindy BalleW
and Pat Taylor available.
Up front, the Warriors will be
using Randy Baccus, Gary Davis,
Jack Weaver, David Woodard, Bar-
ry Gay, Teddy Pyles, Charles Pal-
more, Roger Fitzwater, Ray Fin-
ley, Mackey Sloan, Lewis Faith,
Bob Arledge and James Dodson.
The Wildcats will likely have a
backfield of Miles Bramlett or Tim
Williams at quarterback, with Bar-
ry Camp and Randy Wilkie at the
halfback posts and David Rowson
at fullback.
Sulphur Springs will go along
with Larry Palmer, Bill Alford,
Joe McCorkle, Jerry Haney, Mick-
ey Honeycutt, Gerald Melton and
Billy Don Lindley in the forward
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