The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1959 Page: 4 of 32
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A A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, July 2, 1959
| Long May Adopt
Boy From Texas
I By JAMES MCLEAN Newsmen at the noon press con-
■ COVINGTON, La (AP Gov. ference where Long switched po-
1 Earl K. Long of Louisiana Wed- sitions noted the governor’s so.
I nesday night announced plans to u,,°* noted the sesemors *
I adopt a 14-year-old Texas boy who parently weak condition He lay
I will live with him at his wifeless on the bed, in the motel where he
I mansion in Baton Rouge has established temporary head.
1 In an exclusive six-hour inter-quarters. He was covered with a
I view with The Associated Press
| the 63-year-old gov ernor said husk- Dr. Paul Pratt, his attending
I ily: “I’ve always wanted a son physician, tried to limit the press
Well, I’ve wanted a daughter, too, conference to two minutes. Pratt
■ ' but I can't chaperon gpe under cautioned reporters the GS-year.
■ the present circumstances.” old governor needed rest but the
| This new plan came a few hours physician couldn’t check , Long
I after Gov. Long said his wife, once he got started .
I Blanche, tried to buy his assas- "Jealousy brought all this on.”
I sination for $5,000 He changed his said Long : She wanted to be
I viewpoint a few hours later by governor"
I saying: "I doubt if it’s true." “She was jealous of every wom-
I Long said the boy he plans to an who was around me.” he said
I adopt is a native 3 Texas City, at one point He named Wilma
■ Tex, and that the boy’s parents Lockhart, his—executive secre-
I have agreed to the adoption He tary: Mary Evelyn Dickerson
I said the boy was a patient at Parker of the Welfare Depart-
John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, ment Cora Russell Schley, his
■ Tex. during Long’s stay at the public relations adviser and oth-
hospitals psychiatric clinic... ers
“He got to likin’ me, and I got . . . , I
so likin' him.’' said the governor She even go jealous of a cab.
emotionally, aret dancer, he said, ".brought
“If he stays bere—Baton Rouge the womans picture home and
—any time he wants to go home she started calling the woman on
.he can go the phone She got after the offi-
“That kid is smart You know, cers. 100
i he beat me once in a poker game. Still the tirade against his wife
- with a Mexican straight. of 26 years went on.
Mexican straight: that’s not all “The day I left for Galveston.”
you learn while you're in Texas," he said, "she took $4,000 out of
The boy told Long a Mexican my pocket Three days before we
straight was 2-4-6-8-10. left, she took $3,000 out of my
Some hours earlier, Wednesday, lock box in my room I haven't
Gov. Long described the assassin- seen any of my jewelry since I
to be that he alleged his wife ap left the Baton Rouge mansion."
proached as a "no-good wife beat- His wife, said Gov. Long “lost
er." as a-buUshooter" and said her head after she became Demo-
"1 wouldn't trust him around the cratic national committeewoman
corner.” ′ in 1956.”
The story of the alleged assas “She wanted.to be governor
sination purchase came originally When a newspaper columnist
from the man Mrs Long is sup- wrote about petticoat governors,
posed to have approached and all hell broke out at the mansion
reached the governor, through a when I told her to stay out of
trusted political associate my business.”
The associate denied to The As. Gov. Long’s accusation and ex.
sociated Press that he ever told pression of doubt later came 24
the governor this storyhours after his wife, in , counter-
, But earlier in the morning, Gov. petition of separation, accused
Long told The Associated Frees him of threatening to lull her
his wife offered a man $500 as Long had a dig for his nephew,
down payment on murder or may- Sen. Russell B. Long (D-La), who
hem But, he said, the man participated in the.decision that
backed down For this, said Long, sent the governor to a Galv eston
his wife called him "yellow be- Tex, psychiatric clinic - much
cause he wouldn't do if against the governor's will
Gov. EARL KLLONG : Ar Wareonote
. . . leaves ‘motel capitol’
Fine Levied;
Sinclair Service Station . April Moving Office reasons, he told reporters from
16. gyns wIC . this hot Arabian seaside capital
Mrs R F. Ford, Rt. 3, a $5.95 KARACHI (AP) - Pakistan’s to the cooler northern Punjab
oahnd check to Star Wholesale on Finance Minister Mohammed
' ‘ 1 Howard R. Talioferr, in cus- Shoaib says the government plans German Strength
tody in Oklahoma City, Okla, a to move its policy-making depart.
. . .. _ $21.65 bad check to Hotel Wind- ments to an area in and around i . -__
A ISO fine for check swindling sor on June 16. Rawalpindi, the projected new na- istry announced West German
was levied Wednesday against Clarence Rylie, Winters, a $10 tional capital site. The move is armed forces will reach a strength
James H. Willeford, 626 E. N. bad check to Luke Wilson Sin- being made for climatic and other of about 218,000 this month.
20th St., in Judge Allen Glenn’s flair Service Station on March
County Court - at - Law. 22.mare
The youth was charged in con- Mary Weiss address unknown
nection with s1,0 check given to a $14.90 bad check to Leddy Boot
Safeway on May 19. Shop on June 24
The court dismissed a check ---------------------------------------
swindling case against S. E. More Comfort Wearing
Charles, 1557 Oak St., because the Pprrus
amount of the check was paid di FALSE TEETH
rectly to the merchant The check Here is s pleasant way to overcome
was for $10 and was given to LAL loose plate discomfort. FASTEETH,
Ine on Saturdar an improved powder, sprinkled on
inc. on Saturday upper and lower plates holds them
Court filings Wednesday include firmer so that they feel more com-
ed: ud fortable No rummy. pasty
Cases Filed
BONN (AP)—The Defense Min
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