Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 111, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1961 Page: 1 of 12
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BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 31, 1961
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nies in Texas last year paid $135
Senterfitt of San Saba, represent-
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San Saba Mission at Menard
be designated as a state park
resulted in the board creating
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Mercury-Atlas spacecraft flew its
programmed trajectory, hitting a
peak altitude of approximately 907
statute mile and landing approx-
imately 1.425 statute miles down-
range. The approximate peak vel-
ocity was 12,850 miles per hour.
by Bruce Savage, public hous-
ing commissioner Of the total
costs, 90 per cent is loaned by
PHA to Brownwood Housing Au-
thority to finance the work. The
money is repaid through revenue
bonds from rent on the units.
ative of the Texas Electric Serv-
ice Co. also opposed the legis-
lation.
The Senate State Affairs Com-
mittee recommended passage of a
MU to guarantee that the same
amount of state aid now being
money seekers do their parts."
It was pointd out that the
mission la located in a 25-acre
tract that includes some coun-
try club buildings and several
holes of the golf course, ft
st.
A.ee
water program.
The Senate by a 30-0 vote sent
to the governor a bill passed
earlier by the House permitting
the water development board to
make loans for dams and reser-
voirs op to $15 million rather
than the present $5 million.
What oldtimers called the wont
snowstorm in the history of Texas’
South Plains dumped up to 20
inches of snow on the area by
Tuesday morning and then appar-
ently ended.
The snow was blamed for two
could be rushed to an early
completion
from space.
The space craft, differing
only in equipment from the
one an American is expected
to ride late this year, sped
upward et 9:10 a.m. EST
from the missile test center
on the nose of a hugh Atlas
missile.
recommend tonight that the full
committee and the House ap-
prove a measure to legalise horse
race betting.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Ma—The
United States today selected three
astronauts to begin final training
for a manned rocket flight expected
in two or three months.
The three are John Glenn, VirgO
Grissom and Alan Shepard. Rob-
art Gilruth, mercury project di-
rector. announced the selections at
• news conference after the sue-
Tests
Success
CAPE CANAVERAL-An
unmanned space capsule sur-
vived in apparently excel-
lent condition today in a test
City Employes Receive Pay Hike
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PHA APPROVES LOW-RENT UNITS FOR CITY-
council smashed down, M. a So-
viet resulution calling for an end
to the U.N operation in the Con-
go within a month and for the dis-
missal of Hammarskjold
REJECT RESOLUTION
Shortly before 4 am. the 11-
nation body rejected an Asian-
in favor at the park idea, but parka
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BROWNWOOD AREA: Mostly cloudy
this afternoon and tonight Low expected
tonight 35 High Wednesday in 50s
Maximum temperature hero Monday
43, overnight low 39. Sunset 6 26, sun-
rise 7:13.
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lined up in the axhool cafeteria of these homes be specially de-
to eat with the students and signed and built for elderly per-
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It was pointed out that the
$175,000 was more than half
of the $270,000 the stat* park
board has to operate on this
yesr.
The Procter Dam request
for designation of a state
park was rejected after a
report by the board staff. /
San Saba’s request that MW
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PERSONAL PLANE WRECKAGE—Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands beside the wreckage of his personal
plane which crashed near his ranch at Johnson City, killing the pilot and co-pilot, Harold Teague and Charles
Williams, both of Austin, the only persons aboard.
way Department approved $175,
000 Monday at a meeting here
A Senate committee heard a
bill ' restricting the State Board of
Council Approves
Budget For '61-2
By NORMAN FISHER
or The bunetin Statt
A tightly-knit record budget for the City of Brown-
wood, calling for a blanket 5 per cent pay increase for
employes, was approved by city councilmen this morning
following a poorly-attended public hearing.
The budget, for the 1961-62 fiscal year, calls for expen-
ditures of $978,780, just under $42,000 above expenditures
in the current operating budget. Revenues are budgeted
at $987,760, an increase of almost $37,000 over the current
GIFTS FROM THE HEART—Noted heart specialist, Dr. Dan G. McNamara, M.D.,
of Houston was showered with gifts this morning in Brownwood from small pa-
tienH he had performed delicate heart surgery. Charlotte Elaine King 10, left and
Charlotte Ann Oakes, 9, gave him checks of $250 from the Brown County Heart
Assn and $1,000 from the District Heart Assn. Patricio Ann Fowler, right, gave
him a cuff link set Dr. McNamara spoke in Brownwood today at a combined civic
and service club meeting, Brownwood High School assembly and Howard Payne
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Insurance on what moving traffic
violations it may consider in set-
ting penalty ioints effecting each
motorist's insurance premiums.
HAZLEWOOD PRESENTS
The meeting started at 2:38 p.m.
Sen. Grady Hazlewood of Ama-
rillo, outspoken critic of the so-
called ‘safe driving" insurance
program, presented his bill to the
Insurance Committee.
Daniel dropped his backing of
a payroll-earnings tax Monday
with a prediction that neither a
general sales tax nor an income
tax will be passed. He urged that
VKJ. FRANK DOBIE
A letter from J,. Frank Do-
bie of Austin, noted authority
on Texas history, said, "If Me-
nard wants to benefit from
tourists, I think th* town or
was thought that as long as this
extra facility exists there would
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NEW YORK (API—Three of the
nation’s largest airlines were abut
down completely today as a re-
suit of a flight engineers' wildest
strike that has caused the great-
est tieup in American aviation hie-
lory.
Three other airlines marled to
the five-day-old walkout were con-
tinuing to operate.
FOR DURATION
Trans World Airlines. American
Airlines and Eastern Airlines have
halted operations for the duration
of the strike, with 84,000 employes
slated for layoffs.
Pan American World Airways
and National Airlines planned to
maintain token service. Wrotern
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Aimed At Elderly
Twenty-six new low-rent housing units for Brown-1 l
wood were a step nearer today after an announcement by! 7
the Public Housing Authority that the government will । J
soon sign a financial aid contract to finance the work.
Most of the units will be for single elderly persons.
Total cost of the project has been estimated at $300,226,
according to Herschel Newby, director of the Brownwood I
Housing Authority. The units will be under the local or- L
ganization. |
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Forty-three minutes later
it was fished from the sea
about 400 miles northeast of
Puerto Rico and 1,425 miles
from the launching site.
Just before noon Robert
Gilruth, project manager for
the man-in-space program,
told newsmen that reports
from the recovery ship indi-
cated that the capsule came
through in excellent shape.
Ships, planes and helicopters
raced to attemp recovey of the
one-ton capsule, 1,435 miles down
the Atlantic missile range.
A radio beacon flashing lights,
a dye marker and underwater
bomb were to help searchers zero
in on the exact location.
The aim of th* test was to de-
termine what happens when such
million in taxes, or about 27%
cents out of every dollar received
in revenue. He said this com-
pares with 1.8 cents per dollar in
taxes paid by the co-ops.
OPPOSED
This legislation could, “it car-
ried to its ultimate limits, elimi-
nate the investor-owned compa-
nies, destroy the source of much
Lumumba had been executed in
South Kasai Province after de-
portation from Leopoldville by
Premier Joseph Deo's govern-
ment.
The city's tax rate for ton
coming fiscal year waa not set
at today's meeting. When it in
aet, it win toetad* a tax to-
crease not to exceed 13 cents
per kite valuation to retire
bonds for the new Brawnwaag
auditorlum-coliseum.
A detailed schedule of th* bond
retirement requirements has not
been completed as yet, hence th*
tax rat* cannot be definitely
set The tax hike will only be
sufficient to handle bond re-
quirements, however, and will
not bring any additional revenue
into the operating budget.
Figures in the budget are for
operating expenditures and da
bedded down
State Approves New Road To Park
■ therest granced of Spenish
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PO, SS Offices
Observe Holiday
The Brownwood post office and
social security office will be
closed Wednesday in observance
members supporting those tax
routes join with him in a com-
promise selective sales tax bill
and wind up the affairs of the
legislature within the regular ses-
sion.
Before a- gallery of more than
300, the House State Affairs Com-
mittee heard a renewal Monday
night of the fight by rural electric
co-ops to continue to bring serv-
ice into areas which have been
annexed.
TO SUBCOMMIITTEE
Rep. Alonzo Jamison's bill went
to a subcommittee at 12.10 a m.
but favorable action by the com-
mittee, composed of rural legis-
lators, seemed likely soon The
Senate passed such a bill in 1957
but it did not clear the House.
Tom Rea v ley. former secretary
of state and general counsel of
the Texas Electric Co-ops. told
the committee present law gives
co-ops no future in areas they
now serve which are taken in by
cities He said the issue is wheth-
er the legislature will trust, the
cities to decide what to do with
co-ops in these cases although he
admitted cities likely would hold
in favor at power companies in
many instances
W. W. Lynch of Dallas, presi-
dent of Texas Power and Light
Co., said private power compa-
of Texaa State Parks Board to
be used to straighten out five
miles of entrance road Into
36th Division State Park nesr
Brownwood
Wendell Mayes Sr of Brown-
wood, vice chairman of the
board, said that he had contact-
ed Brown County Commission-
•ra Court and that they were in
UM procesa of getting the right-
slain CongOlese lender Patrice
not include bond obligntions,
which are automatically taken
care of without being placed in
the budget. Budgeted expendi-
tures plus tend requtrements
on mat-
ily and a Bulletin news reporter.
Neither of the two was present
for ths entire hearing-
One of the two attending Ite
hearing is employed by the
local health unit, which to in-
cluded in the budget, whlle the
other waa Ed Devery, who mu-
gested to the council a combi-
nation prohation-juvenile officer
for the community. .
PATO JOINTLY
Devery proposed that the of
fleer be paid Jointly by th* city,
the county and Brownwood In-
dependent School District. He
said the other two bodies are
agreeable to the idea.
After lengthy discussion on Ibu
matter, councilmen asked City
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of-way to
3 Airlines
_Shut Down
a spacecraft returns to earth un-
der the worst possible conditions. f • I •I
off, the National Aeronautics and In hfrke
Space Administration announced Iff • --n-
"Preliminary indications are the
Mutton condemning
abessinations
skjold’s direction of it, the Soviet
Union abstained, apparently un-
willing to incur the anger of the
uncommitted Asian and African
nations by a veto. France also ab-
stained.
Shortly before the vote on the
Asian-African peace plan, the
technological progress and re-
move from the roils important
taxpayers and builders of our
state." Lynch said.
W. J. Sedberry, vice president
at the Southwestern Electric Pow-
er Co. of Marshall, and Reuben
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will shove th* city's i961-62 ex-
pensea well over the M milion
mark
MEAGER ATTENDANCE
Public hearing, called for 8
a.m. today by the counci, at-
tracted only two persons hrdeta*
members of the official eity fam-
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a new category of historical
sights.
The board will designate cri-
teria of th* category at th*
next meeting of th* board
Th* board road a letter from
Herman Toepperwein, a Boerne
attorney, who said the mission
was part of a system of Span-
fob misslons and waa tba fur-
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received by independent school
districts would be sent them after
they consolidate. Sen. Tom
Creighton at Mineral Wells said
the incentive and payment pro-
gram is a recommendation of the
Legislative Budget Board to en-
courage consolidation in an effort
to strengthen the school system.
country should agree on some --------„ .--------—- —
sort of contract for keeping up be an oportunity to develop
the mission. Citizens around the area plua th* fact that the
there care only for the money state parka board has no money
that tourists might spend I'm to even keep up their existing
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Postmaster Rufus Stahley has Airlines, down to four Jot flights
atrocities and assassinations in, announced that all incoming mail a day betwneu Loe *******
the Congo That resolution was for the post office box section Seattle, also continued a token et
prompted by the announcement will be boxed as usual and also toT.
-- - - that all outgoing mail will be From Miami to Boston 2nd
dispatched. All service windows from New York to Los Angeles
at the post office will be closed many thousands at/ passengers
Wednesday. j have beem incon
Brownwood banks and other walkout of to
businesses will carry on business j Elight Engineers
as usual. ion. 5---—
cessful firing of a space capsulte
nt the type to be used in manned
flight l fa another major legislative
Glenn, to. of New Concord."Ohio, I deivelopment, the head of a House
is a marine Lieutenant Colonel. I r ...
Grissom, 34. of Mitchell, Ind. Is an subcommittee salid his group will
Air Force captain. Shepard, 37,
of East Derry, N.H., is a navy
commander. All will be eligible for
later flights.
sons," the senator said.
lanch-Journal, said some motor-: occupation.
ists spent the night in their cars LAUDS BROWNWOOD
but were not in great dnger be- Sen. Ralph Yarborough, in no-
cause of the relatively moderate tifying ’Die Bulletin of the an-
--Legalized Horse Races
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to travel. Forty passengers and commendable that Brownwood | AUSTIN fAPi—The legislature
the driver of a commercil bus leaders have designated that 22 completed action today on the
■ - ’ major Mil I* Gov. Price Daniel’s
PENDING APPROVAL
Date for beginning or com- , i
pleting construction work is un-
certain at present. Newby said
today. Plans for the work have
not been completed as yet. pen- |
ding formal approval from the
- government. i
A... n.niaI Announcement of the govern-
AreA KeCorI ment’s willingness to sign the
■ ■■ HWVr • financial aid contract was made
African r
The loan la guaranteed by th* J
traffic deaths. Motorists by the government.
thousands abandoned their cars SUNSET ADDITION
Somes teachers, and. pupils spent Twenty of the units will be \
onus 1 •
#reingha,mn e&i eate. Efteaectoipn2"am2ooak £ j
ing was limited. new Sunset Terrace units will
Shortly after dawn, much of the be designed for and occupied by
white covering turned into slush., single elderly persons.
Road crews began clearing streets Two of the George Smith units
an highways. I win also be designed for single
Charles Watson, managing edi- ' elderly persons, while the other'
tor of the evening Lubbock Ava- four will be for normal family ‘
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)
—The Soviets bowed to the pres-
sure of Asian and African opinion
today and permitted Security
Council approval of a resolution
authorizing the United Nations to
use force if necessary to prevent
Civil war in the Congo.
Even before the resolution’s
adoption one at its chief targets
— Katanga President Moise
Tshombe—had rejected a key pro-
vision calling for withdrawal from
the Congo of ail Belgian military
and political advisers. They sup-
ply the working brain* of Tshom-
be's provincial army and admin-
istration.
90 VOTE
The vote on the resolution,
which was sponsored by th* coun-
cil's three Asian-African members
was 9-0. with the United States
on the winning side Despite its
bitter opposition to the U.N. op-
eration in th* Congo and Sec-
retary-General Dag Hammar-
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Coppedge, Don L. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 111, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1961, newspaper, February 21, 1961; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1488988/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.