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The ORANGE Leader
Schools Adding
Fourth R‘
Hit One Each
See Page 3
See Page 7
FINAL EDITION
ORANGE, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1961
VOL. LVIH—NUMBER 196
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In Wake
Of Visit
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To President
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The 3,800-ton, sugar-landen ship
Over Bizerte
The taxable valuation increase
Notice Given
'Berlin.
re-1
fused to discuss a schedule of
day in one of the girls' apart-
ment.
A battalion commander, Lt. Col.
the student activity fund.
him in the United States and were
vital interests by peaceful means
session.
if possible."
The resolution prepared for in-
Rusk defined the "vital inter-
sel be freed.
ail French forces from Tunisian
I world.”
peace.
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the system.
of East Indians and Ne-
uty Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan I colony
.t__.a .. -L. Cevint IIninnlornes
office.
The Democratic minority while j
The Republican-controlled
ac-
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PRINCESS IS 31
Officers arrested King shortly
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Expecting their first child in
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at Baimor-
age group cornea thia idea, aired
women.
and other community leaders.
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muke periodic reports of what it over the day's receipts.
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Commies Tighten
Berlin Barricades
U.N. Bloc Asks France
To Get Out of Tunisia
Compiete NBA Services
Memer Associuted Press
We Won’t
Be Pushed
out to shake hands with West Berliners in the
divided city as crowd stopped his car to greet
him en route to City Hall after arrival on his
ed States — which Stevenson de-
scribed as the "oldest anti-colon-
Dallas Youth
Presses Luck
Ship Captain
Enters Plea
Charges May Be Filed
In Death of Man Here
defecting
Cuba
Wagner, involved I a rugged 7
battle for re-election, has broken a
with the regular. Democratic city' •
IN COMMAND — Col. Glover
S. Johns Jr., a native of Austin,
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Special Session Is Called
In New York School Scandal
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allies.
The French government has
mission of assurance to the Germans of Amer-
ican support. In foreground. West Berlin Mayor
Willy Brandt joins in the handshaking. (AP Wire-
photo via radio from Berlin)
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a
f-eighter.
The Bahia de ipe has been
under Coast Guard control since
it sailed into Lynnhaven Roads
V
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Wai
tha I
ler has agreed to accept ,
!But negotiations will occur.”
He said he did not yet know-
how, when or where such nego-
UlV rremei nnal- a. -‘TJ"i------j ----- -------- ---— - - — . . a 1
declared today the Soviet Union groes on South Americas north state of emergency in the scandal —
m j ----- — ,---- a - - —------- • ridden school system of New Yorx Slate
cents—as levied by the dis-
1 trict last year.
That figure represents an
increase of $238,624 over the
previous year’s budget of
$1,819,639.
A tax increase to meet the
additional revenue demanded by
the new budget was not necessary
because of a number of factors
Casino in France
Robbed of $4,000
NICE, France (AP) — Seven
bandits armed with submachine
On the fourth time, Williams
lost, police said.
Two girls, each 15. told police
the incident occurred early Sun-
U.S. Army battle group moving
to West Berlin from Mannheim,
Germany. (AP Wirephoto)
ticolonial policy.
Delegates from Asian. African'
or neutralist nations waited to see
if the United States would vote
for the resolution or if it would
abstain as it did on similar pro-
cision on their status. .3 nano inccns
At Saturday’s hearing. Hoffman needed.for.theubudgetsincrease.
heard a request from Secretary Th dictic* will continue to 1e"
of State Dean Rusk that the ves-
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The
captain of the Cuban freighter
Warm days, late
Mild nights the
tion takes office. They also held
tin board should be ralaried.
Data From U.S. Weather Bureau
uticok Partly Cloudr
High today ——
Low tonight ......
Outlook tomorrow
1 i Sunday night on the NBC-TV in- H
terview program “Meet the Prees", F
i Rusk tried to find a peaceful solu- —
should not be appointed until the
mayor chosen at the Nov. 7 elec.
cationing royal family
al Castle, the royal family's Scot-
tish residence.
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for settlement of debts claimed wiii give the district an additional
by several persons. 1$16,029. And, because of the ex
Jorge Gustin Navarro. thetellent percentage of tax col-
ship’s-captain, said Sunday night lection in the past year, the new
2
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2
2
7
de Valera.
ACTOR DIES
a single cartridge in the cy-
linder, spun it, pulled the trig-
ger
"We became so terrified we
ran out of the room. Just after
ple
DEFINTTION — From the teen:
organization, which is supporting F
Levitt in the party primary. u
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lay at anchor today in nearby
Lynnhaven Roads under watch
First of all, the State Legisla-
ture's action increasing the state'
minimum salary for teachers will
give the distrief an additional
meat paying makes the months
shorter and the years longer . . .
The adjective in "easy payments"
doesn't refer to the collector's job.
either . . . The installment coL
PARTLY CLOUDY
H—-
had died in traffic smashups since
Friday night. Drownings, shoot-
Ings, stabbings and ____ 7______
by the Cpast Guard.
A hearing resumes before U.S.
Dist. Judge Walter E. Hoffman
will determine whether the shipitional revenue:
can be seized by U.S. marshals
M l of /he ll/llilll
tion the Berlin crisis. •
“We do expect," he said, “that
negotiations wil take place on
this matter. Just when and where
will be determined by consultation t
among governments, including the
otherwise improve conditions in
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iai power” — should join in the
censure of France even though
France is one of the United
States' most important European
wealth spiraling to $100,750,000.
1 A number of other factors also
The New York City school sys-
tem. which includes a million
WASHINGTON (AP)—Secretary
of State Dean Rusk says the
Western allies “won’t be pushe
out of West Berlin.”
While making this declaration
1
A mid-August rash of violence The New York Crity administra-
lives in Texas over the'tion is Democratic-controlled.
.figure heavily as advantages to
(the district in the way of addi-
captain VI me moan ireignuer 1181 ana i GREET JOHNSON IN WEST BERLIN—Vice
Prhsadede Kennedy* apPsaladtte secondly, for the first time in President Lyndon Johnson,.right_center, reaches
vessel here until the families of the history of the district, taxable
“ of valuations surged past the hun-
dred million dollar mark.
A company of British infantry-
men and four tanks deployed
along a two-mile front there. Maj.
Gen Sir Rohan Delacombe, the
Eritish commandant.. went out tor
a personal look at the activity of
th workers and their guards,
Red police and militiamen, who
I labored in a drizzling rain. Six
Rea armored personnel carriers
were stationed behind the work-
era.
Delacombe told reporters he be
lieved the Communists "are
strengthening their wire to pre
vent further escapes"—as they
have been doing along the city
border between East and West
mber or early October,
ess and her husband.
Will Not Hike”
School Tax Rate
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’ By BILLIE JUNE MURPHY
There will be no tax increase in the Orange Independ- EM
ent School District for the 1961-62 fiscal school year. WBR
The Orange School Board will have a public hearing 2“883
tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the school office building on a E
$2,058,263 budget which calls for the same tax rate—89
crewmen get out
Taxable yaluatiohs increased by
$5,150,000 during the past year to
send the district total taxable
Practically all Democrats in
By LBJ
By CARL HARTMAN
BERLIN (AP) — Communists
tightened their barricades around
West Berlin a bit more today in
the wake of Vice President Lyn-
don B Johnson's visit. British
troops turned out to keep waten
on one wire-stringing job at the
zonal border.
British headquarters was espe-
- cially interested in Red opera-
tions at Staaken. A main highway
i from West Berlin heads across
deciared wGay E P---- —.............. —.—
will sign a separate peace withjcoast chose a new government to-
! East Germany at the end of this day in an election that political City,
year and told the Western powers experts believe may decide
that then "you'll have to ask whether British Guiana moves on
them (the East Germans) for a to democratic i his -
pass if you want to enter Berlin.” Soviet-style socialism.
territory.
The session posed a new test of
the Kennedy administration's an-
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP>—Gov. Nel- does to eliminate corruption and
WILL SIGN TREATY ; GEORGETOWN, British Guiana son A. Rockefeller called upon a
TOKYO (AP)—Soviet First Dep- (AP)—Voters in this tiny British [ special session of the New York
• - - • •--------'—r of East Indians and Ne- Legislature today to declare a
iMi — __----- —
legislation proposed by the
Education Department
ice of the peace of Precinct 1.
returned a verdict of murder fol
lowing the beating. Police reports
indicate Ballard was beaten to
death with a 1-by-4 inch piece of
flooring plank pulled from a porch.
Ballard's common law wife.
Lorena Polk. remains in critical
times the
Shell.
hammer missed
lature was ready to approve the
independence or GOP governor's recommendations
de
Ikn! e
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inefficient administration.
Rockefeller asked the legisla-
ture to:
1. Proclaim a state of emergen-
cy in the giant school system
throughout the next school year.
2. Authorize Mayor Robert F.
Wagner to appoint a new, nine-
member school board from a se-
lect list of 18 nominees to be sub-
Bertha King. Investigation is still----- . . _ .
in progress by local officers in lector meets some of our best peo-
an attempt to establish a motive
for the shooting of the three
Antony Armstrong-J ones. spent
the day with the rest of the va-
legis- agreeing there was a need for a
e the new school board, argued that it
for a series of sweeping reforms.
Minority Democrats balked at
some details.
the crewmen seeking sanctuary
in this country are out of Cuba.
The State Department in Wash-
ington said it has received a for-
mal request from Prime Minister
Fidel Castro for return of the
LONDON (AP>—Princess Mar-
dy caret was 31 today, a few weeks
S3 from motherhood.
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' A picnic lunch was planned,
weather permitting, and there will
be a birthday dinner tonight.
Orange District
winos choot stems from the reluctance of city
OtKer forms leadership to assumeaits respons:
bilities and take decisive action.
High tomorrow----- - 93
Sunset today —..... 6:50 p.m
.Sunrise tomorrow 5:47 a.m.
WiND - VonobU mos"ly rertherly
Lm noriheost winds- * 10,14. mL.P.n.
Nin 92%
FVesnpAyg-“femomatGrM: h'S* n.
bw n, raw. sa.
- n posals before the Security Coun-
DETROIT (AP. - The Detroit C’Suly 29.
pupils, 40,000 teachers, 800 schools L....
and an annual operating budget Sept 7
of $650 million, has been beset by Rockefeller is backing State
charges of graft and corruption (^tty. Geo Louis J. L-L.owitz, Re-
in building programs, hazardous publican in the mayoral fight,
conditions in present schools and —
24- "
---asaictwili cntinue to jvv The resolution calls on France troduction in the’General Assem-
nThendistictnwincontinyertte Pr to..withdraw.her troops occupying bty says the presence of French
76 cents of thelc an,tax rate ’ i Bizerte. It also calls on France forces in Tunisia against Tunisia s
(See TAXES, Page 5_____ and Tunisia to open negotiations will violates the sovereignty of we cotoutor ihe coom we "heard Berlin, tne treeoom ano scurny
1 immediately on the withdraw! cf the former French protectorate We 80t0u1 off” TriXud of that city, its ability to live, its
— all French forces from Tunisian and endangers international the 8un,89 off, P™ sC physical access to the rest ol the
President asking him to hold the
ship here until the families of
government of the Soviet Unicn. Tex., commands a 1,500-man
guns held up the Nice municipal
casino early today and escaped
with 20,000 francs-$4,000.
___________.--------- The casino had just closed when
mitted by a panel of educators the bandits edged into one of the
and other community leaders. gambling rooms. held up the at:
3. Require the new board tollendants and forced them to hand
r neat Staaken to Hamburg. West
" Germany. About two miles away
- aka is a small grass airfield occasion-
|iy used By Soviet and East
German air forces.
"HISTORICAL UNITY’’ I Deputy Port Archer said Tommy,
RABAT. Morocco C-P) - King King 12. of Miami, Okla son of
Hassan II pledged Sunday to re- 'Slam Ottawa .County. Okla de
store Morocco's "historical unity" uty sheriff Claude King, declined
and gather to the country "all its to say how he had come to
children in the north and in the'Neosho. 40 miles from Mismi.
____ IMPORTANT ELECTION
the legislature are from New.
York City. Most of those minor-
ity members are supporting State
Comptroller Arthur Levitt against
Wagner in a primary fight for the
Democratic nomination for may-
or.
• TEXAS UNIT ALERTED - Brig. Gen. Thomas S Bishop, left.
Texas' assistant adjutant general, talks with Capt, Jesse McCrady
at Camp Mabry near Austin. The 136th Transportation Company,
medium helicopter, commanded by McCrady was included in the
Army's alert of 113 reserve units for possible active duty. The wuuen. rev •—x.--ENGa
*“ enessnodtingSKiatmafherrdaghtekmacldmmaemte
Charges are expected to bejand Ballard .had just returned
filed today against an Orangeite home from partying. Ballard sug-
involved in the beating death of gested that he and Lorena go to
his sister’s common law husband'their side of the duplex house.
Saturday night. ' "He wanted to tell her something."
Police Chief Kenneth B. Green Ballard went to the other apar
said Ed King. 38. of 501 Mill St. (meat alone, apparently got a gun
would be transferred to the count, when Lorena did not follow rum
jail today and formal charges filed immediately, and went outside to
through the district attorney > a window in the room where Lo-
office, rena and several women were
The beating death took place gathered. A shotgun blast through
moments after the victim had the window struck Lorena, who
blasted his common law wife and'was standing in the doorway, and
two other Negro women with an the two other women nearoy-
pass if you want to enter Berlin."
“Without it, you won't get
through," he declared- bluntly in
an arm-waving speech before a
leftist rally attended by an esti- claimed 40______________—------------------
---■ weekend and, as usual, traffic was Rockefeller, in a message pre.
the biggest kiler. (pared for the special session, told
By midnight Sunday, 22 persons the lawmakers , "The..crisis in
- ... ‘ • , New York City's public schools
antiquated 12-guage shotpin.
cording to police records.
had hurried around the • house to
find nlard sitting on the front
porch.
King told officers. “He wan
mumbling. 'I'm going to kill them
(See BEATING, Page B)
that he had sent a letter to the budget was prepared on a 91 per, UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)
cent tax collection, basis instead _ Thirty-two countries proposed
of the customary 90 per cent col- today that the U.N. General As-
lection. This..will bring in an ad-sembty call on France to negoti-
ditional 58,966 in revenue, ate for the withdrawal of all her
The district has a cash surplustroops from Tunisia, including her
of 310,000 in the local maintenance big base at Bizerte.
fund Action also has been taken fhey submitted a resolution to
to place part of the lunchroon that effect shortly before the 99-
salaries. $6,700. under lunchroom nation assembly met in a special
operations rather than in the sesion on "the grave situation in ... . . .
budget.. .... . Tunisia." set up after the Security withdrawal from the big Bizerte
Capital outlay by the, district Counci deadlocked on the issue. naval and air base, claiming that
near here Thursday. Navarro and has.ceen reduced DY :1.72.1and France’s delegation was not Tunisia is trying to hold a gun
10 crewmen asked political asy- 1 51.000. reduction was made to present at the session. to its head. The French indicated
ium in the United Stoics and wert the student activitX. fund... The sponsors of the resolution they would boycott the General
taken off the ship pending a de These arsthenadvantages.which included 31 countries from Africa Assembly
- ' ” [will give the district the money and Asia plus Yugoslavia.
---A-a 4- +he EAcet inrreoce — r. .. ..
Meanwhile, King who had been .
---- _ ----- . visiting neighbors, rushed back
Police identified the dead man upon hearing the shooting, accord-
■ Alex Ballard, 49. of 501 Mill ing to police reports.
St. Mrs Emmie K. Fountain, just- He told officers he had ripped
plank off the back porch, and
JOHNSON DELAYED I mated 10,000 singing fellow trav-
SHANNON, Ireland (AP) — A elers.
cracked window in the cockpit of - -.....
his jet plane kept Vice President INJUNCTION SOUGHT
Lyndon B. Johnson in Shannon 45 cEIC. ca=; _ —. "
minutes longer than planned to- Free Press said it would seek ani eaid therel
day.. . V 'injunction today against striking Informedossources said vthera
Eesmmcka mma2. eaznd- piraas. -m "if
condition today at Baptist Hoe- . ■ —1
token Saturday ni8^7 she *”|| ORANGE JUICE
The other two shooting victims. 1 ___ 1
Bertha King, 19. and Rosetta ABOUT INSTALLMENTS —
Scott. 34. were expected to be Probably the world’s greatest
released today from Orange Me-' humorist was the man who named
mortal Hospital where they were them “easy payments” . . install-
admitted following the shooting. * "
were
________ ___ porteu o ounrneu cases ui CINI- mass meetings
HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Charles AU8- *• nisians. Chief U.S. delegate Ad-; era—the first since 1947—and 13 Americans for _______ _____—.— -
Gerora,ss.sehelmapobshindmhe YoUTHi IS FOUND
died Saturday of a heart attack. NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) — A miss-
Ce .monstenhciysnhnecipnantentneduestoningnB,Go, Rockefeller
Tree - "Beuty and the Beast-of his father ...iouna walking DY-OV.KoCKerener
and “The Gorilla ” along railroad tracks here early
-____ today.
after the beating took place. He
is the brother of Lorena Polk and
Manlie, Maris
theyslast “aayemfor terminatcn Malcolm Sherman, said the Brit-
notice. ish infantrymen and tanks were
. .. .. -We feel the notice is neces- brought out after reports were re-
Rusk definedI.the vital intersitated by the fact that we haveceived that several hundred Com-
ests‘ of me Western, a Ines as: made absolutely no progress at munist militiamen and the per-
: Nofwag been oosehved
lof "hat cit ite ahilitv m live its Chrysler manager of labor rela- This is the first time such a
tions. deployment of Western troops had
Contracts between the UAW and been announced publicly in the
jFord Motor Co. and General Mo- current crisis. However, British
tors Corp, already are set to ex- soldiers turned out as a precau-
\ / • m I I. || | / pire in 10 days — on Aug. 31. tion during German rioting at the
Vaccine Rushed to Hong Kong
- I 1 1 ... 1 . i of cancellation troops and police moved East
I — 1 A L - 4- ( L A I A -- L . ~ A • 1 c In the past contracts have been Berlin families from their homes
I O (omDet L ■ n G) I r I D l G| m I G extended on occasion even after on Harzerstrasse. a street .front-
• • S—VI I IHdI S—l I•ii — HI-VI I II- cancellation notice has been ing on the American sector of
served. I Berlin.
HONG KONG (AP) — Vaccine 100 but they have not been Red China is the main source " The Big Three automakers are Johnson left after a 36,hour vis
was rushed here today to help reported. of Hong Kong’s food supplies and expected to make their wage of- it that lifted the will o.te.2
p.. - i. _____ .g The English-language South health inspectors have been post:‛fers sometime this week. million West Berhners to rea^
-—----------- ing in southeast section in this China Morning Post reported a ed on the border to check all The union is expected Tuesday Communist pressures. He mneteo
There was some belief the Unit-refugee packed British colony few days ago that cholera had/sh’pments coming into the colony to turn down the only settlement fears that they migntuoexorsmxen
. .. , ed States abstained on the Secur- The scare spread to Formosa killed 30,000 in Chinas southeast 'Die scare has brought travel offer it has received so far. Ths reaction, "asusummed D!
lotte (N.CJ Observer are „pub-lity Council vote because it and the Philippines. Kwangtung Province. The Com- between China and Hong Kong to The offer—from American Mo- a Eerlin. cax dnyerat won
lished by John S Kmght Press- thought then it could get the Hong Kong health officials re- munists were reported holding a virtual standstill. tors Corp. — includes the union’s we kne TAit states
men struck the Miami Paper French to negotiate with the Tu-'ported 8 confirmed cases of chol- mass meetings to blame the With supplies of vaccine running No. 1 goal from 1958 bargaining: be, forsoten:. Tneu "
Aug- *• | nisians. Chief U.S. delegate Ad-(era—the first since 1947—and 13 Americans for the epidemic— low. shipments were being flown profit-sharing. But the UAW says winotetus.eoann _ Tohn
1 e -P"E----- ‘2--e-- • 1-- eretee AMC’s offer does not go far Vice Prestcent Lyndon B John-
enough. (See BERLIN, Page 5)
10 Pages 5 Cents
of violence accounted for the re-
mainder.
! The Associated Press began ita
weekly count of violence at 6 p.m.
Friday and continued it through
midnight Sunday.
A.c, T.. AE+. tiations would be conducted. “For
vnce I OO vrten perfectly obvious reasons," Rusk T.i.-l:.n
adaula Danas 2y abdat ‘h' ^L’^any'p^ I ermindtion
feredssundydaxhen “henpressed the Western allies might
nisia’s backers feel that the Unit- the trigger and his .luck once I RL did not rule out the
too often in a so-called game of i husk —d not ruie out me P957
Russian roulette. bility of a summit meeting ove:
Three times Perry Williams (Berlin. But, if there is one, he p A II*
Jr . 16, pulled the trigger of his said, there should be full pre- RwAnAISninn
pistol, witnesses n.d. Tree so that it can be suc- Dy AUTO UniUll
cessful.
Rusk was asked if the West DETROfT (AP) - The United British officers said the Com-
would fight if there were any in Auto Workers today served notice-1 munists are building., an' exra
terference with access to West of termination of its contract with barbed wire fence,wabout.six .1eet
Berlin Chrysler Corp. behind one that had been there
"I thmk at this noint " Rusk The company was expected to for years and apparently intend,
ink a "ethis for us to con the same action immediate ed to fiU the gap with coils of
The girls said Williams showed certraterin“theevitni'interestsdnaiy. Under terms of the ____________________________
tnem the pistol and talked abou say that we want to protet thosei,hl
1 Russian roulette He their ■placed vital interests by peaceful means ti.
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