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DEFENSE RAISE
WILL UP TAXES
Defense Plan
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Sales Tax Bill
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LEAD BOND SALES
To Safety
franchise tax, and increased driv-
AUSTIN (UPI)— The Texas er's license fees.
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IN RESEARCH PROGRAM
Matagorda, Montgomery. Walker,
SCHOOLS HERE
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IF THE PRESENT hot, dry organized on the 26th.
Hurt icanels
One f
Stitt No Threat
For Tunisian Port -
French Unleash
Supr
The
a bale to the acre. Another tells
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NAVASOTA — (Spl) — Judge
tensity” today.
time because of conflicting trial
TUNIS, Tunisi"(UPT)=
set up a
quested the trial
postponed
un-
His lack of bounciness after res-
1,100 miles southeast of
day unleashed an all-out battle
Curacao,
five miles west of Brenham where points on the outskirts of the city
No onewwas injured in a two-car
cards, etc., in the lobby of the
children.
heavy shelling and air strafing
and hundreds more wounded in
He plans to do some part-time just • after noon.
quent parking meter fines or ar-
the Weather Bureau re-
Algeria toughened French troops
(Continued on Page 6)
Highest winds are estimated at
80 m.p.h. near a small area near
Familiar Faces —
ft back fender. of a
10 miles north of the center in
science. Taylor graduated from
to remain in port
police said.
went to Sam Houston State College (6:15 a.m. EST). It said “Tunisian
girl, I like it here and don't have
Cameron Man Gets
been away from Brenham a little
that.
er at the Washington County State college in Austin,” she said.
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Calendar of Events
Flash Floods Hit Charleston
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Department Store from &-12 a.m.
July 23:
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BIG CROP POSSIBLE
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BUND GIRL OPENS SHOP
MRS. POHLMEYER IS
'OLE HOME GIRL
2
about
Miami
miles
House, by a slim one-vote margin,
today gave tentative approval to
any ambitions to leave for the
thrills of the city, or anything like
SOVIET JAMMING INCREASES
LONDON (UPI) — Soviet jam-
-Bank:------------——----—
Mrs. Pohlmeyer has lived up to
her wishes. She was born and rear-
in Huntsville. He received a BS
Degree in physical education from
Sam Houston at the end of the
related as she took a break from
her duties as a teller and bookkeep-
By PETER ROBINSON
United Press International
Consolidated in College Station.
House will teach freshman Eng-
lish and general science at BHS.
State Commission for the Blind.
She took a three-months course at
the Lighthouse for the Blind in
Houston before going to Victoria.
weather holds for another two
weeks, Washington county can ex-
1011 West 4th Street,
the right of way and
was to regain control of the canal
through which armored regiments
and other crack French units re-
miles in the southern semicircle.
. “The bureau warned ships along
the coast of South America in the
veil
of
-oss
Ira-
Jackson Streets. •
Virginia H. Dochery, 47, a Bren-
N.W.I., moving at 23 m.p.h.
“Hurricane Anna is expected to
continue moving in the same di-
ath
ler,
live
vith
tensity,'
ported.
farming.
Jim Taylor, 21, of Madisonville
has been named head football
ard had after his recover
The National Aeronaut
store the economy to full employ-
ment of men and machines. Critics
have charged that with business on
on the upbeat anyway, a deficit
would be inflationary.
for control of the Tunisian port
city of Bizerte.
Localized French attacks
BOY FOR DALMEYEKS .
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dallmey-
defense network, involving Harris
County and 13 adjacent- counties
including Washington County will
be completed early next week, it
was reported today.
(Continued On Page 6)
Navasota Attorney
rest those, who, for any reason,
failed to pay.
"The summer after I graduated
I took a course at a commercial
has
for
vith
15
rer-
etz
Department, and is one of the first
of its kind in this country.
The network, tabbed RADEF
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lent
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dee
8998 38
mm“ad
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weighed eight pounds, seven oun-
ces. /—- -
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12th
comp<
Leon,
ties. 1
Ganske’s 1957 Ford blowup over the summit meeting
in May, 1960, the British Broad- vicinity of the Guajire peninsula
Day Organization.
Two Escape Injury
In Accident Here
postoffice at Victoria and has just acdentrstcnuon7o wm Fiynt Wright to either collect all delin- with slowly increasing size and in-
By PAT CONWAY
United Press International
Second U. S. Astronaut
- Virgil Grissom cocks an eye toward the camera
Jr.,
tor '
line
di-
at-
for
1
— J Pattson High School and five years lery fire and strafing planes to-
statute of vocational agriculture at A&M 6
til next Wednesday at 2 p.m.
The defendants are Melvin D.
White, Glenn Curtis and W. L.
White, all of Navasota.
All three were arrested and re-
leased on cash bond shortly after
up French strength at the Bizerte
base.
A government communique said
the shelling began at 12:15 p.m.
ole
as-
vic-
e.
ing
ital.
The faculty for the Brenham
Independent School District has
been completed for the coming
year, Charles Darby, assistant su-
perintendent, reported Friday.
Dagby said the recent election of
Astronaut Swims
Over 60 Feet
opened the stand. She attended
. the State School for the Blind at
the bolls now on the plants, he will
make a big crop. Young cotton
seems -to be doing much bet-
ter than old cotton. But there is
Very little old cotton this year.”
Representatives of federal, state
and local agencies with RADEF
on a 2 per cent sales tax on items
costing more than $5.
The vote on engrossment of the
bill by Rep. Charles Sandahl ol
Austin was 71-70, with Speaker
James A. Turman voting to breal
the tie. The vote was verified by
roll pall of the membership.
No attempt was made to sus-
Roger Moehlman, Sanitary Engi-
neer for the Harris County Health
city. -
The Tunisian news agency said
50 truckloads of French troops
moved out from their barracks in
bb88s
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Department, is RADEF officer for
Harris Cunty.
Final organization of the network
will be made in meetings on July
25 and 26 at the Rice University.
Love reported. The first meeting
will be devoted to organizational
plans for Houston and Harris
County; the other counties will be
cue was attributed to disap
ment over loss of the capsuli
(Continued on Page 6)
By EDWARD COWAN
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Treas-
ury Secretary Douglas Dillon was
the fighting that began Wednesday Friday at Milroy
The immediate objective of the when French troops resisted block-
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Brenham Banner-Press
Twelve pentone were drowned, some
of them trapped in their bedrooms, by
15-foot-high waves. At least four oth-
ers are missing. (NEA Telehoto),
d-om -j- -
u2quxam
Report Says Income
Taxes Not To Be
Affected
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Madisonville High in 1958.
Blinn Grad
He then attended Blinn where he
was graduated two years later and
ton.
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The boat people are those your
wife knew before she met you.
NBA
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CAMERON - (Spl) - Hubert
W. Shuffield Sr., 66. Cameron cafe
operator, was found, guilty of-mur-
der with malice by an all male
jury Thursday night and sentenced
to 40 years in prison.
After an hour and 35 minutes of
deliberation, the fury reached a
verdict at 7:05 p.m. The defense
gave notice of appeal.
Shuffield is accused of killing
Jesse Kirk Jr., 44, a truck Jine
operator, with three shots from a
.22 caliber pistol last April 14 as
the two quarreled in the Shuffield
Cafe.
The verdict was delivered to
Judge W. C. Wallace in the fourth
day of the trial in 20th District
Court.
He also played fotball and ran
track for two years at Blinn and
was a trackster for Sam Houston
two years.
He will also teach physical edu-
cation, English and science.
Science Teacher
Added to the Pickard School
system is Clyde H.Cobb, Jr.. 24,
a native of Kerens where he has
taught the past four years.
He has a BS degree from Prairie
View A&M in biology and chemis:
try. He will teach both high school
and elementary science. /
Neither Taylor or Cobb are mar-
ried. . /
The
SPECTATOR
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MIAMI (UPI)—Hurricane Anna,
the season's first tropical storm,
maintained a lonely course in the
Caribbean Sea- today and threat-
ened no land areas. '
9.-
er of Route 5, Brenham are the
parents of a boy born at 12:48 a.m.
. r Hospital. He
Damage* to
nd Dochry’s 1946 Plymouth were
For
the-
a
er’s
hen
The.ciyo, a
pitality and
Howard Payne and A&M where he
completed his master of education
s 36 3
a doom homes in Charleston, W. Va.,
were demolished by a flash flood fol--
lowing a devastating cloudburst.
to records, watching televinio
Amily night at VFW Home. I MRS. GERALDINE POHLMEYER occMfonatty bowl I n g.-
Barbecue 'Ole Heme Giri PAYNE
■
; bathtub appears to be the
left intact after more than
ta collection and analysis center
on the district level, the training
of personnel to operate radiologi-
cal monitoring instruments, and
the designation of over 300 speci-
fic stationary and mobile monitor-
ing stations.
“Some persons have already
completed the required training,”
reported Alan C. Love, public
health engineer for the City of
Houston Health Department, “and
they will be given assignments at
the earliest possible date.’
Love is RADEF officer for Dis-
trict 2A, which includes: Austin,
Brazoria, Colorado, Fayette, Fort
Benr, Galveston, Grimes, Harris.
NAVASOTA - (Spl) — Former
District Atty. Hulon C. Hall, Na-
vasota attorney, has accepted a
position in the lands division of the
Department of Justice-in Washing-
strengthening of U.S. might to
show the Soviet Union the United
States is preparedgfor any show-
down over Berlin. There have
been reports the defense budget
would be increased by $2 billion
or $3 billion.
—Concurrence by Kennedy in
Dililon's advice that the budget de-
ficit for (he 1962 fiscal year should
not be made bigger than already
predicted. The official forecast is
$3.7 million but Budget Bureau of-
ficials acknowledged privately that
up to $5 billion was far from
unlikely.
—Congress’ willingness to vote
any tax boosts Kennedy might
ask.
The administration has argued
degree in 1960. ..m,
c—cuught three years of
math’ and vocational agriculture at
WASHINGTON COUNTY citizens
continue to lead this district in the
purchase of U.S. Savings bonds,
figures released by the state office
. NHR1
almost"bifnd, has
By ALVIN B. WEBB JR.
United Press Intrnatioal
Virgil I. (Gus) GsoG1e,ea
116 miles into the sky to become
America’s second spceman to-
day in a 16-minute rocket flight
I which ended in loss of his spae- •
craft and near disaster for Eim:
Grissom had to blow the hatch
off his capsule and swim 65, to
70 feet before he was picked up.
I The 35-year-old Air Force cep
tain got out of his craft. Liberiy
Bell 7, minutes before it sank to
the ocean 145 miles east north-
east of Grand Bahama Island.
His first words after a rescue
helicopter deposited him on the
deck of the aircraft carrier Ran-
dolph were: ’'Give me something
to blqw my nose. My head in full
I of sea water.” The spacecraft
sank five minutes after Grissom
got aboard the helicopter.
Except for loss of the ibert
Bell, Grissom’s flight was Ahltoat
as perfect as Navy Cmdr. Alan
B. Shepard Jr’s pioneerihg hop
of May 5. A y.,.0
business in Victoria and hopes to
become self-sustaining. Miss Alice
Wehmeyer, 21, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Willie R. Wehmeyer of
Brenham, is the girl. She has been
granted the concession to sell
cigars, cigarettes, candy, post-
John Critenden of the City Corpor- visory that the disturbance
ation Court postponed a parking slowly “increase in size
meter violation trial for the third
- All - Out Battle
substitute for the Senate’# budget
recommendations.
Substitute Bill
The House Voted, 76-64, earlier
today to substitute Sandahl'*, bill
for Gov._ Price Daniel's tax rec-
ommendations.
Rep. Charles Ballman of Bor-
ger, sponsor of the governor’s
program, said the -Sandahl bill
was acceptable to him. It con-
tains many of the governor’s rec-
ommendations such as a gas pipe-
broadcasts to
Miss Wehmeyer attended the Lions
club camp at Kerrville through the
efforts of the Brenham Lions club.
NORRIS ROHDE a student from
Brenham High School in Brenham
is on the campus of the A&M Col-
lege of Texas for six weeks as a
participant in the Research Par-
ticipation Summer Science Pro-
. gram sponsored by the Depart-
ment of Biology. This program is
directed by Dr. John J. Sperry,
Professor of Biology. At A&M
until August 25, Norris has been
assigned as a research participant
under the sponsorship of Dr. L:
C. Grumbles in the Department of
Microbiology. Norris will be a
member of a research team and
will be taught techniques of re-
search and report preparation. The
(Continued on Page 6)
ke, 19, Rout
with her righi
BRENHAM, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 21,1961
Local Area
Included In
dison. and Trinity Coun-
year he returned to pri-
vate practice in Navasota.
Hall, who. is well known in Bren-
and
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On Items Over $5 - ■
BRENHAM ~
uccessful
-Q
will ‛
rec-
This
pve •
ur-
i to
ors
and
Tom House, Jim Taylor and Clyde
A. Cobb, Jr. .
House, 34, is a native of Goldth-
waite in North Texas and gradua-
ted from Goldthwaite High in 1944.
- Attended A&M
He then attended the University
of Oklahoma, Tarleton State-Col-
lege and in 1951 received a'BS de-
gree in Agricultural Education at
Texas A&M.
House did graduate work at
G
July 22:
Girl Scout Swimming Lessons,
1:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. City Pool.
MYF sake sale in front of Hnhlli
me that if the cotton holds half of elect
Information On 3
New eachers
Listed
to wait and see how it works out."
During her spare time, which
Mrs Pohlmeyer claims is intre-
quent, she enjoy* Martig,
It front fender, police Russia has been increased to its
most intensive level since the
Austin and obtained the conces-
sion through the efforts of the ham negro
cessful outcome of his flight
In Newport News, Va., Gris-
som’s wife Betty said thankfully,
“I’m very happy, Deep down I
always knew it would be a suc-
cess. That helped me.” Lig
Grissom himself was* described
as “in good spirits,” but observ-
ers aboard the Randolph skid he
did not appear as jaunty as Shep-
reported today to have told Presi- •
dent Kennedy that any substantial
increase in military spending
But the San Juan, P. R.,4eath-
er Bureau reported in a dawnhad-
■ ! squld
and‘in-
f the lands division is
Clark of Dallas, son of
■Court Justice Tom Clark,
^year-old attorney was
^strict attorney for the
Kcial District, which _is
■ of Grimes, Walker,
Partly cloudy and warm
Saturday Low tonight 74. High
Saturday 96. Reading* for 24-hours
up to 7 a.n. today; Max. M. Min.
> 73, 7 a.m., 76. Sunrise 5:32, Sunset,
7:20.
i negro of
failed to field
struck the kf
car drived by
Even administration officials
(Continued on Page 6),
Navasota Trial Is
Postponed Again
first sxmesks of this xears sum 40-Year Jail Term
TAYLOR RELEASE EXPECTED
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -
Elizabeth Taylor. 29, who under-
went a scar-removal operation,
expects to be released from Ce-
dars of Lebanon Hospital Satur-
day, according to her husband,
singer Eddie Fisher. *
Miss Taylor was feeling “very
well," Fisher said Thursday,She
was operated on Wednesday to. re-
move the scar from a tracheot-
omy performed last March • in
London to save her life.
To Federal ___
49 - • thak tbf P 26Cted 294 Geuak W
Washington acceptable because it will help re-
The network is a pilot project of (for radiological defense) by its
the Regional Office of Civil De- planners, involves the establish-
------------------- ment of a radiological defense da-
the Bizerte naval base today and
He has purchased a farm about against Tunisian army strong moved toward the city.
the center and gale winds extend coach at the Brenham Elementa-
ry School and will also teach phy-
and ported en route by sea from Al-
i geria can enter Bizerte to build
by James Henry Gans-
3, Box 157, Brenham ming of British
pect a bumper cotton «crop. This responsibility and interest will be
is the opinion of two men, long
Her merchandise and equipment
were set up by state and federal said.
An unofficial count showed more
burst into a full-scale assault with than 200 persons had been killed
through County Chairman F. J. '-----•----- . - - - „„
Kubitza reveal. Through J u ng, Waller, Washington, and Wharton.
rcRortL snBVICE n
the city commission issued a
pend the rules to give the bill
immediate final passage.
The House went to work on a
$2.52 billion state budget. The
measure was approved tentapfwely
Tuesday. The bill is the House’s
“I guess I'm just an ‘ole home ed in William Penn, is a graduate -
"'------- - — J of Brenham High School and has
funds, but from now on it ba- ’
comes an individual enterprise, and
haps the insects drowned! One far- Rami
mer tells me he is already sure of
over one year since her high school
Mrs. Geraldine Pohlmeyer graduation in 1952.
Plans for a district radiological fense Mobilization at Denton and
the Division of Defense and Disas-
ter Relif the Texas Executive
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A eI—-
and about 175
northwest of
thte Tm teachersbyethe gghoe after completing a guccessful test run recently for his
barring" changes, flight into space aboard "Liberty Bell 7." c-e
-- - - d-em,-dAaicinitv,i- * fanwer qres-
new-fmt“Sne Texas mapentenc
The advisory said the hur?
northwest course, was located 1
I • Ag 1 The assistant superintendent also
_rOW1n9 BlOWl relead biographical information
& _ / on- the three new teachers, Jim
should be offset by higher taxes.
The report came from Treasury
sources who speculated that such
a tax hike would apply only to
corporate and excise levies—not
individual income taxes.
“Temporary’ boosts in corpo-
rate and excise taxes were enact-
ed to provide revenue to help pay
the cost of the Korean War. Those
"temporary" increases are still in-
effect. Congress has renewed
them eah year at administration
request. •
Key, cabinet-level aides to .the
President have made an intensive
review of the fiscal aspect of the
Berlin crisis, paying particular at-
tention to the question of taxes.
.The possibility of an increase
hinged heavily on three points:
—The cost of the expected
rection at a slightly slower speed
directive to City Marshall .Garvin of 21 m.p.h. for the next 12 hours he lives with his wife and three
_ . . Grissom thestocky.ltoughmindedahtem:
made the actual flight this morning and was reported Iriving, Grissom
rieirnssriyirmssma—aa
a $328 million tax package based want." but said the substitute
representing only half of the year,
citizens of the county had pur-
chased 69.8 per cent of their quota
for the entire' year. Leon county
was runner-up with 65 7 per cent
of the quota already subscribed. A
total of $251,426 worth of b p n d s
have been purchased in Washing-
ton county this year, of which $26,-
831 worth were purchased in June.
4 • •
Ballman admitted the bill
"doesn't have what I or you
Despite Near Disaster
e Hmaze - ■ edhe pjpimam-ocg 24.
was a bill that "can get the job
done and represents a true com-
promise."
Rep Will Ehrle of Childress
Fontinoe m Fage
FACULTY FOR.
I experienced in observing the agri-
cultural outlook here. One isR.C.
- Barnes, who bought cotton here '
for many years. Barnes estimates
that on the present outlook, the:
* county will produce 18,000 bales,
barring bad weather. W. A. Wei-
mann, who handles federal cotton
loans, concurred in the idea of a
big crop. "I’m ’surprised there I
hasn’t been more insect damage,” ’
he tells us. “Ordinarily, in a wet |
year, you can expect great dam-1
age from inseets, but that doesn't I
seem to Tie the cate this year. Per-
t *
troops have taken up strategic Space Administration said official-
r points in Bizerte city” to defend ly that “preliminary data indicate
--------------- -,p 0 sh troops the pilot performed satisfactorily
paratroopers supported byartil-sonly about half a mile outside the during the night.”
Wins Approval
line tax. two-factor corporation
Space Ride S
ing ( ;
ply
iwn
lion
Iry-
sect ,
hes. ■
the northern semi-circle and 50 sical education, ‘ English
in-SpetemberIcame back to Bren _
1 ham and took my job here at the
■ bank.”
“There has been one other .
break, though. The school year of
*1959-60 I lived in Huntsville while
my husband, Glen, was completing
work on his Bachelor of Busin***
Administration degree at Sam
Houston State Teacher's College,"
she added.
“And when he got his degre,"
Geraldine smiled, “I got -one too.
It was a P.H.T. (pushing hubby
through). I worked at the college
registrar's office."
- Mrs. Pohlmeyer hopes to keep
her present position and *|** rhise
a family.
"I've advanced all the wey foam
bookkeeper and hope to be ableto
do both,” she said. "Il just have
casting Corp, said today,
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