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79TH YEAR, NO. 298
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL eet
UNTIL ADJOURNMENT
New Severe
Lyndon to Delay Threat Over
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AGES IN FIVE SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 15c
Announcement In Panhandle
uulle Cautions
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) Johnson said he did not think re- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
—Senate Majority Leader Lyndon ligion was a proper issue in the Mild weather covered Texas
B. Johnson hammered Saturday 1960 campaign. "I feel it can be Saturday and a warning of possi-
on a theme of unity and smilingly a disastrous issue in this elec- ble thunderstorms, hail and high
said in response to a question that .. be said winds expired without any violent
he planned no announcement on, weather hitting the state,
presidential aspirations until Con- He blamed much of the disun- Balmy temperatures ranging
gress adjourns, ity he described in his party and from a high Por 90 degrees
Reds on
Pioneer Fixed
The Texas Democrat, bouncing in America on extremists. But he Lufkin, Cotulla and Wink, to 76 AAEIHE
through several sessions with declined to identify whom he con- at Galveston, covered Texas. All 9)a MIHION
Utah Democrats which he admit- sidered extremists, other highs were in the 80s. • 4 1 III IIVI1
a unere which her votes, stressed Johnson again skirted questions Van Horn received a trace of
the November election for his of his formal candidacy for the “s^bk aenuxnpoint getting
party and give determined world Democratic presidential nomina-
leadership to the nation.
tion
A newsman asked if he was
The U.S. Weather Bureau issued
Miles Away
hreats
Summit Solution
Said Impossible
WASHINGTON (AP) — French men for an hour, paid tribute to
President Charles de Gaulle warn- Khrushchev as “a great personal,
ed the Soviet Union Saturday that ity” but made it clear he disa-
any sudden "brutal threat" grees vigorously with the Soviet
against Berlin would wreck pros- leader's frequent denunciations of
pects that the summit conference West Germany.
can improve East-West relations. “Germany doesn't threaten anv-
In the midst of talks with Pres- body," De Gaulle said. "France
ident Eisenhower. De Gaulle said doesn't feel she is threatened by
bluntly that a solution of the Ber-the Germany of Chancellor Ade-
nauer. . . nor is Russia threatened
by Western Germany."
De Gaulle's main theme, em-
. Phasized often with a gesture of
The 69-year-old French leader his hand, was that East-West
expressed confidence however that leaders can hope only for a very
the Big Four chiefs can find what limited start in settling prob-
he called a “practical start" to- lems in view of current tensions,
ward world disarmament, "If we make some progress...
Ignoring American objections there will be a simultaneous
to the idea, he urged Western and change in the atmosphere,” he
Communist countries to join in a said, "and gradually solutions to
program of economic aid to the the problems that divide the world
two billion people in underdevel- will begin to appear .... And
oped lands, after a certain time it will be pos-
De Gaulle, who talked confiden- sible to make further progress,
tially with Premier Nikita Khrush- Such is my philosophy."
chev a month ago, strongly hinted De Gaulle described the quest
he really doesn’t expect the Soviet for a safeguarded disarmament
leader to set off a new crisis over agreement with Moscow as one of
Berlin, the main talking points when the
"It seems to me that had the summit conference begins in Par-
is May 16
Several times he spoke on a A newsman asked if he was a that a tew severe thunder storms TAPaNcON asaRdosindliyour !
disunity in the national tempera- candidate today, stressing the hail and damaging winds were in trouble over the telephone
ment based on religious, section- ord ay. prospect for northeast parts of the space expert has fixed a gadget
al or racial difficulties which he "My answer to that is the same Panhandle between 5 and 10 p.m. in the Pioneer V probe 51 mil.
said he deplored. as answer of yesterday." The possibility of thunderstorms lion miles out.
Johnson called for America to Johnson countered. He referred arose as a Pacific front moved He didn’t exactly fix it, but he
take the initiative in inviting the to his statement that he felt his into West Texas bearing promise figured out a way to get along
Russians to join in such projects present duty was to his Senate of badly needed moisture just as well at this end without it.
as a joint attack on space, disease post. - Jaden with air The story was told Saturday
and development of natural re But he flashed a grin when from the Gulf of Mexico hovered night by the National Aeronautics
sources. newsmen tried to pin him down, over many sections of the state and Space Administration, which
“As far ahead as man can see He said he "had not planned to The day was warm windy and said trouble cropped up early last
the free world and the Commu- make any announcement until the and e t F week in Pioneer V's “telebit”
nist world will be rivals," John- end ol the session." the same kana weather sunday. unit..
son said in remarks prepared for Speaking to a small turnout at -------------------------------— This is a highly miniaturized 10-
a Jefferson-Jackson Day banquet, a $100-a-plate Democratic lunch-
"Let us turn Some of that rivalry eon, he touched briefly on racial
into cooperation to conquer dis- and religious conflicts
ease and destroy hunger, the ene- He strife in Africa and the
mies of all mankind, and to ex- Middle East is based on “blind
pand man s knowledge of the uni- unreasoning fear of other men be-
verse * cause of the color of thelr skin DALLAS (AP)—A Dallas woman. Something went havuire
He repeatedly stressed the and their beliefs,” married only two cays, was shot of thee teure ent hay res Some
theme of growing political and The Texas Democrat did not to death and her husband critically pioneer y were ooilcus, wrong
economics arower dofl the Western further elaborate on the racial wounded Saturday as they walked Robert Gourried. of Space Tech,
staieshaand. called for an end to riots of South Africa or the po- from a drive-in grocery with her nology Laboratories, Inc.. which
seqdionalism, in politics, where he tential Arab-Jewish. strife in the child. assembled the probe's inner work
another Cry Middle East. Nor did he mention Bullets from a 25 caliber pistol ings, went to work on the problem.
. S any racial or religious tensions in killed Mrs. Billie Jean Dansby and He finally traced the trouble to a
Earlier at a news conference the United States. __________injured David Dansby, 29, faulty diode—a semiconductor of
----—- electricity no bigger than a pin-
| IB e , . # . I hOding a spare unit his HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah cause of the accident for reasons
VY US GTOCTer • Angeles laboratory, Gottfrietl (API-One of the three civilian of security.
F worked out a new translation code crew members of a B58 Hustler P. - - -------.— , puts vu ..uw.
▲ . _ ... which in effect by - passed the said he bailed out when the super-had happened to his companions, of caution: “ If the relations be- De Gaulle plugged anew for
And Cha racte re They W e Taum done, he was able to nI some * bomber got into trouble other mint enemneer, waler Sim- improved there should not dawn = Tommi anaek by commitns
• ee RE RUA * % d 1 I EV " V V — I t in blanks caused by the malfunc- Friday and assumed his two com- on, 30. All three are employes at on the conference the brutal threat and free countries on the poverty
A tioning component and interpret panions did too.
lin problem is impossible at the
long-awaited summit parley three
weeks hence.
SANTA ROSA, Calif (AP)
Iron bars convinced six col-
lege students Saturday that
nobody thinks bank robbery
is funny—even if it is only
simulated and is on “Char-
acter Day” when you’re sup-
posed to dress up and have
fun.
The six — five Santa Rosa
Junior College male students
and a coed — learned the
hard way Friday after author-
ities booked them on federal
bank robbery charges.
Unable to make *5.000 bail
each, Pat Marcucci, 19, Her-
aldsburg: Frank Palmieri
Jr., 20, Santa Rosa: Alan Sit-
ter, 18, Petaluma: Bob Lind-
stein, 18, San Leandro: John
Cabel, 19, Redwood City, and
Frank Priori, 21, Los Gatos,
stayed in the Santa Rosa jail.
They’re to be transferred
Monday to Sacramento for a
hearing before a U.S com-
missioner.
The six dressed in Roaring
20s style for the school's an-
nual "Character Day." Pat.
a brunette song leader, im-
personated a flapper. The fel-
lows wore oversized overcoats,
derbies and caps and dark
glasses.
They had an arsenal of toy
guns — submachine gun.
sawed-off shotgun, two BB
guns and four pistols.
They invited a newspaper
photographer to come along
when they strolled into the
downtown Bank of America
branch Friday,
Pat, smoking a cigaret from
Dallas Bride Shot
While at Drive-In
pound unit containing 450 transis-
tors, 1,500 diodes, 1,600 resistors,
1.000 capacitors, and several thou-
sand soldered connections.
Its function is to collect infor-
mation from the probe’s instru-
ments before it is sent to earth.
SURVIVOR KENNETH G. TIMPSON
...he jumped, thought others did too
Wirephoto)
1 Crewman
Flees B58
Soviet Union wanted to keep on
the pressure and the threat loom-
ing over the West because of Ber-
He stressed a need for "recipro-
cal control” of the means of de-
livering nuclear weapons—planes,
missiles and ships. Then, in one of
lin, it would have done so." he
said. “And the Soviet Union did II ,
S -- ==========
chev’s unpredictable nature in ble to start on this subject from «
He said he did not know what mind. De Gaulle added this note practical point of view.”
— - - —- —-------. . . - - ------- F**55cw --* rus‘ one
sonic let bomber got into trouble Pilot Ray E Tanhaoff, 38, and an‘ tween East and West, are to be 0( his favorite international proj-
sonie jet bomber got into trouble other flight engineer, Walter - ---------4----1-1* — *--
a long holder, handed a note
to a teller demanding change
for $1. She got two 50-cent
pieces.
A teller, reminded of her
experience in a real bank
holdup, screamed. A bank of-
ficial called police.
An FBI agent had to be
reassured the toy submachine
gun was a plaything
The photographer filmed the
whole thing. Officers confis-
cated his film.
"Our reaction to their hu-
mor is very poor," said Scott
O'Leary, bank manager
"An act of utter stupidity,"
added college President Ran-
dolph Newman.
Brunette Patricia, stunned,
asked the jail matron: "How
long will I have to serve?
When will I get out”
______. Fort Worth for Convair. 1
But the 29-year-old flight engi- Timpson said he saw the bomb- of Berlin.
of any question, and in particular and misery of two billion people
P-nin," living in the underdeveloped
De Gaulle took a calm, un- areas.
values which jibed with earlier Pi-
oneer V readings." NASA said, neer, Kenneth G. Timpson of er hit the water after he aban- be Vauue TOOK a car, un- areas.
Overjoyed, NASA Administrator Fort Worth, Tex., and Alto. Mich . doned it. T lems di East-West cooperation in this ef-
T Keith Glennan sent off a tele- said he was not able to see any The big plane, which can fly through the second day of his fort is essential to peace, he aid.
gram saying, Hearty congratula- other parachutes. twice the speed of sound, disap- four-day stale visit. Friendly Even in this, De Gaulle called for
lions to the long-armed repair He said he saw the 10-million- peared Friday afternoon after the crowds applauded him whenever a modest beginning, perhaps an
man who reached 5% million dollar plane go down into the piloted reported by radio to Salt he appeared in public, agreement to help develop the
miles into space to clear a trouble Great Salt Lake west of this north- Lake City that he was having un- With President Eisenhower at Nile Valley or to control tubercu-
that threatened the continuing ern Utah base. -specified trouble. The pilot called his side, he took time out to lay losis in Asia,
performance of Pioneer V.” But searchers were not able to off a radar bombing run over a a red, white and blue wreath at
Pioneer V was launched March find the wreckage Saturday after Salt Lake City check point and the statue of the Marquis de La-
11 into a sun orbit between earth Bad weather hammered ef- was not heard from again, fayette, the French general who
noon, weather bapwerred ef The plane was on a final check-helped Americans win freedom
from Britain in the Revolutionary
War.
and Venus. Its radioed data re-. . .,
ports are being received by track-forts to scan the inland salt sea. D meh— ire , n
stations at Manchester End. The base earlier reported that out flight from Fort Worth to Salt
land and South Point Hawaii the wreckage had been discovered Lake City and return, prior to
---------------------------------at the north end of the lake, not being turned over the Air Force,
w LR: T far from where Timpson was Timpson was hazy about the
‘ reck KATS IWO found safe Saturday morning. But time he ejected from the plane.
.ALICE (AP)— Manuel Soliz Jr., no wreckage was found there but Hill AFB officials said it
27, and Abel Ramariez, 29. both later, must have been about 4 p.m.
of Alice, were killed Friday night Timpson was brought to this He said he was not injured when
in a headon auto collision six base and held a news conference, he ejected from the bomber. He
miles north of here.
But he revealed nothing about the said he heard the pilot tell the
others to "go”—"And I went. I
assume the others also went,” he
In an unusual gesture. Eisen-
hower walked across Pennsylvan-
ia Avenue with him for the cere-
mony in sun-dappled Lafayette
Park. It marked the first time
Eisenhower has left the White
House grounds on foot since he
became President nearly 7% years
ago.
De Gaulle, meeting with news.
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Oil news
Obituaries
SECTION B
Books ......
Dyess Pix Page .....
Editorials .......
Amusements
SECTION C
. 12
.....4
.....5
.... 8
10, 11
Women’s news 1-13, 15-16
Church »»wi .........14
Radio, TV logs .......14
SECTION 0
Sports news .........15
Farm, markets ........12
said.3 • *
But he said that while he saw I Alar cars * 60 am
the bomber hit the water as he w OIOOTT9D ■ 1 til ■
drifted down from about 17,000
feet, be did not see the other • • FT
parachutes. He explained the para- s roL aomsouss
chute canopy prevented his seengTTGCIIET TTOT
much above him. " A ""
After he hit the water he floated
part way to shore in his life raft,
waded the rest of the way, then
Local Lyndon Johnson backers reasons why he believes Sen John.
-along with those over the state son merits support:
"He is an outstanding world
who want him to be the Demo-
cratic presidential nominee — are personality. He has broader ex-
getting sc for their first official perience in all the many and
step toward that goal. varied phases of federal govern-
That will come at the precinct ment than any other potential
spent the night by a big driftwood
log.
Early Saturday morning he
found a sheepherder who led him
and directed him to a railroad conventions May 7, the first in Democratic nominee,
stopping point a few miles away, the series of party gatherings "He is a mature man. Long
where a work train crew found tha will climax with the nomi- years experience in Congress
nating convention in Los Angeles have tested and tried his judg-
July 11 ment and character He has come
him.
THE WEATHER
Local Johnson leaders had plan- through many crises with flying
ning sessions Friday night, the colors when a weaker person-
men at a Chicken Shack dinner ality would have faded hopeless.
U. (. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE and the women at the home of ly irom the national scene.
MAP HENAT their county chairman, Mrs. J “He is a man of proven in-
RAARENTGIAND, WAIT X 4m mils Frank Clark. tegrity. courage and ability He
pros dieba change MEnthomerSunde: Caucuses are being planned for is a positive strong character
day Hishsund”, as. Now Sunday nieh some precincts during the next who can stand up in international
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS Parti, two weeks. Helping arrange these affairs against other world lead-
cloudy Sunday and Monday s few than are Maurice Brooks, Daniel Boone, ers and hold his ground, repre-
portant temperature enamer Ahuhest mn Gus Vletas, Tom Gordon a n d senting not only our country but
S NOETIEST TEXAS purd, idudy Virgil Musick, the entire Western World
Sunday in Monday No important tem Pointing to the importance of At this time in our history we
agature, chances Hikhest 33 to 35 Sun- the precinct conventions. French need his leadership
sulds TKY Si RE Aowrewanhunaer Robertson, chairman of the local "As majority leader of the U.
storms likely Sunday afternoon Highest and the district Johnson-for-Presi- S. Senate the past several years,
so 0 ACESTRAL TEXAS: Partly dent drive, called on all who Sen Johnson has exhibited on
ax " 35 sunddey and Monday favor Sen Johnson to join forces many occasions that he is the
SOUTHWEST TEXAS Partly cloudy •«„ want all the Senator’s most capable leader in govern-
Sunday and Monday No important tem- ' want
perature changes Highest in 80s Sunday friends, liberal and conservative ment in this country today,
wa,'', % 0 15m p'h: Ahe Sure# Cloud, and moderate, to make their plans "While the Republican admin-
weather SUTELanL Manda. now to attend their precinct con- istration. under the leadership of
Sat. a.m.
Partly c
as No important
Highest in 80s Sul
p.h. and partly cloudy and moderate, to make their plans
Ek MTKEs
Sat. p m.
‘CASTRO’S WELCOME’ — COLLEGE STYLE — Saturday was the
day pledges of McMurry College's Ko Sari men’s social club pulled
their annual stunt. This time it was a Fidel Castro parade and wel-
come to Abilene . . . with an assassination plot thrown in for good
measure. Parading up Cypress St. with guards, banner-bearers and a
two-man marching band, the bearded Castro (Ronnie Hart of Abi-
lene) waved in greeting to the crowd. In front of the Paramount
Theater he received the keys to the city from the make-believe may-
of Bobby Seago), but then a peon (Tom Church of El Pasol rushed
out to assassinate him. The guards (Jack Jackson of Fort Worth
and Phil Nichols of Abilene) quickly “shot” the assassin and un-
ceremoniously dumped the body in the trunk of the car carrying the
Prime Minister. The stunt happened at noon and created some little •
stir, particularly among motorists who just happened to drive past
while all that was going on. (Staff Photos by Jimmy Parsons)
now to attend their precinct con-
vention. They are most important Pres. Eisenhower has on many
and we must make an all-out ef- occasions been both slow and
fort" Robertson said. inept, theleadership of Sen. John:
"We want to- have a Lyndon son has certain, strong and
Johnson delegation from every WlEverything points to the inevi-
precinct for the county convention table conclusion that sen. Lyndon
v. B Johnson is the only Democrat
, He asked that all Johnson sup who can defeat Nixon this
same date last year: porters contact the Johnson head- November."
Ecunse last night; Tn sunrise today: quarters at 150-158 Cypress St. in Local Johnson leader* are con-
6:00: suinset tonight 7:15: Abilene.
heomomgar m ul I Robertson cited a long list of See JOHNSON, Pg, 14k. Col. |
High and
m 8) ar
Hich and
for 24 hours ending
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