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ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1960—TWENTY-SIX PAGES IN WO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY Be, SUNDAY 11
Abilene Area Population Passes 100,000 Mark
By KATHRYN DUFF
Reporter-News Assistant Editor
Abilene’s city limit population
has just about doubled in 10
years. The city’s metropolitan
area—Taylor County-has jump-
ed to a count of 100,218. And, ev-
erybody concerned is quite elated
about it.
The city limit population is 89,-
428 — an increase of 96.24 per
cent over the 1950 census figure,
45,570.
The county's 100,216 is a 54.14
per cent gain over the 1950 county
total, 63,370,
Thanks to the cautiousness with
which local officials have been es-
timating the population - since
they didn't want to eat crow when
the count was complete — the
spectacular new figures came as
a very pleasant surprise
“Abilene is probably the only
city in Texas that’ll be happy over
its figures,” Max Mossholder, dis-
trict census supervisor predicted.
Other towns, he said, are having
difficulty living up to their esti-
mates of population.
While the county as a whole
and Abilene both gained tremen-
dously over the 1950 census, the
out-of-Abilene population declined
as a whole.
In 1950 there were 17,800 coun-
tians outside Abilene. Now there
are 10.788.
Tye and Buffalo Gap registered
gains over their 1958 count. Mer-
kel. Tuscola and Trent lost people
while Lawn stayed the same —
311 in 1950 and 311 in 1960.
Thanks to Dyess Air Force Base,
Tye more than tripled in popula-
tion during the 10 years, climbing
from 150 to 509.
Here is the tabulation for the
other county towns:
1960 1950 Change
2,289 2,338 -49
509 150 up 459
Merkel
Tye
Tuscola
Lawn
B. Gap
Trent
The new
416 497-81
311 311 none
310 260 up 60
295 296-1
count gives Taylor
County an average of 109.76 per-
sons per square mile. Ten years
ago the average was 69.4 persons.
A portion of the drop to the out-
side - Abilene population can be
accredited to the fact that Abilene
State Hospital, with about 1,800
patients and attendants, was out-
side Abilene's city limits 10 years
ago but was counted this year.
Another factor has been Abilene’s
annexation. Lest time, North Park
was outside Abilene, now it is in-
side. Then, there to the nationwide
trend toward lower rural popula-
tions. a trend evident here.
This was merely a population
count. Details on population char-
acteristcis will be available later.
This was also a preliminary of-
ficial census report. The final tab-
ulation will be released later this
year after the enumerators' figures
are fed into an “electric brain."
But, Mossholder feels confident
the figures will hold up. In fact,
they could increase. Not included
are Abilenians away from town
during census time, the month of
April, including some Dyess per-
sonnel. Then, the local census of-
fice is still wading through stacks
of “Were you Counted" forms sent
in by persons who believed they
were missed. When these are cal-
culated, they will be sent to head-
quarters to be included in the final
official counts. They will, at least,
offset any possible errors not
caught in the rechecking at the
local office.
Under new census regulations,
all of Taylor County will be in-
eluded to the Abilene metropolis-
tan area, Mossholder said at a
meeting at the Abilene Chamber
of Commerce Monday morning
when the population figures were
presented local heads of govern-
ment, Mayor George Minter and
County Judge Reed Ingalsbe.
This "above 100,000" classifica-
tion will mean much, business-
wide, to Abilenians, Mossholder
said. Local merchants will have
more consideration by manufac-
turers and distributors. Business
will be brought in, business which
avoids smaller towns. More mon-
ey, generally, should be pumped
into business streams, he said.
Census experts have found, be
said, that when towns reach this
size, they begin to generate their
own momentum, tend to grow fast,
er, if they have continued work.
Arch Batjer, Abilene CC man-
ager, gave an official statement
Monday in which he expressed ap-
predation for the work done by
the census takers and discussed
reasons for the town's growth. He
said, in part:
Kept Pace
“Credit should certainly be giv.
en our city, county and school
leaders, who have done such au
excellent job of keeping pace with
this tremendous progress. To re-
verse the situation, such growth
and progress is not found in cit-
Bee ABILENE, Pg. SA, Cal. a
0-Man Force
To Be Employed
On Missile Sites
By DON TABOR
Reporter-News Staff Writer
Corps' position on the labor pol- rolls be submitted not less than
icy of contractors.
once a week, that there be no
“discrimination” in hiring work-
A labor force of as high as The meeting began at 2 p.m. in
1,‘00 may be working on the Abi-the Public Library Auditorium,
lene area's 12 Atlas missile sites "We (the Corps) have no con-
by May of 1961, Lt. Col. Albert trol over a man's labor policies,”
M. Antonelli, area engineer for Aubrey Burkett, chief of the
the Corps of Engineers, estimated Corps’ legal branch, said refer.
Monday, ring to contractors who hire only
In speaking before about 50 union labor as opposed to those
local labor representatives, Corps who do not
officials gave information on the He added that some of the the 12 jobs was also passed out
nature and scope of the Atlas con- Corps’ requirements of the con-
struction in Abilene, the number tractor will be that he pay time
and types of workers to be re- and a half for all over eight hours
quired and their wages, and the worked during a day, that pay-
era, and that all apprentices must
be registered.
He said the Corps does not en-
force the 40-hour week. "That to
up to the wage and hour admin-
istrator," he added.
A list of minimum wages to be
paid for different skills on each of
Auditorium P
to the representatives. Col. Walter
J. Wells, head of the Corps' Fort
Worth district, said that the min-
imums, as set fourth by the Sec.
rotary of Labor, would vary slight-
ly from site to site. ...
Some of the peaks in specific
skills which it was estimated will
be needed included asbestos wort- -
Given by Board
A combined contract totaling
$354,888 was awarded Monday
night by the Abilene Board of
Education for construction of an
auditorium for the new junior-
senior high school.
The school board voted to ac-
cept the low base bid of White
exterior walls one - foot, four
inches, $850.
In other business Monday, the
school board awarded the contract
for the track at the new junior-
senior high school to Bontke
Brothers which submitted a low
bid of $12,978.62,
ers, 120; carpenters and mill-
wrights, 120; electricians, 120;
laborers, 270: painters, 120;
plumbers, 120; sheet metal work,
ers, 90; structural iron workers,
150; truck drivers, 120; and line-
men, 30,
A list of some of the minimum
hourly wages at one of the sites in.
cluded:
The board also awarded a con-
and Everett Construction Co. of The board atoo awarded a con-
Abilene, including nine alternates, tract to Jim Eagle Sales Co. here
President Gave General Orders
For Spy Flights to Soviet Union
Probes Due
for $264,457.
Included in the combined con-
for its bid of $1,249.55 for a three.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Unit- ities in Washington are concerned, bosses such spy flights—briefed 15
ed States acknowledged Monday -
it has sent spy flights into the
Soviet Union—under President Ei-
senhower’s general orders.
The State Department did not
discourage a deduction that such
flights may continue until Soviet
leaders open their borders to in-
spection.
Secretary of State Christian A.
Herter, in making the acknowl-
edgement. strongly defended in-
telligence flights by unarmed civ-
ilian planes as urgently necessary
to guard the non-Communist world
against surprise Soviet attack.
In a special statement, Herter
suggested that next week’s sum-
mit conference make an earnest
attempt to agree on safeguards
which would end the threat that
either side could suddenly launch
a nuclear onslaught against the
other.
With the approval of President
Eisenhower, Herter frankly ad-
mitted American planes have car-
ried out "extensive aerial surveil-
lance" of Communist territory un-
der directives issued by the Presi
dent as part of his national secur-
ity duties.
Here, there was mention of the
National Security Act of 1947, but
the wording made it clear that the
secretary was speaking only of
President Eisenhower, who went
into office in 1953.
"Specific missions of these un-
armed civilians aircraft have not
been subject to presidential au-
thorization" Herter said.
After Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev reported the capture
of a 30-year-old American flier
deep inside the Soviet Union, the
State Department acknowledged
an intelligence flight over Soviet
territory probably was undertak-
en, ft said "insofar as the author-
there was no authorization for any
such flight as described by Mr.
Khrushchev.”
Herter's disclosures Monday
came as the administration hur-
riedly sought to ease congressional
demands for more information.
Herter, accompanied by Central
Intelligence Chief Allen W. Dulles
—the man Khrushchev claims
congressional leaders behind
closed doors at the Capitol on the
incident.
Government security agents
guarded the door of the committee
room where both men appeared.
A heavy blanket was hung over
the doorway to muffle the sound
of voices.
Herter's carefully drafted state-
Norway, Pakistan
Warned by Nikita
MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet Pre-
mier Nikita Khrushchev warned
Norway and Yakistan Monday
night that the Soviet Union will
hit at any bases in foreign coun-
tries used for American spy flights
over Soviet territory.
Khrushchev called Norwegian
and Pakistani diplomats over to
his side at a Czech Embassy re-
ception.
He told them that if the United
States is allowed to continue to
use bases in their countries for
operations against the Soviet Un-
ion “we will have to aim our rock-
ets at your air bases.”
In a speech to the Soviet parlia.
ment last Friday Khrushchev an-
nounced that American flier Fran-
cis G. Powers had fallen into So-
viet hands and his plane was shot
down at Sverdlovsk on May 1
while on a spying mission.
Khrushchev said Powers took off
from Peshawar, Pakistan, intend-
ing to fly to Bodo, Norway.
In his speech at the reception,
held to observe the 15th anniver-
sary of the liberation of Czechoslo-
vakia from Nazi forces. Khrush-
chev said:
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Oil news
Sports
SECTION B
11.13
Re
Voter
jistration
ment, issued after the 90-minute
briefing, did not say flatly that WASHINGTON (AP) - Atty,
the United States would continue
sending planes over Soviet terri-
tory.
But, for the first time, it was
acknowledged that such flights
were undertaken not only along
the frontiers of the Communist
world, but "by penetration"—that
is, flights deep into Communist
territory.
Herter's statement constituted a
remarkable admission that the
United States has been violating
international law, intruding with-
out permission into Soviet air
space, because of the life-and-
death duel for surviving with the
Communist world.
It was learned that Herter and
Dulles told the Congressional lead-
ers that such reconnaissance
flights had been made into the
Soviet Union for several years.
The legislators were shown pic-
tures taken on successful plane
flights which one participant de-
scribed as being highly illuminat-
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"Those countries that have
bases on their territories should
note most carefully the following.
If they allow others to fly from
their bases to our territory we
shall hit at those bases.”
Norwegian and Pakistani of-
ficials have denied any knowledge
of the flight of Powers from or to
• bases in their territory.
"We assess such actions as pro-
vocations against our country."
Khruhchev said. “We tell the
governments of those countries, if
you leased your territory to oth-
ers and are not the masters of
Bee NIKITA, PE. I-A, Col. 1
ing.
The leaders were fold there is
some belief that the plane knocked
down May 1 was not hit at any-
thing like a 60,000 foot altitude but
that perhaps something went
wrong which forced it to descend
into closer range.
It also was learned that several
highly placed legislators told the
administration officials they be-
lieved the timing of the flight was
bad and that it would hurt the
United States and the rest of the
free world at the summit.
One participant in the briefing
reported Dulles said the Soviets
had not made such flights over the
United States except for a number
in the Alaska region. The reason,
Dulles stated, was the Soviets al-
See FLIGHT, PE. SA, Col. 1
Building construction (under-
ground work mainly)—asbestos
workers, $3,325; bricklayers, $4;
carpenters, $2,875; electricians*
$3,325: common laborers, $1.45;
painters, $2.75 to $4; plumbers,
$3.50; sheet metal workers, $$;
truck drivers, $1.20 to $1.50; line-
men, $3,325; and iron workers,
$3,275.
gang mower.
..... ----------- ... ..... "Although a lower bid was re-
awarded Employes Electric Co. ceived (from Goldwaite’s of Texas,
Inc., for $1,204.45),’ Asst. Supt.
George E. Stowe said, “the Eagle
mower is better suited to our
needs.”
In other action, the board voted
to employ a recording secretary
to attend board meetings “for the
purpose of taking notes of the -
meeting, thus enabling the board not less,
secretary to concentrate on bus- “Almost every craft in the area
iness at hand.” 1 "
tract are sub-contracts for $50,729
and $39,700 given to T. M. Tate
for plumbing, heating, ventila-
ting and air conditioning.
Some $15,936 was knocked off
the original base bid by accepting
the alternates, Supt. A. E. Wells
told the board. A bond issue allo-
cated only $350,000 for the build-
ing, he added.
Incidental paving and utilities
wages varied from $1 for light
truck drivers to $3,325 for elec-
tricians.
Burkett added the contractor
could pay more than these wages
way t . The nioe alternates accepted by
Gen. William P. Rogers, in the the board, upon recommendation
first use of the 1960 Civil Rights of architects Tittie and Luther.
Act, asked Monday to inspect vot-.......-
ing registration records in four
counties in four Southern states.
Rogers announced the inspection
regiestslareicheins presented to new n.l: oma waned atone,
C S Pre C.Mn omic $1,107; omit contingent allowance.
Las was EcouaGAParish: $3,500; change plaque allowance
wicon County A. Ga., and from $15,000 to 1500 change
- , ' . common brick walls in the stage
Each of these counties was de- area (stage wings area) to six-
scribed as having large numbers feet high common brick wainscot
of Negroes of voting age and no with concrete block above, $190;
* stem .alPdeliver the a./chanee c ramie tile in mens a
tornez general’s letters to the wan neient to nveseet wainscot,
P $200; and lower north and south
Rogers described his move as
the forerunner “of a widespread
program of inspection at voting
records in states where constitu-
tional rights of citizens may have
been infringed by discriminatory
practices."
Attorney Denies
Discrimination
MCCORMICK, S.C. (AP) - The
McCormick County attorney Mon-
day called U.S. Atty. Gen. Wil-
liam P. Rogers “a liar” if he says
Negroes have been discriminated
against in registering to vote in
the county.
Rogers said in Washington that
FBI agents would inspect registra-
tion records in four counties—in-
eluding McCormick — in four
Southern states where no Negroes
are registered
“In the first place," County
Atty. J. Fred Buzhardt told news-
neaWe have four Nearer reg-
wor ama ie esh last
will be used to some extent,”
Antonelli said.
included the following:
Omit a wood stage floor, $1,537;
substitute asbestos for porcelain
wall paneling $3,990; omit granite
$1,107; omit contingent allowance.
Sadler Wins
Slate Post
From Allcorn
"We want to do everything we
can to facilitate this construction
which is so important for our
national defense.” said Col. Wells
and offered the Corps' help in any
labor problems which might
arise.
“The contractor will be encour-
aged to work closely with labor
and try to arrive at an agree-
ment in regard to delays and
stoppages,” be added.
He said he hopes to award the
construction contract by June 1
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerry Sadler, snuff-dipping East
Texan, nailed down Monday the and that work should then start
post of Texas land commissioner, by the middle of June.
New figures from the Texas Burkett said that the number
Election Bureau showed Sadler and type of laborers and skilled
had defeated incumbent Bill All-workers to be hired would be en-
corn in the only upset of Satur-tirely up to the contractor, just so
day's Democratic primary. The th« first site is completed by the
race was in doubt until Monday first of June, 1961 Wells said
afternoon, that a site is to be completed
A former Texas railroad com-each week after June 1 until the
missioner, Sadler, 52 is an old ^n^" 12 are finished. He added
timet in politics. He ran for gov. there will be a liquidated damages
ernor in 1946 and lost to Beaufords. WORKERS 6
Jester. He has been a state legis-dee WORKERS P"
lator since 1954
The Election Bureau, an unoffi-
_ ___t cial vote-counting agency, report-
Fenuar, Ajas ed Sadler polled 671,772 votes. All- T.J.. u
3 .corn 652,752. This gave Sadler a Today, Wednesday
N Wednesday. "No margin of 19,020 votes and the "*"II ”""
—. Highest Election Bureau said there were
THE WEATHER
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY (40 mile
radius) — Partly cloudy and warm with
a chance for showers Tuesday and Wed-
nesday. High both days about 90; low
Tuesday night near 60.
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A Nile cooler Tuesday night. Highest
Tuesday 75 to 8s. 7
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sour" CENTRAL TEXAS reruy
Showers Possible
cloudy Tuesday and wednesd
much change in temperatures.
Tuesday 85 to 95.
Mon. a.m.
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TEMPERATURES
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Continued warm weather and a
chance for showers are predicted
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fewer than 10.000 votes uncounted cue non .... . ......
—not enough to change the result, for the Abilene area Tuesday and
The next bureau figures will be Wednesday.
reported Saturday. , . Warm moist air from the Gulf
Monday’s figures made clear overrunning air below it and sur-
about 1% million Texans voted face heating is expected to set off
Saturday, close to the record of
1,576,870 for a primary set in July
of 1966. The latest figures on the
governor's race Saturday totaled
1,493,271. With something under
10,000 votes out, the total could
reach or pass 1h million. ’
the showers. High during the two-
days is expected to be a warm 90
degrees, with a tow Tuesday
Temperatures reached a high
of 85 degrees Monday; the low
was 62.
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