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ABILENE, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1960— FORTY PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 15c
I New Storm's Wrath
Due on Gulf Coast
150 MPH Winds
Head for Mobile
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — storm is beaded, only where it’s
Hurricane Ethel deserted its been.
wandering course through the “You'll have to ask the Weath-
Gulf of Mexico Wednesday night er Bureau where it's going," he
and committed itself to a path said.
aimed at Mobile, Ala., and Pen- Forecasters also said heavy
sacola, Fla. rains were falling at the mouth of
The Weather Bureau's advisory the Mississippi River. The rain
on the storm at 10 p.m. located lines, they said, would move for-
it about 160 miles from the Mo- ward with four to eight inches of
HASKELL PONY WINS — Buster Shelton's Blue Haven was named grand cham-
pion registered Shetland stallion in halter competition at the West Texas Fair. The
Haskell pony stands 40 inches in height. He is of Crescent and King Larigo blood
lines. See story, page 3-A. (Staff Photo by Henry Wolff Jr.)
‘MELTING POT ATMOSPHERE’
bile-Pensacola sector with highest rain expected in some areas.
winds still estimated at 150 miles Reports indicated preparations
per hour, underway along the extreme
Ethel pushed high tides along northwest tip of Florida “are not
the Gulf Coast three to six feet as extensive nor proceeding as
above normal. The advisory said rapidly as warranted by the
tides would continue to rise and
ur-
Interests Vary Widely
Among Visitors at Fair
reach five to ten feet along the
northwest Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and extreme southeast
Louisiana coasts
Hurricane winds were due along
the 500-mile strip from Grand Isle,
La., to St. Marks, Fla., between
midnight and 6 a.m. Thursday.
gency of the threat from this ex-
tremely dangerous hurricane,"
the weather bureau said.
A Weather Bureau official said
it was felt Ethel's rapid develop-
ment had taken people off guard.
As Ethel swung away from the
low lying marshes of south Louisi-
ana, the strip of coastline from
By LANE TALBURT
Reporter-News Staff Writer
he joked, "I was walking down
the midway a while ago, and
, Pack up your troubles in the down there everybody looked
family car and head for the West .
Texas Fair — the "melting pot" like a bum.
of the Abilene area' | Almost everyone had one parti-
ll is one of very few places, as cular exhibit he wanted to see at
more than 50,000 persons have the fair Wednesday, but all of
discovered since the exposition -----------------------------------==
gates opened Monday, where AVED EA non
A banker or grocery clerk takes OVER 20,000
your ticket at the turnstile ATTEND THE FAIR
Police officers hand you a ticket A 1 EN E TAIN
for your lunch, not for overpark- A record-breaking week at
ing or loitering. I the West Texas Fair was in
Door-to-door salesmen peddle the making Wednesday night
their wares from a booth, and
the housewives scramble over each
other to hear the sales pitch.
The politicians have to com-
pete with a washing machine
demonstration next door.
•Well Balanced’
Throngs are paying only 30 or
60 cents to find Hollywood enter-
the exhibit buildings saw a steady
flow of pedestrian traffic.
Check Baking Entries
"I was interested in the
women's department," said Mrs
Louise Ramsey of 1155 Grand
Ave. while inspecting the rabbits
and chickens in the Poultry
. Building. "I make quite a few
coffee cakes myself and enjoy
seeing the baking entries.”
when the attendance chart
passed the 50.000 mark —
reaching 53,481.
Fair president John Womble
reported 10,928 persons walk-
ed through the turnstiles Wed-
nesday. The figure included 8,-
428 paid admissions for a
three-day total of 32,351 pay-
tainment, a close look at some ing customers, and 2.500 area
of the finest livestock in Texas
and an opportunity to rub should-
ers with persons from all walks
of life.
As a close observer of the West
Texas Fair for many years.
Sheriff Will Watson, said Wednes-
day night. "I think it's a pretty
balanced fair. Everybody speaks
well of it.”
An Abilene banker described the
“melting pot” atmosphere when
school children for a three-day
unpaid admission total of
21,130.
Womble said both free mid-
way shows, featuring singer
Paul Evans, the Dukes of Dix-
ieland. Emmett Kelley and
the Half Brothers, were well
attended. The same entertain-
ers will be featured at 7 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m. performances
Thursday.
E. V. Brown of Coleman, a
perennial fairgoer, preferred the
West Texas Fair over the Texas
State Fair at Dallas for this
reason: "I think it's better for
us, the homefolk 1 think we have
got better stock here than they
do at Dallas ”
His neighbor, J. C. Williams, who
operates a gasoline plant at Cole-
man, told a newsman he has a
few head of cattle and thus likes
the livestock exhibits more than
anything else.
And on down the midway,
people were gawking at the
commonplace and the unusual.
Buffalo - Brahma
The Weather Bureau pinpointed
Ethel at latitude 28.5, longitude Mobile to Tallahassee became
88.7. moving toward Mobile and vulnerable.. ,
Pensacola at 30 miles per hour. Residents in the lowlands moved:
to shelters quickly set up in
The advisory also advised that
heavy rains up to six inches would
spread throughout northwest Flor-
ida and parts of Alabama and
Georgia Thursday.
The Weather Bureau removed
the threat of serious flooding along
the seawall restricting Lake Pont-
chartrain on the north edge of
New Orleans. With the center of
the storm moving away from the
city, the bureau said it would not
appear advisable to evacuate the
area, where many of the city's
costliest homes are located.
The bureau repeated its warning
that all persons in low coastal
areas between Grand Isle and St.
Marks, should have evacuated by
10 p.m.
Although the Weather Bureau
schools and other public struc-
tures.
Big military bases and resort
hotels dot the Florida side that
faces the Gulf of Mexico.
FIVE INJURED
AIRLINER ACCIDENT KILLS ONE — The huge Braniff Airways DC-7 which
swerved out of control and crashed into a hangar is shown before firemen removed
six injured Braniff employes, one of whom died shortly afterwards in a hospital.
The plane caught fire but firemen quickly extinguished the blaze. (AP Wirephoto)
ne Killed When
Hits Love Field Hangar
. Mercury Hits
Airliner too Degrees;
DALLAS (AP)—A four-engine Ambulances, fire trucks and first and second floors of the
structure were evacuated as a
labeled the fast-developing Ethel
as an “extremely severe hurri- national Airways nangar
cane, a veteran Navy hurricane
Housing Doubles
Here in Decade
Few, for instance, had ever
seen a buffalo - brahma bull
crossbreed. Those who liked
Western music found their desires
filled in the Louisiana Hayride
Show.
The “something - for - everyone"
motto of the fair was carried
out on the midway and in the
exhibit buildings.
In the Display Building the bill
of fare included the Texas Game
land Fish Commission's Wildlife
Educational Exhibit, a display
case in the Texas Department of
Public Safety booth containing
hunter said it did not appear to
be as bad as Donna.
Commander Adam Wozniak flew
above the eye of the storm and
reported his observations by tele-
phone to an Associated Press
newsman in the air traffic con-
trol center at the New Orleans
Airport.
He said he couldn't tell the ap-
parent path of the storm, but said
DC-7 airliner swerved out of con- doctors were rushed to the scene
trol at Love Field Wednesday and when the airliner smashed into
smashed into the Braniff Inter- glass enclosed office of the main-
One tenance foreman in the three-
ground crewman died shortly aft-story Braniff hangar No one in
er the accident and five others the structure was injured but the
were injured.___
A runaway engine was blamed --------------------:---------
precautionary measure.
The plane, undergoing mainte-
nance, was being taxied from the
rear of the hangar to the runup
ramp to test engines.
As it passed the building it Friday.
Heal to Stay
The mercury soared to a sizzl-
ing 100 degrees in Abilene
Wednesday afternoon. Continued
generally fair and hot weather is
the prediction for Thursday and
for the accident. The huge Braniff
airliner burst into flames but the
blaze was quickly extinguished.
Fatally injured was Elmer R
Tiffany, a Braniff inspector, who
was at the controls He died short-
ly after being taken to a Dallas
hospital.
Of the seven men aboard only
Don’t Need It?
it definitely was moving north-
east. I one escaped unhurt. The injuries
The Dunkirk, N.Y., Navy pilot, of the other five were not consid-
stationed at Jacksonville, Fla.,
said he couldn't tell where the
THE WEATHER
“Weapons of Crime in Texas." (Weather map. Pr. &-A)
P- .ABILENE AND VICINITY (40
and a caravan of four antique Ate a-----■--- — —-
ered serious.
Firemen had to hack a hole in
the cabin of the smashed plane
to release one man while another
managed to escape by himself
Rescuers worked for nearly two
hours to free the other five from
the smashed cockpit of the plane
and
Some student needs.
would like to buy, that type-
writer you’re not using. Why
not sell and use the cash to
lurched, swerved sharply to the
right and slammed into the fore-
man's office
A large steel girder, protruding
from the building, sliced through
the nose of the plane as far back
as the cockpit. Witnesses said a
loud noise accompanied the crash
and they saw flames spurting
from the plane.
The fire was quickly extin-
guished. Witnesses said the
plane's fire-extinguishing system
either came on automatically or
was turned on by a crew member
Wednesday's 100 - degree read-
Abilene housing nearly doubled
in the past decade, a preliminary
report from the U. S. Census
Bureau revealed this week
The Key City climbed from
14,321 residences in 1950 to 28,462
In 1960, the bureau reported in
a printed preliminary report mail-
ad to newspapers this week.
The only large Texas city than
Abilene which gained at a higher
percentage during the 1950s was
El Paso. Residences were built
there at a rate of 121 per cent
of the total housing in 1960
Besides El Paso, the only Texas
cities of 10,000 or more population
which gained housing at a faster
clip than Abilene were Andrews
(222 per cent), Killene (213), Mid-
land (198), Odessa >171), Victoria
(129), and the residential suburbs
of Dallas, Houston and Fort
Worth, some of which increased
at rates of more than 1.000 per
cent
The report did not include any
cities of less than 10000 under
the new census.
The only city reporting a loss
in housing in. the preliminary re
Abilene ranked 13th in the state
in number of housing units and
approached 12th place Wichita
Falls. During the decade the Key
City housing surpassed Galves-
ton. Port Arthur and San Angelo
Odessa climbed to 14th place—
2,546 houses behind Abilene, and
Midland soared to 17th place,
just ahead of San Angelo.
autos
Exhibits in the Women's Build-
ing ran the gamut from canned
peaches to oil and pencil paint-
ings to needle and embroidery
works
Children Like Poultry
The Poultry Building was par-
ticularly fascinating to the chil-
dren. who walked up and down
almost every aisle to stare at
chickens and turkeys.
Main attention - getter in the
Circular Exhibit Building was the
buy something new for your
home? A Reporter- News classi-
fied ad is your economical
market place.
CALL OR 2 7841
for a courteous
ad taker...
The only evidence of fire shortly
afterwards was around the right
inboard engine and in the fore-
man's office
The men were trapped by the
steel girder of the building which
smashed into the cockpit and
pinned them inside
ing was not a record breaker, no
matter how hot it was. On Sept.
14, 1918, the mercury reached the
century mark. Highest reading
for the month was set on Sept.
12. 1193. When 104 degrees was
recorded, according to Weather
Bureau statistics.
West Texas Fair visitors for
the next two days can be prop-
erly dressed in their coolest
summer attire, according to the
forecast
The mercury reached the cen-
tury mark shortly before 1 p.m.
At 3 o’clock, the temperature
read 99 at the Weather Bureau
station at municipal airport.
Weather for the final three days
of the fair is expected to be
U.S. DEP ARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU _______
..__e"hs me 5 mile r. The injured men were identified
fun) a Generally fir and continued hot as James E Jordan, R Fitz-
2% Low Thursday and Friday morning patrick. B W Clark, R. R. Rog-
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS - Mosu, ers, and David M. Bellows, all
fair and little change temperature Thurs Braniff mechanics and ground,
*",maintenance employes Uninjured
Thursday throrh EM,” CLEM was W A. Gruenberg, an inspec-
mostly Panhandle; a little coater Pan tor.
handle Thursday: high Thursday 90 north
to 98 south
TEMPERATURES e a AA..U
parteeura Attack on U.S. Disclosed
generally fair and hot during the
day, somewhat cooler at night
Wednesday
73
The accompanying table shows
cities with 10.000 or more housing showed pictorially the uses of the
units in the 1960 census, plus atom in everyday life.
Atoms for Peace display, which
93
eight other West Texas cities with
less than 10,000 units.
atom in everyday life.
HOUSING UNITS
Jamaten or
San Antonio
Justin
Corpus. Christi
"ser.
Fani
The livestock and swine struc-
tures were the centers of activity
involving cattlemen and judges
.... 11:00 ...........-
12:00 -
w for 74-houts ending 9 p.m.:
low same date last year:
night: 6:47; sunrise today:
fuam Ate m: nm
t 9 p.m.: 21 percent
FAIR TIMETABLE
Plan for Surprise Nuclear
port was Brownwood — a 13 per-
cent loss from 7,240 houses to
6,295.
The report includes both occup-
M and vacant units For-the
entire state there were 3,160,298
housing units April 1, 1960, the
report said — an increase of 766.-
470 units, or 32 per cent, over
the 2,393,828 reported in the 1950
census.
Brownfield
THURSDAY, SEPT 15
Military Day
9:00 a.m.—Judging—Open Sheep Classes
Judging—Junior Sheep Classes
1:30 p.m.—Flower Arrangements
4:00 p m.—Judging-Hat Contest
7:00 p m -Free Midway Show-Outdoor Theater-Featuring Paul
Evans, Emmett Kelly, The Half Brothers, and The
Dukes of Dixieland
PORT O'CONNOR, Tex. (AP)-
A Coast Guard ship recovered the
bodies of two men from the In-
tracoastal Canal in San Antonio
Bay Wednesday.
The Calhoun County sheriff's de-
partment identified the men as
Ray Meek. 35, of Sylvester, Tex .
and his uncle, Lynn Isham, 46, of
Rapid City, S. D
Sheriff D B. Halliburton of Cal-
houn County, who received the
bodies from the coast guard, esti-
mated the men had been dead
two or three days. The bodies
were recovered one - half mile
apart after one had been sighted
by a fisherman and the other by
a crabbing boat.
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
7:30 p.m.—Judging—Appaloosa Halter Classes
7:30 - 8 30— Emmett Kelly—Midway Area
9:30 p.m —Free Midway Show—Outdoor •Theater-Featuring Paul SECTION 1
Evans, Emmett Kelly, The Half Brothers, and The Women's news
Oil news
TV Scout
Dukes of Dixieland
10:15 pm -Bill Hames Carnival Free Act—The Flying Valentines
11:00 p.m.—You and the Atom-Exhibit Building
Fish and Wildlife Exhibit-Display Building
All military personnel and dependents displaying
ID cards will be admitted free of charge
Food news ....
Sports .........
Editorials ......
Amusements ....
Comics. .....
Radio, TV logs
Farm and markets
.....9
.... 12
... 2, 3
I
7, 8, 9
.... 12
.... 13
....14
.....17
. 18, 19
WASHINGTON (AP)—A Soviet the possibility of being ordered to Although without apparent emo-
navy captain who defected in dis- make a surprise attack," added tion, he spoke in bitter words of
illusionment last year declared the slim, dark ex-destroyer skip-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush-
Wednesday that since February per. chev.
1966 Soviet strategy has been Artamonov said "No senior So- "Khrushchev does not wish to
based on the doctrine of a nu- viet officer believes that the Unit- wait indefinitely for the United
clear surprise attack on the Unit- ed States will attack first." States to become a Socialist state
ed States. The Un-American Activities by evolution; moreover he does
Capt. Nikolai Fedorovich Arta- Committee brought Artamonov to not believe this will happen,”
monov, 32, who crossed to the its witness chair about a week Artamonov asserted.
West in June 1969, came into the after the Russias trotted out two “He would like to see it taka
open before the House Committee defecting American code clerks, place in his lifetime "
on Un-America Activities. Bernon F Mitchell and William , s
He said a realization that H. Martin Mitchell and Martin Mat anothesoittidheifereiit.
"everything being said in Russia said they went to the Soviet Union , Khrushchev believed the
was not true, but based on lies" because they objected to what Strength or the Soviet Union was
they said were U.S spy policies overwhelming he would of
risking World War III. I Stunning blow
Questioned by the committee course, deal a *
the bespectacled Artamonov said .
led him to defect. He didn't say
how he escaped to the West.
Speaking mostly in Russian with
the aid of an interpreter, the wm uespecaciu Aqum cann . m .
heavily mustached Artamonov Soviet fishing trawlers often sight-Hwes ne sssd m
said the doctrine of surprise st-
ed near US. water, are operated chev probably is serious about at
n a ouvjet by Soviet naval intelligence So- tempting to achieve agreements
which is viet submarines also hover close through peaceful means, to avoid
tack was established "in a Soviet
military publication _____________________
known only to officers of flag to American territorial waters war.
rank and above.” hunting information, he testified Later. Artamonov told news-
He conceded he had not actual- What are the seeking’ Knowl- men—again through an inter-
ly seen any directives to prepare edge about the makeup of the preter—that he is living in New
for a surprise attack on the Unit-U.S. fleet, weapons used by York, without any special protec-
ed States American warships and antisub- lion All he has to defend himself
“But I know of general, broad marine measures being taken by against possible Communist re-
statements which tended to pre- the U.S. Navy, the Soviet defector prisals, he said, are “my own
pare the Soviet officer corps for said. hands.”
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