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BIST YEAR, NO. 29
Associated Press (PP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1961—TWENTY-TWO PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 15c
Space Shot Postponed
24 Hours by Weather
BIG 3 ON BERLIN
USSR Told
Hands Off'
By STANLEY JOHNSON (rejected Premier Khrushchev's
MOSCOW (AP)—The Western plan for Berlin presented to Pres-
Big Three in effect notified the ident Kennedy in Vienna June 4.
Soviets Monday to keep hands off The plan was designed to squeeze
them but of the divided city by
Clouds Hamper
Picture Taking
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, (AP) — The United
States was forced to postpone its attempt to hurl astro-
naut Virgil I. Grissom into space Tuesday for 24 hour*
because of weather conditions.
The 24-hour postponement came just as scientists
and technicians were preparing to resume the count-
down for the nation's second attempt to hurl a man
into space.
An announcement at 10:30 p.m. said the Cape launch-
ing area had become obscured by a multiple cloud layer
at 10 p.m. and there were ----------------------------------
THEY'LL HAVE A LONG WAIT — Card playing West Berlin
bird watchers hoping to catch a glimpse of Liberty -
Bell 7 face a long wait with the shot delayed 24 Soviet Foreign Ministry by the Details
hours by weather. (AP Wirephoto)
Separate notes delivered to the the end of the year.
were withheld until
ON WTU MATTER
United States. Britain and France Tuesday, but a firm general tenor
-------------------------------had been disclosed by Western
statesmen and diplomats during
consultations on the Berlin issue.
Their basic unity was made clear.
Six weeks of talks and drafting
by the Western Big Three and
ninor editing by the Permanent
Council of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization in Paris
vent into the responses
The U.S., British and French
525 Persons Ink
W AS a m m n embassies declined to make put,- ___________________________________
Wyt ■ 6 K 6-31 I I ■ lie the In keeping with A A g,
V V II II he I to • % • ■■H ■ diplomatic courtesy, their gov-K AH Snraakae
" ernments planned to withhold the TVTOI DLTTOCOTES
cussion pro and con will not con- texts from publication, so the
1 tinue," Brown said. Brown's mo- Kremlin would have time to study
tion died for lack of a second, them overnight.
Mayor Harvey Jones, who wrote
the petition, asked the council-
B men if they were afraid to trustshown that the three powers.
B the vote of the people. He said though differing on some points. .
1 hentold-them extern™ of wound were united on maintenance of 21-year old Throckmorton man
I franchise, and the petition was their war-won rights in West Ber-was suffocated by crushed rock
2 the first step lin, 110 miles inside Communist at a quarry southwest of here
, 3 Councilman 0 B Raper made East Germany. , Monday morning, despite the ef
a motion that the council accept The American reply was under- forts of a fellow construction
‘ the petition and study it for stood to he the most detailed worker who exhausted himself
x action at a later date. Raper, It contradicted Khrushchevs trying to free him.
a Councilman Ralph Lloyd and view that the Soviet Inion can Dead is Ernest Richard My
■ Councilman Buck Smith voted for make a separate peace with East rick, who fell into a rock crusher when he fell into the loading box
• the motion. Brown did not vote. Germany and transfer from loading box He wedged in an when e ell i
Soviet to East German authori- emptying spout and was covered .
* • a Both men were employed by
Strain Brothers Construction Co
of Throckmorton and were quar-
rying rock, to be used on a six-
mile stretch of U.S. Highway 283
VIRGIL GRISSOM
...he'll wait 24 hours
no prospects for improve-
ment in less than 24 hours.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Agency attributed the de
velopment of the clouds to an
easterly high pressure wave
which has been moving across,
the Caribbean for the last three
days.
The NASA announcement.
which came after consultation
I with a special team of U.S.
Committee
Okays Credit
Plan on Tax
* Weather Bureau meteorologists, WASHINGTON (AP) — The
said the weather was expected to
House Ways and Means Commit-
improve by the end of the next tee Monday voted to give business
24-hours.
a $1-billion tax credit on money
As matters now stand, the spent to modernize the nations
industrial equipment.
launching of the astronaut is now
WINTERS (RNS) - The Win- 1
ters City Council Monday was 1
presented a petition signed by 1
525 Winters residents asking the 1
Council to reconsider their recent -
vote on the extension of the West
Texas Utilities franchise
The petition, presented at a 1
called meeting of the city council. §
asked the councilmen to either
reconsider their vote to deny the
WTU franchise and extend it for A
But consultations among Wash
ingston, London and Paris had
At Rock Crusher
THROCKMORTON (RNS) - A
at least 15 years, or to put the
extension question up before the
citizens for a vote and “be bound
by their decision ’’ Earlier this
year the council voted 3-2 against
renewing the franchise Present-
ly Winters is served by both West
Texas Utilities and a home-owned
electric power company.
Councilman J. G. Brown, one
of the councilmen who voted for
but Myrick could not be revived
Paul Baty. 32, of Throckmorton,
was taken to Throckmorton Hos-
pital. suffering from exhaustion
He is not believed in serious con-
dition and was being held for
observation.
Myrick was removing clay balls
from the crushing machinery
scheduled for 6 a.m., Eastern
Standard Time Wednesday.
For Grissom this means anoth-
er 24-hours of tension and a con-
tinuation of the low residue diet
on which he was placed Sunday.
The cloud development would
limit picture taking capabilities
and the space agency's experts
want full camera coverage of the
shot from blastoff to burnout.
Although the plan could cost the
Treasury more than 51 billion it
is backed by President Kennedy
as a means of increasing the na-
tional output and providing jobs
for an expanding work force.
To offset the loss in revenue
Kennedy has asked for a number
of provisions plugging tax loop-
holes in the existing law.
The tax credit plan backed
overwhelmingly by the committee
Monday would permit plant own-
the extension earlier, made a F
motion that the issue be added Abilene.
to the ballot of the special elec- "Whatever they (the voters' de-
tion tentatively set for Aug 22. cide. I'll be with them 100 per
The special election was called to cent. If the decision is made by
elect a councilman to replace J the people then all of this dis-
INSAbout 30 Winters citizens were-----
ASepresent for Monday’s called meet-ties the control of access routes by crushed rock carried by
s S ing. There are about 700 qualified to West Berlin. These routes are conveyor belt
B S voters for a Winters city elec lifelines of 2% million West Ber- A physician was called to the
MAYOR HARVEY JONES tion liners and the allied garrisons, scene, on the Cook Ranch 15
. . . petition's author The meeting was originally call- It was understood that the miles southwest of Throckmorton, __
led for discussion of improvement Americans, British and French ---------------------------------south of here. for which the firm
“ Richie who was transferred to of FM 53 inside the . Winters did not specifically propose nego
city limits. The request by the tiation on the Berlin problem but
state that the city assume re- left open the door for a confer
sponsibility of maintainence of the ence.
road inside the city limits was. (The U.S. State Department
accepted.
Exemption - Type Sales Tax
Due in House This Week
said the possibility of a Western
foreign ministers’ meeting to con
sider the Berlin crisis is under
Continued Hot
Weather Seen
In Abilene Area
is the contractor.
I Myrick, the son of Mr and Mrs
| Chester Myrick of Throckmorton,
was born Aug. 29, 1939, in Wood
son and had lived in this area
all his life. Funeral will be an-
nounced by Merriman Funeral
Home.
Surviving, besides his parents.
By GARTH JONES chairman of the committee and
AUSTIN 'AP'—The House Tax sponsor of Daniel's original bill.
Committee cleared the way Mon-indicated he would try to get the
day for a debate the middle of bill debated Wednesday,
the week on a tax bill package The substitute, prepared by a
containing a retail sales tax on 5-man subcommittee headed by
purchases over 55. Rep. Charles Sanda hl, Austin.
study. Other sources indicated ---------
Secretary of State Dean Rusk had Continued hot weather and rela- are one sister. Mrs Gracie Lan-
in mind going to Paris next lively clear skies are in store ders of Ralls; the paternal grand-
month to meet with his British for the next two days. Weather parents, Mr and Mrs Richard
and French counterparts I Forecaster David McLaughlin Myrick of Woodson: and the
In his June memorandum, said Monday night. maternal grandparents, of Cali-
Khrushchev had made it plain Expected highs for Tuesday and forma
that his main objectives remain Wednesday are 90-95 with a Tucs-
The committee ordered Daniel's elimination of what he called the day night low near 70.
original bill printed and out on cancerous growth of West Berlin The predicted sunny weather
P put ’and achievement of full sover-follows two weekend rains, during
members desk If the substitute eignty for East Germany, whose which windstorms and lightning
inflicted damage in Eastland and
is defeated, then debate con'd
switch immediately to the Gov-
ernor’s plan.
The bill 'HB20'. a substitute re- does not contain the Pennsyl-
The committee action came aft-
written from Gov. Price Daniel’s vania type sales tax recom-er a joint session for the appear,
recommendations, was approved mended by Daniel. However, sev-€ Jot session 1or the appear
on a voice vote of the 21-member eral other articles of the meas-
committee.
ure are the same or similar to
ance of Vice President Lyndon
Johnson and Pakistan President
Ayub Khan Both houses ad
"* "ate "Ama" "st* I" "TCI" • "**"**""-journed until Tuesday after the
A . • IDI e speeches without taking up any
Agency to Fight Pollution legislative business
Suggested to House Group
Rep. Charles Ballman, Borger, the Governor’s recommendations.
AUSTIN (AP) - A new state
agency to guard Texas waters
from pollution was proposed Mon-
WEATHER
day before the House Conserva-
tion and Reclamation Committee.
Rep Dick Cory, of Victoria
said unless the state sets up
machinery and laws to abate and
prevent pollution the federal gov-
ernment will step in. Such federal
Here briefly is the substitute
bill that would raise $360,800,000
in new taxes and revenue during
1962, 1963.
A “limited excise, sales and use
tax'* of 2 per cent on sales of
motor and power driven objects
and components; construction ma-
terials and utility sales; a tax of
2 per cent on tangible personal
NEWS INDEX
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
(Weather Map on Pr 2-A)
ABILKNE AND VICINITY (40 - mile
radius)—Clear to partly cloudy Tuesday
and Wednesday, with high temperature
both days 90-95. Low Tuesday night
around 70.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS, NORTH-
EAST TEXAS - Generally fair Tues
tax through Wednesday High Tuesday
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
cloudy and warm Tuesday a
day with scattered thundersh
Tuesday 90-101
Men.. TEMPERATURES
W......- 1:00 _____
8----------
— Partly
d Wednes-
vers. High
p.m.
High and low
.m.: 92 and 67
12.00
for 24-hours ending 9
same date last year:
at night: 7:46; sunrise today
# SC % p.m: ML
at 9 p.m.: 70 per cent.
legislation is now pending before
Congress, he said,
“We are faced with somewhat
of an emergency If we don't get
some bill through, we will leave
a vacuum, and we can be assured
the federal government will rush
in to fill it." Cory, sponsor of the
pollution control bill (HB24) said.
The bill Cory laid before the
special session of the Legislature
is the same as that passed by the
House during the regular session.
The measure died in the Senate
without a floor vote.
Cory said the cost of the pro-
posed State Water Pollution Con-
trol Board would be $67,000 a year
for the first two years. Much of
this could be paid by federal
grants. Texas now receives
8111.000 a year in federal money
for pollution control, he said.)
property sold for 15 or more with
certain exemptions: an increase
in motor vehicle sales tax and 1.5
to 2 per cent; a tax of 3 per cent
on restaurant meals costing $1 nr
more-$271 million.
A revision of the state corpora-
tion franchise tax to include in-
terstate sales terminating in Tex-
as and placing a mimimum tax
based on one-half of property in
Texas—$14 million
A 50 per cent increase in driv-
ers license fees, including a raise
from $2 to $3 for ordinary motor-
ists-$7.3 million.
A levy of one penny per 1.000
cubic feet minimum tax on natur-
al gas with the difference between
the present production tax and
the new minimum to be paid by
holders of exclusive dedicated gas
See TAX, Pg. 12-A, Col, 3 Sunday.
See USSR, Pg. 12-A, Col. 1
Cold War
At A Glance
Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW - The United States.
Britain, and France tell Russia in
effect to keep hands off West Ber
lin; separate notes from Western
Big Three reject Soviet Premier
Khrushchev's plan — presented to
President Kennedy in Vienna
June 4—to squeeze them out of
the divided city; John H. McCloy,
Kennedy special disarmament ad-
visor, resumes disarmament talks
with Russians: uncompromising
editorial in Pravda makes out-
come doubtful by insisting talks
center on major questions without
participetion by U.S. Allies.
BERLIN-East Germans — ap-
parently fearing Communists may
close escape routes-pour into
West Berlin in swelling tide, about
4.000 men, women and children
slip across border from East to
West Berlin over weekend
GENEVA — Russia labels as
propaganda an American-British
proposal to bring issue of nuclear
test ban talks before United
Nations .
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—Gov-
ernment troops in major anti-
Communist drive rout 600 rebels
from stronghold in swamps south-
west of Saigon and estimate 200
Reds killed in three-hour battle
Stephens counties.
Unreported rain that fell Sun-
day night was two inches in
north Coleman County. Coleman
39, Rising Star .60 and Albany
02. However, 100 fell 10 miles
SECTION A
Amusements .......
Obituaries .........
Sports ....
Oil news .........
SECTION *
Editorials ....
Women’s news .,.,
02 However, 100 fell 10 miles Comics
northeast of Albany and 95 was Radio-TV logs
measured 10 miles southeast. Farm news, markets
Grissom was reported to be 155
pounds of "cool cucumber" when
he was officially announced Mon- ers to subtract from their income
day as the pilot chosen for the tax a sum equal to 8 per cent
flight of what they spent on new equip-
Its been done before but rock-ment or, on a smaller scale, used
eleers warned that his mission equipment.
still is loaded with peril. The amount to be
On the eve of the little Air
Force captain’s adventure, offi-
cials noted a "bo-hum" attitude
around this missile center. It
grew out of the perfect space
flight astronaut Alan B. Shepard
Jr. enjoyed last May 5, they said,
and it isn't justified.
•'We're not pacing the floor
with furrowed brows." said Lt.
Col John Powers, spokesman for
the astronaut team. "But Gris-
som could have less than a per-
fect flight"
There are hundreds of rocket . , .
parts that must function perfect' The committee, also extended
ly, he went on The Redstone the credit plan natural gas
rocket is loaded with volatile fuel, pipelines, which had been ruled
The man made environment that out under the administration’s re-
Grissom takes with him into the quest that public utilities not b*
space void must work, eligible to participate
And, he concluded, there is sl-
ways the possibility of human er-
ror in the recovery operation.
But if Grissom, 35, was fearful,
2 it didn't show. Powers said he
6 was a "cool cucumber" when he
could not exceed 50 per cent of
the tax owed. The administration
had asked that the credit not ex-
ceed 30 per cent of the tax. The
plan would apply to the current
tax year
To benefit small businesses the
50 per cent limitation on credit
would not apply on the first
5100,000 of tax liability. The com-
mittee also voted to permit the
tax credit to apply on the pur-
chase of up to $50,000 worth of
used equipment, as another boost
to small business
, 9 went through a final, extensive
11 physical examination Sunday and
Monday at Patrick Air Force
, Base.
No Moon to Jump Over,
Just Plenty of Pasture
BRECKENRIDGE (RNS) — A routine cattle shipment turned
into an old-fashioned western roundup Monday morning when
a bridge collapsed beneath a truck loaded with cows and calves
18 miles southwest of here
The truck plummetted 20 feet into the dry bed of Pecan
Creek.
Its Breckenridge driver, Harold Hash about 25, miraculously
escaped unhurt.
One cow was killed
And the remainder of the herd thundered off into the brush
and not all of them had, been caught by nightfall
' Authorities guessed that possibly calves had not been paired
off with their mothers, thus when the truck came apart, beef
left the scene in all direction* i
The cattle were the first shipment to be loaded up for
transfer from the ranch of Charles Compton near Eolian, to
a Callahan County ranch.
After the crash, Hash crawled from the wreckage, only
three miles west of the loading point and with the aid of cow-
hands and two Baird truckers, Glenn and Cliff Curtis, began
trying to round up the strays. It was not known how many
cows were in the truck
Many of the cattle dispersed over the Adolph Mueller ranch,
which adjoins Pecan Creek at FM -1035, which the bridge
formerly spanned.
The accident occurred about 10:15 am Stephens County
Sheriff Chase Booth said that as far as he knew, no loed
limit is posted on approaches to the bridge. Hash la employ-
ed by C. B. Guthrie Trucking Co. of Breckenridge, 1
Senators Approve
Postal Employes
Revised Wage Plan
Tax incentive plans are new to
the United States although they
have been widely used in Europe
and, in the opinion of some fi-
nancial experts, played a major
role in the successful recovery of
Europe after World War II.
In his message to Congress out-
lining the proposal, Kennedy said
he hoped it would become "a use-
ful and continuous part of our tax
structure."
Kennedy’s original plan was
much more complicated, apply-
ing varying credit percentages
based on investment expenditures
in excess of specific depreciation
allowances.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bill
calling for bigger and earlier
longevity pay raises for postal
employes was passed by the Sen-
ate Monday, despite protests from
the Kennedy administration.
The bill now goes to the House
It proposes three periodic lon-
gevity raises each ranging from
$30 a year for janitors and others
in the lowest pay grades up to
$260 a year for big city post-
masters For letter carriers the
periodical longevity raises would
amount to MO a year.
The raises would be granted
automatically to workers who had
completed 10, 13 and 16 years of
service
All postal workers in those
grades now get three flat raises-
after completing 13. 18 and 25
years on the payroll.
The Kennedy administration,
opposing the bill, estimated it
would cost about 550 million a
year, but the Senate Post Office
and Civil Service Committee esti-
meted the annual cost at $45
< million.
Japanese Cabinet
Meets With Ikeda,
Offers Resignation
TOKYO <AP>-Prtme Minister
Hayato Ikeda’s 16 Cabinet mem-
bers handed in their resignations
Tuesday to clear the way for the
formation of his third govern-
ment since he took power a year
ago.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Masa-
yoshi Ohira told newsmen the
resignations were accepted at a
morning Cabinet meeting by
Ikeda, who told his colleagues
the move was necessitated "in
consideration of the foreign and
domestic situation '*
The lineup of the new Cabinet-
in which about half of the former
ministers are expected to be re-
tained—is to be announced later
in the day.
Ono aim of the Cabinet re-
shuffle is to bring In representa-
tives of the various factions el
Ikeda’s Liberal Democratie-party.
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