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ABILENE, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1961 — THIRTY-SIX PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 15e
jacked Jet Returned
assengers. Crew Safe
Mexico Says
Protest Due
On Hijacking
| MEXICO CITY (AP) - The
Mexican government Wednesday'
said it will officially protest the
hijacking of the Pan .American
jet plane that left here shortly
before boon for Guatemala and
was forced to Havana,
The government security agen-
cy said several Cubans aboard
the hijacked plane had arrived
in Mexico City Tuesday under
false names and using false
documents.
Officials said the hijacking case
is under careful investigation and
no formal statement will be is-
| sued until more is known about it.
Two Cubans, a Chilean and an
i Ecuadorian arrived in Mexico
Bv ROOKER ,----------------------------City Tuesday aboard a Cubana
tst <AP>_Cav e Dan Related Story. Pg. 6-A airliner and were reported to
AUSTIN (AP)—Gov. Price Dan-____________________________have boarded the hijacked plane
iel Wednesday ordered a special Wednesday
session of the Legislature Thurs and maintenance and operational
day at 2 pm to consider in-costs. _ A. Pan American source hero
creased salaries for Texas school Daniel said earlier that he said the company was not overly
teachers, would call the lawmakers back concerned about the ate of the
The governor’s call was limited to deal with the school measure seized set.
the pay raise proposals plus Angry teachers swarmed to the We have an agreement with
to the Pry “alinremrand such governor's office when they real- Cuba to fly in daily, and we do
the routine worinte rove^r ized the bill was stymied in the not think they will hold the
other matters as the Senate plane," said an official, who
may submit,State officials who managed to asked not to be named.
The call had been expect ed all squeeze into Daniel's schedule in- . .„ Anser acau as une
day after a steady procession of cluded House Speaker James Tur- American airline operating
teacher representatives and state --
officials were in and out of the See 2ND. Pg. 7-A, Col. 1 _
REQUESTING SESSION — Representatives of the
Texas State Teachers Assn, met early Wednesday with
Gov. Price Daniel to press a request for a second
special session. Talking with Daniel who later ordered
the session are, left to right, L P Sturgeon. Austin;
Charles Tennyson, Austin, and TSTA President Rich-
ard Bowles. (AP Wirephoto)
2nd Session
Opens Today
Related Story, Pg. 6-A
piemen A gerian hunckea • Pah il-s p.mreturned to Miami at Related Stories, Pes. 2, S-A bandmawith him, before it left hind the fourth seizure of an in front of the Jose Marti Airport
American World Airways 1K-8 American fighter planes failed-----------------------------Thee o hijacker Forced his way American commercial plane in building.
jetliner over Mexico Wednesday in an attempt to intercept the lease of the plane, passengers into the flight cabin of the big three months,
and with a cocked pistol forced;airliner before it reached Havana and
the pilot to fly it to Havana within mid-afternoon in the latest him
81 aboard. However, the Cuban dramatic chapter of air piracy. 1
government released the plane The foreign minister of Colom- .. sponeu ______ercuuy lue An
bia was a passenger aboard the personally saw the diplomat to ian revolution but there was
airliner. Cuban officials said re- the departing plane and shook suggestion of
The Pan Am crew accom-
crew was in deference to plane shortly after it had taken Passing to and from the Pan Dlished two firsts" in aviation,
off from Mexico City in early Am jet, passengers and crew had a the crew to land a
Prime Minister Fidel Castro afternoon. He was said to have to walk within 500 yards of East- also was the first crew tor are A
spoken incoherently of the Alger ern Air Lines prop-jet Electra, off th, airport which was built
..0 which was hijacked July 24 over before the big jets became stand,
any Cuban plot be Florida and still sits under guard ard commercial av iatio-
U.S. Joins
Latin Plan
At Uruguay
Related Story, Pg. 4-B
Passengers and crew boarded
the plane about 9 p.m The last
passenger aboard, however was
Colombian Forr ~ Minister Tur-
bay Ayala, ul ~ the
cabin until sh
Newsmen who ^
handshaking-ing Castro ..
and Turba 4 looked
'warm z
and Turbay Aya.
“warm and friendly" ...
Turbay has been a harsh critic
of the Castro regime
“The Cubans arrested him and
PUNTA DEL ESTE Uruguay disarmed him,” said W L. Mor-
AP)—The United States swung rison. Pan Americas execu-
behind a Latin-American version tive vice president. It wasn’t
of President Kennedy’s Alliance planned.
for Progress program Wednes- Morrison added 'The man got
lay. It agreed to the Latins’ quite a bit excited and at one
minimum $20-billion price tag and point cocked his pistol. He
agreed to drop some aspects tkamaht they war "------Mi
originally backed by U.S. repre
sentatives.
(bought they were going to Mi-
ami ... a heated argument de-
veloped with the first officer and
the man appeared on the verge
Delegates drew encouragement of shooting him.”
from estimates circulating at the The hijacker was identified by
inter-American economic and so-Cuban authorities as Alberto
cial conference that $20 billion Charles Cadon, about 25. He was
may not even be the minimum held in Havana as the aircraft
committed by U.S. and other for- and the rest of those aboard were
eign sources in a decade of cleared for a return to Miami
development to starve commu- about three hours after the plane
nism out of Latin America. landed in Cuba.
Pan American is the only
.____; out of
Mexico with such an agreement.
governor’s office I CUADDIMA
Daniel predicted the session LET 5 GO SHOPPING
might be one of the shortest spe-
cial session# in Texas legislative
history. He said he hoped it can
be completed with a few days.
Daniel said he would not sign
the tax bill but would let it be-
come law without his signature
••With the deadline of Sept. 1
so near at hand for providing
money to retire the deficit and
operate our public schools, col-
leges and universities, mental
hospitals and other institutions
and pav old age pensions and oth-
er welfare and health services.
How Much Tax
Will You Pav?
HURRYING AWAY FROM FLASHBULBS — Nathan Curry , accused of the June
29 knife murder of a church secreUry at Cisco, and Sheriff Lee Horn right
By GARTH JONES if they don’t buy any furniture sprint down the stairs at the Eastland County Courthouse, headed for Gatesville
AUSTIN (AP) - You want to or home appliances, says James and the State School for Boys They emerged from the courtroom where
to re-fight know how much the new sales McGrew, research director of the -------- - 4 t ... --
===============
that the Legislature could agree ’
Blast Rocks
Coffee Plant
upon."
Daniel urged fast action by law-l
makers because of local boards
scheduling of budget hearings for
Monday and Tuesday of next
week
Six leaders of the Texas State
Teachers Association closeted
with Daniel to ask him to call a _ -----— _ -
fast session to consider the $810 thunderous explosion blew apart
teacher pay raise bill which died a section of an instant coffee
without action Tuesday night factory Wednesday, injuring six
The teacher pay hike bill was men. Two others were believed
the only one of three pieces of buried under a mountain of debris
major legislation not passed and rescue workers doubted they
A $361 million tax bill and a would find anyone alive.
GRANITE CITY, I11 (AP)—A
factory Wednesday, injuring six
men. Two others were believed
and rescue workers doubted they
$2.6 billion general spending
measures shot through both
houses just before the midnight
deadline
The teachers were seeking a
fast call from Daniel to beat the
school budget deadline Aug 20.
The $144 million bill, includes
teacher pay raises, transportation
. . ..-------------------1 young
c — Curry was declared a juvenile delinquent Wednesday behind interference run bv
Texas Hesearch , the Curry family and Deputy Sheriffs. Other pictures and story on Pg. 1 B (Staff
The league, a privately financed Photo by Henry Wolff Jr.)
study group that did much of the___________%________I_____________-_____________________________________________________________:_________
background study for several tax . 2x
=.4=Premier Boasts
days.
====== Of Soviet Power
Lets say a housewife walks Moscow .(AP) — Premier described would be about fives complicated technical process
down to the filling station to pick Khrushchev Wednesday night cli- times more powerful than the av- it would in effect disregard the
up the family car aner having maxed a bouvant day celebrating erage hydrogen bomb in U.S. ar law of diminishing military re
ah brake dininas installed. X ^ ^ ~ GHAT SETRemale. Western — ■ ay and eifur enouartoJ---™
some shooome ai the orlviet scientists can make a bomb that while increasing the size of wipe out most cities —at one Comiss,
some shopping, stops, at the shoe far bigger than any ever built be- a hy(jro((rn bomb to the power E4--L
ranair than .........“ *---'fore of 100 million tons of TNT is not
The Alliance for Progress blue- A series of delays, however,
print was outlined as the keystone kept the plane at the Havana air-
for what will be called the Act port for several additional hours,
of Punta del Este. Delegates After it finally took off and was
from all 20 Latin nations except nearing Miami, its pilot, Capt.
Cuba are expected to complete Carl Ballard, radioed the Miami
work on it by Aug. 16. airport: "I’ve never been so glad
It seemed sure that Cuba s to see this place ”
Ernesto Guevara—whose two- Earlier, U.S. Embassy sources
hour and 15-minute anti-Yankee said they were misinformed and
tirade Tuesday night got nowhere added: Our usually reilable con-
-would not sign the Punta del nections got their names mixed
Este declaration. See HIJACKED, Pg. 7.*, Col. 4
Chief architects of the act were
Argentina and Brazil-the two
most powerful countries in South
America.
It asks that funds come not
only from the United States but
also other foreign countries. suchi
as Great Britain, West Germany.
France, Italy and Japan
The United States yielded to
the Latins' two major objections
to the over-all Alliance for Prog-
ress project: Establishment of a
public relations machine in Latin
America and a powerful seven-
Santa Anna
Wreck Fatal
To Woman
SANTA ANNA (RNS) — Mrs.
Sam H Crockett Jr., 33, a pro-
fessional opera singer from New
WEATHER
U. • DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
(Weather map, Pr. 4-A)
ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius 40
miles) Clear to partly cloudy and con-
finued warm through Friday with a
chance for scattered showers Friday aft-
ernoon and night High both days in the
mid or upper NT low Friday night, low
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS Fair
Thursday partly cloudy Thursday night
and Friday. Seattered showers a mid
"S"4ka*4S^
with scattered thundershowers High
Thursday 88-100
TEMPER ATURES
""m------in . we dm.
man board to coordinate the ------:--------------
hemispheric drive against hunger York, di®d in the Santa Anna
and poverty. Hospital at 6 p.m. Wednesday
The public relations proposal from injuries received in a car-
probably will be shelved to calm truck collision eight miles south
the ruffled feelings of some dele- of Santa Anna about 3 p m. Tues-
gates who feared it smelled too a
much of a propaganda setup.Her husband, Samuel H Crock-
__ett. 38, was semi-conscious in the
uenune hospital Wednesday night with a
NEWS INDEX head injury, and her 6-year-old
daughter, Carolyn Ann, was ad-
mitted to the hospital with bruis-
es, Highway Patrolman I. A.
Chambers said
Crockett’s condition was consid-
ered serious but not critical and
the girl’s injuries were not con-
sidered serious. Chambers said ,
Mrs. Crockett's death was the
12 first traffic fatality in Coleman
16 County this year, the patrolman
17 added
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Editorials
Radio-TV logs
Farm news
Hours after the old 2%-story repair shop, takes a turn through
brick building disintegrated with the suburban department store,
a frightening roar emergency has a bite of lunch ard returns
crews of construction workers—home
============
James Shane 33, of Granite services, she has the car sen Scientists have suggested to
City, a painter working on a tall iced and pays a tax on the quart the Soviet government that they
industrial building nearby, said of oil but not on the gasoline The can create a equal to 100 PARIS (AP) - The Big Three now and Sept. 17 in *n effort 10 While holding out the hope for v .. „ .. uh
the blast shook the structure new tax does not cover items al- million. WROTE salon nt Western powers will loose a dip- convince Moscow of det erm ma a negotiated settlement, the West Yaiksmavemanoth m
“At first I thought one of the ready under state sales taxes. Kremlin reception for Soviet tomatic offensive aimed at an Won PR teat eir rights in ern powers also are planning a with a dump truck belonging to
big diesel railroad engines on the of cigarettes she sot from e vend spaceman Maj. Gherman S. Ti- East-West conference on the Ber- W negotiate a reasonable settle series of economic and military Coleman County Precinct 2 and
tracks down below had blown up. in. sarettes she got from a vend tov. .lin and German problems before men “steps informats said, to shore driven by Curry, Chambers said,
great big puff of smoke -*-** *** *** **** EMT H -===- The AmenemmFemen * Wm **-*=====-======-=
building seemed to disappear At the grocery store the'house tor) and to Premier Amintorei peace treaty with the East Ger- and West German foreign min the German Berlin issue grows to the accident occurred
Then it just collapsed" wife paid no tax on food because Fanfani (of Italy ." man regime. isters adopted that diplomatic an explosive stage The Crocketts had been in Port
All available ambulances and I IS exempt. But a box of soaD * - — Ui crisis- nlesed Weaatere tafarm strategy ever the weokand IiEi The United Crates it w= *____- --- **-1
emergency vehicles were sent to % 1
the scene ne trea to temper it ny repeat- cunco, issun .... r..... -----------v .—v-—“ ■-—-•■■ vwP vs — -m-emuI geu. iney were un uw-u way w
The explosion occurred at cause S made specifically tax- edly mixing his warnings with this shortly touch off this drive along other members X the North At- military forces, both at home and Lubbock to visit her husbands
Nestle Co. Inc. instant coffee able n the * while the ETC phrase: We do not want war.” with a military buildup in West lanti Treaty Organization in a in Europe, and has requested parents. Mr. and Mrs Sam H
manufacturers electric and and the 1 bills “I don't want to case a shadow ern Europe They hope to head council session Tuesday. , . they follow suit Crockett Sr , ____
The wing in which the blast - ene telephone Bills, on today with such grim reality,” off a major crisis , Rusk himself continued his That would mean bringing Mrs Crockett received severe
occurred housed large boiler like he Tert eentdas on he said. But this was exactly The informants hinted that the soundings among Western states- NATO's present 22 divisions up to lacerations, brain damage, two
percolators and drying equip- pare not er the what happened Diplomats gath- West will openly take the initia- men by flying to Rome where he full strength and in the long run broken pelvis bones, a broken
ment. i A dor the honest i ered in corners to translate the live at a Western summit meet met with Premier Amintore Fan- reaching NATO's avowed goal of back and a chipped arm bone
| A crowd of about 1,000 gathered oiskerresnorstore inenousswute words among themselves and ing soon after the West German fani and Foreign Minister Antonio 30 combat-ready divisions in the She is survived by her parents
* A---co p r band’s shoes read them in the context of the national elections, Sept 17, and Segni to discuss Fanfani’s visit European forces The outlook was and two brothers one a doctor
reported good on vacation in Alaska.
He warned that he would give
his scientists the signal to build
See PREMIER, Pg. 7-A. Col. 2
SET DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE
Big 3 Wanting Conference
PARIS (AP) — The Big Three now and Sept. 17 in an effort to
A charge of aggravated assault
with a motor vehicle was filed
in Coleman County Court Wednes-
day. against the driver of the
truck, Leroy Curry, 43 of Santa
Anna on complaint signed by Pa-
trolman Chambers, County Clerk
Lee Craig said
Mrs. Crockett was driving a red
it is exempt. But a box of soap Although the speech was one of Highly placed Western inform strategy over the weekend U.S I The United States, it was Lavaca visiting Mrs. Crockett’s
flakes was taxed It is not food his most belligerent in. months, ants said Wednesday the United Secretary of State Dean Rusk learned, has informed its allies parents, Mr and Mrs Carey Leg.
he tried to temper it by repeat States Britain and France will personally communicated it to of a buildup of its conventional gett. They were on their way to
box of candy was taxed, be-
cause it is made specifically tax-
----- at the scene. that were half soled she ooid--------------------- ~ 1 —
24 hours ending s The ground near the blast area tax on renni, ant Ter the East-West war of words on Her before the Moscow Communist in Moscow. -
— ....—a — L —-- ,---on the repair service, out the e- - *------* — -—*--i late Octal— Rusk will visit West German Western leaders are convinced A Port Lavaca funeral home
reception1 in advance of a public move, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s that the budding Berlin crisis is was to come to Hosch Funeral
I the Western powers intend to con- vacation hideout in northern Italy much more serious than any of Home here for the body late
l its predecessors. Wednesday night.
igh and low — -..—-.. --= - -ru w-uma ------ van ----- —-—■ tax on me repair service but thesmow -von — —. — -usw ™ ---- *----—------- —-
E same date last year was littered with coffee beans repairman had in a , lin and Germany The whole at- party congress in late October
iontey. Tons of the n d " PAX A 2---— - — --4-1 ” 4- 1 --
eu, m' when cranes moved large metal
storage bins
tax on the leather he mosphere of the
changed. .—-----------------
See ROW. Pg. 74, Col 4 1 (A bomb such as Khrushchev tact the Soviet Union between Thursday.
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