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ABILENE, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15,1962—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
Associated Press (PP)
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Bring Indictments
ABILENIAN AT HEARING — Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie Frank Estes, front, Mr. and
Mrs Billie Sol Estes and Abilene attorney Jack Bryant leave the Federal court-
house in El Paso after the appearance of the two women at a hearing Friday,
Story on Pg. 2-A. (AP Wirephoto) ___________________________________
PENDING INVESTIGATION
Polio Programs
Being Postpones
Cities and communities in the
West Central Texas area Friday
night were joining in postpone-
ment of the massive polio immu-
nization program.
The Taylor-Jones County Medi-
cal Society's Sabin immunization
program, postponed Friday morn-
ing as a result of publicity created
by the discovery of four polio
cases in Canada, will be held
"within a few weeks," according
to Dr. Marshall Turnbull, director
of the campaign.
Dr. Turnbull said Friday after-
noon that Abilene medical offi-
cials feel that the new Sabin oral
vaccine is "probably safe.”
He continued, "We will be able
to proceed with our program
within a few weeks. But, it (the
Sunday immunization program)
ft postponed until we are positive
it (the vaccine) is safe.”
Stamford Boy
May Be New
Polio Victim
Another Stamford boy Friday
night appeared to be the definite
victim of polio.
Authorities at Hendrick Memor-
ial Hospital said that Stuart
Brent Bolding, 6-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey A. Bold-
ing of Stamford, apparently is
the victim of the disease.
Tests have been administered
to determine whether or not the
child has the disease, and the
spokesman said that it probably
will be Saturday before it is of-
ficially confirmed. He said diag-
nosis Friday was that the young-
ster had polio.
If the Bolding child has polio.
109 U.S. Counts
Cite Two Texans
TYLER (AP)—A Federal Grand lease and was filed by Marathon
i Jury Friday indicted two Hender
Haskell County authorities, who a definite decision about Winters’
plans.
Winters residents were sched- he will be the eighth victim in
earlier Friday were planning on
administering the vaccine, an-
nounced they would not give the
vaccine Sunday.
The Haskell County campaign
included Haskell, Rule, Rochester,
Weinert and O’Brien, according to
Lon Pate, Reporter-News corres-
pondent and editor of the Haskell
Free Press.
In Runnels County, Jim Miller.
Jaycee chairman of the cam-
paign, said their immunization
program would be conducted as
planned. Residents of the Ballin-
ger area are to receive the vaccine
Sept. 28 and 30 at the City Hall.
Meanwhile, Dr. Henry H. Mc-
Creight, city health official for
Winters, said Friday night that
he will confer with Dr. Richard
Johns of Abilene before making
uled to receive the vaccine Sept.
28 and 30. The official said he
expected to make a decision by
noon Saturday.
Two counties Friday night plan-
ned to go ahead with the program
— Knox and Shackelford
, Knox City and Munday in Knox
County will receive their Sabin
vaccines at their respective high
school gymnasiums, according to
Dr. David Eiland of Munday.
Albany and Moran area resi-
dents in Shackelford County also
See POLIO, Pg. 3-A, Col. •
the Abilene area and the third
case from Stamford in recent
days.
The two Franklin children from
Stamford were reported in
“good condition". Friday at Hen-
drick Memorial.
Another case is still not con-
firmed as polio, the spokesman
said.
In recent years the Abilene
area polio cases have soared.
A total of 53 cases in this area
were reported by authorities at
Hendrick Memorial in 1957.
ALL HARMONY NOW — State Democratic Chairman
J. Ed Connally, right, won the support at the state
convention of the Taylor County Democratic delega-
tion at a special caucus here Friday afternoon. District
Committeeman Maurice Brooks, left, defeated in the
caucus vote, said the verdict ends his campaign for
district committeeman at the state convention next
week (Staff Photo by Jimmy Parsons)
son men on 109 counts involving
charges of drilling a slanted well
to steal oil from a neighbor's
property.
The indictments were returned
against J. C. Stroud and W. V.
Stroud of Henderson, and their
firm, the Stroud Bros. Oil Co. of
Joinerville.
The Texas House Investigating
Committee earlier this week com-
pleted its second hearing in Dal-
las on slanted drilling in Texas.
Friday's indictments were the
first federal charges.
Both men appeared late Friday
at the Federal Building in Tyler
and posted $2,500 bond each, set
by U.S. Commissioner Joe Huff-
stutler.
Neither could be contacted for
comment Friday night.
The Strouds along with the
Stroud Bros. Oil Co. were among
defendants named in a directional
drilling civil suit filed in Tyler
in Federal Court last month.
The suit, seeking total damages
of $663,399.50, involved another
Connally Wins Support
In Taylor Demo Caucus
Oil Co.
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy
announced the indictments in
Washington.
Kennedy said these charges
were brought against the Strouds:
—35 counts of violating the Con-
nally Hot Oil Act by shipping con-
traband oil in interstate com-
merce.
—36 counts of filing false state-
ments with the Federal Petroleum
Board at Kilgore, Tex.
—36 counts of filing inaccurate
and untruthful reports with the
Federal Petroleum Board.
—2 counts of conspiracy to vio-
late the Connally act and the
Fraud and False Statements Act
The grand jury charged the
Strouds with shipping more than
14,000 barrels of contraband crude
oil in interstate commerce be-
tween July 1959 and July 1962. It
said the oil was taken from Well
No. 1 on the J. H. Henson estate
lease in Rusk County, Tex.
The defendants were accused of
causing to be drilled on the Hen-
son lease a well which slanted
south and west into an oil produc-
ing formation underlying another
lease in which the Strouds had no
PROGRAM SITUATION
IN AREA AT A GLANCE
TO ADMINISTER VACCINE SUNDAY—Albany,
public school cafeteria, 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Moran,
public school, 2 to 5 p.m.; Munday, high school gym-
nasium, Sunday afternoon; Albany, high school
gymnasium, 12 noon to 7 p.m. —-
CANCELLED — Abilene, Baird, Clyde, Anson,
Stamford, Lueders, Hamlin, Rotan, Roby, Asper-
mont, Coleman, Santa Anna, Sweetwater, Cross
Plains, Blackwell, Nolan, Tuscola, Putnam, Hawley,
Noodle, Avoca, Roscoe, Blackwell, Old Glory, Col-
orado City, Silver, Westbrook, Loraine, Haskell,
Weinert, Rule, Rochester, O’Brien.
UNDECIDED — Winters, Ranger, Eastland,
Breckenridge.
GOING AHEAD - Ballinger. (Sept. 28 and Sept
Full Program For
Last Day of Fair
Hurry, hurry, hurry! Last time
today! It's the gigantic, colossal
West Texas Fair, the one you
don't want to miss.
And there’s practically no end Brothers:
to the string of displays and vari- *
ety of entertainment offered by
the “Funtime '62" Fair which
closes at midnight Saturday after
a successful six-day run.
Friday night's fair attendance
By DICK TARPLEY
Assistant Managing Editor
State Democratic Chairman J.
at the state convention. The cau-
cus Friday was binding only on
the two candidates, and this only
morally: both had agreed to drop
i if defeated, but
Ed Connally scored a 25-20 vic-
tory over incumbent 24th Senato- out of the race
rial District Committeeman Mau- the other delegates were not a
ial District Committeeman Mau-
at 7 and 9:30 p.m. will be teenage
vocalist Bobby Vinton of “Roses
Are Red" recording notoriety; the
riotous comedy team, the Wiere
_________and Mark Wilson's
“Magic Land of AllaKazam" of
television acclaim, featuring Nani
Darnell and Rebo the Clown.
rice Brooks Friday at a caucus
to see which of the two Abilenians
the Taylor County Democratic del-
egation would support for district
committeeman at next week’s
state convention.
Brooks declared afterwards
The Army sky diving team from
Fort Hood will make its final free
falls at 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Three
of the six parachutists made a
totaled 12,611, bringing the five- " " * Pcaasis maoe a
day figure to 54.319 persons, which spectacular jumping ..aexhihitien
compared to 56,994 for the same
five days in 1961.
Heading up Saturday night's bill
at the free midway stage shows
Pollution Probers Indicate
More Investigation Due
By KATHARYN DUFF quate pluggings of early wells
Reporter - News Assistant Editor with rocks and pieces of telegraph
BALLINGER - The Texas ......-"
House Interim Committee on Wa-
ter Pollution finished a day and
• half of looking at, tasting and
listening to salt water problems
in Runnels, Coleman and Concho
Counties, then adjoured its public
hearing here Friday noon without
a formal announcement of its
conclusions on the findings.
Committee Chairman Rep. Ru-
fus Kilpatrick of Beaumont and
Vice Chairman Rep. James Nu-
gent of Kerrville indicated in-
formally. however, that more
testimony will be taken over the
oil areas of Texas and that some
sort of legislation aimed at easing
the problems will be presented in
a committee report to the next
legislature.
Details of the Runnels problem
were told in public hearing Fri-
day by R. E. Harris, Ballinger
water superintendent, who traced
the steady rise in salt content of
municipal water: by Henry Fowl-
er, landowner and pumper, who
described some old and made-
poles; and by Kirby Robinson,
Norton landowner, who explained
with wry humor that excitement
over oil discoveries and prospects
of royalty checks had blinded
many landowners to the danger
of salt water pollution.
San Angelo Railroad Commis-
sioner M. W. Marshall admitted a
lack of close watch on many
phases of the oil industry by the
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Sports ..........
Oil news.........
Bridge quiz........
SECTION B
Church news ......
Women’s news .....
Obituaries .......
Amusements ......
Comics ..........
Editorials .. .......
Redio-TV logs.....
TV Scout ......
Form news........
... 5-9
.... 11
.... 11
.. 2
.. 3
4-5
... 5
6, 7
... 8
.. 11
.. 11
.. 12
interest.
They then caused contraband oil
to be shipped monthly in inter-
state commerce and covered up
the unlawful character of their
transactions by filing false state-
ments with the Petroleum Board
and the Texas Railroad Commis-
sion, the grand jury charged.
delegates from the county failed
to arrive for the caucus, held in
the Windsor Hotel. Absentees
were Joe D. Tompkins, Bailey
Lewis, Sid Parks, Mrs. Bryan
Bradbury, Mrs. R. W. Stafford.
Mrs. J. Frank Clark, Joe Hum-
phrey and Mrs. Beverly Tarpley.
Present, in the order of their
appearance on the roster, were:
Ed Connally, Maurice Brooks,
French Robertson, Howard Mc-
Mahon, Virgil Musick, Jack
Hughes, Tom Webb, Earl Lassi-
ter, Larry Cunningham, Cleve
Cullers, Joe Antilley, Garvin
Beauchamp, J. D. Osborne, Allen
Glenn, C. R. Pennington, Tom
Gordon, Dusty Rhodes, C. E Bent-
ley, John Crutchfield, R. M.
Means, Briggs Todd, Bill Senter,
Carroll Rogers.
Foy Clement, Mrs. Lynn Lee,
W. R. Ely, John Pope, Fred Olds,
WEATHER
party to the agreement.
“Our main job is to elect John
Connally and all Democratic can-
didates in the election," said Tom
Webb, who presided at the caucus
by agreement of Brooks and Ed
Connally.
“Both are good men and good
Democrats," Webb said, referring
to the two candidates for state
committeeman, “but whoever
wins here will still have to run
the gauntlet in the district."
But district committeeman is
not the really important job, Webb
declared. “The Republican Par-
ty in Taylor County is united and
doing a hard job. This position
(district committeeman) is im-
U. S. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
(Weather Map, Page 2-A)
ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius 40
miles)—Generally fair, with a few scat-
tered clouds Saturday afternoon. Con-
tinued warm Saturday and Sunday, with
high both days about 95. Low Saturday
70 to 75.
NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
TEXAS: Clear to cloudy and warm Satur-
day and Sunday. Isolated thundershowers
south Sunday afternoon. High Saturday
that the defeat at the caucus end-
ed his campaign and that he hop-
ed his supporters would drop the
fight.
“1 accept the verdict 100 per
cent," he said. "This is the end
of the campaign on my behalf
and I hope by anyone else."
Connally thanked the 45 dele-
gates for turning out and for his
victory. The candidates had
agreed in advance to hold the
caucus, with the loser to drop out
of the race.
The vote is not binding on the
Taylor County delegation, since
n the 90s.
NORTHWEST TEXAS: Clear to cloudy
Saturday and Sunday. Isolated late thun-
lershowers. High Saturday in the 90s.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Cloudy and
warm Saturday and Sunday. Isolated day-
ime thundershowers south portion and
along the coast. High Saturday 94-102.
TEMPERATURE
Fri. a.m.
:
Fr. ,m.
Morgan Jones Jr., Jess Blanton.
Dean Johnson, C. G Whitten, Ray
Everett, Charles Dick, Raleigh
Brown, Mrs. William E. Wilson,
Horace Holly, John DeFord. Joe
Pouns, 0. J. Hamilton, E. T.
Compere, Dan Gallagher, Wiley
chutes were opened at 2.000 feet Paso next Tuesday. Frank Har-ing before the vote was taken. Connally, Gus Vletas,
Friday night with the aid of signal
flares to mark their paths of des-
cent. Only one of the three flares
attached to the jumpers' boots
ignited, but all three parachute
flares which were fired when the
portant but not nearly so import-
ant as Governor . . . and I hope
we can go out of here united."
Neither Brooks nor Connally
used up all of the five minutes
the only official caucus is on the ,____
floor of the state convention in El each was allotted for speech-mak-
agency set up to regulate opera-
tions.
He blamed this on a lack of
manpower, pointing that he had
only one man helping him with
the field and administrative work
in his 14-county RRC district.
successfully fired.
Another feature of the fair will
be a children's dog show to be
staged at 9:30 a.m. at the midway
stage. Children up to 16 years
of age may enter dogs in the fol-
lowing categories: best costumed
dog. smallest dog (at least six
months old), largest dog. dog with
longest tail and best trick and
obedient dog.
Each child entering a dog will
be admitted free to the fair
See FAIR, Pg. 3-A, Col. 2
desty of Big Spring also is expect- Connally declared that he had
ed to be a candidate from the 13- always worked for harmony in
county district at the convention, the party, that he had never re-
One delegate declared after the reived any reimbursement for his
meeting broke up: work as district committeeman
“Well, I'm glad that's over I nor later as state Democratic
think it was a good idea to get chairman (where he said his pred-
this thing settled before we got ecessor was paid $15,000 and all
to El Paso” I expenses), and that he had help-
But two other delegates indicated raise a great amount of funds
ed it wasn't all over.
80 ..........11:00 ..........-
men and low for M - hours ending 9
" Then "ha m same date last year:
"sand, list mizhe: 5:55: sunrise today:
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work as district committeeman
Opening Witness
Runnels County Agent C. T.
Parker, who has worked closely
with efforts to define local pollu-
tion problems, was the opening
witness at the hearing.
He proposed a five-point pro-
gram for West Texas:
1. Close surface pits used for
disposal of salt water brought to
the surface in drilling and produc-
tion of oil wells.
2. Halt anulous injection (put-
ting salt water back into the hole
between the casing and drilling
string) until it is established that
such injection does not allow salt
water to “escape."
3. Have Railroad Commission
representatives present at plug-
gings of wells.
4. Provide a bonding system to
See POLLUTION, Pg- 3-A, Col. 3
for the party.
“I have the time for the job,”
he said. “I asked for the job and
(Virgil Musick was mentioned' I want it. I will do the job. While
when the official caucus is held 1 have been state chairman there
was not a time I did not favor
this district and this city when-
ever I had a chance to.”
Brooks said he had been a life-
There was talk of trying to get
behind another Abilene candidate
Fair Timetable
SATURDAY
4-H Girls Club Demonstrations
10:00 a.m__Judging—Sears-Roebuck Swtoe Foundation Demon-
stration Program
1:99 p.m.—Texas State Jersey Cattle Sale
1:39 p.m.—Judging—Candy, Cookie, and Quick Bread Contest
2:00 p.m.—Newspaper Throwing Contest
2:30 p.m.—Army Sky Divers
6:30 p.m.—Army Sky Divers
7:00 p.m.—Free Midway Show — Outdoor Theater — featuring
Bobby Vinton, The Wiere Brothers, and Mart Wil-
son and his “Magic Land of AllaKazam”
7:90 p.m.—Judging—Shetland Pony Registered Halter Classes
9:39 p.m.—Free Midway Show — Outdoor Theater — featuring
Bobby Vinton. The Wiere Brothers, and Mark WU-
son and his “Magic Land of AllaKazam”
10:15 p.m.—Bin Haines Carnival Free Act — “The Flying Val-
entines”
11:00 p.m.—WEST TEXAS FAIR OFFICIALLY CLOSES
1
long Democrat, had never veered
from the party even when it was
the popular thing to do — as in
1952 — and that he not only sup-
ported it with his vote, but did
so in every campaign with his
time, his money and his voice.
“I believe in the principles of
the Democratic Party The other
party has no such principles to;
which they can point with pride."
Brooks said "my wife thinks
I am entitled to one full term"
as district committeeman. (He
was appointed to the post when
French Robertson resigned to be-
come a regent of the University
of Texas). "I don't want it any
longer than that. I think it should
be passed around It's an honor
and others should have it. too."
Only eight of the 53 elected
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Interesting Reading Sunday in
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* • New Philharmonic
Season
A spectacular season is in store for Abilene
Philharmonic patrons with six concerts
scheduled — including two outstanding and
unusually attractive events. The orchestra an-
nounces its schedule for the new season in
Sunday's Reporter-News.
★ A Home for Treasured
Furnishings
A home designed for treasured furnishings
will be featured on the cover page of the
Women's Section. Inside, favorite features of
the young set will be resumed .. Young Out-
look and Junior High Highlights.
* Abilene Datebook
will mork the opening of the club year with listings of
dotes" for meetings. YWCA’S “This Week" will be • new
calendar of events ot the local Y
* College Football
The three local colleges see action this week end . . .
HSU or Tulsa, East Texas at ACC end McMurry long
les with Howard Payne Staff coverage of these games
. . stories en other college gomes across the nation. ,
all these and more . . . Sunday!
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