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82ND YEAR, NO 93
ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY M--
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Soviet Deserte:spends 20 Years in Attic
, 1962 SIXTEEN PAGES IN ONE SECTION
Associated Press (PP)
Katharyn Duff
EL PASO — The State Dem-
ocratic Executive Committee,
the official machinery through
which Texas Democrats oper-
ated. will undergo considerable
surgery and additions this week
It is likely there will be a
new state chairman to succeed
Ed Connally of Abilene Gov-
ernor Nominee John Connally,
the man who will have a de-
cided influence over the choice,
said in a news conference that
his decision on an SDEC chief
for the next two years has not
been made.
Hotel lobby talk is that Dolph
Briscoe of Uvalde, former legis-
lator, a party worker and a
rancher, might be tapped for
the job.
Big slices of Texas will have
new representation on the par-
ty panel. The 24th district,
which stretches from Taylor
County through Howard County
and north to Garza will have
both new committeeman and
committeewoman, with the re-
tirement of Maurice Brooks, by
an Abilene caucus, and the mov-
ing of Mrs. Nora Binder of Big
Spring out of the district to Mid-
land.
Ed Connally seems likely to
be Brooks' successor and the
committeewoman post is up for
grabs with Mrs. Betty Staton
of Sweetwater and Mrs. N. C.
Outlaw of Post as possibilities.
Mrs. Staton is considered the
front - runner.
By PRESTON GROVER
MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet
youth newspaper Komsomolskaya
Pravda told the story Sunday of
a Russian deserter whose mother
hid him in the attic for 20 years
until he came out, nearly blind,
and gave himself up.
It was an unusual story, for the
Soviet press rarely goes in for
human interest stories, especially
about deserters.
The paper told in detail what
happened during those 20 years in «
the garret before finally, in tim-
id desperation, Nikolai Tonkikh
came down, no longer a youth,
and turned himself over to offi-
cials.
In 1942, the German army was
lunging toward the Volga.
All the boys of Betyug-
Matronovka rushed to a center
where guns were given out near
Voronesh, 500 miles south of Mos-
cow. But Nikolai, 18, lost courage,
ran back home, and his mother
hid him in the attic. He was an
only son among a family of girls.
One morning, a few weeks aft-
er his return, his mother was
seen weeping over a grave in the
garden.
"Kolya died suddenly,'’ she
said.
Kolya, family abbreviation for
Nikolai, heard the weeping, heard
the neighbors express sympathy,
and through a chink in the garret
wall he could even see them and
his new grave, with a wooden
cross.
Then began the long vigil. In
1945, a thousand days later, his
father returned from the war, de-
manded that the boy give himself
up. But the mother intervened.
Then the father began sharing
the dismal chores—taking meals
up to the garret each day, bring-
ing down a pail of slops.
For 7,000 days it went on. From
lack of use, in the dark garret,
Kolya’s eyes became almost use-
lessly weak but his ears became
acute. He could hear his mother
milking a cow in a distant part
of the garden. He heard his sis-
on the wall as they returned home
from school.
Sometimes at night he walked
in the garden, feeling the sun-
flowers he could hardly see, feel-
ing the pumpkins still warm from,
the day’s sun.
Once be sneaked out to the riv-
er in the semidark to go fishing,
but with his weak eyes he could
not set up the pole. He threw it
into the river and returned to
the garret.
In the early years, he worked
ters, one by one, bang their sacks through a third-grade arithmetic
book and rend geographies. His
imagination roved over the des-
erts, over Leningrad, Africa, Si-
beria.
But new words had come into
the world of which he knew noth-
ing-Sputniks, virgin lands, televi-
sion.
Once in a fit of depression, he
began crying, atone in the garret.
His mother rushed up the narrow
stairs.
"Don't cry. The neighbors will
hear. Only pray."
Daily for 7,000 days he looked
through the tiny crack in the gar-
ret wall at his own grave and the
cross on it, weathering with the
years.
Then on a day recently, his fa-
ther, getting old, demanded that
his son, now 38, give himself up
and help support the family.
"You will not be treated harsh-
ly.”
In a panic the son kicked his
father down the narrow stairs.
But two days later, he turned
himself over to the officials and
told his dismal story.
State to Decide
lots
Oc
One party stalwart, J. H.
(Cap) Shelton of Brownwood,
has announced he will leave the
16th district SDEC office he has
held for three terms. C. C.
Woodson, Brownwood publisher,
1 is one rumored candidate for
Shelton’s post. Sylvester Lewis
of Lampasas is another, Mrs.
Harry Hornaby Jr. of Uvalde
is due to be reelected 16th com-
mitteewoman.
The 22nd district, which runs
from Callahan through Denton
counties, is due a new com-
mitteewoman with the retiring
of Mrs. Alonzo Jamison of Den-
ton. Mrs. Bacon Body of Henri-
etta is talked as her successor.
Randall Jackson of Baird,
22nd committeeman. and direc-
tor of John Connally's cam-
paign in that district, is expect-
ed to be reelected without oppo-
sition.
GOVERNOR AND CANDIDATE — Gov. Price Daniel, left, confers with Demo-
cratic candidate for governor John Connally in Daniel’s hotel room in El Paso
Sunday. The two met as top Texas Democrats gathered in El Paso for the state
Democratic convention. (AP Wirephoto)
CONVENTION -
John Connally to Deliver
Keynote Speech to Demos
UN Pledges
Spy Case
Statement
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)
— The United Nations Sunday
promised a carefully drawn
statement about charges that two
of its Soviet employes paid a New
York Republican politician 23,000
to give them secret information
and make pro-Russian speeches.
A U.S. spokesman said the
charges, issued in Washington
Saturday night by Atty. Gen. Rob-
ert F. Kennedy, would be checked
against the records here and ‘an
official statement on behalf of the
United Nations will be put out the
first thing tomorrow morning."
The case of alleged espionage
by Soviet citizens in the U.N. Sec-
WEATHER
U. S. DEPARTMEN
WEATHER
(Weather
ABILENE AN
iles) - Partly
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VICINIT
C WEI Do da Sila
towers and thunderstorm# Monday and
uesday. High Monday 95, low Monday
ight 65-70, high Tuesday 85-90.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS - Clear to
cloudy and scattered mostly late thunder-
showers Monday and Tuesday. High Mon-
day 88-98.
By GARTH JONES vention speaker. He and Connally
Many Receive
Sabin Vaccine
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texans in large numbers swal-
lowed vaccine-soaked sugar cubes
- Sunday in many counties where
NORTHWEST TEXAS - Clear to cloudy
Monday and Tuesday. Scattered late
thundershowers mostly east and north.
High Monday 87-97.
SOUTHWEST
' late thunder
onday night
ay 94-100.
Sun. a.m...
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High and
p.m.: »3 an
High and
retariat was the first to come to
light since U Thant of Burma be- _
I — Clear to cloudy
vith scattered most-
s. Cooler north
lesday. High Mon-
TEMPERATURES
p.m.
hours ending
» date last ye
9
mass immunization drives against
polio with the Sabin Type 1 oral
vaccine were held on schedule.
However, many of the state's
most populace areas — including
Dallas and Houston-held off on
drives to distribute Type III vac-
cine after the U.S. Public Health
Department warned against it.
The health agency Saturday
recommended a temporary halt
of Type III for adults, saying that
the II confirmed cases of Type
III polio provided sufficient evi-
dence “to indicate that at least
some of these cases have been
y at
: 6:44; sunrise today:
ht: 6:42.
ng at 9 p.m.: 28.15.
p.m.: 64 per cent.
: caused by Type III vaccines.”
Many county officials feared
federal ruling on Type III might
affect turnouts on Type I and II.
C. W. Brown of McCaney and
Mrs. Scott Massarano of San
Angelo have no opposition as
yet for reelection to the 25th
district posts.
Fred Brown, Dallas hotel
man, is another Democratic
mainstay who has announced
he will not serve again on tne
SDEC. Brown said he and Mrs.
Cullen Thomas of Dallas will
likely be replaced by John
Gray, vice president of Dallas
First National Bank, and Mrs.
Joseph Alexander of Dallas,
"The only reason” a harried
Democrat said Sunday “that I
can see for coming all the way
out to El Paso for a state con-
vention is Juarez. And what
happens?” he asks himself.
"They keep me so busy with
conferences, committees- and
smokey meetings that I don’t
think I'll even get a peek at the
Rio Grande."
EL PASO (AP) - Democratic
gubernatorial nominee John Con-
nally said Sunday he will sound
the keynote for a reorganized Tex-
as Democratic party at the open-
ing of the state convention Tues-
day morning.
“It will concern the general
problems of the state and the par-
ty," Connally said in announcing
that he will personally make the
keynote address to the conven-
tion. "It might contain some evi-
dence how I feel about a plat-
form.”
The formation of the convention
begins Monday at a meeting of
the State Democratic Executive
Committee but the expected No. 1
problem of the session — the writ-
ing of a platform to please all
types of Texas Democrats — will
not be taken up until the conven-
tion proper begins Tuesday.
Gov. Price Daniel, who is still
titular head of the party although
defeated in his re-election bid in
the May primary, will be a con-
held a closed door conference late
Sunday, apparently over platform
problems.
Connally said a majority of the
62-member state executive com-
mittee had approved his making
the keynote speech. Often the
party's leading candidate in up-
coming elections does not make
an appearance until most of the
convention business is completed.
Many delegates checking in Sun-
Texas for a Two-Party Texas.
Otherwise there was quiet in the
Democratic camp Sunday as
early arrivals prepared for Mon-
day's session of the State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee fol-
lowed by the convention proper at
10 a.m. Tuesday.
Democratic gubernatorial nomi-
nee John Connally flew here Sat-
urday to join staff members who
have been making convention
See CONNALLY, Pg. 11-A, Col.4
came acting secretary - general
last November.
The United Nations’ apparent
readiness to talk about the charg-
es contrasted with the mum’s-the-
word policy generally followed by
Thant's Swedish predecessor, the
late Secretary-General Dag Ham-
marskjold.
Hammarskjold, who had to deal
with a few such cases, spoke of
them only if pressed at news con-
ference, and then only in vague
terms, unless they involved dip-
lomatic exchanges or court ac-
tions.
A U.S. delegation spokesman
See SPY, Pg. 11.A, Col. 1
DESPITE FEARS
Polio Programs
Termed Success
day rushed on across the border
for the Sunday bullfight and Mexi-
can Independence Day celebra-Fo He
tions. A shortage of hotel rooms IIssA M
has forced some delegations to be AEEEEEFTEET ETEATTAE
housed in Juarez motels and bo@lIlll I OGGI
tels. However, party officials W
stressed there will be plenty of
room Tuesday in the 7,500 seat
El Paso County Coliseum.
Earlier, delegates got a warning
not to be fooled by an appearance
of "phoney unit and harmony.”
The warning came from Archer
Fullingim, Kountze weekly news-
paper editor and co-chairman of
Shot, Wife Held
Ed Connally Appears Sure
Of Election to Demo Post
BALLINGER — James T. Cook,
well -' known Ballinger physician
and surgeon, was reported in
“fair" condition in a San Angelo
hospital Sunday night of gunshot
wounds received at his home
about 8 p.m. Sunday.
His wife was charged with as-
sault with intent to murder Sun-
investigated the shooting. Grind-
staff entered the investigation lat-
er Sunday night and filed the for-
mal charges against Mrs. Cook.
Grindstaff said Mrs. Cook is
in technical custody although she
was not being held in jail.
Grindstaff said Mrs. Cook's
statement said the couple had ar-
gued most of the day Sunday and
that she claimed she was slapped
BY KATHRYN DUFF mitteeman, was a candidate along “I will exercise every influence
Reporter-News Assistant Editor with Ed Connally for the 24th I have to stop the fighting in in-
EL PASO — Ed Connally of district position but he was elim-
Abilene, present state Democratic!mated, by pre - agreement, in the
chairman, appears to be the next Abilene caucus by a vote of 25-20.
committeeman to represent the Brooks said Sunday the fight is
24th district on the State Demo-over as far as he was concerned,
cratic Executive Committee—bar-
ring unexpected formidable oppo-
sition from the western end of the
district.
“I will exercise every influence
terest of our fall campaigning,"
he said.
Ed Connally is believed to have
day night in charges filed by Dis-
trict Attorney E. C. Grindstaff,
who said Mrs. Cook signed a by her husband immediately be-
statement in which she admitted fore the shooting.
Connally appeared Sunday to
have the votes needed to win the
district post, if Taylor County's
53 votes stay hitched as they were
voted in an Abilene caucus last
Friday.
Taylor County supporters of
John Connally were working hard
Sunday to head off a floor fight
by Abilenians who were inclined
to continue the battle started back
in Abilene. They appeared to have
won and unless efforts on behalf
of Frank Hardisty of Big Spring
are successful. Ed Connally will
return to the district post he held
before he became state chair-
man.
Maurice Brooks, present com-
Supplier of Rocket
Parts Disappears
the support of Jones, Fisher, part
of Nolan County and probably
Scurry County — a total vote, with
Abilene, of more than enough
to win.
John Connally said Sunday in
an interview that he hopes the
MUNICH, Germany (AP)—The
wife of a missing supplier of rock-
et parts to Egypt said Sunday she
is certain her husband has been
abducted.
"My husband has been carried
off, for he had absolutely no rea-
son to disappear of his own free
will," Munich police quoted Mrs.
Heinz Krug as saying.
Di Heinz Krug was manager
of the Munich Intra Trading Com-
pany, considered here the fore-
most supplier of rocket parts for
the United Arab Republic’s rock-
et center at Heluan.
caucus "will select someone who
can contribute to the party, some-
one who will work with me. I
hope the SDEC can take an even
more active role than it has in
the past.”
The nominee for governor de-
clined to state any preference for
the party post.
The district committeeman and
committeewoman to represent the
14 counties in the district will be
nominated by a district caucus
and elected by the convention
Tuesday. John Connally has said
repeatedly he will honor the nom-
inations of the caucuses and will
‘ bump” no one.
the shooting.
Grindstaff said the statement
by Mrs. Cook said the shooting
was a climax of a family dispute
which had been going on at in-
tervals “for several months.”
Dr. Cook was in surgery in San
Angelo and his wife was taken
to the hospital by Runnels County
officers. Grindstaff said she was
taken to the hospital to provide
permission for the surgery.
Officers said the shooting ap-
parently took place in a den in
the rear of the Cook home. Cook
was shot with a .38 caliber pistol
and the attending physician in
Ballinger said he was struck
“about five times."
The Cooks and their four chil-
dren lived in the 200 block of 7th
St. near downtown Ballinger.
They have lived in Ballinger for
about three years. Dr. Cook has
a private practice as a physician
and surgeon. He was reported to
have a growing medical practice,
and Policeman John W. Watkins
Deputy Sheriff Eskell Powell
and Policeman John W. Watkins
fore the shooting.
Dr Cook was in surgery late
Sunday night.
Reds Set Off
Nuclear Blast
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Sovi-
et Union set off a nuclear test
in the atmosphere Sunday in the
vicinity of Novaya Zemlya, the
Atomic Energy Commission an-
nounced.
The AEC said the test, like a
similar detonation in the same re-
gion Saturday, had a yield equiva-
lent to several million tons of
TNT.
The test was the 12th announced
shot by the Soviet Union-in the
current series since Aug. 5.
Response to the Sabin (oral)
polio immunization programs in
the only four area towns which
went ahead with plans for their
programs were described as good
to excellent.
Plans for the mass immuniza-
tions, which had been scheduled
throughout Central West Texas
Sunday, were postponed in most
areas after reports from Canada
that a number of persons had
contracted polio after receiving
the vaccine.
Officials in Knox Ciyt, Munday,
Albany and Moran, however, elect-
ed to go ahead with plans for the
scheduled immunizations. All re-
ported good response Sunday,
Knox City reported 1,843 per-
sons received the vaccine in the
town of about 2,000 persons. Per-
sons receiving it ranged from 97-
year-old Mrs. C. W. Pulleg to a
three-weeks-old infant who was
not identified.
Munday reported 2,625 persons
received the oral vaccine. A
makeup period is scheduled next
Sunday to provide immunization
for persons who failed to receive
the vaccine Sunday, officials said.
In Shackelford County, 1,406
persons in Albany and 344 resi-
dents of the Moran area received
the vaccine for a total of 1,750.
Plains, Blackwell, Nolan, Tusco-
la, Putnam, Hawley, Noodle, Avo-
State Commissioner of Health
Dr. J. E. Peavy said Sunday that
a decision will be made Monday
on whether the state health de-
partment will make a recommen-
dation on use of Type III vaccine.
A reported 9,732 persona
crowded to clinics in Hockley
County Sunday. Medical officials
expressed satisfaction with the
turnout and said they believed
that 85 to 90 per cent of the popu-
lation had now received the vac-
cine.
Waco, in MeClennan County,
staged its makeup clinic for Type
I Sunday. Medical officials there
reported that to date 122,143 per-
sons of the county’s estimated
150,000 population have taken
doses.
Approximately 36,000 additional
persons received Type I in Jeffer-
son County Sunday at make-up
clinics for those who did not re
ceive immunization last Sunday.
Dr. Paul R. Meyer said that
226,440 persons, or slightly more
than 90 per cent of Jefferson
County's total population, have
now been immunized.
He said that clinics for the other
two types of vaccine would be
held as planned in October and
December.
Childress in West Texas, offer-
ing Type I for the first time, fell
below health officials' expecta-
ca. Roscoe, Blackwell, Old Glory, tions, with only 3,996 doses given
Colorado City, Silver, Westbrook, -
Loraine, Haskell, Weinert, Rule,
Rochester and O'Brien.
Sunday. They had prepared for
10,000.
Shackelford County had expected
about 3,000 persons to receive im-
munizations but said the response
was considered good considering
the action in other areas of post.
poning the vaccine.
Surgeon General Luther Terry
issued a statement late Saturday
advising areas to postpone plans
for mass immunizations with type
III vaccine to adults but recom-
Officials in Abilene said at the
time the mass immunization pro-
gram was postponed that plans
would be made to hold the im-
munization as soon as it could
be determined that it was safe
Abilene had scheduled Type I vac-
cine for Sunday.
Sudan, in Lamb County, west of
Childress, administered the vac-
cine to 1,454 persons in the town
of only 2,000.
The Springlake area of Lamb
County had about 65 per cent of
its 5.500 residents show up for
See POLIO, Pg. 11-A, Col. 2
Accident Victim
Services Today
Leon Gaston, 38, died st 6:10 Treadwell of Rt. S, Anson. Mr.
a.m. Sunday at Hendrick Memor-
ial Hospital of injuries received
in an auto accident two miles
west of Corinth on FM 1626 Fri-
day afternoon.
Mr. Gaston was admitted to
Hendrick Hospital Saturday after
having been treated by a physi-
cian in Anson and lodged in the
Jones County jail at Anson over-
night, but Saturday morning was
taken to Anson General Hospital
and later to Hendrick Hospital.
The attending physician in Abi-
lene said the death was a re-
mended that children be given
that type vaccine and that per-
sons of all ages receive Types I
and II vaccine. .
The announcement was made
‘ suit of a severe bead injury re-
ceived in the accident.
The Anson physician who first
treated Mr, Gaston said Saturday
night he had been treated for
minor injuries. "He had bruiser
on much of his body and had a
small laceration on his forehead.”
and Mrs. Treadwell were admit-
ted to Anson General Hospital
following the accident but neither
was reported in serious condition.
Renfro said the Treadwell auto
was attempting to make a left
turn into the Treadwell driveway
at the time of the accident.
Mr. Gaston was a native of
Taylor County and a veteran of
World War II, having served in
an airborne unit from 1943 to
1946. He served in the Asiatic-
Pacific Theater as a corporal
and received a number of decor-
ations.
Funeral will be st 1:30 p.m.
Monday at Elliott’s Chapel of
Memories with the Rev. Roy
Evans. Glad Tidings Assembly of
2 God Church, officiating. Burial
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
The doctor said the laceration
was "too small to require stitch
Another Abilenian, Virgil Nich
Mr. Gaston is survived by ona
daughter, Mrs. Patricia Ana
Whatley of Dallas; his mother,
Mrs. R. L. Gaston of 1009 Pecan;
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Sports ..............8-9
Editorials . ............10
Amusements ...........11
Comics ......... 12
TV Scout ............16
Redio-TV logs .........16
after the U S. Public Health
Service met in Washington to
discuss reports of the Canada
cases.
ols. was treated at Anson Gener-
al Hospital for broken ribs after
being admitted to the hospital Sat-
urday. He also had spent Friday
night in the county jail.
Highway Patrolman Ocie Ren-
fro. who investigated the acci-
dent, said the car in which Mr. of 1009 Pecan.
four sisters, Mrs. E. L. Hester
of Odessa, Mrs. Jewell Stans-
bury of 1234 Cherry; Mrs. E R.
Goen of 1345 Sewell and Mrs. John
Zachry of Napa, Calif.; three
brothers, H. A. of 1782 Oak St.,
E. E. of 1042 Pecan, and J.L.
Immunization programs sched-
uled Sunday were postponed in
Abilene, Baird. Clyde, Anson,
Stamford, Lueders, Hamlin, Ro-
lan, Roby, Aspermont, Coleman, sion with the rear of an auto sc-______ __
Santa Anna, Sweetwater, Crossicupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. T. William, J. R. and Cecil Murry.
Gaston was riding was in colli-
Pallbearers will be cousins, E&
die. Bill and M. A Stages and
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