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► Your United Fund
Collected to Date.................... $16,867
Goal ....... $24,425
Still Needed............................ $ 7,558
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Fair - Cool
Fair and cool Wednesday night. Thursday partly
cloudy and mild.
Today’s Range: 55-70. Tomorrow’s Range: 48-70.
Yesterday’s High:' 71. Rainfall: 0.
Tomorrow’s Sunrise: 7:04 a.m. Sunset: 5:31 p.m.
Moonrise Today: 11:30 a.m. Moonset Thur.: 11:45 p.m.
Lake Levels: Travis 665.84’. Buchanan 1008.40’.
U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast
for Taylor and Williamson County
Volume 47, Number 289
Six Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1960
UP) — Associated Press
Price Five Cents
U.S. Robot
Sends Back
Cloud Shots
To be Used
In Forecasts
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (#)—
The United States hurled a robot
weatherman into space orbit to-
day and quickly started getting
back cloud pictures which scien-
tists hoped to use in actual weath
er forecasts.
The camera-carrying satellite-
Tiros II—was rocketed upward at
6:13 a.m. from the missile test
center at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Some two hours later the Na-
ional Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration announced it achiev-
ed successful orbit very close to
the planned height of 400 miles.
Then in another two hours,
NASA reported that pictures had
been received at the Ft. Mon-
mouth, N. J. station of the Army
Signal Corps from the smaller of
the two television cameras
abroad.
Dr. Morris Tepper, chief of the
space agency’s meteorological sat
tellites, told a news conference in
Washington that pictures had not
yet been received from the second
camera but it was expected they
would be received during a sub
sequent pass around the earth.
Tepper said the pictures already
received had come in just shortly
before the news conference began
at 10:30 a.m.
The scientist said they were be-
ing developed at Ft. Monmouth
and would be sent immediately to
Washington.
Tepper declared that today
marked a “very happy occasion”
for NASA.
He said the first look at the
orbit and other characteristics of
the new “weather eye” was “very
good.”
Tiros II was carried upward on
the nose of a 92-foot Thor-Delta
rocket.
Two hours later the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration announced that the satel-
lite was in orbit.
A NASA statement said: “Ini-
tial calculations show a perigee
of 415 statute miles and apogee
of 435 miles. The orbital period
in 98 minutes.”
This is very close to the orbit
sought.
The variation of only 20 miles
between the near point and the
far point of the orbit indicated
that the satellite is in the most
nearly circular orbit of any sat-
ellite yet launched.
The remarkably regular orbit
also would indicate a relatively
long life for the satellite.
Two televsiion cameras in the
satellite were expected to start
sending back photos of cloud cov-
er about 8:30 a.m. Weatherman
(See ROBOT, Page 6)
ony League Field
i
Approved by City
Hopkins, Barkley, Stiles
Named onLibrary Board
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GOLD STAR WINNERS—Patricia Robbins of Jonah and Wallace Kautz of
Taylor Tuesday night received the county’s 4-H Gold Star awards. It is the
county’s highest honor. —Taylor Press Staff Photo
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SPECIAL RECOGNITION—Robert Bost, left, Mrs. Lester Ilims, and Randy
Huns, all of Georgetown, look at the plaque presented Mrs. Ihms for her out-
standing 4-H work. Robert and Randy are state winners. —Tayior Press staff Photo
275 Attend Program
: ‘I
Shivers May
[Announce (or
| Senate Job
' i AUSTIN (/Pi —Former Gov. Al-
j lan Shivers said Tuesday he may
! get into an expected political
i free-for-all to pick a Senate suc-
jcessor to Vice President - elect
j Lyndon Johnson.
! “I have had a great many let-
i ters, telephone calls and' tele-
I grams recently asking me to con-
| sider making the Senate race,”
| Shivers said.
“I am considering it. But I
will not make a final decision for
another 10 days or two weeks.”
Shivers’ unexpected comment
! followed a talk with John Tower,
' Wichita Falls republican who poll-
j ed mo're than 900,000 votes in an
| unsuccessful challenge to Sen.
i Johnson’s re-election.
The only announced candidate
| for Johnson’s spot is U.S. Rep.
! Jim Wright of Fort Worth. Tower
j and Shivers have been among
| more than a dozen mentioned as
| possible candidates.
Shivers, new board chairman of
| a pipeline company and active in
j numerous other financial endeav-
ors' said Tower dropped by Shiv-
ers’ office in downtown Austin.
“He came by for a little visit
and somehow the conversation
got around to the Senate race,”
Shivers said.
The former governor reported
he and Tower each told the other
he was considering the race but
had made no final decision.
Tower went to Wichita Falls
Jonah Girl and Taylor Boy Win
County 4-H Gold Star Awards
Patricia Robbins of Jonah and
Wallace Kautz of Taylor are Wil-
liamson County’s 4-H Club Gold
Star girl and boy.
They received this highest hon-
or a county can bestow on a
single boy and girl Tuesday night
On Congo Delegates
U.S., Western Allies
Score U.N. Victory
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. ffi
—The United States and its West-
ern allies scored a hard-won vic-
tory Tuesday night when the
General Assembly voted by a
wide margin to give the empty
U. N. Congo seat to President
Joseph Kasavubu.
The 53-24 vote with 19 absen-
Mental Television
Called Dental Aid
DETROIT (/P) — The next time
your child goes to the dentist he
may tune in on a mental, re-run
of his favorite television prog
ram—completely oblivious to the
work being done on his teeth.
The dentist, however, will have
to be a practitioner of hypnosis.
Dr. Malcolm Campbell of Dear-
born, Mich., a dentist who uses
hypnosis, described the practice
Tuesday at a symposium of psy-
chosomatic dentistry at the an-
nual review of the Detroit Dis-
trict Dental Society.
Campbell said that before hyp-
nosis the child tells he dentist
which TV program he would
like to watch. After hypnosis,
the child reviews in his imagina-
tion the program previously seen.
Campbell said “the main things
are so comforting the average
child is conditioned in five min-
utes so that pain won’t bother
him. He won’t know it exists.”
He said mental TV works on
children at any age from three
up, but added that older children
can be diverted by hypnotizing
them to imagine they just fin-
ished playing an exhausting
game and are so tired they just
want to sit and relax.
tions marked a bitter defeat for
the Soviet bloc and many Asian-
African nations who fought Kasa-
vubu’s bid for a seat every step
of the way.
Opponents of Kasavubu tried'
repeatedly to stall a decison by
demands to adjourn the debate or
defer any action on the creden-
tials committee’s recommendation
to seat Kasavubu. All attempts
were voted down.
The ballot climaxed two weeks
of debate highlighted by bitter
clashes between the United States
and the Soviet Union. The two
powers accused each other of
making a cold war issue out of
the Congo’s plight and exploiting
the African nation to promote
their own interests.
The U.S.S.R. has firmly backed
leftist-leaning Patrice Lumumba,
deposed Congo premier, who al-
so sent a delegation to the United
Nations.
The vote highlighted the wide-
open split in the African bloc on
the Congo.
Nine African states voted to
seat the Congo president. They
were Cameroon, Chad, Congo.
Brazzaville, Dahomey, Gabon,
Ivory Coast, Malagasy, Niger
and Senegal.
Six African states voted
against. They were United Arab
Repuhlic, Ghana, Guinea, Mali,
Morocco and Togo. Seven others
■Central African Republic, So-
malia, Sudan,, Tunisia Ethiopia.
Liberia, and Libya—abstained.
Nigeria and Upper Volta did not
vote.
The decision to seat Kasavubu
received added impact when the
15-nation Asian-African concilia-
tion mission decided just before
(See VICTORY, Page 6)
at the annual 4-H Awards Pro-
gram at the SPJST Hall in Tay-
members, their parents, and
friends of 4-H.
Patricia, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. R. Robbins of Jonah,
received the Gold Star Award' for
her outstanding accomplishments
during the four years she has
been a 4-H Club member.
The 1960 4-H queen and chair-
man of the County 4-H County
Council, she has successfully com-
pleted result demonstrations in
clothing, bedroom improvement,
food preparation, poultry, electric,
and others. She has an outstand-
ing record in method demonstra-
tions and went to the state con-
test as a member of the electric
team this year.
As a result of outstanding lead-
ership work, she attended the
leadership lab and' electric camp
and used this training to serve
as a junior leader in her club,
in the county wide activities, and
in district camps and other dis-
trict events. She has also served
her club in each office.
In addition to the Gold Star
Award, Patricia received a cloth-
ing award for her demonstrations
in bedroom improvement and
clothing.
Annie Lucy Lane, area HD
agent of Stephenville, presented
the Gold' Star Award to Miss Rob-
bins.
Wallace, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roland Kautz of Taylor, is
lor attended by more than 275 a three-year 4-H member and has
carried swine, beef cattle, poul-
try, health, electric, and lead-
(See AWARDS, Page 6)
Taylor to Close
Thanksgiving
Thursday is a holiday in Tay-
lor.
Scheduled to close are the
retail merchants, the banks,
the post office, the utility offices,
City Hall and Chamber of Com-
merce offices and federal and
state offices.
School children, both public
and parochial, will get two days
off for Thanksgiving, Thursday
and Friday.
The Taylor Daily Press will
publish one early edition.
City commissioners Tuesday
night made plans to start con-
struction of a new Pony League
baseball field north of Memorial
Field by Jan. 1.
They appointed Miss Hazel Hop-
kins and Jack Ray Barkley as
three-year members of the Tay-
lor Library Board and Alva
Stiles to fill the unexpired term
on the board of Supt. of Schools
T. H. Johnson. Miss Hopkins and
Barkley replace Mrs. A. E. Ake
and F. E. Wilks.
- LATE NEWS BRIEFS -
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GOP VOTE FRAUD CLAIMS ARE HEARD
AUSTIN — Dist. Judge J. Hariris Gardner today was to
hear Republican claims of widespread fraud and election law
violation in Texas presidential vote tabulating. The GOP
charges that an “irregular pattern” of disqualifying presi-
dential votes on “many thousands of printed ballots” sitrong-
ly indicates fraud. What happened in 34 Wichita County
boxes is the immediate issue.
after their visit.
Shivers was state chairman of
Texas Democrats for Nixon-
Lodge, an organization that sup-
ported the national Republican
ticket but made no apparent ef-
fort to back local and state
GOP candidates.
Others mentioned as possible
candidates for Johnson’s place in-
clude U.S. Reps. Frank Ikard of
Wichita Falls, Joe Kilgore of Mc-
Allen and Olin Teague of College
Station; Atty. Gen. Will Wilson,
John B .Connally of Fort Worth,
Martin Dies Sr. of Lufkin, Wright
Morrow of Houston, Ed Gossett
of Dallas, Texas House Speaker
(See SHIVERS, Page 6)
FREEZE COVERS PANHANDLE PLAINS
Sub-freezing weather chilled the Panhandle-Plains of
Texas early Wednesday in the wake of a cold front (which
had shoved southward across the state and into the Gulf of
Mexico. Skies cleared over northern sections of Texas.
TEXAS TECH COACH IS RESIGNING
AUSTIN — Texas Tech coach DeWitt Weaver said
today ihie hopes to have his resignation submitted by Monday
as athletic director and head football coach. “I’ve always
wanted to get in business for myself. I think everyone
does,” he told The Associated Press.
HAWAII’S CLOSE VOTE MAY BE RECOUNTED
HONOLULU — Hawaii may have to recount thie 184,869
votes cast in the island state Nov. 8 which gave Vice Presi-
dent Richard M. Nixon a 141-vote margin over Sen. John
F. Kennedy for the nation’s highest office. Hawaii has three
electoral votes.
UTAH ACCEPTS SUN BOWL INVITATION
EL PASO — Utah State University, co-champion of the
Skyline Conference, today accepted an invitation to play
in the Sun Bowl in El Paso Dec. 31.
In Killeen Friday Night
Irresistable' Taylor. Immovable' Gatesville
To Square Off for Regional Championship
11 Towns Approve
Big Water Project
LUBBOCK (® — Only token
opposition appeared as residents
of 11 towns and cities voted Tues-
day to proceed with a $96 million
water project which will serve a
broad section of the Texas Pan-
handle and South Plains.
Plans call for a 199-foot high
dam on the Canadian River near
Sanford, northwest of Borger, and
322 miles of aqueducts for deliver-
ing water to participating points.
Except for $3 million from the
federal government, the full cost
is to be repaid from water reve-
nues over a 50-year period with-
out levying any property tax.
Complete returns in the special
election showed 28,452 votes for
and 1,019 against contracting with
the federal government for the
‘project.
By LIN MILLS
The sparks will fly Friday
night on the Killeen gridiron
when the team with the second
highest scoring record in the
state in all classes, the Taylor
Ducks, collides with the team
with the second best defensive
record in Class AA, the Gates-
ville Hornets.
It will be like the “irresistable
force meeting the immovable ob-
ject” when the two aggregations
square off at 8 p.m. for the re-
gional championship.
The game is one of only two
high school games in the state in
which undefeated teams are play-
ing each other. (The other is Ol-
ton vs. Denver City). Both Tay-
lor and Gatesville have won 11
straight.
The Ducks are seeking their
first regional win in 15 years.
It was way back in 1945, a few
years before Class AA teams
started going all the way to the
state championship, that the
Ducks won their last regional
crown.
After winning district and bi
district for the last two years
Taylor has its best chance in all
of those 15 years to come
through, although the battle is
billed by Taylor Coach Bill Ford
as a “very hard game.”
Winner of the battle royal will
advance to the quarterfinals
against the winner of the Bell-
Liberty game being played in
Liberty this Friday at 8 p.m.
Taylor, of course, has never been
beyond regional.
Gatesville has suffered a longer
“grid drouth” than Taylor. The
Hornets haven’t been in the
playoffs since 1945. They knocked
off the Brady Bulldogs, defending
to get the opportunity to play
Taylor.
Taylor high school students led
by the cheerleaders are going all-
out again this week to build a
winning spirit.
A giant pep rally open to every
one and complete with band and
speakers yet to be named will
be held Friday at 4 p.m. on City
Hall lawn. It will be students’
and adult citizens’ way of giving
the Ducks a fiery sendoff. The
team and their coaches will
leave for Killeen a short time
later aboard a chartered bus.
What promises to be a long
“Go, Ducks, Go!” caravan of
students in decorated and horn-
honking cars at 6 p.m. Thursday
will start visiting every play-
er’s home, those in the country
as well as the city. The students
will give a yell or two for the
player and ask him to make a
few comments on the big game.
Besides these two big caravans,
students will be burning green
Millions to Celebrate
Thanksgiving Holiday
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Millions of Americans will cele-
brate Thanksgiving Thursday
with church rites, special holiday
observances, traditional turkey
dinners, and college and profes-
sional football games.
For most of the country the
weather will be fair and mild,
with many sections basking in In-
dian summer temperatures.
Many city dwellers plan to go
elsewhere for the holiday and air-
line, bus and train travel is ex-
pected to be extremely heavy—
particularly to Florida and Carib-
bean vacation spots.
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
will observe the last Thanksgiv-
ing of his administration with a
quiet turkey dinner at the White
House. The President’s son,
John, and his family, who usual-
ly join in the family party, will
have their own turkey dinner at
Gettysburg, Pa.
w President-elect John F. Ken-
state champions, 16-14 last week nedy also will be in Washington
to have Thanksgiving dinner with
his wife and daughter Caroline.
Caroline will be 3 Sunday but the
celebration of her birthday is
being moved up so her father
can take part. Kennedy plans to
fly back to his Palm Beach, Fla.,
vacation - work headquarters
Thursday night.
For the 2,502,145 men and wom-
en in Uncle Sam’s armed forces
there will be plenty of turkey—
nearly a pound per person—and
the usual trimmings. The Army-
Air Force menu, for example, in-
cludes shrimp cocktail, roast tur-
key with giblet gravy, bread
dressing cind cranberry sauce,
mashed potatoes, orange glazed
sweet potatoes, buttered peas, rel-
ishes, pumpkin and mince pie
and fruit cake, fruits, dates, can-
dy and nuts.
The townspeople of Plymouth,
Mass., the birthplace of Thanks-
giving, will celebrate the holiday
(See HOLIDAY, Page 6)
candles all week and adding still
more Duck-boosting paper signs
td. the walls of the corridors and
classrooms at the high school.
Not to mention that there will
be between classes yelling in the
halls on Wednesday, the day be-
fore classes are dismissed for
the Thanksgiving holidays.
Ford said the players’ spirit
was not too high the early part
of the week, but that it always
starts building up about Wednes-
day when “you can really tell
it.”
Workouts this week won’t be as
rough as usual, the head men-
tor said, because the team is
bruised up. The Ducks limbered
up in the gymnasium Monday,
then worked out on the outside
Tuesday and Wednesday.
“All four starting backs—full-
back Budgie Ford, quarterback
Billy Davis and halfbacks Jan
Mohel and Charles Patterson
are bruised bad,” Ford said.
The line is bruised up, too, but
not as much as the backfield.”
He said' two boys may not be
at full strength. One is Darrell
Mott who is still recuperating
from a badly sprained ankle. The
other is Mohel, suffering from a
bruised leg.
“I think everybody will be
ready to play but maybe not at
full strength,” Ford said. He ex-
plained that Mott just can’t
“push off” as fast as he used to.
When Mott is not in the game he
will be replaced by end Douglas
Ruthven who performed what
Ford called a “terrific job” last
week.
Gatesville defeated Lampasas
28-0, Midway 53-8, Hamilton 40-0,
Teague 40-0, Hillsboro 18-8, Waco
(Catholic) 24-6, West 34-13, Mexia
(See REGIONAL, Page 6)
Commissioners extended free
Saturday afternoon parking for
still another month—through De-
cember—and decided to turn on
the Christmas lights a little
earlier on weekdays and leave
them on a little later on Satur-
day. Instead of lighting the cross-
street stringers from 7 to 10 p.
m. the new hours will be from
6 to 10 p.m. on Sundays and
weekdays and 6 to 11 p.m. on
Saturdays.
Free Saturday afternoon park-
ing will begin at noon. Bill Ken-
nedy, chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce business promotion
committee, said the free parking
is helping business.
The city approved a new air-
port lease agreement with S. K.
Holmes, giving him more control
of the airport and its operations.
Five residents of the McClain,
Mills, Prather and Adams streets
area appeared before the coun-
cil to ask the city to do some-
thing about their water drainage
problem. The same group appear-
ed before the council a little over
a year ago with the same plea.
The council tabled a Chamber
of Commerce request that the
city pay $326 indebtedness
against the 40-foot Christmas
tree on City Hall lawn.
Gulf Oil Co. was tentatively
awarded the contract for petro-
leum products for the city’s mo-
torized equipment in 1961 and
Smith Motor Co. was low bidder
on a 1961 pickup truck to replace
a 1948 model in the water de-
partment.
The city will spend $2,500 to
get the Pony League baseball
field started. This will include
evacuation work. The erection of
a backstop and' putting up lights.
City Manager F. R. Cromwell
Light Co. would provide the labor
explained that Texas Power &
for putting up the lights free of
cost to the city.
The $2,500 figure does not in-
clude such items as bleachers
and a fence. Cromwell originally
estimated tne cost of the field—
everything included—at $6,525, if
all the work were contracted.
The field is desperately needed
by the time baseball season
starts because of the increase in
number of teams, according to
coaches of youth baseball and
the Taylor Recreation Board.
Cromwell said he could not re-
lease his dirt moving equipment
for the baseball field work until
he finished the southwest Taylor
water line loop. He still has 1,500
feet of pipe to lay. But he said
he was sure he could get started
on the job by Jan. 1.
Kennedy, spokesman for the
chamber’s business promotion
committee, said, “Possibly we’ll
let it (free Saturday afternoon
parking) drop after the first of
the year, but we’d like to let
it go through December.” He
said he thought the sacks mer-
chants had been placing over the
meters were working well to let
shoppers know that parking was
free.
Kennedy said the chamber
would like for the city to pay
$326 on the big City Hall lawn
Christmas tree, the amount the
chamber went into the hole. He
pointed out that a similar tree
would retail for $3,600, but that
through local cooperation total
estimated cost of the tree would
be $972.
The chamber raised $2,206 to
refurbish the Christmas lights.
There was $450 left over for the
Christmas tree. Kennedy said
the decision on the $326 did not
(See FIELD, Page 6)
Killeen Welcomes
Taylor Followers
The Killeen Chamber of Com-
merce through Mayor R. E. Koll-
man has expressed its apprecia-
tion to Taylor for picking Killeen
as the site for this week’s region-
al football game between Taylor
and Gatesville.
‘May we express our apprecia-
tion for your selection of Killeen
as the site for your regional
game,” the telegram said. “It
is a pleasure to assist you in ar-
rangements for the game.”
It was signed by Bernice Beck,
president of the Killeen C of C.
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