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No important weather or' temperature change Thurs-
day or Friday. A few scattered thunder showers in
the area both afternoons.
Today’s Range: 58-82. Tomorrow’s Range: S2-84.
Yesterday’s High: 80. Rainfa'li: 0. $
Sunrise: 5:59 a.m. Sunset: 7:01 p.m.
Moonrise Thurs. : 6:54 p.m. Moonset Fri.: 6:38 a.m.
Lake Levels—Travis: 667.94’. Buchanan: 1005.14’.
U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for
Taylor and Williamson County
Volume 49, Number 104
Eight Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1962
(JP) — Associated Press
Price Five Cents
House Okays
Top Peacetim e
Arms Budget
Senate Gets
Military Bill
WASHINGTON (ffl — The
House has unanimously approved
the nation’s biggest peacetime
military budget—a hefty $47.8 bil-
lion for the next fiscal year.
^ The appropriation bill was ap-
Bproved 388-0 in a roll-call vote
^Wednesday and sent to the Sen-
ate.
The money bill, $67.5 million
less than Kennedy had requested,
continues to emphasize a buildup
of conventional ground forces and
weapons capable of fighting limit-
ed as well as global wars.
The bill earmarks 18 per cent
of the money for such items as
six more Polaris firing nuclear
submarines and 200 more Min-
uteman intercontinental ballistic
missiles.
The bill is $1.3 billion more
than Congress approved last year.
The new measure is for fighting
forces and military hardware.
Still to come are appropriations
foV military construction, civil
defense and military assistance1
abroad.
In recent years the Senate gen-
erally has been more liberal than
the House, and even the adminis-
tration, with the Pentagon’s purse
strings. So the final figure could
be even higher.
The House version would sup-
port 2,683,881 active military per-
sonnel and reserve forces of
1,003,500.
The House voted more than was
asked for Army Reserve and
National Guard forces, but the ac-
tion would not prevent Secretary
of Defense Robert S. MnNamara
from going ahead with his pro-
posal to trim these forces by 58,-
000.
The House measure would also
give McNamara virtually a free
hand to continue the controver-
sial RS70 bomber program at the
current cautious rate, or to use
additional millions provided to ex-
pedite radar research if his ex-
perts recommend it.
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Hit and Run
Among Three
Crashes Here
Five automobiles were dam-
aged in three separate acci-
dents, one of which was a hit-
run affair, hut no one was in-
jured.
At 8:45 a.m. today a 1953
Chevrolet pickup truck driven by
John Henry Kropp of Route 4,
Taylor, and a 1949 Ford driven
by Lydia Gonzales of 317 East
Pecan collided at the intersec-
tion of Second and Main.
Kropp was driving south on
Main and was attempting to make
a left turn onto Second Street.
The Gonzales car was going north
on Main. Damage was estimated
at $150 to the Gonzales car, $40
to the Kropp vehicle.
The hit-run accident occurred
at 5:47 p.m. Wednesday. Mrs.
W. D. Teaff, 903 Sloan, had
parked her 1958 Dodge in front
of Dr. H. G. Secrest’s office in
the 600 block of North Main.
An unidentified vehicle going
north sideswiped bier vehicle,
causing minor damage.
Two other cars collided at the
North Main and Lake Drive inter-
section at 6:24 p.m. Wednesday.
James Arthur Athas, 115 West
Sixth, was driving north on Main
in his 1956 Buick and attempting
to make a left turn onto Lake
Drive, when his car and a 1955
Studebaker, moving south and
driven by Paul Bonkowski of
Route 1, Taylor, collided in the
intersection.
Damage to the Buick was esti-
mated at $75, to the Studebaker
$150.
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Teen-Ager Executed
For Death of Youth
HUNTSVILLE UP) — “I pray
this is the last time something
like this will happen,” a Negro
teen-ager murmered moments
before he died in the electric
chair early today.
Adrian Johnson, 19, of Houston
knelt to say a composed prayer
as he entered the death cham-
ber. He was executed for the
July 20, 1959, sex slaying of Wil-
liam Bodenheimer II, 12, a white
boy, in Houston.
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WILL ATTEMPT ANOTHER MOON LAUNCH — The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration will launch Ranger 4 from Cape Canaveral within a
few days. It will be the second U. S. attempt to make closeup pictures of the
moon. This artist’s sketch shows some of the events that will take place after
the Atlas-Agena B launch rocket injects the spacecraft into a lunar trajectory.
•—NEA Telephoto
Third Victim
Dies in Dallas
Plane Crash
DALLAS ffl — A third man
died today of burns suffered as
a twin-engine plane crashed while
taking off for a test flight.
Witnesses saw the blue and
white DC3, of World War II
vintage, stall about 200 feet off
the ground and plunge in flames
at Love Field, the Dallas airport,
late Wednesday.
The explosive crash killed Paul
Missonneuve, 49, pilot and main-
tenance chief for Purdue Aero-
nautics Corp. in Lafayette, Ind.,
and Tom Cogburn, an electrican
for Dallas Aero Service.
Arthur Mitchell, 29, radio and
radar technician for Dallas Aero,
died this morning.
One of the first persons to
reach the wreckage, Julius Hud-
son, told of helping extinguish
Mitchell’s glaming garments. He
said the other men already were
dead.
Hudson, owner of a charter
plane service and an ex - Air
Force flier, suffered slight burns
on his left arm.
An unemployed Negro who lives
adjacent to the field, John Thom-
as, 19, and Hudson reached the
(See THIRD, Page 8)
Banks, Utilities
Closed Saturday
Taylor banks will be closed
Saturday in observance of Texas
Independence Day.
Lone Star Gas Co. will dose
Friday for the observance.
Otherwise, “regular schedules”
will be observed by Taylor mer-
chants, the post office, other uti-
lities and federal offices.
Merchants will be open all day
as usual. The post office will re-
main open until noon as usual.
City Hall offices will be open un-
and TP&L will be dosed all day.
And federal offices will be closed
as. usual.
Moon Phase Favorable
For Missile Launching
CAPE CANAVERAL UP) —The
moon moves into a favorable po-
sition next week and the United
States is ready to launch a gold-
spacecraft toward it to take
closeup television pictures and
record moonquakes.
Scientists hope that modifica-
tions made in the booster rocket
and spacecraft will eliminate pre-
vious troubles.
A similar payload, Ranger 3,
missed the moon by 22,862 miles
Jan. 18 after a guidance malfunc-
tion resulted in excess speed by
the Atlas-Agena B rocket. And a
circuitry error prevented the
camera aboard Ranger 3 from
snapping lunar pictures when the
payload reached its nearest point
to the moon before zipping past
and into orbit about the sun.
Monday is the first day of four
days when the moon—about 235,-
000 miles away—will be in a de-
sirable position for the launching.
If the rocket cannot be fired dur-
ing this period, the shot will be
postponed until the next favorable
period starting about May 20.
Ranger is the first of many in-
strumented spaceships the Nation-
al Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration ntends to launch tq
the moon to pave the way for
landing American astronauts
there later in this decade.
First Family
In Florida
For Easter
PALM BEACH ® — President
and Mrs. Kennedy, their two
children and the dog, Charlie,
settle down today in an ocean
front mansion behind a hbiscus
hedge for a 10-day Easter vaca-
tion.
The only item on the official
schedule was for the President to
tap a telegraph key Saturday to
open the World’s Fair at Seattle,
Wash., across the continent.
The President’s father, Joseph
P. Kennedy, was at the airport
to greet his son at midafternoon
under partly cloudy skies and
temperatures in tne mid1 70s.
The elder Kennedy, recuperat-
ing from a stroke suffered last
December, was driven to the air-
port in a dark blue convertible.
The President’s mother is in Eu-
rope.
The President came smiling
down the ramp, greeted his fath-
er and personally took over the
driving to return his father to
(See FIRST, Page 8)
Joint Easter
Services Planned
At Theatre Here
The third annual Easter Sun-
rise Worship, sponsored jointly
by the Missouri Synod Lutheran
Churches of the area, will be held
Sunday at 6 a.m. at the Texas
Drive-In Theatre in Taylor.
The sponsoring churches are
Christ Lutheran of Noack, St.
Paul Lutheran of Thorndale,
and Trinity Lutheran of Taylor.
The Rev. G. A. Zoch, pastor
of Trinity Lutheran, will deliver
the sermon entitled “The Empty
Tomb.” He will be assisted by the
Rev. C. J. Appel, pastor of
Christ Lutheran, and the Rev. V.
M. Appel, pastor of St. Paul
Lutheran.
Children and adult choirs will
render festive music. The children
choirs will sing “I Know that My
Redeemer Lives” and “Christ is
Arisen.” “O Joyous Easter
Morning” will be sung by the
Adult Choir. Theodore E. Lange,
minister of music of St. Paul
Lutheran, will direct all choirs.
Charles Wuensche, student at Con-
cordia Teachers College, River
Forest, 111., will be the organist.
U.N. and U.S. Support Tshombe
I n Demand f or F reedom of Movem e n
ELISABETH, Katanga, the
Congo (IP) — President Mease
Tshombe flew into Elisabethville
today after U.N. soldiers with
axed bayonets deployed against
Congo government troops who had
prevented his departure from Leo-
poldville.
“We must pay tribute to the
United Nations for all they have
done for my protection and for
the protection of my colleagues,”
the Katangan president told a
crowd of 5,000 as he landed here
in a U.N. chartered plane.
The secessionist president had
been in Leopoldville for more
than a month for unity talks with
Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula.
He started to return to his capi-
tal Wednesday.
Congo authorities ordered fire
trucks to block the runway as
his U.N. plane was ready to take
off and prevented his departure.
Tshombe and 22 other passen-
gers remained in the plane de-
spite the steaming temperature,
while U.N. officials tried to iron
out the situation.
Robert Gardiner, U.N. opera-
tions chief in the Congo, finally
gave the order to U.N. Nigerian
troops to clear the runway and
permit Tshombe to leave.
The United Nations had guar-
anteed Tshombe’s safety and his
freedom to return to his capital
>f he would go to Leopoldville
to discuss conditions for ending
the secession of Katanga.
Eyewitnesses said Nigerian
troops with bayonets ran to posi-
tions surrounding the runway on
Gardiner’ order, and jeeps raced
up and down. Congolese soldiers
finally gave way.
Gardiner said that while wait-
ing io take off, Tshombe still
talked of returning to Leopold-
ville for further negotiations.
To the cheering crowd in Elisa-
bethville ’s main square, however,
Tshombe spoke bitterly of the
Adoula government, and praised
the United Nations.
“Adoula and I have not had
one real meeting yet,” Tshombe
said, charging that the -centra]
government acted in bad faith
and had no thought of real nego-
tiations. But he said he would
meet with hi.s Cabinet in an ef-
fort to contrive a new approach
to negotiations.
In Elisabethville, acting Katan-
ga President Evariste Kimba de-
clared Wednesday night that
the government’s action against
Tshombe showed “its absolute
disdain for the negotiations.”
1 The United States and the Unit-
ed Natoins joined in a stern de-
mand Wednesday night that
the central government release
Tshombe. U.S. Secretary-General
(See U.N. Page 8)
Troops Guard Key Points
In New Argentine Crisis
Soviets Maneuver
To Block Testing
GENEVA UP) — The Soviet Un-
ion launched a series of diplo-
matic maneuvers today in an at-
tempt to block the American at-
mospheric nuclear weapons tests
due soon in the Pacific. The Unit-
ed States and Britain stood fast
against the pressure.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis-
ter Valerian A. Zorin called in the
17-naticn disarmament conference
for an unpoliced moratoroium on
testing—a move firmly resisted by
the American ambassador.
Zorin demanded that the Unit-
ed States promise to refrain from
conducting shots over the Easter
holiday weekend. He declared the
Soviet Union would not allow
a recess of the conference unless
such a promise was received.
Zorin’s maneuvers tied up the
conference in a procedural
wrangle. The delegates — many
with their bags packed—had been
scheduled to recess today until
Tuesday;
There was no indication in Gen-
eva that the American tests
would start this weekend. Wes-
terners speculated that the first
shot in the projected Christmas
Island series was at least seven
days away.
In a long session of the confer-
ence, U.S. Ambassador Arthur
H. Dean and British Minister of
State Joseph Godber insisted
there was no change in the West-
ern position. Simply stated it is
this:
The United States tests will
take place as planned unless the
Soviet Union quickly accepts a
test ban treaty with international
control arrangements. In Wash-
ington and London President
Kennedy and Prime Minister Mac-
millan have said the same thing.
Zorin repealed that the Krem-
lin never would accept interna-
tional controls.
Zorin coupled his move with a
qualified Soviet offer to negotiate
on those portions of a neutralist
test ban which conform to Mos-
cow’s ideas on enforcement.
The United States and Britain
said they also would be willing to
use the neutralist proposal for ne
gotiating purposes provided the
Soviets accepted the concept of
scientifically sound international
enforcement.
The American and British dele-
gations said they, too, were will-
ing to negotiate on the neutralist
49th Awaits
Exercise
Iron Dragoon
The 49th Armored Division and
selected support units' will parti-
cipate in a fifteen-day training
exercise, Exercise Iron Dragoon,
May 1-15, at this Louisiana post.
Taylor Guardsmen will partici-
pate.
More than 20,000 men will par-
ticipate in the maneuver, the
largest field exercise to be held
in the five-state Fourth US Army
area this fiscal year and the larg-
est in the history of Texas’
lone . Star division.
The first five days of the ex-
ercise will be concerned with a
actical move and occupation of
assembly areas and the attack,
seizure and defense of Peason
Ridge artillery range. This will be
May 1-5, with the first attack
beginning on.May 3 for 48 hours.
May 7 through 12 will probably
be the most interesting. During
this phase the division will con-
tract mobile defense and retro-
grade movements under pressure
of enemy attack supported by si-
mulated tactical nucle’ar and
CBR weapons. Evacuation of mass
casualties, counter-attack io eject
penetration, unit replacement and
(See 49TH, Page 8)
plan if the Soviet Union would ac-
cept the principle of an interna-
tional control system and of on-
site inspections.
The plan was submitted three
days ago by the eight nonaligned
countries at the conference—Bra-
zil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mex-
ico, Nigeria, Sweden and the
United Arab Republic.
The eight countries tried to
bridge the differences on inspec-
tion and control dividing the So-
viet Union from the United States
and Britain.
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FORMER SOLON DIES
DALLAS UP) — Former Rep.
Hatton W. Sumners, who repre-
sented the Dallas district for
many years, died today. He was
long-time chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee. He was 87.
Death came from a heart condi-
tion.
SENTENCED—Capt. Joseph P.
Kauffman has been sentenced to
20 years at hard labor by an
eight-man military court in
Wiesbaden, Germany for pass-
ing U. S. defense secrets to
Communist East Germany.
Thorndale Hires Coach.
Realligns School Board
THORNDALE, April 19 (Spl)
—In a four hour and 20 minute
session, the Thorndale school
board this week hired a new
coach, canvassed the election re-
turns, swore in new members and
re-organized.
Trustees indicated stiffening
graduation requirements and
making four years of English
manditory.
Three members of the present
faculty were not offered new con-
tracts and a fourth requested
not to be considered for a new
contract.
LIBRARY DONATIONS
Library donations have been
received in memory of J. C.l
Callahan, Dr. A. M. House Sr. j lease
and A. H. Rummel.
Owen Happy
Over Release
At Ft. Polk
FT. POLK UP) — “It’ll be a
much happier Easter now,” said
Pfc. Bernis Owen after he was
released from the post stock-
ade on orders from President
Kennedy.
Owen, 23, from Seadrift, freed
Wednesday, had served three
weeks of a six-month, hard-labor
sentence by a court-martial which
found him guilty of disrespect
to his commanding general. He
also was fined $50 a month.
In Washington, President Ken-
nedy told a news conference he
was remitting the sentence and
also releasing another reservist
“in the spirit of Easter week.”
The other man was Pfc. Larry
D. Chidester of Salt Lake City.
Chidester, 24, had been facing
court-martial at Ft. Lewis, Wash.,
for suggesting among other things
that perhaps Kennedy figured
“the jobs left open by our callup
will re-elect him on the basis of
low unemployment.”
The President ordered Chides-
ter’s court-martial canceled.
In Owen’s case, he was accused
of having said the general’s order
baltiing “we-want-out” demon-
strations was “a hilarious climax
to a chain of injustices.”
“I want to go back to my unit
and be a good soldier,” Owen
said after his release. “I’m very
sorry that this thing developed
into the bad egg that it did. When
I made these statements, I
thought at that time I was doing
right.”
After leaving the stockade,
Owen packed his gear and moved
out to join his company in the
field. He is in Company D, 4th
Armored Rifle Battalion, 49th
Armored Division of the Texas
National Guard.
At Seadrift, his mother, Mrs.
Paul Owen, said “are you sure
it’s true? I can’t believe it. It’s
so wonderful. My husband will be
the happiest man in the world.”
Owen’s unit is scheduled for re-
from federal service in
August.
Merchants Invite Children for Egg Hunt Friday Morning
After incumbent Delma Kies-
ling and new members Erwin
Fuessel and Gus Schramm were
sworn in and commissioned, Ros
coe Conoley was re-elected chair-
man of the board by acclama-
tion. Keisling was elected vice
president and W. C. “Bill”
Schwarz Jr. was elected secre-
tary. Supt. R. N. West was ap-
pointed temporary chairman of
the board to preside during the
reorganizational portion of the
meeting.
Teachers offered one year con-
tracts at the meeting were Miss
Fairy Nell Oakes, Miss Martha
Elizabeth McDermott, R. L.
Browning, Joe Dean Zajicek, Wil-
liam C. Johnson, Ervaline Jung-
man, Richard Jones, E,. E. Har-
bers, Donald West, and the new
coach, Joe C. Cole.
Teachers have until May 18 to
sign and return their contracts.
Teachers with two years re
maining on original three-year
contracts are Mrs. Verlie M.
Grant, Mrs. O. P. Organ, Miss
Lillian Hester, and Mrs. Iva Lee
Graham.
All teachers were hired on the
state wage scale except Coach
Cole and ’Band Director Jones.
Coie will receive a $600 per year
“bonus ’’and Jones $400 above the
state scale.
Prior to hiring teachers, board
members were informed in a let-
ter from Mrs. R. L. Browning
that she not be considered for a
new contract stating she was re-
tiring from teaching.
In addition to Mrs. Browning,
teachers dropped from the facul-
ty were J. R. Williams, high
school principal; Miss Sheriie
Warren, English and Spanish,
and Mrs. Eula Sutherland, home-
making.
At previous meetings, elected on
one-year contracts were Floyd N.
Collins, superintendent replacing
(See THORNDALE, Page 8)
Move to Bar
Peronistas
Again Issue
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (A
—Battle-equipped troops deployed
through Buenos Aires today as a
new Argentina crisis flared be-
tween President Jose Mario Gui-
do and the military leaders who
put him into office two weeks
ago.
Soldiers and national policemen
were posted at key points in the
capital to gua!rd against Pcronisi:
disturbances as the military
chiefs pressed Guido’s govern-
ment to bar the followers of ex-
Dictator Juan Peron from poli-
tics once again. An estimated 5,-
000 more troops were summoned
from the provinces of Buenos
Aires.
Guido was reported standing
firm against the military de-
mand, but his new government
began to wilt under the same
pressures the military put on
President Arturo Frondizi be-
fore ousting his last month.
Interior Minister Rodolfo Mar-
tinez resigned and charged the
government was planning to defy
the constitution by taking over
the provincial governments. La-
bor Minister Oscar Guiggros
hinted that he also would quit'
There was no immediate reac-
tion from the Peronists. But they
have repeatedly warned of social
disturbances unless the govern-
ment allows the many Peronist
victors in the March 18 elections
io take office1 on schedule May 1.
Leaders of the 3-million-member,
Peronist-domdnated General Con-
federation of Labor arranged to
meet Tuesday to map strategy.
Informed sources said Guido
turned down the military’s de-
mands in a 90-minute meeting
Wednesday night with the three
service secretaries, the army’s
Gen. Raul A. Poggi, the navy’s
Rear Adm. Gaston Clement and
the air force’s Brig. Jorgie Rojas
Silveyra.
The military chiefs demanded
that Guido:
1. Order federal intervention in
the 17 provinces still under local
control, replacing their elected
governors with federal appointees
approved by the military;
2. Nullify the March 18 elec-
tions in which the Peronists drew
more than 2.5 million votes,
elected governors in nine prov-
inces and won 43 seats in the na-
tional Chamber of Deputies;
3. Once again ban Peronists and
(See TROOPS, Page 8)
Missing Photograph
Of Lincoln Returned
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (® — An
autographed photograph of Abra-
ham Lincoln, missing from the
Theodore Roosevelt Museum here
for the past month, has been re-
turned by mail.
The 5 by 8 inch bust photo,
mounted in an oval frame, had
been on display at the Roosevelt
Mansion.
Wrapped in cardboard and
brown paper—but with the frame
missing—the picture returned to
the museum Wednesday. An anon-
ymous note in crayon read: “I
am sorry but please forgive me.”
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CAMPAIGNS HERE — Thomas C. Ferguson (left)
of Burnet County is shown with Taylor attorney
Janies Cutcher when he brought his campaign for
associate justice of the Court of Civil Appeals to
this city Wednesday.
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