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Wednesday and Thursday.
Today’s Range: 71-88. Tomorrow’s Range: 70-88.
yesterday’s Range: 88. Rainfall: 0.
Sunrise: 5:32 a.m. Sunset: 7:23 p.m.
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Volume 49, Number 133
Six Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1962
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Price Five Cents
City Acts to End
Substandard
Buildings Here
Commission Asks Stricter
Health Law Enforcement
| Taylor city commissioners Tuesday night adopted a
substandard housing ordinance aimed at the repair or
destruction of both residential and commercial struc-
tures that fail to meet standards of health and safety.
The ordinance adds another bureau to city govern-
ment, a body to be known as the Building and Standards
Commission. The three-man group will be appointed
later.
Honors Given
Graduates
At St. Mary's
The 18 seniors in St. Mary’s
High School have filed their last
will and testament and told their
parents and friends their prophe-
cies for the next ten years, and
only the commencement night
Friday remains when they will
receive their coveted diplomas.
At baccalaureate Sunday, the
Rev. Arthur Michalka reminded
the class that, in addition to a
high school education, they
have had an education in religion
and asked them where this edu-
cation will take them.
The class attended Mass and
received Holy Communion as a
class.
Class night Tuesday disclosed
the future for the 18 boys and
girls, and awards to the seniors
and others in St. Mary’s were
ounced.
Mrs. James Bartosh played the
ocessional and recessional, and
as the class appeared on the
stage, they sang “O God of Love-
liness” one of the hymns they
have learned in school.
Judy Mikeska, the class presi-
dent, introduced each member of
the class, and Patricia Kuhn gave
the salutatory address. Grace
Martinka and Barbara Naivar
joined to present the class will,
and Sandra Ortiz and Judy Mi-
keska gave the class prophecy.
Thomas Naivar, the new student
council president, received the
gavel from Sandra Ortiz, who has
directed the events in the school
for the past year, and in turn,
the new president pledged the best
for his job for the coming
year. %
The Rev. Eugene Braden spoke
briefly to the class in congratula-
tion and planning for the future,
and then presented the awards
for the entire school.
Joseph Pavlik received the vale-
dictory medal and the scholar-
ship to St. Edwards University,
the award given through the Tex-
as Council of Church Related
Schools. Patricia Kuhn received
(See HONORS, Page 6)
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Connally Caravan
To Leave at 5 p.m.
A caravan of local Connaliy for
Governor supporters will leave
from Food Fair restaurant at 5
p.m. today to attend a rally for
ie candidate in Austin tonight.
The group will stop first at
Austin Municipal Airport to greet
Connaliy and join a cavacade to
the Austin Coliseum, the scene of
a rally and a statewide television
speech at 7:30 p.m.
Commissioners approved a $500-
per-year increase in its share of
the support of the Williamson
County Health Unit, after indi-
cating to Dr. John Bryson, direc-
tor, that they wanted stricter en-
forcement of health laws by Sani-
tarian Tom Teer, particularly in
regard to the closing down of
food handling establishments that
don’t come up to par.
“Tell him (Teer) to bear
down,” Mayor R. E. Kollman
told Dr. Bryson.
Approval of the increase was
taken as a good indication that
second sanitarian will go to work
in the county this year, since
part of the $500 increase would
help pay his salary.
City Manager F. R. Cromwell
said he was told in Fort Worth
Monday that the Federal Aviation
Administration wanted a signed
contract by June 30 on the im-
provements to be made at Muni-
cipal Airport.
He said more time would he
needed because the master plan
still has not been received.
Cromwell was told it should be
received within a few days. Koll
man said the city would have to
ask for an extension.
L. D. Hammack was appointed
to replace J. E. Moore as a mem-
ber of the Zoning Board. Moore
cannot continue to serve now
that he is a city commissioner.
Street Commissioner J. E.
Moore informed the commission
that District Engineer Ed Blue
stein was due in Taylor in the
next week or two to discuss cut-
ting back the curbs on City Hall
square for angle parking.
Moore and Cromwell went to
Austin recently to visit Bluestein.
He was out-of-town but they talk-
ed with his assistant. Later they
received a letter from Bluestein
stating he would come to Tay-
lor. He also stated that the idea
“was quite contrairy” to the
Highway Department’s agreement
with the city.
Moore also reported that he
and Cromwell had been working
on a proposed policy on widen-
ing and paving West Seventh
Street, second in the through
street-a-year rebuilding plan. He
stated more time was needed1, be-
cause the policy the city council
adopts will be used on other
streets.
He said it was contemplated
that the property owners would
be asked to pay for the curb and
gutter.
City Attorney Tom Bullion in
formed commissioners that they
could not evict “Buddy” Speckles
from the small city-owned house
northwest of the National Guard
Armory because in all probability
it is part of the property the
city leased to the National
Guard for 99 years.
Last month commissioners term-
(See CITY, Page 5)
Business Analysis
Bankers Say Oil Gaining;
Industry Not So Sure
EDITOR’S NOTE—In spite of
all those oil millionaires yew
hear about, the industry has
been having its troubles. And
some close to it think the fed-
eral government has ideas that
could add to their worries. In
this, second of three articles on
the Texas situation, Sam Daw-
son, AP business news analyst,
looks at their complaints—and
at some encouraging signs, too.
By SAM DAWSON
AP Business News Analyst
DALLAS <a>) — The oil busi-
ness is getting healthier—so say
bankers looking at their loan port-
folios.
The industry is being crippled
by federal trade policies, with a
threat to national security as a
possible consequence — so say
many oilmen with holdings in
Texas and neighboring states.
International oil companies and
their supplies will be hurt by fed-
eral tax proposals—so say some
of them.
And in and out of the oil busi-
ness, there are some who say the
real trouble—quite aside from any
current administration policy to-
ward gusiness—goes back to over-
enthusiasm during the Suez Canal
crisis.
When Egyptian President Ga-
mal Abdel Nasser cut off Europe’s
supplies from the Middle East a
few years back, the oil business
here boomed to make up the defi-
cit.
“We overdrilled, overbuilt both
refineries and pipelines,” says one
Dallas business leader. “Now we
are paying for it in idle facilities
and a drop of orders for new
equipment.”
Dallas bankers say loans to the
(See BANKERS^ Page 6)
Stickney Pays
With Life
After 15 Stays
Death Delayed
On Lawyer's Plea
HUNTSVILLE ffi) — Howard
Stickney, who had won 15 stays
of execution, finally died in the
state’s electric chair early toda>
even as his lawyer argued with
prison officials in an effort to de-
lay his death.
It seemed for a time that Stick-
ney had cheated death again, be-
cause most of the condemned are
dead within 10 minutes after en-
tering the death chamber.
Stickney’s lawyer, Boh Looney
of Austin, held up the execution
with a last-minute telephone call
to the death chamber. He pleaded
with officials for 24 minutes while
Stickney stood near the death
chair wondering what was hap-
pening.
Prison authorities said they fi-
nally convinced Looney that they
could not wait longer while he
searched “for a judge that will
grant a stay.”
Stickney received the first
charge of electricity at 12:25 a.m.
He was pronounced dead at 12:30
a.m.
Looney had presented petitions
for a writ of habeas corpus ear-
lier to U.S. Dist. Judges Allen
Hannay of Houston and Reynaldo
Garza of Brownsville. He appeal
ed also to 5th Circuit Court of
Appeals Judge John Brown.
He begged two state judges for
a stay. But both Dist. Judges
John Onion and Archie Brown re-
fused him. As Stickney died,
Looney was still trying “to find a
judge.”
Stickney was convicted of the
May, 1958, slaying of Mrs. Shir-
ley Barnes, 26, a Houston insur-
ance secretary. Her nude and bat-
tered body was found in her
apartment.
Testimony to the jury that con-
victed him was to the effect that
Stickney, 26 killed her on a Gal-
veston beach and carried the
body to the apartment, where it
was found three days later.
Stickney and her husband, Clif-
ford Barnes, 26, were charged
with the murder. Then Barnes’
decomposed body was found June
18, 1958, near the Brazos River
southwest of Houston.
The charge against Barnes was
dropped. Stickney was charged
with both slayings but went to
trial only for the murder of the
woman.
Stickney and Barnes were em-
ployed by the Texas Highway De-
partment and worked as drafts-
men in Houston.
The first trial ended in a mis-
trial because a juror had a, heart
attack. His lawyers argued in a
subsequent trial that he was in
love with Mrs. Barnes and should
have been convicted of nothing
more than murder without mal-
ice, which does not carry the
death penalty.
Then came seven routine stays
of execution while lawyers battled
for his life.
Dist. Judge Cullen Briggs of
Corpus Christ! granted an eighth
stay just 40 minutes before his
date with the electric chair last
June 9.
After another routine stay from
Gov. Price Daniel, Stickney re-
ceived two stays last Oct. 26 with-
in three hours of his execution
time. One came from Federal
Judge E. Tuttle of Atlanta, Ga.,
and another from Dist. Judge E.
D. Salinas of Laredo.
Briggs entered the case again
Nov. 10. He asked prison officials
to hold up the execution so he
could hear a petition. Then, 30
minutes after Stickney was to
have died, he granted another
stay. Briggs was ordered by the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
not to enter the case again.
Supreme Court Justice William
Douglas granted Stickney an in-
definite stay 10 hours before an-
other execution date on Jan. 18.
The full court turned down Loon-
ey’s motion April 30, but again
Gov. Daniel routinely stayed the
execution until early today.
Stickney was optimistic to the
last. A scant 12 hours before he
died, he told reporters he was
almost certain” he would get a
16th stay.
Stickney said a brief prayer be-
fore he was strapped into the
chair, asking God: to forgive those
who had done wrong and thank-
ing Him for the “many friends
who worked in my behalf.”
Then he handed newsman Don
Reid of Huntsville his tattered
Bible and said: “Don’t worry,
everything’s going to be all
right.”
Five minutes later he was dead,
Taylor Educator’s Son
Kilied in Airline Crash
Bobby J. Wilks
Disaster Victim
TAKEN FROM CEMETERY — The body of Henry H. Marshall, 52 was taken
from a sealed vault at a small cemetery at Franklin for an autopsy several
hours after a grand jury launched an investigation into his mysterious death al-
most a year ago. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman said Marshall
took secrets of the Billie Sol Estes, empire with him to the grave.- NEA TeiePhoto
Law Outdoes Billie Sol Invokes Fifth
Medicine in |n Creditors Session
Emmy Awa rds
HOLLYWOOD ® — The law,
as practiced on television, won
out over medicine Tuesday night
in the 14th annual Emmy Awards
show. ,
“The Defenders,” CBS-TV’s po-
tent courtroom series, won four
Emmies to emerge as champ of
the Television awards.
The win, reflecting solid voting
from New York members of the
Television Academy, was an up-
set. “Ben Casey,” Television’s
sullen medico, was a favorite with
eight nominations, but when the
operation was over, Casey had
struck out.
“The Defenders” won Emmies
for outstanding drama; for best
actor for star E. G. Marshall;
best director for Franklin Schaff-
ner; and for best writing for Reg-
inald Rose, its creator.
Even Queen Victoria did better
than “Ben Casey.” The Hallmark
production of “Victoria Regina”
won best actress award for Julie
Harris; best supporting actress
for Pamela Brown, and the show
was adjudged best program of
the year.
The best actor award went to
Peter Falk, who was nominated
for his role of a truck driver in
“The Price of Tomatoes” on the
Dick Powell Show.
Falk, who had been nominated
for nearly every movie and tele-
vision performance he has made
since gaining prominence in the
last two years, forgot his speech.
Shirley Booth, winner of a mov-
ie Oscar and numerous stage
awards, won an Emmy for best
actress in a series.
“This is a doozy, ain’t it,” she
said, repeating an expression
from her “Hazel” characteriza-
tion.
Don Knotts, the deputy on the
(See LAW, Page 6)
Christian Minister
Accepts Call Here
Guy I. Harris, minister of the
Fair Park Christian Church in
Shreveport, La. has accepted the
call to the Vernon Street Christian
Church of Taylor.
Mr. Harris, a native of Southern
Illinois, attended Bible School in
Minneapolis, Minn., and has held
ministries in Iowa, Illinois, Wis-
consin, Louisiana, and Texas.
The new minister has been ac-
tive in young people’s work, espe-
cially Christian service camps as
teacher and director. He has also
done civic work through clubs
and chambers of commerce.
Mrs. Harris has been active in
music along with the church work
as a helper to her husband in his
ministries.
The family also includes Philip,
11, Andrew, 9, . Sally, 7, and
Todd, 3.
The family will move to Tay-
lor the latteiNpart of this month.,
EL PASO (A5) — Billie Sol Estes invoked the Fifth
Amendment six times today when called to testify in
U. S. District Court with a meeting of creditors.
Both Estes and his lawyers promised to provide de-
tailed schedules of their assets by June 15.
Estes, on the stand briefly, gave his name and ad-
dress. When asked his occupation, he invoked the Fifth
Amendment after his lawyer in-
terrupted the questioning.
Estes also refused' to testify on
the grounds that it might incrimi-
nate him when asked the location
of his offices, if he had turned
over all books and accounts to the
receiver, if he had assets that the
receiver did not know about, when
asked specifically about his list
of assets and when asked about
his interest in Agriculture Inc.
Allan Poage, lawyer for the re-
ceiver, argued that for Estes to
proceed under Section 11 of the
Federal Bankruptcy Act, it would
be necessary for him to testify
as to his assets.
U.S. Dist. Judge R. E. Thoma-
son said “It is difficult to see
how the questions would incrimi-
nate you. But we still have a
Constitution.”
* The judge said it was hard for
the court to determine whether
a question might or might not in-
criminate Estes but the witness
had the right to invoke the Fifth
Amendment if he himself felt the
testimony would incriminate him.
John Cofer, a lawyer for Estes,
reminded the court that Estes
was under indictment and said
that the questions being present-
ed in his opinion would incrim
inate Estes because they involved
information that was relative to
allegations in the indictment.
The hearing opened at 9:35 a.m.
when Judge Thomason presiding
asked any creditors who had not
yet filed a claim to do so at
once.
More than a dozen stepped for-
ward and formed a long line in
front of the clerk’s desk.
Estes sat at a table between
two of his lawyers, John Cofer
and his son, Hume Cofer, both of
Austin. Estes’ back was turned
to the creditors.
The promoter wore a gray suit,
white shirt, a summer tie and
the customary horned rimmed
glasses. A white handkerchief was
tucked in his breast pocket.
Most of the time he looked at
the table. Sometimes, in talking
with his lawyers,- he smiled slight-
ly.
'Splash Day'
Set for Friday
Friday is “Spalsh Day” at City
Park and Robinson Park swim-
ming pools.
Ross Baldwin, summer recrea-
tion director, said both would
open at 4 p.m.
Season tickets are $15 for the
whole family, $6 for adults, $4.50
for teen-agers (13 through 19),
and $3 for youngsters through 12.
Individual prices are 40 cents for
adults, 25 cents for teens, and
15 cents for youngsters through
GUY I. HARRIS 12.
Estes Case
Death Motive
Under Study
FRANKLIN, Tex. ® — A Tex-
as grand jury ordered a subpoena
issued today for an Agriculture
Department official as they be-
gan looking for a' motive in the
mysterious death of Henry Mar-
shall.
The action came shortly after
a medical expert said an incom-
plete autopsy shows Marshall did
not commit suicide about a year
ago but was murdered.
Dist. Atty. Bryan Russ and
Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson
wired Secretary of Agriculture
Orville Freeman and asked that
William Elliott, chief of the inves-
tigation division of the USDA in
Dallas, be made to appear and
bring records of cotton allotments
given to fallen West Texas finan-
cier Billie Sol Estes.
Marshall, before he was shot
last June, had been checking
the Estes cotton acreage allot-
ments. Wilson told newsmen rec-
ords held by Elliott “may be ma-
terial to us in determining a mo-
tive—either homicide or suicide.”
ALGIERS TERROR PRESSED
ALGIERS (/PI — At least 10
persons were slain in quick suc-
cession today as Secret Army Or-
ganization killers relentlessly
pressed their reign of terror.
BOBBY WILKS
. . . dies in crash
A young Taylor biologist, Bobby J. Wilks, war one
of 45 persons who died in an air disaster Tuesday night
near Unionville, Mo.
He was aboard a $5 million Continental Airlines jet,
which was possibly torn apart by a violent storm. It fell
to the ground in sections, killing everyone aboard.
Wilks, a professor at Duke University in Durham,
N.C., is the son of Mr. nd Mrs.
F. E. Wilks, 1011 Hackberry. He
has been living at 610 Velvi in
Durham since last Sept. 1.
A 1952 graduate of Taylor
High School, Wilks was on his
way to the University of Kansas
to talk with officials about a posi-
tion there. His plans were to re-
turn to Durham tomorrow.
Wilks’ mother was notified this
morning by Continental Airlines
that her son had been killed in
the crash. She called her husband
at 12th Street School. He is Tay-
lor’s elementary principal.
Wilks called Continental Air-
lines in Denver and the fact that
his son had been killed was vari-
fied.
The plane was Continental’s
Flight 11 en route from Chica-
go to Kansas City and Los An-
ge'les with 37 passengers and a
crew of eight.
It apparently broke up over
Centerville, Iowa, about 20 miles
north of Unionville.
The fuselage lay undiscovered
until after dawn in a clover
field on a farm, operated by
Terry Bunnell, from about 9:40
p.m. (CST) when it vanished
from a radar surveillance screen.
Dewey E. Ballard, air carrier
operations inspector for the Fed-
eral Aviation Agency at Kansas
City, viewed the fuselage this
morning and said it appeared to
have been broken up “by some
tremendous force.”
“This tremendous force” said
Ballard, “might have been a tor-
nado or extremely heavy turbu-
lence.”
He said the plane apparently
broke apart in the air and pieces
spread out as they fell.
The crash was the first invol-
ving fatalities on a Continental
Airlines plane in the company’s
28 years of operation. It was the
second involving a 707 jet since
the first of the year. An Ameri-
can Airlines 707 crashed in Jam-
aica Bay, N.Y., last March 1, tak-
ing the lives of 95 persons.
Wilks and his wife, the former
(See CRASH, Page 6)
Lexington Officer
Navy Crash Victim
Lt. Cmdr. Charles Patschke of
Lexington was one of 26 persons
killed Tuesday in the crash of a
four-engine U.S. Navy Constella-
tion near Ebersberg, Germany.
A search is underway for a clue
on the cause of the crash of the
plane regularly based at Rota,
Spain, but which was flying out
of Frankfurt. The plane was on a
navigational training mission.
Space Shot
Countdown
Under Way
CAPE CANAVERAL ® — Pro-
ject Mercury experts today suc-
cessfully completed1 the first sec-
tion of a countdown pointed to-
ward launching astronaut Mal-
colm Scott Carpenter into triple
orbit of the earth Thursday.
All systems in the Atlas rocket
and Aurora 7 capsule were de-
clared in “go” condition. The
only cause for possible alarm was
a haze of acrid smoke spreading
from forest fires about 20 miles
v/est of here and big swamp fires
in the Everglades 200 mites
south.
Officials were hopeful, however,
that this would not be dense
enough to prevent Carpenter from
taking off on the path first broken
for the United States by John
H. Glenn Jr. last Feb. 20.
There was a possibility that
even if this smoke did not pre-
vent the blast-off, it might cut the
number of orbits by delaying
the launch. The sky must be re-
latively clear in the launch area
so cameras can trace the rocket.
-o-
REDS DELAY CONVOY
BERLIN ® — The Russians
halted an outbound U.S. Army
convoy today, then allowed it to
proceed after a vigorous Ameri-
can protest charging the action
was illegal.
Posse Kills Bank Robber
After Holdup-Slayings
OZARK, Ala. (/PI — A posse
killed a would-be bank robber
during a gun battle after he had
slain two bank employes and a
policeman and wounded two oth-
er men.
Dr. Eugene Simpson Gault, 43,
a chiropractor, was shot to death
Tuesday as he couched between
two tombstones in a rural church
graveyard about 30 miles from
this southeast Alabana town
where he had tried to rob the
Commercial Bank.
Officers said Gault killed Fred
Flowers, 55, a bank vice presi-
dent, and David Jackson, 33, a
teller, during the abortive hold-
up, then killed J. H. Youngblood,
acting chief of police of Troy,
Ala. during a frantic flight. He
wounded another policeman dur-
ing his escape attempt and a ci-
vilian during the gunfight at the
cemetery.
Police and the bank president,
Douglas Brown, gave these de-
tails:
Gault entered the hank about
2:30 p.m., with a pistol in his
hand. Flowers ducked behind a
counter but Gault jumped onto
the counter and shot him. Jack-
son, the teller, let several women
employes flee through a back
door but he was shot down be-
fore he could get away.
Gault fled without getting any
money and raced to Clio, a small
town about 20 miles north ol
Ozark, where Police Chief Bill
Sogerts tried to stop him. The
fugitive wounded Roberts and
Roberts apparently winged him.
Gault kept 'going, with a posse of
Clio civilians trailing him.
Near Troy, 23 miles northwest
of Clio, Gault killed his third vic-
tim—Youngblood. The Troy offi-
cer had seen the gunman drive
behind a rural store.
A few minutes later two civil-
ians reported spotting the fugi-
tive’s car outside Troy. Officers
found the car parked behind a
church next to a cemetery.
They closed in. Gault, hunched
down between two tombstones,
exchanged shots with them. A
civilian from Clio, Floyd Holland,
was wounded.
A highway patrolman, armed
with a carbine, circled around be-
hind Gault and killed him.
They found $19 in his wallet.
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