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Lions to Sell
Mops, Brooms
Here Tonight
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Cooler
A litfle cooler Tuesday night and Wednesday with
winds changing to westerly and diminishing. A
chance for showers this afternoon.
Today’s Range: 68-88. Tomorrow's Range: 62-84.
Yesterday’s Range: 90. Rainfall: 0.
Sunrise: 5:33 a.m. Sunset: 7 £3 p.m.
Moonrise: 10:26 p.m. Moonset: 9:08 a.m.
Lake Levels—Travis: 665.74’. Buchanan: 1004.87’.
U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for
Taylor and Williamson County
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Volume 49, Number 132
AMA Terms
Medical Plan
Cruel Hoax'
Paid Telecast
Replies to JFK
NEW YORK UP) — The Ameri-
can Medical Association has coun-
tered President Kennedy’s plea
for support of his medical care
for the aged plan with an attack
on the measure as a efuei hoax
that would “heartlessly ignore
millions” who need coverage.
In a paid, nationally televised
reply !to the President, association
leaders said Monday night the
public is in danger of being
“blitzed, brainwashed into swal-
lowing” a plan that would disrupt
health services and turn patients
into impersonal numbers.
The Kennedy-backed King-An-
derson measure provides for med-
ical care for the aged under So-
cial Security.
Following the AMA telecast,
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare Abram Ribicoff de-
clared that it was “just another
staging of ‘let’s fool the Ameri-
can people again’ ” and charged
that it omitted important factors.
The AMA representatives spoke
from Madison Square Garden
the same spot from which Ken-
ned urged support of the King-
Anderson measure a day earlier
in a free-time public service na-
tional telecast.
But whereas Kennedy spoke be-
fore a live audience of 17,500,
the two AMA spokesmen sat alone
in the vast arena—an arrange-
ment that they said “may help us
get across to the American peo-
ple the grossly unfair disadvant-
age under which we doctors are
laboring to make our voices and
our reasons heard.” '
A Boston station, WBZ-TV, re
fused to carry the program. This
brought a complaint from the
association that it had been
blacked out in the President’s
| home town.
The station said its decision
was based on a policy of not sell-
ing time “to organizations or in-
dividuals for discussion of contro-
versial issues in which such or-
ganizations or individuals are in-
volved.”
Dr. Edyard R. Annis of Mi-
ami, Fla., the main AMA speaker,
said the relationship between a
doctor and his patient is one of
the few things “which touch so
close to God.” He urged view-
ers to consult their doctors about
the measure.
“Our fees are not involved,”
he declared. “Our practice of
quality medicine is. Your health
is.”
Annis, chairman of the AMA’s
National Speakers Bureau, said
the administration - backed plan
“wastefully covers millions who
do not need it” and ignores mil-
lions who do.
“It will undercut and destroy
the wholesome growth of private
voluntary insurance and pre-pay-
ment health programs for the
aged which offer flexible benefits
in the full range of individual
needs,” Annis said.
“It will lower the quality and
availability of hospital services
throughout our country. It will
stand between the patient and his
doctor. And it will serve as the
forerunner of a different system
of medicine for all Americans.
“Don’t mistake it,” Annis de-
clared. “England’s nationalized
medical program is the kind of
thing they have in mind for us
eventually.”
Dr. Leonard W. Larson of Bis-
marck, N.D., president of the
185,000 - member AMA, said the
program would deprive older peo-
ple of “the American system of
medicine, based upon the private
(See AMA, Page 6)
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TAYLOR, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1962
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$2,522 STILL NEEDED — Gillis ConoUy, chairman of the Industrial Founda-
tons finance committee, graphically displays the amount of money still needed
— $2,522— to meet Taylor’s share of the responsibility — $6,000 — in Kerr
Ban’s $250,000 expansion program. John Smith, committee treasurer, is hold-
ing some iof the checks that have just been received. Prompt contributions are
Urged. —Taylor Press Staff Photo
Twin Threats
Dissolve for
Space Shot
FT. HOOD UP) — Five soldiers
perished as an M48 medium tank
CAPE CANAVERAL UP) ■—Twin toppled over a 30-foot cliff into a
Plans Available
On Postal Work
Postmaster Dan Hannan today
advised local contractors that
plans and specifications on air
conditioning and lighting for the
Taylor post office are now avail
able here.
General Services Administration
recently issued invitations to bid
on the project, estimated to cost
$70,000. Bids will be opened in
Dallas on June 19.
A complete refrigerated air-con
ditioning and ventilation system
will be installed in the building,
including the government offices
upstairs. The Plant Pest Control
Branch and the Soil Conserva-
tion Service offices are located on
the second floor.
Fluroescent lighting will re-
place the present incandescent
lighting system.
A new hot water boiler will be
installed for heating purposes, the
old radiators to be removed.
threats of weather 'and forest fire
smoke dissolved today and Pro-
ject Mercury officials were opti-
mistic that astronaut Malcolm
Carpenter could be launched on
his orbital flight Thursday.
Weather experts said smoky
haze from two widely scattered
fires was not settling in this area
as feared Monday. They said
there probably will be some haze
in the launching area Thursday
but it should not interfere with
camera tracking of the Atlas
booster rocket.
The fires are in the Everglades,
south of Cape Canaveral, and in a
marsh 15 miles to the west. The
latter was reported only smould-
ering today.
Possibility of heavy clouds
above the Cape on Thursday ap-
parently vanished overnight when
a storm front in the Midwest
shifted direction to the north-
northeast. The storm earlier was
pushing the clouds toward Flori-
da.
There was a possibility of winds
and waves in the Atlantic recov-
ery areas, but officials believe
conditions will be acceptable on
Thursday.
A spokesman for the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration said that based on the
present weather forecast, there is
a 60-40 chance of achieving a
launching Thursday, barring fur-
ther technical difficulties.
The odds are encouraging. The
standard figure by NASA was 50-
50 at weather briefings before
the space flights of astronauts
Alan B. Shepard Jr., Virgil I.
Grissom and John H. Glenn Jr.
The spokesman said it is hoped
a high pressure system will push
the smoke completely out of the
area.
The NASA spokesman , said
(See THREATS, Page 6)
5 Hood Gis Perish
As Tank Topples, Burns
creek and burned Monday.
The accident occurred during a
platoon tactical exercise.
Radio failure in his own tank
caused the officer commanding
the platoon to transfer to the
wrecked tank minutes earlier.
He and the four enlisted men
were trapped as the tank landed
on its turret in Table Crock
Creek, a shallow stream flowing 1st Armored Division.
through this Central Texas Army
post.
Escaping fuel caught fire and
wreathed the tank in flames,
burned more than an hour.
A Ft. Hood spokesman said the
tank plunged down the cliff short-
ly after the crew battened down
the hatches and started forward
under simulated artillery fire.
Names of the dead were with-
held.
They were members of Compa
ny B, 1st Battalion, 13th Armor,
U.S. to Move Grain
In Estes Elevators
WASHINGTON (JP) — The Agriculture Depart
ment said today it will move some 42 million bushels of
grain out of elevators and warehouses owned or con-
nected with Billie Sol Estes, Texas financier now under
indidment for fraud.
George A. Barnes, an assistant to Secretary of
Agriculture Orville L. Freeman, said the grain will be
moved to other locations in an
Cool Front
Brings Drop
In Mercury
By THE ASSOCIATED PKESS
A cool front nudging southeast-
ward off the southern Rockies
brought a prospect for lower tem-
peratures over most of Texas
Tuesday.
Early in the day the forward
edge of the cooler, air stretched
from Midland to Gage, Okla.
A few light showers developed
during the night in Northeast
Texas but the Weather Bureau
cancelled a severe thunderstorm
alert for the upper Red River Val-
ley several hours earlier than ex-
pected. Observers said1 no such
storms materialized.
Farmers were still appraising
crop losses, meanwhile, from a
series of small tornadoes, hail and
heavy rain Sunday night in the
Vernon and Electra areas.
Grain dealer Robert Henry of
Vernon estimated the damage in
surrounding Wilbarber County at
$300,000 to $350,000. He said wash-
outs from as much as 6 inches
of rain would make it necessary
(See COOL, Page 6)
Northern City Asks Aid
To Stem Flow of Riders
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The citizens of Cape Cod, Mass.,
have asked for help to stem the
flow northward of Negroes given
one-way bus tickets by segrega-
tionist groups in the South.
The actions were taken while
two Negro women and their 20
children were aboard buses on
the way from Little Rock to Hyan-
nis, Mass.
President Kennedy and other
members of his family own sum-
mer homes in Hyannis Port,
which is only four miles from
Hyannis where the bus rides ter-
minate. Hyannis and Hyannis
Port are parts of the Town of
Barnstable.
At the statehouse in Boston, Re-
publican Rep. Allan F. Jones of
Barnstable appealed to. Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy to join with
Southern legislators to “do all in
their power to stop this evil
scheme.”
Jones described the Negro rid-
ers as “pawns in a diabolical, in-
human game of revenge.” He
said they were being told “an in-
decent lie that good homes and
good jobs await them when they
arrive.”
At Hyannis, selectmen met in
emergency session and appealed
to U.S. House Speaker John W.
McCormack, D-Mass., to formu-
late legislation against any state
exporting welfare eases.
Twelve Negroes have arrived
in Hyannis during the past 10
days and all but two have been
given quarters in a dormitory of
the Cape Cod Community College
in Hyannis. The two mothers and
their 20 children are to be lodged
there.
In Pittsburgh, Charles R. Gor-
don, a Negro radio newscaster,
said he has accepted an offer of a
one-way ride to Africa from a
white listener who wants to send
him back where he came from. If
he actually goes, he said, he’ll be
back soon—on tickets offered by
other listeners.
At Jackson, Miss., target of
many of the freedom riders last
year, County Judge Russel Moor
dismissed breach of peace char-
ges against 15 Episcopal clergy-
(See RIDERS, Page 6) 1
Engine Burns
On Way to Fire
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. UP)
The driver of a speeding fire
truck smelled smoke a mile
away from his destination',
brush fire.
The truck was burning.
The driver put out the elec-
trical fire in the engine and
another truck put out the
brush fire.
Four Escape
Injury in
Truck Crash
Four people escaped injury
Monday afternoon when a truck
and a tractor collided a mile
south of -Taylor at the intersec
tion of two county roads.
Edward Zimmerman, Route 1,
Taylor, was driving the tractor.
He was attempting to make
left turn, just as a 1953 Chevro-
let bobtail truck was attempting
to pass him.
Following the collision, the
truck, driven by Cepraino Vas-
quez of Taylor, overturned on its
left side in the roadway. There
were two passengers in the truck,
Gom Garcia and Inez Vasquez.
The tractor did not turn over
and Zimmerman was not thrown
off, according to Highway Patrol-
man Norman Autrey, the investi-
gating officer.
Damage was estimated at $300
to the truck. The damage to the
tractor was minor. The accident
occurred at 12:40 p.m.
Girl Nabbed in
Alarmist Calls
DALLAS UP) -r- Authorities pon-
dered today the future of a young
girl who made 40 to 50 random
telephone calls to tell wives their
husbands had been killed in acci-
dents.
The girl, 15, from nearby Irv-
ing, is in juvenile detention home
while officers continue checking
into the case.
All the calls were made to wom-
en in Irving and Dallas.
Her calls 'resulted in a flood of
telephone calls to Methodist Hos-
pital.
ELEPHANTS RAMPAGE
CHITTAGONG, East Pakistan
(4*) — Two wild elephants ran
amok at Ihe village of Saokonia,
East Pakistan, killing 12 people
and injuring 30 others.
orderly manner over the next 18
months.
Barnes told a news conference
that a crash program of moving
the grain would cost some $2
million.
However, he said, the way in
which it is to be done will not
cost the government anything ad-
ditional.
Asked why the grain should be
moved, Barnes said it was a mat-
ter of public policy.
When asked to clarify his state-
ment, Barnes replied:
“There are a lot of considera
tions which have to be taken into
account on public policy. The1
secretary of agriculture exercises
administrative judgments on mat
ters of this kind. After looking
over all that is involved, the de-
cision was made that the best in-
terests of the department would
be served by moving this grain
out in an orderly manner.”
Bames earlier had said that a
new $10 million bond covering the
grain stored in the Estes elevator
and warehouses had just become
valid and is in effect.
Earlier Estes had been bonded
for about $700,000 as insurance on
the grain stored in his proper-
ties.
“The department policy on the
grain in Estes’ warehouses now
has been firmed up,” Bames
said.
Barnes said that about 33,391,-
000 bushels of grain were in Estes
warehouses on March 31 and an
additional 8,649,000 bushels were
in houses associated with Estes.
How Estes got contracts to
store the grain—with payments
from the government of millions
of dollars a year—is one of the
questions to be explored in a
forthcoming Senate investigation.
In that connection, it expects to
look into allegations that influ-
ence in Washington helped Estes
build his vast cotton and grain
storage empire.
Estes is now bankrupt and is
awaiting trail on fraud charges.
Informed sources said the Sen-
ate Investigations subcommittee
expects to question at least 100
witnesses for both the Kennedy
and Eisenhower administrations.
The subcommittee plans a pub-
lic airing into allegations that in-
fluence in Washington helped the
indicted financier build his vast
cotton and grain storage empire.
Estes is awaiting trial on fraud
charges and has declared him-
self bankrupt.
The subcommittee plunged into
closed sessions Monday to ques-
(See ELEVATORS, Page 6)
Experts Study
Body in
Estes Case
FRANKLIN, Tex. m — County
grand jurors called more witnes-
ses today while experts planned
to study the body of an Agricul-
ture Department official linked to
the Billie Sol Estes case.
Dist. Judge John Barron Mon
day ordered the disinterment of
Henry H. Marshall, 52, whose
death from five bullet wounds
last June 3 was officially pro-
nounced suicide.
Secretary of Agriculture Orville
Freeman said two weeks ago that
sec-trets in the operations of Es-
tes, West Texas farm tycoon in-
dicted for fraud and theft, died
with Marshall.
Marshall was chief administra
tor and investigator in Texas for
the government’s cotton allotment
program. He had been looking
into Estes’ cotton allotments.
Dist. Atty. Bryan Russ had in-
vited Freeman to appear before
the grand jury here if the secre-
tary had any new evidence. Free-
man, in a telegram, advised coun-
ty officials “We know of none
here who may have any firsthand
knowledge. We are continuing to
check and if any names are
found will advise you, as we
want you to have our full coop-
eration in this matter.”
Marshall was found dead on his
farm near here. He had been
shot with a bolt-action rifle. Jus-
tice of the Peace Lee Fafmer re-
turned an inquest verdict of sui-
cide.
A few hours after the grand
jury reopened the investigation
Judge Barron ordered the disin-
terment. He said he acted at
the request of Russ and with the
consent of Marshall’s widow.
A state chemist, a ballistics ex-
pert and a pathologist were to
examine the remains.
The district attorney said new
evidence obtained by the grand
jury prompted the autopsy. He
gave no details.
Judge Barron said that through
the autopsy “we can determine
whether this is murder or not.”
Mrs. Marshall was one of six
witnesses testifying Monday. Be-
fore entering the jury room, she
referred to the suicide verdict as
hasty. Afterward she refused to
talk to newsmen.
(See EXPERTS, Page 6)
iTONMlflSouthBavaria
m Town Scene
Of Disaster
, ' :
ARRIVES AT MOSCOW—With
a broad smile on his face and
a bunch of flowers in his hand,
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush-
chev arrives at Moscow after
a six-day visit to Bulgaria.
Khrushchev denounced policies
on Germany and southeast Asia
and threatened once again to
sign a separate peace treaty
with Communist East Germany.
— NEA Telephoto
Farmer Held
In Slaying of
Wife, 2 Kin
KERMIT (/Pi — A slender, rud-
dy faced farmer was in custody
today on charges of shooting
down his wife, her sister and an-
other man at a Kermit home.
Officers said the prisoner, J.B.
Frazier, 37, from Comanche in
West Central Texas, stumbled in-
to a motel near the edge of Mid-
land, 85 miles east of here, and
told a clerk Monday:
“I’m looking for my wife. I’m
supposed to meet her here.
I’ve been hurt.”
Frazier then collapsed on the
floor and was incoherent after be-
ing taken to the Midland police
station.
A search for Frazier began aft-
er the sound of gunfire drew
neighbors to the Kermit home of
J. Autry, an oil field worker,
late Sunday night.
They found Mrs. Georgia Fraz-
ier, 39; her sister, Mrs. Autry,
50, and Carl Louis Conner, 39, al
so an oil field worker, mowed
down by bullets from a small
caliber pistol.
Mrs. Frazier had come to visit
her sister here in far West Tex-
as. She left three children, 16,
13 and 12, with their grandmother
near Comanche.
Witnesses said Frazier appear-
ed to be in deep shock. Police
reported there was no indica-
tion, however, that he had been
drinking.
EBERSBERG, Germany (£) —
A four-engine U.S. Navy trans-
port plane crashed and burned
near this south Bavarian town to-
day. American military police re-
ported from the scene all 27 per-
sons aboard were killed.
A U.S. Army spokesman at Mu-
nich said the WV2 Constellation
apparently exploded in the air and
lost its tail section before it hit
the ground in an open field.
German eyewitnesses reported
seeing the aircraft roll over in the
air several times before crash-
ing.
Wreckage was strewn over a
wide area. Witnesses said some
of the bodies were badly burned
or mangled.
First to reach the scene was
the mayor of Markt Schwaben.
He said he and other would-be
rescuers were unable to get close
to the plane because of the
flames. German fire fighters fin-
ally brought the fire under con-
trol.
Roads leading into this rural
area were jammed by long lines
of automobiles, attracted by the
explosion and blaze.
The U.S. Air Force European
headquarters at Wiesbaden said
the Navy craft was based in Rota,
Spain, and had come to Frank-
furt on a regular flight to Ger-
many.
An Air Force spokesman said it
was on a routine training flight
out of Frankfurt when the crash
occurred. It had planned to come
badk to Frankfurt again, he said,
before taking off for Spain.
An alarm brought 14 German
fire engines to the scene 10 miles
east of Munich close to the vil-
lage of Markt Schwaben.
Mathias Wolf, who works in the
community hall at Markt Schwab-
en, gave this eyewitness account
of the crash:
“The plane crashed from an al-
titude of about 9,000 feet out of a
completely clear sky. It whs not
yet on fire while in the air. The
plane rolled over several times in
the air and then crashed a couple
of hundred yards from our vil-
lage. There was an explosion as
if an atomic bomb had dropped.”
The U.S. Army’s Southern Area
Command at Munich sent 185
(See CRASH, Page 6)
Local Caravan
Scheduled for
Connally Rally
Sam Dawson
Analyst Finds Texans Disturbed
By Turn Guidelines Are Taking
EDITOR’S NOTE — Conserva-
tive Texan^ would thank Wash-
ington to keep hands off their
business. In this, first of three
stories on the fast growing Tex-
as economy, Sam Dawson, AP
business news analyst, reports
on the confidence that their own
private boom will continue.
clamped down on the short-lived thinking about the administration.
By SAM DAWSON
AP Business News Analyst
DALLAS UP) — Guidelines laid
down in Washington have small
appeal in Texas where there’s al-
ways been lots of room to wheel
and deal.
It’s like pulling a check rein on
cowpony. He’s startled but far
from convinced the new - fangled
thing will cramp his style.
Most businessmen and bankers
interviewed here say that they
and their colleagues are disturbed
by the turn that business-govern-
ment relations appear to be tak-
I ing since President Kennedy
steel price rise.
And the stock market tumble
that followed gave businessmen
and most other Texans pause. It
may have made them vary but
far from convinced it could really
hurt business expansion and ac-
tivity in this area in the long
run. But some report short-term
effects.
“Our customers are holding
back on orders now,” says one
manufacturer of products sold
to other businessmen. “They’re
just waiting to see whether the
administration is really out to ride
herd on business. They’re also
wondering if the stock market is
forecasting a coming dip in busi-
ness for other parts of the na-
tion.”
Robert H. Stewart III, president
of the First National Bank in Dal-
las, whose assets top a billion dol-
lars without benefit of branches
which are forbidden by Texas law,
sees a sharp change in business
He says Texas businessmen are
startled by the turn of events—
the steel crackdown, the anti-
trust threats, merger bans and
stock market investigation.
“Dallas probably isn’t typical.
It’s very conservative in its think-
ing. Also it won’t be affected by
a dip in the general economy as
would most older sections of the
nation. Industry here is very di-
versified, with electronics and oth-
er light industries. This is a great
distribution center for the South-
west with warehouses for products
made elsewhere,” he adds.
“A big business boom is on-
three banks starting large office
buildings, while many other com-
mercial buildings and apartment
houses are going up. The mo-
mentum will carry on — unless
government interferes in business
much more than now seems like-
ly.”
How the guidelines will be ap-
(See DISTRUBED, Page G) ,
A local caravan of cars will
leave Taylor Wednesday after-
noon, loaded with “Connally for
Governor” supporters from this
area, to be on hand to greet John
Connally when the candidate ar-
rives at the Austin Municipal Ait-
port at 6 p.m.
At the airport the former Navy
secretary will make a few brief
remarks, after which time the
group from throughout Central
Texas will travel by motor
caravan to the Austin City Coli-
seum for a rally in his honor.
There will be hot dogs and
soda water for all at the Coli-
seum and at 7:30 p.m. Connally
will make a 30 minute state-
wide television speech.
This will be a family affair
and Taylor area supporters of
Connally are asked to meet at
the Food Fair in Taylor between
4:30 and 5 p.m. for the purpose
of decorating the cars. The cara-
van will leave sharply at 5 for
Austin. Anyone desiring to Attend
who does not have transportation
is requested to be at the Food
Fair prior to departure time or
should call EL2-3631.
Twins, I wins
And More Twins
WOODBURN, Ore. UP) — The
third consecutive set of twins
was born Monday to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Miller of Woodbum.
Like the other two, the new
twins are a boy and a girl. The
oldest twins are 14. The other
pair will be 5 Wednesday.
The Millers have eight children.
The oldest, Barbara, is 18. A son,
Donald, is 17.
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