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Full Leased Wire Report of The Associated Press—World’s Greatest News Service
Fair - Cool
Fair and cool Friday night and Saturday.
Today’s Range: 62-80. Tomorrow’s Range: 52-75.
Yesterday’s High: 90. Rainfall: .20.
Tomorrow’s Sunrise: 5:33 a.m. Sunset: 7:22 p.m.
Moonrise: 2:43 a.m. Moonset Tomorrow: 3:08 p.m.
Lake Levels: Travis 637.88’. Buchanan 1013.68’.
U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast
for Taylor and Williamson County
Volume 47, Number 130
Eight Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1960
LP) — Associated Press
Price Five Cents
9,000 Miles
Mighty Atlas Missile
Sets Distance Record
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Iff) —
A U.S. Atlas missile streaked
9,000 miles in 5214 minutes today
in a record-smashing flight past
the tip of Africa to a chosen tar-
get area in the southern Indian
Ocean.
Satisfaction with the results was
apparent in an Air Force an-
nouncement that first reports in-
dicated “all test objectives were
ichieved.”
The list of objectives included
the 9,000-mile flight, far exceed-
ing any previously recorded mis-
sile shot, and impact in a target
area small enough to demonstrate
the accuracy required for mili-
tary effectiveness.
It was the longest surface-to-
surface missile flight on record,
surpassing the 7,760 miles claimed
by the Russians for a rocket they
launched into the Central Pacific
last Jan. 20. The longest previous!
Atlas flight was 6,325 miles.
The mighty Atlas powered' into
the sky from this missile test cen-
ter at 10 a.m. EST. An hour later)
the Air Force reported the rocket
successfully dropped its tactical-
type nose cone in the intended im-
pact area 1,000 miles southeast of
Capetown, South Africa, and
about 500 miles northeast of the
British-owned Prince Edward Is-
lands.
An official saidi the Atlas was
aimed at a point exactly 9,000
miles from Cape Canaveral.
An announcement said, “Preli-
minary telemetry data indicates
Ithat all test objectives were
achieved.”
The missile was geared to:
Reach a peak altitude of more
than 1,000 miles and a top speed
of about 17,000 miles an hour,
just about the height-speed com-
bination that might send it off into
orbit.
Pass beween the coast of Bra-
zil and Ascension Island, the last
^racking station on the Atlantic
lissile range.
Skirt about 100 miles south of
the Cape of Good Hope.
Encounter heat of up to 13,000
degrees Fahrenheit on re-enter-
ing the atmosphere at a steep
angle.
Drop its nose cone about 1,000
miles southeast pf Capetown,
South Africa.
Driven by the 360,000 pounds
of thrust generated by its three
big engines, the 85-foot, 120-ton
(See MISSILE, Page 8)
He Knew Her
'All' Her Life
LAS .VEGAS, Nev. (/PI—“I’ve
known her all her life,” said 70-
year-old character actor Doug-
lass Dumbrille, speaking of his
28-year-old bride, Patricia Mow-
bray.
Dumbille and Miss Mowbray,
were married Thursday at a
wedding chapel in this desert
gambling resort. Miss Mowbray,
ail actress, has appeared in
many TV plays.
Drive Extended
Chamber Signs Up
46 New Members
The Chamber of Commerce to-
day counted 46 new members as
the nine-day Spring Membership
Roundup came to a close.
Twenty-six firms and 20 indivi
duals were signed up. Their mem-
bership dues for the remainder ol
the year will amount to $1,020,
which will boost anticipated reve-
nue to $14,020.
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BRUSHY DAM—This is Brushy Dam No. 20 located in the Upper Watershed
on the W. H. Bright farm just off the Hutto-Pflugerville road. The dam is shown
here at the upper edge of the lake, the road in the upper left hand corner. The
permanent pool’s capacity is approximately 20 acres. When this photo was
taken the water was three feet short of the permanent pool level.
-ses Photo
That’s still $980 short of the
hoped for goal of raising $2,000
during the drive to meet this
year’s $15,000 budget.
For contest purposes, the drive
ended Thursday night, C of C
Manager Les Box said. However,
because of the deficit, the cam-
paign will be continued to give
all workers a chance to finish
making their contacts.
• “I feel the drive was success-
ful inasmuch as the Chamber re-
ceived a lot of favorable com-
ment on what it is doing from
the new members who joined
recently,” Box said.
“We know other new members
will be coming in during the year
as they are contacted. It is our
hope that the $15,000 budget can
be met to meet all committee re-
quests for carrying out new and
expanded programs of work.”
The 46 new members just sign-
ed would “normally” provide $1,-
360 in added Chamber revenue.
During the drive they were billed
f(|r the last three quarters of
the year, where normally they
would be billed for the full year.
Kenneth Mann’s team won first
place for signing up 11 new mem-
bers—four firms and seven indivi-
duals. In second place was Louis
J. Kind’s group with five new
firms and five individuals. Teams
headed by Tony Malish and Roy
Day came in third and fourth
respectively.
Day’s team will have the re-
sponsibility of serving the barbe-
cue at the all-Chamber barbecue
early this summer.
The individual winner in the con-
test was James Flint. He signed
up four firms and three individ-
uals for a total of seven new
members.
Walter Jezek ran second with
five new members.
FORT HOOD PROJECT
GALVESTON (IP)— An appar-
ent low bid of $12,119,400 was
submitted Thursday by S. S.
Silverblatt, Inc., of New York
for an 800-unit Capehart hous-
ing project at Ft. Hood.
Nikita Called
Greatest for
Stimulation'
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (T) — A
schoolteacher fired after calling
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush-
chev “the greatest man alive”
said Thursday he did so in an
attempt to stimulate class dis-
cussion.
Winston McDaniel, 32, also told
his high shcool class he thinks
U. S. pilot Francis G. Powers
“should be put to death.”
McDaniel was fired Wednesday
night by the school board after
members listened to a tape re-
cording made Monday with his
permission in one of his classes.
The tape showed’ a vigorous
give - and - take discussion took
place between the teacher and
his pupils. One pupil who dis-
agreed with him sharply was or-
dered to leave the class. McDan
iel is a government, history and
social science teacher.
A girl cried “You cruel thing!
when McDaniel said Powers
“volunterred to undertake a dan-
gerous mission and' he should
suffer the consequences.”
Speaking of President Eisen-
hower McDaniel said, “I don’t
think he’s a great mind, but he’s
not stupid.”
“Some of my remarks were
my opinions and some were not,
McDaniel said after learning he
had been dismissed. “I believe
in making statements that are
not my point of view but will
get student response, and I got
(See NIKITA, Page 8)
Town to Close
Memorial Day
Taylor is scheduled to close
Memorial Day (May 30) but
will not be a holiday for public
school students.
May 31 is the last day of
classes in the public schools,
and graduation exercises are
scheduled that night.
Classes at St. Mary’s paro-
chial school end' before Memorial
Day. The last day of school is
May 25. Students will have a
holiday May 26 (Ascension Thurs-
day) and return for their report
cards on the 27th, graduation
day.
A majority of Taylor mer-
chants recently voted Memorial
Day as one of the five holidays
of the year.
- LATE NEWS BRIEFS -
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
IKE
REPORTS U.S. PLANE MISSING
WASHINGTON — President Eisenhower said today an
American transport plane is missing on a flight near the
East German border and “we cannot be sure the worsit
has not happened.”
ATTEMPT TO RESCUE CLIMBERS FAILS
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Another attempt to rescue
five stranded climbers from the side of massive Mt. McKinley
failed this morning when a jet helicopter developed me-
chanical trouble. The ’copter had to turn back to Ft. Greeley
for repairs after taking off from a 10,000-foot level base
camp in what a radioed message described as “perfect
weather.”
SHARK ATTACKS YOUNG GIRL SWIMMER
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A huge shark attacked a 16-
year-old girl off Hidden Beach Thursday and mangled her
left leg so severely it had to be amputated below the knee.
Suzanna Marie Theriot was swimming 150 feet offshore
when the shark struck.
$1 MINIMUM WAGE ASKED FOR LABORERS
MATAMOROS, Mexico — The joint United States-
Mexico Trade Union Committee closed a threeLday meeting
with adoption of a resolution calling for a $l-an-hour mini-
mum wage for Mexican contract workers. The conference
said the resolution was passed in view of the price inflation
which has taken place in the United States.
RUSSIA’S SPACE SHIP DEVELOPS FAULT
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union’s experimental space ship
developed a fault Thursday during an attempt to bring its
cabin back to earth, the Soviet news agency Tass announced
today. Moscow said the cabin was detached from the 4-Lton
space ship successfully and was moving along in the vicinity
of it.
Demo Leaders Criticize
Handling of Spy Incident
CHICAGO (IP) — Democratic
party leaders heaped criticism
Thursday night on the Republi-
can administration’s handling of
the U2 spy flight incident pre-
ceding the summit conference
breakdown, and of recent dis-
closures of Soviet and' United
States espionage activities.
But they denied intent to mar
national concord in a time of
world crisis.
Adlai Stevenson, twice unsuc-
cessful Democratic presidential
candidate, said successful nego-
tiations with the Soviet is impos-
sible with the GOP in power.
“There is no question about
national unity in time of crisis,”
he said. But “it is the duty of
responsible opposition in a demo-
cracy to expose and' criticize
carelessness and mistakes.”
Stevenson’s remarks spiced a
$100 - a - plate dinner for Cool:
County Chicago Democrats.
The former Illinois governor
said:
“We sent an 'espionage plane
deep into the Soviet Union just
before the summit meeting. Then
we denied it. Then we admitted
it. And when Mr. Khrushchev
gave the President an out by
suggesting that he was not re-
sponsible, the President proud-
ly asserted that he was respon-
sible.
“On top of that we intimated
that such flights over Russia
would continue. At this point if
(See LEADERS, Page 8)
Until Next Summit
Khrushchev Promises
No Action on Germany
[isenhower Back
In U. S. to Report
On Summit Failure
Burleson Area Hit
North, Central Texas
Count Five Tornadoes
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
At least five tornadoes whirled
in parts of North and Central Tex-
as Friday, but there was no word
of any deaths or serious injuries.
Five other twister funnels ap-
peared Thursday evening in the
same general section of the state.
Only one of these was reported
to have touched ground, and it
caused no damage.
Dipping pi’ior to an early morn-
ing tornado alert, the viscious
BERLIN (IP) — Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev promised to-
day to preserve the status quo
in Germany until another summit
conference in six or eight months
has a chance to settle the prob-
lem.
The Soviet Premier vowed to do
nothing to “bring back the worst
times of the cold war.” But he
said there was a hidden struggle
among various U.S. circles
“which makes us fear serious de-
velopments.”
“We believe,” he told a fran-
tically cheering East German au-
dience, “that although reaction-
ary powers blew up the summit
conference in Paris, the next sum-
mit conference will take place in
six to eight months.
“Under these circumstances it
is sensible to wait a bit and try
by common efforts of all the vic-
torious powers to seek a solution
of the questions of the signature of
a treaty of peace with the two
German states which actually
exist.”
Khrushchev has said that if he
is forced to sign a separate treaty
with Communist East Germany,
the Big Three’s garrisons will lose
their rights to stay in Berlin.
“We do not let this subject of
a treaty out of our sight,” he
said. “Let’s wait a bit. It will
ripen better.”
Repeatedly he leveled his sights
at President Eisenhower, whom
he denounced in Paris in personal
terms and' blamed for the col-
lapse of the summit conference
He said bluntly that Eisenhow-
er would not be in the next sum-
mit conference.
He ’emphasized the idea of
SPJSl May Fete
Slated Sunday
Ruben Leshikar of Temple,
president of the SPJST Lodge,
will serve as announcer and mas-
ter of ceremonies at the annual
SPJST May Fete Sunday at the
SPJST Hall.
Activities will get underway in
the afternoon. The queen, Miss
Jean Quebe, will be crowned' at
.4:30. A grand march at 8 o’clock
will begin the dance, music to be
provided by the Highlighters of
New Braunfels.
treaty with “the two German
states which actually exist.”
He has pointed to this before,
but today he emphasized that this
was a problem he wanted to see
settled at a summit conference
started “after the dust settles”
from the present' period, heated
up by the U.S. spy plane incident.
But he cautioned that he was
not going to wait forever.
“We warn out partners again,”
he said, “that neither the Soviet
Union nor the German Democrat-
ic Republic (East Germany) have
any intention of sitting endlessly
by the sea and waiting for good
weather on the problem on
peace treaty with Germany.”
Reds Shaping
UN Demands
On Spy Plane
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (IP) —
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko fiies -to New York today
in pursuit of a U.N. prohibition
against American spy flights that
will be binding after Resident Ei-
senhower leaves the White House.
In a telegram to the U.N. Se-
curity Council Thursday night,
Gromyko brushed aside Eisenhow-
er’s statement "in Paris that U.S.
flights over Soviet territory had
been halted and would not be re-
sumed.
Gromyko said Eisenhower could
not promise the aerial spying
would not be resumed after he
leaves office in January and there-
fore the president’s statement
was only “a tactical, step” taken
“with the object of deluding world
public opinion.”
The Security Council meets
Monday afternoon to take up the
Soviet charge of U.S. aggression
based on the U2 reconnaissance
plane which the Soviets brought
down on Soviet territory on May
Day. Gromyko was due in New
York tonight from Paris to repre-
sent the Soviets in the council de-
bate.
The council meeting was shap-
ing up as another Big Four for-
eign ministers’ debate. British
sources said • Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd was expected to rep-
resent his government. The
French said if Lloyd came, For
eign Secretary Maurice Couve de
Murville probably would attend.
So, presumably, would U.S. Sec-
retary of State Christian A. Her-
ter, although the U.S. delegation
Thursday night said it did not yet
know his plans.
Asked for comment on Gro-
(See DEMANDS, Page 8)
Macmillan Says
Nikita Planned Ahead
To Scuttle Summit
LONDON (J1) — British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan dis-
closed today that Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev told him the
day before the summit conference
opened he would not negotiate un-
less the United States condemned
its spy flights over the Soviet
territory, punished those respon-
sible and agreed not to continue
them.
Khrushchev repeated his de-
mands formally at the conference
opening the next day, bringing the
summit meeting to a collapsing
halt. But Macmillan’s review in
the House of Commons today was
the first intimation that President
Eisenhower, Macmillan and Presi-
dent Charles de Gaulle of France
knew what they faced when they
met with the Soviet Premier
Monday.
This presumably was one rea-
son why Eisenhower and Khrush-
chev did not shake hands or speak
personally at the start of the
meeting.
Macmillan said it is still too
early to say whether the collapse
of the summit conference repre-
sents “an isolated episode” or “a
deliberate change” in Soviet pol-
icy.
“In either case we must be
ready,” Macmillan declared amid
sympathetic cheers from all sides
of the House.
In his first report to Parliament
since returning fom Paris, the
Prime Minister said the break-
down of the summit talks con-
fronts the world with a sterner
situation carrying “grave impli-
cations, new threats and new dan-
gers.”
Of Eisenhower’s announcement
that reconnaissance flights over
Soviet territory had been halted
and his pledge that they would
not be resumed, Macmillan said
with considerable emphasis:
“I should perhaps say here that
Mr. Khrushchev subsequently
made some play with the fact that
this assurance was limited to the
President’s own tenure of office.
“It was, however, made clear
that this assurance was the most
categorical and definite which any
president of the United States
could constitutionally give.”
Macmillan was the first of the
Western Big Three to give much
of the inside story behind the col-
lapse of the phantom summit par-
ley.
winds Friday struck near Burle-
son, between Fort Worth and Cle-
burne; at Denison, near Bryan;
and north of Austin.
Destructive winds lashed nu-
merous areas j dumping up to 3
inches of rain and battering hail
stones.
In Johnson County a twister
struck with a roar on the W. D.
Payne farm IV2 miles west of
Burleson, bounced over the town
and lifted the roof off a big live-
stock auction barn. Cleburne resi-
dents sighted funnels both to the
west and north.
Damage estimates in the Burle-
son vicinity ranged up to $20,000.
W. D. Payne found his car un-
harmed although the tornado
smashed his sheet iron garage and
scattered it across a pasture. It
also wrecked a building on the
neighboring farm of M. D. Payne.
Plate glass windows were shat-
tered, trees uprooted and roofs
lifted off a few buildings as a tor
nado funnel whirled over the twin
cities of Denison and Sherman.
An Austin resident spotted an-
other funnel cloud north of the
state capital but it did not dip to
earth. In Austin, gusty winds up
to 47 m.p.h. knocked down signs,
damaged trees and messed up the
city’s traffic signal lights. A quar-
ter inch of rain fell in 10 minutes.
In the Tabor community 5 miles
north of Bryan, Mrs. Clyde Wilson
told of watching still another fun-
nel dance across a field. It took
part of the roof off a tenant house
about a quarter mile from where
she stood. A heavy downpour fol-
lowed.
Around Paris in Lamar County,
the violent winds swept the roof
off one home and damaged other
property throughout the county.
Some persons suspected a tornado
was to blame but none spotted a
funnel cloud.
An elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs
(See TORNADOES, Page 8)
Thousands
Greet Ike
At Airport
WASHINGTON (IP) — President
Eisenhower returned today from
the wreckage of the summit to a
warm show of unity and' affection
from the people of the capital.
By thousands, they gathered at
the nearby Andrews Air Force
Base airport and along vantage
points of the 15-mile route to the
White House to display the tradi-
tional American solidarity in dif-
ferences with other nations.
Most of the top government of-
ficials, and many Congress mem-
bers, were at the airfield in near-
by Maryland long before there
was any sight of Eisenhower’s big
jet airliner in the hazy sky of a
warm spring day.
Eisenhower brought back from
Paris all the international prob-
lems that accompanied him there
—now grown more urgent and
uglier than before.
It was a warm welcome home
for the President. But there could
be rough days ahead,
Eisenhower, in a brief farewell
speech at Portela Airport, said
his talks with Portuguese Presir-
dent Americo Tomaz and Pre-
mier Antonio Oliveira Salazar
“have once again affirced tiie
spirit of friendship and good will
that has always characterized the
relations between Portugal and
the United States.”
“All of us,” the President de-
clared, “realize that we are united
in a common cause and that each
of us, in his own way, shares a
part of the responsibility of striv-
ing for a peaceful and better
world.”
Washington readied a rousing
welcome for the President.
Eisenhower is to report to the
nation on television and radio,
probably early next week, about
his unsuccessful efforts in Paris
to sit down and talk things over
(See SUMMIT, Page 8)
$73 Million Approved
For Nuclear Aircraft
WASHINGTON ffl— The House
Appropriations Committee today
approved an extra 73 million dol-
lars for development of a nu-
clear aircraft.
The committee action, by a
19-18 vote, was taken on motion
of Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich). It
upset a recommendation of a sub-
committee, headed by Chairman
Clarence Cannon (R-Mo.), for de-
nial of the nuclear plane money
on the ground the project was too
nebulous and could be financed
from available funds.
President Eisenhower had re-
quested the 73-million-dollar ap-
propriation.
The committee voted to specify
that only 58 million could be used
during the fiscal year starting
July 1.
The money for the nuclear
plane was included in a $3,914,-
798,985 public works appropriation
bill financing the Army Engi-
neers, the Atomic Energy Com-
mission and other government
public works programs.
Committee members said fol-
lowing the closed-door session a
majority felt that it would be “a
psychological mistake” to deny
the nuclear plane funds in view of
Ned Fails Named
Elgin Police Chief
ELGIN, May 20 (Spl)-Ned
Fails Jr. has been named chief
of police at Elgin. He was hired
by the City Council at a meeting
Thursday night.
The vacancy was caused by the
resignation of George Loftus,
chief, and Roger B. Hill, assist-
ant chief. Loftus had served as
chief of police for a number of
years.
Willard Wesson served as chief
during the period between resig-
nation and hiring of a new chief.
failure of the summit conference.
The subcommittee, in voting
against granting the money for
the nuclear plane, had said such
action would not terminate the
project. It noted that some 75 mil-
loin dollars in the Defense De-
partment appropriation bill plus
some money left over from the
AEC’s budget would be available
to carry on the work.
It recalled “the very irregular
history” of the project dating
back to 1946 and noted that the
Joint Chiefs of Staff “have deter-
mined that there is no specific
military requirement for a nu-
clear powered aircraft.”
The committee said a billion
(See NUCLEAR, Page 8)
Swimming Pool
To Open Today
The first splash of the summer
season will come at 4 p.m. to-
day at the Taylor swimming
pool.
For the remainder of May, un-
til the end of the school term,
the pool will be in operation
only on an evening schedule dur-
ing weekdays. Monday through
Friday it will be open from 4
until 8 p.m., and on Saturday
and Sunday from 2 until 9 p.m.
After school is out, the regular
schedule each day will be from
2 until 9 p.m.
Prices for admission to the
pool will be 40 cents for adults,
25 cents for teenagers, and 15
cents for children 12 and below,
according to Ross Baldwin.
Season tickets also can be ob-
tained. A family, regardless of
the size, can buy a family sea-
son ticket for $15. A season tic-
ket for adults, ages 20 and up,
is $8, for teenagers age 13-19,
$5.50, and for children age 12
and under, $4.
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