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Cloudy - Mild
Clouds increasing with no important temperature
change today, tonight and Thursday.
Today’s Range: 34-62. Tomorrow’s Range: 40-62.
Yesterday’s High: 73. Rainfall: 0.
Tomorrow’s Sunrise: 6:39 a.m. Sunset: 6:41 p.m.
Moonrise: 10:20 p.m. Moonset Tomorrow: 9:41 a.m.
Lake Levels: Travis 680.42’. Buchanan 1016.83’.
U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast
for Taylor and Williamson County
Volume 47, Numbe^ 75
Six Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1960
UP) — Associated Press
Price Five Cents
LAW DAY U.S.A.—Governor Price Daniel, left, officially designated Sunday,
May 1, as Law Day U.S.A. in Texas. He called on schools and colleges, church-
es and civic organizations to join in the national observance to foster increased
respect for law “and a deeper understanding of the place of law in our daily
lives.” Shown with Daniel are Taylor attorney Wilson H. Fox, center, State Bar
director for the 10th Congressional District; and Associate Justice Ruel C.
Walker of the Supreme Court, chairman of the Bar’s judicial section. State and
community Law Day observance programs are being coordinated by the State
Bar of Texas and local Bar Associations. Jack Barkley of Taylor, president of
the Williamson County Bar Association, named Taylor attorney Thomas M. Bul-
lion to head the county observance of Law Day U.S.A.
Ike Publicly Endorses
Nixon for Nomination
President Says Violence
Won't Help Civil Rights
Red Relations
Foreign Policy Row
Cracks Nixon Unity
WASHINGTON Iff) — New
cracks showed up today in the
structure of Republican unity Vice
President Richard M. Nixon has
been laboring so hard to build.
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz)
outlined in a Senate speech Tues-
day a GOP conservative’s idea
of what the foreign policy pro-
gram should be. It differed sharp-
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Motherwell
Faces Second
Murder Rap
DOWNIEVILLE, Calif, UP) -
Convicted of one murder Tuesday
night, Larry Lord Motherwell to-
day found himself the target of
prosecution efforts to send him
to the gas chamber by also prov-
ing he murdered his second wife
and defective child as well.
The 42-year-old Washington,
D.C., construction worker was
convicted by a Sierra County
jury of murdering Pearl Putney,
wealthy 72-year-old Washington
idow, in 1958 after chauffeuring
across the country on a “last
ig” tour.
Shortly after the jury of nine
women and three men brought in
the verdict and had been told' to
return Monday at 10 a.m. to de-
(See MURDER, Page 6)
Runs Second
On$l Fines
PORT JERVIS, N. Y. (IP) —A
crackdown on overtime park-
ing caught up with Asst. Dist.
Atty. Jerome Cohen.
“I must have the record so
far,” he remarked Tuesday to
the desk sergeant at the police
station as he paid four $1
fines.
“No, I’m sorry,” replied the
sergeant. “Vou don’t have the
record. William J. Gregg his
it.”
Gregg, who has six fines, is
the city court judge.
Soviet Union Proposes
Slash in Armed Forces
GENEVA UP) — The Soviet Un-
ion today proposed that the Unit-
ed States, the U.S.S.R. and Red
China cut their armed' forces to
1,700,000 men each within 18
months.
Soviet Delegate Valerian A. Zo-
rin made the proposal to the 10-
nation disarmament conference at
a closed session during which
the five Western allies formally
submitted their three-stage plan
to halt the arms race. The West-
ern plan was made public Tues-
New Policy
Bombers Return
Demanded by U.S.
WASHINGTON (®—'The United
States has demanded immediate
reiturn of five B26 medium bomb-
ers which it claims the Dom-
inican government acquired ille-
gally.
Informed authorities who dis-
closed ithis Itoday said the five
American - built planes, rebuilt
(twin-engine models used during
World War II, have shown up as
parit of the Dominican air force
although arms shipments have
been banned to the Caribbean
area for two years.
The aircraft were shipped by
a Miami exporter last year with
assurances they were going to
Chile to be used in aerial photo-
graphy work. Chilean authorities
report the planes never arrived.
First Lunch Counter
Peacefully Integrated
SAN ANTONIO UP) — The first nounced Tuesday night that busi-
lunch counter in downtown San
Antonio was integrated without
incident today.
The S. H. Kress Co. opened its
lunch counter on an integrated
basis this morning and wilthin a
few minutes, about 20 whites
and four Negroes were served.
There was no disturbance. The
Negroes sat at one end of the
lunch space and 'the whites at the
other.
A number of lunch counter op-
erators met with religious lead-
ers of the city Tuesday and de-
cided on the integration policy.
A quietly jubilant leader of the
National Assn, for the Advance-
ment of Colored People called the
action “A practical approach to
Christianity.”
But local religious leaders, rep-
resenting nearly every faith, an-
nessmen with whom they met
had agreed “to serve all cus-
tomers with their regular cour-
tesy.”
A joint statement of the reli-
gious leaders said it was hoped
“that within a month many other
(See COUNTER, Page 6)
Big Areas of Midwest
Lashed by Late Storm
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A blustery snowstorm landed
another wintery blow today at
broad areas in the Midwest, al-
ready punchy from a month of
heavy snow and unseasonable
cold.
The new storm, powered by
easterly winds of 20 to 35 m.p.h.,
dumped heavy snow from eastern
Kansas and northern Missouri as
it swept northeastward.
Fog reduced visibility to zero
in the Brownsville area Wednes-
day morning but the dust that
filled the skies over Texas Tues-
day drifted out of the state.
The dust blew in from West
Texas Tuesday and passed
through North Central and' North-
east Texas. By early Wednesday
the dust had drifted eastward out
of the state or had settled.
Fog formed around Alice
Wednesday and extended south-
ward into Brownsville.
High clouds covered the Texas
Panhandle and extended south-
ward into the Midland area. The
rest of the state had clear to
partly cloudy skies.
The five-day forecast issued
Wednesday calls for temperatures
5 to 10 degrees below normal in
Eastern and Central Texas with
precipitation moderate to heavy
in showers about Thursday and
Sunday.
The fresh snow fell atop a cov-
ering more than a foot high in
many places in Kansas, northern
southern Iowa.
Heavy snow warnings were is-
sued from northern Missouri
northward through Iowa and into
southeastern Minnesota and' east-
ward across Illinois and parts of
Wisconsin, Indiana and lower
Michigan.
The severe late winter storm
kept schools closed in many
areas. Office and factories also
shut down in some sections. Driv-
ing conditions throughout the
snow belt were hazardous and
travel was sharply curtailed.
Oil Allowable
For April Cut
AUSTIN UP) — The Texas Rail-
road Commission cut today the
April statewide oil allowable by
123,029 barrels per day, fixing
the allowable at 2,814,252 barrels
per day based on a 9-day produc-
tion pattern.
The commission issued its
order in the face of strong de-
mands to slash the allowable to
eight days, which would have
been a cut of more than 300,000
barrels per day. A majority of
the oil-buying companies and the
independent oil producers urged
the eighlt-day schedule.
C of C Lists
Test Growers
Of Soybeans
Considerable interest has been
shown toward the Chamber of
Commerce’s soybean test pro-
gram.
Seeking 20 farmers to plant
five-acre plots, 26 farmers have
signed to take part in the test-
ing project.
Under the Chamber’s plan
enough seed for 20-five-acre plots
is being furnished the farmers
by the Chamber. The farmers are
being asked to locate their test
plots near a road to provide easy
inspection by those interested.
Missouri, southeast Nebraska and The Chamber will provide a sign
designating the teslt plat.
Although ithe Chamber
day and got a chilly reception
from the Soviets.
The Soviet plan—which has not
been formally put before the con-
ference—is based on Soviet Pre-
mier Nikita Khrushchev’s propos-
al to the U. N. General Assembly
last September that all nations
disarm completely within a four-
year period.
Zorin said the Soviet plan also
calls for disarmament in three
stages. Paralleling the troop cuts
for the three biggest powers, he
proposed that Britain and’ France
reduce their larmed forces to
650,000 men each.
The United States now has a-
bout 2Vz million men in uniform.
The U.S.S.R. says it has 3,623,-
000, but Khrushchev has announc-
ed 1,200,000 will be demobilized
within the next year or so. U. S.
military officials estimate Red
China has 2,600,000 men in its
army and an air force large
enough to man 2,000 jets.
The Western plan calls for the
United States and Soviet Union to
hold their forces to 2% million
men each in the first stage, and
to cut them to 2,100,000 in the
second stage, with corresponding
reductions in other countries. The
plan sets no timetable for the
stages.
Zorin told a news conference
after the session that under the
Soviet plan, all stages of disar-
mament would be supervised by
an international control organiza-
tion and an inspection system. In
previous disarmament negotia-
tions, however, Soviet and West-
ern ideas of an adequate control
system have been far apart.
In the second stage of the So-
viet plan, said Zorin, all armed'
forces would be disbanded and all
foreign bases would be liquidated.
This could be completed within
two years, he said.
ly with policies pursued by Pres-
ident Eisenhower.
Goldwater, who heads the Re-
publican Senatorial Campaign
Committee, had what he called
“hard counsel” for both Eisen-
hower and Nixon. In some quar-
ters his blast was interpreted as
indicating conservatives will de-
mand a strong voice in writing
the party platform foreign af-
fairs plank.
Goldwater advocated breaking
off relations and negotiations with
the Soviet Union. He proposed
staging a “test of wills”—which
he said could end in war—with
the Soviets under conditions and
in a location picked by the United
States, He urged “risks on our
terms, instead of on Communist
terms.”
There were more Goldwater
suggestions. But these were e-
nough to draw the fire of Sen.
John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky),
who calls himself a liberal. He
said Goldwater’s proposals sound-
ed a lot like those which former
Sen. William F. Knowland of Cal-
ifornia, once the GOP floor lead-
er, used to make in the Senate.
Cooper said in an interview
that “the worst thing that could
happen right now would be to
withdraw American recognition
of Russia and to refuse to ne-
gotiate.”
“I agree with Sen. Goldwater
that world tensions are created
only by the Russians and' they
could relax them at any time
they chose,” he said. “But the
JOHN GRIFFITH
Bank Elects
John Griffith
As Chairman
John M. Griffith, a director of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Dal-
las, is ■ the new chairman of the
board of the Bank of Commerce
of Fort Worth.
His election at a meeting of the
board of directors here was an-
nounced by bank President Berl
E. Godfrey, who also had served'
as chairman for several years.
Godfrey said, “It is highly pleas-
ing to all of us associated with
the bank that Mr. Griffith has
agreed to serve in this important
capacity.”
In other action, the board e-
world is in danger because of lected John M. Griffith, Jr., as a ,LO secure CUIlsULULU>Iiai
those tensions and the only pos- vice-president of the bank. Pre-*rights Such marching and dem.
sible way to settle the issues isfviously he was an assistant bank.oniStraiting has been reCognized
examiner for the State Banking
by negotiation.”
Cooper said world opinion would
not support American refusal to
deal further with the Soviets, a
view in which Sen. George D.
Aiken (R-Ot.) concurred.
Aiken, a Senate Foreign Rela-
tions committeeman who lists
himself as a liberal, said he
doesn’t think Eisenhower or Nix-
on will follow Goldwater’s ad-
vice on that score.
“I think the majority of Repub-
licans recognize that we are going
to have to continue to deal with
a nation with which we disagree,
Aiken said.
Goldwater admittedly aimed
his remarks at Eisenhower. He
said he had been writing his
speech for some time and wanted
to get it on the record before
(See POLICY, Page 6)
LIBRARY DONATION
A gift to the Taylor Public
Library Fund' has been received
In the third stage all types of I in memory of Thomas R. Lane of
(See SOVIET, Page 6) Thrall.
desig-
nated no specific areas for ithe
teslt plots, they will be repre-
sented throughout the Taylor
trade area, extending ito Thorn-
dale, Bartlett, Hutto, and Coup-
land. The plots will fall on vari-
ous soil types, providing a more
conclusive tedt.
Les Box, Chamber manager,
said farmers having signed in
excess of 20 are still urged to
plant their test plot, although
they might have ito pay for their
seed.
Here are the farmers (that will
grow ithe test plots:
Ernest Rohlack, Alfred Pfluger,
Erwin Pfluger, Henry Vitek, Al-
fred Viltek, Harry Zeplin, Arthur
Katter, Herbert Wuthrich, Julius
Sorenson, Romeo John, W. A.
Winterrowd, “Dusty” Rhoades,
Ted A. Pekar, Alfred Leschber,
A. J. Zrubek, Charles Eschberg-
er, Charlie Wendland, Theodore
Brikmeyer, Frank Faltyn, Ru-
dolph Werchan, Julius Wiittliff,
Herbert Fuchs, Emzy Barker,
Arnold Zrubek, Mr. Mungerson,
and Ted Wittliff.
Mr. Box said the Chamber will
order the seed, have it delivered
to a central location and farmers
will be notified when it arrives.
- LATE NEWS BRIEFS -
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAWYERS PICK CALVERT, DAVIDSON
AUSTIN — A political poll of Texas lawyers showed
Robert Calvert as the favorite for chief justice of the State
Supreme Court and Lloyd Davidson for re-elecion to the
Court of Criminal Appeals. Calvert received 4,231 votes and
Robert Hughes 2,573.
CHURCH BOARD COMMENDS DEMONSTRATORS
CHICAGO — The Methodist Church’s Board of Social
and Economic Relations commended Southern Negroes con-
ducting sit-in demonstrations conducted in a “dignified,
non-violent manner” and Southern police forces which lhave
prevented chaos. The boaird called the sit-ins a “challenge
to community responsibility.”
U.S. DESTRUCTIVE POWER CALLED STRONGER
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates
Jr. testified today that this country surpasses the Soviet
Union “seveiral times” in total destructive power of its nu-
clear weapons and capacity for delivering them. Gates flatly
rejected suggestions this country should match the Soviet
“missile for missile.”
UNDERGROUND BLAST IN NEW MEXICO PLANNED
WASHINGTON — The Atomic Energy Commission
today announced plans for an underground nuclear test in
New Mexico next year. The AEC said final authorization to
detonate the 10-kiloton nuclear explosive—packing the punch
of 10,000 tons of TNT—will be up to Eisenhower.
FAUBUS TO SEEK FOURTH TERM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Gov. Orval E. Faubus announced
today he will seek an unprecedented fourth term. Faubus,
who defied the federal government in Little Rock’s school
integration crisis of 1957, vowed to continue his stand
against “the usurpation of the people’s rights.”
Department, stationed in the Fort
Worth district.
The new board chairman, a di-
rector of the Bank of Commerce
since January, 1959, is promin-
ent in Texas banking. He is a
former president of the Texas
Bankers Association. He is chair-
man of the board of the Farmers
State Bank of Bertram, Texas;
president of the City National
Bank of Taylor, where he resides,
and an advisory director of the
First City National Bank of Hous-
ton.
He also is president of the Tay-
lor Savings and Loan Associa-
tion, board chairman of the Tay-
lor Manufacturing Company, a
director of the Texas Power &
Light Company, a member of the
American Bankers Association’s
(See BANK, Page 6)
Interstate 35
Job in County
Nears Finish
Taylor Press Austin Bureau
AUSTIN—The State Highway
Department reported about $40,-
000 worth of highway work done
during February on four Will
iamson County projects and one
in Travis County as the IH 35
project became virtually co
plete.
Dean Word Co. spent $1,012 on
the 0.4 miles of IH 35 running
north from the Travis County line.
The new concrete pavement is
now 98 per cent complete. The
$181,719 contract was let in May,
1958 and allowed 250 working days
for completion. Word has used
255 days and has spent an esti-
mated $185,854.
Word spent $17,922 on the 3.1
mile stretch running from the
Williamson County line south in-
to Travis Counity and the $1,038
721 project is now 98 per cent
complete. Word has used 255
working days on the contract
which allowed 250 and has spent
an estimated $1,002,902.
On IH 35 two miles north of
Round Rock, M. E. Ruby and
D. B. Denney, Jr., have the
4.1 miles of new concrete pav-
ing 92 per cent complete, spend-
ing $7,771 during February to-
ward ithe $2,501,762 contract. So
far, 214 of the allowed 350 work-
ing days have been used on the
(See INTERSTATE, Page 6)
WASHINGTON (ff) — President Eisenhower pub-
licly endorsed Vice President Richard M. Nixon today
as his choice for the Republican presidential nomination.
Eisenhower made it plain at a news conference that
he supports Nixon, who at this point has no opposition
for the nomination. He went on to say that if anyone
is wondering whether he has any preference or bias as
to a choice for the GOP presi- ‘
Move Planned
For Carole's
Jail Release
LOS ANGELES ® — Carole
Tregoff’s attorneys will try to
get her out of jail Thursday.
The prosecution is determined
to keep her behind bars.
Carole’s three lawyers met with
Superior Count Judge John Barnes
behind closed doors Tuesday to
discuss the procedure for getting
Carole released on bail, dismiss-
ing charges against her or getting
a separate trial for the pretty
ex-model.
They will make formal motions
Thursday—all of which Dist. Atity.
William McKesson has said he
will oppose.
Carole, 23, and Dr. R. Ber-
nard Finch, 42, a society surgeon,
are accused of murdering Bar-
bara Jean Finch, 36, the doctor’s
wife, lastt July 18.
A" mistrial was declared last
Saturday after jurors announced
they were unable to reach a un-
animous verdict. The jury re-
portedly voted 10-2 to convict the
doctor and 8-4 to acquit his one-
time receptionist. The prosecu-
tion is seeking a speedy retrial.
Carole’s attorneys seek her re-
lease on bail on grounds no new
evidence has been produced
against her and holding a defend-
ant without bail requires a high
probability of conviction. This,
they say, is now lacking in Car-
ole’s case.
dential nomination, the answer
very definitely is yes.
A little later he made it crys-
tal clear that his preference is
Nixon.
That happened when a report-
er asked whether he had Nixon
in mind in talking about whether
he had any bias in the matter.
In reply, the President fired a
question of his own. It was: Was
there any douht in your mind?
At his first news conference in
a month, Eisenhower also dealt
with these other topics:
SEGREGATION — Commenting
on Negroes demonstrating against
segregation practices in the
South, Eisenhower said he de-
plores the use of any violence in-
tended to prevent Negroes from
exercising their constitutional
rights.
■So long as such demonstrations
are orderly, he sees no objection
to them, the President said.
He took the position that vio-
lence in any form will not ad-
vance the cause for minorities.
His remarks were against Ithe
background of big-scale jailing
of Negroes who have demonstrat-
ed against segregation of the
races in restaurants and other
places in the South.
The President emphasized that
he was talking about what he
called orderly marching in an
sffort to secure constitutional
as constitutional for many years,
Eisenhower said.
CIVIL RIGHTS — Eisenhower
reaffirmed his support of the ad-
ministration’s seven-point civil
rights bill.
The President asserted he
wants the best civil rights bill
he can get. Without saying so
specifically, he indicated he
will press for restoration in ithe
Senate of any section of the ad-
ministration bill scuttled by the
House.
RACIAL CONFERENCES— Ei-
senhower once again rejected the
idea of a White House conference
dealing with racial strife, but he
said every city in the South ought
to arrange for conferences to deal
with this problem.
There already is too much
Washington interference in mat-
ters which should be handled lo-
cally, the President said.
POLITICS — Eisenhower left
the door open for an invitation
from the Republican National
Committee for him to make
the keynote address at the
party’s national convention open
ing July 25 in Chicago.
In reply to a question, the
President said he has not at this
time been invited ito make the
address. He said that if he is
asked to help the party in any
way, he certainly will do so. But
he added there are certain lim
(See IKE, Page 6)
$97 Taken Here
In Burglary
The cash register ait ithe West
Second Humble Service Station
was burglarized Tuesday after-
noon and $97 in bills was taken.
Jerry McCray, manager of the
service station at 205 West Se-
cond Street, said the money was
taken around 5:40 p.m. while he
was outside of the office serving
a customer. He discovered' the
money missing as he opened the
register to get change.
Only bills were taken. Left be-
hind was all silver, including sev-
eral rolls of nickles and quarters.
Mr. McCray said he noticed no
one around the station or in the
office around the time the money
was taken. He told city police he
had opened ithe register at 5:25
and the money was there. “I
was out of the office about five
minutes when I returned and
found the money missing” he
said.
Big TV Winner Seeks
Job as Census Taker
ST. LOUIS, Mo. UP) — Teddy
Nadler, the St. Louis clerk who
won $264,000 on television quiz
shows, is trying ito get a $13-a-
day job as a census taker.
“I’m broke,” said Nadler. “I
need money.”
To get the job, which will last
for about two weeks, he must pass
a vocabulary and map reading
test.
“I understand it’s a tough job
and a tough test,” he said. “I
hope I can pass.”
Nadler, who has a photograph-
ic memory, ground out answers
to difficult questions steadily
from 1956 through 1958 on TV
quiz shows. His answers sounded
as if they were pouring out of a
recording machine, which is what
some persons claim Nadler vir-
tually is.
When his television appearances
ended, Nadler couldn’t find work.
He says he has had “a lot of
doctor bills and some bad callers
who gave me bad advice.”
Some time ago, Nadler, who
lives in suburban University City
with his wife and three sons, pre-
dicted he would be broke in short
order unless he golt a job quickly.
The Census Bureau office will
test Nadler and 75 other appli-
cants Thursday. Officials describ-
ed the test as simple.
Nadler said he has been “work-
ing around the house” since he
left show business. He was a $70-
a-week government clerk before
he became famous on the quiz
shows.
“If I pass ithe test, I’m going
to be an ordinary census taker,”
said Nadler. “I’m just plain old
Teddy Nadler now. I’m tired of
all this publicity.”
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