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Shop in Taylor
Throughout The
New Year
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Full Leased Wire Report of The Associated Press—World’s Greatest News Service
Occasional Rain
Cloudy with occasional rain and no important temperature
change Monday night and Tuesday.
Today’s Range: 34-48. Tomorrow’s Range: 40-50.
Yesterday’s High: 45. Rainfall: .02.
Tomorrow’s Sunrise: 7:29 a.m. Sunset: 5:44 p.m.
Moonrise Today: 11:43 a.m. Moonset Tomorrow: 12:10 a.m.
Lake Levels: Travis: 677.59’. Buchanan: 1016.84’.
U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast for
Taylor and Williamson County
VOLUME 47, NUMBER 13
SIX PAGES
TAYLOR, TEXAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1960
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Associated Press
Price Five Cents
Holiday Death Toll
Soars Far in Excess
Of Previous Guesses
Delayed Reports Push
Total to New Record
By THE associated press But the National Safety Coun
...................... 36( j nil, which had estimated a traf-
^Tires ........................ 6'
Miscellaneous .............. 74
Total ..................... 501
Traffic fatalities soared todaj
(to a new record for a three-daj
New Year holiday.
Delayed reports of traffic
deaths across the country tha:
occurred before midnight Sun
day pushed the toll to 366, ex
ceeding the old record of 364 set
during the 1955-56 New Year’s
weekend.
The traffic fatalities, deaths
in fires and in miscellaneous ac-
cidents also appeared likely to
top the overall record for any
three-day New Year holiday. The
record of 513 was set in the 1955-
1956 holiday period.
Violence Kills
Fifty Texans
On Holidays
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas took a major share in
what appeared to be a record toll
of traffic deaths across the na-
tion for a three-day New Year
holiday.
The state—with a total of 50
killed in violence—counted 26 traf-
fic deaths. Delayed reports of fa-
ities on the highways during
holiday weekend were expect-
to add to both the state and
national tolls.
The most recent deaths by vio-
lence reported to The Associated.
Press were included in these in-
cidents:
James Franklin Smith, 20, of
Graham died Sunday of injuries
received' Saturday when the car
in which he was riding collided
with another vehicle, four miles
north of Graham near the home
of the youths parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Smith.
Juan Gonzales, 52, Rio Hondo
farmer, was killed Saturday when
three cars collided near his home.
Esteher Dean Henderson, 7, died
when fire destroyed' her home at
Longview Sunday.
Mrs. Ruth Stovall, about 40, of
Dallas, was killed Sunday night
when a car carrying six persons
collided with a Southern Pacific
freight train at a crossing in Dal-
las. Five other persons were in-
jured.
Lee Alexander Jr., 21, serving
two years from Dallas County,
was slashed to death Sunday at
the Ramsey State Prison Farm
near Angleton. Prison System of-
ficials said murder charges will
be filed' against Arthur J. Nathan-
iel, 27, serving 99 years from Nu-
eces County.
Jose Tineda, 50, of El Paso died
Saturday of injuries he received
when hit by a car New Year’s
Day.
#
tie toll of 320, said it did not be-
lieve the final figures would sur-
)ass the record traffic total for
:he holiday—409 in the four-da^
period in 1956-1957.
The count started at 6 p.m. lo-
jal time Thursday and ended at
midnight Sunday.
Deaths on ;the highway, many
in multi-fatal accidents, were far
below the heavy toll of 493 re-
ported in the three-day Christ
mas weekend. However, more
persons lost their lives in fires
during the New Year period. The
number killed in miscellaneous
type accidents was about the j |§§|
same. Traffic generally is light
er and travel distances shorter
during the New Year period.
Tragic reports of crashes came
from across the country. Only a
few states reported no deaths.
One of the worst accidents killed
nine persons in Florida Saturday
in a crash of a station wagon
and auto. Five women and two
men were killed in a skiding auto
crash Sunday near Saginaw,
Mich. Four members of a family
died Saturday when their car
and a bus collided in Indiana. A
car stalled at a grade crossing
near Casey, 111., Sunday and was
hit by a train, killing three per-
sons. Two others escaped.
Topping .the traffic fatalities
was Michigan, with more than
30. Heavy tolls also were re-
ported in Texas, Florida, New
York and California, each re
porting more than 20 deaths.
In the 1958-59 holiday period
a four-day observance, 277 per-
sons were killed in traffic acci-
dents.
The 1959 traffic death toll has
been estimated at from 37,500 to
38,000, slightly above 100 a day.
The Associated Press in a sur-
vey during a non-holiday period
of 78 hours, from 6 p.m. Thurs-
day Dec. 10 to midnight Sun-
day, Dec. 13, recorded 324 deaths
in traffic accidents. The survey
also showed 22 killed in fires and
68 deaths in miscellaneous acci-
dents, for a total of 414.
Steel Industry, Union
Settle Long Dispute
Taylorite Appointed Today
Garrett Named Executive Director
Texas Animal Health Commission
NO ELECTION NOW
AUSTIN rn — The State Board
of Education decided today that
Midland should noit, at this time,
have an election to create a pub-
lic junior college.
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n o m axt e r« t- & m
“FIRST” FOR NIKITA—Portrayed as a youthful-
looking miner, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
is shown demolishing a cold-war snowman in a
Pravda cartoon titled, “Just Like a Miner.” It’s
the first time the Red boss has been pictured in
cartoon form in a U.S.S.R. paper, although he was
once depicted in a Hungarian publication in cartoon
style during his U.S. visit.
Anti-Semitic Outbursts
Spread Around World
Taylor Press Austin Bureau
AUSTIN—Dr. R. G. Garrett
Taylor’s Outstanding Citizen in
1956 and the man who helped to
get the Brushy Creek small dams
projects under way, was named
executive director of the Texas
Animal Health Commission Mon-
day.
Dr. Garrett, who has been as-
sistant director since Sept. 1, 1959,
will replace Dr. L. R. Noyes,
whose retirement becomes effec-
tive January 31.
Frank Scofield, chairman of the
seven-man commission, made the
announcement. Dr. Noyes was
named executive director in Sep-
tember, 1957 when the commission
was called the Texas Sanitary
Livestock Commission and was
headquartered in Fort Worth. The
commission’s name was changed
after they moved to Austin last
September.
Dr. Garrett was born at Ante-
lope in Jack County and gradu-
ated from high school at Bellvue
in Clay County in 1935. He attend-
ed John Tarleton College for one
year, and then Texas A&M where
Bill, 13, and Thomas, 14 months, Garrett started backing the $8,000,-
They were married in 1942.
Dr. Garrett was named Taylor’s
Outstanding Citizen at the Cham-
ber of Commerce’s annual ban-
quet in 1956. The award is spon-
sored by local service Club. Dr.
000 community channel clearance
and flood control project for
Brushy Creek in 1953.
He testified before the U.S.
Senate and House commission on
(See NAMED, Page 6)
By the associated press buildings and homes of Jews with he received a doctor of veterinary DR. B. G. GARRETT
Government's Terms
Accepted Voluntarily
WASHINGTON ® — The eight
month steel dispute was' settled
today.
Secretary of Labor James P.
Mitchell, looking tired and hag-
gard, announced that the United
Steelworkers Union and the in-
dustry have “voluntarily” accept-
ed terms recommended by him-
self and Vice President Richard
M. Nixon.
Georgia White House'
Elated Over Settlement
AUGUSTA, Ga. </?) — Elation
over settlement of the steel
strike enveloped the temporary
White House 'today, although
President Eisenhower himself
was officially silent.
The President, White House
press secretary James C. Ha-
gerty, said “has stayed in verj-
close touch with the develop-
ments.”
Hagerty said he has done that
by telephone since he came tc
the South for a working vacation
a week ago Sunday and in per-
sonal . conferences before that
Anti-Semitic outbursts under the
banner of the swastika spread
over the weekend from West Ger-
many around the world—including
the United States.
Sneak raiders with paint brush-
es smeared synagogues, public
Library Donations
Announced Here
the Nazi symbol and slogans de-
nouncing Jews.
medicine degree in 1941.
Dr. Garrett began his practice
Jewish and government leaders in Taylor Shortly after graduation,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Bul-
lion have given $100 to the Tay-
lor Public Library Fund. This
qualifies them as sponsors and
their names will be placed in
the permanent sponsor’s book.
A gift to the library fund has
been received from Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Rainey. And a gift in
memory of J. E. (Tim) Reagor
of Georgetown, grandfather of
Gene Rydell of Taylor, has also
been received.
LATE NEWS BRIEFS
President Expected
To Visit Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (A3) — Fresh from his
marathon swing through Europe, Asia and Africa, Presi-
dent Eisenhower is expected to visit Buenos Aires late
next month as part of a four-nation Latin American tour.
Foreign Minister Diogenes Taboda announced Sun-
day night that Eisenhower will arrive in the Argentine
capital Feb. 24 or 25 for a two-day visit. He made the
disclosure after conferring with
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FAMOUS FRENCH NOVELIST DIES IN WRECK
SENS, France — Albert Camus, French novelist who
won ithe Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, was killed today
in an automobile crash near Paris. He was 47 years old.
Three other persons in the car were injured.
STEEL STRIKE COST MORE THAN $6 BILLION
PITTSBURGH — The 116-day steel strike cost more
than six billion dollars in wage and production losses. The
half-million siteelworfceirs lost an estimated $1,160,000,000 in
wages. Lost steel production totaled nearly five billion
dollars, based on pre-stirike operations.
39-CENT INCREASE BELIEVED APPROVED
PITTSBURGH — An informed source told The Asso-
ciated Press today that the new steel-labor agreement reached
in Washington provides for an estimated 39-cent hourly
package increase over the next 30 months.
CASTRO ASSASSINATION OR OVERTHROW SEEN
NEW YORK — Stanley Ross, editor in chief of the
Spanish-language newspaper, El Diario, said today that
Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba will be assassinated
or overthrown within 30 to 60 days. Ross said an invasion
of Cuba is being prepared witih “some five thousand men,
iready to start, not from the Dominican Republic as Castro
seems to think, but some other area of the Caribbean.”
EXPORTS OF COTTON BY U.S. DOUBLED
WASHINGTON — The Foreign Agricultural Service
reported today that U.S. exports of cotton in November
totaled 652,000 bales, more than double the amount sold
abroad during November 1958. The November shipments
also were 66 per cent above those made in October.
Argentine President Arturo Fron-
dizi.
There was no confirmation oi
the visit from Washington, but
reports have been circulating in
the U.S. capital that Eisenhower
plans to visit Uruguay, Argen-
tina and Chile after visiting
Brazil’s new capital, Brasilia, in
late February.
In Augusta, Ga., where the
President is vacationing, press
secretary James C. Hagerty
would not confirm ithe Argentine
announcement. Last week Hag-
erty told reporters a Latin-Am-
erican tour was under study.
Earlier reports from Rio de
Janeiro said Eisenhower was ex-
pected to fly from the United
States ito Brasilia, in east cen-
tral Brazil, then fly on to Rio
for a brief visit.
According (to Ithe Rio reports,
the President would then sail
aboard a U.S. cruiser to Monte-
video, Uruguay, and Buenos
Aires, then fly to Santiago, the
Chilean capital.
Relations between the United
States and Brazil worsened last
year when President Juscelino
Kubitschek’s government re-
fused to put into effect economic
reforms advocated by the In-
ternational Monetary Fund as a
condition for the granting of
credits and eventual U, S. loans
to Brazil.
Kubitschek made a friendly
gesture in his New Year’s ad-
1 dress, however, saying there had
1 (See VISIT, Page 6)
showed growing alarm over the
flareup—now in its 12th day—
but were divided on whether it
signified a resurgence of naziism
and other forms of fascism or was
mainly the work of malcontents,
hooligans and crackpots.
The swastika and anti-Jewish
slogans emerged in widely scat-
tered places across eight coun-
tries in Western Europe, in New
York and in Australia.
The Hitler symbol was painted
on three Jewish houses of wor-
ship in New York City—including
the fashionable Temple Emanu-el
on Fifth avenue.
Dr. Julius Mark, chief rabbi of
the temple, called the smearers
“just individuals with twisted and
distorted minds who derive sev-
age delight from participating in
a kind of chain reaction of anti-
social behavior.”
Dr. Mark and Rabbi Max May-
er, leader of a temple in Long
Island that was smeared, said the
incidents would probably increase
but both predicted they would
“soon blow over.”
“I don’t attach any importance
to it,” said Rabbi Meyer.
But another New York rabbi
whose temple was defaced—Rabbi
David Goldberg of the Corona
Jewish Center—charged “this is
definitely an organized group
which is no doubt getting ideas
from reports of anti-Semitic inci-
dents in Europe.”
and continued it until 1950 when
Dr. Hudson Jones and Dr. Hor-
race Barron bought it.
Dr. Garrett then moved to his
farm, a 1,140-acre spread 18
miles east of Taylor. He also owns
another 740-acre farm in William-
son County. Dr. Garrett stayed
on the farm where he raised
sheep, cattle, maize and milo un-
til 1955 when he moved back to
Taylor to take up his practice
again.
Since then he has spent the
summers on the farm. Dr. Garrett
now lives at 1602 Lexington in
Taylor with his wife, the former
Gertrude Werchan of Taylor, and
their three children, Susan, 16,
N. C. Officials
Due to Pick
Up Escapees
The escapees from Durham,
North Carolina prison captured in
Thorndale Friday night remain in
the Milam County jail awaiting
authorities from North Carolina
to return them to that state.
J. D. Wilson, supervisor of the
North Carolina Prison Depart-
ment, notified Milam County Sher-
iff Carl Black that their author-
Light Snow and Sleet
Cover Texas Sections
Light snow and sleet hit wide sections of Texas
Monday and clouds covered the state.
However, no important, temperature changes are
due in the Taylor-Williamson County area, with a
range of 40 to 50 degrees forecast Tuesday after today’s
low of 34.
Cloudy weather with occasional rain is forecast
for Monday night and Tuesday.
The national Weather picture re-
veals icy air and gusty wind's
spread across wide areas of the
country today but stormy weath-
er diminished in most sections.
The Texas snow and sleet, most
of which melted as it struck the
ground, began Sunday night in
the San Angelo area and spread
northeastward to the Dallas-Fort
Worth area by around 2 a. m..
the Associated Press said.
By 4 a. m., the Weather Bureau
said, most of the precipitation had
changed to a cold, slow rain.
There was some icing on roads
but as far as could be determined
all thoroughfares remained open
to traffic.
Police advised caution in all sec-
tions because of the danger of
icing.
Temperatures at 5 a. m. ranged
(See SNOW, Page 6)
Fugitive Charged
With Murder Try
An attempted murder charge
has been added to that of car
theft against Otis Cooks, Negro
still at large who Friday night
shot and slightly injured one man
and took the pickup truck in which
they were riding.
The pickup, owned by a Mr.
Wilson of Little River, was lo-
cated abandoned Sunday in the
south part of Elgin where it
ran out of gas. It was found by
Constable Ned Fails.
The shooting incident and theft
of the pickup occurred on highway
95 about one mile north of Taylor.
Cooks was picked up in Bartlett
by the two Negroes in the pick-
(See CHARGED, Page 6)
with Vice President Richard M.
Nixon and Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell.
There was no immediate state-
ment on ;the settlement for sev-
eral, possible reasons. For one
thing, there remained the formal-
ities of ratification by both sides.
And perhaps more important,
there was no immediate word on
whether the agreement would re-
sult in a boost in ithe price of
steel.
Hagerty was silent, too, on
what the settlement might mean
to the political fortunes of Nix-
on.
“How would I know? Hagerty
parried when questioned about
this.
Hagerty sketched over this
background at a news confer-
ence:
Nixon not only is vice presi-
dent but also is chairman of the
Cabinet Committee for Price
Stability and Economic Growth.
Before he left Dec. 3 on his
good will trip (to 11 nations, the
President had a long talk with
Nixon and Mitchell about the
steel Strike. So the two were
working on presidential instruc-
tions in initiating meets with
both sides from time to time.
Back in Washington after his
trip, the chief executive met once
with Nixon and once with Nix-
on and Mitchell. Since he has
The secretary made his an-
nouncement to newsmen assembl-
ed in the banquet room of the
Sheraton-Carlton Hotel after a 22-
hour continuous negotiating ses-
sion.
Mitchell, flanked by President
David J. McDonald of the USW
and the chief industry negotiator,
R. Conrad Cooper said he and
Nixon had been mediating for the
past several weeks at President
Eisenhower’s request.
As a result, he said, the differ-
ences between the parties were
narrowed to the point where the
government-recommended, settle-
ment was accepted voluntarily.
McDonald said the union’s Wage
Policy Committee had been sum-
moned to meet in Washington at
2 p.m. Tuesday. He will present
the settlement terms to the com-
mittee.
Mitchell said that pending rati-
fication by both sides the terms
would be withheld.
Without going into the terms,
McDonald said the settlement
means peace and prosperity for
the steelworkers. He added that
the union is “sound, safe and se-
cure.”
Cooper said in a statement that
“naturally we are relieved that
this controversy is over and that
the nationwide fear of another
steel strike on Jan. 26 has been
removed,”
The Jan. 26 date is the time
when the Taft-Hartley labor law
injunction, under which the men
are now at work, would expire.
Lacking a settlement, the union
would have been free to strike
again then.
Cooper said ine recommended
settlement represents a compro-
mise which goes beyond what the
companies had previously offered.
“But it is clear that in light of
all the circumstances at hand, the
best course of action was for the
companies to accept the recom-
mended settlement,” Cooper said.
“We hope that the union officers
at all levels and the steelworkers
they represent will join hands with
been in Augusta, Eisenhower management in a unified effort to
has contacted Nixon a number improve efficiency and eliminate
(See HOUSE, Page 6) | (See UNION, Page 6)
ities would pick up the escapees
Two swastikas also were paint- as soon as they signed extradition
ed on the windows of a vacant
building which had been the head-
quarters of the Corona post of
Jewish War Veterans.
West German government offi-
cials were openly worried and
strove to check the wave of hate
(See SPREAD, Page 6)
Lynching Case
Considered by
Grand Jury
BILOXI, Miss. ®—An orderly,
integrated crowd filled a federal
courtroom today as 22 white
men and one Negro formed a
grand jury to consider possible
indictments in the Mack Charles
Parker lynching case.
Negroes and whites sat side
by side on one side of the court-
room. Groups of Negroes hud-
dled together on the other side
as U.S. Dist. Judge Sidney Mize
charged the jury.
The 22-year-old Parker, ac-
cused of raping a pregnant
white woman, was kidnaped from
the jail at Poplarville last April.
His body was found 10 days later
near Bogalusa, La., in the Pearl
River.
Mize cautioned the jury that all
(See CASE, Page 6)
waivers. Sheriff Black said the
waivers -were being prepared this
morning.
Only two of the men, Alton
Reardon, 42, and Dewey Lee Dun-
can, 26, were wanted by North
Carolina authorities. The third
man, Duncan’s brother, James
Duncan, 23, had been released
from prison, according to Sheriff
Black. All three will be returned
to North Carolina.
The arrest of the trio came
near midnight Friday when state,
county and local law enforce-
ment officers made a surprise
raid on the Thorndale residence
where they were known to be via
a tip to Constable Ned Fails in
Taylor. They gave up without in-
cident. Although they were re-
ported to be armed, no weapons
were found.
Sheriff Black at first thought
the trio might be connected' with
the New Year’s burglary of the
Highway Package Store in Thorn-
dale. However, liquor bottles
found in the trio’s car did not
come from the place entered, vir-
tually clearing them in the case.
Said Sheriff Black, "We have
nothing on them, here.
Taking part in the raid were
Texas Rangers Dudley White and
Jim Riddle, Sheriff Black and
his deputy, Texas highway pat-
rolmen from Cameron, Taylor
and Georgetown, Constable Fails
and Taylor Police Chief A. O.
“Pete” Schier.
A..:;.
NEW HATS MODELED—Visiting dignitaries in Sherman for the “Sam Ray-
burn Day” luncheon were fitted with Texas-style hats when they gathered for
a pre-luncheon coffee. Shown seated, left to right, are: Sen. Mike Monroney of
Okla., who introduced Speaker Rayburn; Speaker Sam Rayburn, and Sen. Lyn-
don Johnson. Standing, left to right, are: Vincent Burke, Washington news-
man; Rep. Walter Rogers, Pampa; A1 Cromley, Daily Oklahoman Washington
correspondent; Rep. George Kasem, Calif.; Rep. Homer Thornberry, Austin;
Rep. Frank Ikard, Wichita Falls; Rep. Omar Burleson, Anson, and Rep. Joe
Kilgore of McAllen. —AP Wirephoto;
Ex-Convict Clears Up
Farm Family Murders
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (A3) — A slender ex-convict says
four members of a prominent Kansas farm family met
death last November because he and a fellow robber
“didn’t want any witnesses.”
Authorities said Richard Eugene Hickock’s signed
statement Sunday night supplied all the answers to
the Clutter family murders, a case that had puzzled
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
agents for weeks.
Hickock, 28, formerly of Edger-
ton, Kan., tape-recorded his ad-
mission and then signed it.
Agents said it implicated Perry
Edward Smith, 31, of Las Vegas.
Smith, questioned separately,
declined to confirm or deny that
he participated in the quadruple
slayings. Agents said he asked
to see Hickock’s statement but
was refused.
The bodies of Herbert Clutter,
48; his wife Bonnie, 45; and their
children, Nancy Mae, 16, and
Kenyon, 15, were found in their
home west of Garden City, Kan.,
the morning of Nov. 15. Clutter’s
throat had been cut and all four
had been bound, gagged and
shot.
All wore pajamas except the
son, who was clad in blue jeans
and a T-shirt.
Hickock fainted in a hallway
after (telling in the statement
how Clutter’s throat was cult and
then how he and ithe others
were shot, one by one.
Boith he and Smith waived ex-
tradition.
Kansas authorities said 'they
believe the pair planned to rob
the Clutter household for some
time and may have evolved (the
scheme while both were serving
terms for burglary in the Kan-
sas prison.
FBI agents said Hickock’s
statement fold of a fruitless but
determined search for a safe in
the home.
FBI agents came to Las Ve-
(See MURDERS, Page 6)
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