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Fair-Cool
Mild days, cool nights with fair weather Thursday and
Friday.
Today’s Range: 38-64. Tomorrow’s Range: 40-70
Yesterday’s High: 68. Rainfall: 44.
Sunrise: 704 a.m. Sunset: 5:31 p.m.
Moonrise Thurs.: 6:59 am. Moonset Friday: 9:02 a.m.
Lake Levels: Travis 672.46’. Buchanan: 1011.40’.
U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for
Taylor and Williamson County
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Volume 48, Number 291
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TAYLOR, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1961
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Price Five Cents
Times Tower
Inferno Kills
2 Firemen
Crowds Swarm
At 'Crossroads'
NEW YORK ® — An inferno
several stories underground killed
two firemen Wednesday night
and turned the Times Tower into
a huge chimney belching smoke
and searing heat high above the
“Crossroads of the World.”
A crowd rivaling those of New
Year’s eve swarmed into the
Times Square 'area around the
24-story triangular building—a
landmark known throughout the
world.
After a fight of almost five
hours, 130 firemen got the spec-
tacular blaze under control at
1:25 a.m. today.
Sixty pieces of fire department
apparatus jammed the streets
and' traffic was halted for a ra-
dius of two blocks. Police head-
men to patrol the area.
A cleaning woman and a porter
were trapped by smoke on the
23rd floor for more than three
hours. Through dense smoke and
heat firemen finally made their
way aloft and led the pair to the
street.
Eleven firemen suffered smoke
poisoning or injuries.
The fire was deep in the seven-
level underground storage vaults
beneath the building which used
to be the headquarters of the
New York Times.
The fire apparently started in
the fourth level down, and it
burned through several levels.
The storage vaults are mostly
those of a foreign magazine
and back-number newspaper firm
which has a store in the base-
ment.
The five-alarm blaze generated
dense smoke and intense heat
that poured up through the build-
ing.
The heat burst hundreds of win-
dows, showering shattered glass
(to the street. Only one person
was injured — an ambulance at-
tendant who suffered minor cuts.
The cause of the blaze was
not immediately determined.
Through it all, the big “Times”
electric signs near the top of the
tower cast beans of light through
the smoke.
And it was business-as-usual
for all but one of the restaurants,
saloons, movie houses, freak
shows, hot dog stands and small
shops in the area. A drug store
on the 42nd street side of the
tower had to suspend operations
as firemen ran hoses through it.
The American Red Cross and
the Salvation Army set up sand-
wich and coffee canteens for the
firemen and police.
The firemen killed — both vic-
tims of smoke — were Charles
Lang, 31, of Ozone Park, Queens,
and Robert Hurst, 24, of Staten
Island.
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Free men have battled
With those who threatened
By sabers rattled.
Never before
Has there been such need
To look to God—
For His words to heed.
In our every-day lives
We often forget
For the freedoms we haye
We are in His debt.
Let's show our faith
In every way . . .
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Thanks Given
For Blessings
Here, Abroad
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Americans at home and those
living abroad in a troubled world
gave thanks today for the bless-
ings they have pledged themsel-
ves to defend.
From President to private, from
Plymouth, Mass., to the Berlin
wall, the heirs of the first Pil-
grims who dreamed of liberty
celebrated the realization of that
dream with the traditional turkey
dinner.
President Kennedy, celebrating
Thanksgiving at the Hyannis Port,
Mass., home of his parents only
4 miles from Plymouth, summed
up the significance of this year’s
festival with the following procla-
mation:
“This year, as the harvest
draws near its close, and the
year approaches its end, awesome
perils again remain to be faced.
Yet we have, as in the past, am-
ple reason to be thankful for the
abundance of our blessings.”
In Plymouth—site of the first
Thanksgiving 340 years ago
The Times Tower was sold by townspeople dressed up as Pil-
the New York Times last April
for conversion into a combined
office building and exhibition
hall. The conversion has not
been completed.
Many businesses including Edi-
tor & Publisher, the trade maga-
zine, have offices in the building.
The only New York Times space
in the building is a classified ad-
vertising office on the street
floor.
The building, which gave Times
Square its name, was completed
in 1905.
It housed the editorial, printing
>and advertising departments of
the newspaper until 1913. In that
year the Times moved its opera-
tions to its present headquarters
nearby on West 43rd street.
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LIBRARY DONATIONS
A library donation has been
received in memory of Mrs. R.
Lee Joiner.
Write Your Letters Early
To Let Santa Know About Gifts
Don’t forget, boys and girls, that it’s time to
write those letters to Santa Claus.
Santa has already been in Taylor once and
he’s coming hack for the big parade on Dec. 2. So
it’s later than you think.
Why don’t you take a couple of minutes now
and sit down now and let Santa know what you
want for Christmas.
Send your letter to Santa in care of The Tay-
lor Press. The paper will print the letters in its
big Christmas edition and send the letters on to
the North Pole.
Nation FoundedforGod
Held Reason for Thanks
Soviets Halt Military Train
On Pretext of Stowaway
grims to parade from a replica
of the first Pilgrim house, past
Plymouth Rock and past a replica
of the Mayflower to First Church
for services.
Millions of Americans got in
cars, buses, trains and planes to
journey to their roots and share
the festive meal with parents and
grandparents.
Among those who could not
home for Thanksgiving this year
were the servicemen at military
posts throughout the world. These
had their turkey dinners in mess
halls.
In Berlin 6,500 U.S. troops,
their families and about 1,000
German guests consumed 614 tons
of turkey. German guests also
shared the traditional meal ser-
ved to soldiers in Frankfurt, and'
a company stationed in Heidel-
berg entertained 25 orphans.
In France, combatJready units
(See THANKS, Page 6)
“Let us pause ;at this Thanks-
giving and give thanks *' for-' a'
country founded for God,”, the
Rev. Paul Powell said in his
Thanksgiving message at'the an-
nual union service in the Taylor
High School auditorium Wednes-
day .
The pastor of the First Baptist
Church gave three main things
for which the American people
should be grateful: (1) For. free-
dom, something which many
take for granted but which peo-
ple of other lands, especially
Russia, do not have. (2) For ma-
terial things the material pros-
perity of America, not something
for which to be ashamed, but for
which to be grateful, and (3) For
the hope we have in God, a
nation built on faith in God and
not in a search for gold as other
countries of the western hemis-
phere have been built.
The Rev. Josef A. Barton of
the Brethren Church directed the
service; Mrs. Albin Ku'bala play-
ed the accompaniment for the
hymins sung throughout the ser-
vice; the Rev. Jerry Mallory,- of
the First Christian Church gave
the call to worship and the invo-
eational prayer; the Rev. E. A.
Heye of St. Paul Lutheran Church
read the scripture; the Rev. Char-
les W. Roberts Jr. of St. James
(See NATION, Page 6)
Unit Delayed
141-2 Hours
At Checkpoint
BERLIN ® — Soviet troops
held up a U.S. military train on
the West German border for 144
hours today, claiming that an
East German had stowed away
on it.
The Russians finally allowed
the train to proceed on its jour-
ney into West Germany at 1:15
p.m. (6:15 a.m. CST.)
Thirteen minutes later the train
resumed its interrupted journey
from West Berlin to Frankfurt. It
had been stopped at Marienborn,
the Soviet checkpoint at the bor-
der, since 10:45 Wednesday night.
The Army said 74 American
and Allied troops and family
members were aboard, including
11 children 2 to 15 years old. Also
aboard were four West German
attendants and a three-man East
German train crew operating the
locomotive that had pulled the
train (to the border.
U.S. officials speculated that
the Russians were trying to es-
tablish a precedent for searching
the U.S. military trains that reg-
ularly serve the U.S. garrison in
West Berlin. U.S. authorities in
the past have always resisted So-
viet attempts to search either
Army trains or vehicle convoys
on the 110-mile autobahn between
West Germany and West Berlin.
The Army said (that in accord-
ance with standing instructions
the train commander refused to
allow anyone to board or leave
the train.
A U.S. officer was sent from
West Berlin to investigate this
morning.
While the Berlin-Frankfurlt train
was stalled at Marienborn, three
other U.S. military trains passed
through the checkpoint without
interference.
The Army made no official
comment on the Russians’ stow-
away claim.
U. S. Army trains between Ber-
lin and • West Germany normally
are operated across East Ger-
many by locomotives and crews
of the Communist East German
railway system.
The stalled train was the regu-
lar overnight duty train between
Berlin and Frankfurt, consisting
mostly of sleeping cars. It had
been scheduled to reach Frank-
furt early this morning.
Under normal procedure the
U.S. Army makes out military
travel orders for all passengers
on its trains through East Ger-
many. These are shown to the
Soviets at Marienborn, along with
passengers’ identification cards
The Soviets check these papers,
return them to the train com-
mander and allow a West German
locomotive to take over the train.
Last (time the Soviets held up an
American train on March 26, 1960,
ithev said it was because a Nazi
swastika was on one car. The
U.S. Army said it was a child’s
funny-face drawn in the dust.
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PILOT SAFE — This dramatic photo, released by the Department of Defense,
shows Lt. (jg) John T. Krayway, upper right, at the moment he ejected him-
self from his F8U-1 Crusader jet plane as it caught fire while landing on the
deck of the attack carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt. Kryway was only slightly in-
jured when he landed in the Atlantic by parachute. ~NEA Telephoto
Jet Crashes
In Brazil
Killing 52
SAO PAULA. Brazil t/P) — An
Argentine Comet jet airliner ex-
ploded and crashed just after tak-
ing off from Sao Paulo for New
York today and all 52 persons
aboard were reported killed.
The flight originated in Bue-
nos Aires,
Witnesses said the plane explod-
ed less than two minutes after
taking off from the airport. The
flaming wreckage plunged into
a eucalyptus plantation near the
small town of Friburgo and
burned for two hours after the
crash.
The airline said the plane was
captained by Roberto Mosca. It
identified passengers boarding alt
Sao Paulo as two Hungarians and
a Brazilian. Nationalists of the
others aboard were not known
immediately.
The plane plunged into hilly
terrain making it difficult for res-
cue crews to reach it. Cries for
help were heard but the firslt men
to arrive found no survivors.
Witnesses said Mosca apparent-
ly was trying for an emergency
landing as the plane sheared
through 600 yards of trees before
it fell down a slope.
In London, the British De Hav-
illand Aircraft Co. was plunged
into gloom over the crash of its
Comelt 4—a plane that took over
from the ill-fated Comet I after
four years of research costing
millions of dollars.
“The Comet 4 now is in service
all over the world,” a company
spokesman said. “Altogether 55
of them are in service. They have
floivn a total of 125 million miles
(See CRASHES, Page 6)
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Judge Called'Advocate
Over Execution Stays k;
AUSTIN TO — The Court of: trie chair. He drew the death sen I 4
Criminal Appeals was told Wed-
nesday that Corpus Christi Dist.
Judge Cullen Briggs has become
an “advocate” in the case ol
condemned slayed Howard B.
Stickney.
Dist. Atty. Frank Briscoe of
Houston testified at a nearing on
whether the court should make
permanent its order forbidding
Briggs to grant Stickney any fur-
ither stays of execution.
Briggs has granted two last
minute stays, the latest Nov. 11,
tence in the 1958 slaying of Mrs.
Shirley Barnes on a Galveston
Beach.
Percy Foreman, Houston law-
yer, represented Briggs, who did
not speak on his own behalf.
Foieman said lie did not doubt
that Stickney eventually would be
executed, but he feared the
court’s order writ of prohibition
against Briggs would impair the
constitutional rights of Habeas
Corpus if made permanent. He
said it also might prevent other
judges from staying Stickney’s
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Death, Injuries Counted
After Tornadoes Strike
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Clear and bracing cool weath-
er moved into Texas as a Thanks-
giving Day replacement for the
tornadoes and heavy rains of the
diay before.
The Kilgore-Longview area in
East Texas was assessing losses
in twisters which took one life,
injured nine and inflicted heavy
damage.
Other tornadoes struck less se-
vere blows near San Antonio,
Houston and Beaumont. Crop-des-
troying hail tand lightning batter-
ed parts cf West Central Texas.
Skies cleared bhind a cold
front whfreh sped! across the
state by late Wednesday, generat-
ing wind gusts up to 51 miles an
hour at Houston. The wind! top-
pled a number of power lines in
Houston.
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1961 TAYLOR DUCK CAGE TEAM — This is the
1961 version of the Taylor High basketball team
coached by Richard Sherley. The Ducks play their
first game of the season against the Badgers in
Lampasas Monday night, the B game starting at
7:15 and the A game about 8:3/). Front row: Den-
nis Mucha, Reuben Raesz, Teddy Cook, Douglas
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Ruthven, Roger Younblood, Chuck Nowlin. Second
row: Douglas Ransom (manager), Jonathan Fritz,
Rodney Kind, Dale Hendrix, Rito Hernandez,
Mike Tennill (manager). Back row: Coach Jere
Nichols, Nyle Mann, Jimmy Kind, Jack Mann, Er-
vin Isensee and Head Coach Richard Sherley.
—Taylor Press* Staff Photo
Four Aggie Fish
Treated Following
Crash Near Here
Four Texas A&M freshmen
were examined at Johns Hospital
Wednesday afternoon following
an accident just east of Taylor.
Only one was repotted injured,
however. He’s Johnny M. Barrett,
18, of Dallas, who suffered a leg
injury. His leg was not broken
as was feared at first.
Driver of the car in which the
Aggies were riding was Michael
Callaway of Bellaire, Texas. He
and Barrett were riding in the
front seat. Callaway was using
his seat belt, Barrett wasn’t.
Also riding in the car were
Michael Mark of Houston and
Jim Smith of Flint, Michigan.
The other vehicle involved in
the accident was driven by Ed-
ward Polasek, 416 Vernon Street
A Condra Funeral Home official
said he understood the Aggies
were driving east o U.S. 79 on
their way back to College Station
after seeing a freshman football
game in Austin and that Polasek
was driving in ithe opposite direc-
tion.
The aefident occurred at 5:20
p.m. on the curve between the
Curve Inn and the SPJST cut-
off road.
Forecasts called for fair weath-
er through Friday. It was expect-
ed to turn a little cooler in East
Texas and warm a bit in the west
Thursday.
Mrs. Blanche Collier, about 70,
died Wednesday as One or more
(tornadoes smashed her home near
Oak Flat iand roared through oth-
er dairy farming communities,
south of Kilgore and' Longview.
Her husband went to a hospital.
Eight others required only emer-
gency treatment for injuries suf-
fered as the writhing winds al-
so hit the villages of Cushing,
Nat, Looneyville, Libert, Trawick,
Oak Flat and Mount Enterprise.
Kilgore appeared hardest hit al-
though there was no loss of life.
A tornado knocked down two oil
well derricks. It lifted the roofs
and' caused other damage to doz-
ens of homes and business pla-
ces. More than five inches of
rain drenched Kilgore.
The Kilgore News Herald said
losses would run into thousands
of dollars.
At Longview, the twister razed
two barns damaged other prop-
erty and loosed torrential rain
causing water to rise three feet
deep in some houses.
In San Antonio two tornadoes
crushed a garage and damaged
several homes. Residents of Hon-
do in the same area sighted a
funnel cloud but it apparently did
not dip to earth.
A twister hitting southwest of
Houston between Richmond and
Wha!rton levelled a house and
bam and felled a power line.
Rain and hail fell.
Another tornado hurled two-
car garage about 75 feet from its
foundation about 4 miles north-
west of Beaumont but left a new
auto in the structure unmarked.
Hail the size of baseballs bat-
tered the countryside around
Breckertridge where the wind hit
61 m.p.h. There 'also was hail
damage at Hawley and Hodges
near Abilene. Some farmers esti-
mated they lost up to half their
cotton crops.
Three inches of rain soaked
farms north of Merkel, which is
west of Abilene. Some minor
street flooding ocurred in Abilene
from a heavy downpour.
Final Plans Completed
For Scout Banquet
This year’s annual meeting of
the San Gabriel Boy Scout Dis-
trict scheduled for Tuesday at 7
p.m. at the American Legion
hall in Taylor was the main
topic at the district committee
meeting at Stasny’s Cafe in
Granger this week.
District Chairman David Hos-
ter of Taylor 'and' District Scout
Executive Chuck Clark acquaint-
ed the group with details on ar-
rangements and the program for
the banquet annually attended by
the adult scoutehs of the district.
It was noted that William J. Mur-
ray Jr., a dedicated scooter
from Austin, has accepted the
invitation to address the gather-
ing.
Tickets at $1.50 each have been
distributed in the different com-
munities of the district. Both
leaders and parents of boys in
scouting are urged to attend.
Leon Bohls of Taylor, leader-
ship training chairman, report-
ed that five scouters were given
a course in basic boy scoot
training at Granger recently and
more training courses in differ-
ent communities are being sche-
duled.
It was noted that $1,100 more
was needed to meet the district
(See PLANS, Page 6)
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