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India Restores
Transport
In Enclaves
U.N. Diplomats Fear
Change ^Organization
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y Iff) —
The case of Goa has brought
home 'a sobering fact to many
U.N diplomats: the United Na-
tions of (today is not the organi-
zation it was years ago. The
change prompts some of the
alarms that are being sounded
about its future.
The flood of Asian and African
countries into membership has
introduced new concepts, new
codes of conduct. Some Western
fallen Portuguese | diplomats express concern that
the group’s growing influence may
so transform the U.N. that the
West can no longer accept it.
In the Goa case, for example,
the Soviet Union was not alone
in opposing a cease-fire. The Se-
curity Council’s three African-As-
Much Damage
Is Reported
BOMBAY. India Iff) — Indian
army engineers today continued
clearing road mines and' restor-
ing communications and transport
facilities in Goa, Damao and Diu
while the Indian government
made plans for civil government
in the three
mclaves.
Official reports reaching Bom-
bay claimed Portuguese troops
carried out a scorched earth poli-
sy in Goa, blowing up bridges,
roads and buildings before resist-
ance collapsed late Tuesday af-
ter a 48-hour attack by Indian
troops, tanks and planes.
The reports claimed the invad-
ing forces caused only negligible
damage to port installations and
public buildings.
A Defense Ministry spokesman
said that conditions were fast re-
turning to normal in Goa, where
the defenders offered their strong-
est resistance and that “most of
the Portuguese soldiers have laid
down their arms.”
The ministry earlier claimed
that stragglers were still being
rounded up.
Goans arriving in Belgaum, In-
dian command post for the inva-
sion, said native Goan soldiers
and police virtually welcomed
the invaders while the outnum-
bered Portuguese troops resisted
the advance with all that they
had.
The government declared that
Porguguese colonial officials and
captive officials were being well
treated and that Portuguese cas-
ualties, earlier reported as small,
were being given medical aid.
Gen. Manuel Vassalo e Silva
the Portuguese governor general,
was reported captured in a small
house at the Marmango naval
base. A Defense Ministry spokes-
man said he was “being accorded
the normal courtesies and consid-
eration.”
Official sources said the gov-
ernment planned to bring all
three of the territories under the
control of civilian administrators
soon. A government spokesman
.announced that R.C.V.P. Noronha
is now acting as chief civil ad-
viser to the military governor,
Maj. Gen. K. P. Candefh, who
commanded the infantry ;division
that captured' Goa
Government sources said an of-
ficial of the Reserve Bank of
India will make an inventory of
the assets of the Portuguese ad-
ministration and that Indian eco-
nomic survey teams will later
draw up a five-year plan for de-
velopment of the three enclaves.
India started its third five-year
plan last April.
The government also announced
that it would' allow newsmen to
enter Goa from Belgaum, where
more than 50 journalists had ga-
thered during the assault.
In New York, Indian Defense
Minister V. K. Krishna Menon
arrived at U.N. headquarters to
defend the India military action
but the matter was not raised in
the General Assembly before it
recessed for Christmas.
Menon told newsmen that he
had expected the U.N. to be jubi-
lant over the Indian seizure be-
cause “as more colonies go out,
the stronger it (the United' Na-
tions) becomes.”
In Lisbon, Portuguese Prime
Minister Antonio Salazar gave no
indication of what plans the Por-
guguese government may have,
and a sampling of public opinion
produced varied reactions. Some
Portuguese recommended' quitting
the United Nations and dispatch-
ing new military forces to India,
while others said it marked the
beginning of the breakup of the
nation’s vast overseas colonial
network.
ian members — Ceylon, Liberia
and the LTnited Arab Republic-
joined the Soviets.
Going even further, these three
demanded that the council reject
Portugal’s complaint and call on
Portugal in effect to turn over
the areas to India voluntarily.
This was a factor in Adlai E.
Stevenson’s pessimistic statement
Tuesday. He said the Soviet veto
was consistent “but I find the at-
titude of some other members ot
the council profoundly disturbing.
“We have witnessed tonight,”
he went on, “an effort to rewrite
the charter, to sanction the use
of force in international relations
when it suits one’s own purposes.
This, approach can lead only to
(See CHANGE, Page 8)
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U.N. Assembly Recesses;
Red Oppression Scored
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JF) — The U. N. Gen-
eral Assembly recessed its 16th session early today for
Christmas after denouncing Soviet domination over
Hungary and Red Chinese oppression in Tibet.
The two resolutions were passed over bitter opposi-
tion from the Soviet bloc, which accused the United
States of dredging up cold war issues that have remain-
[ dormant since the last time
22 Answer
Subpoenas in
Bank Inquiry
AUSTIN iff) — Representatives
of 22 national banks answered
supoenas today from the special
House committee invesltigating
application of escheat laws to
banks.
Thirty-eight banks had been is-
sued subpoenas, Chairman Frank-
lin Spears of San Antonio said.
Five were excused for answering
a committee questionnaire and 11
were absent when the hearing be-
gan.
None of the banks at the hear-
ing was represented by their pres-
ident, to whom the subpoenas
were issued. All but one were rep-
resented by lawyers. A vice pres-
ident was at the hearing for one
bank.
A number of bank officials were
reported to have met Wednesday
night to decide what course of ac-
tion to take before the commit-
tee. Others indicated they will
buck Gov. Price Daniel’s efforts
to include banks under the new
escheat, or abandoned property
laws.
Spears had the bank officials
subpoenaed last week saying they
refused to answer questionnaires
sent out by the committee and
refused to allow state auditors
to see their records.
Spears contends that the nation-
al banks are taking money in dor-
mant accounts for transferring it
to bank profits by making service
charges. State banks are prohib-
ited by law to make such charges.
Presidents of these banks re-
ceived subpoenas:
Temple National Bank and First
National in Temple; First Nation-
al Bank in Bryan; First Natio-n-
(See INQUIRY, Page 8)
Pol ice Start
Accident Vigil
Taylor highway patrolmen and
local policemen are setting up an
intensified around-the-clock vigil
in an effort to help cut down ac-
cidents in the local area during
the Christmas-New Year’s holi-
days.
Patrolmen Norman Autrey and
Travis Thomas said their day and
night extra-hours patroling will
begin Friday night and last un-
til after the New Year’s holiday.
Police also will be on patrol
around the clock, as they place
heavy emphasis on the prevention
of accidents within the city.
the U.N. acted on them in 1959.
The 104-nation forum approved
49-17 with 32 abstentions a reso-
lution deploring “the continued
disregard” by the Soviet Union
and' the Hungarian regime of as-
sembly resolutions concerning the
situation in Hungary.
U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Ste-
venson warned the Soviet Union
and Hungary that the U.N. had
not forgotten the 1956 revolt
stamped out by Soviet armor.
Earlier, the assembly voted 55-
11 with 30 abstentions for a reso-
lution expressing grave concern
over violations of human rights
in Tibet, now under Chinese dom-
ination. Only the Soviet bloc and
Cuba voted no.
Soviet Delegate S. G .Lapin
claimed the entire Tibetan issue
had been fabricated to cover ac-
tions “of the Anglo-American col-
onizers” to create a military base
against Communist China.
The session, which opened in
September under the shadow of
Dag Hammarskjold’s death on a
mission to Katanga, recessed un-
til Jan. 15 a few hours before
word reached New York that Ka-
tanga President Mo-ise Tshombe
had agreed to end his province’s
secession from the central Congo
government.
Despite the Congo crisis, the
session 'included a number of key
decisions triggered by agreement
between the Soviet Union and the
United States.
Behind - scenes talks between
Stevenson and Soviet Deputy For-
eign Minister Valerian E. Zorin
brought accord on such knotty is-
sues as arrangements for nego-
tiations on disarmament and out-
er space and the choosing of a
successor for Hammarskjold.
These agreements were consid-
ered especially significant be
cause they showed Soviet willing
ness to shelve for the time being
Premier Khrushchev’s troika
principle of equal representation
(See RECESSES, Page 8)
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Congo Unity
Pact Reached
By Leaders
Approval
Still Needed
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (ff) i
—President Moise Tshombe ff
agred today to end the secession" f
of his wealthy Katanga province
but said that his supporters in
Elisabethville must approve be-
fore the agreement is carried oul
Tshombe and Premier Cyrille
Adoula of the central Congo con-
cluded the pact to restore unity
in the Congo after more than 15 ;■
hours of negotiations at the U
N. military base at Kitona. They
promptly flew off to their respec-
tive capitals of Elisabethville andy
Leopoldville.
Tshombe signed an eight-point
declaration which was presented!
formally to the United Nations.j
Its text, announced by the cen-
tral Congo government, was brief
and in skeleton form. It said:
“The Pi-esident of the province
of Katanga. . .
“1. Accepts the application of
the fundamental law of May 19,
1960, the Congo’s provisional con-
stitution under which Katanga -is
a province and not an independ-
ent or autonomous state,
“2. Recognizes the indivisible
unity of the Republic of the Co
go,
“3. Recognizes President Jo
seph Kasavubu as chief of state
“4. Recognizes the authority of
the central government over all
parts of the republic,
“5. Agrees to the participation
of representatives of the province
of Katanga in a government com-
mission to prepare a new consti-
tution.
“6. Agrees to take all measures
to permit senators and deputies
of Katanga Province to exercise
the national functions that is,
participate in the national parlia-
ment,
“7. Agrees that the gendarmerie
of Katanga shall be placed under
the authority of the president of
the republic,
“8 .Agrees to see that the reso-
lutions of the U. N. Security
Council and General Assembly
are respected and' to facilitate
their execuiton.
“Signed Tshombe.”
Tshombe before leaving Kitona
told newsmen the declaration
•would have to he ratified by his
cabinet and the Katanga Assem-
bly. But a U.N. spokesman as-
serted: “As far as we are con-
cerned it is signed, sealed and
delivered. There is no question of
ratification.”
Some observers in Leopoldville
adopted a wait and see attitude.
They recalled that Tshombe miade
a similar unity agreement in Leo-
poldville last June while being
held prisoner by the central gov-
ernment and repudiated it as soon
as he returned to Elisabethville.
This time, however, U.N. troops
are in control of his capital .after
a two-week war.
II: was not immediately learned
what provision if any was made
for enforcement of the pact.
Arriving at Ndola, Northern
Rhodesia, en route home,
Tshombe indicated he was not
satisfied with the outcome of his
talks with Adoula at -the heavily
(See PACT, Page 8)
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Taylor Churches Schedule Services
Commemorating Christ's Nativity
Christmas is one of the two
holidays in the year that were
founded entirely on a religious
basis, and here in Taylor, the
religious observance will be up-
permost in the plans for the ma-
jority of church-going people.
As in most of the churches, St.
Paul Lutheran will hold usual
Sunday morning worship services
and Sunday School, and will go
into the Christmas program at 10
p.m. Sunday with a candlelight
service. On Christmas day, the
service will be held at 9 a.m.
Christmas Eve services in the
First Baptist Church will be as
usual for a Sunday program of
worship with one exception. The
worship will be at 5 p.m. instead
of the usual later hour.
In St. Mary’s Catholic Church,
Sunday Masses will he at the
usual 6, 8, 9:30, and 10:30 a.m.
hours. In the evening, the 11:30
p.m. program of music will be
presented by the high school choir
with the Rev. Arthur Michalka
directing. The Mass of the Na-
tivity will be started at midnight worship at 9 a.m. will be infor-
with the Rev. Eugene Braden
as celebrant and two students
from St. Mary’s Seminary in
Houston assisting. Leon Boedeker
will serve as sub-deacon for the
solemn high Mass and Robert
Kind will serve as master of
ceremonies. Music for the Mass
will be furnished by the senior
choir with Mrs. James Bartosh
directing and Mrs. E. G. Schnei-
der at the organ.
Confessions at St. Mary’s will
be held from 3 to 6 p.m. and 7
to 8 p.m. Saturday and from 3 to
5 p.m. Sunday. Christmas morn-
ing Masses will be the same as
Sunday, 6, 8, 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
At Trinity Lutheran on Sloan
Street, the regular Sunday morn-
ing worship and Sunday School
hours will be observed with the
Sunday School Christmas program
at 6 p.m. The title for the pro-
gram is “The Glory of the Lord”
wilfch Otto Freels directing and
Mrs. G .A. Zoch in charge of the
primary group. The Christmas
mal with the Christmas story told
in scripture and song.
The Christmas Eve Commu-
nion Service in the First Metho-
dist Church will be held at 11
a.m. Sunday. This will follow the
regular School hour, and no eve-
ning worship is scheduled.
At the Tenth Street Methodist,
“Love Seen” will be the Sunday
worship sermon title1 for the 10:30
a.m. service. The Christmas Eve
worship will start at 11 p.m
with “Christmas Belongs to God”
as the sermon topic. Mrs. W. C.
Johnson will direct the special
music.
The 10 a.m. service in the
First Presbyterian Church will
close out the pastorate for Dr
David Shepperson as well as
mark the special- service for
Christmas Eve. The children will
have a part in the service, and
to close, Holy Communion will
be observed.
In the First Christian Church
(See CHURCHES, Page 8)
FORT. WORTH (ff) — Former
Navy Sec. John Connally flew
home from Washington Wednes-
day night to launch his campaign
for governor.
Connally signed his last papers
as civilian boss of the Navy after
his plane was in the air.
Connally, a Fort Worth lawyer
with oil and other business inter-
ests, disclosed his plans to resign
the post Dec. 11. President Kenne-
dy appointed Fred Korth, a Fort
Worth banker and former assist-
ant secretary of the Array, to- the
Navy post the same day.
Connally said the last day in
Washington was his toughest since
he went there last January. He
singled out a decision to ask
that the next aircraf tcarrier be
conventional rather than atomic-
powered, because of a $109 mil-
lion difference in cost, as his
most difficult while secretary.
One of his last official acts was
to review and' approve the 1963
Navy budget which will go to
Congress next month.
Mrs. Connally returned earlier.
With their children, they plan to
visit relatives at Floresville and
Austin during the holidays.
Connally said he would start or-
ganizing his campaign at once
but did not expect to- begin for-
mal appearances as a candidate
for governor until early January.
Connally said he became aware
that opponents would sek to link
his campaign in a critical manner
to his association with Vice Pres-
ident LyncTon Johnson, long
close friend.
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson is the
only other announced candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
governor. Jack Cox, a Brecken-
ridge business man who ran
against Gov. Price Daniel in the
lawyer, has said he formally will
seek the Republican nomination,
Marshall Formby, a Plainview
lawyer, has said he formally will
enter the Democratic race for
governor next month.' Politicians
view Daniel as a possible candi-
date for re-e-legtion if the legisla-
ture fails to adopt his program
at a special session opening Jan.
3 .Sen. Ralph Yarborough also is
considered a possible candidate.
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POPE SENDS BLESSING
VATICAN CITY (ff) — Pope
John XXIII has sent his “comfort-
ing blessing” to Joseph P. Ken-
nedy, the Vatican said today.
HAMILTON, Bermuda
Leaving Ills stricken father s bed-
side, President Kennedy flew into
Bermuda today for wide-ranging
talks with Prime Minister Mac-
millan.
The President and the British
leader scheduled a luncheon meet-
ing at government house 45 min-
utes after Kennedy’s arrival at
Bermuda’s Kindley Air Force
Base,
The central problems of West
Berlin and an Allied approach to
Moscow are expected to take up
much of the two-day taiks.
Kennedy visited his father, Jo-
seph P. Kennedy, at St. Mary’s
Hospital in West Palm Beach,
Fla., tor a half hour before taking
oft for Bermuda at 9:51 a.m.,
EST. He said his father’s condi-
tion appeared to be “about the
same.” The President returns co
Palm Beach Friday evening but
will be kept informed about his
father’s condition during his ren-
dezvous with Macmillan. If neces-
sary, he could fly back to Florida
in little more than (two hours.
Besides reviewing the Berlin
and German question, Kennedy
and Macmillan are expected to
pay considerable attention to the
Congo question, nuclear weapons
and the future of (the North At-
lantic Treaty Organization. It is
also likely they will take a long
careful look at the role of the so-
caled neutral nations in the light
of India’s takeover of Goa and
the threat of Indonesian action
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FOR NEEDY YOUNGSTERS — Taylor Policeman J. P. Carlson shows Joe
Speigel a pair of sturdy new shoes some local youngster will receive because
of his contribution to the Kiwanis Club’s shoe fund. Mr. Speigel, a yearly
supporter, savs he believes in the fund and said “it’s a fine thing.” The Police
Department serves as the collection agency. They’ll pick up your contribution.
-Taylor Press Staff Photo
Connally Ends Gifts Still Needed
For Kiwanis Shoe Fund
to make sure each local under-
privileged child will have a de-
cent pair of shoes to wear during
the year.
Many will be needing sturdy
hard-wearing shoes during the
winter months to keep their feet
warm and their morale up.
Shoes are provided, however,
anytime during the year when
they are needed.
The annual drive to replinish
the shoe fund is a pre-Christmas
project.
F. E. Wilks, chairman of the
Kiwanis Club’s shoe committee,
said more money is needed to
reach this year’s goal of $300.
Many gifts already have been re-
ceived.
Contributions in any amount
are welcome, but for those who
would like to have the satisfac-
tion of knowing they provided
a needy youngster with a pair of
shoes it takes around $6 to $6.50
The Taylor Police Department
again is serving as the collection
agency as a public service.
You may mail your -contribution
to the Taylor Police Department,
Post Office Box 1159, or call the
Police Department ait EL2-4324
and a policeman will be glad to
pick up your cash or check. Used
shoes are not being collected.
Wilks stated that the Kiwanis
Club expects a bigger demand
for shoes than ever before.
Since the fund was established
in 1952, Kiwanians have pro-
vided in excess of 400 pairs of
shoes to underprivileged' children
who otherwise would have to go
barefooted or w,ear old, worn-out
shoes.
Members of the committee oth-
er than Wilks are Harry Zeplin,
Chad Thompson, Drew Walthall
and Ed Arning.
LIBRARY DONATIONS
Library donations have been re-
ceived in memory of Mrs. R. Lee
Joiner and Miss Bess Dolan.
Cuban Exile
Claims Rebels
In Uprising
MIAMI (ff) — A military lead-
er of the Cuban revolution, now
in exile, said bloody fighting has
involved rebel guerrillas and 25,-
000 Fidel Castro troops in central
Cuba’s mountains.
No confirmation of major con-
flict came from major Cuban
exile groups or U.S. officials in
(this country, or from Havana.
The Cuban radio ridiculed the
statement made by Maj. Eloy
Gutierrez Menoyo.
Gutierrez Menoyo called a
news conference Wednesday and
said that fierce combat was in
progress in the 'Escambray Moun-
tains between rebel units and Cas-
tro militia trying to stamp out
their increased activites.
“Just today,” Guterrez Menoyo
said, “we received word of bit-
ter fighting that has left many
militiamen dead at Obispo near
Sancti Spiritus.”
In 1958 Gutierrez Menoyo led
the second front of Escambray,
an army that cooperated with
Castro’s ' forces in overthrowing
Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista
Gutierrez Menoyo, a supporter of
Castro after the latter took over
1 nJanuary, 1959, fled into exile
in January, 1961, and charged the
bearded revolutionary with being
a Communist.
Gutierrez Menoyo said two for-
mer comrades of the Escambray
(See UPRISING, Page 8)
Playwright
Moss Hart
Dies of Attack
PALM SPRINGS, Calif, (ff) —
Playwright Moss Hart, a child of
poverty who could -have written
nothing, more remarkable than his
own success story, is dead of a
heart attack.
Hart, whose genius brought him
from the gloom of New York’s
slums to the glamor of its Great
White Way, collapsed Wednesday
at his winter home in this des-
ert resort.
Hart, 57, had been suffering
pain in his jaw and was going to
see his dentist. “Mr. Hart was
walking to his car when he fell
straight back,” said his agent, Ir-
ving Lazar. “He was taken to
the house and the doctor came to
give artificial respiration and' an
injection. But Mr. Jlart didn’t re-
spond.”
His death came only six months
after that of George S. Kaufman
with horn he collaborated on
such classic theater comedies as
“The Man Who Came to Dinner,
and the Pulitzer Prize-winning
“You Can’t Take It With You.
Hart also was a director of such
Broadway musical successes as
“Camelot” and “My Fair Lady,
both still running—the latter since
1956.
This was his third heart attack
He had been' ill several days but
it was his jaw, not his heart,
that seemed to be troubling him.
(See HART, Page 8)
arranged a luncheon with his Brit-
ish counterpart, Lord Home, while
their bosses were going to their
private luncheon.
Invited to the Rusk-Home lunch-
eon on the British side, were Sir
David Ormsby-Gore, British am-
bassador to Washington; Sir Nor-
man Brook, secretary to the Brit-
ish Cabinet; Sir William Penney,
adviser on nuclear weapons; and
Sir Evelyn Shuckburg, deputy
undersecretary of state for Euro-
pean affairs.
On the American side were Mc-
George Bundy, the President’s ad-
viser on security affairs; Charles
E. Bonlen, expert on Soviet af-
fairs; David Bruce, ambassador
to London; Glenn T. Seaborg,
chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission ad several others.
When the President left the hos-
pital, he was accompanied down-
stairs by his younger brother,
Edward (Ted; Kennedy. They
stood talking a moment before the
President rode off to the nearby
airport.
The President and his brother
appeared grave.
The younger brother, looking
weary, had spent the night at the
hospital.
The President’s 73-year-old fa-
ther is seriously ill after suffering
a stroke that left him partly para-
lyzed on the right side and unable
to speak.
Earlier the President had been
advised by physicians that his
father’s condition was such that
the son could leave here for the
overnight trip.
Doctors believe (the former am-
bassador to England is now in a
stage that can be expected to
continupe unchanged for an in-
definite period, possibly even for
weeks. He is apparently holding
his own in his battle for recovery
from a stroke.
He has been sleeping most of
the (time and was asleep on two
(See PROBLEMS, Page 3)
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