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Cloudy- Cold
Cloudy and cold with occasional ram or drizzle this
afternoon, tonight and Tuesday. A little warmer
Tuesday afternoon.
Today’s Range: 39-45. Tomorrow’s Range: 42-54.
Yesterday’s High: 52. Rainfall: .16’.
Sunrise: 7:18 a.m Sunset: 5:31 p.m.
Moonrise Tues.: 11:21 a.m. Moonset: 10:41 p.m.
Lake Levels: Travis: 669.84’. Buchanan: 1010 24’.
U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for
Taylor and Williamson County
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Volume 48, Number 306
Six Pages
..TAYLOR, TEXAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1961.
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Price Five Cents
North Texas
Areas Face
Bad Weather
lea Conditions
Are Worsening
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Extreme northwest Texas
braced Monday tor snowfall up
to 5 inches, while the South
plains and portions of North Cen-
tral Texas faced increasingly
worse ice conditions.
During the day, snow fell inter-
mittently in the Texas Panhandle,
with an inch on the ground' at
rAmarillo and up to 2 inches far-
ther north.
Rain which froze as it fell oc-
curred in much of the South
Plains and as far east as the
McKinney area, just north of Dal-
las and Fort Worth.
The Texas Highway Department
urged motorists to limit travel
in northwest Texas and the Pan-
handle to essential trips only.
The dangerous road conditions
were reported in a line running
roughly from McKinney, through
Abilene, San Angelo, Midland and
all points north of this line.
The Weather Bureau warned of
an ice storm in the northwest
part of North Central Texas and
issued a heavy snow warning in
the extreme north portion of
Northwest Texas and freezing
rain warning for the central and
south portions of Northwest Tex-
as.
Temperatures were expected to
again drop to 10 degrees or even
lower during the night in the ex-
treme northwest portion.
To the southeast of the ice and
snow belt, light rain and fog
blanketed most of the state.
Up to 2 inches of snow was re-
ported at Stratford. More than
an inch cloaked most of the Pan-
handle.
Dalhart reported one degree
above zero.
Continued accumulations of ice
posed a threat that power and
elephone lines would start snap-
ping. The Amarillo Glove-Times
reported difficulties in reaching
northern New Mexico and the
Oklahoma Panhandle by tele-
phone.
Minimum temperatures includ-
ed Amarillo 11 degrees, Lubbock
21, Marfa 28, Dallas 32, Abilene
26, San Angelo 32, Brownwood 31.
Sunlight was in prospect during
the day only in far West Texas
around El Paso, at Brownsville
on the state’s southern tip and
parts of the lower Rio Grande
Valley.
Forecasts called for cold, moist
air to linger over the north and
central portions of Texas into
Tuesday, rain, drizzle or tog
were expected to keep a gloomy
grip on southern areas of the
state.
Glazed streets and highways
got the blame for dozens of mi-
nor accidents by late Sunday
There was one 15-car pileup on a
Wichita Falls freeway.
Fog started closing in on coast-
al areas by late Sunday. Visibility
dropped to a block at Galveston
for a time and the dense pall
halted vessels moving in the
Houston ship channel.
The moisture held smoke low
over several areas thick with in-
dustrial plants along the coast.
Emphasizing the ice warnings,
forecasts called for overnight tem-
peratures ranging down to 5
above zero in the northwest Pan-
handle, in the 20s for North Cen-
tral and extreme Southwest Tex-
as and down to 30 in Northeast
Texas.
Taylor's Co. B
Mobs Stone U.S. Consulate
As U.N. Seeks Congo Peace
WITH OUTSTRETCHED HAND — President Charles de Gaulle of France, left,
walks forward with outstretched hand to greet West German Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer, right, in Elysee Palace courtyard in Paris. —nea Radiophoto
Poage Takes Firm Stand for Dam
In Reply to Williamson Petition
Congressman W. R. Poage
stated this weekend he would
work for the construction of the
Laneport Dam.
“I owe an obligation to the
people of Milam County,” he
said. ‘‘The people of Milam Coun-
ty are entitled to protection. They
have been willing to give the
people of Williamson County every
opportunity to work out the most
satisfactory method of providing
that projection. I joined with oth-
er interested parties (including
Congressman Homer Thornberry)
in agreeing to abide by the de-
cision of the Army Engineers.
That decision has been rendered.
I expect to abide by my agree-
ment and I trust that all of the
other parties involved will do
likewise.”
Congressman Poage’s views
were presented in a letter te
Henry Fox of Circleville who
transmitted what Poage termed
‘‘a very lengthly petition to me
urging the Laneport Dam be not
constructed.”
Said Congressman Poage, “In
this letter I have tried to set out
the reasons which make me feel
that I must ask for the construc-
tion of the dam.”
The Congressman wrote Fox,
“I can, of course, understand
your deep interest in the con-
struction or non-construction of
the authorized flood control reser-
voir at Laneoprt. I know that
every flood control program in-
valves some sacrifice on the part
of some individuals just as every
new highway, school building and
either public work does. I wish that
this were not so. I wish that it
were possible lo give complete
protection without interfering
with any legitimate activities of
our people.
Poage said he had done every-
thing he could to encourage the
development of upstream flood
prevention (small dams program).
He said he thought that by and
large these programs give more
protection for less money and less
displacement than do Ithe large
dam downstream programs, but
that the present stage of economic
development requires both.
“Were the upstream concept
applied to every acre in the Unit-
er States, we would have gone
a long ways toward preventing
floods,” he said, “but we would
still not have stopped all floods,
t think we are all aware of the
fact that when the entire coun-
try was in grass and forests we
still had floods on . our major
streams; Today the entire coun-
try is not in grass and forests
and our upstream projects are
finding that they meet with many
of the same problems that con-
front the large downstream pro-
jects. I certainly would like to
see an upstream project on the
San Gabriel Rivers and their
tributaries, but you do not have
rights-of-way to construct the
(See POAGE, Page 6)
Connally Due
Statement
On intentions
FORT WORTH UP) — Navy Sec-
retary John B. Connally Jr. will
hold a press conference today at
which he is expected to announce
whether he will run for governor.
Connally, in announcing the
conference, would not say that “I
hope it will be of interest.”
Political observers have specu-
lated for months that Connally,
Fort Worth businessman and law-
yer, would run for governor.
He was named naval secretary
last Jan. 25. He is a Democrat.
Connally has made several
speeches in Texas recently.
The Navy Secretary is a pro-
tege of Vice President Lyndon B.
Johnson of Texas. He was John-
son’s secretary from 1939 to 1941,
and was a leade'r in Johnson’s va-
rious political campaigns.
Connally nominated Johnson for
president at the 1956 Democratic
convention.
Cars in Same Direction
Have Headon Collision
Guard Begins New Phase
In Training (or Combat
EDITOR’S NOTE — The fol-
lowing article concerning Tay-
lor’s National Guardsmen at
Fort Polk, La., was written for
The Taylor Press by Lt. Gay-
Ion L. Kaiser).
CAMP POLK — Taylor’s Com-
pany B has just completed five
weeks of training on refresher
subjects and field' problems iand
will now begin eight weeks of
advanced training, after which
the company should be combat
ready.
The proper training is given
each individual, so that he may
realize his position in any combat
situation.
Everyone has taken an interest
in the abbreviation, POR, which
means “preparation for overseas
replacements.” This phase must
be completed as a prerequi-
site for taking Christmas leave.
Capt. Erwin H. Teggerman, com-
pany commander, has announced
that every man will be granted
leave.
The morale is high in the
company and everyone seems to
be taking this adjustment from
civilian life very well. About the
most enjoyable period' during the
day is mail call. A letter from
home is the exact dose of medi-
cine needed by a soldier at the
end of a hard day’s work.
Home cooking is not missed as
much as would be expected, for
the food is excellent. The entire
army 'receives the same rations,
but it’s the cooks that make the
taste and our cooks are tops as
far as the men are concerned,
Some of the food's served are
steak, ham, chicken, pork chops,
weiners, variety of vegetables
ice cream, pie, cake, milk, cof-
fee, etc.
Filler personnel are still being
received and our company is
about at full strength. The fillers
are from many different towns
in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
(See GUARD, Page 6)
Two women driving down the
same highway in the same direc-
tion at moderate speeds were in-
volved in a headon collision
Sunday at 4 p.m.
Mechanical troubles were blam-
ed for the freak accident, accord-
ing to Highway Patrolman Travis
Thomas. The two women driv-
ers, one man and two children,
all of Austin escaped injury in
what Thomas said could have
been a very serious accident.
Taylor police reported three
weekend accidents, one of which
was a hit-and-run, and three cases
of theft from auto, all occurring
Saturday night on the Col ton Bowl
Club parking lot.
The two car§ involved in the
freak accident were going west
on U.S. Highway 79 at a point
about a mile east of Hutto.
Mrs. Mary Valdez Carswell was
driving the car in the lead, a
1956 Ford convertible. Behind her
was the 1955 Ford Stationwagon
driven by Miriam Herber Hardin,
whose parents live in Taylor.
Thomas explained the accident
this way: The rear wheels of the
Carswell car locked and' the drive
shaft came loose from the rear
end. The car spun around in the
roadway. When it had almost cof-
pleted a 180-degree spin, the left
front of the Hardin car hit the
left front of the Carswell car.
This put a reverse spin on the
Carswell car, ’causing it to come
to rest crossways in the road
The Hardin car stopped nea:
by in roughly the same position.
With Mrs. Carswell in the con-
vertible were her husband, Tom
Carswell, and their two children,
John Victor Carswell, and De-
lores Marie Carswell.
Patrolman described as “consid-
erable” damage to the front end
of both vehicles.
An unknown vehicle which left
the scene of an accident Satur-
dent at 10:10 p.m. at Second and
Talbot is being sought by police.
The vehicle, going east on Sec-
ond, hit the 1956 Chevrolet driven
by Charles Mullins, Fort Hood
soldier, as Mullins was going
north on Talbot. Damage to the
left rear bumper and fender ot
Mullins’ car was estimated at $35.
Damage to the left front of the
other car was unknown.
The hit-run vehicle was green,
police said, pointing out that
some of the paint was left on the
Mullins car.
Two cars received considerable
damage in an accident at 1:14
a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of
East First.
A 1955 Chevrolet driven by Eu-
gene Machu pf Route 2„ Taylor,
hit a properly parked' 1955 Chevro-
let owned by Pete Valdez of Tay-
lor. Machu was going west on
First street/ The damage was to
Machu’s right front fender and
to Valdez’ left rear fender.
The third collision was a minor
(See COLLISION, Page 6)
Soviet Union
Breaks Ties
With Albania
.MOSCOW iff) — The Soviet Un-
ion has severed diplomatic ties
with Albania in the biggest Com-
munist bloc split since Stalin ex-
pelled Yugoslavia from the Com-
inform in 1948.
The break, disclosed in Tirana
and confirmed by the Albanian
Embassy here Sunday, had been
expected since Premier Khrush-
chev at the October Soviet party
congress denounced the Albanian
leaders as Stalinist and accused
them of trying to disrupt Commu-
nist unity.
Other Eastern bloc nations are
expected to follow the Kremlin’s
lead, leaving tiny Albania sup-
ported only by Communist China
and' perhaps North Viet Nam and
North Korea.
A spokesman tor the Albanian
Embassy said the Albanian am-
bassador went home several
weeks ago. He said the rupture
of relations came several days
ago.
The Albanian news agency Ata
said an exchange of notes begin-1
ning Nov. 25 concluded with one
Saturday announcing the with-
drawal of the Soviet embassy and
commercial staff from Tirana.
Ata said this note also demanded
that Albanian personnel get, out of
Moscow.
By diplomatic accounts, the
trouble between the two countries
exploded in an angry exchange
between Khrushchev and Alban-
ian Communist chief Enver Hoxha
at the Moscow conference of
world Communist leaders in No-
vefbefr 1960.
Albania boycotted the Soviet
Communist party congress this
fall at which Khrushchev attacked
Albania and Red Chinese Premier
Chou En-lai in turn criticized
Khrushchev for airing the dispute
instead of trying to settle it pri-
vately.
Many Westerners here felt that
when the Kremlin denounced Al-
bania it, actually was attacking
Peiping for not supporting Khru-
shchev’s policy of peaceful coex-
istence.
The break was not mentioned
by either the official Soviet news
agency Tass or Moscow radio.
But Kommunist, the party cen-
tral committee’s monthly maga-
zine accepted as a Red bible, vio-
lently denounced Albania’s lead-
ers and asserted the “imperial-
ists” were waiting to welcome
Premier Enver Hoxha into their
ranks.
The break deprives the Soviet
Union of advanced strategic bas-
es on the Adriatic at the edge of
the Mediterranean from which
(See BREAKS, Page 6) *
IN PROTEST — Painted by communists in pro-
test to President Kennedy’s forthcoming visit to
Venezuela, misspelled slogan on house wall is view-
ed by {passer-by in downtown Caracas street.
Eichmann Found Guilty
By Court in Israel
JERUSALEM (A5) — Israel convicted Adolf Eich-
mann of “unsurpassed” crimes against the Jews and
said his role in the Nazi pogrom would be remembered
“until the end of time.”
The special three-man tribunal, which for four
months tried the 55-year-old Gestapo lieutenant colonel,
handed down its judgement today, a judgement which
may bring him death on the gal
Bureau Raps
Subsidies as
SessionOpens
CHICAGO UP) —President Char-
les B. Shuman of the American
Farm Bureau Federation today
attacked federal farm price sup-
port and control programs -as vio-
lations of divine law.
He said that by giving some-
thing for nothing through subsi-
dies and by limiting individual
initiative “the unmistakabble pat-
tern ot God’s plan” that indivi
duals accept and discharge great-
er responsibilities.
Shuman took this position in a
talk prepared for his organiza-
tion’s annual convention which
opened Sunday and extends
through Thursday. The farm lead-
er has been a sharp critic of
Kennedy administration farm poli-
cies.
The Kennedy farm program: en-
visions use of gro.wer-approved
measures to regulate farm pro-
duction and sales to make them
match demands without creating
costly surpluses.
(See BUREAU, Page 6)
lows.
In a 300-page judgement which
they began reading aloud in turn,
the three judges determined that
Eichmann was proved to be such
an important cog in Hitler’s ma-
chinery for destroying the Jews
that he merited conviction on
these major counts:
1. Crimes against the Jews.
2. Crimes against humanity.
3. War crimes.
4. Membership in the criminal
Nazi SS (Elite Guard) and SD
(security police) organizations.
Reading the verdict, with all
its elaboration of the legal reason-
ing, will require severail days.
Sentencing is expected by Friday,
In his bullet-proof, glass en-
closed cage, Eichmann took the
first blow ot conviction on the
major1 charges with aplomb.
Through his hornrimmed specta-
cles, he fixed a steady stare on
the judges.
The court delivered an exhaust-
ive study of the “inequities” of
the Nazi Reich and said it later
would describe in detail the role
Eichmann played as chief of the
Gestapo’s Bureau tor Jewish Ai-
fairs, the man who shipped mil-
lions to (their death in the ex-
termination camps.
The tribunal, headed by Justice
Moshe Landau, went to consider-
(See EICHMANN, Page 6)
Task Force
Chief Sees
Control Lost
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo UB
—Mobs raided (he U.S. consulate
in Elisabethville Sunday and
stoned the U.S. embassy in Brus-
sels as the United Nations threw
out a peace overture to end the
fighting in the secessionist Congo
province now in its seventh day.
Gen. Sean McKeown the Irish
commander of the U.N. task force
in the Congo, said Katanga Pres-
ident Moise Tshomtoe has lost
control ot his rich province and
white mercenaries representing
foreign interests are directing the
fighting.
Gen. McKeown, on a flying vis-
it to Elisabethville, told news-
men: “There are indications that
Tshombe realizes the hopelessness
of his position but we don’t think
he could stop the fighting even it
he wanted to.”
Acting U.N. Secretary-General
U Thant said in New York he
would welcome “any initiative
that will enable us to achieve our
aims as speedily and peacefully
as possible,” He said the U.N.
aims were to restore law and or-
der in Katanga and to “assure
our freedom of movement.”
Thant and' Adlai E. Stevenson
chief U.S. delegate to the Unit-
ed Nations, insisted the U.N. for-
ces were fighting a defensive
action without political motive.
Both made clear, however, they
hope dfor a unified Congo.
Britain’s Foreign Minister Lord
Home in London called, for
an immediate cease - fire and
urged unity negotiations between
Tshombe’s regime and the central
Congo government in Leopold-
ville.
A mob of 200 Katanga youth
league members broke windows
in the U. S. consulate in Elisa-
bethville, forced their way into
the building - and stole all the ci-
garettes they could find. They
were ejected by Tshombe’s offi-
cial guard. None of the consulate
staff was hurt.
In Brussels about 250 pro-Ka-
tanga demonstrators shouting
“Kennedy to the gallows” stoned
the U. S. Embassy and clashed
with police, who drove them off.
Rocket-firing U.N. jets struck
Sunday at two key Katanga in-
stallations in Elisabethville—the
postoffice in the heart of the cap-
ital and the main Katanga mili-
tary camp.
Tschombe declared Monday the
United Nations’ aim in current
fighting is to reduce considerably
if not ltd destroy ‘the economic
potential of my country.” He said
Katanga’s secession from the Con-
go was not the target.
After a weekend of air raids
and counter raids, Tshombe said
Katanga’s communications have
been largely cut by U.N. attacks
on the postoffice and radio trans-
mitters and the most important
and modern copper factories in
Kolwezi have been heavily dam-
aged.
- LATE NEWS BRIEFS -
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
REUTHERS WANTS MAJOR ORGANIZING DRIVE
BAL HARBOUR, Fla. — Walter Reuther today
pledged an all-out fight to commit the AFL-CIO to a
tough new system for handling labor’s internal wars
and to a multimillion-dollar organizing drive.
RIRICOFF SEEKS END TO WELFARE ABUSES
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Welfare Abraham A.
Ribicoff announced today 10 administrative changes in
the federal-state public assistance program. He said
they are aimed at eliminating abuses, helping people
get off relief, and strengthening family life.
LONDON (ff) — Britain announ-
ced today it will not deliver the
24 half-ton bombs it promised to
U.N. forces in Katanga until the
United Nations explains its Congo
policies more clearly.
The announcement was made in
the House of Commons by Ed^
ward Heath, lord privy seal and
deputy foreign minister, in a
stormy session on the Katanga
flareup.
Heath stressed' that Britain
supports the general U.N. object-
ive of conciliating rival Congo
factions and removing foreign
mercenaries from the forces of
(See MOBS, Page 6)
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COURT UPSETS SIT-IN CONVICTIONS
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court overturned
today conviction of 16 Negroes who by sit-in demonstra-
tions tried to end lunch counter segregation in Baton
Rouge, La.
KING SIZE BALE — Paul Brush, Tyler farmer and
nurseryman, punches a test of a 600-pound bale
of Coastal Bermuda grass hay baled in the press of
an idle cotton gin. The large bale is about the size
of three regular bales. Brush says that by com-
pressing the hay, farmers can buy hay during cut-
ting season when prices are low and store much
more than they are able to do under present bal-
ing operations. —AP Wireph°t®
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DOMINICAN NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF AGAIN
■SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The op-
position heatedly charged a return to dictatorship, broke
off negotiations with President Joaquin Balaguer’s re-
gime Sunday night and implied renewal of a general
strike against Balaguer.
RED ATTACHE EXPELLED IN OTTAWA
OTTAWA — A. military attache at the Soviet Em-
bassy has been expelled from Canada for attempting
to buy secret documents from a government employe.
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