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"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
82ND YEAR, NO. 197
GI
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By Katharyn Duff
Jumping the gun on‘63:
Paper sacks during the hob-
day season have marked the
parking meters at Brady, sig-
naling shoppers that they can
park on city streets for free.
The sacks make no mention
of Santa and his recent visit,
offer no comment on the ap-
proaching New Year and wishes
for it. Rather, they bear this
printed greeting: 2
"Welcome to the Brady July
Jubilee.''
And at Ranger the Christmas
‘63 toy drive is already under-
way.
Ranger Chamber of Com-
merce Manager Roy Plumley
has announced that a '63 Christ-
mas Toy Shop is in operation
at the chamber office.
It is opened now because, the
Ranger C-C suspects, these are
the days when old toys are be-
ing shoved into discard by San-
,-- ta’s new gifts. These discards,
the Ranger C-C proposes, should,
be assembled now at the cham-
ber toy shop where, during the
coming 51 weeks, volunteers
will re-build and re-paint and
get them ready for next year’s
Yule baskets No last minute
rush next December.
Christmas will be spread
through call the year.
Forecast for '63:
Bob Miller, one of the staff
at the local weather bureau,
and Mrs Miller are to have a
child, due in some three months.
“I'm forecasting a boy,” Bob
predicts.
Or, if the stork is as unco-
operative with meteorologists as
is West Texas weather, the Mil-
lers just might have girls.
Twins. N
Headlines are those small col-
lections of terse words set in
large type at the tops of news
stories. They are designed to
catch the reader’s eye, to draw
his attention, to give him the
gist of the news at a glance.
Because of space, headlines
are composed of short, punchy,
descriptive words.
Headlines make good reading.
Those on a Saturday morning
sports page in football season
are marvels of verbage. Vari-
ous sets of high school gridders
rip, rap. blast, down. edge, kill, ,
knock, hit, zip, upset, throttle,
blank, stun, hurdle, wreck, drop,
sink, nip, take, tip, rout, sock,
stop, rock, cool, jolt, paddle,
shade, oust, bomb, whip, sock,
. blank, nab, stop, bump, clip.
. blister or smother other sets of
high school gridders. They rare-
ly defeat each other but they
sometimes vanquish or thwart.
Headlines in other sections of
a newspaper can be interesting,
too.
On a woman’s page news
story the other day we had a
big, bold statement.
"First Lady Influences Hair
Styles," it said in a master-
piece of understatement
Influences? She's played heck
with them. The young girls
have all got the big-head.
An oil report in the Eastland
Telegram last Thursday had a
right catchy headline.
"Caddo Oil Seen for Schoor,"
It reported. Schoor, as in an es-
—tate by that name.'
Then there was that simple
little, headline on a simple lit-
tle news story with which one
editor outdid himself
The story was a report on a
money crisis which beset the
Community Chest. The plea was
for donations because charity
coffers were bare.
The headline read:
"Chest Flat Busted.”
ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 190°
59291 IK====
AUN
PARENTS OF QUADS — Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Spector
of Johnsville, Pa., had big smiles after they learned
they were the parents of quadruplets, born at Jeffer-
son hospital in Philadelphia Sunday. They were sad-
dened by the news that three of them died less than
12 hours later. They were the first children born to
•the couple. (AP Wirephoto)
NEW SNOW FALLS
Howling Storm
Rolls Into East
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Howling winds rolled into the
East Sunday, causing tempera-
tures to nose-dive, tearing down
power lines, bringing new snow to
some areas -and whipping up the
snow left by a storm Saturday
in New York City, the temper-
ature fell to 6 degrees at 8 p.m.,
and the wind was so heavy it lit-
erally blew a boy off the deck of
a ferry. He was presumed
drowned.
Elsewhere in the Empire Stale,
a bus was caught by a gust of
high wind in New Baltimore, N.Y.
and struck a culvert on the New
York State Thruway, injuring six
persons In New City.’NY, the
wind ripped the rftf off a motion
picture theater.
In Maine, a blustery snowstorm
resulted in accumulations of as
Train Kills
Slanfon Man
STANTON (RNS) - George
Lewis, 60, longtime Stanton area
resident, was killed at .7:15 a.m.
Sunday when an east, - bound
freight train struck his auto at
the railroad crossing, in down-
town Stanton at St. Mary St.
The auto was knocked 161 feet
by the impact. The body was
trapped inside the 1963 model se-
dan for more than an hour before
it could be removed. ,
Mr. Lewis lived three miles
southeast of Stanton. He was said
to be en route to a coffee shop
here where he normally had cof-
fee each morning. ' ,
James J.’Swagner of Orlando,
See TRAIN, Pg. 2-A, Col. %
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Sports..........
Amusements .....
Comics..........
Editorials .........
TV Scout
Radio-TV logs.....
4, 5
6
. 7
• LVE PAGES IN ONE SECTION
tens
In Katan
IF FLIGHTS RESUMED
Castro Offers
Refugee Trade
HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban who negotiated release of the in-
government said Sunday it will
permit “all those wanting to
leave" the country to do so only
if Pan American Airways re-
sumes flights between Havana
and Miami, Fla.
A communique issued by Fidel
Castro’s office also denied reports
the bearded prime minister had
any intention of going to the Uni-
1 ted Nations to negotiate release
of 21 Americans imprisoned in
Cuba.
The communique, broadcast by
Havana radio, further denied that
Castro ever promised to let addi-
tional relatives of ransomed in-
vasion prisoners leave Cuba. Re-
ports have circulated that they
would be allowed to leave on Red
Cross-chartered ships bringing the
balance of $53 million in medi-
cines and food — ransom for 1.113
much as 36 inches. The storm
was so bad in Bangor, Maine, that
some 20 postal employes found
themselves trapped in a sub-
station. The Bangor Daily News
failed to publish its morning pa-
per for the first time since 1899,
and movie houses were closed for
the first time in memory.
In New Hampshire, a sudden
wind storm left 12 miles of high-
way between Conway and Choco-
rua, N.H., strewn with fallen utili-
ty poles and pine trees and tan-
gled with power and telephone
wires. State police worked into the
blocked area from both ends and
brought out some of the stranded
motorists
Boston had wind gusts up to 55
miles an hour, with the tempera-
ture at zero. Other areas in Mas-
sachusetts had gusts up to 70
mph
Low readings included Massena,
N.Y., -11; Montpelier. Vt. -U;
Hartford, Conn., -4; Worcester,
Mass., -6, and Providence, RI.,
3..
Snow continued falling in many
sections on the top of Saturday's
fall which blanketed on area from
northern Virginia and Maryland
northward through parts of Penn-
sylvania, New Jersey, New York,
and New England.
Associated Press (A)
Battle
Tshombe Vows
Fight to Death
vasion prisoners, said Saturday in
Lake Placid, N.Y., that it was
Castro himself who raised the
possibility of—his coming to the
United Nations.
By ROBIN P. MANNOCK
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo
(AP)—The U.N. Congo command
y tightened its hold Sunday on the
military and nerve centers of Ka-
* tanga, claiming widespread gains
b against flagging resistance.
• President Moise Tshombe hur-
prisoners of the April 1961 Bay
of Pigs invasion attempt.
The government was swamped
with applications for exit permits
after the freighter African Pilot
took out 922 relatives or ransomed
prisoners.
James B. Donovan, the attorney
The government radio ridiculed
President Kennedy's welcome to
freed Bay of Pigs invasion prison-
ers at Miami Saturday, and pro-
claimed: .-
“The revolutionary government
will maintain its policy authoriz-
ing the departure from the coun-
try of all those wanting to leave
as soon as the airline (Pan Amer-
ican) resumes its flights suspend-
ed by decision of North Ameri-
can authorities."
A Pan American spokesman in
New York said the airline had
little desire to resume normal
service to Cuba. He said restric-
tions and limited travel had re-
5
MOISE TSHOMBE
... Katanga president
F. E. Stevens,
Coleman, Dies
COLEMAN (RNS) - Frank E.
Stevens, co-owner of the J. E
Stevens Co. and a stockholder in
suited in heavy losses on Cuban the Stevens Funeral Home, died
flights in the past several years, about 1 p.m. Sunday in Sweetwa-
Private and commercial flights ter. while visiting with his daugh-
to and over the island were ter. Mrs. Davis Clark.
banned by the United States dur Funeral will be held Tuesday
ing the crisis over Castro's con- at 10 a m in Stevens Memorial
struction of Soviet missile been Chapel, with the Rev. Marvin
Bledsoe, pastor of the First Meth
• • mA * dist Church, officiating, with bur-
H A mA en Patrercon Gl in Coleman City Cemetery
TOTTTCT ■ dlICTOT Born in DeLeon County, Tex.
Mr Stevens came to Coleman
County in 1889 with his father.
the late JJ. E. Stevens, who start-
ed the Stevens Co
Still active in the furniture and
hardware business. Mr Stevens
Dies in Merkel
MERKEL (RNS) — Homer Pat-large scale farmer and stockman; was one of this area’s early day
was the victim of an apparent morticians and lived in Coleman
heart attack. He had returne-most of his life
home Friday from a deer hunting He was married in 1915 to Miss
trip with his son, Baylor Track Sarah Reed here. She died Sept.
Coach Jack Patterson, near Waco 27, 1962
terson, 70, member of a promi-
nent pioneer Taylor County fami-
ly. died at 12:30 pm. Sunday
at Sadler Clinic Hospital after a
short illness.
Funeral will be held at 3 p.m
Monday in the Merkel Methodist
Church with the Rev. Howard
ridly fled from Elisabethville to
Southern Rhodesia. There he
vowed his secessionist province
will fight to the death rather than
accept forced reunification with
the Congo central government.
In New York, the United Na-
tions claimed victory and said its
military operations in Katanga
have ended. It said Tshombe left
Katanga of his own volition, and
it offered him guarantees of his
personal safety if he wishes to re-
turn.
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant
sent congratulations on the opera-
tion's success to Robert K. A.
Gardiner, chief of U.N. operations
in the Congo, and Gen. Kebbede
Guebre, commander of U.N. Con-
go, forces.
.In Salisbury, Southern Rhode-
sia, Tshombe told newsmen he
had not fled his rich province,
saying: “I must get back to Ka-
tanga immediately."
He declared the United Nations
could not have achieved victory
in his capital because he had de-
clared Elisabethville an open city
to avoid destruction.
“The United Nations has creat-
ed a new Algeria in Katanga,"
Tshombe said angrily. “And the
United Nations—and the United
States which supports the United
Nations—must take full blame-for
what has happened
"I shall not leave Katanga per-
manently because the United Na-
tions wants to force a solution on
township of Elisabethville during
the battle over a roadblock.
U.N. reports said four U.N.
troops-two Indians and two Eth-
iopians—were killed in an opera-
tion to clear roadblocks. U.N.
wounded were variously reported
at 24 or. 26.
' IIJL troops were said to have
extended their perimeter around
Elisabethville to control all that
area within 12 miles from the cen-
ter of the capital.
Radio messages said some Ka-
tanga gendarmes had thrown
away their weapons and uniforms,
others crossed the border into
Northern Rhodesia and were dis-
armed. Some armored cars
mounting 75mm. guns were de-
clared to have been abandoned
without a fight,
U.N. announcement and radio
messages to diplomatic embassies
in Leopoldville told of waning
Katangan defense activity.
Tshombe flew to Salisbury dur-
ing the day in a Rhodesian air
force plane and at once conferred
with Prime Minister Sir Roy We-
lensky of the Central African Fed-
eration. who has been sympathe-
tic to his cause.
The Katangan president also
went to Salisbury last month to
seek support against the United
Nations,
Vapor Causes
Blaze Scare
At 1st Stale
27, 1962
Mr. Patterson was the son of Surviving are his Sweetwater
daughter, a brother, W. J. Stev-
ens,of Coleman: a sister - in-
, Marcom, pastor, officiating, as-
sisted by the Rev. Darrell Gleg-
horn, pastor of the Calvary Bap
tist Church and the Rev. Levi
the late Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pat
terson, who moved to Taylor
County from Mississippi in 1888
The family settled on a farm
about four miles west of Abilene
law. Mrs Tom Stevens of Cole-
man two grandchildren, Ann) and
Bill Clark of Sweetwater.
us. We have always been pre-
pared to negotiate, but if they First State Bank official, sich.
wish to force a solution on us, allwith Teller Late
Katangans, including myself, pre- even managing to bring Toren Wien
a few chuckles with firemen.
The occasion: Firemen answer-
Price. Baptist minister from Mon-
ahans Burial will be in Rose Hill
Cemetery under direction of Star-
buck Funeral Home.
Mr Patterson, well - known
Homer Patterson was born in
Taylor County July 31, 1892. and
Mr. Stevens was a member of
First Methodist Church. He
spent his entire life in the coun-
ty. For the past several years he
had operated a stock farm a mile
north of Merkel.
He was married to Lola Tittle,
at 213 N. Blanco
WEATHER
Accident Fatal
To Snyd<
SNYDERL RNS) - A Ta-year-
old retired1 Snyder farmer was
killed instantly about 1:30 a.m.
Sunday when he was struck by s
Haliburton Oil .Well Cementing
Co. truck. “
Pronounced dead at the scene
was James Hyson Huey, of 2703
Ave. F. who was struck between
Ave. D and E about 20 feet out-
side city limits here.
Driver of the truck which hit
the longtime resident of Scurry
County and Snyder was William
12 County and Snyder was William
. 12 Raymond Knott, 53, investigating
West Alarmed by Increase
In Soviet Oil Production
Ry REINHOLD, G. ENSZ
MOSCOW (AP)—The Soviet Un-
ion announced Sunday its oil pro-
duction increased 11 per cent this
year—an area of expansion in the
economic field that has alarmed
the West
The official news agency Tass
said product ion amounted to
about 186 million metric tons —
or 1,457,000,000 barrels—in 1962
This was one million tons above
the planned production target.
This pieces the Soviet Union in
second place behind the United
ezuela is the only other country
whose annual
one billionebarrels
Tass said th
production exceeds
bat "oil prospecting
is conducted in the Soviet Union
Man
■ who preceded him in death, and
later married Myrtle Val Harris,
who survives.
He was a longtime member of
the Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife; one
Highway Patrolmen Wendell
Rhem and Royce Stowe said.
Huey was a patient at the Sny-
der Hospital and was reported
missing there about 1:45 am
Investigating officers said that
the impact of the truck carried
the.’victim about 100 feet. Huey
was about 15 blocks from the hos-
pital and apparently was en route
home, officers said.
Knott was heading east in his
vehicle and apparently did not
see the victim, officers said.
Justice of the Peace W. C. Da-
vidson held the investigation.
Born May 3.1883 in Blount, Ala ,
he came to Scurry County in 1910
and retired in 1950. He had work-
ed for about 11 years with the
maintenance department of the
Snyder Public Schools
Funeral will be held at First
Baptist Church Monday at 3 p m .
with burial in the Snyder Ceme-
miles had been completed. But
previous statements have indicat-
ed it will be finished next year.
on an enormous scale” and the
most sensational find this year
"was the discovery of oil in east-
One portion of the line, from
the Ukraine to Czechoslovakia,
began pumping oil last summer.
Another branch will supply East
Germany.
Western officials fear that oil
ern Siberia, where it had never
been found before."
The agency gave no details of flowing into East Germany_wil
production or location of the
field But it said 100 new oil de-
posits were found throughout the
States among the worlds oil pro-
ducers
The American Petroleum Insti-
tute estimates U.S. crude produc-
Soviet Union in 1962.
Tass also reported that food
progress is being made in con-
struction of a pipeline that will
link the Communist countries of
be used not only for industrial
purposes, but will also help fuel
the vast Soviet military machine
stationed there.
it is this prospect—plus the dan
gar of Soviet oil glutting world
Asked how long he thought the
Katangans would keep fighting, ed a 10:37
„ on Tshombe said resistance would bank s. 4th and Oak which
lived continue longer than in Algeria, they thought might be a major
blaze.
p.m. fire alarm at the
bank, S. 4th and Oak,
where there were seven years of
guerrilla war.
"We shall not use the same .
methods as the Algerians," he
said. "We shall, however, launch
Asst. Fire Marshall C. D. Snell
vapor from a cooling system
tower on top of the structure caus-
son. Jack of. Waco; one daugh-
ter. Mrs. Kemp Hinch of Odessa;
five brothers, A. B . J. A., W. F.,
and Herbert, all of Merkel, and
Emmett of Abilene, and one sis-
ter, Mrs. Barbara McCoy of Abi-
lene; and five grandchildren
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
(Weather Map, Pr. 6-A)
ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius 40
miles) — Clear to partly cloudy Monday
andI little warmer. Partly cloudy to cloudy
on Tuesday High both Monday and Tues-
day in low 60‘s. Low Monday 35 to 40
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS - Partly
cloudy and warmer Monday Consider-
able cloudiness Monday night and Tues,
day. High Monday 54-64
NORTHWEST TEXAS — Partly cloudy
Monday through Tuesday Warmer Mon-
day, turning roler northwest Tuesday
High Monday 55-65
SOUTHWEST TEXAS - Clear to part,
ly cloudy Monday through Tuesday Slow-
y rising temperatures. High Monday 55-
Sum. a.m.
37
Pallbearers will be David Gam-
ble, Horace Boney, Pinky Cypert.
Weldon McAninch, George T
Moore and Jim Mayfield.
Honorary pallbearers will be
John Shannon. D 0. Tolliver.
Booth Warren, Wilmer Criswells
C. R. Tittle and other close
friends... J
The body will lie in state at sum
the church from 2 15 pm. Mon- 7:40:1
day until service time. T Hum
TEMPERATURES
120
„hingand
70 and
SU
Sun am
low /% 24 hours ending 10
d 34,
low same date last year:
last night 5:43; sunrise today
£ ehime u% am
ity at 10 p.m.: 87 per cent.
an offensive of the Algerian type."
U.N. forces claimed the capture
of Elisabethville, Kamina in- the
north and Kipushi in the south in
their drive to force Tshombe's
capitulation.
The United Nations said Swe-
dish jet fighters almost complete-
ly eliminated the Katangan air
force, destroying two British
Vampire jets and four or five
converted Tg Harvard trainers on
the ground at Ngule airfield.
Shelters at Kolwezi Airport, 150
miles northwest of Elisabethville
were reported destroyed.
Lt. Gen. Prem Chand. U.N
commander in Katanga, said cas-
ualties were low on both sides,
in spite of heavy fire. He said
this was because “the moment
the Katangan troops saw we
meant business they ran ’'
At least 50 African civilians
were reported killed in the Albert
See VAPOR, Pg. 2-A, Col. 4
Reporter-News
Business Office
Closed Tuesday
While the Reporter-News will
publish both- morning and eve-
ning editions as usual .Tues-
dov. the business office will be
closed, for New Year’s Day.
Deadline for
Classified Ads
Classified line ods that origin-
ata Wednesday must be turned
in by 4 P. M. Monday. Call
OR 2-7841. -
'Card Parties' Attack Red Exports
By JACK LEFLER
AP Business News Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - A group of
tery directed by Bell Funeral
Home r
Survivors include five daugh-
ters. Mrs. Carl Keller of Snyder, cards, among the merchandise.
Miss Faya Huey of Abilene, Mrs
Glenn Breneman and Mrs. E. C.
Adams, both of Houston, Mr, Ray-
Woodie of Kodiak, Alaska: two
sisters, Mrs. D W. Blizzard of
Fort Worth and Mrs. Clyde Bow-
man of Iowa Park; five brothers,
H. T. of Seminole, Okla , Law-
rence. address unknown, V. C. of
Marlowe, Okla., C. A. of Long
Grove, Okla , and Henhall of
Kingman, Ariz.: eight grand-
men and women enter a depart-
ment store and slyly slip printed
The message
“Always buy your Communist
imports at (name of store).”
The tactic has been carried out
in hundreds of American depart-
ment, variety and food stores this
year.
- Participants call it a "card par-
and ignored demands to withdraw say It's snowballing. We are well
the merchandise
A spokesman for the National
Council of Importers commented
that "as long as the administra-
tion approves of these imports it
isn’t fair to boycott."
President Kennedy, asked about
the boycotts at his, Dec. 12 nods
conference, said: .
organized-chapters in all states
except Hawaii and Alaska — and
last week we established one in
Washington, DC." .
Reports from around the coun-
try indicate that the ultra-conser-
vative John Birch Society is tak-
“I think that it harasses mer-
chants. and I don’t think it really
carries on much of an effective
fight against communism ”
A Miami, Fla., chiropractor. Dr.
Jerome MD. Harold, is generally
considered the ■ originator of the
boycott idea early this year. He
calls his organisation "The Com-
ing an active part in the move-
ment. Harold says his organization
isn’t affiliated with the John
Birch Society but welcomes its.
support.
The boycotts are aimed at stop-
ping sales of such merchandise as
canned hams from Poland, wood
products from Yugoslavia, bi-,
cycles from Czechoslovakia, furs
and fish from Russia, camera film
from Bulgaria, lobster from Cuba,
ty."
Their aim is to start boycotts
of stores offering merchandise im-
children and four great-grandchii-ported from countries behind the
dren. ' -Iron Curtain. a A from Bulgaria, lopster irom vuoa.
Mr. Huey was a member of the The movement has mushroomed mittee Te Warn of the Arrival of glassware from Hungary, mat
Pallbearers will be T. Ollie Fa- the U.S. government policy of en- cal Business Scene,
vor, Joe Middleton, Herman couraging peaceful trade with So- Harold said Saturday:
Trigg, Jack Inman, Bert Dicker- viet bloc countries. Some mer- “Locally and nationally our pro- ____
son and Eddie Thompson, chants have resisted the pressures gram is moving nicely. I would See PARTIES, Pg. 2A, Col. 6
markets— that recently inspired
U.S. officials to ask such coun-
tries as Britain. West Germany.
Italy and Japan to stop selling
Eastern Eruope with vast Soviet
oil fields —---.-----—.
The line will be 1,870 miles long, large diameter oil pipe to the Rue-
put at 1,168,730,000 barrels. Ven- Tass did not reveal how many slans.
Uon for 1962 at 2,669,975,000 bar
rels. The Venezuelan govern-
ment puts that nation's 1962 out-
and achieved some success despite Communist Merchandise on the Lo- racks from Romania and cameras
the U.S. government policy of en-cal Business Scene
from East Germany.
Imports valued at $81.1 million
(AP Wirephele)
ML JEROME D. HAROLD
... boycott leader
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