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Turning cooler with mostly cloudy skies Thursday af-
ternoon and night. A chance for a brief shower
with the change. Friday dloudy with shower deve-
loping in the afternoon.
Today’s Range: 60-78. Tomorrow’s Range: 48-65.
Yesterday’s High: 82. Rainfall: 0.
Sunrise: 6:23 a.m. Sunset: 6:48 p.m.
Moonrise Fri.: 2:33 a.m. Moonset Fri.: 1:22 p.m.
Lake Levels—Travis: 667:78’. Buchanan: 1004.64’.
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TAYLOR, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1962
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Price Five Cents
2-Year Pact
Rumored in
Steel Talks
Immediate Wage
Hike Passed Up
PITTSBURGH Iff) — Top-level
steel negotiators reportedly have
reached broad agreement on
non-inflationary labor contract for
the steel industry.
Reliable Washington sources
said the chief bargainers for the
union and the major steel firms
reached agreement on a two-year
contract Wednesday. The United
Steelworkers’ Union international
executive board and international
wage policy committee have been
summoned to meet here next Sat-
urday. Union law requires that
contract proposals be ratified by
the wage policy committee.
The union’s 11 company nego-
tiating committees will meet Sun-
day.
As currently dfescfribed, the
new pact appears to meet Presi-
dent Kennedy’s call for an early
settlement, without a strike, and
without inflationary provisions.
Coming three months ahead of
the June 30 expiration date of ex
isting contracts, the reported
agreement would head off both a
steel stfrike a potentially dan-
gerous rush to stockpile steel
against the possibility of such a
srike.
The agreement is said to pass
up an immediate wage increase
from the present average of $3.28
an hour paid to some 430,000 bas-
ic steelworkers. But it reportedly
provides for about 10 cents an
hour in fringe benefits—vacation
pension, and unemployment pro-
visions.
The contract could be reopened,
it is reported, for wage increase
negotiations at the end of its
first year.
Chief industry negotiator R.
Conrad Cooper of the U. S. Steel
Corp. told a press conference aft-
r Wednesday’s talks here that
-e negotiators have “defined the
outline of the area” of possible
agreement, and that much nego-
tiating work remained to be
done.
USW President David J. Mc-
Donald did not say whether the
union’s wage policy committee
will be asked to vote on a pro-
posal. He said only that the com-
mittee . was summoned to bring
it up to date on the bargaining.
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Cool, Turbulent
Weather Builds Up
By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS
Turbulent weather was building
up as a cold front shoved across
Texas toward the southeast Thurs-
day.
Its forward edge lay across the
south part of the Texas Panhan-
dle-Plains in early morning. The
cooler air was due in South Tex-
as by night.
Thunderstorms and showers
were expected along the front as
it rolled across eastern and south-
ern areas of the state.
Forecasts called for increasing
clouds in western sections of the
state Friday with a few showers
likely over the South Plains.
Cooler weather was in prospect
for all of Texas. Overnight lows
down to 25 degrees were predict-
ed in the upper Panhandle, and
in the 40s to 50s elsewhere.
Eddie Hein Faces
Trial on April 16
Eddie Paul Hein will be tried
April 16 for the 1936 murder of
a prominent Taylorite, W. C.
“Babe” Womack.
The case will be tried in 26th
District Court in Georgetown by
Judge Jack Miller of San Saba
County. Judge D. B. Wood of Wil-
liamson County is disqualified to
preside since he was district (at-
torney (and therefore prosecuting
attorney) at the time the mur-
der on April 3, 1936.
The court has appointed David
Sapp of Taylor, member of the
Taylor law firm of Fox, Fon-
dren and Sapp, to defend Hein,
who stated in a jailhouse inter-
view recently that even if he
wanted a lawyer he couldn’t af-
ford one.
County Attorney J. R. Owen
said a special venire of prospec-
tive jurors will be called in con-
nection with the case.
Hein, 59, signed a statement in
mid-February admitted the mur-
der 26 years ago. He had been
living in Altus, Okla., where he
had led a respectable life with
his wife and two daughters. He
worked as a hotel clerk.
Hein waived extradition and
was returned to Williamson Coun-
ty where he was charged with
murder. Hein implicated a Taylor
man, Charles Hague, 54, charging
(See HEIN, Page 8)
County GOP
Draws Ballot
For Primary
The official ballot Williamson
County Republicans will mark
in the May 5 primary has been
drawn up by the county GOP
committee.
It includes four contested elec-
tions and three propositions hav-
ing to do with legalized horse
racing, abolition of the poll tax
and establishment of Padre Is
land as a national or state park.
The four contested elections,
with the candidates’ names listed
in the order they will appear on
the ballot, are:
Governor: Roy Whittenburg
of Hutchinson County and Jack
Cox of Sephens County.
Lt. Governor: Kellis Dibrell of
Bexar County and O. W. “Bill”
Hayes of Bell County.
Congressman at large: Giles
Miller of Dallas County, Joe’ B.
Phillips of Lubbock County and
Desmond A. Barry of Harris
County.
Congressman, 10th District:
Jim Dobbs of Travis County
and Hal Hendrix of Travis Coun-
ty.
The ballot lists three other un-
contested races:
Railroad commissioner: Ben-
old M. Hanson of Midland Cunty.
Land commissioner: Albert B.
Fay of Harris County.
Agriculture commission: Harry
J. Hubbard of Presidio County.
The three propositions:
1. For or against the State Leg-
islature of Texas submitting, for
a vote of the people of Texas, a
Constitutional amendment which
would legalize pari-mutuel wager-
ing on horse races, on a local
county basis.
2. For or against the State Leg-
islature of Texas submitting, for
a vote of the people of Texas, a
Constitutional amendment abolish-
ing the payment of a poll tax as
a prerequisite for voting.
The third proposition has two
“for’s” and one “against.”
Republicans can vote “for the
establishment of a National Sea-
shore Area on Padre Island” or
“for the establishment of any
Park on Padre Island” or
“against the establishment of any
public park on Padre Island.”
County Republicans are holding
their first primary in history in
Williamson County this year.
How many voting places there
will be has not been established.
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Alcoa Will Add Unit
For Chill Ingot Output
An additional unit for the cast-
ing of direct chill aluminum ingot
has been scheduled for Aluminum
Company of America’s Rock-
dale Works. Work on the new
facility is scheduled to start about
May 1.
The new unit will be similar to
one put into production here in
the summer of 1960. It will cost
almost a half million dollars, and
is scheduled to go into production
next November.
In making the announcement,
Works Manager R. R. Sugg
said the unit is being added to
help satisfy an increased de-
mand for tluminum sheet pro-
ducts. The D. C. equipment is
used in casting large rolling
mill ingot.
Sugg said the additional unit
does not represent new produc-
tion for Ihe Rockdale smelter,
but diverts metal previously cast
into other ingot shapes.
Contracts for the casting equip-
ment and its two furnaces, the
rebuilding of two other furnaces*
and a metal storage pad east of
the present Metal Service Build-
ing will go out within the next
few days.
“The D. C. casting process,”
Sugg said, “is a versatile one.
The additional unit will further
diversify our production to meet
current market demands. It
means that nearly , all of our pro-
duction will go into D. C. and
tilt mold ingot.”
The equipment will produce an
ingot weighing in excess of 10,-
000 pounds, some 50 inches in
width, and 138 inches long.
When the Rockdale plant origi-
nally went into production in
1952, it cast only 50 and 700
pound pig.
Tilt mold ingot, used in the
extrusion fabricating process, was
the third product. Machine-cast
50 pound ingot was added some
three years ago.
The direct chill process utilizes
a method of casting whereby me-
tal is continuously poured into a
mold while water is sprayed on
its side. As the aluminum is soli-
dified, Ihe bottom of the mold
is lowered on a movable plat-
form.
JAMES MUMFORD
GrangerChief
Resigns for
Post in Elgin
GRANGER, March 29 (Spl) —
James M. Mumford, Granger’s
chief of police the past two and
a half years, has resigned to ac-
cept a similar position at Elgin.
He will assume his duties as
chief of police of Elgin Monday.
It is not known at this time
who will fill the vacancy. City
Council meets next Tuesday, when
a replacement will probably he
named.
Mumford served the city in the
same capacity for two years in
the mid-forties. He had approxi-
mately 20 year’s of law enforce-
ment experience with both city
and county governments.
He and his wife Dorothy came
to Granger from Houston in
1945 and have lived here since.
The couple has two daughters,
Carolyn, a senior in- high school,
and Sue, a freshment student.
They are members of the First
Baptist Church. The family will
continue living here until the end
of school.
Youth Gains
After Surgery
For Gun Shot
Injured While
Cleaning Rifle
Rodney Zeplin, 17-year-old son
of Mrs. Leona Zeplin, 205 Shaw
Street, underwent a special oper-
ation early today at Austin’s
Brackenridge Hospital after the
youth accidentally shot himself
while cleaning a gun here Wed-
nesday night.
His mother reported from Aus-
tin at mid-morning that he was
“doing just fine, beginning to
take some nourishment.”
A .22 calibre bullet struck young
Zeplin, a Thrall High School, stu-
dent, in the left shoulder, the
slug lodging in the shoulder blade.
Heart and nerve specialists per-
formed the operation to repair
severed blood vessels and dam-
age to nerves in the upper right
arm.
Mrs. Zeplin told The Taylor
Press that doctors had not yet
removed the bullet from her son’s
shoulder blade.
“He’s really lucky,” Mrs. Zep-
lin said. “If the bullet had en-
tered a little lower it would have
penetrated his lung.”
Zeplin received treatment at
Johns Hospital before being rush-
ed to Brackenridge for the spe-
cial surgery. A Taylor physician
said the youth lost a considerable
amount of blood, but that his
condition was stable when we
was sent to Austin.
Mrs. Zeplin said her son was
cleaning guns in his upstairs
room at their home at 205 Shaw
Street, a part of City Steam
Laundry.
“He had already cleaned two
shotguns and had started clean-
ing his .22 rifle,” the mother
said. “I was downstairs. I wasn’t
sure I heard the shot. Second
Street traffic makes a lot of
noise, and the record player
was on. Two of Rodney’s boy
friends were here just before it
happened. They had been gone
about 15 minutes.”
The accident occurred shortly
before 10 p.m.
Chief of Police A. A. “Pete”
Schier said his department made
a preliminary investigation.
“Apparently he picked up the
.22 rifle by the barrel and it
went off,” Schier said.
Argentine Coup
Deposes Frondizi
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License Office
Open Saturday
The Williamson County tax
office, 109 East Second Street,
will remain open all day Satur-
day to take care of the last
minute rush for license plates.
The office normally does not
open on Saturday, but County
Tax Assessor-Collector Jack
Giilum said the office would
remain open until 5 p.m. this
year, since the deadline falls
on Sunday.
Several hundred sets of the
new license plates still must
be issued from the Taylor tax
office.
All Texas police agencies
have been notified that en-
forcement of 1962 license plates
will begin Monday.
State Hearing April 30
On San Gabriel Dams
Taylor Press Austin Bureau
AUSTIN — A public hearing to
obtain the views of the state gov-
ernment on the three San Gabriel
River dams proposed by the
Army Corps of Engineers will be
held here April 30 at 2:30 p.m.
The Texas Water Commission
scheduled the public hearing be-
fore it makes its comments on
the project for Gov. Price Dan-
iel, who will make the state’s
official comments on the propo-
sals for dams at Laneport, and
on the North and South San Ga-
briel Rivers above Georgetown.
The report recommending the
three dams was made originally
by the Fort Worth district office
of the corps. It has since won ap-
proval from the Southwestern Di-
vision of the corps at Dallas,
from the Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors in Washing-
ton, and from Lieut. Gen. W, K.
Wilson Jr., the chief of the Corps
of Engineers.
Comments from Gov. Daniel
and from other federal agencies
will complete the file of docu-
ments which will go to Congress
for authorization. This is one of a
large series of corps of Engi-
neers projects which have been
prepared for Congress to consid-
er this season.
The hearing will be held in
the State Office Building hearing
room in Austin.
Dinner to Launch
Program for
Rural Development
Forty community leaders from
throughout Williamson County
have been invited to a Tuesday
night meeting to plan and: organ-
ize a county-wide program for the
development of rural community
organizations.
Manager Les Box of the Taylor
Chamber of Commerce said the
purpose of the organizations in
the various communities would
be to stimulate effort toward
farm, home and rural community
improvement.
He said details would be cover-
ed by a rural development ex-
pert who will be speaker for the
evening. A steak dinner will be
served.
Box said the utility compan-
ies. were cooperating in the pro-
gram.
Community leaders have been
invited from Taylor, Georgetown,
Thrall, Thorndale, Granger,
Round Roe-k, Florence, Leander,
Liberty Hill and Jarrell.
Syria Calm
After Shakeup
DAMASCUS, Syria IT) — Syria
remained .calm today after the
bloodless coup that toppled the
right - wing civilian government.
The new military rulers shorten-
ed Ihe curfew I hey ordered by
one hour.
The frontiers were still sealed,
isolating this Mediterranean re-
republic in the heart of the Mid-
dle East. Otherwise daily life
went on normally with streets or-
dered cleared only from 10 p.m.
to 5 a.m.
French Lift
6-Day Blockade
ALGIERS IT) — The French
army lifted its six-day blockade
of the European workers’ suburb
of Bab el Oued today. Groups of
men and women gathered on
street corners to swap experi-
ences as troops in halftracks, ar-
mored cars and jeeps slowly pa-
trolled the narrow streets.
There was no visible hostility
between the troops and the inha-
bitants who attacked army pa-
trols in the section last Friday,
killing 15 French soldiers and
wounding more than 90.
Tax Revision Defeat
Seen Blow to Nation
WASHINGTON Iff) — President
Kennedy said today that if Re-
publicans succeed in killing the
administration’s tax revision plan
it will be a blow to the nation’s
economy.
He told his news conference he
has “great difficulty in under-
standing the position of any po-
litical party that makes it a po-
litical objective to defeat this
bill.”
The President said that if the
effort to kill the bill succeeds it
LATE NEWS BRIEFS -
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KENNEDY ASKS FEDERAL SCIENCE OFFICE
WASHINGTON — President Kennedy asked Con-
gress today for authority to set up a new office of science
and technology. He wants government efforts in the two
fields coordinated in the interests of national security
and general welfare.
DEPENDENT TRAVEL TO BE RESUMED
WASHINGTON — Government-paid travel of mili-
tary families to Europe will resume by early May, key
Pentagon officials predicted today.
STRATEGIC STOCKPILE GOES ON RECORD
WASHINGTON — Except for two items listed as
“undisclosed materials,” the cost, value and quantity of
each of $6 materials in the nation’s $7.7-billion strate-
gic stockpile were a matter of public record today.
BOBBY ASKS WIRETAPPING RIGHTS
WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy ask-
ed Congress today to let state and federal lawmen use
evidence obtained by wiretapping to fight major crime
and racketeering.
SADLER DENIES FEDERAL TAX CHARGES
DALLAS — The government has accused Texas Land
Commissioner Jerry Sadler of civil tax fraud in a tax
court case, the Dallas Morning News said today in a
story from Washington. Sadler denied the Internal Rev-
enue Service allegations in a formal answer filed in
Washington.
HUNDREDS HOMELESS IN MIDWEST FLOODS
Hundreds of persons were temporarily homeless and
property damage mounted today as flood waters from
swollen rivers and streams in Nebraska and Iowa dealt
more damaging blows. ,
will wipe out the hope of stimu-
lating business Investment, cost
the country $600 million in taxes
which now go uncollected on in-
come from dividends and interest,
and damage the administration’s
program for economic growth and
increased- national production;.
Kennedy said everyone who
wants this country to grow and
provide new jobs should support
the bill. It would, he said, close
many tax loopholes that now ex-
ist.
House Republicans are driving
to knock out of the bill tax incen-
tives for business that would de-
prive the government of $1.2 bil-
lion in revenue it now receives.
They also are maneuvering to de-
feat a proposed withholding tax
on dividends and interest that
would bring in an extra $650 mil-
lion a year.
The presidential argument for
the tax bill shared the news con
ference spotlight with Kennedy’s
announcement that Supreme
Court Justice Charles E. Whitta-
ker is retiring for reasons of ill
health.
His retirement takes effect
April 1. He will be eligible for
half-pay on his $35,000 yearly sal-
ary.
Kennedy said nothing about a
successor.
On nuclear testing inspection,
Kennedy said Secretary of State
Dean Rusk’s reports indicate the
problem of inspection has emerg-
ed as the central issue.
We cannot accept any agree-
ent: without adequate inspection,
Kennedy said, and the Soviet Un-
ion flatly rejects any effective in-
spection.
Kennedy said the Uited States
wants a nuclear test treaty and
will continue to strive for one,
but will insist on an adequate in-
spection technique.
That was part of Kennedy’s an-
swer to a question whether this
country now is definitely commit-
ted to going ahead with nuclear
tests in the Pacific.
He said Ibis country’s position
is unchanged, which means his
(See DEFEAT, Page 8)
Whittaker
Quits Court
WASHINGTON Iff) — Supreme
Court Justice Charles E. Whitta-
ker retired today.
Whittaker, 61, a justice for five
years has been in ill health.
President Kennedy announced
at a news conference that Whit-
taker had decided to retire effec-
tive April 1
The President said nothing
about a, successor. Filling the va-
cancy will give Kennedy his first
appointment to the highest tribu-
nal.
Whittaker was appointed to the
highest court by President Dwight
D. Eisenhower in 1957.
Successor
Problem for
Armed Chiefs
BUENOS AIRES Iff) — The arm-
ed forces finally deposed Presi-
dent Arturo Frondizi today in a
bloodless, slow-motion coup and
sent him to an isolated island for
detention.
The military chiefs said they
acted because the president, 53,
had lost his grip politically and
no longer was able to cope with
resurgent Peronists and possible
social disorders.
But as the generals, admirals
and air force chiefs watched an
air force plane carry Frondizi
over the hroizon they faced an-
other problem—a successor to the
deposed president.
Their announced selection for
the job, Jose Maria Guido, Sen-
ate president and good friend of
Frondizi, had not said he would
accept.
The coup was finally executed
24 hours after the preliminary
moves were made to occupy stra-
tegic control points throughout
Argentina.
A naval officer, with a convoy
of five cars, went to Frondizi’s
luxurious suburban home and
placed him under arrest at 7:46
a.m. A small crowd outside the
residence sang the national an-
them. The tall, gaunt president,
who had won out in 34 previous
crises in his four-year-rule was
driven to the airport and put on
a plane for Martin Garcia Island
in the River Plate.
On this island ex-dictator Juan
D. Peron was imprisoned in 1945
when he was vice president. Many
of the military leaders who
watched Frondizi go were the
ones who forced Peron’s final
downfall in 1955.
The slow action of the coup ap-
parently was due to division and
indecision within the ranks of the
military. Also playing a possible
part was hesitation over the re-
action of the United States and
the effect of a military take-over
on the multibillion-dollar Alliance
for Progress Program.
The final showdown came on
the 12th day of a crisis precipita,-
ted by national elections in which
Peronists captured five governor-
ships and shared in others and
gained 45 seats in the national
Congress.
The military foes of Peron
blamed Frondizi for allowing Pe-
ron’s followers to stage the
smashing comeback.
Accompanying Frondizi to Mar-
(See COUP, Page 8)
Jacqueline Due
Home by Evening
LONDON Iff) — Mrs. John F,
Kennedy flew out of London Air-
port today, winding up a 19-day
visit to India and Pakistan, Rome
and London.
He is one of the present four By evening, America’s First
Republicans on the nine - man Lady will be back at the Whit’
court. I House in Washington.
Heart Regulator Keeps
Denton Man, 80, Going
DALLAS (ff) — A week ago a
heart block threatened to end the
life of Samuel Phillips, 80, a for-
mer stockman whose home is at
Denton.
Then surgeons installed a heart
regulator. Wednesday his doctor
told Phillips he should be able to
leave Methodist Hospital this
weekend.
Before the operation, his over-
worked heart was trying to force
blood through arteries narrowed
by hardening.
Phillips’ heart had slowed to a
dangerous level of 32 beats a
minute. The normal rate is about
80 beats a minute. He was suf-
fering blackouts because his heart
couldn’t pump enough blood to
his brain.
His doctor in Denton told Phil-
lips about the Pacemaker, an
eight-ounce machine that can he
worn either inside or outside the
body. Through two wires sutured
into the heart, it keeps the heart-
beat normal.
Philips also was told it was
expensive.
“I didn’t give a doggone,” he
said. “It was the only alternative.
I had to do that or pass over the
ridge. It didn’t take- me long to
make up my mind.”
He entered the hospital March
18. In a 21/2-hour operation March
21, the Pacemaker was installed
under, the skin on the left side of
his abdomen and just below the
waist. The 20-inch wires were put
into his heart and he had a new
life.
That made Phillips one of a se-
lect Pacemaker group. The doc-
tor estimated no more than six
people in Dallas wear the regu-
lator. His age makes the Denton
man even more unusual.
“He’s done marvelously—espe-
cially for an 80-yea'r-old,” the
doctor said. “Any operation is un-
usual at that age.
“In a couple of weeks he can
do anything he feels like doing.”
This Pacemaker will last five
years. Then the batteries must be
replaced.
“By that time, they’ll have bet-
ter and smaller ones that last
longer,” the doctor predicted.
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