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^ Cotton Receipts
Bales Today.................... 126
This Year........................ 19,456
Today Last Year ............ 930
To Date Last Year.......... 35,196
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Fair - Mild
Mild days and cool nights with fair weather Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Today’s Range: 46-72. Tomorrow’s Range: 48-75.
Yesterday’s High: 60. Rainfall: .35.
Sunrise: 6:26 a.m. Sunset: 6:13 p.m.
Moonrise Wed.: 1:53 a.m. Moonset: 3:31 p.m.
Lake Levels: Travis 672.74’. Buchanan 1013.43’.
U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast
for Taylor and Williamson County
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TAYLOR, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1961
Associated Press
Price Five Cents
General Fund Campaign
Launched at Luncheon
All Drive Phases r^r
To Be Underway 111
By October 9 BBH
Taylor’s United Fund campaign
was officially kicked off at a lead-
ers meeting Monday at noon.
John Smith, the general chair-
man, urged all division chairmen
(to complete their rosters of work-
ers and to have their phases of
"the drive started by Oct. 9, with
the exception of the residential
drive which will close the cam-
paign.
Carlos Parker, chairman of the
advanced gifts division, reported
the total in his phase of the
drive had reached $13,772.52.
At a shorlt directors meeting fol-
lowing the luncheon, Leon Bohls
was elected new president of the
United Fund to replace T. W.
Holmstrom, who will be mobilized
Oct. 15 with the National Guard.
Holmstrom’s resignation was ac-
cepted with reluctance.
David Hoster was elected vice
president.
Smith announched at the lunch-
eon at Rudy’s Barbecue Cafe that
Bohls had acepted the chairman-
ship of the public services divi-
sion of the drive.
He also announced that John
Hunter Miles will 'serve as resi-
dential Chairman. Frank Hatcher
will head up the Negro division!.
The Latin-American chairman has
not yet been named.
Scheduled to get underway on
or before Oct. 9 are these phases
of the drive: business and profes-
sional, under the direction of
James Cutcher; Employee divi-
sion under the direction of Bill
Kennedy; public services, under
the direction of Leon Bohls; ru-
ral division, under the direction of
Vernon Walton; Negro division,
nder the direction of Frank
atcher; and the Latin,-American
division.
Smith announced that the
chairman will attend a report
meeting on Oct. 13 to check oh the
progress of the drive. He said he
hoped the campaign, would be
subs tantlally complete by that
time, allowing a couple of weeks
for (the residential drive1 and the
general clean-up of the drive by
the end of the month.
“It can be done in, that length
of time,” Smith told the 50 lead-
ers and workers attending the
luncheon. He said that with a
feeling of optimism the drive can
be completed in short order.
Smith lauded the success of the
advanced gifts division of the
drive. “It has been determined
that you should get 50 to 60 per
cent of your total campaign goal
in your advanced gifts drive to
(See CAMPAIGN, Page (5)
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UNITED FUND OFFICIALS—Leon Bohls (seat-
ed), new president of the United Fund, goes over
campaign plans with John Hunter Miles (center),
residential chairman, and David Hoster, new vice
president of the organization. —Taylor press staff Photo
Guard Barbecue
Slated Tonight
Taylor’s 72 National Guardsmen
and a similar number of local
citizens are' expected to attend
the appreciation barbecue at 7
o’clock tonight at the armory.
This is an event promoted by
local citizens to show apprecia-
tion for the National Guard and
what it has meant to the com-
munity. The citizen-soldiers are
being mobilized Oct. 15.
Ray P. Lewis, spokesman for
the citizens’ committee, said $5
tickets can be bought at the door.
The $5 includes the price of a
steak for both the host and a
guardsman and maybe a little left
over for the company fund'.
Miss Roddy Honored
By Business Women
Miss Mary Agnes Roddy, ardent Taylorite, was
named “Outstanding Business Woman for 1961” at the
annual birthday dinner of the Taylor Federated Business
and Professional Women’s Club Monday evening.
Fifty club members and their guests applauded as
Miss Roddy was given the scroll of honor in a presenta-
tion made by Miss Ruby Neubauer, a former recipient
of the same
Cold 27 Recorded
In Panhandle; Slow
Warmup Forecast
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
One Texas town registered a
frigid 27 degrees Tuesday from
a norther that whisked through
the state Monday.
The 27-degree reading was at
Muleshoe in, West Texas. Alpine
reported 30 degrees.
Most temperatures in the state
were in the 40s, with only a scat-
tering in the 50s. Brownsville re-
ported 62 degrees—-the only major
weather station with a reading
over 60.
Frost occurred in many West
Texas areas.
The Weather Bureau predicted
a warming trend during the day
and into Wednesday.
The front moved in quickly
Monday dropping temperatures
and triggering rains that meas-
ured up to five inches at Blum,
a community northwest of Hills-
boro in Hill County.
Rainfall of more than an inch
(See COLD, Page 6)
Immediate Operation
Possible for Rayburn
DALLAS (ZB— Doctors may
decide late today whether im-
mediate operation is necessary
to alleviate a suspected liver ail-
ment that sent House speaker
Sam Rayburn to Baylor Hospital
Monday night.
Their decision awaited the out-
come of a series of tests conduct-
ed this morning under the direc-
tion of Dr. Robert F. Short Jr.,
prominent surgeon and long time
friend of Rayburn’s.
John Holton, Rayburn’s admin-
istrative assistant who arrived
this morning from Washington,
said (the speaker’s condition, while
serious, was not considered' criti-
| cal.
■ Rayburn was under heavy seda-
tion and scarcely recognized a few
visitors permitted to visit him
briefly.
At his bedside were his two
sisters, Mrs. L. A. Thomas of
Dallas and Mrs. Robert Bartley,
who lives with Rayburn at Bon-
ham.
Rayburn was brought to the
hospital Monday night after fail-
ing to respond to normal medical
treatment.
He had lost considerable weight
since returning home from Wash-
ington. a month before congress
adjourned, to try to recover from
what originally was described as
lumbago.
Until Monday he had received
an average of 15 callers daily at
his home in Bonham.
Before undergoing the medical
test, Rayburn told a friend he
expected to be out of the hospital
in several days and to be on hand
in Washington when congress re-
convenes on Jan. 10.
honor.
The business and professional
women heard Jack Ray Barkley,
local attorney, challenge them to
dare not (to conform as he
spoke Monday evening at the din-
ner marking the 13th birthday of
the local organization and the be-
ginning of Business Women,’is
Week throughout ithe state.
Miss Roddy’s service to Taylor
has been wide in its scope, said
Miss Neubauer. Her business ca-
reer has included sales work,
public relations work, with a long-
time association with the Taylor
Daily Press, city and Chamber
of Commerce work. The town of
Taylor has figured in state-wide
news coverage through tile items
filed by Miss Roddy.
In her club work, she has
been dedicated to the idea of ser-
vice. A listing of her service and
social club associations would
read like the entire roster of Tay-
lor clubs. She has recently com-
pleted a term as president of
the Taylor Garden Club. She is a
former president of the FB&PW
club. She is an active member
of most PTA and Mothers’ club
groups in town. She holds an in-
dividual membership in the Cham-
ber of Commerce.’ She is active
in American Legion Auxiliary
work
The Well-Child Clinic sponsored
by the FP&PW Club has been
the recipient of much of Miss
Roddy’s devotion and service. Un-
der her guidance, the club was
a potent force in this assistance
to underprivileged children in Tay-
lor. Much of the success of the
publicity campaign of the Taylor
Public Library can be traced to
(See HONORED, Page 6)
Car Door Dented
By Rolling Vehicle
Police today reported a minor
accidenifc involving two parked
cars.
Mrs. Leslie Washington and
Mrs. Louis Flores both parked
their cars on the H.E.B. Food
Store parking lot about 6:50 p.m.
Monday.
For some unexplained reason,
Mrs. Washington’s 1955 Chevrolet
rolled into Mrs. Flores’ 1951 Ply-
mouth and dented' the door of the
Plymouth;
Both are Taylor women.
Taylor Bank
Deposits Gain
Over 1960
Bonkers Sound
Optimistic Note
Combined deposits in Taylor’s
two national banks have shown
a substantial increase.
Deposits as of Sept. 27 stood
at $15,454,722.77, reflecting an in-
crease of $137,219.83 over last
year at the same time when the
total was $15,317,502.94.
Current deposits are $1,903,631
more than the combined total of
$13,551,091 three months ago.
Federal officials today issued
a call for a report on conditions
of banks under their jurisdiction
as of the close of business Sept.
27.
The comptroller of the curren-
cy’s call affects 4,524 national
banks.
Both Taylor bank presidents
sounded a note of optimism on
the economy of the Taylor-Wil-
liamson County area.
Carlos Parker, president of the
First-Taylor National Bank, said
the overall economy is not as
bright as it was 30 to 45 days
ago. However, he said he thought
the county was in better condi-
tion now than it was at this
time last year.
“This is due to our good maize
and corn crops and the govern-
ment payments made to farmers
who took land out of production
in the emergency feed grain pro-
gram,” Parker said. “A good
many people are showing as good
an income off crops as last
year because of good prices and
because of the fact it has cost
them less money to harvest their
crops up to how. Of course, a few
people were hurt pretty bad due
to the1 bugs.”
John Griffith, president of City
National Bank, stated, “I feel
that what crops we made were
turned into pretty good money.
Good prices, coupled with the
fact that farmers were able to
sell their lower grade cotton at
good prices, together with good
maize and corn crops served to
bolster our economy considerably.
“My guess,” he said, “is that
vve probably have more money
yet to come in from cotton now
than at this time last year.”
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Annual Reception
Honors Teachers
“We are here for one purpose
and that is to become better ac-
quainted,” said Mrs. Kenneth
Mann, president of the City Coun-
cil PTA as she closed the brief
program at the annual teacher
reception Monday evening in the
band hall in junior high school.
The reception, moved inside
from the original plan of having
it on the tennis courts at the
high school, was opened by Mrs.
Mann, representing the PTA un-
its of the Taylor public schools,
hosts for the event.
T. H. Johnson, superintendent
of schools, welcomed the honorees
and the guests, then turning the
program to two principals, F. E.
Wilks introducing teachers in. the
elementary schools and Howard
Oliphint, the junior and senior
high schools.
Guests were served in the in-
formal get-together after the pro-
gram, the refreshment table laid
in blue and centered with gold
gladioli to accent the PTA blue
and gold.
BORDER TRADE $344 MILLION
MEXICO CITY (» — Tourist
activity and border trade brought
$344,760,000 in Mexico daring ithe
first six months of this year, the
Banco de Mexico said Monday.
120,000 Strike at
Pact Bargains
POLICE CRIME RING CRACKED—Denver police
technician Rob Maddock, right, fingerprints police-
man Richard W. Kalhar. Kalbar and 21 other Den-
ver policemen and ex-policemen have been arrested
in an effort to clean up a crime ring operating in
the Denver police department. —nea Telephoto
Neutral Course Taken
By New Syrian Regime
DAMASCUS, Syria (ZP) — Pre-
mier ' Mamoun Kuzbari today
launched his revolutionary re-
gime on a neutral course in for-
eign affairs. At home he propound-
ed a policy of encouraging pri-
vate ownership.
Thus he followed President Ca-
rnal Abdel Nasser’s foreign pol-
icy of nonalignment in the cold
war, while' putting a brake on the
United Arab Republic’s national-
ization program that stirred un-
rest in Syria.
The Syrian lawyer - politician
outlined his views Monday night
in his first news conference with
foreign correspondents since the
uprising that sundered the Syr-
ian-Egyptian merger under the
flag of the U.A.R.
Pledging a return to parliamen-
tary democracy, he put a four-
month tirpe limit on the period he
and his Cabinet would serve, add-
ing: “I hope the time will be
less.”
Kuzbari termed the four-month
period the maximum he would
allow the new regime “to pe-
pareTor elections and parliamen-
tary rule.”
He said the Cabinet will discuss
the possible return of firms na-
tionalized last summer by decree
of President Nasser. But Nasser’s
agrarian reform program, the pre-
mier said, “will remain as is.”
The government, which he
termed the Syrian Arab Repub-
lic, will aim toward “a sound,
democratic socialist life” which
Kuzbari said will encourage pri-
vate ownership, industrialization
and foreign investment.
As one step toward a return to
democratic principles, Kuzbari
said the ruthless intelligence
agency once headed by Co. Ab-
dul Hamid Serraj had been closed
and its agents arrested,. He said
Serraj, whose secret police once
held Syria in a tight grip, was
(See COURSE, Page 6)
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ABDEL HAMID SERRAY
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Fire Destroys Barn
Filled With Hay
Southeast of City
A large tin barn containing 2,-
800 bales of hay and a few
bales of cotton burned to the
ground early today on Mrs. Wal-
ter Eiben’s farm about eight miles
southeast of Taylor.
Fire Chief Johnnie Hafernik said
the hay alone should be worth
approximately $1,400. He did not
have an estimate on the value of
the barn but emphasized it was
a large one with a loft and cat'tle
shed.
Taylor firemen received the
alarm at 1:08 a.m. They made
the run on silent alarm. Driver
Haywood Stanford and Chief Haf-
ernik went to the scene in one
of the trucks from the downtown
station.
“There was nothing we could
(See FIRE, Page 6)
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REFUSED ENTRY—Trucks and buses from Lebanon which were refused
entry into Syria return to a Lebanese check point near Beirut on the Lebanon-
Syria border. —nea Telephoto
In 20 Year Labor History
First Nationwide Walkout
DETROIT (A3) — Ford Motor Co.’s 120,000 produc-
tion workers walked off the job today. It was the first
nationwide strike against the company in 20 years.
Production workers went out on strike when com-
pany and union bargainers failed to reach a contract
agreement by the union’s 10 a.m. strike deadline.
Ford said 45,000 workers were off the job at 16
The strike is expected to
plants
shut down Ford’s 85 plants across
the nation.
Negotiations are to resume
Wednesday, however, after a 24-
hour recess.
The strike was orderly. In its
first hours there were no reports
of trouble as picket lines went up
at the factories.
Both Ford and the union de-
plored the strike—the first general
walkout against Ford since the
UAW’s organizing strike of 1941.
As the strike hour came, UAW
President Walter P. Reuther told
newsmen: “There is currently in
effect a strike at the plants of the
Ford Motor Co. and we regret
this fact.”
Malcolm. L. Denise, a Ford vice
president and chief bargainer in
the negotiations said in a state
ment: “For the first time in the
20-year history of our relationship
with the UAW an authorized com-
pany-wide strike has been called
against Ford Motor Co. This strike
is entirely unnecessary
Marathon talks, headed by Reu-
ther for the UAW and' Denise for
Ford, broke up at 'the 10 a.m
strike deadline in disagreement
over national noneconomic issues,
including plant working condi-
tions.
All economic issues, including
pay rates, had been settled on the
general basis of the earlier UAW
settlement wilth General Motors
Corp.
At General Motors the union
also had struck over local-level
non-eoonomic issues, idling the
bulk of GM’s 350,000 workers for
almost two weeks last month.
At GM the union got an econom-
ic settlement ,which it said meant
more than 12 cents an hour in
take-home pay to the GM workers
each year of the three-year con-
tract.
The union said it giot more from
Ford on economic matters than it
did at GM. Prior to the start of
Ford talks the union said it would'
demand more of Ford,
Denise emphasized in his state-
ment that Ford had improved
over GM.
“It is not over economic issues,”
Denise said of the strike. “The
UAW has told us that these were
resolved. Our economic offer ex-
ceeds the General Motors settle-
ment.”
“The issues that separate the
parties,” Denise said, “relate to
contractural matters that are of
basic importance to the company
and its ability to compete effec-
tively in this highly competitive
industry. “We are hopeful that the
strike can be settled quickly and
we are prepared to do everything
within reason to accomplish that
end.”
Reuther said Ford had agreed
to improvements over GM in sup-
plemental unemployment benefits
and insurance.
Dag Bequeaths Home
For Conference Use
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (TP) — Dag
Hammarskjold bequeathed his
summer home on the Baltic Sea
to be used for conferences sug-
gested by the United Nations or
other talks held in that spirit, his
attorney disclosed Monday.
LB J to Attend
Thornberry
Event Here
The vice president of the Unit-
ed States, Lyndon B. Johnson,
will attend the stag party and
barbecue here Thursday night
honoring Congressman Homer
Thornberry.
Wilson H. Fox, local attorney
and co-chairman of the event
with Roman Bartosh, said he talk-
ed with Thornberry this morning
and the congressman said there
is no question but that the vice
president will be here unless
something unforseen happens.
U. S. Senator Ralph Yarborough
will not be present. Fox received
a letter from the senator yester-
day in which he expressed’ his
regrets for being unable to at-
tend. He stated he would not be
here due to the serious illness of
his wife’s father, a cancer vic-
itim, in Arkansas.
At least 1,000 citizens are ex-
pected to attend the stag party
at Fox’s Riverside Ranch six
miles northeast of Taylor, site
of similar parties every two
years.
“Advance sale of tickets is
much higher than it has been in
the past,” Fox said. “We’ve al-
ready had reports on more than
500 tickets being sold. And a lot
are still out. We will get our
final report Thursday morning.
There’s just bound to be in ex-
cess of a thousand people there.”
Vice President Johnson and
Congressman Thornberry will
eat pound steaks and' all the trim-
mings along with their hundreds
of constituents. There’ll also be
refreshments and music.
No formal program is planned.
Fox stated that only Vice Presi-
dent Johnson and Congressman
Thornberry will be called on for
brief remarks.
Fox said Thornberry will be on
the grounds at 6 p.m., an hour
ahead of the announced starting
time of 7 p.m., to visit with his
(See LBJ, Page 6)
Meg's Hubby
Given Earldom
LONDON (ZP)— Buckingham Pal-
ace announced tonight Queen Eli-
zabeth II has conferred an earl-
dom on Antony Armstrong-Joncs,
husband of her younger sister,
Princess Margaret.
The announcement said the 31-
year-old former photographer’s ti-
tle will be Viscount Linley and
Earl of Snowdon. He will be
known as the Earl of Snowdon.
The subsidiary title of Viscount
Linley would (go to the eldest son,
if any, of his marriage to Mar-
garet—who is expecting her first
baby late this month or early in
November.
If the baby is a girl, she will
be known as Lady Armstrong-
Jones.
Princess Margaret henceforth
will be called “Her Royal High-
ness the Princess Margaret, Coun-
tess of Snowdon.”
County Cleared for Aid
To Cover Carla Losses
Williamson County residents
who suffered propety losses in
Hurricane Carla are eligible for
government loans to make re-
pairs, plant crops and obtain em-
ergency feed for livestock and
poultry.
The Associated Press reported
that the office of Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson was told' Mon-
day by the White House that the
Farmers’ Home Administration
would extend the loans to resi-
dents of 20 Texas counties.
They are Aransas, Austin, Bas-
trop, Bell, Caldwell, Fayette,
Gonzales, Grimes, Guadalupe Har-
din, Hays, Jefferson, Lavaca, Or-
ange, Polk, San Patricio, Travis,
Trinity, Waller and Williamson.
The loans are to bear three per
cent interest. They may be ob-
tained also for replacing lost
livestock and poultry, tractors
and other farm equipment, as
well as barns and houses.
None of the Farmers’ Home
supervisors, including Mahon Gar-
ry of Taylor, could be contacted,
either in Taylor or at headquar-
ters in Belton, for details. The
office secretary said all of them
were in the field'.
Losses in Williamson County
were largely confined to lowering
of the grade of cotton and the
loss of several thousand goats in
the western part of the county.
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