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PARTLY CLOUDY
DAY OR NIGHT
DENTON, TEXAS,
Khrushchev Rattles
Rockets, T alks Peace
Cloudbursts
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Drench West
Texas Towns
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PRESIDENT KENNEDY CONFERS WITH HIS TOP ADVISORS
From Left, Defense Secretary McNamara, Military Aide Gen. Taylor, Kennedy, Secretary Of State Rusk
Crisis Over
Haskell deluge struck. U.S.
More Rain
SCATTERED SHOWERS
Dallas Man
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP)—
The weekend White House said
Press seetetary Pierre Salinger
said Kennedy also was informed
the Western powers refuse to rec-
sheikdom has passed.
“From now on my responsibil-
Rain clouds threatened. again
Khrushchev's announcement the Khrushchev’s statements.
Soviet Union has suspended plans
viet military effectiveness were
measures.
cause of the tense world situation.
a trace.
FRESH RAINS
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas legisla-
conference weekend wondering if they face a
Addressing a Kremlin reception
Marlin was anchored off Dead Saturday that 1962-1963 state in-
more than 20 degrees in a few
17, and Jill Henry, 17—were res-
Dud Grenade
smothering 95, emphasized by the cued by Denton officers after
GIRL FEARED DEAD
IN CISCO SLAYING
ist, apparently stalled by car
ficers, left without dues by the water hole, every clump of bushes trouble.
parents (Mr. and Mrs. F. P.
EASTLAND, Tex. (AP) - An
attorney for accused slayer Nath- Curry) have no idea what's in
an
campaign aimed at Americans in
un-
citizen. was stopped at a highway
junction near here Friday night
A member of he House Tax
INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER
WEATHER
to the road below without critical- earlier this week he hopes to get
caped
Nolting, 50. a career diplomat
Page 4, See. 1.
$190,117,924 the next two years.
Soyth Viet Nam Fell 21.
about an estimate $20,386,417 less than
The accident
occurred
10 30 pm where the Dallas Ex ’he prediction lie made before the
Exp. Sta. Gauge
pressway crosses Loop ‘288.
It Pays To Listen To KDNT, 1440, to be expected a the end of the
9:45 a in.
pany, ever Russells.
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Lawyer Charges
‘Brainwash’ Job
Man Sought In Kidnaping
Kills Self In FBI’s Face
In Store For
Denton Area?
Fights Death
After Crash
Kennedy, Aides Mull
Grim World Outlook
The four men lunched on hot
dogs and fish chowder while the
academies, he warned the West-
ern Allies that if they start a war
mitments which it has hitherto
discharged on the communica-
tions lanes with West Berlin.”
This was an allusion to his plan
to turn over those controls to
East Germany, which the Western
suicide of their prime suspect,
searched the Utah badlands Sat-
urday for a teen-aged girl who
In Kuwait, -
Says Briton
KUWAIT (AP>—The command-
er of British Middle East forces
was
ber
Before he boarded the Marlin,
Kennedy was advised of Premier
their life raft was blown across
Lake Dallas onto a sand bar.
The sheriff said the man bran-
dished a .22 rifle and demanded
money, forced Boothroyd to pull
by two FBI agents.
‘ FBI? Prove it.”
late afternoon.
No details of the
were revealed.
Rains up to 2.90 inches drenched
the South Plains area southwsst
of Plainview, which got .85 of an
inch.
The storm set off a flurry of
car accidents and wrecked farm
been wounded in grenade attacks
since April and a number of Viet-
namese killed or injured.
Money that slips through your
fingers will pay the loan that pays
your hills. Complete personal loan
Last 24 Hours
This Nonth
July Average
Thi Ymr
Last Year
parties.
The storm extended along a line
from Sulphur Springs to the Dal-
las-Fort Worth area. High winds
accompanying it knocked down
power lines near Lewisville.
added moisture, was experienced
Saturday.
277 was flooded
while.
the Texas Panhandle.
Rainfall totals reported to the
weather bureau for the 24 hours
ending at 8 p.m. included Dalhart
1.16, Fort Worth .71, Amarillo .65,
Dallas .26, Mineral Wells .19,
Waco .09, and Abilene .04.
treaty (on Germany).”
COMMON SENSE
“Common sense and once again
common sense is needed above
all, now,” Khrushchev went on.
Khrushchev is particularly in-
terested in the sovereignty of
--
ruin.”
Khrushchev said this country is
determined to sign a peace treaty
with Communist East Germany.
He has said before that this will
be signed by the end of the year.
He urged the United States,
Britain and France “to display
wisdom" and join the Soviets in
negotiating a settlement of the
German issue. He offered, without
elaboration, what he called far-
reaching guarantees with regard
to Berlin.
But he repeated that "The So-
nothing of which it contains.
Allen D. Dabney Sr., a partner
with his son in an Eastland law
firm, was retained Friday by the
Curry family.
subjected to "seven or eight hours
of intensive questioning "
"He can't recall anything he
said b the statement and the
A Dallas man was fighting for
his life in Dallas' Parkland Hos-
pital Saturday as the result of
a one-vehicle crash in Pilot Point
which completely severed a sta-
tion wagon.
Critically injured in the crash
was Charles Kenneth Jackson of
Dallas. He suffered severe brain
injuries.
Also injured in the crash was
Dale Kinney of Farmers Branch.
Friday or the first of the follow-
ing week
mote road to help a fellow motor-
■Schmitz • Floyd - Hamlett Ambu-
Hance Phones .382 2214 arid 382-
14147. (Adv.)
special session or a series of spe-
cial sessions.
A state comptroller's estimate
for a summit conference on Berlin
and Germany.
Salinger said the President had
Scattered showers and thunder-
storms were expected to continue
Sunday following a quick and
thorough soaking given the Denton
area early Friday night.
Bi
Committee said a meeting of that
group is tentatively set for some
time Wednesday to start public
hearings on proposed tax meas-
ures.
Speaker James Turman said
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Joe
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ognize.
The premier coupled soft peace
next, shot in the face and then
in the hand as he moved vainly
to protect himself.
The terrified Denise tried to es-
cape in the small family car hut
was pursued and caught by the
killer who rammed her car with
his, the sheriff said.
"We know from paint scratches
cused of the brutal beating and
stabbing death of Mrs. Florence
Hussey, 53. Secretary at Cisco’s
First Baptist Church.
Young Curry remained in East-
land County jail, where he has
been held since officers took a
lengthy statement from him Tues-
Sports
Town Topics ..
TV Log ......
W omen's News
viet Union will lay down all com- /2
MOAB, Utah (AP)—Western of- volunteers pledged to check every
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The second cloudburst of the day in West Central
by Iragi Premier Abdel Karim
Kassem.
difference in the estimates ac-
tually is only about 814 million
because of a duplication in fig-
ures.
aM.
- Preus
t
2
1
1
3
1
2
2
Is Near Miss
In Death Try
SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP)
—Two men believed to be Viet
Cong Communists threw a home-
made grenade at U.S. Ambassa-
dor Frederick E. Nolting's car
Saturday as he drove home to
lunch. It landed on the car roof
but failed to explode.
Worried government officials
feared the attack was the prelude
to a new Communist terrorist
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day night concerning the sensa-
tional slaying.
Officers said the statement was
a confession, but newsmen have
Saturday but produced no rain as
temperatures rose steadily from
the high 60s to the mid 90s.
Friday’s rain was accompanied
by high winds at about 8:30 p.m.
Downtown Denton registered 1.20
inches of rain in the brief down-
Maximum terperatures ranged
from 102 at Presidio to 82 at Dal-
hart and Lubbock and 80 most at
Amarillo. Most maximums were
in the lower 90s.
Heavy rains also fell at Asper-
REVENUE FUND
State Comptroller Robert S. Cal-
• g
er who won the Navy Cross, the
nation's second highest medal for
valor, as a 19-year-old Marine
fighting the Japanese on Guam
in 1944.
Aragon, father of five children
come may be 820 million’less than
expected did not add any cheerful
notes to the already doleful re-
union.
The 57th Legislature's regular
140-day session ended last May
29 in a taxing* stalemate featur-
ing supporters of a general retail
sales tax versus Gov. Price Dan-
iel and his anti-sales tax bloc.
Daniel set the special 30-day
session for 11 a.m. Monday but
Friday postponed the opening un-
til 3 p.m. because of the death
of Rep. Marshall O. Bell, San An-
tonio. dean of the House in length
of service. All senators and rep-
resentatives are honorary pall-
bearers. for the Monday morn-
ing funeral.
TAX DEBATE
for a trace of the girl.
WAR HERO
The dead man was Abel B. Ara-
Red Leader
Says Crises
Prompt Move
MOSCOW (AP)—Premier
Khrushchev announced Sat-
urday that the Soviet Union
is increasing military spend-
ing and halting the cutback
in its military manpower be-
cause of What he called
threatening gestures by the
West in the Berlin crisis.
powers do not recognize.
SNEERS
He sneered at French President
were Secretary of State Dean
Rusk, Secretary of Defense Ro-
bert S. McNamara and Gen.
Maxwell B. Taylor, military ad-
visor to Kennedy.
They began their conference at
midmorning, and conferred until
Many of the streets in Haskell, north of Abilene and
Stamford, filled with water and also covered a portion of
State Highway 24 between Haskell and Rule. *
All roads in the vicinity were reported still open at
dusk.
Highway Patrol Sgt. Frank Jirsik said there was a
possibility of the deluge sending creeks in the area on
a rampage to block low-lying sections of road.
Up to 2%2 inches fell, in an hour around Cisco, East-
land, Anson and Stamford about 1%2 hours before the
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The Attackers apparently had classes,
waited in ambush on a street cor- _______
it,” Dabney said.
“Through use of evidence, we
believe we can exonerate the boy
of the crime,” the lawyer said.
Dabney said he had a private
conversation with Curry Friday.
the door. As the agents flashed
their badges, they said Aragon
picked up a .22 pistol and shot
himself in the head. He died two
hours later without saying a word.
TELL-TALE MARKINGS
Sheriff John Stocks said he was
the highway robber. He ft every
description, his car had tell-tale
markings and, the sheriff said he
hadn't been home for four days.
It was four days ago that
i Denis, her mother. Jeanette Sul-
ner for Nolting's car. When it ap-
peared, the grenade, 6 to 8 inches
long and 3 or 4 inches in diame-
ter, was thrown at the rear win-
dow. But the aim was bad and
ly injuring either. a tax bill out of the committee it landed .on the roof. . .
Taken to Flow Memorial Hos- and ready for floor debate bv next I . Nolting s bodyguard in the car
pital were Elton Ray Coffey. 30. m-A.U - Iha •f th fired three times at the assailants
of 916 Fannin, and his son Terry,
10. Young Terry was still in the
emergency room at midnight, and
Early arriving representatives
predicted that the House, where
an Curry said Saturday the 15-
year-old Cisco youth was "literal-
ly brainwashed” into giving his
statement and can remember
January ession. Calvert's esti-
mate of the general fund deficit
month. Whitaker was arrested
Friday in Conneaut. Ohio. The
victim was Thomas Watson, 22,
of Fresno. Calif.
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WEATHER
mother.
They said they are certain they
sufficient to protect Kuwait's in-
dependence and secugity," Air
Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy
told a news conference.
Elworthy, who arrived earlier
to supervise further cuts in Brit-
ish defense units here, declined
to estimate what the minimum
will be.
But informed sources believe
the original 5,000-man British
contingent soon can be reduced
to a skeleton headquarters unit
plus a few hundred men to, keep
communication lines open and to
maintain equipment reserves.
Friday night two companies of
the crack Coldstream Guard to-
taling 250 men were flown to
Bahrain, the British island here
in the Persian Gulf about 300
miles southeast of Kuwait City.
« The withdrawal came less than
a day after completion of the
British troop build-up initiated a
week ago when Kuwait’s ruling
sheik-Abduliah as-Salam as-Saba
sheik — Abdullah as — Salam as
Nolting apparently was
(Adv.) 1 state's bookkeeping period on
tion. That's the idea of a letter writer today.
Page See.
Asia.
The weighty talks, described as
"wide-ranging," began at Kenne-
dy's summer home overlooking
Nantucket Sound and continued on
the Kennedy family's 52-foot
cruiser Marlin during a cruise on
the sunny sound.
many.
“One must call not for war but
for peace,” he said, without sug-
gesting either time or place for
such a conference.
Naming President Kennedy,
British Prime Minister Harold
MacMillan and French President
Charles de Gaulle, he said the
Soviet Union had the right to ap-
peal to them “to display wisdom
in the solution of the German
problem, to attend a conference
together with other peaceloving
states and to conclude a peace
Neck Island, about eight miles
offshore.
McNamara and Taylor went for
a swim. Kennedy and Rusk
a vicious thunderstorm which blew
two young girls into the lake on The fresh rains followed widely
a rubber raft. The girls reported-, scattered thunderstorms that
ly hung on to a sandbar and were boomed across the northern half
found three hours later by search of Texas Friday night.
Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline,
joined the four men for the cruise.
“We are taking them due to the
emerging circumstances because
we cannot neglect the interests of
the Soviet people's security," he
said.
Khrushchev made no secret of
the fact that the new Soviet
armed moves were made because
the Western powers had refused
to yield on the subject of a Ger-
man peace treaty and West Berlin
and let the Soviet Union have its
own way.
WARNING
military threat to this oil-rich five hours Saturday with three of
his top diplomatic and military
The governor's budget officer,
Jess Irwin, said the 820 million for graduates of Soviet military
Scattered showers and thunder-
storms fell late in the afternoon
across the north portion of North-
east Texas and in the southern
part of North Central Texas.
Widely scattered showers dotted
Aug. 31 was up more than 81 mil-
tors returned to the capital this lion. to 864,494,284.
minutes after the storm hit. A
He suffered facial lacerations and
was in good condition at Denton's
Flow Memorial Hospital Saturday.
Highway Patrolman Van Mc-
Fadden said Jackson was driving
the station wagon when he lost
control while making a turn just
north of the square in Pilot Point.
McFadden said the station wag-
on then crashed into a tree and
the impact "ripped the station
wagon completely in two. The
station wagon broke in two right
behind the two rear doors and
the whole top of the vehicle stay-
ed with the rear half.”
The accident occurred about
11:30 p.m. Friday.
ity is to keep a minimum force of Germany and divided Berlin,
and the situation i Southeast
a shor of Dallas, has admitted killing
an ex-Marine in Dallas last
pour. The Experiment Station re- mont and old Glory, in Stonewall
corded .17 of an inch. I County. Stamford measured only
Nearly three inches of rain fell
in the Lake Dallas section during
DENTON ANO VICINITY AND NORTH.
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy and littie
thange in temperafure today through
Monday. Widely scattered mostly aftr-
noon and nigbt time thundershowers.
High today 34 to 92.
TEMPERATUNIS
(Experimemt Statien Reperf)
High Friday os
law Saturday to
Migh Saturday ..........- 93
Migh year age ____________ 93
sun‘“w7"oda"2 7,39 pm., risat Mona,
at 5125 a.m. Fishing: Good.
RAINALL
said Saturday Iraq’s immediate President Kennedy spent. nearly it was not an emergency confer-
ence, rather, another in a series of reports Khrushchev had called Communist East Germany, which
. of continuing discussions on Ber-
advisors, pondering the problems lin.
W. C. ORR JR. is new president of First State Bank of Den-
ton; other officers named. Page 1, Sec. 2.
DENTON’S HOT but otherwise it's a pretty nice place. That’s
the observation of two Swedish professors visiting here Page
10. Sec. 1.
TEXAS BOYS' CHOIR, once the Denton Civic Boy Choir, is
going far in the world of-music. Page 5, Sec. 2.
DENTON SHOULD HAVE a major Fourth of July celebra-
But at the same time he called inches of rain on Haskell in a half hour,
for a summit conference on Ger*
Legislators Fear
Conferring with the President c e A A
Series Of Special
Sessions In Mill
he said, roll- found on Aragon's car last night
ing up the windows and locking that his was the one that rammed
the Sullivan car,” Stocks said.
a French division home from Al-
geria for use in Europe . probably killed by her abductor
— Sabah — asked protection from .....
an annexation claim voiced by stayed aboard the cruiser.
unemployed coal min- out $250 and then shot Mrs. Sulli-
van in the head. Boothroyd was
shaken by the attack. A U.S.gen — woe ..... vp. ... , i . ....
rouue, ... uuvuauun w Embassy spokesman said he “It is not divisions but rockets soon after he fled with her down and known to friends as a model
Daniel to present his latest tax quietly drove on to his House. a with hydrogen and atomic war- a desert road Tuesday night
few blocks away, after the in- heads which will determine the While one man who might have
cident. issue.” he told the graduating known lay dead in the Moab
morgue, authorities and dozens of
no immediate comment
service. Industrial Credit Com-
a tax bill must originate, probably this capital. Two Americans have
will not get a chance to debate
kidnaped by a highway rob- gon, 36,
over Berlin “it will end with im-} Temperatures Friday, which outbuildings in the Dallas-Fort
perialism s complete debacle and--ient _ 1----2."TPPEd I Daiias girls__Gail Willie,
Lunch and the swim provided yir _
to reduce its armed forces, be- the only brief breaks in the long oF-i
ef ‘be tene -eld -ttuetica. conference.
livan. 41, and a family friend.
Page Sec. Charles Boothroyd, 55, all of
• 8 1 Rockville. Conn., stopped on a re-
but apparently missed. They
hopped on a motorcycle and es-
Charles de Gaulle's order moving will find Denise Sullivan, 15, dead,
that the Connecticut tourist was
conference talk and rocket-wav-
on ing in a Kremlin speech. He de-
clared the moves to heighten So-
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not been permitted to see the
document nor interview Curry-
a policy which Dist. Atty. Earl
Conner Jr. Mid would remain an the extent of his injuries weren't vert estimated Saturdav the gen-whos home is"inFCESntii” "V.
effect. , ... kn«wn The youth’s father ap-eral revenue fund will take to was appointed ambassador to!
Dabney, who said he wolild take peared only slightly injured *i1‛7 "nA • - - • "
all legal steps to get the youth1 —-- ----------
out of jail, declared Curry was
new taxes until the second week
at least.
_ _ Monday afternoon is expected
wA ninpAr to be taken up with legislative
I VV III I UI VU routine, including an invitation to
The high school student is ac- •
III Smashup "e"s t0 8 ont "S5"on Tuesday.
A spectacular one-car accident
Saturday night on the Dallas Ex-
pressway south of Denton, sent
a Denton man and his son hurt-
ling off an overpass embankment
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Amusements . 5-7
Classified ............ 8-9
Comies ............. 9
Editorials ....... 4
Family Weekly .... 1-16
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