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PRICE FIVE CENTS
TON, TEXAS. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 81, 1961
Sales Tax
Narrow Escape Caps
IN ESCAPE
Grissom is
Nervy Gus
Races Ti:
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as his capsule plummeted
Army Hasn’t
In Draft Call
-Asseciated Press
A card on the door stated it was
closed for an audit. No one in the
voting machine.
At 17; Damage High
ing a lever.
range support measure.
bank. Mrs. Enid Bossie recount-
They looked.
They saw what had happened ed her night of horror.
Pierre Salinger declined
com-
swept through the valleys late preacher to have him pray for
emergency and call up reserves
off from Cape Canaveral.
as it plummeted to the bottom.
and National Guardsmen. He said
"Give me something to blow my h« would not comment in ad-
vance of Kennedy’s planned re-
astronaut did not do so because
afraid they would find relatives damage. He stepped on something
amount to $5 million.
in Austin declined comment. One
Dazed survivors started return-
had been expected—there were
homes once stood.
no draft calls for May and June hooked a line onto it.
Denton CD Boost
I ?e bit 8.,- ’ 10 4 i 7
the state calls had no connection dio voice contact with Grissom
creases in their “ready pool”
above about 11 minutes.
Maryland.
loan program, was virtually com-
though, before all city services
Texas Guard
Committee Chairman J. Wil- are back to normal.
United Fuel Gas Co. said 80
liam Fulbright, D-Ark., conceded
Unit Frozen
service cannot be restored at
which bypasses congressional ap-
reported that dug-in Tunisian in-
Tunisians fought in the streets of fantrymen and civilian volunteers
five duty indefinitely because of changes in details and amounts.”
WEATHER
The pickup was made at 7:51
suffered in the blastoff and re-
to the Pentagon, the White House
Infested waters:
The Tunis broadcast i
Another helicopter tried to get
the volunteers and that Libyans
a cable on the rung of the space and Algerians had already offer- wounded” but
were holding their
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Likely Following
President’s Order
Foreign Aid Bill
Due For Approval
Safe Before
Craft Sinks
Okayed
By House
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnesota, assistant Democratic
when a torrent of water, fed by
nearly six inches of rainfall, had
After swimming about 70 feet,
Grissom was picked up by a heli-
copter two minutes after his es-
Kennedy’s battle for the long- homes were so badly damaged
term development loan authority, by the flood that natural gas
orders from Washington in, build- Upschulte of Quincy, III., and Lt.
ing up the available supply of George Cox of Eustis, Fla., picked
"When the water started swirl-
ing down the hollow, I called our
The sinking time of the capsule,
once it starts to fill with water.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(AP) — Astronaut Virgil I.
(Gus) Grissom survived a
5,280-mile-an-hour journey
in space today, then made
a dramatic swim for his life
the Berlin crisis.
Warren Rogers Jr., in a Wash-
Bizerte city today, and Tunisian
President Habib Bourguiba order-
WASHINGTON (AP-The Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Committee
meets today to vote final approv-
al of a $4,326,500,000 foreign aid
bill. tailored to fit most of Presi-
dent Kennedy’s specifications.
Action on the measure, which
includes the full authority Ken-
nedy sked for a five-year, $8.8-
did go under water briefly in the ed seizure of the French pipeline planes In the city of Bizerte
wake of the rescue helicopter’s that carries the output of France’s astride the channel from the Med
were battling French paratroops
supported by tanks and rocket
door spending with insufficient
congressional control.
The helicopter originally as-
signed to make the pickup of the
NEW YORK (AP) - President
Kennedy was reported ready to-
day to ask Congress to freeze six
National Guard divisions on ac-
Wednesday night.
They wandered up and down
the hill-imprisoned streets.
They poked about the debris.
been swept in by floodwaters.
R. W. Orndorff and his family
lived in a house near the mouth
of a hollow. They had retired for
the evening, but were aroused by
noises outside.
with the Berlin crisis.
Among the states reporting in-
Wigh year ago _
Law year ago
with 14,000 men to be drafted in
July and August.
Gov. W. W. Barron asked Pres-
ident Kennedy to declare Charles-
ton and surrounding sections a
disaster area, eligible for federal
aid.
“Hardship and suffering are so
day evening.
Some state Selective Service di-
rectors said they were acting on
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Comics ........
Editorials .....
Sports .......
Town Topics ...
TV Log .......
Women’s News
tic Ocean.
Loss of the $2-million space
craft and its equipment will not
delay the Project Mercury pro-
gram, which is aimed at placing
a man in orbit a few months from
now and on the moon later, an
official said.
Films of Grissom and his con-
trol panel went down with the cap-
sule. but Robert C. Gilruth, Proj-
men eligible for induction into
the armed forces.
A Selective Service official here
up Grissom.
The Marines reported that Gris-
som blew the hatch of his capsule
line carries the output of France’s
Edjele field. 225 miles southeast
of the Tunisian border.
The president also called for
volunteers from all “brother nat-
ions'' to help in his desperate
TROUBLE UNCLEAR
It was not immediately dear
what had gone wrong.
There were some conflicting re-
ports at first that a helicopter had
pulled the astronaut up by harness
and that the two-ton spacecraft
was dropped by another helicop-
ter.
If the Liberty Bell 7 had fallen
a great distance from any recov- i
Sahara oil field.
Bourguiba said be had ordered
Radio Tunis said French fort
broke out of the besieged Bize
naval base and launched a p
dawn attack on the Meditern
ean port city three miles aw
Tunisian troops holding the c
of 40,000 defied a French u
matum to evacuate. They w
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spongy.
“I thought it was a cushion,”
he said, "but it was a woman’s
body."
In a community where every-
one knows everyone, this wom-
an was a stranger. Her body had
Herald Tribune, also wrote that
the President is prepared to ask
Congress to increase the Army's
manpower limit to 975,000. from
the present 875,000
One of the Guard divisions fro-
zen is the 38th Infantry (Texas):
Ft. Hood, Tex., July 16-29.
Guard division may be frozen if
the President or Congress de-
OCDM Director Welcome Wilson
said the President's action re-em-
phasizes the need for the new
center.
5. Additional Department of
Defense employes likely will be
assigned to the Denton civil de-
fense office.
6. More funds likely will be-
come available for the overall
civil defense effort, meaning an
increase in the budget of the
Denton headquarters. Congres-
sional observers noted that civil
defense appropriations always
face tough sledding in Congress
while Department of Defense
money requests have a consid-
erably easier time.
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FIRST BACKUP
The first backup helicopter
team, consisting of Capt. Phillip
that he “achieved a first.”
She and their sons, Scott. 11,
and Mark, 7, “talked by tele-
phone to Gus as he lay flat on his
back in the capsule before it was
launched.” she said.
Shepard told newsmen Grissom
“sprung sort of a big leak. It was
coming in through the door.”
WOULDN’T SINK
After making his escape from
the doomed space ship. Grissom
was not in danger of sinking. His
flight suit was buoyant. But he
Second Ride In Space
4 .
“I think perhaps some state di- is about 10 seconds. The primary
rectors may have sent out calls helicopter, flown by Lt. James
for more men in anticipation of Lewis of Lufkin and Houston,
12-Vote Margin Breaks I
Special Session Deadlock
AUSTIN (AP) — House members today broke the tax
bill stalemate with 76-64 approval of a 2 per cent retail
sales tax on articles costing $5 or more.
The measure given the favorable vote was a revised
edition of a so-called compromise tax program turned
down by representatives in a marathon 12 V hour ses-
sion Wednesday and early Thursday morning.
clares a national dmergency or if military and economic assistance
Congress passes a joint resolution abroad
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Tex., with Lt. John Reinhard of
Bloomington, III., even though suf-
fering from engine trouble, tried,
to save the capsule.
Lewis and Reinhard were in ra-'
Jury Probes
Closing Of
Zapata Bank
ZAPATA, Tex. (AP) — A grand
jury investigation continued today
in the closing of the Bank of Za-
pata which left residents and mer-
chants of this South Texas town
struggling to carry on business
with what money they had in
their pockets and tills.
The closed institution is one of
the few privately owned banks in
the nation.
High Thursday . .
Low ‘morning
iterranean to the French Naval
base at Bizerte.
dered way from Cape Canaveral.
At 1:01 a.m., the Randolph re-
ported it had Grissom on deck. He
was smiling and appeared in ex-
cellent condition, none the worse
for the crushing forces he had
capsule but it disappeared in the ed their services. wee wyws --
INTON C.De, Page 3 depths. j The Tunisian government radio heart of the city.
while he made readings of his in-
struments. The copter hovered
a space agency information offi-
cer had indicated to newsmen
that loss of the space craft might
delay the program.
Gilruth said it has not been de-
termined whether this would be
the last suborbital flight. It had
been suggested that there might
be two more before the attempt
is made to fire a man into orbit.
DEEP WATER
The capsule sank in 2,800 fath-
oms (16,800 feet) of water. Offi-
cials said no effort would be made
to recover it.
Grissom blew his escape hatch
and left the sinking capsule in the
manner all astronauts had been
taught in their rigorous training.
Explosive bolts on the escape
hatch were a new feature of the
capsule, added since Shepard's
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DENTON AND VICINITY: Clear to portly
cloudy through Saturdav with scaitered
showers and a few thunderstorms In
extreme north tonight and Saturday: No
important temperature changes, low to-
night 69 to 77. High Saturday 91 to 97.
TEMPLRATUNES
(Experiment Stetien Report)
Dist. Judge James Kazen
placed the bank in receivership
and named George Byfield of La-
redo receiver.
Two bank employes appeared
before the grand jury Thursday.
Subpoenas also were issued for
two Corpus Christi lawyers and
one from Laredo and for Santos
Medina, county judge who re-
signed Thursday.
Dist. Atty. Oscar Laurel asked
Kazen to have a grand jury inves-
tigate. He said county and school
funds were on deposit with the
bank.
The bank was established in
1912. Initial capital was $12,500.
TThere was no information as to
tions. .—
A Presidential statement em-
phasized that civil defense "will
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It has been shut since Tuesday, by-member voice tally was taken . . - • -
to verify the vote shown by the! ASTRONAUT, GRISSOM STRIDES FROM VAN TOWARD LAUNCHING PAD
nose. My head is full of sea wa-
ter.” America’s No. 2 space man
said when he was deposited on
the deck of the aircraft carrier
Randolph. Otherwise, he was re-
ported in good condition.
Grissom rode 11$ miles high on
the nose of a Redstone rocket and
303 miles down the Atlantic mis-
sile range. And he looked down on
a view so fascinating he forgot
momentarily that he had chores
to perform during the 15-minute
journey.
KENNEDY WATCHES
President Kennedy watched on
television with millions of other
Americans as Grissom followed
the space trail blazed May 5 by
astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr.
Then he expressed "great pleas-
ure and satisfaction” in a tele-
phone call to Grissom on the
Randolph.
The 35-year-old Air Force cap-
tain had flown higher (two miles),
farther (one mile) and faster (by
and said he gave no indication he
was in trouble.
The astronaut requested that'*
from won.
He said he would “guess the
Senate would accept the borrow-
ing authority, but it might make
sible for civil defense — the role
of “advising and assisting” the
President in planning the con-
tinuity of government and the
mobilization of Industry in event
of a war emergency.
Despite reports that OCDM Di-
rector Frank B. Ellis had oppos-
ed so sweeping a shift of power
IN TODAYS PAPER
A BURNING railroad tun-
nel swallowed up an apart-
ment house and caused death
of a fireman. Page 3, Sec. 1.
THE TEXAS League and
American League won first
round Little League playoff
games Thursday nights. Page
1, Sec. 2.
THE MAN who said he
caused the New London
school explosion now is being
held for investigation of sev-
eral robberies. Page ’ 3, Sec.
1.
A RUNDOWN on the new
Social Security laws can be
found on today’s editorial
page. Page 4, Sec. 1.
further increases,” he said. “But
there have been no increases
since the call of 8,000 was an-
nounced for August.”
Selective Service officials said
Thursday night and today.'
On one litter-strewn stream
TUNISIANS, J
FRENCH CLASH
Kennedy replied he had or-
dered an immediate report. The
disaster, said the President, "is
of great concern to me.”
Offers of vehicles and rescue
equipment flowed in from cities
throughout the Kanawha and the
Ohio valleys.. Assistance was
profferred by Dallas.
“It makes you feel good," said
the mayor, “to find out how ev-
erybody is pulling together in
this time of need.”
He said it may be a month.
last seen before the deluge.
About 50 houses were splin-
tered by the flood. Countless
cars were battered beyond sal-
vage. The waters chased an es-
timated 500 families from their
homes.
began sinking in the Atlantic Ocean.
The capsule plummeted to the bottom in 280 fathoms
about seven minutes after Grissom swam to safety.
A Marine helicopter plucked him from the ocean with-
in two minutes after he swam away from the sinking
spacecraft. According to space agency reports, Grissom
had asked to remain in the capsule for several minutes
acted on
Selective Service officials in
Washington said the increases in
pools of available draft men were
tied to the already announced
8,000-man August call, 2,000 more
than called for July.
Indications in the capital were
that the administration planned
to rely primarily on trained Na-
tional Guardsmen and reservists
in any defense manpower build-
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CHARLESTON W. Va., (AP)—
A weary band of mud-caked men
began anew today a search they
prayed would be fruitless.
A flash flood here already had
taken 17 lives. They hoped a half-
dozen people still listed as miss-
ing had escaped.
“It's our worst disaster,” the
Charleston Mayor, John Shank-
lin, said sadly. “We won't know
for a long time just how bad
it is.”
One state official estimated
ington dispatch to the New York leader, said: “There may be
some cuts offered on the floor,
By FRANK CAREY
Associated Press Science Writer
ABOARD USS RANDOLPH (AP>—Astronaut Gus
cape from the capsule. Attempts clare at last a partial national .bout 16 minutes after it blasted
to recover the spacecraft failed emergency and call up reserves -w mn Eauep
w u remagun, uw wauw xuuuse aung.uu ... - ----- —— fight against France. He said
announcement said Kennedy had entry and for his swim in shark- Tunisia’s ambassadors in all coun- ordered to fight to the
tries had been ordered to enlist The Tunis broadcast a
extending indefinitely all officer
appointments and enlistment
terma.
but I’d say we'll come out of the
Senate with a good, strong bill
that will please the President and
fulfill the aims of the adminis-
tration."
Acting amid mounting tension
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total requests for $4,762,500,000 mi eAINrau
(in lache)
fancy life raft for such emer-
White House press secretary gencies.
pointed out that some increases prior to the time he was expected
) to and before the helicopter had
pleted in a day-long session
Thursday.
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield of Montana said
he hoped to schedule the measure
for debate in the Senate late next
week. There it is expected to en-
counter rough opposition, particu-
larly from those who argue its
port to the American people by it developed engine trouble,
radio and television next Tues-
>rd-Chronicle
TUNIS (AP) - French and
Tiie executive order gave to
OCDM - which has been respon- spinning blades.
propriations committees, is far present. In all, nearly 600 cus-
tomers were without gas until
A straight general retail
sales tax was defeated
Thursday.
The crucial vote came to-
day on an amendment by Rep.
Charles Sandahl, Austin. The
amendment carries revenue rais-
ing provisions for only $328 mil-
lion, compared to estimates of a
need of about $360 million.
After adoption of the Sandahl
amendment, the House turned to
the final stages of action on the
entire bill (HB20).
The tax package was given a
tentative final approval of 71-70
with Speaker James Turman vot-
ing to break a tie. However, the
vote was so close that a member-
to the bottom ofthe AlAn. Grissom had to blow the escape hatch of his space cap-
to tne bottom ot the atan” sule and swim for about 70 feet today after the craft 1
were “numerous
source said there is no law giving Dazed survivors started return-
the state supervision of a private ing to the ravines where their
bank.
____ -__, his troops to seize the pipeline at
Redstone booster rocket thun- Skhira, in southern Tunisia. The
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oct Mercury director, said most
of the information desired was re- A l _ J II *1
ceived through telemetry. Earlier, MSKOu IIIKC
the size of its present capital,
deposits or number of depositors, property damage alone in West
The State Banking Commission Virginia’s capital city would
severe.” Barron told Kennedy,
“that federal assistance is re-
quired to supplement the limited
aid state and local authorities are
able to render.”
us. But there wasn't time to
pray.”
Just before dawn, Bob Burgess
walked to his car to inspect the
town could offer a reason for the * Some Time Later The Air Force Captain Soared Aloft On Successful Space Ride
closing. । __ ______ __
£:SSlFlood Death Figure
ter, 18, could not be located.
What effect will President Ken-
nedy's change in the nation’s civil
defense setup have on Denton?
That was the question being
asked today after the President
Thursday transferred to the Pen-
tagon major responsibility “for a
greatly accelerated civil defense
effort including a nationwide fall-
out shelter program.”
From sources in Denton as well
as elsewhere, these seemed to be
the possible changes to the Den-
ton headquarters of the five-state
Southwestern office. of Civil and
Defense Mobilization:
1. The OCDM name will be
changed to the U.S. Office of
Emergency Planning. No one’s
sure when this name change will
become effective.
2. A sizeable expansion of the
Denton headquarters Is a long-
range prospect.
3. Some Denton personnel like-
ly will be transferred to the De-
partment of Defense. But in all
likelihood they will remain in
Denton and will continue to per-
form their normal duties. The
OCDM office here already has a
numher of personnel from other
government agencies.
4. The underground civil de-
fense center, new under construc-
tion south of Denton on Loop 281,
will be completed as planned.
ment on reports Kennedy will de- ans thwASenetcapsusssplashed
a.m. (EST), 31 minutes after the
MTH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE— NO. 2>7
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to check instruments.
This indicated he believ-
ed he had ample time to ac-
complish this before at-
tempting to leave the ve-
hicle.
It was reported later that his
space suit was buoyant and he
was never in danger d sinking,
but he went under water briefly
in the wake of the helicopter
blades and when he went aboard
his first words were:
“Give me something to blow my
nose. My head is full of sea
water.”
Ellis' recommenda-
180 miles) than Shepard. were Massachusetts, Indiana, they wait a few minutes before
His petite wife, Betty, who also Ohio, Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, starting the recovery operation
sat glued to a TV screen at New- Georgia, Rhode Island, Illinois, ‘
port News, Va., disclosed also Oregon, Tennessee, Arkansas and
WASHINGTON (AP)-Although
several states reported they were
increasing their pools of available
draftees, the Army said today it
has made no new request for
drafting additional men.
billion economic development method of financing means back-
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