Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 1, Ed. 1 Monday, October 15, 1962 Page: 1 of 12
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BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1962
TWELVE PAGES TODAY
U.S. Policies Outlined
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TRADE ACT
0-DAY REST
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Coliseum Dome Resumes Journey
Demo Pledge
Inked By 17
of Brownwood's auditorium-coli-
38 feet above ground will be able
cratic nominees.
Monday called for true fall tem-
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Ambassador
Sees Hope
For Cubans
Black, secretary: D T. Millican,
treasurer: L- E. Jones and Lu-
ll has taken several men to move
tite ladders from one column to
another, the ladders appeared to
weight quite a 'bit. but Geckler
said the leverage gives more trou-
W. LEE WATSON
. . . Division chairman
Raising of the dome has attract-
ed widespread interest in this sec-
tion of the state as several papers
in a 100-mile radius have carried
stories and pictures of the lifting
An Abilene tv station Friday night
continue through the Nov. 6 gene-
ral election.
During its longest session since
twice used films of the start of the
lifting operations.
With the dome off the ground
in tlie Western Hemisphere on the
Cuban problem."
But he said he had not talked
with Kennedy about attempts to
negotiate the release of Cuban in-
casual captives because he, Stev-
enson, knew nothing about it.
Regarding the Congo. Stevenson
indicated he expects acting U.N.
Secretaryy-General U Thant to an-
nounce soon what has been done
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against the columns up under steel
collars in the base of the dome's
ring, when the dome reaches its
height
WIDESPREAD INTEREST
in this nation's efforts to resume
testing since a suspension last
July.
The U.S. Weather Bureau in
Honolulu said heavy cloud layers
carried rain squalls over the tiny
atoll, 750 miles southwest of Ha-
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BROWNWOOD AREA: Clear
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ing will take about a day, the vice
president commented, and he said
it would be safe to estimate the
dome will be in place, 31 feet and
sis inches up, Wednesday after-!
noon.
By JEANETTE JAMES
or The Bullelm suit
Standing a little higher than
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some six feet, people me curious have, a high degree of solidarity .
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Division chairmen for the ad- Carpenter.
The same
James checks her calendar of events and finds a news story brewing in city hall in a telephone conversation
In the second picture, the reporter interviews City Secretary Harry Miller for the story. Tn the third, the reporter
types her story from notes obtained in the interview In the fourth photo, city editor Bill Stovoll, right, and man-
aging editor Lorry Gage copyread the story and decide where to use it in the paper (To be contiuued Tuesday.)
Dean Rusk here Sunday.
Schroeder will be followed to
Washington Nov. 7 by West Ger-
man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
who wants to discuss the Berlin
situation with President Kennedy
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WELDING NOW
Citizens who shuddered and turn-
ed aside when Texstar men swung
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able weather at Johnston Island
forced a 24 hour postponement of
the United States' high-altitude
nuclear test Sunday night.
The delay was announced by
Joint Task Force 8 three hours
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Schroeder, who began strategy
Members of the public rela-
tions committee include Mrs Ed
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I Wetzel, vice chairman, Harley
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Brownwood firemen captured
three top ratings in four events '
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Holcomb, the United Nations, has told Pres-
ident Kennedy that developments
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some hope of a solution of the
problems in the Congo."
THE LIFE STORY of a newspaper story is relatively short, but a story's birth, life and death involve a number
of intricate steps—sometimes more than 20 separate actions. Today, The Bulletin begins a series of pictures
telling the story of a story—how it begins and how it ends—as a part of the observance of National News-
paper Week. The series will continue through Friday In the first picture, starting at left, staff member Jeanette
in northwest tonight. Low to-
night 56-75. High Tuesday 70-
82.
Maximum temperature here
Sunday 88. overnight low 71.
Sunset 6:05, sunrise 6:41.
McHan and Ronald Gray, pub- Stevenson. U.S Ambassador to
peratures to envelop
Heads For State
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cooler weather is on the way
to Texas— fially.
After more than two weeks of
unseasonably warm temperatures
the long-range forecasts issued
ther Piper, hospitality:
prnaa,giftvedideiion inayude J;2 been used for the advance gifts
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dome looks like. M. L. (Slim Rob-
erts. foreman for the coliseum,
walked completely across the
dome, under the concrete. Satur-
day afternoon. He said the concrete
still has not cracked from the lift-
ing and is raising exactly the same |
at the top of the dome as at the
ring. :
Very little dirt of the earth
mound is adhering to the concrete,
and Roberts said the texture marks |
in the earth mound are still visble.
First report will be made Thursday, with the second re-
port coming in Oct. 23. Final report of the division will be
made Oct. 25. I Weatherby, W W. Dees and Fred
before the test shot was to be .
detonated. It was the first delay: to Partly cloudy today and
Tuesday. Cooler Tuesday and
1951, Congress gave President
Kennedy part of what he asked,
considerably altered some of his
to bring secessionist Katanga
Province back into line with the
central Leopoldvile govermment
In addition it gave him sub-
stantially what he asked for in
the Reciprocal Trade Expansion
Act, aid for depressed areas, man-1
power retraining program, postal
rate and federal employ pay in-
creases and increased minimum |
wags.
His incentive tax exemption and
strict farm production control
programs were approved in part.
But Congress turned a deaf ear
to administration requests for fed-
i eral aid to schools and colleges,
Open House
Parents and friends of students
in Brownwood Junior High
School will have an opportunity-
tonight to meet and talk with
teachers at the school's open
house, slated for 7-9 p m.
Officers of the junior high
school student council will act
as hosts and hostesses for the
I event, serving with members of
the. school’s public relations
committee.
Refreshments are to be serv-
ed in the cafeteria during the
; two hours.
in advance of a possible Kennedy
meeting with Soviet Premier
Khrushchev concerning Berlin
Kennedy. Rusk and other West-
ern leaders believe that Khrush-
chev is planning some new action
which may precipitate a fresh
Berlin crisis before the end of the
year, -American officials see a
50-50 chance that before taking
Soviet leader may come to the
U.N. General Assembly meeting
in New York and also confer with
Kennedy in the hope of winning
Western concessions on Berlin.
If the Russians do launch an in-
tensified campaign against the
Western position in Berlin, ths
point of attack may well be the
surface and air lifeline across
East Germany linking the city
with West Germany. The U.S. pol-
icy decision on civilian right of
access, therefore, is considered of
vital importance, for it implies
that this country and its allies
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en years The division chairmen
have been the same, except for
Dees who replaced C. C. Woodson
this year. Watson has been head
of the advance gifts division for
those seven years.
A native of Brownwood, Wat-
son is active in business, civic'
and church work in Brownwood.
A partner-manager of Weakley-
Watson, Hardware, he is now a
director of the Plumbing-Heating-
served as president of Brown- man pumper race and the water
wood Chamber of Commerce. He polo, while the department plac-
is a member of St. Mary's Cath- ed second in the one-man race.
Stevenson said Sunday night.
1 after an hour-long conference with
I the President in the latter's hotel
suite here, that he also spoke with
Kennedy about tlie Cuban prob-
lem
Asked if his report on the Com-
munist-dominated Fidel Castro
government was as optimistic as
the one he made on the Congo,
the ambassador replied:
"On the whole, yes. I think we
Seventeen nominees and office health insurance fofthe aged fi- six feet off the ground this morn-
holders of the Democratic party I naneed through higher social se- ing. the three million pound dome
in Brown County have signed a curity taxes anil establishment of Brownwood's auditorium-coli-
pledge of support for the Demo- of a department of urban affairs, seum. allowed to rest on Sunday,
cratic nominees in the Nov. 6 i The final week saw congress will be pulled on up toward the j
general election. The pledge also' trying desperatciy to pass a com- top of 36 steel, columns today,
urges Brown County residents toparatively few appropriation and according to Ralph Geckler. vice around on top of the Jacks, some
exercise the privilege, arid obli- | authorization mesures in the face President of Texstar Construction 38 feet above ground will be able
gallons of citizenship by voting of a revived prestige bailie be- Co. of San Antonio. to telax a bit to witeh the wekling
in the election for the Demo- tween the House and Senate. Geckler said his firm would be-
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best be served by the Democratic - ment blasting the 87th as a eemn- two rods in each of 36 hydraulic
(See DEMO oa Page 2) j gross which accomplished little Jacks will be changed. The chang-
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Wenthep Dolnve olic Church in the six-man pumper race.
‛‛ Euume VeY- The next United Fund division the men had a 19.4 second tim-
Nunelonr RIec+ to kick-off will be the proles- ing to beat second place Del Rio
nu-ueur DGI | sional gifts division Friday. with 20.5. Prize for this slot was
$50.
A total of $15 was awarded to '
the department for beating Bal-1
linger in the water polo event,
where a bucket is suspended'
from a wire and high pressure
water is used to knock the bucket
over the opponents.
A timing of 13.1 put Brown-:
wood second in the one-man race ;
behind Coleman with 12.6, with:
$7.50 awarded for second slot.
Total prize money brought I
home was $72.50 and this will!
go into the department treasury I
for convention expenses and do-
Rights Discussed
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON (AP)— The United State! has assured
West Germany that it is determined to maintain the right
i of civilian as well as military access to West Berlin against
any new Soviet attempt to isolate the citv.
U.S. policy on this point is understood to have been
stated emphatically to West Ger-1----------------------------------
Tlie long ladders will not have |
to be used. Geckler said tlie lad-
ders only weigh about 60 pounds,
but there's not enough room to
work trom the ladders. The way
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By LARRY ONUS requests, and completely blanked and mismanaged much HANDY BENCHES—Concrete and steel rigid frames make handy benches for spec-
WASHINGTON (AP)—The 87th the administration on three major In the statement Senate Republi-i tators watching the progress of the raising of the Jhree million pound dome ct
Congress sputtered to adjourn- programs. < . . Elerett M Dirksen of Brownwoods auditorium-coliseum. Standing about six feet off the ground this morn-
ment over the weekend, signaling Congress supported the presi-can ' ing, the dome is to be raised eight more feet and lifting procedures will be halted
the beginning of a political tug dent on his foreign policy re- Ilinois and hisiHouseucounterpart. while rods in. the hydraulic jacks are changed. Tentative schedule calls for the
of war over its record that will I quests. Charles llaiiec^f Indiana. Placod dome to be in place at the top of the steel columns Wednesday afternoon.
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Brown County United Fund Advance Gifts Division.
headed by W. Lee Watson, will stage its kick-off meeting D r n I | A f cn AT re/ T A I 1/C
Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. in the Embassy Room of Brownwood p* / J fy/f K} f Y / yy
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Ma. 1 national industrial organization. I An Hionors
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Ai organization of wholesalers.
A Watson a director of Brown at the Hill County Firemen's
A County Water Improvement Dis- Convention Saturday in Sonora.
A trict No. 1 for 30 years, has First place was won in the six-
operation.,, which are to be done
Sunday, less than 24 hours alter gin raising the dome this morning 1 by the Texstar company.
"The State of Texas, being tra-both houses adjourned, the Re- and hoped to get it to a 14-foot Geckler said a scaffold will be
ditionally a Democratic state, can publican leaders Issued a state- height this afternoon. At this point, constructed on the back of a truck ;
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tlie top of the columns. | Texas by mid-week.
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Gage, Larry. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 1, Ed. 1 Monday, October 15, 1962, newspaper, October 15, 1962; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1492634/m1/1/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.