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radioactive fallout across the
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livestock, poultry, and agricultur- standing, according to Stufflebeme,
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. Calendar of Events
and north at about 10 miles per
and weighed. Stufflebeme adds that
est times -for members of the dif-
Carla increased in power and
BOY FOR BORGSTEDTES
of Houston are the parents of a
and close friend for
half of her life, has ordered “no
Saturday night, and Miss Ameri- ham.
rest she needs. He says dM ia
One Murder Case -
Thirteen Indicted
By Grand Jury
Expect Any Quick Call - Up
Fire Extinguished
DALLAS (UPI)— Maj. Gen.
were
The Brenham Unit, Company B
Massachusetts,' the
Infantry' in
formation from headquarters as
Detachment CIC Team AB, Dal-
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Hospitality and
Industry.
First Sergeant Bryan Rothermel
of the Brenham National Guard
Unit, which was alerted Wednes-
day said today the only information
he has received so far is to “sit
• tight" and await the official orders.
of the 49th Armored Division in
Texas which is one of four National
Guards alerted by the Army Id
HOOSICK FALLS, N: Y. (UP)
—Grandk Mdses quietly celebrates
her 101st birthday today, a little
unhappy because her doctor has
temporarily confiscated her paints
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.By JOSEPH B. FLEMING
United Press International
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ferent committees.
The first judging event takes
place at 8 a. m., Thursday when
fat lambs will be placed by Joe
Tatum, vocational ag teacher of
Fredericksburg. Local 4-H and FFA
Khrushchev to listen to the appeal of
the 25 uncommitted nations to cease
nuclear testing. (NEA Telephoto).
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Grandma Moses
101-Yrs.-OId Today
45 Stations Put >
On 24-H our |
By SUSAN WAGNER
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
U.S. Public Health Service stepped
up its samplings of r a d i oactive
fallout on this country today fol-
lowing Russia’s fourth nuclear test
ed Division).
The other divisions are the 26th
started. ‘ ,
The experts—John J. McCloy of
the United States and Valerian
Zorin of the Soviet Union — have
been discussing the issue since
June with little sign of progress.
stock and agricultural divisions at
the 1961 Washington County Fair,
according to J. W. Stufflebeme,
County Agent.
Entries are coming in fast to the
county agents office and by fair
time the livestock barns and poul-
Kennedy Praises
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Miss Texas Wins .
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Service stepped up its sampungs ---
so Grandma can get the
Jeff Bartlett
Dies In Houston
Clear to partly cloudy and warm
. htrough Friday. Isolated thunder
showers Friday afternoon. Low to-
night 74, High Friday 93. Readings
for 24-hours up to 7 a. 1*. today:
• Max. 98, Mln. 72, 7 a. m. 74, sun-
rise 6 a. m., sunset 6: 36.
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Alaska, Tuesday showed fallout 35
times greater than the average
daily level for. August.
The U. S. surgeon general. Dr.
Luther L. Terry, said there was
no immediate health danger to the
U S. population.
14, opening day, Wednesday will
see a great deal of activity at the
fairgrounds.
Exhibitors will start bringing
their entries to the fair that morn-
ing, and beginning at 1 p.m., Wed-
nesday, pens of fryers and capons
will be weighed and sifted. Also on
Wednesday night, barrows, steers,
and fat lambs will be ear-tagged
for propriety and deliver a run-
ning monologue—her own compo-
sition to boot.
A similar display, of a converti-
ble costume of her own design,
helped win the title last year for
Michigan’s Nancy Anne Fleming.
But to win in a preliminary con-
test is no assurance a girl will
wind up among the 10 finalists on
Harley B. West, commander of
the 49th Armored Division. Texas
Washington Wednesday.
"We have received no other in-
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ing program for which the alert
was called rather than an alert for
4-H and FFA members will exhibit
20 steers this year, which is a rec-
ord number for the fair. Fifteen of
the top-placing animals will also be
sold at auction. The judging time
for steers is 9 a. m., Thursday.
Tatum will. also judge thes en-
e,
The home of Emma L. Kirks, ne-
gro woman living on East Alamo
Street, was damaged by fire short-
ly after 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Clothing near the wall in an east
room of the house caught fire, pos-
sibly from a defective ironing cord,
and spread flames up the wall and
into the attic. The negro woman
was using an electric iron In an
adjoining room when neighbors
discovered the the fire and notified
her.
for felonies, including one for mur-
der, - Thursday morning by the
Washington County September
Term Grand Jury in Judge Leslie
D. Williams’ 21st district court
here.
Indicted for murder was Ed
Lewis, alias Ed Jackson, a 23-year-
old negro of Washington County.
Lewis is charged with the slaying
of another negro man, Charles
Watkins, on the night of June 17.
1961 at the Big Wheel a negro tav-
ern at Old Washington. The slain
man was in his early 20s.
Robert Lee Leaks alias Fred Da-
, right, receives a bouquet of
from a young Russian, boy in
hchev flew to Moscow from Bel-
, Yugoslavia, on a peace mission.
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cas have been crowned without
winning a single preliminary elim-
ination. ,
Miss Texas, Linda Jacklyn Lof-
tis, 19, and Miss Minnesota. Nan-
cee Ann Parkinson, 28, got off to,
flying starts with wins in the
talent and bathing suit prelimi-
naries.
Linda, who won the talent com-
petition with the aria Sempre
Libera from Verdi’s La Traviata,
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mobtlieatien,"-Reth-saznid---
He said orders will probably be
sent ouf to step-up the guard pro-
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Martin. Mrs. Borgstedte is the for-
mer Miss Joan Martin of Bren-
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Nehru On Peace Mission
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal
opening day will be.onesof.thebusi andmerears best known primitive wednesday's northwest 'course.
mere tracing, wbwb. is differmi
than being alerted for mobiliza-
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the Army’s alert of the division
is "merely an alert that we’re
going to get more • training,”
rather than an alert for .mobiliza-
try houses should be well-filled, t
Stufflebeme said. , n :
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without increase in drill time or
Florida Coast
Alerted For
Storm Carla
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By Wank; EIDGE
United Press International
Jeff Bartlett, 49. son of Mrs
Alta Bartlett of Brenham, died in a
Houston hospital Thursday at 8 a.
m. He had been in ill health for
more than a year.
Funeral services will be held in
Houston at the Earthman Funeral
Home, 2420 Fannin, Friday at 4 p.
m. with Rev. T. V. Lewis of the
Brenham Christian Church officiat-
ing. —
Born Feb. 28, 1912, in Carlsbad,
New Mexico, he lived in Taylor all
of his young life. He has been liv-
ing in Houston for the past several
years where he was sales manager
of Southern Electric Supply Co.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Frances Ankenbruch Bartlett; one
son. Jay Bartlett; his mother, Mrs.
Alta Bartlett of Brenham; two
aunts, Mrs. Louis J. Beaumier and
Miss Clara Hamblen of Brenham;
and one tinde J. P. (Jake) Ham-
blen of Houston; and several cou-
sins.
Mr. Bartlett was a member of
the Christian Church.
gas grenades and used water
hoses to break up crowds of West
Krause of Brenham last March 12.
Three DWIs
Three persons were indicted for
second offenses of driving-while-in
toxicated.- Indicted were Tony Lee
Flisowski of Chappell Hill, Jim-
mie Erwin Minisky of Navasota
and Steve Benowski, Jr. of Austin
County, all white men.
- Two persons were charged with
car theft. One is Harold Dee Allen,
a 19-year-old white youth of Phoe-
nix, Arizona, who allegedly stole a
1949 Chevrolet belonging to Her-
man Kammerer of Brenham last
May 31Kammerer had .to
parked on the lop highway south-
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SOVIET TEST
EXPLOSIONS
UP FALLOUT
Ht was believed * trying to
the southeastern Gulf "of Mexico
L-,-DlFhortherly course.
The Gulf coast of Southern Flori-
da was alerted against heavy
range a meeting between Khrush-
chev and President Kennedy. -
Wednesday night, at a banquet
in his honor, Nehru told Khrush
chev it would be “stupid” to start
„ a world war in this age of mass .
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artist, who was rocketed to fame
when her paintings were dis-
covered in a country drug store
23 years ago, has been resting at
a health center , for the past few
weeks.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (UPI)—
A quigk strip artist went into re-
hearsal today for the Miss Ameri-
can crown. 5
Miss Indiana, Kathleen Jane
Burks, 18, an Indiana State Col-
lege sophomore and aspiring dres
designer, will display four cos-
tumes in the three minutes alloted
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for her performance in tonight’s
hour. This path represented a talent preliminary. She'll whip be-
slight shift to the north from hind a screen of her own design
In settling the “ain’t" question,
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Four Blasts Set Off
j,..?.. Since Last
Friday
By EUGENE MCLOUGHLIN
United Press International .
A rise in radioactive fallout
caused by Soviet nuclear test ex-
plosions stirred the world to a .
higher pitch of uneasiness today.
- Diplomats, scientists, citizens
and even children searched for
means to head off a nuclear
World War H. —
In Moscow, Indian Prime Mini-
ster Jawaharlal Nehru met with
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush-
chev for the second straight day.
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Rise In Radioactivi
swells and tides "somewhat above
normal but with no serious flood- ,
ing.” ,
Small craft warnings went up
along the Florida Gulf coast from
the keys as far north as Apalachi-
cola. ,
The renter of Carla missed the
tip of the Yucatan peninsula and
in an 11 a. m. advisory the Miami
Weather Bureau located it a short
distance west of the center of the'
Yucatan Chanel, separting Cuba
and Meixco. ( ( )
The location was near latitude
21.6 north, longitude 86.2 west, or
about 90 miles due west of Cape
San Antonio, the western most tip
of Cuba.
The hurricane was moving on a
course between north-northwest
four top _____
along with 475 smaller Guard and
I ne prennam un, company D, me ™ pmuicu -..... Army Reserve units and 52,000
386th Engineer Battalion, is a part National Guard, »said Wednesday individual reservists.
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Unit is a part of the 49th Armor-
Fair Expects
Nezo Records
TnevanN for a record hum- highlights of the fair ths year will
her of entries in most of the live- be the junior steer show. Local
The Indian leader will try to get
Sept. 7:
St. Paul’s Lutheran Ladies Aid
meeting at 3 p. m. at the church.
Ladies Auxiliary to VFW meet-
ing, 7:30 p.m. VFW Home.
Grace Lutheran Men’s Club
meeting. 7:30 p. m. at Church.
Sept. 8:
Sons of Hermann Lodge No. 6
meeting, 8 p.m. Lunch.
Licensed Vocational Nurses
imeeting,First National Bank Base-
ment, 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Royce Witt-
becker, RN, guest speaker. )
Shaw, her
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Borgstedte ings which appear in the updated
2,720-page dictionary, the first
The Opens Next Week -
SPECTATOR
These seven young misses who are
competing for queen of the 1961
Washington County- Fair get a peek at
the pony which will be given away free
to some youngster at the fair. The
pony was donated to the Fair Associ-
ation by Dick Freeman, a well-known
Washington County Quarterhorse rais-
nounced that Howard Emery, 24,
and Jim Phang, 23, both medical
students from Los Angeles, were
also were detained for
two hours Monday for
size during the night. Maximum
winds reached 100 miles per hour
in squalls around the center, the
Weather Bureau said.
Gales extended outward 275
miles to the north and east of the
center and 125 miles to the south-
west.
“Carla will continue its steady,
gradual intensification and the
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Berliners in new incidents along many,
the barricaded border of this
al exhibits does not get underway and approximately 100 top barrows
until next Thursday morning,' Sept.
10-fold increase above average ra-
diation levels.
Welfare Secretary Abraham A.
Ribicoff announced Wednesday
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boys and girls will exhibit forty fat
lambs and 25 of the top placing physician
Thirteen persons were indicted strument. Leaks allegedly passed
■ the forged instrument to E. H.
Guard divisions alerted, Engineer Company, Dallas.
Six units in the state
It Ain’t Uncouth
To Say Ainft, New
Dictionary Says
By GARY P. GATES
United Press International
NEW YORK (UPI)—You may
have been taught it is uncouth to
say “ain’t." But it ain’t.
“Ain’t,” the subject of debate
among grammarians for years,
has finally gained official accept-
ance as a word that can be used
in even the most genteel conver-
sations. x
If you don’t believe it, just look
it up in the dictionary—the forth-
coming "Webster’s Third New In-
ternational Dictionary."
The controversial term is one
of 100,000 new words and mean-
ists held four Americans for hel for about 10 hours Wednes-
MIAMI (UPI) Hurricane Carla taking photographs in East Ber- day by East Berlin police for
boy born at the St. Jude Hospital publication in 27 years of a com-
Wednesday at 6:10 p. m. He weigh- pletely new Merriam-Webster Un-
ed six pounds, two and one-half abridged Dictionary. It will be
ounces, and has been named Brent published Sept. 28 by G & C Mer-
riam Co. and will cost $47.50.
taking photographs.
The tear gas and water hose
border incidents happened
Wednesday night ’and early this
morning.
.J ins came as the Com-
munists disclosed that they are
banishing, fining and sentencing
to forced labor East Germans
who used to work in West Ber-
lin.
The Potsdam newspaper Mor-
kische Volksstimme reported a
campaign against so-called “bor-
der-crossers" in the East Ger-
man town of Klein Glienicke on
the border of the American sec-
tor. .
The newspaper said some have
been “resettled," some sentenced
to "work education," and some
fined from 300 to 500 marks ($75
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divided city. .
The West Berlin officers an-
lambs will sell at auction Friday.
Breeding sheep classes will be work"
judged following the lamb show, t — -
Stufflebeme states that one of the very "alert and chipper. '
extra pay.
They included the 490th Civil
Affairs Company, Abilene; 374
Military Intelligence Platoon
Logistical Command C, Fort
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er. Children may register free for the
pony which will be given away Satur-
day night, Sept. 16. Queen candidates,
left to right are: Susie Schroeder, -
Sherry Spitzer, Patricia Dannhaus,
Nancy Jaster, Frances Joe Avis, Bar-
bara Brinkmeyer and Susan Gabriel.
(Winkelmann Studio Photo.
.. _.™—- taking photographs.
West Berlin police aso. said. A”, -merigap y.spoker
that the Cotnmumsts nufiFa tar that razeMfus and
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campaign to increase work norms
sard and w ar n e d workers aqainst425s
- 'loafing^' in moves opviousfy P.
Bolick, both teachers at the U. S. made in anticipation of a peace
to $125) for opposing the closing
of the Berlin border. It did not
say where the banished com-
muters were sent.
The Communists also opened a
_____— tionfnis is just a warning that 28th "infantry in Pennsylvania and Worth; 394 Military Intelligence
yet. concerning a stepped-up train- theyIm going "o expect "nenstna the.2nd.intantry in“lsconsin •
-We’re alerted we're going to get eral smaller units in
las; 980 Engineer Battalion Con-
S Texas, in-struction, Wichita Falls; 974
TransportationlounttermaH,Company,eiuh
n Air Force sstehce fpply, Galveston, «•«< - -
— .498 Quartermaster Platoon Depet. out the blast with, relatively ami
Tha 4kh Armored was one of tion Company, Fort Worth; 277th Abilene. . ' damage.
r" about 1ft ynarr ~H~
iallwith no permanent address, was
indicted for passing a forged In-
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r. Khrushchev, who still has not
told the Russian people that So-
viet scientists have set off four
nuclear explosions in the atmos-
phere since last Friday, insisted
his only aim was peace and dis-
armament.
But in New York, there was no
indication of headway in talks
between Soviet and U. 9. disarma-
ment experts on getting a multi-
"nation disarmament conference
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
‘ INSTRUCTION IN civil defense
is available to any sgroup in Wash-
ington County, Charles Darby, as-
sistant superintendent of the Bren-
ham., Independent School District,
peported Thursday. Darby said the
peed for such instruction is be-
, coming more urgent every day
with the worsening of the interna-
tional situation. Any"civic, church,
fraternal or other type of organi-
zation in the county which would
like to have a civil defense‘erss
can secure an instructor free of
charge by contacting Darby. "We
have a number of persons who are
qualified to teach the 12-hour course
and they are available tp the or-
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Brenham Guard ^ays Alert Means More Training ■
UnitsAwaiting 49thCommander Does Not
war," he said.
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blast within a week. 7
The service said its 60 milk 74
sampling stations had been alert- ™
ed to report any change in the a
lodine-131 content of milk, and the
90 water sampling stations had
been ordered to make weekly ra-
ther than monthly radiation anal-
yses.
-The 45 radiation stations which
sample air, rain and snow have
been put on around-the-clock mon-
itoring duty. They had been in-
structed to report within three
hours -any sample that shows a
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WASHINGTON (UPI)— Presi- ,
dent Kennedy said Wednesday
night he was happy with the
peaceful integration this week of
many southern and southwestern
schools, and singled out Dallas
and Little Rock for praise. -
Kennedy said he was particu-
larly pleased with the way the
resumption of integrated classes
was carried out in Little Rock,
and with the way Dallas began « ‘
integration at the f I r a t grade
level. ’ I
"I wish to congratulate the of: •
ficials of these- cities and states
and parents and citizens who
have given so much time, effort -
and leadership to ___
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