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CLOUDY,
WARMER
he Abile
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
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VOL. LXX, NO 200
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11. 1981 —TWENTY PAGES
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10
Shivers Warns Legislature
To Spend Less,Tax More
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- By DAVE CHEAVENS
1 AUSTIN, Jan. 11 (P)—Gov. Allan
Shivers warned the Legislature to-
I day it mint spend less, tax more
and cut state projects dimmed un-
der “the long shadow of another
TO JAPAN—John Foster
Dulles, Republican foreign
affairs expert, has been
named by President Truman
to head a special American
mission to go to Japan for
talks on a peace treaty, the
AP reported today. Dulles
will have the personal rank
of ambassador. The State De-
partment revealed the ap-
pointment.
world war."
The governor's biennial message
to the Legislature on the third day
of its 52nd general session bluntly
underscored the urgency of girding
against sabotage and of defending
“our own lives against a possible
enemy attack "
Balancing the budget without
crippling schools, state hospitals
and public welfare demands new
taxes in the face of an expected
n10 million dollar deficit the gov-
ernor said. He forecast heavy de-
fense spending
•"I hope you will protect the slen-
der balance in our general revenue
fund for eivU defense,” Shivers sol-
emnly told the lawmakers. Specif-
ic civil defense legislation will be
offered as soon as possible he said.
Shivers called for drastic reduc-
tion or elimination of every state
project not necessary to building a
strong sound, horny front. Inevita-
ble federal demands for more taxes,
more material and more manpow-
er “will have to be given priority
over similar state and local de-
mands "
The question is no longer wheth-
er or not new taxes will be needed,
the governor said, but how large or
how small the new levy will be. He
turned thumbs down on a sales or
an income tax.
Shivers suggested the answer to
the question of how to meet the
deficit lies within the ability and
willingness of the Legislature and
the people to separate the essen-
tial from the non - essential
The governor said the legislature
faced an immediate outlook of un-
certainties but thia much la known:
The sire of our tax bill la going
to depend on appropriations for
state departments, hospitals and
special schools education, the Ju-
diciary, the prison system, public
welfare, highways and civil de-
fense.
•These are the 'musts’ of state
government Generally speaking,
we cannot dispense with any of
them and continue to operate.
They ought to be considered as
early as possible in the session ..
In the light of the national emer-
gency "
He urged exploration of the pres-
ent tax plan to be sure no one
See LEGISLATURE, Pg. 19, Col. *
2 Men Held
Al Anson in
As
lanking Move Trie
Allies Just South
Of Wrecked City
Manpower
olicy Due
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. —
Mrs. Anna M Rosenberg said to-
day President Truman plana to is-
aue a new "national manpower
mobilization policy" within the
next few days.
The woman assistant secretary
of defense said the presidential
directive would ask industry, aim-
culture. military and civilian
groups to conserve available man-
power.
Mrs Bosenberg, w h 6 was
brought to the Defense Depart-
ment as a manpower expert, men-
tioned the prospective new order
at a Senate bearing in response to
a question from Senator Stennis
(D-Miss) as to plans for draft de-
ferment of young men engaged in
farm work.
Stennis wanted to know whether
sufficient young farm workers
would be deferred to produce the
Incressed food and farm crops
that will be needed for the ex-
panding mobilization program.
Mrs. Rosenberg did not
elabo-
rate to the senators on her state-
ment and would give no details to
reporters who questioned her later.
She did say that in general the
order will require that “we do our
job and do it right.”
She said that would involve each
group viewing ita own manpower
needs against the overall needs of
others.
Mrs. Rosenberg was before
Senate armed services subcommit-
tee for further discussion of ad-
ministration proposals to draft 18-
year-olds into the armed service!
and set up a universal military
training program. She and Secre-
tary of Defense Marshall disclosed
the plan to the committee yester-
day
The Defense Department officials
said then that a bill containing
the new program would reach Con-
gress next week. They added that
it was backed by President Tru-
man.
PROSPECTORS MISSING
Sideswipings
ANSON, Jan. 11— Two men, who
gave Lubbock as their address,
were being questioned in the Jones
County jail in connection today
with two highway accidents early
Wednesday night which sent five
persons to the hospial for treat-
ment of injuries
.The men, occupants of a truck
especially built for hauling high
explosives, were taken into custody
by Sherff Bill Dunwody after the
truck had sideswiped a car oc-
cupied by Mrs. Dorothy Dement,
34, Snyder, and her two small sons,
Gary and Larry: and one occu-
pied by Mr and Mrs. D. H. Dewey
of El Paso
Sheriff Dunwody said at mid-
morning a DWI charge will be
filed and possibly others
Mrs Dement sustained a brok-
en back when the truck sideswiped
her vehicle after she pulled off
Highway 180 about four miles east
of Anson She said the truck had
3 passed her three times on the high-
way. each time trying to force her
machine off the road She -said she
finally pulled off the road, cut the
ignition switch and was rolling
to a stop on the side of the road
when the dynamite truck side-
swiped her vehicle and kept going.
Later, she told officer, the truck
returned to the scene and then side-
swiped the Dewey car, the Deweys
having stopped to aid Mrs. Dem-
ent.
The Deweys were not believed
seriously hurt, and Mrs. Dement s
two sons suffered only minor in-
juries.
All five were treated at Hendrick
Memorial Hospital in Abilene.
Badman Cook May Freight Rates Cut
Have Slain 2 More
EL CENTRO, Calif., Jan. 11.
tn—Desperado William E. (Bill)
Cook may have added two more
victims to the list of killings at-
tributed to him. Sheriff Robert W.
Ware theorized today.
Formally charged with murder
and kidnaping in Oklahoma, Cook
ia still being hunted in California’s
Imperial Valley and across the
border in Mexico
Sheriff Ware’s theory is that the
22-year-old Joplin, Mo., ex-con-
vict may have done away with
two missing El Centre prospectors
and seised their automobile for his
Five murder charges against
Cook were filed in Pawhuska, Okla.
They concern the disappearance
last week of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Mosser and their three small chil-
dren. of Atwood, Ill. The Mossers’
bloody, bullet-punctured automo-
bile, found Jan. 3 near Tulsa, set
off the vast manhunt for Cook.
For Southwest Texas
AUSTIN, Jan. 11. (—The Rail-
road Commission today granted
drouth relief freight rates on cat-
tle feeds for 49 counties of South-
west Texas.
Commission Chairman Olin Cul-
berson said the reduced rates would
remain in effect until April 20.
The rates were reduced 50 per
cent on hay and 33 1-3 per cent
on cottonseed cakes, cottonseed
seed bulls, peanut hulls and salt.
What—Where Is It?
THEY'RE NOT NOVICES — These three old timers have a total combined service of 110
years with the Salvation Army. Left to right. Major L. N. Phelps, commander of the Army
in Abilene, has been an officer 36 years; Col. Bertram Rodda, New York, has put in 42
years and Lt Col John A. Morrison, Dallas, has 32 years. They were reunited here
Wednesday on Colonel Rodda's visit to Abilene Colonel Morrison is commander of the
Salvation Army in Texas. (Staff photo by Clint Kapus).
BY COMMONWEALTH
Salvation Army
U.S.-Red China
Meeting Asked
LONDON, Jan 11. (—Informed
sources reported today the British
Commonwealth nations have pro-
posed a high level meeting between
the United States and Red China
to discuss a Korean sellement.
The proposed get-together would
be under. United Nations auspices,
the informants said. o
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Wireless intercepted • message to-
day from the U. S. Navy Oller
Tomahawk that she was aground
at the southwestern point of Ponipa
Island in Singapore Straits.
21 Batteries
SeizedinCar
Two Abilene juvenile-age boys
were being questioned Thursday
morning by police detectives and
the county juvenile officer in con-
nection with the theft of automobile
batteries from the Texas Highway
Department headquarters on Col-
lege Dr.
Detective C. Z Hallmark of the
Police Department said policemen
arrested the pair about 4 or 5
a.m. Thursday driving an automo-
bile. The boys had 21 batteries in
the car, Hallmark stated.
Hallmark. Detective W. B. Mc-
Donald and County Juvenile Of-
ficer J Turney Sparks were ques-
tioning the youths Thursday morn-
ing.
One of the boys — said Hall-
mark — made an oral statement
to the effect that some other boys
took the batteries from the High-
wav Department and that he swip-
ed them later from the first thieves.
The statement had not been put
in writing, the detective added.
Detective McDonald said the
Highway Department has been vic-
timized by burglars twice in re-
cent nights the latest occurrence
being Wednesday night and the
first one several nights before He
Mid a total of approximately 40
batteries was taken
Someone evidently climbed over
the warehouse fence in each in-
stance and took the batteries from
the enclosure The batteries were
not Inside a building but were en-
closed ta a high, locked fence, he
reported.
The detectives stated that they
had nobody under arrest as yet
in Tuesday’s series of thefts and
burglaries. Including the break-
ins at the Ellis Ganey Peanut Co.,
341 Plum St., and the Austin Watts
Cities Service Station. 1702 Pine
St and the “strongarm robbery
of W H Hatley. 1418 South Seventh
St., by three teen-age boys.
Neither the United States nor
Red China has so far reacted to
the suggestion.
The new move apparently has
the support of the leaders of all
nine British Commonwealth na-
tions who have been discussing the
tense situation in the Orient and in
the rest of the world in a con-
ference which began here last
Thursday
It would seek to avoid formula-
tion in the United Nations of a
new cease-fire resolution which
might prove unacceptable to either
the U. S. or Red China. It would
seek to defer offering of a project-
ed U. S. resolution to have the
U.N. brand Communist China an
aggressor.
Britain, the Commonwealth and
many Western nations would find
it difficult to support such a resop
lution. Some have recognized the
Peiping government. All want to
keep out of a limited or open war
against Red China. They fear la-
belling Communist China an ag-
gressor eventully would lead to im-
position of economic sanctions
against China, which could be a
step to war
The Commonwealth prime minis-
ter* have been studying a set of
principles which Britain and India
are said to feel would help end the
Korean war These include admis-
sion of Red China to the U.N.,
reaffirmation by the big powers
of the 1943 Cairo declaration prom-
ising return of Formosa to Chi-
na. a timetable for withdrawal of
foreign troops from Korea and a
seat for Red China on any U.N.
group set up to restore Korea polit-
ically and economically. Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin is said to
have laid these principles before
Indian Prime Minister Nehru last
Friday—but the word “proposal”
is avoided
Plans Addition
Plans for 1 building expansion
costing more than $30,000 were an-
nounced by the Salvation Army
last night.
The announcement was made by
H W McDade, vice chairman of
the advisory board, at the First
Baptist Church where Colonel Ber-
tram Rodda, high Salvation Army
official from New York, spoke.
McDade said a campaign to
raise the needed finances will be
staged in the early spring The
project has approval of the Com-
munity Chest, of which the Army
11 an affiliated agency.
The building addition will be
erected on the north and east
sides of the present citadel at
South Sixth and Chestnut Sts.
FACILITIES INADEQUATE
McDade stressed the inadequacy
of present facilities to carry on
necessary activities of the Army.
The present building was erected
when Abilene's population was 26,-
000. and the Salvation Army’s ob-
ligations have increased propor-
tionately with the city's growth
since, he said
Colonel Rodda, who has traveled
in 45 nations of the world to his
42-year career with the Army,
spoke at the Abilene Kiwanis Club
luncheon at the Wooten Hotel Wed-
nesday noon: at a dinner staged
by the advisory board at the
YMCA last evening: and at a pub-
lic service at the First Baptist
Church afterward.
Since its founding in England to
1865, Colonel Rodda said, the.
Army has spread its program to
101 countries and carries on 126
separate work activities.
It 11 still active in the Iron Cur-
tain countries, despite bardships,
he said.
TOKYO, Jan. 12 (—American
Second Division troops elung stub-
bornly last night to a salient one
and one - half miles south of Wonju
on the critical Central Korean front
but two Korean Red divisions were
attempting a flanking move from
the north and east
A spokesman with the Americans,
who were bolstered by French
and Dutch troops, identified the
Reds as shout 20,000 men of the
North Korean Sixth and Tenth Di-
visions
The censorship withheld further
details of this action, which was
reported by AP Correspondent Wil-
liam C Barnard in a dispatch tim-
ed at 10 pm Thursday (7 a.m.
Thursday, CST.) and received in
Tokyo early Friday.
A Second - Division spokesman
also said a Red force was beaten
back with 200 to 300 casualties when
it tried to encircle a Second Divi-
sion unit five miles to the south-
east on the Wonju - Checon high-
otherwise. Barnard reported, the
front was stabilised Thursday, with
only some small - arms fire south
of the wrecked and empty town
of Wonju.
2,100 RED CASUALTIES
On that front. 55 miles southeast
of Seoul, the Reds lost an estimat-
ed 2,100 troops in an earlier fight
that lasted seven hours.
The Allies abandoned Wonju Mon-
day. On Wednesday, a tank - led
patrol of the U S Second Division
pushed beck into the town from the
southeast.
Finding no Reds there, the patrol
looked around for a while, then
volunarily withdrew towards the
Hoarding of
Rubber Illegal
WASHINGTON. Jan 11. (—The
government made it unlawful to-
day to board supplies of natural
and synthetic rubber.
The National Production Author-
ity (NPA) added rubber and a
number of other items to its pre-
viously published list of materials
subject to anti-hoarding provisions
of the defense production act.
That act makes it unlawful to
hoard designated materials. It de-
fines hoarding as:
1. The accumulation of supplies
in excess of reasonable demands
of business, personal or home con-
sumption.
2. The accumulation of supplies
for the purposes of resale at prices
in excess of prevailing market lev-
els.
In addition to natural and syn-
thetic rubber, the NPA added the
following other items today to ita
anti-hoarding list: ,
Industrial ethyl alcohol, chlorine,
line dust and oxides, and these
textile materials — burlap hes-
sian), cotton pulp, high tenacity
rayon yarn, and nylon staple and
nylon filament yarn.
Borger's Joe Cooley Named
Manager of Abilene (-C
HOW MANY NOTICE INSCRIPTION?—Dozens of Taylor
Countians pass through these doors daily but ita unlikely
that many of them notice the one-word inscription above
the door Although business enacted behind these doors
affects everyone in this sres, probably only a small majority
can tell where this entrance is. (For answer see page 2.)
Fire Truck, Gravel
Vehicle in Accident
An Abilene fire truck suffered
slight damage in a collision with
a city gravel truck this morning
as the former was enroute to a fire.
No one was injured
The crash occurred shout 7:30
at North Fifth and Willow Sts.
The fire truck was driven by S. R.
Sanders who was accompanied by
Fireman W M Kendrick Pat Wen-
dell Hunter of Buffalo Gap drove
the gravel truck, which was not
badly damaged
The firt truck was one of four
enroute to the Central Texas'Iron
Works section to put out a Are at
the home of L. A. Bryant
Probe of Racing
Mews Handling Set
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. (n—The
Federal Communications Commis-
sion today ordered a general inves-
ligation into the handling of horse
racing information by radio and TV
stations
The commission announced it is
sending a questionnaire to all stand-
ard. FM and television outlets, re-
quiring full information oe all reg-
alar programs related to racing.
The announcement emphasized
that the survey is not concerned
with occasional broadcasts of re-
sults and other information about
feature race events such: as the
Preakness and the Kentucky Der-
by.
Wreckage of B-50
Spotted From Air
MUROC. Calif.. Jan. 11. un —
Search planes today spotted the
wreckage of a B-50 bomber miss-
ing with eight persons aboard
The crashed plane was sighted
about 11 miles southeast of here
Fate of the occupants was not Im-
mediately determined
Rescue testes, traveling by
jeep, set out from this desert sir
boss to the scene of the wreckage.
Joe Cooley, manager of the Bor-
ger Chamber of Commerce since
1944, has accepted the post of man-
ager of the Abilene Chamber of
Commerce
He succeeds John Womble, who
resigned to take a position with
Western Cottonoil Co., Jan. 1.
Cooley was named manager of
the Abilene C-C at a meeting of the
Board of Directors Wednesday
morning
in a telephone conversation with
the Reporter - News Wednesday
night. Cooley said be planned to
come to Abilene in the next few
days to locate a home in which to
move Mrs. Cooley and their two
children. Linda Jo, 6, and Paul. 3
He said he anticipated taking over
his new post Feb. 10 ___
BORGER ACHIEVEMENTS
Cooley expressed pleasure in be-
ing given the opportunity to serve
as manager of the Abilene Cham-
ber of Commerce sad said he
hoped he would be as successful in
the operation here as he had with
other similar organizations in the
past
Cooley listed as major projects,
achieved under his guidance at
Borger as: new hotel. s Class 3
airport, and paving of 200-300
Mocks.
The new Abilene CC manager
went to Borger from Amarillo,
where he was serving as assistant
C-C manager Prior to his con-
nection with Amarillo organization,
he had served as Chamber of Com-
merce manager at Elk City and
Hollis Okla . and al Shamrock He
stayed with the Amarillo organiz-
ation for three years.
overlooking lulls In the south.
South on the road towards Chong-
ju, the company - sized patrol was
jumped by more than 7,000 North
Koreans At one stage the Ameri-
can! fixed bayonets and charged.
After other Allied forces rein-
forced the patrol, the Reds broke
off the battle Wednesday night.
But the greatest menace to Al-
lied arms was shaping up in a 50-
mile stretch between Chungju and
Red-held Osan in Western Korea.
Chinese and Korean Red forces
estimated at 285,000 were in the
area or moving toward it la an
apparent bid to cut off the main
forces of the U. S. Eighth Army on
the road south of abandoned Seoul.
la that area roads fan out
through the bills affording many
avenues of approach to the Allied
forces.
AP Correspondent John Randolph
said the Chinese evidently hope
to force the Eighth Army to accept
battle in the rough country suit-
able for swarms of night-fighting
Red infantrymen.
Six Chinese armies were in the
general western ares, south of
Seoul, and seven armies were
north and west of Wonju. This
force, included wiry Mongolian cav-
alrymen. Intelligence officers said
500 Chinese planes and 200 tanks
are available to back the push.
Another hint that the Reds may
be about to challenge Allied mas-
tery of the Korean skies came in
fsr North Korea Fifteen Russian-
made MIG-15 jet fighter! attacked
a B-29 Superfortress as it lagged
behind a formation because of en-
gine trouble.
The B-29 took cover in a cloud
bank but its gunners reported the
possible kill of one Red’ jet. The
bombers had dumped more than
100 tons of explosive! on the air
field at Pyongyang. Korean Red
capital, and other cities in North
Korea.
few attack sorties. Allied ware
planes had been grounded for two
days because of snow and rain.
But fighters returned to the fray
Thursday and caught hundreds of
Reds In the open
Eisenhower
To Denmark
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands,
Jan. 11. (P)— Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hower went by pane to Denmark
today after talks with Dutch lead-
ers on Holland’s contributions to
his Atlantic Alliance army.
In a statement to the press be-
fore taking off, Eisenhower urged
free nations to organize for the
preservation of peace so that “in
an atmosphere of security" living
standards can be raised and “so-
cial and political gains be at-
tained.”
Referring to the 12-nation Atlan-
tic Alliance he said “anyone mak-
ing a survey of the spiritual and
material resources cannot doubt of
success.”
Army Reactivates
World War II Units
■ When he went to Borger, the oil
boom which had mushroomed the
Panhandle town into existence had
died down and had left much of
the immature development which
had accompanied ita boom-day
growth
STIMULATED GROWTH
According to an extensive recent
article in Pathfinder, a national
news weekly Borger's growth had
stalemated when Cooley took over
the managerial reins
His first move was to ascertain
the permanency of the Phillips Oil
Co refinery which had been con-
structed during the war and ob-
tained from the Phillips president
a promise that the plant would be
a permanent industry.
He then set to work to have prop-
erty re-evaluated for taxation pur-
poses ao that the community might
obtain sufficient funds tr pave
streets and generally improve the
city’s services to the citizens.
Cooley proved to be s leader who
could get the various committee
members to function in their jobs
and thse groups greatly assisted in
obtaining some permanent im-
provements for Borger
The organization brought in some
industrial engineers to ascertain
the possibilites of utilizing many
of the natural resources in and
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. (—The
Army today reactivated two World
War II corps and named two of its
top combat generals to take com-
mand of them.
Maj. Gen. Withers A. Burress,
present commander of the infantry
school at Fort Benning, Ga., will
command the VI Corps st Camp
Atterbury, Ind.
Maj. Gen. Brant E Moore, now
superintendent of the military
academy at West Point, was nam-
ed commander of the VII corps to
be reactivated at Fort Meade, Md.
THE WEATHER
U. 1. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY: Partly
cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Fri-
day A little warmer this afternoon and
tonight High this afternoon 60, low to-
night about 35 high Friday about OS
WEST TEXAS—Partly cloudy to cloudy
and warmer this afternoon and tonight.
Friday partly cloudy, with moderate
ERST TEXAS Par y cloudy warmer
tonight and in interior this afternoon Fri-
day mostly cloudy and wartwar a few
showers extreme south portion.
Maximum temperature for 24 hours
“*.. "ami hoc s hewee
ending at 6:30 a.m.: 27.
TE MP* ILA TURES
WED P M THURS A.
near Borger
The new Abilene C-C manager
has been active in regional Cham-
ber of Commerce work and in the
Chamber of Commerce Managers
Association of West Texas. He to _
a member of the First Christian Suns
Church and was active in numer-
ous Borger civic enterprises. | Rela
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