The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 9, 1961 Page: 4 of 52
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, July 9, 1961
Offer Backing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thirty
business executives will meet
with President Kennedy Monday
to lend their support to his pro-
posed foreign aid legislation.
The arrangements were an-
nounced Saturday by Warren Lee
Pierson, chairman of the newly
formed Citizens’ Committee for
Internationa! Development. Mem-
bers of the group s executive
committee will join him at* the
White House conference
The committee u an outgrowth
of a conference of business and
other leaders with Kennedy on
June 30. At that time there was
a general discussion of what
could be done to promote foreign
aid legislation
Pierson, who is chairman of the
executive committee of Tran*
World Airlines, said in a state-
ment Saturday congressional ap-
proval of the long-term provisions
of Kennedy's aid program is "ab-
solutely essential for businesslike
conduct of America’s foreign aid
operations" He supported also
consolidation erf various agency-
functions under the proposed
agency for international develop-
ment
After meeting with Kennedy,
the group will hear a general dis-
cussion of foreign aid from Sec-
retary of State Dean Rusk, Sec-
retary of the Treasury Douglas
Dillon and other government of-
ficial*.
Segregation Ends
At Lunch C Counters
Of Savannah Firms
SAVANNAH. Ga CAP-Lead-
Grimes’ Daughter, I
| Husband Returning
■ To Kwajalein
■ The daughter of Mrs Frank
■ Grimes: 1829 s 8th" St and her
• husband, both of whom are em-
• ployed on Kwajalein Island in the
■ mid -Pacific, have been visiting
• in Abilene and will leave here
■ Monday
E Mrs Milton R Gips is the
• step-daughter of Abilene Report-
• er-News Editor Frank Grimes 1
B and is a graduate of Stamford |
■ High School and McMurry Col-1
•lege
B Both she and her husband are 1
■ residents on the island, which is 1
9 a part of the Marshall Islands in 1
■ the Pacific They plan to make
■ their home there at least one 1
■ more year ]
• G:ps is associated with the 1
B Transport Company of Texas on 1
B the island and Mrs Gips is an 1
B elementary school teacher there 1
B The couple will arrive back on 1
B the tiny little island about July 1
B 15. They have been on annual 1
B leave since June 19 1
■ Gips describes the island as 1
B about three miles long and a|
B half mile in width He says mod- 1
B em facilities are available, in-1
• eluding clothing stores commis- 1
B sary, bowling alley two swim- 1
B ming pools a chapel and other 1
B conveniences 1
■ Asked if he and his wife en- 1
B joyed their tour. Gips said, 1
B "We’ve enjoyed it Both of us 1
B bowl, play bridge dance and take 1
B occasional outings to one of the 1
B nearby islands" 1
• But, he said, both he and his I
B wife were happy to be back in 1
d Abilene. "It certainly is a nice 1
B looking town This is a nice town 1
B and I enjoy it.". 1
B He and his wife are looking a
H forward to returning to their is- 1
B land home, however 1
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segregation at downtown lunch
counters The move was hailed as
a giant step toward return of eco- 1
nomic tranquility to this troubled
Set Soviet Tour
| MONTREAL (AP) — The 90-
member Montreal Symphony Or-
chestra will open a Soviet Inion
tour in Moscow next April 21. i
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MAIL DELIVERY. GOLF-CART STYLE — Postman Harvey McQueen, of 410 N.
port city.
Fifteen months ago. Negroes Bowie Dr. makes his deliveries Saturday morning with one of four new four-.,
launched a boycott of downtown
businesses They said they would
not resume normal buying until
the lunch counters were desegre-
Tr
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gated.
In an agreement announced by
a group of prominent Savannah
citizen*, lunch counters will be
opened to Negroes and the Ne-
groes in turn will lift their boy.
cott.
Just how large a part the boy-
cott has played in Savannah’s fi-
nancial woes cannot be measured
in exact terms The city suffered
wheeled carts now being used on a trial basis by the Abilene Post Office. The carts. ,
which are government issue, have been in use in other places since about 1953 i
said McQueen They enable a mailman to deliver two bags of mail at once in-
stead of just one The vehicle also has a handbrake to keep it from rolling on |
inclines. (Staff Photo).
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Prosecutors Use Nazi Files
To Test Eichmann's Story
a blow in thetransfer of 2.000 JERUSALEM (AP - Israel’s strove to show that on many oc-
Air Force,personne But. there. 45 prosecutors plucked out of the casions he had very little to do went ween wans ve Ecnaun ,
- little question that g 2 Nazi files Saturday- simple «ta- with the extermination program toughest of the three-months long
fusal to buy goods hurt tistics to. challenge Adolf Eich- under the Nazis in World War II.
"There wouldn't have been an mann’s story of being a tiny Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner, re- in the manner he lashed out at
agreement to desegregate the figure in the mass slaughter of suming his cross-examination on
lunch counters if it hadn’t,” said the Jews
of majors and captains'
Next week will be Eichmann’s
case Hausner made that clear
Eichmann in the opening cross-
Monday, is armed with data examination Friday.
one store manager The statistics are t a ken ■ rom a showi ng that Eichmann's bureau -——----------------
The Chamber of Commerce de- chart of Eichm Gestap - p three er tire :,’- - and 1 lj h r Gen George B.
clined to comment on the boycott bureau IVB4 • sh. affa rs ' in spread through 13 huge rooms Clennan was elected governor of
and its effect on the city s econ- a building in Berl - What Hausner wants to know New Jersey in 1877, thirteen years
omy Eichmann stated all through from Eichmann is this after he lost a presidential elec-
If his bureau was only a little tion to Abraham Lincoln.
Mayor Malcolm MacLean con- his 14-day defense ended Friday
gratulated those who had worked that he was only a transportation
out the agreement He called it a officer assigned tn ship Jews to
fair and reasonable approach to concentration camps
the problem He admitted ethical guilt but
No agreement was reached on denied all legal responsibility and
other demands by the Negro =
leadership, such as employment
practices by local merchants
one receiving orders and passing
them on to the railways for de
portation trains why was he giv-
en such a big office, fully staffed
including deputies with the ranks
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Top Japanese Red
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TOKYO (AP)—Shofiro Kasuga
veteran Japanese Communist and
member of the party's Central
Executive Committee, said Satur-
day he has been forced to with-
draw from the party for favoring
the soft Moscow policy over the
tough Peiping line
Kasuga told newsmen be has
submitted his resignation to the
party after having been a party
member for more than 40 years.
But he added that he would con
tinue to work for international
communism and the Communist
cause Kasuga, 58, said he has
urged the party to change its
policy of advocating violence to
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134th Semiannual
CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENT
of close of June, 1961
ASSETS
Cash on Hand.....................„...$ 9,116,799.23
$303,915,711.39
- proudly
announces
536 Cy
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U. S. Gov't and Federal
Home Loan Bank Obligations 30,119,558 99
Stock in Federal Home Loan Bank......................
First Mortgage Loans .........................................
FHA Title I and Other Loans..............................
Loans Secured by Pledge of Share Accounts......
Prepaid Items, Accts., Notes Receivable............
Home and Branch Office Buildings* ..................
Real Estate Purchased........................................
Real Estate.............................................-..........
Furniture and Fixtures........................................
LIABILITIES
Savings and Investment Accounts..............
Payments by Borrower* in Trust for
Taxes, Insurance, and Other Items ........
Miscellaneous Accts. & Notes Payable........
Advances from Federal Home Loan Bank ....
Due Borrowers on Loan Proceeds................
Reserve for Dividends Payable..................
Specific Reserves ........................-.............
Surplus, Undivided Profits
and General Reserves ........(..................
Conventional Loans $74,031,666.72
Gt Home Loans $98,693,173.60
another
$ 39,236,358.22
4,64 2,500.00
249,659,532.88
3,359,463.41
1,455,625.72
1,246,444.15
3,959,500.76
102,130.56
254,154.69
1 00
$303,915,711 39
$269,312,659.17
4,813,314.89
384,051.78
650,000.00
4,628,500.19
5,136,154 97
375,350.13.
18,615,680.26
$303,915,711.39
FHA Home Loans $76,934,692.56
"Branch Office Buildings of
Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Kansas Cit
St. Louis, Columbia and Webster Grove.
The Above statement is correct.
C. A Duncan, Jr., President;
Howard Runyan, Secretary.
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RECORD
BREAKING
DIVIDEND
totaling
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Now being distributed to
Members for the six Months
Ending June 30,1961.
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