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ABILENE, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1961 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES IN TWO SECTION’S
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French Break Out
Of Tunisian Lines
By ANDREW BOROWIEC
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Break
ing through Tunisian seige lines
1 embattled city, lighted up the independence broke out Tuesday] Rocket-firing French planes Travelers from Bizerte spoke in
when Tunisians fired rifles at a attacked Tunisian barricades terror of French planes firing
helicopter. around the naval base, rockets into Tunisian mud huts.
Indicating it intends to stand: The Tunisian government j
firm in the face of Tunisian de- charged the French were airlift-Some said French military de-
mands. France sent in more ing Foreign Legionnaires as well pendents living off the base fired
paratroopers Thursday night in as paratroopers from Algeria to
the red glare of artillery fire. Bizerte. See FRENCH, Pg. 3-A, Col. 3
dark tropical night.
“The odious act cannot be justi-
I after a day of bloody fighting.
. French army paratroopers and
I tanks moved out of their big na The fighting over Tunisian
fled by the defense of the base.
Klibi said.
val base early Friday for a drive
on the city of Bizerte, the Tunisi-
claims to the base the French
retained after granting Tunisia
CALM BEFORE BATTLE — Little Terri Lynn Townsend, 13-months-old daugh-
ter of Rep. James T. Townsend of Brady (left) appears calm as she sits on her
daddy's desk during the House battle for a solution to the tax problems of the
state. (AP Wirephoto)
Tax Proposal
Fails to Pass
1 an government announced a
The government said the garri T
son drawn up in Bizerte, a citj ! :
of 40.000 about three miles from 3 a
the naval base, ignored an ulti J
malum to surrender despite the
hammering from French artillery
and warplanes firing- rockets. A
spokesman announced the gar 4
risen had been ordered to "resist
any attempt to imade the city." .
Hard-pressed to enforce its
claim to the big naval and air T
complex under the weight of
France’s modern armament. Tu
nisia carried its case to the Unit-
ed Nations.
The U. N. Security Council
meets Friday to hear Tunisia’s
charge against France of premed
itated aggression
In Paris, Premier Michel De
bre announced readiness to nego-
tiate a cease-fire He conferred
at length with President Charles
de Gaulle.
110 Tunisians Killed
The Tunisian government said
110 Tunisians were killed and 500
wounded in the 24-hour period F
against letting his bill come up which ended at midnight. Hospi 1.
lor vote He then withdrew the tals were set up in the open and
measure The version rejected urgent appeals for doctors, nurs
however, may dim. beckmousbrjeveandneblocdun/gsmTheerteneh CASUALTY OF FIGHTING — A burned and bullet fighting between French and Tunisian forces. (AP
______„ __________jP parliamentary loophole that have reported only one dead so marked civilian automobile lies along a road from Wirephoto via radio from Tunis)
the Governor’s tax .......which was at the top of the was successfully opened far but their losses are believed Bizerte to Menzel-Djemil in T unisia after two days of _______
The sales tax was the heart of calendar for a final vote, was Rep. Tom Andrews of Aransas much higher. , —7 _
======== Kennedy Likely to Call
ment by a 78-67 vote on his tax committee substitute abandoned property recovery pro were stacked in piles in the vil- W W
Andrews' substitute also includ- for Gov. Price Daniel's bill. This vision and a tax aimed at natural lage of Menzel Bourguiba near _
ed a pipeline tax He said other measure was defeated early gas pipeline companies. He said Bizerte base where an estimated I •
provisions would be added in sub-Thursday morning, but Sandahl later amendments would add in - 10,000 French soldiers airmen mm wgEU MIGg
sequent amendments to increase said he had eliminated a section creased driver - license t. a and sailors under the com- s 9 Q s d s a Gon “ G s ■ a
its earning power The sales tax he felt had caused its rejection new franchise formula, bookkeep- mand of Vice Adm Maurice Am Das | • IA ate • a‘ed V * E4 tab ■ ▼ ■ • • •
originally would have raised $240 "I think it may not be amiss ing provisions and an inheritance man • W P
million in the next two years, he to see if perhaps we don t have tax. | Tunisian infantrymen were re-
said, but amendments lowered a common meeting ground at The appropriations bill will ported digging trenches and
his time," he said. |throwing up barricades in the
Members voted 67-75, however. See TAXES, Pg. 3-A. Cot. I heart of Bizerte, where water.
By LEE JONES 'n
AUSTIN (AP) — The House See related story, Pg 4-B
Thursday turned down a 1 per
cent sales tax plan, estimated to defeated legislation up for
raise $215 million, which was of-other try.
fered as a partial substitute for The House Appropriations bill, a
this by $25 million.
House members refused, how-
ever. to completely close the door
on the sales tax portion it can
still bring the section back up
Earlier the House refused an-
other tax plan based on a sales
tax, but also refused to com-
pletely junk the proposal
"We don't reall, know where
we are. This whole proceeding to
day has been a mish-mash," said
Rep Maco Stewart of Galveston
who moved to strike the sales tax
proposal
The House adjourned until 10
a.m. without further action The
second article of Andrews
amendment, a $2.6 million aban-
doned property recovery provi-
sion. will have first place on the
calendar as unfinished business
Rep. Charles Sandahl gave no-
tice he would move to all up
the committee substitute for the
governor's tax bill which the
House refused Thursday morn-
ing. This is possible through a
parliamentary move which some-
times is successful in bringing
By LESLIE CARPENTER .guard could be delayed beyond meaningless unless France and The President will, for the third
Reporter-News Capital Bureau the Tuesday speech. If so, the West Germany stood ready to go time since taking office last Jan-
President Kennedy will go be-President will likely announce his to war, too uary, ask Congress next Tuesday
gas and electricity have been cut fore television cameras Tuesdays intent to issue such orders at a Talk With Allies to boost military appropriations,
off by French air raids night with a more important specific - and early - future Transat lantic lines are busy I The nuclear bomb stockpile in
HE S MNO CILMI URC= - ALailanal . - - - @ das - Wes.Cermany "miparct.he:
army turned down an ultimatum His number one purpose will be to be necessary until late this with such conversations between creased considerably. France
delivered by the French consul to convince Khrushchev that Khrushchev has marked the President and officials of the won’t permit atomic storage un-
in Bizerte, who asked the Tunisi- America will go to war over the December on his calendar for the French, West German and British til the U. S. turns all the secrets
an garrison to withdraw from the Berlin issue. Berlin showdown The White governments, of the bomb over to them,
city. And that means he will probab- House says it takes only two to If the decision has been made A bigger airlift is considered
Klibi, standing in his office on ly illustrate the point by declar-four months from the callup of a on which Guard divisions and re mandatory More bombers and
the outskirts of Tunis, pointed in ing a national emergency and an-Guard division until it is battle-servists will be called, it is not other aircraft will be necessary,
the direction of Bizerte, 40 miles nouncing the call up of reservists ready known There is a natural temp And conventional warfare items,
, .northeast. 1nd National Guardsmen, plus a of paramount importance to the tation to pick those in the high- such as tanks and guns, will be
the weather for the projectedFlares Dropped big stepup in draft quotas. President is fist-shaking at Khru- est state of training. But they needed in greater quantity on Eu-
space trip by Grissom was rated Flares, apparently dropped by . White House source la- shchev by West Germans and the are, generally speaking, those ropean soil before December,
by experts imputed p.m. am French planes to illuminate the beled % Unea Press intermation French too Britain is considered who served the Korean War. President Kennedy is convinced
“somewhat P ed but ---al report that reservists and guard of lesser significance in the crisis Manpower is not the only Amer that he not only must talk tough,
marginal. .w/aTuED units won't be called as "totally The President believes Khrush-ican problem at the moment, but also act like America is ready
Grissom is due to be rocketed WEATHER necutate " chev feels a U. S. threat of war Weapons are, in fact, a more sen to fight a war if the Berlin dilem-
290 miles down the Atlantic mis- p _____over Berlin would be relatively ous one. Ima is to be solved short of war.
site range at 5 am., central orpArucwt Two-Fold Purpose i
Standard Time. Friday. wEATnen BUREAU The problem facing the Presi ON TWO FRONTS
Paul Haney, spokesman for the ABILENE AND ViENTTy" Tadus « dent in its basic simplicity, is UN 1 V V
National Aeronautics and Space' warm Friasy and sutures, “Hue” corn two-fold:
Administration, reported the day;,%, ! Friday meh. 70 „ —He believes Khrushchev, in a'
countdown on the missile had perts, comer and.wanu rnionr throgen final showdown, does not want
Friday 94100.*war.
TEXAS: Clear to partis _ .,
through Saturday. Seat- —He knows Khrushchev be-
SreRATURES’ %* lieves the US, in the same situa
1:00 Thurs tion, will avoid it, too.
TENTATIVELY
Space Shot Gets
‘Go-Ahead’ Sign
By FRED S HOFFMAN
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP)
—Weathermen Thursday night
gave a tentative "go-ahead" to
plans to rocket astronaut Virgil I.
(Gus) Grissom into space shortly
after daybreak Friday.
But they said a determination
on whether to proceed with the
terminal countdown must await
another weather briefing sched-
uled for 2 a.m.
With one eye on a Caribbean
hurricane, meteorologists report-
ed after a 10 p.m briefing that
WEATHER
DA Says Breck
Death Accident
been resumed at 10 45 p m.
Another weather briefing is
scheduled for 2:30 a m
Grissom will be awakened in
the point of the countdown at 290
minutes before launch.
To save time in the morning
he shaved and showered before
he went to bed at 9 15 p m, after
he had watched a Titan flight
cloudy Frid
tered thunde
Thurs a.m.
...
75.......
74 .......
The President, then feels he
must make Khrushchev under
stand that unless he backs down,
there will be war ,
Kennedy Steps Up Action
In Defense Against Reds
BRECKENRIDGE (RNS) — allegedly killed Sizemore.
Dist. Atty. Jack Q. Neal of Gra On the day the Andrews
ham said Thursday that investi- body was discovered. Sheriff
gation into the July 5 death of oil- Booth speculated Sizemore might
field worker Raymond L. Size have been killed by a hit-and-run
more has convinced him that the driver. But after preliminary in-
death was accidental homicide by vestigation he told newsmen he
a motor vehicle | then felt the man had been mur-
He said information gathered dered •
by his office and by Stephens A number of persons were
County Sheriff Chase Booth "will questioned by Booth and Neal in-
be presented to the Stephens eluding voluntary lie detector
County grand jury for delibera- questioning of three persons who
tion in the very near future " were with Sizemore the night he
Neal declined to specify the was killed
vehicle which supposedly struck The tests, administered in Lub-
down the husky Sizemore, leaving bock, cleared Sizemore’s wife,
Mr and Mrs. Marion
man's
A number of persons were
questioned by Booth and Neal in-
were with Sizemore the night he
him dead or dying some 22 miles and
northeast of here on a lonely A. Corley of Avoca, Neal said
They told officers they put Sue
more out of a truck near where
his body was found after an ex-
tended argument between the
Sizemores.
farm-to-market road.
On July 10, Sheriff Booth re-
vealed that a car driven by H. E.
Rich of Graham, discoverer of
the badly mangled body, had been
impounded for scientific examina.
tion by laboratory technicians
with the Department of Public
An autopsy showed that Size-
more had more than 40 bodily
injuries including evidence he had
been run over by a vehicle A
Safety.
Results of these tests were nev-
er made public. Neal would not vestigation open with a ruling that
admit any connection between the death was due to causes un-
these tests and the vehicle which known.
justice of the peace left the in-
from the Cape.
Astronaut Donald Slayton Will em ■
ride with him from the Mercury sa"
hangar to the pad to brief him. . Sunse
g
ww sam
Be t EWIS GULICK . • tary steps to counter Communist
BV LEWI • See related story, Pg. 4-B oreceures
. I WASHINGTON (AP —President —------------:----------PFESSure premier Khrushchev has
The secondary purpose of the Kennedy Thursday moved ahead briefing Friday afternoon e . ,. treaty
Tuesday night report to the na on two fronts with his plan to Top Pentagon officials, headed Germany
tion will be to fill Americans in step „„ defenses against the So-by Secretary of Defense Robert with Communist East Germany
He spent the afternoon in crew
quarters with Dr William Doug
las the astronauts’ physician,
and Slayton
He studied maps of areas he
expected to see from his space-
craft.
Loading of liquid oxygen into
the fuel tanks, which normally
starts near the beginning of the
final 612-hour countdown, will be
delayed until three hours before
scheduled launch time.
This would allow for a "scrub"
as late as 3 a m. without the ne-
cessity of another two-or hree-
day postponement. Once the
"lox" flows into the tanks,
it takes about 48 hours to empty, I
dry and clean them before the
rocket is again ready to go
If the shot is washed out be-
fore fueling, it could be attempt
ed again on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the first tropical
storm of the season, packing
winds up to 65 miles an hour,
was churning up in the Caribbean
about 1,500 miles southeast of this
missile test center.
hours ending non win ve w an -run r step up uerenses against me ov-jny secretary oi verense iwocri. . the end of ... vear—a move
date isM year on the Berlin crisis. His speech viet threat hanging over Berlin s. McNamara and Gen. Lyman out
writers will probably avoid alarm- Kennedy had aides shaping up L. Lemnitzer, chairman of the" S 2 Berlin
1st panic-button phraseology while a detailed program which the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arranged to. _ Suthar or fiehtine be
stressing in grave terms the se president will present to the leave for Paris and London Sat-e errida and France at the
riousness of the present difficulty American people in a nationwide urday to confer with the North . plot wdai Bizerte
— and what the U. S. will do radio-television speech Tuesday Atlantic Treaty Organization care as unwelcome impair
about it, night and to Congress the follow- commander, Gen. Lauris Norstad. ment to American planners seek-
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Khrushchev, in the White House ling day, and British defense officials
i ling strengthened Western de
In a related action—related be The U.S. ambassador to NATO fenses. Any weakening of France
view, to too sophisticated to be _____________________________,„„. ...., ...__......____
swayed by speech making as such cause he regards civil defense as Thomas K. Finletter, who attend is regarded here as weakening
But he does understand clearly part of the nation's preparedness ed the NSC session, plans to re-the whole western defense sys-
worded intent if it is followed by—Kennedy transferred major civ- turn to Paris Saturday to report tem
action lil defense undertakings from the to the 14 NATO allies. The Kennedy administration
May Set Date Office of Civil and Defense Mobil- Foy D Kohler, assistant see sent private pleas to both France
A callup of reserves and the ization to the Pentagon with a retary of state for European af- and Tunisia and. through the
view to increasing the U.S. abil- fairs, prepared to leave for Paris State Department, issued a state-
ity to withstand attack He called next week with a small group of ment saying "We strongly hope
'for a stepped up program for U.S. diplomatic experts Kohler's that both sides will end hostilities
building bomb and fallout shel- group and similar units from oth without delay and effect a peace
ters. er major Western allies are to ful reconciliation among them
0, ,J- 13 On the diplomatic front. Kenne lay the groundwork for a foreign
"" 9 dy arranged for prompt relay to ministers meeting among the
-: 14 major Western allies of the de- Western Big Four in the French
I tails on srh.it he termed his "fi- capital Aug. 5-7.
nal judgement" reached at a Na- Informants said the United
••• 2 4 tional Security Council meeting states intends not only to oc-
.... 6, 7 Wednesday on combatting the quaint the allies with Kennedy's
......, Berlin threat plans, hut also to solicit added ef
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SECTION A
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Farm news, markets......15
nal judgement” reached at a Na-
selves."
The White House press secre-
tary, Pierre Salinger, declined
comment on reports that Kennedy
will declare a partial national
emergency and call up National
Guard units and reservists. The
press secretary is keeping a se-
10 Secretary of State Dean Rusk forts by the allies, obtain closer crecy wrap on the proposals
14 asked the British, French and coordination and consider politi- pending presidential presentation
West German ambassadors to a cal and economic an well as mili- next week.
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