The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 123, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 21, 1961 Page: 1 of 24
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... - - 1 26 Lake View 34 Lamesa 71 Anson 471 Rotan 501 Albany 56 Baird
Abilene 13 Cooper O Ranger 24 Snyder 29 S'water 6 Spur O Roscoe 0 Eastland 0 Rule
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81ST YEAR, NO, 123
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"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
ABILENE, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1961— TWENTY-FOUR PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
Associated Press (IP)
Dominican Republ
Rioting Breaks Out
MeMURRY HOMECOMING TRIBAL COUPLE
Parcel Post
I Rate Boost
Under Stud
' WASHINGTON (AP) - Post-
I master General J. Edward Day
J announced Friday a plan to raise
a parcel post rates by about 6 per) 1
cent, revise size and weight limits :
on parcels, and boost mail catalog
rates by 13.8 per cent
i Subject to approval by the In- 1
terstate Commerce Commission, |
this would be another step in the |
Post Office Department campaign |
to reduce its annual deficit of |
about $840 million. The proposal; a
would net an estimated $95 mil- | |
lion.
Day asked Congress earlier this
year to offset half the deficit by
raising first, second and third-
class mail rates. He also sought
a $235-million bookkeeping allow-
ance for some of the department’s
nonpostal functions, like issuing
migratory bird stamps and taking
. Staff phote to Lane Talburt animal herd censuses.
Police Announce
Arrest of Fifty
By ROBERT BERRELLEZ ! A resolution approved by 141 of
CIUDAD TRUJILLO. Dominican 143 professors declared that the
Republic (AP) — Police armed government's closing of the uni-
h with semiautomatic rifles, water versity for the rest of the year
5 I hoses and tear gas clashed with aggravated rather than solved the
B hundreds of rock-hurling rioters problem.
a Friday. It was the bloodiest out- Workers joined with students in
break of street fighting here since demonstrations against the slain
19 the assassination of Generalissimo dictator and members of his fam-
7 Rafeal L. Trujillo May to ily, ripping up parking meters,
Steel helmeted police attacked destroying Trujillo pictures and
J in a downtown section of the capi- statues and clashing with police
tal city where angry youths had A sympathy strike by high
been roaming the streets during school students was reported to
the day carrying rocks and pieces have spread throughout the ma-
M "Police headquarters said about looms tforkerth burpprcry
50 persons were arrested in the sional men as well
i fighting and a further roundup ,
was under way Scores were reported hurt in
| At least 20 bleeding and weep- scattered clashes with police in
" ing captives, including women and the cities, of Santiago. Puerto
1 boys barely in their teens were Plata La Rosana. San Francisco
J led from the scene but there were de Macoris and La Vega.
no official figures on civilian cas-
e ualties. A police spokesman said
■ at least 15 of his men had been
■ hurt
WEATHER
...Chief John Dale Lewis and Princess Gayle Rucker
Indians Take Over At
McMurry Homecoming
McMurry College's autumn-tint- Homecoming was ushered in Winters and Sara Joe Edwards
ed campus was transformed Fri- Friday morning when Chief Kirk of Clarksville.
Among the wounded was a wom- U. • DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
an with a child in her arms Both "WILES
were bleeding from head injuries. MAT EMTAAYD TAS
It was the fifth straight day of Saturday, Saturday niem and Sunday,
antigovernment violence in the man ss ” near ” low sarurass
Caribbean island nation and the NokTEW
climax of spreading unrest warmer ■
touched off five day ago by stu- Friday •.
dents at Santo Domingo Univer- a ~
sity. 1.
The fighting burst out in the €
same area where youths attacked
police Thursday night with show-
___________________________________________________________________ers of stones burled from rooftop.
rates for first-, second- and third- Police moved in after several
class mail j AHS HOMECOMING QUEEN — Sondra Spradley hundred youths and older persons
Day notified the ICC last April 14-year-old sophomore, was crowned Abilene High marched „down a main street
27 that he intended to submit spe- School Homecoming Queen in halftime ceremonies at shoutingioLibery Liberty: The
^^ e re “Ire ^: the AHS-San Angelo football game Friday night. Miss sealed * all trarree ana stone
tentative revisions are De Spradley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 0. 0. Spradley, a police car
1555 Glenhaven, is Sophomore Class Queen; was Foot- A car carrying the vice presi-
ball Sweetheart and Choir Queen and member of the dent of the official government
Honor Society and a cheerleader at Franklin Jr. High party, Ernetso Rubirosa, was hit
last year. Active in the AHS Oratorio Clug, several times by rocks and forced
she has a 90 average and is active in the First Chris- to flee.
" Dominicans by the thousands
-----___-jammed side streets, shouting en
A House committee approved a
scaled-down version of the propos-
al but no floor action was taken
before Congress adjourned.
Congress has authorized the
postmaster general to fix rates
for parcel post, which is fourth* 1
class mail, subject to approval!
by the ICC. He also has authority.
on his own, to fix fees for such M
special services as special delivi
ery and ( OD Congress retains,
however, the power to fix the p
ENTRAL. NORTHEAST AND
T.T"RNiay Fair and a indue
TEMPER ATURES
Friday p.m.
2:1
3:1
66 ..
69
High a
11
r 24-hours ending •
day night into a bustling Indian McKenzie, freshman from Fort Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs
reservation, resplendent with a Stockton, fired an arrow into the Frank Lewis of Coleman, is a
dozen teepees, a council fire, an air over McMurry campus into physical education major. Miss
echoing torn - torn and brightly a lot where the tribal village Rucker, daughter of Mr and Mrs allot interested parties to present
painted "warriors." soon was erected Raymond Rucker of Lockney, is thor meere on proposals be
John Dale Lewis of Coleman Altogether, 15 authentic teepees majoring in business education
donned a warbonnet to become depicting life of the Plains Indians
ing announced now, he said, "to
, fore submissioon to the Interstate
Named as senior class favorites Commerce Commission "
Chief McMurry and Gayle Rucker were raised against the sky were Lance Stephens of Vancou- The last parcel post increase
of Lockneywas presented a fea- Twelve of the teepees are in com ver, British Columbia, and Jo averaged 17.1 per cent and be tian Church. (Staff Photo by Jimmy Parsons)
thered headband as the reigning petition for honors as best exhibit Ann Hudson of Novice came effective Feb 1 1960 after
Reservation Princess in tradition- to be announced at the football Other class favorite couples opposition by business and indus-
al homecoming ceremonies in game, were juniors Jerry Stone of Ar-try a year of hearings and
Radford Auditorium. Crowning of toe royal couple kansas City, Kan., and Sue Oats consideration by the ICC
The 35th annual campus re- Friday night highlighted an elab- of Slaton; sophomores Bob Staf Postal laws require the post
union of McMurry ex - students orate presentation of Head lord of Silverton and Martha er natal ICCan.
will be dominated Saturday by Coach Grant Teaff’s Indians, a Ranson of Lamesa: and fresh mass increase nost
the climatic homecoming game display of campus talent and an men Stan Jones of PlainviewP ‘P
between the Braves and Arling-nouncement of class favorites and Pat Mayberry of Haines,
ton State’s Rebels at 2:30 pm. in More than 1,000 persons filled ville, N. J.
Public Schools Stadium, the auditorium to capacity to Performers in the talent re
Saturdays schedule of events watch President Gordon Bennett s .
unfolds at 9 a.m. with a coffee place headdresses on Chief Lewis S MCMURRY, PE: 2 A, Col. Siper cent.
weights.
The law also requires that par-
cel post revenues and expenses
must not differ by more than 4
ADDRESSES EXECUTIVES
World Aid Plan
couragement to the stone throw
ers.
Police drove back the demon
strators and seized control. Four
companies of police were posted
to guard the area
Even after the demonstrations
were quelled knots of diehard
in Radford Building, followed by and Princess Rucker.
a band concert. A luncheon for Two other senior students also
alumni will precede the football were seeking the tribal recogni-
clash.
tion. They were Fred Austin of
interesting reading Sunday in
h and low same date last year: 61
set last night: 6:01: sunrise today:
sunset tonight: 6.00
ometer reading at 3 p.m.: 28.22.
nidity at 9 p.m.: 74.
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
TV Scout
Sports ..
Oil news.........
Obituaries
SECTION a
Church news .....
Women’s news .....
Editorials ......
Amusements......
Comics .
Redie-TV logs ...
Farm news; markets
... 1
... 11
...12
...2
3
6,7
10
. 11
■ I J |, ~ PPI rioters kept up a ragged hail of
U rged by Dillon “Hours before the clash an ... Raybu rn Condition
" sociation of university professors Remains Unchanged
voted nearly unanimously to sup-
port the student demands that DALLAS, Tex (AP)—The con-
touched off the current wave of dition of House Speaker Sam Ray.
Officials Expect
New Rec
urge
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW (AP) - A flood of
condemnations directed at old line
Stalinists poured out in the 22nd
Soviet party congress Friday, in-
dicating possible preparations for
1 Mikoyan declared that “during
the (Stalinist) period of the cult
of personality, those people would
have been liquidated by means
they well know "
"We liquidated their ideology."
Mikoyan said. "We did not liqui
new purges. Mikoyan said "We did not liqui
East German Communist chief date them physically This was
Walter Ulbricht also got in some
shots at his favorite target. West
Germany, assailing it as "the
main seat of war danger" and
reiterating Communist demands
for an all-German peace treaty.
Major targets of the session’s
parade of speakers were the top
conspirators in the 1957 plot to
unseat Premier Khrushchev for-
mer Premier and Foreign Minis-
ter V. M Molotov, former Pre-
mier Georgi M. Malenkov, ex-Dep-
uty Premier Lazar M Kaganovich
and former President Klementi Y.
Voroshilov. /
in conformity with Leninist prin.
ciples.”
Mikoyan and other speakers al
so lashed out at Albanian party
leader Enver Hoxha-accused by
Khrushchev as practicing Stalinist
repressions, but defended by Red
China’s Chou En-lai as a brother,
in an ideological rift opened up
at the congress
Chou and Khrushchev indicated
to congress delegates that the dis-
pute had not affected their per
sonal relations Following an in
termission the two strolled logeth ;
er to the rostrum and witnesses
said they were talking amiably
'In Belgrade, Yugoslavia1 the
The old Bolsheviks have been
forced into relative obscurity but official Yugoslav news agency
the tone of the denunciations sug-Tanjug charged that Chou „
gested worse times may be ahead “inventions and fabrications”
for them.
Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas flee PURGES, Pg. % A, Col. 1
used
in
The Abilene Reporter-Hews
* Children’s Theatre
Children’s Theatre will open its 12th season with the fall
production of "Y oung Abe Lincoln — Salem Days." A
scene from the play which Ahilene and area school children
will see Monday through Friday will be shown on the
Cover Page of the W omen's Section.
* What About Albania?
Very much in the news is Communist Albania, a backwater
behind the Iron Curtain. It is of compelling interest to
students of communism because of its apparent shift in
status from a satellite of Russia to one in orbit about Red
China. German AP Staffer Carl Buchalla, first U. S. news
agency representative to penetrate the country in years,
reports on his impressions in the Sunday Reporter-News.
* Interview with Mrs. Pinkham Smith
The wife of Brig. Gen. Smith of Dyess Air Force Base is
presented in an interview Sunday in the Women's Section.
* Abilene’s Civil Affairs Company
The Abilene area is about to lose, temporarily, a group
of its citizens, the men of the 490th Civil Affairs Company,
who will be leaving in a few days for Ft. Gordon, Ga.,
and active army duty. Sunday's Reporter-News will prevent
a picture of men of the company, a picture of a large group
of the families being affected and a story of the unit by
its information officer, Capt. Jack Holden.
* Junior League Provisionals
New provisionals of Junior League of Ahilene, Inc. will
be announced Sunday with a story concerning the training
they recently completed.
• Football
MeMurry's homecoming game • . . other local college
games ... the big ones in the Southwest Conference and
over the nation . . . these and more in Sunday's big sports
section.
By STERLING F. GREEN private enterprise “must forego
HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP)—Sec- all but the absolute minimum of
retary of the Treasury Douglas price increases” while wage in-
Dillon urged Friday night t
businessmen join the government rule, exceed productivity gains ”
in offering help to underdeveloped The point which he seemed to
countries He said this would emphasize, however, was what he
make them pioneers on "a new c .
frontier for the entire world." See DILLON. Pg. 2 A. Col. $
that creases should not as a neral ant (government disorders Inci- burn 79, remained unchanged
at rule esshe „ ne > s a sen ral dents began five days ago when Friday, his doctors said They re
antirule exceed nrncup tivity "nine students at Santo Domingo Uni-ported he is comfortable
versity demanded removal of the Rayburn entered Baylor Hospi-
university rector they accused of tal 19 days ago for diagnosis and
being "too proTrujillo " treatment of incurable cancer
Hinting broadly that U.S. offi _
Riot Police Nab
appreciate the role available in
this field to private enterprise
In a speech prepared for the! A • AT AI
Business Council, a top-level exA muG D WetlEAI
its official the Com Wh , ad • ■ C • ■ V V HEDTAE
merce Department. Dillon pointed •
repeatedly Ji areas in which he PARIS (AP) - Riot police Fri-reception centers. Police said they orders were protests by Algerians
said business must help in the day rounded up hundreds of wail- would be released when the dan against a curfew imposed by
achievement of national goals ing Algerian women, many with ger of massed riots subsides, police to cut down terrorist ae-
He said there is a need children, in noisy demonstrations About 200 women-many with tivities in the capital.
for government-business coopera- for Algerian independence The babes in arms and others with Police used no force against the
Don founded on understanding disorders spread from Paris to children walking beside them—ar- women and no incidents were re-
and mutual respect in such im- other sections of France rived at Paris, east railway sta ported Special meals were sent
portant areas as the promotion Paris police reported intercept tion from various shantytowns, in to the reception centers. The
of exports a the fight acaine im- ing 1.180 women and Sa ellaen same of the women had on veils official police attitude was that
nation and the heading from the suburbs to down they normally wear only in Al- the women * jected
nomisinerowth. said must bear town sections of Paris. geria. They chanted the piercing from Algeria had
A Business for the must At Lille, 350 men and women "you you-you" call and indepen forced them * for
SIX « or wafer of imate suc were reported picked up, and at dence slogans as police moved in the demonstr
or of the export ex- Rouen 300. There was some pushing and shov Police were
pansion program through which The march on central Paris be ing when the women resisted but stations and
the government hopes to erase gan in early afternoon as women no injuries were reported city to collect
the balance of Pay ments deficit and children, chanting the shrill The women marched on orders en and childn
which poses a constant threat to "you-you-you” rallying cry of the of the rebel Algerian National in suburban
gold reserves North African casbahs, paraded Liberation Front-the FLN—which en and chil
To boost exports and also speed toward the city claims credit for the other Al shouted “ Alg
the growth of the economy, Dillon Police, on tense alert after vio- gerian demonstrations. ‘Free Ben I
said business must increase its lent clashes with Moslem men Rebel headquarters to Tunis Bella is a de
modernization programs with en- Tuesday and Wednesday night that said it ordered the demonstrations provisional A
couragement through federal tax resulted in five deaths, quickly to force France to negotiate an who is impri
policies intercepted them, herded them in-end to the 7-ear-old war in Al chateau. Tigh
in combatting inflation, he said to buses and took them to special gena. What touched off the dis-tions were or
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