The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 184, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 24, 1961 Page: 6 of 52
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g A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
O-A Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, December 24, 1961
Dormant Accounts
II
Traffic Toll Motorist Drives
rj . Off With Wife
Edges Higher of Crash Victim
- liceman and offered help He was ting the farm house, with a lighted
Christmas tree in the window.
Be Restored Any Time
President- of the two national
banks in Abilene affirmed Satur-
day that any dormant account in
their bank would be restored to
the depositor or to the claimant
“at any time "
Oliver Howard of Citizens Na-
tional Bank and Walter Johnson
of the First National Bank of Abi-
lene said they were seeking an at-
torney generals ruling on the
validity of the action by a House
investigating committee which
subpoenaed presidents of 37 Texas
national bank.- to a bearing in
Austin Thursday.
“We certainly have nothing to the bank and as such we would
hide, but we have taken the al-
titude aU along that the committee
did not have the right to subpoena
us with the intention of deriving
such information from us," John-
not voluntarily be willing to fur-
nish any information of this na-
ture.”
Authorized Charge
Traffic
Fires
Miscellaneous
Total
not in uniform.
The three drove to a tavern,
where Wilson telephoned for a low
truck. When he went outside, his
wife and the motorist were gone.
Wilson said he waited until 12:30
Troopers said Mrs. Wilson told
them she had not been molested.
1 PETERSBURG, N.Y. (AP)-A
j young soldier and his wife, driving
66 home to Ohio for Christmas, ran
son said.
“It’s our feeling that the in-
formation they are requesting
from us is of confidential nature
and that it invades the sacred
trust between the depositor and
Howard pointed out that nation-
al banks are authorized by the
comptroller of currency to make
a maintenance charge on dor-
mant accounts — “and that pro-
vision is in the contract between
customer and the bank. ”
--off a highway and into a ditch.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS For the next five hours the soldier
The death toll from highway feared for his wife's safety.
mishaps edged steadily upward Pic Donald Wilson 21 New
today in the opening hours of the one, Wuson J1’ New
three-day Christmas holiday Lexington, Ohio, and his wife,
weekend. Mabel, 21, had left Ft. Devons,
In the first few hours of the Mass., Friday night As they
period, which began at 6 p m. neared this village near the New
local time Friday night, more York-Massachusetts line, his auto-
than 60 persons have died in traf- mobile skidded off the road.
fic mishaps. Wilson said a motorist stopped.
a.m. today before calling state po-
lice because be thought the motor
ist had driven his wife to a state
police outpost.
Roadblocks were set up.
Shortly after I a.m., Mrs. Wil-
son telephoned Massachusetts
State Police at Lee, Mass.,
that she wee safe fo a farm house.
Mrs. Wilson told trooper* the
man had kidnaped her. She ee-
eaped. she said. when the motor-
ist stopped the car on a rural
Glass From Baby
Bottle Cuts Eye
Mrs. Joe Alien Disherron, 15.
SOD Orange St. was admitted to
Hendrick Memorial Hospital Fri-
day at 11:10 p.m. with an eye in-
jury.
Mrs. Disherron was reported
injured when she dropped a baby
bottle, and flying glass from the
broken bottle struck her in the left
HOLIDAY
"But when the depositor comes
back to the bank to claim his
money, the maintenance charges
are restored to his account,” The
Citizens National official said.
Sealed Envelope .___
Johnson said he submitted the (Continued from Page 142
Information concerning dormant Friday night near Liberty
accounts at the First National in upsst Emida Texas near "
a sealed envelope with the in-in southeast a
structions that the committee was Mrs. Robbie Thompson 3 Was National also follows the policy
not to open the envelope until the killed in Houston Friday night -. _.„.,„„ e a--ant account in
norre hid been made when her car and • dump truck
ruling had been mage----------collided. Grover Miller, 49, Negro
driver of the truck, was injured
Pooch Takes Up Cars carrying two seamen col-
With Poundmaster lided 4 miles west of Galveston
Founamasrer land the crash killed both men Fri-
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a homeless red mongrel dog and Charles McLawcl in, , o ician as saying there was no evi-
put it in the pound to be destroyed Loma. - dence of bodily harm. _______
if it wasn't claimed. Margarito Rexes, Fridav In an earlier incident, Miss Cas- cidents during the tally period
As Cockrill drove away in the Worth was ed - monies Ue said a man poured acid down that ends at midnight Monday. In
. . . --ken hie ear hit a hridse 4 miles Clark's back about noon as she
“He doesn’t lose * penny.
"We as a group of bankers are
opposed to escheat in any farm."
Johnson added that the First
of restoring a dormant account in
full to a depositor "at any time.”
eye
The cut in her eye was repaired
Friday night. She was reported
hi good condition Saturday morn-
The first victim of the holiday identified himself as a state po- walked several miles before spot- fog-
weekend was Mrs. Cora Marcotte,
31, of Littleton, N.H., who died
in a two car crash while in route
to Rhode Island to spend Christ-
mas with relatives. Her husband
and daughter were injured.
road He drove off when she ran
from the car, she said.
Mrs. Wilson estimated she had
Four Servicemen
Injured in Crash
NEWTON, Ask. (API-Four
servicemen, homeward bound on
Christmas furloughs, were injured
early Saturday when their auto
failed t omake a curve on US.
67 bear here, and rolled down an
embankment into the White River
bottoms.
Mike Klimoski, 18. a sailor
from White Lake, Wis., suffered
a broken right leg and shoulder.
Marine Phillip Overton, 19, of
Hitchcock, Tex., was driving
and suffered a broken shoulder.
Overton's brothers, Robert, 21,
and Richard, S, also of Hitch,
cock, were less seriously injured.
The National Safety Council es-
timates almost aU of the 76-mil-
lion motor vehicles in the United
States wiU be used for travel at .
some time during the long week-
end. The blizzards in the Mid-
west and Northern Plains may re-
duce the figure somewhat.
The record toll for a three-day
Christmas weekend is 609, set in
1955. The record for any holiday
period was the four-day Christ-
mas period in 1956 when 706 per-
sons died in highway mishaps.
The council estimated that 500
Americans might die in traffic ac-
pound truck, the pooch clambered when bisbarTeson an Norn central
over the fence and jumped in be-south 01 Burleson m 0
side him. Now the dog is Cock-Texas. .
rills constant companion. A car struck C. H Ferguson,
o. the dog’s death sentence, a0/001/2hC anrarne area three hours
Cockrill says. “I just can't go day mgnl and •
through with it this time,” later- . __Danas
____________________________Two young Negroes from Dallas
died early Saturday when a car ment. Police said they filed no
crashed through a highway con-complaint
struction barricade and plunged In other developments:
into an evacuation 25 feet deep. A federal judge at Montgomery,
They were Emma McGee, 16, and Ala., refused to throw out a jury’s
a cousin. Gene Johnson, 19. The verdict denying damages to a
| accident happened 6 miles east of Bos ton couple who sued Mont ■
Marshall near the Louisiana line gomery police officials for their
arrest in a racialincident.U.S.
District Court Judge Frank M.
picketed outside the F. W. Wool-
worth store. Miss Castle said a
doctor at Southern Baptist Hospi-
tal told Clark carbolic acid had
been used
Clark and the other CORE mem-
bers could not be located for com-
a period between 6 p m. Friday,
Dec. 8 and midnight Monday
Dec. 11 a count showed 347 per-
sons died in traffic accidents, 42
in fires and 57 in miscellaneous
mishaps.
Last Christmas, also a three-
day holiday. 488 persons died in
traffic accidents, 77 in fires and
82 in miscellaneous mishaps, for
a total of 647.
STORM
(Continued from Pg. 1-A)
MAY YOUR HOLIDAY
RING OUT WITH JOY
We hope the Christmas
season is filled with every
happiness for you.
IRENE'S
DRESS SHOP
2413 SOUTH 7th
Mild Christmas
Weather Likely new trial The judge gave no rea-
, sor for the denial in his order. m
Mild weather over the weekend U.S. District Court Judge a low of below
and through Christmas day is ex-Claude Clayton took under advise- Packed snow made driving haz-
pected to make travelling and ment the federal government’s ardous in most of the storm area
other Yuletide activities pleasant suit asking a court order requir- where roads were passable Parts
over West Central Texas, ing Tallahachie County, Miss., to of Iowa, Minnesota and the Da-
Saturday the mercury dipped to accept poll taxes from Negroes, kotas were glazed with ice that
a chilly 23 degrees about 6 a.m. A poll tax receipt i* required to formed when drizzle was troz
The low Saturday night is expect- vote in the county, by icy blasts.
ed to be about 39. | A 14-year-old Negro girl who Buses and trains, loaded with
Partly cloudy skies will prob- went to school in the Soviet Union homeward bound travelers, were
ably return to the area Monday, as a protest against discrimina-running hours behind .schedule
the Weather Bureau station at tion in the United States arrived
Abilene Municipal Airport report- home for Christmas. The girl’s
ed. father, William Clark of Newark.
Last year on Dec. 23 the low N.J.: refused to_let. the ar.
wM 32.
We extend our warmest wishes for your
happiness this day... and may all itsveor.
joys remain with you through the coming year.
Johnson Jr. also turned down the
i j the East, colder air began moving .
request of the couple, Mr and in the same direction across the
Mrs. Thomas M. Ramsbey, for a
Plains.
Bismarck, N.D., felt the sting of
the storm areas. The job of clear-
ing highways was hampered by
stalled vehicles.
LAR
NOEL
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We extend our sincere
best wishes to you and
yours at this Holy Season,
and pray that Christmas
will be a time filled with
greatest joy and peace.
HELEN RENAU
EVELYN HUDGINS
And Our Entire Staff at the
C u Cu
n ter
1013 BUTTERNUT
OR 4.4563
Hulda, answer questions. How-
ever, he said he gives ‘‘the high-
est thanks to Nikita Khrushchev
for helping her to escape Jim
Crowism.”
Grant Will Help
Research Center
DALLAS (AP)—A $1 million fad
eral grant will enable the Univer-
sity of Texas Southwestern Medi-
cal School to build a research cen-
for costing twice that amount
The U.S. Public Health Service
telegraphed Dean A J. GUI Fri-
day that the money will be made
available, matching 81 million al-
ready rained by the school
Plans call for a six-story struc-
ture to house the Dan Danciger
Research Center, named for a
Fort Worth oil man and philan-
thropist
The snow belt extended into the
eastern Great Lakes and south
ward into the Ohio Valley, where
it wm mixed with freezing rain.
Rain drenched parts of the North-
west, changing to snow in the
mountains.
Mostly fair weather prevailed
over the rest of the nation with
temperatures along the West Coast
ranging from the 30s in the north
to the 60s in southern California.
The line of freezing temperatures
extended as far south as Texas
and eastward across the southern
Appalachians.
In the Rockies, where the storm
originated, temperatures ranged
from zero to 10 above in the cen-
tral areas to the teens and 80s
temperatures extended across the
Upper Great Lakes into the St.
Lawrence Valley. Readings along
the East Coast were seasonal,
ranging into the sos and 60s along
much of the coastal area.
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