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LATEST
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SATURDAY
3 STAR FINAL
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES VV L 4 YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
BIST YEAR, NO. 210
ABILENE, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1962 -TWENTY PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
Associated Press (PP)
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DROWING SCENE — Three Abilene boys drowned recovered an hour after they slipped through a thin
Friday evening in the icy waters of Lytle Creek at a ice cover about 6 p.m. (Staff photo by Jimmy Parsons)
point indicated by an arrow above. Their bodies were
d(
reek Ice
Three Abilene boys plunged team set up a portable light plant
All three youths were clad in noon He said the youths were
through a thin icy cover over on the banks as the men in the blue jeans and khaki jackets running up and down the frozen
Lytle Creek north of the E. S. boat began to lower the grappling
11th St. bridge and drowned late hooks into the icy water.
Rescue work was hindered by surface, throwing rocks through
several hundred spectators who the ice
I Friday afternoon as two compan- The body of Lanny Owens was pressed close to the creekbank as "1 told them to get off the ice
■ ions looked on in horror pulled to the surface at 7pm officers hurled the books into the because it was already cracking,”
1 The victims had failed- to heed Next, the Edge youth’s body was water.
■ the warning ol an older teenager located at 7:10, and finally the Joe Bryan. 14, of 810 E S. 11th.
■ that the ice. which had been thaw- body of Danny Owens was recov- was among the party of boys who
I ing under direct sunlight, was be- ered five minutes later. 1 played on the ice during the after-
* ginning to crack. They slipped si- --------------------------------------------------------=---------------
multaneously through the frozen . _ _,
surface about 15 feet from theD d •
pbeothe three boy-s VerV Few SUTVIVO
mates at Elmdale School east of ▼ A E ) E " VV W E V H V :
Abilene — were found in six feet E
of water shortly after 7 p.m., more ▲ ■ A A
-------Andes Avalanche
Teddy Landis (Lanny) Owens, 4W E H’U & EA V H to BUE E ‘
U’ and Danny Greg Owens. I0’ By THEODORE A. EDIGER
sons of Mr and Mrs P J. Owens
of 802 E S 11th St.. LIMA, Peru 'AP) ~ A mighty
Bryan told a reporter The youths
refused to listen, he said.
“1 went up to the Owens house
See BOYS, Pg. 7-A, Col. 6 .
See picture. Pg. S-B
Jerry Wayne Edge. 13. son of Andean avalanche that blotted out said Friday, “Nurses and doctors
are on the scene but can find no
Mr. and Mrs G B Edge of the 16 villages and settlements in the
Bryant Trailer Park at 901 T&P space of eight minutes Wednesday one to take care of
Lane left so few survivors that avail- Gen. Luis Urrelo, chairman of
Funeral for the three youths is able aid is more than adequate, the Avalanche Diaster Committee,
pending at Elliott's Funeral Home. The head of a relief expedition said the number of dead “will
Texas Citrus Crop Badly Damaged
Two companions who had been
running on the two - inch layer
of ice, Ricky and Randy Cranfill
of Abilene, witnessed the tragic
drownings.
Randy 12. had already stepped
off the frozen creek about 150
yards north of the E S 11th
bridge. His brother, Ricky, 9
stepped through the ice at the
edge of the creek, but grabbed an
overhanging branch as he fell. He
wo Big Railroads
probably never be known but I
think it is over 2,000 “
He said relief was well within
the abilities of Peruvian agencies
in view of the scarcity of survi-
vors.
Nevertheless, a United States
Catholic relief society, which has
a continuing program in Peru,
sent tons of clothing, blankets,
food and medicines.
Fearing new icefalls, the gov-
ernment declared an emergency
zone in the snowcapped Andean
region where the diaster struck.
One hundred Peruvian army en-
Manning to Merge =======
and communications.
panics called consolidation “an Reports from the stricken death
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS orange trees and frozen fields of
The lush Lower Rio Grande vegetables --elated story. Pg. 2A----
Valley took a parting, staggering A record low of 12 degrees was One county agent. A H Kar-
blow Friday from a four-day arc- recorded in some areas of the cher, said the unharvested grape-
tic blast that did untold damage valley early Friday fruit was “frozen hard as a rock'
over Texas and claimed the lives Trees Split and appeared lost
of at least 31 persons. . Some growers reported their Growers' main concern now is
The valley's flourishing citrus citrus trees were beginning to their trees The 1951 freeze de-
groves, in their comeback year split, and one of them remarked stroyed an estimated 12 million
By ROGER LANE
AP Business News Writer
economic necessity which will valley 200 miles northwest of
NEW YORK (AP)—The Peon- benefit the nation’s economy” Lima told of panie-among the few
The younger Cranfill his clothes sylvania and New York Central Both carriers experienced tough survivors who escaped. The slide
formally agreed Friday on plans . , : ” crashed from 22,205-foot Mt Hu-
to merge the nation's two biggest Inancial sledding in at- ascaran, setting in motion snow,
Monte Alton and San Juan, bothlaway to summon help While one railroads into a single system though the Pennsy apparently fin- water, mud and debris.
. ished the year in the black— Estimates of the death toll still
the lowest on record in Texas’bank.
southernmost city, Oldtimers,
however, recalled 16 degrees on
Feb. 12, 1899. ‘
was able to pull himself onto the
water-soaked, ran to the Owens
house about a block and a half
with 12 degrees, had the valley’s of the members of the family no- with $5.4 billion assets,
lowest reading. Elsa shivered in tified police about 6 pm., several
13 degrees. Harlingen and Ray- others dashed to the creekbank
mondville 14. Rio Hondo 15. Edin- The three victims had dis-
after the devastating freeze of “When the trees split, that’s the citrus trees, and this was to have burg 16’ McAllen 17 and Mission appeared under the ice
1951, were hardest hit end - been the comeback year for many 18. - Police an<1 volunteer'rescuers
A bright sun, making a feeble The manager of the Texas of the citrus growers. It takes 3Mercury Climbs quit dyx converged on the scene,
start at erasing packed ice and Citrus Mutual, Gene Winn, said citrus tree about 10 years to reach- At 9:30 a m. Friday the mer. soreecane creek
snow from hundreds of miles of the freeze probably would cost the maturity. cury climbed to 32 degrees at ispaout Cart wide at that
countryside, failed to dent the Valley citrus industry $19 million Situation Bleak Edinburg, to end 64 hours of sub- and rh to ereeireeisatter
gloom of valley growers as they He said the growers probably White also said the valley vege- freezing weather. However, most nndr a uhaueedorraninitformed to
surveyed ice-split grapefruit and would lose $9 million He said table situation was bleak of the valley expected another . _ „ . ,
they had a chance to salvage $3 "Our best information is that freeze Friday night,
million to $4 million through all the vegetables down there are
juice. gone.” he said.
State agriculture commissioner The executive vice president of
John C. White rushed inspectors the Florida Citrus Mutual Robert
V •■ ENMEA EIMHERCE to the valley to survey the situa- w Rutledge, offered sympathy
ABILENE IND"IGNIFY ” Radius 40 tion. . Texas growers He said the un-
miles) - High Saturday 55 to 50. low The commissioner estimated fortunate set of circumstance for
M. Th. forecast cans for generally fair about 3.5 per cent of the orange Texas growers will definitely add
and. “AS.i sat Who hiSENO: crop and 70 per cent of the grape- to the on-tree value of Florida
Pacific front could come through late fruit crop were still unharvested, grapefruit
Sunday and if it does, temperatures will " PETAPCIRL
drop early in the week. 1 Fruit Frozen The weather bureau termed
i . White said about five or six Brownsville's low of 19 Friday as See WEATHER Pg 7-A.
Friday P m. million boxes of fruit were in the------------------------------------------------‘___
WEATHER
Friday a m.
TEMPERATURES
1:00
High and
p.m 50 an
High and
55 and 37
low for 24-hours ending
nd 14.
low same date last - year
it night 5:53; sunrise today
tonight 5:54
reading at 9 p.m 28.22
at 9 p.m 38 per cent
______retrieve the bodies by throwing
County agents estimated about grappling hooks into the 10 - foot .
*- Amusements ......
4,000 acres of valley lettuce were wide hole.
unharvested when the freeze M. C. Miller of 902 F. S 11th
struck. Other crops damaged in- brought a boat to the creekside
eluded cabbage, carrots, toma- It was lowered into the ice.which
to toes, peppers and onions was crushed by the boat pad
Laredo, up the Rio Grande from dies. Jack Flemming, ambulance
the Valley, also reported vege- driver for Kiker - Warren Funeral
table losses as the thermometer Home, and two other men edged
dropped to 18 degrees the boat to the area where the
Elsewhere over the state broken three boys fell through the ice ____
Civil Defense Director Glen Radio-TV logs
Col. 3 Meeks and his volunteer rescue r
field and all of it is frozen EpalA Anti
If we have a quick thaw all ONE FROM ABILENE
will be ruined.” he said “If there ---------------------------------------------------------------
is a slow, thaw, some of it may
be salvaged " He said, however,
he doubted if "we can salvage
much in dollar value "
He said concentrate plants are
paying $5 a ton for citrus, while
a box of fresh oranges brings
about $1.50 on the open market
For Your Sunday Reading Pleasure
The Abilene Reporter-Pews
★ Appealing Spring Hats
Spring hats look twice as appealing when modeled by
the very young Abilene misses who appear on the Sun-
day cover page of the Women’s Section. The spring
hat story will send women shopping with a knowledge
•f advance fashion news.
★ Colleges Earmarked for Funds
Two Abilene colleges are earmarked to receive more
than $8 million from major denominational state fund-
raising campaigns which begin this year. Details of
the campaigns and proposed uses for the funds by Me
Murry College and Hardin-Simmons I niversity will be
in Sunday’s Reporter-New#.
★ Interview with Martha Pender
An interview with Martha Pender, dramatic soprano
who will sing with the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra
Jan. 30, will be a feature of the Sunday W emen’s See-
tion.
* Latest Basketball and Sports News •
Basketball locally, in the Southwest Conference and
across the nation • • • golf and other sports.
Gunmen Captured After
Week-Long Crime Spree
Two men who stole several cars another pickup was stolen from
in the Abilene area while waging Mr and Mrs. Joe Parks of Snyder
a week - long crime spree ine t
North Texas and Southern Okla- on U.S. Highway 180 14 miles
homa were captured in Oklahoma West Snyder.
Friday night
One man who gave his name watch at Maybelle, near Seymour,
to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol for gasoline. The watch had been
as Joseph Key of Abilene, Tex., stolen from a house near Vernon,
wounded an Altus, Okla.. police Late Thursday night, two men
man who tried to question the
two men in downtown Altus The
officer, J. T Fisher, received a
shotgun pellet wound in his fore-
head
The man who gave his name
as Key was captured in Altus,
while the other, identified by the
Highway Patrol as E. J. Cruse,
32, of Electra, Tex., escaped in a
car he took at gunpoint He later
was captured at Hollis, Okla
Officers gave this account
Two men stole a car at Abilene.'
took 82 at gunpoint from a farm-
er Bob Risenhover, near Alvin,
after knocking on his front door.
They left in Risenhover s pickup.
Wednesday, two men pawned a Friday afternoon two men took
a 1960 model car at gunpoint from
a Latin American farm hand near
pay yoUs
POLL TAX
Vernon, Tex, and fled toward
Altus, 16 miles north of there
Fisher and a fellow officer. Otis
Langford, spotted the car parked
at Altus Fisher approached the
car and told the two men they
| werefunder arrest *
i The driver of the car threw it
into reverse and one of the men
in the car fired a shotgun blast
| at the officers They returned the
fire and shot a tire, running the
Saturday and abandoned it
that night near the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Emmett Dodd. 10 miles
southwest of Seymour, Tex The
men took Dodd’s car and forced
Mrs Dodd to prepare food they
POLL TAX
BOX SCORE
* car into a curb
A Both men fled One ran into a
I lumber yard where he surren-
dered after being surrounded by
— officers.
The other took the car of a
salesman, whose name was not
took with them . .. _ -
The Dodd car was found aban- TAM Par
doned north of Lake Kemp, In Exemptions Claimed
Totals
Wilbarger County, shortly after a
pickup truck was stolen at nearby 1961 Polls, Exempts
Vernon That vehicle was recov- Record (1960) ....
ered Tuesday at Snyder where Deadline ,..,
The giant step, setting out the barely ranged from 2,000 up, but these
financial terms for the marriage. A formal application for neces- were based on reports of per-
still left formidable obstacles sary approval by the Interstate sons missing. Only 50 bodies had
which could delay final merger for Commerce Commission, federal been recovered from the yards-
two years or longer rail regulatory agency, will be deep mud and debris that cov-
in a joint statement following filed as soon as possible probably ered the villages of Ranrahirca
separate board meetings in New within 30 days, they said and Huarascucho and 14 smaller
York and Philadelphia, the com- Under the plan, the Pennsy and settlements.
---------------------------------- Central would join into a new cor Only about 50 of Ranrahirca’s
NEwe INDEY poration to be called the Penn- 500 inhabitants escaped Appar-
INUEA sylvania New York Central Trans- ently 800 of Huarascucho’s slightly
portation Co., domiciled in Penn- larger population are missing,
sylvania. , -A huge block of ice, loosened
Holders of 13.167,754 outstand- by Peru’s summer suns, crashed
ing shares of Pennsylvania com- into a gorge gathered up tons of
mon would receive common stock rock and ice ^ material of
in the new corporation on a one every description and with a tre-
.met msmaccdams =- = = mh
the new company for each share and mining communities below.
J^ “.-aSMurce: yr™ ™
Valley. The exact number of dead
Obituaries ........
Sports
Oil news
SECTION B
Bridge ......
Church news .....
Women’s news ....,
Comics ........
Editorials .........
TV Scout
Farm news, markets
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9
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4. J
6
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10
See MERGER, Pg. 7-A. Col. 4 may never be known.
learned, at gunpoint and fled
About 30 officers from Texas CAPTURED .— Altus, Okla, and Jackson County officers capture a suspect who
and Oklahoma were searching the gave his name as Joseph Key of Abilene as a suspect in a series of "shotgun,
3,835 area for the escaped gunman robberies" in North Texas and southern Oklahoma The man was taken follow-
: 2,612 otti-eesedeaeronthat the men ing a gunfight in which an Altus patrolman was wounded The mans companion
6.447 fitted the nr rip Vernon one escaped in Altus and was taken later in Hollis. Okla The suspect lies on the ground
. 16,196 when a pickup containing a .hot with a shotgun beneath him Left to right the officers are Patrolman Owen Clark,
. 24,513 gun was stolen from the Byron Jackson County Sheriff Kenneth Spear and Deputy Sheriff C. C. Shelley. (AP:
. Jan. 31 Phillips farm north of Vernon. Wirephoto) .
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