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wisters Hit Avoc
Tornado - jittery West Texans funnels inflicted undetermined pro-
headed for the storm cellars Thurs- perty damage in the Abilene area,
but no injuries were known as of
day as a band of thundershowers
unloosed a host of twisters in a
hop - skotch pattern across the
western portion of the state.
Several of the hit - and - run
late Thursday night. Areas near
Anson and Avoca reported twister
damage.
The eastward moving system of
BIG SPACE DAY
More Satellites
turbulent weather, spawned in an
unstable air mass ahead of Pacific
cool front, also released much-
needed rain measuring up to two
and a half inches in isolated areas.
Hail varying from marble to
golfball - size accompanied the 10-
WHERE IT RAINED
20 mile wide band of showers. Taylor emerged from his storm
cracking any number of car wind-
shields exposed to the elements.
cellar to find that his garage
WALKER DISCUSSES ISSUES — Speak ing informally with former Gen. Edwin A.
Walker, center, Texas gubernatorial can didate, at a Windsor Hotel reception
Thursday night are John Ferguson, left, an Abilene Christian College freshman
from Garland, and Dr. Clyde Morgan of Abilene. (Staff photo)
Walker Says Washington
Running Texas Demo Party
Boosted Aloft
By HOWARD BENEDICT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
—The United States and Great
Britain teamed together Thursday
and launched a scientific satellite.
This feat, coupled with a joint
Related stories. Pg. 2-A
The 23-ineh cylinder, bristling
with solar cell panels, experiment
booms and antenna, was sent aloft
to explore the ionosphere and
U.S. Japanese rocket launching at cosmic radiation.
Wallops Island; Va., signaled a
new era in international space
cooperation.
I The two firings came amid
At Wallops Island, the United
ABILENE
Municipal Airport
Total for Year
Normal for Year
ANSON
AVOCA
BALLINGER
BIG SPRING
BLACKWELL
COLORADO CITY
HAMLIN
HASKELL
JAYTON
LORAINE
MUNDAY
RANGER
ROCHESTER
ROTAN
ROSCOE
24
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Sightings of funnels on the
ground were reported late Thurs-
day afternoon southeast of Anson
and near the Bradshaw commun-
ity southeast of Abilene shortly
after 9:30 p.m.
An Avoca farmer said he spot-
ted a “white streak" which he
said could have been a twister
extending from the black cloud
cover in the afternoon.
with an attached room had been
lifted off its foundation and drop-
ped in a field about a • block
away. The windows on the north
The Abilene Weather Bureau at
* .91,the Municipal Airport received a
1.40°
.50
.50
.40
.41
.58
.95
1.5
.40
.50
trace
.55
1.0
,75
report at 9:55 p.m. that an Am-
erican Airlines pilot had caught
sight of a tornado some 30 miles
northeast of Abilene.
Extensive property damage was
claimed from the tornadic gusts
side of his farmhouse also were
shattered.
The wind blast leveled a barn
on the H. J. Hansen farm on the
southern outskirts of the Avoca
business district. A service Ma-
tion sign was blown down, knock-
ing over a gasoline pump, report-
ed station owner R. E. Hughes.
Hansen later discovered that the
wind ripped off the porch on one
of his rent houses that was va-
cant at the time.
Mrs. Glenn Kennels, Reporter-
News correspondent at Avoca,
said her husband stood outside a
storm cellar looking at a “white
streak." As the winds increased
Former Gen Edwin A. Walker costly governor in the history of Gen Walker told a reporter at
charged here Thursday night that Texas,” and tabbed John Con- a reception in the Windsor Hotel
the Texas Democratic Party ma- nally as “the Washington, can- that he opposed the state merit mere £“ Raneer
chinery is being “manipulated didate for governor” ‘ ratine insurance nroaram where
from Washington" by liberal fore- After making appearances dur-
rating insurance program where
other developments:
es and insisted that he is the only ing the day at Midland. Sweet-
candidate in the gubernatorial water and San Angelo, the veter-
race free from ties with big an military officer arrived with
business and government, two campaign aides at Abilene
Lashing out against two of his Municipal Airport in a private
opponents the ultra - conserva-plane shortly after t p.m. for an
live compaigner asserted that Gov overnight stay. Friday he flies to
Price Daniel “has been the most Fort Werth.
PAGE ONE
By Katharyn Duff
4 crash-landed on the far side of
termine the liability insurance the moon after a 64-hour, 231,486-
rate-as a “castigation of charact- mile journey through space,
er." aoi cnaraci 2. The Soviet Union announced
He also charged that the Texas the launching of their fourth Spot-
Education Agency is “handling nik in six weeks. The new earth
too much responsibility of the Bisellite, Cosmos 4, was described
of the people which should be on the Russians as packed with
handled at the local level " ‘instruments to measure radiation
Stressing the improtance of and other space-probing gear.
solvency in state financing, he 3. The U.S. Air Force fired two
declared that state government mystery satellites a few hours
has too many bureaus, too many apart from Point Arguello, Calif.
I accounts and "too much sales The first employed a Blue Scout
tax.” booster combination These have
been used for high-altitude re-
search. The second had an Atlas-
drivers' fines are recorded to de-
Surrounded by a group of his
States and Japan joined in anoth-RULE
er cooperative space venture SNYDER
when an American Nike Cajun SWEETWATER
sounding rocket shot a pracel of SYLVESTER
Japanese instruments 75 • miles WESTBROOK
high in another ionosphere prob- WINGATE.......
ing experiment. WINTERS
240
125
.25
40
........50
Steady Rain
near Anson and Avoca. The other
tornados were presumed to have
touched ground briefly before re-
ineall 2 oiear slanar for Abilene led faster than a locomotive -
and the area to the west was The storm unleashed golfball-
sounded about 10:40 pm. by C. E. size hail steadily from about 4:45
Sitchler, chief meterologist at the
.10 Weather Bureau.
.61 Rain continued steadily in down
town Abilene at midnight, accom-
panied by rolling thunder.
Central West Texas was first
Rain, Of Course,
Greets Rodeo-ers
By JIM EATON
Reporter-News Farm Writer
Picture, Story, Pg. 1-B
in velocity, Rennets dashed for
shelter He said the streak “pass-
p.m. to about 5:10 p.m., Mrs.
Runnels said.
Mrs. J. D. Hargrove, Avoca
school teacher, said the hail stones
WASHINGTON - Lyndon B.
Johnson has endeavored, his as-
sociates say, to keep himself ac-
cessible to the public since he
become Vice President of the
nation.
One such effort can be found
in the Washington telephone
book.
You can search the big, limp
volume in vain for some minor
congressman from, say. the
mid-west As far as the printed
reports go, some lesser lights
do not exist for the telephoning
public
Not so with Vice President
Johnson
There his borne address and
- phone are listed plain as day.
"Johnson, Lyndon B. Hon
'nearly everybody in Washing-
ton, it does appear is hon.' as
far as the Bell system is con-
cerned 4040 52 NW WO (Wood-
ley) 6-4030.”
This public admission that the
Vice President has telephone
service to his home does at
times make for a busy tele-
phone.
Mrs. Leslie (Liz) Carpenter,
executive assistant to the Vice
President, had an experience
with its ringing this week.
Mr. and Mrs Johnson were in
Texas over Easter and on Mon-
day evening Mrs. Carpenter
dropped by their home to serve
briefly as drama critic for one
of the Johnson daughters'
school skit.
The Johnson’s phone rang and
Mr« Carpenter answered
The call was long distance
from Georgia for Vice President
Johnson but yes, the party
would talk with an executive as-
sistant
And into Mrs Carpenter’s ear
there poured a tale of woe from
a couple stranded in a Georgia
courthouse
The couple wanted, desperate-
ly, to get to France where the
woman's mother was dying.
Could somebody help, please?
The woman, it seems, had come
in this country from her native
France some 14 years ago as
a war bride and on arrival had
somehow emitted clearing de
tails of her arrival with official-
dom. This omission had come
to light when she and her hus-
band undertook the emergency
trip to France. Could the Vice
President help?
Well, the Vice President
wasn’t around, but his staff
would undertake to cut the red
tape which, in such emergen-
cy. needed cutting ‘
Mrs Carpenter so undertook
and she succeeded at last and
the couple was able to proceed.
A major difficulty Mrs. Car-
penter had to surmount Some
immigration officials she need-
ed to contact were difficult to
locate.
Their telephone numbers
aren't listed in the Washington
phone book.
What with her two popular
teen - age daughters and a very
busy husband. Mrs. Johnson's
household does at times bustle,
her friends say.
They cite an example:
A short time ago Mrs John-
son was booked to make a
speech to a New York City gath-
ering.
She had chosen a topic. "New
Audiences in Old Lands," im-
pressions and experiences re-
membered from recent world
travels with Vice President
Johnson
She knew what she wanted to
say but writing it was difficult.
Telephones and doorbells in-
terrupted.
Finally she hit on a solution.
She gathered paper and pen
and her own person into her car
and drove to a nearby Hot
Shoppe, a drive-in.
She parked, ordered coffee
and there the Vice President’s
wife sat to sip and compose.
A current joke in Washington:
There was this Texan politi-
cian who got a call from Pecos
the other day and his secretary
told him who was calling
‘Billy Sol WHO?" the politi-
cian inquired.
A new formula appeared on
badges at a recent gathering of
Republican women:
“Au plus H20 equals 64.”
Come now, you remember the
chemical abbreviation for gold!
The growth of government is
paralleled by the growth of the
press corps which keeps up with
government Fittingly enough,
the tallest building in Washing-
ton is the press building.
The abundance of, reporters
and photographers is demon-
strated when the "big" story
comes along and the entire
corps tries to be in the same
place at the same time.
Reporters home from cover-
ing Mrs. Kennedy's trip to In-
dia say the entourage of 75
(most reporters or cameramen)
put something of a strain on
the places visited.
“Mrs. Kennedy went to see
the sights of India one female
reporter recounts, "but when
she got there all she could see
was a ring of reporters and
photographers lined up to see
her seeing the sights.”
Stubborn stock and determined lished third with a 213 mark
contestants got Hardin-Simmons Cheryl Allred South Plains fin-
University’s 16th annual intercol- lished fourth in 31 1 *
legiate rodeo off to a fast start „ fourth in 311. ,
Thursday night Workman was the only one of
uirsday * ,___, three riders to place in saddle
. The weather, however, proved brone riding. He made 183 points.
.___________.to be tougher than both the stock „ Taking first in wild mare race
the tax would not have been British Prime Minister Harold and performers. Heavy rain and ri bbon roping was Walter Arnold
needed. i Macmillan, visiting in the United strong winds about two-thirds way of South Plains with a time of
Asked again what he would States, is expected to announce . sent most of 10.3. Jimmy Jones, Sul Ross, with
recommend as an alternative to a name for the British-U.S. satel- the COWC Aurr ns for their cars, a mark of 10.9, was second; Bill
the present, tax. Walker answer- lite launched from Cape Canaver- but this fa iled the it the show. James, Sul Ross, was third with
ed, “I don’t know what’s next.” al. Eain and the H-U rodeo seem- --
He humorously commented that
I supporters during the interview.
Walker at first answered a re-
porter's question as to what cor-
rective measures he would pro-
pose concerning the sales tax, by
saying that if state government
had not become so bureaucratic
Agena B booster such as have
been used for the Samos military
reconnaissance satellite series and
for the Midas missile alarm satel-
lite senes. Other details were kept
'secret.
the tax was enacted during Gov.
Daniel's term and suggested to the
newsman that "You ask him " \
Walker advised his listeners that
to go hand in-hand This year 11.3; and fourth place was won
Meanwhile, it was known by its marked the 14th time it has rain-by Sherrill Overturff in 11.6 sec-
program number. S51 British led during the 18 yearly shows, onds.
newsmen dubbed it UK1, for Many in the crowd came armed Another feature of the rodeo
United Kingdom with raincoats.
The gold-plated satellite was other performances are sched-
state officials should investi- The gold-plated satellite was other performances are sched
gate the possibilities of oil pro- boosted into orbit by a Thor-Della uled for 8 p.m. Friday and at
duction on Padre Island — which rocket —the most reliable U.S. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday,
would bring additional revenue to booster which scored its eighth Needless to say, the rodeo per-
the state - before turning the. is- satellite launching . success in a formers and the fans would wel-
land over to the federal govern- row.
ment as a national park.
was the West Texas Barrel Rac-
ing Assn competition. Betty Fry
of Abilene finished first with a
time of 18.6. Marie Voss, Snyder,
was second with it seconds flat
1M at Reception
During his reception, at which
more than 100 persons met the
tall, stocky candidate. Walker was
See WALKER, Pg.'13-A, Col. I
____come better weather
Jubilant officials of both coun- Leading the colorful grand en-
tries announced the 132-pound try, which ushered in the show.
payload was in orbit when a was the Callahan County Sheriff's
tracking team at Cape Canaveral Posse, led by Easy Parson,
picked up signals from it after it Bill Barrett of Texas Tech had
completed one two-hour whirl
around the,world.
the honor of being the first con-
testant He rode Brown Demon
London Anti-Bomb
Protest Broken Up
By DENNIS NEELD
LONDON (AP) - Police moved
into a crowd of about 2.000 anti-
bomb demonstrators at the U.S.
Embassy Thursday night and ar
rested 192 sit-down strikers pro-
testing American nuclear tests in
the atmosphere.
Early Friday, two American
girls carried on the protest vigil,
standing in the darkness of Gros-
venor Square with about 30 young
Britons.
The girls said they thought at
least three Americans were
among the demonstrators carted
away.
"I saw them being pushed off
toward police wagons at the
height of the excitement." said
Susan Parrish, 21, of Storrs,
Conn
“It 'was a real madhouse while
it lasted," added Christie John-
son, 20, of Beverly Hills, Calif.
The police could not say im-
mediately whether any Americans
had been arrested A spokesman
said those arrested were charged
with obstruction and sent home
“They will probably appear in
court tomorrow,” he said.
The demonstration had started
out as a procession around the
square, with police allowing
groups of 10 to 12 at a time into
the embassy to submit letters of
protest.
Police moved in when protestors
to block traffic and refused to
move
One demonstrator started a
skirmish but was told by others
to cool off Most simply went limp
and let themselves be carried to
waiting police vans
Eerier is Glasgow, about 20
men and women stormed into the
American consulate office and sat
on the floor, chanting antibomb
songs Police hauled them out and
bundled them off in trucks.
Hundreds of police surrounded
the huge embassy building in Lon-
don and kept antinuclear cam-
paigners in ac line winding a
quarter mile around Grosvenor
Square
put under thunderstorm alert at
11:30 a.m. Abilene was included
in the warning area about 3 p.m.
Portions of Shackelford, Callahan
and Brown counties were to re-
main under the alert until 3 a.m.
Friday, said Bob Miller. Weather
Bureau technician.
Heaviest rainfall totals were at
Stamford with an unofficial 2.40
inches, Jayton with 150, Avoca
with 1.40 and Sweetwater with
2.25
Communities reporting hall
were Anson, Avoca, Stamford.
Haskell. Big Spring, Westbrook.
Snyder, Sweetwater, Roscoe, Jay-
ton, Blackwell, Rochester, Mun-
day. Colorado City and Rotan.
Jones County Sheriff Dave
Reeves told the Department of
Public Safety in Abilene that one
twister damaged a farm outbuild-
ing and snapped a power line
near Anson. High winds and-or
hail knocked out several windows
in the county jail at Anson, he
said.
0. B Cox of Anson reported up
to 80 per cent loss to wheat.
damaged garages and other
light buildings in the community.
Much of the wheat crop, which
was getting ready to head, suffer-
ed extensive damage on sur-
rounding farms.
At Haskell the Haskell- Knox
Baptist Assn. Brotherhood fish
fry, which was to have been held
at Lake Stamford, was held in-
doors at the First Baptist Church
when the hail thoroughly thrashed
the area.
” A report of a twister swooping
from the clouds at Big Spring dur-
ing heavy rain between 4:15-4:30
p.m. was not confirmed. There
also was an unconfirmed sighting
of a funnel southwest of Big
Spring.
Hawley Man's
Train Mishap
Injuries Fatal
A. L. (Lee) Stephens. 41, of
Hawley died at Hendrick Memor-
At nearby Stamford, city streets
overflowed n a temporary flash
flood as 170 inches of rain fell
within 45 minutes No damage
was reported there, however lial Hospital at 1:10 p.m. Thursday
Faye Oglesby, Jonesboro, and
Mareva James of Sul Roes tied
for third with a 193 mark
Sul Rose is the defending team
champion Other teams entered
here in addition to host H-SU are
South Plains Junior College, Tex-
as Tech. San Angelo College. Abi-
lene Christian College. New
in bareback bronc riding and Mexico State University and Okla
quickly hit the dirt, failing to homa State University
score. Bud Townsend, history teacher
Edd Workman of Texas Tech at Texas Tech, is the announcer
led the field in Thursday night's The stock is furnished by Walt
competition. He took first in bare- Alsbaugh of Alamosa, Colo,
back brone riding, saddle bronc
riding and in calf roping
Workman had a score of 175 in
, bareback brone riding. The only
other person who placed among
the nine riders was H. C Zachry.
also of Texas Tech, with 166
points
Workman's time in calf roping
was 13 5 seconds Walter Arnold
) of South Plains Junior College in
Levelland was second with a time
of 14.6. Sherrill Overturff. South
Plains was third with 158. while
Mickey Powers of Sul Rose Col-
lege finished fourth with 0 16.5
mark.
Donna Jean Saul, Sul Ross,
with a time of 20.6, was first in
goat tying Ruth Foster, Sul
Ross, was second with 211, and
Judy Overturff. South Plains, fin-
WEATHER
Events Honor Jack Coxes,
Mrs. John Connally Today
Luncheons, receptions and cof- day prior to a press conference in
the Windsor Hotel at 10:30 a.m.
fees are on tap here Friday for
Republican candidate for governor
Jack Cox and for Mrs John Con-
spilled onto the street, sat down
He will speak at a luncheon at
12:15 at the Wooten Hotel for area
campaign workers and friends
nally, wife of the Democratic gu- while his wife is a guest at a Pen-
bernatorial candidate ’ Isadoras Club brunch at 11 am in
Mrs. Connally will be honored at
a coffee at the YWCA. N 10th and
Orange, from 9:30 to 11:30 am.
Mesdames Lynn Lee and C. J.
Douglass are co chairmen for the
event
the Abilene Country Club
The Cones will be guests at
Next victim of tornado clouds of injuries suffered in n truck-
was the Avoca community. R. T. train collision Tuesday.
_ Stephens’1962 Volkswagon panel
WinAe Imaca truck ran into the side of a north-
WInOS bildsi bound freight train at the main
grade crossing in Hawley, accord-
ing to Highway Patrolman F. J.
Terrell.
Funeral arrangements are pend-
ing at Elliott's Funeral Home
MP Stephens was born April 14.
1921 in Personville and moved to
AF Barracks
Al Sheppard ayior with parents as
• a boy He married Clara Stevens
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS in Abilene April 17, 1951. He was
U. & DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
J WEATHER BUREAU
__(Weather map. Page 141
ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius of
40 miles) - Partly cloudy and cooler
=====
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS: — Cloudy
and cooler Friday Seattered showers and
*.d; Aug. mo92,45 0 57 6 a
- • num- Fair ^
r TEXAS: - Partly l i—o
-...:
Friday 62 northwest to 75
^ That ocicu,
MA. EL,’EY -^ - siturdsy
TEMPERATURES
Thurs. a.m. Thers.
55 ..........1.00 ____.-------
51 - -
Is
1.
.r.i
J1*
Vicious winds battered Wichita a member of the Ash St Baptist
Falls late Thursday night, crush- Church, in addition to being a vet
D eran of WW HI and a member of
ing a Sheppard Air Force Base the VFW here. Mr Stephens had
barracks and felling several pow-lived in Hawley for the past year
er lines. - r— and was employed there as a
At least one man was reported salesman for Tip Top Foods.
to have suffered injuries in the Members of the family will be
Wichita Falls storm Power failed staying at 1428 Almond while in
at the air base on the edge of Abilene.
the city. It was restored after Surviving are his wife: tw o
about 35 minutes daughters Annabelle Lee Stephens
Fifth students and a high school of the home, Mrs. Myra Lynn
principal narrowly escaped injury Raney of 2982 Orange: his father,
earlier Thursday in the Texas Willie Stephens of Hollister, Calif.:
Panhandle town of Quail, where two sisters, Mrs. Lucile Hill of
the roof of the school’s library Wiley, Mrs Jewel Stevens of
collapsed during a heavy rain- Woodland, Calif.; two children pre-
storm.
As the thunderstorms and hall
continued Mo the night the east-
ern Panhandle was placed under
a tornado alert.
Two and a half inches of rain
fell in 30 minutes at Quail, which
is 80 miles southeast of Amarillo
Woodland, Calif., two children pre
ceded him in death.
, teeth - During the height of the storm
zi hours ahaime s Pearl Tippie, principal of the
Quail High School, niticed water
same date last year: M
M mas sunrise today:
, . rm : nm.
p.m. 70 per cent.
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Sports .........
Obituaries ........
Oil news
Women’s news
Comics .....
SECTION B
7:15 pm reception on the mez-
zanine of the Windsor Hotel The =
Breckenridge drilling contractor TV scout :
will speak on KPAR- TV from 8.30 Redie-TV logs
Cox is to arrive in Abilene Fri-to 9 p.m. Form news, markets
4
is
2, 3.
.5
.6
. 11
. 12
. 13
trickling from the library celling
He promptly ordered students out
of the library
Tippie and the last student had
just stepped out of the door when
the roof of the one story building
collapsed and tons of water cas-
caded into the room
To prevent the rest of the
school from being flooded, stu-
dents and others sandbagged the
doorway of the library and
knocked a hole in the library wall
to allow the water fo run from
the room.
A. L (LEE STEPIEN
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