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"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
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82ND YEAR, NO. 51
ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, **
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Associated Press (PP)
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I By Katharyn Duff
MISS
EDITOR'S NOTE - Bob
NailofAlbany is the writer
today for Page One Katharyn
Duff who is on vacation. Nail,
in case you might not know,
is a writer of great ability,
an author of plays, the origi-
nator of the famous Albany
Fandangle. He is also an his-
torian, an erudite fellow, a
man of great wit. His topic:
Brush arbor happenings.
By BOB NAIL
Katharyn Duff, regular mis-
tress of this space, has now and
then devoted part of it to that
nearly extinct institution, the
brush arbor. Obbie Cunningham
of Albany
tells a couple
of stories
the straw spread over the dirt
floor. The women rushed the
children outside to safety. The
men boot-stomped the flames.
Both the organist and the
preacher were completely un-
nerved. She couldn't peddle an-
other hymn to save her and he
couldn't think of a single soul-
saving text —with the cat clam-
bering through the brush roof
and mama yelling for the hide of
the boy who had mistreated her
pet. They decided to call off
services that night.
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worthy of ad-
dition to her
brush arbor
lore.
The sto-
ries come
from the no
longer exist-
ent f a r m
commun-
ities of Diller
and New-
comb, north
NAIL
and east of Albany. In the days
before the auto finally annihi-
lated them, both communities
built big shady arbors as sum-
mer shelters for religious gath-
erings.
There was. Obbie remembers,
this family which always ar-
rived late for service* — inten-
tionally. Having been saved,
they seemed to figure they were
past further penitence and,
therefore, humility. Papa, a
rancher, had been selling his
calf crop at a right satis-
factory price three years
running. Mama had a hired
girl to help in the kitchen.
The boys had ponies of their
own and the girls wore Fort
Worth dresses. So they made
quite a high-toned procession
during the last verse of the
opening hymn, moving down
center aisle to a reserved bench
up front.
There was also a cat, sleek,
well fed, pampered pet, and
somehow he annoyed the back-
bench people more than the fam-
ily He always came in the sur-
rey with mama and the girls
and followed the family down the
aisle with a nice feline imita-
tion of their assurance of being
among the elect. He kept his
tail high and flicked the tip of
it as he passed forward to sit
with the quality.
A certain back-bench boy got
enough of all this. One night
the boy reached toward the ar-
rogant tail and fastened a
clothes pin on it There were,
Obbie say*, forty forked posts
holding up the brush roof The
one this screaching cat chose to
climb was right by the preach-
er-the one holding a kerosene
lantern so that the preacher
could read scripture
On his way up, the cat
knocked the lantern down. He
tore into the roof, scattering
dead mesquite leaves like con-
fetti The lantern spilled fire on
Obbie’* other story is about
a different preacher, an elderly
evangelist who came every sum-
mer and always, to close his
protracted meeting, delivered
the finest sermon he had ever
prepared — The Wings of Gold.
People looked forward to that
special message and he was sort
of proud of it himself, adver-
tised it ahead — like a coming
attraction—with incidental ref-
erences and outright announce-
ments.
The climax of the sermon,
year after year, was an exhor-
tation with the rhetorical ques-
tion. "Don’t you hear them,
brethren — the Wings of Gold,
hovering over this tabernacle®
tonight"’ Don’t you hear them’”
It was almost too pat a coin-
cidence that a day or so before
the preacher was to give his
masterpiece one summer, the
back-bench boy who clothes-
pinned the cat and some other
boys of the same basic char-
acter found a buzzard who had
gorged itself on dead calf. Too
full to take to the air or run
fast, it was easily caught
(All right — you can antici-
pate the ending.)
After a period of digestion,
the buzzard was, of course, back
in flying condition and. just as
the old preacher, final night of
the revival, had the congrega-
uon listening for the golden
wings, the boy* ignited a kero-
sene-soaked ball of rag rug
strips which they had tied to the
buzzard's legs and released the
bird from the far side of a wag-
on parked by the arbor
The preacher had, at last, a
startling answer to his annual
question. A loud, mad flapping
of wing* right over the roof
made the congregation scream
"Yes." Nobody was more as-
tonished. maybe terrified, than
the evangelist, particularly
since the noise was accompanied
by the distinct smell of singed
feathers, which might have
meant a different spirit from
the one invoked When he and
the congregation ran outside,
the mystery was more amazing.
A strange light bobbing over the
mesquite tops yonder, dimly re-
vealing, to sharper eyes than
those of most of the elderly peo-
ple present, what looked like a
scorched buzzard.
Obbie says there are still old
folks around who never learned
the truth of that night, still con-
sider it the greatest religious
experience of a lifetime of brush
arbor meetings
Tomorrow’s columnist:
Weatherman Sitchler.
Probab
Marilyn Told wey
Of Trouble rt
With Sleep he
By JAMES BACON
AP Movie-Television Writer
HOLLYWOOD (APi — Marilyn
Monroe, no stranger to psychiat-
ric treatment, called her psychi-
atrist Thursday night—only hour*
before she died.
Detective Sgt. R. E. Byron, first
police officer on the scene, added
that Dr. Ralph Greenson had ad-
vised the glamorous movie queen
to take a ride, to the beach.
"DP. Greenson said Marilyn had
called him about 5:15 p.m. and
told him she was having trouble
sleeping," Byron said.
Police estimated that Marilyn
died shortly after she retired for
the night at 8 p.m The police
were notified of her death at 4:20
a.m. by Dr. Hyman Engelberg.
Byron said Miss Monroe spent
most of the day at home Satur-
day.
The last person she spoke to was
Eunice Murray, her housekeeper.
Byron said Mrs. Murray said
that Marilyn talked about her
conversation with the psychiatrist.
"She said she didn't think she
would take a rule to the beach
but might take a ride nearby if
she couldn't sleep," Byron said.
Then she went into her room
with a cheerful. “Good night, hon-
ey” to Mrs Murray.
The housekeeper said she no-
ticed nothing unusual about her
condition and thought nothing
about her early retirement
“I went to bed at midnight and
I noticed that the light was still
on in Marilyn s bedroom but I
didn't think that unusual," the de-
tective quoted the housekeeper as
saying.
But the housekeeper awakened
at 3 a.m. and became concerned
when she saw the light still on in
the bedroom. She tried the door
but it was locked
"Somehow, it didn't seem right.
It seemed strange and unusual."
the housekeeper said. "I went out-
side and looked in the window and
saw Miss Monroe lying on the
bed That's when I called Dr.
Greenson." ____"
Greenson arrived in a few min-
a
uicide
Autopsy Results
Not Conclusive
By BOB THOMAS
AP Movie Television Writer
HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Blonde
and beautiful Marilyn Monroe, a
glamorous symbol of the gay, ex-
citing life of Hollywood, died
tragically Sunday.
Her body was found nude in
bed, a probable suicide. She was
36.
The long-troubled star clutched
a telephone in one hand. An emp-
ty bottle of sleeping pills was
nearby.
Miss Monroe, fired from her
last movie, had been in seclusion
A coroner’s representative said an
early investigation indicated sui-
cide.
Shortly thereafter, an autopsy
was held, but county Coroner
Theodore Curphey said results
were inconclusive.
"We do know it was not a natur-
al death,” he said, “but further
tests will have to be made."
He said it might take several
days before it could be determined
how she died.
Miss Monroe's attorney, Milton
Ruden, appeared at the home and
said he had spoken to her Friday
for weeks at her rambling Span- ...
ish-style bungalow in Brentwood, night to discuss a meeting Mon-
At midnight her housekeeper, Eu- day.
nice Murray, noticed a light in
the actress' bedroom.
In Good Spirits
"She seemed in good enough
The light was still on at 3 a.m., spirits," he said. “Naturally she
CURVY DISPLAY - Marilyn'
Monroe displayed her curves
at a charity show in New York
in 1955. (AP Wirephoto)
103 Hoflesf
In 3 Years
Think it was hot in Abilene
ENTERTAINING TROOPS — Marilyn Monroe, 36,
shown entertaining U.S. troops in Korea in 1954, was
found dead Sunday in her home in Brentwood, a Los
Angeles suburb. (AP Wirephoto)
and Mrs. Murray got no answer felt very bad that she was not Sunday? It was, with the temper-
when she called to her mistress able to finish the movie, ‘Some- ature reaching a sizzling 103 de-
grees at the Municipal Airport
and knocked on the door. It was thing's Got to Give.’
weather station, the hottest tem-
locked. Alarmed, she called Miss “We were still negotiating to re-
Monroes physician. Dr. Ralph sume the picture and she was perature here in nearly three
happy about that possibility,” years.
The actress had been depressed Max Durrett, meteorologist
He arrived and broke a bed- since she was fired from the mm technician at the weather bureau,
room window with a fireplace in June by the studio where she said Sunday L reading was the
poker. He entered the room and rose 10 fame, 20th Century-Fox ------------------
found Miss Monroe in bed, face.
down. He said later she appeared d _______.__________
to be dead, buthe called another had performed a nude swimming secutive day that Abilene swel-
physician. Dr. Hyman Engelberg. 1---■ — * -1- *--4---
The latter pronounced her dead
and summoned police at 4:20
By BEN F. MEYER that Peru would join the United a.m.------
WASHINGTON (AP) - The States and other American repub- They told police Sgt. Joseph claimed she was malingering. She
president of Peru's military gov- lies in any new action against the Clemens that she was in bed nude, said been I. Arriving
ernment junta, Gen. Ricardo Fidel Castro dictatorship in Cuba the covers pulled up to her neck late sometimes, by hours, was not
Perez Godoy, promised Sunday Gen. Perez Godoy said the old in her hand was a telephone, uncommon to Marilyn. She always
that Peru's 1963 presidential elec- friendship between Peru and the which was off the book. On the before had forgiven for
lions will be absolutely impartial United States is an "essential table next to the bed were numer- .___„
and that the winner will get the point" of the junta's policy of full ous bottles, including an empty
office. cooperation with other American container of nembutal, a drug to
republics in defense of “the prin- induce sleep.
ciples and values of democracy."! Police said no notes were
Impartial Peruvian
Election Promised
That point was mentioned by
President Kennedy at his news
conference last Wednesday as one
on which "clear assurances " are
desired before the United States
recognizes the Peruvian regime
which took power rather than ac-
cept the results of this year's
Greenson,
Breaks in
In a curious throwback to her
as a calendar girl, she
scene for the film.
The studio dismissed her and
sued for $2 million damages. It
Possible Resumption
In recent weeks there had been
reports the film might resume,
found, with Miss Monroe playing oppo-
-----site Paul Newman. Her original
hottest since the mercury reached
105 degrees here on Aug. 30. 1959.
Sunday marked the second con-
tered in 100 plus temperatures.
The high Saturday was 102 de-
grees.
More of the same is forecast for
Monday and Tuesday. Durrett
said, with highs expected to range
from 100 to 105 degrees. Low Mon-
FAST ACTION SOUGHT
Finkbines to See
day night will be from 75 to 80
degrees.
Abilene was not alone in the
heat wave. Mrs. Pearl Witt in
Ballinger reported a high of 109%
degrees, the highest reading there
in several years.
Snyder recorded an unofficial
high of 106 degrees and the mer-
cury stood at 103 degrees as lata
as 6:20 p.m. Sunday. Among other
points reporting 100 plus tempera-
tures were San Angelo, 107 and
Waco, 103.
costar, Dean Martin, was unavail-
able.
No word came from Miss Mon-
roe during the stormy weeks fol-
lowing her firing.
Her sole appearance in print
was a Ufa magazine article last
week. She didn't discuss the con-
tract dispute, but she did reveal
some of her inner turmoil.
Of the stresses of fame she
said: "Everybody is always tug-
ging at you. They'd all like sort
voting.
The viewpoints of Gen. Perez
Godoy were expressed in cabled
replies to questions submitted by
a correspondent in Washington.
In addition to his comments
on election plans, Perez Godoy
pledged a clean government i*
Peru, operating on a balanced
utes and took a poker from the budget, announced the junta’s
"-=1— * ■—— * -1— * readiness to join other hemisphere
Marilyn's bedroom window, nations in collective action against
Communist' penetration, and of-the drug thalidomide,
fered continuing friendship to the "I am hoping and praying that
United States and the other West- the Swedish medical men will be thing to give birth to a baby that u ____
ern democracies able to help me quickly," said might be deformed.” soheadded: Fame was a spec.
Diplomatic observer* here spec- Mrs. Finkbine. 30. who failed to Mrs. Finkbine, star of a Phoe- lal burden, which 1 might as well
ulated the general’s statements get approval for an abortion from nix children's television program, state, here and.now. .don t mind
might help clear the atmosphere a court in her home state of fears her expected child might be being burdened with being glam-
for U.S. recognition of the junta Arizona, born with a deformation because orouss and sexual. But what goes
government U.S. officials ex- With her schoolteacher husband, she took thalidomide in the early can be a burden .
pressed keen interest in the re-Robert, the attractive brunette stage* of her pregnancy Thalido-eeminE ue was, marked
plies but withheld comment until flew into Stockholm from Copen-mide is blamed for thousands of mauspiciousty A coroner’s repre
they could be studied in detail, hagen after a transpolar flight armless and legless babies born sentative covered her slim, body
U.S. aid to Peru was cut off soon from Los Angeles. ( - -----------+ with a simple rattan Hlamtket
after the junta seized power. They announced that they will The Arizona court refused the
Perez Godoy stressed the junta see a Swedish doctor Monday in Finkbines’ appeal for a legal abor- . a r
i* strongly anti-Communist said the first step of a complicated tion. because the only ground on a mortuary in meary
the Communist party would not procedure to obtain medical sanc-which it could be granted would wood Village, and later her body
be allowed to participate in Peru’s tion to abort her pregnancy of be if the mother’s Ufa were in See MARILYN, Pg. 2-A, Cols. 3.4
elections next June 9 because the nearly three months_________danger.___I —-- ---------
constitution of Peru forbids it. ! "We hope not to have to wait'
The junta, he said, "complying but if necessary we will do it.”
with Peru’s international obliga- Mrs. Finkbine said “We know
. u tions, is ready 10 take part in col- there is no 100 per cent certainty
atomic testing north, designed among other lective continentalcaction against of being eranted an abortion here
Swedish Doctor
WEATHER
fireplace. He broke the glass to
STOCKHOLM. Sweden (AP) -
Tired and weary - eyed. Sherri
Finkbine came to Sweden on Sun-
day to seek abortion of the baby
she fears may be deformed by
reached in and unlocked the latch.
Greenson told Byron that he
found Miss Monroe lying face
down with covers tucked around
her shoulders. A telephone was in
her hand.
know," he said. “I am a teacher
and my economic situation is not of a chunk of you. They kind of
too good" like to take pieces out of you. I
Finkbine said he respect* the don’t think they realize it, but it’s
views of those who object to abor- li e grrr do this, grrr do that.
tion, but said he and lu* wife But you do want to stay intact--
"consider it an entirely wrong ^ 00 two feet •
Fame a Burden
V. •. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
(Weather Map, Page 12-A)
ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius 40
Miles) - Clear to partly cloudy and hot
through Tuesday High both days 100 to
105, low Monday night 75 to 80
NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHE AST
TEXAS Fair and hot Monday and Tues-
day High Monday 98-106
NORTHWEST TEXAS Clear to cloudy
Monday and Tuesday Not as warm north-
ern Panhandle Tuesday High Monday 98-
106
SOUTHWEST TEXAS Clear to eloudy
and hot Monday and Tuesday. High Mon-
day 100-108
TEMPERATURES
Soviets Make
luclear Test
UPPSALA, Sweden 'API - The Recordings at the institute in-kicked off a new round of Soviet
Soviet Union exploded a big nu-dicated the test was carried out military maneuvers in the far
clear bomb high in the atmos-
phere Sunday.
Swedish scientists estimated it
tn be in the 40-metagon range,
second only to the Soviet 50-ton
bomb set off last fall. A Norwegi-
an scientist said hi* instruments
showed only that it was smaller
at the Soviet
ground on the island of Novaya things to test new nuclear weap- any form of Communist penetra-
Zemlya, in Siberia, about 1.350 ons t -
miles east of Uppsala The Soviet Foreign Ministry re -
fused to comment on the report |THIEVES TAKE
tion." It seemed clear he means
1
dllIOD OII D *tARO APAPEE fan a i A
in Europe, Australia and Canada with a simple blue cotton blanket
- and put it in the cargo space of
They announced that they will The Arizona court refused the
his blue station wagon He drove
3
High
5.56
24-hours ending •
date last year: 95
1 11. sunrise todays
»"( ,m: 22.00.
Kennedy Su|
rts Changes
In Washington, the State De-
partment deplored Soviet resump-
tion of atmospheric testing as a of • new test, and
"somber episode." In Japan, only blanketed the military maneuvers
than that one and U.S. officials nation to feel the wrath of an in the Aretjc circle The Soviet
would say only that it was "in atomic bomb in wartime, a gov government announced two weeks
the megaton range." • ernment spokesman said the new government announced two rek
The blast was estimated to be Soviet testing "i* regrettable for
world peace.”
tight security TRANSMISSION
of being granted an abortion here
but at least we think we will • gm q . IAA
get a fair judgement on reason Ir rmsc ( AHEMOI encurA
- able medical and not moral | I LTUS OTTTON IV1WOCS W
grounds and after all several w
American doctors have strongly
in the 20-megaton range by the
Japanese Meteorological Agency.
Whatever the size, the blast
carried out Premier Khrushchev's
threat to resume testing in retal-
iation for U.S. Pacific tests.
Uppsala University’s Seismolog-
ical Institute, which classed the
blast as in the range of 40 million
tons of TNT, said it occurred at
a higher altitude than the Sovi-
et series of 1961, which was cli-
maxed by the superbomb
ago, however, that land, sea and
air maneuvers would begin Sun-
The big blast appeared to have
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Amusements ............ 2
Sports ..............4. 5
Editorials ..............6
TV Scout ..............7
Comics ....... •
Radie-TV logs ...... 11
day.
The Soviet Defense Ministry
said the troops would “conduct
maneuvers with the actual use of
various types of modern weap-
ons."
Western military experts said
new tactical weapons would prob-
ably be tried out under battlefield
conditions during the 11-week per-
iod. a* well as a series of experi-
mental nuclear blasts.
Aubrey M Blalock of 3119
Avenue T. Snyder, reported
while he was attending serv-
ice* at the Calvary Baptist
Church Sunday evening some-
one stole the transmission
from his 1965 Chevrolet, which
was parked in the parking lot
just east of the church
Blalock told police that the
theft occurred between 6:30
and 9:30 pm.
J. H Maynard 1836 S 3rd.
reported his house burglarized
between 10 30 a.m Saturday
and 0 30 pm. Sunday. About
*50 was taken, he reported
By CORNELIUS F. HURLEY it could remove a drug such as of great concern. __.. .
HYANNIS PORT. Mass (AP) thalidomide from the market. He said the amendments ne
once it had been licensed, proposed, along with improve-
Thalidomide now blamed ferments in existing law the Judi-
supported our case "
Mrs. Finkbine retired at a
Stockholm hotel and slept several —President Kennedy is backing a
hours. Merc husband caccompan ed drug contrO Om 0° give the deformation of thousandsof ba- ciary Committee already has ag
D more than an government greater power to re h-es born in Europe never was proved "will help assure the
Finkhine criticized the move unsafe or ineffectual drugs licensed in the United States. American people that any drug on
publicity that has been given their from the market, the summer The President Saturday ar the market tedav isiafeardef:
After reports that they White House disclosed Sunday, proved award of a gold medal fective for its intended use:
would seek an abortion abroad, he White House press secretary and citation to Dr Frances £ i has the streneti the d quality
said "some crank I don't know Pierre Salinger announced that Kelsey, the medical officer of the represented: that the promotion
whobooked tickets in their the amendments, covering 25 pag- Food and Drug Administration material tells the.fuml somviakout
name for Sweden on Friday, a es of text, were sent to Sen who refused approval ofJha lido-
day before they actually arranged James 0. Eastland, D-Miss., mide for human use in this coun-
for passage
chairman of a judiciary subcom-try.
The President said in a letter
the drug-its possible bad effect#
as well as the good—and the
whole truth about its therapeutic
He said a friend of the family mittee which now has the bill --------.
paid for their trip and their four Under present law the govern- to Eastland that protection of the
children are staytag with grand- ment would have had to go to American people against unsafe
parents in the States. “You court and establish a case before and worthless drugs 1* a source
paid for their trip and their four
usefulness: and that it was pro-
duced in carefully inspected drug
establishments under adequate
manufacturing controls"
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