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82ND YEAR, NO. 113
ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1962 —SIXTY PAGES IN FIVE SECTIONS
Associated Press (PP)
Walker Due Release
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Inder Reduced Bail
AND HE DIDN'T GET A SCRATCH — Tom Johnson, 18, a freshman at McMur-
ry College, crawls back into his 1957 Ch evrolet to get his belongings. Minutes be-
fore, he had crawled out of the car uninjured after it turned over and skidded 75
feet down the highway on its top. The accident occurred about 2:45 p.m. Saturday
at the intersection of S. 7th and Winters Freeway when Johnson swerved to
avoid a collision. (Staff Photo by Jack Sheridan) .
McMurry Given -
miles) —
through M
$100,000 Cash
T E north Su nd
WEATHER
T OF COMMERCE
Bl REAU
Three Killed
In Viet Nam
'Copler Crash
DA NANG, Viet Nam (AP) -
A U.S. Marine helicopter as-
signed to a raid on a suspected
Viet Cong hideout crashed Satur-
day in the jungle-covered moun-
tains of central Viet Nam and
three American servicemen were
killed. Five others were injured
Will Undergo
Mental Test
OXFORD. Miss. (AP) — A U.S. here includes a statement by Dr.
A $100,000 cash gift to McMurry same institution. They have long showers’
College by Mr. and Mrs. 0. H. been interested in philanthropic 85UTM
work, having donated *70.000 to cloudy u
Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch at Tas- 80s.
, near Amarillo They gave Saturday
dius 40 seriously.
neami About 300 Vietnamese govern-
ment troops had landed for the
n um-raid.
in sun. The crash brought to 17 the
> partly number of American servicemen
cooler killed in action in Viet Nam
Partly since the United States launched’
Sunder its current program of support for
Finch of Dalhart was announced
Saturday by Dr Gordon Bennett, cosa
McMurry president. $30,000 to build a parsonage for
r TEXAS — Clear to part!
h Monday. High Sunday il
EMPERATURES
Saturday p.m
The gift is a part of the current their Methodist church in Dalhart.
*32 million United Capital Funds Mr. Finch has been a member
for Texas Methodist Higher Edu-of the McMurry College Board of
cation campaign. The gift is un-Trustees for more than 20 years,
restricted. .., . “He rarely ever misses a board
This is one, of the largest gifts meeting,” Dr. Bennett said,
we have received in the United, He is also a member of the p.
Capital Funds, campaign and the Northwest Texas Conference 78
largest cash gift. Dr. Bennett board of directors for the *32 mil-6:
said. It actually will be made lion campaign
final immediately after Jan. 1, the =
president said.
The Finches are longtime | LL
friends of McMurry College nd NOMTnAGST OTPUCK
their past gifts to the college total ■ 1tA Avuet RE & A eTUAs
more than $100,000.
"This particular gift is the re-
sult of a longtime interest by the
Finches in McMurry College.” Dr.
Bennett said. He said they con-
tributed the first $25,000 and the
I-hours ending
date last x
7; sunrise tod
President Ngo Dinh Diem's em-
n battled armed forces last Decem-
ber.
It remained to be determined
whether engine failure or Com-
munist guerrilla gunfire brought
down the helicopter, one of 20
sent into the operation by the Ma-
rine Corps 163rd Squadron from
this city on the South China Sea
350 miles northeast of Saigon.
Heavy rain and rugged terrain
impeded rescue operations. But a
. ground party from Quang Ngai,
a coastal town 80 miles south of
Na Dang, was reported to have
reached the site in late afternoon
to shift the casulaties to a point
where flying ambulances could
REPRESENTATIVE OTTO PASSMAN
.. , attends session in wheel chair
Foreign Aid
Bill Passes
court order cleared the way late Charles E Smith, medical direc-
Saturday for former Maj Gen. tor and chief psychiatrist of the
Edwin A. Walker to be released :
on bond from the federal prison Bureau of Prisons, including this
and medical center at Springfield, comment:
Mo “Some of his described behav-
However, Walker still must un- ior reflects . . essentially un-
dergo psychiatric examination to predictable and seemingly bizarre
determine whether he is insane, outbursts of the types often ob-
and also whether he is competent served in individuals suffering
to assist in his defense on charges with paranoid mental disorders
of seditious conspiracy and insur- Dr. Smith s statement also said
rection Walker’s past record suggested
‘ Witnesses have said Walker led functional and psychosomatic
one of the charges by rioters disorders.”
against deputy U.S. marshals dur- In an affidavit. Smith also said,
ing a bloody outbreak on the Uni-"I have examined carefully van-
versity of Mississippi campus last ous. news reports concerning Gen.
Sunday night Walker's actions and behavior in-
His attorneys denied he had led cluding. . - news reports of his
charge appearances on the University 'of
The Texan, who had command- See WALKER, Pg. 7-.A, Col. 4
ed troops who enforced desegrega---—
tion of Little Rock schools in ...
[1957. was arrested Monday at a AT BALLINGER
military roadblock on the out-
skirts of Oxford
He waived preliminary hearing
on the conspiracy and insurrection
charges and later was transferred
to the Springfield. Mo., Medical
Center for psychiatric examina-
tion.
The order signed by U.S. Dist.
Cash Wins
Horseshoe
Judge Claud Clayton requires
Walker, within five days of his
release, to report to Dr Robert
By JOHN BECKLER jhave to find that U.S. assistance Stubblefield, chief psychiatrist of
WASHINGTON (AP)—Congress is in the best interest of national the Southvest Medical Center
took a big stride toward adjourn- security. . . Dallas, Tex.
The helicopter carried a three ment Saturday with House pas- Again, if he finds it in the na- It specifies that Walker is to be
Title Till
BALLINGER (RNS) - J.
W Cash of Gainesville won
the state horseshoe pitching
tournament here Saturday.
Marvin E. Burgess, cham-
pion last year, was runner-up.
The championship was de-
cided in a play-off between
the two.
The nine entries started
competition at 2 p.m. Satur-
day. ending the day with a
playoff at 9 p.m.
Cash and Burgess were first
in the doubles play. Edgar
Bloom and John Barwell, both
of Wichita Falls, were sec-
ond
The Texas Horseshoe Pitch-
ing Tournament Assn, elected
officers following the compe-
tition. with Burgess being
elected president.
Cash was chosen first vice
president and Barwell was
second vice president. Matt
Bowers was elected secretary-
treasurer.
B. E. Sipple of Houston was
selected president emeritus.
The group also decided that
the five officers should select
the date and time of the next
meet.
man anas008 tree sage of a $3.9-billion foreign aid tional interest, he can provide examined by Dr. Stubblefield and
crewaia maintenance team money bill.economic aid 10 Poland and Yu another psychiatrist to he select-
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This was the third U.S. heli- this unusual Saturday session by Passman's injury forced him to Judge Clayton reduced the bond
.....a _.operated from a wheelchair. abandon the usual acrobatic move- set for Walker from $100,000 to
rain Saturday, which lashed southern New Eng- in 24 hours. The other two were .ments that punctuate his oratory. $50,000 and said the bond could
hit Friday in an operation in the Passman fractured his upper A specially rigged microphone be filed with any U.S. commis-
Mekong River delta, south of Sai-left arm and shoulder in a fall was beside his wheelchair, a doc- sinner.
gon, and an Army helicopter gun- in his office Friday and he ap-tor hovered nearby and there was Clyde J Watts, attorney for
ner. Sp.5 Richard L. K. Ellis of peared with the arm strapped a committee aide at his side Walker, said the former general’s
Honolulu, was killed, lightly across his chest. His per- A colleague, Rep. Dale Alford, mother was prepared to deposit
Another helicopter gunner was formance, hailed by Speaker John D-Ark., said the Louisianan put more than $50,000 in securities
shot through a hand. W. McCormack, D-Mass., as "one off treatment and did without with the commissioner in San An-
------—---------------------of the greatest exhibitions of dedi- pain-killing medication in order to tonio. He indicated that represen-
cated service I have ever seen, present the bill to the House. tatives of the general could quali-
overshadowed the final debate on "His shoulder is in four pieces," fy in Springfield, Mo., also,
the bill. . Alford said. "He is in real pain." The terms of the order were
Despite the importance of the As Passman was wheeled out to agreed on during lengthy confer-
measure under consideration, 157 return to Bethesda Naval Hospital prices Saturday between Walker’s
House members stayed away. The the House gave him a standing attorneys and U.S. Atty. II M.
Senate will act on the bill next ovation. Ray. There
week. The House interrupted debate to court over any of the terms.
Passman, 62, long a critic of pay tribute also to Rep. John W. Walker, accused of urging on
Whitaker 72 o( Rt 1 Eastland heavy foreign aid spending, as- Taber, R-N.Y., who is retiring aft- rioting groups at the University
water.n died at 750 am Saturday in and’ SIS ted in chopping *1.1 billion er 40 years in the House. Ap- of Mississippi last Sunday, was
In Boston, the rain sent a flood aleehat 5am Saturday in Hen-from the measure when it was plause thundered in the ears of arrested Monday and ordered
cascading down the steps of the Memorial Hospital of in-before his House Appropriations the 82-year-old ranking Republi- committed to the Springfield in-
Kenmore Square Station, which S ved 2" . a two-car colli-1 subcommittee earl ier this session. can on the Appropriations Com-Istitution for examination before
was flooded to a depth of eight sion in Abilene Friday morning.
By Flash Floods
BOSTON (AP) — A northeast At least seven traffic deaths
last $25,000 in the college's build- । ।___
ing and expansion campaigns of storm drenched New England were attributed to the storm copter downed in Viet Nam with-
1955 and 1957 which resulted in with torrential
the building of the Harold G. flooding highways and disrupting land with particular fury.
Cooke Classroom Building and the transportation and power service
William C. Martin Dormitory.
More than seven inches of rain
in many sections. . was reported at Providence, R.I.,
As communities were trying to
liberal in our annual sustentation mop up, the Weather Bureau is- an“ four to five inches were com-
program giving and have partici- sued a hurricane watch for the mon in eastern Massachusetts and
pated in every major campaign Maine coastline. I Rhode Island.
“The Finches have been very
andedrive put on by or for Mc- The warning told Maine resi- One of the dead was Frederic
Murry College since 1940.” Dr dents that Hurricane Daisy was J. Delany, 41 Rutland Vt law-
Bennett said, expected to move northward into yer and the Democratic nominee
The Finches’ interest in and the Bay of Fundy by Sunday for lieutenant governor of Ver-
around Dalhart are largely ranch night. With the approach of the mont.
ing, but Mr. Finch is vice presi- storm, the bureau said, there will The rain flooded thousands of
dent and chairman of the board be increasing easterly to north- streets in New England cities and
of a bank in Dalhart and is im-easterly winds up to 40 miles per
mediate past president of the hour.
East Berliners
Halt Ambulance
By CARI. RARTMAN
towns when fallen leaves clogged
catch basins, or when drains
proved inadequate to carry off the
Auto Wreck
Victim Dies
EASTLAND (RNS) - Homer
can on the Appropriations Com-stitution for examination before
A House-Senate conference com- mittee as he shuffled slowly up he had made bond. He was taken
Mrs. Whitaker, also injured in mittee restored $300 million — a the aisle, hack to his seat, after there Tuesday.
the wreck, was reported in good sum small enough to put Pass- making his final speech. 1 The court record on Walker!
condition at the hospital Saturday, man behind the measure Sat- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
She was in serious condition when urday. _ _
admitted to the hospital Friday. Still, Passman feels there is T I
Mr Whitaker was born April waste and extravagence in the a 1 v f
ford. Passengers were transferred 29, 1892 He moved to Eastland program and he was moved to JASIDGENY NAITFOE9 UEUCCE
to buses for the trip into town. County in 1929 He was married observe bitingly: “Even though I AHEWC EHERCSE Se ■ 1-ptSA
The New Haven Railroad’s Back to Lucy Hood Dec. 23. 1912. and am in pain, I question whether • S *
For Votes on Fast Tour
feet, blocking service on lines to
west of the downtown Boston
area.
The Boston and Maine Railroad
yards were flooded, forcing com-
muter trains to halt at West Med-
agreement to move freely in all
■ BERLIN (AP) — East German Berlin. They do not recognize the
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police shot down a West Berlin East German regime 8 existence. Bay Station was flooded, and pas- was a member of the Church of I'm in as much pain as the 187
tunnel digger Saturday and then much less its right to stop West- sengers were shuttled to South Christ
prevented a British officer and ern military movements. Sensers were Shumled 10 South onL -
two ambulances from giving him
million Americans who have to
medical aid on the East side of
the wall.
By barring a British army am-
bulance which attempted to go to
the man's assistance from Check,
point Charlie and by preventing
the British officer from getting
closer than too yards to the spot,
East German authorities chal-
lenged the right of the Western
powers to move freely in this di-
vided city.
U.S. Army sedans were kept at
the same distance.
A West Berlin Red Cross ambu-
lance also was prevented from
going to the scene from another
crossing point in Berlin’s wall.
Hours after the incident it was
not known in West Berlin whether
the man was alive or had died
of his wounds One West Berlin
police source said he was hit by
a burst of tommygun fire and
probably was dead.
American, British and French
authorities immediately got in
touch with their capitals to see
The incident began just before
Station. Mr. Whitaker was the 12th traf- foot the bill for this program.”
The Metropolitan Transit Au- fic fatality in Abilene this year. The allocation of *3.928.900.000
i Funeral will be held at 10 a.m. for economic development loans
7 a.m. when East German police thority had to call for police boats --------—- — — ,„. ccuuvaau. ........--------.
shot a West Berliner helping East to rescue passengers from a rapid Monday in the Hamner Funeral and grants and military assist
German refugees escape through transit train caught in floor-deep Home Chapel. Burial will be in ance abroad drew the support of
a tunnel. | water in Brookline.
His name was being kept se- -----
cret. A fellow tunnel digger said
he was 21 years old, married and Comminnict Threat
known as "Brille" (Spectacles). ComuATSI Iniedl
Brille and a friend were in the
apartment of a tailor, at the East!
Berlin end of the tunnel, waiting
Eastland Cemetery.
117 Democrats and 54 Republi-
Surviving are his wife; one son, cans. Voting against it were 50
Alvin of Big Spring: three daugh-
and St. Paul. Minn and a “bean put money into the farmer's pock.
EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT feed rally Saturday night 1 et. into his family budget and into
An estimated 5.000 to 6.000 per- the cash registers on main street
By DOUGLAS CORNELL
ters. Mrs Carl Numley of Odes-
sa. Mrs H. B. Coker of Mountain
Democrats and 58 Republicans.
The aid money is included in a
M s 1 • * Home, Idaho, and Mrs. Russell
Smith of Wichita Falls: one broth
- F . PIPY er Harold Whitaker of Harrison,
for a group of refugees. The door- NICOSIA Corrure (Ap) Ark. and five grandchildren
bell rang with the expected signal NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Inter- -
— one short ring, one long, one ior Minister Polycarpos Yorgad- NEW INDEX
short. At the door were East Ger- jis, former leader of the Greek: NEWS INDEX
KENNEDY (AP)—President Ken- An estimated 5.000 to 6,000 per- the cash registers on main street
nedy carried a hard - punching sons greeted the President as he in the small towns of this and
campaign tour clear across Michi- stepped off his plane at the Min- other states
gan on Saturday, hooting at Re- neapolis-St. Paul airport Among Then in a kind of reversal of a
publicans who ignore the name them were Democratic candidates presidential campaign 10 years
what should he done to meet the ing orders reached the
challenge. The Western allies
claim the right under four-power See BERLIN, Pg. 2-A, Col. 1
man police. Brille was, shot. His Cypriot Eoka underground move----,
companion escaped through the ment, said Saturday Cypriot in- SECTION A
tinel tailor 52-year-old Siegfried dependence is being menaced by Obwuares
tallor 52.7 ear old Segtried communism SECTION B
-XVS some .me e^ bSnwire",^alina efithe ^"U. -
er. In their nightclothes, they got apa bed wire estivaane. three- Dyess Pictures .....
safely to the cellar of a closed-day celebration being held at a Editorials ........
down West Berlin bar—the start former British detention center Form News ......
ing point of a 27-inch, 185-foot where Greek Cypriots were held Radio-TV Log ......
long tunnel which nine men be-during the 1955-59 Cyprus rebel- TV Scout
gan to dig three weeks ago lion, he accused the Cyprus Com-
About an hour after the shoot- munist party, which he asserted
i British took no part in the liberation
struggle, of trying to enslave Cyp-| Sport,
rus to foreign interests. Church News
SECTION C
Women’s News
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catchall $6,278,962,000 appropria-
tion which includes, funds also for pusacem ... ..__________1------------------------: .
Cuban refugees, the Peace Corps and proclaiming over and over for Minnesota state offices, and ago. when the Republicans were
and Philippine war damage that votes for Democrats are the Republican governor. Elmer claiming there was a mess in
claims votes for progress.' L. Andersen. Washington and they had to clean
President Kennedy originally “Register and vote.” Kennedy Thousands lining sidewalks it up. Kennedy contended his ad-
asked *4.961.300.000 for foreign urged, “register and vote. Vote cheered and waved signs as Ken- ministration inherited a farm
aid. Then. Congress passed a bill Democratic." nedy traveled by motorcade to his mess And, he said, his secretary
setting a $4,754,800,000 ceiling on In hooting at Republicans who hotel in downtown Minneapolis A of agriculture from Minnesota,
aid spending, ignore the name, the President rocking chair was perched beside Orville t. Freeman, Chas been
In working out a compromise was picking up a theme from a “Welcome Jack" sign atop one cleaning up that mess
figure, the conferees toned down Gov. John B Swainson of Michi- roof. Crowds shouted and waved to
restrictions voted by the House on gan, who often has pointed out Kennedy had the usual plaudits Kennedy along the way on motor-
nations trading with Cuba and oth- that his GOP opponent, industrial- and plugs for Democratic politicos cade routes through parts of De
er Iron Curtain countries and on ist George Romney, does not use and political hopefuls in a speech troit and Flint and at an airport
assistance to Communist Poland the word 'Republican” on cam- prepared for the traditional bean raiiy in Muskego
and Yugoslavia, paign literature: feed rally. In a'way, this was 1960 all over
The bill passed would allow Kennedy hopped by helicopter He also swung over to the farm again - the crowds, the color,
Kennedy to waive the restriction across a Michigan countryside al- issue, with word that the Demo- the "let’s-get-the-country - mov-
on aid to allies whose ships sup-ready glowing with lavish touches cratic party has been true to the ing”. theme.
he vessels of autumn reds and yellows, from farmer and true to its word to He will be back again in 1964.
help him. _
In a way, this was 1960 all over
ply Cuba provided
He will be back again in 1964.
carry only economic supplies To Detroit, to Flint, to Muskegon, ncg -... .. ... ,__, cexveo C
T Then it was on to Minneapolis “We have,” he said, “helped Se KENNEDY, Pg. 7A, Cel. 1
do so, the President also would
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