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The Abilene «i
“WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
82ND YEAR. NO. 186
By Katharyn Duff
Its new president, Dr. Landes,
might like to know a mournful
fact that has just now come to
light about Hardin - Simmons
University.
The school had a sad begin-
ning. 1
That is learned in some fam- i
By notes set down by Mrs Hat- |
tie Harris of Canyon, daughter
of the late Gen. John Sayles.
Gen. John, who started out
in Texas in Sam Houston's time |
and who brought his clan to Abi-
lene when it was a tent town. |
was quite a fellow 'He was the
great-grandfather of the present
day C. M . Hal. Jack, Bobby,
et al.)
Gen John helped found Bay- I
lor Law School, was one of the
state’s ablest and most prolific |
writers on Texas law, was I
Grand Master of the Texas
ABILENE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MORN nsaVW
Routt’s
19, 1962—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
West
reg
NASS.AU, Bahamas
President Kennedy and British
Prune Minister .Harold Macmil-
lan began their talks Tuesday
with an unexpected focus of con-
cern over a possible new Soviet
threat in the Congo.
Associated Press UP)
Meet
4
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(AP)- and Kennedy. Your visit to Nas-with what Washington fears may conveyed the U.S. decision to UN.
sau will go down in history." be increased conflicts over Congo Secretary General U.Thant
But this was only a pleasant unification, informants reported. e usclosure evo surprise
respite from the discussions of
tough problems- confronting the
two leaders in the next two days.
among U.N. delegates there.
The informants said the deci- After an hour-long meeting be-
sion reached at the White House 1
The announcement that a U.S.
■ Even before the American and military mission was being sent
" British leaders met for an hour to the Congo came as a surprise.
1 in balmy December weather, U.S. The eight-man mission will be
1 official sources disclosed that led by Lt. Gen. Louis W. Tru-
3 Kennedy had decided to send a man of Kansas City, a cousin of
■ U.S. military mission to the Con-former President Harry S. Tru-
I go man.
1 U.S. officials were believed to The mission's task is to make
Monday came amid increasing
U.S. concern over some new bid
by the Soviet Union to establish
a power position in the central
African nation. These informants
would not exclude the possibility
that in an extreme crisis the
United States would consider put-
ting some American forces into
the Congo.
feel the Russians may move into an urgent survey of the needs of] in a coordinated move at U N
the Congo, particularly if the the United Nations forces in the]headquarters in New York, U.S.
persisting secession in Katanga Congo and their ability to deal]Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson
province brings about a collapse----------------------------------------
tween Stevenson and Thant, the
U.N. announced that at Thant’s
request the United States had
agreed to supply additional equip-
ment to the U.N. Congo force.
The amount and nature of the
equipment depends on the result
of the survey by the U.S. military
mission, which is due in New York
Wednesday en route to the Congo,
a U.N. spokesman said. Sources
in Nassau said the mission is ex-
pected to complete its survey be-
fore the year's end.
of the moderate Central Govern-
ment at Leopoldville.
The Soviet Union held a strong
hand in the Congo for a time
Grand Hedge andanauthority RANSOM SUPPLIED UNLOADED — Four Air Force men unload medical sup-
plies at Opalocka Air Field near Miami. The supplies flown to Miami are schedul- nana m the Congo for a time
ed to be traded for the release of 1.100 Bay of Pigs invasion prisoners held by when the Tate Patrice Lumumba
Fidel Castro in Cuba. IAP Wirephoto)
and writer on Masonic juris-
prudence. He was a general in
the War Between the States.
He was a believer in the new.
the first to try out such gadgets |
as the typewriter, dishwasher,
sewing machine. That first sew-
ing machine caused trouble, his
daughter, Hattie, wrote down in
a collection of family tales.
John's wife tried it out on some
silk and when her dress was
chewed learned the machine was
designed for sewing leather
Gen. John had hobbies. Once
in pre-Abilene Brenham days
geese were his hobby One day
Pre-Christmas Release
Of Prisoners Possible
HAVANA 'API — Negotiators Pigs invasion could come about airport in Cuban security service
seeking to exchange food and soon—"God willing " Relatives in cars to the home Mrs. Barreto
medicine for 1,113 Cuban invasion Miami were hopeful the swap maintains here Donovan, an
his wife found some brandied * - Christmas tornev arranged the swap of U2 ine day was not all business new BUn
peaches ponied and three Tuedang EMT CXL Pime "Inletcanenn at der Num were Biig Franen Care Peer. For Kennedy dropped - on a cocktan submarines:
them out a e Sees feast in Minister Fidel Castro. There was told that she and the other four Russian spy Rudolph Abel.
i S " ear guarded optimism that the men had been summoned by Castro Also arriving were .Alvaro San-
to report geese so every: might be released by Christmas _ ranoric in Havana chez and Mrs. Virginia Betan-
body fell to picking the de-*
ceased birds for never a feather
went to waste
The goose-picking concluded
as the efforts of the brandy did
and the geese revived to naked-
ness, It was mid-winter so Gen.
Sayles, on bis return home, de-
creed a decree. Red flannel-
jackets were fashioned and un-
til springtime and a new crop
of feathers he had the best-
dressed geese in Texas.
Navigational Satellite
ruled as premier. Now remnant
leftist followers of Lumumba • DAS 1 I eg
threaten the Leopoldville govern-Aulanus
mor e katana and orer goes into IOlar VIDIC
Kennedy and Macmillan flew
missile aspute tnal Caniviaes them POINT ARGUELLO, Calif The satellite atop the rocket A spokesman called the launch-
and to strengthen the U.S.-British AP'—Creating a spectacular called Transit was ached
alliance in the cold war. The glow seen from San Francisco to four which by the end of 1963
Congo is a potential cold war San Diego, a Scout rocket shot should give ocean vessels any-
troubie spot, and is an area in aloft Tuesday night carrying a where in the world a quick fix
-cerinedBritain also is deeply con-satellite designed to become a on their positions in any kind of
at The day was not all business new guiding star for ships and weithe information will be of vital
ing a complete success.
At 8 p.m. PST. the spokesman
said tracking stations confirmed
at 7 p.m. PST that Transit 5A
had gone into orbit. He said ra
dio signals from the satellite were
coming in strong.
As the satellite rose into the
sky, light from the sun below the
horizon turned the rocket's con-
trail into beautiful shades of
of white, green and rose Winds
quickly distorted the rocket's ex-
haust into a series of rings.
Switchboards in Los Angeles,
about 120 miles southwest of
Point Arguello, and many other
cities were flooded with calls after
the glow tinted the skies.
In San Francisco, burning of
the rocket's third stage appeared
as a fireball in the sky just as
thousands of commuters were go-
The brilliance of the solid-fuel importance to Polaris-type sub-
rocket's contrail, reportedly ob- marines, which must know their
.....position precisely before missiles
can be launched.
Current methods of navigation
by the stars require clear skies.
Transit 5A's four-stage solid
fuel Scout booster was aimed
south toward an orbit around the
earth's poles.
party for members of the press
at Lyford Cay, a real estate de- . , , -
velopment where the two are served as far east as Utah, was
might be released by Christmas Brief press reports in Havana chez and Mrs. Virginia Betan- holding their conferences. He----"----′ ′ afmoenherie randi-
A four member negotiating team newspapers said the team had ar-court, officials of the Cubanam stayed about 10 minutes but
headed by James B. Donovan of rived to continue conversations lies Committee composed of drank nothing
New York arrived earlier in the with the revolutionary government prisoners relatives,
day from Miami,' Fla. on reparations payments for ma- Relatives in Cuba we, a jubilant.
Mrs. Berta. Barreto, a negoti-terial damage caused through last They heard over U.S. and Cuban
ator. told a reporter shortly after year’s frustrated mercenary inva- radio that an American freighter
arriving that the exchange for the sion." was ready to deliver food and
prisoners captured in the Bay of The four were whisked from the medicine in exchange for the cap-
-------------— tives taken in the ill-fated April
Time Dwindling;
Then there was the incident in gh ra A me O W 1
the life of Hardin - Simmons % kJ J V AAriant
which has been preserved in eoAoC I euttt
Mrs Harris’ writings. T "
It was on July 4. 1891. that Good people became Goodfel- that many of these can be proper
Gen Sayles — and everybody lows Tuesday by contributing ly checked to determine actual
else in town and nearabouts $954.67 to finance clothing, food need before Christmas.
gathered out in a pasture nort ;ind children’s toys for the less Could you please help us with
fortunates of Abilene But at that some food and clothing so we can
rate it will be Christmas weekend have a Christmas too,” writes one
before the $12,052 Goodfellow bud- youngster. "My daddy is ill and
get is reached, we can’t afford too much because
With contributions now at $9.-we have to pay the hospital bill
of Abilene for- a great event.
It was a day of picnic, potato
salad, pickles and beef roasted
in the open. There were speech-
es, celebration — and the lay-
ing of the cornerstone for the
first building for Simmons Col-
lege
Presbyterian Gen. John
helped welcome higher educa-
tion to Abilene for he presided
as Masons performed the cor-
nerstone rites.
The stone was laid. Then the
General called for a song
Masons hesitated, thought,
conferred Then they started out
on the only song they could re-
call.
It was the funeral dirge.
One verse of the dirge was
all the General could take He
stopped his brethern to call for
more appropriate music for this
happy, and new, event
He couldn’t think of but one
song. So he led out in it.
And a brand new college in a
brand new land got off to a nos-
talgic start. The song, "Auld
Lang Syne."
J M Wigner Jr . 1141 High
land, says his family has a
Christmas puzzle.
The packages are around the
tree, marked for Martha. 14,
John. 10, Mell. 8.
Mell has added some signs to
his boxes: "Open me first,"
each now orders
Father Wigner is waiting to
see how Mell will open them all
“first.”
SHOPPING
DAYS LEFT
Christmas Seals Fight ir
1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
Castro demanded $62 million for
their freedom, and later agreed
to food and medicine valued by
him at $62 million.
If the prisoners are released,
they probably will be flown in
charter planes to Miami, Cuban
Familes Committee officials said
1962 TRAFFIC
Pedestrian
Macmillan turned up nearly two
hours later at a barbecue at the
Emerald Beach Hotel, drank beer
with members of the official par-
ties and listened to Calypso Count
Bernadino sing:
“Welcome, welcome, Macmillan
attributed to atmospheric condi-
tions. Heavy fog was rolling in
along the coast at the time of
the 5:26 p.m. launching, and mois-
ture in the air caused the torma-
lion of a giant circle of light in
the sky.
WEATHER
s. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
Brownwood's
123 08, another $2,928.92 is need- when my mother was there”
ed This is only typical of the many
The scrip for clothing has been hundreds received.
mailed Scrip for food will he The Goodfellow toy store at N.
imailed today. The toys — some 1st and Pine will remain open
new and many reconditioned by this week for parents to make
First Death
Testimony Closes
In Hoffa’s Trial
(Weather Map. Pg. 5-A)
ARLENFAND MICNITY (Radius • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—The ness stand and the defense an-
nders seanered rainy weamee protracted conspiracy trial of nounced it was through,
shears. 2. weanesa.3 Teamsters Union president James in an unexpected maneuver.
ENTRAL TEXAS Consider R Hoffa moved ahead in a sud- government attorney James F
i^^ffl den burst of speed Tuesday and *4 0
M.sariya Thursday, Croler the judge said the case
ws. and Thursday Hieh reach the jury Friday.
ST TEXAS: Considerable _the
reasional licht rain or show. Closing arguments and the
“Wednesaae st’ss Thursday judge’s traditional charge remain
hi
Tues a m.
59
ing home.
It burst after putting on a three-
minute show, reappeared, and
then vanished, leaving a whirling,
snake-like trail. <
Should Neal said the prosecution would
forego rebuttal testimony. This
caught the court by surprise
“I’m almost shocked. " Miller
loudy before the jury of seven men and said after a moment of silence.
. .. . .,. — —what should we do next?
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6 Days to Christmas
call OR 3-4271 or
and Thursday with considera-l before me jury ui•
and near the coast Wednes-five women begin their delibera-
weanematy 8 7 Tort" Ra tions. The trial began Oct 22.
TEMPERATURES Hoffa is charged with conspir
ing to violate the Taft Hartley Act
by accepting payoffs from a
Michigan transport firm as
bribe for labor peace If convict | sing procedural matters.
ed on the two-count indictment, Miller said each side would be
he could get a maximum sen- allotted 34 hours for closing argu-
tence of two years in prison and merits, with the government start-
20.000 fine ing its summation on Wednesday
"The case should get to the Since Miller holds court only four
jurv on Friday." Federal District hours a day, the defense probab-
Judge William E Miller said aft.jly won’t begin its final arguments
er Hoffa had stepped from the wit-luntil Thursday.
Tues . p.m
firemen and other volunteers — selection of the toys for the needy BROWNWOOD RNS' —
are being distributed All that is children More than 300 families Brownwood’s first 1962 traffic
being done on faith that Abilene have been sent clothing scrip and fatality Tuesday night — just 13
people can help take care of their some 500 families are eligible for days before the end of the year
own food scrip which will be mailed — took the life of the Rev. Robert nieht 5:57; sunrise today:
Although the deadline for mail-out Wednesday Leaders said E English, 80, of Brownwood 7:251 Sunset tomame: s n
ing requests for help was Satur- there is still time to mail in do- He died only minutes after Ruan P.m “as per tend"
day midnight, stacks of mail nations. Gifts may be sent to the being taken to a hospital after
continue to arrive It is unlikely Reporter - News. bei ng st ruck by a car in down AC IN TUE PACT
---town Brownwood AD IN
Police Sgt. Jack Needier said "
Rev English apparently stepped
off the curb into the path of the
5,00 vehicle. Raymond L. Roberson,
10.00 Brownwood Bulletin circulation
25.00 department employe, was the
25.00 driver of the vehicle, a Volks „, KATHARYN DUFF
10.00 wagen Reporter-News Assistant Editor
Roberson told officers he did The Democratic leadership.
7.80 not see Rev English until after congressional and White House.
15 00 the accident need not count on the Democratic
25 00 Needer said Roberson was go congressman from the 17th Texas
ing west on Center and that Rev. District. Omar Burleson of Anson.
750 English apparently was crossing for help on major Demo Adminis-
10.00 Center from north to south, tration proposals
100.00 Rev English, a retired Baptist .
2.50 minister was horn Oct 8 1882 not all. the headliners in the
■ He is survived by one son. Bob, legislative program expected to
40.00 in service in Germany; three be put by the Administration to
75.00Mr. and Mrs T. 0. Dunlap 5 00 daughters. Mrs A C Hutton and
5.00 Anoymous 5.00 Mrs J. S Bunnell, both of Brown
Mr. and Mrs F. W Harlow 5 00 wood and Mrs Luther Wright of
Gorman: nine grandchildren and
25.00 one great-grandchild.
5 00 His wife died May 21. 1962
GOODFELLOWS
Tuesday's contributions:
17th Troop Carrier Sq.
Dyess Air Force Base
Ethel Hollingshead
Mrs. L. H. Beckham
Western Chevrolet Co"
Ta Te Hi-Y Club
Mary & John O'Laughlin
Gary. Kim & Cherry
Manuel
W. A. Huffman
37.00
5.00
1000
50.00
10 00
S00
5.00
SOO
Class. Tye Methodist
Church
Mr & Mrs. Hoyt Ford
French M Robertson
St. Paul Gleaners Class
Mr & Mrs Val Byrom
Hallmark Standard Truck
Stop, Merkel
Mrs. Earl W. Jones
A. R. Forster
Mr & Mrs. Ishmael
1.00 Dodgen
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. David 0. Nunn 7 50 Mr A Mrs Cliff Lester
Lillie Brown
Mr & Mrs. James D.
Murphy
Bruce & Gary Edwards
The Griswell Class, St.
Paul Methodist Church
Barry 4 Kim Cotner
Mr & Mrs. Amil F.
Kohutek
25.00 Brownie Troop 427
2.00 Girls in Behrens Hall,
Hardin-Simmons Univ
Hiss and
p.m.: 67 and 5.
High and low same date last year 63
“Luna mo mem-am
4-hours
ending 9
The jury, locked up since the
Dec 5 air pistol assault on Hoffa
by an ex-mental patient, retired
_ and the judge and attorneys spent
a the remainder of the day discus-
see your agent
Burleson: ‘No’ to Demo Proposals
tration proposals
Burleson will oppose much, if
legislative program expected to
measures which bring on the re-
quest for ceiling hikes and he
opposes deficit spending in gen-
eral He voted against and spoke
against raising the debt limit pre-
viously
5. Will vote against foreign aid,
as he has voted against it since
the time he voted "relunctantly"
for the original Marshall Plan -
unless the size of the aid is dras-
tically slashed and some
"strings" are tied to it to benefit
this nation and to eliminate some
of "the hokum."
6 Will oppose the creation of a
cabinet post for urban affairs as
"unnecessary" and will oppose
federal aid for urban transit sys-
rolled up over a ‘ Hometown"
GOP candidate. Jack Cox of
Breckenridge.
"Some people tell me I don’t
vote with the Democrats enough."
Cong. Burleson reported "And
some people tell me 1 vote with
them too often."
His opposition. Burleson said, is
not a matter of being "for or
against the Administration" but
a "matter of issues "
Summary
In summary, Burleson said that
in the 88th Congress he
1 Will vote against expansion
of the House rules committee in
what is expected to be the ses-
sion's first major battle. He voted
against this last session when the
late Speaker Sam Rayburn suc-
ceeded in hiking the key panel
from 15 to 18 members for the
the 88th Congress, he said in a
pre-session interview with The
Abilene Reporter-News this week
This opposition will be consis-
tent with his stands taken last
2.00 In Memory of
Larry Scarborough
1000
Anonymous
Exchange Club of Abilene 100 00
Haines Real Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Walter
Johnson
W. L. Amann
Mr & Mrs D L.
McCracken
U.S. Air Force Mothers
Club, Ashland Chapter
Mrs II C. McGowen
Anonymous
Marlow-Carter Camp 1079
Royal Neighbors of
America
Anonymous
Mr. A Mrs. W. H. Owens
Mrs. Wynona Scroggins
Gleaners Sunday School
20.00
Mrs. Helen C Horton
L. P. Novakoski
Anonymous
Mrs. Augusta Dziewas,
5.00 Austin
100 00
‘Brooke Gordon
5 00 A Circle of St Paul
Methodist Church
SOD Employees of Texas
10.00 Employers' Insurance
20.00 Association
Anonymous
5.00 Total received Tuesday
25.00 Previously
5.00 Acknowledged
20.00 -
TOTAL
5 00 Funeral arrangements are
5.00 pending at Davis - Morris Funeral
Home here.
session and with his positions on
similar issues put forth by pre-
vious Administrations, including
the Republican one, Burleson
10.00
5.00
10.00
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Obituaries
Sports
16.37 011 news
10 00 SECTION B
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$9,123.08 Redio-TV logs
terns
Repayable Loans
7. Will oppose federal aid to
higher education — with the ex-
ception of some repayable loans.
8 Will oppose increases in
spending where possible 1 But, the
Congressman points out, the law-
makers have little to say about
said -
‘Remain Democrat®
His opposition to Democratic -----------.
proposals does not mean he has posed tax cuts Burleson calls
left the Democratic party." * "nine" the there that
j Burleson said "I am a Democrat a tax cut would boost the econe-states for state administration) "Ir" 7s"per cent or the budget
7.9 - and will remain a Democrat." my enough to produce extra taxes because he thought it "a foot-in-which ’ Aready " committed "
10 And he says: he does not find to offset the loss Andiheis a the-door move toward so-called on a couple of Texas projects
2, > in his home district much accent rchore rear the ^ - medicine ■ when promise to make news,
• the fact that in the November try would be a target 4 Will vote against raising the Cone. Burleson has these re-
* i moral Flat ion there was im- 3. Will oppose medical care for ceiling on the national debt - be marks:____
* plied voter approval of the Ken- the aged under social security just cause. Burleson says he does nt He opposes the Trinity River
12 nody Administration with the lead as he---------
. 12 lex-Navy Secretary John Connally Mills proposal (grants to
87th Congress
2 Will oppose the Kennedy pro-
“wishful thinking” the theory that
a tax cut would boost the econo.
REP. OMAR BURLESON
... $ am a Democrat
did not support the Kerr- feel responsible "for its size. He .. Ps 2-A CM. 1
, the opposed many of the spending See BURLESON *
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