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Cloudy - Warm
Partly cloudy skies with warm days and mild, humid
nights Saturday and Sunday. Scattered afternoon
thunder showers in the area both days.
Today’s Range: 69-92. Tomorrow’s Range: 70-92.
Yesterday’s High: 91. Rainfall: 0.
Sunrise: 5:47 a.m. Sunset: 7:27 p.m.
Moonrise Saturday: 9:51 p.m. Moonset Sun.: 8:55 a.m.
Lake Levels: Travis 680.36’. Buchanan 1019.34’.
U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast
for Taylor and Williamson County
Volume 48, Number 191
Sixteen Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1961
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Price Ten Cents
Georgetown
Dam in State
Proposal
Federal Plan
Not Involved
A reservoir on, the north fork
•of the San Gabriel River was
recommended Friday by the State
Board of Water Engineers.
It was one of 45 reservoirs pro-
posed for construction to meet
Texas water needs up to 1980,
according to Durwood Manford,
board chairman.
The report, presented' to Gover-
nor Price Daniel, said construc-
tion of the reservoirs “appears to
be within the financial capability
of the state and local interests,
with federal participation in pro-
jects containing flood control.
The state board plan showed
that the North San Gabriel res-
ervoir will be supplying Taylor,
Georgetown and Rockdale with
sufficient water through 1980.
Its total yield for 1980 is esti-
mated at 19,800 acre feet, with
17,800 acre feet of this being
used. Of this use, Georgetown
will be taking 2,000 acre feet
annually from the reservoir,
while Taylor will get 2,800 acre
feet and Rockdale 3,000 acre
feet. This leaves a surplus of
2,000 acre feet existing in the
North San Gabriel for future
development and growth.
Wilson Fox, Taylor attorney
who has been extensively involved
in Williamson County water pro-
blems, said he did not think the
state board made the recom-
mendation for the dam on the
North San Gabriel on, the basis
of advance information from the
U.S. Corps of Engineers.
That decision was due more
than a year. ago. Engineers ori-
ginally proposed: to build' one
large dam at Laneport, but
through a concerted effort in the
county the engineers authorized a
resurvey to determine the feasi-
bility of two' smaller dams on the
north and south forks of the San
Gabriel.
The Taylor Press last October
quoted a reliable source as saying
that the district engineer of the
Corps of Engineers had recom-
mended the construction of one
dam on the north fork of the
San Gabriel River above George-
town and another at Laneport
(smaller than fee one originally
authorized by Congress).
“I just can’t figure out why
tht Corps of Engineers has de-
layed its decision so long,” Fox
said.
“But I do think the state water
board is acting on its own in
recommending the reservoirs, with
the feeling that if the federal
government comes along with aid
for flood control then state and
federal governments could work
hand in band,” he added'.
Fox said he did not think it
“unusual” that the state board
would recommend the North Fork
of the San Gabriel for a dam
when, according to reliable in-
formation, the Corps of Engineers
had recommended a dam on
the same place.
“It’s the only logical place
for a d'am in .that area,” he said.
“There just isn’t enough flow in
the south fork according to
the best information I can get.”
Fox pointed out that the state
recently was authorized to parti-
cipate with the federal govern-
ment in putting “sideboards” on
flood control dams so that the
state could obtain water for con-
servation purposes. The federal
government is interested only in
flood control.
“The state board of water en-
gineers,” he said, “can now parti-
cipate in these programs. We
have $200 million in a water
development fund that can be
used for making loans up to $15
million for conservation pur-
poses.”
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Brushy Dam
Pact Awarded
The board of directors of the
Brushy Creek Water Control &
Improvement District Friday
awarded a $138,055.01 contract
to Affolter Construction Co. of
Rio Hondo for the construction of
flood retarding structure No. 3.
The dam is located in the Up-
per Brushy Watershed about
three miles southeast of Leander.
Contract price exceeded the en-
gineer’s estimate ($130,823.11) by
about $8,000.
Besides awarding the contract,
the Brushy directors also levied
the ad valorem tax for 1961. The
tax, 6 cents per $100 valuation,
is the same as previous years.
A total of six bids were re-
ceived on the Brushy dam. Sec-
ond lowest was by Boyd Callan
and Son of Waco, $143,834.70. T.
L. Free Construction Co. of Dal-
las offered the highest bid of
$172,253.40.
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Two Cuban PW Envoys
Refuse to Return to Prison
TOWN BUILDER—-Robert Kautz, a Taylor “Town Builder” who gives much
of his time to youth baseball, feels there couldn’t be a better program for the
kids. He’s been secretary and treasurer of the Little League Assn, for several
years.
-Taylor Press Staff Photo
Taylor Town Builder
Kautz Believes Youth Baseball
Finest of Community Programs
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an-
other in a series of articles be-
ing carried on local residents
who have contributed their
time and efforts to help build
Taylor into a brighter and
better city. Others will appear
at regular intervals.
Robert Kautz, a Little League
worker for three year, believes
youth baseball is one of the finest
programs a community can pro-
vide.
Kautz, 48, officer manager for
Prewitt Hardware, has been sec-
retary of the Little League As-
sociation for three years and
treasurer two years.
This “Town Builder’s” respon-
sibilities include supervising the
annual LL membership drive,
taking care of all donations, keep-
ing up with an ever-increasing
amount of correspondence and
renewing franchises each year.
“There’s more work to it than
you might think,” Kautz confides,
Bizarre Slayers Among Four
HospitalEscapeesRecaptured
BEACON, N. Y. (ff> — Four of
five escaped inmates of Mattea-
wan State Hospital, including the
slayer of Greenwich Village poet
Maxwell Bodenheim, were cap-
tured Saturday.
Harold Weinberg, 33, the poet’s
killer, was found hiding in woods
a few miles from the institution
shortly after three other inmates
were picked up in the same vi-
cinity.
Police believed the remaining
escapee1, Pedro Arroyo, 31, was
hiding somewhere in the wood-
land area.
The five sawed an iron bar in
a washroom of the institution
shortly before midnight and fled.
John F. McNeill, superintendent
of the hospital, said state troop-
ers and hospital guards found the
inmates. They offered no resist-
ance.
The first escapees picked up
were Raphael Batista, 35, Steve
Wuchich, 40, and Walter Pierce.
19.
Weinberg and Arroyo was
charged with murder; Batista
with violation of the Sullivan anti-
weapons law; Wuchich, extortion;
and Pierce grand larceny and
burglary.
Weinberg, a dishwasher, was
committed April T, 1954, for the
'bizarre Greenwich Village slay-
(See SLAYERS, Page 8)
“but I don’t mind doing my part.
I enjoy the work even though
I’m a little crowded for time
sometimes.”
Asked how he got involved in
LL work, Kautz said, “I don’t
know how I got wrung into it. I
was flaying softball out there one
night (in the Church League) and
heard my named called. . .and
I had a job. I quit playing soft-
ball when I went to work for the
LL.”
Kautz said he didn’t mind work-
ing for nothing because he’s
“just plain interested in hoys and
their welfare1.” That comes from
a man who has no boys of his
own.
Robert Kautz is also a long-
time member and past president
of the Taylor Lions Club, as well
as past Lions zone chairman, a
member of St. Paul Lutheran
Church, where he sings in the
choir, and a member of the Ma-
sonic Lodge and the Hermann
Sons Lodge.
“Town Builder” Kautz says he
is concerned about Taylor’s water
supply. “I think we need more
and better water if we are going
to attract more industry,” he
said, adding that there are also
many domestic benefits to be re-
ceived.
Kautz said he didn’t know what
the solution was, but that he was
(See KAUTZ, Page 8)
New Tractor
Effort Aimed
At Exiles.
MIAMI, Fla. UP)—Two of Cu-
ban Prime Minister Fidel Cas-
tro’s 10 prisoner-envoys have de
cided not to return to ]ail in
Cuba on Monday, a spokesman
for the group said today.
“We tried to convince them to
change their minds when we
learned about it yesterday.” said
Gustavo Garcia Montes, the
spokesman.
He added that a public state-
ment would be issued later.
Three members of a new Trac-
tors for Freedom Committee,
made up of Cuban exiles, are
to accompany the prisoners to
Havana when their parole ends
Monday.
The committee members re-
ceived an authorization from the
Cuban government to come. They
would like to work out an agree-
ment under which Castro would
trade prisoners for tractors piece-
meal; a certain number of pris-
oners for each factor.
Ernesto Freyre, committee sec-
retary and former Havana law-
yer, said the committee’s plans
would not be changed by the de-
cision of the two prisoners.
“We tried to convince them,”
he said. “It is a very delicate
ana unpleasant matter.”
He would not go into the spe-
cific reasons the two men gave
for not wanting to return to
Cuba as they told Castro they
would when he allowed them to
come here on June 24 to work for
an exchange of tractors for pris-
oners.
The same 10 prisoners had vis-
ited the United States in May, a
month after the invasion, for the
same purpose.
The two men themselves were
not reached for comment.
They are Reynaldo Pico, 26, a
bus conductor before he fled
COMBINES ROLL—This is just one of many combines cutting Williamson
County’s golden grain this week as the maize harvest picked up steam under
hot, sunny skies. Edmond Raesz is shown operating this combine just west of
__ ’ „ J —Taylor Press Staff Photo
Thrall.
County Agent Maize Production Tops
Cuts Cotton
Crop Forecast
Two damaging insects made fur-
ther inroads into Williamson Coun-
ty’s cotton 'fields this week,
prompting County Agent John
Wakefield to lower his county
production estimate by about 10,-
000 bales.
“We’re going to have a pretty
good crop,” the county agent
said, “but not anything like we
predicted two or three weeks
ago.”
Wakefield last week estimated
county production at anywhere
from 45,000 to 65,000 bales “de-
pending on what, happens the
next two weeks.”
“I’ll say total yield will he
considerably less than that now,
from' (llba.'luid" MUton Collazo" be «Hed, .etltg Msnewproduc-
27, once a member of formei
President Fulgencio Batista’s
army. Both are married and their
wives are still in Cuba.
Luis Morse, another prisoner,
said he did not think Castro would
deal harshly with the prisoners
who observed their parole by re-
turning to captivity in Cuba.
Morse disclosed that he had re-
ceived a chick for $75,000 from
Arturo Torano, president of a
Tampa Cuban tractors for free-
dom committee.
A similar committee of Cubans
has been attempting to raise
tractor purchase funds at Miami.
Morse, Pico, Collazo and other
members of the prisoner-tractor
negotiating committee were cap
tured with more than 1,100 in-
vaders of Cuba April 17.
Castro has said he would free
the prisoners for a supply of
tractors from the United States.
Castro contended that he had
always asked for bulldozers or
the equivalent value in farm trac-
tors. He estimated the worst ox
the bulldozers at $28 million. The
tractors committee said that he
had destroyed the possibiliy of
an agreement by increasing his
demand from 500 tractors to $28
million worth of heavy duty
equipment.
The new tractors committee,
called the “Families’ Committee”
(See CUBAN, Page )
tion forecast at between 40,000
and 50,000 bales.
Last year the county produced
approximately 46,500 bales. “This
year’s crop probably will be some-
where around last year’s,” the
county agent said.
He termed weather as 'the de-
ciding factor. “Some farmers
used the airplanes !to poison bugs
during the continued wet weather,
but it takes a brave farmer to
spend that much money to hit
them like we had to for ade-
quate control.
“Conditions were such that
farmers just weren’t able to get
into the fields when they needed
to be there fighting the insects.
The weather, of course, favored
the insects,” the county agent
added.
“The hot, dry weather we’re
having now is a couple of weeks
late. The cotton at this time is
net looking too good. We’re run-
ning into a whole lot of weevil,
trouble, and the bollworms are
still breaking out in spots. Some
farmers are losing virtually whole
fields of cotton. In the late-plant-
ed cotton particularly weevils
are knocking off 60 to 70 per cent
of the squares of the young
plants,” Wakefield said.
“The western part of the coun-
ty’s cotton growing section is
having a lot of trouble with wee-
(See COTTON, Page 8)
Government Supports
Williamson County farmers generally are produc-
ing more maize than the government is hacking up with
pre-determined per acre price supports.
This means that most every farmer is having to sell
his “excess maize” on the open market.
A. L. McFadden, manager of the County ASC Of-
fice, termed the situation healthy, suggesting it is better
to produce above-average yields
Last Kinsey
Child Dies of
Gun Wounds
MIDLAND (ffl — Vera Louise
Kinsey, 15, who saw her father
shoot her three brothers, a sister
and himself to death, died Friday
night *of a gunshot wound inflect-
ed by her father, Fred Milton
Kinsey.
Kinsey and the others died
shortly after the shooting Monday
at their farm home near here.
Vera Louise ran miles to
tell neighbors of the shootings.
She was wounded in the abdomen.
The mother, Mrs. Vera Kinsey,
was in Fort Worth where she had
given birth to a baby and' placed
it for adoption.
Mrs. Kinsey, 41, told police and
newsmen, the father had filed for
divorce because she became preg-
nant by another man.
Officers found a note which
said, in party, “The kids have to
go. They’ll have a better home.
Mother is coming.”
Mrs. Kinsey visited the wounded
child for the first time Tuesday.
At the time, Vera Louise, did not
know the brothers, sister and'
father were dead.
Attendants allowed Mrs. Kinsey
only a brief visit.
Mrs. Kinsey had little to say
after the child asked,, “Mommy,
how is Daddy” Mrs. Kinsey only
sobbed.
Vera Louise then asked', “Why
did daddy shoot us” Mrs. Kinsey
again had no reply.
The dead included J. D.. Kinsey,
17; Johnny, 13; Jay, 8, and Lilly,
7. All were' dressed in their pa-
jamas.
Skin Diving Offers Adventure
In Completely Different World
By LIN MILLS
Charles Parker, Taylor’s most
experienced skin diver, describes
the underwater world as com-
pletely different from anything
else he has ever experienced.
“There’s no sound at all,” the
23-year-old First-Taylor National
Bank employe says. “You float
around almost effortlessly. It’s an
unusual sensation to be able to
see the fish, to swim close to
them and to watch them for
long periods of time without hav-
ing to come back to the surface
for air. And the caves you find
are interesting.”
Parker has been skin diving
for three years. He learned the
art from his brother, Gary, 21,
now a student at North Texas
State.
His diving partner this sum-
mer has been Alvin Wilson of
Wilson Motor Co. Wilson proba-
bly has more experience than
any other of Parker’s local part-
ners.
Tom Parker, vice president of
the First-Taylor Bank, has shown
a considerable amount of inter-
est. He has practiced in the City
Park pool twice and dived with
Charles Parker once at Lake Tra-
vis.
“I don't know of any other di-
vers around here,” Parker said.
“I know there aren’t many divers
in the Taylor area. I’ve heard
many people say they’d like to
try it, but there hasn’t been any
effort made to organize a diving
club like those in Austin and
San Antonio.”
Parker does most of his diving
at Lake Buchanan and Lake Tra-
vis. He said Lake Buchanan pro-
bably is the be'st lake for the
sport.
Charles Parker, who’s record
dive so far is 95 feet, recalls
two close calls. “Probably
there was no cause for alarm,”
he says, “but at the time I
thought there was.”
At Lake Travis one time, Park-
er dived from, a boat about 50
feet from shore in about 40 feet
of water and started working his
way up the bank back to shore.
But he ran into a ledge that
stuck out into the water about
15 feet.
“The ledge stopped me,” Park-
er recalls. “I thought I was in a
cave. I didn’t have a compass
and I didn’t know which way to
go. As luck would have it I
finally found my way up and
around the ledge and made it to
shore before I ran out of oxygen.”
On another occasion, he was
diving beneath a pier in search
of rods and reels, when a board
(See DIVING, Page 8)
DIVING SESSION—Charles Parker (right,) Taylor‘s most experienced skin
diver, checks out a student, Budgie Ford, before he takes a dive in City Park
swimming pool, which is the best place to learn, Parker says.~Taylor Press staff Photo
than to make less than the gov-
ernment would support.
McFadden, along with County
Agent John Wakefield and' Taylor
grain dealers, are reporting 'high
yields.
J. E. Moore of Moore Grain, &
Elevator said production per acre
has a good range of from 2,000
to 2,800 pounds, “better than we
have had in the last couple of
years.” He said the average pro-
bably would be around 2,000
pounds. Isolated areas, he added’,
are producing as much as 3,000
and 4,000 pounds per acre.
Homer Voigt of Wilcox-Eiliott
reports that production is good,
running from 2,000 to 3,000
pounds and on up to 3,800.
In connection with volume of
grain marketed, dealers are talk-
ing in terms of millions of
pounds.
However, the “big push,”
brought on by hot, dry weath-
er, isn’t expected until next week,
but mijght get started late this
weekend if the weather holds.
As Moore put it, “Cutting will
be widespread next week.”
Most of the maize appears to
be drying out considerably. Voigt
said a large amount of it is test-
ing 12 and 13 per cent moisture,
although there is still quite a bit
“of the green stuff” coming in.
Moore said the moisture content
is still high where there have
been recent showers.
Dealers said most of the grain
that has been marketed so far
has come from “River Road”—
that’s along the San Gabriel Riv-
er northwest of Taylor in the vi-
cinity of Jonah.
Only a few • patches outside of
that area have been cut, one
dealer said. Another said little or
no maize has been harvested east
and south of Taylor.
The ASC office said farmers
wanting to know how much grain
they’re. eligible to put into the
loan can save themselves a
trip to Georgetown by checking
lists sent to the various Ware-
houses. These lists include the
name of each farmer and how
much rain per acre he is allow-
ed for price supports.
McFadden said the first incom-
plete list has Igone out. It includes
about half the farms. The list will
be supplemented daily.
When farmers agreed' to cut
back production from 20 to 40 per
cent this year under the emer-
gency feed — grain program,
they were given a support price
per acre on grain they could
grow based on their average
yields in 1959 and 1960.
The average local yield on
which farmers will receive sup-
ports is about 2,190 pounds. If a
farmer produces 3,000 pounds, he
can put 2,190 pounds in the loan
but must sell the “excess” 810
pounds on the open market.
The county loan rate is $2.13
per 100 pounds. Deducted from
what the farmer gets is 16 cents
for storage and one cent for ser-
vice, leaving him a net of $1.96.
The open market price1 ranges
(See MAIZE, Page 8)
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