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Partly Cloudy
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moderate southerly winds Tuesday and Wednesday.
Today’s Range: 57-90. Tomorrow’s Range: 68-90.
Yesterday’s High: 91. Rainfall: 0.
Sunrise: 5:36 a.m. Sunset: 7:20 p.m.
Moonrise Wed.: 8:06 a.m. Moonset Tues.: 9:16 p.m.
Lake Levels: Travis 671.08’. Buchanan 1013.67’.
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Corporation Income
Natural Gas Bills
Fail to Get Action
$314 Million Catch-All Tax
Is Cleared for Consideration
AUSTIN (/P) — Efforts to force
immediate action on a corporation
income and a natural gas tax
bills failed in the House today.
The Senate however cleared the
way for consideration this week
on its $314 million catch-all tax
Tax Measure
Provisions
Are Outlined
AUSTIN (/P) — Here is the es-
sence of the tax measure recom
mended for passage Monday by
the Senate State Affairs Commit-
tee:
Driver’s licenses (7.2 million es
timated yield for two years):
Up 50 per cent from $2 to
(payable every two years); chauf-
feur’s license, up $6; commer-
cial operator’s license up to $4.50
State franchise taxes ($21.5 mil-
lion yield in two years): Present
temporary 22.22 per cent increase
due to expire April 30 extended
for 4 years, but with only two
years return figured in estimated
yield.
Sales and use taxes ($285 mil-
lion estimated yield for two
years):
Two per cent general sales tax.
If sales covered by the tax in
crease as much as 3 per cent dur
ing next two years the yield
would be more than $4 million
higher.
Sales 24 cents and below ex-
empt with 1 cent tax on each 50
cents thereafter. Merchants would
Iretain 2 per cent to pay for col-
lecting the tax.
Exemptions includes items now
under a sales tax such as ciga-
rettes, gasoline, beer, liquor and
wine.
Also exempt would be food, un
less consumed on the premises;
livestock feed, fertilizer, farm ma-
chinery, seeds, plants and animal
life used to produce food for hu-
man consumption; newspapers
and magazines, radio and televi-
sion receipts.
Also prescription medicines,
items bought in Texas but deliv-
ered outside the state, receipts
from the sale and use of aircraft,
receipts from the sale or use of
vessels of more than 50 tons, real
estate sales and transfers, com-
ponent parts used in the manufac-
ture of processing of property in
tended for retail sale in or out of
the state, and wrapping and pack-
ing supplies.
Items taxed include clothing,
jewelry, furs, ice, factory mach-
inery, oil well drilling equipment,
lubricating oil, machinery that is
rented or leased, and burial sup-
plies but not the services.
Varying taxes now levied on ra-
dio and television parts, cosmet-
ics, and other items would be re-
placed by a straight 2 per cent
sales tax. Current license fees for
coin operating vending machines
of $5, $10, and $60 would be sta-
bilized at $10 each for all vend-
ing machines.
Food served in cafeterias and
lunch counters of elementary and
bill that includes a 2 per cent
sales and use levy. This measure
was approved in committee Mon-
day.
The House postponed considera-
tion of the corporation income
tax measure until Monday by a
voice vote after efforts to put
off the delaying action lost 59-
74.
The House then voted 72-69 to
postpone consideration of the nat-
ural gas tax measure until Mon-
day at 11:30 a.m.
The Senate gave Sen. Wardlow
Lane permission to offer the sales
and use tax measure for floor ac-
tion without the formality of
having it printed. This had the
effect of speeding debate—pos-
sibly even today.
But if the measure does not
come up today, it will not be act-
ed on, before Thursday because
Lane said he can not- be here
tomorrow for personal reasons.
The vote to delay work on the
corporation income tax bill
brought from Rep. Charles Wil-
son, the author, this comment
“See you in July.’’ He meant that
in his opinion the. action adverse
to his bill would result in failure
of the general session to solve the
state’s financial problems and
this would lead to a special
session.
The committee-approved sales
and use tax levy in the Senate
was already under threat of a fili-
buster.
This is like asking some one
to take poison,” said State Af-
fairs Chairman Sen. Wardlow
Lane of Center in offering the
substitute to HB334, a flexible
measure to close tax loopholes.
“It inaugurates the soak-the-
poor era in Texas,” snapped Sen.
Henry B. Gonzalez of San Antonio
who said he would try to kill it
with a filibuster.
There was no immediate com-
ment from Gov. Price Daniel,
who has said he would veto
general, sales tax bill.
The bill that swept through the
committee Monday on a voice
vote includes some solid business
tax extensions obviously designed
to mollify the governor. But the
effort to attach a temporary one
per cent natural gas production
tax to yield an additional $14.3
million in the next two years was
batted down.
The bill could be ready fori
floor action in the Senate Wednes-
day
If work on it can be completed
next week,, the only remaining
roadblock to adjournment May 29
would be the $2.5 billion spending
bill, reportedly about ready for
submission by a joint conference
committee.
Apparently determined to meet
the tax issue headon, the power-
ful Senate committee postponed
action on a subcommittee report
on loan shark regulation, until
Wednesday.
Several senators said they were
ready to tangle now with taxa-
tion and clear themselves of any
responsibility for making a spe-
cial session necessary on finances,
the Legislature’s major issue.
The recommended tax bill
would raise $285 million in, 1962
South Korea Taken Over
By Pro-Western Rebels
X
■
high schools exempt from sales! 63 from the sales tax, $21.4 mil-
(See TAX, Page 6) 1 (See ACTION, Page 8)
SHOWN TESTIFYING—Judge Michael A. Mus-
manno of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court sits
with arms folded while testifying during session of
trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Musmanno
testified after Eiehmann’s defense waged long, hard
fight to keep him off stand. He said he had heard
from the lips of Hermann Goering that Eichmann
was a member of high command that decided to
destroy the Jews of Europe. The Judge’s testimony
struck hard blow at defense story that Eichmann
was an obscure Lt. Col., in charge of a minor de-
partment, and blindly obeyed orders that came
down from top Nazi chain of command.
—NEA Telephoto
On Lake Drive
Street Paving Work
Gets Started Here
Contents Secret
Khrushchev Replies
To Kennedy Message
WASHINGTON ® — Soviet
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev re
plied today to the February mes
sage in which President Kennedy
expressed hope for better Soviet
American relations.
The message from Moscow was
delivered at the White House by
Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Men
shikov, who declined to say what
was in it.
The Russian envoy, however
identified it as a reply to a Ken-
nedy message of February, and
the White House later specified
that the message was the one
U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn
Thompson took with him Feb. 22
when he started back to 'Russia
after consultations here.
TVs Emmy
Awards to
Be Presented
Protestantism Declining,
Leading Evangelist Says
SAN ANTONIO (TP) — Protes-
tant churches do fine in, suburbia,
but they meet their Waterloo when
they try to reach the man in the
upper floors of the luxury apart-
ment house, a leading evangelist
says.
“It is almost impossible to evan-
gelize anybody who lives in an
apartment house with an eleva-
tor, pays more than $125 per
month rent and lives above the
fourth floor,” the Rev. Paul Mus-
selman of New York, an Episco-
palian and director of the depart-
ment of evangelism of the Nation-
al Council of Churches, said Mon-
day.
He Spoke at a conference on
the role of the church in today’s
changing cities preceding the
meeting of the Synod of Texas
of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.
Statistics indicate “the Protes-
tant church in this country is
at a standstill and probably on a
decline,” he said.
“It is quite true as well that
Christianity is on the decline in
the wdrld scene.
Protestants “cultivate a kind of
false optimism,” which make it
difficult to point out the serious-
ness of the challenges Christian-
ity faces when it is assumed that
all is well because of the large
number of churches being built
and expanded, he said.
As neighborhoods grow older
and change from areas of single-
family homes to multiple-family
homes and apartment houses, the
influence of Protestant churches
usually becomes steadily weaker,
the Rev. Mr. Musselman said).
“The trouble with a lot of Chris-
tians is that they have their eye
on the fringe benefits and have
lost sight of God and his salva-
tion,” he said.
“It’s not the location of the
church, or the quality of the mu-
sic or the ability of the preachers,
or the grandeau of the architec-
ture that are most important.”
By JAMES BACON
HOLLYWOOD m — Television
hand's out Emmy Awards tonight
in a show that is bound to be
different—-Bob Hope will be in
the audience with the other nom-
inees.
For the first time in his long
and illustrious career, Hope is in
the running for an award based
on his talent. He has more honor-
ary awards than a loving cup
maker’s warehouse.
If Hope wins the NBC-TV audi-
ence may see him speechless. If
he loses, watch out. The lost
Emmy will go down in comic his-
tory with Jack Benny’s famous
flop picture “The Horn Blows at
Midnight.”
Bob is entered in the humor
division along with Benny, “Can-
did Camera,” “The Flintstones”
and Andy Griffith.
Some 1,100 members of TV’s
Hollywood clan will assemble at
the Moulin Rouge here. A like
number will gather at New York’s
(See EMMY, Page 6)
Soviet Bases
Are Pinpointed?
WASHINGTON OP) — An Army
publication says U. S. military
leaders think they have pinpointed
37 Soviet missile-launching pads
and 14 Russian missile and rock-
et factories.
One of the launching pads is at
Anadyr in Siberia, less than 50C
miles across the Bering Sea from
Alaska.
The May issue of Military Re-
view, a magazine published by
the U. S. Army Command and
General Staff College at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., says its data
was compiled from unclassified
sources.
That was about all either would
say.
The meeting between Menshi
kov and Kennedy occurred
against the background of strong
reports that Kennedy is interested
in an informal meeting with
Khrushchev.
Menshikov would not say wheth-
er that subject was discussed.
And all that Pierre Salinger.
White House press secretary,
would say was that there still are
no plans for such a meeting, “ai.
present.” That is what he has
been saying since the reports
arose over the weekend.
“I cannot speak about the con
tents of the message from Ken
nedy or the contents of chariman
Khrushchev’s answer,” Salinger
said.
Menshikov spent little more
than a half hour at the White
House, at his request.
“I only can say that I have
just handed over to the Presi-
dent Mr. Khrushchev’s message
which is a reply to the Presi-
dent’s message of February,” he
told newmen afterward.
Kennedy has been interested in
meeting Khrushchev, perhaps as
a follow-up on Kennedy’s forth-
coming trip to Paris at the end
of this month.
Young Bros. Construction Co
of Waco today started the job
of paving Lake Drive with the
new asphalt slurry technique
utilizing Rockdale’s slag from
Alcoa’s Rockdale Works.
One coat of slurry was applied
to Lake Drive between Davis
and Stasny streets, a distance
approximately three and a half
blocks, in one hour, between
and 10 a.m.
Those on hand to watch the
specially-built truck which mixes
slag aggregate, emulsified asphalt
and water as it moves along were
Mayor R. E. Kollman, Street
Commissioner Charles Schroeder
City Manager F. R. Cromwell
and Street Superintendent Ray
Knox.
All had complimentary
marks.
Kollman said he knew of sev
eral streets—in addition to the
four being paved in this test pro
ject—that could be saved' with
the application of slurry.
Cromwell said the slurry should
provide a much smoother riding
surface.
Knox commented on the effic-
iency of the slurry as a seal coat
to keep out moisture and thus
prolong the life of the street.
A second coat will be applied
to Lake Drive because of the
streets e^tra .Tough condition
Some of the others may get
second coat.
Streets included in the test pav
ing project include Lake Drive
from Davis and Sloan, Sloan
Street from Lake Drive to West
Second, Davis Street from Lake
Drive to Seventh and Howard
Street from Lake Drive to Sev-
enth.
No tentative work plan was
available this morning. John
Smith, local manager of Texas
Power & Light Co., said a repre-
sentative of Young Brothers was
due in Taylor at any time.
Trash, Refuse
Pick-ups Begin
City crews this morning made
their first pick-ups of trash
and refuse in the annual city-
wide clean-up campaign.
City Manager F. R. Crom-
well said so far he hasn’t seen
too much trash although ‘‘some
stuff is out.” He said it’s too
early to tell just how much
trash and refuse people will
put out to be hauled away be-
cause they’ll be putting it out
today and tomorrow.
“We’ll pick up everything
that’s put out,” he said.
Pick-ups will continue through
Thursday.
- LATE NEWS BRIEFS
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LBJ PLEDGES SUPPORT AGAINST COMMUNISM
BANGKOK, Thailand — U.S. Vicie President Lyndon B.
Johnson came ito this pro-Western nation today with a
pledge of U.S. support for leaders worried by the advance
of communism in neighboring Laos. “We are determined
to maintain adequate and responsible strength in the free
world,” the vice president said in an airport speech.
SIGNS OF RECOVERY ARE REPORTED
WASHINGTON —- Secretary of Commerce Luther H.
Hodges today announced two new signs of economic recov-
ery: Personal incomes climbed above the March peak in
April, and factory sales and new orders both rose.
GOLDWATER AGAINST SUMMIT CONFERENCE
Sen. Barry Goldwater said Monday night President
Kennedy should not meet in a summit conference with
Russian Premier Khrushchev but stay in the United States
and make a new, tough foreign policy.
KENNEDY CONSIDERS ADDRESSING CONGRESS
WASHINGTON — President Kennedy is considering
addressing Congress or sending it a message on the state
of domestic and world affairs. Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield of Montana told reporters the subject of
suclh a communication came up at today’s White House
meeting of party leadens with the President.
It’s understood that the work
will be completed on the 2.5 miles
or approximately 47 blocks this
week.
It takes only a few hours for
the slurry to dry before the street
can be opened to traffic.
The project is sponsored joint-
ly by Young Brothers, TP&L and
Alcoa. The work will not cost
the city anything.
TP&L is the marketing agent
for the lignite by-product, called
(See STREET, Page 6)
Bed-Stacking
Record is Set
WEATHERFORD, Okla. (iP)—
Sixty-seven students at South-
western Oklahoma State College
stacked themselves on a stand-
ard dormitory single bed Mon-
day night.
“It’s a world’s bed-stacking
record, and we challenge all
comers,” said Larry Spears, 18,
a pharmacy major who with
Allen Covalt, 20, a business ad-
ministration major, promoted
the stunt.
“No one was injured,” re-
ported Robert Moore, proetor
at Neff Hall, the dormitory
launching pad of bed-stacking.
Letters to be Mailed
County Seeks Support
For Ad Valorem Tax
The Williamson County Commis-
sioners Court in the next day or
two will mail out between 4,000
and 5,000 letters to “dear friends
and voters of Williamson County
in connection with the 30-cent ad
valorem tax which gees before
the people for the second time
May 27.
“We’re using the poll tax list
in mailing the letters,” Judge
Sam Stone said today. “We’re
using our memory in trying
reach some of the older people
(who are exempt from having
to buy a poll tax).”
Judge Stone said he thought
less votes would be cast this time,
although the election will be held
to coincide with the U.S; Senate
run-off election between-Sen. Wil-
liam Blakley and John Tower
City elections last time coincided
with the county election.
“I don’t know how fewer votes
will affect the tax election,
Judge Stone said. The issue
was defeated by only 88 votes the
first time it was submitted to
the people.
One reason we’re sending out
this letter,” he said, “is to try to
convince the people that the elec-
tions are not only a state mat-
ter but a vital county matter.
The thing that prompted us to
go ahead and call the election
the second time was that so many
people were surprised and ap
parently disappointed that it did
not carry. Another group said
they didn’t understand the issue
and wanted another chance.”
Stone said there is a certain
loyalty to the idea of the county
operating on a cash basis and
continuing the services that have
already been set up.
Asked about opposition, Stone
said he had talked to those who
fought the measure last time and
had been assured that there would
be no “open fight” this time. He
said he did not want to mention
any names. He said he contacted
these people before the election
was called the second time.
They were very nice,” Stone
said.
The qounty judge said he was
not going around this time mak-
ing “too many talks.” “I think
the failure of the election adver-
tised it about as much as any-
thing,” he said. “But we do want
the pedple to know we’re trying
to solve the county’s financial
problem in an equitable way.’
Judge Stone said the county
court, which serves as its own
equalization board, would spend
more time on equalization work
than before. “It’s unfortunate,”
he said, “that the county court
serves as the equalization board.
It’s hard to get everyone satis-
fied.”
He suggested it would be bet-
STORMS POSSIBLE IN TEXAS AREAS
Mild spring weathieir gave way to a threat of sievere
thunderstorms Tuesday across a broad stretch of the Texas
Panhandle, ithe South Plains of West Texas and the north-
west part of North Central Texas. Two special advisories!
from the Weather Bureau warned of developing storms dur-
ing the afternoon and evening.
2-Cent T omatoes
Sell for 39 Cents
McALLEN (/P) — Farmers told
congressional committee inves-
tigator Monday they are getting
2 cents a pound for tomaotes that
are selling in stotres across the
country for as much as 39 cents.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley
farmers told Brooks Roberson of
the House Small Business Com-
mittee that they “could make a
living” at 4 cents a pound for
their crops.
The growers said that as near
as San Antonio-—whei e the Valley
tomatoes arrive the same day—
they sold for as much as 29 cents
a pound.
ter if the county had a board
that could look at property valua-
tions from a more impersonal
standpoint.
The letter to be sent to voters
states, in part:
“Our county’s valuations are
lower now than they were 35
years ago, which means less re-
venue for county operations. At
the present time, all expenses of
the county’s operation are three
to four times higher. v
“If the county is to continue
(See COUNTY, Page 6)
Animal Health
Commission
Plan Revealed
Daily Press Austin Bureau
AUSTIN — The Texas Animal
Health Commission today an-
nounced a new program which
will save cattlemen money and
help make an easier transition
into the State’s brucellosis pro-
gram.
Dr. R. G. Garrett of Taylor,
executive director of the TAHC,
said that the commission, will
vaccinate calves without vac-
cine and medical cost from the
time a petition for a Type II
program is received, until the
commission begins testing in the
county.
The effect of this program
would be to save the farmer the
cost of the vaccine and the cost
of a veterinarian and cut down
the incidence of brucellosis
(Bang’s disease) in the area be-
fore the commission work crews
came into the area.
The commission also decided to
make an intensive review of the
tick quarantine line on the Rio
Grande by using more modem
insecticides instead of the present
arsenic dip. Dr. Garrett said this
study would go a long way to
see if a more up to date process
could be used. Planned’ for use is
(See ANIMAL, Page 6)
Martial Law
Declared by
New Junta
SEOUL, South Korea UP)— The
rebel military junta, defying
American advice to pull in its
horns, claimed full control over
South Korea Wednesday.
Lt. Gen. Chang Do-Young said
he had taken over all authority
from the elected regime of Pre-
mier John M. Shang and has
formally begun handling affairs
of state. He made this announce-
ment in a midnight broadcast.
The rebel junta, avowedly pro-
American and anti - Communist,
seized government buildings in
Seoul, proclaimed martial law,
ordered dissolution of the Na-
tional Assembly and local legisla-
tures, and established a 7 p.m.-
5 a.m. curfew. It controlled Radio
Seoul.
The broadcast by Gen. Chang,
leader of the military group that
spearheaded a predawn coup
Tuesday, came shortly after Pres-
ident Yun Po-sun had appealed to
Premier Chang and his ministers
for cooperation.
By radio, Yun, urged the pre-
mier and his Cabinet “to come
out as quickly as possible to
bring the situation under con-
trol.”
Yun’s, position is ordinarly that
of figurehead leader of the na-
tion, with the premier in actual
command.
The U.N. Command and U.S.
authorities in Seoul had quickly
rallied to the support of Premier
Chang.
Gen. Carter B. Magruder, com-
mander of the U. N. and U. S.
forces in Korea, called on the
Korean military chiefs to see that
lawful government authorities
were restored to control.
The U. S. charge d’affaires,
Marshall Green, said the United
States “supports the constitution-
al government of Korea as elec-
ted by the people of this repub-
lic.”
Gen. Chang said the objective
of the coup was to rebuild South
Korea and wipe corruption and in-
competence from political circles.
Although the Chang government
was established after last year’s
revolution, the general said, “the
suffering of the people grew
(See MARTIAL, Page 6)
Head-on Mishap
Damage Heavy
Damage was fairly extensive
in a virtual headon collision be-
tween two cars on a narrow grav-
eled county road 2.4 miles south
of Hutto at 7 p.m. Monday.
Involved were the 1955 Chevro-
let driven by Jerry Ray Nelson
of Pflugervilie and the 1950 Ford
driven by James Wesley Gainer
of Hutto.
According to highway patrol-
men of Taylor, Nelson was going
south and Gainer north when the
two cars met on a blind curve on
the narrow road. The collision
was between the left fronts of
both vehicles.
Neither driver was injured.
14-Nation Conference
On Laos Gets Started
GENEVA ® — After four days’ tion government. So far the talks
delay, the international confer
ence on the future of Laos as
sembled today with the govern-
ment of Laos boycotting the meet
ing.
As the delegates of 14 countries
met in the old League of Nations
Palace of Nations, - only the Com-
munist-led Pathet Lao and the
neutralist group of former Pre
mier Prince Souvanna Phouma
were on hand.
The Laotian government dele-
gation refused to attend because
the conference permitted the Pa-
thet Lao to take part in the deli-
berations.
The conference had been sched
uled to open Saturday but was
delayed by East-West wrangling
over the composition of the dele-
gation.
The U.S., British, Soviet and
French foreign ministers were re-
ported to have reached tacit
agreement to avoid raising issues
that mgiht put new obstacles in
the way of negotiations in Laos
beween the warring factions for
establishment of a single coali-
in Laos are still in the prelimin-
ary sparring stage.
The Western ministers at the
14-nation conference here report-
edly planned to take up only the
international aspects of a final
settlement to create an independ-
ent, neutral Laos.
They were expected to work be-
hind the scenes, however, to pro-
mote a political union of the three
rival factions in the kingdom—
the pro-Western Vientiane regime,
the pro-Comm unist Pathet Lao
and Prince Souvanna Phouma’s
self-styled neutralists, who share
Soviet and Red Chinese backing
with the Pathet Lao.
An American concession au-
thorized by President Kennedy-
broke a procedural deadlock to
clear the way for the opening of
the conference, four days late.
The United States, after oppos-
ing seating of Pathet Lao dele-
gates at the conference, gave in
rather than have the conference
collapse. The three big powers
agreed all three Laotian groups
would be admitted as advisers or
observers.
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