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An Editorial for America's Today—And AH Her Tomorrows
By Lt. Col. John Glenn
This has been a great experience for all of us on the pro-
gram and for all Americans, I guess, too, and I’m certainly glad
to see that pride in, our country and its accomplishments is not
a thing of the past.
I know I still get a real hard-to-define feeling down inside
when the flag goes by and I know all of you do, too. As we rode
up Pennsylvania Avenue today from the White House and saw
this tremendous outpouring of feeling on the part of so many
thousands of people, I got that same feeling all over again, and
let’s hope that none of us ever loses it.
(The above quotation is from the astronaut’s address to Con-
gress. We bring it again to your special attention in this form
because your newspaper believes it to be an. unusually fine ex-
pression of the patriotic credo. — THE EDITOR.)
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NIGHT PATROL CHIEFS — Patrolman Emanuel Lantzsch (left) and Sgt. Od-
die L. Jones, Taylor police department night chiefs, get set for another night of
patroling. They’re up all night when most Taylorites are asleep.
—Taylor Press Staff Photo
Night Owls' Find Police Work
More Interesting at Night
By LIN MILLS
The “chief night owls” of the
police department’s night patrol,
Oddie L. Jones and Patrolman
Emanuel “Buster” Lantzsch, like
their jobs of keeping law and
order while most Taylorites sleep.
They and their partners keep
one squad car on the prowl all
night observing commercial build-
ings, patroling residential areas,
working traffic, checking taverns
and other public places, keeping
grange vehicles under observa-
pn and remaining on call at all
les to investigate all kinds of
sturbances, ranging from the
most serious crimes to family
squabbles.
The after-dark crew works in
two eight-hour shifts, Sgt. Jones
and Patrolman Bobby Rivison
taking the 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift,
with Patrolman Lantzsch and
Bobby Bryan taking over at 2
a.m. and remaining on duty until
10 a.m.
Late-hours patroling is more ex-
citing than the day patrol be-
cause most of the police depart
ment’s troubles occur at night.
The “graveyard shift” boys in
blue remain alert all night to
help prove that law and order is
not an accident.
It’s rare that criminals are
Rodeo Board
Meets Tuesday
The president of the Taylor
Rodeo Assn, has called a special
hoard' of directors meeting for
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Food
Fair.
Tony Malish said the session
would be concerned primarily
with selecting a producer and
making further plans for the ro-
deo barbecue, the date of which
has been changed from April 19
to April 26.
He stated also that directors
would consider the possibility of
getting a noted cowboy to come
to Taylor as a special attraction.
Committee Reports
Due Chamber Board
A review of committee reports
will top the agenda at the Tues-
day meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Taylor Chamber of
Commerce, according to Les Box,
manager.
He said the 4 p.m. meeting
at the chamber office would in-
volve mostly routine items.
ever caught in the act, but there’s
no way of knowing how many of-
fenses are prevented by an ef-
fective night patrol.
“You can’t measure the bene-
fits,” says Chief of Police A. O.
“Pete” Schier. “You can only
draw comparisons. For example,
look at how many burglaries
there are in small towns. Seeing
a patrol car around is a deterrent
to criminals. They respect the
fact that they could get caught
at any moment.”
Since most crime does occur
at night, the night patrol has'
more than its share of dangers.
Probably their biggest potential
danger, Jones and Lantzsch say,
is in stopping strange cars.
You never know who you’re
stopping, they point out. Occu-
pants of a car you stop for a
defective tail light could turn out
to be an armed criminal wanted
by state authorities. You probably
wouldn’t know who they are but
they think you do and just might
start shooting.
That’s why methods have been
worked out for stopping strange
or suspicious cars. The patrol
car is stopped behind the strange
car with the headlights left on.
One of the policemen walks
around to the driver’s side while
the other stops at the back
bumper so he can observe the
action. If there are a number of
people in the car, the second
patrolman will walk up to the op-
posite side of the car.
When making any kind of ar-
rest, the police practice is to start
off with firm but polite talk.
“A man can be apprehended like
he wants to be,” Sgt. Jones ex-
Demos to Meet
On Conventions
The Williamson County Demo-
cratic Executive Committee will
met Monday to decide when and
where the May 5 precinct conven-
tions will be held.
Wilson Fox the county chair-
man, said a decision also would
be mAd:e on the time and place
for holding the county convention.
The panel will act on the ap-
pointment of election judges to
be submitted by the chairman.
And finally, vacancies on the
committee will be filled.
The meeting will be held at 10
a.m. in the district courtroom in
Georgetown.
Storm-Pounded East
Assured Federal Relief
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The devastated eastern sea-
board fought to clear a monumen-
tal mass of debris today as the
worst week of .winter storms in
its history faded under clearing
skies. Sufferers in five states had
Pesident Kennedy’s promise of
federal disaster 'relief.
A storm that dropped, seven
inches of snow on parts of Geor-
gia dwindled in intensity as it
plodded northward Friday night
ind was expected to disappear
during the day. It carried rain
and light snow as far north as
southern New England.
Tides .running at a fool above
normal slowed the dminoff of
flooded coastal lowlands and
hampered cleanup operations
from Miami Beach to southern
New England.
But this latest assault of the
dying winter weather was small
compared to the storm that be-
gan Tuesday and ravaged the
coast for three days, leaving 38
known dead, 10 missing and' dam-
age estimated at $300 million.
Hard-hit sections of New Jer-
sey, Maryland, Delaware arid Vir-
ginia were due financial aid as a
result of President Kennedy’s des-
ignation of them as disaster
areas. Also included was West directed by the therapist.
plains. “If he insists on getting
rough, we’ll accommodate him.”
What’s the worst thing about
being a night patrolman? Jones
and Lantzsch agree that it’s fam-
ily quarrels. Most of them in-
volve arguments between husband
a wife, with one assaulting
the other. The wife will demand
that officers make her drunken
husband “behave” or “go to
bed.” Or sometimes, if one of
the partners has bee'n assaulted,
the other asks police to do some
locking up. However, nine out of
•10- husbands. or wives who say
they’ll show up the next morning
at the police station to file a
(See NIGHT, Page 7)
Cloudy-Mild
Considerable cloudiness and mild tem-
peratures with occasional showers or
thunder ' storms Saturday afternoon
night and Sunday. > Cooler Sunday
night.
Today's Range: 52-74. Tomorrow’s
Range: 54-72.
Yesterday’s High: 72. Rainfall: .28.
Sunrise.: 6:46 a.m. Sunset: 6.36 p.m.
Moonrise Sun.: 10:44 a.m. Moonset
Sat.: 11:30 p.m.
Lake Levels—Travis: 667.75’. Buchan-
an: 1004.43’.
U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for
Taylor and Williamson County
Swift Kick
Smooths Twist
DALLAS (IP) — Dallas School
Superintendent W. T. White
straightened out the twist with
a swift kick in the Dallas
schools’ after i school recreation
program.
Dr. White unceremoniously
tossed out twist sessions from
after - school physical education
programs Friday after he found
out some of the schools were
twisting instead of doing push-
ups.
Area Receives
Needed Rain
Most Taylor area communities
received from a quarter to a half
inch of much-needed rain Friday
night.
Taylor’s official rainfall was .28,
according to Patterson Brothers,
local weather observers.
Other reports compiled Satur-
day morning included Taylor
SPJST area .30, Thrall .50, Rice’s
Crossing .40, Hoxie .35, Noack
40, New Bern ,45, Frace Switch
25, Wuthrich Hill .40, Circle-
ville 45, Waterloo .40, Brown’s
Gin .50.
Also Norman’s Crossing .50, Jo-
nah .50, Granger .30, Elgin .15,
Thorndale .30, Hutto .20, Friend-
ship .50, Walter Mueller on Brushy
Road .30, H. A. Scftroeder on
Waterloo Road .40.
PRANK TRIGGERS INJURY
FORT WORTH W — A false
alarm turned in by pranksters re-
sulted in a firetruck run that in-
jured two firemen critically.
'62 Planting
Season Starts
In County
GEORGETOWN — The 1962
planting season is off and running
in Williamson County.
An air of optimism prevails as
farmers leave the starting gate
riding tractors loaded with com
and maize seed, and at the ..same
time making plans to plant their
cotton allotments just as soon as
possible to get the jump on in-
sects.
The two-time losers are a de-
termined bunch this year. The
big race over the 200,000 acre
track has do-or-die economic over-
tones. After suffering partial crop
failutes for the past two years—
hitting the county’s composit poc-
ketbook where it hurts—farmers
are confident they can clear the
obstacles that lie between them
and good crops, including in-
sects and root rot which are
largely responsible for past near
disasters.
“Farmers’ intentions are the
best fhey’ve ever been,” Coun-
ty Agent John Wakefield declares.
“Prospects are all right. Farmers
have got their minds made up
that they’re just going to over-
come the problems they’ve run
into every year. They think they
pretty well have the solutions in
mind. They’re going to do every-
thing in their power to make this
a money-making year. I think the
solution looiks pretty optimistic.”
Wakefield said he didn’t know
of any further precautions farm-
ers should take now.
“They’re using better seed, bet-
ter -adapted seed, the land is in
(See PLANTING, Page 8)
Child Named
For Easter
Seal Drive
The Williamson County Society
for Crippled Children places its
confidence and pride behind Anna
Marie Schwenke of Coupland by
naming her the 1962 Easter Seal
Child of Williamson Cousty.
Members of the Junior Woman’s
Study Club are now preparing
thousands of Easter Seal enve-
lopes which will be mailed
throughout the county Thursday.
Mrs. Hudson Jones, chairman
of the 1962 Easter Seal appeal,
states, “This will b’e your oppor-
tunity to have a part in the
support of your county’s Crippled
Children’s Tea! men! Center.
Easter Seals each ’year provide
rehabilitation care to a quarter of
a million crippled children and
adults regardless of cause of rip-
pling, race, religion, national
background or economic status.
“Your dollars given through
Easter Seals help Williamson
County children,” Mrs. Jones
said. “A goal of $1,675 must be
reached, these are your children,
too. Help them walk. Help rehabi-
litate them with your Easter Seal
donation.
This year’s Easter Seal child,
Anna Marie Schwenke, a 21/2-
year-old blonde with a big smile,
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Schwenke.
Little Anna Marie was admitted
to the Center Jan. 14, 1961, for
physical therapy. When admitted,
she was sitting alone but not
walking. She crawled on her sto-
mach but could not pull up to a
sitting position.
New she can walk, taking four
or five steps from one person to
another. As part of her therapy,,
she supports herself and walks be-
tween'parallel bars. Her parents
have construced similar bars for
her to use at home, and they al-
so give her special exercises as
Virginia, which suffered
floods last week,
from
In taking the 1962 title, Anna
* (See DRIVE, Page 8)
EASTER SEAL CHILD —- Anna Marie Schwenke,
2Vz, this year’s “Easter Seal Child,” gets a first-
hand demonstration! of a new tape recorder donat-
ed by the Lions Club from Kenneth Sides, ther-
apist at the Williamson County Crippled Children’s
Treatment Center.
--Taylor Press Staff Photo
Summer School Baseball League
Proposed by Taylor Coach
Jere Nichols would like to see
the high school baseball season
extended' into the summer months.
The head baseball coach at Tay-
lor High School, now putting to-
gether his first local team, said
this would be like adding another
league to the summer recreation
program.
Actually there would be only
one additional local team, since
the other members of the league
would be the teams the Taylor
Ducks play during their regular
season. These would be Giddings,
Elgin, Round Fock and George-
town this year. The district is
being changed up this fall.
The summer program for the
older boys would amount to a
double round robin, as Nichols
puts it. It would be the same thing
as playing the district all over
again.
Said Coach Nichols, “It would
give the older kids a part in the
summer recreation program.”
As it stands now, baseball
season for Class AA schools ends
on May 13. Then bi-district and
regional games are played, but
that’s as far as it goes in Class
AA. Class AAA and AAA A clubs
go all the way to state, making
the season last a few weeks long-
er than AA, ending up about the
time school is out. Class AA re-
gional games are played' about
the middle of May.
. What’s the main drawback to
establishing a “high school sum-
mer league?”
“I don’t know,” Nichols said,
“unless it’s because the' schools
are taking the attitude that no-
body else is doing it.”
Asked about finances, he said
the high school league would still
be the responsibility of the vari-
ous schools, just like it is during
the regular season.
The new Taylor coach praises
the present baseball phase of the
summer recreation program for
doing so much to prepare
youths for high school baseball.
“By playing in the various jun-
ior leagues, boys learn to know
'the rules of baseball,” Nichols
said. “They can adapt quickly to
high school rules which are only
slightly different. The summer
program helps them to learn to
throw the ball. It teaches them the
value of warming up before throw-
ing. It teaches them various skills
and a whole lot of baseball stra-
tegy, so that we merely have to
remind them of what to do. In
other words we don’t haver to
teach them so much. They have
already developed certain skills
so that we can concentrate more
on individual skills when they get
to high school.”
Nichols said junior baseball par-
ticularly develops pitchers.
He values very much the ex-
perience that all boys get under
game conditions.
Coach Nichols credits the track
ROME Ilf) — Jacqueline Kenne-
dy, hailed by Italians as Amer-
ica’s queen, flew into Rome Satur-
day for a 33-hou!r visit and an
audience with Pope John XXIII
en route to India and Pakistan.
The jet airliner that brought
the President’s wife from New
York touched down at Rome’s
Leonardo da Vinci airport about
an hour late due to headwinds.
Traveling with the U.S. First
Lady were her sister, Princess
Lee Radziwell, aides, Secret Serv-
ice men and a delegation of re-
porters.
During her brief stay in Rome,
billed as private, Mrs. Kennedy
was scheduled to call on Italian
President Giovanni Gronchi be-
fore meeting the Pope.
After calling on Gronchi, Mrs.
Kennedy and her sister will go
to U.S. Ambassador G. Frederick
Reinhardt’s residence.
The President’s wife Will be
guest of honor tonight ait a pri-
vate dinner given by Count Di-
program will keeping his baseball
players in good physical condition.
Baeball practice sessions are
held' each afternoon after school,
starting about 5 p.m. and lasting
for about an hour and a half.
Workouts started March 1.
Late afternoon practice sessions
are held to give each boy who
wants to participate in track the
chance to do so.
“Track and baseball are two of
our athletic programs that work
hand in hand,” Coach Nichols
said. “I don’t have to worry
about physical conditioning. That’s
why we can have snappy practice
sessions.”
The head baseball mentor uses
a unique “string ball” to teach
batters how to react to the curve
(See BASEBALL, Page 8)
no Pecci-Blunt, a Kennedy family
friend.
She will attend Mass Sunday
at the pontifical North American
College and be received by the
Pope.
Mrs. Kennedy was loudly ap-
plauded by a crowd of about 1,000
who watched her leave the plane.
She flashed a radiant smile and
waved to the crowd' watching
from a roof observation area as
she appeared at the forward door
of the plane.
At the airport to meet the Pres-
ident’s wife were U.S. Ambassa-
dor Frederick Reinhardt, seven
other embassy officials and their
wives, Count Guerino Roberti,
protocol chief of the Italian For-
eign Ministry and General Renato
Salaris, airport commander.
She wore a leopaird skin coat.
Her shoes, purse, gloves and
small hat were black. A black
scarf was tied snugly around her
(See ROME, Page 8)
Rome Hails First Lady
En Route to Pakistan
Volume 49, Number 70
TAYLOR, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1962 - Associated Press Price Ten Cents
HEAD BASEBALL COACH — Coach Jere Nichols advocates extending high
school baseball into the summer months. The head Taylor High School base-
ball coach is shown at Sportsmans Field which is being reconditioned for the
new season. —Taylor Press staff Photo
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