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Cloudy, Hot
Partly cloudy and hot through Thursday with isolated
afternoon and evening thundershowers both days.
Mild and humid tonight.
Today’s Range: 72-95. Tomorrow’s Range: 72-95.
Yesterday’s High: 93. Rainfall: 0.
Sunrise: 5:58 a.m. Sunset: 7:17 p.m.
Moonrise: 11:21 a.m. Moonset: 10:59 p.m.
Lake Levels: Travis 677.92’. Buchanan 1016.98’.
U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast
for Taylor and Williamson County
Volume 48, Number 206
Eight Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1961
Iff) — Associated Press
Price Five Cents
School Bus Rigging
Charges are Hurled
Against Texas Firms
District Judge D. 6. Wood
Asked to Halt Transactions
AUSTIN (/P) — Atty. Gen, Will Wilson today filed
an anti-trust suit accusing 16 Texas firms and individuals
of rigging bids in the sale of school buses.
Wilson said some 5,100 buses costing $23 million
are involved.
The attorney general’s suit asks 26th District Court
|jhidge D. B. Wood of Georgetown to halt further trans-
actions by the defendants and to
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Astronomers
Probe New
Mysteries
By ALTON BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Writer
BERKELEY, Calif, iff) — Some
monumental new mysteries about
the universe are puzzling astrono-
mers gathered here from around
the world.
For one thing, they find puz-
zling evidence that the universe
is 20 to 30 billion years old, not
the younfg 10 to 11 billions it seem-
ed to be just a couple of years
ago.
And they are finding many
lopsided and chaotic galaxies or
Milky Ways of stars, each com-
posed of hundreds of billions of
stars or suns. Our own sun be-
longs to the Milky Way, which is
only one of billions of galaxies.
One galaxy seems to be run-
ning away from us at half the
miles farther away every second
—yet it is apparently only half
as old as the rest of the universe
about us.
New riddles like this seems to
be popping up all the time, says
Dr. Jon H. Oort of Leiden, Hol-
land, president of the Internation-
al Astronomical Union.
“We can only hope that when
we have amassed enough enig-
mas, the solution may be near,”
he told about 1,000 colleagues
from 33 countries who today be-
gan technical discussions on lat-
est research findings in astron-
omy.
Galaxies are found to occur in
a great variety of shapes, and
Which cannot possibly be in equil-
ibrium or balance, said Dr. Oort.
These galaxies were apparent-
ly created “in d past and! quite
different phase of the universe,
and a big problem is to find out
what happened then, and when.
But so far, he added1, “we
have hardly been able to decipher
any of the hieroglyphs of these
galaxies.”
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assess penalties of up to $3.6
million against each of them.
It covers a period from Jan. 1,
1955, to Aug. 16, 1961.
The civil suit is an outgrowth
of an inquiry into school bus
purchases by the State Board of
Control. The probe started in
June and included courts of in-
quiry in Dallas and Austin.
Named in the attorney gener-
al’s petition are Ray Cowan,
Gordon K. Allen Co., Austin Sales
Co. Inc., Commercial Body Cor-
poration, Superior Coach Sales of
Texas, Inc., the Texaeoach Co.,
Transportation Equipment Sales
Co. Inc., Hurst Bus Sales Co.,
Phil Hudson and Hudson Body
Co., Gordon K. Alien, Jack G.
Fisk, Harold Grist, S. Gordon
Bently, and J. K. Hurst.
Cowan, Austin Sales Co., Texa-
coach, Transportation, Equipment
Sales Co., Hurst and the Hurst
Bus Sales Co., Fisk, Stroud and
Bentley are of Austin; Allen, the
Gordon K. Allen Co., Superior
Coach Sales, Hudson, the Hud-
son Body Co., and Shreffler are
of Dallas, and Commercial Body
Corp., and Grist are of San
Antonio.
The petition alleges that since
about Jan. 1, 1955, the defendants
and others “have combined their
capital, skill and acts in the sale
and marketing of school buses in
the State of Texas,” (1) to res-
trict the sale of the school buses,
(2) to “fix, maintain and increase
the price at which school buses
are sold in the State of Texas,”
(3) to prevent 'and lessen com-
petition and (4) to abstain front
engaging in the sale of buses
whose bodies are not manufac-
tured by any company other
than “the one with which each
defendant had a distribution
contract.”
The suit alleges Gowan, a for-
mer employe of the State Board
of Control, “is and has been the
dominant figure and’ moving force
in said combination 'and conspir-
acy.” It says he was an assistant
purchasing agent in Charge of
purchasing school buses before
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NOT AWED—A rifle with fixed bayonet doesn’t
awe a West Berlin fraulein as she critically surveys
glum-looking East German police guarding the
East-West sector border. All West Berlin vehicles,
except those with special permits, are banned from
crossing into East Berlin,
-NEA Radiophoto
To Pay New Tax
Texans Soon to Start
Robbing Piggy Banks
United States Orbits
New Robot Observer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (ff>—
A new robot observer sped
through far reaches of space to-
day to find out just what kind of
sailing for astronauts is created
when the solar winds of radiation
blow over earth’s magnetic fields.
Eleven hours after the launch-
ing of the “Windmill” scientific
package from this missile test
center Tuesday night, officials of
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration reported on
Rear Guard Fight
Planned in Dallas
DALLAS iff) — The Dallas White
Citizens Council plans no mass
demonstrations when 'the Dallas
public schools integrate Sept. 6,
its president said Tuesday night.
However, Lloyd S. Riddle said,
We shall continue the fight for
segregation and the preservation
of the white race.”
Riddle said no mass demonstra-
tions are planned because the
council did not have enough mem-
bers to make such action effec-
tive. “We must fight a rear guard
action and perhaps it will turn
into a victory.” '
Riddle, speaking at a monthly
meeting of the council in a down-
town hotel attended by 23 per-
sons, gave no hint of what speci-
fic actions he considered a rear
guard action.
Six of those present at the meet-
ing identified themselves as visi-
tors.
Several council members offer-
ed specific suggestions from the
1 floor.
Miss Ruth Smith suggested that
the council organize a telephone
campaign to urge parents to keep
their children away from schools.
the basic of radio signals that
the satellite experiment “looks
good.”
NASA scientists, however, re-
served final judgment. That was
because the elongated orbit-per-
haps well beyond.54,000 miles out
at the far point—would take so
long that second-pass readings
would be late. Those would show
whether orbit was achieved, and
the shape of the path.
The space traveler had been
tracked by six observation sta-
tions, at Johannesburg, South Af-
rica; Ascension Island; Santiago
and Antofagasta, Chile; Lima,
Peru; and Woomera, Australia.
Named Explorer XII, the pack-
age is expected to tell scientists
more clearly than ever before
how solar radiation influences
conditions on earth and how
great a hazard it is to manned
space1 travel.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration was reluc-
tant today to label the space mes-
senger a satellite, but there was
every indication it was in suc-
cessful orbit after its launching
from this rocket center Tuesday
night.
“Yes, I think we have an or-
bit,” reported Dr. John W. Town-
send of NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center.
But because an extremely el-
liptical orbit was sought, Town-
send said it may he as long as
62 hours after launch before it
can be definitely confirmed.
Explorer XII was aimed for a
side-swinging course designed to
take it as far out as 54,000 miles
from earth and bring it back to
within 170 miles at the low point.
Each pass around the world
would take 31. hours, compared to
(See ROBOT, Page 8)
AUSTIN (ff) — Texans will have
to raid their piggy banks when
the state’s' first sales tax goes
into effect Sept. 1.
Pennies will be at a premium
. .one penny tax for a ham-
burger, two pennies for a hambur-
ger steak and more than a few
pennies for a l-bone steak dinner.
To the question “What will I
have to pay” under the 2 per
cent sales tax the Texas Re-
search League gave this ans-
wer today:
A man with an income of $5,000
a year will pay an annual sales
tax of about $24.
Other questions and their an-
swers are:
What are the main items on
which I will pay the sales tax?
The tax will cover furniture,
household and kitchen appliances,
most clothing, household supplies,
toys, restaurant meals and elec-
tric and gas utility service.
What are the miain items on
Which I will not pay the sales
tax?
The tax will not cover grocer-
ies, housing (whether you own or
rent), medical and dental bills,
insurance, telephone service, your
car and the gasoline you buy to
run it.
Automobiles and gasoline,
well as cigarettes, liquor and
beer are already taxed and the
lawmakers decided not to include
them in the levy.
Legislators replealed the old
three per cent state tax on tele-
vision sets, radios and air condi-
tioners and placed them under
the two per cent sales tax. The
cosmetics tax was reduced from
2.2 per cent to two per cent.
Can I get credit for this tax
when I pay my federal income
tax?
Yes, the tax is levied on the
consumer. The Internal Revenue
Service will issue a bulletin soon
telling an easy way to find how
much of a deduction you may
take. The IRS has done this for
all other states with sales taxes.
Anyone may keep his own rec-
ords and use them instead of the
standard IRS deduction.
(See TEXANS, Page 8)
Police Probe
Knife Killing
Of Two Boys
NEW YORK (ff) — A force of
75 policemen combed chest-high
weeds behind a Brooklyn bowling
alley today, meticulously probing
for a scrap of evidence in the
knife-killing of two young boys.
Apparently neither boy had
been sexually molested, but po-
lice did not rule out the possi-
bility that a sex fiend had com-
mitted the crime. One body,
bound and nude, had been stab-
bed 25 times, the other 30 times
Both boys had been gagged.
The grief-stricken parents iden-
tified the bodies a-t Kings County
morgue Tuesday night as Jaime
Luis Ruiz, 9, and Augustin Trini-
dad-Jr., 13.
Jaime’s stepfather, William
Renta, said the last time he had
seen the youth was about 4 p.m.
when Jaime left home, saying
he was going to meet Augustin.
A friend of the boys, Rafael
Rivera, 11, told police he had
seen them shortly after 4 p.m.
and that they told him they were
going to a shop nearby to get
parts for a bicycle they were re-
pairing.
Amato Morro, 40 stumbled onto
the bodies about 6 p.m. as he
scavenged for junk. Jaime’s body
lay under a tree, gagged with a
pair of isocks. Augustin’s nude
body was in the weeds, his
hands bound with suspenders and
his mouth gagged by a necktie.
The bodies were several hun-
dred feet to the rear Of a parking
lot behind a bowling alley on
Flatlands Avenue in the Canarsie
section of Brooklyn. A creek bi-
(See PROBE, Page 8)
Horse Making
A Comeback
By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS
The horse has made another
comeback.
A mounted police troop lias
been organized in Orange Coun-
ty, N. Y., and 12 horse owners
have been sworn in as deputy
sheriffs.
Sheriff Ernest Shoonmaker
said the troop-augmenting the
regular auto patrol—will aid in
searches for lost persons, hunt
for escapees from institutions
who hide cut in wooded areas,
and be available for possible
disaster duty.
The troopers will have col-
orful uniforms and 10 gallon
hats for ceremonial occasions
such as parades and horse
shows.
Mayor Brandt Sends
Letter to Kennedy
BERLIN (ff)
Brandt of Wes) Berlin announced
today he has sent a letter to
President Kennedy telling him
“Berlin expects more than words,
it expects political action.”
Brandt told a cheering rally of
200,000 West Berliners about the
letter.
“I said what we think in all
frankness,” he said.
Brandt said he wanted “high
Western representatives to come
to Berlin to see the situation for
themselves, but did not name
them.
To cheers and thunderous ap-
plause, Brandt declared that by
sealing off the border in divided
Mayor Willy Bei lin, the Communists were us-
East Germans Restrict
Own Citizens' Travel
BERLIN iff) — The East Ger-
man Communists cut down on al-
ready limited travel by thieff own
citizens to West Germany today.
It was their most vigorous inter-
ference with traffic between the
two Germanys since Berlin’s new
crisis began.
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LATE NEWS BRIEFS -
By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS
SOCIALIST PARTY WINNING IN ISRAEL
TEL AVIV, Israel — Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion’s Socialist Mapai party appeared today to have
lost three or four seats in Parliament but remained the
country’s dominant party. It will be the mainstay of
the next government.
ANOTHER PATROLMAN SENT TO GATESVILLE
AUSTIN — One more highway patrolman will be as-
signed to Gatesville, scene of several recent escapes from
the Gatesville State School for Boys, Gov. Price Daniel
has announced. Daniel said Tuesday the patrolman has
been assigned to “provide additional security.”
CUBA DEAL MAY BE COMPLETED TODAY
HAVANA — A $2.5-million Eastern Air Lines pass-
enger plane swapped for a $50,000 Cuban patrol boat in
the aftermath of a hijacking wave may return to Miami,
Fla., today. A 10-man airline crew arrived in Havana
Tuesday to fly back the Lockheed Electra hijacked to
Cuba last July 24 with 38 persons aboard.
BORDER PATROLMEN ‘RIDING SHOTGUN’
SAN ANTONIO — Border Patrolmen have been
riding as guards on flights out of San Antonio since
last week when President Kennedy announced he would
order such a move, it has been confirmed here.
SHOWERS EXPECTED IN PARTS OF STATE
Thunderheads built up on the upper coast and scat-
tered showers fell in the Panhandle during the night
indicating that parts of Texas could expect more wet
weather Wednesday.
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Berlin, Solovyev said, “The at-
tempts of the commandant of the
American garrison in Berlin to
interfere with measures of the
German Democratic Republic are
completely inappropriate. These
measures are exclusively within
the competence of the government
ed Sunday by barricades erect-
ed against East Berliners going
into West Berlin and against
West Berliners going east unless
they get special permits. Today
the clampdown was extended be-
yond Berlin to the borders be-
tween East and West Germany.
West German guards all along
the border said the arrival of
East Germans at crossing points
practically stopped.
Freight trains and trucks were
permitted to travel in both direc-
tions as before and Westerners
going into East Germany were al-
lowed through as long as their
papers were in order.
But East Germans on west-
bound trains were ordered off at
the West German border, even
though they had visas and per-
mits issued by communist auth-
orities.
At Helmstedt, chief rail and
highway crossing near the middle
of the 935-mile border, no East
German cars were allowed
through after midmoming. No
East Germans were on trains
crossing the Bavarian border.
The East German government
made no announcement concern-
ing the situation. But it threat-
ened Tuesday to put on another
blockade like that in 1948-49 if
West Germany cuts off East Ger-
man trade in reprisal for the
travel restrictions in Berlin.
Col. Andrei I. Solovyev, com-
mander of Soviet troops in Ber-
lin, has taken no notice of the
protest of the three Western com-
mandants Tuesday against the
new Iron Curtain across the city.
But he replied to an earlier pro-
test against harassment of East
Berlin workers communting to
West Berlin, and told the Western
commanders they “cannot be tak-
en seriously.”
The Western protest Tuesday
said the barricades have turned
the city into an armed camp in
flagrant violation of Soviet agree-
ments to maintain Berlin as a
four-power city.
The Soviet note came as indig-
nation swept West Berlin because
of Allied opposition to drastic ac-
tion against Communist closure
of the divided city’s border.
In a letter to Maj. Gen. Albert
Watson II, U. S. commandant in
ful interests of the republic and
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U.S. Personal
Income at
All-Time High
WASHINGTON (ff) — The gov-
ernment said today a July boost
in payrolls pushed the total per-
sonal income of individual Amer-
icans to another all-time high.
The Commerce Department
said personal income last month
hit an annual rate of $419.2 bil-
lion—an increase of $1.9 billion
over June. Not counted in this
calculation was a $21.8-billion spe
cial dividend paid on veterans
life insurance policies.
This was the second prosperity
report in as many days. The Fed-
eral Reserve Board, said Tuesday
that industrial production last
month had capped a five-month
rise by exceeding for the first
time, its prerecession high.
The board’s production index in-
creased from 110 in June to 112
in July. The previous peak was
111 in January, 1960. In this in-
dex, 100, represents average out-
put in 1957.
Of the increase in personal in-
come, $1.8 billion was accounted
for by increased wage and salary
payments.
One-third of the gain was in
manufacturing, 'another third in
service industries, and the re-
mainder in construction, trade,
transportation and government.
ing the old capital as a lever to
split the Allies.
“If the Communists are not
stopped at the Brandenburg Gate
they will not be stopped at the
Rhine1,” he declared, referring to
the famous gate standing as a
marker between East and West
Berlin. «J,
The mood of West Berliners,
impatient over Western Allied in-
action, was reflected by Deputy
Mayor Franz Amrehn, who told
the crowd:
“Protests are not enough.”
The crowd collected in front of
Schoeneberg Borough Hall, head-
quarters of the West Berlin city
government.
The rally was called by Brandt
with the support of trade unions.
The protest made by the West-
ern commandants “was good but
we cannot just leave it at that,”
Brandt declared to stormy ap-
plause.
West , German Ambassador Wil-
helm Grewe. leaving a conference
at the State Department, said to-
day there is a certain disap-
pointment in Germany at the
failure of the Western Allies so
far to take countermeasures
against the Red blockade of ref-
ugees fleeing to West Berlin.
The Allied conference at the
State Department — the third in
three days—lasted for about 90
minutes.
The Western powers were re-
ported to be having serious diffi-
culty deciding on what precise
reprisals they might adopt
against the Communist closing of
the border in Berlin, even though
(See WORDS, Page 8)
Bozo the Clown
Dies of Cancer
DENVER (ff) — Bozo the down
is dead of cancer—the disease he
came to the American Medical
Center here a month ago to help
fight. j
He left no living relatives.
Edwin Cooper, 41, a native of
Arlington, Tex., t rouped the
world with Ringling Brothers-Bar-
num & Bailey Circus. He appear-
ed in motion pictures such as
‘The Clown” and “The Greatest
Show On Earth.”
His show career began at the
age of 9, the son and grandson
of clowns called Bozo.
Until his death Tuesday, offi-
cials at the Jewish - -supported
medical center said Cooper looked
forward to making a television
film to help publicize the work
against cancer.
A requiem mass will be sung
for Cooper at St. Mary Magda-
lene Church at 9 a.m. Friday.
Burial will be in Denver.
LIBRARY DONATIONS
Library donations have been
received in memory of Mrs. Lula
Boylen and Bril Rea.
Thursday Contest
Five Candidates Seek
Title of Farm Queen
PICK UP CREW-—The original crew of the hijacked Eastern Airlines Electra,
Capt. W. E. Buchanan, left, co-pilot J. N. Yandell, center, and engineer P. A.
Knudsen, are shown in Miami shortly before leaving for Havana to pick up the
plane which has been swapped to the U.S. for a patrol boat by the Cuban gov-
ernment.
—NEA Telephoto
Well Application
Hearing Slated
Taylor Press Austin Bureau
AUSTIN—The application of H.
H. Coffield of Rockdale to drill
two wells in the D. A. Thompson
Survey in the Minerva-Rockdale
Field in Milam County as excep-
tions to standard spacing rules
will be considered at a hearing
in Austin Aug. 16.
The proposed wells are to be
known as well No. 1, George B.
Lumpkins lease, .6035-acre, block
131, 18 feet from the northeast
line1 and 33 feet from the east
line of tire lease, to a depth of
I, 995 feet; and well No. 1, Wil-
liam Gee lease, .8026-acre, block
132, 50 fe'et from the northwest
line and 75 feet from the south-
west line of the lease, lo the
same depth.
The Williamson County Farm
Bureau queen for 1961 will be
selected Thursday night as five
candidates appear on the pro-
gram at the Taylor SPJST hall.
The program, planned by the
committee will start at 7:30 p.m.
The contestants vying for the
title of “Farm Bureau” queen
are Miss Myrna Wuthrich, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Wuthrich, Bartlett; Betty Peter-
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Edmond Peterson of Round Rock;
Miss Laverne Schroeder, daugh-
ter of Mr. iand Mrs. Marvin
Schroeder of Taylor; Miss Patri-
cia Robbins, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. R. Robbins Jr. of George-
town; and Miss Linda Kreidel,
daughter of Mr. and!' Mrs. Kermit
Kreidel of Rt. 1, Taylor.
Highlighting the queen’s contest
will be the crowning of the Wil-
liamson County Farm Burean
queen by Miss Ruby Lenz of
Taylor, queen of 1960. Miss Lenz
placed third in the district con-
test in Cameron last year
The difficult task of choosing admission will be charged.
the new queen will be presided
over by one of Taylor’s young
attorneys, Tom Bullion. Bullion
will have the most difficult task
of keeping the contestants at ease
and presenting certain questions
to them so that the judges can
make their choice as to who
will be the new queen.
The judges for 'this contest will
be the new home demonstration
agent, Mrs. Margaret O. Owen.;
Leonard Boyd, special agent for
the Miller Mutual Ins. Co.; and
Bill Pieratt, prepresentative of
Lee and Bastrop Counties.
Rockdale’s goofy-girls, the Gee-
senslobs will provide the enter-
tainment.
The winner of the county
queen’s contest will appear on the
Clark Bolt tv program over sta-
tion KCEN August 22, when all
other county queen’s of district
eight will be seen. Then on Aug-
ust 25, the district eight contest
will be held in Lampasas.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the queen’s contest. No
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