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_ Full Leased Wire Report of The Associated Press—World’s Greatest News Service___
Fair
Fair weather with some early morning cloudiness and
no important temperature change.
Today’s Range: 65-86. Tomorrow’s Range: 66-88.
Yesterday’s Range: 85. Rainfall: 0.
Sunrise: 5:41 a.m. Sunset: 7:14 p.m.
Moonrise Wed.: 10:35 a.m. Moonset Tues.: 11:48 p.m.
Lake Levels—Travis: 668:54’. Buchanan: 1015.18’.
U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast For
Taylor and Williamson County
Volume 49, Number 120
Six Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1962
(IP) — Associated Press
Price Five Cent
Banks Trace
Dormant
Account List
Deadline Near
In New Law
Texas banks — including the
First-Taylor National and City Na-
tional of Taylor—are trying to
give away a pile of money—thou-
sands, perhaps millions of dol-
lars.
The money is in accounts the
Ibanks have had for at least sev-
"en years and where the owners
are unknown.
From all over the state, banks
report they are mailing out let-
ters, making calls, using city
directories and military base lo-
caters and even sending out em-
ployes to find missing owners.
Tom Parker, executive vice
president of the First-Taylor Na-
tional Bank, said his firm had
been working on dormant ac-
counts for about five years, but
that interest has intensified as
the deadline nears.
“We will have to publish the
names of some owners that we
have lost track of. We have their
names or their names and ad-
dresses but they have moved.”
Parker said everyone in the
bank is helping to try to locate
bank’s old-timers who remember
quite a few of the people.
Parker said he didn’t think the
total dollar value of the dormant
accounts would be large, but that
there probably would be quite a
few small accounts.
Thos. W. Holmstrom, vice presi-
dent of City National Bank, said
his firm had mailed out many
letters to owners of dormant ac-
counts. Some of the letters were
sent to heirs.
“We’re working to compile a
list,” Holmstrom said. “Some of
these names will be published.”
Associated Press said the hunt
was started by the state’s new
lescheat reporting law. The an-
[cient principle of escheat, reach-
ing back to the Middle ages, sim-
ply means that what belongs to
nobody individually belongs to
everybody—to the state.
Texas had had this law ever
since it was organized, hut until
the past few months has had no
effective way to get abandoned
property—or even to find out
where it was.
Last summer, the. legislature
passed a law requiring every-
body except banks to report aban-
doned property to the state. In
January, the law-makers included
banks in the reporting law.
It was a long and bitter fight
in the legislation halls to require
banks to report their abandoned
property. At one point, Gov. Price
Daniel even threatened the bank-
ers with a legislative or congres-
sional investigation if they did not
work with him on some sort of
abandoned property seizure bill.
The bankers led by the1 Texas
Bankers A,ssn., contended that
they had to report escheatable
property, it would take millions of
dollars out of circulation and con-
fidence in banks would be under-
mined.
A House Investigating Commit-
tee recommended passage of the
law. The committee reported
that some banks were gobbling up
dormant accounts with very high
service charges and estimated $1
million would be taken by banks
in this way this year if a report-
ing law were not passed.
Briefly, the new reporting law:
1. Forbids banks to make any
(See BANKS, Page 6)
JfK Warns labor Against
Unjustified Wage Hikes
COMBINED CRUISE — The German Navy’s three-masted training bark “Gorch
Fock” is shown approaching the Statue of Liberty as she cruises under full
sail up the Hudson River. It is the start of a one-week visit to New York Citv.
It is the first visit of a German Naval vessel to New York since 1936. As a unit
of the German naval forces operating under NATO command, the 1,860 ton
ship is making the trip as a combined training and goodwill cruise.
—NEA Telephoto
New Jersey
Denounces
MDs Decision
TRENTON, N. J. m — The
State Assembly has denounced as
ruthless a declaration by doctors
not to treat elderly patients under
the Kennedy administration’s pro-
posed medical aid bill.
The lower house also received a
bill Monday, to make it illegal for
a doctor to refues to treat a pa-
tient because of the patient’s
method of payment for medical
care.
The legislation, which will be up
for a vote next Monday, would
require the State Board of Medi-
cal Examiners to revoke the li-
cense of such a doctor and would
impose a fine of $100 and up to
90 days in jail on an offender.
In a resolution directed at an
estimated 200 New Jersey doctors
who signed the declaration, the
legislators described their action
as “a ruthless disregard of the
sick and afflicted as well as a
repudiation of the lofty ideas of
a noble profession.”
The resolution was adopted by
a voice vote.
Secretary of Welfare Abraham
Ribicoff said today New Jersey
doctors who say they wouldn’t
treat patients under Social Se-
curity health insurance are “try-
ing to blackmail the Congress and
the American people.’’
Ribicoff also said in a state-
ment that the New Jersey doc-
tors “apparently don’t mind the
thought of federal funds when the
doctors themselves are the bene-
ficiaries.”
“These doctors apparently be-
lieve it is all right,” he said, “for
the federal government to help
build the hospitals in which they
practice, but that an insurance
plan that would help their patients
pay their hospital bills would not
be good.”
A number of doctors at the
Point Pleasant Hospital, Point
Pleasant, N.J., and the Fitkin Me-
morial Hospital, Neptune, N. J.,
signed a resolution last week say-
ing they would not treat patients
under President Kennedy’s pro-
posed program of health insur-
(See DECISION, Page 6)
Frost Muffs Own Poem,
GetsAid From Colleague
WASHINGTON ® — Robert
Frost, 88, blew a line while re-
citing one of his most oft-quoted
poems. Another renowned Ameri-
can poet bailed him out from the
audience.
“My little horse must think it
queer,” Frost rumbled Monday
night to a packed theater in the
Library of Congress, “to stop
without a farmhouse near, be-
tween the woods . . . between the
woods. . .”
“And frozen lake,” came the
stage-whispered voice from the
rapt audience.
With a smile at colleague Louis
Untermeyer, the library’s special
consultant in poetry, Frost picked
up the line and finished “stopping
by woods on a snowy evening.”
'He drew a standing, shouting
ovation.
Frost held 600 listeners spell-
bound for more than an hour- with
his homey chatting and reading,
which keynoted for him a week
at the library in his role as hon-
orary consultant in the humani-
ties. The library announced Frost
has agreed to another three-
year term in that post.
“Now I’ve got all mixed up in
government,” he murmured. “The
other day someone called me a
statesman. So if I act a little
funny tonight, a little strange, it
isn’t poetry, it’s statesmanship.”
If he were a statesman, he add-
ed wryly, he’d like to explode a
little free verse on Soviet Premier
Khrushchev.
“I’d like to say to Khrushchev,
‘Don’t be a dud, incapable of
bursting rapture. The conflict
ends in pairing. Let’s join in nu-
clear things, let’s join in space,
and have a great honeymoon
together.”
Frost said some more poems,
then paused again to comment on
Secretary of the Interior Stewart
L. Udall and the United States.
On Udall: “He goes around de-
claring wildernesses. I’m in favor
of ’em.”
On the nation: “We’re too young
to be credible.”
Census Shows 3,318
Housing Units in City
Taylor has 3,318 housing units,
according to the 1960 report just
released by the federal govern-
ment.
A total of 316 contain four
rooms. A total of 234 have five
rooms and 137 six rooms. A hun-
dred and sixty have three rooms,
121 two rooms and 26 one room.
Only 18 have eight rooms or
more.
Many Taylor homes were built
prior to 1939. There are 2,207
homes in this category. A total of
238 were built between 1955 and
1960, 462 between 1950 and 1954
and 411 between 1940 and 1949.
The report shows that 9,340 peo-
ple lived in the 3,318 housing
units in 1960. That’s an average
of 3.1 people per house.
Two hundred and sixty-two of
the houses were not occupied,
leaving 3,051 that were.
Two persons lived in most of
the homes, there being 950 in
this category. The report shows
592 were occupied by one per-
son, 530 by three persons, 406
by four persons, 275 by five per-
sons, 122 by six persons, 62 by
seven persons and 114 by eight or
more.
The figures show that an av-
erage of one person or less oc-
(See CENSUS, Page 6)
U.S. Reports
143-Million
Bale Crop
WASHINGTON ® — The Agri-
culture Department’s final esti-
mates today put the 1961 cotton
crop at 14,318,000 bales of 500
pounds gross weight and cotton-
seed production at 5,987,000 tons.
The. Texas crop was 4,786,000
acres averaging 350 pounds an
acre.
The 1960 crop was 14,272,000
bales, and 5,886,000 tons of cot-
tonseed. otton production aver-
aged 13,553,000 bales for the 10-
year 1950-59 average.
The department said the com-
bined value of cotton and cotton-
seed from last year’s crop was
$2,653 million, up 10 per cent
from $2,404 million for the 1960
crop.
A total of 16,588,000 acres was
planted to the 1961 crop com-
pared with 16,080,000 for the 1960
crop. The harvested acreage for
last year’s crop was 15,634,000
compared with 15,309,000 for the
1960 crop.
The yield of lint cotton per
harvested acre last year- was
438 pounds compared with 446
in 1960 and 362 for the ten-year
average.
The value of the cotton lint
crop produced last year was put
at $2,348,139,000 compared with
$2,154,165,000 for the 1960 crop.
The value of the 1961 cottonseed
was 'reported at $305,322,000 com-
pared with $249,977,000 the prev-
ious year.
The department said growers
received an average of 32.8 cents
a pound for 1961 crop cotton com-
(See CROP, Page 6)
Record Baby
Crop Reported
WASHINGTON OP) — There were
4,282,000 babies born last year in
the United States—a record.
And, according to a report to-
day by the Public Health Ser-
vice, the infant death rate reach-
ed a new low.
Those were contributing factors
to a net increase of 2,580,000 in
the population, without taking im-
migration into account.
The service, on the basis of pro-
visional figures, said, the 4,282,-
000 births during 1961 compared
with a previous record of 4,257,-
650 in 1960.
There were 108,200 infant deaths
in 1961, down from 108,800 in
1960, and the infant mortality rate
was 25.3 per 1,000 live births,
down from the 1960 rate of 25.7,
the previous low.
City Equalization
Board Named
Taylor city commissioners this
morning named one new mem-
ber on the 1962 board of equaliza-
tion and retained the other two.
• Action was tabled at the last
regular meeting after one of the
commissioners commented that a
change was needed.
The new member is Carl Snid-
er. Re-appointed to serve again
this year were O. F. Clark and
W. R. Scarbrough.
Snider replaces Tom Duffy Sr.
Commissioners voted to havte
the city attorney draw up a re-
solution expressing the city’s ap-
preciation to Duffy for his long
service on the important board.
In making the motion to name
Snider, Clark and Scarbrough to
the board, Commissioner F. E.
Holman said he thought the city
should leave two of the exper-
ienced members on the board for
another year.
“Maybe next year,” he said,
“We’ll drop another of the older
members.”
The special called meeting
lasted only a few minutes.
Single Race
Remains
Undecided
DALLAS (iP) — One race for
congress was unsettled today on
the basis of nearly complete re-
turns from the Democratic pri-
mary Saturday.
Rep. John Dowdy, 50, seeking
a sixth term bid on his conserva-
tive voting record, held only a
55 vote lead over Benton Mussle-
white1, 30, a lawyer and former
SMU football player, in Texas’
7th District in East Texas.
Figures of the Texas Election
Bureau from all 254 counties,
with 193 complete, gave Dowdy
31,299 vqtes and Musslewhite 31
174. ' .
Election Bureau Manager Bob
Johnson said it would take the
official canvass to decide the con
test.
All other races were settled
except for the possibility that
Desmond Barry, Houston truck
’executive, may have won the
Republican* nomination for con
gressman-at-large without a run-
off.
The latest tabulation gave
ry a majority of slightly more
than 500 votes over two oppon-
ents. He had 55,527 against 29
639 for Giles Miller and 25,364
for Joe Phillips.
Other Texas Election Bureau
totals for statewide races on re-
turns from all 254 counties, with
193 complete v/ere:
Democrats:
Governor: John Connally 406,-
105, Price Daniel 237,447, Marshall
Formby 136,633, Edwin Walker
129,691, Will Wilson 163,245, Don
Yarborough 300736.
Lieutenant governor: Bob Bak-
er 251,452, Crawford Martin 172,-
354, Jarrard Secrest 153,795,
Turman 340,386.
Congressman at large: Wood-
row Bean 232,709, Manley Head
152,383, Warren Moore 181,550,
Joe Pool 208,782, Charles Steven-
son 196,607. Russell Van Keuren
63,846, Phil Willis 78,586.
Attorney. General: Waggoner
Carr 527,366, Tom James 165,037
Bob Looney 39,161, W. T. Mc-
Donald 99,542, Les Procter 127-
595 Tom Reavley 267,351.
Railroad Commissioner: Ben
Ramsey 807,648, Keith Wheatley
348,772.
Agriculture Commissioner: Ev-
etts Haley 445,255, John White
675,924.
Criminal Appeals: Otis Duna-
gan 396,786, W. A. Morrison 659,-
689.
Supreme Court Place 1: Meade
Griffin 566,134, Jesse Owens 18,-
693.
Supreme Court Place 3: Zollie
Steak] ey 627,771, Willard Street
425,293.
Race track betting amendment:
For 461,187, against 569,701.
(See RACE, Page 6)
CHILD PICTURED — Actor Robert Goulet, moves
toward his five-year-old daughter, Nicolette, at po-
lime station in New York. The child, believed kid-
naped, was found safe and well after spending the
night in the apartment of a relative of her baby-
sitter. The child was turned over to the police by
the babysitter. —nea Telephoto
FOUND SAFE — An eight-month-old baby boy
found lying alone in the middle of a grassy esp-
lande of a busy Houston street, is shown in police
headquarters. The boy was identified as Steven Earl
Clary. Glenn Ray Clary, father of the boy told police
officers he took the child out at 3:30 a.m. Sunday
and couldn’t remember where he left him.
-NEA Telephoto
Corruption Campaign
Nets Pulitzer Award
NEW YORK (IP) — A Florida newspaper that car-
ried on a three-year campaign against entrenched cor-
ruption in its area has won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for
meritorious public service.
The Panama City News-Herald was awarded the
gold plaque Monday as trustees of Columbia University
announced winners of the 46th annual Pulitzer Prizes.
award
Army Rejects
Second Plea
By Roberts
WASHINGTON (ffl — The Army
took a second look at Maj. Archi-
bald Roberts’, case but rejected
his appeal before mustering him
out of uniform, it has been dis-
closed.
The army said Roberts was re-
lieved from active duty as of
Monday and that he has left Ft.
Lee, Va., for his home in Fort
Coilins, Colo.
Secretary of the Army Elvis J.
Stahr Jr. announced on April 27
that he had ordered Roberts dis-
missed from the active Army be-
cause of improper statements by
Roberts in a speech before the
Daughters of the American Revo-
lution a week earlier.
Roberts, 47, onetime aide to for-
mer Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walk-
er, spoke to the DAR off the cuff
after the Pengaton had refused to
clear a text he had prepared.
In his impromptu talk, Roberts
said Mayor Samuel Yorty of Las
Angeles had a Communist back-
ground—a charge which Yorty
promptly denied—and that the as-
sistant secretary of state, G. Men-
nen Williams, had leftist leanings.
Roberts, a veteran of more
than 18 years of active Army ser-
vice, protested his dismissal on
grounds the action violated Army
regulations.
Asked about the status of the
case, the Army said that Roberts
on May 1 wrote Stahr asking a
reconsideration.
The case was subsequently re-
viewed and the action taken was
reaffirmed, the Army said, add-
ing that Roberts had. been noti-
fied of the results of the review.
Roberts retains his reserve com-
mission.
-o-
LIBRARY DONATIONS
Library donations have been
received in memory of Mlrs. Mary
Burow and Hal L. Stocley.
The editorial award went to
Thomas M. Storke, 85-year-old
editor and publisher of the Santa
Barbara (Calif.) News-Press for
calling public attention to the
conservative John Birch Society.
Walter Lippman, 72-year-old vet-
eran New York Herald Tribune
syndicate writer, was cited for
wise and responsible international
reporting. He had won a special
Pulitzer citation in 1958.
The Pulitzer Prize for cartoons
went to Edmund S. Valtman, 47,
a native of Estonia and an editor-
ial cartoonist for the Hartford
(Conn.) Times.
Paul Vathis of the Harrisburg,
Pa., bureau of The Associated
Press won the prize for news pho-
tography with a picture of Presi-
dent Kennedy and former Presi-
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower. It
showed them with heads bowed,
(See CAMPAIGN, Page 6)
Says Public
Interest
Is Involved
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. W -
President Kennedy told labor to-
day that “unjustified wage de-
mands which require price in-
creases” are as much against the
national interest as “unjustified
profit demands which require
price increases.”
He said, “I speak with a single
voice to the men on both sides
of the nation’s bargaining tables
when I say that your sense of
responsibility — the responsibility
of both labor and management to
the general public—is the founda-
tion on which our hopes must
build for the survival and suc-
cess of the free enterprise sys-
tem.”
The President, in a speech pre-
pared for the United Auto Work-
ers convention, said the adminis-
tration would not undertake to fix
prices and wages in a peacetime
economy but that it must define
goals and point out the national
interest.
“But we possess and seek no
powers of compulsion,” added
Kennedy, saying the government
must mainly rely on the volun-
tary efforts of labor and business
to make certain the national in-
terest is preserved.
Thus within a month of his
successful battle to force Big
Steel to roll back its price in-
creases, Kennedy has advised la-
bor the same standard will be ap-
plied to wage increase in the
public interest.
But as he tried to soothe busi-
nessmen’s concern over his steel
price tactics eight days ago when
he spoke to the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, Kennedy today at-
tempted to allay labor’s concern
over the administration’s close
patrolling of wage contracts.
He told the chamber, “We do
not want the added burden of de-
termining individual prices for in-
dividual products.”
He said much the same thing to
the auto workers.
(See JFK, Page 6)
Police Report
Two Accidents
A 1948 International truck driv-
en by Albert Cameron hit a
parked car owned by Angel Za-
vala at Second and Main early
this morning, causing an estima-
ted $50 in damages to the oar.
The truck was not damaged.
Police said the truck, owned
by Williamson County, was go-
ing north on Main and was at-
tempting to make a right turn
onto East Second, when it hit the
left front fender of the 1954
Chevrolet with the right rear
wheel of the truck.
Mrs. Zavala lives at 608 Bland.
A minor Monday afternoon ac-
cident also was reported. Aus-
teno McLaughlin Walton was at-
tempting to pull out of a parking
place in the 400 block of North
Main and in backing up hit a
highway marker sign causing
mnor damage to the car.
Teacher to be Honored
For Her Understanding
TOPEKA, Kan. (ffl — Marie L.
French has been a teacher 23
years and has had only one long
absence from class—when she
had the mumps.
“That was a long time ago,”
she recalled Monday.
Starting Sunday, Mrs. French
will be absent for a week. She is
going to Washington to accept an
award as national Teacher of the
Year from President Kennedy.
She and her husband, Freeman
French, also a teacher, are to be
at the White House for the presen-
tation Monday. They will spend
the rest of the week sightseeing.
Mrs. French is a mathematics
teacher at Topeka High School.
Her husband teaches music in
junior high school.
“I’ve lived mathematics for so
long,” she said, “I never thought
it would lead to something as
glamorous as this.”
She was chosen from among
1.4 million elementary and high
school teachers in the nation.
From the President she will re-
ceive a gold lapel pin and a cer-
tificate.
The competition is sponsored by
the U.S. Office of Education, the
Council of Chief State School Of-
ficers and Lodk magazine.
Mrs. French’s finest testimoni-
als come from her pupils:
“She understands kids and gets
ideas over at our levels.”
“She’s the most intelligent, most
understanding and most varied
person that I have ever known.”
“She has convinced me and
many other kids that teaching is
a wonderful life’s work.”
Mrs. French agrees. “There is
no more satisfying Life,” she says.
Nine other teachers were final-
ists with Mrs. French in the na-
tional competition. Each will re-
ceive an honor roll certificate.
Mrs. French also teaches a Sun-
day School class for high school
children at Westminster Presby-
terian church in Topeka. Her hus-
band is the choir director.
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