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Fair - Warm
Fair weather with no important temperature change
• through Tuesday.
Today’s Range: 46-80. Tomorrow’s Range: 50-80.
Yesterday’s High: 82. Rainfall: 0.
Tomorrow’s Sunrise: 6:33 a.m. Sunset: 6:44 p.m.
Moonrise: 2:21 a.m. Moonset Tomorrow: 2:23 p.m.
Lake Levels: Travis 679.42’. Buchanan 1016.65’.
U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast
for Taylor and Williamson County
Volume 47, Number 79
Six Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1960
Associated Press
Price Five Cents
More Lovely Private Plane Crashes
Weather Due
Thru Tuesday
Farmers Busy
Planting Grain
Another lovely spring day greet-
ed Taylor and Williamson County
today and still another was fore-
cast for Tuesday.
The weather since Saturday, the
day before the official arrival of ters, 63; Karl H. Schmidt, 33;
African Police
Kill Fifteenon Weekend ®pen ^Ire °j
Huge Crowd
Nearly Fifty
Reported Killed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fifteen persons were killed dur-
ing the weekend as private planes
crashed from Maine to Califor-
nia.
Four persons from Allentown,
Pa., died Sunday when a plane
owned by a flying club crashed
while the pilot was trying to make
an emergency landing near King-
ston, N.Y.
The victims were Ralph R. Pe-
spring, has been virtually per-
fect for all sorts of outside rec-
reational activities.
But it means much more than
that to the county’s farmers work-
ig at a rapid clip to get their
'com and maize planted during
the first dry spell in weeks.
On Sunday, the first day of
spring, the mercury climbed to
82 degrees under clear sunshiny
skies. Today’s low was 46 with
a predicted high of 80 on tap for
this afternoon.
Tuesday’s range will be 50-80.
Fair weather with no important
temperature change through Tues-
day is the local forecast.
Skies were clear over most of
the state, according to the As-
sociated Press. No rain was re-
ported in Texas Monday.
Spring is off to a slow start in
most of the eastern half of the
nation.
Although skies were clear in
most areas, it was chilly as far
south as northern sections of Flor-
ida on the first full day of the
new season.
The slow movmg Hillsborough
River inched toward its highest
crest at Tampa today in a flood
which brought hardship to thous-
ands and sent property damage
into millions of dollars
Disaster officials expected the
river to reach its peak of three
feet above floodstage by night-
fall at a dam five miles north
of the city. Homes have been
flooded both above and below the
dam for two days.
Water started receding in the
fashionable Forest Hills section
lour miles west of the river after
twice patched-up levee with-
stood pressure from a swollen
lake.
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Candidate Fired
On in La Paz
LA PAZ, Bolivia ® — A group
of men fired on presidential can-
didate Walter Guevara today as
he was driving out of the capital.
Guevara was unharmed but one
other person was reported wound-
ed.
Up to that time, La Paz had ap-
peared to be back to normal and
the government of President Her-
nan Siles Zuazo firmly in control
after crushing Saturday’s police
revolt.
Sixteen persons were killed
and' 106 wounded1 in sharp fight-
ing Saturday between a police reg-
iment led by Col. Hermogenes
Rios Ledezma and government
forces.
Ledezma fled and escaped cap-
ture. His second in command,
Col. Burgos Navia, was slain in
the five-hour battle.
The motive for the revolt was
not clear.
Linda Schmidt, 16, and Oliver T.
Rex, 37.
At Fullerton, Calif., Leon M.
Boisseranc watched a light plane
piloted by his son, Leon Jr., 29,
suddenly plunge into a home and
explode. The home was that of
the flier’s uncle, Emil Boisseranc.
Emil, his wife, and three children
hurried safely from the house,
which was destroyed. Boisseranc
Jr. was killed.
John Oman III, 53, head of a
big construction firm, crashed
with an employe, Sam Lindsey,
both of Nashville, Tenn., while
attempting an instrument landing
during a light snowstorm near
Nashville. Both were killed. They
were home-bound from flying Ar-
gentine Ambassador Emilio Do-
nato del Carril to Muscle Shoals,
Ala.
At Kankakee, 111., a single-en-
gine plane was wrecked during
a snowstorm, killing Sidney E.
McGinty, 51, of Glen Ellyn, 111.
At Fort Worth, Tex., a student
pilot, Mahmoud Saud Barghouti,
26, from Jordan, was killed in a
crash while trying to land at Rus-
sell Field, where he was enrolled
in a flying school.
A pilot who telephoned friends
and said he would fly over their
ranch home died Sunday with a
woman companion when the plane
crashed on the ranch near Fort
Worth. Killed were J. R. Fleming
40, Duncan, Okla., and. Mrs. Mina
Tillery, 35, also of Duncan. The
crash occurred near the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Davidson.
Three men on their way Satur-
day to Moosehead Lake, Maine,
for ice-fishing crashed in a pri-
(See CRASHES, Page 6)
Super Airline Highway
Through Taylor Proposed
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F. L. ATEN
F. L. Aten, 99,
Old Settlers
Head, is Dead
ROUND ROCK—Frank L. Aten,
99, of Round Rock died in an
Austin hospital Sunday.
He was born August 26, 1860
in Illinois.
A resident of Round Rock for
83 years, Mr. Aten was one of
the organizers of the William
son County Old Settlers Associa
tion, having served as president
tor the past 24 years. He was a
former postmaster at Round
Rock.
Aten came to Round Rock in
1876 with his parents when the
townsite marked the end of the
I&GN railroad line. He was a
farmer and maintained bee hives
as a hobby. In 1897 he made Tex-
as history by sending a carload-
34,000 pounds of honey—to New
York City. It was the first time
honey had been shipped out of
state.
As a member of the Old Set-
tlers Associaiton, Aten had never
(See ATEN, Page 6)
Ambassador
Cheered Upon
Cuban Return
HAVANA (B — U. S. Ambassa-
dor Philip Bonsai got a cheering
welcome back from 500 Cubans
Sunday but ran into a new bar-
rage of anti-American blasts
from two top Castro government
officials.
Arriving with a smile, the
American envoy made no men-
tion of finding the official at-
mosphere as hostile as when he
left Havana in a protest two
months ago.
“I am glad to be here,” Bon-
sai told an airport crowd that in
eluded some foreign diplomats.
Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s
government did not send an offi-
cial representative, but this was
not unusual.
Bonsai said he would ‘‘do
everything possible” to improve
Cuban - American relations, now
at a dangerously low ebb.
Only a few hours before the
ambassador’s plane landed, Cu-
ba’s economic czar, extereme
leftist Ernesto Guevara, told
radio audience the nation faces
‘‘economic war” with the United
States. Guevara hailed the trade
agreement Fidel Castro signed
recently with the Soviet Union as
the best trade pact Cuba has
ever made. Guevara insisted it
had no political implications.
Guevara asserted that Ameri-
can dollars are not really im-
portant to Cuba. He said their
only value is for purchases
abroad and Cuba can do that with
sugar. Cuba’s trade pact with the
Soviet Union calls for Soviet pur-
chase of five million tons of su
gar in the next five years.
Texas Violence
Accidents, Shootings
Claim 23 on Weekend
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Car accidents and shootings
took the lives of 23 persons in
Texas during the weekend as vio-
lence took at least 29 lives.
The Associated Press count
started at 6 p.m. Friday and end-
ed midnight Sunday.
At least 17 persons died in car
accidents, 6 died of gun shot
wounds, 3 in plane crashes, 1
drowned, 1 in a fall and 1 died
when a horse fell on him.
The collision of a station wagon
and a milk truck killed five Cor-
pus Christi Negroes Saturday 10
miles north of Bryan.
They were Mrs. Tennessee Olli-
son, 43; Philetus Johnson, Willie
Johnson, 13; Van Johnson, 15, and
Mrs. Beatrice Hopkins, 33.
J. R. Fleming, 41, and Mrs.
Mina Tillery, 35, both of Duncan,
Okla., were killed Sunday when
their Moody Mark 20 plane crash-
ed on a farm near Mineral Wells
l James Long, 66, a retired rail-
t road worker, died Sunday when
hit by a car in Houston.
Henry Plemons, 71, a retired
Hamlin farmer, was found
drowned in a Hamlin lake Sunday
and a justice of the peace ruled
the death accidental.
The body of Mrs. Kenneth Cov-
ington, 30, of Graham, was found
in her home Sunday. She had been
shot in the chest and a gun and
note were found by her body.
A Fort Worth high school stu-
dent, James Holmes, 17, died
Sunday night of injuries suffered
in an auto accident in Fort Worth
Saturday.
Frank Beauchaw, 20 ,of Brown
wood, died Sunday night in a car
accident just outside Brownwood
on U.S. 67.
John Larish of New York City
died Sunday when his station wa-
gon collided with a truck near
Killeen.
Charles Shipp of Dallas was
killed in a 2-car collision in Dal-
las Sunday.
Burt Ashby, 56, of Dallas, died
Sunday when the horse he was
riding reared, threw him and
then fell on top of him. The ac
cident occurred at Irving.
Mrs. Nancy Mitchell, 24, Fort
Worth, was killed Sunday when
the car in which she was riding
overturned in Dallas.
Planned Split
Hints Internal
Union Trouble
WASHINGTON W)—The Plumb-
ers-Pipefitters Union today serv-
ed notice it is pulling out of the
AFL-CIO Industrial Union De-
partment. The move points up
worsening relations between the
federation’s craft and industrial
unions.
The step resulted from an in-
cident involving Plumbers-Pipe
fitters President Peter T. Schoe
mann at AFL-CIO winter sessions
last month at Miami Beach, Fla.
Schoemann has been a mem
her of the IUD executive commit-
tee as well as a leading spokes-
man for unions in the AFL-CIO’s
separate Building Trades Depart-
ment. After an IUD executive
committee meeting at Miami
Beach, he was asked to leave
remaining IUD leaders could dis-
cuss strategy in the IUD’s run-
ning controversy with building
trades unions.
Schoemann left, but made
clear afterward he considered
himself affronted.
In a letter to IUD Secretary-
Treasurer Jatnes B. Carey, Schoe-
mann said the Plumbers-Pipefit
ters Union is ending its affilia
tion with the IUD effective March
31.
‘‘We wish to embarrass
one,” Schoemann wrote. ‘‘We de
sire only to avoid any recur
rence of this unfortunate affair—:
Other major building trades
unions which have previously
quit the IUD includes the Carpen-
ters, Iron Workers, Sheet Metal
Workers and Operating Engin-
(See SPLIT, Page 6)
VEREENIGING, South Africa
®—Twelve thousand African Ne-
groes protesting the white gov-
ernment’s compulsory pass sys-
tem besieged a police station to-
day. Officers inside opened fire.
Eyewitnesses said the front ranks
of the crowd went down like
tenpins.
Unofficial reports placed the
number of dead at 34. Brig. C. J.
Els of the Witwatersrand police
gave a figure of 30 dead and 100
wounded—and said that was a
conservative estimate.
Later, police officials upped the
estimate of dead to “nearly 50.”
One police officer described
the scene: “A world war battle-
field-bodies lay mangled and
sprawled all around.” A Johan-
nesburg news phootgrapher com-
mented: “I took pictures of more
bloodshed than I have ever be-
fore seen in South Africa.”
The barrage drove back the
crowd. Police called in armored
cars and jet fighter planes to
break up the demonstration.
It was part of a national cam-
paign billed as nonviolent and
aimed at abolition of the passes
that all nonwhites in South Africa
must carry.
But violence, erupted at Sharpe-
ville, a native quarter near Ve-
reeniging, which is 30 miles south
Johannesburg.
Two hours after the shooting,
ambulances still were going back
and forth to hospitals in Vereen
iging. Hospital officials refused
disclose casualty information.
About 25 police were besieged
inside the police station by the
Africans. When the Africans be-
gan to stone the station, the po-
lice opened fire.
The rioting was part of the
start of a Negro passive resis-
(See POLICE, Page 6)
Churches 'Afraid'
To Face Probers
HOUSTON (ffl — Air Force re-
serve officer Maj. Edward Bundy
said Sunday leaders of the Na-
tional Council of Churches were
afraid to appear before the House
InAmerican Activities Committee,
Bundy, of Wheaton, 111., is
chairman of the Church League
of America. He spoke before 1,-
500 persons at the Independent
Beerachah Church. His talk was
carried on a local radio station.
When leaders of the Council
were invited to appear under oath
before the committee they refused
to do so,” he said'. “They were
afraid, that is why.”
He said there is congressional
evidence that communists have in-
filtrated the nation’s churches.
Until they are willing to go
under oath, they stand indicted
of helping the conspiracy that is
going on in this country,” Bundy
said.
The pastor of the Central Pres-
byterian Church here, the Rev
John D. Craig, said in an inter-
view that Bundy’s criticism was
vastly overdone to the point of
actual falsification.”
FIGHT FLOOD—Volunteer workers, operating in heavy rain, evacuate victims
of a three-day flood in Orlando, Fla. National Guardsmen and Civil Defense
workers have evacuated some 900 persons in the Orlando area.
-NEA Telephoto
Daniel Urges Man Maimed in Thrall
Government Trying to Evade Arrest
Hands Off
ODESSA (/P) —The federal gov-
ernment should keep its hands
off state tax sources, Gov. Price
Daniel said today.
Texas needs federal encourage-
ment of private enterprise rath-
er than grants of federal money,
Daniel told a joint meeting of
service clubs and the Chamber
of Commerce.
Daniel said Washington should
keep hands off state tax sources
and permit the development of
private domestic industry.” He
added:
For instance, the future of the
oil and gas industry, from which
the state and most Texans profit
directly or indirectly, depends on
these federal actions:
“Retention of the present de-
pletion allowance on income tax-
es; more adequate restrictions of
foreign oil imports; freedom of
independent gas producers from
federal price fixing regulations.
“As a member of the United
States Senate and as governor, I
have fought for these programs,
and I shall continue to do so, be-
cause they are necessary not
only for the prosperity of our
state but the security of our na-
tion.”
Daniel said the federal govern-
ment has its hands full of the re-
sponsibility of national defense
and foreign affairs.
“Why should it be called upon
to enter such new fields as the
financing of public schools?” the
governor asked.
“Federal tax dollars are col-
lected from the same people as
state and local dollars, and if
Washington will only stay away
from state sources of revenue,
(See DANIEL, Page 6)
lor city police on a city street
as they were attempting to ap-
prehend him for questioning
around 1:30 a.m. today, was later
picked up in Thrall where he had
kicked in a plate glass show win-
dow at a grocery store and re-
ceived a bad cut on the foot,
maiming him.
The man, identified by police
as Eddie Witherspone, was be-
ing picked up for questioning
after a woman passenger in the
car with him told the patrolmen
he was attempting to take her to
A man who escaped from Tay- New York without her consent.
Witherspone, 23, originally is from
New York and has been in the
Austin area about 30 days.
The woman, identified by city
police as Marry Beckwith of Aus-
tin, is being held by city police
for further questioning.
Constable Ned Fails received
the call from his deputy, Charles
Fuller around 6 a.m. that the
Wells Grocery had been entered
and there was a lot of blood
around.
who had gone to
Witherspone,
residence in Thrall and asked
- LATE NEWS BRIEFS -
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOAT FIRM HEAVILY DAMAGED BY FIRE
IRVING — Fire and explosions caused an estimated
$150,000 damages at the Amphibious Boat Co. here Sunday
night. There were no injuries. Two explosions hurled debris
and chunks of metal over the 30 firemen. An empty chemical
drum exploded first and then steam caused a water pipe to
blow up.
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DIES VIOLENT DEATH
HOLLYWOOD — Best-selling author Tom T. Chamales,
35, due to appear in court today to answer charges that he
beat his wife, singer Helen O’Connell, died Sunday in a
violent end to a violent life. He died of asphyxiation in his
smoke-filled apartment.
COMPANION OF HELEN KELLER IS DEAD
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Polly Thomson, companion of
Helen Keller, died in Bridgeport Hospital Sunday night
after a long illness. She lived with Miss Keller1 at the famous
blind author’s home in Easton, Conn.
PENTHOUSE THIEF GETS $150,000 IN JEWELRY
NEW YORK — Jewelry worth an estimated $150,000
and $5,150 in cash were stolen from the bedrooms of a Fifth
Avenue penthouse while the occupants—a Florida real estate
operator and his wife—entertained guests at dinner Sunday
night. Victims of the burglary were Robert L. Wilson, 52,
and his wife.
DOCTORS BELIEVE QUEEN WILL HAVE BOY
TEHRAN, Iran — Expectant Queen Farah is taking
special treatment which doctors believe gives at least “50
per cent assurance” that she will provide a male heir
for Iran’s throne.
Russia Urges
Nuclear Ban
Continuation
GENEVA (S’) — Semyon K.
Tsarapkin of the Soviet Union
said today his proposed m
torium on small underground
nuclear tests should remain in
force for an initial research period
of four or five years.
Tsarapkin said the United
States, Britain and the Soviet
Union should consult at the end'
of this period if a joint research
program by then had failed to
produce a method for policing
underground tests.
But he stressed that he was
very optimistic” the scientists
would produce results within four
or five years.
Tsarapkin gave this estimate in
clarification of the two-point pro
posal he introduced into the 16-
month-old three-nation talks
Saturday.
The two interrelated parts of
Tsarapkin’s proposal were:
1. The Soviet Union would ac
cept President Eisenhower’s plan
for a treaty banning only those
nuclear tests which can be po-
liced with existing scientific
methods.
2. In return, the United States
and Britain would join the Soviet
Union in a moratorium—a prom-
ise' to refrain from conducting the
small underground tests not ex-
plicitly banned by the treaty-
while conducting scientific re-
search to extend detection meth-
ods underground.
The partial ban-was first pro
posed by President Eisenhower
Feb. 11. Western sources said that
if the Soviet actually favor safe-
ty provisions acceptable to the
U. S. and British governments,
the 17-month-old nuclear test ban
conference may he on the thres-
hold of achieving a treaty.
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France Prepares
For Khrushchev
PARIS (B — France is a1
ranging an unprecedented secur-
ity screen to insure that Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev is hit
by nothing heavier than confetti
during his visit starting Wednes-
day.
Only Yugoslav President Tito’s
visit two years ago prompted se-
curity measures approaching
those being prepared to protect
the Soviet leader.
that an ambulance be called say-
ing he was injured in an acci
dent, said the breaking occurred
around 3:30 a.m. He had caught
ride on a truck to Thrall after
getting away from police in Tay-
lor.
He apparently attempted to
take two pickups in Thrall, but
could not get them started. Re-
ports were received by police
from L. G. Glaser and Roy Finn
that someone had attempted to
take their pickups. Keys found
in the Finn pickup were identi-
fied by the Beckwith woman as
coming from her key ring. She
owned the 1955 Pontiac in which
they were traveling.
Witherspone was taken to a
Taylor hospital. He was treated
for a severe cut around the right
ankle which resulted in extensive
bleeding. He was also treated for
shock.
Constable Fails said he was
turned over to the Sheriff’s de-
partment, who took him to
Georgetown to have him commit-
ted to the state hospital in Aus-
tin.
The incident started on East
First Street next to the Pearl
Beer warehouse when the car
driven by Witherspone pulled be-
side the city patrol car in request
(See MAN, Page 6)
As Alternate
To Present
US 79 Plans
Taylor Press Austin Bureau
AUSTIN—The State Highway
Commission has proposed to put
Taylor on a major state high-
way.
The Commission this morning
proposed that US 79 be made
into an airline road direct from
Austin to Taylor through East
Texas to Texarkana.
A delegation from the Taylor
area headed by Ray P. Lewis,
chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce highway committee,
appeared at a public hearing
and asked the Highway Commis-
sion to proceed with the widen-
ing of US 79 from Thomdale to
a point two miles west of Thrall
into a four-lane divided highway.
But instead, the Commission
proposed the super highway and
asked the delegation to come
back next month to report on
what the people of Taylor and
Williamson County think of it.
State Highway Engineer De-
Witt Greer described Highway 79
as the best diagonal highway in
Texas from Texarkana to Austin,
but that one of the botltenecks
is the section from Taylor to
Austin. He suggested that it
should be made an airline route.
Chairman Herbert Petry Jr.
suggested that this would give
a straight connection from Aus-
tin to Texarkana and Shreveport
and on into the Middle West.
The Taylor delegation learned
that the stretch of highway they
sought had been scheduled for
construction bids early in April,
but that it had been postponed to
allow time to talk about the over-
(See HIGHWAY, Page 6)
Chiang Elected
To Third Term
TAIPEI, Formosa W — General-
issimo Chiang Kai-shek was re-
elected without opposition today
in a third six-year term as presi-
dent of Nationalist China.
Flags of the republic blossom-
ed in Taipei. Firecracker bar-
rages were set off throughout the
country.
The National Assembly, sitting
as the nation’s electoral college,
gave the 73-year-old leader a
rousing 1,481 votes out of 1,509
ballots cast. The remaining 28
ballots were blank — an anti-
Chiang expression — and were
delcared invalid.
This amounted to 98.14 per
cent of the ballots. Chiang won
88 per cent of the votes when
he first was elected at Nanking
in 1948 and 95 per cent in Taipei
in 1954.
As an unopposed candidate, he
needed only 789 votes for elec-
tion. As soon as this number was
reached, announcement of the re-
election was broadcast over the
nation’s radios.
Horror Camp Survivors
Start Fund for Children
NEW YORK ® — On the sur-
face, the gathering Sunday night
in a Bronx hotel looked like any
other reunion—clusters of men in
a smoke-clouded room shouting
happy greetings, slapping one an-
other on the back, and drinking
toasts.
Inside their sleeves, each of
the men wore the mark of their
bond—a number tattooed in blue
on the left forearm.
The numbers were burned there
more than 15 years ago when the
men were prisoners’ at Auschwitz
Buna in Poland, one of the most
h o rr i b 1 e Nazi concentration
camps.
“They didn’t know our names’
recalled Leon Kerstein, who now
owns a butcher shop in Brook-
lyn. “They called us by num
bers.”
Kerstein’s mother, father, six
brothers and two sisters were
exterminated in Nazi concentra-
tion camps.
The gathering was the first
and probably the last—reunion of
the former prisoners. Some of
them carried photos showing
young cadaverously thin men
with shaven heads in blue and
white striped uniforms. The pic-
tures were of themselves as
slave laborers in 1945.
Most of the men were in their
30s and 40s. Many had entered
the concentration camp as teen-
agers.
“Those who survived had to
be young,” said Ernest W. Mich-
ael, chairman of the dinner. “If
you were old, you didn’t stand' a
chance.”
The group — almost 1,000 men
and their wives—plans to start a
drive for a scholarship fund for
children of former inmates. A
court-directed settlement resulted
in payment of more than seven
million dollars to the former
prisoners by the I. G. Farben
Co. which made artificial rubber
at Auschwitz-Buna during World
War II.
“We would like to enable as
many children as possible to
have the education we were de-
nied in the Hitler era,” Michael
said.
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