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Occasional Rain
Cool and cloudy with occasional light rain or drizzle
this afternoon, tonight and Friday.
Today’s Range: 50-58. Tomorrow’s Range: 48-60,
Yesterday’s High: 61. Rainfall: 0,
Sunrise: 7:15 a.m Sunset: 5:30 p.m.
Moonrise Fri.: 7:44 a.m. Moonset Fri.: 6:32 p.m.
Lake Levels: Travis: 670.46’ Buchanan: 1010.61’.
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Volume 48, Number 303
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TAYLOR, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1961
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Price Five Cents
Trio Killed
On Campus
At Belton
Jilted Suitor
Responsible
BELTON (/P> — A jilted suitor
shot to death a 20-year-old stu
dent of Mary Hardin-Baylor Col-
lege today, killed her mother,
and then took his own life.
Sheriff Ralph Jeffers of Bell
County said the dead were Leroy
Cockrell, a farm and ranch work-
er, 20-year-old Marie Dunlap, and
her mother, Mrs. Weldon Dunlap.
| * Jeffers said other students at
the all-girl, Baptist church oper-
ated college told him that Miss
Dunlap and Cockrell had been
dating for about two years.
In recent months, however, the
sheriff said ithe girl had been
trying to break off relations with
the young rancher, described as
a man in his middle 20s.
“But he didn’t want to call it
quits,’’ the sheriff said, “and
that’s about the whole story.”
The shooting occurred this
morning on the college campus
after Mrs. Dunlap drove to the
school to pick up her daughter
who had attended classes earlier.
As the mother and daughter sat
in their car, witnesses said, Cock-
rell drove up and began shooting
at them from his car. Mrs. Doug-
las Holland, a Mary Hardin-Bay
lor Iteacher, said Cockrell then
turned the gun on himself. All the
victims lived on farms or small
ranches at Salado, about 10 miles
from this Central Texas county
seat town.
Sheriff Jeffers said the charge
blew the top off Cockrell’s head.
Jeffers said all the victims died
instantly.
Witnesses to the college campus
shooting said Cockrell fired
through the glass of the Dunlap
automobile to kill the two women.
“Then he placed the .300 Sav-
age deer rifle under his chin and
blew the top of his head off,”
sheriff’s deputies reported.
Friends of the two families at
PSalado said Cockrell was “about
33 and Mrs. Dunlap was 45. ’
Marie, a pretty brown-haired
senior at the college, ordered her
graduation ring Wednesday. She
would have been graduated in
June, friends said.
She attended Abilene Christian
College last semester and former-
ly attended Temple Junior Col
lege.
Mary Hardin-Baylor College is
one of about 20 schools operated
in the state by the Baptist Gener-
al Convention of Texas. It was
established in 1845 and is one of
the state’s oldest educational in-
stitutions.
It has been located at this Cen-
tral Texas county seat town since
its founding.
Labor Told to Back Soviet Threat
m ij f tr i Fails to Halt
iuilotjp of I fade
Or Face Job Loss
Kennedy Cites Employment
in Union Talk
MIAMI BEACH CP)—President Kennedy told or-
ganized labor today it must back the effort to build up
America’s foreign trade or face the loss of jobs.
In an address prepared for a oenvention of the
xAFL-CIO—-many of whose members have been less than
enthusiastic about some phases of his proposals for
freer world trade—Kennedy stated his view bluntly.
“In short,
Near Windfall Results
In Sale of Plant
DETROIT m - Edward Land,
representing a group buying the
old Chrysler Imperial plant here,
almost picked up a $300,000 bonus
with the property Wednesday.
Land said die contract for the
sale was already for signing. It
provided that all machinery, etc.,
on the property would go to the
buyers.
Then someone from Chrysler
Corp. discovered that 52 brand
new Imperial autos were stored
in the building. A quick change
was made in the contract.
Youth Loses
Point in Call
To Kennedy
HOUSTON W — Anyone who
says President Kennedy is in-
accessible might listen to Michael
Schipper, IQ, a University of
Houston student.
Schipper, of New York, was in
a heated dormitory bull session
the other evening.
“Our government has become
such an unwieldy bureaucracy
the President is out of touch with
the people, completely inaccessi-
ble,” Schipper argued.
“That’s not true,” a freshman
cried.
“I’ll prove my point,” Schipper
said.
He picked up tire telephone and
called President Kennedy at the
White House—collect.
The call went through two
secretaries and Schipper heard
the last one ask, “Mr. President,
will you accept a collect call
from a Mr. Michael Schipper in
Houston, Tex.?”
There was a short delay.
An unmistakable voice, precise-
(See YOUTH, Page 6)
we are confronted
with a very basic decision: Are
we going to export our goods and
crops—or are we going to export
our capital and our job opportuni-
ties? Are we going to be the free
world’s greatest-merchant trader
—or merely its temporary wealth-
iest banker?” is the way he
put it.
Labor elements directly affecU
ed by rising imports have been
presenting arguments in congres-
sional hearings for even stiffer
barriers against the incoming
flow, in contrast to the adminis-
tration plan for wider discretion
to negotiate reciprocal conces-
sions.
In almost direct response Ken-
nedy took the stand that buying
must rise along with sales and
asserted that “as our exports in-
crease along with our imports,
many more jobs will be created
than -lost.”
At another point he stated' his
case this way: “If we cannot ob-
tain new bargaining power to op-
en up overseas markets, our ex-
port industries will wither—and
American labor will lose jobs. If
American businessmen cannot
compete from here for the grow-
ing purchasing power of the Euro-
pean Common Market, many
more will build their plants over
(See LABOR, Page 8)
- LATE NEWS BRIEFS -
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COOLER WEATHER MOVES OVER STATE
Freezing weather chilled the Texas Panhandle and
cooler weather spread toward southern areas of ■ the
state Thursday.
1962 SEEN CRUCIAL YEAR FOR OIL
DENVER—The new chairman of the Interstate Oil
Compact Commission says he believes 1962 will be a
crucial year for the oil industry. Gov. Howard Edmond-
son of Oklahoma lists oil imports as the top problem.
SLATON WEIGHS MOVE IN BRACERO FUSS
SLATON—An angry group of West Texans weighed
their next step today in a dispute with the Labor De-
partment over the use of a segregated swimming pool
by Mexican farm workers. The fuss involves Slaton’s
municipal pool, operated with tax funds.
NEW YORK JURIST INDICTED IN ‘FIX’
NEW YORK—A federal grand jury today indicted
New York Supreme Court Justice James Vincent Keogh
of Brooklyn on a charge of conspiring to “fix” a fraudu-
lent bankruptcy case.
CONSERVATIVE NAMED TO FILL BRIDGES POST
CONCORD, N. H.—Gov. Wesley Powell today named
a young conservative Republican to succeed the late
Sen Styles Bridges, who died at the age of 63. He is Atty.
Gen. Maurice J Murphy, 34
Battle Group
Troop Transfer
Is Uneventful
BERLIN Iff) — First units
an American battle group ■
into West Berlin today aft
Communists voiced a new
against use of the highway
line from West Germany.
The 110-mile ride down the
autobahn, came after Comm unis 1 j
East Germany declared treeJ
movements of U.S. North Allan
tic Treaty Organization troops|
along the highway had never j
been guaranteed by the East Ger-
mans or the Soviet Union.
U.S. officials in Paris com-
mented that the troops moving to
Beilin are definitely under U.S.-
and not NATO—control.
The Soviets have called recent
U.S. tests of Allied access rights
to Communist encircled West Ber-
lin provocations “fraught with
dangerous consequences.”
Co. E, 1st Battle Group, 19th
Infantry—about 200 men and 25
jeeps and trucks—began crossing
West Berlin’s “Checkpoint Bra
vo” after an uneventful trip
through East Germany.
Soviet guards checked the com-
pany on the road near Marien-
born, just inside the Iron Curtain
border of West Germany. Another
Soviet detachment checked them
out at Babelsberg on the edge ot
West Berlin.
Gn the way to Berlin, the east-
bound convoy passed a small
group of vehicles from the 1st
Battle Group, 18th Infantry, car-
rying men westward. This group,
headed for Kassel, arrived in
West- Germany after what its
commander called an uneventful
trip.
The deputy commander of the
Berlin-bound troops, Lt. Col. Wil-
liam J. Herman of South Nor-
walk, Conn., made a roundtrip
on the autobahn and reported he
noticed nothing unusual except
that East German police seemed
to be out in larger numbers.
The 1st Battle Group numbers
1,500 men. Veterans recalled that
the 19th Infantry was stationed
at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii,
exactly 20 years ago today dur-
ing the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor.
A mongrel dog named “Leg”
rode in one of the leading ve-
hicles. The dog, the battle group
mascot, had her own serial num-
ber on the unit manifest shown
to the Soviet guards at the check-
point.
The incoming 1st BaJttle Group
of the ,1.9th Infantry Division,
commanded by Col. Ira Palm, 48,
of Mount Vernon, N. Y., is re-
lieving the 18th Infantry’s 1st
Battle Group, which was rushed
to Berlin last August after the
Communists threw up their wall
dividing the city.
The relief unit will make the
autobahn run in small convoys
daily, with the operation to take
about a week. As the first unit
moved out today, another moved
up to a bivouac area near the
border to prepare for its move to
Berlin Friday.
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Dry Spell Forces
Watering of Lakes
LAKELAND, Fla. (ff) — The city
of Lakeland is taking quick ac-
tion to protect its namesake—the
11 lakes surrounding the city.
The driest 12-month period in at
least 46 years has caused a no-
ticeable drop in water levels of
the 11 lakes.
City Manager Robert V. You-
key ordered the City Water De-
partment. Wednesday to determine
which of the lakes is hardest hit
and t:o start pumping water into
them from the city mains. The
city gets its water from deep
A’ells.
U.N. Fighter Planes Hit
Katangan Ammo Dumps
U.S. Suspends
Airlift During
Security Talk
OPTIMISTS UNLOAD TREES — Three members of the Taylor Optimist Club
unload a few of the 500 Christmas trees the club is selling on the vacant lot
at Second and Vance. Profits will be used for boys and girls work projects.
Henry Jez (left) is shown handing the trees to Leon Konarek (center), club pre-
sident, and Paul Ferguson. Optimists man the lot each night.
—Taylor Press Staff Photo
Pearl Harbor Rites
Mark20thAnniversary
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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (B—
In this missile and’ thermonu-
clear age, it would be foolhardy
indeed to assume that surprise at-
tack will never be a possibility.”
This warning was delivered to-
day by Adm. John H. Sides, com-
mander ot the U. S. Pacific Fleet,
at ceremonies marking the 20th
anniversary of the Japanese at-
tack on Pearl Harbor.
Ceremonies were held on a plat-
form above (he waters along “Bat-
tleship Row.” Activity through-
out the naval base halted momen-
tarily in memory of that black
Sunday—Dec. 7, 1941.
The ceremony was timed to co
incide with the exact moment—
7:55 a.m.—when the first Japan-
ese planes swooped low over the
battleships lining the northeast
shores of Ford Island.
Below the memorial platform
for the U.S. Arizona, center ot to
day’s ceremonies, was the rust-
ing hulk of Ihe warship and the
118,132 Acres
Set for Cotton
GEORGETOWN — Williamson
County’s 1962 cotton allotment
will be 118,132 acres, it was
announced today by A. L. Me-
Fadden, County ASC office
manager.
This is a decrease of only
1,842 acres from the 1961 al-
lotment of 119,974.
About 12,000 acres of the 1961
allotment was not planted.
McFadden said ihe 1962 al-
lotment is down slightly be-
cause the national allotment
was reduced and because “‘we
lost a little acreage on the
basis of farm history.”
remains of 1,102 crewmen who
went down ’.with’, her. The . Arizona
and her crew are symbols of
those hours when war came to
the United States.
South of the Arizona the old
battleship- row was vacant. But
between the flag flying above the
Arizona and one beside Ford Is-
land’s administration building-
less than a mile away—nearly
2,000 men died’ on a Sunday morn-
ing.
“The lessons learned that day
are recorded in blood,” said
Sides in his memorial address.
“The important thing for us
here today, and for all Ameri-
cans, is to pledge anew that our
country shall always remain
strong and shall always be ready
to defend the freedoms tor which
we stand and for which these
men fought and died.”
Taking part in ithe memorial
tribute were military leaders,
congressmen, and representatives
of veterans organizations, includ-
ing 108 Pearl Harbor raid sur-
vivors from New England. A
group of 60 Gold Star mothers,
many of whose sons died on the
Arizona, also was on hand.
In the front rank of partici-
pants was Lt. Gen. Alan Sharpley,
Pacific Marine: commander and
one of Ihe Marines to survive the
Dec; 7 attack.
The ceremony was signalled by
the sound of carillon chimes from
Ford Island, followed by a Navy
bugler’s call to colors. The Amer-
ican flag was run up the Arizona
flagpole, as it is each day.
The Arizona is entitled to fly
the flag because of its unique
positions as the only retired ship
in the Navy still commissioned.
She is regarded as. a member of
(See KITES, Page 8)
Pearl Harbor
Considered
Closed Case
By ELTON C. FAY
Military Affairs Writer
WASHINGTON (ff) — The Pen-
tagon considers a closed matter
the question of why the United
States was caught off guard at
Pearl Harbor.
The word today—the 20th lanni-
versa'ry of the surprise Japanese
attack—is that no more official
investigations are expected.
Authors continue to write books
debating the issues of that day
when the high command at Ha-
waii was surprised by the strike
of 300 planes from six Japanese
carriers and midget submarine
attacks.
But the Defense Department
foresees no more official probes
into the long and hotly debated
subject of who if anyone, was to
blame for the tragic moment of
unreadiness.
There have been eight official
inquires. The first, ordered by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
was opened only 12 days after
the attack and was conducted by
a commission headed by Supreme
Court Justice Owen J. Roberts
When that inquiry was concluded
the following Jan. 23 the record
and transcripts covered 2,173
pages.
Between then and the end of
World War II, the Navy and
Army conducted six more inquir-
ies into the over-all subject or
phases of it. Allegations and testi-
mony at those hearings served
to foster more publie debate.
In November 1945, with the
war’s end more than three
months passed and with testi-
mony and evidence from former
enemy commanders becoming
(See CASE, Page 8)
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga,
the Congo iff) — U.N. jet fight-
ers today struck at Katangan
ammunition dumps six mlfles
outside Elisabethville and explo-
sions rocked the heart of the
capital.
Katangans launched another at-
tack against the U.N. headquar-
ters just outside of the city at
daybreak after a tropical thun-
derstorm brought firing to a halt
during the night.
The U.S. Embassy in Leopold-
ville said an American Air Force
Globemaster was fired on over
Elisabethville, and the U.S. air-
lift was suspended while com-
manders in Leopoldville and
Washington consulted' on security
arrangements for the American
planes.
The embassy denied making
any official statement that the
airlift of equipment to U.N. for-
ces in Elisabethville had been
grounded, but it was understood
high level consultations were go-
ing on as to whether it should
continue.
American sources said the
small arms firing came from the
official residence of Katanga
President Moise Thombe while
the Globemaster was coming in
to land at Elisabethville Airport.
Several bullets hit the fuselage
but no serious damage was
caused. Tshombe’s villa is on
one of the approaches to the air-
port.
The Globemaster was one of
six heavy transports carrying re-
inforcements and supplies to U.N.
forces in the Kantanga capital.
The report from Leopoldville said
the United States agreed to the
transports would be given full pro-
tective cover. Ethiopian Sabre
Jets escorted the first Globemas-
ters Wednesday but it was not
known in Leopoldville whether to-
day’s flights were escorted.
The U.S. State Department an-
nounced Wednesday night that it
was offering the U.N. 21 more
four-engine transports.
Foreign Minister Evariste Kim-
ba clapped U. S. Consul Lewis
Boffacker, 38, under house arrest,
changing that U.S. planes made
the U.N. Raids Wednesday on Ka-
tanga air bases at Kolwezi and
Jadotville. Both the U.S. govern-
ment and the U.N. command de-
nied that American planes were
involved, but Hoffaeker stayed at
home today.
(See DUMPS, Page 8)
SHOPPING
DAYS LEFT
USE CHRISTMAS SEALS
i AND HELP FIGHT TB!:
Day Much Like Other Days
Quietly Eventful Week Here Preceded Pearl Harbor
And in the Far East, Japan
started moving military forces
southeastward where a clash
threatened with British and Am-
erican forces.
Twenty years ago on Wednes-
day, Dec. 3, Taylorites greeted
Santa Claus with great enthus-
iasm. Thousands of Williamson
County citizens jammed the
streets of Taylor and cheered
Sanita in one of the most success-
ful and colorful parades in years.
Patriotic units made their ap-
pearance this year.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Brueckner
celebrated their 37th anniversary
at their home at 1002 Speegle
Street.
Laurel and Hardy were staring
in the comedy, “Great Guns”, at
the Howard Theater.
And in Washington basic dif-
ferences in the national policies
of the U.S. and Japan were em-
phasized by Secretary of State
Hull who charged Japan with
setting up military despotism in
conquered countries.
On Thursday, most everybody
was interested in seeing the FHA
demonstration home in the West-
field Addition. It was to be open
to the public for several days.
The Rotary club announced it
would invite the general public
to a special meeting next week
when motion pictures of the big
Texas-Texas A&M football game
would be shown by H. C. “Bully”
Gilstrap, brother of Harry Gil-
strap of Taylor.
The American Legion had five
outstanding members of the Amer-
ican Legion of Texas make an
(See QUIETLY, Page 6)
Dec. 1, 1941, dawned as a rath-
er ordinary day in Taylor.
The events of the day seemed
far removed from the troubles of
the Far East.
That Monday was a party clou-
dy and humid day, the tempera-
ture in the low 80s.
Taylorjtes were thinking about
the coming of Christmas, foot-
ball, a magic show and bowling.
The Taylor Press launched its
underprivileged childrens fund.
Football fans read that Jess
Neely of Rice would speak at
their Duck football banquet to
which the general public was in-
vited. Neely had just finished his
season at the Houston institute.
Citizens were looking forward to
a Kiwanis-sponsored magic show
which was expected to draw a
large crowd. The club
plenty of tun with the appearance
of “The Great Virgil,” famous
magician and illusionist.
Nobody paid much attention to
the fact that the Women’s De-
fense Corps was meeting that
night at the American Legion
Hall.
They were much more interest-
ed in a bowling league that
was to be organized that night
at the local S&H Alleys.
In the Far East, allied powers
took unprecedented military and
naval precautions in apparent
fear of an imminent Japanese
thrust to the south. Toyko news-
papers took a gloomy view of the
situation, asserting that negotia-
tions in Washington faced great
difficulties and that Japan was
preparing for any eventuality des-
promised pite earlier reports that the cabi-
net wanted to continue negotia-
tions.
Dec. 2 was another “life-as-
usual” day in Taylor.
■A headline proclaimed that
“Taylor Residential Section Will
Again Shine with Christmas Light-
ing.” “Out-of-town judge's have
been lined up for the Christmas
home decoration centest sponsor-
ed by the Chamber of Commerce.
There was excitement aplenty
in sports that day, when it was
announced the Ducks would play
San Saba Friday at 2 p.m. for
the bi-district title.
The Taylor businessmen’s organ-
ization heard an address by Dr.
George Hester, professor of poli-
tical science at Southwestern
University. He talked on the fu-
ture tax outlook, about which the
businessmen were very concerned.
The USS Arizona, aflame, at the height of the Pearl Harbor attack, Dec. 7, 1941
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