The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 193, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1962 Page: 1 of 36
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82ND YEAR, NO. 193
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ABILENE, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1962—THIRTY-SIX PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
Associated Press (A)
By Katharyn Duff
Jack Grimm, Abilene oil op-
erator, received Christmas
greetings from Miss Lee Ora
Foster and Mrs. Alta Parker,
sisters who live in Tucson,
Ariz., and who own land and
mineral interests eight miles
west of Bradshaw, property on
which Grimm has drilled two
wells.
The message was hand-writ-
ten on a scrap of flowery wall-
paper
It read:
"Greetings—
"The bank won't give us
credit,
"Our budget is a scream.
- "We can't offset the debit
“As Scotch as we may seem.
"But not to send season's
greetings
"Would never do at all
"So to send the season’s
greetings
"We tore the paper off the
wall.
" . Please drill us some
more oilwells.”
Grimm returned greetings
for the New Year. Mrs. Grimm
wrote on a paper sack:
"Greetings—
"Now, I like them oil wells
“As you very well know.
"But how can I drill them
"When I’m fresh out of
dough?
"The wells have gone down
"They are now on the pump.
"My poor banker’s heart
"Is going Whumpty, Whump.
"But I send the season's
greetings
"With all of its good cheer
"And will get after that oil,
"Come the New Year!”
May 1963
Bring good times to
Thee.
Headline in a Borger news-
paper: "Texas Sports Writers
Name Worst All-State."
That seems to be carrying
all-star selections to the ulti-
mate. But Worst, it appears, is
a noun, not an adjective, John
Mark Worst of Sunray High
School.
In preparation for the new-
est deluge, this Abilene couple
was trying to persuade a very
young daughter to clean out her
toychest and give the excess to
the Goodfellows.
The child declined.
"If you don't give some toys
to Goodfellows, what will some
poor little girls and boys do
for Christmas?” they appealed
to good instincts, if any.
"Oh, let Santa Claus bring
them some,” the young lady
reasoned.
This fellow slipped and slid
over the rutted roads and hasti-
ly spread sheet of caliche up to
the door of an Impact estab-
lishment and, inside the empor-
ium. announced in a loud
voice:
"You just gotta do something
about the road.
"My wife can take one look
at the car and know where I've
been!"
STUDY TAX CUT — President Kennedy meets with
Treasury officials and members of his staff at the
Winter White House in Palm Beach, Fla., “working
toward determination of policy decisions.” Shown
here are. left to right, Secretary of Treasury Douglas
Dillon, President Kennedy and Theodore Sorensen,
presidential council advisor. (AP Wirephoto)
i Kennedy
/ill Meet
Invasion
Isoners
E S’• &
Refugees Ask
For Conference
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)-
IPresident Kennedy arranged
Wednesday to meet with five lead-
1 ers of the Cuban invasion of April
1961—four- of them just released
I from Cuban prisons.
They will be joined by the head
of the Cuban Families Committee
which arranged for the release of
the 1.113 men captured when the
invasion plan failed.
White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger, who announced
the meeting, said the Cuban group
had requested the session.
It will be held at 5 p.m. Thurs-
day at the oceanfront home the
President is occupying here for
the holidays.
Salinger said he had met with
Kennedy, Aides Discuss
Plans for Tax Proposal
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)—Sen-
ate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana, bis plane
delayed by bad weather, had to
Man Critical
After Wreck
CLYDE — A 61-year-old Odessa
man was critically injured
Wednesday afternoon about 1%
miles east of here on U. S. 80
when his car hit the rear of a pick-
up
J. D. Burke, suffering from a
puncture wound in his neck plus
multiple lacerations, was taken to
Hendrick Memorial Hospital in
Abilene.
His wife, Mary Opal Burke, 67,
and a daughter, Miss Faye Wal-
ker. 49. both of Odessa, were
termed in “fair" condition at
Hendrick.
Mrs. Burke and Miss Walker
suffered bruises and lacerations.
Driver of the other vehicle, iden-
tified as Herbert Joseph Konczak,
52, of Baird, was not injured.
The accident occurred about
3:30 p.m., according to Highway
Patrolman Bob Favor. The
Burkes were returning from
Shreveport, La., where they had
spent the Christmas holidays. Fa-
vor said
take an unexpected two-mile
speedboat ride Wednesday to
catch up with President Kennedy
for a business-pleasure yacht
cruise.
Mansfield was one of about a
dozen key financial, military and
legislative experts called to the
Florida vacation White House for
year-end policy conferences.
The conferees on tax policy
gathered around a glass-topped
coffee table on a covered patio
overlooking the swimming pool at
the Kennedys' borrowed villa.
Sitting in on the session with
Kennedy were Secretary of the
Treasury Douglas Dillon. Under-
secretary Henry Fowler, Assistant
Secretary Stanley S. Surrey.
Chairman Walter Heller of the
Council of Economic Advisers.
Kermit Gordon, who is soon to be-
come director of the Budget Bu-
reau. and Theodore C. Sorensen,
Kennedy's special counsel.
The talks started aboard the
presidential yacht Honey Fitz on
a two-hour cruise up Lake Worth,
with Mrs Kennedy, daughter Ca-
roline. relatives, friends and two
dogs also in the party.
The Honey Fitz sailed from Its
dock shortly after 1 p.m. without
waiting for the Montana senator
and his wife, whose plane had
been held up by fog in snow-cov-
ered Washington
The yacht had been out some
15 minutes when a black speed-
boat used by the Secret Service
protective detail hurried along-
side with the Mansfields and the
President's Air Force aide.
Mansfield doffed his suit jacket
for shirtsleeve discussion with
Kennedy of obstacles facing ad-
ministration programs in the Con-
gress that convenes Jan. ».
Their talk preceded the more
detailed conferences Kennedy has
scheduled with other advisers
that will get into specifics of the
tax cut the President wants Con-
gress to approve early next year.
Kennedy also has summoned
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Sec-
retary of Defense Robert S. Mc-
Namara to review the year-end
military situation and discuss the
defense budget at a morning ses-
sion Thursday.
The yacht was an informal set-
ting for the start of serious talks
that will influence the budget and
State of the Union messages and
set the pace for Kennedy's mid-
term program.
the Cuban leaders in Miami on
Wednesday afternoon to arrange
the talk with the President.
The group is expected to hold
a news conference in Palm Beach
afterwards.
Asked what the meeting would
be about and what they would dis-
cuss with the President, Salinger
said: "I think they would rather
tell you themselves.”
President Kennedy announced
on Christmas Eve his elation at
the release of the Cubans, who
were taken prisoner at the Bay of
Pigs in an invasion that had the
go-ahead and backing of the Ken-
nedy administration.
It was well known that Kennedy
felt a personal responsibility for
their plight.
The group coming here in-
cludes: Jose Perez San Roman,
military commander of the cap-
tured brigade: Erneido Oliva, his
second in command: Emmanuel
Artime, civilian head of the bri-
gade: and Roberto Perez San Ro-
man, chief of heavy weapons for
the invasion. These four were
among the prisoners just released
by Prime Minister Fidel Castro
in a ransom exchange for $53 mil-
lion worth of drugs and food
supplies.
The fifth freed prisoner who will
take part in the talks is Enrique
Ruiz-Williams, who was second in
command of the heavy weapons
forces. He was wounded in the in-
vasion and was released several
months ago when Castro freed 60
wounded and ill prisoners.
WRECKED BY CAR — Firemen look at the wreckage left by a car, still in the
room at left, which smashed through the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Strong,
both 82, ol San Diego The driver lost control while being chased by policemen
for a traffic violation. (AP Wirephoto)
Alvaro Sanchez, chairman of day.
the Cuban Families Committee,
will accompany them on the trip
from Miami.
The key figure in the ransom
exchange of the Cubans, New
York attorney James B. Donovan,
will not attend, Salinger said. He
said Kennedy has not talked to
Donovan since the liberation oper-
ation.
CASTRO’S BONUS
GOODFELLOWS
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
J. Taylor
Anonymous
Anonymous
John Mack & Steven Lee
In Memory of O. 0.
Funderburg
Previously
acknowledged
TOTAL
WEATHER
Pilat Safe After
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NT I EEs PATGE
WEATHER BUREAU 1 ■ • w was a ■ e • u R. ■
• (Weather Map, Page 6-A)
ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius 40*•
Miles)—Partly cloudy and warmer Thutt A ■ g
Navy Jet Crash
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
Thursday 44-52,
NORTHWEST TEXAS:
day and Friday. Warme
day and over area Friday.
Ue Thursday night. High
UTH CENTRAL TE
Wed. am.
TEMPERATURES
RISING STAR - A Navy flier
ay.
Wed.am.
and was burned on his face, neck and
onal hands when he was forced to bail
its" out of his A4C Douglas Skyhawk
jet near Rising Star about 5:50
p.m. Wednesday.
$ 5.00
10.00
20.00
10.00
1000
$12,075.27
$12,130.27
Official Due
U.S. Ousler
The lead plane of the two-plane
flight — piloted by Lt. (g) G. L.
Holmes — circled the crash area,
waiting for the pilot to be picked
up, then went on to land at Dyess
AFB. Dyess officials said the
cause of the accident was not
known.
low
24-hours ending 9 p.m.:
me date last year: 72
Yule Traffic
fatal to 645
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Traffic killed 645 persons dur-
ing America's four-day Christmas
holiday
All accidents cost 837 lives, in-
cluding 107 lost in fires and 85
in all other types of mishaps.
Severe winter weather in much
of the nation was a paramount
factor in both traffic and death
tolls.
The traffic count did not reach
the pre-holiday range of 650 to
750 estimated by the National
Safety Council. It was well short
of the 706 record for a four-day
Christmas set in 1956
However, the toll for the 102-
hour period from 6 p.m Friday
to midnight Tuesday was sub-
stantially higher than a non-holi
day weekend period of equal
length would be likely to cause.
The safety council said such a
figure is 470. The Associated Press
actually counted 171 traffic deaths
from 8 p.m. Friday Dec. 7, to
midnight Tuesday, Dec. It. In
that span there were 64 fire
deaths and 70 from miscellaneous
accidents—511 accidental deaths in
all.
Families of Released
Prisoners Due Today
HAVANA (AP)—The freighter
African Pilot, packed with 923 Cu-
ban emigrants — healthy and ail-
ing. bedfast or waving emotionally
from the rails—sailed Wednesday
night for Florida.
Released by a "Christmas bo-
nus” deal with Prime Minister Fi-
del Castro, they will rejoin their
close relatives, the Bay of Pigs
prisoners ransomed this week
from Cuban prisons.
Their brief voyage across the
Florida Straits, normally a 14-
hour trip, takes them from one
pole of the cold war to the other
—from Castro communism to the
stronghold of the Western powers.
Some of them left behind every-
thing they own to reunite with
the men released in exchange for
$53 million worth of baby foods
and medicines.
It was thought earlier that about
1,000 relatives would be cleared
to leave. But after the long line
had shuffled through in the hot
Humor helped in trade,
other stories no Pg. S-B
sters were the last to walk the
long gangway onto the deck of
the 10,000-ton freighter—hurriedly
converted to makeshift passenger
accommodation after a trip here
with 811 million worth of the ran-
stretchers. Others collapsed when
they reached the deck.
Rebecca Lamas, about 20,
whose mother was unable to make
the trip, sobbed. 'Mama. Mama.”
as she came aboard. A Miami.
som goods.
At one point, Nancy Rodriguez, cal shock,
a representative of the prisoners' •--“- —
Families Committee, went aboard
to appeal to ship’s Capt Alfred
Roerum to permit more than the
expected 1,000 to leave. She said
there were "more relatives who
want to go with you'’
Boerum reluctantly refused her
Fla., nurse, Sonjia King, native of
Nashua, N.H., helped her down
the narrow passageway. A physi-
cian said the girl was in hysteri-
Another woman wept all the
way up the gangway, then smiled,
looked back once at the pier and
said, "Viva Kennedy."
Men were asked to form a line
along the pier to let women and
children board first. Cuban Red
entreaty of, "Not even one
more?” He explained, "We can
not do it. It would be unsafe."
There was no immediate explan-
ation of why fewer than the ex-
pected 1,000 came aboard
The relatives included the ran-
Cross workers brought one case of
beer for the travelers. A truck
somed men's mothers, fathers,
wives, children, brothers and sis-
ters.
The tropical heat and the emo-
sun to board the African Pilot.
Cuban Red Cross officials said
the tally was 923 and no more
would arrive. . ----------
An old man and three young-people were carried aboard on
tional strain took its toll. Severs!
NEW YORK (AP) - Katanga
Province’s information chief in
this country, Michel Struelens,
whose treatment by the State De-
partment aroused some congres-
sional fire, was ordered Wednes-
day to leave the United States.
The ruling was made in a de-
portation proceeding by the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization
Service.
Struelens, a Belgian national,
was turned down in his request
for an adjustment in his status to
allow him permanent residence.
But he was given an opportunity
to leave voluntarily.
Earlier, a Senate Internal Se-
curity subcommittee criticized
handling of the case.
It accused the State Department
of apparent political motivation in
seeking to oust Struelens, who rep-
resented a government critical of
U.S. policy in the Congo, and of
the United Nations.
The subcommittee had sub-
poenaed Struelens to appear be-
fore it last Thursday, but called
off the hearing without comment.
Struelens, 34, information direc-
tor for the government of Presi-
dent Moise Tshombe of Katanga,
was asked by the immigration
service last Dec. 6 to leave the
country voluntarily within 15 days.
The instructions came after he
applied for a permanent resident
permit. He had held no valid visa
since last August. When he failed
to go, the deportation proceedings
were started.
et last night 5:40; sunrise today:
aunsot tonight 5 41.
iding at » p.m.: 28.43.
p.m. 81 per cent.
Moes,
Ice Easing;
More Cold
Due Tonight
Winter relaxed its grip on the
Abilene area with highways gen-
erally clear of ice Wednesday but
the cold weather is to remain for
Ensign W. L. Randolph, pilot of
the twin-engine Navy carrier at-
tack plane, parachuted onto the A. A board of officers will be
M. Wolf farm about six miles formed to investigate the accident,
northeast of here, the Dyess information service of-
The jet crashed and burned on fice reported. Guards from Dyess
the Florence Scott farm, about a were sent to the scene to prevent
anyone from picking up any piec-
es of the wreckage which might
. , . bc needed to complete their inves-
He was taken to Rising Star
hospital by a farmer, Rufus "in - hnhital afiniale
Hicks, who witnessed the bailout
mile west of where Randolph came
down.
Rising Star hospital officials
said Randolph apparently had
trouble with his oxygen mask and
T aisootebed that equipment inside the cockpit
“2 AbLene caught fire. forcing him to eject
transfer him to the base hospital. ed he saw two planes
The pilot, with Attack Squadron1 Hicks Sard “ Saw * P
46 at Cecil Field near
and crash. Randolph was treat-
ed for second degree burns.
An ambulance
from Dyess AFB at Abilene to
ville, Fla., was on a training flight
to Hensley Field near Grand Prai-
rie and to Briggs Air Force Base
at El Paso
1 flying overhead near his farm
when what looked like a ball of
fire fell from one of them. He
said he saw the plane crash and
See PILOT, Pg. 2-A, Col. 4
Cracks Appearing
a couple of days.
Thursday’s forecast calls for . . • —
partly cloudy weather with m mskA
peratures about 40 degrees. ri-Ih LocKeT □iilKC
day’s high is expected to be 35 ■■■ Y - --
degrees after an overnight low
Thursday of 20 to 25. Tuesday
night’s low of 23 was to be fol-
lowed by a 20-25 reading overnight
Wednesday.
Max Durrett, weather forecast-
er. said a trace of rain and snow
fell at the Municipal Airport”
weather station between 1:30
a.m. and 2:50 a.m Wednesday
Elsewhere in the area, Big
Spring reported 22 degrees
Wednesday, with streets clear of
ice after 14 minor accidents were
NEWS INDEX
also brought several boxes of
oranges which were distributed.
New, bright-colored American
blankets were handed up into the
five shelter decks, which accom-
modated up to 200 people each.
Nurses were to be on hand for
the voyage to Florida
Guards inspected the emigrants'
luggage, removed some articles
See CUBANS, Pg. 2-A, Col. 1
SECTION A
Obituaries ..........
Oil news ..........
SECTION B
Food news ..........
Women’s news ....
Radio-TV logs ........
TV Scout ..........
Amusements .....
Editorials ............
Comics
Farm news, markets ...
4
11-13
.. 17
2
3
10
caused by icy conditions.
Several minor accidents were
reported in Sweetwater, but no
serious injuries were reported.
The thin coating of ice melted
when the sun appeared
Eastland street department
workers dumped sand on slickest
intersections there, and the ice
was reported gone by 10:50 a.m.
Some snow was reported, but not
enough to cover the ground.
Colorado City, Rotan and Ballin-
ger also reported some icing early
Wednesday but the slick spots dis-
appeared when the sun came up
The Texas State Department of
1 Public Safety in Abilene reported
13 all state roads open late Wednes-
17 day..
NEW YORK <AP>—Cracks ap- Railroads placed a voluntary
peared Wednesday in striking embargo on export freight ship-
longshoremen's claims of a 100 ments to struck ports in an ef-
per cent shutdown of Atlantic and fort '0 prevent a choking pileup
Wk S anlpmnents remained halt of goods on the waterfront.
ed A spokesman for the ship own-
A longshoremen’s local in ers said that before negotiations
Charleston, SC, defied the na- broke up Sunday they had “of-
tional leadership and unloaded fered ^ sweep all our proposals
" orelea amatol Thur on the deck * the union would
day. And independent dockwork likewise take all its demands out
ers in Galveston, Tex., crossed of the way.
picket lines to unload a banana The chief issue in the dispute
boat, is the size of dock work gangs.
Capt. William V. Bradley, presi- now limited to a minimum of 20
dent of the International Long- men. The shipowners, calling the
shoremen's Association, said here minimum cut to 17. Longshore-
the Charleston local could lose its men reply they will not negotiate
charter by its action and be as-their jobs away in the name of
signed a union vice president to automation.
investigate. The Association of American
Among the cargoes halted by Railroads said the curtailment of
the four-day-old waterfront strike shipping to ports will not affect
of 60,000 longshoremen are two military shipments or supplies for
shiploads of wheat in New Or-which there are storage facilities
leans, destined for East Pakistan in the struck ports from Maine
The Pakistan Embassy in Wash to Texas
ington said the grain is urgently Longshoremen also have exempt
The strike showed no sign of ed military shipments from the
ending and no bargaining sessions strike, as well as dangerous or
were scheduled. emergency cargo.
Longshoremen also have exempt-
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