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Rattlers, Bears Lose But Shorthorns Win today San Marcos by 28-7; Bastrop by 15-7; Schulenburg by 24-14 Page 33 The Weather CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly cloudy Saturday morning changing to fair Saturday afternoon through Sunday. Moderate northerly winds diminishing to light northerly Sunday. Freezing temperatures expected most of Saturday night with a low of 25 Sunday morning. Temperature range Friday, 45-72; expected range Saturday, 34-46. See Weatther Data, Page 7.

Read by the Decision-Makers of Texas Austin, Texas, Saturday, December 10, 1966 10 Cents Vol. 43, No. 3 46 Pages HOME EDITION SUNRISE: SUNSET: 7:16 p.m. 5:31 p.m. 6 arenouses Freeze lated The Neivs Inside Back On ieen Austin A Approved List If rea grees at 8 p.m.

Light rain fell over a wide area of North Central Texas and Northeast Texas, generally along and north of a line from Tyler to Dallas to Jacksboro. More rains developed within a 25-mile radius of Waco. Either light rain or blowing snow had accompanied the norther across the Panhandle-Plains country. The cold front was deep into the state by Friday night. Clearing was in progress in the Panhandle before 9 p.m., and was expected to spread southward and eastward Satur day.

But cold temperatures would remain, the Weather Bureau said. Some schools were closed Fri day as the blowing snow whipped across tire Panhandle country. Driving became dan gerous for a time, but both Dal hart and Dumas reported late Friday night that the highways were dry. Officials at Pampa sent students home shortly before noon when wind-whipped snow put visibility almost to zero. "You couldn't see your hand in front of you.

It was like a real old fashioned blizzard," School principal Cameron Marsh said. Schools also were closed at Texhoma, because of the blizzard-like conditions. erly winds Sunday. The cold air invaded Texas from Minnesota, bringing light snow to Northwest Texas. Associated Press Cold, bitter weather covered the upper half of Texas Friday night and was expected to reach the Gulf of Mexico by Saturday morning.

Snow that fell in the Panhandle was mostly gone by evening, but temperatures continued to fall. Dalhart, in the northwestern Panhandle reported 23 de- Your CHI May Mean Christmas The Christmas Bureau needs help to see that those in need are not forgotten. Won't you call today in the spirit of this holy season? Christmas Bureau 1010 W. 19th GR 2-8284 By DAVE SHANKS Staff Writer Cotton warehouses at Lock-hart, San Marcos and Seguin may soon be back on the government's "approved list" of firms eligible to handle cotton in the Commodity Credit Corporation cotton loan program. Congressman J.

J. (Jake) Pickle announced Friday that US Agriculture Department officials in Washington and Col lege Station "are working on a problem and are hopeful of a solution." In early November, the cot- President Returns To Washington WASHINGTON (AP)-Presi-dent Johnson returned Friday from a 20-day visit to his Texas ranch and got caught up on an accumulation of paper work he found on his White House desk. He also spent considerable time in conferences with mem bers of his staff on a wide range of problems. Saturday, he hopes to put the finishing touches on the budgets of two departments and three agencies for the next fiscal year, which begins July The departments are State and Treasury, the agencies the US Information Agency, General Services Administration and the Veterans Administra tion. Johnson is expected to remain in the White House for about a week, then return to Texas for the Christmas and New Year's holidays.

UPI Telephoto MRS. FARBER, ATTORNEY LEAVE AFTER MURDER TESTIMONY Star witness snowed jury how she said Coppolino killed her husband Coppolino Trial idow Describes Husband's Slaying Jack Huhy Hit nemiioiua Tuskegee Denounces Rioting TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP)-An outbreak of rioting by young Negroes brought new racial ten sion to Tuskegee on inday along witii a warning from a Negro college president that 'mobs cannot be tolerated." Negro demonstrators, most of them students at Tuskegee Institute, walked and ran through the downtown streets of Tuskegee before dawn, smashing win dows with bottles and rocks and, in one instance, a steel crowbar. A Confederate statue was defaced with paint and the words "black power" scrawled on its base. They were protesting the acquittal at nearby Dpelika of a white man who was charged with killing a Negro civil rights worker in Tuskegee 11 months ago.

Tuskegee Institute's president, Dr. Luther H. Foster, called a hurried meeting of students and faculty members on the campus at midmorning and warned' them bluntly against any recurrence of violence. A sharp cold front sent Aus tin area temperatures plum meting Saturday with an ex pected low of 25 degrees forecast for early Sunday morning. Freezing temperatures are expected most of Saturday night.

The forecast is for a slight warmup Sunday afternoon. Saturday morning, it will be partly cloudy, clearing Satur day afternoon through Sunday. Moderate northerly winds, occasionally gusty, Saturday should diminish to light north 2 Nations Fear War Expansion PARIS (AP) France and the Soviet Union warned Friday that the war in Viet Nam may spill over into neighboring coun tries. They blamed the gravity of the war on "outside interven tion" an apparent reference to the United States and said the conflict is the principal ob stacle to relaxation of interna tional tensions. But they gave no hint as to how the war could be brought to an end.

They held up growing French- Soviet cooperation as a model for the world to copy. Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and French President Charles de Gaulle said this in a joint declaration marking the end of the Kremlin leader's nine-day state visit here. The communique was re markable for the delicate bal ance it maintained Detween French and Soviet viewpoints on European security and on world disarmament There was little if any change in their respective positions. Europe's most abiding prob lem the reunification of Ger many was not even mentioned in the declaration.

Kosygin and De Gaulle raised the question of a possible European security conference where the German problem would certainly be discussed, but set no time for the meeting, saying simply, "in the future." continued progress of this area." The Austin plant will be a member of IBM's Office Products Division. IBM has one other major plant in Texas. A plant for manufacturing punched cards was built in Sherman in 1957. Both the "Selectric" composer and the Magnetic Tape Composer to be manufactured here used the single element technology of the IBM "Selectric" typewriter introduced in 196L Camera-ready copy is pro duced by a single sphere-shaped element or printing font about the size of a golf ball. The element bears all charac ters, numbers and punctuation symbols.

It moves across the paper, tilting, rocking and ro tating and typing the charac ters and numbers as the opera tor types on the typewriter-like keyboard. The single element principle also allows the rapid MILK PRODUCERS HERE SATISFIED Austin area milk producers already receive more than the $6.05 per hundredweight for which National Farmers Organization members voted to strike, and dairymen see almost no possibility of such action here. The NFO' voted Thursday night In Milwaukee to conduct withholding action keep milk from moving to market in order to force milk prices up. Payments to Central Texas dairymen are at $6.7 per lundredweight PAGE 14 LAKE POLLUTED BUT STILL SAFE City and state officials acknowledge that Austin's Town Lake is polluted, but they also agree that "pollution" is a broad term which covers a lot of water. Asked about Town Lake's purity Friday, Joe Teller, State Health Department project director with the Water Pollution Control Board, said "you prob ably could not find a lake in Texas that is not polluted." But, he said, the agency "is not go ing to let any body of water get polluted to a degree where people can't use it for what they want." PAGE 5 UN PEACE ACTION URGED The burden of settling the Vietnam war should be shifted from American to international shoulders through the United Nations.

So urged representatives of most of the nation's ma jor Protestant and Orthodox churches Friday in Miami Beach, Fla. "This war must be brought to an end soon," declared the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches. The appeal issued called for "more candor" by the government about its negotiation efforts and basic military policy. PAGE FIVE FLEE WALL UNDER GUNFIRE Under gunfire and a probing searchlight, an East German couple and their three children fled into West Berlin Friday in a dawn dash across border barriers. The five were treated for barbed-wire wounds, then turned over to US authorities in a refugee center.

They had fled into the American sector of West Berlin. PAGE 8 Index a jn 01! njuuseuieiiis ou-ox Ann Landers 18 Bridge 46 Classified 39-45 Comics 22, 32 Deaths 12 Editorial 4 Financial 20-21 Heloise 18 Horoscope 46 Jumble 28 Movies 30-31 People 10 Public Records 3 T1 rrrvj 90 'o Weatner Regarding Classified Cancellation! Saturday 8 to 9 a.m. Sunday 4 to 5 p.m. To reach Correction Desk Dial GR 6-6381 Austin Amertran-Stafesmatt You May limited ri Schedule Vi for we.k-.nd Corrections A i I I ton warehouses firms in the three Central Texas cities were taken off the approved list when U.S.D.A. officials were auditing operations of Behring and Behring cotton firm, with offices in Dallas and Seguin.

Subsequently, the firm filed bankruptcy proceedings and Joe Humphreys is acting manager for the receivership. C. H. Moseley, assistant dep uty administrator for commodity operations of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service in Washington, reportedly informed Pickle's office that he had been assured that "certain criteria for reinstatement can be met." Mosely reportedly is asking for a bond from the receiver, for continuity of fire insurance coverage, and for continued management by Humphrey and for other technicalities. If approval is granted, farmers in the three areas can con tinue to use the warehouses just as they had in (he past Farmers can store cotton in the warehouses pending a decision on whether to sell in the open market or to place their crop in a ban program.

Although several hundred bales of privately-owned cotton already had been moved from the three towns to approved warehouses in the area, sever al hundred additional bales had been kept in the three towns by" farmers hopeful that the warehouses could be put back on an approved list Estimates are that moving cotton from one warehouse to another costs approximately $5 per bale, and in addition, stymies local cotton marketing. Roy Neal, head of the Temple regional office of the U.S.D.A.'s (See COTTON, Page 6) to be used for open space and recreational purposes, Eskew says. Control of any of the area could not be given to the Parks Department unless the Parks Department reimburses the utility system, since the land is an asset used by the utility system to back bonds. Q. What restrictions, if any, will there be on the leasing of these Decker Lake lands by private entities? Eskew says that the lands technically could not be leased because leasing implies loss of control.

However, concession rights could be granted private entities, Eskew says, provided the use was compatible with Open Space and recreation characteristics. Use of the land, whether by the city or by a concessionaire, for other purposes would mean that the city would have to reimburse the federal government for some portion of the Open Space money or provide equal Open Space land at an other suitable location, Eskew says. Q. Can you specifically clari fy the legal restrictions that control our sand beach reserve areas? Eskew says the sand beach reserve areas and the Colorado River bed in the city were obtained from the state in 1945 to allow the city to secure adequate water supply, sanita tion, public health and police protection along the river. Under the terms, the city may not sell the land, Eskew says.

But the city may allow any incidental use which might further the public use that See PARKS, Page 6) However, defense attorney F. Lee Bailey produced a letter signed by Mrs. Farber shortly before her husband's July 1963 death. In it was a mention that Coppolino diagnosed her husband as in the throes of a heart attack and that Farber had re fused to be hospitalized. The letter released Coppolino from further responsibility in Farber's treatment and left the implication that the defendant was no longer on the scene when Farber died.

Judge Elvin R. Simmill warned Mrs. Farber that her testimony incriminated her in the slaying period. But she said she was offering it voluntarily, without any promise that she would be immune from prosecu tion as an accomplice. Bailey referred to her in cross-examination as a "murderess" and "killer." An overflow crowd jostled angrily in an effort to gain en- (See TRIAL, Page 6) Parks Questions Answered by City IBM Neiv Manufacturing Plant North of Austin To Employ 500 24.

1963, two days after the as sassination. After he was convicted of murder in February, 1964, and given the death sentence for killing Oswald, Ruby's attorneys said he had attempted suicide once by banging his neaa against a wall and once by sticking his finger in a light socket. District Attorney Henry Wade said the defense claims were a play for sympathy. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a new trial for Ruby recently, and last week Judge Louis Holland set the second trial for Wichita Falls, probably in February. In court appearances after the assassination and during his murder trial, Ruby's usually ruddy complexion was waxy and he had lost weight.

But in court since then he seemed to have regained his plump figure. Parkland, the city-county hos pital where both President Kennedy and Oswald died, issued this statement: "Jack Ruby was admitted to Parkland Hospital at 5:15 p.m. this afternoon. His condition was listed as serious. The admitting diagnosis was pneumonia.

"The next statement on his condition will be at 9 a.m. to morrow. Decker said he delivered Ruby to the hospital at 4:57 p.m. "Security will be maximum," he said. DAYS LEFT CHRISTMAS SEALS fight TB and other RESPIRATORY DISEASES -(! J) SHOPPING FREEHOLD, N.J.

(AP)- Marjorie Farber, between fits of i weeping, vividly testified Fri day that, after two false starts, she helped Dr. Carl Coppolino in the 1963 smothering and stran gling of her husband. She said she was hypnotized. Mrs. Farber, at 52 still an at tractive 5-foot-2 brunette.

claimed she was a slave in a bizarre "love plan" conceived by Coppolino. She said she herself had tried at his direction to kill her husband, retired Army Col. William E. Farber but couldn't go through with it. "I was another person," she said dramatically, blaming all her actions on a trance she said was induced by Coppolino's hypnotic powers.

"This terrible complex me and that other person dominated by Carl," she testified at one point "I was brainwashed by this man. He had a vicious hatred for my husband. I didn't." will be opened here soon. Loca tions of these offices will be announced when established, he said. Moodie announced the ap pointment of Charles A.

Muller of Lexington to head the Austin facility. Moodie told the news confer ence at the Commodore Perry Hotel that the 200,000 square foot plant will be completed and in operation in the second half of 1967. He declined to discuss the costs of construction. He said the first phase of the Austin operation would be housed in an expansive, single level type structure. Besides the manufacturing activity, the Austin plant will have engineering and office facilities, Moodie said.

Moodie said IBM had looked over the entire nation before deciding to locate in Austin. He said that actual investigations of Austin began in the fall of 19S5. "Austin sold itself," Moodie told the news conference. "It offers a fine living and working environment, outstanding edu- DALLAS, Tex. (AP) Jack Ruby, the stubby strip joint boss who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, was taken to Parkland Hospital late Friday with an illness des cribed as a serious case of pneumonia.

Ruby, 55, had been under treatment in his jail cell for a bad cold for about three weeks Sheriff Bill Decker said he was admitted to the hospital about 5:15 p.m. following a rou tine examination by Dr. John W. Callahan, assistant county health officer. Except for defense claims that he was mentally sick, it was Ruby's first reported illness since he gunned down Oswald, later named by the Warren Commission as assassin of Pres ident John F.

Kennedy, on Nov, classical printing type styles available today. Type styles range in size from seven to 12 point is the printer's term for type height.) Forty-six fonts are text type faces. The others are for printing Greek, mathematical and technical symbols. Spanish, French, Ital ian, German and Nordic fonts are also available. "Justifying" copy or preparing copy with straight right and left margins, as it appears in books or newspapers, is com pletely automatic on the magnetic tape model and is semiautomatic on the "Composer." During a draft typing on the "Composer" the copy is typed across the line, ending just in side the desired margin.

The machine measures automatically how much space remains between the last word typed and the margin. During the final typing the "Composer1 automatically adds the units its Icational advantages and im pressive recreational and cultural features. "The kinds of people we need are here. We are delighted to become a part of Central Texas' thriving industry and we hope we can contribute to the Mrs. Fagan Dickson said Friday she was disappointed that the City Council looked at Parks and Recreation Advisory Board recommendations as "something we just came up with." Council members gave a cool reception to Parks Board recommendations delivered Thursday at a joint meeting.

Mrs. Dickson, chairman of the Parks Board, said the rec ommendations "simply were not our recent opinions." The recommendations main -ly aimed at getting clarifica tion of the publicly-owned lands along Town Lake. The Parks Board would like to see all publicly owned shoreline dedi cated as park land. "We have been trying for years to get the Council to adopt policies for the develop- TV ata, and iht ment of Town Lake and the 'parks," Mrs. Dickson said.

"We were just trying to have implemented plans the Council Ibought and paid for. "The Council paid for some of the best professional thought available, but now they won't implement the plans." she said. Discussion during the joint meeting did bring out answers most of the questions raised by Mrs. Dickson in a recent letter to City Atty. Doren Es- kew.

These are the questions and discussion: Q. Can you tell me the exact legal status of the Decker Lake shorelines which were purchased with federal funds? Eskew says that the Decker Lake Land was purchased with utility bond funds and is the property of the utility system. Federal money came through the Open Space program and is By GLEN CASTLEBURY Staff Writer International Business Machines Corp. will begin construction in January of a manufacturing facility north of Austin that will employ 500 persons. IBM officials Friday disclosed the corporation's plans to build a mammoth plant on a 400-acre site near the Balcone Research Center on Farm Road 1325 (Burnet Road).

The plant will manufacture IBM's new "Selectric" typeset ter and the IBM Magnetic Tape "Selectric" Composer the industry's latest innovations in cold type composition. IBM vice president Gordon M. Moodie told a news confer ence here that he hoped the Austin plant eventually could be expanded to employ 2,000 persons. Moodie said that the plant would hire about two-thirds of the employes locally and that the balance will come primarily from IBM's plant in Lexing ton, Ky, He said a temporary admini- stration and employment office ilii! change from one type font tospace between the words to end another. More than 50 type fonts for the two machines are available.

The styles are patterned after the broad range of modern and the copy exactly on the margin. A built-in memory system "remembers" the last six to (See IBM, Page 6) CHARLES A. MULLER To manage Austin IBM plant. is. li tit j' a.

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