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Mtmmm The Capital City Newspaper Since 1871 Home Edition The Oldest Afternoon Newspaper In Texas Austin, Texas, Friday, October 13, 1961 Vol. 91 No. 68 32 Pages 10 Cents Beds Fk at Yankg Berlin Fliss Units As 49th Leaves Mo Band To Play I i bet ''si- -'V'' s. i i-. Kennedy Confers On Peace Escapees Cause Of Gunfire men, have spent several weeks trying to decide whether or not By BETTY MacNABB There'll be no brass bands playing, but tears will fall and doubt will cloud many a mien when Austin's 49th Armored men march to sell their homes, what they should do about their businesses, or their jobs.

WASHINGTON (AP)-President off to fight the Cold War Sunday. The wives have made their own hard decisions; whether to take This time it may be Berlin, in a matter of weeks or months guard duty in a beleaguered city ringed by the Reds. Or pulse-fluttering thought if the Cold War suddenly erupts, it could be anywhere. Or nowhere. The call-up has already affected the lives of many Austin families.

Forty-two University of Texas students are in the local contingent; they were not excused to complete their education. Others, family Kennedy reviewed "cold peace" issues with the National Security the children out of school and fol Council today. low their husbands, or whether to It has long been White House True, they re only going to Fort Polk, La. for the moment But many of the men, and many of their wives, remember the last time they headed for active duty camp and Korea, or Europe, or the Philippines. stay behind and live on letters and By JOHN FIEIW BERLIN (AP)-East Gorman police fired about 230 shots at U.S.

military and West Berlin police today when nine refugees crashed through the Communists barbed wire walL No one was hit in the hour-long flurry of shooting, and Western police did not return the fire. "It's a miracle that we had no casualties," said a West Berlin routine. The Austin group will eventual-(See 49TH, Page 3) policy not to release information on council discussions and none was given out today. The meeting lasted about an hour. Obviously, however, the Berlin WARM situation was one subject of discussion.

There may also have been a review of the Communist threat to Southeast Asia which Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor is going to South Viet Nam to survey. Khrush Plan Little Help Taylor, Kennedy's military ad policeman who supplied the estimate of the number of shots. "Naturally we took shelter behind tree trunks." But on the border between East and West Germany another shooting by East German guards took the life of a West German report-er, a former Communist, who was trying to interview farmers in East Germany.

The reporter for a viser, leaves on Sunday. Among those making the trip with him DALLAS BOUND Off to Dallas and the gayest weekend of them all are these pretty girls of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. They find they all won't fit into this automobile, but other transportation will be along. These eight students will be joined in Dallas by 8,804 WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. Amerlean-SlatesmanUPI others from The University of Texas.

The girls are (seated, left to right) Gay Scott and Mary Graham, and (standing, left to right) Joan Dunlap, Mary Ann. Williams, Susie Hammond, Carol Wilson and Jane HilL will be Walt W. Rostow, the Pres Moscow Radio reported night that Khrushchev had ident's special assistant on secu officials said today Premier written two letters on current rity affairs. Policy toward Berlin occupied East-West tensions, one to a group of labor members of the Kennedy's flying time Thursday Socialist newspaper at Dortmund on a trip in wnicn he divided had crossed a few yards into East British Parliament, the other to the chairman of the Japanese attention between educational and military strength. During hops be Council Against Nuclear Tests.

US Weather Bureau Fore cast for the Austin area: Warm and partly cloudy Friday night. Fair and a little cooler Saturday. Temperature range, Saturday 62-82 degrees; Friday 64-90 degrees. (For full weather report and map, see page 27). Special Dallas football forecast: Partly cloudy and cooler Saturday with a low of 48 Saturday morning.

Sunny with temperature in low 70s and wind northeast at 14 miles an hour at 2 p. m. in Cotton Bowl. Germany to talk to the farmers and was shot down as he ran back toward the border. Khrushchev's latest package proposal for a German settlement failed to advance the prospets of East-West agreement to end the Berlin crisis.

They also found nothing en-J couraging in the Soviet leader's declaration of readiness to attend a summit meeting to achieve a peaceful solution of the crisis. A tween Washington and North Car In both he asserted the willing Castro Suspected Of Fake Invasion olina and back again, he con The Berlin shooting was brought ness of the Soviet government to Second TV Station Talk Heard Again Talk of a second television sta ferred in his private compartment enter into negotiations with the with high U.S. officials directly associated with formulating policy on by the attempt of nine young East Berliners to ram a truck through the barbed wire entanglement The truck got stuck, and the refugees jumped out and escaped Western powers. In the letter to Chairman Kaoru Yasui of the Japanese council, he declared his to meet the Sovet threat to the summit conference, U.S. leaders West's position in Germany.

tack, exile leaders said today. personal readiness to meet West President Jose Miro Cardona said While at Ft. Bragg to witness say, should come only as the end result of lower-level negotiations which would assure success at the one such source quoted Castro into a part of the American sector (See BERLIN, Page 3) para troop, weapons and guerrilla ern leaders "in order to find a way out of the present difficult They said they were warned of the possibility of such an intrigue by friendly Latin American diplo tion for Austin came alive again personally as saying there would warfare demonstrations by the summit. By FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY United Press International Premier Fidel Castro may be plotting a fake invasion of Cuba as an excuse to "licpiidate" the imprisoned leaders of the unsuccessful April 17 Bay of Pigs at situation.

be an "invasion" of Cuba "within Friday. 82nd Airborne Division, the chief mats In secret dispatches from 10 days from three places." Some of the points of his pro executive outlined the ob Two applications are now pend Havana. Miro said it was well known posed Berlin-German settlement jective for an age in which two ing before the Federal Communi cations Commission. Cuban Revolutionary Council that exiles were not presently In may be negotiable from the West opposing powers have the capaci a position for an "immediate" at ern point of view. However, all ty to destroy each other: The second has Just been filed by tack on Castro.

He pointed out that are believed to have been cov "While we do not intend to see Fallout Up Sharply six governments accused this week a Midland independent oil opera' tor. Dciiton Homer Cobb. ered in recent talks by President the free world give up, we shall by Castro of training invasion Kennedy and Secretary of State ST Pays make every effort to prevent the Cobb seeks authority to operate Ghana Seeks Expulsion Try Help UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) troops had denied the allegiations. world from being blown up." an ultra high frequency station Dean Rusk with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A.

Gromyko. And "it would be like Castro to fake Kennedy, speaking from notes on Channel 24. an invasion to enable him to fix Kennedy summarized those talks addressed a crowd of some 32,000 People in Austin are eating Red this week by saying that they had in the University of North Caro The application identifies Cobb as fK) per cent owner of KDCD-TV in Midland. He would operate in Visit dust again. failed to provide a basis for lina's sun-warmed stadium before a pretext to liquidate the men who led the April 17 attack whose lives he is now obliged to respect under international law relating to prisoners of war," Miro said.

The huge nuclear blast set off negotiations. receiving an honorary doctor of Austin under the name of Capitol by the Russians in Siberia late laws degree. It does appear that at present Ghana sought support today for a resolution calling on the Securi Telecasting Company. last week again set the radioac bum's seventh floor hospital suite Kennedy indirectly disputes ar responding to the Soviet Union on The Midland oil man proposes to Miro said also that a fake at at 11:55 a.m. (EST).

guments against his administra DALLAS (AP) Former President Harry Truman, solemn-faced, today visited his long-time ty Council to expel South Africa from the United Nations. erect a 416-foot transmitting tower on Mount Bonnell Road just out tion's policy from opposite sides Truman spent loss than 15 tack would give Castro an opportunity to "divert" DeoDle's minds on Monday to 7.3 on Thursday. The meter was continuing to accelerate on Friday, and the reading was expected to approach close to 10 micromicroucuries by day's end. Further increases are due over the weekend, as the main band of radioactivity drops lower. Dr.

J. E. Peavy, state commissioner of health, continues to offer reassurance that the radioactive level here would have to be (See DUST, Page 3) Ghana Ambassador Alex Quai- of the political fence, where it minutes in Rayburn's suite. Dur side the city limits. responding tot he Soviet Union on specific issues is severely handicapped by lack of agreement among the United States, Britain, France and West Germany.

They are divided over what, if any, con friend, House Speaker Sam Ray- son-Sackey said his delegation had from domestic problems and also has been termed too weak or too ing a part of the conversation between the two political and per bum, who is hopelessly ill with tive clouds rolling across the steppes and the oceans to fall out on Texas prairies. The radioactive bands to the north of the Capital City has doubled the reading at the North-side health department headquarters from an almost-normal 3.2 micromicrocuries per cubic of air menacing. drawn up a draft demanding the ouster of the white supremacist spur crumbling morale in the armed forces. His application estimates original cost at $168,780. It foresees $68,000 operating cost during the cancer.

He said it is a dangerous illu sonal cronies, Rayburn sat up nation and would put it before the Informed sources in Washington The former President, wearing cessions they can make to Mos sion to oeiieve u.J. attitudes can in bed. first year and revenue. 26-nation African group today said any bogus invasion staeed bv a light gray suit, arrived at Ray- be encompassed in one slogan or cow if Khrushchev will modify his "I had a most pleasant visit Quaison-Sackey declined to say Castro probably would be intend one adjective, hard or soft or (See REDS, Page 3) Also awaiting FCC action is an application for an UI1F station here filed by a Houston group do with the Speaker. He is at him ed mainly to distract national at otherwise, or to believe that we on what grounds the demand was based until he had consulted the tention from the nrnhlpma nf self 100 per cent.

He told me where to get off, just like he did shall soon meet total victory or Cuba's shortage-plagued economy. ing business as the Texas Long-horn Broadcasting Company. total defeat." when I was in the White House," Truman said. rest of the group. Presumably it says South Africa is unworthy of U.N.

membership because it is continuing its apartheid race segregation policies in defiance They propose construction of a transmitter and temporary studios "I am so happy at the way he Conference Fete Honors BU's McCall INSIDE in the Oak Hill area. The president of this group, John treated me. of repeated U.N. appeals. R.

Powley of Houston, has just Some Africans doubted Ghana "I didn't intend to make a publicity stunt of this. I just came down to see Sam. I am going to filed another application with Weak Cold Front Enters Panhandle FCC for an FM station here, and would get strong support from their group for such a drastic demand. A number of African dele catch a plane and get back home." others in Houston and Altoona, ra. The station Austin's- fifth FM Rayburn sat up in bed today gates, although bitterly opposed to WACO A banquet honoring incoming Baylor University Presi and ate part of an egg for break operation would broadcast on dent Abner Vemon McCall will fast.

His aides said the 79-year- South Africa's racial policies, have said privately they feel it is wiser to keep the republic in the 94.7 megacycles from 4-11 p.m. highlight today's session of the old lawmaker is clear-minded af each day except Saturday. It By Associated Prees three-day American Ideals con U.N. where other members can ter lapsing into unconsciousness Wednesday when he developed A weak cold front pushed into bring pressure to bear and per the Texas Panhandle early Fri ference on the Baylor campus. About persons are expected to attend the banquet at 6:30 p.m.

would be on the air from 4 p. m. to midnight Saturday. Meantime, the FCC has approved transfer of control of KAZZ-FM haps eventually get some results. pneumonia.

Truman was having a social day. It was expected to touch off At least seven affirmative votes thundershowers in North Central today In Baylor's student union able drink in Riyburn's hide from J. E. Moore Jr. to Wroe building.

Dr. Kenneth Dale Wells, and Northeast Texas during the would be required in the 11-nation Security Council to expel South Africa. Observers doubted that. away office April 12, 1945, when he received word of the death JL '1 day. Skies were clear with the ex president of the Freedoms Foundation, will be principal speaker.

of President Franklin D. Roose many could be mustered. ception of some scattered clouds The president of the Baylor stu velt. Truman succeeded to the Ghana's resolution reportedly around Laredo, Alice and Wichita dent body will announce the win presidency. was drawn up before South Afri Falls.

ner of the American Ideals teach Truman left his Missouri home The US Weather Bureau said ing award to a Baylor faculty unannounced and traveled by that the front lay on a line run member for excellence in installing American ideals through ning from near Wichita Falls westward to north of Lubbock teaching. Thunderstorm activity that was The American Ideals conference train to Dallas. The tram arrived shortly after 11:30 a.m. (EST). Rayburn improved sufficiently from the pneumonia to sit in a chair for a time yesterday, his developing in southwestern Okla Owens and Earl Podolnick, both of Austin.

Podolnick is president of the Trans-Texas Theaters chain. Owen, an attorney, is vice-president of the theater group. Accused Youth Declared Insane SHERMAN (AP)-Frederlck Alley, 17, who stahhed his mother to death on April 25, 1960, was declared insane by a jury yesterday. District Judge R. C.

Vaughn ordered the youth committed to the Rusk State Hospital. Since the slaying when Alley was years old. he has been held in the Grayson County jail. began on Baylor's campus in 1953 homa was expected to move south to impress on students the Import ward across the Red River into ance of American principles in ev tHlll doctor reported. Texas durinir the afternoon.

ery phase of life. v. tj I i -i- v-V; 1 k-y -v. I I "4-Vv (L.J"' I IX'fl' fir i 1 1 Xw I I ft i The physician. Dr.

Robert F. Dalhart with 44 degrees had the This year's conference began! Like father and like too. Page 32 lowest pre-dawn reading while the Thursday with a chapel and seminar talks by Dr. Wells. Short told newsmen that Rayburn had received his first treatment of FUDR, a form of 5 fluor- high was a 72 at Galveston.

The maximum temperature in The longtime freedom advocate INDEX can Foreign Minister Eric Louw made his policy speech in the General Assembly that brought down the wrath of the African group and resulted in a 7-1 vote of censure against Louw. Louw has claimed the concerted black African move against his government was decided long before he spoke and that his address served only to trigger the censure vote and move for expulsion. In the quest for an interim secretary-general the United States was reported to have rejected a Soviet proposal that any stopgap executive should have six undersecretaries as advisers. The U.S. wants only five.

U.S. delegates contended that the six two from the United States and Western Europe, two from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, and one each from Latin America and Africa would be no the state Thursday was a 95 at ouracil, which he had received who has served as president of Presidio. the Freedoms Foundation for 10 before contracting pneumonia. A (See SAM, Page 3) No rainfall was reported in the (See BAYLOR, Page 3) I state Thursday or Friday. Ram fell across broad areas Friday Plus 13 from the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle northward to the western Upper Great Lakes region today in the wake of damaging rain, It's Like Any Other Day, Except more than a doubling of the troika board of three the Soviets want One and well beloved by those ancestors of Swedes, Danes, Norse and Finns.

They haven't liked the 13th guest since. So be it with our Western superstitions. If you were born an Egyptian or a Chinese, you net a wind and hail storms. The most severe weather during the night was in northeast Kansas, with tornadic winds, heavy rain and hail. No injuries were reported in Mayetta, 20 miles north of Topeka, which was hit by a tornado.

Funnel clouds were reported in several other communities in northeast Kansas. Nearly 5l4 inches of rain hit Oskaloosa, in a three-hour thunderstorm. to run the secretariat when a BOB THOMAS 32 CLASSIFIED ADS 27-31 COMICS 20 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 20 DEAR ABBY 21 DEATHS, FUNERALS 15 DOCTOR SAYS 21 EDITORIAL PAGE 4 GOREN ON BRIDGE 6 HAL BOYLE 14 HOROSCOPE 7 PUBLIC RECORDS 10 NAMES MAKE NEWS 3 RADIO-TV LOG ...19 SHOW WORLD 18 SPORTS PAGES 22-26 TEMPERATURES 27 TV REVIEW 19 DEATHS (See details on Page 13) Earl McCutchan, Fentress Mrs. Fred S. Webster Austin Harold L.

Kiger, Austin William R. Cowan, Austin W. D. Shotwell. Austin Henry Turner, Austin Clyde C.

Campen, Austin Mrs. Minna Ilielscher, Austin permanent choice is made in 1963. The interim secretary-general would be required only to collab break. The 13th step to the pyra orate closely with the undersecre taries, not to take their advice. already seated at the table.

And rope. For Friday used to be "Hangman's Day." Horse thieves, debtors, and slayers of neighbors for a fifth of gin took their last walk to the noose on Friday back in Merrie Okie England and sundry sporting places of our mother continent. This day of the "Devil's Dozen" hasn't come within range of respectability ever since Loki, the symbol of evil, came to a Scandinavian dinner party for demigods more years ago than even Perle Mesta can remember. "Hodur," LoW said waving bis drumstick at The Blind One, "Go slay Baldur." Now, Baldur was The Bright By MABJ WIGHTMAN Now and then the calendar maker goofs and we have a Friday the 13th a deviously unlucky, unholy and unfortunate day we'll be happy to see go with no more than a growl from the neighbor's dog. It is not, and to us sensitive folk of the Western World, probably never will be the time for being born, getting married or clipping our nails.

No sailor with his bell bottoms cn straight would ever think of weighing anchor on a Friday, much less a 13th. And you. regardless of your love for liveliness, will be smart to stay away from dinner parties with 12 guests No Thank You, So Fattening This thief is watching his waist mids symbolizes everlasting life or, as the stone heavers of old Egypt put it, the transformation. But, being of the West and directly descended from that first man who counted to 10 on his fingers and then added his two feet to make 12 we're whipped. For him, "13" was the unknown.

And for us Hush, Bobo. You'll make everyon think you mean all that barking at the sliver of the moon. line. Some Shooting A-Brewing Sure Police braced for an Indian uprising Friday. Burglars raided the Wonderland Amusement Park at 6S43 Burnet Road to loot six bows and 250 A North Austin housewife- Fri day reported her grocery bag was WAKE ME WHEN IT'S OVER This is what Ali Haidar Sulaiman of Iraq seems to be saying during Thursday's session of the United Nations General Assembly main political committee meeting.

During the session US Ambassador Ar- UriTlfcboio thur Dean said this country will forced to re-examine its position on nuclear tests in the atmosphere if th USSR persists with its current erici of tetts. stolen from a parked car, but the thief left the sack of potatoes be hind..