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Cool - Cloudy
Partly cloudy Saturday and Saturday night. A little
warmer Saturday afternoon. Coot again Saturday
night. Clear and mild Sunday.
Today’s Range: 41-62. Tomorrow’s Range: 45-68.
Yesterday’s High: 53. Rainfall: 0.
Sunrise: 7 a.m. Sunset: 5:32 p.m.
Moonrise Saturday 3:25 p.m. Moonset Sunday 3:59 a.m.
Lake Levels: Travis: 673.32’. Buchanan: 1011.70’.
U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for
Taylor and Williamson County.
Volume 48, Number 287
Fourteen Pages
TAYLOR, TEXAS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1961
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COUNCIL AND A VISORS — Officers of the Tay-
lor High School student council are shown here
with the sponsors of the organization. Seated, left
to right, Judy Dupree, secretary-treasurer, Teddy
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Hejl, president, and Reuben Raesz, vice president.
The sponsors are Ross Baldwin and Miss Francis
Lee.
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28 in County
Called for
Draft Checks
Representative Student Council
Most Vital School Organization
Twenty-eight young men from
Williamson County have received
orders to report for1 physical ex-
aminations prior to induction in-
to the armed forces.
Four others have volunteered.
And the local draft board is
seeking the whereabouts of
Thrall man, Pablo Diaz.
Mrs. Eula M. Miller of George-
town, clerk of selective service
board No. 132, also announced
that the state draft quota for De-
cember calls for 561 men.
Eight of the 28 draftees are
from Taylor. They are Clarence
Ray Meyer, James Reuben Sla-
dek, Larry Frank Burruss, Law-
rence Olivares, Henry Ram'ond
Zezulka, Mike Morales, Robert
Lee Stiba, Charles F. Trcka.
Also, Jerry Frank Havelka,
Johnny Timothy Valenta and Ray-
mond William Kubacak of Jar
rell. Paul Weldon Stark and Ken-
neth Alden Strawn of Florence,
Robert Eugene House and Henry
Griffin of Thrall, Alvin A. Marek
cif Bartlett.
Also, Gilbert Arfton Hrna and
Gilbert Frank Selucky of Gran-
ger, James Doff Ross of Liberty
Hill, David Ray Meinardus of
Hutto, Jimmy Harold Brown and
Kenneth Lee Simpson of Le.ander.
Also, Henry Gus Neitsch, Emil-
io Lopez, Donald Hoyle, Hugh
McLinnon Tucker Jr., Ignacia
Hurtado, Daniel Martinez Vasquez
of Georgetown.
Three of the four Volunteers
are from Taylor. They are Frank-
lin Delano Pulkrabek, Frank
James Kropp and David Wayne
Hertz. The other is John Elmer
Jones of Granger. If they pass
their physical examinations, they
will be inducted immediately.
In connection with the missing
man, Mrs. Miller stated: “Texas
Local Board 132 is attempting to
locate Pablo Diaz who at the time
of registration resided ait Route
1, Thrall. Any person knowing
the whereabouts of this registrant,
or his brother, Sanlos Diaz, is
urgently requested to furnish
such information to the local
board at Georgetown.”
The stale draft quota for De-
cember will be filled with men
who are at least 22 years old on
Dec. 1, with the exception of vol-
unteers, or (hose whom the law
terms delinquent, who may be
younger. The November call,
previously announced, as 923,
compared to October, September
and August quotas of 911, 1,112
and' 561 respectively.
Mrs. Miller said 6,155 mien
would be given pre-induction ex-
aminations in December, com-
pared with 6,071 in November.
Monthly draft calls in Texas
this year ranged from 292 down
to zero prior to August. Monthly
examination quotas prior to Aug-
ust ranged from none to 2,255.
By LIN MILLS
The Student council is the most
important student-organization at
Taylor High School.
It is the only single group that
represents every student in the
school.
The 19 members of the student
council have an obligation to rep-
resent their “constituents.” This
includes putting before the coun-
cil what the students want and
reporting back on action taken.
represntativs from each of the
high school classes freshmen,
sophomores, juniors and seniors.
They are elected at the begin-
ning of the school year.
The other three members of the
student government organization
are the pflicers, the president,
vice president and secretary-trea-
surer. They are elected by popu-
lar vote by all the students in
high school in the spring for the
following year.
The council is made up of fourj Miss Francis Lee and' Ross
Murray Guest Speaker
For Scouters' Banquet
William J. Murray Jr., chair-
man of the Railroad Commission
of Texas, will be guest speaker
at the annual meeting of Boy
Scout leaders of the San Gabriel
District.
The event will be held Nov.
28 at 7 p.m. at the American
Legion Hall in Taylor.
New officers will be elected.
The outgoing district chairman,
David Hoster, editor and general
manager of The Taylor Daily
Press, also announced the time
and place for another important
scouting event, the San Gabriel
fall camporee to be held on the
Sam Easley farm Friday and
Saturday.
Unifund Gifts
Total $22,194
Contributions in Taylor’s United
Fund campaign climbed to $22,-
194 this week.
That's within $1,506 of ithe goal
of $23,700.
General Chairman John Smith
urged everyone who has not
yet contributed to do so as soon
as possible so that the 1961 drive
can be concluded.
The speaker for the 'annual
meeting and banquet, W. J. Mur-
ray, has been a member of the
Railroad Commission since Jan
21, 1947.
He was a Houston petroleum
engineer when he was named' to
the unexpired term of Beauford
J. Jester, who had been elect-
ed governor.
Murray holds a unique position
on the Railroad Commission. He
was bom and reared in the oil
industry. He is a native Texan,
having been born in Coleman
Feb. 17, 1915. His father was a
rig builder and followed the oil
booms. The family was at Cisco
when young Murray graduated
from high school in June,- 1931.
After two years at Hardin-
Simmons University, he entered
the University of Texas in 1933
and received both bachelor and
master degrees in petroleum en-
gineering, After graduation, Mur-
ray was for two years geologist
and consultant in Abilene.
In 1939 he joined the Railroad
Commission and was in the pe
troleum and gas engineering divi-
sion. During - three years of
(See MURRAY, Page 5)
Baldwin are the student council
sponsors. They meet with the stu-
dent organization at their regu-
lar meetings each Monday from
8:30 to 9 a.m. in the teachers
room at the high school.
iVie sponsors “try hard to say
nothing,’’,..as Miss Leg put it, be-
cause “the meetings are supposed
to be theirs.” However, she said
the sponsors have to step in and
guide the group once in a while,
or bring them back to reality,
but “by and large they take care
of their own business.”
Members of the student coun-
cil are reminded periodically
that theirs As a service organiza-
tion, not a policy making body.
The student council can make
recommendations, however, which
are subject to the action of
Principal Howard Oliphint.
Students learn that if they
have any selfish interests they
must give them up to fulfill their
obligation to represent the stu-
dents who elected them to office.
The student council members
are looked up to by other stu-
dents for the examples they set.
They know that the student rep-
resentatives are supposed to be
democratic in their dealings al-
ways.
A lot depends on the president.
The. student councilman d:o much
for the student: body if he or she
is an impressive, example-set-
ting sort of person.
The principal sometimes calls
on the organization to help out
on malfcters affecting the morale
of students. For example, if the
campus is too messy or the
halls are too noisy, the principal
will, ask the council to use its
influence.
“The members will quietly use
their influence,” Mis's Lee said,
“in their individual dealings with
the other students with whom
they come in contact.”
The student council has been
called a “laboratory in citizen-
(See COUNCIL, Page 6)
Tuesday and Wednesday are
days of “opportunity” and “shop-
pertuniity” in Taylor.
Mom and dad will have the
“shoppertunity” to select Christ-
mas merchandise from thousands
of value items at Taylor stores.
They’ll have the “opportunity”
to pick up one “fantastic bar-
gain” at each store participat-
ing in the “Christmas Shop-
pertunity Event.”
And all the while, Santa Claus
himself and his helpers will
be entertaiining the children with
exciting rocket and pony rides.
The Christmas atmosphere will
be augmented, at 6 p.m. Tuesday
when the cross-street stringers of
multi-colored yule lights will he
turned on for the first time. They
will burn nightly between 6 p.m.
and' 11 p.m.
A crew of city workers this
weekend was in the process of
putting up the big City Hall
Christmas tree made up of string-
ers of lights and foil. Fire Mar-
shal Johnnie Hafemik and City
Manager F. R. Cromwell said
every effort would be made
to get it up and turned on by
Tuesday night.
And to make it all even more
pleasant, the Taylor city commis-
sion has granted free parking
on both days, it was announced
by Mayor R. E. “Nitter” Koll
Thorndale Edges Shiner
On Statistics in Tie
By KENNETH BENNIGHT
LaGRANGE — The Thorndale
Bulldogs, District 23-A champs,
displayed their comeback pro-
wess Friday night in La Grange
City to Close
For Hol iday
Taylor will close Thursday to
observe Thanksgiving.
Public and parochial school
students will get two days off,
Thursday and Friday.
Scheduled to close their doors
all day Thursday are the retail
merchants, banks, post office,
all utility offices, the Chamber
of Commerce and all federal
and state offices.
The Taylor Press will pub-
lish one early edition.
Rockefeller,
Wife Plan
To Divorce
Monday’s Taylor Daily Press
will be the “shoppertunity edi-
tion.” It will be crammed with
ads from participating mer-
chants who are in the process of
stocking, their shelves high with
outstanding buys for value-con-
scious shoppers from Taylor and
all over Central Texas.
Somewhere in each merchant’s
advertisement, there’ll be an ex
tra special fantastic bargain. For
example, one firm is selling a
$29.95 food mixer for three cents.
Each copy of The Taylor
Press will carry a lucky number
in a special box in the ad sec-
tion. Each number will he differ-
ent. because each paper will be
hand stamped.
Shoppers will be able to pur-
chase these “lucky number” items
for a fantastically low price if
their newspaper number matches
the lucky number posted in some
obvious place in each store. The
Monday ads will reveal exactly
what the lucky number items are.
Whatever it is, it will be sold
for practically nothing.
Only adults are eligible to par-
ticipate i n the lucky number
event and they must bring their
copy of The Press to town with
them.
The lucky number bargains
can be claimed on either day
of the big shoppertunity event.
Free tickets for rides on San-
ta’s big 60-passenger rocket ship
are available just for the ask-
ing at any of the 34 participating
stores. They may be picked up
now or on the days the rides
will be operating..
When youngsters leave the
rocket ship, they will receive
a ticket good for a ride on the
Shetland ponies.
Children from all over the
Taylor trade area have received
an invitation from the Chamber
of Commerce to come to Taylor
and enjoy the fun.
NEW YORK iffi — Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller and his wife have
parted in the first step toward
a divorce to end 31 years of
marriage.
The decision to dissolve the un
ion of the Philadelphia heiress
and wealthy, potential Repub-
lican presidential candidate was
announced Friday night in a terse
statement issued on behalf of
both.
A spokesman said the agree-
ment to separate was “amicable.”
A political aide to the governor
said the divorce would “absolute-
ly noit” affect Rockefeller’s
plans to run for reelection next
year.
Although Rockefeller has not
publicly acknowledged it, he is
considered a strong possibility for
the 1964 GOP nomination for pre-
sident.
The terse announcement of the
(See ROCKEFELLER, Page 5)
as they edged the Shiner Ccman-
ches, champions of District 24-A,
on statistics in a 12-12 deadlock
game.
The teams were all tied up in
penetrations also, with two each,
but when the first downs were
checked it was a different story,
with Thorndale possessing 19 and
Shiner 12.
Thus a margin of seven first
downs gave the Bulldogs the
victory and the bi-district cham-
pionship and permits them to
continue on into the state play-
offs.
Coach James Weaver’s Bull-
dogs will meet Connally. High
School of W7aco in the second
round of the playoffs.
Time and' place were to be set
Saturday. Coach Weaver said he
imagined the game would be
played Friday night and that a
neut ral site would be picked, prob
ably Temple. Connally beat
Franklin 20-6 for the bi-district
championship Friday night.
The Comanches showed that
they meant business immediate-
ly following the opening kickoff.
From their1 own 30 yard line
Shiner drove to the Bulldog eight
yard line in 10 plays with the
running of quarterback Eugene
Vaclavik, fullback Frankie Ku-
becka, and the two halves, David
Garbade and Ervin Berger.
On second down from the
eight, Vaclavik found Berger
tree in the end zone and hit
him with a pass for the initial
Comanche score.
Garbad'e’s kick for the point
after failed and Shiner had an
early lead of 6-0.
Tbomdiale took the ensuing
kickoff and returned it to their
own 35.
With fullback Richard West
brook and halfback Ken Caffey
alternating in the carrying as-
signments, the Bulldogs advanced
the ball to the 48 for a first
down.
On first down from scrimmage,
halfback Charles Caffey, carrying
into the left tackle slot, fumbled
and Comanche tackle Bob Wiker-
(See THORNDALE, Page 2)
Gray Day
Reflects
Occasion
BONHAM m — Solemn, hushed
crowds began gathering at the
church shortly after dawn today
for ithe funeral of House Speaker
Sam Rayburn.
Approaching this town of 7,000
from many directions were the
nation’s leaders to pay homage
to the man many called “Mr.
Democrat.”
The people who stood at the
church and in little knots on
street corners hours before the
rites ignored a drizzle. Skies
were dull gray and it was cold.
The weatherman held out hope
of clearing weather before or
during the funeral and burial.
Rayburn, the only congressman
thousands in his northeast Texas
congressional district could re-
member, died Thursday of can-
cer.
Not without tears, they talked
about: Mr. Sam . . . patriarch of
the blackland cotton country ...
father of rural electrification...
prime mover for the New Deal
legislative program of Franklin
D. Roosevelt. ’
President Kennedy was due by
helicopter from Perrin Air Force
base shortly before the 1:30 p.m.
funeral service in the First Bap-
tisit Church. • . •'»
Vice President Lyndon B. John-
son, accompanied by his wife,
headed a list of 23 U.S. senator's
also coming. ...... ; 1
Former President Harry S. Tru-
man flew’ from his Independence,
Mo., home to pay his respects
to “Old Sam, who always treated
(See CROWD, Page 5)
Motorist Collides
With Parked Car
A 1959 Ford driven by Danny
Spencer, Fort Hood soldier, rah
into the parked 1952 Pontiac
owned by Jesse Harrison, 507
Oak Street, in the 300 block Of
Booth Street at 11:32 p.m. Fri-
day. '
Spencer was driving south on
Booth when he ran into the park-
ed car on the left side of Ithe
road. Damage was about $150
to the Ford, $75 to the Pontiac.
Likes His Job
Driver License Examiner Enjoys
Correcting Motorists' Problems
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MIDDLEBURG, Va. ffl — Mrs
Jacqueline Kennedy has assured
her husband that she’s all right
and a top While House spokes-
man dismissed the First Lady’s
fall from a horse as “a very
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REST HOME WING — Heavy construction work
has been completed by Chandler Construction Co.
of Hearne on the new wing at the SPJST Rest
Home. The wing contains four double and six sin-
gle rooms, a nurses’ room and a sun porch. The
very nearly complete,, are being constructed at a
total cost of $60,000. Construction is expected to
be completed in about 30 days. There will be a
dedication service, the date to be set soon.
-Taylor Press Staff Photo
Drivers License Examiner Char-
les Clark is a man who likes
his work.
“In my position I see a lot of
people having their driving trou-
bles,” he says. “I like to help
them straighten out their prob-
lems so they can become good
drivers.”
He is not an officer to be fear- ;
ed, but some people who go to ;
him for their driving tests get ;j
the nervous shakes. Like the eld- i
erly woman who once told Clark I
that she feared him as much I
as she did a rattlesnake.
“I don't know’ why it is,” Clark j
says, “but some people think the
examiner is trying to do them
harm. Maybe they’re frightened
by the uniform. It could be that
if we wore civilian clothes it
would have a different effect.
“But I’ll tell you this,” he went
on. “It would make me happy if
all my license applicants would
make 100 on their tests. It just
makes more work for me when
they fail and have to come back
again.”
There are a few people who
simply have a bad’ attitude toward
police officers in general and
there’s not much you can do
about these, he says.
One woman once charged Clark
with failing her because She
drove an old 1950 model car, a
Plymouth. At the time Clark
drove a 1950 Ford.
“Only one or two people a year
try to give the examiner a hard
time,” he stated. “Most people
who come to get their licenses
are sincere, truthful, easy to get
along with people.”
What upsets most applicants
when they take the driving test?
Parallel parking, without a doubt.
“Up to a point they do well,”
Clark said. “But when they round
the corner and' see, those two
posts (used for parallel parking)
they get nervous and upset. It’s
the one thing they concentrated
on before the test started.”
Actually parallel parking is on-
ly one part of the test and
the whole idea of having appli-
cants park between the posts is
to see how well thy can control
their car in tight places. It isn’t
often that an applicant fails his
overall driving test because of
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EXAMINER CLARK — Charles Clark, local driv-
ers license examiner, believes accidents could be
cut if “courts would back officers in the field by
getting tougher with violators,
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