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OH, I HOPE HE SEES ME! — The expressions of these Abilene small fry seem
to say each one hopes Santa Claus will take special notice of him or heras the
cheery old man made his way to Abilene Friday. Santa really made the rounds,
jumping aboard a motorcade which ended up at the downtown shopping center
during the morning, helicoptering to Clark’s parking lot early in the afternoon
and later by helicopter to Thornton’s S. 4th and Oak parking lot, where this-
picture was taken. See another picture, Pg. 1-B. (Staff photo by Jimmy Parsons)
48 Graham
6 Breckenridge
54 Albany
6 Burnet
(Albany wins • 1st dewao)
SATURDAY
2ems
3 STAR FINAL
> OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
MORNING, NOV. 24, 1962—TWBKTY TWO PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
Associated Press (PP)
bans Want All
Curbs Lifte
S., British
Talks Hinted
In Near Future
By CORNELIUS F. HURLEY
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) -
A meeting between President
Kennedy and British Prime Min.
ister Harold Macmillan was
termed Friday highly probable
for the near future. The precise
reason for the parley was not im-
mediately specified.
Kennedy got a progress report
on Cuban matters from his top
advisers.
He met for more than an hour
with the executive committee of
the National Security Council and
sat down with defense and budget
men to go over the big military
spending budget for next year,
when it may hit an estimated
$48.3 billion.
| Andrew T. Hatcher, assistant
White House press secretary,
said it is highly probable that the
President will meet some time
soon with Macmillan.
Hatcher refused to be pinned
down on the date or place or the
probable meeting, but it could be
in either Washington or Bermuda,
where they have met before It
would be the sixth meeting be-
tween the two since Kennedy took
■ GOODFELLOWS
ria ne Crash No Gift's someameanletChristman Keon.:
■ V V2ls nedy’s schedule is pretty well
_ _ filled up into December, and he
a a D • ■ has announced he will spend
AAE mes a 1 < Received Christmas at Palm Beach, Fla.
LWS ***"′The President met with Secre-
E■ 4 .... tary of State Dean Rusk, Secre-
No donations were received by tary of Defense Edward S. Mc-
Goodfellows Friday and the fund Namara, Gen. Maxwell B. Tay-
still needs $11,504 if it is to meet lor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
office.
London sources said Macmillan
will come to the United States
THINK HE’LL LIKE IT? — A pair of pretty Anson High School graduates now
employed in Dallas do some Christmas shopping in an Abilene store Friday.
Sandra Thorn, 19. at right, models man's sweater, a possible gift choice, for
Sharon Potts’ inspection. Sharon, also 19, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olin
Potts of Route 3. Anson. Sandra's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thorn, also
of Route 3. (Staff Photo)
By LUTHER MOORE
ELLICOTT CITY. Md. (AP)
A United Air Lines Viscount plane
plummeted from a bright, sunny
sky Friday and crashed in a
woods on a farm near here. All 17
persons aboard were killed.
It was United flight No. 297 en
route from Newark, N.J., to At-
lanta, Ga. Four crewmen and 13
passengers were killed, including
10 persons employed by United.
lor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
One of the passengers was its goal of $12,500 to aid the needy ne .Staff sohubal MaCloy,
Spencer Silverthorne, of Beaver this year. Contributions stand at ordinating committee, among
Falls, N.Y., president of the Em- 15996. others.
nire State Chamber of Commerce Letters continued to arrive ask- The conferees flew up from
ing for help. The number of re-(Washington and returned there
quests is expected to increase
pire State Chamber of Commerce.
Early Shoppers
Swarm to Stores
U. S. Death
Toll Mounts
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Sports ..............5-8
Obituaries.... 9
Oil news..........11
SECTION 8
Bridge .........., 2
Church news 2
Women’s news 3
Editorials ...........4
Amusem*nts.. J
Comics ....... 6,7
TV Scout... 11
Radio-TV logs 11
Farm news, markets 12
who was en route to Atlanta to
attend a wedding.
The Federal Aviation Agency
reported the pilot, Capt. Milton J.
Balog, 39, gave no hint of im-
pending trouble before the plane
disappeared from a radar scope.
The Viscount was preparing for
a landing at Washington's Nation-
al Airport.
The FAA said radio communi-
cations with the craft before the
crash were "entirely routine"
and that the pilot had acknowl-
edged a routine instruction only
three minutes before.
A farmer who arrived on the
scene immediately after the crash
See CRASH. Pg. 10-A, Col. 3
Lots to read Sunday in
The Abilene Reporter-fevos
• Indian Pictographs
The Indian paintings which give the town of Point Rock
its name ore the most extensive pictographs in the South-
west. Descriptions of them, and of work being done on
- . them by an Abilene Explorer Post will be given by Kotharyn
Duff in the Sunday edition.
★ Holiday Party Fashions
..... for coeds in Abilene’s colleges are shown on the
cover page of the Women’s Section, previewing the festive
look for the social season now opening.
• Football
Abilene’s two high school teams wind up the season ....
staff coverage of the Munday-Everman playoff. In the
Southwest. Conference S. M. U. plays Baylor, Arkansas
takes on Tech and T. C. U tangles with Rice. All these
plus the big ones over the nation in Sunday's Sports Section.
Latest Spot News,
Regular Features!
very soon.
Checks made out to the Good-
fellows Fund should be sent in
care of the Reporter-News. Con-
tributions will be published as re-
ceived.
shortly after the morning ses-
sions. which lasted well into the
noon hour.
McCloy said the meeting was
“a roundup of the Cuban situa-
tion.” and added, "We’re making
progress.”
Fisher County
Attorney Dies
ROTAN (RNS) - H. F. Grind-
staff, 78, county attorney for Fish-
er County for the past 10 years,
died in his sleep at his Rotan
home about 5:30 p.m. Friday.
Mrs. Grindstaff had gone to the
post office and, upon returning
home, found him dead.
Arrangements are pending at
Weathersbee Funeral Home here.
Born Jan. 28. 1884, in Parker
County near Weatherford, he was
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Elijah Grindstaff.
He received his law degree
Christmas shoppers, with
Thanksgiving Day now history,
invaded Abilene stores Friday and
merchants happily predicted lots
of heavy shopping for the next
month.•
The first appearances of Santa
Claus added a holiday touch to
the goings on. He arrived at
Thornton’s 4th and Oak, at Clark’s
and at Showcase Square. Nov. 29
he’ll arrive at Sears; Dec. 1 he'll
parachute into Westgate Shopping
Capital and Dec. 3 he will head-
line the Abilene Christmas Par-
ade.
later than normal the last week
before Christmas. Others are add-
ing part-time personnel to serve
the huge numbers of Abilene area
shoppers.
A spot check Friday indicated
that a good number of shoppers
were from nearby communities.
Good Economy
Merchants generally believe
the economy here is good and that
business will continue to be heavy.
Local businessmen urge residents
to shoo early, avoid the last min-
ute rush.
Gene Thornton, executive vice
But while the kiddies were agog
over St. Nick, their parents and President of Thornton’s stores in
others were getting down to the Abilene, said he thought the local
business of Christmas shopping, economy was in a favorable posi-
They Are Buying tion. He was optimistic about busi-
"People are buying, they are
not just looking," was the way
Montgomery' Ward Manager Ray
Mussatto expressed it, and other
merchants agreed. They also felt
local buy ing power here is
“good.”
A number of Abilene merchants
plan to remain open several hours
ness. "I'd say we are going to
See SHOPPERS, Pg. 10-A, Col. 5, 6
WEATHER
For Holidays
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Plan Aimed
At Economic
Restriction
By WILLIAM N. OATIS
UNITED NATIONS, NY. (API-
Communist sources disclosed Fri-
day that Cuba and the Soviet
Union have asked the United
States to lift its long-time econom-
ic blockade of Cuba as part of an
over-all Cuban settlement.
This was said to be one of 14
points proposed by Cuba and the
Soviet Union to the United States
as formal agreement for ending
the Cuban Crisis. Soviet First
Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily
V. Kuznetsov confirmed that such
an agreement had been proposed
to the United States.
U.S. sources indicated that
Washington would reject the pro-
posal on lifting the economic
blockade and several other points
in the Cuban-Soviet plan. Presi-
dent Kennedy said Tuesday that
the United States will not "aban-
don the political, economic and
other efforts of this hemisphere to
halt subversion from Cuba.”
U.N. diplomats reported that
Kennedy and the executive com-
mittee of the U.S. National Se-
curity council studied the Cuban-
Soviet proposals at a meeting
Friday morning in Hyannis Port,
Mass.
But the diplomats expressed
doubt that the United States would
reply to it before next week.
“Nothing's going to come of it
anyhow,” said one diplomat
Another explained that the
United States was not willing to
discuss any clause taken from
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel
Castro's so-called five demands
for a Cuban settlement. The
Cuban-Soviet proposals disclosed
in part Thursday among other
things, would have the United
States agree to: 1. lift its econom-
ic blockade of Cuba; 2. stop “in- •
terference in the domestic affairs
of Cuba," and, 3. start negotiating
See CUBA, Pg. 10-A, Col. 3
Traffic
Fires
Miscellaneous
Total
234
28
36
296
The toll of accidental deaths
mounted Friday as the Thanks-
giving holiday reached its mid-
point.
A rash of multiple-fatality traf-
fic accidents spurred the highway
death total.
There were no National Safety
Council predictions for the 6 p m.
Friday to midnight Sunday per-
iod. The council said holiday
travel isn't as heavy on Thanks-
giving as on other major holi-
days. although it said about 480
traffic deaths would normally oc-
cur in a Thursday-to-Sunday span.
DEATH TOLL ROUNDUP
21
SHOPPING
DAYS LEFT
Christmas Mil HIM n
Oil Truck, Train Crash
from the University of Texas in
1913 and taught school for 12
years in Dickens County. He at-
tended Southwest Texas State
Teachers College at San Marcos
and received a permanent teach-
er’s certificate
From 1919 until 1931 he was
county attorney of Stonewall
County, living in Aspermont. From
1931 until 1937 he was district
attorney for the 39th Judicial Dis-
trict and lived at Haskell
Mr Grindstaff moved to Rotan
in 1137 to open a law office and
operated an extensive real estate
business
U. S. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
Takes
Lives in Texas
(Weather Map, PE. 3-A)
ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius 40
enanze in Ptemperaeur 64
and" Sunday. anse near Ax truck and train near Tyler took rugged Hill Country of Gillespie
NORTH CENTRAL TtXAs " Consider-three lives Friday and pushed the County near Fredericksburg Fri-
peratcrowemene.. dLineimportent tom violent death toll for the long day night, killing two Austin men.
Qxatioralu" Tain °dtiie Saturday Thanksgiving holiday in Texas to They were identified as J H Lam-
74. N 34. bert and Robert A. Ferrell, pilot
cloudiness" s-turaat amd Sunday-Combe The count was only half over of the plane. 1
niumo nten SaurAS It started Wednesday at 6 p.m. --
and ends Sunday midnight
Texas had the dubious distinc-
H F GRINDSTAFF
. %. in 1949 photo
Fellow, past president of the Ro-SOUTHWEST TEXAS - Considerable
tan Lions Club and was an honor-Sn TSP W and, Sunday, Ceca
ary member of the Fisher County routien. High Saturday M north to
Sheriff’s Posse TEMPERATURES
Local and area residents knew Fri., a.m. Fri.
him as “Judge” Grindstaff 52 2.00
.Survivors include his wife of
„ .. „ ____. .. Rotan, the former Ladye Work- S
He originally was county attor-man of Weatherford twin H
ney here to serve the unexpired Children. Miss Mary Grindstarr ! is
term of the late Leyton A. Webb extension service specialist at S n*
and was re-elected twice. Fort Collins. Colo, and Marion M w %
Mr Grindstaff was a momher CHnAc+Af - C.- io-i-t. Cuir. n.m.s 7 and 51
Mr Grindstaff was a member Grindstaff of San Jacinto, Calif.; »
of First Baptist Church and had one sister, Mrs. C. S. Baucum of •
taught a men’s Bible class since Jacksonville, Tex., and two grand- 7:
1919. He was a Mason, an Odd sons.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS seriously
The flaming crash of an oil A light plane crashed in the
The flaming crash of an oil
They were identified as J.H. Lam-
bert and Robert A. Ferrell, pilot
Other recent casualties
Separate shooting accidents in
Texarkana Thursday killed two
is tion of leading the nation with 26 youngsters Kenneth Bell, 16. was
gory traffic deaths, 13 of them in
.m. three crashes.
I Three trainmen died inside
Chandler. 10 miles west of Tyler,
when their Cotton Belt freight hit
fatally shot while playing with a
pistol. Kathy Geraldine Firth, 12,
died of a gunshot wound in the
cheat in a mishap in the yard of
her home
Frederick Baudoux, 32, of War-
ren, Mich, was killed before
- once and sprayed a wide area, dawn Friday when his car hit a
hours ending • burning for more than an hour, bridge and a foot-wide metal rail
• iM nw The victims, all from Tyler, pierced the auto lengthwise, 10
■ Si u were J T Piles, n K P Jones, miles east of Terrell on U. S. 80.
=nt: 5.35, 6, and H E Malone. Trucker Baudoux apparently dosed while
as puts percent: . James Luce of Swan was burned driving.
the rear of a truck, freshly loaded
with crude oil Fire started at
Fred Garland, 55-year-old Val-
lent. Okla, Negro, was killed Fri-
day afternoon in the Denver and
Rio Grande Railway yards at
Wichita Falls when 25 cars of a •
freight train ran over him. He had
said he was going to hop a freight
to Fort Worth
Michelle Killion, seven-week-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Shirley
Ray Killion of Odessa, was killed
in a car-truck crash a mile west
of Fort Stockton Friday. The
mother, 19, was seriously injured.
The father, 26, was treated and
released.
Sam Zepeda, 19, of Boling, died
Friday of injuries received
Wednesday night in an automobile
acident which already had claim
ed the life of 18-year-old Calestro
Garcia Their car missed a curve
: and overturned two miles east of
Wharton.
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