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VOL. LXV—NUMBER 117
ORANGE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1968
10 Cents
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JERRY LYNN SWANZY
Top Honor Pupils Named
demic awards She plans to at-
KIRBYVILLE (Spl) - Jerry school football stadium.
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announced.
a member of the student coun-tests.
ber of the band, yearbook and ville, is a member of the Na-
Baccalaureate services at
She was an officer of
her in the band.
help. I’m
freshman and sophomore class
Elementary Auditorium.
but we didn’t
So far, demn
mats from France, Brit-
Reds Attack U.S. Camp
that a statement in J
The U.S. Comm’and said at
Enemy
troops hit a second U.S. Special least 25 Viet Cong were killed.
United States seeks as a condi-
Forces camp this week but were
tion for a bombing halt does not
men known
as Montagnards.
The camp, atop a 3,000-foot The presence of an America
American radio radio station the special electronic and com-
the bombing.”
However, the U.S. Command
section of the perimeter in a
and
for the Nui Ba Den Green Beret and to track movements of for-
border and about 300 miles to
camp 55 miles northwest of Sai- eign planes.
gon.
ex
(See COUNSELING, Page 9)
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knocked down four American
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WEATHER
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HOWLING CHIMES-A West
no doorbell
for its home. However, the fam-
Jim Hunter, Alvin Dark don’t make it full game
noise,
midst of
the
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Brackin, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Brackin of Kirby-
are garrisoned by 10 to 12 U.S.
advisers and 300 to 400 South
Bombing
I Deadlock
I Unbroken
Family Counseling Unit
For Local Area Okayed
Kennedy
Notches
ing increased “blackness” on
campus.
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Area Highway
Development
Plan Okayed
_• Nebraska Primary^
V
PINE BEETLE BATTLE - Employes of
the Texas Forestry Service spray trees
along Sunset Drive in Orange that have
already been cut down because they were
infested with the southern pine beetle. Over
dmirtefn Negro students at strators picketed the entrance
Commencement exercises will is a member of the all-region band solo and ensemble comp)
be May 24 at 8 p.m. at the band and hasten several AcajM^^ ______
SA Campaign
Fund Growing
The Orange Corps, Salvation
Army campaign for $110,000 to
construct a new service center
has grown to $63,204.
Campaign Chairman W. B.
cil and a former reporter for
the council. She also is a mem-
the last report meeting. There
was $250 reported in from mail
rauests.
They identified themselves as
members of the Southern Stu-
fn addition to the 19 Americans Vietnamese or mountain tribes-
driven off after destroying the killed, it said 24 were wounded. men known «— Ma------'•
"propose, if not solutions, at Court, wau 10 e cvumy
least experiments.” 1 domestic relations court, with
SPORTS
Texas Outdoor Writers' Association holds annual
pressed oppo-
- the
way. We realize that the money
must come from the citizens.”
Smith said the Texas High-
way Department was mainly
aware of the area because of
the quarrels between the two
counties and they needed to
(See CHAMBER. Page 9)
e donated,
ugh."
bn leaders
Be mainly
ping—feed- •
1 450 dem- ’
■ISO are in
West Orange Joins
Cleanup Campaign
See Page 2
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Roosevelt University in Chica-
The president of Florida State go suspended 21 more students,
University has resigned in the bringing to 45 the number so
wake of student protests in a disciplined for staging a sit-in in
censorship controversy as mili-the president’s office last week,
tant youths from Arkansas to At the University of Arkansas
Paris continue ta diern »«..!. _
in the Democratic popularity ing rule Theleaderg have set
pollpwhich is nol binding onlomdyr’oemonstrantonsesstare
deegates. I •
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FSU President Resigns;
Student Protests Spread
However, Harriman on
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Victory
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
marched to victory in Nebraska’s Democratic presi-
dential primary and turned-his-campaign guns today
toward Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey—with a
suggestion that battered rival Seri Eugene J. McCarthy
'*join him. ~—■--—
It was assumed that Peking;
as his target, since the
The Orange Leader
Spring Meeting
See Page 6
Sunday under attack by an esti-
mated 5,000 North Vietnamese
troops.
Government sources reported
today that at least 185 South
Vietnamese troops and mem-
bers of their families were
killed during the North Viet-
namese seizure of the Kham
Duc Special Forces camp.
Twenty-five Americans were
reported killed and 125 wounded
SAIGON (AP)
The members decided that
nam that opened in Paris Mon- A family counseling service, group interested in the
' operating as part of the Orange gram.
The premier admitted there County United Fund, is ex- The counseling service, when
are basic causes for the stdentpecte to be organized here on in operation, will be provided
unrest, particularly a lack of June f. A-=zge 2—™ T..
jobs for liberal arts graduates. Tentative plans for Hie ser-'Arthur Family Counseling Ser-
He said he would form a "com- vice were approved yesterday, vice, a private nonprofit agency,
mittee for reflection," made up The approval came during a Meeting with the Orange
★ * ★ *
North Vietnamese
New Heart Fails To Save
Man in Houston Hospital
HOUSTON (AP) - The peripheral arterial disease." The
world's 12th heart transplant pa- administrator said.
tient, whose operation raised un- Stuckwish received the heart
precedented legal questions, died 0( Clarence Nicks. 32. who died
Tuesday night. Doctors said ail- of injuries suffered in a tavern
ments present before the sur-fight April 23
gery caused death I A question of when the donor
I John Stuckwish, 62. who re was medically and legally dead
ceived his new heart May 7 at arose as Dr. Denton Cooley pre-
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital,'pared to lead the surgical team
died at 10:51 p m. hospital ad- which also performed the other
ministrator Newell France said heart transplants at the hospital.
He was the third heart trans: Four other patients who are
plant operation in five days at living on borrowed hearts in this
the hospital Surgeons said he country and abroad were report-
was dying when they implanted ed doing well.
the heart of a -year-old welder I
100 other trees in the Orange city limits will
-------------------- _ be cut down. The Texas Forestry Service
the E W. Brown III home in and the Orange Parks and Recreation De-
Pinehurst, | partment also will sponsor a meeting to
communications bunker and
Lynn vanzy has been named The valedictorian is tend Lamar Tech.
the valedictorian of the 1968 the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miss Wrightis the daughter
senior class al Kirbyville High James F. Swanzy of Kirbyville, of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Wright
School. Her father is employed at Du of Kirbyville. She is a member
Hilliard said workers and
captains last night reported at
a meeting in the E. W. Brown
III home in Pinehurst that
pledges had risen $2,454 since
some buildings and killing 19 mountain 20 miles from the force larger than usual at Nui
Americans, the U.S. Command Cambodian border, is a main Ba Den apparently was due to
reported today.
U.S. helicopter
STEPHENS (CENTER) GIVEN AWARD FOR AIDING POLICE
Whitehead (left), Bannon Present Plaque At Council Meet
pata from U.S. Weather Bureau
Outlook — Cloudy to partly
cloudy, windy and warm
this afternoon through to-
morrow.
High today Mid to upper 80s
Low tonight Mid 70s
High tomorrow—Mid to upper
80s
Outlook for Friday — Scattered
showers.
Sunset today ........ 8:03 p m.
Sunrise tomorrow 6:22 a m.
WINDS—Mostly soutberty wind). 14 to
n mpA doyfimes, ? to 14 m-p.h. of
Peace Negotiators
Resume Talks Today
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ALEXIA ANN WRIGHT DALTON C. BRACKIN
U.S. Defense Secretary
M. Clifford might provide a L_
sis for resolution of the bombing
deadlock.
capital has become the meeting
, ----------- Mon- place for peace in the Far
day cited U.S. concern that “in- East.”
"dese death was ruled a hom ORANGE JUICE
! “Mr. Stuckwish, ill on admis
sion to St. Luke’s Episcopal NOr FORGOTTEN - Connie
Hospital, improved following the Watkins, 7, o West Orange was
heart transplant but not suffi ordered to "get that penny out
cientiy to overcome the diseased of your moth » She obeyed,
processes existing prior to sur- Then patting her chest, she in-
gery. France said, formed her mother that she had
Stuckwish was an Alpine. Tex., “swallowed a nickel once," add-
hospital administrator. Listed as ing, “that's money I’ll never
critical following the operation, see again.”
he rallied briefly Sunday but his HOWLING CHiM
discuss the identification and "prevention condition became grave Monday Orange family has
the beetle, and the legal provisions sur- afternoon., i r » for its bome.Howen ,, ,
,, " " . The total cardiac perform- ily has two dogs that bark un-
rounding its control Tuesday at 7:30 pm at ance remained excellent ceasingly when someone comes
the Orange Community Center. The beetle throughout the post operative on the premises. Recently, in
is one of the most destructive and ckn kill a course," France said. “Death ft the midst of noise, the
tree in a few weeks. The forestry service attributed to progressive liver lady of the house told her son to
makes aerial flights over the county about failure with deepening jaundice answer the door, "the bells are
every two weeks to pinpoint affected areas. and extension of his pre-existing,barking.”
the paper
sin-1 “most likely to succeed.”
PARIS (AP) - The Ameri-
I cans and the North Vietnamese
I went back to the'conference ta-
l ble today after a one-day re-
I cess, and diplomatic observers
expected them to broaden the
scope of their talks in the next
few days even if there is no
break in the deadlock over con-
ditions for halting U.S. bombing
of North Vietnam.
I U.S. Ambassador W. Averell
' Harriman repeated Tuesday
that all American attacks on
North Vietnam could end quick-
ly "if our restraint is matched
by restraint on the other side."
the University of Miami were
arrested after they refused to failure of the student newspaper Sunday,
leave the school president’s of- to print a letter from a Negro
fice where they were demand- student.
said the camp is much smaller
threc-hour w Monday .w trrpfarequtpren MS S Su* “zA 26a
gunners they were the only group which
mericen represented the two counties
planes and. five helicopters dur- working together
I " "— de .....• inc1 President Jim Smith said,
"We convince our counties to
The Sabine-Neches Chamber
. . of Commerce Council last night
. j • - --- *‘-* - va nuttJuS in the evacuiaton o’ the camp agreed [q work for improved
0 disrupt acain Fayetteville about 25 demon- and in a rearguard action while highway development in both
strators picketed the entrance 1,700 defenders and members of Orange and Jefferson counties,
of a printing plant to protest the their families were lifted out on rnnheerouP met at the Holiday
_ __________ — ing the three-day attack. includ-
Farther north in Tallahassee, dent Organizing Committee and ing a huge C130 transport load-
FSU President John Champion the Black Americans tor De- ed with possibly 150 South Viet- provide more funds for right-of-
resigned after faculty members I mocracy. namese. All were killed. ‘.........
narrowly defeated a motion1------I----------------'■----------------------------------
high school are scheduled Sun-;
day at 8 p.m. at the Kirbyville
x. . , the north, which U.S. and South
Most Special Forces camps Vietnamese forces abandoned
Her father is employed at Du; of Kirbyville. She is a member
Miss Swanzy is the top-rank- Pont Sabine River Works and of the band, secretary of the
ing student with a 96.53 grade her mother, at Sabine Supply'National Honor Society and was
average, Principal Joe N. Folk Co., both in Orange, a class officer two years.
___________I Miss Swanzy is president of She also has participated in
The salutatorian is Alexia Ann the National Honor Society and band solo and ensemble con-
"other problems of interest. ,
Otherwise, he said, there can be'
no progress. Iim, — »»
u Jalu, yeauvn .3 a 0 wwe na However, diplomatic observ- lious students carried
staffs and was selected tional Honor Society, the stu- ers said, even if there is no e"m # “ “
dent-council and is an officer immediate agreement on the'
. ;;rc and, bombing issue, they expect the Pompidou
He also has participated in negotiators to move quietly "an ri" * ----------— -----
■ ' ' • 'the next few days” to discus- of a widespread international
Member Associated Mem
Kinfl Feature* Soviet
gunships and an important observation munication equipment,
helped repulse the Viet Cong post on enemy infiltration - —
force which broke throughl’ a routes. It also has secret elec-
supplies", are moving from was his target, since tove.
North to South Vietnam. U.S. of- Chinese are the only Communist
ticiais have said the traffic in- force who have expiesseu v
creased to record proportions sition to the talks between the
after Johnson limited American United States and North Viet-.
air raids to the section of North r.a..,
Vietnam below the 19th parallel. day.
Wright, who has a 94.99 grade
average. The top ranking boy,
Dalton Craig Brackin, has a
91.48 grade average.
"S)bES-Sobine: Mioh. ’H ,m,
»>1 am Bolivor: Mioh, l>:U
low, ):M om.
calling on him to step down.
Thre-gdher administrators also
said-they were quitting.
University President Henry
King Stanford replied that the
university “cannot agree that
any certain percentage of the
students and faculty will be
black by September" and said
he could not initiate curriculum
changes.
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-VIoIL VV IIU r Ullvll Bui California Gov. Ronald U.S A.," hundreds of other de^
Reagan polled a surprising.22 titute Americans were in cara-
perzcentzsaid.he.waszratitiedtvans heading for Washington
and would not refuse the GOP from the Midwest, and
nomination if it were offered. Northeast
Sixteen Republican nominal-: 0 1091, 1, ,, u
By EDEE HOLLEMAN
An Orange man last night was given a plaque bv who favor Nixon won all of XS yed.neat.rows o triangular
the Orange City Council in appreciation for his -volun-ihem. - Plywood shelters near the Lin-
4... ...:4_____1* ......._____1:„ .. .L......... 1... 1_____.1 ‘Th. Ta
natsirom France, Brit- Pompidou told the National, ■ -------. --------------------------- qert-or 17 -geagat
Astala als, suggested Assembly the. student uprising Avnng the company and had chased them in his private Carthy-pledged ca
any lark eSes" neptvdasttnaividualis ” ........ . for to vi
28 ' The New York senator:
I marshaled 53 per cent of
353 the vote for a majority
I over McCarthy, President
I Johnson and write-ins for Hum- I II • ।
I 1 McCarthy, with 31 per cent of 111 11 1 g 11
I (he ballots, absorbed his second, O
I defeat by Kennedy in a week C • •
I but the Minnesota senator said! % n I' l t G
• he would campaign through the HVII I U 3
a primaries ahead, and Was not I
___[interested in an alliance with; WASHINGTON (AP) — With
Pnoto Kennedy. . .. their city of shanties nearly
Republican Richard M. Nixon one-third finished, about 300
!rolled to 70 per cent of the vote,,members of the Poor People’s
[and said that was a victory of Campaign have moved into it in
greater magnitude than he had a festive mood.
in American League play . . . Miami again selected '
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"The burglars drove through a yard back onto thepoll, which is not binding on
, public roadway, at which time Mr. Stephens continued Kennedy 70,045 or 53 per cent;,, Assocpn
. ----------— I do not think I am straying the pursuit. At this time police units picked up the McCarthy 41,671 or 31 per cent; T , ’ ASSOCIATED PRESS
necessarly. mean an end to in thinking they are aiming at chase and, along with Mr. Stephens, pursued them to ailumphrey write-ins 11,765 or 9 Hundreds of sympathizers
Morth. Vietnamese .trooP. and not only creating subversion in point near Interstate 10 and Bancroft Road where thelper cent; Johnson 7,531 for 6 per Across Texas from Dallas to the
supply traffic in South Vietnam, Western countries," he added I scorci, m " Snt ' ^"er Rio Grande Valley
as long as Hanoi does not "take “but at causing trouble in Paris-------------------(SeecoUNcIL, Page 92------------------ Johnson’s rejection of candi- charted their route and made
advantage of the suspension of even at the moment when our dacy came too late for his namepreparations today to support
----- ..... Ito be taken off the ballot. the."Poor People s March "in
In the Republican count, with Washington, P C
1,851 precincts counted, this was, san Antonio will be the focal
the situation: point for many of the. demon-
Nixon .114,834 or 70 per cent; strators.
Reagan 35,766 or 22 per cent,' County commissioner Albert
write-in votes for New York Pena and city councilman Pete
Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller, Torres will .speak to the march-
9,214 or 6 per cent, ers Friday in front of the Alamo.
Reagan's name was on the Some. 50 persons were to leave
pro- ballot, which automatically the.Valley Friday to participate
. lists all potential nominees wholinthe Alamo rally.
when do not file denials of candidacy. The Valley marchers will
fo. n, n 2 ;■ V rvvided Rockefeller is a candidate for I leave San Juan after an ecu-
for.orange.Countybythe Port the nomination, but is not enter- menical mass at the Virgin of
ing any primaries San Juan Catholic Church. Fol-
Nixon said Reagan had made lowing the Alamo rally, the par-
, ------ - — —----------- ------• - . - a good showing in Nebraska, ticjpants will travel to Dallas
of representative professors, meeting of Judge-elect Fred group was W. Robert Pattison but added that was to be expect-by bus where they meet repre-
students, parents and others to Trimble of the 163rd District Jr executive director of the led because there had been a sentatives of some western
"n" - ./ » " “C * which is the county's,* ort Arthur agency which has campaign for the absent Califor- states for the remainder of the
---------- "......"...... _ - nian Strip to Washington, D. C.'
Inside Today...
School population more stable ........ Editorial Page
Today in Television .........Page 3
Petite woman heads crew of movers........... Page 18
Letters to Abby .............................. Page 20
Hints from Heloise ............... Page 19
Courthouse records ................. Page 2
Comics, crossword puzzle.................... Page 16
Classified ................ Pages 10, 11
Improve your bridge game ..................... Page 14
Little Newcomers ....................... Page 18
A “New You” ............. Page 17
Hilliard today reported this is
$2,500 pledged by the American
Bridge Division as reported to-
spring meeting at Huxley ... Huxley Bay will chai- dayahy.d EPeteCampbell,
lenge Rayburn as top fishing spot in Texas in couple adyanced 8ifts .chairman.
of years . . . Hurlers getting tough in National
League action . . . Dave Guisti gives up only two
hits but Giants nip Astros.
But a spokesman for Hanoi’s
chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, re-
plied that “no ransom will be
paid to the American aggres- D 1DI---a
sort, in exchange for a bombing MCd £ 1 O I
Thuy at the outset; of the talks ———•—
"3 Denounced Burglars Cited,
ing and all other acts of war
against North Vietnam, the ne- Tco.T Bv EDEE HOLLEMAN "I
gotiations could move on to I Fl \lf nc
“other problems ot interest.” Jill kEL 112
Othnmuien h---.l------me Vrange Ulty Council in appreciation for his-volun- mem. - coln Memorial ATing, liaM
PARIS (AP) - While rebelJ’^assistance in apprehending three men later charged uTheDemocrati icadelegate pie bulb gleamed through the clear
xis students carried on their with burglary. , e candidates morea A m>lastic skylight in e.Ch shanty.
sit-ins at most of France’s 18 Harry Stephens of 925 Turret Road wasinstru-ceddora"pledgd to Johnson- "What really tickles me is the
universities, Premier Georges mental in the arrest of the men who were later charged crowding the lengthy ballot spirit-of the place,” he said.
■ hi th 1 scharged Tuesday with the burglary of the American Plan Corp. and Exerybody wants- “tl
night that the rebellion was part, implicated in another safe burglary, well as the presidential prefer- told 200 hammer;—
ageace settlement for Vietnam qmore concessions. Chief K. W. Bannon made the presentation. , Candidates who have ex detoted mueamn
* ‘ l t Whiteheadsaid that Stephens hadIseenthe burglars pra-rod au prsferencspfor bimtinternat,
candidates led ihgand caiN=
"M*- onstratorKhg?
h u'lii - 2----— He said he “at one tinte attempted 6 blockade the With 1 844 of the 2 133 ! pre-other quarters—
ring wo ttattIsubjectsin adeadend street at which felons eiletscoumled, inis was ihe CSinadting. IMhe aandeshaabtiah; '
street fighting, apparently lie-, fired at Mr. Stephens with a -32-caliber pistol.
Clifford said the restraint the longing to an international or- "Tha 1 < ■■ ■ ■ •
nifed Statne ceebe n• - -—a:. ganizaion.’*
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