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Monday, September 17, 1962
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Roberson’s Rites
FUNERAL SERVICES will , be
held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Hol-
! land Avenue Baptist Church in
Galena Park for J.H. Roberson
Sr., father of Frank Roberson of
| Baytown. A resident' of Galena
I Park, he died Saturday night. He
| was 71. Howard Funeral Home is
j in charge of arrangements. Sur-
1 vivors included three grandchil-
S dren in Baytown;
School Board ,V'v
PUBLIC RELATIONS will be the
I main topic, of discussion ift a
meeting .of the School District
? board of trustees at 7:30 p.m.
f Monday at the Administration
f Building. The topic is one of sev-
’ eral subjects which have been un-
; der study by board committees.
Brother Killed
I RICHARD V. Jessee. 44, brother
I of Gerald E. Jessee of 811 Barry-
' more, was Wiled in an auto acci-
• dent Sunday in Dallas. Funeral
services will be held Tuesday at
i Waltrip Funeral Home in Spring
f Branch. x • ; —V
Gamma Chapter Meet
XI THETA Gamma Chapter. Beta
Sigma Phi, wil meet at 7:30p.m.
Monday in uie home of Mrs. Har-
ley ^Ponder,
Office Cloud.
VETERANS Service Center office
in Baytown will be closed this
week while Mrs. Mildred Camp-
bell, secretary, is in Dallas to at-
tend a service officer school.
Grover Edge may be contacted
for emergency cases.
OCAW Meeting
OCAVV LOCAL 4-333 will hold a
regular membership meeting at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The executive
board will meet at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday. " ""
Friendly Friends
FRIENDLY FRIENDS Club will
meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the
home of Mrs. John Selensky at
207 West Cedar Bayou-Lynchburg
Road.
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LATE
NEWS
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
federal government asked the
courts today to for.ud rac'd d's-
crimination to Prince Georges
County, Va., public schools at-
tended by children of federal
employes. It argued It had a
direct interest because morale of
•“iteW m halved.
Hie Justice Department an-
nounced the filing of the suit to
U.8. District Court to Richmond,
Va. . •-
The schools get federal aid as
an Impacted area, but Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy emphasized
to a statement that no threat to
end aid to the schools is involved.
He said the porpoee of the suit
wa* “to seek an end to racoi-
stitutlonal school segregation to
an am where soch segregation
drectly affects the armed
forces.’'
Massachusetts Vote
Vies Two 'Edwards'
BOSTON (AP) — Massachu- of the party he has chosen. But
[hatching
Merc-
ftory air
wheel
212 Burner Dri^e’ Ktojthere are^W^
nedys m public life or if another
.» Mrs* PoSrSteS duties! <<'•]• diitajl km I mek
r»*• rm** ^SSSt^Smii
ue today as Edward M. Ken-
a program .of the Polar Region.
Mss Joy Saxon will preside.- \ <
Special Session * *
SAN JACINTO Building Associa-
tion Of the Knights of Columbus
s as'jsrass sc
Type 3 Polio
Makeup Off
Indefinitely
Baytown’s make-up clinics for
Sabin oral vaccine, Type 3, Sun-
day afternoon were postponed in-
definitely in the current contro-
versy over the mass use of this
particular strain of the vaccine.
Harris County Medical Society
Saturday night called off the 22
make - up clinics scheduled
throughout Harris County, follow-
ing a recommendation by the Tex-
as Public Health Service. “
Type 3 vaccine administration
will be postponed indefinitely, the
medical society decided, until
further clarification on its use Is
obtained from the Surgeon Gen-
eral. . : .
Administration of Type 2 vac-
cine, however, will continue as
planned, the medical society’s ex-
ecutive board voted Sunday.
"There is some confidence to be
gained in the fact that Wyeth vac-
cine used in Houston has not been
associated with the onset of polio
in any person as of this date,"
Dr. Thomas L. Royce, president
of die Harris County Medical So-
ciety, said.
There has been no polio reported
ot any type in Harris County in
three weeks.
HOUSTON, Tex. TAP) — Ninel Hie new group boosted to 18
!^ncS,«TU,SH^C!Ulng tU;° HHthe number of astronauts who wiB
sag1asafle
set a goal of reaching the moon
arntt men*............-...........-
Dr. Robert R. Gilruth. director
of the Manned Spacecraft Center,
formally presented the new group
to the nation at an afternoon pres*
conference at Cullen Auditorium
on the campus of toe University
of Houston.
Gilruth said the nine already
Celebrezze Says
Fallout Level Not
Dangerous Now
WASHINGTON (AP)-Secretury SivSaS^roS^nTft^
TALKING
DR. A. R. PADGETT, left; talks over Com-
munity Chest campaign plans with Dave
Sherron, right, and W. C. Jackson, general
campaign chairman for the United Fond
drive. Dr. Padgett will again soUcit UF
pledges from ministers and church employes
this year. Sherron will head a team of busi-
ness men to solicit funds from branch firms
and offices. • -
(Baytown Photos)
that radioactive fallout is not at
dangerous levels in the United
States at this ibne.
The group said It would not
recommend the preventive and
countermeasures taken recently
when radioactivity counts shot to
high levels in some areas.
Hie Federal Radiation Coun-
cil, top-ranking government body
dealing with toe problems of ra-
diation fallout, issued a report to-
’S
er Joim Iff. McCormack, climaxed
a whirlwind campaign for a short-
term U.S. Senate nomination.
I dl* meeting at the KC Hall, Grand TSJfXtoS
! Knight D. C. Kane announced. The SedfUbS to l£
U regular meeting of the’council Je™e Sdent
Two republicans will fight it out
at the polling places for their par-
ty’s nomination and the opportun-
ity—if Kennedy should win his pri-
he can back out of this after he
has voted by immediately regis-
tering again as an independent. ,
President Kenney will vote in
------- Groundbreakina Tuesday
i«s WU,T ^rounaoreaKing luesaay
mack, 39, nephew of House Speak- felt in behalf of their favorites.
day on its meking of a webk ago. We“ »5J«| fd experi-
Celebrezze said Sunday to a lx ^ Gcneral
The Air Force men are:
the last
It is the prerogative of the in-
dividual physician to continue
Type 3 vaccine in bis office or
adopt the "wait and see’’ policy of
toe Harris County Medical Socie-
New Plant Underway-
regular.....meeting
will start at 8 p.m.
Powers Speaks
LT. COL. JOHN A. Powers, pub- _ ________r __________
lie affairs officer of the Manned mary—to Lake the dynasty issue
J* ~ to the voters for a second round
in the general election.
J
1
Spacecraft Center, spoke Sunday
at the 27th meeting pf .the Texas
Heart Association in Galveston.
He showed films of space flights
of John Glenn and Scott Carpen-
PTA Meeting
ASHBEL SMITH Parent Teacher
Association will meet at 2:15 p.m.
Hiesday to the school auditorium.
A nursery will be provided for
pre-school children who accom-
pany their parents to the meet-
ing.
Boosters To Meet
They are George C. Lodge, for-
mer assistant secretary of labor,
and Rep. Laurence Curtis, 10-
year member of Congress whose
district was reapportioned out
existence.
Millions oT words have b*
poured out by toe candidates
street rallies, clambakes and
television about the issues of the
campaign; - - \ j
But the- man on the street
Boston, Greenfield or Pittsfield
seems considerably more interest-
ed in the question of whether Ted-
dy Kennedy should have a chance
THE GANDER Booster d«b will £ , l i I
meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday to the >r^Sf,b{SS2r “f1
ret. .-afptpria to spp films nf the !“?.attorney general_ brother in
REL cafeteria to see films of the
Baytown-Spring Branch football
game, and to hear a report on
next Friday’s opponent, Port Ar-
thur.
Weather And Tides
PARTLY CLQUDY and warm
with scattered showers through
Tuesday.
GALVESTON TIDES Tuesday
will be Ugh at 1:02 a-m. and
1:25 pan.,' Ipn/ at 5:24 *an, and
9:00 p.m. -
ArouM
LITTLE TIMOTHY Linn Bruce,
who is a new Baytonian, celebrat-
ed his fourth hirthday Friday. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Bruce, new minister of East Side
Church of Christ. His brother is miu wao ^,tuxua, _______T
Paul Man.. .Lem, Marie, .Ran- in the accident He is in serious
' Duguay vacationed
In the Grand Canyon state, Ari-
zona. They came home this
weekend.
Martha Gaines adds her name
to a subscription list . . . J. B.
LeFevre offers to sell his space
on a plaque .. . Jim Bryan won-
ders what “reasonably honest”
means . . . Musician Can Pierson
searches for some pictures.
Dr. E d w a r d Wilson, dean of
Wake Forest College at Winston
Salem, N. C, and Clyde W. Me-
Elroy, professor of speed: and
drama at Montclair State College
to Montclair, N. J. were racent
visitors of toe Nelson MdSbnya.
-.Clyde Is a brother of Nelson’s.
Mrs. Jessie Gray, 803 E. Aron,
misses her favorite companion,
her cockatoo hint that escaped
holding major office in Washing-
The first go-around on this mat-
ter won’t be decided entirely by
Democrats. Young Kennedy dem-
onstrated a way. with toe party or-
ganization by winning its state
convention endorsement for the
nomination. ■
But there are 1,200,000 regis-
tered independents to Massachu-
setts. Ordinarily they don’t bother
about primaries. But this time a
substantial number of them seem
to be steamed up by the Kennedy-
McCormack contest. Independents
outnumber the 900,000 reg
Democrats and 600,000 R
cans. _____
M an independent has to do to
get a party primary ballot is to
ask for 4t. When he votes it he
automatically becomes a member
sociation advises that consent
forms for children AND ADULTS
with witnesses be required for
^July^tol of 1,234,485 Har-
ris County resident* received Type
1 vaccine. Because two cases of
Type 3 polio were reported in Au-
gust, earlier plans to conduct the
Type 3 campaign iii late October
were revised to the earlier dates
of Sept. 9 and 16.
,A total, of 1,020,000 residents of
Harris CoUnty received Type 31
oral vaccine on Sept. 8. Hie U.S.
Public Health Service rccomioeht,-
■ temporary halt in use*
Type 3 vaccine for adults, report-
ing there was evidence at least
some ot 11 polio cases among
adults resulted from Type 3 serum.
The Public Health Service recom-
mended continued distribution of
Types 2 and 3, _
Cuban Units Near
liS. Base Ukeiy
To Watch Natives
Groundbreaking for Gulf
Corp-’s new multi-million dollar
industrial complex on Cedar Bayou
near Baytown will be held at 11
a.m. Tufesday. -_r___
Baytown city officials, Harris
County representatives and offi-
cials of the Baytown Chamber of
Commerce will attend the cere-
^ along with representative
rand lhe general contrac-
tor, Stone anr Webster Engineer-
tog Corp.
The new olefin plant now under
construction at the site 'is the
Oil buildings. About 65 persons will be [concept. Planning is being made
employed initially. for future expansion by the com-
Gulf plans to develop the 1,000- pany and for attractive
acre tract with an industrial park I sites fur future customers.
met
of a 1,0
fall.
in Gulfs development
kacre tract bought last
Mayor A1 Clayton will repre-
sent the city at the Tuesday cere-
monies. Others from Baytown will
be E. C. (Jack) Kimmons, Cham-
ber of Commerce president; Nel-
son McElroy, Chamber manager;
Fred Hartman, editor and publish-
er of Hie Baytown Sun; and Rev.
Burnette Dowler, pastor of First
Presbyterian Church.
County Judge Bill Elliott and
Commissioner V. V. (Red) Ram-
sey are also' scheduled to attend.
After the brief groundbreaking
ceremonies, a tour of the site will
be made, followed by an informal
z-ttaiwpaktaua \TAt,AT d,cp luncheon at the Goose Creek Coun-
GUANTANAMO NAVAL BASE, ciu|,
Cuba (AP)—Fidel Castro has de-
ployed about 5,000 to 6,000 troops
near this U.S. base in eastern
Cuba, according to the intelli-
gence reaching American Navy
and Marine commanders.- - -
But U.S. military authorities be-
lieve these regulars, bolstered by
thousands of militiamen, are there duction of «thylene"and
The new plant is on the eastern
portion of Gulfs 1,000-acre tract.
It will occupy about 160 acres on
the north side of Highway 73, just
west Of Cedar Bayou in Harris
•County.
Construction qf the olefin plant
will more than double Gulf’s pro-
plant
television interview that the coun-
had concluded there la
great danger to the nation from
allout at this time. He heads toe
The council’s report did not
mention toe areas involved or the
countermeasures taken.
When the count of radioactive
iodine 131 in milk reached an
average of 580 miapmicrocuries
per day during July in Salt Lake
City, Utah, toe dairy industry
there undertook voluntary control
measures.
In addition to toe two civilians,
the group indudes four Air Fore*
officers and three Navy offices.
All have test pilot experience.
The civilians are Ndl A. Arm-
strong, 32, a native of Wapakoo-
eta, Ohio, and currently a test
pilot with toe National Aeronau-
tics and Space Administration at
Edwards Air Force Base, ChtiL,
and Elliot M. See Jr, 35, a na-
tive ot Dallas, Tex., and expert-
Maj. Frank Borman, 34, a na-
tive ot Gary Ind., an instructor
in the-Aerospace Rfiseacch, Pilot
School at Edwards AFB.
Cfcpt Jmafio A. McBMtt; ^
a native of Chicago, an experi-
mental flight test officer at Ed-
AFH.
fl
■A
TEMPORARY BUILDINGS
THREE OF THE temporary buildings at the
site of Gulf Oil Corp’s new Baytown plant are
the general construction office in thfe fora*g|
ground, warehouse and tool room In the cen-
ter, and the time office and first aid room on
the right. The temporary buildings will he
removed when construction of the new olefin
plant is completed on a 160-acre site north of >
Highway 73. Groundbreaking ceremonies at
the site will be held Tuesday.
■‘3*
(Baytown Photos)
EDWARD McCORMACK
Accident Victim’s Rites
In Highlands On Tuesday
Funeral services will be held Ponder, Highlands First Baptist
Tuesday at E' ^ *“ “ ~
Highlands for
76, well-known _________
who was killed Saturday morning
gee, Okla.
Her son, Donald Ray Lang, 51,
Highlands attorney, was injured
in the accilent. He is in/serious
condition at a Muskogee hospital
and will not be able fo return for
the funeral rites.
The time of the services was
not decided when Hie Sun went
to press Monday. The Rev. James
Seven-Year Resident
4rs. Thompson Dies
Funeral services will be held at un iw, ■
to Carlisle FuneL
tome in Carlisle, la., for burial.
jMrs. Lang was a passenger in
car driven by her son when
accident occurred seven miles
of Wagoner, Okla., at the to-
on of Highways ® and 51.
ThetHighway Patrol said a car
driven by Maiy Rebecca Miller,
66. of Muskogee, collided with the
Nadine
SAS
stopped to
women to
n serious
hospital.
cot-driven
' r, 54, of
it into the path ol
Minor car had
a left torn. Both
other can w ere
in a Muskogee
from her house. Hie bird is era;
and beige with orange. Mrs. Gray
is willing to pay a reward for its
return.
Young Danny Waddelj is a
“crackerjack” photographer and
he doesn’t like someone else get-
ting credit for his work. The name
of another photographer was sub-
rw*""y'g the other day
ires Danny took
Clare Center on
Bookertee Street The pictures
were published to The Sun, and
Danny *hould hav« gotten toe and-
p.m. Tuesday for Mrs.
Thompson, 90, mother of Mrs. E. a] Home,
companion, c. (Jack) Kimmons Jr. She was toe
A Baytown resident f<W toe past R. Lang and had
seven years, she lived at 1308 erty
Monroe. Mrs. Thompson died Sun
day.
The body will be at Earthman
Funeral Home in Baytown until
Tuesday morning. Funeral serv-
ices will W held at Earth-
man Chapel in Houston at 2420
Fannin. The Rev. Earl Bissex.
Star of First Christian Church
Baytown, will conduct the serv-
ices. Interment will be to Holly-
wood Cemetery in Houston.
Survivors are her daughter,
and six groat-
h,&i
three grandchildren i
grandchildren.
in
to High!
Star Chai
First
the Highlands
Club.
Survivors include her
Don and Jan Lang,
Newell of Damascus,
brother, Glenn AUdre of
Moinei. la.; a sister. Mrs.
hart Perkins of Sheridan, la.;
l®r
to keep the Cuban people in-check
rather than to mount an attack
on this vital American fleet base.
Guantanamo’s command doubts
the likelihood of any serious Cu-
ban threat to the 45-square-mile
base, but the entire military force
of about 3,000 mfen has been
trained to fight if trouble comes.
. So far little of the new military
gear the Soviet Union {ias sup-
Edward J.
base commander, said his patrols
have not sighted any missile-
armed torpedo boats which Pres-
ident Kennedy said have been sent
to Cuba.
O’Donnell reported Soviet-made
trucks are operating outside
somej
(tmo . ---------------;______
Persons suspected of being Com-
munist bloc nationals, including
some Asians, have been spotted
near the base.
Castro has pertiapo 100 Soviet-
made Mig fighters, but there have
been no intrusions of Guantana-
mo’s air space since the spring
of Wl-
The plant will have a production
capacity of 500 million pounds a
year.
Original construction includes a
laboratory, water treating. and.
steam power installations, main-
tenance shops and administration
Proper Action Pondered - _—.—-4. „ _
Senate Panels Studying Cuba Arms
WASHINGTON (AP)—Two Sen- request will be taken up then un-|corded radio program for Parn-
ate committees tqday wade into
a series of proposals for dealing
with the Communist arm* buildup
in Cuba. . * '
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
and Secretary erf Defense Robert
S. McNamara have been called to
testify. -, — " ‘ • • '■/'
One of the Senate’s largest hear-
ing rooms serves as the setting
for this, joint meeting of the For-
eign Relations and Armed Serv-
ices committees. By Thursday,
the -groups must decide what pro-.
posaJs—if aiiy—are to be attached
to a resolution authorizing Presi-
dent Kennedy to muster 150,000
Reserves as he deems necessary.
to winning imanimous1 pas^ge
of the resolution last Thursday,
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana agreed that
Republican-proposed riders be
,y sent to the committees for separ-
begta* debate «n ate, consideration.
OUR
WORLD
TODAY
• V. 8. DM. Judge Joe to-
graham orders desegregation of
too AAM Independent ConsoU
dated School District at College
der rules permitting, greater de- sylvania stations and on a local
bate And toe offering of amend-
ments. .
Meanwhile, file House Foreign
Affairs Committee considers reap-
^Scott dismissed the Cuban situ-
ation over the weekend on a re- Cuba.”
television program. V
Scott said U.S. ships and planes
would intercept ships a
arm and Communist tech
to Cuba and "serve notice that
these cargoes cannot be landed to of
wards
Capt. Thomas P. Stafford, 32,
a native of Weatherford, Okla.,
chief of the performance branch
at the experimental test flight
division of the Aerospace Re-
search Pilot School at Edwards
AFT).
experimental test pilot at Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
The Navy officers are:
JLa.
officer for Fighter Squadron 141
(His station was not specified).
Lt Cradr. James A. Load Jr, Z
34, a native of Cleveland, Ohio,
a flight instructor and of-
ficer at the' Naval Air Station at
Oceana, Fa. 2 ,
Lt Cmdr. John W. Your*, S2,
a native of San Francisco, main-
tenance officer for Fighter Squad-
ron 53 at the Naval Air Station,
Miramar, Calif.
Hie seven project Mercury as-
tronauts selected to April 1959 in-
cluded three Navy officers, three
Air Force pilots and one Marine
pilot.
Hie average age of tb* new
astronauts is 325 years, as con-
pared with 345 for toe 1959 group
at the time of their selection. 7>/
Gilruth said selection of toe nine
test pilots today culminates six
months of extensive evaluation ot
“ ...... of 253 volunteers
civilian
medical examination and oth-
er preliminary tests cut the
group of candidates to SL During /
July and August, the 31 were giv-
en comprehensivs medical exam-
inations.
During toe week of Aug. 12, toe
31 were brought to toe spacecraft
center here and were given a final
evaluation through a final sates
' examinations, tests and inter-
views.
■ - /
Slate Demo, GOP Sessions Slated
"i
trade expansion bill which would
give President Kennedy unprec-
edented new authority to cut
tariffs.
60 MPH Winds
Hit Childress
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
sty thunderstorms hoed up
for booming romps from Nath-
west into Central Texas during
the night and well into Monday
toming.
At Childrert, in the southeast
edge of the Texas Panhandle,
wind hitting 60 miles per hour in
gusts battered trees but apparent-
ly caused no major damage, city
policeman Joe Ricks reported.
“We had a little trouble east
of town where some limbs blew
off the frees and washed onto the
“ Ricks said. “It Mew
ind rained |«n5^fCa~
Water gushing across U.S. 62
snporarily stranded a car tow-
tog a trailer across the state tine
opposite Hollis, GUa,
• Commonwealth leaders
launch final crucial phase of (Us-
cUMtona to decide whether to
beck Britain’s entry Into Euro-
pean Common Market.
• Preridiuit Joes Goulari of
Brasil picks progressive Social-
ist at prime minister and signs
bill won In weekend triumph
ever Congress that sets
cite m restoring strong presiden-
tial powers.
1 f i hh m overamnv govern*-
and backers ot ex-dictator Juan
D. Peron, Is smashed hi north-
east Argentina.
V# First ruuttupof of 30 U.S.
military advisers leave Laos la
accordance with Geneva accord
calling for withdrawal at for
elgtt troops from neutral Lao*
• Mil
...i. . - **~I-U**
Along with them went Mans-
field’s own resolution, putting
Congress on record as supporting
Kennedy in any move—including
State Democratic and Republi-
can convention machinery swirled
into motion Monday in prepara-
tion for (he annual session toe
party must launch a program to the same set of labor
attract new faces into its organi-
zation.
-wS and the..leaderahjP
Democrats
prevefit the Castro regime from
exporting its aggressive pur-
poses.”
The show of unity behind Ken-
nedy’s request may come un-
hinged as the committees silt
some of the suggestions on how
the United States should get tough
with Qiba. .//V
A Democrat, Sen. George A.
fimatbers of Florida, has indicat-
ed he will try to tack onto Mans-
field’s resolution formal recogni-
tion of a Cuban govemment-in-
cxile.
In advance of toe session, Sen.
Hugh Scott, R-Pto, offered a ser-
ies of revisions that he said would
strengthen toe Mansfield resolu-
tion and “remove partisan politi-
cal implication*.’’
Among other things, Scott
posed empowering the Presj
o use an “economic and military
boycott and blockade.”
The H
House had planned to act
:'“!r * The- President’s request today ago today.
• Estimated TiB,000 persons under rales prohibiting amend-
la Meries City are m»ta»y pa- ments and timitii* debate to 40
rede la observance of 132nd an-
stversary af Mexico Indepeod-
EL PASO (AP)—Texas Demo-
aatfr partyJewfato t^aie Dolph
Briscoe today as temporary chair-
man of toe state convention here
Hiesday.
The Uvalde ranchman will car-
the use of force if necessary-to ^ ^ influen^aj ^ getting
**“ under way the first convention of
Democratic gubernatorial nomi-
nee John Connally.
Connally told the state execu-
tive committee today that toe
“We must not take for granted
e leadership role the Demo-
cratic party has played in Texas
fa- half a century,” Connally said.
“We must make every effort to
continually encourage participa-
tion in party affairs and make it
easy for Texans of responsibility
fo nave a part in the important
affairs of government.”
As convention preliminaries be-
gan, the president of the AFL-CIO
said he is optimistic the Demo-
crats will produce, a platform fa-
vorable to organized labor.
Hank Brown said he talked with
gubernatorial nominee John Con-
nally Sunday night and gave him
17th UN General Assembly To Open
that was handed to the
cans in Fort Worth.
Formal action on toe ]
top, item on toe a
agenda, does not begin _
platform committee meets T
day.
R(
PORT WORTH 1
Republican
moved into session
elected temporary
state convention opening |
M. Sims Davidson of 1
named
F. Tuoker of L
at arms; and 1
Lubbock,
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)
—Diplomats from various parts of
toe world predicted today Sat toe
17tii General Assembly opening
Tuesday will name U Thant of
Burma to a full five-year term
Thant hi acting secretary-gener-
al, serving out the unexpired term
of the tote Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold that axis next
April 10. He was elected last Nov.
3 after Hammarskjold’s death in
plane crash in Africa a year
U.S. delegate Charles W. Yost,
previewing the asasnfoly session
minutes. But several members ob- Sunday, indicated that the U.8.
was (delegation upsets Thant to bs re-
Yost told New York area mem-
bers of tile American Association
for the United Nations: "Ihe per-
formance of the acting secretary-
general has beat so outstanding
and has met with such universal
support among toe members that
we doubt if this will be the subject
of serious controversy.
“We would he very much
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■T have the votes,”
Opposing O'Donnal
last year.”
In negotial
skjold’s succe
ion first insisted
ment of the Ui
taken over by tta»e
secretaries—an Amt;
.diaa and a Russian.
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