Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 204, Ed. 1 Monday, August 30, 1965 Page: 1 of 6
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Hockley County Area Newspaper Collection and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the South Plains College.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
PARTLY CLOUDY.
COOUR
SHOWERS
t£iwUctufl tDciilxt
The Only ,\'eu spaper On The South Plains Supporting Leve-lland And Hockley County
i
VOLUME 24. NO. 204
Associated Press (AP) Wire
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
6 PAGES
I ’ON DAY. AUGUST 30. 1965
Johnson Calls Mediators to Washington ii Attempt to Avert Strike
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-
dent Johnson summoned his
special steel mediators to the
White House today, determined
to head off a nationwide steel
strike set for midnight Tuesday.
In Pittsburgh negotiators for
die United Steelworkers Union
^Kid 10 major steel firms sus-
NOPended their deadlocked bar-
gaining sessions. The nation’s
largest steel producer, U.S.
Steel Corp., said it was in the
process of shutting down some
facilities as the strike deadline
approached. It started cooling
coke ovens.
If he chooses to, Johnson can
invoke the Taft-Hartley Act and
forestall a strike for 80 days. He
already has said a strike could
damage the economy and that
he’ll act in the national interest
if a settlement is not reached
“in the American way.”
The chances of a negotiated
settlement dimmed despite ef-
forts of his special mediators,
Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore„ and
Undersecretary of Commerce
LeRoy Collins. Sent to Pitts-
burgh Saturday by the Presi-
dent, they left for the capital
Sunday night. Morse said man-
agement and labor were in “an
inexcusable and unjustified
deadlock.’’
Still, Morse said, “Our mis-
sion was not a failure.” Collins
said, “I am satisfied that this
can still be resolved.”
The Steelworkers Union is
askaag increases of 53 cants an
hour over 39 months. It has re-
jected an industry offer of 40.6
cents an hour over 35 months.
Steelworkers average $4.40 an
hour in wages and benefits.
LW. Abel, president of the
union, and R_ Conrad Cooper,
chief negotiator for the 10 major
steel producers, met secretly
for two hours Sunday — their
first session alone.
"There is no agreement,”
Abel said afterward.
Summoned with Morse and
Collins to breakfast at the White
House were Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of
Commerce John T. Connor and
William E. Simkin, director of
the federal Mediation and Con-
ciliation Service.
SimVIn returned to W ashing-
ton Sunday night with Morse
and Collins. He had been in
Pittsburgh for more than a
week seeking a settlement.
The President dispatched his
personal plane to Pittsburgh to
bring the 10 principal spokes-
men for unions and steel pro-
ducers to the conference table
at the White House. The chief
negrtiators are LW. Abel, pres-
ident of the United Steelwork-
ers Union, and R. Conrad Coop-
representing 10 major pro-
The plane is expected to get
them to W ashington in time for
an early afternoon session with
- ff ★ ★ -
I BIG'
(FOOTBALL I
CONTEST
I STARTS I
★ ★ ★
★ ★ ★
★ ★ ★
★ ★★
★ ★★
★ ★★
\T
V *
B-52s Carry
Out Air Strikes
Against Cong
| SEE PAGE SIX
I WIN CASH
Teenagers Hurt
in Collision
Sunday afternoon at 4:56 on
Avenue H and 12th St., a 1950
Ford driven by Walter (Scoot-
er) Reed and u 1963 Ford driv-
en by Wads Douglas Keller
were in collision.
Patty Lawson, daughter of
Mrs. Inea Downing, riding as
passenger in the Keller car,
was carried to/ the Level land
•Clinic and Hospital at 9:00
Monday morning and was be-
ing exrayed for possible in-
juries.
Reed, son of Mr. and M.'s.
Wa'ter Reed, was carried to
the South Plains Hospital where
it was stated he would remain
for a few days for observation.
According to police records,
the Reed car allegedly smash-
ed into the rear of the Keller
car. Reed was given a ticket
for following to closely.
j V „
V
MRS. J. H. WHEELER, (L) pays her son’s, Vernon, party tee as she registers nun ioi uk
sixth grade at South Elementary. The fee goes toward one of the most Important phases of
elementary education, class parties. Standing Deside Vernon is Laudie Tyler, and accepting
the fee is Mrs. Neil Tyler. In the background are (I, to R) Mike Marcom, Jerry Rogers and
Randy Wheeler.
Ropesville Family
3 Killed, Ten Injured
East TexasAeeident
Rumors had it in Levelland
Monday morning that Ralph
Riojas and his fam'ly had been
killed in a wreck, —the George
Price Funeral Hume received
some dozen calls.
It w.ts a mistake.
The folks killed lived at Ropes-
Wallendas
Retire
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Karl Wallenda, 60, leader of the
world-famous family of high-
wlre acrobats, said his perfor-
mance Saturday night at a race
track was his last regular show.
He said he was going into
semi retirement and doubted
that the Wallenda family ever
again would perform the seven-
man pyram'd that he created.
The collapse of such a pyramid
in Detroit three years agokilled
two members of the fam’ly and
crippled his son, Mario.
Astronauts Undergo
Medical Examination
(Continued on page 5)
Texas New/s Round-up
DALLAS (AP) — The 4,500-
member Gaston Avenue Baptist
Church "named the Rev. Lester
Collins Jr., of Tyler as pastor
Sunday.
He has been pastor of the
Green Acres Baptist Church in
Tyler.
The Gaston pulpit has been
vacant since early last year,
when the Rev. Harold Basden
resigned to work for the South-
Mission
i Baptist Foreign
trd in Richmond.
The Rev. 1
*-T3W.D
Markets
Mr. Collins, 43, is
of DaUss ai|d a gradi>-
Uni varsity. Previ-
negotiatkms
Mslble steel
YORK (AP)—The stock
market edged tower Irregularly
early this afternoon as deed-
tocked labor
' threatened a possl
•trike by Wesnesday morning.
Gains and losses of key stocks
ranged from fractions toapolnt
or so.
Tha leading stool shares were
tower but their losses were
small. Some were trimmed or
erased later.
ous pastorates included the
First Baptist Church at Pales-
tine. He is a trustee of East
Texas Baptist College at Mar-
shall.
HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)—When
man goes to the moon he won’t
travel as far as Gemini 5 as-
tronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr.
and Charles Conrad Jr. did in
their eight days around the
world.
It’s 240,000 miles to them, on
but it will take as long to get
there and back as it took the
Gemini 5 space twins to whirl
3,338,200 miles around the
world.
The reason: Gravity will try
to pull a nvxmbound spacecraft
back toward the earth. Going to
the moon will be like riding a bi-
cycle uphill.
NEW ORLEANS—Gordon B.
“**» *13 Clubview Drive, Lev-
elland, Texas, received a bach-
V°r ” huclness administration
degree Saturday, Av«. 28, at the
afuuid graduation 5erci.es cf
the Tulane University sumnwr
school.
The degree wss conferred by
Dr. Maxwell E. Lapham, Tu-
lane provost
AP Aerospace Writer
MANNED SPACE CENTER,
Houston, Tex. (AP) — Doctors
began probing the physical con-
dition of America's Gem’ni 5
space champs today while space
officials already spoke enthusi-
astically of having qualified
man for an eight-day roundtrip
to the moon.
A sharp eye was kept on as-
tronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr.
and Charles Conrad Jr. to see
whether disturbing symptoms
might yet crop up in exhaustive
medical examinations.
So far, in tests aboard the
USS Lake Champlain, no such
symptoms had been reported.
Testing will continue for weeks.
Happy officials here ex-
pressed their confidence this
way in a press briefing shortly
after the astronauts were
brought aboard foe Champlain
by helicopter Sunday:
Dr. Robert Gilruth, Manned
Spacecraft Center director;
“As you all know, we are driv-
ing forward to go to foe moon
during this decade, and some-
one said there in control cen-
ter, 'We’ve now qualified one
of the subsystems for the mis-
sion. That’s the crew.”
Dr. Charles Berry, flight sur-
geon: “We don’t like to neces-
sarily consider the crew as sub-
system/?, but we certainly have
the first of any parts erf the
Apollo system (foe moon rocket
project) that are qualified for
eight days.
The space heroes were to
sleep a« long as they liked to-
day. After more ex am'nations,
the men were to be flown to
Cape Kennedy, about 400 miles
from the carrier, to begin 11
days of seclusion.
The two-hour flight will be a
snail’s pace compared to the
17,500-mJle-per-bour speed of
foe space chariot that carried
Cooper, an Air Force Lieu-
tenant colonel, and Conrad, a
Navy lieutenant commander,
for almost eight days of weight-
less flying.
“They have no symptoms of
any kind,” said Flight Surgeon
Howard Minners. “They are in
wonderful shape.”
President Johnson phoned his
congratulations to foe space
twins almost by the time they
had removed their silver space
suits.
Cooper, 38, veteran of two
space trips, and the tattooed,
Ivy Leaguer Conrad, 35, ended
(Continued on page 5)
Cool Front to Bring
Showers, Cool Weather
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A cold front will sweep into
foe Texas Panhandle late today,
foe U.S. Weather Bureau said,
and all parts of the state but
the far southwest will be cooler
by midweek.
The cold front was advertised
as a weak one—but a break
from the merciless heat at any
rate.
Five-day forecasts for Tues-
day through Saturday called for
thundershowers of up to .75 of
THIS and
THAI
Miss Jean Anderson, daugh-
ter of Mr. a-viMrs.V.G. Ander-
son is home between semes-
ters, summer and fall, from
Abilene Christian College.
Miss Kay Harpole spent last
_ week visiting in foe home of
First~exami nations Sunday her grandmother, Mrs. Hal Har-
aboard the Champlain indicated pole. Her family , Mr. and Mrs.
foe men were in remarkable David Harpole and Stevie of
physical condition. Dimin'tt came tor her Sunday.
GoHwater Speaks
to Republicans
ville, and their name is Cruz
Rojas.
HAMXTON, Tex. (AP) — A
mother and two of her nine chil-
dren were killed early today in
a headon collision west of this
North Central Texas comm' ni-
ty.
Ten other persons were in-
jured. Twelve persons from
Ropesville, Tex., rode in one
station wagon. One person Was
in the second car.
Dead were Mrs. Cruz Rojas,
Charles Rojas Jr., one year, and
Adean Rojas, 4 months.
- In critical condition were the
father, Charles Rojas, and two
other Rijas children, Vicky, 9,
and Cruz, 8. In less serious con-
dition were Daniel Rojas, 28,
and his bride of one month, Hi-
laria, 19; Tony, 13; Carolyn, 11;
Dale, 5, and Betty Rojas, 4.
Garland Finch Bullion, 18, of
Browowood, drove the second
car and was taken to Hillcrest
Hospital in Waco, about 70 miles
southeast of Hamilton.
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barry
Goldwater said today the Free
Sociaty Association will have a
beneficial rather than an ad-
verse effect on Republican par-
ty policymaking and fund rais-
The 1964 GOP presidential
Local Jail
Crowded
Sheriff Weir Clem reported
Monday morning that foe coun-
ty bastile had thirty-two occu-
pants. These new boarders, it
was said, came from Sundown
and Levelland.
Up to 10 o’clock Monday but
two out of the five arrested by
foe City Police had been tried.
Manuel Ruiz and Lupe Men-
dez were charged with drink-
ing in public and fined $25
each.
In the Justice of Peace Court
Precinct 5, Judge Ford presid-
ing, four cases had been dis-
posed of by 10 o’clock.
Ronnie Dyer, allegedly em
bibed a greater quantity of corn
squeezing than he could han-
dle and was arrested and char-
ged with being drunk. He was
fined $20.70.
Three cases from Sundown
with charges of disturbing the
peace and quiet of foe com
munity were arraigned before
Judge Ford, and on pleas of
guilty, were fined $23.50 each.
They were Jesse Brantley,
Viola Bradley, WlllieMae John-
son.
It was stated other cases will
be handled throughout foe day.
nominee, here for a meeting of
the Republican Policy Coordi-
nating Committee, discounted
in an interview reports that foe
conservative organization of
which he is honorary chairman
would provide comi>etition for
foe regular party organization.
Asked if the organization is
competing for political contri-
huttons, .foe (m—M Arta—a
senator said donations are
coming from a different source.
“We are getting money that
would not go to foe Republican
party anyhow,” he said.
Besides Goldwater, former
President £>wight D. Eisenhow-
er and former Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York showed up
for foe closed sessions of the
committee.
The question of foe impor-
tance of foe governors to foe
GOP cause brought a bit of
long distance exchange between
Goldwater and Sen. Hugh Scott,
R-Pa.
HYANNE PORT, Mass. (AP)
— Kathleen Kennedy, 14, daugh-
ter of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy,
D-N.Y., reportedly says she’s
ready to ride again just as soon
as doctors discharge her from
Cape Cod Hospital.
She suffered a mild concus-
sion when her horse missed a
jump and fell on her and she
was rushed unconscious to the
hospital, where her brother,
Robert Jr., 11, was adm’tted
Friday with a severe leg wound.
Mr. a;id Mrs. Bill Robinson
returned Friday from Lawton,
Okla., where they attended an
annual Bible Chair Lectureship.
Robinson is the Bible Chair
instructor at South Plains Coll-
ege.
F-105 Shot
Down
By RONALD L DEUTSCH
SAIGON, South Viet Nam
(AP) — U.S. B52 bombers from
the Strategic Air Command
again hit suspected Viet Cong
positions in two weekend raids
in South Viet Nam, a U.S. mili-
tary spokesman announced to-
day.
Communist gunners shot
down an American plane over
North Viet Nam and Viet Cong
guerrillas attacked a half-dozen
outposts south of Saigon, over-
running three of them
One of the B52 strikes was
made Saturday in northern
north of Saigon. The other, on
Sunday, again hit Zone D, foe
600-square-mile jungle area
which starts 30 miles north of
Saigon.
The strikes by the Guam-
based eight-engine planes were
the 13th and 14th reported in the
war. Five of them were carried
out in foe last six days.
Under new security regula-
tions, foe spokesman did not
give the number of planes tak-
ing part or foe number of
bombs dropped.
The spokesman said an F105
Thunderchief was downed by
ground fire Sunday on a bomb-
ing mission 80 miles northwest
of Hanoi. The pilot was reported
to have ejected safely but could
not be rescued because of dark-
ness. He was listed as missing.
Another F105 was lostSunday
when it developed engine trou-
ble over North Viet Nam. Its
pilot was also reported to have
ejected and was listed as miss-
ing.
Elements of a U.S. Marine
battalion killed an estimated 10
Viet Cong and wounded 8 others
Sunday in a clash near the gi-
ant U.S.-South Vietnamese air
base at Da Nanag, military
spokesman reported.
The spokesmen added, how-
ever, that only five of the Com
m mist dead were confirmed by
body count. The Marines suf-
fered light casualties in the en-
(Continued on page 5)
an inch during foe cooler peri-
od.
were blamed for two traffic ac-
cidents Sunday that killed two
persons and Injured six others.
Both occurred on the high-speed
expressways.
In one collision, Rudolph Al-
queceva and his daughter Lo-
retta, 6, died. The wife and two
other children were hurt and
two others were injured in the
second car. In a second acci-
dent, John de Hoyas, 43, escap
ed with minor injuries when
his trailer truck skidded out of
control during a thundershower
and hit an overpass railing. He
went through foe windshield and
fell 50 feet from foe overpass.
Forecasts called for thunder-
showers this afternoon in parts
of the Panhandle arid South
Texas.
Radar indicated a few thun-
dershowers off the lower Texas
coast early today, but the sky
was clear in most areas.
Rainfall for the 24 hours end-
ing Sunday evening including
.61 of an inch at Brownsville,
.13 at Corpus Christ!, .06 atCol-
lege Station, .04 at San Antonio,
and .02 at Laredo and M /Allen.
This morning’s temperatures
ranged from 70 degrees at Dal-
hart to 81 at Dallas, Palacios
and Galveston.
2t Ot
Thirty-One Texans Die
Violently This Weekend
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Traffic accidents claim 3d foe
majority of victims during a
weekend of violent death in Tex-
as.
From S p.m, Friday to mid-
night Sunday, 31 persons died
violently, 21 In traffic.
Alan Mark Burleson, 14, of
Pasadena died Sunday when his
motorcycle and a car collided
on Interstate 45 south <rf Hous-
ton. A 14-yeartold companion
riding with Burleson Jumped
from foe motorcycle before the
crash and was not hurt.
A car hit two elderly women
in Garrison as they walked
home from church services Sun-
day night. Mrs. Jerry Ingram,
about 70, was killed and her
friend, Mrs. Effie Green, criti-
cally injured.
John D. Robinson, 34, was
dead on arrival at a Houston
hospital Sunday night. He was
being taken to the hospital with
a stab wound in foe chest when
the ambulance collided with a
car. Police ordered an autopsy,
but said they believed he was
dead before the collision.
The year old son of M r. and
Mrs. Roy George Kearns of Sag-
inaw, Roy George Jr., died in
a Fort Worth hospital Sunday
night after swallowing furniture
polish.
Raymond Thomas Simon, 39,
a Fort Worth carpenter, was
shot to death Sunday night in a
Fort Worth antique shop after
an argument.
John Harris, 28, drowned Sun-
day afternoon while swlmm ng
in a gravel pit In the south part
of Dallas.
Rudolph Alqueceva, 31, and
his daughter, Loretta, about 6,
were killed Sunday and five oth-
ers were injured in a two-car
collision on a rain-slick ex-
pressway in San Antonio.
Kenneth C. Bhune, 18, of Val-
halla was killed Saturday night
when he lost control of his car
on Texas 71 and crashed into
the Colorado River bridge west
of La Grange.
Sabas Fernandez, - 89. was
struck and killed b/ a hlt-sho-i
run vehicle late Saturday night
in south San Antonio. Officers
were looking for the driver of
a pickup truck.
Harold Holland, 17, of Myra
was killed Sunday while work-
ing on an automotyle engine at
(Continued on'page 5)
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Kenley, Lyndell. Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 204, Ed. 1 Monday, August 30, 1965, newspaper, August 30, 1965; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1132113/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.