Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 104, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1968 Page: 1 of 8
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UNITED PRESS IMTFBNATinNAI filPl WIRF
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1968
PAGES 8
Pentagon Seeks Callup
Of 50,000 Reservists/
Marines Need 4,000
ri Smith, Carr
McLendon
Go Along
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Sanh and Cm mien, near 0*
Demilitarized lam.
The Joint Chiefs at Staff
meanwhile haa recommended
mobilizing nearly SO,000reser-
vists and national guardsmen—
in addition to deiatg ep draff
call*—if president Jataman ffe-
cides an a farther Vfafa*u
buildup.
The Marine Corps, which task
in draftees in World War B and
the Korean War. has not hoi to
rely on the draft sines early
1966 when it was undergetaf an
accelerated fadldhp far Vlat-
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Almust ana third - at - 'Ml
Marines are fa the Pacfflearea
—mostly fa Vietnam.
High Level Needed
The April draft eall is the
highest since October, 1881,
when 49,200 m«n were fadnetod.
The Defense Department safaL
the increased lerel was need*
to replace these men, whs will
soon he returning fa civilian
Ufa. f
the March draft call from 30,-
009 to 41,000. The Jamary call
was 34,000 and the Pebnary
level dropped to 23,200.
The joint Chiefs’ romnanm
dation far aaoUlizhfa addttfanto
reserves weald include the first
call-up at graand troops sfaee
the start at the Vietnam War.
The proposal, which weald
WA^'^GTON (1’PI)—The
PenUt, vi nnounced today an
April draft call of48,000 men—
highest in a year and a half.
The Marine Corps will take
4,000 of the draftees.
The Marines, who need
draftees for the first time in two
years, have been bearing the
brunt of the burden of defense
at the Vietnam outposts of Khe
AL GARDNER £
PIN HEAD FORD was talk-
ing about a fat buddy of his,
telling about the time his wife
sent him to the store for a
head of cabbage. Fat boy asked
Ms wife what size she wanted.
“About the size of your
head,” she told Mm.
Later she received a worried
call from the grocer telling
her she’d better come and see
about her husband—he was in
the vegetable department trying
Ms hat on the cabbages.
By United Press International
Gubernatorial candidates, un-
daunted by snow and cold
weather, covered a wide range
of issues in speeches and press
conferences around the state
Thursday.
Eugene Locke of Dallas said
in Austin he favored passage of
a liquor by the drink bill sim-
ilar to the one proposed by
Gov. John Connally last year.
He said “a hypocritcal, per-
missive spirit that would not
sanction imposed abstinence
and yet would not recognize
the truth has resulted in an in-
tolerable situation.”
John Hill spoke in Corpus
Christi and called for annual
sessions of the legislature to
“permit more accurate revenue
estimates and prevent needless
taxation.”
Plans Uadsrwoy
For Hockloy
Coaaty Moscow
Mrs. James Lattimore, pres-
ident of Lev ell and Women’s
Club opened an enthusiastic
meeting Thursday with the main
discussion swinging toward
farming a museum for Hock-
ley County.
An organizational meeting
when dubs from Levelland, An-
ton, Sundown as well as any in-
terested citizen have been invit-
ed, has been set for Monday.
March 4, at 2 pan. in the Com-
munity Room of First National
Bank, the club announced today.
This area has long needed a
AL ALLISON may have the
answer to how to get the Pueblo
back.
He says the U. S. ought to
declare It war surplus, sell
It to Israel and tell them to go
get it
SPEAKING of lawyers, we
heard of one that overdid it
the other day. He billed a client:
“For waking up In the middle
of the night and thinking about
your case-85.00.”
Would Be Available
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith said
in Cuero he would be available
to people of the state at all
times if he is elected governor.
Locke’s announcement left
Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde the
only major candidate for the of-
fice on record against legal
mixed drinks in some form.
Preston Smith, Waggoner
Carr and Gordon McLendon
have engqtsod some farm at
liquor by the drink.
Hill has said he would not
press for such legislation but
would not veto it if the legisla-
ture passed a satisfactory
measure.
Mum on Liquor
The three Republican candi-
dates, Paul Eggers of Wichita
Falls, John Trice at Waco and
Wallace Sisk of Houston, have
not taken stands on liquor by
the drink.
Democrats Don Yarborough,
Edward L. Whittenburg and Al-
fonzo Veloz, ail of Houston, have
not taken a position on liquor
by the drink.
The only candidates besides
Briscoe who are on record
against liquor by the drink are
Pat O’Daniel of Dallas, who is
running on a religious plat-
form, and Johnnie Mae Hack-
worthe of Brenham, who says
she is a prophetess.
THIS ONE’S for real.
A local Sunday school tea-
cher says one of her little
charges told her, “My mother
got a message from her boy
friend on Valentine’s Day.”
II famed got tat the moth-
er, a widow, had actually re-
ceived a corsage on that happy
occasion.
worn* now being ufd fo carry
out that dream.
During a recent meeting with
Dr. Marvin L. Baker, president
of South Plains College, Mrs.
Lattimore, along with Ruth
Weimhold and Mrs. B.A. War-
ren discussed the possibility
at locating on the college cam-
pus. The trio are on the fad-
finding committee for the mus-
eum project.
SEE MUSEUM PAGE 2
On Use Of Air Strikes Artillery
OH, SAY, do you know who
wears a white cape and rides
a pig across the desert?
Lawrence at A&M.
battalion trying to break
through Allied lines and rein-
force the Viet Cong who have
held out for 24 days.
UPI correspondent Robert
Ibrahim reported from Hue that
Marines of the 1st Battalion, 5th
Regiment, were originally or-
dered to sweep the eastern
section of the walled city north
to south and as far west as the
win of the Imperial Palace set
inside the walled Citadel.
They reached the south wall
of The Citadel Thursday an)
planted an American flag on
last fringes of the storm as It too.
moved eastward. SEE CITADEL PAGE 2
Jackie Kennedy Remains
Firm, Denies Wedding
SAIGON (UPI)—UJS. Marines
today halted their advance on
the Imperial Palace in Hue to
await a political decision from
Saigon on whether to use
artillery and air strikes against
this final objective or attack
without support, heedless of the
heavy cost
Fighting continued in the
Ice Covers Usually Balmy
East Texas , Warmup Seen
warnings for East Texas for the
ancient capital and South
Vietnamese rangers killed 106
Communists in the ruins of the
palace outer grounds and
another 223 of a Communist
MR. MILKTOAST’S wife was
in tears when she met him at
the door last night. “The dag
ate the meatloaf,” she
squawled.
“Quit your moaning,” he
yelled, "I'll buy you another
dog.”
BY THE WAY, MR. M. griped
the other day that Ms wife has
an annoying habit of staying up
to all hours of the night.
“What does she do all that
time,” someone asked Mm.
“Waite on me to come home,”
Governors Refuse
Teacher Demands
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UP1>-
Gov.Claude Kirk said Thursday
that Florida, with almost half of
its public school teachers an
■trike, actually had no educa-
tional crisis - "it’s simply con-
fusion.”
Kirk told an audience in
Jacksonville the “confaeion
was created by the NEANatienal
Education Association and the
FEA (Florida Education Asso-
ciation) and I sure hate to make
martyr* out of them.”
The FEA, backed by the
NEA, led a walkout of about
25,000 . of Florida's 41,006
teachers Monday fa pretest
against a "totally Inadegito"
education budget passed by the
legislature last week.
The walkout entered its fifth
day today wfth estimates of the
number of teachers off their
jobs rtogtog tram 20,000 kg
Kirk to 35,000 by the FEA.
The, State Department at
By United Press International
A snowstorm that reached
blizzard proportions in its early
Panhandle stages and then
dumped up to eight inches of
Sy snow on North Texas moved out
of the state today with a rare
parting swip«^ — it glazed the
palms of Southeast Texas with
$■: ice and snow.
$: By dawn today, the snow had
:•: ended in all areas of the state,
5 but glazed streets and snow-
drifts made early morning rush
8 hour traffic a tangle of autos
with whining tires in many qf
the cities of the northern half of
the state.
Schools closed in scores of
towns, including the University
of Texas at Arlington, East Tex-
as State at Commerce and sev-
eral junior colleges. TheDallas
public schools system closed
but Fort Worth’s remained
open.
i wo deaths were blamed on
the weather and auto wrecks
occurred at a pace that over-
whelmed policemen at rush
hour of Thursday everting.
Dallas had more than 300
wrecks in one six-hour stretch
Thursday on its ice-coated
streets.
Temperatures in ‘Teens
The Uustery departure at the
( snowstorm shoved temperat-
■ ures down fa the 'teens in the
Texas Pl^ine and Panhandle,
and dip overflight range way
from Jhe fteena tec the 26g46r
today’s storm, light snow with
freezing drizzle fell in the area,
giving white highlights to the
palm trees and oil derricks.
The motorists, unaccustomed
to snow-slushy streets, moved
slowly. Port Arthur’s tall Rain-
bow Bridge, connecting that
Southeast Texas city with Or-
ange, was kept open by sand-
ing crews. All overpasses in the
area were iced over and dan-
gerous aiki some patches of ice
appeared on roads.
A few suburban schools in the
Port Arthur-Orange, Beaumont
areas closed.
The U. S. Weather Burea
posted another set of travelers’
ST. AGATHE DES MONTS,
Que. (UPI) —Mrs. Jacqueline
Kennedy, apparently intent on
dispelling rumors that she came
to Laurentians to marry,
returns to the slopes of Mont
iremblant today for another
day of skiing with her children.
Mrs. Kennedy and Caroline
and John Jr. paid an uneapect-
ed visit to Mont Tremblant
Thursday afternoon. Ski profes-
sional Ernie McCulloch said
“Mrs. Kennedy is an excellent
skier, especially since this is
the first time she has been on
skis in three years.” /
McCulloch did hot comment
on the efforts of Caroline and
Joljq Jr*
GRAND 1SI AND, Neb. (UPI) — There was a knock on the
front door of the Rodney Johnson home Tuesday night.
Three Marines stood rigid, their hats at their sides, their
sympathetic faces saying all that was necessary.
The Johnson's son, Pfc. Michael D. Johnson, 20. was dead,
the Marines told them as gently as they could. He died of
shrn^fcat ripped into his head in a battle near Quan Nam,
Sooft^^Htem, Feb. 6, they told the Johnsons.
ThJJ^Hhing news was confirmed the next day in a Defense
MayWtt was the letter she had received from Michael a few
days before, or maybe it was the blind hope every parent clings
to, fart Mrs. Johnson could not bring herself ta believe Michael
was dead.
She asked the Marine Corps office at Lincoln, Neb., to con-
firm the notice once more. The office did.
Thursday, officials happily announced that it was alia horri-
ble mistake; Mike had been wounded but was all right. Mike
was coming home.
“I wee Just stunned,” Mrs. Johnson said Thursday after gett-
ing the good nows, and yet I had the feeling he was alive all
along...
“We just regret that somebody else is suffering what we went
through yesterday.” \
The Johnsons talked by telephone Thursday with Michael at
Ufa UJS. Military Hospital at Yokahoma, Japan. Officials there
salt ha was “wall and ambulatory, awaiting transportation to
the United States.”
"That was the moat exciting thing fa the world,?’ the Joyful
mother sold after hearing her son's voice. “We know 1t whs our
HU*. He’e coming homo.** . •'
Ifa flatter expreaaod regret that the death message they fa-
cetted new woo Id go to mother family. He aatd (hayrtutoa no bft-
temesa over the error, which ho described aeon ^hottest mis-
take.” -
11* error, the Marine Cerpe CamalteSecttflpJinWaal^lfaftO^
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