Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 138, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 1966 Page: 1 of 6
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Kiwanis Contest
Kiwanis Club members have
been conducting a ticket selling
campaign for the annual Aunt
Jemiah Pancake Supper sched-
uled Saturday in the City Rec.
Hall. Preaident T. A. Tunnell
and vice president Jack Deav-
enport have been team leaders.
The winner will have steak and
the looera hamburgers tonight
at the meeting.
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sponsored by Anderaon Motor
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Election Set
For April 9
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and Scott wiU attend their final
weather briefing today, then re-
lax to save the energy needed
during their busy space venture.
The Atlas is scheduled to blast
off at 10 a.m. EST and hoist the
Agena Into a 185-mile-high orbit
around the earth. Liftoff time
for Gemini S will be 11:41 a.m.
presentative Joe
are Rev. Martin
Emil M. Becker.'
“I am told this is the No
political race of the nation tl
fall.’’ state Atty. Gen. Wagg
er Carr, Tower’s principal 1
mocratic opponent, told the at
Democratic committee.
f He added that Tower’s reel
tion “would be a personal (
feat for President Johnson
his home state."
Tower won a special elect
tn 1M1 to succeed Johnson ail
Johnson became vice preside
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city on the west side of Harbin
„ „ „ IJB Drive near the Lingleville high
includes a manse and church.
in the
sale was purchased by the Pres-
byterian Church in 1880 for 880.
and includes the land occupied
by the church, education build-
ing, manse, Scott’s Cleaners and
the Wpltar Cox residence.
Current plans r*
Church
property to be used for paridng
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mt'
"in" circles because it has
been “oat" so long.
Moot people Mve never
heard of the PhiUy-Dog, but it
seems certain that if a name
Wednesday. Low tonigh:
54. High Wedneaeday in
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH Ci
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I Tentative OK Given
I Wednesday Blastoff
I CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. Uh -
| After wresthng through the
■ night with a batch of mechani-
■ cal problems, spaceagency offi-
O cals today gave the Gemini 8
B astronauts a tentative green
I light to blast off Wednesday on
9 the start of a busy three days in
■ space.
William C. Schneider, Gemini
I mission director, said late this
■ morning that "we are proceed-
K ing for a launch tomorrow, but
I are on a very tight schedule.”
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The go-ahead came late this
K. morning after a lengthy series
| of tests indicated that a life-sup-
porting environmental control
I unit borrowed from another
| spacecraft, Gemini S, was work-
1 ing properly and technical trou-
| bloc also were resolved in the
| Atlas booster which will hurl an
■ ’ unmanned Agena target aatel-
| Ute into oribit.
I Astronauts Neil Armstrong
I and David Scott — were
F grounded 24 hours by the me-
I chanical failures — were to at-
tend a final weather review to-
' day, then take most of the day
off to rest for their mission.
Good WlBttWF
Weathermen were predicting
satisfactory launch day condi-
tions. ,< ,.
If the flight is successful,
Armstrong and Scott will be-
come the first men to link up
with another sateUite in orbit
fiMEENHI^.
Presbyterian
Property Sold
To Baptists I
Eleven representatives from
the First Baptist Church and the
Presbyterian Church completed
negotiations this morning for j
the transfer of the property '
owned by the Presbyterian i
Church on North Barton to the
Baptist Church. The consider*,
tion was $80,000.
The members of the Presby-
terian Church have recently
Both Parties Gearing
For US Senate Race
AUSTIN (ft - Directors of
Texas’ Democratic and RepubU-
can parties spent Much of their
Monday meetings discussing
the U.S. senate race that shows
signs of becoming the nation^
maiti election attraction.
"We’re ahead, and we plan to
stay ahead,” U. S. Sen. John
Tower, R-Tex., told the Repub-
lican state committee, shortly
before it went into a lengthy
closed door session on fund rais-
ing.
iterative tion started at 8:30 a.m. with the busi-
Bcreation neas session opening at 10.
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irs of T*xas KKK to
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with Imperial Wizard
McCraw told one newsman he
acted in the belief that Klana-
men in Houston and Orange,
Tex., advocated violence. In an-
ouicr interview, n owe ver, Me-
Craw Mid, "I don’t know of my’
violence when I was affiliated
with it - fa fact, I’m positttre
There to “an outlaw group”
i- sale of the Presbyterian Chunk prop-
erty on North Barton to the Baptist
Church; Spokesmen for both churches
pointed out that all negotiations for the
transfer of property were done by ver-
bal agreement with no written contract
required by either party.
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To Meeting *|
A local delegation, headed by
20th Century Club president
Mrs. B. I. Trewitt, will attend
the First Texas Governor's
Conference On Libraries in Aus-
tin March 23.
The conference is a meeting
called by the governor to enlist
state-wide citizen
in solving major
libraries and to gain grass-roots
support of long range plans for
library excellence. Registration
it the conference is scheduled
for 8:30 a.m. to be followed by
ti>e opening session “What Are
Our Problems?”
Dr. Dorman H. Winfrey will
presided at at the first session
which will include talks by Gov-
ernor John Connally and Dr.
Harry Ransom, Chancellor,
University of Texas. Mrs. Lil-
lian Moore Bradshaw, Director,
Dallas Public Library will pre-
side over the luncheon with
Mrs. Waldon Lynch, Past Pmi-
Dmt, The American Librfto/
Trustee Association as princi
pal speaker. The afternoon ses-
sten will include group discus-
[ state and a reception.
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Recipient of
Certificate Here
Edwin Bekkelund, Route 2,
Clifton, was scheduled to re-
ceive a certificate of apprecia-
tion from President Johnson to-
| The Presidential citation has
been awarded for his service as
member on the draft board ser-
ving Erath and Bosque Coun-
ties. Bekkelund has served five
years, performing his duties
Without monetary compensa-
tion, as a public service.
O. B. Williams, chairman of
the board, representing the
President at the request of Col-
onel Morris S. Schwartz, state
Selective Service Director, will
present the certificate
The brief ceremony was sche-
duled at 1 p.m. in the local
board office in the Stephenville
State Bank Building.
The certificate has also been
signed by Governor John Con-
nally, Lieutenant General Lewis
B. Hershey director at Sekec-
tive^tee and Cotonel SA-
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ing prohibition.
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Long Hoir Controversy
Mad Father Asks for
nuusiun, grana kibiii vici
Bell High Resignations
FORT WORTH (ft-A controv-
ersy over long hair figured in-
directly Monday night in the de-
mand of an irate father that
four administrators resign at a
suburban high school.
Harry Mitchell, father of a
aophomore at Bell High School
in Euless, charged the officials
with “failure to administer
sebool regulations fairly for all
our children”
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He said they are partial to-
ward football players.
School trustees in an execu-
tive session with Mitchell gave
-• unanimous vote of confidence
to toe (titopials and all four Mid
today they’ had no intention of
quitting
Mitchell's son was injured in
— a*demonstration last month in
variation on which part of the which several pupils protested
..----. gcbool,8 gtgnd aga|ngt Jong
hair. Violence flared briefly on
the campus.
Mitehell, in a prepared state-
ment read before a school board
meeting, said football players
led the assault on about a dozen
students demonstrating in favor
of long hair styles.
Assault charges were filed
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There to “an outlaw group”
that never has obtained a Klan
charter in Texas, McCraw Mid,
and “I wouldn’t be surprised by
anything the group would do.”
McCraw estimated 1,000 men
hold Klan membership in five
Southeast Texas counties — Jef-
ferson, Orange, Hardin, Jasper
and Tyler — and said most of
them were withdrawing, includ-
ing 300 at Beaumont.
Elaborating on his earlier re-
marks, MePhail Mid Monday
night of the Klan in Texas:
“I think they have men in
their ranks that would resort to
illegal acts ... I found it im-
possible to convince prospective
members that the Klan to a
non-violent organization. They
thought it was a lot of talk —
that I really didn’t mean it.”
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Shannons Visit
Sharon Shannon and
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. _over the
weekend, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Shannon. ,
thur, word has leaked that to
be really up to date, i
should be the first on your
block to learn a dance called
the Philly nog.
So what's the PhiUy-Dog?
It reportedly was imported
a to New York from Philadeb
phis, the town that gave the
world Chubby Checker and
his Twist, a dance that now
is not even mentioned in the the Twist, and you’re ail set
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M simply twisting of the pel-
vis. No quacking is required,
but a little couldn't hurt. J -
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Church ,from First Baptist Church re-
Lutiy* Looking on
(agar (L) and Rev.
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and Scott will perform a record-
breaking 2K-hour “stroll in
space.” They plan to rochet___________
aloft at 11:41 a.m. EST — W1 «r problems develop, Armstrong
minutes after the Agena.
Early this morning, 6,000 feet
away from the Gemini lunch
pad, tanking tests were com-
pleted on the Atlas booster. A
valve and regulator were re-
placed in the Atlas Monday aft-
er a fuel tank was filled beyond
capacity and propellant splash-
ed out
Gemini $,* environmental con-
trol until was installed in Gem-
ini 8 after an oxygen leak was
discovered in a suit circuit in
Gemini 8*s environmental con-
trol system.
Keeps Astretuuts Alive
The environmental control
system is the device that keeps
the two astronauts alive. It
pumps oxygen for breathing and
gets rid of carbon dioxide ex-
haled by the spacemen. It also
cools the spacesuits — as well
as the inside of the Gemini 8
spacecraft — and keeps the at-
mospheric pressure at the pro-
per level. • ' >
The system consists of water
and oxygen supplies; provides
for removing small solids, odors
and excess moisture from the
suit, supplies drinking w^ter
and gets rid of urine.
The Gemini 9 spacecraft was
delivered to Cape Kennedy
March 2 and was undergoing
HOUSTON, T*x. (ft — Un-
named Texas leaders of the Ku
[ Elux Dhn, from which two of-
[ficials have resigned, were re-
ported flying to Alabaft
Robert M. Shelton.1* ’
Shelton, at nis nome i;
Ioom, Ala., ackndwiegL
the group had arranged to meet
with him, the HouB»-
ported, but declined _
whether the Klan’s new Texas
grand dragon was in the party.
The hour for the Texas offle-
cials’ departure was not dis-
closed.
Shelton also Mid be khew of
no reason tor Royce McPhail,
36, of Crockett ,Tex., to quit as
state grand dragon and he ex-
pected to talk things over with
McPhail soon.
McPhail disclosed his resigna-
tion last weekend, asserting he
took this step because the Klan
to “bent on violence.” Others
Mid a successor has been elec-
ted but would not identify him.
Disputing McPhail’s state-
ment, John W. Aspinwall of
Houston, grand klalif vice pres-
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ed the Klan in Texas “does not
advocate or condone violence
offensively.”
Jerry McCraw, head of the Ku
Klux Klan in Beaumont and as-
sistant to the state grand drag-
on, then told a reporter he also
has left the organization.
OreT
against two pupils, whom Mit-
chell identified as Bell football
players.
Mitchell charged that the ath-
letic coaches were lax in punish-
ing the offenders.
“As of last Friday football
players who used these goon
squad tactics in this brutal as-
sault apparently have not been
expelled, reprimanded or had
even their wrists slapped,” he
He Mid justice favoring foot-
ball players apparently “will
continue to flourish unless we
parents and Board of Education
members beedme sufficiently
aroused to do something quick-
ly.” ’ -
He demanded the "immediate
resignation” of Hulin Smith,
head coach and athletic direc-
tor; Marion Hill, vice principal;
Frank D. Johnson, principal;
and Newell Odell, superintend- purchased property from the
ent of schools.
Board President Jeff Ball said
an investigation was
ducted and that Mitchell's
charges would be studied com-
pletely before any action was
Woman Recovered
I HOUSTON (ft - The body of
Dorothy L. Hayes, 3T, was re-
covered Monday night in a 10-
foot-deep bayou. Rescue work
efe began aearabtag Bunday.
•Dey wwki we WHy aDom w wiw vofne w in® Birticiiirf’s now
feet from where her car plung-
ed into the water.
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CAPACITY CROWD — Hundreds l
Erath County Electric Cooperative
clule
with site 19
on tile prop-
Mrs. Paul
Mrs. H. K.
Mrs. S. R.
ha Holcomb
is located
reek Came-
ainage area
4,794 acres,
lite 18 Dec.
i to be com-
ma 15 and
on the prop-
Bertha Hol-
ructure will
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READY FOR GEMINI-AOENA RENDEZVOUS —
Pausing in their training for a picture-taking session
are astronauts David Scott (left) and Neil Armstrong.
All systems seem GO for their three-day mission in
which they will attempt to rendezvous with an Agena
target vehicle and which will also see Scott take a
'round the world space walk.__________________~ - ■ ■
Add Another Wiggle
Frug, Watusi 71
NEW RORK (ft—Go ahead catches on, someone is bound
and Monkey if you can do it
Boston style, and Jerk if 1
can do it discreetly. But be-
ware the FrUg and Watusi.
They could destroy your so-
cial image completely.
That’s the word from the
‘ discotheques and dqnce stu-
dios around town that make
' it their business to keep their
juke boxes attuned to the
pulse of the bump and grind
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From one of the most fam-
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[PIRE
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B04 Vofi
A local option election for I
City «f Dublin was set for •
urday, April >. by the MM
County Commissioner’s Oto
in . regular session Mondi
County Clerk Bill Croft preaai
ed a U-page petition to 1
commissioners bearing 280J
proved aginatures request!
the election.
The April 9 election witt
the first effort for legatis
sale of alcoholic beverages
the county since June U, ]fi
Prohibition elections were
quite popular in the cougits
shortly after the turn of tin
century, with all of Erath «
cept the Thurber area MB
“dry” in 1902. On June 8, m
a local option election was hel
in the county with all boxes «
cept Exray (13), Thurber (1!
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do it to make up a danee step to go
! you ' with it.
"I’ve never beard of it, but
I’m certain I could do it,” one
observer remarked. “The pop-
ular dances are all the Mme
basic movements with slight
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body is stilted, turned, twist-
ed, twitched or otherwise, dis-
turbed.”
A spokesman for the Arthur
Murray dance studios dis-
agreed.
SILIS? urme
Bt All, she H&id. ‘In Umb
y plain Monkey, dancers just
moved their arms. That’s out
now, but the Boston Monkey
to in. That’s the old Monkey
movements with a turning
potion r added like j-.’rt' .
Sprinkling seeds.” '' I
In other words, you act like
a monkey and add a twist of
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