Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 95, Ed. 1 Monday, February 3, 1964 Page: 1 of 8
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BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1964
EIGHT RAGES TODAY
Commission Opens
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Hearing On Oswald
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As Filing Deadline Nears
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. . AND AGAIN THIS YEAR
for the police chiefs post, in-
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nounced his candidacy for changes in the 10-part bill.
men to the questioning of any
were to hear her in Dallas
doubted that the entry of Don fight over a college education
Tuesday in a copyrighted in-
RANGER FLIGHT
U. S. Eyes Seventh
Unless more Democrats enter jor floor battles on the bill and
(See OSWALD on Page 2)
and Yarborough will vie in only most important provisions.
Sea. Ralph Yarborough, D-
Tex.
Heavy Snow Warning Out
Lubbock was among the many
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building compound were absent
were involved in the incident
state line at Clovis in New Mex- West -Texas.
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U.S. Studies Stand By De Gaulle
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Thousands
Uncertainty over De Gaulle’i
neutralization
on to say what neutrality would
Johnson said that if Commu-
thetically
for neutralization of South Viet
crats hoped to know by night-
fall Monday whether they will
Communist war effort in South
Viet Nam, Washington - Paris
Senate gets down to business to-
day on the tax cut bill with a
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ble of Justice Precinct No 1-
Neil Davis for re-election: con-
stable of Justice Precinct No
6—Sam D. Stapleton for re-
election: constable for Jus-
tice Precinct No. 4— Leroy
Reynolds: justice of the peace
of Precinct No. 6—Tom Ford
seeking first full term
Rain, drizzle and fog cov-
ered much of the state early to-
day as minimum temperatures
ranged from 25 degrees at Dal-
hart to 63 at Brownsville.
Truman Grady of Brownwood com-
parts his now license plates with his
old ones, noting the only change is
in color. Grady again this year was
first in line for license plates as he
has done many years. The vigil be-
gan at noon Sunday in Grady's car
where he read and visited with friends
the difficult moon-approach ma-
neuver faultlessly—which made
the blind crash even more frus-
trating for its designers.
points reporting snow behind
the cold front which was almost
stationary along a line running
from near Wichita Falls to San
Angelo and Alpine.
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c g.
mechanisms on the 804-pound
spacecraft.
It was turned on by a com-
mand flashed from the ground.
There was also an automatic
timer aboard to do the job.
Ranger radioed back word that
the order had been received at
1:09 a.m. (PST), as it was near-
ing the end of a 5.000 m.p.h.-
plus plunge toward the moon's
Sea of Tranquility.
solely to-the states. They plan
to offer an amendment clearly
limiting the proposal to federal
elections.
pushed deeper into the state
during the day
The weather bureau said that
the heaviest snows would prob-
ably occur in the area of Guth-
rie and Big Spring in Central
MATTER OF DIPLOMACY
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, left, shakes
hands with South Viet Nam's now strongman Maj.
Gen. Nguyen Khanh in Saigon.
'I Presidential Panel
Questions Widow
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Dallas, Texan Conn.
Brownwood Bulletin
' details of his proposal "
From other high officials it mean in the area—such things
without leave, prompting an in- opened fire with his rifle, but
vestigation to determine if they they made it into the building
‘..... and each tossed one grenade.
city of Kontum, 260 miles north- guard at the fence. three others
east of Saigon ran toward a building housing
Nine Vietnamese civil guards field grade officers, who range
detailed to guard the eight- in rank from major to colonel.
Spotting the intruders. Flinn
INSIDE TODAY
DEAR ABBY ..............
SPORTS ...................
EDITORIAL PAGE .......
COMICS ...................
DEATH TOLL .............
stop the invasion of South Viet
Nam by some of its neighbors
and supporters.”
In other words, by contrast
with De Gaulle's apparent de-
sign. Johnson sees no possibility
of arriving at a peaceful solu-
tion for South Viet Nam except
through carrying the present
war to a sucesstul conclusion.
told reporters you will have to east Asia" without the partici-
ask Gen De Gaulle about the pation of Red China He went
ington it appeared that if De
„u. u..,, ... . . — —_______________Gaulle presses his neutraliza-
tends now to wage a campaign would be considered sympa- tion proposal to the extent that
2------1—•--« E- v-t thetically " it threatens to upset the anti-
Joe Dibrell of Coleman filed
today with Democratic Chair-
man J. W. Phillips for re-elec-
tion as judge for the 35th Judi-
cial District
proposition. If he is talking
about a vague, ultimate goal, nist North Viet Nam and U.S:
perhaps years off. they see no supported South Viet Nam could
great difficulty But if he tn- be neutralized "I am sure that
was learned that the United' as ending foreign interven-
States does not know precisely tion"- but did not spell out the
what, if any, action De Gaulle countries to which it would ap-
has in mind to carry out his ply
in the first Viet Cong raid on an duty because the Americans
American military compound had decided not to depend on
since the Vietnamese war be- Vietnamese security.
gan. ' ' ‘ Under cover of darkness, four
The grenade attack on head- guerrillas cut their way through
quarters of a detachment of 130 a barbed wire fence around the
officers and men was launched compound
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eluding George Calder for re-
election. Others in the race
“l Brought to Washington from
Dallas, Tex . Sunday, Mrs Os- E
wald was escorted by Secret fl
Service agents this morning to । 9
the headquarters of the presi- /
dential commission to undergo A
' at least one day of questioning
First primary is scheduled
for Saturday May 2 Those in
a runoff will meet in the sec-
opponent against him Pledging
full support of President John-
son. Yarborough said he was
sure the President will not work
against his re-election.
He has had one opponent.
John Van Cronkhite of Dallas,
■, P1 . „ , m Gaulle told a Paris conference
dent Johnson s news conference Friday that he could not con-
Saturday when, discussing Hie ceive of "a neutrality treaty...
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18 Seek Area Posts
for severa weeks
Yarborough also
Then, for a tense 600 seconds,
the hushed crowd listened to
the tone of Ranger's death
song, and the engineer's words
T
Yarborough in the governor's amendment expected to provide
race inerreased the senator's i the.’first major test
..0 . Debate on the top priority
chances for another opponent $11.6 . billion administration
because “the present governor measure began Thursday, but
against the Communist Viet
Cong forces will be stepped 8p
immediately.
To some authorities in Wash-
Since Houston businessman
and former congressman Lloyd
for the reason why spacecraft
Ranger 6 plunged into the moon
with its cameras blind to the
wonders of the lunar landscape.
The agonizing end to a 66-
hour flight came at 1:24 a.m.
(PST) Sunday when Ranger 6
reached its historic rendezvous
—and .six television cameras
aboard wouldn't function.
Laborat ry directors went
ahead with plans for Ranger
7's flight — an identical photo
mission—pointing out that the
Ranger series is designed to
gather information needed for
manned U.S. landings planned
later this decade.
SIXTH STRAIGHT
The fruitless journey of Rang-
U.S Rep Joe Kilgore of Me-
- i . . imnact By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS was expected to cover most ofico an inch of snow had fallen
riutest video P“ Warnings of heavy snows up1 the Panhandle • Plains by night- Two highways in New Mexico
But he added that he does not
see any indication that the
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With the filing deadline only
hours away, Brown County's
candidate total remained at 16
today, according to J W Phil-
lips. chairman of Brown Coun-
ty Democratic Executive Com-
mittee
Deadline is midnight tonight
for candidates to file with
Phillips for the May 2 pri-
mary.
Candidates announcing for
positions include: county judge
—William O. Breedlove for
first full term and Valton
I. Sudderth; sheriff-Joe R.
Townsend for re-election;
commissioner of Brown Coun-
ty Road and Bridge Precinct
No. 1—Earl Fry for re-elec-
tion; commissioner for Brown
County Road and Bridge Pre-
cinct No. 3—Henry R. (Bus-
ter) Storey for re-election and
Ben Tongate
County attorney—George A.
Day for re-election; constable
of Justice Precinct No. 3—Jess
Marlin for re-election and
Howard H. Strickland; consta-
Conservative Texas Demo-
Tax assessor • collector —
Hugh J. Allcorn for re-elec-
tion: Democratic chairman-
J. W Phillips; representative
of 21st Congresstional District
—O. C Fisher of San Angelo
for re-election; attorey for
35th Judicial District—Gordon
Griffin Jr. for re-election; rep-
resentative of 64th Legislative
District—Ben Barnes of De
Leon for re-election.
"m that glazed the city streets.
Two persons were taken to hos-
Both sides have been talking seven-man special commission,
since debate opened Friday and its team of lawyers
William B Donahoo and Now it's time for voting, with The commission has indicat- _
plan, Johnson concerning' the states of South-
BROWNWOOD AREA: Occasional
rain today and tonight and in south
Tuesday. Gradually falling tempera-
tures Low tonight near 40 High Tues-
day in the low 40s.
Maximum temperature here Sunday
66. overnight low 48 Sunset 6:11, sun-
rise 7:29.
gubernatorial primary ’in 46 A Ribicoff, D-Conn., to allow a
1 years The only one since 1918 tax break on college education
was that matching Jack Cox and costs is up for debate today.
Price Daniel in 1960. ' with a vote expected Tuesday.
said he
can children, joined by many
white sympathizers, boycotted
the nation's largest public
school system today demand-
ing total integration.
A spokesman for the one-day
protest movement estimated
that 262,000 pupils participated
—about 65 per cent of the Puer-
to Ricans and Negroes among
the one million pupils in New
York City schools.
But the city’s 850 schools re-
mained open in the face of the
demonstration — even those in ।
institutions with high absen-1
teeism and some teachers
marching in the civil rights
picket lines. •
mayor of the City of Brown- President Johnson and Speak- of the witnesses it may call in
wood. Mayor W. L. Lamkin er John W. McCormack, D- its attempt to fill in gaps in the
will not seek re - election. Mass., have predicted the bill chronology of events related to
Charles E. Parker filed for will come through the process the assassination.
Johnson announced he had re- "I think." he continued, "that
ceived assurances from the new the only thing we need to do to
military leader of South Viet have complete peace in that
Nam. Maj Gen Nguyen area of the world now is to
The Warren commission has
said Mrs. Oswald is testifying
voluntarily Plans originally
who stoppod from time to time. When
asked if the wait was worth it, Grady
said "no, it isn't but I keep doing it
anyway." Apprbximately SO resi-
dents filed into the tax office on the
first day of license plate sales.
The camera system was con-
sidered one of the simplest
Allenrand former Gov. AllanOn Viet Military Compound
NO DCISON
... . , , „ ws.n. By PETER ARNETT The Viet Cong casualties were
Attention focused on Kilgore SAiGON, Viet Nam (AP) _ gunned down by an American
in recent days and was height- Two guerrillas were killed and sentry. Spec. 4 Dale D. Flinn,
ened by his announcement .S. officer wounded today 24, of Fowler. Kan He was on
Wednesday that he would not - J . .
seek re-election. During a week-
end trip to Austin, however. Kil-
gore said he had made no deci-
sion
Yarborough, meanwhile, an-
nounced Saturday for his second
The rain was expected to turn term and showed little concern
to sleet or snow as the front over the scramble to pit another
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S.
officials are expected to seek
clarification from Paris in the
next few days as to what Presi-
dent Charles de Gaulle means
in proposing a nutrality treaty
for Southeast Asia and what he
intends to do about it.
Along with De Gaulle s rec-
ognition of Red China, the neu-
tralization plan is a source of
deep concern at the highest
levels of U.S. government. •
! From President Johnson
down, U.S. leaders are worried
about the unpact of French
moves in the Far East and cs-
pecially in Viet Nam, where this
country has more than 15,000
men engaged in a fight against
Communist expansion.
proposal was evident in Presi- of Red China last Monday, De "to let their neighbors live in greater
......- - ' °......-- peace and thererore he sees ddrolnanpeidauhaetsaprbposan
no alternative except to press "the neutralization talk has ap-
the war as vigorously as PoSSl- plied only to South Viet Nam
ble. and not to the whole area of the
With obvious satisfaction, world "
WASHINGTON (API—The Warren commission in-
vestigating the assassination of President John F Ken-
nedy began today its secret interrogation of Marina
Oswald 22. widow of the accused slayer
see me replaced." I made on it so far. )
ui ct Fn • However. Senate leaders put
MUST FILE their colleagues on notice that
it was necessary for Don Yar- ( there would be long sessions all
borough. 38-year-old Houston this week in an attempt to pass
VOLUME 64 NO. 45 10c PER COPY
Stage Protest
NEW YORK (AP) - Thou- j
sands of Negro and Puerto Ri-
pitalsas scores of traffic acci-
dents were reported One under-
pass was closed because of the
ice hazard. A snow that started
in mid - morning kept traffic
snarled with accidents being re-
ported to police at the rate of
one every two minutes.
Sleet-like snow covered the
ground at Muleshoe by mid -
morning while just across the
Following up his recognition Communist forces are willing tensions could become much
er 6 was the sixth straight fail-, three mintesno video Warnings of heavy snows up the Panhandle - Plains by night- -------
ure in the Ranger program. o' minteto imDact _ no to 7 inches and hazardous driv- fall with as much as 7 inches were closed by heavy snows
The cost to date: $168 million— indication of fuii power. ing conditions were issued for in some West Central sectors
figures at $28 million a shot. 1 And then Northwest Texas today as a The snow was expected to reach
Ranger 6 was the first of the "Five seconds — four—Three new blast of winter moved into as far south as the Dallas-Fort
costly spacecraft to complete -two-onethe state. Worth area.
Suddenly the musical radio Three to five inches of snow ,A.predawntfreeze at Amarit
#_________________-________..... _________________________—- lo turned misting rain into ice
Bentsen of Houston withdrew __________________
last month as a potential chai- ,
tion has drifted mainly between Communists Stage Attack
lawyer and liberal spokesman the measure by Saturday and
not related to the senator, and endait 10 conference with the
Gov John Connally both to file "pemocratic leaders held
some
Monday to carry out their an- hope of finishing by Thursday
nouncements to seek the Demo- night
cratic gubernatorial nomina- h appeared likely that there
l tion. would be only five or six ma-
Matt R. Story. i the rest of the week being set ed it has no plans to hold pub-
W. C. (Bill) Monroe has an- aside to work on proposed lie hearings, or admit news-
I clear during the two days of _____ .... .. ....
Gnnappydekith e^Zvis^ terviewkithradinag “levision have an experienced candidate
and members from other parts WatdnsaidTshe "wass "convinced running against U.S Sen Ralph
of the country have doubts her husband had killed Kenne- Yarborough.
about some of them. dv The Senate race was the big
The heaviest fire will un- Oswald. 24. had been charged uncertainty left for Democrats said long before he wanted to only a few speeches have been
i doubtedly-be directed at pew-1 with the assassination of Kenne- on the last day for filing by can-
posals banning racial discrim- dy the fatal shooting of Dallas didates in the May 2 primary
ination to employment.public policeman j D Tippitt and the elections.
accommodations and federally attempted murder of Texas ---------------
aided programs.. But the van- GOV. John B Connally; who AUSTIN (API - Gov. John
ous sections will be open to was wounded in the attack on Connally said today tee will
amendment in the order in +L, praciqent file today for re-election as
which they appear in the bill,"Asoswaldwas being trans- governor. . .
which bungs the one dealing ferred from the Dallas City This ended speculation that
! with voting rights first under Hall to the county jail he was Connally might not seek a
attack. . , fatally shot Jack Ruby, Dallas second term because of anal-
Southerners say the area of night club operator, is'charged leged rift between the White
with the slaying. House and Rep. Joe Kilgore
in her interview, Oswald's of McAllen, who has been -eoo----J aum uamesuueuu-
considered a strong conserva- the governor's race. Connally that these would not involve the
tive Democrat challenger to - - - . — . .
- For Northwest Texas Area
"Six minutes to impact—still
waiting for video power.
the second two-man Democratic a proposal by Sen. Abraham
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ond primary on June 6 Win- e g e a I
ners will be official after the bolons 3TUdY
Nov. 3 general election. *
City election is scheduled A ■ a
for April 7 and candidates for AmendmenT
police chief, mayor, council- ,
man of Ward 1 and Ward 4 n. . n*l| on the movements and activi-
may file in City Secretary I Q Kiahts BIII ties of Lee Harvey Oswald, the
Harry Miller's office until 5 « I professed Marxist who was
pm Friday, March 6. Filing WASHINGTON (AP) — Bi- sla*n two days after Kennedy
forms mailed to the city secre- partisan forces backing the civil! was shot Nov. 22 in Dallas,
tary must bear a postmark no rights bin test their strength to- The questioning was held in
later than March 8, day as the House starts consid- the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Three candidates have filed ering amendments to the meas- Building by Chief Justice Earl
for the police chief's post, to- ure Warren, other members of the
Nam, they see serious trouble
ahead.
By DIAL TORGERSON ( Newsmen and engineers gath-. tone ceased.
PASASDENA, Calif. (AP) — ered in a big room at the Jet 'impact! impact!"
Space scientists sifted through Propulsion Laboratory listened And then:
coded tapes today to a search to the tone of Ranger s radio “No video."
“ signal as it was being amplified A check of Ranger's radioed
through loudspeakers. . messages showed no sign of the
FIRST SIGN code which. run through a com- ’
Then - when the five-minute puter, would.have produced
warm-up period was over—theearth’s first closeup pistures.of
emationless voieaof a.project tographed the back side of "the
engineer announced the. first I mon, but from a distance of j
sentert is no^ndicatiouof full more than 4,000 miles. I
video power."
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Challenger Sought Amendment
For Texas Senator Test of Bill
Associated Press Writer .......— — I WASHINGTON (AP) - Th.
at 4:30 a.m. in the mountain While one guerrilla stood .
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re-election Friday for the post without being seriously weak-
of councilman of Ward Four. ened.
That there will be plenty of
amendments offered was made
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