Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 122, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1964 Page: 1 of 12
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BROWNWOOD. TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 5. 1964
TWELVE PAGES TODAY
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Viet Cong Help Increased
Viet Cong has increased” in
Violent Weather Kills 11,
Injures 40 In Six States
cold front Wednesday.
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Beech Creek community near
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injuring about 20.
leon McCarty
Contested
ings have made contested
Austin with a bid of $39,706.
Leon McCarty, 68, of 1001 La-
open on the Brownwood In-
District
to one member, should do so
tirement.
Active in American Legion within a week or 10 days.
sea water into fresh water
Athens Radio announced that
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New Federal Agency Due
To Wage War On Poverty
Proposal Expected
On Beef Imports
Sailors Replace Cubans
In Guantanamo Positions
Officer Describes
Oswald's Murder
Campaign
Next Week
55 Register
With Deadline
Quarters Set Three Shots Slated
For Therapy
to pay their poll taxes but still
want to vote in federal elec-
The Navy now is* supplying a palace priest gave Commun-
water to the base with relays ion to the 62-year-old king, the
Torrential rains accompanied
many thunderstorms and the
South Viet Nam.
At a news conference a dozen
|- 1 ___City candidate
Leon McCarty To Seek
house
Voter registeration will end at
The United States has vowed
to make the base self-sufficient
it has made arrangements to
which '
April 29.
Hulse.
24-hour rainfall in western Ken-
tucky exceeded five inches.
Lightning struck a house at
Forrest City. Ark., and started
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All Races
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sec-
retary of Defense Robert S. Mc-
Namara said today that "there
has been evidence that in the
last six months North Vietnam-
source said today.
The source said that the duel
duty of the new agency will be
coordination of programs oper-
ated by other federal agencies.
Graves said it would be for
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a fire in which seven died. An-
other Arkansas fatality was at-
tributed to a tornado.
Everett Pitts, excutive officer
for the guard unit, said the soc-
iety could use the new armory
for the weekly clinics, but the
armory will not be completed
until sometime in April.
Services at the new therapy
center will be free to crippled
children. Some adults also can
be worked into the schedule,
control of newly established pro-
grams such as the proposed
Youth Conservation Corps and
National Service Corps.
The President’s'message on
the poverty program is expect-
ed to go to Congress Friday.
states.
The Weather Bureau said at
handle Friday afternoon and
clouds will accumulate in scat-
tered areas
College and Hermann School of
Physical Therapy in Houston,
has been at the San Angelo cen-
ter since November 1962.
The society will sell its build-
ing located near the new Na-
tional Guard armory One of the
main factors in the decision to
in a mental blackout when he
shot Oswald and didn’t know
what he was doing
Dist. Atty. Henry Wade asked
Archer
Q How far was he from Os-
of huge tankers shuttling be-
: tween Florida and Guantanamo.
nn Cuba's eastern end
At last report, the base had
17 million gallons of water in
storage. This is about 1 million
more than were in storage tanks
on the day Castro shut off the
270 pupils until recently attend-; hours before he planned to take
ed classes off on a fact-finding trip to Viet
DON HULSE
. . . City therapist
build a $10-million permanent Greece was given Holy Com-
water desalting plant and asso- munion today as he hovered be-
elated equipment for converting tween life and death.
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Saturday’s meeting will be held
at that site.
Hulse has agreed to come to
Brownwood each Saturday to
supervise therapy for crippled
children, many of whom have
had to go to Abllene for treat-
ment in the past Written author-
ization from a doctor is re-
quired before a child or adult
| can begin treatment.
The Brown County society
will pay Hulse for his services
and provide the necessary eq-
uipment for the weekly clinics. I
Most of the funds used for this
program will be derived from
the 1964 Easter Seal Appeal
of Labor, Welfere, Interior, De-
fense and Agriculture
However, the source said that
Walter Heller, chairman of the
President's Council of Economic
Advisers, began work Wednes-
day night on a final draft of the
message.
Final Rites
ATHENS । AP>-King Paul nl
him?
A About one pace
Q Did you see the pistol'
A I didn't see thee pistol until
the shot was fired
Q He was in a crouched posi-
tion?
A Yes, sir
Q Did you hear the defendant
Jack Ruby say anything"’
A. I heard him say a phrase—-
I couldn't make out all of it
world s only reigning Orthodox
monarch after a Mass in th*
chapel at Tatoi Palace
The radio said "The king is
fighting with death, and his
wife Queen Frederika, is at his
bedside as he suffers his mortal
agony.”
Monte Dr., today announced his
I candidacy for councilman of
Ward 4 in the April 7 city elec-
tion in Brownwood He said he
would officially file with City
One Day Away
Central Texans who failed
The basic problem appeared
but it will also take over direct to be how to coordinate thereen-
Cyprus. Britain attempted to mediate
They are still there. Village the dispute
elders, mothers, fathers, youths -----------------------------—
and babies are huddled in the
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Ruby. 52. on trial for his life. —_______
is pleading temporary insanity unusual, wouldn't it?" Belli
injured i sF1
Another tornado lashed west- 21 "
ern Kentucky, killing two and
liicrofiln Service
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Dall Ou, Texas Conp.
Brownwood Bulletin
here Tuesday night.
Low bidder on the base con-
tract for laying of the sewer
lines was Roger Smith of Waco
with a bid of $84,340.05 Low
bidder for the construction of
the treatment plant and lift
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WASHINGTON (AP)— Manag- meat import curb to the pending
according to Sandy M King, ers of the administration's elec- cotton-wheat bill
Sen. Hubert Humphrey. "ons have today and Friday to
anyone to fire a gun in that
A pair of last minute fi Position On City Council
races of all three positions
- - - - - — — • — " •- jn general sanitation until June Base bid calls for use of clay
1948. He took leave of absence pipe
graduate of Austin
■ Area Town
• Opens Bids
bp On Sewer
E6 RICHLAND SPRINGS - Bids
N% for construction of a sewer
3,3. system for Richland Springs
"" were opened by city council
, h Teacher
wald when you first observed .
manner "That would be most
WASHINGTON (APl-A brand
new federal agency will be cre-
ated to run President Johnson’s
war on poverty, an official
to replace them muting workers would be dis-
The Cuban workers dis- charged
. I charged to date total more than There are 600 Cubans who live
[half of the 1800 who came on the base permanently and
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station was Clyde Smith of
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tornadoes and other violent i
weather killed 11 persons and
US reactions, including the fir- I- A .
ing of Cuban workers who com- Knd iven
muted to jobs on the base 9
JURY FOR
This is th* jury for th* Jack Ruby
murder trial in Dallas. Th* court
began hearing testimony in the case
Wednesday. Ruby is charged with
killing accused presidential assassin
RUBY TRIAL
l*n W. McCoy, Mrs. Mildred McCol-
lum. Luther Gene Dickerson, Douglas
J. Sowell and R. J. Flechtner. Bot-
tom: Mrs. Gwen L. English, J. G.
Holton, James E. Cunningham, J.
Waymon Rom, Mrs. Aileen B. Shields
and Mrs. Louise Malon*.
1 through the gate each day 600 others who have been re-
The Associated Press learned turning to Cuba only on week-
this today after the United ends.
States spumed an offer by Military replacements are
Prime Minister Fidel Castro to being ordered to Guantanamo,
turn on the water to the base the Navy said when asked what
once again was being done to fill the man-
Castro’s halting of the flow of power gap. left by the dis-
fresh water to Guantanamo a charged Cubans
month ago set off a chain of
fileting views and activities of
the myriad of federal agencies
involved in the massive project.
Welfare officials, who did
much of the original planning,
want to take it slowly.
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damage to a lesser degree was I
reported in northwest Georgia । I
A woman was killed when a, I
tornado roared down onto the .
at that time because of health. The council did not award
Since then he has been on re- any contracts, and according
ing 1963 King said the society quota system. cotton textile mills now in the
hopes to provide treatment for Led by Roman Hruska. R-Neb legislation, said "the bill
many of these patients through a group of 20 or more senators is dead if th® meat quota pro-
the weekly clinics. ■ of both parties want to tack the vision is approved.
injured about 40 in six Southern Two were killed in western
Kentucky and another perished
in Tennessee
dependent School
Don Hulse, director and phy- clinic on the Daniel Baker Col-
sical therapist of the West Tex- lege campus at the rear of the
as Therapy Center in San An- McClelland Library building
At present. 22 Brown Coun- This was a proposal by deter- enough votes to defeat the meal
ty patients are on the active mined senators from cattle and import rider.
caseload at the West Texas Re- livestock producing states to re- Sen. John Pastore, D-R.I a
habilitation Center in Abilene duce large imports of foreign staunch supporter of a multi-
but about 45 were trented dur- beef and meal products by a miflion hewsabsidy for domestic
NEW GOVERNOR
Mrs. Marjorie McKeithen get* an impromptu kiss
from her husband, John, at their horn* in Colum-
bia, La., after ho won th* Louisiana general election
for governor. Democrat McKeithen defeated Re-
publican Charlton Lyons by mor* than 1M,000 votes.
gelo, will be in Brownwood at 9
a m Saturday to speak to area
parents and crippled children
about a proposed therapy pro-
gram for Brownwood
Broun County Society for
Crippled Children and Adults
has secured temporary quart-
ers for the proposed therapy
Secretary Harry Miller Friday, work for over 45 years. McCarty Council must first tabulate
McCarty. reared on a farm manddrtananarwoxkeasnenmh enganerrsommrone
and veteran of World War I. department. He is now on the awarding the contract The
did college administrative work executive committee. American- council member said work
five years and taught in public ism committee and the house would begin within 30 days af-
schools nearly 30 years. In 1942. committee. ter the contract was awarded
he joined the State Health De- Mrs McCarty taught in the A total o, 263 persons have
partment and was asesigned to Early school system 17 years signed up for the sewer ser-
the Brownwood-Brown County -but is now on teachers’ retire- vice. 23 more than the 240 (
Health Unit, where he worked menL , required to gel the system.
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shoots you, you son of
society president Contributions tion year farm bill faced their _____ ______ . _______
of course, will be accepted, toughest test today in the Sen- D-Minn., directing strategy in register at the county tax asses-
King said ate. ' the farm bill struggle, claimed ser ceester ‘s = ™ seur:
Magnolia. Ark. Six others were P
sell was lack of utilities, which Lee Harvey Oswald. Th* jurors ar*,
were cut off when construction left to right, top: Max E. Causey, Al-
began on the armory. Maj. --------------------------------------------
two-story building with little ap- McNAMARA BELIEVES
parent hope of returning to their IISINRIIATMDE-iEVE-
WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA: Fair and
warmer tonight Partly cloudy Fri-
day Low tonight in 40s High Friday
62 to 70.
Maximum temperature here Wednes-
day 55. overnight low 30 Sunset 6.36,
sunrise 6:56
wool producing and textile areas
conferred with President John-
son Wednesday.
Humphrey said the proposed
restriction on meat i m ports
would conflict with many trade
policies of the executive branch
A temporary government beef
.. .... . , c ... buying program was started last
Nam, McNamara said larger- Cong would be studied by him- weekend Shortly after Senate
bore weapons than those seen self and his top-rank mission, sentiment built up for the meat
previously in the hands of Com- 1 Among the Chinese - made quota proposal.
munist guerrillas have been in- weapons that he said have Hruska and other cattle area
troduced. He said they were shown up with the Communist senators partly blame large in-
ese support of the Communist "obviously of Chinese manu- forces fighting the U.S.-backed creases in meat imports for the
Viet hae ---onced" in facture South Vietnamese government decline in beef prices for more
McNamara, who said the sit- are .75-mm recoilless artillery, than a year
uation in Viet Nam is grave, heavy-duty machineguns, more '___________
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added that the "volume of sup- sophisticated mines, and sabo-
port, character of support. and tage devices CI.c., W.-L..
trend of support" provided by The secretary declined to dis- —lear vvearner
North Viet Nam to the Viet cuss the question of carrying
. .the war into North Viet Nam. Greets Texans
as has been suggested in some
By RELMAN MORIN
DALLAS (AP» —A policeman quoted Jack Ruby
today as saying within minutes after he shot Lee
Harvey Oswald that "I intended to shoot him three
times." —" -----
D R Archer testified at Graves also said he did not
Ruby’s trial that the defendant hear Leavelle make any re-
came at Oswald—gun in hand- marks to Oswald when the two
in the basement of Dallas po- were bringing him to the city
lice headquarters Nov 24 He hall basement for transfer to
was muttering unintelligible the county jail
phrases but did call the accused "Did you hear Leavelle say
presidential assassin a "son of to Oswald. I hope someone
VOLUME 64 NO. 122 IOc PER COPY
least a dozen tornadoes were Damage from tornadoes was
spawned as warm air from the reported in Louisiana. Missis-
Gulf of Mexico clashed with a sippi and Missouri, and wind
Apparently, the special task
force assisting Sargent Shriver,
who heads the poverty program
and will head the new agency,
has managed to work out a res-
olution ol what has amounted
to a bureaucratic tug-of-war.
Reports Wednesday indicated
there still were wide differences
among the members of the task
: force, who represent such vary-
ing agencies as the departments
vr-
By FRED S. HOFFMAN tap because the United Slate*
WASHINGTON i AP> — More was holding 36 Cuban fishermen
than 1,000 Cuban workers have accused of poaching in U S.
been fired from the Guantana- waters.
mo naval base, and the Navy There was no indication how
has ordered U.S. sailors there many more of the daily com-
After the shooting. Archer a bitch?’ ” asked Belvin Belli,
said. "as we got him down on chief defense counsel for Ruby,
the floor. I heard him say. I Graves said lie did not.
hope I killed the son of a bitch " Did you hear him say. "If
Three to five minutes later someone shoots you, I hope
Archer continued, when hce was they shoot as straight as you
insideethe jail with Ruht he do.'" Belli asked
told the defendant. "I think Graves denied this too
you killed him ” Taking the pistol. Belli put
"He said." Archeer added "I his second finger on the trigger
intended to shoot him three and asked if he had ever known
homes.
“Without escorts by British
troops we cannot move any-
where." said schoolmaster Ca-
hit Cavusoglu. “We are sur-
rounded.”
At the last crossroad inside
the village is the command post
of Capt. Michael Creighton of
the British Royal Artillery. Two
hundred yards uphill on the edge
of the village is the Turkish
school.
Inside, 112 families are
jammed into a building where
Brownwood and Brown Coun-
ty teachers will be among ap-
proximately 2.000 teachers from
18 counties attending. the Tex-
as Stale Teachers Assn con-
vention in San Angelo tonight
and Friday
Tills will be Ilie 57th annual
convention for Mid Texas Edu-
cation Assn . District XL of
TSTA Sessions are held in al-
ternate years in Brownwood
and San Angelo
Friday will be a school holi-
day for all public school stu-
dents in the county while teach-
ers attend the convention.
I Events begin with two din-
ners at 5:30 pm. today, on*
lor past presidents and anoth-
er lor the mathematics section.
First general session will be-
gin at 7 30 pm. in Sarah Bern-
hardt Theatre, with Dr Charles
E Bish, director of the Nation-
al Education Assn projects on
the academically talented stu-
dent. as speaker.
Speaker for the second gen-
eral session at 9:30 am. Fri-
t day will be Dr. Paul Engle',
director of the program cre-
ative writing, Universlly of
, Iowa
Cullen N. Perry, superinten-
1 dent of Santa Anna Independ-
ent School District. is 1963-64
district president.
quarters By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
« Eight other U.S. officials will skies cleared over Texas
I accompany the defense secre- Thursday and were predicted to
■ tary. who apparently has been stay that way until Friday
■ given the leading U.S. role in After a cool night, with most
I trying to overcome increasing- Panhandle and South Plains
■ i ly aggressive Communist guer- points reporting freezing weath-
• 1 rillas threatening the pro-West- er, the state was due to warm
■ em regime in Saigon. ____ up today and tonight
I If will b’colder in the Pan-
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5 pm. Friday. Persons who have The only word 1 heard was "son
paid their poll taxes can vote of a bitch ”
in all elections. Those who Police officer L C Graves
register can vote only in fed walking alongside Oswald when
eral elections. Ruby shot him, said he did not
Only 55 Brown County voters hear Ruby say he hoped Os-
had registered by Wednesday.' wald would die
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Gyani Likely
Cyprus Head
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. replies from nations asked to
(AP) _ A 52-year-old Indian contribute troops.
general appeared almost cer- Gyani. a graduate of Britain's
lain today to command the U.N. Imperial War College, com-
peace force for Cyprus, but at manded the 5,000-man U.N
least six men were being men- emergency force along the
tioned for the tougher job of Egyptian-Israeli frontier for
mediator between the Greek more than four years in mid-
and Turkish Cypriots. January, he was sent to Cyprus
Diplomatic sources said Sec- as the secretary - general's per-
reUry-General U Thant had sonal observer
chosen Lt. Gen. Prem Singh In a rare display of unanim-
Gyani to command the force ity, the Security Council author-
but was withholding an an- ized the U.N. peacekeeping op-
nouncement until he receives eration Wednesday, empower-
------------------------------ ing Thant to name the force
- e . commander and the mediator in
I Ane Kiene consultation with Cvprus. Tur-
Long -‘=V key, Greece and Britain
• a • One informant said Thant had
(ontnues suggested three men for the
post of mediator, including for-
POLIS. Cyprus (AP) — The mer President Galo Plaza of
siege continues for 700 Turkish Ecuador. who headed the 1958
Cypriots in the torn town of Po- U.N. observation group in Leb-
lis. anon. Another man reportedly
More than a month ago out- favored in U.N. circles was
numbered Turkish families from Jose Rolz-Bennett of Guate-
Polis and nearby villages gath- mala. Thant's deputy chief of
ered in a Turkish school, seek- cabinet who made a survev trip
ing safety from the undeclared to Cyprus for the secretaxy-
civil war between the Greek general and attended the recent
and Turkish communities on London conference at which
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board of trustees.
Shortly after noon Wednes-
day. just four hours before
deadline. Charles E Spell-
man Jr filed for place two
on the ballot, opposing Hen-
ry Evans Jr., and Danny G.
Forbess filed for place one.
opposite I. F. Bay. Earlier.
David S. Camp III had filed
to oppose William Semple
in the race for place three
Election date for the school
offices is Saturday, April 4
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Gage, Larry. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 122, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1964, newspaper, March 5, 1964; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1489619/m1/1/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.