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The ORANGE Leader
See Page 8
FINAL EDITION
5 Cents
18 Pages
ORANGE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1964
VOL. LXI—NUMBER 302
di
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
South Viet
7c
I
Moving At
down the gauntlet to Washing-
Recovered
•9
As Car Collides With Train
from his post s commander in
to retain his $30,000-a year post.
(Spl) — Two area
[for India. Depending on the size
four cars, known as Local No.
sable in Hoback Canyon, Atlan-
Scheduled
and Mrs. Cathy Chelette, 19.
1
By WANDA HODGES Cascade Mountains as storms
his direction but said they are
Yule Message to World
sidered the biggest in New Jer-
Sunday of the High National
c..! v:.t NI.N», r.
professionals well-versed in the
Chelette family at deadline
+oda. an. Hntaile on their n
time
Wash , but no one was hurt. The
thinks Burch could build up the
any
In that appeal he urged the
slides west of the summit.
(See ROBBERY, Page 6)
by demonstrating in
a
tiff offered the services of the
months that
(See BURCH, Page «)
common
Gov. Connally Wants Brakes Put
universal
ierhood
all men.”
dent Johnson at Johnson City,
“Democracy, to which all
the Vatican Radio and networks
throughout Europe and else- way of the effective brotherhood
AUSTIN (AP) - Gov.
I6hn
ia
tie more binding. There are all M
I
1E, a J° d--vPm-M
but vetoed because of a
McNamara has predicted the included Secretary of the Treas-
in 1963
lems dealing with ' human
James E. Webb of the National
be
even
a
I
gnus.
The 58th Legislature passed a
wattom anu naywo E: rataoy,
who heads the Federal Aviation
criminal code, but the wrong
gested a realistic approach.
changes.
'assistant judge. Clerks are Mrs.
/
k
NASA's spending this year is
(See VIDOR, Page «)
I
y
view of the Pentagon budget.
An uncommitted group of Re-
to a G commercial zone.
75
(See LBJ, Page 6)
cargo continued to move over
tional chairmanship.
sion.
ORANGE JUICE
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
to
in
WEATHER
sible use
aS
lash the West Coast and North-
tract.
Data from U.S. Weather Bureau
homes.
-
and anything put up on
ing partly cloudy in after-
area
noon through tomorrow. .
my
eN
55 there now."
The lone spokesman, aside
2T
land Bay Bridge.
was
military officials for a final re-
1
83^
25
Clues Mount in Robbery
Of Half-Million Dollars
High today
. Low tonight
The chairman told, an infor-
mal news conference in the
America officials said that
since the military dissolution
mother owns property within
200 feet of the proposed change.
Mrs. Jake Greenberg, 602
Cherry Ave., made reference
to an extensive investment in
to head the party machinery.
He said he thinks 15 to 30 ad-
slides closed the main east-west
route from Seattle across the
ert S. McNamara and the mili-
tary chiefs today for a final re-
view of the Pentagon budget.
Defense spending accounts for
about half of all federal outlays
Member Assoclteg Press
Kina Feofures service
tion,
mate.
erty. . •
Pope Paul's speech was a
call for harmony among men
for his scalp as a symbol of the
Republicans’ Nov. 3 defeat.
Barrage of Protests Leveled
At Public Meet on Zoning
Orange Bowl
Gets Plum
and municipal offices, will close
Thursday.
State Offices
Due to Close
Christmas holidays will start
SAIGON,
(AP) -
the docks at the Orange County
Port.
Khanh, commander of South American demands that the
Viet Nam’s armed forces, threw purge be undone.
Big Fuss Looms
in Legislature
See Page 12
$215,000
Bond Vote
Avery, the mayor of Midland,
(See CRIME, Page 1)
4
I u
/A
H®
quire a newagency.
NATIONAL
-Saturday and Sunday for the holidays.
« .
ins
With a Gulf Coast and South
I Atlantic port strike of long-
shoremen hinging on negotia-
I lions currently under way. to-
1 day, cargo continued to move
over the docks at the Orange
County port.
Port Director J. T. Arledge
said he had been advised by
local longshoremen, that they
Connally says he expects t
new legislature to consider re-
Khanh Throws
Down Gauntlet
County port within the next
three or four days. If sched-
. „ members may decide whether though figures were withheld,
| lions currently under way, Dean Burch holds on to the na-
Atlantic port strike of •Long- publican National Committee merce department budgets. Al-
shoremen hinging on negotia-rom------- dnn- -—i.. . - ......
INTERNATIONAL
Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh i.
pears on the way out as the Vi
THAT’S SANTA-Janice Ann
McCaskill, 24, is a little con-
fused. She think's the inflated
nation.
The ex-premier pledged the
continued support of the armed
forces for civilian Chief of State
and $1,700 in church funds.
Working swiftly and speaking
rarely, the trio vanished less
technicality./
He urged city officials meet-
ing G zoe which is across the
alley. My home is adjacent
cago ----- __ — — -----
mine whether he will continue
Thursday.
Offices to be closed tomor-
row include the Texas High-
MAIL-MAIL-MAIL — An abundance of letters
and parcel post for the Christmas season is
still flooding the local post office. However, the
amount of mail hasn't reached last year's peak
during any one day, Postmaster Howard Turner
reported Yesterday was Considered the peak
day oo letter mail and one of the larger days on
LOCAL
With a Gulf Coast and South
The United States had maty
plans to step up aid to the Sai-
gon government and for new
measures against Communist
version of the bill reached Con-
nally's desk for signature and
he vetoed it. He said he is "sure
that bill-or something very close
to it will be introduced” after
the legislature convenes, Jan. 12.
The governor also said he
might have some specific rec-
l )
Friday. Most offices will also
be closed, as usual, on Satur-
day. - ■
The drivers license office
here will not reopen until
tic City and over C„
Pass, south of Lander. Visibili-
sty was poor.
Farther northwest, huge snow
Orange County. Other offices,
including all federal, county
5V
*32
The latest estimate of spend-
ing this year is $97.2 billion, but
Johnson has said he does not
know if he can keep next year's
budget under $100 billion.
Other visitors to the LBJ
Ranch for budget talks today1
broad support che said
chairman would have
LAST M INUTE SUGGES-
TION — Since ‘tomorrow and
Mrs. Cathy Chelette’s son,
Roberto Brown, 16 months, both
of 1055 Archie St., Vidor, were
taken by Fuller ambulance to
St. Elizabeth Hospital. Attend-
ants said he had severe head
injuries. ,
Physicians were /working on
the other two members of the
LaSalle continued, "This area
Por new resi-
considered a total loss. was
dential construction. It's an
etnamese generals maneuver
for position.
On Rising Crime Rate in Texas
cn Texas Municipal League Pres-! “I agree with you that some- where,
the ident Hank Avery of Midland thing is going to have to be
--- and the league’s Fight Against done," he said. "But when you NAB
get into details, things are a lifNMNE
In conferences Monday, John-
son apparently completed work-
on the Interior, Labor and Com-
of mer
will to promote the
good, to bring about
peace, and the broth
estimated at $4.9 billion. There
has been some talk among gov-
ernment officials here that
Johnson is considering cutting
out some low-priority space pro),
ects in order to hold down the
budget,
-----Summary - Index—--
News of Today
of all men.”
■EM
cil Sunday.
Khanh pointedly
The change on the property of and nothing obnoxious or derti-
north side of Cherry between mental would be permitted
4th and 5th streets had been the neighborhood.”
requested by James J. LaSalle
against foreign intervention In ।
Nam Vietnamese affairs and made it'
He explained he had the _________
property for sale and the only tomorrow for state offices
inquiries received were for pos- Orange County. Other ‘offices,
e*e • aS a’ commercial including all federal, county and
municipal offices, Will be closed
of based on a greatly broadened
democracy. He said:
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) - A
stolen car that may have been
used by bandits in the half-mil-
pion-dollar cash robbery of a
bank truck .has been recovered,
police said today.
Police said the car was found
n m 1 • A • a uled. it will be loaded with 10,-
rope Delivers trrngprttansondia Also to be “
i • These two freighters are the
FOR or -' President Johnson meets
with Secretary of Defense Rob-
very Monday, Patrolman Jim Bil-
lingsley said. ,
ditional members are leaning in infiltration. But these were con-
- j.-—•e u..* - tm — tingent' on the existence of a
stable South Vietnamese re-
leaders to stop the arms secretary of labor, headed tor
race and devote part of the Houston to sit in on stalled
funds saved for a fight on pov-
2407*,5*9945
9922" ' ‘.3
42." Ha. 5 - -
Tex., yesterday said, “We are|AGAINST the issue of $98,000
very much concerned about bonds (for improvements north
-— • u *e "— * a set-of interstate 10) and levy of
taxes in payment therefor.
Reynolds also will discuss the Proposition 3 - FOR
(See PORT, Page «) AGAINST the issue of $34,000
-------- -[bonds (for water well improve:
mznanammi ments, purchase of land and
1‘Sd connections to existing lines)
| land levy of taxes in payment
2266 ’.therefor.
-__________ _____________ . _____„_____ ____ _____________ is termed a success by offinials alog." But that was what she
Orange. The post office will be cloied-Friday, President Johnson meets with after test flight wanted—a "bookalog." better
' ■....... ‘ " Zip code aids Santa Claus.,known as catalog.
red in critical condition traveling south towards U.S. 90. 1-----— — ,------- _
' 1 The Southern Pacific freight the tracks,” J. H. Tucker, the ing of 5,000 tons of rice, destined
with a Southern Pacific freight train consisting of an engine and engineer from Beaumont, said. " Indin "" "he einA
_____ __________ _ is keeping an eye on her. When
A $215,000 water bond elec- west. Schools and roads are her mother, Mrs. E. E. McCas-
tion has been called (or Jan 30 closed; floods force families kill, told her that was St. Nich-
• “ ■ " - ■ "-m "hain hamtae olas, she said, "No, that’s not
Aunt Nicholas, that’s Santa.”
ing with him Monday to take an ---
active interest in updating' the can” to put the brakes on Tex- „ .
criminal code and to suggest as’ rising, crime rate. He sug- controversial revision of the
way Department. Department
«, auu auyung pue up uu ofiPublic Safety drivers' license
property would be an im- bureau at the Orange County
70 provement compared to what's Courthouse and all other state
agencies.:..
The official Christmas holi-
------ —— - --------„- "We make sacrifices for the
ton tonight in an order solidly country’s independence and the
backing the young generals who Vietnamese people’s liberty, but
purged the High National Coun- not to carry out the policy of
any foreign country,” Khanh
warned said in a radio address to the
A barrage of protests was of 512 Cherry Ave. He aesires
leveled last night by nerbya change from a C residential
homfeowners opposed to the re- to a G commercial zone.
display on her front porch is
Snow, rain and high winds Santa Claus and she is sure he
Balloting Jan. 30 will begin at McNamara has predicted the included Secretary of the Treas.
8 am. and end at 7 pm. at the defense budget will not exceed ury Douglas Dillon, Director
Orange County Sub-Courthouse $50 billion and may _____ ___' ” "-h *-
[here. little less. This is about the Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
Presiding judge will be E. C. same as in the current fiscal tration and Najeeb E. Halaby,
90. The Chelette late model car, yards awav The car appeared! The Warrior,
to stop and then slid so that the Lines freighter, was expected
front end was just barely across to dock later today for the load-
mankind today appeals, must
take on a more universal as- ...
pect, which will transcend all seeing to it that there be
the obstacles that stand in the Ucment ....
A barrage of protests was of 512 Cherry Ave. He desires ommendations tothelegislature
. 1 12 -kP" E"-I. hne. fmm a r residential on traffic laws which mayb
fairly stringent.
-Loder siot Pnoto will not strike as long as. ne:
CAR ENGINE RIPPED OUT BYTRAINIMPACT [&. breaknowproxrmdi.
Two Women, Child Are seriously Injured tions, walkouts will follow
ru - A • • 11 I • i here and elsewhere along the
Three Critically Injured25^
Outlook: "Cloudy.-with consider- is not suitable
* able (og late at night and .i
in, early morning becom- older section of town, a fringe
Penkert, Mrs. E. C. Penkert Is year and may determine wheth-
*3. er Johnson holds spending for Agency,
the year starting July 1 within NASA'
tes uy uiy ule vuir anuei, a government has not existed and
former GOP chairman, said he planning talks are indefinitely
--- "—v —u -- — in abeyance:
The; talks will resume only if
to have the young general^ who carried and" internal injuries. i- . . ------ — r
J " few out the purge capitulate to the’ The accident occurred at 12:18 gram,” the Roman Catholic pon-
"he wants to be extent of creating some kind of at the Highway 109 cross-1:" -M-lath- = - t-
- - ■) (See VIET NAM, Page^ [ing about 50 yards north of US. Eimanesartortssfhmhotogus
proposal was Joe Burke, whose Legislature, 'or state employes
P°" . ' — • are tomorrow, Thursday and
High tomorrow ............ 70 ie iue opunessan, aolue , . ...
Outlook for Thursday: Little from LaSalle, in favor of the days,, as set by the Texas
. - I edicintra fnr crata emninveq
The Christmas Message,, the
second in Pope Paul’s 18-month-
old reign, was recorded for tele-
vision and radio broadcast by
‘‘assailable” by the party pro-
gressives who have been calling gime.
___-__________a lor Jan. 3057005"1
by .directors of the Orange Irom their
County Water and Improvement
District 1 at’Vidor.
vising the state code of criminal Crime Committee met for an
procedure, a job accomplished hour with the governor.
- •ne" u... -6 honnnan «r • Connally promised to work types of practical problems,
with the group, composed of 10 There are. difficult legal prob-
• mayors and one mayor pro tem, I---j * - ' ■ - - .....* 1 k-----
I “in every way I conceivably rights.”
condition with probable head inequality among all mankind. In
-Z. ---1 In what he called "our pro- ,a
om 9+h. D.m-I ~,+ht: n. WorId
zoning of four lots fqr commer- LaSalle,- in explaining the re-
cial purposes during a public qest noted, “This would be
hearing by the Orange City simply a nextension of an exist-
1 and Zoning Commis- it*’ —
-Lcoder sw« Photo US. Army is telling its men
parcel post. Turner had no Idea on reaton for around the worlgxth.:
the reduction in mail other than perhaps fewer of the issues at stake, the war
greeting cards are being sent out. Above, James in Viet Nam is as critically im-
Ravencraft, clerk, empties mail sacks picked up portant as any in history.’
at the various substations in Orange and West GOVERNMENT-POLITICS
, . .. , c Am. Ectaie soia the uu tour cars, kuuwu as Lxal iw. The engineer was unable to of the gangs and weather, work
driveway in front of Gold- .America .officta nians being At Orange Memorial Hospital 60, was en route from Beaumont determine if the car was stalled should be completed by Christ-
water’s..apartm entshe.hel lieves purgehas sty e^end the wa? were Mrs Blanche Chelette, 48, to Lake Charles, or the driver couldn't move the mas Eye.
bsehass2hexatrohacktpsmhmidezlgrinstouecbtec"cong"otsegofostarkss-waformsfze‛smamuwe"wrratfavelingemutuaaveshmmstcarnacthracnginc"speglshipbedghalsinammentadathet
members "53 meetinfhl- South E.X.. .a maBdnty, orange, wsspotedhthearsabnue oscsee WRECK, ship may come into the orange
. . ~„T' ... says he hopes to know soon
Christmas holtdays will start whether the coordination of fed-
tomorrow for, state offices in eral civil rights efforts will re-
A-.- Ce.nt., Aik-. Acc:--
....Miller told a previous news , Cuele.w zqmuuy acueauu......
conference he thinks Burch Council, South Viet Nam s pro- toda y and details on theirphysi-
should stay on even if he wins a visional legislature, a stable cai condition and injuries were
test by only one vote. Miller, a
Cargo Still Dobie Too Late With Gro i vis Auto Used
O I NEW YORK (AP) — You dered, “Tell the dog to lie | Kv Kandtg
-- ‘ couldn't really blame Dobie, still," how was Dobie to in: • Y —IIM11
the Doberman Pinscher, for terpretgTerman’sanmmand ' •
just sitting there when a meaning, sic
holdup man look $3,740 from mni .
his master Monday. .Atbl a Brooklyn police
Dobie has been “trained” to station. Terman looked dis-
protect Philip T e r m a n, a gustedly at Dobie and com-
Brooklyn furniture dealer, mented: "I spent $500 train-
from robbers. But the dog ing that mutt and what good
also has been trained to obey did it do?”
Terman s commands — to the At that moment the Dob-
letter. erman began to growl vi-
So when a robber walked up ciously and lunge at anyone .Monday night a few blocks from
to Terman's car . and or- who got too near. the church rectory where the
, * holdup was staged Monday
morning by three masked men.
_____ • The vehicle had been report-
1 A A T/T • I IV T ’ 1 ed stolen more than a month
UU- Mile - W IndStrsaatice Chie Marinus Ri
m I . M _ I Until now, two jackets, a pair
Lashing Colorado a
wainuu. a, u,o ce J - checked out, Ritter said.
[crippling to our operation. We By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS knocked out power lines for sev- Police said they had no de-
'have freightcars of cargo in One-hundred mile an hour Oral hours in Boulder and out-scription of the-men — except
town and must.be unloaded into winds roared through Colorado lying areas. One wall of the Uni-that they were white and, in the
warehouses This operation today and caused extensive, butiversity of Colorado cyclotron [ words of a witness “appeared to
would be halted also in the undetermined, damage to thebuilding was blown down. Jef- be past then- yeuth."
event of a strike,” Arledge university city of Boulder. Two ferson Airport, east of Boulder. | The clothing. identified by the
notC(j persons were hurt, reported 100 m.p.h. winds. Den- victims, was found lying on a
a Waterman' The gale-force winds blew off ver also had high winds, but no road on the outskirts of this city
roofs, destroyed fences__and damage was reported. 110 miles west of-New York City.
I In Wyoming, a snowstorm The men, wearing Halloween .
moved into the western part of masks, took over a church rec-
the state dropping up to 6 inch-tory during a chrch service,
es on the area. High winds up held four priests and a janitor
10..70 m.P.h. piled up. hugelat gunpoint, ambushed two bank
drifts. Highways were impas- messengers as they entered the
.. • .. rectory, and escaped with $511,
thes.South 000 in cash from the bank truck
Among the clues in the $511,
loOO robbary .in Paterson, N.J.:
ap- Two jackets, a pair of pants Thursday are the only days left,
Vi- and a ski cap. this might help you finish
------ Christmas shopping. One little
A mother of four, fearing a girl kept saying she wanted a
recurrence of her arrested lep- "bookalog” for Christmas. Her’ '
......„ _ rosy, survives a 232 foot leap parents searched every toy store
[hat "in terms from Jhe .San Francisco-Oak- in the area, but in vain. Then
/ " - they handed her a catalog from
. ------ a large store and asked the lit-
The supersonic Fill, or TRX. tie girl to show them a "book-
, Local Port
On Washington
4 . change indicated
Sunset today ....... 5:21 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow . 7:09 a m.
WINDS — Mostly southwest wind: 10-1
Lt. Gen. Nguyen clear he would not go along with
fi m.p.h, through tomorrow.
TIDES — Sobine: highs ot 4 14 o.m:
ond 8:25 p.m. lows of li 02 o.mi ond
11:31 om, Bol Ivor ‘highs ot $72 o.m. .J ------- _____
Tv BM o.m. ” 1 0 o.m ond her home and said she
a,1w‛2P4n Trocemperotvre: Noh (See ZONING, Page «)
"M.
■ 4 -mH
i Teimiu az;30,600-a-ycal,ua. ing the country But indications
Goldwater was the GOP stand- tonight were that he was firm-
ard bearer in last month's elec- ly in the saddle. “woman 2a An. chiva wor
Miller was his running t S. spokesmen had no im- women,nd one. child were
mediate comment. Americans consmaeix--- ------- -w
said privately it looked as if the today ......
shutdown had come. ’ . .
American officials' said the r ’
than half an hour after they
drove up to the rectory adjoin-
VIDOR iSnb” nnn continued to thunder across the ing.St. Anthony s church about
— ...J. ... ________ viuun lopu — a pzio.uoo. . . q ... 8:45 a m.
_____ ______onlv two anticipated in the im-water bond election was called Washinotsn Irom cautornta 1o Deputy Police William
msdeanimntpraccbrding 20 Th. tss sr:
Associated Press, the Johnson Wate
administration moved today to,n" " _ "Inrofeccinnale woll.voread in tha
wuay anuue.0,c J........ k-,.. VATICAN CITY (AP)-Pope] He renewed in his speech the try to head off an Atlantic to .Directors tentatively set the
cal condition and injuries were PaulVI, in a stirring Christmas a p p e a l for disarmament he Gulf Coast dock strike as wild-'‘
undetermined. Message to the world, tonight made after seeing the poverty cat walkouts crippled pier OP-ldelavea
However, it was believed they called for an end to racism, of a‘Bombay slum earlier this erations in NearYork and Bal-,, descrintion Of ^^.17 0
were also in serious or critical nationalism, poverty, and social month. timore. 4ated within the dKt
James J.Reynolds.assistant Three propositions will be on
secretary of labor, headed fori the ballo for Jan. 30. They fol-
. . Tlow: '
negotiations between represen- Proposition 1 _ FOR or
tatives of the AFL-CIO Interna- AGAINST the issue of $83,000
tional Longshoremens Associa-bonds (for improvements f r o m
tion and shippers. [Orange Street to Interstate 10)
Secretary of Labor W. Willard [and levy of taxes in payment
Wirtz, after talking with Presi-1 therefor.
Proposition 2 — F O R or
■' ■ "52
election"iast monthfor ero“in slides, believed to have beenroute and schedule of the bank
relayed due to technicalities in mit. ; equipped with an alarm system.
Stale Highway Department was on its normal morning run
crews cleared several smaller .'com the main office of the Na-
Final Budget Review
Set Today by Johnson
JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) the $100-billion mark.
Burch Savsd p
J Phan Khac Suu and Premier
w. 1 Tran Van Huong, but reserved
II A 7 I I H_ —L + the right of the armed forces to
IIO II I IVIIL change governments if they felt
O things were getting out of hand.
ruv -a wuI/. \ This was a direct challenge to 3V02
‛1 A +hA W/IwA American demands that the Sai- <,W
I II UIIC W 11 C gon civilian government have '■
5 supreme authority over the
WASHINGTON (AP) - Anarmed forces, and that the
uncommitted group of from 151armed forces should not have
to 30 National committee mem-the right to upset 'be govern-
bers appeared likely today to ment whenever they see fit.
decide whether Dean Burch, Knanh's speech presumably
holds on to his job as Republi-.was broadcast partly to allay
can national chairman. rumors sweeping Saigon that he
Burch made it clear Monday had been arrested. Normally re-
after a conference with Sen. liable, sources reported earlier,
Barry Goldwater and Rep. wil-that Khanh had been_ousted
liam E. Miller, that he intends f —2 . .. . ,
to go down to the wire fighting chief, and soon might be leav-
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