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Churches Appeal
The Orange Leader
New Face Seen
in Area Stats
See Page 7
VOL LXIV—NUMBER 224
ORANGE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1967
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If Storm Hits
afternoon, there, appeared little
than movements towards peace.
On Beulah
ROBERT A. MONTAGNE
cessed for lunch in fact. Win-
emergency operating center on lead to bitter dispute over the
ened by Hurricane Beulah’
At Du Pont
A giant wave toppled Bridg-
blamed on Beulah even as she
in the shelters and the need for
were not immediately available.
are idled in Orange
Auvie Wheeler of Beaumont,
The
Namara opposes such an outlay.
128th District Court.
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Even though Hurricane Bey-
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direction toward the lower
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mentary School.
WEATHER
HURRICANE
gets out, raises the hood and
makes the correction manually.
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STILL USABLE - A local
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PINS REPRESENT 80 TOTAL YEARS OF SERVICE TO RED
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Red Cross Banquet Marks
Chapter's 50th Anniversary
Carpenters
Still Picket
Montagne
Hired As
Principal
Hubert Spradling, Sprad’s; and Spencer Blain
of the savings and loan association. Allied
Chemical Corp. plastics division also is par-
Member Associated Press
King Features Service
council executive secretary.
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Jury Selection
Under W ay Here
In Murder Trial
at the Orange Du Pont plant
and one also has been placed at
the Beaumont plant.
High today .....
Low tonight ......
High tomorrow ..
Sunset today
Sunrise tomorrow
the mouth of the Rio Grande.
Weather Bureau fore-
casters said Beulah’s stall
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at noon.
Dist. Atty. Roy'S Wingate
had. not completed his interro-
gation of the 57-member venire
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moderate and north-
easterly.
RED CROSS DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE MAPS PLANS
Hurricane Tracked by Robinson (left), Boehme and Mrs Brown
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if necessary.
Mass feeding and registration
it toward
Grande.
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into the position desired by the
When this happens Carol
set a precedent for what we do
in mental health in Fort Worth
and Dallas,’1 he said.
। Another regional problem now
I (See GRANT, Page S)
I gate had completed questioning
only 14 panelists
epmed. She ended up showing
him what to do.
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► Pledges Aid
al leaders today to speed action
on money bills so he can decide
। where .to withhold spending in
an effort to cut the deficit.
pearance today and received a probes for peace in Vietnam
complete briefing at the state even though they sometimes
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FAIR SHARE RECIPIENTS-Three Or-
ange businesses have received Fair Share
Awards for contributions in the Orange .4,
County United Fund campaign The busi-
nesses. Orange Savings & Loan Association,
Sprad’s Speedboat Service and Conn Furni-
ture Co , qualified for the awards yesterday
on the opening day of the pilot drive. Ken
Davis (right), advance gifts chairman, is
shown presenting the Fair Share Awards to
therepresentatives of-the-three firms They 7
For Negro Aid
See Page 10
ment, "These are my contribu- j
tion to this sale and I see they {
are still usable. I’ll lust buy j
them for use as fishing
britches.” 1
Buster Mathis stops Ron Marsh
in fourth . . . Rice opens against
LSU . . . Cooper. Port Arthur
still one-two in poll.
to mesh correctly at school.
She asked assistance from a
y -,
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likelihood for the optimism!
when the venire was recessed
when Judge James N Neff re-
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News of Today
AP > — The General Assembly -
opens its regular session today'
preoccupied with Middle East
problems that few delegates
thought they could quickly,
solve For the first time, a Com-
munist seemed assured of elec-
is past president of the Greater
cpred Stott Pmol? Orange Chamber of Commerce
o* l oj -a; ’■----- 7' -nm-a- CROSS He also is a member of the
Roach Presents Award to Brown (center) and Mrs. Thomen First Methodist Church.
SHON HUDSON ‘
At Port Isabel some 3,000 per- HOUSTO N (AP) — The managers. Shelters would be lo-
sons fled the storm The predict; 1 American Red Cross said to- cated at the First Methodist
members and volunteers last
By GARY GARRISON
BROWNSVILLE, Tex. (AP) — Texans by the
thousands fled before the wrath of Hurricane Beulah’s
135-mile-an-hour winds today and the storm developed
a slight westward hitch in its headlong plunge toward
plans to aid communities threat- Johnson Administration’s sincer-
: . •______ =- ity in seeking peace.
Connally visited the center lo- The latest uproar erupted
“What we do on
PLEDGE ON PEACE TRY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top
Thousands Flee to High Ground
As Hurricane Heads for Texas
C White said $15 million in of Brownsville take precau- )
citrus and $5 million of other) tions for winds in excess of .
crops lay directly in the storm’s 100 miles per hour and tides '
Emergency Operating
Beulah Aiming
At Brownsville
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov John officials say the United States .
Connally cancelled a Dallas ap- will cooperate with private
The Orange County Chapter,
American Red Cross, during its
50th anniversary banquet
, recognized its new officers,
lah is moving in a northwesterly board members, long - time
that Johnson believes there will
(See PICKETS, Page 5) : ‘The governor cancelled plans honsome federal spending reduc-
to address the 14th annual Dal-, Slch reductions Mransficia
las Times Herald Womans Fo- said, wili dxcludes defensn and
rum this, morning, .lunch withi atomic energy outlays and auto-
Dallas Times Herald officials matic expenditures such as in-
and an a ernoon reception hon-terest on the nationai debt.
oring Dallas Sen. Jim Wade. ____"
gu
woman uncovered a pair of
.----- -I a garage sale of the
Orange Business & Professional
mental Women's Club. Examining them
""" “ closely, she was heard to com-
Someone goofed in dividing
District 11-AAAA . . . New faces
n . on appear in second week of area
• 70.t0 80 footballstatistics . . . Hectic AL
unear race continues . . .
• 7:17 P.m. clinches NL pennant.
7.03 a.m ,
been assistant high school prin-
cipal in the Orangefield School
Questioning of prospective ju- District, has been named new
* principal of Orangefield Ele-
TERRORISTS STRIKE
i SAIGON (AP) — Communist
" terrorists blew up Nationalist
1 China s embassy here today) in-
juring 27 persons, and went on a
shooting spree that raised fears
of a Red campaign against the
Chinese community in Saigon.
Police made three arrests.
xd A sniper killed a Viet-.
| namese pedestrian after the
■ blast wrecked the two-story em-
“ bassy. a bombing condemmed
8 by President Ch ang Kai-shek's
I Foreign Office in Taipei. For-
M mosa, as"a dastardly outrage."
Red gunmen slew two promi-
■ nent Chinese and wounded a
third in other incidents.
nual Regional Planning and De-
velopment Workshop Monday
that a major activity in one part
of the state affects all other slacks"at”
parts.
By BOBBIE BROUSSARD 1 He is married to the former
The Orange County Chapter. Margaret Cohen of Dickinson
not yet been established the gears of her car. They
"I regard this as the begin- get out of line and refuse to go
ning of a major breakthrough into the position desired by the
toward bringing about better driver. When this happens Carol
Questioning of prospective ju-emphasizing the point of. path. up to 12 feet.
Tors in the trial of a former whether panelists would be will- The well-organized storm was At 1 Pm- CDT Beulah was :
Bridge City man charged with ing. if Braxton is found guilty. on a path for the Rio Grande centered near latitude 23.8 j
murder with malice afore to assess a prison term as long and Weather Bureau observers north and longilude 96.1 west ,
TEACHER STRIKE
NEW YORK < AP) - Negotia-
—tors’for both sides in the week—
old strike by New York City
teachers against the 1.1-mil-
lion-pupil public school system
recessed today without agree-
ment, dimming earlier optimism
for a possible break.
U. N . SESSION OPENS
'UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
WINOS - Win*. IIgN to moderote
and -northeasterly. Chance of r-— ’•
. percent fhis afternoon, - i...... „
night, and 10 percent tomorrow.
TIDES — Sabine: High, 4:40 o m , 5:22
pm.; low, 10:04 omi 1021 pm. Bolivor:
High, 5:41 am., 6:30 p.m. low..H noon,
12124 a.m.
LOCAL rors in the trial of a former
A picket line by the Sabine Bridge City man charged with
Area District Council of Car-murder with malice afore
penters remained in effect at thought is under way here in
the construction division gate---- — . . . -
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thought is under way here in as life. expected her to curve on a trek or about 170 miles southeast of
128th District Court. Wingate also questioned the up the coastline -after hitting Brownsville. Beulah has stall-
e se Phrqcenconingsroligntdeverai somdetihe s expected ; Eyen though Hfurricane.Beit These shelter will be utilized. ■
on1 Selecting he panel by mid- U DUAL. 2noon Belah was centered towards thesnorthwesvnor west dretionvinswnarrnorthsitwernatheventsoman.emergennd
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NT°I n drift to the west. The main force the center will move inland th 130-mile an hour storm government commodities are1
IN ikes Due Mo^"^ ^o7tpn“ a turn in thisdi-pe,±‘s1I^™'^
I- The American Red Cross said Gran<le' »o"igM- Shelter manager of the Or-
in Houston that emergency shel- ange County Chapter, Ameri-
tershad been set up for half a FREEPORT Tex. (AP - can Red Cross disaster pre
million evacuees Some 4,000 Hurricane Beulah marked her paredness and relief committee,
persons already had been taken first death iniTexas today as a assembled yesterday afternoon
Defense Atty James Morris Pentagons plan to build a $5 intownsasuationyrentersin the irowned wb." “urUg ?n s?a' at the chapter house for a brief-
gave no indication at noon to billion Nike X antiballistic mis- Ra Cross said ing made heavy by the giant ing on,opening of shelters here
the extent of his questioning. sile system will provide each re- . storm. i
ORANGEFIELD (Spl) — Rob- However. court personnel ex- gion of the United States with at u ne death in Texas was A giant wavp toppled Bridg.
ert A. Montagne, who has beenipressed doubt that selection of least one battery of far-reaching blamed on Beulahevenas she ««e Laverne Anthony off her '■ , .
assistant high school principal in Ihejurj would be completed to- "arhead interceptors WAsrsrmestmilesorromusnisl board about 8 a.m.’between first aid facilities were dis-
the Orangefield School District, day. ! Defense scientists made this t, Oled ridolt p . 8van Lin two jetties at Surfside Beach cussed.
has been named new principal The defendant in the trial is'clear today in guarded inter-jAjr!: . . . . near Freeport. Companions Lee Roy Boehme, disaster
of Orangefield Elementary Emmett. Braxton, 38, of. Pan- views about Defense Secretary1 —. • momi0e waw IR Fene ' with her said she went under chairman, stressed shelters
School. ama City, Fla. Robert S. McNamara's so-called™, fit and did not come back up, should not be open unless au- 5 "51 pa.anu":,."
The new principal was named Braxton is charged with the “light" defense against-nuclear P Th. Cast Cuara at Part tea A Coast Guard cutter and thorized by the Red Cross, nesonaseen Placed at the mg neip_ protidont
last night at a monthly school s h o o t i n g death of Kenneth attack, primarily directed t0lLeT $X disnatched the 84 foot helicopter from Galveston Even though low pressure areas Beaumont plant oThe DPSsreportedstha tevacu Ho Chi Minh of North resident
board meeting “wills™ Frank Tucker, 25, on July >«■ guard against a potential threat mot Texutdisrptshedth 82 toot searched for the body. . yesterday indicated a divelting The picket Une at the Beau- ption of South Padre Island, 1st Feb™an
ceed".JesR. THarrington"Jr., who 1966, in Bridge City The shoot- from Red China nororccette Pcinpantslotowsat Bridgette was the daughter factor in the storm. Boehme mont plantthas idled about 500 Rort. was in andaBoarhialast ebruar
has resigned to accept an ad- ing occurred at 850 Connecticut The decision to proceed with a Coast Guard spokesman de) of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Anthony., said its alwass better to be The, wor ld‛s1 largest t^en, sniP & hurricane iri ssfce men
minicfpK.a net - Rn Ir. St., the former residence of denlavment af an anfimiceila — 023 “large motor ves-' she was a student at Sam prepared should it alter its methanol plant is under con- Pa sersaid threat to Texas LBJ ASKS RUSH
i-e.motr.tes-l |Ious(on high school in Hous- course. struction there. Pndedrgedero userseatlnexas WASHINGTON (AP> - Presi-
Registration cards were is-’ About 300 construction craft Ad r&eanupesons .atonginedent Johnson asked congression-
■ . . .. workers i ii. iam 1 b Texas Coast to comply immedi- ...
i sued to the various shelter workers, in the fieid and shop ately with local statements and
warnings issued by the U.S.
Weather Bureau.
. 7018018 Buna has speed, offensive
< percent io- pUnch to challenge in 22-AA . ..
has resigned to accept an ad- ing occurred at 850 Connecticut The decision to proceed with a Cons
ministrative post at the Meth- S ■ the former residence of deployment of an antimissile scribed__
odist children’s home in Waco Braxton. . L ... .system was announced by Me-sei"'floundering" in'the pitching Houstol
The trustees last night ac- Wingate, who said he will not Namara Monday in a speech to Gulf of Mexico Other details ton. •
cepted the resignation of Har- ask the death penalty, is ques- news editors at San Francisco,
icpieu 1e Testgnawton oi nar tioning prospective jurors con- Alhoneh mh. nan 10 .
(See MONTAGNE. Page 5) cerning imprisonment He is Although the plan he an:
5 8 "Pnsonmem: ne 1 is one of biggest ;____.__________ _______ ___________________-______ _____ ... _________J.
strategic decisions in U.S. histo-led high tides of 10 feet would day about 600 emergency shel- Church, First Baptist Church, - ..
ry. It is not the often-discussed close roads into the coastal fish- tars jn the South Texas area First Presbyterian Church and said the dispute is between his Center
full-blown antimissle system ing and resort city. ..... ........ ~ ■■ "s"'"----" " De hu —fe
which would have an estimated "—im —i~"‘
cated below ground at State De- when Harry S. Ashmore, execu-
A picket line by the Sabine partment of Public Safety head-tive vice president of the Center
Area District Council .of Car- quarters. for the Study of Democratic In-
penters remained in effect at In a statement, the governor solutions and a formerprize-
the construction division gate at pledged full cooperation of the winning newspaper editor,
the Orange Du Pont plant and state to local governments heed-charged President Johnson
■ ‘ ' wrecked a hopeful peace move
—Leader Stall Photo
I • zx FORD STUDIES PRICES.
I tanning Crant Detroit (AP) - officials of
Aw, Ic.la the Ford Motor Co. today stud-
American Red Cross, durings its) and "they have three children.’’ OK (I tor Area ied a list of increased prices an-
a 50th anniversary banquet recog- Sonora, Sarah Beth and Ralph nounced by General Motors
6 nized its new officers, board/Hudson, AV ST D\ CAP!, —.Gov. John Corp, and are expected to an-
■ members, long-time members E w Brown Jr was pre. Connally has allocated $250,000 ’ nounce their own prices for 1968,
| and volunteers last night at the’sented a pin for 5(i years of ser-t0» 8 metropolitan areas, two models Wednesday or Thurs-
| Jack Tar Hotel vice with ther rchaprrr valleys and two count.es for .day.
Shon Hudson, president of the! Martin Thomen Sr received a regional planning
I First National Bank- and long- pin for 30 years of service Rec- Includediwas $8,000 for plan- ORANGE JUICE
B time chapter member and offi- (Se REn cnoss p02 ning or the Orange, Beaumont
I cer, was announced as 1967- ' ' K i and PortArthur area. However, .
I 1968 chairman. He succeeds . ...... a .____g la joint council of governments NO JOB FOR GRIDDER —
N F. E. (Bob) Roach who served aadbhl ( to utilize the planning funds has Carol Perkins has trouble with
a as chairman two terms Aamhi ' not yet been established 'the gears of her car. They
Data from U.S. Weather Bureau eTexans by the sthousands fled
Outlook — increasing cloudiness before the 130 mile ” an -hour
this afternoon and tonight wrath. 0..81 rowing Hurricane
with showers and thunder- Beulahttoday.and.thebig storm
storms increasing. Mode- hewed to.a line.straigh
rate to heavy rain tomor- the mouth of the Rio
row. Winds, light to
government at the local level,
particularly in those vast urban _______..._______________________
areas where mounting problems The other day the gears refused
call for cooperation on a region-
al basis,” Connally said. "It is _____
a matter of the state helping football player. But he was out
communities help themselves," as far as mechanics are con-
Connally told the second an- cerned. She ended up showing
’tion as assembly president.
A The Arab-Israeli conflict, un-
(wovArnar derscored by a new brief Suez
N• ’ •I IIVL Canal firefight Monday, look a
high , priority” place on the
•) • € 1 agendi. But tough advance posi-.
I S KrI At Ac tion statements from both sides-
1 •IIUIUM foreshadowed more forensics
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(EOC will be fuliv Senate Democratic Leader
.- I now are ready to handle as schools in Littie Cypress, Mau-group and Du Pont, but refused banned on a 24-hour basis dur- Mike Manstieldotold reporterg
____________ Warnings against gale winds many as 500,000 evacuees riceville. West Orange. Bridge te give any otherreason except ing the hurricane threat. a a ■ n"e- house conterence
cost of up to $40 billion. Me- were out for the island city of from the path of Hurricane City, Orangefield, Vidor and at that it was a disagreement over spokesman said’
(See HURRICANE. Page 5) i Beulah. Stark High School here. (»— "-"Te -- "Lm
YESTERDAY- - Temperotures: Nigh
law • (roin 4).
Texas coast, precautions are night at the Jack Tar Hotel,
being made locally in the event! ------
should make a turn in-this di-; Robert A. Montagne, who has
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WASHINGTON AP) — The
51.3282 was only temporary. II ,
■ H22182826223%2281880908803088n Gale winds HurrinonA
8268 t<> whip the Brownsville 11 III 1 IC al IC
• area shortly after noon.
-Leoder stoii Photo Traffic was bumper-to-bumper
are (from right). Boyd Pearson. Conn’s; on many roads in the Rio
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k. A
NS Other officers include Wynne
ar Stewart, first, wee chairman:
tT George Craft, second vice chair-
man; Ben Briggs, third vice j
chairman; Mrs. B J: Ham- 1
mond, secretary; . and J. D. ]
•) i Joiner, treasurer.
J t New members on the 75-mem- I
t ber board include Tom Yerby, I
4 Rev. James Elbert, Mrs Frank I
\ Rach Jr., R. C. Wilkinson, John ‘
X R. Boone, Cmdr. Ben T. Brown
6% James B. Quigley, Jules David
A , Jr and Carl Amsden.
40 Hudson, a native of Orange
and a past vice-president of the
chapter, has served as treas-
urer and long-time board mem-
ber. An active civic worker, he
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10 Cents *****
Grande Valley as residents left Bulletins
their boarded-up homes and
headed inland. NEW ORLEANS (AP) —
, . At 1 p m, Beulah remained 170 Severe Hurricane Beulah
ticipating in the pilot drive. Victor Hancock miles southeast of Broynsville moves slowly toward the ex- !
is the cochairman of the pilot campaign and was expected to bring hurri- trema Northeast Mexican and
Fair Share Awards are given to firms when cane winds to the lower Texas extreme southern Texas
the employes make contributions totaling 70 coast tonight. coasts,
percent of one day s pay The UF campaign The Weather Bureau said the Hurricane warnings are in
toraises2n2011wi begin Oct _ storm was picking up speed and j effect on the Texas Coast from
strength. Hurricane warnings Brownsville to Port Aransas
were out for miles of coastline, and gale warnings from Port
extending as far, as Port Aran- Aransas to Galveston. All pre-
sas, Tex cautions should be taken im- i
Aside from the possibility of mediately in those areas .
death from its winds, Beulah against this dangerous hurri- Iaurcavmm
poised a $20 million killer blow cane. ’ “
toward crops in the Lower Rio It is emphasized again that
Grande Valley of Texas. State interests along the Mexican
Agriculture Commissioner John) Coast up to 100 miles south
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