Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 226, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 11, 1964 Page: 1 of 10
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1964
No. 226
5 CENTS
VOLUME 99
10 PAGES
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To U.S. Veterans
J. W. Lockhart Home
Defense
Secretary Robert S. McNamara
Tomb of the Unknowns tn sol
tribute to veterans.
Dr Jahr Washingion Lock-
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Houston Port
Farm Bureau To Consider
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Hundreds Of Resolutions
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leaders saluted the port for its
development.
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conclusions regarding the pos-
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SANTA FE THANKED
The Marion Mays American
Legion Poet No. 455 of tamer.
THE WHATHFR IN
BRENHAM
8,2235,772
at 2 a.m
Funeral
at the Epi
BRENHAM
Home of
Blinn College
Established 1883
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zes will be held
( Church in ..
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The Somerville Lyons area
kicked off their fund-raising
drive for Boy Scouts Tuesday
night with a dinner in the new
dining room of the City Cafe in
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Slave Quarters
CH Matthews pointed out the
slave quarter* area titt faced
on a lane in rear of the house,
bordered with trees and rose
hedge Household servants
lived in the "tack" housez nearby
which also housed the wash
(laundry) roam.
1 isn. Dr Loekhart marripd
Mids Eimina Caroline Wallis,
who died in young-womanbo-d
Jr 1860 he married Miss Sarah
Ann Elizabeth. Browing, sister
of Matthew* grandmother. ..
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Mrs. Henryjames
Dies In Brenham
RUTH FINKE
RUTH FUKE
SOVIETS - Rad Chinese
Premier Chou and Soviet Com-
mumnist party chief Brezhnev
agreed to hold SinoiSoviet peace
talks in Peking early next year.
They postponed a worid Com-
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silence was observed in mem
ory of the armistice that ended
JAPAN - ThsasaaMs of pro-
testing Japanese leftists clash-
ed with police in Tokyo today on
the eve of-the- first vinit-to-
Worst Storm Disaster
; po .
on.thele
nests war*
LOCKHART PLANTATION--County Judge Odis Tomachefsky unveiled the
State Historical Survey plaque which explains the history of the famous Lock-
hart Plantation, while the present owners, Dr and Mrs. Russell Scott Jr., of
Houston and Chappell Hill' watch. The home, which is one of the •oldest in
Washington County, is regularly used each weekend by the Scott family, and is
retained in most of its original style when it was used by Dr. John Washingtort
Lockhart, the famous doctor who chronicled "60 Years On The Brazos.,
said in a
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The Blinn College Board of
Trustees Tuesday opened bids
on additional kitchen facilities
for the school. Three firms sub-
mitted bids, according to James
H. Atkinson, president of the
college.
Bidders were the Chappell
Hill Construction Company,
$12,445; Odell Lueckemeyer,
$13,369 and Broecker Construc-
tion Company, $12,817. The base
bids included costs for construct-
ing the building and providing
folding doors, heaters, sinks,
work tables, and salad count-
ers. The building will be an
addition to existing tuning room
facilities and will be 928 square
feat in area.
The board will make a de-
cision on the bids at a later
date.
Miss Ruth Finke, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Finke of
Brenham, has been named
Brenham High School’s “good
citizen" for the 196465 school
year. t
The selection of the "good
citizen" is sponsored by the
Jabez Deming chapter of the
Daughters of the American Rev-
olution. •
The contest is open to girls in
the senior classes of accredited
public high schools. The girls
must possess to an outstanding
degree the following qualities:
dependability, service. leader-
ship, and patriotism. One girl
frost.each of the senior home-
rooms was nominated by the
senior class. The high school
faculty in secret ballot. se-
lected the "good citizen" from
(See FINKE Page
With the" push of a button,
Johnson set off an explosive
charge signaling start of con-
struction of three new wharves
estimated to cost some $6 mil-
lion.
Vessels in the ship channel
leading to the turning basin
were bedecked with flags and
bunting graced docks for the
Houston ceremonies.
By ROBERT C. MILLER
United Press International
DA NANG, South Viet Nam
(UPI) — Communist guerrillas
put bullet holes through two
American mercy helicopters to-
day and fired on dozens of oth-
ers as U.S. pilots- risked their
lives to relieve one million vic-
tims of the worst storm disas-
ter in South Viet Nam’s history.
The two Marine Corps heli-
copters from this case got home
World War I on Nov. 11 at 11
a.m. 46 years ago
Similar Veterans Day observ-
ances were held in the 50 states
and at 23 overseas cemeteries
where 140,000 U.S. soldiers and
the names of another 90,000
missing in action are enscribed.
Preserve Freedom
"Through their courage, dedi-
cation and sacrifice we have
preserved onr freedom and de-
from some provinces, where ra-
Hin, mad' railway, air. RVCT
and -sea communications were
at more than 50 per cent of the
time bv the V.C.( Viet Cong)."
An estimated 1,200 persons
were reported drowned in only
two of this country's northern
provinces'. Estimates of home-
less in only- four provinces
ranged from 850,000 to 1,200,000.
Communications Cut
If any man will do his will, be shall
know:—John 1;H, ,
God reserves HU revelations for
thone who are ready to obey at any
coat.
wounded were being evacuated
by air
American military reports to
the capital city said 1,100 per-
sons had drowned in two dis-
tricts of Quang Tin Province
alone. Another 120 died in Quang
Nam Province.
Million Homeless
The senior American aid of-
ficial in the region. Louis Wah-
rumiund, of Fredericksburg, Tex.
told UPI here that 750.000 to
one million were homeless in
HOUSTON (UPI)-r Delegates
to the Texas Farm Bureau’s
convention resolved Tuesday to
key to the
W1
Mflf. Henry James died in a
On Birthday
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\ Tribute Is Payed Floods Dr own 1,200 in
and
k or
Roa, chairman of the
aid that "prospects
d. We expect to top the
U and hope to end the
pi by Nov. 19."
loney will be used in the
aston Area Council that
o keep up
pay the
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Bv STEWART HENSLEY
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI I—Presi-
dent Johnson’s forthcoming con-
ference with British Prime Min
ister Harold Wilson may mark
a turning point in the NATO
nuclear strategy controversy,
officials said today
The Dec 78 meetings here
of the Anglo-American leaders
also will give them an oppor-
tunity to assess the probable
course of relations with Russia
under its new leaders.
In addition, officials said.
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growth of Houston into a coast-
al metropolis.
Industries have spent around
$3 billion building on the ship
channel.
Johnson said, "The reality
and symbolism of the ship
channel had much to do with
the progress of the entire Gulf
, Coast area."
State Water Pollution Board
supervis closely exploratory
water drilling to prevent pollu-
"tilin' of ptt^rot vOfiptit*s by drill1
ing at other depths. It opposed
water probation and recom-
mended an end to "water steal-
ing" by deep-well drilling.
Dr Edward R Annis, a past
president of the America Medi-
cal Association told delegates
at the consention banquet Tues-
day night That the Kerr-Mills
act does much to meet medical
peeds of the aged’
He said politicians "would
have us believe that everybody
over 65 is in the poor house.”
adding, “just because some
people need help is no reason
to provide it for all."
1t-Gov. Presten Smith- ap-
peared Tuesday and told the
2,000-odd farm and ranch rep-
resentatives that rural power
in the legislature will dwindle
when the ”one man, one vote”
rule is accomplished. ’
Johnson and Wilson undoubtedly said,
will exchange views on pos-
By CHARLES W. CORDDRY
United Press international
ARLINGTON, Va (UP1)—
America honored today the 31
million military veterans, living
and dead, who have waged its
wars and protected its peace.
As personal representative o€
President , Johnson, who was
at his ranch in Texas, Veterans
children lived in the home
until the lai'- MW's. spending
considerable time in r;Ktvcston
visiting their son Judge Wil-.,
liam B Lockhart and his wife.
<h« former Esther Gresham. •
In 1898 Col Matthews' parents,
the late Mr and Mrs Dan
Matthews moved to the •
homestead . ——--
In 1900 when the historical
hurricane hit Galveston. Killing
thousands of residents by drown-
mg and beg vy..winds. Dr l ork-
hort was one nf the'survivors
He was bromchtback tn Chap-
.(See LOCKMAWT- Pagcsy-
Administrator John S Gleason
vJr. plgceda wreath at thelfendedourtheritage.
GOODCITIZEN
and diplomatic TE --
There were no reports at all tyndon Johnson' started the
second 50 years of the Port of
ceremonies ,u Arlington
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all put out of commission.-
Air Force weather men in
Saigon, meanwhile, warned that
several more days of wind and
rain was predictable along the
200-mile stretch of storm - rav-
aged coast.
The Marine* here airlifted 800
refugees to safety in the past 48
hours, despite the .gauntlet of
Communist gunfire.
The commander of the U. S
Army's 52nd Aviation Battalion,
farther south, radioed his su-
perior that the situation was so
desperate that only the sick and
per cent of all property had
been destroyed.
Spokesman in Saigon said
coastal districts in the three •
provinces. were 85 to 90 per
cent under water I •
Farther south, aid officials
estimated that 100.000 to 299,900
persons were homeless in Binh
Dinh Province, which also was
80 per cent under water in
some of its districts.
They said 40 inches of rain
had fallen in the province in
the first 10 days of November.
limited disarmament agree-
ments with Russia. It will be
too early to know for sure
exactly what -course Nikita
Khrushchev’s successors plan to
follow
The two Western leaders can,
however, come to a tentative
assessment of the wisdom of
opening new discussions to try
to find tension-easing agree-
ments in Europe and elsewhere.
the three provinces. He said 80
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BRENHAM, TEXAS
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Houston Tuesday by remte
control -from Johnson City,
breaking ground for three new
Houston docks on the port’s
50th anniversary.-
Johnson also spoke by tele,
phone from his ranch to cere-
monies at Houston marking the
port's growth from one dock
with 2 million tone a year of
cargb to’ a modem port with 90
docks and 57 million tons of
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are at odds with the bureau's
philosophy and to seek more
protection for water reserves.
The resolutions were two of
several hundred submitted by
county bureaus for action at
the 31st convention. •
The educational resolusion
recommended that an accu-
rate portrayal" of American
agriculture be written by* the
bureau's research and educa-
tion department end given to
local high schools upon request
“When a public school text-
book is,up for approval which
does not promote our phi-
losophy of individual liberty,
free enterprise and constitu-
tional government, we recom-
mend that the Texas Farm
Bureau fe a protest,” it add-
ed.
The group suggested that the
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bar* home and plantation in
t '^pjv H Hill designatrdby
thestate-as a Recorded Texas
H >> tot I. * landmark, was the’- ■
. e unda afternoom of a
formal cermony for *he unveil-
tag of the official historical
irker and medalion seal.
The markers were unveiled by
fashington County Judge .Odis
Tomachefsky.
$ a. inscribed-on the Medallion. ' -
Plat were th* words, . lark
__hart Plant aticm. BiHIf by Dr,.
lohn W 1 Lockhart 1850Con
-mix led of < edar and black
■ walnut band tui on the 1.000.
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hugr - qehge *4 - 3)
sGizensEtate Marker
Dr John Washington Lock- floors and jotsts were oak, th TheEOkRSreanf their six —
stair* and, of beauti-
ful Mirk walnut
Britain is building,. into the
broader force There would be
room for France eventually to
place it* nuclear deterrent with-
in this framework and have a
voice in directing the operation
if President Charles de Gaulle
ever, dec ide* to end AM go-it-
alone policy L
if the British are able to
"sell" their revised plan to
West Germany-so far the only,
strong supporter of the Ameri-
can project—the United States
also may be agreeable
Johnson and Wilson, official*
sible results of the present ef-
forts between Red China and
Russia to arrive at. a truce in
their bitter dispute'over inter-
national policies. *
Experts Compremise
Wilson ts expected to turn up
here with a compromise pro
posal to amend the American
idea for a 25-vessel NATO nu-
clear fleet to make it more
acceptable to the new Labor
government in London
The British idea appears to
be t reduce the size of this
particular force, with its crews
of mixed nationalities, and in-
corporate it into a larger NATO
nuclear arrangement which
would include land and air ele-
ments a* well.
The British idea is believed
to call for incorporating Euro-
pean national nuclear forces, in-
cluding the Polaris submarines
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Following the invtication,
given byJames H Atkinsom,
.. president of Blinn College, in-
trodaction of efficers and di-
r otors of the ■ t huppett HH
Historical Society was made by
president, Mrs Larry • ~
Spain Distinguished guest
were presented by Mr*, Bess -
Hugh' s Hnbekotte. president of
the Washington ( ounty Histori-
cal Survey Committee .
Spoke Of History
(ol H R Matthews, grand
nephew of Mrs. J W Larkhart
nee Sat ah Ann Elizabefh
Browning, spoke of the history
of this ancestral home where he
was bom in May, 1900. and
iived the first 15 years of his
life He introduced hi* younger
brother. T L Matthew*. also
bor and reared there, who.
• came from Lafayette, La., for
the ceremony
Col Matthews Mated that the
Lockharts and their kin were
buried in the old Alkinson Ceme-
tery of Chappell Hill, with
graves handsomely marked and
the grouhds cared lor by a trust,
fund set up by J. F. Wallis of
Los Angele*. grandson of the
builder of the home
John W. Lockhart came to
Washington on the Brazos hi
IMO at the age of 19 He studied
medicine at Tulane in varsity
and began practicing in Chap-
pell Hill about 1848, at which
time he acquird 1.909 acres of
land, he present Scottland
- Fanns, owned by Dr and Mr*.
Russell Scott of Houston and
Brenham. Lockhart built his
- home with timber milled on the
place. mostly cedar, though the
"3 a SER. CO. 0
with loads of Vietnamese refu-
wemmmmm8 '
(See VETERANS Page •) tslion said ”we are being shot
acre place Purchased in 1961
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villa gave an appreciation din- Ralp
ner Tuesday night lor the Santa drive,
F* Railway Company employ- look *
ma and their |mI union No. 1903 8
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Blanton, Ben F. & Johnson, Walter C. Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 226, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 11, 1964, newspaper, November 11, 1964; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1578248/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library.