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Washington County
Spelling Champion
mond Bednar,
maraRmtec,
The Brenham Knights of Col-
umbus presented Willie Murski
of Brenham with an Honorary
Membership Award at a meet-
DAYS
LEFT
With 20 well trained partici-
pantsip the largest Spelling
Bee rxtr conducted in Wash-
ington County, Delores Heard,
13, an eighth grade student of
Alton, Junior High School and'
that smashed through six Mid-
west states. There will be a
wrap-up story from Chicago.
Picture coverage planned A
related dispatch will move from
St-Paul, Minn-meeperting that
floods in that state have forced
more residents from their
homes.
Houston, sponsored by The
Houston Chronicle; will win an
all expenses paid trip to Wash-
ingfon, D. C;, to participate in
the National Spelling Bee for
valuable scholarships, plus a
Fedey awl Serdny
i May?ed4,me
THE WEATHER IN
BRENHAM
on the word 'equilibrium” and
Alfred Holland was eliminated
on the word "erroneous.”
By the time the rounds went
past .16, fudges lost count of the
rounds in the excitement.
Mary Edna Scale's, Melvin C
Taylor, Eva Baker, Betty Shep-
a rd and Larry Davis. ------
POVERTY, Washington — Di-
rector of war on poverty -urges
Congress to double spending on
program.
RI Ri IN — in Berlin, the
C ommunists opened their wall
for Easter liners but threatened
to shut it again if not granted
apolitical price. Thousands
streamed intn East Berlin for
the visits.
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COOLING OFF
Partly cloudy to cloudy
through Tuesday. Nat quite so
warm. Law expected tonight M.
High expected Tuesday'76.
Readings for 24 hour period
ending at 7 a.m. on eth date:
April 10, Max. 84. Min. 68. 7 a.
m. 7); April 11. Mas. M. Min.
71. 7 a.m. 71; April 17, Mas. 75,
Min. 70, 7 a.m. 71. Raia 41.
MAIFEST TICKETS will be
on Sale beginning Monday
Morning, April 12 at 8 o'clock at
presented Murski with an Hon-
orary Membership Pin and his
accomplishments with the
Knights of Columbus.
To become eligible for this
Award.aaGrand Knight said.
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Nation's Capital such as is
seldom affordedmther than
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, Homeless families filled high
schools, churches and National
"ide
least 14 other bodies lay uniden-
tified in morgues. /
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cil No. 32*7 of Brenham was
also organized during the Month
of March and celebrated its 15th
Anniversary on March 19.
The Local Order has grown
from about 35 members in 1950
to over 100 members at present.
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-the Biggest Httle
Town in
BARNHILL’S DRUG STORE
ON THE SQUARE
states left at least 222 dead and
rescue workers said today more'
bodies were in the rubble.
Indiana was hardest hif with
at least ill dead in the state's
Kwephne MS fimameial recerde tor "65 vif
■M it eniu U prepan your F ederal tcoma lax
netumb'V
Thursday eVening, April 22,,
with similar sessions in Hous-
ton on April 28, and at Camp
Hudson on April 29. -
The David Crockett District
also has a Camporee planned
for April 23-25. Participation of
many of the Cub Packs, Scout
troops and Explorer units of
the district are expected to
participate in the- council-wide
Scout Cirrus on May 8, in the
Domed Stadium in Houston.
County'c oordr at or of the Spetl
ng Bee. W V Me Adams, su-
petitendent of the Brenham
Junior School, was Spelling
Bee Director and preparec, —
with suggestions from booklets
prepared by the National Spell-
ing Bee the rules and regula- ’
tions which were given to all
participants and the audience.
It was obvious that these
spellers had studied for the con
test.
.The w inner-of the 26-county
East Texas Spelling Bee in
Mugb‘
Miudhud”.
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REAR-END COLLISION
A car driven by Jerry Lee
Schaefer collided with the rear
of a car driven by Joe Al Picone
of 803 Walnut Hill near the inter.
GARAGE* EIRE
The Brenham Fire Department
reported a weekend fire in the
garage of Alfred Winkelmann
of Live Oak Hill tn Route five,
Brenham. The garage was a
total Ibas. The exact cause of
the blaze is not known. The
building was owned by Robert
Hammond
MINOR ACCIDENT
Edgar Welch of Caballo. New
Mexico collided with a car driv-
en by John Willie Skowers of
3536 Pineridge in Houston at
12 30 p m Saturday at the corn-
er of Academy and Chappell
Hill.
visiting potentates.
Spelling Bee Director W. V.
McAdams and Ben F. Blahton
editr and publisher of the
Banner Press, will take Delores'
Heard, her school principal.
Mrs. Hattie. Mae Flowers, and
her parents "’to Houston for the
East Texas Bee. It will be held
in the Cullen Auditorium of the
University of Houston, and will
betejryised over KUHr-TV.
’ The omher 15 students in the
Washington. County Spelling
Bee were David Barrett, Ruby
Nell Meyer, Milanne Hahn.
Mary Ellen Schmid, Patricia
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reported tearful U. S. will try
to destroy fts military power
before Peking acquires nuclear
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the first official
an air-to-air' missile infended
for the Migs.
Peking issued another state-
-Chas William Holtkamp, 66,
of 404 Ross Avenue. died in a *
Brenham hospital Saturday at
4:30 p.m.
Funeral services were held at
the Grace Lutheran Church in
Brenham Manday at >:3> p. m.
with Rev. Arnold G.Mueller of-
ficiating. Burial was in the
Praiie Led Cemetery. The
Brenham Memorial Chapel was
in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Lena Finke Holtkamp of
Brenham; four sons, Arnold
Holtkamp, Willie Holtkamp, Al-
vin Holtkamp and Robert Holt-
kamp, all of Brenham: one
daughter, Mrs. Hilbert Goessler
of Bryan: and 11 grandchildren;
and his mother, Mrs. H. F.
Schroeder of White Hall.
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• They were De lores Heard.
lane Lehde, who was winner of
the Washington County Spelling
Bee last year and placed eighth
in the I ast Texas Bee in Hou
—ton; Bonnte Weigelt, Alfred ■
Dean Holland and Linda Hill. -
Jane Lehde was eliminated
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• Edgar Wassermann. 59. of
505 West Fifth Street, died in .
the backyard of his residence
Sunday at 12:M p.m Justice of
the Peace John King rendered
a verdict of death due to self*
inflicted wounds. / 1
Funeral services wall be held
at the Brenham Memorial Chap-
el Tuesday at 2 p m. with Rev.
Thomas H Swygert, pastor of ,
St. Paul's Lutheran Church of
Brenham, officiating Burial -
will be in the Prairie Lea Ceme-
tery.
Survivors include his widow,
Mr*.. Lillie Beck Wassermann;
his mother. Mrs. Rosie Wasser-
mann of Fayetteville; three
daughters, Mrs. Claude Schluens
of Texas City, Mrs James R.
Foster of Brenham and Mrs.
'Roy .Keim of Garland, and six
grandcnildren.
must have 25 or more years of
active membership in the KC‘s.
Murski has been a member of
the Knights of Columbus for
over 35 ye«rs.. ________________
Other Honorary Members in
the Local Order are Tony Kopy-
cinski and Ike Wozniak.
New members of the Order
were also recognized and pre-
sented with a K.C. Pin by the
Grand Knight at the last meeting
The seven new members .
who were recently initiated into
the Third Degree of the Order
BOY FOR MUCCULLOUGES
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Muccul
louge of Burton are the parent*
of a ‘boy. born at the Bohne
Memorial Hospital Sunday at
in 40 am. He weighed six
pounds. five ounces.
SACRAMENTO, Calif (UPI)
—A Los Angeles assembly has
asked the state legislature to
pass* a bill to keep vandals
from standing on freeway over-
passes and throwing rocks at
passing cars.
The measure also authorizes
officers to order a person off a
bridge or overpass if he be-
lieves the person is going to
throw something or fire a gun
at a motor vehicle. _
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Scouts To Hold
Planning Meeting
The April meeting of the
David Crockett District Com
mittee will be held Monday.
April 12, at 6:30 p m. at Mewls'
Cafe in Bellville. H. J. Knight
will preside at a meeting at
which plans for the Scout Acti-
vities of the late spring and
summer will-bq discussed. (
These include Summer Camp
Orientation and training ses-
sions for troop leaders who will -
go to one of the Council camps
this coming summer. The first
of these will be at Navasota on
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TOWN
the area around South Rend
Especially hard-hit was a trail-
er camp near Dunlap. Eighty
policemen from Muncie rushed
to Marion to help local authori-
ties care for the wounded and
search for the dead. At Koko-
mo, two fire houses were de-
molished and a home for the
aged was struck; damage was
running into the millions.
Ohio: At least 28 persons
were killed in the Toledo area.
Five died when a bus was
biown over on the Tledo-to-De-
troit expressway. At Bluffton,
ambulances had to wait in a
line three or four deep to dis-
charge their passengers. The
high winds derailed about 50
The air war against the Com.
munists continued. A spokes-
man reported that eight B57
Indiana reports parts of 40
counties were without electrical
power because of the storm
The force of the tornadoes
was awesome
Ohio caught the end of the
storm and authorities there
counted at least 85 dead. There
were 38 dead in Michigan, 7 in
Illinois and 3 in Wisconsin. ,
Despite warnings by the
Weather Bureau, the twisters
apparently caught entire com-
munities by surprise. - More
than 2.000 persons were injured
and property damage ran into
millions of dollars.
Planes Survey Destruction
Two of the hardest-hit areas
were west of Toledo, Ohio,
where at least 20 persons per-
ment on the incident today,
charging that eight U. S. mili-
tary planes in two groups In-
truded over Hainan island and
__worst disaster on record. By
Chinese elate morning 97 Indiana vic-
Guard armories. Full emergen-
cy measures we,re imposed in
the hardest hit areas,, where
National Guardsmen patrolled
the streets to prevent looting.
The worst tornado recorded
by the U.S. Weather Bureau
struck in Missouri, Illinois and
Indiana March 18, 1925. It killed
689 persons.
A state-by-state look at the
storm’s pgth:
Indiana: The twisters sliced
from the South Bend area
planes that took off to meet
them."
"This is a most serious inci-
dent." China said. "While in-
tensifying its effadts-in escalat-
ing the war in Indochina, the
U.S. government has brazenly
resorted to direct military pro-
vocations against China."
An American pilot taking
part in the patrol said one of
the MIGs was seen going down
in flames as the Soviet - built
planes broke off the action and
fled into the cover of clouds.
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area was in the Comstock Park •
section. near Grand Rapids,
where the twisters killed at
least five persons. The storm’s
fury was so strong. It 'railed
back a new blacktop road as if
it were a carpet. An estimated
50 homes were flattened in the
area and guardrails on high-
ways were twisted from their
concrete posts. At Pearl Beach
and Crystal Beach near Cold-
water police said the damage
was so extensive an assessment
could not - be made until day- •
light.
Illinois: Twisters tore through
the Chicago suburb of Crystal
Lake, killing at least five per-
sons. An estimated 120 homes
were flattened, and hundreds of
persons were treated at hospit-
"blatantly attacked
16 Pages, 3 Sections BRENHAM, TEXAS
V,
BASEBALL PRACTICF
Any boy age nine-12 who has
not beent signed en’a little
league team urged to attend
practice sessions Monday
through Wednesday-at the little
league park after 4 30 p.m.
als. A force of 500 rescue, work-
southwardt Kokomo Mora hEspmovedintocetrent
The eight-inch howitzers ar-
rived at a time when the Com-
munist Viet Cong guerrillas
were reported building up for a
major offensive.
American intelligence sources
said they had "proof positive"
that North Viet Nam has labor-
iously transported a significant
amrqunt of artillery into South
Vie* Nam over the Ho Chi
STeet won first plae and the
• honor o} represen?g Washing-
ton Coht y in the . > a st Texas
Spelling Bee..inHouston on
Saturday, May 1
The ’Sp- lltng Be r in. luded
two. contestants 'from 10 schoots.
ih Washingiqn County, and was
- first time that students
from every publc school were
invited to attend, as well as
the parochtal schools of the-
county. It.was sponsored by
’ The Brenham Barmer-Pres*
and The Houston Chronicle,
whic h sponsors me East Texas
Spring Ree.
Second place winner was
ski.
' The month of March is called
"Founders Month” since the
Order of the Knights of Colum-
bus celebrated its 83rd Anni-
vermary on March 29. - .a . One twister rolled back
The local St. Joseph’s Coun- ’
_ ****110*1 of Main and Douglas at
I W pm Saturday. Pioe had
stopped for 4 pedestrian who was
- crossing the- reft when he was
struck from the tear.
T dom wantto see this again."
The outbreak of twisters took
its place as one of the worst on
record. The U; S. Weather Bu-
reau said the most disasterous
tornado in history struck Mis-
souri, Illinois and Indiana
in, 1925 with a loss of 689 lives.
READY FOR ACTION--Ready for combat. Marines i
beach area bordering the vital U. S. air base at Da Nt
reinforcements were the second contingent of Marines i
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.SAIGON {URM.S. Marines munjs Gaina claimed Friday *
toefay-began unloading a ship- —— " " " - —
ment of, big guns in Da Nang—
including a platoon of eight-
ties said the search.bad been
abandoned for two American
airmen aboard a. Navy let
fighter involved in a clash last
Friday with Communist MIGs.
An official report on the in-
eident faited mto- make clear
whether the plane was shot
down. It did not specify the.
nationality of the MIGs, which
are flown by both Communist,
Chinese and North Vietnamese
pilots
The aerial clash took place in
the Gulf of Tonkin 35 miles
southwest of Communist
China’s Hainan Island. ’
An American military spokes-
man said only that search op-
erations failed 'to turn up any
trace of the two fliers after
they had radioed the aircraft
carrier ranger that the plane
was running low on fuel.
_ The Phantom jet was one of
four Navy pianei 'TTyiTig ''WIG
patrol" for a 140-plane-nary
raid on Communist North Viet
Nam.
Today's announcement was
Harold W i ikenhorst, super-
ing in March. Raridy Reet*. the
'Grand Knight of the local Order,
bombers made air strikes
against Viet Cong positions in
South Viet Nam this morning.
I win alen teave ia th* midat et
thee, an afflieted and poor people, '
and they shall trust in the name of
th* Lord.—Zephaniah 3:11.
Th* afflicted minority—with God-
has often been used a* the first cen-
tury church to "lorn s world upnide
down.'* The majority 1* not aways
right
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and volunteers set up flood
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‘ " ‘ search of the dead and injured
Dunlap, Ind., where the same-
number were killed. The storm
took at least 18 lives at Leban-
on. Ind., and at least 17 in Lo-
rain County west of Cleveland.
Indiana Gov. Roger Branigan
declared the stricken area of
his Mate—a broad band stretch-
ing from near the Hoosier capi-
tal to the Michigan line—to be
a disaster area. An aerial ar-
mada of 18 planes took off at
dawn to survey the destruction.
Authorities urged rural rest-,
dents in need of help to lay out
white sheets in the form of a
cross.
Hospitals Filled
Hospitals throughout the hat
tered areas in Michigan. Indi-
SHaaomowereemedrtage
with injured. Makeshift
morgues were set up in some
towns for the dead. Homeless
families filled high schools.,
churches and National Guard
armories"—
The twisters knocked down
homes, stores, barns and trees
They left streets in many towns
deep with rubble and debris. Na-
tional Guardsmen were called
out t patrol some areas where
there was A possibility of loot
ing.
Civil defense workers, police
as if it were a rug. Another de-
railed 50 car* of a freight train
in Ohio. Boats docked on Lake
Erie near Point Place were tos-
sed on top of houses. Aluminum
siding from homes near Mount
Gilead, Ohio, was rapped
around, utility poles.
The twister that swooped
through Grand Rapids, Mich .
came whistling in “like an' old
German 88 shell in World War
II," one witness said. The tor-
nado that picked up the car of
an Indiana couple — with them
stilLin- it—felt "somethinglike
a big hand."
—Asalesman whowatchedthe
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Gilpin, pastor of The Methodist i
Church and Mrs. S. T. Kennedy,
a substitute teacher, the 2# !
spellers went through five
rounds before there gere any j
eliminations. But by the eleven- '
th sound. theEawero Iy five“
spellers left in the contest
GIRL FOR WITTES
Mr and Mrs. Ernest Witte of
Brenham are the parents of a
girl bom at the Bohne Memorial
H"-fp"rl! Mt-u4*<- S' a- M S
She weighed eight pounds, 14
ounces.
Tornadoes Kill 2
meh howitzers, the biggest ar-
tillesy pieces ever brought
to South Viet Nam by any
force.
< A military spokesman Raid
the Marines did not have nu-
clear war heads for the weap-
ons. but they were capable of
hurling such projectiles up to 14
miles.
The eight-inch howitzers, a
battery of 155 mm. howitzers
and other heavy equipment
were unloaded at "the main
docks in the center of Da Nang
350 miles north of Saigon. The
■ arrival was in line with the
continual buildup of the 9th Ma-
rine Expeditionary Brigade at
Da Nang.
More Marines Due
Another battalion of ground
combat Marines is scheduled to
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Wisconsin: The tornaodes cut
a path through southwestern
Wisconsin, chewing a wide path '
of property damage and caus-
ing at least three deaths when
the wild winds blew cars
off the highway. Gov. Warren
Knowles, who drove through
tornado area just before the
storms hit, declared- Green.
Rock and Jefferson counties as.
disaster areas , /
Iowa: In Iowa, where the
i barrage of twisters began,
there was widespread damage
and several persons were in- .
jured. Thousands of person#
were left without electric pow- ’
er when the winds pulled down
1 electric wires.
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Linda J. Hill
xunde! rehssemmsszpur.nt - Honorary KC
the protection of Da Nang air .
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word and spelled anothengT.
correctly. The judgs and Spell-
ing Bee director W V Mc-
Adam* read the rules aloud
twice, and warned the' students
to ask. for a repeat of the word .
before starting, nr a definition.
Linda Hill spelled Arred-
itable" instead of "credible"
and Delores spelled the missed
word correctly, then went on to
spell "liaison" to he declared
the W inner.
F.vh school champimwas
awarded a Papermate pen wih
th*, words "Houston Chrnmr le
1963 School Spelling Champion”
on it
By DONALD ZOCHERT | storm ber
that spun through six‘Midwest
I inda J Hill, 13, also of Minn
Kill Twenty Reds
American helicopter gunner*
killed 20 Red* in
Viet Cong about 290 miles
northeast or Saigon Sunday —
A total of 42 air strikes were
flown on Sunday—only two by
Vietnamese pilots. A U. S
spokesman said eight R57 bomb-
er*, 32 U. S.-piloted sky-raider
fighter - bombers and two
.Vietnamese Sky raiders made
strikes in four different provin-
ces. They reported destroying
ill Viet Cong huts, killing 10
• 2. Box 41, Brenham
Third place honors went to
Bonnie Weiget, etghth grade
student of Burton Junior High
$ hoot, daughter of Mr and
Mrs Mervin Weigelt
.Prizesof 115 for first place.
. $in for second place/ and $3
■ tor third ptac e will be awarded
to the w.inners when they ap
p 1 Mr lay on 'he Town Talk
television program on_KBTX-
TV station in Bryan oq-th
Town Talk program ,
With F. D.(Cy) Rodgers call-
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