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Denton Record- Chronicle
WEATHER
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PARTLY CLOUDY
61ST YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE—NO. 190
DENTON, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1964
Hospital Issue Passes By 6-1 Marg
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Expansion Okayed
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One Of U.S. Fliers
to replace controversial Melvin
Is Released By Reds
(AP)— Lt. Harold W. Welch, a native of Detroit, had been
one of three U.S. Air Force hurt in parachuting from the cheerful and gave all appear-
fliers shot down over East plane.
ances of a "man who is happy
A blue U S. Air Force ambu- to he back among his own
Germany, was reunited with
sive problems.
Vietnamese
seeking a solution which recog-;
Connally To Tall
In The News
NO PROHIBITION
, to be carried by a special rep-
Lvndon Johnson ter the initial word.
A Call For Medical Care
by any party.
Dr
for
of Precinct 4, central northwest
See HOSPITAL, Page 2
Slipped Bad
ar
Denton Man
Page Sec.
Page Sec.
said
Women's News .... 1-5
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a
New Lawyer
To See Ruby
First Time
trial, filed a motion Friday,
claiming Judge Joe B Brown
made 36 errors in rulings and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam D Hanes Jr., was
presented at the Coronation Ball and will reign over
M. Belli. 55. of San Francisco
as chief counsel, will meet with
■ two other defense lawyers, pre-
sumably to plan strategy to
in his statement about the ma.
chinery for such a review; "As
ery difficulty. He will be charg-
ed with the responsibility of
day called for a union effort to obtain the enactment of na-
tional health programs for all, regardless of income. The ac-
tion came after a former prime minister of Saskatchewan re-
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HOUSTON (AP)—Percy Fore-
man. new chief attorney for Jack
Ruby, scheduled his first meet-
ing with his client today in the
Dallas County Jail.
Ruby was sentenced to death
a week ago for slaying Lee Har-
vey Oswald, accused assassin of
President John F. Kennedy
tric chair.
Marion. a 22-year-old Negro.
School News
Signature Page
Sports
Town Topics
TV Log
Amusements
Classified
Comics
Editorials
Family Weekly
T.W.U.’s REDRI I) QUEEN
Miss Connie Sue Hanes, a TWU junior from Amar-
10
The other two fliers remained
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Foreman. 61 hired Thursday council of the OAS who has been .
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l Flow 255 bed spaces more than
I twice the number of the hospi-
I tal s present rated capacity.
“ Many of these bed spaces are
already needed, but officials he-
1 lieve it will take about three
[years to build the new hospital
line Friday, but the courts will probably he asked to rule on
whether he gave up his California residence when he joined
John F Kennedy’s forces.
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chosen to try to mediate the dis- 3
pute. De Lavalle moved at once |
to set up a meeting with Sec- l
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Sun sets today at 6 45 p m ; rises Von
day at 6 32 • m
RAINFALL
(In inches)
6-7
6-8
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1-16
retary of State Dean Rusk
After reading his statement.
1
14,200 county residents hold poll tax receipts or ex-
emption certificates
But 1.987 of the ballots favored issuance of $1 million
in hospital bonds for the expansion and improvement of
the city-county hospital
Only 320 negative ballots were cast in the 24 reported
i wing and make planned changes,
i Prior to calling the election,
I members of the county commis-
| sioners court said the Si-million
bond issue could be handled
I Plunge into Politics
Pierre Salinger plunged ahead with his race for the U.S.
Senate in California Saturday, despite the possibility of a
A Diminishing Aid Program
David Bell, chief of the foreign aid program, said Saturday
that in future years country after country will drop off the
am tolls because of improving economic conditions, but that
the $3 4 billion asked by President Johnson for next year is
still needed.
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weer
without causing a need for a
tax increase, provided the coun-
tv continues to grow as it has
during the past decade
HEAVIEST SUPPORT
Heaviest support for the bond
issue came from Denton voters.
। who voted in favor of the bond
I , issue bv a margin of more than
« 12-1. The vote was 1,375 to 114.
Persons living outside Denton
n
Wiesbaden Hospital, who had
Emphasis seemed to be on the visited the injured pilot twice in
apology. Magdeburg and had twice re-
Word from Phnom Penh, quested his release from the
Cambodia s capital, was that Russians Both requests were
the two nations appeared mov- denied at the time they were
ing toward a settlement of their made
ing in Panama nearly three who will award the
save Ruby from the electric
chair.
Phil Burleson of Dallas, one of
Ruby’s attorneys during the
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(Experiment Station Report)
High Saturday
Low Saturday
Hish Friday
High year aso
Low year ago
protested that 16 of his sub- Manor, 22, went on trial Mon-!
jects were - killed. He said he day charged with the fatal beat-
will complain to the U N Secur- ing of Mrs Fred Turner Jr , 66,
ity Council about "the criminal wife of a wealthy Midland oil
aggressions of the American- mar and race horse owner, last
Vietnamese forces." (Oct. 29. 1 Home Improvement 7
illo, was crowned Redbud Queen Saturday night by
Dr."John A Guinn, TWU president. Miss Hanes.
t ’ President Discusses Salinger,
2 Cubans, Freed Flier In Meeting
• WASHINGTON (AP)—President Johnson made a per-
- sonal move Saturday to try to get talks with Panama
back on the track.
Last 24 Hour*
This Month
March Average
This Year
Last Year
The vote was light, but Denton County taxpayers voted
6-1 Saturday in favor of Flow Memorial Hospital’s Si-
million bond issue.
Denton residents approved the proposal 12-1.
With only two small boxes yet to be reported late Sat-
urday night, 2,314 ballots had been counted More than
Johnson,
HELMSTEDT. Germany in Communist hands Welch, 24, white plaster cast.
Declaring that medical care "can no longer be organized
as private monopoly, " the United Auto Workers Union Satur-
as - ■
Johnson said the instructions
■■I
degree in the auditorium and in
A Look On The Inside
WHAT ARE THE READERS THINKING? Some of them
express their opinions today on Page 4, Section 1.
PALM SUNDAY AND EASTER SUNDAY are favorite dates
for brides-elect and prospective bridegrooms to announce wed-
ding plans. In today’s paper six engagements are being an-
nounced on Women’s News pages in Section 2
A THREAT OF WIDESPREAD measles infection hangs
over the Denton High School baseball team and Record-Chron-
icle Sports Editor Leslie Whiteley is to blame For that story,
see Page 1, Section 3.
WHAT MAKES DILLY RUN? Signature writer J. Tom Gra-
ham answers the question on Page 4. Section 3,
Johnson walked unannounced into a routine briefing -
being held by press secretary George A. Reedy and sur- l
prised reporters by reading a detailed statement of his I
attitude toward the Panama dispute. I
Johnson said: "We are prepared to review every is-! I
sue which now divides us, and every problem which the I
of Pan
m results are not expected to
• make a significant ditference in
Ml 1 the vote ratio
■ “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED"
MB ' "The vote lays down a chal-
mB lenge in the administration and
• ’ personnel of the hospital. We
M accept that challenge," Bob
I Dickson, hospital administrator,
’ said Saturday night as the re-
sults of the election became ap-
parent.
“The commissioners court, the
hospital Board of Managers, the
medical staff, and all employes
of the hospital will attempt to
render the best stewardship
over the hospital and attempt to
establish the finest hospital ser-
vice and patient care in North -
Texas," Dickson added.
1 L. A. Nelson, chairman of the
Board of Managers, said earlier
this week that officials were con-
fident that passage of the $1-
million bond issue would assure
J Flows getting an additional $1-
million federal aid grant through
the State Department of Health.
DECIDING BODY
The health department makes
decisions on applications for
federal aid grants to hospitals
in September of each year.
A ' The planned $2-million expan-
R sion of the hospital will give
. rrof
o X o006
$ t t t
wounded from the burning
wreckage.
VILLAGE STRAFED
scribed the statement as a
reaffirmation of U.S. policy,’
I key phrases appeared to be
sufficiently vague to leave am-
ple room for maneuver in any
settlement talks.
PANAMANIAN REACTION
Initial Panamanian reaction
was favorable
Miguel Moreno, Panama’s
. ambassador to the Organization
‘ of American States, said he
’ would have to study the Johnson
statement but commented. "It’s
what we have been working for
since January.”
Johnson said he was sending
his statement to Juan Bautista
A pologize
approved the question by a mar-
Poth Mrs Lvndon Johnson ter the initial word. ■ gin of 3-1, with a vote total of
, resentative would "not prohibit and Texas Gov John Connally Mrs. John T. Jones Jr of 612 for and 206 against
. any solution which is fair and will sneak at TWU at 11 a.m. Houston, chairman of the TWU Only two of the 24 reported
" subject to the appropriate con- Tuesday, March 31. when the Board of Regents, will welcome boxes voted against the propos-
stitutional processes of both our university confers an honorary the dignitaries al These were the Precinct 19
governments.". doctor of laws degree on the A press room will be set up, box at Bolivar and the Precinct
The president emphasized first lady. beginning at 7:30 am. on the 23 box at Cross Roads
that his statement repeatedly A schedule of events for the ground floor of the Art, and Election ’ ud Jack Arm.
referred to a "review ” of prob- dav has been announced bv Sciences Building Places for " . J. three of. the 26
lems that triggered bloody riot- TWU President John A Guinn, newsmen will also be reserved balotsscast in PBonVar were in
favor of the bond issue. Twen-
ty-three voted no.
They said Welch looked
The apology was for strafing sat impassioned as the verdict
the Cambodian border village of was head
Chantrea, 40 miles west of Sai- Asked later about the outcome
gon. in an aerial pursuit of of the trial. Marion said "I
Communist Viet Cong guerrillas don’t think it was a fair or prop-
fleeing a South Vietnamese at- er verdict "
tack Khanh’s government ex- The jury returned its verdict
pressed full responsibility. approximately five and half
Prince Norodom Sihanouk the hours after receiving the case
Cambodian chief of state. had but took time out for supper.
Cross Roads voted 13 - 12
against the bond issue.
The largest total vote was in
2 29 boxes.
°82 Reports from the Waketon and Parvin precincts will
likely be delivered to the
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Warmer today and tonight Cooler Mon-
dev Highs todav 66 to 76
TEMPERATURES
Panamanian government wishes to raise. We are pre- i
pared to do this at any time and any place.”
| Although Johnson de
MrsnJohnsonawittereetnde KEY WEST, Fla (API-The State Department In Washing-
„ . , ean that
Hurt Slightly Innskonmiorhubbardiai! rme ciban helicopter A mited desertion, then treason
g ‘ mr keyeweninnernationaypadrporeenmomurdmrea ....
Billy Ray Bishop of Denton ar Posding n 1901 The undetected by US radar the demand It said the heli-
was treated for minor bruises " r.ml. . wil the The Russian-built helicopter copter was being held pending
Saturday night at Parkland Me- rirst 1ad for maonifi armed with a 50-caliber mach further investigation However,
morial Hospital in Dallas and AChievemente symbolic of the ine gun, arrived Friday The a state Department spoke sman
released following a two-car ac- . . )r for whieh uni pilot was dead in the cockpit said a US plane was standing
cident south of Farmers Branch wsiz iu.e in t "dvrtiona wounded seven times bv bullets bv readv to return to uba the
S.x persons were involved inprgramitror’womenleadersor Two 20-year-old defecting body ’ the pilot ard the crew,
the collision , future Cuban army captains said the, man who wanted to go home.
Another Dentonite, Billy Joe CONN AI IV PART seized the craft ir Havana The defectors could be returned
• Rohjson of 1814 Mercedes, was _ . , r r „ When th. pilot refused to fly to onls ,v extradition through the
driving the car in which Bishop naiiv in the events was not an the United States the shooting U.S courts, the spokesman
“MrsPpauengordan .or Carron hounced for several weeks -• "ttredcthansagdvernment de-
ton, wife of the other driver. re- Best of the Western on the Conn manded return of the helicopter Schmitz. Eoyd Hamlet. Ambu
ceived a possible broken arm West Show, 1:00p.m. KDNT and of the two defector* The lance. Phones 382-2214 and 382-
I and suffered bruises. AM & FM. (Adv.) demand was delivered at the 4147. (Adv.)
DENTON AND VICINITY Clear to part-
Iv cioudy and warmer through Monday
Windy Monday Highs Sunday 4? to r2
NORTHWEST TEXAS Clear to partly
cloudy and windvy through Monday I
Lyndon Seeks
To Smooth
Johnson opened the floor to
questions, launching what
proved to be another impromptu
news conference.
DIPLOMATIC TIES
During the questioning, the
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on theaut Obatin inHelmstedt, ys-charge dAffaires Friday tohe names P Foreman. Bur- The president had this to say:
refueled and earned Welch to Stoessel in Moscow Friday leson and Joe Tonahill l.........
’Hannover Airport There an Air nignt. ner were an The document
Forceplane pickednim up and sTheVnitedSta testhas made Foreman thd authorized soon as he is invited by the gov.
tospibamat wisbddentr Ueau be returned The Communists the rlingooratheomotigmdbutadd: ^r of Panama X We ihe annual Twu Redbud Festival. She was chosen
men! of a fractured leg and • shall X debate a special from among 75 princesses. ----
A Wilt Attack COMPAnION de than soouornoth Aadsnnemere X^XiXX^r^ T.W.U. SCHEIH LE EI XED
The fate and whereabouts of plane strayed across the border Foreman said. "In my first mo-
his two comrades, Capt David "B01 ,0 mi. , .0 . Hon I never reveal anything it
SAIGON, South Vietnam I. Holland, Holland, Minn., and about 20 mi and could be would have been a skeleton mo- ......„.............
(AP) — Premier Nguyen Capt Melvin J. Kessler, Phila- called back before it was shot t ion in which we would have nizes the fair claims
Khanh’s government protested delphia, were unknown They down. (asked for a new trial." ama and protects the interest of
to Cambodia Saturday aboul are believed to be uninjured ’ ' « ------ . . . all the American nations in the
the downing of a U.S.-piloted Welch, a navigator on the canal."
spotter plan® by Cambodian plane, was accompanied in the
fighters, but apologized for an ambulance by Col John A. Hen-
attack on a border vil’age of nessen Jr , chief of surgery at
that neutralist neighbor. — - -
frontier dispute after nearly ' IrrDvIFwe
breaking up projected negotia- inilkmews
tions because of the related hos- Newsmen were not permitted ported the once-controversial plan there is no longer fought
tile incidents Thursday, to speak with either Welch or
CAMBODIA SATISFIED Hennessen in Helmstedt
Cambodian sources said , Thse who saw Welch trans-
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the ferred from the ambulance to
chief of state, has been satisfied the plane in Hannover said he
by the apology and by assur- wmswapPedainstbqnkets and - court test of bis eligibility. He filed shortly before the dead-
ances from Brig. Gen. Huvnh rightarm was covered with a
Van Cao, who heads the Viet- ° ____
namese delegation in Cambodia. _ IM.
■that the Vietnamese attack on I Daqth I iven
Chantrea was a mistake •duII UIV v II
The protest charged that two
Cambodian T28 fighters chased Im Kl-tine
and downed the L19 spotter III •IdyIIIF
plane that crashed on Vietna-. J O
mese territory about 2* miles LUBBOCK (AP)—A jury Sat-
from the border. The Vietna- urday night found James Lee
mese observer was killed and Marion guilty of the murder of
the pilot was pulled seriously a Midland woman and fixed his
punishment at death in the elec-
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MAY RE IT'S SPRING, AFTER A EL
Friday’s chilly entrance of spring was more like a mid-winter day, but by Satur-
day the weather was more befitting of the season, and these two Denton chil-.
dren decided to take advantage of it Ima Kay Walling, daughter of Mr and
Mrs Doyle Walling. 1004 Westway. and Mike Wallen, son of Mr. and Mrs.
T. D. Wallen of 1118 Bolivar, fly a kite under sunny skies.
months ago during a convocation at TWU's dining room
“I don’t say discuss,” he Main Auditorium ITINERARY
said "because that is a sticky Lady Bird Johnson, who re- Here's the itinerary that
word. Some of them do not quite ceived her bachelor of arts de- Guinn has outlined
understand what it means " gree at the Universitv of Texas, 10 15 a m. — Assemble
PREVIOUS CRISIS will tour the Denton campus in march.
Last Sunday evening an OAS the afternoon, the university 1" 45 a m - First part
committee announced that the president said See MRS. JOHNSON, Page 2
United States and I anama had proCFSSION SFr
agreed to resume diplomatic re- Thie ceremonie , will h e g i n (1 | A-.. W.
lations.then discuss, and nego- with an academic procession 1 .11 nnii 64pLOr* VIdV
mate common problems The along Redhud Lane at 10 15 — 1 * ■ --1
Johnson administration dis a m Faculty members and sen _ _ ’
avowed the OASuannouncpmer«• ior students will follow ’he IE.rA
See J HNSON, Page 2 leading group to the auditor- I.IcV C
ium
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