Mt. Pleasant Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 173, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 3, 1965 Page: 1 of 6
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ML Mleasant Times
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, 75455, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1985
VOL. NO. 46
5c PER COPY
- NUMBER 173-
Attempted Cong
er assault riddled a sampan
City Council Re-Zones
Property After Hearing
1
notes
Titus Approves
7 Amen
ents
per.
1
5
rectors—to be elected this
Ballots are asked to be re-
turned by Nov 15.
His running mates—both beat-
en by men on the Bea me slate
—were-a Liberal and a Dem-
ocrat.
Beame got a campaign hand
from Vice President Hubert
H Humphrey and a last-min-
ute endorsement from Presi-
dent Johnson
Lindsay Cops Major
New York Election
ties in a suit challenging the
reapportionment of the House
of Representatives.
ley, Karen Hanks, Lynn Fender, Mary Jane Ether-
edge and Claudia Kraner, Homecoming Princesses.
Miss Brock, Miss Carlon and Bonnie Kridler, not
shown, are the candidates for Homecoming Queen.
(Times Staff Photo.)
E Whitney. Dan Case and
Michael R Hall all of Talco.
Larry H Blake of Mount Ver
non and Curtis Kelly of Jas.
dricks.
Homecoming princesses, be-
sides the nominees, are Clau-
dia Kraner, to be escorted by
Paul Loving: Mary Jane Eth-
eredge, to be escorted by Bill
Whitaker; Karen Hanks, to be
escorted by Don Cody; Lynn
Fender, to be escorted by
Mike Bowman; and Barbara
Stanley, to be escorted by Bob
Crockett.
A homecoming dance will
be held for students at the
Youth Center following the
game Music is to be provid-
ed by the Extremes Combo
More Time Wanted
For Redistricting
HOUSTON * - Texas has
asked a special three-judge
-federal court to give the leg
islature until 1971 to solve
redistricting problems in the
. event the court throws out
the plan approved this year.
Atty Gen Waggoner Carr's
office filed a brief Tuesday
In response to an Oct. 19 let-
ter the court sent to all par-
officeholders.
Even before the New York
paign banner he shunned in
winning election as mayor of
New York
But while the liberal Lind-
say was winning by a 135,000-
vote margin in heavily Dem
ocratic New York City, Dem
ocrats were crushing Repub
lican hope's with gubernator-
lal victories in New Jersey
and Virginia.
After seven years as a Man
hattan congressman and sev-
en months as a mayoral cam-
paigner. Lindsay triumphed
over Democrat Abraham D
Beame—and because one of
WASHINGTON V — Re publicans little help in their
hunt for answers to the dilem-
crofiln Service a Sales
x 8066 *
11821_Eg*s.
They are Larry Doyle Thom-
The letter solicited com-was of Mount Pleasant Albert
Due Crowning Friday
Annual homecoming activ- and Miss Carlson, Gene Hen-
Are Light
SAIGON, South Viet Nam *
ballot then willbe the offi- the Rarobar -*
cial candidates for five di- the Republican party’s top
Defenders
Casualties Homecoming Queen
Raid Not Success
* ‘ ' SEFORE GAME...
HOMECOMING ROYALTY—To be on "center
stage" Friday night prior to the Mount Pleasant-
Sulphur Springs footbal game are these members
of the homecoming royalty. Left to right, seated
are Jan Brock, Football Sweetheart Janis White
and Sherry Carlson. Standing are Barbara Stan-
publican John V. Lindsay
vaulted today to the front
rank of the party whose cam-
No 6 (Opportunity Plan)
657 to 324
No 8 (Judges Retirement)
622 to 338,
County voters defeated Am-
endment No. 7 (Hospital Tax
Exemption', Amendment No.
9 (Lt. Gov and Speaker Sal-
aries' and Amendment No 10
(4- Year Representative
terms i.
Those three also were turn-
ed down in statewide voting.
In Titus County, No 7 fail,
ed 487 to 474; No * was de-
feated 500 to 402 and No. 10
by 589 to 364.
The widest margin one of
the issues carnod by in Titus
was Amendment No 3 (Aid
to Needy) It was approved
overwhelmingly 778 to 237.
Two amendments which
carried in Tiths were defeat-
ed on the state level.
See TITUS, Page ■
ities at Mount Pleasant High
School will be climaxed Fri-
day night when the Home-
coming queen is crowned.
The coronation will take
place at 7 o'clock in Tiger
Stadium prior to the football
game between the Mount
Pleasant Tigers and the Sul-
phur Springs Wildcats
Her identity is to be a sec-
ret until the coronation" Three,
senior girls are the nominees,
Jan Brock, Sherry Carlson
and Bonnie Kridler
The 1965 football sweet-
heart already has been chos-
en She is Janis White, a sen-
ior, and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs J H Skidmore, 1401 N.
Edwards Her selection was
made by members of the foot-
ball team
The 1965 homecoming queen
is to be crowned by the 1964
MPHS football queen. Martha
Bullock, who also will pre-
sent roses to her successor as
football sweetheart
Escorts for the nominees
are Miss Brock, Gerald Rus-
sell; Miss Kridler, Steve Hall;
Natl. Guard
Strength Cut
Along with curtailment of
enlisting new men. Mount
Pleasant’s National Guard un
it Battery B of the 1st Bat
talion, 132nd Artillery, has re-
ceived notice of a new
strength allotment
The Natonal Guard here, is
to have a strength of 41 en-
listed men and six officers
This compares with 54 and
six before.
At present. Battery B is
actually over strength with 57
men and four officers, accord
Ing to 1st Sgt Fred Bright
Jr
The unit was ordered re-
cently to cease enlistments
for non-prior service person-
nel. This was caused by
crowded basic training camps
over the nation, which are
handling the heavy number of
draftees
Six men were enlisted last
week before the curtailment
treatment plant The new
plant Is nearing completion
and is expected to be placed
into operation soon
Purchase of right of-way
and opening of a new street
to link Highway 67 and High
way 271 Bypass near the
Texas Highway Department
was reported The 50-foot
street was designated as
Elsye Avenue.
Regular first-of-the month
"reports were heard and ap-
proved
Mayor Otis McMinn- pre-
sided Councilman Dave Hitt.
Jimmy Smith, Robert Crooks.
Cecil Burnett and T. L. Mi
lam were present along with
City Manager Donald B
Ward, City Attorney Traylor
Russell and City Secretary
Mrs Tom B. Coker
Members of the Zoning Ad-
justment Board attending
were Dan H Mitchell, A. E.
Taylor, R M Sandlin, Ger-
ald Brogoitti and George San
defur Cram and other in-
terested parties in the toning
change also were present
ment on possible decrees the
court might hand down if it
rules 11 flotorial districts
overlapping county lines un-
constitutional.
Army Maj Richard Lundquist said Morrison
- yelled something as he stood on a concrete abutment,
med against the darkening sky .
Whatever it was that Morrison said—and they
were his last words—was unintelligible. _
At first, ne body knew for certain-what Morri-
son was protesting, although papers and
found on him indicated he once had
- meeting concerned with the Viet Nam
In other action, the Coun-
cil approved a request from
Texas Bus Lines to discon
linue one of its schedules
from Tyler The schedule dis
continued will be the 10:40
arrival from Tyler and the
1 p m departure from Mount 1
Pleasant from Tyler
Dec 9 was set as the date
for opening of bids for re
modeling the old sewage
WEATHER
Northeas|_ Texas mostly
cloudy occasional light rain
and little change in tempera
ture this afternoon, tonight
and Thursday. Low tonight 55
to 65 High Thursday 65 to
75
Directors' Ballots
Mailed to Members
Membership ballots, have
been mailed out to the mem
bership of the Mount Pleas
ant Chamber of Commerce
lor election of ten nominees
for the Board of Directors
The ten members receiving
the highest number of votes
from the membership list
with machine-gun fire A
spokesman said the group
killed three Viet Cong and
captured sever al hundred
rounds of ammunition
A U.S. military spokesman
reported 23 Americans killed
n action last week, 114
wounded and 2 missing or
r aptured U .S casualties the
week b- fore were 11 killed,
70 wounded and 13 missing or
captured
South Vietnamese casual
ties lor the past week were
363 killed, 773 wounded and
63 missing or captured, the
spokesman said The Viet Cong
toll was 1,264 dead and 133
captured
The spokesman said the
Viet Cong in the past two
weeks had struck in larger
force than at any other per
rod this year
The Communists—launched
three, battalion-size attacks
and one assault of regimen
tal strength last week, the
spokesman reported. The
Red losses were the third
highest on record for a sin
gle week
just south of Quang Ngui.
at the port of Qui Nhen
South Korea’s Tiger Division
took over the defense of a
large region from a U.S.
Marine unit
For WOMEN only kong delta a government riv
There will be some YUMMY
K. MP
U.S. ON PARADE IN VIET NAM—American hags and battle flags of U.S.
combat troops are carried through streets of Saigon South Viet Nam Several
U.S. units took part in observance of National Day, marking overthrow - of
President Diem two years ago. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon.)
The Mount Pleasant City
Council, holding Hs firstuhes:
sion of the month Tuesday
night rezoned-a-parcel.-of
propertyand approved an
amendment to the zoning
ordinance.
Members of the Zoning Ad
justment Board and other
interested parties met with
the Council..
The Counc il decided to re
BLAZING HUMAN
OBJECTS TO V.N.
WASHINGTON— A pacifist sacrificed him-
self- in flames in front of the Pentagon. His widow
said he gave his life "protesting our government's
deepmHilary involvement" in Viet Nam
Norman’ R Morrison, a Baltimore Quaker,
clutched his year-old daughter Emily in one arm
late Tuesday as he began to ’burn Screams of
"Drop the baby” from onlookers may have saved
her life, lor she fell uninjured to the ground.
Morrison, 31, drenched himse'f in kerosene and
kindled himself as a human torch in full view of
hundreds of Defense Department workers and mili-
— tary men.............................----—
The Pentagon has seen many protests against
American policy in Viet Nam—silent vigils, placard-
carrying marchers—but never anything like Morri-
son's action, so like the iminolation of Buddhist
monks.
Morrison, a Quaker official, chose dusk to stage
his sacrificial burning The Pentagon’s thousands
were streaming for home.
-----He picked a spot within eyeshot of Secretary
of De fense Robert S. McNamara’s office window.
However, a visitor who was with McNamara
—-the-ime-said-the-Peniagen-chief “as “absolutely—•
unaware" of the incident. McNamara customarily
sits with his back to his windews and hubbub is
common during the hours when people are home-
ward bound.
election, there was talk that
victory or narrow defeat
would make Lindsay a man
with presidential credentials
in the GOP
Beame charged that was
Lindsay’s aim,'and said the
Republican would not serve a
full four year term. Lindsay
said he would—and seek re-
election. too
in general Tuesday's scat-
tered. off-year elections of-
fered comeback minded Re-
stipulated that should the
nailer house b^moved. the
property would be re-zoned
as B1.
An amendment to the zon
ing ordinance was passed It
will allow that house trailers
may be moved into residen
tially zoned areas on a teni-
porary basis
I It Says
Here...
And then there was the
’ABSENT MINDED television
repairman BURTON
HARRIS who has just recent
ly moved into a new home
at 1901 Friendly Street was
seen yesterday going home
for lunch . . you ask what's
so UNUSUAL about this . . .
well, the house he drove up
to was his OLD residence
on East 9th Street ... he
was discovered by one of his
old neighbors trying franti-
cally to vacate the scene be-
fore anyone discovered his
BLUNDER . . however,
when approached about this
Incident he will probably tell
you, "Wasn't any mistake.
I MEANT to go there” . .
(to fix their antenna, may
be?)
REMINDER Since this
is NATIONAL BOOK WEEK,
here is an early EVERY
early) notice to those that
may be interested in the
PUBLIC LIBRARY'S Sum 1
mer Reading Program" The
program begins with the
closing of school and contin
ues for eight weeks Anyone
that can READ is welcome
and urged to further his
KNOWLEDGE . or just
to read for pleasure if you
wish; the LIBRARY is open
from Tuesday through Sat-
urday and has many of the
books that are currentiv on
the BEST SELLER list ’
zope property at 106 S Lide
behind the M B Crain home
from RI resident all to BD
business district) in order
that a house trailer there
may remain it was further 1
V — Hundreds of Viet Cong
swarmed down from th e
mountains above coastal
Quang N'gai today and made
-an unsuccessful attempt to
overrun a government but
post. .
U S sources said an esti-
mated 500 to 600 Communist
troops attacked the outpost
three miles northeast of
Quang Ngai, in central Viet
Nam U.S. jets bombed and
strafed the Communist troops
as they retreated at daylight,
but there was no estimate of
enemy casualties.
Moderate casualties were
reported among the defend
ers of the outpost.
Only one otner ground ac-
lion was reported. In the Me-
Voters in Titus County ap
proved seven of the ten pro-
posed state constitutional am-
endments in the special elec-
tion Tuesday which drew ap-
proximately 1050 to the polls
It was a light turnout and
represented less than 25 per
cent of the county’s estimat-
ed qualified voters.
Favored in Titus were:
No 1 (College Financing)
598 to 356.
No. 2. (Vterans Land). 618
to 355
No. 3. (Needy Aid) 778 to
237
No 4. £4 year Terms, 560
to 480
No 5 (Retirement Funds)
699 to 306
Safety FIRST — pay by
check Mi your FIRST
NATIONAL BANK account
(Adv..)
-ma that was the—legacy——of
1964 presidential nominee
Barry Goldwater.
Lindsay, who had refused
to back Goldwater, seldom
mentioned his GOP mayoral
nomination He had the Lib
eral party’s endorsement, too
attended a
war.
activities at the YOUTH
CENTER Thursday The
St Andrew's Methodist
Church women will be serv-
ing a TASTING LUNCHEON
from .11 am to ) pm This
is a come and go affair and
the proceeds will be used for
a church library if you hap
pen to crave a certain dish,
the recipes can be bought
for 25c A tasty way to solve
the old what to cook to
night". Nibble vourself into
new noon-time dishes
Thu year's AUTUMN haa
outdone any other in its
abundance of varied colored
leaves Just look’ Have you
ever seen such a kaleidoscope
of foliage colors? Because of
our INDIAN SUMMER and
that winter still hasn’t ar
rived, the trees slowly turned
'on the "living color." Ordin
- wily the leaves are green
then brown then Thud, it’s
time to rake Now. ANY
WHERE you look it’s like a
CURRIER -and IVES paint
•ing . . . brilliant splashes of
gold orange, red, and bur
gundy, mingled with ever-
-greens Have you noticed that
these leaves don’t just careen
to the ground like dead brown
ones, instead, taking their
time they gently float down
ward where they land with
a small sigh ... knowing
fall is fleeting by and win
ter’s wrath will be howling
in soon with one of Texas'
famed BLUE NORTHERS.-
Martha Bullock.
When the winds of winter
DO arrive no need to weather
watch, you can do all your
banking from your car at the
drive-in window of the GUAR
ANTY BOND STATE BANK
the- BANK THAT CARES
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