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HE
ANGE
acemen boar
Gemini
Ordeal in Laos Described
Altitudes
o Histori
Pupils March In
Daring Raid:
Results Listed
In 11 Primaries
v s
JERRY R. TUCKER
MICHAEL W. SAY
Michael W. Say of Port
ORANGE JUICE
WEATHER
Data from U.S. Weather Bureau
purses, ques-
Escaped POW: ‘We Ate Things
That Crawled Through Our Hut’
Tyler Area
Seeks Role
Hornets Host
Eagles Thursday
See Page 11
It was an easy, slow-moving
task, allowing the astronauts1
plenty of rest during Gordon's
two hours eight minutes outside.
“We both took a cat nap-
dozed off a few minutes," Con-
rad reported..
"That’s a space first—sleep-
nal two blocks.
The scene was in sharp con-
trast to the first two days of
classes, when jeering white
adults armed with ax handles
and pieces of pipe attacked Ne-
gro boys and girls entering and
leaving the schools.
U.S. Dist. Judge Claude F.
licating valuable county records
on microfilm.
Present county revenue is in-
adequate for the county to pay
its share of right of way costs
for highway projects that will be
lavet said.
In other action, county com-
(See COUNTY, Page 10).
Four Educators
Named to Center
Art Allen, Fannye Beaty, Spen-
cer H. Blain Jr., Jane Childers,
Carlton Harmon, J. D. Joiner,
Archie Kowalik, Fritz Lee, Win-
ston Lewis, Frank Manchac,
Raymond Selzer, Charles Swan,
Sam Tisdale, Joe Williamson,
Roy Wingate and Hal Wray.
Additional nominations may
be submitted to the directors on
request of 10 or more active
members by tomorrow. Ballots
will be mailed to members on
Sept. 24 and must be returned
by Oct. 4.
Retiring directors are Cliff --------------------„— — .-------.— ----- ,
Ableson. M. L. (Abby) Bowen, rectors’ positions which will be- vote in primaries Tuesday.
J. K. Conn, Frank Hustmyre, come vacant this year were
Bennie Johnson, John Magness,
Leland Morrow and Bob Van
Kirk. Half of the 16-mcmber
board are replaced each year.
ing to find the money we’re go-
ing to be caught short."
. "We are faced with badly
needed expansion at Orange Me-
morial Hospital, requests for
countywide library service, pro-
Capsules
Speed Also
Is Record
By HOWARD BENEDICT
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)
He Voted . ,
But.. Whew American
Gordon racked up a record for
most time outside or partly out-
side a space craft—two hours
and 52 minutes.
At 12:32 p.m., EDT the astro-
nauts began the unique tether ,
experiment with the Agena, ex-
pected to last more than three
hours. .
I Conrad undocked from the
I Agena and slowly backed away
until the 100-foot line finally wks
pulled taut between the two ve-
I thicles. Gordon had hooked up
the two-inch thick nylon line
I during his space walk—one of
I the work assignments that
! caused him to become overex-
erted, forcing an early end to
I the stroll. *
Requested
By HENRY HOLCOMB
County Judge Sid J. Caillavet
today asked county commission-
ers to select a blue-ribbon panel
of civic and business leaders to
study growth problems in the
Orange County government.
Each commissioner was asked
rol center told him.
Counting his shortened 44-
By REBECCA FLICKINGER
Four Sabine Area educators
last night were employed to
work in the Orange County Ed-
ucational Resource and Curric-
ulum Development Center.
Orange school trustees, -the
fiscal and administrative agent
for the federal program, ap-
proved the appointments at a
special board meeting last
night. The staff members were
announced today by Dr. Oliver
Monk, director of the center.
Rex J. Shellenberger, who
has been director of special ser-
vices in the Orange Independent
School District, will serve as
assistant director of the center.
Orange trustees last night
granted Shellenberger a one-
year leave of absence fromi his
duties in the district. *
to select three of the top men
in their precinct to serve on the
panel. The panel is expected to
be created late this month.
Commissioners have been
faced with a mounting list of de-
mands on the county govern-
ment over the last few years.
“Some of these needs are fast .
becoming urgent,” Caillavet
said. “If we don’t start now try-
and Port Neches area teacher,
will serve as the coordinator of
data processing in the program.
The employment of Dr. Arthur
L Miller, former Port Arthur
elementary principal; and Jerry
R. Tucker, former Vidor High
School principal, was announced
earlier.
Miller will be coordinator of
elementary education and
Tucker, coordinator of secon- pymiias
dary education, for the project. (See EDUCATORS, Page 1)
Robert F. Kennedy:
‘One-Man Beatles9
See Page 3
"In one village I was tied to a
tree and used for target prac-
tice — the guards tried to see
how close they could come to
shooting me. Another time, one
pulled a trigger with the rifle
next to my left ear. It caused a
deafness that lasted for several
months.
"But the worst torture was
being dragged by a water buf-
falo. My hands were tied so
tightly the nerves were cut off."
Dengler said he told his cap-
tors nothing except his name, .
rank and serial number, as
prescribed by the Geneva con-
vention on prisoners of war.
"Those people don’t even
know what the Geneva conven-
tion is," he said. “They don’t
even know—weexist. All they
know is Laos, Cambodia and
North Viet Nam.”
He saw no prisoners sign prof-
fered statements denouncing the
United States, he said, though
all were harassed.
Dengler hesitatingly told how
I The 83 Negro pupils, 37 of
whom were elementary school
age, marched one mile across
town from the Bell Flower
Church to the school complex.
Highway patrol cars .accom-
panied them. They were met at
the police barricades by 30 of-
ficers who escorted them the fi-
Australia early today. The old
{nark was 476 miles by Gemini
10.
“Utterly fantastic. The world
is round,” Conrad said.
After twice reaching the
record height, they again fired
the Agena to lower the space-
craft to its original orbit, rang-
ing from 180 to 190 miles high.
Gordon then opened his hatch
and poked the upper half of his
body into space to photograph 7
the stars in a scientific experi-
An application for an opera-
tional grant is expected to be
filed later to carry out the _______--= —
studies and planning of the staff, ing in a vacuum,” mission con-
Monk said the first work of trol center told him.
the staff would be to collect Counting his shortened 44-
data concerning the programs, minute space walk Tuesday,
teachers and students in the - - *------»—
county school districts.
“The center will make itself
OPEN DOCK COMPLETE-Wayne Pike, superintendent
for James J. Flanagan Stevedoring Co., directs the place-
ment of a load of creosoted piling onto the new open dock
at the Orange County Port. Except for placement of dock
fenders and removal of the forms, the dock Is complete and
ready for use. The 131 by 354-foot dock was constructed ad-
end,” Conrad had, said while -
reporting difficulty pulling out
the tether.
"I hit it very lightly but it
really upset the Agena. It’s
hung up on the right hand
hold.” .
A few minutes later he report- -
ed the cord was completely free
and the two spacecraft were
spinning, like a cartwheel
through space in a formation-
flying test.
“I’m having a hard time sta-
tion-keeping with it," he added.
"We’re on top of the world!"
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) - It
was like this for the first Ameri-
can pilot to escape from North
Vietnamese and Pathet Lao
captors;
"They held a gun at my head
and went ‘click-click — ha, ha,
Americani.’ They beat me and
banged me upside down, putting
ants on my face," said Lt. j.g.
Dieter Dengler.
"We ate things that crawled
through our hut. Once we
caught a snake that had eaten
two rats. We cut it open and ate
the rats, too." .
Dengler, a slender, handsome
28-year-old from Pacifica,
Calif., spoke with a trace of an
accent at a news conference. He
was born in Germany' and came
to the United States in 1957.
Tanned, smiling and weighing
143 pounds, 45 more than when
a helicopter snatched him from
the jungle after live months in a
Laotian prison camp run by ___
North Vietnamese., he described
his ordeal.
Without the order, the depart-vestigator to work for the dis-
ment said, Grenada officials trict attorney, and in recent
would continue "in their willful years there have been almost
failure and refusal” to protect annual requests for more county
the Negro children and their law enforcement officers,
parents. Other increased law enforce-
Even as Judge Clayton held a ment costs have been imposed
hearing on the request for a by recent U.S. Supreme Court
temporary restraining order, rulings The county is now re
Negroes were marching through quired to hire a defense attor
Grenada streets Tuesday night, ney for indigents accused of
At the courthouse square they even misdemeanor cases a .
were peppered with rocks and Previously country - paid de
bottles hurled by whites, who fense attorneys were required
also used slingshots to propel only for felony offenses. . a-n--- ,.. —-, - - _
lead fishing sinkers at the Caillavet pointed out that the Neches, a former Bridge City
marchers. ' county, would soon need more *-.....ka
Jud^e amce AA ATE ALAA Mme ^^^ roc^s
Police Chief Pat Ray and Sher- valnable county records
iff Suggs Ingram, together with
their officers, were in’ the vicini-
ty of the Grenada school com-
plex Monday when a crowd of
whites armed with ax handles,
chains, sticks and other weap-
ons, "gathered to threaten, in-
timidate, assault and beat Ne-
GRENADA, Miss., (API-More than 300 state officers in
full riot gear and with orders to crack down hard on trouble-
makers, sealed off newly desegregated schools here today and
83 Negro pupils marched to class without challenge. ,
A two-block area around the two formerly aU-white public
| schools was ringed with helmet-
ed highway patrolmen and
game and fish wardens. Only
i 'pupils, their parents and teach-
Pers were permitted through po-
f lice lines.
Clayton, a former Army gener-
al, hurried from his home in Tu-
pelo to his courtroom in Oxford
Tuesday night to sign an order
directing officials here to pro-
tect the Negroes.
At the state Capitol in Jack-
son, Gov. Paul Johnson said the
state intended to maintain law
and order in this north Missis-
sippi town of 8,000 persons —
about half of them Negro.
Clayton’s order followed a
hearing requested by the feder-
al government.
Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzen-.un,..-----,----------
bach had requested it to provide bation systems for adults and
protection for the children. The juveniles, increased law enforce-
Justice Department also asked ment costs an(j other expenses,”
for the order to provide for the Caillavet said.
arrest and prosecution of those several grand juries have
i Officers Seal Off
| Schools; Negro
---—Summary - Index--i
News of Today
TIDEs-sabine: High, 3:30 o.m. 3:16
p.m.: low, 8:34 o.m, 8:58 p.m. Bollvor:
Ho m 434 p.m I low, 10:30
he escaped with Air Force Lt.
Duane Martin of Denver, Colo.,
then watched a villager hack
Martin to death.
Dengler was flying a recon-
naissance plane over North Viet
Nam last Feb. 1 when ground
fire .brought it down. He landed
acros the border in Laos where
he was captured a day later. He
escaped once, for six days, then
for good on June 29.
Dengler said he and six other
Americans confined in a
thatched- roof hut decided to try
to escape when they overheard
guards planning to kill them.
“Lt. Martin and 1 decided it
was better to die in the bush —
as free men — rather than in
the hands of Communists," he
said.
Dengler said he had stolen
four guns from the guards’ hut.
These, and some food, were di-
vided among the group. They
killed six guards in the escape.
The Navy doesn’t know what
(See POW, Page 10)
— The Gemini 11 astronauts
today soared higher and faster
than man has ever flown, amaz-
ingly cat napped while Richard
F. Gordon Jr. hung halfway out-
side the orbiting ship and then
spun through .space tied to an
Agena satellite by a 100-foot
cord.
"This is really weird,”
Gordon commented as the as-
tronauts disconnected from the
Agena and began unreeling the
cord between the two vehicles.
"Man this is wild,” he added
later.
Command pilot Charles Con-
rad Jr. had difficulty at first
pulling the coiled tether out of a
bag located on the Agena.
“It looks like we’re skipping
rope with the Agena,” Conrad
said as he attempted to pull the
line taut between the two satel-
lies.
“That will take somebody a
while to figure out. We got a
weird phenomena here. The
tether’s got a bow in it.” ′
Minutes later, Conrad report- .
ed; "We’re in the spun-up sta-
tion-keeping right now.”
"I’m down to 10 feet from the
Parrsor. CAR THIEFT — An Orange
--,"-woman went into the post office
MAT-fncmyesterday and came out reading
′ a letter. She opened the door
OAlLCkletpats and got into the car. She fin-
main." A lished her letter and reached for
Ignition, found herself
7. siding in the back seat. That s
pnarieosiiinnot all .. she was in the wrong
- car. The owner walked up as
APOeSSNAZMER-Another
inssuicildilialiniirorilfiidi-sstes site purse on each erm. She
A —Lender sion Photo placed both on her desk. A cure-
jacent to Warehouse 6, the old Sabine Supply Co. building so ous coworker, who said she
the 45,000 square feet of warehouse space there could be could carry all she needed in
utilized. The $233,000 contract was let to Pelican Construct one of the buss, pumkdgp
tion Co. of Galveston last August. On an open dock cargo tioned her. 1 ve o me up
can be transported from the warehouse or stored and loaded somebody’s purse she *
directly from the dock, as are these pilings. claimed.
Middle Sabine River Navigation
by area civic leaders. unuate, assaus and ucar --
At the same time State Rep. gro children and their parents."
BillyH. Williamson assured of-
ficials here that he would intro- M
duce amending legislation on re- |
vision of the statute to include H
LOCAL I The Gemini astronauts use Smith and adjoining counties. g
County Judge Sid J. Caillavet the Agena rocket to seek a He predicted favorable action M
today asked county commission- height record in the first move sjncc the Texas Water Plan |
ers to select n blue-ribbon panel of a space triple play, does not now propose to Irans- B
of civic and business leaders to -----fer water from the Sabine wa-
study growth problems in the NATIONAL tershed to other sectors in the |
Orange County government. Minnesota Gov. Karl Rolvaag state. . ■
—— and Edward J. McCormack of In other business in the ses- ■
Nominations for the eight di-Massachusetts win as 11 states sion held here earlier this week, ■
George Pirtle, chairman of the ■
Sabine River Navigation Com- TAT
mittee for Smith County, cited $0-1,
a $12,000 goal.
... It was listed as Smith Coun- pub
. . ty’s share for promoting flood
I control, water conservation and
.navigation on the river. About
′ $2,000 of this amount has been
pledged here.
A chain of linking navigation
districts extending from the Or-
ange County line upriver to
Longview was created through
special legislative acts passed in
the last session.
All have been organized for-
mally with the over-all view of
creating a barge canal and sys
tem of locks to provide for mari-
time traffic on the Sabine River
opening up an extensive area
of Deep East Texas,
Water-induced freight rates,
anticipated location of new In-
dustry and utilization of raw
materials have been cited by
backers of the barge canal Con-
cept as benefits from a “door-
way to the sea."
1 - 1
approved by the Greater Or- SPORTS
ange Area Chamber of Corn- Area grid coaches believe
merce board of directors today, [opponents to be much tougher
-----than opening round foes -
Legislative action in 1967 to Dera will celebrate first
include Smith and adjacent anniversary on Sept. 18 . .:
counties in the Middle Sabine Bridge City’s Doug Schell will
River Navigation District has undergo operation next Monday
been pledged at Tyler. . . . West Orange-Channelview
------. ′ football ticket sale starts today.
A 2 man advisory commit- ■—
tee, which will study Orange’s John Roland wins starUng
most pressing problems and for- berth on St. Louis Cardinal team
mulate possible solutions, has . . . Dodgers are again making
go been appointed by the Orange bid to walk away with National
nCity Council.: League pennant. . . Detroit
71 "____homers spoil Jim Kaat’s bid to
Four Sabine Area educators become winningest pitcher in
have been employed to work in majors. . . UCLA coach says
the Orange County Educational now is time for boys to prove
Resource and Curriculum De themselves men.
velopment Center, Herman Franks Is named
_____one-year manager of San Fran-
GEMINI 11 cisco Giants . . . USC and Lou-
Lt. Dieter Dengler, the first isiana State rate favorites over
American pilot to escape from Texas and South Carolinaac
a.m. 10:54 p.m. Crthe Com munists, tells how be cording to AP writer . . . Pi tts-
„YTS“APAX noniZemperaivren: Mohisurvived. I burgh bombs Houston by 93.
For Chamber leno only Supuiauon set by the
Nominations for the eight di-council is that the committee
rectors’ positions which will be- first study ways and means to
come vacant this year were increase, city revenue Orange
approved by the Greater Orange has been in a precarious finan.
Area Chamber of Commerce cial position for two years, ”
board of directors today, expenditures have exceeded rev
were pre enue. --, --------»---o- -— I k
nA hvlXnrt Morrow chair. Other projects the committee ance Agency; Morgan Jones, TYLER (SpD) - Legislative
sentedy Leland Merechai has been asked to study are: plant Manager, A. Schulman, action in 1967 to include Smith
teen at a funenoon meeting. 1 development of significant re- (Sets COUNCIL. Page 1S) land adjacent counties in the
The 16 nominees are: Rev.
DR. ARTHUR L. MILLER REX J. SHELLENBERGER
By JOJIN D. MCCLAIN (New Jersey, Rhode Island,
Associated Press Writer Utah, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Minnesota Gov. Karl F. Rol-Voters chose nominees for six
vaag, rejected for renomination governorships, nine- Senate
by his own Democratic Farmer-seats and 74 House seats.
Labor party, won the chance on Rolvaag, 53, stormed past his
his own Tuesday to seelf a sec, handpicked lieutenant governor,
ond term in the Nov. 8 general A. M. (Sandy) Keith, 37, who
election, bucked Rolvaag in June to win
In another of Tuesday’s 11 the party’s convention endorse-
primary elections, Edward J. ment. The governor also
McCormack, a long-time chal- seemed to be carrying his slate
lenger to the Kennedy clan, cap in three key races against Keith
lured the Democratic nomina-supporters
tion for governor of Massachu-
setts. He defeated Kenneth P. Former Massachusetts Gov.
O’Donnell, a top aide to Presi-(See PRIMARIES, Page 10)
dent John F. Kennedy.
Former House Speaker Jo- A 1
seph W. Martin, 81, lost his bid a ramicka A Asrduur Pamo
for Republican nomination to a ranC HOVISOTY 1
22nd term to a 35-year-old D J
housewife and lawyer, Margaret
Heckler, in another Massachu- a • 1 1A *1
sets race. Martin seeker Appointed by Councilone of their first catches was________.....-
during the 80th and 83rd cod- X BPURCUL W UAUa 13-member Communist enter- who assault the Negro children, cited a need for a special in-
gresses and was Republican: • tainment troupe from Hanoi. 1 - -
leader or 05 By EDEE HOLLEMAN tall outlets; solution of an ade- They also captured three nurses
2PPaiia Chan T A 12 man advisory committee, quate arterial highway from In-at a Viet Cong hospital.
Besides Minnesota and Mas- which will study Orange smost
======= = “ =
* * M#L@L R C#Lm) Wilsebend
Eight Directors .it no Sounan entnin tko nest
Ar . two weeks and then would be on
Are Nominated their own to tackle the prob-
Secretarial assistants for the
project will be Mrs. Cheryl Jean
White of Groves and Mrs. Billie _______-
Odom Burns of 7 Circle G, Or- Conrad shouted as Gemini 11
ange, rode the power of the Agena en-
Selection of additional person- gine to an altitude of 850 miles
nel is being completed and will above the earth over eastern
be announced soon, Monk said.
The staff, which will work un-
der a one-year federal grant of
$136,118, is moving into bead-
quarters on the second floor of
Sabine Supply Co. at 410 Front
Ave. ..
The project is sponsored by
the eight Orange County school
districts in an attempt to set up
an educational center to serve
all county schools.'
Monk’s staff will make a
study of the needs of the school
districts and set up a center to
help meet the educational
needs. The initial grant under
the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 is for one
Outlook-Clear to partly cloudy
this afternoon; tonight and
tomorrow with a few wide-
ly scattered thundershowers
1 tomorrow.
High today ....
Low tonight ....
High tomorrow .............90
Outlook for Friday - Little
change indicated.
. Sunset today .6:22 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow . 6:01 a.m.
WINDS—Variable, mostly westerly, 815
miles per hour, 4-8 m.P.h. tonight, be
coming southeasterly 4017 m.p.h. tomor-
PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - __________.
Al Larson voted in Arizona’s 1
primary election Tuesday but UdobUI
Larson was working at a m *
sports auto track about 30 ,
miles northwest of Phoenix DV O
when flood waters from heavy J O
rains rushed several feet SAIGON South Viet Nam
deer through a wash, cutting (APCOS amring pre-dawn
ofas honed his son raid, * Viet Cong demolition
=======
him to the polis. . U.S. officials estimated dam-
The polling place was a age at $1 million. They said the
church across the street from Communist guerrillas escaped
Larson s house, without losing a man.
In the air, U.S. bombers
struck at a North Vietnamese
missile complex for the seventh
[day in a row Tuesday.
| On the ground, allied forces
launched their biggest helicop-
ter assault of the war in a new
offensive in the coastal valleys
of central Viet Nam.
terstate 10 to MacArthur Drive In another early action, the
along 16th Street; feasibility of cavalrymen killed 15 enemy and
a unified Orange, West Orange captured 16 more while sustain-
and Pinehurst; and the prog-ing light casualties.
ress of drainage work being U.S. Army officers said the
done by the Orange County Viet Cong blasted a huge hole in
Drainage District in Orange, the barbed-wire fence surround-
Members of the committee ing the motor pool on the out-
are John Magness, plant man- (See VIET NAM, Page 10)
ager at American Bridge Divi-T ——---—
sion; E. I. Hardy, general man-
ager, Orange Pulp & Paper
Mills, Inc.; .Clyde McKee, gen-
eral manager, Stark interests;
Barney Morris, general man-
ager, Brown interests; Archie
Kowalik, works manager, Gulf.
Oil Corp. plastic plant. Erhino
Jules David, Orange Insur- Ul D00UE .
County Study:
Selection
Of Panel
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