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wink Forms Citizens Protest Speed Hike
Cooler Firm
WINK (Special to The Sun) — A new corporation, expect-
ed to employ up to 75 persons in its first year of operation,
was organized in Wink Tuesday noon.
To be known as Win-Tex, Inc., the firm will manufacture
fiber glass air conditioner units.
O. O. Whitten was named president of the corporation
with J. V. Ogle as vice-president and Frank Barton, secretary.
A spokesman for the group reported that plans call for
the corporation to be set up as scon as possible and stock made
available to the public.
No building for the firm has yet been acquired although
several have been inspected. Present plans call for manufac-
turing to get under way by late summer in order that the firm
can be into peak production for the 1966 market.
The firm, which will employ an out-of-town individual as
manager, is a new business being started from the ground
up, the. spokesman said. He said it is expected that the work
force will be greater than the initial 75 persons by the end
of the first year of operation.
A request from the Texas High-
way Department to increase
speed limits on several streets
within the city limits came under
fire Tuesday night from citizens
and Councilmen alike.
During a meeting oftheKermit
City Council, Robert Morris of
East Austin Street, told Council-
men he objected to any increase
in the speed limit on East Austin
Street.
The State Highway Department
has asked the City Council to
adopt an ordinance raising speed
limits on East Austin (Andrews
Highway), West Austin, Jal High-
way, Highway 302 and make an
adjustment on the Monahans High-
way.
“I unofficially represent a
group of property owners on
E ast Austin Street,” Morris said,
and we protest any increase in
speeds.
“When the highway department
asked to raise the speed limits
on Austin to the present rate I
objected at that time,” he said.
“Even at the present rate of 45
miles per hour it is dangerous,
and at 50 miles per hour it puts
the street in the realm of a
speedway.”
The Council voted to ask Archie
Sherrodd of Odessa, district high-
way department engineer, to meet
with the Council and citizens at
the next regular meeting.
A motion by J. L. Slaughter to
refuse to adopt an ordinance
changing the speeds was voted
down, although all Councilmen
indicated they would vote for
such a motion should the highway
department not be willing to com-
promise.
On the basis of a recent traffic
survey, which reports indicated
lasted IV2 hours on one after-
noon, the department asked the
Council to set the following speed
zones on East Austin Streets
Poplar Street to Avenue A, 30
miles per hour; Avenue A toAve-
nue D, 40 miles per hour; and
Avenue D out to the city limits,
50 miles per hour.
The highway department main-
tains the streets where they go
through a city and also control
the speed limits. Based on traf-
fic surveys, the department fre-
quently asks Councils to change
limits. The speed requests are
based on the average speed of
traffic on the road, officials in-
dicated.
City Manager James C. Morgan
said the department had asked
for minor speed changes on the
other highways, primarily chang-
ing one or two blocks from one
speed zone to another.
On the Monahans Highway, a
slight decrease in the limits was
requested.
The city manager also pointed
out that several school crossing
zones were not recognized by the
highway department.
In other related business, Mor-
gan was given permission to con-
tact the highway department rela-
tive to their position on installing
curb and gutter along Highway 302
and generally beautifying the
road.
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Are Ineffective
PRACTICE FOR BRIGADGON — Judy Petree and Steve
Fuller go over their roles for Brigadoon, Broadway musical
to be presented at Kermit High School Friday and Saturday
evenings. The musical is a joint project of the drama and
choral departments. (Staff Photo)
Council Delays Decision
SANTO DOMINGO, Domin- During the night the country Wessin’s
ican Republic (AP) — A mill- was without a central govern- mopping up ... . . „ .
tary junta dominated by Air ment. The Presidential Palace in Santo Domingo. One center of wives and children of American
Force Brig. Gen. Elias Wessin y was occupied only by a woman fighting was a housing project government personnel.
Wessin appeared in prospect for telephone operator and the in the northern part of the city--
the Dominican Republic today palace guard. Provisional Presi- where a number of poor young
following the collapse of an dent Rafael Molina Urena, in- people live. They were armed
army revolt to bring back ex- stalled by the rebels, took asy- with machine guns, gasoline
President Juan Bosch. lum in the Colombian Embassy, bombs and small arms distrib-
uted by the rebels.
SAIGON, South Viet Nam the same things to the Commit*
(Ap) — Air strikes against ntet? that they've been doing to
North Vietnamese roads, us here. We have superiority in
bridges and railroads are not the air over North Viet Nam’s
forces were still sailed for Puerto Rico. Most of choking off aid to the Viet Cong, central area from the 17th to the
pro-Bosch holdouts the evacuees were tourists or and a land invasion of the North ^Oth parallels, and we eomd ea-
should begin immediately, the sily supply guerrillas of our own
Viet there.
Manhole Woe Pondered
Scattered snipers were also
active, but Wessin said civilians
were turning in the arms the
rebels had distributed to them.
He said 3,000 weapons had been
delivered to the police.
India Ready
For Cease-Fire
With Pakistan
NEW DELHI India (AP)
commander of South
Nam’s air force says. “The people in that area are
“If we are just going to bomb basically anti-Communist and
communication lines, the Viet I’m sure they would help us.
Cong will be able to stand up for Then we could really, start cutt-
a long time, I’m afraid. So the ing their supply lines and giving
next step must be big — either a them something to worry
big escalation of the war or ne- about.”
gotiations,” Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ky is a native of Hanoi.
Cao Ky told The Associated “For that matter, what’s
Press in an exclusive interview wrong with sending up regular
today. troops now? Ou.r intelligence
While the bulk of the raids proves that North Vietnamese
against North Viet Nam have regular units are already in our
been flown by U.S. Air Force highlands, so there can be no
The problems surrounding the
city’s needs to traverse private
property to get to a manhole in
the Walton Addition were dis-
cussed at length Tuesday, but no
City Council action was taken
since no attorney was on hand to
render legal counsel.
City Manager James C. Mor-
gan explained to Council mem-
bers during Tuesday night’s
meeting that because no alleys
had been dedicated in the Walton
Addition, Block 16, the city had
been forced through the years
to travel across private property
to reach a manhole.
Kirby Re-elected
To Stand-by Spot
There were reports that Prime Minister Lai Bahadur
hundreds were killed in the Shastri said today India is
fighting that erupted Sunday ready 1° call a cease-fire in the and Navy planes, Ky’s propell- bar to sending troops north,
when army rebels overthrew Rann of Kutch fighting along its er-driven Skyraider bombers “Physically there would be no
the civilian junta Wessin and western frontier with Pakistan, also have been over North Viet problem. We would have no
other military leaders had in- But he added that his country is Nam nearly every day.
stalled after they ousted Bosch “prepared for the alternative.” The 34-year-old general has
in 1963. Shastri also told Parliament flown three of the missions him-
The rebels then split into two his government rejects all Pak- self and was grazed by enemy
factions _ those favoring the istan’s claims in the Kutch area flak on one of them. Three of his
return of Bosch and those near *he Arabian Sea. pilots have been shot down,
against him. The anti-Bosch Pakistani President Ayub “The raids against communi-
shortage of skilled trained vol-
See INVADE, Page 8
BY DAVE SCLAIR
Staff Writer
in the
fighting came when Wessin’s
troops and tanks took the Juan
Pablo Duarte bridge over the
Basically, codifying ordinances River Ozama dividing Santo
John H. Kirby was re-elected cation of city ordinances was
mayor pro tern of the Kermit held and Councilmen agreed to
Although an easement had been City Council Tuesday night dur- invite two firms to send repre- minican Republic,
included for access to the man- ing a regular session. sentatives to the city to meet The turning point
Kermit City Council Tuesday hcde in the addition’s dedication, Kirby’s election came minutes with the Council and explain their
night voted to rename John R. through the years property own- after Mayor G. L. (Jerry) Me- propositions in detail,
Lee city attorney and agreed to ers had built up their yards all Guire administered the oath of
hire an out-of-town tax attorney the way to the rear of theirprop- office as a councilman to Fred ld rpmilre a comr)iete survev rT Av . 1n /.r, , ,
counts’ °f de‘ta<lUenl structedefences.SeVeral “ - ^ ~^£ta
The action came following a Julian Dawson, whose prop- cil members were sworn in.
lengthy discussion among Coun- erty was affected by the need to Kirbv had been serving as
cilmen and Lee during the reg- Set to the manhole, appeared at ayor pro tem since his election
ular meeting the Council meeting and explain- „ Slnce niSeiectlon
Lertho tad served as city ed that when he purchased the the Council a year aSo.
attorney and delinquent tax at- property his plat of the land in other Council business at
forces, led by Wessin, pushed Khan had appealed earlier for a
into Santo Domingo Tuesday cease-fire and negotiations. But
after their planes and warships Shastri’s statement indicated
bombarded the capital. that .India and Pakistan would
Wessin charged that the form- remain deadlocked over the is-
er president was backed by sue territorial claims that led
Communist Cuba, the Soviet *° *he fighting.
Union and Red China. Similar
charges were aired in 1963 when
Bosch was overthrown and fled
to Puerto Rico. Bosch says he is
an anti-Communist fighting to
establish democracy in the Do-
cations are not really effec-
tive,” he said. “The Commu-
nists can always find ways of
moving through the jungle.
“But if we were to set up a
kind of ‘national liberation
front’ in the north, we could do
LBJ Predicts
Deficit Drop
duplications and correcting er
rors.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-
lier had bombed rebel positions dent Johnson says he is very
at the bridge and the Presiden- hopeful a way can be found to
Morgan announced city crews tial Palace. spark Viet Nam peace talks,
would be available to work on The Dominican navy, coming But he says the American de-
clean-up week in Kermit, May 2- over to Wessin’s side, lined up sire for peace is coupled with a
9. He said at least one extra along the waterfront and fired “refusal to retreat.”
tornev for the last vear resigned showed no encroachments or the meeting, members discussed truck will be put into operation three salvos aimed at the The air-jungle war in South
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Pakistan and India, Johnson
said he had explained to them it
would be better if they came
after Congress acts on foreign
aid, which both will be seeking.
“So far as I know,” he said,
“it is a good decision and a wise
one, and one that I would make
several weeks ago. He had in- easements. He replaced a wire briefly the city’s present ordi- to pick up trash.
palace. The palace was not hit east Asia dominated Johnson’s again tomorrow.”
Johnson, in response to anoth-
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Russia OKs
Cambodia
Conference
PARIS (AP) — Soviet foreign
minister Andrei Gromyko has
expressed Russia’s agreement to
take part in an international
conference on Cambodia, a
spokesman for the French cab-
inet announced today.
French Information Minister
Alain Peyrefitte disclosed that
Foreign Minister Maurice Couve
De Murville told a meeting of
the French cabinet today that
Gromyko agreed on Soviet par-
ticipation in a conference. The
agreement came in the course
of meetings Monday and Tues-
day in the French foreign min-
istry.
Gromyko is in Paris on an of-
ficial visit.
The United States and Britain
already have signified their wili-
er inquiry, declined to be drawn ingness to take part in such a
into a discussion of possible use
of nuclear arms in Southeast
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lenX exchaLe Jrtth the at- “But, I don’t feel I should bear 11 from the books-’’ The disc“s’ ° Paln‘ nfded on the tank ln concede. Molina went first to June 30 now is estimated at $5.3
tornev voted'no. Councilman the cost of tearing the fence down slon on whether or not to enforce Walton Park. the vs Eml)assy, then look billion or less - a drop of $1
Fred Pearson abstained and rebuilding it in the new lo- the ordinance on requiring small- Adams reported to the Council refuge in the Colombian Embas- billion from the January predic-
An earlier motion by Slaughter cation,” he added. He comment- er and covered trash cans has that he had attended a meeting sy. tion.
official of this government or
employe of this government
concerning the use of such
weapons in this area.”
The President began by read-
ing a statement on Viet Nam in
which he said:
“America has not changed
to hire Kermit Attorney Robert ed that if the city feels it must repeatedly been on the Council’s Df the joint city, county and During the fighting, two small
G Guthrip Hiari fnr lack'of ? relocate the fence then the entire agenda. No formal action was tak- school Summer Recreation Coun- U.S. Navy ships and several of the antipoverty program —
cil Tuesday afternoon. The Coun- helicopters evacuated 1,172 “I think it will be one of the
second alley should be opened up, not only en Tuesday.
Following the decision to em- on his property. Members agreed to meet at oil agreed to re-employ Joe Eth- Americans from the small port great monuments to this admin-
ploy L^e Councilmen sus^nd-d Councilmen, after discussing the City Hall Friday at 2 p.m. ridge as coordinator of the pro- of Haina, about 12 miles from istration” — and announced
the rules of business and then the Problem for several min- for a tour of city facilities. The gram and named Floyd Morris midtown Santo Domingo. eight appointments to high gov-
voted to contact a Midland at- uteS> decided to table it until the trip is designed to give new as swimming pool supervisor. While the carrier Boxer, and ernment jobs,
torney Jack Hart and see if he next meeting when an attorney members, especially, a graphic Adams also reported that the other U.S. warships cruised off- Asked about criticism of his
would handle the Kermit tax sit- would be able to consider the picture of the city’s operations, program last year had a $493 shore, the Americans were put postponement of planned Wash-
uation, problem. A brief discussion on codifi- surplus of the $3,000 budget, aboard two transports which ington visits by the leaders of
her essential position, and that
Johnson also replied to critics purpose is peaceful settlement.
That purpose is to resist aggres-
sion. That purpose is to avoid a
wider war.”
He said anew that “I will talk
to any government, anywhere,
any time, without any condi-
tions,” about peace. And later,
See LBJ, Page 8
conference, which could enable
participants to begin talks on
Cambodia and discuss ways to
end the war in neighboring Viet
Nam. France long has support-
ed the idea for such an interna-
tional meeting.
An international conference
on Cambodia would nominally
be for the purpose of insuring
the neutrality and frontiers of
that tiny Southeast Asian coun-
try. But the overriding issue
would be the war in Viet Nam.
Cambodian chief of state
Prince Norodom Sihanouk said
some time ago that he favors a
conference to guarantee his
country’s neutrality. But in the
past week he has indicated it
was unnecessary to invite the
United States and South Viet
Nam to any conference.
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