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Takes Lead Page 10 TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM Dedication Pictures, Page 5 Member, Audit Bureau of Circulation Wire Report of The Associated Press 212 76501 TEMPLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1967 Pages In Three Price Cents Poage: Seek Medical School Rep. W. R. Poage challenged outstanding qualifications and pective faculty and the need which Temple must have in the people of Temple Saturday with men who so quickly of patients in existing hospitals, order to remain a top medical to meet the demands of progress medical school." Temple can, Poage said, provide center. The average city is not a suitable site and adequate "I'm proud of the growth of prepared to cooperate with a housing for such an installation. Temple," Poage said, "but I'm 11th District of Texas issued medical school, con- "I suggest that VA afraid that many of the leaders the challenge in the de'dicatorv gressman said. He cited Temple stands ready to make available of Temple don't realize the im- address for the new $10 million hospitals, filled with patients space needed for such an opera- portance of a medical school Temple Veterans Administration unusual tion," he said. at this time. Center Hospital diseases, and the doctors and medical school in Temple "Now and every day we "Temple's whole future as a trained a three-fold should be working on a program medical center is tied with get- as evidence of purpose, Poage said. It would for a medical school in ting a medical school and get- Temple's need for a medical trained doctors need- The federal government will not ting it now," he said. "Where, school. ed by hospitals everywhere, it build the medical school for outside of metropolitian areas', "Temple can offer advantages would give VA the association you," Poage said, "but the can you find staff and facilities to a new medical school right which it needs and must have federal government will help comparable to those found in here, right now, that cannot be order to expand existing and will bear a considerable Temple? In all fairness, I know matched by any other city," facilities, and it would assist part of the expense. I pledge of no city with less than half said. civilian hospitals in attracting you every support I can give a million people with such In additition to attractive and high caliber you in Dedication Day An American veteran and his wife stroll down ing the hospital commission certificate, Dr. S. J. a flag-lined sidewalk en route to dedication cere- Muirhead, VA Center director, dedicated the hos-monies Saturday for Temple's new Veterans Ad- and its staff to care of veterans of the past, ministration Center Hospital. In his speech accept- present and future. (Staff Photo) VA Hospital Beneath Texas Sky By SUSAN Telgram Staff Writer While Old Glory waved proudly under a bright Texas Temple's new $10 million Veterans Administration Center Hospital was officially dedicated Saturday afternoon. The dedication, which attracted dignitaries Washington, D.C., and many parts of Texas, culminated two-and-a-half years of work involved in construction of the modern 480-bed hospital. More than 1,000 persons witnessed the dedication ceremony. They sat under the glaring sun beneath umbrellas or makeshift sunshades or sought relief in the shade. After Chaplain Hiram J. Eastland asked the benediction to close the hour-long the visitors went inside the air- school in Temple and pledged conditioned hospital for guided tours of the gleaming new building. Accepts Commission Dr. S. J. Muirhead, VA Center director, accepted the commission granting administrative authority from Dr. H. M. chjef medical director for Dr. Muirhead dedicated the efforts of the entire staff "to the memory of the veterans who serve no more, to the veterans whom we serve today, and to the veterans who are to be served here in the future." Rep. W. R. Poage of Waco gave the dedicatory address. He urged the citizens to work to maintain the city's place as a top medical center. He said this goal depends on the establishment of a medical Viet Cong Heavy Casualties SAIGON (AP) - Viet Cong troops, still seeking to wipe out some sizable American unit for the prestige such a victory would bring Communist arms, paid dearly Saturday for an ambush on a U.S. infantry battalion in War Zone D. A spokesman for the U.S. 1st Infantry Division said 31 Americans and, "by an initial body count," 196 of the enemy were killed in a three-hour battle at a No Stork In Sight Yet For AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) - There were no signs of the stork Saturday—the day that Luci Johnson Nugent calculated her baby was due. Grandmother-to-be Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson went back to the LBJ Ranch at Johnson City, Tex., 65 miles away, and the young Nugents "just waiting" as Luci put it. Luci's obstetrician, whose identity is considered a family secret, sent word that the presidential grandchild could come just any time. His best advice, relayed to waiting newsmen in Austin, was that they should get plenty of sleep. Luci was gay and glowing, looking pretty and obviously in spirits as she made a public appearance Friday night at a Democratic President's Club fund-raising dinner here for some 1,500 donors of $1,000 or She danced and stayed just past midnight. There was a moment when she tripped while walking but it appeared to cause no problem. jungle clearing 50 north of Saigon. 600 Involved Of the 600 or so Americans involved, 113 were wounded. There was no estimate of the wounded among the Viet Cong, who finally fled under a pound ing from U.S. jet planes and artillery. A plane crash took the lives of 34 persons at An Khe, in the central highlands 240 northeast of Saigon. The U.S Command said an Air Force C130 transport, attempting to abort a take-off, exploded and burned. It reported there were 22 survivors. Elsewhere the Communists unleashed mortar and rocket attacks on a South Vietnamese military hospital and three other U.S. Vietnamese positions in the central highlands, an area where allied officers expect the next big Red offensive effort. Explosion Wound The explosions wounded seven Green Beret men of the U.S Special Forces. Government casualties were called light, Farther north, artillery and air strikes were reported to have killed 48 Communists in plain called Elephant Valley. Troopers of the 1st Brigade U.S. 101st Airborne Division skirmished with North Vietnamese regulars southwest of Ngai City. Spokesmen said three Americans and eight of the enemy were killed. Air operations Friday included predawn attacks on the Bac Giang power plant, 23 miles north of Hanoi, and a Communist storage area 34 miles north of Haiphong. The pilots were unable to determine the results because of darkness. Among 111 missions, other fliers said they destroyed a surface to air missile site 41 north of Vinh, setting off two secondary explosions. his support for such a program. (See related story.) Before introducing Poage, William J. Driver, administrator of veterans affairs, told the audience, "This is just a small sample of what we're doing across the country. We're determined to keep pace with the demands for care and the increasing number of veterans." Driver, from Washington, D.C., is in charge of 165 veterans hospitals, 57 regional offices, and five data processing centers in the U.S. 'Temple is Proud' Mayor Truett Tomlinson welcomed the visitors to Temple. He said, "Temple is proud of this day because it will bring many new To the hospital staff, I offer the city's heartiest conOthers who spoke during the ceremony included Sen. Ralph Yarborough, Rep. J. J. Pickle of Austin and Rep. Teague of Bryan. Chaplain Gordon L. Johnson gave the invocation and Chaplain James S. Parks gave the dedicatory prayer. Ted Connell of Killeen was master of ceremonies. Connell, a past national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is advisor to the President on veterans affairs. The flag raising ceremony which followed the dedicatory address was presented by Marshall M. Pasley, district vice commander, and Knebel Post 83 of the American Legion in Austin. The full color guard is nationally known drill team. Band Plays The 1st Armored Division Band from Fort Hood gave a concert of popular songs and marches before the ceremony. The bandmaster is CWO Paul E. Truitt. Mayor Tomlinson Driver an honorary citizen of Temple at the VIP barbecue before the ceremony. Driver was presented a painting depicting a typical Texas landscape, a gift of Dr. W. P. Chrisman, chief of domiliciary medical service at the VA Center and a noted Texas artist. The frame was a gift of Mr. and China Claims Explosion Of Her First H-Bomb No Word Released On Possible Summit Harry Weinblatt. John Sanners, hospital representative of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Copperas Cove, presented a que with the donors' names. Leon and the Drifters, a Western band sponsored by the Belton VFW, entertained approximately 300 guests. The barbecue was held at Tarrant Lake on the VA property. The public tours of the hospital included the multistory general medical and surgical hospital and the one-story psychiatric hospital. Groundbreaking for the new hospital was held Nov. 11, 1964. The buildings were completed and turned over to VA officials in late 1966. Dr. Horace Wedemeyer, a service-connected disabled veteran, was the first patient admitted to the new hospital April 27, 1967. Others on the speakers platform during the ceremony included Reuben Talasek, Dr. Richard D. Haines, Lt. Gen. George R. Mather, S. Percy Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Joe F. Ramsey Jr., Elmer Kraft, Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Flint, John Paul Keelan, Mr. and Mrs. Connie Smith, George Nichols, Dr. Walker A. Lea Jr., Frank Weber, Mrs. Opal F. Roberson, Jamie Clements, Dr. A. Ford Wolf, Dr. Bertrand Levy, Dr, Sterling, Dr. Marjorie Williams, H. K. Dodgen, Tommy Riggs, Jack Coker, Percy Mims, Walter R. Armstrong Jr., John B. Boyd, Dr. James Chandler, Arnold House, W. B. Hawkins, Dr. Chester Kirtz, Dr. Russell Bloom, Jack P. Powell and Reports Heard In Tokyo TOKYO (AP) Red China anounced it successfully exploded its first hydrogen bomb Saturday. It said this deals a telling blow at the "nuclear blackmail" policy of the United States and the Soviet Union. The explosion was reported set off "over the western region" of the mainland, which evidently meant at or near Lop Nor, the research center in remote The test was the sixth in an atomic series launched Oct. 1964, with the explosion of a device that Western experts said had the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, about the power of the bomb a U.S. plane dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 1945. The most powerful of the previous at the equivalent of 300,000 or more of the fifth, Dec. 28, 1966. The hydrogen bomb announcement created no great surprise in Tokyo, which is especially sensitive to nuclear weapons development around the world, or in Washington, which is trying to limit the spread of such weapons. A Japanese government source said explosion of the bomb "would not affect the clear balance between East and West." He added, however, that it could be broken when China completes development of nuclear weapons to be used with long-range missiles. American officials, closely following China's five previous tests, had concluded the Chinese were moving toward the gen bomb development. The Atomic Energy Commis- LBJ Waiting On Whittiger. CHINA, Page 2) CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP)-President Johnson, spending the weekend at this mountaintop hideaway, prepared Saturday for indirect but public debate with Premier N. Kosygin and a possible meeting with the Soviet chief. With Johnson at this presidential retreat 70 miles from the White was Prime Minister Holt of Australia, a previousiy weekend guest. Johnson told a small group of newsmen he would not foreclose the possibility that he and Holt in their talks Saturday and Sunday would discuss a possible presidential meeting with Kosygin. Not On Agenda wouldn't want to foreclose discussing going to the moon," he said. But he added that the prospect of a meeting with Kosygin isn't on the agenda for his talks with Holt. At the brief session with newsmen on the sun-drenched patio at Camp David, the chief executive was noncommital on other questions. He said he has no more knowledge of Kosygin's plans than the reporters Johnson has scheduled for Monday morning a speech, to be broadcast by radio and television, which administration sources said in advance would contain a major statement of U.S. policy on the Middle East. At the U.N. General Assembly emergency session reconvening in New York an hour later on Monday, Kosygin is slated to follow U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg with the Soviet keynote address on the Maximum Airing Thus the clashing U.S. and Soviet views on the Middle East were headed for maximum airJohnson to get in the first word in the capital and Goldberg to follow him at New York. Just when and where and Kosygin would meet face to face for the first U.S.-Soviet summit parley in six years was still an open question, assuming they do meet. 'That's an iffy question," Johnson told a reporter who inquired about the site if he and Kosygin do meet. Administration sources assumed from diplomatic soundings with the Russians that Kosygin would accept Johnson's invitation to meet sometime during the Soviet leader's stay in this country. Kosygin is expected to remain through next weekend. But no specific date has been set up, the sources both the Russian and American sides appeared cautious in maneuvering toward a summit parley. Kosygin, who wants to woo Arab support from his U.N. appearance, presumably does not wish to sem to cozy with the President of the nation whom the Arabs accuse of siding with Israel. Go Johnson, for his part, was reported taking a proach on meeting Kosygin until he sees how the Soviet premier deals with the United States in his U.N. oratory. There be some problem about a site. Johnson is believed to favor Washington or Camp David. Kosygin may figure his prestige would be higher if the U.S. Pesident came to see him in New York. ties could be threshed out in view of the large potential gain from a personal get-together by the heads of the two superpowers. Not only the Middle East, but also Vietnam, disarmament and other items are of common concern to them. The strategy on the Middle East is currently spearby its drive to get the Assembly to brand Israel as' the aggressor and demand a pullback Israeli forces behind Israel's old frontier. U.S. strategists figure Moscow is trying to overcome its setback from Israel's victory in the war by using the United Nations as a global propaganda forum. The Russians hope at least to recoup their influence in the Arab world and make matters more difficult for the Unit- But in sum, U.S. diplomats ed States, these U.S. sources figured such protocol Civil Rights Report Cites Texas Ranger SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A civil rights report released Saturday accused the Texas Rangers of physical abuse, harassment and intimidation of the striking Rio Grande Valley farm workers. The report, released by the Texas Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, said harassment of the farm workers by the Rangers "gave the appearance of (the Rangers) being in sympathy with the growers and packers THE WEATHER Temple area forecast: Clear to partly cloudy Sunday. Temperature range: 76-94. Sunrise: 6:28 sunset: 8:35 p.m., moonrise: 5:03 p.m., 3:25 a.m. Temple area temperatures: high 96, low 70 with .39 inches of rain for 24 hours ending 5 p.m. Saturday. Airport high 97, low 74 for 24 hours ending 9 p.m. Saturday. Downtown Temple high 97, low 71 for 24 hours ending 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Belton Reservoir level: 565.67 above sea level (normal conservation pool level 569 feet above sea level). CONGRESSMEN AT DEDICATION Four Pickle of Austin, Rep. W. R. Poage of Waco, Dr. members of Congress attended the dedication S. J. Muirhead, VA Center director, Sen. Ralph Saturday of the new Temple Veterans Adminis- W. Yarborough and Rep. Olin E. Teague of tration Center Hospital. From left are Rep. J. J. (Staff Photo) rather than the impartiality usually expected of law enforcement officers." Seeks Investigation The committee asked an investigation by the U. S. attorney general "of the denial of equal protection of the laws in Starr County" and injunctive relief through federal courts. It also asked a re-examination by the attorney general and the U. S. secretaries of state and of labor of the "green card" policies which permit Mexican residents to cross the border daily to work. Members of the conducted hearings in Starr County on May 25 and 26, the report said, and supporters of the farm workers and of the growers testified, but the Texas Rangers ignored a written invitation to attend. The committee stated it found these conditions: Physical and verbal abuse by Texas rangers and Starr County law enforcement officials. Jailing of union organizers and members for many hours without bond and then failure to bring them promptly to trial after they were Arrests of union organizers and members without full investigation of complaints by growers. Encouragement of farm workers by Rangers to cross picket Intimidation by law enforcement officers of farm workers taking part in union representation elections. Banger Harassment Harassment by Rangers of supporters of the farm To many persons of Mexican descent, the report said, "the Texas Rangers are a symbol of oppression; their appearance in Starr County only served to aggravate an already tense situation." The report questioned whether the Rangers "are the appropriate source" of support for local law enforcement agencies in such a situation. Many Mexican citizens who possess alien worker cards, the so-called green cards, but live in Mexico are being used on farms being picketed by the striking farm workers, the report said. Several persons alleged that this practice constitutes a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of federal immigration law," the report said. Mrs. Harold Young of Odessa, the chairman of the Texas advisory Committee, delivered the report at a meeting organized here by the commission to explain federal programs open to the Mexican-American. Passed Unanimously An official of the committee said the report was passed unanimously by the 22-member state advisory committee Friday night. Cesar Chavez, head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, was scheduled to speak at the Saturday meeting, but officials said he was required to be in California. Demonstrations and strikes have been staged under the direction of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in Starr County for the last year in an effort to gain union recognition from the growers. The committee seeks a $1.25 an hour minimum wage for the stoop workers who harvest vegetables and melons in the semi-tropical farm land. During the melon harvest this month and last, the union organizers attempted to block picking and shipping of the melons. Texas Rangers were brought in at the request of the Starr County law enforcement agencies and made more than 60 arrests.
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Title | "Temple Daily Telegram" - June 18, 1967 |
Date | 1967-06-18 |
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Title | po-poage-nwp-tdt_1967-06-18 1 |
OCR - Transcript | Takes Lead Page 10 TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM Dedication Pictures, Page 5 Member, Audit Bureau of Circulation Wire Report of The Associated Press 212 76501 TEMPLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1967 Pages In Three Price Cents Poage: Seek Medical School Rep. W. R. Poage challenged outstanding qualifications and pective faculty and the need which Temple must have in the people of Temple Saturday with men who so quickly of patients in existing hospitals, order to remain a top medical to meet the demands of progress medical school." Temple can, Poage said, provide center. The average city is not a suitable site and adequate "I'm proud of the growth of prepared to cooperate with a housing for such an installation. Temple," Poage said, "but I'm 11th District of Texas issued medical school, con- "I suggest that VA afraid that many of the leaders the challenge in the de'dicatorv gressman said. He cited Temple stands ready to make available of Temple don't realize the im- address for the new $10 million hospitals, filled with patients space needed for such an opera- portance of a medical school Temple Veterans Administration unusual tion," he said. at this time. Center Hospital diseases, and the doctors and medical school in Temple "Now and every day we "Temple's whole future as a trained a three-fold should be working on a program medical center is tied with get- as evidence of purpose, Poage said. It would for a medical school in ting a medical school and get- Temple's need for a medical trained doctors need- The federal government will not ting it now," he said. "Where, school. ed by hospitals everywhere, it build the medical school for outside of metropolitian areas', "Temple can offer advantages would give VA the association you," Poage said, "but the can you find staff and facilities to a new medical school right which it needs and must have federal government will help comparable to those found in here, right now, that cannot be order to expand existing and will bear a considerable Temple? In all fairness, I know matched by any other city," facilities, and it would assist part of the expense. I pledge of no city with less than half said. civilian hospitals in attracting you every support I can give a million people with such In additition to attractive and high caliber you in Dedication Day An American veteran and his wife stroll down ing the hospital commission certificate, Dr. S. J. a flag-lined sidewalk en route to dedication cere- Muirhead, VA Center director, dedicated the hos-monies Saturday for Temple's new Veterans Ad- and its staff to care of veterans of the past, ministration Center Hospital. In his speech accept- present and future. (Staff Photo) VA Hospital Beneath Texas Sky By SUSAN Telgram Staff Writer While Old Glory waved proudly under a bright Texas Temple's new $10 million Veterans Administration Center Hospital was officially dedicated Saturday afternoon. The dedication, which attracted dignitaries Washington, D.C., and many parts of Texas, culminated two-and-a-half years of work involved in construction of the modern 480-bed hospital. More than 1,000 persons witnessed the dedication ceremony. They sat under the glaring sun beneath umbrellas or makeshift sunshades or sought relief in the shade. After Chaplain Hiram J. Eastland asked the benediction to close the hour-long the visitors went inside the air- school in Temple and pledged conditioned hospital for guided tours of the gleaming new building. Accepts Commission Dr. S. J. Muirhead, VA Center director, accepted the commission granting administrative authority from Dr. H. M. chjef medical director for Dr. Muirhead dedicated the efforts of the entire staff "to the memory of the veterans who serve no more, to the veterans whom we serve today, and to the veterans who are to be served here in the future." Rep. W. R. Poage of Waco gave the dedicatory address. He urged the citizens to work to maintain the city's place as a top medical center. He said this goal depends on the establishment of a medical Viet Cong Heavy Casualties SAIGON (AP) - Viet Cong troops, still seeking to wipe out some sizable American unit for the prestige such a victory would bring Communist arms, paid dearly Saturday for an ambush on a U.S. infantry battalion in War Zone D. A spokesman for the U.S. 1st Infantry Division said 31 Americans and, "by an initial body count," 196 of the enemy were killed in a three-hour battle at a No Stork In Sight Yet For AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) - There were no signs of the stork Saturday—the day that Luci Johnson Nugent calculated her baby was due. Grandmother-to-be Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson went back to the LBJ Ranch at Johnson City, Tex., 65 miles away, and the young Nugents "just waiting" as Luci put it. Luci's obstetrician, whose identity is considered a family secret, sent word that the presidential grandchild could come just any time. His best advice, relayed to waiting newsmen in Austin, was that they should get plenty of sleep. Luci was gay and glowing, looking pretty and obviously in spirits as she made a public appearance Friday night at a Democratic President's Club fund-raising dinner here for some 1,500 donors of $1,000 or She danced and stayed just past midnight. There was a moment when she tripped while walking but it appeared to cause no problem. jungle clearing 50 north of Saigon. 600 Involved Of the 600 or so Americans involved, 113 were wounded. There was no estimate of the wounded among the Viet Cong, who finally fled under a pound ing from U.S. jet planes and artillery. A plane crash took the lives of 34 persons at An Khe, in the central highlands 240 northeast of Saigon. The U.S Command said an Air Force C130 transport, attempting to abort a take-off, exploded and burned. It reported there were 22 survivors. Elsewhere the Communists unleashed mortar and rocket attacks on a South Vietnamese military hospital and three other U.S. Vietnamese positions in the central highlands, an area where allied officers expect the next big Red offensive effort. Explosion Wound The explosions wounded seven Green Beret men of the U.S Special Forces. Government casualties were called light, Farther north, artillery and air strikes were reported to have killed 48 Communists in plain called Elephant Valley. Troopers of the 1st Brigade U.S. 101st Airborne Division skirmished with North Vietnamese regulars southwest of Ngai City. Spokesmen said three Americans and eight of the enemy were killed. Air operations Friday included predawn attacks on the Bac Giang power plant, 23 miles north of Hanoi, and a Communist storage area 34 miles north of Haiphong. The pilots were unable to determine the results because of darkness. Among 111 missions, other fliers said they destroyed a surface to air missile site 41 north of Vinh, setting off two secondary explosions. his support for such a program. (See related story.) Before introducing Poage, William J. Driver, administrator of veterans affairs, told the audience, "This is just a small sample of what we're doing across the country. We're determined to keep pace with the demands for care and the increasing number of veterans." Driver, from Washington, D.C., is in charge of 165 veterans hospitals, 57 regional offices, and five data processing centers in the U.S. 'Temple is Proud' Mayor Truett Tomlinson welcomed the visitors to Temple. He said, "Temple is proud of this day because it will bring many new To the hospital staff, I offer the city's heartiest conOthers who spoke during the ceremony included Sen. Ralph Yarborough, Rep. J. J. Pickle of Austin and Rep. Teague of Bryan. Chaplain Gordon L. Johnson gave the invocation and Chaplain James S. Parks gave the dedicatory prayer. Ted Connell of Killeen was master of ceremonies. Connell, a past national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is advisor to the President on veterans affairs. The flag raising ceremony which followed the dedicatory address was presented by Marshall M. Pasley, district vice commander, and Knebel Post 83 of the American Legion in Austin. The full color guard is nationally known drill team. Band Plays The 1st Armored Division Band from Fort Hood gave a concert of popular songs and marches before the ceremony. The bandmaster is CWO Paul E. Truitt. Mayor Tomlinson Driver an honorary citizen of Temple at the VIP barbecue before the ceremony. Driver was presented a painting depicting a typical Texas landscape, a gift of Dr. W. P. Chrisman, chief of domiliciary medical service at the VA Center and a noted Texas artist. The frame was a gift of Mr. and China Claims Explosion Of Her First H-Bomb No Word Released On Possible Summit Harry Weinblatt. John Sanners, hospital representative of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Copperas Cove, presented a que with the donors' names. Leon and the Drifters, a Western band sponsored by the Belton VFW, entertained approximately 300 guests. The barbecue was held at Tarrant Lake on the VA property. The public tours of the hospital included the multistory general medical and surgical hospital and the one-story psychiatric hospital. Groundbreaking for the new hospital was held Nov. 11, 1964. The buildings were completed and turned over to VA officials in late 1966. Dr. Horace Wedemeyer, a service-connected disabled veteran, was the first patient admitted to the new hospital April 27, 1967. Others on the speakers platform during the ceremony included Reuben Talasek, Dr. Richard D. Haines, Lt. Gen. George R. Mather, S. Percy Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Joe F. Ramsey Jr., Elmer Kraft, Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Flint, John Paul Keelan, Mr. and Mrs. Connie Smith, George Nichols, Dr. Walker A. Lea Jr., Frank Weber, Mrs. Opal F. Roberson, Jamie Clements, Dr. A. Ford Wolf, Dr. Bertrand Levy, Dr, Sterling, Dr. Marjorie Williams, H. K. Dodgen, Tommy Riggs, Jack Coker, Percy Mims, Walter R. Armstrong Jr., John B. Boyd, Dr. James Chandler, Arnold House, W. B. Hawkins, Dr. Chester Kirtz, Dr. Russell Bloom, Jack P. Powell and Reports Heard In Tokyo TOKYO (AP) Red China anounced it successfully exploded its first hydrogen bomb Saturday. It said this deals a telling blow at the "nuclear blackmail" policy of the United States and the Soviet Union. The explosion was reported set off "over the western region" of the mainland, which evidently meant at or near Lop Nor, the research center in remote The test was the sixth in an atomic series launched Oct. 1964, with the explosion of a device that Western experts said had the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, about the power of the bomb a U.S. plane dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 1945. The most powerful of the previous at the equivalent of 300,000 or more of the fifth, Dec. 28, 1966. The hydrogen bomb announcement created no great surprise in Tokyo, which is especially sensitive to nuclear weapons development around the world, or in Washington, which is trying to limit the spread of such weapons. A Japanese government source said explosion of the bomb "would not affect the clear balance between East and West." He added, however, that it could be broken when China completes development of nuclear weapons to be used with long-range missiles. American officials, closely following China's five previous tests, had concluded the Chinese were moving toward the gen bomb development. The Atomic Energy Commis- LBJ Waiting On Whittiger. CHINA, Page 2) CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP)-President Johnson, spending the weekend at this mountaintop hideaway, prepared Saturday for indirect but public debate with Premier N. Kosygin and a possible meeting with the Soviet chief. With Johnson at this presidential retreat 70 miles from the White was Prime Minister Holt of Australia, a previousiy weekend guest. Johnson told a small group of newsmen he would not foreclose the possibility that he and Holt in their talks Saturday and Sunday would discuss a possible presidential meeting with Kosygin. Not On Agenda wouldn't want to foreclose discussing going to the moon," he said. But he added that the prospect of a meeting with Kosygin isn't on the agenda for his talks with Holt. At the brief session with newsmen on the sun-drenched patio at Camp David, the chief executive was noncommital on other questions. He said he has no more knowledge of Kosygin's plans than the reporters Johnson has scheduled for Monday morning a speech, to be broadcast by radio and television, which administration sources said in advance would contain a major statement of U.S. policy on the Middle East. At the U.N. General Assembly emergency session reconvening in New York an hour later on Monday, Kosygin is slated to follow U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg with the Soviet keynote address on the Maximum Airing Thus the clashing U.S. and Soviet views on the Middle East were headed for maximum airJohnson to get in the first word in the capital and Goldberg to follow him at New York. Just when and where and Kosygin would meet face to face for the first U.S.-Soviet summit parley in six years was still an open question, assuming they do meet. 'That's an iffy question," Johnson told a reporter who inquired about the site if he and Kosygin do meet. Administration sources assumed from diplomatic soundings with the Russians that Kosygin would accept Johnson's invitation to meet sometime during the Soviet leader's stay in this country. Kosygin is expected to remain through next weekend. But no specific date has been set up, the sources both the Russian and American sides appeared cautious in maneuvering toward a summit parley. Kosygin, who wants to woo Arab support from his U.N. appearance, presumably does not wish to sem to cozy with the President of the nation whom the Arabs accuse of siding with Israel. Go Johnson, for his part, was reported taking a proach on meeting Kosygin until he sees how the Soviet premier deals with the United States in his U.N. oratory. There be some problem about a site. Johnson is believed to favor Washington or Camp David. Kosygin may figure his prestige would be higher if the U.S. Pesident came to see him in New York. ties could be threshed out in view of the large potential gain from a personal get-together by the heads of the two superpowers. Not only the Middle East, but also Vietnam, disarmament and other items are of common concern to them. The strategy on the Middle East is currently spearby its drive to get the Assembly to brand Israel as' the aggressor and demand a pullback Israeli forces behind Israel's old frontier. U.S. strategists figure Moscow is trying to overcome its setback from Israel's victory in the war by using the United Nations as a global propaganda forum. The Russians hope at least to recoup their influence in the Arab world and make matters more difficult for the Unit- But in sum, U.S. diplomats ed States, these U.S. sources figured such protocol Civil Rights Report Cites Texas Ranger SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A civil rights report released Saturday accused the Texas Rangers of physical abuse, harassment and intimidation of the striking Rio Grande Valley farm workers. The report, released by the Texas Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, said harassment of the farm workers by the Rangers "gave the appearance of (the Rangers) being in sympathy with the growers and packers THE WEATHER Temple area forecast: Clear to partly cloudy Sunday. Temperature range: 76-94. Sunrise: 6:28 sunset: 8:35 p.m., moonrise: 5:03 p.m., 3:25 a.m. Temple area temperatures: high 96, low 70 with .39 inches of rain for 24 hours ending 5 p.m. Saturday. Airport high 97, low 74 for 24 hours ending 9 p.m. Saturday. Downtown Temple high 97, low 71 for 24 hours ending 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Belton Reservoir level: 565.67 above sea level (normal conservation pool level 569 feet above sea level). CONGRESSMEN AT DEDICATION Four Pickle of Austin, Rep. W. R. Poage of Waco, Dr. members of Congress attended the dedication S. J. Muirhead, VA Center director, Sen. Ralph Saturday of the new Temple Veterans Adminis- W. Yarborough and Rep. Olin E. Teague of tration Center Hospital. From left are Rep. J. J. (Staff Photo) rather than the impartiality usually expected of law enforcement officers." Seeks Investigation The committee asked an investigation by the U. S. attorney general "of the denial of equal protection of the laws in Starr County" and injunctive relief through federal courts. It also asked a re-examination by the attorney general and the U. S. secretaries of state and of labor of the "green card" policies which permit Mexican residents to cross the border daily to work. Members of the conducted hearings in Starr County on May 25 and 26, the report said, and supporters of the farm workers and of the growers testified, but the Texas Rangers ignored a written invitation to attend. The committee stated it found these conditions: Physical and verbal abuse by Texas rangers and Starr County law enforcement officials. Jailing of union organizers and members for many hours without bond and then failure to bring them promptly to trial after they were Arrests of union organizers and members without full investigation of complaints by growers. Encouragement of farm workers by Rangers to cross picket Intimidation by law enforcement officers of farm workers taking part in union representation elections. Banger Harassment Harassment by Rangers of supporters of the farm To many persons of Mexican descent, the report said, "the Texas Rangers are a symbol of oppression; their appearance in Starr County only served to aggravate an already tense situation." The report questioned whether the Rangers "are the appropriate source" of support for local law enforcement agencies in such a situation. Many Mexican citizens who possess alien worker cards, the so-called green cards, but live in Mexico are being used on farms being picketed by the striking farm workers, the report said. Several persons alleged that this practice constitutes a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of federal immigration law," the report said. Mrs. Harold Young of Odessa, the chairman of the Texas advisory Committee, delivered the report at a meeting organized here by the commission to explain federal programs open to the Mexican-American. Passed Unanimously An official of the committee said the report was passed unanimously by the 22-member state advisory committee Friday night. Cesar Chavez, head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, was scheduled to speak at the Saturday meeting, but officials said he was required to be in California. Demonstrations and strikes have been staged under the direction of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in Starr County for the last year in an effort to gain union recognition from the growers. The committee seeks a $1.25 an hour minimum wage for the stoop workers who harvest vegetables and melons in the semi-tropical farm land. During the melon harvest this month and last, the union organizers attempted to block picking and shipping of the melons. Texas Rangers were brought in at the request of the Starr County law enforcement agencies and made more than 60 arrests. |
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