"Temple Daily Telegram" - June 18, 1967

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TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM
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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.