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Today's Smile WASHINGTON (APV-Sea. Georga S. MeGarera. Jokingly (are thu reanea for choosing Edward MiDermotl, director af emergency planning andrr President John F. ai eoor.

dinalor for his campaign lor the presidential nomlmtion. "He thought it wai very appropriate brtnf In an emergency planning peri wKh only 15 dayi to the conrention." NAL Good Morning There Haa Been A Call for "Nob-Violent Demonstrations" During THa Democratic Conrention. Ite A "Riot" What Theaa Man TsrsoMi Can Tan Iota, CCiL Volume S5T Monday Morning. August 12, 196S 22 Pages in Two Sections pnce 7C oo in i ear Number 43 In Heavy kdim nines Ma far Maig trmm. mm mm nanny i.Jl i 1 1 mi ill mi' r' III ff V- of B52 Raids On North ii- New Rains Measured UNM's Janitor-Professor Taught at Turn of Century I Resumed jr.

Over State mm, vr 1 si Another line of thunder-showers moved through the Albuquerque area Sun- SAIGON (UPI) U. S. Marines battled an entrenched force in the An Hoa Valley near Da Nang Sunday on the second day 1 day night threatening flooding to some of the of heavy action and rising casualties in the old com wr pot if' -f Virs -ag-. munist bastion. U.

S. B32s raided North Vietnam for the first time in three j1 i weeks and dropped a million pounds of bombs. AFTER A year's work with the Journal, Custers went to work at the small university on the "hill" in 1892. As one former student described his work "he cleaned everything thera and everyone knew him." Working as a janitor Custers astounded those around him with his knowledge of mathematics, surveying and trigonometry. The university offered Custers teaching position and, with failing sight, he began teaching mathematics.

A LONG-TIME Albuquerque resident fondly recalls Custer. "He would walk from his home to Railroad (now Central) and Second Ave. every day and catch one of the city's two taxis for the ride to the university. "Mr. Custers, as everyone called him, could get around quite well with his cane and he recognized By ED MAHR Who was M.

Custers, the former University of New Mexico professor featured in Sunday's Journal in Ripley's "kalieve it or Ripley described Custers as a man who joined UNM as a janitor before the turn of the century and eventually became a math instructor and continued teaching despite failing eyesight. But investigation into the life of M. Custers reveals a man with a unique personality who loved Albuquerque and the university and in return gained the respect of those who came in contact with him. MATHIAS L. Custers first came to Albuquerque from Iowa in 1891 at the age of 57.

Although his Iowa background is sketchy, it is believed he taught in Iowa country schools before coming to New Mexico for health reasons. Joined by his wife, Ruby, and two daughters, Maude At least 15 of the big Stratofortresses staged five raids starting Sunday inside and north of the Demilitarized Zona (DMA) that separates the two I I 1 lower sections of the city. The Sunport recorded an ad-I ditional .13 inches of rain to I boost the year's total to over 8 inches and the August total to nearly an inch of rain. City police had received no I reports of flood damage but of- ficers said traffic was slowed considerably by heavy water run-off in many areas of the city. New Mexico's abnormal I moisture continued to soak the I state Sunday with totals of one-I half to one inch being fairly common.

I Heaviest amount was a I whopping 1.54 inches in Socorro, while Hobbs had .92 inches of rain during an afternoon storm. Temperatures remained below normal around the state. I Maximums ranged from 89 at Deming to 62 at Los Alamos. i i i -ai I 1- Vietnams. They struck against staging areas for the infiltration of Red troops into South Vietnam.

It was the first time the American bombers had risked North Vietnam's antiaircraft defenses since July 18. vor. M. Custers and Jeannette, Custers first worked for the Albuquerque Journal as a part-time "writer and reporter" for editor W. S.

Burke. The Civil War veteran and his family resided at 602 W. Silver, a location now occupied by a gasoline station. U.S. 7th Fleet spokesmen said the cruiser Boston and the destroyer Madrlox were fired on by North Vietnamese shore "aw I a I ii ill" .7 batteries while patrolling the Continued on A-9 uulf of Tonkin Sunday.

None of the more than 200 artilierv rounds struck the ships. The high in Albuquerque CnrHni urne mild 7R 8 NAVY JETS bombed the FBI's 'Most Wanted' 6 degrees below normal for the Hate Ttw wem 61 in the Communist gun emplacements about 45 miles southeast of Valley and 60 at the Sunport. A ITnseasonablv cool weather Two Added To States Road Toll prevailed over much of the nation Sunday. Suspect in Budville Deaths May Hit List dark water near their Southeast Heights homes are Greg Champion, 5, right, Patty Vowell, 5, center, and her sister, Barbara, 6. The expressions display the children's pleasure in the wet stuff.

(Journal photo by Barry Aguilar) CHILD'S I II Mud holes eyesores and bothersome to most, are a pure delight for these Albuquerque youngsters who have enjoyed the summer rains falling over the past week. Joining arms and walking back and forth in the cool, Russians Launch Vinh. Other American planes sank two ferries on a river north and west of the North Vietnamese city and blew up a munitions complex 35 miles northwest of the seaport. The U.S. Command reported 29 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in An Hoa Valley fighting that cost nine Marines killed and 17 wounded.

American jet fighter-bombers and artillery supported the operation against a force of about 200 men dug into jungle hills. U.S. troops of the Americal Bv United Press International The FBI Sunday indicated that Billy Ray White, wanted for interstate flight to avoid prosecution for The New Mexico highway fatality toll increased by two Sunday with the death of a New Maneuvers murder and armed robbery in New Mexico, may be placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" Son of Late Senator Gas in Hold list. i MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet TTnion earlv Sundav announced White, 25, is sought in connection with the slaying last the start of new military Eisenhower Shows 'Satisfactory' Gains Of Fish Boat maneuvers along the norinern Nov. 18 of H.

N. (Bud) Rice, 54, Seminole, man from injuries suffered in a Saturday crash and the death of a Tulsa man. The victims were Donald Ray Teston, 27, Seminole; and Ed Hornbeck, 57, Tulsa. Teston died about 10:15 a.m. Sunday in St.

Mary's Hospital and eastern frontiers or tzecno- Division and 198th Light Infantry Brigade reported killing Dennis Chavez Jr. Dies in Capital and Mrs. Blanche Brown, 81, slovakia. during a robbery of Rice's WASHINGTON Former 18 communists in two battles Saturday 12 miles north west of Kills Five The Soviet news agency Tass Budville Trading Post, 20 miles president Dwight said the new maneuvers wete Quang Ngai, a province capital east of Grants on US-6. Eisenhower's doctors reported "ioint exercises of com Sunday he continues to "show FORT MYERS, Fla.

Ufl A munications troops" and in Trom the Journal's Washington Bureau satis factory improvement" "We understand that White is being considered for inclusion on the list, but we have no cluded the participation ot Dom East German and Polish troops WASHINGTON Dermis Chavez the son of the lata senator from New Mexico, died Sunday in a from his latest heart attack. about 100 miles south of Da Nang. There were no U.S. battle deaths, headquarters said. NORTH OF An Hoa, ia the A Shau Valley leading to Hue, torrential rains hampered U.S.

and South Vietnamese troops deadly gas poisoned a man in the hold of a fishing boat and then claimed the lives of four other men Sunday after they hurled themselves one by one along with Soviet forces. definite information as yet," an The five-star general is Bear The announcement of the new TRAFFIC DEATHS CITY 1967 1968 Since Jan. 1 12 12 In All Aug. 0 0 STATE Since Jan. 1 264 235 In AU Aug.

36 15 ing the end of the critical period Washington hospital. He was 55. A short time before his death, Chavez, a Washington attorney, had been found unconscious on the floor maneuvers coincided with the FBI spokesman in Albuquerque said Sunday. down the hatch in rescue at of recovery, which is generally tempts. conclusion of massive Warsaw Pact war games along the figured at about a week pushing through the area against what front reports described as "constant" small White is described as being 5 of a Washington jail cell.

A sixth man, who authorities Eisenhower was stricken early Czech frontier which had posed Police said they arrested arms and mortar fire from the threat of Soviet military in said also made a rescue try, last Tuesday morning at Walter Officer Injured feet, 10 inches tall, 140 to 146 pounds, brown hair, hazel eyes and a ruddy complexion. He has North Vietnamese units. Chavez after observing him Reed Army Hospital, where be was reported in critical condition at Charlotte County tervention in Czechoslovakia during last month's Soviet- staggering on a Washington American military spokesmen Medical Center. Czech confrontation. was recuperating from an earlier heart attack.

street and chareed him with blamed poor visibility in the a scar on his left temple and another on his back. The words "Mother" and "Billy" are In Illinois Unrest drunkenness. Charlotte County deputies mist-covered A Shau Valley for a strafing run by a U.S. Air said the men were unloading a cargo of trash fish used for The preliminary results of an Journal Index Two Guards CHICAGO HEIGHTS, 111. W-j Force F100 Supersabre jet Saturday which killed eight Americans and wounded 50.

tatooed on his chest. Joe Dean, an alleged ac autopsy indicate Chavez died of fertilizer at the Charlotte Har A policeman was shot and head injuries apparently suf- bor dock of Protein Products complice in the robbery and Co. wounded early Sunday while investigating a wave of fires that The first one keeled over, a Are Freed shootings, was arrested in California and returned to New Volleys of 20-millimeter cannon fire from the American plane ripped into a unit of the Continued on A-2 broke out in two neighboring communities south of Chicago. Mexico. He is now free on bond.

deputy said, and then the five others went down into the hold one after the other. Four of the Luvert Listenbee- mayor of MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. rescuers died, he said, including About $250 was taken in the robbery. the fish plant supervisor and East Chicago Heights, imposed a curfew from 9 p.m. Sunday to 8 a.m.

today to prevent further disturbances. in Roswell due to internal ia-juries suffered in a one-car crash Saturday. State Police said Teston's car ran off US-285 about 5 a.m. Saturday and rolled over three times when he apparently went to sleep at the wheel. Hornbeck was killed and his wife and an Albuquerque man were critically injured about 3 a.m.

Sunday in a two-vehicle crash near Moriarty on US-66. Mrs. Hornbeck and the driver of the other vehicle involved, Ronald E. Brook, 24, Albuquerque, were taken to Bataan Memorial Methodist Hospital. By late afternoon Mrs.

Hornbeck was reported in serious condition while Brook was still in critcial condition. State Police said Brook's eastbound pickup truck was driving to the left of the center line and collided with the front fender of the Hornbeck's car. Charges were pending against Brook. Two Indiana State Prison guards held hostage several hours in a prison cellhouse by rebellious prisoners were freed the captain of the boat. Albuquerque Weather ALBIQIERQCE AND VICINITY I i unYlli -4 Officials said the highly toxic gas was unidentified and its Theodore France III, 28, a late Sunday.

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Nearly 40 incoming flights many from the United States were diverted. Visibility was reduced to 220 yards. dockworkers Francis Webb and lomgnt valley, sunport. St.W MEXICO: Partly cloudy thronrt Tuesday with scattered afternoon and mht time thunderjhowers. Slightly warmer temperatures.

Higha today mostly 30 to M. Lows tonight mostly 50 to 65. Additional Weather Page A-8 6:15 p.m.- apparently unharmed ed. Kenneth Smith, Capt. Francis Henry Winter, and his brother, Joseph, operator of the plant.

investigated a disturbance near a liquor store slightly damaged by a fire. 1 They were freed after the prisoners, described as "only a handful" among some 215 prisoners in the cellhouse, asked Computer Analyzes Writings to see a newspaperman ana Spiers of the Michigan City Action Line Machine Denies Homer Aided Dennis Chaves Jr. fered in a fall several days before his arrest, said Dr. News-Dispatch went to taut with them. Spiers was still in the cellhouse when the guards were released.

Meanwhile, a 50-man Indiana State Police riot squad was standing by outside the prison walls. Richard Whelton- District of Columbia coroner. Whelton said that final certification of cause of death will follow further investigation. Dogs Don't Mix Well With Gardening Plans Q. How can I have a garden and still keep my dog if he insists on digging up the whole shebang? B.D.

A. With most dogs, whose natural tendency is to dig, you cannot have a dog and a garden unless you fence off a run for the dog where he cannot get to the garden, says a veterinarian. You can declaw a cat (for apartment living) in a relatively simple operation but our veterinarian says he has never done this with a dog. Thus, you must choose between a dog and a garden or else fence him out Additional Action Line on A-5 Two More Cables Cut In Chicago Sabotage CHICAGO UPl Two cables were cut in Chicago's Loop early Sunday, marking the fifth straight day of line sabotage as an impasse continued in the strike by electrical workers against the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. One of the cables carried 200 wires which served 50 downtown businesses and the other was a video line which carried closed circuit television to several Loop hotels and theaters.

set of indices and concordances for the works of Homer for any scholar who wishes to do "further textual analysis," Morton said. "Our methods will identify inconsistency of style in a passage of 60 lines, and almost invariably in passages as short as 10 lines. "The complex index of a quarter million words of Homer was compiled by an Atlas computer in 30 seconds. It would have taken a scholar a year." that a computer analysis of a quarter million words of Homer had proved they were all written by one man. "By analyzing sentence lengths and structures, the computer tests showed a remarkable consistency through all of Homer's work," Chadwick said.

"It would be statistically impossible for several authors to have been involved." "We now have a completed The autopsy showed that Chavez suffered brain con EDINBURGH, Scotland (UPI) An electronic computer has answered the question which classical scholars have been squabbling over for centuries: Were the Iliad and Odyssey actually written by Homer or by several poets? The computer says Homer. The Rev. A. Q. Morton and John Chadwick, two Greek scholars, told the International Federation of International Processing congress in Edinburgh Saturday tusions and bleeding from Quake Jolts Manila MANILA Ufl Another strong aftershock from the disastrous earthquake of Aug.

2 jarred Manila early Sunday. Many residents were awakened but there were no reports of new damage. i membranes surrounding the brain, Welton said. Police said Chavez was jailed after being arrested and booked Continued on A-9.