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Lake Charles American Press 30 PAGES LAKE CHARLES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, NUMBER 26,549 Light turnout voters expected in runoff races ROY C. COLLTNS Farmer teacher MRS. JOHN R. WEEKS Incumbent The runoff for a place on the Calcasieu Parish School Board has stolen the spotlight from the Lake Charles City Council runoff in Saturday's Democratic primary. However, a light turnout of voters is expected.

David Painter, attorney, and; Charles Fontenot, an insurance broker, are winding up their campaigns to fill a vacancy on the council which was created when Dan Wise resigned to accept the post of city finance di- ll, he coached football and track for 13 years prior to entering for insurance business. Collins, married to the former Tommy Lou Thomas, resides with his family, which includes four children. Mark. Christi, Julie and Scott, at 1926 18th Collins holds a master degree in education from LSU. He is also a Louisiana Tech graduate.

In the City Council runoff, David Painter. 29, a graduate of Lake Charles High School and Tulane University, where he received his BBA and LLB, has been a resident of the city for the past 18 years. He has been active in church work and boy scout activities. Painter is married to the former Isabel Thornton, of Boyce. They have two children and reside at 1007 Ninth St.

Charles Fontenot. 38, is a partner in an insurance brokerage firm. He is a graduate of LaGrange High School and Tulane University where he received a BA degree in political science in 1952. Fontenot also holds a business administration degree from Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania in 1954. A veteran of World War II, Fontenot is active in church work, veterans affairs and civic club work.

He is married to the former Effie Fitzgerald. They have three children and reside at 605 DeWald St. Ward 3 registration has increased by 171 over the total eligible to vote in the first primary. Cameron voters of Ward 2 will also select a School Board member. Curley J.

Vincent and Lee J. Conner are contesting the seat. A district judgeship race between William C. Pegues III of DeRidder and James C. Terrell Jr.

of Leesville furnishes tht main interast in the primary in Vernon and Beauregard parishes. They are contesting the vacant judge's position in the 30th Judicial District. In Oakdale Ursin Richard faces George Karam in the runoff for a seat on the city council. Jeff Davis voters will choose between A. Ray Constant and Peter Davis for school board member.

CHARLES M. FONTENOT Insurance broker DAVID PAINTER Attorney LBJ signs boost in minimum wage WASHINGTON (AP)-President Johnson signed into law today a bill boosting the national minimum wage to $1.60 an hour and bringing 8 million more people under its coverage. "This will bring a larger piece of this country's prosperity and a larger share of personal dignity to millions of our workers, their wives, and their children, and to me, frankly, that's what being president is all about," Johnson said. The present $1.25 an hour minimum will go up in stages to $1.60 by 1968 under the new law, to which Johnson attached his signature at a ceremony in the White House Cabinet Room. The room was packed with representatives of labor and members of the Senate and House.

One of those present was Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the House Labor Committee, whose committee members trimmed away Thursday some of his power to bottle up legislation. Johnson mentioned Powell by name among several others in passing around thanks for helping to get the minimum wage measure enacted. Johnson recalled that Thomas Jefferson had called the presidency "a splendid misery" and said that he agreed "but today is one of those splendid days." The President said he was very much pleased that farm workers were being brought into the minimum wage program for the first time and that it would apply to charwomen, hotel and motel and laundry workers and the girls who supply the coffee to the bus drivers before they go off to work in the morning. "It will help minority groups in the face of prejudices that exist," Johnson said.

rector. Interest in the council race has waned as major interest switched to the school board race, where Mrs. John R. Weeks, incumbent, is challenged by Roy Collins, a form-; er teacher and coach for the one seat available. Mrs.

Weeks, appointed to her post when the board was ex-1 panded to 10 Ward 3 is the wife of the late John Weeks, former superintendent MIAMI, Fla. gusty I ports are received. A plane was the depression moving on Mar-, ward at 20 miles an hour, was itude 14.5 north, longitude 59 5 for Magnolia Life Insurance tropical depression moved to- to be sent out Saturday. and who for 10 years operated ward the French Island of Mar- The Weather Bureau said his own service station on Front tinique in the Leeward Islands! there was little likelihood that and Pujo Streets. today and another was found far She resides at 5717 Common out in the Atlantic Ocean.

St. and has four sons and one 1 daughter. Satellite pictures received by Collins, 41. is a Lake Charles i tlle Weather Bureau showed a insurance agent and a former "well developed" depression Two tropical depressions, one weak, one strong, churn waters of Atlantic tinique would grow into a tropi- expected to move across Mar- west. 100 miles east of tinique during the day.

bringing tinique and 1,750 miles southeast gusty winds in the Leewards! of Miami. cal storm. A hurricane hunter plane flew into the disturbance today, found top winds gusting at only Lake Charles High School foot- 100 miles east of Barbados in ball coach and teacher. A vet- the Windward Islands and 3,000 eran of the U. S.

Navy in southeast of Miami. The newly-discovered disturbance was too far away for reconnaissance aircraft and in an area from which few ships re- $10 billion in war spending seen WASHINGTON (AP) Gov. William W. Scranton of sylvania came out of a hold-the- 1 1 i e-on-spending conference Truck runs over, kills Sulphur child Second flash fire victim dies of burns School Board seat at stake from St. Lucia northward Guadeloupe.

At 8:30 a.m. the dis- favorable for tropical storm de- 10 Forecasts said it was in an area where conditions are un- 30 to 35 miles an hour, and no lurbance vvas centered near lat- velopmenl. definite storm center. The depression, moving west- Continental beins EUNICE A second victim of a flash fire at a propane gas i loading ramp, Kermit Boss, 32, I of Sunset died early today in Moosa Memorial Hospital from burns received late Wednesday afternoon. First to succumb to burns received in the fire of an undetermined cause was Lee Bellard, 31, of Eunice.

Bellard died about 8:25 a.m. Thursday. A. third victim, Eugene Hen- SULPHUR A two-year-old on 5 7'? f4lo a w1 stedas rt i Still Vwr rresment jolinson today is Llovd Glen Son-' stm crilic al toda by hospital saying Johnson is talking of: ohlr. and au I Vietnamese expenditures rising ithur Sonnier.

802 Elm St. was m1 The President said there always had been predictions that at least $10 billion "over this apparently killed instantly when a minimum wage was going to close down businesses and cut down employment, but he said the record did not show that. i he ran into the side of a lumber on Elm Street at about present year." Asked whether he got the 2:20 p.m., Thursday. impression spending on the war i BALLOTS FOR ELECTION ON PAGE 28 Voters will be going to the polls Saturday to cast ballots in the Democratic Primary runoff election. On Page 28 of today's Lake Charles American Press is a sample ballot for Calcasieu -(Ward 3) and Cameron (Ward 2).

Alsp included is a list of polling places in Ward 3 of Calcasieu Parish. jnia Republican replied: iHe talked in terms of 'Yes." 'Yes. i that. I Edward Holmes, 26, of 705 "The straight he said, Soutnea st Asia might go up at Elm driver of the truck, "is that a fair minimum wage least $10 billion, the Pennsylva- told Sulphur police that he was doesn't hurt business in any way. Decent employers want to treat their employes decently." There are always some who want to exploit their employes, Johnson said, "but this new law will prevent much of this exploitation of the defenseless." 23 The three men were burned when a fire broke out at about 6:50 p.m.

Wednesday at the ramp of the Union Texas Petroleum Co. about four and a half miles east of Basile on a Missouri Pacific railway siding. Boss was a lank truck driver for Wanda Petroleum Co. The other men worked for the Union I Texas firm. CAMERON Cameron Parish voters of Ward 2 will ballot in Saturday's Democratic Runoff election to select its member of the Cameron Parish School Board.

There are 604 registered voters eligible to vote for the school board post, Miss Nona Welsh, registrar of voters said Thursday. Precinct 1, with 378 registered voters, and Precinct 2 with 226 registered have taken a strong interest in the runoff between Curley J. Vincent and Lee J. Conner. The expansion of school facilities in Cameron Parish has been a keynote of the School Board's operations during the years since 1957 when Hurricane Audrey devastated the coast and erased the work of decades.

Silver anniversary festivities at Continental Oil Company's refinery began today with company executives arriving from New York and Texas. The Conoco officers and their wives will be greeted at Lake Charles Municipal Airport by the "Red Carpet" committee of the Association Commerce. A. W. Tarkington, president of Conoco, heads the list of firm officials which include J.

E. Kircher, executive vice president, New York; Roy M. Mays, vice president and general manager in the Fort Worth, Te.v. division, and W. H.

Burnap, group vice president from Houston, Tex. Wives of the officials will be feted at a tea this afternoon and the day's activities will be capped off with a dinner at the Lake Charles Country Club. Saturday, 24 of the original employes at the West Lake refinery who are still employed at the plant will be honored at an open house celebration. Em- ployes' families and others interested may tour the refinery during the day. A special section commemorating the 25th year of operation in the parish is included in today's Lake Charles American Press beginning on Page (Weather Details on Page 30) I Johnson conferred with Scran-; ton and seven other governors in what the President said was; driving east on Elm Street at the iirst of a series of meetings about 10 or 15 miles per hour.

AFL-CIO President George Meany called the new law the biggest improvement in history and said it would benefit not only millions of low-paid workers but businessmen who depend on consumer purchasing power. WE WILL BE CLOSED SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24 because of Religious Holiday RtFF'S GEM JEWELRY CO. MORRIS TANKEL LOVE'S MEN STORE jiOFFER'S SPORTSWEAR PACKMAN'S PHOTO PRODUCTS, INC. STANDEE'S YOUNG FASHIONS CALCASIEU STEEL ANP PIPE, ING. THE FASHION VOTE NO.

57 COUNCILMAN PAIQ BY PAVIO PAINTER SPECIAL Friday-Saturday-Sunday U.S.D.A. Choice Beef Ribs Ib. 59c Cut and Wrapped Free Hot Bar-Be-Cue Chickens ea. 98c at all 10 handy PAK-A-SAK STORES to outline his program to try to combat inflation by holding down on government spending and investments, with emphasis on the impact on state pro- I grams. Taxes apparently did not come up.

But Scranton said that as he sees things, with the prospective expansion of Vietnam- i ese costs, "a rise in taxes in the Inext Congress is pretty clear." He said he saw the boy in the yard and the next thing he knew there was a bump. When he looked back, he saw the child lying in the street. The right rear wheel ran over the child, police said. Dr. C.

T. White, Calcasieu! Parish coroner, termed the accident unavoidable. Funeral arrangements will be, announced by Gilmore Funeral I Home in Lake Charles. Mexicans intend to block Lafayette's 'mercy train' LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) A drive to help Mexico's Tarahu- mara Indians was stymied to- Mexican government's refusal to let Lafayette's er blow Wednesday night when i plancken, a Jesuit missionary a plane crashed 235 miles south who once lived in Lafayette.

Father Verplancken said the death loll among the Tarahu- of El Paso, killing a priest and a nun. I They were Father Ernesto; maras due to starvation had For Courteous Rides To The Polls Call 439-3688 439-3689 439-4606 CHARLEY FONTENOT FOR CITY COUNCILMAN Fold For By Charley Fontenot PAID FQ8 OAVIO PAINTER INDEX Amusements Classified Crossword Deaths Editorial Comment Jumble Sports Television Women's News "gift of love" go south of the' Uranga of Chihuahua City, Mex- rea ched 200 a day The tribe is The child was the 23rd traf- horde-. ico, and Sister Lourdes Ram- located in Chihuahua State, ad- They were at Houston, early today, with San Antonio and El Paso the next stops. El Paso is on the border. Page i fie fatality in the parish this iiez, formerly of El Paso.

They 221 year. Judy Brown, a six-month-i The gift consisted of 10 ireight were carry i ng me djcal supplies old child who died Wednesday rsu with food, medicine, an food to the Indians. 221 in a Beaumont, hospital i clothing and farming tools. Vol ...30 4 ...22 19-21 ....7 ....6 after being injured in a two- car crash Sunday night near DeQuincy, was the 22nd victim. Calcasieu Parish's 23rd fatality in 1965 occurred Aug.

27 crash near Vinton. unteers packed the with Gordon Blake, an engineer who directed the drive for dona- donations after a Roman Catholic priest said the Tarahumaras are starving. In Mexico City Thursday tions, said the Mexican reaction to the Lafayette effort came as a shock. Blake said the cars had been scheduled to arrive in Creel, Mexico, on Sept. 30, to be met by Father Verplancken and a The governor of Chihuahua, Cf ew of Indians to unload the Gen.

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2 for $5.00. BARGAIN CITY 126 3rd Avt. 1 block off Brood Living in remote parts of the Sierra Madre Mountains, the Tarahumaras have not been "The report is criminal," he assimilated into modern Mexi. "To my knowledge, not a I can culture, partly because of Indian has died of their isolation and partly by WeTXS noS of thewliScs tion As to re rls that the cor I their own choosin 8' severa we Know noumig 01 ine pomics rpftn luls ffli1pH anH pullaina i ot er Mexican Indian unable to care for its own cit- the help is needed, izens. The load of supplies for the 1 The "mercy mission" to the Tarahumaras was gathered in the of Chihua wi Tarahumaras, who live in prim- the Lafayette area after an ap- itive conditions, received anoth- peal from Father Luis Ver- Mexico's last census said The 10 freight cars left Lal'ay- there were about 30,000 Taraliu- ette Thursday as part of a train, maras.

A FOR PAVIO PAINTER i will appreciate the opportunity to continue fa serve you on our Parish School Board. RE-ELECT MRS. J. R. WEEKS 8v J.

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