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Audas 'Outstanding Young Man9 In Gladewates Tallent, Ullrich Also Honored MM nmJt Dsxai Jjxxejtd ami zMoit Comfltk zMoxning cAfztxnfiafiLX By CAROL COLLYAR Staff Writer The "Outstanding Young Man Of 1969" in Glade-water starred at the annual Distinguished Service Awards Banquet sponsored by the Gladewater Jay- VOL 39 NO. 36 LONGVIEW, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1969 16 PAGES 5 CENTS cees Monday night in more ways than not. The awards committee select Police Kill Abductor 71 ed Jaycee President Don Audas as the man who had given the most outstanding community service. As Jaycee president, Audas was also master of ceremonies during the evening ceremonies although he did not know of the award, and was presented the Jaycee Silver Key Award for excellent service to the Jaycee organization. Audas was one of three Jay-cees honored for outstanding service to the Jaycee organization with the Key Award.

Receiving the Gold Key award for the most outstanding service was John Paul Tal-lent. Bronze Key award winner was Bob Ullrich, first vice president of the Jaycee organization. The "Outstanding Young Man of 1969" award is given annually to a Gladewater resident, not necessarily a Jaycee. The honoree is chosen impartially by the awards committee composed of the presidents of the Gladewater Lions and Rotary Clubs and a of commerce, with the previous year's award winner. Bill Langford, the Gladewater city manager and the man of the year for 1968, presented the award to Audas.

Audas' contributions to Gladewater include, besides serving as Jaycee president, chairman of the Gladewater Cancer Cru-(See AUDAS, Page 3-A) By RUTH ANN VAUGHAN Associated Press Writer DALLAS (AP) A young parolee who held a teen-age girl hostage in a suburban shopping center cafeteria for more than 10 hours died Monday night in a fusillade of police bullets. (See Pltcnrc at bottom of page) The girl was rushed sobbing from the building surrounded by officers. She suffered no apparent physical harm. Police waited until a large crowd dwindled to a few hundred before rushing inside the cafeteria with blazing guns about 9:30 p.m. Police shot as the gunman reached to unscrew an overhead light bulb.

Unitl that moment, the young gunman had been defiant, refusing to talk to members of his family or to listen to a minister who accompanied the doctor allowed to give the girl a sedative. The girl was identified as Jeannie Lewis, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S.

Lewis of Mesquite, a 50,000 population suburb which adjoins the city on the east. Jeannie was snatched from her mother's side Jul (jJmihL NORTHEAST TEXAS Fair through Wednesday, turning cooler tonight. Low Monday, 41 at 1 a.m.; high, 12 at 3 p.m. Barometer early today, 30.06, steady. as the pair stood in the cafeteria serving line.

Tolice identified the young gunman as a parolee from Minnesota, Ralph Mullins, who had served a term for armed robbery. Miss Lewis had been admin-Istered a sedative, carefully examined first by her captor, about 4 p.m. He refused to talk to a Baptist minister who accompanied a doctor inside the cafeteria where the girl spent her agonizing hours. Officers said the incident which began about 11 a.m. erupted after they checked the drivers license of two young men.

Two policemen said Mullins pulled a gun as he was handed back his license. i Tillh i i "i iriiititeHiiijti 1W iii i if Jlii i in mtk i BANQUET STANDOUTS The Gladewater Jaycees honored their most active young men Monday night at the annual Distinguished Service Awards banquet. Left to right are Bob Ullrich, winner of the Jaycee Bronze Key; John Paul Tallent, Jaycee Gold Key winner; Don Audas, Gladewater's "Outstanding Young Man," and Silver Key winner; and Ben McHenry, guest speaker. (STAFF PHOTO by Dob Anderson) Mullins and his companion jumped from their car and raced toward the cafeteria, but the second man surrendered quickly when police fired two (See HOSTAGE, Page 3-A) Turkey Reds Burn Flag In Protest ISTANBUL, Turkey (UPI)-Left-wing students burned an American flag, attacked American business buildings and stoned a car carrying American sailors Monday in violent protests against the visit of four U.S. warships.

Rocks hurled by a small group of students shattered the windshield of a car with visiting U.S. sailors inside but none ol them was hurt. Policemen and soldiers called in to put down the demonstrations said they had arrested seven, More than 700 students surged Into Istanbul's Taksim Sqliare and took a collective ofrtti to "fight U.S. ImperiallsntThcy: marched on a U.S. Army headquarters and decked its gate with a black wreath saying "There is no place for the 6th Fleet in Turkey." The aircraft carrier Forrestai and three fleet destroyers slipped slowly into the harbor at 8 a.m.

for a port call from patrols In the Mediterranean. Good Morning! East Texas Eastern ILS, Storm Nips Activity storm dropped nearly 18 inches on the Northeast in February, By BECKY CAMERON Secretary General ThantaT" snowbound at his Riverdale, N.Y., home, canceled all of Its Some 1,600 outward bound from New York and New Jersey-some for tropical Vacations- JML, meetimrs. Th New Twentv-onr San Franclsci fa lpm itiinn rnitnfrra anil American Stock Exchanges iSew York" flights were can-4 iuggagii three major were ciosea mr me aay oy ine ceiea, ana an esumaiea New York-bound air passengers were stranded In Chicago alone. NEW" YORK (UPI) The" worst snowstorm in eight yeara left the Northeast a winter no-man's land Monday and closed schools, airports, railroads, highways, financial and commodity markets. Few but essential businesses operated.

The death toll mounted steadily. The near-blizzard spawned off the Virginia Capes Saturday spread a five-inch banlket of white on Virginia, dumped 15 inches on New York City In 28 hours, and smothered parts of "Maine 'with'" 24 inches before" moving out to sea Monday morning south of Nantucket Storm-connected fatalities totaled 30-16 in New York, 12 in New England and two In Pennsylvania, Most were attributed to traffic accidents and heart attacks brought on by snow shoveling. A new threat was posed when temperatures dropped toward the teens Monday and began to change Impacted snow into ice. The United Nations, whose metropolitan airports, all closed Sunday night. A New York Airways helicopter flew 2,000 pounds of food to Kennedy International Airport Monday afternoon to replenish restaurants stripped bare-even of coffee by snowbound travelers and workers.

weather for the second time In their history and so were the commodity markets. A survey of New York business firms showed a rate of absenteeism averaging 70 per cent. Hardship was Incalculable as the result of the greatest accumulation of snow since a BY WESTERN ALLIES HENDERSON IS the second town In East Tern that ha's named a woman to the post of vestryman of its Episcopal church. Former Henderson postmaster and formerly with the Longview News and -Journal before she took a place with Channel 7 Tv in Tyler, she Is Mrs. Gene Lasater, and her church Is St.

Matthew's Episcopal Church. MRS. ED STONE of Carthage has joined the Beck-ville school system as special education teacher. She is a graduate of North Texas State University, Denton. Her husband Is choir director at Carthage High School and they have three children attending Carthage schools.

RALPH E. PEARSON of 2218 Alta Vista, AusUn, Texas, 78704, Is seeking any information he can get about the McAfee family. He reports he Is completing a 1,000 page history which includes people bearing the name Fee and the varied spellings through McPhee and Phee. He would like to hear from anyone who has any information on persons or families bearing these names. COFFEE BREAK, or a better term might be "cud-chewing break" was apparently being enjoyed by a large herd of Holstein dairy cows in a pasture on Highway 80 at mid-morning Monday.

They were grouped for all the world like a batch of human be- Ray Russo Tabes Stand Berlin Blockade Termed Illegal In JFK Conspiracy Yanks Blow Buffer Zone Arms Cache SAIGON artillev ry silenced a Communist gun battery in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Monday and blew up a large munitions cache there. Far to the south, B52 bombers dropped 280 tons of bombs in intensive raids near Saigon and in the central highlands. Red rocket squads fired nine rounds into Da Nang airbase Monday night and 10 salvos into an allied base camp 57 miles northwest of Saigon on the Cambodian border, but casualties and damage were reported "light" Otherwise, battlefield activity by Communist units was described as almost nil in Tuesday's military report. U.S. bombers and artillery took the Initiative.

BERLIN (UPI)-The United States, Britain and France said Monday they are holding the Soviet Union responsible for the threatened blockade of traffic Into crisis-wary West A joint statement from the three powers that control the Western part of the divided city deplored the blockade announced by East Germany Sunday. They said there was "no justification" forlt. Motorists arriving from the a rifle with a telescopic sight. Handed a rifle by the prosecution, Russo said it was similar to the one Oswald had. Russo testified that a few days after the apartment meeting, he visited Ferrie again and Oswald was there.

"He was leaving town, had his stuff all packed up. Ferrie said, or Oswald said, or it was mentioned that Oswald was going to Houston," Russo said. ings in nuuuies ui luur ur live, auu, puMiuij human beings, were chewing over the latest cow-gossip as they placidly chewed their cuds. JUNE JOHNSON, who last year won a diamond (See EAST TEXAS, Page 3-A) Castro Sends Jet Home NEW ORLEANS (AP)' Star prosecution witness Perry Ray. mond Russo testified Monday that a 1963 conversation, which forms the core of the state's conspiracy case against Clay Shaw, could easily have been "an inconsequential bull session.

Russo said under cross-examination that he had told several persons the discussion he heard involving Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald might not have been serious. "It had every characteristic" of a bull session, he said. Russo, 27, a dark-haired six-footer, who told of attending a party in September 1963 at which Shaw joined with Oswald and David W. Ferrie, a former airline pilot, in discussing how to kill President Kennedy by crossfire after a diversionary shot. The 55-year-old Shaw, retired director of International Trade Mart In New Orleans, is on trial on a charge of conspiring to assassinate Kennedy.

Shaw's lawyer says the defendant never knew Oswald or Ferrie, both dead. On direct examination, Russo said Shaw, Oswald and Ferrie talked about crossfire, diversionary shots, escape by airplane and alibis. Russo, repeating testimony he gave at a 1967 hearing after hypnosis "refreshed" his memory, said Shaw was using the namo "Clem Bertrand." In the courtroom, Russo pointed to Shaw as the man called Bertrand. The meeting, Russo said, took place in Ferrie's New Orleans apartment some three months before Kennedy was shot to death Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas.

The Warren Commission in its official investigation concluded Oswald alone was the as- sassin. Russo said the three talked about alibis. He said Shaw talked of "going to the Russo identified both Oswald and Ferrie from photographs put into evidence by the prosecution. i The witness said when he first met Oswald at Ferrie's apart- ment, Oswald had "light whiskers perhaps three or four days' growth." He said the first time he saw Oswald, introduced as "Ferrie's roommate," Os- wald was cleaning or polishing Big West Monday said the East Germans already had beefed up their border guards and were holding motorists for unusually long inspections, some as long as three hours. Every fifth car at the Marienborn checkpoint was -Inspected thoroughly.

Some motorists were forced to stand under bright lights by guards -matching their faces with passport photos. Hailing the blockade, the -Soviet government newspaper Izvestia warned that President Nixon's visit to West Berlin Feb. 27 could "further complicate the situation" and ex- pressed "bewilderment" at the U.S., French and British attitudes. A spokesman for Nixon in Florida said the President fully supported the joint tripartite statement and has no plans to (See BERLIN, Page 3-A) Hanoi Envoy Flies Home For Confab PARIS (UPI) Le Due Tho, supervisor of North Vietnam's negotiating team, left unexpectedly Monday for Hanoi. There was immediate speculation he was carrying secret American proposals to break the dead- locked peace talks.

Tho, a close associate of President Hb 5 Chi Minn, de- scribed his mission as "routine." But allied diplomats said each of his two previous flights to Hanoi had brought perceptible shifts in the Communist -stand. 1 MIAMI (UPI) A fat, chatty gunman forced a San juan-to-Miami Eastern Airlines jet with 119 persons aboard to fly to Havana Monday while a nervous steward talked a wrestler named Abdullah the Butcher out of pouncing on the 300-pound hijacker. Cuban authorities, breaking a recent precedent, allowed the DC8 "Stretch Jet" to return to Miami with its passengers, instead of making the passengers wait for another plane to pick them up. It was the 14th hijacking of the year. The plane, Eastern's Flight 850, carried 111 passengers and eight crewmen.

Capt. William C. Latimer said he was an hour Dut of San Juan, flying at 31,000 feet at about 9:30 l.m. when steward Vince Doccolo "came for-(See CASTRO, Page 3-A) MearVotl AUSTIN (AP)-Sen. Mike McKool of Dallas proposed Monday that Texas' annual voter registration system be dumped In favor of registration every four years.

McKool introduced a constitutional amendment that would allow voters to cast ballots In all elections from one Speaker Gus Mutscher said he does not think Chairman John Traeger of the House Constitutional Amendments Committee will try to delay or thwart House action on a proposal allowing local option liquor by the drink. "I've been In touch with Traeger on the matter and I don't think there will be any move on his part to bottle It up. If the members of the committee want to vote on it at presidential year to the next with a single registration. ouse-4nemberspprevedHindnWo4henate-ref lution recognizing Feb. 9-15 as National Negro History Week, action," Mutscher said.

then sat through referral of 49 bills and one proposed consti It was considered noteworthy that Vice President Nguyen Co Ky returned to Saigon Sunday, presumably to scund out President Nguyen Van Tliieu ca the new U.S. proposals. Ky is the overseer of the SouUi Vietnamese Traeger's committee will hold a hearing on the amendment Tuesday night. The identical Senate measure will be -heard Wednesday morning by the Senate Constitutional Amendments Committee, whose chairman. Sen.

Joe Christie of El Paso, is a sponsor of the amendment. (See VOTING, Page J-A) tutional change to committees. 1 The Senate Nominations Committee spent two hours questioning three prospective University of Texas regents, Including Frank Erwin Jr. of Austin, the controversial chair-nan. The committee did not act on the appointments and will resume the hearing later, possibly Tuesday afternoon.

police officers shot and killed the pnman, identified by police as Ralph Mullins of Dallas, a parolee from prison. (AP WIRENIOTO) FREED Jeannie Lewis, 16, is escorted by two unidentified men from a cafeteria where she was held as hostage by a young gunman nearly 11 hours. Moments after the girl was freed.