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YOUR (NEWSPAPER "The most explosive thing in the world is an idea." --Morrii L. West Your Freedom Neivspaper WEATHER HOT, Win'ly Party Cloudy High 87, Low 72 VOL. 70--NO. 233 DIAL LI 2-4331 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1965 (34 PAGES) PRICE 158 Garcia, Ashford, Blackburn Win School Board Positions North Viet Horse Race Finish For Third Place By AL A Brownsville drug store own. er set Ihe pace Saturday in what most agreed was a "horse race finish" lo the city school board election.

For Ihe lop vole-geller, Hector Garcia, a victory pattern was clear enough after the first three boxes were in. Bui for the olhcr Iwo winners John T. Ashford and Mrs. C. E.

(Suriie) Blackburn the slory was somewhal different. Indeed, Airs. Blackburn, a school board incumbent, had privately conceded defeat when, wilh five of seven polling places heard from, she was trailing George R. Lipe by 23 votes. Saturday's voles were casl by land Webb Elementary School, 2,883 pei-sons, and (he not to telephone and in- fell 380 below last year's total.jstead delivered Ihe information Garcia.

37. operator of Hec-jf 0 tne board education build- HECTOR GARCIA JOHN ASHFORD tor's Professional Pharmacy. 1915 International collect-1 ed 1,668 votes. He enjoyed a 817-vole margin over Ashford, the second-place finisher. Ashford's vole lotal of 1.351 Was only 33 greater than Mrs.

Blackburn's total of 1,318. The other candidates' vole totals: Lipe, 1.27B; Henry Manaulou, Mathis Latins Are Defeated MATHIS, Tex. (UPI) --Com-, two members, including plele but unofficial returns in i write-in candidate. 1,252: and Raul Cervantes, 920. tory statements from the three While only, 2.883 persons went to Ihe polls, school district records showed that 10,717 were to vole.

Two Polls Late Adding to Ihe tension ol Saturday night's vote tabulations was the fact that officials at two of the seven polling places, Results Of Area School Board Voting PORT ISABEL Charles Motley. Sabas Gonzalez a Roy Byrd were elected to the school board here Saturday. Motley led the slate with 53 voles. Gonzalez polled 49 voles and Byrd 45. Four write-in ballots cast for Rosa Canada.

LOS FRESNOS a incumbents 1 Wiley and Paul Davis were reelected Saturday without op- posilion. Final tabulation showed 50 voles cast for Wiley and 48 for Davis. There were no write-ins. the Annie Pulegnat School the results," Garcia said. I 'want to thank each and every one who went to vole for me.

I pledge myself lo work lo Ihe utmosl lo better the Brownsville school system." Ashford, 47, vice president in charge of production at the Rio Grande Valley Gas Co. and vice president of the subsidiary Hope Production told The Herald: "Firsl, let me say that I am still overwhelmed at coming in, and finishing second. I certainly congratulate Hector Garcia for his showing, and the others, jlhe losers included. I surely "I'm very, very happy aboul would say a good word for all Tht first polling place to report was Ebony Heights Elementary School. Its report was turned in at 7:01 p.m.

The figures from Pulegnat, however, did not arrive until 8:20 p.m. and il was nol unlil 8:40 p.m. thai Ihe final boxes, from Webb, were turned In. There were, of course, vic- SUDIE BLACKBURN of them. My hope now would be that we get the board organized and under way, and get on the job of providing the education for our school children which we all promised in the campaign." Winner Delighted Mrs.

Blackburn said that she was "delighted" by her reelection. "Until those last two precincts came in I had felt I had lost," she said. She added: "I should like to thank the voters Johnson Confers MIGs Turn 1 With Pearson On Bombings In Viet Tail, Flee SAIGON (UPI)-Soviet-buill MIG jets look to the air for the first time Saturday to chal- over to Ihe Communists. The second plane managed to limp back to Da Nang Air Base lenge an armada of U.S. war- where it crash landed, planes that blasted two keyj There was no mention of U.S.

bridges only 65 miles from the Air Force losses. North Vietnamese capital ol Hanoi. The Red MIGs turned tail and fled when missile- armed U.S. jet interceptors zoomed in on them. The Communists claimed their forces shot down 12 of the more than 150 American Navy and Air Force jets making the raids--among the biggest of the war and the closest strikes to Hanoi ever made by U.

S. jets, An American spokesman said two U.S. Navy planes in the raid. On crashed in North Viet Nam after the pilot parachuted safely. It was feared he fell into Communist hands.

The second plane managed to limp back to Da Nang Air Base where it crash landed. An American spokesman said two U.S. Navy planes were downed in the raid. One crashed in North Viet Nam after the pilot parachuted safely. The pilot, based aboard the USS Hancock, was last seen on for their confidence in reeled- the ground waving to his fellow ing me to a second term on the board of trustees.

I appreciate (See SCHOOL Page S-A) pilots flying above him. He was surrounded by local inhabitants who, it was feared, turned him one The party, however, declined to concede and said an election the school district race Mathis Saturday indicate predominately a i Action contest remains a decided pos- Party losl in its bid to elect sibility. relurns sn owed Larry Slapp wilh 717 votes, with 637 for Action Party candidate David Flores. L. C.

Hennig gol Ten Injured In Bombing Flown Back WASHINGTON (UPI) Ten Americans injured in the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon Monday arrived Saturday night for special medical care at military hospit- SAN BEN1TO Adan Villla- rreal and Dr. William F. Ross were elected to the board Saturday. Villarreal, the incumbent in place 3, received 305 votes.

Dr. Ross won i lo all The five men and five women landed at nearby Andrews Air Force Base, and were taken immedialely by ambulances to Waller Reed Army Medical Center and Belhesda Naval Hospital. Most of them suffered face Committee To Study Closing VA Hospitals 753 votes for another position, while Action Party write-in candidate Quirino Rojas got 450, a total which the Action Party pointed out was achieved in an area where half of the Latins have only a second-grade education and little writing ability. Ismael Alsaro, head of the place 4 with 300 voles. He willi a eye injuries in Ihe blast succeed Richard Biibie in the se by Communist Viet Cong post.

The elections were not contested. IIARLINC.EN Incumbent Frank Boggus and challenger Joe J. Garza were Ihe victors in Saturday's school a election. E.W. Caughfield, who has been president of the board terrorists.

Many wore heavy bandages over their eyes, their faces severe cuts and burns. Several were met here by relatives. Newsmen were not permitted to talk lo hem. Those arriving were Frank L. Esquival of San Antonio, Donald W.

Farley of Medford, for the lasl two years, was Dorothy A. Peters, losing candidate. ROERUS led Ihe ticket with whose parents live at Seattle, party, said in a statement the party believes its chances for a victory in the municipal election Tuesday remain undiminished. He said the school district includes an area in which the Action Parly is weak, which is not within the city limits. The record turnout of 1,443 voters was about 250 more than anticipated in pre-election predictions.

Growing Latin Influence Both elections were important as symbols of increasing influence by Latin Americans in communities where they have large majorities. Mathis, located 21 miles northwest of Corpus Christi. has a population of 6,000, 80 per cent Latin. While Ihe Malhis revolt was similar lo the Crystal City movement, the Action Party hopes to avoid the legal snares with which Crystal City Latin 795 votes. Garza polled 774 and Caughfiold received 749.

DON PEDRO came into the newsroom carrying a low sack. "Drowning cats?" asked the City Kdilor. "It says in Die paper that Lyndon lias lo borrow money In pay his taxes," said the Don. Evelyn Flagg, whose leaders were faced. mother lives at Falls Church, Robert Weaver of Arlington, Yvonne Lajeuness, whose mother lives at Cohoes, N.Y., and Peter Da Silva whose brother, Dr.

Paul Da lives at San Francisco. Silva, The Action Party has been free from outside influences, contrasted to Teamsters Union support at Crystal City. Money for the Malhis campaign came mostly from small contributions. WASHINGTON (UPI)-President Johnson Saturday appoinl- ed a special advisory, commil- lee to sludy Veterans Administration plans to close 14 hospitals and old soldiers' homes to determine whether the decision was justified. He instructed the committee to report to him by June 1 "on the merits of continuing these facilities in full operation or closing them." In a stalement issued by the White House, the President said recent congressional teslimony over Ihe controversial shutdown plan had "raised some doubts in my mind" about the wisdom of closing some of the facilities.

"It may be that some of these hospitals are not in fact outmoded and that they can continue lo serve veterans as efficiently as our standards require," Johnson said. "It may be that the need for some of them as well as the need for some of the other fa- cililies affected by the original decision is greater than our ex- perls understood," lie said. Committee Members The committee members are E. Barrett Pretlyman, retired former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, who will be chairman: Senate Democratic Whip Russell B.

Long, Rep. Olin Teague, D-Tex, chairman of the House Velerans Affairs Commitlee; Rep. E. Ross Adair, ranking Republican on the House commillee; John S. Gleason former veterans administrator; Gen.

Alfred Gru- enlher, former president of the American Red Cross; Dr. Paul Dudley White of Boston, a noted heart specialist, and J. William Harwick, secretary of the Board of Governors of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Teague's committee approved in principle earlier this week a move to block the hospital closing plan indefinitely, with a final vote scheduled for Tuesday. But the action was called off at the same time Johnson announced al a news conference he had ordered Ihe Veterans Administration to reconsider its decision.

Johnson said then he had ordered Veterans Administrator William J. Driver to visit each of the affected hospitals personally as part of a further study of the planned economy move. The shutdown order was defended by Driver in House hearings as a means of improving medical care for veterans by eliminating obsolescent facilities and building new, more efficient ones thai would altract belter staffs. Estimate Savings The administration had estimated the savings al $23 million a year. Bui many legislators, including Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfeld.

Zorthian "said A a spokesman said three of the Russian-m a MIG's "attempted to interfere" with the bridge-bombing mis- sion but fled when the deadly American jets gave chase at almost twice the speed of sound. The spokesman could not disclose whether the U.S. pursuit planes unleashed either their radar-guided Sparrow or heat- seeking Sidewinder air-to-a i missiles against the Re planes. It was assumed the Communist jets belonged to the fledgling air force of North Viet Nam, which has been supplied by Red China with between 15 and 20 outdated MIG17 jets. The MIGs have never before dared to go up against American and South Vietnamese planes raiding North Viet Nam.

Saturday's big American raid was aimed al two stralegic Communisl "life-line" bridges jusl norih of Thanh Hoa and 65 miles south nf Hanoi. Over 100 carrier-based Navy jets raked Ihe bridge at Dong Phuong in the morning and then went back several hours later to blast it again when they were unsatisfied with the first results. A second strike did the trick. A Navy spokesman said the bridge a knocked out. Meanwhile, about 5(1 U.S.

Air Force F100 and F105 fighter- bombers struck against "Dragon's Mouth" (Ham Rong) Bridge just seven miles from the span blasted by the Navy. Terrorist Gets Away In Saigon 5AIGON (UPI)-A citywide search Saturday failed to turn up any trace of a terrorist- driven Red sedan containing a bomb which authorities feared was to be planted outside the U.S. Information i (USIS) library. Police discovered the auto- )orne bomb when they halted the car on a main street in suburban Saigon for a routine search. The driver and a companion drove off in a hail of police THURMONT, Md.

(UP!) President Johnson and Canadian Premier Lester B. Pearson conferred Saturday on an ap- narent difference of view on Li. S. bombing strategy in the Viet Nam anti-Communist war. Pearson spelled out at a luncheon meeting with Johnson his proposal made in Philadelphia Friday night for a "measured pause" in the American raids on Communist North Viet Nam to give the Red Wizard Labels LBJ Conniving, Misgiven Fool HEMINGWAY, S.C.

(UPI) Robert Shelfon, Imperial Wiz- called the KKK a band of violent bigots. ard of the Ku Klux Klan, said Fifty members of the crowd Saturday night that President: wore ro bes. One veteran law Johnson is a "conniving, mis- given fool." il he thinks he can break up the Klan. The Tuscaloosa, klans- enforcement officer said few other members of crowd were klansmen. The klansmen presented man repeated his charge that slatjon waK0 to Robert the President is a "liar" forl Spartanburg plumb- holding the a responsible for ef nd drae0 of the violence in Alabama.

Shelton stood on a flatbed trailer in a cow pasture and addressed a crowd of 500 in the first Klan rally held since the President earlier this week Four Lost In Plane Found Dead LAREDO (UPI) A border jatrolman making an air search for wetbacks Saturday 'ound the burned wreckage of a light plane missing for a week with four young men on board. All four were killed. A search party from the sheriff's office reached the scene South Carolina Klan. At the close of the rally klansmen distributed bumper stickers supporting Albert Wat son, a Republican seeking elec tion to Congress from Soutl Carolina second district. Barrj Goldwaler came to Aiken Satur day night to address -fund raising dinner for Watson.

"If Lyndon Johnson thinks he is going to run the Klan under ground or break our back jirough an investigation of Jie House Unamerican Aclvi- ies Committee, he is a conniving, misgiven fool," Shelton said. Shelton mixed statements raising Christianity with obscene jokes while a 30-foot cross drenched in kerosene and motor oil burned in the background. He charged that the Selma, racial demonstrations or a nart nf a PnirtTniiniet 1 nlnt a'Hanoi regime a to start face saving peace talks. Johnson listened in friendly At Talk "Friendly" a brief chat with news- Red! men afterward at his Camp David presidential retreat. Johnson said the talk was friendly and covered topics of mutual U.

interest as well as Viet Nam. In fact the President commented that the main objective of Pearson's visit had "nothing to do with Viet Nam and that was not the purpose or anything else you could blow up or make look big or dramat. ic." Pearson made his bombing "pause" suggestion in a Philadelphia speech. He said then that he was not advocating any "compromise on points of principle" but was expressing lie raids might open the door a diplomatic settlement. It was learned that the Canadians felt Pearson's proposal did not reflect any basic policy difference between Canada and the United States.

The prime minister emphasized that he was suggesting such I only "at the right time" when the United States would not ba placed at any psychological disadvantage. Johnson has declared publicly many times that he is determined to keep up military pressure against Hanoi until tha Beds halt their aggression. at least one was wounded. U.S. authorities immediately placed, the USIS library on alert and hustled secretaries and clerks from the building.

Vietnamese employes were given the remainder of the day off. European Situation He said he and Pearson had discussed the European situa- tiqn as well ai Viet Nam, Hs said they also dealt with suca topics as pollution of the Great Lakes and a proposed Canadian- American aviation agreement. When reporters were ushered onto the patio where they met, Johnson told them: "The prime minister was in 'ennsylvania and I was going to be here today so I asked him to come over and have lunch with me. He is returning over land and identified the were part of a Communist plot shortly and we iave no i rn nn on a iwpro rarnpn nut hv bodies of Tomas Pena, 20, and Felix Garza, 19. The other two bodies were burned beyond recognition, but they were thought certain to be those of Homer Garza, 17, brother of Felix; and Jim Auld, 25, the pilot.

Rented Plane Auld rented the plane at Harlingen. The Garzas and Pena lived around San Isidro, 100 bullets and officers suspected miles southeast of Laredo They flew from San Isidro to Laredo and apparently started back to San Isidro between 10 p.m. and midnight, last Saturday. Rough weather apparently caused the single-engine red and were carried out by sex news for you. perverts.

"The prime minister and I "When these sex orgy parties, have talked about various prob- were broken up when they rang the dinner bell, you could look up and see the federal helicop- discussion, a friendly one. lems that affect our respective countries it was a general ters protecting them from all us Pearson" then added: I "We talked about the state civil! of the world which is not as bigots," Shelton said. Shelton charged that rights leaders cannot make in some places as it move unless it has the approval Should of the Communist network of the USA. He said Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, the Detroit mother who was murdered while transporting civil rights demonstrators in Asked About Viet Nam Asked whether his Viet Nam proposal figured in the meeting, the premier said: "We discussed Viet Nam and Alabama, should have been the view I expressed last night.

home "minding her childrenii don't want to say anything not sitting in the front about that except to re- and while Pipe Cherokee to'of a station wagon with a that in our government crash in rough country amid Last Tuesday, bomb wrecked the U.S. Embas- killing two Americans and, .9 Vietnamese and wounding! 200 olhers. The noon-hour blast vas louehed off by a bomb inj of Laredo on the Ernesto Ramirez ranch. No Plan 1 gnl An MH. front of the build- buck Negro.

Ik- Embassy spokesman Barry! from Laredo Saturday night turned; back because of the weather. Border patrolman Dale Burt, Fourth Cross Is Burned On Detroit Lawn cratic Leaaer Mike Mansfe d. Zorthian said 50 Vietnamese out looking for Mexicans who Vmho of the had protested angrily were in the USIS library when had slipped across the wTM burned on that medical services for veter- thp hnmh ihrpat was rprpiwrf ML i' uux TM rneo 0 that medical services for veterans would be impaired. One of!" the hospitals slated for closing I leave at noon so 1 decided to DETROIT (UPI) -A flam- Ku on the we have tried to understand the United States position in Viet Nam as I underlined last night and support that position. "I have said before and I don't mind repeating( (This is) the responsibility of the international community, and not only of the United States which is bearing that responsibility at (See JOHNSON Page 6-A) an urne on the bomb threat was tfie night, spotted awn a Neero's home "The Viplnamp.w nnrrnallv t-in lawn P'.

a nonl The Vietnamese normally: wreckage abnul 7:30 a.m. Only at Miles City in et th off an ur is home slate. Johnson did not say Saturday which facilities he might be spared. he said. the tail of the plane survived the fire but Burt was able to Saturday night the fourth cross burning in Detroit in less than 24 hours.

read Ihe serial numbers on it. One of lne earlier crossPS He said Saturday was the The Garzas lived on the Dia- was ound at (he home of a "hardest report so far" of the mond 0 Ranch near San Isidro. many bomb threats received by, Pena lived on an slain civil rights worker Mrs. 'USIS officials. 'ranch.

Youth Injured A 15-y a r-old Brownsville youth Saturday night was ad milled to Mercy Hospital afleri he was injured in Ihe collision; of a car and '('railways bus at! Central Boulevard and a Chica. City i LI. Raymond tlioiissetl identified Ihe youth "Thai's what he said," re- Ernesl Ban-era, 15, of Ifi25 plied Ihe City Kililnr. w. Elizabeth Si.

The officer said I wo other youths in the car, Aly Rcstciro, 13, of 441 K. "Inside (he sack Is a cabri lo, five kilos of fr I Jules, a en- In fair shape and a package nf tortillas," said (he Don. "Bliietown has taken up Washington and a 14 of 243 E. Francis were treated a collection lo buy (his CAHH released by Ihe hospital. The package lor pobre Lyndon, car was driven by Hcslciro, Aliios." And nut lie went.

jpoiicc said. No one on Hie bus I was hurl, officers said. Million To Be Dry For 57 Hours Romans Howling Over Water Cutoff ROME (UPI)-Rome grumbled Saturday night about the Eternal City's lalesi man-made catastrophe--a waler shtlt-n affecting more than a million residents for 57 hours. City officials said the cut was needed lo permit "inspection" of one of the aqueducts that provide Rome's increasingly scnni waler supply. Vatican City was not affected by Ihe cutoff, which went into effect at 7 p.m.

(1 p.m. EST) and will lasl until 4 a.m. Tuesday. Although Hie liny papal slate is served the Italian aqueduct it has large waler reserves which make it self-sufficient for on month. Newspapers let oul an edi- torial howl afler the announcement Friday night of the waler culoff.

The papers wondered why Ihe comparatively new aqueduct from Ihe River Peschicra needed checking when the centuries old papal aqueducts do not. The cut affected the western half of Ihe city from the new industrial districts behind Ihe Vatican lo the Colosseum and from Ihe ritzy Parioli area to the Mu 1 i i-buill a i grounds. Rome's new government cenler. Officials said Ihe inspection of the Pescniera aqueduct was part of a long-range plan to increase Rome's waler supplies, considered inadequate for a city lhat has experienced a 1.5 million growth in population over Ihe last 35 vears. adjacent 1ZZO) shot to death near Selma, last week after the civil rights march on Montgomery.

Another of Ihe crosses was found at the former headquarters of the local chapter of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. The fourth placed in front of City-County Bldg. in downtown Detroit. Mayor Jerome Cavanagh said he understood "The crosses weie crude, like the pranksters, bigots or punks who are tossing them around. When police catch up with the culprits, il will t)e interesting to see just what kind of strange people are." The lalesi cross-burning was al the home of Louis Washington, a Negro who lives on the northwest side.

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