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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 28

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UB CORPUS aiRISTI CALLER Mon May 8 i President Is Adding New Wing at Ranch Maddox Says Opposed To 3rd Party WASHINGTON (AP) Gov Lester Maddox of Georgia promising to fight what he railed far-left liberal programs at the ballot box said Sunday he opposes a third-party movement for president in 10(iR "I do not favor a thiiti-party run" Ihe conservative governor said "I do not think it would be successful" However Maddox told reporters on a nationally absence was quite a disappointment She told reporters she had lived for many years through many admlnls-trail ons and had thought at last she would meet a President Furthermore the Rev Father Schneider assistant pastor of St Roman Catholic church of Fredericksburg said that Johnson had told him Friday night he would be there ft was Father Schneider whom Johnson surprised two weeks ago with a telephone call from Washington Inviting him to fly to Germany when this Chief Executive attended the funeral of former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Father Schneider had conducted a service In German In St Frands Xavier Mission at Stonewall when Adenauer visited the LBJ ranch In 1961 The then chancellor and the then vice president attended For the services Sunday 200 or 400 people turned out in fancy attlrtf and shirt sleeves under a hot sun The high school band provided lively music The First Lady spoke briefly I add my gratitudo for the restoration?" site said She offered no explanation to the crowd for her absence At the end of the ceremonies Mn Johnson met the Rev WW Schneider and said of her husband: sorry he be here I left him with a desk Ellcd high with work and him ard at It" The Johnsons gave three books to the new library They usually give the same titles to visiting heads of state They were More Beautiful America" by Lyndon Johnson in the White House" and Living White For one frail little lady of 93 Texas Registration Times Set televised interview that he thinks his gond friend former Gov George Wallace of Alabama could now carry several states including Georgia in a presidential race I'm of the opinion that if we are strong enough to form a third party and be successful then we are strong enough to be successful in our present par- KINGSVILLE The he olre Will Re Heard He said Wallace has a voice that will be heard across the I think examination schedule for the spring semester at Texas College has been released by 'American scene AIR! JNK TO IlK CLOSED Airline Road between Padre Island Drive and McArdlc will be closed starting tomorrow so work can get underway to rebuild the street City Engineer James Lontos estimated it will be closed for two months This will be the first stage of a project to rebuild the street from Padre Island to Alameda Heldenfels Brothers holds a $412737 contract for the project A suggested detour route for the traffic that usually uses Airline is shown on the above map STONEWALL (AP) President Johnson evidently has decided the Arcs of Inflation have been banked sufficiently to kit him go ahead with another addition to Ihe LRJ ranch house Tourists wandering along ranch road 1 beside the Pedcr-nales River can see Ihe framework of a new wing on the east end of the house Last fall Johnson launched a campaign to freeze government spending on all sorts of projects In order to reduce Inflationary pressures Since then he has unfrozen most of the billions that were tied up Including more than $1 billion for highways Up to that time he said he also was putting off the building of an addition to the white stone and frame ranch house Tourists see it Sunday though The Johnsons are at the ranch for the weekend and the road across the river Is sealed off Stayi at Raach So far as could be determined the President stuck pretty close to the place Sunday Reporters and photographers covered the countryside for miles around and failed to spot him at any oi the churches he has been known to attend But Mrs Johnson minus the President motored 17 miles to Fredericksburg for the resurrection of an old courthouse It was in this picturesque building of native limestone that the father and mother got their marriage license and were wed on Aug 20 1907 The original of the license is on file in the county office and the framed copy is on display in a first-floor foyer of Courthouse No 2 Fredericksburg was founded by 400 German settlers 121 Commercial Fishing In Calhoun Opposed DEATHS AM FUNERALS the college vice president andbe the determining factor in the dean Robert Rhode of the P31" Ffnal examinations begin i Again Maddox refused to say Thursday May 18 at 8:30 am 'whom he would support in 1968 and will continue until Thurs-I hope that tnere'd be suf-day May 25 until 3:30 pm Sat-nt that I wuldsujj it TX'ilii'i'rTJ the national Democratic urday classes will take their ex-saj(ji hope aminatlons Saturday May from 9 am until noon The final examination schedule for evening classes follows: 20 Calvin Tony White Calvin Tony White 79 oT 13B Palm Dr died at his residence at 1:05 am yesterday after a long illness He was a native of Kennett Mo and he had lived here 35 yean He was retired and formerly was a bookkeeper for Matthews Lumber Co Surviving are a step daughter Mn Virgil Rittmann of El Paso a sister Mrs Bertha Bo- TI wan of San Antonio and a He said he brother Asa White of Long President Johnson and Vice Beach Calif would be a concensus party Maddox appeared on the NBC television program "Meet the Press" Administration Slam lie called the present administration sometimes far left liberal and said it does not represent all the people in the Democratic Party Mrs Manuels Vasques Mrs Manuela (Nellie) Vas-quez 53 of 2037 Violets Crts died yesterday morning in a local hospital after a short Illness She was a native of Mexico and had lived here many years Surviving are a son Sgt Martin Vasquez stationed with the Air Force In Idaho three brothers Joe Vasquez of Corpus Christi Sgt Mel Vasquez stationed with the Air Force in California and Claudio Vasquez (A Houston and two sisters Mrs Martina Garcia of Corpus Christi and Mrs Re-fugia Flores of Austwell Angelus Funeral Home announce arrangements Mrs Kathryn Ragusin will Elkla Sanches Elida Sanchez 2-year-old daughter of Mrs Mabel Sanchez of 1222 Mary died Saturday in a local hospital after a long 01-ness She was a native of Corpus Christ! Surviving are 12 sisters Mrs Lupe Rosales Mrs Maria Tonie Reta Miss Nanuela Trevino and the Misses Kathy Rose Mary Hilda Irma Margarita Ubense Diana Jolinda and Sovedia Sanchez four brothers Gilbert Fuentes Jimmy Trevino and Jessie and Johnny Manuel grandfather Jesus Benavides Sanchez and her maternal aU of Corpus Christi Graveside service will be at 1 pm tomorrow at Rose Hill Memorial Park under the direction of Angelua Funeral Home Caller Times Aastia Bureaa AUSTIN Four years ago the Texas Legislature kicked commercial fishermen out of Espiritu Santo Bay and those portions of San Antonio Bay south and southeast of the Intra-coastal Waterway Commercial fishermen however discovered that they could fish in the bayous and bays extending off of Espiritu Santo and San Antonio Bays and that sent up a clamor from sportsmen for action to Mck the commercial fisherman dear out of Calhoun County The bill that would do just that was introduced in the Senate by Sen William Patman of Ganado Patman's bill made it through Senate legislative machinery and now it is to be heard before the House sometime next week bill was given a favorable recommendation by the House Committee on Parks and Wildlife without even going to Thunday May II All Thursday only COMM at regular clast periods Monday May 22 All Monday only dosses at regular class periods and all MonaayMMnesday classes from pm Tuesday May 21 All Tuesday only dosses at regular clast periods end all Tuesday Thursday dosses from Wednesday May 24 All Wednesday only classes at regular class periods Final earns tor regular dosses will be am pm and 1:20 pm tar cl as tat held an Monday Wednesdayrldav (MWFI and on Tins-day-Thurtday ITT) The schedule tot- Thurtday May II 1:10 second period MWF 12: 10 ninth period MWF 1:10 seventh period MWF Friday May If 1:10 third period MWF 1:30 fourth period TT Saturday May 20 Saturday desses only Monday May 22 fourth period MWF second period TT Tuesday May 22 JO third period TT) 12:10 sixth period TT 3:10 sixth period MWF Wednesday May 24 -J0 subcommittee Rep Dick Cory of Victoria explained the bill to the committee and it was given an immediate favorable recommendation MU is to complete the action of four yean Cory said when it was thought that commercial fishermen were prohibited from fishing in Calhoun County The following bodies of water will be closed to commercial fishermen: Shoalwater Bay Barroom Bay Pats Bay Big Bayou Sal-uria Bayou Rahal Bayou Steamboat Pass Mailboat Channel Pringle Lake Contee Lake South Pass Lake Long Lake Big Pocket Lighthouse Cove Power Lake Twin Lakes Cedar Lake Swan Lake Panther Point Lake Cottonwood Bayou and Shell Reef Bayou Patman's bill actually exclude commercial fishermen in so many terms it merely provides that fishing be prohibited by any other means that hook and line rod and reel or trotline or flounder gig and light or by the use of cast net or minnow seign used in catching bait not exceeding 20 feet in length" It would be virtually impossible to fish commercially using such equipment President Hubert Humphrey in 1968 "only if they will change from this far left liberal program that teaches people to depend on Washington and the almighty dollar and will turn back to conservative programs" He said he had noticed some slipping toward conservatism already specifically in the jsence of a push for liberal pro- Mrs Kathryn Raguski 73 ofynn ago Monday The first 1431 Tompkins died at 11:25 courthouse in the center of the am yesterday in a local hospiVcity was replaced in 1882 by the Serbando Escobar tal after a short illness She was second and it in turn gave way ALICE Serbando Escobar torn in Corpus Christi lived for a third along more modern 66 a retired farmer and rancte a time in Port Lavaca and re-er died at 11 am Sunday at turned here 36 yews ago lines in 1939 The second courthouse was pricd jn Congress Funeral arrangements will be announced by Cage-Mills Funeral Home George Brown Funeral service for George Kehoe Brown 18 of 4018 Santa Fe will be held at 10 am today at All Saints Episcopal Church Burial win be in Seaside He mortal Park under the direction of Maxwell Dunne Funeral Service Pallbearers will be John Gray Daniel Jackson Jr Bin Allen Randy Sladek James Galloway and Phillip Noland Honorary pallbearers will be friends in the Ray 1 School Senior Class Sirs Dewey Sparrow Mrs Dewey Sparrow 45 of 3026 Summers died at 2:10 pm Wednesday at her home after a the residence of a daughter here! Survivors include two daugh 'Iam IfeM UaImi PaM am Mel Mm Helen Cema Mrs used for odds and ends for many years Then Mr and Mrs Eugene McDermott of Dallas became interested in restoring it and were present Sunday as the patrons for that project Now a state historical marker adorns the front The first floor Thunday May 2S 1:30 firs) period MWF 12:30 filth Btrtad MWF Caadidotco tar graduation who have ex-aminattont Kheduled tar Wednesday or kntr art to arrange with their inotructori to toko their txaim Wodnoodoy and Thunday at a time agreeable with the bntruetar which will permit grade to be turned In by 1 pjn Wednesday Except ter graduation candidates all students ere to tallow the examination schedule rigidly Any executions to the schedule must be made through the dtvt-len deans and approved by the vice-president dean of hit college ters Mrs and Sandra Budd both of Corpus Christi a son Martin Pena of Rockport a sister Mrs Matikle Apostolo of Port eight grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren Maddox who spoke disparagingly of the Society" programs said gripe with the antipoverty program is that we're taking some people who could help themselves and making bums out of them" People who cannot help themselves must be given help he conceded but he added "We're not building public housing for i people who need il: we're building people for public housing" after a brief illness He was a native of Ben Bolt The Rosary will be recited at 8 pm Monday at Walker-Mora Chapel hoe Funeral Mass will be said at 10 am Tuesday at St Catholic Church with burial in Calaveras Cemetery near Ben Bolt in the Hebbronvilte Cemetery Among his survivors is a TI? 6 a has become a county-city libra- 7:30 pm today hi the Maxwell ry Upstairs there is a small Dunne FUner CtaneL German tanks And 'Pstn a tomorrow at Christ the Bill Passed sudden illness She was born in daughter Mrs Dolores Valdes Waxahachie and had lived in Corpus Christi 33 years of Corpus Christi Milburn New Oil livestock I Five Person EX-GOVERNOR SAID EYING COURT SPOT DALLAS IB The Dallas Morning News said Sunday that former Texas Gov Price Daniel is considering making a race tor the Texas Supreme Court next year The newspaper said Associate Justice Meade Griffin is reported to be planning to retire when his present term expires next year Daniel now in private law practice at Liberty served as a United States senator before he resigned to win three terms as Texas' governor He is 56 Funeral services will be it 3:45 pin tomorrow in St First Baptist Church with the Rev A Gary pastor officiating Burial win be in former courtroom has been turned into a community hall Other Connections There are some other Johnson connections with the building Clarence Martin an unde of the President and the original owner of the LBJ Ranch property was a district attorney and district judge at the courthouse at the turn of the century The father of White House press secretary George Christian was district attorney in 1920-24 Transporting 'Hurt ill Crash Caller Times Austin Bureaa Satwaliif )StS AUSTIN The Senate con- day injured five persons curred in a House decision to Taken to Memorial Medical Memorial Park under pass the bill bv Rep Steve Bur-j Center were Aide Garza Gara i of Jackson- gess of Nacogdoches and 42 of 3814 Niagara driver 01 Charles Wilson of Lufkin that one of the cars two passengers I Her survivors include her hus-would establish greater penal-In his car Carlos Garza 14 band of Carpus Chnsti four ties for persons who bring -and Dolores Garza 7 both of daughters Mrs MurleanBeas-horses or cattle across the bor- the same address and two pas-1 ley Mrs Mayoelle Lott an am King Catholic Church with the Rt Rev A Cannon patsor officiating Burial will be in Rose Hill Memorial Park Antonio Garza HEBBRONVILLE Antonio Garza 80 died at 9:30 am Sunday in a Falfurrias hospital af-ter a sudden illness He has lived in Hebbronvilte all of Ms life Rosary will be at 8 pm Mon day in the Howard-Williams Funeral Home Chapel in Hebbronvilte Funeral services at 4 pm Tuesday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church with burial VICTORIA Milburn New 81 of Victoria died at 12:30 pm Sunday In a local hospital after a long illness He was born in La Vernla and had lived here the past 40 years He was retired emnloye of the Southern Pacific Railroad and a member of Trinity Lutheran Church Funeral services will be at 10 am Tuesday in Trinity Lutheran Church Burial will be In Evergreen Cemetery under the direction of McCabe-Carruth Funeral Home aft of Edna Mae Farr of Barstow Calif three sons Tommy and Fran Harrison of Corpus Christi an Jessie Sparrow of Houston 1 grandchildren and one great Mrs Erma lee Wilson Corpus Christ! and Mrs 4 Hurt in San Patricio In Two Auto Accidents Department Gives Details On Scholarship KINGSVILLE The English Department Scholarship of Texas College is now avaUabte to incoming freshmen who plan to obtain a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English at announced Mrs Helen Milter instructor in English The 3100 scholarship is made available through the profits from a book sale held recently on the campus and sponsored by the English department of the college Funds remaining after the scholarship is granted will be placed In the department's scholarship fond to guarantee future annual scholarships according to Mrs Milter Applications needed Immediately" she said They should be addressed to: Mrs Milter English Department Scholarship a 1 a Box 2023 Texas College Kingsville Last year's winner of the scholarship was Miss Elizabeth Harris of Conus Christi Miss Julie Dailey of Harlingen won it in 1964-65 and Miss Barbara Roberts received It the following year Taft Contractor Dies After Long Illness sengers in the other car Sonia Rubio 19 of 3810 Betel and Yolanda Sanchez 17 of 2611 vox oHf xiee wxefrwa the measure there were nolSo)r1a- negative votes In The House! Soa Hubio was admitted for the measure drew only four trement of a possible back in- neeative votes while 142 and 18 teted in air wxU-seMatives voted for il The others were all treated grandchild i apd released Now the bill will go to Gov The driver of the second car Connally for signature 'was Linda Irene Amaya 16 of In substance the bill would 769 Mohawk who was not inchange the penalties for trans-jured porting livestock across the bor-j The accident was investigated der barrier zone that the com- by officer Bell mission has set up between the River and the Gulf of- Mexico Unemployment funds WOODSBORO Henry Ruppert 88 of Yoakum blacksmith died am Sunday at the home daughter here Funeral service will pm Monday at Peace Two car accidents in San Patricio County injured four pen sons over the weekend police said yesterday Francis Mann 71 of Mathis suffered fractured left teg when the car he was driving ran off Highway about two miles north of Mathis at 10 am yesterday and crashed Police said Mann a carnival operator apparently blacked out while driving His car struck a culvert Three persons were injured and three others escaped Injury when two vehicles were involved In a rear-end collision at the entrance to a wild life resen vatlon six mites north of Sinton on US-77 about 11 pm Saturday Albert Charles Todd Jr( 30 driver of one car was treated for a bump on the head his passengers Linda Roberson 19 and Edna Roberson 22 received cuts on their heads AU are from San Antonio Uninjured in the crash were Haynie Gilliland Jr 21 of Lubbock driver of the second car Janice Novell Williams also of Lubbock and Seth Ed Young of Uvalde Police said the car driven by Todd turned into the wild life reservation and crashed into the back of Gilliland's car TAFT Earl Paschal Sr 79 a retired building contractor and real estate dealer died at tm Sunday in a Corpus Christi Kintal after a long illness He wan a native of central Texas and had lived here nine years He lived in Corpus Christi before then From 1942-45 he was coowner of the Robstown Livestock Commission He was a member of the First Church of Christ a retired at 2:10 of a be at 2 Lutheran Church here with burial in St Lutheran Church Cemetery Yorktown at 4 pm under the direction of Toiand Funeral Home Refugio Sirs Amado Hernandez Funeral service for Mn Amado Hernando 49 of 1461 Fourteenth will be at 1:30 pm today at the Pentecostal Holiness Church with burial in Ron Hill Memorial Park under direction of Angelus Funeral Home Scientist in Corpus Christi and served as a Christian Science reader for the Navy bases in Corpus Christi and Kingsville Among the survivors is a sister Mrs John Giver of Corpus Christi Funeral services will be at 4 pm Monday at Cage-Marsh ail Funeral Home here with burial in Taft Cemetery Other survivors are Ms wife Lola a daughter Mrs William Raimond of North Plainfield NJ a son Earl Paschal Jr of San Angelo a brother Elbert Paschal of Robstown five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren It would increase the current jTotal $397578 Here minimum fine from 65 to $2a on one phase of the quarantine law a total erf 6397578 was paid in and from 610 to 630 in the other unemployment insurance bene-section- 'fits in the first quarter of 1967 in Dr Walker executive the Corpus Christi area accord-director of the Texas Animating to figures released by the Health Commission asked for Texas Employment Commis-the legislation because the ille- sion gal importation of stock often! Of this amount 6308691 came spreads the fever lick (from the Texas trust fund Federal and state regulations 651 634 from the trust funds of require that imported animals 'other states and 637253 from be dipped twice federal funds WORK OF STUDENT Drab Look Into Culture Offered in Display at Chattanooga Jail Now Hoff Is CHATTANOOGA James Hoffa Closed Season On Shrimp Set AUSTIN Unusually rapid vUi of juvenile brown mp in their bay nursery areas has prompted the Parks and Wildlife Commission to set in early closing date on the Gulf shrimping season The closed 45 day period for trowing has been set for May 17 through June 30 the earliest possible time within the frame-wok of the Texas Shrimp Conservation Act The mandatory closed season was established to protect the still undersized brown shrimp as they move through the shallow Julf waters Since the shrimp hive grown more rapidly than usual this year they will attain flsMng size earlier and their period of protection will corrosion dingly end earlier The action was used on the recommendations of the marine biologists who make regular checks the size and numbers of shrimp in all of the Texas bay systems Along with the early large die biologists report numerous shrimp in their samples indicating the possibility of a good reason tourage occupied an entire hotel Larry Campbell of floor Oxrtox blitast vMl Sfe any other federal trip sat with Tenn (AP) said the Teamsters Union presi-i Hoffa Ewing King and Thomas whose en- dent remained awake and Ewing parks of Nashville and Detroit will privileges as prisoners but no more Hoffa's temporary home the Hamilton County jail has been described as a 19th centrry pile of bricks" One county official said it has more Lewisbure Pa a jail his lawyers another not going to cater these Newell said Hoffa was sentenced to eight San and Ms codefendants to Car Firm Seeks Site Expansion Bird Pontiac Inc has requested a change from neighborhood to primary business zoning to expand ito site at Parkdale Autotown The property is near the corner of Lansdown and South Staples The request will be heard tomorrow by the Zoning and Planning Commission starting at 7:30 pm in the council chamber at City Han Other reaming requests include those of Wilson for duplex zoning on Lavaca near Lamont William Slits for general business sailing of property on Ayers near Baldwin Mn Virlna Sammons for general business zoning of i 9-acre tract at Padre Island Drive and South Staples and Floyd A Reeves and Lura Turner for apartment house zoning of a lot on Eldon between Alameda and Delano KINGSVILLE An Insight Into the culture of India is being offered Texas students through a display of stamps booklets jewelry postcards and other Indian artifacts in the lobby of the Library-Administration Building The display was recently completed by Prakaxh Desai 22-year-oid sophomore general engineering major from Gujarat State The only student from India at Desai enrolled this semester end has been In the US only seven months of the items on display are handmade and word obtained in Bombay in an international government controlled store" Desai said other Items Include skeletal plpal leaves which bear delicate paintings In oil and look much like woven cloth leaves from this tree are the only ones that can he first came to the United Stales He remained there for four-and-a-half months and then came to Desai was born and reared In Gujarat State India and began learning English in the eighth grade the year in which most Indians begin studying the language He studied it for four years high school in India ends with the 11th grade before entering the University of Bombay in 1961 where he majored In math 'and mlnored in physics Desai can speak Hindi Gujarati Marathi (the language of Maharashtra the stale In which Bombay Is located) and some Sanskrit (the root of all Indian languages) besides English lie plan to graduate in 1869 lie will do graduate work and receive practical training in his field before returning to India be used for these paintings Ihey are dried and treated chemically before they are painted and are thus well preserved" Booklets on display contain the teachings of the world's great religious leaden ranging from Jesus Buddha and Mohammed to mater and minor leaders of Hinduism Kanpur! Chappals handmade leather thongs also displayed ire the most popular types of thongs among tne Indiana The Mojadi are ceremonial laeetess shoes which are extremely delicate and popular for weddings Though many of the Items on display have American counterparts Desai feels that some of them are representative of the truism that Is a world of difference between the East snd the Desai lived hi Chicago when three years ago three codefendants In cell-block Sunday is mapped plans for attempt to overturn his jury-tarn-pering conviction Hoffa looking tanijnad but rats than prisoners and the worn in his first appearance county grand jury has agreed outside prison walls aim -Many of the Inmates at the March 7 arrived Saturday in jail complained to us that they the custody of US marehals to were unable to steep at night await a hearing beginning next because of rats and mice being Tuesday on his fourth new-trial jn the bunks with them" the motion grand jury said in a scorching He lacked Mi familiar smite aUark last December and did not speak with ncws-i US Marshal Harry Mansfield men Marshal Frank Cottner'and Sheriff Frank Newell said ree yean each here in 1964 oa charges of tampering with the jury which heard the labor 1962 conspiracy trial in Nashville hearing Is based oa charges that the government used wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping before and during the irial The government has dented the charge i.

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