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Valley McAllen, Evening Monitor Oct. 11, 1963 Pg. 3. Texas Meeting Water Needs Seen Big Texas Challenge J. E.

Sturrock Conservation Meet Speaker Development of water supply adequate to meet needs in Texas in decades to come? a challenge, J. E. Sturrock of Austin, general manager of the Texas Water Conservation Assn. told delegates to the state meeting of the Texas Soil' Conservation District Supervisors in McAllen today. About 800 district supervisors and guests have been participating in the conference program, which has included general sessions at McAllen Civic Center and tours of the border area view agricultural development.

the challenge (of water' needs) is the responsibility everyone from the individual citizen and private organizations to all levels of government, Sturrock said this morning. "It will require bold leadership and, above all, coordination of effort which has paid off in Texas in cent Sturrock traced the development of coordinated efforts the part of various agencies and organizations in working water resources, which ultimately resulted in formation of Texas Coordinating Water Committee. On Committee The committee, he said, cludes two representatives each from American Rice Growers As. sociation, American Society Civil Engineers; Association Texas Soil' Conservation Districts, East Texas Chamber of Commerce, Valley Chamber of Commerce, South Texas Chamber Commerce, Texas Heavy, Municipal and Utilities Branch of Associated General Contractors of America, Inc. Texas Manufacturers Association, Texas Municipal League, Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association, Texas Society of Professional Engineers, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Texas State Grange, Texas Water Conservation Association, West Texas Chamber 'of Commerce, Texas Farm Bureau, and the Texas Forestry Association.

Also he said agencies such the Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Soil Soil Conservation Service, State Consels vation Board, Texas Water Commission, Texas Water Pollution Control Board and river ties and districts are "coordinating, planning and development programs through numerous conferences. "All of this has resulted great achievements in the field of water resources in the past decade. Reservoirs in Texas, he said, have grown from 63 in 1950 with 5,000 acre feet or more conservation storage capacity usable capacity of 7.4 million acre feet of water to 116 reservoirs with usable capacity 14,932,000 acre feet. Twelve more are under construction with 055,000 capacity, he added. Some 750 upstream-flow tardation dams and thousands farm and stock ponds, he continued, have been constructed der the Soil Conservation Service program.

"Yet in spite of this great progress," he warned, "water velopment in- Texas has not kept pace' with population growth municipal, industrial and agricultural expansion." Sturrock said the National Planning Association predicts that 70 per cent of the Southwest's economic activity will concentrated in Texas during next 13 years. Texas Moves Up Texas jumped from fifth largest state to fourth largest in the past year, in population, with 000 persons. "By 1980," Sturrock said "the total dependable fresh water supply that will be available in the United States- will be about billion gallons a day. The most the Nation can ever hope to have available as a result of engineering works is about 650 billion gallons a day." "Today," he continued "the tion uses 355 billion gallons water a day, but at the present, rate of development, by time we can achieve a fresh water supply of .515 billion gallons day, our rquirements will have climbed to 600 billion gallons day." Sturrock said the Texas Water Commissions plan for meeting 1980 water requirements of Texas proposed construction of new reservoirs. The U.S.

Study Commission plan, he added, commends 30 new reservoirs 1975, and another 53 by, the year 2010. It proposes 2,400 stream structures some, control floods and soil erosion. projects, he said, "will quire billions of dollars; the best available knowledge, skills and abilities: sacrifice, if necessary to the common welfare: dom, to provide for future generations and unity and belief the destiny of Texas and the United States of America will take men of vision. Also addressing the state meeting was Dr. Tyrus R.

Timm, DATELINES-AROUND VALLEY MISSION Jose J. Gonzalez, 25, of Mission has been added to the Mission police department staff as a patrolman-trainee, it was announced today by Police Chief Claudio Castaneda. A resident of Mission for 14 years, Gonzalez is now undergoing in-service training with members of the department. Beginning next Monday, the new patrolman will be enrolled at the Valley Police Academy at Weslaco for a session to continue four weeks under the direction of a faculty from the College Engineering Extension Service. Gonzalez is filling an opening which the department has had for several weeks, Castaneda said.

He brings the total personnel in the department to 14. WESLACO Trustees of the Weslaco school district will run for office for designated places, beginning next April. The school board voted 5 to 2 this week to make the change, which will eliminate a one-shot voting practice at the polls. Voting against places being designated were Dr. Armando Cuellar and Charlie Peral ez.

Casting votes for the new arrangement were Jim Cook, Mrs. Ralph Swanzey, John Flowers, Kenneth Sherry and M. F. (Red) Connor. In the past, board candidates have been listed on the ballot in a group, with no specific opponents.

Two of the seven-member board are to be elected next year. EDINBURG A one car accident 10 miles north of Edinburg caused considerable damage to the late model car which sideswiped a guard post on a curve, County Patrolman P. A. Pierce, who investigated the accident reported no injuries and no charges will be filed against Lloyd Dee Thornton driver of the car. Obituaries DEODORO RODRIGUEZ ALAMO Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday in Pharr for Deodoro Rodriguez, 67, of Alamo, who died in a hospital in Harlingen Thursday. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Benilde M. Rodriguez; three daughters, Mrs. Rebeca R.

Guerra of Los Guerrera, Tamaulipus, Mxico; Raquel R. Valderas of Alamo; Mrs. Amparo R. Escobedo of Modesto, Calif; one son, Teodoro R. Rodriguez Jr.

of Alamo. officiate Rev. at Father services P. J. at St.

Smith Josph's will Catholic Church. Burial will follow at St. Joseph's Cemetery. Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. this evening at De Leon Funeral Chapel.

Weslaco Church Hosts Quiet Day WESLACO Mrs. Wallace B. Thomas, president of the Daughters of the King, Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, has announced that Fall Quiet Day for all women in the diocese will be sponsored by the Daughters Wednesday, Oct. 16. Quiet Day will be observed at three points in the diocese.

Grace Church, Weslaco, will be hostess to Episcopal women of the Valley, with the William Lang, Epiphany Church, Raymondville, conducting. Hours will be from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Other points for the diocese wide Quiet Day will be Camp Capers near San Antonio, and Corpus Christi. At Weslaco the Rev.

G. W. Goodson, rector, will celebrate Holy Communion, assisted by Reverend Lang who will have charge of the meditations. Women who cannot attend for four hours may attend a part of the session. Each participant is asked to bring a lunch, a Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.

Child. care will be provided from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Indignant Thief Lands in Prison ST. HELIER, Isle of Jersey (UPI) Bernard Miller, 23, went to the police in high indignation because somebody stole his car.

The police said they didn't know anything about Miller's car, but had been looking for him in connection, with was a jailed $8,400 for store eight years. Air Terminal Gets Paint Job Visitors and air travelers passing through the air terminal building at Miler International Airport at McAllen would do well to not lean against the building or its upright columns. Painters are busily at work today giving the building a fresh coat of paint, to further spruce the already sharp looking modern terminal buildling. PREVIEW OF U.S. WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST TO 7:00 A.M.

EST COLD TORONTO SAN FRANCISCO KANSAS CITY COLD FT.WORTH LOWEST TEMPERATURES and CLOUD FORECAST WEATHER FOTO SHOWERS SNOW .60 THUNDER STORMS RAIN FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET LITTLE CHANGE Tonight occasional rain is forecast for the northern plateau. Scattered showers are predicted for the central plateau, the northern and central Pacific coastal region and portions of the eastern Great Lakes region and the Ohio Valley. Clear to partly cloudy skies should prevail elsewhere, in the notion. Cooler weather is indicated for most of the northern half of the nation and the Pacific coast with the only exception being the northern plains where a warming trend is anticipated. Little change in temperatures is expected elsewhere in the nation.

Minimum temperature fore cast includes: Phoenix 62; Little Rock 54; Seattle 48; San Francisco 54; Denver 43; Fort Worth 57: Los Angeles 62; Duluth 40; Chicago 52; St. Louis 56; New Orleans 62; Boston 50; New York 47; SCENE OF DAM COLLAPSE Photo above shows leashed a 300-foot wave of water that roared down recent view of the Vajont dam at Longarone, Italy, the Piave Valley ravine wiping out more than six vilwhich was smashed by a massive landslide which un- lages. (Story on Page 1.) (UPI Radiotelephoto) Weariness Hampering Campaign to Woo NEW YORK (UPI) ness seems to be hampering Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu's three-week campaign to woo American puband two television appearances. lic opinion, but the first lady of South Viet Nam scheduled a talk Fordham University The petite Mme.

Nhu, sister-inlaw of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, was exhausted Thursday night on returning from a talk at Sarah Lawrence College for Women in Women Voter League To Spark Poll Tax Repeal As EDINBURG -wide meeting of community and civic leaders interested -in -the repeal of the poll tax will be held in the near future, it was learned The Edinburg League of Voters will sponsor the here.meeting to be held in the court house auditorium. Repeal of the tax ha's been enin dorsed by the Democratic and Republican parties as well as by many other interested groups and clubs. The state-wide efforts of these groups is being coordindated by a central advisory comand mittee. The League of Women Voters was selected as an organization of that can keep the campaign on a non-partisan basis. materials and publicity on the state level will be released by the commitre- mittee through the League's state of office.

Production of materials and financing the campaign will un- be shared responsibility of the whole committee with the League providing executive and administrative services. de- Edinburg's League has a large, order of promotional materials and to be distributed throughout the county. Rep. Eligio (Kika) de la Garza, met with the local League Wednesday and offered helpful suggestions as to the most effective use of these materials and be other publicity media. Fact the sheets, posters, handbills an bumper stickers will be available, as well as regular news releases.

Mrs. Harold Prime of Mission, chairman of the local -League committee, stressed that for the League of Women Voters poll tax repeal is a necessary first step toward securing an effective voter registration system for Texas. 515 She also pointed out that the -ratification by two more state legis-600 latures of the national amendment to prohibit poll tax as a requirement for voting will put Texas 'elctions in a state of naof head of the -Department of Agricultural Economies and Sociology at Texas A. M. University, who discussed the European Common Market and its implications on U.

S. agriculture, a Dr. Timm had two trips aboard recently to study this development. Climaxing the three-day session this evening will be the an45 nual banquet, with Cong. Joe M.

Kilgore of McAllen as principal re- speaker. by A panel discussion of tion program was conducted toup- day in the general session with John D. Wells, president of the association as moderator. Panelre- included Dan Heinen, chairman of the Atascosa Soil Conservation District; A. L.

Bading, executive director of the Associawis-tion of Texas SCS's; and Arthur Leesch, member of the state Soil Conservation Board. A final business session is It scheduled this afternoon, when a new president for 1963-64 will be elected and committee reports and resolutions adopted. Washington 55; Atlanta 50; Jacksonville 58 and Miami Mme Nhu's American Public Bronxville, N. Y. Dr.

Lawrence Alpert, a physician, was summoned to her suite at the Hotel Barclay here and gave her sedation. The doctor said she was suffering from "exhaustion," but would be able to carry on her speaking schedule. In appearances Thursday, her third day in this country, Mme. Nhu repeated assurances made previously about the regime of her brother-in-law and the Buddhist opposition that is rocking his Roman Catholic administration: in Saigon, Tiredness delayed the talk at Sarah Lawrence, but she recovered her energy to before a group of students faculty sappear members and assure them that "America is backing Viet Nam because it is the last bastion against Communism." The tart tongue that has brought her notoriety has been noticeably sheathed during her stay here, but she unleashed it briefly to add, "America does not seem to realize Viet Nam is winning the war." United States officialdom has ignored her visit. In may quarters her trip, with its heavy schedule of speaking appearances, is.

viewed as an attempt to bypass the government in propagandizing to the American people. It is believed that Mme. Nhu will leave Monday or Tuesday for Washington. No official inviations have been issued to her there, but she has said she would be happy to accept any which might be offered. Art League Show Staged at Bank The Upper Valley Art League is continuing, an exhibit at McAllen through Oct.

19. The exhibit was set up last weekend as a courtesy to the McAllen Business Professional Women's Club as part of the background for a reception kicking off National Business Women's Week. The exhibit is open from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. daily.

The public is invited to view 40 pictures hung in the community room of the bank. Tourists are especially invited the next meeting of the Art League, officers announced. The meeting will be held WomClub at 2:30 p.m. Friday. Cars Involved In Minor Crash One minor accident was investigated by McAllen police' Thursday.

No injuries and minor damage resulted. According to police, cars driven westbound on drive by James Reese of McAllen and Lanora E. Parish of McAllen were involved in a rear-end collision at Harvey Drive 'and 16th Street. The car driven by Mrs. Parish stopped when children entered the street, and was struck from the rear by the car driven by Reese.

Damage was confined to the right front end of the Reese car, MEET POSTPONED WESLACO The regular meeting of the Weslaco Farm Bureau has been postponed until Oct. 24, President Earl Barnes reported. The session was delayed because of the State Soil Conservation convention being held in the Valley. Dam (Continued from Page 1) sing. The old woman dug with a spoon in a pile of mud, bricks, and gravel that home before the water thundered down the Piave River gorge, smashing thousands of little houses like hers and burying their occupants.

The water wall was forced over the 875-foot dam by mountain landslides crashing into its backwater. "My son," the old woman said as soldiers tried to pull her away. "My son, he's in there." Was Visiting Daughter Mrs. Carmela Buttet, 72, was one of the few hundred who survived the disaster that struck her home village of Fae, the town of Longarone, and other settlements in the gorge. She had been visiting her daughter-in-law up the mountain.

"Come, old one of the Italian soldiers on a rescue in the village said to her. "There is nothing you can do here." Mrs. Buttet wrenched her arm free and kept digging with her spoon. She knew that beneath the rubble lay her son, his wife, and their three children. "Come, old woman," the soldtier said, again.

"Dig!" she cried. "Keep In Longarone, the 1,500 survivors of the 4,700 who lived here before the disaster talk about Warrant Officer Papa of the Italian Carabinieri, the state policeman who was stationed in town. was he who gave the outside world the first word of the disaster although he did not know it. It was about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday when Papa telephoned his headquarters at Ponte Delle Alpi down the mountain.

"I hear a strange noise," he reported. "I think. Heard A Scream There was a pause. The officer in headquarters waited. Then he heard a scream.

"Out, out," Papa shouted, apparently warning his men in 1 the Longarone office that the water was about to engulf them. The telephone in Ponte Delle Alpi went dead. Papa was swept to his death with his men. Among the first relief workers to reach the flooded valley was an American, Capt. Fred R.

Michelson of St. Louis, Mo. Michelson is a helicopter pilot with' the Southern European Task Force based in Verona, When the call for help came, he flew directly to the Piave gorge and circled the area to find out the extent of the disaster. "It's hard to visualize." Michelson said. "The towns that were there along the Piave river they just aren't there any more." Another helicopter pilot, Capt.

Harry Jones of Ambler, could see from the air that "the village of Longarone was just swept away." "Most people are dead" in the valley, he said. Comedian Lewis Has Big Problem NEW YORK (UPI) Joan Whitney Payson, 'owner of the New York Mets baseball team Wednesday night asked comedian Joe E. Lewis to do her a favor. "I'd like for you to sing the Star Spangled Banner at opening of our new Mets stadium next April," Mrs. Payson said jokingly after watching show at a night club.

"Sing it?" Lewis said. "I'm lucky if I can say Edinburg Girl Scouts Start Drive Tomorrow EDINBURG Tomorrow at, 8 a.m. at the Echo Motor Hotel, the captains and workers for the Edinburg Girl Scout Fund drive will meet with Chairman Charles Florence. They will receive materials and instructions to begin the drive for the 1964 year. Goal for the year is 200.

Captains for the drive include Mmes. Charles Dennis, Blackie Bowers, Dean Patten, Charles Queen, Ray Dube, Bill Hockey, Robert Gorena, Joe May and Mr. B. J. Pigg, Gillespie Baker is secretary for the financial drive.

Miss Julia Quinn, executive director of Girl Scouts for the Tip of Texas Council, spoke to the Edinburg group recently, She explained many of the financial needs. It was pointed out that operating cost for Girl Scouting is much lower than for most other similar organizations, but it does take approximately $16 per girl each year. The goal for Edinburg has constantly been met and it is hoped it will be met this year. Troup organizers this year in- Quotes From The News By United Press International MOSCOW Premier Nikita Khrushchev, saluting the nuclear test ban treaty and calling for further agreements: "Now it is necessary, and our governments proclaimed themselves in favor of it, to develop the success achieved still further to look for the settlement of other ripe international issues." NEW YORK South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu in a speech at Sarah Lawrence College for Women: "American does not seem to realize Viet Nam is winning the war." NEW YORK Tran Van Choung, father of Mme.

Nhu, who recently quit as South Vietnamese ambassador to the United States: "There are hundreds of other Vietnamese who could be better leaders of Viet Nam than the present family, the ruling family." BELLUNO, Italy Capt. Fred R. Michelson of St. Louis, who accompanied relief workers to the scene of the Vajont Dam disaster which killed an estimated 4,000 persons: "It's hard to visualize. The towns that were there along the Piave River they just aren't there any more." Upper Valley Men Hunt Pheasant SAN MANUEL A.

F. Vannoy, Kiki de la Garza and W. B. Bradshaw went pheasant hunting last weekend several miles west of here. Vannoy has the three acres on which the three well-known Upper Valley men hunted.

COLORADO'S BEST. BEER DISTRIBUTED BY GLAZER'S IN HANDY GLASS CANS! Zoning Law Changed Okehed clude Mrs. A. C. Edmonson, Mrs.

Edwin P. McConnell and Mrs. Gene Moore. Mrs. Joe Holmes is program events coordinator.

Mrs. H. Utz is service projects coordinator. Businesses or civic organizations needing Girl Scouts for community service projects may call Mrs. Utz.

Mrs. Robert Gandy and her troup 25 of Girl Scouts will be in charge of "Scouts Own" at the weekend senior camporee to be held at Moon Lake in Progreso Saturday and Sunday. Girls will board the Boy Scout bus at 8 a.m. at the home of Mrs. Gandy.

Some 25 girls are expected to attend. Other sponsors for the Edinburg troup at this camporee will be Mrs. Martin Gandy and Mrs. Benny Nibert. Troup from Donna, Weslaco and 1 Edcouch, will be hostess troup.

Mrs. George Godfrey is leader and Mrs. Roger Young is assistant leader. The schedule begins at 9 a.m. Oct.

12 with the girls setting up camp. The afternoon program will be under the direction of the McAllen girls and a campfire that night by the Harlingen troup. The camporee begins Sunday with flag ceremonies by the Brownsville troup and Scouts Own by Edinburg. Camp will break up at 2 p.m. DONNA A zoning ordinance exception has been approved by the Donna city council to permit? Tommy Leadbetter to construct a drive-in grocery on lots 8 and of Block 29.

The Planning and Zoning Commission headed by John Middlebrooks recommended the exception. It also recommended that Roberts Avenue from North 5th: to North 7th be rezoned from. residential to business. It was pointed out in the zoning and planning minutes that a trailer park and other businesses already were located in the area. Council members indicated they favored the rezoning and instructed City Atty.

Ralph Alexander of Edinburg to draw up an ordin ance to be presented at the Nov. ember council meeting. The city charter requires a public hearing before. the ordinance is approved. great confusion if the state repeal is not passed at this time.

Orientation of new members, previews of new publications plans for future board and membership meetings and a report of juvenile problems study group were other matters considered by the board at its meeting Wednesday. Berlin (Continued from Page 1) nuclear test ban treaty and the. general relaxation of tensions in the cold war. The diplomats said the Soviets may have been under the impres. sion that 'Allied troops were under orders to avoid access route incidents as part of the new "spirit of Moscow" that followed the treaty signing.

If this was the Soviet intention, the Army immediately made it clear it will not back down in its determination to keep troops and vehicles rolling over Berlin's access routes as often as it chooses. Algeria (Continued from Page 1) between representatives of the two governments "a dialogue of deaf men." Moroccan King Hassan II donned his military uniform as supreme commander of the Moroccan armed forces and announced that he was returning Agadir to the capital, Rabat. Both Algeria and Morocco claim- the area where the fighting took place, along the southern sector of the border about miles southwest of Algiers. Both governments agree on the sites of the three battles but each calls the territory its own. The border, dispute overshadowed continued maneuvering beand the Berber rebels in the tween the he Algerian government Kabylia region along the north coast, 9.

miles east of Algiers. Rebel military commander Col. Mohand Ou El Hadj issued a statement, Thursday night from mountain headquarters of the outlawed Socialist Forces Front (FFS) saying: "The regime (of Ben Bella) is already doomed. Only its destruction will end our battle." National Army troops sealed off last major road leading to the rebels' stronghold Thursday and additional forces left Algiers Thursday night for Kabylia. Two Named To Housing Board DONNA Two members of the terms Donna expire Housing Saturday, Authority, have whose been reappointed.

Harold Seiver and Oscar Yanez were named by the city council to serve new two-year terms. Mrs. Marion Champion is executive director of the housing authority. Japan Welcomes Test Ban Treaty TOKYO (UPI) Japan, the only nation ever attacked nuclear weapons, today: welcomed the formal commencement of the East-Weet partial nuclear test ban treaty. A Foreign Office statement expressed hope the treaty, will, be: the "first step toward the realization of a total nuclear test ban.

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