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PERMIAN EDITION CAM urn mini i 1 "Betrayers are bated, even those whom they benefit" Tacitus, Annals i AN INDEPENDENT FREEDOM NEWSPAPER UPI VOL. XU NO. 40 Prte I cntt Coov Throyohou fht Frmlon Batto- (NEA1 AP ODESSA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1SC3 Southwest Houston 40 Heavy Damage In ouses Twister -J i i Ntwiogpf EntarnrlM Mimbwr AMoclotad Pnm i "A South Texas Lashed By Violent Storms By United Press International Violent winter thunderstorms lashed southern Wednesday night and today with tornadoes, 100- 'Invalid' Ruling AUSTIN (UPI) Texas' poll tax does not "seriously" discriminate against Negroes, but it is, nonetheless, unconstitutional, a three-judge federal court ruled Wednesday. The poll tax is an "invalid charge on one of our most precious rights the right to vote," the judges mile-an-hour winds, hail, torrential rain and destructive lightning. Damage was heavy in southwest Houston where a tornado ripped into the southwestern section.

The storm was the worst in Houston in two years Rogers of Gastonia, 5.C., en-. r. REST BREAK During a brief rest in a rice paddy near Thae Tru, South Viet Nam, U.S. Marines, from left, Jo Ruggiero of Boston, LCpL Basil Ouetian of South joy a laugh as they inspect their boots. The man, all 19, era part of a U.S.

force pursuing fleeing Viat Cong troops in operation "Double Eagle." ft Uast 22 Missjn9 Green Heavily Hit PAGES 4 SECTIONS isata in uihuiuuuus upm- ion. United Political Organi zation, a predominantly Negro group hailed the decision. "I don't Know mere wiu oe more voting," said T. D. Armstrong of Galveston, vice president of the UPO, "But there will certainly be more qualified vote.

You would be surprised how much that $1.50 keeps people from voting." Most counties add 25 cents tax to the $1.50 poll tax, making the total $1.75. The federal court issued an injunction, effective immediately, prohibiting Texas from denying anyone the right to vote because of failure to pay the tl tar TVi nni-t ctill loft anneal routes open, raising a possibility the poll tax could still be a requirement of thil year's elections if the, appeals are not ex hausted by balloting time. A legal source said the deci sion apparently will be left to the U.S. Supreme Court The decision was the first is sued under a section of the 1965 voting rights act that directed the U.S. Justice Department to challenge the constitutionality of the poll tax in Alabama, Tex as, Virginia ana Mississippi, the states that still require it for voting.

"The evidence does not establish that the poll' tax in Texas discriminates against Negroes in' violation of the 15th Amend ment or the equal protection clause (of the 14th Amend ment)," wrote Circuit ThoTtiberry Austin. That had been the Justice De partment's charge that Texas used the pou tax to keep Ne groes from voting. gov. Jonn u. uxmauy Gen.

Waggoner Carr declined comment until they could see the opinion. But Judge Thornberry said the poll tax "infringes on the concept of liberty as protected by the due process clause (of the 14th Amendment) and constitutes an Invalid charge on the exercise of one of our most precious rights the right to vote. "It is, In effect, a penalty imposed on those who wish to exercise their right to vote." Connally said on Jan. 26 a special session of the legislature would be "almost mandatory" if the poll tax were invalidated. The state would have no system of voter registration without the poll tax.

But the appeal provision of th fmfcral raiirt'a nillntr 1fr doubt that a special legislative session would be required. The court made all sections fit tha ArriM fto-t4v fmmu4t- ately except the paragraph pro- niDiung state onicuus irom re quiring poll taxes as a prereq uisite to voting. Circuit Judge John R. Brown and Dist Judge Adrian Spears agreed with Thornberry's opin ion. treets were hit by gunfire during the day, but the occupants escaped injury.

i 4 The trouble started early Wednesday when about 800 teenagers gathered outside the Dominican "White House," ostensibly to protest alleged government coolness toward the 1 1st dominated university council. The demonstration Quickly took on a pro-Communist anti-American tone. At one point, the youths called for a moment silence in mourning for Communists kUIcd in Viet Nam, 0 and at least three persons were injured. They were identified as Linda Parker, 19, Beryl Deer, 50, and Lawrence Henry, 19. The U.S.

Weather Bureau said Houston was pounded by slightly more than five inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Hailstones piled up eight inch es deep in some sections of the state. Marble-sized nail pep pered Austin breaking tree limbs and causing sugnt root damage. The U.s. weatner Bureau said a few showers were still occurring over Southeast Texas by 7 a.m.

Rain was expectea (Related Story, Picture, Page 8-A) to end over most sections today, but possible snow was forecast for West Texas Friday. Overnight readings today ranged from 23 degrees at Dai-hart to a high of 62 at Browns ville. The storm in Houston led in directly to. the capture of three burglars. Deputy Sheriff Don Shonefeldt said he couiant drive because of the blinding rain, pulled into a service sta tion and caught tnree men our-glarizing it Hundreds of miles to the north Derdsoa recorded 715 inches of rain The storm was blamed tor at least eight deaths across Texas.

More thunderstorms were ex pected in the south and east sections of the state by night fall. At Gainesville, where flooding Pecan. Creek drove hundreds of. persons from their, homes Wednesday, damage was con-; servattvely estimated at "many thousands of dollars. Winds -estimated at 90 miles an hour picked up an automo bile north of Victoria late Wednesday night and tossed it into a ditch, injuring two wom en.

Several other cars, were swept off the road by the wind and hail storm, winds nppea down 25 power poles near Vic toria. Hailstones the size of lemons pounded Yoakum, and hailstones covered the ground near Pettus. Mineral, Beeville and near Three Rivers. Hail smashed hundreds of 5k See WEATHER, Page 2-A FOSCST PROM THI U.S. WEATHER SURIAU AT TERMINAL: Pwiir ctwtfv, tr mt Mid tcanmt tfwwws PrMav.

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Tflday's JACOB ON BRIDGE S-A JUMBLE 7-D OIL NEWS 7-C SOCIETY SPORTS 14C TV LOG YOUR STA1J -D rr-r i a Freak Snovf Winds Hit In West Texas Freak snow flurries fell in the Big Bend Country Wednesday and elsewhere in West Texas the weather became windy and cooL Snowflakes drifted down in the Alpine Maria area despite 50-1 degree temperatures. Some accumulated on the ground, but quickly melted. The Odessa Midland area was buffeted by winds gusting as high as 33 miles an hour Wednesday afternoon and simi lar weather conditions were forecast for Despite the thill wind, the mercury reached 59 degrees Wednesday before dipping to an evermght low 2i The high today should be near 52 degrees with increasing cloudiness expected by Fri day. A sugnt cnance os precipitation was predicted late Friday. Winds which achieved 25-miles an hour 'from the west Wednesday, were expected to reach the same force today, and gusts should be even higher.

The temperature was expected to sink to 32 degrees tonignt and climb Into the- mid 50s Friday afternoon. Johnson Seeking Furiher Efforts To ITfo Peace WASHINGTON (UPI) -President Johnson meets today with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and United. Nations Ambassa dor Arthur J. Goldberg to discuss "additional diplomatic efforts that might be made" for peace in Viet Nam. White House Press Secretary Ul U.

Moyers said ue meeting was designed to "review developments" to the U.N Security Council, which Gold berg has asked on Johnson's orders" to debate the Viet Nam question. "Also, I expect, they will talk about additional efforts that might be made as the president continues his search for peace in Southeast Asia." Moyers added. He indicated the outlook for some kind of acceptance of American peace initiatives oy the Communists Was still grim, however. "Everything the president has been doing has brought no affirmative response from the other side," Moyers said. "Hanoi continues to be intran sigent toward the question of peace in Viet Nam." Inside (un leiepnoroi Senate Plans To Accept Gl WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate plans today to accept nearly all of the changes made by the House in approving the GI bill.

But one expected Senate change may force another House vote before Congress can give final approval and send to the White House the measure setting up a permanent system of education and home loan ben efits for veterans. Although the measure is more costly than one pushed by President Johnson, he is expected to sign it into law. It would provide assistance to veterans wun more than six months military service retroactive to the expi ration of previous programs on Jan. 31, 1955. The legislation comes up for a floor vote after the Senate acts on shutting off a filibuster agatnst the union shop bilL Sen.

RaJnh Vt. Yarborough. D- chief sponsor of the veter ans legislation, said he was prepared to go along with the basic framework of the House version. Yarborough said he would insist on an amendment to make clear that the education benefits could be used by veter ans who have not graduated from high school. House experts on the measure said they were confident such veterans were covered.

But Yarborough insisted there was doubt and declared that the point must be nailed The world war ana Korean War GI bills did cover veterans who had not finished high school. The current measure was passed by the Senate 69 to 17 last July, House Aciicn i i i Voters Thrown Into Confusion AUSTIN. Tex. (AP) The 1966 election outlook in Texas has been thrown into a state of confusion by a "federal court's ruling that the state's poll tax was unconstituuonai. Surprised Texas officials pon dered their next move toaay in the wake of the 45-page opinion handed down Wednesday by the three-judge federal court.

Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr and Gov. John Connally declined comment until they had studied the opinion and consult ed with each other. The state has 14 days to ask the 5th U.

S. Circuit Court of Appeals or the U. S. Supreme Court to stay me order. Unless the order is stayed, Carnally may have to call special legislative session to enact a voter registration sys-! tern.

Connally said at a recent! news conference that a federal court ruling wiping out the $1.75 eon tax was one thing that could. uruiK uu a special bcmuw uu, The court'! decision to taxe. effect Immediately prohibits nTTnVi tar nrf the state from requiring "uie requisite to voting in general, special and primary elections, federal, state or local, in uie state of Texas." Deadline for poll tax payment was Jan. 31. Party primaries are May 7 for Congress, state wide and local offices and the state legislature.

Filing deadline for candidates was Monday. U. S. Atty. Gen.

Nicholas Kat- zenbach filed suits last August under congressional instructions in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, challenging the Texas, Missis sippi and Arkansas poll taxes. A suit filed earlier, testing the Virginia poll tax, is now before the U. S. Supreme Court. The federal suits allege the poll tax aiscrimi nates' against Negroes, The Texas opinion was writ ten by Circuit Judge Homer Thornberry and was signed also by Circuit Judge John R.

Brown and federal U. S. Dist. Judge Adrian Spears. The government based much or its case on tne assertion tnat the poll tax was a heavier finan cial burden lor Negroes than tor whites because racial discrimination depressed the Negro economically.

i Thornberry's disregarded assertion. While acknowledging that the poll tax was established as a voting requirement in 1902 "to disfranchise the Negro," Thorn-berry added: evidence See ELECTION, Page 2-A American peace force who was wounded when a terrorist threw a hand grenade into his jeep. The rioters severely damaged an unmarked U.N. automobile, after beating up Its driver. They tried to set fire to two Canadian embassy cars but were driven off by a U.S.

patrol. UPI photographer Julio Plmental was manhandled but not seriously hurt by rioters when he tried to take pictures of the mob attack on the policeman who was burned to death, Two NSC television cars. By Tax Ruling to 1 of River, and rtc Robert Labor Attempt To Strike Dovn 14- WASHINGTON (UPI) -Orgs nized labor's attempt to strike down "right to work" laws in 19 states was at the end of the trail today at least for this year. The Senate scheduled a vote to cut off a filibuster on a bill to repeal section 14-B of me Taft-Hartley labor law, under which' the states have passed laws outlawing compulsory union membership. The vote followed a similar vote Tuesday in.

which the Democratic leadership failed to get the necessary two-thirds majority to gag a filiuster led by GOP Leader Everett M. Dirks en, ID. There was virtual ly. no chance the result would different today. be different today.

Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana planned to send the bill back to pigeonhole after the defeat and move on to other business. The proposal had seen the No. 1 legislative goal of the AFL-CIO this year. President Johnson had also given his support to the measure. LBJ Aids Reds WASHINGTON (AP) Tyo Democratic senators say that attacks on President Johnson's Southeast Asia policies are encouraging the Communists to continue the Viet Nam war.

Edmund S. Muskle, D-Maine, said he is convinced that what is keeping North Viet Nam from the negotiations table "is the conviction that we'll tire and quit" He said this belief is being bolstered by senatorial criticism of the President's actions and objectives. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, a Foreign Relations Committee member, said that what he called "the clamor" of the anti-Viet Nam minority "encourages Hanoi and Peking to persist in their aggression, in the mistaken belief that popular resistance to war at home will soon compel the American government to withdraw from Viet Nam." The two senatorial supporters of the President spoke out in BAtAntnd Berets stronghold later was occupied oy Aiued troops without a There were only two known survivors from among three teams of the hand-picked green beret troops attached to the top secret Project Delta group.

A Special Forces team has eight to members and sometimes 15 to 20. Disclosure of the incident was made at An Lao, 310 miles northeast of Saigon, where almost 20,000 Allied troops this week chased three Communist regiments without success. Hundreds of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars were earlier in the fighting to the south. U.S. officials declined to discuss the Special Forces disaster in -detail because Project Delta is classified.

It was learned that one of the survivors, seriously wounded and hospitalized in the Philip pines with 16 bullet and shrapnel wounds, was Ma. Charles BecKwitn oi Atlanta, Ga. Beckwith performed heroical- last November when the smmunists tried to overrun the Pld Me special forces outpost in the Central High lands. The camp withstood viet Cong and North Vietnamese artillery and suicide squad attacks for more than a week. U.S.

air oower Inflicted heavy losses on the Communists and Beckwith and a handful of Americans and Vietnamese held the camp. Food For Peace Message Set WASHINGTON (UPI) --Pres ident Johnson today sends to Coneress a special "Food for Peace" message detailing his proposals for a broad U.S. attack on world hunger. No details of the message were announced in advance but congressmen who have been filled in on the plan say it is aimed at helping hungry countries help themselves agri culturally rather than simply giving away or selling cheaply America's food surpluses as in the past Tn hl hndeet for the 1967 fisrul war. beirinninB next Julv 1, Johnson has programmed $1.6 billion for the food allotment less than in the current year but according to the, President a more effective way, of solving the world's hunger problems.

SAIGON (UPI) -At least 22 members of the elite U.S. Special Forces may have been killed or captured durinr an advance patrol in the An Lao Valley region this week, it was learned today. The. Communist HHH ToSpurLBJ's 'Great Society' SAIGON (UPI) Vice Pres ident Hubert H. Humphrey arrived in Saigon today with a pledge, to wage "a vigorous war" against social and econ omic ills in Viet Nam, He was shielded by thousands of troops and police protecting him from Communist terrorists.

The vice president's White House jetliner touched down at suburban Tan Son Nhut Airport at 3 a.m., CST, after a flight across the Pacific from Honolu lu. Arriving with Humphrey were South Vietnamese Pre mier Nguyen Cao Ky, chief of state Hguyen Van Thieu, u.s Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and others who attended the Honolulu confer ence with President Johnson earlier this week. Humphrey received the most elaborate welcome to Saigon in the memory' of longtime Western residents, including a 21-gun salute from four 155mm howitzers. "My" mission is not military, he told reporters during a flight from Honolulu. Tm here as a representative of the Great .7 A multi-service Vietnamese military guard stood in two ranks stretching fubre than 100 yards from the vice president's plane to the airport's vip lounge.

The ramp also was decorated with four highly polished tanks. About 1,000 Vietnamese schoolgirls clad in traditional white tunics and translucent pantaloons stood nearby waving tiny U.S. and Vietnamese nags. Streets throughout Saigon Itself; were decked with banners proclaiming Vietnamese determination to resist 'communism. Much history and many changing circumstances brought Humphrey to Saigon with Ky and Thieur.

Saigon Mobs Roam In Santos Domingo I If lifrTiH Odessa American CltBIE It Doesn't Get Headlines Like The Viet Nam War, But There Is A War Under Way On The Home Front, And The Bad Guys Are Win-' ning (Page 1-B) DISCONTENT Labor, Once A Prime Mover Behind President Johnson, Is Now Deeply Discontented With LBJ And The Democrats (Page 5-A) SANTO DOMINGO (UPI) Murderous anti-American mobs roamed the streets, here Wed nesday night after a day. of savage rioting in which at least persons were killed -and-45 wounded. Victims of the outbreak of violence Included one policeman drencnea Wltn gasoline ana burned to death and another 'shot and killed by the rioters. AlthouKh the 1 mobs shouted repeatedly. "Mil all Yankees," almost all of the casualties were Dorninican, The one known exception was a Brazi lian officer of the mter-i AMUSEMENTS 3-D COMICS S-D DATE-LINE -D DEAR ABBY 11-B DOCTOR'S COLUMN 7-D EDITORIALS 24D FINANCIAL NEWS f-C IIOSSE SENSE TEST advance of today's scheduled appearance of George Kennan, former ambassador to the Soviet Union and an expert on Communist affairs, before the Senate 'Foreign Relations Committee's inquiry Into Vict Nam policies.

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