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The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 6

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Monday, September 10 196' STh (f 16 1 16 tldicate Acceptance, ThoughNotApproS Crowds turned out. White people year of school desegregation. To manv the rrfjtiv. i. ieat of choo de by scream.

Westweao. across Crowds turned out. White people boycotted. White mothers and children jeered. But New Orleans showed no violsnce or deep urge for action.

That was the picture lasi week year of school desegregation. About 300 Negroes attended clasi- es with white pupils at more than 50 Roman Catholic and public schools. Incidents occurred. But thev To many, the relative calm Indicated increasing acceptance -though not approval-- of integration. "I think the citizens understand our problems," said 0.

Perry Walker, superintendent of schools. "They seem to be accepting the situation more." Nothing showed the change more than William Frantz School, one if the first two desegregated in November 1960. The scene of Fifteen Die Of Violence Over Weekend; Ten Dead In Accidents On Highways Bv THF ACUVIATrn nnircc By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic accidents killed ten persons in Texas over the weekend. Drownings. stabbings and hangings boosted the total deaths from violence to 15.

The Associated Press count be- timied midnight. mice cmiuren siept in an ad- Four persons were killed and joining room. Her husband. Henry, two critically Injured early Sun- 26. was found drowned In the day when their car overturned Neches River Sunday.

Justice of five miles south of Post on U. S. the Peace Walace McCasland 64. Mtihap Victims Killed In the accident were Marcarlo Hernandez of Tulla, and death of James Howard Clark, 8. woman and small girl, both un- son of Mrs.

Juanlta Clark, who Identified. A bov. akn tinlHontt. identified. A boy, Jso unidentified, died after being taken to Post hospital.

Injured were Trinidad Munoi of Tulia and a young girl found walking near the acc dent scene in i dved condition. She and Munoz were taken to i hospital In Post, where both ire in critical condition. The girl has not been identified. The State Highway'patrol said the men were identified by a son of Munoz, The, police theorized lhat th! two men had given the woman and her three children a ride. Three personi'.

were killed Friday night In a.two-car collision on a rain slick highway three i miles south of Olney. They were I Disarmament Conference Is Likely To Last For Years Cold Front Moves Behind Texas Rains By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scattered thundershowers fell gn North Texas Sunday. fctely behind them a new cold pushed south bringing some I'f the coolest reidlnjs of the seas on. The new rains', fell in North where streams arid lakes were Irbm Friday night's down- ri and many residents were mopping up from flooding farted by the runofl. Sunday's heaviest rain fis Inches during it Bscville South Texas.

I number ol other coastal and jjUth Texas points.reported fight- rains, cloudy skies and tern, ratures In the Ms and high 80s Wichita Kails, nine families their homes i low areas runoff from heavy rains lay wnt Lake Wichita over its i-- llwa ay, Sevcrarstrccu, U. but open-to traffic, 'ater covered parts i Country the with three to feet deep persons went swimmlnc pools. i and San Angclo. 'ol Ihunderihowcrs was along edge ol the Iront. Tails, Inslds-the cool sported a temperature of 65 i compared lo 87 at Fort Franklin Ward Pieper, 21, a student North Texas State University at Dentcn; his wife, 21; and their son, Gradon, 7 months.

Three other persons were Injured. Murder, Suicide Mrs. Miriam Padilla, 32, was stabbed to death In her home at Beaumont early Saturday while her three children slept in an ad- ruled the deaths murder and suicide. An autopsy wss ordered in the was found strangled to death In 8 clothes closet at his home in Houston Saturday. A necktie knotted to a clothes rod was found around his neck.

Gaylon 0. Walley, 41, an Oklahoma construction worker, was killed Saturday when his station wagon and a truck collided during a heavy rain near Madisonville. Louis Oliva, 28, of Lincoln, Neb. drowned Saturday i swimming at a Calveston Beach. It was the island city's first drowning death of the season.

Carnival Worker Gil 23. a Department of Public Health employe, was killed Saturday night when his car over- turned northwest of Austin. His companion. Miss Nora Betels. 22 daughter of Dr.

Ramon Betata Mexican diplomat, was slightly in jured. A carnival worker identified as Sidney Raymond Oliver, 59, he was riding overturned two miles west of Gail in County. He died in Borden Snyde hospital shortly after the accident A Fort Worth boy, Larry Wil liams, 3, drowned Sunday in an unfinished swimming pool at a boys' club in the south part Fort Worth. He was the son Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Williams GENEVA (UPI) The IMia lion disarmament conference I acceptable treaty has been agreed by then. Since then Soviet a certain to celebrate Its spokesmen here have been busy Firs! navt first birthday next year probably a tew bitthdays afte lhat This Is the feeling of Western ui ni.3ici[i "wiua nave ueen lost in expres- delegates to the conference which sions approval'from the con- wound up five months of negotls Uon Friday. Soviet Deputy Foreign Mlnlttei VisslII Ktisnetsov said, "We are as far apart as we were at the start of the But West ern delegates were generally satis tifd with the way things had gone Western Delegate Satisfied A high Western delegate told United -Press International the rcssure continued discussions. United States and its Allies hai never expected to be able to work out an acceptable disanmamenl agreement in six months. "We expected to be here a long and we are satisfied with the way things are going," the-delt gate said.

'The main thing Is we are stil talking, and although we are stll Jar apart on the basic issues there are some points the positions of East find West are closer together. "But even' if we had not made any progress at least we are talk- Ing and not dropping nuclear bombs on each Measured in terms of hard agreement, the conference has achieve virtually nothing since 'it coavenec March H. The nuclear test ban ISSUE continues to divide the Soviet Union and Its allied from the West, while on the question of general and complete disarmament the only progress has been the Moving Closer Vet the two sides have moved closer on the key nuclear issue, and the fact that the threo-nation lest ban sub-committee of the con- Inucd lest ban (allis last week, following President Kennedy's pro- xaal that next January 1 be a cut- olf dale (or all nuclear tests. The President told his news con 20 he "accepts" Just tell us how much you need to pay old bills, for home Improvements, car repairs, for all your seasonal expenses! Phone befora noon to arrange for your money the same day. LOANS UP TO $2000 COMMUNITY riNANCE CORPORATION of Tixas City 17 Sixth North VVI8-2548 mss protesting the Russians have never done more than "express interest" in the Jan.

1 date but their words have beon lost "In expres. Terence's eight neutral nations. See Ticllcal Victory Most observers here feel the United Stales has scored a tactical victory with the President's statement and with the resultant neutral pressure (or continued test ban talks. The Soviets they say, could hardly have refused go on talking in view of the neutral The neutrals have been Increasingly voca! in recent weeks in fa- vor of a test ban agreement, wltl the result that testing has becom the dominant' issue of the con ference. The West continues to Insist tha underground tests must be sub Ject to some form of Internationa 6n-slte Soviets are equally determined such inspecUon will not take place because, they say, the West wants to infiltrate Soviet territory with spies dis gulsed as disarmament inspectors This is the key point on which the two sides will wrangle during the test ban talks beginning here next week.

Western observers feel, however that both sides will be prepara to compromise in some way once the talks get going. PolkerFirmls Making Surveys Harris -Associates, President Kennedy's favorite pollster, received $75,950 from the Democratic National Committee during the first five months of this election year. Records available In the House file cjetkls office showed Sunday that the party organization paid the Harris firm $56,200 in'january alone, with one lump payment Jan. 24 of $50,000 for "services rendered." For Surveys The Harris organization has been concerting its efforts In districts where Democrats feel they have a chance oi defeating Republican incumbents. Payments over the five-month period include specific listings for "surveys" in San Diego, Hie 10th Congressional District of Virginia, and the 22nd Congres- slonal District of Texas.

San Diego is represented by Rep. Bob Wilson, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. The Virginia 10th District incumbent is Rep. loci Broyhill, a Republican. The I'exns 22nd Is represented by conservative Democrat Bob Casey.

A spokesman the Democrat; National Committee said the payments to (lie Harris firm were a matter of public record and he saw no need to comment on them the Harris organization has been making was disclosed by The Associated Press this weekend. It was a "confidential" study of the Ohio 14th Congressional District of Republican Rep William Ayres. The Ohio survey is unabashedly partisan and in addition to assaying 'Democratic chances it offers campaign advice that party's candidate. 'At one point it says, "There is a way to pin Ayres to the mast in the medicare Issue. That is for Oliver Ocasek (Ayres' Democratic, opponent) to forthrightly demand immediately to know where Ayres stands on President Ken nedy's medical care measure.

Likely Sti addle "Ayrss will likely straddle and say he is for medical care for the aged in principle should seize on this answer and say that Ayres is not either clean- cut or clear-cut on the issue, that obviously, he Is trying to carry water on both shoulders on it." Tire Harris study adds that even Ayres should end up supporting the President on the issue, "then Ocasek can make a case by say ing that (his district deserves better than (o have a man In Congress, who needs an election to make him come clean and be ing women two years ago, Frantz was so quiet last week the lone policeman on duty seemed bored. Not a single protester was on hand. Inside, opening day attendance was 144 white pupils and three Negroes. The next day, 52 more white youngsters came. At the height of the I960 crisis.

FranU attendance was one white and one Negro p'jpil. A year ago, it was IS while children and one Negro. Exceptions to the city's Iran- quility occurred in suburban i- Westwego. across the Mississippi AID TO TEACHERS PARIS u. Ni Educa tional, Scientific and Cultural Organization is sendtn.

River, and Buras. 80 miles to the south. In Westwego, an industrial community, a crowd surrounded the car of a Negro woman who brought her two children to Our Lady of Prompt Succor Parochial School. They spat and cursed. They broke her car wlMshield.

About 85 per cent of the school's white children stayed home. In Buras, in the midst of segregationist leader Leander H. Perez' political heartland, white persins completely boycotted Our Lady of Good Harbor Catholic School. Five Negroes who entered school Aug. 23 never re- lie's church in Harvey, near Westwego, someone i sho's through the Cathoiic school's door.

But the desegregated school stayed open. The city's 20 desegregated public schools reported second-day attendance about 78 per cent of normal. All but two showed increases over the first day. "You can't do' anything about this damned thing," said one father, a Filipino, who returned to Semmes the daughter he had withdrawn a day earlier. "You can't win." Jeers greeted each white person who brought his child to rolled for classes at the cooperative segregated school.

Another 325 awaited acceptance. But for many who wanted to send their children to private schools, there was no room. "I'll just have to keep them home then," another mother said. "They.ain't going to school with any niggers." Things were quiet, too. at New Orleans catholic schools, which opened without racial distinctions for the first time in 67 years.

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