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V' INDEX''" Wiwat 14A rnuto Page i Editorials pig JJ Pigs jw MarkeU Pub 60 gport run 1C nomra's Nr rag 5B I f1 WEATHER Warm ftalHag hvonMi Yesterday'a High Loir Temperalvei 88-71 87-75 5:87 am 7:81 pm High 4:27 am Tomorrow Low 8:21 pm mO 84th No 137 corpus aiiusn texas Wednesday june 29 iogg Waal Mi TU 1MI ONMf DapH TU 4Mt 46 Pages -PRICE TEN CENTS Beaten Man Goldwater Republican Dumps GOP Moderate NEW YORK (AP) Sen Robert Kennedy strengthened his control of New York Democratic politics and brightened his liberal Image Tuesday night in a primary election that also saw a Goldwater Republican stage a comeback Kennedy won over Tammany Hall the regular Manhattan Democratic organization in a contest over a judge for the Surogate Pro-t bate Court Supreme Court Justice mucf Silverman backed Civil Rights Water Plan For Valley Gets Boost Northeast Texans Want Safeguards To Insure Supply SULPHUR SPRINGS lA-ftM-(dents of Northeast Texas indl--cited Tuesday they oppose sharing their surplus water with arid sections of the state but they want to be doubly sure they have plenty for their own needs The opinions were voiced during a one-day hearing for resident! in the Sulphur River Basin on the $37 billion statewide water plan which would divert water from Northeast Texas across the state to the Rio Grande The hearing attended by more than an persons was one of 27 Kheduled throughout the state oo the plan A similar meeting will be held in Mount Pleasant Wednesday A number of the spokesmen expressed fear that tne Texas Water Development Board may be underestimating the potential growth and accompanying water needs of Northeast Texas during the next 50 years application for export of water should be considered until the needs of Northeast Texas have been evaluated said Roland Royd general counsel for the North Texas Municipal Water District which serves 21 cities State Reps James Shier of Naples and Neal Solomon of Mount Vernon praised the over-! WASHLNGTON (AP) President Johnson an-ail plan but said Northeast Tex-jnounced plans Tuesday for the appointment of five as may need more of Us water Texaai to federal district judgeships and a sixth to because of possible growth dur- serve on the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeal Tammany By Kennedy Appeals Kennedy defeated the Tamma ny candidate Supreme Court Justice Arthur Klein With little more than 100 of 1-070 election districts still uncounted Silverman had 82095 votes to 42131 A third candidate Criminal Court Judge Thomas Ronan had 7- RIO GRANDE CITY (B-A H4- I veteran labor organizer has Kennedy allied himself with moved in to help a striking farm workers' a workable pro- reform Democrats and the la bor-based Liberal party to score Not Issue 4 In Valley Starr County union up COED EDITOR FOUND Annette Buchanan managing editor of the University of Oregon student newspaper appears to be brushing a tear from her eye as she leaves the Lane County Courthouse in Eugene Tuesday after being found guilty of contempt charges and being fined 8300 Miss Buchanan refused to reveal names erf seven students she quoted in a story who described the use of marijuana On the left is her lawyer Arthur Johnson and in the rear is Phil Sernas editor of the university newspaper (AP Wirephoto) Motorists Warned Of Bigger Premiums To be named to the New Orleans appellate court is Irving Goldberg of Dallas vice chairman since 1962 of the Texas State Advisory Commission to the Federal Civil Rights Commission the victory He described Silver-man's victory as being great significance to the people of New York and to the Democratic The Goldwater Republican who came hack was former Rep Steven Derounian in a Long Island congressional district Derounian's victory over a GOP moderate William Casey was hailed by Goldwater as one more convincing proof that the mainstream of the Re-bllcan party Is as It always been common sense conservatism" Casey was backed by Sen See PRIMARY Page it Explosion Again Hits Alva Cape NEW YORK (AP) The hard-luck British tanker Alva Cape exploded and burned a Higher Car Insurance The others to be nominated to the 5th Circuit Court I Appeals an Robert Ainsworth Jr of New (Means US district judge for East Louisiana since 1161 and John Godbokl a Mont gomery Ala lawyer The 5th Circuit Court handles at volume of federal civil cases including all such Suspected Thief Cuts His Wrists By JERRY McKINNEY Rates Effective Aug 1 AUSTIN (AP) The State Board o( Iiwurancej raised Texas automobile premiums an average of 59 per cent Tuesday and said motorists should prepare for an even bigger boost next year I ing the next half century want to play dog in the manger If water is surplus here and needed elsewhere put it to Franklin County Judge Duval sakL "But If our needs change they should be takes fart The strongest opposition came a City Manager who said opposed to the principle of water diversion but we do oppose giving up 125 milUan acre toe annually Its net effect will be to dry up the Sulphur the primary purposes of the plan are to make A Corpus Christ! at- Trinity River navigable by tempt to see how long he couldfat means to us ty um ter In to othS pool nearly ended in tragedy regions and then help them pay at about 1:50 pm yesterday as for Wilbngham said his parents and neighbors looked on John Frick 17 of the Bay House Apartments 3402 Ocean Drive was reported in fair condition in Spohn Hospital after nearly drowning in the apartment house swimming MIAMI Fla pool depression is 'Youth SlaySMS OO JLiOll IB A tropical roughening the matters from Texas A San Antonio man charged In the armed robbery of a Cor- JWps toctato pus ChrisU finance company severely slashed his right forearm with a razor blade about 5 pm yesterday Leroy Hamilton Knight 33 was found face-down on a bunk The five district be filled include: Southern District John Singleton Jr lawyer and Woodrow Houston US attorney judgeships to of Texas a Houston Seals of second time Tuesday at for the Brooklyn anchorage in an undistrict a canny encore to tragedy She Falrolman Don Appleby who tn a cell at Nueces County Jail awnct since issi singleton was bleeding profusely Three oth- secretary to Johnson In 1941-4! 'er prisoners in the cell called'" Johnson was a member jailer after they discovered Houw since 1961 Singleton was The board formally adopted rate adjustments) recommeoded by its staff at a June 15 hearing Th increases include an average 106 rise statewide in liability rates The rales take effect Aug 1 For some driven however the total cost of their auto coverage will go down because of drops in the cost of collision and comprehensive policies in several of the 2t Texas rating territories The average dollar increase for the typical policy which includes basic liability $100 deductible collision and full comprehensive is $211 Nueces County increases were generally lower than those of Nueces Increases Up To $20 Nueces County automobile insurance was hiked by up to 20 a year yesterday with the heaviest Increases to be borne by the unmarried man under 25 he was bleeding The Jailer James Duke ap- yean of age and the person who uses his car in business The new rates for the county plied pressure on the arm above district judge there since 1948 the wound and stopped theiand Ernest A Guinn of El Paso bleeding A doctor at Memorial lawyer who formerly was city and county attorney there Northern District of Texas: ng Medical Center who treated the wound said Duke's action Franklin Garcia of Corpus Christ International representative of the Meatcutton and Butchers Union AFL-CIO said Tuesday the movement would be conducted as a strike against Rio Grande Valley growers rather than as a civil rights protest 'if any guy thinks we're in it for civil rights he's wrong a Garcia sail "And if these growers have any Illusion that going to make money while this strike is going on dead Consumer Boycotts Garcia said he would help tho union work out nationwide consumer boycotts against growers as a main strike weapon Garcia said be was helping because a Rio Grande Valley Meatcutton and Butchere local voted last Sunday to support the Starr County strike is not a meatcutten Garcia said my people have sanctioned it and I'm going to see that they get their money's New Union The strike launched against growers by a newly or-ganlzed independent union began 1 The effort has since a court order picketing was issued on and union leaders had call the movement a Mexican-American civil rights explaining that most of were of Mexican-American background strike has been conducted Nelson who said his previous labor union experience was a six-month hitch as captain In a grape pickers in Delano Calif strike has received various labor and groups particularly Catholic organizations We Local 173 voted to aid the drive with Garcia put "everything Local 173 has an estimated 1800 workers who will money regularly to the Starr County strike said a native Texan who had two ships shot from See STRIKE Page II possibly saved life Investigated the Incident' saldlP" of that the youth went into the mg into the season's second tropical storm the US Weather Bu Knight was admitted to the las former state district Judge hospital where he is listed IniArtlve Political Backer fair condition Seals an active supporter of He was booked into the jail both President Johnson and Sen at 2:30 pm after he wasjRalph Yarborough and Single-charged with armed robbery in ton one of eight regional cam the court of Justice of the! palpi directors for Johnson In Peace Tetcr Dunne He had the 1964 presidential campaign been arrested at 10 a In a both are longtime political and was Involved less than two weeks ago In a harbor collision that claimed 33 lives The Coast Guard counted four men dead this time with three others missing One again it was the volatile naphtha cargo aboard the 11-252-ton British ship that explod ed and sent flames flashing anew in her fire-scarred hulk as she lay in Gravesend Bay just off shore was pretty ugly" said Battalion Fire Chief James Hip gens looked like a vessel that had been under fire in an invasion" After flying over the ship in a helicopter Mayor John Lindsay said he would seek the Alva removal from the harbor as a continuing menace Fire Commissioner Robert Lowery said is still volatile It could have explode again" The Coast Guard meanwhile ordered the Alva tanks flooded with salt water and an inert gas to neutralize the remaining naphtha which was to See TANKER Page II melon June floundered against June 2 begun to protest the farmers The by Eugene only a picket strike Nelson's aid from church Roman Meatcutten last Sunday we have" be assessed support Garcia Garcia said he pool and decided to see how long he could stay underwater were Included in the 51 Board i Code 17 terrl-cent average increase approved hich includes Aransas yesterday by Brooks Calhoun Goliad Jack The boy stayed under so longlpre located thedepressinn's cen rate increase goes into effect on Aug 1 According to Baxter Jackson executive secretary of the lo- ral Association of Independent! Insurance Agents local rate in-1 creases will range from $3 to $20 more for the minimum state liability insurance and from no change to a $3 hike in $100 de ductible collision insurance for medium-priced family sedans For the family car driven only by a man and his wife on nonbusiness matters or class 1-A See COUNTY Page 11 that he passed out Appleby said He floated to the surface of the pool and had started under again when an unidentified bystander got him out of the water Artificial respiration was applied until police and an am bulance arrived Appleby said that the boy was breathing when he got there but understood that ne was not breathing when firs! taken from the swimming pool Frick was admitted to Spohn for observation Westem District of Texas Jack Roberts of Austin a state William A Taylor Jr of Dal Ersonal friends of Johnson nth are 48 They will bring to seven the number of judges tn the Southern District that extends from Houston Galveston to the Rrownsvllle-Urcdo area along the Rio Grande Others In the district are Judges Ren Connally presiding and Alien Hannay Joe Ingraham and James Noel Jr all of Houston and Reynaldo Garza of Brownsville Singleton has long been con-See JUDGES Page 16 Plane Flown By Local Man Kills Boy Ts-YAnvAxu 4u hnv kniprf iWaT hi i tow-nvme alrrianeUCSday by Jimmie Sims 14 was hit in the back by a wheel of a crop-dusting plane at the Lollipop Ranch on Arkansas 134 near Fouke 15 miles south of here The plane piloted by Curtis Myrlck of Corpus Chrull was being used to seed a field near uciiik wcu ill IH-VU iiuiu neat Cameron Fruit Is Quarantined Sea and stands Caribbean reau said Tuesday The US Hurricane Center ter at pm (CST) at 210 north latitude and 820 west longitude or 150 miles south of Havana Cuba and 360 miles south-south-west of Miami The 5 pm bulletin said there had been little change in intensity as the storm moved northward about 5 miles an hour with winds expected to reach 35 miles per hour in squalls feel there is a good chance that it wUl develop into a said Paul Moore forecaster at the National Hurricane Center we want to scare anybody because things could The storm center was predicted to move In a generally northward direction at about 7 miles! an hour during the night no marked change In tween 72-71 degrees The Weather Bureau ruin gauge at International Airport! has recorded 04 Inch of rain during the 24 hours ending at 9:30 pm yesterday I tKtm Is in! view for insured drivers In the son Jim Wells Kenedy Kle- nd their' deductible premium wiU be cut $2 even though bodily injury protection will be up $2 ami property damage $1 The new car owner would find his The over-25 car driver with 1109 deductible will pay just 1 a year more there since rates raised from $49 to $32 but his single rale would Jump from $128 to $145 If he owned his own car Over-25 drivers in Southeastern Atascosa DeWltt See RATES Page II The military rebellion spear- by 14 (I Pnsiial Pislarlnl army commander In chief was sparked by growing political power of the followers! taxi on his way to International Airport Thirty minutes earlier an See SUSPECT Page 16 WANT ADS GET BIG RESPONSE Every day many of our advertisers give "Texas-slze" praise to the splendid work the want ads perform 11 Dobson 4945 Franklin adds his name to the growing list of happy want ad users When he placed an ad to sell his sailboat he expected a sale! lie got it! SAILBOAT IIW PmouM cal Boat camplilt with One ran lall and trail or mi 4045 Franailn TLHIB Want ads are so easy to put to use Place them by calling TU2-9401 before 5 pm today and they'll go to work tomorrow The Caller and The Times with a daily readership rf riuro than 275000 reaches almost everyone in the South Texas market Argentine Coup Staged ToKeep Peronists Out BUENOS AIRES Argentina commander in chief and the of ex-dictator Juan Pcron (AP) President Arturo Illia most pn wax ousted early Tuesday bytary man will bc Argentine military leaders who Interim president mincnl mili- Peronists gained control of CaUer-Tlmcs Aastla Bureau AUSTIN Texas Agriculture Commissioner John Whito Tuesday announced an immediate emergency m0VPmXlt of tortain fruts and vpee- tables from Cameron County to prevent the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly The was recently discovered for the first time in Texas history near) Brownsville Aerial application fruits except lemons or Wuriii Daytime Shower Due Weather Map la on rage 8B Tartly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with widely scattered daytime showers is the forecast today for the Coastal Rend by the Weather Bureau Although there will be little change in temperatures' the surface ridgo aloft is weakening providing auffleient moisture and Instability over the area to cause a few showers mostlv in the daytime High temperatures predicted for today and tomorrow 86-90 degrees with a tow tonight be- The country was reported calm In the wake of the coup but there were fears that demonstrations especially by groups may break out US officials announced in Washington suspension of diplomatic relations with Argentina They expressed concern at the displacement of a democratic government and the rupture of a Sng a swift bloodless coup uine his duties as soon as the ng the night in a drive to necessary arrangements can be keep Peronists from political made owl- The Junta announced it has 65-year-old civilian presl- dismissed Illia who refused to dent refused to resign and holed ign the presidency Jt also up in Casa Rosada the pink dissolved all political parties stone seat of government Un- and tCongress and dismissed dcr army prodding he left for members of the Supreme Court his home in the sub- Elected in 1963 Illia had urbs Tuesday morning and was served only 32 months of his experlcd to seek asylum in Uni- year term constitutional processes in a member nation the Organlza-1 lion of American States In various ways the United Slates had sought to discourage See COUP Page II of Insecticides will begin 1m- u'kiiA 01 lu vuiuuivikuiii uauaeu as the ranch coroner Price Citty nv a soil whether independ- said The boy was lining up at ill cnt packed with plants the end of a row to show the III Movement from Cameron pilot whlrh row needed to be tirrmSiiin'nrnn acrcs nc County of any commodilies corn-seeded lag under the quarantine will re- The pilot crash-landed the "hlte has toured Ihc infested quire prior certification by plane on the dirt runway at arra- iiithorlTd insroc ors of the Tex tile ranch because the wheel The quarantine regulates as Department of Agriculture was damaged Cltty said nmvin of bell pepi tj can-tiJ' riv-- rit of Ag rsi leopard vrr tulnupx cggrlnn cullure In add'tlon fumigation treated for shock Mrs Myrlck n'nh end red ripe frmeloos "'ITs w'l Ht Tnesd iy fo 1 xarkana to blackberries dewberries straw- required to asvure their being be with her husband berries peaches citrus and all post-free sour limes when picked green and commercially packed as guay The revolutionary military junta that took over power an- nounced that Lt Gen Juan Car los Onganla 52 former army 4.

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