Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 14

4 Tn CORrUS Cl IRISTI CALLER Frl Sept 2 11X56 GUARD FARM Earthquake Hits Town In Greece MEGALOPOLIS Greece (AP) A sharp earthquake rocked this ancient town In the central Peloponnesus peninsula Thursday injuring scores and destroying more than 100 homes National police began an Immediate search of surrounding villages after the tremor hit The heavy tremor was followed by at least five more of fw to all youngsters Continued rived they went nut policemen to patrol area Policemen armed guns had been on comer In the West Eventually authorities off the entire district automobiles and Is at least a through the West area Liquor Store Closed All state liquor closed at 6 pm City a 10:30 pm share of the consumer's dollar has grown steadily smaller Harmon said farmers could isibly pay workers $125 an our if they didn't provide the workers with fringe benefits and paid them only for the time they actually worked At this rate though many farm workers would have less income than they do now He added that "even in our present economy if a man is willing to work he can still make a decent living for himself and his family" The official Texas Farm Bureau position on the farm wage maren was spelled nut for per- NO LETUP IN MOSQUITO WAR PLANNED By The Associated Press Dallas health officials Thursday announced plans to continue ground spraying against mosquitoes until first frost A total of 11 deaths in Texas have been blamed on encephalitis Seven of the deaths were at Dallas two at Corpus Christi and one each at Amarillo and Tulia Dr Hal Hewlett director of the Dallas Health Department said that spot checks in the city revealed that there are "no number of mosquitoes to worry He said entomologists could find no culex mosquitoes the type that carry the disease But to prevent any possible recurrence Dr Hewlett said that land spraying equipment will be used for the next two and a half or three months in wet low-lying areas in which mosquitoes would be likely to breed and use of no more than 150 demonstrators The Wauwatosa demonstra lions have been aimed at Circuit Judge Robert Cannon and Wednesday night switched to the home of County Judge Christ Seraphim in Milwau kee because the two have rejected demands that they resign from the Fraternal Order of Eagles which limits 11s membership to whites Mayor Henry Maier of Milwaukee warned Thursday "This community will never condone the organized harassment of a man and his family in their home regardless of whether the family is white or Negro" Herbert Smith youth chairman for the N'AACP's Region 3 said: "We're declaring war on public officials who belong to discriminatory Police in Chicago Handle Evictions CHICAGO (AP) Eight policemen were sent to a racially mixed apartment complex Thursday after court bailiffs encountered resistance in attempts to carry out evictions resulting from a rent strike The officers were ordered to the Old Town garden apartments at 414 Sedgwick St after a group of neighbors carried the belongings of a Negro family that had been moved to the street back into their apart' ment The furniture of two while tenants remained in the street after police arrived on the scene on Chicago's near North Side Some tenants of the apartment complex have been on a rent strike since Aug 1 Those evicted were Mr and Mrs Robert Smith Negroes and Virgil Crandell and Miss Linda Johnson both white ronthised from Page 1 ditions good workers on a piece-work basis make good wages and poflr workers make low wages Better Than Nothing But the latter Is better than no income at all Under minimum wage laws only the highly productive workers would be hired leaving the poor producers completely out of work he continued adding that minimum wage legislation will make increased mechanization a necessity eliminating even larger numbers of workers and small farmers who lack the capital resources to mechanize their1 IarmSl The technological revolution ln the Valley's fruit and vegetable industry has already been stepped up by the elimination of the bracero program and there has been a 50 per cent increase in fresh fruit and vegetable trade competition from Mexico during the past five years Frost commented that it's hard to compete with producers across the Rio Grande who pay their laborers an average of about $172 a day Farm workers in the Valley are currently paid from 80 to 85 cents an hour for the same type work Education is Key In an interview before the luncheon program Frost said' education is the key to improving wage scales and working conditions for unskilled laborers most of whom are acutely aware of the Importance of education to their children's future He commended Gov Connal-ly's rejection of farm wage marchers' demands for a special legislative session to enact a $125 minimum wage Tuesday at New Braunfels Connally told the marchers there is no easy solution to the problem of low wages in South Texas stating "this problem did not originate nor will it be solved during the next few monthsI don't think the urgency has a compelling nature to it Never has there been a time in this country when government was more aware or trying to do more about poverty than today Rut we must keep these things in Luncheon program speaker Harmon said the increasing size of the average farm and decreasing numbers of farms in this area is evident from the numbers and size of loans being made by the Coastal Bend PCA Costs an Rise In the last 15 years he explained equipment costs have increased 30 per cent and their labor casts have increased 25 per cent while their Dallas Chief Seeks Lower Requirements DALLAS ffl Police Chief Charles Ratchclor has recom mended the minimum age for apprentice Dallas policemen be lowered from 21 to 19 in order to increase the number of applicants He also asked that minimum eyesight requirements be liberalized The Civil Service Board con- the Smith's furnishings WEEKEND OUTLOOK BEACH Conditions along Padre Island are generally good No new seaweed has come in for some time but some old weed still is present Driving condi-tions are good to excellent Beachcombing is fair with some driftwood and bottles washing ashore Conditions on Mustang Island are good SURFING Fair to good with breakers 2 to 3 feet WATER The water off Padre and Mustang Islands is reported dear all the way to shore Water temperature at Tort Aransas is 82 degrees SKIES Tartly cloudy with scattered showers TEMPERATURES Highs of 88 to 92 and lows of 76 to 80 TIDES Highs at 5:51 am and 6:21 pm tomorrow and 5:51 am and 7:43 pm Sunday Lows at 10:35 am and 10:41 pm tomorrow and 11:11 am and 11:23 pm Sunday WINDS Winds from the southeast at 10 to 18 miles an hour during the day diminishing at night lesser intensity There were reports that at least 25 villages in this farming region were hit hard by the quake Police said residents in the Megalopolis area ran Into the streets to escape fallen debris when the first tremor hit Most of the residents are farmers who live in one-story houses They prepared to sleep in the open fearful of new tremors Police said they could not be certain if anyone was killed They began an extensive search of debris in the town and surrounding countryside Some 80 per cent of the build ings in Megalopolis suffered cracks or damage THANT Continued from rage 1 States in the hope that the secretary-general will accede to the desire of the membership that he consent to the extension of his term of office" Goldberg pointedly said this was an official US government statement an Indication of President Johnson's personal concern Commenting on view of the Viet Nam situation the US statement recognized that the war "hangs as a cloud over world affairs" But it proclaimed a US desire to bring the war to an early end as well as to cooperate in heading off the threat of major war The United States also indicated that it was Communist North Viet Nam which has turned a deaf ear to negotiation entreaties and the statement repeated US willingness to seek a settlement at Geneva or anywhere else As for Red China the US statement said America shared the secretary-general's dissatisfaction at lack of of the United Nations The United States it said would welcome the day when the United Nations included all "genuinely independent states which are Isons attending the program in 'a printed TFB analysis of the Texas farm labor situation It said there is no "farm strike" The marchers and the groups which have participated in ceremonies as they reach each town en route to Austin are not primarily farm workers And the remedies proposed by the marchers are not relevant to the real problems involved and would in fact be harmful to those intended to be helped Wife Dies PLAIN VIEW ill Mrs Grace Reed Hilburn 67 died Thursday after a short Illness She was the wife of Herbert Hillbum longtime editor of the Plainview Daily Herald who recently re- ally red Al Legal INVITATION FOR RIDS Tha Homing Authority at tha City of Poteet Ttxai will racilva bills far tha complete development of Housing Project TEX 214-1 consisting of thirty He (14) Dwell Inq Units In elqhteen (II) bulMInqs on three (1) separate tiles a Management and Maintenance budding Shelter building ilte Improvements (such as curbs guitars walks utilities landscaping etc) until 2:00 PM Central Standard Time October I 1M4 at tha Poleot Community Building Pateat Texas at which time and place bids will be publicly opened end read aloud Proposed forms of contract documents including plans and speclli-cations are on file at the oil Ice of tha Housing Authority of tha City of Poteet Texas end at tha office of the Architect Olin Smith AIA MOI Camp Bowie BlviL FI Worth Texas (mailing address Bex 42) Copies of tha documents may be obtained by depositing SSOOO with tha Architect tor each set of Documents so obtained Such deposit wlH be re-funded to each person who returns tha plans specification! and other documents In good condition within 10 days after bid opening A certified check or bank draft payable to the Local Authority US Government bends er a satisfactory bid bond executed by the bidder and acceptable sureties In an amount equal to percent at lhe bid ehall be submitted with each bid The successful bidder will be required to furnish end pay tar satisfactory performance and payment bond or bands Attention Is called to the fact that not less than lhe minimum so lories and woges os set forth In the Specifications must be paid on this prelect and that too contractor must perform with his own forces at least tha construct Ion branches of structural concrete and carpentry The Local Authority reserves the rlqht to reject any or all bids or to waive any Informalities In the bidding No bid shall be withdrawn for a period of sixty (40) days subsequent to the opening at bids without the consent at tha Local Authority THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OP the city op poteet texas BY: SCOTT EXECUTIVE OIRECTOR (t DATE: August 21 1S44 ried back into their apartment included Albert Raby convenor of the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations a civil rights group The evictions were ordered Aug 24 by Circuit Court Judge Chester Strzalka on the basis of a suit brought by the apartment owners the Hanover Equities Corp of New York City Four other evictions also were ordered but were not carried out Thursday Jodi Moses a tenant in the project and spokesman for the Tenants Action Council the group which organized the rent strike said tenants were protesting conditions in the complex Crandell 30 a bachelor and one of those ordered evicted handcuffed himself to a radiator and refused to leave the apartment Police made no effort to move him out by force afternoon After board member Mrs Tracy Rutherford expressed concern that younger officers would be allowed to carry guns Batchelor said the recruits would not be placed on patrol duty until they became 21 "Houston and Chicago have been usftig men in this age bracket most Batchelor said The board is expected to act at its next meeting Flood Threaten Rice In Eat Fakistan DACCA East Pakistan fl Floods threatened to bring famine to East Pakistan Thurs day as hundreds more acres of rice fields were covered Many persons are homeless after their huts were washed away and many houses are two or three feet under water THE MOON Lait Qlr New 111 Qlr Full 4111)111 Sept 7 Sep) 14 Sept 21 Sept 2 Maonwt 1:11 am Moonrfie 122 pm BOATING INLAND BAYS AND LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI-Walers will be smooth to choppy today and tomorrow with the possibility of a few showers washroom and they moved Terrell said the two long weekends definitely will allow more different hunters to take part found "a large percentage of those booking rooms DOVES from Page 1 with city the troubled with riot almost every End district sealed to both pedestrians It two-mile drive End Negro stores were police Imposed citywide cur- At 6 pm Police Chief II Caylor reported: "it appears Iquiet now" But reports still came in of scattered looting Neither the mayor nor the police chief would make any estimale of the damage thus far However many stores could be seen with smashed windows and at one damaged mannequins still were lying on the street late Thursday Col Crim commanding officer of the 371st Artillery Group said all National Guard personnel were armed and shoot if fired He said It was possible guardsmen would shoot looters but that "we want to The racial trouble came as Dayton prepared for a Labor Day rally Monday at which President Johnson was to speak Cancellation Suggested Sheriff Bernard Keiter recommended however that the President's visit be canceled "Unless the circumstances change drastically I think the President should come into a place like the sheriff said "I'm sure the Secret Service would so advise In a meeting early Thursday Mayor Hall and McIntosh leader of the Negro community group blamed each other for the trouble Jackson Midi Hit By Racial Violence JACKSON Mich (AP) At least three persons have been injured in what police described as a "wide open which broke out in this southern Lower Michigan city an hour before midnight got every available man said Sgt Paul Rand of Jackson police (the rioters) working in small groups throwing stones We've had some gun play but no one shot State Tolice Cpl Bernard Schlehuber described the outbreak as "definitely Rand said at least two of the Guardsmen Remain On Michigan Alert BENTON HARBOR Mich (AP) National Guard troops were to be kept on the alert Thursday night near the southwest Michigan city where three nights of racial violence claimed one life earlier in the week Although Wednesday night brought only scattered incidents to the area Gov George Romney told a news conference in Lansing on Thursday the 350 guardsmen held in reserve at South Haven Mich 30 miles away will remain in readiness A contingent of about 75 state police troopers assigned to the area brought its total police force to nearly 150 Mayor Wilbert Smith said Thursday he was optimistic as long as the state police stayed Attorney General Governor at Odd MILWAUKEE Wis (AP) -Wisconsin's Republican governor and Democratic attorney general were at odds Thursday over how tightly to curb racial demonstrations in Milwaukee and its suburhs But one thing was clear: The demonstrations will continue here and may be extended to six other states Gov Warren Knowles demanded that Atty Gen Bronson LaFollclle take "immediate steps" to obtain a court injunction barring demonstrations after dark in the whole metropolitan area But ijFollette spurned the request telling newsmen "No legal basis for such an injunction Instead LaFolletle personally negotiated a set of voluntary covering only the suburb of Wauwatosa where picketing already has been with leaders of the Youth found! of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Feople The attorney general said the voluntary guidelines call for no more than one hour of picketing between 7 pm and 1:30 pm for the second weekend will behunting JM- and said many of the world's problems could be traced to that fact The second weekend he said is pretty well filling the motels but there still are vacancies of dissatisfaction with the fact committed to the principles of injured were hospitalized for treatment They were not immediately identified He said they suffered injuries from thrown rocks State police were ordered into the community of 50000 persons which has a Negro population of 7000 to 8000 Schlehuber said "it reportedly started as a white-colored attempted shooting but no one was actually He said Jackson police had asked for assistance and all available state troopers in the immediate area were being mobilized and sent into the city the charter Thant's statement had said "I must also confess to a sense Thant offered a detailed account of why he declined a new term "I have Thant informed the members "not to offer myself for a second term as secretary-general and to leave the Security Council un lontl nurd from Page 1 downtown building and moved in "They just put up their cots" Terrell said "The office have a shower but it has a CONFEREES Continued from Page 1 visions even more important than the new wage floors It would broaden the act to Include some farm workers employes of hotels motels restaurants laundries colleges and universities grade and high schools and transit systems and non civil service workers in the federal government In addition the bill extends to 15 million additional workers whitewing sft-and hunt-Ihe retail store coverage firstcrs are allo')ed bitewings put into the law in 1961 a 12 mourning doves The bill sets up three different wlh 24 of each ln P0 wage schedules: For the 296 million workers already covered by the law plus 665000 federal government employes brought in by the bill the minimum would go to $140 off easier than the far-next Feb 1 and $160 a year la-jtraveling counterparts some o( ter I whom fly in from as far away For the 380000 farm workersjas Chicago New York and New newly covered by the bill it Orleans By the time travel ex-would start at $1 next Feb pcnses lodging and food is add-and group to $115 in 1968 and ed some hunters will invest as Few hunters he found are remaining the three days between Monday hunt and the second weekend hunt which begins on Friday Drake agreed with Terrell that the Labor Day weekend should be perhaps the largest ever "but we don't expect that many the second The cost for each bird during Hunting is allowed along all those counties bordering the Rio Grande and near it from New Mexico to the Gulf Southwest Texas and Valley counties involved include Maverick Dimmit Webb Zapata LaSalle Jim 11 656 for the four days in the area counted by the Farks and Wildlife Department and officials estimated there were 27 hunters in each car The department figured last year's season wasn't up to par $130 in 1969 For the approximately 7 million other newly covered employes the scale would be the same as for the farm workers fettered in its recommendation to the General Assembly with regard to the next secretary' general" This wording "not to offer raised some speculation in the corridors that Thant might be susceptible to a draft and that pressure for a draft now might be mounted But there also seemed a note of finality in the Thant statement as it detailed his reasons for stepping down It had never been his intention from the beginning he said to serve more than the allotted five years and he added "I do not believe ln the concept of in-dispensability of any particular person for any particular PEKING Conllnurd from Page 1 sters are slaughtering our Vietnamese brothers and the Vietnamese people are valiantly fighting a war of resistance "We pledge ourselves to provide powerful backing for the heroic Vietnamese Written In Peking Peking's official news agency said the article was written by the Red Guards of "the Peking former middle school attached to Tsinghua University The article quoted by NCNA denounced "US imperialism and Soviet modern It said "Listen you US gangsters! Since we are fighters we Red Guards are ready to fight a war at any time We are a powerful reserve force of the heroic invincible Chinese liberation army "If the US imperialists dare to invade our beloved country tve will break Ihcir barks!" It accused the Soviet "revisionist leading group" of being composed of "shameless trai tors" The article called the Red Guards of and rebels against the old and said "imperialism modern revisionism and all reactionaries with' nut exception are targets of our much as $40 a bird Game management experts with the Tarks and Wildlife Department estimate the breeding population this spring was 800- except that there would 1 be two qqq whitewings With a normal addjtwnal to $145 in 1970 hatch that means at least 1200-and $160 in 1971 000 and possibly as many as These are the principal imsi 60n MO bjrds are in lhe lega nfnew coverage in the final hunljng areas now Retail stores 15 million restaurants 425000 hotels and motels 275000 hospitals and related institutions 147 million laundries 50000 agriculture 380000 transit systems 65000 agriculture processing workers 90000 taxicabs 100000 Brooks Kenedy Starr ging firms 37000 cotton gin-Hidalgo Willacy and Cameron ning 34000 construction 581- However Starr Hidalgo Wil-IHIOj federal government 685- lacy and Cameron attract the 000 employes other than teach- greatest number of shooters rrs of public and private grade Serial Count and high schools 900000 em- acrja C()Unt 0f automo- ployes of public eollegas and'jjes jn jggj showed there were KING LENGTH "BODY FULL SIZE KING LENGTH "PALM TWIN Lang Faun Riibbar Ba Spring A Mattrau Safi QQ95 Reg 15995 0 Lang Innar-Spring with Fean Tap Rag 12995 universities 170000 a catch-all category including mostly manufacturing wholesale trade financial and insurance business service and non profit organization employes 790000 The bill would raise the mini- 89 lit Save on BEDROOM GROUPS too! IKE DlUVEIt IKE STOIESDE MMIN6 1001 LEOPARD STORE ONLY Best Credit Terms in all South Texas mum wage in Puerto Rico and however the Virgin Islands proportion-1 This war Is something else ately to the increases for US 'The Parks and Wildlife Depart-workers intent calls the whitewing crop This pnivisim was the samel the best in 15 years the hunt-in both bills and thus was not in ers are planning to hunt as conference It calls for apfxiint-j they've never done before and ment of review committees to' with more birds more hunting determine whether the in- time and more enthusiasm this creases resulting from the bill year's whitewing shoot prnb-woukj adversely affect employ-jahly will set a brand new rec-ment in the islands lord for modern times FINE HOME FURNISHINGS 1.