Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 12

12 CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Mon Sept 26 1966 Widow of Gov Long Houston Burglar Victim yj wtAfMi BVMAU 40 Accused Killer Explain HOUSTON The widow of former Louisiana Gov Earl Long and the wife of the Loulal-ana conservation commissioner last more than $8000 In jewelry when their hotel suite was burglarized Saturday Mrs Blanche Long here for the Louisiana State University-Rice University football game told officers her eight-floor suite In the exclusive Warwick Hotel was burglarized of more than $2000 in jewelry Mrs (Pole) Menefec of Monroe La wife of the con- servation official estimated a missing gold necklace alone was worth $5000 Ilcr son Jerry Menefee an employe of Hallimirton Corp In Corpus ChrLstl and Mrs Wilton Gillen nf Baton Rouge lost a total of $895 in jewelry when their rooms in the suite also were burglarized The jewelry some of it family heirlooms apparently was taken while Mrs Long Mr and Mrs Menefec their son and Mrs Gillen were attending the Rice-LSU game Saturday night the group told officers All five checked out of the spacious suite early Sunday 70 NsJjj 0 f0 car was found Sept 7 that any concern was felt for them and that efforts were made to locate them Three weeks later Pittman returned to the lake taking with him his fishing equipment and the $30 rifle Jones Fort Worth branch manager for a Houston investment firm was also at the lake on Thursday He stopped for a moment as he passed Pittman to chat idly about the fishing Pittman said that as the man walked away he shot him in the neck Police Lt Tindall said the youth told him he took a few dollars from pocket But Tindall said the youth could give no reasons for any of the shootings After he was arrested Pittman was taken before a justice of the peace who explained his legal rights He was ordered held without bond NATO Fig vm Shew High Temperefuree fxpected fo Daytime Mendey mhi wiiitoii Net loeel Pettiest CMlhtwd Iran Ffofo ljMcNama Rftllrn NATO Session spring However it hasjiT rrim WEATHER Ill'll HU I FORECAST Showers are predicted for Monday from Montana to Minnesota eastward into Iowa and as far south as New Mexico and Oklahoma There will be showers along the Gulf Coast eastward to Florida as well as in Kentucky and Tennessee There are cold fronts in the north and-southeast (AP Wirephoto Map) FORT WORTH 'liB-'T know why I did it" the tall slender youth softly told police officers Outwardly calm high school senior Melvin Stewart Pittman his sandy hair cutting across his forehead and over his right eye related to police and newsmen how he shot and killed three persons with a 30 rifle from a pawn shop Authorities charged Pittman Saturday his 19th birthday with the deaths three weeks apart of Mr and Mrs Victor Laird both 48 and Kenneth Jones 33 Drove Victim's Car The youth was arrested Friday after a chase at speeds up to 100 miles an hour through the outskirts of Fort Worth He was driving a car owned by one of his victims Police said the youth at first told them he borrowed the car from a friend whose name he couldn't remember then began to unfold the tale of the three killings Polite and cooperative Pittman led police to nearby Lake Arlington where he guided them to the bodies of first Jones and then the Lairds The Fort Worth couple had left home Sept 1 on a fishing vacation They had planned a trip to the Texas Gulf Coast before returning home but started their holiday at Lake Arlington Bought at Pawn Shop Pittman said he bought the 303 caliber rifle at a pawn shop and then went to the lake where he spotted the Lairds Aiming from 75 yards away he killed them with separate shots the youth said It was not until the Lairds' WEATHER SUMMARY DAT FURNISHED DY WEATHER RUREAU last been debated endlessly outside the meetings The cancellation of the special October ministerial session according to authoritative sources was not because of a continuing deadlock but because such a meeting was judged to be premature perhaps even unnecessary and too conspicuous The ministers are scheduled to meet in Paris in December annual event but the transfer decision might not be made then The decision could be made by the regular national representatives permanently stationed here at any time Predictions on the timing of men giving the NATO at-the move put it after the the United States more headquarters move for which responsibi 1 ity in the nuclear de- ROME (AP) Defense Secretary Robert McNamara flew to Washington on Sunday night after two days of rest following a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization working group on nuclear planning The NATO nuclear session Friday had brought together McNamara and Defense Ministers Denis Healey of Britain Roberto Tremelloni of Italy Kai-Uwe von Hasscl of West Germany and Ahmet Topaloglu of Turkey The four worked out arrange- New Cool Front Enters State More Due Soon Highest temporotur loti II heurs Lowest temperature ImI II hewn Precipitation tar 24 ham ending at 4 pm CST: NATIONAL CITIES VIET NAM I'Mlinned from Page 1 Koreans reported killing 140 Viet Cong since Friday and capturing 108 The actions near the demilitarized zone and in the southern delta dominated the weekend war news Mariaes at Barrier The Marines are strung along southern areas of the once-neu-tral zone to keep the North Vietnamese from spilling across the border and taking over Quang Tri Province In the operations Saturday two companies of the 2nd Battalion 7th Marine Regiment fell under mortar barrages and heavy automatic weapons fire while on a search and destroy mission 15 miles northwest of Dong Ha The Leathernecks had entered the area on the heels of Marine artillery barrage The enemy fire kept them pinned down most of the day It was only after nightfall that the Marines were able to fight their way through the heavy fire and make it back to their camp area Saigon Enconnter At the same time South Viet namese infantrymen collided with the Viet Cong 150 miles southwest of Saigon In an opera tion that began Saturday monk ing and continued 'with sharp fighting for 24 hours A Vietnamese spokesman said 20 Viet Cong surrendered to Vietnamese ranger battalion with their weapons The opera tion Involved South Viet Nam's 21st Division Other scattered ground action was reported Troops of the 1st Brigade of the US 101st Airborne Division overran a Viet Cong prison camp in Phu Yen Province and freed 11 Vietnamese prisoners Officers reported no sign of any American prisoners there 4 Viet Cong Killed Near the coastal town of Phan I Thiet scene of Operation Byrd a reconnaissance element of the US 1st Cavalry Airmobile Division engaged a 15-man Viet Cong unit Saturday killing four In the air war US Air Force planes flew 34 missions against North Vietnamese transportation facilities while Navy planes flew 30 missions against storage and staging areas Marine aircraft flew the other two missions 433 Sorties Flown In the South American pilots reported destroying or damaging 251 enemy structures and numerous fortified positions A spokesman said the Americans flew 433 sorties single combat strikes by single planes Smith Vietnamese pilots flew 1 69' sorties (1 Mexico Joins Hunt For Texas Escapee WHARTON Mexican authorities have joined in a search for an escaped Texas prisoner wanted for questioning in connection with the shooting death in Wharton last week of Nellie Dee Stoner of Rosharon Mexican police were checking a report Sunday that 31-year-old Hearne Edward Smith 31 crossed the border and went to Monterrey Smith escaped last weekend from the Ramsey prison unit in Brazoria County Texas Rangers and state and local police have been search-ling for Smith throughout the 'lower Rio Grande Valley De Gaulle's deadline Ls next April 1 There is little doubt that the Atlantic Council like fense of Western Europe The meeting was the fourth since February when the de- the military headquarters would fcnse ministers got together in be moved to Belgium (Washington Bv The Associated Press (forecast for the period Tuei An early autumn cool front through Saturday called sagged across the Panhandle-jtempcratures averaging Tlains country of Texas Sundayi night as the Weather Bureau as g77 predicted unseasonable temper- by rain aturcs for midweek ladies see our I night stretched across the South Plains on an east-west line through Lubbock Dalhart had SMOG Back of Sunday's diffused front other cool fronts were aimed at Texas A five-day South Central Texas Southeast Texas Clouds began to build TRUNK SHOWING of Reynolds' Yams by Mr Murray Schacter Monday September 26 10 AM until 5 PM at our shop DIVERT before midweek when Continued from Page 1 ly "excess" deaths in New York London and other places A bout of smog in Denver last December was accompanied by respiratory infections that doubled normal absentee rates In schools factories and the city (nationwide monitoring of pollu-government jtion levels What Ls being done? But with the exception of a Months of Investigation fromjfew interstate abatement actions coast to coast have yielded a of this has directly preclear answer: Not very much I vented any pollution from enter-The federal government spent ling the atmosphere about $30 million last year on program that included research expert technical assistance to states communities and Industry grants to local agencies that control pollution the policing of interstate air pollution and Response Wholly Inadequate KNITi NEEDLE 4252-B So ALAMEDA TOWN ti COUNTRY SN0PPIII CENTER TEI-CIC2 Mackenzie tactfully says with national population The massive understatement: penditure on each person was national response up to now has ess than 23 compared to been wholly inadequate" Another expert says bluntly: "ominal smog damage cost "Most air pollution enforcement activities are farcical" Angeles County headed Only 24 states have laws even jibe list with its outlay of $3 acknowledging state-level ents person sponsibilily for air pollution! New York City with one of Many states and cities are still j118 nation's more severe pollu-geared to archaic 19th-century Ran situations and about one laws" that are in the (million more people than Los same category as injunctions (Angeles County ranked about against spitting on the sidewalk atb in P81 capita expenditures a rate 0f onjy 15 7 cents San Francisco and Chicago The latest survey of the Public Health Service showed 130 little if was expected Continued from Page 1 1U 'and thunderstorms mere due for released carelessly and in sections by overenthusiastic drive work- Ttlere WM no raln reposed Praying on Delivery durin6 the 24 hours at Gordon Blake coordinator of Pm- irom any station in the the campaign to collect the sup-(state plies disagreed i Maximum temperatures ta JS or oSShSi'M PWi to M- asm Our prayers are still for hart's 76 Readings in the 90s the successful 'delivery of the 10 were not unusual from Childress boxcars" land Lubbock southward The Chihuahua city corre-j (j0U(jy gray covered spondent of a Mexico City news-! 6 3 paper said the government counlry Sunday and be making an error by turning (through them filtered an occa away the supplies jsktnal rain or thundershower Nrwspaper Favors Entry Unseasonably cool temper- Excelsior one of atures dominated the northern day Ramiro Uranga its correspondent said: "It is easy to make optimistic declarations on a full stomach But it would be a grave error to deny entrance to this aid they need so much and which would do so much for the suffering Tarahumaras especially in the coming winter "The situation of the Tarahu-mara community is critical because of a lack of food so a great number of the aborigines hare concentrated in Chihuahua and other cities to implore public charity "The news from Lafayette Louisiana is actually exaggerated but the situation is critical There were no crops last year lions But thi because of a grave drought andj inch of rain 13th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL $1 down buys Dearborn Safe Heat! Save lA during this Pre season SALE DEARBORN COOL CABINET MEANS PR ICELESS PROTECTION SAFEGUARDS CHILDREN VALUABLE FURNISHINGS COST SAVE NOW! city county and regional air generally are rated near Los Angeles in the scope of their programs Detroit Pittsburgh pollution programs in the country last year spent only $14254 Sunday morning law II at Rraincrd Minn Sunday high IN al Imocrlal Calif OTHER TEXAS CITIES Abiltna 1 4 Alice 42 Austin ST as RfCVillt Tl 44 CORPUS CHRISTI Galvaiton 11 77 Klngivlllo Tl S7 Laredo IS 7 Lubbock Tl 42 Presidio 101 tl San Angelo IT Victoria tl Waco TO 70 Wichita Fallt TO tl CANADIAN Calgary SI IT Edmonton SI HI Montreal SI Ottawa St 35 Regina tl Toronto SI IT 91 Vancouver 13 S7 ALASKAN Anchorage St 43 Fairbanks to 40 Juneau 54 4S HAWAIIAN Honolulu T3 75 PAN AMERICAN CITIES Acopulco It II Ralboa 17 71 Borbodot 73 Bermuda 10 74 55 Bogota tl 4t Havana 1 71 Htrmoilllo Ill 77 Klngiton TO 7T Mexico City 70 S4 JU Monterrey Tl tl Montevideo 7T 54 Nomwi 17 77 St KIIH 7T Tegucigalpa 14 43 Vlrocrul It 72 FOREIDN CITIES Aberdeen S3 Gin Brito Long Lniting Bodiants Um For Natural or Butaina Got 000 and a quarter of that was St Louis Boston and a few in Los Angeles alone other cities have achieved re in ore over the programs cov-( suits But after that the list ered less than a third of peters out Two-Thirds From Cars In sheer weight of emitted smog source that is uniform gases automobiles account for throughout the nation Congress nearly two-thirds of the nation- authorized the Public Health limit for industry (including power gen-( eration) produced nearly three' The first such regulation times as much as automobiles (based on a California law in in more noxious effluents R18 last year in ef-The National Association ofjtect requires manufacturers to this vear although it rainedjOre and about one-half inch at abundantly a large part of! Colville Wash and Lafayette the Tarahumaras could not sowjlod because they had no seed or food to sustain them "The main sign of the great imperative need in the Tarahu-mara region is the large concentration of Indians living on public charity in this and other: cities of the slate of Chihua hua" KENILWORTH III (AP) Famoui "Cool Cabinet" Mtani Extra Snfoty For Baby Fingoro Danrborn Quality Holpi Prorgnt Miiary-Making Coldi Cutg Modicol Bill Givat Lowor Coit Hoot Top Sidoi Stay Cool XV 57 ST 73 54 57 57 72 52 55 tl 57 77 70 77 i 45 50 tl 72 II 55 43 75 55 45 IT it 73 Amsterdam Ankara Athens Btrlln Birmingham Brussels Catoblonca Cootnhogtn Dublin Geneva London Madrid Malta Manila MOKOW Oslo Parli Some Saigon Sofia Stockholm Tokyo Vienna Wanaw Asuncion Buanotalrti El deJandr put special equipment on car engines This is the equipment for which new-car buyers will have to pay extra next fall where ever they live However the regulation is denounced In the auto industry as "a billion-dollar The Industry says it discriminates against smog-free localities and will produce little immediate improvement since it will take 10 years to retire the 90 million unequipped cars already in use Manufacturers says that industry is spending $500 million a year on pollution control But nobody contends that that enough "In terihs of reducing the threat" says Sen Edmund Muskie D-Me who is one of Congress's pollution specialists "I don't think even scratched the surface" Congress passed the clean air act in 1963 which covers the current federal activities Last year moving against the one is Bondoriicd Cabinoti AGA Seal of Approval Guorontood Quality Comlruction For Ovor 50 Yoorg MODEL DBC 12 A PAY 1 only BOATING CONDITIONS INLAND BAYS AND LAKE CORPUS CHR1ST-Waters should be smooth with winds from the southeast and south at I to 18 miles an hour today FREE -Police declined Sunday to say jhow their investigation of the (slaying of Valerie Percy is progressing but reported that it "is going to take a long time" The 21-year-old daughter of Caller-Times News Service Charles Percy industrialist CARRIZO SPRINGS A Republican nominee for the pus Chiisti man and his wifejUS Senate was found dead in were injured in a two-car head- bed last Sunday She had been on collision which killed three beaten on the head and stabbed persons rly sundaj ning times rra! i a half miles west of here (of Kenilworth said that some Killed were David Carroll Col-'state police officers had been bert 49 and Mary Allison to his investigative staff belt' 35 both of Crystal City which includes his 11-man police and Ravmundo Chavarria force attorney's police jCook County sheriff's officers were Chicago crime laboratory technicians and several FBI agents Daley said he had no new developments to report over the weekend He said he feels that "through Investigation the killer will eventually be brought to justice" lie said that more than 15(1 persons had been questioned in the week since the slaying at 40 Devonshire Lane in the northern suburb of Chicago The police chief said that possibly 150 more persons will he questioned this week and Raymundo 35 of Asherton Chavarria and Colbert driving the two cars Injured were Mr and Mrs William Bailey Jr of 4046 Devon They were passengers in the Colbert car Bailey Ls listed in good condition in the Wintergardcn Hospital in Crystal City where he is being treated for severe serrations and a possible broken shoulder Mrs Bailey was transferred to a San Antonio hospital for treatment of leg and head I minimi iiitimr Hiiiimiii THE MOON Full Lot! 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