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Express and News from San Antonio, Texas • Page 13

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Express and Newsi
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San Antonio, Texas
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March 23, 1968 13-A BEULAH'S AFTERMATH Podre Island was left a This mote! on South shambles visit of Hurricane Beulah six months ogo. Winds up to 175 m.p.h. raked the island ond nearby Port Isabel heavily damaging most of ihe 1 5 beachfront mot-is' SOUTH PADRE NOW- some molel that was so devastated six months earlier has now been renovated and is back in complete operation although Ihorc stil vir on the beach. remains dobns to ip r.lrnnrd South Padre Busy Erasing Marks Left by Beulah IAL IHE 1 TO THE SOUTH A ISIAXI) This island community near the southern tip of "Texas, which took the brunt of Hurricane Beulah, is building (jack stronger than ever. II was jus! months ago Iliat tlie hurricane raked i tourist playground anil nearby Port Isabel i winds estimated at 175 miles per hour.

Today, (here arc still signs of the hurricane in evidence, tlir. aclivily as i.sla'iiuers'geYYeauy for the summer tourist season. Most of (lie l.i beachfront mntels were heavily damaged, and all but one or two are back in full operation. Most wore able to gel buck in busi- iifss jnsl a few days a the storm last Sept. 20.

It's easy lo see why tourists are attracted by this'island of sand and sea. I.asl week, most of the state shivered in i weather, sparkled down on South Padre to warm ihe simbather.s and i 111 rs who lounged ihe motel swimming bers poked in Ihe sand io a ihe variety of treasures from the sea brought in by hurricane. HUT THE MOST spectacular sight on i sun drenched island is Ihe swarm of construction workers repairing the storm damage and building new structures. "Everyone's rebuilding, and most are building bigger and stronger structures than before," said Aurthcr Shafer. m.inaeer for A few yards away, a placid pany which serves the island surf rolled up on 'the sandy and I'ort Isabel, beach.

'-There wasn'l any question of Ihe island comine back." he said. "The onlv problem a been getting enough people lo do the Building contractors and construction workers continue tti be in short supply, a hundreds of workers from other areas moved into the Valley after the storm. liicola Rispoli. owner of the lie! llnlel. pointed out that "there a been enough contractors lo get ihe iiHve iitutd." But liispoli, who lost the roof to his own lieach home in job is now in the i a stages, ile emphasized that the island motels are now in good shape for ihe penk summer tourist season.

A SHOUT WAY down the is- a the plush Sea Island Resort Hotel sparkles in Ihe sun and looks as if it had never been touched by Ihe "We got a head start on our repair operations," co owner a Jiowman said, "and lion three a'lter fteuiah came in." The big mold was seriously completely refurnished. The I I lobby, a a i and club were hard hil. as were several rooms. "We've even brought in grown palm trees to add lo our landscaping." Bowman said. The colorful motel buzzes with activity.

Occupancy mw is only slightly below normal for this tioie of the year. Like most of the motels, the Sea Island decided to expand IV storm. The dining room space was increased by 40 per cent and Ihe kitchen enlarged. DOMESTIC RELATIONS REPORT liy Disl. Ally, Barlow Friday predicted when Ihe final figures are tabulated for 19G7 they will reflect that his domestic relations section collected more a S3 million from husbands for Ihe support of Iheir wives aod wives and children.

I a prediction comes tmc. it will mark Ihe second straight year such collections topped the S3-million mark. The domestic relations section of Barlow's office set a new record for dependent wife and child collections in when the total collected and passed on to wives, ex-wives children reached Thai represented a $35 prt Ihe heels of criticism of the domestic relations section by a group of women organixing themselves under the lille of Women in Need of Child Support (WIN'OCS). The district attorney said he is in complete agreement, and complete sympathy, i ihe women needing support for i themselves and i children, and said ho considered himself Iheir main champion. "I'm the guy that's had the a husbands arrested, hauled into court, and jailed on occasion." Barlow ob- CT i -served.

"I agree that's not HID I per rent collect ion. a while I'd like to be able to make UiO cent collection, i can't (lot Line is at your service. Complaint? Dial CAi done. district attorney be- 7-3128 between 3 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Monday through Friday, leaving- fore has ever done it." and your name, address and telephone number, in case 'lint l.inci none coming after ever will needs further Information. Questions nf greatest general iiilcresli i be answered in Hot Line. IHMIA.N is one of his most vocal critics in connection with the conduct of the domestic relations section 1 live on North Center, yet the street runs east and Barlow said, may have a per- Please explain. ax lo grind. He said he nad refused lo emnlov the Before we can explain that, we'll have to figure nuf Ihe woman's husband when Ihe Intersection nf tt.

Josephine and E. Euclid, anil the crossing ol man was seekino a job in the 1 1 al "I I' arli domestic relations section of -fc I hi.s office. Wasn't it Inie (hat Andrew Johnson was impeached but not' And 3 in llp domes- nvicled? relations section rec-alls I that a state representative who dropped by the organiz- i ing meeting of the WINOCS Why is it that in both of your newspapers von have so a sn( encouraged them to press articles about Gov. l.urleen Wallace? While I was stationed in Alabama six months ago, all Ihey had about President Johnson atl and Gov. Connally was hatred, "haired, haired.

Thev felt the one same about Texas, A. M. no storm, says I Other NEXT IKK)It AT the lietreat Mold, workmen are completing restoration. The Sandy Retreat lost its entire roof io i a I'eulah. and is now adding e.xlra a i i i The same is at Kl Padre Molel, where reslora- Second S3-Million Year for Needy Wives Seen i Padre where reslora- 151.957 increase over the on Fridays and Ihe legislature offense, coming every month i Wl1 i complete except revioiis year's collections.

sometimes wasn't in session the husband doesn'l make the 'or construction of several Barlow's estimate came on on Fridays. designated payment. Second- planned new i and a new If 1 VlPf 1 flf il'l'cm Vm Thn 1 flflfi vnnnrt V. H-m In i ii. f.

The 19(55 report, i the latest figures a a i a reflects that the domestic relations section filed civil contempt motions, husbands and ex husbands were held in contempt, 64 were com- inilled to jail. 42 were dismissed when the husband or ex husband paid up, and were never served by the sheriff's office. ly. he said there's the inter- road lo ihe molel. personal relation where the Up and down the tip of I i children i i the bat- island, building goes forward lleground a Ihe dissolution a feverish pitch.

A restmi- of the maiTiagc. i a is doubling in size. tills off visiting rights, other is a i an outdoor and lie retaliates by refusing lo pav support." Barlow said. The situation, he adds, is ag gravaled when i i or Ixilh parties, remarr a i A yard has been i eliHil! and is doing a booming business. On (he bay side of Ihe island, a new motel is going up and severni now houses an: under construction.

operators on South Padre Island are looking toward a record tourist season Ixx-ause the toll Iwtween I'orl Isabel and Padre Island was recently removed when (he slate took over uf "The 51 loll seemed like a i thing," one motel owner said, "but we've already noticed a big increase in tourist a i on Ihe island." about every home on the Ciiilf beach here was si'- i 1 damaged by the slorm, but almost all have been restored. Now wood is in i il on a beach structures, and most homos have new coats of paint. Here on Padre's windswept beach, homeowners express themselves in a variety of bold colors. From vivid reds, and yellows to deep greens and restful blues, Ihe new painl on these beach homes adds a splash of color to the seascape. A (IF I I i i and homes on the island, like I Knur Seasons Resort Apartments anil ihe i a a came I in good shape.

One of i i spots hardest i by the six months ago was Ihe big a i court on Ihe southern tip of the island. More a 100 plusli mobile homes were complelply destroyed, and onlv a few i Today, ihe trailer park Is beginning lo i up again, i sparkling new mobile homes, moving into Ihe spaces where lln 1 previous ones wern I IKICII a long way back for those of us who live on the iland," one motel owner commenled, a we i have a long way to go." But these South I'adre islanders are a hardy lot. They have taken Beulim in stride, and are picking up the pieces. They seem in a rral hurry to get things back to normal so they can enjoy the good things of life on i semilrn- pical island a sparkles in Ihe S.L.A. A A convicled? He was Impeached, bill was acquitted May 25, ISfiS.

himself represented rranl husband on at least occasion, and got a legislative continuance of ihe case. nprl lh legislature is in ses- I.urleen 11 alhice is one of hut SO Americans privileged to call sion. any representative who themselves governor of an American slate. As such, she is news- worthy, and will continue lo appear in Ihis paper. Why should Alabama hair Texas? Didn't we send them Hear Bryant? Of rwirso, he did come hack for a day or two at Ihe beginning of the year only lo he trampled by the Texas Aggies.

-r Where are the names and addresses for the ad Hello, Haby'' I ohlaincd? J. From Hie clly's Department nf Vital Statistics. we lining; buck on a a i Saving Time? so I when? Yes. unless Ihe i a decides otherwise Slartin" date April 28. Is Texas going to a on Daylight Savins Time? It is a W3stp of lime and money tn Ihe staie and I would to know where I may i lo proiost.

unless Ihr Legislature decides oihenusp. Slanins dale I a i 1 nr rarl? nl( la palla- lo your slatr representative and senator in Austin. riium. Ii SCITOS as the ink i ir -k i computer circuits arc How old is Pro-irl'ii! Johnson and wh -re a he i a year old IDlis. on a a nr.ir in ihe IBM sion laboratory at F.ast i i i was a a paten: ins publiciw the high week for ihe paste and the Miller has devis-ed for his em- the Iniernaiiona! 1'rrsiilrnl Jnlmsim was born Aug Slonewall.

The slalions luue iirinie-time network commitmcnls that a a i i would (urn Into economic disa.sler if they ahanrtoncd Ilicm to i Mll Pr hnl(is Uvn i pa lelei.se high school basked.al games. presume this is a on i i sou re a i abonl. I I I I Malions report Ihr scores on tlieir The patented a i i presse pattern as been and i Live out of lowrr Write Hoi Line at The San A Evening Each tile is about a a i News, linx 2171, San Anlon'-i, Texas and Ihe paste i on il i Tlfli: THinn problem, I5ar- 11S ADD1IION, seven com- rcpor is ha i oftra plaints of child desertion, sec- who 1)im ond offense, a felony, were self can't afford the fniils of filed in criminal district courl, his propagation and two complaints of Heeing i the a were filed. llllw mvcs In Countv Court com- TM. Job payuig S.W plaints of child desertion first llw Ci 1 1 i here no solutinn You offense, were filed, anil seven 1 1 TM i a get boot out of a turn- cases of wife desertion.

A total of V2 veais and 11) months in sentences was Barlow said he will co meted out operate w-ith WIN'OCS to ihe In reciprocal support cases 1cst ni ability, lie said he between Texas and other realizes thai a husband's slates, 501 "responding red- promises to pay don't help procal caws were filed in hpn lle mlsses payment and Rexar Counlv district court illc Wlfc aml 'nildrcn don't and 10(1 petitions for support havc mrtne for necessities, were initiated. A lotai of 124 1 hc inls nl1 lhcre is a conlcmpl motions were filed involving Ihe judicial and 51)6 support orders were slcm ir such asps is obtained particularly line, he said, in Barlow pointed out that he rcdprocal cases where the ex has five attorneys two secret- husband and ex wife, or aries. one investigator, and mi st and and wife, live in dif- one rccepliooist. assigned to crenl states, the domestic relations section, "Re-course lo- the law takes the largest numter of people time." Barlow observed. ever assigned to that division.

He also points out in some -Max D. Maule. chief of the cases the ex husband can't section, also points out that it be located, and in others is handles juvenile and mental hi.ghly mobile. hoalrh cases. "Hut I've still in The district attorney reports more monev for dependent errant husband and ex lius- wives and children than anv hand rases create ihree SJK- district attorney in I he hisiorv Hal problems.

First, he said, of fir-xar Cuimtv." Barlow- is Ihe repetitions nature of the reiterate-- st Makes Very Special tor Computer Circuits mm LSD Bombardment aSit Liked as War Tactic liy S. 1,. A. tain had already done scinir 1 experimenting lirig. USA, Kct.

i LSD, and some of their data caini- nur During the several weeks when Ihe city r( v. ay right at the starl They had u-ied an ex- Hue was turned into a battleground of soldV'is wilh intelligence" officers. A large fighling at close quarters, I kept thinking thai group of them hupped up on drug. there should be a way to eod such hick- interrogated when under Ihe influence about ermgs lhan through mass killings. iheir professional secrn-.

all but ihree out nf For example, we mighl have eliminated 2." spilled the answers, readily, and one could nasty little fellows who were resisting around not rememlicr. the Citadel by sending them on a nip. as if Tnal as enlightening but also irrdeveni. i they were flower children. don't laugh, such an application of LSD interested our It was one of Ihe laic C.en.

F. c. Fuller's in nn incidentally. We thought we had favonie themes that man always insists on mucn bigger fish to frv. were going ailer killing in war when he might clear a right of iis employment in ihe "largest possible dimen- way i smne happier agent.

ion as a tactical agent in combat to ms- deserves honorable menlion as one able enemy forces. such possibility. Approximately 11 vears ago I was military member of a TIMS IS TO A the drug would be nrn- Peniagon panel" the art against a body of iroop-i. or raihc-r rx- lask of determining a military characlcrisiir lnll lr tilc mann! TM of thai now nororiou.s product or mustard gas. orKin-g on Ihe central nrrvoN-' s-; 01 ihe MV Ihrer- nalionallv- it would di-nrVnl them.

known i a i and as many pharmaco- it seemed a whollv as logisis. Since our reporl was Ihen classid'-ri apnronched it in theory. have sleeping and is not likely ever lo be published, their ga-e--. vomiting cr.mg sa-tis. laughing conti-iiiution to I'enlngon v.iMloin.

now gaihi-r- gases and killing gases. tin'O whv noi a ills- ijig dust in a forcotttn fiie. must remain arranging gas Iliat would deprive nahling anonymous. When one wrilrs for bread and individual of hi.s lunc'i'in and thereby butter, on rhe other hand, all tilings ber-ouio fraclitKialize iniblary gri.si for the mill. and iurn il into a headless, rn-fillr-s-, sv.arni of i We did our chrne unaware that the sw'i-s- so many individuals in a monien' 1 made drug had under study v.as by nature tint' thing we ouickiv rti-c'ivcrwl: The a nalional time Jx.tnb.

I.M) "wa-- not' ih-n Inary. simply because t'hcy menace to campus life, -he of a new an organizational discipline interests religion, ihe -nd of the rair.tx.w for hippulom. iinnv. would he more vulnerabi" if bv mii'-h less a hou-chold word. fi-w high fli''r- 1 SI) than, let as say.

member; i.f a notary like rhe late Aldous Huxley had i i's club a a dflish's ar.d werr- indulginif same wiihoir Army a not more Than )o sw itches on a blower 'ha: re- i ih'jusaiKiths ni an inch wide A moves from the ronvevor. machine piinls IftO of ihe min- Kenard RursT.n Jr. oblainrrl fircuilry is completed in other Kur.son Kleclronir-s, slep-. the be'-nine a Ihe sciciKi- ier us, nr: LSD ai foiks i In- niiire a friends firs', mid me 1 the LSI) roni- than a head wilh a craft i Ihe imiiois for Landing the view in-'- liayaril. 1 "w'fl ISKM which 'nUK.

1 rT-'r-nrT-'l ii'iriiri mal slr rli ''rfl 'ii'. 1 'rvi-' 1 jl'-i'TTit f' linn' nm nl a rh vvitrii'dK nvtM'Ui mn fr 'tl- I' 1 01 l-'pri M.II'TM: nr I thing-, r.n'i i a 1 I I A Ml i-i'i An air mar-hire the world sui.i.ly. and ll 3KCi (Sl)ov h' 1 rf T' nn.ximait-iy two-third- of thenuiiHil was INSPFCITDN jyMem in- gnumt! or supported by Purchased "by the Soviet lr Vl 1 ms ai Vf-n'ed oy a for I 7. air under i i a 1 laundries automatically. was some basis for the sn-picmn thai i) was- 1 I I lv ak' si tnat lacticii 5 ti -rs wou ii inn TI itemg used in lowan! exirar-iing ou thn.ws out riiriv ni rquipjivnl in confession-, etc Afler cleaning, the towels eludes four hvdroMn peroxiti- More a si! it was rssiiV pjtss alone mesh conveyor ihni- 1 -s aimed ti belt tifiif-ath one or more heat I the vehicle ridenlai iaoip-.

A vi-ible rteiecior over the edge a iliu- sen-es presmne'of a towel, crevasse "iillv ur for rug 'na! i d.iior-nttii it- tor oin -iii'ii til''- tne 1' i -'V. ill! rM i Jl, i III h. iiiiO at a iiinc u-ien itn-n 1-1 ihe-c I- a press-re noting cloih- didn't know LSI) from icv-ili- kM is and if it abr- :1 iriy ilit oil atirl would no! have niaui: -ufn iron fil- mni'p rf lo jl i an infrared dflerinr 'P 3 1 ivus. nlf. 1 'I'bo hrvri! in kn ho i-.

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