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Tax 5c Copy I4th YEAR mo, TEXAS; WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY so, NUMBER 272 Meredith Stays le Miss a Mothers Around town By'IMA JO FUEETWOOD MRS. J. STROMAN, MOTH- cr of Mrs. 15. Riggs 1 of Del Rio.

celebrated her ninety-sixth birthday anniversary Tuesday in her home in Uvalde. Mrs. Stroman's Sunday School class brought her a 1 birthday cake and had a party for her. Mrs. Riggs.

who took her a birthday cake from Del Rio. r.iul Mrs. other daughters, Mrs. L. S.

White and Mrs. L. II. Riggs, were with her for'the day. Mrs.

White resides in Uvalde with her mother; Mrs. L. II. Riggs lives in San Antonio. AN' AD.ULT HOMEMA'KING class is planned at the San Felipe High School during February.

Mrs. John Pearson, hoincmaking instructor at the" high school, said preliminary plans for the class will be laid at a meeting Monday at 7:30 p.m. Two teachers are available this year, Mrs. Pearson and Mrs. Leora Collins, and all interested in a sewing class are invited In attend the session Monday evening in the high school.

W. R. RIGGS, RETIRED DE- puty U. marshal, found something had been added to an old quart bottle yesterday, afternoon. He was putting rocks from a pile on the Marlon place near his home on Highway Jin Ka.st yesterday, throwing them into a wheel harrow.

He uncovered an old quart bottle, the neck broken off, and threw it into the wheel barrow. Later, when ho started to empty the barrow, he hoard a faint came from the broken botle. There he found, tightly curled inside, a rattlesnake in inches long, loo cold to put up a fight. "People picking things up had belter bo careful." Higgs said. "II a snake would curl up in mat old cold glass bottle il'd curl up in anything and a person's liable to pick up more than they bargain for." And if anyone doesn't believe this (ale they can ask be glad to pull the hateful snake out of the bollle and give you a close-up of it.

HENRY SEALE WAS REPORT ed better today in Val Verde Memorial Hospital, where he's under treatment. NEXT SUNDAY, THE FIRST in February, the Woman's Fellowship of the First Christian Church will serve dinner immediately after the morning service. The meal will be served in Fellowship Hall nf the new church at 2100 North iM a in nr may be taken home. Roust beef will be i- a tu red 'for Sunday's dinner, those planning the meal said today. Money from the dinners go toward church projects.

JIM RIGGS, FORMER. RESI- dent of Del liio, now from I'aso. was here' today. With him was A. Adams.

They had been 1o Austin to appear before a federal grand jury and wore en route back to Paso. FLIPPED Resting on its top is, a 19G2 Renault which turned turtle this morning 10:15 bn Highway. 90 north oi' Del Rio near the road to the Yucca Trailer Court. The vehicle was being driven 'by Carlos Tiburcio, route to El Mexico said a car in front of him turned off Ihe highway to the court. He pulled to one side, rail 1 off the shoulder and the car flipped on its top.

Tiburcio'was hot injured. The top and rack fender were dama'ged but the driver was able to continue on his way shortly after the car was righted. (News-Herald Photo) McNamora Tells By''ELTON C. FAY lean "second strike force" plan 'WASHINGTON Unit-I would respond if the Soviet Union States will ''retaliate in kind" lo any Soviet -nuclear striking back at cities "in a controlled and deliberate way" if American cities arc hit. Secretary of Defense Robert S.

McNamara said -i Thus McNamara coolly outlined for Congress how a flexible Amer- unleashed nuclear war on the United States. He said it could: 1. Hit the entire target system in Russia' simultaneously. 2. Or, strike back first nt missile and bomber bases and other -military 3.

And ''if necessary strike back at the'Soviet urban and industrial complex in a era'te way." County To Buy New Trucks After meeting all day Monday and Tuesday, Ihe Val Verde County Commissioners Court will convene again Thursday in hopes of reaching a final decision on a site for the new Val Verde County Library. Several sites; meeting recommendations submitted by Ihe library Hoard are under study. One potential site is being held under an option which expires next week. County voters last November approved a SH3.000 bond issue for construction of a new library. The Court mover! rapidly In lake advantage of the 30-ccht lateral roads tax levy approved by CHrlier this month in replacing badly worn and expensive to maintain road equipment.

The Commissioners issued a call for bids on five new two ion the first in a scries of major highway improvements programmed for the county by Ihe Texas Highway Department. This project involves straightening and widening of US Highway 277 north of Del Rio. However, the county will have to find means lo finance its share of other improvements. A $200,000 bond issue for (his purpose failecl to achieve the required Iwn-thirds majority for approval. Alvis McFarlane.

Del. Rio school hoard president, and Supt. i'. A. Tankslcy appeared before Ihe Co.mnii'i'iom'rs Pouri Slnnrl Additional workers for the Mothers' March Friday, night were announced 'today by Mrs.

Gene Adams, Mothers' March chairman, The women will work in assigned areas Friday between 7 and 8 p.m., s'tarting as the 'sirens sound. Mothers will call at each home where a porch light is burning or where there is a light in is window, signifying a contribution' for the March of Dinies is ready. Working with Mrs. L. S.

Vasbinder Friday will be Mesdames L. R. Potter. J. L.

Schwa Ibe. Richard Saniola, Bowers. Ted Small. John Caffey and Robert Olive; with Mrs, Robert Dryden, the workers will be Mrs. Pat Black Jr.

and Mrs. Richard Reynolds; wilh Mrs. O. D. Beaty.

the workers w'ill be Mrs. W. F. Ankram. Mrs.

Tom Ooms and Mrs. Art Riedel. Mrs. iN'orbin Taylor will be assisted by Mrs. Pete Wallace; Mrs.

Herman jSchafer, by Mesdames Chester Forth, Richard Price and no James Moore; Mrs. E. E. Mills. by Mrs.

L. R. Pollcr; Mrs. Charles E. Daniels, by Mesdames D.

A. Herrington E. V. Mayfield. Victor Bolncr and Ira Burditt Jr.

Mrs. Ben Bonnet will have as her workers Mesdames Myrtle Rivers, Marvin Ra'tliff, Kelly Day. H. C. Gulledgc.

John Finger and H. H. Wehner; Mrs. George Thorman will be assisted by Mrs. Bus tcr Watkins.

Working with Mrs. Lee Roy Wood will be Linda Lee Wood; with Mrs. Alton Schrocter. Mes- give them better i amcs To in VanDiver, Robert woul(1 Brewer, Sol Somacb. Misses Virginia Schroeter and Charlotte Somach: with Mrs.

Amos Hum- phrev Miss Diane Humphrey, with Mrs. H. Petty, Mesdames K. I). Bond, Dennis Manis and controlled and delib- McNamara.

in testimony to House Armed Services Co in mi t- I tec. put it this way: I By building into U.S. forces a flexible capability, "We at least eliminate the prospect that we could strike back in only one way, namely, against the entire Soviet target system including (heir cities. Such a prospect would give the Soviet Union no incentive to withhold attack against our cities in a first strike. "We want to alternative.

Whether the accept it in the crisis of a global nuclear war, no one" can say. Considering what is at stake, we believe it is worth the additional effort on our part to have this option." to discuss possibilities of leasing S-acres of the Val Verde ICBMs emplaced in Fairgrounds for construction of ajtectcd positions and Even with an extensive missile tlcfcnse system and a more elaborate civil defense program than any now planned. '''casualties counted in the tens of millions' 1 would come, he said. Although McNamara said his estimate is that U.S. strategic retaliatory Polaris missile submarines and Strategic Air Command destroy, as of now.

the Soviet Union, he qualified this at another point. If Russia "'i-ry large increase" in the number of stronglj pro- N. Smith: with Mrs. William Rios. Mrs.

Richard Gucrra an.J Mrs. Earl Sankcy. Mrs. Otis Patterson will work with Mrs. Randy Randolph: Mrf.

J. Strong, with Mrs. Roy Gutienez and Mrs. Lloyd Richardson; wilh Mrs. G.

W. Cox. Andrea Cox; with Mrs. Joe Gonzalez, Mrs. Donalo Rodriguez.

Mrs Fred Figueroa Jr. will be assisted by Mrs. Adolfo Maldona do: Mrs. J. T.

Mav field, by Mrs Sam Swinson; Mrs. A. N. Ogden, by Genev ieve Qualia and Mr? Blake' 5'hHi" BASKING WEATHER, -Mild temperatmes. long absent, returned to' Del Rio Tuesday and Wednesday with sunshine so pleasant that Old Tom, forsaking the indoor warmth he has needed during the bitter cold, stretched out to enjoy himself.

Old Tom is well known along South Main Street- lie lives at the Herison Hotel. A high of GO degrees yesterday coaxed the cat outdoors and similar suhsliine and mild temperature today are expected to keep him there. (News-Herald Patient Defends Kisses PECOS nurses and a former patient gave contradictory accounts Monday about conduct of Dr. John Paul Dunn at Reeves County Memorial Ilos- piial. They appeared at a court-or-! dered hearing before the hospi-1 lal's hoard of governors, which said she had High a difficult ained blood preg- mitt seeks to drop Dunn from its i liecl 'j er ilrs.

Pherrigo 51 pounds and pressure during "I went into the room wilh a fear that my baby wasn't going to be born alive," she related. Mrs. Funderburk testified also that Dunn harassed and marie fun ical staff. In effect that would prevent his using the only hospital in Pecos, a West Texas town of 15,000. Mrs.

P. D. Funciernurk told the board that Dunn, 35, cngl.ued in a lorrid exchange of huga and kisses with a woman patient shortly after delivering her baby at the hospital. "There was certainly nu amorous love scene." leMifled Mrs. Wayne Pherrigo of who (identified herself as the patient jji (lu" 1 iop repeatedly, once causing work at the hospital.

of the five-man hospital board have cited harissment of 'employes as one of the. main reasons for their decision to notify the physician Jan. 2 he was not reappomied to Ihe medical for Decides i -i Not to PullOiit JACKSON, Miss- U. Meredith said today lie' plans to enroll for the spring semester at the University of Mississippi. The 29-year-old Negro, the first still the his race ever knowingly admitted as a student at the university, made his announcement to newsmen here.

''The Negro is not going," he fold his news conference. James II. Meredith, am going." Meredith said in a "statement he had "pondered the question for several and had taken into consideration the feelings of people in this country and throughout the world. weighed this against my own personal position," he said. Meredith arrived at the news conference in the Negro Masonic Temple smiling and dressed in a dark suit and tie.

He said he had decided to make his decision known at a news conference because newsmen had re- quested they get sufficient notice so thy could be present if they He added: is a great tragedy for America that it -is a his news whether or not a student will attend a he said. Meredith refused comment Tuesday night on a copyright Tennessean story that said he had 'decided to remain at the university. The Tennessean said in a dispatch Jackson that Meredith told friends and associates the cause he has been fighting for would be better served by staying af the university. Meredith said three weeks ago that he would not return for the spring semester unless "very definite and positive changes a're made" in his situation, an appar- I ent reference to sporadic out' bursts of harassment 'on the campus. One Day Remains rx II -T- in the niinu new athletic stadium.

The school bers of atomic-powered, ballislic officials said growth of Ihe missile launching schools makes it urgent lo remove -------Marey Martin Field from itsi trucks. Bidders are asked to ii'ke present Ideation. They proposed two 1953 model dump trucks in "first class" stadium complete trade. The bids will be opened at with regulation track, adequate press bcix facilities, concession stands and field bouse in Ihe corner of the fairgrounds across Ibe si reel from. I)H Kiu Junior High School.

The Court in its Tuesday session decided to ask Ihe school officials to slake out the proposed location Ricks, by Phyllis Ricks: captains "I hugqed him and m.u h.i\ej without co-workers are Mrs. R. J. kissed him." said. Inus-i Patterson.

Mrs. Gilbert Murray, hand and I are aom! friend- of Mrs. Ren Hillingsley. Mrs. C.

Dr Dunn's and have been 'or M' and Mrs. Thomas iVichoK. oral vtars." lo Kay KOII i ax openec! a I a special meeting at p.m. on February Fach of the four road ami bridge prccincls will receive new equipment with Iwo of Ihe trucks being assigned lo Caul Juno precinct. County Judge Lindsey said the county should have and to present right-of-way funds lo take care of studj.

plat for closer DEL RIO WEATHER ''OKI, AM) VICINITY: Mostly clear and mild this afternoon, tonight and Thursday. Lowest leni- peraturc tonight in Ihe mid Maximum 'temperature yesterday, (iO; minimum 1)7. Maximum 'tern- peralnrc a year aco.iTO; minimum Minimum temperature this morning, 3(i. Time of sunrise, lime of sunset, p.m.' Time of sunrise tomorrow, a.m. B52 Jet Down 1 In New Mexico MOItA, N.M, (AP) An Air' Force jet bomber carrying MX men crashed and burned in nigged mountain count this morning aboul 10, miles ivirlb of Mora, norlheasl of Santa Fe.

There was at least one survivor. LI. Col. Nirholiis Horangic, Air Force radar expert, eel lo safety. He, was rcpoi led in good condition al a Mora clinic.

A spokesman al Ihe clinic said lloranpic had no information about the oilier crew members. The six-engine bomber, based al Air Force Hnsc i wi'll, a-i mi a training Federal Avis, lion Agency radar crew' said il losl contact with the plane at a.m. The crew report, ed air in Ilio area shortly before Ilie aircraft disap- i nuclear materials were on Ihe plane, ihe Air Force jaid. The wreckage wa-, located about 10,000 feel up on a rulfje nn Ihe Sangre de Crislo Mountain range. Slate police reported rescue units and reached Ibe scene.

Weather in Ihe area was clear but Hire was heavy snow on the I'l'MUItll. of poll lax are expected in set pnHty lone Ix-fon- tomorrow's 4 ever, since Thursday ihe ia-t lor payment of ln and an t'Mimalod out of 'a possible I.SiX) made them- iselve- eligible to vote llui- far. Ctninly T.i\ O. Finetian -aul ihroiifih this an I'-ninait'd 2 ren'ipl" hatf hei ottu-e with the riboi.i 7od. erde po- poll i issued bv gun tential i-.

-1 SO The office closed at the u.siii.l time today but tomorrow will remain open longer. "We'll take off for Fineg a said, come back later bul we will mil be open long. hope everyone who plans to pay their poll tax will appear promptly and make their paylmenls before very late. We never set a rinid time for closing on the ilay but have no plans to be tn the office very Ion a after rj come back from supper." Parents Receive TB Test Notice lor READY LETTERS Mrs. Arthur W.

SellrmIT, 'chairman of tho tino tuberculosis tests to ho under the sponsorship of Vnl VrM'de CJounly Tuberculosis Association, woiks with her assistmil.s, Mrs. nines, nn(i Mrs. Annolle Prisner. left. Letters to the parents of fKUi first graders in city and eounly schools were ready tor distribution Wednesday.

The seek permission foi the children to be uivcn Ihe tines TH Lest. (News-Herald Photo) iih lit. mil ct! thirlv MX U'l -n'txinj ol pjireni-; number oi to 'iso the uibi'iculosis tine test ir. I'Vfi! lo ul the CltV I0ll.l> I'repiired bv Arthur W. Silm.m- urneral luiirman for the li'-liHL', and IUT Ihe letters wi'iv in Knulish ami in Spanish tier were Mrs.

Mrs. Arllnir free tuberculosis tests for lirst urade pupils will be given on a lo announced The letters are be re- hv ihe pupils signifying if Ihcir parents approve the sim icsls are i-jven only iih penn'ussion. year 800 children received Ihe ti'sts. sponsored bv the County Tuberculosis 'As'so- ciiiuon. The toiAs are paid for fro'ii funds raised by the iinnual sale of t'hrislmiis seats.

i In addition to serving as general chairman for (he Tf! Mrs. Schnnrr is chairman of i the Cray l.ailies of the American lied Cross. As in the past, the Cray Ladies and the nurses' aides will assist wilh Ihe TiJ tests, Mrs. Scbnarr said. This is Ihe third year the TH losts h'ave been given, with'many hundreds of children benefilting 1 from the opportunity, TB officers poinlrd out..