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Moody Leaves a Good Record today The Weather 'Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmsmmm Something for Texans To Be Proud Of Editorial, Page 4 i Tk CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly cloudy through Wednesday with scattered showers and thundershow-ers and moderate southerly winds. Temperature range Monday 74-93. Expected range Tuesday 74-85. See Weather Data Page 12. Austin Am lie Read by the Decision-Makers of Texas SUNRISE: SUNSET: 5:32 7:23 a.m.

p.m. Vol. 52 No. 254 Austin, Texas, Tuesday, May 24, 1966 30. Pages 10 Cents FINAL STAR HOME International Poland and' the United States.

in a tit-for-tat exchange, have expelled three embassy person nel each, a US spokesman announced Monday. PAGE 12 Wi Rebels Fal 9 England Girds For Shortages Cuba's Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro demanded Monday that the US abandon its Naval base at Guantanamo because of a shooting incident outside the base Saturday. PAGE 12 Prime Minister Harold Wilson eeks Friends LONDON (AP) The British government armed itself Mon aay witn sweeping emergency won West German Chancellor powers to funnel cargo through barbed wire were built around of the shot was not officially Ludwig Erhard's broad support Monday night for a five-point day with another wave of rioting outside the Buddhist Insti the nation's strikebound ports and control food prices if shor plan to revamp the tute a drab compound with a tages develop. barn-like pagoda in the center North Atlantic Treaty Organi yueen fcuzaoetn signed a SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) The collapse of the Buddhist rebellion in Da Nang spurred the government of PreT, mier Nguyen Cao Ky into quick action Monday night to rally new popular support for his military rule. But dissidence persisted in Hue, the Buddhist cen proclamation of a state of emer gency one week after the Na i ft Jt I i Jvm J-'-- I- Vv-f I determined.

Within minutes, the street was full of surging youths and flames shot out from two American vehicles, overturned by the mob. The occupants fled. It took two hours before steel-helmeted Vietnamese marines and paratroopers could clear the streets, hurling tear gas grenades, throwing tip a smoke screen and firing in the air. By nightfall, five rows of the institute the center of anti-government and anti-American agitation. U.S.

officials said there was no evidence that an American was involved in the shooting incident. The Buddhist Institute, in a formal protest letter to the U.S. Embassy, charged Americans (See KY, Page 6) of a muddy square. The shot that killed a Vietnamese soldier incited crowds from adjacent streets to attack American vehicles. The rioters screamed that an American serviceman had killed the Vietnamese.

Other reports said a tional Seamen's Union ordered its 65,000 members out on strike for higher pay and shorter zation after France's military withdrawal. PAGE 12 National-Texas The Gemini 9 astronauts Mnday revealed a reshuffled, far, more challenging flight plan for their once-frustrated ter, and turmoil with anti-American overtones threatened Sai working hours. Prime Minister Harold Wilson gon. told the House of Commons the In the aftermath of Ky's vic Vietnamese guard in the convoy shot the soldier. But the source tory in bringing about the sur strike was beginning to pinch off the supply of essential raw materials which this island na space adventure.

PAGE 15 A striking Beverly Hills, render of the main force of Buddhist dissidents in Da Nang Calif, woman seeking to block tion needs to live. there were these developments Tornado Slams a federal claim she owes Ky ordered a massive air 064 in taxes and penalties, lift of food and supplies to Da testified Monday she had been Nang to ease shortages among Day Care Deficiency Charged told the gift tax had been paid Into Wolfe Citv At this stage, however, the powers taken by the government are more serious than the situation warrants. The idea is to have them approved by Parliament and ready to put into effect the moment they are needed. They must be renewed the city's 160,000 people after a week of bloodshed a move on a monthly allowance a Dal aimed at winning popular favor. He lifted a 24-hour curfew and WOLFE CITY, Tex.

(AP) without warning. tension eased. The city was Turbulent weather raked nearly monthly. slowly returning to normal. Food prices so far have risen San Antonio police said roof damage in the city was extensive from high winds and pound all of Texas Monday, striking The military junta drew up las man had given PAGE 15 Gov.

Nelson A Rockefeller of New York declared himself 1 out of the presidential running "forever" Monday ndght and hinted he a 1968 Republican ticket combining Michigan's George Romney and New York's Sen. Jacob K. By CHRIS WIIITCRAFT Staff Writer Austin day care antipoverty with a damaging tornado at only a little on some commodities, but the port of London the agenda for Tuesday's meeting of a civilian-military con ing hail. Winds estimated at 60 Wolfe City in the state's north programs for tots aged 3 and miles per hour ripped the roof now is choked with idle shipping and shortages seem certain if gress called in an attempt to pacify segments demanding a from a department store in San eastern section and with damag ing thunderstorms at San return to civilian rule. the strike goes on.

First signs of a manufactur Antonio's Wonderland Shopping Center. A telephone company Buddhist dissidents en Javits. PAGE 15 The Wolfe City tornado injured ing slowdown were reported trenched in Hue, the old imperi exchange was unroofed and a wholesale liquor firm's building 4 are failing to reach the children of the most deprived and disoriented families the hard core of poverty Travis County Child Welfare Board was told Monday night. Three co-chairmen of a community research project of first and second year graduate al capital 50 miles north of Da five persons, destroyed or badly damaged at least 10 homes, dis Monday from the auto industry, Britain's biggest dollar-earner. Austin-Centex was damaged when the howling Nang, continued to assail Ky as UPI Telephoto Miss Wool Pageant at Dallas Monday night.

She is the daughter of Mrs. C. D. Vincent and the late Air Force General C. D.

Vincent. Miss Vincent will represent Texas in the national Miss competition in San Angelo in June. MISS WOOL University of Texas senior Patricia Vincent, left, of San Antonio is crowned Miss Wool of Texas by the out going Miss Wool, Janice Archer of Austin. Miss Vincent, who will be 22 next month, won over 13 other beauties in the rupted power and communica winds blew down a section of a One hundred employes packing a dictator and demanded his tions, and battered trees and ouster. U.S.

officials predicted a shrubbery. wall. Signs, trees and fences also were damaged." -1 There were no dollar damage government move to starve students in the University of San Antonio, however, prob them out Hue, which has a pop parts for export at one plant were put on reduced work hours. Another factory said reduced hours might be introduced on some export assembly lines next week. When Texas Democrats meet Sept.

20 in Austin for their State convention, the credentials committee will be faced with at least four contests. PAGE 30 Gail Wom- Texas School of Social Work figures immediately available ably suffered more damage as ulation of about 104,000 is considered solidly hostile to Ky. at either San Antonio or Wolfe City. ore Nurses Simmering anti-Ky senti a fast-moving thunderstorm, accompanied by hail, heavy rain and lightning, slapped the city's northwest section. Representatives of the ship The Wolfe City tornado swept ment in Saigon took an anti-American tone after a South Vietnamese soldier was shot through a square mile of rich mack was Senate OKs Selling Off Of Loans The tornado struck Wolfe one of three owners and the union were summoned separately Monday to Labor Minister Ray Gunter's office as he made a vain at farming land near the Texas-Oklahoma line.

trike in NY dead as a U.S. military convoy Stephen City, a Hunt County farming town about 16 miles north of Greenville at 5:30 p.m. The The injured at Wolfe City passed by. Crowds streamed Austin High tempt to resume negotiations into the streets shouting: "Burn School were identified as Joe Butler, 83; his wife, Mrs. Effie Butler, heavy thunderstorm battered dents recent- that broke down before the strike.

Positions appeared to leaving their jobs, but felt they American cars! Kill Americans!" The U.S. Command im San Antonio about an hour later. NEW YORK (AP) Most of were forced to do it. 1 selected have hardened since then. Violent weather was reported WASHINGTON (AP) The the city's public health nurses for special 77; their son, Pete Butler 49; Luther Ray Woodbury, 14, and his 25-year-old sister, Mrs.

Odes sa Wright. In one of the city's busiest posed an 8:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for military personnel. as far south and west as Uvalde, refused to work Monday in a Ford Geddes, chairman of the Shipping Federation, said after Honors.

fpublic health districts, the most Senate sent to President Johnson Monday legislation he asked where marble-size hail struck Although action continued PAGE 3 Day dispute. made the otherwise highly favorable report on day care programs. They are Connie Sklar, general chairman, Andy Lay, process committee chairman, and Don Anderton, impact committee chairman. TCCW is Comcon delegate agency for the Day Care Offica of Economic Opportunity program which has eight centers for 528 tots of low income families. Said the report given Acting Chairman Oakley Davis, TCCW board, and ex-officio members County Judge J.

H. Watson and 98th District Court and Juvenile Court Judge Charles O. Betts, in part: "It seems clear the day care program is not reaching the children of the most deprived and disoriented families. "The group of families who Iy low-income, Lower East Side light in the war against the to ease the squeeze on next ward the situation looked bleat er than before. William Ho Public health department offi of Manhattan, some basic serv- Tom Griffith, new director of year budget by permitting cials said they were fearful of ices were being performed nor garth, head of the seamen's un H-T Class Urged sales of participations in government-held loans.

ion, said his men are holding consequences to patients in the slums, mostly children and aged mally, but with difficulty. Ninety-four child health cen youth work for the Austin Downtown YMCA, arrived Monday from Ponca City, Okla. to assume his new Communists, allied forces reported killing 227 Viet Cong in scattered fighting in South Viet Nam. U.S. planes staged their heaviest raids against North Vietnamese communications and military targets for the first Congressional action was out for nothing less than a 40-hour week.

The seamen now people. completed with a 50-20 Senate A spokesman for the nurses ters were closed, 28 general health centers were being kept open with skeleton staffs cf duties. PAGE 30 To Seek Sincerity vote, largely on party lines to said they were "miserable" at (See BRITAIN, Page 6) accept minor House changes in Illegal voting in the April 2 time in a week as monsoon doctors and nurses aides. There were no nurses in any of the Del Valle school board elec weather cleared. the original Senate version.

Forty-seven Democrats and three Republicans voted to accept the By JACK MADDIGAN Staff Writer city schools, and little indication tion has now been alleged by Da Nang was reported 90 per of bargaining to obtain agree both the winning and losing amendments while 18 Republi cent under the control of Ky's The 1966 graduating class of ment on a contract for the Hearing on Klan To Start by House candidates. PAGE 3 cans and 2 Democrats voted forces, which he dispatched to the road to a good life," Dr. King said, "a worthy life, a life recognizing the dignity of each human being, a life seeking decent living conditions for all-in housing, in employment, in education, and in standards of nurses. against. the coastal city May 15 for a Huston-Tillotson College was urged to strive for sincerity, courage and unselfishness by are sending children to the centers are not the low-income J.

Jerome Olitt, attorney for showdown with the Buddhist- The legislation would permit Preliminary activies at the 68th annual meeting of the the Professional Public Health backed "struggle forces" seek Dr. John T. King, president of Nurses Association, demanded Texas Association of Insurance ing his ouster. Rebels held out life. the college, and speaker at commencement exercises Mon that Mayor John V.

Lindsay volunteer to do so. None has so WASHINGTON (AP) House in small pockets but were not Agents gets underway in Austin Tuesday. PAGE 30 The 45-year-old college presi the sales to private investors from a pool of $10.9 billion worth of government loans. The Treasury has said that it plans to market only $4.2 billion worth in fiscal 1967 which begins July intervene personally. There was far, he said.

investigators plan to resume regarded as a threat. day evening. no word whether he would. families most likely to produce the grossly maladjusted children. "The lack of use of the program by families from the lowest social and economic levels can be traced to two problem areas.

"The first concerns the poor their Ku Klux Klan hearings At this stage, the government Dr. King, speaking to the 89- Willis underwent surgery last February to remove a blood clot in his neck, just about the time Representatives of seven Cen Both sides met for about an hour late Monday, the first joint next month, thus increasing the chances for passage of legisla dent told the graduates that the true value of education and training rests wholly on the foundation of character. "Education and training are appeared victorious. But the turn of political events was by member class at Mary E. Branc Memorial Auditorium, tral Texas colleges and univer negotiating session since the tion this year aimed at curbing sities will meet in Austin the committee wound up its earlier hearings.

nurses rejected two city offers the hooded order's activities. 1. The effect of the volume sales, supporters of the bill say, would be cut to the deficit for the year from $6 billion to the Thursday to learn ground rules for the state's new college stu highly valuable," he said, "but said sincerity is the most important quality in life. Courage, he said, is an "excellent companion to sincerity, and an essen "No progress, no comment," In his absence, three of the The office of Rep. Edwin E.

no means decided and the country was likely to go through many- critical periods before a transition from military to civilian rule. Willis, chairman of the Commit dent loan program. PAGE 3 when used by those deficient in character they are curses not (See NURSES, Page 6) (See KLAN, Page 6) tee on Un-American Activities, $1.8 billion estimated by John tial one." communication and exchange of information between the day care centers and the agencies which regularly come into contact with the families who function most poorly. "We must push forward on (See CLASS, Page 6) Events began in Saigon Mon said Monday the Louisiana Democrat has recovered suffi son in his budget. The Senate voted after a re Builder Billy Zidell takes the ciently from a long illness to newed volley of charges against historic House Mansion site back to the Zoning Committee 'Related to this is the lack of return to Washington June 6.

the measure by Sen. John Williams, R-Del. And the committee's staff Tuesday. PAGE 3 any organized method of communicating information about Flags at Half Mast Final Rites Today For Dan Moody director, Francis T. McNamara, Williams tola the bill sup the program to those who are said this means the group defi Brother James Groman, di nitely can hold' hearings next rector of the Alumni Associa in most need of it.

Even if these people do hear about the Casis Principal Considering Teaching Job in Utah porters "you're just selling off the assets of this government to reduce the deficit" and "you're trying to mislead the American tion of St. Edward's Univer program, it is difficult for month on bills aimed at the Klan, and also at groups such as the Communist party and the sity, was found dead Monday. them to take the steps neces people into thinking you really Associated Press John McKay, Mac Umstattd, Cosa Nostra crima syndicate. have reduced the deficit." Felder Thornhill and W. R.

Long Flags flew at half mast over Rep. Charles L. Weltner, sary to make application without more direct encouragement than is currently available to them. Williams said it was never HI, all of Austia Honorary leader of a bipartisan Texas public buildings Monday going to be possible to control now." He claimed that the possible move is not related to the By DERRO EVANS Staff Writer Dr. M.

G. Bowden, the high pallbearers will be Charles L. Black, T. J. Butlet, Lloyd W.

group on the committee which has been pushing for early leg in memory of former Gov. Dan Moody, who became the state's inflation unless the administration actually ended red ink "The other set of factors pre youngest chief executive at the venting the use of the day care centers by extremely de ly-regarded principal of Casis islative hearings, said "That's great. It's plenty of time to get spending by solid reductions in federal programs. age of 33. Ireland Graves, James P.

Nash, J. B. Robertson, James Shaw, Gordon R. Talley, Rector Dr. Marvin prived families are the limita forthcoming change in status for Casis, which is soon to end its relationship as an experi House action this year." Moody, 72, died Sunday at his "This is going to be known as home here.

He had been ill since Senate prospects are uncer-j the Johnson inflationary peri tions that are built into the program as it is operating. 1961. tain, however. S. Vance and former Lt.

Gov, Walter F. Woodull, all of Aus "Free service is given only od," he said. "This is all a part of the Great Society. It is being mental laboratory school for The University cf Texas. The new round of hearings is "History will remember Dan SS ft i -1 tin; Frank P.

Culver Jr Fort Moody as a courageous attorney likely to be shorter and less sen deliberately planned." "This (the job offer) is not PAGE 12 Sports Rafael Gomez, a third baseman inserted into the lineup to bolster a weak hitting attack, came through with a grand slam home run to propel the Braves past Albuquerque, 4-2, Monday night PAGE 21 Index Amusements Classified 23-29 Comics 18 Editorial ....4 Financial 14-15 Horoscope ...,..,.,.9 Jacqby on Bridge 7 Obituary 12 People ...6 Public Records 30 Radio and TV 19 Society 7-9 Sports 21-23 Worth; Harris A. Melasky, Tay general and a dedicated gover Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D- lor; Wright Morrow, Houston; sational than last winter's four-month inquiry which stripped much of the secrecy from the at certain hours, to certain aga groups, and families are responsible for providing their own transportation. These factors work the greatest hardship on the most disorganized something I have cooked up to change anybody's opinion," Dr.

Bowden said. nor who contributed greatly to the progress of our 'state," said Weaver Moore, Houston; Paul floor manager for the bill, replied that the measure "is none of the things it has been called by the senator from Elementary School, conifrmed Monday that he is considering an offer to become a college teacher in Utah. If he accepts the position an associate professorship in education at Weber State Col- Bowden will be leaving before September 1. "I have been offered the position, and I have not turned it down," said Dr. Bowden, who had been principal of the West Austin elementary school since its founding in 1951.

Dr. Bowden said he must make a decision "very soon D. Page, Silver Springs, Gov. John Connally Monday. Dr.

Bowden said the status Klan's activities 'throughout the 1 1 i 1 Connally ordered that flags on iiuuui ana in some uiuiem of the school, rather than his Judge D. B. Wood, Georgetown, and members of the Texas Su states. job offer, is the reason for a "Persons from the lowest in McNamara said most of the preme Court. "It is simply an attempt to special called meeting of the come groups are also the per- Moody's family said that those witnesses will federal offi broaden and use more carefully sons who are most likely to Casis P-TA Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

desiring to do so may make work long or irregular hours, public buildings fly at half mast until Wednesday. Moody will be buried Tuesday in the state cemetery after funeral services (2 p.m.) at Austin's First Methodist Church. Pallbearers will be Louis Scott Wilkerson, Dr. C. P.

Hardwicke, cials, and that leaders of the various Klan groups and of other organizations that might memorial contributions to the University of Texas Law School and they often use buses for transportation which adds to Mrs. Bob Breihan, Casis P-TA (See CASIS, Page 6) a well known technique to reduce the scope of the investment of taxpayers' funds in these programs and to increase the role of private enterprise," he said. DR. M. G.

BOWDEN Studying job offer Foundation or the charity of come under the legislation probably will not testify unless they their choice. (See CARE, Page 6).

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