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Bryan-College Station Eagle from Bryan, Texas • 1

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Sj A VC '4fW3 5 MiiiiB in I 1 1 in ii i ihmii i iiii I A' if yi rine transport plane trash on a 3 i Page 4) If The Defense Department list tne manner vicumsat ulBI 2VIB uNUI ICn the plane at Denver Wednesday pendents to be deported from African countries after being "74 I rgl the East African island of Zan zibar Most of them are working on the construction of a jet air port he saidd The pipe smoklng free lance writer termed Zanzibar a poten tial Cuba referring to the mis sile crisis in Cuba in Nugent said Chinese xNews Agency corresppndenLS' ln Afri ca usually moonlight as experts in guerrilla warfare parties? Nugent grinned Chinese ambassadors usu ally bow and play up to the Chinese correspondents because the correspondents often out aR ntif nf nrwMt twnithreeS and sixes and was waiting for an tetters wfih nickel stamps and pennies taped to tne envelopes been a hectic week for post offices all over the country similar to periods ex perienced three times in the past 10 the postal rates have changed local post offices have had trouble keeping a stock of the six cent andone cent stamps have been buying these like going out of style 4uuiuvxpu buu nc had an order in to Washington ever since the word came down to us of the rate change word we get is printing 24 hours a day and ship ping seven days a week to stamps to post 5 When people have needed the six cent stamps the offices has been able to sell either two 3 centers or a two center and a four center tholack' of one ceht stamps has been our big prob lem Randolph said op erating now on a few the college let us He said the Caldwell postfna ter has contrived a makeshift method of handling the penny and stamp combination He uses his ownrubber stamp that says postage and signs hist initials on the envet Post officer throughout the have reported people trying to trade books of five rent 5 Eagle Staff Writer The new six cent stamps have been appearing on letters for a weeknow most letters any way i However some diehards in sist on using up their old George Washingtons according to local postal officials Holland College Station assistant postmaster estimates that about 200 fetters a day come through with postage And across town in tBryan Assistant Postmaster e'slie Randolph' reports that' even a SU wnw lunnc tar more stamps' the cry of postmasters around the nation faced with ong lines of people trying to ad just to the higher postal rates which went into effect An Associated Press survey showed supplies the new six cent first class and 10 centair mail stamps were low far some centers particularly outside large cities: Many post offices were completelyout of penny stamps sought by people A who were leftwith a stock of the old ive rent kind 7 The Denver post office was completely out of one two cent stamps It had enough six and 10 centers to meet the de mand but had only sheets of President Johnson presents Minuteman lag to the 12th Air orce for their 90 per cent participation in the savings bond program Receiving the fiag is Maj Gen Charles Bond Jr At left is Austin Mayor Harry Alkta The president Oew fTom his ranch to near DALLAS Atty Got Crawford Martin tias Sgreed to aid in a 7anr29 hearing the controversy surrounding the Texas Liquor Control Board The Dallas Morning fat an Austin datelined story 'said Martin agreed to take the action after being asked to do so by WD Noel of Odessa man of the Liquor Control Board Dallas Dist Atty Henry Wade and the Smith County District office at Tyler are conducting investigations into reported irregularities in the TLCB Martin did not say his department would do in the in cutl Jb 4CU out of the penny ones 'S Stamps hadto ie rationed in some areasyiW A Norton vKan man asked for 1000 zone cent i stamps and had to settle for 15 and a Den ver man asked for 300 one cen ters and got only three And the postmaster in Warren Ohio had to limit six centers to 300 per customer Some people their solution for trying to mail a six cent letter with a flve cent stampThey just tape a penny onto the envelope Youngstown Ohio postal officials' finally asked people to stop taping pen nies to letters The metal was hard on the cancellation ma chineSjthey explained Most large cities fared pretty welL' The New York City post offide saM there were long fines CS slates i'Eiection jSgridayJ By SUSAN PATTON Eagle Staff Writer 1 I College Station 'Citizens'will vote Saturday on seven proposed Home' Rule 'Charter amend ments including a possible' 5 Three polling locatfohs' win be open fromS am 7 Residents of Wap! One will vote in me ppsouoaiea acnooi Music'Room Residents of Ward Two win vote at Col lege Hills Elementary School and residents of Ward Three will vote at City HaD? A 1967 Voter Registration Cer tificate will be required of vot ers Saturday' Lists of qualified voters will be available at the polls for voters who have lost or thrown away the 1967 certi ficates Amendment seven on the bal lot which deals with the sys tem of electing councilmen will give voters three choices Listed first will be the amendment recommended by the Citizens Committee which drew up the proposed amendments It pro poses' that councilmen be elect ed at large by all citizens by Place Number Mayor A Andy) Ander son and Councilman Robin Rhodes ljave endorsed the Citi zens' Committee recommenda tions '1 Second choice on the ballot will be the option of retaining the present system of electing (See CS Page 4) TLCB situation a and good example of decay re suiting from lengthy by one political Noel announcing the Janj £9 ptiDuc neaxTnf uim mugii tions against the board said the Department of Public Safe ty had agreed to investigate 1 charges that might be brought out at the meeting Wade it was reported might go to Austin to help in conduct tag the hearing ifPromise 'V BANGKOK Thailand (AP) Ambassador Chester Bowles has promised Cambodia the States do ev erything to avoid acts of aggres sion against Cambodia'? accord ing to a joint communique is sued today at the end of five day mission to Phnom Penh At the same time the Soviet Union moved quickly to oppose any 1 Bowles and Prince NOrodom Sihanouk might have readied to restrict the use of Cambodian territory by the Vietnamese communists nnthine newAHoHand sald'People do that eran when the postal rates are He' also said people have been furthering stamp shortage by stocking up bri the one cent and six cent type's 4 seems that a lot of people bought a i' lot more than they he added" if they 0 in gto print any rt Overall public acceptance 'of 4 (See LOCAL Page 4): IwjjSopteraS Recover Bodies "BATTLE'S MOUNTAINS Ne (AP) Three helicopters have NewThreats SpawShift SAIGON (AP) The US Marine force in South two northernmost provinces in creased to 25 000meqtoday as another regiment was 'moved north to meet the of North Vietnamese division around the demilitarized zone! Senior Marine officers said there are indications' thau the Communist troops Will concen trate on the provinces of Quang Tri which fronts the DMZ and Thua Thlen just below it? in their' expected spring offensive in the north The shift of the 3500 man 5th Marine Regiment from an oper ating area south of Da Nang gives the Marines three' more maneuver which can cover a wide area and tied down in static defen sive inThuaThien Only two Marine battalions had been operating in the province generally The 1 enlarged Marine' force together with'? about 3 12000 South Vietnamese infantrymen makes the allied and Commu nist forces in the DMZ theater of war about equal in infantry manpower according to intelli Marine officers the know In San rancisco Boston Baltittime NW vnnir lAPt Send half eent stflmns after iranspiitiit i Sihwore rojpggj By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The two survivors among the five heart transplant pa tients both were reported im proved today and Soviet sden tists announced 2 they had worked on their transplant tech niques by creating a two headed dog 's Soviet Health Minister Boris Petrovsky said however he is not satisfied with the safety of kawMMW liAAt4 IwnncmlnMlii uccutucuwptauw ftuu' criticized 'South African heartsurgeon Christiaan Barnard other medical news included three hew kidney" transplantsLand 'a' teen age girl rescued from critical condition by use of artificial heart pump Groote Scbuur Hospital Cape Town South Africa raid Dr second brart patient Dr Philip Blaiberg has improved after a brief in which fluid ap peared around his new heart The finis was drained and no more has appeared the hospital bulletin said (See TRANSPLANT Paged)? 4 Bryan i i and Loan Association ir Your RAVINGS 7 Center 't 5 jorcea i nun Gov John Connally at a news conference Thursday Stells By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A new candidate entered the Texas race Thursday and Gov John Connally said he may reconsider and run for in other term after all 'J The 'latest contender while Sen Ralph Yarborough Tex and others still debate whether to follow is Pat 49 a Dallas insurance man He 'promised to file in the 1968 pri mary today with the secretary of state in Austin is a son of LeeM who surprised political Sobservers by winning election as governor in 1939 and moved i up to US senator two years later serving until 1949 Meanwhile Connally who newsmen Nov 10 he would not oia iof a ioutui lerm maicaieaB 4 some second thoughts about run ntag again The governor told newsmen he still did not want to seek re election but would do aEso if his administration became target for assassi In this campaign UH There was Sonfe pointed Sen Ralph Yar borough Tex who has ennufifl ntmc rat tmnnnra ta ymaipa Estill another race forgovernor: 'Gw Jota Connally at a hews conference Thursday Stells Don Yarborough 1 anotiier one reporters he might be forced to enter the 1968 race ymeVcandidate for the office? Ms administration becomes a campaign issue to the extent wno is not reiaiea me senator and Lt Gov Preston Smith the I £irst man to announce in the current campaign 3 All the announced and poten tial contenders so far are Dem ocrats There has been no strong clue to who may enter the Re publican primary Rep' George Bush GOP con gressman from Houston can celled a news conference set for i Saturday in Austin' There had been speculation that he might disclose his intentions then In Stead Bush raid he would his plans about Monday adding that he might rup for US sena tor if the Democratic incumbent iv? seeks the office I Sen Yarborough 'insisting he still had not reached a decision in San Antonio he was eon fldent of winning if he ran governor He likewise predicted defeat for Connally if the gover nor bids for a fourth term senator again denounced administration of Connally i '(See Page 4) mencanMMMsoBe Hiked lii South Vietnam Vr In TLCB Hearing vestigatlon but indicated his staff of 119 lawyers would be available for dutyin any charges that might arise The Department of Public Safety which' also is to be represented at the 29 hearing handles Investigations for the attorney office Gov John Connally Thursday said ft did not appear necessary that any agency other than the Liquor Control Board to look into possible wrongdoing by board Connally praised the board for acting quickly in a Dallas case that resulted in the dis missal of seven employes tar eluding the district supervisors at Dallas and Vic 7 The dismissals? TLCB admin fctrator Coke Stevenson Jr said came over allegations of involving a confis cated panel truck and 11 bottles of confiscated whiskey Wade has said his local In vestigators' have produced doz ens of leads brother parts of the state as well as evidence indicating the possibility of a racket involving some Liquor Board agents The 1 7 viW UBUKjll A Postmaster John Slattery in Waterbury Conn put in an emergency order tsr 50000 pen agndmnps added to his regular 1 met of one million one centers 1 The post office began selling 1 nciimen chanceto object ir wm1 state Repub tocan chairman Issued a state meat nureday calling CITY COLLEGE STATION TEXAS OICIAL BALLOT 7 4 a 5 (Those desiring to vote in favor of any proposed amendment sub mitted shall strike out the word and those desiring to vote against such amendment shall strike out lhe word Amendment Ne you favor the adoption of the amendment of the Home Rule' Charter of the Qty of College Station Texas which updates the description' of the boundary of the 4 YESife Amendment No 2: 1'J 4 you favor the adoption of the amendment of the Home Rule Charter of the City of College Station Texas ttyrt would require that the Mayor and Councilmen boreal property owners in the City of College Station that they not be in arrears in the payment of taxes or other liabilities to the Cfyr and that if in arrears such delinquency shall not be for more than 90 Annulment Na you favor the adoption of the amendment ot the Home Rule Charter of the City of College Station Texas that would provide that the term of office of appointive officials: namely the City Secretary City Judge and Qty Attorney be' for a two year term concurrent with that of the office of the Wrrr 'yes Amendment Ne rq 5 you favqr the adoption of the amendment of the Home Rule Charter of the Qty of College Station Texas that would clarity the limits on contingency appropriations tn the annual budget of the Qty of College Amendment No 5: you favor the adoption of the amendment of theHome Rule Charter of the Qty of College 'Station Texas that would provide additional time for the Board of Equalization to properly donductjts uUi fe 11 4 Amendment No a' you favor the 'adoption of the amendment of the Home Rule Charter of the Qty of College Station Texas that would plarify the procedure "by which the Qty grants jk YES AmTOdmentNoj qt the three proposl you favor the election of Councilmen at large by all citizens by Place 'XVC YES NO feO you favor the present method of election of wXES fNOrt you favor the 'election of Councllmen at large by all citizens but with Coundlmen to reside far the Ward from which etectedUWM 7 it yesv ft 4 'A 5 Lhmese i Africa 1 hreatj a former African dent John Peer Nugent claims the Chinese pose a formidable threatfto the future peace of Africa Chinese are experts at do it yourself Nu jgent declared Thursday night at Texas AAM University would like to start rev olutions almost anywhere far i recently return ed to the United States adter Aiming a television cdocumen tary witfa former astronaut John Glenn claimed 5000 Chi nese are gainfully employed on vide security Jfor shaky lines of communications ncluding Highway 1 "which links allied supply lines from Da Nang to the DMZ to extend the area under control of the South Vietnamese government and to extend Marine strength from Con Thien west to the Laotian IuwIaM l4bMIA lf (See AMERICAN Page 4) pijir 4 jj 111 1 LocalPostOfiices ReportHecticWeekv By DANI PRESSWOOD fewi persons are mailing their stamps in for the new six rent i rj ents who had written about his troubles as a Tame duck gover nor Connally then got serious as he ahswered questions about his problems and fu ture Therq have been report that some powerful Democrats think Connally' should turn' his control of state Democratic ma chinery overdo House Speaker Benf a candidate for lieutenant governors '1 Copaally said Nov' 10 he 'did n6t intend to seek reelection any unforseen possibil 5 1 i Thursday' he said he etill in tends to retire and except if anyindividual attempts a character assassination or to fanpung my motives or degrade my administration it might well be cause for me to change my mind both as to becoming a candidate and certainly as to my activities in the Entry of Sen Ralph Yar borough TeX bit ter and longtime 0 1 1 1 i a 1 enemy into the' race would not in itself restore Con nally's interest in a fourth term he said '4 depends entirely sOi the manner of his I announcement and what is jsald in the cam paign before 'the eb 5 filing Connally said He said he idjd not plan to endorse candidates unless he is personally drawn into the Cam paign as an issue 3 But he left no doubt plans to work1 hard" starting at the 7 xKioee oiaxr rage i of rchanicter (assassmti(m(AP Wireptioto) 1 a 4 Slate Leader 4 1 I M1 'j? 1 tr TTJV' i warns roes AUSTIN (AP) Gov John Connally threw an' open chal lenge Thursday "to those who might try todethrone him as head of thfi state Democratic machinery during 'this chicial election ye Ar A And he warned unnkmed jio liticaKenemies that personal vil lificationor assassl might brimihim into the race dtner as a can didate or as a backer of a gu bernatorial aspirant '5 Opening his conference in good humor I by presenting of the awards to capital 'correspond become suspicious of anyone who asks political ques he said agents blend in very well with the local scenery so easy for officials of the various African governments to get tfd of un xoung reace vorps represen tatives alsb'ar often asked to leave African countries for the same reasonsw often misinterpret in tentions pf the young Peace Corps Nugent said a perfectly natural thing for them to do ask ing questions about the Country (See CHINESE Page 4) awtiHriTewwit Plashes State By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A new Arctic cold front not nearly so bitter as the one that paralyzed the state last touched off pockets Of snow in the Panhandle early' today and broiight another icy chill to northern readies pf Texas Ught snow sprehd to the south and east from the Panhandle be hind the fast moving cold front Light rain fell over the midde mupi entire iihbmmmS QjB RW SO taaSi ism Bilil Vi r' 1 Xk si az a 4 jh iy stamps not MK ns.

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