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Mideast Peace Effort Launched Vol 94 No 306 10 Pages Bryan College Station Texas Thursday June 25 1970 10 Cents News Briefs Acquitted Local Mailmen Deal Demos Resent In Census Reshuffle Policy Debate clear Bureau reported Bryan College Station BBS Baby Killed as Tornado Hits South Texas Area KM Cloudy Tamer Creeks Proposed (See MAP Page 2) Rain Ends Dry Spell 4 Ji and he had sent census office in Ihe Census Bureau id College Station 228 short of the The suit was filed riday in an Austin district court by A Boyett Sr and 24 others Boyett a College Station lan downer served on the council from 1951 to 1968 when he was defeated by TR Holleman who died during his term The suit asks that State Comptroller Robert Calvert be enjoined from paying the 7 6 2 4 3 10 10 5 2 '107 9 2 a events in the Middle East led President Nixon on April 29 to order a thorough review of all political and military aspects of the problem That review has now been concluded a consequence of the re view the United States has un dertaken a political initiative the objective of which is to en courage the parties to stop shooting and start talking under the auspices of Ambassador Jarring in accordance with the resolutions of the Security Coun cil have from probably was The showers were the first meas urable rainfall in the Bryan College Station area since June 1 (Eagle Photo by Harry Young) Pfc Thomas Boyd 19 of Evansville Ind was found innocent Wednesday of charges of unpremeditated murder in the deaths of Vietnamese eb 19 at Son Thang village 27 miles south of Da Nang The young Marine testified before the military court that he shot neither the 16 Vietnamese women and children nor enemy soldiers in Vietnam (AP Wirephoto) Chamber of Commerce has been recruiting names of those families nor counted Nelson By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i 10 day old baby was killed and 17 other persons suffered in juries Wednesday evening as a tornado smashed through a clus ter of trailer homes near Bi shop in South Texas The twister struck as vicious thunderstorms ranged through areas born the north and south parts of the state and more than five inches of rain drenched a 4 section near the Lower Texas Coast Swooping from a black thun derhead the funnel cloud wreck ed eight trailer houses in the Golden Acres Park two miles east of Bishop damaged 10 oth a not a suit so called petition I was asked to sign was not presented to me as a suit but only as a request for more businessmen on the council This I do agree with and I have voiced my opinion on this to several members of the erreri said in a written statement Mailmen in Bryan and College Station have turned in ap proximately 800 to 1000 blue cards to the district census office in Dallas for dwellings on their routes which they feel may have been missed in the census count When census district offices completed their preliminary counts they turned over to the post office a set of white cards listing every address canvassed The mailmen in turn checked these addresses against the households on their routes If the mailmen discovered what they considered a address a blue card was filled out noting this fact The blue cards were referred to the Census Bureau which will check them against census records Charles Higgins of the Bryan Post Office said some 400 600 blue cards had been filled out by route mailmen in Bryan Higgins reported many white cards from other towns had been sent to Bryan by mistake He also said some people Bridge Comics Deaths Editorials amily Horoscope Spot Sports Stocks Television Want Ads Weather Elsewhere ers and flipped over several cars John Earl Allred Jr bom one and a half weeks ago died as the tornado wrecked his trailers The injured including parents of the dead baby were treated at a hospital and the naval air i station dispensary in neighbor ing Kingsville Only six persons were kept in the hospital over night Hal Boswell said the twister hit first at a farm house where he lives and then spun a quar ter mile on the ground into the park where there were about 25 salaries of employes as long as they serve on the council son A Boyett Jr apartment owner justice of the peace and a plaintiff declared council decisions too often favor the university over the tax payer erreri said today to publicly discredit the present city councilmen have worked many long and trying hours at a sometimes thankless is unfair and unjust He said several of the other plaintiffs said they realie they were signing a suit against councilmen know the damage has been great every member of the council is a personal friend of mine and there are many who are influenced into signing or agreeing with an issue just because someone they know signed a erreri said He added that he did not said and he expects to receive want it to happen in this additional names from mem at which time he will send letters to these families College Station City Manager Ran Boswell reported 10 names had been forwarded to him by tne chamber them to the Dallas The Census many households for which cards are filled out have already been counted This can happen for a number of reasons some people get mail at two or more addresses or there may be differences in the way a rural address is described the bureau said The total preliminary count reportei for wai 501 the Mi Bryaa CoUen Station Area orecast: Partly clou dy and warm through riday with widely acattared thundershowers High riday 88 to 98 Low tonight 68 to 80 riday: Sunrise 6:28 aan Sunset 8:32 pan Temperature To noon today llow 71 dogrees at 2:00 am high 81 degrees at 11:00 High Wednesday 84 low 73 Rainfall: or the past 24 hours ending today J2 total thia week 22 total this month 62 total this year 617 Wind velocity: rom the at 0 miles per hour RelaUve humidity: 76 per cent Barometric pressure: 2962 and falling 1 Last Measurable Rainfall: June 24 1970 trailers lyning glass cut Bos well on one arm surprising that more peo pie were not said Alice newsman Whitey Sawyer who was among those at the scene Men were sent from the Kings ville naval air station to help hunt for the Allred baby It took them nearly five hours to find the tiny body Before nightfall a severe thun derstorm warning went out for residents of Wichita and Wilbar ger Counties in the Red River a Valley after radar detected a massive storm moving south ward from Oklahoma backers to make the current Senate debate on Cambodia the major discussion of US Southeast Asia policy stirred angry charges Democrats Republicans made Wednesday they would like to see all antiwar whether intended for this bill or disposed of during the current debate on the military sales bill now in its seventh week it is time assistant Republi can Leader Robert Griffin told the Senate to up these matters and get on to oth er Sen George McGovern SD charged that Republicans would be guilty of and cynical if they try to bring up his amendment to halt US activities in Indochina 1 without his approval He says he wants it consid By RANK GRIIS Eagle Staff Writer One of the 25 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against six members of the College Station city council issued a public apology today and said he has begun action to remove his name from the legal petition a( a Joe erreri manager of the Ramada Inn said he signed to stop snooting and start talk The essence of the still secret US plan it was understood was a broadly worded proposal to Egypt Jordan and Israel for cease fire of at least 90 days during which UN mediator Gunnar Jarring would start ne gotiations on the basis of these Rogers announced the HP Bryan Bond Proposals No 5 By LUCY McDONALD know where they lived because Eagle Staff Writer the Bryan Post Office received many caros maue out persons living in College Station The assistant postmaster for College Station Newell Holland said approximately 400 blue cards had been turned in by mailmen in his office Holland added that he had checked with the City of College Station and discovered their total number of utility accounts was much higher than the amount shown by the census College View and Hensel Apartments were difficult to count Holland said because of the constant transiency Bryan city planner Hubert Nelson told the Eagle he' had received 85 90 names of families which had not been counted Nelson said he mailed about 75 letters to those who were not counted and has received 28 replies to date including several census forms which he mailed to the district census office in Dallas The Veto Due WASHINGTON (AP) House fimirinrr 4a kA ttiiMHAM A15UIUI5 LU UC U1U WUUIUID even if they lose moved today to override President veto of a $125 billion hospital construction bilL They went into vote not par ticularly confident of picking up the two thirds majority to overcome the presi dential rejection of the measure but feeling relatively assured of making poli tical hay regardless Treasure AUSTIN (AP) Texas has petitioned the US Court of Appeals at New Orleans to keep the dispute with an Indiana salvage firm over ae buried Spanish treasure ship out of the federal courts The state asked the court to accept its appeal from an order by Dist Judge Reynaldo Garza of Brownsville taking jurisdiction over the case Appalachia WASHINGTON (AP) The White House is studying the multistate effort to develop Appalachia with an eye toward making it the framework for President approach to government grants ln aid During a recent six state bus tout of the economically depressed region officials of the Appalachian Regional Commission said the idea is being ac tively discussed with the White House fe Air Standards HOUSTON (AP) Proposals and protests raised at a public hearing will no doubt lead to changes in proposals for air standards for the Houston Galveston area by the Texas Air Control Board a board engineer said Bill Stewart said the verbal testimony heard during the two day hearing certainly indicates an over 1 whelming desire to alterwhat they have 9 already recommended Lady Bird ined AUSTIN Tex (AP) Officers said a charge of failure to display a license was dismissed against Mrs Lyndon Johnson Wednesday but she was fined $15 for failure to yield right of way The charge grew out of a traffic accident Tuesday afternoon in which the former first car and another automobile collided at an intersection in Austin Mrs Johnson the wife of the former president did not appear in court and entered no plea The charge of failure to display a license was dismissed officers said after they determined that Mrs Johnson owned a valid license Economy WASHINGTON (AP) The nation is in a recession whether President Nixon will admit it or not Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield has told a nationwide television audience He said the country is mired in in flation unemployment and war and the term is used or not these words spell recession matter many people do you know who would accept a job as councilman? After working eight hours a day at the university would you be willing to spend another eight hours or more solving the problems of a erreri asked kind of a community would College Station be without the university? Most of our professors came here to teach now they are also serving as servants of tne public erreri said anv of us have the right to ask these people to give their time witnout compensation just be thankful we have intelligent people who are willing to do this erreri concluded Mayor A (Andy) Anderson ueniea Boyett statements Wednesday to the university it falls within the city and it is essential that cooperation exist (See ERRERI Page 2) within secure borders in return would pledge withdrawal from Arab lands she conquered in the 1967 war parties would carry out the 1967 UN Security Council talk at this time about US mill resolution for a peace settle tary assistance to Israel ment However he restated what he said was the US national inter By DAVE MAYES generally clean out eight sec Eagle Staff Writer 'tions or tributaries of four Bryan plans to control' creeks flooding by taming some of its City Manager red Sandlin wuaer streams provided voters approve a $175 million drainage project in city bond election Proposal No 5 in the six issue $154 million election would provide funds for the city to widen straighten and 36 WASHINGTON (AP) Ef ered as an amendment to mili forts by Nixon administration tary procurement legislation to oe considered later and will at tempt to block any effort to con sider it now Sen Gordon Allott Colo who had mentioned the possibil ity of such a move said it would be neither cynical nor crude Earlier three Democratic JW ulbright of Ar kansas John Stennis of Mis sissippi and Ernest Boilings of South assailed Re publican Sen Robert successful move to have an amendment repealing the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution added to the military sales bill ulbright who said he fa vored jepeal "by the concurrent resolution approved by his or eign Relations Committee and scheduled for later action voted against amendment preserve the integrity of the Maybe this drowned out motorist was not too happy with 22 inches of rain but everybody who is trying to keep a lawn alive The Daily Eagle irommitments by the opposing political at a news est in sovereignty inde 1 tAnfAWWlAA htlt BtA Ia MA am am Alt a Aa i i i VUIUvlCHtC VUL UC IClUcCU IU KU UvUUCIlUUa UiC IcXllLUlldl IxlLeKrl and Jordan would into details of the new US dip ty of pledge themselves to the princi lomatic effort Nor would he say He described as new factor pie of peace with Israel and ac what the Nixon and a verv serious the introduction of tne new soviet SAM3 antiaircraft missiles in Egypt and the flying of aircraft there by Soviet pilots he added: not inclined to think that Israel is at the moment unable to sup port itself Concerning the peace initia tive Rbgers said: and disquieting wAMiiwuiuN (Ar secre tary of State William Rogers parties umiumitcu Luuaj WHdl UC termed a major new US Mid east peace initiative aimed at MM VMM MUVU gening me Araos ana Israelis knowledge her right to exist decision is on plea for iza modem jet war planes Rogers said because of the importance and sensitive nature of the behind the scenes ap 1 proach to the Middle East oppo nents it would be harmful to 4' CS Inn Chief Sorry To Pull Out of Suit conditions within' the city for the next five years flooding situation here has gotten progressively worse each he said As more land within the city is developed Sandlin explained less open land Is left to absorb the water The more land covered with streets and (See PROPOSAL Page 2) said these Improvements should alleviate potential flooding THE doing more for more IRST BANK TRUST Adv ran 49772 needed for designation of county as a Standard opolitan Statistical Area Chamber and city officials have iiidicated they feel SMSA status Jwould benefit the com munity SH 'A i nOlmnl 1 1 1 I Bto 7 Im I fli A 1 11 J1 II SiWs'' 11' i 3X1 wlA I ri ASA ASM ws" 0Wi.