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ADVOCATE GIORIA VI rrnTTTr ill JLL JJL 127th YF.AR NO. 59 42 PAGES 10 CENTS VICTORIA, TEXAS, 77901, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1972 5S 1 World Given Invitation to, o-Tax Budget" "Worked Conferees Accept Compromise Bill Bicentennial 1 SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP)-President Nixon invited 8 toe world in holiday broadcast Tuesday to come to Amer-lea during its bicentennial era and "share our dreams of a brighter future." In the nationwide radio address from the Western White f. House, Nixon spoke of plans for the nation's 200th birthday celebration in 1976 and said Americans should use the oc- casionto "prove once again that the spirit of 76 is a spirit of openness, of brotherhood and of peace." passed by the Senate and that passed by the House. Both houses reconvene Wednesday.

Final approval of the state budget, for the business year beginning this Sept. 1 and ending Aug. 31, 1973, apparently will bring the special session which began June 14, to an end later this week. 1 Gov. Preston Smith has said he does not plan to submit any other subjects to the session for consideration.

"I think this is a good bill and we can be proud of it," said Barnes, who with Price sat in with the committee Monday night and Tuesday morning. "This is a reasonably good the construction appropriation for Fort Worth" State School from $2 million to $1 million and added the million dollars to the funds available for community services centers operated by the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Earlier the conference committee agreed to give the 30,000 non-faculty employes at state colleges a 6.8 per cent salary raise, totaling $9 million, and faculty members a $2 million raise, about 1.5 per cent. All state employes got a 6.8 per cent raise. In the late Monday night session, the committee finally for the expenditure of $856.4 million from the state's general revenue fund.

The original Senate bill spent $865 from general revenue while the House bill called for $852 million. Barnes said the state comptroller had agreed to certify the bill under the constitution's pay-as-you-go provision that prohibits the state from making any expenditure not covered by expected income. The 10-man conference committee reached agreement on all money items near midnight Monday but met again Tuesday morning for the finishing touches. The last minute action cut bill even if it has some things in It that should not be there," said Sen. A.M.

Aikin, Paris, dean of the Senate, who fought a provision in the bill that blocks the Texas Highway Department from building a new headquarters in downtown Austin. The provision directs the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to pay the Highway Department $1.9 million for the building site, across the street from the governor's mansion, and turn it into a state park. The site includes the foundations of an earlier state capitol that burned in 1881. The final totals of the bill call I The President specifically suggested that business and in- dustry attempt to cut the costs of travel, lodging and meals, and that air carriers and shipping lines explore ways of of- faring inexpensive transportation. jj: "Let us be known throughout the world as the 'Land of the Open Door," the chief executive said.

He voiced hopes that "millions upon millions of Visitors" from around the world would respond to his invitation to come to the United States 0 during the bicentennial era. xj Nixon said one "compelling reason for this invitation to the world relates to our hopes for genuine and lasting peace among nations." are aware that real structure of peace cannot be built on good will alone," he said. "Its foundation must be the ft resolution of those basic national differences which can lead to war." "The United State is doing everything in its rawer to lav 1 down that kind of foundation -v -y In A Ll A- fl.LJ uu iripc rexuig ana ivjoscow ana ms quest iot nuciear arms limits. i One of the best ways to reduce the danger of war and en- nance the quality of peace is through people-to-people con- tacts, Nixon said, adding: like individuals, stand a better chance of I working constructively together if people on both sides can learn to respect one another as fellow human beings. Our 8 invitation to the world can contribute significantly to that crucial process.

The President said be would be sending formal and official invitations to governments around the globe welcoming all people to visit the United States "as la ws and circumstances I 1 for peace." Nixon said, citing Page 12A) Wins DIANE BOYD Whole World in His Hands." The 5-foot -7 blue-eyed beauty from Victoria was active in many organizations in high school, including the Vic-toriadores drill team. Student Council, Future Teachers, snd served aa a class officer and member of the Victoria Youth (See DIANE. Page 12 A) fj permit" After observing that America has been peopled by immi- grants from many lands, Nixon said the bicentennial era is a time to say to the world's nations: "You helped to make us what we are. Come and see what wonders your countrymen have worked in this new country of ours. Come and let us say thank you.

Come and join in our celebration of a proud past Come and share our dreams of a brighter future." Earlier Tuesday, the chairman of the NAACP board of di- 1 si AUSTIN AP) Texas House and Senate negotiators celebrated July 4th by approving a compromise $4.1 billion state budget that will not require new taxes. Lt.Gov. Ben Barnes said the settlement drafted by five senators and five representatives will be presented the Senate Thursday afternoon. Speaker Rayford Price indicated the House will take up the conference report on Friday. Both houses were in recess Tuesday for the holidays while the conference-committee tried to settle differences between the 1973 state spending bill Allies Hit Edge of Quang Tri SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers penetrated the southeastern city limits of Quang Tri on Tuesday, killed at least 20 North Vietnamese defenders and recaptured a dozen artillery pieces lost when the country's northernmost province fell to the enemy more than two months sgo.

Allied sources said several hundred airborne troops staged a lightning assault against enemy defensive strongholds and set up their own defensive dispositions at nightfall, a half mile from the city center. The government announced two towns in the area were reoccupied. The government flag was raised during the afternoon at Mai Linh a district headquarters 1.2 miles southeast of Quang Tri, but considered within the city limits. Mai Linh and Hai Lang, six miles southeast of Quang Tri, were the first of 14 towns that fell during the three-month -old enemy offensive to be recaptured by government forces. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that South Vietnamese marines on the eastern flank of the man government drive were within four miles of the city.

Their officers predicted they could be in Quang Tri in a day if ordered. Elements of the airborne troops moving up Highway 1 toward Quang Tri encountered the first bunkers in what was believed to be a heavy line of fortifications around the city. One U.S. airborne adviser, Capt. Gall Furrow, 32, of Urns na, Ohio, said: "The enemy appears to be pulling back, but we're encountering resistance from nearly every treeline, every village "If they decide to put all their people in Quang Tri and stand and fight, it's going to be rough," be told Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen.

North Vietnamese troops to the rear of the advancing forces kept up pressure on the western defenses of Hue, 30 miles southeast and shelled the See ALLIES, Page II A) Up Match A Aaocitttd Prtu Wireptwto market road, killing five in this car and three in the second. All the victims were from Abilene. CAR IN FATAL WRECK Hiis car, driven by Curtis L. Renfro, 18, of Abilene skidded into another Tuesday afternoon just north of Abilene on a rain-slick farm to Toll Climbs in State, Nation (See INVITE, Victorian Abilene Crash Kills Eight Seguin Pageant Out agreed to a Senate plan to continue state meat inspections at a cost of $4.3 million for the next year. House members wanted to let the federal inspectors take over the job.

Another compromise provided $298,000 to start a Drug Dependent Youth Project at Vernon State School, a cut from the $1.03 million authorized in the House bill. Texas Tech Medical School was allowed $400,000 to begin operations a cut from the asked by the governor. The money was embargoed against any of it being used to plan or construct a proposed Tech school of veterinary medicine. Dem Fight Taken Up In Court "MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP Youthful protesters conducted a mock funeral for a slain Vietnamese hijacker outside the site of next week's Democratic Convention here Tuesday while the court battle over the bitter California and Illinois credentials cases moved to the U.S.

Appeals Court in Washington. About 40 demonstrators, representing several protest groups, left quietly after police refused to let them place a 3-by -5-foot piece of plywood strewn with hibiscus flowers in a canal as part of the funeral for Nguyen Thai Binh. He was slain in Saigon Sunday while trying to hijack an American jetliner. Meanwhile, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, who has forged to the front of the Democratic presidential race with little help from the normally influential leaders ot organized labor, picked up the support of a union official who formerly backed Sen.

Edmund S. Muskie. Jerry' Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes, said in Washington he would urge delegates, including 25 who are members of his union, to back McGovern. A second union leader, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock, said in Detroit Tuesday he could "gladly endorse" either McGovern or Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey if nominated, but he said this did not amount to a formal endorsement. McGovern spent the Independence Day holiday at his farm on Maryland's Eastern shore. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, one of his chief rivals for the nomination, was at his lakeside home in Waverly, Minn.

The candidates and most of (See FIGHT, Page 12A) Index ABby Altro40QV Cltlttfted Gortn left HMltfl Corner )A Movitl ta Parade 12A Sportl I 4A TV 1.09 IB TV Stoul SB Womvn't Newt Word A Day ICS i 38 HA 10 Comic i Crmword Deittit Cdtoril P9t Refugio, and Janell Guerrero, third, daughter of Mr and Mrs Adolf Guerrero of Refugio. Other winners in the "Little Mr." contest were Curtis Washington, second, son of Mr. (See EVENT, PsgetZA) Kiddie Train Jumps Track Victoria's only "passenger" train was involved in a derailment Tuesday morning. The Suburban Kiwanis Special, a miniature train operated by the civic club of the same name on 2.650 feet of track in Riverside Park, derailed shortly before 11 30 police said, when the gasoline engine struck a rock on the track. The engine overturned with the engineer, Edward Bleeker of 703 E.

Vtrginir and Lillian Threadgill, 7, a passenger, escaping with minor cuts They were not hospitalised. Police Officer Bill Weaver Jr. investgated Uic inciden. Friday, and was.tacontinue through Tuesday midnight. A rain was falling at the crash site in West Central Texas when the eight were killed seven apparently instantly and the eighth dying in a hospital.

In addition to the traffic deaths, there were 10 drownings and 15 deaths by gunire. The count began at 6 p.m. Friday and continued until midnight Tuesday. Killed in the Abilene crash, all Abilene residents, were: 1. Teresina C.

Sherman, 54. 2. Mrs. Sherman's daughter, -A-Ni Linda, 18, a recent high school graduate. 3.

Mrs. Sherman's son, Jeffe-ry, J3. 4. Herman Suiters, 16. 5.

Brenda Joy Walker, 15. 6. Curtis L. Renfro. 18.

7. Debra Bell, U. 8. Kathy Livingston, 14. The Shermans were in one car and the others in a second vehicle Injured and taken to surgery were Roddy Lee Quails, 12, in the Sherman car but not a member of the family, and Michael Renfro, 16, in the second vehicle.

The accident occurred on FM 600, about 300 yards north of the Abilene city limits. Other latest reported deaths Francis Ovid Willoughby, 47, of Fort Worth died Monday from injuries suffered Sunday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident in Fort Worth. Austin James Bill, 31, died Monday night of injuries suffered in a traffic collision earlier in the evening in Beaumont. James Alvin Hale, 41. of El (See TOLL Page 12A) Holiday Cool Front Drops Temperatures A Fourth of July "cold front," a rare bird indeed in South Texas, dropped temperatures 20 degrees in two hours Tuesday in Victoria, and dropped .17 of an inch of moisture, the National Weather Service said Sunday night.

The temperature drop occurred between 5 and 7 p.m., the drop being between 93 and 73 degrees. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Eight persons died in one traffic accident Tuesday afternoon on the edge of Abflene's city limits as the toll of violence spurted upward in Texas on the last day of the long July 4th holiday. The Abilene accident brought the holiday traffic toll in Texas to 55 at that hour. This was only three less than the 58 deaths predicted for the period by the Department of Public Safety with 10 more hours to go in the tabulation period. Across the nation, traffic fatalities approached 700 as the long Fourth of July weekend wound to a close Tuesday night The count began at 6 p.m.

Weatk er Partly cloudy with afUght chance of afternoon showers. South to southeast winds 8-18 m.p variable and gusty near showers. High Wednesday near 90, low in the upper 70s. Probability of showers 20 per cent Wednesday and 30 per cent Wednesday night. Strong winds also accompanied the front, with a gust of 41 m.p.h.

recorded at 5:26 p.m. The first wind from the north was noted at 5:18 p.m. The front was earlier predicted to stall between San An-S tonio and Victoria, but the cool air brought welcome relief from persistent heat in the mid-90's for the past several ji: days. The cool air is expected to linger long enough to keep heat from reaching the same maximums Wednesday, a weather $: spokesman said. Refugio Celebration Spassky Takes Turn mv.

'w. jT-d. tl Ad vacated Newt Service SEGUIN Mies Victoria Diane Boyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Boyd, wo the Mias South Texas title for 1973 Tuesday in competition with 11 girls from throughout South Texas.

Mist Boyd, 1971 graduate of Victoria High School, is the second Victoria girl in a row to capture the regional beauty title. The W71 winner was SheOey Lee, who is presently h) Fort Worth competing in the Miss Texas beauty pageant. Miss Boyd has earned the right to represent South Texas at the Miss Texas pageant next year. Both girts won their initial Miss Victoria titles in contests sponsored by the Victoria Exchange Club. Another local winner, Sandra Parker competed in this year's Miss South Texas event as Mis Victoria County.

First runner -up Tuesday was Sandra Holub of Bay City and second runner-up honors went to Chert Lundcniist of Eagle Lake. Other finalists included Joyce Bonnett of Yoakum. Mias DeWitt County; and Terry Harris, Miss Refugio County. Miss Bonnet was also named Ai loelig segu crowned the new Miss South Texas at the conclusion of the bathing suit division held at Starcke Park's swimming pool. In the earlier talent division, Mias Boyd had presented a vocal rendition of "He's Got the CfiucUe Year eaaaet expect te becasat a skilled eta-vmatJtaalitt aay toager aatil yea eaa leans hew to pat year Im4 tactfaffy threaga Ike te lev Is km set.

Town Tallc E. W. (Baddy) Schraasas hoping all American Legion members remember the Post 1M meeting and installation at I tonight Mike Maetler, Terry Stftlth and Jha Harris having a few taughta with Jesas AIm at the Astrodome. Ned tWIios and Dale Hat finding tut that it's small world. Treddle fetches offering some tn the Job training to fellow Jayceet.

Beatrice Htrt-tdM taking forward to an upcoming event. Holding Bayside Entry Wins Frog Jumping Event REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Now It's Boris Spassky'i turn to say no and the world chess championship it off again. The Russian titleholder launched his counterattack Tuesday with a stem protest, some sharp criticism, a walkout and a demand for a twoday postponement of the start of the match with American Bobby Fischer. Fischer slept through It He had arrived in the morning from New York and went straight to bed to rest up for the first game, let fori p.m. When Fischer woke up he found that the title aeries was put off until Thursday at the earliest.

It was to have begun last Sunday. Summing up th day, Max Euwa, president of the International Chess Federation, said: "When Spassky at ben Fischer doesot come. As soon at Fischer comet, Spassky runt away." The Russians turned up in tore at noon for what was to be a drawing of lots to decide who would play white, and have the first movt, to tht opener. They refused to draw with Fischer's second, a Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. William Lombtrdy, and read a statement calling Fischer's delaying holdout intolerable.

Tbey protested Euwe'a decision to tolerate it Whet Fischer failed to appear Sunday as be should have, Euwt allowed him until noon Tuesday te show up la Reykjavik er forfeit his that at Spassky, Fischer's refusal to come by Sunday was based on a disputt with tht organiiers over money. Tht argumtnt waa settled Monday when British financier James Slater offered to sweeten aa already record pot with a donation of British pounds about $130,000, Fischer aald he would play. The Russians said Tuesday that Fischer had violated the rules of Sit match. They wanted aa apology. Euw reported they had soma harsh words lor him as well.

"I'm a bad boy," fte71-yetrold Dutchman said with a smile. Spassky read his statement from what looked like aa official document la Russian. created the Impression that he wis acting tSeeSPASSKT.PsgetlA) Advocate News Service REFUGIO A crowd estimated at 1,000 attended the annua Refugio Jaycees Fourth of July Celebration in Refugio Tuesday at Lions Club Park. Of special interest was the frog jumping contest. Winning first place in the senior division with his entry, "One-Eyed Jack." was John Massey of Bayside.

Massey's frog Jumped 10 feet, 1 inches. Winner in the junior division frog event was "Old Sambo," owned by Trish Harkins. Trainer was Lori Moeller. "Old Sambo" jumped 10 feet, 1 in-chet. Also featured at the celebration was a "Little Miss" and "Little Mr." contest.

First place winners were Monica asneros, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Osneros of Refugio, and Michael Homer, ton of Mr. and Mrs.

Eric Horner of Woods boro. Placing in the Little Miss contest were Sherry HesseRi ne, second, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hesseltine of ffaMQattV4)4)Bj tTajtj Vsaja)ta)ajtt WAITING "The stage te let, but the players are missing." The chess table and chatrt which are to be used by American Bobb Fischer and Russian Boris Spassky await the start of the world championship match. The match will be held at the vast Laugardalscholl Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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