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VOCAT 123rd Year-No. 157 Victoria, Texas, 77901, Friday, October 11, 1968 22 Pages-10 Cents Red Units Hurtiiir All Systems OK'd THE VICTORIA For Food 'Malnutrition aunck Fof 4 Apollo Found in Dead SAIGON (AP) Some North Vietnamese units that once threatened Saigon are on the verge of starvation after huge WHILE DRIVING food caches were seized in ti nea sweeps, oil jeers re ported Thursday. Astronauts Confident Of Success Locksmitli Dies Of Heart Attack Rusk Sees Czech Issue As Serious Calls It Cloud On U.N. Goals Adding to the enemy difficulties. North Vietnamese bases near the Cambodian border have been pounded by U.S.

B32 high altitude bombers and enough weapons have been captured since Jan. 1 to equip four divisions, the U.S. Command re C. Baass withheld a verdict in ported. Big Caches Found Roy Lingo, 70-year-old Victoria locksmith and gunsmith, died of an apparent heart attack Thursday evening while driving his car in the 2700 block the death until Friday.

Lingo was born Oct. 18, 1897, in Victoria County, to the late J. A. and Lela Lassiter Lingo. He was a member of the Methodist Church.

Funeral arrangements are WASHINGTON (AP) Secre- The command added that in the past two weeks nearly 100 tons of cached rice have been (. .1 ct. Weather Called Only Question CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) Weather was "a bit of a question mark," but three confident Apollo 7 astronauts Thursday were given a "go" to blast off Friday on an 11-day space flight that could steer America back on course to the moon. TTtrnn a l-ua Mnnnfrtnnrn twL- trayed the Soviet occupation J0 found.

U.S. officers said that while Police said the car Czechoslovakia Thursday as "a jumped 87 feet curb and traveled very serious development." He some isortn Vietnamese turns: Deborah is a student at Travis Junior High. School, and a member of Port Lavaca 4-H Club. (Advocate Photo) said it has thrown a cloud over U.N. proceedings, stymied pro pending and will be announced by McCabe-Carruth Funeral Home.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Vivian Le Vasseur Lingo and TOP STEER Thirteen-year-old Deborah Blinka proudly shows her steer which was declared the Grand Champion Steer at judging Thursday at Calhoun County Fair. gress toward East-west solutions, worried small nations and caused a sober reassessment of Western defenses. three daughters, Mrs. D.

fr rrvr before coming to rest in front of the Continental Barber Shop, 2708 Houston Highway. Lingo was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly after 6 p.m. Lingo, of 306 W. Lantana, operated Lingo Repair Shop at 101 N. Moody St.

are still well fed some, such as the Dong Ngai Regiment, are hard hit The Dong Ngai Regiment has bees operating around Lai Khe, 45 miles northwest of Saigon but now it is scattered looking for food, they reported. Enemy Starving k.A, Mullenix, Mrs ryin however, project officials adv Thompson and Mrs. Nomsj mitted there was "a distinct oenroeter of Victoria: eight rvMcihiiitv" tk fiioM mr. Rusk spoke somberly of the continuing East European tensions during an impromptu grandchildren and two great- an astronaut Walter M. Schirra Justice of the Peace Alfred "These guys (the Dong Ngai grandchildren.

news conference following his Champion Entries Selected At Calhoun County Fair By MARY BAKER PHILLIPS Advocate Staff Writer Jr. and his two space rookie co-pilots, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham, will not go the full 11 days. return from meetings with foreign ministers, Including Rus sia's Andrei A. Gromyko, at the U.N.

General Assembly's fall opening. Senate Republicans Block 'Debate' Bill NATO Meeting One of his New York sessions May Cut Trip "We expect the possibility and we think it's a distinct possibility to shorten it, but wt are planning for the full duration," said William C. Schneider AdoIIo 7 miftrinn rfirwtnr for PORT. LAVACA Deborah Blinka's 835-pound Hereford steer was named grand champion of the junior livestock exhibitors shows at the Calhoun County Fair, which opened Thursday for a three-day run. The animal won first place in a was with North Atlantic Treaty Organization foreign affairs chiefs.

They will meet again on are starving to death," one U.S. officer said. "Most of the bodies of Dong Ngai soldiers we kffied in battle how some signs of malnutrition. The prisoners of war from that regiment say they are out looking for rice. The eight-engine B52s were out in force again Thursday attacking enemy base camps around Saigon, including those around Lai Khe.

Bombs Hit Bases Since June 1, after a new enemy offensive was blunted, the B52s have dropped 125,000 tons of explosives on base camps, infiltration corridors and other targets lanrwnding the capital field of 18 entries. The Democrats, in an effort tO the National Aernnantir. inri Deborah, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Blinka of Port Lavaca, also WASHINGTON (AP) Republican used sit-out Thursday to force into legislation designed to open the East European situation in Brussels in mid-November.

"the NATO countries are thinking about this matter so- exhibited the grand champion steer in 1966, and this was her third show entry. ine Dreeoer ot ner cnamp was force Senate reconsideration, Space Administration, said they are organizing their "Our most important learning forces to prevent the House get-! for this flight is to determine ting a quorum to approve a res-, how the spacecraft lasts," add-olution adjourning Congress. led flight director Glynn Lunney Hans are to adjourn In a news conference. "We can Carol Blake She is an eighth grader at I berly and in detail as to what mJor presi. candidates.

But House Travis Junior High School, and effort in NATO," be said. Democrats plotted a counter sib- is a four-year member of the but it takes approval of such a just about every systems resolution by both House and! objective in the first three or Nets $759 oat to revive the measure. Nations Worried Furthermore, the secretary Senate. four days," if an equipment 'said the Soviet move had The bill to lift the equal requires the mission to Port Lavaca Community Club. In First Show Van Crittenden's 933-pound Brahman cross breed was named reserve champion of For Owner "thrown a cloud over the con "We're running out of good Queen of Calhoun Fair PORT LAVACA-Carol Blake, 17, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. House Passes law to permit free broadcast de-i lcluuliaiwl y. lic aaaea. siderations of the United Nations," tossed a monkey wrench Showers Forecast bates between the three major A dree Ntwi ferric targets," one source said. "We're hitting 0d base areas Just in case tbey decide to come PORT UVACA-Oeborah into a wide range ot efforts to that class.

Van, son of Mr. and presidential candidates was shelved when Senate Majority down. They wont have anything improve East-West relations Mrs. Carl Crittendon of Olivia, Blinka's 835-pound 'Hereford 1.75 Billion Foreign Aid E. Blake, of Port La Leader Mike Mansfield, D- to come oowa to.

Calhoun steer. Grand Oiamninn the is a sophomore at vaca was crowned queen of the and aroused apprehensions among small countries wondering if what happened to Czecho B52s ranged north of the de- 85 livestock exhibitors show FFA member. This was hiss thm r. at the Calhoun County Fair. "Weather is a little bit of a question mark at the moment," as far as the launch is concerned, said Dr.

Wernher von Braun, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in HuntsvMle, which developed Saturn-Apollo rockets. "The predictions are good, but there will be some shower inilitaraed tone into southern slovakia might happen to them. 1968 Calhoun County Fair at the coronation ceremonies Thursday night at the fair first show. Breeder of his North Vietnam for their targets WASHINGTON (AP) A was unable to muster a quorum on the House-passed biH He said under the circumstances be had no choice except to bow to the GOP opposition. T- ATr- And be questioned whether was purchased for 91 cents a pound and a total of $739.85 in three of eight strikes Friday.

animal was Bill Kyle of Nurs compromise $1.75 billion for Moscow's current claim that So grounds. at the auction Thursday night. ery. Lynn Frazier, 12, son of Mr. cialist doctrine allows interven Tactical iignter-Domber crews reported setting off numerous secondary explosions in raids eign-aid appropriation bill, the smallest in history, was passed by the House Thursday and sent xuiss aiaae, lawoun senior and vocational office education tion in internal affairs of a Com and Mrs.

Lester And cv. vr. wn, "activity In the morning. Michigan, spokesman for the' hnilMV. should the shower situation munist state is merely Justifica Thursday over the southern sweetheart, was selected indi "'for hA alf httl hv th to tne benate, tion for the invasion of Czecho calves.

He exhibited a Here The bill was passed by a 123- Democratic House group, said informal discussions with 50 Democrats showed them all to slovakia or Is "a major new line of policy for the Soviet Union." 93 roll call vote that was a field of 24 candidates. Anita Miller, 15, CHS sophomore, was first runner up and Carol Erwin, 16, was second dragged out for an hour and 45 be in agreement with borrowing News Bnenng Rusk dropped in at the dally ford steer. He is a two-year member of the Long Mott 441 Club, and a seventh grader at Travis Junior High. Joe Lara, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Prima Lara, won first Travis Junior High School student. Van Crittenden's 933-pound reserve champion steer sold for $671.76, or 72 cents per pound, to Mrs. W. C. Melborn.

Bauer Dredging Co. purchas minutes in order to round up the tactic of absenteeism used runner up. enough members to produce a State Department news briefing by the Senate Republicans. He said be expects more would ac to help inaugurate opening of a1 quorum and make it legal The new queen was presented the traditional bouquet of red new conference room for corre The bill is about $136 million tually Join if the decision is place in the lamb showman- carnations by W. S.

Duke. spondents. ed the grand champion lamb iu um Krana cunuiDiun uuu li- i made to go ahead with the more than the House originally voted for the 21-year-old pro master of ceremonies, XJCr from Charles Krause for $170. He repeated former Secretary crowned by Patti Carter. h1UD- Victoria livestock Commis- of State Cordell Hull's remarks gram and about $176 million less than the enate approved on a similar occasion 24 years ing queen.

Duke also presented i Charlie Kraus xhihitM thJsk)n purchased the grand cham- House sit out. A final decision will be made Friday morning, be said. The House has been barely able to muster a quorum in the ago. In which Hull stressed the' previously. trophles to the three selected jgrand champion Suffolk Baow from Shirley importance of the press in alert President Johnson originally panhandle.

On the ground, Viet Cong mortared the provincial capitals of My Tho and Go Cong in the Mekong Delta early Friday. The two barrages, totaling 37 rounds, killed two persons and wounded 35, Vietnamese bead-quarters said. Around Saigon, allied troops turned up two pairs of "significant' caches of enemy arms and equipment Thursday, nine and 24 miles northwest of Saigon, the U.S. Command said. The finds added to a large stockpile of enemy war material turned up recently.

Describing earlier discoveries, military spokesmen said Thursday that intelligence, defectors and intensified sweeps were credited with recent successes in rooting out the enemy stores. The UJS. Command said the total of captured enemy arms since Jan. 1, was 42,924 individual pieces and 8,770 crew-served per pound. fading days of the session, so ing public opinion to foreign affairs developments.

His 92-pound entry took first Judges were Mrs. Robert! place in a field of 24 entries Garden and Miss Sarah Lowrie, Charlie, a fifth grader at Madi-both of Corpus Christl and unn i throo-vAup naa requested $2.9 billion. The bffl is the last of three the loss of even 50 members (See BILL, Page ISA) Current reporting of State De money measures awaiting final McDonald Feed Store' paid ner brother, Wesley Williams, $162 or 75 cents a pound for his reserve champion. partment activities is carried out "by a highly qualified, alert. action by Congress driving for Michael Schamis of Houston, manager of third floor fashion of Long Mott -Green Lake 4-H Club.

adjournment Friday. The Weather salon at Sakowitz's downtown The 103-pound Southdown The compromise $72 billion Dr. A. W. Kelton paid Ray Effi Kurtz $200 for his lOundfrlffz (See FAIR.

Page HA) grand champion corning gamei store In Houston. Mrs. Charles Porter was contest chairman and Mrs. P. F.

defense measure worked out by House-Senate conferees Thursday, largest single money bill in history, is scheduled for House INDEX Mostly cloudy Friday through Saturday, a little wanner Friday and Friday night. Variable Today's Chuckle cate that the wind prior to launch may increase, it ma become necessary for the crew to leave the spacecraft in which case we would scrub for 24 hours," he said. Subsystems Click Otherwise, "everything is right on the money and an tests of subsystems clicked off like a charm" in preparation for liftoff, the rocket expert said. "I found the crew in a highly confident frame of mind," said Von Braun. "Tbey are eager to go and are' happy to bear that all our systems are go both in the launch vehicle and spacecraft." Packing an American flag Inside their cone-shaped spaceship, the Apollo 7 pilots are to speed into earth orbit aboard a thundering 224-foot-taU Saturn IB rocket.

The $145 million, 163-orb mission wil! answer two questions: Has the nation recovered from the Apollo 1 tragedy, which killed three astronauts and grounded ail manned space flights for 20 months? Can Apollo spaceships safely fly men to the moon? If the mission goes the full 4'-million miles. Navy Capt Schirra, Air Force MaJ. Eisele and civilian astronaut Cunningham wili have logged a combined total of 780 man hours in space compared to only (34 man hours accumulated by all Soviet cosmonauts to date. Success also could clear the way for the next astronaut (See APOLLtf Puge HA) action Friday. easterly winds to 15 I At A a A Atoy HMJffc capon.

nsn Restaurant paid Larry Dolejisi $76 for his 11-pound reserve champion entry. Dr. E. S. Crenshaw purchased Johnny Smith's 23-pound grand Elder musician.

Mrs. Art Shrader was narrator for the fashion show pre-: sorted by Fashion World while AMrtarr Mrlur.i Senate-House conferees ex- IB Becoming souujeasieny i a i Friday. Expected Friday tern- CteMMH Mark (Mlfi Pirate 'a pected to have ready for final What seme our young people seem to be protesting about Is that they think they've been consideration Friday a comDro-lperatures: Low in mid- 60s, the Judges were making their decisions. champion board breasted ha tv Frrm mise suDolemental maTm men in low 80s. Wuwtm't Mm Mitarial Fh fimHinff miuwllaruma mn.lu (' Com! WMr DM Jl ftVliVH.S.

rw ia bronze turkey for $150. Dr. M. S. Horine paid Gwen Record $115 for her 23-pound entry.

weapons, phis 2,093 rockets. That many weapons would easily equip four North Vietnamese divisions, which officially number about 12.100 men each, the command said. While actual fi chtiiu has been PROGRESS REPORTED BUILDING LARGER ROCKET Some 111 entries were sold during the suction for a grand total of $13,43.32. the largest total sales receipts in the Von Brauii Predicts Soviet Some Kinds of Cancer Controlled by Drugs history of the Junior livestock! show sales. This topped the last -year's record receipts of by $1,709.37.

in a relative lull recently, U.S. officers consider operations in search of weapons and food caches to have been unusually successful la many cases the stockpiles are believed to hart been destined for use in new offensives against South Vietnamese cities. In the ah war over North Moon Landing Next Summe David Janis had the misfor- WASHINGTON (AP) Druesl Ha her ipntid. have completely controDed-but session emphasized that drugsjearly Thursday morning prior not cured some forms of can- so far have not runerf nv nt th CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)i Flight Center, directed develop-1 stopover in lunar orbit, which is i UlA UIV uurcit utg Space expert Dr.

Weraber of the Saturn rockets. the American plan. Vietnam, flew 115 VS. i7' caiprs, only halted their signs up a purse of $93 and presented missions riand P1 temporarily. a to the young exhibitor, A7 Corsair had to tai They said, for exam nle.

that Tronhie. wer nre.nteH hv von Braun predicted Thursday tie ai a ine cani They then could take off from that Russia soon may launch 0000 tnd direcUy rocket more nowerful than aruX he saii Saturn 5 can and one Navy favy dodge a SAM missile, a U.j'Jr 'a acute, leukemia to children has the Calhoun CounW Cattlemen's as the United Stales did with Sa send 101,000 pounds to the moon. America's Saturn and that spokesman said. Pilots reported, 7 JT' heen halted in 90 to 100 per cent (S ruiMP 10A1 destroying or damaging 17 Gordn Zubrod. sden-of the cases, and half of the 'wnwifjipiwi turn they could send men on a llJLi, the moon with tbe use to land men on the tnwm rocket ply boats and two trucks.

He also mentioned tbe possibility the Russians could launch an unmanned ship to a soft-landing on tbe moon, then iZr.lr live at least three lid rh iTaxpavcrs Will tuie, said cancers which have a. recenOv ai four var on been halted temporarily are mi Dewaununer That, be said. COtM occur ear- When You Givr The United Wav you give to Victoria Teen-Age llafteliall League ine aauirn is ine 3b-siory-'y next year, tall rocket which will hoist VS. Von Braun said that If the launch the cosmonaut crew. WASHINGTON (AP) Your solid tumors, Hodgkin's disease.

astronauts tne moon, nopetul- Russian rocket can send be-l choriocarcinoma, Bnrkitt's rya- next income tax forms may be in red, white and blue. median survival rate of those was only one year to IS months. For cancer of the breast and pnoma ana testicular tumors. Participation ia Vie- which would use the first ship to return to earth. Von Braun said that if the Soviets don't have any development problems, they could possibly land mei on the moon next summer about the time a per 7 year, if the three-man twees 130,000 to 150,000 pounds Apollo 7 crew, scheduled for to the moon, cosmonauts could launching Friday, has a sue fly spaceship directly from cessful mission, a Saturn may the earth to the moon without a burl tbe Apollo 8 crew into an He said those which don't re- twrta Trvn-Af Ban The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that more than 30 Ml iuiia uuuuux a wen to drug treatment hn uut in tw.

tn nil Irachn jronns distinction between mulwo taxpayers will receive ll mrn food portuman. Decern- Ava Nentea insisting 'V mo per cent of the cases; for lung tiZZ orbit about tbe moon Tin she deserves no special honors for future control Sneer, less than one per cent, ,0 as an early bird soHd tumors such aiitbe said. "P1 set If It wffl- Henry Goldma. commenting on ctrt of the breast, lungs, co-; Asked what makes the can-! tnem make fewer errors. I ApoUo 7 will use a sm UF (iroiij)s Set Report Meeting smaller Sa fect Apollo program would send astronauts there, Other U.S.

experts said that i Von Braun mieht be somewhat turn IB rocket apkmntsight.31n.Rfckar4;'PTOUWaMkWDCy- leers run out of control and; Red lettering will be used In (hip. aivtns tham haslthjr. actlv outtet fur thttr tnarflta throtish empttv participation In America avortta paittm. Fund Needs: $1,000 2 Asked about reports the Rus CeUea catching a spelling xucs now under way on the cause death after having been places bere most of the mis- Joe Mllaai Jr. matins sood solid, unresponsive tumors will controlled by drugs for some, takes are made.

Tbe rest of tbe sians are building a bigger, rocket, Von Braun said: All Victoria County United optimistic about Soviet possibili-Fund divisions will port, ties. Tbey noted that if tbe Sa-Friday noon at Totah's Motel jtimhrtic about Soviet possibili-Restuarant, according to Otto turn launches men in Decern- use of Post Office equiproent.uk lee Ave years to pro- "To the best of our knowl time, zubrod said "I don't think; lonns mo wtu tie primed in we know." (blue ink on the usual white pa- Dr. Howard E. Skfppcr, vlce'per. president and director of tbe; "if chive that trm rat edge, the big Russian booster Schaenemann, campaign ber as planned, that wili be 13 Joha Ham mack exceedinglyia" n7 rwuiis, z.uDroa saia, proud of his new son Ira because these cancers grow Sklar giving up a prlied 'lowly-possession.

JIari Armstrong! At a briefing for reporters, offering an opinion on how we Zubrod said research Is Droduc- has not flown yet, not even un-jchatnjun. months after hi first test flight. Kettering-Meyer Laboratories Just a fracUon of 1 per cent it of Southern Research Institute' moan. trmenAm. You Kelp More JheUnilcdWay manneo.

mil i wouidn be surprised to see it go off any day." Von Braun, director of the spaca agency's Marshall Space The campaign reached $87,1441 Tbey feel the Russians probably Wednesday, or CIS per cent of. couldn't do it any sooner after ito $139,330 goal for 17 desenring'tbe first test launch of a big agencies. jboonter. snouia go aooui ireeing the inf steady advances, but there, cirmmgnam, saia Commissioner Sheldon S. crew of the U.S.S.

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