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County Cotton SS, 21,820 Bales Last Year 17,139 he hildress I ndex (CELEBRATING OUR 77th YEAR) VOL. 80, NC IJPI Second Hunter Orbited CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) The United States orbited its second ESSA storm hunter satellite today to flash instant cloud pictures to men around the world and complete the weather-watching spacecraft. The 290-pound weather satellite shot into a hard-to-reach north-south orbit, gave the nation a twin set of space eyes to maintain a world weather watch on a routine, day to basis. The 2.6 million spacecraft is designed to act an automatic weatherman to beam local cloud pictures to forecasters of any nation without restriction while its partner is looking at global weather patterns. ESSA 2 flashed into the sky atop a souped-up Delta rocket at 8:58 a EST, with only a fraction of the awesome power generated two days ago when a huge Saturn IB rocket blasted America's first Apollo spaceship on its ma ien test flight The new weather satellite is (Continued On 7) THE CHILDRESS INDEX, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1966 PRICE 5 CENTS EIGHT PAGES Astronauts Jet Crash By LEONARD ADAMS I njted Press International ST LOUIS, Mo.

(UPI) -U S. astronauts Charles Bassett II and Elliot See) who were to have flown Gemini 9 spaceship into orbit this spring, were killed today when their jejt trainer crashed into a building while attempting a landing at McDonnell Aircraft Corp The T38 twin- engine jet trainer was coming in through rain and heavy fog when it sort of skidded" in the air and cli the front of the three story space center building. The wreckage smashed into a courtyard, hitting a pile of steel construction material tc broke out and ft am was sprayed on the flames to bring them under control Tlu plane's wings were sheared off Two Catholic priests, the Rev Joe Shockley and the Rev Lipperl administered the last rites to the dead astronauts They were at nearby St. Ferdinand Church and were called to the scene by telephone. See and Bassett became the 1964, when a white Canadian Houston, second and third astronauts to goose flew info the engine of McDonnell Aircraft, located die while attempting to land 1 his plane while he was at Lambart-St.

Louis Field, is Astronaut Theodore C. attempting a landing at Elling- the manufacturer of Gemini Freeman was killed Oct. 31, ton Air Force Base south of spacecraft and the Phantom-jet Claims Muslims Could Destroy America Twinkling Of An Eye' fighters which are being used make frequent visits to the in the war in Viet Nam. plant to simulate tests for Officials of the National Aero -1 orbital flights, nautics and Space Administra-i See and Barrett were ap- tion (NASA) and astronauts parently on such a mission, The ceiling was 600 to 800 I feet, with visibility 1 1-2 to 2 i miles and with rain and light snow falling when the T38 made its landing approach. A plant spokesman said the aircraft was on approach when it crashed.

Bassett, 34. was a native of Dayton. Ohio, and an Air Force major See, 38, came from Dallas. Tex. and would have been the second civilian ever to fly into space.

Their assigned job of piloting Gemini 9 apparently will fall to the backup crew of veteran astronaut Thomas P. Stafford and rookie Eugene A Cernnan. By grim coincidence, another plane carrying Stafford and (Continued On Page 7) By (HI VM United Press International CHICAGi Muhamm; tie" of th( attacked tie interior Si Muslims com -Elijah the aging ack Muslim sect. man as lay and said A meri ca in the twinkling of an eye grades at college there, and he received an helped her academi-j enthusiastic response from the estimated 5.00* Negroes who attended the meetings. He made these assertions: to war, even si art Luci Engsqed Lynda Coming Into Her Own WASHINGTON Luci Johnson may beat her older sister to the altar, but Lynda capturing the spotlight these days by dating movie actor George Hamilton.

That state of affairs seems to suit President Mrs Johnson 'list fine watched 18-year-old Luci upstage the more reserved Lynda, 21, at every turn for some time. Now Lynda is commg into her own. She ha- felt that her much publicized studiousness and her may caliv but not with the bovs. Her mother says is happy Lynda is having fun Indeed the White House seem to mind its new link with! jHollywood in the form of the; and darkly hand Hamilton. fine with Luci that she's engaged to Airman Patru'k Nugent of Wauke gan.

Luci feels off me Luci and Lynda have taken two different approaches to their personal lives since I entering the While House, Deeply attached to her old friends, Luci gave a list of them to the White House switchboard at the outset and they can call her any time. Lynda, more cautious, less has always feared she would be the prey of and would be dated for her monev or the publicity that accrue to the boyfriend She's often taunted newsmen thtft as soon as they write about a beau he vanishes. those close to Lynda know that she is all agog over Hamilton. He has flown In from Europe especially to squire herj around a gay weekend She has his picture on her wall at the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority house at the University of Texas and Hamilton has kept the trans-Atlantic telephone lines buzzing. All tins has given her a new imago on campus that of jet set -and she likes it.

Hamilton, meanwhile, has been playing it very cool. Even his publicity man has not noted or commented on his White House association, which appears to be deepening Muhammad, a frail-looking man with a gentle face, wound 5 up the annual meeting of the black supremacist cult with a 31 hour and 45 minutes diatribe! which ranged from the evil man to the character of I tin Luthet ng THE TWO AUTOMOBILES involved in a head-on collision southwest of Childrens Saturday night iire shown above shortly after the mishap. Three Cfhildress Ca 'SIUS Clay. the hand- High School youths lost their lives, another school student remains in critic 'll condition in the Childress General Hospital while a fifth person is in serious ipping heavyweight boxing I condition in the hospital. Dead are Mike Garner.

16, and his 14-year-old fc other Jerry Garner, and Catherine (Hill) King. In critical condition i8 D.irlene cha non sat in the front row I 14 and C. Cannon, 51. Cannon was driving the auto on the left and Garner the overturned vehicle on the right. Justice of the Peace Paul Goodson can be seen while urged Muhammad spoke and him on with cries of; and the Clay wore the blue.

in the center of the photo. (Index Photo-Engraving and white uniform of the elite Muslim guard known as the of In contrast to previous years. Muhammad, is 69. showed considerable stamina appearing both Saturday and Sunday and by speaking at such length. One year.

Muhammad did not attend the convention and his plan was taken his one-time first lieutenant the late Malcolm Muhammad also for the first time used the word without the usual on Negro" which ht always used in the past. But the bite and bitterness of dogma was still Third Victim Of Headon Collision Dies Sunday has i of the critical The death total in the head- on collision of two automobiles southwest of Childress shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday night has climbed to three with one survivors remaining in condition and the other in serious condition. Mike Garner the third victim of the wreck died at 1:20 m. Sunday morning in Childress General Hospital.

His vounger brother Jerry Garner was pronounced dead white man hates to go at the scene of the accident as to fight for his I was Catherine nett (Hill) home when the crash occured Funeral services for the Garner brothers were to be held at 2 pm. today at the Kirkland Church of Christ with the minister Eldon Sanders ing Burial was to be in the Childress Cemetery under the direction ot Newberry's Pallbearers will be Perry Hicks Ronnie Moore Wes I- Hall Eddie Hall Robert Hicks Bud McKeever Robert McKeever Jack Anderson Phillip McEndree Marty Turentine James Driver, Robert Proffitt. Charles Hall Donny McCain LaGe- ne Robertson and Rommy 400 Viet Cong Regulars Are Trapped By Marines country (Muslims) are King. not afraid to fight In critical condition in the are so smart) Childress General Hospital is )le in the world, they can i Darlene Whitten and C. Can- By MICHAEL United Press T.

MALLOY international people in destroy America in the twin -1 kling ol an eye They are our people. They are Muslims" whites have taught supremacy for 6,000 years but they win. 1 can prove that we are He called Martin Luther King a of white folks' and a man's black man Muhammad said the Nobel Peace prize winner a friendly man. only fallen in with unfriendly people." non who is listed as in serious condition Mike Garner was driving west on the Childress-Tell road FM 22 when his auto crashed head-on into an automobile driven Cannon 51-year-old Childress Negro Both vehicles were listed as Mike and Jerry Garner are the sons of Mr. and Mrs.

A Garner of Community Center and were taking Miss Whitten Membership Drive For 287 Association Opens The membership drive for the U.S. Highway 287 Association in Childress opened this morning. Heading the drive will be Co- Chairmen Bill Carlson of Holiday House and Lou Keller of i the Trade Winds. Others on the Membership Action committee are Richard Huff Mildred Smith Jim Bennett A Frost Wesley Bashaw and Neil Gage Bennett is; King need for Childress to sup port the program of the Association which is to promote more traffic over U.S. 287 is gre- after than ever before said King Childress is considered one of the best stops on the highway and is rated as having the best of accomodations The Association has a 5otal membership of more than 2200 in Texas Oklahoma Colorado SAIGON (UPI) -U.

S. Marines striking quickly by helicopter trapped about 400 Viet Cong regulars on a peninsula just south of Phu Bai today and killed at least 40 of them in the first hours of fierce fighting Viet a army units moved into positions along rivers paralleling the peninsula leaving the Viet Cong no choice but to stand and tight In other wide ranging ground fighting, troops of the 1st Air Cavalry Division smashed deter mined Communist and captured an underground hospital belong to North Vietnamese regimen near Bong Son, about 330 miles northeast of Saigon. The Marines killed 22 and captured 10 Communists in this engagement and beat back a suicide squad attack on the command post of a Marine majojr general. Several companies of Marines landed on the peninsula just six miles south of the Marine enclave at Phu Pai, a coastal citv about 395 mil north of Saigon, after learning that a battalion of Communist regulars was operating there. They began sweeping toward the sea.

first contacting a Viet Cong squad. Resistance grew south of Bong Sun A two-companv element of Cavalrymen made ntaci with an estimated two platoons of Viet Cong in well dug in and fortified positions shortly a 11 i being landed in an area near the hospital by helicopter. A laborer who worked for the North Vietnamese unit tipped off the Cavalrymen about the hospital aid he became an informer because the Communists made him work too Li Col John A Hemphill of Boise, Idaho, commanding the cavalrymen, reported the Viet Cong casualties. There was no (Continued On t'nge Needed Rain Falls In Childress Area Sunday area received er by rain over the weekend, skies, from a quarter of an 80 of an inch in the EDITOR DIES DALLAS Allen Duck 55 the political editor of; the Dallas Norning News was dead on arrival early today at Baylor Hospital 'j Childress director of the U. Wyoming and Montana.

287 Association. 1 Childress families ha Howard King of Wichita Falls ve been pushing the association for vears and have made the and within a hall hour thi annual King said Charles Reynolds A. G. Hargrave Bert Hargrave Dan Dowdv Najla Saied Mrs E. Reynolds Jeff Henderson and Morris Higiev.

1 Caravan is schedul ed for this vear and will leave Helena Mont. and go north to; Dawson field representative for the association is working on the members! ip drive with the committee Childrens along with Vernon Wichita Falls and Lamar Colo. are towns with 100 members or more in the Association Of the too-plus members of last year 44 have renewed their membership according to Marines had engaged the main force of 400 men. believed to be the Viet elite 810th Battalion. The 1 st Cavalry troops, also operating in coastal Airport for a brief period and found a Viet Cong hospital in a making highway travel hazard- village of about 20 huts on a ous The needed ranging inch to Kirkland Community.

Community Center received 6C ot an inch. The Inndex gauge coi it 35 of an inch and the FA-' station recorded 31 of an inch Sunday and .01 of an inch Salt cay. Mrs. F. E.

Biddy re- por half an inch at High Piling I nited Press International Thund Tshowers dampened vast areas of the northeast half of Texas today, the aftermath of a storm that dumped up to five inches of wet snow in the Panhandle and left farmers and ranchers elated. One agricultural agent said the snow left crop prospects good as 1 have ever seen Fog hung over much of the Gulf Coast, slowing air traffic at Corpus Christi International nightfall with clearing More showers and warmer temperatures were forecast for the eastern half. Cool, dry Pacific air today was sweeping away the clouds in all but Eastern and North Central Texas. Overnight readings ranged from 28 degrees at Dalhart to 53 at Galveston Fair Weather Ahead Fair sk'es were forecast for all of the state by Tuesday with slightly cooler temperatures. In a five-day forecast, the Weather Bureau said temperatures will average 2 to 8 degrees below normal with pre cipitation about the end of the week in North Central and Northeast Texas niel.

Michael Alexander Garner was born July 26, 1949 in Childress and his brother, Donald Jerry Garner was born June 15, 1951 in Childress. Mike was a Junior and Jerry a Freshman in tne Childress High School. Miss Whitten 14 is a Freshman and Miss King also 14 was a Freshman. Miss Whitten is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Charlie Whitten of Tell.

Survivors of the Garner brothers are the parents and a brother, Ronald Perry Garner, a twin to Jerry. Funeral services for Catherine King will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Calvary Baptist Church and Jack Tutor will offi date. Burial will be in the Childress Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Robert Hi cks Jack Anderson Perry Hick'-; Ronnie Morris LaGene Robertson Phillip McEndree Marty Turentine and Bryan Smith.

She was born September 5, 1951 in Amarillo Survivors include her aunt and uncle R. (Cobb) Hill with whom she lived and used their name; her lather Robert Dempsey King of Phoenix; a brother Bobby who lives in California; a half-sister Debra King of Phoenix and a half- brother Robbie also of Phoenix. Miss Whitten has a possible fractured pelvis a fractured left thigh a fractured right shoulder and possible internal injuries Cannon received deep lacerations about the head and face a fractured left foot and possible internal injuries. The wreck was the first with casualties since about a year agu this month in Childress County. Close Services Will Be Held Here Tuesday Funeral services for Mrs.

Minnie Elizabeth Close will be conducted at 2 p.m Tuesday in Newberry Chapel by Rev Luther Bradley pastor of the Bible Baptist Church Interment will be in the Kirkland Cemetery. Pallbearers are Albert Storm Lester Royall Vernie Rovall B. Roberts Clarence Mcln- tvre and Wilbur Adams. Mrs Close died at 6 10 a m. Sunday morning at Rest Haven Her husband F.

Close preceded her in death October 26. 1954 Minnie Elizabeth Rutherford and Mr. Close were married in 1899 in Coleman County and they moved to Childress County from there in 1908 She was a member of the Kirkland Baptist Church. She is survived bv one son (lose of Childress and two daughters Mrs. Allie Shanks of Childress and Mrs.

Luther Stanton of Borger She is also survived bv a sister Mrs Lillie Price of Whaton. Sister of Local Mon Dies In Amarillo Mrs Ray Nelson Harty 57 of Amarillo sister of Cecil Hayes of Childress died at 11:15 p.m. Sunday in Northwest Texas Hospital at after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Quanah and interment will be in the Qu anah cemetery Other arraw1- ments are incomplete.

Mrs. Harty was a native of Quanah. Her husband has been a salesman for the Supreme Biscuit Co. in this area for the past 35 vears. Surviving are her husband of the home 3106 Mockingbird Lane Amarillo; her mother Mrs.

Gussie Tallev of Quanah; two brothers. J. Hayes of Little Rock Ark and Cecil of Childress and a niece Mrs. Royce Bodiford of Shreveport. La, wooded hill at mountain ridge the base of a line 10 miles The western half of Texas was expected to get a bit cold- (Contmued On Page 7) PAY FINES FOR DRl NKENESS Jerrv Hair was fined $50 and Arnold Estes $40 in Justice of the Peace Court Sunday on charges of being drunk.

Both were released after paying the fines. 75 Per Cent Sign For Medicare WASHINGTON (UPI- -With one month to go before the deadline 75 per cent of America's old people have signed up for Medicare insurance to cover doctors bills. The insurance coverage is available at a rate of $3 a month to all men and women over Benefits begin Julv 1 but 1 the deadline for enrollment is March 31. Local Couple Attend District VFW Meeting Commander and Mrs Buster Mills represented Childress Veterans of Foreign Wars at the District 13 meeting this weekend in the VFW Building at Plainview Thomas Parrish Texas Deputy Inspector made an official visit to the meeting. Commander Mills was appointed District Adjutant pro tem for the sessions and Mrs.

Mills presided over the Auxiliary meeting in her capacity of the district first vice president. The next meeting for the district will be May 21-22 in the Americana Motel at Amarillo with the new post of that city acting as host. T1STIMONY ENDS MIAMI (UPD Testimony ended today in the Mossier murder trial and the sensational case was expected to be in hands of the jury bv Wrednesday 1 night..