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LW 1) HOME TEXAS COLLEG 88TH YEAR PRICEY com TEN PAGES BBY AN COLLEGE STATION TEXAS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 71963 VOL 83 No 30 To Slice Island i A 't' BULLETIN Paul Verna the the initial invasion Monday tians strojlCdthe PORT AU PRINCE Haiti spokesman in Santo Domingo a war zone and imposed a usual 5 I i AW Wife VICTIM AMBUSH OURTH TRY Sweeps Through Senate i i WEftTIIEK REMA1NSREE Johnson Holds Lead In Mississippi Voting seem to be experiencing no problem as the result of any military operations in the Georgia Coach Says was Tipped the name oi the bank can be changed to the University National Bank of College Sta tion by Sept 15 In the North Gate area Book Store became Ji? Af MU tan Sarrte ty Aug Dean Graff com mented Other changes in anticipa tion of the switchover to uni versity standing are Ming made quietly A large stone marker near East Gate on Highway 6 is undergoing a face lifting Letters of Tex as College have Men i bimuar lettering spelling university is to go up soon but whether or not the Conventional HA and Title 1 loans at Bryan Building and Loan Association College Hills Laundry and Cleaners and College Medical Center to name a few in a name? Not too much you say but wait until you try to change it! cnnVoctnan in Ranfn Dnmlnffn a war zone and im nosed said earlier an island off Ute nighttime curfew on Cap Hai Haitian coast was the staging site for the invasion How ever a number of the officers of the invasion force had been living in Santo Domingo The Duvalier regime declar ed northeast Haiti scene of the taxpayers an additional $30 084000 annually Both wqjild provide the larg est dollar and percentage raises for lieutenants captains ma ors and lieutenant colonels among officers and corporals sergeants and other skilled tech nicians in the enlisted grades i But the Senate bill would' ap ply some of these boosts to young officers and noncoms with less than two years ser vice 'and give them larger in creases at times in their careers when they face the decision of re enlisting or returning to civil ian life THE HOUSE version would limit pay increases to active per? (See PAY HIKE Page 10) in front The number two spot was held by Evelyn Gandy with Troy Watkins third Democratic nomineeswill go on the general electiorixMUot Nov 5 Republican opposition including gubernatorial candi date Rubel Phillips may pose a threat for the first time since the turn of the century A LURRY of Negro (See VOTING Page 10) ft SON IS BORN TO KENNEDYS OTIS AIR ORCE BASE Mass (fl Mrs John Ken nedy wife of the President gave birth io their third child a son today at the base hospital The White House spokes man said the cond'tion of the child born five and a half weekr prematurely and that the condition of Mrs Kennedy was good The child was placed in an oxygen tent formation to Alabama but that he never said had no idea it was Wally as he was quoted by the Post Griffith said Butts gave him his first Georgia coaching job and helped him Imtuiiauy He said Butts loaned him money and signed bank notes for him Griffith said he still owed Butts $350 whenever no one in a race can jnuster a majority A 30 year old Negro student at the University of Mississippi James II i figured large in the campaign Johnson once barred Mere dith from entering Ole Miss a few days' before the desegrega tion crisis at the school that flamed into a campus riot last Sept 30 MEREDITH ALSO figured in the hot race for state attorney general Joe Patterson bidding for re election apparently won over charges that he try hard enough to keep Meredith out It was a two man race with Patterson opposed by State Sen John McLauren who was Gov Ross Barnett's spokesman at times during the Ole Miss up roar The count with 1346 of 1882 'precincts reporting gave Patter son 147226 and McLaurin 103 855 No runoff will required since it was a two man cam paign In the lieutenant governors race Carroll Gartin forged far pay zraise through the Senate Tuesday by an 84 0 vote said he hopes a conference will not be necessary this time and that the House will accept the Sen ate bill THE DECISION on what the House will do probably rests with Rep Carl Vinson Ga chairman of the House Armed Services Committee who rules with a firm hand' The Senate and House bills would provide increases to most active duty personnel to re servists and National Guards men and to those drawing mili tary retirement pay The Senate version would cost $1227330000 a year about $5 million more than that of the House The the first since 1958 would beginOct under th'e'Sehate bill the Senate bill enlists ed men would get boosts of $5 to $120 monthly Raises for of ficers would range from $60 to $120 monthly THE SENATE and House bills would provide similar in creases for the Coast Guard Coast and Geodetic Sur vey and Public Health Service which base their pay on milita ly schedules This would cost tien Port au Prince Duvalier's stronghold did not reflect war tensions Berrellez reM ported in a censored dispatch He said bars and cafes wtsre open and thousands or Hai By DON McKEE ATLANTA (fl Georgia foot ball Coach Johnny Griffith has testified the believed last fall somedne fed information on his team to rival Alabama before their 1962 game testimony came Tuesday in the federal court trial of a $10 million libel suit by Wally Butts former Georgia athletic director against Curtis Publishing Co THE SUIT resulted from an article in the Saturday Even ing Poet published by Curtis which charged the Alabajna Georgia game was rigged by Butts and Coach Paul(Bear) Bryant of Alabama Griffith followed to the stand today by two of his assistant coaches read notes which an insurance salesman said he took while listening to a Butts Bry ant telephone conversation nine days Jjfore the game The salesman George Bur nett said he was accidentally cut into the call and heard Butts giving data to Bryant Griffith testified the notes contained the' only two playing formations used by his squad the Alabama game said it was his opinion that the information WASHINGTON UP) Sen ate has approved unanimously a pay raise for practically ev eryone in the armed forces exv cept recruits apprentice seamen and privates with less than two years service 'The measure which would in crease military payrolls more than $12 billion a year goes to the House which has passed a similar but slightly less gener ous bill Usually a Senate House con ference committee works out differences between similar billxf But Sen Howard Can non Nev who steered the to another "long hot sum Yesterday's 102 ii'the high for the year but below last years 107 on Aug 10 If the heat keeps up the board of health might start issuing salt ranieis and surplus desert warfare survival handouts A year ago today the high was 103 The forecast falls for con tinued hot weather through Thursday w'th a possible re peat of 102 with possible eve ning thundershowers At noon today the thermometer climb ed io 97 41 1 By BRITT MARTIN Eagle City Editor putting up a hew ishingle Aug 23 at Texas but school officials are far from getting worked up about it was the comment JACKSON Miss GW orm 1 The runoff election will er Governor Coleman and held Aug 29 Under the state's Lt Gov Paul Johnson braced primary system a runoff match today for a runoff campaign to ing the two top men is held see which will be tne Demo cratic nominee for governor Mounting unofficial returns from Democratic pri mary apparently made them the top two men irta four man race With 1453 of 1882 precincts reported Johnson had 110987 votes to 94966 THE NUMBER three man in the race Charles Sullivan had 79153 RoMrt Mason of Magee a 65 year old welder who runs1 for fun had 1704 Switch for A On Aug 23 Is the streets as State Department said the Americans did not pull out government ra Glion Curtis Jr charge dio warned Americans to pull in Port au Prince out of the war zone but the adivsed the State Department Approximately 20 American he contacted the families and families on sisal plantations near Phaeton were Mlieved in no immediate danger Reports reaching the Grover Jones 54 accused in a 1944 Tennessee traffic death talks to his former wife Dessie Jbnes during an extradition hearing here today Jones was arrested here last month after an 18 year search by the son' Welby Lee of Tompkinsville Ky The hearing was postponed indefinitely after only preliminary legal Wirephoto) would helpful if an opponent knew no other formations would be used On cross examination Grif fith said however the forma tions themselves were nothing new and were employed by Al abama and nearly dr all other Southeastern Conference teams The coactsaid he Mlieved somebodyhad been giving in Circulation Audrtod nd Ouarantaod DART ITT DDtMCr WIH CT) Haitian troops have crushed a small forca of rebel invaders on the North Coast official sources said today A formal announcement of the defeat of the insurgents was expected today There were indicat'ons from other sources that the fava sion attempt had failed By BERNARD DIEDERICH SANTO DOMINGO Dom inican Republic (fl Gen Leon Cantave was reported leading his Haitian rebel in vaders in a southwest thrust Myond Cap Haitien today ap parently trying to cut off the north coast and northwest part of the Negro republic President 'rancois Duva lier airlifted at least 150 sol diers from Port au Prince over the reMl lines to the vi cinity of Cap Haitien Associ ated Press correspondent Rob ert Berrellez reported from the Haitian capital The approximately 500 in vaders their ranks reported ly swelled by Haitian army deserters were said to ad vancing in two columns after apparently deciding against storming Cap Haitien 90 miles north of Port au Prince In Washington the Council of the Organization of Ameri can States Tuesda ordered its special committee on earlier Dominican Haitian dispute to investigate hew chwgei that the invaders came frprti the Dominican Re publicThe nations share the island of Hispaniola Arturo Calventi Dominicanambassador to the OAS toldthe council that Haitian charges were unfounded set no deadlines for making these changes Our publica tions must changed We are changing titles on new publications to Texas ITntvArcWv Anri wa are in sertmg slips of paper in our the first' business establish old nubucations stating mat of Dr Graff dean of in will become a universi struction at Dean Graff was referring to 1 the change in stature and in name from The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Tex'as to Texas Univer sity Changes have come thick and fast this year for Coeds were okaved for de grees Integration took place removed quieuy vnanges in uie setup a thaCfirn nf Cadets were made And last but far from work completed by least the change from colle Aug 23 is subject of conjee iiniversitv status have actually been a university for several years Our operations be changed at alb We realize there will be some things tocome up within the next two or three months but we have TAX EQUALIZATION SESSION The board of tax equalization listens intently as a taxpayer discusses his tax prob lem revolving around City of Bryan taxes At mid morning today 243 persons had registered toippear before the board rom left to right are James Bradley (back to camera) Jack Zubik Roland Dansby Travis Nelson assistant Buddy Guinn and Jack Conlee The Bryan City Commission is sitting as the board of equalization for the first time in recent years (Eagle Photo by Gene Dennis) Stockholders Approve Bank Switch Over Stockholders "unanimously ap proved the College Station State conversion into a nation al bank at a special meeting held at the bank Tuesday night Presiding over the meeting was Coulter Hoppess a member of the board of directors The stockholders present at the meeting authorized the board of directors to proceed with everything necessary to complete the conversion It is estimated that the con version will be completed by SeptemMr 15 University National Bank'will the new name of the bank After all banking regulations have Men complied with which usually takes a minimum of four weeks Comptroller of the Currency James Saxon iii Washington williss je the board of directors a permit to Mgin operations as a national bank under the name University National Bank of College Sta tion The board of directors first Mgan consideration for the change over last Jane 1 and filed a charter application June 22 with the Dallas chief bank examiner A charter requesting the changeover was approved July 31 Connie Mackie Baseball Tourney' I III! I I I i nil i i Vk A Vietnamese marine badly wounded in an ambush in a sugar cane field by Cong Communist guerrillas is held by a fellow marine as his face expresses the agony of his injuries The marine platoon searching out guerrillas in the cane fields at Due Hoa was caught in the withering fire of automatic weapons Of the platoqn one was killed and four were severely wounded (AP Wirephoto) ment to get in step with the change Owner HerMrt Shaf fer changed the name to Uni versity Book Store Despite' rumblings here and there College Station City Manager Ran Boswell says there has Men no talk of nor does he anticipate a move to change the name of the City of College Station to University Terminal urther off campus changes could come about a housing development known as College Hills a major thor oughfare tabbed College Ave nn (also HW 6k Colleze A few days after ireproof Storage Company makes its change one or me larger businesses in College Station the College Station State' Bank will undergo a similar name change Bank ing officials are hoping that i Haitian Invaders Trying ta A nan Keeping Tab On ighting NEW YORK (fl Mrs Leon Cantave wife of the Haitian reMl general says thinvasion of their homeland must very important to him 4ie started it on their 13th wedding anniver sary Her husband exiled former chief df staff of the Haitain arm ed forced led invaders ashore on Monday north of Port au Pripfce capital of Haiti and stronghold of dictator rancoisDuvalier NEVER MORE than a few feet from a short wave radio Renee Cantave listened for news of the fighting Tuesday night while talking to a reporter in her Manhattan apartment Speaking In eloquent rench Mrs Cantave denounced Duva liertW a thirsty will win I know we shall" she said hope all democratic Coun tries will give my husband aid in his attempt to restore free dom and democratic govern ment to my she said has been foremost in his mind since we were exiled six years ago SHE SAID when her husband left here last week he told her only for us and strong Mcause I live with a firm con viction that we will Mrs Cantave said she and the 52 year old general were married in Port au Prince and she still has brothers and sisters there She declined to say whether he had received support or the promise of support from pert sons in the United States She did say Cantave had been joined by former officers and men who served under him in Haiti Mrs Cantave told of a lifeof fear in Haiti ALWAYS watch the door the' window and never fail to look around us when we are talking to each other or to she said never knew who would Mtray us to the Tonton Macoute Duvalier The Bryan Daily Eagl 1 1 1 Serving Bryan College Station and the Brazos Valley Since 1876 See Sports ht £age 7 iZ Jr iff NY A awl' vr r' I A a' ii an EWjsSKt mi A a 1 JC 2 'O iw 1 i Lx5' as UU iWnlSKIO.

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