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SNAP SHOTS No need to watch For signal to The car behind Will let you know. Warn ME EDITION FIFTY-SIXTH 57 Newsoaoer A moc talion WACO. TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, JULY IT, 1967 12 PAGES KS SISSS single copy lo cents Strike Stalls Railroads; Congress Expected to Act Today Showers Possible Tonight Texas Lines Shut Down By T1IK ASSOCIATED PRESS freight loft Greenville for Dal- Includes Wlrr Railroad service across Texas las, but it "as the lino's last on Rainshowers returned Sunday deteriorated rapidly Sunday as that segment of the to parts of North Texas, and thr hundreds of union mom hors left Dallas run until the striko was weatherman predicted a chance their jobs in the wake of a over. for moisture in Waco tonight tional union strike. jn Houston spokesmen for and Tuesday.

No now trains moved on the three roads hit by the walkout The showers resulted as mammoth Santa Fe system in SiUfj the first noticeable effect warm, moist air from 1hc Gulf the state. Passenger service wa, upon passenger service, of Meico invaded cooler came to a standstill on Missouri temperatures sitting into the Pacific and Texas St Pacific state out of the Rooky Moun- tracks. Freight service by Mo- tains. The cool air caused Pae arvl was cut "at leasl autumn-1 ike temperatures in by some sections of Texas early Cotton belt and Southern Pa- Sunday with Austin and Corpus cifio trains wore running but be- Christi getting record July lows hind schedules at Tyler, of 64. Lufkin and College Station The had 58.

which runs from Shreveport. low Sunday to Dallas, was running was a cool And the mercury trains only to Greenville from climbed to a relatively com-jthe city. A 2:05 m. foilable 91 degrees Sunday FARM GIRL SYLVIA HITCHCOCK Her Brother Knew All Along to Believe Miss afternoon Today's readings will be near 95 and 72. Cloudy skies and intermittent light ra inshowers Sunday virtually covered the North Texas area along the Red River from Texarkana to Wichita Falls to Childress to Ishhook and into Now Mexico.

Nowhere was the rainfall heavy. The Waco forecast gave a 20 per cent chance for showery 1 tonight and Tuesday. Rotated Story. Page 7 MIAMI BKACH, Fla Roses and telegrams poured into the hotel room Sunday of the new Miss Universe a 21- year-old University of Alahama coed who grew up on a chicken farm and swiped tomatoes from neighboring farms. hard to believe that I'm Miss said Sylvia ock, above, who represented Alabama in the Miss USA pageant but lives only a few miles from the auditorium where she was crowned Saturday night.

hard to think of your little sister as Miss Universe." said her brother Ralph, 22. who flew in from Okinawa wherp he is serving with the Air Force. he boasted, "I knew all the time she would win." TV striking brunette with deep brown eyes, who admits she was a mischievous youngster, was the fourth United States entry to win the contest. The last American girl, Linda Bement, won in 1960. Sylvia will be a senior when she ends her reign and returns to the University of Alahama.

She hopes then to study for her master's degree in art. Miss Venezuela, Mariela Perez Branger, was first runner-up followed by Miss England Jennifer Lewis. Miss Finland. Rltva Helena Lehtn, and Miss Israel, Batya Kabiri. 34 Prisoners Said Killed In Florida Departure Delayed The rail strike will keep the Centennial Trail Museum in Waco a couple more Otherwise, little effects of national railroad machinists union walkout were 'locally Sunday night.

A Santa Fe spokesman said his company ordered halted all rail service entering or leaving Houston. Santa Fe passenger trains on their way when the strike started continued 1o arrive in Houston, but were late. Missouri Pacific's Houston spokesman said daily passenger service between Houston and St. Louis was halted by picketing in Little Rock, although the freight service was said to be continuing at normal volume. Southern Pacific's Houston office said a Sunset liner which left Ijos Angeles before the walkout started reached Houston at noon Sunday and continued to New Orleans, its final destination.

The daily Sunset from New Orleans to the West Coast passed through Houston Sunday morning but was reportedly halted in San Antonio Southern Pacific said passenger service was not to resume until the walkout is ended, hut reported freiRht service is to continue Freight service on South- Yardmasters for Cotton normal Sunday, Missouri Pac ific, MiaaourMOn- between Beaumont and and Southern Pacific "trotch where Santa Fe owns the tracks. Beaumont- traffic on South- no here reported Is in Wa.o of '-uCkm eariv Sunday night. re-routed JAY. Fla The could develop after midnight, da Highway Patrol said 34 pris- however, they said. have been killed and The Chisholm Trail museum is Association jointly owned by seruously burned in a fire at the Santa Fe Railway roads servicing Houston, State Prison Camp.

Santa Fe service to a said port of Ilouston rail opera Jay is a tiny community near standstill Sunday all over the remained inaffected the Alabama line in extreme state. the strike Sunday night, northwest Florida Roger Conger, chairman of No in A patrolman said that 35 more the Tc'xas Chisholm Trail by parly Sunday even- prisoners were unaccounted for. Centennial Commission, said inc. Some of them reportedly es- local Santa Fe officials notified taped. him Sunday that the museum The camp was the Jay facili- will remain fit the Katy Depot ty, near a small farming com.

here at least through Tuesday, munity of the same name. It is The museum will be open in the Florida Panhandle about visitors from II a. m. until ol 7 p. tn today and Tueaday.

movement oi freight A state said in Crest- The museum attracted 1.250 view that "a number of them Central Texans Sunday, bringing burned to death and a number the total number of visitors to of them are en route to the hos- 7,120 since the museum opened pitul at this time we think here last Tuesday. through Houston. The Port Terminal Railroad by A spot check of rail yards in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Sunday morning revealed lhat all trains had run on both the Missouri-Pacific and the Southern Pacific as scheduled. Skeleton yard crews that han- trains in the Valley on Sunday were working as usual. A Harlingen spokesman STRANDED Mrs Harry Ogren ond her family were stranded in Denver's Union Station Sunday as crafts unions started to strike the nation's maior railroads.

The Ogrens were en route to Tacoma, Wash from Watertown, when their Union Pacific train was halted in Denver. With Mrs Ogren are son Eric, 13, and doughter Linda, 15, sitting on suitcases. (UP! Telephoto) IT WAS REALLY BRUTAL' said will make See STRIKE, Page 7 7 77 ASMVERSARY Diamonds on Display In Newspaper Offices Five Killed In Collision Mary C.illespie, a 22-year-old Dallas brunette, will make her exhibit public debut today as Queen of Diamonds" when a rare group of natural diamonds goes me on display in the Waco Tribune- sary of the Herald building. Conger said the detainment of I the museum in Waco will mean the railway car cancel its scheduled stops this week Meridian and Cleburne. The museum is on its way to Abilene.

terminus of the YARMOUTH, Mass. (UPD old Chisholm Trail. Stops af- Five men, including three fected by the rail strike will be sailors, were killed and one made up after the museum person was injured critically reaches Abilene next The diamonds, an educational Sunday in a two-car collision on Conger said. of Zale's Jewelers, will the Mid-Cape highway. -----------help the newspaper EO AC SllHimer or diamond, anniver- founding of Plainfield Policeman Shot, Beaten, Stomped to Death Are Still Not In Position Massive Commuter Jams Seen By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A striko snarlM the nation's railroads Sunday, but President Johnson won a promise that Congress will to end il by Monday night.

The walkout stopped most freight and passenger trains, halted Vietnam war shipments and promised massive city commuter jams on Monday morning. At an emergency meeting with congressional leaders of both parties, the President was promised immediate action. The legislation was expected to impose a settlement on the year-long wage dispute hetweon the railroads and six shopcraft unions. The unions have been fighting against such congressional intervention, plugging instead for a delay without an imposed settlement, Irked at the deadlock in Con- gross. the union withdrew a temporary no-strike pledge and the walkout spread quicklv from the West Coast eastward.

With most major western roads already shut down, the Pennsylvania and New Central announced In late afternoon they would suspend all operations at midnight. The New Haven suspended most haul passenger service. All but one road carrying commuters into Now York City followed suit, leaving no rail service for several hundred thousand suburbanites who work in the city. Only the ng Island Rail Road, which carries 83.000 commuters daily, said it would operate but will terminate service at outlying stations in Queens. Some railroads said they would keep war supplies moving westward, with supervisory personnel operating the trains.

Some streamliner passenger were kept operating with supervisors at the throttles, but others were stopped short of their destinations, leaving thousands of passengers stranded Both sides were putting prcs- See RAILS, Pago 7 or 4 Hits Moon, Silent PASADENA. Calif. U(PD Hardy, a Negro reporter; c. oi ft Amendas Surveyor 4 Plainfield Courier News' Youth Program WliATIIER Monday Sunset tonight at 34; sunrise tomorrow at Forecast for Uaen and vleln tty (radius 25 Partly with no Important tem Newport. R.I., Naval Officers Candidate School were killed in 1 their small foreign ear Waco imes-Hoiaid.

identified as David I OllcIV Miss Gillespie is a formei Trapp, 22, of Pontiac, student at Stephen F. L. Buckman, 25, of Economic Opportunities College. She was selected by and Roliert vancenient Corporation Zale's last May to travel with tlie exhibit as of Diamonds," PLAINFIELD, J. AiP) A was beaten kicked and stomped sent first to help cordon off the whitr policeman was shot and by one of several Negro gangs area, then 100 National Guards- beaten to death Sunday night in which roamed this suburban men wore dispatched, a second New Jersey explosion Negro district, looting and It was really said of racial violence and National I David Guardsmen were ordered in to Helmeted police from neigh- T.ZVraft reached the moon Sunday help local police.

boring cities were summoned to who wl atmg of the TMr PBriJ The in HOC IATED PRESM a Negro hoy was slvit. Wit- looting and rampaging which felled by a shot and Egyptian and Israeli guns nesses said the policeman was luded attac ks on cars, were silent Sunday the shot with his own pistol, Twenty-four polue were Suez Canal, but difficulty the got youngsters went up. shopping and Ad- sum- was; reported setting up truce observation teams to oversee a new- cease-fire that halted two days of savage air battles and artillery duels. Sebasta, 23, of Glenellyn, 111. program of youth activities! jsraPi announced in Tel Aviv Dead also was the driver of this morning with cultur- had been informed by the the second car, Thomas A enrichment tivities i Umtpd Nations that the cease- Calm Returning to N.

J. With Toll Now at 23 rived in Waco Sunday to set up'ehester section Dor. will be participating in the seven weeks of the summer Egyptian stand perature today, tonight tlie display. It will be open toi Another passenger. Arthur program are sports and reerea- and Tuesday, widely scattered the public today through Wed Walsh Jr.

21. of Weymouth Mon and an overnight camping tonight and Tuesday nesdav on the fust floor of the.was taken to Cape Cod Hospital prncram High tndm low tonight 7 building at a fractured skull A. ios many of them hired Probability of measurable pre Franklin Avenue. Miss Gillespie! Police said ihe two oa-s from the target areas, began yhen, cipitalion cent. will be on hand to explain the collided head-on near the Ilenni work mormns preTemperature: Highest 91 de- display and answer questions.

Line, where the highway, Route pare for tho first day of activi grees at 5 p. lowest Extra editions of becomes two-lane road. degrees at 7 a. highest, special NEWARK, J. Street sniping but he did not and looting virtually say how soon that might be.

not-torn Newark Sun- Hughes had told a national Young Nej camera from roes one Miss Gillespie and Fred'Gianone, 21, of Weymouth, Bnd of poverty areas. fJre observers would be unable Greene, assistant vice president one of his passengers, Marshall Other activities the youngsters to start functjomng pending jn of public relations fot Zale's, ar-1 P. Hayes. 23, of participattog regarding hljt gporadic sniping in the television audience earlier Sah- Negro slums and isolated hath calm had settled over New men and smashed it An Israel military spokesman bombing kept armed police biggest city except foi Poll, reinforc ements the announcement came patrols on the alert for the fifth successive night. apparently exploded its final landing maneuver They propulsion Laboratory -n said the early tMn on Wm.

They bo.i him o( lh, ap. ami Ite normally. Th. hand anil Jual k-pt properly Kicking ninv ltSflf for a landm and Polu said a boy was shot but .1 powerful braking rotket that they did not yet know spe- J. time about 32 nukrs one circ umstanc es of the shoot- the moon surace.

Three Negro reporters and a to Negro ity councilman. Jrom 000 Uttimore, escorted a white to descent of newsman into the area. grabbed a of the were criminal and subversive called from See RIOTS, surrounding towns ige 7 about 250 miles an hour. The rocket apparently operated normally for 40 seconds, the JPL official said, but then all radio contact with the spacecraft was seconds before the braking rocket was supposed to burn out. Extra editions of anniversary edition of since January 1 101 degrees on Trihune-llerald also will be July 11; lowest since January 1 available near the exhibit, 20 on Feb normal maximum this date Rainfall: For 24 hours ending at fi none; total this month .09, normal this month 199, normal for year to date 19 37 inches; total since January 1 is Ifi 49 inches; ac cumulated deficiency 2.8**.

The river stage Sunday at 7:30 a. m. was 19 feet. Full moon on July 21 at 9 a. m.

The rampage that erupted after a traffic arrest Wednesday already has brou ght death to j23, injuries to 1,100 and proper- of ACCOUNT DOWN? -SEETHECmZKN8 NATIONAL iANK WACO Division At Ft. Hood NORTH FT. HOOD. Tex. (UPD A 15-day summer training exercise began Sunday for the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas National Guard.

Stane 5,300 guardsmen and 1,400 reservists were to participate in exercises during the pe riod- Regular Army instruc tors will supervise training in a mock Vietnamese village for the zen-soldierg. Maj. Gen. Sleden Simpson, of Amarillo, and Brig. Gon.

Torn! Blackwell of Austin command! the division. Good Morning After Pape One, Turn Tliear I iimi I Hong Kong police captured ov er 500 suspec ts and thousands of weapons as they raided Communist buildings in a guarded section of the city. Page .1. Viet Cong-type operations aie believed being used by North Korean Regulars who have staged many hit-and-run attacks on American and UN forces guarding the border in the past weeks. Page S.

Police continued a statewide alert for two men who killed the wife of a Texas Highway Patrolman in Abilene early Saturday. Page FBI agents sealed off an area of Angeles and brought two of their most wanted men into custody us- iny tear gas. S. Baseball great Art Shires was buried Sunday afternoon in his hometown, Italy. Page 11 said from Lt.

Gen, Odd Bull who is heading the observer force was no elaboration on the statement and it was not announced what "clarification" of position was Egypt and Israel said Saturday night they would accept the more than 55 million, observers Advance teams of Thp latest victim a were in place on the gro youth, shot looting a eastern bank. Sunday night. He was the SAIGON (APi N. truce observer head- second death of the clay Three talion force of quarters was set up in a hotel at were killed Thursday, 11 Friday Vietnamese Ismailia on the Egyptian side of and seven Saturday. Only two ended Monday Ihe 104-mile waterway and were of the were white, a to begin their at noon.

tedive and a fire captain Fgvptians and Israelis have Gov Kichard Hughes out North Vietnamese units that termination Operation (ought (or in a hovo taraaant Allitd a wportid row along the canal, shattering ans an(1 lps untl1 of uik in tlw Khe Sanh area in the a N. cease-fire that stopped Monday hut refused to remove i military northwest comer of Viet- the fighting in the gix-day Mid- National Guardsmen said units of the 3rd Marine Di- nam to the border of WAR, Page 7 that enc ircled half this ity of vision and VfeMnMMM i which started 400,000. totalling several thousand men May 13, by both sides Saturday night Hre the fiuard terminated Operation Hickory ing 206 cat duty for the safety of our II, drive in the sensitive see- Leathernecks lost 52 Marines citizens and only that reason," tor miles southwest of the killed and 255 wounde-l governor said, northern S. outpost at Con Disclosure of Operation Hick-, Hme where your late rest He said he would order urad- Thien II delayed for set etmies NATIONAL iial withdrawal of 5,000 Dunng the operation, which only when the isolated began last Friday, the s. The Vietnamese are Thousands of Allied Infantrymen Chase Communists South of DMZ A multibat- reported killing 37 Communist to have three divisions Marines and soldiers and apturing 19 weap-l perhaps 35,000 men opera.

tnfantrvmen ons. Marine casualties were i an ting in and below the buffer a thra.Mi»> KoUnrad lour k.HM and 99 Qnf ju.t aouth Iha Di about J.5U0 man ia Utraod turned hi ilesrtng! The ai- ann.mo.od ol Cno Thu The caily significant gnaind reported elsewh in the extreme southern 1st die East war of June 5-10 The new cease-fire was worked out Mannes reported of the enemy and the through the New York United Nations in THCY RE GREAT! Bancardcheks THI FIRST NA1I0NAI BANK Mm i.

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