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1 1 1 54ft -55-5 45A 1A -4 -5 4 EVENING FORT WORT STARRTELEGH WI I 0 dik 4 LARGEST COMBINED DAILY CIRCULATION IN TEXAS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6 1968 A FCRI WORTWOWNED NEWSPAPER 88TH YEAR NO 219-10 CENTS 58 PAGES IN 5 SECTIONS MOmM1 New School tvzitc: OM WI ul Is Hard To Reach ri rUinnr iME8" 1 VI 111--ain 411 0() ort(1)0 litREJ 1 r11 1915 --1 1 Il I 4 4 7 1 1 I 'inly12! 11 1 ippriur --1 1i -A )- ii i 4 0 'i l''' 1 I 4 i "64116 1' 1 'rA1 ettl -N- ii7'-7 t-- $7: I i 4 -p A -4 oV 4 Ak 0 4: I 4 4 t--444s 5t' A ew lt Itr II :411 't-" i1 -tp 44 -xto fi Y-7 01 lit US Unit Assaulted 31 Killed Leonard Middle Accessible Only By Single Road (Related Story on Page 7A) By CHARLOTTE GUEST Western Hills High School may be the "campus in exile" but Leonard 'Middle School was virtually "the impossible dream" this morning Parents tr ing to get children to the newly completed school found roads torn up and only one dust-ridden street to the school Western Hills High School students are attending Arlington Heights until their school is opened Chapin Road the only accessible route to the Western 1-lills area school is filled with heavy road equipment School officials have worked out a bus schedule from West Ridge Baptist Church on US 180 to the school to avoid traffic congestion Today there was plenty of congestion both dust-clogged I ungs and traffic-dogged streets t' 't )e" iA'1 k't' to i4 OA 'isv: 4 is l' Skitoeo '4 die ft4' I Oh f' 1 fgt 4 1 I a 1 i' 1 4V''''' iq''''' 4 4 IS 4 A f4'I 1 P' 7'' 4 14 1 i'' fit '''''1''' 1 $1::: :7:: 41w 4 ti P'' 4a'''s 't'N''''4'7'''' iii-4V4's A i 4 4 1 AL 44 t' ps A ntr1 i Atit I 4 4 '''S' 1 U1' I 47 kh It ft 41' '5 ''''0 1 e' 03 A Jt 1 i'l A 44 0 4' 1 ele'41 11' I 3 vso ":4 1 t5 1 i op FIRST Novella Comparin first grade teacher at Atwood 'McDonald Elementary School pins Chris Hendricks' name tag on him for open PbotO by NORMAN BRADFORD jug classes today Chris is the 6-yearold son of Mr and Mrs Garry Hendricks of 7204 Normandy AI At i 0 USIVE Clifford Calls or Missiles FORMER AMBASSADOR TO THE UN ARTHUR GOLDBERG GIVES PLAN FOR PEACE! SAIGON (AP) A veteran Viet Cong battalion herding Women and children in front as human shields smashed into a company of American paratroopers in three waves early today Thirty-one Americans were killed and 27 wounded The waves of troops from the Viet Cong's Cu Chi Regiment broke through a company from the US 101st Airborne Division 26 miles northwest of Saigon The Viet Cong and the paratroopers still were locked in battle as night fell Thirty-one Viet Cong have been reported killed Fo far Al' PHOTOGRAPHER Max Nash reported from the battlefield that many of the Americans were killed by the kriet Cong as they lay wounded on the held The battle was one of three fought northwest and southwest of Saigon today in which according to incomplete reports at least 110 of the enemy were killed and 150 persons seized as suspected Vit Cong The American troops seized 123 persons as suspected Viet Cong in this area American soldiers also battled enemy troops 12 miles southwest of Saigon and South Vietnamese troopers were engaged in a third fight about 40 miles northwest of the Clifford appeared at the Press Club luncheon after a series of high level policy discussions including a session of the National Security COUP-ell chaired by President PE AE 1w OUR TIME" bat niweyt been the oblettive Gold berg ttlls how it ton be evheved fl On 3-port setlot --Assocated Preis Wire" DeBakey in Houston that their sors heart was successfully transplanted into James Elbert Singletons chest yesterday HEART DONOR'S Robert Duden of Liberty MO and Dale Frank Mason of Long Beach Calif receive word from Dr Michael STARTING SEPT EXCLUSIVEtY IN THE EVENING I Wins ace WASHINGTON (A Pi Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford says the United States must toughen its negotiating position toward Russia by pushing missile development and defense Cli I ford also came out strongly for keeping 'a significant American military presence in Western Europe" which feels threatened by the concentration of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia The defense chief's statements before the National Press Club were among several developments Thursday to indicate a toughening attitude since the Soviet-led invasion of Cechoslovakia Those sessions weighed the implications of Russia's re version to a hard line and possible action the United States might take at the diplomatic and military level to possible action the United States might take at the diplomatic and military level to PARENTS WILL be asked to drop children off at the church site where three buses will constantly pick children up for the run to the school The school is only five or six blocks away school officials said and they hope that many students will walk or ride bicycles during dry weather Temporary sidewalks have been set up in case it rains The system registered 78043 the first day More will be signed up next week Of those registering today 42751 were in elementary schools 3948 in the four new middle schools 14783 in junior high schools and 16561 in senior high schools Largest enrollment in each division was at lslorningside Elementary 1259 Elder Middle School 1097 Fore Oak Junior High 1638 and Paschal Senior High 2024 All but three teaching vacancies had been filled today and Burnett school per-Turn to New on Page 2 STAR TELEGRAM shore up Western defenses annguarignalumtwoMMICO Brings New Heart NO 2 SPOT Chandler Said the decision after Dr Pine la and other medical specialists told them there was no hope for their son's recovery Dr DeBakey immediately telephoned Dr Pineda to determine if Mason's conditicm Wallace Choice By MAGGIE DROMGOOLE A jet flight carrying a heart donor from Long Beach Calif Houston early yesterday morning saved the life of James Elbert Singleton of White Settlement The jet carried Bahl Craig Mason a 17-year-old Long Beach youth dying of irrepar able brain damage to nous Turn to Jet on rage 2 ton barely in time for a heart transplant Dr Michael DeBakey who directed the surgical team perlcu'ming the I12-hour heart transplant operation on the 47-year-old General Dynamics employe called the donors family in Long Beach after the surgery and told them: "The timing was miraculous Mr Singleton was already in the operating room when the plane landed in Houston with Paul If it had been 30 minutes later Singleton may have died" ABOUT 11 miles north of the paratrooper battle South Vietnamese forces part of a multiregimental operation to clear the Bol Loi woods of Communist troops killed 39 of the enemy in daylong fighting and seized six suspects BEDSIDE leave Kentucky late Monday for an overnight train trip to Washington for the Wallace Press conference on Tuesday TODAY'S CLIFFORD SAM recent developments confirm that ''when and if we negotiate safety and success demand that we negotiate from strength Clifford indicated that he believes the climate may not be right for the arms control talks which the Soviet Union has agreed to "We can continue to hope that at an appropriate time these talks can take place" he said 1 i i '14' 1 i 7i- (Hill 1 SENATOR STILL IN FORM Transplant Patient Silting Up Sign in a jewelry store: 'This is the place to get your bunny a carat" Coo T-M 19e8 Gen Fee Uri) a Ev Wants Would-Be Killer To Wait for Bird Departure WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU I War on Poverty Story In other times the poor sought assistance charity cases Today many work together under trained guidance to better themselves Bill Cryer has the War on Poverty story on Page 41 THE DRAMATIC jet r4t is believed to be the first mstance in the 40 heart transplants to date in the world that a person has been flown in to donate his heart Mason was injured late Monday night when his motorcycle collided with an automobile in downtown Long Beach He was taken to Long Beach Community Hospital with extensive brain injuries Shortly after arriving at tlie hapital Mason was placed on a respirator machine to Maintain his breathing because the region of the brain controlling respiration had been damaged Dr Anse Imo Pineda Mas 's neurosurgeon said plans for surgery to repair head injuries were abandoned a few hours after the accident when it was determined that the brain damage was LOUISVILLE Ky (AP) Former Kentucky Gov A Chandler has been picked as the running mate for third party presidential hopeful George Wallace the Louisyille Courier-Journal said today The newspaper quoting a reliable source said the announcement will be made Tuesday at a news conference in Washington Chandler twice governor a former US Senator and former baseball commissioner declined comment on the story He did say however that it would be all right with him if newsmen kept his name in the The Courier-Journal said it is known that when Wallace visited Louisville last Friday he and Chandler conferred for several hours at a downtown motel "It was these discussions that led to Wallace's decision to put Chandler on the American Independent Party ticket" the newspaper said Chandler now 70 scored a series of political successes over three decades by "telling people what they want to hear" He is proud of his civil rights record claiming credit for opening professional baseball to Negro players while he was commissioner The newspaper said Chandler and his wife are slated to James Elbert Singleton sat up on the side of his bed today at Methodist Hospital in Houston after receiving a transplanted heart yesterday Singleton 47 of 9101 Farmer Road in White Settlement last night waved to his family standing outside his room in the hospital's special transplant unit It was about 12 hours after receiviilethe heart of a 17-year-old'donor The first Tarrant County heart recipient was making very good progress today and had been placed on a liquid diet a hospital spokesman said Last night Singleton a toolmaker at General Dynamics-Fort Worth drank a small cap of soft drink The heart recipient whr) had received heart arteries in a previous operation was admitted to Methodist Hospital Aug 23 Hospital spokesmen said he was suffering from incurable heart failure resulting from a long-standing severe coronary artery disease hard answers touched on more than birds flowers and assassination What did he think of chances the Senate would confirm Abe Fortas' nomination as chief justice? "Not roseate" he intoned Did he think President Johnson should withdraw the nomination? "I don't know what the President should or shouldn't do I'm not the president I should be but I'm not" A discussion of gun-control leOlation brought the information that public interest is centered more on the war crime and taxes than on firearms bills And speaking of taxes people a're beginning to realize that the supposedly free money of federal grants "isn't so free after all" Dirksen stepped gently into the controversy over street demonstrations and police tactics at the Democratic convention appreciate 'Mayor tRichard J) Daley you have to know him I know Dick Daley very well I know Mrs Daley I know Dick Daley's kids He's got a fine family He lives in the ward where he was born Chicago is his town He is very possessive of it" WASHINGTON (AP) It was a sure sign Congress was back in session The champion of the marigold the protector of birds was holding court Sen Everett McKinley Dirksen Republican minority leaders from Pekin H1 was perched on a table in the Senate press gallery with a cup of coffee in his hand and cigarettes nearby holding his weekly news conference for the first time in a month Tousle-haired and irrepressible as ever not even a story about a report that he was marked for assassination escaped the wry touch "I don't want my head blown off" Dirksen said he told police after one of three reports of threats on his life "I've got flowers in bloom and they need me I've got 65 bird feeders now and the birds need me" he said He said he told the police that -whoever this creature is why doesn't lie wait until the frost has slashed at the flowers and the birds have gone south? Then it won't be so hard to take" But the news conference darting as usual from anecdote to reminiscence to Page Amusemenls 8 91) Family 1-711 Billy Graham 11A Gardens 30 Business 40 1 See by 13A Comics IOU Oil 40 Crossword 10C Sports 1-6D Death Notices 5C Tarrant Today 6A Dixon's Horoscope 11A Television-Radio 7D Editorials 20 Tony Slaughter 4A THINK IT may be that when you are lost in thought you are in unfamiliar Stansifer THE WEATHER: Fair and Mild Fort Worth and through tomorrow A little warmer tomorrow High temperature today in the lower 80s with a low tonight around 60 and a high tomorrow in the upper Ens Wind light and variable becoming southerly 10 to 15 miles per hour tomorrow Rain to date 2807 inches normal through September 2393 Sun sets 7:47 today rises 7:06 tomorrow High temperature yesterday 84 low this morning 56 Relative humidity at 11 am 58 Five-day forecasts on Page 11A I MASONS FATHER said the original suggestion to of fer the teen-ager's heart to Dr DtBakey for transplanta non came from the boy's mother's present husband Nirs Robert Duden of Liberty Mo the boy's mother called Dr DeBakey Wednesday morning offering her sorfs heart The family made I 't.