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El Paso Herald HOME CLOSING STOCKS PRICE TEN CENTS 36 FOUR SECTIONS The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers EL PASO TEXAS THURSDAY JUNE 5 1969 DELIVERED BV CARRIER PER WEEK VOL LXXXIX NO 134 tmit Pooley Dies at 71 Edward Pooley former editor of The Herald-Post died peacefully in his home at 900 Kern boulevard at 9:30 pm yesterday He was 71 and had been In 111 health for a number of years Funeral services will be held era Cattle' Co includes two dozen cowboys and soma 700-plus Charolais cattle The drive started In Grants NM and will end 160 miles away in Fagosa Springs Colo (UPI Photo) TOUCH OF THE OLD A modern day drover rides out of the way of a herd of cat-tie as one of the largest cattle drives In modern history makes its way across northwest New Mexico The drive by the Great West- Talks by LF Vietnamese On Coalition Are Claimed NAM TOLD A NEWS conference after the meeting that "contacts are in the -process of -Among this political forces -engaged in the discussions in South Vietnam "there is the -NLP there is the Alliance of national democratic and peace forces and there are 1 other peace Nam said Inside the conference hall both Communist delegations sharply attacked the Saigon "government 'and renewed their SCMirrs -HOWAI to 1 Will Replace Judge Fant Who Is III El Paso Bar Votes Replacement In Special Election By JANE PEMBERTON Former Police Judge Richard (Dick) Langford yr as elected special Judge In 65th District Court today during a heated meeting attended by some 130 lawyers Orbs Lee Malone president of Paso Bar Assn conduct the meeting and election which was called from the steps of City-County Building by Sheriff Mike Sullivan short ly before it convened ONE GROUP OF lawyers present attempted to delay the election of a special judge to replace Judge Jack Fant who is ill Attorney Tom Diamond left the meeting before the balloting announcing that he it reserving the right to object to jurisdiction of the court at a later time The election was precipitated by a letter written by County Commissioner Sam Black-ham yesterday to the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court1 urging an investigation RICHARD LANGFORD of the repeated absences from the bench Judge FaoLThe action was triggered when Fant failed to appear for the third setting of a custody case in which Blackham was one of the attorneys AT meeting Mr Malone told those present that the "presumption of most is that the special judge win serve without pay Some argument was voiced on whether or not the judge would be paid but the main point of controversy was a proposed delay of the election Attorney Bert Williama urged delay of the vote "until proper procedures can be carried He was Joined by Attorneys Tom Diamond and Woodrow Bean in his effort to postpone the vote "I ask that this election be postponed until Mr Bean said the meantime' you should appoint a special committee to brief the material and to send out notices to all Bar members I move that We table this action until MR MALONE REPLIED that proper notice was given by Sheriff Sullivan at tht (Turn to Page A-S) Inside Your Herald-Post Weather Bureau Forecast: Mostly fair warm (Details on Page A-9) Amusements 4-5 Ana Carre 11 1 Classified 1-5 Crossword and Comics 7 Dear Abby A 7 Deaths 1 Dr BUL Conner 2 Editorials 2 Gardening jC 5 Markets I Sports f-t TV Programs 5 Women's News A 6-7 Rogers Hints But Refuses To Predict US Not Wedded To Saigon Regime Wants Free Election WASHINGTON (UPI) Secretary of State William Rogers Indicated today there Is a possibility of some early withdrawal of UJ3 forces from Vietnam but he declined to make "any Rogers said at a new conference that training of South Vietnamese troops to replace some American units was proceeding a rapid but laid the United States was not pressing the Saigon Regime on this He declined to say whether Presidents Nixon and Nguyen Van Thieu might have an announcement on the subject at their Midway Island meeting Sunday WHEN A REPORTER later told the Secretary his responses at the new conference seemed to mean the United States was long way from any a a replied: 1 "Are you sure that is what I said? I said that I just did not want to make any Rogers said the United States was not wedded to any particular government i South Vietnam but supported opposition to Communist suggestions for a coalition He proposals appeared to' mean that Hanoi and thaTViet Cong wanted to "attack the present government cause confusion impose a HE SAID the only unalterable principle so far as the United States is concerned is that the South Vietnam people have the right to freely determine their own future If a truly free vote resulted in election of some Communists that would be to both Nixon and Thieu Rogers added Just back from an 18-day trip to Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations and preparing to join Nixon for the journey to Midway for war conferences on Sunday Rogers also said: WOULD be a tragic thing if our relations with Latin America further The Nixon Administration plans to take steps to get at the root of discontent which is one factor which triggered anti-American demonstrations during Gov Nelson tour Soviet-American talks on strategic arms limitation have been slightly because of the Midway meeting El Paso Sunshine The sun shone today for the 475th consecutive day The sun has failed to shine only 4 days out of the past 2799 days (June 5 IMS) Beaches EDWARD POOLEY love lost in those days between the airmen and the Cavalry Deciding the Army was not for him he resigned in 1920 and went to Houston where he became a bank teller The newspaper bug had bitten him but he had no luck getting a job He Joined the Texas Co and sold gasoline to yacht owners in Miami and to ships in New Orleans but realizing he was no salesman returned to Houston There a chance encounter with the late Charles Lilley editor of the Scripps-Howard Houston Press resulted in his employment on the Press starting Feb 4 -1926 his 28th birthday BEGINNING AS $25 a' week reporter on the "police beat Mr Pooley moved to the courthouse beat did desk work was made assistant city editor in 1930 and in 1931 managing editor' Meanwhile on Oct 21 1928 he married Miss Ruth Underwood county librarian and a University of Texas graduate whom he had met on the courthouse run- On Feb 28 1937 Mr Pooley was named editor of The Her-aki-Post succeeding the late Wallace Perry and thus becoming the third editor of the Scripps-Howard paper in El Paso (The founding editor of the Post was Tom Sharp) Mr Pooley also was named president of The Herald-Post Publishing Co and later vice president of the Newspaper Printing Gorp Mr Pooley quickly became known to El Pasoans as a (Turn to Page A-3) Spells Egalitarian Name Dallas Girl Jets Attack Red Base In North Viet First Strike -In Six Months Hits AA Post SAIGON (UPI) A thunderous explosion rocked Tan Son Nhut airbase on the edge of the capital today South Vietnamese airport police said it appeared that at least one rocket landed on the edge of the sprawling base US military officials said only that the blast was being Investigated SAIGON (UPI) Two UJS phantom Jet fighter-bombers today attacked a North Vietnamese antiaircraft base which had shot down an unarmed UJ9 Air Force photo-reconnaissance plane military spokesmen reported It was the first reported -air attack against North Vietnam In six months The F4 phantoms struck near Dong Hoi a North Vietnamese port on thq South China Sea 40 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) The F4s normally cany a mixed load of bombs and 20 millimeter cannon and presumably used both against the antiaircraft The 1600 MPH planes usually carry two 500 pound and two 750 pound or1 four 50 pound bombs but the official spokesman would use only military jargon: "They expended ord-" against the base 'They' were escorting an taking pi to res of' the ttowet men and -supplies down North panhandle toward the south Ground fire hit the photo plane and it turned out 1 to tea THERE THE two crewmen bailed out and were picked up by a rescue helioopter Headquarters said one was taken to a hospital Shinbut the other escaped the (Meal without serious injury Spokesmen had Rnpport on how much damagelxhe two armed escorts did in their retaliatory raids against the ground gunner The bombing of North Vietnam stopped Nov 1 but photo flights with armed escorts have continued -It was the fifth American -plane lost over the North since the bomb halt Four of those planes were unarmed reconnaissance aircraft and the fifth (Tun to Page A-8) Nixon Holds Conferences NEWPORT BEACH Calif (UPI) President Nixon set up shop north of his San Clemente resi- dence today In the roomier accommodations of a coastal inn for a series of essentially domestic conferences and announcements The President arranged for office and conference space at the Newporter Inn about 25 miles north of San Clemente toward Los Angeles Today and tomorrow suites in the inn will be the White House offices from which Nixon will announce at least one new major a new director of the Veterans Administration to succeed Wil- liam Driver The expected appointee was Donald -Johnson of West Branch La' former national commander of the American Legion -There will be some advance discussion of his Sunday meeting at Midway Island with President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam particularly after Dr Henry A Kissinger special assistant to the President for national security affairs arrives here sometime today tomorrow at 4 pm in Rest Lawn Mausoleum Chapel Dr Brodace Elkins and Rev Williams will officiate 'Interment will be in Rest Lawn Cemetery Honorary pallbearers will be US Judge Ewing Thomason US Judge Ernest Guinn Judge Cunningham George Matkin William Ch freak Herman Leibriech Chester Chope Marshall Hail Harold Turner Mario Acevedo Bob Ingram and Raymond Telles Jr Arrangements are under the direction of Raster and Max-on Downtown Survivors include his wife Mrs Ruth Pooley a daughter Mrs A Boylan and three grandchildren Johnnie 11 Catherine 8 and Patricia 7 MR POOLEY retired Feb 4 1963 as Herald-Post editor He was succeeded by Robert Lee former managing editor of the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Mr Pooley was born Feb 4 1898 in Milton Fla the son of a produce merchant His family moved to Pensacola when he was a child He graduated from high school In Pensacola and attended the University of the South at Sewanee Tenn in 1915-17 leaving college to enter the US Army Air Service HE I THE WAR all over as a second lieu-ten a and pilot and after W-orid Warr ended "he received a commlsSlwr in the Regular Army Flying Ctfrtis Jenny and DeHavila ird biplanes he was in and jotit of El Paso as he helped guard the Mexican border against further incursions by Pancho Villa He also piloted engi-n who photo-mapped a large area of southern New Mexico and -Arizona for the first time Mr Pooley was in the first Air Corps unit that came to El Paso The landing strip was near the present site of Biggs Air Force Base and the fliers were quartered in tents He remembered flying his kitelike biplane to an altitude of 20000 feet where it got the shakes so badly that he brought it down Somebody dug up the landing strip Lieutenant Pooley did not accuse anybody but he recalled that there was little demand for an unconditional withdrawal of US and other Allied troops- Chief American Negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge told dele-' gates at the 20th session that the United States had rigid formula for the withdrawal of non-South Vietnam- ese meaning the forces of North Vietnam fINPREVIOUS sessions Lodge had sought to get Hanoi to agree in the semipublic sessions to the simultaneous and (Turn to Pago A4) At the end of the ninth round yesterday when the bee recessed 464 words had been spelled and only 23 spellers out of the original 73 remained in the competition FOURTEEN of those remaining are girls and nine are boys Among those still in the running was Nyla Med-lock friend who is representing the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal And Tamara took a place in the audience to cheer her on during the final session early today Contestants are competing for $1000 first prize plus a weekend in New York a $500 second prize a $250 third prize five $100 fourth prizes ten $75 fifth prizes and $50 each to the remaining contestants This is the 42nd National Spelling Bee sponsored by the Scripps-Howard Newspapers PARIS (UPI) The Viet Cong announced today Its National Liberation Front NLF) has entered Into negotiations with unnamed Vietnamese political figures with a view to forming the provisional coalition government demanded In its 1 -point peace plan The announcement by Viet Cong spokesman Tran Hoai followed the 20th session of Vietnam Peace Confer ewoofiit -which-the Communist side urged the United States to dump tiie Saigon Government and withdraw unconditionally from South Vietnam In the peace meeting the Saigon delegation countered with a warning that no settlement of the Vietnam war could be reached without its approv-aL Syria Reds In New Accord UnIM Pntfi IntwnoHonrt Syria moved closer to the Communist camp today by establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany on this second anniversay of the start of the June 1967 six-day war Arab guerrillas marked the day by striking in Jerusalem and In the Gaza strip No major fighting was reported although there was a skirmish with Arab infiltrators in the Jordan river valley and occasional shells whistled across the Suez Canal A group of 100 Arab schoolgirls marched through old Jerusalem to protest Israeli occupation but were dispersed by police without violence Israel headed off major outbreaks by rounding up suspected Arab troublemakers before the anniversary There were desultory strikes by Arab merchants in Gaza and in occupied Nablus but most of the shops were open again by noon By JANET PRIQE 1 WASHINGTON A Texas girl Susan Yoachum Dallas won the National Spelling Bee at the Mayflower Hotel today by correctly- spelling egalitarian and the clincher word Interlocutory SUSAN AN eighth grader represents the Dallas Morning News Margaret Mattheee 14 Bir-mingham-Post Herald won second place and David Grois-ser New York Daily News 12 a seventh grader won third place David is from Brooklyn NY Tamara Atkins Herald-Post champion speller' bounced bade today to her normally high spirits although disappointed at having missed the word in the fifth round of the Bee yesterday She spelled it just know the said Tamara Tamara was the 26th speller to go down yesterday She finished in 48th place BEFORE she tripped on Tamara correctly spelled her warm-up word inscribe then went on to spell giraffe chancellor litany and reciprocal -Ceremonies Commemorate D-Day- 25 Years Ago They Hit the ST LO France Four days of ceremonies commemorating the 25th anniversary of D-Day got underway today in the fields of Normandy Some 3000 US World War II veterans who took part-In the June 6 1944 assault on Adolph Atlantic wall came to pay their respects to their fallen comrades Many of them were returning for the first time to the Normandy beaches and pastoral countryside where 10300 US British and Canadian men gave their lives during the Invasion assault by 156000 troops of a dozen nations under the command of Gen Dwight Elsenhower marked the beginning of the end of Third Reich Gen of the Army Omar Bradley who commanded the 1st UJS Army which bore the brunt of the assault on the American landing sectors arrived last night at Cherbourg to Join the ceremonies With him was Gen Lawton Collins whose forces liberated Cherbourg some time after the landings Along with Gen Maxwell Taylor Lt Gen James Gavin and Gen James Van Fleet they head the UB contingent at the commemorative events observances included a religious cere-mony at the St Laurent-Sur-Mer cemetery where more than 9000 UJS soldiers are burled Four days of parades fly-pasts official banquets reception and a patrol of warships in the choppy waters of the English Channel will mark the anniversary TOWN Flags along the main street of Niobrara Neb fly at half staff in boner of the Sage brothers Radar- man SC Gregory Allen Sage 21 Seaman Gary Sage 22 and Seaman Kelly Sage 19 The brothers were among the 75 sailors lost in the South China Sea when the Destroyer Evans was sliced in two by an Australian aircraft carrier (UPI Photo).