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vf dJ INDEX LJ EVENING EDITION VOLUME 53 NO 132 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS TUESDAY DECEMBER 4 1962 mm 40 Pagos-PRICE FIVE CENTS New Mystery: Is Someone Out To 'Ax' Stevenson? Some sources have suggested (hat the article may have been inspired by Dean Acheaon the former secretary of state who was one of the special advisers during the CUban crisis Acheson has the reputation of being a "hard liner" and ton newspaper is that Stevanaon differed with the President on Cuban policy It contends that he wanted to bade TUriddi Italian and British nUssfla bases for the Soviet bases in Cuba also that be preferred negotiating to Sea ADLAI Psgo IS they are careful not to say whom they suspect Stevenson is known to bo pus-sled by the affair lie is also dearly annoyed But he is maintaining a cheerful front and declares that he has no intention of resigning of belonging to the school of thought that regards Stevenson as "too aoft" when it comes to dealing with the Soviet Union Acheaon and Str-enson have had policy differences in the past The gist of the article printed in part yesterday in a Washing Charles Bartlett is a dose personal friend? Some sources dose to Stevenson say they are convinced that the article by Bartlett and Stew art Alaop is an attempt at a "hatchet Job" on Stevenson But By WILLIAM McG AFFIX CMp BNy IM WASHINGTON An article appearing in the Saturday Eve Bing Poat today haa created a new myitciy the Adlai Steven on myiteiy la aomeane trying to pave the way for him to be fined aa ambassador to the United Nations? If so who is this someone? Could it be President Kennedy operating quietly through two correspondents one of whom LATE NEWS Illinois Will Give Women Contraceptives Rebels Smashed For Move Aimed At Reducing Welfare Costs ALGIERS ID Premier Ahmed Ben Bella announced tonight Ms government has mashed groups of insurgents threatening the trouble-beset Algerian state Palm Springs Visit Cuba Attack WASHINGTON ID The White House today added a 36-hour visit at Palm Spring! Chill to President Kennedy's trip to the West this weekend to look over military and atomic energy Installations France Won't Pay All Except 2 Are Americans UNITED NATIONS NY France Joined the Soviet Union today in a new refusal to pay any part of the UN peacekeeping operation in the Congo despite a World Court advisory opinion that the costa were organization expenses CHICAGO ID The State of Illinois plagued by money problems for the past year has de-ridrd to supply contraceptives free to single mothers or map ried women on state relief rolls In sn attempt to cut welfare costs Clergymen social workers and slate officials have lined up largely along denominational lines over the action yesterday by the Illinois Public Aid Commission the state's welfare body Protestants and Jews mostly approved it Roman Catholics opposed it The commission in a stormy 5'i-hour meeting approved the new version of the birth control plan by a vote of 64 The four commissioners who opposed the plan are Catholics A spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chicago said comment would he withheld until the text of the decision was studied The sources of the bitter battle stem from fiUnoia' financial problems which have nagged the tale for the past few year NORTHER DUE TO HIT CITY DURING NIGHT Market Higher KEY WEST Fla (AP) Thirteen bearded khaki-ad men were arrested today on an isolated island in the Florida Keys and accused of preparing for an armed expedition to Cuba All but two of the 13 alleged anti-Castro guerrillas dentified themselves as Americans NEW YORK The Block market was higher early this afternoon in heavy trading The Associated Press average of 60 stocks at noon was up 1 at 2404 with industrials up L3 rails up A and utilities unchanged RECEIVES FERMI AWARD President Kennedy presented an encased gold medal the Enrico Fermi Award for 1962 to Dr Edward Teller in a ceremony yesterday outside the White House Mrs Teller is at center Dr Teller Nobel Prize-winning physicist who sometimes Is called the father of the hydrogen bomb is a scientist at the University of California A citation and $50000 accompanied the medal awarded by the Atomic Energy Commission (APWirephoto) Albury raid the men were preparing to "embark with implements of war" He did not otherwise identify the type nor the quantity of arms Couseway Closed Expense Account Tax Plan To Be Liberalized by IRS NEW ORLEANS ID A loose bugs smashed into the Lake Fontchartrain Causeway before dawn today forcing closure of the 24-mile long pan for an indefinite period They were charged with conspiracy to violate the neutrality act by attempting to form an expedition to invade a foreign country A BEARING WAS Scheduled later today before Commissioner William Albury The group had been training for the past six months on No Name Key about one mile off Big Pine Key 40 miles northeast of Key West The Overseas Highway 1 passes through Big Pine but a bout is the only way to reach No Name Key Border patrol agents said the men claimed to be an independent unit unrelated to other anti-Castro groups They were dressed in faded Army camouflaged battle fatigues THEY IDENTIFIED themselves aa: Ronald Ponce de Leon 22 of Havana Lawrence Howard Jr 27 of Pico Rivera Calif Edwin A Collins 27 Justin Wilson 26 William Seymour 23 Edmund Colby 31 and Joseph Carman 32 all of a tingle Miami address James A Lewis 29 and Eleno Alvares 26 North Miami Ramigio Arce 43 Southwest Miami Gerald Henning Jr 25 Miami Roy Hargraves 22 Miami: and William Dempsey 21 of Ontario Canada Kelsted Story Page Wives of 6 Jap Cabinet Members Tour White House By The Ass sets ted Press Gusty north winds tanned new batch of cold air toward the south and east from the Texas Panhandle today Skies were generally clear ahead of the Pacific cool front except for clouds in extreme South Texas but started turn-big cloudy behind the norther Fog hung low in the Red River Valley in early morning The forward edge of the cool air man pushed past Amarillo before dawn Forecasters expect it to envelop the elate by daybreak tomorrow bringing overnight temperatures as low as 28 degrees in the Panhandle and extreme Northwest Texas Northerly winds hit gusts up to 38 miles an hour at Dalhart aa the mercury sank to 43 Readings elsewhere ranged from 42 at Amarillo and Lubbock up to 62 at Brownsville Temperatures in Corpus Christi will drop into tie 40s tonight as the southerly winds shift to northerly at 20 to 30 miles an hour the local weather bureau said this morning It will be colder and cloudy tomtit after the dry norther reaches the city Tomorrow will be windy colder and clearing The weatherman forecasts a low tonight of 42 to 46 and a hidi tomorrow of 56 to 60 Small craft warnings were hoisted this morning The cabinet of six Japanese wives mem- tlOV OTTO Kernes a Democrat haa brought Increasing pressure on the atata welfare agency to slash its costa Some 400000 of the state's million residents receive some form of state ail Ten years ago the two-year welfare bill was S273 million More than J631 million has been voted for the present and that's still not enough The IPACs former chairman Virgil Martin president of a Chicago department store-quit lsst July saying Kemer was frying to blame all the financial woes on welfare costa Kemer appointed industrialist Arnold 11 Maremont as the new IPAC chairman and Maremont almost immediately proposed the distribution of contraceptives as a meant of rutting relief rolls Noting that 50000 mothers received aid to dependent children Maremont argued that prevent-See IIJJNOW Page IS nesses which presently well within the law" Noting that the proposed regulation! were prepared under a tight time schedule because of late congressional action on the legislation Caplin pledged that the final rules "will achieve basically lair and sound approach" Business spokesmen attending the hearing were given an IRS statement detailing the steps already contemplated fo ease the regulations Ilw TAX Page IS Congress lined up to testify at the public hearings Caplin said final regulations will be Issued In about three weeks before the new law becomes effective Jan 'We intend to be reasonable in our approach" he said "and do not want to interfere in legitimate business expense deductions Nor do we want to impose any undue burden on the busi- WASHINGTON ID The Internal Revenue Service announced today it has started easing proposed regulations sharply criticised by business wMch are aimed at ending "expense account living" Mortimer Caplin IRS commissioner made the announcement in a statement opening two days of public hearings on rules implementing the 1962 tax law In general the regulations rail for more detailed record keeping to support tax deductions for business travel entertainment and gifts Kaplin said that on the basis CC Examiner Recommends That KVDO Get Channel 3 bers toured the White House day and met President Kennedy Kennedy shook hands with each of them and told them he was glad they had visited the White House The wife of Scishi Shi ge man minister of agriculture and fores try told Kennedy she hid often seen him on newsreels and television and it was a great honor to meet Mm personally She added she was "very much impressed by your youthful vigor" The rahinct wives wore traditional Itimonas They were escorted on White House tour by Mrs Dean Rusk wife of the secretary state and Mrs Edwin Rei-chauer wife of the US ambassador to Japan Army National Guard Reorganization Begun Another group headed by Jack Ryan and Jack and Grady Vaughn and Cecil Trigg had also applied Garcia said the station could begin operation within 90 days "We have everything ready the plans equipment personnel" he said Garcia said the decision might be appealed and this would cause delay in Initial programing of protest letter! received so hr -have already made positive decisions to liberalize the regulations in several specific areas' Some City Offices To Close Christmas Eve Many city employe will get an Russians Finish East German Work A Federal Communications Commission examiner recommended today that South Texas Telecasting Co Inc be authorized to change it station KVDO-IV In Corpus Christ! from Channel 22 to Channel 3 The Associated Press reported Examiner Forest MfClc lining also recommended denial of a competing application by Nueces Telecasting Co which seeks to operate on Channel 1 Dr A Garcia president of the South Texas Telecasting Co inued this statement at noon: 'We are indeed proud honored thankful grateful and bumble for the ruling granting favorable action to us We will live up to all our promises and pledge to obey and comply with all Federal Cbm-munications Commission rulings "We want to thank the entire city and county for their help support and Garcia is associated with Gabe Lozano Sr Joe Garza CL Gusman and Nestor Chests AND BK MID the tax collecting agency is giving "serious study" to one of the most controversial features of the proposed rules a requirement that businessmen save receipts for all travel entertainment-gift outlayi of $10 or more IRS haa been receiving about 400 letters a day from businessmen most of them criticizing the rules proposals issued Nov 8 In addition soma 60 businessmen labor feeders and members WEATHER extra holiday on Christmas Eve Gty Manager Herbert Whitney said today the City Council haa decided to allow non-emergency offices to close that day hut it Is not to be an official holiday The council will not hold a work session that night but it plans to hold its regular Wednesday afternoon meeting the day after No News Conference WASHINGTON ID President Kennedy will not hold a news conference this week the White House announced today The last newa conference was on Nov 20 WASHINGTON ID-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara set in motion today a drastic modernization of the Army Reserve and National Guard He said it will build at length "hr greater than any haw known in the past" The sweeping reorganization involves eliminating eight reserve and National Guard Infantry divisions all of low priority and dropping 731 smaller units which are considered out of date Most of the men in these units will be reformed into streamlined outfits which together with a picked group of six national up a fop priority force trebled and ready to bark up the 16 division within eight weeks alter a rail to active duty BERLIN ifi-Wcst Berlin pa lice today watched 10 Soviet soldiers demolish small private house in the suburbs near the border of West Berlin Boeder police of the Communist East German regime began the work last week West Berlin police said they did not know why the Soviets look over the jotx The villa was in the suburb of Keiin Machnowr across from tie American sector of Berlin Department sent atate governors proposals and appeals for cooperation In parallel revamping of the National Guard This calls for cutting out four low-priority guard divisions and 339 obsolete units Under the law a governor must approve any changes In the Guard within hia slate and this could cause the Pentagon serious problems Some states would lose men others gain in the allocation units The plan is based on an over-all strength of 700000 men for the Guard and tesrrve an objective Congress haa ordered the Pentagon to try to leach The Defense Department aim to finish the reorganization the first in five yean before the guard and reserve go to summer training camps next year Whether it ran do this so far as the Guard la concerned depends on its powers of persuasion with the governors who have Included some of the moat outspoken foes of the plan since toi MAKTIT page The News Today A Summary Index for December 4 1962 Hughes Medical Institute a tax-exempt foundation Page seized on an isolated island in the florkh Keys and held on charge of planning to invade Gibs Page 1 Judge Says Youth Must Stand rial Forecast for Corpus Christ! and vicinity: Partly cloudy and warm this afternoon becoming windy colder and cloudy tonight Windy colder and clearing to-idqitowo Low tonight high this afternoon 72-76 high tomorrow 56- 6a Forecast low and high for area points: Alice 404L 56-60 Bee-villa 4246 5640 Faltorrias 42-K 2640 Kingsville 4246 564a Wind forecast: Southerly winds 13 to 20 miles an hour this after-nooa Winds shifting to northerly 20 to 30 miles an hour tonight Northerly winds 13 to 23 miles an hour tomorrow diminishing in the aftenooa Small craft warnings are displayed Temperature downtown at noon 78 degrees relathe humidity 68 per cent barometric pressure 39 1 Highest temperatures yesterday and lowest this morning: International Airport 8032 Chamber of Cbmmrrre TWa Water temperature at Port Aransas this morning 66 degrees Sunrise 7:06 am tomorrow sunset 5:34 pRL today World Thirty-five oung Americans working as volunteers without pay and living in the worst slums of Venezuela are helping change the out-took of the unfortunate and the image of the UA abroad Page MrNAMIRA ordered immediate elimination of four reserve infen-try divisions and a net of 393 lesser reserve units He could do (Ms because the reserve is wholly under federal control At the same time the Defense Five network TV programs In prime viewing time are to disappear for permanent victims of the rating system and the fifth to andergo major surgery Pag ML Statu The Commission an State and Load Tax Policy has recommended the repeal of HfaiilUoM-jiear state property tax The report recommends that the tax be eliminated an or alter Jan 1 1966 Pag 4 McNamara Seen As Top Demo Candidate in '68 Prime Minister Nehru announced that Swirl Russia has premised she will imt rrnrge on her promise to deliver a lew MIG21 Jet tighten to India for training purposes Page 4- Defense Secretary Robert McNamara art in motion today sweeping reorganization of the Army Reserves nd National Guard aimed at modernizing the services along efficient cold war tines Page 1 Proxmire said the Democratic WASHINGTON ID Sea Wil Winkler County kiared goodhy and he pulled the trigger aa she held a shotgun to her head A Jury at Kermit in Winkler County decided Herring was insane at the time of the shooting The Texas Court ef Criminal Appeals set aside the verdict however by ruling the Jury also should have ruled whether Herring was sane at the time ef the Kermit hearing The defense argues the appellate court nevertheless did not set aside Herring's acquittal by reason of insanity Judge Lord overruled a defense contention that transfer of the case across the state to Beaumont in Southeast Texas waa Invalid and his court tacked Jurisdiction Technical procedures of making bond were tho has lor thumotua BEAUMONT ID State Judge Owen Lord ruled today that John Mark liming 19 must stand trial for murder in the kisMnd-kill slaying ef a schoolgirl friend Judge Lord thus ruled in effect that Herring was not acquitted by reawn of insanity in an earlier trial in Winkler County where the shotgun slaying took place The ruling also seemingly ewer ruled a defense attempt to require a sanity hearing for Herring rather than a murder trial Young Herring haa admitted shooting Elizabeth Joan Williams 17 duruig a pnrt-mktnizhi tryst March a 1361 He said however that she begged him to shoot her as she had begged other fellow students at Odessa in West Texas As Hemng tells it they drove to etock pond in neighboring International telephone service between the United States and Urdu will be expanded Dec 13 when new micro-wave radio communications system goes into operation between San Antonio and Mexico Gty- Page Notional A magazine article has Warfdngton wardering if Ad-Ini Stevenaoa's days as UN ambassador are numbered Pate I Party will have a big supply of of presidential timber bi 1968 He named Vice President Lyndon Johnson and President Kennedy's brothers Atty Gen Robert Kennedy and Sea Edward Kennedy D-Mass "But right now" Proxmire said in a statement aim drtivered in a broadcast over Chippewa Falls Wis radio station WAXX "Sec- liam Proounire D-Wfo said today he regards Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara "the leading choice right now lor the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 although he apparently is not a Democrat" McNamara came into the cabinet of President Kennedy a a registered Republican but a professed independent who has contributed to Demnrntir fluids He The Illinois ftibiie Aid Cbm-miion voted yesterday to supply contraceptives free to tingle mothers and married women on relief rolls in an effort In rut down state welfare costs Page 1 rise 1:48 pm tomorrow moon-set 12:44 a tomorrow Gull of Mexico tides: High II: 14 pm today and 10:33 a tomorrow low am tomorrow and 305 pm tomorrow Local A suit filed here yesterday to hah the sale of Houston Natural Gas Cbrp facilities to the city frails to interrupt negotiations for the transfer Fags IB US Rep Wnsht Patman ef Texas has secured the director of foe Internal Revenue Service of giving evasive re pin to questions Pat-nun asked about the Howard Rainfall for 1962 is 1108 inches 1336 inches below normal iWrather Map Psga I) Thirteen braided men including one Giban one Canadian and 11 Americana were is a former president of the Fsrdjrefary McNamara wouid have to It the eutatanding candidate1 Motor Cow.

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