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Corpus Christi Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 12

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Corpus Christi, Texas
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Corpus Christ! Caller-Times Sun Nov 12 1361 13 5Tr KENNEDY LOOKS FORWARD TO RESTS By WHITNEY SHOEMAKER AP Staff Writer The President of the United States alighted from his Jet at Otis Air Force Base in Ma sarhu- in both opportunity and in demands upon the how-does he stand the pressure! What kind of life can he call his own? Kennedy is intense restless He almost has to force himself to re- setts and stepped quickly into r1ix is ifixcipiincd enough waiting helicopter for the 10-min-'lo j- I0 ute hop to Hyannis Port I It was a typical Friday after-! ar- noon last summer And it exempli-! Tied what Hyannis Port means for 01 the foobaI1 fied President a haven from'55' courp- He wam- "aiW-Washington hubbub a place for open shirt and slacks for a cruise on the (ound and dinner with the family John F1 Kennedy knew much played tennis He still swims and occasionally sails Twice since Inauguration Day he is known to have gone out lor a few holes of golf He laid off for Caroline Many IJttle Kennedy The center of activities there was the Kennedy families' compound of white board and brick homes Often it quivered with little Kennedy as many as 20 scampering chirping children at a time And it abounded with weekend old friends up from Washington government of ficials theater folk and chums of three generations of Kennedys who establish their summer headquarters at Hyannis Port The President's own weekends at Hyannis Port and Newport have been in the words of an associate "the salvation of his life" As anyone familiar with the presidency is aware no chief executive can flee the office no matter where he goes or what he does Howaid Edmondson of Oklahoma and press secretary Pierre Salinger He borrowed a club from Salinger and swatted a few Watches ife Kennedy now taking daily muscle-strengthening exercises to get himself back into action has obtained at least vicarious satisfaction from the First Lady's ventures into water skiing and golf He watched from aboard ship as she skied gracefully over sometimes defiantly choppy waters in Nantucket Sound or Narragansett Bay He has seen her hit a golf ball 200 yards Mrs Kennedy bundled daughter Caroline and John Jr to Hyannis Port in July for the kind of Massachusetts summer vacation the President enjoyed as a lad Kennedy telephoned frequently on weekdays to talk with the First Lady and "Buttons" a pet name At Hyannis Port Kennedy was always in contact with Washing ton He occasionally asked high administration officials to fy up for consultation and was briefed twice daily pn developments abroad But there also he found refreshment in the change of air and memory-tinted scenery of his youth As a friend put it he could think alone mull over ideas analyze and dissert theories of his subordinates without being sms rounded by them Utter Informality At the other extreme those weekends on Cape Cod afforded the few opportunities he has had as president to mix with the children in utter informality It became ritual for Caroline and a mob of cousins and cronies to pile on the golf cart so Daddy Jack" to most of them mild drive them a block to the comer store for candy bare and lollipop Now settling back in Washintoo again the Remedy are mm accustomed to the White House si home than they were last winter And they ran still retreat to their Middieburg Va estate on free weekends The President will see his children in the morning and Caroline no douht will trot over to the of fice with him whenever she gets a chance In the early afternoon after a swim in the pool or a workout in the gym Kennedy may have lunch with the First Lady No Fixed Soutine The Kennedys abide by no fixed routine When they invite friends for dinner the groups consist usually of only a few couples at a time After dinner they may watch a movie in the White House the game completely for months after straining his back in that lamented tree-planting ceremony at Ottawa last May But he couldn't resist the urge while 'riding a golf cart around the course at Hyannis Port in September with Mrs Kennedy Gov and Mrs but not ail of what was involved in the presidency In pre-election days he explained his motive for running by saying he wanted to be president because this was the ultimate in public seiyice lighting the Pressure Now that he holds this the tgawy 'S Exclusively! KENNEDY EAGER FOR A WEEKEND lamliy arrives at Otis Air Force Base (AP NfWtfMfVTM Pht FCC To Begin Oral Hearings Monday Channel Three (Q) tiapjjy settings for festive dining with Ethan Allen EARLY AMERICAN FURNITURE aumritter Enjoy dining in one of these handsome Early American settings a wonderful variety of tables chairs and storage pieces beautiful furniture for every kind of dining love their rich hand rubbed Nutmeg finish subtle detailing authentic Colonial hardware Every piece carefully crafted of selected maple and birch From our Ethan Allen open stock collection for living dining and bedrooms every room in your home! plication proposed a transmitter site some two miles south of Fetmnila with studios at the transmitter site South Texas estimated construction cotj at $318460 costs of the first year of operation at 3378000 and reve-! nue for the first year at (364000 South Texas proposed to operate 14 hours a day I Tropical Telecasting shows its! proposed transmitter site approxi- mutely two miles south of Petro- nila with studios at 810 Lower Broadway In its application Tropical shows an estimated construction cost of (065421 The first year of operation is estimated to cost (525000 and the estimated revenues for the first year of operation are (120000 Tropical proposes daily operations of 17 -hours including approximately two hours of educational prograrft-! ming 1 Nunces Telecasting expects to spend (632983 on construction and equipment with the first operation to cost approximately (S04 000 First year revenue are expected to he about (300000 Nueces Telecasting proposes a transmitter site approximately a mile and a had southeast of Petroniln with studios at 1201 Mussett Daily operating hours arc projected at slightly more than 17 CroM-KxaminatlMi The hearings beginning in Washington tomorrow consist of oral cross-examination based on direct written testimony submitted In July to the FOC by the three applicant It is expected that tiie current series of hearings wBl continue at least two weeks No preliminary derision is expected regarding allocation of Channel 3 before next spring Federal Communication Commission tomorrow will begin oiSt hearings in Washington DC to-determine which of three applicants will be awarded tele-viainn Channel 3 in Corpus Christi The applicants are in the order Of their appearance before an FCC examiner South Texas Telecasting Co Tropical Telecasting Cprp and Nueces Telecasting Corp IwMiPs To Apirar 'South Texas Telecasting Co filler operators of KVDO-TV here will present as witnesses for cross-examination Dr A $afcia president Joe Garza Gabriel Lozano Sr directors all teprp Corpus Chrisli and Clinton McKinnon of San Diego Gordon Hamilton of Tucson and Frank Idappe of Albuquerque McKinnon Is -shown in South Texas' application as principal financial backer holding options to acquire approximately 77 per cent of South gxas stock in event their company receives the grant for Channel 3 McKinnon operates television stations in Tucson and Albuquerque "Tropical Telecasting C'orp a sSisidiary of the Caller-Times Qhlishing Co will present as witnesses for cross-examination £3 ward Ilarte president Conwy Craig 1 Lorry Abbott and Dr VCTa Miller all of Corpus Christi fjjward Lorenz Washington consulting engineer and Houston lErte Jr of San Angelo Nueces Telecasting Corp will jwesent as witnesses for eross-cx-dfijination Jack Vaughn of Dallas Jock Rvan of Corpus Christi and Cecil Trigg John Vacca and Janies Reese all of Oiiessa VSnghn is president of Nueces QKpnaed Sites Couth Texas in its original ap OVERSEAS RELIEF I Calholies To Collect I I Clothing for Needy XalholiC churches and mis- pus Christi collected 40000 Ifljp of this diocese will collect! pounds of clothing the Rt Rev gjpthes for the needy of the 'Msgr Adams diocesan wjyld the Most Rev Gae-j campaign chairman said The riga DD LL D- Bishop of national total was more than 15 3 A 42 Static Top Round Cxtsmton Table Opona to 52 Soata Sis 7950 Mata Chair aach 25-50 31 24 Drop laaf Table Opona to 3t by 54 Seats six 6750 million pounds of clothing Hie Bishop' Overseas Relief Agency expanded its activities to ttnjial clothing drive for overseas lwP Sdy This tin 13th year countries during the past in Pnthnlir of America have jvar sind abro-d! now duct assislanc "jThe clothing flint we were P1'm in 19 in Afn- nbte-to hip as a result of this awmal appeal makes it PMsihie Jwmries fff us to complement tite vast 'American intriea and many altf-ei of government donated Caribbean wind-fflpd to a point where we are nw helping to aupply the basic nQteulttr of life to Ota poor in 64 countries" Bishop Garriga stfi 40000 1'ihiinIs I-ast Year 2Lat year the diocese of Cor- Catlmllo Relief Services have been helping feed clothe and resettle the thansands of refugees from Cuba The aim and scope of this program shows little chanre of lessening soon Magr Adams said The clothes collected 2300 Thumb Back Chair oach I Hlteheoek Chair each Buffet Top Buffet Bate with Shutter Doors Ladder Sack Arm Chair each S4 Round Drop Leaf Tabla 54 by State 12 Ol Ladder Back Chair each BUffet TOP MWMWMMMM a Buffet Best Formal Hoit Chair each 2150 6550 $13900 4750 118900 I 1750 $13900 $19900 3950 25Vb by 42 Buttsrfly Drop Loaf Extension Table Opona to 42W by S2W Boat 12 muniHMM aaoaama sat $11500 Duxbwy Chair oach 2750 Hutch Cabinet Top 1350 Server Bate with ShuHar Door 900 22 by 65 Harvest Table Open to 45" by Seats 10 II 500 40 by SO Oval Banquat Tabla Open to 40 by 94 Beats 10 $1 5300 Formal Bide Chair each 1350 are distributed throughout the world without regard to race creed or color SIMM'S Blankets Needed Hie great need this year aside from wearable clothing is for shoes blankets and bedding Each parish and mission will serve as a depot whore clothing can he loft during the Thanks- giving collection week Assisting Msgr Adams in the campaign are sewn regional chairmen Tliey ere the Rev Jerome Hnos of Kingsville: the Rev George Sexton OMI of Brownsville tiie Rt Rev Msgr Victor Ralph of Harlingen tiie Very Rev Msgr George Glneck-ncr of I vi redo tiie Rt Rev Msgr Edward Miller of Alice die Rt Rev Harold rainier of neeville and 4lie Rev Frier Smith of Alamo Levels Railroad Tracks Wl SfcLEVMJLND A device wtlirh resembles a miniature boat trailer and uses piano strings is feting used by Hie Erie-leck-owanna Railroad lo ensure level tracks and smooth rides for angers and freight Jllte device called a "surfac-et" registers low vnria-tisni ns small ns an eighth-inch -on an indicator A ballast tam- Eilten moves in to push Ital-t under and around ties and direct tiie situation 'Using the equipment railroad BMintcnnnro engineers say fttww ran correct 50 to 80 low splits a day y-N fmty9KA to I a a 'N s- 1 X'rOAH44M4vKlAr 1 a 205 CHAPARRAL 4434 LEXINGTON 1002 LEOPARD VA4C-WTF'.

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