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TCU 42 Kansas 0 Baylor 12 Arkansas 0 Vanderbilt 12 Missouri 8 N. C. St. 21 N. Carolina 14 Clemson 20 Virginia 15 Wake Forest 34 West Va.

66 Maryland 0 i Riehmond 22 Florida ,34 Tnlane 14 Nebraska 14 Penn Stale 7 Texas 13 Georgia 8 LSU 26 Rice 6 Pittsburgh 27 UCLA 6 COP 24 California 20 Oregon 27 Idaho 0 Washington 14 San Jose St. 6 Wash. St. 40 Stanford 6 it ews TWO Great Separate Daily Newspapers Combined Into ONE Great Sunday Newspoper THIS IS SECTION A SAN ANTONIO NEWSI 20 a Copy NO. YEAR SAhf ANTONIO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1958 SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Cloudy, Showers.

162 PAGES IN 12 SECTIONS TOP of the NEWS By PAUL THOMPSON Biggest walkout in recent memory will take place soon in the Bexar C'ounty district office. For instance: J. Lavvton Stone, grand jury assistant for nearly three years, Will enter private law practice before Jan. 1 with Franklin Spears, newly elected legislator. Fd Finck will join the law firm of Davis.

Clemens, Knight and Weiss while Dick Woods, first assistant DA, takes Dist. Judge Joe F. place with Biery Biery. Young Preston Dail expected to catch on with the federal district office and Marion Nugent will go into the general contracting business. DA assistants Howard Hunt and George Reed told us they figured to be in private practice by the time Charlie Lieck Jr.

walks in as boss Jan. 1, And Ish Garza, who has a disabled pension and owns a farm, plans to become a private investigator. These are just some of the men quit before Lieck Jr. has a chance to fire them. on't Wait Eisenhower Gets Khrushchev Told 200 Families Flee Floods GRAHAM RELAXES Evangelist Billy Graham, dressed for a press conference, shows off one of the dairy cows on his father's Charlotte, N.C-, form.

Grohom opens month-long crusade in Charlotte Wirephoto. Rains up to five inches north and west of San up to four inches in the city proper creeks and streams Saturday and drove 200 families from their homes. Police threw up some 60 barricades earl yin the day as the downpours continued. By mid-morning, they were re- plunging into the fast-moving creek waters. The homeless, from northwest and west San Antonio, moved in with relatives.

They were able to move back into their homes later Saturday. The spots which opened their doors included the Community Center at 1200 Colima, church at Buena Vista and San Luis, church at Chihuahua and Zarzamora, church at 800 cnurcn ouu moving some, but throwing up Number others to prevent motorists from Rains Send Colorado on Rise Warning Up in the Austin area Dist. Atty. Hubert Green who did not run to succeed him- thf ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather Bureau promised more to continue self, said he had one conference r-Pntrai and north cen- through Sunday, with Lieck over "office Flood warnings went out to cit-, eastern, central and no th Marcos. 35 families re- i ies along the Colorado River be- tral areas through Sunday.

Lieck indicated that several staffers were unappetizing to him, but he wrote down no names and gave the impression no final decisions had been made. Green said. DA designate Lieck, right after the filing deadline this year, called men together and pledged there would be no purge if they refrained from personal attacks on himself and family during the campaign. Actually, Lieck has fired no one yet. But political wirters, claiming him as authority, have put axe marks on the neck of at least 14 men now working for Green.

And the 14 men, with maybe one or two exceptions, are convinced Lieck is out to get them. not going to wait around to find said Assistant Hunt. VI figure not wanted and so 1 will just save Lieck from an embarrassing Assistant Reed said he has al- been "a conservative Shivers and Green while Lieck low Austin Saturday. 1 turned to their homes after being Cotton crops and roads already out by flooding Purgatory The rains tapered off over most had taaen a severe pounding from. Creek and Sink Springs Saturday.

of waterlogged Texas. But the deluges up to more than 12 inches in Central Texas. IMorc Rains Due A rain-drenched San Antonio Rises were reported on the upper Nueces, Frio and Sabinal rivers and many hill country streams. The heaviest rainfall in Central At least four deaths were at tribuied to the weather. neaviesi rauuau u.

A major crest moved down the last 24 hours still seen the last of drip -1 Colorado River following rains 49 inches at Elgin, ping skies. More rain is in store 1 up to 6 2 inches upstream. Ranch-; up to 4.5 inches and Sunday. lers and farmers were warned to, 5.4. The weatherman predicts scat-1 protect livestock and pumping- afternoon rains fell at tered showers and thundershowers equipment.

The crest was due at: Christi, Houston and Vic- throughout the day with high tern-! Smithville, in Bastrop County, peralure in the middle 80s. The Monday. i Much of the cottonlosses were low will be in the low 70s. I The rainy weather was expected heart of the blackland belt from north of Greenville to south of Ennis and Waxahachie. Wreckers were clearing the Missouri-Kansas-Texas tracks where the engine and five cars of a passenger train were derailed by a washout 8 miles south of Waxahachie.

No one was hurt. The Corpus Christi Bureau came up with this oddity: Rain ranged from .25 of an inch. to 7.50 inches in an area of only find your Relax this square miles Friday near Pull Out Your Relax Magazine 2323 Buena Vista. One Rescue Police reported only one rescue. 'That occurred after a man ran into the high waters of Martinez Creek in the 1300 block of Fredericksburg Road.

The driver climbed onto the hood of his car until he was carried to safety. The office said one driver was rescued on Jackson- Keller Road when he ran into the swollen waters of Olmos Creek. And water was reported five feet high over the low Medina River bridge on the Old Pearsall Road. The Guadalupe River crested at New Braunfels Saturday morning at about half bankfull, and no flooding is expected downstream. At Devine, 25 miles southwest of San Antonio, the Hondo and Burnt Boot Creeks went on a rampage after between three and a half and five and a half inches of rain fell during the night.

A score of families fled from their homes in lower parts of the city, while others, who get out in time, were marooned by high waters. Road Closed State Road 173 between Hondo and Devine was closed due to high water. Between three and five inches See FLOOD, Page 11-A EN ROUTE TO Rock and roll singer Elvis Presley boards train that will take him from Fort Hood to New York where he will board ship for Germany. Presley has just hod 14 weeks of advanced training with on armored Wirephoto. nS wrapped inside a tabloid section, point trying to make the twain meet.

Declared Stone: might have stayed around a couple more years if Joe Lee Hensley had defeated Lieck. As it is, resigning. It looks like a time to get into private Pull it in South Texas, Friday. Harold Again for an entertaining and informative assortment of week-end reading. For a particular reason to consult the current Relax, see below.

Ahead on TV? And around. Karnes City-Kenedy area, also in South Texas, rain for 15 successive days totaled 5.76. It rained again Saturday. Red Chinese Say Quemoy in the Bag LONDON (AP) Communist fore completely proper and nec- Foreign Minister Chen Yi AF Kavo Punch Chen Yi placed the blame for the current tension in the Formosa Strait squarely on the United States and reiterated Red statement broadcast by i demand for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Formosa area.

His statement declared Saturday that "no force on earth can his country from reoccupying the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. In a Formosa Warning Spurned NEWPORT, R. The United Jtates threw the Soviet latest letter back in Premier Nikita face Saturday, calling it too false, abusive and threatening to be acceptable under international standards. 'The summer White House, announcing this on behalf of President Eisenhower, said it believed such a rejection of a note has no precdent in the history 0 U.S.- Soviet relations. action meant this country will ignore demand that this country pull its forces out of Formosa and the surrounding the accompanying threat that if they are not withdrawn the Chinese Communists, with Russian support, will drive them out.

The U.S. government has made it plain, however, it will continue to defend Formosa, and offshore territory essential to its defense, by military action if necessary. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty, in announcing rejection of 13-page note, said it will be returned to the Kremlin Sunday by the U.S. charge in Moscow, Richard A.

Davis. 'The first of two statements issued by the House said with reference to the Soviet note: "This communication is replete with false accusations; it is couched in language that Is abusive and intemperate; it indulges in personalities; it contains inadmissible threats. "All of this renders the com- See FIGHT, Page 11-A A new season is at hand in television. Your set I will be offering many new programs. Furthermore, District Attorney Green called jgome popular programs are changing networks recruitment of able staffers times.

Ed TV show Sunday night and away my toughest you a peek at ahead. And Relax He added; "With salaries so Magazine lists new programs and program changes low. hard to keep the able handy form you may want to keep for refer- men with you. There are always weeks to come. miss it.

plenty of job applicants, but an experienced and smart investigator is difficult to Lieck, who apparently intends in 'maf Who is most colorful figure in sports? finding men willing Casey Stengel, of course. The manager of the New In Inrk (to lawyers) is York Yankees has added a lot to baseball lore with his clowning, his shrewdness, his doubletalk. widelv cnioted as ready to'j For the first article in an amazing and amusing hire Corporation Judge Harold scries on the inimitable Mr. Stengel, turn to Hall, one of his a run- Page 1-D. 'A BascbalFs Happy Warrior off ally--in recent campaigning, ns administrative assistant more or less in charge of office routine.

If this be true, then Hall would find himself in an excellent position to become DA in 1962. more than one way to skin a cat. at First Sight? Do you believe in love at first sight? If you do, you have a surprise in store when you read "What Do You Know About find it in This Week Magazine. Cuban Rebels Drive West HAVANA leader Fidel Castro claimed Saturday I his armed forces are continuing 'a push to the west, with one col- 'umn driving to within 250 miles this capital. in reserve in the Formosan crisis despite being outnumbered three to one by Communist aircraft in the Far East, a top Pacific Air Russian Note Peiping Radio, he accused U.S.

HICKAM AIR FORCE Secretary of State John Foster Hawaii U. S. Air Force Dulles of making "perverted i has the necessary knockout punch in his address to the seemed to rule out any hope i jjUCFg Xk.0 U.N. General Assembly Thursday. Chen Yi said the Chinese Nationalists, supported by American forces, have been using Quemoy Force headquarters general said; and Matsu for military activities Saturday.

Chuckle Peiping regime might agree to a cease fire to reduce tension there. "There is no fighting between China and the United WASHINGTON (AP) Diplomatic officials said Saturday President decision to re- against the Communist mainland. facts show that so long as Quemoy and Matsu are not re- gjj covered, the immediate threat to; our mainland and coastal areas will not be he said. "The Chen Yi said, "so the question ofjject letter from Nikita a so-nalled cease fire does not Khrushchev was due primarily to personal remarks about him. Eisenhower, vacationing at me loreign miiusici oaiu inv.

nf crists wiii remain aa as U.S. wiii not be iifted," he satd. the area. Duties were punitive military operations taken. broadcasts, during the day.

I--. nooiMct Phi-5 4 Some men put antiknock into by the Chinese people against Peiping accused the United Among statements their automobiles, when they ought ang troops entrenched warships which were regarded as being of inn Otipmov and Matsu are there- a personally abusive or insulting to be taking it themselves. Ion Quemoy and Matsu are there- Selma Kicks Out Charter Residents of Selma Saturday voted to abolish the corporate status of their city. The margin was a slim six to 32. Voter turnout was about 80 per cent.

Want to Help Cut Traffic Deaths? and planes into Communist territorial areas, and accused Japan of being "the major accomplice of the United States in its war scheme against China and the sabotage of world The radio quoted a Peiping spokesman as noting that the Chinese government was giving its nature was one accusing Eisenhower of a whitewash of U.S. policy toward Formosa. "To whitewash the aggressive actions of the United Khrushchev said in discussing a letter he received from Eisenhower Sept. 12, "your message utterly Stengel Creeks IHanciivcr ATHENS, Greece (AP) A large-scale Greek army exercise was held near the Greek-Bulgarian border last week with the participation of a U.S. Army battalion operating Honest John guided mis-' siles.

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planes draws a picture which has ships since the ambassador-level nothing common with the sheet of paper bearing the name and address. Prominent traffic safety officials Peace Offer Reported in the Formosa area, seat of Chiang Nationalist government. The State Department declined WASHINGTON (AP) Diplomats reported Saturday that Com- will be asked to select the winners. I munist China has made a Letters must jie postmarked not tional offer to refrain from using comment on the report. Secre later than midnight Sunday, force against Formosa pending tary Dulles has laid down a prticy Oct 16 I negotiation over the island's fu- of silence with to the -b.

1 meetings between the U.S. and Red Chinese ambassadors. ture. 'The offer was said to have been Mail your suggestion to SAFETY $50. Writer of the second testANTONIO to the United States in the fourth PRESS AND NEWS Ave.

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