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f'Ujxvfilm Center, P.O. all Pc ms axuhuchie DAI LY LIGHT WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS 75165, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1968 10c PER COPY NUMBER 4 WATFORD, England UPI Watford new garbage trucks not only gobble up then crunch it up into perfect foot square blocks. The trouble is, one of them has taken lately to doing it with trash bins as well. Once a bin has been flipped over the safety barrier there's nothing we can a town official explained. "I fear we'll just have to keep replacing bins." Allies Capture Big Red Arms Dumps Absentee Voting Continues Nine absentee votes have been cast in the $1,100,000 school bond election.

Supt. T. C. Wilemon disclosed today. Absentee voting will continue through Friday, the deadline.

Hours of absentee voting are from 8 a. rn. to 5 p. rn. and ballots are available at the office on West Main.

Hie election will be held on Tuesday, July 23. at the Central Fire Station on West Main Street from 8 a. rn. to 7 p. rn Voters will bt' those qualified citizens with property on the school district tax roll.

The bond issue, ii approved. will give the school district funds with which to build a new Waxahachie High School. The board has $1,060,000 bonds authorized but unsold from a election. This will give the trustees a total of $2,160,000 for the new building which is to be located two miles north of the Ferris and Sycamore intersection. Plan New Stadium Along with the new school, trustees hope to have enough funds available to build a new stadium.

No auditorium is included in the school plans but is expected to be constructed later. CLIMBS INTO THE SADDLE for ride on a horse, happy Gayla Ann Brafchei Ball Visits visited and all reportedly were having enjoyable times. ALONG 2 SOUTH TEXAS RIVERS Flood Warnings Go Up By United Tress International said early today more rain is in the forecast during the after- Heavy rains that threatened to pour in automobile windows subsided Sunday in Lubbock, but flush flood warnings went out along the Upper Frio and Upper Nueces in South Texas. The H. B.

camp near Leakey, Tex reported the heaviest rauifal on the rivers watershed area with six inches Other reports included more than three inches at Texas, Camp Wood, and at a spot about 60 miles northwest of Rock Spring, Tex The U. S. Weather Bureau noon as temperatures climb into the and touch warm, moist Gulf of Mexico air boing slicked over the state around a ridge of high pressure in the southeastern part ol the nation. Heavy Rain Saturday Streets flooded and water crept into homes, forcing a tew persons to flee. Most refugees were able to return alter a short time, however.

By Sunday afternoon, streets were mostly clear. the Heavy rain began Saturday night in the Lubbock arca and lasted for several hours One reporting station in the western part of town measured inches of ram. At another, only over North Central Texas, eight miles away across the ramlail was city, the ramlall measured only 34. Showers wire reported early today along ihc Gull Coast and in the South Plains around already -sodden Lubbock. Other showers were reported but Hie Oklahoma border.

Abilene, Alpine, Fort Worth, and Midland each received more than a quarter inch of rain. Presidio, along tile Texas- Mexieo border, got .96 inches of rain but Mill won Sunday honors for high temperature reading with 98 degrees. Waxahachie recorded a high temperature reading of 90 degrees Sunday afternoon with the low early today being 74 degrees. TI SUNNY AND HOT LOCAL FORECAST: Partly clouds and warm with scattered showers. Low tonight in nud- 70s.

High Tuesday around degrees. French Dance, Sing On Bastille Day PARIS UPI The shuffle of day celebrating and anti-Gaul- daricing on rain-washed cobble- list violence, stones and accardsun-accompan- confrontations Eager for ride on a horse, happy Gayla Ann Bratcher, Ennis girl, prepares to mount JERUSALEM iii PH George her trusty steed. The horse, one cf the new rides put in Getzendaner Memorial Parle recently by S. to die the city park board, drew the rapt attention of Gayla who was accompanied by her mother, 1 nmd Natl0ns- armed Sunday Mrs. Jan Bratcher, 1207 Mulberry, Ennis.

About 30 children were at the park at the time Gayla to' determine' Ll (Staff Photo). stand on the Middle East crisis. led singing mingled with the pop of tear gas grenades today ending a night of Bastille- Longtime Educator Dies Here Miss Mabel Or izzard, 84, 711 VY Main who was an educator in the Waxahachie public school sy stem for over 40 years before her retirement in 1949, died at 4 p.m. Sunday at the VY ('. Tenery Community Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 5 p.m. today at the Rudolph Chapel of the Chimes with the Rev. L. H. Raney of Lancaster officiating.

Burial will be in the Hillcrest Burial Park. Miss Grizzard, who was honored a few years ago by being chosen of Waxahachie. was one of the national founders of Delta Kappa Gamma society. She was honored by the Alpha Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma at a breakfast meeting in May, 1964. Shr was teal lier and principal at Marvin Elementary School for over 40 years Miss Grizzard, active in community affairs, was one oi the first women state supervisors of Texas schools during the administration of Dr.

Annie Webb Blanton, the Ut st woman state superin- Sec EDUCATOR On Page Six Americans Start Paying Higher Income Taxes Today VSH I NGUON UPI Americans stat ted paying higher federal income taxes today. President Johnson long- sought IO pcr cent surcharge designed to raise $11.6 billion in additional revenue by next June 30 went into effect today The tax is retroactive to Jan. I for corporation and to April I for individuals. The uh eased withholding Jrorn paychecks of wage earners starting tins week actually will not meet die obligations of Some firms were encouraging employes to increase their weekly withholding to avert an unexpected bill at tax settling time next April 13. President Johnson, in signing the tax package June 28.

said Congress had important enacting die bill. He said the measure which also ordered billion hi fodeial spending cuts would cut billion ti oui the fiscal LteJ dfcUuL Reached Car Windows The high water dial deluged normally arid Lubbock reached ear window depth in some places before ll began soaking into die ground. Other shower activity Uuougti die state Sunday was scattered from nor Iii of Abilene to Fort orth southward to College SU- 1 1 mi Other lain tell near Midland and in North Texas uear Gun Control MANILA President Ferdinand Marcos said Sunday he wants all firearms in die Philippines collected because they are the stumbling in his antidinic campaign. More Out Russian Troops Pull Of Czechoslovakia By GERI) KR! WAN EK PRAGUE (IPB The Czech news agency CIK said today Soviet troops bad resumed moving out of Czechoslovakia. The announcement cased the developing crisis in relations between Czechoslovakia and other members of die East European Czech government and political sources reported earlier die withdrawal of Russian troops in Czechoslovak ie for Warsaw Pact troop maneuvers last month had halted over the weekend, ostensibly because of heavy tourist traffic.

CIK sot Soviet troops moved oui of fhe country during the night and dial mort were expected leave today I ntil then, witnesses al the border said only three Sov ie1 jeeps had crossed back into East Germany during the past 48 hours. The (TK statement said other had crossed into East Germany at the mover Zinnwald crossing during Hie night and more Soviet columns also crossed the Czechoslovak-Poland border it Beloves near Nachod during the Soviet troops are expected to cross over into Poland today at the same border it said Political observers had believed the troop withdrawal was halted pend mg outcome of a Warsaw meeting underway tween Soviet leaders and such loyal East bloc members as East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary Maverick Yugoslav la IOC dbl de mn Czechoslovakia. Romania and ugoslavia were notably absent Otiieial publications iii Romania and Yugoslavia today cr 1 1 1 nzed the continued presence of Hie Russian troops as intcrfer- ence in the internal affairs of another Communist state. Both have been increasingly independent of Moscow. The Czech news agency had promised an important an- nounceintuit foi I pan.

7 a.m. COT but its was withheld for sevral luaus. No i capuli wjj given. poi ice and demonstrators were France's first since the rioting rn the middle of last month. The crowds stayed out late Sunday night into the wee hours today, observing the 179th anniversary- of the storming of the old Bastille prison in the 18th century French revolution.

In the Latin Quarter student area, police fired tear gas grenades against gangs of demonstrators who hurled bottles and paving stones ripped from the streets. Dance in Street In some places, only a short distance down the street, Parisians danced in the street See FRENCH On Page Six Planes Blast Routes By JACK WALSH SAIGON UPI B52s today bombed Communist routes to Saigon and Hue. Allied troops seized giant Commie arms dumps near the capital and the old imperial city. Communist diplomats in London said an expected Red assault on the two cities may decide the future of Vietnam peace talks. Allied garrisons in (he cities stood at full alert.

Tile prcsi- between dcntial palace in Saigon became a military bastion with 400 South Vietnam rangers nest at the marble mansion to defend against the Red legions which allied intelligence sources said will strike soon. The stratofortresses dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on the guerrilla routes toward the cities. Terrorists Strike In Saigon's Cholon district, mangled in two previous Communist strikes this year, a pair of teen-age girl terrorist shot to death a guerrilla who had defected LLS. Defense Secretary Clark See ALLIES On Page Six Rep. Joe Pool Collapses, Dies At Houston Sunday HOLSTON UPI Joe R.

Pool, member of the House Committee on Un- American Activities (HU At) and opponent of all things Communist, collapsed and died Sunday of a heart attack at International Airport. He was 57. Pool. who stood under 5-ieet-7 and weighed well over 200 pounds, was likable, jovial, and down to earth. He was direct in his likes and dislikes.

His greatest fame notoriety came from the controversial anti-Communist committee and from his hawkish views on the Vietnam War. He was chairman of a RUAG subcommittee meeting in 1966 before public hearings were to begin a federal judge in Washington issued an injunction torbididng the hearings. Pool proclaimed he would go to jail before allowing the judicial branch to interfere with the Congress. Minutes before the hearing began a higher court knocked down the injunction so he did not get tile chance. Hearing Stormy The hearing was stormy, it was marked by demonstrations and shouting.

Police dragged out and arrested many of the demonstrators. Pool interrogated the hostile itnesses in a loud voice. The witnesses replied to questions with to consider his bill to make it a demnatiois ot Ii. S. policy, federal crime to interfere with a degree LL S.

military traffic and prohi- lrorn Southern Methodist bit shipping money, supplies or 1937. lit1 practiced blood to the Viet Cong. The day kw for sacral years and serv- ed in the Texas House. In 1962 he was elected congressman at was re-elected twice at large and once from a Dalas district. Pool went to Congress in 1962 IpjpHL I and was re-elected rn 1964.

WM for congressman from Dallas. Collins was to have jllft INB opponent in Uh' Novem- JBL I der general election this year HL -m The congressman death will JB a 'Wk Minty lo JKKM I "Heft a eandidfiti to laki I ml Hi Pf 9 I the remainder of Pool which expires Jan 5, I960. His widow, four sons aud two REP. JOE POOL at Airport.

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