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RIO, TEXAS, NEWS HERAID, Friday, September 6. WW Grandma in Wheelchair Is Persistant Lobbyist OLVMPIA. Seattle grandmother parked in tier whwlchair on thp of the Matr capital building today, quickly bfcomine the most jnstpnt lobbyist snd top tourist attract kin Mrs Goodman. 59. hit there for two days and two nights and she won't go home until the state her welfare White she she 1 up for her many Albert Rofellim she say- 'He's a good man a won- diprfu! person No sorh praise the legislature "They'd rather put concrete and shrubs and let the wheelchair cripples EO to Mr- Goodman appeared to the governor to rail a special session of the legislature to restore a 12 per cent cut in welfare benefits made in the past three years He told her there could be DO special session now.

and welfare cuts had to be made because the past legislatures have trimmed his budget requests. She's entitled to $128-a month disability payment because of a circulatory ailment, but gets only $113 because of the reduction. She says her rampaJCB tat't just for herself, but for aB the wheelchair recipients and hopes others will join her sit-in. So far. none have eminent aides bring her fwxi and coffee and blankets to keep her warm at night.

The keep her company by day and the watchman breaks the monotony at night. She says she's prepared to stay as tang as it takes to do the; Juvenile Hewing Set Ftf Boy In Beating BEAUMONT A juvenile hearing was set today fer a Negro boy. 15. In the beating death of his step-sister. Sharon Marie Robinson.

17 months old, died Tuesday. The boy told police he bad tried to spank the girl IT'S fAULT DEAR! Dear Abby By Abigail Van Buren AMERICAN CnBftell, bears a striking resemblance to tiw Jacqueline Kennedy. Win Campbell is MiM Vftrgteia of 1963 and wiB compete.ife thig yeai'i America contest in Atlantic City. JFK To Salute Republicans As Conservation Tour Starts Moves To Strengthen Dollar Meet Sucess By CRANK CORMIER WASHINGTON President will salute two Bepub 1 1' an- Theodore Roosevelt and Pinchot. at the start of- in- --tale conservation tour lat 1 1 ihis month it was learned today.

will his Sept 2529 trip bv ina in Milford. Pa to visit the rrTii F'mrhol horn' 1 which a national historic Pinchot. who died in 1946. waj a pioneer conservationist "h'. fame as head of tne i rorest Semce durwg the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, one of the most conservation- minded Tile White House says the Ken be nonpotttical.

-and (us brief slop at the Pinchot home doubtless will be cited as evidence supporting this claim Ken- rn-dy however, is not unmindful of potential political henefiis from his in areas will nol have ttme to visit in the 1S64 presidential campaign Although most slops will involve inspection of conservation and re- Mitirce development projects. Kennedy also to such population centers San Francisco. Sals Lake City. Portland. Ore'.

and I luth. While details have not been an nounced. this tentative trip schedule has been worked out After the stop in Pennsylvania. Kennedy fly to Duluth to address an Agriculture Depart men! conference on land and people 'Ilns lunch hour appearance will be followed by a flight to North I'akota to tew the Garrison di project on the Missouri Hivcr and to speak in Kargo. Orand Forks or Minot.

Later in the day. he is expected to Jackson Hole, to perid the night at that wenic spot near Yellowstone and National Parks On Sept. 26, Kennedy plans to to Montana to speak at Hill ings and Great the state largest and. perhaps, to set Yellowtail Dam near From Montana. Kennedy will to Utah to see Flaming large Dam and other projects before go- the night in? to Salt Lake City for a speech and an overnight stay While in Sail Lake fity.

Kennedy may meet with McKay, president of the Mormon Church. Kennedy will fly to Washington State on Sep4 27 where several posvioie appearances are being considered One would involve ob- of the 30th anniversary of Coulee Dam, the Other dedication of a program to generate pouer from steam produced from an atomic reactor at Hanford In Oregon, later that day. Kenned) is expected to dedicate a housing for the elderly project in Portland and inspect the Oregon Dunes National Seashore before going to San Francisco to spend On Sept. 28. Kennedy plans to fly to the Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco, then to Whisfceytown reservoir Reading before going to Las Veg as.

IB Nevada, he is likely to inspect Hoover -Dam and Lake Mead According to present plans, the tour will wind up at Palm Springs. where Kennedy -will about a day and a half relaxing before his return to Washington Development Plans For Two More Mexico Border Towns Told MEXICO CfTY (AP)-Develop- raent plans for the border towns of Agua Pneta. opposite Douglas. Am and San Luis Rio Colorado, near Yuma. Ariz have been disclosed by Secretary of National Patrimony Kduardo Bustamante He said his ministry was working closely with a program headed by Antonio Bermudez to make Mexican border towns and ports "showcases of national industry." L'rban development plans for the two border towns were turned over to Sonora Gov Luis Encinas and the two municipal government 1 Javits Says JFK May Hove To Send Troops To Alabama WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Jacob Javits, told the Senate today that President Kennedy "may well have to send U.S.

marshals or troops" to Alabama to reopen schools where integration is scheduled to take place. Javits said this would be "a trying decision" for the President but Kennedy "should have the support of the people of this country and of the Congress in the steps he finds it necessary to, take Javits said the federal government has no choice but "to en force the rights of citizens of the United States in Alabama when state authorities are unwilling to enforce them By SAM OAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK to strengthen the American dollar are scoring some initial successes in world money marts. The dollar has advanced slightly against the Swiss.franc and the German mark. A greater score has been made against the British pound sterling which has dipped to a two-year low in terms of American money. While the U.S.

Treasury gold stocks have shrunk a little more this summer. Britain's gold and convertible currency reserves also fell in August, off about $19.6 million. None of this necessarily forecasts any great upsurge in the dollar's position. Nor does it cause any real alarm in European money capitals. It does show the, close ties between Western currencies and economies.

Some Britons in particular are saying that the efforts to strengthen the dollar are the cause of the pound's weakness. temporary as they expect it to be. It's a neat trick to strengthen one country's position without weakening another's That's one reason so much interest is at- tached to the meeting in Washing; tori later this month of the directors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, charged with policing the financial dealings of the Western world as well as encouraging their economic growth. Europeans have been watching the American financial moves. First was higher interest rates to i keep lendable American -dollars at home.

Second was the proposal. i now being debated in Congress, to American purchases of foreign securities from foreigners, with the same goal in view. i Since American capital has been the great pool from which Europeans could draw since World War II, any drying up of these available funds will be felt. The British pound this week dipped below the official rate of $2.80 to the American dollar. Part of the decline can be traced to Britain's balance of trade problem British imports have been rising and now top their exports.

weakening the pound. Much of this is seasonal, representing purchases of raw materials. But the' British blame part of the fall on the American financial DEAR ABBY: I Id, and have been dating a boy 17 up unlit my parents brofee it up. Both my wiffc during the day so I stay home alone. I wos told 1 couldn't have my boy friend fit the house when no one home.

He came over only three times, I waa to tall my parents, but before I had a chamce te tell them they found out from a neighbor. I waa told not to let him in the howae again. TMs 1 told him, but over one more time way. My found out about it and now they won't let me date him at all. I swear if they give me Just one mpre chance it will never happen attain.

Don't you think 1 deserve one more chanct to prove myself trustworthy? WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE DBAS WAWIS: 1C Mtot ahaaiM ttot had Uw ttomm inane while. DEAR AflBY: I have font' hoys and four girls and I would rather have EIGHT boys thanone girl! My boys play nicely with each other, eat whatever I cook, wear whatever 1 pick out. and when I tell a boy to do something, he says, "Okay, Mom." (He doesn't always do it, but at least be doesn't give me an argument.) My girls fight with each other, turn up their noses at left-overs, won't wear what 1 buy lor them, and argue when I ask them to do something. And another thing that makes girls a big headache they try to look aexy at 12, but boys don't even think about girls until they're 18 or 21. MOTHER OF BOTH DI-UR SfOTHEB: Fear will vet yMI that there are ether methers who prefer ctrb Aa4 fer equally feed tor bad) CUMreit reflect the care, love and discipline they ret.

Personally. I (bat their sex has much io. do with II. fofyoiir "sunset gives yofc more boys the lrls DEAR ABBY: Just becouse my husbind hod a bad experience lending money Id a relative, 18 years ago. he made a that he would never lend money to artother ative os long he lived.

Now his sister's husband Is terribly hard up. They are hardworking, honest who have never spent money foolishly, bu't have had a lot of sickness ami bills. husband stubboen- ly refuses to give them any help. He helped out many strangers, and has gotten stuck with them, but -hi't doesn't see.m to bother him. Do you think he is right io let his sister and her family struggle because of one deadbeat in the family? WtFE DEAR "STONE Y'H" WIFE: And keep away.

CONFIDENTIAL TO Tfce innocent have been suffering: for years. And if 1 knew why, I would possess the kef to of Mfe's most baffling mysteries. The of Job comes closest to answerlnr 4oe.iti6n. Tell your roubles to Abl-v For'n personal, self-itddrcssed envelope. a Hate- to write letters? one dollar to ABBY, Box Beverlv Hills, fcr Abby's new booklet, "HOW TO WHITE LETTERS FOR AM- (Distributed Mc-Naught Syndic-ate, Inc.) WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP Authorities Charge Fourth In Britain's Train Robbery Seguin Air Force Man Dies In Crash of F100 MANILA pilot killed in an K100 crash at Clark AFB Thursday was identified by the Air Force today a.s Capt.

Raymond Bishop oi Seguin. Tex. READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS Stocker and Feeder Movements Smaller i WASHINGTON Agri culture Department says the movement uf stocker and feeder cattle from grazing areas to Midwest markets for sale to feeders is materially than a year ago. Fairly widespread ra'ins have, in most cases, come in time to put off the maturing date for most grass pasture, the report said Texas Ranger Found Dead in Lake Cottage WOODVILLE. Tex Ranucr Harvey Phillips.

57, was found dead Thursday night on a cot in his lake cottage six milf-s north of here. Phillips had been shot once in the head A pi.stol was on the floor nearby. Phillips, a Ranger 12 years, suffered head injuries in 1961 when his wife and daughter. Sheryl. 18, were killed in a train-car collision near Houston Before becoming a Ranger, Phillips was Tyler County sheriff 12 years Two daughters and two sons survive.

Wreck Injuries Fatal BORGER Kenneth Law ling. (59, injured in an auto collision Thursday nipht. died today. Crime in the U.S.S.R. Reds Are Nabbed Red-Handed By COL.

RAY CROMLEY Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAi State Department analysts are over what seemn to be a desperate attempt in the Soviet I'niun to rope with official and piuate cor i uption The signs: a sharp growth ui arrests for graft and a bleep increase in death sentences for economic crime. trends, are regarded as symptoms of serious economic within Nikita Krushchev's domain. The strains if real. couW forcing Krushhchcv and his aides to lake a hard look at their internal organization Slate Department men are arguing whether this bodes well or ill for the Weot.

The soviet Union publishes no on crime. So let's deal with representative reports within a recent three month period. The Kazakhstan.skaya Pravda reports that 16.000 officials have been dismissed in the Kazakh Republic in the past year for theft and other offenses." United States scources say this amounted to no than 15 per cent of toe officials of the Republic. The Soviet press is fiUed witft reports of the arrest of sales clerks who accepted bribes from customers who wished to purchase Haven't you heard, comrade, Uiat NikUa fterBtyevtcli tJtte wheels of industry be kept rolling? items in short supply. Then there are of the widespread half- tolerated practice of truck drivers paid by the distance traveled, who jack up the drive wheels of their trucks during the lunch hour and run them to increase their ler readings There's the oft-mentioned "dos tevaly," a new type of criminal, who has arisen because of the scarcity of goods The tiuslevaly simply Hells information as to where a certain Hem can be bou- Since the dostevaly never touches the merchandise himself.

he is difficult to prosecute. But most prevalent are Soviet 1 employes of state owned enterprises who find a cheaper May to produce goods or increase production and divert the extra gain to their own pockets. Take the of the Fat-Short Plea" as reported in Pravdj. "Trains arrive one after another in Sverdlovsk and hundred!) of passengers get off at the station platform Sellers with baskets of hot pies come to meet them; 30, 000 pies are baked in just one day. "Who would suppose that the humble pie would become the object of the machinations of a large group of embezzlers and thieves? 1 AJU Ibis began with the 'rationalizing proposal' of V.

Akat'yev. for- manager of the trust of railway restaurants and buffets. After he had 'perfected' the apparatus for greasing the only four af fat ootded of tlw witboriwd. The prices remained unchanged, how ever. The gang of crooks 'warmed their hands with the hot and, il might be added, 125,000 ill- gotten rubles.

Akat'jev was shot. Pravda also reports the arrest uf a cemetary director who extracted bribes up to 50 rubles for quick burials in good location!) in the cemetery. Pravda Vostoka relates the story of geologist in Central Asia who set up a fictitious geological prospecting agency. He charged various stale enterprises large sums for expeditions which never took place and geological work which was never preformed. Things are so bad, Komsomol- skaya Pravda reports, that swindlers are now preying on swindlers.

Two Russian youths in Leingrad devised a method of swindling the Russian speculators who make a living by buying Western clothes from tourists and selling them at high prices to their fellqw citizens. The two youths outfitted them selves in conspicuously foreign clothing and loitered near hotels until the speculators approached them with offers for their clothes Enhancing the disguise by chatting with one another in a "foreign language" consisting of a word salad such as "Pepsi-Cola Donner wetter Cognac Whiskey," the youth's insisted on payment then and there and then agreed to turn iovor the cluthes in their rooms the way do Uw the vanished out back door. New York School Strike Threatened By Teachers Union NEW YORK governing body of the United Federation of Teachers has voted to strike the New York City public school system on opening day Monday in defiance of a State Supreme Court order "If necessary, we'll conduct the strike from jail." said Charles Cogen. president of the union. Max Rubin, president of the Board uf Education, said the schools will open for the more than a million pupils Monday- no matter what the union does.

The union's Delegate Assembly voted at a tumultuous meeting Thursday night to The assembly rejected the board's final contract offer by an announced vote of 1,500 to 17. i The court order, requested by the Board of Education, was signed Thursday by Justice i (Jeorge Po.stel. It prohibits the union from advising members to pursue a "no contract, no work" policy It also forbids picketing or other interference with normal school operations. Officials of the union were directed to show cause in court i Monday why an injunction against a strike should not be issued. I School officials say the dispute over pay is the major reason for the impasse in negotiations.

The I federation says the pay dispute is ionly one of the reasons and that the union's demands on improved working conditions and educational conditions are important The union, which claims 21.000 members among the city's 43.000 public school teachers, is the recognized collective bargaining, agent for all. World News By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) Ronald A. Biggs, 34. Wednesday became the fourth person charged with taking part in Britain's $7-million mail train robbery. Five other persons 'are under arrest on charges of receiving portions of the loot from the Aug.

8 robbery of the Glasgow London train. After a brief court hearing. Biggs was returned to jail pending a court appearance next Tuesday. NEW DELHI (AP) President Kennedy has accepted Prime Minister Nehru's offer to i draw a request for financial help I to build the Bokarp steel plant but has promised continued U.S. aid for other economic development projects, reliable said today.

i India had sought $512 million in jloans for the steel plant. The I sources said Nehru wrote to Ken- 1 nedy last week offering to withdraw the request after Congress blocked action on the loan for at least a Kennedy's reply was delivered to Nehru Thursday night by Ambassador Chester Bowles, the sources said. JERUSALEM (AP) The U.N. Armistice Commission censured both Israel and Jordan for "flagrant armistice violations" in' a border incident west of Jerusalem that resulted in the death of an Israeli worker. The exchange of fire on Aug.

24 resulted in complaints to the commission by both Col. Owen H. Burns of New Zealand, commission chairman, the censure Thursday. John W. Kniffin Backlog of Work Funeral Services To Delay House Set This Afternoon Vote on Tax Cut TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras forces clashed with Castro-backed guerrillas in the northeastern section of Honduras Thursday and both sides suffered casualties, unofficial sources reported today.

The number of casualties was not disclosed and there was up immediate confirmation from the government. Last rites for John Woodford Kniffin. 42. were to be held today at 5 p.m. in St.

James' Episcopal Church with Rev. O. W. Nickie officiating. Burial will be made in Westlawn Cemetery under the direction of the Doran Funeral Home.

Kniffin, born in Chihuahua City, Mexico May 29. 1921, died of a heart attack at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. He was the son of John Woodford and Marie Scocroft Kniffin. He attended Texas Military Institute in San Antonio, the Spar tan School of Aeronautics and graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in mechanical engineering.

He served overseas in World War II. Later he served at White Sands Proving Ground in Civil Service coming to Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio. He opened the Beverly Enterprises, a mechanical contracting firm, in September, 1961. Survivors include his widow; Mrs. Nadine Webb Kniffin; a son and a daughter; a stepson, Reid Tilson; two sisters, Mrs.

Ruth Cockrell of Corpus Christi and Mrs. Ramona Carnes of Del Rio, two nephews also survive. WASHINGTON the backlog of legislation still building up, the House is not expected to vote on President Kennedy's tax bni until about Sept 26. The date represents another slight postponement for action on the proposed $)1 bjllion tax cut The tax reduction and revision measure and civil rjghts legislation have been given top priority rating by Kennedy. The House calendar is choked and there is no sign of any drive to clear it.

About a dozen other important legislative items are lined up he hind the tax bill. In private conversation, Key House members seem resigned to a session lasting almost to the end of the year. They say there is no point trying to set the kind of pace at which the House would be operating if it hoped to adjourn in the next few weeks. 1 The feeling is also prevalent that no matter what the House does, the Senate is committed to king debate on the limited nuclear test ban treaty anil on civil rights before any other legislation of major importance is disposed of. SAIGON (AP) Two government soldiers of Cambodian origin forced 64 South Vietnamese civil guardsmen to defect from their Mekong River delta base last Wednesday, the government reported today.

However, 37 of the defectors escaped and have since returned to their base about 70 miles south of here, the government said. Efforts are being made to locate the others. The government said the 37 took advantage of a sudden ambush by Communist guerrillas to escape. Mrs. Coronado, 47, Dies Here Thursday Services Saturday Mrs.

Maria Coronado, 47, died Thursday in a local hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 5 p.in. in the chapel of Diaz and (iuerra Funeral Home Burial will be made in San Felipe Cemetery. Mrs. Coronado resided at 1711 Gillis Street.

Survivors, include two sons, Esteban and Artiiro Coronado of Del Rio and a daughter, Carmen Coronado, of Phoenix, Arizona, and number of grandchildren. Body Found In Lake WICHITA FALLS (AP) The body of George McCabe, 37, who drowned in Lake Wichita late Thursday, was recovered with a drag line today. He was fishing in a boat with H. W. Watson, also of Wichita Falls.

Watson managed to cling to the boat and was rescued five hours later. Cor Kills Little Boy SAN ANTONIO de Winne. 4, was killed by a car Thursday in front of his home. The woman driver, 35, was treated for shock. Swiss Airliner Lands Because of Bomb Hoax HALIFAX (AP) A Swiss airlines jet made an unscheduled landing at Halifax International Airport Thursday to check a report that a bomb had been placed aboard.

The plane took off hours i later after a search failed to turn up anything. It was en route to Zurich from New York. PRINTING! Quality Materials and Workmanship at Reasonable OFFICE SUPPLIES The Herald Printing COMPANY 110 OrwMwMHi DM 7794ml Rita Today-Sat. DOUBLE FEATURE THEY FOUNT UKEaTtt UNTMKB tlKRS! IOUIS JOUROAN SYLVIA umui GIRL HUNTERS" GAY 90-Tonite-Sirt. TKHMI JAMB IONI FIU URSUIA ANDftESS WISEMAN 1 PRO ALL NEW I ALL MAGNIFICEUTI lOUtt NMttMN YVONNE lttNMM rtfV Bn ONI 1 i.

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