Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 240, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1968 Page: 2 of 10
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C R*GE 2— LEVELLAND DAILY SUN HEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1968
Texans Turn Eyes To Men Who Build Better Highway
■ VI VH\ -National Highway
t : Week, tile last full week inSept-
* "ember, is the one time each year
when attentioh in Texas foeuses
X -on highways and the men who
build them.
-e These men are busy building
' ■and maintaining our highways
every week in the year. High-
way Week is an appropriate
time to check back over the last
year and see what’s been hap-
pening along what many say is
the best highway system in the
world.
First of all, that system grew
by almost one thousand miles of
designated highways from 68,-
1)57 miles to 68,9s5 miles. 1 he
lion’s share, 545 miles, was
added when the Texas Highway
Commission approved the 196s
f arm to Market Hoad Program
bringing that system to a tot d
of 39,41)5 miles V year ago, the
system had 3.x,662 designated
FROM PAGE ONE
Meet Set
bon City. Street said he would
contact the West Texas Cham-
ber of Commerce in attempts
to obtain four signs with Level-
land, Blue Ribbon City, Wel-
come you. The signs, along with
four others that were ordered
by civic clubs showing points
of interest, such as South Plains
College, the museum, and oth-
ers will be put at each entran-
ce way into Leveiland.
A financial report for the
Chamber showed for the first
time in months the organizat-
ion is operating in the black.
The income is due primarily
to the Coaches Clinic held in
August here-
FROM PAGE ONE
S how
and are eligible for top awards
in all classes except classes
4, 9, 17, 20 and 21. They must
r.ot be a novice. Those interest-
ed may contact Mrs. Z.O. Lin-
coln for a flower show schedule.
The entry must be roses.
Some of the rules include the
following: 1. Each exhibitor
must make his own design; 2.
The Junior Division, open to
any boy or girl who resides in
Hockley County and a student
in Junior High or High School.
Entries must be in by 8:30
a.m. to 11 a.m. Sept. 20 and
removed by 10:30 a.m. Sept.
21.
mobs who gave them no
alternative but to use force to
prevent the -i ■ nmb' from
accomplishing tlieirdestructive
purposes ”
C lark insisted crowds whipped
up by wild c n a s ,id
individuals intent "i creating
trouble "can lx- control lid
without excessive force mil
violence by jxiliye.”
"It is the duty of leadership
and law enforcement to control
violence, not cause it," ( lari,
admonished, “to seek wavs of
relieving tension, not toluol-, for
a fight. ”
t lark told newsmen hi'
remarks did not have any
special reference to t hicago.
But the hearings were convened
so the presidential commission
could get his and Hoover’s
views on overall violence,
Chicago included.
l)r. Milton Eisenhower, the
panel’s chairman, told newsmen
he had closed the hearings to
the public because the Chicago
incidents were being investigat-
ed by the Justice Department.
FROM PAGE ONE
(rtin Law
the Senate beat back a liberal
drive to require federal regis-
tration of ail guns and licensing
of their owners.
The bill now goes to a
conference committee to recon-
cile differences between Senate
and House versions of the
measure.
the final Senate version would
ban mail order sales of
ammunition aixi rifles and
shotguns to anyone but dealers.
Congress already has approved
similar restrictions on hand-
guns.
The Senate earlier this year,
cost per acre foot of water before hennedy was shot to
pdlhped. Many are of the opin- death, turned down the so-called
ion that some of these areas long gun proposal by nearly a 2-
will be faced with dry-land farm- l margin.
ing condition in the not too dis- After the hennedy assassina-
tant future. tion. Congress was deluged with
The Agriculture Club invites mail from citizens demanding
fa£mg|. biMunejgmen, and oth- something be done about the
ere’Hwftreiwd m the program traffic in firearms, and attack-
to attend tMe meeting. ing groups which have lobbied
A recent meeting of the South against gun controls.
Plains Agriculture Club Board The Senate rejected federal
of Directors worked up a tenta- registration of all firearms and
tive list of programs to be se- licensing of gun owners by a
lected by the membership for vote of 55 to 31. Voting for the
presentation during the balance proposal was Sen. Edward M.
FROM PAGE ONE
Club
wells that have increased the
of the year.
FROM PAGE ONE
Hoover
“in excess of authority” as The
most dangerous of all, “for who
will protect the public when the
police violate the law'.’”
Hoover said Chicago police
and the National Guard “were
faced with vicious attacking
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Kennedy, making his first
appearance on the Senate floor
since his brother’s death.
The major difference between
the Senate and House bills is
that the Senate v ersion includes
all forms of ammunition while
the House would exempt long-
gun and .22 caliber ammunition.
The House version also has
language some members inter-
pret as exempting from the
bill’s coverage gun clubs and
the National Rille Association,
chief lobbyist against gun
control legislation.
FROM PAGE ONE
Tavern
in taverns.
John Moulder, a reporter for
the Port Worth Press, said the
Fort Worth Vending Co. is
“gaining control of most of the
beer taverns in Tarrant Coun-
ty” through chattel mortgages
or lease arrangements with the
tavern owners.
Anonymous Calls
Ayres and state Rep. Jim
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miles. More than 37 thousand of
those miles arc open to traffic
and another 030 are under con-
struction.
Two-thirds of the Texasport-
Clark of Dallas told the com-
mittee Mrs. Dorothy Peek, a
Dallas tavern owner, had been
offered >>3,000 by an anonymous
telephone caller to leave town
and not testify in the commit-
tee’s investigations.
Mrs. Peck said in Dallas
Wednesday she had been threat-
ened repeatedly during the past
eight months in a dispute with
a vending company officials,
she said die dispute concerned
the Po|>-\-Top Lounge, which
-he lias sjnee given up. She
mm owns U’o M in I otingc.
lie name of Ronald Morgan
came up rcixutedly in the com-
mittee testimony Morgan, now
serving a oil-day sentence in the
Dallas County jail on a worth-
less check charge, was identi-
fied with at least two of the
vending firms named in die
te-tinionv.
lyres said that at one time
diis year Morgan had four
peace bonds outstanding against
him, all filed by tavern opera-
tors who contended Morgan had
threatened to harm them or
their businesses. Ayres said all
of the bonds involved disputes
over ownership of die taverns
or equipment.
“Incredible Complexity”
Clark, the audior of a House
resolution creating the commit-
tee, said the hearings should
illustrate that “vending ma-
chine company involvement in
tavern operations is a picture
of incredible complexity.
“They should bring home to
the citizens of Texas a strange
and shadowy world which few
of us have ever seen,” he said.
Clark said he considered Mor-
gan a “threat to the peace and
safety of every citizen involved
in this investigation.
“Personally, 1 am glad he is
locked up in the Dallas County
jail,” Clark said.
Cory said any evidence of il-
legal activity uncovered during
the hearings will be "turned
over to the proper authorities
for the purposes of prosecu-
tion.”
FROM PAGE ONE
Park Fee
greatest need.” He did not say
where those areas are.
Commission spokesmen.said
other bonds will be Spld in the
future “as needed.” >
Approvi'Annual Permit
The commission has also au-
thorized a $12 annual park per-
mit, which will entitle holders
to enter all state parks as often
as they desire.
Parks where the SI entrance
fee will be charged are \bi-
lene, Atlanta, Bastrop. Blanco,
Bonham, Bentsen-Rio Grande,
Caddo I ake. Cleburne. Dainger-
field, Davis Mountains. Eisen-
hower, Falcon, Fort Parker,
Gamer, Goliad. Goose Island,
Huntsville, Inks l ake, Kerrvil-
le, 1 ake Rrownwood, 1 ake C or-
pus Christi, 1 ake W hitney, Lo-
ckhart, Martin Dies Jr., Meri-
dian, Palmetto, Palo Duro Can-
yon, Possum Kingdom, Step-
hen F. Austin and Tyler.
Parks where the 50 cent fee
will be in effect are Bal-
morhea. Big Spring, Governor
Hogg Shrine, Monahans, Sand-
hills, Mother Neff and Wash-
ington-on-the-Brazos.
FROM PAGE ONE
Protestors
ing arrest during the conven-
tion-he allegedly had a four-
letter word written on his fore-
head.
Hayden was granted a contin-
uance to Oct. 28 on charges of
ion of the Interstate Highway
system are now open to traffic.
According to the J une, 1968,
quarterly report, 2005 miles
are “under ruboer’’ and anoth-
er 462 miles are under con-
struction on the State’s desig-
nated 3027-mile Interstate sys-
tem.
C onstruction under contracts
totaling 8685 million is in pro-
gress on Texas highways at the
battery and resisting arrest for
allegedly spitting in the face of
a detective during the conven-
tion.
“We intend to confront the
three candidates everywhere
the s|X‘ak by carrying the
spirit of ( hicago into every
corner of the country.” Davis
saal. “We arc not calling for
disruptive demonstrations or
violence, but we "ill lx'
haunting and confronting the
candidates wherever they trav-
el.”
Davis defined “the spirit of
( hicago’’ as a "spirit of
defiance and resistance against
a government that continues to
ipnore the popular sentun/nt
against the war.”
, I he "election offensive" will
/Kill'on American voters tocast
tKiltots not for Nixon, Humphrey
or Wallace, but for local
candidates running on |ieacc
platforms.
FROM PAGE ONE
Coffee
PALI. H ARY EY told about
the hippie couple getting mar-
ried Tuesday. He said that when
the ceremony came to a close,
the puzzled preacher looked
first at one and then the other
and finally blurted: “Now will
the groom please kiss the
bride.’”
THE SNIP literally despises
Old Scrooge . She asked him if
her seams were twisted yester-
day and he said, “l our seams
are O.K., it’s your le0o that are
twisted.”
The Almanac
Today is T hursday, Sept, 19,
the 263rd day ol 1968 with 103 to
follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning star is Mars.
The evening stars are Venus
and Saturn.
On this day in history:
In 1777, American soldiers
won the first battle of Saratoga,
N.Y., in the Revolutionary War.
In 1863, Union and Confeder-
ate soldiers met in the battle of
C’hickamauga, Ga. The rebels
won the following day.
In 1881, President Garfield
died in Elberon, NJ. He had
been wounded by a disgruntled
office seeker J uly 2.
In 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev received a cold
reception when he arrived in
the l nited States to attend the
l nited Nations General Assem-
bly.
A thought for the day—
President Garfield said:
“This nation is too great to
look for mere revenge. But for
the security of the future 1
would do everything.”
FROM PAGE ONE
Attac-k
enough to equip 1,800troops for
as long as one year.
With L.S. B52 bombers
pounding suspected Communist
troop concentrations from one
end of Vietnam to another and
allied forces sweeping areas
around key cities, L.S. intel-
ligence officials said they give
the expected Communist offen-
sive only | 50 per cent chance
of materialzing.
Captured Communist d o-
cuments quoted by the sources
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present time. D uring the past
year, ending Aug. 31, almost
$396 million worth of work was
completed.
Maintenance costs during the
past fiscal year totaled $101.5
million, protecting the $5.5mil-
lion investment of the people
of Texas in their highway sys-
said the guerrillas first would
send 600 saboteurs into the
heart of Saigon in teams of
three to blow up military
installations and launch a wave
of terrorist attacks.
Strike outposts
The documents also detailed
plans for about 1,500 troops to
-•trike military outposts on the
edge of the capital in advance
of :ui all-out thrust against the
city by elements of three Red
divisions in the surrounding
area.
Monday, the target date listed
in the documents, is celebrated
by the Communists as "Nam Bo
Resistance Day ” in commemor-
ation of the date the Viet Minh
guerrillas opened their war
against the French in 1946.
\ feeling of confidence the
allies can crush any third
offensive .against Saigon is
widespread here, coupled with
general skepticism produced by
the fact that predicted attacks
have failed to happen.
“W hen they attack, we will be
I ready, but until they do I will
not lose any sleep over it,” a
rnigh ranking I S. officer said.
spokesmen said most of the
weapons seized in thepastweek
were found in jungles about 60
miles north ofSaigon. The hauls
included 850,000 rounds of
small arms ammunition and 5,-
496 rocket grenades. There
were also 15 tons of rice for
Communist troops.
In the air war, L.S. fighter
bombers flew 131 missions into
North Vietnam and encountered
Communist MIG fighters for the
first time since Aug. 25. No
exchange of fire was reported.
C.S. commanders dispatched
R52 raids in all directions today
and W ednesday on the heels of
a prisoner report that B52 raids
Aug. 4 and 5 shattered units of
the North Vietnamese 2nd
Division near C'hn 1 ai on the
northern coast. About 30(1
Communists were reported
killed.
C.S. military s|x>kesmen said
waves of the sleek, eight-jet
R52s were on the move today
and W ednesday against suspect-
ed Communist positions from
the Saigon area to Due 1 ap in
the Central Highlands and
across the Demilitarized Zone
into the North Vietnamese
panhandle.
List Casualties
In Saigon today the C.S.
military command listed 217
American servicemen dead and
1,485 wwinded in Vietnam last
week, a period during which
South Vietnamese forces did
must of the major fighting.
South \ ietnamesc headquar-
ters said 376 government
soldiers died and 1,269 were
wounded last week—many of
them putting down a Commu-
nist invasion attempt into Tay
Ninh City, northwest ofSaigon.
C.S. spokesmen put Commu
nist losses for the week at 2,484,
pushing their total deaths for
|the war to 395,454.
The announcement said the
l nited States had now lost
27.921 men killed and 178,672
wounded since Jan. 1, 1961.
Hit Near City
l .S. troops fought another of
the continuing series of battles
in the Saigon vicinity Wednes-
day, killing 25 Communists dug
into |)ositions 50 miles south-
east of the capital in the Me-
kong Delta.
C.S. spokesmen said some 500
American infantrymen airlifted
into the battle zone by
helicopter lost three killed and
four wounded in the 10-hour
battle that drove the Reds from
their Exinkers.
Other C.S. units fought their
way ait of ambushes near Tam
Ky on the northern coast and
just south of the DMZ,
spokesmen reported.
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W ASHINGTON _ Atty. Gen.
I Ramsey Clark, citing what he
Isays are the principal reasons
[for the Senate’s delay in
I confirming Abe Fortas as Chief
Justice of the L’nitedStates:
“Politics and a desire to roll
back civil rights.”
CINCINNATI—Bengals’ quar-
terback Dewey W arren, explain-
ing how he buoys the spirits of
his teammates:
“I Just go around trying to
relax the other players . . .it’s
up to me to keep everybody else
in the ball game.”
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DORNHOEFER WINNER
MANCHESTER, Vt. (CP!)—
Gary Domhoefer of the Phi-
ladelphia Flyers retained Us
title Thefsttjr in the National
Hockay League golf tournament
with a second straight 72 for a
144 total. The Chicago Black
Hawks, led by Brian McDon-
ald's 146, won the team trophy
with a 602.__
tern.
Texans drove more miles
durit^ tfje past year—58 billion-
in more vehicles—6.7 million—
than ever before. Yet the fatal-
ity rate dropped from 6.2deaths
per hundred million vehicle
miles driven in 1966 to 5.8 in
1967.
Yet even one fatality is a
tragedy, and the Texas Highway
Department continues to spend
more than $1 million every year
on research to make the high-
ways safer. The Highway Com-
mission also has approved a
$60.6 million program for high-
way betterment and farm to
market road improv ements dur-
ing the coming year. This accel-
erated program to increase
highway safety involves 1,177
projects in 224 countin'
Safety devices developed thr-
ough Highway Department-spon-
sored research arc being incor-
porated into the highway sys-
tems. The breakaway sign sup-
port, which yield when struck
by a vehicle, is being installed
on Texas highways as well as on
others throughout the nation.
Developed by Texas Highway
Department researchers in
cooperation with those at Texas
Transportation Institute at Tex-
as A A M, the breakaw i> Mipjvort
received national recognition
in December, 1967. The Feder-
al Highway Administrator then
directed the installation of the
breakaway support for signs
and light standards in all fed-
eral aid highway projects.
In another safety move, the
Texas Highway Department last
year completed insfidlation of
the first 150-foot light tower in
the nation, to light the inter-
change of 111 30 and I S High-
ways 59 and 71 on the Texas-
Arkansas State line. Four ad-
ditional 100-foot light towers,
two in each State, insure day-
time visibility for night traf-
In 1790. the population of
New York City 59.131.
fle at the important interchan-
ge.
The latest safety installation
Involves the field testing of a
vehicle impact attenuator (VIA)
at a Houston interchange. The
VIA is constructed of steel
barrels welded together and pla-
ced in front of a roadside obsta-
cle such as a bridge abutment
or supporting column. This de-
vice cushions the impact of a
colliding vehicle.
Motorists long have been
pleased with the numerous road-
side parks along Texas high-
ways—another safety feature, A
glance at the Official Texas
Highway Map, with its small
green dots representing road-
side parks, is sufficient to as-
sure any motorist that he is
never far from a place to pause
and relax. In fact, one of every
seven roadside parks in the en-
tire nation is in Texas.
Making theirdebutonthe 1968
map are small green squares,
representing safety rest areas
on the Interstate system com-
plete with rest room facilities,
drinking water, covered picnic
arbors, fireplaces, and travel
information displays—all in
pleasant, well landscaped
parks. There are now twelve
pairs of comfort stations—s.ifo-
ty rest areas (at each location
there is a complete facility on
each side of the divided Inter-
state route) and four more pairs
are under construction.
When the Interstate system is
complete, there will be a safety
rest area on each side of the
highway on an average of every
37 miles, and rest room facili-
ties will be included wherever
water is available.
Many of the vehicles parked
at safety rest areas in 1967
bore out-of-state licenses. The
Department ’s Texas \ isitor
Industry Report showed 1967 as
the second billion-dollar travel
Industry year for Tsxss. Mors
than IS million visitors cams to
Texas by automobile last ysar,
and they spent $808 mUf^
The average travel party spent
six days in the State and drove
more than one thousand miles
over Texas highways.
Travel counselors attwonsw
Highway Department Tourist
Bureaus in Amarillo on Inter-
state Highway 40 and in Lare-
do on IH 35, joined those at
seven older bureaus on major
highway gateways to the State
to welcome tourists and assist
them on their journey. Highway
Department travel counselors
in San Antonio also welcomed
visitors to HemisFair, from
their station in the Institute of
Texan Cultures. The Depart-
ment also maintains an infor-
mation center in the State Cap-
itol at .Austin.
Another tourist attraction,
the J udge Roy Bean Museum and
Information Center at Lar^try
on I S 90, will be open to travel-
ers this fall. Managed
Highway Department
ed by trained travel cc
the restored site of
West of the Pecos” wif
visitors nationwide.
The theme for National High-
way Week this year is “High-
ways Are for People.” Nowhere
is this more true than in Tex-
as, where 2,600 communities
are served by no other means
of transportation.
Some six million motorists
will drive approximately seven
million vehicles an estimated
60 billion miles on Texas high-
ways in 1968—to work, to shop,
to school, to bring farm pro-
ducts to the city, to seek rec-
reation away from the city’s
bustle. So, it is perhaps more
appropriate for Texans to par-
aphrase the Highway Week slo-
gan: “Highways are VITAL for
People.”
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