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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Two
Iranian Com muni at leaders.
were sentenced to death by an
army tribunal today for platting
against the shah’s regime.
The government identified
them as Parvis HekmatJou and
All Kbavarian and said Kha-
varian had been an announcer
for the anti-Iran Persian ser-
vice of Peking redio.
They were caught at the bor-
der trying to cross into the So-
viet Union with six other out-
lawed Communist party mem-
bers. The other six were sen-
tenced to prison terms.
PARIS (AP) — Lights went
out and gas pressure went down
today as Frenchmen struggled
through their second 24-hour
gas and electric strike within a
month. Thursday transport
workers strike for 48 hours.
All the workers want more
pay. The government is holding
back on wage hikes, saying they
would be Inflationary.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) —
Police are combing Athens for
an elusive Greek and a huge
diamond he allegedly helped
steal in Brazil.
An Athens newspaper said it
had word the stone had been
found and was a lump of crys-
tal, not a diamond. But a Bra-
zilian policeman and Athens
authorities said they were still
looking for a 450-carat diamond
the size of a table tennis ball
and forEfstratiosKoslides,
The Brazilian, Juan Asumayo
Nogelra, said the diamond was
the fourth largest in the world
and was worth $2 million.
Brazilian authorities have ac-
cused Koslides, another Greek
and a Syrian of stealing the
stone.
SANTO DOMINGO, Domin-
ican Republic (AP) — Juan
Bosch has rejected the Castro-
ite 14th of June Movement's af-
ter to back him in the presiden-
tial elections if he agreed to re-
ject all U.S. aid.
The movement’s estimated
25,000 votes would only harm
the interests of this Domincan
Republican party, Bosch said.
The election is scheduled for
June 1.
BOSTON (AP) — Roberta
Bingay, a 23-year-old blonde
from San Diego, Calif., became
the first woman to complete the
26-mile Boston marathon.
The Boston Athletic Associa-
tion, which sponsors the 70-
year-old annual Patroit’s Day
run from Hopkinton to Boston,
doesn’t accept women entries
but Mrs. Bingay went along
anyway, just for kicks.
She crossed the finish line
Tuesday after the first 100 in a
respectable 3 hours and 20
minutes.
LONDON (AP) — A chef who
worked three years for Prince -
ss Margaret and Lord Snowdon
is under court orders not to di-
vulge information about what he
observed in Kensington Palace.
The royal couple w as granted
temporary orders by a London
court Tuesday against the chef,
Leo Groden, 52.
The action was started after
an article appeared last week
about the royal couple in a Ger-
man magazine. An aide to the
princess said it could only have
been written by somebody in
Groden’s position.
CHICAGO (AP) — Last fall
13-year-old Gloria Cassidy of
New York City rescued 3-year-
old twin brothers from an apart-
ment fire.
Tuesday she became the first
person to be named "Heroine of
the Year” by the Girls Club of
America.
Gloria suffered burns on her
hands, face, arms and legs and
is still convalescing.
MESA, Artz. (AP) - June
Clark is now sneezing only once
every eight minutes.
The 17-year-old girl from Car-
ol City, Fla., is making prog-
ress, her father believes.
Before she left Florida last
week for a change of climate,
she was sneezing once every
five minutes.
Miss Clark hasn’t stopped
sneezing, however, for 16 weeks
and doctors seem to be at a loss
to help her.
"June’s nose is starting to
itch," said her father. "We’re
hoping that’s a good sign.’’
OKI AHOMA CITY, Okla.
(AP) — The huge outdoor sign
alongside a city itreef reids:
Vote for E.E. "Bud” KrogsUd.
It’s a nice sign, said Krog-
stad, a real estate developer,
"but I don’t know who put it up.
I’ve never thought of running
for anything.”
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) —
Dr. Vaino Tanner, 85, Finland’s
foreign minister during the
1939-40 winter war with Russia,
died Tuesday after a long Ill-
ness. Tanner, premier in 1926-
27, was long a leader of the
Social L nodrats.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ru-
fus W. Fontenot, 77, whose in-
come tax investigations 30
years ago led to the infamous
L ouislana Scandals, died Tues-
day after an Illness of several
months. Fontenot was U.S. col-
lector of internal revenue tor
L ouislana from 1933-40.
PROVIDENCE, R.L (AP) —
Frank E. Waite, 77, chairman
of the Department of Education
at Rhode Island College for 33
years until his retirement in
1956, died Tuesday.
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WEATHER
Considerable cloudiness and
colder this afternoon. Partly
cloudy tonight. Freezing temp-
eratures tonight.
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LEVELLAND, TEXAS
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1966
FIVE CENTS
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TODAY
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The weather-go ahead and
wash your car—it might rain.
So, good ok) balmy spring is
supposed to be here—maybe it
is, and maybe it isn’t. You
can’t ever tell whether winter
has been successfully chained
in the ice caves in the north
or not.
But, while we enjoy the warm-
th of spring and are charmed
with the prospect of its beau-
ty there are several hundred
thousand folks from one border
of the nation to the other who
find it anything but enjoyable.
The pollens from different
weeds and grasses and trees
enter the air and the result is
hay fever and other such obnox-
ious diseases. So while we think
of spring as being gentle we
find that spring is also harsh.
It’s funny, but there are ex-
tremes in all cases.
McNamara Testifies Again
On Viet War Management
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FILMS’ TOP PERFORMERS - Winners of the four top acting awards at Academy Award
presentations hold their Oscars. Left to right, at Santa Monica, Calif.: Lee Marvin,
best actor of the year for “Cat Ballou"; British star Julie Christie, best actress for
"Darling”; Shelley Winters, best supporting actress for "A Patch of Blue” and Martin
Balsam, best supporting actor for "A Thousand Clowns." (AP Wirephoto)_
The sick man had been delir-
ious with fever for days. But
now he regained consciousness _
aaTLofgenueco£ ?2 COLLEGES TO COMPETE
surance of cool, loving hands. -
UWhere am I?” he asked weak-
ly. "In heaven?”
“No dear," said J»i|. wife _
soothingly. "I’m still with
you.”
Rodeo Starts Tomorrow
And one lady remarked to us, Thursday night at 8:00 p.m.
"If we’re not careful it won’t the chute gate opens and the
be long before the Administra- action begins for the sixth an-
tion is telling us what church nual South Plains College In-
to attend.” ter-collegiate Rodeo. Cowboys
From what has gone before it and Cowgirls from twelve col-
would seemingly be a very easy leges throughout the Southwest
matter for the UJS. Supreme will be competing for prizes
Court to rule that only one as well as prize money,
church should be considered— a hand-tooled saddle will be
you want to yell ‘‘unconstitut- awarded Saturday night follow-
ional?” ing the last performaice of the
Brother, let me ask you some- SPC event to the all-around
thing, just when has the consti- Cowboy. Several of the con-
tution been considered during testants help pay for their col-
the past five years? And right lege education from the prize
along with the Administration money won.
and the Supreme Court is the
elected members of Congress
who are supposed to represent
the people—there is only a hand-
full left who actually think of the
people and the constitution.
Colleges to be represented children, twelve and under, will
are: Texas Tech, Lubbock; Ok- be the calf scramble. There is
lahoma State University, Still- no entry fee to enter, jist be
water; Panhandle A & M, Good- present. Five calves will be
well, Okla.; Sul Ross, Alpine; turned loose in the arena night-
We don’t usually discuss poli-
tics in this column, but we
thought this ought to be said.
So we stumble along.
“Speaking of dry towns,” said
the traveling salesman, “the
worst I’ve ever struck was
Leavenworth, Kansas.”
“Can’t you get any liquor
there at all?” asked a listen-
er.
"Only if you’ve been bitten
by a snake,” was the reply.
“When I was there they had
only one snake in town, and
after I’d stood in line for four
hours, the snake was too worn-
out to bite any more.”
This you may not believe: Af-
ter a New Year’s Eve celebra-
tion in the Wigan, England town
center, police found a set of fal-
se teeth, still gripping a cigar.
‘Tis all a chequer-board of
nights and days where destiny
with men for pieces plays: hith-
er and thither moves, and mates
and slays, and one by one back
in the closet lays.—Omar Khay-
yam.
You may not believe it, but
communism is treason.
Now we shuffle off the page.
Pediatrician
Hits Abuse Of
Antibiotics
By ROBERT HOLTON
NEW YORK (AP) — A n^ted
pediatrician who pioneered in
the treatment of “blue-babies”
said today some doctors are
abusing the use of antibiotics
for children.
“There is no denying that the
introduction of wonder drugs
has changed the practice of
medicine,” Dr. Willis J. Potts
said in an interview. “But there
are too many instances where
the adm nistration of such
drugs to children is being abus-
ed.”
Noting that a patient m ty
build up an immunity to wonder
drugs, he advised that they
“should be used sparingly—or
else, you wUl destroy their use-
fulness.”
Dr. Potts, a native ofSheboy-
gan, Wis., who is now retired,
made mi'dical history 20 years
ago when he perform.>d an op-
eration on a 21-month-old
“blue-baby” girl that allowed
more blood to flow from her
heart to the lungs.
The girl, Diane Schnell, of
Westbury, N.Y., is an art stu-
dent today at the New York In-
stitute of Technology.
“She was as blue as a blotter
when I first saw her,” the
doctor recalled.
Hardin - Simmons University,
Abilene; Cisco Jr. College, Cis-
co; Mid-Western University,
Wichita Falls; West Texas
State, Canyon; San Angelo Col-
lege, San Angelo; New Mexi-
co State Univ., Las Cruses;
Fastem New Mexico Univer-
sity, Portales; and South Pla-
ins College, levelland, Rodeo
team will be competing. SPC
is currently in fourth place for
the region championship.
South Plains College Rodeo
Team members and participa-
ting events include: David Hill
- freshman from Hereford, calf
roping and ribbon roping, he
is currently in third place stand-
ing in this event; Sammy Teel -
Soph, from Hope, New Mexico,
who was the big money winner
in last weeks rodeo at Port-
ales. Teel competes In calf
roping and ribbon. Three event
man, Wayne Cornelius, Soph,
from Ralls, will work calf rop-
ing, ribbon roping, and steer
wrestling; Don I esley, Soph,
from Hereford who was second
place winner in steer wrest-
ling at the EKMU rodeo last
weekend; Phil Brewer, Soph,
from Graham who competes in
Bull Riding, Bareback Riding,
and Steer Wrestling, will also be
representing the SPC Team.
Agile Jack Faulk, Fresh, from
Carlsbad, will work the Bull
Riding , Bareback Riding and the
Saddle Bronce riding events.
Faulk is currently the high point
winner on the SPC team. Bev-
erly Aten, Fresh, from I amesa,
will represent the SPC Girls
Rodeo team. Miss Aten Com-
petes in both girl’s events -
Barrel Race and Goat Tying.
Along with Walt Alsbaugh’s
Rough National Finals rodeo
stock, a featured attraction this
year will be Clinton Harlow
and his famed Sheep-Dog Monk-
ey Act. Spectators will be giv-
en the thrill of watching sheep
being worked in the arena while
ridden by cowboy Monkeys.
A special feature for the
ly with dollar bills attached to
each tall. The person success-
fully capturing one of these an-
imals will be allowed to keep
his prize.
The rodeo will begin each
night starting this Thursday
and continuing thru Saturday
at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are now
on sale by members of the
SPC Rodeo Club. Adult advanced
tickets - $1.00 at the gate -
$1.25. Children and Student tick-
ets - 50 cents; 75 cents at the
gate.
A rodeo parade Thursday af-
ternoon at 4 p.m. will kick off
the three day event, featuring
over 150 contestants.
WASHINGTON (AH) — Sec-
retary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara said today the na-
tion’s military strength is so
great that it has been able to
commit 325,000 men to the Viet
Nam war without calling up
Reservists or controlling the
Rodeo Parade
Set To Mark
Opening Day
Cowboys, cowgirls, sheriff
posse’s, riding groups, floats,
and mounted riders will take
part in the rodeo parade which
will kick off downtown Thurs-
day at 4 p.m. to mark the start
of the Sixth Annual South Plains
College Inter-Collegiate Rodeo.
Included in the parade will
be sheriff posse’s traveling as
far as 300 miles to participate.
First, second, and third place
trophies will be awarded to the
most colorful and unique riding
group at the opening perform-
ance of the rodeo being held
at the Fair Grounds and start- -
ing at 8 p.m., nightly.
The parade will gather at
I obo Park and all interested
riding groups or individuals are
invited to ride in the parade.
A grand entry will be held
at the opening of each rodeo
performance and will consist of
the colorful riding groups as
well as college students from
twelve schools throughout the
Southwest.
Feature attraction of the par-
ade will be the seven Rodeo
Queen candidates. The winner
will be announced at the Satur-
day night rodeo performance.
Also participating in the ro-
deo parade with be Johnny Ta-
tum, nationally known rodeo
clown and daring bull fighter.
Tatum will be challenging the
Brahman bulls as he tries to
protect cowboy contestants and
entertain fans with his bull-
fighting tactics.
economy.
“No other natioi in history
has ever been so strong,” Mc-
Namara said.
“in history, never has any
other nation—and never has the
United States — carried such
the sliockers?” Dirksen also
said: “You don’t demean the
chief rmigistrate of your coun-
try at a time like this when the
war is on. You stand up to b?
Counted.”
Ford had no comment on
a newsman he thinks “we’ve
got McNamara on the run.”
great military strength with so Dirksen’s statements, but told
little burden on its society.”
McNamara made only brief
mention of Viet Nam and South-
east Asia in a statement to the
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee. He devoted the bulk of
his statement to arguments in
support of the administration’s
$917-million military aid pro-
gram to ‘allies and friends
around the world.
But the defense secretary was
certain to face tough qaestion-
ing on Viet Nam policy from
McNamara did not elaborate
in his testimony on the 325,000
figure. But he evidently meant
the 240,000 U.S. servicemen in
Viet Nam, some 60,000 with7th
Fleet ships operating off Viet
Nam, some 13,000 in Thailand
and thousands of others on
Guam where B52 bombers are
stationed.
U.S. Bombers Strike
Red Industrial Area
lost elsewhere over North Viet
Nam in the past 24 hours, rais-
ing the number of American
planes shot down since thejraids
began 15 months ago to 213. One
of the pilots was rescued in a
By THOMAS A. REEDY
SAIGON, South Viet Nam
members of the com n ttee who (AP) — UJS. Navy bombers
have been critical of the admin- edged closer to Haiphong Tues-
istration’s conduct of the war. day in the third straight day of
McNamara’s appearance raids on North Viet Nam’s vital
came a day after Senate Repub- Red River Delta, blasting a rail- blaze of enemy fire. The Oliver
lican Leader Everett M. Dirk- road bridge 10 miles north of two were presumed captured or
sen said House Republican the country’s chief port. A UJS. dead.
Leader Gerald R. Ford “went spokesman said one span of the In the south, Viet Cong raid-
pretty far” when Ford charged bridge was destroyed. ers damaged two big D%S. Air
the administration with “shock- Four Soviet-built surface-to- Force Hercules troop transp-
ing mismanagement” of the air missiles were Gred at the orts in a hit-and-run attack on a
war. attackers but v missed their small airfield to the central
“In what~r**pect1Vit shock** maras, the sputfesman reported highlands but caused no casual-
ing?" Dirkren asked at a news today. ties. Officials said the four-cn-
conference Tuesday. “Who are Three other U»S. jets were gine planes could be repaired.
Government Inquires Into
Billy Sol Trial Testimony
By FINIS MOTHERSHEAD Dist. Judge Leo Brewster for
EL PASO (AP>—By court final arguments Tuesday on
order, the government sought whether the court should wipe
more information today from a out Estes’ 15-year sentence for
Chicago finance company exe- fraud and order a jury lo
cutive described by oneof Billie
Sol Estes’ lawyers as “a psy-
chopathic liar.”
As a result any decision on
a bid by the imprisoned former
hear his case all over again.
Re-enforcing claims of new
evidence to wnrrait a fresh
trial, John Dennison of the
defense staff offered an affi-
West Texas fertilizer tycoon davit aimed at challenging tes-
for a new trial was deferred
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Lawyers appeared before U.S.
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LCC Chorus Presents Religious Concert
Lubbock Christian College’s
Meistersinger Chorus will pre-
sent a concert of religious mu-
sic at the Cactus Drive Church
of Christ at 7:30 p.m. today.
Songs to be included in the
performince are “This Is My
Father’s World” by Ringwald;
“Crusader’s Hymn” by Wick;
“Bless the Lord, O My Soul”
by Ipolitoff, Ivanoff; and “Dark-
en’d Was All The Land” by
Haydn.
Other selections are “The
Lord’s Prayer” by Malotte;
“The Angel’s Song” by Tsche-
snokov; and the Negro spiritual
“I Want Jesus.” The chorus
closes with the traditional “The
Lord Bless You and Keep You”
by Lutkin.
Halftime inspiration is pro-
vided by a men’s quartet and
women’s octet. These students,
chosen from chorus members,
will sing special numbers.
Charles Cox directs the
group, composed of 54 mem-
bers who sing in cities through-
out T exas.
Purgatory is a ski area in
Colorado.
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HAPPY OVFR DECISION - Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Elfbrandt both Tucson school teachers,
are happy over a U.S. Supreme Court decision that they will not have to sign a loyalty
oath. Mrs. Flfbrandt is holding letters they have received from well wishers in the pest
five years. The Flfbrandts have not received apay check since June of 1961 because tney
refused to sign the Arizona loyalty oath. Now they miy receive more than $v0,000.
(AP Wirephoto)
tim. iy by Hilbert Kreeger Jr.,
formerly with the Walter F..
Heller Co. in Chicago.
Estes, brought under guard
from the Leavenworth, Kan.,
federal prison, told the court
last week that Krceger agreed
in 1961 for Heller to loan $5
million on non-existent anhy-
drous ammonia Fertilizer
tanks. The toppled prom ter,
once considered wealthy but
now bankrupt, said they met
at his Pecos home and at Plain-
view late in May of that year.
Kreeger testified in 1963, when
Estes was convicted of m.iil
fraud, and again in the current
hearing thi* he nover saw the
defendant prior to that trial and
had transacted no business with
him. He said he did not learn
prior to the March 29, 1962,
arrest of Estes that 87 million
in unsecured tank mortgages
bought by Heller had been set
up by Estes.
Dennison informed the court
that Don Vinson, a Pecos farm-
er and nurseryrm i, recalled
corresponding with Kreeger
about a financial transaction
after seeing a newspaper pho-
tograph taken as the Chicagoan
left the cox'thojsehere several
days ago.
A fire since has destroyed
Vinson’s office records, thede-
fense 3aid.
Asst. U.S. Atty. Harry Lee
Hudspeth agreed to admission
of the Vinson affidavit provided
the gozernm it coaid olfer an-
swering evidence.
Befohe ordering the lawyers
to proceed with closing argu-
ments, Judge Brewster told
him:
“i’ll give yoa anti! Friday to
get the information. I had in-
tended to try to announce my
decision tomorrow Wednesday,
but I have plenty of work to do
on other matters in this case
and I can keep busy for two
days.”
The jurist disclosed earlier
that he had read all the volumi-
nous record of the 17-day Estes
trial in 1963 and said he ex-
pected to re-read it before
ruling on the new trial motion.
Since Kreeger has sworn he
made a trip across West Texas
starting May 23, 1961, but did
not meet Estes, Judge Brew-
ster directed prosecutors to
see if they could “get hold of
Kreeger and Heller about what
trips he made here and when
it was.”
As the judge then heard clos-
ing arguments, chief defense
lawyer John Cofer asserted:
“I think the evidence shows
that Mr. Kreeger is a psycho-
pathic liar.”
Cofer argued further that in
half a dozen instances Kreeger
“has been shown as not telling
the truth,” and added:
"The United States doesn’t
need to secure the conviction
of a defendant even so notori-
ous as Billie Sol Estes on the
testimony of Mr. Kreeger, who
was the government’s chief
witness.”
Boeing Jets
Are Checked
NEW YORK (AP) — Some
hairline cracks in the tail as-
sembly of Boeing 707 jets have
been found as airlines around
the world checked their 707s on
orders from the Boeing Co. and
the Federal Aviation Agency.
The checks were ordered aft-
er the second fatal crash in-
volving 707s in six months—the
March 5 crash of a British
Overseas Airways Corp. 707 in
Japan in which 124 persons
were killed.
The Boeing Co. said in Seat-
tle Tuesday that hairline cracks
were found in the plane that
crashed in Japan. The cracks
had nothing to do with the
crash, the company said, and
the cause of the tragedy has
not been determ'ned definitely.
The Boeing statement sakl
minute cracks were caused by
metal fatigue in som ; of its old-
er planes, but none was dan-
gerous.
A spokesman for Boeing said
the inspection order sent to the
airlines was "routine,” and re-
pair of the cracks is a minor
operation.
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