Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 61, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 29, 1968 Page: 1 of 14
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (UP) WIRE
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1968
PAGES 20
FIFTEEN CENTS
NIXON AIDES STUDY POLICY, DEFENSE
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« AL GARDNER
THE MOON has inspired many
men to romance, but now it has
produced the greatest adventure
in the world's history.
IT MUST be the Christmas
spirit, A bum asked Ray Pierce
for twenty cents the other day to
buy a cup of coffee.
“But coffee’s only a dime,"
Ray protested.
*T know,” the bum said, “but
wouldn’t you like to join me?"
THE OTHER DAY Sam Combe
was telling about the man whore*
cetved a heart transplant from a
two-timing bachelor and now has
a cheating heart.
SAM SAYS he knows a fellow
who gave his wife a $1,000 check
for Christmas. Attached was a
note saying, “If business is good,
I’ll sign it.”
ANNIE ROE was tellii^abouta
friend of hers having a heart-to-
heart talk with her 13-year-old
daughter, “Margorie, when 1 was
your age, no boy had ever kiss-
ed me. Will you be able to tell
your own children that?"
Margorie answered, “Not with
a straight face."
BOBBY TAYLOR saw his doc-
tor about a bad habit he has pick-
ed up lately.
"I’ve started talking to my-
self," he explained.
“No need to worry about that,"i
the doc scoffed.
“Yeah," he whined, “but I’m
such a bore."
Saigon Urged To Quit
LBJ Says
'Get On
With Talks’
By GEORGE SIBERA
PARIS (U PD—The United
States today tried to get South
; Vietnam to stop what President
Johnson called “dilly-dallying"
• in getting talks started to end
the Vietnam War.
I Johnson’s Paris negotiators,
W. Averell Harrlman and Cyrus
R. Vance, huddled with their
Saigon counterparts in a morn-
ing session aimed at finding
new agreement on breaking
procedural Mocks to negotia-
SEE SAIGON PAGE 2
Nuclear
Spread
Discussed
By DANIEL RAPOPORT
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPl)
— President-elect Richard M.
Nixon summoned key advisors
to his winter retreat on the
shores of Biscayne Bay today to
discuss with them the major
defense and foreign policy
problems Ms administration will
face in the three months after
he takes office.
Nixon told reporters before
the sessions began that the
subjects under consideration
would include “American com-
mitments around the worRR’
and the “world's trouble spots Jr
He said they would embrace
the obvious issues of the day
such as Vietnam, the nuclear
non-proliferation treaty and the
SEE NIXON PAGE 2
FLU OUTBREAK LARGE IN LEVELLAM) — Flu in many different
varsities have been reported in Le veil and by both hospitals with
waiting room filled to capacity most days. Left photo Dr. E.D.
Barnes examines Kathy May, daughter of Mrs. Ann May while
Margareit Aires looks on. Right photo Dr. Joe Harrison at lev-
elland Clinic makes a flu check on Link Benson while Ms mother
Mrs. Mike Benson looks on.
IN LEVELLAND
Thousands Of Dollars
Lost Through Fires
A sharp increase in property Speaking of the new radios wh-
damage from the result of fires ,ich alerts firemen with s lend
was reported today by Fire Chief ibeeping signal, joiner said since
C.B. Joiner who shewed figures-.—SEE THOUSANDS PAGE 2
967 and 196*. Theincrea-I
insured property damage.1 BA affur MgmnJ
ve a definite effect on the| Ifi
Soper inteadeat
Of Mail Hen
from 1967 and 196*. The increa-
se in
iwlll have
key rate of insurance.
In 1967 Joiner said the depart-;
jment had answered a total of
j 183 alarms, 56 General alarms,
125 non-general alarms and 34
j country fires. A log wMch fire-
men keep from day to day show-
Moon Astronauts Return
To Houston Space Center
SPEAKING of bores, our fav-
orite policeman says the Snip
la a pain in the neck. She call-
ed Mm out to her apartment the
other day to complain about a nei-1
ghbor who has been taking sun-'
lamp treatments in the nude.
“Why, you can’t even see Mm;
from here,” the policeman pro- _
tested. I By WEBSTER K. NOLAN Mackened and charred.
"Oh, yeah?” she screeched. ABOARD THE USS YORK- "it’s a beautiful
“Just try standing on this foot- TOWN (UP!)—Rested and re- said,
stool." | laxed after a square meal, a It had taken Borman, James
shower and some sleep, Prank Lovell and William Anders half
THEY SAY a man la only aa Borman walked out on the flight a million miles faultlessly, 10
old as he looks. One thing’s tor deck and looked at the Apollo 8 times around the moon and
sure-if he only looks, he’s old.; spacecraft, its Munt heat shield home. It had put the United
States a giant step ahead in
; space. And the next step—or the
next—could be an American’s
on the surface of the moon.
Borman, Lovell and Anders,
Local Hospitals Report
Increase In Mu Epidemic
ed that $75,250 worth of damage Postmaster Judson Burnett
f was record for country fires and “^mced appointments
l umber Yard that year. “ 1 dt>
• This year the department an- *958 at a*!e 19'*** Mnd
i swered 216 fire alarms, 44gemv in *at capacity before
! ral, 56 country and 137 non-gen- * "»
| eral alarms. The reported in- Poet*! Dispatch Clerk, a post
Levelland may be facing one of hospitalized. sured loss to the city amounted in . lch ** served nve years
the worst flu epidemics Doctors say it is the \sian flu to $219,754.31 showing a $131,- un^ recen* appointment. A
according to reports from both instead of the dreaded Hong Kong 366.29 increase over the previ- Albany, Tesu» MM1
nauts had returned from the Levelland Clinic and South Plains flu which has plagued many parts ous year. The largest loss this move? Ws family to Level-
ship,” he greatest exploration ever con- Hospital. of the nation. Only two cases was year was at 1 obo I anes Bowling *n March of INS, gradual-
ducted by man. Patients line the lobbies, many reported this year, both at South Alley with damages amounting to J0* *rom levelland High School
The Apollo 8 crew circled the standing for lack of room, wait- Plains Hospital.
SEE MOON PAGE 2 ing for shots and others to be
$105,200.97. ** Hc *tt*d*d TaHtai
Dr. EJ). Barnes at South Plains The city loss docs not include College and started won
Hospital said in order to deter- car fires and other minor dam a- ** <he local ’ s Post office in
mine the Hong Kong flu. Mood ges. ,958-
samples must be sent to Austin, At least five percent will be Don and Ms wtfe» nonn*» ■*
wMch “isn’t done except in rare 1 added to insurance due to the ter- employee of Pan American Corp.
cases,” he said. j rific increase of fires and pro-have 006 d aughter, ,^8a* 9 7**™
.....the City would not have purchas- ™ey ^remembers ofHnt
ed radios for 28 paid and volun-Christtan Church "here Milter
teer firemen.
The fire chief said the purch- »«<*es • s««y School Class.
AT CHICAGO O’HARE
Airliner Hits Hangar,
26 Killed 27 Injured
who splashed down in the
Marines Abandon
Outpost Near DMZ
Pacific Friday to end their six- By JACK WALSH gers killed 218 Communists near
day moon flight, were to lunch SAIGON (UPI)—L.S. Marines Da Nang, American spokesmen
' on tMs prime recovery carrier j today abandoned a major base said.
I Saturday, then leave about 5p.m. near the Demilitarized Zone for Behind American divebom-
iEST) and fly to Hawaii, then to ithe second time in six months, bers and allied artillery, the
i Houston. UA military spokesmen report-, Rangers mauled a 400-man
their supply and say they will
SEE LOCAL PAGE 2
By JOHN L PEILETREAU
CHICAGO (UPD—A North
Central Airlines plane carrying
and searching for
room through blinding
quarter-mile with a 200-footi Go To Houston led.
ceiling, within minimum re- No official welcome was; About 2,000 Leathernecks running two-day battle that
quirements. planned for their 5 aan. EST were pulled out of Camp Carroll;ended Friday 15 miles south-
The plane settled toward the arrival at Ellington Air Force to become "moMle forces,” west of Da Nang,
runway, cleared a seven-foot Base in Houston Sunday, but a [they said. The fighting was the heaviest
into a hangar at fence, and almost had landed space center spokesman said The abandonment of Camp since the allies’Christmas truce ;
international Airport when its wing apparently tipped “There’ll probably be some Carroll, a hillside fortress about and centered in an area where chers and employees of Level-
North Vietnamese battalion in a
United Eund'asedropped**^ratefrom30fnj!
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<uid Mrs. Maurice nttUer.
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Reports
Donations
been more.
Individual donations from tea
Airline officials said 26
parsons were killed and 27
injured.
Not all the casualties were an
the plane: A boy’s drum and
bugle corps was practicing in
the Braniff international hangar
when the plane crashed through
the doors, epewing burning fuel
and metal upon them. All eight
of Uw boys were injured; some
of their clothing was set afire.
North Central’s flight 458
in Minneapolis-fit.
Minn., and had stopped in
Means in cities of Wausau,
Bay, Manitowoc and
Then it headed for
fog-shrouded Chicago,
had been diverting
flights for “brief periods"
earlier Friday because of tee
world’s busiest
airport was open at
«raah.
580
riy,
toward the hangar. The plane people there.” 110 miles south of the DMZ, other allied troops killed 133
made an "exceptionally severe" The people of both tee free carne almost half a year after Communists on Christinas Eve.
left turn while still off the and communist worlds paid the Marines pulled out of the South Vietnamese losses were
ground, investigators said, and unprecedented tribute to Bor- tag. at Khe Sanh, about 15
crashed through two large, man, Lovell and Anders Friday miles to the southwest. The
SEE AIRLINER PAGE 2 I after the trail-Mazlng astro- withdrawal from Khe Sanh
.marked the start of the Marine
SEE MARINES PAGE 2
Cash, Clothing Stolen
From Palmer Cleaners
Thieves apparently made their
way down a holt in tee roof of
Palmer’s Cleaners on Houston
SL, and escaped with an unde-
termined amount of clothing
sometime Friday night or Satur-
day morning.
PMllip Vakterez, employed
with tee cleaners, discovered
the break-in about 6:01 sjn. Sat-
urday and reported it Immediate-
ly to Baldy Palmer.
polios who are ltv-
tee incident saM they
;
Corps’ push toward more
mobility and fewer “static”
positions along the tine dividing
Norte and South Vietnam.
Military spokesman said the
abandonment of Camp Carroll
after 26 months "was a decision
roof is an opening for an Mr j based on taking maximum
conditioner.
| About $50 in cash left in the
register was stolen, but attempts
to break into a safe in the front
office apparently failed. Police
Oscar Palmer said it ap-
peared someone hod beat on tee
safe but could not get in.
advantage of our svperior
firepower and moMlity."
Maj. Gen. Raymond E. Davis,
Catholic
Boycott
Sought
DALLAS (UPI)—A biologist
commander of the UA 3rd wards the world’s Urge*
Marina Division, put It more zeience organization to help In a
simply: "Time has overtaken nationwide economic boycott ,Doris W lllisms
the mu,” against tee Roman Catholic j Patricia A. Rogers
land Public School System wh-
ich helped in making that drive
go over its goal. Names were
released from United Fund Head-
quarters:
j Opal Crump 1.00
! Dorothy Howard 1.00
| Ann L. Perkins 1.00
> Betty L. Berry 5.00
I Gussie Newberry 5.00
1 Fred D. Nelson 10.00
Alice R. Pounds 10.00
Frances Hatch 5.00
Helen Hamilton 5.00
Jackie French „ 5.00
Betty Kauffman 3.00
Linda E. Adkins 1.00
Ruth Eima Kngledow 1.00
Sylvia Hill 1.00
Ruth Burton
TMs left Coo Thien
| craggy base known aa
Saturday morrtng the deaners RockpUe” aa tee sole
could only find an imitation for bastions
coat and coot suit missing. They
found cleaning tickets
floor but could not
loss until a
can be made. Oscar Pi
kI a Church
•The,on
in proles
artificial
frontier of South Vietnam.
UJ5. B52 Superfortresses
st of the papal
dal Mrfe control.
Dr. Jeffrey J.W. Baker,
professor of biology at tee
University of Puerto Rico, told
tee 135th meeting of the
m
£ joined’ ground forces Friday inf American Association
s. ’was v££s is-ai
E.C. SL Clair
Martha Viaille
Edith Durham
Dempsey Sharbutt
Agnes Straw be
Kelva L. McCollum
Vaughan
escape routes from a b*
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