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Summer Camping
Little League Tourney
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FINAL EDITION
VOL. LVIll— NUMBER 169
ORANGE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1961
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'iet challenge over West
President
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Manned Space Shot
saw the return of two unopposed
Of Plant Worker
The voter turnout was slightly
Four Booked
Western Notes
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In Beating
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Solons Refuse Tax Program
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those for Joe Runnels Jr. 1; H. O.
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To Ease Financial Worries
Burton Ave. and Leon Rushing 38.
other men who had not been ap-
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Box 1, county courthouse.
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Plane Crash
ia.” the broadcast said.
8. Gilliam 7.
Fatal to 67
Box
Whitehead
regime
man
all-67 aboard were killed.
their families.
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First Defense Witness Called
In Griffin's Ouster Trial
lence, even in its mildest form.
icable. ridiculous and
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prositution.
Margaret Feld nan. Melba Hotel.
Betty Moss, the
Chadwell, Marcella's
duct.
Blakeman was the first defense
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a little shorter, with shoulders a little less
square, and with his personal safety and
economic security a little less secure be-
The state is seeking to perman-
ently remove Griffin from office.
Compiete KEA Services
Member Associated Press
Incumbents Returned
In Light City Election
ident scheduled a Na-
rity Council meztiag
Also. Box 8. Anderson School,
(See ELECTION, Page 8)
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Berlin ',
The prebi
Pack order blanks with them,
and subscribers who plan sum-
mer vacations may get these
orders when carriers call to
collect.
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situation.
The text of the resolution passed
Outlook tomorrow ...
High tomorrow _____
Sunset today
Sunrise tomorrow
incumbents to the Orange City
Council.
With an unofficial total vote of
267, James Gilliam, Place 2. re-
SLUTELY
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ABOUT -
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showdown comes they are trying
to decide in advance, for exam-
gentine Airlines DCS heading for; new outbreak of violence involving
the oilfields of Patagonia crashed workers at an Orange County in-
and burned today. Police reported dustrial plant and members of
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in our community in any form or
fashion."
A copy of the resolution was
presented to Sheriff Chester A.
Holts by chamber representatives
this morning. At the same time.
Achtung •
Ini20mZonengrenze
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identified all six men. the sheriff
added. . “
Morris advised The I eader that
Four men have posted bonds of
$1,500 after being charged yester-
day in connection with violence in
the vicinity of the Texas Portland
Cement Co. plant at Echo.
They were charged through the
office of Disc Atty. James A Mor-
ris with unlawful assembly where
purpose is to prevent labor, a fel-
ony charge.
loving comunity repeated acts of
harassment and violence involving
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Partly clouiy
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aboard the plane 1:1.1.
The passenger list included two avanlable.
English or American names —
Wilbur Taylor and Hilda M. An-
derson.
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he has made application for a hear-
ing to determine whether the men
will be placed under peace bonds
The date of the hearing is pend-
ing Wade's recovery fron severe
bruises and abrasions which he suf-
(ered during the beating and which
he told Sheriff Holts had been
made by chains and clubs.
Such a hearing will be in Orange'
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lence against men working at plants where
other workers are on strike.
Any man’s home is his castle. Who-
ever violates it in any way commits a
very serious offense. And when a home
is violated in the manner and under the
circumstances involved in the shotgunning
of the Elzie Wagstaff residence the offense
is unforgivable.
Any man’s right to work and to un-
impeded access to his job is sacred and
whoever violates it commits a crime
against all mankind.
vote.
In a statement following the
unofficial tallying of the vote*.
Gilliam Mid. "I certainly appre-
ciate the attitude of those persons
who took time to cast their vote
considering the absence of issues."
Whitebead also noted that, "I
studies in the State and Defense
root agencies last month look-
graph. and utilities consumers,
$68 million; a ton-mile tax on 1
is despit
absurd.
£.8
Outlook ----------...
High today ______
Low tonight -
XK afternoon. The meeting
xpected to deal largely if
irdly with the Berlin crisis
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sign a separate peace treaty with
East Germany by the end of this
year and claims that this act
sovereignty over Berlin and the
gathering of top policy makers in
a period of about three weeks.
Prior to this conference with
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nesses subpoenaed for the suit.
Blakeman testified that Griffin
filed suits last January. The per-
sons and places named in the
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workers and upon anv labor organizations 283780927792382052259.
to which they belong to make every effort ' 4103
tose e..thatthese Amount respected, NOT BOTHERED_These residents of West Berlin don't Mem
Until this happens no amount of toil by, to be bothered by the fact the East German border is only 120
law enforcement officers and the commu- meters (396 feet) away from the Gleinijeher Lake beach. In a note
Rity at large will completely purge indict- made public July 18. President Kennedy warned Soviet Premier
ments drawn by acts of violence such as Nikita Khrushchev that his demands on Berlin could lead to
thosntaking,
workers at Orange County indus-
trial plants as well as their wives
and children.
"And whereas. within this week
there have been two such inci-
JFK Near Decision
On Berlin Challenge
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today is as follows:
"Whereas, recent months have
There are no circumstances under
which such acts are justified and when-
ever they occur they stand as an indict-
ment against the entire community where
they take place.
Such indictments have been drawn in
this county several times earlier in this
year and twice in this week One of the
newest is written in buckshot holes and
shattered glass at the Elzie Wagstaff
home. The other is written in the blood
of Gerald Wade. If the community fails
to bring this kind of thing to a halt it is
inevitable that sooner or later one will
be written in the hand of death. /
Law enforcement officers, we know,
are making every effort to apprehend the
persons responsible for this violence and
to bring them to justice. They also will
be as vigilant as possible in the attempt
to prevent a recurrence
Responsible citizens are gravely con-
Green House:
Arthur places.
- wile cw, revet tuunuus nave The state rested its case yes-
18 p m. brought to this peaceful and peace- terday after calling 27 of 90 w.-
.. -i -im.- crisis short of a military show-
the.probabl. laune walked to a down Secretary of Stat Rusk
Then, at 4.20. he walked to a who had a breakfast appointment
5. Manley
gambling suits were:
Leroy Rcbert Mui
LaRocca, Rieh’s <
houses of Joyce Anderson, Anchor Hotel.
Grace Woodyard, Grace's Place;
U.S. divisions to the NATO com-
mand in Western Europe — five
are regularly stationed in Ger-
many—has been making plans to
call up some military reserve
units in the United States.
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The defendants in the suits
against the alleged houses in Pon
Arthur:
ceived 249 votes and R. N. (Bob)
already Whitehead, Place 4, polled 238.
---twu ple, how they will react if the ing toward recommendations for
and is the mi rd such White. House Communists turn over control of strengthening the Western
"ataarine •* ton mlr makare in the Berlin supply lines to — ... * . _
Germany or if the
"The good citizens of this com-
munity are urged to voice their
opinions and to assure our judicial ____- _____
and law enforcement authorities in suits against five
that we will not tolerate violence
am certainly happy to have been
returned to the council post and
will always do my best to keep the
city and the majority of its people
। in mind on all mhasures which
n n | come before the council.”
Draw Remarks siarstrrdays-clsctiomnisntgcoa
-ee, Jonn Angeso, jonn w. snep-
herd. Liberal Club; Simon Walk-
er and Doyle Barry, Bowie Club;
William C. Sekaly and Walter
Ch*.
The ORANGE Leader
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But, testified L R. (Speedy) Sekaly, Texas
Blakeman, the Texas attorney
general's office failed to obtain
injunctions or restraining orders
pressed doubt it would do much cessive term as city father fol-
AUSTIN. Tax. (AP)—The Texas. "This is a valid and serious at-iandyeter soviet action in C
House refused today to take a tempt to finance our appropria- E,
By BERT BREWER less than 5 per cent of the esti-
A very quiet election yesterday mated 5,778 persons eligible to
ing stamps, $8 million.
The tax debate began after a - aee— ---- -— —
final vote on the 1962-1963 spend the West with "violating the most
(See TAXES, Page 9) - 1 (See NOTES, Page 9)
of recognition from the Western jor emergency over Berlin. Pis-
powers under threat of cutting patch of one or more additional
the supply lines.
Khrushchev has threatened to
-Leeder she" Phohe
cording to port records. A Pakistan ship, the
Safena E Barkat. is also pictured loading scene
70,000 erossties at the seuther end of the county’
decks The ship is scheduled to debark early
Friday for Pakistan with the crossties destined
for the Pakistan national railway.
g . — tary position in Europe and also
cials of East Germany or if the measures which might be taken
East Germans demand some kind in other fields in event of a ma-
send Grissom on the big ride also
was postponed because of unfa-
vorable weather.
When the 155-pound Air Force pece. uuU. „ „u. _ ...______... ... „„ .ue. .u-
—eriesnt,redtths.sapum, skibs AUSTIN, Tex. (AP_The Texas, -This is a valid and serious at- mandeter Soviet action in “er-ayinschisameturogtosottie
were clear over the launch area. House refused today to take a tempt to finance our appropria- Hope was expressed that the term in office.
along 7d4a2ro-nmncanenads "omifndtumprostmenm megtaE"ed"cap-aadye “buesom--
within 10 minutes, 30 seconds of either a general sales tax or per- 1 payments, and all our other fi- _ . -
Bring. Then National Aeronautics sonal income tax. reeci- -
and Space Administration officials The House vnted 111-33 against regre
called a halt to study the weather a plan by Reps. Max Carriker eithei
situation. The 'hold dragged on, corporate income tax and a sonal
the count.was recycled to 30 min- highway use tax in place of tax mendmenu
and finally the. shot, was recommendations made by both 1. *
" Gov. Price Daniel and the House j feated
Place; Lynn Dorsett. Villa Hitei
Hotel. Doris Hamby. Doris’
— Place; Lynn Dorsett, Villa Hutel:
WINDS— Vorebl mesy soum and
southeos 811 m.p-N. dgytme and J to
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BEAUMONT, Tex. (AP) —Jef- and James L. McGuirre, Yukon
___________________________ ferson County's district clerk tea- Club: John Graffagnino and Sam
jobs that otherwise would be made, tified today that suspended Dist. Siragusa, Commodre Club; R.E.
Atty. Ramie Griffin filed num er- Lee. John Angelo, John W. She,
Lewis also commented: “Vio- ous suits against gambling andt— "*—■ — — — -
prostitution and followed through
to obtain injunctions.
He is accused of accepting brikes Maretin
and of incompatence and miss con- “
Tabling the Carriker-Eckhardt i porate profits tax estimated tot--------- — ------- --- - .. we
amendment was the first test vote bring in $65 million, a 3 per cent bv an unprecedented war hyster- 10; Box 2, Masonic Temple,
■ excise tax for telephone. tele- — " * -d- -- - • — c ------
— — _ —, ... total vote. Gilliam 16. Whitehead
ers. The Western notes rejected 16; Box 3 Central Fire Station.
------------the Premier Khrushchev s threat to 15, Gilliam 13, Whitehead 13; Box
use of highways by trucks and;sign a separate peace treaty with 4 Tilley School, t cu-- -
331 million, a 4 per cent; East Germany and turn over con- Whitehead 7: Box
income tax on stocks and bonds, trol of supply routes to West Ber- School. 8. Gilliam 7. -aveeeu
$54 million; a billboard occupa- lin to the Communist East Ger g. Box 6, Navy Park. 13, Gilliam
tion tax, $25 million, and a 19 per man regime unless the West — ----• - — - -
cent gross receipts tax on trad-
torney general's office also filed
suits seeking injupctions against
five more alleged houses of pros-
titution in Beaumont.
He identified the defendants as
Stella Areiniega, Austin Hotel:
Rita Ainsworth, Dixie Hotel;
Mrs. Cecil Hosey, Marine and
Coepland Hotels; and Boots
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to theit Berlin rights which may mans in the absence of Western
be posed by the Soviet Union and agreement.
Communist East Germany. In the
interest of allied unity when the
e==Mer -1<
Everybody does. But don't
take a vacation without having
The Leader's circulation de-
partment save you all the ac-
counts of Archie's side-spliting
antics. Call TU 3-8403 and have
The Leader’s circulation de-
partment Mve your paper in
a vacation pack until you re-
turn. Carriers have vacation
ing in Box 10. Orange
2--- Community Center, with 55 total
. . . . , . । Moscow Radio, in a German- votes, and Box 7. Burton avenue
nancial needs and still avoid the language broadcast, accused the Fire Station, with 34 total votes
reqressive effect and nuisance of Western Allies of "aiding and Some 31 votes were polled at Salk
r a general sales tax or per- abetting the sinister forces which|School, Box 12.
sonal tax." said-Carriker of his seek to start another war." I A breakdown of the votes ac-
| “It is no coincidence that the cording to box. location, total
The 12 points offered in the de-’news that the Western powers vote. Place 2 vote and Place 4
feated Carrier-Eckhardt amend-are opposed to the signing of a!vote is as follows:
ment included a 4 per cent cor- German peace treaty is being Box 1. county courthouse. 12
Dorate profits tax estimated to accompanied in the United States total vote. Gilliam 9. Whitehead
his top diplomatic and military
advisers Kennedy was due to
make at a news conference a new
statement of U.S. determination
to protect West Berlin against
Communist pressures.
The Kennedy statement was
■timed to follow by about 24 hours
warnings of war danger given to
the Soviet government by the
France The three powers told the
! Kremlin that the Berlin crisis is
solely of the Soviet Union's mak-
ing and they declared they found
it necessary “to warn the Soviet
government in all seriousness of
the grave dangers” of its course.
If the Soviets undertake, as
Premier Khrushchev has warned
j they will do, to destroy Western
international peace and security
and “the lives and well-being of
millions of people,” the U.S. note
to Moscow Mia. U.S., British and
The plane came down 45 min- In the announcement of today's
Utes after taking off from Buenos meeting. Chamber President Win-
Aires' Ezeiza Airpotsone flight ston Lewis stressed these points:
thpoled heenzdepanedtbthe rasnguThe boardor directors isunot Speedy Blakeman Testifies
Rivadiva, was a favorite of U.3.-responsiblsusinos clmat. of the
ol experts who shuttle beck and 2 The.business c imatesof.the
forth"beetween the capital and the community has antsonimportant
-pie 1 bearing on the creation of new
EinOil Co the main U S ciljobs for workers and new business
cEssnoCountheimannar-iefafor business people. Violence can
sancemnopsrrtins employes was lead to decisions not to sreate new !
by all workers that- they have a right to ud
perform a job or refuse to perform it, that •a
this right is legally and morally inviolate;
and that the'right extends to all other, •8
workers. E2
From this must come recognition of “9
the fact that anv worker who in any way 18
violates the right of another to perform; E7
a job does great harm to the labor move- gjB
ment as a whole, as well as to himself,! 2
his family, and the community in which 120
he lives. 2
It then becomes incumbent upon all
Kennedy initiated
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wnedapa"Esferfanv"thhagdcuntam A‘"WhitEhedsation, "
The Cure for Cancer Begins at the Roots
Every person in Orange County stands cerned and will do whatever they can to
put a stop to these things.
In these ways, the community at large
will endeavor to purge itslf of the indict-
cause of a continuing series of acts of viQe ments already written and to keep morel
from being drawn.
But these efforts are less than enough.
County Engineer
To Give Figures
On Soil Program
Exploratory figures on a pro- „
posed 10-year program for the Or
ange County Conservation and
Reclamation District are expected
• be given at tonight's board meet-
ing. according to Mayor M. K.
Thomen Sr., chairman
The meeting. at 7:30 p m. in the
Orange County Commissioners
Court Room at the county court-
house. will be attended by the
board along with other interested
persons, Mayor Thomen noted.
"We have asked the county iude
end the city manager to sit ingn
the meeting,” he Mid.
The exploratory figures on de
vetopment of the district are be-*
ing prepared by County Engr. J G. *k
(Gua) Foyle for release at to-
night’s board meeting.
I ORANGE JUICE |
TWO-FRONT WAR — A Leader
employee went out his back door
one morning last week and tripped
over a snake While in the process
of killing the snake, the hapless
fellow knocked over a wasp's nest
and got stung twice before he
could get away.
NOTCED-In the shore petrol
office recently, a trophy inscribed
"Moat Hits in Softball Toume:
ment 1961" .C Frisby. f>J
wonders who got the trophy for
the most Misses.
West European newspapersLea. 2; Abe Kemble. 2: G. A.
generally approved the firm tone Toal. 1: Georgia Singletary. 1;
taken bv the United States, Bri and P. L Butcher. 1.
tain and France, but some ex- Whitehead begins his third suc-
This kind of violence and the attitudes
causing it have been prevalent here for
so long that it has become a community
cancer which is eating away at our whole
social and economic structure. And the
cure must begin at the cancer's roots.
The cure hust begin with recognition
no worker in Orange County can be com-
pletely sure that his right to hold a job is •
secure or even that the job he holds will
continue to exist.
of 1728 N. 30th St., Pinehurs,.
Similar charges are facing two
Need a Vacation?
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inharEMondmymordaeroma Wade, Court before County Judge
of Rt 2, Box 50, who today was re-, Sid J. Caillavet, Morris said,
ported "resting comfortably and Meanwhile. County Judge Sid J.
with no complications" at Orange Caillavet has filed for county court
Memorial Hospital. (See CHARGES, Page 8)
Facing trial on the above --------
charges are Richard William Ellis,
BillyhEFsnker2, of 213 McKee In Labor Disputes
Courts. John W. Jones 22 of 806 ----- —----------
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landed today by press time,
•iff Chester A. Holts said Wadel
he was given assurance that mem-
bers of the organization stand
.. already to assist him in any way
........ Hot humidin hia efforts to cope with the
Directors of Orange Chamber
Suggest Action on Violence -maa a s n
। a.m. Friday, I Tax Committee.
Directors of the Orange Cham-<buckshot into a home while it was A two-day postponement was;
ber of Commerce today recon occupied by members of the fam- necessary because the Redstone
useefccrenoeuinonasdrplomahage a day-
ment relations and passed a new the way to hia job. j lamination - -onE debate on taxes.
resOlutiofmnsuggtne S by aang ehereasnthese repeated qHsom "SSouackat. b^n btadeya had noeoneathheed ritoer*1 -
— inters,
board were taken during a special tens of Orange County a responsi -top speed of 4 900 miles an hour ear cent retail Mies tax sugges-
BUENOS AIRES (AP-An Ar- breakfast meeting and followed a bi lity todo,or attempt to have do PhP‘40,000-ton°° aircratt carrier Eion of the House Tax commit-
— "r —ed.....I- m-l -elence invnlvine elnshinesnnecessarytttothe,appre-wer strung out along the range, tee.
hens ionand posecution of all per: ready *° puck Grissom and the Several amendments and sub-
sons who-inacommittizng, suchsacts 4.040 pound capsule from the sea. Istiture bills remained to be acted
have vrl< ted the laws of the Sta'e Grissom was awakened »t 1:79 on before either of the main
___(See CHAMBER, Page 8)____1 a.m. After a last-minute checkup, measures is up for action._______
and with diplomatic measures
against alleged houses of prostr
tution. The latter 10 named Port
Shipper loads some 2,592,000 pounds of flour at
_________ ________ the Orange County Port and Navigatiop! District
IFphy and Nick Barnes, Maryland Hotel I docks prior to sailing today nt 4 am The ship.
______ - _________(53; Geozg Under questioning by Quentin which docked early yesterday will take the flour
ident*. one involving the firing of Niecek, John Nagel, John Benza, (Son, GRIFFIN, Page 9) 1 to Minsalud, Colombia, and to Caritas, Chile, ao-
, 'into space. Now he must wait un-
• sa 2 ggtevtete ^.svsWiS
"" -----coffer -» west German <“
The Western foreign ministers’
talks, beginning Aug. 5, will be
concerned both with what the Al-
lies call "contingency planning”
The'clerk produced copies of sixMarzaret iinngr, MiashipHoko
injuncticn auita against allezadtet 5" “
sambling >.ces .nd » suits Blakeman testified that the at-
minutes in the cramped
of his spacecraft. He was still feet above
able to muster a smile when he and began -x —e-----------
climbed out, the firing order. . u . j
emus-- - z a
sion to postpone the shot, because' (See SPACE, Page 6)
of a heavy, high-level cloud cover 7
that would have prevented pho-
tographic tracking of the rocket.
Tuesday's original attempt to
election in the recent history of
r ... 5 1 Orange which did not contain
rrom Moscow wonerspropconmaaeronitheballottof
Some 17 writein votes were
LONDON (AP) — The Western listed from four ot the voting
notes rejecting Nikita hrush-boxes. E. H. Bland received five
chev’s demands on Berlin brought writeins in Box 8, Anderson
a routine disapproving comment School; three in Box 7, Burton
from Moscow Tuesday night. So- Avenue Fire Station; and one in
viet propaganda organs obviously Box 2, Masonic Temple.
awaited guidance from the Krem- other writein votes included
French messages on the Berlin
• A III • • | ; situation were delivered in the
Rescheduled on Friday
* are planning to follow in this re-
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2 (Gus3 Grissom’s rocket, ride family be advised by telephone oftionss Xrt of a mil.S?v show
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