The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1967 Page: 1 of 22
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VOL. LXIV—NUMBER 41
ORANGE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1967
IB Poges
Soviets Claim
Texarkana Blast
Kills 11 Persons
105 Shell ।
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B. V. STEPHENSON
CECIL K. SMITH
JOE M. PINEDA
Teacher:
ing, dishes colorful and judges
winners of
Dead, Injured
here since 1950.
IN
He first came to Orange in
They are incumbents Cecil K.
No Accord
Smith, 45, is a member of the
Reached At
Smith is employed as assis-
1
3
He resides with his wife at
IMS
Rem Are The couple
Firestone
three-year term, Pineda is seek-
For W. Otange Post
Bwn
Austin To Leave
(r
-2. Willioms, 36, DeKoib. Tex.,
wsi
LEON T. BINGHAM ‘
measure the ingredients.
it.
and the Firestone Tire & Rubber
Charles W. Austin, 45,
Post Sought
convened for nearly seven
in the Orange Independent
salad entry.
Hotel.
is a
By Bingham
about 12 persons present.
progress made and we have no
(See TRUSTEES. Page 2)
vol harns sala me expi
occurred on an assembly
Aen
line
are attached to the
A
The fourth place winner, Mrs.
404 W. Cypress,
ton, said today, “We made some
Re-Elects
1941 to 1946. The firm
a redescriptiog of bus routes
Orange Memorial Hospital
lines.
School
Superintendents Associa-
A formal statement will be is-
carrying out his
CHARLES W. AUSTIN
and duty as a teacher in
Charles W. Austin win leave
LOCAL
in the
hool Dis-
Adam Clayton Powell’s
es-
, re-
"I have a 6-yearold child I
on a recent Region J
position with the West Orange-
Cove school system.
said the signature
was not her own.
thesummer of 1965and stopped
Marjorie Povell did not name
She said the last time she had
a cost of $50,000,
seen her husband was in Puerto
not be sure although the signa-
on
sure.'
She said that when she came
High toda
to
Low tool
Mrs Powell told the commit-
High tomorrow .....
ition to the hospital. Orange
65
rs
Court. He has served as an as-
erans affairs.
SPORTS
sistant in Mrs. Gunstream's of-
Committee ordered her dr
from the
rroll last
P
tecta. to begin preparation of de-
tailed working drawings.
was not working
grounds
for the
by law.
district, as
the oath to toR the truth, her
[an, coon
ange-Cove
(See CLARK, Page 1)
2
h
%
■ 2
9
30
2
The beard also approved re-
roudes to the district. Last
Armed Clashes Reported
Spreading in Red China
TIAm
anyone as
on the che
Mao is Trying
To Break Ties
By MARTHA HUGHES
The smells were mouth-water-
Tiro School
Bus Drivers .
Are Hired
V #
.. ’
In the Orange school posit
(See AUSTIN. Page 2)
served
chool
mi t
William A
sel for the
officials plan to canttone NYC
(Ste couNrY. Page 212
ex-
pro-
dorsed
to her.
plosion is unknown and that a
board of investigation will probe
for the reason. He would not
speculate. He said he could not
determine whether all the fatal-
ities were in the room where
the blast occurred.
The shift lacked only an hour
(See BLAST, Page 2)
I Christi
far as we know federal
duction equipment,
L. P, Clark
Appointed
VA Officer
"See TEACHER, Page 2)
WEATHER
For Orange County Board
3 School Trustees File
*
Baseball Up To
* Old Musical Chairs
In an effort to improve eleva-
tor service, the board ar '
hiring an elevator operat..
rush hours. This st.....
me_____________t county
time warrants approved late
was recessed subject to call.
Some 356 production and
maintenance employes at the
A simple assault charge
against Harold McLeod, a West
winners of the Orange
recipe contest were
Tips Given On
Filing Income Tax
See Page 6
a newcomer to Orange, Mrs.
John H. Tucker, 2509 N. 23rd St.,
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF
WASHINGTON
ing period for visitors.
A proposal was tabled by the
cess and finally concluded
shortly before 6 p.m.
Wineriter, contacted at Hous-
shell. He said the projectiles are
not picked up or taken off the
line in that area.
Mrs. Ritter, a native of New
Iberia, La., said that she fol-
“If I can make it, anyone can.”
Mrs. Tucker said that the
cake is ideal for bridge lunch-
eons.
serole recipe, differed from
many of the other contestants in
9
s
Cake Recipe
Voted Tops
came the Americap 1 —,
vision of the US. Steel Corp.
1: M
#7
V
• 3
Mrs. Spears, a native of
Franklin, La. 3 * '
been active in Boy Scout work.
He is a member of First Bap-
Company spokesmen when
asked for comment today re-
l follow” the recipe to a T,"
2
9
nuclear testing ground.
The Hong Kong Stai
“UP hours yesterday at the Jack Tar stallation, said the explosion ocuuexcauge amuepenugun ureuy uauuem, curemuy -e..
curred in ‛asroom20X feet"with School District April to ness manager and tax collee
------Summary • Index------
News of Today
Washington last August, she
tried to ge to touch with Pomel
leave his business manager post fective April 1. wedd2&z.- —.—
• - ~ ’ t Grady Gallien. narewtly busy I* 33
I? ’
w 8
Orange, t. —___—
about 20 years. The-secret of
her success? She does not
VUUUl w --d6‛ 2- 9EPu. riua IEPIC-0-5 TIe-ucL .__• — ---------- _ ,
son of Vidor and Joe M Pineda Stephenson. Precinct 2; and Orange Rotary CU> and has
of Mauriceville. The three board Smith, county at-large. been active to Boy Scout work.
ORANGE JUICE
-----—s
GREEN ALL OVER - Chick-
ens and eggs have come tote the
mews to recent weeks and keep-
ing pare is Kennetb Laughlin,
1, Scott St, Orange.
Owe si tes hews cwrewtly U lay
tog pea green entered eggs The
hew. given to him by a friend,
looks Me a bantam.
PUZLER: - Have you fig-
ecuted a contract. They are in a
bargaining unit represented by
Local 390 of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Work-
ers.
his day in court and without
making a proper retraction and
apology."
Morris said the charge that
McLeod "severely and brutally"
. beat a child “simply is not
true.”
V
I m7
,j
Explodes
At Plant
By TOM JOHNSON
TEXARKANA, Tex. (AP)-A
single 105 mm shell blew up,
killing 11 and wounding many
others at the Army’s ammuni-
tion plant near here Wednesday
night. A spokesman said some
of the ammunition made there
goes to Vietnam.
Eight persons required hospi-
tal care, and of this number,
one succumbed to make the
death toU 11. AU but three oth-
ers were discharged by today.
A large number of other persons
suffered minor injuries, a'
spokesman said.
Lt. Col. Duane Harris. com-
mandant of the semisecret in-
---- — last two years.
He was employed at an an-
‘ r of .51,380 plus an
. So I just guess, ________
Mrs. Elsie B. Ritter, 2311 Al-
ficials and persons does
rect the damage and harm done
re-election April 1 filed today as
the first candidates in the school
won first prize.
Mrs. Tucker’s entry was the
Effie cake. “A Greek girl
---- —fie gave me the recipe
when my husband was in school |
y,3
2
EPE)
WK A&b
h
ton Shipbuilding Co. He has re-
Smith is seeking his second sided in Orange three different
~ -1. times and recently has resided has a son who attends Teru
tached to the West Orange dis- said.
trict several years ago. The fourth place winner, Mrs.
.The candidate.is an operator Joe Roucher, 40 W. Cypress,
wothe He Pont Sabine River who submitted a chicken cas-
worKs. He Lives With his wife —
25 . --------« I—, V About 12 persons were in ad-
Pmdae henh."asn 11. muh joining roomsin the building, Orange-Cove” I aepenaent
W ich.is about the length of a orans CVe.1 _______ n!
gredients as 14 eggs and 14 ta-
blespoons of cream of wheat.
* ■ “It’s really not a tricky cake
/ to make,” Mrs. Tucker said.
----- has been appointed Orange was appointed recently by tl
-----------„ Prospects of an extended County service officer for vet-Orange County Commissonei
- Partly County commissioners MOnday strike at the Firestone Petro-
approved tentative plans and chemical Center became appar
authorised Golemon and Rolfe, ent today with an unsuccessful
Beaumont and Houston archi- end to contract talks.
Most of the petrochemical fa-
culty ha* remained in opera-
tion. Supervisors working
tended shifts have manned
.... -ange Leader recipe con-_____ ____ .. _____
test at the cook-off last night in named Effie gave me the
to an implied appeal to Mao's the Gulf States Utilities Co. ser-
----------ts, Pravda said vice center.
When the decision was made,
6. Mrs. Whittie Morie Jones. 44, Tex:
, orkono. Ark.
r Z Jessie Oden MeCoy Texorkano,
8. Rose Mory Fleming, New Boston.
9. J. W. Porter, DeKoib.
10. Melvin Somues Fisher Jr., Texar-
kono. Ark.
11. Ellen Hatley, Dovglossville.
Morris said Dist. Atty. Roy ,
until an investigation of the case seized
bad been made.
dh
Scof
mc
missed.
St. Michael Hospilat
4. Elio Hotley, no home town, serious.
7. Mory Thedlord, ^Hanto, Tex., solis-
foctory.
meet the needs of a growing
. t school district”
Austin was payroll supervisor
at Consolidated and Western
Steel Corp. here to Orange from
West Orange hosts Charlton- fice for the
Pollard, Mauriceville journeys C. — .
to Port Neches in cage games nua salary ___ „ _
T. Bingham, former tonight . . . Texas Tech leads annual travel allowance of $960,
rt of the old Bancroft Southwest Conference in -
Board, has filed for day’* prep grid 1" . . .
- the April 1 West Or- Five new managers to take field
School election. come 196? professional baseball.
1
vy‛s session dan in other portions of the
ct in rail Harris said cause of the ex-
will his district will be separated e centiy celebrated their Wb
post teethe April 1. yTO anniversary. The co-
The commander said that the
roof was blown off the building
immediately above the room
where the explosion occurred.
He said operations continued to-
den, won the third place $10 CO
prize with her tomato -----
president for five years i
_ -------- . old Bancroft School Board, has
ince, which contains China's filed for trustee in the April l
"1— •- -----j West Orange-Cove school elec
ong Star quoted tion, it was announced today,
ng from Canton Bingham, who lives at Rt. 4,
„ Guards had Box 402, Orange, on
believed to have Peveto Road was a i
. The Orange County Scheel
shgggdazgccozeseneaceekir
Leon T. Bingham,
prsldent • • "
School _______
trustee in the April 1
i wage opener clause.
The picket line also is being
" Mrs. Rob- observed by some 30 other plant
employes who also have not ex-
6Gh.
The three Orange County ing his first riveted term and
School Board members up for Stephenson has been on the
board since MB7. Pineda was ap IM* He is a native of Bremond,
pointed to August, 1965. to finTer, and a graduate of Texas
the unexpired term of the late AAM University with a bach-
U. D Courmier. elor’s degree to arehstectore.
Asked what happened to her right hand was shaking and her
ing com- paychecks except for the two voice was barely Madhible,
njAtdbozzeeparsomassdgetisorentsalopSneesindepen-
a.% iS6°MeheUbeposdoh,Thetrusteesinrguar
mmngnnnishe oranse sehoo Do wammasnerartgr
I . . . • see what the situatioe was,"
she haslived in both with respect to her job and
The second place award of
$15 went to Mrs. Dorothy
; Spears, 1007 Godfrey St. for her
sauerkraut balls.
your handwriting?” he asked. 1 __
----------- “No, it isn’t,” Mrs. Powen entirely after that time,
having put her name said ’ ’
..5" coukl ^i^toe signa. sms
Supt. Tommy Huff of the West partment. Sints,
~ - i “I am looking forward to Pineda. 2,
nOriAliem„"m- > . lows the French method of cook-
perialism. The. posters said Leon T. Bingham, 43, former tag,
military controls had been president for five years of the “I iust nut A Iitl „«thi« ana PuxE maue ano we nave no which is about the length of a vrangecove anaspenaent «"us.ruu
i_ • —ti — ------- Ae Y45 “ ™e I just Put a „tteof this and turther meetings scheduled at football field about 10 miles District said today the working with Supt Hoff and,on the Mauriceville
alttlesofthat, she said, this time," westar reark ana Th,Pomcii business and tax departments of Grady Gallien, and being af- Board six years.
is"luthinkttbewnndenowonan CThe beegaining session was nameoisTexnestar Army “Am- " g5h • progtessige * is persomnel
the? don't prepare long-oking palledahy Gayle, ineriter of the munition Plant. schoolsdist ‘ thAtsannota8o cee TRUSTEES,
“Sa*- * * *
a,:; jt without garlic and sugar,” she Ainoonilyncbnon: notpickedi
medewas‛rmtd85“1d; .... an
spoons,” she said.
AAM
Stephenson. 79, is a lifetime
Orange Couniy resident. He is a
retired track fanner and re-
sides with his wife on Stephen-
son Road off FM 105 inVidor.
Mrs. Powel, dressed to a two- ured out your teesmt tax re-
’ turn yet: A variety of Sabine
Area residrats are to throes of
. —. ----------The Orange County School Top
Otis Elevator Co. to speed up Board today approved the hir- Leader ____r. ________ _____
elevators 50 feet per minute at ing of two new bus drivers and chosen at a cook-off last night,
a cost of $50,000, a redescription of bus routes for
ureau A medical history transfer the Little Cypress Independent
a few agreement between the hospital School District.
progress, but the parties are
still apart. At this point I have
no other meetings scheduled.
However, yesterday
They are represented by the
_ . . , , , OCAW local. Bargaining had
The winning cook of venison been under way earlier on a
orgrpnized pndd sciplined school harPn, treasurer; ana B en W member for 36 year*. (See CONTEST, Page »)
“It is regrettable," he added. Brlggs,.secretary. .. . .
“that those who havn made the , Thes2-member medical staff
charges are dismissing this case for 1967 approved Includes 23 on
without giving Harold Method the active medical staff, 13 den-
" ' ’......fists and 1< on the courtesy
staff. The courtesy staff is com-
posed of (pedsUsts from out-of-
----- nnual travel allowance of $960, either in Washington or in Pow:
wire in yester- rMws Gunsteam ded.Feb: 1 el"? New Yor* congressional
8: -i dark, 73, is a former adjudi
ish-speaking constituents but Cor
“Are the endorsements in that the work diminisbed until -
and three, of his four children. « ue ouer con
Jimmy 16. Lllie Mae, 12, and her cooking methods.
Jeffrey, 10. His oldest son, •r - * -
Bruce, 30, is in the U.S. Navy. she
Bingham is a member of 50
North Orange Baptist Church
and has worked actively with
the Texas Research Lei
She said she had not author tbice hna veisitda
r Dovid Arnotd sketton. is, Texorkono, members filed at the monthly
“ - county board meeting today at tant chief engineer at Levings. tist Church
the courthouse. — - - - - -- - --
R202501 f u. j . Jones Rest Home, Inc., was ----- Orange Junior High School Luther P. Clark has been ap-’some."
night. the other. and a method to improveeleva. Posssute Clark, a former employe of thpouerenSnweSSork Demo- ized Powell to receive her pay-
b today. ..................74 Plans were reviewed for a tor service. Vidor Mayor Luther P. Clark the Veterans Administration, cr»t has said he deposited his roll checks
r tonight ................. /proposed, -bed extended care ----- ha* been appointed Orange was appointed recently by the wite’s checks in an account T- ™ ----- „„
h tomorrow ............. 65 addition to the hospital. Orange Prospects of an extended County service officer for vet- Orange County Commissioners from which he paid her ex- tee investigating her husband's “to
penses. activities that she has lived in both
The House Administration Puerto Rico since about a year "our
6^ • wig luW/^^T
.A
The Orange Leader
—----- ' II--- • ____________________1__
...........STS A £3 & S® branginndepndegerBnsk, _
. . vyucu-Ulu ™ i , -- This service will be re-election April 1 filed today trict AprU 1 to fill a similar
spank harder than McLeod reviewed, in the future to de- as candidates in the school position with the West Orange-
termine, if it reduces the wait- hard race. Cove school system.
dh ange Cove District “is fortunate
•V to obtain the services of a man
» with Mr. Austins background
whois highly quelifiedto de
mhe velop a business office that can
eharge should be filed until a cial tSinkiang.
thorough investigation is made,” *_______
when Wingate declined to lm- OMH Board
mediately accept the case, it V- 111 —VUI •
wm subsequently filed in the
court of Justice of the Peace
Lawrence M. Gray of Precinct
2. Gray later transferred the A-A. ..
All Officers
school spankings. _
“We feel that a simple dis- cS eomssaze: —"v—
missal of erroneous charges SorP: board of directors yester-
made in haste t_____•-*- * Ca% afternnan raalentad ah atf
mittee, showed her 19 pay-
(AP) — Rep. checks, from January 1965 to
________ 7. :: July 1966. They were in the__-___, ___— .
tranged third wife testified to-name of Y. Marjorie Flores, did “a falUinw jnh” tratdating ported _ ____ —
day that somebody else en: which Mra Powel said was a mail sent to Powel by his Span NYC coference be attended to
’roll checks made out name she had used. ----- ------ - -
arriving
as saying Red
geea Plane_______________________________
«w. tt. m. ao a . been ready in Canton Wednes- the Bancroft board for 13 years.
"We. takethe position that,no day night 10 carry anti-Mao offi- The Bancroft district
this anmual chore and it’s cet-
masramemden
to wtich it baa become accus-
ltomed. 1
Prospects of an extended
strike at the Firestone Petro-
waserearodtig dhgmistmnaternceusinats 5 r_________________ ,
--- — ---..... parenttodAy with an unccess-’ i jw,l a, Yeyactona. , I
talks here SS^'—~ ~ • £
--------
.So Lustguess, she said, cal and Atomic Workers Union
r dropped after their marriage to 1960 but L ______
month on stayed on his payroll “as far piece green ensembie, spoke
as I know untU December last softly in respoene to q^Sen
y Her salary at the time was A Geoghegan When she took
$20,500 annually. ~ —......
TEXARKANA, Tu. (AP-The deod
!rom Wednesdoy NIgNF3 ezplosion of the
sone stor omimnurton dlnt, o> idn .
"red.by the board race.
1 Mrs. Neu Mori, Ashforo, Hooks.
>■ Evgent Bowen Sumii. >«. CigFks _ __________
j’omc Mekiniey crobtree. mt. Ple0 Smith o.Orange, B.V.Stephen-
4, Clarence G. MCDonald, it, Texar.
kono. Ark.
.... . - -____.,, . ,,hasnot spoken to him since
“I’m not an expert,” she said.
"It does look familiar on some store she has been brine in
Outlook for Saturday
cloudy and mild.
Sunset today . . 6:06 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow $:M a.m.
WINDS-Merthehy MM, 14 M e
coslonolly M mph. Main probobifif
"Ft2j2BnSKY-remcaratvrw hn n‛iimr.n2
low m, ran a Hast year, •
RECIPE CONTEST WINNERS ARE CHOSEN
Mr*. Speer* (left), Mr*. Trovis, Mr*. Ritter, Mr*. Tucker
He was first elected to the
, ... - .... . _ cotetyboandininzandprevi-
School Job Here a
“ - Steptenmn ana ins wife re-
7
3,0 ■ -m
A
in Norman, Okla.,” Mrs. Tucker Kd
said. “When she gave the recipe NA
to me, it’had no name. It had ' "
been in her family for years. E;
^'X^Treke is hn -^JOE ROUGHER,
of surprises. The recipe calls •
for no flour, but uses such in-
Data from U.8. Weather Bureau
Outlook—Cloudy with only i ‘ -______ ________.. ....
period* of mostly light rains and Jones Rest"‘Home,., was
this afternoon, tonight —• -—' — - ------'
The tollowing persons were among the
infured in the explosion:
Wadiey Hosoi tal
* Sandro Monning, 19, New Boston,
sofisfactory condition.
■oath the board approved the
Powell’s Estranged Wifejpita
— A W approved.
Denies Signing Pay checks -am
totai inchades payments of VJXI
months late last year. Mrs on two bus motes.
Powel said “I didn get them~ AmosLBankst
.She said thatunti 196%, shebood Youth Corps
Communist party accused Mao in Tibet and that clashes in Lha.
Tse-tung today df planning new Isa, the capital previously re
attempts to provide a break in ported under antiMaoist' con-
Soviet-Chinese relations, while tro), were nearing a climax,
more anti-Soviet pronounce- A pro-Nationalist Chinese
ments were reported from Pe- newspaper in Hong Kong said
’ ing. _ „ „ „ part of Kwangsi Province bor-
On Formosa, Nationalist Chi- dering on North Vietnam has
na'* official Central News Agen- been taken over by anti-Maoists
cy said armed clashes between but Mao’s supporters have the
forces for and against Mao have upper hand in some big cities.
r 'spread from Tibet throughout Clashes were reported in Wuch-
the adjoining province of Szech- ow, a Kwangsi city of more than
wan, in southwest China. It said 200,000.
Except during actual war, the
Soviet Communit newspaper
Pravda said in a 4,000-Word ar-
ticle, "never before has such a
A -. fierce campaign been con- _____________
AccewIF ducted” against the Soviet Un- hard put to pick five
I 3SdUI l ion. It.said relations with China The Orange Leader i
were likely to get worse.
A. I I---
I horaA Chinese opponents, P-------
U H <1 1 • C Peking still had the chance to
• restore friendly ties with Mos-
m cow and rejoin “the ranks of the s
IDrAnwA I socialist community." The So-
U I O D D O (1 viet people "want precisely this
r r prospect to emerge victorious g A
.A insimelsuassgultis V^fe^toldvSreri^tS J
Orange Junior High School sorrect road, the newspaper m
thashatony " strangest sr "
rhecharggasied after an •"”“1Kc;:
old^lSl pankn8.o.a ye ar ests 01 communism and the
FcpaiI Brure S 4^7 people for the sake of
West Orange Junior HighPwE'm... : .
School. The youth was being dis- The. Tokyo newspaper Asahi
ciplined for sleeping in class. reported_that Communist
mssgedzattne%dames “ SStJSSf a v
"which never should have been Chen said Mao’s purge will be WIA D l
filed in the first place." entirely successful and that def- W U Board
Morris said the state law "is initesresults will besseen by next
replete with cases that uphold January: Asahi said. .
a teacher’s right to maintain ePeking wall posters described
discipline in the classroom ” Sinkiang Province on the Soviet
“Even if a soankin caunae border as "• front line against
serious injury, state *law rS(Soyieb) revisionism and im-
guires that the teacher must
have intended to cause the in-, ,70—. „— ■ —“
jury to be guilty of simple as- tightened in the rebellious prov-
sault," Morris said.
similar position with the West tor, win work 1 time to the
Orange-Cove school system, tax assessing and collecting de-eu5 Crist « Latter - day
IQ Cents *****
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