Mt. Pleasant Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 231, Ed. 1 Monday, January 25, 1965 Page: 1 of 6
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town for the inauguration
events, there was no visible
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Monarchs, Presidents To
Attend Somber Services
LONDON ( — Sir Winston
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M perts said he died peacefully
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Attend Funeral
Causes Riot
Committee
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For Council
SAIGON, South Viet Nam
—A mob of about 500 youths
sacked the homes of two high
local officials in Hue today
and burned their furniture,
fixtures and personal effects.
hearings of the 59th Legisla-
ture begin today as senators
and representatives start the
third week of the regular ses-
sion.
as Liquor Control Board for
approximately five years.
Powell is married to the
former Jessica Bogue of Mar-
shall and has three children;
George. Jr who is currently
serving with the U.. S Air
his attorneys told the Court.
This case was reset for Feb.
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Northeast Texas: Partly
cloudy tonight and Tuesday.
Windy and warmer today.
Showers in 30 per cent of area
tonight and early Tuesday
Cooler Tuesday and in west
and north tonight. Low to-
night 40 to 55. High Tuesday
50 to « *__
Travel easily, travel safely,
with FIRST NATIONAL
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Wash Nets $44
A Jaycee car wash held
Saturday at Dellwood Park
netted 144 for the club’s civic
normal, as was an
"The whole thing” in this
case being the swearing in of
Lyndon Baines Johnson as our
36th President.
Fittingly, our seats were
behind the press gallery, an
imposing structure about as
tall as a three-story building,
maybe taller. As representa-
tives of the press, as opposed
- to the working press (men
and women actually filing
spot stories for their publica-
tions), we were in a good
“back-up" position.
We had a good, if somewhat
distant, view of the proceed-
ings, but when you consider
how many people were less
strategically situated, we cer-
tainly felt fortunte.
As every reader knows by
\
now, the weather was pleas-
ant. There was no snow, and
no hard wind to make the
day’s temperature harsher.
The temperature was a not-
unpleasant 38 degrees when
Texas’ most famous citizen
stepped forward to take the
oath of office.
The atmosphere was some-
what of a cross between a
football game and an old-
fashioned circus parade. By
this we mean the people came
in holiday spirit, as they us-
ually do when they attend a
a football game. The similar-
ity to the circus parade, of
course, came later, when the
countless units of the gigan-
tic Inauguration Parade
moved into position.
in the stands before the
ceremony site, feet tapped
loudly in time to music of the
Marine Band when it struck
Murder Cases
AreContinued
One murder case due for
trial in 76th District Court
was continued Monday morn
ing until the next term of
court and another was tenta-
tively reset for Feb. 15.
Edd Rockwell Jr , defendant
in the shooting death of an-
other Negro, was not present
for trial. He is undergoing
15. " "
Continued until the next
term of court by Judge Mor-
ris Rolston was a murder
case against another local
Negro man, Leo Lewis This
was continued because of the
absence of one of the wit-
nesses.
Members of the special ve-
nire of prospective jurors
were dismissed by Judge
Rolston.
There are no scheduled
cases to ba heard for the re-
mainder of the
A petit jury 1
later in the week for trial of
civil cases beginning next
Violence claimed the lives
of at least 22 persons in Tex-
as over the weekend with
nine of the deaths resulting
from two car-train collisions.
cardiogram reading.
Waters said, too that Mrs
Johnson, also resting in the
hospiatl with a cold, "spent a
restful night and her con-
dition was considerably im
proved.
He said no presidential visi
tors were expected today.
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JAYCEES' BOSSES NIGHT—Mt Pleasant Jaycees held their first
Bosses Night banquet Friday night. Pictured is Sonny Uzman, a past p
of the Longview Jaycees, who was princ ipal speaker. Alto seen at the8
table was James Newman, club president, at left, and HUI Enosns
Week activities chairman, at right. *
Johnson Anxious To Hegs"romon
4 Churchill lay at rest today
B while the world awaited the
somber magnificence of a
A state funeral he planned for
■ himself.
Monarchs, presidents and
2 veteran statesmen will follow
8 his coffin on its last journey
5 Saturday. President Johnson
; । said he would be among them
2 if sufficiently recovered from
2 the cold that sent him to the
2 hospital over the weekend.
2 Churchill died shortly after
E 8 a m.—3 a.m., EST—Sunday
29 at No. 28 Hyde Park Gate, the
London house in which he had
g lived since retiring from" the
8 premiership in 1955. Two
52 months past his 90th birth-
B. day, he had suffered a stroke
B nine days before. Medical ex-
confusion. No doubt there
were small crises, apparent
only to inaugural personnel,
but the crowd was orderly.
Police of the District of Co-
lumbia were reinforced by
military personnel, including
some Military Police.
On the way from our hotel,
we noticed each intersection
was manned by a patrolman.
Along the particular route we
followed, these were all mili-
tary personnel.
Following the ceremony, we
retreated to the office of Con-
gressman Wright Patman.
There- we found that he had
arranged for his friends to
eat lunch as his guests in the
office of the Banking and Cur-
rency Committee. There he
had provided sandwich ma-
terial, together with cookies
and hot coffee, plus a num-
ber of efficient people to see
that each person fourd what
he needed as refreshments.
It was here that we found
this typewriter—and one of
the aforementioned helpful
people brought out paper —
so we could write this column.
As we come to this point, it
Ex-Deputy Is
Named to Post
George Powell, a criminal
investigator with Alcohol and
Tobacco Tex since 1956,. has
been named Investigator-In-
Charge of the Marshall post
of duty succeeding Walter S.
Rainey, who has been reas-
signed to the Dallas post of
duty. Powell has previously
been assigned as Investigat-
or-In-Charge at Lawton and
Oklahoma City, Okla . and
has served as an investigator
at several posts during his
service with Alcohol and To-
bacco Tax.
Powell was born in Pitts
burg, Texas, and attended
school in Pittsburg and Wa-
co, Texas. Powell is an Air
Force veteran who served as
an investigator in the Coun-
ter Intelligence Corps for a
number of years. He is a
peace officer with a wide va-
riety of experience which in-
cludes serving as a deputy
sheriff in Titus County for
still the parade goes on,
through apparently the last
of the units joining from
this area — at the intersec-
tion of Independence Avenue
and New Jersey Avenue—has
fallen into line. — WNF.
* * *
You will want to fall in line
with the many others who do
their banking business with
the GUARANTY BOND
STATE BANK, the BANK
THAT CARES. It’s always a
pleasant transaction at the
GUARANTY BOND STATE
BANK.
up "Stars and Stripes For-
ever." There were a few pairs
of opera glasses and field
glasses, which must have
• been helpful in studying the
situation.
The spectators arrived
armed with tote bags, blank-
ets, and cardboard boxes,
which we decided contained
lunch. And they arrived early.
When we crossed the area
soon after 10 in the morning,
the crowd was beginning to
build up.
The next session will ge held
is 4:30 in the afternoon and in the Mt peasant City
Bosses Honored Here
By Jaycees on Friday
ienim overalls and jacket
smybolic of a civic rights
movement was arrested • by
city police for blocking the
sidewalk and refusing to
move He was dragged to
a police car when he fell to
the ground and refused to get
up.
Course To
Be Offered
Dr. Earl Knebel, head. De-
partment of Agricultural Ed-
ucation, A&M University, will
be teaching a graduate level
course in guidance and coun-
seling for rural youth in Mt.
Pleasant and vicinity each
Thursday afternoon from 1:00
until 4:30.
This course, agricultural
education 630, carries three
credit hours and will be de-
voted to the analysis of occu-
pational and vocational oppor-
tunities, techniques of indiv-
idual group conseling and
guidance practicum in per-
sonality and occupational in-
terests tests.
Fifteen Texas Agricultural
Extension workers (county
agricultural agents and home
demonstration agents) signed
up for the course Jan. 21, but
enrollment is not restricted
to this group. The registra-
tion fee for this 12 weeks’
course is $30.
Those in the area having
an interest in such a gradu-
ate level course may secure
additional information by call-
ing the district Agricultural
Extension Service, PA 4-5242.
VOL. NO. 45
Funeral of Sir Winston
Friend Joins
With Foe in
Mourning
* LONDON ( — Former foe
joined with friend today in
mourning the death of Sir
Winston Churchill. The one-
time Axis powers heaped
praise on the unrelenting ad-
- of World War II.
g The Germans and Italians,
Churchill’s great wartime
T WASHINGTON—The whole Yet with so many people in
thing took less than 40 min-
utes. /
Chemical and Wayne who is
currentlv in public school in
Marshall.
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WEATHER
SELMA, Ala. (R — Vio
lence broke out again in the
Negro voter registration cam-
paign in Selma today when a
Negro woman struck Sheriff!
James G. Clark with her fist.
The attack came shortly af-
ter Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. led scores of Negroes to
the courthouse to join an
already long line waiting out-
side the courthouse to apply
for registration.
The Negro woman, who
was not immediately identi-
fied, stepped out of the line
and struck the sheriff Kick-
ing and screaming and at-
tempting to hit Clark and the
two deputies who ran to his
side, the woman was subdu-
'd and taken to jail.
Only moments before, a
WASHINGTON — President
Johnson sends to Congress to-
day the cost estimate for
launching his "Great Society"
— a fiscal 1966 budget ap-
proaching $100 billion.
struggle that toppled their
fascist rulers.
West German Chancellor
Ludwig Erhard said: “The
United Kingdom has lost one
of the great statesmen of its
history, the world a great
fighter for the free democra-
ic order.
Italian President Giuseppe
.'taragat said:" "The glory
which surrounded him in life
will continue to shine from
him even after death and so
tong as there is a free nan
on this earth his name will be
remembered with gratitude "
The Japanese Broadcasting
Corp, flashed Churchill's por-
trait framed in black on its
screen Sunday and played a
few bars of Beethoven’s Fifth
Symphony, the victory theme
of the war.
- Japanese Prime Minister
Eisaku Sato cabled the "deep-
est condolences” of Me gov-
ernment and people and call-
ed Churchill’s death " a great
tou for the whole word "
—
enemies. voiced tribute for -four years and with the Tex-
tile man who sparked the
“Whether my Maker is pre- ,
pared for the odeal of meet
ing me is another matter.”
That was on his 75th birth-
day. 15 years ago. It was a
clear warning he intended to
carry into eternity the same
unflinching attitude he had
on earth toward man and
beast.
Unflinching was one of his
favorite words.
It meant a lot to him all
his life, and as it turned out,
to the Western world and all
mankind For Churchill, a
political failure at 65, by 70
had became one of the great-
est figures in history. — -
How much he had come to
mean was expressed as he
neared his 90th birthday by
C. P. Snow, the British sci-
entist and novelist:
"We all hope he never dies.
I think we have a supersti-
tious feeling that, if he ever
does go, something goes with
him that Britain will not see
again." „ . ■ )
He was saucy all his life,
from his youngest to his old-
est days, always ready with
advice and criticism.
As the world’s tributes
flowed in for the greatest
Englishman of modern times,
friends revealed that he first
started planning his funeral
ceremony during World War
II.
In December 1943, he was
in Cairo after talks with
President Roosevelt and Gen-
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek
and caught a cold which turn-
ed to pneumonia.
Half jokingly he told aides:
“They’ll have to give me a
state funeral. President
Roosevelt will have to come
to London to attend it.”
From this remark grew
Churchill’s "funeral book,”
laying down the procedure he
wanted followed and even de-
tailing the names of military
units which should attend.
• In 1964 he returned to the
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Sir Winston
Ready to Meet
His Maker
WASHINGTON In—"I am
ready to meet my Maker,”
Winston Churchill . s a i d.
Mt pleasant Times
BANK traveler's checks
..____ (Adv) Monday.
WASHINGTON * — The
White House said today Presi-
dent Johnson, making good
progress in recovery from his
heavy cold, is most anxious to
attend -funeral services for
Sir Winston Churchill but may
delay a decision until Wed-
nesday or Thursday.
Press Secretary George E
Reedy said Johnson has im-
proved a great deal. Routine
tests produced normal read-
ings and the President’s tem-
perature was within the nor-
mal range, he said.
There was no word, how-
ever, on when Johnson might
leave the Naval Medical Cen-
ter, at Bethesda. Md., which
he entered early Saturday.
Reedy said Johnson’s doctors
would still like to keep him
in the hospital for a further
period of convalescence.
Asked bout the prospects
for a presidential trip to the
Churchill rites in London Sat-
urday, Reedy said Johnson
wants to go but that * a de-
cision doesn’t have to be made
today or tomorrow.”
David Waters, an assistant
white House press secretary,
STi ehpiodeugttr Anns
car wash, which was held
Saturday, to raise funds for
civic projects.
On the agenda for 1965.
Newman said, was city
beautification in the plan-
ning stage is a beautifica-
tion project on the western
shoreline of Lake Mt. Pleas-
ant to include a picnic area,
camping area and kids’ play*
grpund.
HUI Enochs was in charge
of Jaycee Week activities and
the banquet John Nelson was
master-of-ceremonies for the
program
said that since a 3 a.m: tem-
perature reading of 99.2, sub-
sequent checks of the Presi-
dent have shown normal read-
ings. Waters, reporting on
Pohnson's condition, said that
the doctors characterize his
condition as having improv-
ed "a great deal.”
Two and a half hours be-
fore the word was that the
President’s condition was
quite good and that tempera-
ture readings during the night
were below 100 but above
normal.
Waters said a series of rou-
tine tests were made between
8 and 8 30 this morning and
that the hemoglobin and red
and white blood counts were j
The upcoming city election
Monday became a contested
race for the three seats on
the City Council when the
third and fotrth candidates
filed for places on the April
6 ballot.
Those filing Monday morn
ing with Mrs. Tom B. Coker,
city secretary, were Dave
Hitt, owner of Dave Hitt Mo-
tors, and T. L. Milam, owner
of Milam Glass and Mirror.
Last week R W Ledeen, a
present member of the Coun-
cil, filed for re-election to a
third term. He is the only in-
cumbent thus far to file.
Robert Crooks also filed
last week.
Three positions on the City
Council will be voted in the
election. The three candidates
receiving the highest number
of votes will be elected,
The office of mayor also
will be decided As yet Mayor
Otis McMinn has not announc-
ed whether he will ask re-
election. No other candidates
for mayor have filed.
Terms of Ledeen, Cortez
Boatner and Corbin Merritt
expire this year in addition
to the mayor’s.
ing keep Mt Pleasant a clean
city He also discussed a improvement fund
p3v-
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exercise. Some details inevit-
ably were changed but the
cutline remained, ineluding,a
funeral progress up the
Thames River of the kind ac-
corded in1805 to Admiral
Lord Nelson, hero of Britain’s
naval victories over the
French. *
Determined that everything
should go without a hitch, he
toured the route the cortege
will take. The route is a study
in stone of Churchill’s life.
E,.. +h. hazca whara ha i
r rom me 6 WF-t ktt
spent his last years in Lon-
don, the coffin will go on
Wednesday to Westminister
Hall, the ancient seat of Eng-
land’s freedoms, adjoining the "
House of Commons which was
his stage.
There it will lie in state for
three days. Then through
See FUNERAL, Page 4
As a climax to Jaycee
Week activities in Mt. Pleas-
ant, members of the local
Junior Chamber honored
their employers at a Bosses
night banquet Friday night.
The event was held at the
St. Michael’s Catholic Church
Center. Approximately 50 at-
tended. ,
Main speaker was Sonny
Uzman. a past president of
the Longview Jaycees, whose
topic was "Young Men Can
Change the World."
A review of recent activi
tjes was made by President
James Newman. Jaycees
placed trash barrels at sev-
eral intersections in the city
during the Javcee Week ob-
servance with the aim of help-
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