Mt. Pleasant Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1965 Page: 1 of 8
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Gets Suspended Sentence
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Intervention
Of U Thant
The handsome new build-
ing at 701 N. Jefferson hous-
ing the offices of Mt. Pleas-
ant Savings and Loan will be
thrown open to the public in
an open house Sunday after-
noon from 2 until 5 o’clock.
AUSTIN — The first of a
series of bills to finance a
Sabine River canal has pass-
ed the House. Rep Charles
Wilson of Lufkin said today
WASHINGTON — The Sen-
ate Public Works Committee
Dance, Heimer Body Shop,
Hobbs Plumbing Co., Sanders
Sound Company Beland D.
Davidson and Williams Dis-
Charges Against
Suspect Pending
Charges are pending against
a suspect arrested by officers
in Naples. Thursday in con-
nection with the burglary of
are six steel shelf sections,
each of five levels, plus, at
this writing, eight steel filing
cabinets and a work table,
There is ample room for
more of all three items.
The directors’ room, which
is on the North Jefferson side
Singleton FIna. West High-
way <7, Wednesday night
He was brought to Titus
County jail.
AUSTIN — Judgments to-
taling $395,519 were entered
against 11 defendants Thurs-
day in East Texas slanted oil
well cases.
cient Communistleani
Castroist elements to
the nation into turmoil
the opportumity presen
A .110 automatic pistol was
taken in the breakin after a
door was prised open. The
Mount Pleasant Police De-
partment and Titus County
Sheriff’s Department investi-
gated._______________________
Travel easily, travel safely,
with FIRST NATIONAL
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178 Viet Cong Killed;
53 Captured in Battle
? World
feet away, provides room for
building supplies and houses
the air conditioning equhp-
ment. Tile on the floors of
the rest rooms is green.
An outstanding feature of
the new building is the drive-
in window on the north side.
This may be used by custo-
mers to make deposits, to
make loan payments, or to
pick up deeds, releases, and
other instruments. A micro-
phone assures communica-
tion with customers in their
automobiles, and a lengthy
work area has a formica top.(
In the adjoining work area,
the paneling is mahogany and
the floor covering is beige
vinyl tile. The wall covering
on the walk-in vault is vinyl
and is burnt orange in color.
Paintings to hang on walls
of the offices are planned,
says Walker. He aiso called
attention to landscaping of
the grounds adjacent, utiliz-
ing honeysuckle, dwarf juni-
pers, crape myrtle and other
plants.
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ly interested in the growth
and general welfare of our
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conviction. He is Negro as
well as the victim
When the case was calle
for trial Monday, the defense
applied for a continuance be-
cause of the absence of a wit-
ness The witness, Jodie B
Lester, had failed to -appear
by the third day of trial and
Judge Morris Rolston assess-
ed him a $500 fine
Supt. Byrd Heads
Titus TSTA Unit
Supt. Hugh Byrd was in-
stalled as president of the T-
tus County unit of the Texas
Mt. Pleasant Area
Receives More Rain
Rain was back on the scene
in the Mount Pleasant area
Friday.
Adding to lawns and pas-
tures already soaked with
drenching rains the first part
of the week was .30 of an
inch. This measurement was
up to 1 p.m.
Partly cloudy skies were
on the forecast for Saturday.
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Calf Ropers
Holding Lead
The Calf Ropers were real-
ly riding the range on the
Bulldoggers for new member-
ships in the Chamber of Com-
merce at 1 p.m. Friday with
the contest deadline at 5 o’-
clock.
Gabe Abdnor’s Calf Ropers
had posted 1152 points to 803
for Ed Hord’s Bulldoggers in
the membership campaign
The count stood at 32 for
new members early Friday
afternoon and it appeared
likely that the goal of 50
might be attained.
Teams have been divided
into pairs. The winning team
is to. be treated to a ham-
burger cookout by the losers.
The pair who obtain the most
points will receive four tic-
kets to the Dallas summer
musical of their choice.
New members of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, not pre-
viously reported, are C. A.
Jones Insurance, Leon Wright
Tax Service and Insurance,
DACCA; East Pakistan"-
A hurricane which struck
East Pakistan took at least
200: lives, injured 1,000 per-
sons and left tens of thous-
ands homeless.
. . . the suggestion: Why not
clean up the land which com-
prises our industrial ara?
. . . this citizen says when an
industrial prospect is shown
our industrial areas, he gets
M. Kennedy, and two of his
sisters, Mrs. Stephen Smith
and Mrs. Peter Lawford.
New Sirens For
Fire Department
New sounds .will be coming
from the Mount Pleasant Fire
Department trucks in the fu-
ture.
City Manager Donald B.
Ward said Friday new 10-inch
sirens were being installed on
the department’s two largest
trucks, the Mack 750-GMP
pumpers.
The electric penetrator type
alarms which came with the
trucks in 1981 have not prov-
en loud enough However,
main reason for the change-
over was maintenance cost.
Last year one of the units
costs more to* repair than
original cost, Ward said
■ One new siren has been in-
stalled and delivery on the
other w expected oon. ■
. d ■ Lnaca ■ ......
—This is the new home of Mi. Pleasant
ness in the lobby, in the direc-
tors’ room, in the bookkeep-
ing and records section, and
in the storage vault.
The storage vault, which is
fireproof, embraces almost
ea
egs
VIENNA, Austria — The
foreign’mihisters of the Unit-
ed States, Britain and France
will meet Soviet Foreign Min-
ister Andrei A. Gromyko at
a private dinner party to-
night.
that Rockwall was sane at the
time of shooting Edwards and
sane at time of the trial.
Jurors emerged from their
deliberations on one occasion
to request recorded playback
of testimony of one witness,
Wilma Doss, a state’s wit-
ness -
One of the main arguments
for the defense was that a
blow on the head inflicted on
the defendant three days prior
to the shooting by Edwards
had left Rockwall in a condi-
tion in which he was unable
to distinguish right from
wrong.
S. personnel can leave. They
are all in Santo Domingo or
at the nearby San Isidro Air
Base But their presence
seems enough to discourage
any attempt at a full-blown
revolution.
Around the country it seems
It Says
Here...
Emulating what some of
our advertisers are doing on
other pages of this edition,
we want to extend our con-
gratulations to the MT.
PLEASANT SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION, which
holds open house SUNDAY in
its new building at 701 N. Jef-
ferson . . . this business is
one more chapter in the story
of the growth of MT. PLEAS-
ANT ... in fact, it was past
growth experience, projected
into the future, which made
the ASSOCIATION know it
needed more space . . , so, it
just put up a building to pro-
vide the needed space . . .
this gives us cause to hope
that other of our city’s busi-
nesses, who are outgrowing
their present quarters, may
feel inclined to "go and do
likewise’’ . . . each new build-
ing, each improvement, helps
the appearance of our
city . . .
From a citizen who is deep-
, , , • A,VW udE I-k —1IM SO . Pi •
the feeling he is looking tected by a door which is fire-
a wolf s den . . . the answer. resistant for six hours. Inside
Raise enough money to clean
up the land . . . level it, if
necessary . . . cut the brush
Oklahoma
High Judge
Said Guilty ____
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.
• — Gov Henry Bellmon
began looking today for a re-
placement for a State Su-
preme Court justice found
guilty of accepting bribery
money and ousted from the
office he'’ held for 16 years.
“It is apparent,” said the
governor, "that it is past the
time for reform in the meth-
od of the selection of our state
officials We will take- imme-
diate steps to fill the va-
cancy.” The court is elected
by the people.
Bellmon will appoint a jus-
tice to serve until the Novem-
ber 1966 general election.
Justice Napoleon Bonaparte
Johnson, 74, a Cherokee In-
dian, listened impassively
Thursday as senators, sitting
as a court of impeachment,
answered the roll call on two
bribery accusations. John-
son damnced frequently at
tally sheets kept by his attor
neys as the voting progress-
ed
The roll call followed three
hours of private conference
by the Senate.
"Two-thirds of this court
having voted aye, I declare
rticle one to be sustained
See OKHAMOMA, Page 5
FIRST choice of advertisers
RUNNYMEDE. England I
—On these hallowed fields
of Magna Carta, Queen Eliza-
beth II—with Mrs. John F.
Kennedy at her side—today
dedicated Britain’s memorial
to the late American presi-
dent.
It was a sultry, sunny day
but Mrs Kennedy looked ele-
gant and cool in white.
The solemn ceremonies un-
folded only a short distance
from the spot'where Magna
Carta, with its precious liber-
ties, was signed 750 years ago
With the queen s dedication,
the rectangular, seven-ton
memorial of Portland stone,
and some of the historic
ground immediately around
it, became American prop-
erty.
They were the gift of the
British people to millions of
whom Kennedy was a revered
figure, symbolizing a young
and vigorous America.
Northeast Texas: Mostly
rightt of the entrance from by a wall from the lounge, nomic development bill des-
ths street, is done in mahog- has ample cloak hanger igned to help economically
any paneling It has a ma- space, plus a roomy shelf on distressed artas
in blue and burnt orange, approved today a $665 million
annual public works and eco-
it may be a long time be*
i fore all of the 21,000 or so U.
mony. So did his brothers,
Sens. Robert E. and Edward. Jacquline Traylor School of
cloudy with showers in 80
per cent of area today. Part-
. to cloudy tonight and Satur-
- -day. Low tonight M to 71.
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VOL. NO. 48
‘ Mount Pleasant High School.
d secand vice-president Mrs
■ Orange Justiss, Harts Bluff
■ School, secretary, and Curtis
• Bell. South Ward. treasurer.
: Mrs. Neil Taylor. Wallace
Junior High, is outgoing
~ i president, * 10
By PETER ARNETT
SAIGON, South Viet Nam
t—South Vietnamese forces
said today they killed 178
Viet Cong guerrillas and
captured 53 in a major vic-
tory over two Communist
battalions in the Mekong
Delta
A U.S. military spokesman
confirmed the Communist
losses. He said 18 South
Vietnamese were killed, and
77 wounded in the two-stage
battle which began at dawn
Thursday 135 miles southwest
of Saign and continued until
late Thursday night. Four
Americans were also wound-
ed—two on the ground and
two in helicopters.
The operation netted a big
haul of Viet Cong supplies
and weapons including Soviet-
made rifles and machine
guns from Red China.
The fighting began at 6
a m when a government bat-
talion scouting the swampy
area near Bae Leu ran into
a guerria Three. A recon-
naissance company was flown
in bv helicopter and by 11:30
--•------- .. . . . Spaciousness is the keynote
city comes a suggestion which in the structure — spacious-
A jury found Edd Rockwall
Jr. guilty of the murder of
John Edwards Jr. in October,
1963. and assessed him a five-
year suspended sentence
Thursday.
The all-white, jury compos-
ed of seven men and five
women, deliberated four
hours in reaching the verdict.
Jurors went into the jury
room at 10:25 a'm. and the
verdict was given at 2 25 p.m.
The 76th District Court trial
had been in progress since
Monday.
The jury, of which C. C.
McNeil was foreman, found
UN Security Council
Bids Cease-Fire In
hogany table, with chairs up-
holstered in brown material
and having mahogany arms.
Legs of the chairs are chrome
steel. The floor covering is
white.
This room overlooks a
patio, which is enclosed by
a brick wall, and which is
landscaped with- weeping mul-
berry, Japanese ewe and
caladiums.
The roomy lobby, which
also may be entered from the
Eighth Street side, wher
there is customer parking
space, has a waxed brick
floor of deep brown Chairs
here follow the decorative
scheme elsewhere. Paneling
on the undersides of counters
is walnut.
Desks in the work area are
steel, with cordovan base and
all have matching chrome
legs, as do tables in this
area. A new posting machine,
which provides a daily proof
of the day's business, has
been added. It carries 11
totals simultaneously. The en-
tire bookkeeping system is
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amaauas~.
Removal Of
Troops May
Renew Crisis.
SANTO DOMINGO, Domini-
can Republic IP — U.S. fore- -
es occupied Santo Domingo
with stunning speed and effi-
ciency. Getting out will be a .
much bigger problem.
A consensus of informed
persons, interviewed during
an extended tour of the coun-
try outside the armed camp
which is the capital, is that
the Dominican Republic
would explode if American
forces left suddenly now.
v A eaaatmennee
has entrances from North Jefferson as well as from
Eighth Street. (Times Staff Photo.)
The president’s widow and
Rockwall, a service station his two children, Caroline, 7,
attendant, had no prior felony and John F. Jr.4,came.t
- — Britain to attend the cere-
Savings and Loan, at 701 N. Jefferson, where open
house will be held Sunday afternoon. The building
Open House To Be Sunday
At New Savings and Loan
FIRST in circulation
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(— The U.N. Security Coun-
cil called unanimously today
for a cease fire in the Domin-
ican Republic and asked Sec-
retary-General U. Thant to
send a personal representa-
tive to the strifetom country.
The vote came immediate-
ly after Jordan. Ivory Coast
and Malaysia laid the pro-
posal before the 11-nation
council, which had been call-
ed into urgent session to
deal with the latest violence
in the Dominican Republic.
The secretary general said
he intended to move quickly
to carry out the mandate.
He added that he expects full
cooperation from all concern-
ed and that he will keep the
council fully informed.
The session was called at
the request of the rebel Do-
minican regime, which de-
clared that Santo Domingo
faced immediate risk of des-
truction. The rebel regime
asked for the personal inter-
vention of the secretary-gen-
eral. ”
The representative of the
secretary general was given
the job of reporting to the
council on the situation.
The government of Col.
Francisco Caamano Deno de-
clared that the Organization .
of American States was un-
able to handle the situation
following a bombing of a re-
bel radio station Thursday by
Dominican air force planes.
The U N. Security Council
was called into urgent session
this morning to consider the
communication, which was
signed by Jottin Cury. foreign
minister of the rebel regime.
It was learned that Cury
was critical of both the
United States and the OAS.
Concerning the bombing, he
alleged that the planes were
dispatched with the consent
of the United States.
Diplomatic sources said
Jordan, the Arab nation on
the council, was preparing a
resolution asking the council
to express its deep concern"
over the latest developments
in the Dominican Republic
and requesting a cessation of
all mllitary activities.
machine. .
At the west end of the lobby
are the offices of T. C. Walker
Jr., president, and J. A. Pet-
ty, chairman of the board.
Each has mahogany paneling
and desk, with pull-up chairs
done in green, beige and gold.
The floor is green, a color
picked up in telephone instru-
ments on each desk.
Walker’s office opens into
a hallway which leads to
men’s and women’s rest
rooms, lounge, cloak room
and rear exit to a large park-
ing lot.
The lounge has a stove
and refrigerator combination,
with sink, and a large storage
area overhead. Top of the
work area here is white for-
mica, the same treatment as
on the tops of tables in t h e
d. -0e *n
NEW HOME
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WORK AREA—This is the bookkeeping a nd records section of the new Mt. Pleas-
ant Savings and. Loan Associatiop. Itprovides.. ample room for expansion
(Times Staff Photo) _________ - .
a.m. The Reds were routed,
leaving 39 dead.
Half an hour later a scout
plane spotted a concentration
of Viet Cong about 30 miles
north of the Bac Lieu area.
Two Vietnamese companies
were quickly flown to the
spot.
The Communists put up a
hard fight despite heavy
strikes, by armed helicopters
and fighter-bombers. By late
afternoon the government
flew in a battalion of rein-
forcements.
After fighting finally broke
off, 130 Viet Cong bodies
were counted. The govern-
ment losses all occurred in
the second phase, a U.S.
spokesman said.
A U.S. spokesman said dur-
ing the week of May 2-8 gov-
ernment forces lost 196 kill-
ed, 385 wounded and 120 miss-
ing or captured. Four Am-
ericans were killed and 22
wounded. Viet Cong losses
were put at 365 killed and 90
captured with no estimate of
the wounded_____
State Teachers Association
Thursday.
Other new officers of the
unit are Mrs. Charles Sin-
clair. West Ward, first vice-
president; A. D Taylor.
from the fence rows ... in
short, CLEAN IT UP . . .
then if the prospect wants to
walk through the area, he
won't be in fear of being bit-
ten by a snake, or mayte
stepping into a deep hole
which might be obscured by
the grass and weeds growing
on the land . . . it’s a sug-
gestion, and it sounds
good . . .
DAVID CURREY has been
accepted for summer enroll-
ment at the UNIVERSITY OF
HAWAII and will be off next
month for a summer of study
in that island state . . . nice
wofk, DAVID ... we know
you’ll enjoy the experience,
as well as reap benefits from
it . . .
Headed for MT. PLEAS-
ANT are the REV. and MRS
BILLY R BRAY, who have
been in AFRICA for four
years as missionaries for the
ASSEMBLY OF GOD .. they
have served in LILONGWE,
MALAWI, EAST AFRICA . ..
en route to MT. PLEASANT
they will stop in NAROIBI,
CAIRO, JERUSALEM,
ATHENS, ROME, ZURICH.
AMSTERDAM and at the
WORLD’S FAIR . . . MRS.
BRAY is the daughter of the
REV and MRS B. L. MAN-
NING of MT. PLEASANT.
—WNF
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Mt. Pleasant Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1965, newspaper, May 14, 1965; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1613607/m1/1/?q=%22Texas+Press+Association%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.