Mt. Pleasant Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 71, Ed. 1 Monday, June 14, 1965 Page: 1 of 6
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tinued inside South Viet Nam
against suspected Viet Cong
targets. U.S. Navy and Ma-
rine Corps planes were said
to have flown 118 sorties Sun-
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Troops Ready To
Move From Ft. Riley
KANSAS CITY * — The
Kansas City Star says a ma-
LIGHTNING BOLT
KILLS 7 CATTLE
there into the Dong Xoai con-
flict but the Vietnamese com-
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Grief-torn families, aided
Grande Sunday. Authorities
said identification may be im-
possible.
Brigade have moved to Phuoc
Vinh t protect the airfield
and aircraft there.”
Phuoc Vinh is the main air-
field for the Dong Xoai area
The U.S. paratroopers had
tonight. Low tonight 65 to 70.
High Tuesday M to M.
Safety FIRST - pay by
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WASHINGTON — Navy
Secretary Paul H. Nitze leav-
es today for a week-long visit
of Navy and Marine forces in
and near Viet Nam.
ent
How many men, when they
will go or where, the Star’s
Sunday story said, is not
known and no one in author-
ity will say.
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School Boord To
Meet Tonight
The Mount Pleasant School
Board meets Monday night at
Wallace Junior High School.
Items of business on the
agenda include appointment
of a board of equalization, se-
lection of a school district de-
pository for the next two
years, consideration of bids
on library -rorniture and con-
sideration of bids on a tractor
and mower.
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TEXAS HIGHWAY WASHED OUT—This main highway through sleepy Texas
ranching community of Sanderson was washed away by flash flood that killed
more than a dozen .people and destroy ed 5 homes. An estimated 13-inch rain-
fall flooded a nearby canyon and sent a 15-foot wall of water crashing through
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AT SAFEWAY PICNIC—Ready for “chow time” at Sunday’s picnic of Safeway
Employee Association members and guests are, from left, A. D. Petty, manager
of the Mt Pleasant store; Lanny Sikes of Sherman, formerly of Mt Pleasant,
co-chairman of the hospitality committee; T. W. Wilsford of Sherman,
dent of SEA Parte district; R. J. Meredith of Parte, district manager; an_____
Corbell of Paris, co-chairman of the hospitality committee. (Finis Waggoner
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“We Tan assume only that
all are dead,”' said Terrell
County Sheriff Bill Cooksey.
Officials have counted 15
dead and 35 injured from the
storm, which devastated the
southern section of Sander-
son, a railroad center of 2,-
350 about midway between
San Antonio and El Paso.
Ten of the known victims
were children.
Cooksey said the search
would continue “as long as
World
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MERCEDES, Tex — The
decomposed body of a man
in — Vietnamese rangers
combing a rubber plantation
just north of the shattered
town of Dong Xoai found the
bodies of about 100 govern-
ment troops today, the re-
mains of the 7th Airborne Bat-
talion,a U.S. military spokes-
man announced.
Dong Xoai was reported
quiet but braced for more
trouble from the Viet Cong.
te every-
and say
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sse "get-
“I -went under 5 times,
■ maybe 10 times.
, “I thought I was going to
I die."
i This was the grim story of
i Michael Johnson, 12, as he
told of his brush with death
• in the flash flood that tem-
porarily isolated this south-
i west Texas community Fri-
■ day
। The slender, blond youth,
। speaking from a hospital bed
; at Ft. Stockton, 65 miles north
of here, said:
“We were on the roof of
this motel when it started
cracking all to pieces.
( “Mother said, ‘Michael, get
hold”of Paul.’ I tried to grab
my brother but he was too
far away . . .”
tack some weeks ago, son
GARY, pitched right in and
carried on the business ...
this despite the fact GARY
was, himself, injured in an
automobile .accident shortly
after his father was disabled
.. . at any rate, so well did
GARY carry on that recently
EUGENE GADDIS, the TEX-
ACO consignee, made a spe-
cial trip to the station to com-
pliment the young man . . .
we say nice work, GARY, for
providing living proof that
just being a youngster doesn’t
mean you have to be unre-
Uable , , .
Just as promised, the SAFE-
WAYEMPLOYES ASSOCIA-
TIOf« of the PARIS district
met here Sunday afternoon
at DELLWOOD PARK for a
picnic-type get-together . . .
about 250 members, their
families, and their guests,
gathered, beginning around
noon 1. . activities of the af-
ternoon included a hotly con-
tested softball game, s o m e
WASHINGTON - President
Johnson announced on-the-
spot promotions in Houston,
Tex., Friday for astronauts
Edward H. White II and
James A. McDivitt, but as far
as the Air Force is concerned
officially they are still ma-
jors.
Michelle Eakins, two year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Bart Eakins of Fort
Worth, was found dead in her
bed early Sunday morning.
Besides her parents, she is
survived by one brother, Jes-
sie Bart; and two sisters. La-
Honda and Naomi Jeanette
Other survivors include her
grandmother, Mrs. Pauline
Rhea Eakins, formerly of
Mount Pleasant, and number-
ous other relatives in Mount
Pleasant.
Funeral services are pend-
ing with Ray-Crowder Fu-
neral Home in Ft. Worth.
to press time. Most of the
amount fell in a short period
of time around 9 o’clock and
was accompanied by brilliant
‘ightning displays and thun-
der.
like a
parents, Mr and Mrs John
Wesley Johnson, and the
couple’s five other children,
ranging in age from 5 to 14.
The Viet Cong mounted a
number of attacks and am-
bushes in various parts of
Viet Nam today, all the way
from the 17th Parallel to the
southern tip of the nation.
Ninety American and Viet-
namese planes hammered
targets in North Viet Nam in
a series of separate raids.
Twenty U.S. Air Force jet
bombers escorted by 30 other
jets attacked the Ban Xom
Lom barracks 70 miles south-
west of Hanoi. Five buildings
were reported destroyed and
40 heavily damaged.
Forty-two planes hit three
areas of the Ba Bon army
barracks 60 miles north of
the demilitarized zone, U.S.
early afternoon and, with
nary a change of expression,
observed that “LBJ is mad
at SAFEWAY for employing
JETTON to cater this picnic—
he couldn’t have the astro-
FIRST •
nauts as his guests” . . . ered the bodies of all but
maybe at some future date,
dream to me.”
Swept away by a 15-foot
Targets on Week End
TOKYO — Communist Chi-
nese party chief Mao Tzetung
told an Indonesian official
that Peking is preparing for
its third and fourth nuclear
tests, the Japanese news
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The gauge measured 59 of
an Inch Monday from 7 a m. agency Kyodo said today,
Two-Car Accident
Hospitalizes One
Dennis Ray Daniels, 20, of
701 S. Ude was treated at
Titus County Memorial Hos-
pital Monday morning for in-
juries sustained in a two-car
accident on West Highway
67.
Daniels received a cut lip
and bruised leg when the 1965
Ford he was driving collided
with a 1964 Chevrolet driven
by Evelyn Norman Newsome
of 208 E. 7th.
The accident occurred at
highway’s intersection with
Marvin Street at 8:05 a m.,
said investigating officer Con-
rad Mars. Both cars were
heavily damaged, he added
“weather
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Northeast Texas: Partly
cloudy and a little cooler to-
night and Tuesday. Thunder-
came to Chicago today and
were greeted by a tumultuous
welcome.
McDivitt, a-native of Chi-
' cago, said he felt “very hum-
ble” and added “We were
' just doing our jobs."
, The wives of the astronauts
’ were handed large bouquets
' of red roses when they left
the plane in which the party
flew from Houston
Vice President Hubert H
Humphrey, making the offi-
cial welcome talk at O'Hare
International Airport, said:
“No one is more deserving of
, plaudits than these two great
Americans—astronauts, yes.
but Americans first.”
They were whisked to the
downtown lake front in open
white cars. Waves of cheers
from crowds five deep rolled
along with them.
“When I was a kid in Chi-
cago,” said McDivitt, “I nev-
er dreamed of a day like this
"The last few days make
me feel very humble. We were
I just doing our jobs.”
Thunderstorm Alert
Reports Say #
Funnel Seen
Near City
With Mt. Pleasant in a se-
vere thunderstorm alert area
until 5 o’clock Monday-af-
ternoon, two residents report
ed seeing a funnel pass north
of the city about 9 o’clock
Monday morning.
Mrs. Gus Presley said she
and her husband witnessed
the spectacle.
“It was the first time I
your FIRST
store, had his part of it . . . - - -
he stood visiting with us in the wa" o "ater "ere MIKe s
’ Three places in Mount
Pleasant were1* targets for
burglars Sunday night.
Broken into were Mount
Pleasant High School, the
Greyhound Bus Station on
South .Jefferson Street and
Randy's Malt Shop on West
1st Street.
At the bus station, approxi-
mately $40 was reported to in-
vestigating officers as miss-
Entry was gained by tear-
ing the screen on the window
of the women's rest room and
unlatching the window.
A cigarette machine also
was broken into at the bus
station.
Congress May
Not Adjourn
By Labor Day
WASHINGTON (P — After
more than sixiggntha-of fair-
ly smooth' sailing. Congress
is heading into shoal-infested
waters that may wreck its
plans to adjourn by Labor
Day. ,
Voting rights, union shops,
foreign aid, health care for
the elderly, minimum wages,
closing of some military bas-
es, legislative reapportion-
ment, excise taxes, the anti-
poverty program and pay
raises for military and civil-
ian personnel are among the
snags that lie ahead.
Not even one of the dozen
annual appropriation bills to
finance the government for
the fiscal year starting July
1 has been sent to the Presi-
dent, although most of them
have cleared the House.
Although publicly voicing
confidence that all the neces-
sary legislation can be dis-
posed of by Labor Day, some
congressional leaders already
are considering a summer re-
cess followed by a fall ses-
sion. Such a recess is a dis-
tinct possibility for the House,
which is legislatively in bet-
ter shape than the Senate.
to town, it was “still going
over," and, he added, “I
could still hear the roar "
Phillips said he and his
Kriends in the store also felt
certain that lightning had
struck in the woods north of
there, though there was no
confirmation of this.
The Weather Bureau, in its
warning as reported by the
Associated Press, warned of
hail and damaging winds.
Area covered by the alert
included Mt. Pleasant, Tyler,
Longview, Marshall, Glade-
water and Paris. It also in-
chided Dalls-Fort Worth
area, as well as Wichita
Falls, and extended as far
south as Nacogdoches and
Lufkin.
Rainfall for Mt. Pleasant
and vicinity was measured at
02 of an inch following a
Sunday morning shower.
jor troop movement from Ft and central portions today and
Riley, Kan .--appears immin- — —
SAIGDN, South Viet Nam
Search parties probing
knew. Phillips reported was pulled from the R i o
He added that when he got ~
pletion here.
The Swimsations feature
eight teen age boys and eight
teen-age girls swimming with
synchronised motions. All
swimmers are moving their
arms and legs, in the same
direction at the same time.
The public is invited to the
park dedication which begins
at 3 pm Casey Stengel will
be on hand and win take part
in the 7 pm. dedication pro-
gram A crowd of 10,000 is
4-c-3
had ever actually seen a fun-
nel," Mrs. Presley said. “I
have seen pictures, but never
the actual cloud.”
She said the funnel was
spinning vigorously as it pass-
ed over.
At about this same time,
Darwin Phillips, who was at
the Colley Store about five
north of Mt. Pleasant, said
several people in the store
saw a storm cloud pass over-
head. No actual tornado
touched down as far as he
An estimated $3 or $4 was
reported missing from the
high school, where offices had
been ransacked. A soft drink
machine and peanut vendor
also were broken into.
Entry into the high school
building was made by smash-
ing a window on the west side
first floor from the fire es
cape.
Randy's Malt Shop reported
a quantity of cigarettes stol
en. The back door had been
kicked open.
In addition, officers be-
lieved the same person or per-
sons tore down the driveway
chain at Sinclair Motors on
North Jefferson Street, appar-
ently seeking to take an auto-
mobile There were no cars
missing, however, and no
burglary attempt on the of-
fice reported.
Investigation.of the burglar-
ies was underway by the
Mount Pleasant Police De-
partment. the Titus County
Sheriff's Department and
Texas Ranger R. M Arnold
NORFOLK, Va. — A colli-
stow on a bridge of the $200- -
million Chesapeake Bay
Bridge-Tunnel turned the span
into a flaming death trap to-
day for four persons.
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Swimsations Will
Perform in Omaha
- Special To The Times
OMAHA, Texas. — The
Swimsations of the Tyler
YMCA will perform in Omaha
on June 23. They will be part
of the dedication day pro-
gram for the new $75,000 re-
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A bolt of lightning during
Monday morning’s vioient
electrical thun derstorm
struck and killed seven
registered Herefords under
a hillside tree at the A. C.
Anderson Ranch.
Anderson discovered the
. bodies of the animals at
noon at the ranch, Tamba
Lodge, located about a
mile south of Mount Pleas-
ant and off Highway 271.
Included in the seven
prized animate was a $2000
breeding bull. Also killed
were four cows and two
calves.
The lightning bolt struck
an oak tree, burning off
the bark on both sides and
moved downward to the
cattle. The cattle were not
badly burned, however; on-
ly one showed distinct evi-
dence of a burned area
around its head.
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er cattle were valued at
about $1000.
Army and assorted military
units, continued massive
cleanup operations.
The sheriff’s office said 54
homes, mostly low-cost frame
dwellings, were destroyed.
An additional 36 homes re-
ceived major damage and
106 others had minor dam-
age.
The office said 244 families
sustained losses, 13 trailer
homes were destroyed, and
27 small businesses were
damaged
Astronauts
Are Honored
In Chicago
CHICAGO ( — James Mc-
Divitt and Edward White II,
the Gemini 4 astronauts.
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As the rangers moved
through the French-owned
Michelin rubber plantation a
few nfiles north of Dong
Xoai they found as assort-
ment of grim relics left be-
hind by the Viet Cong, among
them the wreckage of a. US
Anny helicopter and a U.S.
Army man’s identification
tag. ___
U.S. authorities announced
“at the request of the Viet-
namese government, elements
swimming, a session of Bingo,
and finally the piece de re-
sistance — the JETTON-cat-
ered meal of barbecued beef,
chicken, hot biscuits and fried
pies, with a few sundries
thrown in to round out the
menu . . .
They came from TEXAR-
KANA and RICHARDSON;
from ATLANTA and from
GREENVILLE, and no tell-
ing how many other cities
in the district ... the Bingo
winners carried home fishing
tackle, tool boxes, ice cream
freezers, and other prizes ...
the small fry consumed gal-
lons and gallons of bottled
soft drinks, and their elders
laid "waste to well-stocked
tables of food . .
It was all fun, of course,
and BUSTER PETTY, who
manages the local SAFEWAY
rnament 4
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Johnson
He is among 11 persons
listed as missing
BUSTER . . .
There was one tiny mishap
. . , DENISE CLARKSTON,
age 7, fell at the swimming
poof and cut a small gash in
her chin ... she went to a
doctor's office, had the cut
repaired, and was back in a
few minutes, her big brown
eyes shining ... her mother
is MARY J. CLARKSTON,
who'works in the meat de-
partment of the SHERMAN
sore . , .
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