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American Planes Bomb
Giant Bridge in Hanoi
SAIGON UPI _ U. S. plane*
today bombed Hanoi’* giant
Doumer Bridge for the first
time, military spokesmen said.
The bridge Is a one - mile span
leading across the Red River.
The bridge is' a railroad and
road bridge leading from the
heart of the North Vietnamese
capita] northeastward toward
Communist China and is a
major route of supplies for the
Hanoi regime.
American planet have
bombed targets nearby but not
the actual bridge which cross-
es a small island in the Red
River.
U. S. attacks on the North
usually are announced the day
after they are carried out but
Communist broadcasts already
had reported raids on Hanoi to-
day. The broadcasts made no
immediate claims of planes shot
down.
The American Air Force and
Navy planes hit the "steel tria-
ngle" area around Hanoi and
Haiphong Thursday and shot
down two MIG21 jets in a ser-
ies of raids announced previous-
ly.
Marines Have Copter
Shortage In Vietnam
DA NANG, Vietnam UPI — enough only for two.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. [ "We’ll take helicopters from
Wallace M. Greene Jr. said anyone vvho will give them to
today Leathernecks have a ,
helicopter shortage in Vietnam. **?• Greene sa d.
He also said U. S. forces also The Leathernecks long have
been reported short on the
"choppers" the U. S. ground
forces use in spotting and
assaulting Communist units and
in supplying their own troops.
Helicopters often provide the
only communication and trans-
port between the Leatherneck
bastions strung out along the
North . South Vietnam border
to hold back invasion attempts
by units of five North Vietna-
mese divisions.
Greene, making his sixth tour
of the war zone, was aked a-
bout manpower. There are now
about 454,000 troops here and
President Johnson recently ap-
proved toe sending of another
45,000.
Green indicated that might
could use more men than they
have.
The general told newsmen toe
Marines have the equivalent of
five divisions of men i n
Vietnam but have helicopters
Charge Filed
After Wreck
A Port Lavaca man was filed
on in city court here Thursday
for failure to yield the right of
way after an accident at the in-
tersection of Hunt and Broad-
way Streets.
Frank Burns, 52, of Port La-
vaca was driving west on East
Broadway and William Sedia-
cek, 58, of Cuero, was crossing
Broadway on Hunt Street.
Bums allegedly failed to ob-
serve a traffic light at toe inter-
section which was in favor of;
Sedlacek.
Policeman Pete Anzaidua said)
there were no personal injuries;
and damage was mbderatc.
not be enough.
"We could get on with the job
more quickly if we had addition-
al troops," he said.
The general indicated his
Marines might once more push
into the southern half of the six-
mlle-wide Demilitarized Zone
DMZ on toe border to clear out
Communist buildups in the so-
called neutral zone.
“You aren't going Into toe
DMZ without casualties. You
just have to measure: Are the
results worth toe effort?”
Asked about invading North
Vietnam, Greene said, "Speak-
ing from a purely military point
of view, it would be desirable
to hit aqy enemy target ...we'd
like to get at the enemy.’
But he said It depends on what
the North Vietnamese do and
on toe political as well as the
military situation. "You’ve got
a political and military prob-
lem here,” he said.
With toe ground war at a
virtual standstill the emphasis
shifted to the air and to
Communist terror attacks in the
south apparently aimed at dis-
rupting the forthcoming general
elections.
Saigon police disclosed today
they had arrested the Viet Cong
saboteur who masterminded the
1965 explosion that killed 30 per-
sons in the My Canh floating
outdoor restaurant in toe Saig-
on River. They said he was
planning to blow up a five •
story American officers' billet
in Saigon.
The bridge across toe Red
River is barely 1.7 miles from
the center of Hanoi but its
approaches cut through heavily
populated districts.
Riots said they scored at
least four direct hits and sent
toe center span crashing into
toe Red River.
**A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY”
3 he (Euero
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Partly Cloudy
Partly cloudy. Chance of
showers Friday afternoon and
not quite so warm Temps. 75-
96 for Cuero, Yorktown and
Yoakum.
Im a
SW” 8*
VOL. 73 — NO. 188 CUERO, TEXAS 77954. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1967
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PART TIME ASSASSIN
MANILA — Police arrested an
artificial flower salesman Thur-
sday and said he moonlighted
as a member of a Communist
assassin squad. The suspect was
charged with the kidnap-slay-
ing of a vilage officia and his
reatives.
VFW Plans
Membership
Campaign
Plans were made for a family
night barbecue to kick off a
1968 membership campaign at
a meeting of the Cuero Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars Thursday
night.
The fete will be held Thurs-
day, Aug. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Chisholm Trail Hall for
VFW members only, in good
standing, and their immediate
families.
Prizes will be awarded as fol-
lows : lounge chair, electric
blanket, and transistor radio.
New members accepted
Thursday night included Fred
T. Mugge and Richard Camp-
bell.
Quartermaster Charles E. Kil-
patrick requested members
that have been affiliated with
other VFW posts, compile
information with dates of mem
bership and send it to him to
ascertain eligibility for service
pins and other awards.
Rebels Take Over
Americans Flee
From Nigeria
PFC. JOHHNY R. RAGLAND,
soa of Mr. and Mrs. George
Ragland, Sr., of Cuero, wan re-
cently home on a 45-day leave
after serving In Long Bend,
15 miles from Saigon, for one
year. He left Tuesday, Aug.
S. for a new assignment at Fort
Hood. He has the First In-
fantry, First Log Command
Viet Nam Nation Defense
patches.
LAGOS, Nigeria UPI — Hun-
dreds of Americans today fled
Nigeria's midwest region fol-
lowing its takeover by rebel for-
ces. The secesionist eastern reg-
ion expanded the war to toe
northern region with a one -
plane air attack on Kdauna city
Thursday.
Approximately 300 Ameri-
cans, including Peace Corps
workers, had been in the mid-
west region which neighbors the
breakaway east just across the
Niger River. British offic 1 a 1 a
said they would evacuate a-
bout 50 British citizens in toe
area.
Two boatloads of evac-
uees left tot midwestem reg-
ion Wednesday.
A federal spokesman in Lagos
conceded Thursday It would be
a "fair assessment” to say toe
rebels had complete control of
toe midwest The spokesm a n
said more federal troops would
be sent to the midwwst to try
(Sea NIGERIA, Page •)
$495 Given
To Troop’s
Fund Drive
Recent donations to the Build
ing Fund of Boy Scout Troop
No. 243 have amounted to $495.
Donors who have contributed
this latest amount are: Lone
Star Textiles, Inc., Guadalupe!
Division, $100; Graham Hamil-
ton, $25; Mr. and Mrs. Elg i n
Poth, $30; Mrs. C. T. Traylor,
$250. Mrs. Ema Koehler, $100.
The Scout Area being devel-
oped In North Cuero Is pro-
gressing very good and should
be completed within two
months. Anyone wishing to con-
tribute to this project can mall
their donations to Boy Scout
Troop No. 243 Building Fund,
P. 0. Box 583, Cuero. All don-
ors will be recognized with the
inscription of their name or bus-
iness on a Donors Plaque to
be displayed in a prominent
place within toe Scout Hut.
Tickets are now on sale tor
the Dedication and Apprecia-
tion Supper to be held Saturday
Sept. 9th, beginning at 5 p.m.
A campfire program will fol-
low the supper. Tickets can be
purchased from any Scout mem-
ber of Troop No. 243 committee-
men, or Mother'sAuxiliary mem-
ber of Troop 243.
School Tax Rate
Hiked 10 Cents
$1,185,408
New Budge!
Is Adopted
By Sen. Dirksen
Veto Power for Congress
Asked on Red Bank Credits
WASHINGTON UPI — Senate
^publican leader Everett M.
irksen proposed today that
ingress give itself a veto over
e President’s discretionary
iwer to approve certain
eport - Import Bank credits
r Communist trade.
The Illinois lawmaker sought
Senate approval tor an amend-
ment to the pending Import
Bank Bill. It would give either
House of Congress 60 days to
approve loans proposed under a
presidential determination that
toe financing was in the nation-
al interest.
The Export - Import Bank
Commie Chinese Clamp
Martial Law on Canton
4G KONG UPI — Hong
newspapers today said
lunist Chinese authorities
«d martial law on Canton
iet tens of thousands of
Guards and workers who
molten steel as a weapon
mbushed ambulances to
ie wounded during a dusk-
m battle.
Peking Radio said Defense
Minister Lin Piao, Chairm a n
Mao Tse-tung’s apparent heir,
again appealed to the nation’s
armed forces to stand firmly
behind Mao.
Travelers from Canton said
workers splashed molten steel
an the Red Guards in the
(8m COMMIE, Page •)
BUI would extend the life of the
bank five yean and increase its
lending authority from $9 bil-
lion to $13.5 billion.
That authority was reduced
somewhat Thursday when the
Senate approved an amendment
which would prohibit bank loans
to nations supplying North
Vietnam or any other nation
involved with the United States
was 56 to 26.
The amendment was propos-
ed by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-
Va., who led a successful drive
last year to bar foreign aid
to nations whose ships traded
with the North Vietnamese.
Earlier the Senate voted down
a Dirksen amendment which
would have forbidden Ex-Im
Bank credit for sales or rentals
where the products involved
were to be used in Communist
nations. The vote against Dirk-
(8m BEN. DOUUEN, Page f)
Mrs. Birch
Arraigned
LOS ANGELES UPI - Mrs
Pearl Choate Birch, ex-convict
widow of millionaire philanth-
ropist Albert Otis Birch, was
arraigned Thursday in superior
court on two counts of assault
with intent to commit murder.
Mrs. Birch, 60, was arrested
July 13 and charged with fir-
ing a rifle shot which narrowly
missed a police officer and an-
other person at a duplex she
owns at nearby Compton.
Judge Richard Schauer, who
presided at the arraignm e n t,
•et Aug. 24 for arguments on
a motion to dismiss toe charg-
es on grounds of insuffici e n t
evidence.
Mrs. Birch, a practical nurse,
currently is involved in a court
battle for her late husband’s es-
tate, which was estimated at
between $250,000 and $10 mil-
lion.
SWEARING IN CEREMONIES — Seaman
Apprentice Lnnra lane Leggett of Cuero was
sworn in Thursday morning by Department of
Texas Commander BUI Naml ns a member of
IMnter American I-eg Ion Post S. She was the
first woman service veteran of the Vietnam
war period to join the post.
KEPT CHECK
MIAMI UPI — Mrs. Peggy
Just got a $9,999,999 check on
her birthday Tuesday, but she’ll
never be able to cash it.
Mrs. Just, who was expecting
$48 from the County Welfare
Board, advised it of the outsize
“gift.” The board invalidat e d
the big check, but let Mrs. Just1 mockery,
keep it as a souvenir. Javlts bluntly
Cuero Man Critically
Hurt in Auto Wreck
The condition of a Cuero man
injured in a one-car accident on
the Yoakum highway Thursday
night is listed as critical Fri-
day in a Cuero hospital.
A San Antonio neuro-surgeon
was scheduled to be in Cuero
Friday afternoon to examine
the head injuries of Elroy An-
ton Gawlik.
A hospital spokesman said) The auto failed to negotiate a
Gawlik, 24, has a 50 percent' curve and crashed through sev-
chance of recovering, although) era! fences and overturned in a
“you can never tell a bout! field.
head Injuries.” | The use of a seat belt pos-
Gawlik also suffered a frac- j sibly saved Gawlik from being
tured arm, which was pinned | killed at the scene, according
under the overturned auto, and; to Highway Patrolman Hugh
lacerations. 1 Poage. He said Gawlik would
The accident occurred about ■ probably have been thrown
10 miles from Cuero on the from the auto without the seat
Yoakum highway at 8:30 p.m. belt.
LBJ Asked To Support
Viet ‘Free Elections’
David Vera of Yoakum was
killed at the same location in a
similar one-car accident in De-
cember 1963, when he was
thrown from a car that over-
turned.
A Cuero School District tax
increase discussed in July as
the possibility of five cents was
passed Thursday night by too
board of education, but at dou-
ble the originally proposed sche-
dule for a ten cent, increase to
bring the coming fiscal taxing
rate to $1,35.
lie "l*: The new tax rate was passed
by the hoard to ease an' adopt-
ed tight $1,185,408 budg'd that
allow'ed only $1,000 in contmgen-
| cies.
"None of us are In favor of
a tax raise, if there was any
other way to operate, we would
not do it,” Mrs. Jack Wallis,
board president said after the
ij tax increase was decreed.
1 The entire ten-cent increase
will go into the local mainten-
I »nce fund, plus eight cents tak-
en from the Interest and sink-
ing fund for $1.18 of the tax
rate. Last year’s rate for local
maintenance was $1.
The eight-cents borrowed from
the interest and sinking fund
schedule of last year brings It
down from 25 cents to 17 cents.
Reasons given for the raising
of the rate were that the teach-
ers were given a $630 raise by
the state, of which the district
had to participate at a cost of
approximately $20,000 and the
capital outlay program where
$44,000 was allocated to pay the
remainder of the new 6,000 cap-
acity football stadium.
Another increase in the cost
of operation was the addition of
an occupational class at the
Junior School at a cost of $16,-
290.
New Superintendent Jo#
Ward, who sat in on last night’s
meeting, told the board that
the junior scliool occupational
classes were of two-fold bene-
fit.
"It is designed mostly for ths
child that will not continue his
education past the junior school
Gawlik recently moved from ievel. The program will make
Cuero to Port Lavaca where he that child productive for the
WASHINGTON UPI — Sen.1 South Vietnamese leaders
and
Robert F. Kennedy and Sen.
Jacob K. Javits today urged
President Johnson to warn
South Vietnam that toe United
States will reconsider its
military support unless truly
free election* are held in!
September.
The two New York Senators, j
in prepared Senate speeches,1
joined 57 House Democrats who1
told the President Thursday
that the United States should
take a new look at Its Vietnam |
policy if the elections become a
is employed by Alcoa at Point
i Comfort. He was on a break
from the port plant visiting
community, because he is us-
ually the one that will stay
here. And it will take him out
candidates must be placed on j hen- with h i s mother. Mrs. | Qf some of the advance acad-
notice that free elections re- Adele Gawlik. He returned from j emic classes and allow them to
move faster,” he said.
Only 50 percent of the stud-
(See SCHOOL BOARD. Page •)
present "the last clear chance"! four years in the Navy and
for fulfilling the conditions un-1 duty in Vietnam earlier this
(See LB.I, Page #) year.
declared the
To Educate Them
Texas Gets Grant for
Migratory Children
U.S. Representative Abraham
"Chick” Kazen, Jr. of toe 23rd
Congressional District of Texas,
announced today that the De-
partment at Health, Education
and Welfare has approved a
$2,547,715 grant for education
of migratory children in Texas.
The grant was authorized un-
der Title of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act
of 1965. Of the $2,547,715 grant,
$2,455,351 will be used for edu-
cation of migratory children,
ten%akL
Mr. Kazen <
A total amount
of $92,364 will be allocated to
training of teachers of migra-
tory children, he said.
Controlling agency for the
funds will be the Texas Educa-
tion Agency In Austin. Forty-
one migrant schools are involved
in the proejet. Mr. Kazen stated.
Title I funds are awarded for
elevation of education for chil-
dren from low income families.
Funds are distributed through
educational systems making ap-
plications to the federal gov-
ernment for grants.
Widespread Fighting
Breaks Out In China
HONG KONG UPI — Savage (hundreds of terrified passen- > night in search of victims. The
fighting between pro-and anti- j gers. Evening Post said Foochow city
Mao Tse-tung elements has! Murder Squads ! was terrorized at night by
spread from Kwangtung pro-! The independent Hong Kong! plunderers, robbers and rapists,
vince into Fukien province j newspaper Ming Pao said
opposite Formosa and turn e d ! Communist murder squads
the provincial capitals of Can- from rival political factions are
ton and Woochcav in cities of ter- roaming the city of Canton at
ror, Hong Kong newspapers re-
ported today.
The newspapers, quoting
travelers from the area, said a
battle between Red army troop*
and fanatic Red Guard Mao
supporters in Canton killed
more than 200 persons this
month and that clashes in Fuk-
ien province between workers
and Red Guards killed 1,000 per-
sons in July.
The latest clash was reported
only Wednesday in Canton. The
right wing New Life Even-
ing Post and the Nam Wah Man
Po said Red Guards and railway
officials lost 20 dead in a fight
at the railway station before1
The rightwing English lato
guage afternoon tabloid Star
added new details to provincial
(See CHINA, Page t)
Castro Warns U. S. To
Leave Stokely Alone
HAVANA UPI - Cuban Pre-
mier Fidel Castro warned the
United States Thursday night to
keep its hands off U. S. Negro
militant Stokely Carmichael
when he returns home or face
“a profound repercussion.”
Castro delivered a final
address to the delegates at the
Cuban - sponsored Latin Amer-
ican Solidarity Organization
IOLAS. In his speech, Bib
| Cuban premier had greet praise
1 for Carmichael and accused the
U. S. Central Intelligence Agen-
cy CLA of sending agents to
Cuba to assassinate him.
"If any crime is committed
against Carmichael, it will
have a profound repercussion,"
Castro said. "Ojr solidarity can
(*m CASTRO. Page 8)
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