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Arctic Air Stabs Deep Into Texas
TOWN
PAVB
WE SPENT A WONDERFUL
weekend camping out at Bal-
morhea Lake recently. We rent-
ed a small camping trailer here
and set up on the far side of
the lake behind the salt cedars
in a sort of private little nook.
It was the first time we had
tried such an adventure and it
was tremendous. The little one
was out-of-doors most of the
time (once she got used to the
idea that we were really going
to stay in the little trailer over-
night). Normally a light eater,
for breakfast Sunday she ate
two eggs, a sausage, piece of
bread and a glass of milk. (The
wife and I didn’t do too bad,
either.)
But the most wonderful part
of the weekend was being able
to be alone with your thoughts,
relaxing In the peace and quiet
atmosphere of the lake in the
early evening and then watching
the wonders of nature.
You don’t have to travel clear
across the country to enjoy won-
derful scenery and pleasant areas
... all you have to do is travel
a few miles.
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Weather
SOUTHWEST TEXAS:
Clear to partly cloudy
Friday. Colder today
and tonight. Lows to-
night 26 to 40.
5 Cents per Copy
Kermit, Texas, Thursday, March 18, 1965
Member Associated Press
Northerly Wind Russ Space Ship
Orbiting 2 Men
H WE CHUCKLED MANY times
watching the ducks go running
across the water at the first
A sound of people approaching.
“ And we gazed with pleasure at
the many huge turtles perched
so happily on the branches of
the salt cedars at the water’s
edge.
And we looked with wonder at
^ the beautiful landscape brilliantly
™ lit by moonlight. The dim light
showed us the rolling plains,
covered with their low brush,
reaching up toward the hills and
mountains in the distance and
those peaks seemed to tower into
the sky where they touched the
brilliantly twinkling stars.
Yes, we enjoyed our weekend
at the lake.
AND SPEAKING OF LAKES,
we hear the fish (white bass)
have really been biting up at
Red Bluff.
J. M. Lipham and Earl Adams
told us they were there Monday
and caught a mess of fish. S. E.
(Gene) Burnett caught some Sun-
day, we understand, and several
others have also brought home
pretty good catches from the
same lak*. *’
Numbs State;
Kermit’s Low:31
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Light snow fell Thursday in
the Texas Panhandle and the
snow area was expected to
spread somewhat during the
day.
The snow came from a numb-
ing norther that swept across
all of Texas.
Temperatures fell to 11 de-
grees at Dalhart and 13 at Am-
arillo.
Other overnight lows included
NEXT TIME YOU GO fishing
and bring home a catch, let every-
one in on the information. Give
us a call and let us tell all the
fishermen in the area where the
big ones are located.
AND BY THE WAY, Happy St.
Patrick’s Day to all of you Irish-
men. Hope you liked our green
Shamrock.
WE HAD AN ACCURATE meas-
urement of the wind velocity dur-
ing Tuesday’s sandstorm in Ker-
mit .. . thanks to officials at
Kermit State Bank.
The wind recorded on their
new wind gauge was 54 miles
per hour at the peak.
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NEV H. WILLIAMS, retired
Sun publisher, is almost ready
to stay at home.
He just returned from a trip
west (Las Vegas) and he told
us that from the time he left
El Paso going West, until he
reached Las Vegas, it rained on
him. While in that fabulous city
it cleared up for a couple of
days but then it started raining
on him again on the way home.
And to top it all off, he came
home during Tuesday’s sand-
storm.
We knew he should have stayed
home, anyway.
WE WOULDN’T INSIST that
this story fits any people in
Kermit, but it does sound
familiar:
The patient called her dentist
for an emergency appointment.
“I’m in agony,” she said. “I’ve
got to get relief or go crazy.”
Said the obliging dentist, “If
you are having such pain, we could
work you in this afternoon.”
“Make it tomorrow,” said the
woman. “I’m going to a bridge
game this afternoon.”
HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED
to think what Kermit has to of-
fer? The finest medical facilities
and practitioners to be found
anywhere . . . First-rate busi-
ness establishments . . . excel-
lent schools and churches . . .
Low taxes from city, county and
school district . . . Fair-minded
public officials . . .
And the list could go on and
on.
When you stop to think about
it, there certainly are a lot of
good reasons to live in Kermit,
aren’t there?
Death Stay Granted
AUSTIN (AP) — Gay. John
Connally has granted a two-
month stay of execution to May
19 for Edwin Bertsch, under
death sentence in the shotgun
slaying of his daughter, 18.
Dist. Atty. Wallace Barber of
Fayette County said Bertsch’s
appeal is pending before the
Court of Criminal Appeals.
Blizzard
Strikes
East .
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A violent blizzard raged over
much of the eastern two-thirds
of the country today, dumping
deep snowfalls blown by gale-
'"V. into mammoth
drifts.
The storm made its debut on
St. Patrick’s Day, one of the
zaniest days of weather for a
March 17 in history.
As the weatherman put it, * 'it
was a goofy day.”
And spring officially begins
Saturday.
Tornadoes struck in Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, North
Carolina, Illinois and Indiana,
injuring at least 55 persons and
causing extensive property
damage.
It was 40 years ago today —
March 18, 1925 — that the worst
tornado in United States history
swept through Missouri, Illinois
and Indiana, killing 689 persons,
injuring 2,000 and leaving more
than $16 million in property
damage.
The Duluth, Minn., and Super-
ior, Wis., area was struck by a
13-inch snowfall Wednesday
leaving an accumulation of 40
inches on the ground. All Duluth
area roads were closed. City
bus service was suspended.
St. Cloud in central Minnesota
reported 33 inches of snow on
the ground. More than 200
schools were closed.
Lubbock 25, Alpine and Wichita
Falls 27, Midland 29, Abilene 30,
San Angelo 31, Dallas 32, Waco
and Texarkana 35, Austin 38,
San Antonio 41, Del Rio 43, Vic-
toria 47, Beaumont 50, and Gal-
veston 58.
Propelled on winds up to 20
miles per hour, snowflakes pelt-
ed the northern two-thirds of the
Panhandle. They brought only
traces of badly needed mois-
ture. Generally there wasn’t
enough snow to cover the
ground.
The gusty cold front made it-
self felt keenly as it put to rout
mild weather which had herald-
ed the official arrival of spring
—due Saturday, according to
the calendar.
Weather Bureau observers ex-
pected the snow to continue in
the Panhandle-Plains sector and
Selma Police Jail
36 White Clerics,
2 of Them Women
A waning winter struck
back bitterly today over most
of the nation and the Kermit-
Wink-Jal area got a sub-
freezing share.
FAA weather observers at
the Winkler County Airport
reported Thursday’s mini-
mum temperature as 31 de-
grees. The mercury is ex-
pected to dip even lower by
Friday morning.
The chill here was marked
in the wake of a spring,
like high Wednesday of 74
degrees. Brisk winds which
reached gusts up to 38 miles
per hour aggravated the bite.
to spread into the north edge
of North Central Texas this eve-
ning.
Forecasts called for sub-freez-
ing temperatures to hang on at
least through Friday, predicting
overnight readings down to the
low 20s over much of the state’s
northern half, to about 24 in the
southwest and around 32 else-
where.
Blustery winds kicked up dust
in western areas of the state as
the front was passing late
Wednesday.
Accenting the difference in
temperatures behind and ahead
of the cold air mass, top marks
Wednesday afternoon ranged
from 36 degrees at Dalhart up
to 88 at Laredo.
Life of Exile Ends:
Death Takes Playboy
Ex-King of Egyptians
ROME (AP) — Ex-King Far- and in his wallet 97,000 lire
ouk of Egypt, the fat, fun-loving $155).
playboy exiled by military revo- Farouk was married twice,
lution in 1952, collapsed in a His first marriage to Farida
Rome restaurant early today Zulfikar was dissolved in 1948
and died on the way to a hospi- after she bore him three daugh-
tal. He was 45. ters but no sons. Only males
A doctor tried to stimulate could succeed to Moslem
Farouk’s failing heart with in- Egypt’s throne,
jections and oxygen, but he died In 1951 Farouk marriedNarri-
as the ambulance pulled up at man Sadek, 19, the daughter of
the gate of Rome’s San Camillo an Egyptian civil servant. He
Hospital. had seen her first in a jewelry
He had been one of the more store when she was shopping for
colorful kings of modern times, a wedding ring with her fiance,
a lusty bon vlvant who spent Zaki Hashem, an Egyptian
fortunes on pleasure when he employe at the United Nations,
wore the crown in a land of pov-
erty. Queen Narriman in January
The revolution that threw him 1952 bore a son who was pro-
out after 15 years eventually claimed King Fuad n six
brought Gamel Abdel Nasser to months later after his father
power. Farouk left Egypt abdicated. Farouk took the baby
aboard the white and gilt royal into exile with him, and the
yacht “Mahroussa,” but he had monarchy ended a year later
to return it to the revolutionary when Egypt became a republic,
government. Farouk was the descendant of
Farouk was dining after mid- an Albanian adventurer who
night with a woman at a plush founded the dynasty under the
French restaurant on the edge Ottoman Empire in the 19th
of Rome. He had just finished a century.
rich meal of oysters, roast His father, King Fuad I, died
lamb, cake and fruit when he in 1936 and Farouk succeeded
pitched forward on the table. him under a regency at the age
At the hospital, attendants of 16. A year later he assumed
found on his person a 6.35-caL the throne,
iber Italian automatic pistol and Once on the throne Farouk
a pair of the dark sunglasses developed a fondness for worn-
that he habitually wore. On his en, gambling and night clubs,
finger was a gold wedding ring He grew heavy.
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Police
took 36 white ministers, two of
them women, into custody in the
first arrests of civil rights dem-
onstrators in this racially trou-
bled city in two weeks.
The ministers attempted to
picket the home of Mayor Jo-
seph T. Smitherman Wednes-
day. Taken to jail in a yellow
school bus, the ministers were
charged with parading without
a permit and released on $200
bond each.
The picketing attempt fol-
lowed another march by about
Judge Paves
Way for
Race March
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)
— A federal judge has cleared
the way for a 50-mile civil rights
march from Selma to in a two-
pronged ruling sharply critical
of state police measures.
Not only did U.S. Dist. Judge
Frank M. Johnson Jr. forbid
state and county officials from
interfering with the march, he
ordered Gov. George C. Wallace
and Col. A1 Lingo, commander
of the state troopers, to provide
protection for the demonstra-
tors.
Johnson ruled Wednesday that
Negroes demanding equal vot-
ing rights have a constitutional
right to march peaceably along
the highway to dramatize their
grievances. Among those pro-
hibited from interfering with the
march was Sheriff James G.
Clark of Dallas County, who has
made thousands of arrests in
Selma demonstrations.
He said police brutality
served but one purpose — to
stop Negroes from attempting
to register as voters and from
marching through the streets to
protest against discrimination.
700 demonstrators from Brown’s
Chapel A.M.E. Church, head-
quarters of civil rights march-
ers, to the Dallas County Court-
house.
The demonstrators locked
arms and marched two abreast
Wednesday to the green, three-
story courthouse, where they
sang and displayed signs for
more than half an hour.
They stood in intermittent
rain and gusting winds. Some
carried umbrellas and wore
is? .coats.
The march was the third at-
tempted in two days to protest
voter discrimination. Local offi-
cers halted two attempts Tues-
day.
Hosea Williams, an aide to
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ne-
gro intergration leader, said
Wednesday’s march was made
“to express our determination
to take part in self-govern-
ment.”
Wilson Baker, Selma public
safety director, stood in the
street half a block from the
courthouse while the demon-
strators sang and prayed. City
police cordoned off the march-
ers from white spectators.
Among the group of ministers
arrested in the picket attempt
on Smitherman’s red brick
house were Rabbi Joseph Cum-
biner of Berkeley, Calif., who
formerly headed a church in
Selma for eight years, and Har-
ry G. Boyte of Selma, a field
worker for the Student Nonvi-
olent Coordinating Committee.
Baker was obviously irked by
the ministers’ actions.
“I consider this a march by a
silly bunch of idiots,” he said.
“They have stated that they
feel someone else must die and
that there must be more vio-
lence in Selma to bring this
movement to a climax,” the
public safety director said.
Baker obviously was referring
to the death of the Rev. James
H. Reeb, 38, Universalist minis-
ter from Boston, who was fatal-
ly injured in a beating on a Sel-
ma street last week. Four white
men have been charged with
murder in the slaying.
England Fails
With Russians
On Viet Peace
LONDON (AP) — Britain
and the Soviet Union have
failed in secret diplomatic
exchanges to agree on joint
action to halt the Viet Nam
war, the British Foreign Of-
fice disclosed today.
Releasing draft messages
proposed by each govern-
ment, the Foreign Office said
the exchange was undertaken
as part of Britain’s atttempt
to seek a basis on which ne-
gotiations might be initiated.
Southerner
Calls King
'Racketeer'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
John Williams, D-Miss., says
the Negro Martin Luther King
is “A godless individual who is
not interested in religion,” “The.
most notorious racketeer in
America” and “The most
dangerous Man in America.”
He joined Alabama congress-
men Wednesday in a general
discussion of voting rights legis-
lation sent to Congress by Presi-
dent Johnson in the wake of
civil rights demonstrations in
Alabama.
Williams told the House: “I
have information on good au-
thority that the Justice Depart-
ment knows this man (King)
is an immoral individual.” But
he said the department refused
to make available to any con-
gressman its files on King.
The Mississippi congressman
also charged that the radio,
press and television have
‘ 'pointedly distorted” news from
Alabama and Mississippi as
part of a double standard in
reporting racial news from the
South and the North.
Rep. George Andrews, D-Ala.,
said “imported troublemakers”
were responsible for issuance
of federal court injunctions,
having some heads knocked and
getting miles of television film
taken.
“My information is that nine-
tenths of the demonstrators and
marchers in Selma have no in-
terest whatever in registering,”
Andrews said.
Red Cosmonaut
Leaves Craft
In Mystery Feat
MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union claimed another great
stride in the space race today, announcing that a cosmonaut
for the first time had stepped out of a two-man space ship in
orbit and then returned to it.
Soviet television stations showed a film of the feat with the
curve of the earth and the blackness of deep space visible in
the background.
Tass, the Soviet news agency, announced that Lt. Co. Alexei
Leonov, 30, copilot of the space-ship Voskhod 2, went 5 meters
U.S. Open
For Deal
With Hanoi
(16.4 feet) from the capsule. He
apparently was attached to it by
a line or cable.
The official announcement
said he made observations and
then returned safely to the ship.
He was wearing a special “au-
tonomous life-support” suit, the
announcement said.
With him in Voskhod 2 was
Col. Pavel Belyayev, 39, the
flight commander. Tass said a
WASHINGTON (AP) — The powerful rocket sent them into
United States is willing to halt orbit at 10 a.m. (2 a.m. Eastern
its bombing attacks on North Standard Time) and Leonov
Viet Nam if Hanoi will stop stepped from the capsule 90
sending troops and arms into minutes later, at the end of the
South Viet Nam, State Depart- ship’s first orbit of the earth,
ment authorities have told a “He successfully carried out
conference of private citizens the range of prescribed studies
meeting here the past two days, and observations and safely re-
The officials said the security turned to the ship. Outside the
and independence of South Viet ship and after returning to the
Nam are not negotiable, but ship, Leonov feels well,” Tass
that if North Viet Nam will said.
abandon its assistance to the “Leonov’s emergence into
Viet Cong guerrillas fighting in outer space, his work outside
the South, the United States will the ship and return to the ship
cease air strikes against north- were transmitted to the earth
ern bases. by means of the ship’s television
So far the Vietnamese have system and observed by a net-
given no indication they are work of ground stations,” Tass
willing to deal on any such reported,
terms. The prospect, therefore, Moscow television showed a
is said to be that the bombing film of Leonov floating next to
attacks will not only continue the spacecraft, apparently at-
but will hit targets progressive- tached to it by a line to prevent
ly closer to Hanoi. his floating away.
The policy conference brought He was wearing a bulky suit
together several hundred repre- and heavy helmet. What looked
sentatives of private organiza- like cylinders of oxygen were on
tions with membership in all his back,
parts of the country. Such meet- The cosmonaut did somer-
ings have been held periodically saults in space and floated in a
at the State Department for sev- loose, relaxed-appearing man-
eral years. ner of weightlessness.
The conference this time was Voskhod 2 is the Soviet Un-
addressed by Vice President ion’s second group-manned
Hubert H. Humphrey, Secretary flight. It came five days before
of State Dean Rusk and other the United States is scheduled to
policy officials and intelligence launch its first in the Gemini
experts.
City’s Finances Detailed
Manager Says Fund $12,000
Short of Estimated Income
Kermit’s municipal general
fund expenditures are almost
$12,000 over the current budget
and the general fund is more
than $12,000 short of estimated
receipts.
This was the report of City
Manager James C. Morgan to
the City Council and released
today.
The financial statement covers
the period from Oct. 1, 1964
through Feb. 28, 1965 or five
months of the current fiscal year.
A detailed statement was sup-
plied councilmen and Mayor G. L.
(Jerry) McGuire.
Morgan explained that general
fund expenditures are over the
budgeted amount mainly because
of a $10,682 contract with Jones
Brothers Dirt & Paving Con-
tractors for seal-coating several
streets.
A slack in garbage revenue
and collection of ad valorem
taxes account for the fund being
$12,000 short of estimated re-
cepts, Morgan noted. Garbage
revenue had been estimated at
$27,500 whereas the actual in-
come was $22,260.
In delinquent tax collections,
$9,700 was estimated but income
of only $2,800 has been received,
the city manager reported.
On the brighter side, Morgan
said water and sewer expendi-
tures had been some $2,700 less
than budgeted. Fines are about
$1,300 more than anticipated.
He explained minor expendi-
tures including those for pro-
fessional services and added ve-
hicle repair costs added to the
deficit.
“Our shortage in the water de-
partment may be overcome in the
upcoming summer months as
water consumption increases,”
the manager said. “However, if
we get quite a bit of moisture
this year there is a possibility
the revenues in the water and
sewer fund will fall short of the
estimated revenue.”
Back School
For Odessa
AUSTIN (AP)— A group of
West Texans recommended
Wednesday night creation of a
state-supported four-year col-
lege at Odessa—the “Permian
State College.”
They testified before the
House State Affairs Committee
in favor of Odessa Rep. Ace _______ _____
Pickens' bill to establish the the equator is about 65 degrees,
college. The measure was re- and “close to the prescribed
ferred to a subcommittee for orbit.”
study. “Two-way radio communica-
The proposed school would tions are constantly maintained
take over property of the pres- with the space ship,” Tass said.
program.
The American program also
has scheduled an experimental
“walk around in nothingness,”
but for a later flight.
The space ship blasted off a
little more than five months aft-
er the first multiple-manned
Voskhod (Sunrise) was
launched with three men
aboard.
Tass said according to pre-
liminary data, Voskhod 2 is or-
biting the earth every 90.9
minutes with a minimum dis-
tance from the earth of 108
miles and a maximum of 307
miles. It said the orbit angle to
ent Odessa Junior College,
which was established in 1946.
Pickens told the committee
that population of a 13-county
area around Odessa grew 80 per
cent between 1950 and 1960,
Belyayev and Leonov were
reported feeling well and are
carrying out their assigned re
search duties.
“The reports by the shf s
commander show that the
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Odessa is at least 140 weighUessness,” Tass sa
miles from any state-supported A11 the e^ulp?ienl fonine
college. The Midland • Odessa the ship ls ^
area is the only one of 192 met- normally. (e ^
ropolitan areas of 100,000 or There was no
more population in the nation how. JonS Voskhod
without a senior college within wou*d remain in °£a
100 miles, Pickens said. See COSMON/
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