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Ector 16
Wink 30
Permain 8 Monahans 20
Seminole 49
A&M 14
TCU 25
Tech 34
Ark 24
Mich. SI. 27
Nebraska 21
Kermit 7
O’Donnell 7
San Angelo 71 Andrews 11
Ft. Stockton 0
Rice 13
Texas 10
Baylor 22
SHU 3
Indiana 13
Okla. SI. 17
SUN.
EDITION
The Winkler Country News io«
^Vol. 30— No. 28
Cents per Copy
Kermlt, Winkler County, Texas,
Sunday, November 14, 1965
78 Persons Missing from Blazing Cruise Ship
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Great Danger
FT. GORDON, Ga. (AP) —
Dwight D. Eisenhower had the
best night yet since he had an-
other onslaught of heart trouble
in the early hours of Tuesday. It
underscored assurances from
his doctors that he is past his
gjjug^test period of danger and
haP a good chance of recovery.
So an air of encouraging opti*
mism returned to Ft. Gordon
^iny Hospital, where the form-
epPpresident is a patient.
But this is tempered by the
fact that the 75*year-old general
also was improving once before
and then suffered a setback
Wednesday after physicians had
said he might be playing golf
again in a couple of weeks.
They still are predicting re-
covery, but not in any definite
time span and certainly not in
such a short period. They say
they think he might return to
golfing in about three months.
A late morning medical bulle-
tin from the six-man team of
hospital staff physicians and
consultants said:
“General Eisenhower had the
best night since he was admit-
ted to Ft. Gordon hospital. His
temperature remains normal
and circulatory state has been
stable. He is in excellent spirits,
had a good breakfast, after
whicn he was examined by his
consulting and staff physi-
cians.”
The Ft. Gordon press officer,
Capt. Wallace Hitchcock, re-
layed this report to newsmen.
And in answer to a question he
said that as of Friday Eisen-
hower was in and out of ah oxy-
gen tent.
There has been a continuous
monitoring of his chest beat and
heart rhythm electronically on
an oscilloscope, with doctors in,
relays watching the machine
unceasingly.
Thus, while there is a re.
newed note of qualified cheer-
fulness around Ft. Gordon,
there still is not much reason
for anything like a normal
birthday celebration Sunday for
Mamie Eisenhower. The former
First Lady will be 69.
Another physician, Paul Dud-
ley White, arrived Saturday,
but apparently not through any
feeling of urgency that he was
needed.
White is the Boston heart spe-
cialist who was the chief consul-
tant when the 34th President
suffered a major heart attack in
Denver on Sept. 24,1955.
This time the chief of the
team handling the Eisenhower
case is Dr. Thomas Mattingly of
Washington, who also was on
the 1955 roster of doctors.
Mattingly has been keeping
White posted on Eisenhower’s
latest heart ailment.
Mattingly was talking Friday
night in terms of getting his dis-
tinguished patient out of Ft.
Gordon Hospital and into Walter
Reed Army, Hospital in Wash-
ington in a couple of weeks or
so,, bating from List Tuesday. , |J
After tha? '-.-here waul'd oe.
continued period of recupera*
tion, although Mattingly said it
is a good deduction that the hos-
pital stay would be less than tffe
seven weeks after the 1955 at-
tack.
The doctors consider the lat-
est trouble less serious than the
seizure 10 years ago.
Ship Burns And
Sinks In Atlantic
^’Table Caddy’ Corp.
*NewCorporation
Is Formed Here
SUN-NEWS Photo
“TABLE CADDY** — A $200,000 plastics corporation to drinks, ash trays, matches and any number of other items,
manufacture a “Table Caddy** (seen above) has been formed keeping the playing area clear. The item carries a $6.95
by a group of Kermit businessmen. The “Table Caddy** is suggested retail price,
designed to fit the corner of bridge and game tables and hold
Rhodesian Action Causes Consternation
Among White Officials and Military Men
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) —
Blazing from bow to stern, the
holiday cruise ship Yarmouth
Castle sank in the Atlantic Ocean
Saturday and the U. S. Coast
Guard said 78 of the 550 pas-
sengers and crewmen may have
gone with her to the bottom.
The latest Coast Guard tabu-
lation placed 364 survivors
aboard the cruise ship Bahama
Star, 92 aboard the Finnish mo-
tor ship Finnpulp, and 16 in a
Nassau hospital where they
were delivered by helicopter.
That left 78 missing.
The cause of the fire was not
known. The Coast Guard said
disaster struck so suddenly the
Yarmouth Castle went to her
death in 285 fathoms without
ever sending a distress call.
Two vessels, the cruise ship
Bahama Star and the Finnish
motorship Finnpulp, reached
the scene 110 miles east of Mi-
ami, Fla., shortly after the
blaze broke out. But when the
rescue operation ended, only 466
persons had been found.
Capt. Carl Brown of the Baha-
ma Star said “we believe all
those who were not trapped in-
side” the fiercely burning vessel
were picked out of the water.
“We have searched the area,”
Brown radioed, “and we have
found no more.” ,
The Bahama Star was headed
for Nassau with 360 survivors.
The Finnpulp, first to radio
word of the tragedy to the Coast
Guard, was going in with 94 oth-
ers.
Six men and six women,
burned and in shock, were flown
by U.S. Coast Guard helicopters
to Princess Margaret Hospital
A $200,000 plastics corpor-
ation has been formed by a group
of Kermit businessmen, it was
announced Saturday.
Called Table Caddy Corp., the
group will begin operation by
marketing a “Table Caddy** —
a plastic tray which attaches to
the corner of bridge or game
tables to hold drinking glasses,
£}sh trays and other items, keep-
ing the playing area uncluttered.
According to George Camp-
bell, a member of the board of
directors, “Table Caddy** will
Joe manufactured in Fort Worth
Amd distributed from the Kermit
Offices at first. Later, the cor-
poration plans to locate a full-
scale manufacturing plant in Ker-
mit which will make not only
1‘Table Caddy** but a variety of
plastic products, Campbell said.
“Table Caddy** has been mar-
ket-tested, showing a “definite
demand,** according to Campbell.
The corporation plans to build
“Table Caddy** into a national
trademark, he said.
The item, which has a sug-
gested retail price of $6.95,
caught the eye of Campbell at
a recent Inventor’s Congress in
Odessa. Arrangements to buy the
invention and patent from the in-
ventor, A. D. Scott of Monahans,
were completed by Campbell.
The first problem to be met
by the group is the establishment
of a nation-wide distribution sys-
tem for the item. Campbell said
the corporation directors have
just returned from Dallas where
preliminary steps in setting up
such a system were made. Camp-
bell related that once established,
the distribution network will be
used for any other plastic items
the corporation might manufac-
ture.
Other members of the board
of directors include Kenneth Bur-
rows, Bill Jones, Tommy Smith,
Nev Williams Jr. and Tommy
Westmoland.
LBJ Reported In Good
.Shape By Doctors
JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP)
— President Johnson got an in-
good-shape medical report Sat-
urday following a head-to-toe
examination.
Johnson’s convalescence from
his Oct. 8 gall bladder-kidney
stone surgery is “coming along
well,” Dr. George G. Burkley
reported.
After talking with Burkley,
assistant press secretary Josep
Laitin told newsmen the Pres-
ident’s earlier back pains have
not entirely disappeared, and
there still is some soreness
around the incision.
“He found nothing other than
normal healing,” Laitin said.
Dr. Burkley described the situa-
tion to me as a normal recovery
picture. Sometimes he gets a
twinge of distress when he turns
the wrong way. And he still has
some trouble getting up and
down. Dr. Burkley is satisfied
the way things are going.”
Johnson’s weight was de-
scribed as under 200 pounds.
Laitin said Burkley is satisfied
with it. Before his illness, John-
son weighed about 220.
While Burkley gives his fa-
mous patient a once-over every
day, this is the first report of a
thorough physical examination
since Johnson came to his ranch
near here three weeks ago to
recuperate.
Laitin said Johnson took note
of news stories reporting two
days of strenuous presidential
activity, including a six-hour
session Thursday with his key
diplomatic and military advis-
ers.
But Johnson did ease off his
recent Work pace Saturday. Lai-
tin said the President got in
some work on government busi-
ness in the morning.
SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP)
— White senior civil servants
and army officers with close
ties to Britain were reported in
dissent Saturday against Prime
Minister Ian Smith’s declaration
of independence from Britain.
Gloom fell over business circles
in Salisbury.
Smith, however, appeared
confident and firmly in control.
He went to the country for the
weekend while the nation
awaited possible new retaliatory
measures from the United Na-
tions and perhaps Britain.
Anti-Rhodesian demonstra-
tions broke out in the Congo and
Tanzania. Demands mounted in
Africa for Britiain to crush
Smith’s regime with military
force. Students in Cape Town,
South Africa, staged a pro-inde-
pendence demonstration.
In Cape Town, South Africa,
about 100 South African and
Rhodeuian students staged a
pro-independence demonstration
outside the office of the British
consul-general. The South Afri-
can government, sympathetic to
Smith’s government, was ex-
pected to increase trade with
Rhodesia but Prime Minister.
Hendrik V. Verwoerd remained
silent on whether he would com-
mit his armed forces, most pow-
erful in Africa, to help Rhodesia
in the event of milittary inter-
vention.
Bitterness among senior civil
servants, some military officers
and businessmen was the first
sign of opposition among Rho-
desian whites to Smith’s action
Thursday, leaving the destinies
of 3.8 million Africans to 225,000
whites.
Informants said David Hall,
chief of protocol and a former
regular British officer, had res-
igned. Many others were be-
lieved to be also considering
resignation.
This discontent was said to
have spread also to the armed
forces. A few British officers
assigned to the Rhodesian army
were said to have been with-
drawn. Others with strong Brit-
ish ties were reported consid-
ering their position.
A businessman in Salisbury
said:
“Business has been going
downhill in the last two weeks.
Everybody was waiting to see if
we would go for independ-
ence,and now that we have they
are waiting to gauge the practi-
cal effects of it.”
Temporary restrictions on
banking facilities and a general
uncertainty of the country’s fu-
ture have caused commercial
circles to delay transactions.
No positive reaction was ex-
pected before Britain and other
nations made clear the actions
they planned taking to counter
Rhodesia’s seizure of independ-
ence.
Britain has imposed economic
sanctions on Rhodesia. It cut off
the imports of Rhodesian tobac-
co, a chief money earner for
Rhodesia. The United States
barred imports of Rhodesian bly would retire to his farm to
sugar and suspended applica- wait out developments. He was
tions for credits and loans and named the governor in 1960 and
embargoed arms shipments. is popular among Rhodesians.
Sir Humphrey Gibbs, the Brit-
ish governor of the colony of
Rhodesia and the only govern-
ing official recognized by Brit-
ain, apparently is powerless.
When Smith declared independ-
ence, Queen Elizabeth II or-
dered Gibbs to dismiss Smith
and his government. But Smith
ordered Gibbs fired and told
him to get out of Government
House.
Informants said Gibbs, a
Rhodeiian who has been friend-
ly with Smith in the past, proba*
at Nassau.
“It was a horrible experi-
ence.” said Arthur Gordon, 53, a
Los Angeles salesman, one of
the injured flown here.
Another, Mary J. Hamilton, of
St. Petersburg, Fla., cried hys-
terically: “My son is out there!
His name is Jonathan. I don’t
know what happened to him!”
Hundreds of Bahamians,
many of them weeping and
wailing over relatives in the
crew of the Yarmouth Castle,
surrounded Princess Margaret
Hospital.
The 365-foot Yarmouth Castle,
which sails twice weekly be-
tween Miami and Nassau, left
Miami Friday night, and was
followed out shortly by the
Bahama Star.
At 2:15 a.m. Brown said he
saw smoke on the horizon,
picked up speed and overtook
the Yarmouth Castle. She was
burning in the forward upper
deck, he said, and flames were
spreading rapidly throughout
the ship.
“We passed three lifeboats
full of people and called to them
that we wquld return after we
got the passengers off the burn-
ing boat,” Brown said.
“Most of the passengers were
standing on the starboard deck.
They seemed dazed and helpless
and we had to plead with them
to jump over the side.’
The Yarmouth Castle, totally
enveloped in fire that sent a col-
umn of smoke 4,000 feet into the
air, listed badly, capsized and
plunged to the bottom at 6:03
a.m.
When the Bahama Star left
the scene, there was no sign of
other survivors, Only four emp-
ty lifeboats and debris scattered
over the calm blue sea marked
the remains of the Yarmouth
Castle.
W.R. Cooper, a Coast Guard
helicopter pilot who flew into
Nassau with three of the survi-
vors, said “it was a terrible
sight. The ship was a mass of
flames from boy to stern.”
The fire had raged through
much of the ship before some of
the passengers were even aware
UN Proposes Arms Embargo
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(AP) — Britain proposed Satur-
day that the U.N. Security
Council impose an arms embar-
go to stop the rebellion in Rho-
desia. But angry African coun-
tries countered with a demand
that the council invoke a full
array of penalties, including use
of military force.
Britain, acting on its own, and
the Ivory Coast, acting for Afri-
can countries generally, intro-
duced rival resolutions in the 11-
nation council. Neither ap-
peared likely to win approval,
and efforts were launched in
Final Game Ducats
Go on Sale Monday
Reserved seat tickets for the
Kermit-Seminole football game
here Friday go on sale at 5
p.m. Monday at the southeast
ticket booth at Walton Field, ac-
cording to Harold W. P. Miller,
school business manager.
After Monday, the tickets may
be purchased in the school Busi-
ness Office during regular office
hours.
Miller also said that season
ticket holders may renew their
ticket option by signing the ticket
book and dropping it in a box at
the game Friday. Several boxes
will be available for this pur-
pose, he said.
private negotiations to come up
with a compromise.
British Foreign Secretary Mi-
chael Stewart defended his gov-
ernment’s decision against us-
ing force to compel Rhodesia’s
225,000 whites to accept a con-
stitution for majority rule by its
4 million blacks.
He told the council that would
have been “wholly inappropri-
ate to the purpose and fraught
with misery for a very large
number of innocent people.”
But he called on the council to
support a tobacco and sugar
boycott and other economic
measures taken by Britain to
compel Prime Minister Ian
Smith’s breakaway regime to
return its allegiance to the
Crown so that majority rule
could be promoted there.
“Any embargo to be effective
cannot be imposed by one coun-
try alone,” he declared.
He introduced a resolution
that would have the council ask
all countries to refrain from any
action which could give aid and
comfort to “the illegal and un-
constitutional regime in South-
ern Rhodesia” and “in particu-
lar to refrain from supplying
arms, equipment and war ma-
terial to it.**
The resolution would demand
that all countries extend every
necessary assistance and sup-
port to Britain in making effec-
See U. N. PROPOSES page 12
CITIZEN OF YEAR AWARD DISCUSSED — Sally Fer-
rell, last year’s Citizen of the Year Award winner, talks
Over plans for this year’s award with Billy Hard, standing,
chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Civic Affairs Com-
mittee, Bill Jones and Irvin Clayton. Jones is first vice-
president of the Chamber, and Clayton is chairman of the
Citizen of the Year subcommittee of the Civic Affairs
Committee.
Royal Boots Cause
Boatman’s Concern
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Britain's
Princess Margaret and her hus-
band, the Earl of Snowdon,
bought themselves some West-
ern cowboy boots Saturday and
then went on a boat ride on one
of western America’s newest
lakes—Lake Powell.
It didn’t make their boatman
very happy. He was afraid that
if they wore them on the tiny
cabin cruiser for their five-hour
swing among the towering
buttes of the lake, the boots
might, if the boat capsized, act
as anchors on the royal pair.
Lord Snowdon, dressed in
black slacks and a black turtle
neck seater, rode to the tiny
general store at Page with actor
Roddy McDowell, one of the
royal parties’ guests on their
overnight stay.
While newsmen and photogra-
phers crowded behind counters
filled with everything from
beer to bobbypins, Lord Snow-
down bought himself a pair of
Western stvle black boots and a
brown pair of hunting boots
from store owner Grant Jones.
Jones said as far as he knows
he’s not related to the Earl, who
before marrying the princess
was known as Anthony Arm-
strong Jones.
of it.
Gordon sgid tie heard some-
one shout “fire!” but “I thought
it was just drunk. But when he
kept shouting, I went out and
found the lobby surrounded by
flames.
“I ran back into my cabin and
tried to kncck out the bathroom
window with my fists so my
wife and I could get out. But
someone came and got us. I be-
lieve my wife is on one of the
other ships.”
Mrs. Hamilton said she was
awakened by screams, opened
her door and “there was fire all
over the place. I befcame hyster-
ical. I don’t know what happen-
ed after that.”
The 38-year-pld Yarmouth
Castle was reported to have
been in excellent condition and
fully equipped for fire fighting.
Marvin DeBerry, production
manager the Tampa, Fla.,
Ship Repair and Brydock Co.,
Inc., said the ship completed its
annual overhaul qn Oct. 15 and
See78PE^SQNSpage 12
Citizen of Year
Deadline Nov. 27
Bill Jones, first vice-president
of Kermit Chamber of Commerce,
announced today that nominations
for Kermit’s Citizen of the Year
award should be submitted as
soon as possible. Deadline for the
entries will be Nov. 27.
Presentation of the award will
be made at the annual Chamber
of Commerce Banquet which has
been scheduled for Jan. 11,1966,
at Community Center.
Dr. John McFarlan, superin-
tendent of schools in Houston,
is to be guest speaker for the
occasion. Jones said.
Criteria for election of the
Citizen of the Year, according to
Jones, includes interest in nat-
ural projects; service rendered
to youth groups; service to fund-
raising campaigns; interest in
Americanism; citizenship proj-
ects; interest and enthusiasm in
his or her chosen profession;
service to the needy of the com-
munity; and interest in promot-
ing welfare of the community
through membershp and interest
in civic, church and fraternal
organizations-
WEATHER
SOUTHWEST TEXAS:
Clear to partly cloudy
Sunday and Monday.
High Sunday 72-86.
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