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EDITION
The Winkler County News
Vol. 2— No. 247
10 Cents per Copy
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas,
Sunday, September 12, 1965
Kansas U. Coed
,ls Miss America
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) aisle she threw a kiss to the
—Deborah Bryant, a brown- television audience,
haired beauty from Kansas, was The large crowd in the hall
named Miss America of 1966 gave her a standing ovation.
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ter Kansas University as a jun- oncHr,QQT, ’ rkinS as a civilian
ior this fall, won a swim suit
She was joined on the stage
by her mother. Her father could
not be with her because he is in
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Hurricane Betsy Kills
More Than 50 Persons
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preliminary in the pageant. She
weighs 115 pounds and meas-
ures 36-23-36.
Deborah, who wants to be-
come a pediatrician because of
her love for children, hopes to
enter Kansas University Medi-
cal School after graduation.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hurley D. Bryant of Over-
land Park, Kan. In her spare
time she writes fiction, swims
and water skis.
Miss Kansas received a bou-
quet of pink roses and a robe
was placed on her. Then she
engineer.
Asked whether she wanted to
say anything to her subjects
Miss America replied, “No*
they’re not subjects. They’re
dear friends.”
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Fighting Is
Continuing
NEW DELHI.
burst into tears, but regained ~
Runners-up in the contest, in northern front Saturday and
order, were: spreading of the struggle to
mt... m ' . . . . . . eastern sectors appeared immi-
«Miss Mississippi, Patricia nent. Pakistan claimed India's
Puckett, 20, Columbus. army is now “wholly” on the
Miss Indiana, Eileen Smith, defensive.
18, Indianapolis. An Indian spokesman said
“very fierce battles—the heav-
Miss Florida, Carol Blum, 21, iest battles so far’’ were being
Miami Beach. fought in the Sialkot and Lahore
Miss Wisconsin, Sharon Sings- reSl°n of northern Pakistan,
tock, 20, Oshkosh. where each side struggled to
As Deborah walked down the Pr°tect Its cities against the oth-
er’s tanks. Sialkot is at the
northern end of the front 60
miles north of Lahore.
Prime Minister Lai Bahadur
Shastri warned India may have
to take counter measures in
eastern areas of the subconti-
nent because of what he called
provocative Pakistani air raids
against strategic Indian instal-
SIAGON, South Viet Nam lations in east India.
(AP)—Major elements of the There has been no large scale
U.S. 1st Cavalry (Air mobile) &round fighting in the east but
Division landed in South Viet tke Iadiaa government made
Nam today while U.S. B52s c^ear ® will fight to halt what it
pouude?.:^ js^spected Viet ,<?.ong says are Pakistani threats to aiv1
concentration just north of Sai- and supply routes leading
gon. Other American planes ***** units on the Red China
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Mekong Delta. These threats include air
raids and what authorities in
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At Qui Mhon
KERMIT CHEERLEADERS — Cheerleaders for 1965 at Kermit High School are, kneeling,
Vicki Ray and Barby Bewley, and standing, Carol Ann White, Toni Parker and Karen Lee. Toni
is this year’s Little “J.” The cheerleaders made their first appearance Friday at the Kermit-
Hobbs football game. (Staff Photo)
School Officials 'Guess’
Twice As Man Negroes
Attend Texas Schools in
Will
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The
ful tragedy of Hurricane Betsy
unfolded grimly Saturday as
the death toll rose past 50 vic-
tims and damages soared into
uncounted millions. Some au-
thorities feared 150 to 200 lives
may have been lost in New Or-
leans alone.
Strike Hits
Santo Fe RR
CHICAGO (AP) — A sudden
strike by trainmen halted or de-
layed trains Saturday on about
half of the Santa Fe Railway.
President Ernest Marsh said
he is confident the trains soon
will roll again.
The railroad asked the Nation-
al Mediation Board to intervene.
The board quickly contacted
both sides.
“We are confident that the
strike comes so squarely under
the provisions of Section 10 of
the Railway Labor Act,” Marsh
stated, “that it is clear that an
emergency board will be ap-
pointed to investigate all the
facts regarding the dispute
which would result in employes
returning to work with immedi-
ate resumption of normal serv-
ice.”
Marsh said the strike was felt
in a major section of the coun-
try, including military establish-
ments, defense production plants
and industries vital to the econ- tops and posts for recovery lat- son made a flying trip to New
1 er after the living have been Orleans and took a two-hour
evacuated. tour of the devastation. The
Only now, nearly 48 hours aft- President declared Louisiana a
er Betsy swept past, did the major disaster area, opening
magnitude of the disaster be- the way to federal aid for hurri-
gin to emerge. cane victims.
The mass evacuation of more Phillips told the city officials
At President Johnson’s com- representative,
mand, Army and Navy forces The naval air station here
joined weary, groggy Louisiana opened old World War II build-
rescue squads in a desperate ings to house refugees who
struggle to find and care for overflowed city shelters. The
survivors of Betsy’s onslaught. Army flew in field kitchens to
A ragtag armada of boats help feed the swelling number
worked in the area of gravest of refugees,
concern — along the Mississip- Adding to the misery of the
pi River and in an industrial rescue workers and the victims
canal east of New Orleans. A was the threat of bites from
suburb of more than 3,000 deadly water moccasins —
homes was ravaged by flood blown in from the bayous and
waters from a broken levee. swamps.
The onrushing waters were a Much of New Orleans re-
burial ground for men, women mained without electric power
and children who failed to or telephone service late Sat-
scramble fast enough to safety urday.
on roof tops and in trees early In addition to the dead in
Friday when Betsy roared in Louisiana, Betsy took seven
from the gulf with 150 mile an lives in Florida, four in Arkan-
hour winds. sas and one in Mississippi.
Louisiana already counted 38 Helicopters whirled over the
dead, most of them victims of flooded sections of New Orleans
flooding in New Orleans. throughout the day, landing
“We’ll catch hell on Monday wherever they could for quick
and Tuesday,” said Dr. Nicholas evacuation of the sick and the
Chetta, the Orleans Parish pregnant.
(County) coroner. The copters and the ragtag
“At the rate we’re going, the fleet of boats and trucks
death toll will run between brought out about 35,000 people
150 to 200 persons,” said Chetta. and were looking for more.
The death toll, first believed Trucks and city buses moved
low, rose rapidly as rescue the evacuees to emergency shel*
boats pushed through the flood- ters in New Orleans — the city
ed areas. Chetta said bodies were hall, the municipal auditorium,
spotted but not brought in at schools, churches,
once. “The boat operators are The Red Cross reported 45,000
mainly worried about the living people in emergency shelters —
right now, and rightly so,” he most of them flood victims, oth-
said. ers still unable to return to
He explained that rescue homes damaged by winds,
teams in boats cruising the The meeting between Phillips
flooded areas can only tie up and city officials came less than
floating bodies to trees, roof- 24 hours after President John*
omy.
The Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, which includes yard-
men, switchmen and brakemen,
pulled its men out at midnight
on lines between Albuquerque,
and Chicago by way of Colorado,
between Belen, N.M., and Chi-
cago through thej Texas Pan-
________The S’exas Education Agency June, the TEA has, been warn- handle and from Wichita, Kans.,
Associated Press Writer say is about tOO School’ districts, jehool boardsmnd
than a quarter million people
ahead of the storm kept the
death count below that ,.pf Past
hurricanes. But the devastation
that Army units were en route
from Ft. Sam Houston in Texas
a$d ^t. Polk in western Louis!-,
ana, ; J:
“YotMI ■ have enough men,
food, medical supplies — all the
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Indications are that about one out of the 1,370 in the state, have ciaiS that Washington must ap- Other segments of the 13,000- and human misery which' awed
out of five Negro pupils attend- not had their desegregation prove the Ideal school district’s mile network — longest single President Johnson on a person- ____ ___________
ing Texas public schools this plans accepted by federal school desegregation plans or that dis- rail system in the nation—were al inspection here Friday night su^plieV necessary to take
___ , . . JM I . year goes to classes with White authorities. The 100 or so plans trict will lose all claim to its not hit by the walkout stemming was unmatched in Louisiana’s pare of 25 000 evacuee*? ” t>hii.
... ‘■"Ploying eastern India said was a drop children. Still pending Include a number share of $37 million In federal from a deadlock over work storm-scaredhistory Ss said me Red Sro’ss said
Seated^ less^S ttree1 months dav Paklslanl Parachutists Frl- School officials “guess!* that from small districts where there school aid distributed In Texas rules. There was concern the dam- the Army would bring five field
less man mr e monms aay. . more than twice as many Ne- are no Negro pupils. The deseg- annually. The Santa Fe estimated about age figure might read $1 billion, kitchens, enough food to serve
Wantry -d uXa&SStKfsTmsschool iTgra&^U Har£ ““ ^met
Pickets appeared at depots food, medical supplies — to this .In New Orleans, the cleanup
ago in an effort to fight the
guerrillas with
paratroopers entirely dependent U Thant, who arrived in Bom* That includes Negroes going to that already had desegregated when Austin Dist. Judge Her-
®n, *° carry them bay, India, and is to fly to New formerly predominantly white to some degree before passing of man Jones held in an uncontest-
Into the battle zone. Delhi Sunday on the last leg of schools, and White pupils at- the federal civil rights bill, ed test suit that Texas’ 11 school
The 20,000 men of the “Flying h*s Peace mission. His just-end- tending Negro schools. The State Board of Education segregation laws were unconsti-
Horsemen Division” bee-an ^ *a*ks *n Pa^ta11 generally a statistical blackout results pledged in January to comply tutional.
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coming ashore from four air- were regarded in New Delhi as from federal rules that prevent with the civil rights law. Since
craft carriers, six troop ships unPr®mising. I ’ a. pupil’s race being recorded
and 10 cargo ships standing off In Moscow, it was disclosed at on registration reports. Some
Qui Nhon on the South China anewsconference that Premier schools tried registering white
Sea, 260 miles northeast of Sai- Alexei N^Kosygin had appealed students with white registration
gon. to both sides to halt the fighting, forms and Negroes with buff
pull back their armies, and let colored forms but had to stop.
The airmobile force was or- Thant settle the dispute. The This much is known:
dered to Viet Nam by President Soviet Union offered its good The Texas Education Agency
Johnson July 28 as part of the offices, say's the average daily attend- _
annouricecl U.S. troop buildup ^ The center ob the dispute Is ance for the 1964-65 school year cW<T*bwd ^Mer JadTRuby compand 7o'T,400 "lasf year.'
here to 125,000 men. Kashmir, the Himalayan state showed 293,540 Negroes in both defense will enter a Grades one through seven and
“I regret it was not done 10
years ago,” Jones said.
Not a single incident or dis-
turbance has been reported in
this year’s new desegregation
moves.
Here are some reports from
over the state:
Houston—3,000 Negroes in 50
DALLAS (AP) — A lawyer for of the 200 schools of the district,
Sanity Hearing
Next for Ruby
Change in Industry Can
Be Used by Small Cities
Meanwhile, the Air Force’s ^th sides claim and^ which has all Negro and integrated piea of guilty of murder without 10th grade integrated, compared LITTLEFIELD, Tex. (AP) — iness here.
Guam-based Stratofortresses hit ?<een1,di !i:N‘ .c?ase‘ schools. There were 1,803,545 mance if the former Dallas to grades one through five last Industry is changing completely The luncheon was part of a
20 miles north of Saigon. It was *ire Iine since*1949. The fighting white Pupils attending both seg- nightelub operator should get a year. All 12 grades to be inte- and small cities should take ad- three-day celebration of a $400,-
the 22nd announced raid by the broke out 1&st week when, India regated and integrated classes. new trial gated in 1967. No Negro teachers vantage of it, the senior vice 000 refurbishing of downtown
Strategic Air Command bomb- charges, Pakistani troops These reports are not prepared Sol Dann of Detroit made the in white schools. District has president of a Dallas bank said Littlefield, financed entirely by
ers of the antiguerrilla war. The crossed the cease-fire line and until the^ end of the school year, statement t0 a reporter during about 220,000 enrollment with Saturday. the city and local businesses,
eight-engine planes struck the kas since spread to border re- but TEA experts predict big a tw>day habeas corpus hear- about 25 per cent Negro. The banker, Briggs Todd of
Ho Bo woods in Binh Dough S*°ns of India and Pakistan. rises in attendance. inff this week. Dallas — District has 104 Dallas’ Mercantile National
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Province, a target of one of «*“ ^rT'f,,P^e tJ°I *5?‘ school year, gThe defense hoped l0 have schools with 45 where Negroes Bank, spoke at a luncheon given
their previous raids this month, ,1*“,-,,^] 1 tte Sp^»n>.Sch»l-News esti- Judge Joe Brown, who presided attend white schools. Number of by Littlefield leaders for execu- ,ev on the ben^ts^of fre ea
hakrishnan sald India does not mated more than 25,000 Negroes over the Rubv murder trial for- Negro teachers conducting class- tives from Texas, New Mexico 1
regard itself at war with Pakis* attended school with whites in ____.... , 1 . ah 1 o onri irionno moot them ran. terprise ended the celebration.
In the Mekong Delta, U.S. regard itself at war with Pakis* attended school with whites in
planes hit slightly west of tar* tan. But the government made Texas, an increase of 7,000 from hnnl_ h 1c. ahont the
gets they pounded Saturday 150 claims that indicated India was 1963. Texas had more Negro pu- S * They argued that the iur-
maII am MAiiik at Col in on at. tr on tr niiiAlt o tiroti' r\ 11 c 4«% IvwiA a>ma4a/1 aIa aaa a A 1a a m * ® •
mally disqualified because of a es with white students. All 12 and Arizona, most of them rep*
See Twice As, Page 10 resenting firms which do busi-
miles south of Saigon, in an ef-
fort to destroy a Viet Cong reg-
imental headquarters and trap
as many as 2,000 guerrillas.
U.S. spokesmen described
enemy losses as heavy. They were now fighting
said the planes hit again and defensive battle.”
again at canals used by the
guerrillas and also destroyed
several villages. The inhabi-
tants of the area had been
warned for weeks of the coming
aerial assault, the spokesmen
said.
very much at war. pils in integrated classes than
In Rawalpindi, Pakistan’s any other Southern state. The
capital, a spokesman said In- News will estimate the 1965-66
dian troops were beaten back on year in December. Other
the Lahore front with heavy sources say the 25,000 figure
losses of men and tanks and may be more than doubled,
“a wholly based on early incomplete reg-
istration reports.
Heavy rains and 30-mile-an*
hour winds stalled a South Viet-
^namese ground effort to move
w in against the guerrilla regi
Shareholders Will
Meet Here Tuesday
The first annual meeting of the at the Kermit Community Center,
ment after the air strikes began shareholders of Texas Aero- The meeting is scheduled for 7
Saturday. space Co. will be held Tuesday p.m., according to C.B. Leather*
wood, secretary-treasurer.
Incorporators of the company
recently met with Gilbert Mc-
Gill, the designer and inventor
of the Mini-copter, and presented
a proposed contract for manu-
facture of the one-man helicopter.
According to Red Nutt, chair-
man of the incorporators, McGill
ist had a monetary interest in
the disposition of the case.
Judge Louis Holland of Monta-
gue, refused to disqualify Brown
as the hearing ended Friday. He
said he “neither condoned nor
condemned” Brown’s writing of
the book, but didn’t want to al-
ter the current status of the
case.
A ruling for the defense would
have set aside Ruby’s murder
conviction, and opened the door
to a new trial.
Ruby received the death ver-
diet March 14, 1964. He was in-
dicted for killing Lee Harvey
Oswald, the assassin of Presi-
dent Kennedy.
The next legal step is a sanity
trial for Ruby, set for Oct. 18.
Dann and other Ruby lawyers
hailed the outcome of the habeas
corpus hearing as a victory. One
explained that the defense was
strengthened because the record
of the relatively lengthy pro-
ceeding would be sent to the
Court of Criminal Appeals,
which will act on the appellate
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and freight yards. beleaguered city. moved ahead slowly. Broken
Supervisory personnel manned “You ask for it and you’ll get glass was being swept off the
passenger trains which were on it,” Robert Phillips of the Of- sidewalks and streets. Loose
runs when the strike began. fice of Emergency Planning power lines were being tied off.
The Super Chief, with about told city officials. ;He spoke as Telephone service was slowly
See STRIKE, Page 10 President Johnson’s personal being restored.
Damage estimates were hard
to pin down. Richard P. Ellis,
vice president of the New Or-
leans Insurance Exchange, said
property damage may total $50
million.
Agriculture officials estimat-
ed the loss to cotton, rice and
sugar cane crops at $30 to $40
million or more. Vast offshore
oil and gas properties, aban-
doned in the face of the storm,
hadn’t been inspected yet.
Across most of southern Loui-
siana and the Mississippi Gulf
Coast, people were returning to
their homes as Hurricane Betsy
spun itself out to the north.
The flooding in St. Bernard
Parish (county) came as no real
surprise to the people living in
the low-lying area, but the ex-
tent of it — suddenly swollen by
breaks in a levee — caught
them unprepared.
One woman reported the
waters filled her house to the
ceiling in 30 minutes. She
climbed onto the roof.
Others did the same at their
houses, or climbed trees to re-
See Hurricane, Page 10
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rejected the contract and stated hage of the case if Rub j
there was no further need for
Council for Retarded Children
Will Conduct Open House Today
Members of the Winkler County daily. The buildingfor the school
Council for Retarded Children was donated by the Kermit Rotary
will conduct open house of its Club.
new facilities at 212 N. Mid- More are needed to op-
today (Sunday) *° 4 P'm' erate school and anyone who trtll be determined Tuesday night ^spiml'untd d'octorTsiy he h£
1 The school for mentallv or wishes to become \I?6‘"ber 01 a‘ “>e shareholder's meeting. alned hls faculties,
me senooi ior mentally or ^ council or to contribute, may s
physically handicapped children, do s0 by contacHng one of its
^”or»stt“cS;members during open house-
is Mrs. Ray Evans. Admission to the school is open
Members of the council ex- to any youngster who is mentally
pressed appreciation to those or physically handicapped in any
who helped organize the school way and is unable tqattend public
and continue to support it finan- school.
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The future of the corporation
WEATHER
Southwest Texas: Clear to
partly cloudy Sunday and
Monday. High Sunday 90*
102.
judged to be sane.
If he is found insane, he will
be committed to a state mental
The hearing was punctuated
by emotional statements by
Ruby to newsmen, and by fre-
quent clashes between Brown
and defense lawyer Phil Burle-
son of Dallas, who has been on
the defense staff since before
the murder trial.
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Littlefield is a city of about
7,230 population 35 miles west
of Lubbock in the South Plains.
“This display of ability to
work together is a shining ex-
ample of how people can make
their town attractive to indus-
try.” Todd said of Littlefield’s
new face. Todd said he believes
industry is changing in two
ways:
1 Many products and their
parts are becoming smaller,
more durable and more service-
able, making it easier to trans-
port them to markets or assem-
bly points. “This works in fa-
vor of small towns rather than
cosmopolitan areas,” Todd said.
2. Skills are becoming more
important, and industry follows
educational opportunity and con-
centrations of brain power.
Todd said small city leaders
can take advantage of these
changes by making their towns
attractive places to live and
work and by wholeheartedly
supporting the program of their
secondary schools and neighbor-
ing colleges and universities.
Littlefield started its face lift-
ing program in July 1964. Mer-
chants and other leaders, with-
out seeking federal urban re-
X-ray Technician
Program Approved
X-ray technicians school, con-
ducted at Winkler County Hos-
pital, has received accreditation
as approved by the American
Medical Association and the
American Radiology Association,
Ralph Lennon, hospital adminis-
trator has announced.
“This recognition,” Lennon
said, “means that graduates of
this school may take the state
examination and become regis-
tered X-ray technicians.”
The training course requires
two years. Six students are ac-
cepted, three each year.
‘ ’In addition to training our
own technicians,” Lennon ex*
newal funds, widened downtown plained, “we have trained them
PLEASE, COME ON TEAM! — Kermit cheerleader Karen
Lee closes her eyes and pleads with the Yellow Jackets to
“come on” with a touchdown. Even with fist-waving, yelling
and solemn entreaties from the sidelines, the Kermit eleven
couldn’t break the Hobbs defensive, finally losing 7-0. (Staff
Photo by Lee Sneath.)
streets, cleaned up or restyled
store fronts and eliminated
parking meters. They installed
curbside flower planters, new
lights and modernistic concrete
pedestrian shelters where shop-
pers can rest in the shade and
for hospitals in Midland and
Pecos.” The local school works
in cooperation with the Andrews
Hospital.
Aubrey Bentley, X-ray tech-
nician for Memorial Hospital,
conducts the school under di-
make telephone calls ,or listen to rection of Dr. George Dowling
piped in music. ” radiologist.
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