Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - June 22, 1966, Abilene, Texas 86TH NO. 6 79604, WEDNESDAY JUNE 22, PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS 5 CENTS DAILY 15 CENTS SUNDAY Associated Officers in Mississippi Seal Shooting Area ARRESTED IN RIOT Broward County Sheriff's Deputies in full riot gear hustle off to jail one of the 24 Negroes arrested Tuesday night in Pompano during a A crowd of about 600 groes gathered after a white store owner allegedly slapped a Negro Florida Negro Riot Is Put Down POMPANO order to break up the Hundreds of Negroes home before you get rioted early officers yelled from cultural and scientific o iha nn De Red Leader Criticize U.S. MOSCOW President Charles de Gaulle discussed the war in Viet Nam with nist chief Leonid I. Brezhnev today and French sources re- ported their views were The informants said De Gaulle was critical of U.S. cy on Viet Nam while Brezhnev accused the United States of savage The French sources said the two leaders the gence of their points of view on the Viet Nam They also reviewed French relations in the rocks and bottles at police stores neath the plastic face masks on and cars before riot riot cleared the streets with The Negroes banded together clubs and the threat of tear Jin small Two cars were AS police moved in with billy one was set and three of and tear gas guns four policemen hurt by flying i the Negroes disappeared into one officer shadows of the dimly lit Debris littered the main Then a shower of rocks in the Negro district from and bottles sailed out of the walk to but the over- j ail damage apparently Twenty-four Negroes were before the streets were Display windows at two about a.m. At least and there Negro was three reports of homes being Police arrested 24 The riot in this city of 16. Municipal Judge Harry called out of held court iat a.m. for 24 Negroes and store He in- about 25 miles north of bond to and lasted less than an apparently was the ordered him to appear in court Monday for arraignment on nation of tension built up charges of assault and day when reports spread i Twenty-two Negroes charged through the Negro district with unlawful assembly and dis- a white store owner had slapped conduct were released a 10-year-old Negro Thelon bonds of for married men store Arthur M. and for single 42. was charged with Another who identified and battery and released on himself as the Rev. Ernest The was was released on his Muttering crowds gathered recognizance after the store at closing time and the j ing to be a part-time owner asked for police a full-time Civic leaders asked he was awakened by the Negroes to Most noise of the went outside to to return The crowd grew to investigate and was late in Still another who said the evening and the mood was sitting peacefully in his sened as the number of when he was got on a 350 jeered There have been peaceful cracked jokes and swigged soft and an occasional rock drinks pitching the bottles in this but the the sources This ly included reference to ments on joint space ventures and technical cooperation which were worked out in advance of De Gaulle's He arrived here Monday and held formal conferences with Soviet leaders in the Tuesday and French sources said differing viewpoints had slowed up the opening round we talk about easing of they talk about one French informant high French informants reported two ments will be signed next week for cooperation in space and other scientific The deci- sion on signing of the ments was reached in the ing between De Gaulle and and other Soviet After the meeting De Gaulle referred to in all expressing hope that cooperation would in- crease and bring about new between the two tries in science and He made the remarks in a speech at Moscow State In his first major speech here De Gaulle had said he Gunfire Erupts At Philadelphia By DON McKEE Miss. small Negro neighborhood where Negroes and whites ex- changed gunfire Tuesday night remained Deputy closed to outsiders Sheriff Cecil Price said the area was closed to the press and other Price said it was uncertain how long the restriction would con- First reports were that the off-limits restriction would be lifted at daylight not going to have any more of this shooting on either said The gun battles erupted here as civil rights leaders 75 miles away debated the merits of lence and nonviolence when they returned to Philadelphia as part of the Mississippi Philadelphia Bruce Latimer Police Chief said a white WHITE PUMMELS NEGRO IN PHILADELPHIA MELEE An unidentified white fist strikes a Negro during a melee that in- a memorial march in Tuesday led by Dr. Martin Luther The march was held in memory of three Civil Rights workers killed in Neshoba two years serious passing cars when they was the first By a There are huge vegetable tion of the main was solid with farms in the vicinity and Negro laborers make up a large patrol their red and blue centage of the lights flashing Police said damage was not Reinforcements from and very little looting highway patrol the office and the Fort Reports said they heard riot squad had built the but officers at force to 100. The serious when the officers were given no one was headquarters said they trouble no reports of was seeking East Europe and larly the Soviet He re- ferred then mostly to the cal sphere and his formal talks Tuesday dealt primarily with European The emphasis today seemed to be on matters that were re- lated to politics only by the de- sire on each side to carry out cooperative In the past both countries have let politics dictate such things as scientific The French president re- a standing ovation from persons for his Fighter Downs By ROBERT TUCKMAN 10. The fighting went No major action was reported CHANCE FOR Hershey Says Using Lottery In Draft Would Harm System South Viet Nam A U.S. Navy pilot flying a jet fighter crippled by enemy fire and running critically low on fuel shot down a Communist jet over North Viet Nam One other was damaged and possibly destroyed as four Navy Crusaders and four tangled 65 miles east of But the MIGs shot down one and ground fire brought down a Navy plane in the same In five American planes were reported lost in the past 24 hours in Viet The others were an Air Force shot down Tuesday 30 miles northeast of an Air Force hit byj Viet Cong 75 miles southwest of Saigon today and a transport downed on a de- foliation mission over the South The crews of both planes lost in South Viet Nam were re In the ground U.S. para- troopers and air cavalrymen on into the U.S. field commanders who originally estimated the enemy detachment as a 500-man said they may have run into a combined force of as many as North ese regulars and hard-core Viet Cong. Some have been identified as troops of North Viet Nam's 95th which has been in South Viet Nam since 1964. Found The number of fake bills passed along U. S. 80 has grown to five after two more were reported from Lake Leon near Eastland and at The Eastland County bogus turned up at a Lake Leon fishing lodge south of elsewhere in the Premier Nguyen Cao Ky eased his cal war against his militant Buddhist opponents by briefly lifting the five-day blockade of Saigon's Buddhist During the hour's 203 persons quit the encircled com- but several hundred re- mained Several truckloads of age youths were hauled off for military service as Ky mingled conciliatory gesture with continued firmness against the i j Though his revolt showed sign of the militant monk Thich Tri Quang continued his protest fast for the day in the Saigon hospital where the government from Hue It was described as poor Dallas Secret Service agent is on the scene working on the battled a strong Communist de- case according to the Eastland on the eastern flank of s South Viet Nam's strategic At a was tral highlands for the third day en to a Associated Press Chief Wayne Bob Poos reported from the was tie 15 miles north of said of the that killing 265 the troops reported of the enemy and By WILBUR MARTIN WASHINGTON i lowering the upper limit of di- rect draft liability from the Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said present 25. Men who get day it is an illusion to believe now remain liable for that a lottery method up to 35 but few over 26 solve any problems of the tem of drafting youths for tary He the gravest weakness of such a system would be substitution of chance for Hershey was the first witness as the House Armed Services Committee opened hearings on how the Selective Service tem is Committee Chairman L Service for 25 get believe it most pertinent for the committee to explore the possibility of reducing the od of direct draft liability ing peacetime to an age sub- lower than ers But he added that have no Firm convictions at this time on such a change who has headed has described Selective Service as an of life that can not be wished Both Rivers and Hershey had prepared statements to read at the opening hearing which ed before a crowd liberally sprinkled with college in his opening traced the history of the draft and defended deferment policy powers granted to local long as we recognize the wisdom of allocating our power resources to support to the greatest possible degree both our armed forces and our national we should also recognize the approaching this wisdom of allocation raised the possibility with the best ments we can muster rather than by Kershey The hearings follow recent calls by educators arid others for a review of draft Some have said the system discriminates against the poor who cannot afford to go to col- by permitting deferments Hershey noted these com- plaints and said such criticisms are not shifts from time to time to one or another of a range of Used Before He noted current criticism of use of class ranking and tests for college saying both systems were regularly used to guide local boards in deferment decisions from the Korean War until 1963, when they were Hershey said these criteria never have been intended to be the sole measuring stick of a deferment I. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ESSA WEATHER BUREAU Pg. 4-8) ABILENE AND VICINITY Two counterfeit twenties were turned over to the Secret ice about three weeks ago by two Abilene banks and about a month ago another one was De- ported in Colorado An employe at the Colorado City police department said Chief Leon Yeager was Partly cloudy with little the possibility that another In temperature Wednesday and High Wednesday in the Low Wednesday 65-70. High day in the low 90's. NORTH CENTRAL Clear to on wac was mere 1 VIP have passed Leon and partly and warm today and Low tonight 65 to 72. High day 86 to 92. NORTHWEST Partly cloudy and warm today and Widely tered afternoon and evening storms mainly tn the north Low tonight 65 to 72. High 86 to 92. SOUTHWEST Partly cloudy and warm tonight and Thursday widely scattered afternoon and Low 65 to 75. High Thursday 85 to 95. TEMPERATURES Tues. p.m. Wed. 85 74 86 73 72 71 70 70 72 75 78 81 thought the same persons may the bills at Lake at even though only two men were seen in Eastland County and three were reported in the West 87 86 84 85 83 80 79 77 76 75 and low for 24 hours ending 9 18 and 70. High and low same date last 88 and 69. last sunrise sunset Barometer reading at Humidity at JO per cent. Industrials Gain 4.90; Others Off Industrials were up 4.90 at end of trading on the New York Stock but rails were off and utilities off The Abilene offices of Guerin and Turner Inc. listed volume traded as brought man whom he identified as Stanley an employe of a glove was wounded during an exchange of gunfire near the Freedom Democratic party Stuart was treated for shot wounds in the neck and shoulder at a hospital here and sent Area Blocked Off The highway patrol moved in and blocked off a three or four block one's going in or coming out until said In- spector Maynard Latimer said Stuart's car was hit by both and He said he thought Stuart was alone at the Negroes inside the Freedom Democrat headquarters relayed a report to their offices that three carloads of whites up and began firing at They said they returned the fire and thought they hit at least two Other staccato bursts of fire were heard in the area Jim a white one- legged veteran of the said he was out- side the F. D. T. building at the 32, from said a blue car drove by and a shot was fired from it. It returned a few minutes The aerial battle began when four MIGs engaged four wing Crusaders from 3 carrier Hancock covering attack by other U.S. jets on a highway The Crusaders were circling over the pilot of the sance plane also a Crusader who had bailed out after being hit by The odds turned quickly in favor of the Communist pilots when one of the Crusaders took a hit from the ground in the tail The pilot joined in the fight until his fuel ran then limped back to the Hancock with an escorting Though one of the two remaining Crusaders caught a MIG with his 20mm cannon and other pilots saw it spinning to the two MIGs got on the tail of one of the Crusaders and one MIG scored a The American pilot was seen SECTION A Obituaries Sports SECTION B TV logs 2 Women's news 3 Amusements 4 Bridge 4 Editorials 6 Comics 7 were was standing about five feet from the Letherer shot at me and After he shot at me he away real I threw my crutch at the back of the bunch of local folks were armed and they started shooting More than an hour he a second car with two men came There was an agent and one of the city's two Negro policemen there he More shots were fired and the fire was Two Checked Out A little later the Negro man detained two white men and white police officers picked them up and took them to quarters for They were later They were not identified by Latimer said police received a call at p.m. from a white man identified as Gibson who his car had been peppered with shot as he drove through the Negro Eakes told the police chief he wasn't At Yazoo Dr. Martin Luther King said he would lead the Mississippi civil rights marchers back to Philadelphia armed with ammunition of jutice the A armor of King aide said they probably would return to Philadelphia RRC RULES In Stephens AUSTIN and gas operators in Stephens and han Counties were told by the Railroad Commission today to stop dumping brine and other well wastes in surface The operators were given un- til Jan. 1, 1967, to or risk having their pipelines The commission said evidence at an April 29 hearing indicated that under ground water in the county is being contaminated by seepage from such Operators the sion dispose of such waste material in pits lined with im- pervious material if they get special permission from the FORMER LEGISLATOR When you Vocation It may not be convenient for your to follow But can worth timt to read when you Mayor Dr. Davis Dies HASKELL Dr. J. C. 93, of former state representative and practicing physician in this area 56 I died at p.m. Tuesday in Haskell County Hospital where he had been a patient three He had been in ill health two Funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in Rule First Methodist Church with the Rev. Manuel W. of- Burial will be in Rule tery under direction of the Pinkerton Funeral A one-time mayor of Davis served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1934-38. He was a Methodist and had served as chairman of the board of stewards of Rule First Methodist He 60 Born April 10, 1873, in N. the youngest of 14 he received his MD degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville in 1899. He came to Texas the lowing practicing most of his 56 years in Haskell He married Cora Frances Dec. 25, 1903, at They had five two of whom died in Survivors are his wife of the three Foster a Crowell attorney and J. C. Davis Jr. of assistant attorney general of and Tom G. Davis of judge of the 46th cial eight dren and two He was an uncle of the late Tom Davis of inent West Texas
