Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - August 25, 1966, Abilene, Texas OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT f 111 86TH NO. 70 70604, THURSDAY AUGUST 25, PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS 5 CENTS DAILY 15 CENTS SUNDAY Associated Prets Landing Fees Hiked 3 Cents By BOB BRUCE Staff Writer Abilene city councilmen and Airways mised on increased landing fees Thursday after a official said the proposed 100 per cent boost would not encourage ed Councilmen approved a hike from a nickel to eight cents for each pounds of gross ing The council was con- a jump to 10 Ted 0. vice president for properties and called the 10-cent posal out of and completely a Year The nickel rate has been viding about a year in enue for the city from landings at Abilene Municipal according to Asst. City Manager Ed Wagoner Average fee throughout the said is we had paid 10 cents everywhere last there'd have been no said ley the council showed signs of Brinkley protested that use of larger planes bf would bring in more revenue for Abilene at the Fears Precedent said he also feared a jump to 10-cents might set a pre- cedent that would be followed other Abilene currently is served by 13 flights Ten cents would pointed out that Abilene ings rank sixth in the tem and passenger miles are stop here because you've got the don't Hughes asked who nodded information provided Wagoner shows that pays eight cents at Odessa and 10 cents at Lubbock and Christi nine cents at Houston and 115 cents at San More in Line The move by the council was to bring Abilene more in line with other Wagoner j The council tabled for two weeks a request by real estate man J. C. Haines for the city to water ard sewer service to a 167-acre area which he plans to develop just outside northeast Haines protested that delay by the city already was costing him money at the rate of a Councilmen indicated they thought some of the lots much too j A paving assessment to widen S. 14th to four from Elm Creek to the Winters Freeway Red Guards Sack Catholic School drew opposition from Lloyd 1381 who said he felt his of 44 was much too More of the burden should borne by more of the he City Engineer John Conely boring Viet explained that the city pays 60 per cent and landowners 40 per cent. Fears Water DE GAULLE DEPARTS ON WORLD TOUR President Charles de Gaulle of France salutes honor guard as he prepares to leave Orly port in Thursday morning on a Included in the tour will be a major speaking stop at Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh next where he is expected to state his views on the Viet Nam At left is Premier Georges Wirephoto via cable from De Gaulle Off On World Tour French land Charles de Gaulle arrived in Africa day on the first leg of a world tour that will take him to whose leader has been assailing U.S. policy in Elbert a developer of the J J A. 1 1_ I V T not encourage additional he o After a visit to this last re- maining segment of the French De Gaulle will proceed to Addis for a three-day official he not a that's a Councilman Fred Lee Hughes Averages Drop In Late Trading Industrials rails off 1.34 were off 5.74, and utilities up day on the New York Stock Volume was according to Abilene office of Co. was concerned that the paving will confer with Prince might funnel more water into the Conely said it would not change the drainage tern A paving assessment for two lanes on S. Willis from Catclaw Creek to S. 14th also was Councilmen authorized con- proceedings against five landowners whose ty is needed for completion of Loop 322 around southeast They were Alpha whose See Pg. 15-A, Col. 4 Rains But It'll Stay Cool Leaving an aftertaste of cool weather and lake the areawide rains vanished early Thursday with a few spurts of Ovalo's was top State story Pg. 18-B rain but insufficient runoff to raise the lake according to Martin assistant Partly cloudy skies will for West Central Texas through says fore- caster Dennis Noble at the U. S. Weather Bureau He ex- the mercury to creep back up around 90 degrees Friday Temperature dipped to 59 de- grees overnight and had gone no higher than 65 since 9 this did not undercut the low maximum Aug. 23 record of 68 in 1928, be- cause temperature was in the 70's before 9 a.m. Abilene had an additional trace of rain between midnight and 4 Noble but it added nothing to the 15.16 inches for 1966, which is below the normal for Aug. 25. City Water Supt Weems says although the showers were slow and there was a rise in all three Abilene voir lakes now in BAIRD Lake Phantom gained BRECKENRIDGE Tr. 1.40 in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Lake Hubbard 2.00 Thursday and for the entire rainy swells the lake total by 450 million gallons altogether and brings it up to billion gallons in It as now 2.3 feet below spillway Kirby gained in the 24 hours ending Thursday morning and for the All it gained 45 million lons and now contains 860 lion to bring it to 6.6 feet below Tr. 3.20 Lake Abilene gained only all in the 24 hours ending Thursday This 15-mil- gallon gain brings the lake up to 2.6 feet below spillway with 1.865 billion gallons in it. Hubbard got a inches of Municipal Water dom Cambodian chief U.S. planes attacked frontier De Gaulle plans a major U. 5. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ESSA WEATHER ABILENE AND VICINITY Partly cloudy through High today overnight low 65 70, high Friday 90. NORTH CENTRAL Clear in partly cloudy in south tonight and Warmer in Cool again Low tonight 54 to High Friday 81 to 86. NORTHWEST Clear to ly cloudy and A little warmer Low tonight 54 to 62. High 81 to 87. SOUTHWEST Decreasing clouds tonight A little warmer Lowest tonight SI to 72. High Friday 77 to 87. TEMPERATURES p.m. 62..... 63 64 65 65 65..... 45 64 A3 63 63 Thurs. a.m. 63 ffl 63 63 High and low for 24 hours ending 65 and 59. High and low same date test 100 and 77. Sunset last sunrise sunset Barometer reading at 28.38. Humidity at 78 per cent. speech in the Cambodian Phnom Sept. 1 in which he is expected to push his campaign for a neutral Viet Whether he would condemn U.S. policy in Viet Nam from that rostrum was a matter of diplomatic speculation He has been critical of it in the past but observers noted he was re- strained about the situation while visiting the Soviet Union last The accompanied by his flew from Paris in an DCS jet on the 22nd anniversary of the of the city by French and American Although his Foreigners Warned To Leave City TOKYO China ordered the closing today of the Sacred Heart a Roman Catholic mission school in Peking run by French the newspaper Yomiuri ed in a dispatch from Yomiuri cor- respondent based in said Communist China's try of Foreign shortly after teen-age Red Guards broke into the school and led the Communist flag over informed embassies by tele- phone that it was closing down Sacred The explanation Seki was that the Catholic sion school was supported by those advocating nism and and those opposed to the thoughts of Mao Communist na's Japanese correspondents in the Communist Chinese capital reported they also put a bust of Mao in the school and plastered its with signs reading foreign and out the ning dogs of Red Guards adults backing them blocked the school doors and made it impossible to hold The Sacred Heart under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Communist Continue Rampage The continued surge through the streets ing for reforms which ranged top includes j almost 100 years has not stops in French Addis New Tahiti and his visit to a part of French owed the biggest per in Gaulle has decided to say he thinks on Viet What that remained a Besides stressing French in- terest in its old Southeast Asian De Gaulle also plans a demonstration of France's in- terest in the new world of clear to staged the heaviest raids of the from renaming Peking the Military mm IT RAISED UT Tower System Eyed East is to the abolition of Chinese checkers and Western The Catholic said to be one of the few remaining still run by is attended by children of foreign residents in The newspaper Yomiuri said their parents and for- eign diplomats who tried to test against the demonstration by Red Guard youths were Yomiuri also reported three members of a believed to be were forced to wear red clothing and forced to VIET CONG POSE WITH THEIR KILL Viet Cong stand atop wreckage of a U.S. helicopter much in the manner of big game hunters after a The caption supplied with this picture received Thursday from Communist sources claimed the men shot down the helicopter in South Viet Nam but cH not specify when or U.S. Planes Hit North In War's Heaviest Raids South Viet Nam American warplanes war North Viet Nam flying a record 146 battle deaths for the that the number plane American servicemen in Viet but Nam had surpassed 300.000. A to to is expected by the end of the Command announced Fighting also flared on the ground U.S. Marines clashed again in brisk fighting with North Army regulars in the northern provinces of South Viet The Military Command dis- closed that the Leathernecks were engaged in two new tions and so far have killed 188 of the Fighting also erupted 20 miles north of Saigon where units of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division engaged a reinforced company week that ended last Saturday were 91, ten week fewer than In addition the 425 Americans were wounded and eight were listed as missing or South Vietnamese forces had 216 killed and 414 wounded or Nguyen Cao opening South Viet Nam's tional election called for a large turnout of voters Sept. 11 but warned of an in- j crease in Communist terrorism aimed at disrupting the 2-Day Total ABILENE Municipal Airport Tr. 1.83 Total for Year 15.16 Normal for 15.79 1041 Jefferson 2.17 Lake Abilene Lake Phantom Hill Lake Kirby BIG SPRING BLACKWELL 1.85 3.00 3.25 1.30 2.20 2.00 BRONTE BROWNWOOD CISCO COLEMAN COLORADO CITY COMANCHE moss PLAINS 2.00 2.00 1.50 1.00 2.90 1.40 3.80 Tr. 1.50 PAINT HOCK PLEASANT GROVE DENTON VALLEY 3.10 GOREE 1.95 GORMAN 1.50 GLEN COVE 1.50 HAMLIN M HAPPY VALLEY 4.85 HASKELL JO 3.10 Texas regents are considering HAWLEY civil defense authorities to install a warning system on the campus Charmian W. W. JAYTON LAWN MERKEL MILES MUNDAY NOVICE NORTON NOLAN OLD GLORY 1.50 1.00 2.50 1.91 1.50 2.00 1.50 OVALO RISING STAR ROCKWOOD 120 2.60 3.20 Tr. ROBY 2.25 ROSCOE ROWENA SANTA ANNA SEYMOUR STAMFORD 2.00 SWEETWATER 1.30 WEINERT WESTBROOK SYLVESTER STITH VIEW WASTELLA 1.10 2.00 1.1 stand outside the front gate of home while being jeered iby the Posters have been pasted the walls throughout the better AUSTIN University of residential district of reports They warned rich farmers and capitalists to leave their homes within three days and to leave Peking by Sept. 10." Broadcasting Corp. Peking correspondent said the who seemed to be di- recting their wrath at posted notices on the walls Catholic which is akin to Reports said the militant agers ordered persons domestic servants to pay their salaries and send them home of Viet Cong troops early U.S. Building In other edged they were the est so far in the This would probably run from 400 to 500 Heavy Damage American pilots claimed heavy Four of 18 oil storage depots damaged and probably hit but smoke and dust prevented an accurate Most of the attacks were con- in the Southern Pan- handle and just north of the demilitarized raid was made in Only one the Hanoi The 146 missions against the Communist exceeded the previous record set earlier this month by An official U.S. spokesman Heath said Such a which includes Civil Defense siren signals and powerful loudspeakers for voice been quite during sniper Charles Whitman's Aug. 1 ing city civil defense Director W. A. Kengla Heath said the who meet Friday and are mine how the er can best be put to tive The observation deck above the tower's 27th floor has been since Whitman used it as his vantage point to shoot 14 persons to death and wound 31 Heath the board will Tr. 1.30 consider entering an 3.08 ment with the County Department Civil De- fense for installation of the warning system on 3.75 the 1.40 Kengla said such a system would reach out three-eighths of a mile from the ing the sniper he it might nave helped keep fic away from the campus and broadcast emergency tions to students to stay inside Military Command disclose the number RUSK TELLS SENATORS Kennedy Policies the Same By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON WASHINGTON tary of State Dean Rusk told questioning senators today that President Johnson's Viet Nam policies do not differ from those of President John F. Denying that country is or wants to be a policeman for the before a critical Senate Sen. Margaret Chase within five They also commitments to aid de- dered the upper classes and overseas Chinese to leave the cities within three days and work on the In a broadcast two elderly Chinese were ered with flour for living like while others were dragged about the street after their hairdos had been JHH mm SECTION A 4 10.11 1 2-3 7 I 10 12 11 ments and action on Viet Rusk made it very clear he regarded the Southeast Asia treaty as a solemn pledge and would do our Rusk pointed out that dy increased U.S. military forces there from a few hundred to Rusk told Sen. ett U.S. fenses of more than 40 in Nam have been told Rusk that be- cause of recent public criticisms by Sen. Robert F. D- many persons feel that his the late would not have escalated the fighting and U.S. forces in Viet She asked comment of Rusk who has served both presidents as secretary of do not feel that I can put words into President Kennedy's Rusk began but then quickly added that President Johnson and other presidents before him had followed a con- sistent policy in the Southeast Asian trouble President Kennedy's sute increased because of com- under the Sen. John chairman of the noted that although Rusk dis- claimed any world policeman that else seems to regard the United States as the world's Questioning the numerous de- fense treaties and Stennis said that many of our World War II allies and other free tions believe can coast Stennis and Sen. Stuart told Rusk that this country had supplied oil an oil depot 18 miles from the Communist tal with results not flown A spokesman had said earlier North that bad weather over North Viet Nam held the attacks to the Southern Panhandle and Red River The Air Force flew 71 Navy pilots 68 and U.S. Marines Despite heavy antiaircraft pilots reported they aged or destroyed 70 27 43 military supply buildings and 54 freight cars and a Most of the freight cars were hit during three raids by Navy planes on the 40-car Pilots reported the locomotive and 11 cars were destroyed and another 11 cars Over South Viet Air Force bombers hit at a Viet Cong base camp and storage area today 30 miles northwest of Qui Nhon on the The latest ground fighting in- volved a company of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division which en- countered an estimated forced Viet Cong company early today 20 miles north of Reinforcements were sent to the U.S. units and they engaged in heavy fighting until contact was broken toward In late contact was re- but was described as 50 Enemy Killed In one of the newly announced Marine the necks killed 50 Communist troops since the action began last The heaviest en- f gagement was fought Set Pf. 15-A, Col. 1 in fighting 14 miles f Da
