Corpus Christi Times (Newspaper) - May 13, 1961, Corpus Christi, Texas INDEX Amusements Page 7 Church News Page 2 Classified page 2B Comics Page 5 Crossword Puzzle Page 7 Editorials Sports Page 4 Page 1B EVENING EDITION VOLUME 263 Second class paid at Corpus Texas CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS SATURDAY MAY 13 1961 Published every weekday afternoon by Co 14 FIVE CENTS Unify Against Reds Urged By Johnson Filipino Congress Hears American Vice President Talk MANILA IT Vice Presided Lyndon B Johnson told the Phil Congress today free na Ions must together oui determination to keep our free dom in the face of threats The vice president barnstorm ing Asian hot spots for President Kennedy appeared at the Uni versity of the Philippines anc then dashed across Manila by helicopter to make this pled before a joint session of Con gress America will honor her com to the cause of free dom throughout the community of free nations Our friends can count on America and we know we can count on our more than our old and friends the Filipino people A PACKED chamber listened as Johnson warned Commu nism is testing our good will by many tactics in many places He cited Cuba as a place where a demagogue has turned a peo ples dream of a better life into a nightmare of Communist dic In South Viet Nam which Johnson left yesterday Commu nist guerrillas hide in the jun gles to strike by night against families who have chosen free dom he said In a seeming gesture of cau tion about the Philippines ex pressed frustration with anti communist policy throughout Asia Johnson said unity of purpose is one thing But it is not everything In a global contest there are many arenas and many tactics he said Unless this is under stood unity of purpose can be come an empty shell This was the closest the vice president came to mentioning Laos the crisis area of greatest concern to the Philippines FREEDOM must respond re to compell ing challenges of communism wherever and however those chal lenges come he said Free dom must demonstrate FROM OUT OF THE reminder of bygone days has appeared in Balti more where workmen tore down a building and uncovered a sign painted on the side of an adjacent structure The message asked support in a move to re peal the 18th Amendment of the Constitution Prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment adopted in 1933 AP Wirephoto IN HOLLYWOOD HILLS HOLLYWOOD Calif HI Fire through the scenic brush Hollywood Hills with ex overlooking the Angeles area The blare is only a mile or so from glit fury last night leaving an cringe Hollywood and Sunset Bou 21 homes destroyed or free world must display initiative he said and seek new responses to express true strength of our free society Before addressing congress Johnson lunched President Carlos P Garcia in sprawling Palace Garcia is the second chief of state Johnson has met in his tour aimed at help ing stem the Communist tide in Southeast Asia Johnson displayed a touch of Texas informality during the motorcade ride from Internation al Airport the same informal ity that won him a wave of friendliness in South Viet Nam Time ard again the American vice president stopped his car to shake hands with every Filipino within reach Despite a sudden ram several hundred thousand turned out to welcome him Johnson flew from South Viet Nam where he pledged the Unit ed States would help that South east Asian country militarily and See JOHNSON Page 8 damaged The flames pushed by up to 10 mph blackened gusts more than 1000 acres before fire fight ers got the upper hand There were no reports of serious injur ies Scores of residents were eva from the heavily populat ed exclusive residential district ALL OF the homes burned or threatened were on hillsides near famed Griffith Park Observatory Among those lost was the homo of novelist Aldous Huxley Fire Inspector Otto Firgens said crews had confirmed the de struction of 11 dwellings includ ing several mansions Aerial ob By TRAVIS MOORMAN Staff Writer BEEVILLE Neal Dancer at torney defending Carroll R Strick land on a charge of robbery with firearms may spend this week end in the Bee County jail on the orders of Judge John H Miller Dancer was held in contempt o court before tiie jury was brought in this morning fined and threatened with jail if he did not pay the fine Dancer told Miller he would have to send him to Local Man Commits Suicide at Home A Johnston Street resident shot and killed himself about 9 am today at his home He was William James Rut ledge 4813 Johnston who was pronounced dead at the scene Justice of the Peace W A returned a verdict of death by gunshot wounds said Rutledge shot himself in the chest with a 30 caliber Winchester rifle Mrs Rut ledge was in another part of the house at the time After hear ing the shot she found her hus band on the floor and called the police The bullet entered the center of his chest and went out just left of the center of his back Mrs Rutledge told Detectives Sgt L B Simmons and A L Duckworth her husband had been in ill health for some time The body was taken to Clif ford Jackson Funeral Home Valley Crash Kills One Man News Service i ZAPATA A Lo man was killed in a car truck collision here last night and at least one other was in jured Dead was Severo Sanchez who was a passenger In a car driven by Enrique Flores 28 also of Lopeno when the auto collided with a truck inside the city limits of Zapala Another passenger in the car Gilberto Gonzales 40 of Lopeno was thought to have received in ternal and He was scheduled for surgery this morning in Laredos Mercy Hos pital Highway Patrolmen D H Lipe and Jack Carpenter reported that Flores was passing a car when he collided with a truck driven by Isaac age unknown of San Angelo Orbi way was not injured It was not known whether Flores was injured Sanchez body was taken to Jackson Funeral Home In La redo a physician in Zapata said this morning servers working in 25 homes ap destroyed or damaged Shortly after midnight Firgens Laos Peace Meet Still Hanging jail because he would not pay it Dancer requested the sentence be suspended until after the con of the trial in order that he might confer with his client MILLER REMARKED that Dancer might confer with Strick land at the jail because that was where he was going at 5 pm today The fine was levied after Danc er called Edge a liar while Edge was a witness Edge is chief deputy in the Bee County sheriffs department and a bailiff of the court in the trial now in progress Miller told Dancer this was in violation of the courts order giv en Dancer yesterday and a viola tion of the common standards of decency DANCER CALLED Edge as a witness before the jury was brought in to question the deputy on a visit Edge made to the jury room this morning Edge said he went to take a box of cigars left at the sheriffs office for one of the jurors and that he went tothe restroom while inside the jury room Edge said he was in there about 10 minutes and the regular jury bailiff was present at all imes Edge said that it was a full Congo Leader Calls Session Of Parliament President Asks United Nations To Provide Aid LEOPOLD VILLE the Congo Joseph Kasavubu today called Parliament back in to session to help resolve the po that has split the nation since its founding It is ex to meet in a few weeks After nearly 10 months of con fusion misery and ail kinds of privation the president said in an address each of us will have taken note of the need for stable social order based on the princi ples of public morality and legal ity The call for to meet represented an attempt to brin Katanga back under control of the centra government now that Moise Tshombe has been arrested on treason charges He has pro claimed his province an dent nation It remains o br scon deputies will desert and attend the mentary session KASAVUBU ASKED for United Nations protection for the and their families and for UN travel facilities to bring the members to Leopold vine The moment is very grave Kasavubu said in formal ad in Every one has ihc duty to collaborate said the danger to homes had in the work of reconstruction I passed and that full control ap imminent BS winds fad ed At daybreak 450 firemen re their assault against the blaze hopeful of controlling it if the winds remained dormant WE HAVE a chance if the winds stay down a fire depart ment spokesman said But the winds usually pick up in the morning However we dont think the winds will be as bad as they were last night The blaze started about pm near Hollyridge Avenue and Canyon Drive Nearby is Beach wood Canyon a often used for scenes in western type movies Within 17 minutes after the first alarm officials declared a major emergency as the powerful winds whipped the flames through brush crisp from one of the driest years in Los Angeles County history Firemen were hampered by narrow streets and steep terrain as flames shot through towering eucalyptus trees and hillside brush Camp Hollywood a Girl Scout encampment with 146 girls on the scene was surrounded by the fire for a time But firemen the convocation of ment will being not merely a re turn to legality but a full new lease life for our population By recalling Parliament Kasa effectively challenged the rebellious regime in Stanleyville to come to terms with the central government Rebel leader Antoine has always insisted that only Parliament could designate a le gal government TOOK over the lea among followers of ex Premier Patrice Lumumba slain during captivity early this year and set up a rump regime in Stanleyville to the fight for a rigid central government Lumumba was killed while the jurisdiction of President Tsh of Katanga Politicians loyal NEVER A SOLO Whenever David Robbins 12 plays his comet at his home in Lafayette Ind its never a solo always a duet Thats because Chink Davids dog likes to join in with his own brand of music The two are shown in one of their frequent duets AP Wirephoto toe of cigars with the seal un broken and he did not know who left the box at the sheriffs office Dancer asked if it wasnt Melvin Peewee Sugarek at whose home a poker game was robbed on March 2 by three men one alleged to be Strickland EDDIE YATES patrolman in the Mesquite Police Department who arrested Strickland there on March 3 was under cross ex amination most of the morning Edge yesterday identified marked as one found on Strickland after his arrest 3 Sugarek last Wednesday iden the as one taken from a compartment in his during the robbery Sugarek sale the had the number 900 writ ftw to Kasavubu are now in their third week of deliberations at Coquilhatville on a new constitution for the young Congo nation Their proposals extreme presumably will be presented to the Parliament for ratification Forecast for Corpus and vicinity Partly cloudy warm and windy this afternoon and to night Tomorrow cloudy to part ly cloudy and warm Cnance for HOLLYWOOD 7 Gary fighting hopeless odds although gravely ill with cancer has been given the last rites of the Catholic Church a family spokesman said today The spokesman said the 60 star was given unction sometime yes afternoon by the Rev Dan il Sullivan of Good Shepherd Church in Beverly Hills The actors condition remained critical but unchanged during the night He slept under heavy sedation For the past 10 days he has been heavily drugged to ease intense pain the spokesman said Cooper is being fed moved equipment in so rapidly a few tomorrow morn that it wasnt necessary to eva cuate the camp CAUSE OF the fire was unde ermined One report was that it started when a power line blew down The observatory overlooking the sprawling Los Angeles basin was never in danger although fire licked ug the steep sides of Jie promontory on which it stands The Griffith Park Zoo was threatened but fire lines the advance of the flames The houses that burned resi dents said ranged in value from as high as 580000 Among them was a landmark known as The Castle with stone walls at a cost of in the Thoroughfares in the area were clogged with sightseers the seasons first major brush fire Police blocked nil streets leading to the Griffith Park area and traffic moved at a crawl Residents trained binoculars on the hillside watching the orange flames leap from ridge to ridge The burn was snotty with some sections within the perimeter es caping tbt entirely ng Low for high for this afternoon 8286 and tomorrow Wind forecast South and south east 20 to 25 miles an hour with gusts to 35 this afternoon dim ishing slightly to south 15 to 25 miles an hour tonight Tomor row southerly 12 to 22 miles an nour becoming variable and mostly westerly 10 to 16 miles an hour tomorrow afternoon Temperature downtown at noon 81 degrees relative humidity 61 per cent barometric pressure 2978 Highest temperatures yesterday and lowest this morning Corpus Christ International Airport 84 72 Chamber of Commerce 8275 Water temperatures at Port Ar this morning 72 degrees Sunrise am tomorrow sunset pm today moon rise am tomorrow moon set pm today Gulf of Mexico tides High pm today and am anc pm tomorrow low pm today and am tomor row Rainfall for 1961 is 832 inches 103 inches above normal Map physician marvelled at His Coopers staying power the spokesman said The doctor himself was not available for comment But the spokesman who has been giving actors illness reported the doc tors reaction Any number of times in the past two weeks the situation has been touch or go But each time Mr Cooper would regain somi strength and go on the next day How long can he wage toe hope less fight Its hard to say the spokes man said Perhaps a few day or longer Perhaps only a few hours The spokesman said the priest a longtime friend of Cooper ha been visiting the actor daily Except for the priest and th doctor who asked to remain un identified Cooper has had no visitors in the last two weeks the spokesman said His wife and daughter have been at his bedside almost con he added Cooper an Episcopalian converted to Cath in 1959 Kis wife and daughter already were of that Gromyko Rusk Fail To Agree newsmen daily bulletins on the faith GENEVA Secretary tf State Dean Rusk said today a meeting back in Laos may be ettling some o the questions the great powers have failed thus far o settle A conference on Laos failed to start on schedule esterday stymied by the fact that the Soviets and the West could not agree on how Laos was o be represented Rusk and Sov et Foreign Minister Andrei Gro failed to settle the issue in face to face meeting today Rusk in a curbside interview appeared surprised that some of the rival Laotian politicians ex here now are planning to meet before that in Communist leld Laotian territory They are seeking to form a single Laotian government They may be settling some of Jie questions we are talking about here Rusk commented HE SAID the situation may be clearer after the Laotians meet tomorrow Rusk and other leaders of East and West held a series of con all through the day in an attempt to save a conference that has run into an impasse be fore it starts The issue of Laotian represen tation kept the conference from starting on schedule yesterday In his first try at personal diplo macy with the Russians Rusk conferred with Gromyko in a So viet hillside mansion to try to end the dispute Rusk told newsmen after his meeting that the United States would not accept the Soviet de mand for full and equal status for the Communistled Pathet Lao at lie conference table Rusk and Gromyko were to gether at the Soviet mission for 70 minutes The Amer ican decided to call on the Soviet foreign ministers to explore ways of breaking the deadlock a move encouraged by other Western leaders MEANWHILE five members of file Laotian gov delegation reached Gene va Averell Harriman Pres ident Kennedys roving dor met them and Rusk arranged a prompt conference with them Pathet Lao and neutralist delega tions the other two factions in already are at Geneva Their arrival was one of a fast moving series of developments In Laos at the town of Ban in territory representatives of the warring sites signed a formal ceasefire and agreed to open political talks tomorrow The talks will be aimed at setting up a coalition govern ment and possibly agreeing on a unified delegation to Geneva A report from the International Control Commission submitted before the Ban agree ment said a de facto ceasefire truce in fact if not actually in effect in Laos It said that breaches probably werg due to misunderstandings scat tered forces and the like THE COMMISSIONS report was accepted by all delegations See LAOS Page 8 Smiley Named President Of University of Texas AUSTIN University of Texas regents today named Dr Joseph R Smiley president and received without action a series of resolutions and petitions on widening integration Smiley will be chief administra tive officer of the main universi ty at Austin succeeding Dr Har ry H Ransom who has been ad to chancellor of the uni versify system Two student petitions extending integration and three for it were laid before the govern ing board of the university which admits Negroes to classes Two faculty resolutions were also filed with the regents No Immediate action will he taken a spokesman said Efforts are being madt to include Negroes in such extra classroom activities as football and dramatic pro and to admit Negroes to dormitories Smiley is former president of Texas Western College at El Paso a part of the university system Smiley vice president and pro vost of the main university since Aug 1960 becomes president on June I Ranson said other admini appointments both in the university system and in the main university are under con sideration They include a suc cessor to Smiley Smiley a native of Dallas joined the university system in 1958 as president of Wes tern At the University of Illinois he was dean of the College of Lib eral Arts and Sciences and Pro of French He taught at North Texas State College 1935 38 and Columbia Univer sity 193941 and the University of Illinois 194758 At Southern Methodist Univer sity he the bachelor of arts degree in 1931 and master of arts in 1932 He received the doctor of philosophy degree from Columbia University in 1947 Smiley is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Alpha social fraternity He was on active duty with the US Naval Reserve 194346 Mrs Smiley is the former Mary Fincher The hsi two children Stephen and
