Corpus Christi Times (Newspaper) - September 30, 1965, Corpus Christi, Texas INDEX Amusements taft 81 Classified 6C Comics Crossword Editorials Pagt 2B Sports 1C Womens News Page ID EVENING EDITION 75 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 301965 Want AOI 60 FIVE CENTS NO PUCE FOR IT Birch Group Hit by Top Republicans WASHINGTON AP The Senate and House Republican leaders said today thera is no place in the Republican Party for the John Society Speaking of the Sen Everett M Dirksen of Illinois said They are not a part of the Republican Party they never have been and they never will be Hep Gerald R Ford of Michi gan was just as emphatic He described the militantly conser society as ft monolithic organization that takes orders Conferees Agree on Aid WASHINGTON ff Senate and House conferees agreed to day on a compromise foreign aid appropriations After a 25 minute meeting Sen John 0 Pastore DRI said the figure was fixed at 218000000 A total of million had separated the two chambers and Pastore said the mise was million above what the Senate had recommended and million below the House figure The conferees upheld Senate amendments that would ban aid to Indonesia and the United Arab Republic unless the dent deems it in the national interest They also left it up to the President to decide whether aid may go to countries whose ships carry Nam material to North Viet The President could allow aid to such countries but he would be required to report to the apl committees of Con gress The conferees cut out an amendment which would have allowed a Ifl per cent transfer of funds from the International Development Association to er foreign development pro grams The also includes funds for the Peace Corps adminis tration of the Islands refugee assistance and the In ter American Development Bank The overall total is 832188000 from the top and declared There is no place for it in the Republican Party The GOP congressional lead ers at a joint televised am broadcast news conference wer asked about a statement of Sen Thruston B Morton RKy that Birchites are the Republican Party DIRKSEN AND Ford were asked if they agreed with Mor ton a former GOP national chairman who had bracketed the Birch Society with the Ku Klux Klan and the Communist Party as dangerous clandestine groups Morton said Birch mem bers ought to be kicked out of GOP ranks and added that their idea of taking over a party is to beat the Republican incumbent j The John Birch Society isj not a part of the Republican Party Dirksen said in the American political scheme I do not think there is any place or any room for an organization that operates on a secret basis to achieve its political goals Dirksen said the Republicans have never been encumbered by a group like ADA Amer for Democratic Action which describes itself as dedi to liberal causes and is usually aligned with the Demo crats We dont believe in ex tremes Dirksen said Deicide In Draft Eliminated STEPUP DUE IN TRAINING MIAMI BEACH Fla IP The identity nf three Re serve Army divisions and six brigades earmarked for special emergency training will be disclosed in Wash ington this afternoon it was announced here Lt Gen WHS Wright chief of Army Reserve com told the National Guard Association conven tion the units be by Secretary of De fense Robert McNamara at a news conference The government previous ly announced plans to step up training for 150000 men to ready them for any Viet Nam emergencies By means of accelerat ed home station ami week end training Wright said we plan to raise the readi ness nf selected Reserve forces to a level higher than that of present ty units Wright said the force would consist of Guard and Reserve units from every state except Alaska Every attempt has been made to insure an equita ble distribution between the stales in numbers of indi and units Wright Mid THOMAS L COLEMAN AFTER ACQUITTAL I am happy he told newsmen 1 J AP Alabaman Cleared In Rights Slaying Jury Deliberates 2 Hours Shakes Special Hand HAYNEVILLE Ala IB clerk Mrs Kelly jury of 12 white men acquitted Drilling Permit Is Denied by City VATICAN CITY UP The Vatican Ecumenical Councils draft declaration on the Jews las been revised to eliminate the controversial word deicide and to include for the first time a specific condemnation of anti Semitism This was made known today when the revised text was dis in the Roman Catholic assembly and newsmen were given official summaries The declaration still asserts the Jewish people must not tx blamed for the Crucifixion Many council experts said felt the new wording strength ened the document But some indicated they would have pre ferred leaving the word dei cide in the draft All agree the specification deploring anti Semitism was an improvement The changes still are to by twothirds of th 2200 council fathers the wording reverts to the approved last year GAS RESERVES VALUE SET AT MILLION Potential gas reserves in the Corpus Christi Bay area have been estimated at three trillion cubic feet valued at about million City Councilman William H Wallace said today He made the remark at a special City Council meeting to consider a bay drilling permit Wallace said the figures were mentioned at an earlier meeting of the bay drilling committee of which he is a member Such vast reserves could mean a considerable increase in the citys ad valorem tax revenues plus large royalties to the state which owns the sub merged land he said This is the first time a value on the gas reserves in the bay area has been mentioned in public Wal lace would not identify the person who gave the fig ures PRESIDENT SIGNS Railway Tests Due in Year She read it aloud in the court special deputy sheriff Thomas L Coleman today of a man room Several of the jurors shook lj til jui wi slaughter charge in the killing hands with the defendant after FORD SAID the Republican legislative record is in conflict with the stands taken by the John Birch Society He called it a clandestine group like the Communists and the Klan and said all three are dangerous I am concerned about any political action group that oper ates under a clandestine cloak Morton said in an interview In Los Angeles former Rep John H Rousselot now a Birch Society representative said Morton was confused and mis led by the unfortunate pressures being purposefully stirred In Washington at this time to jump on the JBS of a white civil rights worker Jonathan M Daniels The verdict came at am EST after the jury had deliberated one hour last night and one hour this morning In the intervening time the jurors had spent the night locked up in Montgomery As the jury came out of the room and returned to the box foreman C E Gates Jr hand ed the written verdict to the cir Market Up After 2 Days Of Decline NEW YORK W Selected is Circuit Judge T Worth Thagard discharged them The spectators who occupied most of the scats in the court room took the verdict without any display of feeling THE SHOOTING took Aug 20 after Daniels and the Rev Richard nf Chi cago had been released from jail following civil rights activi ties sues were strong early this noon as the stock market kissed his wife after the snapped back from two days of verdict was read A daughter decline sat nearby tears The pace of trading was about down her cheeks equal to yesterdays when 106 million shares were traded The list appeared a bit uneasy at the opening Some recent high Nations Chairman Ray C Bliss bad no comment on the Morton declar ation Neither did Sen Thomas Kuchell who has long been an outspoken foe of the Birch Society Morton a is chair man of the Senate Ikan Campaign Committee He said he did not know the exten of Birch Infiltration He said Texas Sen John Tower had to battle to keep the Birch Society from taking over the GOP or in the Houston area Washington Gov Dan Evans fought a similar fight and Mich igan Gov George Romney had a knock out over a Birch Society bid to take con irol of the Michigan GOP chair manship That text says the Jewish people should never be pre sented as one rejected cursed or guilty nf deicide The revised text distributed today says the Jews should not presented as rejected by God or accursed as if this follows from Holy Scripture A footnote to the revised text explains that such terms as deicide and Christ killer arf odious words The text was approved by the council in a preliminary vote last year Since then it has been amended on the basis of suggestions submitted by the council fathers Tho council will begin voting in Pres Johnson announced today wounded in shooting is recovering in the amended two portions in Chicago hospital Coleman still faces an assault and lery charge in the wounding must be by at least twothirds of the 2200 card archbishops and bishops Some council believe nothing to say except I am Members of the jury declined to comment One of thorn who w o u 1 d noi lc identified Middle East nations have com that the declaration amounts to support Israel A number of conservative prel ates have argued that the state ment nn constitutes a rejection of the gospels lyers backtracked They came wasting your time back to the plus side in later dealings and additional specula tive favorites seemed to be join ing the parade Wall Street seemed to derive encouragement from a published report expressing doubt that the Federal Reserve Board is about to raise margin requirements for buying stock A strong rumor that present margin or down payment on stock would be increased to 100 per cent from 70 per cent was linked with yesterdays decline Steels airlines and oils were up on balance Motors and aero space issues were mixed The Associated Press average of 60 stocks at noon was up 6 at 3450 with industrials up 7 up 5 and utilities up 3 The Dow Jones industrial aver age at noon was up 329 at 93568 name told reporters oc Egan Of Sinton the firm tests in new rail transportation will begin in about a year By the fall of 1966 he said new rail passen ger cars are expected to be de livered At that time he said the Pennsylvania Railroad will begin providing service between New York and Washington and between New York and Bos ton at speeds up to 125 miles an hour The White House explained lat r that although the track be tween New York and Boston is owned by the New Haven Rail road the Pennsylvania runs a couple of trains a day on it and these trains will be The President made the an before siping the High Speed Ground Transpor tation Act in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House Many presidents of the major railroads and chiefs of railroad unions members of Congress and government officials were among the several hundred who gathered for the ceremony THE provides for re search and development in im proving ground transportation and authorizes million for the work over a threeyear pe riod However Congress mus make the appropriation Johnson followed up quick eeds In a Omission of Text on Birth Control Asked After Coleman left the court house his chief attorney State Sen Vaughn Hill Robinson handed The Associated Press a statement which aid Tom Coleman has boon tried n the temple of justice whore e should have been tried and all the facts were prc The verdict of the jury the only one that could be based on the facts U a fair and just verdict om has been rated The acquittal means that cannot be tried on an thcr charge in state court for he killing of the Daniels an Episcopal seminary and volunteer worker rom Keene NH RICHMOND FLOWERS Ala bama attorney general who had unsuccessfully to postpone the trial and ultimately was dls missed from the case by the udge had said Coleman should mvc been tried for murder in stead of manslaughter He said f the trial were postponed he would seek a murder indict from a grand Jury VATICAN CITY I The Vatican Ecumenical Council wax asked oday to scrap its en tire text on birth control and fet Pope Paul VI make a final pronouncement on the subject The request came from John Cardinal Neman of Britain who aim asked that the Roman Catholic Church urge to adopt and children Cardinal Heenan was among 14 who In the on he wantage and on modern world The document of cou ples having the right to deter mine the number of children they should have But there no o contraception Clearly alluding to UM told tin in St It not M better to My nothing at all about mar rafter control of as If we act in this way there is surely some danger that the faithful will feel they are being defrauded Another speaker Angelo Card inal Rossi of Sao Paulo Brazil the final word on birth control properly belongs to the Pope but that the a UM council muit have some word before we ami go than It jMi Uan buck ta wir people It that UM the council ta HUTt Pap I The trial which day came to a conclusion on a rainy dny In a courthouse more than A century ngo Despite the towns people and other residents o County braved in steady rain to get to the court house and hear he verdict Defense attorneys In arguments had conceded Coteman had killed Daniels bw claimed defense attorneys to sup port heir plea of fii the of the reminded the toy o fee Page I nd vehicles off the nations Under provisions of the IB new equipment will not re lace existing facilities but will x used at varying times to de ermine passenger reaction and brief speech Johnson aid the United States has technological miracles n transportation WE HAVE airplanes which ly three times faster than ound he said We have tele cameras orbiting Mars But we have the same tired mass transportation Between our towns and cities hat we had 30 years ago Research and development un See RAIL Page 12 News Service BEEVILLE Doc Egan 57 inton commercial her died shortly after mid in n local hospital from received in n about pm ay on a local downtown street Mrs Egan is reported in ser condition in Hos today Highway Patrolman Ross said the Egan car col with a car driven by C B McWhorter Bee police officer He said Sgan was turning left off Wash Street onto Fannin when iJs car and the McWhorter ve hicle collided The Egans were returning to Sinton from a vacation at Hugo on Kan where they visited relatives Egan was night radio dispatch cr for the San County Sheriffs Department with a request to Congress for million for the first year Johnson said a ex on the New Haven Rail oad using gas turbine engines Iso will in the fall o ext year or very shortly there The Pennsylvania lines pro ct will involve purchase of ur o individually m o t o r e The new law provides tha both lines shall cooperate wit he Commerce Department i 11 phases of the experiment an share the results with othe railroads The eastern area was choser or the pilot operation of its population density and re suiting traffic snarls A majo ilin Is to determine rail service betwee big cities can take passengers Immigration Measure Approved by House WASHINGTON W Thi House gave approval today ti a that would end the 41 policy of limiting im migration into United State on the basis of nationality Prompt Senate passage I also expected today thus com congressional action on one of ma lor bills though that woiM milw laying aiMe other Senate temporarily Earl Story Page Well in Bay Is Already Under Way By SPENCER The City Council today de nied Oil Pro ducing Co a permit for a well it already is drilling in Corpus Christi Bay near Portland What will happen next isup to said but the company already has indicated it will continue to drill unless stopped by a court order Acting City Manager Marvin Townsend was instructed to see that the city ordinances are en forced which could result in the filing of an injunction suit against John Brooke local attor ney for told the council that the company began the well located about 4000 feet offshore from Port land with the erroneous assump tion that it was outside the city limits Because of the costs involved Forecast for Corpus Christi jid vicinity Partly cloudy ind warm this afternoon Thun with the windshift n early afternoon Partly loudy windy and cooler to night and tomorrow Low for tonight 5458 high or this afternoon and for 7478 Wind forecast Small craft warnings are displayed south to southeast S to 12 miles an hour north 15 to 25 miles an hour gusts to 35 miles an lour early this afternoon Winds north 15 to 25 miles an lour and northeast 15 to 20 miles an hour tomorrow Temperature downtown at noon 86 degrees relative hu 48 per cent barometric pressure 2979 Highest temperature yester day and lowest this morning International Airport 9068 Chamber of Commerce Ex tremes this day 94 in 1929 55 in 1890 Sunrise am tomorrow sunset pm today moon rise pm tomorrow moon set pm today Gulf of Mexico tides High pm today and am Saturday low pm today and pm tomorrow Rainfall for 1965 is 1860 inch es 305 inches below normal he said it would not be eco feasible to stop drilling unless forced to do so He said however British American is anxious to work out a reasonable agreement The councils action followed a recommendation of the nine man bay drilling committee which held a special meeting at am today to consider the matter HOWEVER split in their opinions The action to deny the per mit passed on a 32 vote with Councilmen Jack Blackmon and Patrick Dunne voting against it For the denial were William H Wallace Ken McDaniel and Ronnie Sizemore A prior motion by Blackmon to call a special meeting to con sider appli cation failed Blackmon said the city could become liable for damages if it denied the permit then filed an injunction suit to stop the drill Weather Map Page ing It is possible that the courts could rule the councils action to be arbitrary and he said WALLACE disagreed saying the council had been considering it for two or three days includ ing one hour and 45 minutes this morning The recommendation of the drilling committee headed by Edward H Harte was that the council should not grant a per mit nor should it waive any of its rights to regulate the well and its operation The committee took no posi tion on the question of whether lepl action should be taken leaving that to the council and the city attorney We further recommend that all leaseholders within that por tion of Corpus Christi Bay which Sec DENIED Page Vt US Hits Castros Refugee Statement WASHINGTON State Department said today that if Fidel Castro is serious about as sisting Cuban refugees in get ting to the United States he should make his proposal through diplomatic channels and it will bo given most careful consideration here A criticized as vague and ambiguous Castros announcement two nights ago that he would open doors to those who wanted for what the US officials today they Related Page 14 could not tell whether the beard ed Cuban premiere was or trying to make prop They said there were propaganda overtones in speech Press officer Robert J Me Closkey told a State Department news conference today The of the and the form and UM torn in which it was about US IWI the United has received more than a quarter million Cu bans in recent yean and tt ii also concerned about tha they take in escaping tram the island in small boats ta flu lace of preventive by Cuban government atoo tkat tha US government If about the problem of Cuban If tha Cuban official
