Denton Record-Chronicle (Newspaper) - July 30, 1964, Denton, Texas Dial 382-255 J For 24-Hour Phone Service To All DENTON CHRONICLE Serving The University Center Of The Southwest 61ST YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE NO. 301 THURSDAY JULY WEATHER HOT 24 Pages In 2 Sections 5 CENTS Denton Gets First Of Month California's Sen. Clair Engle Dies Chances Grow For Success Of Ranger 7 Calif. Scientists watched with growing elation today as Ranger 7 sailed peacefully through space with a cargo of cameras now given an 80 per cent chance of snapping history's first closeups of the Radioed information indicated all instruments aboard the 806-pound vehicle were in normal ing the television system de- mrr A signed to go into before impact at a.m. O Central Standard Time There was no threat so far of J D the technical troubles thai foiled Is Reported Viet Nam A U.S. Army officer was reported killed in a major Viet Cong ambush of a ment battalion north of Saigon before dawn Government casualties were reported Hc llp d the tremely sources six previous Ranger Dr. William H. di rector of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory which made and is guiding Hanger 7 on its mile says shaped spacecraft has passed the worst of its hurdles and has a chance of An American spokesman de- immediate comment but acknowledged that a major tion had taken If the American death is con- it will be the fifth in South Vietnam in the past three days and the in since December 1961. The Viet Cong ambushed a government unit moving from the regimental headquarters of Ben Sue to Ben 30 miles north of to begin an ly morning Scattered has been con- in the Ben Cat region for three and the operation today was apparently planned to rout guerrillas Wednesday after a minor adjustment miles out in space aimed Ranger 7 at a 50-by-300-mile area in the Sea of just southwest of the center of. the Ranger 7 now while scientists is cruising determine whether one final correction must be inade before the craft plunges into the moon at 800 miles an Us six peering out a hole in the side of its shaped must be pointed straight down when they begin snapping pictures in the final 13 minutes of Pickering said the Sea of Clouds was chosen as a target because it is in the half of the still in the moon that will be lighted by the at time of In The News THE LAW AND THE GENERAL Former Major General Edwin A. Walker had his 000 award against die Associated Press dropped today by District Court Judge Charles Murray in Fort The judge ruled that the AP was not actuated by malice in writing about bis activities on the University of Mississippi campus and that the exemplary or punishment ages should not be The jury award of for actual damages still stands THE LAW AND DEATH SinainK a spiritual and carrying a Bible in his eph 50, of Houston strode into the death chamber at Wednesday He was pronounced dead of the electrical charges at a.m. who protested to the end he was innocent of the killing of a Houston kneeled in front of the electric chair and just before he was strapped Still holding his his last audible words mercy on me and bless these THE LAW AND THE CHILD tn police for four days looked up a 33-year old San Antonio woman and her 3-ycar-old daughter for failure to pay a traffic Stephani was arrested she was involved In an accident that sent her 48-year-old to a nearby The sheriff said he locked the child up wilh her mother be- cause Mrs. a migrant had no place to leave the child while she served her A BEAUTIFUL girl will compete for the title of Miss Universe after winning the USA contest Wednesday See story and picture on Page 3, Section 1. FOR THE FIRST TIME in 10 former Denton er Billy Stinchcomb failed to lower his earned run average for Cedar Rapids of the Midwest See Page tion 1. Page Sec. Classified 11 2 Salinger May Be Appointed To His Post WASHINGTON Sen. Clair 52, forced by illness to don a fight for died today at his home There was speculation that Gov. Edmund G. Brown of fornia would name former White House press secretary Pierre Salinger to fill out the re- mainder of Engle's Salinger won a hot primary battle from Slate Controller Alan Cranston last June 2 for the Democratic nomination to Ihe PLANNED CAMPAIGN Despite a brain operation last Engle had announced ilans to run for early But he withdrew after a matic episode in the Senate ril 13 in which he tried duce a resolution and couldn't Aides privately had arranged for Sen. Spessard D- making a prolonged speech on the civil rights to yield to Engle for the Engle rose to his assisted by two stood silently an agonizing minute and could utter only one audible sound Sen. Pat offered to introduce the tion for The California senator nodded After sitting quietly in his chair for a few lie was virtually carried from the floor by his Facing a second brain lion 24, Englc dropped his plans to try for a second term in the He had been opposed in the primary by both Salinger and Cranston and nine Many of his former supporters had contended he was unable to campaign and carry out his Senate BEDRIDDEN The senator bad been den since his second brain op- in But he came to the Senate in a wheel chair last June to cast his vote in favor of the civil rights Engle's and a physician were wilh him when he died early this When the Senate Sen. Mike an- that the Senate would transact no business but adjourn out of respect to 1 Farm News 1 Food News 2 Movies 2 Page Sec Signature Page 2 Sports 1 Town Topics Z TV 2 Women's News 2 Bobby Files Rights Suits Ala. U.S. Gen. F. has filed federal suit under the new Civil Acl against 15 ealing places The filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in charged that owners and managers of Ihc 15 places have violated the law by ing lo serve Earlier Negro al in South Carolina filed suits against two Orangeburg movie The lawyers charged that Negroes were turned away from ticket dows where whiles were The Tuscaloosa suit ed that restaurants and lunch counters in the University city be forbidden lo discriminate against II also re- quested a preliminary tion against the T i A Rare Sight Lightning Over The Courthouse House OKs Social Security Boost Without Health Care LET'S ALL GO HUNTING FOR THE MONGOLIAN Calif. part lime rancher claims to have crossed a chicken with a The the never heard of such a El rado County agricultural said when told of the Leon 38, a layer who lives on a 132-acre fowl said he tried for a year before he got a golian ringneck pheasant to mate with a certain red He says three chicks have hatched and he has 48 more The chicks have chicken bodies with pheasant he He plans now to switch sexes and try for a red rooster and pheasant hen Baltic For Benefits Planned In Senate Consideration WASHINGTON to increase Social Security benefits headed today into a Senate fight to add to it controversial health care The House passed the measure 288 to 8, without the features for which President Johnson and the late President John Kennedy had The measure as it stands would give a 5 per cent raise lo the 20 million Social Security retirees and admit more than half a million more persons to the Here arc a few examples of the proposed A retired worker now ling monthly would get one now getting would get SI 10.30 and one now getting would get MEANINGFUL It's Still Dog's Day In America Md. Are the ties and congestion of man's modern world crowding his best friend out of the Not on your says dog expert Alfred the new executive vice dent of the American nel think dogs arc ing more more more necessary for their the joy that can be anyone's who has a he Isn't space becoming a problem? have to live in New York to see how valuable dogs are to people who live in small I have seen the biggest kind of dog come out of Ihe smallest he Dick spoke on modern dogdom in an interview Wednesday night at the ond annual conference of the Professional Handlers It was a Mobiln Unit reports on the hour and half 1440. Adv. cring of dog show and members from 13 states and the District of has loo long said that to have a dog you should live in the said thrive in Every dog I sec in the streets of New York is They must have a place in the lives of the ple own They have to walk them before work and in the and that takes a lot of Dr. Frank R. a from offered these There arc 25 million dogs in Ihc United This country produces live lion tons of dog food a It lakes 1VO.OOO tons of steel to package only Ihe canned dog Dog foods outsell baby foods and breakfast cereals WEATHER DEUTON Our lo ly and widely lure in 14 lo Mlah 9; lo 100. TEMPERATURES Low Ihli 7] Wednesday m Low Mo 1i Low Year AID 11 Sun sen al 0 rhel Friday al a.m. RAINFALL Claim Last H 1.10 I 10 Ml July 311 31.11 7hn Year 7i 05 1.10 Is Gauged In Town received its first moisture in over a month Wednesday evening as 1.10 inches fell ing a break in what may be the hottest and driest July in almost a Two deluges and strong winds some thought might liave a twister struck in Comity at Rain throughout tho area varied from to 3.8 Corinth and Aubrey reported 3.8 and 2.8 inches respectively while only fell at Prosper on the extreme western edge of Two showers which totaled were Ihc first ruin of any kind at since June 14. Other rainfall amounts include at 2.60 at at ill and 3.8 ut Cor- measurements Il- lustrate how the ruin Downtown received the north edge 2 inches and the south The Black Mark Farm to the west recorded and the Corps of Engineers nt Dam to the cast 1.77. H. C. who owns a small farm about three miles southeast of Denton on Dallas brought a rain gauge to the Newsroom morning with 3.5 At high winds knocked down several trees in tile and west parts of ing to Hay city nnd several local dents believe there wus a ter in the Lightning struck Ihc John Cokor McClendon damage not The wind blew a window out of the vacant Hughes The cause a brief power interruption at p.m. The dry spell has brought high water consumption to area lowns like wells are ing out but we've had difficulty the storage tanks McClendon we haven't been running the pumps 24 hours a Residents have ated in keeping consumption Traffic near Lake Dallas at slowed to almost a still as high winds and rains cut across Interstate 35. Most cans and trucks pulled to Ihc side of the highway while a few moved 25 at the The rain brought some relief In what has been the hottest July since 1956 and the driest on record since 1357. The mercury has over the mark 16 limes this This compares with 10 over days in six in 1W2; none in five See Page 2 i Goldwater Plan Eastern Battle A man and his wife now ting would get a couple would gel and a couple now gelling would gel Senale of the ad- ministration were already al work on amendments lo wrile into Ihc measure a version of possibly as a voluntary option n for some or all of the cash creases The proposals have nol hei pul in final Similar moves earlier year by the were abandoned in the face of defeat by Ihe Ways and Means Any such provisions arc sure lo meet stiff opposition and WASHINGTON advocacy of civil rights might block final passage ol Johnson and GOP social welfare lo especially nominee Barry Ihc party's case seemed Congress is driving to adjourn to be preparing to likely to joit further the support before the Democratic Eastern industrial slates a fur the in Hie Convention begins Aug. 24. prime in the The arrangements As passed by Ihe linn countered this by naming Gov. would increase Social Johnson signaled his Sanders of who rity payments million lions wilh Wednesday's has predicted Ihe Johnson annually by setting a new by Ihe Democratic will carry his as of to for a single i ments committee at Ihc man of the convention rules up to for a liberal This pul a ly wilh John 0. Pasture of Rhode nor in a key would go up in as keynoter for the who worked closely lure as high as for a Atlantic Johnson when the latter which opens 21. Democratic leader of Ihc The also would up lold a news summed up his Social Security tax paid by in announcing thai see wilh and in W. Scranlon the president on his by increasing from to Pennsylvania will be host at choice of Ohio 400 the wage base on which they are The increase would amount lo each next GOP summit conference at Chairman Ray Bliss and next month thai former national party chairman intends lo campaign in W. a New jas members of a steering com- that will map strategy Potential b or in. slate politicking near of mostly choice ol the nf n's campaign 72 and exponent of the The bills would also add about aged persons lo Ihei don't buy Ihe beneficiary rolls by relaxing wc coverage for me j j power in York he
