El Paso Herald-Post (Newspaper) - February 21, 1964, El Paso, Texas El Paso The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers VOL NO 45 EL PASO TEXAS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21 1964 DELIVERED BY 35C PER WEEK JOHNSON PREDIC HOME EDITION PRICE TEN CENTS 30 PAGES TWO SECTIONS CIVIL WAR 42 City Employes Face Loss of Jobs Clip Payroll To Cut Down Expenses Police and Fire Departments Will Not Be Reduced By KEN FLYNN A survey of City Depart ment heads today indicated that at least 42 employes would bo laid off as pint of a campaign to keep the citys budget within tls in come The City Parks and Recreation Department will be hardest hit with 16 employes laid off accord ing to reliable sources in tl at de The Street Department which was recently reduced by 25 em ployes was reported considering laying off eight more ABOUT 15 employes of th City Engineering Department ha ye al ready been laid off and ft om 8 to 10 more are to be pink slipped The layoffs will probably be announced next week when Coun cil approves the budget for the fiscal year March I 1964 to Feb 28 196i There are a total o 2300 city employes In other departments Inspection will lose two pal Shops will lay off three Per two Purchasing one and Police Court two THERE WILL be no change in the Police and Fire Departments Their budgets will remain the tame Wed like to have mon po a police official said but we will not increase our staff We are short nine men now We expect to be able tc hire nine more men in March to bring our force up to its full strength All indications are that there will be no reduction of staff in the Sanitation Department MAYOR WILLIAMS said it is possible that employes who are laid off will be hired back the year is over as vacancies Continued on Page A8 CoL 5 Astronaut Views Future Spacemen Facing Dull Loops in Skies ASTRONAUT From left Donald T Gregory technical assistant to tbe director of Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston Astronaut Nell A Armstrong and Dr Eugene Horton chief of community affairs for the Center They arrived in El Paso to take part In the Pilot Space Science Symposium By JANE PEMBERTON On short space flights US Astronauts soaring through space are too busy to be bored but the problem of how to pass the time will certainly concern men on longer flights So says Neil A Armstrong one of the new group of Astronauts now in training for the Gemini and Apollo projects The sandy spaceman who has an Ike Eisenhower grin and a great deal of the same sort of personal ap peal may someday be one of he first men to set foot on the HE ARRIVED in El Paso today to take part in the Pilot Space Science Symposium being held in conjunction with the Southwestern Science Exposition He was ac companied by Donald T Grego ry technical assistant to the di rector of the National Aeronaut ics and Space Administrations Manned Spacecraft Center at short flights have kept busy mon the crafts various sys tems and observing the strange new world of space WE ARE CERTAINLY con about the proper amount of work and rest cycles on long er flights he said Mea ii space must leam to adjust tc nights and days which are only an hour or so long He said the Navy uses a sys tern of white and red lights foi men who work deep in so the workmen know when thei work hours are over A simila plan may be worked out foi space men Mr Gregory explained recent decision to move the Apol Houston and Dr Eugene Horton lo landings from White Sands chief of community affairs at HE SATO scientists are work the center The problem of boredom aloft has not yet concerned spacemen because there has been much to do during the hours fa orbit Astronauts who have made the ing on a way to bring our astro down on land but prob lems in the system as it is called have developed Continued on Page A8 CoU 5 Assassins Bullets Miss Turk Premier by Inches HOUSe Unit State Capitol Okays Sands Bliss Funds Million Worth Of New Construction Wins Approval Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Feb 21 The House Armed Services Committee tentatively has approved million worth of new military construc tion at Pt Bliss and White Sands Missile Kange for the next fiscal year Rep Ed Foreman of the El Paso Republican member of the Armed Services Commit tee said approval his come for a tions housing facility at White Sands and for worth of new construction at Ft Bliss APPROXIMATELY of the FL Bliss designation has been earmarked by the Army for con struction of an service club Army construction requests were being considered this week But final approval for the two major construction items in the El Paso area is expected when the committee comes So its final vote in 10 days DURING YESTERDAYS Armed Services Committee hear ing Rep Foreman got a verbal pat on the back from the com chairman Rep Carl Vin son D Ga for having not missed a minute of commit tee session this year Chairman Vinson said that more work could get done and could get done more swiftly if wa had more Ed Foremans k this room United Press ANKARA Turkey Feb Premier Ismet Inonu today escaped an as attempt by a man who said he the 1960 revolution that brought the present regime to power A man in a identified as Mesut Sunay 3S fired three shots atthe 79 year old premier as he entered his car to drive to the Assembly Sunay was identified as a clothing factory electrician THE SHOTS struck the car but missed Inonu A soldier fired at Senator Kerr Baker Linked United Press International WASHINGTON Feb 21 Ihe late Sen Robert S Kerr X steered former Senate aide Robert G Bobby and a friend into a bank stock deal in Oklahoma ac cording to testimony released to day by a Senate committee in Baker The testimony by Fred B Continued on Page A8 Col Troops Move In On Squatters Mexican troops moved to a Chihuahua ranches to day as squatters occupied the properties and threatened more large scale seizures The situation was made tense by r i 0 t i n g in the agricultural community of Saucillo 60 miles south of Chihuahua City where 200 townspeople attacked a meet ing by 80 asserted agitating for continued oc of private property by peasants FIFTH MILITARY ZONE headquarters in Chihuahua City said soldiers were ordered to preserve peace but act to re i move the squatters until all ef forts by state officials to I have suffered no injury ate have failed One of the properties in the Casas Grandes area of northwest ANKARA RADIO said there em Chihuahua 100 miles from El was an attempt to lynch was said to be owned by when he was taken from the soever Sunay and also missed There were unconfirmed reports a sec ond man had been arrested The attack did not appear con with Turkeys current cri sis the Cyprus dispute with Greece Inonu a veteran political lead er since the time of the Ataturk revolution that transformed Tur key appeared calm and even ing While firing I said to my jocular after the incident Let it be successful if it He continued to the National jjs propitious to the nation Let Assembly and appeared to be jit fail if it is not joking with his aides during proceedings SUNAY WENT to of fice early this morning saying he miers office to a car to go to the security directorate after prelim inary questioning a US citizen The fresh outbreak of laad seiz ures by the paracaidistas para as the squatters are The radio quoted Sunay as resulted in occupation of six ranches in the Casas Gran dez Buenaventura Madera and areas THE TEXAS STATE CAPITOL sets a beautiful picture More than five inches of snow fen on Austin UPI Snow in Texas EP 16 Degrees Fair and warmer weather is forecast for tomorrow in El Paso with the high temperature pre at about 50 degrees Low last night was 16 which was 16 below freezing Tonights lows are expected to be 22 in the heights and 17 in the valleys General clearing then fair and warmer was the prediction for the entire extreme West Texas area Snow flurries in mountain areas were expected today in New Mexico with the tempera ture rising there tomorrow A lats winter snowstorm Continued on Page A8 CoL Presidents Talk Border Problems By MARY ELLEN LEAKY Stall LOS ANGELES Feb neighbor American pres idents stood shoulder to shoulder in an open stadium here today to receive honorary degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles a tribute to their ship But this meeting between Pres ident Lyndon B Johnson and President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico has a purpose deeper than scholarship THERE IS HOPE it will mark a major diplomatic advance in relations and bring more accord in techniques of re sisting Communist subversion in this hemisphere An informal atmosphere sur rounds the two of hospitality here and at the nearby desert spa Palm Springs After the university Continued on Page AS Col 4 President Lopez Mateos Meet in LA Chiefs of State Receive Honorary Degrees From UCLA By MERRIMAN SMITH UPl House LOS ANGELES Feb President Johnson shortly before starting his formal diplomatic talks with Presi dent Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico today pictured the rift as spreading civil war In a speech to an outdoor audi ence of more than 35000 persons at the University of California at Los Angeles Johnson with Lopez mateos at his side used the strongest terms of his White House career to appraise the squabble between Moscow and Peiping THE PRESIDENT called for an end to bloodshed on Cyprus and absolutely fair settlement of differences with Panama and he also advised Communists to realize they were playing a deeply dangerous game in South I Viet Nam Larger thar any of these roubles Johnson said was what he called the spreading civil war among Communists And larger still he said is the steadily growing strength of the worldwide community of Judge Threatens Attorney In Stormy Ruby Session United press International DALLAS Feb Rubys defense lawyers summarily dismissed two prospective jurors at his murder trial today in a stormy session that led the judge to threaten one de fense lawyer with a con tempt of court citation A total of 32 veniremen now have been questioned and only one juror has been chosen The defense exercised its sixth and seventh peremptory challenges to get rid of two veniremen using up half of its allowed 15 One woman Mrs Frank Nel on was dismissed for cause when she said she did not believe in the death penalty THE PROSECUTION used the second of its two peremptory challenges today to dismiss a venireman accepted by the de ense Defense attorneys Melvin Belli MAX CAUSEY First juror and Joe Tonahill switched tac tics and renewed demands to bar as jurors anyone who saw on tele WITHIN THREE HOURS after the assassination attempt Inonu went on Ankara radio to tell his dear countrymen that wanted to talk to the premier ACCORDING to reports to the state capital fighting erupted in Saucillo when speakers at a meet some problems was told Inonu was too busy receive him Ankara radio Woman Blames Tunes For McLendon Incident United Press International DALLAS Feb had nothing to do with her attempt to shoot radio executive Gordon McLendon ac cording to Mrs Mary Elizabeth Stone 47 She newsmen that tunes played by disc jockeys on station which McLen leftwing organization insulted President Lopez Mateos Gov Gi ner Duran and PRI political can In addition to calling Mexicos leaders allies of rich landlords the speakers screamed profanity and Communist slogans accord Continued on Page AS Col 2 Ruby Stripper Fades Away Employes of the Molino Rojo cabaret in Juarez today made a mystery of the disappearance of Highway Officials Meet at City Hall don owns lid to her decision to shoot McLendon It turned out that Mrs Stone mistook another man at Dallas Love Field airport for McLendon I decided I had to shoot Mei State Highway Department Lendon to alert the world to this met behind closed doors conspiracy of a gang of hun dreds of people who put red rib bons on their cars as an identifi who once Ruby in Dallas They said she has been gone three weeks and believe that she was kidnaped by three men who looked like Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are sup posed to look so she would tes at the Dallas trial Ruby is charged with slaying Lee Oswald President Kennedys presumed assassin FBI agents said they are not sure how they are supposed to look but are sure they didnt kid nap the stripteaser although she did embarrass one of their young agents member of a church that Continued on Page A8 Col 2 EI Paso Sunshine The sun shone today for the 766th consecutive day The sun has failed tc shine only 12 of the lasi 1922 dayt jand a 32ciiliber shot was wide mark No one was hurt but Mrs Stone j was charged with assault with in tent to murder POLICE AID Mrs Stone has asked to SEC a psychiatrist and would do so The woman said she did not know McLendon was a political candidate He opposes US Sen Ralph Yarborough D Tex in I WOULDNT have regretted it if I had killed him But I dont think there is a great need now with members of City Council and Public Service Board tor E J Umbenhauer today toj discuss mutual problems in con of roads Mayor Williams said the City PSB and Highway Department NEW Feb 21 The were studying the problems in vision the shooting of tee Harvey Oswald The defense tried vainly to sub poena the one accepted juror as a witness which would block him under Texas law from serving on the jury Then Tonahill said he seek appeal to higher Officials Join LBJ Joseph F Friedkin US com missioner International Bound ary and Water Commission was in Palm Springs Calif today awaiting possible consultation by Presidents Johnson and Lopez Mateos David Herrera Jordan of Jua rez the Mexican commissioner also was there The two commissioners were on call in case the American and Mexican presidents need their ad vice in a discussion of the touchy salinity problem on the Lower Colorado River Mexico has protested repeated Man Read Inez Robbs Column Page Bl courts to try to block television witnesses as jurors BELLI PEREMPTORILY chal venireman Bohannon a traveling salesman for a steel company when the judge cut off questioning about bias in Dal las Then Belli accepted James C Bland a 42yearold appliance store manager Dist Atty Henry M Wade used a peremptory chal lenge to dismiss Bland A placid easy relation between Continued on Page Ag CoL 2j British Strength lipped in Cyprus By H D FRIEDENBERG Staff Writer NICOSIA Feb 21 Fifteen hundred more British soldiers arrived by air from Britain yesterday and today to boost the peace keeping force on Cyprus to 6000 The sudden airlift has two goals of overworked troops patrolling the streets of Nicosia and the port towns and roads throughout the island to p r e v e n t skirmishes build up British numbers to guarantee British inclusion and predominance in the proposed 10 000man international force the freedom JOHNSON FLEW to Los An geles from Palm Springs this morning and met Lopez Mateos at International Airport After the special convocation at UCLA where both men spoke and re honorary degrees John son and Lopez Mateos planned to fly to Palm Springs by US Air Force jet transport and start their diplomatic conversations at Johnsons residence At the airport when Lopez Ma teos stepped from bis twinen gined transport which was dwarfed by the mammoth Air Force 1 in which Johnson ar rived the American President clasped him around the shoulders in the traditional Latin American abrazo a gesture of warm greeting MRS JOHNSON stepped for ward and presented Senora Lopez Mateos with a large bouquet of red roses while Johnson presented the Mexican President to Secre tary of State Dean Rusk and oth er members of the American par ty A large group of Mexican Americans from the Los Angeles area shouted Viva Mexico and the two chief executives mounted the small platform beside the landing strip In the official greeting party were Gov and Mrs Edmund Brown of California Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and several California congressmen They stood at attention while a miltary band played the national anthems of both countries Then Johnson escorted his Mex ican guest to a helicopter for a flight to the UCLA campus at nearby Westwood TO THE CROWD that over flowed bleachers at UCLA John son was emphatic in his assertion that the free communities of the world are stronger than their Communist rivals The world has become small and turbulent Johnson said New challenges knock daily at the White House Americas front ly that salt water returned to the United Nations may authorize river from US irrigation proj ects has seriously damaged crops in the Mexicali Valley just below the border SIMULTANEOUSLY the n e w British force commander Maj Continued on Page AS CoL 5 Hot Sex Scandal in Fire Station United Press International in of a river to shoot him I have served my j n tte chamizal area and purpose McLendon asked for an inves New York City Fire Department today battled a red hot sex overpass the proposed North Loop in the firehouse of En gine Company 35 The engine company blaze already has resulted in the sus pension from duty of a captain and four firemen the May 2 Democratic primary was a leftwinger of Mrs Stones com city Traffic Engineer Jack plete background He saH he Huffman Planning Director Jon wanted to know if there was any athan Cunningham and City Pub political motivation and if she iic Works Director George Dieter also attended the meeting charged with misconduct and floor of the fire doning visits to the red brick house was the center of activi firehouse of women of ill repute ONE REPORT said the women were prostitutes who charged a basic rate not only to firemen I but neighborhood friends of the The firefighters were formally I firefighters It was said that the It was a sad Fire Commission er Edward Thompson who an the scandal and said the reputation of the department could be at stake Thompson ordered the men to Continued on Page A8 Col 5 With this generalized Introduc tion the President then explored a series of crisis areas in which the United States has a major stake Despite what he called the dangers of today the Pres 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