El Paso Herald-Post (Newspaper) - February 9, 1967, El Paso, Texas El Paso The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers VOL NO 34 EL PASO TEXAS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9 1967 DELIVERED BY CARRIER Jit PER WEEK HOME Stocks PRICE TEN CENTS 48 SECTIONS KOSYGIN POINTS WAY TO PEACE Best Sheep Get Ribbons HEIFER Linda Daugherty Fluvanna Tex display champion during junior breeding heifer judging today Sen Montoya Quietly Seeks Station New Mexico Solon Asks Road To NM Border By SETH KANTOR Washington Reporter WASHINGTON Feb 9 Quiet are under way In Mexico between Sen Joseph M Montoya D rM and Mexican authori ties to set the stage for creation of NM rs a US port of entry The move would cause an eco nomic drain on El Paso and serve as a means for avoiding payment of the Texas import tax on whisky bought in Mexico by New Mexicans ONLY THE Mexico state line separates from El Paso was built as a railroad junction and has about 200 residents and race track Sen Montoya is talking to Mexican officials about getting road built on the Mexican side of the border The road would feed into Juarez and Ana pra There is no such road link now forcing all such traffic to flow through El Paso from Juarez SEN MONTOYA flew to Mexi co yesterday with a group of US to attend todays opening round of the sixth an num I USMexico Champion R was shown today by Gerald serve Champion was shoi City Clinton Hodge Ewe and Reserve Champion Ewe ona of the outstanding In todays events of competition in the Southwestern International Livestock Show until the next championship winner came up THAT WAS Richard Powell of Fort Stockton who won Champion Delaine Merino tarn champion ewe in the same breed and reserve champion ewe Which ol these winners scored highest depends upon liow many sheep breeders favor and which favor Delaine Merinos The Range Bull Sale hit a high level of prices from the outset First In the Bull Barn auction arena was a pen of three In senior breeding sheep Porter of Fort by Clinton Hodges of s also won Champion meetings b t w e n Mexico and Mexico on the port first began 10 years ago They bogged down after Initial meetings and now according to a Hill source are on again in earnest New Mexico has a limited port of entry now at Columbus SEN MONTOYA is talking to Continued on Page A7 Col 7 breed bulls The hairy almost shaggy Galloways first ever to be sold at the Southwestern Range Bull Sale were sold for each by Miguel Anchondo of Chih Mexico MR ANCHONDO also was high bidder at each on the third pen of three Galloways and the fourth pen of three at each The second pen of three went to a not immediately Identified bidder at each The Bull Barn was filled to near capacity of seating when the range bull auction started somewhat later than the scheduled am Bidding was Continued on Page A7 Col Ellison to Give Sunrise Sermon Dr John W Ellison rector of St Clements Episcopal Church will deliver the sermon at the an Easter Sunrise Service March 26 in El Paso High School stadium The service will begin at sunrise am Dr Ellison came to St Clements in October of 1965 from the Parish of the Epiphany Winchester Mass Prior to that he was vicar at St Johns Episcopal Church Idaho Falls Ida and St Pauls in Tucson THE SUNRISE Service is sponsored by the El Paso Council of Churches and the Downtown Lions Club in the p r o g r a m Continued on Page A7 Col 8 Cowboys Left and Cowboys were tossed left Southwest International R were able to stay o enough to score in the sadc riding events Another near capacity crowd filled the Coliseum to watch the battle of man against Right and right last night at the deo Only six of 24 comn their angry animals long lie Bronc and Brahma with 55 and Ross Loney Burkburnett Tex s c o r i n g 54 points Bareback bronc riding GOV JOHN B CONNALLY was announced today principal speaker at the El Paso National Conference of Christians and Jews annual banquet Governor Chosen Speaker Governor John B Connally will be principal speaker at the annual banquet of El Paso Chapter of the Na tional Conference of Christians and Jews it was an today by Mart G Pederson dinner chairman The banquet will be held March 7 at El Paso Country lys acceptance of an invitation dub to address the El Paso banquet Committee Will Check Up Housing Group Appointed To Value Codes Effect on South EP Appointment of a com to evaluate the ef fect on South El Paso that would follow the Citys adoption of the Southern Standard Housing Code was recommended todav i The recommendation came from the H o u s i n c Conference Committee of the University ol Texas at El Paso Seminar on South El Paso held Monday and Tuesday at Aoy School The committee recommended that the evaluation committee be composed of Joe Rubio Dr Paul Goodman Victor Arditti an Mevin Moore IT ASKED that a report of the evaluation be issued with a comprehensive report of recommendations re I suiting from the seminar The committee said the recom are made because this committee feels the most ob vious conclusion of the Seminars Housing Conference is that the community of El Paso is in need of some basic standard for hous ing even its most poverty stricken citizens and because it is realized that the full effect of such a standard has not been de termined In a summary of points pre sented at the seminar the com noted Adoption of house codt by the City in 1962 was prevented ADOPTION of a housing code was recommended by the May ors Advisory Council slums committee in 1964 Residents of tenements endure structural defects limited utili ties health and safety hazards in the dwell ings they occupy Continued on Page A7 Col 6 Stop Bombs Begin Talks Prew LONDON Feb Premier N said today the halting of US bombing attacks against North Vietnam would permit peace talks to get under way Then he proposed that Russia and Britain join In a nonaggression pact The visiting Russian leader told a joint session of the wo British Houses of Parliament that such a treaty of friendship and peaceful cooperation would be an example Tor many other nations Addressing a news conference televised live to the United Stales by the Telstar communications satellite Kosy fin said the Soviet Union sup ported a recent proposal by North Vietnam that the halting of bombings would lead 10 peace talks We are all in favor of Ihp prn Wc be Court Post posal said lieve it is constructive an we fell the United Slates should take advantage of it KOSYGIN said North Viet nams proposal was made by JUDGE JERRY WOODARD Judge Jerry Woodard today announced his candidacy for the office of judge of No 1 in the March election He was appointed to that position by Mayor Judson Williams and the City Council in January of this year to fulfill the vacancy left when Sam Blackham was elect ed County Commissioner Judge Woodard is a partner in the law firm of Woodard and Christie He is a 20 year resident governments of El Paso and graduate of High School He served Tokyo Hears End Of War Near International TOKYO Feb 9 A rumor US Secretary of State Dean Rusk may announce a settle ment of the Vietnam war swept through the Tokyo Stock market today causing the stock average to drop by about 6 cent Stock market sources said tho rumor apparently was touched off by reports Soviet Premier Alexei called for an unconditional bait to US bombing of North ta his la London North Vietnamese Foreign Min ister Nguyen Duy Trinh in an in with Australian news man Wilfred Burchett fre quent spokesman for Communist The visiting Soviet Premier has hammered repeatedly at the theme of an end to bombings in NO ONE could catch day leader Kenny of Grand Junction Colo two of 12 con were eble to ride the bis and bouncing Brahma bulls the full eight seconds to score points Dick Wellborn Until NM scored 59 points and Larry Scott San Angelo followed with 57 points to beat the bulls The saddle bronc riding took In toll with four of the 12 com remaining a full 15 sec on their horses The nights first saddle cowboy Shawn Dav nine of the 15 competitors for scores Kenny Stanton took the lead on a wild ride with 67 points The Weiser Idaho cowboy was followed by world champion Larry Mahan Brooks Ore 66 Bud Jones Carlsbad NM 57 Ace Berry Modesto Calif 56 Tony Mu Tex 47 and Less Stan Albuquerque 34 points THE COWGIRLS raced fast around the three barrels with Gloria Strickland Fort Worth knocking a tenth of second off is set the pace with 61 points previous high with 153 sec The Whithall Mont in the barrel race hand was five points off the Ardith Bruce Fountain Colo opening night performance of raced 155 and pegged at 157 Martinelli Oakdale Calif OTHERS lasting the full time were Les Johnson Omak Wash with 59 points Joe Cadle Hobbs NM Daylight Time Hangs in Senate United Prcu International SANTA FE Feb if The State Senate today adopted a committee report on i on Now Mexico daylight saving time The will be up for a fi nal Senate vote Friday The Senate Public Affairs Committee Wednesday declined to either oppose or support day light time Their report moved the on to the full ate final Senate vote Friday Continued on Page A7 Col 4 Coldest Night El Paso had the coldest day to day ever recorded on a Feb 9 according to Weather Bureau of The low temperature was 1 record ed before on a Feb 9 was 18 de grees in 1929 El Paso Sunshine The sun shone today or the 791st consecutive dny The sun has to shine only 1 day out of the past 1942 days l them children No one was he rubble of ima Sermon 1 Ellison rector o Episcopal Church ie sermon at the an Sunrise Service il Paso High Schoo will begin at sun came to St of 1965 from the Epiphany Wins Prior to that he it Johns Episcopal o Falls Ida and RISE Service s the El Paso Counes and the in the p r o g r a m Page A7 Col 8 Wm Ifl civic leadership has been an in part of El Paso for manj years will receive the Human Relations Award at thf Fourth Annual Testimonial Din ner ANNOUNCING Gov of the Board of r tors of to the Governor for rearranging a busy scheduli in order to make an here Gov Connally now beginning his third term as the states chie Continued on Page A7 Col Reds Ambush Paratroopers United Press SAIGON Feb A company of US paratroopers was am bushed by Viet Cong and suf perhaps the heaviest cas sustained in a ceasefire military officials said today US spokesmen said about 200 men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade were attacked yesterday bj a smaller but firmly entrenched Communist force which struck with a barrage of some 100 grenades Claymore mines and countless volleys of small arms fire The battle raged for four hours The Communists held fixed positions in blinkers and trees and capitalized on the on Page A7 Col the Korean war After re an honorable he attended Texas Western Col lege for pre law studies HE GRADUATED from Baylor University in 1958 and then Continued on Page A7 Col Vietnam as a prelude t peace talks This was his firs opportunity via cameras and th Satellite to bring h i t argument directly into th homes of Americans NORTH VIETNAMS proposa is a good and constructive one hat would allow ihc United States to find a way out of the deadlock he said in remarks translated by an interpreter It is my hope that the reason and common sense of the United States will compel them to on Page A7 Col 7 Kosygin Ignores One Side of Issue United International WASHINGTON Feb 9 The White House said today that Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in calling for a halt to US as a step toward negotiations in Vietnam made no mention of the military action the other side should Press Secretary George Chrisian after telling newsmen that Johnson saw parts of London news conference on television was asked for the Presidents reaction Christian said MR KOSYGIN commented on the military actions the United States should take but he made no mention of the military action the other side should take think it was surprising that he receive a question on this joint or if he did receive that ype of question he didnt deal with it That is all I have to say t the present time Sa Officers Sa Two former members of E Paso Juvenile Patrol took the witness stand in their own defense today and denied they picked up Mrs Guadalupe Serrano on the night of May 31June 1 and raped her Both men said they spent the evening cruising in their patrol car carrying out routine duties of the job Robert Judson Roberson Yes Y Joint Coliseum Parks Job The newly created El Pas County Recreational Board me today at the Coliseum and recommended that a director b named for the combined duties of general manager of the Coliseum and Liberty Hall and County Parks director At a meeting held by Commissioners Coun at Building little doubt remained that the new job will be given to County Parks Director Bryce Lammert with an approximate 51000 annual increase in salary MEMBERS OF the new Board are E m m e 1 1 Larkin former County Commissioner and northeast El Paso real estate broker Bert manager of a local Continued on Page A7 Col of the accused was asked by Attorney Frank Owen if the acts related by Mrs Serrano on the witness stand occurred Rober son replied These acts did not occur HIS PARTNER Edmundo Gallegos 30 earlier said nothing such as told by Mrs Serrano ever happened Both men attributed the womans charges to the hostility of her landlady whose daughter was taken to the Detention Homo on a previous occasion by Roberson Roberson testified that sometime before the alleged rapes he had picked up he daughter at the corner of San Francisco and El Paso streets I first took her to her mother at the Island he said The mother pot awfully snooty and unreasonable He said he then took the gir to the Detention Home ROBERSON said others later told me that Mrs the landlady made threats to get even with me The defense is attempting to show that he landlady later talked Mrs Serrano into on Page Col Charity In Aid Program United Prew International WASHINGTON Feb 9 President Johnson asked Confess today to approve a billion foreign aid program that emphasized assistance for those countries willing to help themselves Claiming he had recommended no charity in the appropriation request for fiscal 1968 which begins July 1 the said he program was based on the principle that selfhelp is the of economic development THE REQUEST included Continued on Page All Col Earthquake Rocks Colombia United Prw International BOGOTA Colombia Feb 8 A violent and destructive earthquake centered in the central Andes rocked the capital city and a large area of Colombia today Police reported 15 dead and 40 injured on the basis of fragmentary reports but press dispatches said at least 30 hod been killed and 100 gravely injured The quake shook up on area from Bogota west to Cali and the Pacific Communications were severed with the disaster area and authorities feared death and damage estimates would soar as wires were Register Final count of El Paso County voter registration today was 71170 an record Tax office officials said a final recheck might add half a dozen registrations to the count but they la not expect it to change Your Weather Bureau Forecast Mostly fair cooler Details on Page Amusements C4 Ann Carroll B1 Classified CII 12 13 H 15 Savec 11 Feb 0 The roof of a Roman h collapsed today n Service attended worshippers most en s killed although s were trapped in he St Rose of and had to be rescuers hurt 15 of enough to be acle of the in said the Rev James Perry pastor at a nearby Methodist Church THE REV Francis OBrien lad just concluded the offertory at the 8 am mass when there a rumble said Mrs John Tillman 66 a parishioner He had just turned from the altar to face the congregation mth his arms outstretched when the noise came she said He looked up at the coiling and saw it start to buckle He screaming Run of Bal FATHER OBrien and a nun Sister Mary Ann principal of the church school quickly gathered the children to them and led them out a side door as the roof covered with nearly a foot of snow from blizzard came crashing down on top of the pews Among those trapped in the was Sister Mary Ann who had run to the back of the church to help She was pulled free by the parishioners she hod tried to aid and wai later hospitalized with Cfc and everything started to shake Father OBrien said Then the roof came in AFTER THE roof tumbled the walls of the church collapsed caving only the steeple standing The clock or the tower was stopped at 8 10 am Thomas Kennedy 42 was attending the service with his three young sons He said that with the of the crumbling roof the children began screaming Oh my God Oh my God Get The children were attending Ash Wednesday services delayed y the cast coast blizzard ENGINEERS began an Investigation of the disaster A spokesman for the Most lev T Austin Murphy Bishop of Baltimore said the roof was covered with a foot of snow from the blizzard But he said it was not known if the weight of the snow on the pitched slate roof caused the collapse Most seriously injured of the hildren was an eighth grade Puzzle C17 Deaths Dr B U L Conner B2 Editorials B 2 Gardening A 12 Markets People BJ Sports C8 9 10 Program lilted to hospitals Its the miracle y in Baltimore that no one was everybody I heard something rumble out who suffered a fractured skull Womens News A 1415
