European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday september 23, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 Beulah damage surveyed in Texas by United press International Brownsville every build ing in the downtown area suffered at least some damage from Beulah. Up to 15 inches Ofrain All but isolated the town and although there was some flooding there was no evacuation. No injuries no deaths. Mcallen serious flooding made almost All streets impassable. Evacuation shelters were closed Early thursday and everyone was sent Home but the shelters had to be reopened. Food was in Short Supply and supplies were being flown inform Corpus Christ naval air station. Residents were asked not to flush toilets because sew ers had overflowed but tap water was still Good. Despite rising water there was no wholesale evacuation. Port Isabel roads int port Isabel were washed away but one Man who made it in by jeep said As Many As 85 per cent of the Homes in the town popu lation 3,500 were destroyed. It took the Man four hours to drive the 22 Miles from Brownsville to port Isabel. Edinburg Many streets had As much As 3 to 4 feet of water standing in them with some evacuation under per cent of Power and Tele phones Are out. Pan american College totally flooded. Pharr heavy wind dam age with five Large buildings including a Supply company and lumber company destroyed. Every piece of lumber in a Lum Ber company disappeared. Esti mated 60 per cent of the town property damaged. Half town s electricity out. Har Lovgen most Street open but covered by at least some standing water. No Evascu observer says diets believed fraud in vote Washington a an election observer for four . Peace organizations said thurs Day most vietnamese believe there was widespread fraud inthe sept. 3 presidential election in South , they do not re Gard the government which re sults from S.C. an election As legitimate prof. David Wurfel told a news conference. He is a member of the University of Missouri political science department. Official . Observer named by president Johnson who returned recently from Sai gon reported no evidence of widespread fraud and said the election apparently was con ducted freely. They observed the Campaign and election from aug. 30 to sept. 4. 4 organizations Wurfel visited Vietnam from aug. 16 until sept. 10 As an observer for the division of peace and world order of the methodist Church the National com Mittee for sane nuclear policy the friends committee on National legislation and the Unita Rian universalist association. A Southeast Asia specialist he said the presidential Campaign was Freer than he expected. Buthe estimated fraud was Exten Sive perhaps producing 300,000to 500,000 in votes and inflating the total number of voters bythe same in addition there were hundreds of thousands of votes produced by pressure exerted bythe military and the civil serv ice he said his report differed from the official . Mission because he had spent As much time As possible talking to the vietnamese. He said the official . Observer team did Little of this and on the Day after the elect Orthey were Busy with briefings. Mission to Moscow television actress Susan Oliver Waves in new York before taking off on a flight to Moscow even though the soviet Union has not granted permission for her to Fly Over its territory. To get around this miss Oliver will add a russian navigator in Den Mark. Miss Oliver flying an Aero commander is aiming for 10 world records. 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Supreme court reversed his 1960 conviction of murdering brother in Law. The 1964 decision considered Legal landmark held that an accused person must be advised of his constitutional rights to be Gal counsel before he can be questioned by police. Escobedo lives on Chicago South Side. House votes support for education to Washington a the House voted thursday night to boost Federal support for non commercial radio and television by creating a Public broadcast ing corporation to subsidize programming and help local station Combine into a network. The legislation already approved in slightly different form by the Senate was passed by Aroll Call vote of 265 to 91 after a Republican move to eliminate the corporation was Defeated 194 to 167. The measure authorizes $9 Mil lion to create the corporation and includes $38 million for Federal construction Grants to local educational stations Over the next three proposed corporation was characterized by one opponent rep. Albert w. Watson r-s.c., As a Frankenstein and it was hailed by Back ers As an important step in the nation s cultural development. Probe asked of let die directive London up a member of parliament thursday demanded an investigation into directive to a London Hospital staff that certain elderly patient should be allowed to die without giving them life saving treat Braine the opposition conservative party s spokesman on health sent a letter to the labor government s health min ister Kenneth Robinson asking a series of questions about the order and urging that the results of any inquiry be reported tothe House of commons. The controversy increased Asa London Hospital nurse said she knew of one elderly patient who had been kept alive More in the doctor s interest than in the patient to the directive cer Tain types of patients including everyone Over 65should not be resuscitated after their hearts had stopped. Youth m89 earns pit., at . Cambridge mass. A Massachusetts Institute of technology said thursday it will award the degree of doctor of philosophy in mathematics to an18-year-old student who entered . Three years ago without formally completing High Institute said the student is believed to be the youngest person Ever to receive a Doc Tor s degree from .he is Harvey Martin Fried Man son of or. And mrs. Allan Friedman of Highland Park 111. Friedman henceforth completed require ments for his degree at the endow August and went to Palo Alto calif., where he joined the faculty at Stanford University the youngest professorial appoint ment in Stanford s history. Assistant prof. Friedman youth with a liking for Beethoven and Tennis and a Strong conviction that us. Education needs changes will teach mathematical logic at $10,000 a year. Action but Citrus fruit lies rotting on the ground throughout most of the surrounding area. An Esti mated $50 million in damage was done to the Texas Citrus crop Bebeulah. Alamo serious flooding with water so High it was pour ing into windows of Homes. A least four feet of water covering . 83 leading into Alamo. Victoria every Road in Cit flooded with almost All of them closed. Residents of the South West Section of the City were evacuated by 54 National guard tricks. Raymondville All pub Lic utilities out including Power sewer and water. Sewer system could be inoperative for Days. Only water available is Reserve Supply and must be obtained in buckets. Rio Hondo at least 50 percent of town s buildings dam aged. No Power sewer system out and water system Only partially operative. Chlorination system out. Food Supply Short be cause almost All grocery stores destroyed. La Feria All Power an phones out although property damage is m i n o r. Water Avail Able from storage Only. Corpus Christi up to35,000 persons evacuated their Homes and businesses which flooded in the Low lying North Beach area. Houston Twenty eight tornadoes flicked through area Inan hour and 45 minutes including two which passed near the manned spacecraft Center but no appreciable damage. Fulton High water floods$20,000-3100,000 Homes near Ful ton. Snakes and other Seaborn creatures slither into the Homes on the High tides. One fashionable Home Burns to ground. South padre Island eighty per cent of property destroyed. Of 116 trailers in trailer Park 112 destroyed. Extensive wind and water damage to Al motels. Extensive damage to Homes. Island Road washed out three Miles North of Queen Isa Bella causeway. Port Isabel All school destroyed or damaged too Exten sively for use. All water Power phones out. Some Gas leaking from buildings. Sinton an estimated 300persons were evacuated thurs Day from a 12 to 15-Square bloc Karea where water from torrential Rains was Waist deep. Roughly third of the town was reported under water. National guards men and Highway patrolmen evacuated the refugees by Waters closed roads from Sinton to officials closed off the downtown Section of Ken Edy thursday because of the Dan Ger of Flash flooding in normally dry Nichols Creek. Officials said the Creek was about 4 feet below Ridge level. Traffic was stopped and rerouted. Business place were closed and sandbagged. Peaceful fax blast triggered in Nevada Yucca Flat Nev. Up an underground nuclear device was touched off thursday apart of the Plo share program the atomic Energy commission project for developing peaceful uses for nuclear nuclear device was triggered at the Bottom of a 577-foot Shaft in the Yucca Basin area of the vast Nevada test site. No radiation was leaked into the atmosphere it was re ported
