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...special congressional election in Texas' 20th District, centering in San Antonio, last week drew the absorbed attention of politicians all over the U.S. At stake was the House seat of Democrat Paul Kilday, who resigned to accept a federal judgeship. The candidates were evenly matched: State Senator Henry Gonzalez, 45, a liberal Democrat, and Lawyer John Goode, 38, a conservative Republican. Beyond the battle between conservative and liberal was an even larger question: Was the election last spring of Republican John Tower to Lyndon Johnson's Senate seat just a fluke, or did it mark a G.O.P. trend...
...Louisiana Democrat Overton Brooks. Reason: the move took Brooks, whose abilities are lightly regarded, out of the line of succession to Georgia's aging (75) Carl Vinson as chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee. Succeeding Brooks as Vinson's heir apparent: Texas' able Paul Kilday...
...Shoe Fit. In San Antonio, after he had received an anonymous letter from a wronged husband who said that he intended to kill his cheating wife and her boy friend two days hence. Sheriff Owen Kilday read the message over station KITE and asked the would-be killer to give himself up, within two hours received calls from ten fearful women asking for police protection...
Crime & Punishment. In San Antonio, Sheriff Owen Kilday, faced with heavy repair bills on TV sets smashed during county jail riots, warned that he was going to crack down hard if any more sets were damaged: prisoners would not be allowed to watch Dragnet or The Lineup...
Debate on the floor opens again tomorrow when Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.) will take his re-written measure back to the House. In the meantime, Selective Service is going ahead with its plans for deferment tests, though the Kilday amendment may makes them unusable...