Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 156, Ed. 1 Monday, April 15, 1963 Page: 1 of 10
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Brownwood Bulletin
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BROWNWOOD, TEXAS. MONDAY, APRIL IS, 1983
TEN PAGES TODAY
By City Man
Marchers
"I'm very
to see you
Scientists
Reset Test
ROADBLOCK
Police set up a roadblock as
Residents
Face Two
were
Navy Studies Sub Puzzle
the windshield at a police motor -
Estes, now bankrupt, was con-
of Boston.
contenced tiere had
in its search for the cause of the als say. salvage is impossible.
ly before the ill-fated voyage.
U.S. Aid Takes New Shape
LASTSOUNDS
cuts.
a
in today's case sounds the death
rent debate is over what kind and
Steel Firm
porting.
7;
it
Hikes Price
T
arzange the tansfer o' power to of the minority group.
became the second company to
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new Liberal goverunzent for Credit leaders indicated he could
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iving them a
Dr Gay
relief since mid-1958. Indications
But one of the three, Robert
House at Commons
| the party’s Commone membership
rank d tbelivg SVPRQLuE tba Lusrala, _
igiawsall
(Staff Photo)
Confusion ID IM
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Court Ruling Rejects
Freight Rate Powers
tinued when the recipient country
becomes economically self-sup-
Judge Overrules
New Trial Motion
ens Steel Co. meet the "public in-
terest” criteria be suggested for
edges to form a water tight
seen in the picture are a si
Justice Brennan, delivering the
court’s majority opinion, said Con-
gress had given to ICC the sole
and exclusive power to suspend
rate cuts. This congressional ac-
tion. he said, withdrew from the
judiciary any pre-existing power
to grant injunctive relief against
Congress will not cut the ap-
propriation to zero this year.
There is wide agreement about
the need for foreign aid. The cur-
seats to add to the 121 they had
won in the election last Monday.
NEW YORK API - President
Kennedy was reported today to
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GATES GO IN— The sheet of steel being
lowered into place here is one of four
used in construction of each flood gate
for Proctor Dam near Comanche. When
the four shoots are set in place, they are
welded together and sealed with rubber
Nets
meas-
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The delayed vote handed the and wished to nave their names
Liberals two nore parliamentary rumoved from the list
The get-together took place
shortly after Latham return-
ed here from Osaka, industrial
center in western Japan, where
recalled him as a good friend
who was kind and helpful in the
Japanese POW camp.
pi .son term last November on
state charges growing out of his
-ertiluer tank mortgages
He is schedulec t face three
xie trials. Hie is to be tried at
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how much
The controversial Clay commit-
television interview "For others
it will be in two or three or four
years.”
Bell said aid will be discon-
Repulsed
By Police
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (AP>-Al-
W. H. (Red) Mobley of 1617 Stewart
St., said they have been raising Shet-
lands for five years and have never
seen one that small. Roland is son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Coggin of 1310 Ave-
nue D.
Justice Clark, in a dissenting
' , said the court majority
Sets Parley
OTTAWA i API — Prime Minis- Social Credit party threatened
ter John G. Diefenbaker meets Pearsor’s chances of eking out a
with Lester B. Pearson today to declared majority though support
wagons and patrol cars
ked with demonstrators.
n brandished billy clubs
Auto Inspection
Deadline
Estes Sentenced To 15 Years
U.S. WEAPON
Administration officials, when
om antes Khe* all axong that
the mortgagee were tradulent.
WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA: Partiy cloudy
and windy tonight and Tuesday A little
warmer tonight Low tonight <3 to 70.
High Tuesday 87 to 9
Maximum temperature here Sunday
00, overnight low (3. Sunset 7:05, sun-
riae 6:06.
and the surging crowd fell back. |
There was some scuffling, but
no major violence
Several demonstrators threw
rocks at police. A rock shattered
•o
-
they testify before congressional
committees, expound less altru-
the neutralist army under Gen.
Kong Le on the Plaine after spor-
adic clashes in the past two
weeks.
The Pathet Lao control most at
northern Laos, and there is wide-
spread suspicion that they are
planning to make their hold com-
plete by eliminating the neutralist
forces.
be skeptical on whether the price
increases announced by the Luk-
-he
.e\
gist of their argument: foreign aid
is a weapon against communism.
The annual battle in Congress
for sharp cuts in foreign aid is
led by Rep Otto Passman. D-La ,
chairman of the House Appropria-
‘Shindo’ Located
issue—takes the oath of office as
mayor of Birmingham today amid
prospects of more demonstrations
by Negroes fighting the city's ra-:
cial barriers
Sei . cause it is right. If a free society
soca. cannot help the many who are
poor, it cannot save the few who
are rich.”’
announce price
of its products.
again," said Latham.
"I remember you very well,"
replied Shindo, who works at
the Mamnichi Clinic.
Latham said he was captur-
"HI, HO SHETLAND" -Little Roland
Michael Coggin, 3, tried this morning
to pet what may be Brownwood's small-
est newborn Shetland pony. The animal,
born Saturday morning, measures 18%
Inches tall while his mother, looking on,
stands 38 inches. Owners, Mr. and Mrs.
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.,
are being held
A little earlier. a few Negroes
succeeded in attending Easter
services at two white churches.
Negroes were turned away from
several other white churches.
The mild-mannered Boutwell
and the nine councilmen elected
with him had no assurance they
would be able to step immediately
into the duties of office.
They were chosen to replace a
three-man city commission. but
the commissioners — including
arch segregationist Eugene Con-
nor—contend their terms have not
expired and say they won’t sur-
render office without a court
WASHINGTON (API - The Su-
preme Court decided 6-3 today
that lower federal tribunals lack
authority to block cuts in railroad
freight rates pending a final rul-
ing by the Interstate Commerce
Commission on the reductions.
The decision is of prime inter-
est in the Southeast where rail-
make the return "on time" in trol Commission which tries to
the Dallas district, one IRS oversee application of the Geneva
spokesman said cease-fire and neutrality agree-
Returns not in by the deadline ment for Laos. The red prince
are subject to an interest charge and the commission members re-
of ( per cent per annum and a manned at the Plaine des Jarres.
Prince Souvanna Phouma re-
(See RESIDENTS on Page 11 'turned to Vientiane Sunday night.
temm
ed by the Japanese on wake____. .
Island after it fell to the Jape- bert Boutwell - a segregationist,
but considered a moderate on the
knell to barge transportation on
the Tennessee River."
Chief Justice Warren and Jus-
tice Black joined in Clark's dis-
sent.
Brennan's majority opinion said
that the congressional mandate to
achieve a balance between com-
peting forms of transportation is
directed not to the courts but to
"Billie Sol Estes, it is the judg-
ment of this court that you be,
and you are hereby, sentenced to
serve five years on Count One:
nese At that time he was a
EL PASO (AP)—Bankrupt promoter Billie Sol Estes
was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for mail fraud
and conspiracy in manipulating worthless fertilizer tank
mortgages worth (24 million.
U. S Dist Judge R. E. Thomason overruled a de-
fense motion for a new trial. He described the onetime
' millionaire financier from Pecos as one of the “most gi-
gantic swindlers in history.’’
Estes was convicted March 281 ---------------;---------------
according,to Internal.Revenue pong..the.titular..leader.of.the of patrol cars.but.were not used navy — » uquury wuay re- uunaers ana sauuts uta ue —
x sxxtandintrnatonsrcon- inpourllingpubsedoisterounewsmnd sumes its efforts t iscover what man board is trying to form a
The Wall Street Journal said to- miscarriage of the dear policy of
day: "The nation's big steel pro- our government, the frustration of
ducers, convinced President Ken- the admitted duties of the Inter-
nedy will tolerate selective price state Commerce Commission and
increases, are expected soon to the destruction of an entire sys-
seek their first substantial price tern of transportation.”
----- The question of authority of the
Premier Questions
Cease-Fire Pledge
By ANTOINE YARED the trouble area Sunday and inter-
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP-Lao- viewed heads of the opposing fan
tian Premier Prince Souvanna tions.He said pledged to:stoP
Phouma appeared doubtful today fighting while he tries to patch up
that cease-fire pledges would be. their differences.
observed by neutralist and pro- “I will see if my instructions
Communist forces in the Plaine given to them not to fight will
des Jarres. be respected,” he added, however.
Sunday's demonstration began at
a Negro church on the edge of
the business district The Negroes
turned into an alley, but police-
men stopped them in a field.
Police ‘ ' ’
. Maule of Quetec, said he and .. ...
This left the Liberals thee short nost Sociai creu.i leaders from tions subcommittee on foreign
m by? federal jury in EIPaso on resulting from his complicated
40 i » M counts in an indictment mortgage deals with farmers and
2T2 1 finance companies.”
The judge ruled as follows
the commission
Brennan said that Congress did
not intend to permit the revival of
the industry. the judicial remedy “the exercise
Kennedy, anxious to head off of which might well defeat rather
any steel industry rush to boost than promote the objectives of the
prices, held a series of telephone national transportation policy.”
conferences Sunday after Lukens Clark’s dissenting opinion, how-
____ _____ ever, protested that “it is, in-
increases on part deed, a sad dey for our judicial
processes when our courts are
rendered powerless to prevent this
tee report, for example, did not
attack the idea of foreign aid in-
stead. it asked for a new shape
and a less costly one
President Kennedy put the clas-
sic argument for foreign aid in
his inaugural address “To those
i people in the huts and villages of
half the globe struggling to break
the bonds of mass misery, we
pledge our best' efforts to help
themselves, for whatever period
is required—not because the Com-
munists may be doing it, not be-
cause we seek their votes, but be-
se,
of a majority in tlx 265-seat Quebec, who makc up the bulk of operations He believes it hurts
‘ ‘ the American economy by drain-
corporal in the U. S. Marine
Corps He spent two years.
1942-1944, in a POW camp in
Wosung. Shanghai, where he
met Shindo.
“The end is not yet in sight—bn i
it is clearly in mind" is the most
David E. Bell, administrator of
the Agency for International Dev
velopment (AID), would say re-
cently.
The first balloon in a series of Eigservana years A ££
tour will be launched from Brown- on Count 29; with these sentences
wood Municipal Airport at ( a.m. to run consecutively for a total
Tuesday, if weather conditions are sentence of 15 years
""Sendlaa for 5 JO a.m. today. ^^.ve^yea^on sntsncsdiet,
the launching waa delayed because to run concurrently with the sen-
of unfavorable weather conditions, tence imposed on Count One: and
A five million cubic-foot balloon. to serve years on Count 14, to run
made of plastic and weighing 625 concurrently with the sentence im-
pounds is ready to be released posed on Count Eight; the total
by Jet Propulsion Laboratories. sentence will be 15 years to
Pasadena, Calif., and Raven in- serve."
dustries, Sioux Falls, S.D The suxcur vuoron
balloon is to rise to an altitude e , saUMT EoON
0 i»m Fo. Lli “0a mX Estes received the sentence
of 130,000 feet and stay in flight with his usual impassiveness Ne
2ahours.. ... . . did show a slight motion of his
JPL scientists plan to measure lips when Thomason castigated
the number of cosmic ray neu- his conduct as a swindler
trons in the atmosphere and to Estes wore a black suit, black
check the theory that neutrons tie and white shirt,
may be coming from the sun to
the earth. His wife, who had attended
information from the balloon many of the trial sessions, was
while it is in flight win be re- 001 incourt. Estes two. broth-
corded with radio equipment set ers, however, were present.
up at the airport by JPL scien- Estes, whose ritancial empire
lists Raven technicians will track oi fertilizer tanas, grain storage
I the balloon with airplanes, and cotton altoiments collapsed a
—~———---——— 11 ——— teat ago, was ziven an eight-year
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P.O. Box 8066
Dallas, Texa
The neutralist premier flew to I The proCommunist Pathet Lao fight.
------------------------------ under Gen. Sinkapo has bottled up
Sunday 32 demonstrators were
arrested, bringing to 260 the num-
ber jailed since Negroes launched
., , an antisegregation drive early this
he assisted the Japanese Bap- month.
tist.sonvention. Hn.lftnfor The arrests came after pr'ice
Hawa en route home Sunday haited nearly 1,000 Negroes
night marching toward city jail, where
several of their leaders, inchiding
over the holiday weekend were federal courts was raised by a
that their move could start this barge line called the Arrow Trans-
we* " portation Co., the City of Gunters-
The Lukens announcement said ville, Ala , and two firms in oppos-
3 per cant increases ontwopro-jingacutof60percentor more in
ductton items will be effective on rates on grain hauled by rail.
shipmenta made today and there- The reduction was proposed by
after. th* Southern Railway, Loulsvile
Deadlines
Central1 Texass residents face Prince Souvanna Phouma talked
tandesurmnssanddmotor
inspection stickers. ultra-leftist group of neutralists.
Federal income tax returns are The premier was accompanied ____
due in the district director's office on his peace-seeking trip by his cycle.
In Dallas by midnight tonight, half-brother. Prince Souphanou- I -
roods are proposing to cut rates Justic
on grain despite vigorous opposi- opinion,
lion from barge tines. fr tndau
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disaster to place a black and white Lt. (jg > James D. Watson, navi- ' , ,
floral wreath on the approximate gator on the USS Skylark, surface 0111
spot below which the vessel lies, escort vessel at the Thresher J
The only sign of the Thresher told exchange of messages £ BUT NO END IN SIGHT
since her last communication with then "the sound of a ship hreak-
an escort vessel Wednesday mom- ing up-like a compartment col-
ing has been bits of debris found lapsing."
Wt,ce at, -
Tu
, Diefenbaker
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Leashed dogs were brought out PORTSMOUTH. N.H. (API — A perience of veteran submarine They were the last sounds to be Cmdr. Deal Axene, former nis hcmetown oi Peco. on federal
1 Navy court of inquiry today re- builders and sailors that the five- heard from the Thresher. skipper of the Thresher, called charges similar to t.os6 he faced
w"izmmur siasane,m emn‘ssn"cam =ssae
leingabatmasaratemonstrxion,mheAGantic‘socan. forever. tag to blow up ' | Nonetheless, testimony indicated a uate"sgrand-ju a Amarillo
announced April 3 that Birming- The ill-fated nuclear submarine Haunting the inquiry at Ports- Watson explained that this a feeling of concern among the iadicted him on anti-trust charges,
ham was the desegregation center with 12S men aboard plunged to mouth Naval Shipyard where the meant the submarine was trying crew over the submarines reli-
ef the nation. That was the day a watery grave—some 8.000 feet Thresher was built is the fact that 10 blow water out of its ballast ability.
after Boutwell's runoff victory deep—during a test dive last the cause of the tragedy may nev- tanks and to surface. ; dr
over Connor for the mayor a post Wednesday about 220 miles east - " - - - A----*
ura for workmen who must guide the
heavy sheets into place by radio contact
with the crane operator. See Page 3
for story and pictures. (Staff Photo)
TOKYO (AP——Joe Latham
of Brownwood. Tex . an Ameri-
can Christian Crusader, had at
least one of his prayers answ-
eted on Easter Sunday
Latham, 48, had been search-
ing for a Japanese medical of-
ficer he remembered only aa
"Sbiuta" since he arrived in
Japan. The Brownwood man is
one of about IM foreign cru-
saders for the Japan Baptist
New Life Movement.
He said he wanted to meet
the doctor just to say "hello and
thank you." They first met
years ago in a Japanese prison-
er of war camp in China.
The two got together and
shook hands at a Tokyo hos-
pital where the 51- year -old
former captain of Japanese
army medical corps works.
Latham described Shindo as
a man of warm humanity and
& Nashville Railroad, St. Louis- floating in the area. , ------
San Francisco Railway and Sea-' It is front the debris, the mes- Watson said the sounds came
board Air Line Railroad sages and the knowledge and ex-1 a few seconds after 9:17 am By STANLEY MEISLER I However, for countries growing Still, the United States likely
m WASHINGTON (AP>—Congress economically. Bell says he "can wont halt aid to all. There sim-
F may buffet it. stomp on it and see the end of the road.” ply are too many developing
shred it. but foreign aid will go "For some it won't be quick," countries too poor or to close to
on. .Bell said Sunday night in a radio- communism.
Hardly anyone sees an end
Canada. count on their support on most
jssrsrsitsa 1 menabers an
tions to Pearson arer results of nounced Frday, te) would sup’
me vote from Canaaian service- Piotie Hudn
veterans Marcoux, Soial edit floor lead, istic reasons for foreign aid. The
:ogovernmen P alswasaner in the las. Farlianent .said ‘ -
vounced: three of the six had been misled
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l to surface. | "I don't know if I’ll be seeing victed here ot sellins mortgages
er be known. It may lie buried Moments later, Watson said, a you later," Joseph Shafer of Bath, on nonexistent fertilizer stannkteto
with the submarine at ocean garbled message came from the Ohio, brother of Benjamin andmalo finance.companes. Estes
' The Naw plans a brief pause deoths from which Naw ofrici- Thresher. Only the last two words John Shafer of Groton, Conn., who attorncys cete - —
1. ™ ma- Prans « bne Pau depths ""ic ma.ote "test depth” were audible. After both perished with the Thresher cer no fraud berzuse the finance
that the only sound was "a muted quoted Benjamin as saying short- •
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