Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 232, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1972 Page: 1 of 8
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By BARBARA LANCASTER
Amarillo Bank Robbed
AMARILLO, Tex. AP - The North State
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DALLAS AP - Assistant Police Chief
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Right on the plush carpet more
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immediate problem was the “abominable
beings” who loot and pillage the few
standing homes and stores in the city
center.
Several thousand survivors have defied
strict orders to leave the emergency and
epidemic sones and continue looting food,
clothes and furniture.
Martial law, reinforced patrols, curfews
and threats by Samoza that looters will be
shot were of no avail. Those remaining in
the downtown section refused to budge,
protecting their few remaining belongings
and searching for missing relatives.
One old woman struggling to pull a
rolled-uprug through a broken window of a
crumbling building was asked if she
wasn't afraid of getting shot.
“There can be no further death," she
panted. “We are already dead from
hunger, dead from the cold and dead from
write your congressman (or maybe even
better, call him collect?).
The Texas Railroad Commission
probably will issue an order in the first two
weeks of January setting priorities for
natural gas use when supplies must be
curtained, an official of the agency said
today.
Walter Wendlandt, had of the gas
utilities division, said he and commission
legal counsel, Fred Young, have conferred
with the commission.
“I expect an order In the first two weeks
of January," Wendlandt says.
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By BARBARA LANCASTER The tryouts for the AllState Choir are
He alternately scowls and smiles, his January 13, and the kids don’t have an
long arms flail in time to music, he coos opportunity to work with the music. This
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utilities division, said he and legal counsel industrial users should lose gas supplies
Fred Young discussed the forthcoming before home users, hospitals and schools,
order with the railroad commissioners last Otters said they did not think the railroad
week. , commission should issue a statewide
“I expect an order in the first two weeks order, but should allow individual utilities
of January," Wendlandt said. to set their own rules for cutbacks.
Cattle Auction Held In
Fairmount Hotel Ballroom
DALLAS, Tex. AP - They held a cattle the Dallas area and we want our cattle to
auction in the elegant crimson and crystal be a landmark.”
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Luther Pack tells this story as the truth.
He says that the other day one of his
k employees found a work glove at the job
site and told Luther he had found a glove.
| “Its mine," Luther says. “Can’t be," says
the employee. “Its been used for work.’’
-- Visited yesterday morning with Luther
and Roy Fallin, who are outgoing from the
county commission Sunday. Will have a
story Sunday about Roy and Luther.
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Asked why a ballroom was picked for the Nearly 18,000 was taken from a drive-in
sale, he said: “This is a landmark in teller July 1, 1971.
home of two women in Oak Cliff, then and tourist-related organizations to insure
criticized for his behavior at a meeting of the preservation of history for future
law enforcement officers in Kansas Qty. generations of Texans,” he said.
the three crashes. The new losnes brought
the number of downed Ameriren aircraft
acknowledged by the U.S. Command to 13
since bombing resumed above the 20th
Parallel Dec 18 after the secret Pariq i
peace talks reached a deadlock The
command lists a total of 81 American
airmen missing and killed.
The command also announced the
heaviest American casualties in Indochina |
last week in nearly two years as a result of
the renewed bombing campaign. An ,
official summary listed seven Americana ,
killed - four in air operations in La os - 73
missing and 29 wounded Dec. 17-33.
The pro-Communist Nihon Denpa News !
Agency of Japan said in dispatch from
Hanoi that North Vietnamese newspapers
reported MIG interceptors shot down a B52
bomber Wednesday. If true, it would be the .
first confirmed downing of a Stratofortress
by an MIG.
choirs for Tarleton, held another of his day, but moat of them came on the day of
now-famous workshops for high school the workshop and this necessitated early
choir members of Texas yesterday rising. The workshop continued from 9:08
They came from 34 different cities in a.m. to 4:30 p.m. All of the sessions were
Texas. This year, for the first time, all five held in the auditorium of the Music
areas were represented. There were 144 Building
students this year, and when the workshop The reason for the intense interest in the
started four years ago, there were only 74. All state Choir tryouts is the scholarships
teachers, Bryan Dunn of Grand Prairie, practically all who make it can count on at
Louisiana Oysters To Be Moved
NEW ORLEANS AP - Oysters-enough to transfer and said the move will be tightly
fill some 50,000 sacks-will be moved from controlled and the new beds closely
their beds in the polluted waters of East watched.
Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Catherine to Harvesting oysters has been prohibited
more favorable waters for cleansing and in East Lake Pontchartrain and Lake
eventual harvest, officials said Thursday Catherine for three years because of
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries pollution However, the opening of the
Commission announced the experimental Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, which
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Many of those in the city .complained composer didn’t put that eresceods mark there just because it would look pretty!” The
they had received no food, water or aspirants for the Al Texas Choir came from 34 cities in Texas for the workshop which
assistance of any kind. Teat condueted yesterday at Tarleton State College
But this was in keeping with Somoza’s
orders that no food be distributed to those i m i t
Choir Members Attend Workshop
carried out.
Authorities also feared threat of an
epidemic, and a massive inoculation
Dyson’s immediate deputy Thursday committee has been appointed at this time
E • following a reshuffle of top brass in the so that they may make plans for the
* police department coming two years although their terms
Deputy Chief Tommy Hudson wss will not begin until January.”
advanced to replace Steele. He also pointed out that the overall
The changes were necessitated by the purpose of the committee’s work is the
demotion to captain and subsequent development of local history as a scholarly
suspension of former Assistant Police resource and a tourist attraction “County
Chief William Fulghum. Fulghum was survey committees work with local
first in trouble over an incident at the historians, county commissioners courts,
office had received several "complaints" reach maturity and can be harvested,
from people who had agreed to purchase Some, already mature enough for
tickets to donate to volunteer firemen, only harvest, will remain in the new beds until
to learn later the firemen are in Tolar. they completely cleanse themselves-
Shelton said he and Fire Marshall E.W. usually a 10-day process.
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AUSTIN AP-A plan telling who will be He and Young held hearings November
tural gas supplies if 30, to get suggestions for what the
s to occur this winter commission should do about gas
should be made public within two weeks, curtailments, and later made recommen-
an • official of the Texas Railroad dations to the three commissioners.
Commission said Thursday. Much of the testimony at the public
Walter Wendlandt, chief of the gas hearing included the suggestion that
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Historical Survey Members
The official appointment of members to Office of the Texas State Historical Survey
the Erath County Historical Survey Committee in Austin.
Committee has been announced by County Mrs. Joe Fambro of Stephenville will be
Judge L.L. Martin. The county survey chairman of the group. Other members
committee, which implements the state are Grady Perry, vice-chairman; Mrs.
marking and preservation program in this Betty Culpepper, sec.-treas.; Miss Verna
area, will cooperate directly with the State Harris; Mrs. Ed Keller; Coy Wall; Mrs.
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Ville citizens who thought they wore "This is not a specialized harvest,” said
helping the Stephenville Fire Department J. Burton Angelle, director of the
until they took a good tock at the tickets commission, “not open to Just anyone
< they had purchased. interested in harvesting a batch of oysters
“We Just want people to be sure who they Harvest will be effected by permit and
1 are helping when they contribute money,” licensing only, and only to fishermen with
Shelton said. approved bed leases.”
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introduced more salt water into the lakes,
apparently is cleaning the waters and the
oysters are making a natural comeback.
The two areas were among the most
productive waters for the famous
s . Louisiana oysters until about 25 years ago.
Stephenville city administrator Mar- The oysters will be placed in new waters,
shall Shelton said Thursday afternoon his described as top quality areas, until they
Bert Black; Mrs. Lanelle Harbin; Mrs.
Ben Utterback; Bill Cowan; Ennis Favors
and Sam Wolfe.
“Goals for the Seventies,” a compre-
hensive historical preservation plan
drawn up by the State Survey Committee,
will provide the focus for county
committee activities. It encompasses a
wide range of objectives and programs.
Judge Martin commented, “The
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there All the village officials spoke at the
dedication but itwas Red Riding Hood who
gave the most touching tribute.
She said that, while she had been
selfishly grateful for the woodcutters
i intervention, she realised in retrospect
that he had overreacted. As she knelt to
place a wreath in honor of the brave wolf,
I there wasn’t a dry eye in the whole forest.
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or politicians, auctioneer Curt Rodgers of Bank of Amarillo was robbed Thursday
Shawnee Mission, Kansas, handled the afternoon by an armed man wearing a ski
sale oldfashioned style. mask. The bandit fled with Just under
Three U S. and one Canadian cattlement 82,000 taken from a drive-in teller.
imported 53 prizewinning Fleckveih cattle The getaway car, bearing stolen Ohio
from Europe and they invited just about license plates, was found abandoned
every rancher in Texas for the show. shortly after the robbery.
Breeding bulls and females, each valued A security officer fired two shots at the
at 130,000 and up, were herded-not without fleeing bandit and said be believed he had
some noisy protest-into the hotel elevators wounded the man. A pistol and about 81,000
at garage level and hauled up to the were found in the abandoned vehicle, but
Regency Ballroom for the auction. no blood.
Dr. Jim Scott, an Oregon veterinarian The robber is believed to be between 25
representing the breeders, skid Flechvieh, and 30 years old.
which originated in Germany, can be bred This was the second time in little more
with Herefords. than a year that the bank had been robbed.
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Have had several interesting phone
calls about our recent comments on the oil
and gas “shortage.” Most people want to
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua AP - Shooting i
broke out anew in downtown Managua 4
Thursday as the National Guard strove to E.
evacuate the earthquake-stricken city and "
squelch widespread looting.
Unofficial reports said at least 32 people
bad been treated for bullet wounds in
emergency hospitals set up since the
Saturday earthquake that left 2,000-5,000
dead, 20,000 seriously hurt and thousands
homeless. ",
Gen. Anastasio Sotnoza, the country’s
military strongman, declared in a radio
broadcast that his country’s biggest
Ths Rev. J. W. Abernathy of Dublin has
sent us a modern look at the Red Riding
Hood tale that was printed in the Christian
Crusade Weekly.
The story (up-dated) goes like this...
Once upon a time, in a far-away country,
there lived a littlegirl called Red Riding
h Hood. One day her mother asked her to
take a basket of fruit to her grandmother,
who had been ill and lived atone in a
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R happened that e wolf was lurking in
the bushes and overheard the conversa-
tion. He decided to take a short cut to the
grandmother ’■ house and get the goodies t .nd +0LAG
for himself. The wolf killed the typhoid and cajoles one minute and the next workshopis a Godsend to those who are
grandmother, then dressed in her night “TI T-anantatinn in m. aimtrihttinn minute he skins his students alive. And trying out”
gown and jumped into bed to await the og-AcK tansportaton “they love it, and come in increasing “It’s a wonderful chance to familiarize
little girt. opsoodigontnuedstosbeaprobemagi numbers each year. them with the different music-a really
When she arrived, he made several SEnE ManEu4 worthwhile project,” he said.
nasty suggestions and then tried to grab nE Dymeantermatonaiedaxossand Professor Herbert Teat, director of some of the students came the previous
frig ten d‘ nd ans uw ming was very Disaster Relief, messaged headquarters
cottage..n. 0 keep arriving in Managua while the most
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killed the wolf with his ax, thereby seving •ad shipments -Merey 48ht8 Eren
Red Riding Hood’s We. All the Euroe have 10 be rerouted to Ponts tar
townspeople hurried to the scene and 0a R. c.. ti.. 4
proclaimed the woodeutter a hero Dn.8518 U5“ MeC v ross Soceue5 lo
22 40 " T. a. contribute cash but stop sending personnel
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emereedou had never been advised of Ms specitic requests. least a partial scholarship
rights. Professor Teat throws his whole soul
2. The woodcutter had made no warning r A i’ A • Q4,‘L, into working with the young people. He
swingbetorgstrikine bombers Continue Air StrlKes wiadmoniahithemontetinupronuncia
J. The Civu Liberties Union stresaed the tion, tell them that with fire doesn’t
point that, although the act of eating mean “with far,” sternly scold them for
Grandma may have been in bad taste, the SAIGON AP - U.S. bombers kept up bombing was clustered in the Hanoi- not coming in on time and lavishly praise
wolf was only “doing his thing" and thus their aerial blitz against the Hanoi- Haiphong area. when it is due.
didn’t deserve the death penalty Haiphong complex Thursday and the The North Vietnamese foreign ministry He win ten them that the audience gets
4. The SDC contented that the killing of saturation attacks still took a heavy toll in issued a statement saying: “The carpet bored when nothing happens-that FORTE
the grandmother should be considered aircraft losses and lives bombing by B52s has killed and wounded means to come out strong. He will wince
self-defense since she was over 38 and verv manv civilian mostlv old persons, when a sour note strays in. but will smile
therefore, couldn’t be taken seriously The U s. Command announced the loss women and children. It has destroyed when great waves of sound flow over him
because the wolf was trying to make love, of its 13th and 14th giant B52 bombers and several economic and cultural structures. All in all, Professor Teat gives a virtuoso
not war. its first Jolly Green Giant rescue many houses and properties of the performance himself as be trains, guides
On the basis of these considerations, it helicopter to enemy fire. Six crewmen Vietnamese people” and agonizes over the young singers,
was decided there was no valid basis for were reported missing and 11 rescuedin
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