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BROWNWOOD. TEXAS, SUNDAY, MAY 1, HU
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Levee Break
Floods Area
In Louisiana
University.
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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Childress at Ozona. Donna Wall
Stroke Fatal
26 roads in Dallas County were
• "bloc vote for freedom" and
Creek are two of the critical
above flood stage and another
(See RAINS on Page 21
McNamara always sat in la-
Maximum temperature here
11th MIG Falls In Latest Viet Nam Clash
loss of 3 American planes. in
of the border, but spokesmen
Charles De Gaulle of France:
sive altacks Friday. A Teas dis-
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U.S., Soviets Draw
Fire From Chinese
GOV. JOHN •. CONNALLY
. .. Dedication speaker
bar's corner. Prior to coming to
the Senate, he served for 20
which he described as "not
compulsory. ' to change slightly
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New waves of violent thun-
derstorms sent more waters
swirling Saturday into
Turner crowned by the 1965 am-
bassador for mohair, Janell
Six Injured As Car
Collides With Train
Firm Reveals
Car Changes
DETROIT (AP) - Chevrolet
confirmed Saturday it had made
some adjustments in Corvairs
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Saturday 75 Sunset today
7 13. sunrise Monday 5 45
volved.
This came within 24 hours of
GM disclosure that adjustments
had been made on 2.600 of its
Oldsmobile Toronados, a new
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the Viet Cong
Air action remained dominant
otherwise both north and south
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Downpours
Rip Dallas, J b
Fort Worth
for 14.
In Paris U.N. Secretary -Gen-
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Viet Cong, and patrols of the
25th Infantry Division accounted
eral U Thant reported after a
two-hour talk with President!
flood stage and was due to rise
another foot and a half during
the day.
At Gladewater in Northeast
of Big Sandy.
The original field of 30 was
cut down to 15 finalists. from
nge.
from Big Sandy was judged the
fourth runnerup. She is 19-year-
old and daughter of Mr and
lative authority on federal high-
way programs, problems of the
aged and aging, education, la-
bor-management relations and
Mrs. Doyle Wigint
sponsored by First State Bank
posted for all major rivers in
North Central and Northeast
was sponsored by the Brown-
wood Junior Chamber of Com-
Beng Go.
About 50 guerrillas shot from
their sanctuary across the 50-
foot-wide river in a diversionary
action as Americans pursued
about three Red platoons that
Jernigan of Goldthwaite, now a--------------
student at Southern Methodist which the four runnersup and
Negro in Alabama with good
thinking sense that’s gmng to
vote for Sister Wallace," King
told an estimated 3,000 persons
swollen North Texas—
streams, threatening more'
flooding in the water-soaked
area.
At least 12 porsons penshed
in the Dellas-Fort Worth area
and 12 others drowned in flood-
waters of Northeast Texas dur-
ing the weeklong rains that'
caused millions upon millions of |
dollars to property damage
The new turbulent weather in !
Texas was touched off a frontal
dents continued in low-lying sec-
tions at Dallas. Fort Worth and
suburban cities. Officiate said
.. ____ A Chevrolet spokesman said
sophomore Corsair changes involved "only
—— a few cars" and a bracket.
j "to improve driveability.” but
insisted no safety factor was in-
was the 11th to fall, against a
at a park rally to Birmingham,
Alabama’s largest city and the
----.7 .______ a . setting for a 1963 civi rights
down the rushing torrent a adrive.
two-three rain inch fell 1 ---—
Texas metropolitan areas, spacious Brownwood Cotaetan.
Meanwhile evacuation of resi- Over 1,000 pa sum saw Miao
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If rains continue as espected,
Brownwood could possibly be
faced with flooding in sections
of the city, according to Marvin
points now since there are no
flood control structure to slow
uug. I the queen were selected.
Te fivefoot-six-inch brunette The other 10 finalists included
Linda Horner of Santa Anna,
tf"”i M San Aniono,
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good condition station wagon.
Investigating Highway Patrol- Billy Joe Dickerson of Route
man Homer Smith said the 2 Brownwood waa driver of the
Foster auto was traveling south station wagon that collided with
when it collided with a boxcar the rear of a 1963. pickup driven
on the single car train traveling by Jimmie R Boler of 906 Mel-
east wood.
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Adams Branch and Willis
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last spring Ground gunners
remained the greateat hazard to
the raider squadrons. Briefing
officers announced two planes—
Miss Cindy Turner, 18-year-old sopho-
more at McMurry College, happily
wears a big smile, the Miss Mohair
of the Universe crown and coronation
gown after she was named the mo-
hair ambasador for 1966 of the Texas
Sheep and Goat Raisers Association.
Miss Turner was sponsored by the
Mineral Wells Chamber of Commerce
such serial combat since
and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Turner. First runnerup honors
went to Marcia Lucas, 19, left, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Griffin
Jr. of Brownwood, while another
Brownwood beauty, Janice Herman,
19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. H.
Herman, was second runnerup.
(Staff Photo)
predicted that Lurleen Wallace,
running to succeed her husband, ----- —--
will not get any Negro votes. Texas. The Trinity River at Dal-
"I don't think there’s a single las stood at 36 feet-6 feet above
CITY SOAKED AGAIN
Lingering Rains Fill Creeks
wamBurtudeusdeorhepagomtshsNayenhg *«
spacious Brownwood Coliseum.
dent Johnson is finding it touch r*
, and go to offset the defection/N.
an we ce •m —— ---- .. . from his Great Society pro- ministrative assistant, were
when a 1957 auto driven by Paul rains. caused_rust intheugrain, grams of some Democratic Viet ery where,
hng pertodq Nam war critics and others fac- I S
Rains Punish
had been spotted in Vietnamese
to antiaircraft fire during exten- territory.
The troops laabed back with
By ROBERT D. OHMAN (patch from Hanoi declared sev-
SAIGON. South Viet Nam en were shot down that day
(APi —US. Air Force Phan- Communist (ire from neutral-
tom pilots slashed another MIG ist Cambodia stirred up U.S. 1st tional incident. American losses
(ichter from North Viet Nam s Infantry Division troops who for were termed light There was
S^sXdEin a dogfight a week had been methodically no estimate of the toll among
100 miles northwest of Hanoi. It wiping out enemy base camps
and supply depots northwest of
Saigon on' the Vietnamese side
of a frontier river, the Rach
By JACK BELL. I Postmaster General Law:
WASHINGTON - Prestrongreaonarvenusnojdndemi was organized. January,01963.
“ Slanatos,. presidentiai agzordthcslsoakcongroancvarsmand
Harbors subcommittee
He was recognized as a legis-
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - 2 .
A levee along a bayou, about Daniel of the Sod Conservation
12 miles north of Shreveport. Service. ... ____
broke Saturday and floodwaters in the past twosdays. Brown
poured over farmlands and oil- wood has received 2.2 inches
fields toward OU City, about of rains with 79 falling Satur-
five notes to the west of the day swefimg croaks to bank
lellsPeggi Jean Smith of Austin.
Kathy Smith of Brownwood.
Chamber of Commerce. Kathy Smith of Brownwood,
First runnerup in the com- Karon Brooks of Evant, Martha
petition among 39 girls from Hoerster of Mason. Carmen
throughout Texas and the na- Childress of Ozona. Donna Wall
tion was Brownwoods Marcia of Lubbock, Linda Segrest of
..... Ruth Lucas, 18-year-old daugh- Bangs and Debora Place of
To Michigan ,s" CDI " ’
at the University of Texas and
years as the unsalaried presi- TOKYO (AP> — Premier tored in Tokyo.
dent of Pipefitters Local 636. Chou En-lai of Red China un- Only two days ago. President
AEL, inDetroit... . ... leashed a bitter attack on the Shao-chi, in a speech welcoming
When first elected tothe Sen- United States and the Soviet the Albanians, attacked Soviet
ate in 1954, he was safes execu- Union on Saturday and charged policy on Viet Nani and said
s tteien SERampafadmf-ivritinenisnjnsveanamirypspasrttat
_____________________ etmen to oppose China, Albania tionary cause"
and all revolutionary people.” Chou described Soviet aid to
Chou warned the United North Viet Nam as "both meag-
States that "even more disas- er in quantity and poor un qualk
a Navy Crusader, and an Air
Force Thunderchi—were lost
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, that have led to the destruotion for two of the enemy planes Fri-
— . ___________I warplanes since April 23. day while guarding U.S. Air
said U.S. Marines had killed 4 A U.S. spokesman said a Red Force F105
- fighter downed Saturday was a tacking a ________ .
M1G17, one of the older models ^0,, developed 35 miles north — . „ . par, ...
xporremomanw.agudatcip"tawhokdldbueg, “ 1 NewChunaNewaAgeny ...MM
Bayou .
alnzsBneroeonderounsstamh King Campaigns
ed the lake level was1,1419.4 For Bloc Ballot
Since the rams started the BIRMINGHAM, Ata (API - - -
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. closed from Friday's heavy
urged Negroes Saturday to cast flooding | e ■
• • - --------- New flood warnings were LaWmOKer
WASHINGTON (APi - Sen
Pat MeNamara. o Michigan, "Anther Brownwood beauty,
servinghslothyeaninthesee. Miss Janice Herman, sponsored
atecdied.saturdaysnishtuat.Be by Brownwood Lions Club cap-
thesda Naval Hospital where be tred second runnerup honors
had been under treatmen !M« Herman is a 19-year-old
Marhle,wgsmt, stroke sophomore at Texas Tech and
Texas, the Sabine was 13 feet saturdy atreshoen an aude daugnter a Sranddrs 1
-------- ------ -esaid, and died ,t 8:46 p.m. Heman 0Brown"oi- went
i He entered the hosptal for Thirdirunnerurs.hqnnorwen
' treatment of a blood clot, which i to Melodie Ann Mrs
settled in a lung. In January, old,daughterov.Mr.d nd Mrs
he was hospitalizedfor a time -sonsrtid“Rado Sta. car on the market this year,
with a thyroid condition. I tSP°KOrs Midland she is and on about 23.000 at the 1964
A Democrat and Michigan's onKSiomoratrekasStech. Cadillacs,
senior senator. McNamara was Sn iomntn East Texas
named chairman of the import- 3qne I"igintn, . ■
ant Senate Public Works Com- State University t
mittee when the 88th Congress
machine guns and artillery but there is no possibility for a set-139. and * L ' .APhantomcqwud aSde
staved on their own side of the tlement of the war or for any | Gerald D Hardgrave 28. 0 winder tosshootdown ■ - Iou
nvir to avoid, graver interna- new peace attempts.“ Jackson, Tenn. Goldberg said S’ which---
Engineers said Oil City -pop. 6,000 March
BaSrS NearEmbassy an "
of the sparsely settled flood demonstrators defied police
area. Farmers were driving out lines Sunday and surged toward
their livestock, and oil crewmen the fortified U.S. embassy build
were dismantling electronic mg near the Saigon waterfront t
gear al oil wells. The dem^sto^ , c^rrnng around the lake has received
scompanyaotficialssaaid.nood saggqsrggpnrttcclhouyndsnano »■” l—«■ "k
waters would cause heavy dam- marched through the wide Theesiway.eofitheslowe
age to the equipment, and might streets of the capital in the is 1425.The lake ffminess,
possibly cause a current blac- ditional international Labor Day Nnaapodingexpedted Peach
kout in the area. I march. _____te spillway level
Daniel said the Brownwood
area streams could not stand
much more runoff.
trous defeats are in store" if the ty."
war in Viet Nam is expanded .Albania is Red China s only
and said U.S. efforts to set up Communist ally in Europe Both
peace talks would fail boycotted the 23rd congres o
.ueu. The Soviet Union, he said, the Soviet Communi' party in
attacked their ‘while professing aid to Viet I Moscow in late March.
Peking andHanoi are broad-the MiC haddisintsgraledun- MS Namagainang.ssazgzesslovsstin Pekine frsngPubs, Chu
si"sr"Srmsmspnndgarmioim a ma Ma
. aecvumedsunezf“rhdmepsaztncambtamevsatmengprgldbtamaiprsdraatan".mges"
comino us Air MIG trailed white smoke for The Soviet Union is trying "to! menLs, as if no imrortan
guardingosrsat two miles belore hitting the form an anti-Chinese ring of events had ever ocsurednan
Tzhteroombersrat ground and exploding " encirclement around China," he no contradictions existedinsde
railroad yard. This , ’^XXr^X’ttapl. Ur- said < or outs.de the soviet Union
Chou addressed a rally in Chou stated anew that toe
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mm the accident and aftemoonhshaaimhsttedrs? tloodingsrangetanarand.ces
4,0 4, 4, eztes —amp damage on three autos. are taking advamta8e 0f te
Neal Fotaer 63, of Richland' At 12:04 pm Brownwood abundance at moisture, es
Springs, his wife, and four of poice investigated an acoident pecaly the small grain erp.,
theCopie’sgrandchuidren. atWest.Adams.and BookenmLnstczeaa the i^ grim
Namwarsocsanayotherslac "Secretary, ot the Imterior
woa .•yj” i mataconservative m Soamlg"dasuresd"Er
Won with only sCrtches and hadcolded .Rats havesued Brownwvqad The White House put on its Bartlett, D-Alaska, that he will
abrasions from the jarring «l- Damage was estimated at $709 streets to cub ,u‘ and * most intensive lobbying cam- get action on housing subsidies
ision to both autos. Ill I teJMteteib—• paign of the year before the he wants for his state Bartlett civi rights.
Mrs Foster appeared to be Later in the afternoon, a front Weather Senate voted 46 to 45 last voted with a majority of the Ap-
* mergrncarrivemmdephvem anownwpod.AnEa:
day High 50 to 65 Johnson deployed his forces of housing and urban develop-
Mavimum tomnerature here 0 carry the word’ that restora- ment. helped placate Bartlett
tion of the funds was an abso- and did what he could with oth-
lute must. i er allies of the rent program
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Governor To Help
Dedicate 3M Plant
Got. John Connally will take part in the Brown
wood. Chamber of Commerce "Appreciation Bay"
(or 3M Company Thursday. May 19
William M Streckert, Chamber director, said
the governor will address 400 to 500 people expect-
ed to attend an “Appreciation Day” luncheon in
the Brownwood Coliseum
Later that afternoon, he will join 3M officials
and guests for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and
plant tour formally opening the 15,000 square feet
facilitv. ■
Tickets can be purchased at the chamber of-
fice
The new plant, operated by 3M's reflective
products division, now employs about 120 people
from the Brownwood area to manufacture emblem
’ and marking films and a reflective fluid
Bummomamnuamemommamamumoesnuawwnormmwmsmmsumunemamomsunnema
system that brought num to
I most of the eastern half ol the m am
== Cindy Turner Starts
dawn, • new record low tor the
full slick streets have caused man- dale m A • A A I • Th •
rSinseasundayaBrortinandsbas eraroumcodanffolioe reported an sayotuporrire‛Sheevepor2-ms NAngS Mohair Keian
ficaywi th many/Central Texas unusually large amount of ac- broke saturday, sending flood- ITI I w w •**-23--
areas near the io-inch mark cidents throughout the city Fri- waters rolling toward OU City. 5
Daniel said all creeks in the day and Saturday causing-over miles to the west of the break By HARRY CLINE f
area are running full with most $2,000 damage to a number of Officials said resdents had been Clmaxing a wet. but colorful
of the flood control structures cars and sending seven people moved out in advance and there and excitement-filled two days
full to Brownwood Memorial Hos- was no danger to human life of Miss Cindy
Besides the heavy rains in the petal. ___ ___ i Heavy rains and high winds Turner. 18-yearold McMurry
Brownwood area, upstream in The rains alm caused cancel lashed Dallas and Fort Worth College sophomore from Miner-
| the Jan Ned Watershed, heavy lation of a manber of events in- Saturday afternoon and the al Wells was crowned Miss Mo
ra» have fallen sad tty
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Stovall, Bill. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 170, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 1, 1966, newspaper, May 1, 1966; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1490055/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.