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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS 76401
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Senator Hopeful For
Improved Postal System
State’s Off-Shore Leases
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Regional Hospital reported.
-aAxer, 200 volunteer workers are
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They awaited the arrival of one more
Billy Brown Appointed
prisoners-wives, daughters and mothers-
1973 Chairman of YES
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Mandatory Trash Pickup
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Wednesday,
February 21, 1973
“We have recently had some calls
concerning the mandatory garbage
collection,” city administrator Marshall
Shelton said Tuesday. “The need for this
arose because of the mandatory sanitary
landfill by the State Health Department.
“The purchase of a landfill was almost
WICHITA FALLS, Tex. AP - The 12
officers and men sent here after captivity
by the Southeast Asia Communists were in
good to excellent condition Tuesday, a
spokesman at Sheppard Air Force Base
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collect funds for the Erath County Unit of
the American-Heart Association. Headed
by door-to-door drive co-chairmen Mrs.
Perry D. Elliott and Mrs. Robert Elliott,
the volunteer workers are raising funds to
support research by the American Heart
Association into treatment of Heart
Disease.
District Attorney Bob Glasgow is county
drive chairman. He said that since heart
disease is the number one killer in
America, Erath County residents should
be interested in supporting research to cut
down the number of deaths caused by
heart disease.
The Erath County Heart Association unit
plans to sponsor a “heart attack first aid"
program this year in an effort to teach
every housewife in the country what to do
in the event of a heart attack. Thes
distances many people live from a hospital
causes a delay in receiving treatment
following a heart attack. Through the first
aid program, the Heart Association hopes
to enable well trained housewives to help
members of their family stricken wih a
heart attack.
The Heart Association drive began
Monday and will be finished Sunday,
which has been named “Heart Sunday” in
Erath County.
and that “all of you kept the faith.”
After his speech, Nixon returned
Washington.
allowed paper and trash to blow at the old
landfill. Approximately 35 per cent of the
families in our community will be added to
the collection service approximately April
1, 1973, and we are asking for public
cooperation,” he added.
The overall benefit to the community
will be better control of blowing trash, a
payment of around 38,000.00 per year to the
city by the contractor, and charges at the
gate so that each user can participate in
the cost of operation and the cost will not
have to be borne only by taxpayers inside
the city limits he explained.
“In the past, the cost of the landfill has
not been so excessive, but we will not have
an investment in land (338,500.00),
equipment (348,000.00), and expenses of
operation, and enforcement of State laws.
We intend to have a clean operation and
keep our promise to the neighbors of the
landfill and the State Health Department,”
he said.
“A full time law enforcement officer will
be on duty to enforce state regulations and
the result will be a sanitary landfill that we
en route back to Washington from a
five-day Florida stay, the President was
prsented a plaque by Mrs. Robert Bagley,
wife of an Air Force lieutenant colonel still
held in a North Vietnam prison camp. She
said the plaque is “a token of our faith in
you and your Vietnam policy.”
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THE HOME OF
TARLETON STATE
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Billy Brown has been appointed 1973
Chairman of Youth for Easter Seals (YES)
for Stephenville, and The Erath County
Trailblazers, it was announced by C.H.
Maguire. Jr., local chairman of Easter
Seals.
“Billy will enlist and organize the
Trailblazers to work in the Easter Seal
Campaign,” Maguire said. “He will direct
the challenge locally, but as part of a
statewide effort, to rally young people to
the cause of crippled children and adults.”
YES, as it is to be known, is a nationwide
effort of the Easter Seal Societies to
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as adults. “The time is now,” he said, “to
begin our participation so we not only
prepare for the future, but help now to
locate crippled residents, and , by our
efforts, to finance the services they badly
need.”
Miss Janet Kelly of Dallas, Texas State
YES Chairman, is a member of the Easter
Seal Society Youth Action Committee,
which developed the program. As such,
she will bring both the efforts and ideas of
state and local youth to national attention.
The Trialblazers will be participating in
“Lilly Day”, March 24th and will be
Wednesday on the proposed sale of Texas brought only 3661 million in cash bonuses
offshore leases believed to hold 30 to 60 compared with 34.3 billion for eight
can all take pride in and will come closer j
to paying its own way,” Shelton added.
Commercial users will not have a
mandatory pickup and the same prices I
will prevail as in the past The landfill will
be opened as soon as possible because at I
lack of space at the old site The collection ]
and billing will begin as soon as the billing V
and trucks an be obtained, Shelton said. I
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involve more young people as volunteers.
Billy reminded area youth that they would selling “Easter Seal balloons
Louisiana offshore sales.
A spring sale also would more than
double the acreage under lease in federal
areas of the Texas coast. The proposed 124
tracts total 672,643 acres compared with
only 405,134 acres currently under lease.
The five Louisiana tracts would add only
25,000 acres to the more than 4.5 million
Louisiana acres under federal lease.
In addition to a need for new gas
supplies, most testimony at the hearing
will center on a 584-page environmental
impact statement draft the Bureau Land
Management has prepared on the
proposed sale.
The statement acknowledges potential
oil spill dangers and increased shipping
land hazards but states that withdrawal of
the sale would diminish offshore
contributions to future energy demand and
would subsequently necessitate develop-
ment of other sources of energy.
In addition to complete withdrawal of
the sale, the impact statement lists such
alternates as leasing only those tracts
determined to have a low potential for
environmental harm or offering only the
120 tracts considered as gas prone. It adds,
however, that dropping nine oil prone
tracts would result in the loss of 30 to 60
million barrels of oil that would have to be
made up from other sources.
million barrels of oil and 5.4 to 7.6 trillion
cubic feet of gas.
The Department of Interior’s Bureau of
Land Management has a tentative
schedule for a late spring sale of 124
federal tracts off the upper Texas coast
and five nearby Louisiana areas.
All but nine of the tracts are considered
gas prone and this is expected to prompt
_ most of the 100 or so witnesses expected for
the public bearing to endorse the sale. The
nation’s natural gas shortage that has
closed some schools and industrial plants
at times this winter has caused most
environmentalist groups to temper their
opposition to such sales.
The sale would be the first for Texas
offshore tracts and the third for Gulf of
Mexico areas since environmentalist
opposition forced postponement of such
sales nearly a year. A September sale that
brought 3585 million in cash bonus
payments for 64 Louisiana tracts was
followed with 132 tracts that brought a
record 31.6 billion in December.
Eixploration results from five previous
federal offshore Texas sales have not
produced dramatic results but there have
been recent gas discoveries in both federal
and nearby state areas. This, combined
with the current emphasis on gas
explorations, could cause the proposed
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requiring mail to be trucked hundreds of
miles for processing before being turned to '
the area from which it had originated for
delivery. i.
Noting the investigation launched by the
Senate Post Office Committee, Byrd said ’
people around the country “are looking to
the Congress to take action that will
reverse the deterioration which has
occurred in the nation’s mail service.”
Sen. Gale McGee, D-Wyo., chairman of
the Post Office Committee, has sent I
committee staff members into the field to
study postal operations. Postmaster
General Elmer T. Klassen will testify I
before the group on March 7.
Sen. Lloyd Bensten, D-Tex., called a
concession by postal officials that mail
service had deteriorated a “refreshing bit
of candor.”
“The mass media are filled with
so-called public service announcements
telling us what a great job the postal
service is doing,' Bentsen said. At the
same time, he said, the service reportedly .
was spending 3300,000 on mailings to
businessmen asking them to use air mail.
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returnee during the evening. He is Maj.
James R. Berger, 34, of Loveland, Colo.,
one of the group of 18 last released. He was
to be reunited with his wife, Carol, and
sons, William, 9, and Scott, 7.
Maj. Morrow Krum, information officer
here for the ex-POWs, said his information
was that Berger is “in good shape.”
He was captured after his F47 was shot
down during a combat mission December
2, 1966.
Best news Tuesday, according to Krum,
is the jubiliation of James R. Cook of
Wheatridge, Colo., who was officially
promoted to master sergeant from
technical sergeant.
“He was extremely elated and happy,”
Krum said. “Cook hung his promotion
papers up in his hospital room,” said the
major.
Cook is the only enlisted man processing
through Sheppard and the only returnee
confined to the hospital. He has fractured
legs and dislocated shoulder.
Others are being treated as outpatients
and some have completed the basic parts
of their medical tests and are undergoing
debriefing.
No official time when the ex-POWs are
to be released from the hospital is
available, according to Krum.
Worfd Peace Better Now
The Family Newspaper of Erath County
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COLUMBIA, S.C. AP - President Nixon
predicted Tuesday history will prove that
America was right when “we stuck it out”
in Vietnam and said the settlements there
brightens prospects for lasting world
peace.
Addressing the South Carolina General
Assembly, the first state legislature to
adopt a resolution hailing the Vietnam
peace accord, Nixon said the United States
ended its role in the war with honor and
with the respect of allies and adversaries
alike.
* Because of what we did in Vietnam it is
my firm conviction that the United States
can now exercise more effective
leadership in the cause of world peace,”
the President said.
It was the chief executive’s first
full-fledged public address in the nearly
four weeks since the Vietnam accord was
signed, and White House aides arranged
for him to give it in a state that Gov. John
DAIRY FESTIVAL DEMONSTRATION-Members of the Tarleton Weightlifters win
give a weightiifting demonstration Friday evening during the third annual Stephenville
Dairy Festival. The festival opens Thursday morning at 10:00a.m. and will run through
Friday at 10:00 p.m. The Tarleton Weightuifters are, front row, left to right, Monte
Lvely, Roy Mnattsby, Gary Grooms, and Jerry Mepert. Back row, left to right, Kirk
Kitchens, Pat Love, and Mike Trice. The Texan Poweruifters wil put on exhibition
performs urn at 1:66 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Friday. The Dairy Festival wfl! have the
Green’s Creek Singers and Charlotte Pack and Sisters as added entertainment Friday
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FORNES HONORED-New Athletic Director andHead football coach James “Buddy”
Fornes and his wife, second from left, were honored Tuesday night at a reception
hosted by the Texan Club in the TSC student center. Pictured with Mr. and Mrs. Fornes
are Dr. and Mrs. John Dunn (far left) and Dr. and Mrs. Trogdon (far right). A good
crowd of Stephenville residents and TSC students turned out to welcome the Fornes’ to
Tarleton.
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WASHINGTON AP - Sen. Robert C.
Byrd, D-Wa., said Tuesday he hopes a
forth coming Senate investigation will
produce concrete proposals for improving
the U.S. Postal Service’s “inadequat,
undependable and slow" operations.
In a Senate speech, Byrd said mail
service has deteriorated in the three years
since it was turned over to a
~ quasi-independent corporation.
He cited a General Accounting Office
study that said “first class mail service
has been adversely affected by measures
taken by the Postal Service” and said the
threat of further second class rate
-. increases in jeopardizing newspapers and
magazines.
Postal Service proposals to centralize
mail processing “defy logic,” he said, by
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The President read a letter he said he
received from a California mother whose
son died in Vietnam. The mother, whom he
did not name, praised the “honorable
peace agreement” and said:
“Had you agreed to anything less, you
would have let down not only the boys
remaining in Vietnam, but also those who
died in the war....We feel that our son
James would have felt as we do, and would
, have supported your policy.”
Aides said the letter was from Mrs.
I Louis J. Amedola of Downey, Calif.
The President traced the history of what
he called “this terribly difficult war” and
said the United States became involved
“for a very high purpose.”
“It was, very simply, to prevent the
I imposition by force of a Communist
government on the 17 million people of
P South Vietnam,” Nixon said.
“That was our goal and we achieved that
goal, and we can be proud that we stuck it
) out until we did reach that goal.”
The President said America demon-
strated it was willing “to stand by a small,
i weak country,” and in doing so earned the
trust of allies and the respect of two
I potential adversaries.
“So I say to you....as we look to the
1 future, the chances for us to build a peace
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been at any time since the end of World
War H,” Nixon said.
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Ellis, Darwin. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 21, 1973, newspaper, February 21, 1973; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500021/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.