Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 190, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 3, 1973 Page: 1 of 10
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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS 76401
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Government Controls Placed
Newsprint Price
Increased Again
On Propane, Coming for Oil
But they include provisions for
ling fuel supplies first to customers stration tried to let the petroleum industry
every two days.
fairly.
Council, but he has recommended that cutting off the supplies to independent
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He said the propane allocation program allocation guidelines would be made
without adequate propane.”
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alternate fuel
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The Senior Citizens, 164 E. College,
will have their regular potluck luncheon
today at 12:00 Bring a dish and share the
lunch hour with us.
You won’t want to miss a very good
Bible Study, led by Bro. Ralph Staring,
at 1:00 p.m.
At 2:00 p.m. we will make cancer
pillows for the American Society. Come
and help us in this worthy activity.
Police identified the two men as Wilmer said he thought the two forced Harper to
Scott, 35, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and open the two rooms where the victims
William Sloan, 24, of Louisville. They fled were and then started shooting. He said all
from custody in Lexington on Monday and were shot at close range in the back of
were arrested shortly before 2 a.m. EDT their heads. He said the pair took some
at Fort Thomas, just across the Ohio River money and watches.
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and at least 12 regional offices.
Throughout the summer, the admini-
Southland President Melvin E. Kruth Jr.
said the increase is necessitated by rising,
costs of energy, raw materials and 1
shipping-
Southland’s mills at Houston and Lunin
have a combined newsprint capacity of
490,000 tons annually. An expansion under
way at Houston will increase the
company’s newsprint output to 620,000 tons
a year by mid-1974.
“Historically, Southland has been aide
to expand its newsprint capacity because
it has maintained a strong financial
position,” said Kruth. “While we have I
greatly improved operating effeciencies at
our mills, the costs of energy, raw
materials and shipping have in creased at
a pace beyond our ability to absorb the
costs."
He said the programs are needed “to these price controls be removed, both to marketers and squeezing them out of the
ensure that no home or hospital goes stimulate additional production and to market
without adequate heat and no farm is reduce demand. Love warned the industry that Ms
as soon as possible."
Thompson noted also that it was possible
some businesses had been missed when
the letters were mailed, and requested
owners or managers to contact him for
information on the floats.
The Homecoming parade is scheduled
for 9:30 a.m. on October 13.
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from Cincinnati. Police said Scott was convicted at
.Scott and Sloan were held in the Lexington on an armed robbery charge.
The Stephenville V.F W Post No. 9181
announces that bingo will be resumed-
this coming Thursday evening at 7:30
p.m , and will continue to be played each
Thursday evening at that same tme.
The public is welcome to attend.
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whom and proMdtttio
prenent.
experience some fuel shortages this winter
and perhaps over the next few years.”
The mandatory allocation program for
heating oil, he said, will included afi of the
“middle distillate” oils such as diesel fuel,
kerosene, and jet fuel.
But tt win not include at ItMtfbr now -
gasoline and other petroteum products.
United Way Income
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administration imposed government con- designed to work primarily on the would be carried out quickly.
trol Tuesday on the distribution of propane wholesale level, requiring fuel distribution Morton said the programs would require
gas and reluctantly promised similar to past customers in proportion to what manpower totaling about 1,000 employes
controls on home heating oil within a few they received last year.
Heating oil to needed especially in the takes effect immediately, but the heattag mandatory if voluntary cooperation failed.
Northeast and Upper Midwest where oil plan would be adopted “in the near On Tuesday, Love admittedit had failed,
winters are severe, while propane to future.” and said “a mandatory allocation system
vitally needed by farmers to dry crops and Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton, is necessary and appropriate on a
by residents of many isolated or mobile whose department will administer the short-term basis."
Tarleton Jazz Ensemble to engaging in
a Walk-A-Thon Saturday. Sponsors are
desperately needed. Members of the
Ensemble will walk from Stephenville to
Proctor to raise money for the trip to
Spokane, Washington in May. Anyone
interested in sponsoring a walker for any
amount of money, large or small,
contact Dennis Guillaume at the T. S. U.
Music Department, 965-4419 or MI MM.
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LUFKIN. Tex. AP - Southland Paper i
Mills, Inc., announced Tuesday an
tacreaae of $10 a ton in the price of 8
newsprint affective Dec. 1.
The current price per ton to $168.
Newspaper publishers were notified by
mail by Perkins-Goodwin Co., Inc., .
Southland’s sales agent
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The Band Fane Club wifi hold its reg-
tor medtag in tM High School Band
toll on Thursday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m]
representative from a video tave
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WASHINGTON AP - The Nixon The mandatory allocation programs are might be ready in about two weeks and
To help meet energy needs. Southland’s Eunk
board authorized last month the formation
of a subsidiary to build and operate a -TF
natural gas pipeline to serve the Lufkfa STINGERETTE OF THE WEEK - Margie Hook, center, has been selected as
mill. The mill has suffered severe natural Stingeretteof the Week by members of the Stephenville Drin Team. She will be given a
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EridarrdehtoShowa with Margie are, lent, Sherrie Cleghorn, and right, Campbell County jail, charged with willful Last November he and another man The Stephenville United Way campaign
. c . , ---------—The Stigerettes will do a “high kick” routine to “Teach the World to murder. escaped while on a work detail and reported Tuesday that it had passed the
customers, the South, Southwest and Stag” Friday night. Police said that after Scott and Sloan kidnapped a Lexington woman at half-way mark in its efforts to raise $13150
Midwest me company s sales were 309-5 escaped from custody, they forced a knifepoint and forced her to drive them to for the 12 agencies benefitting from the
mAion.. . ___. . .. Lexington woman to drive them to her Chattanooga. The two fled and were United Way.
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Agnew Investigation Company Cut Installation Fee mazmgp Being Recruited for Parade
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Seing llUrriCd In customers in the cable system, council reporting that Scott and Sloan were Letters to approximately 50 Stephenville Thompson has urged businesses to
o night demanded that Gulf States United members estimated the company’s driving a car stolen from one of the victims business firms were mailed Tuesday by participate in the building of floats again
mIA • 1 Telephone Company withdraw increased income at $145,400 annually under current at the motel. Brad Thompson, chairman of the Tarleton this year, in order to assure a successful
DOUDiC SftSSjOll$ charges for installing mi vice and refund rates. The proposed increases would Police quoted one of the fugitives as Homecoming Parade, soliciting sponsors parade.
the difference between its former rate and increase income by about $13,200. saying after his arrest “I killed three for floats to be constructed by TSU student “The people of Stephenville have always
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Xftenig its oace in soarrh of kickhart ithad the right to control all charges of the waterlines, at Fifth, Lillian and Second, and his son John E., 14. businesses provide approximately half of
evidence inning two working phone c«npuny. and would serve a commercial develop- The minister’s wife, Mary Agnes, was the total cost of building and decorating
Planningitwoworking sessions The phone company had announced in ment planned by Toby Stone on the out of town,
this week, starting Wednesday. September that it would charge $25 for a property east of Gibson’s Discount Center.
First of the new testimony, a courthouse residential phone and $35 for a business Stone would pay the pro rata share of the
*?Vrce rcjact*nf phone installation. line across the front of his property
w‘The phone company action followed
Democratic Baltimore City Councilman discussion with Mack Spurlock, manager
who has been active in raising funds for of the Stephenville officeor Warner Cable po;r E.nq nq
Agnew campaigns for governor rin1966 and TV Company about his company’s request rdIl TOUn0 DcdO
asvice president in 198$ and 1972 to renew its franchise with the city for 10 y
Amendment protection, refused to answer mst.orem enee expires in Near Weatherford
questions last Thursday when the The new franchise proposed by Warner
22-member panel finaly started the case calls for a 50 cent monthly increase for WEATHERFORD. Tex. AP - The
involving Agnew, two months after the basic service, and changes the rate for bodies of a 62-year-old woman and a
vice president was formally notified by a installation from $7.50 to $12.50. The 3-year-old boy were found in a home in
Justice Deparment letter that he was charge for “extra hookups” would be Garner, a small town in western Parker
under criminal investigation, changed from 50 cents to one dollar. County, Tuesday.
The source said Muth, now office The council requested additional figures Officers said Mrs. Bonnie Skiles and
manager for an engineering firm, would from Spurlock before it will take action on Stephen Wilkey had been dead more than a
be granted immunity and forced to testify the request. Spurlock told the council that week,
under threat of being sent to jail for under the purchase agreement Warner is Mrs. Skiles had been caring for the boy
contempt. It was not disclosed what Muth honoring, the telephone company Is being who was mentallv retarded,
is expected to tell the jury about his paid three cento for each foot of cable line Officers said Mrs. Skiles apparently died
connections.with Agnew., * in the system, and that Warner also must a natural death and that the boy died from
Muth told newsmen last week, after pay Texas Power A Light Company $1.50 lack of food and water. «
leaving the grand Jury room, that the annually for each of the approximately 450 The bodies were sent to Dallas for
Agnew investigation is a lot of bull. poles its cables are attached to. With 2,200 autopsies.
The jury previously has been meeting
Euzmzz: Chamber Membership Reaches
Anderson, the Democrat who succeeded ... _
Agnew as chief executive of Baltimore AAA Aam mmm l wm ■ um ' gemuem
366,63 Are Added This Year»
when it opened its criminal probe of the
House Energy Policy Office, said whose needs fall within a list of priorities, matatataltotraditionalmarfcetdlslribu-
imposition of “mandatory allocation” may Love told newsmen the allocation tion voluntarily under federal guidelines,
not avert fuel shortages this winter, but program would not directly affect fuel despite complaints that major companies
would at least distribute available supplies prices, still controlled by the Cost of Living were - under the pressure of shortages -
Escapees Charged In Six Killings
FORT THOMAS, Ky.AP-Two prisn The victims in the motel were identified
escapees who police say (tilled six persons as David and Monroe Sizemore of Hyden,
during a flight across Kentucky were Ky., and the motel manager Elva Harp, 64,
captured early Tuesday. The victims of Falmouth.
included a minister and his two children. Sgt. Jack Clifford of the Falmouth police
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Ellis, Darwin. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 190, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 3, 1973, newspaper, October 3, 1973; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500176/m1/1/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.