Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 138, Ed. 1 Monday, June 10, 1974 Page: 1 of 8
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daughters, Nixon reiterated that he would
not leave office until January, 1977. Then,
told the group, “With your support I shall
do nothing that will weaken this office.
The committee voted 37 to 1 on May 29 to invitation to future Congresses to use m
subpoena the tapes, even though Nixon impeachment inquiry, however frivolously
had already refused to comply with an as a device to assert their own supremacy
- earlier subpoena from the committee and over the executive, and to reduce
had said he would reject any further executive confidentiality to a nullity "
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. TO THE PEOPLE WHO FIND THIS that N.C. Baldwin, M.S. Crow, J.A. Frey,
INCLOSURE MANY YEARS HENCE:- J H Cage have been most useful
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BAPTIST CHURCH, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS.
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“We pledge our loyalty, our spiritual and
material resources and oui moral and
ethiealfiber to the President... wholed this--
nation from decades of war to peace,"
committee president Baruch Korff read
from the resolution.
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from a Stephenville attorney, Lee Young, F.R. Young, W.H. Fooshee for years
covering the history of Stephenville. We District Clerk.
There are many here who have helped to
build the town and country but I believe
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individual House and Senate members climate of hysteria being engendered by
today to present their case in support of members of the press and electronic
the President. - media in a massive attempt to reverse the
Their lobbying efforts were to follow a overwhelming mandate given the Presi-
prayer breakfast. dent by the people of the United States,"
At a luncheon meeting Sunday, Nixon said the resolution.
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Most of the people who then lived here are people and the next year many left on
dead or have moved away. I will name account of drought. There were no
some of the earlier ones. railroads. The old stage line use to pass
Lawyers:-W.J. Brocket, JJD. Berry, througfiStephenvillefrom Ft. Worth to Ft
H.L. Ray, J.W. Cartwright. These were all Yuma, the lonest line in the world. Lee ,
before 1878. T.L. Nugent, many years Riddle and Fred Chandler are lawyers.
District Judge and a prominent citizen and each has been District Attorney. W T.
prominent in state politics. Judge H.H. Carleton is a lawyer here
Neill, now on the Court of Civil Appeals at I place with this some photographs of
San Antonio; Wm. Kennedy for six years views from Stephenville points. This for
County Judge here and afterwards for the people who are to come. ____—
thirteen years District Judge of the district To those of another generation we say:
included in Colorado City, Mitchell Work well and remember the CHILDREN. 1
County ; S.C. Buck, District Att. from 1878 Some of us have done our best. We wish it
to 1881, now dead, L.N. Frank, County were better but we can live but once and j
Judge for six years, W.H. Devine County the work we did is done as our task 1
and afterwards District Judge; Lee allotted.
Young, myself who have held no office, but This City Hall we are trying to build for I
sought none, M.F. Martin for six years others as well as for ourselves May it be
County Attorney, W.W. Moores, four years worth what it has cost, in good to others.
County Judge, A.P. Young, my brother, Lee Young
Katharine Cornell, Actress
Dead at Age 81 of Pneumonia
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. AP - For so much excitement to the theater died of
decades, audiences applauded the dazzling pneumonia at her home here. She was 81.
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Iw Nixon said, it will be >*wWi our heads held TreaaurySocretary William E. Simon,
a “A strong American president is Judiciary coatmmauobsre uptedhmen
J essential if we are to have peace in the inquiry, told the delegates, "I think it‘s
a world," he said before departing for the time for some people in this country to
" • Middle East. take a cold shower."
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President Refuses to Honor
I have been asked to write something of There are many changes since I saw the
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record and several personal notes. R.T. Long, W.B Slaughter, John C.
The Tribune on the day before the Gilbreath, NJ. Shands, Frank W.
cornerstone laying carried stories about Freeman, R.T. Hume, Mack Creswell and
night riders, about a 17 year old boy named Reese Cox, the last nine having been
West who picked 300 pounds of cotton in sheriff of the county. John S. Hyatt was for j
nine hours, numerous remarks about this twelve years County Clerk; W.W. Cain for J
guy or that and their girl friends, and of years assessor, Pinkney Wood, J.P. for 1
course an upcoming vote to amend the many years. " > 8
Texas Constitution. R.M. Whiteside, John Bruington, W.A. 1
The cornerstone also included a letter Dawson, S.R. Slaughter, Sam T Watts, |
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performances of Katharine Cornell. Her body will be cremated In Boston on hi
“Romeo and Juliet" and "The Barretts of Tuesday and a memorial service will be
Wimpole Streets’; were among her held next week in Vineyard Haven’s town 1
triumphs. • hall. ■ .02 r
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Academy recently cited her "incompar- and made her first professional ■
able acting ability and, her. theatrical appearance there in 1918 as a member of a B
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town house in New York City and was portrayal of Iris Marsh in Michael Arlen’s E
flown to Martha’s Vineyard at her request. “The Green Hat" in 1925, Miss Cornell E
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Subpoenas from Committee
WASHINGTON AP - President Nixon subpoenas for material related to
| refused again today to honor any more Watergate.
"House impeachment inquiry subpoenas, Nixon declared again today that "the
■ writing to House Judiciary Committee voluminous body of materials that the,.
chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr. that he will committee already has...does give the full
do nothing which would "render the story of Watergate insofar as it relates to
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family, including two school children, income meals under the USDA food
cost $43 40 per week in April, down 0.7 plans contain cuts of less expensive
per cent from 843.70 in March. But it meat and more cereals, bread, pota-
up 18 per cent or 88.78 per week toes, dry beans, poultry and fish.
„p 2“ \ The figures are compiled by the
Officials said it was the first decline departments Agricultural Research
in the family food indicator since last Service and published each month in
October. Food and home Notes by the USDA
More affluent families, as the Office of Communication.
monthly series has shown in the part, A fourth -
enjoyed a slightly better break rein- economy p
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A moderatecoot mean that coat $55.10 food JI
a week in March was 878 cents or 1.1 Anrn
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executive branch henceforth and forever- presidential knowledge and presidential
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Nixon’s six-page letter to Rodino was in impeachment ____
raaponae to the Judiciary Committee’s dent were permitted to override all
subpoena for tapes of 45 conversations restraints of separation of powers, this
related to the Watergate scandal. The would spell the end of the doctrine of
letter was released by the White House, separation of power; it would be an open
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— robbery. The pair is accused of robbing tried on five cases of theft. He is
Lawson’s Jewelry Store in Stephenville accused of taking money from the
on February 12 of this year.
Selection of the jury was expected to
last until late afternoon.
Ftvegocher defendants
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mumsMdadMM be tried on nine cases of cattle theft.
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Nixon Supporters Set
Capitol Hill March
WASHINGTON AP - More than 1,00, The fairness committee, which daima a
persons who claim President Nixon is membership of two million voters, also
being treated unfairly are going directly to passed unanimously a resolution criticiz-
Capitol Hill to try to stop the impeachment ing the news media and some
proceedings. " congressmen for their involvement in
Members of the Committee for Fairness impeachment matters.
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business on August 1, September 1, W
October 1 and November 1 of 1973 and
on February 1 of 1974.
Thursday, Maurice McElory is to be •.
tried on a charge of assault with a |
deadly weapon. The charge stems from
a knifing on April 38, 1974 in which
Gary Allen Eoff was injured.
Friday, a felony DWI case against
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bril Food Price Dip Saved
| Family Average of 30/Week |
I WASHINGTON AP - An April dip in meal plans are computed on the basis
retail food prices meant a family of of food quantities consumed by family 1
E four saved 30 cents a week during the groups and prevailing retail prices.
" month if it scrimped on meat and The low-cost plan relates to families
served lower-cost items, according to with yearly income of 84,000 to $8,000,
new government figures released today, the moderate $8,000 to $10,000 and the
The Agriculture Department said a liberal 810,000 and over. .
low-cost menu for a four-member One baric difference is that lower
The opening of a cornerstone on any old District Judge in 1900; J.C. George, E
building always provides interest and a District attorney and apple grower, Wm. -u
look into the past. Such was the case this Pannill, County attorney; Eli Oxford, J.L. 2688
* weekend when the small medal box inside Humphries County Judge for two years, EE
the cornerstone of the old Stephenville City J.A. Johnson, W.H. Garrett. mi
' Hall was opened. Doctors-M.S. Crow, J.L. May, Wm. M. I
The box, only a few cubic inches, was Barry, Dr. Buck, W.R. Robinson, T.
jammed full of old newspapers, letters and Wright Styles, J.M. Williamson, Ritchie, W
notes, and post card pictures of our town. Allen. , .
The three by five by eight inch box Now here:-M. Dar, S.D. Naylor, W.R. J
contained copies of the October 23, 1908 Sturgis, Cameron, R. Gordon, Uel Keith. tn
“The Tribune" and "The Stephenville At the time I came here J.A. Frey and S
Empire” bofiiBubifshed the day before the J.H. Cage were doing the largest m
cornerstone was set by the Knights of mercantile business. J.A. Frey lg dead. W
Pythias lodge in Stephenville. (The two JX-Cage is living and has buUt the S.N. &
newspapers were later combined into the S.T.R.R. to Hamilton.
! Empire Tribune). The stone also included Mayors of the town: H.F. McNeill,
L—- copies of the October, 1908 issue of "The James Collins, John T. Lockhart, N.C.
Texas White Ribbon" (Official organ of Baldwin.
the Women’s Christian Temperance Prominent men who have lived u-k.
Union, State of Texas) a copy of the 1908-09 here:~J.H. Hyman, J.N. Groesbeck, C.J, EE
yearbook and Constitution and By-Laws of Shapard, H.H. Hardin, J.J. Bennett. E
the Twentieth Century Club, a record of Old-timers: C.A. Donivan, W.W.E
the Fire Department, AF & AM Lodge McNeill, J.M Stephen, H.M. Henderson, MI
M, 1971
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EL Of Criminal Court Cases
8 Jury selection was underway today in Walton and Blzaz Kernsavage on April
L » 29th Judicial District Court in the trial 18, April 21 and April 24 of 1973.
of Paul William Jordan and Donald Wednesday, Rickie Reese, former
Ray Herrin on a charge of armed employee of the Dairy Queen is to be
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who had brought became a star.
; Slay Attacker
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. AP - Godwin turned off the highway at I
Police eay two college eoeds who killed New Smyrna Beach and tjr^e to an
■ an ex-convict after he assulted them area west of nearby Edgewater, telling ■
au-uzyusne macgarh 1 "m“gtomnFw"m -
<* woods, officers said.
A spokesman for the Volusia County The giris accompanied him into the
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Morehart, John. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 138, Ed. 1 Monday, June 10, 1974, newspaper, June 10, 1974; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500381/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.