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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS 76401
Vol. 1K, No. 210
THE HOME OF TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITV
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AUSTIN, Tex. AP - The race for Texas
candidate for Governor of Texas. We did House speaker took a new turn Wednesday
the interview last week when he was here when Representative Neil Caldwell said he find it extended beyond what it has been.
interview.
tive Democrat from Springlake, to make a
public commitment to keep the main parts differences on bills and prohibit them from
rewriting portions on which the two
of those rules intact.
Clayton, who claims he has pledges of chambers are agreed.
was about the size of a shoestring.
Jona said on Wednesday the operation is cut off. Cartmell was one of about 450 paid by the township.
Arthur, who admitted Wednesday he is
inmates.
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American People Tired
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86 Year Old Fights to Keep
Home He Purchased in 1938
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Clayton said in response to Caldwell,
As far as reform, I think you are going to
Today, on page B-1, we present for your
information, an interview with Dr. Jim
Granbury of Lubbock, the Republican
a member. She added that she would discriminatory practices ruled illegal
pick up membership fees if contacted at earlier this year by the Supreme Court in
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weapons to Perales and Pedro and
Adolphe Alonza, who delivered them to
Carrasco at his job in the prison chapel.
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Inmate Ignacio Cuevas, was indicted as running far behind Clayton but refused to
principal in the shootout which left two concede defeat.
-Require considerable advance notice
before committee hearings and floor
action on bills to prevent House leaders
from ramming bills through with adequate
study.
Clayton said he had not decided on the
third area of Caldwell’s concern, a rule
that weakens the speaker’s control of
Speaking of the convicts, we’ll finish our
tale of their stay in our county in Sunday’s
Empire Tribune.
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He said he agreed completely with
Caldwell that the House should retain its
rules that:
-Restrict House-Senate conference com-
mittees to the adjustment of actual
sponsoring merchants business before
1:00 p.m. Friday of each week.
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live more than six hours. But despite his
size, Lee, the son of Rainey Nora Bell
Bailey of Ashland, Ky., showed signs of
vitality.
He was placed in a special intensive care
unit and carefully watched. Physicians
pbserved that he couldn’t keep food down.
They took an X-ray, which showed that the
infant had a bowel obstruction.
A new political party is being formed in
Denmark. “Big deal,” you say. Yes,
because the new party is being formed by
the taxpayers who feel that the 60 to 70
percent tax “bite” taken by their
governmet for social programs is too
much. We’ll watch the action and keep you
posted.
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a committee - excluding chairman and
vice-chairman - on a seniority basis.
“I think certainly seniority should play a
role. I don’t know whether we should keep
what we have or try something different,
but I definitely don’t think it should be
kicked out,” Clayton said.
support from 98 representatives and House
nominees, quickly responded that he
agrees with Caldwell on most of the key
rules.
"If Clayton doesn’t specifically say what
the rules should be and if he intends to
change the rules fundamentally, I think he
should be challenged," said Caldwell, who
was under some pressure in the past to run
for speaker.
A Democrat from Angleton, Caldwell is
chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee. He is pledged to liberal
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DECATUR, Ill. AP-An 86-year-old man incomes of less than $130 a month are
who worked until he was 80 has won a eligible, Cartmell was told. He worked as a
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homemaker care. But in June the aid was Cartmell's homemaker services will be
"He is an exception to the rule,” said
Elmore Morthland, township supervisor.
"He makes a good case for himself."
Contest
Kicks Off
Three of the men indicted are prison Representative Carl Parker, D-Port
The move by the Walker County Grand
Jury at Huntsville in handing down
criminal indictments against seven men
involved with the attempted prison break
gives hope of law and order returning. The
fact that the Grand Jury chose to make all
seven indictments charges of "capital
murder" indicated that the 11 days of
waiting out the cons has left a mark on that
community.
"Capital murder" under the new penal
code, means the “Chair" if conviction is
voted by the trial jury.
the lives of several officers. I was born and STINGERETTE NECKLACE-Debbie Goddard, center, is the first fall
lived at Huckabay in my early childhood. "Stingerette of the Week" and as such, is the first to wear the Stingerette
Recently drove over there (alone) up and Necklace, donated to the drill corps by Swindle Jewelry Store. Each week, the
around the old place. I felt so safe in the necklace will be passed to the new “Stingerette of the Week". Each girl selected
peaceful countryside. Just wanted you to for the honor will also receive a charm from Swindle’s. Helping Debbie into the
know like thousands of other people, I necklace are, left, Jill Gaines, and right, Sherrie Cleghorn, co-captains of the
listened continuously of your reign of Stingerettes.
Stepljenville
Tmpire-Gribune
SERVING ALL OF ERATH COUNTY And Parts of Hood, Somervell, Bosque.
Hamilton. Comanche. Eastland, and Palo Pinto Counties
Ole Smokey and Paddies (the Delbert
Wise dogs who set off the howls that led to
the downfall last week of the convicts)
have received a letter from a former
resident who now lives in Fort Worth.
Addressed, “Ole Smokey and Partners,
(she read or wrote it wrong) One Mile
North of Stephenville, Texas”, the letter
was delivered by the Postal Service (who
knew to whom the letter was
addressed).Mrs. Dessie Murray Beau-
champ of Fort Worth, a former Huckabay
resident wrote: “You did a heroic job last
Monday night and Thank’s to God for these
God given animals, they probably saved
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Doctors say such infants usually cannot creatures but never on human beings.” said.
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MINISTERIAL OFFICERS-New officers for the Stephenville Ministerial Alliance
have been elected. They are, left to right, Mike Graham, secretary-treasurer,
Warner Washington, president and James Cord, vice-president J. Henry Cox,
who is jail chaplin and radio coordinator for the Ministerial Alliance, is not
pictured.
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The Empire Tribune judging staff
will have the final decision on each
entry as to qualification, correctness
and fitness.
All entries become the property of
the newspaper, and will not be
returned.
Entries must be turned in at
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committees by allocating half the seats on designed for delicate eye surgery to From January 1972 through June of this department and newspapers.
considered a temporizing one enabling the Illinois residents denied such service
baby to carry on body functions and to because, the public aid department said,
grow. they were not eligible for the pew federal
Lee has now doubled his birth weight. Supplemental Security Income program.
"When he has reached four to five The program, administered by the
pounds we will do a final operation,” Dr. Social Security Administration, replaced a
Jona said. "If that is successful, that is all state program for persons 65 or over and
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WASHINGTON AP - President Ford, growing unemployment, a drop in real warned that inflationary psychology may
convening a White House economic earning power, record high interest rates, be starting to change spending habits,
mini-summit, declared today that Ameri- The initial speakers in the first of a Alan Greenspan, new chairman of the
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They said that without an operation, the battle of red tape to stay in the house he watchmaker until he was 80, and receives
child would eventually die from lack of bought in 1938. a $190 a month Social Security pension,
nourishment, but the chance of success in Isaac Cartmell is bedridden with He said he talked over his plight with a
operating on so small in infant were slim, arthritis and is tended during the day by state aid official, who suggested he enter a
The baby was fed intravenously until a homemakers who handle housekeeping, nursing home where he would be eligible
team of three surgeons and two cooking, bathing, and some bedside care for substantially more benefits,
anesthesiologists was ready to perform the But he does not require skilled care Cartmell decided he was being penalized
operation on Aug. 28. facilities. for working, and began protesting, writing
The surgeons, led by Dr. Juda Z. Jona, “If I have to go to a nursing home,” he letters and calling his lawyer, state
worked for three hours, using instruments said, "it will be with a broken heart.” legislators, congressmen, the public aid
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Cuevas was the lone survivor of the inmate H E UM IOOrAG I IVAE EVIgded
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siege preceding the shootout.
,.s. Of Northern Segregations
They are Lawrence Hall, Fred Perales,
Adolfo Alonzo, Pedro Alonzo, Benito WASHINGTON, AP - The Department of than those in the South” as a result of
Alonzo, and George Cisneros. Cisneros Health, Education and Welfare was federal foot-dragging. |
remains at large. The Alonzos are accused today of ignoring evidence in its The center, located at Catholic
brothers. own files of widespread racial segregation University here, based its three-year study
The indictment against Cuevas charges in northern schools. on records of HEW investigations in 84
that he was a principal in the death of The Center for National Policy Review northern and western school districts,
"librarian hostage Julia Standley. Another said in a 117-page report that “northern Some of the data was obtained through a
librarian-hostage Elizabeth Beseda was schools today are far more segregated court order. ( '
killed also. _ William L. Taylor, the center director,
The second indictment accused the other Qame namg AmAp Said: “HEW has found substantial
six of being parties to the escape attempt DdlIl d13 UGII violations in northern districts but has
by Fred Gomez Carrasco, Rodolfo ■ failed either to aid the victims of
Dominguez, and Cuevas. Carrasco and discrimination or 'to cut off federal
Dominguez died in the violent confronts- AAAmApe Mp"inm dollars.”
tion with law officers. WVIOIIIW03 MllVv Among the 84 government civil rights i
The indictment charges that the six compliance reviews conducted in the
acted as parties to the rebel inmate trio The Stephenville Band Fans will kick off North, the study found that 52 are still open
during their escape attempt from the their annual membership drive tomorrow and unresolved “although many, ripe with
Huntsville prison and thus caused the night with an effort at the Stephenville - old age, are somewhat inactive.” The
shooting death of Julia Standley. Fort Worth Nolan football game. The average age of the cases exceeds 37
A prison source said that one of three game will also mark the opening months.
guns smuggled to Carrasco was hidden in performance of the band this year. “While a few staff investigations have I
a ham from which the bone had been Membership chairman Mary Nell been shaky,” the report said, “HEW’s files I
removed. The source said ammunition for Stephens said that a table will be set up at literally bulge with documented evidence |
the three guns was hidden inside cans of the gate to take membership fees, of violations of laws.”
peaches. The ham and peach cans were Membership in the Band Fans is $1 a year. The center said the most discrimination
taken to the prison commissary inside the Donations also will be accepted, Mrs. in assignment of pupils to segregated
prison by an inmate, according to the Stepens said. schools; hiring and assignment of puptls
source. Membership fees are used to purchase to classrooms; and failure to help minority
District Attorney Jerry Sandel said he equipment, instruments, and uniforms for children with language and learning
will attempt to prove that Cisneros band members from elementary, junior handicaps. /
obtained three pistols, and passed them to high and high school. Public schools in Atlantic City, Hoboken
Benito Alonzo wRo gave them to Hall, a • Mrs. Stephens said that membership in and Passaic, N.J., South Bend and Fort
trusty who worked outside the prison Band Fans was not limited to band Wayne, Ind., Toledo and Dayton, Ohio,
walls. parents, that anyone interested in seeing Utica, N.Y., and Racine, Wis., were
Sandel said Hall then passed the • the band improve was welcome to become singled out as exampes of alleged
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for the rodeo. We found him to be a nice would become a candidate if necessary to
guy, very well versed in what he was preserve the 1973 “reform" rules.
discussing, and a very determined Caldwell challenged the front runner,
campaigner. I hope you’ll read the entire Representative Bill Clayton, a conserva-
remove the obstruction and to insert tubes year, the Illinois Department of Public Aid He won. Through special agreement
in the baby’s stomach and bowel, which paid about $250 a month for the between the state and Decatur Township,
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cans are “sick and tired of having politics series of conferences, leading to Ford’s President’s Council of Economic Advisers,
I played with their pocketbooks,” and want economic summit later this month gave said inflationary psychology is one of he
a prompt practical battle plan against forecasts ranging from gloomy to hopeful, major underlying economic problems.
| inflation. “Another mild recession is sort of If this can be overcome, Greenspan said.
Stressing the need for "attainable inevitable,” said Harvard economist Otto a major economic depressent would be
3 answers sharply defined and sorted out," Eckstein. removed.
Ford also cautioned that “there is no quick «mer e „ . , Ford donned wire-rimmed spectacles to
fa tor what ails our economy.” A"Thers.S yery.litt eli kelihood of examine a series of technical charts
, The President told a diverse panel of 36 prounoun „ in nar ypar of the presented by Greenspan to support a
P economists and congressmen" that he economy, “ industrialist guardedly optimistic assessment of
wants “the unvarnished truth” about the ’ economic improvements;
economy laid before him and the “There is no near term improvement in Eckstein said “it might be clear some
American public. prospect,” said bank economist Beryl time next year that the worst of inflation is
And he quickly got it. Sprinkel. But he said the rate of inflation behind us.” He suggested the rate might
I Puffing on his pipe, Ford listened while may be easing. decline from 10 per cent this year to 8 per
panelists seated around a table in the Another bank economist, Walter cent next year to 6 per cent the year after.
| White House East Room recited gloomy Hoadley, said the American people are Ford told the session, broadcast
economic statistics: Rising prices, vigoriously fighting inflation. But he nationally by public television and radio,
that he wants the series of meeting to
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mAMgAyAe 4 Ag dug He said preparatory meetings for the
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555• T• covened today, are open to the public
LEXINGTON, Ky. AP - Surgeons here The final operation, relatively simple through television and radio because they
say an operation to save the life of a compared with the first, would involve concern the people’s business. „
week-old baby so small he could be cupped suturing the bowel so the digestive system “Gentlemen, let’s get to work, the
in the doctor’s hands has been a success, can function normally. President said in concluding his opening
Lee Allen Bailey was born Aug. 19, about "It was a miracle that he lived until the remarks.
a month prematurely, at the University of operation could be performed,” Dr. Jona “The burdens of the battle against
Kentucky’s Chandler Medical Center. He said. “I have never operated on this small inflation will be lighter if every American,
recast
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A 1:00 p.m. Friday deadline is set for
entries in the Stephenville Empire
Tribune’s annual football contest. The
weekly contest, which began Tuesday,
will see $25 awarded to the person who
picks most correctly winners in 10
football games.
Entries may be turned in at Gibson’s
Discount Center, Ron’s Sportsman Shop,
Village Shoppe Pharmacy and Stephen-
ville Office Supply. Entries will not be
accepted at the Empire Tribune office.
The contest is open to anyone, except
sponsors of the contest, their employees
and families. Prizes will be awarded
each week.
The $25 prize will be awarded to the
person who selects the greatest number
of correct winners. In case of tie, the
closest score on the "tie breaker”
games will decide the winner.
Entries must be made on an "official ——’
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Morehart, John. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 210, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1974, newspaper, September 5, 1974; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500440/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.