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capital, for the second day
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Brad Thompson Insurance Agency
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senting numerous fine, strong com-
tpanies ihcluding Allstate. 965-3155
once having won it, we must Im* Hilliard at the piano,
prepared to expunge certain
NICOSIA, Cyprus AP - Beirut
Radio reported hard fighting
outcome could have national
impact on atomic energy as a
source for electricity Proposi-
tion 15, the Nuclear Power
Plants Initiative, is the first of
16 similar proposals pending
nationwide No one is predict-
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Stephenville Office Supply has a complete line of office supplies Whatever the need, they have the
product to fill it From furniture to desk top conversation pieces, they have it. Linda Phillips (left)
and Sheila Goodman I right) are holding some of the acrylic desk top paper weights or conversation
pieces available at Stephenville Office Supply. They will go out of their way to help their customers.
H.L. Phillips, owner, will set up office furniture after working hours so as not to disturb the flow of
office work during the day That is a definite indicator of their desire to serve their customers. '
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Chuck’s Conoco
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Tuesday, June s, 1976
Total Comfort System
Mangrum Air Conditioning
633 Lingleville Rd. .968-8871
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PUMPS
SALES - SERVICE - REPARS
Turbin* Submersible Jet
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North of Gibson’s
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Bicentennial Theme Program In
is the supermarket of insurance You ordinarily
think of your home, car and possibly hospitaliza-
lion when you think of insurance Protection on
these things is essential, but it is only part of the
story You may have need for n variety of other
insurance coverages
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crucial issue of nuclear energy
development versus guaran-
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a big reason
we're the largest
home insurer.
But there
are more..?’
LOS ANGELES AP - A
proposal on today’s primary
elecion ballot in California will
provide the first test of public
reaction to the question of
nuclear power safety. The
States on Monday The secre-
Lary of state said smaller
nations who want to reamin
free need not worry about their
future
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JOHN TOWER
- Tax Sources Vary
Individual and corporate in. military capacity to protect
come taxes provide the major itself and to protect its friends"
governments rely on a com and , will never, accept a
bination of general and selective repetition of the Cuban-Soviet
sales and gross receipts for more intervention in Angola, Secre-
WOLF DRILLING
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Voters in California, Ohio and
New Jersey cast the final
ballots of the nation's longest
presidential primary season in
elections that could tell whether
President Ford can* be over-
taken, and whether Jimmy
Carter can be stopped It was
Ford against Ronald Reagan
and Carter against three sets of
United State "maintains a
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| Inflation Fighter
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“Low rates are
Brad Thompson Insurance Agency
3/5 W. Weshington Phone 965 3155
Stephenville, Texas
Mrs Howard Rogers told of Officers for 1976 78 Mrs R.B.
the adoption of the Declaration Strain. president; Mrs Rill
its 30 students to ride a bus 80 with the lebanese capital were government has ridden out the
miles a day to and from a high cut becaus power lines were worst of Um* sterling crisis,
school in Ely But the Nevada knocked out by rocket and Chancellor of Uie Exchequer
Supreme Court unanimously mortar fire But Um* leftist Denis Henley said Monday
ruled Monday that rural schools Moslems controlling Beirut night after announcement of a
are worth saving The ruling Radio said their forces were $5 -billion foreign loan sent Um*
means that 50-year-old school holding the Syrians at Sofar, 16 pound up four cents and Um*
miles east of Um* Lebanese stock market climbing 1 )pposi-
The barracuda, according to OFFICERS ELECTED
Warren Zeiller of the Miami NEW YORK (AP) - Alfred
Seaquarium,. is not a member Easton Poor has been elected
of the shark family, but like the president of the National
shark it is dangerous because Academy of Design
of its unreliable behavior. The Michael Lantz was named ing the outcome, and at one
largest barracuda on record first vice president, and Ethel point pollster Mervin Field
measured 5 feet and weighed Magafan, second vice presi- declared the public was
103 pounds dent. • "incredibly confused” on the
DISCOUNT CENTERS
B&B AAC
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FERTILIZER
AND CHEMICALS
Dublin Peanut Coop
Where farmers“trade with themselves’ -■ . 445-2440
tion leader Margaret Thatcher
announced that Um* Conserva-
tives would introduce a motion
of censure in the House of
Commons blaming Uie govern-
ment for Britain's economic
crisis But there was no
indication the Conservatives,
who trail the Laborites by 36
seats, could rally enough
support from the Liberals and
other small factions to turn the
government out.
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CARSON CITY, Nev AC A
small high school in Uie Nevada
desert has been brought back to
life by a court ruling which puts
greater emphasis on . Um*
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wrote- "My fellow townsmen Clara Lutz, mother of Mrs.
we have taken a step here today Milton O’Connor and Mr and
that may influence the history Mrs. Kenneth Clirton. Mrs.
of the world. It could Clifton is the Mary Paul
conceivably firing many of us to Scholarship recipient
Um* scaffold if what we are The tables were loaded wtUi
attempting to do fails But if delicious home cooked food
success comes, we will have prepared by members The
started a movement that could meeting room was beautifully
sweep the globe indeed, many recorated wtUi red,, white, and
countries are watching every blue motif.
move we make; I believe Uiat The meeting closed with
our Heavenly Father has group singing led by Mrs
ordained our freedom, but Calvin Stoner with Mrs Travis
evils from our land, lest they
sink us into oblivion we must
mutually pledge to each other
our lives, our fortunes and our
sacred honor "
Mrs EVerett Gibson of
Stephenville installed the Club
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LONDON AP Die'labor
BOTH DEEP 6 SHALLOW WELLS '
U, TO 2000 FT Oli,
Rotary 41, TO 24 HOLE
G&AVELLACEINGPRESSURFCEMINrAG
LOOKING LIKE mud pies
on an assembly line, test
cones at fiber glass rein-
forced concrete receive a
quality checkout at the
Ciranville, Ohio, Technical
Center of Owens Corning
Fiberglas
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Pandora's Box
WASHINGTON—In Greek niythology, the gods pre
sented the First Woman. Pandora with a beautiful box,
but forbade her ever to open it ,
Pandora's curiosity eventually got the best ot her. and
■ tHte-dav-she did open the box Out flew plagues mnumer-
able, sorrow, pestilence and mischief
Pandora’s box was a myth, but Congress is presently
____preparing a real Pandora s bos with the esoteric name ed___
Senate Bill 1284
S B 1284 is really five bills in one, an amorphous con
glomeration ot virtually every pea brained notion about
antitrust ever proposed inCongress it enacted into law.
the damage to our economy would be incalculable
I ille I is the bills "declaration of policy." It lists < on
giession.il findings with respec?the relationship of in-
dustrial concentration to various purported economic ills
I he principal finding is -that there is diminished compe-
tition and increased concentration in the marketplace
today which has centributed significantly to inflation and
unemployment
The trouble with Title I is that it asserts as tact some
highly specious economic theories There is no consensus
among economists either that the economy is any, more
concentrated or lesscempetitive than it was 50 scars ago
Nor is there. .ins evidence that such industrial concentra
non as exists has contributed to inflation
Title II would expand the power ot the Justice Depart X
ment to conduct antitrust investigations It would give the
Department more w ide ranging investigative authority
than it has via the grand jury process without affording
those subject to the inquisition even the slender protec-
lions ot the grand-jury II would in effect permit the De-
peartment to coerce information from any person. any-
where about virtually any subject, with virtually no pro-
than half of their tax revenue tary of State Henry A
while local governments depend Kissenger told the annual
primarily on property tax rev general assembly of Um*
enues_________________________OrgapixHipn of American
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lection for these whom the Department chooses to sic
timize.
I ille III is comparatively innocuous, a collection of mis-
cellaneous amendments of varying impact and importance
idle l\ is probably the most dangerous provision in
the entire bill It authorizes states to sue on behalf of con-
sinters tor antitrust violations even if the state has not
—been Huured hv rite vndation. eliminates the requirement
in law that "fact of injury" be proven with respect to
potential claimants, and permits the state to take over the
unclaimed portion of the damage fund.
• Title V is a promerger notification provision which
would in effect give the Attorney General unilateral power
to veto any merger without any judicial finding ef illegal-
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Pandora, made a grave mistake when she opened the
attractive package the gods had given her Hopefully the
Senate will profit from her experience.
At Gordon Woman's Club Meet
Democratic opponents, for the -Closeness between school and east and south of Beirut today
biggest one-day delegate crop home rather than in budget between Syrian troops and
since the primary voting began figures A budget-minded Lebanese and palestinian
t5 weeks ago All told; schoolboardclosedLund High forces despite reports of a
Democrats were selecting 540 School tins school year, forcing cease-fire. Communications
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Mrs J mi Butler led the pledges
to Um* U.S and Texas flags
Mrs MO Shook used "Whatis
The Bill of Rights'”’ by J.P
Pope as a meditation.
Club Program Chairman,
Mrs Ernest Pierce, presented
Mrs Allison Cunningham who
gave a Bicentennial Legacy,
"The Price They Paid." Many
signers of the Declaration of
Independence met with misfor-
tune Five signers of Uie article
were captured-by the British as
traitors Twelve had their
homes ramsacked and burned
Two lost their sons in Um*
Continental Army Another had
two sons captured Nine of Um*
56 signers fought and died from
wouihIs or hardships of Um*
Argerican Revolution
A Bicentennial program was of Independence Mrs Bill ( alvert, vice-president; Mrs. a
given at the annual banquet of Calvert gave Steps that Jim Butler, secretary; Roberta h 2
the Gordon Woman's Club, May Rocked Um* World," Reading Hughes, treasurer; Mrs.
25. held at Um* school from a copy of Um* Philadelphia Harold Burgett, press reporter;
cafetorium in Gordon Quotes Chronicle, dated July 4, 1778, Mrs. L.W. Pierce, parliamenta-
from the Declaration of printed every Thursday at 214 rian.
Independence were used in High St Philadelphia; cost Special guests were the
introducing each participant two pence a copy; the copy was husbands of members, Mrs.
Bill Calvert gave Um* invoca-a reproduction from Um* JC. Cunningham, mother of
tion Mis FB McIntire and original Editor Richard flag** Allison Cunningham,
Irs.
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Maikell, Elgin. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 121, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 8, 1976, newspaper, June 8, 1976; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500597/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.