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Wednesday
May 21, 1975
One Section
Vol. 106, No. 113
Phone All Departments 965-3124
Stephenville, Texas 76401
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to crush, and at the same time to give the
peanut program a black-eye by donating
the oil to domestic and foreign feeding
programs and charging the cost against
the peanut program. This is a convenient
, religious pageant “The Life of Christ" will
be presented each Friday and Saturday at
SC'S PROGRESS -Shown above are before and after views of a severely eroded area,
on the Seth Hallmark farm 20 miles NW of Stephenville. This critical area treatment is
the first work started and just completed by Mr. Hallmark on his Great Plains
Conservation Contract The gully was cleaned of brush, filled in. shaped, and plowed
with a bulldozer. Then it was plowed with a farm tractor to prepare a seed bed and then
seeded to grass to control erosion. The Great Plains Conservation Program is
administered by the Soil Conservation Service and assists farmers and ranchers in
conservation measure. The committee
was to schedule the bill for House floor
action today but instead put the matter
over until after Congress comes back from
its Memorial Day recess on June 2.
WASHINGTON AP - President Ford’s
main purpose in going to next week’s
NATO summit meeting in Brussels is to
reassure the allies that U.S. support
remains firm despite defeats in Indochina.
All heads of government except France’s
plan to attend, and sources here say
President Valery Giscard d’Estaing may
show up, depending on his reading of the
public mood.
to visit or use the area should check with
the co-ordinator, Mrs. Carol Bane of the
high school science department.
“The students, teachers, and adminis-
trators wish to thank all who have made
this study area possible," said Mrs. Bane.
Microfllm Center Inc
Box 45436
Dallas; Tx. 75235
Offered at TSU
Tarleton State University is offering for
the first time, a course titled Education
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SALUTORIAN-Named as salutatorian of
the Hico graduating class is Nellie M.
Faubion, daughter of Thomas Faubion and
Mary Smith of Hico. She has actively
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Naman said that the new policy’s
advantages to government and to the
peanut grower are unsubstantiated. "The
Mild Weather
Sets Pattern
Texans welcomed a return of calm, dry
weather in all parts of the state today. It
also was rather warm.
The pattern was marred only by winds
which gusted up to 40 miles per hour
around Corpus Christi in early morning,
. causing a special marine warning for a
time along the coast from Baffin Bay to the
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VIETIANE, Laso AP - About 200 Lao can demonstration in the Laotian .capital
students seized the U.S. aid agency since the Communist Pathet Lao began
headquarters in Vientiane today and held taking control of the government two
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Advisory Committee on Conservation and
two American Marines and an American weeks ago and followed similar attacks on
civilian behind the locked gates of the the Aid headquarters in Savannakhet and
Club, and other interested individuals. The
Kiwanis Club is making stils to be used for
crossing fences enclosing the area and
making identification plaques and rocks
for individual plants and trees
Recently, trees have been donated by
Robert Herrin of Herrin Motor Company.
He donated five large pecan trees, and the
Fehrenbachs donated about 30 various
types of trees. These were needed where
clearing had been done for grazing before
the land became school property.
The Soil Conservation Service has
helped identify over 100 species of plants
Many different birds and wild animals
have also been observed. _________________ 1
All schools are encouraged to use the
Nature Field Area, outdoor classrooms
to be in no danger
Pathet Lao troops on Tuesday occupied
the town, which had been a stronghold of
the now-powerless rightist faction and its
army The chief American official in the
town, Sanford Stone, 58, told a newsman
from Vientiane: “We are just fine. We are
confined to our houses, but we have
food...We have never been asked to leave
and we have never been threatened."
The seizure of the Vientiane headquart-
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Nature Field Area
At New High School
The new Stephenville High School has
set aside approximately seven acres, in its
natural state, to be used by students for the
observance and enjoyment of nature.
Students, teachers, administrators, civic
clubs and the Soil Conservation Service
have been planning its use.
The Nature Field Area has three ponds
of which one has possibilities of becoming
permanent. Three places are also set aside
for outdoor classrooms which have logs for
seats and grape arbor for shade.
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friends among the peanut processors by
providing them an abundance of peanuts
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Beginning June 6, 1975 Texas will have a
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No Injuries Reported
In Tuesday Accident
Noone was injured at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday
in a traffic accident which occurred at the
intersection of Green and Virginia,
involved was a 1970 Chevrolet pickup
driven by Cecil Moore, of Stephenville, and
ers of the U.S. Agency for International _ . ____
Development was the second-anti-Ameri- - A Nature Trail has been partly cleared
by the High School Science Club, Kiwanis
8ahks
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; American belongings" and on payment of
K taxes and visas of Americans and
non-Laotians employed by AID.
The demands were broadcast over the
government radio station.
Meanwhile, in the south Laotian town of
. Savannakhet, a dozen Americans and six
other foreigners remained under loose
* arrest for the sixth day. But they appeared
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way for Secretary
A Texas farm leader took strong issue government has not made a case for
with the United States Department of reducing the cost of the peanut program by
Agriculture at an Eastland County its change in CCC sales and policy. In fact,
Farmers Union meeting Monday night it is likely that the cost of crushing peanuts
Butz to build
participated in many school functions and academies as early as next fall if the
clubs and plans to attend college after Senate follows the House in voting to end
graduation. She is among 30 graduates the sex barrier. Admission of women to
who will receive diplomas at commence- West Point, Anapolis and the Air Force
ment exercises May 23.. Academy was approved Tuesday night by
the House 303 to 96 over objections that
entrance to the academies could be the
first step to putting them into combat.
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WASHINGTON AP- Administration
officials expect the cartel of oil-exporting
nations to impose a petroleum price
increase of 10 to 15 per cent by the end of
the summer, a move that could provide
more trouble for the U.S. economy. The
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compound. Luang Prabang, the royal capital.
The students told newsmen at the gate The U.S. Embassy in a statement
they had offered to release the Americans Monday night said' it was ready to
if they would “surrender” but all three “modify, reduce or eliminate” economic
refused. ’ assistance to Laos. It has asked the
U.S. Charge d’Affaires Christian A. Laotian government for a clear-cut
Champman made a verbal protest to statement of its views on the American
Premier Souvanna Phouma and Foreign aid program - which totals $32.5 million
Minister Phoumi Vongvichit. The embassy this year - but has received no reply,
said they told him the situation would be The students slipped quietly into the big
“resolved," which was interpreted »to fenced Aid compound in Vientiane about
mean the government would take some 1:30 a.m. when two Marine guards were
action. the only Americans inside. The Marines
The students issued hand-writ- were not molested.
ten lists of demands which included the The youths remained in control of the
immediate disolution of the U.S. Agency compound as the day passed, and there
for International Development (AID) and were unconfirmed reports that they looted
the departure of all of its American the commissary. Police patrols sat on the
employes within three days. roadside outside the fence but took no
They also demanded that AID turn over action against the youths.
all its facilities to the government Elsewhere in Indochina:
including personal goods that had been The new South Vietnamese government
imported tax free, that taxes be paid on broadcast an order to all members of
personal property of Americans before political parties under the former regime
they leave the country and that police to register and bring along "documents,
check on the export of "individual identity cards, weapons and explosives."
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could enroll at the three military
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9:00 p m. in the Kendrick Amphitheater WASHINGTON AP - President Ford the Commodity ‘Credit Corporation to substantially higher than the competitive
between Eastland and Cisco, Texas on appears to have found a "non-political" liquidate CCC-owned peanuts. bid basis," Naman said, antagonism against the peanut program
U S Highway 80. strategy for getting an early start on his Jay Naman, the state president of According to the state farm leader, there and achieve his objective of wrecking it,"
This presentation is the same as the one promised 1976 campaign by embracing the Farmers Union, addressing peanut is a great deal of profit to be made by Naman said.
produced on Easter Sunday by the role of "Bicentennial President. Ford farmers at a meeting at Rising Star, said, peanut crushers in the processing of The state farm organization leader and the Nature Trail. Anyone who wishes
Kendrick family as a predawn service assumed the Bicentennial mantle twice in "the United States Department of peanut oil .that would be avoided under a stated that Farmers Union is carefully
covering the complete "Life of Christ three days this week, before markedly Agriculture is holding 703 million pounds competitive bid sales procedure. “The monitoring the sales policies of USDA to
from the birth through the resurrection. different audiences in Philadelphia and of Commodity Credit Corporation-owned change in sales policy strongly indicates see if the cost savings in the new approach
Admission prices are; reserved seats: Charlotte, N.C. In each case the results peanuts that will inevitably be channeled that USDA is interested in favoring its to liquidation of excess stocks serves both
$3.00; general admission: . $2.00; and could only have heartened the President into crushing for oil use at great losses friends among the peanut processors by the interest of the farmer and the
children under 12: $1 00 and his political advisers. charged against the peanut program " providing them an abundance of peanuts consumer.
For reservations of information contact in the past, CCC has sold peanuts on-
the J.H Kendrick family, Route No. 2 Box ApeAm QinenAAAr a competitive basis, moving the peanuts
46 Cisco, Texas 76437, or phone H3UII 3U3CULUV into international trade. Government e
817-629-2732, or 817-629-8853. ■ losses under this procedure have been
■ In. . ri,. insignificant, because market prices were J
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EC Ke P reson t3t I ve 1,1 IHV above the value to the government. Peanut I
Police and fire investigators are officials in the Department of Agriculture I
in P.nklin Erirave continuing an investigation of the have stated that they are changing this J
-III MU UI III IIIudy> vandalism and burning of a vacant house procedure to avoid interference with 1
and the break-in of two neighboring government trade and to maintain free I
Celia Scott, Manager of the Texas houses which occurred here about noon international commerce. |
Employment Commission in Brownwood, yesterday
has announced that TEC representatives Fire caused an estimated $6,000 damage
will be m Dublin at the American Legion to a five room frame house located at 958
Auxiliary Building, 119 E. Blackjack, on West Jones. The house was owned by Nina
Fridays beginning May ’23, 1975, to take King
claims from public school personnel who The house had been refurnished last
wish to file for Special Unemployment week and placed on the market for sale.
Assistance. Investigators found obscenities and
All other applicants. will continue to wother phrases written. withred paint
report on Thursdays at the same address, throughout the house. Among phrases
This additional day of service will continue painted on the walls were "Hitler is great-
through.June 20,1975. Hours.of service will and "Long live Hitler ”
be 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to Fire Marshal Ermer Ferguson and
3 00 p.m. police investigator Dale Pair said the fire
apparently was set in a back bedroom
closet.
After the fire, police found that two
had been south of Matagorda eeppamdus
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Justice of the Peace Sarah Miller has set cloudy to cloudy with light south breezes MmLummm—
bond at $50,000 for HC Jowers who has except for the Corpus Christi area. VISIT SCHOOL PROJECT-This group of students and several Mark Casstevens, Joe Pack. Rebecca Denison, Mark Newman,
been accused of the rape of a 11-year-old Temperatures in early morning ranged of those assisting in the project to create a Nature Fleld Area giudente Mas- Camol taa, high school science teacher; Joe
of Stephenville. '----girl. --------------------------------from 58 dewreea at Wink in Went Texas up near the new Stephenville High School visited the area Tuesday. Moore, Soil Conservation Service; Jim McSwain, representing
Harold French was the investigating The incident was alleged to have to»at Brownsville on the tip of the flower HeafuFetaMrataaixa aeioa —< wfli aaaahrt of a nature totil theKawanis Club; and Harold Campbell, Soil Conservation
officer. occurred May 17. Rio Grande Valley. and outdoor classrooms. From left are, Mardel Fehrenbach, Service, f Staff PMa)
Environmental Education. The workshop
is designed to help teachers K-12, to better
prepare themselves to meet the needs of
our students and our state in the teaching
of subjects pertaining to environmental aa . * es—wusa
education. * ® e
Three hours of graduate credit will be ,2^ .-■<*
allowed upon successful completion of the s.3- 3
course. Students will register July 10, 1975 , 2 443
for the course. The workshop will require ae ,”t ' 2 A“
participation from July 11 to July 29, 1975. 2 235 72 • na
Classes will meet from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 ‘y
p.m. daily.
Those desiring additional information
should contact Dr. William C. Swindle,
Department of Education and Psychology,
Tarleton State University, Stephenville,
Texas 76402. Phone: 968-2138.
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5836 - Special Problems - Topic:
Environmental Education Workshop.
According to Dr. William C. Swindle,
Director of the Workshop, the course has
been developed in cooperation with the
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VALEDICTORIAN-Melanie Bonner,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bonner,
has been named valedictorian of the 1975
Hico graduating class. She has been active
in almost all school activities and plans a
college career following graduation.
Commencement exercises are scheduled
Friday, May 23. at 8 p.m. in the high school
auditorium.
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Maikell, Elgin. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 113, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 21, 1975, newspaper, May 21, 1975; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1559931/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.