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BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
Tuesday April 1 1915
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Astro- THE VIET PUZZLE
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Gulf increasing
But Ellsberg refused to pre-
WASHINGTON (AP) - With Mekong Delta to the South.
When a newsman tried to ask diet when the fall of Saigon
Ford about Vietnam Monday at would come because, he said, impression from the Pent
COW VS. GOVERNMENT
Farmer wants rematch
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capital and the rice-growing to correct past mistakes.
Businessmen in Viet
for insurance
90,
insurance policies.
cord, Ellsberg said.
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Damage from flooding is not support of Thieu after that con-
covered in standard property stituted a repudiation of the ac-
America’s sworn enemy of the
last three decades on the door-
NEW YORK (AP) - Resi-
dents of 10 Texas cities and one
county have become eligible to
purchase federally-subsidized
flood insurance for residential
and non-residential property,
the National Flood Insurers As-
sociation (NFIA) announced.
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND: An item in the Providence
Gazette reported We hear a Number of Fire Arms, with a
Quantity of Ammunition, have been sent from on board a Man of
War at Newport, to Col Thomas Gilbert, and his tory-
.Adherents, at Freetown. ’
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gasoline prices
HOUSTON AP । — A one cent
a gallon increase in the price of
all its grades of automotive
gasolines has been announcee
by Gulf Oil Co.-US.
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false.
“At no time have I goj
playing waiting game*
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LONDON. ENGLAND: A local resident charged that the pro-
Administration conduct of New Yorkers had encouraged the
Ministry to undertake repressive measuresagainst the colonies.
A rigidly enforced trade embargo will result in liberty; “if you
break, then you become slaves, not to one tyrant, but to five
hundred."
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of petrole
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retailers
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charges esl
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Oil Corp.
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high or the low. three points for predicting
rain correctly, but lost two points if no rain
was predicted and it rained
Huntsville utilities director Boyd Wilder
tallied the votes.
It all came to a crashing halt when Brim-
mer’s barometrically tuned south end was
pointed in the wrong direction and failed to
detect .05 of an inch of rain falling across town
Monday.
McAdams said Brimmer doesn't realize she
lost the forecast-off. ‘ She couldn't. It was bad
weather today and she had to stay inside."
Nonetheless, McAdams is philosophical
about the defeat.
“I came pretty close," he said, admitting
theweather service’s equipment is a lot more
sensitive than Brimmer’s south end.
Yessir, they got a lot of equipment and it’s
all expensive. Cost a lot more than Brimmer
did, that's for sure."
He said the contest drew 4tention from
people in 38 states, a reporter from the
London Times and a correspondant from
Time Magazine.
"I was on page 3 of-Time. It was pretty
good." <
U.S. fears offensive unstoppable
...Drive on Saigon likely within month
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NEW YORK. NEW YORK: The New York Assembly, severely
criticized for its conseryative posture, appointed a Committee of
Correspondence to obtain the most recent and authentic in-
formation from London" and to communicate "with our sister
Colonts. .
BILLION DOLLAR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
NEEDS FULL TIME GENERAL AGENT IN THIS
AREA. MUST HAVE TWO YEARS EXPERIENCE
AND A SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD. PLEASE
WRITE OR CALL PAUL R. LOWE, REGIONAL
DIRECTOR OF AGENCIES, 1025 ELM, DALLAS,
TEXAS 75202, 214-741-3091.
19) Your actions could cause
some hard feelings today
You're too anxious to serve
yqur own interests Be careful
whose toes you step on
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb 19)
You're too easily put upon to-
day You could later resent a
commitment so think before
you volunteer
PISCES (Feb 20-March 20)
Stay out of-situations with
friends today where money or
things change hands You're
likely To feel later you got the
short end
Daniel Ellsberg, once a mem-
ber of this country’s Vietnam
brain trust and an outspoken
antiwar critic in recent years,
sajd the present offensive is the
inevitable result of U.S. and
South Vietnamese refusal to
abide by the peace accords they
signed in 1973.
South Vietnam’s President
Nguyen Van Thieu’s refusal to
rewrite the constitution that
outlaws the Communist party in
the South and continued U.S.
RESERVATIONS TILL 8:00 ONLY
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IMPROMPTU JAM SESSION is held by two “street musicians” in New Orleans’ Jackson
Square where curious passersby pause for a moment during the warm spring weather.
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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: Samuel Cooper, Minister of
Brattle Square Church and patriot, informed Benjamin
Franklin: Much art and pains have been employed to dismay
us or provoke us to some rash action, but hitherto the people
have behaved with astonishing calmness and resolution."
VOU;,
Oirthbog
April 2, 1975
You’ll set some very ambitious
goals for yourself this year
Success is_likely if you stay on
course Keep one iron in the
fire at a time .
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HUNTSVILLE, Tex AP - Farmer John
McAdams, who pitted his Black Angus cow.
Brmmer, against th^ sophisticated in-
. struments of the National Weather Service in
an 80-day forecasting contestand lost, says he
wants a rematch. ---
This time of the year, it's pretty hard to
predict rain or cold. It's a lot easier in the fall
or winter, and that's what I'm going to ask
for," McAdams said Monday night.
I believe TH ask for'early Tall, and four '
months instead of 80 days like this time."
National Weather Service Houston
. meteorologist Irwin Bolbrecht lagged behind
throughout the contest, at one point, by as
much as 17 points. But Bolbrecht pulled
through in the last three days and won-it for
the government 19-15.
McAdams and Bolbrecht originally locked
horns in January, when the 66-year-old far-
mer said a cow with her tail in the wind or a
hog buried up to its jowls in mud are better
forecasters than all the government’s
gadgetry,'
The pair agreed to forecast three times a
week for the Huntsville area, 70 miles north of
Huston Each got a point for predicting the
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“Ultimately, (the South Viet-
Private insurance agents and namese army) is going to col-
brokers are authorized to offer lapse, as Chiang’s army col-
flood insurance to interested lapsed in China ... because you
owners or residential and non- are dealing with soldiers who
residential properties, know very well that they’ve
Coverage on contents also will been fighting essentially for
be sold to owners and occupants foreigners all these years,” he
of such buildings, 53^
New Shipment of BEADS
Make Your Own Jewelry!
•SWIRL GLASS FROM INDIA
•EVIL EYES FROM GREECE
•OLIVEWOOD FROM ISRAEL
•PONY BEADS FROM ITALY
•SEA URCHIN SPINES FROM THE PACIFIC
•MOSAICS FROM INDIA
SUPER SPECIAL!
Wrought Iron Hanging Baskets ’4.50
THE VILLAGE SHOPPE
At The TIMBERS WED.-SAT.
offensive from rolling over all of northern part of the country city over the weekend
South v ietnam. There is a rather remote hope Now plans have been drawn
They- say the biggest .ques- by some intelligence specialists for the evacuation of 200,000
tions are whether it will be days that a temporary military refugees, one-half pt them from
or weeks and whether it will equilibrium can be brought QuNhon, the country's third
come by military or political about if the South Vietnamese largest city, beginning, today
action army can be regrouped quickly But the South Vietnamese goy-
President Ford, asked by a to defend Saigon and the delta ernment abandoned Qui Nhon to
newsman in Bakersfield, Calif , region the Communists without a fight
about his reaction to events in But these same officials con- today ven before the
Southeast Asia, declined to an- cede that President Nguyen evacuation effort began,
suer and broke into a fast trot Van Thieu, who was never American officials say the
some 100 yards to the ramp of strong politically, has even less United States has a special
his waiting airplane. support now They do not see moral commitment to evacuate
' White-House press Secretary how he can last. those South Vietnamese who
Ron Nessen later said Ford The fast pace of develop- worked closely with the Ameri-
feels the current debacle in ments has left officials here not cans and who would be endan-
South Vietnam was caused by only surprised but with plans gered in a Communist takeover
Hanoi's violations of the Paris that are outdated before they in addition there are Viet-
accords and the failure of Con- can be adopted, namese children who are half
cress to grant his request for For example, plans were American. The dependents of
more aid, much of which'would drawn last Thursday and Fri- Vietnamese employes of
co to replace the millions of day for the United States to Americans could also be in
dollars of U.S equipment lost evacuate several hundred thou- jeopardy
by the South Vietnamese to
Communist invaders.
Defense Secretary James R.
Schlesinger predicted Monday
that the North Vietnamese will
drive on Saigon within the next
month or two. He said he ex-.
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Saturday, April I. ITS
CONCORD. MASSACHUSETTS: In a letter to the Indians in
Stockbridge, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress expressed
its gratification that "Our Brothers are ready and willing to
take up the Hatchet in the cause of liberty and their country "
Each member of the tribe who volunteered for military service
was promised a blanket and a ribbon in addition the delegates
resoved to convene a general assembly in May even if General
Gage failed to issue the required precepts and writs .
By JOSH FITZHUGH Exxon Corp. and Caltex Pet-
AP Business Writer roleum Corp., which market
NEW YORK (AP) — Many gasoline in the country, said op-
ArePsan businessmen in South erations were continuing. Ex-
V ietnam are working on a day- xon said American employes’
to-day basis amid the worsening dependents were evacuated a
political and military situation, week ago.
their home offices report.
Few if any businessmen have Mobil Oil Corp. said its oil rig
left Saigon, where the Ameri- in the South China Sea was still
can-owned companies are operating.
based, although some depend- We’re monitoring the situ-
ents have been evacuated. ation,” a spokesman said.
For the most part the Viet-- IBM said a sales and service
namese subsidiaries are staffed “subsidiary there intended to re-
with nationals. Only a few main "as long as conditions
American managers remain permit."
and French and Dutch citizens It was not immediately known
run other U.S. firms. . how many American
We're taking a wait-and-see businessmen are still in South
attitude," said George Calfo, Vietnam and the U.S. Com-
executive vice president of merce Department has no fig-
American Trading Co., an ex- ures on U.S. private investment
port-import firm which has op- there.
erated in South Vietnam for a Bank of America spokes-
more than 20 years man in San Francisco said,
We have no plans to evac- "We’re not planning to close the
uate or to close our office. Nev- branch in Saigon. Everyone in
ertheless, things are serious." the American community is
Calfo said Monday that Am- very observant of develop-
traco's Cambodia office was in ments, but that’s as far as it
the process of being closed, goes."
We wouldn t say business Lincoln Brownell, president
there (Viet Nam) is normal, but of Brownell-Une Corp., anoth-
as of today the branch is open," er export-import firm, was fly-
said a spokesman for New ing back to Saigon on Tuesday
Yorks First National City with his wife to decide whether
Bank, which maintains.a Saigon the company could remain in
branch with 20 employes, in- operation His son said Brow-
eluding three Americans. nell remained optimistic.
stepof victory in Indochina, offi- the Bakersfield, Calif . airport, the government forces “were or persons within the adminis- v—__
cial Washington is unchar- the President broke into a laugh very bad on offensive oper- tration, that there was golg to
acteristically quiet and unable and started moving at a fast trot ations, but they were adequate be this sudden kind of break— ■
to bar the door, to the ramp of his waiting jet. in defensive operations, given down on the part of the military
President Ford, vacationing -Many of Kissinger’s prede- the amount of U.S. support forces of South Vietnam. That
in California, retreats from re- cessors in the making of U.S: they’ve been given." has come to me as a complete
porters' questions about the policy in Indochina were unwill- With that support now barred surprise.
rout of South Vietnamese divi- ing or unavailable to discuss the by-law, it is difficult to predict "I don’t understand it. I
sions. , most recent battlefield re- whether Saigon will be able to haven't found anybody who :
Congress is in recess, its verses. • re-establish its defenses, he does." A\
leaders scattered across three McGeorge Bundy was in said. Morton Halperin, a former i
continents. meetings all day; Robert S. Clark Clifford, who served as aide to Kissinger on the Nation--
Secgpry of State Henry A. McNamara sent word that he an informal adviser to several al Security Counsel staff, said:
Kiss“r, the most recent ar- did not wish to talk about it; presidents and as secretary of -Anybody who did not expect
chitect of U.S. policy in South- Melvin R. Laird was in South defense under Lyndon B. John- this was living in a dream
east Asia, apparently is await- Africa; Dean Rusk was on his son, said he is deeply interested world. The South Vietnamese-----
ing the return of Army Chief of way to a lecture in Pennsylva- but too confused by events to- could not stand up to the North
Staff Frederick C. Weyand from nia: Gen. William C. West- comment on what's happening Vietnamese without US. air
a fact-finding tour of South moreland, didn't answer his today. power.
Vietnam before both men meet phone; William P. Rogers He said the buckling of de- Kissinger understood that
with the President later in the didn't return phone calls, fense lines throughout so much and always intended to reintro-
week to discuss this country's Bundy was national security of the Eountry "is a great mys- duce American military power,
next move. adviser to Presidents John E. tery to me. It’s so inconsistent but Congress made it impos-
Kennedy and Lyndon B. John- with what we've been led to be- sible."
Secretary of Defense James son,Taird and McNamara were lieve for quite a long time, that “Ten years did nothing.
R. Schlesinger, while predicting defense secretaries. Rusk and South Vietnamese forces were What’s happening now is what
that Saigon soon will be under Rogers were secretaries of well armed, reasonably well would have happened in 1965
attack, said in a public tele- state. Westmoreland was U.S. trained, possibly adequately of- had we not gone in.
vision interview that "there is commander in Vietnam. ficers, and now, all those prem- "We could destroy the coun-
no reason to despair” if the But a few former participants ises upon which we've been try, but we couldn't destroy the
Saigon government can stabi- in America's longest trial by basing our thinking prove to be North Vietnamese”
lize its defenses around the fire said there isn't any time left __________________________________________________' ______________
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For Wednesday, April 2, 1975
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Be
careful how you conduct
yourseif in frdntof others Your
mage isverytragile for the
next couple days
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
. You have a tendency today to
jurb to unwarranted con-
Csions Hear others out
Ab efore making hasty-
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Business dealings with friends
at this time are more com-
plicated than usual Be wary —
or you IF be burned
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
Don t treat lightly legal in-
volvements today or tomorrow
A mistake Could prove costly
later Act only on advice of
counsel
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) This is
not a day to tackle tasks
beyond your talents and
capabilities Trying to impress
others will have the opposite
effect
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Don t count on others today if
you're involved in a risky situa-
tion Ddnt buy a big deal or a
dime s worth, sight unseen.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) An
issue between two persons of
whom you re very fond will
arise today You’ll find yourself
in the middle Arbitrate
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) If
you don’t take the time to give
subordinates clear-cut instruc-
tions. there s no way you ’ll get
oped-for results
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
21) You’ll have to count your
pennies today Pay past
obligations before assuming.
By SPENCER DAVIS pects the North Vietnamese to sand persons from Da Nang
Associated Press Writer move as rapidly as they can But fewer than 50,000 were re-
W ASHINGTON AP) - Some before the South Vietnamese moved by air and sea because
US government experts are can stabilize their defenses in the Communists moved virtual-
now saying privately that there the wake of major setbacks in ly without opposition into the
is no way to stop the Communist the central highlands and the demoralized, panic-stricken
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