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Brownwood Bulletin
Senior
Edition
CONTINUED WARM
Today
TWENTY EIGHT PAGES TODAY BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1970 VOL 70 NO. 187 10 Cents Doily 15 Cents Sunday
Yank Toll Hits
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9-Month High
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f-
ties totaled 5.993 killed
Vietnamese positiors. It was the
mar, Dallas, Tex 75202,
MRS. JACK KIRBY, erew
aaonan
leader for District 3, asks that Brownwood total. Mrs Kirby
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BROWN COUNTY
Former City Resident
Due ‘Day’ Here Sunday
P
BROWNWOODAREA: Fair
by 6 percent, retroactive
MIAMI (AP)
portion to their numbers of mi-
non. it is estimated
This
based upon figures from
Jamaica, with spas that at-
Treesun- Department as to the
will
the near future
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McCormack Clears Way for Albert
Donnybrook Looms Over No. 2 Job
!
in which he
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side the Democratic party, me
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ing the American flag at South Elementary School
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Fund to Bolster Integration
their schools. These include new
classrooms and facilities, addi- I
K. Udall making the first for-
mal announcement he will bid
Richard A. Hester of Dallas,
a former Brownwood resident,
will be honored here Sunday at
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ON THE JOB — Displaying state and U.S. flags
at Brownwood schools is an important part of the
system's Americanism program. Shown here lower-
is
the
A man who shares this out-
look McCormack told the re-
WASHINGTON (AP) - John.
W McCormack's decision to re-
tire after 42 years in Congress
The spending formula, part of
Nixon's message to Congress to-
day on school integration, in ef-
fect allocates almost two-thirds
of the money to school districts
North and South that are break-
ing up segregated classrooms
JOHN McCORMACK
. . . steps down
state however, will receive a
minimum lump sum of $100,000,
sources said
By GEORGE ESPER
Associated Press Writer
SAIGON (AP) — A total of 117
Americans were killed in action
in the Vietnam war last week.
. County. The" date was chosen
at a meeting of officials here
Wednesday afternoon.
The exercise will simulate
fallout from a nuclear attack,
but information gained will be
applicable to any type of na-
man
Half a dozen contenders are
thought possible for Albert s No.
2 job, with Arizona Rep Morris
All of which means more
money for consumers to spend
and increased business for local
merchants.
Tax refunds will go to about
6,660 in Brown County and will
Dec 27
Finally. there are the retired
initial reporta Mid 13 Ameri-
cans and at least 12 Vietnamese
were wounded, while damage
over all was described as light.
Terrorists hurled grenades at
cans and at least 11 Vietnamese
were worsnded. while damage
over-all was described as light
Terrorists hurled grenades at
two jeeps in Da Nang Wednes-
day night, killing four Vietnam-
ese.
In Cambodia, across from
South Vietnam's central high-
lands. thousands of South Viet-
namese infantrymen who began
an operation Wednesday against
the last of the known enemy
sanctuaries in Cambodia contin-
ued to encounter little resist-
be a year. took the heaviest Nows
on its western end.
not be a member of the next
Congress," he Mid. "if I were. I
would have great pleasure in
voting for Carl Albert for speak-
er.”
If Albert seems destined to
follow the long line of notables
that have rum the House. Me-
Cormack's retirement is expect-
ed to set off a doonyebrook for
lance from the Texas Dept of higher than the preliminary rise Friday 611.
Public Service.--"--------------------------------
expected to produce a strong
of checks upward thrust to business in
He has been active in the chairman for Friends of Scout- mated
Knights of Pythias for many mg. Circle 16, Boy Scouts of
years and has been both su .America
There's Still Time
Although concentrated efforts have been made by the 18 enumerators in
District 3 (Brownwood) to collect all questionnaires for the 1970 census of popu-
lation and housing, the possibility that some may have been missed, can still
be remedied.
uary and February. previously
omitted. cal area will also have more
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MORE MONEY will be going
also, to postal workers and other
Federal employees in the area !
Their incomes have been upped
CARL ALBERT
Speaker I chair
Residents of Brown County
will have more money to spend
in the months ahead, thanks to
bigger checks arriving from
Washington
Much of this cash will be in
the form of refunds to local
taxpayers. They are running
larger than ever, ’the figures
show.
reported 553 South Vietnamese 639,888 North Vietnamese and cid* with the anniversary of Ho
troops and 3,737 North Viet- I Viet Cong killed and 106,845 Chi Minh’s birth. I ance. -
18,974. However, Mrs. Kirby
said her preliminary figures for
Brownwood showed 15,143 resi-
dents without including Howard
Payne College students.
The HPC tudents were
counted by enumerators from
Waco and then added to the
no forms be mailed to her or said HPC told her the college
to the Waco office had 1.235 enrolled making the
preme chancelleor and grand Sundays programs
Districts with desegregation chancellor, Knights of Pythias open to the public.
tiopal teachers. and special ‘
teacher training in preparation
month Their checks have been
increased by 15 percent, with
an additional check last month 1
to cover the increase for Jan-
wemmwsmomm.
Seniors Today Were You Counted?
coming end of the surtax are
tlement. The remaining two-thirds will
-________ - These increases, combined be allocated to districts in pro-
amount to no less than $1,592- with the big gains being won
by unions and with the forth-
Alma, with pouring rains and hold its baccalaureate and com- Charles Garrett Jr., pastor of
slashing winds, raked Jamaica mencement exercises Friday. the Bethany Baptist Church in
and the Cayman Islands today HPC executive vice president Dallas: and a doctor of fine
and headed for Cuba. A. C. Garvin will preside at the arts degree on R Paul Green.
The three islands of the Cay- commencement program which professor of choral music and
man chain—the homes of fisher- will be held in the Brownwood chairman of fine arts at Hous-
size and number
being mailed out.
Hurricane Alma HPto Pass Out 186 Degrees
Heads for Cuba At Commencement Friday
namese and Viet Cong killed
last week, and 1,281 Americans
and 1,470 South Vietnamese
troops wounded
Information was not immedi-
ately available on how many of
nority group children. Each
ends have been misconstrued as dis- up the speaker s chair he inher- ahead"
He has' been under pressure loyalty to his party in the wake ited from the late Sam Rayburn
only potential bjock to the 62 from many of the younger Dem- nt a' losing presidential cam- in 1961.
-crod Cahonan wouid b- --4 in tie Hu-a lO step k-gh । ' oure no oldar th-n ou,
। ed on Page 16 of today's Brown-
। wood Bulletin, fill in the ques-
tions and mail the completed
form to Decennial Census Op-
erations Office. Mezzanine of
Main Bank Building. Ill So. La-
Section 2 of today's
Brownwood Bulletin car-
ries the newspaper's an-
nual salute to the gradu-
ating class at Brownwood
High School
The section, written and
edited by seniors at BHS.
presents a capsule look at
the 1969-70 school year as
well as includes the tra-
ditional senior class will
and prophecy.
Editor for the senior edi-
tion was Mary' Lee Bailey.
Reporters include Janice
Mitcham. Gay McClellan.
Marti Taylor.'Paula Harp-
er, Odell Crawford, Ty
Ann Cosgrove, Travis Cow .
tn. Judy Groom. Sandra
Martin: Dianne Elkins and
Casey Barber
f rest and relaxation " ; "The generation gap is a mat- the Democratic floor leader's
he said. and not the ter more on the part of the spot now held by the Oklaho-
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«rk
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I Anyone in Brownwood nr Mid----T---------------— — ■-
Texas whose census form has count
not been picked up, or who may ARoWNwAONa ,un cn.
have misplaced the question- BROWNWOOD'S 1960 census
naire, may dip the form print- showed » final population of
cause their minority group chil-
dren will be counted twice in the
formula.
The formula strongly encour-
ages districts without such
plans to undertake integration
experiments-such as mixed
cultural events involving other-
wise racially-isolated schoohs,
officials said.
The money in general will be
used for the special needs of i
i CD Exercise
Here July 9
July 9 has been selected for
a Civil Defense exerche" involv-
'ing Brownwood and Brown
Today's summaries raised the third night in a row that more
official casualty totaks for the than 50 bases or towns came
war to 42.118 Americans killed under attack in an enemy high
278.006 Americans wounded, point of activity timed to coin-
7 CF,a
of years and..was. campaign tional Hurricane Center esti- will'be "held in Mims Auditor- Nemgn."i delvgradisaannua
Some 1868 degrees are to be "Chime out" will be held at
tract millions of tourist dollars granted 5:30 p.m. in front of Old Main
HPC president Dr Guy D with the president s reception
Newman will confer the doctor i following.
to । The local buying potential is that over half the special fund
being improved, also, by the would go to improve the aca-
bigger social security checks demic environment in segregat-
people and others who receive The amount paid in the past ed schools.
-social security payments each ‘ .....
"5 About one-third * the ‘■W
ceiving them was nearly s232,, million will be reserved for the
000 greater than in the previous HEW secretary to fund particu-
four months larly innovative or meritorious
Federal employees to the lo- experiments in integration or in-
2 terracial experiences, sources
spending money They will said Much of this is expected to
share in the hike of more than 80 to Southern schools under
$2.5 billion that will be distri- particularly rigorous court-or-
buted under the temporary set- dered desegregation plans.
r"m
By G. C. THELEN' Jr.
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
dent Nixon will spend the bulk
of a special $500 million educa-
tion fund in the coming academ-
ic year to aid integration rather
than bolster segregated schools,
high adminsstration sources
are Scott Smith, loft, and Joe Evans Jr., who have
handled the job most of the year.
(Bulletin Photo)
A the U.S. Command announced
■ today It was a 29 per cent in-
l J crease over the total of the
I week before and the first time
I 1 the weekly death toll had ex-
l ceeded 200 in nine months.
| j Informed sources said 77 of
I the 217 Americans died on Cam-
l bodian battlefields
I The death toll was the highest
I for the Americans since the
Minority student’s in these dis- ment of Health. Education and
tricts will count twice in a for- Welfare over how much of the
mula based on the number of $500 million would actually flow
Negro and other minority group from the Treasury next year,
pupils. According to highly reliable
The chief executive disclosed sources. Education Commission-
his intention to estaNish the er James E Allen Jr tele-
special fund in a March 24 phoned the President to anger
school desegration statement A Wednesday morning after lear-
special Cabinet committee ing Budget officials listed out-
worked out details over the past lays of only $150 million in fiscal
two months for spending $500 1971. J Stanley Pottinger. HEW
millinn in fiscal 1971 and 91 bil- civil rights chief, placed a simi-
... "Our enumerators found total for Brownwood 16.378. i-
t ura I disaster which might af-' most people in the city willing eluding the students,
fectsthescityoand county, and anxiousto,givetinforma She explained the 15,143
rials were toid. uon, while on the other hand
The July 9 exercise will tert some were quite unwilling, but ure does not include forns
only communication. planning information was obtained by ob- mailed to her after the census
and decision-making. No public servation as last resort She office here dosed,
facilities or services will be af- continued, "Some enumerators ------------------
fected by the exerase which returned as many(as 10 or 12
will be conducted in the even- tmegtrying to "nd people at pnzAa
tng , MHwiM , Mrs Kirby said she does not 38422202574
Heads.of agencies."hich know if the population of Brown #—nT
would be involved in the event wood is up’odown-that only'
of nuclear or natural disaster the final figures will reveal
will be involved in the exer- this and warm tonight and Friday.
cisesProblemgwil bepedt- Apreliminry census total of Low tonight in 60, high Fr-
terminedand fedetopartiipant ts16,277 was announced for day in 90s.
on a planned time schedule. | Brownwood late Tuesday after- w.xm .
. , The exercise will be cnnrdi. noon by Robert Ford of Waco, Maximum temperature here
noted by representatives of Tex- district census chief He Mid he Wednesday 88, overnight low
as A&M University with assis- expected final figures to be 43 Sunset today t 27, sun-
a program conducted by the "
Emmanual Chapel United L
Methodist Church A
A proclamation issued by 4
Mayor Truman Harlow has de- l
signaled Sunday as R A Heo- E
ter Day in Brownwood •
Planned are the regular Sun- l
day morning services at the ■
church at in 15 am and a Hes- N
ter Day program at 1:30 p m. A
Joe W. Kirven of Dallas, presi- 11
dem of ABCO Building Main- \ ■
tenance Co, Inc., of the Dallas -
Negro Chamber of Commerce ’
and of Venture Advisers, Inc., m
will be chairman for the ooca- •
sion. •
Hester a native of Smith ■
lion the year after. lar call to the White House.
A lw;t minute rhubarb, how«v- , Budget officials reportedly be
er, had developed between the lieved that.while.0onmillion
Budget Bureau and the depart-would be committed only 815
____ . million could actually be spent
by the districts during the aca-, for integration.
demic year. Treasury withdraw-
1 als often lag behind appropria-
week of Aug 10-16. when 244
Americans were killed to action
The summary of casualties
from the allied commands also
South Vietnamese troops killed
The U. S Command said 166
Americans have been killed and
*77 wounded in operations in
Cambodia since April 29 South
Vietnam reported 591 govern-
virtually assures the Speaker s for Republicans to win control down, and several of the party
chair he has held for nearly a of the House in the fall etec- representatives had threatened of Ml years, has been seriously he said in a light-hearted ses-
de i ,WI &° 10 his assistant tions. That possibility is consid- to revolt against his leadership ill and the speaker has told mail with newsmen '
r Albert . erod unlikely, although the GOP if he sought another term as friends he wanted to spend gave no indication that his
in announcins he will not seek holds out hope for redoxcing the speaker more time with her “For some sharp-wit had dulled in the
another term this year in order. 244-186 edge the Democrats now But in his Wednesday an years Mrs McCormack and I • years since he first entered the
to spend more time with Ims ail- hold nouncement. McCormack said have been looking forward to a ‘House in 1928
ing wife, the 78-year-old Massa- McCormack, a virtual proto- this internal strife was not the period of rest and relaxation " —
chusetts Demoat laid the'type of the professional Boston reason for stepping down This. L ____ - . . uepu.y
mantle of succession to th* Irish politician, surprised very in fact, he said he would charges he was too old and out young than of people like me,"
speakership, on Albert, a 22-year few with his decision to call it a have retired two years ago but of touch with the younger gener- he said. in legisiative matters
veteran of the House day in Congress when his term he feared .the action then would ations, was his reason for giving I am still looking 18 years
With no visible opposition in- ends have been misconstrued as dis- up the speaker's chair he inher ahead *
s] Harriet McCormack, his wife feel, and I don t feel that Nd.”
these occurred in the operations ment troops killed and 2,042
in Cambodia, but the South Viet- wounded in Cambodian opera-
namese command said enemy tions, while the allies claimed
activity in Vietnam decreased 8,433 North Vietnamese and Viet
40 per cent last week The week Cong killed
before, a total of 863 South Viet- Only light contact was report
namese troops had been report- ed today on the allied fronts in
ed kilted. 35 per cent more than Cambodia. to South Vietnam the
last week, while enemy casual- enemy shelled 54 U.S or South
County, attended public schools •t'dA
in Brownwood and Paul Quinn •Fu A
College in Waco He is a mem •M.. mA
her of lee Chapel United Metbo mF M
dist Church in Brownwood Ehdam
He has long been a membr •jamp
of Moorland Branch YMCA in RicuaRn a mrsrvn
Dallas and helped develop Py- ... da* honors man chain—the homes of fisher- will be held in the ______ ______
thtan Manor Inc , a 76 unit,- men which in recent years have Coliseum, starting at 7:30 pm ton Baptist College '
abumaFem 252201755 sm a asmumaurs
Bank in Dallas. I c---- ------— ... _ - 1 — - -- - —
communities desegregating
Hurricane Howard Payne College will of divinity degree on Reverend
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tion commitments by many
Washington Cash
would be overruled and the
n • M schools allowed to spend as
Ups Buying Power
White House press secretary
THE AVERAGE refund is for Ronald L. Ziegler confirmed
6239. it states Last year, by Wednsday afternoon the full
way of comparison. the average $500 million appropriation will
return was only $198 be requested from Congress.
Some >12 8 billion will be re- even though it might add to the
turned to 53 million taxpayers projected budget deficit for the
throughout the country to cover fiscal year ending June 30, 1971.
their over payments Last year. The President had said initially
because of the 10 percent sur- the sum would be extracted
tax, there were only 50 million c,— L,, mc+;, p.am
rodunds ne, tocaled 3102 M. SfodnothehahgnsoteraProsuages
The t2 6 bimion Jump repre figures.
sents a considerable increase is The final spending formula
buying power runs counter to earlier reports
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