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Summartzing hia four years on the board, Christie said it
had been able to cut its budget by $1.7 million.
"We have closed the loopholes and eliminated the fine print
truly consumer-oriented agency," he said.
Christie said he was confident Briscoe would name a new
chairman qulckly and that Price, who voted with him on vir
tually every major iasue, would continue having a "con-
sumer-grlented" outlook.
Christie has urged Brincoe to replace Manford, whose term
expired seven months ago, but all indications are that Man-
ford will get another sir-year term.
ByLEJONES
Assoclated Press Writer —
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) - State Insurance Board Chairman
Joe Christie resigned today, saying he wanted to make a
decision whether to run for U. S senator “on my own time,
not at the taxpayers* expense"
Christie said he would announce in October whether he will
make the race, and most observers already view him as a
candidate.
He leaves the board at a time when several major decisions
are pending, including how much to increase car insurance
rates. Insurance companies want an average 17.4 per cent in-
crease while the board’s private consultant says only 11 per
cent would be needed.
"There will always be some decisions pending." said
Christie, who recently moved the car Insurance question off
the board agenda because of reports that companies were
making sizeable profits.
Christie said he would return to his private law practice,
which he maintained in El Paso while a state senator, and
would "get more active in the oil business." He said he has
several oil interests, including five producing wells in South
Texas.
Oil and gas price deregulation has been the chief issue of U.
S. Rep. Bob Krueger of New Braunfels, the only announced
Democratic candidate for the Senate seat now held by Re-
publican John Tower. Christie said he was not sure now
whether there were any energy questions on which he and
Krueger would differ
- - He expressed optimism about his changes against
Krueger.
“The Christie Committee tells me things look good and that
there is strong grassroots support for my candidacy," Christ-
ie said. He said he had suggested to Gov. Dolph Briscoe that
he replace him with a woman. A chairman, he said, should be
a lawyer with some trial experience, since "our hearings are
virtually non-jury trials." The committee chairman alao
should be a strong personality who can stand between
teuding board members Durwood Manford and Ned Price.
CRYSTAL CITY-Crystal
City residents have gained
indefinite use of their
threatened natural gas
supply after Supreme Court
justice ordered Lo-Vaca
Gathering Co. to keep the
town’s gas lines open.
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HAVANA (AP) - The
United States and Cuba,
separated by only 30 miles of
water but 18 years of official
hostility, are moving a step
closer with the opening today
of diplomatic “interest
sections” in each other’s
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
federal grand jury in
Washington reportedly has
imsued an Indictment against
Tongsun Park, a South
Korean rice dealer who the
government wants to
question about alleged at-
tempts at infhuence-buying
(AP) - Hurricane Anita-
moved toward the Texas
Gulf Coast today, her 100-
mfloper-hour winds causing
coastal residents to board up
homes, secure bouts and flee
inland from lowlying areas.
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DURHAM, N.H. (AP) -
King, a 10-yearold Shetland
pony confined for four yean
in a fly-and maggot-infested
stall piled high with manure,
will recover completely now
that almost a foot-and-e-half
of deformed hoof has been
said
Insurance chief resigns
★ Christie eyeing Senate race ★
"My experience with women is that they have arong na-
tune.. ..I believe tHare an woman in Texas who Steetthoee
requirements," Christie said. \
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bookstores and massage
parlors have received
favorable rulings in separate
decisions issued in federal
courts.
Andrew Young and British
Foreign Secretary David
Owen brought the British-
American peace plan to
Prime Minister Ian Smith to-
day after he Won a landslide
election victory that
strengthened his earlier
rejection of its key
proposals
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BROWNWOOD AREA-
Partly cloudy with widely
scattered afternoon and
evening thunderstorms.
High through Friday in the
mid-90s, overnight lows in
the mid-70s.
High Wednesday 34 (34C),
tow Ms morning 71 (SC).
Sunset today :02 p.m.,
sunrise Friday 7:11 a.m.
Prices inch ahead in August
BY R. GREGORY NOKE8 4.1 per cent, the fourth coo- finished product, although not one per cant in August, much
Aseedotad Press Writer secutive month of decline, all at once. leas Uar. the July decline of 14
WASHINGTON (AP) - which is a welcome trend for The Labor Department said p«r cent
Wholesale prices inched ahead consumers but continuing bad prices of industrial comodttiM
by ometenth of a per cent in news for farmers, who have rose five-tenths of one per mat On the whole, the August
August as a fourth consecutive seen their farm income steadly in August for the second con- price report was favorable. The
monthly dadfoe in form prices eroding in recent months secutive month, largely ba- overall Increase of wholesale
neartyottset increases in other Lower prices were recorded cause of a 41 per cent hike to prices for the 12-month period
areas, the Labor Department during the month for coffee, prices of lumber and wood ending in August was 5.9 per
i mix n it today. eggs, livestock, grains and producta, and a ndne-tenths it cent.
The email August Increase in poultry, while prices increased one per cant hike to prices of
wholesale prices followed two for fresh and dried fruits and transportation equipment. Wholesale prices had declined
months M decine to the gov- vegetables. ... especially for autos and auto onetenthot one per centin July
emenes whotsale Price to- ricestrendsatthewholenale perta andseven-tenthsofonepercent
Mateos Poge Today Two teetiews
dez level are eventually reflected to Prices of
3 Farmpricesdeclinedanother prices consumers pay for the leads decU
time I go to bed, generallyfoe
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HOUSTON-Operatorsof
adult theaters and
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BROWNSVILLE, Tex.
am min Congress.
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W9 WASHINGTON (AP) -
" Mwo federal agencles are
taking joint action aimed at
forcing the manufacturers of
most products to prove that
no health hazarda are posed
by their use of sodium
nitrite.
ANITA CLOSES n-Hurricane-Aeita doom to ■ foe Texas
Gulf coaat as shown to fols map,Which plot the sterm’s
movement since Wedneaday (dotted lne). All am. today, foe
season’s that burrtcane was centered at tatitude zs.s worti,
longitude MJ west, 171 mlles east of Brownsville. The storm,
moving at it miles na bear to foe west, followed the course
shewn since t am. Wednesday.
prescription phikiller Per-
codan, said she ndv is taking
four Percodan pills every two
hours for different injuries and
inesses.
“I take it from the time I
wake up in the morning until the
ARTISTE-A young Brownwood noMeat share scene along foe banks of foe Pecam
finds time to foe early evening to paint a Bayou. (Bullett Photo)
SALISBURY, Rhodesia
Korean indicted by
federal grand jury
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tongsun Park, the South Korean
businessman who vows he will not retumn to the United Staten
and face questions about alleged attempts at influencebuying
in Congress, reportedly has been indicted by a federal grand
jury.
A congressional source Wednesday quoted a Justice
Department official as saying a sealed indictment was han-
ded up last Friday against Park, who fled the country nearly 0
a year ago and was last reported to be in South Koron.
The congressional source did not my what charge wa
specified in the indictment. 47
A Justice Department spokesman refused to comment
about the report.
Butthe Washington Post reported today that the sealed in-
dictment against Park was filed before U S. District Judge
JohnPratthere.lt said the nature of the charge could not be
learned.
By MILLER BONNER the hurricane would make land- Texas coastal dwellena wore
Assoclated Frees Writer fall between Corpus Christ and taking no chances - boarding
BROWNSVILLE, Tex. (AP) Brownsville up homes, securing boats and
— Hurricane Anita, feeding on Mooney said Anita is "poten- fleeing Wand from low-lytng
conditions ripe for strength- h,hu ■ num w i” areas some ■tayed. welting
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morning as At crawled iacross A hurricane watch rematned “We don’t feel like we’D have
toe Gulf of Mexico toward the in effect early today along 930 even until in the morning to
T*y and nor- miles of coast from Louisiana's evacuate,” said Port Aransas
theastern!Mexico.__. , Vermilion Bay to too Mexican Police CW DeeWayne Math-
Rain and stir breezes pushed border. ews, who estimated late
throughimorning haze.on South A private forecasting firm, Wednesday that about M per
**** Island as Anita’s. firat StormNet, which works primer- cent of toe town's 5,000 rota-
tentative thrusts were felt fly for oil companies along the dents would be ferried inland.
The season’s first hurricane Tezas coast, shidiateWenes "Only some of the old foo-
-- moved to within 150 miles of daythattherewasasopercen hards who have been through
Davis neighbor tells jury shrsAiyn zsemaums
a a am • flags were hoisted along the chance of Anita striking at Cor- midnight
about night of shooting
0 • Evacuations were under way slana’s coast relaxed with And- Bill Neukomm of South Padre
... . .___...__ aum at South Padre Island and were .......
AMARILLO, Tex. (AP) - A from their home. vctim. completed at Port ManefleM
witness in the Cullen Davis The defense agreed to permit Davis, 43, a millionaire Indus- Brownsvale, population about
murder trial testified today she the Jones to testify out of order trialist, is on trial for the child's w ivn la InrsWZ slightly Inlsnrl
was awakened by a wounded, so that they might return to death, but moot of the testimony from the Gulf of Mexico, and is
excited Prlacilla Davis one Fort Worth today, has centered on the wounding of the focal point of the Lower Rio
night last summer and told. Meanwhile, Mrs. Davis, 33, Mrs. Davis and the slaying of GFande Valley that takes in
“Cullen is up at the house killing sat in an anteroom awaiting her her boyfriend, Stan Farr. such cities as Harlingen,
everybody." ninth day of questioning by .There.were. no witnesses.to McAllen and Edinburg.
Mrs Clifford Jones, the attorneys, the shooting of the child, and the BrownsvUJe'a twin city of Mata-
state's third witness, said it was She told Wednesday how an state is attempting to link Davis morM Mexico, is directly
12:45 a.m that August morning angry, curving Davis in 1974 to the murder through the across the border, and its popu-
whan Mrs. Davis approached bannished her then 10-year-old subsequesnt shootings. lation of about 180,000 sat
her Fort Worth home, rang the daughter Andrea from the man- The defendant’s socialite wife directly in foe storm’s path,
doorbell and told her, “I've sion and decreed that she not said Wedneaday that Andrea Low pressure continued to
been shot" return. was living with her father, Jack suck the hurricane on a slightly
It was Mrs. Jones and bar It was Andrea, then 12, who Wilborn, Priscilla’s second southern and western track that
husband who summoned police was the first to die in the August husband, when the 1»74 incident would indicate a landfall just
and an ambulance after the 1976 shooting spree at the Davis occurred, below BrownavMe--Matamoros,
midnight Aug. 2 shooting at the mansion in Fort Worth, but she “He (Devis) told me to call Below Matamoros, the coast
Davis manaion across a field has been almost foe forgotten Andrea and tell her to get over opens up to sparse population
there (to foe manaion) this and few buildings for about 150
-------------------------------——------------K weekend." she testified. miles. -"7
--- Suddenly, she said, he jerked Anita's westward motion dou-
the phone from her hand and bled in speed from nive to 10
ordered the youngster to his miles an hour aa hurricane
home. .... .. warnings were hoisted between
"He said, 'Goddamn it, An- corpus Christi and Brownsville.
Th.VMtey'.bug.dtru.m.d
weeKena, ana men ne q- i sugar cane crops were endan-
don’t gives goddamn what your gered, and the tourism industry
plans,„were. I want you over at South Padre Island suffered
here." from a mandatory evacuation.
After Andree apparently re- Department of Public Safety
fused, Mrs. Davisisald, her hus okficers helped iocal lawen-
band told the child: forcemeat agencies to evacuate
“All right, goddamn it, you re Padre an area of glisten-
not welcome over at my f-ing ing white biaches andluxury
house again until you're ready and condominiums that
to do what I tell you. And fur- saw a big Labor Day business
thermore, you’re to return ev- blown aside by foe storm.
erything I ever gave you Forecasters also warned resi-
“I don’t give a goddamn what dents of nearby Port Isabel to
it is, I want it returned, do you complete their evacuation by
hear?" nightfaU
After the incident, Mra. Devia Tides along the coaat eweDart
said, Andrea did not visit the up to eight feet above normal
mansion again until after she causingZsome Eloodng « higb-
and Davis separated and a do- ways and roada.
mestic relations Judgeawarded Earlier, Lary Mooney, chiet
her temporary possession of the forecaster at the National
* .million, dweling. . Weather Service office at Cor-
Ironically, Andrea was not pus Christi, had predicted that
living at the mansion when foe
Agnad fonAg and bl June following increases in
elght-tenths of the previous nine months GOATHEAD-A Eroup of goats graze peacelully to a ItaM M ofIVineStreethuaideBrowmwoodeitylmita. iMIhnih)
15 Daily 35 Sundoy
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today.
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