Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 194, Ed. 1 Monday, May 29, 1978 Page: 1 of 14
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And what a fine Memorial-Day celebration it was
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Partly cloudy and warm
with a chance of scattered
CLOUDS BUILDING - Part of the storm
system which gathered over Central Texas
Sunday and dumped rainfall ranging from
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cinnatiPost
Then the drums started. Slowly. Like
a dirge.
Gradually Professor Lanou built the
volume and tempo until, at the end, it
seemed we personally had trampled out
the vineyards where the grapes of
wrath were stored.
Then there was silence. I had a sud-
den consciousness that the seconds of
my life were ticking away, and I should
be doing something exciting — like
fighting in battle.
The mellifluous voice of the Rev. Mr
Boland intruded upon my thoughts
“Dear God, we give Thee thanks for the
greatness of this nation, and for the
bravery and dedication of the men who
gave the last full measure of devotion.”
Finally he stopped praying, and two
of the women moved to the bridge
railing and hoisted the big wreath over
It fell with a splash, and the current
carried it slowly downstream -'a
strange spot of brightness in the mud-
her father had been in the Civil War.
Next in the line of march were the
Boy Scouts, staggering under the
burden of heavy flags. Behind them
were the men of the American Legion,
many in World War I uniforms.
Bringing up the rear were the school
children, up through the eighth grade -
at least those who had been unable to
fugure out how to be absent without suf-
fering dire consequences. Teachers
hovered close, as if fearing that their
charges might flee before the mission
was accomplished.
“Semper Fidelis!" Professor Lanou
announced as he moved through the
ranks of the band. We clamped the
music into the lyre-shaped folders on
our instruments and stood at attention.
He gave the down beat, and we
blasted the summer air with brass and
cymbal, startling pigeons from under
the eaves of the courthouse. We stepped
off, headed west toward the river, and
dy water
And Inell played “Taps.”
She played very slowly, with each
note full and sweet, soaring as if it had
wings. I wondered if those notes — each
so beautiful, so perfectly formed -
would continue onward forever, perh-
aps reaching the souls of the men who
had died in war.
Somewhere in the crowd, a woman
wept softly.
Then it was over.
My friend, Bill Hawkins, and I went
to my father’s drug store and got free
ice cream cones. (I suspected that
some of my friendships were based
largely upon my access to free ice
cream).
As we walked back up the hill to the
school, where we had left our in-
strument cases, I asked Bill: “Do you
think there'll be a war for us to be in?"
Duster 2.25, Brady 112, Bangs
1.5, Comanche 1.30, De Leon
and Zephyr 1.00, Lake Coleman
.85 and Coleman .50.
The Weather Service forecasts
a 40 percent chance of more
rain today, 30 percent tonight
and dropping to 20 percent
Tuesday.
in Concho County, east of San
Angelo, rainfall amounts of
from 4 to 5 inches fell, and offi-
cials said a rapid rise of near 15
feet was expected on the San
Saba River at San Saba.
The river was expected to hit
bankful before receding this
afternoon.
Skies were clear in the Pan-
handle, where the region got 7
inches — more than a third of its
average annual rainfall —
Friday and Saturday.
near the bronze market that said:
“Abraham Lincoln pleaded cases in cir-
cuit court on this site...”
In front of the band, the America
Legion color guard took its place with
flags, rifles and white gloves. The men
were perspiring, grim-faced.
Directly behind the band was Bud
Gilmore’s yellow Buick touring car —
the one with the wire wheels. The top
was folded back, and in the car seat our
town's three remaining Civil War
veterans
Broad-brimmed hats shaded their
faces. On the front of each hat was a
gold emblem that had GAR (for Grand
Army of the Republic) within a wreath.
They wore dark blue uniforms. I
thought they must be terribly hot.
Behind the car came the Women's
Relief Corps. The ladies wore white
dresses, and red and blue sashes slan-
ted across their ample bosoms. My
grandmother was in this group because
severe, through Tuesday and
a possibility of flash flooding
at low water crossings
through tonight High today
and Tuesday in the upper
88a, low tonight in the upper
60s
Maximum temperature
here Sunday 92, overnight
low 70. Rainfall Sunday night
and Monday morning 2.36 in-
ches, rainfall for month 2.71
inches, rainfall for year 8.87
inches. Sunset today 1:17,
sunrise Tuesday 1:31.
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two to four inches overnight is shown in this
view of the Douglas MacArthur Academy of
Freedom on the Howard Payne University
campus in Brownwood. Brownwood officially
received 2.3» inches in the storm.
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NATO summit to ponder balance
WASHINGTON (AP) - An -More than 580,000 combat- and command centers, military balance toward the So-
Atlantic Alliance diplomatic ex- ready troops, about 310,000 from While NATO has a Mo-1 nu- Viet side. NATO agreed last
travaganza is opening here as the Soviet Union, are deployed merical advantage in tactical year to draw up a three-part,
heads of state ponder ways to in East Germany, Poland, nuclear warheads, those weap- longzrange Plan.,.to bolster the
counter growing Warsaw Pact Czechoslovakia and Hungary, ons are considered to be of use West s defenses through greater
armies - now about twice as compared with 283,000 for only as a last resort for fear that cooperation.
strong conventionally as NATO. NATO they could touch off a global —Most member nations
President Carter win address -There are 15,500 tanks on holocaust pledged to boost their own de-
Adding to worries about the fense budgets in real terms by 3
conventional arms imbalance is percent each year from 1979 to
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ood, Texas 76801 Fourteen Pege Today ttko Sac^om
By Richard L. Gordon
We stood in ragged formation in front
of the school at the top of Main Street
hill tootling our horns, scuffling with
one another, hot and impatient in the
glaring Midwest sun.
This was the first time I had played in
the school band on Decoration Day.
(That’s what we always called it — not
Memorial Day).
It was Saturday, May 31,1932. -
Professor Lanou soon arrived on the
scene, in shirtsleeves but wearing the
gilt-trimmed uniform cap he had worn
when he wagdirector of • circus band He
was a white-haired, black-browed,
stumpy man, decisive and abrupt
“Fall in! "be shouted. “Let’s go!”.
The drums set the tempo and we step-
ped off smartly. Professor Lanou had
no college degree - that school board
hadhiredhimofficianyasajanitor-
but he knew how to run a band.
We halted by the courthouse square,
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the parade was on. People lined the
sidewalks, occasionally shouting en-
couragement to the marchers.
We finished “Semper Fidelis," and at
Railroad Street, where the Taylor
House stood on the comer, we turned
south. (The Taylor House was known as
“the hotel where Lincoln stayed.”)
After a block, we turned toward the
river again, and went down a gentle
slope to the bridge, where we halted.
The ladies of the Relief Corps walked
out onto the bridge, carrying a large
white wreath trimmed with flowers and
red and blue ribbons With them went
the Rev. Matthew Boland and Inell
Ballard, the tall, quiet girl who was our
first-chair cornetist
We had changed out music according
to instructions and were ready for the
next piece, But professor Lanou wasn't
trusting our memories
“Battle Hymn!” be croaked in a
hoarse stage whisper “Battle Hymn!"
thunderstorms, some
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By LASH LASHBROOK high a rate of speed causing received hieher raintall amounts
Bulletin Staff Writer water to ground out the ignition with inches recorded on
"Sgmhingstrugtapowerpoie
Sunday night and this morning, near 165 Allen Drive in Early Par and inches in dowt
inundating Brownwood with an causing a compressor on an air town Brownwood.
official 230 inches while other conditioner to burn out. Lake Brownwoods 1.70 in-
communities received heavier Brownwood's official 2.30 in- ches at'the dam reportedly
amounts - 4.10 inches near ches of rainfall, received at the raised the lake "t*
Trickham, 3.60 inches at May Indian Creek Road Fire Station, foot which is a.considerabie
and3.10at Brookesmith. brings the city’s May total rain- amount of water spread across
A stationary front that lay fall to 3.71 inches which is .21 of the total take surface.
along the Texas caprock early an inch above the amount nor- Santa Anna, which has been
Sunday started an eastward mally recorded for the first 29 plagued with a low water supply
movement about midday . As it days in May fo^ny weeks, recorded 2.50
pushed into the Central Texas The city’s total thus far in inches at the city lake and 200
region moist air brought into 1978 has reached 8.87 inches inches downtown.
the front from the Gulf on which is 1.73 inches below the Other rainfall amounts
southerly winds added in- 10.60 inches of rainfall normally around the Central Texas area
stabiitytothesystem. received in the first 149 days of include Trickham 410 mebre.
Convective heating from the the year. May 3.60, Brookemsith3.10,
surface carried the warm, Other parts of the city Rising Star,2.75,. San Saba.2.5,
moist air aloft many thousands Early and Punkin Center 230,
of feet building cumulus clouds
into huge thunderheads which
vented their fury across the
Central Texas area from late
Sunday afternoon until the
early morning hours Monday
Six persons were pulled from
the waters of Lake Brownwood
when their small boat over-
turned, according to LaWayne
“Bo" Batteas, acting manager
of the Brown County Water Im-
provement District No. 1 and
lake patrolman
Clean-up resumes in Panhandle =
CANYON, Texas (AP) — but received 7 inches on Friday torrential rain for Canyon but where she could be. There's 20 cleanup can be completed,” a not touch the ground and no
Trying to find the body of a and Saturday alone. never showed up at her home, miles between where her car sheriff’s department damage was reported, ac
suspected fourth drowning vic- Officials estimated the storm Her submerged car was found was found and where she was spokesman said. cording to John Hughes, Mc-
tim from the weekend floods damage may reach 610 million, late Sunday in swollen Pato supposed to be. The keys were Heaviest hit by the flooding Culloch County civil defense
that hit the Texas Panhandle and Gov. Dolph Briscoe is ex- Duro Creek about a half mile not in the car, so she might not were two housing developments ecordinator.
“would be like finding a needle pected to ask that the county be east of Canyon have even been in it" when the situated in low-lying areas. An Flash flood warnings have
in a haystack," officials of the declared a federal disaster “We’re not looking for her flood waters swept it into the 18-year-old boy stood on the been issued by the U.S. Weather
normally drought-plagued re- area. An estimated 400 persons right now. We've checked out creek, he said, knobs of a bedroom door from 3 Service for many portions of
gton said early today. were left stranded or homeless all the cars submerged and ev- The National Weather Service a m. until 7 a.m. Saturday, with Central Texas and motorists
The Canyon area includes by the storm. erything. As far as a search, said there was a 20 percent six inches of breathing space are advised to be on the lookout An n a e
scenic Palo Duro State Park Two victims of the flooding that’s like looking for a needle chance of more rain today, but from the top of the water to the for fast moving water, Ancentee Vetinci
about 10 miles east of this col- which began Friday were found in a haystack right now,” said officials considered the worst ceiling, before being rescued especially at low water •N-vlV*
lege town of 9,610. The area, Saturday morning and a third Terry Morrison, dispatcher for behind them. about sunrise Saturday by a crossings,
which has a flat terrain broken was found Sunday. the Randall County sheriff’s of- “All the water has gone down, rescue worker in a boat. The San Saba River is on the _1 "T
by the canyons, has an average Mae Zachry, 43, left Amarillo fice in Canyon, but it will probably be two or Ruth Booch, executive direc- rise, according to the USWS, AniG on I IIeSCICIV
annual rainfall of 20.16 inches _ 18 miles to the north - in a "We don’t have any idea three days before a fullscale tor of the Red Cross in Amarillo, and is expected to be up 15 feet •I • • ~ VI • • V**--Y
said a nreliminary damao‘ sometime this afternoon before
survey indicatesat least“15 starting to recede. Tuesday will be the last day for absentee voting for the runoff
homes and cabins and 14 mobile Brownwood caught its share election from the Democratic primary. According to Brown
homes along Palo Duro Creek 01 the storm when lightning County clerk Reecie Bell, a total of 415 persons voted absentee in
were destroyed Eight more caused power putages in the first three days of voting.
noobllenomrgandasoaddutlonal pecantPrtars2 Bemad The election will be held Saturday to determine the
waterSdmage. was severed down the middle Democratic candidate in three local and three state races.
The rains cut off weekend bylightningmaking it look that
campers in Palo Duro Canyon it had been split by a giant ma., g. .2.
State Park. National Guard sword. . “olTy TO Consider
ticke wen int the canvon Many intersections were • --------
-There are 15,500 tanks on holocaust pledged to boost tneir ownde, sundi, remove stranded flooded around the city and lim-
the opening session of the 15- the Warsaw Pact side against Adding to worries about the fense budgets in realtermsby3 but most elected to bs were torn from trees adding TDQI rAFe hke
nation summit Tuesday. The 6,000 for NATO. conventional arms imbalance is percent each year from 1979 to stnyPrethevwere.mnest. to the already hazardous I I &L IMTEG II IK 6
delegations then will hold two -The Warsaw Pact has a 4,- a secret study prepared for 1984. mated 150 persons were in the driving conditions The Austin Enactment increased Texas Power a I ht utilitv rates as
days of ctoseri-dnw meetings to 000-0-2,000 advantage tactical NATO leaders. It shows that the immediate measures to be when the flood waters Avenue underpass was closed
pianlong-rangeostategytor combat aircraft. Soviets plan to increase their completed this year included eanyonnwhenathefoodwwaters due to high water ac- approved by the Public Utility Commission will be considered
dealing with what has been a -In the event of an attack, military spending by 5 percent a improvement of anti-tank and w ■ « through icnic cumulation However, the Vine on first reading at a 16 a.m. Tuesday meeting of the Brownwood
concerted buildup of Soviet-led the Warsaw Pact could deploy year over the next decade while anti-armor defenses, stock- « Street underpass remained City Council.
Warsaw Pact forces. 180 divisions as reinforcements, their gross national product is piling munitions and bettering avnii,hle to them open. The special meeting has only three items listed on the agenda.
In manpower and con- The figure for NATO is 71. expected to rise only 4 percent combat-readiness and rein- round 4vaabte them A ptant hot house at a local ADsorducoonsidertm ar petition for paving on First St
ventionai weaponry in Central The conversion of the Russian annually for the same period, forcement arrangements. About 30 persons were air- hardware sales firm almost aPetttionforptyinonmum
Europe, the most critical area, tactical air force from a largely The same study indicates, -Finally, studies were com- lifted from the park Saturday blew away and a sign at an auto between Wood and Ave. W, and the presentation of honors for
the NATO forces are arrayed defensive to a largely offensive however, it is unlikely that the plated for presentation to the by helicopter. Among the ones dealers was reportedly par- the city’s department heads in appreciation of their “high stan-
against armies whose superior- ground attack role also has Warsaw alliance will unlease a current Washington meeting of rescued was an elderly man tially torn down. Automobiles dard of performance.”
ity has been steadily growing, raised concern about the major war so long as NATO long-term trends InEast-West with a heart condition. He was stalled out throughout the city The meeting, open to the public, will be held at Brownwood
According to NATO in- vulnerability of U.S. air bases, keeps up its guard. relations and of NATO s overall perched in a mesquite tree near after motorists tried to drive citv Hall in counci chamber
telligence and U.s. estimates: radar stations, supply depots Alarmed by the tip in the defense needs. a power line. through the water areas at too
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