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BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
Sunday, October 29, 1978
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* Ashley had no real estate Nearly a dozen female Bell em-
* background before he was sus- ployees were called to testify
♦ pended by Bell on Oct 9, 1974 that Ashley had a reputation
* and fired Oct 31, 1974. His law- within the company as “a wom-
# suit was filed the next month. anizer” and a “dirty old man."
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The Pecan Valley Electric Co.
of Brownwood has been
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construction of visal approach
slope indicators (VASI) at
Brownwood and Killeen Air-
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Congressman W. R. “Bob”
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Runway 17 at Brownwood
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J who had two children in college eluding some incidents in the derland," first published in Mattie Petty; Carol Blevins.
« and two others in public schools executives’ offices. 1865, was written by C.I. Dod- San Saba — Wanda Hulme;
♦ at the time. “It wasn’t a "Bell’s defense was a person- gson under the pen-name Lewis Sandra Baker.
♦ planned departure. I wasn’t a al attack on me. My wife and Carroll. Dismissals Thursday
E big saver, so we had very little my family. . and the jury. . ------------------------------- Joseph Brown; Hattie Dor-
r* money to fall back on. didn’t have a high regard for There was a terrible ter- sett; Mary Ratliff; Carlos
• the truthfulness of Bell’s allega- rible strain on the family while Salazar; James Cloud, Stella
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family closer together. It was for us over the long haul. That’s Sallie Fortner; Annie Adams;
traumatic, don’t get me wrong. . .. ... „ Edith Barron; Donald Pete;
It was really a horrible ex- oneofthe„things I‘m very May McCormick; Myrtis
perience. thankfulfor." McLean.
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Blanket — Bobbye Wright.
Dismissals Wednesday
John Stephens; Nell Lash-
brook; Lillie Rodgers; G. W.
Seamans; Floyd Whiteley; Slayton; Tommie Fleming;
Monroe Shaw; Donna Worley; Elmer Denny; Johnnie Wade;
Walter Benson; Frances Kline; Lisar Armor; Shirley Lan-
Thetana Harper; Marie Hodge; caster; Ora Woods; John
Ophelia Haynes. Jackson; Margorie Glover;
Rising Star - Bobby Fortune. Linda Jones.
By GREG THOMPSON Attorneys for Ashley and Mrs. rated in Bell’s imposing down- “At first, after we filed suit
Assoclated Press Writer Oleta Gravitt Dixon alleged that town headquarters in San An- against Bell, I was working 12-
BLANCO, Texas (AP) — He Southwestern Bell, the largest tonio, 50 miles away 15 hours a day, seven days a
colorful real estate signs dot the component of the nationwide And, no, the Ashley family is week on that I went through
serene, picturesque Hill Bell System kept secret not living high off its jury about six months of watching
Country, usually making little political slush funds, was awards. The Texas Supreme our small nest egg shrink each
impression on passing tourists, dishonest in rate practices. Court recently upheld an ap- month like a piece of ice in the
Occaslonally, however, some- wiretapped employees and peals court ruling that over- sun. It was a horrible feeling."
one will recall the name — Jim hounded Ashley and Gravitt for turned the $ million judge- He finally turned to real es-
Ashley. And then maybe they’D opposing the alleged practices, rhent. Bell Is appealing the 33 tate in the spring of 1975 be-
make the connection to the Gravitt had first aired the al- million award and it wil be cause, “Frankly, I needed a
three bitter years of lurid, legations In a suicide note, years, if ever, before Ashley way to make a living By that
mudslinging court battles bo- writing, “Watergate is a gnat sees a penny of that time, my savings were just
tween Ashley and his former compared to the Bell System." about depleted.”
employer, the powerful South- Bell attorneys, meanwhlle, pnevexnssupremecourtre. He began studying for his real
western Bell Telephone Co. questioned the former execu- fused Wednesday to reconsider estate lcense, sold his house in
“I would say in the early fives' outside financial dealings tsearlerdecision denying the San Antonio and moved to the
stages, probably 50 percent of and sexual conduct with female Ashleys the 31 million family’s 28-acre ranch near
my customers knew about my subordinates, parading a line of “I'm making a good living at Blanco.
affiliation with Beta Now, about female employees who testified this and enjoyng it," saldXsh- “AtBell,Ineversoldany-
» percent remember it," said they had sex with Ashley and ley, at easeincowboy boots and thing directly. I guess I was a
Ashley, 49, who was a $55,000-a- Gravitt in order to earn promo- a shirt open at "e neck 1ms bit worried whether I could
year San Antonio executive be- dons. been a real transition from sell," he said. "I did find with
fore he was fired by Bell 1974 The jury agreed that the for- corporate life to real estate, but BeU I had been really selling
after an internal investigation mer executives had been slan- it”, been an enjoyable one ideas and intangibles all the
“It had a very positive effect dered and ruled that Bell should "The thing I Uke is that your time. I definitely feel BeU’s ex-
on.my business, especially at pay Ashley and the remarrled rewards and penalties are tied ecutive programs did help me to
first, he added. A lot of Mrs Gravitt $1.5 million each. directly to what you do or don’t do this job.
people were sympathetic and In a 1976 trial, Ashley andhisdo.And rm enjoying the «Reai estate here is easy to
wouldcome in «d try to help wife, Bonnie, had also earller pler approach tlmout here. because ie‘s a product I be-
me along- won a 31 million judgement Living in Blanco Tevas is a lieve in. Ultimately. I couldn’t
Ashley and the widow of his against BeU for invasion of UMe joining the cast of’The beleve in Bel and as a con-
friend, ml.Gravitt, the for- privacy from alleged Bell Waltons,”’he said. sequence, I couldn’t seU it," he
mer $80,000-a-year head »f wiretapping. .. . . Individuals and companies explained.
BeU's Texas operations-filed It’s against this backdrop, with gripes against Bel"stin Some BeU employees have
a massive 229 million slander rapidly fading now. l*™*’ regularly come to Blanco to recently bought property from
suit against thatAshley and. his wife are seek out Ashley and enlist his Ashley. A few others, however,
charging that the.internalin- quietly selling HiI Country real aid. He grudgingly gives depos- proved to be a painful reminder
vestigationled to Ashlez’s estate from theta small office itions and helps out whenever of the past when they initiated
wrongful firing and Gravitts near'thegurgling Blanco River he can. "I’m not looking for- theta purchases, only to back off
suicide... in titts blissful town of about ward to a career of being a BeU when they discovered who they
Both sides were solled by the 1,000.,,fighter," he said. "I’d Uke to be were dealing with.
explicit charges and counter- Ashley s present office, coxy a real estate guy.” Ashley’s 25-year marriage
charges in open court as the with antiques and paintings of His only other contact with and family wtn buffeted by the
bottle was climaxeda zear ago rural scenes, is a far cry from Bell is paying his phone biU loss of his income and the
in a vicious six-week trial. the huge, plush office be once each month. almost daily smearing of his
********************************* reputation in last year’s trial.
» eINnAV mN N CD I Ashley had no real estate Nearly a dozen female BeU em-
* 3UNURT UINNLK # background before he was sus- ployees were called to testify
Not Delighted ... Don't Pay!
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IM WASHINGTON
FFheke Martha Angle and
g4v Robert Walters
Ring-around-the-ethics?
By Martha Angle and Robert Walters
WASHINGTON (NEA) - A handful of diehardsiin the
House of Representatives, embittered by new limitations
on the amount of outside income they are allowed toearn
each year, already are talking about ways to evade the
la While considering government-wide ethics legislation
Last month the House overwhelmingly rejected (by a vote
of 290-97) in effort to delete from the bill the previously
approved ceiling on representatives non-congressional
income. . . ___ ...
As a result. House members’ outside earned income will
be limited, beginning next year, to 15 percent of their
357,500 congressional salary or $8,625 annually
We have not been elected congressmen to use our titles
for our benefit, ” says Rep. Newton I Steers, R-Md , nor
to spend our time on matters of personal gain.
But the ceiling is applicable only to salaries, fees and
other forms of earned income — not to interest, dividends,
rental payments and other types of unearned income.
Some disgruntled congressmen are discussing, both
privately and publicly, the possibility of circumventing the
law by taking advantage of that exemption
During the floor debate on the new law, Rep M.G.
(Gene) Snyder, R-Ky., bluntly told his colleagues of his
plans' "I am going to form two corporations I or some
good friend will probably be the president and I am not
going to have any earned income from those corpora-
tLke most other opponents of the new limitations, Snyder
is quite wealthy. “I do not play golf," he says. “My hobby
is going out peddling real estate and messing around the
coal market a little bit”
That “messing around” in the coal market last year
produced almost 369,300 for Snyder, while "peddling real
estate” was worth another 358,400 in outside income Both
figures were higher than his salary as a legislator
Rep. Gene Taylor, R-Mo., bragged during the floor
debate: “Of course, I can circumvent it (the limitation). I
can play the hull and pea game. I can fool my people. I can
take dividends. I can buy my building out of my
corporation and rent it back."
But, Taylor quickly added, “that is not right. That is not
fair to my constituents” It’s not surprising that the angel
and the devil inside Taylor are struggling over the issue
because he also has considerable outside business inter-
ests.
The congressman has more than $50,000 invested in a
Ford dealership that last year paid salaries to both him
and his wife. An affiliated insurance agency sells credit life
insurancee to auto buyers.
Earlier this year, Rep. Otis G. Pike, D-N. Y., warned that
"there are enough loopholes" in the new ethics code to
allow recalcitrant legislators to continue with business-as-
usual:
“Congressmen who control businesses can reduce their
salaries, which are deemed unethical, and increase their
dividends, which are deemed ethical. Lawyers can be
bought out’ by their partners instead of earning money.
“Anyone in business can be paid rent, which is ethical,
instead of fees or salaries, which are not. Wives and
children can get the money congressmen used to earn."
Most of the legislators who previously maintained
outside law practices now have abandoned them. But two
who have not, Reps. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., and Mario
Biaggi, D-N.Y., are reported to have privately told
colleagues that they are investigating alternatives that
would allow evasion of the law.
One knowledgeable Capitol Hill source suggests that
many of those talking about circumventing the ethics code
are only "blowing smoke" and eventually will back down
from their threats.
In addition, the House Select Committee, which drafted
the code, now is preparing supplemental guidelines that
will prohibit many of the schemes already suggested.
Nevertheless, there’s no excuse for the legislators”
brazen attempts to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the
law.
“I wasn’t prepared financial- Several testified of having sex
ly to leave Bell," said Ashley, with Ashley and Gravitt, in- "Alice’s Adventures in Won-
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Deason, Gene. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 13, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 29, 1978, newspaper, October 29, 1978; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1573521/m1/4/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.