Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 13, 1968 Page: 1 of 11
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Brownwood Bulletin
Needs Your Gift
10 Cents Doily, 19 Cents Sunday
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, IMO VOL. 00 NO M
TEN FACES TODAY
U.S. Feels Saigon Will Join Talks
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tween Washington and Hanoi
a news conference that it makes
Saigon joins in or not.
Enemy Guns Strike
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fary School*.
West Cops
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Top Prize
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In Contest
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American bases in South Viet-
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Fewer Top Aides
the south.
a year
Sources in Nixon’s entourage
of Smachok.
black Belgian Shepherd, re-
once and was fired at
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brick building on Blue Hill Ave-
Nine days after the bombing
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help, The Bulletin today is print- E
to the President will have the
form.
number far fewer than 14.
In the administrations of the
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at Kennebunk Beach, Maine
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Friday night.
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Friday Deadline
For Mail Project
third northeaster to hit New
England in six days, prompted
sistants will rank below assist-
ants and, on a still lower level,
Brown County
United Fund
Persons sending in names
are asked to type or print
plainly Some of those recei-
ved so far have been diffi-
lected and combined Into litter trees
by students of Brownwood Elemen-
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A severe northeaster headed
the lawns of summer cottages.
The winds also threatened the
ainby
a gun
many individuals sent mail
to those with whom they were
tossed boulders and other debris
onto King's Highway and onto
These sources said that in the
Nixon administration assistants
N. Koreans
Slip Agents ,
Into South
one assailant who poin
under the desk at him.
Well*, Gay Rutherford and Janet
Walla. Emily is the head cheerleader.
The Mountaineer* host Bang* to end
the football season for both school
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Project FIND Seeks
Over-60 Information
DTEME-M —
GO MOUNTIES - Leading the yell*
and boosting the spirit of the Santa
Anna High School Mountaineers this
year are cheerleaders, left to right,
Diane BlackweW, Pat Beard, Emily
that productive peace talks
could not be conducted "in an
were blown ashore on Cape Cod.
Naturalists said the birds live in
salt water and can’t survive
ashore.
The cruise ship Oceanic en-
counted rough seas and high
winds as it headed back to New
York after a boiler room fire
forced the captain to turn the
Bahamas-bound vessel back. All
1,040 passengers were safe.
The storm, spawned in the
Gulf of Mexico, roared up the
coast from the Carolinas Mon-
cult to read, the military edi-
tor said
acquainted.
The Bulletin is urging resi-
dents all over Mid-Texas to
join this year by sending even
more mail—to help express
the support they have for U.S.
servicemen overseas
To get your serviceman’s
name on The Bulletin s list,
mail it with his full address
to: Military Editor; Brown-
were submitted.
Tying for first place at West
Elementary were Miss Yell’s
room and Miss Faye Dunham’s
fourth grade classroom.
Other first place winners in
five other elementary schools in-
clude Woodland Heights, Mrs.
“management of legislation and highest rank, and that they will ing a senior citizen’s survey
Congressional affairs. number far fewer than 14. form.
/,
(Bulletin Photo)
-ymeee
er group went ashore 35 miles
north of Ulchin near the village
Four Bases Hit
Military spokesmen alto re-
ported rocket, mortar aad re-
toward New England today aft- lives of thousands of small dove-
...........kies, a species of auk, which
I Project FIND is seeking infor-
mation about area residents who
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All area residents 60 years
of age or older are requested to p
fill in the form, which appears E
on page 3 of today's edition, and |
to mail the information to the La
address listed in the explanatory M
material. t 2
heavy snow warnings
Gale driven seas crashing
over a seawall caused damage
2nd Grade Anti-Litter I
Poster Judged Best
The second grade class at 5
West Elementary School taught ?
by Miss Esther Yell, has cap- J
tured the sweepstakes award in I
the poster contest of the Brown- I
wood Public Schools anti-litter I
campaign.
Sponsored by the Newcomers’ I
Club, under direction of Mrs. I
Archie Hallum, president this I
was one of the beautification
projects of the Women's Action
Committee of the Brownwood
Chamber of Commerce.
Classrooms in each school
______- „— Duong Dinh Thao. No two
tary from political issues be- member of the NLP team, told
halted the bombing of North
Vietnam on Nov. 1, he warned
This would mean that hag- no difference whether Saigon
gling over a political settlement, is represented He said the NLP
including the status of the Viet is fully competent to diseuss
they entered, Rose said.
Rose told officers he crawled
under a desk after being shot
predominantly Negro area.
The others killed tentatively
ble militant.”
St. Laurent’s guide dog, a
Fua
are 60 years of age or older. To F3
gunfire They were taken to City
Hospital.
Rose told police the five in-
truders burst into the organisa-
tion’s first-floor storefront office
before dawn, yelling, "Where’*
the money? Where’s the mon-
ey”’
The gunmen began firing a*
kb
founder and executive director
of the New England Grass
Roots Organization (NEGRO)
St. Laurent was characterized
by a city official as "a responsi-
way. peace talks meat begin without
The effect of any U.S.-North delay r zrdiess of whether the
Vietnamese talks in the new set- Saigon government send* a
ting created by the bombing delegation
halt would be to split off mill-
Other sources in Wi
and Saigon said the
appeared to be provocation* to
test or possibly humiliate Wash-
ington.
Wintry Blast Rips
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LOTS OF LITTER — Mr». Archie
Hallum of ths sponsoring Newcomer*
Club points out some of the litter col-
By FRED S HOFFMAN and Hanoi could make big peace terms could come only in with considerable emotion, were change of heart
AP Military Writer strides on the most immediate direct talks between Hanoi and calculated to impress on the ¥ <
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pen- issue—military deescalation, Saigon Saigon government that the PARIS (AP) — The Viet
tagon officials say they believe including steps toward with- Pham Dang Lam. head of Sai- United States does not intend to Cong » National Lberation
that Saigon, faced with the pro*- drawal of troop* Pentagon offi- gon’s observers in Paris, said let its objections stand in the Front said today the Vietnam
pect of having to settle it* politi- cials said such an arrangement he does not think hi* govern- —* ‘ 1 ‘ ‘
cal difference* with the Viet would leave Saigon to face the ment will change its mind and
Cong atone, will drop its boycott Viet Cong alone in the political join the talks under the four-
of the broadened Paris peace struggle party formula that would bring
talks The view that South Viet- the Viet Cong to the bargaining
This prospect appeared im- namese President Nguyen Van table on Hanot’s side,
plict in Tuesday• declaration Thieu would end his boycott. Although Pentagon authorities
DlSSecretarysor’Defense Clark was disputed in Paris and Sai- saidCrford spoetorhimsel,
M Clifford that the United gon . „ the defense chief generallyare
1 . ntonde te o Ahead with In Saigon, a responsible off)- flects the views of President
States intends to go ahead with eial who declined to be identi- Johnson H tong has been 00
Breakers 20 to 30 feet high day night to lash the shore
- ■ areas with wind and rain which
turned to snow further inland.
er battering the mid-Atlantic
states with heavy snow, rain
and near hurricane force winds
in an icy foretaste of winter.
At least three storm-related
deaths were reported in New
England and several more fatal-
ities were attributed to the
weather farther south.
The blustering storm, the
LBJ Warning
Before President Johnson
By GEORGE ESTER I questioned. Shalt. on Sunday, North Viet-'
Associated Press Writer A U.S spokesman said 10 namese gunners in the DMZ
SAIGON (AP) - U.S Army mortar rounds hit an artillery shelled U.S. Marine positions
1 and Marine artllery fired into base of the South Vietnamese just south of the buffer zone.
' the demilitarized zone Tuesday 1st Infantry Division four miles killed four Leathernecks and
I for the second time in three east of Con Thien, inflicting wounded 41.
days after North Vietnamese light casualties. A U.S. commu- U.S. Defense Secretary Clark
gunners were reported to have nique said a ground observer re- Clifford said Tuesday the shell- .
fired on a South Vietnamese ported seeing the muzzle flashes tags Sunday were considered ”a coilless rifle attacks on four
post from inside the zone Later of enemy guns “between 500 matter of seriousness" by the
the location of he guns was and 1.000 meters inside the U.S government but that so far nam's Central Highlands and on
--southern edge of the demilita- they did not constitute a pat- two provincial capitals to the
rized zone.” tern. l east and west af Saigon.
to 60 this month, twice the num-
ber reported earlier.
The government says 38 mem-
bers of the Communist force
have been killed.
Defense Minister Yim
Choong-Shik told a news confer-
ence one of the guerrilla bands
landed near Ulchin, 130 miles
southeast of Seoul, and the oth-
-n-
—
THE WINNERS — Shown with the
posters judged best of a school anti-
litter contest here are Tammie Wright,
ing White House staffers have
carried the title of special as-
sistants along with the maxi- there will be administrative as-
competed against one another . representingI Miss Esther Yell’s
in the contest and Miss Yell’s le .» IAI: I
room was the overall winner >outh WVinds
of the entire poster contest ,
from all schools Fifty entries Warm State
—
cond grad* class at West Elementary,
and Larry Keesee, representing Mrs.
Fay* Dunham’s fourth grad* class at
West Elementary. (Bulletin Photo)
wood Bulletin: Box 1189;
Brownwood, Tex. 76801
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mum authorized salary of sistants.
From Inside DMZ
... Mortars Rock South Viet Base
of Boston and Ronald King
Fred Rose, 41, the black selF-
knew how much he apprecia-
ted each Christmas card.
“He said they sure help a
person at mail call and gives
one a warm feeling at this
time of the year, which is
pretty sad out there,” she
concluded
After The Bulletin printed
a similar list last year, many
groups and organizations
made it a project to send
cards, letters or small gifts
SEOUL (AP) — The South
Korean government revealed to-
day that a second band of North
Korean guerrillas landed on
South Korea's east coast two
weeks ago, bringing the total
number of invaders in th* area
Busstizas Planned by Nixon
ers today.
Clouds thickened as the warm NEW YORK (AP) _ Presi- $30,000
air flowed inland to finish rout- dent-elect Richard M. Nixon, Soure___
ing the latest cool spell, and naming Bryce N. Harlow as a said today, however, that the
prospects were seen for a few presidential assistant. indicates President-elect plans to depart
showers inimost sections of the he will have fewer top staff from the Kennedy and Johnson
state:by Thursday, aides than either Presidents practice of naming the author-
At the same time another in Kennedy or Johnson ized maximum of four special
the parade of cold fronts com- Nixon announced Tuesday assistants at *30.000 a year. and
mon to this season was descend- that he was naming Harlow, 52. plans to change some titles
ing from the Central Rockies to be one of several presidential While so doing,
and due to reach the Texas Pan- assistants Harlow, an in-and-
handle by evening.______ out government man since
mumummwumrmmumummmmmuwwummumwwmmuwmmu World War II, will specialize
atmosphere where the cities are
being shelled and the demiUta- mained at the victim's side as
rized zone is being abused ” police closed off the three-story
Mrs. Martha Wright’s sixth
grade; South, Mrs. Lillie
Phillips; first grade; East,
Hilda Harlow, second grade
Coggin. Al Lohse's sixth grade
and North ,Mrs. Josephine Mo-
'Han. fifth grade.
A sculpture and litter tree con-
(See WEST On Page Two)
Wye’d
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WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA increasing
cloud* and warmer tonight Considerable
cloudiness with scattered shower* and
cooler Thursday. Low tonight near 50.
Maximum temperature here Tues-
day 68 overnight low 38 Sunset today
5:33, sunrise Thursday 7:00.
Names and addresses of
area servicemen who will
spend this Christmas season
overseas must be received by
The Bulletin no later than
Friday to be included in lists
prepared for publication.
The list will be published
by The Bulletin later this
month so organizations and
individuals may send Christ-
mas mail to these men who
will be separated from their
families this holiday season.
So far, names of more than
70 servicemen have been re-
ceived by the newspaper.
Some of the names are
being received for the second
straight year with area men
spending their second Christ-
mas in Vietnam.
One grandmother wrote. "I
sent his name to you last
year and he got so many nice
letters, cards and packages.
I thank you very, very
much ”
And a mother wrote, “This
is his second year in a row
to be in Vietnam at Christ-
mas
“He received so many cards
last year and said, 'If the
people in Brownwood only
fMyKH'l LMII n—
... . .. When Nixon takes office on
late John F Kennedy and Presi- Jan 20, they said, special as-
dent Johnson, the highest rank-
.. u.. . ._____ _______ -__. ___ ___ — Cong in any government of rec- all problems concerning South
negotiations with Hanoi whether fled said talks between just Ha- of Johnson's closest advisor* on onciliation, would be shunted Vietnam,” whereas the Saigon
n '• ' — nbi and the United States would the war. into the background for the time government is merely an Amer-
Clifford said the United States be considered invalid and that Clifford's words, delivered being, pending any Saigon ican creation.
* ♦ ¥¥ ¥ *
Into New England
to every man named And
I Power lines were downed,
commuters delayed, bridges
closed, streets flooded, schools
closed, ferries stranded. boats
swamped, trees felled, windows
shattered and umbrellas bro-
ken.
Hundreds of families in coast-
al homes in New Jersey. Long
Island and Connecticut were
temporarily evacuated as the.
storm's height Tuesday but [
most were able to return by
night.
In eastern Tennessee two 1#-1
year-old boys died of exposure
after being lost for 30 hours
while on a hunting trip near
Great Smoky Mountain National
Park A third youth in the party
I managed to walk to safety.
cident is being further investi- _ ..... 0- 1_________
gated»» he said By JOHN STEEDE nue m the Roxbury section, •
8 South Vietnamese headquar- BOSTON (AP)-Five Negro
ter* reported there were two *t- nxm burst into die headquarters ...... ....
tacks on the base, one at 8 30 of.:a. civil rights group today, were identified as Cornell Eaton
am. Tuesday and the second at shot the Negro founder and two
1:30 pm., and both came from other men dead, then escaped.
"525
tar rounds into the base from all the assailants were Negro,
two firing positions, one 200 to officers said.
300 yards south of the DMZ and One victim was identified as
the other about 3,000 yards to Guido St Laurent. the blind
Unknown Result* [ ■ 1 ■
I “U.S. Army and Marine artil-
lery fires were directed into the • r• A ——
with unknown 35 Dle as Kunmen
Later a U.S. Command
te-E Hit Rights Center
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Fisher, Norman. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 13, 1968, newspaper, November 13, 1968; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1574143/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.