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Brownwood Bulletin
VOL. 69 NO. 88
10 Cents Daily, 15 Cents Sunday
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early Saturday, injuring 19 per- buffer between North and South Democratic Republic of (North) could negotiate in Paris for an
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three in Topanga Canyon, two into the homes, which firemen
Mudslides buried sleepers alive
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was
ing and business districts in
hours in some spots.
ure was heading toward 6 inch-
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that hit in force Friday, after
New UF Leaders Take Reins
only 1,686 registrants as of Fri-
behind
and
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support
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At Port Arthur, Tex , mem-
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2.800 refinery workers and 120
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agreement in a 250-man refin- —
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module. Air Force Col. David B Trail Council Boy Scout office
whether “we can fly this whole
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were voting Saturday and Sun-
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pounds. looks like a pile of hat fair share donations from em-
ployes.
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California Gets Drenching;
Sleepers Buried by Slides
Apollo 9 Success
Key to Moon Shot
Commies Hit
U.S. Airfield
8,600 Strikers Due Back
At Oil Companies Monday
POWs Lived, Died in Camp
• Burial Ground Another Bowie Reminder •
MOD Blockade
Nets $1,300.27
The March of Dimes cam-
day on a settlement negotiated
Friday night. Grospiron said
cessed vegetables they raised.
But now it’s 1969 and gradual
After the meeting, Lodge told terized by President Nixon's en-
reporters that on behalf of his voy as “a practical move to-
DENVER. Colo. (AP)-Pres-
ident A. F Grospiron of the Oil.
Chemical and Atomic Workers
International Union estimated
Saturday about 8 600 workers
on strike against oil companies
likely would return to work by
Monday morning as a result of
additional negotiated contracts.
Sinclair Oil employes from
still, but will go forward.” he
said. “Each of us working to-
gether can make the next year
a successful one.”
Near Santa Barbara to the
north 6 engines and 20 cars of a
Southern Pacific freight jumped
hers and with-
i, but the other
boxes and is, relatively light.
“I've never seen a tissue pa-
but a complete peace, he told
the conference. For this reason
the United States belives that
all external forces should be
withdrawn from South Vietnam
and that all military and sub-
versive forces of North Vietnam
must be withdrawn into North
Vietnam. We are ready to work
toward the implementation of
Maximum temperature here Satur-
day 56. Sunset today 5:59, sunrise Mon-
day 7:31.
gardens. Connaway said. He re-
calls only some five men were
buried there.
Work in the gardens and the
cemetery afforded the prisoners
of war ways to make POW
camp days seem shorter and
in addition the garden furnish-
ed some food to brighten pri-
BETHPAGE, N Y (AP) -
The commander of the Apollo 9
thousand Italians captured dur-
ing the war. And those who
didn't survive their internment
were laid to rest in an area
six miles from Brownwood on
the Brownwood Country Club
Road, adjacent to the Jordan
Springs Cemetery.
Remains of prisoners who
were buried there have since
been removed to their native
country, according to Edward
Bailey and Jay Connaway who
wn land near the cemetery
sons. flattening 30 to 40 small
frame homes and rocking this
city of 27,000
A four-block area of north
Laurel adjacent to the Southern
Railway tracks was devastated
by fire and shock waves Many
Laurel iPeace Talks Far From Peaceful
Blasts
geles and San Luis Obispo to the Sherman Oaks, a family of wav earned mud and boulders
northwest. " ~ -
trance of Jordan Springs Ceme-
tery and look far past the
graves to this small fenced off
section are reminded for the
first time in American history,
prisoners of war .lived and
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kard. Ernest Morris, Dwight
Harkey and Hays.
Honor Groups
Two groups, the Comanche
were reported buried and killed crushed and 12 damaged, bring-
by slides in the night. ing loss in the area to $3 million
.An intense overnight downfall children in Highland Park, and had tried to protect with 6 000
and surging floodwaters isolated sent cataracts roaring down * ------- ' " - "
Tharp said.
Gary Thomason was student
director of the Brownwood MOD
blockade.
bot Ledge at the first full-dress after the meeting that "all the
meeting lasting $4 hours pro- arguments of the United States back
per spacecraft before, but .hat’s with the 1968 drive were The
what it looks like," McDivitt Brownwood Bulletin, KEAN,
i A McDivitt. and the LM pilot,
Russell L. Schweickart, a civil-!
lan. will move into the lunar
entire communities and caused mountain and foothill canyons
untold devastatior. Saturday as The water overflowed flatland
Southern California was deluged washes and drainage facilities
by rain—up to 12 inches in 24 and drowned roads, fields, hous-
space flight said Saturday the
mission will be the key test of
gigantic mess to the moon and
land there ”
The care of the small grave-
yard became the responsibility
• •a Pa a-J-13 OiWd. WaO aJvilld’}
WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA Partly cloudy
and warmer today and tonight. High
today in 60s low tonight in 30s.
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compared with the i2,200 regis-
trants last year
. .South, despite long American
"Our real task isnot.a partial prodding.
THE BROWN County mili- tended the cemetery, as they
tary base was home to several ' ‘
mand module Bottling Co., were recognized Wyoming to the Atlantic Coast
The LM, which weighs 30,000 for having had 100 per cent were voting Saturday and Sun-
four days of downpours earlier
in the week Most of the serious
damage was along a 200-mile
coastal stretch between Los An-
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es.
At Glendora. 20 miles east, a
Several mountain areas re- for the week in the area, by fire
ported 24-hour ram of 11 to 12 department estimate.
inches. In Los Angeles the fig-
the rest of the cemetery, was
once reserved exclusively for
Italian prisoners of war who
succumbed to illness while
interned at sprawling Camp
Bowie.
Die first session, said Ameri-
can spokesman William J Jor-
den. was "just about what we
exectd it would be. ' He said
there were no positive, specific
proposals from the other- side.
He added that while the lan-
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woman in Ventura County sandbags.
the-track at 60 miles per hour,
housing tract beneath foothills spilling a load of autos and car-
denuded by a brush fire last go containers, which caught fire
year was hit hard for a second and burned for hours. The Los
time A wall of water loosed Angeles-San Francisco tracks
when a logjam of debris gave were closed indefinitely.
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noted having troops in
By JAMES H. DOWNEY
Associated Press Writer"
LAUREL, Miss. (AP) — A
string of railroad tank cars car- ________________ __________— ______ , _ ____________—
rying volatile butane erupted in posed immediate re-estabish- concerning the DMZ have al- gon government be replaced by baize There will be no fixed side didn't make any propos-
a series of fireball explosions ment of the demilitarized zone ready been rejected by the a "peace government’ which schedule of meetings, which will als.”
" " > be called by agreement of the The proposal on the DMZ was
four parties. spelled put in detail and charac-
was available.
A few houses near rivers were i
undermined and washed away
Livestock was reported swept
away in mountain areas Rails
were washed out, causing a ma-
jor line-blocking train wreck
Major highways were blocked.
Telephone service was knocked
out—or jammed by emergency
calls—in many places. There
were numerous power losses
In hills ringing Los Angeles,
slopes softened by the long del-
uge gave way with no warning.
The board chairman of an in-
The forecast: More rain all roads flooded Helicopters
through Saturday night. plucked stranded families from
Virtually all of California got rooftops in isolated areas. Some
a good wetting from a storm towns petitioned the navy for
____ T ‘ " amphibious craft ... but none
SAIGON (AP) — Enemy’
forces attacked a US airfield
early Sunday and lashed out
with more than a dozen shell-
ings of other allied installations :
across South Vietnam, U.S.
headquarters reported
The stepped-up activity came
only hours after the first full-
’ Scott will remain in the com- and Brownwood Coca - Cola
and the union had reached
worked in
-luml6C3 llurc
Also recognized for helping this is the only company-wide
~ contract held by the union,
and covers about 5,700 em-
ployes.
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paign now underway in Brown-
wood received a good boost Sat-
urday when the MOD blockade
netted $1,300.27.
According to blockade chair-
man. Jim Tharp, nine locations
I in the city were manned by
Brownwood High School stu -
dents and members of the
APO fraternity of Howard
Payne College took over the
The three astronauts who
have been picked for the 10-day
earth orbit, set for launching
Feb 28. described the mission
at a two-hour news conference
at the Grumman Aircraft Engi-
neering Corp., maker of the lu-
nar module
Busiest Flight
They drew a picture of what
appears to be the busiest, most
complex flight in the history of
the American space program.
It will be'the first flight test of
office workers. Earlier. Gulf
and open minded
tion ”
Mrs Frank Holliday was re-
named executive secretary.
W. G. Streckert will serve
as 1969 campaign chairman.
Recognition plaques were pre-
sented to division chairmen
present, and will be given later
to the others. They include W.
A BARN on the old Bailey
place was kept intact and
own land near the cemetery.
One home
Texas counties is lagging well register will exclude persons
behind the record pace of 1968 from voting in these.
with just five days left before Deadline for persons to regis-
the deadline, a weekend check ter is Friday. Persons may’do
with tax assessor - collectors so in Brown County by going
shows to the office of Hugh Allcorn,
Brown County had an esti- tax assessor - collector, in the
mated 6,500 persons qualified courthouse, or by mailing in
to vote as of Friday afternoon their registration card
San Saba County reported
Bv KEITH HEARN
LOS ANGELES (AP)
peace talks in Paris. Officials Reports, honors and an elec-' The 1968 Brown County goal Citizens National Bank, R i o
here would* not speculate wheth- tion marked the change of com- was $52,250. i Cox, Greenwood Office Sup-
er the attacks were tmed tor mand here Friday for the Henley also praised the out- ply. Hibler’s and Sutton's.
the talks' opening but there Brown County United Fund going UF president, Mrs. J. R "We must look forward to
have been predictions of in- About 35 persons, including Beadel, “for her untiring help our coming drive, and stand
creased enemy military pres- a number of division chairmen in this campaign.” ... „ i ------■ "
the bargaining table.
In Sunday morning's report,
U S. spokesmen said the air-
field at coastal Phan Rang, 160
miles northeast of Saigon, was
attacked about an hour and a
half after midnight by an un-
known number of enemy.
i donations , are still coming in.
Lack of Interest day compared with a total of
The drop in registrations is 3.202 last year.
attributed to the lack of major About 3,000 persons have
state and national elections this been registered in Comanche
year But there will be impor- County. The total last year was
tant city and school elections' (See VOTERS on Page 2)
Twelve deaths were reported low-lying areas of Los Angeles,
from avalanches of mud and Ventura and Sant, Barbara
rocks that shattered homes in counties.
the night Several other persons There was literally no access
were drowned. to some towns for a time, with
vestment firm, Michael Rior-
dan, 41, was killed when a re-
taining wall collapsed near his
luxury home and earth buried
him as he slept. His wife and
three children in another part of
location the house were unharmed
“We are grateful for all these Two women in Glendale, a
young people who were at their man in Eneino, a woman in
posts from 7 a m to 6
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R. Lyle, Lonnie Holland.
Sharpe. Alton Reid. Mrs Har-
ry Miller Jr., W Lee Watson,
| John Pound. Phillip Flinn. Drin-
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PARTLY CLOU OY —l
Col. J
the complete 90,000-pound, j
three-part spacecraft, including I
the lunar module—or LM, pron-
ounced "1cm"—designed to car-
_ ry two astronauts to the moon's
surface and return them to the
moon orbiting command and
service section.
One more test flight is sched-
uled before the Apollo 11 flight
now planned for the actual
moon landing in mid-July. That
test, a lunar orbit, is set for
May 17.
Flight Plan
The flight plan for Apollo 9
calls for separating the three-
man command module and the
lunar module to test the LM.
Once in orbit, the flight com-
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pearance of Camp Bowie The , . “f.-57 Sa
Bailey family rebuilt their b
home on the site where it was
residents said they thought
bombs were dropping "
One tank car was blown four
blocks away “It passed over
me and hit a house four blocks
from the tracks,” said Fire
Chief James Flowers.
Houses. warehouses, and au-
tomobiles in the vicinity were
almost instantly devoured by
the boiling flames
"'The force was unbeliev-
able." said Capt. Earl Wedge-
worth of the fire department,
who reached the scene after the
first blast. “I hit the ground on
my knees and somehow grabbed
another captain next to me. It
blew us both clear across the
street.
“Don't ask me how many ex-
plosions there were." said
James Brown, 72. whose home
and cafe were destroyed
“When you're scared and run-
ning and it looks like the world
is coming to an end, you don't
stop to count.”
ibers were voting on new con- F-
tracts offered by Gulf, covering 0“56.8
am "3
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drawal .”
North Vietnam has never ad-
Vote Registration Lags
Far Behind 1968 Pace
Voter registration in Mid in all counties and failure to
f. $a•xd ’J
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gulage sometimes sounded
narsh, the atmosphere was one
ot courtesy.
A few rocks which once
marked graves. . . a weather-
aged walk. . . some scattered
flower racks
Almost forgotten in a corner
of the Jordan Springs Ceme-
tery are only a few reminders
of what was once a burial
ground for a handful of prison-
ers of war brought here during ,
World War II.
This section, fenced off from
By WILLIAM L. RYAN Vietnam. , Vietnam The NLF concurred I over-all peace • government he had made a ward peace ” Lodge invited pro- •he objective of mutual with-
PARIS (AP) — The United He also offered to work to Both North Vietnam and the The four, principals— Lodge specific proposal concerning posals from the other side and
States met stony rejection Sat- ward agreement on mutual'front laid down what sounded for the Americans, Ambassador the DMZ which we hoped was “
uday for the first of what it withdrawal of foreign troops like their toughest hard-line pol- Pham Dang Lam for South Viet- definite enough, something we
called concrete proposals to from South Vietnam and prom- icies. which would countenance nam, Xuan Thuy for North Viet- could move ahead on ”
start the new full-scale Vietnam ised to make further "concrete no settlement in Vietnam that nam and Tran Buu Kiem for the "But," he added "the other
tglks on the highway to peace - Nguyen Thanh Le, the North did not mean a decisive role for NLF—will meet again Thursday side didn’t take it up ’ We also
; U.S Ambassador Henry Ca- Vietnamese spokesman, said the NLF in the International Conference made proposals concerning ex-
bot Ledee at the first full-dress after the meeting that "al! the Both the front and Hanoi .Center across. the enormous change of pri
led a demand that the Sai- round table covered in green drawl of tro
ery in California.
Grospiron said with the re-
turn of the Sinclair and Gulf
workers to their jobs, about 25,-1
000 union members will remain g—a
on strike. He said there have E.3a
been no settlements with Tex-: 2im
aco. Shell, Standard of Califor- E
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A TOUCH OF THE PAST — Edward
Bailey kneels beside the site of an old
prisoner of war grave in a section of
land adjacent to the Jordan Springs
Csmsis. y- Ti.e men bu.ied thara
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and several smaller companies, 35-2 amaj.
Sharpe said in assuming the
_ _ to UF presidency.
inatnecBnnemsoedLeestarumoelrseshdrprsoTrndsewastctrhsspomksomidema"sox"uu.nst
chairman, reported contribu- include Leo Miller, first vice - ... . . .
tions totaling $46,137.38 re- president; W. T. Hays, second
ceived to date in cash or pled- vice president; and B. C. Drink-
ges, and noted that additional ard. treasurer.
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tended the annual U F meeting Elected at the meeting
located prior to World War II. -
As a link from the past the
old barn still remains.
And not too far away weeds
and brush are almost all that
remain in a secluded cemetery e
where at least five prisoners E
of war were-once buried. 3
have long since boon moved to their
native lands but the site is still fenced
off and a few reminders of World
War II remains. (Bulletin Photol
THIRTY SIX PAGES TODAY BROWNWOOD, TEXAS. SUNDAY. JANUARY 26. 1969
said.
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THE BIG SWITCH—Mrs. J. R. Bea- Richard Sharpe, newly-elected UF
del, outgoing Brown County United president for 1969. (Bulletin Photo)
Fund president, hands over files to
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Fisher, Norman. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 26, 1969, newspaper, January 26, 1969; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1574205/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.