Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 231, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 12, 1970 Page: 1 of 26
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Brownwood Bulletin
THIRTY PAGES TODAY
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sniffing lighter fluid "until they
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all took place away from the
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hospital.
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in "quiet rooms,'' the report
former employe stated that
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in the Parrot's Beak area
British Girl
1 rupting an entire ward.
Is 6th BHS
hours. the report said, except
Pitts of Brownwood is in charge
Exchanger
PARTNER KILLED
Brownwood and Coleman units
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Painter Survives Plunge
White of Brownwood accomp-
spend a week touring the coun-
You get your bags ready to
in 1964 and feel this arrange-
debt." he said.
Fort Worth And you begin get-
riders "We know this is what
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fleetion in the mirror.
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Bcsketbell Clinic
Opens Thursday:
See Sports Page
P. Rico's Entry
'Miss Universe'
in the pageant. And, finally dressed in her formal,
she practives a smile as aha scrutinizes her re-
Pageant Entry Stays Busy
• Preparation Part of Excitement •
talion, 112th Armor of Texas
National Guard who left for
Abuse Charges
pezE Board Reports on Hospital Probe
small clashes southeast of the
provincial capital of Svay Rieng
carefully places her talent outfit in the bag. Just to
make dull chore a bit more glamorous, she irons her
competition formal in the swimsuit she plans to wear
The report mentioned two gtrls
being taped together at the wrist
until they were ready to stop
"No concrete evidence could
be furnished on the availabil-
ity of narcotic and hallucinatory
How do you prepare to be the
first ever to represent Brown
started. How do you manage to
keep a flowing gown accented
with a band of rhinestones from
getting that wrinkled look?
PART OF THE EXCITEMENT — Half the fun of a
Miss Texas contest ara the last-minute preparations
and that extra look of appraisal. Pretty Ann Sellers,
NAT STUCKEY
. . . July 25
BILLY WALKER
. . . July 24
children without such tendencies
had been disrobed and put in
the rooms for as long as 30 days.
Doctors feel the rooms are
necessary to keep the patients
alive, the report said, and "they
did not believe there was an
met was not kept locked.
Four teen-agers were observed
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REBECCA ANN CARTER
. . . exchange student
when they put their weight on
the cable they fell 20 feet as
the bunched-up cable ran free
The fall jerked Bingham out of
his harness and he fell well over
200 feet landing atop a small
transmitting building and bounc-
ing to the ground.
released after more than six
hours detention
summer camp June 28. are due
to arrive back in Brownwood
sometime today
Members of the battalion are
label which included such re-
losses as "Sweet Thang." "Oh,
Woman, and, “All My Tomor-
rows " Now under contract with
RCA. he has become known for
his "Plastic Saddle" and "Joe
RAY PRICE
. . . July 23.'
fort to bring area people to the
rodeo events for each perfor-
mance
"The association still owes ap-
any fatalities of their own.
The engagements pros ided
most of the battle action in In-
dochina as South Vietnamese
authorities sent 62 defiant war
prisoners and 24 fishermen back
to North Vietnam
The biggest repatdiation of the
war was carried out at sea just
above the 17th Parallel which
divides North and South Viet-
nam
The K men were taken in a
drugs to patients, the report.1 1 ,5 .
said, but a child car worker al- said. It noted, however that *
rodeo fans expect and we intend
to give it to them.”
The rodeo is produced by Har-
old Heath.
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ticed her number.' "Call Me Ir- Fort Worth by Mrs. Reichert
responsible," with a local danc- and the two will be guests at
ing teacher. Mrs Marty Gore, the Green Oaks Inn there. Her
and with Danny Hoctor who ori- parents and 10-year-old brother
ginated the dance. John will join Miss Brownwood
Pitts of Brownwood is in charge; when she had to go inside to
of the battalion and Capt How- use the restroom. Her meals
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Time" and "Grazing in Greener
Pastures."
Walker, a native of Ralls on
the South Plains, started his re-
cording career with Monument
Records but is now with MGM
His hit is "When a Man Loves a
Woman."
Stuchey is from Gass County
in East Texas. He recorded for
leged that aspirin and darvon
were given indiscriminately to
patients and. that the drug cab-
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outdoor basketball goal post be-
cause her screaming was dis-
,, . ... _ . acceptable alternative method
Members of the Third Bat- ldoing this"
How to walk gracefully and Wednesday
with poise the art of correct Monday and Tuesday are re-
make-up all this hase"been served for briefings. Miss Sel-
, part of her almost daily reper- (See PAGEANT on Page 2)
attack, the spokesman said He
said 25 of the enemy were killed |
former patients "drunk on the
hospital grounds ”
Rep. Edmund Jones of Hous-
ton appeared at the board meet-
ing with a paper sack full of
whiskey and beer bottles he said
he had picked up on the hospital
were brought to her. and she
given a sleeping bag for the
night A doctor said an attend-
ant cheeked on her every 15
The camp was held at North The girl remained there for 24
Fort Hood Lt. Col Everett J----- •---• —*
. fighting and the handcuffing of
a deaf mute patient. 12. to an
Three nationally-known wes- 1
tern and country music stars
are looked for appearances at
At the- -bed childrens psy-
chiatric hospital for boys and
j girls aged 5 to 16. patients with
i "suicidal tendencies” are strip-
ped of their clothes and placed
The surviving painter, hanging the two men had started paint-
head down 120 to 150 feet from i ing from the top and had
the ground grabbed the tower reached abou the 250- foot level
and dung to it, crying for aid , when they decided to stop.
His foreman. John Duncan.; The foreman. Duncan, started
raced up a small ladder, up- to lower them in their harnesses,
nghted the injured man and using a winch and cable on a
lashed him to the tower until truck The cable worked out of
careful rescue plans could be its guides and bunched up. The
made. | men on the tower had been
The man whose life was saved standing on a tiny catwalk, and
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Reds in Cambodia
By RICHARD PYLE
Associated Press Writer
SAIGON (API—South Vietnamese force s clashed three times with enemy units
in Cambodia Saturday and claimed they killed 36 of the enemy without suffering
minutes, and she "alualy
seemed to like being outside . ”
Progress has been made with
the girl, a doctor said._______
Brownwood-Brown County con wood Jaycees who also sponsor-
test several months ago when ed the Miss Brownwood-Brown
Miss Sellers won the crown over County pageant at the Brown-
10 other contestants. wood coliseum.
Since that time she has prac- She will be accompanied to
If practice makes perfect then toire. She has been getting
Miss Sellers whould captivate many tips on make up, posture
her audience at the talent sec- and walking from her. chapen
tion of the Miss Texas contest one Mrs Maxine Reichert of
night Brownwood.
The dick of tap shoes has The trip to Fort Worth and
been a familiar sound in the Sel- her entry in the contest are be-
Fair Assn amteur rodeo.
Ray Price will appear Thurs-
day only, July 23 Bill Walker
will follow on Friday July 24.
and Nat Stuckey will star on the
final night. Saturday July 25
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to be held downtown in the coli-
seum
Price, whose home is Perry-
ville in Wood County records
for Columbia Records and
reached stardom with his song.
"Crazy Arms". His current
best-sellers are “For the Good
tion of bottles over a long time
he returned with a private de-
tective the next morning and
found a whiskey bottle, a beer
can and a bottle of cough sy rup
which contained codiene, a drug.
Most of the sexual activity
taind 90 minutes and their film
was seized by police Two of the
newsmen were arrested whale
wearing black armbands they j
said they were given by stu- 1
All three performers, who are
currently recording at studios in
Nashville, Tenn , are native
Texans.
They will appear individually
each night following the rodeo
performances at the dances
which have been scheduled by
the fair association
The rodeo will be staged at
the Earl Q Wilson arena on the
Brady highway. The dances are
stationed in Brownwood, San
A the Brownwood Coliseum July
Farther north, near Suong in
Eastern Cambodia, Vietnamese
Rangers bolstered by artillery
and air strikes, beat off a North
Vietnamese mortar and ground
der which the Americans hope
to turn over the fighting to the
South Vietnamese.
Vietnamese students staged
an antigovernment peace dem-
onstration in Saigon that was
quickly broken up by police us-
ing tear gas.
Three American newgnen
who will represent Brownwood in the Miss Texas pag-
eant this week manages to stay busy and keep that
butterfly feeling at a minimum. In photo at left, she
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hearse hard on your talent
Brownwood High School’s
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The report, prepared by acting
mental health Commissioner
Earl Scott and his legal staff,
avoided "undercover" work and
relied on interviews with un-
named hospital employes and
persons who have made charges
including patients.
By JACK KEEVER
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN (APi—The State Mental Health Board said Saturday it had "notihng
to hide” in issuing a long report of sex. drug abuse and possible mistreatment
of patients at the Austin State Hospital.
3 Country-Western Singers
Booked for Rodeo Program
waiting motorizied junks The
junks took them to a coastal vil-
lage just north of the 17th Paral-
lel
Before they boarded the
junks. the war prisoners threw
_____ . dents. The students ahso were;
away clothing. duffel bags and
other articles in defiance of the .
and South Vietnamese losses
were 12 wounded but no dead
sixth exchange student is Re-1 in Vietnam. Gen. William C
becca Ann Carter 16 - year - 1 Westmoreland, U.S Army chief
old g I r I from Cheshire, Eng of staff, flew to Saigon for the
land I first time in two years to vysit |
The British lass, who will ar- ’ American forces he formerly
MIAMI BEACH (API -
Dark-haired beauty Marisol Ma
laret Contreras of Puerto Rico
was named Miss Universe 1970
Saturday night, edging long-
haired Debbie Shelton of the
United States
lawn He said that to make cer- Angelo. Coleman and Brady,
tain it was not just an accumula-
... . . . .. leave early Monday for a whirl-
ment will help us meet this wind week of competitiou in
South Vietnamese navy vessel, and at least seven students were
to a point six miles off North arrested The newsmen were re-
Vietnam and delivered to two leased after they had been de-
Saigon government The cloth j
ing and gifts had been given
them by the South V ietnamese
The 62 POWs were all sick
and disabled The fishermen
had been picked up when their
boats strayed into South Viet •
namese waters.
1 South Vietnam has been
trying to return the disabled
prisoners for several years, but
North Vietnam never agreed to
receive them until now In four
earlier repatriations, a total of
93 North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong prisoners were sent to
North V ietnam between Janu-
ary 1966 and June 1967 These
groups had been returned at the
! "Freedom Bridge" crossing the
Ben Hai River at the 17th Paral-
lel
in the Cambodia fighting.
South Vietnamese troops report-
ed killing 11 of the enemy in two |
Milam also said the rodeo tingua fewsbutterflts, myhe
this yearwill have a "greater excitement ^the pageant is the I
balance between the stock and preparation. Only the actual
— ■ — packing has been. a chore to get
ard O. Davis, also of Brown-
wood. is in charge of headquart-
ers company comprised of
BROWNWOOD AREA
Partly cloudy and hot today
and Monday. High today near
100, low tonight in 70s.
Maximum temperature here
Saturday 1M Sunset today
8:42, sunrise Monday 6 24.
- From Television Tower
rive in Brownwood around the commanded
middle of August will live with Westmoreland said he would
the Roy Bird family at 1903 .
11th St. in Brownwood i try to look into the progress of
.Announcement of her pending | the Vietnamization program un- |
arrival was made Saturday by,........
Mrs Ned Snyder, president of
the local American Field Ser-
vice ’
According to the new ex-
The document quoted security
guards as saying they have Guardsmen Due
witnessed "numerous incidents ■
involving sexual intercourse be- In B wood Today
tween patients" and frequently _‘i
have discovered patients and 1
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, SUNDAY' JULY 12, 1970~ VOL 70 NO 231 10 Cants Doily 15 Cants Sunday
; WICHITA FALLS l APi — A. । The 1,000-foo tower is that of
I painter, plunging down the face KAUZ-TV, Channel 6 It is made
of a television station tower to- of three poles lashed together by . _ .
I ward almost certainn death, was crosstiesErom even a short andMabel S 12th Street Bar and
saved Saturday when his leg/ 5 .0 . . GrI
jammed into an opening in the distance it appears to be one I
structure His partner fell to his ’tali, thin structure
death Authorities at the scene said
"We have no intention of j A girl, 16. became pregnant,
white-w ashing anything Chair [while a patient, claiming the
, man W ard Burke of Lufkin said father was a former hospital ......... ---- --------—,
just before the report climaxing employe, 19, she said, however, would fall over and begin to
a month-long probe df the 2,200- her 50 or 60 meetings with him shake and laugh ”
patient hospital was made pub-‘ ' ------- ■
takes place in the evening after
supper, the report said, but one First Sergeant sWiliam
incident was said to have oc- t — —
the Shreveport. L.-based Paula cumred durins regular workinsisnied the 10 Poth 'th
change student's application
for form for acceptance in the
American Field Service pro-
gram. she has attended 10
years of school and lists French
and physics as her favorite
school subjects.
Miss Carter likes sports and |
among her favorite activities
are tennb, badminton. horse-
back riding and table tennis
She likes animals and in her
biographical sketch she men-
tions owning a number of var-
ied pets including a cat. gold
fish. guinea pigs, terrapins and
(See BRITISH oa Pagge 2) '
is Harold Boley, 2», of Dallas
His left leg — the one which
plunged into the opening — was
broken between the knee and
ankle He suffered probable in-
ternal injuries
The dead man was H I Bing-
ham of Cleburne. in his 20s. I
Brown County Fair Assn,
spokeman C. B Milam Jr. said
the three entertainers were book __ ___• .
ed on separate-■ Teronntesurnty ”' ’ *
If you're Ann Seilers, you re-
specialty. .And you spend hours been a familiar sound in the Sel- her entry in.mneucontest A I
e ,.__. improving your movement and lers home ever since the Miss mg sponsored by the Erown.
proximately 527,500 on the rodeo learning more about make-up - -*----• Taupene wha als snonsor-
arena which was constructed " . • ■
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