Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 297, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 1970 Page: 1 of 28
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Brownwood Bulletin
Give The
WARMER
Nixon Off
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Pleasant Memory Brings Pair to City
prompt exchange of letters have that day. Miss Brown never er live in Prescott. Ariz , they
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many years prior to Prescott asked what each city had to
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forgotten but there was another Friday and by Tuesday an an-
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came years later because of a city the sisters had a few ac- Miss Brown said the letter and
’ fast letter When tor health rea- I quaintances — in Brownwood brochure told all they wanted
VIOLENCE REPORT
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DENIES PLOT CHARGE
“You'll have to ask Gov.
Hussein Selects
New Government
As to the recommendation
nals.
he didn't think the commission
It
Numairi Echoes Charge
cost only a maximim of $600
'Falsifying Facts'
ric is dangerous "
"falsifying the
ence with the entire commis-
charges against me and my
the conspiracy against Jordan.
response to a question about
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wood Country Club.
ing trend through Wednesday.
Two - day rainfall measure High temperatures should aver-
Pledge Fair Shares
measured an official 1.88 inches
by late Saturday while Early
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On 1st Leg
Of Journey
All Hostages
Are Released
McGowan New Radiology
Chief for B’wood Hospital
Dr Henry McGowan n, for I ing two year of general practice
JANUARY SESSION
Originator Says Tuition
Bill Has Good Shot at Okay
One was that recollection of city that seemed a possibility swer returned from the Brown-
40 years ago and the second for a new home in the latter wood Chamber of Commerce.
Flash flood warnings went up
for areas around San Antonio,
Austin, Galveston and Del Rio
United Way
Now
Today’s
GOOD news
"rather infantile and kindergar-
tenish." The remark came in
Dr McGowan, who lives at
2111 Elizabeth Dr . came/from
Little Rock where he was serv-
ing a residency in radiology at
Good Morning!
For your Sunday morning reading pleasure, here
is a summary of some of the more pleasant news
stories in today's Brownwood Bulletin:
He went into residency at the
medical center there after serv-
niversities
>lan would
state colleges i
was $1,054 Yet
The Weather Bureau forecast
a clearing trend for Mid-Texas
today after gentle rains soaked
the area Friday and Satur-
day. bringing muddy tracks to
weekend football games and
washing out the first round of
BROWNWOOD—A Brownwood attorney, origina-
tor of a tuition equalization bill to assist students
attending Texas private colleges, feels it has a good •
chance for approval in the coming session of the
legislature. See page 1A.
Hussein denied he had any in-
tention of liquidating the Pales-
BROWNWOOD AREA Clear-
ing and warmer today. Fair
tonight, partly cloudy and
warmer Monday High today
in 70s. low tonight near 50
Maximum temperature here
Saturday 56 Sunset today 7 23.
sunrise Munday 7:23.
BROWNWOOD—Football teams at Howard Payne
College and Brownwood High School roll on with
impressive victories over respected opponents. See
pages 12A and 13A.
two busy residents
The story began one snowy
December morning in Brown-
wood in 1930 when a lighted
nativity scene on the steps of
smith 2.50, Comanche 124. De
Leon 110. Goldthwaite 1.40, Ris-
ing Star I B, Indian Creek 1.20
and San Saba I.H. Zephyr 1.25
The rains were triggered by
a cold front which whipped
through the area late Friday.
The front made for the coolest
weather of the young tall season.
But replying to Numariri's
charges. Hussein tn a message
to Nasser accused the Sudanese
lumbers past empty hangars at Tuy Hee airbase in
South Vietnam. The bese recently wes deactivated
A 40-year-old memory and a । through the city about 2 am. I sons Mrs. Dean could no long-1 none
--• —i-----j —— i-----1 -- j— a— •-------— lim i- Arin thay , That's when the fast letter
line period,
ate schools
handled an
Brownwood's high reading Sat-
urday was a nippy 56 degrees
after an early-morning low of 55
Clearing skies were expected
to push temperatures into the
70s today
in Baton Rouge, La.
Dr McGowan received his ba-
chelor of science degree from
Louisiana State University and
a medical degree also from LSU
Dr. McGowan has his fellow-
ship in the American College of
Radiology and is eligible to be
certified by the American Board
of Radiology.
He is martied and the couple
has three children.
4- the old First Methodist Church
‘ "seemed to reach out to me." 1
BROWNWOOD *— A pleasant 40-year-old memory
of Brownwood and fast action by its chamber of
commerce were combined to bring the city two new
residents. See Page 1A.
army "
“I appeal you. brother Nas-
ser, and to all the other Arab
The originator of a tuition
bill to assist Texas students at-
tending private colleges feels
the plan has a good chance for
approval in the legislative ses-
sion scheduled to begin in Jan-
uary.
Gary Price. Brownwood at-
torney who drew up the mea-
sure. says the bill's chances for
passage "appear very bright
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
King Hussein of Jordan named
a new government Saturday,
hoping to placate his Arab crit-
ics. who from Cairo accused
him of ploting to liquidate the
Palestine guerrillas They also
charged that Jordan's army vio-
lated the cease-fire
Hussein named Aimed Tou-
kan. chief of the royal court and
former deputy prime minister,
as prime minister Toukan is a
Plestinian but the king kept mil-
itary men in key positions. It
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between the Brownwood and
Abilene junior varsities was can-
celed
Big rains spread along the
Texas Gulf Coast and the Lower
Rio Grande Valley late Satur-
day as autumn s first cold front
barged through the state
Earlier in the day. heavy
rains—some of them from boil-
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per student for the
"Last year the pi
in Texas could hay
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for two reasons
A Fast Reply
The report accuses some law calling for a less volatile form
enforcement officers of unwar- of rhetoric. Finch at first said
Appearing at the news confer-1C—JJ‘shospitammsordtng
to the President which blames dation of the commission in
government actions and inac- whole or in part As for assert-
tions at all levels for the crisis ing moral leadership to lessen
By FRANK CROMIER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
dent Nixon's five-nation Euro-
pean tour this week will pro-1
duce no dramatic initiatives but
hopefully will underscore U S
commitments in the Mediterra-
lie officials and protesters alike merly of Little’Rock. .Ark is
that divisive and irsulting rheto- now serving as chief of the radi-
ology department of Brownwood
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the sisters who are already members
of auxiliary to the Brownwood Com-
munity Hospital knit articles to be
sold in the hospital's gift shop.
(Bulletin Photo)
Nixon Urged To
Use Leadership
By JOHN S. LANG
. Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON tAP— I— The chairman of President's Commission on Campus
Unrest told President Nixon Saturday he must exercise greater leadership if viol-
ence is to be curbed and tensions eased between young and old.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -
Radio Amman announced Satur-
day that all reraining hostages
from three hijacked airliners-
believed to be 36 Americans-
had been freed by Palestinian
guerrillas and were in the hands
of Jordanian authorities
Liter, an official Egyptian
spokesman in Cairo Mid all the
hostages had been handed over
to the Egyptian Embassy in
Amman and were free. They
are the last of 54 hostages held
by the guerrillas since the Popu
lar Front for the Lberation of
Palestine - PFLP - master-
minded the hijack of the three
combined to bring Brownwood guessed this city would be home wanted to return to Texas helped Miss Brown wrote both
someday But she and Mrs For- which had been their home for chambers of commerce and
Arkansas Baptist Medical Cen-
-ter.
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on the college campuses Both discord Finch said. “I think he
trigger happy officers and stu-lhas taken steps in that direc-
dent terrorists are called crimi- i tion."
Mid-Texas Due
Clearing Trend
est Dean, sisters, who came
Scranton that I'm not going to
pass judgment on individuals in
this administration ”
Scranton declined to poin
specifically at Agnew, but said.
"It's certainly not helpful for
the vice president or anybody to
make some of the comments
i made earlier this year.”
AND BROWNWOOD IS HOME — Two
sisters. Miss Mary Fern Brown, left,
and Mrs. Forest Doan chose Brown-
wood at their home because of an
early memory end e fast letter. Here
I Sisters Like New Home
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Miss Mary Fem Brown. now
one of Brownwood s new resi-
dents. recalls.
As she happened to drive
private colleges and universi-
ties pay taxes to help support
state schools." Price said, so
it seems fair to me that their
students should get some of this
tax money back in the form of
tuition equalization."
Price pointed out the average
cost to taxpayers per student
for the long term in 1968-69 at
and other Arab leaders It did
not say whether the trip would
be made on his initiative but
after the day's exchanges it
seemed a confrontation was
clearly needed to clarify the sit-
uation in Jordan
Hussein was conciliatory in
his reply to Nauer, saying his
army had observed the cease-
fire despite endless provoca-
tions" by the Palestinian guer-
rillas, groups of whom were
trying “to sabotzge the truce.
this week.
Firat to pledge a day's pay ing thunderstorms— s w e p 11
to the Brown County United through South Central Texas
Numairi. who arranged the
cease-fire Friday between Hus
sein and Yasir Arafat, guerrilla
leader who heads the Palestini- j
an Liberation organization. ech-
oed the charge made earlier in
the day by President Gamal Ab-
del Nasser of Egypt, who ac-
cused Jordan of violating the
cease-fire and trying to liqui-
date the guerrillas
Cairo radio said Hussein
would fly to the Egyptian capi-
tal Sunday to talk with Nasser
settling political developments
around the southern run of the I
Mediterranean raise "rather I
substantial concern" about the;
southern flank of the North At-1
lantic Treaty Organization
Accompanied by Mrs Nixon..
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers and Secretary of De-
fense Melvin R Laird, the Pres- j
ident sets out early Sunday for i
Rome on the first leg of his elec-
tion-season journey.
The White House insisted the
trip to old allies in Italy and
Britain, to global neutrals in
Ireland. and to authoritarian ru-
lers in rightist Spain and Com-
munist Yugoslavia had no con-
nection with the impending off-
year election
Officials tacitly acknowledged
that Nixon, much of the time. 1
will be showing the flag and
demonstrating that the powerful
U.S. 6th Fleet is on the job.
.An official who briefed report-
ers and insisted lie not be quot-
ed by name said Nixon wants to
dramatize U S commitment
and get the views of Mediterra-
nean nations an possible peace
moves.
age in the middle 60s with lows
in the middle 50s to middle 60s
First rounds in the city wom-
en's golf tournament were wash-
ed out Saturday but tourney of-
ficials hoped to get in a single
round today. A football game
. _ kings and presidents assembled__.____________
making . “grave i in Cairo to prevent the situation Scranton said attempts to
“ • "I from plunging to a new abyss in make political issues of hair
"ha mneniram aceinet Tonde" "‘styles and modes of dress are
I
ments ranged up to an unofficial । ,
six inches seven miles north of Girl Scout Employes
Brownwood. Brownwood had -- -
president of
facts" in
। to know about the city The
wording in the letter made it
evident that the city would wel-
come the two.
Still No Letter
"To this day we haven't heard
from the other chamber of
commerce," Miss Brown said
And so Brownwood was it.
Does that story that began in
1930 have a happy ending’
Bag and baggage and dog
Trixie moved and almost im-
mediately a suitable home was
found at 1911 Vincent St.
But this is only half of it. The
sisters who only' had a latter
and a memory to go on did not
really expect a city to react as
it did when they arrived.
“Before they even moved the
Fund are the employees of the with much of Texas covered by
Heart of Texas Girl Scout chilly, damp weather
Council here The Brown
County Girl Scout organization
is one of the agencies partially;
supported by the United Fund
additional 15,009/students with-
out adding aity facilities or
teachers," Price said.
Cheaper Way
"It would be much cheaper
for the state to provide this tui-
tion equalization to encourage
more students to attend private
schools than to build more
state schools," be said
Price said he expects Rep.
Lynn Nabers of Brownwood and
other representatives to in-
troduce the bill at the session
of the legislature beginning ii
January.
The bill was introduced at the
last session and referred to a
committee But ft lay in com-
mittee awaiting an attorney
(See BILL on Page 21
y iai wile Sui The Brown County United
had 3.30, Bangs 279. Brooke- Fund received its first 100 per-
— - cent fair share organization
was guerrilla rage over the
naming of a military regime
that helped touch off the civil
war last week.
The king replied angril§Ap a
charge frem Cairo by Pregdept
Jaafar el Numairi of Sudan,
who said his peace mission in
Amman was fired on Friday,
blamed Hussein for this. and de
dared "We are convinced
there is a plot by the Jordanian
authorities to liquidate the
Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion "
as an Air Force
ground forces.
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Chairman William Scranton Presidential aide Robert was referring to Agnew Under furniture in. one of our .neigh-
commented shortly before re- Finch said Nixon already has pressure from reporters. Finch hors brought us a cake. Mrs.
lezse of the commission's report implemented every recommen- then said: Dean said. „___ ,
- - n “You'll have to ask Gov. Ministers, club officers of
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ranted harshnesss but also as-
serts some school administra-
tors have been too lenient.
In urging Nixon to assert mor-
al leadership to achieve an un-
derstanding between opposing
factions, Scranton. Republican
former governor of Pennsylva-
nia. said at a news conference
Up to now—since the spisodes
of this spring—there has not
been the kind of leadership to
bring about the kind of reconcil-
iation we have been talking
about."
Scranton's statement pointed
the finger more firmly at Nixon
than did the words of the report
The nine-member commission
established last spring soon aft-
er the killings at Kent State in
Ohio and Jackson State in Mis-
sissippi called for an end to the
Vietnam war, and said this to
Nixon in its published report:
“It is imperative that the
President bring us together be-
fore more lives are lost an 1
more property destroyed and
more universities disrupted
“We recommend that the
President seek to convince pub-
women’s organizations and
nejeybors called and a block
cgtfe was given for the two sis-
(rs before a week had passed
Miss Brown said.
The two are already members
to the Women s Auxiliary to the
Brownwood Communitv Hospi-
(See SISTERS on Page 21
now
$600 Maximums
Major provisions of the bill
would provide state funds to pri-
vate colleges for each student,
based on the number of hours
the student takes. A maximum
‘of $600 per long term would be
provided with Bible and related
courses not to be included.
“Parents of students in our
Long-range forecasts promise
a golf tournament at Brown- blue skies and a gradual warm-
tine People—who make up more -_____ - _ _______ _____
than half the populatiod--as Nu-I Vice President Spiro T Agnew's I
main had charged. I commentaries on students.
here just a few months ago. A sister-in-law lives in Tex- offer two retired teachers who
have "Fallen in love" with arkaha, but neither sister pari wanted to spend the rest of their
Brownwood, the city as home, ticulariy cared for the city. lives together.
i Brownwood had never been The letters were mailed on a
nean where Soviet naval power, L‘k .
is growing 2
This aressment was offered‘ E2
Saturday by a key White House Ee."
official who said the burgeoning Ene2
Soviet presence as well as un- .E.5
THIRTY SIX RAGES TODAY BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPT 27, 1970 VOL. 70 NO 297 10 Certs Dody 15 Cents Sundav
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Fisher, Norman. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 297, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 1970, newspaper, September 27, 1970; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1574491/m1/1/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.