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Brownwood Bulletin
VOL. 71 NO 26 10 Cents Doily 15 Cents Su
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1970
FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY
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Propaganda” Spending
Cold Air
In Area
Forecast
Cuts Ordered by Nixon
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NEWS BRIEFS
Pact Goes
F
To Workers
Car-Truck Crash at Early
ling with him and neither was
The new package, which in-
Fair
Highway patrolmen report
According to Highway Patrol- heavy damage to the car and
ests of peace and friendship.”
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point reduction in the federal
information programs.”
Infection Spreads Among Babies
of managers requested a suppls-
HOUSTON (AP) - At least
uled immediately after tonight's parade float judged best.
Of Party Tactics
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"In the 92nd Congress, Presi-
better on nation
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Howard Payne
Homecoming
This Weekend
82 Aboard Jet
Forced to Cuba
High School Bands. a navy color
guard, the BHS drill team and
SAIGON (AP) - A mine, a
booby trap and an attack on a
I patrol. killed nine Americans
awarded three of the booths
judged best by a committee,
and an award of $50 will be pre-
sented to the class providing the
Bank in Houston: First National
Republic National and Mercan-
and wounded 12 in Vietnam
Thursday after two days of no
U.S. combat deaths, the U.S.
some damage to the pickup.
A Miller ambulance summon-
ed to the scene carried the body
26 more newborn babies at the ment budget of $610,000 from the
county-operated Jefferson Davis county commissioners court.
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FINAL TOUCHES — Many Howard
Payne College students anticipate long
hours tonight as last minute prepara-
tions for their homecoming parade and
festival tent are completed. Here Sher-
reserve discount rate announced
Tuesday That rate, which the
Federal Reserve Bank uses for
loans to commercial banks, was
reduced from 6 to 5 % per cent
rie Manning, left and Karen Johnston
work on the freshman class float to
be entered in the parade downtown at
9:30 a.m. Saturday. (Bulletin Photo)
of Star Rt. 2. Brownwood, was injured in the crash. The pickup
pronounced dead at the scene was pulling a trailer loaded with
by Justice of the Peace Dave 15 cattle
be two to four votes better off in
the new Senate, and that "is a
parliamentary revolution."
Republicans actually gained
two seats in the Senate while
losing nine in the House, where.
and college choir.
The game will be played in
Lion Stadium
Saturday’s activities will con-
clude with the closing perform-
informing the public and pre-
serving the principle of freedom
of information.”
ance of the musical at 8 p.m.
in the coliseum.
Blasts, Red Attack Leave
12 Yanks Dead in Vietnam
Major Texas Banks Cut Rate
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tile National in Dallas. and the
MIAMI (AP) — An Eastern
Air Lines DC9 was hijacked to-
day over South Carolina and.
after a refueling stop at Jack-
sonville, was ordered flown to
Cuba.
The Richmond. Va.-to-Dallas
flight was commandeered 20
minutes after taking off from
Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Airport
bound for Atlanta, an Eastern
Air Lines spokesman said
The twin-jet aircraft carried
78 passengers and a crew of
four. Capt. Thomas W. Mayber-
ry advised the Air Control Cen-
ter at Atlanta that the hijacker
took command at 9:31 am.,
EST.
gomemmmmunmmrmmmmmmommommamus
musical performance in the coli-
seum
Saturday morning's slate be-
gins at 7:30 a.m. with an ex-stu-
dent breakfast in the Gold Room
of Sid Richardson Hall
At 9:30 a.m. the homecoming
parade featuring four class
floats, the Howard Payne.
Brownwood High and Junior
The accident was reported at
10 20 p m.
Driver of the pickup was Rob-
ert Arche Covinton of Wynne-
National Bank of Commerce in
San Antonio.
Fort Worth National. First Na-
tional and Continenta! National
of Fort Worth followed suit.
Two other major San Antonio
banks are considering the drop.
Command announced
It was the largest number of
Americans reported killed in
combat on a single day in a
month Two North Vietnamese
or Viet Cong were reported
killed.
Funds for Pet Projects Slashed
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon has ordered federal agencies to cut
spending aimed at "promoting and soliciting support for various agency activities."
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HPC Agenda
TODAY
3-4 P.M. —Registration, fiesta tent. HPC Campus.
Daniel Baker Exes register at Riverside Motel.
4 P.M.—Distinguished Alumni Banquet, honoring Dr.
middle 50s.
Maximum temperature here
Thursday 66. overnight low
45. Sunset today 5:33, sunrise
Saturday 7:00.
the homecoming queen and her
court will be staged
Parade Route
The parade route is to begin
on Fisk in front of the Walker
Memorial Library and will trav-
el on Fisk to Baker, then move
to Center and return to the
CANDI SMITH
. . . HPC homecoming queen
DR. FRANCES MERRITT
... HPC grad
es at 8 p.m in the cafeteria of
Veda Hodge Hall
This year's honorees are
Groner Pitts (HPC ‘48), Dr.
Frances Merritt (HPC '31), both
of Brownwood, and William S
Adams of Fort Worth, a 1942
graduate of Daniel Baker Col-
lege
Reunions for all ex-students
who graduated in decade years
will be held at 8:30 pm today.
A bonfire. to be held at the J.H.
(Cap) Shelton Track, is sched-
plished their overriding and year loss to the party of a presi-
critical election-day objective dent has been 37 seats
by improving President Nixon's ' In the 0”nd Consre ~
“precarious position in the Unit- > dent Nixon will fare better on
el Statas Senate." , foreign policy, '
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BROWNWOOD AREA-
Chile Recognizes Castro Regime
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — “The measures retarded the
Chile's new Marxist president normal development of relations
has recognized Fidel Castro's । that should exist among the peo-
Cuban regime. joining Mexico pie and governments of Latin
in defying the diplomatic boy- Amelica so they can achieve po-
cott voted by the Organization litical and economic independ-
of American States six years ence and guarantee their places
I man Curtis D Baker who in-
vestigated the crash, the 1966
car Mr Bowers was driving was
WILLIAM S. ADAMS
... DBC grad
The Saturday afternoon sched-
ule calls for a 2 pm lootball
game between the HPC Yellow
Jackets and the Texas A&I
Javelinas. The queen and her
court will be presented during
the halftime show which is to
feature the Yellow Jacket band
r
1970 homecoming queen in cer-
emonies before the assembled
i students of Howard Payne Col-
lege this morning, to formally
initiate homecoming activities.
Miss Smith, a senior from Dal-
las. will reign as queen for the
rest of this weekend's festivi-
ties. termed by school officials
to be Howard Payne's most ex-
citing homecoming celebration
in years."
The queen s court was also
recognized at the program. It
includes Linda Bliss of Dallas.
Cindy Hughes of Fort Worth.
Connie Manning of San Antonio.
Jackie Mitchell of La Feria and
Jan Williams of corpus Christi
Musical Opens
The musical “On A Clear Day
You Can See Forever,” which
opened Thursday night in the
Brownwood Coliseum in con-
nection with homecoming will
play for two more nights there,
today at 8:30 pm and Satur-
day at 8 p m The queen and
her court will view the Satur-
day show, planned especially for
college exes and friends.
In honor of the occasion, Dr.
Guy D. Newman, president of
Howard Payne, dismissed all
classes for the remainder of the
weekend following the 10 a.m.
queen coronation
Headquarters for the home-
coming activity now becomes a
120x60-foot tent erected on the
main campus next to the Wine-
brenner Hall of Science Regis-
tration was to be held at 3 p.m.
in the tent for Howard Payne
exes. Daniel Baker exes hold re-
gistration at the Riverside Mo-
tor Inn
Dinner Tonight
Tonight's slate includes a dis-
tinguished alumni banquet which
will honor three outstanding ex-
A Brown County man was
killed Thursday night in a car-
truck accident on U S 67 just
inside the east city limits of
Early
Sidney Raymond Bowers, 40,
Hospital were thought Thursday
to have a bacterial infection
Decreasing cloudiness and
rain ending and colder to-
night. Low in the 30s Partly
cloudy Saturday, high in the
cer said he understood the
crackdown was aimed at “puf-
fery and propaganda—the kind
of stuff some agencies put but to
maintain support for their ap-
propriations among special in-
terest groups.”
sponsibihity," Agnew said
"That's the nub of Election
1970. No thinking Republican
should let professional detrac-
tors in or gut of office brain-
wash him into thinking other-
wise."
Agnew said Ive wished Repub-
licans could have won more He
said he was sorry at the GOP
loss of statehouses— Democrats
gained 11 governorships.
The vice president, talking to. al defense. better on crime and
a GOP fund-raising dinner I law and order, and at least
Thursday night, said Nixon will1 somewhat better on fiscal re-
in the community of nations,"
he declared.
It previously got unanimous
approval of the UAW team
which negotiated it and the un-
ion's 25-member international
executive board.
prevent the bacterial infection ; would have been paid for out of
from spreading, the Harris surplus non-tax revenue, the
County Hospital District board hospital board said
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COOLER
cropped up in parts of North
Texas, light drizzle spotted the
south central part of the state
and clouds covered all but far
West Texas and a few points in
the east and southwest sections.
As much as one inch of slushy
snow and .11 inch of moisture
accumulated at Dalhart before
daylight and snow showers ex-
tended as far south as Amarillo
and Childress Perryton meas-
ured .27 inch of moisture before
snow started sticking on the
ground
The snowfall and light rain de-
veloped behind a cold front
which was moving toward the
southeast in early morning
along a line from a center of low
pressure north at Midland into
Mexico. At the same time a
warm front stretched from the
same low center to an area be-
tween Laredo and Brownsville
Before the frontal system's ar-
rival in West Texas. winds gust-
ed up to 52 miles per hour
Thursday evening over the West
Texas mountains, raising dest
into the sky around El Paso.
truck of the America! Division
on a road in Quang Ngai Prov-
ince, killing six soldiers and
wounding four.
It was the third major booby-
rtap or mine cashalty the divi-
sion has shffered in Qiang Ngai
this year. On Oct 13, a booby
trap rigged from an American
artillery shell killed nine Ameri-
cans and wounded five On
April 15, a similarly rigged 155
mm shell killed 14 Americans
conquered only by "wide public when Chase Manhattan Bank in The moves follow a quarter-
information programs.” New York dropped its rate from, - —*—•
His new older emphasizes he 7 } to the 7 ‘v
The banks to drop their rate
ago.
President Salvador Allende
said in a broadcast Thursday
that punitive measures taken by
the OAS against Communist
Cuba did not “serve the inter-
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice
President Spiro T Agnev has
dismissed as hogwash com-
plaints about Republican cam-
paign tactics. If any mistake
was made, he said it was “that
we undersold our message."
Agnew, the administration's
hard-line campaigner, said Re-
Candi Smith Reigns at HP
Candi Smith was crowned
When Nixon signed a drug! ter percent cut in the rate,
control bill two weeks ago. he Most banks are expected to
said narcotics abuses can be follow the trend set Thursday
Another predicted. “A lot of
four-color printing jobs that are
now planned will be coming out
in black and white." Some so-
called information activities.
this official said, “are really Major banks across Texas be-
open advocacy—intended to gan lending money to their
generate support for their pro-prime customers at 7 ’4 per
grams " cent interest today. a one-quar-
’48), and Bill Adams (DBC'42)-Veda Hodge Hall
dining room.
8:30 P.M.—Reunions for HPC classes of 1910. '20,
'30, '40, '50, 60, ’70, and all DBC exes
8:30 P.M.—Performance of "On a Clear Day You
Can See Forever"-Brownwood Coliseum
11:30 P.M -Bonfire-Cap Shelton Track
SATURDAY
7:30 A.M —HPC exes breakfast. Gold Room, Richard-
son Hall
9:30 A.M__Parade followed by fiesta on HPC camp-
us
10:30 A.M__Business meeting of DBC exes in Con-
stitution Hall, Academy of Freedom building
(old Administration Building, DBC campus)
Noon—Barbecue, near fiesta tent, HPC campus
2 P.M__Football game HPC vs. Texas A&I
• P.M —Presentation of “On a Clear Day You Can
See Forever"-Brownwood Coliseur
The court turned the budget
... . e . • request down, the second time
wlipabasuttwetber in two weeks
As hospital officials worked to : The additional expenditures
publicans nationally accom- Agnew noted, the average off-
is not striking at those "who
serve the government well by included First City National
Bank and Texas Commerce
campus and stop in front of the The mine blew up a 2%-ton) and wounded 32.
A new cold front which has
brought snow to the Texas Pan-,
handle should tumble Mid-Tex-
as temperatures into the 30s by
early Saturday morning, fore-
casters predicted today.
Low temperatures in the 30s j
have been forecast for all" of
: Mid-Texas tonight and Satur-
day s high will probably not get
above the middle 50s, forecast-
ers say.
This compares to a Brown-
wood high of 66 Thursday after-
noon and a relatively mild 45
as this morning s lowest
Forecasters say the approach-
ing front will produce increas-
ing cloudiness an dkick off scat-
tered showers in the area But
the prediction is for an en dto
the chance of rain tonight along I
with the colder temperatures
Saturday should be partly
cloudy, as should Sunday Mon-
day and Tuesday are expected to
be fair and not quite so cold,
although freezing temperatures
are probable early Monday, thej
Aextended forecast says.
Wet snow spread southward)
through the Panhandle-Plains
sector today behind a mass of
cold air which promised an ear-
ly touch of winter for nearly all
of Texas
At the same time showers
struck bv a 1966 pickup travel-
ling east as the car pulled out to Wright's Funeral Home where
from a restaurant parking lot.1 services are pending.
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In his unpublicized memo,
sent to al! department heads
Monday. Nixon said he fully
supports "an open administra-
tion that legitimately informs
the public." -
? Brown County Man Dies In
Frances Merritt (HPC "31). Groner Pitta (HPC Spiro Rips Critics
But the President added: "To , - , .
bring about a curtailment of DETROIT (AP) - Approved hope the worlds largest auto
self-serving and wasteful public by the union leadership. a new maker can be back in produc-
relations activities. I have in-1 three-year contract estimated to I tion by Dec 1
structed the director of the Of-1 be worth «5 billion in higher A strke called to support the
wood. Okla His wife was travel-1 fice of Management and Budget I wages alone now goes to 394,000 union s major economic de-
1 to reduce the funds available to I rank-and-file Umited Auto Work-, mands. most of which it won at
your agency in fiscal year 1971 ers at General Motors plants least in part, will be inits.1oth
for broadcasting. advertising. across the country for ratifica- week by the reporting deadline
exhibits, films, publications and t tion or rejection. _
similar public relations efforts.” I And the 155 separate GM- cludes a $500 monthly pension
Nixon said OMB Director I UAW bargaining units are un- after 30 years service among
George P Shultz will notify der orders by the union's top1 fringe benefits, won 4-1 approv-
eachlagency head of the amount leadership to complete their se- al Thursday from 350 GM Coun-
I of 1971 funds to be withheld and cret-ballot votes by Nov. 20 and ml delegates from local unions
placed in reserve. report results by Nov. 21 in the i over the country.
j OMB officials said they could
I not yet name any publication—
or employes—to be eliminated.
| Budget authorities will decide
I each agency's 1971 cutback dur-
ing the preparation of the 1972
budget, now in process.
One agency information offi-
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GRONER PITTS
... HPC grad
tent
From there, students, exes and
friends will enter the tent where
15 college organizations have
provided booths following a
Mexican fiesta theme. The tent
will be open until noon when an
outdoor barbecue lunch will be
served, plans indicate.
Prizes of $25 each will be
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Fisher, Norman. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1970, newspaper, November 13, 1970; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1574532/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.