Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 132, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 17, 1971 Page: 1 of 16
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Brownwood Bulletin
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Vol. 71 Na. 132
Wednesday, March 17, 1971
Sixteen Pages Today
Brownwood, Texas
SS BENEFITS BOOSTED
Nixon has tool to build economy
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Reds driving Viets
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out of Laos bases
House panel extends draft
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Jury weighs Calley's fate
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said that anything requiring
that began at 8:30 a.m.
(See LABOR on page 2)
der military law. Then they Battalion.
As the first day of deliber- court personnel, including the
bill sponsored by the Rockwall lawmaker. The
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Irish cool
to Yank
Rattlesnake
Roundup
this weekend
EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS - More and more
Mid-Texas youngsters are "getting into the act”
in group and individual cleanup campaigns
Here. Mark Rankin. I and David Rankin. 11
appointed themselves a committee of two one
%
visitors
By ANDREW TORCHIA
Associated Press Writer
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -
Twenty-five hundred Ameri-
cans, more than double the
ployment compensation.
Adn, Tony Korioth of Austin,
workmen's compensation; Jim
White, Dallas, Davis-Bacon
Nixon had asked Congress to
increase Social Security bene-
fits by 6 per cent, a proposal
that would have put 82.1 billion
into the hands of retired persons
this year, the lawmakers voted
for the 10-per-cent hike
The president proposed rais-
ing the income base on which
taxes are paid from $7,800 to
89,000. an effective tax increase
of $2.5 billion
Labor law
meetinas
underway
A labor law institute and an
advanced leadership training
conference sponsored by the
Texas AFL-CIO are being held
at the Flagship Motel on Lake
Brownwood this weekend
The conferences are being
attended by 56 representatives
of labor unions from various
locals in Texas. Registration
segan Saturday and the schools
will continue through Friday.
Harold G Tate, of Austin
educational directo of the state
organization is directing the
conferences.
Those instructors for the
labor law institute include Tate,
history of labor law, Nat Wells,
Dallas. Landrum-Griffin law;
Sam H Clinton, Austin, state
law and equal employment
By JIM ADAMS
Assoclated Press Writer
of persons on limited incomes, a
group that traditionally parts
with its money in a hurry
The increases were tied to a
bill raising the national debt
limit a record 135 billion to $430
billion.
As President Nixon prepared
to sign the measure today, the
nation's economy was in a slug-
gish state, failing to respond to
the stimulative fiscal and moh-
number last year, joined today
in St Patrick s Day festivities Repeated North Vietnamese on-
in Dublin. Their exuberance slaughters are driving the South
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—=. opportunity commission; Bill
IMS Stockton of Houston, unem-
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etary policies he has put into
effect
The economic thrust of the
Social Security bill will be far-
reaching The extra money, as
one economic expert put it,
will go to a lot of people who
have been forced to scrimp.” .
it will be June before the So-
cial Security administration in-
cludes the new benefits in pay-
checks.
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verdict, must come between would retire again to fix a sen-
830 a.m. and 5 p.m. tence.
The defense objected to this. The jurors were assigned sep-
saying the jury should be arate quarters Monday at the
allowed its own Dace. start of final arguments.
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Available to the court-martial screened from all outside con-
jury are four possible verdicts tact. It was the first time they
oh count premeditated murder had been sequestered in the
carrying a sentence of either trial which began Nov. 12.
life imprisonment ‘eath; un- Galley was 24 and a fledgling
premeditated murder with life second lieutenant when he led
imprisonment the maximum; Charlie Company's under-
voluntary manslaughter with a strength. under-trained 1st Pla-
corporation lawyers.” Schwartz drawal began last Friday when
said , Saigon's troops abandoned Fire
Hall said 19 senators had Base Sophia, three miles south-
signed the original proposal, east oL.Sepone, a key enemy
"and I would release and’let transportation hub on Highway
someone else carry it" 9 about 25 miles from the Viet-
He had no takers. namese border.
In other action Tuesday, the
Senate passed and sent to the
House a bill to create a real
estate research center at Texas
A&M University.
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11 Cents Daily 15 Cents Sunday
Kicrofiln Cen
Box 45436 z2
Dallae, Texas
BROWNWOOD AREA:
Fair and warmer tonight.
Partly cloudy Thursday
Low tonight in 50s, high
Thursday near 80.
Maximum temperature
here Tuesday 76, overnight
low to Sunset today 6:41,
sunrise Thursday 6:39.
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL ation began, lawyers for the
Associated Press Writer government and Calley were in
pt RENNIG Ga i APi- the courtroom straightening out
FT BENNING. GajAPr- some procedural matters.
In a spartanroom, The z7-year-old Calley, after
officers sat today in judgment hearing himself described as a
of Lt William Calley Jra self-appointed judge, jury and
small figure accused of a mon- executioner, had a smanl party
strous war crime:.. in his bachelor quarters on this
The jurors walked into their sprawling infantry base
deliberationroom at 10:40a m He was and relaxed
passing within a few feet of th* this morning.
courtroom where Calley has *
been on trial since November The jury was told it may set
They received the case at 9:35 its own working hours, but on
p.m. Tuesday. after a court day the bench today the trial judge
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maximum sentence of it years, toon on its search and destroy MmeSde M• E — “#
and acquittal. mission through My Lai. one of ____
Four of the six men must th* hamlets believed to be the ET HICS TALK — Sen. Ralph Hall. left, talks bill faced a key Senate test today
concur in anv guilty verdict un- bastion of the 48th Viet Cong with IX Gev. Ben Barnes concerning aa ethics (AP Wirephoto)
a regular salary from the state
to file a public financial state-
for trophies and cash prizes Sunday's safari will leave ' planned for Brownwood on ment each year
Th* roundup and associated from the coliseum at 1.15 p.m Th* Nixon proposal includes a March 27. The same persons would have
wildcat show will be held in the and return at 2:45 so-per-cent starting pay boost- The event, planned to help to file a confidential copy of
Brownwood Coliseum beginning to 1201 90 a month from the promote in this area the army's their federal income tax return
at 8 am Saturday Experienced snake hunters present 8134 40 for recruits- new unit of choic program with the clerk of the Texas Su-
from several Texas chibs as and a 83,000 bonus for men which began Feb. 1, will also
Winners will be those who well as Brownwood Jaycee enlisting for combat include a helicopter for public
place 10 live rattlesnakes in a officials will accompany both view, 8 display of sensors used
sack in the shortest length of safaris. Other attractions—such as to detect enemy troops under
time Contestants will be able to According to safari chairman greater use of civilians for KP field conditions, and periodic
compete in either the novice or Tommy Fergeson, this is to help and other nonmilitary duties, screening of films
• professional divisions. educate the public as to how to unproved housing, educational Plans call for all events to be
The snake safari, first time to locate snake dens and means of opportunities —are similar in at Commerce Square between 9
be held at a Brown County removing th* live snakes both volunteer Army proposals, a.m. and 4 p.m. March 27.
By HOLGER JENSEN two of their four firebases south One ragged column of survi- hitting it around the clock. ”
Associated Press Writer of east-west Highway 9, vors reached Landing Zone "Normally the South Viet-
HAM NGHI, Vietnam (AP)- retreated 15 miles and now are Brown, the westernmost posi- names* don't like us to fire on
about 14 miles from the Viet- tion sill in South Vietnamese enemy positions too close to
___________ namese border, the pilots said, hands, only to find it under con- them,” said Few. “This time
was undimmed by some con- Vietnamese out of their bases in A third base, Landing Zone stant bombardment by enemy they ordered us to fire
servative Irish criticism that Laos and back toward their Brown, appears doomed mortars, rockets and artillery Fleschette rockets right on their
they were too blarney. border with heavy losses, “Sure, they've knocked out South Vietnamese officers in bunkers. There were North
The Irish Tourist Board lured American helicopter pilots re- quite a few enemy supplies and the field said the Saigon troops Vietnamese all over that
the Americans for a whole week ported today maybe even ut the Ho Chi Minh pulled out of Brown Tuesday place”
bright afternoon and picked up litter on Indian of celebration to bolster the “They can talk about helicop- trail in one or two places,” said night and between 100 and 150 Fleschette rockets are loaded
Creek Road The two are sone of Mr and Mr nation's faltering tourist trade ter mobility all they want, but one pilot, but they haven't North Vietnamese troops with thousands of tiny nail-like
It expected them to spend from where I’m flying there's stopped the enemy from moving moved in. U.S. air strikes were metal particles which spray out
Ray Rankin of 4205 Eighth St. $360,000. only one way to describe it— men or supplies, and they’re called in on the hill after the on impact
। Bulletin Photo > The criticism began with the retreat, and a bad one,” said taking a hell of a lot of South Vietnamese left
appearance of 300 Friendly Sons WO Fred Few of Chattanooga. casualties." American pilots said Brown, A stream of helicopters
--------------------------------------------- from Newark, N.J., marching Tenn. "The enemy is defeated," the 14 miles from the border, is still brought loads of dead and
_ _ ■ ■ o ■ ■ ■ in a Galway celebration Sunday Another called it a rout. Pathet Lao order said. “Now he being defended by reinforced wounded today to the 1st In-
A Wa l m m ma An me La - I ■ ma au md in vivid green blazers em- in the past five days the South is trying to retreat. Destroy South Vietnamese infantrymen fantry Division’s hospital-at
WV () I KJ y T ^1 6) M III ^1 X broidered with leprechauns Vietnamese have abandoned him.” but “it's got to fall. They’re Hamded ndsmepiotunttd
“This is the type of image the A fu • al • many were “simply left be-
Softened ethics measure
"They also sent us a letter shot down at Lolo Tuesday
session Tuesday boost next year, that no drafting referring to the Ould So’and r - | e _ ' — while attempting to evacuate
"In other words, we gave the win be necessary by June 30. other kinds of blarneyy.This TQCGS S^nOT^ feg# casualties. Athird wasreported
w m tv. administration everything they 1973. type of thing should be dis- ■ V • • 3 M ■ ■ V ■ ■ ■ C ■ •G ■ •M ■ C ■ G 3 ■ shot down today, but its crew
WAS Armed Services Com- asked for.’ . _ couraged By JACK KEEVER preme Court. And despite the Sen. W T Moore of Bryan was rescued uninjured. „
Hous Armed th "Ses down Legislation sponsored by 87 The Armed Services Com- The Dublin Evening Herald associated Press writer Blanchard amendment it would said, “I don’t think this bill was , Wehad togiyitup"said
mittee hasturnedthumhs but House members would have mittee is expected to fatten join in with an editorial AUSTIN APi - A legislative still prohibit a legislator from written in good fatih. It was Russell’Conley of Pocatello. Id-
onansalvptunteernarmbut abolished the draft, replacing it Nixon’s proposal, possibly close , . ethics proposal which once practicing law before a state written by the factory law firms aho.“We were just picking uP
approved President Fixonis with an all-volunteer military to the 83.1 billionin the rejected “We all have to make allow. looked like a shoo-in faced an- for in big cities who contribute to dead and there was 100 much
proposaitoxeepsthesdrafttor by boosting pay and other at- bill, at its next meeting Thur- ancesforthe exuberances oftoe other test m the Texas Senate Four senators accused Hall of statewide campaigns." incomingfire. Hie wounded
use only m emergencies tractions 831 billion next year sday. New World, ’ it said “Such todayeven though the sponsor «demagoguery"Lor using ... . . were already running sway.
' We killed the volunteer This was rejected by the com- things as miniskirted major- saidanamendmentalesdynd poDr Ausudices and falsi M Are you going to be intim- The pilots said every South
army, extended the draft for mittee 28 to 7. Hebert's proposal to grant ettes are all right in their own carved the heart" oriM the PDms tPgain power idated bythe pressiand socalled Vietnamese base in Laos is sur-
two years and did away with Nixon's proposal is to keep conscientious-objector status to atmosphere But they don't fit bin Sen H Fap,» BLanchardof public opinion Moore asked rounded by a variety of enemy
student defermente,' said thedraftintac but try to attract young men in return for three in somehow in the conservative After a 17-11 vote wiped out a Lubbock who sponsored the his colleagues “I dare anyone antiaircraft guns
Chairman F Edward Hebert, so many volunteers, starting years of national non military and traditional celebration of prohibition against "egisiators amendment PegsPdinq legisla- torunagainstmeandtouse this Nonwgst,
D-Ls. after a closed committee with a s.s-billion pay-benefit service also is to be considered St. Patrick in toe real Ireland" Law partnets wkingforpy as an issue in the campaign.” LSswsdn"totrointy
Th* president of the Friendly before state agencies, Sen. agencies, said Hall's proposal Sen. A. R. Schwartz of Gal- couldn’t land anywhere because
a | « e e Nixon's request for the same Sons, detective Lt Bart Doug- Ralph Hall.of Rockwall offered was an attempt to "look good in veston claimed the ethics bill “it’s too hot."
Knekine crrrrc authority to abolish student herty, 58, of Maplewood, NJ., 10 et another senator sponsor Falfurrias and Pecos... would prevent a non- Field reports said one South
•MKKIIIMu 3 M I M I I 3 draft deferments without going said he understood “how people thebill. „ .. 11 you u tell us what office corporation lawyer from being Vietnamese unit that fled from
to Congress that he already has here get piqued when a group J’0" ‘ carry a shell. You’re you’re running for, maybe we a legislator. Twenty of the 31 Fire Base Lolo to Landing Zone
I L»-LP used to halt work and father- from the United States comes sidetracking, strong ethics can help,” Blanchard added. senators are lawyers. Brown had 20 troops killed, in-
cndke HidhlidHTe hood deferments was approved over and acts 135 per cent Ir- Hall told the Senate Tues- Hall insisted that the bill “is it would leave only one eluding toe commander and his
IH-IIHII- bv the committee 31 to 1. ish ' day: an answer to public clamor" to class-maybe two classes—in deputy, and 70 wounded.
, , ------------------------------ TheSenatequiLhowever.be- regulate legislators ethics. ’ the Texas senate-lairs and The Smith with.
Two of the highlights of the Rattiesnake Roundup, will Such action would leave vir-p . L• fore, any decision was made on
Brown County Rattlesnake involve guided tours for those tually no deferments except in Band to head up the floor about what to do about
Roundup this year will be the who wish to see a rattlesnake hardship cases regulating lawmakers ethics
Texas Rattlesnake sacking den Cameras will be allowed It approved 32 to 4 Nixon’s army program The bill would require legis-
contest and the snake safaris and the tour will leave from the proposal to extend the draft two ' lators, elected officials and of-
The sacking contests will be Brownwood Coliseum at 3:30 years beyond its June 30 ex- The 2nd Armored Division ficers of state agencies who get
held both Saturday and Sunday p.m. and return at 5 p.m piration and rejected 29 to 4 a barti from fort Hood wil
Teams of two will be competing Saturday. four-year extension. headline a U. S. Army program
-- - * - planned for Brownwood on
March 27.
The event, planned to help
WASHINGTON (AP)—Con-
gress has handed the Nixon ad-
ministration a powerful
catalyst to ignite the nation's
economy, boosting Social
Security benefits for 26 million
Americans who usually spend
instead of save
The 10-per-cent across-the-
board increase in benefits,
retroactive to Jan. 1, will pump
83.6 billion into the pocketbooks
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