Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 159, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1972 Page: 1 of 20
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Twenty Pages Today
Thursday, April 20, 1172
Two Sections
Ten Cents Daily
Val 72. Na 159
Brownwood, Texas
Twenty Cents Sunday
Astros eager for lunar adventure
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Democrats condemn
actions in Vietnam
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. . Raids said dangerous escalation'
demnation by Rep Sam Gib-
bombing of North Vietnam and bons, D-Fla.
goods and the furnishing of b police and sheriff’s deputies
backed by an armored car, two
services.
(Bulletin Photo)
OEO official
cloudy and cooler with oc- warming trend beginning on
school children
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Meany blasts handling of U.S. economy
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Reds pound An Loc
• Fighting rages near capital city •
Nixon still will make his next
promised troop-withdrawal an-
nouncement by May 1. but has
the agenda for the week is temperatures tonight, with and Sunday in the area as well,
conducting of library tours for Friday also expected to be with partly cloudy skies and a
The final vote on the stand to
condemn both the U.S. bombing
A NEW DAY — Shut-ins and residents of
nursing homes will benefit by a new program
being launched by the Brownwood Public
Library . Books will be distributed throughout
the city’s nursing homes. Here with a load of
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My choice,
your opportunity
many workers at the air base
Traffic was rerouted through
the three open gates
An estimated 500 demonstra-
tors moved to Central Park in
Fairborn for a brief rally then
marched back to the base
Earlier Wednesday in College
Park, Md., the University of
Maryland demonstrators threw
rocks, fireworks and firebombs
and police fired tear gas during
an antiwar protest. Nineteen
persons were arrested as stu-
dents attempted to close US.
Route 1 bordering the sprawling
campus.
More than 250 state and coun-
By GEORGE ESPER
Assoclated Press Writer
SAIGON (AP) - Heavy fight-
ing erupted anew today on two
' sides of An Loc, 60 miles north
I of Saigon, after a 1,600-round
enemy artillery bombardment
of the war-torn provincial capi-
tal Su Nort Vietnamese tanks
were reported destroyed
U.S. spokesmen disclosed
meanwhile that ships of the U.S.
th Fleet battled North Viet-
namese MIG planes, torpedo
bpats and shore batteries this
1 week in some of the heaviest sea
books ready to go are Mrs. Laurence
Attebery, left, volunteer chairman for the
program, and Mrs. Walter Dix, Brownwood
librarian.
WAVING A RED FLAG at a bull, you might say, Is this woman
in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as she wears a Union Jack motif to
show her sympathies at a mass demonstration by the Unionist
I anguard Movement. The demonstration was held to express
Protestant anger at dissolution of the Northern Ireland
Parliament.
of U.S. bombing of North Viet-
nam.
ministration has been slow to
act, Meany said.
Sen. William Proxmire said in
Wednesday’s questioning of
Boldt that a similar delay has
been “a calculated, deliberate,
planned tactic of this adminis-
tration in regard to the Pay
Board.”
Boldt denied there has been
undue delay, and stated that
charges the White House put
pressure on any board mem-
bers to arrive at a certain deci-
sion are "totally false.”
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A potassium-laced diet was
ordered for Apollo 16 after the
Apollo 15 moon walkers suf-
fered episodes of irregular
heartbeats last summer.
John W Young and Charles
M Duke Jr were set for an
afternoon drop to a rugged, un-
dulating plateau high in the
Descartes Mountains where
they seek proof of ancient vol-
canic activity and hope to find
the source of original lunar
rock.
Touchdown of the landing
ship Orion was scheduled for
See ASTROS on page 2-A
Brownwood elementary schools
will begin at 9 a m Friday in
each of the school cafetoriums.
All parents are asked to bring
with them the child who is to be
enrolled, along with his or her
birth certificate and records of
immunizations.
Local Parent Teacher Assn,
members will assist parents
and principals in filling out the
necessary enrollment and
health forms.
Each principal is to explain
school requirements to the
parents whose children will be
entering a Brownwood school
for the first time.
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Washington (AP) _
House Democrats today con-
demned both the renewed U.S.
City firms to
display goods
Several Brownwood in-
dustries and business firms will
have displays of their services
and goods on display at the
Brownwood Coliseum Friday
from 2 to 5 p.m.
Spokesmen for the group said
the public is invited and no
admission will be charged
The displays will point up the
many different industries here
in Brownwood and Brown
County the spokesmen said The
month of April is generally the
time industry pays tribute to the
men and women associated
with the manufacturing of
Friday,
The protest in Ohio delayed
program to start during ternoon and tonight, the area.
D..I_.nn ec; At Columbia University in National Library Week. National Weather Service said Unofficial rainfall in
KOUna'Up SGT New York City, eight large win- This week the Brownwood this morning Brownwood was more than .10
dows in the School for Inter- library along with libraries A few of the thunderstorms of an inch in some locations, but
here national Affairs were broken by throughout the nation are ob- could be severe, forecasters others had barely enough to
"F‘F I "M"Y a dozen of 1,000 persons who serving National Ubrary Week. said. settle dust.
The pre-school round-up for marched through the campus According to Mrs. Walter Dix. Otherwise, it should be in- Extended forecasts say it
prospective first graders in all late Wednesday night, Brownwood librarian, part of creasingly cloudy with cooler should be fair and cool Saturday
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Books going Rains expected
to shut-ins a—
Books for shut-ins and to linger in area
residents of nursing homes •
throughout the city will. be More scattered thun- either no moisture at all or no
distributed by the Browmwood derstorms are expected to boil more than a trace although
Public Library as an initial up across Mid-Texas this af- lightning played around the
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(AP) - Two Apollo 16 astro
nauts separated their lunar ship
Orion from the command ship
today and prepared to descend
from orbit to explore where
man has never been—a
mountain region of the moon
John W Young and Charles
M Duke Jr cast off on their
lunar adventure three hours
after they donned their moon
suits and climbed into Orion,
the moon landing module, to
thoroughly check commu-
nications. fuel, electrical and
other systems
Eager to start, they boarded .
the ship 40 minutes early
Mission Control advised them
to take more potassium to avoid
possible irregular heart beats
Mission Control emphasized
there was no concern about the
health of the men and that the
move was merely pre-
cautionary.
Capsule communicator Don
Peterson told them medical
analysis indicated your potas-
sium levels are running a little
low and we recommended you
drink more orange juice.
You've got a long day ahead, so
we recommend you eat more
food."
By LAWRENCE I. KNUTSON weighted against the American President’s Council of Econom- 5 5-per-cent control standard Anyone who has done any
Associated Press Writer working man with rising prices, ic Advisers. gave an "utterly In testimony Wednesday, Pay shopping in recent months
WASHINGTON (AP) — AFL- rising profits and depressed distorted’ description of wage Board Chairman George Boldt knows that the administration's
CIO President George Meany wages trends in his appearance before said that the weighted average
said today President Nixon has Meany, who led the walkoff of the committee last week of cases shows a settlement rate pricecontrol program is hardly
failed to control the economy organized labor from the Pay The record is sharply differ- of 4.3 per cent, more than an empty promise,”
fairly and effectively. He called Board, accused ranking ad- ent from Dr. Stein’s scare story Meany said Price Commis- Meany said. Foodpriceshave
on Congress to revamp wage- ministration officials of dis- of a 9.3-per-cent yearly rate of sion Chairman C. Jackson gone through the roof. Other
price policies and enact an ex- torting statistics to support an wage increases," Meany said Grayson presented the com- prices and rents are moving up
cess-profits tax on business. otpimism he said was in no way “It shows that wages are under mittee with “reams of statistics rapidly ”
Using such words and phrases justified. strict control." designed to show that price WThe ma or n
as “mess," “farce," “empty In testimony prepared for the Meany said that after a one- controls are working " . t h8 . . protits
promises,” "dismal record," congressional Joint Economic month bulge at the end of the Said Meany "He forgot the K k « corpo-
"unjust," and "unbalances,” Committee. Meany said Dr. wage-price freeze, wages have most important statistic—the rations and conglomerate gi-
Meany said the system is Herbert Stein, chairman of the stayed within the Pay Board's price tag ” ants," against which the ad-
BROWNWOOD AREA -
Increasing cloudiness and
scattered thunderstorms, a
few possibly severe, today
and tonight. Cooler tonight
with lows near 10, cloudy,
cooler and occasional
showers Friday. Highs
Friday in the 70s.
Maximum temperature
here Wednesday 93, over-
night low 69 Sunset today
7:09, sunrise Friday 6:01.
the Southwest, Texas Feathers About 400 to 600 persons
Inc,, c^*nOr Continental, hurled rocks and cherrybombs
QrpapommerceSguare,and and fired skyrockets at the law-
exas enlight Co. a men while another 2,000 stu-
Thegroup of business leaders dents lo0ked on and cheered,
said they hope that the program police said. Three
Molotov
can be expanded next year cocktails were thrown
They are expected to name vehicles. Two policemen suf.
committees for the production fered minor injuries, neither
nextyear.____________________ from the fireworks
125 seized in
O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts The White House, meanwhile,
and the Hanoi invasion con- said Wednesday that President
visiting area
COLEMAN — Mrs. Emma
Green, regional field
representative of the Office of
Economic Opportunity in
Dallas, is currently visiting
Central Texas Opportunity
Services, Inc headquartered in
Coleman, according to E. W
Scott, director.
"Her visit is two-fold in
purpose," Scott said. "One is an
official, routine visit as field
representative. Another is to
look into complaints made at
See OEO on page 2-A
action of the Indochina war One battle 2 miles southeast The Saigoa command
The destroyer Higbee and the of the city around a paratrooper claimed about 150 enemy killed
7th Fleet flagship, the cruiser position known as Hill 168 was in and around An Loc Wednes
Oklahoma City, were damaged described as close combat," day and today, many of them by
Four Americans were wounded and casualties were believed to air strikes it said government
A MIG jet that bombed the bebeavy on both sides casualties were light.
Higbee was shot down by a The ground attacks were pre- On the northern front, South
missile, the Navy said, and it ceded by a 1,600-round artillery Vietnamese forces claimed 142
was believed that three North barrage from dawn until dusk North Vietnamese killed and
Vietnamese torpedo boats were Wednesday, and the enemy ‘wo tanks knocked out in fight-
sunk and a fourth was dam- bombardment was renewed to- ~-ingnear Dong Ha, 10 miles
aged day southrof the demilitarized zone.
The allied commands also re- ----------------------------------------------------------
ported that the North Vietnam- I ~ ■ | • f
ese offensive, now in its 22nd JOGV (reen TOD DOIO
day, pushed Vietnamese casu- / ’ I
allies on both sides last week to :L ___ • r I
their highest levels since the WI th compuiqn t U D U S
1968 Tet offensive The South P‘S‘‘ ‘-‘‘53
Ljonareseroonmand trepetd all bills for 17-month-old Key Green, the child born with only
my killed, the U.S. Command part of his esophagus. have been paid to date with funds con-
reported 12 American battle- tributed by residents of this area
field deaths for the second week According to John Wood, president of the Brown County Law
inanrw, the biggest total in six Enforcement Assn, which sponsored a fund drive to help pay
" The South Vietnamese com- bills for the child, Hendrick Memorial Hospital and the Abilene
mand said that its paratroopers surgeon s bill have been paid The child spent the first three
and rangers were locked in months of his life in the Abilene hospital following emergency
heavy fighting at midway half surgery He was bom in Brownwood
a mile north and half a mile east The fund drive netted over $3,500 and Wood said both the
°Tentyu.s. B52s dropped 500 Abilene hospital and Abilene surgeon were contacted asking if
tons of explosives on three sides Os could be cut down to enable enough funds to remain for the
of the city, trying to break up child’s second operation due when he reaches 30 pounds
the enemy concentrations Wood said both the hospital administrator and the surgeon
besieging the city, cooperated and there is still $1,900 left in the fund at the South,
nmhelddrepors spdhraedie west state Bank fortheroperation which a Brownwood surgeon,
tanks renewed the attack from says , cure the defect
the north and from the south- Joey is the son of Mr and and Mrs E. J. Green of Lake
east. Brownwood.
The new program for shut-ins casional showers. Monday
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special" priority grant of the linger in the 70s, the weather second straight night and lin-
Ubrary Services and Con- bureau said. gered into today, nccasionally
struction Act, and will be By comparison, Brownwood mixing in a tornado for 8ood
distributed by volunteers had a Wednesday afternoon measure. ... . ,
working with the staff of th* high of 93 degrees while this , Although there was property
Brownwood Public Library morning's low, notched during a damagein some areas, none
Many of the books will be in light thundershower, was 69. the wildweather inflicted in-
special large print editions to Brownwood got only .10 of an juries and lsses were com-
make for easy reading, Mrs inch officially from the pre- Paratvststtat. ine in okia.
Dix said dawn thundershower But moat A Coss the state une in
====== other Mid-Texas points had See RAINS on page 2-A
Hanoi's invasion of the South
and ordered action within 30
days on some deadline for U.S.
withdrawal from the war
The Democratic Caucus first
adopted 135-66 a resolution con-
demning the U.S. Hanoi-Hai-
phong bombing as "a dangerous
escalation of our role in the
Indochina war” and ordering
the deadline action by
Democrats on the House For-
eign Affairs Committee.
Then the caucus added the
one-sentence condemnation of
North Vietnam’s invasion of
South Vietnam by an over-
whelming 186-16 vote
The U.S. bombing con-
demnation was proposed by
Democratic Whip Thomas P.
Ohio protest
. . . 500 march on air base
By BOB MONROE In Maryland, Gov. Marvin
Associated Preu Writer Mandel said nearly 500 National
More than 125 demonstrators Guardsmen were called a day
were arrested in Fairborn, early for their regular weekend
Ohio, today as they attempted drill and assembled near the
to block two of five gates at University of Maryland after a
Wright-Patterson Air Force third consecutive night of
Base to protest the resumption student disorders there.
Among the disolavers will be Jeeps and a helicopter were
Minnesota Mining & brought in to reopen the stretch
Manufacturing, First National of highway which demonstra-
Bank. General Telephone Co of tors closed four times.
At a number of the nation’s II
campuses. the renewed bomb- I
ing has triggered an array of I
studut protests, and some stu- .
den’s have called for a strike
and Hanoi invasion and order not decided what he will say or
what would be the first House- how the announcement will be
initiated legislation on a war made
deadline was 144-58. Secretary of State William P.
Before the caucus was a reso- Rogers said the North Viet-
lution calling for "promptly set-
ting a date to terminate all mil- ™mese are the culprits. in the
itary involvement in or over in- intensified fighting, and added
dochina”—and directing the he sees no evidence the U.S.
House Foreign Affairs Com- bombing will affect Nixon’s
mittee to report out a bill within upcoming Moscow summit
30 days for accomplishing that meeting
ob jective
The recent bombings of "Wehaveastendencyto be.so
North Vietnam,” it said, rep- self-ritical, he said after
resent a dangerous escalation of briefing House members, that
our role in the Indochina war "e fail to notice the enemy is
and a direct contradiction of the shelling the cities, killing civil-
administration's stated policy ians, violating all the agree-
of winding down the war." ments they made with us."
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