Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 305, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 17, 1972 Page: 1 of 14
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Brownwood Bulletin
Brownwood, Texas
Vol. 72 No. 305
Tuesday, October 17, 1972
Ten Cents Doily
Twenty Cents Sunday
Weather slows search for Boggs' plane
3,000 expected for
teacher convention
Heat on solans
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Front slips
into Texas
Kennedy Space Center. Fla The mission is
scheduled for launch late next spring.
Brown County
United Fund
drive underway
BUSINESS END of a Saturn rocket is in full
view as the vehicle booster for the coming
Skylab 2 mission is unloaded from a barge at
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except they are easier to identify than other twins as one wears
glasses and the other doesn't The trouble is sometimes people
RIDE 'EM COWBOYS - Todd and Scott Bennett six-year-old
twins of Sheri Bennett of 814 Clark St. enjoy good times on the
rocking horses in the front yard. Twins are almost identical
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for street improvements
Eight minute orders for city encroachment on the right of at an $11,000 cost; widening the
entry blank is in today's edition
of the Bulletin.
L. D. Preston of Sunset
Terrace earned second place
and $3 by missing only one
prediction and pegging the total
key game score at 45.
Sam Petzell of 515 Valley
View took third place and $1 for
his entry with one incorrect
game forecast and a key game
total of 48.
Another Petzell entry was
good enough to tie with Kenneth
Lackey of 1109 West Baker for
honorable mention, barely out
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- The plane had a search loca-
tor beacon, which is designed to
activate during a crash.
"So far, we haven’t heard a '
squawk out of it," said William
Moore, a spokesman for the
National Transportation Safety
Board in Apeborage
Maj Patrick W Whitaker, .
the pilot of the Air Force HC136
which flew the search mission
throughout the night, said he
had heard nothing" from the
missing plane and that visibility
in the area “was zero."
Officials said the HC130 is ca-
pable of picking up locator bea-
con signals while flying at high
altitudes above bad weather.
The poor weather conditions
and fog in the area of Prince
William Sound and along the
< oast threatened to keep Civil
Air Patrol planes out of the sky
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Approximately 3,000 teachers from 18 counties which
comprise Region 15 of the Texas State Teachers Assn are
expected to attend the Mid-Texas Education Assn con-
vention in Brownwood Monday
Counties included in Region 15 are Sterling, Coke.
Runnels, Coleman, Brown. Comanche. Irion, Tom Green.
Concho. McCulloch, San Saba, Crockett, Schleicher,
Sutton, Menard, Mason, Kimble and Earth.
Ecuational exhibits will be open in the Brownwood
Coliseum from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Monday and then again after
the general session and all afternoon.
The general session begins at 9:3Q.a.m. in the Brown-
wood Coliseum followed by section meetings the rest of
the day. Another general assembly will conclude ac-
tivites.
A house of delegates breakfast Monday will begin at 7
a.m. at Chisholm's restaurant.
first plac ■ and $5 by forecasting for the top $100 prize.
This week’s schedule and
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Center said the forecast for
today was for strong wind, an
overcast and "very marginal
flying weather "
Aboard the twin-engine Ces-
sna 310 were Boggs, 58; Rep.
Nick Begich, a 40-year-old
Democrat; Begich's adminis-
trative assistant, Russell
Brown, 37; and the pilot, 38-
year-old Don E Jonz.
Boggs' administrative assist-
ant, Gary Hymel, said in Wash-
ington that the last radio con-
tact with the plane came 12
minutes after takeoff Monday,
when Jonz filed a flight plan.
There was no sign of trouble.
“We assume that the airplane
is down,” an FAA spokesman
said Monday night
Boggs, who left Washington
on Sunday and had been due to
return this morning, had gone to
Alaska to campaign for Begich.
street improvements from the way, adjust utilities as pavement on Stephen F. Austin McAllen.
Texas Highway Dept, for necessary and provide curb and and Indian Creek between
The tide's coming in-McGovern
By RICHARD BEENE as he sought votes Monday in marks to supporters, after his has campaigned across the na- motion the forces in this country-
Associated Press Writer the key state of Texas. speech. "I'm one of those who tion. that over the next three weeks
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) — His campaign took him to comes on slow ... Don't be While Mr. Nixon sits there in are going to win this election for
Given a tumultous welcome by Fort Worth today. disheartened by the polls. I the White House resting com- us on Nov. 7.”
state legislators and greeted by At Austin, where he received think the tide's coming in.” fortably on top of his Gallup Earlier at Houston, he called
thousands in two Texas cities, a standing ovation Monday He was mobbed by support- Poll, we've been out among the the crowd gathered at an out.
George McGovern says forces after a speech to a joint session ers, many of them youthful, people," McGovern said, door theater “one of the most
have been "set in motion" to of the legislature, McGovern after addressing a cheering “We've been listening to what’s beautiful I've seen anywhere."
defeat President Nixon said he and running mate Sar- throng Monday night in front of going on in this country.” “Black is beautiful. Brown is
The Democratic presidential Kent Shriver "think we have a San Antonio's Alamo He told a He said he can "read public beautiful. White is beautiful,"
nominee addressed crowds esti- good chance to carry Texas.” reception crowd later that he opinion polls as well as the next he said. "But what is most
mated at 20,000 in Houston and "We know it’s going to be has watched the turnouts grow person" and added: beautiful of all is white, black
more than 10.M) in San Antonio tough,” he said in informal re- "in size and enthusiasm ” as he "I believe that we have set in and brown together "
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Nixon's top
national security adviser
Henry Kissinger is winding
up a day's meeting with the
North Vietnam's negotiator
Xuan Thuy in Paris today
and will fly from there to
Saigon to consult with South
Vietnamese President
Thieu.
The White House reporting
this, said Kissinger was
going to South Vietnam on
President Nixon's direction
for what were termed
“regular consultations.”
Kissinger went on his 20th
trip to Paris for todav’s talks
and no details were given of
the peace negotiations.
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"And the Sisters in the
schools will ask the children to
pray. But I guess we have to
expect the worst," he added
Boggs was on the last leg of
the lightening-quick fund-rais-
ing trip for Begich when the
plane left Anchorage. It was
scheduled to arrive at 5:30 p.m.
EDT A spokesman for the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration
said the plane had enough fuel
to last until around 8 p.m.
Jonz, president of Pan-Alas-
kan Airways. a small air taxi
service which operates the
plane, had charted a course
from Anchorage in theisouth-
central section of the state that
would have taken the plane
across Prince William Sound,
then southeastward along the
glacier-covered mountainous
coastline to Juneau in Alaska’s
•panhandle.
Kissinger in \Councilmen okay orders
Paris for talks
TOPICS projects were ap- gutter, storm sewers, Farm to Market Road 3064 and
proved this morning by the driveways and sidewalks where Fourth St. at a cost of $27,300.
Brownwood city council. required. Too, widening the pavement
Included in the orders are Projects approved this on Washington St from Lee St.
four priority projects near the morning include widening the to Baker St. including chan-
new Brownwood Junior High pavement on Fourth St. from nelization of the Baker in-
School in the Camp Bowie area. Good Shepherd Dr. to Indian tersection at a cost of $20,000;
according to city manager Creek at an estimated cost of reconstructing the base and
Harry Miller Jr. $82,000; improvement of the surfacing of Coggin Ave. from
Under the TOPICS program, intersection of Calvert Road Second St to Fourth St. at a cost
the Texas Highway Dept, will and Morris Sheppard Dr. at a of $18,200.
perform the construction while $20,000 cost. Also, widening and improving
requiring the city to maintain Also, widening the pavement 15th and 14th Streets from U.S.
all work as part of the project on Stewart St. between Fourth 377 southeast to Ave. K at a cost
. and to regulate traffic, prevent St. and Stephen F. Austin Dr. (See STREET on Page 2)
Fourteen Pogo’s Today Two Sections
AUSTIN I AP) — Gov. Pre- Bullock said today., newsmen who wanted to find I've got just so much to do,” he
ston Smith will call a new spe- The current session must end out whether he still planned to said brusquelv as he nushed
cial legislative session if the by midnight tonight. call the Legislature back if it pushed
House does not pass a com- "I they don’t geta bill over to did not satisfy him on com- through a knot of reporters in
petitive car and home insurance the Senate, in my opinion Gov petitives rates. his reception room and entered
rate bill, Secretary of State Bob Smith will call them back. The "I just don’t know Reallv his private office.
reason I said that is he told me '
that 10 minutes ago,” said
Bullock, a close friend of the _ _
8oxepODoncavness of Austin Lackev first in
planned to seek the two-thirds “I ""
vote needed for final House ac-
tion on amended version of the £ ■ 11 ■ ■
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate's competitive rate bill. A TOorDeil COonreST
Cooler air crept into the final vote would send the
Texas Panhandle today while measure back to the Senate for . . ... ocoum co..i .
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Uus time of year dion-naeommmamienoyacaltfor penteetonensgamneoprsaitepons. Any contestant who correctly
Aside from a few showers 4 Iozmnan conference committee but L. E Lackey of 2302 First picks the winner of a slate of
around El Paso in far West * ou a compromse. St., a consistent winner in this each week's football games plus
Texas late Monday which I: G°: ben Barnes said he competition, pulled out the correct total score is in line
quickly dried up, it stayed dry felt the issue was far too com- - • P . .
in all areas. be resolyedin just a few most accurately the total score
Official observers predicted hours. But he added he would of the key game
the new cool front would lower appoint Senate members of a lackev tok first Prize h
temperatures a bit in northern conference committee if that’s predicting the totai score nf th.
portions of the state but little what Smith wants.
effect would be noticed else- The lawmakers must adjourn
where by midnight because the Texas
Readings mounted «... the Sonstitutyniasaysnspecalass Park orders
90s at a number of places Mon- This one started Sept. 18. paz.n I...
day, going as high as 96 de- House members advanced the martial law
grees at Wichita Falls, top revised competitive rate bill 76- spon p, pedn
marks of 93 at Fort Worth and 54 Monday night but thev failed SEOUL (APi. — President
Dallas set records for the date, bvXe votetT«thsyeaited Chung-hee Park proclaimed
eclipsing a 1971 mark in Fort , thre votes to.provde.the martial law today, suspended
eupaig a -T mann ui r o two-thirds majority needed to noe
Worth and one set in 1947 at uk the bil '. for final some provisions of the con-
Dallas 0111 up again tor hnal stitution and dissolved the Na-
passage. tional Assembly.
Near dawn today the mercury Smith has threatened to call Park, a former four-star gen- of the money. Both missed’only
still registered 76 at Galveston ano er specia session i e eral, said he would propose re- one forecast but totaled the key
and Palacios on the coast. At legislature does pot take visions to the constitution bv game's score at 49.
other point the range was from clearcut’action" -Pass or Oct. 27 and call a national ref- This week’s winners proved
53 at Dalhart and 55 at Wink up kitiuonasompetit rates. 6 erendum a month later on the practice make perfect as all
to 72 at Austin and 73 at lateraindiccatedsbn m ightaeyen amendments, three finishing in the money -
a a hill that wa« aron The president said he would lackey, Preston and Petzell —
lkssed ■ restore constitutional rule by are cash or honorable mention
PSmith signed seven bills into the end of the year "at the ht' winners from previous Bulletin
law today, but refused to talk to est." football contests this season.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)
— A small armada of private
planes assembled in poor wea-
ther today to search Alaska's
rugged southern coast for a
• light plane carrying House Ma-
jority leader Hale Boggs and
three others. The plane was
long overdue and presumed
down on a campaign flight for
the state's only House member
a A heavy cloud cover and rain
ahprevailed in the search area as
some 30 planes prepared to join
an electronically* equipped Air
Force HC130 on the rescue mis-
sion The Air Force plane had
flown an Anchorage-to-Juneau
pattern through the night in
search of the missing plane,
which failed to show up late
Monday on a 560-mile flight
from Juneau.
A spokesman for the Air
Forces’s Rescue Coordination
BROWNWOOD AREA -
Clear to partly cloudy
through Wednesday. Low
tonight in 60s, high Wed-
nesday 80s
Maximum temperature
here Monday 91, overnight
low 62. Sunset today 7:03,
sunrise Wednesday 7:42.
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a native at Eveleth, Minn., who
is seeking re-election to a
second term.
Boggs' wife, Lindy, was the
only member of the family at
home in Bethesda^
As the word spre.
home state of Loui
was an unmistakeL-~
affection for the cong
Edward Cocke stood solemnly
on the sidewalk outside a New
Orleans bar and said that Boggs
is “our kind of people.”
“It's kind of a Brooklyn
area,” Cocke said of the sur-
rounding scene “All kinds of
people and Hale Boggs could fit
right in with any of them."
At nearby St. Mary's As-
sumption Roman Catholic
Church, the Rev Reinhard
Stump said prayers would be
offered at services today.
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Fisher, Norman. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 305, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 17, 1972, newspaper, October 17, 1972; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1575080/m1/1/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.