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Brownwood Bulletin
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Fourteen Pages Today Two Sections
Friday. March 1, 1974
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TEL AVIV [AP)-Secretary ficialssaid.
Syria has demanded return of
officials reported
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Former Nixon aides
named in indictments
Smoking a costly habit
• $1.4 million in Brown County •
This would mean creation of a all Israeli-occupied Syrian land
second United Nations buffer - the Golan Heights captured
tivity in agriculture signaled by first of
March. The month was named for the Roman
God Mars who was originally the God of war
and protector of vegetation. (Bulletin Photo)
MARCH MAIDEN - Enjoying the beautiful
spring-like weather which has blanketed Mid-
Texas this week is Darlene Byars. Only rain
is needed to help the season of renewed ac-
here Thursday 84, overnight
low 61. Sunset today 7:33.
sunrise Saturday 6:03
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day picked up Israeli dis- Jewish state from Cairo, plans
engagement proposals for the to take the Israeli proposals to
Golan Heights patterned after Damascus tonight and present
the successful Egyptian-Israeli them personally to President
troop separation in the Sinai, Hafez Assad of Syria.
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The facts and figures come
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use of cigarettes by teen-agers, have exhibits and booths at the Cancer Institute is trying a new Hearst Foundation
especially young girls. armory. Tickets may be pur- approach.
I in higher education). It is
going to be awful hard to
explain why you voted for
these sacred cows and ex-
plain why you voted against
having any control on them
If you have a coordinating
board and put some teeth in
this old dog, maybe he can
take some of the heat off this
body (the legislature"
Coody said
The board has no power to
block creation or expansion
of colleges and universities,
and nearly every session of
the legislature is faced with
demands for new ones
receive
I food
hahe
BROWNWOOD AREA -
Partly cloudy to fair and
warm through Saturday.
Low tonight near 60, high
Saturday in the 60s.
TCC delegates backtrack
■ on college board decision
Kissinger collects Israeli proposal
..... ration accord that would reduce Israeli pultout plan President Anwar Sadat of
the danger of fighting during Authoritative sources said as Egypt to pay a return visit to
negotiations on a wider settle- Kissinger flew into Israel that the United States.
ment, probably at Geneva. President Nixon probably will
To get talks for an interim ' visit Egypt and Israel in the -f Nixon went to Egypt, he
agreement started, he per- second half of this year follow- wald be virtually bound" to
suaded the Syrians earlier this ing Thursday's restoration of visit Israel on the same trip, the
week to give Israel a list of 65 full diplomatic relations be- officials said.
Israeli war prisoners held in tween Egypt and the United I want our Egyptian friends
Syria andto allow Red Cross States. to know that the nited Statesis
force to patrol between Israeli in 1967 as well as the MO square visits to the POWs. Red Cross The secretary of state pre- committed to peace. progress
and Syrian soldiers somewhere miles of additional land seized sources in Damascus said their sided with Egyptian Foreign and stability in the Middle
in the 300 square miles of Syrian in October. representatives began the visits Minister Ismail Fahmy this East," Kissinge id Fahmy at
territory captured by Israel in The Israelis have said they today morning as the American flag the ag-raising in Cairo.
the October war, they added, will return the land Uken in After landing here. Kissinger rose over the U.S. Embassy in
Both sides would have to thin October but not the whole Go- drove in a 14<ar motorcade to a Cairo for the first time since He thanked Spanish Am-
out their front-line troops and lan Heights or the 15 Jewish tightly secure government relations were severed in June bassador Manuel Alabart for
fire power - the limit on the frontier settlements on land building north of Tel Aviv, 1967. representing the United States
Egyptian front was 30 tanks captured in 1967 where he met with Premier Sources in the secretary’s in Egypt during the nearly sev-
apiece - and would negotiate Kissinger's mediation efforts Golda Meirn Deputy Premier party said that during the over- en years after President Gamal
Yigal Alton, Foreign Minister night stay in Cairo, tentative Abdel Nasser broke relations
for possession of strategic posts are designed to soften the con- -Abba Eban and Defense Minis- plans were made for Nixon to during the 1967 Arab-Israeli
on Biblical Mt Hermon, the of- flict with an interim troop sepa- ter Moshe Dayan to discuss the visit the Middle East and for war
from national statistics com- be in Stephenville next Satur- 180.30 per
piled by the Dept, of Agriculture day. estimated.
of State Henry A. Kissinger to- Kissinger, who arrived in the
rama. spent some $1,390,000 in that
The second scout-o-rama will direction last year, or about
THE NET result is that, Groups will be from connected with smoking by
\despite all efforts on the part of Brownwood, Bangs, Zephyr, developing a less hazardous
the Public Health Service, the Brookesmith. Comanche. San cigarette that will mimic the
National Cancer Institute and Saba, Goldthwaite and Cisco. pleasure-giving properties of
others to get people to give up Prizes will be awarded for present-day cigarettes,
cigarettes, there are now some outstanding exhibits in all what with the rising taxes
52 million smokers in the United classes and one overall prize levied on cigarettes, smoking
States, which is 2 million more will be given to the most out- has become a more costly habit
thah in 1964. when the campaign standing exhibit of the scout-o- Residents of Brown County
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Maximum temperature
By LEE JONES "I don't know your
Associated Press Writer district, but I know my
AUSTIN (AP) — Clearly district, and they sent me up
off their 90-day schedule, to take some of these sacred
constitutional convention cows out of the constitution
delegates reversed them- not to put more of them in,"
selves today and voted 82-78 said Rep. Ben Atwell, D-
to leave the college coor- Hutchins. who moved to
dinating board out of a new reconsider Thursday's vote
state charter Rep. Bill Coody, D-Weath-
An attempt by Rep erford, urged inclusion of the
George Preston, D-Paris, to coordinating board in the
remove the section making constitution as recom-
the coordinating board a mended by the convention's
constitutional agency failed Education Committee The
8331 Thursday, i i . board was created by the
But the legislator- legislature in 1965
delegates voted 79-77 today "I know we have
to reconsider that decision, preserved some sacred cows
P can to keep our part of the bar-
president and editor of the San HEATH CLOSING GAP
Francisco Examiner and chair- ------------------------------------------------
2=- Wilson’s Laborites in lead
ing the release of 20-year-old LONDON (AP) - Harold ties 12. This represented gains force a new election. In the European Common Mar-
Patricia Hearst, abducted from Wilson s Laborites held onto the of the 21 seats for the Laborites The computer projections ot ket and then to out the results to
her Berkeley apartment Feb. 4. lead today as counting resumed and 7 for the Liberals, and the both the British Broadcasting a national plebiscite cut de-
The SLA claims it is in Britain 's general electron, loss of 38 for the Conservatives. Corp and ITV, the commercial tense spending millions of
holding her. but Prime Minister Edward Wilson ruled opt a coalition television network, predicted pounds a year and negotiate the
Another 600 bags of food were Heath's conservatives were with the Liberals and it ap- Labor would win a total of 307 closing of the American Polaris
delivered to the needy who closing the gap as results peared he might become the seats, 11 short of a majority, submarine base in Scotland He
could not leave their homes, poured in from the rural areas nation’s first minority prime The BBC predicted 300 seats for probably can do none of these
said spokesmen for People in Computer projections said the minister since Ramsay MacDo- the Conservatives and the without a majority
Need, the organization set up to Laborites would fall short of a and in 1929-31 remaining 28 for the Liberals Wilson greeted earlv todav at
deliver the food: majority in the new House of He could stay in office only as and others; ITV forecast 293 for a Liverpool labor club with
The distribution contrasted Commons long as the Liberals and an the Conservatives, 22 for the chants oflprime minister
With 600 of the 635 Commons assortment of nationalists, Ul- Lberals and 13 for others, primeEministP
last Friday, seats decided, the Labor party ster Protestants and independ- A Conservative upsurge was thumb's up sign but declined to
violence, loot- had 293, the Conservatives 285. ents did not unite with the Con- expected today as returns came mama roman Duttorcltdaim.
the Liberals 10, and other par- servatives to vote him out and in from rural and suburban dis-
„ . . with the group’s first attempt to
How much effect has the and from area reports released 2,926,000 packs of cigarettes distribute f<
campaign against cigarette by the tobacco industry and were sold in the past year. when occasic
smoking, begun just 10 years others: Related to the local ing and confusion resulted, tne uoerais w, ana omer par- servatives to vote him out and in from rural and suburban dis- Wilson Heath and Jerenn
ago by the Surgeon General. In Brown County, a break- population over 18, this was Nevertheless. 14,000 persons re- tricts in which HeZ^Zvt m"rson JX. in, remy
had on residents of Brown down shows, approximately equivalent to 169 packs per ceived food then, said A. Ludlow , , normally strong But it ap ehoPwthetbereltpartlead
A^ they smoking more or capita. „ .. t stt Krameri who organized the AnOHYmOUS dOHOtlOn peared unlikely this would close seats in Commons by sizable
^UtO-rama ashrouss: by way of tm System work,, saia 7 manams”
1964, when he issued the war- parison, the average was 206 Kramer after Thursday’s ef- .C 0 1 AA .I. C. u.I Downing St
ningthatcigarettesmnokngwa here Saturday packs. It was 180 packs in the fort. Police reported no in- OT • IUU pacls TUDO The prospect of a weak mi- Heart COmDOian
a hazard to health and to life? ‘ West South Central States, cidents and most of the centers I nority government amid Brit- neu -orPM‘g‘
The findingsarth iatmany The c™ of two Comanche i . ran out of food after two hours Fueled by an anonymous were tost in the fire and Mrs ain s worst economic crisis slated Sunday
peopleheededathe warning and Trail Council Boy Scour of WITH THE feeling that most People waited patiently in line donation of $100, the Kathy Jo Hollandis nowpthepslenmprs since World War II seemed to The Heart Sunday fund drive
duitpermanentiy..Otherscut Americasscout-o-ramaswinlbe of the smokers who couM be and in high spirits. Holland Fund leaped past the ofherramiyrfourcippon. reflect the confusion of the na- for Brownwondwiln"bdgin
downontheirsonsumptionbut held beginning, at 10a.m. turned away from cigarettes The massive food distribution halfway mark of $950 hospital Kathy Jo spent fve dysenn ‘ion over how best to tackle its around 1 pm Sunday a0
found rt too difficult to give it up Ssturdayat the AationalGuard have already been turnedland effort was financed by $2 mil- bills incurred by the• child the burn center’s intensive ere industrial, trading, monetary cording to Mrs. Alne Webb,
come"dewhwara shift has been Armory Highway thatsthe mokinghabitwwil lion arranged.! by Hearst - before she died at Brooke Army unit before she died She was and social problems. heart fund drive chairman
sxsxsssis s
Brownwood fire chief, the fund munity Hospital before being ltkely can make good Aon only for those who are not at home,
this morning stood at $540, over flown to the bum center at San one of them without a majority envelopes will be left in the
$200 above the total Thursday Antonio That is to settle the national doors. Contributions may be
morning. Brownwood Community coal strike which provoked sealed in the envelopes and
Kathy Jo died Jan. 30 of bums Hospital has only sent a bill but Heath into calling the election mailed to Mrs. Webb at 1909
suffered in a fire at her home on the army is pressing for im- three weeks ago. The Con- Austin Ave.
Jan. 25. The fire claimed the life mediate payment. servative government ’s pay Area chairmen for this year’s
of her father also. The drive is The latest contributions in- board has already laid the drive include Mrs. Philip
being sponsored by the elude anonymous gifts totaling groundwork for that by deter- Fenton, Mrs. Eugene Williams,
Brownwood Fire Dept $120; Mrs. Lollie Davenport, $5; mining that the miners are en- Mrs John Lopez and Alton
As soon as the $950 mark is Mrs J. M Teas, $5; Others titled to more than they were Marwitz. Marwitz is chairman
reached, the fund will be cut off Club, $10; Wilma Martin, $5; asking when they struck. for Brownwood business firms
as Mrs Holland does not want Jim Alexander, 925 Mr. and Wilson is also pledged to na- and this section of the drive will
to accept more than enough to Mrs. Bob Dudley, $5; Mr and tionalize a sizable part of Brit- be handled after Heart Sunday-
pay the bills Mrs. Wayland Gordon, $25. and ish industry, renegotiate the Mrs Hannah Lppe is Brown
All the family's possessions p H. King, $25 terms of Britain's membership County Heart Assn president
Tan Cents Daily Twenty Cents Sunday
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By DONALD M ROTHBERG volvement in the June 1972 Wa- Colson said he had taken a would be wrong to meet
Associated Press Writer tergate wiretapping burglary at leave of absence from his law demands that the original de-
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Democratic party headquar- firm and avowed his innocence, fendants in the Watergate bur-
federal grand jury today in- ters, came with an indication "Like most human beings, I glary be paid $1 million for their
dieted H.R. Haldeman and John that there may be more grand have made my share at mis- silence
O. Ehrlichman, once top aides jury proceedings ahead takes but during the time I The charges were
to President Nixon, former President Nixon said the in- served, I have always done my —Ehrlichman-one count of
SAN FRANCISCO I AP) — Atty. Gen. John N Mitchell, and dictment indicates that the ju- duty as I saw it,” Colson said conspiracy to obstruct justice,
Randolph A. Hearst still is four other men on charges of dicial process is finally moving "My conscience is clear " one count of lying to FBI agents
waiting for word from his conspiracy ' to obstruct toward the resolution of the Parkinson issued a statement and two counts of lying to the
daughter's kidnapers, although Watergate investigations matter He said he hopes the saying that he is innocent and grand jury or the court;
some 45,000 persons now have The 50-page Watergate in- trials of those accused "will can demonstrate it when all the Haldeman, one count of
received food in meeting an ini- dictment also brought charges move swiftly to a just con- circumstances are brought to conspiracy to obstruct justice
tial demand of the terrorist against: elusion’' light and three counts of per jury;
Symbionesolberation.Army; -Charles w. Colson, a former with the indictment, the The distinction between MitehellL.onecounttof con-
sasoutrtanoperonsreceied White House special counsel, grand jury delivered to U.S. charges of per jury and of mak- spiracy to obstructjustice two
ens, fresh fruit, vegetables and -Robert C. Mardian, once an Dist Court Judge John J Sirica mg a false declaration to the countsq yingstoggrand-jury
other items at 10 San Francisco assistant attorney general, lat- a sealed report on Watergate, grand jury is a technical one. ’ . Pe ury
Bayrrensdstrbtionrcenters eran aide in the 1972 Nixon and two back suitcases - Either charge accuse, a de- of lying to
Thursday campaign taining evidencein the case. fendant of lying. Colson, Mardian and Park.
"Well, we're hoping,” the —Gordon C. Strachan, a for- There had been reports the The perjury charges returned inson, one count each of con-
I anxious Hearst told newsmen mer presidential assistant. grandJurors might return ase- today stem from testimony be- spiracy to obstruct justice;
through a spokesman at his Kenneth W Parkinson, an cret document covering .find fore the Senate Watergate com- Strachan, one count of con-
r residence in suburban Hills- attorney for Nixon's campaign ings that involve President NU- mittee. The false declaration spiracy to obstruct justice and
J borough. "God knows we’re finance committee on charges, which carry heavier one count of lying to a grand
d hoping. I hope the people who A total of 24 charges were Sirica said the grand jury penalties, involve grand jury jury or court.
• need the food are in the front of lodged against the seven men might be called upon to return statements. Each charge carries a max-
A the lines. The cover-up indictment, to work in two weeks In accusing Haldeman of per- imum penalty of five years in
aA "The food distribution ap- stemming from alleged efforts In Los Angeles, Haldeman jury, the grand jury said he had prison and fines ranging from
4 proximates what the SLA want- to conceal White House and said he would have no comment lied to the Senate committee in $2,000 for per jury to $10,000 for
m ed and we’re going to do all we Nixon re-election campaign in- on the indictment. quoting Nixon as saying it lying to a grand jury or court.
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