Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 130, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1974 Page: 1 of 22
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Prosecutor subpoenas additional Nixon documents
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Brownwood Bulletin
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Thursday. Morch ii, 1974
Vol. 74 No 130
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Wild, nasty weather
marks spring debut
Man held after attempt
to kidnap Princess Anne
100 here
for school
weather during lunch break Wednesday at the Brownwood
Junior High School are. from the left. Dianne Anderson. Terry
Foster, and Johnny Allgood.
SPRING GOT SPRUNG - Even though spring got off to its
official start Wednesday, Old Man Winter wasn't quite ready to
give up the fight as temperatures dropped to the lower 30‘s in
Mid-Texas area yesterday and today. Bundled up for the
BROWNWOOD AREA -
Fair and cold tonight, clear
to partly cloudy and a little
warmer Friday. Low tonight
in the 30k, high Friday near
The grand jury report on
Nixon's role in Watergate goes
to the House impeachment
inquiry today unless the U.S
Court of Appeals intervenes.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
special Watergate prosecutor’s
office has subpoenaed addition-
al documents from the White
House it was disclosed today
A spokesman for special
Nixon refused to comply with
the Cox subpoena and the pros-
ecutor initiated a court battle
which ended only after Cox was
fired under President Nixon's
order
Nixon subsequently volun-
tarily turned over the tapes to
the court.
The subpoena issued Friday
was the first one directed at the
President by the special
prosecutor's office since last
July when former special pros-
ecutor Archibald Cox subpoe-
naed tapes of nine presidential
conversations.
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SKIPPERK. YEE
...speaker
bodyguard. Inspector James
Beaton
Beaton was one of four
persons wounded as the
would-be kidnaper fired
repeatedly at the royal
limousine The others were
Anne's chauffeur and a
policeman and a passing
journalist who tried to in-
tervene Beaton and the
policeman were reported in
serious condition
The 23-year-old princess
and her husband of five
months, Capt Mark Phillips,
were not hurt But police
experts said the holes left by
one of the bullets fired into
the car indicated it passed
between them, missing them
by inches
A police informant said it
was believed 11 shots were
President back
in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres-
ident Nixon is back from a
buoying two-day trip to Texas,
where he met with Republican
leaders, awarded medals to
Skylab astronauts and in-
spected preparations for a joint
U S -Soviet space mission
The President also caught the
public's eye when he dropped
into a Houston drugstore for a
cup of coffee - leaving the
waitress a Texas-sized 31 tip -
and hopped out of his limousine
to sign autographs for school
children
"It always gives you a lift to
come to Texas.'" Nixon told
newsmen during his visit
Wednesday to the Lyndon B
Johnson Space Center "There's
a lot of drive, a lot of spirit, a
can-do attitude and that's what
the country needs'
However, the President said
be now may trim back his heavy
schedule of travel and personal
appearances.
prosecutor Leon Jaworski said «
the subpoena directed to Presi- d '
dent Nixon was served on the
White House last Friday Dead- 3
line for compliance is Monday WM
The spokesman declined to Ei
say what the subpoena de- W
manded. •a.
Earlier, James D St. Clair, T2
President Nixon’s chief Water- #,
gate lawyer, acknowledged inaV
television interview that a sub-
poena had been received from d
the special prosecutor.
St. Clair appeared on the NBC Ua
"Today's show.
Jaworski disclosed on Feb. 14 2
in a letter to Sen. James O. 4
Eastland, D-Miss , chairman of ■
the Senate Judiciary Com- -I
Monday is
deadline on
MRS SKIPPER YEE
...due here
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mittee, that Nixon had refused J
to give him material he consid-
ered vital to his investigation. j
Jaworski told Eastland that '
the material Nixon had refused 1
to supply included 27 tapes
sought for the investigation of
the Watergate cover-up as well
as evidence relating to investi-
gations of contributions from 1
the dairy industry and the ac- ,
tivities of the so-called White '
House plumbers unit
The President has contended
in several recent public appear-
ances that be has given Ja-
worski all the material be needs
to complete his investigation
Nixon has said he has given
the special prosecutor 19 tapes
and some 700 documents.
’ States experienced double fig- four months ago after the start has forecast record crops of .
4 ure inflation. of the Arab oil embargo. wheat and com this year, but
It was the highest 12-month Grocery prices - the major the full impact of those crops
increase in the cost of living portion of the food index — will not reach consumers for
since consumer prices rose by jumped three per cent in Feb- many months They are, how-
2 10.2 per cent in the 12 months ruary, substantially more than ever. counted on heavily by the
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Residents of Brownwood will
LONDON i AP) —Ian Ball,
a 26-year-old unemployed
Englishman. was brought
into court today and charged
with attempted murder
during an attempt to kidnap
Princess Anne from her car
in the heart of London
Wednesday night
Ball, lean-faced and
bearded, stood stiffly in the
dock at the Bow Street
Magistrate's court, hand-
cuffed to two detectives He
spoke only once during his
60-second appearance,
saying in a London accent:
“I want to apply for legal -
aid."
The court ordered him
held for another hearing on
March 23 on the charge of
attempting to murder
Princess Anne's personal
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Sadmhaameha
unermometer into the upper 50s temperatures were generally area predict a wanning trend
or lower Mb by Friday af- the coldest recorded in this area for Saturday and Sunday with
ternoon. In almost a month highs returning to the 70a at
Brownwood had a humid 45 as Most of the area has ex- least by Sunday
fired by the assailant.
Experts were studying two
revolvers found at the scene
They said five shots had been
fired from one and six from
the other Authorities said
earlier only six shots were
fired.
Police also found in the
white Ford that Ball rented
for the evening a typewritten
ransom demand addressed
to Queen Elizabeth II.
Anne's mother, along with
three pairs of handcuffs, a
driver's license and en-
velopes addressed to two .
companies
Officials declined to
disclose any further details
of the discoveries But the
Daily Telegraph said the
letter asked for a $2.3million
ransom.
Ten Cents Daily Twenty Coots Sunday
. ending January 1948. usual for the month. The price administration for a boost in
ks- , Nearly half the February in- of restaurant meals and snacks livestock production through
•L 2 2,4 crease was attributed to higher -food away from home - was mid-1975,
aamf- food prices with the price of
beef raising 7.5 per cent, the
sharpest jump since a 9.4 per
cent increase in June 1947.
Gasoline and other energy
items were responsible for
about a fifth of last month's in-
crease in prices
The Consumer Price Index
climbed last month to 141.5 of its
1967 average, meaning that it
cost consumers $141.50 to buy
the same amount of retail goods
and services that 3100 bought in
1947.
While consumer prices con-
tinued their sharp rise, real
spendable earnings of workers
dropped another six-tenths of
one per cent in February and
were down 4.5 per cent from a
year ago This was the largest
decline over a year since the
government began keeping that
statistic in 1944. -__
The February price report
showed inflation holding a firm V A—. M__m I A
_________ grip across the economy . Food YeeS omOnIQ UJIF
By The Associated Press wind started coming up and Center and Tenaha They participate in many of the prices rose 2.5 per cent; nonfood •
Damaging tornadoes and wild wood and tin started to fly over dipped down while a tornado presentations during Friday’s commodities, 1 per cent, and
thunderstorms marked the ar- us. was in watch for a sector 120 activities of the annual meeting seryices seven-tenths of I per enARLAre e« JJPl
rival of spring right on schedule "The ipatrol) car blew side- miles wide centering on a line of the Juvenile Institutions cent... 3HUMKCI3 Ul fl l
in parts of East and far West ways a couple of times. You from northwest of San Antonio Division of the Texas Correction The. Nixon administration has I
The anneals court agreed to Texas during the night, but you started wondering what you did to just east of Lufkin Assn., concluding the two-day sald it expects inflation to con-
hear areuments today from had to look at the calendar to wrong lately. Everything was gathering which opened this tinue its sharp pace throughout Two people long identified his AB degree at the
Watergate defense lawyers who tell it wasn’t really winter over taking place 10 to 15 feet above Light snow-not enough to morning. the first half of the year before with Howard Payne College’s University of the Pacific
hooe to reverse US District the north half of the state today the ground and it lasted for a whiten the ground-fell from Host for the approximately beginning to ease during the fl- Douglas MacArthur Academy He is a member of numerous
Judge John J. Sirica's order A sharp chill reached deep minute.” around Lubbock into New Mex- 100 persons attending the nal six months. Director John T. of Freedom will be featured as civic club. In Stockton and fills
sending the report to the House into the state There were snow Snowden said he learned later co this morning, and occasional sessions is the Brownwood State Dunlop of theuCost.of Hving speakers during the 19th annual several fraternal and
in scheduling arguments for flumes in the Panhandle-Plains a.Snowdensaidheiearnedtater flurries appeared late Wednes- Home and School Council said Wednesday that HPC Democracy-In-Action organizational posts
1.397^™, heappeas sector and freezing weather theazsparksacsmetfromistatle day near Amarilo, Dahart and Dan Barger. assistant February’s surge in food prices Week. ,Mra Y“' 8 ^nd^born
court said it will consider re- reached as far south as Abilene tdo other points in the Panhandle general superintendent, is co- woidbe . followed by.more -- HPC President Dr Roger L Japanese American, met and
quests for an additional delay in behind a cold front which was tornado: ordinating the program, school mederate increases in March. .Brooks hns announced that Mr married Yee while attending
mrvn.niM the report and "iw shoving into the Lower Rio State police reported another Rato was mixed with the Supt Mart Hoffman said April and May and Mr Skipper K Yee of the Universtty of the Pacifie.
hear areuments on the legal Grande Valley by early this twister hit ground seven miles snowflakes in part of the Lub- Friday's program calls for a "Our own estimate is that it stiktn cPPEtK a-aot She is the executive vice
hem arguments on the legal morning. 5 north of Lufkin but there was no bock area. and it was drizzly at presentatiohbyBobcavinana will be the last month with a Storgtonnmlf.bothn cademy president of SKY and is
John J Wilson and Frank One of the twisters damaged word of injuries or damage Wink. Scattered showers fell to Alice Walker, who are heading really poor record," Dunlop Fri. - ' Mims president ofher own firm —
Strickler attorneys for former several homes and felled trees Trucker Mike Owens said the the Abilene vicinity, where the recently established boys said. Auditorium Ye. “oresident of Lols Yee Cosmetics.
presidential aide H R Haide on top of cars in the west part of wind knocked his vehicle off the some of the rain froze as it hit program at the school The Soaring gasoline and motor „ Co J; . Keynote speaker for the
man and John Bray counsel Beaumont, but authorities said road near Zavalla but he the ground, and moved on to- Brownwood facility had been ol prices played a large part in Stockton "sFrastestg ro wino nationally recognized program
romnardonstracan’ another there were no injurles. escaped unharmed, ward the east near Mineral for girls only before the the over-all increase in con- fl™ 8 g will be • former prisoner of
former White House aide asked "We suddenly saw sparks fly- Accounts of still other tor- Wells. program opened a few months sumer prices last month, rising war, U Col Ben Pollard,
the anneals court to order Sirica ing." said Beaumont policeman nadoes, none apparently caus- ago. 5.3 per cent to a level 30.9 per Bom in Canton, China, he currently an associate
not tosend the vrand lurv Lynn Snowden “It looked like ing any serious damage, came in a usually dry part of far Glen Cagle of the Brownwood cent above last February. Fuel came to the United States at the professor on the faculty of the
Pon.r to the House Sudiciar transformers blowing up from San Augustine, Pineland, West Texas there also were »»ce of Texas Rehabilitation 011 and coal jumped 3 8 per cent, age of nine. He spent four years USAF Academy . He will deliver
Emmitt. ’ around us and behind us The near Nacogdoches and between thunderstorms with small hail the smallest increase in five in the military service during his talk at 10 a m to Mims
-ommitte at Presidio and between Alptoe See SESSIONS on Page 2-A months to a level 58.8 per cent World War II and later earned Auditorium Monday
and Marathon during the night
Spring in Mid-Texas? dropped to 26 degrees at Ama- r
• ■ • rillo and Dalhart,»at Abilene.
* nil* __ Lubbock, Childress and Wichita
Try telling weatherman zethepomsranaeutrma
Clearing skies are expected to a high temperature Wednesday perienced an unusually mild higher 3te into the low 50s ex-
allow temperatures to plunge afternoon ahead of the front, but beginning of 1974. with tern- CePt n the Lower Rio Grande
across Mid-Texas tonight as the this morning's low was 34 peratures averaging well above '■alley, where it was still Mat
area shivers under an early degrees, made even colder by normal. McAllen and 70 at Brownsville
spring cold wave strong but gusty winds which Because the temperature was wednesdav afternoon s too
The cold blast. which roared buffeted the area throughout generally aboye then freezing marks went as high as a sum
through the area not long after the night. marksun der The,cloud.coven, merlke 96 degrees at McAllen,
spring officially arrived at 7:97 Light mist and a few scat- andswiththesustyntindsumost which was th warmest spot in
pm. Wednesday, sent tem- tered showers marked “ e apparent • Ped the nation, while the mercury
peratures to near the freezing movement of the cold front “m g ““ didn't get above 40 at Amarillo
level by daybreak today and Wednesday afternoon and blossoms and zoung gardens
forecasters said it could be even evening, but most places sonesdayanisnh.
colder tonight received only a trace. which .But it could.be.a different
Low, deep into the 30s are was recorded to Brownwood. story,tonight “ the clearing
expectedover the area if the About the only measurable weather allowstemper atures to
clearing trend develops as rainfall reported to this area drop as predicted, “ conditions
predicted. was .15 of an inch at De Leon come,out the.)National
nd in -I n ineh of Mav Weather Service expects, there
But by the same token, mostly and 10 of an inch at May. , could be at least scattered frost
clear skies on Friday are ex- Although spring made its in Mid-Texas by daybreak
pected to contribute to a warm- formal debut Wednesday Friday
up which should send the evening, this morning', low Extended forecasts for the
gathers speed
...Food, fuel lead sharp jump
WASHINGTON I AP) — The higher than a year ago up seven-tenths of one per cent
pace of inflation quickened to Average prices for gasoline The big increase to beef
February with food and fuel alone increased 5.5 per cent prices foowed a maler In-
prices pushing the cost of living The average price for regular crease in January and declines
up 1.3 per cent, the second big- jumped 49 1 cents per gallon in the last three months of 1973
gest monthly jump since 1951, and for premium 52.7 cents per Fresh vegetable prices also
the government «ld today gallon. were up test month instead of
The Labor Department said Prices of regular gasoline declining as they usually do.
test month's rise sent consumer have now risen 22 per cent and About the only decline in food
prices 10 per cent higher than a premium gasoline 19 4 per cent prices was that lor poultry.
year ago and marked the first since the Labor Department be-
time since 1944 that the United gan publishing average prices The Agriculture Department
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Maximum temperature
here Wednesday 45. over-
night low 34. Sunset today
7:48, sunrise Friday 7»
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