Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 126, Ed. 1 Monday, May 27, 1974 Page: 1 of 8
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Takeshita, 44, of Richland, Calif., was
one of 110,00;0 Japanese Americans
deemed security risks and evacuated from
the West Coast in World War II after the
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
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LAST FEW DAYS - Stephenville elementary school students are facing the last few
days of school, with classes for the session to end at the close of school Thursday. Here
Trey White, nearest the camera, and Robert Chambers, go through the motions of work
at Chamberlin Elementary, but me has to wonder just how closely they are watching
what they are dolng. Trey to the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dee White and Robert is the son of
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Then he made out chocks to himself,
forging the signatures of business officials,
and cashed them at the banks on which
they wore drawn. Tellers, familiar with
the signature, cashed them readily.
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revolved mainly bus station and the first leg of Ms journey Grande Prairie was recovered Sunday off ne
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lory phone can to feeling-it made me fool Ifae a tapor or a said she was drowned Saturday when she ki
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Bogus checks written by the forger,
described by police as a white nule in his
.204, began turning up Thursday, and
police and bankers said they are waiting
for more checks Tuesday.
"The forger’s method sounds a little
unique,” said George B. Preston,
president of Fidelity Federal Savings and
Loan and also president of the U S. League
of Mviqjs and Loan Associations.
“There are all sorts of con games
against businesses, banks and savings and
loans around the country,” said Preston.
“But not this particular type of thing.”
Bank reports gave this as one account of :
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businesses in the area, stealing blank -
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James L. Davis, 49, of Pasadena, Tex,
died when the motorcycle he was riding Mt
a bull early Saturday.
Lester E. Jennison, 61, of Dallas was
shot to death early Saturday white he stood
at a bus stop on a Dallas Streep. A
15-year-old youth and a 17-year-old woman
were questioned.
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name as an alias was hampered because
"with a name like Smith, you would tie up
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bankers say an expert forger used unique
methods and the name John A. Smith to
swindle several Palm Beach County banks
out of as much as $150,000.
- “We have an account in that name and
"We think it’s the same man” who flooded
area banks with bogus checks, Robert
Fogelman, president of Tri-City Bank of
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U.S. Tuesday Without Pact
DAMASCUS—Syria AP - Secretary of “He has no plans to return to indicate why Gromyko was coming back
f AState Henry A. Kissinger and Syrian Damascus,” a spokesman said, on the stage.
President Hafez Assad met today to Today’s final meetings with Assad were Observers speculated that Gromyko,
I discuss an Israeli-Syrian troop dis- marked by an official Syrian statement who last met with Kissinger May 7 on the
Henggement but there was no immediate charging Kissinger with injecting the issue island of Cyprus, either wanted to share
Siword on whether progress had been made of Palestinian guerrillas in their the spotlight if a settlement was at hand or
I toward a final agreement. deliberations to block a settlement the Soviets consider
Kissinger scheduled further talks with Kissinger was advised to address his contrary to their interests.
Assad before shuttling back to Israel this concern to the guerrilla leadership. The On the military front, the Syrian
evening-just about the time Soviet statement from the Syrian Arab News command reported fresh fighting with
Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko was Agency said the Syrians were not prepared Israeli forces on ML Hermon and the
scheduled to arrive here. to discuss the guerrilla issue. It added that Golan Heights for the 77th straight day
A spokesman said there was no several difficult points remained for Monday.
possibility of a meeting between Kissinger discussion. Informed sources said Sunday night that
and Gromyko. • _ _ the snap nv»r a Syrian dematxi
Kissinger was to meet with Israeli The Soyiet news agency Ta“ revealed that a buffer zone to separate the two
tenders this evening and leave for Gromyko svisit,!sayinghe wascoming at armies be narrowed. The sources said that
Washington on Tuesday, ending his 31-day the t invitation of the leadership of the under an earlier understanding, the strip
peace mission. It Syrian Arab Republic. dividing the opposing forces was to vary
Kissinger conferred twice with Assad for Syrian sources, however, said he width from one and a half to three and a
a total of three hours and scheduled two apparently was coming without an half miles.
5 more sessions today. — , invitation and U.S. officials declined to Narrowing the zone would give Syria a
bigger defensive area in front of
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But Israel contends that a smaller
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WASHINGTON AP-Treasury Secretary financial conservative, said “I don’t Jordan Valley-
William E. Simon says the government consider this baying at the moon,” in whetone18t0 mannedha r?" , -
should aim toward a balanced budget in alluding to a recent statement by Budget pasaonsxoris..Du "t De under -ynan,,..
1976 as a key to controlling the nation’s Director Roy L. Ash that talk of budget —vanauhuyi, .
“totally unacceptable" inflation rate. • cuts in 1975 was like baying at the moon. iormqusuureesnnuerusmem.sad
Indletian conHt h Ik. _ agreement was ciose on me uninnung out O
inflation cannot be contained to the long Even the best efforts of the government Syrian and Israeli forces on both sides of
run uniess there is control over this cannot bring inflation much the cease-fire line. The sources said only
mp Ann 2enngr,02n ao , below seven and one half per cent by the sidearms will be permitted within the first
2Nn 5 / Lem awiHt , 15 I 4 ADueun r« end of the year, Simon said. The inflation six miles of the line, and within the next M
wEulbright Claims for
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banking day, thus making off with cash LITTLE ROCK: Ark. AP - Sen. /Jw. Bumpers, 48, a country lawyer, was a that continued inflation at the present rate 43UUJWVIEI3 WILIWolCu vdVw
from both the checks and the account. Fulbright says his political poll shows him political unknown in Arkansas until four could place “the future of our country in 6 ____
Home Federal Savings and Loan only four-tenths of one per cent in front of years ago when he ran a successful Jeopardy.” SPOKANE, Wash. AP - Energy is only world’s population, will no longer have me
comptroller Bernard McCann confirmed Governor Dale Bumpers to their race for campaign for governor. Fulbright, 69, who “If long continued, inflation at anything one of a list of vanishing commodities to a freedom to use 35 per cent of the world’s
Jisinstitution had cashed what turned out the Arkansas Democratic senatorial is running for a sixth term, has been in the like the present rate would threaten the coming era of scarcity, an Atlantic energy.” ___
to be 82,000 in bogus checks for a man who nomination. Senate since 1944 and to one of its most very foundations of our society.” Bums Richfield official has told an energy But predictions of world disaster by
recently had opened an account there. Bumpers, however, says his poll showed powerful members. told graduating students at Illinois College symposium at the Expo 74 worlcFs fair. prophets of doom are wrong because they
“The rumor now to that at least 14 out of him substantially ahead going into the But he has been the underdog from the to Jacksonville, Ill. “We seem to be running out of ignore “the great -actor-mankinds
ahecountv’s 29 banks have been hit.” said Tu—day primary nutset of this campaign againt Rumnera He said inflation could be defeated but practically everything,” including food, remarkable ability to cope with his
:HfLoyXnderson, president of the First The remarks’came during a joint who has been a popular goveror. not easily. He called upon Congrem to farm tend and raw materials, Leroy K‘ condition,” Cheney said.
Federal Savings and Loan on Friday, appearance by the two on ABC-TV’s Their race highlights primary elections exercise fiscal responsibility, and said Cheney, ARCO manager of environmental --------------
dAnd the number is about the same with “Issues and Answers” program, telecast in three states Tuesday, including "the federal budget has to be handled and energy conservation, said Sunday. “ meSt enr.i nlImIF
sagings and loan institutions." from lttle Rock Sunday. Kentucky and Oregon. In. Kentucky. moreresponsibly inteligent andmexibiethan iprevioumly
Ain . m ■ ma ■ a m Democratic Governor Wendell Ford and Simon, who succeeded George P. Shultz considers normal to clearly not 77. . Tiomne inaet.
.GHaumnar MleAm heae ae Mme Republican Senator Marlow Cook are as Treasury secretary earlier this month, sustainable-the throwaway society expir-
3LOWdIL nlSUU UUdu dl Hgc expected to be easy victors in their said he had nq bold new program" t ed of sheer overindulgence," he said... wir.holPrthrdecudey through
•...7 , . 6 respective Senate primaries, control inflation. He indicated he felt such He said people must learn to live with — °55
Am m ■ Am w r . ■ In Oregon, five major candidates-two programs often end up doing more harm less, and scarcities of essential materials "erhaps in 40 years or so, we hope that
enfie aw At vefgiAr Republicans and three Democrats-and than good. will require an “inevitable realignment of we will then be ready to turn to the
UUl LIIUw wwj UI LAvVUllUII numerous unknowns, are seeking to Simon said it would not be possible to traditional have and have-not nations. The essential’y inexhaustible resources of
..P • " succeed popular Tom McCall, a balance the 1975 budget, which projects a United States, with 6 per cent of the solar and nuclear power.”
WASHINGTON AP - Columnist ‘ and Doran Co, now Doubleday A Co., a New Republican, barred by statute from spending deficit of N.4 billion, but said he — n., — .. , m 4
author Stewart Alsop, a leukemia victim Yorkbook publishing firm seeking a third term, feels some cuts in spending may be Awag LInneann AlI A’ A
who once wrote that resisting death to both in World War II he served as a platoon in the Senate primary, Senator Robert possible He said he would aim toward a I EX 3 EAKBEKIdV EUEE Ul *T X
futjle and wrong, is dead of pneumonia. He commander in the British Army, rising to Packwood is unopposed for the Republican balanced budget in 1876. "“-"T "
wax 80. : captain. Transferring to the U^. Army’s nomination. Simon, who described himself as a B ■ a a A m m ■■■ ____
-Alsop, who with his brother Joseph was Office of Strategic Services, he won the ; InAInnrac I U AI IT A IflATimC
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hSwpitaftthe'Nationai Institutes of D-Day. IVIIIIUI •CHGUIVW IULUlIIVV Traffic accidents at the deadliest rate killed Sunday when his car ran off the
Health in nearby Bethesda, Md. He was After the war he began a 13-year m ■ a a a Agm since the fuel shortage were the biggest Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike.
admitted there two weeks ago for his latest collaboration with his brother Joseph, now AAark mnrgennmam avee holiday killer in Texas, pushing the count Motorists died early Saturday occurred
roSnd of treatments for acute myeloblastic a columnist for the Los Angeles Times IVI6I A 1111 UI 3UIIUIVIEL WJ6LW3 ever higher as the Memorial Day weekend at the same farm road intersection near
leukemia; a rare cancer of the Syndicate. ” ■ neared an end. Austin where four others were killed last
blood-producing bone marrow. They produced a Washington column, KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. AP - It was gathered here this weekend to com- The count shot up to 41 daad near year. They were Danny Simpson, 23,0
"Matter of Fact,” and wrote two books: years before Ben Takeshita would admit memorate their imprisonment midday today. The tabulation began at 6 Austin, and Odell Thomas, N; Myrte
The pneumonia was described as a "We Accuse” in 1955, about the J. Robert that he was once confined in a While the rest of the nation prepared to p.m. Friday and was to end at midnight McDowell, 40; and Manuel Perkins, 20, al
byproduct of the cancer, which the veteran Oppenheimer national security case, and concentration camp in his own country. He honor its war dead, the Japanese-Ameri- Monday. Of the deaths, 19 were in traffic of Elgin.
" . "The Reporter’s Trade.” in 1958, an was too ashamed. cans were conducting memorial services collissions. nine in drownings, seven in
in Klamath Falls for those who died of shootings, and two in a plane crash. Others
natural causes at the nearby relocation were killed in a variety of tragic ways. wEs"ugngzlEIn"ES,a..
camp outside Tulelake Calif. These were among the victims: "nen • couam pemmo. -Dez "5
They also visited the camp, which since ■ Arthur O. Soltwedel, 51, of Northridge,
has become the site of an elementary Calif, was killed Sunday in a three-car
school and an airport. accident on Texas 18S in Irving. Four other
The 1.200 barracks that held up to 22,000 persons were injured.
Japanese-Americans from California who people between 1942 and 1946 virtually Warren Charles Jr., 80, was shot and
have disappeared. Little remains of the killed famday in Houston. Police held a
_ camp except scattered lengths of barbed woman for questioning.
wire fence, an occasional dilapidated The body of Dan Ferguson, 41, of
building and painful memories in the Houston was recovered from the Kemah
minds of those who lived there. Channel about 500 yards from shore
The pain for the 50 returning ex-inmates Sunday. He was lost from a shrimp boat
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- Valery Giscard Estaing century, was to name his premier after the living conditions, poor food and disruption Benny M. Rust, 44, of W Worth was E. Small. woakiUod S
.. — ----------------------- of normal Ufa. It has much to do with killed in a one-car accident there Sunday, car he was driving.
name osiu dsuusion. Louis Arden Carter, 19, was shot to death bedroom wall of a Dal
"I could mettwfriends of my family at his Houston home’sunday. Police said family dininginside t
eekingoutof their curtainsat uslike we the shooting followed a quarrel with injury.
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Dwriungdbout hasgxtith the disease “nlnrbooktbsstewrmnfisop authored
last year in his book, “A Stay of included “The Center,” a study of power in
Execution: A Sort of Memoir," Alsop Washington, and “Sub Rosa: The O.S.S.
said, "A dying man needs to die, as a and American Espiona— "
sleepy man needs to sleep, and there Alsop is survived by____________
comes a time when it is wrong, as well as children; a sister, Corrinne Chubb, and
useless, to resist." brothers Joseph and John.
“Despite the illness, Alsop continued . . a
xgumeeuxtmhgadamenavoek voumnin Valery Giscard d’Estaign is
in a March column, he told his readers
madea"decision not to die” during n.M._____a__
einedtien in the hospital, and added: r2l
put back some but not all of
thavelost,togetabitofrest, a PARIS A______________
the tail end of,that second was inaugurated Monday as the 20th inauguration ceremonies,
then again to examine in this president of France, ending 16 years of Several political commentators spec- shame and disillusion.
the more mundane mysteries of unbroken Gaullist rule and ushering in ulated that Giscard d’Estaing would
al Washington." what he called “ a new era in French appoint as I
ev Biscayne, President Nixon said politics.." who 1
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