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Brownwood. Texas
Twelve Pages Today
Monday. January 24. 1972
Vol. 72. No 15
Nixon unveils $246.3-billion budget
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Red ink ammunition for Demos
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federal debt.
are just the right tonic for the
The rich red ink, $38.8 billion tired economy. he contended.
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2 sought after
holdup, shooting
Front to
end warm
An AP news
analysis
rolling, a high White House offi-
cial explained, instead of later
on when, presumably, the re-
covery will have gained enough
Brownwood:
My choice,
your opportunity
"Deficit spending at this
time, like temporary wage and
price controls, is strong but
necessary medicine,” Nixon
said Yet his message slapped
repeatedly at the Democratic-
controlled Congress for spend-
ing more than he had asked
Revenues will rise "as the
new prosperity lakes hold,"
Nixon promised This trend
makes possible the smaller
deficit for fiscal 1973. starting
next July 1, he said, and "brings
us strongly forward toward our
goal of a balanced budget in a
their jobs, because six of them
are pitted against each other in
the primary.
Much of the bitterness no
WASHINGTON I APi- Pres-
ident Nixon handed Congress
today a $246.3-billion budget for
fiscal 1973 written in deep red
ink He announced two huge
deficits— $38.8 billion this fiscal
year and $25.5 billion next—and
said they will help speed up the
nation s economic recovery
His budget message asked
neither for further tax cuts to
stimulate the slack economy
nor for tax increases to meet the
climbing costs of government,
although his deficits are the two
largest since World War II
COMANCHE I BBC । — A suspect and his girl friend were
being pugsued this morning by Comanche County law en-
forcement officers after a robbery and shooting occurred about
9 a.m. under the Leon River bridge.
According to the sheriff’s dispatcher, Mrs. Nina Tate, a
Comanche County man, about 36, was flagged down between
Hasse and Proctor on US 67, ordered at gunpoint beneath the
Leon River bridge where he was robbed and then shot.
The gun used was a small caliber, Mrs. Tate said
The name of the victim could not be released this morning.
But he is believed not to be in serious condition at Comanche
Community Hospital.
A description of the suspect listed him as a white male bet-
ween 30 and 37 who is wearing a beard or goatee. With him is a
white female between 16 and 20 with long blonde hair. according
to Mrs. Tate.
Law enforcement officials were told the assailant and his
campanion were seen in a 1965-67 Dodge with a black vinyl top
over red.
ress which needs to show fiscal
discipline, not the Republican
administration.
NOSE FOR NEWS - Potty, who thinks anyone who is anyorie
should read, tries her luck on an old copy of the Brownwood
Bulletin. Judging from the look in her eye, she isn't making
much progress. The dog, a basset hound, lives with her
Miss Patricia Byrom at 1518 Ave. B.
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GREENVILLE, Tex. I APi —
Gov Preston Smith, according
to the Greenville Herald-Ban-
ner, was to meet today with 15
state legislators to discuss what
the solons feel is an urgently
needed special session.
The newspaper quoted Rep
James Cole of Greenville as
saying he would be one of the 15
who have arranged an ap-
pointment with the governor,
Cole said the purpose of the
meeting was to urge a special
session on congressional redist-
ricting. Smith has said he would
not call such a special session
because "it would be a waste of
money.” .
"I particularly want to be
there," Cole said, because it
was our 4th Congressional Dis-
trict that was so butchered Sat-
urday.”
A three-judge federal court in
Dallas Saturday ruled the reap-
portionment plan by the Texas
legislature and substituted one
of its own that would more
closely follow the one-man, one-
vote edict of the U.S. Supreme
Court.
deficit spending into this fiscal momentum to revive in-
year. before June 30, and less flationary hazards
reacted to a complaint con-
cerning only two districts and in
the process diluted the vote of
South Texas by stretching his
district more than 500 miles and
38 counties up into the Pan-
handle
He said Smith should call a
special session immediately.
Rep. Jim Wright of Fort
Worth also said he favored a
special session
But Wright's possible oppo-
nent, Rep. Ray Roberts of
McKinney, also a Democrat,
said he hoped the state attorney
general would see a 60-day
delay while the case is appealed
to the Supreme Court.
The redistricting plan put
forth by Dallas mathematician
Don Weiser and accepted by the
judges puts Purcell against
Democrat Omar Burleson of
Anson and Kazen against
Democrat O. C. Fisher of San
Angelo.
Burleson and Fisher missed
Sunday 's reception But Wright
and Roberts faced each other
bravely as potential com-
petitors. Burleson criticized the
new plan from Abilene.
"ri play by the rules, what-
ever they may be. but rd like to
know what they are," Wright
told Roberts.
Roberts told Wright good-
naturedly, “I’m not going to run
against you, Jim,” but when he
saw a reporter taking down the
conversation he said:
COMING IN for a landing on the carrier Coral Sea to the Tonkin
Golf, a fighter-bomber returns from a mission over the Laotian
panhandle where the air war has escalated with expanded North
Vietnamese surface-to-air missile defenses.
Nixon asks
for ceiling
on spending
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres-
ident Nixon urged Congress to-
day to “stop raids on the
Treasury” by imposing a rigid
ceiling to keep the federal
spending within the $246 3 bil-
lion requested in his new red-ink
budget
"We urgently need an abso-
lute limit on government spend-
’ ing," Nixon said.
"Only thus can we end in-
flation. stabilize the economy
and provide employment and
real prosperity for all,” the
chief executive said.
The presidential statement
came as Nixon announced two
huge deficits-$38.8 billion for
fiscal 1972 and 925.5 billion for
fiscal 1*73. Deficit spending, he
said, “is strong but necessary
medicine" for the sluggish
economy
The President's top budget
adviser. Director George Shultz
of the Office of Management
and Budget told newsmen at the
White House that the presi-
dential request is for a rigid
ceiling that does not "provide
any escape hatches whatever.”
The shift also will enable Nix-
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time of full employment. "
But his new deficits, bringing
the total red ink in his adminis-
tration to a peacetime record of
*90 billion, are sure to become
an election-year target of
Democrats
They also may provoke de-
mands for tax increases from
conservatives in Nixon's own
party The message did not
mention the value-added tax,
which Nixon favors, but left
open the door for him to ask it
later
When Secretary of the Treas-
East Texas, Purcell said.
He said Jones ostensibly was
trying to keep intact the district
held by Rep. George Mahon,
chairman of the House Ap-
propriations Committee, but he
said Jones' leal motivation was
"to give himself a district after
he's i Mahon» gone and Mahon
was giving him signals every
day.”
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The message gives his ad- into fiscal 1973. The latter
ministration credit for »22 bil- budget is the one that will be in
ury John B Connally was asked
at a budget briefing whether he
personally favors submitting
such a tax request to Congress
} he replied: "Not now.".
And he averted disc ussion of
the political aspects of the
budget with a quip He said he is
unhappy with the deficit but
considers it the best fiscal pol-
icy in a time of economic slack
A reporter said this was the
same answer given by the
Democrats a few years ago
Connally, the only Democrat in.
the Cabinet, retorted:
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Pecan Bayou project given cato.AwEnawaehscatrans
$80,000 boost from budgetwrbsss,end.inihdiwamd
TT ‘ “ cases, the payments will be
above or below these figures.
A total of *80,000 has been set up in the Nixon administration's varying with the amount of
$36,000 for county vets
Brown County residents who This time, however, the 2,050 Brown County residents
are world war veterans will payments will be accelerated so who were in those wars will
have their finances improved all the money will be distributed share. They are the ones who
11 by approximately *36,000 this within the next six months. The hold National Life Insurance
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\ Legislators
/ set parleys
with Smith
has said he would not call a a special session and straighten
special legislative session to the whole thing out—and I be-
deal with the problem. was a lieve he will," said Rep. Gra-
close second to the judges. ham Purcell of Wichita Falls.
Under the federal plan, three Rep Abraham Kazen of La-
Texas Democrats would lose redo said the judges had over-
The budget shows evidence of
and he implied that it is the tinkering with the timing of
Democratic-controlled Cong- outlays. This has crowded more
• Most favor special session •
. . , • adopted by the court seemed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS doubt was caused by the fact Now don't print that because calculated to deliberately em-
W ASHINGTON । AP i — Some that most congressmen from 1 might end up running against barrass the sitting congress-
of the congressmen from Texas Texas already had filed for re- him. " men ■
were throwing biting words election in districts which are Wright said the judges might "The court adopted a plan,
around Saturday night at the now altered—or virtually de- have been correct in assuming from some self-appointed guy
reception given in their honor stroyed. that the legislature passed a bill who’s not elected by anyone,
by the Texas State Society. The reception was not one of which guaranteed survival of Wright added in disgust.
Object of much of the word- the season's most gala affairs in most incumbent congressmen. Purcell blamed ambitious
age was the three-judge federal Washington, but the talk was Perhaps this was so to the state legislators
court that threw out the Texas rampant. extent it accommodated dis- They let certain state politi-
Legislature's reapportionment The sensible thing to do tricts who'd expressed a desire ( jans stake out certain positions
plan for congressional districts, would be for the governor to to have certain individuals rep- for themselves and didn't try
But. Gov. Preston Smith, who fulfill his responsibility and call resenting them, Wright said, objectively to get a fair plan."
But the alternate plan Purcell said
I think state Rep. Pelwyn
Jones of Lubbock fouled up
West Texas and state Sen.
a, "°o
Ueto, the Democrats say a
lot of dungs that are true."
In asking $76.5 billion for de-
fense. Nixon scheduled the first
sizable increase in new weap-
ons-system spending in years,
even while we move to zero
draft calls."
He asked *3 191 billion for
space, a bit more than this year
but aimed at less lofty ex-
ploration goals.
And the President Unveiled,
as a basic turn in national
strategy, a government-
sparked Adrive to speed
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proposed budget to be used for planning money in the Pecan insurance held and other fac-
Bayou project tors Fair resigns
The U.S. Corps of Engineers asked for *101,279,000 for The VA explains that the
. . . . . dividends were made possible ip nnc+ here
operation planning and construction of Texas water projects an increase in the amaunt of -r Post here
Only 10 projects in the country were budgeted for new design interest earned by the two life The resignation of Dave Fair,
and engineering funds and modification of Lake Brownwood insurance trust funds. In ad- justice of the peace of Pct. 3,
was one of them. dition, the mortality rate among was accepted this morning by
According to Joe Paul, manager of the Brown County Water the veterans has been lower Brown County commissioners
improvementdistrictne. i, a corps efengineenswiil be called “ananyisnalyrsntcimntndwiu wEitnecosnnedosepositan
here to see what work may be done in the planning project which gain in other directions, time job with Radio Station
calls for a dam to be built below Lake Brownwood. Beginning in February, some KEAN.
Paul said this morning the Brown County Water Improvement 2,380,000 disabled vets and the in other business, com-
District No. 1 through its representatives, Lynn Nabers, state families of deceased veterans missioners agreed to authorize
rnreontativ.. Conoroseman Omar Burleson and son 1ovd will be getting an additional part-time help for the 35th
representativei Congressman Omar Burleson and Sen Lloyd $195,000,000 in pension benefits District clerk’s office until May
Bentsen worked toward securing the federal funds. annual basis. 1.
BROWNWOOD AREA
Fair this afternoon and
tonight. Turning colder
‘enight. Fair and cool
Tesday. Low tonight in 40s,
high Tuesday in 50s.
Max-mum temperature
here Surday 81, overnight
low 43 Sunset today 6:01,
sunrise Tuesday 7:35.
Cold air is expected to begin year by virtue of a distribution bulk of it will go out before April policies or United States
pushing through the Mid-Texas of accumulated funds. 15. Government Life Insurance,
area tonight and could drop The money represents a Veterans of other wars, who are
temperatures as much as 25 stepped-up payment of SHARING IN the dividend, covered by other types of in-
degrees by Tuesday afternoon dividends declared on their G1 which comes to a record high of surance, will not participate
The National Weather Service insurance policies. The *286.000,000, according to the either.
forecast lows in the 40s tonight, issuance of such dividends. Veterans Administration, will The *36,000 that is going to
but Tuesday's high readings when available, is usually be 3,905,000 men and women Brown County will be divided by
should reach no higher than the spread out over the course of a who saw service in World War some 510 local veterans. It will
mid 50s. year and paid to veterans on the II and 154,900 who were in World not be necessary for them to
it was a 81 degrees in anniversary dates of their War I. apply for the money.it is noted
Brownwood Saturday afternoon policies. Only about a fourth of the It will be distributed
as the area continued to bask in 1 —---------------------- automatically.
the balmy weather which has
gripped most of Texas the past
few days.
But the cold front from the
Rockies should bring an end to
the warm spell Tuesday
Temperatures rocketed to
record highs across Texas Sun-
day — more like June than
January. Readings in the tow
90s were registered in South
Texas while puzzled Texans
watched the temperature climb
into the 80s elsewhere in the
state.
Lubbock's 83 degrees mat-
ched a record set in 1970 while
Alice was claiming 93 degrees
as the hottest spot in the nation.
The National Weather Service
said cloudiness would spread
today across the northern part
of the state with little or no
rainfall.
technological progress, to cut'
costs increase productivity and
restore competitive leadership
to Americ n industry
The budget accordingly calls
for a many-sided program to
stimulate research and
development by private firms,
universities and federal
agencies with tax incentives,
grants. subsidies and other
incentives Many of the in-
centive plans are experimental
and none was specified in detail.
(See NIXON on page 2)
lion in income tax relief gained the voters minds next Novern-
by Americans since 1969, omitt- ber. . .
The emphasis on spending
ing the fact many of the cuts planned this spring will provide
were unasked by the White the economic stimulus when it
House and some were opposed, is needed to get the recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) - The worth in fiscal 1972 and $25.5
huge deficits announced in to- billion in the coming govern-
day's budget message—more ment year, could prompt de-
than *64 billion in two years— mands for higher taxes and tra-
are a bad political break for ditional Republican "fiscal re-
President Nixon's re-election sponsibility” from the con-
campaign. servative wing of the Presi-
They are sure-fire ammuni- dent's own party. Conservatives
tion for Democrats, on whose have shown rising irritation
past deficits Nixon has blamed with the Nixonian economics,
his own problems with inflation. Nixon did his best to minimize
recession and the soaring a political backfire. The deficits
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