Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 119, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1974 Page: 1 of 16
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Brownwood:
Brownwood Bulletin
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Three Sections
Brownwood Toxas
Thursday, March 7, 1974
Volume 74 No. 11
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at Democratic National Com- drawn
GOPs cool to Nixon offer
with one count of lying to FBI beginning in April he would
1972, levels
creased the allocations of the
By raising the low-supply other states with low supplies.
Wholesale
previous
prices take
sharp rise
in February
gether.
to 68.
Welcome, junior college basketball teams and fans
No late
filings
government said today.
The Bureau of Labor
Statistics said that wholesale
per cent and the national aver- shire's allocation to bring it up
age was 84.3 per cent of March to 85 per cent, just as he in-
more of their March 1972, gaso-
line‘supply levels this month.
"We win be carefully assess-
mittee Headquarters
Ehrlichman also was charged
inflation in the economy,
rose by a seasonally ad-
justed 1.3 per cent, with
prices of metals and fuel
leading the way
Wholesale prices of farm
products, processed foods
and feeds rose seventh-
tenths of one per cent
compared with a steep 5.1
per cent in January Actual-
ly. the bureau said that farm
products alone showed a
small decline on a seasonally
adjusted basis, as prices of
livestock, eggs, and plant
and animal fibers fell
Ellsberg
Krogh has pleaded guilty to a
single charge of violating Field-
ing’s civil rights and is serving
In January, wholesale
prices rose by 3.1 per cent,
the second highest monthly
increase on record
If wholesale prices went up
at February's rate for an
entire year, it would mean a
sharp 14.4 per cent inflation
rate at this key level
The bureau said that price
increases of industrial com-
modities. regarded as one of
the most sensitive gauges of
traced to price increases for
fuel, primarily gasoline and
residual fuels; metals, farm
products and processed
foods and feeds
ventories, Simon said.
Simon added, however, that
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New Hampshire would have
been in the worst shape in
March, initially anticipating
only 61.7 per cent of its March
1972 gasoline supplies
Simon modified New Hamp-
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seeking re-election to his post, launched after Mrs. Margie
Two candidates have filed for Holland received a letter from permitted to use the military-
Place 5, Grady Chastain and W t f- ..
7d
r ..... nard L. Barker, Eugenio R
ds- - Martinez and Felipe De Diego.
' The' indictment charged that
Brownwood had a top reading quit because Dayan and his
of 89 Wednesday afternoon supporters opposed the minor-
while this morning's low dipped ity government she had put to-
"sh:,
from gasoline in- all will receive 100 per cent or supplies would fall.
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agents and three counts of lying start equalizing the dis- ing the supply situation in such
to a grand jury about the ac- tribution, aiming for a spread of states," Simon warned "In
tivities of the White House no more than 5 per cent above April no state will have an allo-
A listing issued at the Nation-
al Governors Conference,
where Simon made his an-
nouncement, showed that 30
states would have been below
the minimum 85 per cent supply
level without the additional
supplies which Simon ordered
for them
BROWNWOOD AREA—
the defendants engineered the
k break-in of the Beverly Hills of-
flee of Dr. Lewis J. Fielding
K "with intent to search for con-
— fidential information con-
cerning Daniel Ellsberg."
The burglary took place on
D Sept 3,1971, when Ellsberg was
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seasonally adjusted 1.2 per
cent last month, the smallest
advance in four months but a
highly inflationary rate
nevertheless
The increase pushed
wholesale prices 10.3 per
cent higher than a year
WASHINGTON (AP> -.
Wholesale prices took
another big leap forward in
February but the increase
fell short of soaring rates of
earlier. an extraordinarily
sharp rise for any 12-month
period but still below record
levels.
The February increase
lifted the Wholesale Price
Index to 152.7 of the 1967
average, meaning that it
cost $152.70 to buy the same
volume of wholesale goods
that $100 purchased in 1967
The increase means that
consumers will be seeing
many of the rises at the
retail level in the weeks
ahead
About 70 per cent of the
February increase was
under indictment in connection eral energy chief William E. Si- might be encouraged once more Simon increased the national
with the leak of the Pentaon mon announced today he is or- in recognition of the needs of the „£ .
Papers. dering gasoline distribution to recreation and vacation in- Marg"5919 9,5 Per cen 0
The grand jury also indicted insure that all states receive at dustry as spring and summer ‘ ' 5 5 ’
Liddy on two counts of refusing least 85 per cent as much gaso- approach These percentages, however
to testify before a House com- line this month as they had two And Simon offered the na- do not show the actual extent oj
mittee years ago. tion’s governors a choice be- gasoline shortages since they
Liddy already is serving a Simon said, however, that tween assuming authority to al- are measured against 1972
sentence for contempt of court states with better than hormal locate gasoline supplies within
for his refusal to testify before a supplies would not have their their states or leaving it up to During the past two years
grand jury supplies reduced toward the 85 the federal government gasoline demand has increased
Liddy was sentenced to serve per cent average this month. Simon said Alaska. Kansas, and Simon did not provide fig-
a maximum of 20 years for his Any additional supplies re- Louisiana, Minnesota, North ures showing how far short of
role in the June 17,1972 breakin quired for some States will be Carolina, Texas and Wyoming potential demand the March
Ehrlichman, Colson
named in indictments
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Eglin Air Force Base federal blunt the unpact of the coverup jury indicted seven former ad-
federal grand jury today in- prison facility in Florida. Bark- indictment. ministration and campaign
dieted former White House er, 55, was released on Jan 4 A speal grand jury in-
aides John D. Ehrlichman and pending appeal after serving vestigating the break-in at the aides on charges they conspired
Charles W Colson on a charge one year and 19 days. Beverly Hills, Calif , office of to block the investigation of the
of violating the civil rights of The latest development in the Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist "atergate break-in it also
Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. Watergate cases came after was believed ready to return gave the judge a secret report.
Also indicted on the same President Nixon had moved indictments which sources later said dealt
charge were Watergate con- dramatically on Wednesday to Last Friday, a federal grand with Nixon's role in Watergate
spirators G. Gordon Uddy, Ber-
months, the
prices jumped by a
Hospital bills paid
election passed Wednesday with
through fund here
morning. •
Mailed applications for Checks to both the Brown- hospitalization, the money will
candidacy postmarked Wed- wood Community Hospital and stay in a fire department fund to
nesday would have been valid, the Brooke Army Hospital were be used when and if there is
Ruth said, but added neither he sent this morning by Brown- another need, Ferguson said
nor the school office had wood Fire ChiefR.P Ferguson this morning
received any new applications The checks were full payment Sgt. Albert Day, army
by mid-morning, for hospital care of the late recruiter for this area, took all
Four candidates will be on the Kathy Jo Holland, 3, who died the newspaper clippings con-
ballot for Place 4, including of burns received in a fire which cerning the fire and reported
John George, Joe Lemmons, claimed the life of her father the incident to his commanding
Tom Jordan and George and destroyed Jie family home officer in Amarillo
Allcorn. Board president Dr. The fund drive by the Day was informed by his
James Gandy will not be Brownwood Fire Dept. was superiors that according to the
— Dept of Defense, a civilian is
. -__________ the army hospital stipulating facility but it must be a charged
T Robbins Ruth, who currently that unless their bill was paid by service.
holds that position, is also not Feb. 28, the account would be He was told that due to the
seeking re-election turned over to Fort Sam complexity of the military
Trustees elected will serve Houston for collection disbursing system the billing is
three-year terms. computerized and that it is not
Absentee voting in the district There is 1220 50 over the the army’s intention to single
will begin March 18 and end amount of the two bills and out any one individual
April 2 in the school Nemicne unless there are other medical I tried to do something to
downtown. bills in connection with Kathy’s help," Sgt Day said
Energy czar adjusts
gasoline distribution
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fed- He said the Sunday sales states to at least 85 per cent
GOOD CLEAN FUN—Howard Payme College students got the activities, downing i die mud paddle prepared for a tug-of-war
day off from classes Wednesday in honor of the Yellow Jacket are, from the left, student association president Terry Carter;
basketball team which tied for Lone Star Conference clam- basketballer Eugene Harrell; and ASU director Jerome Smith,
plonship honors, using the time for a variety of “old fashioned" (Photo by Terry Wilson)
memorandum to Ehrlichman tions on Sundays, which is still a showed wide differences in
which discussed a request to voluntary measure requested state supplies expected for this
prepare a psychiatric study on by the Federal Energy Office month.
He said state supplies ranged
from as low as 61.7 per cent of
the 1972 level to as high as 1107
Ten Cents Doily Twenty Cents Sundoy
Pz.FRANK CORMIER. *1 questioned available earlier to Watergate prospects for a lifting of the ____ _________
wsuSrAEMTesswrr. whether he would be open special prosecutor Leon Ja- Arab oil embargo special investigative unit known or below the national average in cation fraction above a max-
aawAxiNIOM ~ ~ Pes enough. worski. besides making himself -In upholding his veto of as the "plumbers." any individual state supply imum of 95 per cent.”
^Ve Nixon told a television-radio available for questions emergency energy legislation The indictment alleged that Simon also announced that he Simon said that before the
sworwtestimorn: in.writing or news conference Wednesday Although Nixon labeled his Wednesday, the Senate "vetoed on July 27, 1971 EgU Krogh Jr. is considering eliminating the adjustments which he is order-
ana. hitesousesmnterview, . night he will surrender to the offer as "very forthcoming," he longer gas lines and vetoed na- and David R. Young Jr. sent a practice of closing gasoline sta- ing for March, initial estimates
sPeed the House impeachment Hous.- Judiciary Committee all hedged at promising to provide tionwide rationing.” '--- .. . - ----— --------
inquiry. But some congression- tapes and documents made other evidence the panel might
seek. And he said it would be
Meir emerging with HPC to host
the House Republican leader, cnoir clinic
mninritx/ novernmen+said it appears Nixon "has op- Howard Payne College win a ^-month sentence at a fed-
IIIUI•I I I Y S•VEI I If I IVl 11 ted for disclosure and coopera- host the State Youth Choir er prison at Allenwood, Pa.
IEETArEwEAp" • ... tion." But he said "every rele- Festival for Texas Baptists this Krogh agreed to cooperate with
miEEsALEM(AP. Pr tors affiliated with labor. vant fact and piece of evidence weekend with events to kick off the prosecutors.
mier Golda Meir emerged That lineup commands only simply must be furnished to the at 7 30 tomorrow night The indictment also alleged
triumphant from two months of 56 of the 120 seats inthe Knes- Judiciary Committee if we are Twentv church choirs from that on July 28,1971 E. Howard
political crisis today as the Na- set,Israel‘sparljarent.Butshe to have any hope of resolving most of the major ctties in Hunt Jr. sent Colson a memo
... tional Religious party indicated told newsmen the leaders of the this matter."’ Texas wiu take Dart in the clinic which discussed a proposal to
Skwoud join her government Religious party, Labor’s Chairman Peter Rodino, D- whie"wiita Knd sturdapinit obtain Ellsb^sf Uro fr^hto
=: and give her a majority in “par- traditional coalition partner, NJ., wouldn't comment. But noon psychiatric analyst.”
“ament... . had agreed in peinciple to join Rep Robert McClory, R-IIl., Dr. 0. J Bryson director of The indictment alleged that
Mrs Meir announced a new the government before she sub- said of a formal letter from choral activities will be on Aug. 31, 1971 Colson ar-
CTbinet of socialists and liberals mits the cabinet to the Knesset Nixon'lawyer James D. St. clinician for the festival which ranged to obtain 95,000 to fi-
Wednesday night an hour before Sunday for a vote of confidence. Clair, responding shortly before wil feature performances bv nance the break-in
her legal deadline. Looking The Religious party’s 10 seats the news conference 10 a com- each choir andoamrnting of Baker, De Diego and Marti-
.. President would give Mrs. Meir 68 votes in mittee request for data; average, excellent or superior nez allegedly entered and
Ephraim Katzir in a subdued the Knesset, or a healthy "I don’t think it’s satisfac- given bv clinic judges searched Fielding’s office,
voice that she was able to form majority of 16. tory . It doesn't appear to be re- An 11 a.m. concert by the Both Barker and Martinez
a government made up of her The Religious party's execu- sponsive." 1,000 voice combined choirs wUl served about a year in prison
I-abor.partya.the independent tiye committee. voted130-17 to When Nixon outlined at the be open to the public according for their part in the Watergate
Liberals and three Arab legisla- retract its previous refusal to news conference his offer of at to Dr. Bryson. However, the break-in
join the new government after least limited cooperation, be rest of the festival and judging Martinez, 49. was released on
government sources circulated declared, "I believe that that will be for participants only parole this morning from the
Wenthermen reports 01 A Sxrian military will serve the purpose." He ex- Only the Southern Baptist
vv earner men buildupion the Golan Heights, pressed strong opposition to let- churches who received "the
The party‘scentral committee ting the committee go to the highest ratings during previous
cee channe was expected to approve parti- White House and . through regional choir festivals will be
see cnange cipation in the government to- it,on a fishing expedition." on hand for the event.
Springtime weather clung to daZinnhe Partyssteze out °vhe Continuing Watergate in- Festival participants will also ______
Mid-Texas today as forecasters „Dunet. car ESauSa Mrs: quiries dominated the 39-minute be treated to special closed Partly cloudy to cloudy and
began to watch for a possible Meipireusedotsroemomnt that session with newsmen, Nixon's performances by the a cappella warm through Friday. Low
weekend cooling trend which rsrigipusiyrnsiirementtend second in nine days. But the choir and Heritage Singers, tonight in th* 60s. high
could drive temperatures into 1 se ictzenshnp Nembtened seemingly relaxed President Euel Belcher, professor of Friday in the 80s.
the 30s by Monday morning. Althesveadingimempers.o dealt with these other major organ at Howard Payne, will be Maximum temperature
The National Weather Service thinprniols 'S Z “n topics: accompanist and various here Wednesday 89. over-
said this morning the cloudy to tainen .. newnone mimiosne -It would "not serve a useful faculty members will judge the night low 60. Sunset today
partly cloudy and warm YigYmin assdeputy premter, purpose at this time" to discuss competition 7:38. sunrise Friday 7:53.
weather should continue Abba Eban as foreign minister
through Friday with lowssin the and Pinhas Sapir as finance X
60s and highs Friday in the 80s. minister
And a chance for widely The labor portfolio went to
scattered thunderstorms for Yitzhak Rabin, former military
tonight was inserted in the north chief of staff and ambassador to
central Texas forecast, but the Washington. He had been called
weatherman said they would home to replace Dayan as
probably ramble to the north of defense minister when Dayan
this area. .. . announced last week that he
But extended forecasts now would not join the new gov-
look for cooler weather on ernment.
Saturday and Sunday with
Sunday and Monday highs Dayan walked out because he
probably only in the 60s and the was blamed for the govern-
low by daybreak Monday ment's failure to anticipate the
perhaps sliding as low as the Arab attack in October On
Ms Sunday Mrs. Meir also vowed to
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