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The Hereford Brand
Magic Triangle
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
HEREFORD, TEXAS, 79045, THURS , AUG. 1, 1968
87TH YEAR — NO. SI
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10 Are Indicted
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It amounted to 17.10® per
Screening Is Set
Here Next Week
By Grand Jury;
Members Chosen
Serving
the
Esau Villegas
In Vietnam
Funeral Held
For Longtime
Loeal Resident
FRED MULLER and Kenneth Rogers
line-up top of storage cabinet in the
new *34.000 Campfire building now
and what they spent it for.
From the standpoint of in-
come. 19(7 was a good year for
nam
Since the usual tour lasts a
separation to family and state-
side surroundings and expects
tion of a year of discomfort and
Grand Jury and two passed
tn District Court action. Dan
ny Allen, indicted by the Grand
Jury previously, received four
years probation after pleading
Douglas; Mrs B. M. Wiltshire.
510 Star. Date Young. 509 E.
Fifth. Carl Streftiss Dawn;Mrs
under construction at North Park The
new building is scheduled for com-
pleted around Sept. 1.
(Brand Staff Photo)
cribed as a chronically depres-
sed state.
I woaM lead to call this per-
cent above the national war-
Funeral services for Mrs.
George Robertson. 5®. former
Hereford resident and member
of an oldtime family here, were
conducted Monday afternoon in
an Amanllo funeral chapel and
burial was in Memorial Gardens
Cemetery The Rev D M
Newton, pastor of South Geor-
gia Baptist Church in Amanllo.
conducted the service.
Mrs Robertson died early Sa-
turday at her home in Rockwell
Acres, south of Amarillo on the
Canyon Highway
She was the former Grace
Brumley, daughter of Mrs. G.
W. Brumley of Hereford and the
late Mr Brumley Bom in New
Mexico while the family was liv-
ing near San Jon. she came with
her parents to Deaf Smith Coun-
ty in ISO® as a baby, grew up
and attended school in Here-
ford
Mamed in this city, she con-
tinued to live here for a time
Mr and Mrs Robertson moved
to Amarillo about two years ago
from Pennsylvania. She was a
member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors in addition to her
husband and her mother are two
daughters. Mrs Ullbuni Hamil
ton of Amarillo and Mrs Elvin
Wilson of Friona; three sisters.
Mrs. Louis Olson, of Hereford
Mrs Goldia Baker of Dallas and
Mrs Virgil Joiner of Lubbock;
a brother Homer Brumley of
Hereford, and six grandchild
ran.
F
Total appointments made thus ; viduals and agencies who are
far in the children retardation involved in the formation of
screening program set for Mon- the proposed satellite class are
day and Tuesday is listed at 22. in no way connected with the
according to assistant superin state agency However, they be-
tendent of schools Robert Hol- lieve that it is important for the
man
These examinations are free
and must be made in advance
of a Satellite Day Care Pro-
gram in Hereford through the
Amarillo State Center for Hu-
man Development
Appointments witl still be ta-
ke*. Parents are urged to call
Holman's office at M44S®7 La-
tino and Afro-American parents
may also contact Jose Vasques
Jr. coacerning appointments at
3(4-25(3 (Casa de Amigos).
It is noted that all local indi-
EDWIN M. WHEELER, uciitant to the president of
Santa Fe Railroads (Jett) and G T. Slaughter, sta-
tion agent are shown in the Deaf Smith County Muse
um by the Santa Fe display This year Santa Fe
celebrated their 100th anniversary. Slaughter has been
station agent for the reread for 22 years
Deaf Smith County residents
had net earnings, after pay-
ment of taxes, of (4®.8N.(N a
gain over the previous year's
Easter Lions To
Sponsor Supper
Leroy Botkin, member of the
Easter Lions Club, has announ-
ced that the Easter club will
host a Pancake Supper Satur-
day. August 3 at 7 p. m in the
Easter Community Center.
Botkin urged everyone to at-
tend and said that tickets may
be purchased either at the door
or from any Easter Lions Club
the family Two of those 1® are member Price of the ticket is
now in jail. In two famibes. the « for adults and 5® cents for
daughter or son is the head of children
the household and in the other ——---
four families, the mother is the
head.
Fourteen heads of the family
are employed and in 1® families
others work to supplement the
Income. Of the two not employ-
ed, one is In jail and the other
is disabled. The average income
per year of the families sur-
veyed is S1.N4, ranging from
34.000 per year to 8940 per year
Simpson said the incomes were
estimated.
One question on the survey
singer. Ml W Third Rob Vie.
gel. Dawn; and B E. Cooper. I
121 Centre Foreman is Dowell
against them
Grand Jury members selected
Monday are Mrs Roy Botkin,
IN Elm; Mrs Louts Woodford,
n® Mar; William Dowell. 132
Greenwood; Lynton Allred. 3M
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pernaps coupled wnn me is wnicn conuirouri are a nmtj uy
suing at a rubber sheet or or Due to an inefficient garbage is a real stress for most GIi.
dering of night duty, took care and sewage disposal system co-I Capt Jerome J. Dowling, UC, i»
of these problems without forth upted with the heat and humidi-1 USA. who like me. was both a | a
er ado . '
“I don't waat to Impugn the
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; came from Buena Vista
In my division there were op-
timistic comments related to
: "getting this little war over
with.' Somehow they wen re-
miniscent of the first few mon
ths of the Korean Conflict after
! the Inchon landing
The middle period, which
mojvi riPtukuti (uh ( ui omguu
of Mr. and Mrs. Oren Jones of j experience.'
2U Avenue A in Hereford, who;
is currently Assistant Psychia-1
trie Consultant and stationed at
Walter Reed Hospital in Wash-
ington. D. C., has delivered a
speech which has been evalua-
ted in the Military Medical bul-
letin.
Major Junes has also wrtt-
tea aa article for the same
publication, which will appear
tn the Sunday issue of the
Hereford Brand.
to *
sibly Father John Broderick at
St Joseph's Mission and Mrs
Jewel Smith at the welfare of-
fice.
The l#-family survey conduc-
ted primarily by Simpson indi-
cated a badly balanced diet,
rather than hunger Simpnon
said three of the 1® families
could be termed as starving In
wintertime, he said the number
would be higher
None of the families surveyed
are on welfare Simpson said
He said eight have tned pre-
sently or dun ng the winter to
get on welfare, but did not sue
ceed The exact reasons for
the famibes mentioned not get
ting on welfare were n o t
known by Simpson
1
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•Oil ‘HSlNaO rHJOHOD!
f
1
Friday Supper
At Dawn Club
The Dawn Home Demonstra-
tion Club is sponsoring an ice
cream supper Friday night at
8:30 in the Dawn Community
House They have invited all
people to attend
Austin Rose will give a pro-
gram on water development
and Mrs Argen Draper will
late 19M to the Third Field Has- the Army surgeon general.
_i._i a-!— - —•— i_ He reported a L
dence" during the first few
weeks of problems with sleep
walking, bed wetting, nightmar
es, anxiety and other symp-
the written language tempts the
Gl to pronounce names of towns
| shops or people Since this is a
tonal language, he is usually
greeted by a blank stare or
laughter.
Seeing long lines of emacinat
ed but enterprising children lin-
ing the convoy routes and beg-
ging for candy, chewing gum
or cigarettes is hardy inspir- period of three weeks to three
mg. months, which I have called the
Franklin Del Jones—When
he was with Ireland Army
Hospital at Fort Knox,
Maj. Jones was assigned in distant psychiatric consultant
l&M* ®* *u- Tkool Um. I Ms* Awmw mreoarwi <MsrM»rul
pital in Saigon, a center for in-
coming troops.
"About once a week,”, he
said, "a supposedly psychotic
patient would be brought la
from nearby Taa Sea Nteat
Air Base.
"Whether he was agitated,
fighting or panic stricken or
mute and unresponsive, the sto-
ry was generally the same. He
had been normal until the air-
plane bringing him to Vietnam
DI AN, VIETNAM - Army I
Specialist Five Esau Villegas. I
22, son of Mrs Gudelia Ville
Millard Nobles. Ill Sunset; Ger gas. MS Catalpa St.. Hereford,
aid McCathem. Rt. I; Dub Curt Tex, was assigned July 12 v a
Third. Bob Vie- teletype repairman in the 1st
“* " ” z'*“— Signal Brigade near Di An.
“ Vietnam
Hunger Survey Needs
Heard By TAP Group
and five eat it once a week Six
said they do not have fresh
vegetables, even dur i n g the
summer Three eat fresh vege-
tables once a week, and three,
daily Fruit is served once a
week in six families, none in
five families and daily in one
family
Of all the foods, eggs are eat-
en with the greatest frequency
See HUNGER. Page 2
Building Permits
Up Considerably
Building permits for IMS
maintained a healthy lead over
1M7 at the close of the first se-
ven months July permits issu
ed at City Hall totaled 8307,(50.
bringing the total for the year
to (2,173,875 compared to 81.
897.980 for the first seven mon
ths of 19(7
Of the 8307,(5® issued during
July 1988 seven new residenc-
es accounted for more than half
the total. Repairs, conversions,
the addition to one commercial
building and the addition to
Kings Manor (880,000) account-
ed for the remainder. A total
of 14 permits were issued
Although the total for 1M8 is
considerably under the record
set in 19(5, residential building
is expected to boost the total
following the beginning of con-
struction of the Wilson It Co.
facility anticipated for early
,---,------------ .------i September Residential constru
guilty to burglary Short. Car- ctlon, following the installation
dova and Gonsales each receiy of the Holly Sugar mill accoun
ed four years probation after ted for a large portion of the
pleading guilty to the charges total in INS.
By VICKIE INMAN
Staff Writer
Hunger in Deaf Smith County
is getting a thorough examina-
tion by members of the Tech-
nical Action Panel who under-
took the study at their June asked if the family interviewed
meeting to see if the county had enough to eat Every sin
needed a food program. gle one that replied felt at one
In a meeting Monday at the time they did not have enough
Agricultural Stablization and 10 Simpson said
Conservation Service office. Four felt they did not have
members heard Craig Simpaon. enough to eat only a few times
VISTA volunteer, explain a sur- a year Four other families said
vey he and others had conduct the lune period was at least
ed to measure hunger needs. once a month, and five said
Tentative plans are being once a week (Me lamily said
made by the panel to question they did not have enough to eat
other people on the issue poo- every day and one gave no res-
ponse
The survey indicated two bor-
rowed from neighbors when
they were hungry Five heads
of family said they do without
and give to their children when
food becomes scarce Seven go
to other sources of food, such
as Casa de Amigos. St. Joseph's
Mission or other organizations
One family said they would ra-
ther starve than borrow
The frequency that each fam-
ily eats meat, fresh vegetables,
milk, cheese, eggs and fruit was
measured in the survey During
the summer, each family eats
meat sometime every week.
Five have milk once a week,
and five others do not have milk
at all during the week The milk
consumed is not fresh, b u t
powdered. Simpson said.
Six famibes do not eat cheese.
(Special to the Brand) NEW
YORK. July 27 — A national
study of business activity, just
released, shows that Deaf
Smith County stands out as a
solid, vigorous market, with a
level o( income and spending a-
bove that found In most com-
munities.
Significant gains were made
in its trading area in the past
year as local families, with
more money at their command,
indulged in large scale buying
The facts and figures are con-
tained in Sates Management's
new "Survey of Buying Power."
i The copyrighted study gives
' comparable income and sates
data for every section of the
country
Because consumer buying
was at so high a rate, most re-
| tab stores in Deaf Smith Coun-
ty topped their records at the I
I previous year The sates total
age obtained by dividing the
overall income by the number
of households
Just how one community
compares with another with
respect to purchasing power
and business vttaltty is reveal-
ed in the survey through an
"Index of sales activity."
Deaf Smity County's index Is
each other how they stand
timewise with regard to the
twelvemonth tour. “Newcom- ,
ers" are so named and people tod the sae of mavtmiim pre-
nearing the end of the tour are declivity. Somehow the soMler
called "short timers." Every- has managed to become ac-
thing occurs in the context of climated to the heat aad dust,
'imeawareness oftea with the help of PX-par
Jerry has called the initial chased faas aad a locally par-
chased lee chest tab of ice. soft
See PSYCHIATRIST, Page 2
Psychiatrist From Hereford Tells Of Vietnam’s G. I. “Psychoses” Types
Major FranHin Del Jones, son in Saigon — "to broaden his I European military hospitals i ton. Maj. Jones is currently as-
" Mai. Jones was assigned in \ sistant psychiatric consultant to
, he would suddenly
tor, wmen aiiracwa a reevro: tauu or fall and thrash about
240 medical students, plus fac- or just sit down and not res-
ulty members, from 78 medical pond. yy g
schools. "This would produce a lot of
Other sessions were held at the excitement and his buddies
Bethesda Naval Hospital and at would take him to a nearby dis-
Andrews Air Force Base, where pensary or bring him directly
the group witnessed the arrival to the
of two C-141 Stariifter aircraft room." he said in a presenta-, -
with patients from Vietnam and tion at a meeting tn Washing- [ Kentucky, 1961-02.
toms aimed at
manipulation.
paros oaa. I * — — -----, ~ “ Fk "™r— —v-i" -
‘peak inci cal officer," Maj. Jones said, has no respect for a culture In I has been termed "culture shock'
"perhaps coupled with the is- which commodes are a rarity ; by anthropologists Certainly it
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t. MC, deprivation. The enthusiasm is
U|neU W1W1 UIC ireci ai>u nwuuvu- vw, wuw »—-> w J 1. ...... M---- _
I ty, most populated areas are division and later a hospital these feebngs
easily recognizable from a dis- psychiatrist in Vietnam, has us
character of draft card burs- tance by the olfactory senses
ers," be added, 'but eves this In addition, a soldier finds it of the stresses of life in Viet-
behavior caa be sees as a teag very disquieting to see grown
term avoManee maaeuver.” men walking down the street
Maj. Jones said the period hand in hand, a common prac 1 year. I feel there is some vaM-
immediately after arrival is | tice among Vietnamese tftr •“ e1--1— —w —-
“quite stressful to some sold Even the language has surpri- tainly the soldiers accept the i-
iers." i Z Z—■“ **■'"
‘The fatigue of the long flight I bet with Latin-like characters,
may be implicated but per-
haps significant is the trans-Pa-
dfic time zone dislocation," he
added "The soldier who has
flown through several time
zones may find himself awake
when other people are sleeping
or vice-versa It takes a while
for his biological rhythms to ad-
just to a new time schedule.” I
He said further
Some elements of the Ameri-
U. 8. Medicine said:
An Army psychiatrist has re-
ported that psychological ad-
justments to a tour of duty tn
Vietnam begin long before ar-
rival there.
But psychiatric patients are!
especially apt" to be generat-
ed during the first few weeks
after arrival of a new unit, ac-
cording to Maj. Franklin D.
Jones, MC. USA.
The speaker addressed the
Bout concern various psycno-1 opening session at waiter need piane muigiug mm u> vieimun
logical problems in connection General Hospital for a two-day landed, but on the way to the
with the war in Vietnam. , kmuwmuh i«m 7wnummm . .. *
Jones, who graduated from Defense symposium arranged
Herwforrt Hiffh 8r4wml tn IBM hy Cnl David M Tormev MC.
and received his medical train-1 USA, MEND national coordina station,
ing at the University of Texas' tor, which attracted a record faint ot
Southwestern Medical School, ‘ J
his internship at Ireland Army
Hospital at Fort Knox. Kentucky
was assigned to tbe 25th Infan-
try Division which be accompan-
ied to Vietnam. After approxi-
mately seven months with the
division there, he was reassign-
ed to the Third Field Hospital
future welfare of the children I
and have generously donated I
their time to its service
They point out that it is now I
up to tbe parents.
The screenings are for chil- I
dren less than 4 years of age I
who are slow in development;
children who have a history of l
head injuries or dieseases af- I
fecting the central nervous sys- I
tem; preschool aged children I
from families who have mem- I
bers known to be mentally re- I
tarded; children with a history I
of poor achievement in school; I
children who show behavior I
dteturtencM.
Individuals past school age j
who are unable to adjust to I
community life; cannot hold a I
job because of limited ability; I
do not or cannot enter into so- I
cial life; and individuals past I
school age with numerous in- I
volvements with the law en- I
forcement agencies. j
The purpose of this service is I
the early detection of learning I
difabUities and mental retards- I
tion. The earlier these disabi- I
lities are discovered, the State I
Center believes the more likely I
they are to be helped |
The former shame of mental I
retardation is gone. This is the I
day when it has been replaced I
by proper aid It points the way I
toward their progress in the fu- I
Ten persons were indicted tun- Nothing is more impor- I
Monday by a Deaf Smith Coun- tant |
ty Grand Jury Their cases will
be heard Sept • in the District
Court or sooner if the plea is
changed to guilty.
Other action included the
selection of new Grand Jury
members who will serve on the
panel for the next six months
The Gland Jury determines
whether there is enough evi-
dence in each criminal case to
warrant bringing it to trial.
Indicted were Anselmo Gon-
zales. burglary Tito Arthur
Cordova, burglary, Eugenio M
Garcia, burglary; Jose Angel
Luna Peralez. driving while in-
toxicated, second offense; Wil-
liam Waldo Hampton. DWI, se-
cond offense: Eloy Sobz. Robert
Rodriquez and Frank Perales,
theft over 85®. Ignacio Padilla,
burglary, three counts; and
Ronnie Lynn Short, burglary
Four persons not arrested as
yet were also indicted One
other was no billed by the
! Simpson said the 1( Latin
American and Negro famibes
in the survey, totalling IN peo-
ple. were not confined to any
particular part of Hereford Two
, bve on South Schley, four are
| from the Labor Camp and two
One
family each bves on Progres-
rive Road, near a feed yard, on
Raymond Street and on a rural
farm inside the county
Average Hereford residency
is 4H years, ranging from one
month to 1* years Each has an
average of six in the family and
over five per family are under
18-years-old Ninety-nine out of
the IN are under 18.
Ten husbands are heads uf
Santa Fe Holds
Celebration Here
Santa Ft Railroad has cele-
brated their INth anniversary
this year and the 7®th anniver-
sary (or Hereford.
The first railroad to c o m e
through Hereford was Santa Fe
in 18N
To celebrate Santa Fe's Hteth
anniveraery. Edwin M Wheel-
er. assistant to the president (
of Santa Fe Railroad present-
ed the Deaf Smith County Mu
seun with a gold medabon coin
Wheeler, and public relations
(tren as IN. placing it » per man Goer* T. Grader, toured
the mu-.run several months a-
1 go white visiting in Hereford. I
Field emergency
enviromental, am people can tolerate a so-1 This immersion of an indivi- arrival period, that of apprehon-
ctety which does not depend on dual into a culture distinctly sive enthusiasm The apprehen
"A firm stand by the rnedi I deodorants, but the average Gl strange and foreign to his own non relates to fear of death,
High Market Rating
For County Area
for the year amounted to more ence on how much people spent
than (37.t35.00® an increase ov-1
er the 1IN figure of (33 811.0N
Solely from the standpoint of
population, this was more than moot famibes
should have been expected. Rec- >
koned on that basis, local re-
tail business should have a-
mounted to only 0009 percent
of the national, since that is
the proportion of the country's -
population in the local area h^,^. „ ^thmetical aver-
Actually, however, it went be-
yond that, accounting for 8122
percent of tbe national total.
Although consumer spending
was high, it was more selec-
tive than usual. There was grea-
ter emphasis on soft goods and
services and less on hard
goods
The lack of a solution in
Vietnam, the inflationary trends
at home and the prospect of
higher taxes all had an influ-
dity to this breakdown and cer-
ses. Based on a phonetic alpha- dea implicitly in their relations lasts until about the last month
with each other New acquain- of the tour .has been called that
tances quickly find out from of resignation and has been des-
Kesuz rtnvsz* /sriKaszl an a nhmeWAallv .Lrwwir
Both concern various psyche- opening session at Walter Reed
Lrenerai nuepauu iui « iwv-vinj icukntu. uut wi uiv tu uk m
Medical Education for National truck or hebcopter which was
t symposium arranged to take him to the 90th Replace- I
Hereford High’ School in 1N4 by Col David M Tormey, MC. ment Center or his assignment |
—--a —J Li _ IICA naftnnal . ctatirwy ha usrwtl/i citHHxsnlv
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