Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 249, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1966 Page: 1 of 12
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were that the higher rate win .<Thli „
affect buying of £ things as
homes and automobiles. .
The “prime” rate la that
charged a lending agency’s best
customers.
A mortgage dealer at San An*
tonio said, there now is “no
»bie for ffeople with
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In between, said a some indications from some of
Iraer, “you can- *- -■■-*-- '
not push the buttom without
wanting to extend their lines of
credit, but we are just not mak-
ing loans unnecessarily.” an-
other banker commented.
Federal Hand Needed
The bankets agreed that with
the prime rate increasing to the
sawtu® «
necessity” be Increased.
nUon to the pan. said he does not look for home
the federal rotes aib^ot the big factor in
latlonary ten- homo sales — the down pay-
curtaUod. meat la the key.” *
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grounds for mosqui
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the Research and
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and FHA insures at only 5to per
cent, the buyer must pay the
difference.
The executive said it often
amounts to a buyer paying a fee
of gl.000 on a |10,000 loan.
_ Mrs. Eva Rosow of Kline and
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ler are “hurt and hurt badly”
in the housing market. She said
many homes which could have
been bought for 3 per cent down
before now take up to 20 per
cent down, “and it take the
highest credit rating to get a
loan.”
Or Dealers Hurt
A San Antonio car dealer said
craft arrived Wednesday from
the 4500th Air Base Wing, Lang.;
ley Air Force Base, Va., tn
prepare for the spraying of an
insecticide known as Malathion.
The object is to kill swarms of
type of encephalitis which
hit this city of 750,000.
Extraordinarily heavy rains
which swamped Dallas in April
are cited by health officials as
one cause of the epidemic. The
x wsA ntLBpa«rro
REVILO Oliver, a Uni-
versity of Illinois profes-
sor end one of the found-
ers of the John Birch So-
ciety, has resigned from
the organisation. Dr. Slo-
bodan Drasko
signed, char.
Birch Society
ert Welch has “become a
dictator.” Both Oliver and
Draskovich were mem-
bers of the orgenixaiton's
policy making council.
SCS President
ALBUQUERQUE, N.'M.(AP)
- Frank H. Mendel! is the new
president-elect c^te^^J^’000'
clety of America.
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research grants and 144.5 mil-
lion to compensate for unfore-
seen enrollment Increases at
the four-year school.
Other proposed increases in-
clude: Medical and dental
schools, $70.5 million compared
with $45.5 million; coordinating
r beard administration, $1.7 mil-
lion, from $773,000; system at-
fleet and board of regents, state
senior colleges, $2 million, from
$44,000; A&M services, $49.7
from $18.2 million; other ex-
penses, including museums, $1.5
million, from $1 46 million, and
junior colleges, $65.8 million,
from $26.9 million.
The 22 senior colleges and
universities are asking for a
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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, 76401 THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1966 5CPER COPY V
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FORT WORTH (AP)
Kenneth McDuff, named by Roy
Green as the slayer of three
teen-agers, was sent back to the
Tarmnt Q - -
bond after
Wednesday.
McDuff, 20, of Rosebud, and
Green, 18, of Marlin, are co-de
fendants in the shooting deaths
of Robert Brand. 17, of Alvar-
i. ado, and Marcus Dunnam, 16 of
Tanana, Calif.
They also are charged with
raping Edna Louise Sullivan, 16,
=*rv ■ -—-jW Bverman, and strangling her
dealers arte being hurt because With a broomstick. . , ___ _ _
--,v... GfMn testified at the hearing grounds because offleen in Mar
has that he assisted McDuff in the Un, ~ --------
it »“ slayihgs Aug. B because ha fUd not ware
_ . the feared for his life. tibnal rights
price of the can remained un- He said McDuff shot the boys,
.......Wiped away ftogerprinta'lfrom
the car and then told Green to
brush away tire tracks which
had been left in the field. «
Green also said that after fhe
were killed he and Mcpsrff
i to a wooded area ’and
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U.S. Air Force planes begin
systematic
.‘.’[Us with it™™,_____
in a massive effort tp check
the spread of an encepha-
I litis epidemic. 8''
A U.S. Public Health Ser-
vice official said it would be
the first time aircraft have
been used to fight such an
epidemic. JIpUOyF-
Clty Health Director Hal J.
Dewlett told a news conference
Wednesday that the number of
"* ”» W1*® ClFatllS pO®8IMy
caused by the virus.
tSSBSF
KNI Swanns |
Three twin-engine C123 air-
NEA RADIOTELEPHOTO
CPL. GARY C. COOPER, of Portland, Ore., takes a
stroll through his company area in South Viet Nam
with Le Hac, a young boy who lost a leg as a direct
result of the Vietnamese conflict. The boy will soon
be fitted with an artificial leg, thanks to the efforts
of Cpl. Cooper and Sgt. Whitney M. Hoffman, not
shown. __
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McDuff Returned to
Jail without Bond
W - $9.8 per cent boost in 1
faculty salaries-up from $1____
million to $270.5 million, by far
the biggest Item in their budget
request. Their requests for re-
search funds total $24.5 million,
a 232.7 per cent boost from the
current $7.4 million.
The four-year sebodte" esme
close to getting all they asked
for from the 1965 legislature-
general revenue appropriations
of $234.9 million compared with
requests totaling $269.2 million.
Juco Imphasis
The junior college request re-
flects the coordinating board’s
thinking that junior colleges
have an important and growing
* role in higher education.
A two-year appropriation of
$26.9 million is currently auth-
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TEMPERATURE
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L WATER USAGE
. 1,380,000 4
North Central Texas: Clear
to partly cloudy and hot to*/
night and Friday. A tow late
»how«r* in southeast Low to
night 75 to tt. High Friday 95
to 194.
ged and “dealer has to ab-
thv> difference "
scald a dealer must often
sal) a car at a marginal profit
i to get, out from under the in-
terest charged the dealer for the boys ware kfllad he and McDuff
money he needed to buy the tar. drove to a wooded area and
“If a buyer has good credit, raped the girl. Green said he
WRL-SV
M erid he traveled 11
mites looking for a plaet
retire and settle down when he
selected Stephenville. The Eure*
have two children, Susan and
Jimmy, both pupils in the Ste-
phenville school.
All new equipment has beeu
installed in the restaurant. Sure
said. “I have traveled many
miles looking over other operat-
ions and getting ideas for the
Yucca Hut”
Service will be inside and out
si# “ridewalk atyte.” i
nis in Suruls third venture
1-15 fa the restaurant business He
----ged a Toddle House after
coa-
ury in 1936 At OklAunion
near his hometown of Vernon.
The Eures issued a cordial in-
vitation to the people to visit
the new restaursnt.
A" t wMi ".#b * *"*
— reaching for his pistol
agreed to participate.
He added that after
assault. McDuff laid the girl in
the road and pressed a broom
stick against her throat while he
held her legs.
Godfrey Sullivan, lawyer for
McDuff, accused Green of trying
to escape the electric chair by
framing his client
Sullivan asked Justice of the
Peace Jim Boorman to strike
from the record all of the state-
ment given by Green. The law-
yer contended the statement
could not be admitted on legal
lin, where Green was arrested,
1 not warn him of his constitu-
___j to rerialn silent.
McDuff did not testify.
Boorman ordered the doors
locked to the courtroom soon
after the hearing began. The
sheriff’s office had saki earlier
it received information that an
assassination attempt would be
m«de an both Green and
McDuff.
Deputies were Inside and out-
side the courtroom.
is fnosq
ClEVT Bl
over 500 square
and its suburbs
of 150 feet
He said the i
to the ground in
dropjets” and
every square ii
where moequitoi
The aerial spr
tinue for six or
Patrick laid.
lnDr*Xpi lanfwi,-
fectloua diseases at Parklan
Hospital, said the epidemic ma
not reach its peak until tha lai
!Kl
» nn^
property on the tax roll. yj
Regardless of how the amend-
ment fam, however, we be-
Ueve “wlUHl Ivnrafi
rendition In Erath County will anofftor banker sal
be hand to reduce much more, must tome from __
whether for agriculture or spec government if inflationary
ulatlon. ■ j ■ | dencies an to be curtailed.
hmds at 5 M per cent. It is
obvious, commented the Dallas
Times Herald, ’.’that if a bank
is willing to pay 5 3-8 per cent
for money, most loans now are
ddcrably above the $ per
cent rate.”
iL Dlteou'‘*9»dl „
tight money is discouraging not U1<1
only the buyer, b
, A San Antonio a
executive a
ir trying to M
it on FHA m
at 5M per cent I
discount the loan
order for a new 1
loan.
7 Since the bank,
firm is loaning t
nes to fight Dallas
Encephalitis Epidemic
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DyLBIJONEE
AUSTIN (AP) -flBtoee who
run Texas’ higher education
system want to spend twice as
many tax dollars - over two-
thirds of a billion —in 1967-69
than the amount currently auth-
orised. » ,
This hope, which school offi-
cials won't abandon easily, will
b* one of many spending prob-
lems for the 60th legislature in
January.
e Ivon More Needed ,
General revenue appropria
tions requests for higher edu-
cation total $689.5 million, com-
pared with $329.6 million ap- , >
propria ted for 1965-67
Sales tax receipts, but not
college tuition, go into general
revenue.
The $685 million
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The Midland mayor Itfi Rb-
glehandidly carried the ftjrt
for redistricting counties on a
population basis from the trial
Court in his home town to the
Texas Supreme Court. This is a ________
personal thing with Ha< Net
that he Stands to gain anything **
from redistricting, but that lie
'believes the people of Midland
are entitled to equal represent-
ation on the commissioner's
vMtment Corps., said it will
“be just a matter of days be-
fore the interest increase shows
up here. We’re already had private letter for short-term
auura UKUVBMW1B tavui km/iic v»
our banking sources throughout
Texas that their rates will be
going up."
Skinner said no homes in Aus- -
tin remain unsold because of con«derat
high rate*. ’■ oent
"The biggest problem has
been the fact that sufficient;
funds haven’t been available,;
not so mu# the cost of money,”
he said.
Down Payment Factor
O. C. Hardin, a building com-
10-10 Coffee
Still Popular
The second 10-At-W Chamber
of Commerce coffee for August
was held in the Frey Room of
the Farmer*. Bank Wednesday
morning. " ' f ,x
Described by CMmber mana-
ger David Montgomery as
“highly successful” the morn-
ing sessions are attracting a
SSI.
ery said he felt attendance waa
particularly good for the sum-
mer months. 1
(Mel Bennett, publicity chair-
man, outlined the work of his
eommitte and explained the
importance of cooperation be-
tween the Chamber of Commerc
and local news media. Vlce-
*president Arris Anderson em-
phasized the value of small
group metings for the exchange
of ideas and information.
Dean Paul Cunyus discussed
the factors that are important
’ to the growth of Tarleton and
pointed out that dormitory
space is of vital importance to
continued increase in enrollment
. He noted that a number of the
“war babies” of 1945-47 are now
enrolled in colleges.
Those attending the Wednes-
ay meeting included Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Swain, Mr. and Mrs.
Billy Fred Stafford, Dean and
Mrs. Paul Cunyus. Mrs. Hazel
Shannon, James Ramsey, Arris
Anderson and Mel Bennett. Ad-
ditional coffee sessions will be
scheduled in September.
WILCOMI HANK: Stephen-
ville will be honored tonight as from the White
the mayor and members ri to* **»£*.^“
city council host a large num- Johnson standb
bar of city official* from the
Central Texas area.
The^ event is one of thro*
8HK8MHM meetings
TAM each year
v Mil ReKlon 8
y-AArx1 w the T e X a s
1 M u n 1 c i pal
KM League, and
ft Wv ■■ tonight's i '
WM l«ir at t h e
■fl Tejas Country
Club wiU fea-
funds for junior colleges, uni-
........ “ es, medk-^
i, tha Co-
flccs of the University of Texas
and Teitag AAM systems, the
board of regents for state senior
“ colleges, several Texas AAM
Extension and research serv-
ices, and four museums.
Educators say that although
college and university spending
shot up in 1965-67, with support
from Gov. John Connally, even
bigger appropriations are
needed to keep pace with en-
rollment and competition from <
other states for faculty.
The biggest item in the
is for the 22 state-supp
senior colleges and univeri»uca.
Their requests total $443,782,940,
ia
H ■' 7* ‘hi
includes
—
According to fl«ure« com-
Piled by Av#y end Ms at-
torneya, the 19M population of
Midland County Indicated one
coNimlsslener represented 97.-
99 per cent of the people, one
.41 pw cent, and the fourth
cMniwIaeioner repreoented !
per cent.
We Agree with Rank that this fe^
hardly reflects a one-man-one
vote ratio. We understand,
however .that the commission-
ers are not as much opposed to
redistricting as are some of the
tandowners in the rural area*—
where the oil wells are located.
They're apparently a little ap-
prehensive about property valu-
ations U the “city slickers” hawi.
.more Say in county affair*.
Hank I* past president of fho.-;
Toxa* Munclpal Lo**uo, ffri^
ImrAtom* a^
officials and one of ttw lar-
post In the nation, and ha*
contributed much to soivlnp
th* prewlnp problems of cit-
ies throughout Texas. Wo ad- ‘
mlra
curro^^t staisti 043 re^ilstrictli3^j.
SPIAKING OF VALUA-
TIONS: We are a little puzsled
at one of the constitutional
amendments to be voted on
Nov. 8 which specifies’'that all
land owned by natural persons
designated for agricultural use
shall be assessed for all tax
purposes on the consideration of
only those factors relative to
such agricultural u*e.”
JA The Infiltration of urban
? captteltet tnte th* rural area
land marhat has probably
prompted equalization boards
y# TMto* svvtov w e wmeewvvw e^roem* w
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ilmrve Anthon^
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tha
Senate, overriding objections
----» House and the
given President
standby authority to
ibte^ctile duty InVte!
for 1967-
fund* for orized, double wha
>m $159.2 had b*en getting bl
the $42.9 million th<
Under the praaont i
the state pays 79
instructional costa.
5 New Schools
The proposed
state aid budget
state to pay i
eeets, inchiding suppites st
teacher salaries. It also pr
posed that public junior collet
teachers receive as much as
faculty teaching freshmen and
sophomores at state senior col-
leges. [
Five new schools have been
added to the current list of 31;
Dallas, McLennan County, Tar-
rant County, Central Texas and
Bee County Junior Colleges.
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youths were joining the Army
Reserve and National Guard to
avoid duty to the Southeast Asi-
an war.
“We can’t permit the six-
month reserve training pro-
gram to become an umbrella to
avoid active service,” declared
Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., a
former secretary of the Air
Force. -r*'
- Wednesday's vote amounted
to a hard-fought victory for Son.
Richard B RusseU, D-Ga.,
chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, and Sen.
Leverett Saltonstall, R-Masa.,
its ranking Republcian.
President Johnson and Secre-
tary of Defense Robert S. Me-
5ee!<lMO-«>Mier uoK o< tA
armed services.
The Senate faces another bat-
tle ever the huge defense bill
today — this time from a small
band of dissenting Democrats
wjw are seeaing w siasn more
than $590 million from it
Sen. George McGovern, D-
$99 recommended by the Senate
Appropriations Committee. Me
iroveni aescnoefi ms proposed
move as “a modest reduction
that would bring the bill in line
with the administration s budget
1 requests.”
Joining him were Sens. Jo-
m? S< wnt” G“^
Nelson, D-Wte„ William Prox
■lire, D-Wis., and Stephen M.
Yeung, D-Ohlo. -
The Russell-Saltonstall pro-
posal specifically would author-
ise active duty service for indi-
Hvidual reservists of up to 24
a consecutive months, les* any
time previously served on ac-
it could apply to thousand* of
reaervtets and National Guards
men who volunteered to take a
few months’ training duty with
the active or regular forces and
(Continued on Pag* Two)
High Interest Likely to Affect
“ Automobiles
He said some sales have not
gone through because the Fed-
eral Housing Authority and the
•- Veterans Administration, which
guarantee some loans, are be-
coming stricter. Hardin aaid
conventional leaders are “a
heck of a lot more Independent- Roaow“ Wflfors ta San Antonio
AU.UU, ueve oxmner, » «*•> ™,ke «*id both the buyer and the
vice-president, Lumbermen’s Ih-^ them <h0B" loar“) «*•”
indicative of the tight money
market is the fact that a Dallas
bank last week advertised by
compared with 1965-67 appro-
priations Of $234,931,950.
Formulas Issued by the Co-
ordinating Board account for
about 85 per cent of the college
and university budget requests.
The Board boosted the size of
the formulas this year. It also
changed the base of appropria-
tions request*. B . ..,. .1
Based On RnroHment
The board, following Connal-
ly's recommendation that fac-
ulty aalariea be kept “alightly
above” the national average for
tax-supported schools, set a tar-
get of $500 above that average.
Where the old system would
have based total appropriations
requests on enrollment in the
1966 fall semester, the new sys-
tem uses enrollment forecasts
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