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STEPHENVILLE EMPIRE TRIBUNE A STEPHENVILLE DAILY EMPIRE
Editorial
Obituraries
Have Reached That Plateau by
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Livestock Market
protecive barrage, the three C-
iDs lumbered over the valley,
spraying an arsenic compound
For i Vet Best
Dry Cleaning
Still Cleaners
*3. Clinton
Phom 5-3717
(ash K Carry Discount
hn Meli m, killing or maiming
neery everyone.
Dr Philip L Price
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Bora March 25, UM. in Fort
Worth, she had lived in De Leon
al her life. She was a junior at
De Leon High School and a
member of the First Baptist
Church.
Survivors are her parents,
W. and Mrs. W. T. Barnes of
Da Leon; one brother, Terry of
Weatherford; and her grand-
mother, Mn. Pearl Sanders of
De Leon.
DOMESTIC-MUNICIPAL
IRRIGATION
For Sol
Stock Troughs
Cisterns
TUNNELL SHEET
METAL SHOP
660 Linglevilie Rd.
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Submersible pumps and
pump jack Motors
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Dr. Sam H. Daniel
Chiropractor
135 N Columbia
Phono 9655310
Stephenville, Texas
Don’s Electric
on Sims-16 Years Experience
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STEPHENVILLE
EMPIRE TRIBUNE
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STEPHENVILLE
DAILY EMPIRE
965-2125-965-3124
By Anthony Harrigan
EXEcUTIVE VICE onEsiDENT
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James Magill D.D.S.
Announces the Opening of His
Office at
679 West Washington
For the Practice of Dentistry
to 45,00, springer cows 160,00
to 285,00 and cows and calves
by the pair 100.00 to 356,00,
buther hogs 17.00 to 18,10, sows
ULM to 15,00,
Active market, moat classes
higher.
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wife would live three veers after his death The actual
E yea fxamned-Giassen F ntod
224 w. College
Phore. 5-46 13
Furniture
Back Copies. . 200
Dully CopSes..-MK
SCBSCRFTON RATES By Carrier Denver
Daily sad Sunday. . Fer Tear.. $1400
DhUy and Sunday... Per Month. $1.25
Daily only..
Sunday only.. .80
SLBBCRIPnQ.X ByMaUiaEBAn.BOODt BOSQUE,HAMILTON,
COMANCHE, EASTLAND and PALO PINTO Counties,
Per Tear in Advance, . $10.12
Per Month in Advance, . .1L 60
Per Tear Sunday only. . .$6,00
For Tear Tursday Md Sunday. .. $8.00
BY MAIL OUTSIDE TRADE AREA IN TEXAS
Per Tear la Advance. . $17.00
Per Month In Advance, . .$80
Per Year in Advance unday only. . .$8.00
WOLF
DRILLING
ROTARY
Complete Drilling Service
Royce Robbins
All s,md-
Refrigeration and
Appliance Service
A ut hot i zed F • gd.ere Serve •
171 Davis Nvenue 968,452
L W. (Lam) Weeks, 74, of
Hico died Wednesday in Hico
Hospital at 11:30 p.m. after two
months illness.
Services will be held at U M
a.m. June 11 at Barrow-
Rutledge Funeral Home with
burial in Hico Cemetery.
Bora Oct 1. UM, in Iredell,
he was a rancher and cat-
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Ruth Weeks of Hico; one son.
Jack of Oklahoma City; three
staters. Mrs. Lottie Madden,
Mrs. Gladys Betts, and Mrs.
Jewell Rouse, all of Fort Worth;
and one grandson.
intolerable
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SENSING THE NEWS
Published Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Tenday,
by the ERATH PUBLISHERS, DC.
PUbHskad Md Ser end Class Postage Paid inStephenvine, Texas.
Telephone AD Departments 965-5124, 110 South Columbia. Box
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WASHINGTON (NBA*
some of the “myths” surround-
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965-6452
16, o De Leon, who died
Wednesday in a cartrain crash
inStephenville will beheld at
pun. June M la tbs First Baptist'
Cbmch of De Leon.
The Bar. Ralph Heickman
wil ofliciate, and burial will be
in Erath Gardens of Memory in
Stephenville under direction of
Funeral Home of
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suburbanites believe - with and property rights, his rights
good reason - that the low-cost to individuality and freedom of
According to Your Chart, We Should
Loans
A last point Critics like to my Social Security is not an
inference system but, of course, it is No matter that the
moneys are shufled about, with today's workers paying
benefits for the presently retired The key fact is that
what you get bears a relationship to what you earn tand
pax tax upon under Social Security
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OUTSOE OF TEXAS DC U.S.A,
Wayne Wolf
174 Mellhaney
Stephenvill.
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Riley’s Drilling
Stephenvi'le General
Business Service
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Tvping Cards
1437 Lingleville Rd 968-1214
Loans Available
For repairing your home, ad-
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Easy monthly terms. See us.
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Some Americans cling tenaciously to the idea that
workers who retire under Social Securits never get back
what thes pay into it in taxes deducted aver the years
from their pay checks That's just plain wrong.
Suppose yea have been a mb tag under Social Security
since it began in 1937. The meat van could have contrib-
uted through 1971 would be $a1h ta taxes It must be
reme sabered that the levs once was one per cent aad was
taken only from the first SUNN of income.
If you happened to reach 65 this year and chose to
retire you'd get back that $amn ta a little more than 19
months of receiving benefit payments. If year wife also
had attorned 65 and could draw benefits, your total
monthly benefits would give you your m—ey back in
just under 13 months
Let s co ogam however, to the case of a man and wife
w bo will not reach 65 until 1985. with the man having what
are called "maximum creditable earnings" for some 43
sears, through MM
give it voluntarily, so why Footnote: We placed several
would the VC grow anything at telephone calls to Vietnam in an
night? Why would f*— ----
MV----M “J “-J “---S 55 - thing a an9v agrpe
"-FMENDSORENEMIES participated in the Song Re
N9 per cent pattern over song The military also claims that raid However ,we were able to
-SATURATIONRAID- c"Me ** C-1” **** talk only to second-hand
This triple-strength were hit three ^y,.00 ft* sources who said the pilots were
saturation would easily have August mission and 37 times on told there vere no native
ripped and riddled the trail an .Apri , mission • .the hootches in the valley. When
' are they spotted hootches on their
AWater B ell Drilling
Call 965-5108
Ellis Insurance Agency
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By JACK ANDERSON called Agent Blue to destroy the largely enemy forces. ”
WASHINGTON-We have terraced rice paddies below. Contradicts Hickey: --- --------,---------
------------recetved troubling reports that L. Col. Gary L. Gallier, the “Everyone in the highlands housing projects will overload choice in developing a com-
records involving alleged Air Force jeta, guidedby faulty Army Chemical Corps officer knows that it is an old VC tactic existing public services and munity living pattern. The
Oomnmunists awtO Judges decide inteligence, Mw caused 10- who approved what be called to enter the villages and shoot at result in low estate values. For political process st the town and
a Smati mkpnina cnee second ma’sacres in Vietnam this “model food destruction U.S. planes and helicopters in vast numbers of suburbanites a city level affords ample op-
Announcing Thuraday he will more devastating Own what mission," maintains there were the hope that the Americans will house is not only a home but the portunity for developing
urge the Justice Department to Iwxwwl at My Tai only s handful of Viet Cong in bomb or strafe the villages and, only financial asaet. When a equitable zoning policies,
press for swift action in the dis- villages of triendly Moo- the ares thereby, alienate the people.” suburbanite’s home is Suburbanites don’t need a
putes. House Internal Security tagnard trihoeman. It’s The U.S. Command in Sources familiar with the threatened, therefore, he sees bureaucratic Big Brother in
Qommittee Chairman Richard rumored, haw been wiped out Saigon, in a memo we have area believe the village was his very security undermined. Washington to set the rules for
H lebord, Mio., said in- by mistake. Tbs stories are obtained, also says it occupied by friendly Mon- Liberals argue that no their residential areas. Land
s amount, to “judicial dtticult to verify, because the “believes” no “friendly” tagnards, including women, community has the right to use is a matter for the in-
interterence" • congres- villages are remote and the civilians were in the Song Re children and the aged, who exclude any person by imposing dividual land-owner and local
d«>al panel’i work.__Montagnards bear their river valley. would have been massacred by a zoning requirement for a government, not a proper
, Ichwd contends Ho—a probes sorrows fa sence. Yet military maps, prepared the August 9 raid. certain type or size dwelling. concern of the central govern-
nM^be deferred pending Me have spent several in 1965, dearly show a Mon- These sources also say the They intent that every com- ment.
determination of a 1970 suit filed weeks, for —ample. trying to tagnard village in the valley, rice paddies were cultivated by _
by the US. Servicemen’s Fund fnd out what happened to s Air photos taken two weeks the tribesmen, not the Viet ___ ____ .... .... . ,, . _
fighting the Senate internal vflto— to the (haw Ra after the spraying show about Com No doubt the Viet Cong, bombing run, according to these "aidememoire to South
security subcommittee’s <fo- rver“VaMey“Sin “the "StS 900.“ whVinfest the area, frequenty sources, the pilots tried toavoid Vietnamese President Thieu.
mend for bank records. Gallier now claims that the entered the village and them..Missionaries also offered Bunker privately told Thieu
Oourt say the two on Augunt 9, 1970, the village hootches were abandoned and demanded rice. But most of the to hike to the valley to verifyfor hemust.dryup.the. heroin
cases involve the same question wsAoSed apur by antL that “VC production units" crop. it is believed, was used to us what happened at Song Re. market which.is addicting tens
werLomneP’bombdropped by supped into the valley at night feed the villagers. But we were warned that going o‘thousands of American GIs in
com- Pereomin Air Force Phantom to plant and tend some 2,000 The Army’s own field through Viet Cong country Vietnam.
trom « Sets.Seerai F4 Phantoms acres of rice. manual of land warfare would be too dangerous. Thieu.himself is willing to
.___.. | mem- hnmhedoverthelinng Around But Dr. Matthew S Meselson declares that herbicides should -SECRETPROTEST- makethe effort, but the
bership to an organization and ATtam and Dr. John D. Constable, both be used only when crops are Am- corruptionin his customs
concerning 1M Amendment po- m‘e mm down “msrinwim of Harvard, who were flown intended solely for consumption bessador Ellsworth Bunker left agency and national police
Ltical righits. SMureaat— W-a Saturation over the valley by Gallier on a by enemy forces. The bombing Vietnam, to .confer, in makeso lutionof gthe
paterNUt distar bombs- herbicide ansenament mission, and spraying of civilian food Washington with President drugpeddlingprobleminSouth
Mended to kill —y vtot Cong sy that Gallier told them there crops, whether the civilians are Nixon, be sent a diplomatic Vietnam almost impossible
whomightbehurkingintherea. were no huts below friendly or unfriendly, violates
miswasnunooned to clear ths And Dr. Gerald Hickey, an the 1907 Hague Convention
way For the three Mow C-123 anthropologist with the RAND which the U.S. has ratified.
mray planes to dust the rice Corporation, who has worked in Colonel Gallier insists,
paddtes with detolanta. Vietnam for years, says the however, that “if I had known
A 100 porrart pattern-- idea of nocturnal farming is or even suspected that there
the cluster bombs, in ridiculous. were people in this valley, I
EastlanaLvestock Summary dher Worda, so the entirearea "TheVcandun.the would have told the Air Force to
• tor Tesday June 15 - 794 is covered by flying shrapnel— villagers for I00*1 or ft* people cancel
cattle sold, 887 bogs sold, M is supposed to be enough to kill
sheep and goats sold. 268 Con- anyone standing who Im t
signors and 90 Buyers. protected by heavy armor or a
Butcher aad Stocker bulls
23,75 to 38.00, butcher cows
13.00 to 14.00, botcher calves
17.00 to 33.00, Stocker steer
calves sad heifer calves 15.00
to 55.00, stocker steer year-
lings and helfer year lings 17.00
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The head of a House panel says
an “intolerable and un-
federally-aided housing if they are successful, the
projects in their communities liberals will have pushed this
infects the suburbs with the country far toward the
crime and social stress that monolithic existence envisioned
characterize alum areas in George Orwell’s book 1994.
Suburbanites are un- The would introduce in
derstandably bitter inasmuch American life a rigidity that
as they moved to the suburbs to would be intolerable to free
escape the very conditions that spirits
they believe federal housing is The federal zoning concept
projecting into the suburban should be fought by every
communities. Moreover, the citizen who values his human
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(7 4 Now that the federal munity must be open to all
$ s3bb ’ government has usurped the economic groups and contain a
authority of state and local mix of social types. This at-
wtonl the next «tep titude is characteristic of the
in the federalization of America intellectual orientation of
undoubtedly will be control over contemporary liberals. They
all forms of homing To that not only demand complete
end, the liberals are busfly st leveling in community life but
work promoting federal control strive to have the federal
of zoning in the nation’s government impose 8
suburbs. stereotyped plan on all citizens.
In fact, for several years There’s nothing hi America’s
efforts have been underway to political tradition to.justify
shatter normal housing pat- either the leveling doctrine or
terns and to impose on the the compulsory association
suburbs a sociological design notion inherent in a.plan o
ordained in Washington The federal zoning. More than that,
liberals want Big Government no one has an automatic rightto
to act as the ultimate block- live in any particular neigh-
buster and to transform the borhood or real estate
character of suburban com- development Community
munities. Speciically, the authorities traditionally heve
liberals want to implant federal enjoyed the right to set stan-
low-cost housing developments dards through zoning taws -
in the heart of suburban com- standards that embody com-
munities where middle-class munity concepts. This pattern
valuesjrevtal has developed because that s
Initial efforts in this what people want People want
direction already have a true neighborhood feeling - a
produced indignation on the genuine sense of community
part of suburban dwellers who and identity
live in communities that are
largely free of the problems of Proponents of federal zoning
■ the inner city areas. The would wipe out all that and
suburbanites rightly say that make every community con-
'__I the construction low-cost, form to a single federal model.
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Charles ..................Sports Editor
Elaine Long......................Society Editor
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the same copy it in the same time span would draw
$137,407 in retirement ma—.i ■tth the man having paid
in 915 9K in his w nr king years under Social Security
Moreover, what he and his w:fe can draw now or in
1995 or whenever in roUromext benefits is not the whole
stary if the man hocomso disabled or dies before retire-
meat age his widow and children are entitled to substan-
tial benefits And Social Security taxes also provide both
the worker and his wife with Medicare hospital insurance
at age 65
It is pretty commonly argued these days, of course, that
the worker pays not only the Social Security tax levied
directiy against his check, but also the matching contri-
button lex ted against his employers
The contention is that the employer gets it out of the
workers hode estter by hiking prices or by keeping his
wages correspondingly lower
Sorry, men but that's just too glib. Undoubtedly, the
argument is true in part But there is no way to prove
that an employer treed of that tax would automatically be
paying his workers a correspondingly higher wage Or.
indeed that the whole burden shows up in higher prices
As a matter of fact, it is the employer's contributions
aaz.a •ma. em Mma.m Camzal Camate. Bmaama a amet..
WMCI •MCIP UO W“GC— 3- 3EM-y •CyUUM • mirr
i to (■tabied workers or
when a man dies before
average, officiate say . Is a little longer
in the man's retirement span and the wife's later sur-
vivorship period, the total benefits that would be paid out
to them under present law would come to $67,754 And
that must be set against the max's lifetime Social Security
payroll deductions of just $16,798.
If the pending House Ways and Means bill, with its
T-her benefits, were to become law. then
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