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MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, 75455, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1966
VOL. NO. 47
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HtSayswngrpottU.S. Casualities
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Lt. Herbert Vogel, chief
dents sitting next to him
Linda Jam, 24 former air-
Une stewardess and their
sUbbed repeatedly “though
'Shoot To Kill”
Order Quiets Riots
by.
SAN FRANCISCO UH — day when the first !
if everything works out per-
Negro rioters and snipers
Wednesday
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North Vietnamese,
men had helped put down
Loans and
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which, Vogel declared, pro-
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CINCINNATI, Ohio • —
Police said late Wednesday
they found fingerprints that
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Many of the American and
enemy casualties apparently
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ting a moderate candidate
and Georgia’s middleroad
racial course.
Maddox, a furniture mer-
chant who quit the cafeteria
business rather than serve
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daughter.
The bodies of the victims
were found Tuesday night tot
where Bricca’s
ter was
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sat and the'
said the simil
Negros in the streets. “All
right, this to it — move.
Now!” they ordered.
Gov. Edmund G. Brown de-
Mayor John F. Shelley and
dared a state of emergency
and imposed a curfew Tues-
tone of the local schools the
other day, this incident took
place in the cafeteria ... A
LETTERS OF COM
ATION » . . honoring
mt, Presi-
Usm and
wounded.
Enemy losses rose also.
Viet Cong and North Viet-
udents are JERRY LYNN
ARB and AMELIA ANN
that a good nij
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IFECT SLEEl
e you look any
arrow, but we 1
make a world
! in the way
‘BODY‘8
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the Los Angeles Watte area.
H They immediately moved
| against tense knots of young
thorough check of
Wednesday and
vi
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41,557, Arnal
redri"gvr
San Francisco but were put
down quickly by National
Guardsmen with “shoot to
kill" orders.
As the temperature soared
to 95 degrees, 1,200 guards-
men joined the .patrol of
NUMBER 149
P
ihildren seated at the table
began unwrapping their corny
logs, only to find them just
i little too brown, except the
title boy who had said the
ilessing; his was just the
ight golden brown . . . Now,
rhen the students saw the
ifference: in the corny dogs,]
be of them said, “Look at
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Sniping was
“almost co
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Due,Regist
A total of 9172 tax state-
ments are scheduled to be
mailed by the Titus County
Negroes were breaking store windows and
at police cars. (AP Wirephoto.)
fighting there Wednesday a
company of Marines seized
a heavily fortified hill, kill ,
h Vietnamese, and "
ground technical
counterattacks and
PHS, Principal Thurman |
roman has announced -
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vernor, in Wednesday’s pri-
mary runoff. Arnall had led
a six-man race two weeks
•go.
“God and the people are
my campaign managers,”
exulted Maddox, 80, after
pulling off a major upset
without big-money backers
or the support of highrank-
ing politicians.
With 1,742 of 1,808 pre-
better, feel better
nows, maybe even look
the fingerprints. They did
not disclose where in the
[ . .When the students were
heated, one child got up and
Left the room to get a drink
from the drink box. . . Upon
Ms return to the cafeteria,
the teacher noticed that he
would stoop over to say
something to nearly everyone
he passed on the way back to
his seat. . „Whenhesatdown,
followed the killing ■ of
Negro youth by a •wh
policeman. The patrolma
Alvin Johnson, said t
youth, Matthew Johnson,
fled from a stolen car a
ing shots. deSP.t
Police controlled tbs fk
rioting after guardsm
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MUTE WITNESS—A field officer from the humane so-
siety leads one of the dogs owned by Gerald J. Bricca
is led from the home in Cincinnati where Bricca, his
wife and four-year-old daughter were found riahhad to
death. Police said the family had been killed and the
house ransacked. (AP Wirephoto.)
Guaranty Bond I
Bank’s statement showed
the technical problems in-
volved, said it would be
period from Jupe to Septem-
• • i
Deposits of Mount Plea-
sant banks show an increase
of more than half-million
dollars compared to a simi-
lar period last year.
Statements issued by both
First National Bank and
Guarranty Bond State Bank
in response to a bank call
effective atthe'cles ef busi-
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American casualties last
week were nearly three times
as high as South Vietnamese
losses. South Vietnamese dead
numbered 98, the wounded
280, the Vienamese command
investigator for Hamilton
County police, said the vic-
tims, Jerome Bricca, 28,
their suburban B
home. Police m
heavy mortar fire -through
much of the night
Allied forces overran two
Viet Cong prison camps this
week and said one looked like
the Nazi concentration camp
at Dachau “all over again.*'
U.S. forces, directed by a
South Vietnamese army pri-
vate who had escaped from
killer in the “maniacal”
stabbing deaths tit • young
couple and their 4-year-old
Hicrofiln
-ox 8066
said. ; J “hypothetically possible" —
The highest American death if everything works out per-
is! They look bettor thaa
afs”..to which the teach-
Erepl
Oct. 19 the first commercial
satellite designed for televi-
sion-tellite designed for tele-
vision-radio-television trans-
mission across the Pacific.
Johnson has agreed to fly
to the Philippines on or aft-
commended Mondsyznday and 6:30 am
i
not necessarily with a
knife.” "
There were indications the
bodies had been bound with
adhesive tape which later
was removed. Bricca’s
mouth was stuffed with a
sock. ,
Dr, Frank Cleveland, the
coroner, said Mrs. Bricca
had been raped. . *
year ago. Guaranty Bond
had $6,105,510.48 in loans and
- A’ , tan
G. Maddox, an ardent segre-
gationist running ’ a shoe-
htq were
up by $1,708,4/9.92 at the
two banking. institutions
“XMS
warded to two students
Mp ®
eluding three policem,
though there has ibe
deaths. , 1 2
More than 80 perdons
arrested and many S
including several a
liquor, were looted.
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were suffered in Operation
State .Prairie, the U. S. Marine op-
Bank’s statement showed ant eration jus* enth ~f “h- J1-
inrase in deposits of 8853,4 militarized
fectly. broke out of control again
Comsat plans to launch on
pollcemen. Another " 1,300
stood by in the city and still
another 2,000 were posted in
suburban afas:
Lt. Col. Norland Smith,
hose named
o a
A successful launching
would be the first -- but not
the last — requirement for
live television. Three to four
days after the daunch, the
satellite would have to be
propelled into a more pre-
else orbit that would make
it hover over the Pacific,
moving in unison with the
INJURED IN RIOTINGmAn lidentified man a
by police officer after he was hit by rocks tin
crowds milling about in the Hunters Point housi
in San Francisco. Police reported several
originally planned guardsmen? ’If you* are h
tacked or fired upon, shoot
to kin. Don’t fire over any-
in sweltering
whose ■ statements showed
$13,995,542.76 in loans and
discounts compared with
$12,287,142.84 last year..
First National Bank had
loans and discounts of $7,-
890,132.28 on Sept. 20 com-
pared with 87,081,170.40 a
Mrs. Conroy
Is Chairman,
• cs g ge
Mrs. Bob (Flormne) Conroy of
, ___________________ the Reds, seized a camp in
discounts compared to 88,• Phu Yen Province about 200
- *- ----- miles northeast of Saigon.
rate in one week came last
November when 240 were kill-
ed, most of them in the battle
of the la Drang Valley. In
that week, 470 others were
- By ROBERT TUCKMAN
SAIGON, South Viet Nam
(M—U.S. forces suffered more
casualties in South Viet Nam
last week than in any week of
the war, the U. S. command
announced today. The high
toll apparently resulted from
the hard fighting south of the
demilitarized zone, where
American Marines are battl-
ing North Vietnamese reg-
ulars.
American casualties dur-
ing the week total 970, the U.
S, command said, including
142 men killed 825 wounded.
"Doesn’t anyone here say
he blessing?" ...One of the
The previous highest num-
! ber of American casualties
v was during the week ending
f last May 21, when 146 U.S,
troops were killed and 820
• wounded, a total of 966.
, Fla. forOet..26 . ...1
timetable was ad- body’s head.” About.75 per
last Friday A cent of his heavily armed
spokesman said this was due men had helped put down
1 factors weighed racial rioting a year ago in
by experts who knew noth-
ing about Johnson’s trip, an-
nounced four days later.
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‘"..5,°onP may provide a clue to the
mu were corny dogs,
the favorites with the kids
- .. , ness “on Spt.. 20, reflect
25 MTZuiLITMI POSILS 01 1,04-,-’-
' Compared to the bank call
last year at a similar time,
Here... Way I
I Killer
; HE SAID GRACE ... In " ’—11
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‘a
f the
----- Deposits
Dr. Cleveland said he had _ni
mg‘t “tstiphesinyig. ati $5 Mellm
Corp., known as Comsat.
One White House aide de-
scribed prospects for live
television as very unlikely.
Another source, closer to
UNA » A They are among
,000 istudents in the United
totes who scored in the up-
r two per cent of those who
■1 graduate from high
hool in 1967. . . The com-
ended students rank just be-
w the 14,000 semifinalist an-
udeed earlier this month by
e National Merit Scholar-
Ip Corporation . . . CON-
RATULATIONS! JERRY
d AMELIA ...
FORMER RESIDENTS,
k. and MRS. HUGHIE COX
d children, have just recen-
| moved into their new
me in SAN ANTONIO,
tore he is employed by
EKesson-Robbins Drug)
mpany. . . They toft MT.
Peasant, which they still
psider their home, to live
[GARLAND just about a
ar ago. . . GARLAND’S
is, is SAN ANTONIO’S
n. . .MARIAN STEVENS.
I . * * * -
Seems to be a common pro-
kn. . .everyone wants to
k bettor. We can’t guaran-
29384 for the part year, I
First National Bank Ews 1
down by $145,967.
. ’7 ,28 0 <
i, decisively defeated
Arnall, a former go
Arnall, 59, who scored a
major upset two decades
over the popular Eugene
Talmadge, had charged in
- a an __
Three Americans were re-
ported missing in action or
captured.
asked, “Did you?”, and to
his he replied, 1 sure did chemical engineer; his wife
[ said it on the way to the r - -
safeteria, and I asked nearly * -
warzonstatthtsstngjanathey daughiter, Debbie,
laid no” . . . after this, the
fice Friday:
According
differ- communism, Maddon C
EV- he shares the racial views
easked the teacher, home the prints were found.
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Thsmd
wiun
P pon
zone. In hard
with a SERTA Mat-
n
the two banks reported de-
posits of ‘$19,314,036.84 *
This is an overall increase
of $507,325 82.
First National Bank re-
ported current deposits of
811,425,248.89 on Sept. 20, as
compared with $11,571,215.-
86 last year and $11,501,513.-
27 at the June 90, 1008 bank
call.
Guaranty Bond State Bank
deposits stood at $8,396,114.-
73 on Sept 20, compared
with 87,724.820.89 last year
and 88,006,086.27 at time of
the June call.,. ‘ ;
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County Tax State
t. AHleazant Uimes
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Manila Trip
May In Part
Be Televised
WASHINGTON /
least part of President Johi
son's trip to the Pacific nex
month may be televised liv
to the United States. But s
many unpredictable factor
are involved that some ar
betting it won’t happen.
The mere possibility i 4
worth noting, however, be
cause of the potential im 1
pact on the Nov. 8 electior
of governors and Congress
members.
Although the White House
has sought to divorce the
trip from politics, the Pre-
sident’s journey hardly can.
be ignored by the voters —
especially if they see it in
their living rooms.
The possibility of live tele-
vision coverage was explor-
ed Wednesday at a confer-
ence of White House aides,
television network execu-
tives and officials of the
Communications Satellite '
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andthencalled-f
Wednesday as gun
rioting, arson, •
beating* and bride I
continued lathe
Pointrl
city’s
in the _
miles to
‘ Police i a l a
were injured We
m amese dead last week totak
dEa 0d 1,165, the commands said. --1g g
K Theme were m dhe previous coudhersag g
a 911 E. 3rd, Mt. Pleasant, has
been named chairman of the
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Ladies for Carr., Commit-
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