Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 112, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 23, 1964 Page: 1 of 24
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Brownwood Bulletin
BROWNWOOD. TEXAS, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 23. • ***
TWENTY EIGHT PAGES TODAl
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SNYDER, LONGVIEW
Bands Retain Titles
musicians played
On the
Phillips took second place and accoustics problem
TROPHY TALK
(Staff Photo)
participated in the festival Fri-
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Band Festival Sets Fort Worth
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baritone saxophone and clarinet.
(Staff Photo)
bands. Now several noted com- rain in East Texas.
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Defense Raps Selection Of Jury
By ARTHUR EVERETT
। the examination of jury candi- on our side. Cannot your honor he worked his jaws nervously.
wald had described himself as
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date Albert C Phillips, a build- see from these conscientious ju- His often ready smile was not a Marxist and in questioning
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JAIL INCIDENT
objection. and barred an an-
swer.
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ciple.
SNYDER WINS AGAIN
a message to Congress proba- forming long line* as they
tion for a $3.4-billion program
July L
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Presidents Pledge
New Peace Efforts
Progress
Reported
In Talks
Area Cage
Playoffs Set:
Pages 8-9A
Border
Accord
Sought
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
PALM SPRINGS, Calif.
farced down our throats."
Belli's complaint came during i
Scooter Harbour, center, holds Sny-
der's first place JA trophy won Satur-
day in band festival competition. At
loft is Ronny Dyer, representing
create a number of committees
to make on-the-spot checks of
its top place win by five musi-
ctans making the coveted all-
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tirely new field for music pub- Another cold front moved to-
Ushers. At first, bands had to ward Texas Saturday, promis-
“get by” with material not de- ing light snow for the Panhandle
Comparing trophies are representa-
tives of first and second place stage
bands in Class 4A for the 13th annual
Brownwood Stage Band Festival Sat-
urday. George H. Carson, left, is band
director at Arlington Heights of Fort
ranges his own music, directs I
a laboratory band and is versa- *
tile on three musical instru- I
ments. was named outstanding
musician of the 13th annual
ts W. C. (Bill) Monroe of 2205
Austin Ave. Mayor W. L. Lam-
kin announced in January he
would not file for re-electon.
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Rio Grande
President Johnson and Prest-
Entry Takes
Top Honors
Lon Price, 17, of Fort Worth |
one prospective juror Saturday,
defense attorney Joe Tonahill
asked:
“When the Marines went into
Korea and killed Communists,
Worth and sponsors the second place
stage band. Mike Brittain represents
first place Longview. Kimball of Dal-
las took showmanship honors.
liicrofiln Service .
P.O. Box 8066
Dallas, Texas Corp.
baritone saxophone playing. He
plays clarinet in the Fort Worth 8
school's concert and marching
bands.
throats, although only two panel
members have been selected in
the first week of his trial.
“We are not picking a jury
anymore." chief defense attor-
ney Melvin Belli told Judge Joe
B. Brown “We're having a jury
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WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA Partly cloudy
today and tonight Colder tonight Fair
and cold Monday. High today 44-54.
Maximum temperature here Satur-
day 53. Sunset 6 28 sunrise 7: IL
murder jury to try Jack Ruby
is being forced down their
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
dent Johnson to expected to rec-
ommend soon that foreign aid
be cut back in scope and that
its effectiveness be checked on
a country-by -country basis
Sen. John Sherman Cooper,
R-Ky., said Saturday he has re-
ceived personal assurance from
AUSTIN (API— Texans may Supreme Court decided a Geor
find out Monday whether their gia redistricting case and said
congressional elections will oc- districts within a state should,
cur as scheduled this year or be as nearly as possible, have the
thrown into the “indescribable same number of voters.
By LARRY GAGE
O» vs. Bultetin sun
Snyder musicians played to
their 10th first place in Class
3A and Longview repeated 1963
honors in Class 4A Saturday
as a climax to the 13th annual
Brownwood Stage Band Festi-
val in Brownwood High School
auditorium
how American money is being
spent abroad and how effective
it is as a cold war weapon.
Cooper long has advocated
such an examination, arguing it
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OUTSTANDING MUSICIAN
Lon Price, 17, of Arlington Heights in Fort Worth,
was nomod outstanding musician of the 13th annual
Brownwood Stage Band Festival Saturday night. He
directs the school's stage band and play* tenor and
the President of his decision to Humphrey added that the 1 .
President will incorporate this the trial, local interest in it has men. .
and other ideas for changes in risen steadily, with spectators ice will be named.
- . .. .. Running unopposed for mayor
I
Sweetwater, showmanship winner in
3A . At right is Tommy Harris, repre-
tenting second-place Phillips.
(Staff Photo)
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United States should turn to find
Decision On Case - “ probtems
•JUG1>IVII •eIU VUJV He said Cuba has been ousted
George H Carson, bond di-
rector at Arlington Heights, <
was quick to point out he does
not direct the stage band. Lon
does that Lon also arranges •
. French horn with trumpet
valves. Another band member
| called it a “big trumpet."
| Snyder has been in the first
| plate ranks since the festival's
second year in 1953—except for
a few years when the band
wasn't entered. The West Tex-
as school placed one bands-
(See BANDS on Page 3)
wood Coliseum An estimated
1,200 persons attended the con
cert. which was plagued by an
renalcArgTasaturdayThatd a ing materials employe. He.ad- rors (sic) that they are trying in evidence
Class 4A while Kimball of Dal- showmanship trophy Atlanta
las took the showmanship took its fourth Class 2A first
award. place. Hamlin took second in
Forty-four high school stage that category, and Bridgeport
bands from throughout Texas received showmanship honors
UNITED NATIONS. N Y <AP>
U. S. Ambassador Adlal E
Stevenson said Saturday night
many of the band’s selections, E
including two of the six play- l
ed Saturday. “
Ken Morris of the National
Stage Band Camp in Indiana
presented Lon a scholarship to I
the noted summer camp for ,
winning the title Lon, a sen- ।
ior, plans to study music at
North Texas State University '
signed specifically for stage and South Plains and drizzling and is considering a career ih
bands. Now several noted com- rain in East Texas. music education.
Mediterranean island trying to They even agreed to a plan
curb blood - letting . between for heading off additional border
Greek and Turkish Cypriots- disputes such as those which
saw Thant on Saturday evening have plagued the two countries
Dean told reporters he was through the years — and there
encouraged and optimistic, but may be some changes along the
that nothing had been settled
Arlington Heights, who ar-
"Everybody wants an agree-
ment." he said, "it's just a
question of getting it."
Cyprus' Foreign Minister Syp-
ros kyprianou was unyielding in
his country's demands which
have included a Security Coun-
cil guarantee of the island's in-
tegrity.
"We are not here to compro-
mise." he said after spending
two hours with Thant before the
British and American repre-
sentatives went in
I isauuiiaiiMiiaMiaiwimiiNm^
mitted a fixed opinion on Ruby's to tell us something?" He is accused of murder with
Nov 24 slaying of Lee Harvey The defense contends Dallas malice, and the state to asking
Oswald, accused assassin of is biased against Ruby because the death penalty The defense
President John F Kennedy. . the slaying Oswald on the to pleading insanity
The defense repeatedly has toslstarhisKgnnedratyssamsige
for the year starting next first week of trial ended He
was pale and from time to time
Sweetwater the showmanship Jane Long of Houston, a new-
trophy in Class 3(1 Arlington comer, took first in Class A
Heights of Fort Worth was a Midway of Waco was second,
close second to Longview in while Archer City took the
bly this week, asking authoriza- sought admission
Ruby seemed tense as the
he and other negotiators had , AP, _ The presidents of
made some progress, but not the United States and Mexi-
encygprusnptncngpiantwrashseut co pledged themselves sat-
retary-General U Thant urday to build stronger
Stevenson and Sir Patrick bonds of peace and friend-
Dean of Britain—whose country ship between their nations
has almost 7,000 troops on the and in the world.
American troubles with Cuba
and Panama. American inform-
ants said these played a minor
role in the conferences.
— A . a But Lopez Mateos tossed off
State Awaits Court
the first one in Texas and in What started out as an effort
the nation, but set the pattern to ."fill the void" for this type
for others. King labeled Brown- of musk has mushroomed into
wood “the cradle of the stage a festival that King said Brown-
band movement About ,5,500 wood will have “as long as the
stage bands are active and par- city wants it
ticipating in school programs at _________________
present, he estimated. AI c . . _
Stage bands opened up an en- New Cold rront
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FRIDAY WINNERS
Class IA and 2A winners were star band, made up of the fes-
announced Friday night preced- tival’s best bandsmen On the
ing a concert by the Houston- list were Ronnie Suber, trum-
ians," stage band from Sam pet; Dexter Ward, trombone
U .. con. n Rmun Pam Rotondo, (lute; Dennis Ax-
Houston State College, in Brown- berg, string bass, and Mie Per-
ritt. drums Miss Rotondo. also
the band's vocalist, earned re-
peated ovations for her flute
solo, “My Funny Valentine "
TOP MUSICIAN
Arlington Heights' student di-
rector. Lon Price, arranged two
pieces his band played and was
singled out for outstanding mu-
sician honors for his tenor and
baritone saxophone playing
Bobby Blood whipped out an
unusual instrument, a mello-
phonium, to take all-star band
honors for Arlington Heights
Blood termed the instrument a
Brownwood Stage Band Fes- posers work in the stag* band
tival, which started the stage field almost entirely,
band movement, is considered Festival musk is getting bet-
the “Texas championship con- ter each year, King said. Mu-
tost.” Leonard King. festival sicians are particularly grow-
director, said Saturday The ing "by leaps and bounds in
fame of the 13-vear-old festival ability and professional con-
has spread as far as the West cents of stage band music " .
Coast, he said in recent years the Brown- Brownwood Stage Band Festival
Snuranca“mpeuum wi
gemhehsttsnffemankarm
3K da.n M N
2 tI u____ bands 102 fio This vear. one of the bands. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ear
tturnadowm handseardeshg Arlington Heights of Fort Worth, R. Price, Lon has played saxo
ureistubu in aayearssched plaved two numbers actually phone four years and clarinet
ue crowded in 44 written a member of the for eight years He won Sat-
The outstanding musician band. urday's honors for his tenor and
picked at the Brownwood fes- Three girls, all veterans of
tival is "probably theumostyer past festivals. now play with
sable musician in Texas. King the famous joan Fairfax or-
said. He can get amusic schol- chestra, which has appeared on
arship to just about any the “Tonight" show and has
versity in the U.S. played in the U.S. and Cana-
The Brownwood festival was da.
VOLUME 64 NO. 113 ISe PER COPY
as but grants a reprieve by 1 —Gov John Connally request- can solve
withholding any order forim- ed the study arm of the legisla- The Mexican and American
mediate redistricting, the state's tore—the Legislative Council- executives met Friday and Sat-
23 races for Congress will con- to begin work on drawing re- urday at a conference table in
tinue as planned and grateful medial legislation this desert resort. At the start of
politicians probably will prom- —Carr sent a new brief to the his administration Johnson had
ise to remedy one of the na- Supreme Court, again urging a said he had wanted to meet
tion’s most unequal distribution full hearing of the Texas case promptly with leaders of the
of congressional districts or, if this is denied, relief from two great neighbors to the north
These possibilities became im- an order requiring at-large elec- and south, and this he now has
mediate last Monday, when the I lion of all congressmen, done
from the OAS
The United States position is
that only the Castro regime, and
not the Cuban states. is out of
the OAS
---------— —. - There was no indication that
chaos" predicted by Atty. Gen. The ruling struck at the heart Johnson and his administration
Waggoner Carr. of Texas appeal of * Houston intend to turn to the United Na-
The Supreme Court hands federal court s order to redis- tions at this point when the OAS
down decisions Monday, and a trict. The Supreme Court has already is wrestling with the
Texas redistricting case may be had the appeal since Nov 15 Cuban situation
among the rulings. without acting on it. OAS PROBLEM
If the court rules against Tex- State officials and congress- The Mexican president also
as. Carr's prediction could be- men reacted as soon as they said he thought the case
come a reality. could study the Georgia case of Panamanian-American diffi-
If the court rules against Tex- Those actions were: culties. is something the OAS
Matt R. Story. real estate ag-
ent. and George Calder, for
re-election
Native of May and 1949
graduate of Brownwood High
School. Jarvis received his bac-
helor of science degree from
Texas ALM University Man-
ager of Morris Assn.. Jarvis |
nne defense repeateary nas tion tarnished the city's image Ruby stepped from a crowd they were justified in killing
sought to have the trial of Ruby. Belli described this during the at Dallas police headquarters I Communists were they not’"
52, moved out of Dallas. Belli day as "the aura of unfairness and shot down Oswald during a Judge Brown upheld a state
renewed this plea in vain, point- over the case." I routine jail transfer two days ehi--nn and harred an an-
ing to Phillips' admitted bias. Judge Brown eventually ex- after the President's death. Os-
and declaring: cused Phillips from the jury be---
"We have the burden of proof cause of his opinion, which he . , e n. n rI
. was not asked to state. Five Jarvis Seeking Re-Election
I I AA n. -..-..I other prospects were excused " -TT >
Johnson iv\ay Recommena for the same reason during the ek me, ~ ..
,c • a j To Position On City Council
Reduction T roreign Aid because they opposed capital o C. (Putter, Jarvis at 2507 Seeking the chief of police
. . . _____ punishment Greenway Dr filed Friday for position are William B Dona-
t* essential to save the program “PRoSETSumom re-election as councilman of hoo, former deputy sheriff; 4
from elimination by Congress. In all. 48 prospecuve jurors unonvosed for
Sen. Hubert H Humphry, the have been examined since the "ardln heli unoPp°d«
assistant Democratic" leader trial began last Monday The thepounciPostrsischarles
from Minnesota, said in a sep- only ones agreeable to both gretion wii 2 ApriI 7
arate interview that he, too. has sides have been Max Causey. C“y election1"ii bemprz.
been told the President has ac- 35. and Allen W McCoy 39 Filing deadlineaisomidnight
cepted the Cooper idea in prin- both technical men with college March 8 b man or 2.P.m
■ - degrees March 6 in person at the city
Despite the stow progress of secretary's.officee.(Two council-
le trial, local interest in it has men. mayor and thef of pol-
was elected to his first term
on the council in Apnl 1963
Parker has served as council-
man 13 years from 1940-54 and
1IM to the present.
dent Adolfo Lopez Mateos
wound up two days of confer-
ences and issued a long, formal
communique that emphasized
the strengthening of peace,
friendship, the Alliance for Pro-
gress. the Organization of Am-
erican States, trade and control
of illegal traffic in drugs.
U.S. TROUBLE
There was no mention of
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oil
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Longview, under the baton of
day and Saturday. Over 800 Dan Rotondo, was boosted in
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