Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 297, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1964 Page: 1 of 10
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BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2$. 1964
TEN PAGES TODAY
'Camp Colorado? A Picture Of Central Texas Frontier Scene
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Brownwood, who knows the geo- when the post was abandoned
On orders from Col. Albert
found in the chapter. In August
thor of a new book. "Camp Col- tablished Camp Colorado
mained.
Although cavalry
k
TWo
Farmers Set
BUSY HISTORIAN
Mechanical and electrical con-
the Jun Ned. start of construe-
quarters of 3M.
Fort Mason, and shows the mi-. an inch of rain was recorded
GM Workers On Strike
Union, Firm Fail
SALUTES TREATY
LBJ Renews Peace Pledge
Workers and the company failed to agree on a new con-
Lake Bond issue Saturday
Price Hike
ing chapter and chapter that
ent water lines.
workers already had started
The debt will be paid through walking out at Cleveland, Ohio.
inees also will be selected.
offensive toward the West and
after deciding the Corps of En- department.
view. San Antonio. Austin-Waco
' businesses were destroyed or
I
too indefinite and too far off of a 24-hour marathon bargain-
men were hampered in fighting to hold up Colemans project
ing session included grievance 1965
era and working conditions
hearing Aug 25 in Dallas.
droughts and pollution.
trict.
issue
One Dead, 36 Injured In Blaze
r,
Jess millionaires and the most homes Twenty-four more were
f
them mansions, were destroyed.
SECTION PREPARED
including Brundage’s 20 - room injury
turn and hit the city again
rose 12 degrees and winds of 50
Mountains
y
(Staff Photo)
ernoon at 2 pm., was hit hard
affect.
To the east — the ocean lines eight miles westward through
, the oak and eucalyptus groves . tell and was burned to death
buildings, including the luxy-by fast-moving fremen and to Santa Barbaras south and
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Dallas, Fort Worth Firms
Earn Pacts For 3M Plant
Mail Trucks
Launch New
that $120-million structure and
defend federal water projects I
whole teams of firemen, but
most of the men escaped serious
dark, Wayne Chamberlain, distribu-
tion dork, and L. H. Gaskins, right,
foreman of mail. Four major section-
al center routes serving the 68 offices
from the Brownwood center go into
U.S Forest Service firefight-
ers. bolstered by county and
bankment and one tried to run •
through the flames The three
survived The fourth. John L.
Patterson, 45. of Yreka, Calif.,
But at one spot — on Romero
Saddle northeast of Montecito —
COLEMAN - Voters in Cole-
man will decide Saturday wheth-
er or not they favor the issu-
ance of $2,300,000 in revenue
The recommended increases
are subject to approval by pro-
ducers in each of the 13 areas.
If approved, they will go into
effect at the earliest date on
which orders can be amended
and continue through March
Brownwood have been award-
ed to Dallas and Fort Worth
west — one tongue raced into
Montecito — the home of count-
and is a factual account of fron-
tier activity in Coleman and sur-
Brownwood and Brown and Root
Inc., of Houston have the joint
general contract for the 200,000-
square-foot building under con-
city-financed lake He said the
Corps of Engineers project was
Procter Street, the city’s main
downtown thoroughfare.
Fire Chief H A Hebert said
the loss probably would run
UNRESOLVED ISSUES
Unresolved issues at the start
tion of a frontier post.
Central Texas had a big
drought during the founding
The fire was brought under
control at midmorning.
Three buildings, all a story
and a half and housing eight
businesses. were involved Fire-
Port Arthur
PORT ARTHUR. Tex. I AP>-
• on .lin» Ned Creek, pumping tion but announced its plants
station, pipeline to town, im- which build and sell parts to
provements to the filter plant Chrysler and Ford would not be
in Coleman, installation of an struck
earlier burned
Then, swept by winds from
the northeast, the fire raced
mansion and Hutchins’ $100,000
home.
The fire has now blackened
40,000 acres, killed one man and
injured 36 others, all firefight-
ers.
It has destroy ed 78 homes and
were shifted continously.. under
both the United States and Con-
federate governments
1 . .0
Plumbing Company , Dallas and
Shotts Electric Company of Fort
Worth for mechanical and elec-
trical work, respectively
Bennett and Forbess, Inc . of1
the book
Second chapter. "Ten Mules
and Sixty Men." tells of the es-
tablishment of Camp Colorado
Description of the crossing of
the South Branch of Hubbard s
Creek on the way from Camp
Cooper to the new post is es-
pecially readable The creek had
steep banks that provided a
challenge to teamsters and sold-
iers.
Chapter three, "Lightning
visit.
The first stop, and the scene
for his meeting with Mexican
President Adolfo Lopez Mateos,
was the border city of El Paso.
Tex
in each of the three states.
_______ __________.. . . other information concerning the
Chadbourne. Camp Colorado and chapter points out Only .41 of project.
Fort Mason, and shows the mi-|an inch of rain was recorded Contracts went to C Wallace
from the Dallas-FortWorth area
will be received by the star
route truck rather than the San-
ta Fe trains as done in the past
The same principle applies to
mail coming here from San An-
gelo.
Schedules of the new star
routes begin with a truck leav-
ing Brownwood for the Miles
Post Office at 4:20 am. and
arriving there at 7:15 a.m , sev-
en days a week The truck leav-
es Miles for Brownwood at 5
p m and arrives in Brownwood
at 7:45 p.m.. except Saturday.
Sundays and holidays at which
(See MAIL on page 2)
Lee.
Maps that form end pieces for
the volume make an invalu-
able addition to the work. A
front map pinpoints the key
frontier posts of the time. Camp
Life in Central Texas in the litary roads in use between 1851- from Nov 1. 1856, to July- 12, en horses
1850’s and 1860‘s was rugged 65 Half of the first endpiece is 1857. at the camp | Chapter Four. "Proceed With-
One of the best and one of out Delay." describes the post
from the start of the Civil War
a city of 65,000, nestled between
the Pacific and the Santa Ynez eight minutes the temperature
Whiskey." describes the Muke- tracts for the reflective prod-
water Creek camp, the problems ucts piant of Minnesota Mining
discovered at that location, re- and Manufacturing Company in
establishment of the camp on-
deadline.
If the bonds are, approved
the city will issue revenue bonds
to finance a lake capable of
holding 40,000 acre feet of water
,-----i,----
ject if their efforts could streng-
then freedom and advance the
peace of the world. I will do the
responsibility not to waste the
same."
Johnson flew to El Paso to
meet Lopez Mateos and salute
last year’s El Chamizal treaty
settling a Rio Grande border
land dispute that had nagged
The re started Tuesday aft miarasnehotr Pushed fames
utes ahead of deadlines at each.
| The union took General Mo-
tors out of 1965 model produc-
Brownwood, the 199-page vol- July 1857 to a site near Jun
ume is thoroughly documented Ned Creek in northeastern Cole-
man County, where the post re-;
The telegram did not give the struction on U S Highway 377
amount of the contracts nor any j in Brownwood Indusinal Park
In Bargain Talks
By A. F. MAHAN
DETROIT (AP) — A nationwide strike against Gen-
slow pace. but provides a solid m the post along the Callahan
foundation for the remainder of Divide A colorful episode de-
real spendthrifts, are those who.
by neglecting the needs of to-
day. destroy the hopes of tomor-
row.”
Weather, communications and a map of Coleman County, point- Lue _________— -
transportation were unreliable ing out the major creeks. Santa the dullest descriptions of cam-
in these isolated commun- Anna Mountains and both sites paigns against the Indians are
men were trapped by
mont College was hit, two build- flames from' three directions.
ings. one a dorm evacuated Three huddled against an em-
tion on buildings there and the firms, according to a telegram
troubles connected with opera- from St Paul. Minn, head-
farmer of Texas will be select-
ed from among the 10 area win-
ners by a committee meeting in
Temple Oct. 5. Announcement
of the winner will be withheld
until the young farmers awards
Area IV chapters include step it up toward underdevel-
Brown County. Carbon, Cisco. oped areas and Red China.
Coleman bounty. Comanche , And in defensive radio war-
County. De Leon, Dublin. East- fare, the Soviet bine has virtual-
land County. Jacksboro. Lingle- ly quit jamming Voice of Amer-
scribes the battle, which found
Lee in hand-to-hand combat w ith
one warrior Nobody won, but
the soldiers did rapture the st l-
City Session
Outstanding young farmer of a business session planned for
Area IV. Texas Association of/2.30 pm. Saturday in Hobday
Young Farmers, will be named Inn
Saturday at the area awards Judging committees made up
banquet, which will begin at of prominent agricultural lead-
6 30 p.m. Saturday in the Brown- ers have already visited farms
towner. of outstanding farmer nominees
The area includes 17 chapters in the 10 vocational agriculture
damaged today in a fire on
The 82 million structure is ex-
pected to be completed in July
1965
momummnmmummmmamrmunmumnumnununmunmusamur .
• WEATHER •
BROWNWOOD AREA Con- I
siderable cloudiness and little
change in temperature this <
populated inland valleys Santa Ana winds — the devil city firemen, blocked it again.
It was the third time the fire winds" which sweep down By 7 P m Wednesday the fire
away coastal canyons to the sea — had covered 2 000 acres, but the
have three times sent the blaze air at dusk was cool and the
couldn’t say whether it could burning toward Santa Barbara. fire was again moving inland I Northeast of the city. West- four
•— . - .. “-----* ----- ... Again the winds struck. In
during the business sessions of WASHINGTON (AP) - The
both young farmers and young Soviet Union apparently has
homemakers State officer nom- decided to slack off in its radio
from the camp made frequent
forays against marauding Ind-
ians and recaptured many stol-
en horses, the camp really of-
i fered little protection to settlers
in the area because of the vast
region it had to protect and the
small number of soldiers usual-
ly stationed there.
A succession ot officers com-
manded the Jim Ned post,
among them some of the bril-
liant names in Confederate mi-
litary history, such as John
B. Hood, Earl Van Dom. Ed-
mund Kirby Smith and Fitzhugh
Beckwith, chairman of the Tex Ford and Chrysler, which UAW
as Water Commission. Wednes- president Walter P. Reuther
day told the mayor Coleman had estimated worth 54 cents
should go ahead and build the over the next three years
responsibility not to waste the
taxpayers’ money, but the gov-
ernment also has a responsibili- more than $100,000
ty not to waste the nation’s
resources The real wasters, the
elegant California suburb hit by
fire since the Bel Air blaze of
1961. Thirty homes, many ol
prepared speech of the day. for
a Mexican and United States
audience at El Paso. Johnson
took no direct note of Goldwater
or the campaign season
"The presidents of the last 20
years," said Johnson, "have
of Santa Barbara turned away ident of the Center for the Study
today and blazed into lightly of Democratic institutions
By FRANK CORMIER
EL PASO, Tex API - Presi-
dent Johnson, joining Mexico’s
chief executive to celebrate
Fort Belknap, Fort days of Camp Colorado, the
graph v and history of Central —_______
Texas almost as well as the Sidnev Johnston. Companies A ities. and Indians were frequent of Camp Coloradu. ______.__—
layout of his front yard, is au- and F of the Second Cavalry es- visitors, usually bent on steal- The map at the back is of 1857, an expedition from the
thor of a new book. Camp Col- tablished Camp Colorado on ing horses and cattle Texas and pinpoints the various camp hunted for Indians along
orado: A Decade of Fronteir Mukewater Creek in southeast- Two facts are brought in Dr. Indian encounters described in the upper Brazos. in a dull and
Defense.” scheduled to go on ern Coleman County Aug 2. Havins’ book: the book. eventless campaign On a snowy
sale Monday at 85 per copy J 1856 The site was unfavorable. ONE—Camp Colorado was Havins has divided the book day in January I860 Fitzhugh
Published bv Brown Press of and the camp was moved in far from being a choice assign- I into five chapters and an epi- Lee and a group of soldiers
Brownwood, the 199-page vol- July 1857 to a site near Jim ment. and officers and men logue. The first chapter, "Riv- from Camp Colorado engaged in
ers and Red Men." begins at a combat with Comanches north
Mail coming to Brownwood er session Other awards Sat---■
urday night will go to the out- . _
standing new chapter, outstand- RuSSIODS COSO
By LARRY GAGE
o« The Buetin stet
Dr. T. R Havins, 73.
President was covering
rounding counties from 1856 I
when Camp Colorado was found-
of ed. to the hectic spring of 1815.
revenues from city utilities,
with a proposal to increase
water rates to all customers,
increase electrical rates to res-
idential users and increase
sewer and garbage charges.
Bulk of the funds will be de-
lake for Coleman and to im-
prove the city’s water supply
system.
Ballots will be cast from 8
a m. until 7 pm Saturday in
the Coleman County Courthouse
Twenty - one absentee ballots
were cast before Tuesday’s
The permit will expire Nov. 12. 'devised news conference by area, one of those included.
Coleman officials in late sum-' Leonard Woodcock. LAW vke Other order areas involved are
mer set the bond issue vote president and chief of its GM North Texas. Lubbock-Plain-
| At Oklahoma City, the state
fair was the locale for Johnson's
third formal speech of the day
— and the one with the most
direct political connotations.
seemed to be moving
from Santa Barbara. Firemen
The sectional center in Brownwood
Post Office goes into service at mid-
night tonight when mail from 48 of-
fices in the surrounding area will be
involved. Preparing for the additional
mail volume are local postal em-
ployes, C. F. George, loft, distribution
in a 25-county area A business areas comprising the state as
session will begin at 3 p.m. in sociation. Each area winner will
the Embassy Room of the receive 8100 in savings bonds.
Browntowner. Approximately while the area runner-up will Cooper.
until early 1864, when the Tex-
as-organized Texas Mounted Re-
giment was mustered into Con-
federate service During this
period. Camp Colorado was
abandoned for nearly six months
when Camp Collier and Camp
Pecan were set up under the
new plan designed to give the
frontier better protectiog \
Under plan. military camps
were to be set up 23 miles apart
along the frontier from the Red
River to the Rio Grande Camp
Collier. which was in Brown
County on Clear Creek was ac-
(See CAMP on page 2)
rived from water revenues, city pointment" that he announced
officials have indicated failure to reach agreement with
Coleman has a water permit General Motors
tn build a lake on the Jim Ned He was accompanied to a
The permit will expire Nov. 12 t televised news conference by
has done the best publicity job Pnriin been willing to go anywhere,
Area officers will lie elected "uI• talk to anyone, discuss any sub-
11■ CT
Ox UOGG
The President promised to go the flames because of false cell- The Coleman County Chroni- procedures, union representa- Decision to grant the incrcas-
full speed ahead" on river de- ings built into the old buildings de and Coleman Democrat- tion in the plants, production es was based on evidence sub-
velopment and to fight floods. in the center of the business dis- Voice have endorsed the bond standards, disciplining of work- mitted to USDA at a regional
Okayed By
Department 1
DALLAS (Spl.) - US De-
partment of Agriculture issued
Thursday a final decision in
favor of a temporary emergen-
cy price increase of to cents
per hundredweight for bottling
milk supplied by dairy farmers
to six federal milk order areas
in Texas
Brown County dairymen are
affected by the price increase,
since they sell milk through
Central West Texas order
against "pork barrel” "make-
work" and "giveaway" Three buildings housing eight
charges.
ville, Hamilton, Megarel, Miles. ica broadcasts while putting
Perrin, Stephenville, Taylor, I interference on signals coming both countries for decades
Wilbarger County, 1 from Radio Peking. From West Texas, Johnson Fire Gweene
-------------------------------------------- was bound for remote Eufaula 1 ll“ •WEeF>
Dam in Oklahoma — to dedicate — - -
afternoon and Saturday Low
tonight in 60s. High Saturday
in 80s.
mMrimyumstemorernigne how eral Motors Corp flared today when the United Auto
59 Sunset 6 39 sunrise 6 35.
Runs Tonight bsdute win receive
81 100 in savings bonds and an
During the summer prepara- engraved wrist watch.
tions began for making Brown- The awards program is spon-
wood Post Office a sectional sored by the Sears Roebuck
center to coordinate mail move- Foundation
ments better throughout the rondaton. _
are. and at midnight tonight Last year, Bobby Traweek o
the wheels in the movement will Dublin, member of an Area IV
take effect ' chapter, was state winner in
Brownwood will serve xs the the contest Bill Lane of New-
focal point in movement of mail burg in Comanche County, was
located in the 68 offices in the state winner the.year before. settlement of a 97-year-old bor-
surrounding areas Gamer MeClatchey of Bangs der dispute, said today he will
Four major sectional center « area nominee for the host .. anywhere, talk to anyone,
routes will be added to serve Brown County chapter. discuss any subject” in the the .
the offices from the Brownwood Tommy Knowles of Brown- cause of peace and freedom, territory canvassed earlier by
sectional center. wood, area president, will be Johnson made his pledge asthis Republican rival, Barry
Known as "star routes" trucks master of ceremonies at the he swung into a jet-speed tour of Goldwater. But in Ms first
will go from Brownwood to awards banquet. Mrs. Vernon Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas
Miles. Menard, Mason and Rich- (Ann) Gibson of Dublin will before settling down at his cen-
land Springs. preside at the young homemak- tral Texas ranch for a weekend
Framingham, Mass , and else-
where. V
TALKS FAIL
UAW President Walter P
Reuther announced at to 36
a m that it was with "a great
sense of sacmess and disap-
bonds to finance a new city
Dr. T. R. Havins, who tried to retire in 1961, has a
new book, "Camp Colorado. A Decade of Frontier
Defense," coming out Monday, but he's back at his
typewriter this weok. Havins was connected with
Howard Payne College from 1923 until his retirement
in 1961, except for World War II service. He is now
visiting professor of history at HPC, where he teach-
es two courses. He also finds time for his gem and
mineral collection and historical research. He says
he might even write another book, on the Second
Cavalry during 1855-61. (Staff Photo)
destroyed
Twice the flames trapped
....................................... tract by a union imposed 10 a m. EST deadline.
The union previously negotiat- 1 The strike deadline came less
Coleman Voters To Decide Corp and Ford Motor Co , final tors put its 1965 line " cars on
agreement coming only 55 min- display in dealer showrooms
in canyons studded with moder-
ately-priced to expensive
In his prepared text for the
dam dedication, Johnson said
"The government has a
200 persons are expected receive 850 in savings bonds.
Texas Association of Young In addition. each area winner
Homemakers will hold an area will receive an engraved pla-
meeting at the same time, with que.
----The 1964 outstanding young
VOLUME 64 NO. 297 10c FER CORY
By DIAL TORGERSON rious homes of Avery Brundage. < aerial tanker planes, and
SANTA BARBARA. Calif, president of the International seemed headed inland by 9 pm.
(AP) — A fire which twice Olympic Committee, and Dr then came the devil winds in
burned into the hillside suburbs Robert Maynard Hutchins. pres- an hour 12 homes burned.
overhead water tank in south Disclosure the strike was of-
Coleman and extension of pres- ficial didn't come until after
gineers plans for building a The UAW estimated its strike and Corpus Christi
larger lake on the Jim Ned were of GM would idle 260.003 of its Agricultural Marketing Serv-
too indefinite. Thus far, there 354.000 production workers - ice officials said the emergen-
has been no further action by Non-economic demands of the icy increases are necessary to
tlie corps on its plan for de- union, rather than money, ap- assure an adequate supply of
velopment of the watershed parently brought about the milk for consumers in the 13
in a telephone call to Mayor strike GM had offered to match areas where milk supplies are
Foster Miller of Coleman, A N the economic package won at insufficient
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