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P.O. Box 8066
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH I, 1966
TWELVE PAGES TODAY
Soviet Union Lands
Satellite On Venus
Russia
VIET MONEY MEASURE
Backers Confident Of Bill's Passage Scores
W McCormack D-Mass., pre-
pate we will pass it by a very
GOAL
SAME
appropriation bills for military
Sen. J. W Fulbright.
man.
Differ, Trio Finds
Draft Probe
This raised the enemy toll
weapons in the fighting that be-
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thirty
gan with their arrival by heli- since the drive
in Venezuela, but
in the aftermath of a battle
background and
fe” hamlet
Vo Det. 75
America's Mariner 2 passed
Mental Patients
Viet Nam's frontier
tinue his service in Indonesia.
aries in the town but all of them
flank of the battle zone 400
seph
Willi
tag.
(See DRAFT on Page 1)
There will be no announce-
member Mental Health Board
Ghana.
today for
with Sonet lead-
Dr. Charles Barnett, deputy
come back to this country he j jury this week,
will be tried for the crimes he Mrs. Mossier
has committed
was closed to all planes of the
Health-Education Plan Goes To Solons
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
did say he was asking for $50
public and private resources to of manpower facilities and funds
commodities already in
the
offer balanced, nutritious meals
in the medical and health
services.
I
Night Run Returns
To Airport Agenda
Pressed By
Republicans
WASHINGTON (AP> - The
House votes today on President
Johnson's $4.8-billion Viet Nam
money bill with Speaker John
Under consideration for the
two centers are Abilene. Ama-
ton, Edinburg. Longview. Mid-
land. Odessa, San Antonio, San
foreign lands are more hesitant
to accept the teachings than
those in America The Rev. Mr.
Sears said that if the people of
a foreign country feel their gov-
of snow—left from a 5-inch fall
Sunday—still coated the ground.
Readings were in the lower
50s along the lower Texas coast.
All sections were due to warm
By FRED COLEMAN
MOSCOW (AP) - The So-
ts “not making maximum effi-
cient use” at pneerit personnel.
They cited a recent report they
said showd 9,000 enlisted men
"Murder had to be the last
resort — they had the dear run
of all the universe at their dis-
posal,” according to the defense
argument, which held that the
couple did not lack for discreet
hideaways for sinful dalliance
Circuit Judge George Schute
was asked to dismiss first-de-
gree murder charges against
Throe men, all folhewing different
roads but with the same goal are,
from left, the Rev. M. E. O'Neill,
missionary to the Latin Americans in
Alamo, the Rev. Stockwell B. Sears,
missionary in the Orient, and the Rev.
Tom Kelly Muskrat, missionary to the
Chocktaw and Chickasaw Indians in
Southeastern Oklahoma. Looking over
a Choctaw Bible, the missionaries are
among the 10 who are in Brownwood
for the current school of missions now
underway in county Baptist churches.
in his vicinity are Latin Ameri-
can themselves. He was accept-
ed with reservations until he
gamed the trust of the people
be served.
A difference in the life of a
(See FIELDS on Page 2)
budget for school nutrition pro-
grams
"The total federal program of
$379 million,” he said, “is a ma-
jor redirection of our child nu-
trition efforts to children who
dieting approval.
Final action on the authoriza-
tion measure in the Senate will
come by the end of the week,
says Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana, and he
wide margin.”
McCormack said once the
special health programs.
—A three-year program to
meet the hospital needs of the
elderly.
In a lengthy message, Johnson
also called for creation of an ad-
visory committee on alcoholism
and a government center for re-
search on its cause, prevention
and control.
because he had adopted an
Apache Indian, he decided to
devote his life to the people of
his ancestry.
“A difference between home
and foreign mission,” said the
"We hope to bring the mili-
tary defense supplement author-
ization to a vote this week."
Mansfield said, "and I antici-
sociate themselves with Ameri-
can missionaries. On the other
hand, be explained, if the coun-
try is on friendly relations with
the United States, then the
people receive the missionaries
freely.
Each of the three men chose
his own path and for many rea-
sons. For instance, the Rev. Mr.
Muskrat at one time thought
;an eight days
long killed, 8
Texas Voter
Registration
Starts Thursday
—A new state formula, begin-
ning in the 1968 fiscal year, for
such health services
—Also to start in that same
adds that he looks for passage Lpr-r-— u
by a wide margin. and economic purposes in Viet
Sheriff Jennis Mangum of Dur-
ham County, whose deputies
found the bodies of Roberts and
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- million “for programs designed
dent Johnson submitted to Con- to provide adequate nutrition for
Soviet airline Aeroflot “because
they carried Nkrumah away.”
The move apparently was in-
tended to make sure the Soviets
do not bring him back.
■ rillo, Austin, Beaumont, Brown-
wood. Dallas, El Paso, Galves-
Education and Welfare John not back away from this. Again
Gardner to begin a special food he emphasized that those who
service program under which lo can should pay for milk in
cal organizations will be able to school lunches
ll1crofilm Service
i Nam ’ ' cism of Johnson's Viet Nam ptri-
Senate passage of the bill icies
ion made history's first soft
larding on the moon last month
The first Tass announcement
gressmen also claimed:
1 — The Defense Department
"Our soldiers in Viet Nam are
turning in one of the greatest
performances in our nation's
history, and we are not going to
let them down.
Nkrumah, deposed president of
Ghana, stopped over in Moscow
free to those in need. This would third o the general hospitals in
be done under an older Amcrl- the nation, containing 260,000
can* act passed last year beds, are obsolete and the pres-
Johnson's food proposals car- sure on hospital* will grow
ried with them the threat of con- when medicare goes into opera-
tinued conflict with Congress tion July 1.
otherwise would grow up hun-
gry. suffer the diseases that
come from being ill-nourished
copter Monday 12 miles south- ago to 390 Viet
east of Hue, 400 miles north of captured and 79 weapons seized.
Saigon. I he said.
ers. The military leaders who
overthrew him said Nkrumah
would be put on trial if he re-
turned home.
Soviet Foreign Minister An-
drei A. Gromyko was at the air-
port when Nkrumah arrived
Monday night aboard a special
Soviet plane from Peking They
talked for about half an hour,
then drove off separately.
about serving 1
i because of his
While he was at it, Johnson provide grants for training
"To begin to meet this ur-irecommended: । needed health wworkera.
I Fon sum : £? XJU—I imniymemt"fetafbenem-1 KTjSAX S?
In Wiping Out Cong Unit
loan and grant program to as-
sist in the long-term financing
of hospital renewal projects.
Venus I, passed within 62,000
miles of the planet in 1961. But
its radio died shortly after
launching and it failed to provide
data.
'First'
Mansfield and McCormack
issued their predictions after a
White House meeting with John-
son late Monday
- ___,___________Angelo. Tyler. Texarkana. Tem-
head of a $33-million banking further information before se- pie. Victoria, Wichita Falls and
and loan empire. 1 lecting the other. I Waco.
miles northeast of Saigon this
morning and found 100 more
bodies Most of them had been
killed by air attacks before the
arrival of the Marines.
A Marine spokesman said the
Viet Cong reacted sharply,
“were very aggressive and well
equipped,” but added that the
combined air-ground assault
was too much for them.
South Vietnamese forces spot-
ted 15 to 20 junks apparently
trying to evacuate the remnants
of the Viet Cong from the coast,
al peninsula where the fighting
flared. Air attacks were sum-
moned but there was no imme-
diate report of results,
Vietnamese troop* took block-
ing positions along a river par-
allel to the peninsula to prevent
the enemy 's escape by land
Other government battalions
continued operations farther
north around Quang Tri City,
less than 20 miles from the 17h
Parallel demilitarized zone. A
spokesman said one spearhead
killed 48 Viet Cong and captured
three machine guns, one mortar
and 42 other weapons Monday.
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Brownwood Bulletin
The message was skimpy on ___-________-
1 Linaucing gures. But Johnson and lack the energy so esscutial Complaints have srrung up at i
gress today a cradle-to-old age disadvantaged children,” in ad-
health and education program dition to 9329 million in cash and
to help feed poor children and commodities already in the
The Rev Mr. Sears said
“when I graduated I could have' Rev. Mr. Sears,” is that the
opened several doors But I felt Baptist missionary overseas us:
that my call was for China ” ually works in an environment
The minister served there until where the protestant and Bap:
he was forced to leave and con- | tist are not very well known.”
WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA Fair and
warmer tonight low 42 to 52 Wednes-
day mostly cloudy, high 65 to 75.
Maximum temperature here Monday
63, overnight low 50. Sunset 6:29, sun-
rise 6:59.
revitalize our obsolete hospi- for comprehensive health serv-
tals. This will require a ice*.
copereromenetsopstandcab. Held In Slayings
airy Division cooperated in DURHAM, N.C. (AP)— Two
strikes against about 100 Viet mental patients, charged with
Cong on the shore of the South murdering a cab driver, were
China Sea near Bong Son. 300 held today in the fatal shootings
miles northeast of Saigon. of a Raleigh real estate dealer
Eight hundred Marines made and • rural storekeeper.
the landing Monday southeast of Sheriff J. C. Cash said the
Hue. They linked up with Viet- captured patient* would be
namese paratroops and rangers' charged with murder in the
and ouicklv estahlished contact deaths of Andrew Roherts M
■ Converts overseas feel they be-
i long to a minority. He said that
this is nor the case with the
home missions.
The Rev. Mr. O'Neill pointed
out that he is the only Anglo-
American missionary among the
Latin Americans where he serv-
Nkrumah, Russians Huddle.______________________.
sag SiW SX b^r T month" uAuszan ' statsmmsm mSrhe^untt “
mat Chinese capital Monday; The ebb and flow of a month s me, in closed session todav tn . - -- - -
vowing to cushthe. army and testimony at an end the last Work out recommendations for has been polled by telephone on
Poiceswho,deppsedhim.. * witness descended from the the sites of the first two com-).....
In Arora I.f Gpn .1 A An- I ctanr ie S whi± n.wollar eiw>h, . . • . • • ;
Today’* landing on Venus was
_________. another space spectacular. com-
Fon ville Monday night, said Jo- ing on the heels of the success-
h Spence, 26, and Glenwood fui touchdown on the mon Feb.
•• ..Hams. 28, “admitted the slay- 3. The moon satellite sent back
money authorization bill is
passed, he is confident the
House Appropriations Commit-
tee will act rapidly on the actual
Republican House members
called today for an immediate
investigation of the draft
charging the present system is
haphazard and mired in a jun-
gle of red tape.
Administration effort* to per-
•uade allies to supply men for
Viet Nam also should come un-
der congressional scrutiny, the
seemed assured after a duster
e Montana senator
, vehicle* for battling the admin-
istration's Southeast Asian poll-
! cies.
The 17 senators who for 14
krah. president of the National floor courtroom, the all-male onstration cwterTin Texas 1
hgenahlana,Counc x «: a wlegaf"ofatocyPrromitban । mTwentgcities have applied for ।
ence that if Nkrumah “dares to sides. The case should reach the - — '
Nkrumah was in Peking con-
ferring with Red Chinese lead-
ers when his regime was over-
1 thrown last Thursday in a mili-
to the elderly, at cut rates or field. Johnson noted that one-
The 1965 Legislature appropri-
, ated 9450,000 plus operating
> costs for the two pilot centers,
to be matched by federal funds.
ry,” he added
All three of the men inter- ed. There are other mission-
viewed agreed that people in orine ” th tos- * ~ them
around the government
When Convair service returns
to Brownwood after the comple-
tion of the airport in either late
1966 or early 1967, the planes
will be Convair 600‘s which are
the turbo-prop (jet powered pro-
peller engines), according to a
Trans-Texas Airways official.
T-TA is presently converting the
Convair* to this turbo-prop mod-
el st the rate of one a month
Airport boardings on T-TA
dropped from the January high
of 211 to 172 for February The
l0ss of a returning flight to
Brownwood at night may have
caused the decrease, but a five
year trend has been a sharp
decrease in February, the short
month, boarding* from January
records.
However, this year’* February
total is a substantial increase
over prior years with 146 re-
corded for the month in 1965.
136 in 1964, K in 1963 and 122
in 1962.
An average of daily passen-
ger boarding* is 1.1 during Feb-
ruary compared to 6.8 in Janu-
ary IM. and compared to a
7.1 daily average for the year
1965 However, February.
1166 had a daily average of 5.2
to indicate a steady climb for
this year, I
commissioner of the Depart-
Mossier, an attractive^ment of Mental Health, said the
blonde grandmother who insists site selection committee might:
Ankrah said Ghana’s airport her age is 40, and her darkly -Pick two rites today
handsome nephew. Powers, 29, । -Delay action and ask for
are on trial for their lives in the . more information on several
June 30, 1964, bludgeoning and; sites.
stabbing of her husband, the Or pick one site and ask for
“I also propose a five-year
program of grants for research year, a program of grants to
and demonstration projects in stole*, communities, medical
the organization. financing. util- schools and hospitals to meet
ization and delivery of health
For Mental Health Centers
m m m A a . i said Venus 3 fell silent before
U.S. Air Cavalry Joins Viets sm.mp-nmebamru--.
Rn, AEn. 24 u 0L. 00 three separale roads met and The Rev. M. E. O’Neill is a
, a k before that It presumably compared their fields of service home missionary to the Latin
had been sending back Informa- Monday night in an interview Americans inAlamo, Tex The
Rmfknigmmkrafdare
maintained Ihe three men. all mission-' among the Choctaws and ChicK*
However, Taw disclosed that aries in the current school of asaws in Southeastern Okla-
another Soviet probe. Venus 2. missions program.nw under homa. The Rev..Stockwell B.
passed the planet Sunday and way at Brown County Baptist Sears was the only one m the
presumably it wiD nrovide much churches, discussed their work, group who served on foreign
Piintihirrrwatrde their people and their particu- soil and his field of service is
Tass said Venus 2 passed only larfie iaof service. All three. the Orient.
14,900 miles from the planet.1 agreed that this was the first I "Each missionary senses a
Panel Studies Applications
The night flight from Dallas
to Brownwood is returning to
the schedule tonight for the first
tone since early January.
However, this flight will be
back to the DC-3. All Convair
planes have been pulled from
service to Brownwood until the
municipal airport reconstruction
to completed.
Four flights to and from toe
Dallas-Fort Worth area are in
DC-3 planes rather than Con-
vairs. Previously, Convair* were
on the flight from Brownwood to
Dallas which left at 7:30 am.
and the night flight from Dallas
to Brownwood which arrived
hare at 1:29 p.m.
The flight* leaving Fort Worth
aid Dallas and arriving in
Brownwood at 9:37 and the
plane leaving Brownwood at
1:45 p.m. for Dallas will con-
tinue with their DC-3 flight serv-
Ie*.
According to City Manager
John Clary, hopes are looking
up for a final FAA approval of
airport plans and specifications
this week. If the plane are ap-
proved within the week, the
scheduled bid opening of Tues-
day March 29 can still be ad-
bored to,
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to learning." his proposed 79 per cent cut ini gent need,” he said. "I room- —Grant* to states and com-
The President also said he has the program for subsidized milk' mend legislation to mobilize 1 munities for planning better use
directed Secretary of Health, for school children. Johnson did ru---- ——•----—la---—f-atat----a -—•
21,648 miles from Venus on Dec.
14, 1962. It radioed back inval- AA...I u.z.
uable scientific data, including MOVeS InTO
information that Venus’ surface
is 800 degrees, too hot for hu- r, ne,
man life. FinalSstages
Tass said data sent back by The Rev. Mr. Muskrat who is
Venus 2and.3are being pro- , MIAMI. Fla.;(AP) - The de- half Irish, half Indian, said mis-
cessed and studied. 1 ense claims there was no need sionaries feel God has caned
Venus ‘distance from the earth for Candace Mossier andherthemta responsibility. “We
ranges from 25 million to 161 nephew, Melvin Lane Powers, feel this cali as a separate call
million miles. । to kill her husband to safeguard to that of the nastoral minist.
The first Soviet Venus probe, an illicit love affair. ‘ Pastoral
held jobs in officers’ clubs, hob-
by shops, bowling alley*, golf air to push into the Panhandle
again late Wednesday.
I a controversial anti-escalation newsmen that he and his 16 as- •
amendment to the measure, sociates were "deeply con-
part of $12.3 billion for emer- eeroed about the trend of our
gency military use sought by involvement in South Viet viet Union today landed a
But the opposition - accused Nami” Alhoumhamhexamdentded satellite on Venus, the first
of filibustering by administra- the pending bill Fulbright said man-made object to reach
thnsuParkdownote“moner mean this matter that cloud-wreathed planet,
bill would not still their crit-- Sen. Wayne Morse, p-OreTass announced.
subsequently announced he , The. satellite, wa. Venus.3,
---- would call un his own amend- launched last Nov. 16 The offi-
Explained the group's spokes- ment 0 thePmoney bUl toddy cialnews agencyrsaid i carried
man. Sen. J. W Fulbright, that asks Congress to terminate 10the„ planet ‘s surface a pennant
=s e =z Missionary Fields
-------— — —, coming up, and none of us wish- steps he felt necessary to repel it had crashed. The Soviet Un-'
days had talked the bill to a es (in) any way to be accused of1 aggression in Southeast Asia.
¥¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥
ernment distrusts America,
those people are hesitant to as-
By THOMAS A. REEDY
SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) -
U.S. air cavalrymen and Viet-
namese troops decimated a
Communist company in the Saigon. he said.
Bong Son sector today while This was reported to have' in the
U.S. Marines and other Viet- boosted to 605 killed and 14 cap- Monday
eams betledmhenE“nSonee tunndheasylgoeramenffensipe msesMrtheasy"of"saigon,"the Venus t was iaunched N^r?2’. time they had ever participated leading or calling to a particu-
""5 Trial
groupsaidlinastatementissued killed iis of the enemy, cap-with actions centering from, -------------- Americas Mariner 2 passed /VI/Om/ IICl fde iM %
prior to a late morning news tufed ” *°d nearly 168 to 50 mies from North viet
conference at the Capitol.
power to fight taePwoa in Viet Warm Spell
Nam should be equitable and e • *
efficient,” the congressmen FIH£ lexds
said. "We are concerned that it I "re.,
to neither.” j By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
. nmctea .a Texas weather levelled off to-
ministration -Pay soon seek to da vintoancary springpatter
increase substantially the num- ofcool.mornings and warm aft
ber of U.S. forces to Southeast ernosnss clear . . . ________ __________________
Arie” and said "we can no long- thTLSrLvi and quickly established contact I deaths of Andrew Roberts, 69,
eriafford a haphazard ap- tures before s u n ris eranged with a main force of 400 of Bahama and Fred Fonville,
proach. down to 29 degrees at Dalhart A 350-man government infan-, 28, a customer at Roberts
In the statement, toe con- in the Panhandle, where an inch try battalion moved into the store.
MOSCOW (AP) - Kwame
stands'll! on the Senate floor obstructing the supply of our
met twice Monday and then an- troops."
nounced they would not offer The Arkansas Democrat told
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