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Brownwood Bulletin
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VOLUME 66 NO. 285
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1966
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
Gemini 11 Off To Speedy Start
Wilson Alters
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Bill Leader
our hearts for so long," he said.
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sional bulldozer operator relat- !
Approximately 50 workers will
participate in the drive and they
are expected to contact 250 pro-
spective members. Workers will
vious high of 158 raids of Aug.
26. A U.S. spokesman would not
Conrad and Navy Lt. Cmdr.
Richrd F. Gordon Jr. accom-
were treated for slight bullet
wounds of the head and re-
COMPLETELY SURROUNDED—Don
Magness, chairman for the one-day
Brownwood Chamber of Commerce
membership drive, looks over the 250
prospective member cards. The drive
Five Young Refugees Flee
To West Berlin in Dozer
dead and 65 wounded in the fi-
. nal two days.
Denies Loss
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
sortie is a single combat mis-
sion by a single plane.
Ground action in South Viet
Nam continued in a lull and
United States and Vietnamese
military spokesmen reported no
major enemy contacts
The 171 air missions over the
north was well over the pre-
l
the two as they sailed as one
rigid vehicle.
Conrad, 36. called out as Gem-
naut’s term for a first-orbit
rendezvous.
As Gemini II moved in for
rendezvous, Conrad said:
new constitution will meet Sept.
26 and Ky said they should fin-
ish their work “as soon as possi-
ble.”
The new assembly, as an-
Agena target satellite before pacific Ocean and the word was
they completed their first orbit relayed by the pilots when they
of the globe, passed over a tracking station
“We are docked," exclaimed ------------
Charles Conrad Jr.
X /
Docking Opens
Three Day Flight
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla (AP) — The Gemini II as-
tronauts, swift hunters in the sky, accomplished man s
quickest rendezvous of high-flying space vehicles today
as a dramatic prelude to three adventurous days in
space.
They caught and captured an *--------------------------
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POVERTY
WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA — Cloudy to
partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. A
little warmer in af moons Low to-
night 65 to 70, high Tuesday 80 to 85.
Maximum temperature here Sunday
80, overnight low 66 Sunset 6:43, sun-
rise 6-14.
tainly the country is expected to
end up with a presidency and a
balancing legislature.
nounced by Maj. Gen. Nguyen
Duc Thang, who was in charge
of the elections, included 22
teachers, 20 military men, 18
civil servants, 17 provincial
councillors, 15 professional peo-
ple, eight farmers, three judges
and three others.
Only one woman, of 18 female
candidates, was successful. The
average age of the assembly is
40.
ed
A witness said one of the refu-
gees, carrying the child in his
arms, repeatedly cried “Are we
in the West? Are we in the
West.?”
They were taken to a hospital,
where one man and one woman
methods by which Britain hopes
to end the 10-month-old rebellion
of the colony's white rulers
A secrecy clampdown on the
details of, and reactions to, Wil-
many specific projects designed
to build a bigger and better
Brownwood. He said "projects
Sowden, Dunlap and Epperly; Senate prepared to try again
Cowan of Yandell, Cowan, Love today to move into debate on a
and Jackson; and Victor G. motion to consider the bill and
Probst of O'Connell and Pro- its controversial open housing
refugees from Communist gun-
fire as they crashed into West
beginning of the end for the
Communists.”
“We now have the conditions
for final victory,” the premier
said at a gala diplomatic and
press conference at which all
members of the ruling military
ini approached for the record
rendezvous: “Would you belive
K
g
trenches and fortified positions
were destroyed or damaged A
Braking
“I believe I’ll go ahead and
brake. 1.4 miles. Three-quarters
of a mile. Half a mile range
My how many individual plane
strikes the 171 missions involv-
ed but such large numbers
would almost certainly mean
400 to 500 single-plane sorties.
In raids Sunday against the
demilitarized zone, Air Force
B57 Canberras and F4C Phan-
toms reported touching off 55
secondary explosions and eight
"Beautiful.” Mission Control
said to the spacemen.
Over Pacific
The rendezvous occurred ap-
proximately 185 miles above the
PROBLEM SOLVED — The war an poverty is a
serious business in Chicago, but one demonstrator
took a lighter and more personal view of the problem
as she picketed the home of Mayor Richard Daley.
been sacked. It identified Vice
Governor Lin Li-ming as acting
governor.
Chen's removal from the of-
fice he has held since 1957 was
seen in an announcement that
said Lin had, with Canton May-
or Tseng Sheng, received a Con-
golese parliamentary delegation
Sunday in Canton There was no
other indication of when or why
Chen had been replaced. Lin
spoke at a later banquet for the
group anu was identified as act-
ing governor at a rally in
Kwangchow in honor of nine
Chinese seamen allegedly killed
by U.S. planes in the Gulf of
Tonkin.
The new assembly of 117 rep-
resentatives elected to write a
SAIGON, South Viet Nam
(AP) — American warplanes
pounded North Viet Nam with
the heaviest raids of the war
Sunday, the U.S. command an-
nounced.
B52 bombers struck today at
North Vietnamese troops in the
demilitarized zone in follow-up
raids to tactical strikes made
Sunday by Air Force Canberras
and Pantom bombers.
A U.S. spokesman said Amer-
ican pilots flew a record 171
missions against the Commu-
nist north hitting at bridges,
fuel depots and transportation
facilities in the Hanoi and Hai-
phong areas and the southern
panhandle.
V
VIET NAM VOTERS — Puffing on
their cigars, these two Montagus rd
women paused near Pleikv, South
Viet Nam, to listen es a candidate in
the Agena.
Mechanical latches gripped
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RICHARD GORDON
. . . sets record
kicks off Tuesday at 7 a.m. with a
coffee in the Embassy Room of the
Browntowner Motor Inn.
(Staff Photo)
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m unique.
One implicitly recognized the
suspicion and resentment which
has arisen among nonwhite
Commonwealth countries over
British policies toward Rho-
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Plans Aired
Detailed plans for construction
of Brownwood Community Hos-
pital were studied at a meeting
in Dallas last week and a num-
ber of changes recommended.
William G. Streckert, hospital
board head, said today the plan
changes are not expected to add -
to construction costs.
leased
West Berlin police said East
German border guards fired
more than 100 rounds at the
fleeing vehicle. Thirty-eight bul-
lets hit it, some piercing the
thin armor plating, police said.
The driver explained that they
had only enough armor plate to
shield the gas tank and win-
dows.
"We stuffed rags into the
back of the bulldozer’s cabin
because we ran out of steel
plates That's how we found the j
way into freedom which was in
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majority rule is established
there.
Bv ARTHUR GAVSHON said they regarded the tone and
LONDON (AP) —Prime Min- terms of Wilson's proposals as a
ister Harold Wilson offered to- shift in his position, bringing
day to align Britain with the Britain closer to their demands
whole Commonwealth in a for- for tougher action against the
mai pledge to work for African white minority regime of Prime
rule in Rhodesia Minister Ian Smith.
Delegates reported Wilson There were three elements in
laid new proposals before the a declaration of intent which
22-nation Commonwealth Con- Wilson suggested could be in-
ference redefining the aims an corporated in a conference coin-
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son's speech was ordered by the -aagu p.—----
presidents, prime ministers and desia A draft statement read
cabinet ministers attending the by Wilson accordingly set out to
talks, which are crucial to the reaffirm the sincerity of Brit-
future of Britain's global part- ain’s commitments to uphold
nership. the multiracial concepts of the
Diplomats who attended gave commonwealth and to end the
some information on Wilson's Rhodesian rebellion.
so-minute address, which ap- In this context, Wilson was
peared to have transformed the quoted as telling the conference
hitherto bitter mood of the con- he had been saddened to hear
ference time and again the argument
African and Asian delegates that Britain is unwilling to act
------------ against white Rhodesians be-
- cuase they were “the kith and
kin” of the British people.
“I want to assure you," Wil-
meeting. ----------
When revised plans are com- chief Senate sponsor of the
pleted, final approval of all stalled civil rights bill refused
agencies should be fairly soon today to concede defeat. But
in coming. Streckert said. Senate leaders already were
At the Dallas meeting were talking about scheduling and
William M. Collier Jr. of the adjournment plans if the meas-
Texas State Health Dept.; Hugh ure is shelved — as seems inevi- council appeared.
English and Leo Krisl of the table.
U.S. Public Health Service; “You live in hope and surren.
Boone Powell, consultant, for the der only when you are beaten.”
Brownwood project; George S. said Sen. Philip A. Hart, D-
Sowden of Wilson, Patterson, Mich., as the absence-plagued
results. Ky exulted "were beau-
tiful” but he said: “We have not
yet achieved the final victory.
There are many obstacles be-
fore us and the more we achieve
success the more the enemy will
I redouble his efforts.”
“However,” he added, “this
victory permits us to believe in
final victory. We do now have
the conditions for final victory.”
Ky was followed by chief of
' travel in pairs.
Don Magness is drive chair-M equal one?”
According to Joe Blagg, pres- M equal one
ident of the Brownwood Cham-
ber of Commerce, a very en-
i thusiastic program has been
planned for the chamber with
7-Na
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eligible voters. Of this number said, will have to have second
4,274,812 went to the polls. thoughts about the election they
Thang admitted that among so roundly condemned as a
the voters some cast blank bal- farce."
lots of protest, but said the The election was the first step
number was far smaller than toward restoring civilian gov:
the 15 per cent who cast defaced ernment and it demonstrated
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| our hearts for so long,” he said Chen's province has been in
pekua (. ,—ag. —- The driver, his 26-year-old hot water over the Red Guard
steel plates protected five young wife, their son, a friend, 29, and movement Mayor Tseng Sheng
refugees from Communist gun- his wife, 18, declined to give was reported to have been man-
their names. Both men worked handled by the youths Sept 3
at a nationalized construction when he advised them' against
company garage about 800 using force on Chinese visitors
yards from the border. from Hong Kong and Macao.
The Communist terror cam-
paign, which had centered on Two men, their
Saigon and surrounding Gia ‘ 8 . .. " •
Dinh Province, left at least 28
son was quoted as saying “my
(onsTrUcIlOn kith and kin are the human
race.”
Architects for the project said!
Friday work wifi get underway
immediately on modification of
plans as suggested in the Dallas
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By GEORGE MCARTHUR | Gen. Thang said that on elec;
SAIGON, South Viet Nam i tion day there were 5,289,652
(AP) - Premier Nguyen Cao elicihla vetere Of this number
Ky said today that 80 per cent of
South Viet Nam's voters had
Membership
Drive Opens
A one-day membership drive
for the Brownwood Chamber of
Commerce will kick off Tues-
day at 7 a.m. with a coffee in
the Embassy Room of the
Browntowner Motor Inn.
right now 400 feet. Okay, quar- A
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elections. He gave no figure administrative control over the derived.from membersnip s conrad at Controls
howeveritmendnt in a black majoniiy or South veNam'for Se Things don't just happen. Conrad steered the spaceship
. Y,. sPl tainna, neck It was a dramatic defeat for Progress requires continuous ef-and Gordon calculated maneu-
tailoreduniformolavendernnrs the Communists whosmounteda fort Business is confronted with vers with a compact computer
sonsfonhisihewjsidbtheelec- S3S i-l"-.1K unprecedented.-problemsnsthat as Gemini " closed in on the
tionswere "a victory oftheen- In the face for the Ocepowerf cooperative meoih With a well I By the time Gemini it
tire free world against theef- radical Buddhist minority which finet chamber we can con- reached Australia, the distance
forts of „vil forces to enslave had called for a boycoti of the tine to be a stronger voice in I between the two vehicles had
manner before have the Com- polling , the community. county, and been narrowed to about 20
m"Nevertedoeshratte sabo- The assembly will have six state affairs," he said. I miles.
munists tried as hard asaDo months draw a new consti------
tage anything as the/did. yes- tution after it meets Sept. 26 to
trday,"Kysaid."Neverbefos replace the one which was abro-
havethey faiied as yesterday, gated after the overthrow of
"This gannounces,. the President Ngo Dinh Diem in
beginning of the end for the 1963
Communists," he added. The _ .
Then more elections are to be
held to fill whatever offices the
constitution sets up. Almost cer-
son of one of the couples
Pilots taking part in Sunday’s
raids reporting damaging or de-
stroying 107 cargo barges, 11
junks. 19 bridges. 38 supply - -
buildings, 13 trucks and one secondary fires
missile site This indicated bomb hits on
Over South Viet Nam, U.S. North Vietnamese ammunition
pilots flew 363 strike sorties and fuel dumps in the once |
Sunday, claiming more than 200 neutral buffer zone between
enemy bunkers, tunnels, huts, North and South Viet Nam. •
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and program can only be as
Gen. Thang said that on elec-1 state Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu. good as we have funds to fin-
•-------e non —" “The Hanoi regime,” Thieu ance them with
turned out for the national elec-
tions which spelled “the
bst. provision.
Largest change in plans calls Hart, the bill s floor manager,
for construction of a basement achnowledged again that with-
for the hospital to provide addi- out Sen. Everett M. Dirksen s
tional storage. Most of the other help, no vote can be forced on
changes require only minor the bill. But he recalled in an
modification of earlier plans interview how the Senate Re-
such as moving controls to an- publican leader had helped civil
other part of a room, changing rights bills in 1964 and 1965 after
or adding exits, etc. I first voicing doubts.
plished the quick first orbit 1
rendezvous nearly three hours I
and two orbits faster than any
previous Gemini flight.
They skillfully steered their
tiny spaceship through a series I
of maneuvers as they pursued I
the Agena over an 18,000-mile I
course, catching it above the I
Pacific Ocean some 80 minutes I
after they rode a thundering Ti- I
tan 2 rocket from Cape Kennedy. I
About 10 minutes later, at I
11:15 a.m. EST, high over the I
United States, Conrad gently I
slipped the Gemini nose into a I
docking collar on one end of I
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the Vietnamese election explained
some of the issues. Judging by the
puzzled expressions on their faces, the
•peaker wasn’t getting through with
much success.
crouched Sunday in the speed-
ing bulldozer as it crossed two
ditches and crashed through I
_ four barbed-wire fences before
U.S. Planes Pound =S'2“
guards ran toward die vehicle
I with submachine guns blazing.
“We had to get out of the bull-
dozer The women jumped first,
1 then we pulled up the bottom of
1 a (garden) fence, let die women
crawl through, and followed
Sources had predicted earlier
that Wilson would come out
against Commonwealth pres- A • r f ■
Assembly Delegates
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CHARLES CONRADT
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