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VOLUME 66 NO. 296
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1966
THIRTY FOUR PAGES TODAY
Rusk Pledges
Fulbright Sees Stepup
U.S. Sincerity
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development.
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ress toward agreements may be
Portuguese
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TO HEADLINE PARADE—Among featured attract-
Bill Wooldridge Day will b* the colorful First
max
B52s Slam Targets in North
Gold Star Honors
arguments of their own.
bered about 200.
school
urday against a hig
bizarre. apparently unmotivated
North and South Viet Nam.
Saturday and apparently was on east of Saigon. A spokesman
The charges, lodged in the
er a chase at up to 100 mile*
Thursday.
He related the deaths to offi- close to the lake Sept. 7. Rela- said he was driving a sports car
investments firm.
Gulf Coast and there was no
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Charges Filed Against High
School Student in Slayings
। was in the 10th day of a field
! campaign that has stirred only
Armored Division jeep-mounted band from Fort
Hood. Soe rotated story and pictures on Page 1-B.
City Gets
Sewer Okay
by a 1965 bond issue to make
sewer improvement.
quoted by investigators as say- gave no motive, Tindall said,
ing, “I don't know why I did it.” beyond admitting he took 53 or
A search for the Lairds began per hour on the Fort Worth out-
after their car was discovered skirts Friday morning They
She has held various offices
throughout her 4H years in-
cluding president and secretary
FORT WORTH (AP)—Author-
ities filed murder charges Sat-
believes Red China is convinced the United States wants
war and he thinks Peking will react to an expansion by
of the Viet Nam fighting by entering the conflict.
The Arkansas Democrat, chairman of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee, said in an interview he has
failed to convince President Johnson and other admin-
istration officials that there is grave danger of such a
GENE RODGERS
• . . top 4-H boy
Microfiln Service (Comp.)
P.O.Box 0066 2-2
Dllas, Tex. 75205
Control Board Agent.
Donahoo told The Bulletin one
gated patterns. The experiment
is designed to measure the elec-
tric fields and wind motion in
the upper atmosphere.
The current tests, in which
the West German Ministry of
Scientific Research is coopera-
ting, were originally scheduled
in early September but post-
poned repeatedly because of
unfavorable weather.
Taken at face value, however,
not all the reported sightings
could be explained by the col-
ored clouds.
There was one report of three
mysterious objects in suburban
Richmond. Va . on Friday night,
hours before the Wallops Island
test. There were several calls to
police, and Patrolman John G.
cers and newsmen.
Pittman was picked up Friday
in a stolen car after a high-
concern for their safety until th*
car turned up.
Police L J. W Tindall said
Pittman told of shooting Jones
while the victim was fishing at
the lake Thursday The youth
from the store and' a third was
nabbed in his auto as he await-
ed his accomplices.
chairman of the County 4-H
Council. She is now serving as
secretary on the council.
Miss Woods is also serving
as secretary of the district
council.
The active young woman has
attended a number of events
Mob Hits
Embassy
KINSHASA, THE Congo (AP)
— A howling mob of Africans
ransacked and burned the Por-
tuguese embassy Saturday and
seized two diplomats and a
woman stenographer. All were
released after being manhan-
handled by the mob.
In New York, Portugal angri-
ly demanded that the U.N. Se-
curity Council take action on the
issue. Antonio Patricio. charge
This was something of a sur-
prise. because Gromyko had
introduced the resolution Friday
with a new blast at U.S. plans
for nuclear sharing among the
Atlantic Allies, including West
Germany.
But Rusk denies the U.S.
WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA — Fair today
and tonight with increasing cloudiness
Monday. Possible thundershowers Mon-
day afternoon. Continued warm after-
noons and mild Sunday night. High Sun-
day 86 to 92. Low Sunday night 57 to 64.
I “I get awfully discouraged
about the trend events are tak-
ing in Viet Nam," he said. “If
there is further escalation of the
___ -____ _ — ____ Following his directions, offi-
senior in connection with the cers found the bodies southeast
-----------t-1 of here near Lake Arlington.
The tall, slender youth was
shooting deaths of three per-
sons.
gers of Early have been named
the 1966 Brown County Gold
Star girl and boy.
Eight Year*
Miss Woods, daughter of Mr.
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plans for a district leadership
BHS Graduate miles
A graduate of Brownwood
High School, Miss Woods was
active in school.
Her projects include electric,
clothing, food, leadership and
livestock.
court of the Justice of the Peace
Jim Boorman, named Melvin
Stewart Pittman, who was 19
years old Saturday. He was
charged with three counts of
murder and held without bond.
Relates Deaths
man was apprehended in the
store, one was caught running
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from Brown County including
the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show
Rural Youth Awards banquet
last year and attended an ex-
ecutive council meeting to make
noon's football game at the field
between Anderson and Hanover
Ind. College.
Officers. Pilots
Many of those who i eported
seeing a brilliant object in the
sky were policemen and deputy
sheriffs on patrol Four airline
pilots told the O’Hare Interna-
tional Airport control tower at
Chicago they sighted a brilliant
light which they estimated at 4,-
000 feet some 100 miles east-
northeast of the city.
A Weather Bureau meteorolo-
gist at Chicago said the sky was
exceptionally clear during the
early morning and suggested
that visual atmospheric tricks
might be at play, aided by a
minor effect of Lake Michigan.
tion and outer space treaties.
Ahead of the Saturday even-
ing parley at Gromyko s uptown
headquarters, the United States
publicly endorsed at the United
Nations a Soviet resolution call-
ing on all nations not to hamper
efforts for a treaty to halt the
spread of atomic weapons.
New Blast
t-G
A similar launching is sched-
uled for Sunday morning, at
5:51. It should remain visible
for 30 to 60 minutes.
Shortly after Saturday's
launching, thousands of persons
sighting brilliant objects or light
in the sky in Virginia, Ken-
tucky. Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indi-
ana. Illinois and Southern Wis-
consin
A NASA spokesman in Wash-
ington said the cloud probably
was responsible
“A sunrise reflection against
the cloud' could do strange
things," he said
Change Color
Illuminated by the sun. the
clouds at first appeared light
green with a red tinge Then
they turned blue, forming elon-
e1-
■mm
ministration, a branch of the
Department of Interior, was
from the chief of construction
I grant activity.
Clary said he will check with
city engineering firm Yeats and
Decker of Abilene Monday on
drawing up the bids.
b'
UNITED NATIONS,. N.Y. such as a nuclear nonprolifera-
(AP)—Secretary of State Dean
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FAYE NEU. WOODS
. . . Gold Star girl
Three Captured
In Burglary Try
Three Brownwood men were
apprehended about 9:30 p.m.
Saturday by officers as the men
were in the process of burlariz-
ing Helpy-Selfy Foord Store on
Coggin Ave.
The men, who police say were
attempting to haul away the
safe were interupted in their
efforts by Police Chief Donahoo,
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
A. Gromyko on Viet Nam and
other East-West issues.
It was their second and final
such meeting prior to Rusk's
return to Washington on Sunday
after a week at the U.N. Gener-
al Assembly,
Rusk declined to comment on
any aspect of his meeting with
the Soviet foreign minister.
The United States and the So-
viet Union have been dead-
locked over the Viet Nam
dispute, but some believed prog-
U.N. delegation, charged that
the Congolese government was
inciting violence against its Por-
tuguese resident.
Patricio demanded that the
five and damaged 10 other box power above that of the last frontier, a battalion of the S.
cars, a spokesman said. . purely atomic blast. 196th Light Infantry Brigade
The approval means that the s?ill
$160,080 grant requested has ad
been approved and work can
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Make Decision
"No matter how far-fetched
this may seem to us, they are
the ones who will make the de-
cision whether to send in their
troops and not us.
“I think there is grave danger
they are miscalculating our in-
tent. We have flown over their
territory a couple of times If
we were to invade North Viet
Nam. I believe they would feel
that they couldn't take it any
longer and would come in them-
selves.
Council urge the Congolese gov- “I wish I could do something
eminent to protect foreigners to keep us from heading into a
and their property. world war, but I don’t know
The Council is expected to what to do.”
meet Friday to deal with a Con- Fulbright, who has had some
golese complaint that Portugal recent conferences with John-
is harboring European mercen- son, came away from them with
aries in Angola in support of ex- the feeling that he had not been
Premier Moise Tshombe. The able to get the President to lia-
affaires of the
The dead were Victor Laird $4 from Jones' pockets.
and his wife, both 48. who dis- He was held without immedi-
appeared Sept. 1, and Kenneth ate charge.
E Jones, 35, missing since Officers arrested Pittman aft-
Bids will be opened Oct. 25
and work will hopefully start
A4 Skyhawks from the carrier nounced. Informed sources said rean battalions
Coral Sea pounced on a train 11 the "doping" with plutonium Light Contact
। miies northeast Thanh Hoa in and limited quantities of ther- Across country in Tay Ninh
North Viet Nam and smashed monuclear materials boosted its Province on the Cambodian
Assistant Chief Cleburne.—. ----- _
Spain. Sheriff Joe Townsend in about six weeks,
and W. V. Ray, Texas Liquor
I speed chase, and then told about
the killings.
rusk challenged North Viet Nam
and Communist China on Satur-
day night to test U.S sincerity
in wanting peace in Viet Nam
by coming to a conference table
and starting to diminish the
fighting.
“Then they will find out that
we are genuine" in seeking a
Viet Nam settlement, Rusk
said in a public response to Ha-
noi-Peking charges that the lat-
est U.S. peace proposals are a
swindle.
The secretary of state spoke
to newsmen after a 4%2-hour
dinner discussion meeting with
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Fears Red China
May Enter Fight
! WASHINGTON (AP)_Sen. J W Fulbright says he
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Brownwood City Manager
- ----------------- . John Clary received word Sat-
possible on some other issues urday morning from the federal
Water Polution Control Admini-
stration to call for bids on the
long-pending sewer improve-
| ments in the city.
The telegram from the ad-
l SAIGON. South Viet Nam in the ground action, a com- miles south of the demilitar-
•r LAI I r I (AP) — U.S. B52 bombers from pany of the 7th Marines taking ized zone
IAWAIAAAle U Guam struck at North Viet Nam part in Operation Prairie came Claims 58 Dead light enemy contact
I • V V UUJV3, T%VUA*I 3 Saturday for the third time this under mortar fire while engag- The Leathernecks claimed 58
" • week in support of American ing an enemy squad. Marine ar- enemy dead.
-Faxe Nel Woods 200 and Mrs. T.H. Woods, has been Norinvsbnamese regarstrom XX XK: X
St., Brownwood and Gene Rod- in 4-H club work for eightyears the border province of Quang force but was unable to link up in early August, has now ac-
Tri. with their besieged comrades, counted for 704 enemy dead
The U.S. command said Sun- Marine casualties were report- A South Vietnamese spokes-
day that the raids by the eight- ed as moderate in the five-hour man announced that govern-
jet Stratofortresses were fol- action near Cam Lo, about 10 ment units killed 99 Viet Cong
lowed by strikes by smaller -----------------------—— ■ in separate weekend action near
g-, i , , . . - planes. The B52s hit truck E.. Ca Mau.
of her local club and vice- parks, storage depots and infil- rrance EXPiodes South Korea's Tiger Division
tration routes and Air Force F4 en Anece A Rlec+ l announced its troops killed 41
Phantoms bombed petroleum VOPen H.DId Viet Cong and captured five in a
dumps just north of the demil- PARIS (AP) — France set off drive launched Friday at Phu
itarized zone that separates a plutoni um-doped atomic bomb Cat Mountain, 270 miles north-
fives said the couple had licensed by Jones. Fort Worth
planned a fishing trip to the branch manager for a Houston
war I am afraid we may be in
for it.”
Downcast by the rejection by
Moscow and Hanoi of the latest
U.S. proposals tor peace talks,
Fulbright made it clear he feels
that ar, expansion of the fighting
is almost certain after the No-
vember elections.
“Nobody knows what the
Chinese will do,” he said, “but
I'm convinced their leaders be-
lieve the President is trying to
get them involved so that we
can destroy their nuclear instal-
lations.
gardening, horticulture and
range conservation. Currently
he owns more than 50 hogs,
having raised hogs for the past
six years
Five Firsts
In 18 public demonstrations on
the local. county .district and
state levels, Rodgers has won
five first places and one second
in competition.
These aave been in field
crops, soil and water conser-
vation. electricity, safety and
horticulture
His most significant award has
been the Ross R. Wolfe Tro-
phy won by Gene and his broth-
er Royce at District 8 4-H camp.
Ohio St. 14 Okla.
Congo charged Tshombe intends ten carefully to his viewpoint
to use them to overthrow the and his fears.
government of President Joseph Johnson has a tendency in
D. Mobutu. such conferences to inundate his
The Portuguese U.N. delega- callers with arguments, statis-
tion also protested the embas- tics, reports from field com-
sy burning to the Congolese manders and U.S. representa:
compensation. fives. At times his listeners find
Radio Kinshasa said the the audience concluded without
crowd who burned the embassy their having felt that they have
were Angolan exiles and num- been able to get in any telling
Secondary Fires ' its way toward an operational said Korean casualties were
Pilots of the Phantems report- arsenal, although the hydrogen light.
ed secondary fires and explo- bomb was still about two years This drive is one phase of sep-
sions after the strikes five miles away. arate but coordinated opera-
north of the zone in North Viet The latest of four explosions tions being conducted in the
Nam. took place southwest of Tahiti, central coastal area by Ameri-
In other air raids. US. Navy the Defense Ministry an- can. South Vietnamese and Ko-
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP)
—A space experiment wafted
a huge multicolored cloud hun-
dreds of miles across the sky
Saturday and was followed by
reported sightings of a brilliant
unidentified object in the sky in
the East and Midwest
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration experi-
ment ejected a barium and cop-
per oxide payload from a four-
stage rocket at its test range on
the Atlantic Ocean here, about
120 miles southeast of Washing-
ton.
Remain Visible
The time was 5 13 am. and
the clouds remained visible at
heights of 310 and 570 miles
above the earth for about 45
minutes.
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plans would give independent I
atomic weapons control to any I
new country. And since the So- I
viet resolution itself mentions ]
no nation by name, U.S. strateg- 1
ists decided the smartest tactic 1
would be to join the Soviets on I
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Pace, sent to check into them,
said he saw three objects whose
light persisted about half an
hour.
Round Object
An Anderson. Ind College
security officer making his
rounds reported seeing a myste-
rious round blue object which,
he said started to land on the
school’s football field
The watchman, Henry Fox,
said he first spotted what looked
like a star in the eastern sky
and moving toward the city.
After about 15 minutes. Fox
said, the blue started to fade
and “left a long-slender object
like a shaft of light sticking up
into the air— it was very tall "
This incident did not lead tn a
postponement of Saturday after-
. .nne
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fit garz
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a Flying Objects Follow Space Blast
has served in a number of of- " "
flees with the local club.
His projects through the years
have been swine, sheep, horses.
Iowa St.
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