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Watergate Questions Go
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Rainfall Returns
To Erath County
Shattered
Glass Fails
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judge intended to study the material to
determine whether it should be handed
over to Jaworski for use as evidence.
At the heart of the dispute is the
constitutional doctrine of separation of
powers among the executive, legislative
and judicial branches. Nixon contends
this doctrine gives him the executive
privilege to refuse to supply subpoen-
Despite 12 months of production at
100-percent of the maximum effective
recovery rate in most Texas fields, a
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STEEL GOING UP - Structural steel for the new $800,000 Gulf States United Telephone
Company building on West Frey is beginning to take the shape of the two story office
and exchange building. Construction by the Austin Company is expected to be
completed late this year or early next year, so that installation- of the equipment to
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workings of the executive branch.
A similar question came up last year
when Sirica ordered Nixon to produce
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The female cub was taken away from
Kesari a week ago when the mother
appeared to be ignoring her.
"very rough...knocking it around the
cage.”
The cub, one of three males in the
litter, was immediately given anitbio-
tics and nourishment, Maruska said. It
weighs about half as much as the other
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The court also ruled that the then
special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, had
shown such a need.
Instead of appealing this decision
further, Nixon set the wheels in motion
for the dismissal of Cox.
White House officials later reported
that two of the conversations could not
be found on the tapes, one definitely
had never been made and one had an
18-minute gap inrit.
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Later, Secret Service Agent-in-Charge
Walter Couglin said, "All this came
from simple heat expansion...It was a
new car, the first time it had been
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SERVING ALL OF ERATH COUNTY And Parts of Hood, Somervell, Bosque, Hamilton, Comanche, Eastland, and Palo Pinto Counties
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Department of Public Safety of grass and peanuts. Some peanuts
Robinson, spokesman for the Texas Friday afternoon, bringing up to an
Department of Public Safety at Austin inch of badly needed moisture to the
headquarters. He said it was reported area. The U.S. Weather Service station
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rain, with guages across the area
recording from .40 to 1.90.
Estimates of the value are all big,
but many farmers were wondering if
the rain would be in time to save crops
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The court disagreed, saying that
"judicial control over the evidence in a
case cannot be abdicated to the caprice
of. executive officers. ’ ’
Nixon said in a case last year he
would comply with a “definitive order”
38-billion barrels of oil-approximately
36-percent of the U.S. total.
“The decline in production indicates
the basic task of the state’s oil
men-the more extensive development
of Texas fields,” said the Association’s
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of the Supreme Court on production of
tapes. Presidential spokesman Gerald
L. Warren has declined to clarify this
statement while the case is pending in
the high court.
U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica
ordered Nixon on May 20 to surrender
tape recordings and documents relating
to 64 presidential conventions. The
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aed material relating
disagreed about it being a new car. A were already planted * in dry land
spokesman said it was put into service farming operations, and the rains were
February 1 this year and the mileage right on time for those farmers.
other White House tapes for submission
to the grand jury investigating charges
that White House officials tried to block
investigation of the Watergate burglary.
At that time, the Court of Appeals
ruled that the doctrine of executive
privilege had to be presumed to be
valid unless those seeking the material
could show a “unique and compelling
need” for it.
were most
$30 million World Trade Center and a wide spread showers
luncheon. He is to return to Washington welcome...------------------*
“It’s a 50-50 chance,” Daniel said of
prospects, the constitution will be
approved on the first vote. Daniel says
numerous opponents have fallen by the
wayside in recent weeks as changes
have been made in the proposal.
Others think it more likely the
document will fail to get a two-thirds
majority until further changes are
made, particularly in several of the
controversial separate submissions.
A vote of 121 is the major number.
At least 20 legislator-delegates are
expected to vote " against a new
constitution in any form. They think the
1876 model is good enough. About 60
urged on by the Texas AFL-CIO,
reportedly want the separate submis-
sion on the right-to-work issue removed
before they vote for the rest of the
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car.
The car at the time was about 100
yards behind that of the vice president.
President Nixon was so concerned
; that he called Ford, who accepted
Secret Service explanation of heat.
“He just laughed,” the press aid Bill
Roberts said of Ford when the news
• was told to the vice president. “He
thought it was kind of funny.”
The first report came from Jim
DALLAS AP - A patrol car window
in Vice President Gerald Ford’s
, motorcade shattered Saturday, setting
off an instant search for a possible
sniper. None was found. The vice
president was uninjured.
Conflicting reports of the cause were
issued by official sources. At one point
a Secret Service source said, “Whether
it was rocks, missiles, heat, bullets or
whatever, we’re just not going - to
speculate at this point.”
Later, the Secret Service in Washing- ,
ton blamed heat expansion, but Texas
Department of Public Safety officers
noted that the car was airconditioned,
making heat shattering unlikely.
The Department of Public Safety
issued a statement at midafternoon
saying, “Since a bullet was not found,
we lean toward the theory that a hole
was caused by a flying rock, perhaps
kicked up by a car.”
The car was put under wraps Tor a
time and then parked at state trooper
regional headquarters here but with the
damaged glass removed.
State Trooper Jim Bryan, the driver,
said after the window shattered "all
three people in the car thought we
were underfire and I notified the lead
DPS car we were under fire.”
president, Sherman Hunt, a Dallas i".
independent producer. “But if Congress
will adopt economic policies to encour-
age the search for new fields, we fell
this trend can be changed.”
Despite the drop in production, the oil
that was produced last year in 203 of
the state’s 254 counties was valued at
some $5-billion, an increase of approxi-
mately $500 million over the value of
oil produced in 1972. This increase
partially reflects the increased prices
paid for some Texas crude oil during ------
the latter part of 1973.
In addition to larger payments to
royalty owners, the higher prices also
have\ been reflected in the state
comptroller’s reports of increased
severance taxes paid by the ojL men of
Texas.
In 1973, some 33 counties produced
more than 10-million barrels of crude
oil, with Borden County being added to
the list. The top half-dozen, all with +
production in excess of 50-million
barrels, remain the same as the year
previous. They are:
Scurry, 91.8 million barrels; Ector,
72.6 million barrels; Yoakum, 66.0
million barrels; Gaines, 61.3 million
Andrews, 60.4 million barrels; Gregg,
53.2 million barrels.
Gregg County, the only Texas County
to produce more than two-billion
barrels of oil in the history of recorded
production, remains the all-time leader
with a cumulative production total
„ through 1973 of almost 2.4-billion_______
barrels. Other counties with cumulative
production in excess of one-billion
September there will be thousands and NURSES LEAGUE OFFICERS - Two staff nurses at Stephenville Hospital and Clink,
thousands,, of copies of the new Mrs. Mildred Thorman, left, and Mrs. Loy Patton, hold high positions with the Texas
constitution distributed in a newspaper League of Vocational Nurses. Mrs. Patton has just been installed as state president of
tabloid format the 1,400 member organization and Mrs. Thorman is in the second year of a three year
But the voters will have the final term as state secretary. Mrs. Patton, a member of the staff of the Stephenville Hospital
decision on November 5 - the first time since 1961, is also a member of the State Board of Nurses. She is active in the Zonta Club
they have voted on an entire new state and the Eastern Star organization. Mrs. Thorman has been on the staff of the
constitution since 1876. Stephenville Hospital for 15 years.
time from the early 19th century to last
Across Texas on Saturday weather mbnth.
was typical of summer-hot and One is an 1807 case in which Burr, a
generally dry - prominent political figure of the day,
A few showers dotted the mountains sought a letter written to President
of far West Texas during the morning Thomas Jefferson which he believed
and low clouds covered the gio Grande would help him in trials on treason and
Valley from Del Rio to McAllen. misdemeanor charges. Although Chief ।
Temperatures rose into the 90s most Justice John Marshall held the presi-
places dent subject to the subpoena, Jefferson
Sunday weather should be clear to responded with only an edited version
partly cloudy with scattered showers of the letter.
and thundershowers in West Texas and Jaworski cited a 1951 decision of the
along the coastal plains, the Weather Supreme Court in a case arising out of
Service predicted. the death of three civilians in the crash
About midafternoon, the Weather of a B29 bomber near Waycross, Ga.,
Service . issued warnings of heavy in 1948. The plane was being used to
thunderstorms in far Southeast Texas. test secret electronic equipment.
The service said thunderstorms had Families of the three men sought to
-- developed from the Louisiana border obtain the Air Feree,‘s official accident *
Sunday. Additonal chances for more thunder- north-westward from the Texas line to investigation report, but the govern-
He made no reference to the incident showers are in the forcast for the next the southern portion of Sam Rayburp ment argued that "department heads
during the news conference. few days. Lake and to just north of Longview. • have power to withold any documents
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Final Draft of Constitution
Due Delegate Vote This Week
hours.
Eight justices, three of them appoint-
ed by Nixon, are expected to take part.
Justice William H. Rehnquist has not
participated in the preliminary deci-
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Cincinnati Zoo Officials
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the hearing. A decision is expected .
within two weeks, since the court • CINCINNATI, Ohio AP - Cincinnati rapidly from-a bottle-fed formula but
agreed to consider the case on a Zoo officials fought to save the life of a remain under watch.
speeded-up basis. - rare, 16-day-old white tiger on Saturday Maruska said the decision to retrieve
There are several distinct but related ... - - - -
issues, revolving around the Claim of with it like a cat with a mouse.”
Nixon’s attorneys that a U.S. president, Ed Maruska, zoo director, described
while not above the law, is “not treated the kitten as “very weak.” He said
by the law in the same fashion as are emergency care was being provided,
others.”
In briefs filed with the Supreme The Bengal cub was the last bom in
Court, attorneys cited more than 200 a litter of four. Three of the cubs are
previous court decisions, ranging in white with black stripes. The fourth is
orange and black like the mother,
Kesari, a descendant of a white male
tiger captured two decades ago in
India.
The other three cubs were taken
from Kesari earlier and are growing
1.6 billiowF barrels; Rusk,
barrels; Rusk, 1.5 billion
Still others are unhappy with a
separate submission that would have
voters deciding whether state represen-
tatives should get four-year terms,
instead of two, and whether legislative
salaries should be raised from $4,800 to
$8,750 annually.
If the' Constitution should be approved
next Wednesday or Thursday, the
convention likely would adjourn near
the end of the July 14-20 week.
Daniel says he wants to be sure there
will be several days allowed for
organization of a convention-closing
ceremony similar to the week-long
festivities and ritual that opened the
historic convention.
Thea comes the job of selling the
new constitution t Texas voters, or
meter showed 12,255 miles. Grass and grazing in the county
Ford went ahead as planned with a which are not irrigated were suffering
WASHINGTON AP - Watergate issues
will be argued before the Supreme
Court for the first time Monday against
a background of legal precedents
ranging from the trial of Aaron Burr to
an airplane crash in Georgia.
A capacity crowd is expected to hear
f lawyers for President Nixon and
Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski
debate the President’s claim that he is
entitled to withhold tapes and papers
wanted for the Watergate cover-up
trial.
drop of nearly 6.3-million barrels of N total through the end of the year to
crude oil from the state’s all-time 1,652,216 barrels.
record high production year of 1972 . In 84 years of recorded production,
occurred last year. Texas oil fields have produced some
- Texas production in 1973 amounted to
almost 1.3-billion barrels, tops among
the nation’s oil producing states and
representing 38.6 percent of total U.S.
production, according to statistics
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blocking its adoption asifle case might
be.
Although there have been numerous
threats of organized protest, Convention
officials now say they see nothing
serious ahead-provided the Texas AFL-
CIO can be satisfied on the right-to-
work issue.
James Ray, executive director of the
Convention, says there are indications
the Texas Farm Bureau, the Citizens
for Texas which supported the calling
of the convention, the Texas League of
Women Voters, the State Bar and the
Junior Bar of Texas, the Texas Junior •
Chamber of Commerce, the Texas
organization of university women,
Texas Catholic Women, the Texas State
Teachers Association and others will
support the constitution.
“I do not know of any organized
group planning to oppose it,” said
Daniel, who has promised to campaign
full time for adoption after the
campaign ends
“I think you can expect active
support from the governor, lieutenant
governor, land commissioner, agricul-
ture commissioner and most of your
state officials....I expect that most of
the legislators will.... actively" ■oampaign,*~i
for it.”
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AUSTIN, Tex. AP - Texas legislators
are just about ready to hand Texas
voters their idea of a new state
constitution.
Some time within the next two or
three weeks, or before July 31 at the
latest, the 181 legislator-delegates to the
Constitutional Convention are expected
to approve a new state policy document
to replace the 1876 Constitution
Voters will have the final word
November 5 when the body of the new
constitution, along with anywhere up to
half a dozen separate proposals to
change the new or the old constitutions,
will be on the general election ballot.
The November 5 vote is actually the
fourth step in a procedure that began
more than a decade ago to revise or
rewrite the old Texas Constitution to fit
modern needs. First, the legislature
was convinced of the need for "
constitutional convention, and voters
concurred in 1972. Then a 37-member
citizens group, the Constitutional Revi-
sion Commission, worked seven months
getting ideas from throughout Texas
and drafting a proposed new constitu-
tion. The Texas Constitutional Conven-
tion met last January 8, using the CRC
draft as a basis, to turn out the 11
articles that are almost ready for the
voters.
All 11 articles have been approved
individually, by majority votes.
Now, the constitution as a whole
must be approved by two-thirds
majority before it goes on the ballot.
Speaker Price Daniel Jr., president of
the convention, says the historic vote,
, maybe the first of several, likely will
come next Wednesday.
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