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May 15, 1975
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Vol. 106, No. 108
Phone All Departments 965-3124
Stephenville, Texas 76401
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The National Weather Service said a
waterspout, as a seagoing tornado is
called, apparently came ashore and
knocked down telephone poles in the Flour
GROUND BREAKING - Bill Tidwell, with the shovel, who is
owner of Stephenville Printing Company breaks ground for his
new facilities which is to be located on the South Loop. On hand
for the event were members of the Stephenville Chamber of
Commerce membership committee. Next to Tidwell, left, is
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funnel cloud) exploded and picked up the
mill and dropped it in the intersection and
moved on.”
The tornado likewise damaged two
of Stephenville choir is under the direction of Mike Morton. Part of the choir is
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Ross Musso, chamber president, and at right is Karen
Carpenter, secretary. Others in the photo include C.H. Maguire,
Cecil Denman, Mel Bennett, Wanna B. Hancock, Juanita Dixon,
Dick Blythe, Warren Russell and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Ellis. (Staff
Photo)
U.S. forces recovered the American
freighter Mayaguez and its 40 crewmen
today after an attack on Cambodian
gunboats in the Gulf of Thailand, a landing
00 an offshore island and air attacks on
airfields on the Cambodian coast. Some
George said continuing education units
will be awarded at the standard rate of one
C.E.U. per 10 hours of instruction.
The TSU registrars office will make a
permanent record of CEU’s earned and
provide a transcript for $1.
Persons interested in the workshop may
contact Mr. George or- Dr. Staig at
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directors—Senior Citizens- Center. Inc , used,at council meetings____'
Tift council okayed a motion to purchase
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WASHINGTON AP - Disclosure of Bluff area east of the Corpus Christi
activities of a nationwide police airport.
intelligence network caught some city Early morning temperatures sagged to
officials by surprise, prompted calls for 47 degrees at Dalhart and 49 at Amarillo in
aspects of the project, with the council
finally passing the ordinance. Eventually
the,streets around the courthouse will be
one way, but the council decided to hold off
for awhile to get the other project in .
motion and see how it works out
Another item on the agenda was a
request from Senior Citizens Center for an
additional $4,000 to finish out the fiscal
a gasoline storage tank for the police
department and agreed to extend sewer
lines across Highland and Clinton when
needed
in final action for the meeting, Mrs.
Mary Ann Stephen was appointed
managur-of thef hthltn Swimming Peelfor
the summ session with Adrianne
^tephen and Tomihv Herod as life guards
Meeting adjourned a-11:55 pin
The scholarships will be presented in the
name of author Marjorie Holmes.
Recipients will be recognized at the Matrix
Dinner May 20 at Broadway Baptist
Church in Fort Worth
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American lives were lost, the Pentagon domination of the country. South Vietnam
said. began a three-day celebration of the
President Ford in a brief post-midnight Communist conquest of that country, and
broadcast said he had ordered the attack Premier Ton Duc Thang and Politburo
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investigations and also drew criticism and the Panhandle while it still was 71 at
praise from law enforcement officials. A Brownsville in the extreme south.
Cook County, Ill . prosecutor said he Wednesday afternoon s top marks went as
planned to investigate what role the unit high as 94 at Brownsville and 95 at
may have played in alleged surveillance of neighboring McAllen.
private citizens by the Chicago police. Forecasts called for clouds and
Dallas eity officials said.they never heard scattered thundershowers to linger over
of the unit even though the Dallas police Northeast ’Texas into tonight. Fair
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Mrs. Holmes was featured speaker this
year at WIC’s annual Celebrity Breakfast
f ’Proceeds from the breakfast provide
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}.Michael R Levy, publisher of Texas
g -Monthly Magazine, will be featured
speaker at the scholarship awards dinner
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19-20 on the TSU campus. The workshop city of Dublin. Effective immediately, a
will be two, 10-hour sessions. building permit for a resident will be $15.00
The workshop is designed to aid nursing a place of business, $25.00 and add-on
home personnel in understanding geriatric construction, 10 percent f total project,
patients who have hearing and speech not to exceed $15.00 on a resident,
handicaps. It will deal with definition of The council also voted to revise rates on
disorders, examination of their cause, the rental use of city equipment, effective
symptoms that can indicate their immediately, with rates available at city
beginning, disabilities rendered, and hall.
means to improve communication and In a unanimous decision, the council
, understanding between personnel and announced that past due water bills must
residents. be paid in full by June 1 or a $5.00 deliquent
W D. George, Jr., assistant professor of fee will be added, and a charge of $2.50 will
speech at TSU and workshop coordinator. be added for all re-reads of meters if the
said members of the workshop staff have first reading is found to be correct. Also,
backgrounds in community service, the water meter deposits were increased
diagnosis, prognosis and remidition, to $15.00 for home owners and $20.00 for
Members of the staff are: Dr. Don D. rental property. City secretary Ronnie
Bersinger, director of Speech Pathology Tate was also instructed to write each past
Audiology at the University of Arkansas? due account a letter informing them of the
Donald F Tibbits, supervisor of clinical June 1 paid in full" date. Mrs. Carol
services. University of Arkansas, Speech Blackwell was engaged for part tune
and Hearing Clinic.' employment at the city hall to assist the
Dr Mary Sue Staig, assistant professor city secretary. Aso,-th council voted to
’11 3, She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Jack seize the ship, the Mayaguez, and force
| ;W Ferrill of 4332 Whitfield in Fort Worth. Cambodia to surrender the crew.
Her father received an associates
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foreign ministry said the U.S. Embassy in _ ...
Bangkok had assured its members of the What one witness described as a wide
contingent still in the country would be funnel wrecked half of a feed mill at
withdrawn as soon as possible and that the Haslet, near F ort Worth, as Texas
Thai military command reported no U.S. protracted siege of wild weather held on
planes based in Thailand participated in -(Wednesday night. _
the attack Other tornadoes threatened areas near
Elsewhere in Indochina, the U.S. Dallas, Beaumont and Corpus Chrsti and
Embassy in Laos was reducing its thundertorms from around Vernon and
personnel because or growing anti-Amer- Wichita Falls to the coast loosed more rain
icanism and the spreading Communist on many already sodden areas.
By this morning the turbulence subsided
into scattered showers in North Central
and East Texas. Skies were generally
clear in other sections of the state.
Ship, Crew Released After Marines Land
“for the purpose of rescuing the crew and member Le Duc Tho arrived in Saigon at
ship which had been illegally seized by 016 head of an official North Vietnamese
Cambodian forces." delegation.
“I have now received information that Cambodian gunboats captured the
the vessel has been recovered intact and 10,485-ton Mayaguez Monday about 90
that the entire crew has been rescued,” miles off the Cambodian coast but within
Ford said, about eight miles of the small island of Koh
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About four hours later, Secretary of owned by a Delaware company, was
Defense James R. Schlesinger said some bound for Hong Kong to Thailand with a
American lives were lost in the military mixed cargo of civilian and military
action. He gave no figures. But Pentagon freight
sources said preliminary unconfirmed — .. . . v . .
reports showed two Americans killed and The.ship lay at anchor off Koh Tang
eight wounded in battle. while the U.S. government made repeated
Two helicopters were reported lost in the demands for its release, U.S. warplanes
operation kept a constant watch on it, and the
aircraft carrier Coral Sea and other ships
The Defense Department said three of the U.S. 7th Fleet steamed toward the
Cambodian gunboats were sunk on Gulf of Thailand.
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decisive attack. There was no word of later Wednesday night , Thursday morning
Cambodian losses Cambodian time - the White House
announced that the Marines were landing
The Cambodians also surrendered five on Koh Tang and U.S. planes were
Thais. The Bangkok government said they bombing airfields on the south coast of
were fishermen who had been captured Cambodia
while fishing in the Gulf of Thailand.
Completion of the operation eased TArnarA ArAALe
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Scholarship to
TSU Student
Beverly Ann Ferrill, a freshman
1 journalism student at Tarleton. State
University, has been awarded a $300
scholarship for 1975-76 by-the Fort Worth
Professional Chapter of Women In
Communications
Miss Ferrill was a news editor of the
JTAC, Tarleton s student newspaper, this
Apring and part of last fall She also was
the newspaper's agriculture department
reporter both semesters and was a
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, A "B" honor roll student, the 1974
1 : graduate of Paschal High School in Fort
• Worth, also is a member of the TSU Rodeo
: Club.
♦ ’ Miss Ferrill was one of 28 Tarrant
: : County women receiving a total of $8,500 in
: WIC grants.
1 : Applicants for the scholarships were
: nominated by faculty sponsors, submitted
‘ samples of their work, and were
• interviewed individually by the organiza-
? tion’s scholarship committee
Miss Ferrill is „the first Tarleton
journalism student to receive one of the
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Stephenville City Council met in a called under consideration for one-way streets
session Wednesday afternoon, with the The Texas Highway Department will aid
main item on the agenda the passing of an in maintaining Graham Street, with the
ordinance providing for the maintenance city to maintain Belknap Street.
c< Belknap and Graham Streets, which are Much discussion was held on various
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acting to maintain world order as well as homes and toppled utility poles at Haslet,
to free a captured American freighter and and truck driver Raymond Smith said it
its 40-mancrew when he ordered an armed turned his flatbed vehicle around.
attack against Cambodia, a leading Sightings of at least four tornadoes were
administration official says. Secretary of reported west of Beaumont. One licked
Defense James R. Schlesinger outlined down from a black thunderbed and
that position in briefing reporters on the damaged a tractor.
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Mayor Don Jones gave a resume of the
background of the center and some of the
problems that have arisen, and said he
The Dublin City Council met Tuesday request a cable service increase. wnich was(personally in favor of the utilization of
night in a very lengthy session that was immediately denied until better funds to aid the center. It was brought out
covered a variety of important business service is provided, if and when it is in discussion1 that the city was in favor of
matters with Mayor Jewell Humphries approved. aiding in funding one senior citizen center,
presiding. Councilmen present included, Mayor Humphries read a letter but felt that using city funds for more than
Jack Spruill, Carl Stevens, Ted Hallmark, informing them of the expiration of one would not be feasible. Members
Tommy Payne, John Cowan, John A. Charlie Ben Bradberry’s term of office on discussed the center s problems and feltit
Johnson, O.L. Smallwood and Woody the Board of Directors with the Upper Was available for all senior citizens of the
Atherton. _____ *__. Leon River Municipal Authority. A motion area: , .. .. .. .,
A team of engineers from the Soule was made to extend his term for two years, After a lengthy discussion, the counci
Construction Company were present to which was accepted unanimousley. unanimously voted to utilize the$4,000 for
report on the proposed improvement plans The Mayor also presented a slate of the center, but.askedthat the center
for the city of Dublin, which is still in the nominees for the Equilization Board, attempt to getother.funding i f possible,
preliminary planning stage and no which was accepted 100 percent. The 1975 e only 0 er item on the agenda
immediate action was made, tv . hl Board consists „°f Willard Mann, Dick clnnrmdtere O? AdnSiSSr Mar-
Mack Spurlock of Warner TV. Cable Spencer and R.H. (Bob) Walker. 1 ELMclialwii.aw
service appeared before the council to A motion was made to sign the sha , said . moneyin -
n . 0 ./ .. the long run and also save meters. The
I application requesting a grathe. council passed on the request (««!.<» to
Nursing Personnel Texrarksonndrwng"tfe Pepertmsnteet purchase the machine. ‘ ,
. ~ railroad crossing was read from the Texas Present at the meeting, in addition to . _
WorehAn ,+oc Highway department, but immediate MayorJones and Shelton were Council-
nor KSn 0 P Ola tea action was tabled until the matter could be men Jim Chambers, Roy McCoy, Charles
• studied Riggins, Raymond Anderson and Jesse
Tarleton State University and the Sexton. City Secretary Joyce Pemberton,
Stephenville Senior Citizens, Inc., will One of the most important items ot and City Tax Assessor Bob Groves 4
sponsor a workshop for nursing home business discussed Tuesday night was the
personnel entitled "Hearing, Speech, and revision of the previous resolutions Qapep A Qpcpjp
language Disabilities of the Aging,” May concerning building permits within the IUvv IU IVvCE
Degree Friday
Local native Charles T. Reece, son of
Mrs. Lessie G. Godwin of Star Route, Box
113, will receive the master of divinity
degree during spring commencement
exercises to be held in Truett Auditorium
at Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary, May 16, 10 a.m.---- .—r
Reece, married, to the former Margaret
Naylor, received the Bachelor of Arts
degree from Eastern New Mexico in 1953.
He attends North Ft. Worth Baptist
Church and would like to do pastoral work,
associational missionary or other state
related work after receiving his degree. •
Seminary President Robert E. Naylor
will present degrees and diplomas to over
260 candidates from the seminary’s three
schools. This will be the largest graduating
class ever in the 68-year history of the Fort
Worth institution.
Darold H. Morgan, president of the
Southern Baptist Annuity Board, Dallas,
Tex, wll be the commencement speaker.
A graduate of Hardin-Simmons"Oniver-
sity, Morgan holds both the bachelor of
divinity and doctor of theology degrees
from Southwestern Seminary. He is the
former pastor of Texas Baptist churches in
Dallas, Sulpher Springs, Bonham, and
Milford
Southwestern Seminary is a fully
accredited graduate institution designed
to prepart' men ^Snd women for the
Christian ministry. - ----------------------
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