Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 190, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1975 Page: 1 of 16
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later in Ite day
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passes.
the sbeenrs of any
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Rainfall today totaled 260 lice at Axle, near Fort Worth,
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Ten Cents Daily Sunday Twenty-live Cents
Vol. 75. No. 1*0
Tuesday, Moy 27,1975
Brownwood. Texas
AID agreement
4
oil.
barrel of
300 farm union backers
A
h
march on Hidalgo ranch
Leave the thermostat alone
an-
Begs plus
stopped across the road from
A
V
WIN
Senate expected to
vote on school bill
MORE IN FORECAST
Mid-Texas gets soaking
FORD TO UNVHL D6CBION
Second $ 1 tariff hinted next step
tl
trace
2.25
national Bridge
streets of this Rio
1.00
1.30
140
MB
the
Val-
during much of this week.
Rainfall in excess of two
Accounts
show 3rd
surplus
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
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WHERE rRAINED
Brownwood
Bangs
Blanket
al action."
The talk to expected to last
about IB minute*.
The administration has said
the program to designed to en-
courage fuel conservation and
iomrotic oil production so the
United States can sharply re-
foreign petroleum by the 19808
Otcials estimate that each
ll-per-b*rrel tax boost adds 1 to
1% cents to the retail price of
gasoline.
ley town to the ranch's main
house.
The large, vocal group
Oil imports, which have fluc-
tuated widely so far this year in
response to President Ford’s
imposition of a 11 per barrel
tariff Feb. 1, jumped by 69 per
cent in April to 201 million bar-
rels.
The oil surge drove up the
value of all goods imported into
By DON WATERS
Assoclated Frees Writer
Washington । AP) - with
President Ford ready to tell the
nation about the next step in his
energy program. Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger
strongly indicated today it will
include at toast a second dollar
tariff on each barrel of im-
ported oil
Addressing the 18-nation In-
ternational Energy Association
in Paris, the secretary of state
said the action Ford to.to an-
nounce tonight will help reduce
U.S. consumption of imported
oil by 1J million barrels a day
by the end of 1977.
As early as last March, the
President said his energy con-
servation program, which in-
cluded a $3-e-barrel tariff in
three monthly stops and a
gradual end to price controls on
crude oil products, would cut
Monday.
Shouting "Viva La Huelga"
and "Viva Chavez," the demon-
strators, accompanied by
United Farm Workers orgah-
izers, marched from theMter-
imports by two million barrels a
day at the end of 1977
All major televiaion and radio
networks said they planned to
broadcast the President’s an-
nouncement of his energy plans
live from his Oval Office at B:M
p.m. EOT A White House
announcement said the Presi-
dent would disclose "Ma ded-
siona on the energy program in
1.40
100
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2.00
1.30
1.00
Forecastsiasued this morning three counties, ths weather clouds spun dose to the ground
indicate showers are expected service said. causing some also at Harriet, 19 miles nor-
to crop up throughout ths area flooding of streets and under- theast of San Angelo.
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Memorial Day. A hobby horse at a local department etore tee
temporarily captured the girls’ fancy.
dren- marched peaceably to Ings. He was released under shooting st them, I shot ’em." monthly surplus in a row, the
the El Texano Ranch near here *15,090 bond. "The police told me I was in Commerce Department
today where they jeered and _____ my rights," Miller said. “They nounced today,
taunted the man who shot and Miller said the union sympa- (the union supporters) were two
wounded 10 of their number* thizers were trampling his met miles from any road."
Fierce Norms drenched Mid- Heavy rainfall today over aroua Abilene during the eve- potato as Laredo, Dai Ko, San
Texas this morning following a south Taylor, Coleman and rung Powerful winds, possibly Angelo, Abilene, Wichita Falls,
night of wild weather in broad Brown counties saturated the to a twister, overturned one Stephenvile, Dallas and Fort
expanses of the state, raising ground and caused many trailer and damaged others in a Worth.
dangers of flooding and streams to rise rapidly. Rainfall park at Lake Fort Phantom Hill
threatening renewed violence amounts exceeded two inches northeast of Abilene.
AFTERNOON ____________
wg--2 Sixteen Pages Today Two Sections
Here is a summary or __________________1
Brookesmith
Coleman’
De Lean
Duster
Early
Goldthwaite
Imdlan creek
lake Brews wood
May
Mullin
Kirtland Springs
Rising Star
Sas Saba
Santa Anna
Zephyr
By GARY GARRISON cotted melon fields Monday be- ons and urging his workers to
AAt,"rez (AP) - °MiUer wMMwied in 10 com- loAkh if he had been shooting nation’s foreign trade accounts
About SOO farm union support- plaints accusing him of aggra- at someone, Miller told KGBT- withstood a surge of imported
ers—men, women and ch- vated assault after the shoot- TV, Harlingen, "I haven’t been oil in April to record their third
12, a House proposal to regulate the country by 9.2 per cent The
By JACK KEEVER utilities through a state com- value of goods exported
Assoclated Press Writer mission and sent a weaker dropped 1.7 per cent. _ _ mm
____________ AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) - Sena- Senate version to the House for The trade accounts still man- •D M. L E_ _____ JI
the big house and shouted in- tors were expected to vote today the second time. aged to post a $556.8 million KGIPe B | EF 4 AEAAP€z RI PMIEM
suite at C.L. Miller Jr., a ranch on a bill touted by its sponsor aa Earlier, the Senate Education surplus after March'* record l\W | K• | UUE« WlwM 19 I I • I U UK
employ* who blasted 11 rwrsons the “first step” toward closing Committee approved, M, a 11.4 billion surplus.
Monday with his shotgun after the gap in the educational $602.6 million public school fl- So far this year, exports have An ordinance granting a rate residential customer about 5 bearings an ordinance granting FOUR - Accepted a bid of
he said they entered ranch quality of the richer and poorer nance bill. exceeded imports by $2.6 bil- increase in Brownwood to Lone per cent more then Jkt present a zoning variance to Foster n,s1 per year by C. R Threat
property and began stomping public school districts. Sen. Oscar Maury, D-Dallas, lion, compared to a $851.9 mil- Star Gas Co. was passed on first A vote to delay consideration Nursing Home on Ave. B bet- for some 170 acres of city-owned
melons. One of the wounded was A 10-member House-Senate said it “represents a mean- lion surplus in the same period reading by a 3-1 vote of the city of the utility regulation or- ween 8th and 9th Sts., and grating lend in Comp Rowie, for
a ranch employe. conference committee tried for ingful first step toward correct- last year. council this morning but action dinance from Mayor Truman closing an alley between First a five-year lease. Hewas ‘the
A half-dozen deputise wat- the fourth consecutive day to ing the inequities addressed in The nation posted a record on a utility regulation ordinance Harlow was necessary after and Rogan from Coggin Ave. to highest of 12 bidders for the
dud the demonstrators, some reach a compromise on a two- the Rodriguez decision." deficit in its trade accounts last was delayed. members of the council the old Coggin school property. lease.
M wtown itered Miller to c«ne year state budget of approxi- That 1971 decision focused at- year, and administration econo- deadlocked M on the matter. TWO - Authorised the mayor
outside. mately *12 billion. tention on Demetrio Rodri- mists are expecting a deficit Action on the two utility items The delay was sought to to rign a teaee egrewnMeit. after FIE. — Agreed to demolish
Neither Miller nor ranch own- The next move on utility guez's claim that his children in again this year due to an to- came during a 1 hour and 15 permit some changes in text details have been worked out, to the old Child Development
«r Bin Pate appeared and the regulation was up to the House the Edgewood schools in San crease in oil imports during the minute meeting of the council presented this morning, and to allow Central Texas Mental Center building on Hall St
marrfieri rrtnrnod to the Rio as the countdown on the 14May Antonio were denied equal last half of the year in response this morning - the longest allow time for utility companies Health-Mental Retardation adjacent to Cordell Community
Aranda bridge, scrota which regular legislative session rights to an education because to an anticipated economic re- regular council meeting operating here to study the Center to utilize the firmer Center as soon as relocation of
many of the Mexican laborers entered the final seven days. of the district’s low property tax covery, longtime city hallobeerven can proposed measure. Lakeway fire station as a the center is completed,
cone each day to pick melons in Those three issues are the base. OU imports hit a record 285 recall. In other business during this residence for retarded persons. SIX - Approved on firat
this area. main ones pending before the The Senate school bill sets million-barrel level in January The Lone Star request of an morning's marathon session the THREE - Accepted a bid of reading an ordinance raising
There were no signs of Texas legislature must adjourn at aside *50 million a year for state ss importers rushed to beat the increase of 8.43 cents per 1,000 council: $2,000 by Pete Romero for five the speed, limit to 45 mph on
Rangers on the scene today. midnight next Monday. equalization aid on a formula *1 per barrel tariff. Imports cubic feet of gas will, of okayed tax lots adjacent to Coleman Crockett Dr. from U.8. 177 to
Onton organiser Tony Oren- In a Memorial Day vote on basis not to exceed *79 per dropped drastically in Febru- on two more readings of the ONE - Passed on first and Borden Sts. There were 10 Burnett Rd near Brownwood
dain said J.000 laborer* boy- Monday, senators rejected, 19- pupil. ary and March. ordinance, cost the average readings after brief public bidders. Community Hospital
some of today's leading news
stories:
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Ford tells a
nationwide broadcast
audience tonight about the
next step to his energy
program, with strong in-
dications that it will include
a second *1 tariff on each
locally la some parte of the Poore officers said two tunnel
Laotian U.S. AID workers. —
City councilmen oochuspamsssctzandauttng Group pays
organize for year Rngrtsntnesnmmonttcosucon tribute to
Seating of a new city council government, according to an
was completed in Brownwood unofficial text read out by stu- aa.cc
this morning ss city dads dents. No details were aval- WUl 0000
organizedfortheyearafterabl uA group of approximately so
newly-elected member David U.S. AID would pay all its lo- neonle pathered at Greenicn
Harper took his oath of office, cal employes until the day of its Cemeter” on Memorial Da to
With Harper seated on the dissolution, under the agree- My tribute to the war dead and
council, members voted to re- ment. OH who have fallen in line of
elect Ferris Clement* aa mayor Protesters would leave the service to their country
pro tem for the second year, and big AID administrative and The Brownwood chapter of
voted to continue meeting at warehouse compound but local Veterans M Foetan Wan wM
uan Phot.) n30amatheznduand employes atehe agency woua te tharg 0 Eheserv ana J.
(uuetinrnoto Tuesdays of each month, watch over the compound and B Estes presided Tom
the disposition of property, the Denison, VFW member *nd Sgt.
text said. Albert Day, army remitting
. Police of the joint Pathet Lao officer, ralledthe America
h and Vientiane sideforeewouid Flag. Then the flag was lowered
J De stationed outsidethe com- to half mast In honor of the
V The Inflation Fighter
------------------------------------------------ against the youths who took chapiain of wWi veterans,
---------------------------------------------------- over the compound last Wed- delivered the invocation.
nesday. The commander* of the four
The first two points of the veteran organizations V W
agreement noted that the U.S. Mitchen,VFW;Jessi Blythe
___ government agreed last Sator- Disabled American Veterans;
Controlling the temperature can cut cooling costs. For comfort day to dissolve the AID opar- Jack Knott, American Legion;
and economy, a 75 degree summer setting is recommended. For ation and that « tetter to that L. L Morgan, World War I
every degree of temperature change above or below that setting, effect had been sent to the For- veterans Disced a wreath at the
you vary your electric energy requirement 5 per cent Don’t be a eign Ministry. Fot 0 tiw flag note
thermostat "fiddler" and make sure all other family members — aormant nac. n-*..,
keep their hands off too. .Thesagreement Grady Leach, VFW member,
-GN Mobile Ata dated inside the Economics and spoke to the group. Mrs. Joe
Plans Ministry building ss more Latham, national chaplain of
than 100 students and local Alb the DAV auxiliary, gave a short
employes gathered outside snd talk and asked for cooperation
several hundred Vientiane of all four organizations in the
If you use frozen vegetables that are cooked in plastic bags you residentsalokeduontromiqut bicentennialagproject
can add potatoes or another vegetable in the same pot of boiling ET?t Roper delivered
water The students brought in three the benediction snd then taps
- F C., Munising, Mich signs that had been posted at were sounded.
***
HIDALGO, Tex. (AP) -
United Farm Workers
organisers plan to urge
melon field laborer* to
boycott their jobs today in
the aftermath of the shotgun
wounding of 10 union sup-
porters. 44
LONDON (AP) - Evel
Kntevel said he would never
jump again after suffering
painful injuries in a
motorcycle leap over 13
single-deck London buses
that be thought failed to set a
distance record.
L-m•mswmM
Ford imposed the fine *1 of
the tariff Feb. 1 bat sat aside
piaaato add additional dollars
os March 1 aad April 1 after
Congreas began working on its
own energy tax package.
The congresadonai effort has
been stalled, however, and Ford
took note of that when he told
Friday that he was weighing
whether to impose the second
dollar tariff.
“The Congreas boa failed
vary badly," he asserted.
"They have done literally noth-
ing affirmatively to solve our
energy problem. Perhaps the
imposition of the extra dollar
will stimulate the Congress to
meet the problem.”
The House Ways and Means
CcmmUteet, which initiates all
tax legislation, baa approved an
energy tax package.
inches in some areas of Mid- inches at Coleman and UI spotted another tornado seven
Texas this morning forced the inches at Santa Anna, milaa west of town. It writhed
National Weather Service in Brownwood had received only away after lashing down from a
Abilene to iasue a flash flood JB of sn inch before noon. thunderstorm which piled
warning at 9:2* a.m extending The turbulence, attributed to hailstones two inches deep at
through at least 1 p.m. hr the combination of a cool front Axle.
Brown and Coleman counties, stalled across Northwest Texas Thunderstorms loosing rain
Abilene radar at 9 a.m. today and tropical air billowing from at ratal exceeding two inches
Indicated moderate rsin the Gulf of Mexico to meet it, per hour in places ranged from
showers over much of Coleman also generated s number of tor- West Central Texas across the
and Brown counties, the nadoea during the night None state toward the east and south,
weather service said, following apparently caused major dam- Although their menace
heavy rain during the night age. dwindled by early morning
Httle movement of this mor- There were reports of seven mean storms still raged over a
ning’s showers was Indicated, funnel clouds in Taylor County wide ares which embraced such
reached in Laos
By DENIS D. GRAY signed tonight U.S. Charge the U.S. AID compound reading
Associated Press writer d’Affaires Christian A. Chap- in English snd Lao that the
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — man said he hoped Americans compound was U.S. govern-
Ths United States snd Laos could re-enter the compound ment property.
agreed today on an eight-point tonight or Wednesday morning The students, calling them-
plan that would return the stu- and the three Americans inside selves revolutionary command-
dent-held U.S. Agency for Inter- the compound would be re- oe, jeered whenever they saw
national n*wlrpm*nt - AIT) - leased. Chapman through the window
compound and send all U& and Chapman and U.S. political of the second-story negotiating
thrd-country employee of the officer Steven Johnson nego- room snd cheered whenever
AID mission out of Laosby June tiated the agreement with Path- one of their representatives
» et Lao leader Soth Pethrasy, came into view.
The agreement was to be students and a representative of
gAi
BROWNWOOD AREA- 1 . Md 54
Partly cloudy and warm .1eM Ii 257
with scattered thun- , ie gd a WA
derstorms tonight and 2
Wednesday Low tonight 0a “ M waed '
near 80, high Wednesday . 20. ■ Ha
near 90. A Ed Mr.E mu
Maxinum temperature
• here Monday «. Xnight QUrE A HOBBY-Linda, left, and BeKds Mattewa, 8, twh
tow *1. Sunset today 8:36, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Matthews of Comanche were
sunrise Wednesday 6:32. among the Mid-Texans who came to Brownwood Moaday for
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Fisher, Norman. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 190, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1975, newspaper, May 27, 1975; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1561227/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.