Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 197, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 1975 Page: 1 of 16
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Sixteen Pages Today Two Sections
Brownwood. Texas
Wednesday, June 4, 1975
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AFTERNOON
here Tuesday 88, overnight
low 66. Sunset today 8:40,
sunrise Thursday 6:28.
BROWNWOOD AREA -
Clear to partly cloudy
through Thursday with slight
chance of thunderstorms
tonight Low tonight near 70,
high Thursday in the upper
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Here is a summary of
some of today’s leading news
stories:
HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) — A
jury decides today whether a
30-year-old Houston optician
will be put to death for
poisoning his eight-year-old
son with Halloween candy.
The 10-tnan, two-woman jury
deUberated only 46 minutes
Tuesday before finding
Ronald C. O'Bryan guilty of
giving his son, Timothy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
Just back from talks with
European leaders, President
Ford reported today that
“our major alliances are
strong and firm... our allies'
confidence in us is not
misplaced."
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -
Israel completed the thin-
ning out of its forces and ,
firepower along the Suez ’
Canal front today, a day
before Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat sails down the 02
waterway to reopen it. t
evidence of CIA plots
Charges
public
misled
WASHINGTON (AP)
By PAUL RECER Harrison said the state never verdict," said Charles Hudgins,
Assoclated Press Writer proved O’Bryan actually bought the stepfather of Whitney Park-
HOUSTON (AP; — A jury will cyanide and poisoned the candy er, a young boy who received
decide punishment today for with it one of the poisoned candies. “I
"the man who ruined Hal- O’Bryan, 30, is known to feel better about Halloween
90s.
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y w... The delegates met behind The House of Delegates’ to the people of the state," the Dr Nations was defeated in las said, "I am sure ——I
Assoclated Press Wrtter,.. closed doors in Austin after statement pledges the TMAs statement’said. an effortttoputinthestatement have the effect of heading I
The Houseo Delegatesofthe hearingalow key appeal from cooperation with the commis- When asked for a summary of a call for doctors to provide only work stoppages by physiciansl
Dallas and ochercme
stoppages.as * weapon.to re teeing doctors malpractice cov- Milton Davis of Dallas and Ed- is on record as favoring the special session of the legislature thinx.the.douscontte
duce medical malpractice to- erage for the next two years at war n waN Holeton ____«____ taxoin 35 .ineegisatu5 gates has done exactly what the
surance rates, which cost some rates regulated by the State In- irn Dw oha* oustont ot the continuation, ftomedical1eare, topassabi llimitingtheste to governor wanted us to do,"
doctors as much as 830,000 a surance Board MedcaSProtessionaiLabtiit wme * "or* at this Thompson said.
year. One of the two bills includes a Stndv Cnmmiasion the Hnniap d ITL. et-tamnt 4^-.-! t Lana a-+. —..L * Lam .. c.a.a D..»__xrti II Ka nA, prpqidont
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By GEORGE ESPER elements, the servants of operation had been launched to The government ordered the first major South Viet-
Associated Press Writer Americans who are still living . .. . . . . . three more American newsmen namese city in which military
SAIGON (AP)-An official of to hiding and who intend to wnone had hem sis to leave the country Thursday adminstration has ended.
pay the price of freedom — that the new South Vietnamese cause trouble to us." P° Another broadcast said 4 000
A we will honor our com- government has confirmed re- He did not elaborate. But his Day said the Americans orFridayrgayingitwants.to more refugees from central
A mentments - that we will do ports that soldiers of the former statement was taken as con- "transformed South Vietnam reduce the foreign press corPs Vietnam had been sent home
1 our duty." South Vietnamese army are firmation of frequent reports into consumer’s market, and to Saigon by getting rid of lour-
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never free.” Saigonyouths beginningTa The holdouts are believed to producing labor," he said. “We United Press International. reattons "ith the United States
Remove excess heavy paper wrappings from food before The President handed diplo- political indoctrination course be operating in small groups shall start a campaign to en- if Washington lives up to its
storing them in the refrigerator or freezer but make certain they mas to 43 of the cadets, who Tuesday: only and are not considered a courage the youth to live in a Saigon’s Liberation Radio pledge in the 1973 Vietnam
are sealed properly in a protective layer There s no reason to were in the first five per cent of major threat to the new regime, permanent struggle, in contin- said Da Nang, South Vietnam’s peace agreement to assist in the
waste energy cooling throwaway papers their class, and to the lowest “What is important now is the The government indicated ual labor and in the examples second largest city, was put un- reconstruction of North Viet-
—K R . Framingham. Mass ranking cadet — termed the task of eliminating reactionary several days ago that an given us by Ho Chi Minh." der civilian control Sunday. It is nam.)
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Chairman Frank Church, D-
Idaho, of the Senate Intelligence
Committee said today he has
hard evidence of “murders”
developed by the Central
Intelligence Agency.
ciScurehsdsahnedouidnets& loween,"Ronalac.OBryan,a many.Houstoni school children ' think nextyear
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■ Nelson A.Rockefelerandother Thel-man,twowomanjury candy which O’Bryan claimed month-long trial, •
3 members of the Rockefeller deliberated only 46 minutes be- he received during a trick or friend named Jun Bates, two
Commission for characterizing fore arriving at the guilty ver- treat outing. O’Bryan children and Bates’
transgressions of the CIA as to- dict and will hear testimony and He is also indicted on one son spent about 45 minutes on a
freduent and minor arguments today before de- count of attempted capital mur- rain-drenched trick or treat
"I have been concerned about liberating on punishment. The der and three counts of murder outing in Pasadena, a Houston
. the apparentattemptofcertain state is asking for the death in the distribution of poisoned suburb.
A members of the Rockefeller penalty' . _ candies to his daughter and to During the outing, Bates said
Commission to lead the nub- In closing arguments Tues- three other children. O’Bryan came away from a
lie to s -lUv. that -nv day, assistant district attorney Timothy O'Bryan’s death sent house holding Pixy Stix, a pow-
of the cihave beenminrand Mike .Hinton said oBryan shock waves through Houston dered confection packaged to a
that the asenev has been should be damned for what he suburban neighborhoods and plastic tube.
relativelv without guilt ” did"-not only for killing 1118 some parents’ organizations Later, the candy was dis-
Church told ronorters at the son, but for triggering “terror have already announced plans tributed to the O’Bryan and
National Press Club and suspicion” in residential to forbid the traditional trick or Bates children and to Whitney
“I think the committee has neighborhoods. treating. Parker, who just happened to
heardtonwghandtmkockeha Defense attorney Richard ‘Tm very happy about the come t the door.
ler Commission itself has heard 0‛Bryan testified he later let
enough evidence to substantiate — s his son eat a Pixy Stix. The boy
me _LenI_ exI He refused several times to go Traveling seminar and died within an hour.
Defense,energy bills vital
TT." 0) J to refer to “plots" in the plural n r l 7 A 000 in insurance.
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Military Academy he would bedrock defense budget” and a "goat" - Eugene Emmett and to make clear his belief that TO rlimnP /4 An insurance agent testified
Congress should approve his fight hard to prevent any cuts in 10-year program to make the Shaw Jr of Danville Ill Rockefeller and other com- " • VN* JUUV IT O’Bryan took out 820,000 pol-
full defense budget and enact a the »4-blllion defense budget he nation independent of foreign oU in his report to the cadets the mission members were at- icies on his two children four
program for U.S. energy inde- has proposed for the fiscal year would be a “convincing President said he views neace tempting to leave a false and Members of the Howard Burrus, Elizabeth Fudge, John weeks before Halloween and
pendence to show the world that beginning July 1. demonstration to our allies and to the Middle East as “the most unjustified impression. Payne University Western Fudge, Tia Hickman, Lucinda paid a *108 premium in cash.
“Americans have lost neither “I believe the American to our adversaries that Amari- serious international issue of Church said he had not seen Heritage Traveling Seminar to Lee, Edna Morris, Ira Morris, The agent said O’Bryan called
their nerve nor their national people want a defense posture cans have lost neither their our time " an advance cone of the Rock- Europe will depart June 14. Betty Pollard, Ann Smith, within hours of his son's death
will," President Ford said that is second to none," Ford nerve nor their national will." efeller Commission report Directing the tour - designed Clinton Stewart, Eddie Trussell, to start processing a claim,
today. told the 849-member graduating Ford’s speech to the cadets which is to be released publiclv to celebrate the American Joe Trussell, Cindy McShan, The defendant’s wife, Mrs.
Ford, just back from talks class during commencement came only hours after his return n • . Sunday ‛ Revolution Bicentennial by Jamie Gardner, all of See JURORS on Page 2—A
with European leaders, told the exercises at Michie Stadium, at 1 a m. today from a weeklong Frisoners seize - traveling to the classical origins Brownwood.
graduating class at the U.S. He said enactment of “our trip to Europe during which he In announcing the completion of the nation’s civilization - Alacuti, anao=hi
co^eTred with 22 heaVof state LasLA:nc Lce of his commission’s investiga- will be Mrs. Dorothy J. Also Cynthia Brand and Othal
The President waited until DUiiding, hostoges tion of the CIA, Rockefeller said Schroeder and Col. Russell O. Brand Jr.of McA lleni poltc, nrL:n-
AL. later in the day to meet with his .Monday it uncovered instances Fudge, members of the school Margaret McCrauie, Elizabeth rouce probing
y^omancfie Diann IDG Cabinet and congressional GRANITE, Okla. (AP) - A of wrongdoing but no pattern of of social sciences faculty. Burrus, and Cleo liebham of .e. I •!
VVIIVIIUIV^M y telderaattoeWteStoffl groupcJ* rebellious inmates took widespread illegality. Some 40 people are expected Baytown; Merri Clark ofiKnox theft of mail
them in on his trip over the educational building at "There are things that have to makeup the group of Cityi Robert Cochran of Mt. ..0
f • . • f s tnem. in on , in the Granite Reformatory today been done which are in con- professors college and high Pleasant; Lori Ana Gondron Theft of mail from a post
bicenfenna event st"ODuranatorm alliancesare and al spokesman for Gov. tradiction to the statutes,- Bchoisstudents.SMhegroup"wn and Ruby Wheeler of Waco; office collection box in
Ml V VI I I U I II 11 V I W ’ 2e^ tow "isonotmes David Boren said "they do have Rockefeller said, "but in com- leave via Dallas and New York Betty, King 01 Irving; Nancy Brownwood is under in-
COMANCHE - Flag Day bands, a display of the placed,” the President said hostages. parison to the total effort, they for Paris. Lee of Aransas Pass. pestigation by the Brownwood
(Saturday, June 14) will be Comanche County Logo and Ford’became the first presi- Most of the prisoners were are not major." The group will visit Brussels, And Malinda Norman of RptceDe PeoAccording.to postal
Bicentennial Recognition Day announcement of the winner of dent since John F Kennedy to locked in their cells and the Reporters pressed Church on Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Bryan; Sarah Ryman of “ . Ledera aauthorities
to Comanche County. the Logo contest speak at a Military Academy spokesman said it was believed the matter, and he repeated Cologne, Frankfurt, Lucerene, Hubbard; Louise Ward and aisoDeenpnotified.e..
County co-chairmen John E. A aomt. tn th. - _ win . commencement. Kennedy, a 60 or fewer inmates were to- that his committee has heard Innsbruck, Venice, Florence, Sara Kilmer of Greenville; wbrwnwoqd Police Chief Vic
Dudley of Comanche and John * salutemothe flag.wi Navy veteran like Ford,’ was volved in the uprising. evidence of murder plots .“and Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Kaye Marsh of Houston; Jane Fowler said, apparently some
Weaver of De Leon have an- the ceremony, then the her-inigezmn"" ' that the CIA has been impli- Olympia, Corinth, Athens, Parks of Monahans; Marie of the mail stuffed in recepticle
nounced that the official bicentennialaqommitteeand Elsewhere, Vice President A Corrections, Department cated to this kind of activity.” London and other points of Brown of Wichita Falls; O. C. boxes was stolen. Since the
Bicentennial flag will be gunstswitpatendaubenefit Nelson A. R’ckerener spoke to spokesman said he .understood Among those believed to have interest Hicks and Helen Hicks of boxes,, were apparently full,
presented to County Judge lmn cheonptPAR Country Club the graduating class of Teu. S. the prisoners had taken eight been questioned about alleged Included on the trip will be Garden City, Kansas; Don someofthemailmay have been
Albert A. Brannan by Mrs. H. on Procto Naval Academy to Annapolis, teahers and.one corrections assassination conspiracies is Frances Bragdon, K. J. Wright of Wales, United visible from the outside, he
K. Allen of Temple, who is with On July 4 is a county-wide Md., and Secretary of Defense worker hostage. CIA Director William Colby. Bragdon, Judy Bragdon, Burton Kingdom. “ia
the American Revolution picnic at Promontory Park on James R. Schlesinger spoke at
Bicentennial Commission of Lake Proctor, which is also a the Air Force Academy com- _ _ ■ ■ A
Texas. part of the bicentennial mencement • n• ■ l !• _ • •
The program is scheduled to celebration in Comanche As he wound up his speech, \f | d‛ Geleiiepe Peeieiemeg MeAg PAAIiMea
begin at 11 a.m. at the county County. The picnic will feature the President drew a burst of W IKI 4%/IUAIK•13 I W414III •99 1 I“VV IKVIIIIK•
courthouse to Comanche with a foods, crafts, entertainment, applause when he reminded • "
flagraising by boy scouts, music and the Miss Spirit of '76 "ourselves, our friends and our
by the combined high school pageant potential adversaries that
Americans are still prepared to
COOK OUT — Gill Scout camp is to full swing from left to right Lezl Perkins, Judy
at Camp Bowie as approximately 88 girls Campbell, leader; and Kellle Hetzel.
from Brown County are participating in the (BulletinPhoto)
weeklong event Cooking chicken over the fire
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