Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 187, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 21, 1970 Page: 9 of 22
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Back on Ground
rently in trouble eisewhere —
but not for the same reasons
in Minneapolis. Minn most of
the principles are present as
found in the Brownwood case,
but they found a reverse twist:
"A 14-year-old Minneapolis
girl has challenged the Motion
rooted one side of a circus tent
Wednesday night, injuring n
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COME BY AND REGISTER FOR THE NEW COLOR TELEVISION SET TO
BE GIVEN TO SOME LUCKY ADULT. A BICYCLE WILL ALSO BE GIVEN
TO SOME LUCKY KID! YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE PRESENT TO WIN.
THE DRAWING WILL BE AT 4 4» P M
NEW LOOK for the Salvation Army.
In the first major style change since
its founding in 1873, the Salvation
obscene movie is bei
at one of the local
WASHINGTON (AP-Abill
authorizing payments in prison-
era at war in North Vietnam
and those held by North Korea
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doubled rates were added on
voice votes to allow for inflation
and cost of living rises
3thwest
State Bank
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS
ceive $2 a day for each day they
were without adequate food, and
63 a day for each day of forced
labor or inhumane punishment
The bill also allots $60 a day
to civilian captives of North
Vietnam.
E0"8,3
more prosaic Chinese leaders
Mao says U.S imperialism no
longer inspires fear
"It is U.S. imperialism that
fears the people of the world it
becomes panic-stricken at the
mere rustle of leaves in the
wind."
Mao unveils no new ideas ad
vances no solutions His only ad-
vice—keep on fighting "A weak
nation can defeat a strong, a
small nation can defeat a big."
Surprisingly there is no men
tion at the Soviet Union in these
700 words on war and revolu-
tion Has Mao softened his atti
tude toward his dearest Com-
munist enemy’ The chances are
unlikely Not after the polemics
recently issued from Moscow
What the statement reveals
more than anything else is the
state of Maos mind To conquer
China he fought in the field and
at the con ference-table for half
a century. Only last year, he
capped an exhausting person
struggle to purge the country of
his political foes
Most men who have lived and
flying on a space available basis
for about three years, is quietly
being returned to ground trans-
portation by the Post Office De-
partment.
The Air Transport Association
said Wednesday the move was
false economy and will result in
a deterioration of first class
mail service The Post Office
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Stuart G. Tipton. ATA presi- which
dent. said the Post Office was House,
cutting back the first class air
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delivery on all routes of 750
miles or less, meaning 525 U.S
cities would be deprived at the
faster service.
The airlines asked the govern-
ment to reconsider its move.
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Movies being
ing theatrical
Public Opinion
Key to POW’s
Release--Perot
SAN FRANCISCO (AP —
Public opinion is the key in the
release of American prisoners
of war in North Vietnam, says
Texas millionaire H Ross Pe-
rot
Perot told the San Francisco
Rotary Club Tuesday the North
Vietnamese are ‘ keen students
at our country and etxxxremely
sensitive to public opinion ”
Persi financed two trips to
Indochina in an attempt to gath
er information about U.S pris-
oners
FENTON’S
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Barbecue
gives him immense satisfaction fought half as much would be
"U.S. imperialism, which ready to call it quits, to settle
looks like a huge monster, is in down in a rocking chair while
younger men took over.
persons most of them children
Of 22 injured admitted to hos-
pitals, five were listed in criti-
cal condition
79 FANS INJURED
Wind Uproots Circus Tent
service, which guarantees air
delivery of letters. will not be
affected in the move
court cases involving the mat
ter of defining obscenity are
not new in the United Sjates.
It isn't even new in Texas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) _ First
class mail, which has been
heed’• financial troubles stem
from the L1101 commercial
cargo plane but it seeks a tout
of SMI million in claims over
four contracts for weapons sys-
tems Proxmire did not reveal
his source
A SUIT ha’ been . brought
against Dallas district attorney,
the police chief and the City
of Dallas. The suit stemmed
from the arrest of three Dallas
theater operators,
| The districi attorney, plead-
"Over-all service standards payme
will remain good," the depart House
ment said And 10-cent air mail
TITLE OF the movie is Mid-
night Cowboy." winner this
year of the Academy Award
as bez picture and believed
by many the most highly pub-
licized film in recent months
"Midnight Cowboy" is cur-
Army announced new uniforms for
its members. Contrast between old
(left) and now is shown here......
was sent back to the
the prisoners will re-
Prices Good Thru Sunday
6 PK.
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Reap BUSCH Bottle. VVe
WUWI OLD MILWAUKEE Cans • •*
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(API — A violent wind gust op-'
worn theme ing
For a paper tiger, the Amen At the present time, hearings
can monster is a long time a- are being conducted in both
dying Mao predicted its last Washington and Los Angeles by
gasp 30 years ago. the President s Commission on
Then, in a flight of style which Obscenity and Pornograp, in
sets him apart from the other. order to find a solution- to
"dirty movies.”
Jack Valenti, president of the
Motion Picture Assn of Ameri-
ca told the commission Tues-
day: "Because of the success
of the voluntary film rating
system . .it is my conviction
that no new legislative action
is needed to deal with com-
mercial motion pictures or to
regulate motion picture thea-
ters "
(THE BROWNWOOD BULI.E-
TIN has published each Sunday
the code ratings of movies
showing in the local theaters
since the inception of the code
and will continue to do so as
a public service Daily theater
ads also carry the code desig-
natiorm.)
A few days earlier in Los
Angeles hearings, a movie in
dustry representative told the
commission "Let someone in
the federal government define,
what is and what isn’t iporno
graphy i and make, this defini-
tion a standard one for every
. . . state . . to know what
we are doing is legal "
Thus far, there are no clear-
ly-defined statutes regarding
pornography on the books
"dirty movie cases have been
heard for over two years, the
latest is in connection with an
injunction suit contending an i
shown
authorized in the
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after capture of the spy ship
denied there would be any seri- HSssneblo has been passed b)
ous or significant effects
lows next to me said it was gw. About 800 to 900 persons were
mg to go. Jackson Mid watching high wire artist Herb:
"I ran across the center of the big wind
the ring where several children swooshed under Ihe.oen."45
who are mentally retarded were flaps.on,.the.,southteside 0
standing 1 put my arms up but the oval, 240-fpotHlong tent.
the poles came right up over the Th* north side of the tent
top and hit the kids it was just remained anchored, but the
a lot of turmoil .. crying and gust broke loose the guy wire*
screaming." he said on th* south side
Most of the adults *trr pret- Several persoms were injured
ty cool about it. Lots af kids by the Dying poles aad several
ware crying for their mothers [ others suffered rope burns
| The Cambodian crisis was essence a paper tiger, now in to see the movie."
made for him When the Cambo- the throes at its death-bed strug- other cases are equally un
dian parliament booted Prince ..... —
Norodom Sihanouk out of his job
on March 11, Mao had a wind-
fall. An accident at time put the
garrulous Cambodian leader in
Peking Mao adopted him as his
mg in federal court in his own
behalf in late April said "If
there is such a thing as ob
seemly in the U.S today, then
the films shown at the (of-
fending theaters' are obscene
. . . ।their movies) depict acts
of sexual intercourse and so-
domy in a crude and filthy
form
This case is still being heard
in San Antonio, where
tae amended BhI,
Capital Footnote .rested the manager and im Picture Assn. which pre
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS pounded the film it was done vents young people from see-
Federal Communications tollowing local complains" on certain movies,” Boxoffice,
ss- 2" o- 2
a Democratic Party request ning future showings here has broi ght suit through her
that broadcasters be required to The district and county jud mother agains.twotheaterer
Mil air time for political fund- ges are arranging private show- cats. Te code stpulates that
raising appeals Ings of the film before mak- 11 is the permissible age
Canital Ount. or in Brownwod
■, TWF Assort XTEn press! During the past month, ac-
iT^Se^ tions — been filed gand in
wunterfsan Ann
live interest in matters concern- 4 _ . ...
ing the welfare of our people. on>° - and Tyler, with apopu-
and the national interests of our lation comparable to Brown
country."— House Speaker John wood.
W McCormack, D-Mass.. an Brownwood had its action
nouncing he will not seek reelec- over an x-rated movie Friday
tion in November. night at a local drive-in thea-
_____ ter when the chief at police ar
Calif. ..
“I was standing on one side down aad people help
of the tent when sne of the fel- other." Jackson added
WASHINGTON (AP> - Con-
gress has been told claims total-
ing nine-tenths of a billion dol-
lars either have been or will be
filed by shipbuilders contracted
with th* Navy.
The claims made before th*
joint economic subcommittee
Wednesday, are the result of
project costs that have shot
above original estimates—m
some cases as much as 50 per
cent.
Notable in the day-long pro-
ceedings was the Lockheed Air-
craft Corp . claim of 1173 4 mil-
lion against a contract for ship
construction that was valued
$360 million.
Committee chairman Sen
William Proxmire Mid he was
told by a Pentagon source Lock-
Beer BUDWEISER g..
By JOHN RODERICK
Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (APi - Mao Tse-tung
has fought a hundred battles,
but at 76 his apocalyptic vision
of the world is undimmed. He
surveys its violence and revolu-
tion and is happy.
In a rare 700-word statement
distributed by Peking s New
China News Agency Wednesday.
Chinese Communisms leader
spoke out on international issues
for the first time since April 16.
1968; when he expressed support
for American blacks Mao in-
vokes the Vietnam war the U.S
intervention in Cambodia, the
raging flames of the revolution-
Hary mass movement” in th
United States Japanese "mili-
tarism.” the revolutionary
struggles of the Arabs and the
peoples of North America. Eu-
rope and Oceania AU. he says.
‘ are developing vigorously ”
Then he says "The danger of
a new world war still exists a
the people of all countries most
get prepared But revolution is
the main trend in the world to-
day."
This is Mao« meat He reacts
to it like' a war horse, nostrils
jilated. ears pricked up at the
gunpowder smells and explo-
sions of battle. .
This noir - ectasy in the
world '* most famous surviving
revolutionary has been kindled
by the events in Cambodia and
the riots, killings and mass
demonstrations in the United
States.
SEZBA BROOKS
E BBLACK LABE 90 PROOF 'GOLD 1AM L 86 PROOF
own
Sihanouk made common
cause with the Communists of
North Vietnam. Laos and South
Vietnam The Russians were
caught fiatfooted Mao emerged
as leader of Asian Communism.
Moscow has not yet caught up •
Peking was the first to recog
nize Sihanouk’s new govern-
ment in exile. and Mao’s state-
ment expxressed warm support
for its political and military
aims the overthrow of the Lon
Nol regime in Phnom Penh
The Soviet Union has yet to
recognize the Sihanouk govern-
ment though, as Mao pointed
out, 26 other nations did so m
the first 16 days of its existenc
Mao's old eyes see American
"imperialism slaughtering the
white mans black people.” at
home He speaks of "Nixon's
fascist atrocities” touching off
the raging flames of the revo-
lutionary mass movement in the
United States " Some at this is
wishful thinking, some of it
self-deception Mainly it is an
effort to persuade others that
this is what is happening
Whatever the situation, it
IN LATE April, a Senate in-
terim committee headed by Sen
Ralph Hall conducted hearings
on adult movies in Tyler and
recommended that Texas
cities be given enabling legis-
lation to control the showing
of obscene movies
Hall said that trying to tax
obscene movies "out of exist-
ance, as some have proposed.
*s like trying to sink a battle
ship wifh machine guns.’
In Fort Worth, a city coun-
cilm. i Mid that local officials
would give sympathetic consi-
deration "to complaints about
a downtown theater which in-
cluded photos of nude women
m its sidewalk advertising
But the city attorney pointed
out that he doubts the nude
photos violate any current
ordinances which th* city
could enforce under court de
cision.
"One moment they were
watching the show and the next
moment they were sitting out in
the open," said one spectator It
was like an umbrella being
blown over," said another
Th* end of the performance
was about 15 minutes away
“It seemed like it happened
in about three seconds,” said
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Mode for 76-Year-Old Mao sa-aae.i
. had their parents' permission
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