Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 273, Ed. 1 Monday, August 29, 1977 Page: 1 of 20
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Brownwood Bulletin
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proposed budget
Schools enroll 3,748
However Edwards said be treaty."
The president of Mexico's
ama and still retain use of the proposed Panama Canal traty
became quickly apparent
canal."
Voting for the resolution were among early arrivals Sunday.
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MONDAY
Governors panel rejects
anti-Panama resolution
Priscilla still under gun
★ Rufner relationship said dissolved in 1975 *
COUNTY POSTS GAINS
Brown market more active
mittee action and debate the
resolution anyway. He said it
would take a three-fourths vote
SCHOOL BRIEFS
Board to unveil
Officers from the depart-
ment's tactical unit staked out
the suburban Memphis grave-
yard On Saturday, McCochren
said, suspects were seen in the
area of the cemetery, located on
Elvis Presley Boulevard He
said the men were apparently
making a trial run.
At 11:21 a.m. today, be said,
officers arrested three men in a
Er near the Forest Hills gates
an took a fourth man into
Davis is on trial in the slaying
last summer of his step-
daughter Andrea WIIIborn, 12,
one of two killed during a mid-
night shooting spree at the
Davis mansion in Fort Worth.
Priscilla was critically
grade classroom at South Elementary.
Urging him along Is his mother, Mrs. George
Ogdon of 2104 106 St.
Mrs. Davis, 36, launching her
fifth day of withering cross ex-
amination, said she did continue
seeing Rufner socially until
May 1975 and travelled to Hous-
ton and Southern California
with him.
She testified previously her
"meaningful” relationship with
Rufner did not occur until after
she and Davis separated tn July
1974.
What brought it about was the growing optimism on the
part of the public, induced by the slowing down of the in-
flation spiral and by the generally favorable economic in-
dicators.
In most parts of the country, the year produced income
gains that more than offset the increase in the cost of
living, yielding a net rise in purchasing power.
The better level of income locally has been due, in part,
to the fact that the number of families that have more
than one paycheck coming in has been on the rise, with
more and more women taking jobs outside the home.
The MEI figures show that Brown County residents had
net earnings, after payment of personal taxes, amounting
to $147,468,000, as against the prior year's $128,507,000.
It was equivalent to an average of *11,612 per household.
In 1975 the average was $10,533 per household.
Consumer spending, which has been the backbone of the
recovery, is expected to continue at a high level
throughout the rest of 1977 and well into 1978. Outlets for
cars, furniture and home appliances have been the big
gainers thus far.
After heads were counted
on the first day of the new
school year that began this
morning, student attendance
at Brownwood schools Mt
3,748, according to Assistant
Superintendent Bill Maness
Attendance at the city’s
elementary schools was
2,032; at the junior high
school *48; and 768 at the
high school.
This year's figure was
about two percent over the
3.698 student attendance on
the first day of class last
year.
Maness said he expects the
figure to go higher after the
Labor Day holiday, a
traditional jump in student
enrollment
The assistant superin-
tendent edded that 3,766
students were enrolled on the
last day of school before the
summer vacation and that
the student population
peaked at 3*0* during the
1978-77 school year.
Other area schools that
resumed classes today in-
clude Blanket, Coleman,
Comanche, Cross Plains,
Goldthwalte, May, Rising
Star, Star and Zephyr.
Bangs 1SD students return
to the classroom Wednesday
while San Saba students
have until Thursday before
classes begin.
In the energy field, a new law were arrested early today out-
prohibits gas companies from side the cemetery where the
curtailing supplies to agri- rock’n’roU singer is entombed.
CLIMBING SHARPLY after a short takeoff run, a Northrup F-18 tactical fighter is put
through its paces at El Toro Marine Air Statiom, Calif The new plane is designed for ex-
treme maneuverability at lev. at well as high speeds
wounded in the shootings and
her lover Stan Farr was slain.
Haynes had suggested outside
Jibe presence of the jury on Fri-
day that Rufner once choked
Priscilla, slashed off her bra
and panties with a knife and at
least twice fought with other
men over her.
"But he was never physically
violent with me - ever,” Mrs
Dvis testifled.
Rufner, 38, is free on proba-
tion on a 1974 drug conviction.
Haynes also quesuoneu ,nn
Davis today about reports that
824,000 la jade was mlasing
from the mansion after the Aug
2,1976 shootings. But he did not
pursue the issue to a conclusion.
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A new study of business activity, just released, shows
Brown County to be a relatively strong market, with a
level of income and spending above that found in many
communities
Significant gains were made in its trading area in the
past year as local families, in a better buying mood, in-
creased their outlays for goods and services.
The facts and figures, with comparable data for every
area of the United States, are contained in a copyrighted
study made by the Marketing Economics Institute here.
Stronger consumer buying was the mainstay of the local
ana’s economic progress. It enabled most local mer-
chants to top their 1975 records. Their sales volume for
the year amounted to $79,471,000, as compared with the
previous gras of $70,131,000.
The increase was 13.3 percent Elsewhere in the United
States It wm 114 percent and, in the West South Central
States, 12.4 percent.
Although an appreciable part of the total was due to the
rise in consumer prices, then still was a considerable
margin of gain, over and above this.
AMARILLO, Tex. (AP) -
Prosecution witness Priscilla
Davis testified today she dis-
solved her "meaningful" rote-
tionship with ex-boyfriend W.T.
Rufner without rancor or bitter-
ness.
The socialite said under
cross-examiniation by defense
attorney Richard Haynes she
and Rufner agreed at Christ-
mas 1*74 to begin dating other
people.
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“It was a mutual agree-
ment." she testified as the sec-
ond week of testimony began In
the capital murder trial of her
estranged husband, Fort Worth
milllonalare Cullen Davis.
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HOUSTON - George B.
Parr, the late “Duke of Duv-
al,” denied in a tape-
recorded Interview shortly
before his death that he had
anything to do with the Box
12 vote fraud that sent
Lyndon B. Johnson into the
U.S. Senate.
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SAN ANTONIO - Two
tests of President Carter’s
popularity in the South is
expected to occupy Southern
governors at their annual
AUSTIN - Things will be
different for a lot of Texans
today whag-ngany of the new
laws passed'by this year’s
legislature go into effect
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custody outside the cemetery.
McCochren declined to
My Whether any of the four
entered the cemetery or when
they would be arraigned. He
Mid they might be charged later
today.
BROWNWOOD AREA-
Partly cloudy with scattered
afternoon and evening
showers and thunderstorms
through Tuesday. High near
90, overnight low in the low
70s.
High Sunday 92 ( 33C), low
this morning 71 (22C). Sunset
today 6:06 p.m., sunrise
Tuesday 7:0( a.m.
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and he had no hopes of winning, the Louisiana governor. South
“But we will get all the gov- Carolina Gov. James B. Ed- "I would be very concerned,
ernors fellings on the matter,” wards, and Oklahoma Gov. Da- now and in the future," Briscoe
he said. vid. L. Boren. Voting against told a news conference. He
The Louisiana governor ar- the resolution were Carrol, Ar- added that he “probably"
gued in the early morning com- kansas Gov. David Pryor and would support the resolution.
Twenty-five-dollar accidents
laws take effect todayi
By LEE JONES 1 The State Health Department with less worry through pas protective headgear four per cent
Assoclated Preas Writer said last week it has recetvod sage of a bill creating a state Voters with kids It and A major new law that took
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) - Things inqutries about making Last- program to help them *mo< the younger now can take them le- effect today but whose impact
ma be different after today for rile, but has had no applicatione crushing expenses of blood, gaily into voting booths with will not be seen for a couple of
Mhera, drivers, hotel patrons to begin its manufacture. blood derivlatives and drugs them. And when they cast paper years to the Sunset Act, which
D want a bar-mixed drink in "Living will" legislation also Only *74,000 a year wm appro- ballots, voters no longer are will terminate state agencies
"MEr rooma, /motorcyclists and took effect today. Texmn can printed, but similar programs required to sign the stub that are not renewed by the
even condemned murderers, leave directions in writing nMte have grown rapidly, such m aid a new voter registration law legislature.
Dozens ognew laws passed by prolong their lives artificially if to kidney patients, which now took effect today. It will purge Twenty-five agencies will go
the 65th legislature took effect they become hopelessly ID or totals about *6 million a year, from the rolls al whose regis- out of existence in 1*7* unless
today, and several deal head-on injured. On a less serious note, hotels (ration cards are returned by their lives are extended by the
with human life and death. Doctors can follow the to- and motels could sell mixed the post office, requiring them lawmakers. They range from
One legalizes manufacture structions without risking crim- drinks through room service to- to reregister. the obscure Texas Navy, Inc., to
and possession of Laetrlle, the inal charges or lawsuite, and day for the first time. Sales of newspapers and sub- the State Bar of Texas,
apricot pit deriviative promoted dependents are assured that life And it was also the day mo- in Teves magaxtnea New laws also affect every
m a cancer cure. Another retir- insurance will not be impaired torcyclists 18 and over could are no longer subject to tax- Texan who owns or drives a car.
as the Huntsville State Prison If life-sustaining measures are leave their crash helmets home ation. Accidents in which nobody to
electric chair. In the future, abandoned. if they wanted to risk riding City councils can boost their hurt need not be reported to the
condemned persons wil be put Hemophiliacs and their faml- without them. Younger riders, revenue by increasing hotel oc- Texas Department of Public
to death with lethal injections. Ues received new hope of life however, still must wear the cupancy taxes from three to Safety any longer unless there
is damage of D00 or more.
toimmaintamnrsevacetts nomed The Memphis Commercial
arzongndemienemn AerS-artgmmggeepiive
safety which they planned to blast
Criminals or those accused of open the mausoleum containing
being criminate will have a thebody.Pobcewouldnotcom-
harder time of it. Tape-record- ment on that report.
.u.ST. McCochren ottthe
ants testimomyrom hlsoyad men that police had received
helf. Andsconict retenged confidential information
after servingstheirzentence several days ago that a group of
wil Probation 'and super persona planned to break into
vision. Probatorn.and Presley's mausoleum at Forest
wil be.harderto get.. ____ Hills Cemetery take the body
And finally.farmsthat grow andholdltforransom.
grapes in dry areas can
make wine commercially If
they get a *20 state license, and
boxing and wrestling matches
can be held on Sunday — so long
as it's after noon.
The proposed 1*77-78
budget for the Brownwood
Independent School District
will be presented to a public
hearing scheduled for 7:80
p.m. Tuesday at the school
system's administrative
offices of 401 Fisk Ave.
Trustees are expected to
iron out the final details of
the new budget during a
workshop tonight.
Following the public
hearing Tuesday, the board
will go Into session to con-
sider the possible adoption of
the budget, which covers the
school’s fiscal year begin-
ning Sept. 1.
The board will Aso
reconvene Its meeting which
would attempt later to get a Kentucky Gov. Julian Carroll personal representative, First
feeling from the 12 governors argued against Edwards' reso- Undersecretary Jose Juan de
attending the conference on the lution saying the proposed Olioqui, was the noon speaker,
controversial issue by making a treaty "would remove strong The division of feelings
motion to disregard the com- anti-American feelings in Pan- among the governors over the
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) — mittee metting, the first real Puerto Rico Gov. Carlos Ro-
A six-man committee of the business of the 43rd annual mero-Barcelo.
Southern Governors conference Southern Governors con- Carter's dealings with Con-
refused today to send an anti- ference, that the Panama Canal gress came out later in talks by
Panama Canal treaty to the treaty pushed by President majority leader Rep. Jim
conference body for a vote. Carter’s administration “sets a Wright, D-Tex., and minority
The vote wm 3-3 which killed very bad precedent..It won't be leader Rep. John J. Rhodes, R-
the resolution offered by Loul- five years before they will be Ariz.
slana Gov. Edwin Edwards, back trying to negotiate a new
wm recsMsd earlier this
month to take care of a
handful of other items on
that previously announced
agenda.
Trustees have been
delayed in making budget
preparations because of
failure of the State
legislature to produce a
school finance MD to the
regular sesslon this spring. A
funding bill was later
produced to the two week
July special sesslon, and
school officiate have been
busy gathering information
on the new leglslation to
assist in planning the year’s
finances locally
had to be reported under the old
law.
Starting Thursday, auto in-
spection fees will jump from *2
toM.
onenochercnnbbamivaxatbrtan SUMMER’S OVER-Alan <** *■"
accident, it must be moved off one of the many youngster who has sub-
of freeway lanes or ramps and stituted books for toys as the fall semester in
onto frontage roads. Brownwood schools begins today For Alan.
Automobile owners can now b’s a new begtaniag m he embarks for a first
buy "under-Insured motorist”
policies that provide coverage A . .
4 noiled in C
per accident for injuries. " 5 -" !
Hunters and fishermen will
see the end to an experiment .1.1 1. A__I__
started several years ago that DlOT TO TO KG
made their licenses good for a I
full year. The legislature re- _. , n n
stored the old Aug. 31 expiration FIvic hoev
date for all licenses, no matter CIVIb »V-Y
when purchased. There is one
xception. Licenses bought MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) —
between May 31 and Septi this Four men who police say were
year are good until Aug. 31, plotting to steal Elvis Presley’s
1978 body and hold H for ransom
K3A
GOOD°G
AFTERNOON
AMARILLO - Priscilla
Davis returns to the witness
stand today for her fifth day
of eras examination by her
estranged husband’s
Mbytes.
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa (AP) - Ambassador
Andrew Young and British
Foreign Secretary David
Owen seek South African
help today in getting
Rhodesian Prime Minister
Ian Smith to accept the new
British-American plan for to
bring black rule to Rhodesia.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
The government to planning
to find out whether the health
records of cancer patients
taking Laetrile support
contentions that the con-
troversial substance has
been helpful.
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