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Brownwood Bulletin
Brownwood, Texas 76801 Twelve Poges Today
Day eyeing canvass, recount
commissioner He relied on the favors apparently hurt his people and when that happened
confident I can win."
we could feel it turn around al-
With the Texas Election Bu- familiarity of his name, spend- chances for re-election
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The taken there.
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Carter commits support
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Former New Mexico
Sen. Montoya dies
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEES
New faces going to Washington
struck a powerline near the state park in 1944
and crashed into the water, killing one of the
By W. DALE NEISON
Associated Press Writer
also been Introduced in the
Senate, but not action has been
vate money market
Sen. William Proxmire, D-
primary victor has almost a
dear path at the office since no
Republican party candidate
filed.
In other Saturday electian
runoffs, Raymond Boyd eased
past challenger Logan Stewart
to retain his Precinct 2 seat in
Brown County Also. County
Judge James Bunnell defeated
Deborah Ellis, who led the
balloting in the May 6 primary,
to retain the judgeship
The canvass of election
materials will begin at 1:3*
p.m. Tuesday at the Brown
County courthouse, according
to Brown County Democratie
Party Chairman LB. Slagle.
SCALE MODEL-A model of the MS
Helldiver to shown. A plane similar to this one
was discovered Sunday by a Brownwood
But that legislation expires on
June 30, and city officials say
the additional loan guarantees
are necessary to ensure contin-
ued city borrowing in the pri- -
Poerner shows confidence
By The Assoclated Press unofficial returns Sunday from campaign. for the state Senate and 13 for
John Poerner says he’s not 252 at 254 counties, Poerner The outcome was a replay of the Texas House were also de-
worried about the one last trounced Sadler in the light vot- Sadler's 1976 railroad commto- cided Saturday
hurdle that remains for him to er turnout more than 3-1. Poer- sion race, when be also finished After Poerner learned of his
continue as a member of the ner had 544,715 votes, 70.02 per- first in the primary without a victory, he promised to "make
powerful Texas Railroad Com- cent, to Sadler with 233,148, majority and then lost in the everybody a good hand" at the
mission. 29.98. runoff to Jon Newton railroad commission. He said
Poerner came back from a Poerner, 45, was appointed in Voters in six Congressional he felt humble because so many
second-place finish in the May January to fill an unexpired districts Saturday also selected people had a part in his victory.
Democratic primary to top ag- term on the rommiseinn A po- one Republican and five Demo- "First of all Speaker Billy
ing political campaigner Jerry Utical unknown, be spent nearly cratic nominees for the U.S. Clayton organtoed the House
Sadler more than 3-1 in Satur- $500,000 in his campaign Most House of Representatives and Lt. Gov Bill Hobby organ-
day’s runoff election. of it went for a last-minute U.S. Rep. John Young D-Cor- toed the Senate," Poerner said.
The former state represents- media blitz designed to teach pus Christi, lost the nomination "Then county governments or-
Uve next faces Republican Texans how to pronounce his for his seat to State Rep. Joe ganized the minorities and the
James W. Lacy, 53, of Midland, name — purr-ner. Wyatt of Bloomington. Accuse- local people.
in November. Poerner said he Sadler, 70, was on the railroad tions made two years ago that “And last of all the press
will now turn his attention to commission before World War Young was keeping a secretary shouldered their responsibility
that campaign, "which Iamn and was a former land on his payroll partly for sexual and laid the record before the
She called her two sons to lift power Une. squadrons during the final two
the object up to see what it was. "The winess said it seemed to years of World War II.
— When it came into view, the trio stand still in the air for a while According to Nat Henderson,
saw the propellor of an air- after it hit the power Une, then state correspondent for the
" plane the line broke and the witness Austin American-Statesman
They contacted LeWayne saw something fly away from and a colonel in the Confederate
"Bo” Batteas, acting manager the plane which looked like a Air Force, the Army Air Corps
of the Brown County Water Im- propellor. When that happened, placed an order for M of the
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woman and her two seas while they were
wading to four feet of water offshore from
Brownwood State Park. The plane reportedly
crashed.
According to the Sunday, m *
Sedletan, Panel approves
"Helldiver" attack plane struck " ■
a power Une Saturday that ,
the 36th Division State Park to ERA extension
provide power to McCartney
Island.
After the plane struck the
power Une about noon Saturday ____
witnesses said the craft seemed House civil and constitutional Thirty-five statea have rad-
io hang in the air for a few rights subcommittee today fled the ERA, which w^M pro-
moments before plunging into voted 4-3 to give states another hibitdiscriminationonthebasis
Day indicated this morning
that the recount request would
not be made until after the can-
vass certifes totals as official
The canvass does not involve a
recount of ballots but rather an
examination of totals compiled
during the counting procedure
The canvass of the May 6
primary resulted in enough
changes in unofficial totals to
force a runoff in the county
judge’s race. Mrs. Ellis had ap-
parently won the three-
candidate race outright with a
margin of only two votes, but
the canvass corrected various
errors and the runoff was
required.
Announcement will be made way agent for the Department Wis., has scheduled four days of
soon about a meeting of the of Highways and Public Tran- hearings this month on similar
salary grievance committee for sporation, met with com- legislation before the Senate
Brown County according to missioners. Banking Committee. which he
County Judge James Bunnell -Agreed to allow Castle OU heads.
Co. to lay buried gas line along On Wednesday, the House
Bunnell told county com- the county line north of plans to vote on the first of the
missioners at their regular Williams. general appropriations meas-
—Approved the sale of an old ures, this one covering oper-
By The Associated Press Young, still recovering from a steadfastly denied the allege- Wharton County where he re- ton-area supporters by deciding
At least one-third of the seats two-year-old Washington sex tions ceived 85 percent of ths vote, not torun. n. h ath.at.n
weekly meeting today the -Approved the saleeoffan old ures,,sonecovering oper- intheTexas Congressionaldel scandal L^he’M „Final.sunafficlalreturns for appeared tolet downemotion biack df’mAoston’spoorea
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agyeemnentowithene of Highways sssaAgrrom the account of Joe yotraonsthe Ne York loan John Young Saturday became I’m not going to...I never tried Young joined Dale Milford, voters appeared to fall about Pi wad (Jorttan),” he Som
and Public Transporation for R. Townsend, former adult the second member of the 24- to second-guess the voters for 24th Diet, in the ranks of con- 100.000 short "Barbara Jordan and Lare very
rieht-ofwav adjustment for probation officer of Brown The Labor-HEW measure in- member delegation to go under. the 22 years they voted for me. gressional losers so far this State Rep. Mickey Leland different people. but because
distribution utilities on U.S. county be deposited in the eludes a ban on using federal The 62-year-old Corpus Christi I’m not going to now.” year. Milford was beaten in the won the Democratic nomination she has passed the way of the
Hiehwav 67-84 west of Bangs general fund with provisions funds to pay for abortions ex- Democrat lost his bid to keep The Justice Department May 6 Democratic primary. over Anthony Hall for Barbara 18th District, she has made it
ms is for part of the widening that any proper claim on that cept cases in which the worn- the 14th District seat he held for cleared Young of any impro- Wyatt, who seeemed over- Jordan’s vacant 18th District possible for me (to go to
project Don Tatum right-of- amount be allowed an‘s life is in danger. 22 years. prieties, and Young has whelmed by the totals from seat. Ms Jordan shocked Hous- Congress)."
reau reporting complete but Ing about $6,500 for the entire Two Democratic nominations most overnight”
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the lake upside down and ex- seven years in which to decide of sex. Tennessee, Idaho and
plodingas it struck the water. whether to ratify the Equal Nebraska have ' completed
The pilot, 1st Lieut. Ernest Rights Amendment action to rescind their approval,
Francis Boruski Jr. of Des Rep. Don Edwards, D-Callf., but the Justice Department
Moines. Iowa, was injured in subcommittee chairman, said says although there to a legal
the crash, but managed to the full Judiciary Committee, of precedent for doing this, the
break free and get to the sur- which the subcommittee Is part, question must ultimately be re
face where he was rescued by would take up the extension solved by Congress.
Milton Laughlin and Delton within a few weeks. He said ______
Roach, employees of Florey supporters of the proposal have .Approval by.athreedourths o
Boat Docks. 17 votes on the 34-member ~,M 1,1
The other occupant of the two- committee, one short of the re- y™” for ” to
man plane, Cpl Edward J. quired majority, but, “I think becomeparto theConattution.
Peterson, believed to be from well do it, all right” The. original seven-year time
California, was trapped in the Full committee approval next March 22.
twisted wreckage and drowned. would send the proposed seven- Subcommittee members who
His body was recovered at 8:30 year extension to the House attended today's meeting split
p.m Sunday, Sept. 24, when floor An extension proposal has evenly on the extension.
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Former Sen. Joseph M.
Montoya, a member of the
Senate panel that in-
vestigated the Watergate
scandal, died today from
what hospital officials said
was liver and kidney failure.
Montoya, 62, a Democrat
from New Mexico, entered
Georgetown University
Medical Center May 4 •
complaining of stomach
discomfort
His family was with him
when he died this morning.
Montoya was first elected
to Congress in 1967 and then
to the Senate in 1964. He
came to national attention
when he was named to the
Senate Watergate Com-,
mittee in 1973. That panel
conducted hearings that
figured prominently in the
eventual unraveling of the
Watergate cover-up.
He was defeated for re-
“provement District No. 1 and the plane nose dived into the Navy planes when they were
lake patrolman water." planned for production in April,
Batteas contacted Glenn The witness told Loudermilk 1*41.
Harris who owns a barge equip- that the plane turned over Most of the Army's
ped with a winch. They moved during its fatal plunge into the "Helldivers" were later
the barge into position above lake. . transferred over to the US.
the propellor and lifted it up on- Several planes have struck Marine Corps as the SB2-C2
to the barge Continuing the the power line during various The plane weighed 16,000
search they uncovered a portion times over the years, the 1944 pounds and was powered by a
of the wing, Batteas said. Up Bulletin story said, but the Sept. 1,700-horsepower engine
until that point no one knew 23, 1944 accident was the first capable of giving the plane a top
unveils aircraft
By LASH LASHBROOK workers hoisted a part of In 1941, an observation plane
Bulletin Staff Writer the plane’s fuselage to the from the Brownwood Anny
A casual stroll across the surface containing the flier's Airfield broke the power line,
shallow Lake Brownwood this body still strapped into the rear but managed to stay airborne,
past weekend literally surfaced seat of the craft. The pilot of that plane had Ms
a ghost from the lake's past. The 16,000-pound craft had crew bail out then managed to
Llie Hair, owner Lill's taken off from the Abilene get the craft safely back on the
Poodle Boutique, and two of her Army Air Base where it and the ground at the Brownwood
sons were strolling across the crewmen were stationed. airfield.
water from the Lake Bron- According to the 1944 edition The Curtiss A-25 was the
nwood State Park to McCartney of the Bulletin, then Justice of Army Air Corps version of the
island in the four-foot deep the Peace F. A. Loudermilk famed U.S. Navy Curtiss SBC
water when she accidentally said an eye witness told him the "Helldiver" which was the
stumbled on something in the plane was headed south over mainstay of the Navy's carrier
water the lake when it struck the and land based dive bomber
election in 1976 by Sen.
Harfison Schmitt, a
Republican, a former
scientist-astronaut
Montoya was known in the
Congress as a hard-working
liberal.
He also was Interested in
consumer legislation."
Among the legislation he
sponsored were bills calling
for truth in advertising and
proper labeling of consumer
products.
During the debates over
the Vietnam War, he voted
for legislation calling for an
end to the war
Members of the Montoya
family said the former
senator underwent surgery
May 7 when a benign growth
was removed from his in-
tentine.
There was a second
operation last Wednesday in
an effort to determine the
cause of a high fever and
retention of excessive fluids.
Brown County Precinct 4
Commissioner Kenneth Day
said this morning he will seek a
recount of Saturday’s
Democratice primary runoff
election ballots if Tuesday's
canvass does not reverse the
unofficial results in his race. .
Day was apparently unseated
in the Precinct 4 campaign by
challenger Byron "Pete"
Levisay in Saturday's election
runoff, but the margin of vic-
tory was only 20 votes.
Levisay garnered 832 votes in
the balloting Saturday while
Day had 612, according to unof-
ficial totals.
The Democratic party
WASHINGTON (AP) —Pres- law reform.” He said the bill would be successful but that the
ident Carter today told senators was “constructive for the future filibuster would be broken
leading the fight for labor law well-being of employers and “certainly by the end of next
revisions that he remained employees." week.” The petition requires
committed to the legislation, “There are many elements in the votes of 60 senators for pas-
which be called “both needed the present law that are not en- sage.
and moderate.” forced adequately,” he said. The filibuster was in its 10th
The Senate, returning from a The president said there was day today
week-long recess today, faces “unwarranted delay in settling Besides Williams and Byrd,
continuation of a Republican- labor disputes" and that as the the meeting was attended by
led filibuster on the legislation. result at technicalities in the Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y.,
Senate Majority Leader Rob- law such disputes can be car- and Labor Secretary Ray Mar
ert C. Byrd, who attended the ried on for months or years. shall.
10-minute meeting with Carter He also said there was a need in the House, attention will
in the White House Cabinet to insure punishment for those turn to the annual appropria-
Room, planned this afternoon to who violate our labor rela- tions measures and to legisla-
file the first motion to limit the tions.” tion providing 62 billion in loan
debate, setting up a vote on that Sen. Harrison Williams, D- guarantees for New York City
cloture petition Wednesday. N.J., chairman of Human Re- over the next four years.
Carter said he called the sources Committee, said after Congress voted 62.3 billion in
meeting “to reaffirm my own the meeting that he doubted the short-term loans and guaran-
commitment to passing labor first vote on the cloture motion tees to help ball the city out of
its financial difficulties in 1975.
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