Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 265, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 20, 1969 Page: 1 of 12
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TWELVE PAGES TODAY
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Sharp Fights
A
Erupt in Viet
A
namese troops made more at-
-were expected to meet this af-
downed with eight Americans withdrawing.
SAN SABA. Tex (AP)— Dist. i cher or not at all.
Dream Comes True
was
and Longitude 63 2 west
Hospital Doors Officially Open
pher Oliver Noonan. 29. of Not-
ing in at 2 30 a m
clothing
American helicopters reported
Two companies of American
lost in the Vietnam war One
other half mile to the wreckage copter were not hurt, the U.S.
anti-Soviet demonstrations
to
28 Enemy Attacks
The U.S Command reported
the Rockpile. Two Marines were
were unknown.
Fair Directors Set
admitted.
about two miles apart and 20 ed when two buses
ran over
munity Hospital.
miles southwest of Da Nang.
JOINING TO speed the trans-
(See DREAM On Page 2)
the U.S. Manne outpost called
This time young Czechs ac- office on Center Ave.
Pact Enrages Protestants
AU board members are asked
president of the association said.
IN BROWN COUNTY
Fewer on Public Payroll
How many Brown County res-
, or
minority.
merit jobs’
leased by the Census Bureau,
all sections of the country
as
and its Catholic minority.
The payrolls
British
rose
commander in
Northern Ireland, Gen. Sir Ian
$
/
4
i
A
Time Running Out
On Texas’ Solons
Riot Police Patrol
Streets in Prague
Tax, Budget Bills
Still to Be Passed
for the Jan 8 murder of Miss
Morris' picnic date. John Albert
White, 21. of Corpus Christi.
FIRST ARRIVALS - Mrs. Max J.
Martin and daughter Valerie of 2602
Austin Ave. are given an assist from
the ambulance as they became Brown-
wood Community Hospital's first pa-
crashed into a patrol of the U.S.
4th Infantry Division in the cen-
By lunchtime, hospital offi-
cials were still too busy with
getting facilities in operation to
make a final count of the num- 1
ber of patients But it was esti-
mated some 35 to 40 had been
the rugged area to search for
the missing men Moving behind
Miller's district includes Bur-
net County, where Durbin was
charged in Miss Morris' death
for
at
gin his activities for the year
at Brownwood High School by
registering along with his Am-
erican brother, Ken. where both
will be classified as seniors.
By GENE KRAMER
Associated Press Writer
PRAGUE (AP) — Riot police
Maximum temperature here
Tuesday 101, overnight low 75
k
How does the number of pub-
lic employees in the area com-
pare in proportion to the local
population, with the number tn
other communities?.
Czechoslovakia.
About 500 not police clubbed
the tear gassed crowds to clear
Wenceslas Square three times
Tuesday night, but after each
attack allowed the throngs to re-
turn. Twenty persons were be-
lieved arrested and three were
injured
The show of police force ap-
parently was intended to em-
phasize the warnings from Com-
munist party leaders against
on
re-
part of its latest Census of Gov-
ernments
Exchanger Due
Here Saturday
Brownwood fifth exchange stu-
dent, Uwe Schultz from Gag-
genau. Germany, is due to ar-
rive in Dallas Saturday
He is to be met by his Am-
erican family. Mr and Mrs
George Hill of 6 Crestview Cir-
Vocational Nurses School will
be Friday at t p m in the senior
high school auditorium
The 12 women who are to
receive diplomas include Mrs
Cloyd Blake. Mrs Bobby Bur-
nett. Mrs. James Calhoon, Mrs,
Louie K Davis. Mrs Charles
Drew and Mrs Jessie Gowin. 1
of the debates last year, when
young Czechs asked Soviet tank
crews why they had come and
why they didn't go home
ious local government payrolls.
597 of them on a full-time be-
sts
Army generators were or-
dered airlifted in to provide
temporary power for Gulfport t
water pumping plant The scar-
city ol drinking water was a se-
rious problem everywhere in
the devtstated area
Truckloads of food rumbled
in some provided by the region-
al U S Department of Agricul-
ture office in Jacksod. Miss ,
and some by private organiza-
tions
Mercy flights of vital supplies
and medicine were organized in
New Orleans, a light plane car-
rying medical supplies crashed
on takeoff killing the four men
aboard
Along the strip s beaches and
bayous the stench of death was
heavy. Camille threw thousands
of fish ashore with her rushing
tides—20 feet above normal in
areas of maximum storm force
I nder the limited martial law
proclaimed by Gov.- Williams,
chiefs of the National Guard
them so t‘e consumer ends up
paying more.
The conference committee on
appropriations, meanwhile, was
hard at work and had a new
wrinkle to keep their delibera-
tions secret.
They claimed they were talk-
ing about "personnel” when-
ever salaries came up Since
salaries are on virtually every
page of the House and Senate
budget bills, they decided their
sessions would be confidential.
A Legislative Budget Board
staff member was posted Tues-
day to keep reporters out of
their meeting
idents are holding down govern- as a"whare, thshsthesmautry seoss,msrnotoratleirmoney
ment iohe” erating force. The average, na-
publie
an even
I M per-
_____ _ . South Vietnamese headquar-
later both mother and boy were were two U S Marine bivouacs ters reported 29 civilians wound-
transferred to Brownwood Com-
and possibly reach 1,000," said
Gov John Bell W illiams in im-
posing limited martial law on
the area
Vice President Spiro T Ag-
new and George Romney, secre-
tary of housing and urban devel-
opment. were to join Williams
on an aerial inspection at the
devastated area in which the
governor predicted total dam-
age "might perhaps go beyond
a billion dollars."
Civil Defense authorities esti-
Headquarters said enemy losses onstration on the first anniver-
sary of the Soviet invasion of
scheduled Thursday morning
when Medical. Arts Hospital pa-
tients are moved to Brownwood advanced only half a mile by
- midafternoon and still had an-
Unlike the American student,
(See EXCHANGER Ob Page 2)1
a
_. land mines in the Mekong Delta
Fighting also broke out anew south of Saigon.
below the center portion of the
fer of patients this morning demilitarized zone northwest of
infantrymen ran into a firefight chopper
at dawn when they moved into
night in mid-70s, high Thurs-
day near 100.
to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Doug- during the night, with four
las Young at 7:56 am. today— Americans killed and 21 wound-
and about an hour and a half ed Among the U.S. posts hit
wood Saturday night
The 17-year-old youth will be-
Community Hospital to com
plete the transition.
Memorial Hospital closed to 01 the helicopter. The going was Command said,
patients this morning and Med-
ical Arts will close Thursday
The National Hurricane Cen-
ter at Miami said Debbie was
charging west northwest early
•oday a little over 500 miles
south of Bermuda The storm
de and will return to Brown- The five points:
wnnd Saturdav nieht , The British army takes con-
trol of all Northern Ireland’s se-
By LEE JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN (AP i — Legislators uneasily watched the
special session's time grow shorter today with a feeling
that "something’s got to give” in the House-Senate tax
impasse.
IT LISTS the number nt pen
pie on the payroll of each local'
governmental division—county-
township. municipality, school
district and special district
Federal and state employees
are excluded
in Brown County it shows,
there is the equivalent of one
full-time employee for every 42
residents
A meeting of the Brown Coun-
ty Fair Assn board of directors
will be Thursday beginning at
5 pm at the Farm Bureau
A
A comprehensive report
the subject has just been
L Brownwood Bulletin
All but one admission to the
new hospital were transfers1
As to salaries and wages, fer more than half of this in-
Brown County resident’ have crease
a shield of artillery, they had
from Memorial.
Medical Arts had only one
admission today, a patient com-
--------- THE ACTUAL coumt locally, ing -localpayrolls averaged
based upon data gathered from as of the time of the census 215 7 5.1a.month.per capita. In
shows a total of 722 on the var- the Southern States, it was
*12 J?
In the five years since the
Adjournment of the 30-day ses-1 and tax bill must be passed bv
sion must come Tuesday, only Sept. 1.
six days away, and a budget The 10 negotiators on taxes
near Latitude 24.8 north
. lantic with 125 mile an hour
Firing machine guns and n- winds
tacks on US. troops south of Da fles. the North Vietnamese at- Debbie staggered almost to a
Nang today and battled Ameri- tacked before dawn today. kill- stop Tuesday after Navy jets —
can infantrymen trying to reach ing one American infantryman bombed her with the crystals i -
the wreckage of a helicopter and wounding 14 others before Then the big storm surged on
douned "ih iah A---1---1-kd--. and intensified
tral highlands, killing three in-
fantrymen and wounding six
others. The crewmen of the heli-
The seed of a dream planted
in Brownwood more than 10
years ago burst into full flower
shortly after 9 a m. today.
That’s when the first patient
for Brownwood Community Hos-
pital was wheeled through the
brand-spanking new facility’s
ambulance entrance
Moments after the first pa-
tient i or patients to be perfect-
ly technical) arrived at Brown-
wood Community Hospital, the
move from Memorial Hospital
began in earnest as patients
streamed in by ambulance and
private car.
.. N It was one of three helicopters
While there was a great deal Mass ' were reported shot down Tuesday and today.
, of bustle at both hospitals in missing after their helicopter raising to 2.923 the number of
connection with the move, the cashed in the area Tuesday. American helicopters redported
By GEORGE ESPER , known dead and another 66
SAIGON (AP) - North Viet- wounded
‘L.
Bob Sikes and Mrs. Patricia
Singleton
Diplomas will be awarded by
R. E Warren and the gradua-
tion address will be by Guy T
Smith The vocal selection will
be given by Mrs A. J Newton
Presentation of class pins will
be by Mrs W C. Gilbreath, RN
and the benediction will be by
Paul Wallace, minister. Mrs. A
R Taylor, LVN, will bring both
the processional and the reces-
sional.
Judge Jack B Miller says he Barnes claims the House
will set a hearing early next wont work toward a tax bill
. - month to consider moving Clyde I fairly balanced between con-
Debbie extended some 200 Durbin Jr.'s murder trial in the sumer and direct business tax-
miles to the north and 100 miles slaying of Keitha Morris, 19,
to the south of the center Hurri- " _ I
cane watchers clocked her for-
mated 150.000 to 200,000 persons
were left homeless in Mississip-
pi's three coastal counties
Camille, the most intense hur-
ricane ever to hit the American
mainland, sideswiped the south-
eastern edge of Louisiana and
raged on to Mississippi s coast
Sunday night
Two days later some areas
still had not been reached by
rescue crews Communications
were erratic, sometimes nonex-
istent Officials said it might be
GULFPORT Miss (AP) _ A
tide at aid streamed today to-
ward a Mississippi coast still
gorggy from Hurricane Ca-
mille's fury and haunted by an
aura of death.
The highway patrol counted
1C killed along Mississippi s
coast. Eight were reported dead
in Louisiana's devastated
Plaquemines Parish (county i
pushing the total to 170
"Some people estimate the
death rate could go up above 500
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Debbie Has
More Punch
rarity forces The force of Prot-
estant police reserves known as
the B-Specials, the chief object
of Catholic hatred. will be
moved out of the cities, and the
WELL CAMOUFLAGED for
a rest break. Marine Joe E
Hooker of Weirton. W. Va.,
takes a welcome pull on his
canteen after a long, hot
trudge through mountainous
jungle near Aa Hoa, South
Vietnam.
morning.
The last patient admitted to
Memorial Hospital was a bit 28 enemy rocket and mortar at-
unscheduled A son was born tacks on allied bases and towns
protest the invasion that started
one year ago tonight
No such demonstrations were
observed Tuesday night. The
crowds stood silent and sullen,
refusing to heed police orders to
move on When force was used,
they taunted the police with
tionally, is one such employee THEIR TOTAL payroll, for
for every 36 residents the month in which the census
It is also.below the ratio re- was taken was 2259 non. which
ported elsewhere in the South amounted to a cost of N 70 for
ern States, one employee per every local resident
3* people ' . . „
•P Nationally, the cost of meet
been paying less to operate ,
their local government than employees
sr:
Sunset today 0:12, sunrise
Thursday 6 59.
And, Mrs. Ann Hardy, Miss
Fleta Magner, Mrs D W Mit-
chell, Mrs. Sam Seward, Mrs
transfer went smoothly and with
a minimum of inconvenience to
patients and their families.
A repeat performance is
rased their own people the po- AU board members are asked
lice, of making trouble and told to be on hand, Bob Donahoo.
them to go home ...
and troops patrolled Prague to-
killed and eight wounded in a day. ready to crack down on
brief firefight this morning anything that looked like a dem-
aboard. / "No enemy bodies were found
Military spokesmen said IN in a sweep of the battlefield,"
• North Vietnamese had been U.S headquarters said
slain in four days of fighting Later today, another sharp
near Hiep Duc, a district capital fight broke out about seven
30 miles south of Da Nang. Six- miles away, and the action was
teen American soldiers were continuing at last report
Eight Yanks Missing
Another seven U.S. soldiers ’ slaw because of sporadic fight-
and Associated Press photogra- ing.
tients this morning. Aiding the am-
bulance attendant is hospital admin-
istrator Maurice Shaw, right.
(Bulletin Photo)
missal of Chichester-Clark's
government and negotiations to
unite Protestant-dominated
Northern Ireland with the Cath-
olic Irish Republic.
British Prime Minister Harold
Wilson and Chichester-Clark
shot down today
FIRST TO enter the new hos-
pital was Mrs Max J. Martin
of 2602 Austin Ave. and her
hours-old daughter, Valerie
Irene Valerie, who contentedly
sucked a thumb during the am-
bulance ride between the two
hospitals, was born Tuesday af-
ternoon.
Not at all impressed at being
the first baby to enter the nurse-
ry at Brownwood Community
Hospital. Valerie responded in
the traditional baby fashion
when subjected to a change of
[tling last week
Chichester-Clark said he was
I "entirely favorable” to the
agreement and had himself sug-
gested the changes But political
insiders said the acceptance of
British advisers and of Brit isf
control of the security forces
was an admission that the local
government had done a poor job
and couldn't guarantee order
several more days before the
full extent of death and damage
was known
in Mobile, Ala , the U S
Army Corps of Engineers said
men and equipment were being
sent in to begin opening roads
and streets clogged with heavy
wreckage and debris
Emergency telephone and
power repair crews collected
from nearby states struggled to
restore communications along
the coastal strip.
whistles and cries of "Gestapo
Gestapo.”
In side streets leading to the Meeting for Thursday
sguare were scenes reminiscent ‘
. . . ternoon, but it was increasingly
Durbin Hearinq apparent that a final revenue
_ A. A 9. measure would be worked out in
Due Next Month private "by Lt Gov Ben Barnes
and House Speaker G US Muts-
The remainder who work
part-time, were converted into
their full-time equivalent to per-
mit comparison with other com-
unities
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Soaking up a dose of iodide
crystals meant to purge her of
strength. Hurricane Debbie
swirled to her greatest force
ever today as she lashed the At-
Freeland, will control their
arms
2. Discrimination due to reli-
gion or political beliefs will end
3. Two senior British civil
servants will be named advis-
ers to the Ulster government
4 An amnesty for citizens
handing in illegal arms
5. An impartial investigation
into the riots and religious bat-
BROWNWOOD. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY" AUG 20, 1969 VOL 69 NO 265 10 Cents Doily 15 Carts
Graduation Friday Night .
Ncang"sfuenayondoh ‘ For 12 Vocational Nurses
agreeing on a five-point peace
plan designed to end the reli- Graduation ceremonies for the
gious warfare between Northern 1968-69 class of the Brownwood
Ireland s Protestant majority
previous Census of Govern-
ments was taken total public
employment in the United States
rose by 1 0 million persons, or
23 percent, the figures show
Local governments accounted
BROWNWOOD AREA
Clear to partly cloudy and hot
through Thursday. Low to-
By COLIN FROST t Two former Cabinet ministers
Associated Press Writer said there would be a powerful
BELFAST, Northern Ireland demand for Prime Minister
(AP) — Leading Protestants in James Chichester-Clark’s gov-
Northern Ireland today con- ernment to resign,
demned sweeping concessions | Some Catholic leaders were
made by their government to more favorable, but hard-liners
the province’s Roman Catholic stuck to their demands for dis-
and highway patrol hold joint
responsibility in supervising the
area
Williams said the step was
taken in order to quarantine the
area and limit the flow of people
—particularly sightseers
President Nixon declared
parts at Louisiana a major dis-
aster area Tuesday and allocat-
ed an initial tl million in federal
disaster funds. He had taken the
same action for Mississippi »
coast Monday
ward movement at 15 m p h.
The Hurricane Center said the
storm was expected to continue
her present course, and Debbie
gave no signs that she would fol-
low killer Camille to U.S.
shores
White Deer away from Burnet Mutscher says the Senate has
..... ' ' ’ ” ‘ “ offered unrealistic alternatives.
His key lieutenants argue that
consumer taxes are fairer be.
Durbin was sentenced Monday cause businesses pass their tax-
in Austin to 99 years in prison es on in the price of their pro-
ducts and often "pyramid'*
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