Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 19, 1969 Page: 1 of 14
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Brownwood Bulletin
Here Friday
BULL'S-EYE LANDING
Wise-Cracking Astros Explore Moon
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The B52 raids followed three
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increases in its refinery runs.
HPC Drive
Gets Off to
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an annual staff member
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basketball and tennis.
school's music and voice stu-
Miss Locker is a senior stu- dents
Nixon, Sato Confident
mony on the south lawn of the where else in the globe
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Friday night.
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10 PER CENT JUMP
Commission Ups Allowable
Lions, Hirschl
In Title Game
Area Due
Warmup
B52s Pound Red
Border Positions
... Bu Prang Area Dealt Hardest Blows
Cambodia and against enemy
Vietnamese soldiers around the
camps. The U.S Command said
the heating oil season was near
and the company had planned
of 203,366 from November The
U.S. Bureau of Mines forecast
for the December demand for
School. Debra has served as
class officer for the past three
years and is permanent class
treasurer She has also been a
council In the Spanish Club, State Pecan queen contest next
she is secretary and senes, as summer The runners-up will
biggest increases for December
Humble's December nomination
was 144,000 barrels more than
this month, and Mobile sought
to right are Sue Reagan, Cindy Mc-
Clain, head cheerleader and Lou Rea-
gan. The Tigers play Richland Springs
nue that if peace survives in the
last one-third of the century it
dent and has been a pep squad
member four years a She is also
a member of the drill team,
chorus. Spanish Club and FHA.
A National Honor Society mem-
ber, she is a basketball player.
asked the commission for more
oil next month than in Novem-
ber. only one wanted less and
eight sought the same amount
in December as this month
Purchasers' written nomina-
tiocs totaled 3,230,492 barrels a
day in December, an increase
THE NEW QUEEN will re-
present the county in the Texas
day. most of them by bombs,
rockets and napalm from Amer-
ican planes.
Despite the heavy air attacks.
SHE PLAYS basketball and
Volleyball
HURRAH FOR THE TIGERS—Cheer-
loaders at Blanket High School for
the current school year are from left
to right kneeling, Ernestine Coldwell
and Betty Ortegon. Standing from left
White House where the Presi-
dent and Mrs Nixon greeted the
Prime Minister and Mrs Sato
A 19-gun salute roared under
sunny skies as the national an-
thems of the two nations were
played
“As we look to the future of
40,000 barrels a day more next
month than in November.
The only request for a reduc-
tion was negligible as Shell low-
ered its nomination by 100 bar-
barrels daily, an increase at 35,-
000 from November.
Humble and Mobil sought the
assist her during the county pe-
can show Dec 5 and 6
Judges for the 12th annual
queen contest for the 15th annur 1
AUSTIN (AP) - The Texas
Railroad Commission raised the
statewide oil alowable for Dec-
ember to 62 7 per cent of poten-
tial Wednesday, a huge increase
of 10 per cent from this month.
It was the second highest per-
deploying the nuclear-powered
instuments, Conrad and Bean
climbed back into Intrepid's
cabin to rest for the second ex-
cursion Thursday.
Before returning to the cabin
they brushed off layers at the
dark powder that clung to them.
The mooqwalkers originally
were to have stayed outside
about 3% hours With their oxy-
gen supply holding well. Mission
Control told them to remain out
an extra half an hour and in-
structed them to collect samples
from the rin of a nearby crater
Conrad and Bean reported the
dust in the Ocean of Storms was
ed.
The three days of talks be-
rels a day.
Jerry Bullock of Humble said
there were three factors in his
000; and Union of California 66,-
050
'nation's top collegiate fund-rais-
ing projects was kicked off.
with $19,720 already contribut-
ed. at a Wednesday morning
I breakfast.
Some 38 Brownwood business
wpd means. tosHP and.what here Tuesday 48, overight low
HPC means o Brownwood . » ;
Maximum temperature Home Demonstration Club
— —*— „--— ,— । Miss Crockett was sponsored
out some of the city's decorations mw
Bobby Jonos, loft and Lorry Brothers.
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29 Sunset today 5:30, sunrise by the Distaff Study Club
Wednesday 7:09. A junior in San Saba High
By SPENCER DAVIS
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
dent Nixon said today at the
outset of his official talks with
Prime Minister Sato of Japan
on the future of Okinawa that
they will be the most success-
the Pacific,” Nixon said in his
welcoming remarks, “we recog-
earthlings when a camera re-
laying the first color television
pictures from the surface failed
after 45 minutes
Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr.
and Alan L Bean, the third and
fourth humans to trod the moon,
were in good humor and wise-
cracked »ften as they conducted
a detailed exploration of the
moon’s surface. Conrad’s cack-
ling laugh became a familiar
sound.
They steered their lunar ferry
Intrepid to a perfect landing
just 20 feet from the edge of
their target crater at 1:54.29
a m Just 600 feet away rests an
Playoff Tickets Go On
Sale to Public Thursday
Tickets to two playoff football games will go
on sale to the general public Thursday at Weakley-
Watson Hardware.
Today is the last day for season ticket holders
to renew’ their options for Friday’s Brownwood-
Wichita Falls Hirschi District 4-AAA championship
game in Lion Stadium.
The $2 tickets will be sold on a first come-first
served basis starting Thursday.
Tickets to Saturday’s Bangs-De Leon Class A
bi-district game also go on sale here Thursday.
Tickets are $2 for adults and $1 for students. Sales
started Tuesday in both De Leon and Bangs.
of Southern Savings & Loan,
and Bob Havins, vice president
in charge of development at
Fair through Thursday A lit- ard sponsored by the San Saba
tie colder tonight, warmer Lions Club Second runner-up
centage factor ever set The
highest was 63 5 per cent last
June.
The December factor will per-
mit maximum production of 3,-
770,319 barrels a day next mont
472.051 more than this month
under a 52.7 per cent factor.
Five of 14 major purchasers
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7Ers Howard Payne Coliege. say
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unmanned Surveyor spacecraft
that soft-landed n the slope of
the crater 2% years agp.
They hope to walk to the Sur-
veyor and retrieve parts at it
during a second outside excur-
sion scheduled to start at 12:31
am Thursday They also hope
to have the televij ion camera
repaired in time for the second
walk Experts on the ground
were working on a solution.
• The nuclear gererator worked
perfectly, and th instruments
began sending data to earth as
soon as the unit was turned on
After collecting a few rock
samples raising the flag and
prosprity and progress in the tween the two leaders represent
Pacific depends more than any the most carefully prepared his-
thing else on the cooperation of torical drama in U.S -Japanese
the United States and Japan relaticns since the 1951 peace
"We are the two strongest and treaty
most prosperous countries in The negotiations involve the
the Pacific area * return of Okinawa to Japanese
in this period, Japan which jurisdiction in 1972 the possibili-
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firm’s request for an increase lean 435,000: Phillips 124,000;
He said Humble had projected Shell 146.500; Standard of Texas
increases in its refinery runs, 54,500; Sun 146,000; Texaco 180,-
CHRISTMAS LOOK — Brownwood is
getting that Christmas look again as
city firemen dress the downtown area
for the holiday season. Here sorting
man, one giant leap for man-
kind”
While ground experts studied
the problem. the astronauts
abandoned the camera to con-
tinue their exploration.
The third member d the ex-
pedition, Richard F Gordon Jr.,
orbited some 65 miles overhead,
awaiting the return at his com-
panions on Thursday after they
complete 31% hours at the sur-
face.
They were overjoyed at the
landing spot, as they wondered
at a variety of geologieal forma
tans surrounding then .
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so let’s hand out the material
and get started.”
And, in a matter of minutes
the 1969 HPC sustaining drive,
judged by college and univer-
sity public relations officials to
be the best of its kind in the
nation, was underway.
Simmons said. “We hope that
Brownwood can exceed last
great campaign.” The group Okinawa problem will be found
will meet again Tuesday at 10 The exchange of remarks
a.m. to make reporta, I came at a formal military cere,
Currently both FFA and Lions local pecan show were Mr and
Club sweetheart. Miss Oswald Mrs Carrell Rowbotham and
is a senior at San Saba High Mr and Mrs Richard Sharpe.
School and permanent class re- all of Brownwood San Saba
porter She is a member of FHA. school board president Jimmy
pep squad and is now a cheer- Shahan acted as master of car -
leader On the annual staff. she monies Mrs Inez Garrett,
serves as coeditor She plays music teacher presented the
has the fastest growing econo- ty of future use of the .S. base
my of any in the free world, will on the island for nuclear weap-
play a key role " ons. the American and Japanese
will depend more on what hap That is why our talks are so roles in Asia and trade proto
peas in the Pacific than any- important, ” the President add- lama.
Currently a cheerleader, she is
in the pep squad and has served
as secretary on the student
FIRST RUNNER-UP w a i
Bonnie Oswal, daughter of Mr
and Mrs Johnnie C Oswald.
’ year s total of $74,277 for How-
ard Payne this year.”
I ! Last year there were 124 firms
« and individuals who contributed
I t the fund, which goes primar- ful between leaders of our two
ily for operating expenses at governments going back over
the college. many years ”
Simmons said. "The $19,720 Sato was equally confident in
indicates we will have another predicting that a solution at the
By GEORGE ESPER
SAIGON (AP)—Fifty B52 Stratofortresses dropped some 1.500 tons of bombs
during the night on North Vietnamese forces threatening the Bu Prang and Duc
Lap Special Forces camps along the Cambodian border.
The heaviest concentration
was laid around Bu Prang, the perimeter
where 40 of the bombers pound- * P
bombs hit only two miles from against North Vietnamese guns
shelling Bu Prang from inside
- By HOWARD BENEDICT
AP Aerospace Writer
SPACE CENTER. Houston
(AP) — Two American astro-
nauts made a bull's-eye landing
on the moon today, raising their
nation's flag and exploring its
black powdery surface for
about four hour'
Before returning safely to
their lunar ferry Intrepid, they
deployed a set of five scientific
instruments powered by the
first nuclear generator on the
moon It was man's second
quest for knowledge on that al-
ien soil.
The moonwalk was spoiled for
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ed enemy positions on three
I sides of the camp Some of the days of fighter-bomber strikes
--— qoumuuommmmmuumuumommmamunumuuuumuu, 243 North Vietnamese soldiers
f were killed near Bu Prang Mon-
■ “Gentlemen. It's that time of
K the year again."
2a And. with that one of the
: North Vietnamese troops conitn-
A warming trend which began ued their shelling of Bu Prang,
to reduce imports from the East under bright sunshine this However, there were no reports
Coast in December. morning is expected to continue of new ground fighting
D R Wall of Mobile said his through the rest of this week. Several rounds of recoilless ri-
Texas crude oil was 3,270,000 company reduced its nomination weather forecasters predicted fle shells and roeket 3 enadhha
in November because a large today. fell inside the camp compound |
crude unit was down at its) Another cold night is in pros- during the night. South Viet-
Beaumont refinery He indicet-1 pect for tonight, however namese infantrymen a mile
ed that the higher nomination Five-day forecasts for Thurs- southeast of the camp also
for December was restoring the day through next Monday call came under fire
company's nomination to nor- for the slow warming trend to There were no immediate re
mal. continue until another cold front ports on casualties
Major purchasers’ nomina- hits the area early next week Twenty miles farther south,
tions.tor Texas crudeoil in De Temperatures will average North Vietnamese artillerymen
cember. In barrels per day, only 1 to 5 degrees below nor- shelled the Special Forces camp
Atlantic Richfield 225.000; Cit- mal for the period, the fore- at Nhon Co. but again there was
les Service 91.600: Continental cast said, with little or no pre- no word on casualties
32,000: Diamond Shamrock.x2 cipitation expected The U.S. Command also an-
000: Mobile ’70 000 Pan Amer- Freezing temperatures spread nounced that the last of 43 Army
000. Mobile 270.000. Pan LAmer ali across Mid-Texas Tuesday Reserve and National Guard
night in the wake of the latest units called to active duty in
(See AREA on Page 2) May 1968 will leave Vietnam
they implanted the first nuclear
generator on the surface a unit
which required delicate han-
dling because at its hot radioac-
five element.
The camera did record the
first steps at both on the pow-
dery surface Commander Con-
rad s first words as he placed
his 13-inch boot in the soil were
"Thai may have been a small
one for Neil, but that's a long
one for me "
He referred jokingly to Neil
Armstrong's first words last
July when he became the first
man to step on the moon:
“That's one small step for a
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BROWNWOOD AREA:
FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY BROWNWOOD,TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOV 19, 1969 VOL TONO 31 »O Csrit Doily 15 Cents Sunday
Whether we have peace
Thursday Low tonight near was Gayle Locker, daughter of
30. high Thursday in lower Mr and Mrs. Loyd Locker, who
60s was sponsored by Wallace Creek
Debra Crockett to Reign As
2-1969 San Saba Pecan Queen
from a high of 200. will be pro- <
cessed at Ft Knox, Ky . and re- o, „
turiedltonthe SI or Indi- otSANgsntstaninrn86nec1969
“ hJXEiU Connected
with, Nixons troop daughter of Mr and Mrs. L G. member of FHA two years and
cutback ..headgrarteriman Crockett of San Saba. has received her junior degree,
nounced that Manne Aircraft gm+t ir, ;,qcpa i- - - - ‘
Group 36 will be sent to Okina- .Contestants judged
wa Thursday and another Rang- the basis of appearance person-
er unit. Company D. 75th Infan- ality and poise They alsosave
try, will be inactivated in Viet- shortspepches about pecan in
• f Queen Deora was crowned in
nam _______________ : ceremonies in the San Saba High
; School auditorium.
thicker and blacker than that in
the Sea at Tranquillity where
the first moon explorers landed
in July
“Your boots dig into the soil
quite a bit," Bean said "If you
don’t pick up your feet you real-
ly kick a load of dirt to front of
you.”
They roamed several hundred
feet from Intrepid to explore
and to set up a set of five so-
phisticated scientific instru-
ments to measure such things
as the solar wind moonquakes
and the mcon’s atmosphere and
ionosphere.
To power the instruments
T men. meeting in the French
,0 Room of Sid Richardson Hall,
heard Roy Simmons. president
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