Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 102, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1971 Page: 1 of 12
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Stock Hearing Closes Minus Major Defendants
DALLAS (AP)— The govern-
TWELVE PAGES TODAY
Dam Holds On
Probers Hunt for Quake Victims
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hours.
County estimated loss to its
The shock at * 61 am Tues- buildings alone of $125 million.
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Rites Thursday
For Mrs.
Trapp
aboard this carrier toward Sa-
mission.
Mitchell and Stuart A. Room they'll transfer into a quaran-
an Air Force
caused $40 million damage
display advertising.
a 27-
day are asked to call 6*6-25*6
CITY CHARTER AMENDMENTS—!
Efficiency Goal of Council Change
at the same time reduce the ings a year, or about $500 a paying councilmen for the num-
number of council meetings by year per councilman.
her of meetings they attend is as
| The committee recommended fair a schedule as any other.
about one . half
(See COAL on Page 2)
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Astros Steam
Homeward
Blue Skies
Cover State
By Big Blast |
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - An
received by March 1 to take
care of an unexpected increase
in the number of welfare re-
cipients. particularly in aid to
families of dependent children.
of Brownwood and had lived all
of her life in Brownwood She
ed until the move is announced
include circulation and business.
646-2546; classified advertising.
A tion involving 9,000 shares of
I j NBL stock sold to Ling and Co..
unfurled and a band played
' Stars and Stripes Forever" as
By CLAYTON HICKERSON
Associated Press Writer
646-25*3;
646-2544.
Fair and warmer tonight and
Thursday Low tonight in the
mid 30s. High Thursday in
lower 70s.
Maximum temperature here
Tuesday 50. overnight low 27
Sunset today at 6.13, sunrise
i Thursday 7 20.
Sturthern California.
Forty-.wo deaths were report-
Sowul. both of Jersey City, were
believed to have been in the
plant at the time of the blast
Police said the cause of the
explosion had not been deter-
i mined.
walked smartly from the copter
to the quarantine trailer.
tional Aeronautics and Space and rocks in a mammoth gas
Administration flight surgeon cloud.
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moon and space agency officials
hail as perfect
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The only witnesses to testify
this morning were called on be-
half of defendant Michael F.
Ling
Harold W Learman, who was
administrative assistant at Ling
and Co. in 1969 and 1970, testi-
fied Ling had very little to do
with day-today operations and
handled mainly public relations
| and his own customer accounts.
Ling was head of the broker-
age firm bearing his name.
Co. to Ling and Co. He said he
did not find out if the shares
were registered and the mat-
ter was not under his direct su-
perivision.
Asked about another transac-
Three proposed amendments
to the Brownwood city charter
have been designed by a citi-
zens study committee to im-
prove goverrtment efficiency and
to update the document to' cur-
rent noede arcordine the studv
I-,-, uuac i b} e group.
Brownwood Bulletin
MRS IRENE TRAPP
. . . rites Thursday
while teaching here that
i not injuries. ...
.Among the three missfog was
: Welfare New Bulletin Plant
Mha.j
■ I by Dallas Bank and Trust about
—M Oct. 30, 1969. registered in the
1 when arguments were to be
y heard
name of Frank W Sharp. Lear-
man said. "I don't recall.”
The other witness was Miss
Sue M. Calloway, an attractive
blonde in a brown sweater and
pink miniskirt who was secre-
tar. to Ling for two years in
his 40 floor office at the LTV
Tower.
I of defendants from engaging intifying i Both lawyers said they had sue in the news.” he wanted to with him since, said the law- a subpoena for Osorio, one of
I stock fraud and manipulation. | Just before the recess, state- been given to understnad that U.S. marshal of Osorio had been yer. the major figures in the suit
U.S. Dist Judge Sarah ments were made by lawyer the SEC did not intend to intro- subpoenaed and was informed Before the session began to- He has been unable to serve the
ment and the defense rested to- T Hughes then recessed court Robert Cady for defendant Dav- duce live testimony and would that be had not. day, Jones said. “I don’t know papers on Osorio either in Aus-
day after less than an hour of until afternoon when arguments id Hoover and Robert M Jones, only produce affidavits .. Osorio then went to attend to where he (Osorio) is. If I knew, tin, Osorio’s home, or in New
proceedings in the Securities are expected. i lawyer for John Osorito to ex- Osorio’s lawyer said that his business in New York or I would try and get him here.” York City.
and Exchange Commission civil The hearing ended with some plain why their clients were not "since the absence or presence somewhere in the East and Deputy U.S. Marshal Henry In the last moments of the
suit seeking to prevent a crowd of the top defendants never les- present . of my client has become an is- Jones had not been in touch White said Tuesday he did have session, Charles P Storey, law-
from the quake's center, the
glass and bricks and crumbled
mortar that littered streets and
yards were being scooped up
and carted away.
Several major freeways re-
mained closed because of erum-
pled paving or fallen overpass-
parachuted to a precision land- tine van aboart
ing in the South Pacific Tues- transport plane,
day. climaxing a lunar voyage . The aircraft will ferry them to
which scientists say will greatly Houston's Ellington Air Force
enrich man's knowledge of the Base, arriving at 1:30 a.m. Fri-
“ ' ' day. They will go to the Lunar
Mrs Trapp died at 6:30 pm
Tuesday in a Brownwood nurs-
moio n 7 mr. mi ing home following a three-
major ones at 7 or more This iMinese
made it comparable to the 1933 year uness. . . .
shock in nearby Long Beach She was a member of the
that killed 115 persons and First United Methodist Church
Walter Gilewicz of Irvington,
N.J., owner of the Radon Chem-
ical Corp., where the blast oc-
curred.
The company foreman said
Gilewicz and two employes,
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the three smiling spacemen
Ee.
manager noted before the com- crease annually
mittee. I in addition, the committee
Also. It usually takes up to proposed that the mayor's pay
Mark Marcianick and Gene
Receiving Laboratory at the
Manned Spacecraft Center to
complete the 21-day quarantine
period that began the day Shep-
The committee was made up the intent of the proposal, as a limit of 24 meetings a year, from a maximum of $500 per prepare for a council meeting.’
d 35 Brownwood citizens chos- explained in the report, or $600 annually. year to a maximum of $600 per so fewer meetings per year
en by city councilmen and ap- The councilmen. although their The committee noted in dis-, year, was determined by apply- would free the. city officials for
pointed by Brownwood Mayor duties extend beyond those met cussing this area of the charter’ ing the same rate of increase to other important city business.
Truman Harlow last August for in the council meetings, are paid that council meeting attendance council pay that all city em- Miller explained.
the task on the basis of number of coun- is only a small portion of the ployes have received since the The re-’” of this method
The first of the three pro- cil meetings attended each year official dues-met by the ma- current charter was adopted which is .ing proposed
posals would increase pay to Currently, that figure is $10 per yor and obuncilmen. | Usually, most business ban would be a more efficient work-
died now at the weekly meet- ing of city government with a
ings of council is not so urgent slight increase in council com
that it could not be postponed pensation, that is not unreason
for a week". Harry Miller, City able at $100 per councilman in-
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 1971 VOL. 71 NO. 102 0 Conn Doily 15 Cents Sundav
, yer for former Texas Atty. Gen.
Waggon, r Carr, one of the de-
fendants, offered new affidavis.
It was not disclosed at once
what they contained
Bob Fultz lawyer for H E,
McCain, a defendant, also pr-
vented an affidavit and the coert
recessed for five minutes so
that SEC lawyer Robert F.
Watson could study it.
I On his return Watson said
that he had been unable “to
produce al this time Mr Osor-
I A lawyer appearing for Phiip
11 Proctor, a defendant, said he
had advised his client not to tes-
tify and to invoke his constitu-
tional privilege.
The various lawyers then said
1 their cases were dosed and the
court recessed until 1 p.m.,
the mayor and councilmen. and weekly meeting up to 50 meet- But the committee decided
"" Learman was asked by Wat-
A2: son about a document dated
T# Nov 17, 1969 showing that the
Jesuit Fathers of Houston, Inc.,
.9 had sold 30,000 shares of Na-
F • Itional Bankers Life Insurance
was a former president of
I Daniel Baker College.
Mrs Trapp was born in the
Rocky Creek community Oct. 3,
1878, the daughter of William
Nelson Adams and Kate Lenora
Micron
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Au- Although cries of "Help me' likely to be reckoned ultimately
thoritie : kept a wary eye on a Help me!" could be heard Tues- in the hundreds of millions
cracked reservoir dam and day night, authorities said there Hundreds of commercial build-
probed wreckage of 3 ruined was little likelihood of more sur- ings and factories were dam
hospital for bodies today in the vizors being found The bodies aged, along with uncounted
wake of an earthquake that of five persons were extricated homes, highways, bridges and
dealt death and destruction to in the night and early morning public buildings Los .Angeles
County Voter Registration
Up Following Extension
The extension on voter registration has so far at-
tracted 19 more Brown County residents. Voter ap-
p .ication blanks have been sent in by these new voters
since the announcement of the ectension of voter
registration through Feb. 28.
One 18-year-old has also registered.
According to Hugh Allcorn, Brown County tax as-
sessor-collector. those who are registering in February
may not use their voter registration certificate for
elections until April 1.
Those who registered prior to the Jan. 31st deadline
may vote in elections with their 1971 voter registration
certificates beginning Marh 1. However, anyone who
has a 1970 voter registration certificate may vote in 1
the sccuul.G 2 3 uary Jlec.oas
(EDITOR'S NOTE - The
following arlicle is the first of
three discussing proposed
amendments to the Brown
wood city charter which wiU
he considered at an election
Feb. 20)
Bill OK I Nears Completion
I IDahoI Construction and installation paper will be moved to the new
III rdIIGI I of equipment at the new plant location from its present build-
f for The Brownwood Bulletin is ing at 114 East Lee.
AUSTIN (AP) - The Senate nearing completion a After publication of the news-
Finance Committee quickly ap- Work on construction of the paper begins in the new plant,
proved today a House-passed new building at 700 Carnegie dates for an open house wm be
8*9 million emergency appro- should be completed in the near announced, publisher Craig
priation bill that everyone future by the contractor, the Woodson said. "We want to pro-
hopes will ward off welfare Herman Bennett Co vide an opportunitv for every-
check cuts. | Installation of new electronic one in Mid-Texas who wants to
"We’ve trimmed everything typesetting equipment and off have a first-hand look at our
else out of this bill,” said Sen. set press equipment has been modern new facility.” he said.
A. M Aikin of Paris, committee underway for several weeks and Until the move is completed,
bill passed as quick as possible should also be completed with- Mid-Texans are asked t con-
to help this critical situation." inuthe next few days, tinue to use telephone numbers
| State welfare officials have When the work is completed, for various departments of the
said welfare checks will be cut a departments of the news- newspaper instead of the single
if the emergency money is not—, . , number listed in the new direc-
Plant Rocked Numbers which should be us.
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At first glance, it may appear that meetings be held every two and agreed to continue that
that the proposal would have weeks instead of weekly, and basis.
city lenders do lees work for to- ths’ comnensation be uoded to Amount of the total annual '
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rier and quickly were hoisted ard and Mitchel left the moon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Haden Adams. ln ,
aboard by helicopter They were The lunar rocks they gathered Skies were virtually cloudless „Sheubegan herschooling.at
just seven-tenths of a mile from in the ancient Fra Mauro high- over Texas todav as brisk tern- 4 .Eraduated
the landing target lands will go into another see- peFtur noerya“in i"arens from Brownwood High School
. Milor* i o the laboratory where ^ly a teg uttered clouds at 2 took theteach
cheered and snapped pictures. scientists eagerly wait to start drifted across the Lower Rio ersexaamination.and paSsed.but
""Welcome Apollo 14 banners
The spaceren hit the gentle
tropic water less than four
miles from tins helicopter car-
BROWNWOOD AREA
The $34.9 million emergency, .
appropriations bill includes S3 explosion which shook a 27- 646-2544; news-editorial. 646-
million earmarked for families block area and shattered win- 25*1: women’s news, 646-2542;
he with dependent children. $31 dows miles around ripped and sports. 646-2545.
t 0. nrincina nt , ne million for medical aid to those through a chemical plant early Subscribers who do not re-
ekaminat on that will take Gr^Se vaneg ” - because of her youngage was schol then as°"The Pink on ^Uttre rolls, and 625.000 tnda ",Trrepersonssweremi. ceive their paper by 6:30 p.m.
months ft years. “TemperatUFs before dawn not permitted to conduct a School” She met and married for. welfare administrative i ou.othens ml weekdays or 9:30 am. on Sun-
Scientists believe the moon varied from the 20s in the Upper class. , J. w Trapp, a prominent busi-
walkers may have gathered pri- Panhandle to the 40s in South She enrolled at Daniel Baker nessman, in 1907 while she was Atthe regular Senate session,
mordial rocks dating back 4.6 Texas. College and graduated from still principal of this school. H. GoV. Ben Barnes planned to
' billion years to the creation of A warming trend without pre- there when she was 15. later a few years following her lay out the committee-approved
On the remote possibility that the moon. cipitation was forecast for to become the college's first marriage she again returned to senate bill that would raise the
they returned harmful germs Scientists hope study of these Thursday woman president in 19*5 the teaching profession, this 231 9 million by shuffling prior-
from the moon. Shepard. Mitch- rocks wil unlock many secrets Maximum readings Tuesday Her first teaching assignment time to Brownwod High ities in the omnibus tax clear-
ell and Roosa wore protective of the birth pangs of the mom. ranged from 35 degrees at Tex- was at Gap Creek, a community School where she taught Eng- ance
masks that prevented their the earth and solar system. All arkana up to 68 at Brownsville about 12 miles from Brownwood, lish. 1 Technically the bill, called the
exbaljng into the surrounding were believed created at the The mercury slipped down to Here she was combination in addition to the bachelor of "Barnes Plan ' by some, would
atmsphere. same time in the convulsive 23 before dawn this morning at teacher - principal - janitor, science and bachelor of arts de- diveri $3* 9 million that nor-
Dr. William Carpentier a Na coming together of space dust Dalhart. Later Mrs. Trapp became a grees from Daniel baker col- mally would go to the teachers
‘ ' " Brownsville recorded *9 de- fifth grade teacher in a Brown- lege, she earned a master of retirement fund between April 1
grees before sunrise. 1 wood elementary school It was 1 (See RITES on Page 2) and Aug 31.
I Scientists attributed the tem-
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS who is in the quarantine van blor to a little-known fault that
ABOARD USS NEW OR- with them, reported that a pre- rates as a pipsqueak. It is the
LEANS (APi - Apollo M’s liminary medical examination Soledad Canyon fault in the
moon heroes, healthy and snug showed them all to be in good rugged San Gabriel Mountains.
In a quarantine trailer, steamed health. | A scientist who visited the |
Also in the trailer is R H scene found signs of vertical Services for Mrs Irene B
moa today after safely complet- Culbertson, A NASA engineer slippage - one side of the earth Trapp, 92, of 1501 Ave B wil
ing man s third lunar landing who maintains the van systems fracture higher than the other be2nm Thursday at Davi.
g .0, g and helps w.th cooking and oth- -but said he could easily step Mortis PFuneratsome:
From Samoa they II be flown er chores, across the crack in the earth win b. in Greenicaf Cometer
tothemannedspacecratt Cen TAfter.retrieving,the astra seismologistsat the California Rev Bobby Weathers and Rev
Fndayrkoyshogenigingpsero routsamhea,swormaes to the Institute o Technology assigned Plez Todd officiate,
their families, then continue north When the ship is in heli- the -,^1,/^ magnitude of 6 6 on
their isolation against possible copter, range, about noon. EST the Richter scale, which rates
moon sickness until Feb 16 , Thursday, the'spacemen will be
Alan B Shepard Jr . Edgar D 1 flown to Pago Pago, where
ed, nine of them heart attack day was centered .26 miles with 427 damaged structurally
victims More than 1,000 per- northwest of downtown Los An- anF2 evacuated.
sons were reported injured geles, crumpled much of the Gov. Ronald Reagan surveyed
Officials said 25 persons were concrete facing on the 150-foot- the damage and said. “It’s
missing, some buried in the rub- high dam of Van Norman shocking When you look at this
ble of two collapsed buildings at Lakes, the city's largest reser- you feel pretty helpless."
a Veterans Administration hos- voir, and cracked its main Robert E. Noel, a custodian at
pital in the hard-hit west end of structure of earth fill. the threatened reservoir dam.
the populous San Fernando Val- As water experts began drain- was at his home near the base
ley. ing it, police ordered , a forced of the structure when the quake
Twenty-three bodies had been evacuation Tuesday night of hit
found in the hospital wreckage: some 80.060 persons in a 20- “it was thumpin' and jumpin’
45 persons were rescued square-mile are. of the San and knocked everything out of
So heavy and so interlocked Fernando Valley which would our kitchen," he said. “It didn’t
were huge chunks of concrete be in the path of flood waters matter where I put my feet, the
from the virtually leveled should the dam break Officials floor wasn't there."
three-story structures that res- said that barring a strong new a big cleanup already was un-
cuers said it might be another aftershock, it should hold der way. In downtown Los An-
day or more before all victims The initial shock and lesser geles and in communities in the
could be reached aftershocks caused damage San Fernando Valley, whose
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wood Bulletin's new offset press is nearing comple- (Bulletin Photo)
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