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Brownwood Bulletin
SUNNY
Brownwood Texas
Tuesday. April 3, 1973
Vol. 73 No 143
Twenty Cents Sunday
Ton Cents Daily
Nixon, Thieu prepared to reaffirm ties
66th chamber
banquet tonight
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In welcoming Them Monday,
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Boycott effective
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Hyde says President not
'impounding' Texas funds
grams' for Texas
He gave an example of a city in
Cool night forecast
REVENUE SHARING
similar to this mornings lows
Probers move
Biggest chunk of funds
which saw the mercury drop to president of the local butcher's
union, said he expetted 500
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to public transportation
Brownwood polls
open until 7 p.m.
Polls- in Brownwood will be
tins morning
assure more favorable weather
Blaze rages
at Coleman
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family grocery hill has risen by 37 per cent.
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HARDLY NEWS to anyone is the steady rise in food prices, a
record unbroken over the past decade. Since 1962, the average
The two presidents promised
to end their sessions with oral
Some 500 butchers were fur-
loughed by Cincinnati packing
houses Thomas Ranshaw,
consequences, Ziegler said this
was another summit topic The
continued American bombing
nings to North Vietnam that
violations of the Paris peace
agreement could bring serious
aimed at slowing a Communist
advance in Cambodia also was
being discussed, he added
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Effects of the boycott showed
up everywhere along the line,
from the stockyards to the
packing houses.
should allow .Mid-Texas tem-
peratures dip to chilly levels
again tonight, the National
Weather Service said this
morning
Forecasters called for lows in
the upper 30s or lower 40s
After a morning conference
today, the Nixons were allowing
their visitor and Mrs. Thieu the
use of the Nixon home to en-
tertain the American summit
delegation at a farewell lunch-
eon
staying at a Los Angeles hotel —
have attracted several hundred
mostly youthful picketers to the
Western White House.
Siouxland Beef Processors
closed their plants temporarily
in Fargo. N.D . Omaha, Neb.,
and Sioux City, Iowa. They said
they wanted to determine what
effect the boycott would have
Thieu said American sacri-
fices helped make possible “a
peace with honor'1 — a favorite
Nixon phrase He added that
history shows there can be no
solid peace in the world unless
there is peace and stability in
the Pacific area.'
Cattle were 31 to 32 higher in
Kansas City markets, while
hogs were down 33. At the Na-
tional Stockyards in Illinois,
cattle were mostly 31 higher,
with hogs 33 to 34 lower
Nixon said:
We meet to work toward the
building of peace, a peace for
your land which has suffered so
much, and your people who
have suffered so much, and a
peace, as it is built there. which
can contribute to lasting peace
in the world.”
as moisture dries up
Mostly clear skies tonight across the area tonight very
The demonstrators have
called fc r Thieu’s removal, rec-
•ignition of the Viet Cong and
assistance to North Vietnam
Police kept theh at a distance
from Nixon’s home
tinue.
The White House spokesman
-aid the two leaders were reaf-
firming their alliance during
their two days of talks. He sug-
gested redevelopment aid was a
priority item on the agenda
Reagan Brown, assistant to the governor of Texas, is to
address the 66th annual meeting of the Brownwood
Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 tonight at Chisholm's
Restaurant.
Also on the program for the banquet is the honoring of
retiring and new officers and directors of the Brownwood
chamber
Charles Stewart of Howard Payne College will be
master of ceremonies. Tickets are $5 each and a limited
number will be available at the door tonight
Standard Beef Inc. of Detroit,
which normally processes 150-
200 cattle a day, was handling
only 100-125 Meat packers
across Michigan reported or-
ders down 25 per.cent.
By GARTH JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN । API - President
Nixon is not impounding'' fed-
eral funds that otherwise would
be allocated to Texas, Under
Secretary Floyd H Hyde said
today.
If Congress can't add, then
the President has to subtract,"
the high official of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban De-
velopment (HUDI told a news
conference
There's no constitutional
question about impounding
funds to meet a budget. Thomas
Jefferson did that "
The news conference preced-
ed a special conference of fed-
eral. state and local officials
Hyde said President Nixon set
a budget designed to meet the
growing needs of the nation,
then "Congress has its own pet
programs that it keeps passing
and keeps adding more and
more without regard to the sum
total These pet projects would
add 311 billion to the President 's
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif
(APi — President Nixon and
Saigon's Nguyen Van Thieu
were ready to reaffirm strong
ties between their governments
today at the windup of their first
meeting in nearly four years.
White House press secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler said Nixon
• and the South Vietnamese pres
ident were discussing every-
thing from continued U.S. aid to
the Thieu regime to Nixon’s
plans for similar assistance to
Hanoi.
As for Nixon's repeated war
Brownwood:
My choice,
your opportunity
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Ziegler was firm in saying I
don't believe it would serve any
useful purpose to focus on hy-
pothetical military situations''
and a possible resumption of
U.S. bombing missions over
Vietnam if truce violations con-
to plug leaks
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COLEMAN—An explosion at
the Jinright Manufacturing Co.
of Coleman resulted in a
massive fire that was still
raging at noon today.
The clothing manufacturing
plant went up in flames around
11 am and early reports in-
dicate that the building and all
the equipment will be lost The
plant is at the Coleman Airport
According to W A Finlay of
< oleman Monument Co., two
men were blown into the field at
the explosion but he did not
believe either was injured
Units from Santa Anna and
Coleman were called to the
blaze.
At the same time another fire
on North Post street destroyed a
Coleman home
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Paperwork clearing the city 's
portion for a widening project
on Fourth St. drew quick
passage from "the Brownwood
city council this morning
Councilmen approved a
municipal construction and
maintenance agreement and an
escrow agreement with the
Texas Highway Dept
Work will be done by the high-
way department under the
TOPICS program
City Manager Harry Miller
told the council the highway
departintnt will construct outer
• Some sales off 80 per cent •
By KRIS IIIJEHOLM disease Nobody 11 even touch only about a third of the shop- saying it was too soon to tell how
Associated Press Writer it, complained a meat man- pers in one store were taking successful the boycott would be,
( onsumers appear to be bit- ager in the New York City area, home meat. A survey of six since most housewives do their
ing into the week-long meat where a check of supermarkets large-Oklahoma City super weekly shopping in midweek
boycott with determination, showed (he boycott to be about markets turned up no custom- and many had stocked up on
throwing off meat sales by as 80 per tent effective on the first ers at the meat counter in three meat last week, red meat prices
much as 80 per cent in scores of shopping day Monday. stores, only one woman at were on the way down in a few
supermarkets from coast to A shopping-cart check in another and meat buying stores by as much as 29 cents a
t oast and slicing some prices 29 Boise Idaho, found 22 out of 50 about normal'' in the other pound
cents a pound women had by-passed the meat two
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However, he said, for histor- the northeast part of the nation
ic reasons' Texas and its cities ,
have been on the short end in that has received $250 million
many federal grant programs for urban renewal alone
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statements and a joint commu-
nique.
Thieu's helicopter visits to the
Nixon compound he has been
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A budget calling for ex- double penetration paving allocated will include half the
penditure of 3337,000 in revenue City Manager Harry Miller cost acquisition for a mental
sharing funds during the told the council work under the health-mental retardation
current fiscal year was adopted street improvement program center, and operation funds for
by the Brownwood city council will be delayed until May to the ambulance service
lanes on both sides of existing l'itts as city traffic safety
pavement and will construct coordinator The three-year
two new bridges across creeks program will lie funded for 24
crossing Fourth He said the ' years by the state with the city
city will retain responsibility paying the final half-year
for the existing center Section of
pavement TWO Voted to have an or-
Work is already underway on tlinance drawn and a public
moving utility lines to permit hearing called on a request by
construction of the bridges Gary P'rice to close and
Widening will lie from Good abandon designated but
Shepherd Dr to Indian Creek unopened streets in an area
Rd bounded by Belle Plain. Bayou
in other matters this morning and Murray Sts . Adams Branch
the council
ONE Appointed Everett See ( OUn II. on Page 2-A
Miller said a contractor for
the coliseum accoustics >
program is already being
sought and that a guarantee of
improving sound quality in the
building will be required
FINAM E ADMINISTRA-
TION-The 310.000 will go to
purchase accounting equip-
ment
Budget this year. 319 billion in open until 7 p.m. today to allow
1974 and 324 billion in 1975.” voters participating in the
If we. followed the path set municipal election here to cast
by Congress we would have to their ballots
have a 15 per cent tax increase Three Brownwood city
to pay for it." Hyde said, council members will.be named
Hyde said he could give no in the election Voting w.is very
specific examples of pet pro- light during the morning hours
Ri < REATION-The 362,000
will include reconstruction on
the Adams St Community
Center, resurfacing the tennis
courts in Coggin Park, new
flooring for the recreation area
at < ordell Community Center,
and improving the sound
system in Brownwood
Coliseum.
The budget calls for spending conditions
the money in five general He said the street work will be
areas public safety. 317.000 residential in nature because
public transportation, 3223,000 doing needed reconstruction
health. 315,000; recreation, work on major city thorough-
362,000; and finance ad- lares would require all or most
ministration. 310,000 of the projected revenue
The biggest chunk, 3223,000 in sharing funds over the next five
publie transportation, will in- years
• hide right-of-way acquistion. And he added the allocation
painting the airport hangar. calls for spendfhg about 525,000
school bus stop shelters, a street in each city ward for street
name sign project, curb, gutter - improvements this summer
and lighting work in the central Other projects under the
business district, various revenue sharing program in-
drainage projects, and a elude:
stepped-up program of street Pl BI H SAFETY—The
maintenance including $17,000 allocated will rover hall
pavement overlays, the • ost of the new fire truck
stabilization, sealcoat and HEALTH-The 315,000
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a FOOD PRICE INCREASE
It's like my meat had some counter. In Albuquerque, N M . While many retailers were
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EARLY MORNINE VOTERS—Voting began on a brisk pace Voting judges of the precinct were the first to cast their hallow
this morning in Pct. 2 at the courthouse but quickly slowed. in the city election. I (Bulletin Photoi
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Partly cloudy skies and cool more to be laid off by week's
temperatures is the outlook for end as farmers and ranchers
Wednesday as well, with highs withhold stock and processors .. 4
probablynising to around the 60- buy cautiously . senate Watergate in
degree mark vestigations committee, acting
Extended forecasts look for a One dinner table .where meat to plug a flood of leaked in-
chance of showers in the area was conspicuously present formation, said today it will
again on Thursday, with a Monday evening was at the
weekend warming trend likely Western White House, where hold no more secret sessions
Scattered showers dampened visiting South Vietnamese with convicted Watergate spy
parts of Mid-Texas Monday as a President Nguyen Van Thieu James W McCord Jr
new cool front moved through, and President Nixon dined on All further interviews with
but amounts were generally 1 oast prime tenderloin of beef McCord will be conducted by
light. Brownwood received only the committee staff at un-
02 of an inch of moisture from ht President last Thursday disclosed times and places with
an afternoon shower announced a ceiling on beef, "5 1055" Ptaces "ith
Ahead of the front, the pork and lamb prices, allowing a view to beginning open hear-
temperature reached 77 retailers to sell the products at mgs within 10 days to two
degrees in Brownwood Monday their 10,1 rate for March but no weeks, a committee spokesman
afternoon. higher said
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Fisher, Norman. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 143, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 3, 1973, newspaper, April 3, 1973; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1575220/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.