Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1973 Page: 1 of 22
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Brownwood:
Brownwood Bulletin
SUNNY
Thursdoy. December 13, 1*73
Browmwood, Texos
Volume 74 No, so
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$70,000 mark
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Post office to
be joining in the stoppage with movement appears not to have
open Saturday
Tape gap still a mystery
The Brownwood Post Office
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of schools here, spoke
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meterswill be set. Call Formal! character and emphasized the
need for self confidence
the incident
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sections of the country
tributed to the consumers in the and personal savings
Don t be a Born Loser1
Shoplifting costs each
county resident $87
STOPPAGES SCATTERED
Rolling trucks draw fire
Kissinger is now enroute to the Middle East
as he«ontinues his efforts to resolve the crisis
there While in London Wednesday, he was
presented with the Nobel Peace Prize, which
he won jointly with Ie Duc Tho lor their
on
and
The experts planned to con-
tinue studying the tape and
will be open this Saturday from and the criteria for selection.
8:30 to 11 30 am Postmaster and the Brownwood High School
My choice,
your opportunity
will be handed out and bulk
mailings will be accepted
Food stamps will not be sold,
however
J H Childs said today
Full postal service will be
available at the windows
Money orders will be issued
Coleman. Betty Evans. Dean
Low, and Patti Milam
Haney explained the purposes
of the National Honor Society
sextet sang "There's a World
Out There "
C B Milam. superintendent
caught on in Texas
The Publie Safety Depart-
ment said four independent tru-
ckers in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley parked their rigs on U.S.
77 between Harlingen and Ray-
mondville Wednesday night
Vietnam peace negotiations
Le Duc Tho refused to accept the prize,
contending that peace had not been restored
in Southeast Asia
Kissinger and the Hanoi Politburo member
last met in Paris on June 11-13.
Deputy White House Press Secretary
Gerald I. Warren, responding to questions,
said "I can’t spell out at the moment" what
was meant when the brief announcement
referred to "matters of mutual interest in the
present situation "
Warren said the two diplomats would
discuss topics within that general descrip-
tion "
When asked who initiated the session, be
said it was "worked out through mutual con-
sultation" and had been under discussion for
a few weeks."
the independnts, most of whom
own the trucks they drive.
The violence today was the
most serious since truckers be-
gan their protests last week
A Pennsylvania police dis-
patcher said some drivers pull-
ing into truck stops for break-
fast would return to their rigs
and find that devices keeping
their trailer attached to the
tractor had been removed or
rendered inoperative
An Ohio trucker who declined “T
to be identified said he was go- !
ing along with the stoppage out ■
of fear "I'm not stupid enough ”
to try and go out and run now,"
he said .
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million in 1972.
Despite brisk prosecution
and strict legislation against
offenders, shoppers still
manage to cart off an
estimated *1.1 million or
more a year from Brown
County stores, a tab that
paying customers are forced
topic* up
Higher prices are the only
way merchants can make up
the shoplifting loss when
merchandise mysteriously
disappears.
A Brown County family of
four will nay almost $350 in
higher prices here each year
to cover losses businesses
suffer from the shoplifter
In subsequent stories, this
series will probe prosecution
and legislation concerning
shoplifting in Brown County
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T ighti y close damper
ol fireplace when not in
use
By GAYLORD SHAW
Associated Pre** Writer
WASHINGTON i API - Secretary of State
Henry A Kissinger and North Vietnamese
special adviser Le Duc Tho will meet in Paris
on Dec 20 "to discuss ‘matters of mutual in-
terest in the present situation.” the White
House announced today
White House spokesmen would not
elaborate on the reason for the first meeting
between the two men in six months, but it
seemed dear they would take up the problem
of continued fighting in Vietnam
F if the exports become too
L large, he said, limiting action
P would be imposed
Under the gasoline allocation
• program announced Wednes-
: • day, the average motorist may
"" find himself even more than 25
*>. per cent short of his usual
•• needs, since priority users
‘; would take their deliveries be-
. fore the remaining gasoline fil-
- • ters down to local service sta.
' • tions
gallons of hot tar on a truck stop
parking lot Drivers have been
harassed wher they stop to
eat "
The Ohio Highway Patrols
post at Canfield reported seven
separate shooting incidents in-
volving truckers on Interstate
70 The patrol said shotgun pel-
lets were found imbedded in the
sides of some of the trucks
Troopers also said they were
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The annual Howard Payne
College sustaining drive was at
slightly above 170,000 at mid-
morning today before an af-
ternoon report session today
expected to raise the figure
considerably, college officials
said
Roy Simmons, drive chair-
man, said be is encouraged by
the rate at which pledges are
coming in and that he believes
the drive will again net above
$100,000
1
cessive petroleum exports from
the United States during the fuel
risis, Simon placed exports
ander a licensing system ef-
fective immediately
- For the time being, he an-
" nounced, the system would be
used to monitor exports but not
to limit them
STACKS OF SOCKS—Mrs. L. B Slagle, left,
executive director of the local chapter of the
American Red Cross, and Mrs Ray Romig
stuff lied socks for the 345 patients in
Brownwood nursing homes. The socks were
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nounced the results of the re- Meanwhile, Sirica signed an
port, said later, “we accept the order Wednesday authorizing
results We accept whatever the empaneling of a third grand
ENERGY
WISE G
gS
WASHINGTON ( APy- Tech- sation
box rents may be paid, postage leadership, service.
That conclusion, read in open
court by Sirica, was contained
< in a preliminary report deliv-
ered to the judge in his office
During hearings into what
might have caused the 10-mm-
ute gap in the tape of a June 20.
1972 conversation between
President Nixon and H R Hal-
deman. Rose Mary Woods, Nix-
on's personal secretary, testi-
fied she believed she might
have been responsible for part
of the gap She said she pushed
the wrong button on a tape
recorder she was using to
transci ibe the tape
White House lawver J Fred
Buzhardt had testified he
thought the sounds on the 18-
minute gap might have been
caused by the electric type-
writer and high intensity lamp
on Miss Woods' desk
But the technical experts said
tests made with sophisticated
instruments" had failed to con-
firm that theory
The experts said they have
yet to determine whether the
gap could have been caused by
the recorder itself If so, they
said, it would probably be im-
/ possible to recover the conver-
A* part of the merchant
crackdown on shoplifting,
Brownwood businessmen
have announced this week an
educational and preventive
campaign on the subject
Films detailing police
detection methods are to be
shown to students at
Brownwood High and Junior
High schools Businesses are
hiring extra uniformed and
plainclothes police to guard
against offenses An ad-
vertising program has been
designed to inform residents
of the consequences of
shoplifting
Merchant* base shoplif-
ting loss figure* at a
probably conservative 2 per
cent of the annual retail
sales in Brown County,
which approached $58
Twenty-TwoPogesTodey Two Seclions
(First dm a Serlesi
it may be a pert housewife,
an aging gentleman or a
youth on a dare, but the
shoplifter in Brown County is
costing each resident an
estimated 9C7 a yuar in in-
creased prices.
And- with the annual
Christmas shopping boom
which typically doubles
normal monthly sales in
r --h.- .Li.k --
Vecemper—wncn brings as
well a similar boost in
shoplifting losses-Brow-
nwood merchants are
banding together to combat
the light-fingered shopper
While shoplifting here
costs each county resident
$87 a year, merchants figure
$10 of that individual loss
comes during the month of
December alone
knitted by volunteers and gift* purchased by
the local chapter These will serve as gifts for
Christmas to the patients.
< Bulletin Photo i
Kissinger, N. Viet
to huddle in Paris
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The society at RHSis spon- ‘on™™. Patricla Meclatchy. ways, mostly in the East and By ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 -- A,। 7
sored by Mrs G T Dou Nancy Ann Norris. Michele Midwest But the stoppages Spot checks of truck stops - -Xa
The 16 incoming seniors are Pittman, Stephanie Reese were tattered and it was too across Texas today showed tru- a" -‛aefe
Sheralyn,Alford., John Molly Snyder, and Steven Ward early to tell how many drivers ckers apparently are not be- 2564 ?
Bohuslav, Delore* Deb Rom. would join in the wildcat action coming involved in a park-in to G3
Mike Dillard, Terry Gilmore, The holdover membership The two-day shutdown was protest lower speed limits and
Diana Gregg. James Kington, consists of Lee Haney, called by dissident nonunion higher gasoline prices.
president; Kayla Fowler, vice drivers who say fuel prices and Truckers on the East Coast
president; Betty Storm, lowered speed limits are eating and in the Midwest have pro-
secretary: Margie Lockwood, up their paychecks moted such a work stoppage
historian. Jay Allison, Candy Union drivers did not seem to among fellow truckers but the
By NICK TATRO rate shooting incidents in- Holland.Pa .wasuninjured His
Associated Press Writer volving rolling trucks There engine, however, was put out of
Violence punctuated by gun- were no reports of injured driv- commission
shots. hoses and er* "Is definitely connected
missiles hurled through wind- Pennsylvania police said a with the truck stoppage," Bow-
shields flared today as many of shot fired from a passing car ers said "We've had a rash of
the nation's truckers began a ripped into a truck on U.S. 322 incidences all over Lancaster
twoday work halt A state police spokesman, and Cheshire counties There
Pennslvania and Ohio offi- Lonnie Bowers, said the driver, have been hoses cut on truck*
rials reported at least 10 sepa- Ivan Z Zimmerman, 62, of New In one case, they dumped 1,000
Energy czar planning
reduced lighting order
New fuel measures unveiled
WASHINGTON (AP) - The regulations to reduce U. S. als to cope with expected fuel law, would save some 800,000 lighting during nonworking
government's energy czar. Wil- gasoline production 5 per cent shortages barrel* of oil daily hour*, and asked citizens to cut
ham E Simon, announced to- below 1972 levels, a move that He proposed that all com- Simon also proposed that ma- down voluntarily on their use of
day he will order reduced light- would increase the actual an- mercial and industrial build- jor highway and freeway light- electric space heaters
ing in commercial and industri ticipated gasoline shortage to ings, including stores, factories ing be turned oft, except at in- Simon ordered federal
al buildings as soon as Congress about 25 per cent early next and offices, be required to re- terchanges and ramps where agencies to reduce their driving
gives him the authority to do so year duce their lighting to specific the lighting would be cut in half by 28 per cent in the first quar-
Simon also placed petroleum The energy office fumbled light levels considered "min- if imposed after public com- ter of next year and to get rid of
exports under a licensing Sy: badly in issuing that proposal, imum but effective and safe " ment. this action could save the limousines and heavy sedans,
tern and told all federal agen- at first reporting it as a cutback The proposed reductions energy equivalent of 15,000 bar- returning those which are
cies to get rid of their big seemingly five times as big as would cut lighting to roughly rels of oil daily, Simon said leased
limousines by Jan 1 really intended one-third to one-sixth of cus- Simon also asked industry to Simon told agencies to use
The new fuel conservation Simon held a White House tomary levels, he said set up energy-saving com- compact or subcompact cars
measures were announced just news conference this morning Simon said the action, to be mittees, asked commercial unless a larger car was abao-
oneday after Simon's new Fed- to announce a whole senes of made mandatory once pending building managers and owners lutely necessary
- eral Energy Office proposed additional actions and propos- emergency legislation becomes to turn off all but essential In a move to prevent ex-
area and their desire and ability
The progress was most ap- to maintain their normal way of IN THE PAST five years, as a
parent in figures showing the life despite the troubled times result of their maintained
amount of business done by Although they were more spending, overall sales in
local retail establishments restrained than usual in their Brown County's retail stores
Their sales in the past year spending, because of the higher rose from $48,484, 000 to a total
were 19 5 percent higher than cost of living and the unsettling of $57,929,000, the SRDS figures
they were five years ago Much conditions at home and abroad show
of the increase, however, was they did not tighten to the
due to inflation degree that people n other . Almost every branch of
The findings are based upon localities did business shared in the growth
reports released by the Stan- They continued to spend with In the past year local people
dard Kate and Data Service, assurance, feeling that they had See CONSUMER on Page 2A
submit a final report to Sirica they find ” jury to receive evidence from
shortly after the first of the ...... the special prosecutor's staff
vear Buzhardt had testified that he
was able to nearly duplicate the The new 23-member grand
Then they plan to examine the two tones heard during the UE jury would begin work Jan 7,
other subpoenaed tapes to minute segment by running a and take some of the load from
determine if any have been tape through Miss Woods the panel created last Aug. 13.
tampered with machine with the record button to hear evidence in all Water-
depressed and her high in- gate cases except the June 17,
Buzhardt, who was in the tensity lamp and electric type- 1972. break-in and subsequent
courtroom when Sirica an- writer turned on cover-up attempt
Ten Cents Daily Twenty Cents Sunday
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program at BHS
See picture* ea page IB Donnie Lappe, Ronnie Lappe,
Twenty-nine new members David Perkins, Alice Perry,
were inducted into the Cindy Sams. Brian Sayers,
State police said the drivers nical experts told U.S. District
tried to convince other drivers Judge John J Sirica Today
using the highway to stop haul- neither the high intensity lamp
ing shrimp from the Valley but nor the electric typewriter was
none joined in the park-in a likely cause of the 18-minute
Officers said there were no buzz" found on one of the
law violations connected with subpoenaed Watergate tapes
Consumer spending shows
healthy increase in Brown
Brown County s economy has covering the five-year period jobs they could count on, in-
chalked up significant gains in comes that were steadily rising
the last few years, exceeding THE MAJOR credit for the and a future that was protected
the advances reported for many strong local showing is at- by pensions health insurance
****** But in explaining the gasoline
22:-. cutbacks Wednesday, the ener-
' 1 - i ' * gy office kept falling over itself
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