Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 75, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1976 Page: 1 of 28
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28 Pages in 2 Sections
Delivering
a message
for Ford
Former Gov John Connally said .
Wednesday— in Denton that j
President Ford will win the race
for president because Americans
trust him and aren’t sure about
challenger Jimmy Carter
Appearing at a Republican rally on
behalf of the Texans For Ford
organization, Connally said it will
be a national disgrace if Texas
doesn t go for Ford
State Photo By JIM MAHONEY
Connally declares trust in Ford
CryKERTOY GUNNELS President Ford is Tor less federal
Former Gov. John Connally says
President Ford will be elected Tuesday —
because he is known and trusted by the
American people and Democrat Jimmy
Carter is not. *
"That will be the major factor,”
Connally said Wednesday during a brief
stop in Denton on a statewide campaign
swing designed to put Texas in the Ford
column Nov. 2.
Despite the cold and blustery
weather, more than 400 people gathered
on the courthouse square to hear
Connally urge Texans to vote for the
President. 1— •
“IT M ILL be a national disgrace if
Texas doesn't go for Ford,” he told the
shivering crowd, “because he supports
everything we believe in.”
"President Ford is for less govern-
ment while Gov. Carter is for more
Democrat wars?
‘never said it,’
remembers Dole
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Aides to
Sen. Bob Dole say the Republican
vice presidential candidate has
suffered a lapse of memory and
can’t remember telling a national
television audience that this cen-
tury's wars were "Democrat wars."
Dole aides said Wednesday that,
despite his use of the phrase as
recently as Monday, the candidate
has no recollection of using the term
during his nationally televised
debate with Democratic candidate
Walter Mondale 10 days ago. .
The Republican vice presidential
candidate reportedly had been
under pressure from GOP leaders to
back off the “Democrat war”
remark, which aides privately said
was hurting the campaign.
So w hen the subject came up again
in Troy, Ohio, on Tuesday, Dole said,
"No. 1 don't believe” that either
World War II or Vietnam were
partisan wars.
It was a clear retreat from- his
characterization of these wars in his
televised campaign debate as
"Democrat wars.”
But Dole denied that he had
reversed his position, saying he only-
brought up the subject in Troy
because “I didn't want the media to
be confused. ”
He was then asked. “Are you still
calling them Democrat wars?"
"Never did,” Dole responded.
Dole’s press secretary, Larry
Speakes, later said Dole "did not
recall that specific quote from the
debate.”
Speakes said a partial debate
transcript, including the two
references Dole made to "Democrat
wars," was shown to Dole on his
campaign jet Wednesday but the
candidate still could not recall, the
words. 4
Actually, Dole used that phrase
twice during the debate.
During the debate, Dole claimed
Watergate is “not a very good issue
any more than the war in Vietnam
would be or World War II or World
War I or the war in Korea, all Demo-
crat wars, all in this century.”
spending while Gov. Carter is for more
President Ford is for more freedom
for the individual to govern his own life
while Gov Carter and Sen .Mondale
think they are the seat of all wisdom in
Washington. Connally said in ringing
tones.
Connally's reception by the crowd
was in direct contrast to the weather
The former governor responded with a
brief but impassioned comments about
the presidential race
Contrasting the positions taken by the
candidates, Connally said the choice for
Texas voters is clear:
"PRESIDENT FORD is on the right
side of the issues which concern Texas
while Gov. Carter is on the wrong side.”
Carters proposal to slice $7 billion
from the defense budget would require
the closing of military bases in Texas.
Connally sa'id. and would "cut into the
D 1 91 T.
liecluse s love may live for orphans
Kids could benefit from dead man s estate
DALLAS (AP) — Two young Dallas
children who became orphans when
their parents were murdered may
benefit from the generosity of Elia
Gervetch, a recluse emigre who died
with money but without a family.
Gervetch died Nov. 9. 1975, at the age
of 80, a lonely man who had come to the
United States from Russia and lived
here without family, relatives or
friends.
But, as he neared death, Gervetch
stipulated that his estate go to a
organization to help the blind and to two
orphan chidren
Although a final decision has not been
made, trustees of the Gervetch estate
at Republic National Bank of Dallas
said the children will be Billy Locklear,
3, and Mary Ann Locklear, 2, currently
in the custody of relatives.
Bugliosi depicts
6 ,
evil con man
Mass murderer Charles Manson was
an “evil, sophisticated con man” who
held a powerful psychological control
over his followers much like that Adoph
Hitler held over the German people
prior to and during World War II.
That's the assessment of the man who
put Manson and four other members of
his “family" behind bars for the Tate-
LaBianca murders.
"If someone had written a fictional
scenario” about Manson's followers
and the murders they committed for
him, "it would not have been believable
fiction," says former Los Angeles
prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, now in
private practice,
I WAS Bugliosi who headed up the
prosecution team that eventually won
capital murder convictions of Manson,
three women followers and Charles
"Tex" Watson.
Although originally sentenced to die,
all five were given life prison sentences
when the Supreme Court struck down
the death penalty in 1972
Bugliosi, who has written a best-
real muscle, ot the country's defense right -to work state -
strength —
We can’t afford to be secondlbest to CONNALLY. Milo served as
anyone, he said "And under Ford, we secretary of the treasury under
won’t ho *411901UOC F
President Nixon, also had strong words
for the Democratic vice presidential
candidate |
Connally spoke harshly of what he
called Mondales “crocodile tears
Connally also attacked Carter's
proposal to break up the large oil
companies, stating that there is no oil
monopoly in the United States
The Democratic candidate's move to
dismember the oil companies" is
nothing more than an attempt to
nationalize the oil industry. Connally
said "That's what’s really behind it.”
he added
"It we lose the strength of the oil and
gas industry in Texas, we re looking at
a state income tax. That s what it
means to Texas," he said
Carter's support of a law which would
strike down state right-to-work statutes
also makes him unpalatable to Texans.
Connally said, adding that there is no
'substantial unemployment in anv
Billy and Mary Ann were found by
authorities in the children's ransacked
home surviving on breadcrumbs and
keeping a grim watch over the bodies of
their slain parents, Billy and Hazel,
who had been killed three days earlier,
on June 12.
Two men have been charged since in
the Locklear killing
The two children were placed in the
custody of David Bassey of Salado,
their father's half-brother , Gervetch was a retired telephone
A final decision on permanent . linesman who worked hard, practiced
custody is expected in December
Frank Haughton, a trust officer at the
Dallas bank said bank officials have
talked to the Bassey family and have
met the two Locklear children
"I believe if old Mr Gervetch could
see Billy and Mary Ann getting his
selling book about his handling of the
Manson case, spoke to about 1,000
persons Wednesday at North Texas
State University’s Main Auditorium
In the world in which he moved,”
Manson was adept at attracting
followers and eminently successful in
exerting control over them, Bugliosi
said. ‘6
THE MOST important factor in
understanding Charles Manson is "the
power of (his) personality," he said
The "seething discontent" of the
1960s — the racial turmoil, the
disillusioned and alienated youth and
the divisive nature of the Vietnam H'ar
- provided “fertile soil" in which
Manson could operate, he said.
And while he said he considers
Manson an aberration,” Bugliosi
maintains, ‘The times were right ° *
Manson used techniques other than
dominating personality in gaining
control over his subjects, said Bugliosi,
whose prosecution of the case required
See MANSON. Page 2A
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murder trials, spoke to an audience of around 1,000 followers to kill
over unemployment and inflation
Staling that Mondale "votes for every
spending bill that comes along,
Connally added "He's part of the
problem, he’s not part of the answer "
"If he really wants to make a con
tribution, he could resign his seat in the
U S Senate." Connally said
Connally discounted any role he
might play in a Ford administration if
the President wins Tuesday
Asked if he is being considered for a
Cabinet post, Connally grinned
"Good heavens, no If I thought that.
I’d be out campaigning for Carter
money, he would be smiling." Haugton
said
O’Brien declined to disclose the
amount of the trust, but said it was
enough to “enable them to get an
education"
"It will not make them rich," he said
O’Brien said Gervetch "told me all
his relatives and friends had been
killed, either in the pogroms against the
Jews in Russia or by the Germans
Gervetch was a
thrift and invested wisely according to
those who knew him. He often walked
around with a brown paper bag which
sometimes contained his stocks and
bonds.
Haughton said that from Gervetch’s
appearance "you might have thought
he was a pauper. "
good afternoon
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DENTON AND VICINITY
Cloudy and continued cold
through Friday Rain in
creasing tonight and Friday
with a few thundershowers
L ows tonight in 40s High
Friday lower 50s to lower 60s
WEATHER REPORT
Low This Morning 41
High Wednesday 55
Low Wednesday 49
High Last Year 83
Low Last Year 65
The sun sets today at 6 47,
" rises Friday at 7 47
RAINFALL
Last 24 Hours
Total For Month
Total For Year
Normal For Month
Last Year To Date
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2.25
31.12
1.90
10 06
Friday is your last chance
to cast that absentee ballot
It you aren’t going to be in Denton
County next Tuesday, you have only
one more day to vote absentee for
the general election
Absentee polls at the county
courthouse close at 5 pm Friday
They have already been doing a
booming business, according to
county clerk Mary Jo Hill
Total votes at the polls through
Wednesday was 831, she said
Thursday morning, and 240 absentee
ballots have been returned by mail
Our readers say!
The issue before the next IS Congress
which poses the greatest threat to our Texas
economy is the proposed repeal of federal
right to work laws "
—RAY VAX BUSKIRK
Letters To The Editor, Pg. 4A
Inside Today
1 JU HY deliberated less than three hours
Wednesday before finding Benny Ray Miller
not gutity on three counts of rape Story Page
2A
CONGRESSMAN Ray Roberts officially
dedicated the Joseph A Carroll Courts
Building to the citizens and future citizens of
Denton County." Wednesday Story and
picture. Page 5A.
BRONCO Gary Neu says playing center
isn’t all that bad. Sports Page IB
Mail in absentee ballots must be
received by the county clerk's office
by 7 pm on election day-
Just being out of town is not the
'only eligibility requirement for
■absentee voting Anyone over 65
years old can choose to vote ab-
sentee rather than go to the polls on
election day, and anyone who cannot
go to the polls because of illness ot
physical incapacitation is eligible if
the illness is confirmed by a medical
certificate.
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