Brownwood Bulletin (Newspaper) - August 21, 1975, Brownwood, Texas liar Three alleged oil scheme i S j at BOTTOM RUNG It looks like womens lib may have the best of this young David at the moment as he is topped by three left to right Julie Dehn and Amy daughters of Gene and Pam He is the son of David and Norma Bulletin Photo gas lead surge in consumer prices By ROBERT DOBKIN WASHINGTON ing prices for gasoline and used cars pushed consumer prices up per cent in the biggest monthly rise in in this the govern ment reported Computed annually at per the inflation rate is the first in double figures since last Sep Last months increase com pared with a rise of of a per cent in providing further evidence that inflation pressure remains a serious problem for the economy as it recovers from its worst recession since the In consumer At the said food merit reported that the nations prices rose per cent in the biggest increase since a 2 per cent jump in August Gasoline prices jumped per cent and used cars were up nearly 4 per Officials said these increases accounted for threefourths of the July in Agriculture Sec Earl Bute said retail food prices this year could av around 9 per cent above last years That range would be in the middle of the total economic output showed its sharpest Improvement in four years at in that the economy is snapping back from recession more strongly than adminis tration officials had The Commerce Department said its revised estimates of the Gross National Product showed a growth in volume of per cent at an annual rate in the three months ended in The departments initial esti mate last month had forecast a decline of of one per cent at an annual Americas Viking ship streaks toward Mars AP Americas Diking spaceship zipped across orbit of the moon today on a flight designed to determine if there is life on the planet A Titan Centaur rocket launched the Viking on its 303 day chase around the sun at and the letter perfect performance of the spaceship spread smiles across faces of space officials who Chad scowled through two blastoff delays last the spacecraft was fired into a parking orbit 105 miles above earth so scientists could position the ship for in sertion into a 30 minutes er rocket blast sent the Viking streaking toward Mars at miles an hour a soft landing in time for the centennial Its really good to have a smile on my said John the National Aeronaut ics and Space Administrations director for launch It was a The Titan Centaur launch ve hide forced the first delay on 11 when a guidance control valve in the first stage James project man ager for the and other space officials have yet to offer a definite cause for the second an errant switch that drained two bat teries in the orbiter half of the A sister craft is to be launched Martin said officials were considering a long correction next Wednesday to improve shrinking chances for a landing on Mars July the 200th anniversary of Amerk can departments worst case pro jections early last May when the growing season The Federal Trade Commis sion said a special analysis of bread and beer costs found no evidence of prof Frederic director of the commissions Bureau of said price increase In those four sec tors of the food industry did not keep pace with rising costs over the last four Scherer said he was unable to find the middleman who must be contributing to higher food but that farmers and manufacturers apparently are not Ford administration econo mists have been bracing con sumers to expect a sharp in crease in the inflation but they contend it will be only temporary and not foreshadow a return to the sustained double digit inflation that prevailed of Tat APj met ten ifl jiti hoe day in connection with that au called a massive theft of crude oil by a suspected in gang of Arrest wart ants have been is sued for at least three other the and the Texas Railroad Commission are conducting the investigation along with sheriffs depart ments ifl Taylor and Jones A source close to the investi gation said thousands of battels ot crude oil were stolen from tank farms throughout West Central Texas and trucked to a Texas City refinery where It Was refined as Jailed here were Dennis of Abilene Clinton of Houston and Jackie of Davis and Wilkerson were each charged with two counts of theft and were being held under Clough was held under bond on the same Runnels county Deputy ny Wilson said he became sus 12 of an oil tank truck here which bore the sign of a Houston An investigation led to arrest and jailing of the trio last Warrants were sued for three other Roy chief of field op for the Texas Railroad regulates petroleum activities in the he hoped to get the state attorney general involved through a conference with him Payne said the alleged scheme might cross state We have information to the ef fect that they are based in Louisiana but we dont have definite Payne In my personal opinion it is a syndicate formed Specifically for the purpose of oil he As Payne described the al ring operated this way Spotters in the West Central Texas area around Abilene watched for on leases with full tanks of When they found they told a trucker who would go in between 2 and 4 and load trucks from the full tanks on the the truckers would drive the oil to Southeast selling much of it to city ing Since documentation is re an independent oil oper ator whom Payne declined to identify supplied papers saying the oil came from wells on his leases in East Payne said it appears that Texas City Refining has been an unwitting purchaser of stolen Payne said he does not See THREE on Page 2A Bulletin Today Two Dally Sunday Twentyfive Security tight for By BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM tary of State Henry Kissinger flew into Israel today on the first stop of his new Middle East peace quest amid the heaviest security ever accorded a visiting The big Air Force jetliner touched down at Ben Gurion International Hours Jerusalem police said they had nipped a sus assassination plot aimed at Police detained one ed for another sources Border other soldiers and international Airport long before Kissinger Officials said security was tighter than when former President Richard Nixon visited Israel in The Israeli governments concern for safety was heightened by the of three Arab guerrillas near the Lebanese border Wednesday and angry demonstrations in Jerusalem and Israeli planes flew deep into Lebanese air space Wednesday to attack a Palestinian guerrilla base in northeast Lebanon in retaliation for the abortive guerrilla Israels ambassador to Simcha arrived in advance of Kissinger and said a new accord was certainly not In the bag He skid a number of major points require but much progress had been made toward Former Defense Minister Moshe who was on the same plane with reiterated his opposition to the proposed agreement as I now know ready for partial of Cuban ban WASHINGTON AP United States will announce to day a partial lifting of the American economic embargo against State Depart ment sources The sources said the an will permit Ameri firms operating in third countries to sell goods to Cuba for the first time in well over a The move is more of a gesture toward third countries than toward the sources but they acknowledged it probably will be interpreted as a softening of the American po sition toward the Havana re The decision will not affect twoway trade with which has been banned by law since The State Department has asked Congress not to repeal that reasoning that it should be subject to Report of SF strike SAN AP Leaders of striking police and firemen agreed to a proposed settlement early today after marathon negotiations me by Mayor Joseph But a member of the citys board of supervisors said the mayors announcement was Were the ones who are go ing to have to take the not said Supervisor John striking police and firemen remained on picket lines this Alioto announced acceptance of the proposed strike leaders at a news confer ence about three hours after the supervisors ended their The supervisors lam basted the mayors actions in the pay dispute and appealed to the governor for help from the highway Alioto declined to disclose de tails of the proposal but pre that the board visors would accept the tenta tive But shortly after awakening this said I think his announcement of a tentative proposal is totally Alioto said the tentative set would be offered to members of the Police Officers Fire Fighters Lo cal 798 and the board of super visors at the earliest possible Asked when he thought police and firemen would be back on the Alioto We are going to leave the situation as it is at About 90 per cent of the citys policemen went on strike Monday after supervisors ap proved a oer cent salary in half of what police had seeking the same wage joined the strike Wednesday negotiations with Cuba once bi lateral talks on a normalization of relations Foreign countries have long complained about the restraints on sales to Cuba by American corporations operating within their Argentina and for have argued that the United States has no business trying to regulate the sales of American firms incorporated under the laws of those coun In April the State De in a major departure from previous an it would grant three auto manufacturers in Ar gentina licenses to export ve to Argentina had threatened the corporations with nation unless the deal were allowed to go Early this a similar ex ception was made for a Cana American firm which manufactures office fur Three weeks the Organ ization of American States lifted the 11yearold ban on he trade with the State Depart ment announced its willingness to enter into serious discussions with For its Cuba has made a series of gestures toward none of which V volve the principal issues divid ing the two such as Cuban compensation for billion in nationalized American Cuba has returned million in aircraft hijack ransom mon ey to Southern Airways and has expressed interest in bilateral athletic Since last four members of Congress have visited the first such contacts since Officer among 2 dead in shooting DALLAS AP One police man was shot to death and an other wounded seriously today during an investigation and high speed chase that resulted in the shooting death of another officers Officers said two policemen appeared at a South Dallas gas station at midmorning where the gunfire killing one patrolman His partner was stomach but man aged to radio for a police spokesman A hell of a lot of people re to the call and gave the spokesman A white Cadillac was chased into far South Dallas where the driver was shot to the spokesman McCain named chief at Bongs Darrell Brownwood city police has been appointed new police chief of His selection came Wednesday at a meeting of the city who has been a police officer for 26 was selected from 26 applicants from various parts of the Married and now living in he assumes the new post on A car and equipment has already been furnished for the filling of the position necessitated by growing burglaries in the INDIAN CREEK City firm low bidder on project The Consumer Price Index stood at last per cent higher than a year That meant It cost buy a variety of goods and services which could have been purr chased for in the 1967 base BROWNWOOD AREA Mostly fair through Friday with little change in Low tonight in the high Friday in the Maximum temperature here Wednesday night low Sunset today sunrise Friday Brocksch Construction of Brownwood was the apparent low bidder here Wednesday for rebuilding Indian Creek The firms bid was for total new construction of Indian Creek from Austin to Stephen Work will include curb and storm drain and a pedestrian walk on the west side from Broadmoor to The bid calls for work to take 180 calendar days after it New storm sewers have already been installed in the Bids by Brocksch and three others firms are currently being studied by Forrest and the citys consulting engineering with a recommendation of which to accept to be made at next Tuesdays city council Show goes on But what show Staff Writer in Theater will be open for busings as usual tonight but the theaters management was not sure this morning what film will be screened police confiscated the controversial movie Peep at ths theater Wed Theater Ralph this That remains to be seen if the same movie will be shown The which carries an X meaning that no one under 18 is was being shown for the sewd It was originally to be screened for a week but was retained by the management for a further Wlule was being shown Wednesday night Coleman acting under a warrant reported by Coleman of the Peace Walter entered the theater and seized the It was The movie was on at the ehM Soyd MjMH we did not have any difficulty in confiscating chief reporter to the county sheriffs when Sheriff Chapman was contacted be said he was on vacation sad Knew little about the not handled by he Perhaps my Father that Q was this Other bids opened Wednesday afternoon included Abilene Paving Pioneer Construction of and SeWel Con struction of San City Manager Harry Miller said he is highly pleased with the which were in line with estimates for Work will be financed by funds from a 1973 bond election which voters approved to finance street is currently being for widening Coggin and the extension Cordell currently in the design TUey are two of the other three project designated Iw taJ The opening a street from the to Uve Fort Worth will in Highway Depi The ol that project In addition to total recon struction of Indian Creek under the project for which bids were opened in at both ends will be completely redesigned One intersection will be a threeway project involving Indian Stephen Austin and Enrollment mark Registration figures far Brownwood Public Schools shew an increase of U student over yesterdays tote of making todays figure of still than laat pars first day total of Officials believe that toe in students may bj to schools of the U with the total
