Brownwood Bulletin (Newspaper) - March 8, 1976, Brownwood, Texas Reagan battles to refuel challenge hailed by fellow MIAMI AP Republican Challenger Ronald wrapping up a Florida presi primary campaign he said is building a real head of accused President Ford today of yielding to elec tion year pressure to perk up the The former California gover nor was making a swing in the state before flying to to hunt votes in that states March 16 Reagan told a Miami news conference he does not expect to lose in Tuesdays GOP bal but if it should itll be a close race and I dont think it will make any differ ence in the competition for the Republican presidential nomi GOOD AFTERNOON WASHINGTON AP Wright dean of the House of Represen who spent much of his 47 years in the chamber battling big banks and is dead after being stricken with the Rains which dampened were welcome but not enough to dent the drought gripping the See page MIAMI AP Ronald battling to refuel his Republican challenge to President is winding up his Florida presidential primary campaign with assertions that signs of an economic upturn may be only the calm before a new storm of unemployment and Howard Payne faces Fairmont tonight in the opening round of the national NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas See page WASHINGTON AP Social Security the Federal Election Commission and the leak of the secret House intelligence report are among the topics up for congressional con sideration this The bicentennial and hospital care are among items on the minds of letters to the editor writers See page Stuart Coleman is the new president of the Brownwood Chamber of See page Final approval of a new subdivision 5 miles west of Brownwood was given by Brown County com missioners this SAN FRANCISCO AP A psychiatric expert who has disputed Patricia claim that she helped rob a bank under fear of death was scheduled to return to the witness stand The Weather Showers ending warmer Coleman new cc president Stuart longtime Brownwood civic leader and owner of Coleman Distributing was elected new president of the Brownwood Chamber of Commerce at the chambers March board meeting He and other new officers elected at the luncheon meeting will formally take office at the annual Brownwood Chamber of Commerce membership dinner I April 1 in the Coleman will succeed Fred Elected first vice president was president of Citizens National Perry second vice president under the local chambers by Named was Bray ton Smith and Raymond Beck was reelected executive vice new i directors of the chamber joined board members for todays i New directors include Doyle Roy Don Johnson and Wayne They will also formally assume directorship duties at the CC dinner April Directors whose term expires this year Include Ben Harold steve and Gene Reagan said that whatever happens in the primaries he has no intention of dropping his challenge to Ford unless and until the President has enough committed votes to win the He said he doesnt expect that to happen before Republicans convene in Kansas City on The final fight will be waged on the convention Reagan On the Reagan said he is not questioning the figures that show a decline in unem ployment and in the rate of in But he They are the artificial lants to the He said that the Democratic Congress is basically to but he also said that Ford is not doing enough to stop Reagan once again cited the experience of the last presiden tial campaign when the econo my improved during the politi cal year and then soured after the I think both in the case of President he yielded to the pressure and I think President Ford has yielded to the Reagan But he provided no When asked for a of par Demos to meet in Houston By LEE JONES Associated Press Writer AUSTIN AP The State Democratic Executive Com today selected Houston as the site of the partys June 18 19 state The committee ruled out Fort Worth for that convention but tentatively designated Fort Worth for the 1718 gov convention if adequate accommodations are Fort Worth had been the ten choice for the June con at which the party del to the national con vention will be but it was learned that the accom would not be avail able at that Delegates from Corpus Christ sought to have the Sep tember convention hi their Committeewoman Clotilde Gar ia said the party had neglected South Texas in choosing con tention sites and in making its Remember the poor people if Corpus Duv and San Diego have managed to travel at sacrifice to other Reagan replied In most of the programs that have been adopted there has been no real effort to control inflation by curbing the size of Reagan said the President should put himself in an ad position and go over the head of Congress to appeal to the American people for action to control cut the deficit and thus fight Democrats Jimmy Henry Jackson and George Wallace also were at their campaign tasks the eve of the years fourth presidential primary By The Associated Press Wright who spent 48 years away from Texas fighting big banks and special interests in the House of Represen has come home to The 82yearold dean of the died Sunday in Washington of His body was flown home to Texarkana for Patman was hailed by fellow Texas congressmen as a list and one of the finest Southern gentlemen who ever served in Democratic Jim Wright of Fort Worth said Patman never hesitated to take an un popular stand if he believed it was Long before todays self proclaimed consumer ad were Patman was in Congress waging a lonely but effective fight against those who would exploit his fellow citizens of modest Wright said Patman earned himself a place forever in the hearts of plain people who be as he that you dont have to be wealthy or influential to be entitled to an even break in Dolph Briscoe called Patman a fierce advocate of the people who fought the special denounced bigotry in any form and became the respected spokesman of workers and farmers throughout the The last of the oldtime pop a great public servant and a good and beloved his passing leaves a void that will never be Briscoe Lloyd who served with Patman in the House in the late 1940s and early called an in in serving his his and his country for more than 53 years in the tradition of the early day Congressman Patman was a man of great vigor and integrity and he will be Bentsen Dale of Grand a said Pat man will take his place as one of the great legislators in Texas along with former House Speaker Sem and will be marked as great for a different Patman was a And you know another word for populist is He believed in representing the views of his And he did so for a record length of time in the Hell be Milford said in a Jim Collins of a said he never agreed with Patman on many We usually saw things See PATMAN on Page 2 Brownwood Bulletin Twelve Pages Today Texas March Volume 76 No 122 10 Dally Sunday 25 BUSY SPOT A bulletin board at the foot of the stairs at the Brown County Courthouse is a busy spot all during the Notices of announcements and other public in formation is tacked on the board almost every The notices are changed daily to conform with the Bulletin Photo Welcome rains expected to move out of area today GOPs unload on Congress AUSTIN AP Former Texas John Connally called on Texas Republicans to day to advocate that no mem bers of Congress be eligible to run for president unless they resign their congressional The proposal was one of sev eral the former Democrat made to the State Republican Executive Committee at a regular meeting He was interrupted numerous times by loud and long This is the worst Congress In my said The American people know something is I think what we need is a new relation ship between business and gov and the Republicans need to advocate Connally repeated his recom that the president should serve one that senators should be limited to two and House members should serve a maximum of three four year I am also against federally financed he said amid loud car plows STUART COLEMAN president Holdover directors include Marion Baugh Joe Bob George Andy Bert Ernest Jesse Richard Brayton Smith and Melvin Coleman is a member of the Brown County Water Improvement District 1 board of and a director of Southwest State He is chairman of the Brownwood airport has been active In the Brownwood Industrial and is a past president of Wholesale Beer Distributors The committee over rejected a resolu tion urging the legislature to act in the prevention of crime by enacting bills to be recom mended later by Dolph Texas John Hill and House Speaker The resolution was tabled on a motion of Ron Waters of who As a mem ber of the legislature I dont get too much initiative out of this In the housekeeping business for which todays meeting was mandated by state the decided to meet May 6 to canvass results of the May 1 Democratic It also certified the official ballot for the General showers pelted Mid Texas Sunday and this bringing welcome moisture which was still nowhere near enough to break a drought which extends back to last Forecasters said this merning the showers and thun should gradually end from the west later giving way to decreasing cloudiness this afternoon and By Tuesday the area should be partly cloudy and a little the National Weather Service Rainfall ranged up to 1 inches at Richland Springs and most area points got at least a half inch from showers which began Comanche recorded of an inch and De Leon had of an Some thunderstorms roamed the area Sunday along with the which at times were heavy for short Brownwood collected of an inch over the weekend from off showers up until noon Other totals included at of an inch at and at BROWNWOOD AREA Scattered thunderstorms gradually ending from west this afternoon and tonight with decreasing Partly cloudy and a little warmer Low tonight in the high Tuesday near Maximum temperature here Sunday overnight low Sunset today sunrise Tuesday Oilmen negotiating Saudi takeover PANAMA Top executives of four Ameri can oil companies and Saudi Arabian OH Minister Sheik Ah mid stayed secluded today at a beachside sort negotiating Saudi Arabias takeover of the giant about the whole were taken Including and three persons United States of America people were have slip around in a The state said He said which helped arrange security even police were Kept in the confirmed that dark when the private Yamani game here for an security force defended on Aramco meeting with officials city four days of Exxon and i concern this small Florida about a terrorist attack like the in pije jn during a Panama Sily feff The Panama City meeting was a continuation Sf hat began at an to Bast The 100 per cent acquisition of Aramco would climax a process begun in 1973 when the Saudi bought per cent of the It would also symbolise historic shift power from the owned to the third world oil rV Yamani hap said that the takeover date will be retro active to Aramco produces mately million barrels a only slightly less than the production of the worlds top two producing the Soviet union and the United The United States gets about barrels of oil a day from Low temperatures in are expected to be in the 40s again tonight but Tuesday highs are expected to near the 70 It was 43 here this morning after the Sunday af high reached only Extended forecasts issued today say there may be another chance for showers and look for cooler weather about Snow fell today over the Pan handle and South Plains of Texas while other sections of the state re welcome rain with al most 2 inches drenching Texar kana and inches at Wichita A flash flood watch was is sued for Southeast Some flooding was reported in the states northeast During the morning the South Plains community of Edmonson reported 6 inches of and the big flakes were still had about 2 Inches of snow and was blan with an inch in one enforcement officers warned motorists in Northwest Texas to drive with care as streets and highways were slick and visibility reduced to less than half a The band of showers and thunderstorms embraced most of Texas with Hie heaviest rain fall iii the eastern Tyjer M M Dallas M and Worth into crowd of youths MARIA Ohio AP A car plowed into about 50 high school pupils standing at a rural intersection Sunday night after they halted their car caravan on the way to a Eight of them and four others were authorities The young pupils at the high school in the small town of six miles from the accident apparently were trying to figure out how to get to the officials John com mander of the highway patrol post at nearby gave this account The traveling in nine were standing on the roadway when a coming from the opposite went through a stop crossed the side swiped the first of their vehicles and then ran into The patrol identified the driv er of the car that struck them as John of Maria Schlosser said Cremer was slightly but did not require No charges have been filed in the accident which is still under in the patrol The Carousel where the teenagers were is about six miles west of the intersection of Fort Re Road and Rol fes Road where the accident oc The Intersection Is a half mile off Ohio Route 716 and the highway patrol said it is unclear why the young people had stopped New violence erupts In Spains Basque region AP Civil the Basque industrial city of guards opened fire on last strating workers who refused to disperse in Spains tense Bas que region hitting one in the head and seriously wound ing Bilbao police Police and workers also for labor ahead in the elty of First accounts from labor sources esti mated nearly half persons were on More than were Idle it miles north of Bll and several police wen reported injury strike made cathedral neral A Federal Energy M w n HUTI ar that at an Ararat Baud chairman Frank to Pallas reported w tnn ootA rtn in Scores pf state this was the date tentatively v traffic night with 31 persons
