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2-VERNON DAILY RECORD. Vernon, Texas, May 19.1975 Legislature Opens Crucial Last Weeks AUSTIN. Tex (APi The 64th legislature began its cru cial final two weeks today with the House trying to decide how much the state should spend the next two years The Senate recessed Friday lor the weekend hut House members continued work Satur day. when it adopted, 27. and sent to the Senate a bill that would create a statewide utili tics regulatory commission Court ontinuwt I rum Page I) a 'patch work oi and local regulations governing phosphate detergents The Supreme Court said the direct loan of materials and equipment has the primary ef lect of furthering religion in violation of the First Amend merit because the schools which would benefit from it are pre dominantly religious in character Stewart said 75 per cent of the that would qualify lor aid have religious affilia tionS The three judge court held that the portion of the act relat mg to auxiliary services was constitutional because such services are secular and not ideological But the Supreme Court said that the state would have to be come excessively involved in administration of the schools to assure that the counselors and others did nothing to advance the religious mission of the institutions Death Claims Ex-Resident Former Vernon resident James Grimes, 68.

a retired grocer and salesman, died in Johnson Countv Memorial Hospital Cleburne Sunday night Funeral services will be conducted at 30p Tuesday in the Pitts Dillton Funeral Home Chapel in Cleburne and at 4 Tuesday at Laurel Cemetery in Dallas Mr Bryan was born July 19, in Paris, Tex He married the former Nina Keyes oi Vernon Sept 22, 1929 at Antlers. Okla Mr Grimes worked at the old Minarik Grocery, then operated his own store before moving to Dallas more than 30 years ago Surviving are his wife; a son. Jack Grimes, of Austin; and two granddaughters; two brothers. Bill Grimes of Cleburne and Tom Grimes of Patchogue, NY, three sisters, Mrs White and Mrs. Carl Fdmonson of Paris, and Mrs Herman Slaton of Dallas Former Foard Resident Dies CROWELL tSpl.i A Foard County native, John Lewis Hunter Jr 74, died in a Memphis hospital Sunday morning after a lengthy illness Funeral services were con ducted Monday afternoon at the Margaret Methodist Church with Martin of Claude, a former pastor, and Simmons of Crowell officiating, Interment was in Crowell Cemetery under direction of Womack Funeral Home Mr Hunter was born Nov 25.

1900. at Margaret, a son of the late Mr and Mrs Hunter He married the former Florrie Owens in Vernon Feb 4, 1922 They lived in Margaret where he was engaged in farming until 1968 They moved to Sweetwater and then to Gatesville They moved to Turkey. Tex in of 1975 Mr Hunter was member of the Margaret Methodist Church and Woodmen the World Mr Hunter is survived by his wne two sons. Bob Hunter of Sonora and Lewis Hunter of Turkey, two sisters. Mrs Fmnrui Belle Bounds of rowell and Mrs Louise Spotts of Arlington and five grand children 12 Motorists i Twelve motorist' were fined a total of $310 in the Justice of the Peace Courts of Ruth Gobin and Joe Krebs it was reported Monday All of the cases involved speeding violations One motorist paid a $40 fine three were fined $27 50.

two S25 fine- were assessed and six lines of were assessed An amendment to put all telephone rate making in Texas un der the commission was ap proved, 109 10 Other utilities, including electricity and gas, could be regulated by cities that choose to set their own rates The final bill is likely to be written by a House Senate con ference committee and be a compromise between the tough House bill and a weaker Senate bill Friday, the House sent to the Senate, on an 85-57 vote, a revi sion of public school financing laws that some members called a half step in the right direc tion Even the sponsors admit ted the $721 total cost would have to be trimmed by the Sen ate and, probably, by a confer ence committee, to fit the income the next two years Gov. Dolph Briscoe has said he will veto any bill that calls for new taxes, outside the present revenue sources The financing bill includes a $1,400 a month raise for Texas school teachers The bill also provides $75 mil lion in aid" and $37 50 per child for pensatory education for the educationally disadvantaged, It also enlarges the market value of the economic index used for apportioning state aid from the present eight per cent to 50 per cent, with the rest of the index depending on income within a county. MARKETS NEW YORK (AP) The stock market sustained another broad loss today in another ses sion given over largely to profit taking The noon Dow Jones average of 30 industrials was down 7 98 at 829 63 after a drop of more than 21 points Thursday and Friday Losers outpaced gainers by better than a 2 1 margin on the New York Stock Ex change Brokers said it appeared the decline was engendered more by technical forces within the market after its rally of the past five months than by any immediate news developments Trading volume was light Alcan Aluminium led to NYSE's most-active list, off at 20 A 124,900 share block crossed the tape at On the American Stock Exchange. the market value index slipped 07 to 87 04 Sears, Roebuck dropped to 671 The company reported sharply lower earnings for the quarter ended April 30 Chair man Arthur Wood said con sumer demand had been firm mg in recent weeks, however HICAOO CiR CHICAGO AP) Wheat No 2 soft red 3.24'-n Monday. No 2 hard winter 3.20'-n Corn No 2 yellow 2 72lm 2.79:i4n i Oats No 2 extra heavy white 1 86n Soybeans No 1 yellow 5.22n No 2 yellow corn Friday sold at 2.741 -n 2 811 thop per! FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK FORT WORTH Tex (AP) Cattle ana calves 3500 Early saies slaughter cows 50 I 00 lower slaughter slaughter Dulis ana slaughter calves ana yearlings not well testea early, limited early sales teeder steers ana Dulls aoout steady tee aer heiters weak 'o 1 00 lower Receipts included about 20 per cent slaughter cows near 10 per cent slaughter calves and yearlings balance mainly good and choice 350 650 feeder cattle and calves Demand moderate tor heavy receipts Slaughter cows Utility 20 23 00 few lots hign yielding on heiferette order 25 40 25 75, cutter 18 00 21 10 Slaughter bulls Pew small lots yield grade 2 1200 IDs 23 00 24 00 Slaughter calves and yearlings Few lots good 340 425 ids 26 10 26 50 Feeders Couple lots cho.ce 350 475 lb steers 31 00 31 75 good 350 600 lbs 25 00 28 2 5 Few choice 300 400 ibs heiters 24 10 25 60.

good 400 500 ids 19 00 10 Hogs 100G barrows and gilts 25 50 higher, 200 240 lbs 45 50 46 00 190 250 lbs 45 00 45 50 220 260 Ibs 44 50 45 00 Sows I 00 h.gher 325 600 IDS 19 00 40 00, 375 550 tbs 36 00 38 50 Boars 300 550 ibs 32 00 200 275 lbs 37 00 40 00 Feeder pits 47 ibs 50 00 Sheep 50, ots choice some prime 75 85 'O ng slaughter larnbs 46 00 47 00 YORK COTTON NE A A NO 'j'd opened 12 00 to 13 35 than previous close 2 cotton lu I lower Prev Close Open Ju 1 00 fj 55 45 Oct 12 40 45 47 10 25 50 VS 50 Oct tjV) 10 65 I ri Or 1 1le Wright a de the turn with an airplane Sept r. jive days later his brother Wilbur made the first ornplete circle 16 Bomb Incidents Reported in Israel WHO AT named to honors at Crowell High School are pictured above. From left are, front row, Rita Hodges, English; Sulema Santos. Spanish; Jill Myers, math; Ruth Stone, social studies; and Jacquelyn Brown, home economics; back row, Mien Tapp, Bookkeeping; Arthur Cerda, band; Kim Norman, typing; Hal Williams, vocational agriculture; and Steve Stapp, science. Vast Fascist Organization Is Reported LISBON, Portugal (AP) leftist military rul ers announced today they have uncovered a fascist or with foreign links and cells in the Portuguese armed forces.

The announcement came the day after an angry crowd of leftist demonstrators besieged the U.S Embassy for several hours The demonstrators roughed up an American secur ity officer and daubed the building with red swastikas and the slogan to the CIA There were also reports that the radical military leftists who have the upper hand in the gov ernment were planning to com plete the purge of moderates from positions of authority. A communique from the 5th Psychological War fare Division said the fascist organization was implicated in the unsuccessful March 11 rightist counter-coup by sup porters of ex-President Antonio de Spinola and was linked with foreign agencies and small cells in some military units It called on the armed forces and the populace to be on guard against counter-revolutionary attempts and warned that common enemy is capitalism in all its forms A military spokesman con firmed that a number of "fas were being held prisoner in the headquarters of the 1st Light Artillery Regiment, a unit dominated by extreme left ists whose barracks was at tacked by an air force plane during the March coup attempt Informed sources said the chief target of the leftist radi cats is the military president, Gen Francisco da osta Gomes According to one version circu lating in Lisbon, the radicals are trying to erase the results of the April 25 constitutional as sembly elections in which two moderate parties, the Socialists and the Popular Democrats, won about two thirds of the vote Hosf) ita I Hriefs Visiting hours; 2 p. m. to 3 p. and 6 p.

in. to p. no children under It admitted on nursing floors.) Mrs. Otis Piper Ernest Jackson Rosalanda DeHoyos Dwight Earl Wilson Mrs Eloise Turkett Mrs. Vicente Ramirez Mrs Rufus Martinez Pan- Mrs Alfred Doherty Mrs Velma Scales Mrs Kandy Kagan Births: Mr and Mrs, Kufus Martinez, a son Mr and Mrs Vincente Ramirez, a daughter Mr and Mrs Otis Piper, a son Dismissals; Mrs Pearl Johnson Mrs Pace Guy Barry Mrs Pearl Ros bo rough Earle Norwood Mrs Joe Trout and daughter Mrs Juan Martinez Mrs Elias Villarreal Robert Collins Mrs Randle Shirley David Shipman Mrs Reeder Feemster Roy Elkins Errin Dixon Mrs Jessie Wall James II Stevens Mr Vicente Karnirez and daughter THE VEKNON DAILY RECORD 287 Crash Fatal Congress Fared By Major Hills WASHINGTON Major bills on weapons spending and the energy crisis are before Congress this week and the Senate plans to begin a on defense and foreign policy The Senate today was i ring i Ford's request that Congress lift ds cutoff of 1 military aid to Turkey Congress cut off the aid effective last Feb 5 because of oc cupation of Cyprus, but Ford contends resumption of the aid is needed to tiring hope of renewed Cyprus peace negotiations.

Kissinger Ready 1 fi 1 oChange Position VIENNA (AP) Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger at his meeting today with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko is willing to consider a compromise of one of the key S. positions in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, a sen ior American official told ew men acco mpan Kissinger willing to modify his position on verification procedures in hopes of getting a nuclear arms limi tation treaty in time for the next Soviet American summit meeting, now scheduled for next fall The official said that there have been indications that Mos Town Crier LAI DE Tex Haliti 4 5 Killed to da, AP of Billy Mesquite i fc QUILUN PfMidtnt PuftlitM' htCHOt-J. -OKUN 9 tr mormnj 15J-, Ttut -a 2 Act ot Mirck 1. TM to 4M I I I of thl Ofhtrw.M (OV.f. Of, 1 M7 iUSSCmeTlOH UATtS Otlmtrn rw VV Ctftit.

mt tMWtm Sm muntM it IHM. ft mtmn ft 4 wwiih, mmm v. jftd tovfj injuries (( ontiuued From I fountains at Central, Hawkins, Shive and Vernon in in i a school proposal for public address system at Lion Stadium, and consideration of materials to lit' used in partitions for restrooms at the Intermediate and High School THE COLLEGE calls lor authorization of transfer of $350,000 from maintenance and operation funds to building fund for gymnasium, authorization of permanent markers designating campus buildings by names, faculty load policy. a progress report on proposed gym, a progress report on preparation of annual budget, the business office and president report and personnel recommendations Nine Arrests Are Reported Nine arrests have been made during the past three days by Wilbarger County Sheriff's officers Among those placed in the county jail were four individuals returned here from Stockton, Calif and Shreveport. La David Benjamin Zogg.

17, and Nick Olivas, 18, were returned Saturday from Shreveport, to face burglary charges They are suspects in the burglary of Gun Shop here Tuesday Also returned to Vernon were Richard Dale Johnson and Shirley Johnson They were arrested in Stockton. and Vernon authorities returned them to this city Sunday They had been sought in connection of a burglary in Vernon. All four had already been indicated by a 46th District Court Grand Jury which met May 14 A Vernon man arrested Tuesday and charged with transporting a alcoholic beverage, was fined $154 and released Friday, and another local individual was released on $750 bond after being arrested on a DWI charge A Hi year old Vernon youth picked up at 10 rn Friday and charged with possession of marijuana was released in custody of his father and a 12 year old girl arrested at 1 40 Saturday at was charged with theft under $5.00 released to her father Ari out of state man was arrested Friday at 2 15 rn east of town ori Highway and charged with DWI City Fines Five i individual lined total ol WW in the ity our! of 1 b.ir!ii- Boynton it Morid-av I wo barged theft ijndei (JO were San acid ft- Yf! Vi fi I hi itiUiiVi WALTER BI SS, now an art printer saleman in Columbus, Neb received an unexpected tribute from his former student at St Paul Lutheran School in Vernon That former student is Dentler Erdman recently honored as California of the ear Mr Erdman said, It was in my home town that I met the person who most influenced my life my grade school teacher for eitht consecutive years, Walter taught me to read, to write, and how to do math problems, but mostly he taught me things not found in was the man I was going to be like, he is the reason why 1 am a teacher. This quote was carried in a publication of the Los Angeles City School District Mr Erdman is related to Mrs, Bob Erdman of 1929 Lexington Street THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the Wilbarger County Chapter of the American Red Cross will conduct an important breakfast meeting at 7:30 a m. Friday at the Village Inn Restaurant The chapter's financial problems will be among the items to be discussed, according to Mrs Georgia Mount, executive secretary She says the chapter has fixed expenditures of $0,1 IK and an in come of $5,779.38.

The Chapter is an agency of the Cnited Fund Gary Schur is chairman of the 18-member board. Freddie Guggisberg is secretary treasurer THE ST I DENTS who received master's degrees and doctorates at Texas Tech Golden Anniversary com mencement exercises in Lubbock on May loth and 17th was Jane Ayers Sample, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ayers of Chillicothe Mrs Sample received her Master's of Education in guidance and counseling She was elected earlier to mem bership in Phi Kappa Phi. all university honorary for scholastic a i MR MRS. Jerry Jacobs iol Koute 2 are the parents of a new baby daughter. Misti Michele, born Sunday.

Ma, 18 in Wichita General Hospital weighing 8 Ibs 3 oz Grandparents are Mr and Mrs George Towrisoti of 2814 Oak Lawn Dr and Mr ami Mr Wayde Jacobs of olive BUM II I) Erdmann daughter of Mr II Erdmann Route i Mr Pat Marroni Indiari Ir- I Mav.a< huvM 1 wirf Um Aords Bill of HyM; -ill met. Ijoffi cow has some new ideas on how to verify that the two countries adhere to their agreed limit of 1,320 offensive missiles that can carry multiple warheads Kissinger previously took the position that missile that has been tested" to carry the multiple warheads known as "will be counted by us as being But the senior official said Sunday that Kissingers past statements did not represent a fixed formula, and the United States is always willing to consider alternatives, Kissinger will demand more than unilateral declarations by each government that it is adhering to the treaty, the official said He also rules out on-site inspection as unworkable The official indicated that Kissinger might be willing to consider a plan under which some of the 300 Soviet missile silos might not be counted in the MIRV total if the United States is assured those exempted contain only single war heads. Kissinger and Gromyko also will discuss the European summit conference that the Russians want held But Kissinger was reported to feel that they could come to no binding agreement on this since the other European countries have to be consulted Kissinger and Gromyko will put off until Tuesday their discussion of the situation in the Middle East and resumption of ArabTsraeli peace talks in Geneva, the American official said Although the Arab-Israeli problem was one of the main reasons for originally scheduling the Vienna meeting, the official said Kissinger cannot make any firm commitments until after President Ford meets President Anwar Sadat of Egypt late this month in Salzburg and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin in Washington next month News (Continued From Page 1) time that we were withdrawing from the island that initially there had been a number of choppers that had been downed, that we were running a muster on board the ships in order to assess what had been the damage. attempted to get out the results as they became clear, after notification of next of The casualties were suffered Wednesday night (Eastern time) when Marines landed on the island of Koh Tang off the Cambodian coast in the mistaken belief that the ship 39-man crew was being held there. It later was disclosed that the crew had been put on a fishing Iniat and taken to the mainland port of Korn Pong Son and a nearby island after the May was seized Monday by a Cambodian naval vessel The crew was later released and (licked up by a U.S, Navy ship while the ground and air attack was still underway The Marines met heavy re sistance when they stormed onto Koh Tang in search of the crew Schlesmger denied that an intelligence error led to the decision to send Marines to Koh ang after the Mayaguez crew men already had been removed bv then captor Hun Made Mt-mixT of the Vernon Fire I rit rrsjjonded to a all Simda at if tip rn the jkmi DDrt oi Wilbarger tfM al i in fOOtart Aith tnc limb- brellM'ti i tf a i If filHr flllliUll iiti I Bv THE XSSOCIATED PRESS Sappers defused a bomb in a paint can in a crowded area of Jerusalem today near the Jaffa Gate It was the 16th bomb incident reported in Israel and the occupied territories the past week The Israeli military command announced that a border patrol shot and killed an Israeli Arab slipping through the barbed ire fence along the Lebanese border A spokesman said it was not known if the Arab was connected with the increased terrorism Another Arab was killed by his own grenade as he appar ently was preparing to throw it into a yardful of exercising students in northern Israel Teachers discovered the body of a 25-year-old Arab who had entered the school posing as a workman Sunday on the roof of an agricultural college in the Mediterranean port of Acre, po lice said.

Fragments of the grenade were in his hand In Lebanon, the death toll of Arab children blowm up while playing with an unexploded mortar shell in the border village of Aiteroun rose to nine when two of the five wounded died, Lebanese officials said the shell was fired during a recent Israeli bombardment, but the Israelis denied this The village was raided by Israeli troops twice last week Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin told a cabinet meeting that despite opposition from within Accused Continued From Page 1) plaint was that he didn't have his radio The defendant was in a cell with 14 other inmates at the time of the alleged beating, Frank said He has since been placed in isolation, he said Blackwell has said he does not want to lock up the Kleasen jury. Jury selection was to begin this afternoon, with 400 prospective jurors scheduled to report to court at 2 p.m. "I sure w-ant to sequester Blackwell said last week, know, over the weekends, and then you have Memorial Juries are sequestered only in the most notorious eases. It is a device used to prevent them from reading or hearing news accounts of the trial Bus Crash (Continued From Page I) his own Labor party, his government will build 500 apartments in the next two years at Sharm el-Sheikh, at the southern tip of the occupied Sinai Peninsula Although Israeli officials have often said Israel will nev er give up Sharm el Sheikh be cause it commands the water wav to the southern Israeli port of Eilat. Rabin said the con struction plans did not mean Israel was annexing the area President Anwar Sadat of Egvpt said he will be speaking an Arab world united against Israel when he meets President Ford in Salzburg.

Austria, on June 1 He told a news conference in Damascus, am sure that when I speak to President Ford. I am repre senting the views of the bigger majority of my colleagues, the Arab leaders Sadat made the statement at the end of a tour of Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Syria designed to forge a common stand for his talks with Ford Yasir Arafat, head of the Pal estine Liberation Organization, met Sadat in Damascus and was at his side during the news conference. Egyptian sources said Arab leaders were agreed that (I it is no longer realistic to talk of destroying the state of Israel. (2) they should get back what Israeli-occupied territory they can by force but explore other avenues; and (3) Sadat should ask Ford to pressure Israel for territorial concessions. Judge Recesses Removal Trial RIO GRANDE CITY.

Tex (AP) District Court Judge O. Carrillo today recessed the removal trial of suspended Duval County Judge Archer Parr until June 9 because 16 of 19 witnesses subpoenaed chose not to honor their subpoenas. Parr also did not appear in person, but was represented by defense lawyers Marvin Foster and Nago Alaniz. Judge Carillo granted the recess to give lawyers for both sides time to obtain depositions from the witnesses who did not show up The missing witnesses appar ently chose to use a Texas law' which gives them the option of not appearing when they are subpoenaed for the trial of a civil suit more than 100 miles from their home Hardeman Jury in Session others were in serious condition at hospitals in Kilgore and Longview, Tex. Eleven were in fair condition, said Capt Pat Patterson of the Gregg County Dept The rest were treated and released was pretty rough out Patterson said today.

were many broken bones and one woman had her arm pinned in the wreckage for about one hour. Many of the ambulances had to make two or three The driver of the car, identified as Patricia Mason, 27, of Kilgore had critical injuries. Her 4-year-old daughter Melaine was in good condition. Also in critical condition was Carrie Abston, 57, of Natchez, Miss. In serious condition were Pauline Sheperd, 27, Dallas; William McKeever, 56, Chatham, La.

The Texas Highway Patrol identified those in fair condition as Bruce Worthy, 18. Rayville, Lola Lewis, 40, Sacra mento, Calif Estella Sellers, 59. Dallas; Hebert Sellers, 40, Dallas; Danny Ray Odom, 39, Monroe, Marcella Wil liams. 25, Dallas Agnes Whitson. 59.

Barnardsville, N.C.; Matt Conrow, 33, Dallas; Har ley Pritchard, 20, Fort Hood. Tex and Hazle Wunch, 62, Tulsa. Okla The bus driver, Bill Coty, 62, of Dallas, received minor in juries Chapman Speaker For Local Gary Chapman, discussed the right to keep and bear arms as guest speaker at the Monday luncheon meeting of the Vernon Jaycees at Wilbarger Auditorium lie was introduced by program chairman Bob I-ong Clint Inrnon was recognized as of Month for April and presented a certifu bv idt-nl Jimmy Work days armourx t-d for Tuesday through Thwrwta it in to for Aomen viftbidl tournament i May 11 a- mtufting will brM VfcWHim to liw i if 4i QU AN Hardeman County Grand Jury met Monday to begin its May term Jurors were to consider five cases. The cases include two charges of robbery, one charge of concealing mortgaged property, one case of hindering secured creditors, and one charge of possessing more than four ounces of marijuana. Light Rainfall Recorded in Area Light rainfall was recorded in the Vernon area last night, ranging from .80 inches at Lockett to a trace at White City.

No wind or hail damage was reported Crowell reported 60 inches, and 30 was measured at Oklaunion, Chillicothe, and Quanah, and .20 measured at Zacaweista and Harrold. The downtown gauge in Vernon measured 0.17. Too Late to Classify FOR SALE: Household sale 3620 Paradise Piano in Storage Beautiful SpinetConsole stored locally. Reported like new Responsible party can take at big saving on low payment balance Write Joplin Piano, 315 South 16th, Waco, Texas 76703 I I II TO lit 2 or a 3 bedroom house u.ihhi to 15.000 dollar price range all 852 LOST I Ml Billfold belonging to Forest Hansen containing 1M PORI ANT Veterens papers and others of IMPORTANCE If found contact Amelia ilkin HOI Bismarck or call 6931 Legal Notice fc a (It 5 I 'f -L HMM a Hi 5 a mt.

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