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Pace 10 Austin, Texas Austin fi'talrmtian Friday; June 8, lffft to connect 482 additional subscribers and construct 84 miles of new line and finance various system improvements. Adjustment-' 11 Ex-PWs Weigh Freedom: Lovelier 2nd Time Around Guadalupe Valley Telephone Telephone Cooperative Gets Funds NEW BRAUNFELS U.S. Sen. John Tower Thursday announced that the U.S. Rural Cooperative serves the counties of Comal, Bexar Kendall, Blanco, Caldwell Fayette, Hays, DeWitt, Gonzales and Guadalupe, Electrification Administration sive.

But first he will attend school in the Philippines to cent of the men interviewed said they planned to continue their education. earn master's degree in com munity planning. Aicx Boyd of Wichita, By KATHRYN JOHNSON Associated Presi Writer After 5 years in a North Vietnamese prison, Navy Lt. Wayne K. Coodermote of Berlin, N.Y., looks to his freedom as a "second chance at living." "I'm a professional military man and asking me if I plan to said his imprisonment made Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Do false teeth embarrass you by eoming Ioom when you eat, laugh, or talk A denture adhesive an help.

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The loan will be used to upgrade existing service in the Coast, Leesville and Smhhsons Valley exchanges to all one-party lines. The loan will also be used to finance facilities stay in the service is a bit like asking a doctor if he plans to remain a doctor after he's been him develop "almost a hypersensitivity to the world around His fellow POWs agree, ivr -S I A1 ri i i me." The years of solitude, Pra.dice for a 1 Edward W. which a rat scurrying across a te Md, Air Force "I have found in talking to, POW friends, the old syndrome i nnnnrn i ti of Winlock, cell floor was a memorable many of us were in before 'I simply don't have time to do that sort of thing' that's sim ply not true. You do have time if you'll just make It." a POW for five years. But for some, especially fliers, resumption of military duties may not be so automatic.

Last week, Dr. Richard S. Wilbur, the Pentagon health chief, said the one-third of the POWs, mostly pilots, had suffered major fractures. A minority of these men will not be highlight, have made them determined to implement plans made in captivity. Their long-range goals are multiple and diverse, from joining the diplomatic corps in Asia to teaching to studying medicine or international law to taking up auto racing.

"I was in a time machine for So Boyd, a racing fan for years, is now attending a race driving school and enjoying it Little Kickers Day Care Center 6151 HWY 290 WEST 892-1319 Summer Program lor School Age Children All Ages Infants thru 12 Years immensely. Air Force Maj. Norman Wells 'able to return to active duty, he resigned his commission to TANKS ALOT All set to look for the gems of the ocean from an underwater vantage point are these two scuba enthusiasts who just emerged from a Miami, shop that sells the air which lets humans breathe under the surface. The boy, left, graciously wears his own air-tank but allows his girl friend to tote the teams's speargun. (AP Wirephoto) take up dairy farming in Union ville, Va.

tome seven years, said one former POW. "For me, the world sort of stopped. It gave me the opportunity to take a long and detailed look at myself, what had happened in my And after more than six said. When a missile struck his Sky-hawk jet years ago, Lt. Cmdr.

John S. McCain III ejected over downtown Hanoi and landed in a lake. He broke years as a POW without suffer confessions of "war crimes." ing permanent injury, Wells lost the tip of his right index "It was a humiliating ex lifp sn far finger in April while installing Like him. other POWs fce, a leg and both arms perience to find out that indeed 4 Joait to 3a titer! Several weeks ago, the leg a bolt on a plow. I someone can break your will.

thpic Yrwrirru'P will benefit "That's his guitar playing But they couldn't take away ThJrePa're(l- He now faces surgery them in the years ahead. Tneyj on a shoulder, which was hand," said wife Barbara. "He my mind and heart. They broke feel it has tempered them, rifle smashed by a guard's was pretty good." my will, yes, but they couldn't For at least one POW, poli steal my inner self." tics is on the horizon. Others felt imprisonment im Lt.

Col. Leo Thorsness, 41, of proved their personalities by Sioux Falls, S.D., said that if teaching them self-control and butt. "I hope to fly again, but that depends on the doctors," said the 36-year-old pilot, whose father at the time of his capture, was chief of all U.S. forces in the Pacific. "If I have to leave the Navy, I hope to serve the government, his health is fully recovered he making them more outgoing.

will run against Sen. George McGovern in 1974. Air Force Capt. Larry Ches- made them more aware of others, more tolerant, more compassionate. And more patriotic.

At the same time, they view changes in the country during their imprisonment as staggering. Lt. Cmdr. Porter Halyburton, a handsome, green-eyed pilot from Tucker, who was a POW nearly eight years, is determined not to get snagged in what he calls the rut of "the American way of life." 't2, that I moan wnrlrinp nf On June 17lh, His special day, cheer him with a unique gift of mugware in robust scenes colors. Native German motifs depicting castle folk, villages hunting scenes are set against antique brown, cobalt blue or multicolored Ideal for collections, the Steins come in graduated sizes ranging from 6 oz.

to 80 some of them have built-in music boxes. From 9.00 ley of Burlcy, Idaho says, "Be Thorsness, who was captured fore I was a prisoner I was in I9b7, said he thinks quarrelsome but when you have preferably in foreign service or McGovern disgraced America to live with 20 or more people the State Department," he by promising, during the 1972 in a room that leaves you 21- added. McCain said he came to presidential campaign, to beg inch sleeping space, you learn the conclusion while in prison that one of the most important to be sociable." Hanoi for the release of American POWs. Most felt their values are Now See New Plavtex yUM-TRIM' swirnsutts I i eveRi(XjBuelott HIGHLAND MALL fleas si to make a "I don't feel the president of things in life was humdrum job for the sake of! now rearranged. contribution to his country.

the United States or any Ameri Lt. Cmdr. Glenn Daigle of can should ever nave to oeg New Orleans, a POW seven years, put it this way: IMPORTS, INC. possessions," said the 32-year-Old Halyburton. The Navy will send Halyburton back to school where he plans to study international re The flier, who lives in Orange Park, plans to attend the National War College in Washington in August.

Air Force Capt. Guy D. Gru-ters, a 13-ycar career pilot and people like that for anything," said Thorsness, who is still on active duty and has been asked by Air Force superiors to re 6407 Burnet Road "I find that very very few people within a lifetime can sit lations. He hopes ultimately to down to such an extent that tMKANfllCMt 454-5892 work as a specialist for the. frain from partisan politics.

Lt. Col. Quincy Collins, a tall, they can actually break down what they're made of where captive five years, has resigned from the military to attend Navy or get a a Depart ment post, perhaps in Asia. balding pilot from Atlanta, has you come from, where you are We NEVER charge for gift-wrapping and out-of-town mailing! often hinted at a political ca His prison experience, he! medical school is his home town of Sarasota, Fla. now, where you're headed." reer, since his return, citing the The 30-year-old father of two, "moral fiber" of the country.

As for the years of imprison ment benefiting them in the future, Navy Cmdr. Richard A. said, was a "highly motivating factor" in his choice of study, is is his desire to "do something worthwhile." "I think it's contribution enough just to live a good added Halyburton, who wrote i poetry in prison and, having no! pen or paper, stored it in a Catholic, said his prison life gave him a stronger faith in God, which indirectly influenced his decision to pursue a medical career. "I started reading the Sermon on the Mount. After I read Stratton, of Palo Alto, a prisoner six years, said: "We took a lot of abuse because we were a racial minor that, I couldn't feel comfortable ity over there.

We are on the From the last North American frontier. being a fighting man any long' bottom of the pile and they lecisi hi, me Mine oeuiK.i er," said the Air Force Acade hated Caucasians. Now I can ii fhp mainritv nf the 5fifi returned POWs intend to remain in not only just sympathize with military. Of 101 interviewed in! Lt CoL Arthur T- Ballard minority people, I can cmpa- Lake Lure, N.C. shot down over thize with them the last few weeks, for instance.

said thev were Hanoi in September 1966, and 'I've also learned not to judge other human beings. The leaving the service and four whose hiP was brokcn undecided. Eighty wiU decide in a forced me to do things I were never thought I do," said Stratton, referring to, his forced whether to stay in service or study law. "I became quite interested in Dialing the Bus ADELAIDE, South Australia! law while in prison. Several of; THE PLUG IN Made smooth from selected Canadian Whiskies.

A Dial-a-Bus service began my fellow POWs were studied operating here recently.jin law and gave us ANSWER SERVICE CASSETTE RHONE MESSENGER $225 IHIf THIMIT tNCMbftlart 454 (731 47S-352S covering aixnu iuu square said Ballard, miles. A bus reaches the Michael Benge, a civilian caller's door in no more than who spent five years as a cap-half an hour. The maximum plans to return to Vietnam fare is $1.42 for 15 miles orjand resume work in the Mon-more and the minimum 49 cents! tagnard village in which he was for up to two miles. captured during the Tet offen- KENT IT SIS Mo. SmiumctU UUbiiMm PERKmnn NEWS RELEASE CF.NTRAL TEXAS COl.I.Kf.E announces that it will offrr rvrning classes in Round Rmk hrpinmnp Junr 11, I07H.

The classes will be held in the Round Rock High School and registration will bf conducted beginning at 6:00 P.M., Thursday. June 7, 1973 and Mon-Hav anrl Tuesday, June 11 and 12, for First Six Weeks Classes and Twelve Week Classes. The following courses will be offered al the times and dales indicated. Hns2l Principles of Arfnunlinn MW Bus 2.V1 Principles nf Kronnmirs Til KM Hul folate runriamrnuls HM 2IIH Real folate Law KilHMfc.lU KM Hnine Mathematics Th HM lit.) Introduction In Management HM "1 Buine Lao Rtinnin( Shorthand ITh Intermediate Shorthand Tl'h fold 1.11 Composition and Rheionc Illy fcngl 112 Composition and Khemrir. Dlv Mist 111 lli-torv nf IS to 187 llv Hist 112 History of IS from 1877 Math 1.11 College Algebra T'I'h Math 112 Uilleie Algebra 211 Stale and Lederal Government TTh Govt 212 Slate and federal Gmernmrnt TTh oc21l Introduction to Sociology Psych 231 Introduction to Psychology AT I Aiilomolive Engines MW AT 1 42 Automoiiie tlertrical Systems TTh Lt 21.i Police (Irganitalion and Administration TTh LK lib Polire Administration ITh IK 41 1 Judicial Solem and Process 1 IK4.I- Soe 235 Social Pchologv TTh Biol HI Ceneral IHy Biol 112 General Bolam Dl hem 1 1 1 l.eneral Chemistry IHy them 112 Leneral Chemistry Kngl 110 Knglish undamental Mt KSp i vQ ISm NON-CREDIT COtRSES Defensive l)riing (Hates and limes open) Interior llecnration (Dales and Times Open) irst Si Hecks Classes: June 1 1 July 1 9 Second Sis 1 eels Classes: July 21 sugiisl 10 y.ele Week Classes: June II August 30 Central Itm College Highway West Killeen.

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