The Vernon Daily Record from Vernon, Texas • Page 1

Telephone 552-5454 VOL. XL 221 he ernon aily ecord UN XsMiciated Prws VERNON, TEXAS FRIDAY. JULY 14. 1972 EIGHT PAGES Partly Cloudy, Continued Warm UKKK O.WS I3f Ml I McGovern Appeals For Unity in Party WAITING FOR OCCUPANCY-The new Texas Uri- versity Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Lockett, representing a total investment of some $509,900, including $200,000 in local gifts, stands ready for occupancy by Extension and research personnel later this month. Only Installation of PBX equipment remains to be completed.

He new facility, located on a 50-acre tract, will be dedicated at a barbecue and dedication service tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. I. Barbecue Set With Center Dedication A final decision to stage the annual Wilbarger County Agri- Week Celebration in connection with the dedication of the new Texas Research and Extension Center was made at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee Thursday afternoon at the Chamber office. The Agri-Week celebration will be the first week in September, with all activities scheduled at the new Center. The committee voted to stage a communitywide barbecue in conjunction with the Center dedication, which is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, Sept.

6. The dedication program will be planned by officials of Texas University. It is expected to bring top officials of the University, the Extension Service and the Texas Board to Vernon. Agriculture Committee Chairmen Finley Bradley and Curtis Graf are expected to appoint special committees to handle various details of the Agri-Week celebration and barbecue. On hand for committee meeting as a guest was Dr.

James Mulkey, acting director of the new research center, for which the Legislature in its recent session provided $100,000 in operating funds. The new center is expected to be occupied by the personnel of the District Extension Office and research personnel toward the last of the month. Others present for meeting were District Agent James Simmons, Calvin May, Joe Wilson, Jake Riggins, Paul Graf, Perry Barnes, Wayne Underwood, Dick Yeager, Bud Leslie, O. C. Cannedy, Dewayne Harvey and Paul Hawkins, representing the Chamber redcoats, who will take an active part in the dedication.

Town Crier By ORLIN BREWER Funds for Haskell Campus Appropriated by Legislature Vernon Regional Junior College may have the responsibility for operating an extension campus at Haskell which it opposed at a recent meeting of the State College Coordinating Board if the Coordinating Board approves expenditures of funds authorized by the recent special session of the Texas Legislature and provided the Board decides to maintain the integrity of the junior college services areas it has designated. Dr. David Norton, president of Vernon Regional Junior College, revealed Thursday afternoon that the Texas it failed to provide the full requested funds for operation of a drug treatment center at the Vernon Center South of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental provide $1,122,221 in start-up funds for extension campuses of junior colleges at Ag Drive Gets $4,505 Kickoff A drive for $20,000 to purchase and develop a 13-acre tract for a Vernon High School Vocational Agriculture vegetables, crops and livestock research laboratory was launched at a meeting with representatives of five local financial institutions Friday morning, Max Tatum, vocational agriculture teacher, announced. The Waggoner and Herring National Banks, the First State Bank, and the Vernon and First Federal Savings and Loan a total of $3,750 in the campaign. With $755 already contributed or pledged, the total raised to date is $4,505.

The earlier donations were made by Warren Pruitt, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Boyd Sr. and Mrs. Winston B.

Graham. The possibility of a line veto of the item by Gov. Preston Smith apparently exists only if he feels the Lubbock campus would be detrimental to Texas Tech. Otherwise the funds will be available to the Coordinating Board for in the communities indicated. The Haskell campus is on the agenda for the July 20 meeting of the Coordinating Board in Austin.

The Legislature at its special session also appropriated $406,080 for the Vernon Regional Junior College academic program, and $131,352 for its vocational-technical program. Connally in California For Talks With Nixon County Judge Bob Arnold says he is from employment of a consultant for improvement of Wilbarger County Airport after a proposal by the consulting firms, Hudgins, Thompson, Ball and Associates of Oklahoma, asking for a consultant fee of $30,000. He says this is more like the total amount he expected the County to spend on the project, rather than the amount which would be laid out for consultants, only. He noted, however, that the consulting firm is refiguring its initial proposal. The County had been hoping that State and Federal authorities would match on a three-to-one ratio the approximately $7,200 in income the County receives from the airport each year.

If the County should decide to plow its annual airport income (See TOWN CRIER. Page 2) SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally has arrived in Southern California for a conference today with President Nixon. Connally, until recently the only Democrat in Cabinet, just completed a 35-day, 15-nation trip around the world for the President, who has promised the mission would be followed by an important new assignment for the silver-haired Texan.

Asked if the new assignment would be announced today, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said, has not been decided." There has been speculation for more than a year that, should Nixon decide to replace Vice President Spiro T. Agnew as his 1972 running mate, he might turn to Connally. The former Treasury chief has expressed disinterest in the job Haskell, Lubbock, Palestine and Coleman. The matter is a highly controversial one among junior college leaders in Texas, many of whom feel that it is grossly unfair to provide junior college facilities in communities make no tax contribution to their programs, as is required of all established junior colleges.

Haskell, located in the service area of Vernon Regional Junior College, applied for $200,000 in start-up funds for an extension campus of Western Texas College at Snyder. Trustees of Vernon Regional Junior College opposed the proposal before the Coordinating Board, but suggested if such an extension campus is approved, it should be operated by the Vernon rather than the Snyder college. Dr. Norton said that the Vernon college, if given the responsibility, would operate the REYK javik Iceland (AP) very best extension college in nnnTIu rlmmrnJ rl An appeals committee 18 01 jected today Bobby Fischer's tt had not been expected that the Legislature, on of an economy kick, would approve tutions. ftal single ap- Schmid to award propnation for the Coordmat.ng Board for extension campuses is extension South wXiTtwo extension campus of south Plains College of Uv.ll.nd a.

i 11 equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take title. WEATHER Fischer stayed in his hotel Temperature readings tor the Thursday and refused to 24-how period ending at play tmless Utree camera. Hto- Friday inS the match for movie and degree. televton sales were removed degrees from the hall. SincetheAmen- Naon can Precintation on referee Year to date 10.10 Lothar forfeit ruling Same date last Clear to partly IT cloudy and continued warm Special Use Permit through Saturday.

Low tonight 4 os to High Saturday to For VSTO Approved Members of the Vernon City Commission, in a brief special session at City Hall Friday afternoon, approved on first reading a special use zoning permit for a 7-11 grocery store for VSTO Investment on Beaver Street at the northeast corner of its new Highland Park Apartment complex subdivision. Also approved on second reading was a special use permit for Mrs. Violet Hannah to operate a specialty clothing store in the garage of her residence at 2303 Gordon Street. The permit specifies that the store, for square dance shoes and clothing, will permit a sign-only on the garage. Commissioners also authorized City Manager Sam Phelps to execute an agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development for a $215,000 grant to develope the A.

F. Winston water field in north Wilbarger County. The grant will help finance a $479,000 project to provide transmission lines and a ground storage tank linking the new water field to the Odell-White City field some thirteen miles north of town. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, vowing to lead a campaign, urged wildly cheering Democrats today to put behind fury and our and unite to capture the White House from President Nixon.

And the South Dakota senator appealed for help every Democrat and every Republican and independent who wants America to be the great and good land it can It was nearly 3 a.m. when the beaming McGovern, introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and joined by vice presidential nominee Thomas F. Eagleton and defeated presidential rivals, stepped to the rostrum of a tumultuous, jammed Convention Hall to accept his nomination.

The victorious nominee had only a few hours to rest up after his triumph appearances before a unity breakfast for the House and Sente Campaign committees and a Democratic fund-raising group were scheduled before he returned to Washington later today. McGovern also had to decide on a new chairman for the Democratic National Committee, which holds a morning organizational meeting. While he has pressed Chairman Lawrence F. to stay on, informed sources said he would ask Jean Westwood, the Utah national committeewoman, to take the job if declines. but has never said flatly he would not accept.

Another globe-circling traveler, Secretary of State William P. Rogers, will be at the Western White House on Saturday to report to Nixon on a 19-day journey to 10 countries. Ziegler reported that the President and Mrs. Nixon watched final Democratic convention proceedings on television Thursday night. However, the press secretary kept mum about reaction to the nomination of Sen.

George McGovern as his November opponent. have a specific comment on the upcoming election and proceedings until after the Republican Ziegler said. The GOP meeting begins Aug. 21 in the same Miami Beach convention center where Democrats have just met. In the final moments of the convention that his supporters dominated all week, the triumph belonged to the onetime college professor from South Dakota.

Waves of applause rocked the hall as Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, Henry M. Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and Terry Sanford lifted high the hands of the 49-year-old nominee and his 42-year-old running mate from Missouri. Reviewing the way his paign swept aside the established political leadership, McGovern said he would dedicate his White House campaign to the people, declared that next January he would restore government to their hands and added: politics will never be the same With some labor leaders still determined to sit out the campaign and other delegates grumbling about the ways in which his operatives dominated the convention, McGovern forecast the battle against Richard Nixon would bring the party in common this fall.

is the unwitting unifier and the fundamental issue of this national McGovern said, adding that of us together are going to help him redeem a pledge he made 10 years ago: that next year you have Richard Nixon to kick around any Pair Held on $1 Million Bonds in Hijacking Case Protest Of Loss Rejected gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Schmid said the third game of the 24-game match would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match was very much in doubt. Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott. He added that the World Chess step in at any time and disqualify him. Death Claims Local Woman Mrs.

A. R. Flowers, 70, died Thursday night in a local hospital after a lengthy illness She resided at 2730 Antelope. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m.

Saturday in the First Baptist Church with Rev. Darrell Robinson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Wilbarger Memorial Park under direction of Sullivan Funeral Home. Mrs. Flowers was born Dec.

20, 1901, in Fort Worth. She married Mr. Flowers Nov. 17, 1925, in Fort Worth, and they moved to Vernon in 1942. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and the Lydia Sunday School class, and was the immediate past president of the Home Science Club.

Mr. Flowers preceded her in death in 1909. Survivors include one son, O. A. Flowers of Jacksboro; three daughters, Mrs.

Gene Pigg of Richardson, Mrs. Tommie Duffie of Vernon and Mrs. Kenneth Birdson of Atlanta, and nine grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Curtis Nichols, Raymon Boykin, Tom Johnson, J. O.

Burk, A. J. Duffie and Luel Duffie. Crash Injuries Fatal CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) Manuel Yzaguirre, 18, died at a hospital today of injuries suffered June 30, when his motorcycle and a fire department vehicle collided. He was thrown into a ditch.

The firemen ware not on an emergency run. LAKE JACKSON, Tex. (AP) Two men were in custody and employes of National Airlines prepared to retrieve their airplane today after a 21-hour Miami to Philadelphia to Texas hijacking ended with the two hijackers surrendering. Held on $1 million bonds in Houston are Michael Stanley Green, 34, of Washington, D.C., and Luseged Tesfa, 22, a native of Ethiopia who was believed staying with Green in Washington. The two walked down the rear ramp stairway of the jetliner at 4 p.m.

(C.D.T.), almost eight hours after it first touched down on the small airstrip owned by the Dow Chemical Co. in this town 50 south of Houston. When they surrendered they released their final three hostages, all National stewardesses who had sat with the two during early morning rain and sweltered with them as the sun came out and the temperature climbed above 100. The pilot of the plane, Elliott Adams, 52, of Miami, jumped out of the front window of the airplane in Philadelphia. After (See HIJACK.

Page 2) New Bomb Termed Effective 1 Boys Club Drive Now at $6,361 A total of $6,301 in cash and pledges has been contributed to date in the advanced gifts portion of the 1972 budget drive of the Club of Vernon County Judge Bob Arnold, drive chairman, announced Friday. The club seeks a total of $13,600 in operating funds. A house-to-house campaign is scheduled for 6:30 to9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. Advance gifts workers are urged to complete contacts immediately.

Teams turning funds include R. Moore Truman Quillin, Bill Bond, Evans Mason, R. P. Webb, Lewis Yoakum, Howard Thomas, W. T.

Belew, Jim Pennington and Jim Hughes. SAIGON (AP) The U.S. Navy announced today the introduction of a new, one-ton video bomb called into the air war against North Vietnam and termed it highly effective. The weapon is an improved version of the television bomb and has been in use for the past month, the Navy said. Capt.

Marland W. Towsend, commanding officer of the carrier Kitty Hawk, said the first six Fat Alberts released scored direct hits against their targets and reduced the risk that American pilots would be hit by ground fire. Townsend said four bridges were downed and two military supply buildings were de- Illness Fatal To Thalia Man Floyd Webb, 70, a farmer in the Thalia Community, died in a Crowell Hospital Thursday evening after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at Henderson-Fields Funeral Chapel in Vernon with Rev.

Wilson Holman of Dallas officiating. Burial will be in East View Memorial Park. Mr. Webb was born Jan. 28, 1902, at Richland, a son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. B. D. Webb.

He moved to the Thalia Community in 1907 from Weatherford. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Earl Glasgo and Bernice Webb of Midland, a brother, Louis Webb of Sparks, Okla. Gun Battles Continue In Districts of Belfast BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Gun battles raged through the night in Roman Catholic districts of Belfast and continued today after the British army abandoned its and took the offensive against guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. Three soldiers and three civilians were reported killed, raising the confirmed death toll to 16 since Wednesday and to 432 in the three years of communal violence in Northern Ireland.

The army claimed to have hit more than 30 gunmen, but recovered no bodies because the guerrillas carry away their casualties for burial or treatment. Shooting erupted in all of major Catholic strongholds after three battalions of troops invaded the IRA district of Andersonstown to quell gunmen who had poured intensive fire at an army command post for four days. It was the first time the army had entered one of the districts taken over by the IRA. In the past such areas have been off limits to prevent a confrontation with the guerrillas holding sway there. Protestant militants have been demanding for months that the army go into the no go areas and clean out the IRA.

The invasion of Andersonstown will probably intensify the demands that the army now go into the barricaded areas of Londonderry that are the most famous symbols of Catholic defiance, the Bogside and Greggan districts, or as the IRA calls them. Army headquarters said about 700 men remained in control of Andersonstown early today but said it did not know how long they would stay there. strayed by the bombs. beat 100 per he said. The Fat Albert, named by fliers aboard the Kitty Hawk, is twice as powerful as the Walleye and has a television camera in the nose to direct the bomb to the target.

The U.S. Command announced, meanwhile, that U.S. pilots carried out 270 tactical air strikes against targets inside North Vietnam Thursday. Vernon Social Security Unit Move Slated The Vernon Social Security Branch Office is expected to move from the Wilbarger Hotel to new quarters in the Plaza Theater building at Pease and Cumberland Streets next month in order to provide more space for the operation of the five- county office Manager Henry Chustz, reports. Mr.

Chustz says the move will likely be made Aug. 26 or 27, the date that the present lease expires. The Social Security Administration will lease its new quarters from ABC-Interstate Theaters, owner of the Plaza Theater. Work has started to complete one of the unfinished office spaces in order to provide a total of some 2670 square feet for the agency operation. The Social security office will occupy the new space and finished office space already located in the building.

The Vernon Branch office, opened March 17, 1966, serves 9,300 social security beneficiaries in Wilbarger, Foard, Hardeman, Childress and Knox Counties. It is presently handling a social security program which pays out $870,000 monthly or $10.3 million annually to social security beneficiaries in the five county area. A total of $4 million of this annual figure goes to 3,360 social security beneficiaries in Wilbarger County. An increase of 20 per cent in payment is scheduled to go into effect in September, while increased social security deductions from payrolls will go into effect in January. Personnel of the local office, in addition to Mr.

Chustz, are Carl Beisner and Grover Martin, claims representatives, Mrs. Doris Carpenter, service representative, Mrs. Betty Mason and Mrs. Janet Brannan, claims development clerks, and Martha Hutton, administrative aide..