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8ftOWNW06D BULLETIN, Thursday, Nev. vt. President's Thanks For 'Roy Of Sunlight' Moaning, Everybody Suffers ware not-ss Linda: Today fall day the lUuclu And your letter, which read with pUaiure in tbfe vnrtntA my heart ai much the bright that poured through my bedroom At a time when and prosperity are frequently marred by riifcord and turmoil in the family of nations! the burdens of government ate often tad and difficult. Vet they are bufdent which must taken up with courage and conviction if are to preserve the heritage fo'r which our forefathers lived and died. They are too, which mult borne with a generous spirit and a willing heart.

brave American! in Viet-Nam, who their to keep our free, feel these They are in the guard of our unceasing eifortt to keep America free. They richly deserve tha gratitude and support of their fellow countrymen. Your letter was a warm ray sunlight in tny knew that it gladdened the of thoaa to whom it Addrened. God blew yon for year Wad ffieught. Sincerely, By tOM Newspaper Eterprisc Astn.

BIEN CAT, Viet Nam-(NEA Young Tom Marchesello felt like an oven on legs, "The sun sickened him and with a full pack and rifle to carry, he was being marinated in his own sweal. "It's hot," he cursed to no one in particular. "Yeah?" a guy answered, "I hadn't noticed." "You don't feel the heat?" "Man. I don't feel anything I'm just too scared." And thtn no one spoke again. All that needed saying had been said.

ALL SCARED Scared? They all were. Each in this dusty troop was lugging a shot-put in his stomach. Few had slept the night before; most wrote home not knowing what to say; others stood for hours over open trenches, ill from terror. This was the first action of war for many. And there was no gallantry.

Some of them most of them 18, 19, 20 years old and here just a month or so. These 'were not heroes, just ordinary men. Like Spec. 4 Tow Marchesello, 19, 215 pounds, "the only Italian in the world with red freckles." I He had come into khaki off the i streets of New York City. Me had a sister, Anna, and a brother, Robert.

NOT HEAL NOW A few doors from his fam- ily's apartment was a market where, after school, he worked in a butcher shop. On Saturdays he would date, hop a subway to Manhattan, watch a show, dance or walk along Riverside Drive overlooking the Hudson River. He liked that life but it wasn't real any more. Perhaps, even, it never existed. "O.K., heads up," somebody snapped.

"We're coming into a village." The foot soldiers of Bravo Company, Infantry felt their perspiration chill A lage would mean dark faces peering out of doorways, solute silence, the impassionate look of children, the complete absence of all young men. Friendly or unfriendly? If they opened fire, you knew for sure. But this place seemed quiet. The people here, one or two, even waved; the old women laughed and the young women giggled. The column passed on through and began to look back.

Bravo Company started breathing again. It was then Tom Marchesello was hit with a blast of flame erupting from the ground, knocking men up and back into 1 Linda Samples, 16, a Brunswick (Ohio) High I School student, read about Pfc. Harold Pruitt in i i a battlefront dispatch from Tom Tiede of News- i paper Enterprise Assn. 1 She was so moved that she wrote a letter to 1 Private Pruitt, pledging to others like 1 complete support of the American peo- 1 le Linda's letter has gained widespread recog- 1 nition. It is being read in field churches and I I wherever U.S.

troops congregate in Viet Nam. It i i has inspired thousands of similar letters, express- 1 1 ing faith in U.S. fighting forces. i I Linda, who asked nothing more than to con- I sole Private Pruitt and others like him in their 1 1 lonely hours, has become a national figure, delug- 1 ed by expressions of thanks. One of those who has written to Linda is Pros- jj Ident Lyndon B.

Johnson, whose letter is repro- i 1 duced above. 1 "Friendly or unfriendly? If they opened fire, you knew for sure." Fort Hood Official Due For Flagpole's Dedication Brigadier General Ephraim F. Graham chief of staff of the third corps at Fort Hood will be on the Howard Payne campus for the Nov. 20 dedication of the Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom flagpole. General Graham is former member of the United States delegation to NATO as military commander of a standing group.

He also served in the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment from 1959-60 and commanded the 7th Armored Training Center in 1961. He commanded five campaigns in the European theater during World War II and his unit was awarded the Presi- WHITE SWAN dential Unit Citation and the Belgian Fourragere. Other guests at the 10 a.m. ceremony will be Speaker of the Texas House Ben Barnes, Slate Senator Louis Crump of San Saba, city mayor W. C.

(Bill) Monroe and representatives from the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Dr. Guy D. Newman, HPC president, will introduce platform guests, Dr. Forrest Agee, academic dean, will introduce the dedicatory speaker and Brownwood Eagle Scouts will raise the colors on the new flagpole.

Secref Agent 'Epidemic' Infects Hope By CYNTHIA LOWRY AP Television-Radio Writer NEW YORK (AP) Television's secret-agent epidemic has even infected the writers of the Bob Hope Theatre on NBC. "Russian Roulette" Wednesday night was an hour comedy notable for the presence of Hope playing his usual character, this time called Les Haines. It is really the same fellow who has been turning up for years, from the "road" pictures to his last T-V sketch. In this one he was a famous American comedian entertaining a GI audience in West Berlin at a time when a pilot of a disabled reconnaissance plane parachuted into the Soviet Union. The pilot had failed to take his poison pill, a suspicious circum- WHITE SWAN Coffee LB.

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John made a very shapely if unconvincing spy. The story, unhappily, had a hurried, unfinished quality about it. The debate inside TV went on whether the pre-broadcast stories of Frank Sinatra's objections to Tuesday night's flattering CBS special, "Sinatra," was really a successful publicity stunt. Whatever it was, an overnight audience survey by the American Research Bureau gave the show a rating of 19.2 indicating it had a larger audience than any rival broadcasts at the same time and achieved one of the highest ratings ever by a news or public Carriers To Help In Survey Rural mail carriers from the Brownwood Post Office will leave some livestock survey cards along their routes beginning Saturday. "Information reported on these cards is used to set the yearly inventory of livestock and poultry on Texas farms," Postmaster J.

H. Childs explained. Rural carriers distribute the cards at random in boxes along their routes. "This means that not every box will get a card," the postmaster said, "For this reason, it's important for everyone who gets a card to return it filled out so that USDA can get a true sample of the state's livestock holdings." Carriers assisting with the sur! vey are Norman Chesser, Route Russell Williams, Route Bryant K. Mallow, Route Joseph L.

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affairs show in that time spot. Recommended tonight: "Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus," NBC, EST; "Inherit the Wind," NBC. an adaptation of the Broadway play based on the Scopes trial with Meivyn Douglas and Ed Begley recreating their original roles. other men. It wag abrupt horror.

It slapped the earth and theft it was over. ROAD MINE One of the villagers had tonated a road mine. Eleven (Jls blew up. "1 didn't even get knocked out." Marchesello said later. "I remember everything especially the pain, the terrible pain.

I could see some guys get it. One guy lost an eye. "It hit me all over. My left arm, both my legs, my stomach they say 39, make it 40 wounds in all. But some of the others got it worse; Dick Bernier, Sgt.

Cruz, and old Pops Taylor. They were all bleeding to death. "And the moaning and noise everybody suffering. I guess we all cried. Yeah, I guess we all cried." They lay there twisting in the heat, waiting for evacuation.

Their cut-away clothing smelling of gunpowder. Bottles of plasma standing sentry over each man. Some of them prayed. Marchesello said Hail Marys. Scared? They all were.

These were not heroes, just ordinary men. SEMINAR PLANS James Bunnell of Brownwood, chairman of the Democracy-ln-Action program at Howard Payne College, plans the weekend high school DIA seminar with faculty chairman Mrs. G. der, head of the social science department. The seminar is expected to draw top students from 30 Texas high schools and colleges.

WITH BUSINESS President Means By JAMES MARLOW AP News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) Same technique, but faster this'time. And President Johnson has made his point: He means business with business. He wants prices steady. If he has to play rough to keep them that way, he will. He did this last week with the aluminum industry and now this week with he copper industry.

In both cases he never said a word. He didn't have to. His technique was simple. He stayed in the background and let his top aides do the talking and the rough stuff. But (hemmed and hawed and stumbled around with vague hints of what they might do while never saying it had any connection with the price boost.

Then the ax fell. The government has so much aluminum in its stockpile that it considered. 1.4 million tons a surplus it wanted to get rid of. Then on Nov. 6, Robert S.

McNamara, secretary of defense, showdown with aluminum, but it kept them there. Then Wednesday night McNamara came back into the picture suddenly by calling a news conference to make an announcement. Unlike the government's performance with aluminum, there had been no hint of what was to come. But McNamara disclosed the government, which also has announced the government more copper than it needs, would get rid of 200,000 tons of would release 200,000 tons of it its aluminum. With that much aluminum turned loose, the industry's sales would suffer and it would have to cut prices.

Still dead- business could never have naming no names and call- doubt who was pulling the ing none, McNamara said the supplies on the market strings. Although he had previously made clear he wants business to avoid price increases to prevent inflation, the aluminum industry ignored him and raised prices. He must have hoped the industry would reconsider be- extra should "relieve price pressures." The industry got the message and cut prices. Meanwhile, the copper industry, as if it had never heard what happened to the aluminum industry, raised its prices. It did cause for several days his aides I this shorly before Johnson's and would take other steps to put a brake on rising copper prices.

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