Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 225, Ed. 1 Friday, September 21, 1984 Page: 1 of 33
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has a rated capacity of 3.5 million
gallons per day, which means the
plant can effectively and safely treat
and pump 3.5 million gallons of water
per day to customers. The plant has
been producing far more than the
rated capacity for several weeks,
which Chester said has put a strain on
the equipment used to treat the water
and the personnel running the plant.
Construction presently under way
at the plant will double the capacity
of the plant, giving it a rated capacity
the van exploded, the source said.
The blast injured U.S. Ambassador
bomber was fired at and slumped
over the wheel before the bomb went
off, Bartholomew said.
sake of security,” Lyne said.
Lyne put the final toll of U.S.
casualties at two killed and 16
An overturned U.S. Embassy car lies on its side outside the American
embassy annex in Christian East Beirut on Thursday as workers seek
bodies in the rubble. At least 12 people were killed when a car-bomb was
exploded near the compound.
to maintain production and create
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About 111,000 Gty employees had
been either on strike dr laid off as the
effects of the selective walkouts
spread through GM and related
companies.
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Obituaries
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CAT scan service
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News-Telegram Staff
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Volunteer Fire Department and the
center board. Woodrow Wilson and
Elliott, both representing the
volunteer group, said the profits and
expenses would be split equally.
Center Manager Billie Rose
Chapman told the board that plans to
affix carpeting to walls of the
auditorium for sound control would
not meet fire code requirements. The
board authorized board member
Bruce Fielden to inquire about carpet
that would be fire retardant.
The board also discussed an up-
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beard across the school yard as some of the fifth graders
ran around in circles, jumping and dancing under the
parachute. The class was under the direction of PE
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includes installation of curtains. That
installation is on the back burner
until the roof repairs can be made
Another attempt to obtain repairs because of the danger of the leaking
to the roof covering the Hopkins roof and subsequent damage to the
County Regional Ciyic Center was
made Thursday night by the center’s
board of directors.
Board members Paul Tipping and
high as expected
BEIRUT, Lebanon .! AP) — Rescue
workers today ended their search for
bodies in the wreckage of the bombed
U.S? Embassy annex, and the U.S.
ambassador said the devastation
•could have been “a hell of a lot
worse” if.a guard had not shot the
suicide car bomber.
A Lebanese military investigator,
Elias Mousa, announced today that
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hospitalized. A U.S source close to
the search said earlier that 21
Americans were injured.
Lyne sa'id four Lebanese, including
two foreign service employees, were
killed. The American source had said
seven or possibly eight Lebanese
employees of the embassy were
killed.
The official, who spoke on condition
A chance of thunderstorms
through Saturday. Thun-
derstorms mainly east Saturday
Mostly cloudy skies Highs in the
low to mid 80s. Ixiws in the mid to
upper 60s.
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search for victims was over.
“We have accounted for all
Arvin Starrett and Lynn Massingill
filling in as volunteers.
Starrett and Massingill also
discussed a Christmas music
program that is tentatively planned
for this year. The show, the men said,
would give residents an opportunity
to view the newest additions to the
auditorium.
“Without a doubt, they’ve got the
finest facility, when it is finished,
between Houston and Tulsa, and
Starrett
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curtains.
Delays in the project are also
caused.by laws that require a two-
week bidding process and approval
Bill Elliott volunteered to meet with by the Commissioners Court.
the Hopkins County Commissioners
Court, which has responsibility for
risk we run of equipment failure,
Tooley said.
The present water treatment plant Reginald Bartholomew and British
Ambassador David Miers, neither
seriously, the source said.
Bartholomew left the Abu Jawdeh
Hospital in a wheelchair today, with
stitches across his upper lip, a small
bandage on the back of his head and a
cast on his arm. He said his arm was
not broken. Surrounded by
bodyguards, he was driven to his
residence east of Beirut.
Speaking to the American NBC
television network, Bartholomew
said the bomber zigzagged through
of 7 million gallons per day with a anti-vehicle concrete barricades
maximum load of about 10 million after shooting a Lebanese guard. The
gallons dally.
Construction is expected to be
complete by the first quarter of 1985.
The first step toward ratification <
takes place Wednesday in St. Louis
when the UAW leadership unveils the
specific terms to the union’s General
Motors Council, a 300-member ad-
, visory "board of loca^ union leaders.
Ratification votes by GM workers
would occur afterward and would
take about a week.
Both Bieber and Warren refused to
disclose details of the pact until it is .
presented to the council.
The tentative agreement
■inaugurates an unprecedented job
security program with far-reaching
new protections for our members
against job loss due to outsourcing,
the introduction of new technology,
plant consolidations and the
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In an effort to provide improved medical care for Hopkins County
residents, the hospital board of directors tentatively approved the
contracting of a computed tomography (CAT) scan unit at a regular
meeting Thursday night.
The board also approved the purchase of two emergency room tables,
an anesthesia machine and exterior emergency signs.
Glenn Kenley, hospital administrator, said the availability of the CAT
scan will no longer make it necessary for patients to travel to Paris or
Greenville for the process.
The mobile unit, which is based in Greenville, is owned by the Tran-
share Corporation of Dallas. The board must receive a certificate of
need from the Texas Health Facilities Commission before final ap-
proval. The board must also approve changes suggested in the contract
with Transhare by hospital legal adviser Jim Chapman during executive
session.
If approved, the CAT scan unit will service the hospital “two at first
and then probably three” times a week, Kenley said.
The emergency room tables will be purchased from the Shampaine
Corporation of St. Louis, which was one of two companies making bids,
at the cost of $17,467.50 each. The anesthesia machine will be purchased
from United Medical Supply for $14,626.88.
The signs will be purchased from the City Sign Service of Dallas,
which entered a low bid of $2,140.00. This includes an L-shaped
illuminated emergency sign, a double-faced illuminated emergency sign
and non-illuminated emergency parking only and exit only signs.
Kenley also announced hospital construction would be completed by
mid-December.
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refused to divulge details.
“It is an excellent settlement that
Union leaders called for an un- makes more secure than ever in
mediate halt to strikes at 17 GM history the jobs of our UAW-GM
plants which had idled 111,000 of the members, while providing much
company’s 350,000 UAW workers deserved economic improvements
nationwide and cost GM an estimated immediately and in the years
$30 million a day. But some local ahead,” the union officials said,
leaders said they would oppose going GM Vice President Alfred Warren,
back to work because of disputes speaking later at a news conference,
over local issues. said “there were two winners — the
Hours after the agreement was United Auto Workers and the General
announced, workers continued to Motors Corporation. I have never
walk picket lines at 15 of the 17 seen a better win-win situation.”
plants. “Our customers will benefit from movement of work ...it also includes
Pickets were quickly withdrawn at this agreement through increased commitments from the corporation,
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could have the murky water back
again. The longer we exceed the
capacity of the plant the higher the applicants were at the annex when
City officials reported Friday that
water consumption has been in-
creasing since the total ban of outside
water was lifted Tuesday by the
Sulphur Springs City Council.
Under the new resolution, residents
are allowed to water from 6 p.m. to 7
p.m. on a previously established odd- reporters at the scene today that the *
even system.
“The first night the new resolution
went into effect (Wednesday), water Americans and foreign service
consumption shot up during the nationals. All we are doing now is
watering period,” Maxie Chester, removing classified material for the
water plant superintendent said.
“It was almost like someone fired a
starter pistol at 6 p.m. to signal the
beginning of the watering period and wounded seriously enough to be
fired the pistol again at 7 p.m. to
signal the race was over. During that
hour the level in the water towers
dropped 5 feet,” Chester added.
Consumption Wednesday was 3.6
million gallons. The consumption
continued to climb Thursday,
peaking at 3.9 million gallons, ac-
cording to Chester.
“I don’t know what’s going to
happen,” City Manager David Tooley of anonymity, said rescue workers
said Friday morning. had “found all the bodies we will
“If we keep pushing the plant and find," but “there are people we’re not
we have more equipment failure, we going to find any part of.”
It was impossible to determine how
many Lebanese visitors -or visa
said 23 people were killed and 60 “God knows, this was bad enough,
wounded when a van filled with but it could have been a hell of a lot
explosives blew up just outside the worse,” he said,
annex.
U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of
Mission Stephen R. Lyne told
the GM Technical Center in Warren, competitiveness of the corporation,
Mich., and the plant in Pontiac, as will our shareholders, suppliers
Mich., where the two-seat Fiero and the many communities in which States,” Bieber and Ephlin said,
sports car is assembled. Pickets GM has concentrations of facilities
were pulled away from the gates in and employment,” he said.
Warren, a Detroit suburb, soon after Warren said the company was
the agreement was reached, and “confident” that the agreement
negotiators in Pontiac reached an would be ratified quickly by the
agreement on local issues early union’s membership. Bieber and
today, unio-.’y officials said. Ephlin said the 11-member national
Officers of some locals whose negotiating committee unanimously
picket lines remained in place held recommended ratification.
British guards who were waiting
for Miers outside the annex when the
explosion occurred said they also
fired at the attacker and believe they
hit him.
One British guard, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said he fired
five shots and saw the driver slump
to the right, apparently preventing
muuoa, the car from reaching an un-
the casualty toll from Thursday’s derground parking entrance. If he
bombing, based on hospital and had gotten under the building, the
coroners’ reports, was 12 dead and 72 damage would have been much
wounded. Earlier police reports had worse, Bartholomew said.
said 23 people were killed and 60
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Fun play
This PE class at Douglas School enjoyed a different type
of physical activity recently as students gathered on the
playground and practiced special dance steps using a
parachute. The sounds of laughter and screams could be teacher Mary Jo Parlor.
In other business, the board
„ . _ discussed an upcoming wrestling
the~center~and offer assistance in the event Oct. 27 that will be sponsored Dallas and Little Rock,”
effort to obtain a contractor for the jointly by_ the^ Hopkins County said,
project.
County Judge Wayne Scott,
meeting with the board, asked that
the volunteers be named.
The repairs were first thwarted by
a high bid. A second advertisement
for bids brought no response.
“Where do we go from here? I have
to admit, I don’t know,” Tipping,
board president, said during the
meeting of the general frustration
stemming from the situation.
Scott told the board he would
inquire about the job specifications coming rodeo scheduled at the center
that were prepared by a Dallas ar- 1143. Board members will man
chitecturai firm. The specifications, concession stand for the event
the judge said, appear to be for a with proceeds going to the center,
larger project than the one being A stage manager arrangement was
considered for the roofing job. also endorsed by the board in an
Meanwhile, the board agreed to attempt to implement safety
repair flashing on the roof, obtain the measures for use of the stage
proper specifications and seek bids equipment. Cost for the manager, $10
for a built-up roof. per hour, will come from those who
The board members have ex- rent the stage facility for shows that
pressed the urgency for the repairs, require use of the curtains. Trey
Recent renovation to the stage area Elliott will be stage manager with
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors out the hope for an early end to their
Corp, and the United Auto Workers strikes.
tentatively agreed on a new national UAW President Owen Bieber and
contract toda^, with the union chief union (bargainer Donald Ephlin
declaring that it had won its fight to issued a statement at 2:10 a.m. EDT
protect members’ jobs and the announcing the agreement, but they
company calling it a “win-win’
settlement.
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