Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 104, Ed. 1 Monday, December 17, 1979 Page: 1 of 10
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CHRISTMAS CONCERT-The
Stephenville High concert
bud follows the baton of band
director Wendell \ Gideon
daring the band’s Christmas
concert Sunday. The
Stephenville .Middle School
band also performed before
several hundred parents and
students. (E-T Staff Photo by
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Cross Timbers Business and Professional
Women’s Club, Red Bandana restaurant, noon
Christmas dinner, Stephenville Lodge No. 267,
Central Elementary, 6:30 p.m,
Christmas dinner, Tarleton Campus Club,
Cardinal Room, TSU dining hall, 7 p.m.
Christmas party, Loving Care Nursing Home,
7 p.m.
Women only square dancing, Senior Citizens
Center, 7 p.m.
Film presentation, Foster Home Family
Center, 7 p.pi.
Christmas dinner, Erath County Humane
Society, Red Bandana restaurant, 7:30 p.m.
Stephenville Sportsman’s Club, FFNB Patio
Room, 7:30 p.m.
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Tuesday
ceedings would take about two
weeks, he said, and hostages
day- with the promise of
wanner temperatures.
Winds should diminish over
North Texas today and under
clear skies temperatures will
warm into the upper 40s and
low 50s. Much the same
temperatures are expected in
West Texas although winds
will become gusty from, the
southwest in the Panhandle to-
day-
ed for its high yield of gasoline
— by $3.73 to $30 a barrel
retroactive to Nov. 1.
Mabrak also said Libya,
which ships nearly half of the 2
daily to the United States, will
reduce production next year,
but he did not say how much.
The nighttime patrols have
been helpful in reducing the
number of loose and noisy dog
complaints, Bentley* Mid.
• Many pet owners apparently
let their dogs run loose at
Stephenville
Today
Selden 4-H Club, Selden Community Center, 6
p.m.
Christmas supper, Disabled American
Veterans, VFW Hall, 7 p.m.
Erath County Committee on Aging, Town and
Country Bank Community Room
___________City cracks down
No pre-Christmas
release expected
Ghotbzadeh has said the
government was going ahead -
with plans for an international
"grand jury” to investigate
"crimes” of the United States
and the deposed shah,
although the former
monarch's departure from the
United States has opened the •
door to a resolution of the U.S.-
Iranian crisis.
He also said some of the 50 -
American hostages held in the
occupied U.S. Embassy since
Nov. 4 might be released for
Christmas. Militants holding
them have insisted they would
be tried on espionage charges
if the shah is not returned to
Iran.
Los Angeles radio newsman
Alex Paen, who started a
Christmas card writing cam-
paign in the United States,
delivered a sack of 3,000 cards
to the embassy today, the first
of many he hopes to take.
Another broadcast said Iran
is stopping oil sales to
Panama, where the shah has
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS- Filling Iftjor an absent commencement speaker, Tarleton State
taken refuge on a resort- president Dr. W
island. But Panama said Sun-
day that it has not imported oil
from Iran since 1973.
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TEHRAN, ’ Iran (AP) -
Militant students occupying
the U.S. Embassy denied to-
day that any of the 50
Americans they hold would be
be released by Christmas and
said all hostages will be tried
asspies.
Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh told foreign
reporters Sunday evening that
some oP the hostages
“possibly” would be. released
before Christmas.
“No no, they are not going to
be released,” a student
spokesman told The
Associated Press. He said the
embassy occupiers would
leave the setting of a trial date
up to the Iranian people. “The
Iranian people will decide
that.” He did not elaborate. „
Ghotbzadeh said the Iranian
authorities have not begun
tranquilizers. Approximately,
35 to 40 dogs are destroyed
each month, Bentley said.
.Bentley and City Ad-
ministrator Marshal Shelton
encourage pet owners to
register their pets at the police •-
department or any locaH
veterinarians before the Jan.
1,1980 deadline for obtaining a
100 percent above last year’s
levels as the cartel’s oil
.ministers convened behind
tight security in this
Venezuelan capital to consider
yet another price hike.
"The industrialized coun-
tries can pay whatever we
ask,” Libyan Oil Minister
Izzedin al Mabrak told a
W
Unity Day set
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter has signed a
congressional resolution designating Tuesday as "national unity
day” in support of the hostages being held in Iran, j
The president asked individual Americans and organizations
"to observe that day by prominently displaying the American
flag?’
Carter said the people of the United States are unanimous in
their concern for the 50 hostages being held in Tehran and have
demonstrated this by ringing church bells, writing letters to the
Iranian mission at the United Nations and by sending messages
to the hostages themselves.
“A most fitting symbol of this concern is the American flag
itself,” Carter said, adding: “It stands for human dignity; it
stands, too, for ourunited determination."
. ) CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)
— The Organization of
I Petroleum Exporting Coun-
tries meets here today to raisg
its base price for crude oil
again but many of the cartel’s
13 members have jumped the
' gun and boosted their prices
as much as 33 percent.
World oil prices were about
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Sherry Lewis, age I, Stephenville
Cross Timbers Basin - Fair and wanner through Tuesday.
High Monday mid 40s. Ovenlght low upper 28s. High
Tuesday lower 80s. Sunday’s high 58. Monday morning’s
low 18.
By JIM CRAWLEY
E-T Staff Writer
Loom dogs have been get-
ting scarce in Stephenville as
the ..city has begun a
crackdown on stray animals
in the city limits.
, Although the crackdown on
strays is not a formal plan, as
such, city officials have added
a part-time animal control of-
ficer to assist Bee Bentley, the
city’s full-time animal control
officer.
In the last three weeks,
Stephenville officials have fil-
ed 20 cases in municipal court
since November 20 against
owners of stray dogs that were
picked up by Bentley or Carol
Urrey, the new part-time con-
trol officer. --
Of the 20 cases, only 10 had
come before Municipal Judge
Sarah Miller, as of Friday.
Nine pet owners paid the
$28.50 fine for violating the
city’s lease law. ,
Santa's letters
To help speed up the deliver of letters from
Stephenville children to Santa Claus, Santa
has enlisted the Empire-Tribune staff to assist
with the heavy load of mail to the North Pole.
Children are urged to write Santa about the
Christmas presents they want and to tell him
why they* like. Christmas and the holiday
season.
Letters should be addressed to Santa Claus,
c-o Stephenville Empire-Tribune, P.O. Box
958, Stephenville, TX 76401.
Santa will print some of the letters from
Stephenville youngsters in- the Empire-
Tribune, that best describe the children’s
ideas about Christmas and what they want for
the holiday.
dollars for males and spayed
females and $10 for unspayed
females. After the deadline,
pet owners can be fined by the
city for unlicensed dogs and
cats, Shelton said.
might appear as witnesses,
"but not as the accused.”
? He had said before that the
hostages would not be tried
until the grand jury reported
and its findings could be
evaluated.
But the students, who insist
the shah be returned to Iran
for trial, have contradicted or
overruled Ghotbzadeh several
times on the status of
American diplomats held in
Iran. —
Tehran Radio today quoted
Ghotbzadeh as saying invita-
tions to join the "grand jury”
are being extended to Nobel
Peace Prize-winning Irish
statesman Sean MacBride and
Louis-Edmond Pettiti, presi-
dent of both the Paris Bar
Association and the Interna-
tional Organization of Catholic
Jurists. Both men said today
considering a date for a that they had not received in-
hostage trial, but that they are
putting together an interna-
tional "grand jury” to in-
vestigate U.S. links with the
former shah's regime, beginn-
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vitations.
Told of the radiajttport,
MacBride, in Dublin, said his
participation would depend bn
the inquiry’s terms of
ing Jan. 1 or 2. The pro- reference Jts purpose and who
» else was involved.
Foreign Minister Sadegh
*V.O. Trogdon told the approximately 200 graduating seniors at the Widom Gym
ceremony they should endeavor to do their best la their careers. Texas A4M University professor Dr.
Rod O’Connor, the scheduled speaker, was forced to land his private plane in Wacol£cause of a
rapidly advancing cold front. (E-T Staff Photo by Jim Crawley)_
Cold front passes
By The Associated Press Wintry gusts diminished in
The Artic front that brought ' West Texas except in the •
goosebumps to Texas this mountain areas and were ex-
weekend chugged south into * pected to shift to southwest to-
Mexico today.-.
But in its wake, winds
blustered near 50 mph at
Guadalupe Pass, dropping the
13-degree readings to a biting
wind chill factor of 30 degrees
below zero.
The lowest thermometer
readings were in the Eastern
Panhandle and South Plains
with temperatures in the five-
to ten-above-zero range.
night, he said.
When someone complains
about a noisy dog, Bentley,
usually talks with the owners
in an attempt to solve the pro-
blem. While this works most of
the time, if the dog remains a
problem, Bentley asks the
complaining party to sign a
complaint so he can issue a
citation to the dog owner.
Recently, the dogcatchers > -
have been picking up approx- ’
imately 60 dogs per month in
Stephenville and placing them
at the city pound near the,
municipal airport. The pound
has an average' occupancy
rate of 20 to 25 dogs per day
with an additional 15 to 20 cats
housed at the facility.
Current policy calls for all
animals picked up and
deposited at the pound to be
held for five days before being
destroyed. Animals that have
. not been picked up or adopted
at the end of the five-day
The addition of a part-time period are given a fatal dose of
officer has increased the ef-
fectiveness of animal control
because streets are now
patrolled at night and
weekends for the first time.
Previously, the lone animal
control officer was on-duty
during weekdays only. Miss
Urrey has been picking up
three to five loose dogs each
OPEC prices ’jump' before meet
reporter. “They have shown
they can stand a price in-
crease.”
Libya, which breached the
OPEC ceiling of $23.50 a bar-
rel in October, announced ' million barrels it produces
another price- increase Sun-
day. It hiked the price of its
high-quality crude oil — priz-
M on loose canines
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December 17, 1979
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Doggett, Denver. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 104, Ed. 1 Monday, December 17, 1979, newspaper, December 17, 1979; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1283818/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.