Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1979 Page: 1 of 12
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WHERE IT RAINED
Bluff Dale
DeLeon .....
Dublin
Hico ........ .........
Huckabay •
Lingleville.. .. . ....
Morgan Mill ...........
Stephenville
end to rain but predicted
partly cloudy skies this af-~
ternoon and tonight with
temperatures becoming
coolei; tonight and Friday.
Today’s high is expected to
reaach 94 with the overnight
low dropping to 65. Winds will
be northerly 5-15 miles per
hour.
The brilliant lightning
display knocked out power
supplies in the Happy Valley .
area between and west and
east of Hico. Power was
restored by Texas Power and
Light and Erath County
Electric work crews shortly
after the interupUons.
Rainfall dropped by the
strom ranged from one tenth
of an inch at -DeLeon to Two
inches in the rural area west
of Hico. Stephenville recieved
.20 inches of rain .
No official reading was
available on the wind velocity
but estimates ranged up to
thirty five miles per hour.
The National Weather
Service forcast calls for and
A violent thunderstorm that
swept throught the Cross
Timbers Basin Wednesday
night was credited with
causing several power
outages and the destruction of
a dairy barn near Hico.
The storm, which was ac-
companied by high
winds.moderate rainfall and
severe lightning hampered the
efforts of the Hico fire
department as they battled
the barn fire on the Moody
lawrence dairy in the Duffau
community A lightning strike
was cited by Hico fire chief
Donald Warren as .the
probable cause of the
blaze.The ban. was completly
destroyed.
Two other occupants of
Woolsey’s car were also in-
jured in the one-car accident
that occurred at ap-
proximately 3:45 pm. Wed-
nesday. One of the injured,
Oeida Keys Holland, 20, of
DUBLIN-A Carlton
resident, Edwin Kimble
Woolsey, was killed Wed-
nesday afternoon when his car
struck a tree, after running off
State Highway 6, four miles
east of Dublin.
Crash kills Carlton resident
seated in the rear.
Woolsey is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Woolsey of Carlton; four
brothers; Carl and Kenneth of
Carlton, Loyd of Del .eon, and
Charles of Hamilton; paternal
grandmother, Mrs. L.K.
Glover of Dublin and maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Ellen
Johnson of Carlton.
He was bom on July 11,1960
in Dublin and was a Baptist.
Services are pending at
Comanche Funeral Home.
Waco, is in critical condition
at Stephenville Hospital,
Department of Public Safety
trooper Max Weaver said. The
other occupant, 23-year old
Gay Lynn Bullard of Hico, is
in stable condition at
Stephenville Hospital.
Weavgr said the car,,
eastbound, swerved off the
road, ran through a barbed
wire fence and rammed a tree
in a pasture. Woolsey and
Holland were in the front seat,
while Bullard was apparently
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Christie Schiller, age 7, Stephenville
Cross Timbers Basin - Partly cloudy this
afternoon turning cooler tonight and Friday.
Thursday’s high 94, low 65. Friday’s high near
90. Winds northerly 5-15 mph. Wednesday’s
high 96, overnight low 65. .20 inch of
precipitation.
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Friday
YEllow Jacket scrimmage vs. Lake Worth,
Tarleton Memorial Stadium, freshman, 5:00
p.m., junior varsity, 6:00 p.m., varsity at
approximately 7:30 p.m. VFW Post 9181
meeting, post home, 7:30 p.m.
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tax increase and a public
hearing must be conducted so
residents may voice their
opinions on the tax increase.
But, the Stephenville school,
system doesn't plan to raise
the tax rate for 1980. Instead,
the trustees are proposing the
same tax rate and assessment
ratio as the district had last
year.
School trustees were con-
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Obituaries..
Sports
over three percent of the
effective tax rate’, the rate
which would cause the
collection of the same amount
fronted with a tax increase’
that wasn’t and a possible
group of angry taxpayers
wanting to know why taxes
were going up In response to
the tax increase ad they also
.purchased the smaller ad
explaining the situation.
School officials are noping
their explanation' ad will
sooth any hot tempers over a -
‘tax increase'.
Tonight, school officials will
conduct a public hearing for
area residents to express their
opinion of the tax increase'.
School board trustees and
officials will be present at the
Middle School’s Club Room
for the 7 p.m. hearing.
Stephenville
Today
Watermelon Feast for Yellow Jacket Band
members and parents, Stephenville High
School practice field, 6:30 p.m.
Newcomers Club, “Polynesian Picnic,”
Oxford Cabana, 7 p.m.
Senior Citizens Dance, city park pavilion, 7
p.m.
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LIGHTNING STRIKE- A bolt of lightning kpliuters the darkness over Stephenville Thursday mor-
ning. The lightning was part of a thunderstorm’s display which dumped a fifth of an inch of rata on
the Stephenville area. (E-TStaff Photo by Jim Crawley)
set for tonight
In Tuesday’s Empire- provisions of ‘Truth in
Tribune, a quarter-page ad . Taxation' law, any increase
announced a school tax in-
i-muc b y the Stephenville
IndepenJeTrt Schiwl District.
.. „ collection or me same amount
Next to e a , w revenues as last
smaner ad bough by the artvprbswl M a
school district, told taxpayers '
they were not going to ex-
perience a tax increase and
that some taxpayers were
actually in for a decrease in
their tax burden.
Which ad is correct and why
did the Stephenville school
officials make it so confusing?
The school district had to
buy the larger ad to comply
with a state law. Under the
Drive safely-- watch
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Lightning destroys
barn, cuts power
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roughly equals the amount of
crude oil Iran ships to the
United States in three days.
The Energy Department
said it recommended approval
of the deaf "because it was in
the national interest of the
United States to reciprocate to
Iran to meet their relatively
town small emergency need caused
by a temporary refinery
problem - especially in light
of the large quantities of
petroleum which that country
exports to the United States."
State Department
spokesman Thomas Reston
said approval of the export
was based on both
humanitarian reasons and on
U.S. interests in assuring con-
tinued access to Iranian oil.
Amerada-H&s, the com-
pany handling the deal, would
not discuss details of the
transaction. But an official
said, "We are, confident the
shipments won't affect our
supply of heating oil or
kerosene in the United States
this winter.”
Government sources who
asked not wbe named said
Amerada-Hess promised the
Commerce Department in
writing it would replace the*
products sold to Iran by
purchases on the world
market if that becomes
necessary to avoid shortages
in the United States.
Energy Department spokes-
man Phil Keif said the sale is
less than one-tenth of 1 per-
cent of annual heating oil con-
sumption in the United States
He said 175.3 million barrels
of heating oil was on hand as
of Aug. 10 and that the
stockpile "will exceed the 240
million barrel target by 2
million barrels at the end of
October."
WASHINGTON (AP) —
- Federal officials say the
government approved
emergency exports of heating -
oil and kerosene to Iran at
least in part to maintain the
good will of a nation that ships
far greater amounts of oil to
the United States.
Questioned at a
meeting in Burlington, Iowa,
President Carter said Wed-
nesday the amount of - fuel
involved is "just a very tiny
amount" compared to U.S.
imports from Iran.
According to government
sources and independent esti-
mates, Iran will be getting
about I million barrels of kero-
sene and 1 million barrels of
heating oil.
With the United States im-
porting about 750,000 barrels
of oil daily from Iran, the 2
million barrels headed back to
the Persian Gulf country
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The first day of.school can be a day of joy and
excitement or a day of despair for the children
attending classes. Some students look at school’s
beginning as a time for a reunion with friends after
a long summer, while others wished the summer
might last a little longer. Some of these expressions
were captured by E-T staffer Jim Crawley at
Central Elementary in Stephenville. On the left,
Rachel Moore is escorted to her first day in the first
grade by her mother, Rebecca Moore. Above,
second-grader Tammy Freeman looks ap-
prehensive about school’s first day.
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Doggett, Denver. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1979, newspaper, August 23, 1979; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1283968/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.