Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, September 24, 1979 Page: 1 of 10
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Vol. Ill, No. 35
The Stephenville United
Way began preparing for the
Oct. 1 start of their annual
fund raising by appointing
County Attorney John Terrill
as drive chairman for this
year’s drive. Terrill’s appoint-
ment came at a meeting of the
United Way board of directors
Tuesday
A goal of $20,400 has been set
for this year's drive, Dale
Deshazo, United Way presi-
dent, said. Last year, the
There were no arrests or other
incidents here.
Elsewhere, however, pro-
testers blocked the main gate
to the Vermont Yankee
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A company spokesman said
the team hoped to complete its
work by the end of the day.
“The purpose of the cone is
not to plug the well, but to turn
it into a producing well’’ until
it can be dosed, said a
Rogers collided with a legally
parked, unoccupied car.
Rogers was uninjured in the
mishap. Officer Ted Helms in-
vestigated the accident.
Sunday afternoon, Stephen-
ville firemen extinguished a
trash fire at the low-water
crossing on E. Long St.
Association for Retarded
Citizens, Erath County 4-H,
Erath County Committee on
Aging and the Historical
House Museum.
The Erath County Humane
Society and the American Red
Cross have been added to this
year’s list of benefactors.
The Stephenville chapter
also donated funds to tornado
victims in Wichita Falls' and
Vernon, Deshazo said.
Consumer advocate Ralph
Nader urged the crowd to op-
pose presidential candidates
who favor nuclear power and
support those who oppose it,
making energy a major
political issue in 1980.
“To stop nuclear energy is
patriotic. It is fighting the
cancer war," he said. “Do you
have the will?"
The crowd responded with
chants of “No nukes! No
nukes!”
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weekend as they travel to San Antonio for a night game with Trinity. The game at San Antonio has
been designated as theTSU “school trip" for this fall. (E-Tstaff photo by Mary Anne Yarbrough)
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CATTLEMEN’S ROUNDUP- Jean Stone, center, hands Mike
McBryde a donation for the West Texas Rehabilitation Center.
Mrs. Stone is one of the Erath County chairman for the center’s
annual Cattlemen's Roundup. Area cattlemen also donated
several dozen calves, hogs and poultry for the charity auction
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charity spent over $19,600 in
contributions to
organizations and for disaster
relief. |
Highlighting the drive will
be Oct. 30 when volunteers will
fan through the community to
solicit donations. Volunteers
will canvas neighborhoods col-
lecting funds. Donations will
also be sought from
businesses and Tarleton State
employees and students.
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nuclear plant in Vernon to
disrupt its annual refueling,
and police arrested 167 per-
sons on charges of unlawful
trespass.
The festive crowd on the
edge of New York Harbor
heard speeches on the dangers
of nuclear power from
political and environmental
activists and listened to the
music of a loose new alliance
of musicians committed to a
solar society—including Pete
Seeger, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson
Browne, and Crosby, Stills
By MARIA PALLAIS
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP)-It was
billed as a protest against
nuclear power. By the time it
ended, sunny skies, free music
and a controversial issue drew
an estimated 200,000 people to
the tip of Manhattan for a “No
Nukes” rally.
Why did they gather here on . of similar protests nationwide,
the crisp first day of autumn?
“It was mainly for the
music that I came, and to
remember Woodstock and the
’60s,” said Princeton student
Pecan
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No injuries in mishap
Stephenville police in-
vestigated one minor traffic
mishap Saturday evening dur-
ing an otherwise quiet
weekend.
The accident ocurred at 8:43
p.m. in the 500 block of E. Clif-
ton. A car driven by Stephen-
ville resident Jesse Chapman
PEMEX spokesman in Mex-
ico City, who declined to be
identified. “Fifteen percent
will still possibly spill into the
ocean and have to be col-
lected."
PEMEX says it has spent
about $1 billion so far on
several attempts to cap the
runaway test well, located 50
miles off the Campeche Bay
shrimping port of Ciudad del
Carmen in southern Mexico. It
also is drilling two relief wells
at angles to the blowout in
hopes of eventually shutting it
down completely.
About 84 million gallons of
oil have spilled into the bay
and drifted as far north as the
southern Texas coast. In the
seven weeks since oil first
began blackening South Texas
beaches, U.S. damage claims
and cleanup coasts have
climbed to about $360 million.
Three suits seeking a total of
$355 million in damages have
been filed in Texas against
PEMEX and firms working
under contact to it at the well
site.
U.S. Coast Guard officials
fear more oil may stain the
Texas coast, but they say the
autumn shift of offshore cur-
rents to the south has helped
push many large patches of
crude away from the coast.
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Cross Timbers Basin - Fair and warm through Tuesday.
High Monday mid 90s. Overnight low mid 60s. High
Tuesday lower 90s. Winds southerly, 10 miles per hour.
High Sunday 89. Monday morning low 62.
Planes
clash in
Mideast
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -
Israeli and Syrian warplanes
battled in the skies south of
Beirut today, and two to four
Syrian jets were reported shot
down. It was the second
dogfight between the old
enemies in four days.
Lebanese government
sources said two Syrian
fighters crashed in flames
near Beirut International Air-
port but their pilots
parachuted to safety.
An Israeli military com-
mand spokesman in Tel Aviv
said four Syrian planes were
downed and all Israeli aircraft
returned safely to base.
Associated Press reporter
Mohammed Salam said he
saw a large explosion near the
airport when he was driving to
work.
“There was a big orange
flash and a big explosion and
then smoke,” he said.
The air clash came ata time
when the United States and
other countries are growing
increasingly critical of Israeli
military actions in neighbor-
ing Lebanon. But Israel vows
to continue its policy of strik-
ing at Palestinian guerrilla
bases in southern Lebanon.
Military activity stepped up
in Lebanon’s troubled south
late last week.
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Stephenville
Today
Stephepville Coin Club, Patio Room of
Farmers-First National Bank, T p.m.
Pro-family Forum, Fiesta Room of Far-
mers-First National Bank, 7 p.m.
Stephenville Booster Club, room 134 high
school, 6:30 p.m.
Cross Timbers Photo Club, Red Bandana, 7
p.m. 3
Future Young Homemakers salad supper,
high school cafeteria, 6:30 p.m.
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Girl Scout leader training, First United
Methodist, 10 a.m.
Erath County Humane Society, room 114,
Humanities Bldg. TSU, 7:30 p.m.
Erath County Swinebreeders, Texas A&M
Research and Extension Center, 7 p.m.
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The U.S. Coast Guard
reports $5.4 million has been
spent or earmarked for beach
cleanup and protection of in-
land bays. An additional $1.1
million is available for <61
removal operations and more
funds probably would be
authorized by the U.S. Coast
Guard commandant if that
amount runs out.
Fears that the oil would kill
thousands of birds, fish and
marine animals have not
come true.
However, scientists say they
do not know what effects the
oil will have on wildlife
habitats if the brown crude
settles on the ocean floor or at
the bottom of freshwater bays.
The threat of oil, as well as
its presence, is what has hurt
the tourist-dependent
economy of the Gulf Coast.
Three damage suts seeking
a total of $355 million have
been filed. The defendants are
Pemex, the Mexican national
oil company that owned the
well; Permargo, a Mexican
drilling contractor hired to
operate the well; and SEDCO,
a Dallas-based company that
leased the offshore rig used at
the Ixtoc I well.
Texas Attorney General
Mark White says he will sue
SEDCO to recoverstate costs
of handling the spill. White
said he will file suit after
President Carter meets this
weekend in Washington with
Mexicans plan
well capping try
By MARJORIE MILLER
Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY (AP)
Mexican oil workers hope to
finish capping the runaway
Ixtoc-I oil well today after
lowering a 125-ton steel cone
into place over the maverick
gusher that has fouled Gulf
Coast beaches from Mexico to
southern Texas.
The capping operation, aim-
ed at reducing the flow of oil
and natural gas by 85 percent,
was halted by darkness Sun-
day. A team of 300 techni-
cians, divers and .engineers
from the Mexican state oil
^monopoly PEMEX had work-
ed for a dozen hours Sunday to
lower the 35 foot by 69 foot
cone onto the underwater
superstructure over the well.
“The cone is in place on the
structure and (Monday) we
will rotate it 90 degress to put
it over the mouth of the well,”
said Jose Luis Garcia Luna, a
senior PEMEX engineer
working on the project, dubb-
ed “Operation Sombrero."
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scheduled for today to Abfleae. Also la the picture are (from left)
John, Ricky and Cynthia Traweek, and Vance and Seth Smith.
The Smith brothers were in Stephenville Sunday to pick the
Erath County donations. (E-T Staff Photo by Jim Crawley)
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Volunteers and United Way
area, members plan an Oct. 15
meeting to finalize plans for
the Oct. 30 Drive Day.
Funds collected in last
year’s drive were donated to
Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, Salvation Army, Aid to
the Needy, Texas United Com-
munity Services, USO,
American Diabetes Associa-
tion, Stephenville Senior
Citizens, Pecan Valley
MHMR,
beaches, damage claims and
cleanup costs total at least
CORPUS CHRISfl, Texas-/ $360million.
(AP) — Damages to Texas
caused by oil from a crippled
Mexican well that has stained
the state’s southern coastline
may not be over yet.
But the autumn shift of
Texas offshore currents to the
south has helped push many
large oil patches away from
shore, Coast Guard officials
say.
And in the
Campeche,
authorities report they are on
the brink of placing a cone
over the runaway well to
reduce the flow by 85 percent.
So far, seven weeks after the
world’s largest oil spill began
blackening South Texas
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prepares for kick-off
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Spill cost: $360 million
By SUSAN STOLER
Associated Press Wri
WINNING SMILES - The Tarleton cheerleaders had a lot to smile about and a lot to cheer about
Saturday in Lubbock as the Texans defeated Lubbock Christian 55-0. Pictured are Shone Parks and
George Palmer (left) and Lee Ann Hunt, and Paul Hermesmeyer (right) who were among the six
cheerleaders and two Poos who made the long journey. The Texans are on the road again next
Mexican President Jose Lopez
Portillo.
Oct. 23 is the deadline for fil-
ing suits against SEDCO, the
corporation founded by Texas
Gov. Bill Clements. The inter-
national company claims it
has a maximum $300,000
liability.
Clements, who has frowned
on any suits over the spill, put
his SEDCO holdings in a blind
trust before taking office this
January as the state’s first
Republican governor since
Reconstructon.
Commercial fishermen, the
town of South Padre Island,
area merchants and rental
property owners filed the
damage suits, claiming they
were dealt a "crushing
economic blow.”
Pokes battle Browns
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Anti-nuclear protesters
rally around sun, music
Janine Verbinski, 20.
“People here will learn
about the cause,” said Jonie
Miller, who came to take a
stand against nuclear energy
and sat in the front row.
The peaceful day-long
gathering was the largest anti-
nuclear, pro-solar rally in
history and the focus of a day
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