Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 168, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 2, 1980 Page: 1 of 38
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i All Stephenville Public
Schools will observe open
house Monday night, March 3,
from 6:30 unitl 8:30 pan., ac-
cording to superintendent of
schools Ben Gilbert.
The public is encouraged to
visit all buildings and cam-
puses during the open house.
“We invite and encourage
In addition to the golf course
itself, the club has a spacious
pro shop and snack bar facili-
ty plus 94 golf cart storage
sheds for rent; 63 of the sheds
have already been rented.
The course is located off the
Lingleville Road in the nor-
thwest part of Stephenville. It
was built in cooperation with
Stephenville Savings and Loan
Ayah was only empowered to
release the prisoners if they
■were treated as political
prisoners.
The leftists in custody are
Guthrie said a 815 deposit will
reserve one of the storage
sheds until play begins. After
that time a monthly rental fee
Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh already has
promised that the panel win
be allowed to visit the ap-
proximately 50 American
hostages, who spent their
119th day in captivity
Saturday.
will be charged.
According to club officials,
the pro shop and cart storage
areas are “90 percent com-
plete .”
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can visit schools in local com-
munities.
“All classrooms, elemen-
tary through high school, will
host open house during this
week. The community is in-
vited to see first-hand how the
school system operates,” said
Gilbert.
According to the SISD
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Financing and Insurance
specialist and salesman Jess
Elliot said, “ we are very
happy to be in this location.
This building is very func-
tional...it just about doubles
our service are* and „
showroom space, we hope
everyone will get out to see us
soon."
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the community to pay us a
visit,” Gilbert said. “We
endeavor to help each student
develop personal knowledge,
skills and competence to max-
imum capacity,” he added.
Texas Public Schools week
is observed each year in order
that parents and the public
Mark and his wife, Loree,
own and manage the Culllgan
Water Conditioning at 1313
North Graham.
In announcing for the City
Council Place 4 seat Mark
Stated, "In seeking this office
my main goal and ambition is
to represent the people of
Stephenville to the very best of
my ability and to get involved
in the growth of this great
dty.”
on March 30.
Mrs. George Sparkman
pick up entry forms at (956-3965) can be contacted for
Sparkman’s Trim Shop, 536 E. additional information.
A spokesman for the
militants who seised the
embassy Nov. 4 denied again
that a meeting between the
commission members and
hostages was imminent,
suggesting anew that Iranian
government officials are
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year in addition to planned
weekly golf activities, such as
scramble tournaments, play
days, and inter-club events.
He also told reporters: "It
would be misleading to con-
centrate- on seeing the
hostages as the only function
the commission has.”
Olds-Cadillac line
building housing Harbin
Motors is only a year old.
began, about whether the
government was con-
stitutionally empowered to
meet one of the key guerrilla
demands: release of the leftist
prisoners.
Association’s < River North
development by the Legends
Golf Club Inc. Bill DeLoach
serves club manager and
course maintenance super-
visor.
Plans are being discussed
for a nine hole addition to the
course which the club hopes to
build sometime after the
course opens for play.
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DuBose files for
council place 4
Mark DuBose announced -
Friday that he will be a
candidate for the place 4 seat,
on the Stephenville City
Harbin Buick-Pontiac-GMC
Inc. of Stephenville became
Harbin Motors last week when
owner Butch Harbin added
franchises for Cadillac and
Oldsmobile auto sales to the
company.
Harbin integrated Ms in-
ventory and staff Into the
building that formerly housed
the Casstevens Cadillac-
Oldsmobile dealership at 750.
East Road. The modern
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Betty Heath, owner and
manger of The Cat A Candle
book and record shop, has
announced her candidacy for
Place • on the Stephenville
City Council. Except for 39
years spent traveling as an
army wife, Mrs. Heath has
always lived in Stephenville.
In announcing for the
council position, Mrs. Heath
said, "I believe my ex-
stablished record of com-
munity service speaks best for
my qualifications. In 1975, at
the request of Texas Depart-
ment of Public Health of-
ficials, I organised, staffed
and supervised the influenza
immunization clinics held in
Erath County. Four clinics
were presented, all staffed by
health care professionals and
local citizens on a volunteer
basis.
“Due to the confusion
caused by vaccine shortages
in this massive federal
program, I had to do all local
publicity and public relations
in addition to organization.
Erath County Jed the entire
state in percentage of
population immunized in this
program.”
Mrs. Health continued, "In
1975, on learning that Erath
County had been excluded
from representation on the
soon-to-be-formed Health
By The Associated Press
The U.N. commission in
Tehran .to investigate the
deposed shah’s regime failed
again Saturday to get into the
• occupied UJS. Embassy to see
the American hostages, and a
commission spokesman in-
dicated a meeting in the next
few days was not guaranteed.
Stephenville
Today
Gospel singing, 2-4 p.m. Senior Citizens Center
Cross Timbers Soccer Association, Linesman
Clinic, large field near Chamberlin school
Sunday school class for single adults, Huey’s
Village Inn, 1:38 a.m.
Monday
Stephenville Runner Club, Town & Country
Bank, 8 p.m.
Stephenville Lodge No. 287,7:38 p.m.
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The U.N. spokesman said
that while the five-man
commission still hoped to
meet with the hostages, the
panel also was pursuing other
means to ease the UJS.-Iran
crisis.
Cress Timbers Basin-Fair and wanner today and Mon-
day. High today, lower 40s, low tonight lower 39s. High
Monday, lower 60s. Saturday’s high, 38, overnight lew 11
Winds light, northerly shifting to the south tonight.
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us to our ultimate
destination.” He did not say
what country the guerrillas
wanted to go to but hinted they
hoped to go to Venezuela.
Panama has offered to
grant the guerrillas political
asylum in an effort to end the
crisis.
The government Friday
night reversed its longstan-
ding policy against bargaining
with terrorists, but
negotiations still were Mt
under way by mid-afternoon
Saturday. A Cabinet minister,
who asked not to be identified,
said serious talks probably
would not start until Sunday.
Retired Col. Julio Londono,
second-in-command at the
Foreign Ministry, appeared
briefly Saturday morning at a
police post near the embassy.
He has been mentioned as a
likely negotiator for the
government.
Meanwhile, a dispute broke
out, even before negotiations
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serving sentences for erftnes
including insurrection,
murder, kidnapping and
armed robbery.
Betty Heath files
for council seat
Systems Agency for Area 5 by
the North Central Texas
Council of Governments, I was
Instrumental in organizing a
coalition of health care
professionals and interested
citizens from Erath, Johnson,
and Denton counties. We
formed a nonprofit cor-
poration and filed a competing
proposal to be designated as
the Health Systems Agency.
Ultimately we won this long
and expensive battle,
breaking the agency out of the
Council of Governments and
today ft stands as an in-
dependent agency with many
representatives from Erath
and every concerned county
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Schools set open house
superintendent, Texas Public
Schools Week has been used to
increase the public’s
knowledge about the schools,
to encourage parents to visit
their public schools at least
once a year and to help gain an
appreciation of what schools
and the community are doing
forthem.
Panel fails to see hostages
Sambar refused to pinpoint
the date of the commission’s
departure from Iran, but said
it would not be before the
middle of next week. He also
said the commiMion was
already drafting its report for
U.N. Secretary-General Kurt
Waldheim.
Sambar would not disclose
details of the commission’s
meeting with Ghotbzadeh
except to say the status of the
hostages was discussed. The
meeting lasted just less than
two hours.
Legends membership over 100
Membership in the new
Legends Golf Club has climb-
ed over the 100 mark, accor-
ding to membership drive
chairman Neal Guthrie.
Guthrie said 118 individuals
and businesses have already
signed up for membership at
the 8200 initiation fee and he
expects the club to reach it’s
goal of 150 members soon.
Guthrie said the initiation fee
will be raised after the club
reaches its 150 member goal.
The course, scheduled to be
opened in early spring, boasts
a fully-irrigated nine-hole •
layout that stretches almost
3,000 yards. Accordihg to club
officials, the course was laid
out to take advantage of the
natural hazards presented by
hills and trees that dot the ter-
rain. -
One hole,..number five,
which Guthrie calls “one of
the most beautiful in Central
Texas,"* requires a long shot
over water.
According to Guthrie, the
club plans to hold at least one
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Leftists could fly from Columbia
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)-
A high-ranking official said
Saturday that the government
was prepared to give leftist
guerrillas a plane and safe
conduct passes enabling them
to leave Colombia with the
estimated 40 hostages they are
holding at the Dominican
Republic’s Embassy. The
official asked not to be
identified.
The hostages indude U.S.
Ambassador Diego C. Asencio
and at least 15 other foreign
envoys. The guerrillas, who
took over the embassy during
a diplomatic reception
Wednesday, are demanding
payment of850 million in cash,
the release of 311 leftist
prisoners, worldwide
publication of a manifesto and
safe conduct out of Colombia.
One of the guerrillas said
earlier in a telephone in-
terview with a local radio
station that the hostages
“must necessarily accompany
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Stephenville Veterans of Washington, and return them
Foreigns Wars post 9181 and to the same location before the
their Ladies Auxiliary have March 22 entry deadline.
announced plans for a “Miss First place winner will be
VFW” beauty contest. named “Miss VFW” and
The pageant will be held receive a 875 savings bond.
Sunday, March 30, at 3 p.m. in The runner up will receive a
the local post home on East 825 gift certificate.
Road. The public is invited to at-
The contest is open to all tend the crowning ceremonies
local girls ages 16 through 19.
Girls wishing to enter can
Asked whether such a visit
wm possible soon, U.N.
spokesman Samir Sambar
said only that members of the having a difficult time getting
commission were "hopeful.” the militants to agree to it
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Doggett, Denver. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 168, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 2, 1980, newspaper, March 2, 1980; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1284586/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.