Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 1979 Page: 1 of 18
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Middle School, 7:30 p.m.
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Carrie Brincefield, age 7, Stephenville
Cross Timbers Basin - Fair this afternoon,
tonight and Thursday. Warm days; highs this
afternoon and Thursday, mid 90s; lows tonight
lower 70s. Winds from south 10 to 15 mph,
decreasing tonight. High Tuesday 89, low this
morning, 70.
FORT WORTH, Texas <AP)
- Testimony focused today on
a “phantom" tape recorder
that lies at the heart of defense
strategy in the murder-con-
spiracy trial of millionaire
Cullen Davis.
The issue, while complex, is
this:
The Fort Worth industrialist
says he did. The state says he
did not
FBI agent Ron Jannings tes-
tified Tuesday he searched
McCrory and his car Aug. 18
before and after a pivotal
parking lot rendezvous with
Davis
Did you find a Norelco tape
recorder...?" prosecutor John
Bankston asked.
"No, sir," Jannings replied.
“Did you find any mini-cas-
sette tapes.”'
the ordinance may be guilty of
a Class C misdemeanor. First
offenders could be fined up to
$50, with second offenders
liable for up to $100 in fines.
Thirdrtime offenders may be
punished by six months in the
county jail and a $200 fine.
Pet owners needing to have
their pets vaccinated against
rabies are urged to call any
local veterinarian. Only pets
older than four months are
able to receive the vaccina-
tions.’ • ■
Initial reports Tuesday
night indicated that the nor-
therly current continues along
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FRIENDLY DISCUSSION - Pecan Valley Mental Health-
Mental Retardation board member Dick Blythe talks with Keith
Thompson during the summer camp conducted by Pecan Valley
for developmentally disabled school-age children. This week-long
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Scientists are most concern-
ed about keeping the slimy
assault out of the environmen-
tally fragile Laguna Madre,
which runs between Padre
Island and the mainland. The
inland waterway is home to
several varieties of wildlife
and a breeding ground for
snnmp and other key marine
species.
The oil spill’s most serious
impact to the beach areas,
Robinson said, would be to the
shore birds that might die in
the goo or see their food supp-
ly destroyed.
Scientists cleaned two deep-
water birds found streaked
with oil Tuesday. But at least
two other off-shore birds died
after becoming caught in the
floating oil.
his rudder.
Earlier reports said there
were 336 boats in the race
when the storm hit, but today
the Royal Ocean Yacht Club
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the coast at least as far as
Sabine Pass _at... the . Texas-
Louisiana border.
Oil on the hard-packed
beaches is easily cleaned and
Is the least of environmental
worries from the spill, Robin-
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producers and planned to
cover local dairy problems
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storm Tuesday that lashed
more than 360 yachts in the in-
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enforcement officers to pick
up stray dogs, even though
they may have been vac-
cinated against rabies.
"What we were concerned
with, was to get people to have
their pets vaccinated,” Sheriff
Jack Perry said, explaining
the reasoning behind the or-
dinance. “We’re not trying to
force people to do anything.
We just want people to
understand the seriousness of
rabies."
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killed. By midday, 21 yachts
worth an estimated $4.5
million were reported sunk or
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program is conjunction with the Stephenville Park and
Recreation Department. Nineteen children are involved in the smaller patches that lurk off
camp. Photo by Nello Armstrong. the coast. It’s massive
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"No, sir."
Davis, 45, testified in a pre-
vious trial that McCrory, 41.
the state’s key witness, was
taping their conversation with
a hand-held Norelco recorder
He said he permitted
himself to be recorded
because he thought he was
cooperating with the FBI and
that the tapes also would be
used to torpedo a plot on his
own life.
The Norelco recorder, label-
ed a "phantom" by pro-
secutors, has never surfaced.
Asked about Jannings’ testi-
mony, defense attorney Steve
Sumner said: "We’re going to
be able to shed some light on
that. That's all I can tell you
now."
PLYMOUTH, England
(AP) — Ships, lifeboats and
helicopters searched the
Atlantic off southwest
England today for bodies and
survivors of yachting’s worst
disaster. One American died,
but officials said they had ac-
counted for all U.S. craft in the
area danger.
An American resident of
I-ondon, Frank Fems, was
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Nearly a dozen animals
from Erath County have been
tested and confirmed to have
rabies by the Texas Depart-
ment of Health- Most of the
animals were skunks, but a
cow was also found to have
rabies. No health hazard was
declared after the infected
dairy cow was
destroyed.Skunks are the
main carriers of rabies and
can • transmit the deadly
disease to other animals and
man
form a slick up to 50 miles long
and more than a mile wide in
some places.
All of the oil off the coast
was drifting northward with
the contour of the shoreline
and was at least 10 miles off
shore, officials said.
Scientists said the fickle
winds pick up in the afternoon,
driving some of the scattered
patches ashore. Those winds
could just as easily beach
some of the larger concentra-
tions.
If those mammoth patches
miss the coast this time,
Robinson cautioned, “They
still might come ashore
somewhere else. It can hap-
pen at anytime.”__
Coast Guard spotters were
unsuccessful again Tuesday in
their search for a "reverse
current” they hope will push
much of the oil farther out into
the open sea. Such a current is
created by the collision of nor-
therly and southerly currents
70-mile winds and moun-
tainous seas.
Yachting officials in Provi-
dence, R.I., reported all
American boats in the race
were safe. British racing of-
ficials said they had no word
from two UJS? boats, but said
they apparently were not in
No extra enforcement
policies are planned by Sheriff
Perry due to the ordinance, he
said Wednesday. He said his
deputies would respond to
calls concerning the or-
dinance, but he didn’t plan to
have special patrols looking
for violations of the animal
control ordinance. Perry said
the ordinance gives his men
the necessary powers to con-
trol loose animals.
miles long, that worry them
the most.
“We have some pretty
sizeable concentrations not
now predicted to hit the coast;
but (they) could hit with a
very slight change in the
winds,” said Robinson. “The
patches below 40 yards by 40
yards we aren’t even keeping
up with now, there are just too
many of them.”
Navy reconnaissance flights
Tuesday discovered that the
outer edge of the oil from Mex-
ican offshore well that blew
out June 3 is 360 miles east of
Corpus Christi.
That puts it some 100 miles
south of Ixiuisiana’s Ter-
rebonne Bay, an inlet more
than 60 miles southwest or
New Orleans. But Coast
Guard spokesman- Jim
McGranachan said the oil isn't
expected to hit that coast in
the near future, if at all.
Coast Guard officials said
Tuesday night that several of
the larger patches menacing along the coastline,
the southern third of the 100-
mile long Padre Island appear
to be consolidating and could
Dairy class
scheduled
A dairy short course will be
held at the Texas A&M
research and extension ser-
vice located on highway 281
tomorrow. August 16, beginn-
ing at 10a.m. , .
The program, which will
conclude about 2:30 p.m." will
include talks by Tommy White
of Dallas, Dr. Mike
Tomaszewski of Texas A&M
and Ken Wolf, also from A&M
White will dicuss feeding of
dairy cattle and the feeding
problems dairymen are ex-
periencing
Dr. Tomaszewski will ex-
plore two subjects,breeding
and record keeping
Wolf, -ah economist-
agribusiness specialist will be
discussing personnel manage-
ment ihcluding hiring and • • at least seven Mays after the trustees propose a tax rate, assistant
superintendent lies Gandy said.
The earliest date for the public hearing would be Thursday. abandoned in a freak summer
August 23. This Thursday’s meeting and the public hearing on the
tax rate will be held in the Middle School Club Room and are open
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Stephenville ^Chapter No. 801, Order of the
Eastern Star, ice cream supper, city park,
7:30p.m.
Square dancing. Senior Citizens Center, 7
p.m.
Erath County Swine Breeders, Texas A&M
Research and Extension Center, 7:30 p.m.
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Animal control ordinance goes into effect
Rural pet owners in Erath
County will be required to
have their pets vaccinated
againstj;abies in accordance
with a county animal control
ordinance that went into effect
today.
The ordinance, passed by
county commissioners July 23,
requires all dogs, <*ats and
other domesticated animals,
over four-months old, to have
an anti-rabies vaccination.
The ordinance also allows law
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas
(AP) — Miles of glistening
white resort beaches in South
Texas may be coated with
thick, gummy Mexican crude
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— usually unpredictable —
coastal winds don’t cooperate,
warned scientists fighting the
world’s largest oil spill.
Patches of the brownish-
black muck, one of them 25
square feet and six inches
deep, soiled several portions
of Padre and Mustang islands
Tuesday and scientists expect
more scattered assaults from
small drifting patches in the
next several days.
“I don’t see any relief from
it. There’s nothing in the
foreseeable future to change
the situation we have,” said
John Robinson of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration, scientific coor-
dinator of the government oil
spill task force.
Scientists aren’t even trying
to keep track of countless
Testimony focuses
on ’phantom' tape
Did Davis know he was be-
ing recorded when he met FBI
informant David McCrory last
summer and discussed the
murders of his divorce judge
and others'1
« • r.idui mum? juurc mary iwcvoy ano snenii jack Kerry receive a
certificate from Texas Jail Standards Commission Executive Director Robert Viterna (right) The
certificate names the Erath County Jail as one of only eight jails in the county meeting the com
mission s standards. Three of the eight are in the 29th Judicial District, which includes Erath (ouutv
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Search continues after
worst yachting disaster
Royal Air Force’s Grimalkin,
two from the Trophy, two
from the Flashlight and one
each from the Gunslinger and
the FestinaTertia.
Among those reported safe
was former Prime Minister
Edward Heath, whose boat
Morning Cloud was first
reported under tow with a
broken rudder. letter he
reported by radio that he was
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Rescuers pulled more than
125 survivors to safety... .
Ferns was skippering his still in the race, was making
yacht Ariadne with a British good progress and had not lost
crew. He was picked up, badly
injured, by-e Dutch destroyer
and died aboard it. Four of his
crew also were reported dead.
The other deaths were two
Young admits PLO meet j Food cost explored
see page 4B
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Tax rate meeting
set for Thursday
Stephenville school board trustees will meet'Thursday night to
propose a tax rate for the 1979-80 school year and set a public
heari ng on thei r proposed raIc
School administrators will recommend the proposal of $145 per
$100 of value as the tax rate This is the present rate levied by the
Stephenville school system
If the school board proposes a tax rate, the members will then
schedule a public hearing for distnet residents to express their among 13 yachtsmen reported
opinion about the proposed tax rate. The public hearing must be
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Doggett, Denver. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 1979, newspaper, August 15, 1979; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1284628/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.