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PAGE 2, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, MAY 29, 1987
PAUL HARVEY NEWS
YANKEE DOLLARS SUPPORT SOVIET EXPANSION
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TORNADO
SARAGOSA, TEXAS May 22, 1987
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By David Crowder
El Paso Times
El Paso Times
Tuesday, May 26, 1987
Second clan postage paid in Dell City, Texas 79837
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Mary Louise Lynch
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How many mountains
over a mile-high does
Texas have?
Ninety.
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1,000 mourn
Saragosa’s
tornado dead
SARAGOSA, Texas (AB) -
More than 1,000 mourners
filled a school gymnasium Mon-
day evening to pray for the dead
and for the living who survived
Friday's tornado that caused an
estimated $1.4 million in dam-
ages.
At the wake, Bishop Ray-
mundo Pena of the Roman
Catholic Diocese of El Paso and
the Rev. Ralph Barringer, the
local pastor, led the mourners in
saying the rosary. Seated on
folded chairs on the gym floor in
Balmorhea, about five miles
from Saragosa, they responded
to the prayers, said in both
Spanish and English.
“The persons who I saw I had
seen many times. I feel like I’m
a member of every family and I
am sad,” Pena said to the
grief-stricken survivors. “My
heart is rent.
“But as I visited with you —
and have seen your strength
and the strength of your faith,
the strength of your trust and
the strength of your love — the
strength of my faith and the
strength of my trust and the
strength of my love has been
increased.”
Pena read from the Book of
Wisdom: “... but the just man,
though he die early, be at
rest.’
And from the New Testa-
ment, he read: “I am the
Resurrection and the light... He
who believes in me yet shall
never die.”
AUSTIN — The chance that
Hudspeth County will ever be
home to a low-level radioactive
waste disposal site now is
remote, but officials involved
with that project still are baffled
by El Paso’s staunch opposition
to it.
“We’re really kind of curious
to know what the impetus for all
the El Paso opposition was,”
said Tom Blackburn, director of
special programs for the Texas
Low-level Radioactive Waste
Disposal Authority. “When you
look at this on the scale of
hazard in comparison with what
we deal with every day —
pesticides, toxic chemicals and
liquid petroleum gas — it ranks
pretty low,” he said.
The materials to be stored at
the waste disposal site pose
little danger to the public, he
said, especially given the types
of storage systems under condi-
deration. *
At the authority’s quarterly
meeting Monday, the agenda
called for a decision on which of
three storage systems would be
used, but that decision was
deferred without discussion.
As far as that issue is con-
cerned, there is no rush for the
time being because the au-
thority has bigger problems to
worry about.
The authority’s staff, Black-
burn said, considered a site on
state land 12 miles east of the El
Paso County line to be the best
location for the disposal site.
Contrary to one often-ex-
pressed concern, he said, there
is no chance that the federal
government could force Texas to
accept radioactive waste from
other states. For one thing, it is
forbidden by state law.
But opposition from officials
in Hudspeth and El Paso coun-
ties led to a decision by Texas
Land Commissioner Garry
Mauro that state land would not
be used without a legislative
mandate. And state Sen. Tati
Santiesteban, D-El Paso, has
blocked a bill to do just that.
“There’s not a whole lot to say
right now; we’re dead in the
water,” Blackburn said. “We
still have to find a place and
have it operational by 1993, as
required by the federal govern-
ment, but we’re now having to
go back and look at old sites we
considered in south and north-
central Texas.”
Attending Monday’s meeting
was Hudspeth County Commis-
sioner Larry Karr, who after-
ward conceded that the storage
methods available would allow
the disposal site to go just about
any place safely.
But he said putting the site in
Hudspeth County would be
illogical in view of the locations
of the state’s two nuclear power
plants — one near Dallas, the
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This photo taken Friday by Rosendo Carrasco, justice
of the peace in nearby Balmorhea, Texas, showed the
killer tornado approaching Saragosa.
other on the Gulf Coast — and
the possibility that the super-
conducting supercollider also
will go near Dallas.
“Why do we have to have it in
Hudspeth County when you
have a triangle in East Texas
where (radioactive waste) is
produced, and the technology is
such that the disposal site could
go anywhere?” Karr said.
The Legislature is consid-
ering a billthat would allow the
county that gets the disposal
site to impose a surcharge on
incoming waste materials — a
surcharge that would generate
$300,000 to $600,000 a year.
Blackburn said that sur-
charge would finance half the
Hudspeth County budget.
While Karr was one of those
behind the bill, he said the
possible revenue from the sur-
charge is not incentive enough
for him to give up his opposition
to a site in Hudspeth County.
“I still say they ought to put it
where the waste is produced,”
Karr said.
(EL PASO TIMES
Tuesday, May 1 9, 1 987)
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If I ' a
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You have heard much righteous wrath about our government
sending weapons to Iran and to the contras.
How dare our government use our tax dollars for such purposes.
You ain’t heard nuthin’ yet!
Russia is seeking to spread communism around the world by pump-
ing billions of dollars into Cuba, Angola, Afghanistan and Nicara-
gua.
Where do you suppose the struggling Soviet Union is getting all
that money? From us.
Moscow borrows money from banks -- including United States
banks. Many such loans to the U. S. S. R. and to other East Bloc
nations are entirely unrestricted - can be used for whatever pur-
pose they choose, no strings.
The Soviet bloc already owes about $100 billion to Western banks.
By 1990 - three more years - the Russian debt alone will be $53
billion; and increase of 90 percent in five years.
And United States banks are pushing additional Russian loans -
and on bargain terms, terms far more favorable than those offered
Latin American nations.
Why do our banks favor loans to Soviet bloc nations in prefer-
ence to loans to our own neighbor nations?
Austin Kiplinger says that bankers figure loans to a dictatorship
are “safer” than loans to a democracy.
When payback begins to hurt, the people in a dictatorship cannot
rise up and force default.
The result is obvious: Yankee dollars support Soviet expansion.
And our hypocrisy is so conspicuous.
We make much to-do in our Congress about voting economic
sanctions against South Africa in the name of “civil rights —
yet we persist in policies which favor the U. S. S. R. which recog-
nizes nobody’s civil rights.
Gorbachev, with a smile and an announced policy which trans-
lates into our language like “moderation” and “cooperation,” has
a lot of Americans willing to ignore what he does and gamble on
what he says.
There is a faction within our State Department which is con-
vinced that this Soviet leader is, indeed, a new breed. Their con-
tention is that Gorbachev genuinely wants to be conciliatory, that
he would truly like to release political prisoners and allow free
emigration but his own comrades in the Politburo will not sup-
port such “drastic change.”
These idealists hope that if we strengthen Gorbachev, he will
have more clout with his colleagues - and we will be rewarded
with a new kind of live-and-let-live communism.
But nobody who knows the U.S.S.R. inside out imagines for a
moment that we are courting a “friend.”
Lenin, when he was first trying to consolidate Bolshevism, a-
dopted a foreign policy he called “peredyshka.” Literally it
means “breathing space.”
Gorbachev is buying breathing space -- and with our money.
(c) 1987, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Before the prayers, the men’s
choir of Santa Rosa Catholic
Church in Pecos sang several
hymns in Spanish, including
“He is Risen” and “One Day at
a Time.”
After the service, the families
returned to classrooms in the
school, where the caskets of
their loved ones awaited them.
The rooms had been turned
into private mourning cham-
bers.
Earlier, earth-moving equip-
ment gouged grave-sized pits
out of a tiny cemetery as state
officials worked to have Sara-
gosa declared a federal disaster
area.
Red Cross volunteers worked
inside the Balmorhea school to
distribute aid that has poured in
from as far away as Canada.
Two of the 29 people killed
when the tornado struck Friday
night, a 25-year-old Pecos
woman and her son who would
have been a year old Sunday,
were buried Monday morning in
Pecos in the first funeral after
the tragedy.
Gov. Bill Clements said he
would tour the ravaged town
today.
State Rep. Larry Shaw, D-Big
Spring, said Saragosa’s resi-
dents may be so poor that even
government-sponsored, low-in-
terest loans won’t be of help
because they couldn’t pay them
back.
“But if this fits the criteria
and then if there is a disaster
area declared, we’ll be able to
get them the money to rebuild
their homes and lives,” he
said.
The Red Cross has deter-
mined that 55 homes were
destroyed and about 40 were
damaged when Friday’s twister
tore apart the predominantly
Hispanic farming community
Friday night. Spokeswoman
Susan Clowe said 90 to 100
families were affected by the
disaster, which left more than
120 people injured.
Red Cross workers set up
shop in the nearby Balmorhea
school, where officials canceled
the last week of classes after the
disaster.
Reeves County Sheriff Raul
Florez ordered that no reporters
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baffles officials
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