Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 278, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1983 Page: 1 of 34
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Millions of Americans stepped out for
parades or just settled back to watch
football, but Thanksgiving meals formed
the holiday’s centerpiece as families both
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intimate and impromptu gathered for the
oldest of national observances.
In Massachusetts, where the hardy
people of Plimoth Plantation first gave
thanks for a bountiful harvest 350 years
ago, the family of Marine Cpl. John
L’Heureux felt especially blessed Thur-
sday. L’Heureux, a wounded survivor of
October’s terrorist bombing in Beirut, was
home from Lebanon for his first
Thanksgiving outside a barracks in three
years.
And inside the walls of the North Dakota
Penitentiary, it was the biggest day of the
year for more than 400 inmates whose
friends and relatives came to visit, said
Warden Winston Satron.
A half-million people stood in brisk
winds and temperatures in the low 30s to
watch Detroit’s big Thanksgiving Day
parade, while parents in New York hoisted
tots who screamed and cheered as a
helium-filled Superman, Woody Wood-
pecker and other favorite characters
floated past in Macy’s 57th annual parade.
“We’re not used to this kind of weather,”
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with families and strangers
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Rules
Committee of the House rarely sends
its members on congressional
junkets, but panel chairman Rep.
Claude Pepper is about to change all
that. ■
Pepper, who became chairman of
the Rules Committee this year, says
that starting Jan. 2 he is taking his
colleagues to South America, Costa
Rica and Jamaica, returning just
before Congress reconvenes late in
the month.
The Rules Committee is entrusted
with various parliamentary functions,
including deciding when House
committees can send their members
on trips. The Rules Committee has no
formal substantive authority, so its
own members haven’t gone on trips
themselves.
Pepper, however, said this week
that he proposed to remedy the
inequity by proposing a bus tour
across the Potomac River to
Alexandria, Va. He failed to win
support, he said, from other com-
mittee members and so came up with
the South American journey as an
alternative.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -
George Dewey Hayes figures it cost
him $3,000 to take his $16 traffic ticket
to the U.S. Supreme Court - and the
high court wouldn’t hear him. But he’s
not giving up.
“The offense was small, but Mr.
Hayes is one of those people who won’t
take no for an answer,” said his at-
torney, Johnnie Jones. >
Hayes, a teacher, was ticketed Aug.
23,1982, for improper lane usage.
Hayes, who maintained that there
was nothing wrong with his driving,
said neither he nor his attorney ex-
pected trial that day, so they weren’t
prepared and two witnesses weren't
present. He was found guilty and
ordered to pay the fine and $35 in
court costs.
Christmas season has begun and it looks
like it is going to be a very good year,”
Sikes said.
Catalog sales stores, along with other
smaller retailers, also reported business
was brisk Friday morning.
Most retailers believe this may be a
record breaking Christmas season as far
as sales go, because the inflation rate is
lower than it has been in several years and
people are generally feeling pretty good
about the economy.
“We are expecting a very good
Christmas season,” Sikes continued. “I
think it is going to be one of the best years
retailers have seen for a while. We have a
pretty good crowd of shoppers in here
today (Friday) and I expect we will
continue to have heavy traffic until
Christmas. Sulphur Springs has a good
strong economy and the area,is growing.
We at Wal-Mart are looking forward to a
very good year in our new store,” he ad-
ded. This will be the first Christmas season
for Wal-Mart in Sulphur Springs.
Brown also thinks that the 1983 Christmas
season will be a good one for retailers.
“Last year money was tighter and
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TYLER, Texas (AP) - Eighteen
recent studies of education in the
United States call for schools to
narrow and clarify their purpose,
says a report on the reports written by
Tyler public school administrators.
The Tyler report has become a
“best seller” in the academic world,
winning fans throughout the country
— including U.S. Education Secretary
Terrel Bell.
The report - “An Analysis of
Reports on the Status of Education in
America: Findings, Recom-
mendations, and Implications” — is a
condensation and comparison of 18
studies on the condition of public
education in the United States.
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Sulphur Springs High School’s Future
■ Farmers of America Chapter leadership
teams brought home the District
Sweepstakes award from the Paris
District leadership contest held in Mount
Vernon.
A school vocational agriculture
department spokesman said the teams
from the local chapter were awarded the
trophy for earning the most points overall.
The teams will advance to the area
contest to be held on the campus of East
Texas State University next week.
HOUSTON (AP) - B.W. Mangrum
of Durango, Colo., found some
belongings of a Houston woman
outside his Rocky Mountain area
home, so he mailed it back.
At a cost to him of $1.83, Mangrum
mailed a bag of garbage back to
Texas, and included the woman’s
discarded library card.
The package was sent to the city
room of The Houston Chronicle and
was addressed to the newspaper and
"all Texans in general.”
The package contained an empty
soda pop bottle, a cherry pie wrapper
and the woman’s library card.
It also contained a note.
“Enclosed herewith the garbage
you dumped at the intersection of my
driveway and UJS. Highway 160, four
miles west of Durango, Colo.
“It Is inconceivable that one would
spend so much time and money and
travel so far to tee the Rocky
Mountains, and dump garbage beside
the roads. I live here and I resent it.
Your garbage is being sent to the
Houston Chronicle in the hopes that
they will see that you get it back.” *
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a move that
appeared to be designed to foil any Beirut-
style bombing, ’ the Secret Service
tightened security around the White House
during the Thanksgiving holiday by
patting seven sand-laden dump trucks at
five metal-gate entrances.
White House press secretary Larry
Speakes said the move *was “not in
response to a specific threat,” but security
also was tightened at the State Depart-
ment six blocks away, where
spokeswoman Anita Stockman said
authorities were reacting to “possible
bomb threats. ’ ’
President Reagan and his family were at
Reagan’s ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif.,
for a five-day Thanksgiving vacation,
ending Sunday.
At the State Department, five entrances
were blocked by cars or vans and police
cars blocked part of a street that leads to a
sixth. Ms. Stockman said “extra security
has been taken and will be in effect until
we can evaluate this possible or potential
threat.” The State Department security
measures were implemented Wednesday,
while the trucks were moved around the
White House on Thursday.
The parked trucks at the entrances to
the White House grounds were the latest
episode in a series of increasingly
stringent security measures prompted by
a late-night bomb blast at the Capitol on
Nov. 7 and the attack on the Marine
headquarters in Beirut. The Oct. 23 Beirut
bombing, which killed 239 servicemen,
occurred when a dynamite-laden truck
with a suicide driver at the wheel rammed
the Marine barracks.
Last week, in reaction to the Capitol
bombing, guards began to use dogs to sniff
all cars and trucks entering the White
House grounds for explosives. Guards also
searched the handbags and briefcases
carried by reporters, normally exempt
from such measures, in what was
described as a spot check.
On Thursday, three dump trucks were
parked at the southwest gate across the
entrance to the closed-off street separating
the White House from the Old Executive
Office building next door. Those trucks
were outside the fence surrounding the
White House. t
Another truck was parked on that same
street inside the northwest gate; two more
were inside gates leading off 17th Street
into the Old Executive Office Building and
a seventh was on East Executive Avenue,
a public walkway on the other side of the
building separating the White House from
the Treasury.
The guard dogs could be seen patrolling
and sniffing at bushes.
Fair to partly cloudy through
Saturday. Widely scattered thun-
dershowers possible Saturday. Lows
45 to 52. Highs Saturday 68 to 75.
The high Thanksgiving day was 58
degrees. Overnight the mercury
dropped to 35 degrees.
The 4th annual Hopkins County Ex-
tension Service and 4-H Club Pecan and
Pecan BakeShow is set to begin Monday in
Sulphur Springs at the county’s Civic
Center.
Extension Agent Gordon Ford reminds
all pecan growers who wish to enter their
specimens to deliver them to the Extenion
office by noon Monday.
Entries must consist of 40 pecans of any
variety, native or unknown variety. The
three categories for the two-day event
include native, insheii and shelled.
On Monday, the entries will be weighed,
shelled and prepared for display. Judging
by Dwight Hall, Extension Service hor-
ticulturist, begins at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the
civic center.
Gordon said entries will be judged on
quality, shelling percentage, weight, size
and freedom from diseases.
The winners will receive blue, red or
white ribbons and first place entries in
each category will receive plaques made
of pecan wood.
The 4-H Club pecan bake show is
sponsored by Lee-High 4-Hers and offers
four divisions and five classes. Divisions
include beginners (under 6), juniors (9-13),
DALLAS (AP) - If Robert Austin
ever meets the person who stole his
group’s 10-foot-long, 1-ton World War
II Mauser cannon, he'd like to ask a
few questions.
“How did they lift it onto a truck?”
Austin said after the cannon was
discovered missing. ."Did they use a
winch? Did they attach it to a big tow
truck and just roll it away?
"I mean, I can’t believe somebody
didn’t see it.”
The cannon, which is not functional,
was on display at the Regular
Veterans’ Association building in
South Dallas. Austin and other
members of the U.S. veterans' group
bought the cannon from the Army
post at Fort Sill, Okla, as military
surplus about two yean ago.
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - The children
of a man serving a life prison term for
hiring the murder of his wifo have
filed a $200 million lawsuit against the
wealthy businessman.
The complaint filed recently in U.S.
District Court said Paul F. Leverett,
an executive in a fast-food restaurant
business, had an obligation to disclose
to the children his involvement in the
slaying of Elizabeth Leverett.
“Leverett intentionally and
fraudulently suppressed and failed to
disclose to plaintiffs this material
fact, and plaintiffs were damaged
thereby, all of which constitutes legal
fraud,” the suit alleges.
The lawsuit was brought by
Kathleen L. Rhea and Paul F.
Leverett III, both living in Texas. Ms.
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families bought things mostly for their
kids. I think with the economy better this
year, Christmas lists will be expanded to
included other family members, such as <
aunts, uncles and cousins, which means
people will be buying more gifts. We are
hoping for a pretty good year at K-Mart,
locally and nationally,” Min Brown said.
"I expect we (Howards) will be mobbed -
most of the time the next four weeks,”
DeMuth said. “Traditionally retailers do
the bulk of their business during the last
quarter of the year. I think this is going to
be a good fourth quarter, probably one of
the best we’ve seen in several years,” he •.
said. .1
Early indications are that electronic v
products such as computers and computer,
related equipment will be in great demand
by shoppers. Video games also appear to
be early big sellers.
“.Our store is well stocked with a variety
of merchandise,” DeMuth said, "As I
expect, all of the local stores are. It should
M a really guud business year, but we will
know more in a week or two,” he added.
Remember: Only 30 days until Christ-
mas.
seiuvia u4-19) and adults.
Classes include cookies (12 pieces) u
candies (12 pieces), pecan pie (whole p^e),
cakes (% cake)'and breads (one loaf).
Entry fee is $1.
Janie Crump, Extension agent, said all
entries should be placed on sturdy paper
plates and covered tightly with plastic
wrap. The recipe should be typed or
written legibly. .
Division and class should be written in
the upper right hand comer of the recipe
which is attached to the exhibit. Name,
address and 4-H Club should be on the
bottom of the entry.
Any youth or adult in Hopkins County
may enter one or more classes. They
should enter between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30
p.m. Monday at the Civic Center.
Ribbons will be awarded in all entries.
Best of show trophy will be awarded to the
best entry in each youth division. Gift
certificates from local supermarkets, will
be awarded to first place entries in each
class in the adulLdivision.
Entries should be picked up no later than
3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Judges for the bake show are Billie Rose
Chapman, Janie Vandiver and Deneen
Askew.
said a shivering Sharon Kaddyama, a hula
dancer in the Mililani, Hawaii, high school
band before her unit stepped-off in New
York’s chilly drizzle.
Across the nation, those who felt for-
tunate gave thanks by sharing their time,
money and food, providing instant families
for others whose holiday would otherwise
have been gloomy.
Denis Jensen, who until three years ago
was a senior vice president at Arkansas’
First National Bank in Little Rock, woke
up early to collect homeless people from
the emptied streets downtown.
Now the director of the Union Rescue
Mission, Jensen oversaw dinners for about
235 people and delivery of food baskets to
200 more.
“I went out and picked up four carloads
of hoboes,” Jensen said. “They feel
unloved."
The New Life Evangelistic Church in St.
Louis served hundreds of hungry people
and delivered food to an additional 2,350
families.
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By JOHN GORE
News-Telegram Staff
With turkey, ham and other trimmings
from the Thanksgiving Day repast just
barely digested, Sulphur Springs shop-
pers, like shoppers all over American,
began to make retailers happy Friday
morning by cramming into stores to buy,
buy, buy for Christmas.
Traditionally, the Christmas buying
season begins the day after Thanksgiving
and local shoppers continued the tradition
in ' fine fashion, according to several
retailers.
“We opened at 8 a.m. today,” Loretta
Brown, manager of K-Mart, said, “and we
had people waiting in line to get in at 7:45
a.m. If that is any indication, I will assume
the shopping season has begun.”
Howards Discount Store was the only
major retailer open on Thanksgiving day
and store manager Ed DeMuth reported
sales were good.
—“«» a nf people waiting in line
to get in the store at noon Thursday. They
came because of a special scavenger hunt,
but the shoppers stayed all day,” DeMuth
said.
“The store was crowded throughout the
day. In fact, we still had people in the store
when we were turning out the lights and
trying to go home at 6 p.m. But I’m not
complaining,” he added.
Wal-Mart store manager, Don Sikes,
echoed other major retail managers. “The
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Friday was opening day for Christmas shopping season across Texas, with her daughter Amie, guests of Cloteen Johnson of
the nation and Sulphur Springs stores had their share of shoppers Sulphur Springs, and Mrs. Johnson joined downtown shoppers to
who have started that annual "what to give Aunt Sue or Dad or browse through the many selections looking for the "just right
Mom" decision making. From the left, Rama Gibson of Sonora, gifts" for folks on their list.
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