The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 275, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 23, 1978 Page: 2 of 44
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -
Nearly 20,000 municipal work-
ers, whose eight-day strike
caused high trash piles and
stalled city services, have a new
contract and a pledge that any
layoffs of city employees win not
come from their ranks alone.
The striking employees voted
by a 3-to-2 margin Friday to
ratify a contract and return the
nation's fourth largest city to
business as usual, perhaps by
Monday.
Meanwhile in Washington,
commuters had to cope Friday
for a second day without buses
and subways as more than 4,500
drivers and mechanics defied a
court order to end their wildcat
strike. But commuters appeared
to cope far more smoothly than
on Thursday, when traffic jams
- stretehedformitem''
The strike, which afects about
a half million commuters,was
triggered by mechanics dissatis-
fied over delays in arbitration
over cost-of-living pay boosts.
In Philadelphia, Vic Ken-
drick, a spokesman for the city,
said after the ratification was
announced that officials had
hoped workers would report on
their nest normally scheduled
shifts, some as early as late
Friday night.
But Earl Stout, president of
District Council 33 of the
American Federation of State.
County and Municipal Employ-
ees. said workers would not go
back to their jobs until Monday.
Stout made the anouncement
about 7 p.m. following secret
rank-and-file balloting through-
out the day.
The ratification vote was
6.667 to 4,230, with 39 voided
ballots, union spokesman Char-
les Brown said.
Blue collar workers in District
Council 33 and clerical workers
Building Fire
Members of tho Ho
Department stand out
behind Kelly Electric, 8
other firemen douse i
structure around 5:30 p
have served as practice
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Obituaries
Hereford PD
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U.S., Britain Pull
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figures furnished by the Justice
. Department to Arthur Young accounting
firm in St. Louis.
The male pengum incubates
eggs between hto foot
The largest equipment lease under
question is one for S109.3SS. according to
-don't sit well with most folks in this
area.
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ambulance, consideration of a
request for life-saving equip-
ment in the county, request to
use the Little Bull Bam for a
fund-raising dance for muscular
dystrophy, formation of a policy
governing use of the Bull Bam.
consideration of a service
contract for a sheriffs depart-
ment teletype.
Approval of a contract to seal
The bill contains a 5 percent limit on
local property tai revenue increases, but
Peveto is ready to remove it because, he
says. "There is no support for it. I can't
force the committee to leave it in there. "
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Goes 18,000 Miles
The Hereford Mice Depart
meat traveled mote than 18.000
miles, issued 247 traffic
citations and investigated 100
criminal offenses in June,
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June. Arrests were grouped as
follows: five aggravated as-
saults, t '
intoxicated, eight drunkenness.
according to Its monthly activity others,
report released last week.
Mice parroted 18.324 mites
during the month, which had
4,340 dispetebed entries.
Of the 247 traffic citations.
23B were for moving violations.
There wore 205 gufity verdicts
for driving offenses, eight no
enrvice” and a tonus chock during a short
ceremony In tho mall room. All postal employees
wore on hand to honor Albrecht. [Brand photo by
Paul Sims]
SUNABCAMUA
Funeral services for Elena F
Escamilla. 63, of 211 Barker,
’riM be conducted at 11 a.m.
its kind in the world has died. Chester
goo reported.
; London Zoo. publishers of the
Authoritative International Zoo Year
Book, said 10-day-old Motty was the first
such cross-bred Indian-African elephant
ever to be recorded. He died Friday.
Outstanding Postal Employee
Ouano Albracht, an employee of tho Hereford post
offlco since 1S60, was honored Friday by
Postmaster Nolan Qrady, who presented a
certificate to tho postal dork tor “outstanding
questionable equipment leases go back to
Bell's first rate case before the PUC.
In that case, the commission
authorized a $57.8 million rate increase.
$173 million less than the company
requested. That order has been appealed
to the Texas Supreme Court and a ruling
could come Wednesday.
^GodspelT To Be Performed
• The Chapol Choir of UntoorsHy United Moffiadtet
; Church In Baton Rouge, u., will present
."‘Godopoll *75“ at 3 p.m. Friday In tho Horetord
. tfigh School Auditorium. Eighty young mon and
woman undor the direction of Esther Socotofaky
will perform an adaptation of the populer
Broadway musical. Tho choir la recognised
throughout Louialena . Tho muatoalwiH to free and
open to tho public.
why do they call HIM Speedy?"
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WHILE PEOPLE ACROSS the country
express dissatisfaction with President
Carter s performance, and some poHs
show he couldn't be re-elected today;
don't count him out.
coat a road in Precinct 4.
designation of polling places for
the November election, consid-
making a "substantial profit."
The profit, he said, is subsequently
being passed along to electrical users
through fuel adjustment costs.
Wayne Brown, a Pampa certified
accountant and one of the consultants
hired by area cities to look into the SPS
proposal, said that TUCO, inc., a
wholly-owned subsidiary of the electric
company, is making a profit above the
cost of providing fuel to its parent outfit.
"Through the fuel cost recovery factor
and its wholly-owned subsidiary. SPS
Grasshoppers ----
which checks to see if the pastures have
enough grasshoppers - at least eight per
square yard - and then hires aerial
sprayers to apply the pesticide, either
malathion or carbaryl.
Last year APHIS sprayed about 1.4
million acres of rangeland. The entire
screaming they need more.
"They're a controlled company, it's
true, but they're also a monopolistic
company."
Bayne said the results of the
consuftants' study would be submitted at
a hearing of the Public Utilities
Commission on July 31 in Austin.
The study, conducted by Brown,
Amarillo engineer Bill R. McMorries and
Austin economist Dr. Jack Hopper, cost
the cities a total of $44.851.
"From what we have, it looks like we
can go and get out an order now." Erwin
said. "We didn't have an order yet when
they asked for a delay. We were pretty
close, but the chairman George Cowden
suspended consideration until more
came out on the investigation."
He says a "truth in taxing” provision
requiring detailed notice and hearings on
tax increases, and referenda to roll back
increases, should do the job of keeping
taxes in line.
But the Texas Real Estate Association,
which dropped its hostility toward the bill
when Peveto added the 5 percent limit,
again opposes it.
Gerhardt Schulle. real estate lobbyist
said he doubted Gov. Dolph Briscoe
would have opened the session to
Peveto's bill without the tax ceiling.
"His bill. . .would not give any
homeowners relief. Equalization, even
with the ceiling, in major metropolitan
areas - unless you get something like a
$10,000 exemption - would raise taxes on
sc trie Rates > *
The Republicans don't have any
sure-fire opponent to take him on. as yet.
no one seems to be catching the
imagination of the public.
It's way too early to tell. Carter has
time to polish his image and do
something about the economy, if he
stumbles badly by 1980, the strongest
opposition could come from within his
own party. The names most often
mentioned -Kennedy. Brown. Moynihan
-t--w unanov^a itv,
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profited substantially through the
so-called fuel costs." Brown said.
"During the test year, the fuel
adjustment was much more than the cost
of the fuel."
Hereford City Manager Dudley Bayne,
who attended Friday's meeting, said
Saturday that TUCO's return on
investment is "unbelievable, it's
ridiculous."
Bayne said that SPS by itself "has one
of the highest earnings of any utility
company in history, and they're still
$1.3 million allocated to the program was
used plus an additional $718,000 from a
contingency fund.
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Rangeland spraying is virtually
completed this year. Lovinger said.
About 859.000 acres were sprayed
nationally, a sharp decline from 1977. But
WASHINGTON (AP, - The United
States and Britain announced Saturday
they have pulled their military teams out
of the world helicopter championships in
, the Soviet Union because of the
controversial trials of Soviet dissidents.
“We have no intention of any official
United States participation in this
event." said State Department spokes-
man Charles Shapiro.
The decision means that U.S. Army
pilots will not be allowed to compete on
the U.S. team sponsored by Bell
Helicopter. Bell already has been granted
a license to take helicopters to the Soviet
Union for the event and presumably could
proceed with non-government pilots.
Shapiro said.
He said the decision to withdraw the
Army team was made by Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance earlier this week
during Vance's trip to London.
The British Foreign Office said in
London that it would be "inappropriate”
for British military pilots to participate so
soon after the controversial trials.
The combined army, navy and air force
team was ordered withdrawn on the
advice of Foreign Secretary David Owen,
the foreign office spokesman said.
"The participation of an official team
from the British armed forces at public
expense so soon after the Soviet trials
would be inappropriate and would not be
understood.by the British public.” the
spokesman said.
Postal Workers
Falk Off Job,
JERSEY CITY, NJ. (AP) - Dissident
postal workers crippled operations at the
New York Bulk and Foreign Mail Center
for the second consecutive day Saturday
in defiance of union approval of a
tentative contract.
And in California, about 30
sign-carrying workers set up pickets at
single family dwellings." Schulle said.
Peveto said a study of 35 school
districts made by the Legislative Property
Tax Committee showed homeowners
taxes would drop.
"The problem with Gerhardt is he still
has no idea how the property tax system
operates or what's in the bill. . .It would
equalize within a local taxing entity, not
among all the entities in the state." he
said.
Briscoe opposed the Peveto bill in past
sessions, when it contained no property
tax limit, and had to be persuaded to
include it in the special session. Peveto's
attempt to link the bHI with tex relief
conyitutiona! amendments sought by
Briscoe is clearly designed to head off a
veto.
eration of applications for
county librarian, discussion of
anti-recession federal govern
"*nt funds, consideration of
courthouse office space, discus-
sion of a grant application for
improving the water system at
the San Jose Labor Camp and a
request from Gilbert Alaniz to
use the Bull Barn.
The meeting will be open to
the public.
Thirty juvenile arrests were
categorized as follows: one
aggravated assault, five aa-
saults, two burglaries, three
larceny-thefts, three vaada-
lisms. five drunkenness, three
disorderly conducts, seven x
runaways and one other.
There were 94 stray dogs
, haadfod by the animal-control
dents oepuNic streets and eight department of the potiee.
on private property. There wore
^Htfosia strilmti dnrfog
themonth
Mie, anrotod 48 adufa i.
Southwestern Bell was a "victim" in the
matter under investigation. However,
Bell officials have avoidec comment on
the delicate situation.
“I must strongly emphasize that the
company is in no way commenting upon
the guilt or innocence of any individual
allegedly under investigation.'' Lawrence
said in his deposition.
In addition to involving the current Bell
rate hike case. Erwin said some of the
Hereford Bull -----
embargo, which he once favored as a
means of toppling the white minority
government of Premier Ian Smith, is no
longer necessary now that Smith has
agreed to black majority rule through
peaceful transition.
The bi-racial government is to take
Rhodesia to black majority rule by the
end of this year. The Patriotic Front, a
loose alliance of two guerrilla groups
excluded from the talks that led to the
new government, has sworn to bring it
down.
In other developments. President
Agostinhb Neto of Angola said his
Marxist regime hopes to establish
diplomatic relations with the United
States but will not accept the
U.S. condition that reduce the number of
Cuban troops, estimated at 20.000. in his
southwest African nation.
\ Peveto--
J
] said.
J He said he felt provisions of Peveto's
} bill, such as benchmark appraisals -
J called ratio studies - would give taxpayers
J the solid evidence they need to sue when
J appraisals are inaccurate.
Besides countywide appraisals and
• statewide standards. Peveto's bill
« requires reappraisals at least every five
{ years. A city, school district or other
’ taxing unit could require annual
J reappraisals if it was willing to bear the
cost.
the West Coast bulk mail facility near |
Saa Francisco.
About 80 percent of the 400 workers ou
the Saturday morning shift honored K jV
picket lines at both employee entrances to
the Jersey City facility. the largest of Us T~.....
kind in the world. Im a
The dissidents termed a nationwide
postal contract approved Friday a ■ W
"sellout” and said the award of a 10 ""M""
percent pay increase would not recognize
the high cost of living in metropolitan
areas. —
On Friday, about 70 percent of the sfo k
workers stayed oft the job. The facility
employs about 4,300 persons. **
A facility spokesman, Philip DiChi- £S|
arante said operations were at a ■’HR
minimum Saturday but that the center |Kk
was processing some mail. ““T'J
The facility processes half a million Sfe
pieces of second, third and fourth date
domestic bulk mail for the New York '
metropolitan area daily and 70 percent of
all foreign non-air mail.
Police Report
Deaf Smith County Sheriff's Office
deputy Phil Sciumbato reported to
Hereford police early Saturday morning
that he was attacked by a Mexican-Amer-
ican male in the Hereford Community
Center parking lot after witnessing an
alleged aggravated assault.
Sciumbato was on patrol on Park Ave.
near the Community Center about 2 a.m.
Saturday when he saw three Mexican-
Americans males walk across Ave. D to
the parking lot of the Community Center
carrying boards. The three reportedly
jerked open a car door and attacked the
occupants with the board.
Sciumbato said he called the police
department for assistance, got out of his
car and chased the three attackers.
Police reports state that Sciumbato
caugh’ one of the three, wrestled him to
the ground, then was attacked by one of
the others with a board. Sciumbato said
the board missed him twice, and the
three ran from the parking lot.
Police officers Ruben McGilbary.
David Wheeler and O.K. Neal
apprehended one of the suspects, who
was charged with aggravated assault.
Another arrest is expected in connection
with the incident.
Police said one person attacked in the
car suffered a broken arm.
The arrested suspect, according to
police, refused to give his name, age or
address. He remained Saturday in Deaf
Smith County Jail.
Bob and Marcy's Feed Store. S.
Highway 385. was the scene of an
apparent burglary Thursday or Friday^ A 4
• window was pried open and $150 worth, of f
knives tn a knife case were reportedly ;
stolen.
Flescher's Car Wash. 605 E. Park,
reported Friday that someone stole a
money bag from an office desk. The bog
contained approximately $40.
Victor Estrada. 219 Bradley, told police
that sometime Thursday night or Friday
morning, approximately $70 worth of
lingerie and towells were stolen from his
clothesline.
again, the entire $1.3 million was used
plus aa additional $461,000.
Lovinger said that APHIS did not spray
a®y acres of rangeland in Kansas or
Oklahoma in 1977 or this year. But in
Nebraska. 40,000 acres were sprayed in
1977 and 205.000 acres this year.
Spraying in Colorado covered 75,000
County Agenda Lengthy
Deaf Smith County Commis-
sioners will wade through a
| lengthly agenda during their
regular semi-monthly session
Monday beginning at 10 a.m.
Items to be considered are:
[ Opening bids on a county bus.
truck for Precinct 3 and
maintainers for Precinct 3 and
i 4. discussion of county
| equipment in a private
update
|Sunday
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; Cross-Bred Elephant
; Die« in England Zoo
] r.CHESTER. England (AP) • A baby
J elephant bred from an Indian female and
’ fn African male said to be the only one of
J its kind in th* wnrl/1 hue Almwt
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J ‘Motty was born at Chester Zoo in
; jbrthern England and had inherited the
; Jlaracteristically large ears of his father
J 3|ad the defecate trunk of his mother.
Zoologists said if he had survived and
; later proved fertile it would have upset
! the whole classification of elephants, of
! Which there are only two mam kinds in
[ the world - the Indian and the larger
; African. Until now it generally was
: believed the two types could not breed.
! ; An autopsy on Motty performed by the
veterinary research unit of nearby
uverpool University showed be died of a
kevere bowl disorder, a spokesman for
piester Zoo said.
. The spokesman said the zoo did not
know how the 160-pound baby elephant
lontracted the complaint. He added if it
(ould be established it was cn infection
|nd not a genetic disorder the zoo might
3? to get his parents to mate again.
; Motty's mother is a 21-
fear-old Indian elephant called Sheba,
flis father is a 17-year-old African called
jumbolina. Motty was named after the
founder of Chester Zoo. George
Mottershead.
; U.S. Warned
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’ jdbout Embargo
’ -KHARTOUM. Sudan (AP) - If the
. United States decides to bail out of the
j UN. trade embargo against Rhodesia, it
j sail be seen as an "unfriendly act"
, tdward the African continent, the
■. Organization of African Unity says.
f lOAH press spokesman Peter Onu
j called the warning to Congress, issued
f Friday, "an appropriate response."
} !A resolution that would lift the trade
i bkr was defeated 46-42 in the Senate
i about three weeks ago. Leaders at the
• >?th OAU summit conference meeting
j Ifere passed the resolution after hearing
i that some senators would try again to
! pfss the measure.
Bishop Abel Muzorewa. one of three
! blacks leading Rhodesia's transitional
J black-white government, wants Congress
J to show support for the government by
J fining compliance with the embargo.
THE hereto BRAND
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OCounor, pastor wfil officiate. '
Interment will be in St
Anthony's Catholic Cemetery.
Co. Funeral Home.
Mrs. Escamilla died Thursday
night in Deaf Smith General
Hospital.
Born in Bracketville. she
came to Hereford 23 years ago
Eagle Pass. She was a
is survived by two
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