The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1987 Page: 2 of 10
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burned a roadside patch of grass about
the length of a football field before
volunteer fireman brought it under con-
trol.
ed by keeping (he sales tax at 5l< per-
cent and the fuels tax at 15 cents per
gallon
after helping others to safety is
believed to have perished in the
river, authorities said.
Searchers today will move a com-
mand post 15 miles downriver of the
accident to expand the search for
Bankston Jr., said Department of
Public Safety spokesman Raymond
Kraus.
In the quiet suburb of Mesquite,
funeral services for Cindy Sewell, 16,
and her brother William, 12, were
scheduled today. They were among
the 43 people on a church van and bus
that was engulfed by flash floods Fri-
day near Comfort. Thirty-three peo-
ple survived, some after clinging to
trees for hours.
for a 10th teen-ager lost in the
flooding Guadalupe River. John
“We invite all our friends and sup-
porters to come out, have some fun
and visit with their neighbors in this
show of unity against the dump.*’
said Dempsey Alexander, POWER
president.
The event will also include a give-
away of a Kenneth Wyatt painting.
The auction will include "unique
theme items relating to resources
and industries endangered by the
dump," said spokesman Jim Steiert.
about that subject it strikes a chord
with people, especially older au-
diences.
“There's an attitude in America I
find very interesting now lake, you
meet somebody and you say. I want
to buy this kind of car.' And they go,
Oh, don’t buy those cars. They're
awful.'
‘“How do you know?'
“'Hey, I make 'em! I know they’re
awful!’
"Isn't that terrible to sell
something that you don’t believe
in?” Ia>no said. “The nice thing
about jokes, they’re just jokes, but at
least they're my jokes and if I tell
them I take a certain pride in them."
Now. after all the sniping at David
Letterman and other “arm-chair
comedians," I .eno will go to work
this fall as part-time host of NBC's
"Tonight Show.”
"Yeah, but it's only on Mondays.
I’ll be out on the road the rest of the
week," said I^no, who claims to feel
like a con man running an ever-
expanding pyramid scheme, dashing
Door church.
"They were just lovely girls,” said
Frenton Smith, who taught them
vowed to veto. Comptroller Bob
Bullock said it was large enough to
balance the $38.3 billion 1988-89 state
budget.
The $5.7 billion tax package got
A program outlining the operations
of Battelle Memorial Institute was
presented to Hereford Lions Club
Wednesday by Bob Ijncoln, human
resources manager for the Hereford
office. Lincoln is a new member of
the Ijons Club.
John D. Bryant, club president,
reported that the Lions Carnival last
New Arrivals
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Alexander are
the parents of a boy, Robert Daniel
born July 21, 1987
As of Oct 1, Texans will pay a 6
percent state sales tax The present
5‘» rate had been scheduled to roll
back to 4 percent on Sept I Many
l exans also pay 2 percent in city and
mass transit sales taxes
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Firefighter
Scott Holbert, volunteer firefighter, holds
the hose which provides a steady stream
of water to a grass fire on North Hwy. 385
early Wednesday morning. The blaze
help for
employers
Texas employers receive a
numtier of benefits from their tax
dollars, and one of them is the free
Job placement service provided by
the Texas Employment Commission
TEt sen es the public by matching
job hunters with job openings listed
by employers TEC's placement.mt-
vice is utilized by employers in all
jxirts of Uh- state and there is no cost
to the employer or the job seeker.
TEC will screen Uh- applicants and
refer only those with the qualifica-
tions the employer is seeking INS
From 1-9. employment eligibility
verification, is completed on each
applicant before he is referred to a
job, thus eliminating paper work by
the employer A statement verifying
eligibility for employment is mailed
from Austin upon hire
TE< also screens-u|H'ii request by
employer-applicants to see if they
qualify for Targeted Job Credit,
which can be a $2,400 tax credit to the
employer for each qualified person
hired Tax dollars fund the operation
of TEC with no charge to employers
or job seekers For further informa-
tion, contact TEC at 40k W 7th St . or
phone 364-8600
White House and tried to get an ap-
pointment with the president to tell
him, but was rebuffed.
He said he then called Reagan
directly the next day, a Sunday, and
told him he needed to see him "right
now.”
"The president was astonished"
when Shultz delivered the news, the
secretary of state recalled. “I have
never seen him so mad. ”
“1 think it was that meeting I final-
ly felt that the president deeply
understands that something is
radically wrong."
Shultz made his dramatic com-
ments in the opening moments of
what is exopected to be two days of
testimony at the nationally televised
Iran-Contra hearings.
Shultz had made it clear earlier
that he opposed the decision to sell
arms to Iran, and was criticized by
the Tower commission for distancing
himself from the sales once they
were approved by the president.
In his opening moments in the
witness chair. Shultz told Belnick he
did not know that Reagan had signed
any document authorizing secret
arms sales to Iran until he heard it
from Poindexter at an Oval Office
briefing last Nov 10.
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mg tc tn- in in m> district.’ Morales
said
Also hvinx in his district are people
uhe uill understand uhv Morales
helped make them pa> higher taxes,
he said
1 < annot beliexe that 1 will have
difficult} making my constituents
recognize the necessity fur the ac-
tions which we took. Morales said
As a member of the Select Com-
mittee on 1 ax Equity. he is now lurk-
ing at the next changes in the state
tax system They will be major, ac-
cording t Morales
This is the last patchwork job that
we arc to be able to d<* on uur
current tax structure VS« have run
»»ut uf quick fixes," he said
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Stacey Smith, a sophomore promised Texans no
homecoming princess, was honored
for being the "Best Christian Exam-
ple” at the academy. Toyna Smith
JIMMIE SCHWARTZ
July 21. 1987
Jimmie Schwartz. 79. of I’lamvu-w
died Tuesday afternoon in Central
Plains Regional Hospital after a
lengthy illness Among his survivors
is a daughter. Frances Keeter of
Hereford.
Services were held at 11 a.m today
in Isernons Memorial Chape-1 with the
Rev Wesley Hill, associate pastor of
First Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial was in Parklawn Memorial
Gardens under the direction of
lemons Funeral Home
Mr. Schwartz was born in Clyde
and moved to Plainview in 1941 He
married Hazel Simpkins on April 2.
1932, in Haskell. He owned and
operated Jimmie's Refrigeration for
17 years and also worked for Sears
Roebuck Co., for 10 years, retiring in
1973. He was a member of First Bap-
tist Church
Survivors include his wife; two
daughters, Frances Keeter of
" Hereford and Mary Swanner of
Midland; two sons, Dale Lee of
Clovis, N.M.. and Jimmie H. Jr., of
Colorado Springs. Colo., a brother,
C.V. of Haskell; nine grandchildren;
and nine great-grandchildren.
PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL
Christina Alexander. Boy Alex-
ander, Teresa Burkart, Arthur
Blackbum, B.B. Breeding. Melanie
Brierley, Carolina Cantu. Dianna
Carrasco, Boy Carrasco.
Jane Dameron, Raymond Deiorio,
Maria Garcia. W.L. Green. Stella
Gresham, Elizabeth Hutcherson,
Leesa Hobbs.
Jennifer King. Ernestina Mar-
tinez. Aurelio Martinez, Norma
McRight, Darrell McPherson,
Ceasar Monzon, Amzie Peterson,
Staci Pickens, Sergio Ramirez,
Wreha Rhodenck, Aurora Ruiz.
Kimberly Seward, Isiah Soto,
Crystal Tamez, Wilber Thomas, Joe
Valero, Charlie Wiseman. Mary
Whiteside, Ann Walker.
legislature, would have liked. But 1
also want to quickly add that we did
what we had to do.”
The budget battle ended Tuesday
night after a hotly partisan battle in
the Texas House. It took a com-
plicated series of procedural
maneuvers to get the plan approved
"I am persuaded that the citizens
of our state will be more than happy
to pay an increased three-quarters of
a cent on the sales tax. And I'm per-
suaded that the professionals will
pay an increased $110 for their fees
with a smile on their face. I don't
think we overburdened any par-
ticular section of the economy ," said
Rep. Dan Morales, D-San Antonio
and tax-bill sponsor
The comptroller's staff Wednesday
prepared charts showing that even
with the tax increase. Texans face a
tax burden that is far below the na-
tional average.
The increase means Texans’ an-
nual tax load will be $53 76 per $1,000
in personal income. That is an in-
crease of $3.36 per year. The national
average is $74 11 per y ear
Calculated on a per-person basis.
Texans will pay $730 a year in state
taxes, up from $667 in 1986 and below
the national average of $973
NEW YORK (AP) - Jay Leno is a
man with a beef.
He beefs about fast food, televi-
sion. Mom, skin mags. Rambo, two-
speed vacuum cleaners, calcium
supplements, Mr. Potato Head,
foreign food and tiny imported cars.
"Oh, geez, gosh," he whines, and
then lines up another target.
National Condom Week! "Boy,
there’s a parade you don’t want to
miss, huh?”
With hair bristling and his magnifi-
cent jaw jutting, Leno takes on the
world like Popeye in the first throes
of a spinach rush.
He defends women, castigates cor-
porations and worries about his
country, a nation that no longer
makes steel or huge cars like his '55
Buick Roadmaster.
“You know, I tend to be more like
my Dad than like people my own
age,” he said, slumping deeply into
an armchair and puffing on a pipe.
"I mean, I find it very odd that we
buy steel from places like Korea, and
I find that when you make jokes
POWER plans social, auction
People Opposing Wasted Energy
Repositories (POWER) will host a
fun auction and ice cream social
Aug. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Cowgirl Hall of
Fame in Hereford.
The social and auction will benefit
the Nuclear Waste Task force, a con-
sortium of local, regional and state
organizations fighting location and
characterization of a proposed per-
manent. high-level nuclear waste
dump north of Hereford.
Lincoln presents
Lions Club program
week grossed approximately $15,800
Since ail expenses have not been
finalized, the net income for the club
is not yet known
Ijncoln pointed out that Battelle is
an independent research organiza-
tion and it pioneered the concept of
contract research It uses scientific
expertise to meet the needs of in-
dustry and government-through
research and development, the
management of large programs and
facilities, and educational and inven-
tion and technology development ac-
tivities.
Battelle. with headquarters in Col-
umbus, Ohio, has five business
operations in the United States and
Europe The local office is part of the
Project Management Division, bas-
ed in Columbus, and is prime con-
tractor or manager for the DOE
nuclear waste repository program
After showing slides of the Institute's
operations, Ijncoln held a brief
question-and-answer session for Lion
members.
from town to town to keep his flim-
flam afloat.
He did it this summer while film-
ing "Collision Course" co-starring
Pat Morita. Before coming to Ixing
Island a Sunday show, he had been m
Washington Thursday night, back to
the set in Detroit, then to Loa Angeles
on Friday night and Valley Forge.
Pa., on Saturday.
And. yes. he was only kidding
about disdaining "armchair
comedy.”
"When you’re a comedian, the
'Tonight Show’ is really the job I
think that everyone has, fantasy-
wise, in the back of their mind,” he
said.
"Like me — I’m starring in a
movie, and it's neat and it's fun, but
it doesn't seem quite as big as the
’T onight Show ’tome."
So deep down, does Jay l-eno really
have a beef?
"I think most comedians, the good
ones, tend to have some sort of
anger, real or imagined," Leno said.
"And in my case I think it's mostly
imagined."
Leno says he had a happy
childhood and doesn't regard that as
a handicap to being funny.
"I find comics tend to be one ex-
treme or the other: You either have
comics that are just drug-dependent,
alcoholic, off-the-wall crazy, or very
straight,” he said.
"Most comedians have a very con-
servative streak that the comedy
comes from. Even I-enny Bruce,"
1-eno said. “Because you have to
know what's right to know what's
wrong.”
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ching today for possible attacks by
high-speed gunboats and helicopters
of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards,
zealous followers of Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini. The Guards
maintain bases as far north as
Fasirah island, 120 miles north of
Bahrain.
But shipping sources and gulf area
diplomats, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said they didn’t expect
the Iranians to attack the convoy.
"They won’t do anything at this
stage and let everyone feel com-
placement, so the fireworks can
come at a later stage," said one ship-
ping official.
The supertanker Bridgeton and the
smaller oil products carrier Gas
Prince, protected by the Navy
vessels and U.S. jet fighters, will sail
along the coast of Saudi Arabia today
and Friday.
Since last year, Iran has attacked
vessels traveling to Kuwait, charg-
ing that the emirate serves as an
firms conduit to Iraq, whose ports
arc closed. Hundreds of ships have
been attacked or damaged by both
combatants in a "tanker war” aimed
at crippling one another’s
economies.
The USS Kidd, USS Fox and the
U.S. frigate Crommelin entered the
Strait of Hormuz Wednesday after-
noon on General Quarters, the
highest state of alert. The sailors
donned gray helmets and green flak
jackets and hurried to their battle
stations.
Top alert was maintained for six
hours, as the ships passed within 14
miles of the Iranian coast, where
Chinese-made Silkworm missiles are
stored. The temperature soared to
102 degrees. The alert was relaxed
after the ships, sailing in calm seas,
cleared the strait.
"In a nutshell, you can say in ab-
solute dollars, if you don't take infla-
The three girls grew up attending tion into account and if you don't take
Sunday School together at the Open the size of the state into account, it is
the biggest." said Steve Gold of
Denver.
Clements said he was reluctant to
when they were young. “They were sign the bills.
sweet and good."
"There’s people that care about
others and there’s people who don't,”
said Skip Shoffner, who helped build people, other leaders
the church with the Smiths’ father.
Jerry. "1 saw these three girls grow
up and all three cared about others.
They didn’t have a me-bigger-than-
them' attitude."
A group of parents whose children
attended the church and Balch Spr-
ings Christian Academy said Tues-
day they would begin collecting
donations for a memorial to the 10
victims of the tragedy in Comfort.
The parents hope to erect a
marker, yet to be desined, on the
grounds of the academy, said
Richard Karpinski, whose 16-year-
old daughter, Kellye, attends the
school.
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John Bronka
Mauri Montitomery
Charlene Brownlow
Clements said it adds up to
relative!) little.
"I think the people of Texas will
understand that we had to balance
the budget and that we have stopped
the growth of government That's mv
message this morning." said the
Republican governor who had vowed
to veto any tax increase above the
$2.9 billion that would have been rais-
Tax sponsor says
Texans understand
AUSTIN iAPI One dav after
lawmakers approved a lax bill with
his name on it. Hep Dan Morales
said he recognized the political risk,
but is confident his constituents will
understand
"1 think the citizens are much
more sophistu ated than manv politi-
cians give them credit for.' Morales
said Wednesday. calling on a line fre-
quently used by politicians who dab-
ble in the controversial, like taxes
By sponsoring the tax hill
Morales. I>-San Antonio, had doiu
what most lawmakers spend their
careers avoiding At age 31 and m his
secontl House term. Morales said he
knows such moves tan have ballot-
box repercussions
If sponsorship of this tax lull costs
me a re-election bld. that's fine and 1
will have no regrets 1 recognize that
is a risk," he said
In terms of the issue of potential
political vulnerability or liability,
my opinion is there are far more im-
portant things than the political
future of one state representative.
Morales added
By most Capitol observers' ac-
counts. Morales' tax efforts did
nothing but boost his career He re-
mained cool when tax talk grew
heated and got his photograph in
newspapers across the state
Morales is a Harvard I-iw School
graduate and former Bexar County
assistant district attorney He t ame
to the legislature this year bent on
building more prisons, but Wound up
in the center of the tax fray
His north San Antonio district is 60
pert ent Hispanic and includes the
Edgewood Independent St hoo|
District, the city 's poorest area, and
what he called a significant amount
of relatively affluent people
"Where Sea World is going to be is
in my district Where the pope is go-
MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — The At a service for three victims Tues-
hurt of losing nine teen-agers who day, the Rev. Sylvester Matthew,
drowned in flash floods on their way pastor of the Open Door Baptist
home from church camp will take Church, read a poem written by one
time to heal, a minister said as three of the teen-aged girls,
of the victims were buried. Leslie Gossett, 14, in a poem called
“We’ve lost the backbone of our “I Love You,” wrote that if she ever
youth group,” said the Rev. Preston had to leave her loved ones, “please
Henderson of the Seagoville Road do not let the thought of me be sad for
Baptist Church, where many of the you. For I am loving you just as I
teens attended. “They done right, always have.”
They knew the Lord.” More than 800 family and friends
Meanwhile, the search continued gathered at the service. Mourners
knelt in the aisles of the small
church’s sanctuary and filled two
Bankston Jr., 17, who disappeared classrooms equipped with television
monitors for the service for Miss
Gossett, Stacey Smith, 17, and her
sister, 14-year-old Tonya Smith.
Michael O’Neal, 16, and Legenia
Keenum, who turned 15 the day she
died, were buried later Tuesday in
separate services.
At the triple-burial service in Mes-
quite, photographs of the three girls
sat atop caskets that were surround-
ed by dozens of floral arrangements,
mainly pink roses and carnations.
“It’s going to take time to heal,”
Henderson said. “Lean on one
another. Use the love that the Bible
has taught you.”
After the service, the caskets were
loaded into three white hearses that
were trailed by more than a half-
mile of limousines and hundreds of
cars en route to the cemetery. Some bill that exceeded the figure he had
of the mourners were survivors who
were still wearing bandages as they
got into their parents' cars.
Miss Gossett played basketball
and volleyball for the Balch Springs
Christian Academy, where the girls Clements' signature late Tuesday,
attended school. She was also a shortly after lawmakers approved it,
cheerleader, and a cheerleading pic- and it got Bullock's crucial certifica-
ture stood near the portrait atop her tion Wednesday.
casket. In his 1986 campaign, Clements
new taxes
despite an increasing state deficit
caused by declining oil prices. The
tax measures he wound up signing
played volleyball for the school, added up to the nation’s largest-ever
Their older brother, Michael, 18, sur- state tax increase, according to an
vived the bus accident economist for the National Con-
Turning to the parents of the girls, ference of State Legislatures
Matthew said, "You raised good
children."
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