The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 201, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 13, 1989 Page: 1 of 10
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25 CentsBILL CLEAVINGER
Relations seminar
the Frio Draw.
display area for the Imperial Mammoth exhibit at the Llano Estacado Museum. The
interfered'
halted
In the final days of that process,
the panel. “All options arc open
while book rovaltics arc not.
On Wednesday, the committee
the committee’s 10-month, $1.5
Worth developer George
U.S. government interceded in an
Pons even managed a smiling
will not take the Utah
offered use of Panamanian units to
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The kite CIA Director William
Casey justified his failure to raise
the narcotics issue in a 1985 mcct-
a new.
involve a disciplinary hearing and
possible punishment.
"It’s absolutely sure in my mind
that what we’ve seen (is nuclear
Utah experiment is actually
chemical reaction that is not under-
became involved in a ‘narco-terror-
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Hustlin’ Hereford, home of Rosemary Shook
88th Year, No. 201, Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas
area visited the site during
hastily-arranged field trips.
Woodbum and Guffec found
what appeared to be one of the
tusks sticking up out of the
barditch, did some light digging,
and unearthed the skull cap.
Guffee used archeological
volunteers from Texas Tech
University and the Texas Anti-
quities Committee and help from
Castro County Commissioner
Jeff Robertson to excavate the
skull.
Once dirt and other debris
which had encased the skull for
at least 12,000 years had been
removed, workers encased the
skull and tusks in a plaster cast,
then built a wooden platform
around it to lift it, intact, from its
grave.
That work took about two
weeks, during which school
children from throughout the
ing valuable support for our policies
in Central America, especially
Workers removed the cast
from around the skull one piece
at a time, then the fossilized
bone was again cleaned, patched
and stabilized to prevent further
deterioration.
found “reason to believe” the
Texas Democrat violated a series of
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Holly payment
boosts economy
The impact of Holly Sugar on
the area’s economy is apparent
again this week with a $4.7 million
payment made by Holly to area
farmers.
Holly, which has a sugar beet
processing plant in Hereford,
contracts with about 300 growers in
the area. When beets are harvested
in the late fall, the first of four
payments is made to growers. The
payment is about 65 percent of the
total amount due to growers and is
about 65 percent of the total amount
growers will receive, the payment is
based on the projected net selling
price of sugar the following year.
A second payment is made in
April, and a third is made in July.
Holly makes its final settlement
with farmers on Nov. 1.
"We are partners with Holly
Sugar," said Bill Cleavingcr of
Wildorado, president of the Texas
Sugar Beet Growers Association about a marked improvement in
who is also serving a second term
as head of the American Sugarbeet
Growers Association.
The skull was then slowly
trucked to Plainview, where
Guffee and others have spent the
past year working on the skull.
formal unveiling of the exhibit will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday and is open to the public,
the mammoth was unearthed near Hereford in 1988.
The exhibit area around the
skull was painted by Wayland
art professor Candace Keller and
re-creates the natural habitat of
the imperial mammoth.
The terrain in the area was
not all that different 12,000
years ago, but what is now the
south slope of Frio Draw was
probably the north slope when
the mammoth died. Because of
the difference in slope, Guffec
said it’s unlikely the rest of the
by inserting a rod of palladium and
a < ’.
deuterium and then applying an
electrical current to the metal.
After many days, said Pons, the
experiment produces up to four
watts of energy for every watt used
to run the device and that the only
explanation for the effect was
nuclear fusion.
He said the current forces atoms
of the deuterium, an isotope of
hydrogen, into the crystal structure
of the palladium. Eventually, the
deuterium becomes so compressed
in the metal that nuclei of the
isotope begin to fuse. As this
occurs, the process gives off heat,
some neutrons, and helium.
Pons said he how is “scaling
up", or enlarging, the experiment pmajerstomas. The ]Ow will be near 40, with southeast winds 5-15 mph.
and said if the process still works
then cold fusion may provide a
dramatic new energy source for the
(See FUSION, Page 2)
mammoth’s remains will ever be
found.
Also on exhibit arc other
discoveries, including a mam-
moth tooth, bone and tusk
fragments excavated in the
Silverton, Quitaque and White
River areas.
Participating in the unveiling
will be Guffec, Woodburn, and
Plainview city officials.
a icccption, sponsored by the
Plainview Cultural Arts Council,
will follow the ceremony. All
activities arc open to the public.
Greek mythology who stole fire u ,
from heaven; Pandora is a Greek s^'c tar”gcts insijc Nicaragua,
myth who released troubles on
mankind, and the Piltdown Man
was a famous scientific fraud.
The Utah chemist said his
laboratory created a fusion reaction
coil of platinum into a beaker of PqIiqp 3fT6St tWO
Hereford city police arrested two persons on Wednesday, including a
19-year-old for theft, public intoxication and criminal trespass, and a
juvenileon shoplifting charges.
Other incidents investigated by the Hereford Police Department were:
Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in the 400 block of Lawton;
criminal trespass in the 700 block of Union; theft of beer from a
convenience store with an arrest made;
An assault reported in the 100 block of Ave. H; a civil dispute in the
500 block of Avenue G; and a possible drug overdose on West U.S.
Highway 60.
City police issued 14 citations.
County arrests man
Officers from the Deaf Smith County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man,
24, on a warrant out of Clay County on Wednesday.
Warmer weather Friday
Tonight will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and
Friday will sec decreasing cloudiness and warmer temperatures, with
a high of 65. Wcst-southwcst winds will be 10-20 mph.
This morning’s low at KPAN was 40 after a high Wednesday of 52.
KPAN recorded .20 inch of rain in the 24 hours ending at 7 a m. today.
through book sales.
The last of the decisions were
reached Wednesday on strong
bipartisan votes, according to
sources f
Mammoth exhibit open Friday |
By JOHN BROOKS
Managing Editor
The "Easter Elephant," an
Imperial Mammoth skull un-
earthed southwest of Hereford in
May 1988, will be unveiled
Friday at 6:30 p.m. at the Muse-
um of the Llano Estacado at
Wayland Baptist University at
Plainview.
The skull was discovered
along a county road south of
Hereford by Lon Woodburn, a
Dimmitt farmer, and Eddie
Guffee, director of the Plainview
museum, earlier in 1988 while <
they were working on restoring ■
the chapel at the Prisoner of War I I
Camp near Hereford.
A West Texas Rural Tele-
phone employee had been check-
ing for a line washout along the
road when he discovered fossil-
ized teeth in the barditch. __
Woodbum and Guffee were
told about the teeth and took I
several excursions in the area
near where the teeth had been |
found, along the south slope of >
Mammoth exhibit almost ready
Wayland Baptist University art professor Candace Keller puts the finishing touches on the
er asked him, “Are you Prome-
u,.™vu.u. w— — —... lhcus- Pandora or the Piltdown the Panamanian strongman prom- orted
findings seriously until the precise Man? Prometheus is the figure in jsc(j help train Contra rebels and America,
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our
marketing nets," Cleavinger said.
"We are extremely pleased with the
results the marketing department is
Cleavinger said last year’s producing. These results benefit
merger of Holly with Imperial everyone involved, and the $4.7
Sugar is helping area growers and, million payment is proof that this
in turn, the region. industry is helping the regional
"The merger is helping bring economy."
Fusion draws more attention
DALLAS (AP) - The co-devel- “It’s absolutely sure in mv mind ment was, in fact, nuclear fusion. and from some ol Americas
oper of a University of Utah cold
fusion experiment defended his
findings Wednesday before an
audience of experts and concluded questions
he was “absolutely sure” that it L’-----IL
was a i
stars.
B. Stanley Pons, a
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attending a national meeting of the told the audience that Soviet Union
American Chemical Society that an scientists announced l‘
experiment conducted at
temperature produced energy from
in congressional legislation than an WASHINGTON (AP) - The
ordinary citizen, said one source. Reagan administration undermined
The panel also concluded dial its own war on drugs, as it “delay-
Wright, in roughly half a dozen cd, halted or interfered” with ing with Noriega, the report said, on
instances, had foregone speaking operations that jeopardized support grounds that Noriega was provid-
fccs from groups he had addressed for its policy in Central America, a m «•«
and instead sold them bulk quanti- Senate panel reported today.
The government looked the other Nicaragua.
Under House rules, way, according to the report, when
I J -The Drug Enforcement Admin-
that drug traffickers'5were protected istration apparently ignored traffick-
said, was the issue of Nicaraguan Contras, members of because the now-indicted strongman
of Wright, had motives other than strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega But the DEA was fooled, the report
friendship when he paid the speak- and Bahamian officials. nwH hie cinsr
cr’s wife, Betty, $18,000 a year in The 437-page report was pre- relationship with the agency
salary and gave the Wrights rent- pared by the Senate Foreign Affairs r'r * “r'
free use of a condominium and a subcommittee on terrorism, naf-
1979 Cadillac. colics and international operations,
Therp are certain experiments
that need to be done,” he said.
“And then we’ll see.”
University of Texas chemist
Allen J. Bard, also on the panel,
said he had an open mind on the
Utah experiment, but noted: “Il is
unprecedented to see chemical
reactions produce nuclear reactions.
The verdict is still out.”
A fourth member of the panel,
electrochemist Ernest Yeager of
Case Western Reserve University,
said it was “hard to say” if the
experiment was fusion “but the
experiments arc beginning to add up
to a fairly strong case.”
During four hours of public
grilling by ACS delegates and by
journalists, Pons responded calmly
and at length to openly skeptical
and often highly technical ques-
tions. Questions came from authori-
ties representing major universities
Reagan may
Panel finding may end Wright's role have hurt 'war*
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dealing Wright continued to maintain he three weeks to deliberate the
a serious and possibly fatal blow to had not knowingly or intentionally recommendations of its special
Jim Wright’s speakership, the broken the rules and was expected outside counsel, Chicago attorney
House ethics committee has con- to mount a vigorous defense. His Richard Phelan.
eluded that he improperly accepted spokesman, Mark Johnson, said late In the final days of that process,
gifts from a business partner and Wednesday that the speaker had not committee members narrowed their
tried to evade outside income limits been informed of any decision by focus to the two most serious issoes
before them: the acceptance of gifts
in defending against the charges, he from a person with an interest in
said. legislation and the evasion of
The action essentially completed outside income limits.
u 1„~L .2 Z'..3 On Wednesday, the committee
familiar with the panel’s million investigation of Wright’s voted that benefits received from
“ r ‘ w t Worth developer George
again today to work on the specific Mallick from 1980 through 1984,
iV«w wording of its report detailing the valued at more &,nnr^r'
House rules, and they point toward basis for the charges against the amounted to unreported
The panel has met behind closed
scheduled Tuesday
"Customer Relations" will be the expanding the customer base, first
topic when Deaf Smith County impressions, and six sccrwcts that will
Chamber of Commerce sponsors a keep customers coming back,
seminar for local businesses next The workshop will be held at the
Tuesday. Hereford Community Center from 7
The seminar is open to all business to 9 p.m. next Tuesday. Registration
owners, managers and employees who is $ 10 a person, or a maximum of $50
have customer contact. "The per business. Call the chamber
workshop should be of interest to all office(364-3333) to register.
business firms except those with too Taylor currently serves as director
much money and too many custom- for West Texas State University’s
ers," according to Don Taylor, the Small Business Development Center,
workshop presenter. He is a former president of a Missouri-
Taylor is a small-business based investment group which
consultant with more than 20 years of specialized in small business
experience in "taking care of the ownership, management and consult-
customer." Workshop topics will ing, and is a former top national
includes Taking care of the customers, salesman for the Riley Company.
tics of his book, “Reflections of a
Public Man.” L
speaking fees arc subject to limits, law enforcement agencies learned
^i^TS^^^mmittee, 2 uT-^Joncd ing allegations against Noriega
sources said, was the issue of Nicaraguan Contras, members of because the now-indicted strongman
whether Mallick, a longtime friend the Honduran military, Panamanian also cooperated in DEA operations.
said, when Noriega used his close
' ' “to
share DEA information with traffic-
kers.”
-“When a former Honduran
whose chairman, John F. Kerry, D- military officer who has assisted the
Mass., held a scries of public United States in the Contra war ...
hearings last year on international became involved in a ‘narco-tcrror-
drug trafficking. ist’ plot to kill the elected president
In the most glaring examples of of Honduras, high officials of the
what the committee found to be a U.S. government interceded in an
two-faced policy during the Reagan effort to get his sentenced reduc-
ycars, the report said: cd.”
-While reports of Noriega’s drug
The Honduran military, which
govcrnment'ignored the evidence as the report said “consistently supp-
thc Panamanian strongman prom- orted U.S. policies in Central
- • • ‘ ” included elements that
"protected the cocaine trade,” the
report said.
™ wao, I., .‘ovh ..„vlv-. and frOm SOmC
ow.. ..uv.v.. Harold P. Furth, director of the industrial giants.
” sa7dVp<ms durinv a <^srion Princeton University Plasma Phy- T . _ .........r--------------„
in which more than 40® technical sics Laboratory, said with barely “n0_c1o^mkc.rH *hAC" activities were mounting,. the‘.V.S.
> were posed by experts in contained contempt that world-class
the audience. “We cannot explain physicists will not take the Utah
way to tap the energy of the the data in any other way.” F“JT '
Pons received long distance process involved is explained and
r University of support just as the scientific disc- demonstrated with control experi-
Utah chemist, told 7,000 people ussions began. An ACS officials ments.
.. .. « ------4* —»:----—a tt_:_^ Furth said that some experts
scientists announced they had believe the energy detected in the
room duplicated the Utah experiment. Utah experiment is actually a
nuclear fusion^ but that exactly how who sat beside Pons during a panel stood as yet.
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probe. The votes mean the panel has finances. The panel was meeting Fort
wording of its report detailing the valued
than $100,000,
1 “gifts”
phase of the case which could speaker, one source said. that were improper because Mallick,
- • The panel has met behind closed an investor in real estate and oil and
doors and under tight secrecy for gas ventures, had a greater interest
But a physicist and two chemists
it works on a molecular level is still discussion said they remained
not clear. unconvinced that the Utah experi-
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