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Poll Shows Public Unimpressed by Carter Efforts
The Hereford Brand
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78thYear,No.53
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Hereford, Texas, Friday, September 14,1979
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Fishermen File Lawsuit
Over Losses to Oil Spill
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Bergland To Visit
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Hailed-Out Areas
hotels
Though Others Got More Money
3 Hurricane-Stricken States
Clean Up after Devastation
Huge Crop May Lower Prices for F armers
'Faces Open Home Season Against Palo Duro
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and gospel music. Bass will Impersonate Elvis
Country-Gospel Great Happy,
Carter's historically low ratings have
helped convince Kennedy that he should
consider challenging Carter for the
Democratic party's nomination in 1980.
"Since the governor of this state has
refused to represent the people of Texas,
somebody had to. I filed the suit to force
some people's hands and. by God. 1
think. I know, we can win a judgment."
Spillage from Ixtoc l, a PEMEX oil well
in the Bay of Campeche, has stained
more than 100 miles of Texas beaches
and sent oil slicks over a wide area where
Gulf of Mexico fishermen harvest
shrimp, oysters and crab.
The well has pumped more than 2
million barrels of oil into the Gulf since it
ruptured in early June. Efforts still ate
NEW YORK (AP) - In choosing
President Carter's handling of the
nation's economic woes as a criterion for
whether he will seek the presidency. Sen.
Edward Kennedy has focused his
potential candidacy on the issue
Americans perceive as Carter’s biggest
failing.
Right now the public doesn't think
much of Carter's efforts to battle the twin
demons of inflation and recession nor of
his work in general. An Associated Press-
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston attorney
has filed a $155 million lawsuit on behalf
of a group of fishermen who claim they
have lost money because of a giant oil
spill that swept from Mexico into Texas
waters.
Joe Jamail, who has won millions of
dollars in damages for clients during the
past few years, named the defendants in
the federal court class action as PEMEX.
the Mexican oil monopoly, and SEDCO, a
firm founded by Texas Gov. Bill Cle-
ments.
Jamail told The Associated Press.
Kennedy has said in recent days that he
is not ruling out such a challenge, adding
that the president's efforts to deal with
the economy will be crucial to Kennedy's
own decision.
"If there's a perception that the
president is successfully dealing with this
issue, I think he'll be successful."
Kennedy said earlier this week.
But right now the perception is that
Carter is failing in his efforts to deal with
the economy.
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Bergland. believe no substantial impact
will be felt because of the strike for at
least several more weeks.
The reason, the sources said, is that
the huge com harvest — estimated
Wednesday at a record 7.21 billion
bushels — is later than usual in the main
producing areas of the Midwest.
Similar delays face the soybean har-
vest. estimated at a record 2.17 billion
bushels.
Thus, goes the theory, the big harvest
crunch win not be felt for another month
or so. But if the stoppages continue for
administration and to present a more
forceful image to the public.
1930's.
Crowned "Mr. Gospel Music" in
Nashville. Tenn.. before 10.000 people
in 1964 Fowler's respect extends
beyond the hundreds of thousands who
have heard tunes he created such as
"Wasted Years." "Jesus Is Mine."
"I'm Sending You Red Roses," and “I
Couldn't Believe It Was True,"
recorded last year by Willie Nelson,
who once said Fowler "may be the most
talented man I know.” He has helped
the careers of numerous singing giants,
among them being:
-Patsy Cline. whom he discovered by
allowing her to sing professionally for
the first time on a Fowler-produced
program in Virginia in the early 1950s.
-Tennessee Ernie Ford, whom he
recommended for a network television
show after turning down the job
himself.
-Chet Atkins, who got one of his first
jobs-and a guitar-from Fowler.
-Eddy Arnold, show first songs.
"Mommy. Please Stay Home with Me"
and "Mother's Prayer” and first
million-seller. “That's How Much I
Love You," were written by Fowler.
-Roy Drusky. who received his first
The AP-NBC News poll found that
Carter is now in serious trouble with
almost every segment of the population.
And — with a possible Kennedy chal-
lenge looming in 1980 — the president is
doing badly among politically crucial
groups like Democrats, Southerners,
small town and rural residents tad his
1976 supporters.
Gospel-Show Performers
Two performers in Saturday’s Country-Gospel
Music Festival, scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday In
the high school auditorium, will be Jerry Bass,
left, Wally Fowler, one of Nashville’s leading
singing celbrities and a pioneer in both country
poor. Two percent of the 1.600 adults
interviewed nationwide by telephone
were not sure.
The 19 percent mark is the lowest ever
received by an American president since
this rating question was first asked in the
1950s.
Only 10 percent of the public gave
Carter an excellent or good rating for his
work on the nation's economic woes —
the lowest job rating ever for Carter in
any area. Forty-seven percent said his
work has been poor and 40 percent called
it as only fair. Three percent were not
sure.
The public perception of Carter's
failure to deal with inflation and
recession has helped blunt the effects of
his midsummer moves to reshuffle his
332
Graham said he feared the damage toll
from the latest tropical devastation might
surpass the $95 million racked up by
David there.
Towns from Florida to Mississippi
sustained heavy damage in Frederic's
130 mph winds and in the tornadoes that
trailed the storm. Hundreds of homes
were swept from their foundations and
businesses were ripped apart.
At least six persons were killed. Two;
others in Florida were missing and
believed dead.
Early today, the remnants of the storm,
weakened to little more than a low
pressure system, dumped as much as 7
inches of rain on western and central
Kentucky and up to 6 inches on eastern
Tennessee. Flash flood warnings were
posted and some residents of Tennessee
were advised to keep watch for tor-
nadoes.
President Caner ordered disaster
assistance for 30 counties along the
central Gulf Coast, and planned to assess
the damage today.
"It looks like this place has been
shelled," said Gulf Shores, Ala.,
firefighter Ed Curott. Assistant Fire
Chief Wade Ward, whose own home was
swept away, estimated 90 percent of the
businesses and homes in that community
were destroyed by the battering winds.
"Looks like King Kong took a stroll
through downtown," one Citizens Band
Presley during the Hereford show. Tickets are
available at K-Bob’s Steak House, Allsup’s
Convenience Stores, Don's Restaurant, Big
Daddy’s Truck Stop, Touch of Class, Face Place,
Boynton’s Grocery and Pizza Hut. [Brand photo]
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Agriculture
Secretaff"Bob S. Bergland will have a
chance to inspect West Texas crops
severely damaged by a summer hail
storm while on a three-day visit to the
state next week.
Bergland is scheduled to land in
Lubbock on Wednesday night after
arriving in Dallas earlier in the day. Rep.
Kent Hance. D-Texas. said Thursday
there will be time for a crop inspection
the morning of Sept. 20.
The agriculture secretary's first stop in
Texas will be Dallas on Wednesday.
Bergland is also planning to visit Abilene.
Stepehnville and Waco before leaving
Texas on Sept. 21.
Hance, of Lubbock. has asked
Agriculture Department officials to
consider reducing Farmers Home
Administration loans by 20 percent for
farmers who suffered damage to 70
percent or more of their crops when a
devastating hail storm struck Aug. 24.
recording contract through Fowler.
-Hank Williams.
Fowler met Williams, an unknown at
the time, at a truck stop in Troy Ala., at
two in the morning.
"He said. 'You don't know me, but I
’mire you and them Oak Ridge Boys. I
hear you every Saturday night on the
Grand Ole Opry. I pick a little, and sing
a little. and don't 'mount to nothin'."
said Fowler, doing an imitation of
Williams.
"He asked if I could get him back
stage on the Grand Ole Opry so he could
meet Earnest Tubb and Roy Acuff. I
said I would do that. About six weeks
later. Mr. Norris. the door guard, said
there was a 'long. tall drink of water and
a stringy blonde from Alabama' who
were there as my guests. I said to let
them in."
Williams and his wife went back
stage, where he borrowed a guitar and
began playing.
"All of the performers began to miss
their cues to go on stage. Hank had 'em
spellbound, playing the guitar and
singing backstage." Fowler said.
"The kicker is. he asked me if I'd
(SM FOWLER, Page 2)
Nine counties have been deciarea
disaster areas as a result of the Mona,
with estimates of crop damage exceeding
$200 million.
"We are extremely pleased to have
Secretary Bergland coming to the 19th
Congressional District," Hance said.
"This is one of the major agricultural
areas of the nation and having the
Secretary visit here could play an
important role in the future concerning
regulations and legislation which will
greatly affect agriculture and agricultur-
al-related business and economics."
"His visit also could prove very
important in light of the recent severe
crop damage in our area,” said the
Congressman. “I have written Bergland
to request a 20 percent reduction in the
loans of farmers in disaster counties who
suffered a 70 percent loss of crops. Many
farmers may be forced out of business by
the disaster and my proposal to Bergland
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and motels and others along the affected
beach areas to eventually join in this
action.
"We have a right to sue these people
for the loss by the victims of the oil spill.
Just think what this oil spill has done to
parts of Texas,” he said.
The Houston attorney said he has
discussed this case with Texas Attorney
General Mark White and added, "I think
he understands the situation.”
In Austin, White said, "We have not
seen the petition. However, we will be
filing an appropriate response to the suit
next week."
During the past few months, Clements
and White have been at odds over
whether legal action should be taken
against the Mexican government for the
oil spillage.
The governor has said, "There is no
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another three to eight weeks, export* as
well as the internal movements of grain
and soybeans will be significantly af-
fected. meaning huge pileups of com-
modities and a disruption of market
prices.
Corn exports in the year beginning
Oct. 1 were projected at around 2.5
billion bushels, the same as a month ago.
the report said.
Also unchanged were export figures
for 1979 shipments of wheat at 1.4 billion
bushels and soybeans at 825 million
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Huge grain
crops this year win mean slightly lower
prices for farmers than Agriculture
Department experts had forecast a month
ago.
But a new "supply and demand
report issued Thursday indicated exports
— a major factor in farmers' financial
status — are not expected so far to be
jeopardized by strikes at rail and port
facilities.
Farmers are harvesting record crops of
corn and soybeans, and a near-record
crop of wheat. A strike against the Rock
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NBC News poll this week found
Americans giving Carter the lowest
overall job rating in nearly three decade*
for an American president.
Only 19 percent of those interviewed
nationwide Monday and Tuesday rated
Carter's work excellent or good. That is
down seven points from the APNBC
News July poll, which was his previous
low.
Forty-nine percent said his efforts were
only fair and 30 percent said they were
radio enthusiast reported of the damage
in Mobile, which along with areas around
Pascagoula, Miss., and Pensacola. Fla.,
suffered the brunt of the storm.
Mobile authorities imposed a 7 a.m. to
7 p.m. curfew Thursday when sporadic
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Mexican Freedom
To Be Celebrated
Fiestas Patrias, the annual Mexican
celebration recognizing independence
from Spain, will begin with a dance at 8
p.m. Friday in the Bull Bam.
A parade is scheduled for 2 p.m.
Saturday, a Mexican mariachi perfor-
mance immediately after the parade at
the Bull Barn and another dance,
highlighted by the coronation of Fiestas
Patrias Queen Anita Castillo. for 8 p.m.
Saturday.
Proceeds from the dances and mariachi
show will be used to pay for the
construction of the new- St. Joseph's
Catholic Church at 13th and Brevard. The
church should be completed sometime in
November.
The parade will begin at the
Community Center and head down Mam
St. before disbanding at Hereford State
Bank.
Persons interested in entering floats in
the parade should contact parade marshal
Victor Cantu before 2 p.m. Saturday.
underway to seal the runaway well.
Clements. Texas' first Republican
governor in more than 100 years, placed
his interest in SEDCO in trust and dis-
associated himself from the multi-million
dollar firm before his election.
The Dallas-based company had leased
an offshore rig to the Mexican govern-
ment. It was this rig that collapsed.
PEMEX officials refused to comment
on the oil suit.
Clements is in Moscow on a sight-
seeing tour and not available for com-
ment.
Gil Clements, the governor's
son and chief officer of SEDCO.
said. "I can't say I am surprised by a
lawsuit being filed. I am surprised that
anyone thiks they can document any
damages against us.”
Jamail said. "I am representing this
group of fishermen who have suffered the
million-dollar losses in just the past year.
Island railroad and at Great Lakes port
facilities at Duluth. Minn.. and Superior.
Wis.. have raised fears that exports win
suffer.
The new analysis issued by the
department's World Food and
Agricultural Outlook and Situation Board
included no reference to the grain-
handling problem nor indicated any
change in export prospects from a month
ago.
According to sources who asked not to
be identified, senior department officials,
including Agriculture Secretary Bob
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crease; and I expect the ।
By PAUL SIMS
Managing Editor
Wally Fowler says he doesn't mind
the fact he hasn't made the millions of
Eddy Arnold. Tennessee Ernie Ford or
Chet Atkins, even though he did as
much to boost their singing careers as
anyone in the business.
Founder of the original Oak Ridge
Boys. Fowler is in Hereford this week
for Saturday night's Country-Gospel
Festival, a fund-raiser for the Kids Inc.
baseball complex.
"I'm not as rich as some of the people
who 1 helped with their careers, but I
have a living. The only thing you can
leave in this world when you leave it is
your investment in humanity,” said
Fowler. Nashville's consummate "mu-
sic man” who has been a singer,
songwriter, gospel music pioneer, radio
and television personality. Grand Ole
Opry star and record company
executive.
Fowler. a 61-year-old rotund fellow-
tucked into a sequined western outfit
and sporting lizard cowboy boots and
long hair trimmed in page-boy bangs,
may have inspired more folks than Billy
Graham in his career dating back to the
By CHARLOTTE PORTER
Associated Press Writer
The once-brutal winds of the storm
called Frederic pushed torrential rain*
today as remnants of the former
hurricane moved north, leaving residents
of three states to sweep up the splinters
of their homes and businesses and to
bury their dead.
“For Sale Cheap." read the sign on
one flattened trailer in Mississippi.
"Extras: sun roof and solar air."
Frederic claimed only half the human
toll of last week's Atlantic Coast killer.
Hurricane David, which claimed 16 lives
in the United States and 1,100 in the
Caribbean. But Florida Gov. Bob
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