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PRINCETON. N. J. (AP) -
Humanity's "great” religions,
which sometimes railed or war-
red against each other in the
Fowler allowed to sing 'with an up and
coming group called Blackwood Quartet
during an all-night sing at Nashville.
"A member of the group told me he
didn't sing that well. but he sang all
over himself and the girls go wild.
Never did I dream that the young man
who really wasn't good enough to be a
member of that little gospel quartet
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legist suspected poisoning and
asked about pesticides.
“We don't let her play on the
streets," said Cardwell, “but
she's OK now. thank God."
Wortham asked the commis-
conference general secretary.
The conference "has built a
new appreciation of pluralism."
said United Methodist partici-
pant. the Rev. Herman Will. "It
does not deny the uniqueness of
our own faith but urges us to
respect the right of others to
believe something different and
not call them heathen."
But the improved harvest prospects. by
; themselves, have had an impact on the
; prices farmers can expect over the
: Bergland------------
Charlotte Trousdale said be- except when she was taken out
fore her husband died a neuro- by car.
telephone interview from his home in
Stockton, across the bay from Mobile. "It
looks like it will be at least a week before
we have electricity. We're wrapped up
with trees.”
Billy Knight, who lived in Gautier.
Miss., about 12 miles from Pascagoula,
stood on the floor of his trailer Thursday,
looking at the flattened walls and the
insulation hanging in the trees overhead.
bushels.
Rice, also with a record harvest this
year of 135.3 million hundredweight. was
shown at a 1979-80 export level of 83 mil-
lion hundredweight, also unchanged
from the August analysis.
coming months.
For example, com prices at the farm
are now expected to average $2.40 to
$2.70 a bushel over the entire 1979-80
marketing year, down five cents at the
top end from last month.
Wheat prices were projected at 53.60
to $3.90 a bushel, compared to last
month's range of $3.50 to $4.25.
Soybean price forecasts now are $5.75.
Monday in the Hereford High
vocational building.
Instruction will be given in
reading, writing. English,
arithmetic. science. English
speaking, government and high
school equivalency.
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equipment was defective."
He also said it would be a mistake to
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Charleme Brown
attempt to force the Mexican government
to pay damages for the spillage until all of
the facts in the case are known.
White has suggested that a lawsuit be
had failed to "reveal or detect"
any hazardous wastes.
Powers said six samples were
looting was reported. In the northern
suburb of Prichard, Mayor A.J. Cooper
advised policemen to fire two warning
shots before shooting to kill looters.
Officials declined to speculate on the
extent of damage in that city, where
century-old oaks toppled like bowling
pins before the winds. One insurer esti-
mated its homeowner claims alone would
be $30 million to $60 million.
from the high school band field
Thursday evening.
could, and I hired him.
' 'One day. Chet asked if he could be
as great as Les Paul. I turned around
and said. 'Chet, if you'll practice on that
guitar eight hours a day, as good as you
are already, then you’ll be greater than
Les Paul. Now. I think personally that
he is," Fowler said.
Another singer he met along the way
was 17-year-old Elvis Presley, whom
duding nitrobenzene — from
roads in Lake Bahlow Estates in
Tyler County.
Executive Director Harvey
Davis of the Department of Wa-
ter Resources concurred in the
motion to rescind the order, ac-
cording to staff attorney Glenn
Jordan.
the town has no drugstore.
"Right now. I rely on drug
companies' samples they leave.
I give my patients enough
medicine to last until they can
get the prescription filled in Van
Horn or until it's shipped on a
bus." he said. -
"Communication is a prob-
lem because half the people
around here don't have a tele-
phone.” Cox said, glancing at
the CB radio in the corner of his
reception room.
Cox knows he could make
more money in a metropolitan
practice.
"When I was in New York I
saw two plays on Broadway at
$40 per ticket. Those two were
enough. I don't have to have a
lot of money."
Cox says he was offered a
decision then win be made on
whether to continue the service.
Sierra Blanca has several gas
stations, three cafes and two
motels. The town was bypassed
by Interstate 10 and according
to West the population has been
decreasing with younger gener-
ations moving out.
West wants to attract in-
dustry to revitalize the town.
“But we couldn't start until we
had a doctor."
Cox is happy in this industry-
free country. "Down here, you
can get to know someone and
become friends with them in 10
minutes," he said. "I know
nearly every one in town.
"Being able to look out this
window and see the mountain,
it’s nice."
Despite its scenic attractions.
secure employment, qualify for
job promotion, achieve a
certificate of high school
equivalency and to become a
Diane Swanson, manager of
Seven-11. Park Ave. and U.S.
385. reported to police that
someone stole $5 worth of gas
from the convenience store
Thursday, then complained that
her house had been burglarized.
Police said six record albums
had been stolen from her
residence.
Rivera Produce. W. Highway
60. reported that someone broke
into the business and stole a
23-channel CB radio and a
DALLAS (API - A Mesquite sanitation
worker faces a life prison term today after
a district court jury recommended that
punishment following his conviction in
the death at a six-year-old neighbor girl.
The jury of nine men and three women
took about two hours Thursday to find
James Richard Harris, 25. guilty in the
June death of Tyra Heath. The jury then
look less than 30 minutes to set his
punishment at life in prison.
Defense lawyers had asked the jurors
to release Harris on probation.
The Heath girl vanished from her
apartment June 25 Remains found in a
shallow grave in a wooded area of
Mesquite were believed to be. but never
positively identified as those at the girl.
"I think he got what he deserved,
said Mrs. Janis Heath, the girl's mother.
"But it wasn't enough. It won't bring
my daughter back." she said.
Assistant District Attorney Kelly
Loving brought tears to the eyes at many
courtroom spectators during his closing
arguments. He placed a picture of the girl
in the courtroom for the jury to view.
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With hot food nearly impossible to
obtain, some service stations did a
booming business in chips and warm
beer. Thousands of people remained in
emergency shelters Thursday night,
while others picked their way home to try
to assess damage with flashlights and
candles.
“Power is the critical thing over here
right now," said John McMillan in a
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Janelle Coupe. 300 Western. The program is designed to
said that her clarinet was stolen improve a person's ability to
COLUMBIA. S.C. (AP) John Davis,
the oldest prison inmate in South
Carolina and perhaps anywhere, cut the
cake, praised the Lord and accepted a
batch of kisses for his 103rd birthday
A group of beauticians, who have
helped "Uncle John" celebrate his
birthday for years, was on hand' for the
party Thursday at a minimum security
center where the spry inmate has lived
since the early 1970s.
The 30 young women, students at,
Columbia's Waverly School of Beauty,
filed past Davis, giving him small cash
gifts and singing his special request
"What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
Several planted kisses on his bald head.
"If you have faith in the man upstairs,
then you'll always be taken care of." said
Davis.
He has been in prison for most of the
past 57 years. He was sentenced to a life
term in 1922 after he was convicted of
burglary, an offense that at the time
could have carried the death penalty.
DETROIT (AP) - Negotiators for
General Motors Corp. and the United
Auto Workers union struggled early
today to reach a new contract before the
midnight deadline for a strike that w ould
idle 95.000 workers and nearly half the
company's 1980 model production.
"It would be a shame if we let it get
away from us," UAW President Douglas
A. Fraser said before the marathon
session began Thursday night. "The
differences between us look like they can
. be resolved with some intensive
negotiations. We're just going to stay at
the bargaining table."
Looming on the other side of the
deadline was an unprecedented selective
strike against GM plants that make the
company's more-popular cars and trucks,
parts warehouses that serve dealers and a
locomotive plant that supplies three-
consider taking some of his songs and
publishing them. I was too busy to do it.
though. I recommended him to
somebody else, and they published his
songs. I walked away from all those
million-dollar copyrights."
Fowler gave Atkins a job in Knoxville
in 1944. "I needed a lead guitarist for a
group to some daily radio programs I
past, have joined in a plea for a the search for righteousness. United Nations."
whole world, when he died."
Fowler, whose credits include a
weekly radio show with Eddy Arnold.
Minne Pearl and others, the creation of
all-night songs, formation of the first
recording and music publishing
companies in Nashville and gospel
performances taking him more than 4
million miles during his career, says he
hasn't become as rich as Ford. Arnold
hazardous materials
District Congressman Charles Stenholm.
James Morgan, an aide for Rep.
Charles Stenholm. D-Texas. said
Bergland is scheduled to arrive in
Abilene on Sept. 20, where he will speak
at a dinner sponsored by the Abilene and
West Texas chambers of commerce.
At least two stops are planned Sept. 20
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tales
of human suffering Thursday
failed to convince the Texas
Water Commission to order
Browning-Ferris Industries to
pave roads in an East Texas
subdivision.
Instead, the commission
voted 2-0 to cancel its May 9
order that the company remove
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city. The doctor, who does not
yet have an X-ray machine, said
others offered him large staffs
and hospital facilities.
He looked at his receptionist,
secretary and nurse — all in
paramedics training — and
said. "I've always wanted to go
to a small town, so here I am."
Sierra Blanca housewife An-
para Newsome knows he's
ther. Mrs. Newsome, waking
for her seventh baby, said, "It
is comforting to know we have
Dr. Cox in our area for deliv-
ering my babies."
Trucker Dalton West added:
"We can’t praise Dr. Cox
enough for saving our little
granddaughter’s life three
times."
LONDON (AP) - Denouncing the
guerrillas fighting his government as
"bloodthirsty murderers." Zimbabwe
. Rhodesia's prime minister threatened to
quit the British-sponsored peace talks if
Britain bows to guerrilla demands for
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The time for appeasement is ahr.”
Bishop Abel Muzorewa told a news
conference Thursday during a break in
_ the dow moving five-day-old conference.
"The tune is overdue for the British
government to act firmly and decisively."
Muzorewa. elected in April as his
nation's first Hack prime minister, said
he would reject any attempt "by one or
two arrogant dictators in the making to
impose themselves or their foreign
communist or Marxist ideologies upon
our country."
Sources said the American-educated
Methodist minister was angered by
Britain's compromise agenda for the
talks, a compromise he earlier accepted
The agenda, proposed by conference
chairman Lord Carrington, the British
foreign secretary, would permit discus-
sion of guerrilla demands that
Muzorewa’s administration be replaced
by a government that would include the
insurgents, and the communist armed
guerrillas be given control at the army.
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A settlement would get a pattern for
negotiations with Ford Motor Co the
nation's No. 2 automaker. The UAW has
all but conceded that troubled Chry sler
Corp, for the first time will be permitted
to break the Big Three pattern with a
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could prevent some of this. This is why I
feel his trip here has added
significance."
Following his day-long visit to the
Lwbbock area. Bergland is also scheduled
to fly to Abilene to conclude his tour of
Texas. The trip and arrangements for
been soaked when he opened a
valve on a Browning-Ferris
truck to spray a road. He de-
veloped a skin cancer on his
neck with a tumor under his
jawbone, "and the doctor says
the dust off the road aggra-
vates" it.
Johnnie Cardwell Jr. said a
rash on his right hand and a
"ringing in his ears" have per-
sisted for 2% years. He said he
used to take his daughter on
walks in the subdivision, but
when she was 10 months old
"got real sick and couldn't hold
anything on her stomach."
He said the doctor who
treated her asked if she had
been bitten by anything that
might have injected poison into
her system, Cardwell said. She
was hospitalized for a week and
was kept inside for six months.
Dangerous chemicals have
been found in oil Browning-
Ferris used to coat several East
Texas roads.
Austin lawyer Pike Powers
said Browning-Ferris had origi-
nally suggested that Barlow Es-
tates be included in the order
because the company had dis-
taken at places selected by Bob
Wortham of Beaumont, a
lawyer for several homeowners
in Barlow Estates.
Three residents of the subdi-
vision testified they had devel-
oped ailments in the years since
Browning-Ferris began
disposing of waste there. A
fourth. Charlotte Trousdale,
said her asthma was "much
worsened."
Rubilee May choked back
sobs in telling how her husband
had helped others try to prevent
oil from an open valve getting
into the lake. "It was black,
filthy, stinking." she said, and
she had burned his clothes
and shoes.
Six months later, she said, he
developed cancer of the in-
testine and spine — "wherever
the oil touched him.”
"I trust that those who read judgments." He made similar
this book will not make that statements in his memoirs
mistake.” published last year.
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas
(AP) — Before Gordon Cox, a
city-educated doctor, turned
down an $80.000-a-year private
practice for jeans. boots and a
one-man practice this little
West Texas town had been
without a physician for 27 years.
And until Cox opened his of-
fice in July, the 600 residents of
this little railroad boom town
made the 80-mile roundtrip to
Van Horn when they needed
medical attention.
Now the town has a doctor,
who says he stays busy in his
tiny office — so busy that he
can't even leave town on Sun-
day. his day off.
"We're in a position now
where there is a lady who is
going to have a baby any time.
I'm available all the time.
"Right now. since the lady is
so dose. I don’t leave." said the
softspoken ranchland doctor.
Cox also keeps watch over a
2-month-old girl who spent her
first six weeks in intensive care
at an El Paso hospital, about 85
miles west of here.
"She just stops breathing."
he said. "Three times now she's
almost died and I've been able
to get her breathing again."
Cox, 32. interned at Brooklyn.
N.Y. and was completing his
residency at Texas Tech's re-
gional health center at El Paso
or Atkins but has enjoyed living.
"I reckon I do." he says with
twinkling eyes and a smile. "I plan my
life like I'm going to live a thousand
years, knowing I don't have the promise
of tomorrow. I keep healthy and happy
because I keep busy.
"I count myself as the world's oldest
teenageral take yamins- and J don't
4 drink beer, wine or whiskey. I don't
sprinkle salt, even on tomatoes. And I
try to perform as much as I can."
Mostly , he performs in benefit shows,
like the one he will do Saturday in the
high school auditorium.
"I feel I can inspire people more
doing benefits. I believe in music and
really get tickled when I sing "How
Great Thou Art." and people sing the
chorus with me, and I feel them being
inspired. That's what it's all about.”
a few thunderstorms mainly north today when he heard townspeople
and most sections tonight. Cooler. Partly were looking for a doctor.
cloudy Saturday with a slight chance of With a near-constant smile
showers or thunderstorms most sections, beneath his thick, dark mus-
Cooler south Saturday. Highs 63 tache, Cox said. "We were sit-
Panhandle to 95 along the Rio Grande in ting around at lunch shooting
Jig Bend Lows 49 Panhandle to 62 the bull when this guy came
south. Highs Saturday 70 Panhandle to 85 down the hall and said we
south. need a doctor.'
"I came out and looked and I
liked the town.”
The "guy" was Henry O.
“Tex" West, a husky, 64-year-
old Sierra Blanca rancher who
led the search to find medical
care for his town.
"I realized the need for a
doctor when a very good friend
died and there was no medical
facility.
"So I went after one." West
said, slamming his sunburned
and weather-worn hamlike hand
to the table. .
West worked for a year to get
a doctor. He helped Sierra
Blanca start a non-profit corpo-
ration to fund the operation.
Cox was hired by the govern-
ment to man the small clinic,
previously a land sales office.
"The community set up this
building,” Cox said. "They had
a bingo game and a cake sale."
A loaf of bread went for $80 and
a candy bar for $100.
Cox sees most patients at the
office. But he does make house
calls in his four-wheel drive ve-
hicle.
"I got that Jeep because I
have to make house calls 30 or
40 miles out in the middle of
nowhere." he said. "If someone
calls and says there is an elderly
kind who can't get out of bed, I
jump in my Jeep and go see
them."
The doctor wears a stethos-
incident in which a 15-year-old more efficient and active citizen,
female allegedly struck a Classes will be held every
6-year-old child in the face with Monday and Thursday nights,
a belt. The older girl was taken More information may be
into custody by police. obtained by contacting the
Officers handed out five vocational department of the
cope over his western-style fucianist. Hindu. Jewish. Jain- creasingly cooperate in creating
shirt. His laboratory smock ist, Moslem. Sikh. Shintoist and a responsible world commu-
covers part of his jeans. And he Zorastrian — agree that things nity."
fair, neighborly world with no will liberate the world from all
more war. injustice, hatred and wrong."
"It is not a utopian dream." —That “modern civilzation
says the World Conference on may someday be changed so
Religion and Peace. that neighborly good will and
But the 337 representatives of helpful partnership may be fos-
10 major, historic faiths — tered."
Christian. Buddhist. Con- —That "all religions will in-
Watergate crisis was an unmiti- The introduction, however, is
gated disaster," Nixon writes, not the first time that Nixon
"After going through the six acknowledged mistakes to his
crises described in this volume, handling of Watergate.
I failed to apply the lessons of He told television interviewer
the past to the problems of the David Frost in 1977 that "it was
of their high expectations, de- edral. metropolitan hub of Ro-
daring "we trust”: man Catholicism that once
—That "the power of active shunned such mixed devotions.
love, uniting men and women in "It was a truly religious
"draw a deep breath" without sion to order Browning-Ferris to
taking a pill and "faints at "cover up the problem'"- by
nothing." She said five doctors asphalting the roads.
"tell me there is no treatment Commissioners Felix Mc-
they can give me because I've Donald and Dorsey Hardeman
breathed dust off the roads," refused. Commissioner Joe
She said her husband had Carroll was absent.
to $6.50 a bushel against the projection in never goes out without his boots now look frightening. . These: are exalted goals -
August oof $6.50 to $7 a bushel, and straw cowboy hat. He is "We are approaching ... a what the conference caUs a Grand Inrv
An exception to the downward price ready for the tough country he turning point in human history global community built on • M- J
trend was for rice, which showed a covers. ....... at which the survival of world "love, freedom, justice and .
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prices for 1979-80 are expected to range Cox says he has apartnerwho close. Sept. 7 of a week-long der the crunch of hard and rival Deaf Smith County grand
from $8.25 to $9.25 per hundredweight, takes care of the 50 head of meeting at Princeton Theo- realities. jurors this week indicted eight
compared to August's projection of $8 to cattle grazing on nearby leased logical Seminary. Indeed the meeting did have persons. including one for
s9 land. The "Princeton Declaration" an unlikely touch about it. For aggravated assault.
He says the townspeople pay cited modern afflictions — the instance, at one point, the Five at-large indictments
what they can for his services. nuclear arms buildup, economic mixed religious representatives were issued. Others indicted
adding that ranchers don't often imbalances and exploitation, offered their variegated prayers included Mario Coronado Jr.,
visit doctors, shrinking resources and crush- for peace in a service at for aggravated assault: Lvman
in Stephenville. at the Texas A&M For recreation “There’s the ing of human rights. Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cath- Wayne Bassett fortheft and
University Research and Extension movies and there's a small But it also proclaimed a Ray Martinez, for possession of
Center and the Tarleton State lounge across the street from "spirit of hope,"adding: Adwlt Claaaeg marijuana
University livestock pavilion. the movies, " said Cox, who is "In our various religions, we muu -3555 Coronado's indictment was
Later in the day. Bergland will travel to single. He lives in a trailer but know that we are members of issued in connection with a
Waco for the dedication of a Baylor plans to build a ranch home if he one human family. Sustained Start Mondav stabbing incident last week in
University library tn honor of former Rep. finds he has enough patients to and motivated by the spiritual » Dameron Park
W.R. Poage. sustain his practice. power by which we all live, we
Cox says the government will believe there is an alternative to Adult Basic Education clas-
take a look at the operation next violence. We believe that peace ses. sponsored by Region 16
summer to determine if the is possible." Education Service Center and
filed against Mexico, and said, "I think money is being spent wisely. A
SEDCO has been less than candid with ....
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Theft, Burglary
NEW YORK (API—In one of book “Six Crises." which will
the strongest statements he has be r reissued next month.
made on the subject, former Nixon says that since he
President Richard M. Nixon wrote the book he has "gone
says history "will justifiably through another crisis. the Wa-
’record” that his b-.ling of tergate ordeal. the longest last-
Watergate was "an unmitigated ing and by far the most grueling
disaster." of all
• The admission is contained in “History will justifiably
a new introduction t his 1962 record that my handling of the
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