The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 143, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 22, 1980 Page: 1 of 10
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41 Persons Hurt
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He said Afghan sources told house when they saw the pickup
turn off its lights and pull into Brandon. 72 pints.
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contest. [Brand photo by Jim Steiert]
Carter, Bush
Top Beet Growers
Bovina area producers copped all of the honors in the Texas-New Mexico Sugar
Beet Growers Association’s annual top grower contest for 1979, and these three
men were on hand to collect cash awards for the accomplishment during the
association’s banquet at the Bull Barn Saturday night. Pictured from left are .
Troy Christian, second place winner and recipient of a $300 cash prize, Malborn
Jones, third place winner who took home a cash prize of $200, and Harold Jones,
the $500 first place winner, who produced 10,662 pounds of sugar per acre in the
Streets, trees and cars were covered by ice this
weekend as a cold front dropped snow, sleet and
freezing drizzle on the Panhandle. A traveler’s
advisory was posted for the area Saturday night
and Sunday before the ice began to melt Monday.
Ted Walling of Hereford and
Kenneth Gregg of Plainview will
be serving as auctioneers tor the
event, which represents the
reward for many hours of effort
Ag Man of the Year
Hereford Brand Farm Editor Jim Steiert presents a plaque to Carl Kleuskens of
Dawn, recognizing Kleuskens as Deaf Smith County’s Man of the Year in
Agriculture for 1979 during the Texas-New Mexico Sugar Boot Growers
Association’s annual banquet Saturday night. The award, sponsored by The
Hereford Brand, recognizes outstanding achievement and service to agriculture
on the part of county farmers. Kleuskens was particularly singled out for his
efforts in the field of water conservation and efficient irrigation. [Brand photo by
Speedy Nieman.)
Hereford picked up .65 inches of precipitation in
the storm. Light snow fell In the city this morning,
although weathermen were predicting warmer
weather and fair skies for this afternoon. [Brand
photo by Speedy Nieman)
he was scared.
Stone. 50. is on trial charged
with the Halloween 1977 shot-
gun slaying of Roxanne Casas.
Miss Casas was slain as she sat
in a pickup that had pulled into
Stone's driveway near Dimmitt
in the Texas Panhandle.
His wife. Louise. 49. also has
been charged but may be tried
separately. Both have pleaded
innocent. The murder charge
carries a sentence of 5 to 99
years, or life in prison.
The Stones both are high
priests in the Church of Wicca,
a witchcraft group that believes
in reincarnation and psychic
phenomena. They say they do
not believe in Satan or hell.
Sandoval testified Monday he
and four other boys had led the
pickup carrying Miss Casas to
Stone's house, where they ex-
pected to see some "crazy
stuff" in the form of witchcraft.
Sandoval, 19. said the boys
stopped up the road from the
BORGER. Texas (AP) — C leanup crews hauled away piles of
smoking, charred debris, hoping small "residual" fires would
bum out today and let them get close enough to inspect the site
of Sunday's refinery explosion.
At least 41 persons were injured in the blast, none seriously,
when a cracking unit at the Phillips Petroleum Co. gasoline
refinery blew up. The accident destroyed part of the plant. col-
lapsed nearby homes and broke windows in buildings here, four
miles from the plant.
Company officials still do not know w hat caused the explosion.
"If there were any clues as to what caused it. they 're all gone
now." said Phillips spokesman Norman Berkley.
Two of those injured remained hospitalized last Monday, one
in Borger and one in Amarillo. Authorities said both were cut by
fly ing glass, and one of them may lose an eye.
Jerry Norman, 26. worked in a unit next to the one that ex-
ploded Sunday. His reaction when an Amarillo reporter told him
there were no serious injuries w as one of disbelief.
"Nobody was killed? I just can't believe it." he said. "The
whole thing w as so terrible."
Norman said there were two blasts in the cracking unit. He
said one threw him to the floor, and when he got up another one
knocked him down again.
He said he felt "tremors" for another 15 seconds after that,
but was deafened and had his vision obscured by the explosions.
Then, he said, he ran for his life.
It was the second accident in that particular cracking unit in
the last four months. Two persons died and 13 others were in-
jured W hilc trying to repair a gas line.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited
Phillips for four safety violations and fined the company $15.0(10
after the October incident.
The Times correspondent
said a senior Afghan official told
him the Russians ordered him
"not to show my face in the
office unless it is to collect my
pay."
The correspondent for the In-
dian Statesman wrote Monday
after arriving in New Delhi from
Kabul that the Soviet hold on
the Afghan government is
"complete and irreversible."
on the part of area 4-H and FFA
youth.
Prior to the sale of animals
Saturday the floor will be sold
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The Soviet Union is reported
tightening its grip on Afghanis-
tan. with thousands of adminis-
trators taking over the govern-
ment and troops transferred
from Eastern Europe replacing
Afghan army deserters.
The Sunday Times of London
reported from Kabul that almost
5.000 Soviet bureaucrats have
been flown to the Afghan capital
to clean up the mesa resulting
from three communist roups in
20 months.
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Approximately 120 pints of
blood are needed in the local
drive, to be conducted tomorrow
afternoon from 3-6 p.m. at the
Community Center, it has been
announced by Pat Clark,
campaign chairman.
It is hoped that Hereford
citizens will respond to this plea
for donors as the community
begins another year of monthly
blood drives for Coffee
Memorial Blood Center in
Amarillo. Coffee Memorial
provides blood supplies for the
entire Panhandle region.
Blood given tomorrow may be
designated for blood insurance,
the Hereford Club. personal
credit or one of the following
accounts:
Zula Randel. owing 8 pints:
Peggy Faulkenburg. 8 pints;
Weldon Lindsey, 8 pints;
George Robertson. 4 pints;
Patricia McWaters. 4 pints:
Nathaniel Tucker. 4 pints; by
boy Murillo. 4 pints; Ethel
Bratton. 8 pints; Claude
DES MOINES. Iowa (AP) — President Carter, back from the
political depths, has taken command of the race for the
Democratic presidential nomination, and now it is Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy who has to prove himself.
He'll have ample opportunity.
In Iowa's Republican competition, former United Nations
Ambassador George Bush led Ronald Reagan, and burst from a
crowded field as the prime challenger to the former California
governor. The GOP returns were incomplete, but Bush said he
had a victory whatever the final tally.
Iowa belongs tothe president, by a landslide, but in a month
Carter will face Kennedy again — this time in the challenger's
hometerritory.
The verdict of Iowa's neighborhood political meetings Monday
night did not alter the stakes in New Hampshire, which holds the
first Democratic presidential primary election on Feb. 26.
The Massachusetts senator could. and did. shrug off his
drubbing in the farm country, but his candidacy probably could
not survive a defeat in New Hampshire, where the voters speak
with his own clipped New England accent.
The Iowa vote was recorded in 2.531 precinct political meet-
ings. which chose delegates to county caucuses and apportioned
the state's votes for a 1980 presidential nominee.
With 2.422 precincts counted. Carter had won 59 percent of
the precinct level delegates. Kennedy had won 31 percent, and
10 percent were uncommitted.
The protected lineup of nominating votes at the national
convention was 29 for Carter. 15 for Kennedy, 5 uncommitted,
and I yet to be awarded. Final computations could alter those
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2 Iow a Republicans changed their party's campaign landscape
2: by aw arding Bush his narrow edge over Reagan.
--- It was a near thing, but for Reagan, whose managers used
front-runner as a synonym for his name, a defeat could be
devastating.
: For Reagan, as for Kennedy, victory in New Hampshire is a
" : must. A defeat there would make his slide almost impossible to
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5 years ago. He said he'd been transformed from an asterisk on
the list of candidates to the Republican with the momentum to
2 handle Reagan in the presidential primary elections.
Bush said he'd head for New Hampshire immediately, "and
we'll do better there."
Kennedy managers said that accounted for the margin of
Carter's victory . The challenger had tried to set an unreachable
target for Carter by say ing he'd have to take at least 50 percent
of the vote to claim success. Carter got that and more.
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PLAINVIEW, Texas (AP) — the Stones' driveway. After two
A teen-ager who drove past Loy or three minutes, he said, they
Dean Stone's house about the saw the pickup's tail ligh's
time a 15-year old girl was shot (se. witch, Pam 2)
there has testified a woman
warned the carload of boys to Blood Mobile
leave or she would shoot them.
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two written statements because
By JIM STEIERT Lamb judging will get
Brand Farm Editor underway Fridy at 8 a.m..
The 15th annual Hereford continuing through the noon
Young Farmers Livestock Show hour as Dr. Bob Kropp of
is scheduled to get underway Oklahoma State University picks
here Thursday with over 600 the best of the various classes
head of top market hogs, lambs before selecting a grand
and steers entered in the event, champion from the 214 lambs
Weighing-in of county lambs entered.
and hogs will begin at 8 a.m. Kropp will do double duty as
tomorrow at the Little Bull Bam he returns to judge the steer
and continue through noon. division of the show at 2 p.m.
Weigh-ins for livestock from Friday. A total of 68 steers have
Castro. Parmer and Oldham been entered.
counties will continue from 1-5 Full details on the placings in
p.m. tomorrow. the various classes of the
All steers will be weighed in livetock show will be featured in
from 8-10 a.m. Thursday. the farm section of Sunday's
Judging of livestock is set to Brand.
begin at 10 a.m. Thursday at the A livestock judging contest
Bull Barn as swine classes begin open to 4-H and FFA teams will
■moving before swine judge be held Saturday at 8 a.m
Howard Parrish of Edon. Ohio. Rounding out the stock show
A total of 318 hogs have been agenda here will be the
entered in this year's show all-important junior livestock
according to swine division auction, which will get under-
chairman Ray Schlabs of the way at 1 p.m. Saturday at the
Hereford Young Farmers. Bull Bam.
By JIM STEIERT 9.906 pounds per acre.
Brand Farm Editor Meiborn Jones of Bovina
Harold Jones of Bovina was received the third place check
recognized as the top sugarbeet for $200. He produced 32.43
producer for the 1979 crop year tons of beets per acre with a
during the annual Texas-New sugar content of 13.64 percent
Mexico Sugar Beet Growers for overall sugar production of
Association banquet held at the 8.846 pounds per acre.
Bull Bam Saturday night, while The Hereford State Bank, the
Carl Kleuskens of the Dawn First National Bank of Hereford
area was honored as Deaf Smith and the First National Bank of
County's "Man of the Year in Canyon donated funds for the
Agriculture." cash presentations.
The awards presentations in a surprise awards
came as the high point of the ceremony. Dr. Steve Winter of
banquet, which drew a crowd of the USDA research station at
approximately 200. Bushland was honored by the
Grower association secretary SBGA for his services on the
James Witherspoon of Hereford behalf of area beet growers,
announced the top grower Association president Bill
awards and presented checks to Cleavinger of Wildorado cited
the three winners. Dr Winter's efforts in sugar
Jones received a check for beet irrigation research as
$500 for his first place finish, crucial to creating a new school
after producing 33.5 tons of of thought among beet growers
beets per acre with a sugar who had long felt beets were a
content of 15.93 percent, water intensive crop.
That translated into sugar Winter's research revealed
production of 10.662 pounds per that beets are second only to
By PAUL SIMS
Managing Editor
Public hearings on the
possible upgrading of U.S.
Highway 60 between Amarillo
and Clovis. N.M.,may begin in
Hereford in three or four
months, the district engineer
with the Texas Department of
Highways and Public Transpor-
tation told city commissioners
Monday night.
A.L. McKee of Amarillo
attended the regular semi-
monthly commission meeting to
inform Hereford city officials of
a forthcoming feasibility study
by Houston engineering firm
Wilbur Smith and Associates.
The study will begin in the
next few weeks and will take
approximately Iwo years to
determine the feasibility of
upgrading U.S. 60. McKee said
a federally-funded project may
include construction of a loop
around the city of Hereford and
transforming the highway into a
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It was an all Bovina affair so long time periods without water
far as the winners were and still produce when water
concerned. becomes available.
Troy Christian of Bovina was Cleavinger presented Dr.
awarded $300 for his second Winter with » plaque on behalf
place finish. Christian produced of the grower's association.
32.6 tons of beets per acre with The “Ag Man of the Year"
a sugar content of 15.20 percent award, sponsored by The
for total sugar production of tSe BANQUET, Pag 2)
major interstate.
"I do not know if a loop
around Hereford will be
indicated by the study," McKee
said. "But, they will be
studying anticipated additional
volumes of traffic on this route if
it is upgraded all the way from
Amarillo to Las Cruces (N.M.)."
U.S. 60 turns into U.S. 70 at
Clovis, and U.S. 70 becomes
Interstate 10 at Las Cruces.
"This is the shortest route
from Amarillo to the West
Coast," McKee said.
He informed commissioners
that area chambers of com-
merce. including the Deaf Smith
county C of C, pressured
Congress to reverse an earlier
decision by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Transportation, which
rules that the project was not
eligible for federal funds.
"Then. Congress passed a
bill to give this special
consideration. So, the highway
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Sims, Paul. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 143, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 22, 1980, newspaper, January 22, 1980; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1422081/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.