The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 228, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1980 Page: 1 of 10
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The EEREFORD Brahe
Published Daily Except Monday, Saturday
80th Year, No. 228
Hereford, Texas, Tuesday, May 20,1980
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The outstanding Hereford High School senior will be
named in the feature presentation of tonight's graduation
exercises in Whiteface Stadium.
Ceremonies for the 278 HHS seniors will begin at 8 p.m.
Principal Ron Geyer will name the outstanding student,
who has been selected by teachers, and will recognize
Valedictorian Janelle Coupe, Salutatorian Lisa McCabe and
other honor graduates.
Misses Coupe and McCabe will present their respective
addresses to the senior class.
Superintendent Harrell Holder will present the class to
those in attendance, and school board president Sallie Strain
will hand out diplomas.
Seniors will present their class gift to the school-a Rocky
Mountain pir e .ree and marble marker. The tree will be
planted in front of the high school auditorium.
Seniors also will announce that $1,000 from the class has
been donated to the local Muscular Dystrophy drive.
The invocation will be provided by Tim Ruland. president
of the senior class, and high school bands and choirs will
provide entertainment.
Seniors, upon graduation, will have their all-night party at
the Bull Barn.
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Monday, Kennedy and Bush
sing a familiar duet, voicing
weekly declarations that they
will continue their campaigns
to overtake the virtually
certain nominees.
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reasons--one. it had a
trailer on the back that I
needed and. two. I bought
it for a play toy for me.”
Cantu said he drove the
car from Amarillo to
Hereford at speeds of more
than 70 miles an hour.
"I figured 22.7 gallons,
and that was pulling the
trailer,” he said.
“It works. The thing
really works. I'll sell the car
and guarantee it gets at
least 22 miles to the
gallon.”
The editor got behind the
wheel, started the Caddy
and turned on the water.
The engine, roaring at
first, grew quieter.
The Cadillac had an
eighth of a tank of gasoline.
It still had gas when the
editor pulled into Amarillo.
At an Amarillo service
station, the editor told the
attendant. "Fill 'er up."
"Regular or unleaded,
sir?" the attendant asked.
The answer caught the
attendant off guard. "Wa-
ter,” the editor said.
"What the—-are you
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round of primaries June 3rd.
Carter emerged from the
White House Monday for a
tour of his campaign
headquarters where he told
staffers. "I do not intend to
lose," not at the convention
and not in next fall's general
election.
"I will be out campaigning
between now and the end of
the primary season.” he
said. "And then we will be
preparing eagerly to meet
Ronald Reagan or whomever
tl e Republicans choose. ”
MIAMI (AP) — Sporadic
gunfire kept Miami tehse
today after black leaders
warned that violence could
break out again on the
devastated streets unless the
federal government pays
heed to the community's
grievances.
The gunfire and several
fires kept police and
firefighters busy, but of-
ficials said Miami was
fire going on, very oc-
casional," Dade ounty
Sheriffs spokesman Henry
Weatherspoon reported.
“It's almost to the point
where it'stime to go home.”
Schools remained closed
for the second straight day.
The death toll climbed to
16 when a black man was
shot in a confrontation with
police and National Guard-
smen at a checkpoint in the
kind usually found under
the top of a commode.
Trailing from the box
toward the engine's mani-
fold was a water line.
Cantu explained the
gas-saving apparatus:
"See this w ater container
here in the front. From
there, water goes to the
exhaust manifold when you
turn on the faucet. It's
heated in the manifold and
turns to steam. The steam
goes to the carburetor
where it mixes with
gasoline. The car uses half
gas and half steam."
Cantu said the car, with
the water turned off. gets
about 12 miles to the gallon
of gas. With the water on. it
gets around 24. he said.
"I bought the car in
Amarillo. The fellow that
owned the car was from
Dumas. He told me that
this is a test car-the first
car he designed to save
gas. He told me the design
had been sold to Generi
Motors to put on 1981 or '82
models." Cantu said.
"I didn't believe it. I
bought the car for two
By The Associated Press
Japan announced limited
sanctions against Iran today,
but continued negotiations
with Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini's regime on oil
imports and prepared to
resume building the $3
billion Bandar Khomeini
petrochemical plant.
The sanctions will follow
the basic line set forth
Sunday by the Common
Market, which said all
contracts signed after the S3
Americans were seized in
Iran Nov. 4 will be suspended
to speed the release of the
hostages.
Japan exported $200
million to $300 million a
month worth of steel,
machinery, textiles and
chemical goods to Iran before
By PAUL SIMS
Managing Editor
The white letters on the
windshield read:
SAVE GAS RUNS
ON WATER $1395
"I just can't sell the
car," said Victor Cantu,
shaking his head dejected-
ly. "Nobody believes me.
People think I'm nuts."
Cantu, owner of Cantu
Auto Sales, offered to let
the newspaper editor test
drive the car. He offered
because-the editor thought
he was nuts.
The car is a brown, 1967
Cadillac. Cantu showed the
writer where the 18-gallon
water tank was nestled
deep inside the trunk and
how to fill it.
Inside the Caddy was a
tiny "faucet" under the
steering wheel. Cantu
showed the writer how to
turn it in order to let the
water flow from the trunk to
the engine.
Under the hood toward
the front of the engine was
a metal box. Inside the box.
which was half filled with
water was a floater--the
the overthrow of the shah 16
months ago.
Trade perked up again this
year, with exports totaling
$238 million in March, but
dropped to $186 million in
April. Japanese officials said
practically no new contracts
have been signed with Iran in
the past month.
Iran, which at the
beginning of the year con-
tracted to sell Japan 530.000
barrels of oil a day, 11
percent of Japan's needs,
stopped all shipments April
21 when Japanese importers
refused to pay a $2.50-a-
barrel increase.
generally quiet after three
days of violence, the worst
riot in the city's history. A
beefed-up National Guard
force helped impose a dusk-
to-dawn curfew that was
extended indefinitely.
"Gunfire, looting, all of
that seems to have subsided
substantially,” Miami police
spokesman Calvin Ross said
during the night.
“There's occasional sniper
Hereford city commissioners Monday night backed off their
action of two weeks ago when they did away with the
nine-hole green fee at the John Pitman Municipal Golf
Course.
Eight golfers appeared at Monday's regular semi-monthly
commission meeting to protest dropping the $1.50 nine-hole
rate.
Commissioners had raised green fees from $3.50 to $4 on
weekends, kept the present 18-hole weekdate fee of $3 and
instituted an after-6 p.m. rate of $2.
Golfers wanting to play nine holes would have had to pay
the 18-hole fees if commissioneres had not unanimously voted
to reinstate a nine-hole rate, raising it to $2. Monday. That
does away with the after-6 p.m. rate.
Group spokesman Deward Roberson read a prepared
statement to commissioners.
"My wife and I like to play nine holes of golf once or twice a
week...We recently played on a Sunday afternoon at a cost of
$8.73 for nine holes with a cart. You have not raised the fees
50 cents and did away with the nine-hole fee, thus forcing us
to pay $14.25 just to play nine holes," Roberson said.
"Gentlemen, you have priced us and many others rights off
the golf course."
Commissioners two weeks ago raised golf-cart rates from
$8.50 to $10 ($5 for nine holes).
Roberson's statement included a history of the golf course.
Roberson, who was the first president of the former Hereford
Golf Club, said that some club members had tried to put a
restriction in the deed which turned the course over to the
city.
The restriction, according to Roberson, would have not
allowed the city to turn the course into a "country-club type of
operation.”
The commission at that time rejected the restriction,
Roberson said, "but we did have a gentlemen's agreement
that this would not be done...
"...They could not conceive of a future commission doing
anything to the detriment of a larger number of Hereford
golfers and for the benefit of a few more affluent individuals,
but. gentlemen, that is exaettywhar yu did at you? last
area where rioting first broke
out Saturday night.
At last count, 370 people
had been injured and 787
arrested in the disorders
triggered by the acquittal
Saturday of four white former
.policemen in the beating
death of a black insurance
man. Arthur McDuffie.
Damage was estimated as
high as $100 million, not
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nominating delegates in
primaries in both parties.
The state's election, a
quadrennial centerpiece
before the calendar became
crowded with primaries,
drew little campaign activity
and no controversy.
GOP challenger George
Bush pinned his dwindling
hopes on Michigan, con-
ceding a victory will be
tougher in Oregon. Kennedy
sought headway in the
Northwestern state as a
prelude to the final, big
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VANCOUVER. Wash.
(AP) — While lakes bubbled
beneath torrents of hot mud
and grit sifted down on cities
hundreds of miles away,
dozens of residents were
evacuated from tiny towns
around Mount St. Helens as
rising waters built up behind
a fragile mud dam at the base
■ of the volcano.
Bob Christiansen of the
U.S. Geological Survey said a
fresh flow of mud, pumice
| and ash cascaded into the
valley of the North Fork of
the Toutle River on Monday,
forming a 200-foot-deep
■ barrier at the outlet of Spirit
B Lake. The material would not
H be able to hold back rising
a waters, he said.
a At least six persons were
9 known dead following the
B eruption of the mountain
” Sunday in an explosion that
ripped off the top 1,300 feet
A of the peak, sending forth
E steaming mudflows and
B blasting thousands of acres
B of pristine forest with fine,
9 glassy particles.
i Meanwhile, the daily
B routine of much of eastern
■ Washington ground to a
standstill as businesses and
schools closed, hospitals
reported numerous
respiratory complaints and
fine ash particles disabled
hundreds of automobiles.
Hundreds of miles of state
highways were closed as
clouds of ash threatened
visibility. The State Patrol
said the closures exceeded
those in the worst winters in
Washington history.
The Columbia River
Kennedy dismissed
Carter's statement as a
"smokescreen” aimed at
obscuring the senator's own
efforts to raise economic
issues. And Kennedy har-
dened his vow to maintain his
uphill campaign.
By WALTER R. MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
President Carter and
Ronald Reagan took another
step toward the top of their
presidential tickets today,
but you couldn't tell it by
listening to their rivals.
Michigan held its
Republican primary today,
along with a meaningless
Democratic vote in which
neither Carter nor Sen.
Edward Kennedy was en-
tered.
Oregon voters apportioned
between Oregon and
Washington was closed to
ship traffic as a 25-foot
underwater bar of mud
reduced the river’s depth
near Longview and boat
captains waited for a 20-mile
logjam of debris to pass down
the river.
On Monday, Mount St.
Helens continued to spew
forth ash and steam in a
pyrotechnic display scientists
said could last for years.
The mountain sent billows
of ash and steam 15,000 feet
into the air Monday and
black clouds of ash drifted
east. A meteorologist in
Boise. Idaho, said the fallout
could reach New England.
The Red Cross estimated
3,000 people were evacuated
from the lowlands
surrounding the southwest
Washington volcano, which
began puffing March 27 after
a silence of more than 120
years.
Portions of Castle Rock
and the tiny communities of
Lexington and Silver Lake
were evacuated late Monday
as waters rose up the fragile
debris dam on Spirit Lake.
The cities of Kelso and
Longview, some 35 miles to
the west, were put on alert.
Rescue personnel said
helicopters would head back
into the area today to con-
tinue the search for 29
persons listed as missing —
including 84-year-old Harry
Truman, who had refused to
leave his mountain resort.
The lodge was buried under
HOUSTON — A Former
Texas Department of Public
Safety trooper who now
works as a Texas Ranger in
Deaf Smith County has been
released on a personal
recognizance bond after a
federal grand jury indicted
him and two former Wallis
policemen in connection with
a beating incident.
Charged on Monday were
Kenneth Wayne Fricke, who
is now a Texas Ranger
stationed in Canyon, and
former Wallis officers Terry
J. Baldwin and.;. Angel
Alvarado Salcido.
The indictment alleges
Baldwin and Salciso arrested
Larry Michael Hintz on Feb.
25. 1979. and drove him to an
isolated spot in Wallis near
the San Bernard River in
Austin County. Fricke al-
legedly then beat up Hintz,
who had been arrested on
charges of public intoxica-
tion.
Mary L. Sinderson. chief of
the U.S. attorney's civil'
rights division, said Hintz
was hospitalized with two jaw
fractures and multiple cuts
and bruises.
Fricke's ranger territory
includes Deaf Smith County.
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Sims, Paul. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 228, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1980, newspaper, May 20, 1980; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1429786/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.