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this morning. Before he could stop it, the
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says the composer, who adds
he is "not a political person "
His music, McLean said,
reflects the horror and the
terror. the poignancy and the
sadness" of a nuclear war
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community
centers
Senate Nominations Subcom- regents named by White after
mittee takes up today the ap- the Senate had sent back
pointment of a Houston public three Clements nominees.
Library Family
The James Perkins family was named Family
of the Year at the F riends of the Library an-
nual business meeting Monday evening at
Deaf Smith County Library Perkins is cur-
rently a teacher at Hereford High School and
his wife, Diane, has taught home economics at
HHS. They have two children. Brooke, age 12,
and Colby, age 9. Both boys are students at
Shirley Elementary School, i Photo by Sandy
Pankey).
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In an article that will appear in next
Sunday's church bulletin, Uecker ask-
ed. How many people must die
before we learn that problems are not
solved with guns and knives?”
The Senate voted 16-15 to
retain his appointment for
consideration despite White's
request that his name be
returned for review
Barshop of San Antonio,
head of La Quinta Motor Inns,
was approved 7-0.
pole at 808 West Park. Tratfic was snagged
shortly while the street was cleared of glass.
The loader is owned by Jake Diel Construc-
tion. (Brand Photo)
neighborhoods
"Everybody wants those
things but they say. Don’t
put them near me.'" Waldrop
said
Keller told the committee.
We need all the help we can
get on this thing it's not
Death rote inmate
im proven in honpital
AMARILLO, Texas iAPI - Con-
demned murderer Charles Rum-
baugh, who used a makeshift knife
fashioned from a jail window latch to
attac k a federal official, will probably
be dismissed to the care of Potter
County sheriff's deputies later this
week, officials say.
AUSTIN I APi — it's a rot-
ten toe-tapper, wretched for
sing-alongs and a hopeless
candidate for the Top 40
But composer Barton
McLean, master of the elec-
tronic music center at the
University of Texas, is cap-
tivating audiences with a new
lune. It's a haunting musical
composition that is more like-
ly to evoke tears than cheers
This piece is something no
miniseries Kage of Angels"
and the ABC series based on
"9-to-5" all lied for seventh
place. The Grammy Awards
on CBS were tenth.
CBS' "The Dukes of Haz-
zard," aided by the return of
John Schneider and Tom
Wopat, climbed to 13th place
according to a published report.
The Rev Joseph H Uecker, who
says he will in turn give the weapons
to police. is angered by last week's
shootings, the San Angelo Standard-
Times reported in a copyright story
Tuesday.
Speaking to 250 mourners at a
funeral for Roy Canava, one of the
shooting victims. Uecker asked when
such killings would stop. Uecker said
five of 29 funerals held at his church
last year were for gunshot victims.
Canava. 20. was shot in the heart at
Glenmore Park Thursday evening.
Earlier Thursday, Jessie Salazar, 41,
was shot and killed on a San Angelo
street in an apparently unrelated inci-
dent. police said.
"We see disrespect and no regard
for the poor and helpless We see abor-
tion and so much lack of respect for
life," Uecker. pastor of St. Mary's
Church, said in his sermon to the
mourners.
Uecker’s eulogy called for an end to
vengeance, hatred and anger in peo-
ple's hearts
We will become what Jesus tells us
we are when and only when we put
down our bottles and knives and our
guns and say it, and mean it, that
these things do not solve problems but
create them.” Uecker said.
The condition of Rumbaugh, 25, has
continued to improve at Northwest
Texas Hospital since Thursday, when
a deputy U.S. marshal shot him in the
chest after Rumbaugh charged at him
with the knife during a competency
hearing
Rumbaugh was admitted to the
hospital last week in critical condi-
tion. Following surgery for a gunshot
wound in the chest, the Texas Death
Row inmate has remained under
24-hour guard by off-duty sheriff's
deputies.
The hearing, requested by his
parents, was ordered by a federal
judge who granted Rumbaugh a stay
of execution to determine whether the
prisoner has the mental competence
to waive his appeal rights. He has said
he wants to be executed
Rumbaugh has been sentenced to
die for killing a jeweler during a 1975
robbery in Amarillo
During the hearing, after Rum-
baugh finished his testimony, he stood
in the witness box, announced he had
chosen his "own way to die," and —
yelling "Shoot me!" — lunged at the
marshal with a crude knife that had
been fashioned from a window latch.
According to Potter County Sheriff
T.L. Baker. Rumbaugh said he tore
the latch off a window ledge in the
recreation area of the Amarillo jail
shortly after speaking to an area class
of high school students about the need
to obey the law.
He took the latch to his jail cell,
sharpened one end by grinding it into
the floor, then used a rubber band to
attach the weapon to his body inside
his undershorts. Rumbaugh told of-
ficers.
Two days later, during his cour-
troom appearance, he transferred the
weapon to an inside coat pocket, then
made his charge. Baker said.
1980
The audience estimate
breaks the record for a single
show of 111.5 million, NBC's
calculation for Super Bowl
XVII last Jan 30
ABC's recently broadcast
"Winds of War" miniseries
drew an estimated 140 million
viewers, but that was for an
18-hour production carried
over seven nights.
After the meeting, at which
no action was taken, Waldrop
said his constituents are will-
ing to pay the increasing
price of law enforcement.
"I hear people tell me.
Don't raise taxes for any
other purpose except to pro-
tect us from crime.' "
Waldrop said "Most of the
people in the Legislature ran
on platforms of anti-crime."
He said Texans object to
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In an interview after Canava's
funeral, Uecker said that "you look
out and it looks awful, but then the
Lord promises new life.”
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Brown. Graham & Com-
pany. Certified Public Ac-
countants. announced this
week that Henry Leonard
Ramaekers has been taken
into the firm as a shareholder
and principal
pany, which was founded in
Hereford in 1955, now has 17
shareholder-principals and
has offices in Amarillo,
Hereford, Tulia, Friona,
Spearman. Canyon. Dimmitt,
Shamrock and Perryton.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP> - A
Catholic priest is urging his
parishioners to turn their guns over to
him in the wake of two slavings here.
In ratings for the week end-
ed Feb. 27, "9-lo-5," a com-
edy about three secretaries
and their chauvinistic boss,
grabbed two places in the
television ratings Top 10, one
on CBS and one on ABC.
The original movie starring
Jane Fonda. Lily Tomlin and
Dolly Parton was the No. 1
show on CBS. The ABC
series, starring Valerie Cur-
tin. Rita Moreno and Rachel
Dennison, was in a three-way
tie for seventh place
The special movie presen-
tation of the hit comedy film
helped carry CBS to victory
for the week.
LOS ANGELES ( AP) - An
estimated 125 million viewers
watched the final episode of
"M-A-S-H," making the au-
dience the largest for any
single TV show ever broad-
cast, CBS said today.
CBS' estimate was based
on a rating from the A.C.
Nielsen Co. for the 2*2-hour
program broadcast Monday
night of 60.3. That eclipsed by
good measure the previous
record of 53.3 for the "Who
Shot J.R.?" episode of CBS'
"Dallas," shown Nov. 21,
1980
Further, nearly eight of
every 10 TV sets in use na-
tionwide during the broad-
cast of "M-A-S-H” — 77 per-
cent — were tuned to CBS.
The M-A-S-H" finale, for
which advertisers paid as
much as 8450,000 for a
30-second commercial, att-
tracted nearly 10 million
homes more than Who Shot
J R ?" — 50.3 million to 40.7
million. A single ratings point
is worth 833.000 homes today,
an increase from 763,000 in
AUSTIN (AP,
AUSTIN (AP) — Senators have
voted to prohibit candidate-swapping
such as the Republicans did last year
in an unsuccessful bid to win two
statewide races.
The current law "is capable of be-
ing abused " said Sen Kent Caperion.
D-Bryan, the bill sponsor.
Last year, state GOP chairman
Chet Upham picked poultry scientist
Fred Thornberry as the party's
substitite nominee for Waller rice
farmer Don Hebert in the race for
agriculture commissioner Allen
Clark Jr. replaced Millard Neptune in
the state treasurer's race. Both
Thornberry and Clark lost
Caperton's bill, which was sent to
the House on voice vote Tuesday,
would prohibit such substitutions
if, for example, a candidate declin-
ed the nomination 45 days or more
before the general election, his or her
name would be removed from the
ballot
If the candidate declined the
nomination within 45 days of the
general election, the name would re-
main on the ballot. If the name
garnered more votes than other can-
didates. a special election would be
held to fill the position.
6M-A-S-H9 audience largest ever
Senators also voted to
return Clements' appoint-
ments of former Gov John
Connally and Hilary Doran, a
Clements aide
A native of Umbarger,
Ramaekers earned a BBA
from West Texas State
University in 1977 and was
employed by Brown. Braham
& Company that same year in
the firm's Dimmitt office He
received his CPA certifica-
tion in 1981.
Ramaekers is a member of
the Panhandle Chapter of
CPA’s. Texas Society of
CPA's and the American In-
stitute of CPA's. He and his
wife Linda and their two
children reside in Dimmitt.
Brown, Graham & Com-
The vote three Texas A&M
Composer scores with tune
retirement home were
evacuated after after 3 inches
of rain fell during the morn-
ing.
In Huntington Beach, 40
miles south of Los Angeles.
1,000 homes were flooded
when a flood control channel
broke Residents were allow-
ed to return home when the
rain stopped in mid-
afternoon.
dustry is particularly sen-
sitive to interest rates, the
one-month building boom of-
fers hope for other sectors, he
added
But the government also
reported Tuesday that
preliminary figures showed
industrial productivity rose
at an annual rate of only 1
percent last year, less than
the gain of 1981. The Bureau
of Labor Statistics pointed to
declining productivity in
manufacturing and in heavy
durable-goods industries
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cloud and said. 'Could this
be?’ when all of a sudden it
started knocking me
around,” said the driver,
John Baker, 44. according to
eyewitnesses "I think my
car wanted to go to heaven
and I didn’t."
The tornadoes left 25 people
injured, none of them serious
Storm-driven walers crash-
ed through a levee in the tiny
shoreline community of
Alviso in San Jose at dusk,
prompting the evacuation of
all 1,700 residents.
Tehama County Sheriff
Ron Koenig said 500 to 800
people were evacuatedalong
the Sacramento River, in-
cluding the entire town of
Tehama, and at least 300
homes were flooded in Red
Bluff
We were rescuing people
off roofs," said Red Bluff
police dispatcher Susan
Myers
About 500 residents of San-
ta Ana in Southern California,
including occupants of city
hall. the YMCA, and a small
Disneyland was closed
Tuesday, as was the famed
San Diego Zoo for only the se-
cond time in its history We
can hardly see out there, it’s
coming down so hard," said
zoo spokesman Jeff Jouett.
Three Coast Guard
helicopters equipped with
baskets managed to rescue 10
workmen stranded on a
400-foot sewer project barge
pulled loose by the wild surf
about a mile off the San Fran-
cisco coast.
In Lake Tahoe, Nev.,
building inspectors reported
the snow collapsed several
roofs, but no injuries were
reported.
A fire department unit was
dispatched to the Ramirez
Canyon in the Malibu area
where a number of really
big" homes were threatened
by mudslides, said Dirk
Friend of the Los Angeles
county fire department
In the Santa Clarita Valley
about 35 miles north of Los
Angeles several homes in the
Lost Canyon area were slipp-
ing into the rampaging Santa
(Jara River, Friend said.
The Southern Pacific
Railroad's coastal route was
blocked when 50 feet of track
was covered with 4 to 5 inches
of mud 70 miles northwest of
Los Angeles
The railroad's main inland
route to Los Angeles was
blocked when a bridge in
Newhall was closed by high
water in northern California,
a 240-foot trestle washed out
on a suspect whom witnesses
saw take the fuel from
Sugarland Apartments
Rear window blinds, valued
at $120. were taken from a
student's car, however the
driver is not sure if the theft
occurred in Hereford or at
West Texas State University
Police recovered a lawn
tractor which was stolen in
February and have a suspect
in the incident
A pistol stolen in Hereford
was recovered in Amarillo
and police have a suspect
there in the case.
Police also have a suspect
in a harassig phone call case.
One person was arrested
for driving without a license
and making an illegal turn
Five reports and a traffic
arrest filled the police blotter
Tuesday
Charges for theft of
gasoline were filed Tuesday
Here are the Top 10: CBS
Special Movie Presentation.
"9-to-5," a rating of 28.6 or
23 8 million households. CBS;
Dallas." 25.4 or 21.1 million.
CBS: 60 Minutes." 23.7 or
19 7 million. CBS; Magnum.
P L. 23.6 or 19 6 million. CBS;
M-A S H 23 1 or 19.2
million. CBS. Three’s Com-
pany . 23.0 N 19 1 million.
ABC. ABC’s The Love
Boat," NBC Monday Night
Movie, Rage of Angels."
Part 11, and ABC’s 9-to-5."
22.1 or 18 4 million, three-
wav-tie. The Grammy-
Awards. 21 6 or 17 99 million.
CBS
prison । the people think
they re weak on crime ”
Rep Tom Waldrop.
:D-Corsicana. said his consti-
tuents "feel they are not ade-
quately protected from crime
and criminals now" and
might oppose the community
corrections centers.
Rudd conceded that some
Texans might view the pro-
'gram as "soft on crime.”
: Keller said. If you think
:we’re crazy, we ll go back
•and do something else "
Waldrop replied. "I think
•you're crazy.”
. James Hury. D-Galveston,
told Rudd. "You're asking a
•lot on faith.”
Rudd said. "Do you want to
build more prisons or do you
•'want to try to find something
else’ Where do we stop’
Where is the final point where
we say, it ain't working. ”'
relations executive for a se-
cond stint on the Public Utili-
ty Commission.
Al Erwin, 37. quit the com-
mission in 1979 to write a
novel. The Power Ex-
change The book is being
made into a television movie
Erwin and Peggy Rosson of
El Paso were named to the
commission Feb 15 by Gov
Mark While after Commis-
sioners George Cowden and
T.G Smith resigned.
Mrs. Rosson was confirmed
Feb 24 by the required two-
thirds vote of the Senate. She
had been recommended by
the subcommittee earlier.
The subcommittee also ap-
proved without dissenting
in other economic news:
The government reported
it ov erspent its income by $9 6
billion in January, boosting
the deficit for the first four
months of the budget year to
twice the 1982 level. The
treasury Department, in its
monthly statement on spen-
ding. stuck to the Reagan ad-
ministration's official
forec ast that the deficit for
this budget year, which ends
Sept 30, will total a record
$207 ~ billion. Last year’s
total was $110.7 billion; the
f -recast for next year is
$188 8 billion
(. Id prices stabilized,
rising as much as $12.50 an
ounce after dropping by the
largest amount in nearly
three years the day before
The price of gold for current
delivery on the Commodity
Exchange in New York open-
ed with a gain of $10.50, to
$411 00, and climbed as high
as $421 before closing at
$412 40. an increase of $11.90
from the Monday close
one ever forgets," McLean
said. It's been played at 10
or 12 concerts, and in several
where I could see or hear the
audience's reaction, I could
actually see people crying "
The work, entitled The
Last 10 Minutes," is
McLean's musical inter-
pretation of a nuclear
holocaust, the final moments
of humanity.
It's a reflection of the
JESS C. LONG
Services for Jess C. Long,
88, the brother of Marguerite
McGee of Hereford, were
held Monday at Gaskill
Funeral Chapel in Shawnee.
Okla Burial was at
Resthaven Cemetery in
Shawnee.
Mr Long died Friday at
Mission Hills Hospital in
Shawnee He was a retired
farmer and had been a resi-
dent of that area all of his life
He had lived in Parkview
Nursing Horne for a number
of years
His wife, Edith, preceded
him in death in 1978 and his
youngest brother. Edward
Long, died Feb. 15.
Other survivors include
four sons, Wesley, Elmer.
Don, and JR; three
daughters, Pauline
Blackwell, Viola Stogner. and
Loretta Moser; and two
sisters. Gladys Morgan of
Shawnee and Bertha
Williams of Bakersfield.
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CBS finished first in the na-
tional ratings with 20.1. ABC
was second with 17.3 and NBC
was third with 15.3. The net-
works say this means that in
an average prime-time
minute 20.1 percent of homes
with television were tuned to
CBS.
It was CBS’ second straight
victory in the February
sweeps. It won the past two
weeks after the ABC
miniseries "The Winds of
War" earned that network to
the top during the first two
weeks of February
"Dallas." placed second in
the ratings for the past week
and the "M-A-S-H" episode
preceding the final show was
in fifth place. '60 Minutes
was third and Magnum.
P.I." was fourth. Both are on
CBS. ABC's highest-rated
show was Three’s
Company," in sixth place.
ABC's The Love Boat,
the second part of the NBC
West TEXAS - Partly cloudy
through Thursday. Widely scattered
showers and thunderstorms most sec-
tions through Thursday. Highs 75
Panhandle and mountains to 83 south
and near 90 Big Bend valleys Lows 43
to 55. Highs Thursday 68 Panhandle to
79 south and 82 Big Bend valleys.
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