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Thursday
March 3, 1983
Pickups Collide
A truck which ran through Austin Road’s red
light at FM 2943 collided with another Wednes-
day afternoon at 2:36 p.m. Beatrice Barrett, a
passenger in the truck traveling on Austin
Road, suffered a cut on her forehead and was
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WASHINGTON I API -
Congressmen investigating
the Environmental Protec*
lion Agency say President
Reagan's offer to give them
Hustlin' Hereford,
home of Joyce Wartes
rs Union
ight the
scale for
the April
slide show
of making
tougher law
Subcommittee Chairman
Ray Farabee. D*Wichita
Falls. said it would amount to
bounty”
ask people suspected of driv-
ing while intoxicated to take a
blood tests in addition to
breathaly zer tests Refusal to
take either test would be ad-
missible incourt
If the bill is enacted, a first-
time DWI conviction would
carry a minimum fine of $100
instead of the current $50 A
second offense would mean a
minimum fine of $300 instead
of $100 and a third offense
would cost at least $500 in-
stead of $100. The maximum
fine for all three levels would
A Houston man will face
charges here for felony theft
of a $100,000 ng from Owens
Trucking last month
Willie C. Wilson Jr . of
Houston. is in custody there
for other charges, according
to Lt. Vernon Hope of the
Hereford Police Department.
One report was filed by
police Wednesday A scuffle
at 15th and Avenue H resulted
in a broken pickup window
Police arrested two persons
for public intoxication and
issued 12 citations
Permits paltry
Building permits for
February were at $26,000 for
two, according to city offices
February 1982 showed six
permits at $26,500.
The total for the year is
four permits at $43,600 com-
pared to last year s 11 per-
mits totalling tt' ,600.
532,,
sensitive materials prices,
the change in outstanding
credit, paces of 500 common
stocks and the money supply
The coincident indicators
— which generally measure
production. Moran said - are
Die number of employees on
non-agricultural payrolls,
personal income, industrial
production and manufactur-
ing and trade sales
taken to Hereford Clinic for treatment. Her
husband and the driver of the second truck,
both unidentified, were not injured. (Brand
Photo by Bob Nigh)
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Houston man
faces local
charges
Contenders for offices with
the city, school district, and
hospital district have been
finalized with the closing of
the filing period for the April
2 election Wednesdav.
For two at-large seats on
the Hereford Independent
School District Board six peo-
ple have placed their name on
the ballot; with one person
unopposed to fill an unex-
pired term.
and we've been working on
some other areas." White
said Wednesday when asked
at a news conference why the
committee had not yet been
appointed
But White said that this is
flattering and ironic
I still wake up and pinch myself
and can't believe I'm making money
for doing something I've done since I
was 12," says Moschitta, now 28.
Moschitta, a swift-speaker in real
life, began his fast-talking exploits as
a kid on Long Island after going to a
charity fair
"There was Guinness booth set up
for people to try to set records. I
wanted to ride the Coney Island roller-
coaster for the longest time,” he says.
“They told me to get lost."
Not wanting to “swallow lead
pipes," he began trying to talk fast.
"I tortured my five sisters. I locked
them in a room and made them listen
to me over and over,” he says
"I try not to concentrate on the con-
tent of what I'm saying, but just try to
let the words flow,” he explains.
His hopes of becoming an actor,
however, didn't materialize as quick-
ly as he spoke His talent got him
some television walk-on parts, but
"nothing people would recognize me
from."
Moschitta’s first break came when
he appeared on an early morning talk
show in Los Angeles and a producer of
ABC's “That’s Incredible” heard
him The next thing he knew, he was
on That's Incredible" in October
1980 and did his 534 words in 58
seconds.
This time, some executives from
the Ally & Gargano. Inc advertising
agency saw him
"We had just started working the
day before on the Federal Express
ads," says Michael Tesch, executive
vice president at Ally & Gargano
“We were trying to think of a way to
communicate the idea of everything
moving fast"
Shortly thereafter. Moschitta got a
call to come to New York for a
Federal Express commercial, an ad
that originally called for 16 scenes in
30 seconds
He and writer Patrick Kelly — then
a vice president at the agency —
rewrote about 75 percent of it" on the
set.
After going through warmup exer-
cises. which include reciting
“Mama's a mean mama, daddy's a
dear daddy, baby's a bad baby" to the
notes of a music scale. Moschitta did
the award-winning commercial that
features him breezing through a half-
(SeeTALKER, Paget)
and Paul Ramirez will be fac-
ing challengers Cal Jones.
Dale Pierson. Trim Gamez,
and Marilyn Culpepper for
school board seats. In addi-
tion. Paul Mason will be
unopposed to fill the unex-
pired term of former board
member Bobby Griego
in the city election Wes
Fisher, current Place 1 com-
missioner. is unopposed for
the position of Mayor, while
Melvin Jayroe was the only
person to file for Fisher's
dicators. 4 coincident in-
dicators and 6 lagging in-
dicators. In most cases.
Fiedler said, a rise in an in-
dicator is good news, i The ex-
ceptions are the numbers
relating to unemployment, i
White to name panel
Hereford Key Club
sweetheart a finalist
dicators tell you what is hap-
pening today and the taggers
confirm what happened
yesterday
The Commerce Depart-
ment said Wednesday that
the Index of Leading
Economic Indicators went up
3.6 percent in January, while
the Index of Coincident In-
dicators rose 0.6 percent. The
Index of lagging indicators
dropped 1 percent
The difference among the
three groups is essentially
timing as it relates to the
business cycle,” said Edgar
known
Other senators expressed
concern, however, that
automatically adding first-
time DWI offenses to a per-
son s permanent record
would unfairly punish them
for life.”
Sarpalius compromised
with a clause that requires a
DWI offense to be reported
only for use in subsequent
cases. It would not be
reported to schools or other
entities seeking background
information on an individual
Sarpalius said he was
disappointed that the sub-
committee did not go along
with his proposal to give
counties and municipalities a
percentage of DWI fines to
cover the cost of additional
jail space and court time that
would be expected under the
commission place in plat e 2
incumbent Ed Coplen will be
facing B.L Jones for that
seat.
Three at-large seats on the
Deaf Smith General Hospital
District board will also be up
for grabs April 2 Incumbents
Dr Gerald Payne and Edda
Reinauer, Jr will be aiming
at two of those places; while
Judy Neumeyer and Dr
Charies Allison have also fil-
ed for a chance to serve on
that board.
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Key indicators: what the numbers really mean
R. Fiedler, vice president for
economic research of the
Conference Board, a business
group in New York. The
leaders move first and the
coincident next and the lag-
gers follow ”
Larry Moran, an economist
who is public information of-
ficer for the Bureau of
Economic Analysis at the
Commerce Department, said
that on the average, the
leading indicators start going
up 2 6 months before a
recovery gets under way.
although it has taken longer
in the current recession
There are 12 leading in-
last year's sweetheart and
winner of the Texas-
Oklahoma District title, will
preside over the candidate's
activities at the convention
Miss Osborn is the
daughter of Mr and Mrs Ron
Osborn. 129 Mimosa She was
an annual queen candidate
and football queen attendant
her sophomore year and was
drill team corporal her junior
year.
She is presently drill team
captain and serves as senior
representative on the HHS
Student Council. She is a
member of the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes and Na-
tional Honor Society and has
participated in cross country
and varsity track all three
years at Hereford High
School
NEW YORK i AP> -
H > s n a ni e i s J o h n M o s c h i 11 a a n -
dhedoesFederalExpresscommer-
cials.
Actually, the guy who blitzes
through those ads at a cool 400-plus
words a minute lias to slow down to do
them
"Oh, I can go faster," Moschitta
says. “My record is 534 words in 58
seconds."
His two rapid-fire commercials
have won a slew of awards — in-
cluding the prestigious Clio, the in-
dustry's Oscar, for best ad — have
helped company business and have
made him a hit on the banquet circuit.
They've also made him a celebrity,
of sorts, around his home in Los
Angeles
The three words I dread most in
the English language are Say
something fast,"' he says, slowly.
"I'll be in a supermarket buying tuna
fish and they'll come up and say Do
it."
Moschitta. who insists he doesn't
look anything like the business ex-
ecutive he plays in the commercials
("People think I have greased-down
hair and walk around wltn my eyes
rolled back"), finds all the attention
Inquest of jail
death completed
Justice of the Peace O.K He was assisted in his in-
Neal has completed an in- vestigation by Texas Ranger
quest into the death of Deaf Ronny Griffith of Amarillo.
Smith County jail inmate Neal said he was turning
George Ramirez. Jr. on Feb his findings over to Criminal
20, ruling that Ramirez's District Attorney Roland
death was by suicide Saul, who will present the in
Ramirez apparently hang- formation to the Grand Jury
ed himself in his jail cell today The judge added that
around 3 a.m. Feb 20 He was the presentation before the
found by jailer Shirley Grand Jury was also a matter
Wheeler. According to Chief of routine
Sheriffs Deputy Dean But- No signs of foul play were
cher Ramirez had fashioned evident the night of the inci-
a noose from his coveralls dent, and an autopsy per-
and hanged himself in the formed on Ramirez's body by
cell's shower stall forensic pathologist Ralph
Neal said the inquest was a Erdmann of Childress also in-
matter of routine due to the dicated that death was “self-
death happening in the jail, inflicted."
A look at some individual the leading indicators. It is
components of the indexes easier and faster for a com
shows why leaders are pany to put existing workers
leaders, etc. Take the length on overtime than it is to hire
of the average work week for new employees or recall laid-
production workers in off ones. When production
manufacturing. That's one of turns up. therefore, one of the
first signs will be an increase
in the work week
Other leading indicators
m c, are: the average number of
Kenoan Affer weekly initial claims for
—vegeII VIIUI unemployment insurance,
restricted viewing of agency the value of new orders for
documents is totally unac consumer goods and
ceptable" because of growing materials, vendor perfor-
evidence of wrongdoing mance or the number of com-
Chairmen of four House panies receiving slow
subcommittees involved in deliveries, net business for-
the dispute rejected Reagan s mation.!the value of contracts
offer Wednesday and said and orders for plants and
they will continue to press the equipment, the number of
White House for full and new building permits for
unrestricted access to the private housing units, the net
documents change in inventories on hand
Meanwhile, While House and on order, the change in
chief of staff James A. Baker
III, in an interview with The
Associated Press, would not
commit the administration to
keeping EPA Administrator
Anne McGill Burford on the
job permanently
There are no present
plans” to fire Mrs. Burford.
(See OFFER. Page 2)
to end banquet
in a move designed to add more of an air of anticipation
to the evening, the Hereford Lions Club's announcement
of its citizen of the year has been moved to the end of the
festivities at the Deaf Smith County Chamber of Com-
merce Annual Banquet at the Bull Barn tonight
in the past, the naming of the top citizen: which was
begun by the Lions in 1946, has come mid-way through the
program. Boss Lion Charles Watson will make tonight's
announcement.
Winner of the prestigious award last year was Lynton
Allred Wayne Evans was the first recipient back in 1946
Brownwood attorney Bert V Massey will be the
featured speaker at the fete, which begins at p.m Serv-
ing of the meal to be catered by K-Bob’s Restaurant
begins at 6:30 p m Tickets for the event will be available
until 5 p.m. at the chamer office, with none to be sold at
the door tonight They are priced at $10 each.
Massey is immediate past president of the Texas Land
Title Association, and is currently secretary -treasurer of
the Brown ( ounty Abstract C and i a member f the
board of Pioneer Title Co of Austin
Entertainment in the talents of Jeryl Hoover of the First
Baptist Church has also been added to the evening's fare
Hoover will play dinner music and will perform later in
the evening during the program
1983 ( hamber officers will be recognized during the
evening, too They include Hub Sims, president. Bobby
Owen, vice president, and Danny Boyer treasurer Bill
Johnson is the group s past president
AUSTIN APt A Senate
panel has approved a tough
bill on drunken driving that
would eliminate the current
practice of allowing some of-
fenders to clear their records
after completing probation.
Sen Bill Sarpalius.
D-Hereford, sponsored the
legislation which was approv ■
ed by a Senate subcommittee
Wednesday
I'm very pleased with the
bill I can't see any
loopholes."' said Sarpalius
He said he hoped to bring the
bill to the full Senate by the
end < f next week
The primary focus of Sar-
pabus proposal is the
elimination of deferred ad-
judication.” but it also raises
minimum fines and applies
them equally to adult and
juvenile offenders and re-
quires minimimum jail time
on second and later offenses
The proposal also allows
law enforcement officers to
tion of involuntary
manslaughter with a motor
vehicle.
He said he expected efforts
on the floor to put deferred
adjudication back into the
law
Sarpalius and others con-
cerned about DWI deaths ob-
ject to the practice because
DWI penalties go up based on
the offense, and those who
have been subject to deferred
adjudication can be treated
as first offenders because
their prior convictions are not
On Feb 5, White said dur-
ing a visit here that he intend-
ed to create, just as quickly
as we can,” a broad-based
committee to consider possi-
ble solutions to the problems
of illegal immigration from
Mexico
It's a difficult problem
WASHINGTON (AP)
Texas Gov Mark White says
that he probably will appoint
a special committee next
week to study the nation's im-
migration problem and
recommend legislation to the
state's congressional delega-
tion.
Michelle Osborn, Hereford
Key Club sweetheart, has
been named as one of 12
finalists for Texas-Oklahoma
District Key Club
Sweetheart. The announce-
ment was made by District
Governor Milam Bently and
the queen candidate commit-
tee.
Miss Osborn will compete
at the 34th annual Texas-
Oklahoma Distnct Key Club
Convention scheduled April
29 through May 1 at the
Shamrock Hilton Hotel in
Houston She will travel to the
convention with members of
the Hereford Key Club and
her female sponsor
This is the second year
Hereford Key Club’s
sweetheart has been a
district finalist Lisa Snyder.
be $2000
A second-offense DWI con-
viction would mean
minimum jail time of 72
hours Third offense would
carry a minimum jail
sentence of 30 days
The bill makes no changes
in current license suspension
laws — 12 months the first
time a license is suspended
and 18 months the second
time
Sarpalius' measure would
carry a mandatory six-month
sentence for a second convic -
By LOUISE COOK
Associated Press Writer
Like children in a
classroom, some key indexes
of the nation’s economic
health can be divided into
groups: Fast, average and
slow.
The leading economic in-
dicators are like fast
learners. the coincident in-
dicators are the ones in the
middle and the lagging in-
dicators trail behind
The leaders tell you what
will happen in the economy
tomorrow, the coincident in-
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