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Art Display
To coincide with National Youth Art Month,
the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and
Western Heritage Center will feature through
artwork from the Hereford High art classes. A
few artists bringing exhibits today were.
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"This court should consider
a charge against itself rape
and murder." Harrelson said
before the sentencing. "You
have killed the Constitution of
the United States and you
have had carnal knoweledge
of every person with rights
under that constitution.
What's happening in this
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kneeling from left, Jacinto Guerrero and Pam
Nixon; top from left, David Garza. Tanya
Gauthreaux and Norma Cervantez. Gayla
Kimball is their instructor.
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Another senator with
statewide political ambitions.
Sen Ray Farabee, D-Wichita
Falls, also drew a two-year
term with No. 10 Kara bee
thought of running for state
attorney general last year but
backed out when his friend,
former Sen Max Sherman,
got in the race
"Anybody want to swap?"
quipped Sen Roy Blake.
D-Nacogdoches, after draw-
ing No. 26 for two years.
There has been discussion
about those who have so-
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Harrelson was sentenced to
five years for conspiracy to
obstruct justice. to be served
after the life sentences
Harrelson, who already has
completed a prison term for
another murder-for-hire, cur-
rently is serving a 40-year
sentence on unrelated state
weapons charges
By SALLY JACOBSEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Wholesale prices rose a slight
0.1 percent in February as
higher food prices cancelled
out fresh declines in gasoline
and fuel oil costs, the govern-
ment said today
The new decline in the
Labor Department's Pro-
ducer Price Index for finish-
ed goods, coming after a
record 1 percent drop in
nistry says
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DALLAS iAPI - A four-
alarm fire broke out early to-
day at the highrise Regent
Hotel here, injuring four peo-
ple and forcing the evacua-
tion of 70 to 80 other oc-
cupants. authorities said
The injured occupants were
taken to Parkland Hospital
for treatment of smoke in-
halation. said fire dispatcher
Mike Roach He said the oc-
cupants. who were not Im-
mediately identified, were in
good condition.
A fifth person was cut
slightly by flying glass, but
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March 18, 1983
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to clients. "Fuel prices now
are expected to drop sharply,
rather than increase modest-
ly during the year."
As a result, he said, infla-
tion should return to levels
that were not experienced in
the decade of the 1970s."
Thomas Thomson, chief
economist at San Francisco's
Crocker National Bank,
agreed that a further break in
oil prices, even below the (29
a barrel base price newly set
is that we have everybody out
of the hotel," said Freeman
John Teiple, director of the
city Office of Emergency
Preparedness, said that the
fire "smoked out" 70 to IKI
people
Rescuers in a police
helicopter repeatedly circled
the building, using a public
address system to inform the
residents of firefighters'
evacuation plans
Ed Daniels of Houston said
that hotel officials ran down
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Happy school
officials unhappy
WASHINGTON (AP)- When school officials in tiny
Happy . Texas, wound up filling out some 50 pages of
evaluation forms to justify receiving $354 in federal voca-
tional aid, they were anything but happy
I really wanted to throw it the evaluation package in
the trash can, because* I knew it was going to take an awful
lot of time," said Harley R McCasland, superintendent of
the Happy Independent School District, which serves 240
students in the Texas Panhandle
At the same time, we had accepted the money," said
McCasland
So. following instructions, the district set up two special
committees to help evaluate the high school’s family rela
tions class, part of the home economics program for
which the $354 grant had been received
Collectively, committee members put dozens of hours
into the evaluation effort, sometimes tying up the class's
teacher and producing a report nearly a half-inch thick,
said McCasland.
It just seems like it's a little too elaborate," said Mt
Cas la nd. whose district serves Happy , population 600. and
the surrounding area.
When McCasland shipped the forms off to the Texas
Education Agency, which had asked for the evaluation of
the class, he also sent a copy to Rep Kent Hance.
D-Texas.
Hance cited the case in testimony Thursday before a
House education subcommittee, saying it reflected a
serious problem with the amount of work imposed on our
teachers and administrators in the name of the federal
bureaucracy ”
The evaluation report in Happy, Hance said, cost more
than the $354 grant from the federal government
In a telephone interview. McCasland said that that the
$354 in aid was for this school year, and that he had receiv-
ed the evaluation package from the state education agen-
cy in January
The cover letter and all the instructions plus the ter
minology were 36 legal < size • pages." McCasland said He
said that in addition there were 17 forms to be filled out.
totaling more than 100 pages
Only eight of the forms applied to the family relations
class, he said But he said such evaluations shouldn t be so
elaborate that it takes away from teaching, which is our
primary objective."
Raymon Bynum, Texas education commissioner, said
the forms were distributed on a test basis to various
school districts to meet federal requirements for
evaluating vocational programs
Bynum said the Happy school district had
misunderstood some of the directions with the evaluation
and "they did a whole lot more than they were supposed
to
However, he acknowledged that the forms might have
been somewhat burdensome, on especially the smaller
districts."
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economists' predictions that
wholesale inflation might be
down substantially from last
year's moderate 3.5 percent
Indeed, one economist
predicts the year's inflation
rate could be as tiny as 0.1
percent, which would be the
economy’s best showing since
the 0 2 percent decline of 1963
in the February report, the
department said energy costs
overall fell 2.9 percent, the
third straight monthly
decline Energy paces fell a
record 4.2 percent in the
previous month
Fuel oil paces were off 7.2
percent, the new report said,
after plummeting 9 7 percent
Gasoline paces fell 5 per-
cent. outpacing the previous
3.3 percent drop
But natural gas. down a
record 2.7 percent in the
previous month, rose 3.2 per
cent in the new report Those
paces had soared 20.7 per-
cent in all of last year, largely
as a result of congressional
decontrol of new-gas costs
The energy price calcula-
rate on a more precise
calculation of monthly
changes than the figure the
department makes public.
Today's reports said that
for the 12 months ending in
February, wholesale paces
rose 2.1 percent
In all, the unadjusted Pro-
ducer Price Index stood at
283.7 in February, meaning
that goods costing $10 at
wholesale in 1967 would have
cost $28.37 last month
The GOP, whose strength
fell from eight to five this ses-
sion. only had Henderson and
Sens John Leedom of Dallas
and Bob McFarland of Arl-
ington draw four-year terms.
Members would be happy
to have the luck of the Irish
today," said Sen Lloyd Dog-
gett. D-Austin
Doggett, however, drew
No 20 for a two-year term
His drawing was watched
with interest because he
wants to run for the U.S.
Senate in 1984. and a four-
year term would carry to
1986
Harrelson, Chagra receive
long sentences in Wood case
AUSTIN - APi The House
sponsor of a bill restricting
hardship driver’s licenses
for underage drivers predicts
the measure will hit the
governor’s desk next week,
despite House changes in the
Senate bill.
House members voted 126-9
Thursday in favor of the bill
already approved in the
Senate. However, senators
will have to OK changes
made in the House before the
bill goes to Gov Mark White
Rep Gerald Hill, D-Austin,
the House sponsor, says
senators have indicated
they’ll go along with the
changes.
The bill, authored by Sen
Bob Glasgow, D-Stephenville,
takes out the "general
welfare" clause under which
tions reported today were ac-
tually for January and do not
reflect any drops brought
about by OPEC's recent $5 a
barrel cut in its base pace for
crude oil. Energy price
calculations always lag a
month behind the rest of the
index.
In its new report, the
department provided these
other details on February
price changes
-Food paces overall rose
0.6 percent after falling 0.2
percent in January Prices
were up for fish, poultry,
dairy products, beef and veal.
Lower costs were recorded
for vegetables and pork
-Passenger car prices shot
up 1.5 percent after falling 0.3
percent during the previous
month
-Capital equipment costs
moved up 0.5 percent after
declining 0.1 percent in
January Those costs are for
machinery and transporta-
tion equipment used by
business
All the price changes are
adjusted for seasonal varia-
tions.
February s overall price in-
crease of 0.1 percent, after
seasonal adjustment, com-
pared with a 1 percent drop
on January and a 0 2 percent
increase in December
If prices rose for 12 months
straight at the February rate,
the yearly rise would be 1.7
percent In reporting its infla-
tion figures, the department
bases its compounded,
seasonally adjusted annual
courtroom is an unspeakable
evil "
Harrelson, wearing dark
sunglasses throughout the
proceedings, added that the*
"only thing missing" from
the court was "the twin
lightning bolts of the SS the
Gestapo.'1
(See WOOD, Page 2)
did not require hospitaliza-
tion, officials said.
The smoky blaze began
shortly before 4 a m in the
lobby area, authorities said
Smoke filled all 13 floors of
the hotel, and firefighters us-
ed axes to break out windows
in upper floors of the building
and ventilate the structure
All occupants of the hotel
were evacuated, said fire
operations chief Mike
Freeman Several people
were rescued from balconies
at the hotel
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thousands of underage
drivers have qualified for
hardship licenses The
Department of Public Safety
has not been able to deny a
hardship license in any case
in which a family said it was
needed
More than 72,000 underage-
drivers got hardship licenses
last year
The Glasgow bill allows
hardship licenses foi
15-17-year-olds in cases of
family economic hardships,
illness or to drive to voca-
tional education programs
if the youth had completed
drivers education
Texans must be 18 to get a
driver s license Sixteen-
year-olds who take driver's
education can be licensed.
Outlook on inflation brightened
AUSTIN i AP) - Two more
appointees of former
Republican Gov. Bill
Clements have been rejected
by the Texas Senate, giving
Democratic Gov. Mark White
the right to make influential
nominations to two powerful
stale agencies.
White said Thursday he
would make new appoint-
ments in the next few days.
Sam Barshop of San An-
tonio. owner of the La Quinta
Motor Inns. was turned down
as a University of Texas
regent by 18-12, two votes
short of the two-thirds needed
for approval
Senators rejected 16-14 the
reappointment of William
Blakemore II of Midland to
the Public Safety Commis-
sion, which controls the
Department of Public Safety
White said afterwards that
"basically I am not going to
be asking for any additional
recalls (of Clements’ ap-
pointees)."
negotiations over the 1981
Senate redistricting plan
Whether the two- or four-
year terms will stand,
however, may ultimately de-
pend on a court ruling. There
is a possibly all senators
would have to run again next
year
On Thursday. St. Patrick s
Day, No. 13 was lucky,
because all senators who
drew odd numbers from 1 to
31 got four year terms, and
those who drew even
numbers got two years Sen
Don Henderson, R-Houston,
got No. 13.
by the Organisation of
Petroleum Exporting Coun-
tries. could mean a yearly in-
flation rate of "something
close to zero. "
Right now, he is forecasting
a 2 percent to 3 percent ad-
vance. better than the 3.5 per-
cent gain of last year, which
was the slowest rise since
1971. Those prices were up 7.1
percent in 1981
Thomson cautioned.
(See OUTLOOK, Page 2)
Donald Hatajczak.
economic forecaster at
Georgia State University in
Atlanta, said rapidly falling
oil prices could lead to a scant
0.1 percent increase in
wholesale prices for all of this
year, the smallest gain since
1963 when those costs declin-
ed 0.2 percent
A sharp drop in world oil
prices dramatically alters
the extended outlook for
1983," he said in a newsletter
Directors of the Tierra
Blanca Soil Conservation
District have joined Deaf
Smith County Commissioners
and other groups in voicing
opposition to the location of a
nuclear waste repository in
the county
Carl Kleuskens, chairman,
said Thursday the board went
on record in opposing such a
site because of the extensive
amount of prime farmland to
be taken out of production
and the general detrimental
effect to agriculture in this
area
He said directors were also
concerned with the possible
contamination of our
underground water supply
which is used for human con-
sumption and irrigation "
We feel that there are bet-
ter sites, in less productive
areas,to locate a nuclear
waste repository than in Deaf
Smith County," stated
Kleuskens
Deaf Smith County Com-
There was no debate or
comment on the Barshop ap-
pointment, which had been
pending for several weeks
Sen. Bill Sims D-San
Angelo, urged confirmation
of Blakemore, saying he had
done a good job.
"The state is fortunate to
have a man like this working
for the people of Texas,"
Sims said
Sen. Chet Brooks,
D-Pasadena, a leader in urg-
ing rejection of Clements' ap-
pointees so White can make
the nominations. agreed that
Blakemore had done a good
job as a commissioner
"However. I believe it
would be fair to say his in-
terest in the job has declined
... ,” Brooks said. "He also
has had a part in getting the
department (of Public Safe-
ty, fragmented in partisan
politics. I would like to see so-
meone else in there Let’s
rotate the job "
HOUSTON (AP) - Doctors
at Texas Children's Hospital
will try to treat an I1-year-old
girl's heart disease with a
drug, rather than performing
a heart transplant, the child's
father says.
Test results released
Thursday show that Sharon
Stohler’s heart has some in-
flammation. but doctors will
try to reduce it with the drug
Prednisone. David Stohler
said.
The Stohlers were
previously told Sharon would
die within eight months
without a transplant. Doctors
at Stanford University turned
the child away, saying she
was too small and weak to
undergo such an operation
By contrast. Stohler said,
the Texas doctors said they
believe the child is a suitable
candidate for a transplant. if
it is needed
"It's definitely good news."
said Stohler. of Anderson.
Ind. "Now we've got two good
chances instead of one
possibility."
He said Sharon was in the
room when doctors told them
about their plans She and her
parents are encouraged by
the hope the drug offers. but
disappointed at beginning
another waiting game.
Stohler said.
The family will remain in
Houston for a week while
treatment begins, then return
home Stohler said they will
return in six weeks or two
months so that doctors can
examine the girl again
The Stohlers came to Texas
Children's Hospital March 9
to determine if a transplant
was needed
The doctors said they found
the inflammation through a
biopsy of the heart muscle ob-
tained by a heart catheriza-
tion procedure.
Spokeswoman Elaine
Moore released a hospital
statement but refused to iden-
tify the team of doctors who
made the examination
The young girl, said
Stohler. is fully aware of her
condition
"She's been so good about
this, a lot better than I could
have been." said the father
"She doesn't ignore it, she
just doesn't talk about it."
Stohler said his daughter
came down with what was
thought to be a cold last
November She was given
medication and lost a large
degree of blood circulation
Tests revealed the heart
disease, he said.
The girl has been in a
wheelchair about three mon-
ths and only recently was
able to take brief daily walks
AUSTIN iAPI - Texas
Senators have drawn
numbers for their political
futures, with 16 getting four-
year terms and 15 half as
long.
Avoiding a re-election race
in two years came down to a
number written on a piece of
paper. enclosed in a dear
capsule which, in turn, was
inside a sealed envelope.
The drawing for terms was
held in the Senate chamber
on Thursday, after Austin
lawyer Steve Bickerstaff had
told senators there was no
reason to wait longer on
missioners, in a regular ses-
sion Monday. had passed a
resolution opposing the loca-
tion of a nuclear waste dump
site in the county More than
40 persons had attended the
session and asked the county
to oppose such a site
Concerned citizens had
recently formed a group to
resist the stie location here
The organization was named
POWER, or People Opposed
to Wasted Energy
Repositories, and Dr Tim
Revell was elected chairper-
son of the organization
The group has scheduled
weekly meetings on Tuesday
at 8 p.m
Discussion about the pro-
posed Department of Energy
project has increased in re-
cent weeks after a wire ser-
vice report out of Utah in-
dicated that Deaf Smith
County may be announced as
one of the finalists for the site
of a repository
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas
AP Charles V Har-
relson. convicted of firing the
shot that killed U.S. District
Judge John H Wood Jr., was
sentenced today to two con-
secutive life sentences plus
five years
Jamiel Jimmy" Chagra.
who was acquitted of paying
Harrelson *250.000 to kill
Wood, was sentenced to a
total of 20 years on other
charges.
Harrelson's wife, Jo Ann.
and Chagra’s wife, Elizabeth,
also were to be sentenced this
morning in the courthouse
that now bears the slain
judge's name
Harrelson's life sentences,
handed down by U.S. District
Judge William S. Sessions,
were on his murder and
murder conspiracy convic-
tions last year There is no
death penalty in federal
court, but conviction on a
federal murder charge en-
tails mandatory life im-
prisonment
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