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An estimated 2,500 evacuees were
still waiting in 23 Red Cross shelters
for floodwaters to drop in 10 south
Louisiana parishes.
Flooding was worst in St. Bernard
Parish. to the east of New Orleans,
where water stood 7 feet deep in
some fishing communities, forcing
about 500 people to evacuate Sunday.
High water extended northward in-
to St. Tammany Parish, on the
Church; Anita Garza, Spanish Assembly
of God; Doris Huckert, First Christian
Church; Laura Walker, Mt. Sinai Baptist;
and Yiota Malouf, Greek Orthodox.
Women from several ethnic groups and
walks of life will be sharing their personal
blessings at the service.
best deal in TV. programming,”
said Ames.
Hereford Cablevision customers
pay $10 for HBO service, said Ames,
citing an example. But, if the dish
owner takes HBO service through
the dish, a $12.95 charge will be
assessed for the service by HBO-
Cinemax (the national programmer,
not the local cable office.)
“Either way, whoever subscribes
to HBO or Cinemax. and any other
pay T.V. service, eventually will
have to pay for the service,” said
Ames.
He explained that the customer
can either pay by being a subscriber
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials hope to bring in about
$200 million during a three-month tax amnesty program that starts
Friday with the message: “You know who you are and so do we.”
“What I really would have loved to do is get everyone feeling guil-
ty, but I’m not that naive,” said state Tax Commissioner Roderick
Chu, who estimates tax cheating costs New York $1 billion annually.
Instead, New York’s amnesty television commercials emphasize
that the tax collector has new ways of finding cheats and tougher
penalties for those who don’t pay up voluntarily.
Chu speaks of the easy to remember “three Cs” that Gov. Mario
Cuomo has said underly the program.
"If you’re a tax cheat, we’re going to catch you, we’re going to con-
vict you and we’re going to can you," says Cuomo.
The same tough-guy approach has been used in other amnesty pro-
grams in Illinois, California and Massachusetts. Like New York’s,
their programs let taxpayers pay delinquent taxes, plus interest,
without civil or criminal penalties.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Texans are being encouraged to turn out for a
300-mile march from Dallas to San Antonio to call attention to the
plight of Vietnam veterans.
Gov. Mark White signed an official memorandum Tuesday calling
attention to the march called "A Journey to Remember — The Last
Patrol.”
The walk, White noted, is bringing attention to the unresolved
questions surrounding Vietnam War prisoners and missing.
"This march,” the governor said, "is giving Vietnam veterans
much-needed recognition for their service to our country ."
The march was the idea of Michael J. Marti.i and Tim Holiday,
two singers and songwriters who also are Vietnam veterans. Holiday
was a Navy medic and Martin was an infantryman.
In an interview, Martin said retired Gen. William Westmoreland,
commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam, is scheduled to join the mar-
chers in Austin Wednesday night and Thursday.
“Regardless of what you thought of him as a general, he’s still a
Vietnam veteran, too. He’s one of us," Martin said.
reduction in the number of birds over
the past few years," he said.
"In 1970 the number of mallards
recorded in the northern plains
reached 10.4 million, in 1985 that
number was reduced to 2.7 million.
This is due to serious droughts that
have occured in the north." Lyons
said.
“We are losing nearly 250,000 birds
per year, your group enables the
birds to rest as they make their long
journey for the winter, that rest that
they receive here makes the birds
stronger and healthier,” Lyons add-
ed.
Following Lyons’ address, the
TWA auctioned nearly 70 items. The
items were all donated to the TWA
and ranged from duck art prints to
hunting accessories.
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“Harvest of Blessings" is the
theme for the World Community Day
program set for Friday at 9:30 a.m.
in St. Thomas Episcopal Church. The
program is sponsored by Church
Women United but is open to the
public. The emphasis of the service
will be to focus on counting one’s
blessings.
Women from different walks of life
will be sharing their personal bless-
ings. Home baked breads will be
shared by women from different
racial and ethnic groups, also.
। Dr. Duffy McBrayer will present
special music for the service.
Persons attending the celebration
are asked to bring canned food items
to be donated to Operation Good
mm Shepherd food pantry.
Refreshments will be served in the
• parish hall following the service.
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M| 1943 and continues to be observed on
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After insisting he wanted to return to his
homeland, a Soviet sailor has been released from U.S. custody near
New Orleans, leaving unanswered his motive for twice leaping from
his freighter into the Mississippi River.
A State Department statement released Tuesday night said the
sailor, Miroslav Medvid, convinced U.S. officials who interrogated
him extensively for two days that he wasn’t a defector after all.
Medvid was returned to Soviet custody after signing a Russian-
language statement affirming that, "I ... have decided to return to
my country, the Soviet Union.
"I do not request asylum in the United States. I make this decision
voluntarily of my own free will.” the statement said.
Following the State Department’s announcement, a Coast Guard
cutter pulled alongside the Soviet freighter and a small group of men
got off and boarded the Soviet vessel. But observers on the shore
could not tell whether the sailor was among them.
The two-page State Department statement said the administration
considers the matter closed. It gave no indication as to why Medvid
jumped into the Mississippi last Thursday and Friday.
Tax amnesty may bring in millions
It was a packed V.F.W. Hall Tues-
day during the annual Texas Water-
fowlers Association dinner held to
raise money for the association to
use in the preservation of wildlife in
this area.
The festivities kicked off with door
prizes. The ladies were eligible for 18
prizes while the men gathered 28
prizes. The prizes for the ladies rang-
ed from flashlights and perfumes to
an opal and diamond yellow gold din-
ner ring. The men’s prizes ranged
from motor oil additive to a Ruger
.22 caliber rifle.
Texas Senator Ted Lyons was the
quest speaker for the evening.
Senator Lyons was named legislator
of the year in 1981, and named one of
the most outstanding young men of
the JayCees in 1979. Lyons, who is an
avid waterfowl hunter, commended
the TWA for their efforts in wildlife
conservation.
Lyons stated that we are facing
some of the most trying years in
history concerning the population of
ducks and mallards.
"There has been a tremoundous
BONN, West Germany (AP) — The Soviet ambassador to West
Germany said today he believes the wife of Soviet dissident Andrei
D. Sakharov has official permission to travel to the West for medical
care.
Ambassador Vladimir Semyonov’s comments were the first made
publicly by any Soviet official about the possibility that Yelena G.
Bonner will be allowed to leave the Soviet Union for treatment of an
eye ailment.
Semyonov told The Associated Press he thinks Mrs. Bonner, 60,
will be allowed to leave the Soviet Union.
“I have read that she intends to do it, but I don’t know when she
plans to go or where,” Semyonov said.
When asked if Sakharov, the Soviet Union’s best-known human
rights advocate, would also be allowed to leave the Soviet Union, Se-
myonov replied: "That is another question that I cannot answer ”
Sakharov was sent into internal exile in the closed city of Gorky in
January, 1980 Mrs. Bonner was sent to join him in 1964
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were flooded or isolated by high
water. Gov. Bill Allain declared a
state of emergency.
In Alabama, the rain and high
tides prompted flash-fl od warnings
in the Mobile area, and residents of
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BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A former police officer is suing
Silsbee city officials for $2.2 million, alleging he was fired because
his wife held an “intimate apparel party .”
David C. Lusk was an officer in Silsbee, a small Hardin County
community, for 3% years before he was fired on Sept. 4,1984.
Lusk contends in his federal civil rights lawsuit that city officials
fired him after falsely accusing him of involvement in unspecified
criminal activity.
However, according to the suit, the officer said he was actually
fired because his wife held a party to sell products from a company
that markets women’s lingerie, novelites and other adult items.
Named as defendants in the suit filed Friday in Beaumont are:
Silsbee Police Chief Dennis M. Allen, City Manager Ronald Hicker-
son and the city of Silsbee.
According to the suit, Allen was offended when he heard about the
lingerie party and threatened to fire Lusk.
National
z224 submerged power line, another who
fell from his boat and drowned and a
woman in Mississippi who lost con-
trol of her car in the rain.
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“After descramblers hit the
market, it will give the customer
another option as to where they want
to take their business.”
The cable systems operators are
very concerned about the satellite
dishes that are being used in their
franchise area.
“Where a dish is out of the fran-
chise area, the individual is welcome
to pick up T.V. programming outside
that area," said Ames. The local
cable company stays only within its
franchise.
"The cable operator would like the
customer to determine for
themselves where they can get the
Community Spirits
Church Women United will be collecting
canned goods for the Good Shepherd food
pantry at the World Community Day ser-
vice Friday at 9:30 a.m. in St. Thomas
Episcopal Church. Starting the basket
filling are Helmi Batterman, Immanuel
Lutheran; Leta Kaul, Community
the world." said Gilbert Aranza. an
attorney who lives in the
neighborhood of mansions, some of
which are more than 60 years old.
"You can see the disappointment
in (the kids’) faces. They get all
dressed up, come her and what do
they have? Maybe me and five other
houses (with Halloween treats).
Although Aranza and others oppos-
ed the matter, it was approved at a
meeting of the board of the Swiss
Avenue Historic District Association
with little discussion.
Some residents said later they
have no choice but to turn off the
lights on the persistent crowds.
“You can’t even close your front
door," said Linda Molberg. “There’s
always someone else waiting in the
middle of the sidewalk.
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Gov. Edwin Edwards declared a
state of emergency Monday m 13
south Louisiana parishes, and the
state’s congressional delegation ask-
ed President Reagan on Tuesday to
make emergency federal resources
available to the region.
Edwards said damage would ex-
ceed that of Hurricanes Danny and
Elena combined. Both storms
wrought millions of dollars in
damage.
Farmers have said that the $1.5
billion harvest in sugar cane and soy-
beans were threatened.
The authorization bill approved by Dauphin Island were ordered to
the House on Tuesday, and the evacuate as high tides threatened the
Senate last July, permits new only road leading there
chemical weapons for the first time Streets were flooded in Florida
since 1969 But $163 million for the from Jacksonville to the Panhandle
Army program was knocked out of The missing included three aboard
the appropriation bill last week when crewboats that foundered in the Gulf
the Appropriations Committee pass- of Mexico and a wind surfer in Lake
ed the measure. Pontchartrain.
Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., was rea- Numbered among the dead were a
dying an amendment to put the crewman drowned as a collapsed oil
money back into the measure, rig was evacuated, a man elec-
or the dish owner can pay the pro- Mississippi line, where at least 200
grammer directly, once the homes and businesses were reported
scrambler is fully implemented. flooded, and to the tiny fishing
According to Ames, ESPN, CNN, village of Manchac, at the juncture
CBN, Headline News, Arts and of fakes Pontchartrain and
Entertainment Network, Showtime, Maurepas, northwest of New
The Movie Channel, Nickelodeon. Orleans.
MTV. and Nashville Network will all "There’s no place for the water to
implement their scrambling devises 8° We’re just waterlogged.” said
within the next two years. Don Gary, assistant civil defense
What did Ames think of the future director for Houma, a city of 35,000
of pay T.V.? Has it reached it’s about 55 miles southeast of New
peak? Orleans. “...This is the worst I’ve
"Yes," replied Ames, "HBO has seen in 35years."
reached it’s peak in the last year as Waist-deep floodwaters kept
have all the pay services." Lafitte virtually deserted since Mon-
He explained that when pay TV day, and 1,200 residents remained
services were first coming out, the stranded on Grand Isle, a coastal
viewer had an enormous choice of community under up to 4 feet of
services to choose from. water and where a new, two-mile
Now, there are more forms of com- section of hurricane protection levee
petition that pay TV has to deal with, was swept away.
There are now VCRs, many other On Tuesday, the Red Cross flew
pay TV services, and satellite dishes, 1 200 fried chicken dinners to Grand
etc. Isle. where Mayor Phillip Bradberry
At the present time, HBO and other said electricity probably would not
pay TV services are changing their be restored until Friday
marketing plans to emphasize keep- Officials in Mississippi said up to
ing the present customer instead of 9,000 homes in two southern counties
HASKELL F. BENSON LEROY H. VAUGHN
Haskell F. Benson, 77, died at 10:05 Leroy H. Vaughn, 74, of Spr-
a.m. Tuesday in Deaf Smith General ingdale. Ark., died Oct. 28, after a
Hospital after a brief illness. brief illness.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thurs- Services will be tomorrow in Spr-
day at the Church of the Nazarene ingdale. Ark., under the direction of
with the Rev. Vernia Elliot, Cisco Funeral Home
associate pastor, officiating. Vaughn, a former resident of
Burial will be in West Park Hereford, had retired from Pinker-
Cemetery under the direction of ton Security Service as as captain of
Gililland-Watson Funeral Home. security for Holly Sugar Corporation
Benson was born in Comanche, in 1975
Okla., and had been a Deaf Smith Vaughn is survived by his wife,
resident since 1930, moving here Estelline; two sons, Donald of Tulsa,
from Wellington. He married Verdie Okla., and Tommy of Alamogordo.
May Johnson on Aug. 5,1928, in Well- N.M.; one daughter, Eileen of Plain-
ington. Benson was a farmer and a view; four step-sons. David Hill of
member of the Nazarene Church. Hereford, Richard Hill of Charlotte,
Survivors include his wife; three N.C., Kenneth Hill of Clarksville.
daughters, Evelyn Hacker and Ark., and James W Hill of Spr-
Genelie Sigel, both of Hereford and ingdale. Ark.; and two step-
Joe of Dimmitt; nine grandchildren; daughters, Janice Stevenson of
and a great-grandchild. Hereford, and Bertie Roberts of
The family suggest memorials to McMinnville, Tenn.; and many
the Hereford Senior Citizens or the grandchildren and great-
Church of the Nazarene. grandchildren.
AUSTIN (AP) — State District Judge C.C. "Kit” Cooke has
cleared the way for the robbery trial of prison activist David Ruiz to
resume on Nov. 18.
Cooke held Tuesday that Ruiz could be tried on charges that Ruiz
took part in a September 1984 armed robbery of an Austin apart-
ment.at the same time his attorneys appeal a mistrial ordered Oct.
15 in the same robberey.
"This will let both sides proceed in the case," Cooke said after a
brief hearing in which defense attorney Bob Looney claimed Ruiz
should not be retried following the mistrial.
Cooke turned down the defense plea, but approved an appeal to the
state’s highest criminal court.
At the same time, Cooke ruled the state could go ahead Nov. 18
with its prosecution of Ruiz by bringing to trial another charge stem-
ing from a September 1984 robbery of an Austin apartment. Ruiz was
named in four robbery indictments, one for each of the alleged vic-
tims.
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