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The House tentatively pass- volve asking any loans from
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Cad Year, Ho. 49, Hereford, h. M MH County
day and Saturday afternoons
the GOP faithful will hear a
long line of political speakers.
Upham, a Mineral Wells oil
operator, is expected to be
elected to a second term
without opposition.
The state committee
scheduled a Thursday after-
noon meeting to take care of
"I am satisfied there were
no injuries," said Antoni
Dobrowski, the charge daf.
faires at the Polish Embassy
who returned to Bern Tues-
day night from leave in
Mr. and Mrs. Dixie Benjamin
...Reminiscing at Westgate
sions.
There were reports of brief
fighting between the ter-
rousts and riot police when
they spread throughout the
embassy to search allofits
into the diplomatic mimiea,
took 13 people hostage, and
demanded that Poland’s
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Prolific Peaches
Jim Scott, 204 Irving, didn’t notice any new
blossoms but he did see new peaches growing
after the first crop from his trees came off in
July. “It was the strangest thing I’d ever
seen,” he said. The second crop is unusual for
peaches. Scott said the new peaches are not as
large as the first crop and have smaller seeds.
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ended lorn than an hour later.
Witnesses said a white van
pulled up in front of the em-
bassy and a man dressed in a
delivery suit took a small
white object up to the front
door of the embassy.
The man returned to the
van and made a second trip to
A group of six delegates, in-
cluding County Chairman
Garth Thomas, has departed
for the State GOP Convention
in Austin. Thomas, along with
Mary and Wayne Thomas,
Wes Fisher, Clarence Betzen,
and Gerald Morgan, will at-
tend the convention which
begins Friday.
The two-day meeting is ex-
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -
Texas Republicans gathered
today for what is expected to
be the largest state GOP con-
vention ever held.
State GOP Chairman Chet
Upham estimated there
would be more than 7,000
behind Syrian lines in
Lebanon near Bhamdoun, 18
miles east of Beirut.
The attack came as Syrian
and Israeli troops massed in
eastern Lebanon for a possi-
ble new confrontation. The
raid was the first of its type
since Aug. 10, when Israeli
Jets knocked out Syrian
missile positions during their
attacks on PLO enclaves in
west Beirut.
"Every missile battery like
this that is brought in (to
Lebanon) will be destroyed,"
Begin Mid. “I hope this warn-
ing is heard in Damascus. We
want no fighting with the
Syrian army.”
Officials Mid Arab leaders
meeting in Fez, Morocco are
willing to go along with the
Reagan plan, if some tough
strings are attached.
According to the officials,
who declined to be identified.
position to abortion. On
Wednesday, trying to break
an abortion vote loose from a
Senate filibuster, Reagan
sent a letter to senators
pledging Ms support for anti-
abortion measures.
Iandon, who ran for the
D Holserrit. suffered the
worst presidential election
By CAROLYN LESH
knicintit Prin Writer
BERN, Switzerland (AP)
- Swiss police stormed the
Polish Embassy today and
rescued five hostages, trick-
ing the four gunmen inside by
blowing down the door with a
remote-controlled bomb hid-
den in a food container.
They arrested the four
raiders who had held the cap-
tives under threat at death
since Monday, demanding
that Communist Poland lift
said the message from the
American people has been
clear:
"Nomoreifs, ands, butsor
maybes. We want an amend-
ment to the United States
Constitution making balanc-
ed budgets the law of this
unemployment tax fund,
which is threatened with "
bankruptcy in November. All
efforts to amend the bill were
defeated.
However, when Clayton
asked for a suspension of
House rules for an immediate
final vote, the 105-33 vote was
short of the 110 needed.
Earlier, the House passed
139-0 and sent to the governor
a proposal that would allow ।
schools to borrow money 1
before their property tax rolls I
are certified and the tax rate
set. ;
There was no discussion of
the Senate-approved bill and
no effort to amend it. ।
The only serious move to ।
change Clayton's bill from
the form it emerged from a i
House committee Tuesday ।
was presented by Rep.
Robert Bush, D-Sherman. i
Bush Mid his amendment i
would provide a temporary
cure for the unemployment
fund troubles and leave a per-
manent fix to the 1983
Legislature.
"This is a pay-as-you-go ap-
proach,"he Mid of his plan to I
Albania.
"Switzerland will never ac-
cept blackmail," he said
after the rescue operation.
"The decision to storm the
embassy was taken during
the night after it wm deter-
mined there was no room hr
martial law, free internees
and end repression.
Poland’s official PAP news
agency said Swiss police used
"paralysing gas” during the
bloodless operation, which
lasted teas than an hour.
Swiss Justice Minister Kurt
Furgler said the four
gunmen, who claimed they
would blow up the embassy
Friday unless their condi-
tions were met, also had
demanded 81.45 million and
free passage to China or
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Reagan, cam-
paigning for Republicans,
school prayer and an end to
red ink budgets, criticised
Democrats in Congress today
for bottling up the balanced
budget amendment.
Reagan used the 95th birth-
day of the Republicans' 1936
presidential candidate,
Alfred M. Landon. to press
his campaign for the three
constitutional amendments
that would prohibit abortion,
allow school prayer and
Lions Club
trash bag
sale set
The Hereford Lions Club
will conduct a trash bag sale
beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday,
with headquarters at the
chamber of commerce office.
The Lions will be selling
boxes of the 30-gallon size bag
for 87 each, or three boxes for
820. There are 50 heavy duty,
lawn and trash bags per box.
Project chairman I Jon
Chris White Mid that a door
to door campaign will be car-
ried out Saturday, and that
those who do not get called on
may order bags by calling the
chamber of commerce office
at 364-3333.
Proceeds from the trash
bag Mle will go to benefit
local charities
balance the budget
in remarks prepared for
the Alfred M. Landon lecture
eeries at Kansas State
University in Manhattan.
Kan., Reagan Mid:
"The time has come for this
Congress to give a majority
of American families what
they want for their children:
a constitutional amendment
BY SANDY PANKEY
Staff Writer
“We’ve been married a long time. I
don't remember when we got married
but it was in Albuquerque. N.M.,”
says Lee Anna Benjamin.
“I don't remember either," laughs
her husband, Dixie. “But I wouldn't
have kept her this long if we fussed
and fought all the time. She's a good
old girl.”
Although dates and some facts may
be a little fussy for the couple, who
both reside at Westgate, they are very
Impressionable people and have
humorous natures.
Their lives have been difficult in re-
cent years and both have mentally
overcome great physical obstacles.
Mrs. Benjamin, who will be 82 on Oct.
1, has resided at the nursing home ap-
proximatley four years.
She was diagnosed as having
diabetes before moving there and had
to have her left leg amputated above
the knee. Her right leg, also removed
at the knee, was amputated after her
arrival at Westgate.
Dixie, who will celebrate Ms 94th
birthday Jan. 6, suffered a stroke
several years ago which affected the
left side of his body. “I was healthy as
an alligator before I had this dang
stroke,” he explains.
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The couple and their families were
reared on farms near Linden, Tx. and
because they had to help support
family members, both received little
formal education.
I ee Ann had to quit school when she
was in the eighth grade and Dixie quit
while in the sixth grade. "Children ap-
preciated school back then. They
were fortunate to be going. We had to
furnish our own books, and if you ton
one up, you'd really get a whipping.'
Dixie said.
“We both worked mighty hard wher
we were growing up," he added. "We
had to pick cotton, work in the garden
raise and butcher our own meat,
shuck cane, cut wood and do whatever
else wm necessary to survive.”
“I remember helping my momma
wash clothes in a old wash tub out in
the yard when the weather was good
There was no electricity or running
water in those days," Lee Anna said.
"We stayed busy from sunup to sun-
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"We didn’t make a lot of money
back then. Twenty dollars would buy
enough sugar, coffee and flour to last
months at a time. Now, look, you can
go into a grocery store and carry out
880 worth of groceries In one hand,”
Dixie added.
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A habit carried over from Lee An-
na's childhood days is dipping snuff.
"When I was Just a little girl, if I ask-
ed my momma for some stuff, she'd
give it to me."
I have only tried to smoke once."
smiles Lee Anna. "My momma asked
me to sew by Daddy’s britches up and
I didn't want to do it. So, I got out my
Daddy's pipe and smoked it. When I
started sewing those pants up I was so
drunk from smoking, I stuck the nee-
dle into my leg. Daddy had to get it
out. No more smoking for me.”
Dixie recalls that at one time he not
only smoked, but dipped, and could
chew tobacco and gum simultaneous-
ly. He quit those habits when he suf-
fered his stroke.
ILooking back over the years. Dixie
remembers vividly the first time he
mw a car. "It wasn't a car to us. It
wm the horseless carriage. We kids
were really excited."
"There wm a doctor in town who
had just bought one and wm showing -
it off. He told a bunch of us boys that
he would give each of us 85 if we could
keep those wheels from moving while
he had it running. Don't know if we got
that money or not but It wm fun try-
ing.” continues Dixie.
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ed, by a vole of 87-51, the federal government.
"We have cost the tax- place an immediate surtax on
payers a few bucks by having Texas employers that would
to come back tomorrow," be 150 percent of the taxes
Speaker Bill Clayton Mid. they owe for 1982. He said this
raise money for
"My wife came to this nursing home
about a year before I did. She didn't
have time to get lonely. I’d visit all the
time. Now look at us ... we're both in
wheel chairs. But it's not all bad
because we have each other for com-
pany.” Dixie explains.
"And we like to play Bingo with the
folks here,” Dixie continues. "Lee An-
na is wearing the necklace she won at
Bingo. My goodness, you should see
all the strands of beads that woman
has won."
We've had some good times since
we moved out here Lee Anna still
watches her favorite television shows,
“Hee-Haw" and “Family Fued," but
nothing can take the place of the
freedom we once had," explains Dix-
ie.
“I don't like being told that I have to
do something. AU I have to do is die. I
just tell people what I think, in a nice
way, and try to get along. I’m preUy
good natured most of the time.”
"We really miss the fishing trips we
used to take together We had an old
Buick we would load into and head for
Buffalo Lake and spend the weekends
fishing,” he reminisced.
“It's been a little hard to adjust
sometimes, but we have met some
nice people," says Lee Anna. "I'm not
supposed to use any sugar in my diet
Poland He complimented the
Swiss police for their
disciplinedaction.
The embassy siege began
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By GARTH JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -
Texas legislators hoped to
end their special session to-
day with a final House vote on
an unemployment fund pro-
posal and quick action on the
measure in the Senate.
Possible adjournment
Wednesday was stymied
when House members were
five votes short of the number
needed for an immediate
final vote.
By The Associated Press
A combative Prime
Minister Menachem Begin
vowed Israel would never
agree to President Reagan's
plan for peace in the Middle
East, while Arab leaders Mid
they would accept it only if
Israel first recognizes the
PLO, which the Jewish state
says it will never do.
In a fiery speech to Parlia-
ment Wednesday, Begin
challenged the opposition
Labor Party to an early elec-
tion next year as a referen-
dum on his government’s
claim to the occupied Arab
territories. Labor has backed
the Reagan plan, noting that
it does not call for a total
Israeli withdrawal from the
lands won in the 1967 war.
Before his speech. Begin
announced Israeli jets
destroyed a battery of Syrian
heat-seeking SAM-9 missiles
of his term before being and gas masks then charged
released. Into the two-story building
The dramatic rescue opera- Witnesses Mid they heard
tion began at 10:42 a.m. and about 10 additional explo-
predominately Arab East
Jerusalem. Israel has
repeatedly rejected those
conditions.
The leaders Wednesday
were approaching a consen-
sus on proposing an offer of
mutual recognition between
Isreal and the Arab states, in-
cluding a sovereign Arab-
ruled Palestinian state in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank
and the Gaza Strip, officials
Mid.
But Begin Mid Wednesday
that the occupied areas "will
be for the Jewish people for
generations upon genera-
tions,” reaffirming his
government’s biblical claim
Clayton Mid his measure, bill wm presented as a com- years to pay interest on the
which includes federal loans promise that had been ap- federal loans.
until an unemployment tax proved by the governor. The bill would increase the
increase becomes effective, legislative leaders and fund celling from 8325 million
means that “by 1985 the business groups. to $500 million and increase
loans would be repaid, the The bill wm designed to the maximum tax levied on
fund would be in the black replenish the fund set up 44 Texas employers from 4 per-
and the Texas Employment years ago to pay benefits to cent to 6 percent of the first
Commission can set the tax jobless workers with a tax in- 87,000 an employee makes. In
rate M it is now. ” crease in 1983 and 1984, plus a addition to increasing the
The unemployment fund surtax for parts of those present minimum rate from
m _ 0.1 percent to 0.4 percent,
Begm vows never to aziimm
accept Reagan peace plan *s—'•*
“but I understand the would raise about 8450
economy of Austin will million.
recoup.” He stressed it would not in-
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Furgler said four gunmen, the front door with an
dressed in camouflage suits, aluminum case that usually
ware arrested. He identified contained food for the
the leader as Florian gunmen and hostages. This
Kruszyk, a 42-year-old time it wm packed with ex-
former convict from Poland. plosives.
He said Kruszyk claimed he When the man got back to
had worked for the Polish the van, the driver jumped
secret service. Kruszyk wm out and both men ducked and
sentenced to nine years in ran off, witnesses said. They
ri prison in 1969 for a Vienna, said the container than ex-
’ Austria, jewelry store rob- ploded, blowing in the door.
■ bery in which hostages were About 30 riot police wearing
■ taken. He served four years helmets, bullet-proof vests
delegates, alternates and then elect a state party chair-
guests at the convention. He man, the 62 members of the
said more than 1,900 hotel State Republican Executive
rooms have been reserved. Committee and adopt the 1982
At the general sessions Fri- state platform.
Monday when anti- its martial law decree and
communist commandos buret free nolitical detainees.
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that will make it unequivocal- land, and we want that
ly clear that children can bold amendment now.”
voluntary prayer in their Excerpts of Reagan’s
schools. I urge the Congress speech were made available
to work with me in passing an to reporters Wednesday even-
amendment that we can send ing in Washington.
to the states for ratification." In Ma draft. the president
As for deficit spending, he also reiterated his strong op-
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Israel must recognize the
Palestine Liberation
Organization and accept the
creation of a Palestinian
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pected to draw some 2,500 pre-convention business.
Republicans from across the Actually, pre-convention
Lone Star State Delegates activities began Tuesday
will elect state and district of- whentheplatformcommittee
e: ot .,tnn held its first session to near
fleers at the convention. testimony about the party
A state platform will also platform. Another session
be adopted, and Garth wm held Wednesday.
Thomas has been selected to The credentials. rules and
serve on the Platform Com- platform committees all
mittee. (See GOP, Page 2)
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