The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 63, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983 Page: 1 of 16
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Drought aid announced; not enough - Hightower
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Druse threat delays reopening of Beirut’s airport
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Richard
Blowing Off Steam
Seven units of the Hereford Volunteer Fire
Dept, answered a call at Riverside Chemical
at around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday to help stop a
leak in a railroad tank car. The car, which
contained anhydrous ammonia, sprung the
together" to roll back 30 per-
cent pay cuts, a spokesman
said, as pilots from 46 car-
continue to work in Geneva
for a negotiated settlement
that strengthens interna
tional peace and security "
(See ANDROPOV, Page Mi
"Deregulation has the in-
dustry on the ropes," Mazor
said. "We want some sort of
mechanism that would con-
trol the prices."
with Block, told the secretary
he had not gone far enough
Hightower, a Democrat
and persistent critic of the
Reagan administration’s
drought aid program, told
Block that the latest move to
assist farmers and ranchers
was a "step in the right direc-
tion" but that it’s "not going
to be the ultimate help."
Hightower urged Block to
provide West Texas ranchers
for use as feed millions of
bushels of damaged corn be-
international airfield and one
of the busiest in the Middle
East, has been closed for
more than a month by civil
warfare pitting Druse and
Shiites against the army and
Christian militiamen
Jumblatt’s Progressive
Socialist Party. the standard
bearer of the 200,000-member
Druse community, warned in
a statement Wednesday the
airport would be shelled if it
leak when a hose ruptured. Firemen suc-
cessfully halted the flow of the chemical short-
ly after 2 p.m., and remained on the scene un-
til 3 p.m. as a safety precaution. (Brand
Photos By Reed Parsell).
has announced steps it says
will make it easier for
drought-smitten West Texas
ranchers to obtain emergen-
cy loans, but Texas’ top
agriculture official says those
steps fall short of what’s
needed.
Reduced interest rates on
the emergency loans were an-
nounced Wednesday by
Agriculture Secretary John
Block, who had been under in-
Associated Press Writer
Pilots voting today on a
strike against Continental
demanded that Chairman
Frank Borman resign
Eastern Airlines today sent
ballots to 16,000 non-union
workers for votes next week
required to be completed by
doctors. The general conclu-
sion was several doctors were
making progress in catching
up with their reporta while a
few were still being delin-
quent Bullard suggested the
board not Invoke its power to
suspend a doctor’s priveleges
- due to being behind on his
reports • unless lengthy
notice is given.
Twenty-three Texas coun-
ties have been declared
covered by the program. and
Rep Tom Loeffler, R-Hunt,
said he expected three more
counties would shortly be ad-
ded to the list Crockett
Glasscock and Irion.
But he said that so far
because of the restrictive
regulations not one West
Texas rancher has been able
to obtain such a loan
(See DROUGHT. Page 2A)
Earlier, Block had an-
nounced that, on instructions
from President Reagan, he
was reducing emergency
loan interest rates for quali-
fying farmers and ranchers
in counties designated eligi-
ble for relief under the
Natural Disaster Emergency
Loan Program.
The rates would be reduced
by three percentage points, to
3 percent from the current 8
percent, on loans of up to
8100,000 On amounts above
civil war except for scattered
violations.
The committee is compos-
ed of representatives of the
I Lebanese army and the warr-
ing Christian, Druse and
Shiite Moslem militias. It
planned to meet today in a
bombed-out bank building in
no-man’s land southeast of
Beirut, a government state-
ment said.
The airport, Lebanon’s only
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The Agriculture Department
tion leader Walid Jumblatt to
bombard the airport forced
President Amin Gemayel to
call off plans to reopen it this
morning.
The dispute over the air-
port, where the 1,600 U.S.
Marines of the multinational
peacekeeping force are bas-
ed. was referred to a commit-
tee in charge of overseeing
the four-day-old cease-fire
that has halted Lebanon’s
ing stored by the government
ui the Panhandle
As the meeting in Block's
office opened, Hightower told
Block he was pleased to sit
down "eyeballtoeyba 11."and
that “we have a unique situa-
tion in Texas with that
drought."
Block responded that “I’m
pretty well appraised of the
situation" and that he felt the
eased loan requirements an-
nounced Wednesday “would
be helpful."
tiers considered grounding
flights nationwide to call at-
tention to an “industry on the
ropes."
Meanwhile, the head of
Eastern Airlines' 12,580 union
mechanics branded the com-
pany’s request for a volun-
on 15 percent pay cuts. Bor-
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The hospital board met in
closed session to discuss per-
sonnel and consider ap-
plicants for performing the
district’s audit No action was
taken.
Phyllis Dawson, Bullard's
secretary, reported the board
may soon call for another
special meeting to .consider
possible renovation and-or
remodeling work for D8GH.
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as an airbase during the civil
war He said the government
was asking Saudi Arabia to
use its influence with the
Druse's Syrian backers to get
the threat lifted.
Jumblatt. meanwhile, said
the Druse would resume
fighting if the Moslem-
Christian reconciliation con-
ference promised by the
cease-fire agreement did not
give his sect, Lebanon's
By FAROUK NASSAR
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -
Plans to reopen Beirut’s air-
port today were thwarted by
a threat to shell the facility,
but Lebanon’s cease-fire held
and a reconciliation con-
ference was reported set to
start next week in Saudi
Arabia.
A threat by the Druse
militiamen of leftist opposi-
for protection from creditors message "to the government
Saturday while it reorganises and to the public" that
as a smaller business, has cut airlines are in deep trouble
the annual pay of pilot cap- because of fare wars and fall-
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Wednesday the airline had no
response to remarks by
mechanics' union leader
Charles Bryan that the pro-
posal is an insane, maniac
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creasing pressure in Con-
gress to step-up drought
relief for West Texas and
elsewhere.
Agriculture officials also
said regulations governing
the program would be
reinterpreted to make more
ranchers eligible for such
loans.
However, shortly after
Block’s announcement,
Texas Agriculture Commis-
sioner Jim Hightower, in an
"eyeball to eyeball" meeting
McGraw said
DANA FIELDS
Airlines will
Corp suspended trading of its Cleveland. announced
stock Wednesday pending an Wednesday they will merge
announcement The corpora- to become a regional airline
tion said it was considering with a 21-c«y system based in
selling its money-losing Cleveland
Continental pilots may strike, Eastern pact knocked
position being taken by Trans World Airlines sub-
management " sidiary and concentrating on
Brian charged that Bor- its profitable 82 billion hotel
man, 55, has lost credibility food service and real estate
with employees by seeking business
wage concessions every year Two small airlines,
since 1975. AeroMech of Clarksburg.
in New York, Trans World WVa, and Wright of
Badge pictures
slated Sunday
Pictures for badge pictures
will be taken Sunday after-
noon for all junior and senior
high students participating in
athletics, band or the squads
of cheerleading. pep and
twirling.
Mary Hamby will be at the
stadium to shoot pictures bet-
ween 2 and 4 p.m.
By REED PARBELL proximately 65 percent col-
Staff Writer lections of all ambulance
With little preliminary charges, resulting in a net
discussion, the Deaf Smith collections figure of 829.242
General Hospital District There would also be a pro-
Board of Directors Wednes- jected net loss of 943,678
day approved the hospital's
1963-1964 budget. Regarding a 9 percent in-
The budget projects crease in room charges.
84,116,512 in revenues and Bullard said they would go in:
83,979.456 in expenses, leav- to effect aa soon as approval
Ing a balance of $137,056 In was granted by Blue Cross
th. hisrb That action should come after
According to James Oct.l, he said, which la the
Bullard, hospital ad- day the new budget year
ministrator, the budget was begins
considered during about four Other assumptions made in
board meetings and at least a the budget were an 11 percent
couple of finance committee increase for loos on accounts
gatherings. 'excluding indigent care), 8
Following the board’s M percent raise in salaries and
approval, questions were a 10 percent lift for supplies,
brought up about the am- attributed to inflation,
balance budget. Bullard ox- There was aleo a brief
plained there would be ap- dincussion on medical reports
man has said the airline faces 46 airlines to the Air Line
bankruptcy unless it wins Pilots Association on groun-
8318 million in concessions ding all jetliners nationwide
from its 37,000 workers, who "for a day or two," said
cuts this year. The groundings, which
Continental, flying a bare- would follow "plenty of ad-
bones schedule since filing vance notice," would send a
fourth largest, a bigger place
in the political and social
system, which is dominated
by the Maronite Christians
and Sunni Moslems
The independent Beirut
newspaper An-Nahar, whose
publisher Ghassan Tueni is
Gemayel’s political adviser
said today the first session of
the reconciliation conference
tentatively was set for next
Wednesday or Thursday in
the Red Sea port of Jidda in
Saudi Arabia But it said the
date and site have still to be
made final
Gemayel’s government has
asked that a 600-man foreign
observation force police the
cease-fire in the central
mountains pending the out-
come of the conference
At the United Nations.
Syria told the United States
Britain. France and Italy
they should withdraw their
peacekeeping troops from
Lebanon because they are
“posing a grave threat to
security and peace” in the
Middle East
"They remind us of the col-
onalist expeditions through
previous stages of the history
of the region.” Syrian
Foreign Minister Abdul
Halim Khaddam told the
U.N General Assembly ses-
sion Wednesday
The Soviet news agency
Tass said the cease-fire was
an “indispensable step
toward restoring peace" to
the country But it accused
the United States of “aggres-
sion" in Lebanon and
demanded the withdrawal of
Israeli troops, the U.S
Marines and the rest of the
mulzinational peacekeeping
force
Tass made no mention of
the estimated 50.000 Soviet-
equipped Syrian troops occu-
pying northern and eastern
Lebanon
that, the rate would remain at Under current interpreta-
8 percent. Block said tions, farmers can more easi-
Further. farmers and ran- ly demonstate the amount of
chers who are still able to ob- looses required to qualify for
lain credit elsewhere would a loan than can ranchers and
continue to pay interest of that will be changed, said
13 75 percent under the Walt Bunch, an Agriculture
emergency loan program, he Department official
said Bunch also said it will
However, agriculture of- become easier for ranchers
ficials said that regulations and farmers to show that they
governing the loan program could not obtain credit
would also be reinterpreted in elsewhere, thus making more
an effort to make more ran- of them eligible for the reduc-
chers eligible for such loans ed rate loan program
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was reopened before a “com- airport into a military' posi-
prehensive security agree- tion from which the regime
ment" is reached. used its warplanes which at-
Public Works Minister tacked innocent civilians in
Pierre Khoury said he would the mountains. "
keep the airport closed until “Orders have been issued
the cease-fire committee to all the forces and military
“completed discussions on units to respond immediately
the issue and security ar- to such an attempt (to reopen
rangements in and around the airport to traffic i," it ad-
the airport ded.
Jumblatt’s party claimed A government spokesman
the government turned the denied the airport was used
maniac position" and
tains to 843,000 from 889.400 ing traffic. Mazor said
The 15-member Master Ex-
Soviet attacks Reagan s proposal
to vote on a strike already ap __ tinn w —
proved in straw polls by 1,300 MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet “unwillingness to conduct missiles on the continent tf
leader Yuri V. Andropov says serious talks of any kind on the Soviets dismantle some of
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the pilotstoday on strike to build NATO strength while cyTass ___ Organizal tion Planstosstar
plans. disarming Moscow, but he "In brief, we are proposed deploying the U S. missiles in
This is something we want did not reject the plan 10 talk on how to help the December nmnt ania
to march Into together." outright NATO bloc to upset to its ad- wThestate Departme wnuld
Gary Thomas, a spokesman Andropov said the Soviets vantage the balance of Wedngsdayathetwortds"oum
for the Continental pilots in were committed to “peace on medium-range nuclear be disappointed in An-
Houston, said Wednesday Earth' and termed Reagan s systems in the European <ropov'B response to
after a strike at an offer a "so-called new move" rone And this move is Reggan'sinitiativeuwg.,
unspecified date was approv- that did not significantly alter presented brazen-facedly as Tt^idUve responsnwnt •
«| by 388 pilots in Loo the U.S. stand at Geneva something new. he said
Angeles 488 in Denver and talks on limiting medium- On Monday. In a speech at their., long-standing position
w. mi range missiles the United Nations, Reagan that the Soviets will maintain
Alao scheduled today in The Soviet president and offered to halt deployment of their monopoly of, la-
Houston was a vote by Communist Party chief ac- an unspecified number of the termediate range rrussites in
representatives of pilots for eused the United States of 572 Pershing 2 and cruise Europe For our part, we will
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Nigh, Bob. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 63, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983, newspaper, September 29, 1983; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1477674/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.