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Obituaries
General Hospital after a
lengthy illness.
The Roger Mills County lengthy illness.
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He was born July 10, 1960,
homemaker and a member of
sheriff said.
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Man charged with
killing policeman
Goodman's release may be
peace offering from Syria
Three boys drown in
partially frozen pond
Commissioner says
EDB controls early
too well.”
Mayor
CHARLES MCQUIGG
Services for Charles Robert
Adams said Noah Haydon
“wasn't no braggart of
anything, but he didn’t mix
role in Lebanon. Washington (AP) — Two sixth grade boys
was angered by Syria’s and an eighth grader,
refusal to withdraw its troops described by one of their
after the Israelis agreed to teachers as “inseparable,”
Mobil would not have to
make any cash payments, but
other boys’ father left work,
and we drove to the pond.
There, we found his baby boy
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December. The thawing of frozen
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White said he had ordered EPA said the product could
extensive tests of grain-based continue to be used until the
grocery products, including challenge was resolved.
Israeli planes attack guerrillas
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A force of as many as 16
Israeli warplanes attacked pro-Iranian guerrilla bases in
east Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, Beirut radio
stations reported.
The broadcasts said the jets struck at positions of Shiite
Moslems and Iranian Revolutionary Guards in three
areas near the ancient city of Baalbek. There were no
details on casualties or damage.
The reported air strike came a day after Israeli jets at-
tacked Palestinian guerrilla bases in the central Lebanese
mountains. Also Tuesday, a gunman shot and critically
wounded the driver of France’s consul general in Beirut.
Curfew declared In Tunisia
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A dusk-to-dawn curfew was in
force, all schools closed and public gath)rings banned to-
day under a state of emergency declared following a week
of widespread street violence sparked by increased bread
Okla., native married Lena
Belle Worden on April 4, 1936,
in Hatch, N.M. They moved
to Deaf Smith County in 1946
from Hatch. He was a retired
farmer and rancher and a
member of the Hereford
Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife;
two sons, Gary of Hereford
and Roger of Guymon, Okla.;
a daughter, Darlene Thrash
of Roswell, N.M.; a brother,
sister, Mrs. Johnnie Focht of
Shattuck, Okla.; six grand-
children; and two great-
grandchildren.
remembered “a quiet family
that lived to themselves.”
All three recalled Haydon’s
fondness for guns, although
Haydon was not a frequent
hunter. Adams said the col-
lection featured weapons
Haydon had restored by
hand.
The lack of fear in the small
town could be due to what
Adams called “coffee table
talk" about the slayings. The
prevalent talk around town is
that there is not a random
killer at large, but rather a
killer who knew the family
and chose the Haydons as vic-
tims.
Morris said the three vic-
tims apparently were asleep
in the same bed when Mrs.
Haydon got up and was con-
fronted by an intruder. She
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killed in-the line of duty in
more than five years.
Pimental, a garbage collec-
tor, has been jailed on
8150,000 bond since being
taken into custody near the
scene of the shooting inci-
dent.
“The police officer is the
first line of defense against
crime in our community,”
Millsap said. “We want to see
anything and everything done
to see that they are protected
from unwarranted attacks.”
The district attorney said
his desire to seek the death
penalty was strengthened by
a brief conversation with
Ramirez’ grief-stricken fami-
ly at a rosary service last
week.
“It’s easy to be caught up in
the fact that Gilbert Ramirez
was a police officer and just
stop right there," Millsap
EMILY GIBBS
AMARILLO - Services for
Emily Gibbs, 87 of Amarillo
are pending with N.S. Griggs
& Sons Funeral Directors.
Straka seeks Mattox probe
AUSTIN (AP) — The chairman of the Texas Republican
Party has asked the Trav is County district attorney to in-
vestigate Attorney General Jim Mattox’s hiring of a tem-
porary employee to plan a fund-raising Christmas party.
Chairman George Strake said Tuesday the El Paso
Times reported on Dec. 6 that Mattox had hired Debbie
Wall to plan an office party and to help plan a December
fund-raiser at which lawyers were asked to contribute to
Mattox’s defense fund.
Mattox is under indictment for commercial bribery for
allegedly threatening to ruin a Houston law firm’s public
bond business.
“Jim Mattox used state employees, state phones, even
state pencils and paper to raise money, trying to keep
himself out of jail," Strake said in a statement.
Mattox press aide Elna Christopher said, "Strake's not
even smart enought to get elected to office, so I wouldn’t
place too much credence” in his comments.
Liquor banned at Mexican eatery
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — As part of an unusual 61
million court settlement, the owner of a popular Mexican
restaurant was ordered to stop serving liquor during the
busy New Year’s holiday weekend.
George Cortez, however, said his loyal customers at Mi
Tierra Restaurant didn’t seem to mind.
“New Year’s Day was one of the busiest days of the
year,” he said. “We’re in the food business and that's why
people come here.”
The parents of 16-year-old Daniel B. Davis had sued the
restaurant after their son died of injuries suffered in a
Jan. 16,1981, traffic accident.
The Davises said their son and other under-aged youths
were served several pitchers of margaritas at Mi Tierra
and never were asked for any proof-of-age identification.
State District Judge Peter Michael Curry settled the
lawsuit Friday, ordering the liquor ban over the four-day
holiday and awarding the Davis family 51 million.
Officials knew nothing of order
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — State prison officials
learned they had been expected to execute a convicted
murderer today after an appeals court ordered them not
to, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Corrections
said.
Prison spokesman Charles Brown said Tuesday that
Delma Banks Jr. was never in danger of being put to
death today despite an order from a court in Bowie Coun-
ty
“We didn't have any notification or any type of
documentation on it,” Brown said. “If the stay hadn’t
come through, nothing would have happened because we
didn't have any notification. ”
State District Judge Leon Pesek set the execution date
in a hearing Nov. 23. Louis Raffaelli, district attorney for
Bowie County, said he believed Pesek had sent notice of
the sentence to both the prison system and to the state at-
torney general.
It would lose its right to the "Bob” MeQuigg, 76, will be at
lease and would have to aban- 10 a.m. Thursday in Rose
don all drilling equipment Chapel of Gilliland-Watson
and records on oil and gas ex- Funeral Home with the Rev.
ploration on Manges’ il-rich George Belford officiating.
64,080-acre ranch. Burial will be in West Park
Hightower called for state
and federal controls on
ethylene diobromide (EDB),
said his department was wat-
ching the situation closely.
“We agree that tests show
there is some level in some
finished grain products, but
we don’t know how much it
affects people," Bernstein
said.
“When we find out for sure
how this affects people we
will do something about it.”
“There is no need to flog
ourselves for no good
reason,” Bernstein said.
Hightower said his demand
for action from the Texas
Department of Health and the
federal Environmental Pro-
tection Agency was based on
preliminary tests of grain-
based products in Texas
following a testing program
in Florida.
After the tests, the Florida
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to obey the curfew and tried to flee police,
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said. "But’he was also a hus-
band, he was a father, and he
was a young man with a
bright future."
Millsap said he would not
approve any plea bargain
agreement in the case, since
he hoped the capital murder
charge would act as a “deter-
rent factor” and protect other
policemen.
Ramirez was dispatched to
Pimental’s house after the
police department received a
report of two men fighting in
the front yard, reports show.
The patrolman had fired
three rounds from his .357
Magnum, according to the
police reports, and was
struck in the face and neck by
a bullet from a 12-gauge
shotgun.
The officer, who was buried
last week, is survived by a
wife and two young children.
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Shultz expressed apprecia-
tion for Jackson’s efforts in a
statement issued through his
press spokesman, John
Hughes, who said he saw no
contradiction “between the
happy outcome and the con-
cerns” voiced earlier. Shultz
and Hughes said Ambassador
Robert Paganelli also played
a key role in Goodman’s
release.
But while U.S. officials and
Mideast experts seemed to
agree that Syria's fecision to
release Goodman may
be a signal Damascus wants
Bank failures high last year
WASHINGTON (AP) - Forty-eight banks failed in 1963,
a half-dozen more than collapsed in the previous year and
the highest rate in more than four decades, bank
regulators said Tuesday.
The savings and loan industry fared better last year.
Thirty-three weak associations were merged with govern-
ment assistance, less than the record 47 posted in 1982,
federal officials said.
The high level of bank failures last year came as little
surprise to the government, which attributed them large-
ly sharply fluctuating interest rates in recent years and
the long 1981-82 recession.
With the economic recovery now under way, officials
expect conditions in the industry to improve somewhat in
1984.
Alan Whitney, spokesman for the Federal Deposit In-
surance Corp., said 48 federally insured banks failed last
year, the most since the 60 of 1939. There were 42 failures
in 1962. The insurance fund guarantees deposits up to
8100,000 in 14,800 banks.
Congress still wants marinas out
WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressional chorus seek-
ing to shorten the stay of U.S. Marines in Lebanon is turn-
ing up the volume, with Democratic Speaker Thomas P.
ONein Jr. saying the House will act if the president
doesn't and a key Senate Republican declaring the troops
are more a cause of war than an encouragement to peace.
“I believe patience in Congress with administration
policies in Lebanon is wearing very thin,” O’Neill said
Tuesday. “There is no way we are going to be idle if the
president doesn't do something within the next couple of
weeks.”
Making no changes in diplomatic or military policies in
Lebanon, said the speaker, “is absolutely
unacceptable.”
Joe H. of Arnett, Okla.; a Ricky, both of the home; his and was frozen," Anderson
Sealing Water Pipes
Hereford city maintenance
workers have kept busy repairing
broken water lines since
temperatures rose from the sub-
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For its part, Syria is frozen pond on their last day
demanding an end to U.S. of freedom before returning
reconnaissance flights over to school after the holiday
its positions. break.
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do Aguillon at Hereford; his News.
father-In-law and mother-In- A scuba diver with the
law Mr. and Mrs. Victor Mar- Grand Prairie fire depart-
“The people in Lometa are St. Andrews Episcopal
pretty calm They feel like Church.
the situation is in hand,” Mor- Her husband, Chris Gibbs,
ris said. died in 1962 and she was also
The sheriff was unsure preceded in death by two
when the slayings took place, sons, John in 1965 and Buster
The Haydons were last seen in 1975.
on Dec. 29, he said. Other survivors include a
son, Carlton of Amarillo;
MAAIIROam three daughters, Virginia
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have to pay Manges about Hall of Clarendon and Shirley
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the privilege of drilling for oil great-great-grandchildren,
and gas on the land. ---------—----
By late afternoon Monday, pond, but was too cold to
they still hadn’t returned, crawl for help and died on the
however, and parents of both bank.
boys began a hunt. Theyt Gaylord Hayes, Grand
were found dead the next day. Prairie crime analysis of-
Kevin Barnes, 12, was ficer, said the ice had begun
found frozen to death on the to thaw at the edges of the
bank of the 35-foot-wide pond, pond, but was V of an inch to
about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. An 1 inch thick at the center.
hour later, a helicopter pilot The boys apparently were
flying over the pond spotted playing about 15 feet from the
the bodies of Woody Anderson bank when they fell through,
Jr., 12, and Eddie Ray Hayes said.
Thomas, 14, who was Barnes' Anderson said he had never
stepbrother, under the ice. warned his son about playing
“They were playing on the on the frozen pond, because
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was gunned down, her hus- She died Monday
band was then shot and their Mrs. Gibbs was the mother
daughter was killed while of Ned Gibbs of Hereford,
still on the bed, according to She was bom in Ringwood,
Morris. All three were shot England, and had lived in
several times in the head, the Amarillo 35 years. She was a
Department of Agriculture all of those discovered in
removed 64 products from Florida tests.
supermarket shelves and set "There is no need for any
a state standard of one part- consumer panic, since one
per-billion of EDB as unac- box of grits won’t kill
ceptable for human consump- anyone," White said, “ but
tion. neither should we be non-
Bernstein said Florida was chalant about this health
the only state to set a stan- threat.”
dard and other states had Hightower said the Grocery
refused to set limits until Manufacturers of America, a
there was more scientific pro- national lobby group for food
of of harmful contamination. processors, admits there is
One Texas food manufac- EDB in some products, but
turer, Ben Wichter, president says the Florida standard is
of Old Tyme Foods in Dallas, too low. The GMA asserts the
said lus firm and others have products in question are safe
already taken steps to pre- and should stay on the
vent traces of the cancer- market.
causing chemical from ap- Hightower said EPA began
pearing in their products. the process to ban EDB in
“We buy our corn meal 1977, but no action was taken
from milling companies and to remove the chemical from
whem we learned of tests in the marketplace until
Florida on Oct. 15, we stopped September 1963, when EPA
using any such meal. Any of announced an emergency ban
our products since Oct. 15 are on using EDB as a soil
safe,” Wichter said in a fumigant.
telephone interview. A non-emergency ban on
Assistant Agriculture Com- using EDB as a grain
missioner Ron White said fumigant was to have taken
“significant” amounts of effect in November 1983. The
EDB have been found in each action on grain fumigants
of 10 grain-based grocery pro- was challenged by several
By R. GREGORY NOKES Secretary of State George
Associated Press Writer P. Shultz said Tuesday the
WASHINGTON (AP) — release "can only be helpful
Reagan administration of- to the course of relations bet-
ficials say Syria’s decision to ween our two countries."
release captured Navy flier Administration officials
Robert O. Goodman Jr. may tried not to appear embar-
represent a peace offering rassed that the release was
from Damascus aimed at arranged by a candidate for
avoiding future armed the Democratic presidential
clashes such as those last nomination, Jesse Jackson,
month in Lebanon that raised who the State Department
the specter of open warfare, had sought to discourage
from going to Syria to seek
Goodman’s release.
ice and fell through,” police he didn’t know one was in the
dispatcher Debbie Ware said, fields, which are about %
Cemetery under direction of ficiating. Burial will be in “He (Barnes) was crawling mile south of the
Gililland-Watson Funeral West Park Cemetery under across the field. He did freeze neighborhood both families
Home. direction of Rix Funeral to death.” live in.
Mr. McQuigg died at 8:50 Directors. Police said the pond is in an "They just went out to play,
a.m. Tuesday in Deaf Smith Mr. Aguillon died at 12:25 undeveloped area that is I didn’t know there was a
General Hospital after a p.m. Tuesday at Deaf Smith overgrown with weeds and pond there. Woody had never
brush. mentioned it,” Anderson
Woody Anderson, father of said.
one of the victims, said he mmm
and his wife searched for z-
in Monterrey, Mexico, and hours Monday night without
came to the United States finding any trace of their son.
when he was 8 years old. He “We went out walking all
married Mary Lou Martinez night. We went to his friends’
Feb. 2, 1977, in Muleshoe. He houses. I drove the car
was employed at Missouri through the fields but
Beef and was a member of couldn’t see anything. The
better relations with
Washington, they said a
significant improvement is
unlikely as long as Syria tries
to keep much of Lebanon
under its thumb.
While never warm, rela-
tions between the Reagan ad-
ministration and the Syrian
government of President
Hafez el-Assad deteriorated
sharply last year,
culminating in U.S. air
strikes against Syrian posi-
tions in Lebanon on Dec. 4
after Syrian anti-aircraft bat-
teries fired on U.S. recon-
naissanceplanes.
Lt. Goodman was a crew
member in one of two
American aircraft shot down
during the attacks.
Behind the tension is
disagreement over Syria’s
AUSTIN (AP) - State
Health Commissioner Robert
Bernstein says it is
“premature" to try to set
state standards on the use of
a cancer-causing chemical in
killing weevils while process-
ing grain products.
Bernstein, who commented
after State Agricuylture
By KRISTIN GAZLAY
Associated Press Writer
SAN ANTONIO, Texas
(AP) - The district attorney
has vowed to seek the death
penalty for a man charged
with murdering a San An-
tonio patrolman, promising
to do "anything and
everything” he can to deter
such attacks on the city’s
police officers.
Bexar County District At-
torney Sam Millsap said
grand jurors took less than 30
minutes Tuesday to indict
Gustavo Pimental, 42, on a
capital murder charge.
Patrolman Gilbert
Ramirez, 34, was shot in the
face and neck late Dec. 23
after answering a distur-
bancecall.
The officer died at an area
hospital the next day, the first
San Antonio policeman to be
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