Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 107, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1979 Page: 1 of 20
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Volume 79 .107
February 15. 1979
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asked for a council review in six
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st television review committee
who were absent at Tuesday's
cally televised toast, it seemed made a motion at Tuesday's lived up to its promise to Tuesday's meeting that if the
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Thursday
Poor said bearing
brunt of speed limit
State Department of Highways and the City of
Brownwood have decided to channelize Fisk
by constructing a raised concrete curb,
causing northbound traffic to curve to the left
just before reaching Mata. This will leave
Head's staff is surveying 500 tickets
selected at random by the Department
of Public Safety and will see if any con-
clusions can be drawn, he added.
Head said fuel could be saved more
efficiently by other methods than
cutting back speed, and the speed limit
is broken so routinely that it may not
cut loss of life.
STOP, DON'T YIELD—A traffic sign change
has taken place at the Intersection of Fisk and
Main at the traffic circle. Northbound traffic
on Fisk must now come to a stop at Mata
rather than yield into the traffic flow. The
Gov. Bill Clements said last week he
opposed any plan to raise the speed
limit because Texas could lose $300
million annually in federal highway
funds. Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby added his
opposition to the speed limit proposal
Wednesday.
Head said his proposal to raise the
speed limit is designed to return to
Texas “the right to exercise the
privilege that I think should be
regulated at the state level”
Texans escape the 55 mph limit because
they are more likely to use planes for
long distance travel or can hire an at-
torney to fight a speeding ticket
“I’ve thought for a long time that
middle income and poor people pay
most of the tickets," he said.
By SOLL SUSSMAN
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Rep. Fred
Head has begun a survey he hopes will
show that middleincome and poor
Texans bear the brunt of the 55 mph
speed limit.
His bill that would raise the limit to 70
mph was sent to a House subcommitee
Wednesday night after Head, D-Athens,
called for an end to federal highway
“blackmail."
Federal officials have warned that
any state deciding to disregard the
lower limit faces loss of highway funds.
“Somebody's got to have the con-
frontation. I don’t know anybody better
than a bunch of Texans to do that,”
Head told the House Transportation
Committee.
Also sent to a subcommittee for more
study was a proposal to forbid in-
surance penalties and drivers’ license
suspensions for speeding violations
between 55 and 70 mph.
Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, the
bill's sponsor, said paying the speeding
ticket is punishment enough. “I don't
think it ought to come back to you,” he
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committee and television cable
officials
Clements' motion on the
Sunday and upper 40s to lower
50s Monday
Brownwood remains above
the rainfall curve for the month
and the year so far A total of
1.63 inches of precipitation has
been recorded this month, .83 of
an inch above normal. Rainfall
for the year is now 3.17 inches,
.74 of an inch over the 2.43 in-
ches normally received in the
first 46 days of the year.
should be in the lower in mid
30s, upper 30s to lower 40s
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this. It would not serve anyone's
cause."
The Energy Department veto
of the gas deal so angered Mex-
ican officials that Foreign Min-
ister Santiago Roel called U.S.
Energy Secretary James R.
Schlesinger a liar.
“Having high-ranking Mexi-
can officials calling high-rank-
ing American officials liars cer-
tainly doesn't help things," the
Carter aide said. “Whether it
detracts from anything remains
to be seen.”
sumption. I would hope they
don’t get carried away with
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the three-man committee ap- Manley Webb, the other
pointed to study the rate in- members of the mayor’s
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Jackets visit
equally apparent he wanted to council meeting that would provide additional services to cable company fails to live up to council meeting, are expected
deliver a message to Carter. block an automatic rate hike to its customers. its promise to perform he would to be present Friday and report
in essence, he called for an television cable users by $1.50 Cable company officials have consider negotiating the 75-cent on the meeting between the
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in Tehran. You are allowed one
suitcase per person. Evacuation
planes will begin flying 17 Feb-
ruary.”
“Phase three” appeared to
refer to the recommended
evacuation of virtually all
Americans in the country. The
embassy cannot order Ameri-
cans to leave unless they are
employed by the U.S. govern-
ment or are government de-
pendents.
Ambassador William Sulli-
van, briefly held prisoner along
with 101 other Americans by
gunmen who stormed the em-
bassy Wednesday, told one tele-
phone caller: “We can’t do
anything until Saturday or Sun-
day. We’re on an evacuation
status if we can get people out.
We can’t get anyone out yet"
He advised the caller to stay
indoors and off the streets. “I
wouldn’t go out if I were you,"
he added.
The embassy resumed limit-
ed operations with a skeleton
staff following Wednesday’s
raid. The big problem was
e communications since the gun-
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COLD
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By LASH LASHBROOK
Bulletin Staff Writer
A new temperature record
was set Wednesday, in keeping
with the theme color of St.
Valentine’s Day—red. The Sun
blazed down on Central Texas
causing the mercury in
Brownwood to climp to 90
degrees.
The official U.S. Weather
Service forecast had called for a
maximum in the upper 70s for
Wednesday. However, a shaft of
warm Gulf air moved over the
state in advance of a cold front
causing the temperature to
Although Lopez Portillo customers of Brownwood granted the cable company and
a%
Councilman Ferris Clements months to see if the cable firm crease request, said
climb rapidly during the af-
ternoon hours.
The 90-degree mark was
reached shortly after 3 p.m. in
downtown Brownwood and
remained at that figure for
about an hour. The mercury
reading at the official USWS
observation station at the
Indian Creek Road Fire Station
was noted at 69 degrees shortly
after 4:15 p.m. on its way down
from the record mark.
The new record breaks the old
mark of 69 degrees that was last
reached in 1943 and also
recorded in other years
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them at a right angle with Mata and provide
better viewing of the road.
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Brownwood, Taxes 76801
end to paternalistic or patron- on Feb. 20. said they plan to add an ad- increase he suggested at this
izing attitudes on the part of the Brownwood Television Cable ditional channel that will time, and possibly suggest
United States and a submerging filed for the rate increase last primarily carry quality motion imposing additional financial
of prejudices on both sides of October. Under law, the council pictures and sports events that sanctions against the firm
temperature near 80 degrees
today, the mercury is expected
to drop into the mid to upper 20b
tonight and climb into the upper
30s Friday.
According to the short-range
weather outlook, February’s
low temperature reading of
zero, set in 1951, is not
threatened.
For the weekend, the-USWS is
calling for a chance of freezing
rain or snow for Saturday
followed by a warming trend
and decreasing cloudiness
Sunday and Monday.
High temperature Saturday
City moves to assure improvements
By LASH LASHBROOK deny the request. If no council via satellite. In addition, the realizes that the cost of
Bulletin Staff Writer action is taken, the rate hike cable will carry Channel 39 everything is on the upswing, •
The Brownwood City Council would automatically go into KXTX, Dallas, Independent, but that he is not in favor of
This official insisted the will meet in a special session at effect at the end of the 120-day and Channel 13 KERA, Dallas, granting any increases in costs
Energy Department gave Mexi- 3 p.m. Friday at city hall to period, Feb. 20. Public Broadcasting System, that are passed on to Brown-
co ample advance warning that consider steps that would help Clements' motion Tuesday fulltime rather than on the split wood residents without their
it found the asking price for its insure a programmed updating called for one-half of the viewing time used currently, receiving something in return,
gas too high. of television viewing offered to requested increase, 75 cents, be Clements, who is a member of Councilman Bert Massey and
Firms encouraged to
welcome Connollys
Brownwood businesses today were challenged to allow em-
ployees to attend John B. Connally's Brownwood visit at 10 a.m.
Friday, Feb. 23, in the Brownwood Coliseum. .
Dr. Guy Newman, co-chairman of the event, encouraged all
businesses to provide their employees an opportunity to hear the
first announced presidential candidate to ever visit Brownwood
by maintaining a minimum work force during this 30 to 40
minute period. •
Brownwood is one of the smaller communities the Connallys
will visit on the 24 Texas city tour. It is predicted that the Brown-
wood reception will be larger per capita than the metropolitan
cities Connally’s tour will visit Friday such as Abilene, Midland
and Odessa.
Governor Connally announced his presidential candidacy at
the Washington, D.C. Press Club on Jan. 24. Connally began his
40 year political career in 1939, during which time he served as
Secretary of Navy before serving three terms as governor of
Texas from 1963 to 1969 He served as secretary of the treasury
in 1971 and 1972. He again became a member of the Foreign In-
telligency Advisory Board from 1972 to 1977, before resuming his
senior partnership in Vinson and Elkins in Houston in 1973.
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ident Carter and Mexican Pres- strain on relations between the "respectful, fair and worthy His objections seemed di-
ident Jose Lopez Portillo began United States and its neighbor treatment,” and warned reeled less at Lopez Portillo’s
a second round of talks today south of the border, against “sudden deceit,” an ap- call for fair and equitable treat-
following a public scolding of After a cordial but restrained parent reference to a natural- mentandmoretthersectione
the United States by Lopez Por- welcome for Carter on Wednes- gas deal cancelled by Washing- of his toast at a luncheon for the
tillo. day, Lopez Portillo surprised ton last year. Carters
The two leaders met today in and irritated U.S. officials by U.S. Embassy officials ex- F •omn. i.. p ..
“Los Pinos,” the Mexican pres- criticizing the United States in pressed surprise at Portillo’s s. m6 "anP, -oPePortpo
ident’s elaborate official resi- remarks at a luncheon meeting sharp language. Even stronger Energy Department veto of a
privately negotiated U.S. pur-
chase of Mexican natural gas
when he told Carter:
“Among permanent, not cas-
ual neighbors, surprise moves
and sudden deceit or abuse are
poisonous fruits that sooner or
later have a reverse effect"
Given the often-stormy his-
tory of U.S.-Mexican relations,
the White House official said: “I
suppose a certain amount of this
is permissible for home con-
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By FRANK CORMIER dence, for a discussion of oil, which were televised in Mexico, reaction came from a high
Associated Press Writer illegal aliens, trade and other Lopez Portillo asked that the White House official who asked
MEXICO CITY (AP)-Pres- issues which are putting a United States give his country not to be identified.’
BROWNWOOD AREA -
Increasing cloudiness and
much colder tonight with the
temperature in the mid to
upper 20s. High Friday in the
- upper 30s.
Maximum temperature
here Wednesday 90, over-
night low 54. Sunset today
6:21, sunrise Friday 7:19.
said.
Head maintained that wealthier
has 120 days to either grant or are beamed from Atlanta, Ga. The councilman said he
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previous to that
However, the unseasonably
warm weather is due for a short
life. The USWS calls for severe
drop in temperatures tonight
and Friday as an Arctic cold
front moves down out of the
Texas Panhandle and is ex-
pected to cover the entire state
by mid-day Friday.
Householders who have
moved plants outdoors to take
advantage fo the unusually
warm weather should take
precautions to prevent them
from freezing tonight.
After an anticipated high
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By ROBERT H. REID men shot up the switchboard time they left their homes until
Associated Press Writer and the embassy staff de- they took off. With anti-Ameri-
TEHRAN, Iran ( AP) — The stroyed other equipment to can feeling running high among
U.S. Embassy admitted today keep it from being captured, leftist supporters of the revolu-
it “cannot protect American Informed sources said a Pan tion and thousands of weapons
lives in Tehran” and announced American jetliner was in Bah- in their hands, there was a
plans for emergency evacuation rain, 600 miles south of Tehran strong possibility of attacks on
flights Saturday as heavy fight on the Persian Gulf, ready to the way to the airport or at the
ing was reported for the third fly out Americans if the gov- field.
day in the northwest city of ernment of Prime Minister mu. EmEn.a,
Tabriz. Mehdi Bazargam gave its per- The British Embassy said
Iranian journalists reported mission. The government Roya lAirForee.p anesalso
hundreds killed in factional closed Tehran’s International were stasnd ingtoflout0060
fighting Tuesday and Wednes- airport along with all frontier “ the111800 rttonssbemeveddem
day in Tabriz, Iran’s fourth crossing points last Sunday, but inTehran -Ansembassy spokes
largest city. Radio Tehran said Khomeini has ordered all work- .. id . hoped fligh
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42 more were killed in three ers including those in civil
southern cities Wednesday as aviation to return to their jobs Y
the new government installed Saturday after months of U.S. officials in Washington
by Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho- strikes which helped drive the said 1,700 of the nearly 7,000
meini’s revolution struggle to shah from the country. Americans still in Iran were
establish control over the coun- Today was a national holiday ready to leave immediately
try. marking the death of the They said the government
"We are in phase three of Prophet Mohammed and Fri- hoped to reduce those remain-
emergency evacuation,” an em- day is the Moslem Sabbath. ing to no more than 2,000 gov-
bassy statement read to anx- The embassy feared for the ernment officials, businessmen,
ious U.S. citizens said. "We safety of its evacuees from the teachers and others.
cannot protect American lives
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