Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 25, 1978 Page: 1 of 20
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reduced flows in the river. He
noted that the City of A.ustin
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Officers for the Howard Payne University board of trustees
have been announced by HPU President Roger L. Brooks.
Brownwood insurance executive Gene Porter will serve as
president. Dr. Doyle Sumrall Jr., pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Greenville; and the Rev. Dwayne Martin, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Sweetwater, will serve as first and
second vice presidents; and Richard Sharpe, president of the
First National Bank, Brownwood, will serve as secretary-
treasurer.
The newly elected officers will be installed in January.
Porter, a graduate of HPU, bas been serving as head of the
board since the death of Mrs. Veda Hodge.
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FUND RAISING PLANS-Brownwood Junior High student
council officers meet with Assistant Principal Walter Chandler
to discuss plans for an upcoming fund raising campaign. Money
received from the campaign will be used to buy a marble sign
for the front campus of Brownwood Junior High. Council mem-
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the treaty and progress on sol-
ving the Palestinian issue.
Justice Minister Shmuel Ta-
mir said some of his suggested
changes were accepted as in-
structions for Dayan.
If Egypt accepts the modi-
fications, Tamir said, “We will
be able to sign the agreement
with a quieter and surer heart."
The Cabinet’s decision was
reached after 5% hours of de-
bate today and 11 hours on the
previous two days.
Egypt also seeks revisions in
the 10-page draft, and is report-
ed pushing to strengthen the
proposed treaty’s link with the
Palestinian issue, dimming
hopes for an early conclusion of
the talks.
Official sources said Presi-
dent Carter cabled Begin urging
the Israelis to accept the draft,
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principle approval of the fdraft, Once agreement is reached WASHINGTON (AP)-Pres Bergland-sand Carter has
the prime minister said with Egypt in Washington, Be- 'dent Carter's new antiinflation "recognized that crop yields are
“The government approves gin said, “the final draft of the program will have little effect going to be influenced by good
peace treaty and all its annexes on prices that farmers get for and bad weather, and that
will be brought back for the ap- crops and livestock next year, weather will bring about
proval of the Cabinet and Par- Agriculture Secretary Bob Ber- changes in value that the gov-
iiament.» gland said today,. ernment can do nothing about"
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Begin refused to answer But the guidelines Carter an- Overall, farm prices are up
questions about the Cabinet de- nounced Tuesday night can an average of about 13.1 percent
cision which will send Israel’s benefit farmers by helping cool this year, according to Ag-
negotiators — Foreign Minister off expenses that they have in riculture Department calcu-
Moshe Dayan and Defense Min- producing the nation’s food sup- lations. They have been a major
ister Ezer Weirman - back to ply, Bergland said in an inter- factor in a retail food price
Washington later this week. view, increase of 10 percent over 1077,
The abstentions came from “Farmers buy more than any the biggest jump in four years.
Energy Minister Yitzhak Modal other business group in the PeiwtoMt officials say food
and Health Minister Eliezer United States, and the inflating Prices in1979 are expectedto 80
Shostak, members of a right- farm costs are one of the most “P at. “ additional 6
wing faction in Begin’s Ukud percent and that if farmers get
Bloc Shostak said he objected devastating problems they have bad weather they could rise 11
to the draft’s linkage between to reckon with,” he said. percent
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the water for hydroelectric
power generation purposes.
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E the act grants rights to cities
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Bnnd Act; and (c) the district’s ap JEFFERSON - The Texas open canal, a portion of which
Easa plication is for both industrial Water Development Board collapsed in September, 1977
I and municipal water and, the Tuesday agreed to purchase focusing attention on the urgent
S I LCRA said, “a permit for in- $1.5 million in bonds for the necessity for replacing the four-
■ • B dustrial appropriation cannot construction of an auxiliary decade-old, outmoded struc-
E be granted under the Wagstaff water supply system connecting ture.
Pwum Act” Pecan Bayou with the water Old said this morning that
aV CRMWD attorney Frank filtration plant when certain BCWID officials will meet with
V.waa Booth called Smith’s claim that conditions are met their consulting engineers,
S I the district has not shown the A battery of representatives Freese and Nichola of Fort
availability of unappropriated from the Brownwood area Worth, and representatives of
F 18 water in the river “easy to say, traveled to the TWDB hearing the Texaa Water Resources
, Ee hard to describe.” at Jefferson in East Texas seek- Committee to start pfellminary
| » The issue is a determination ing financial support from the work on the plans in order to
I • of what is "unappropriated state for the auxiliary water present them to the TWDB as
" water," Booth said. That issue system which is Phase I of the soon as possible
is for the commission to make project that will see the con- The local contingent at Jef-
on the basis of all the evidence, struction of a new 13.2-mile ferson Tuesday included: Levy
he added. closed canal connecting Lake Old, president of the board at
Booth also maintained that Brownwood with the filtration directors of the Brown County
CRMWD engineer Bob Gooch plant plus the auxiliary system Water Improvement District '
had shown that existing water that will insure adequate water No. 1; water district Directors
rights would not be impaired by in case of a canal break. Stuart Coleman, B. C.
demonstrating that there would The TWDB agreed to pur- Drinkard.W. H. Pruitt and Bob
be more water available in the chase the bonds when the Roes, water district Executive
river than is now being used. district presents the board with Director Harry Miller Jr.,
Booth also said the com- plans of the safety measures Brownwood Mayor Truman
mission should not construe the regarding the Lake Brownwood Harlow, City Manager Virgil
Wagstaff Act in a narrow sense Dam and plans for the con- Gray, Early City Councilman
and use its discretion in ap- struction of Phase II of the Marshall Garner and H. C.
plying it to the Stacy Reservoir canal project which is the ac- Lewis, a director of the
application. tual replacement of the present (See BOARD On Page 2A)
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DISMISSAL OVERRULED
Stacy opponents lose round
By LARRY SPRINGER In his motion to dismiss, On the matter of hydroelec- Doggett told the commission
Bulletin Austin Bureau Smith argued the district had trie generation, Booth agreed members his constituents in
AUSTIN—Arguing that the failed to support its application that Stacy reservoir would Burnet and Travis counties had
that the district’s application propriated to the use of the water.”
for the reservoir permit should Lower Colorado River While McDonald said the
New TWC chairman Felix stream rights holders." is helpful in helping him
McDonald and commission —That the district “has failed “crystallize” the issues in the
member Joe Carroll, however, to carry its burden of proof” case, he Joined Carroll in
overruled LCRA counsel Larry that the proposed appropriation overruling the motion.
the reservoir presented by the municipal uses of water a proposed project.
CRMWD over the past five priority over the LCRA's use of Austin State Sen. Lloyd
Water District “has failed to —That the district failed to available downstream for use their concern for the proposed
prove itself entitled to the show the availability of unap- by the LCRA for this purpose. reservoir.
issuance of a permit” for the propriated water in the “We do not deny that,” he Due to the possible effects of
proposed Stacy Reservoir, the Colorado River and further had said, adding that the issue in the the Stacy project on the
Lower Colorado River “completely failed to deal with application is “whether or not Highland Lakes, Doggett said
Authority unsuccessfully at- the question of what portion of hydroelectric power will be approval of the application
tempted to convince the Texas the flows passing the Stacy dam generated or people in West could toll “great economic
Water Commission Tuesday site have been previously ap- Texas will have drinking disaster” for the business and
Smith's four-point motion to does not impair existing water Earlier the Lake Travis Im- discharges “a great deal” of
dismiss the application, rights. provement Association, also op- sewage effluent into the river
requiring the river authority —That the district has failed posing the application, brought and, with natural flows in the
and other opponents to proceed to show it is entitled to rights several “public witnesses” river limited the quality of the
with what is expected to be a under the Lower Colorado before the commission to ex- water below Austin could be
lengthy rebuttal to the case for River Authority Act which give press their opposition to the detrimentally affected.
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BROWNWOOD AREA -
Clearing trend with
possibility of rain
diminishing tonight and
Thursday. Cool tonight with
temperature near 50, high
Thursday in lower 60s.
Maximum temperature
here Tuesday 68, overnight
low 62. Rainfall last 24 hours
ending 7 a.m. today .05 of an
inch, total for month .OS of an
inch, total for year 15.41
inches. Sunset today 6:52,
sunrise Thursday 7:48.
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Israelis approve
peace treaty draft
Negotiators back to Washington
By ARTHUR MAX In principle the draft of a peace produced a good agreement in Palestinians are to participate
Associated Press Writer treaty with Egypt which was Washington. in negotiations with Israel,
JERUSALEM (AP) - The brought before it by the delega- Under the Camp David ac- Egypt and Jordan to set an an
Israeli Cabinet voted today to tion to the peace talks in Wash- cords worked out last month, autonomous authority in the
approve in principle a draft of a ington," Begin said. Israel is to withdraw from Sinai
peace treaty with Egypt but “The govenrment approves in three years and local "est Bank and —aza stIP
accepted Prime Minister Men- the suggestions for changes of
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