Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 256, Ed. 1 Monday, May 28, 1979 Page: 1 of 20
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DENTON TEXAS. MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 28, 1979
20 Pages in 2 Sections
TOTH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE — NO. 256
Legislative
Truckers boycott Denton fuel pumps
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Release of 16 Arab prisoners meets peace pledge
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fastpitch softball title. Fans are invited to welcome
the team at the new TWU gym on Bell Avenue
between midnight and 1 a.m. Story, Page IB.
Driver said it was a good as*
sumption that when the bolt broke, it
allowed a support pin either to come
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Grapevine
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of “minor security offenses "
The nam<*s of those released were
not given and the radio said seven of
them were on their way to El Arish
The remainder were expected to
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travel were reported normal in
Chicago on Sunday, although a TWA
spokesman said some persons were
asking what type of aircraft would be
used TWA does not use DC- 10s.
There are currently about 275 DC-
10s in use by 41 airlines, said a
spokesman for McDonnell Douglas,
The FAA was expected to Issue a
directive today calling for pecial
inspections of many, and possibly all,
DC-10s, according to FAA spokesman
Jerome Doolittle.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime
Minister Menachem Begin, making
good a pledge hi' made to President
Anwar Sadat today reteased iff Arab
prisoners held on security charges,
Israel Radio reported
The radio said 10 of them had been
detained on various charges for of
fenses against Israeli security and six
it was the second major step in the
implementation of the Egyptian-
Israeli peace treaty signed March 26.
The first was the return of El Arish
and 425 square miles of the Sinai to
Egypt Friday, the start of Israel’s
final withdrawal over a three-year
period from the desert peninsula it
captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War,
and the simultaneous start of Egyp-
tian-Israeli negotiations for Pal-
estinian autonomy in the Gaza Strip
and the West Bank of the Jordan
River, two other territories captured
by Israel in 1967.
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announced they would meet again in
Egypt in July
Moderates and hardliners of the
Arab world, meanwhile, repudiated
the three-way talks between Israel,
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crashed and killed 273 people as it took off from
Chicago's O’Hare airport Friday. The bolt was found
8,000 feet down the runway from where the flight took
off, Driver said.
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whim a bomb exploded on a public
beach in the Israeli port city of Haifa,
Israel Radio reported
secretary of State Cyrus Vance
joined the Egyptian and Israeli
leaders for a day of ceremonies and
talk's Sunday in El Arish, the Sinai
capital returned to Egypt on Friday,
in Beersheba, the capital of Israel's
Negev, and on a flight over parts of
Israel and Sinai to symbolize the
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Thunderstorms
DENTON AND VICINITY — Mostly
cloudy with scattered thunder-
storms across the area today and
tonight. A few storms possibly
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W’ashlTi'groh Post is sayinghe planned ’’W’iSr brfMk. Safety board officials
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Egypt and Israel are open," Begin
announced after an initial 15-minute
talk with Sadat. "Citizens of Egypt
will be abl to visit Israel, and citizens
of Israel will be able to visit Egypt "
Despite the declaration, procedures
for travel across the border were still
to be worked out. Such travel was
expected to be limited for some time
to exchanges sponsored by the two
governments.
could live with 50 to 60 a gallon. .
but it’s awful hard to make a living
with prices where they are now."
Fuel limits for the drivers present
costly time delays
"When you get 4 to 5 miles per
gallon, you can’t go very far on 60
gallons of fuel," Godby said
For drivers such as Godby and the
Detroit driver, fuel prices are im
portant to their living since they pay
for their own fuel
"I contract with the company I
drive for," the Detroit driver ex
jetliners, and was considering an
order to ground them.
American Airlines mechanics in-
spected the engine-support systems
on a dozen of the 30 DO10s in its fleet
over the weekend, said airline spokes-
man Art Jackson. All were found “in
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severe. Decreasing cloudiness
Wednesday, with partly cloudy skies
and cooler temperatures through
Friday. Possible storms again
Thursday. Temperatures should
cool to a low in the mid 50s later in
the week.
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try again Monday night, but it won’t
work without more truckers’ sup-
port," he said.
Teamsters, members of the
powerful trucking union, have yet to .
support any boycott of diesel fuel.
Godby said most Teamsters are
hourly wage earners hauling for
companies and not responsible for
paying their own fuel.
"We don’t need the Teamsters.
That’s the problem with the country
now. The oil companies and the
unions control the country," he said.
good shape,” he said, and the rest of
the planes were to be cheeked today.
The inspection calls foowed the
recovery Sunday of the 3-inch bolt,
part of the assembly that held an
engine to the plane.
A fatigue crack in the bolt caused
the engine to drop from the left wing
upon takeoff, officials said. "We know
if (the bolt) had been cracked for
some time," Driver said.
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John Godby of Denton stands at one of the Denton truckstops where he held at the Skelly and Union 78 stations on Interstate 35, protested the
helped organise a 26-hour boycott this past weekend. The boycotts, high cost of diesel fuel.
engine-mounting points on the
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return to their homes in the occupied
West Bank of the Jordan or the Gaza
Strip
When they met Tn El ArishSunday.
Begin told Sadat that he would “take
steps to free a number of prisoners
whose release would not impair
Israel’s security
Sadat and Begin also declared the
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CHICAGO (AP) - The discovery
that a broken bolt caused an engine to
fall from the American Airlines
jetliner involved in the nation’s worst
air disaster has prompted the plane’s
manufacturer and U.S. safety in-
vestigators to call for Inspection of
other DC-1Os for similar defects
Federal Aviation Administration
head Langhorne Bond reportedly was
considering grounding all DC-10s now
in service following Friday’s accident
at O’Hare International Airport.
All 271 persons aboard American
—Flight 191 and-4wo persons on the
ground were killed vhen the wide-
body aircraft lost an engine, flipped,
crashed and burned shortly after
takeoff.
An order grounding the planes
likely would create problems for air
travelers completing their Memorial
Day weekends.
Requests for reservations for air
Elwood Driver," vice chairman of the National
Transportation Safety Board, holds the fractured 3-
inch thrust link attach bolt which caused an engine to
n fall tror the American Airlines DC-18 jetliner that
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governor in over a century, told the
largely Democratic lawmakers to
count on a special session if they
rejected initiative and referendum.
Speaker Bill Clayton says he
believes the session has taken a bad
rap for serving special Interests and
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"When the dust settles, the session
has done a heck of a lot of work and
accomplished major feats in terms of
the problems before us,” he told
reporters.
. Some of the session’s loudest
quarrels were over raising home loan
interest rates, changing the Deceptive
Trade Practices Act, stripping cities
of the right to regulate electric rates
and allowing auto dealers to charge
"documentary fees.”
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Investigators were checking the
possibility that when the engine rolled
over the wing — as it is designed to do
’ in the event of a separation — it hit a
critical portion of the aircraft’s wing,
fuselage or tail, causing the plane to
veer out of control
spur action
By JESS BLACKBURN
staff Writer
Unable to sustain support for a
boycott of diesel fuel, local truckers
'moved their tractors and trailers
from blocking the fuel pumps at the
Skelly and Union 76 truckstops on
Interstate 35 around 6 p m Sunday,
planning to resume the boycott
tonight at midnight
The boycott to protest the rising
costs of diesel fuel lasted 26 hours in
For more stories on the gas
situation, see Page 2A.
Denton, according to one supporter,
and was sim Harto f uel boycotts held—
in Dellas and other cities this
weekend
"The folks here at the truckstop
have been very cooperative," said
one Detroit trucker, who hesitated a
few moments before asking that his
. name not be used. .
"If my company sees my name in
the paper it’ll probably cost me my
job Not that they support the high
fuel costs, they'd just see me as an
- instigator of trouble," he said
When support by the truckers for
the boycott had dwindled by late
Sunday afternoon truckers moved
thetr rigsan<ropimSrl the pumps
The folks here at the truckstop
asked us to move the trucks since
support was falling off But they did
, not demand that we move them
They have been very understanding
of our problems. " he said
The problems for the truckers, as
most other motorists are also facing
tn light of fuel shortages and gradual
oil price deregulation, are rising fuel
costs and limits being placed on the
amount of fuel they can purchase
"Four to five months ago I was
paying 40 to 50 cents per gallon for
diesel fuel," John Godby of Denton
said “Now I’m paying anywhere
from 80 cents to 51 14 for gas We
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final day
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The 66th
Legislature’s regular session, ac-
cused of serving special interests and
made livelier by the "Killer Bee". .
saga and the novelty of a Republican
governor, comes to an end tonight.
No matter how much unfinished
business it has, the session must end
at midnight. The Texas Constitution
says so.
A pile of major bills awaited final .
action in each chamber, including a
620.2 billion 1960-81 state budget, a $1.2
billion school finance bill that raises
teachers’ pay 5.1 percent and
legislation carrying out the 1978 Tax
Relief Amendment.
The House argued for more than an
hour Sunday night about the proposed
compromise on tax relief but put off a
1 final decision until today.
Meanwhile, efforts by Gov. Bill
Clements for a constitutional
amendment giving Texas governors
more “budget execution" got a new
breath of life Sunday. Earlier, it ap-
peared doomed when Sen. Gene
Jones, D-Houston, a Killer Bee,
blocked a committee hearing.
Jones relented Sunday, saying he
owed Clements a “silver bullet," and
withdrew his objections. The com-
mittee met and quickly cleared the
measure for Senate debate today — if
enough senators want to discuss it.
Clements put on a big push for the
budget management proposal and
succeeded in the House, which only
Friday sank his wiretapping and
initiative and referendum proposals.
The measure would give the
governor limited power to shuffle
money among agencies to meet un-
foreseen needs and block ex-
penditures he deemed needless or
excessive.
Defeat of Clements’ initiative and
referendum proposal means ad-
journment of the regular session
won’t end the 66th Legislature’s
labors.
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plained. “They own the truck, but I merchandise will go up and people
work on a commission basis and get won’t be able to afford things. We’d
40 percent of what I haul for the be cutting our noses off in spite of
company and anything extra I can our faces. No, fuel prices are going
load. But I pay for all the mainte- to have to go down for Everyone’s
nance, fuel everything to keep the benefit."
truck running Godby said he hopes to resume the
On a recent run to Califorma and boycott tonight at midnight.
back, the Detroit driver spent more •We held them (the pumps) pretty
than $400 in fuel well until they let them go down in
It’s got to stop somewhere," he Dallas (Sunday afternoon) We just
said “We could raise the tariffs on couldn’t keep enough truckers
shipping, but then the price of the together then to keep going. We'll
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WEATHER REPORT
Low this morning 72
High Sunday 87
Low Sunday 76
-"High last year 82
Low last year as
The sun sets today at 8:33; it rises
Tuesday at 4:27.
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Egypt and The United States on self opening of air traffic between the two
rule for the Palestinians' countries
in another development, a young “The president and I proclaim here
woman was slightly injured today from El Arish that the borders of
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