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Compromise tax cut
gets final once-over
By JIM LUTHER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Reagan met with Democratic
congressional leaders today to try to settle
terms for a tax cut, while his budget chief
said Congress will be guilty of “deliberate
sabotage" if it doesn’t stand by federal
spending cuts already approved in the
House and Senate.
Reagan’s session at the White House was
described as a “last check” with the op-
position before he goes ahead with a
compromise tax cut bill endorsed by
conservative Democrats.
Joining the president were Vice
President George Bush, Treasury
Secretary Donald T. Regan and five
Democratic leaders: Speaker Thomas P.
O’Neill Jr., House Majority Leader Jim
Wright of Texas; Rep. Dan Rostenkowski
of Illinois, chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee; Senate Minority
Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia
and Sen. Russell B. Long Jr. of Louisiana,
ranking minority member of the Senate
Finance Committee.
“They’ve been here almost 30 seconds,
and they’ve all agreed," Reagan quipped
at a photo session. “It’s a good morning.”
A tax cut bill is likely this year even if
Congress and the president cannot agree
on a compromise. Congress would simply
write one a step at a time and leave it to
Reagan to accept or veto it.
The White House and the Democrats
who have so far spumed an ad-
ministration-endorsed compromise all say
they want to reach a consensus before the
Is* tax-writing committees get down to
business.
/r The committees that deal with federal
spending ceilings were getting to work on
detailed budget decisions. David A.
Stockman, director of the Office of
Management and Budget, said they are
obligated to stand by the cuts of about $35
billion that have been endorsed by
Congress.
He said at a news conference that any
deviation from those cuts “must be con-
sidered a deliberate sabotage of the ex-
pressed will of Congress and the people.”
Stockman said, budget policy already
has been settled, and Congress should
simply implement it, not try to change that
policy.
The budget resolution instructed the
committees that handle detailed
legislation to meet specific quotas for
spending cuts, and to do so by June 12. The
product is to be la reconciliation resolution,
tailoring specific programs to the
guidelines set last month.
“Our approach will be one of flexibility
on the details but insistence on honest
scorekeeping and the bottom line,”
Stockman said.
But he said the administration will be
wary of major changes in the allocation of
funds, because there are few areas left
where an increase in one program can be
offset by cuts in others.
Stockman said the budget should be
handled as a package, not in a succession
of House roll calls on separate spending
items.
On the issue of a tax cut compromise,
Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan
indicated Sunday that the president is not
likely to be in much of a giving mood in his
talks with House Speaker Thomas P.
O’Neill Jr. and others in the Democratic
leadership. . , -----
Water bond, landfill
back before council
A discussion of the sale of last Decem-
ber’s water bonds, the rescinding of the
contract to purchase property for a landfill
site, the possible purchase of another such
site and a rate increase for Cable T-V will
be considered by the Sulphur Springs City
Commission at its meeting Tuesday night.
Dan Almon, financial advisor for the
city, is expected to be present to discuss
the sale of the water bonds.
The bonds were passed in an election
last December to increase the capacity of
the Water Treatment Plant and add ad-
ditional storage and pumping capability to
the facility.
However, high interest rates have kept
the bonds from being sold and Com-
missioner Vic Brittain suggested selling
the municipal bonds to local banks and
private citizens.
Those possibilities will be discussed
Tuesday when the commission meets at 7
p.m. in the Municipal Building.
A resolution will be presented to the
commissioners to rescind a contract
between Joe Dan Kennedy and the city for
the purchase of a 45-acre tract of land.
The property was bougHt by the city at a
cost of $58,500 to locate a landfill, but
recent developments concerning coal
leases have negated the proposed use of
that property. ~
At an executive session, the com-
missioners are to again discuss the
possible acquisition of property for the
landfill.
City officials said that another piece of
property has been proposed to be used as
the landfill.
Engineer Joe Harle will meet with the
commission to discuss the Industrial
Waste Ordinance and Don McFadden of
Cable T-V System will be present to
requests rate increase.
McFadden told The News-Telegram that
he plans to request a $1 per month rate
increase and if that request is approved,
the firm will be adding at least two new
programs to the cable system.
A side yard exception will be requested
for the Marvin Thurman property at 615
College St. to build a carport and three
public hearings will be held.
A request from Roger Sewell to operate
a domino hall at 324V5 Main St. will be the
subject of one public hearing, with mid-
year revisions to the city’s budget as the
second.
The final public hearing will be on an
ordinance changing the minimum number
of required parking spaces for all new
construction in the city.
“What the president wants to finally do
with the Democratic leaders is to say,
‘Come on fellows, time’s a wasting. Are
you going to go with me or do I have to find
some other route?’” Regan said on the
ABC television program “Issues and
Answers."
One White House official, who asked not
to be identified by name, has said he views
today’s meeting as a “final check” with
the opposition party before the ad-
ministration goes ahead with a com-
promise already largely worked out with
conservative Democrats in the House.
Those House Democrats are planning a
strategy session of their own Tuesday.
Democrats on the House Ways and
Means Committee have rejected Reagan's
plan for an across-the-board, 30 percent
cut in individual income tax rates over
three years. They also turned thumbs-
down on a compromise three-year, 25
percent cut, demanding instead a one-year
reduction tilted more in favor of lower-
income Americans.
Although the tax cut remains the chief
topic of conversation in Congress, it likely
will be 10 days or so before lawmakers
actually begin writing the bill.
On other matters this week in Congress:
— A House-Senate conference will try
Tuesday to agree on the toughest federal
restrictions ever applied to abortions.
They would prohibit federally-funded
abortions for Medicaid recipients unless
the life of the mother is at stake. Medicaid
abortions no longer would be allowed for
pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
— The House will vote on several
veterans' benefit bills. One would
authorize medical treatment at Veterans
Administration hospitals for ex-
servicemen who suspect their disabilities
are related to exposure to the herbicide
Agent Orange during the Vietnam war.
—Ernest W. Lefever, President
Reagan’s prospective human-rights ad-
viser, faces more questioning Thursday by
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Democrats want to know whether $25,000
in contributions from Nestle Corp., a
manufacturer of infant formula, to
Lefever’s Ethics and Public Policy Center
were connected to the center’s distribution
of a news article favorable to Nestle. The
article defended Nestle by name against a
coalition of church groups campaigning to
restrict baby-formula marketing in poor
countries.
Local plant pioneers
new bottling process
Sulphur Springs’ Borden Inc. plant soon
will become the first company in the
United States to offer aseptically
processed orange juice.
The new process extends the shelf life of
the product without need for refrigeration,
company officials said.
The announcement concerning the
planned introduction of the product later
this month was announced in the June 1
quarterly report to shareholders, who
were advised also of their 285th con-
secutive dividend.
The quarterly report said that equip-
ment is begig installed at Borden’s
Sulphur Springs plant to aseptically
process sterile fruit Juices as well as to
process conventional refrigerated fruit
Juices. Test marketing will take place In
Tbs aasptic process was approved by the
Federal Food and Drug Administration in
JMtofjr, and involves the use of a
stsriltaed paper cartes laminated with
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six months without refrigeration.
The process also retains the nutritive
value, flavor and quality of the juice, the
company said, in that the high*1
temperature, short-time (HTST)
pasteurization is the same as that used for
fresh milk.
The report noted that Borden for more
than 15 years has been marketing asep-
tically processed egg nog, mads at its
plant in Fond du Lac, Wis. The product,
however, is packaged in a metal container
that is heat sterilised. The process to be
used at Sulphur Springs is the first em-
ploying coated paper containers.
The Sulphur Springs plant will have an
initial annual capacity of nearly five
million gallons of Juice - half aseptically
procesaed and half refrigerated. The plant
currently proceaaes cultured dairy
products such as yogurt and cottage
The aasptic Jukes will be sold in l-ttler
(1J8 quarts i
latter to be packed with a
promoted as a
to he offered are
Month begins
on damp note
The Northeast Texas skies didn’t
waste much time getting back to what
has become “normal" as a new month
began Monday.
After a sunny weekend which
capped one of the wettest Mays in
recent Hopkins County history, skies
gummed back up again on June 1 and
a heavy thunderstorm dumped more
than a half-inch of rain on the city at
midmoming.
Clouds remained threatening at
noon, with more thunderstorms ex-
pected throughout the day. Monday’s
mid-morning storm dumped .58 of an
inch of rain in The News-Telegram
rain gauge near downtown in less than
45 minutes’ time.
Forecasters with the National
Weather Service said scattered
thunderstorms were anticipated
throughout the afternoon and early
evening hours Monday and for all of
Tuesday hi Hopkirti County before the
sun returns.
An Improvement in the weather
outlook is seen for Wednesday-
through Friday, however. The
weather service says skies should be
partly cloudy and temperatures in the
80s, with no mention of rainfall in the
extended outlook.
Hopkins County residents said
goodbye to soggy May with outdoor
activities and sunburns over the
weekend as the mercury climbed
under mostly sunny skies. Saturday’s
high was 87 degrees, with 84 recorded
for Sunday’s maximum.
Saturday and Sunday represented
the first fully rain-free weekend since
the first of May. During the month,
rain was recorded on 18 of the 31 days,
with a monthly accumulation of 11.54
inches of moisture.
Monday morning's tow at the of-
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The halls of Sulphur Springs High School are empty, the
teachers' rooms all locked and silence echos along the corridors
— but in the office of the huge complex, work carries on. Linda
Maeker, attendance secretary, along with other office workers
at the school are still on the job finishing up the 1VS041 records
and getting ready ter the 1VB1-B1 sc’ hoot year. Mrs. Maeker
received some assistance from Merdel f Hall, a senior nest year,
who did some of the typing white Mrs . Maeker worked on other
records.
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Legislators hustle to
beat session deadline
By LEE JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Like
procrastinating students with a term
paper deadline, the 67th Legislature
worked frantically today to finish major
tasks before the clock stops the regular
session at midnight.
Important bills were stuck in House-
Senate conference committees as the
result of the two chambers’ failure t<>
agree on them during the first 139 days of
the 140-day session.
A special session was widely predicted
because of the possibility of deadlocks on
such legislation as congressional
redistricting and regulation of doctors.
One essential task appeared likely to be
completed with little difficulty: passage of
the $26.6 billion general appropriation bill
to finance public schools, highways, state
universities, welfare, parks, mental health
programs, prisons, regulation of business
and other state services for 1982-83.
When lawmakers gathered this morning
for their last day of legislating, these high-
priority bills remained in conference:
— Redrawing districts for electing
Texas congressmen, including the three
new ones received as a result of population
gains shown by the 1980 census. Failure to
pass a bill would certainly cause a special
session.
- A guaranteed method for financing
the construction, equipment and library
needs of state colleges outside the
University of Texas and Texas A&M
systems. Gov. Bill Clements says a special
session might result from failure toad.
— Continuation of state regulation of
doctors. Speaker Bill Clayton feels
strongly enough about how it should be
done that he broke legislative precedent
Sunday and appointed himself as one of the
five House conferees. He was respi -risible
for a provision in the House bill ending the
long-standing prohibition against the
administration of drugs by optometi ists.
— Expanding bilingual education, which
now slops at the third grade, to all
elementary grades, with additional
programs through high school for students
who need help learning English.
— Eliminating various problem s in the
1979 Property Tax Code, which takes full
effect next year.
Both chambers of the Legislature
worked Sunday , passing bills by the
dozens.
Results of some of the session's work
over the weekend will show up in the lives
of ordinary Texans, if Clements signs all
the bills that were passed.
—Detailed stories inside—
Probably the most dramatic change for
some will be the requirement that all
motorists buy auto liability insurance that
would pay up to $20,000 m hospital bills and
$5,000 for repairs. About a fourth of all
Texas drivers are uninsured.
The auto insurance bill would require
Texans to show proof of insurance on
demand of a policeman and provide
criminal penalties, with a minimum $7j
Time running out on
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’plow tax' exemption
Hopkins County farmers and ranchers,
who have received some relief from
livestock and poultry property taxes
during this legislative session, will
probably have to wait another two years
before the property tax on farm im-
plements ends.
The Texas House of Represenatives May
28 passed and sent to the Senate a bill
(House Joint Resolution 121) calling for an
amendment to the Texas Constitution
which would authorise laws exempting
implements of husbandry from property
taxation.
The bill, introduced by representative
L.P. (Pete) Patterson of Lamar County, if
passed by the Senate would place the
amendment on the Nov. 3 election ballot.
But the bill has raadted the SeMte in the
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observers, but that session woukl be
devoted to cleaning up majoir bills, still
pending as regular session deadline n ears.
The implements tax bill, euiTently in a
Senate committee, “most likely wil’i die in
session," Tom Witt, chief appraiser for the
Hopkins County Property Afipraisal
District, said.
The bill was introduced in relation to
H.J.R. 49 placing a constitutional amen-
dment on the November ballot e xempting
livestock and poultry bom all taxation
until a two-thirds vote of feth Immms of the
Legislature directs otherwise; .and House
Bill 111 exempting from property taxation
any farm products including Uitetaock and
poultry.
H.l. Ml. signed by Govaruar BM
Jan L 1M2 If (he constitutional amend-
ment, natter tU R * passes to
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fine for dr ivinj' without coverage.
Another bill would outlaw scalping of
tickets L i entertainment events and b<th
college a nd professional sports, and back
up the prohibition with fines starting at
$50
Parents were told by the Legislature mi
Sunday that if their children over 12
vandalize 'property, their liability is $15,000
per act of destruction. The present limit is
$5,000
Other bills sent to the governor on
Sunday included measures that would:
— Lf .-t the State Insurance Board set
maximum rates for credit insurance,
which pays a debt if the borrower dies or
becomes disabled.
— Clear the way for doctors to prescribe
dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) but require
them to tell patients the U^. Food and
Dr ug Administration has not approved It
as. a medicine.
— Require smoke detectors in apart-
ments and other rented dwellings
Pair jailed
in murder of
ex-resident
ADDISON — A Michigan couple charged
with the 1978 slaying of a businessman and
his companion are in Addison City Jail in
lieu of $108,000 each after being arrested
May 8 in Detroit.
Robert A. Poyner, 44, and his wife Una
Cheryl, 33, were returned to Addisor
Saturday after being indicted March 8 by «
Dallas County’ grand Jury for the shooting
deaths of Gerald Davis, 52. and tvana
Gray, 20. a former Sulphur Springs
resident.
The victims, each shot four tomes in the
chest and head, were fautd Friday, May
10.1978 at 2:& p.m., to a Bent Tree Oaks
apartment.
Addison police sab) at the tome titat the
couple were found dead by a maid at the
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had been dead at (CM two days when
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