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2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Tuesday, May 6,1980.
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No riot, fust the season opening
More then MO boys end about SO adults turned out on the field at Eagle Stadium for
the official opening of the Hopkins County Boys Baseball Association season late
last week. The teams, named for their sponsors, were called onto the field with the
starjpSalmost filled with parents and supporters of tile program. Boys between the
atfes of 7 and 16 participate in the summer activities.
—SUM Photo
Carter, Reagan near nomination
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By WALTER R.MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
With Edward Kennedy and
George Bash admitting that it
looks like “a bad day for us,"
three states and the District of
Columbia are parceling out
their presidential nominating
delegates today.
The results from Indiana,
North Carolina, Tennessee and
the Capital seem almost certain
to lift President Carter and
Ronald Reagan closer to
clinching their spots atop rival
White House tickets.
Carter and Kennedy are
going after 223 Democratic
delegates today, with Reagan
and Bush pursuing 140
Republican votes.
In addition, Colorado began a
long process Monday night that
will result in awarding 40
Democratic and 31 Republican
delegates. But the outcome
there won't be known for weeks.
The president’s strategists
predicted that after tonight’s
results and Colorado’s outcome,
Carter will have close to 90
percent of a nominating
majority lined up or committed.
Carter already has 1,137 of
the 1,666 delegates he needs for
renomination. Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy has 654.
Republican Reagan was in an
even more commanding
position, with 636 of the 998
delegates he needs. Former
United Nations Ambassador
George Bush, hisjjtev>MFviv>nk
rival, has only 1386rclegcrtek
“Tuesday is going to be a bad
day for us," Bush conceded on
the eve of the primaries. He
can’t afford many bad days, for
Reagan is within reach of the
majority that would guarantee
.him the GOP nomination.
Bush wouldn’t guess at his
share of today’s delegates, but
he acknowledged it will be a
minority. He campaigned hard
in North Carolina and in Ten-
nessee, but both are rated
Reagan states.
Bush had one safe bet:
Reagan is not entered in the
District of Columbia primary.
That also was the most
promising territory for
Democrat Kennedy; he cam-
paigned there Monday and
accused Carter of adopting an
“inhumane policy” that relies
on increasing unemployment to
curb inflation;
“1 just hope the people here
who aren't satisfied will send
the Carter administration a
message on primary day,”
Kennedy said at a Washington
unemployment office. “Help us
out.”
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A top Kennedy aide
acknowledged that it didn’t look
good in the two southern states,
or in Indiana. "Our prospects
just aren't very good in those
states,” said Richard C.
Drayne, an assistant to Ken-
nedy.
But Kennedy strategists also
insisted it was the last primary
day they would face with the
odds heavy against them. There
are 16 to go, on four successive
Tuesdays.
However, Carter is in position
Hightower eyes future
By LEE JONES ' hlin in the future despite his loss
Associated Press Writer to Jim Nugent in Saturday’s
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Jim race for railroad commissioner.
Hightower says Texans can “We are not going to go
expect to see and hear more of away,” said Hightower, who
Ozark airlines hit
by mechanic strike
ST. LOUIS (AP) -
Mechanics for Ozark Air Lines
went on strike early today after
rejecting a proposed 36-month
contract, and the airline
suspended its flights in 20 states
through May 12.
The walkout came after a
last-ditch negotiating session
that collapsed at 2:50 a m.
Ozark spokesman Charles R.
Ehlert said representatives of
the Aircraft Mechanics
Fraternal Association rejected
a final wage proposal during a
three-hour meeting with
company officials and
mediators.
“We offered them a contract
this morning that provided for
one of the finest agreements in
the industry, including wage
increases of 38.6 percent qver
the 36-month period,” he said.
Ozark’s offer called for
hourly pay of 815.13 an hour
during the final year of the
agreement, putting the
mechanics' annual wages at
831,470, he said. *
“We also offered substantial
Increases in fringe benefits,
including medical insurance,
sick leave, vacations and pay
out of sick leave on
retirement,” he said.
. Union spokesman John Miller
said the union had countered
that proposal with one of its
own.
But Ehlert contended "there
was no counter proposal, at
least no reasonable counter-
proposal.”
Miller declined to give details
of the mechanics’ counter
proposal, and said, "When we
did not get a response, we
walked out.”
He said the final hours of
talks brought agreements on
work rule changes sought by the
union and an increase in
medical payments from Ozark.
“But now we start from
You'll Find Friendliness
That Is Contagious
Shannon Oaks Church
8113 Shannon Rd. 885-6541
drew 48 percent of the
Democratic primary vote while
spending only about a third as
much campaign money as
Nugent, an incumbent com-
missioner.
Is he spoiling for a rematch
with Nugent, who must run
again in two years if he wants to
„ stay on the Texas Railroad
Commission?
■p “I’m not saying no. I’m not
ground zero," Miller said. “Our saying yes. I’m kind of tired
proposals will probably be
increased.”
No new talks were im-
mediately scheduled.
The strike affects about 565
mechanics based in St. Louis
and another 125 in Chicago.
Miller said he expected
members of other unions
representing Ozark workers to
honor picket lines set up by the
mechanics. About 2,300 of
Ozark’s 4,000 employees work
in St. Louis.
Ozark is the second largest
carrier at Umbert Field with
82 daily flights. About 875,000
persons boarded Ozark flights
in St. Louis last year.
The airline serves 57 cities in
20 states, including several
cities in Illinois, Missouri and
Iowa where it is the only major
carrier. •
A strike by Ozark flight at-
tendents shut down the com-
pany for 52 days last year from
September 14 to November 5.
“I don’t think there are
570,000 radicals in America,
much less Texas,” Hightower
said in a reference to the
number of votes he received.
Hightower said he was
pleased that Nugent’s com-
mission colleague,’ John
Poerner, fell to Rep. Buddy
Temple of Diboll in the primary
although Temple never drew
the kind of commission vs.
consumers line in the dust that
Hightower did.
"The fact that I revved up the
issues benefited Buddy, and he
was beneficial to me. I voted for
Buddy and I am delighted he
won,” Hightower said.
Hightower contended more
campaigning and 810,000 worth
of advertising in South Texas
might have given him the three
added percentage points he
needed to beat Nugent.
Nugent's Spanish-language
radio and television com-
mercials “cut into my natural
moneyed establishment. We constituency — the minorities
showed that populism works in ^ are the most abused;. he
Texas, the former editor of the sajd
Texas Observer said. “We can
build a winning coalition.” “I don’t feel like a loser
He said Nugent’s accusation today,” he said. “We took on the
that Hightower’s support came meanest kid on the block and
from “Yankees and radicals” almost won. We shook up the
was “hate rhetoric.” moneyed establishment.”
today," Hightower said at a
news conference Monday.
He said he intends to work on
enlarging a "populist” coalition
of minorities, union members,
old people, small businessmen
and farmers that he said
brought him nearly to victory.
The coalition helped him
carry Dallas, Fort Worth,
Houston, Lufkin, Tyler and
Marshall, among other places,
he said.
“While we fell short of win-
ning, we rallied a constituency
in Texas that is not going to go
away. ... We showed you can
run on the issues. We showed
you can ^un against the
Endless lines file
past Tito's casket
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia
(AP) — Endless lines of
sorrowing Yugoslavs filed past
the closed casket of President
Josip Broz Tito today as
Belgrade prepared for the state
funeral Thursday.
The lines of mourners
stretched for blocks in two
directions outside the
Parliament building where the
light brown coffin containing
the body of the father of post-
war Yugoslavia lay on a
catafalque beneath the dome of
the rotunda.
The doors were to remain
open day and night until the
funeral.
Tito died Sunday, three days
short of his 88th birthday, in the
Ljubljana Hospital, in nor-
t’hwest Yugoslavia, where he
had been a patient for nearly
four months. His Special train
brought the body to Belgrade
Monday, and all along the route
mourners stood beside the
tracks to see it pass.
A crowd of 200,600 greeted the
train in Belgrade, and tens of
thousands of others attended
COME AND SEE!
To My Friends In
Hopkins County:
"I would like to express
my sincere appreciation
for your support in
Saturday's Democratic
Primary. Now, I ask f6r
your help again in the
June 7 run-off."
Please, Re-elect
SMITH GILLEY
State Representative, District 10
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to win a nominating majority in
the primaries; Kennedy has
virtually conceded that he can’t
get there on the strength of
primary elections.
Reagan has been suggesting
it is about time for Bush to drop
out as a candidate, but the
challenger insists that won’t
happen. “People clearly want a
choice different than just
Carter or Reagan and that
helped me in Pennsylvania and
Texas and I hope it will help me
in Tennessee,” said Bush. He
upset Reagan in Pennsylvania
on April 22, and lost to him by
just 5 percentage points in
Texas on Saturday.
But on both states, Reagan
gained won most of the
delegates. A final vote
tabulation in Texas on Monday
gave Bush an additional three
delegates, but Reagan still won
that competition over-
whelmingly, 62 to 18.
Rep. John B. Anderson was
on the ballot in the Republican
primaries today, although he
has quit the GOP campaign to
run for the White House as an
independent.
Reagan and Bush were
competing for 54 Republican
delegates in Indiana, 40 in
North Carolina and 32 in Ten-
nessee. Bush had the District of
Columbia GOP ballot to him-
self, and his 14 delegates were
expected to win over two un-
committed slates.
In Democratic contests,
Carter and Kennedy were
matched for 80 delegates in
Indiana, 69 in North Carolina, 55
in Tennessee and 19 in the
District of Columbia.
Carter won the 1976 editions
of all four primaries. Reagan
beat former President Gerald
R. Ford in Indiana and North
Carolina, and ran just behind
him in Tennessee. It was the
North Carolina primary that
revived Reagan's 1976 cam-
paign; he upset Ford there just
when it seemed the president
was on the verge of eliminating
him.
Child dies
in accident
at airport
GRAPEVINE, Texas
(AP) — A 2-year-old girl who
wanted to play on an airport
luggage conveyor belt was
killed when her brother
turned the belt on and she
got caught under a door,
airline officials said.
Security police at the
Dallas-Fort Worth Regional
Airport identified the girl as
Sally Ramirez, of Alhambra,
Calif. Her mother is also
named Sally, officers said.
Texas International’s
Peggy Dyer said Mrs.
Ramirez and her two
children, both age 2, had
arrived at the airport
Monday on a flight from Los
Angeles.
While Mrs. Ramirez was
using the telephone, Ms.
Dyer said, the girl climbed
onto the conveyor and her
brother managed to turn it
on.
The conveyor, in the
baggage claim area, is used
to carry skis and other
special equipment, Ms. Dyer
said. The belt runs through a
special security door. It
opened but the girl got
caught under it.
Nursing supervisor Jenny
Martin said the girl died at
Hurst-Euless-Bedford hosp-
ital two hours later.
Fire ant
test open
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Field
testing on a new chemical for
imported fire ants began
Monday in five East Texas
counties, Agriculture Com-
missioner Reagan Brown said.
Our Daily Bread
Scripture Reading for Today: Deuteronomy 15;7-11
A MOST USEFUL EXPOSITORY NOTE
Thou shall open thine hand wide unto thy brother,
to thy poor, and to thy needy. Deuteronomy 19:11
of the greatest failings among Christians today
is the neglect of the poor. With federal, state, and
local governments assuming so much responsibility
for their care, the work of charitable organizations hardly
seems necessary to the average believer. Yet the Bible
clearly indicates that needy saints have a right to expect
assistance from their brethren in the Lord. All who lovingly(
help them will find a rich reward (Prov. 19:17).
John-Wesley once heard that a man named Tom was
both ill and destitute. He wrote him a comforting letter
which read in part, “Dear Tom, I pray that you will soon
be restored to health. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so
shall thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed’ "
(Ps. 37:3). With the letter, Wesley enclosed a 5-pound
note—a rather sizable sum in those days. Not long after-
ward he received this gracious reply from the man who had
been blessed by his letter and his liberality: “Dear Brother
Wesfey, I have often been struck with the beauty of the
Scripture passage you quoted, but I’ve never seen such a
useful 'expository note' on it as the needed money you
enclosed." ,
God wants you and me to take the same interest in the
plight of the poor (Luke 14:13,14). We must seek to help
them in the spirit of Christ, carefully avoiding a conde-
scending attitude. The depth of our love for the Lord
can be measured by the way we treat those who are less
fortunate than we are. The most useful "expository note"*
on the grace of giving is an act of benevolence for the
poor. —H.G.B.
Not what we give, but what we share,
For the gilt without the giver is bare;
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three:
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and Me. —Lowell
THOT: When Christian love stirs you to generosity, the more you
GIVE the more you GAIN.
Henry G. Bosch; Copywrlght l*SO, Radio Bible Class,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Used by permission.
ceremonies in Ljubljana,
Zabreb and other towns along
the route.
The casket, illuminated by
floodlights and surrounded by
red wreaths and his medals
atop red velvet cushions, was
visited Monday by his sons
Zarko and Misha and his
estranged third wife, Jovanka,
who wept as she laid a wreath at
the foot of the coffin.
Mrs. Tito, now 54, was her
husband's constant companion
until 1977. Then she disap-
peared into seclusion amid
reports she had angered him by
intriguing to assure a place of
influence for herself after his
death. However, during his last
illness there were rumors of a
reconciliation and reports she
visited him in the hospital,
More than 100 foreign leaders
were expected to attend the
funeral at noon Thursday, in-
cluding Vice President Walter
Mondale, British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher
and Prince Philip, the husband
of Queen Elizabeth II, and the
chairman of the Chinese
Communist Party,> Premier
HuaGuofeng.
Soviet President Leonid I.
Brezhnev and Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko will lead the
Soviet delegation, the Soviet
Embassy said.
It will be Yugoslavia’s most
elaborate spectacle since the
1934 state funeral for King
Alexander I, who was
assassinated in Marseille,
France, and lay in state in a
royal palace across the street
from the Parliament building.
Red, white and blue national
flags and red banners of the
Communist Party flew at half-
staff on nearly every Belgrade
building. There were portraits
of a young, vigorous Tito in shop
windows, their frames laced
with black ribbon. Black
streamers flew from some taxis
and buses.
“We shall carry on Tito’s
work,” said an extra-large
headline in a special edition of
the Communist Party
newspaper Borba devoted to
Tito’s death and career.
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front page
Dallas area man
guilty in murder
DALLAS (AP) — A jury
convicted a Grand Prairie man
of murder Monday, even though
police have never found the
body of the alleged victim.
Jimmy Russell Williams, 21,
was charged with shooting his
cousin to death on Dec. 2,1978.
A 1974 revision of the Texas
Penal Code permits the filing of
murder charges, even if no
body has been found.
_ Williams was arrested 13
months after the alleged death
of John Allan McGraw, 26.
Roger Dudley, a schoolmate
of McGraw’s, testified he drove
McGraw to Williams’ house the
night of Dec. 2 and that
McGraw knocked on the door.
Dudley told the court Williams
answered the door with a
shotgun in his hand and shot
McGraw without warning.
Neighbors said they saw
some “scuffling” on Williams’
front porch, after hearing the
sound of a gunshot.
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