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VOL. 102. -NO. 8.
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Thursday
15 Cents
JANUARY 10. 1980.
Sfi/I coming in
County Judge Joe R. Pogue looks over some of the road bond
survey forms that have been returned to his office since the
survey ran in last Sunday's News Telegram. He said his office is
ri^dUy
not forrrwTly compiling the results as they come in, but has been
looking them over to get ideas as to the trends. Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. is
the deadline to return the survey forms to Judge Pogue's office.
, . —Staff Phjfto.
U.S. logs one win, one draw
in council bout with Soviets
By-JOHN BAUSMAN
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United
States, was successful in its drive to
More rain
in outlook
Sulphur Springs received a trace of
rain early Thursday morning and the
National Weather Service is
predicting that more will fall before
clear skies return.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy
skies and warmer temperatures with
scattered showers or thunderstorms
late Thursday evening or early
Friday. Skies should begin to clear
Friday and the mercury is expected to
reach into the low to mid 60s. Over-
night low readings are expected to be
in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
The rain may return over the
weekend according to the extended
forecast as the clouds Return to the
area, but temperatures are expected
to remain mild. Skies should be clear
to partly cloudy on Monday with
slightly cooler temperatures.
The high temperature reading in
Sulphur Springs Wednesday was 53
degrees at the official observation
station. The mercury slid to 24
overnight and at 8 a.m. Thursday the
temperature was 46 degrees under
cloudy skies.
arraign the Soviet Union before the
General Assembly for Its military in-
tervention in Afghanistan, but the
Russians announced that they would veto
any resolution in the Security Council
calling for sanctions against Iran.
With Security Council action on
Afghanistan blocked by the Soviet veto,
the council adopted a resolution Wed-
nesday night asking for an emergency
session of the 152-nation assembly to deal
with the situation in the Central Asian
nation. .
Secretary-General Kurt l^aRiheim
announced that the assembly, which ended
its regular 1979 session on Monday, would
meet at 3 p.m. EST today.
The emergency session is expected to
last several days, and the debate is ex-
pected to be a replay of the debate in the
Security Council last weekend, with most
of the members attacking the Soviet action
in Afghanistan and the Soviet Union and its
communist allies defending it.
The United States and its .allies were
reported confident that they could muster
the two-thirds majority necessary for
adoption of the resolution vetoed by the
{Soviet Union in the Security Council. The
tig-power veto does not apply in the
assembly, but adoption of the resolution
will have only moral and propaganda
value since the assembly has no power to
order punitive action.
The resolution deplored the armed in-
tervention in Afghanistan and called for
the withdrawal of all foreign forces.
The opponents of the Soviet action took
their case to the General Assembly under
a procedure established in 1950 to deal with
situations in which a veto prevented the
Security Council from taking action to
preserve or restore peace.
The resolution asking for the assembly
session was submittted by the Philippines
and Mexico, and the vote in the 15-nation
council was 12-2, with the Soviet Union and
East Germany voting no and Zambia
abstaining.
The council vote Monday on the
resolution calling for withdrawal of the
Soviet troops had been 13-2, with Zambia
voting with the majority. But that was an
issue of substance on which the negative
Soviet vote counted as ^ veto,1 while the
resolution to go to the General Assembly
was a procedural matter exempt from the
veto of the five permanent council
members - the United States, the Soviet
Union, Britain, France and China.
Meanwhile, Tass, the official Soviet
news agency, announced that U.S. plans to
get the Security Council to vote sanctions
against Iran were doomed to defeat.
“As regards the USSR, it will not
tolerate any interference from the outside
in the internal affairs of Iran, and will not
allow the United States to impose a
decision to apply economic sanctions
against it,” said Tass.
A senior American official in
Washington said if the Soviets vetoed the
sanctions resolution, the United States
would try to get its European allies and
others to join it in a program of sanctions
outside the U.N.
The Soviet Union abstained when the
Security Council adopted a resolution on
Dec. 31 calling for; the release of the
hostages.
Deathbed clue leads to arrest
TROUP, Texas (AP) - A name
Tawled on blood-sfeined paper by a
lortally-wounded man gave sheriff’s
■puties a deathbed clue that led to the
rest of two men in connection with the
aying of an elderly Troup couple,
ithoritiessay.
James Sessions, 22, of Jacksonville has
>en charged with two counts of murder in
ie deaths of Clifford and Belle McDougaf,
)th 72. A second man was arrested
'ednesday night in connection with the
ayings. ,
The couple died Tuesday of wounds
sustained during an apparent robbery
attempt at their home a mile southwest of
this small East Texas town.
Mrs. McDougal, stabbed once in the
back of the neck, died in her bed. But
Smith -County authorities said her
husband, stabbed in the back and hit in the
face by a shotgun blast, walked across the
road to Ms son’s house for help.
McDougal died at a Tyler hospital after
he printed a .man’s name on a piece of
paper, Smith County Sheriff’s deputies
said.
Sessions, 22, was arrested Tuesday and
arraigned on two counts of murder before
Justice of the Peace Mrs. Leon Hicks, who
set boijd at $100,000. -
Investigators speculated robbery was
the motive because McDougal was known
to keep money at Ms home. They said a
telephone line to the house was cut and the
house was ransacked.
Deputies said McDougal was stabbed in
the upper back by one man and then hit in
the face with a shotgun blast fired by
another man as he ran out the back door,
Price jump highest in five years
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Dark clouds spread
over inflation scene
By EILEEN ALT POWELL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wholesale
prices rose 12.5 percent in 1979, the highest
inflation at the wholesale level in five
years, the Labor Department! reported
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There was some moderation in food and
fuel price increases at year’s end, with the
government’s Producer Price Index rising
0.8 percent in December, its most
moderate rise since June. Prices in
November had gone up 1.3 percent.
Still, the increase from December 1^78 to
December 1979 was the worst at the
wholesale level since 1974, when increases
in crude oil prices caused by the Middle
East oil embargo helped push the index up
18.3 percent.
“There’s no doubt that energy made an
important contribution in both cases,”
said Labor Department economist John
Early.
He noted that energy prices rose 62.7
percent in 1979 as a result of higher prices
charged by the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries and added that
OPEC’s indecision about a new, joint base
, price made the future hard to predict.
I “We would be pleased and surprised" if
the index goes up only 0.8 percent each
month in the coming year, to produce a 10
percent increase for 1980, Early said.
Prices at the wholesale level rose 9.2
percent in 1978.
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Food prices fell 0.1 percent at wholesale
last month following a sharp 2.6 percent
rise in November and ended 7'5 percent
higher than in December 1978.
The chief inflation culprits in December
were metals, including gold, and energy,
the Labor Department report said.
Non-food prices at wholesale went up 1.2
percent in December, compared with an
increase of 0.8 percent in November.
Sharply higher prices were noted for such
items as jewelry and household im-
plements in the wake of rapid advances in
. the price of precious and nonprecious
metals in world markets.
Although gasoline prices rose 3.4 percent
in December, the same as November,
prices for home heating oil were virtually
unchanged for the second consecutive
month, the report said.
Capital equipment prices rose 0.9 per-
cent in'December, compared with 0.5
percent in the previous month, and ended
the year 8.7 percent ahead of the
December 1978 level.
The Producer Price Index stood at 227.8
in December. This means that goods that
cost $100 in the 1967 base period cost
$227.80 last month.
The index measures price changes at
three levels. Finished goods are those one
step short of retail outlets. Intermediate
materials have had some processing.
Crude goods have had no processing.
• The 12.5 percent increase in finished
goods prices from December 1978 to
December 1979 was outpaced by a 15.9
percent rise at the intermediate level arid
17.5 percent increase in crude prices at
wholesale.
Intermediate prices in December rose
1.2 percent, compared with 0.9 percent in
the previous month; crude goods were up
1.1 percent, against 2 percent in Novem-
ber.
"There have been very high rates of
increase ib' the intermediate and crude
indexes i/ recent months,” Early said,
suggesting that these would put pressure
on prices in coming months.
He addedt however, that there was some
evidence in December that non-energy
crude prices were moderating, a situation
that often occurs when the economy is
heading into a recession.
The Producer Price Index is watched
closely because price increases at the
wholesale level often show up in a month
or two in higher prices at groceries, drug
stores and other retail outlets.
Consumer prices have been rising
slightly faster than wholesale prices and
could show a 1979 increase in excess of 13
percent, or the worst inflation rate since
World War II price controls were lifted in
1946.
The median price of new houses was
$63,800 in November, up slightly from
October but down from September’s
$66,100, the report said.
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Dinner theater near reality
Members of the newly-organized
Community Players met Wednesday
night and, piished dinner theater fdr
- Sulphur Springs closer to reality.
Make-up, prop, stage building,
finance, lighting, and other com-1
mittiees were formed during a
meeting at the Chamber of Commerce
to literally “get the show on the
road"..
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The first production of the Com-
munity Players, a three-act comedy
entitled “The Butler Did it,” is
scheduled to go into reshearal within
in the next 10 days. The two-day run of
the play,is scheduled for March 7 and
8 in the Civic Center.
Auditions for parts in the five-man,
five-woman play will be held Monday
and Tuesday night in room 215 at
Sulphur Springs High School.
“The auditions are open to anyone
who wants to try out for a part in the
play,” stressed Community Players
president Gene Poe. "We are trying to
build a community theater for
everyone, not just a few. The idea is to
have fun and put on a really good
performance. So I hope anybody who
is interested will come out Monday
and Tuesday night and try out or just
watch; they may want to get involved
in some other way besides acting," he
added.
Bill Barnett, who recently moved to
Sulphur Springs from Hollywood,
Calif, i will be directing the first
production. Barnett, who has been
involved in theater for over 20 years, •
has worked on various motion pic-
tures, taught drama on the college
level, and has acted in various stage
productions. His wife Jamie has also
been involved in theater for several
years as a technician and actress.
“So far,” Poe said, “everything is
going pretty good. We have a great
deal of work in front of us. We are
starting from Scratch. We have to
build a stage, rig lighting,’sound and a
hundred other things to make our first
production a success, but I feel like we
can do it. We need the support of the
community to really get it going, but I
think we will get it, once people find
out that we have talented people in
this area and we can put on a show
that is just as good as you can see in
Dallas. I think we will really have a
good community theater in Sulphur
Springs. Besides, once people get
involved they find out that community
theater is more than just a another
club or organization with meeting and
such - it is really fun. Having fun and
entertaining people is what is all
about,” Poe said.
Banks reports record year
A record year for operations and the
addition of six new officers to the staff
were reported tMs week in the annual
review of operations by the Sulphur
Springs State Bank.
Gerald Prim, president, reported to
stockholders that income both before and
after taxes sdt records for the bank. The
bank paid dividends of $3.50 per share for
the year and also added $333,000 to the
undistributed profit account at the close of
business for 1979.
Earlier the bank reported year-end
assets of $57.8 million, up from $51.6
million at the close of the previous year.
In the annual reorganization meeting,
directors of the bank re-elected officers
from 1979 and also named six new officers,
all to positions as assistant cashiers.
The new positions went to Marjorie S.
Johnson, Jacky McGlamery, Ruth Ann
Britton, Betty April, Greta Deaton and Jo
Ann Johnson.
Prim was re-elected president and
others named for the year included L. F.
Bridges III, senior vice-president; Charles
Sellers and B, J. Williams, vice-
presidents; E. A. Jtrnell Jr., vice-president
and casMer; Jacky P. Allen, assistant
vice-president and data processing of-
ficer; and Mike R. Crain and Mike R.
Hodge, assistant vice-presidents.
At the annual stockholders meeting,
directors elected for a year’s term in-
cluded B. F. Ashcroft, L. F. Bridges Jr., L.
R. Bridges III, Jack Gillis, Dr. G. W. Gn*y,
Charlie Jackson, M. D. Merrell, Earl
Payne, R. E. Pratt, Gerald Prim and J. R.
Ramey.
Prim reported that the 1979 showing for
the bank was particularly pleasing in the
light of expansion expenses incurred
during the year. Sulphur Springs State
Bank added an employee and customer
parking lot during the year and also began
construction of three new drive-in windows
at its motor bank facility.
In: addition, demolition of * an original
drive-in facility adjacent to the bank and
of three older buildings nearby was begun
as the bank embarked upon a two-year
, program of new construction.
Prim noted that additional facilities will
be built by the bank along Church Street
and that after that sectioft is occupied,
major revisions to the existing bank
structure will be made.
The bank also began laying plans during
1979 for installation and utilization of its
own computer system in 1980, reflecting,
Prim noted, the heavy increase in bank
activity.
Sulphur Springs State Bank posted;
deposits of $52,494,810 at the end of 1979,'
but Prim noted that the figure was already
above $54 million this week.
“I was very pleased with the year,”
Prim said. “It reflects strong confidence
jn this entire area by our local people and
also reflects hard work and dedication by
all our employees.”
Absentee vote light
Only three persons have thus far
voted absentee in the Jan. 19 election
to fill two vacancies on the Sulphur
Springs City Commission.
City Secretary Kathea WMttle says
that the deadline is 5 p.m. next
Tuesday (Jan. 15) for absentee
ballots.
Six men are in contention for the
two vacancies with Commission
Chairman Millard Glover and
Commissioner Vaden Richey seeking
re-election.
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Others seeking those same two
positions are John E. Fennell of Route
1, Steve Eitelman of 531 Texas, Keith
F. Klein of 1404 S. Broadway and
Vernon Davis of 309 Peach.
The election will be held from 7 a.m.
to 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19 at, the
Municipal Building.
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