Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 145, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 18, 1980 Page: 1 of 26
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Anti-
communist Moslem rebels are
assassinating members of Afghanistan's
ruling pro-Moscow party at an average
rate of 10 a day in the capital of Kabul,
Western diplomats reported.
Most of the assassination victims are
described as low-ranking members and
officials of the Khalq (People's) Party.
But Afghan exiles said the rebels also have
killed politicians’ relatives with no con-
nection to the ruling party.
The sources said the victims include
supporters and opponents of President
Babrak Karmal, installed when the
Soviets began pouring in tens of thousands
of troops to fight the rebels in December.
The sources refused to be identified for
fear of reprisals from the Soviet-backed
regime, and their reports could not be
independently confirmed.
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The money and the shovel
Walter Helm and his wife Lulu were on hand for the ground
breaking ceremony for a new milk parlor at the Civic Center
with more than just good wishes Wednesday morning. The
Helms donated $10,000 to the Young Farmers organization to
help build the new parlor next to the Civic Center. Herb Flora
Jr„ got the honor of accepting the hefty check from the Helms
(left photo), and also turned the first shovel full of dirt to of-
ficially get the project underway (right). The milking parlor,
complete with large picture, windows so the process can be
watched, should be completed in 60 days, according to Flora.
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Ground-breaking kicks off
center milk parlor project
An idea that has been kicking around
since before the Civic Center was com-
pleted began to take shape Wednesday
morning with a ground-breaking
ceremony.
The Young Farmers organization, with
the help of a hefty donation of $10,000 from
Walter Helm and his wife Lulu, have
started construction of a milking parlor
next to the Civic Center.
‘‘It’s really going to be something,” said
Herb Flora Jr., spokeman for the Young
Farmers.
The milking parlor, which will be
located near the northeast corner of the
Civic Center by the livestock arena, will
have large picture windows so that people
can gather outside the parlor and watch
the milking process', according to Flora.
“The Young Farmers will be doing most
of the construction work themselves,”
Flora said. “Most of the material and
labor is being donated," he continued,
“but the donation from Mr. and Mrs. Helm
is what put us over the top. We will be able
to finish the parlor in style,” he added.
Flora estimates that the milking parlor
will be valued at $30,000 when completed.
“We’ll have room to milk three cows at a
time when the parlor is finished,” Flora
said. "And I really think this milking
parlor will be an aid to the community.
With a milking parlor near the livestock
arena it will help the Civic Center bring in
more dairy shows and sales. When you
have a dairy sale the cows are in the pens
for two or three days and they still need to
be milked. Having the parlor will make it
easy for the exhibitors, and the picture
windows will allow others to watch the
operation.
■ The Young Farmers began the actual
construction of the building immediately
after the ground-breaking ceremony.
Flora estimates construction should take
about 60 days.
"We have the Southwest Jersey Milk
Makers sale coming into the Civic Center
Aug. 30,” Flora said, "and we intend to
have the parlor usable by then.”
No break in
heat seen
. Wednesday started off on the warm
side with the mercury reading 79
degrees at 8 a.m. - and it got hotter
as the day progressed.
By noon the temperature had
soared to 90 degrees and the mercury
was expected to climb even higher
during the afternoon, reaching into
the upper 90s.
The National Weather Service
forecast is calling for partly cloudy
skies and continued hot temperatures
through Friday with daytime highs in
the upper 90s and overnight lows in
the 70s. No rain is forecast for the
Sulphur Springs area in either the
immediate or the long-range forecast.
So far this month only .08 of an inch
of rain has been recorded by the of-
ficial observation station in Sulphur
Springs.
Correction
The Hopkins County Tax Appraisal
District will meet Friday at 2 p.m. in
the Sulphur Springs Library’s
Meeting Room - not on Thursday as
was reported in an earlier edition of
The News-Telegram.
At that meeting, board members
are expected to accept and award bids
for the bank depository for the
district’s funds and hold an executive
session to discuss personnel matters
related to the employment of a chief
appraiser.
as “night letters" have been warning of
reprisals against Kabul residents sup-
portingthe country’s Marxist government.
The leaflets said Karmal’s Marxist
regime, the third in little more than two
years, survives only because of support
provided by Soviet troops sent to help
crush the Moslem rebellion.
Assassination attempts on Khalq party
officials also have been reported in at least
two important provincial capitals, Kan-
dahar, 285 miles southwest of Kabul, and
in Jalalabad, 75 miles east of the capital.
In Jalalabad, some party members
reportedly moved their wives and children
to tents near local army units because of
the rebel attacks.
The elder brother of Information
Minister Abdul Majid Sarboland, a lan-
downer who reportedly avoided politics,
was shot by unknown anti-government
elements in Kandahar early this month, a
former resident of the city said here.
The puppet president of Soviet-occupied
Afghanistan, Babrak Karmal, was stopped
by his security guards in an unsuccessful
attempt to kill himself last Friday, Radio
Pakistan was quoted today by Indian news
agencies.
The broadcast monitored here quoted
reports from Afghanistan as saying
Karmal was a virtual prisoner of his
Russian advisers and his personal staff
including cook and driver were Russians.
The report could not be independently
confirmed. Several diplomatic sources
here said they had not heard the report
from their embassies in Kabul, the capital
of Afghanistan.
An insurgent group based in Peshawar,
Pakistan, reported today a Soviet armored
column fought its way out of an ambush by
Afghan rebels in the Sultani Valley with
the help of pro-government Afghans. The
column was trapped two days in the
valley, about 45 miles west of the Afghan-
Pakistani border, according to a
spokesman for the National Islamic Front
of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Western diplomats reported
a recent slackening of Soviet military
convoys entering Kabul, even though air
traffic remains heavy.
The fifty<ent failure
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon
weapons experts might be thinking today
about the old adage that for want of a nail
the horse was lost, for want of a horse the
rider was lost, and for want of a rider, the
battle was lost.
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that
two recent false alarms that the United
States was being attacked by Soviet
missiles were caused by the failure of a
dime-sized computer circuit costing 46
cents.
But the alarms didn't trigger anything
Park, lake still alive
because duty officers at command posts
quickly determined that an attack had not
begun, Assistant Defense Secretary
Gerald Dinneen said.
"We are confident we will catch all false
alerts.... We did on June 3 and 6 when the
error was caught within two to three
minutes," he told a Pentagon news con-
ference.
Despite the failure of the small part, said
Dinneen, satellites and other warning
censors worked “without error."
He said there “have been other incidents
of this type," but would not go into detail.
Baseball complex plan
called out by finances
Iranian power struggle deepens
By The Associated Press
A Tehran newspaper said today a leader
of the hardline Islamic Republican Party
was plotting to topple Iranian President
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. The report was yet
another indication of the widening rift
between the powerful clergy-dominated
party and the Iranian leader.
Enghlab Eslami, a newspaper founded
by Bani-Sadr, said Dr. Hassan Ayat had
conversations about “activities against"
the president and “indicated that he has
decided to overthrow” him.
It published what it said was the text of a
tape quoting Ayat as calling Bani-Sadr "a
tool of America” who “will be ousted
soon” and as saying the president’s op-
ponents plan to bring Bani-Sadr down by
blocking his initiatives and by creating
disorder. It did not mention the use of
force.
The newspaper said the country’s
revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, had heard of the plan and was
“very annoyed.”
Khomeini last week warned that Iran’s
revolution was threatened by internal
discord. Bani-Sadr and the IRP have
clashed repeatedly in recent months on a
variety of issues ranging from ap-
pointment of ministers to treatment of the
53 American hostages.
IRP leaders, like the militants who took
over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran last Nov.
4, have urged that the hostages be tried as
spies. Bani-Sadr has suggested spy trials
are not in Iran’s best interests.
Khomeini has said the new Iranian
parliament, controlled by the IRP, should
decide the fate of the hostages in their
228th day of captivity today. But another
Tehran newspaper, Donyaye Iran, said the
Iranian people should decide in a
referendum whether the hostages should
be tried as spies or set free if Parliament
can’t reach a unanimous decision.
It also said the Parliament will be busy
with routine business*and probably won’t
consider the hostage question for another
three months.
In other developments:
—Khomeini appointed personal
representatives to the rural police,
national police and revolutionary guards.
Observers said the appointments could
further weaken Bani-Sadr’s authority.
—A member of the U.N. investigating
commission said the group will not return
to Tehran in the near future. “
Sulphur Springs city commissioners
killed off a grant request for a baseball
complex that was to have been located
near the Sulphur Springs High School and
gave the go-ahead for grants to provide
recreational facilities at Pacific Park and
Coleman Lake.
The baseball-soccer complex died due to
financial problems.
Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) Coordinator Glenn Wagner, who
is doing double duty by handling other
grants for the city, told the commissioners
that the city's share of the complex would
be about $147,000.
A lot of that cost could be absorbed with
what is called “in-kind” funding that
allows the use of city work crews, but
Commissioner Millard Glover commented
that the last time such a major project
occurred was on the Civic Center and that
the city was still behind on its work.
"I don’t think the city crews can be
committed,” he told other commissioners.
Wagner said that the chance of getting
the grant approved was "slim to non-
existent” and Commission Chairman
Lewis Helm said, “There’s just no way we
can come up with that kind of money.”
Despite rejecting that proposal, Wagner
was told to go ahead with plans to submit
the other two grant requests to the Texas
Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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The Coleman Lake project would include
the building of an 8-foot wide combination
jogging-bicycle-nature trail around the
lake.
The total cost of that project would be
about $49,000 with the city providing
$18,500 “in-kind" work and an actual cash
outlay of about $6,000.
Wagner said that there was a good
chance of the project being approved as
the grant would meet criteria for funding
from three different departments —
jogging, the Department of Parks and
Wildlife; nature, Department of the In-
terior and bicycles, the Department of
Transportation.
Even better news was available for the
Pacific Park project.
The $44,200 project would provide new
rest rooms, drinking fountains, a com-
bination tennis and basketball court, a
backstop and bullpens, picnic areas and
bleachers.
Wagner said that the city’s $22,100 share
would come from CDBG funds with no
cash outlay at all.
He said there was a good chance'of the
Pacific Park grant request being approved
due to its location and the use of federal
funds for matching money.
Council green-lights waste water plant improvement
The City Commission has agreed to go
ahead with plans for a tertiary treatment
facility for the Waste Water Treatment
Plant after hearing a report from Larry
Stone of the Longview engineering firm of
Kindle Stone and Associates.
The engineering firm has been studying
the local plant and said that the tertiary
facility would be required to meet state
standards.
His preliminary report conclusions were
that the planUirgeneraTmeets or exceeds
accepted design criteria.
He explained that the plant was
originally designed to meet a projected
1990 population figure of 15,900 for the city
and that the original engineering firm was
restricted to that projection by the grant
that allowed for the building of the plant.
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He said that the major problem at the
facility is sludge disposal and that “other
problems are related to this problem.”
One of those problems is that the drying
beds have concrete bottoms.
Stone said normal design includes a sand
bottom to allow the water to sink through
the sand to drainage pipes, com-
plementing the action of evaporation.
The other major problem, he told
commissioners, is the lack of enforcement
of the industrial waste ordinance that
requires pre-treatment of wastes before
being dumped into the city’s sewer
system.
Stone recommended that the industrial
waste ordinance be enforced after in-
dustries have had sufficient time to
comply with it.
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That action was initiated at the last
session of the City Commisson when City
Attorney Tommy Allison was told to send
letters to industries that need to pre-treat
their wastes.
Another problem facing the plant is the
, detection of metals in the sludge.
Dr. Bill Lowry of Dalchem, Inc. in
Dallas, said, “Most of the sludge would
make fantastic fertilizer.”
However, he said that analysis of the
sludge found the metal — identified as
chromium, zinc and lead.
Lowry’s firm is to continue its analysis
and determine where the metals are
coming from and then that problem can be
corrected.
Stone’s other recommendations included
keeping better records at the sewer plant,
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construction of an aerated sludge and
equalization basin and adding chemicals
to obtain a sludge that will dry quicker.
He noted that the city tuu been con-
sidering using worms to get rid of sludge
as the City of Lufkin is now doing and
suggested that he would be looking into the
feasibility of using the abandoned waste
water treatment plant located just south of
the new plant for treatment of some of the
sludge.
Stone advised that the tertiary treat-
ment plant be advertised tor bids.
The commissioners have been
deliberating over that problem tor some
time. If it was found that the tertiary
treatment stage would not help In solving
their problems, they did not want to spend
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However, if they refused the 50-50
matching Environmental Protection
Agency grant and were later required to
install it, the city would have to pay the
entire cost.
Based on Stone’s recommendations, the
commisson agreed to advertise for bids for
the facility which will be handled by the
engineering firm of Freese and Nichols of
Fort Worth who originally designed the
new Waste Water Treatment Plant.
City Commission Chairman Lewis Helm
said that the city needs to begin looking for
more underground and elevated storage of
treated water.
Stone explained that his firm will have
the comprehensive plan completed soon
and that it will include projections and
recommendationa in that area as wall as
on the city’s sewer treatment facility.
Helm said that additional filters were
needed, at least 2-million gallons of water
for underground storage and additional
elevated storage. He had previously
mentioned a figure of 750,000 gallons of
elevated storage.
Travis Owens told the commissioners,
“This commission will be setting
precedents that will affect the city for
years to come ... you need to plan for the
future.”
Of the weekend water crisis, Owens said,
“We owe a debt of thanks to the people
involved. It makes yon feel real good that
you have the support that we had on fids
problem.
"We need tq give a special thanks to
some of the city employees,”
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