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VOL. 103—NO. 10.
Tuesday
JAN. 13,1M1.
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Protests won't stop
Cuban refugee plans
MARSHALL, Texas (AP) - Despite a
barrage of protests aired against the
proposed relocation of Cuban refugees into
seven East Texas counties, the head of a
church placement agency said he expects
the first Cubans to arrive as scheduled “in
three to four weeks.”
An East Texas congressman called the
all-day hearing Monday “a waste of time”
and said the federal government wasn’t
interested in getting output from the East
Texas officials and law officers who at-
tended the meeting.
The information offered at the meeting
dealt primarily with “what type of people
will be sent,” said an angry U.S. Rep. Sam
Hall, a Marshall Democrat.
“The total rejection of all the law en-
forcement people here should be reason
enough not to proceed with the relocation
plan,” Hall said.
East Texas officials and law officers met
behind closed doors Monday morning with
representatives of World Relief
Organization — which had announced
plans to move from 150 to 300 Cubans to
East Texas — and representatives of the
Justice Department’s community
relations department.
The Rev. T. Grady Mangham, director
of refugee services for the World Relief
Organization of Wheaton, 111., said in a
telegram that the opposition to the move
has prompted his group to review the
proposal.
However, the proposed move would be
effected through Bellvue Missions — a
spinoff of the Bellvue Baptist Church of
Hurst — which located 143 Cubans in
Haltom City in October, and its president
said he is moving forward with the
relocation plans..
Ronald Meers, president of Bellvue
Missions, said he won’t relocate any
Cubans who don’t have housing or jobs
assured, but that if jobs and housing can be
found he has the authority, guaranteed by
the U.S. Constitution, to bring the Cubans
into East Texas without local approval.
Mangham’s telegram said, “We are not
certain at this time if World Relief can now
undertake the East Texas resettlement,
and are currently reviewing the situation
and its feasibility within our own agency.”
He said, “We work exclusively through
local churches and it is not our policy to
bring people into communities in any way
which would prove disruptive.”
Justice Department officials had told
officials of area towns in December that as
many as 2,000 of the 5,000 Cuban refugees
remaining at Fort Chaffee, Ark., might be
transferred to the East Texas counties of
Gregg, Harrison, Camp, Morris, Titus,
Franklin and Upshur.
They amended that Monday, saying that
was merely a possibility, not a probability.
World Relief is a 34-year-old relief and
development organization of the National
Association of Evangelicals. It has helped
resettle Indochinese refugees throughout
the United States.
“We have a very successful record of
bringing in refugees without any
disruption to the community,” said Dick
Burrow of World Relief. “It’s not our
policy to dump people.”
Local law enforcement officers were not
given “a chance to express themselves,”
Hall complained.
When Hall learned the officials had not
polled those attending the meeting to see
how many supported the resettlement
plan, he said he conducted his own poll,
asking those in favor of the plan to stand
up.
“No one stood up,” he said.
Elected officials from all seven counties
presented unanimous resolutions opposing
the refugee relocation.
The congressrpan said he felt Justice
Department officials offered very little
new information at the meeting, which
was closed to the public.
The congressman said he spoke with
Texas Attorney General Mark White about
the relocation Sunday and that he would
meet with representatives of White’s office
again to determine what action should be
taken.
After the morning closed-doors meeting
and a luncheon for about 40 city and county
officials, about 120 citizens from across
East Texas joined the officials for another
meeting that became \ a forum for
questions that often were hostile.
If the World Relief Organization pays
attention to what was said at Monday’s
meeting, the relocation proposal “will die
on the vine,” Hall said.
Iran delays hostage debate
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Iran’s Parliament postponed debate
today on two bills aimed at resolving the
hostage crisis, but there was no indication
of opposition to the measures and they are
scheduled to be taken up again on Wed-
nesday, a parliamentary spokesman said.
He said the debate was delayed because
the 12-member Council of Guardians,
which must approve all legislation
adopted, couldn’t attend because it had not
been given enough advance notice of the
session.
“The council was informed of the session
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very late yesterday afternoon,” the
spokesman in Tehran said in a telephone
interview with The Associated Press in
Beirut, Lebanon.
The council is dominated by hard-line
Islamic clerics who are bitterly an-
tagonistic toward the United States. Their
absence could have indicated an attempt
to block any retreat from Iran’s original
demands for up to $24 billion for the
release of the hostages.
The speaker of Iran’s Parliament,
Hashemi Rafsanjani, said Monday that
“all roads” were open to settling the 437-
Siberian cold front
plunges into Florida
By C.W. MIRANKER
Associated Press Writer
Siberian cold spread a record freeze
across the Southeast today, dipping deep
into Florida where citrus and vegetable
growers fought to save their crops against
the worst winter onslaught of the century.
Record demand for electricity forced
Florida Power & Light Co. to rotate power
outages of 15 to 20 minutes duration in all
cities served by the utility from Miami to
the Georgia border.
Citrus growers spent the night in their
groves firing heaters and running
sprinklers and windmills to try to ward off
the freeze. Officials said it was too early to
assess the damage to this year’s abundant
orange and grapefruit crop.
The National Weather Service said
record low temperatures for January were
set in numerous cities across the South,
including the 7 degrees at Wilmington,
N.C., 8 at Tallahassee, Fla., 22 at Tampa,
Fla., and 41 at Key West, Fla. The national
record low Monday was 43 degrees below
zero in Old Forge, N.Y.
Other communities set these record lows
for the day: Concord, N.H., minus 21;
Glens Falls, N.Y. and St. Johnsbury, Vt.,
minus 20; Baltimore, minus 1; Windsor
Locks, Conn., minus 9; Raleigh, N.C., 4.
In the Northeast, trapped in a cold wave
that began at Christmas, cars by the
thousands refused to run, heating systems
went on the blink, people yearning for
warm island began plaguing travel agents.
“Rarely have I seen so many requests
for Florida in one day. Florida, Florida,
Florida - everyone wants to go to
Florida,” said Tom Donnelly of Foley
Travel Inc. in Hartford, Conn. “I’d say it’s
definitely the cold weather that’s making
them do it.”
But in Florida, sun-seeking Northerners
donned earmuffs and blankets as tem-
atures dipped''below freezing. In
e, one man was found frozen to
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citrus growers, the cold spell was
in four years, and growers’
associations were monitoring weather
data so they could alert farmers to turn on
grove heaters or wind machines if the
temperatures fell too low for too long.
In New York City, where Monday’s low
of 2 degrees tied die record, Long Island
Rail Road trains ran 30 minutes late and
seven trains were canceled. Conrail also
canceled one train in each of its three
divisions.
Gas lines froze in buses serving Penn-
sylvania’s Naticoke Area School District,
and classes were cancelled. Students at a
Birmingham, Ala., high school also got the
day off when a water pipe froze in the
heating system.
Schools for 15,000 children, as well as
many businesses, were closed in Lowell,
Mass., because jammed pipelines
prevented natural gas supplies stored in
Pennsylvania and New York from being
shipped in.
Harbors were clogged with ice, and a
ferry trip from Woods Hole to Nantucket
took 12 hours instead of 2*6
The Cape Cod Canal, packed solid with
ice, was closed to commercial fishermen,
small vessels and most barges, including
ones with heating oil and gasoline for
Boston and northern New England.
The deep freeze continues to claim lives:
Three elderly men were found dead
Monday in Birmingham, Ala., where the
mercury registered 10 degrees. A Norfolk,
Va., man was found dead Monday next to
his wood stove, which was out.
Power and natural gas companies
reported record-high demand, and
Jacksonville, Fla., officials ordered
rotating power blackouts to cope with
increased demand.
New Jersey officials have asked natural
gas customers to conserve fuel as cold-
weather demand reduces reserves.
Nearly 8,000New Yorkers complained to
the city officials of no heat or hot water in
the past three days and pickets at a city
housing project chanted “No heat, no
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Accident scene
DPS Trooper Joel McKinney looks over the damage to a 1971 truck driven by Jerry
Don Clark, 22, of Alba which was in collision with a late model four-door sedan
driven by Dawn Hart Brown, 24, of Route 1, about 7:40 a.m. Tuesday on SH-19.
McKinney said the accident occurred when Mrs. Brown's vehicle slowed down for a
North Hopkins school bus and was then struck from behind by the truck. Mrs. Brown
was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hospital and then to a clinic where she was
checked for possible injuries. The accident occurred just south of the roadside park
on SH-19.
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day-old crisis of the 52 Americans, and
that he expected approval of the
legislation.
One bill introduced in the Majlis would
approve appointment of a third-party as
arbitrator of financial and legal claims
between Iran and the United States. The
other would nationalize the wealth of the
shah and his closest relatives, providing a
legal basis for the Iranian government’s
demand that the royal family’s assets
abroad be turned over to it.
Tehran Radio also announced that the
Iranian government set up a “committee
of claims” to compile all private and
government claims against and debts to
the United States.
President Carter said Monday the
situation “looks better, but I can’t predict
success.” President-elect Ronald Reagan
said information he received “in-
dicated-optimism. I have my fingers
crossed.”
But Deputy Secretary of State Warren
Christopher, meeting in Algiers since
Thursday with Algerian intermediaries in
the negotiations, reported “serious,
substantive problems” still block
agreement, U.S. officials said.
Officials in Washington said there had
been no serious negotiations yet on the
demand the Iranians s^id was the main
issue between the two countries — the
return of the fortune which the Iranian
revolutionary regime charges the late
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his
family transferred abroad.
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Four county
dairy herds
in top ten
Four Hopkins County dairy herds have
been named among the top ten producing
Jersey herds in Texas during the past test
year.
J.B. McQueen, Sulphur Springs, placed
second with a average of 13,642 pounds of
milk and 630 pounds of fat in his 30-cow
herd.
The 127-cow Sonshine Jersey herd of
Brashear was third averaging 13,053
pounds of milk and 602 pounds of fat. Herb
Flora Jr., Sulphur Springs, placed sixth
with an average of 12,447 pounds of milk
and 553 pounds of fat in his 47-cow herd.
Thomas Right, Como, was ninth as his 120-
cow herd averaged 11,539 pounds of milk
and 553 pounds of fat.
Victory Jersey Farm, Tulia, was the top
herd in Texas as the 81 animals averaged
14,648 pounds of milk and 696 pounds of fat.
The state average production for Jerseys
on official DHIR is 11,415 pound of milk
and 531 pounds of fat.
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Master dairyman
Clifford Alexander of Brashear receives the award designating him i960 Master
Dairyman at the recent annual meeting of the Texas Dairy Hard Improvement
Association from Thelma Hall of Sulphur Springs, association secretary.
News briefs
Police get tough on parking areas
If you’ve been parking on the wrong
side of the street or been used to
parking in front of the Post Office in
the no parking zone, Sulphur Springs
police warn that tickets will be issued.
Lt. Randy Whittle announced that
the ordinances have been in effect for
some time, but that officers have not
been enforcing them. However, that
will soon change.
He said that the violations are
causing traffic safety problems.
Additionally, Whittle said that City
Ordinance No. 2554 which prohibits
the parking of trucks in residential
areas will also be enforced.
Another area that police will be
placing extra surveillance on will be
in the area around the hospital where
cars have been observed parking
incorrectly.
Whittle said patrol officers will be
enforcing various ordinances against
parking on the wrong side of the
streets, parking in no parking zones
and the ordinance against parking
trucks in residential areas.
“We will be especially watchful for
people parking in no parking zones
and more especially the area in front
of the Post Office,” Whittle said. “The
area is clearly marked and we will be
enforcing the law.”
Slight warming trend forecast
Slightly wariner temperatures are
on tap for the Sulphur Springs area
through the weekend, according to the
National Weather Service forecast.
Skies should remain clear to partly
cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday with
temperatures warming thoughout the
week.
The high temperature reading
Tuesday was expected to be in the low
50s, rising to near 60 degrees on
Wednesday.
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Mostly clear skies are forecast for
Thursday and Friday with seasonably
mild temperatures in the lower Ms.
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Candidates
speak out
Through a cooperative effort of the
Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce
and The News-Telegram, the opinions of 15
of the 18 candidates for the Sulphur
Springs City Commission are presented on
Pages 6 and 7 of today’s paper.
All 18 candidates received a question-
naire from the Chamber of Commerce as
part of the survey of opinions and 15 were
returned to the Chamber by the deadline.
As a public service the responses of
those 15 are being carried today to allow
voters to become knowledgeable of where
the candidates stand various aspects of
their candidacy.
The final decision will be made by the
voters Saturday when the polls close at 7
p.m.
v The place to vote in Saturday’s election
is the Municipal Building with the polls
opening at 7 a.m.
Tuesday was the last day to vote ab-
sentee and City Secretary Kathea Whittle
reported that there were 25 persons who
had voted absentee in person and 11 who
had mailed in absentee ballots as of noon.
The 18 candidates are in contention for
three seats on the Commission that are
expiring as of March 31.
The newly elected commissioners will
take office on April 1.
The seats of Commission Chairman
Lewis Helm and Commissioners Gerald
Bowers and Dee Mabe are expiring with
only Mabe seeking re-election.
Death takes
Bobby Goff
Robert E. Lee (Bobby) Goff of Sulphur
l!morning >
The Sulphur Springs businessman who
had been in declining health for several
months was widely known for his more
than 50 years participation in organized
baseball, first as a player, then manager,
general manager and later as a scout for
the Cleveland Indians.
He numbered among his friends and
acquaintances the great and near-great in
baseball circles.
One of his promotional events while he
was general manager of the Dallas Eagles
came when he staged a baseball game in
the Cotton Bowl and attracted a crowd of
more than 50,000 fans, a record that still
stands.
He broke into organized baseball with
the Sulphur Springs team in the old East
Texas League in 1924. He later managed at
Palestine, In the same league, Johnstown,
Pa., Wichita Falla and other places. He
was called up to the “big league” by the
Detroit Tigers as an infielder.
As a scout, Mr. Goff signed many
players who went on to stardom.
When he retired from scouting with the
Cleveland Indians, the American League
presented Mr. Goff with a lifetime pass to
all of their games.
His wife, the former Amy McMuUan,
who survives, shared a long life as his
close associate, adviser, and stand-in
mother for many of the young players Mr.
Goff had under his supervision during the
years.
A more detailed story will be carried
later.
Rosary will be recited at 8 o’clock
tonight at Tapp Funeral Home. The
funeral mass will be held at 10 a.m.
Wednesday at St. James Catholic Church,
will entombment at 3 p.m. in Calvary Hill
Mausoleum in Dallas.
Senators toss
tape challenge
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators con-
ducting hearings on Alexander M. Haig
Jr.’s nomination as secretary of state say
Richard M. Nixon alone can keep them
from getting tape transcripts to In-
vestigate Haig's role in Nixon’s White
House. r'\
“The ball is in his court now,” Son.
Charles Percy, R-Ill., said Monday night.
“He must be answerable for his decision.”
Percy is chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, which called Haig
back for a fourth day of confirmation
hearings today on his nomination by
President-elect Ronald Reagan.
Archivist Robert M. Warner also agreed
during hearings Monday when Sen. Paul
Tsongas, D-Kass., asked whether “ooe
person stands in the way of this committee
having this information and that person is
Richard Nixon?”
“Well, there arethe regulations,” the
archivist replied. “fN’that really is the
heart of the matter.”
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