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VOL. 102—NO. 68.
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The agony is no\fr;
the ecstasy later
Trying out tor the twirling squad is
not the ecstasy of the sport; it takes
long hours ot practice and quiet
reflection as Nina Verncr demon-
strates (top photo) — and often pain,
as Lauri Webster (bottom photo) ice-
bags an injured ankle during an in-
tensive workout. Miss Verner was to
make her first bid Thursday a<
ternoon to become a member of the
Sulphur Springs High School twirling
corps and she worried Wednesday
during practice whether she would
make the squad as she sat alone and
watched the some of the other
hopefuls run through a routine. Miss
Webster, who has felt the ecstasy of
performing before the crowds during
Wildcat football games, felt the agony
of pain Wednesday afternoon after
spraining her ankle doing a trick, just
one day before tryouts for next year's
squad. Hurting ankle or not, Miss
Webster worked on her routines and
planned to carry through with tryouts
Thursday at 5 p.m. for a slot on the
team.
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Littlest lobbyists make their
point about floods and fears
By KEN HERMAN
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The lobbyists
who say they have trouble sleeping at
night when it rains sat quietly and waited
for the late-arriving governor to emerge
from behind closed doors for their
scheduled meeting.
“Hi kiddos, good to see you,” Clements
said after eyeing the 13 Friendswood
students prepared to tell him about their
friends who lost their dogs in recent floods
and get scared when the first few drops of
drizzle begin to fall.
The low-lying Houston-area city is
plagued by recurring floods. In January,
as a storm brought another flood threat to
the city, the pupils wrote to Clements for
help. He responded with an invitation to
the Capitol.
Todd Travaille, 10-year-old spokesman
for the group, told the governor about the
difficulties of growing up in an area where
any rain could mean the end of a home.
“Every time it rains even a little, people
are afraid that it will happen again. One of
the kids says her little sister is so afraid
she can’t go to sleep when it rains,” he
said, adding that student Byron Coffman
said “just the small rain we had Sunday
night made him remember all the horrible
memories of the flood, especially the loss
of his pet dog.”
Young Travaille talked about the “big
one” — Tropical Storm Claudette that
inundated the city last July.
"Brian Rooney has had to live in eight
different places since July,” he told
Clements.
Travaille offered a three-point program
developed by'the students. They want a
slowdown in building in the flood-prone
areas, an end to draining of water in
Friendswood from surrounding counties,
and state help in cleaning up clogged
creeks.
Clements told the students he has flown
over the area and is working on possible
solutions. He promised to visit their
schools — Westwood Elementary and C.W.
Cline Primary — in the spring.
“Out of the mouths of babes sometimes
comes wisdom,” Clements said.
He also presented the students with two
Texas flags that had been flown over the
Capitol.
Clements listened to several of the
students who had made the four-hour bus
trip that started at 5 a m. in Friendswood.
Spring debuts with varied touch
Spring made its official debut Thursday
in fine fettle - with barely-freezing
temperatures overnight, a light early-
morning shower and a 3frdegree-plus
jump in the mercury reading by 8 a.m.
The official overnight low at the weather
station in Sulphur Springs was 31 degrees,
set before a warm front moved into the
region and triggered the morning showers.
By 8 a.m. the mercury had climbed all the
way to 63 degrees enroute to an expected
high in the 70s during the afternoon hours.
The showers left .05 inch of moisture at
the Sulphur Springs weather station,
boosting the total for the month to .63 of an
inch and raising the year’s accumulation
to 9.99 inches.
Some scattered showers are possible
overnight, the National Weather Service
says, with skies clearing and warm
temperatures on tap for Friday.
Highs Friday should reach the low to
mid 70s under sumiy skies, with mind
overnight readings in the 40s, according to
forecasts issued Thursday.
The long-range outlook is for partly
cloudy skies and mild temperatures
Saturday through Monday. Highs should
be slightly cooler, with readings in the
mid-60s to near 70.
Iranians celebrate as
hostages’ future dims
by I he Associated Press
Signals coming from Iran indicate the
American hostages may be held in-
definitely, the U.S. government said today.
Meanwhile, Iranians celebrated the new
year with fiery incantations, lucky gold-
fish and strolling minstrels after 61
prisoners were freed under an amnesty by
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The new year holiday, called Now Ruz,
closed government offices for the next
week and took public attention away from
the slow counting of votes in the
parliamentary election last week and the
50 hostages, who began their 138th day in
captivity in the U.S, Embassy today.
“The signals which are now coming out
of Iran suggest that the detention of the
hostages may continue indefinitely,” State
Department legal adviser Roberts B.
Owen told the World Court in the Hague,
Netherlands.
News briefs
"Nooneunhis courtroom has any way
of knoymig whether the Ayatollah
Khomflni will continue to hold the
hojjdiges in captivity for a month or for a
year or for a decade,” he declared.
Owen said that U.S. hopes for release of
the hostages were shattered early this
month when the U.N. investigating
commission left Iran without seeing the
captives. He called the World Court the
most promising hope for the ultimate
release of the hostages and called for an
urgent final judgment on the U.S. case
against Iran.
Owen told the court on Wednesday the
hostages were held under "harsh and
inhumane conditions” and were “confined
like common criminals.’’
He said 13 black or female hostages who
were released Nov. 16 reported that
women were tied to straight chairs facing
the wall for 16 hours at a time, that at night
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Final shakedown
Speech and drama students at Sulphur Springs High School have taken to the
stage again. After producing “You're a Good Man Charlie Brown", members
of the organization began working a one-act play, "The Bald Soprano", a
comedy-satire about the communication break down in upper-class London.
With only 13 rehearsals, the play will be entered Friday in zone competition at
Atlanta High School; a win there would send the group to district competition.
Gregg Finley and DeAnna Brown as Mr. and Mrs. Martin acted out their parts
Thursday morning during dress rehearsal before the student body. Other
members of the cast include Roy Davis, April Lynch, Angie Miller and Jon
Thomas.
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Skywarn appeal issued
People of the Sulphur Springs area
are being asked to join a government
sponsored disaster warning system
known as Skywarn.
A three-hour seminar will be con-
ducted here next Thursday night to
explain the program.
The session will be held in the
Hopkins County Regional Civic
Center auditorium beginning at 7:30.
Representatives of the U.S.
Weather Service office in Fort Worth
will explain how to spot, identify and
report severe local storms, flash
floods and tornadoes.
Local sponsors are the Hopkins
County Chamber of Commerce,
Hopkins County Amateur Radio Club
and Hopkins County REACT.
“We are approaching tornado
season here in Hopkins County and
your immediate action can save your
life when a tornado approaches, if you
know what to do,” an announcement
by the chamber’s Public Safety
Committee declares.
“So, spread the word, tell your
friends and neighbors they can help
too. We need you...You need the
seminar. You will be a vital member
of the Skywarn team. Even if you
attended last year, plan to come this
year. The program is new with the
latest information and pictures from
the Wichita Falls tornado.”
(Watch for a detailed series on
tornadoes and the Skywarn program
in future editions of The News-
Telegram.)
Softball field search on
“When I move it, I want to make
fairly certain that it’s going to stay
there,” says City Manager Wendell
Sapaugh concerning the relocation of
the softball field located at the corner
of Bell and League Streets.
“The site just northwest of the lake
washed out yesterday afternoon,” he
reported Thursday morning.
Relocation of the softball field will
cost the city in excess of $4,000.
The need to move the field came
about at the City Commission meeting
Tuesday night when A.W. Melton and
Bill Glover, son of Commission
Chairman Millard Glover, appeared
before the city fathers complain
about the existing facili, icated on
the Middle School grounds.
Sapaugh told the commission at
that time that he had looked at several
sites but the one northwest of the Lake
Sulphur Springs dam looked like the
best choice. He told the com-
missioners that the field could be put
there with only a minimum of dirt
work and thus facilitate the timely
relocation efforts.
Thursday morning, he said that he
had talked with residents near the
proposed site and that they also had
objected to its being relocated there.
“We’re just going to keep looking
and see what we can find,” Sapaugh
said, “we’ve got to do it quick because
the softball season will be starting
soon.”
He said that he hopes to have a new
site selected by the end of the week.
the hostages' hands were bound or hand-
cuffed and they were kept under lights
around the clock to inhibit sleep, that some
were made to sleep on the cold bare floor
without blankets, that some were denied
changes of clothing and that baths or
showers were allowed only rarely.
“On one occasion a student who was
interrogating a woman hostage showed
her his revolver to let her know that one of
its chambers was loaded, and then
proceeded to intimidate her by pointing
the gun at her and repeatedly pulling the
trigger,” said Owen.
He also denied Iranian charges that the
embassy was a spy center. He said it was
“a normal diplomatic mission operating
as such missions normally do.”
The 61 amnestied Iranians left Evin
Prison Wednesday and were kissed and
hugged by waiting relatives and friends.
Most or all were believed to be minor of-
fenders, and it was not known if any had
been arrested because of activities while
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was still in
power.
Some 400 other prisoners were expected
to be freed in the next few days. Although
Khomeini's proclamation specified that it
would apply to members of the armed
forces, the secret police and the clergy
during the monarchy, it excluded those
accused of killing, torture or misuse of
public funds or property.
Senate eyes
tax burden
final impact
By JIM LUTHER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators are
weighing one of the unanswered questions
about the proposed “windfall” tax on the
oil industry: whether the $227.7 billion
ultimately will come out of the pockets of
consumers or be absorbed by the major oil
companies.
“The people feel the major oil com-
panies will find some way to pass it on to
consumers,” Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan.,
said Wednesday as the Senate began final
consideration of the compromise tax bill.
A major task of proponents of the tax is to
convince Americans they will not have to
pay it, he added.
“The burden of the tax will fall entirely
on the (oil) producers and royalty
holders,” said Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La.,
manager of the bill.
“Of course the tax will be paid by con-
sumers,” retorted Sen. Malcolm Wallop,
R-Wyo.
The Senate apparently will have several
days to ponder the question since an oil
state bloc led by Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-
Okla., plans to extend debate in an effort to
force the convening of a new Senate-House
conference committee. That group’s hope
is that a new committee would write a
compromise that would mean less taxes on
independent oil producers.
Bellmon and his backers refused to
allow an agreement that would have set a
day to end debate and take a final vote on
the bill, which already has passed the
House.
The tax was proposed by President
Carter to win political acceptance of his
plan to remove federal price controls from
U.S. crude oil. Decontrol will cost con-
sumers an estimated $1 trillion more in the
1980s than with controlled prices. This $1
trillion is what is called the “windfall.”
Consumers will pay the $1 trillion in-
crease regardless of whether there is a tax
on the “windfall,” says the Carter ad-
ministration and most backers of the tax.
The only question, they say, is whether the
oil industry keeps all of the additional
money or is forced to give $227.7 billion of
it to the federal government.
After existing local, state and federal
taxes are subtracted, the “windfall” tax
would leave the oil industry an estimated
$221 billion of the $1 trillion it is expected to
realize from the price increase.
Wallop contends the oil industry will
have to pass the “windfall” tax on to
consumers, just as most other taxes are
recouped in the normal course of doing
business.
The compromise bill, written over a two-
month period by a Senate-House con-
ference committee, earmarks $137 billion
of the tax revenue for income tax reduc-
tions. But it does not guarantee a tax
reduction. That would require passage of
separate legislation.
Because the bill is a compromise written
by a conference committee, the Senate, in
effect, can do nothing except pass it or kill
it. It cannot be amended.
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