Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 78, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 1980 Page: 2 of 14
fourteen pages : ill. ; page 24 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
• ■ • r
(—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, SulphurSprings, Texas,Tuesday, April 1,1900.
In our opinion
Hay surplus* believ*d
Jr- V ? ^ # r*rr**n*
to be county's first
Something extraordinary is hap-
>ening as Hppkins County moves into
ts 1980 growing season. There is still a
ot of 1979 hay being advertised for sale
on the local market.
Perhaps for the first time the coun-
ty appaiiently produced more hay last
year than its big livestock population
consumed. •
This is an accomplishment that
agricultural workers once regSrded as
impossible. They kept boosting greater
hay production year after year but
with the objective of Teducing the cost
of the imported product for local dairy
and beef herds. Self—sufficiency was
considered too far away to be a viable
goal.
Nature was ir* a kindly mood last
summer, however, 'with timely rains
keeping the grass growing almost con-
tinuously well into fall. Tne
The result was
the biggest hay crop in the county’s
history.
Although some farmers with early
pastures are said to be plowing under
their left-over hay, most appear to
be keeping it as insurance against less
favorable conditions this year. Some
producers expect to maintain a
two—tier market, offering customers
supplies from earlier year’s cuttings.
Attaining self—sufficiency always
is a valuable accomplishment, and
agricultural planners should be going
all out to remain on top of the forage
situation again this year. The annual
challenge always is present and the
results are always an important ele-
ment in the county’s economy.
do
ROCKV MTN
NfcW^ NEA
THE BILL' RUSSELL COLUMN
France accelerates
N-Power — honest
, a ?
talk with an expert
nuclear development
By BILL RUSSELL
Copley News Service
While the Three Mile Island scare
has caused the United States to
reassess its nuclear—power
policy—and no one should fault the
leaders for demanding the most
risk—proof system possible—France
is accelerating its own nuclear
development. France normally is not
the front-runner in power research
and development, but the government
in Paris has set up one of the most am-
bitious programs of any nation.
There are protesters in France, but
the F’rench government in general ap-
pears to have strong support from the
public and is determined to move
ahead rapidly to augment this valuable
energy source.
Afc present, France Is moving for-
ward with about a $4 billion annual in-
vestment in nuclear development. It
now has 15 reactors in operation sup-
plying 15 percent of French electrical
needs. Within five years, the French
project to see those figures climb
to 47 percent with 50 reactors in
operations.
The French are expecting to have
nuclear reactors furnishing 80 percent
of their electric power by the end of the’
century. This would mean 33 percent of
their overall energy requirement pro-
vided by nuclear sources.
The bold approach of the French in
nuclear development may provide
some of the answers to questions that
Americans are asking about their own
nuclear future.
Sulphur Springs Needs....
•Cooper Reservoir
• Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
•A More Prosperous Agriculture
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
Director of quality assur-
ance for special engineering
services. Now that’s a
mouthful. That’s the title or
■ Job description of a friend of
mine.
I thought it was a bit
pompous until I found out he
was working in and on nu-
clear power plants. Then I
thought that maybe he
didn’t have a pompous
enough title. I, like most
people I know, am a bit*
intimidated by just the
thought of nuclear power of
any kind, be it for war or
peace. A little intimidated
but still curious, I decided to
ask him why he was so sure
that we should be using or
committing ourselves to the
widespread use of nuclear
power.
So I said to him, OK, you
believe that nuclear power
is sa^fd and you by the nature
of your Job, know more
about it than most people, I
want to ask you a few ques-
tions about it. OK?
We are starting to hear
about how much it costs for
this source of power. Why is
it so costly?
Jack Anderson
Cables tell how Vietnamese
»■ 1
steal food from Cambodians
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - The suf-
fering of the Cambodian
population that survived Pol
rot’s murderous rule is con-
tinuing under the hostile
regime kept in power by the
Vietnamese military,
according to confidential
cables received 6y the State
Department.
The messages from V.S.
Ambassador Morton Abra-
mowitz in Thailand tell of
murder, rape and theft of
international food supplies
by the occupying Viet-
namese troops. Their harsh
treatment has so alienated
the native Khmer population
that q»e puppet Hem; Samrin
government can keep its
tenuous hold on the country
only by the naked military
force of its Vietnamese
masters.
Prom reports of inter-
viewers dispatched to refu-
* gee camps on the Tbai-Cam-
bodian border, Abramowitz
has advised Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance that
“rape and robbery by PAVN
(Vietnamese) soldiers are
uniformly reported ... from
all parts of Kampuchea
(Cambodia)."
Even officials of the Quis-
ling government have been
fleeing their homeland in
droves, Abramowitz reports
“Their decision to escape
(for) eventual resettlement
in (other) countries is based
on the common perception
that life under the Viet-
namese is intolerable,’’
states one cable. It cites .the
motivating factors as
j of a repressive Com-
of the Cambodians, the Viet-
namese have no qualms
about stealing food from the
starving natives. One man in
bloodstained trousers
decribed to an interviewer
how the Vietnamese had
ambushed him and this
friends. "He still had some
rice only because the Viet-
namese already had stolen
more than they could carry
irom his murdered compan-
ions," one cable relates.
According to the refugees,
the Vietnamese distribute
relief supplies of rice by day
‘ "in the presence of interna-
tional-workers, then confis-
cate (it) after the workers
depart the scene,” or
replace it with corn. Some
Soviet-supplied com "is still
clogging one warehouse ...
but is so unappealing that
only the most hungry will
eat it," the cable reports.
Abramowitz has also pro-
vided evidence to support
continued claims tha( the
.Vietnamese are actually
shipping foreign rice sup-
plies intended for Cambodia
back to their own country.
A militiaman was quoted
in one cable: “He saw two
cargo 'barges arrive from
Vietnam with com. After
unloading, one of the barges
was filled with rice, which
he claimed headed for
Vietnam."
Other witnesses included
a woman who "said she had
twice seen Vietnamese load
who described his observa-
tions as a "solid, penetrating
look” at Cambodia. Heder
wrote:
“Well-organized teams of
Vietnamese troops ... con-
sumed some of (Cambodia’s
home-grown), rice thpm-
selves, provided some-of jt
to their closest collaborii-
tors, sold some of it on the
black markets in the urban
centers, and sent some of it
back to Vietnam, officially
or unofficially.".
The few Cambodians who
cooperate with the con-
querors get several pounds
of edible rice a month, but
ordinary peasants oftfe/i get
only red corn pr"small, bro-
ken rice from Vietnam
which they said made them
vomit,” one cable reports.
Relief medical supplies
are also peddled on the
black market, their foreign
-origin clearly identifiable,
Abramowitz reported. Offi-
cials of the puppet regime
are believed to be profiteer-
ing on the international
relief supplies.
Footnote. The cables,
though detailing the diver-
sion of foreign aid, confirm
sponsored by the consumer-
oriented National Associa-
tion ol Railroad Passengers.
Although clearly address-
ing the already convinced,
Foryst felt called upon to
extol the club-car comforts
and convenience of traveling
between Washington. and
Chicago on an Amtrak train.,,
Foryst, a former govern-
ment flack in the Ford
administration, made a pol-
ished presentation and was,
warmly applauded.
A few minutes'later, dur-
ing the question-and-answer
portion of the program, For-
yst abruptly whispered to
' her host that she had to
leave and get back to Wash-
ington. She then dashed off -
to catch a plane at O’Hare
Airport.
Footnote: Another Amtrak
official, Clark Tyler, vice,
president for communica-
tions -services, stayed
through to the end of the
. meeting, then boarded a
train for his trip back to
Washington. . . *
“Well, several reasons.
. No. 1. Inflation, and I’m
sure you’re well aware what
that’s done to us. Our raw
. materials cost more. And
this is a very labor-intensive
industry. It takes a tremen-
dous number of man-hours
to build reactor vessels, for
instance. In 1970 I did seme
auditing of records of a
reactor vessel built or com-
pleted by 1967. The cost of
that reactor vessel itself, in-
cluding, you know, just the
vessel and the closure head,
was about $5 million to (5.5
million. I don’t have any
figures on the present cost
of a similar reactor vessel,
but I have discussed it with
numerous people, and we all
agree that this cost now is in
the neighborhood of $20 mil-
lion.”
From $5 million to $20
million?
“Yes, in about 12 years.’’
Now that’s not all infla-
tion, is it?
"Well, most of that is in- -
flation. Some of the cost is
due to increased quality-as-
surance requirements. We
can’t lay It all to inflation.
The requirements have been
upped, the controls are
much more stringent, the
^ests are more frequent.
There are many, many lay-
ers of inspections on this.
The organization that builds
the reactor vessel, the fabri-
cator, has to have its own
quality-assurance program.
It has to ensure that its
suppliers have a quality-as-
surance program.
"The organization is au-
dited before it is deemed to
be acceptable for the needs.
“And then the architect-
engineer, who is building the. ■<
plant for the utility, usually
has, or is usually required to'
have, a vendors-surveil-
tance organization — a
group of employees who do
surveillance work on the
fabricators building these
plants. The surveillance
people try to ensure that the
fabricators are meeting the
specification requirements,
and that they are living up
to the promises of their
quality-assurance pro-
gram.”
In all these man-hours
that are taken in building
these things, are these spe-
cially trained people? In
other words, are they labor-
ers or are they engineers,
machinists or what?
active steam would proba-
bly escape. If everything
went wrong that could go
wrong and there was a melt-
down, how long would this
radioactivity last?
.."Well, that would last for’
longer than you and I would
be concerned about._Plutoni-
um is considered to have a
half-life of about 24,000
years.
Oh. OK, now that’s a long
time, but how big-an area
would it affect?
. V
IN WASHINGTON
Robert Walters
Ultimate abuse’ of fund f
By Robert Wajters ■>
(Second ol two related columns).
WASHINGTON (NEA) - The Senate’s’ leading authority oe-^. -j
aviation issues, Sen. Howard W. Cannon, D-Nev., calls it an
“irresponsible proposal ... that sacrifices safety improve-
ments” needed to reduce fatal air crashes in the future.
One of the few licensed pilots in the House, Rep. Barry M.
Goldwater Jr., R-Calif., describes it as “the ultimate abuse’’ of
a supposedly sacrosanct trust fund that has been mishandled
throughout’ the past decade.
- -------- - about President-Carter’s unprecedent-
They’re both talking about President Carter
ed proposal to bleed $8 billion from the Airpoi
Trust Fund during the next five years to he
rt and Airways
elp disguise the
parlous state of the government’s finances.
Carter's predecessors during the past 10 years have been
content to merely thwart expenditures from the trust fund for
needed safety improvements, thus allowing it to accumulate a
bloated balance currently estimated at $3 billion.
But Carter now. is attempting to carry that fiscal legerde-
main one step further by siphoning off trust-fund money to
pay for routine operations and maintenance costs incurred by
the Federal Aviation Administration.
Most of the trust-fund revenue comes from an 8 percent
federal tax on all tickets purchased by airline passengers.
“They think they’re paying a tax for safety, but they’re not
always getting what their money paid for,” says Rep. Sam M.
Gibbons, D-Fla,, one of the most effective and respected mem-
bers of the House. ■——: ;
The FAA operations and maintenance expenses, many of
them involving salary payments to agency employees, tradi-
tionally have been borne by the government’s general fund.
A relatively small but gradually increasing amount of trust-
fund money has been appropriated for that purpose in recent
years’- $275 million in fiscal 1978, $300 million in fiscal 1979
and $325 million proposed in the current fiscal year.
But Carter’s recommended budget for the next fiscal year,
beginning Oct. 1, calls for a massive increase to $1.3 billion.
That figure would rise substantially in each succeeding year,
reaching $1.9 billion by 1985.
In comparison with the five-year total of $8 billion to be
spent on routine operations, the Carter administration pro-
poses spending $2.1 billion during the same period on long
overdue installation and modernization of aviation facilities
and equipment, including navigational aids for air safety.
When F7 ' ' -- - •
•’AA Administrator Langhorne M. Bond appeared at
a recent hearing of the oversight subcommittee of the House
Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Gibbons, he said that
more than $3.1 billion could prudently be spent on improved
facilities and equipment.
"We could probably go 50 percent higher than that (Carter’s
roposed $2.L billion) and make a very sound, substantial and
ell-rounded investment in our air traffic control system,”
"Say, for example, they
had had a meltdown at
Three-Mile Island. Three-
Mile Island is an island in a
river, so you have a. lot of
water around there. If the
.reactor melts down and gets
through the reactor and out'
on the containment building
floor, it has got a lot of work
to do before it really gets
free because there is proba-
bly seven to 10 feet of high-
strength, high-quality con-
crete underneath that floor.
That’s under the contain-
ment shell. It goes down to
bedrock, one way or another
there.
"Some plapts will have as
much as 50 and 60 feet of
concrete. It’s a lean type of
concrete, about 60 percent of
the strength of high-quality -
concrete underneath there.
Just as a mat or a fill.
“This provides solid foun-
dation for the plant. So this
mass has got to work its
way down through all that
concrete first before it can__
escape.”
Would anybody be able to
do anything about JJ if it
happened? •
“No. No,, if that ever hap-
pened the only thing you
could do is to try to cool it
off, and that’s kind of diffi-
cult. BUt Wi the other hand,
you’ve got some things
working f6r you. One is the
fact that in order for chain-
reaction fission to take
place, you have to have a
water moderator. You’ve
got to slow those neutrons
down. Now in a meltdown,
you would have a mass and '
you would not- have water
a^ilable for moderating the
neutrons. So it should be
self-limiting to some ex-
tent.’’
well-rounded investment in
Bond said.
Gibbons noted that almost 250 airports served exclusively
by commuter airlines currently lack precision approach
equipment, more than 400 lack radar and "hundreds more
lack weather reporting capability.”
The situation is somewhat better at larger airfields, but “we
are short about 100 instrument landing systems at major
airports,” Gibbons said earlier. “We also are short about 400
grooved runways, which help a plane if it lands on ice or snow
or watery conditions.”
Cannon, chairman of both the Senate Commerce Committee
and its aviation subcommittee, cynically but accurately refers
to the Carter administration’s proposal as the “Aviation Safe-
ty Reduction and Budget Balancing Act of 1980.”
He, Gibbons, Goldwater and scores of other legislators are
determined to frustrate the White House fiscal chicanery by
cutting the 8 percent tax to perhaps as little as 2 percent, then
irrevocably earmarking all receipts for safety improvements
— not FAA salaries.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
Reagan reaches
for middle rank
* By EVANS WITT'
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Ronald Reagan, long the tor-
chbearer for the right wing of
the Republican Party, is
reaching out to the Americans
in the‘' middle: the middle-
income, the moderates and the
independents.
It’s these Americans who
make up the njajorities that
elect presidents.
Some of these Americans are
voting for Reagan in the early
primaries. That eould be
trouble for President Carter or
any Democratic presidential
candidate in the fall election.
This is particularly good news
for Reagan, whom the doubters
have said is too conservative to
be elected in November. Up to
and including Reagan’s 1976
nemisis — then-President
Gerald R. Ford — the doubters
have said he is not "electable.”
Last week, in Illinois, Reagan
drew on broad support that
went beyond his conservative
..... .3
T':.
Berry's World
r-
that many of the supplies do
lecambo-
find their way to the I
dian populace. Abramowitz
Vance tha
rice on barges at night, then
Vietnam,,r and *‘a
regime" and the
ius threat of Starva-
head for
former history professor
(who) claimed that he saw
Two trucks loaded with rice
head... toward Vietnam ”
An American scholar, Ste-
historic ethnic enemies
Heder, was quoted at
ambassador,
•y
told Vance that the relief
effort must continue if fam-
ine is to be averted. And
sources told my associate
Les Whitten that Cambodian
aid will suhrive President
Carter's budget cuts.
DO AS 1 SAY - One
upper-berth executive of
Amtrak preaches better
than she practices. Carole
Foryst (Cq), the rail
network’s vice president for
public affairs, visited Chica-
go recently to attend a lunch
WATCH ON WAS
The greening of Wa
continues apace - at i
era’ expense. Accordij
Sen. Jim ■ Sasser, T
seven federal agenc
spending a total of,
to have private fir
plants to the
offices, and to ke
’E -
renn.,
are.
14,524
apply
rats’
watered. Treasury a]
(, 132,826 fo
spending
watering-can brig
though Congress I
citfy forbidden use of i
funds for such services
Ublic
0«*M Fetturt Spttnf.iiK
“These are trained peo-
ple, yes. Specialists. For ex-
ample, the welding person-
nel. The welders are proba-
bly some ot the most highly
qualified people you copld
find anyplace. T would call
them artists in their own
right because they’re
graded and promoted and
the whole thing is on their
ability to make quality
welds. You know, lay down
the most pounds of filler
material with the least de-
fects.”
Say I live less than 200
miles from a nuclear power
plant. What Is the worst
thing that could happen that
I would have to worry
about?
"Weil, that depends basi-
cally wn whether you’re
upwind or downwind "
......If there is a meltdown,
which is the most serious of
all nuclear accidents, radio-
CimODv NEA. mr
"We'd like two tidkets to Australia, in case one
ot the candidates gets elected. ’’ ~
Forty-one percent of the
people who said they ere
moderates voted for Reagan in
the GOP primary. Forty-five
percent voted fpr Rep. John
Anderson and 11 percent for
George Bush, an Associated
Press-NBC News poll of GOP
voters found.
While Reagan didn't get a
majority of that group, he did
better than many expected —
particularly better than An-
derson and Bush .had expected
and hoped he would.
Among middle-income
voters, Reagan did even better.
In Illinois, the AP-NBC News
poll found 51 percent of those
with incomes from $15,000 to
$35,000 a year said they backed
the former California governor,
Anderson got 36 percent of their
votes and Bush only 10 percent.
In this year of high inflation
and ever higher taxes, this
group in the middle will be
crucial to any candidate’s
hopes. ji '
Of course, Reagan is piling up
these margins among voters in
the Republican primaries.
Democrats vote, too, in the
general election.
The voters in the GOP
primaries tend to be more
conservative and a bit older
than the usual general voters.
So Reagan’s showings among
groups in the GOP primaries
will not necessarily translate
into similar margins among
those groups in Hie general
election.
In the November voting,
though, one group will be the
key — the independents.
Anderson encouraged them to
come vote for him in the GOP
primaries, and he did well
among that group.
But Reagan received some
significant support from these
people who are neither die-hard
Republicans nor committed
Democratic Party faithful.
Forty-seven percent of the
independents cast their ballots
for Anderson in Illinois, but 40
percent voted for Reagan. Not a
majority, but a good showing
for a man who has been iden-
tified for so long with the
conservative side of the
political fence.
x
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 78, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 1980, newspaper, April 1, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823790/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.