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THE DAIRY CAPITAL OF THE NATION
VOL. 98.—NO. 296.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1976
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Mayor
Receives
Threat
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
An extremist group today
threatened to detonate 26
bombs allegedly planted
around the city unless the city
pays $1 million, police said.
An FBI spokesman said an
empty shoebox, first thought to
be a bomb, was found at a local
television station during a
search a few hours after the
note to Mayor Patience Latting
was left at the door of City HalL
Ken Whittaker, in charge of
the local FBI office, said the
letter writer wanted the money
to finance their “anti-
capitalism" cause.
He said diagrams in the letter
indicated the explosive
allegedly invoved would be
about twice the magnitude of
dynamite.
Whittaker said it was hard to
believe the extensive number of
bombs mentioned in the letter
actually had been planted.
Federal authorities said the
author of the note has the
ability or knowledge to do what
he threatened. The letter in-
cluded drawings of explosive
devices.
The letter says the explosive
devices, about the size of two
shoe boxes, had been hidden at
unspecified locations
throughout the city and could
be detonated at intervals
during a 26-hour period.
It was learned police had two
teams of offices with bom-
bsniffing dogs searching likely
targets; such as the airport and
government buildings.
In a briefing with reporters,
authorities stressed that flash
cameras and tape recorders
should not be used near
possible bomb sites because the
electronic mechanisms were
similar to those which could be
used to detonate explosives.
Authorities said media
facilities also are occasionally
targets of extremist groups.
Officers said citizens band
radio transmissions also should
be avoided in areas where the
bombs might be located.
Police said the letter was
found at the front door of City
Hall when employes arrived for
work this morning.
Officers said the letter’s
author was identified through a
code name and that the group
mentioned in the note was
unfamiliar to them. It was
identified as the Popular
Liberation Front.
Police said they considered
the letter a serious threat
Weather Due
Little Change
Clear to partly cloudy skies
and little change in tempera-
tures are expected in the Sul-
phur Springs area through
Thursday, the National Weath-
er Service says.
Forecasts call for maximum
temperatures Wednesday after-
noon and Thursday to reach
the mid-50s, with a Thursday
morning low in the lower 30s.
Winds should remain light and
variable, the weather service
said.
Tuesday’s high at the official
weather station in Sulphur
Springs was 51 degrees, with
a Wednesday morning low of
WEATHER
NORTHEAST TEXAS — Clear to
partly cloudy. Temperature range
lower 30s to mid SOs. Gusty light
variable wind.
EC Ministers Study
Possible Oil Price Hike
Carter Sees Progress
In Price Discussions
SMILING PRESIDENT-ELECT Jimmy Carter gets into a car for a short trip to file Georgia
Governor’s Mansion from the home of Bert Lance in Atlanta. Carter held a press confer-
ence Tuesday and announced some nominees. In the background is Carter’s vice president
Walter Mondale. (UPI)
$3,000 Exemptions Due
Senior Property Owners
DAYS TO
CHRISTMAS
Senior citizens in the Sul-
phur Springs School District
are scheduled to receive an
ad valorem tax break effective
Jan. I, 1978, while motor
vehicle owners Will find their
tax bills slightly elevated,
effective Jan. 1, 1977.
The tax policy chances were
authorized at the regular
monthly meeting of the board
of trustees Tuesday night.
The $3,000 tax exemption for
property owners over the age
of 65 is estimated to remove
about $3 million in values
from the tax rolls, while the
addition of motor vehicles will
add about $3.2 million.
The effective dates of the
tax policy changes are proj-
ected to alleviate any prob-
lems with the sale of previous-
ly approved school bonds.
Voters earlier approved the
issuance of $4.4 million in
bonds. So far, $3,530 million
have been sold Under current
plans, two additional offerings
will be made as the building
program progresses and valu-
tions of the district sustain the
bonds. Bonded indebtedness is
limited to 10 per cent of valua-
tions.
Chairman Judy Gilreath,
along with W. T. Allison, L. F.
Commissioners
Name Panel
Hopkins County com-
missioners Tuesday afternoon
appointed a four-man panel to
serve as Financial Advisory
Committee in the construction
of the new regional civic center
and livestock arena complex.
Named to the panel were
Walter Helm, chairman;
Lowell Cable, Don Smith and
Billy Harry.
The group’s major function
will be to oversee financial
aspects of the $1.4 million
project before and during
construction. Earlier Tuesday,
county commissioners had
accepted a cooperative bid
from Sulphur Springs’ three
banks for the sale of $200,000 in
general obligation bonds to be
used as partial financing of the
project, and also named
retiring County Auditor Harold
Knight as project supervisor.
In other Tuesday afternoon
action, commissioners tem-
porarily tabled a decision on a
proposed renewal of a contract
with Pritchard and Abbott of
Fort Worth, the firm which has
handled oil, mineral.and utility
valuations for the county for
more than 30 years.
Approval of routine bills and
personal surety bonds con-
cluded the regular court
session Tuesday.
Bridges, III, Tim Kelty and
Jack Ramey, discussed the
mechanics of transferring
$300,000 to the Civic Center
project, but delayed final ac-
tion until a special luncheon
meeting of the board on Fri-
day. Lowell Cable, who holds
dual membership as a trustee
and civic center director, will
be present Friday to join in
the discussions.
The trustees indicated no
difficulties in the funds trans-
fer and pointed out a previous
land assignment valued at
$18,500 to the center.
Matters handled at the
meeting were mostly of a rou-
tine nature and several were
lumped together for motions
of approval. Approved were
the financial report and pay-
ment of vouchers, school dis-
trict policy handbook phi-
losophy, job descriptions for
school plant services director
and food service supervisor.
The board also approved
several committee appoint-
ments by the chairman and
authorized district facilities to
be made available for ETSU
representatives tc work with
advanced music students.
The resignation of Kathy
Smith, physical education
teacher, was accepted effec-
tive Jan. 14. Employed were
Paul Blount, director of school
plant services, full-time, ef-
fective Mar. 1, Karen New-
som, kindergarten teacher;
and Dianna Wilkerson, physi-
cal education teacher, effec-
tive Jan. 17.
Mrs. Marynell Bryant, jour-
nalism teacher, appeared be-
fore the board to brief the
trustees on how her students
were involved in policy-mak-
ing decisions for the yearbook.
She was assured of the sup-
port of the board on the de-
cisions.
The textbook committee as
approved consists of the su-
perintendent, Marynell Bry-
ant, Steve Peugh, Lee Jones,
Tony Bible, Clyde Nichols,
Eddine Roberts, Jean Arnold,
Kathryn James, G. W. Duck-
worth, Paula Dickey, Lee Grif-
fin, Yvonne Rollins, Barbara
Law and Dan Durham.
The board went into execu-
tive session following the open
meeting to evaluate the su-
perintendent’s performance.
His contract normally is re-
newed at the January meet-
ing.
Bush Claims
CIA Needed
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)
— Retiring Central Intelligence
Agency Director George Bush
says the agency is under
criticism because of miscon-
ceptions the public has about its
operations, but that it should
not be abolished.
“It is important for the
American people to understand
if we are to do the job in an
increasingly complex world, it
is important to have the sup-
port of the American people,”
Bush told a chamber of com-
merce banquet Tuesday night
It's 'Real Cool'
In High School
Just before the final bell
rang Tuesday afternoon at
Sulphur Springs High School,
officials announced to the stu-
dents to dress warm Wednes-
day as there would be little if
any heat in the main building.
“We told the students to
wear a coat or sweater to
school Wednesday," said Lloyd
Goolsby, principal, “because
the pump on the boiler broke
Tuesday.”
Heating units in “D" wing
and the gymnasium are still
functioning properly accord-
ing to Goolsby. It is just the
heater in the main building
that is out of order.
“We ordered a new pump,
but it won’t be here before the
close of school for the holi-
days,” Goolsby said. “We
should receive the pump and
have it installed before school
starts again in January,” he
added.
“Our maintenance people
have rigged up the holier so
that we are geting some heat
in the main building to knock
the chill out of the air, but It
is going to be just a bit cool
for the remainder of this
week,” Goolsby said.
The bright sun Wednesday,
with the resulting radiation,
helped to remove the chill from
the air and consequently
students didn’t need the war-
mer clothes for indoor ac-
tivities. In fact, It appeared
that most students were in shirt
sleeves Wednesday and moving
about in complete comfort
By HELEN THOMAS
PLAINS, Ga. (UPI) -
Presidentelect Jimmy Carter
today met with Sen. Henry
Jackson, D-Wash., and Vice
President-elect Walter Mon-
dale to discuss energy
problems— and possibly the
appointment of a defense
secretary.
Press Secretary Jody Powell
said Carter telephoned Jackson
in Washington Tuesday night
and invited him to fly down
with Mondale on a government
plane this morning. He said he
did not know the reason for the
meeting.
But a spokesman in
Jackson’s office said Carter
had called him “to talk about
energy matters.” Jackson
brought with him two top aides
on the Senate Interior Com-
mittee, which has jurisdiction
over energy matters.
Jackson and AFL-CIO
President George Meany were
reported to be pushing James
Schlesinger, a hard-liner and
wary of detente with the Soviet
Union, to be secretary of
defense. He held the top Pen-
tagon post in file Nixon and
Ford administrations until
Ford fired him in October, 1975.
Carter announced his
nominations for secretaries of
treasury and transportation
Tuesday but said he will not
make up his mind on a defense
secretary until next week.
Carter is expected to hold
Thompson Sets
Civil Hearings
Judge Jim Thompson has set
civil suits for hearings during
three weeks in January in 62nd
District Court
Ten cases are set for the
week of Jan. 10: Dr. Clarence
T. French vs. Voluntary
Purchasing Groups, Inc.; Jerry
Ross and wife vs. Elmer
Doherty and others; Bill Jack
Hathcox vs. Great Southern
Fire and Casualty Insurance
Company; Estate of R. B.
Wallace, deceased; C. D. Coker
and wife vs. W. M. Wilson
Building Supply;
Also Farmers Cooperative
Gin Association vs. Paul H.
Kids and Harold Kids; In-
dustrial Underwriters In-
surance Company vs. Doris
Maurice Tanton; Melvin L.
Littrell vs. Travelers Insurance
Company; James Edge vs.
Occidental Chemical Com-
pany; and Norma Gamblin and
Danny Reed vs. J. M. Reed, E.
C. Reed, Marvin Reed, Nettie
Gammill, Dorothy Hinton and
Mary Beckham.
Set for the week of Jan. 17:
Vigilant Insurance Company
vs. James D. McCoy; Bobby J.
Hall vs. National Life and
Accident Insurance Company;
Wayne Hinton and wife vs.
Texas Farm Bureau Insurance
Company and others; Debora
Tompkins vs. John Stewart
McCrary; R. C. Burnett vs.
Keith Klein; and Winnie Welton
Walker vs. Gayle Burchett and
husband.
Settings for the week of Jan.
24 include: James O. Stewart
vs. H. B. Zachary Company;
Glover Feed Mills, Inc., vs.
Rhea A. Coppedge; Viola M.
Clark and J. C. Clark vs.
Bertha Moore; Debbie Phillips
vs. General Telephone Com-
pany of the Southwest; Viola
Clark and J. C. Clark vs, Joe
Burnett Ewing; Bernice Brown
vs. Houston General Insurance
Company; Louisiana and
Arkansas Railway Company
vs. Clarence King and Nathan
F. Williamson; Johnny Johnson
vs. Phillip Weatheread; Jack
Harrison vs. Willie Charles
Finnie. i
another news conference
Thursday to announce perhaps
two more cabinet ap-
pointments.
Speculation has centered on a
number of possibilities, in-
cluding Rep. Bob Bergland,
DMinn., to be secretary of
agriculture. Another repor-
tedly under consideration was
Zbigniew Brzezinski as
national security affairs ad-
viser.
It also appeared possible that
black Rep. Andrew Young,
DGa., has been turned around
and may accept a position in
the Carter administration. He
reportedly is considering
taking the post of U.S. am-
bassador to the United Nations.
Carter, meanwhile, said
Tuesday that many oil
producting nations realize that
raising prices could be
“counterproductive” to the
world’s economy.
Carter discussed the OPEC
attitudes at a news conference
called in Atlanta to announce
the nominations of Germanbom
industrialist W. Michael
Blumenthal, chairman of the
Bendix Coop., to be secretary of
the treasury and Rep. Brock
Adams, D-Wash., chairman of
the House Budget Committee,
to be secretary of transporta-
tion.
The president-elect revealed
that direct and indirect contacts
have been made with the OPEC
nations through Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger and
Cyrus Vance, who will succeed
him in the Carter Cabinet.
Apparently heartened by the
surprise appeal of Saudi Arabi-
an oil minister Sheik Ahmed
Zaki Yamani for OPEC to
freeze oil prices for six months,
Carter said he feels “very good
about their attitude.”
Carter later returned to
Plains to continue his painstak-
ing search for talented and
compatible top-level ap-
pointees, with two more to be
announced at a news con-
ference Thursday. He had no
formal appointments today.
His first turn-down was
revealed Tuesday, when he told
reporters that former IBM vice
president Jane Cahill Pfeiffer,
reportedly in line for secretary
of commerce, had withdrawn
from consideration.
Mrs. Pfeiffer, who is in
London, later explained in a
statement that she had an
operation for thyroid cancer
last year and might lack
stamina for the Cabinet job, and
also did not feel she could move
from the New York area where
her husband, Ralph Pfeiffer, is
headquartered as an IBM
senior vice president.
Carter also had been expect-
ed this week to name nuclear
physicist Harold Brown, Presi-
dent of the California Institute
of Technology, as secretary of
defense but has put off an-
nouncing his choice for that job
until next week.
Some sources say George
Meany and other AFL-CIO
leaders are pushing James
Schlesinger for the Pentagon
post which he once held until he
was fired by President Ford.
Still shooting to have his
Cabinet in place by Christmas,
Carter also said emphatically
that he has made no commit-
ments in private to anyone
regarding government posts,
“so I’m completely at liberty ...
absolutely at liberty to make
my decisions about the cabinet
membership of the basis of
merit..."
Carter also said:
— Economic problems are
"very severe” and “much
worse than we had anticipated
six months, or even three
months ago.”
Olga's Wedding
Dress Found
JACKSONVILLE,Fla. (UPI)
— Russian gymnast Olga
Korbut’s eyes Ut up and she
smiled when she learned her
misplaced wedding gown was
on its way.
“I felt I had lost my hap-
piness, not because it was
expensive but because it was a
bad sign,” Miss Korbut said
through an interpreter. “I felt
in my soul it would be found.”
The 21-year-old champion of
the 1972 Olympics bought the
dress in St. Louis recently and
lost it following an appearance
in Indianapolis last Thursday.
An employe found the
crumpled box containing the
dress in a trash can at the
Southern Trailways bus station
and an Indianapolis radio
station arranged to present the
dress to her today in
Jacksonville.
Miss Korbut and a group of
fellow Russian gymnasts
arrived in Jacksonville late
Tuesday after a visit to Walt
Disney World in Lake Buena
Vista, where she joked with
reporters, but refused to tell
them the name of the n tan she
will marry.
“Why do you need to 1 mow?”
Miss Korbut asked thro igh her
interpreter Andrew Scl ineider.
“She says you could shoot her
and she wouldn’t tell,”
Schneider added.
Miss Korbut also was asked
whether she had purchased a
gift for her fiance. “She says
she is a gift for him,” the in-
terpreter said. “What other gift
does he need?”
Schneider said Miss Korbut
has a different response each
time she is asked about her
upcoming marriage.
“I think she’s having a good
time with you all,” he told
reporters, adding that Miss
Korbut’s fiance is a
decathlonist but not a world-
class athlete.
Miss Korbut, who was a star
in the 1972 Olympics but
overshadowed in this year’s
games by Romania’s Nadia
Comaneci, said she would wait
until 1980 before deciding
whether she would again try to
compete in the Olympics.
J.R. McDonald, a bus
company employe, found Miss
Korbut’s lace-trimmed, amel-
&nd nylon jersey gown and
wedding veil in a box in the
trash bin behind the Southern
Trailways bus station in In-
dianapolis.
He said he couldin’t un-
derstand why anyone would
throw away an expensive-
looking wedding dress and that
his only thought was that the
dress was either unclaimed
freight'or a package someone
left od one of the buses.
He raided to keep the dress
in his office and still had it there
Tuesday when a fellow worker
he had talked to about the dress
and veil heard a broadcast that
Miss Korbut apparently “lost or
misplaced" her dress.
The Soviet team used a
Trailways bus for a tour of
Indianapolis last week while in
town for a gymnastics exhibi-
tion.
By BARRY JAMES
DOHA, Qatar (UPI) -
Ministers of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries
opened a crucial meeting today
with Saudi Arabia calling for a
six-month freeze on oil prices
and other countries demanding
hikes of up to 25 per cent.
Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani
of Saudi Arabia, the most Im-
portant voice at the parley, said
before the conference his
country opposes any Immediate
increase because of the weak
state of the world economy.
Opening the conference,
which is taking place amid
intensive security, outgoing
OPEC President Mohammed
Sadli of Indonesia said the oil
ministers have “a heavy
burden of global respon-
sibility.”
He said their decisions “will
affect the state of health of the
world not only now but for some
time to come.”
Officials said the ministers
would immediately begin work
on the question of price
revision.
Since any OPEC decisions
must be unanimous, Yamani’s
statement appeared to signal a
hard-fought debate. But Yama-
ni has said the same kind of
thing before other OPEC
meetings and then gone along
with a price hike.
The betting was still for a 10
per cent increase, which ac-
cording to official U.f.
estimates would add $12 billion
to the world’s annual bills.
Yamani said Tuesday the
Western economy is not strong
enough to support an increase
at this stage, although he added
the Saudi position might change
under pressure from other
members of the 13-nation OPEC
cartel.
“Our position in the past was
to allow for a reasonable in-
crease if the other members in
OPEC insisted on it, taking into
consideration that there was a
strong recovery in the world
economy,” Yamani said.
“However, in the last month,
watching the trend of recovery,
we now believe the recovery is
not as strong as we hoped for
and therefore we have changed
our position and think that we
have to freeze the oil price for
another six months.”
Yamani added, “this is our
position today and we will do
our best to convince the
members in OPEC with our
vie ws and we think we do have a
strong view.”
But he said, “We never in the
past came to OPEC with a
position we don’t change.”
In Atlanta, President-elect
Jimmy Carter said the U.S.
government has made some
progress in convincing Arab oil
nations that a price increase
“might be counterproductive.”
The last time the price of oil
was raised — in October 1975 —
Yamani at first opposed the
hike then joined the others in
imposing one.
Trooper Report
Two Crashes
Highway Patrol troopers
filed reports on two rear-end
traffic accidents Tuesday and
Wednesday.
At 7:35 a.m. Wednesday a
1974 model car driven by
George Boyd, 316 Calvert
Street, and a 1976 model car
driven by Cherie White, Route
Four, were involved in a colli-
sion on Highway 11 east of
Sulphur Springs 1.6 miles.
Trooper Roger Maynard listed
moderate damage.
Light damage was listed for
a 1973 model pickup truck driv-
en by Kirk Jackson Johnson,
Route One, Como, and a 1979
model pickup driven by Virgil
Holland, Route One, Yantls,
when they collided four miles
south of Sulphur Springs on
Highway 154. The accident
occurred about 12:25 pjn.
Tuesday according to trooper
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