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Shah query panel set; hostage transfer rumored
By WILLIAM N.OATIS
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N.
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim
reportedly was expected to name a five-
member panel this weekend to investigate
Iranian grievances against the deposed
Shah of Iran and open the way for release
of the American hostages in Tehran.
A Kuwaiti newspaper said, meanwhile,
that Iranian President Adoihassan Bani-
Sadr lias received Ayatollah Ruhoilah
Khomeini’s permission to move the
militant students out of the occupied U.S.
Embassy compoyid and put the 50
American hostages they were holding
under the protection of government troops.
The newspaper Al-Wattan, reporting
from Tehran Saturday, did not give a
timetable for the transfer and the report
could not be independently confirmed.
According to the paper, Bani-Sadr “was
obliged” to go directly to Khomeini
because the militants refused to take
orders from the president, but said they
would abide by Khomeini’s ruling. The
paper also reported that the ruling
Revolutionary Council, headed by Bani-
Sadr, vvhs split over his efforts to arrange
an end to the U.S.-iranian crisis.
Informed diplomats at the United
Nations said five lawyers from Algeria,
Syria, Bangladesh, Venezuela and France
would make up the investigative panel
being sent to Iran. They are to be briefed
by Waldheim at U.N. headquarters in New
York on Monday before leaving for Tehran
.ater in the week, the diplomats said.
■ Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh said on Friday the hostages,
entering their 105th day of captivity
Saturday, would not be freed until the U.N.
panel completed its work, which he said
would take from 10 days to two weeks.
President Carter last week said he would
approve of such a probe within well-
defined limits, but he refused to meet an
Iranian demand to admit any possible U.S.
role in alleged misrule by ousted Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
That condition was one of three set last
week by Bani-Sadr. He also wants a U.S.
pledge not to meddle in Iranian affairs and
not to block Iranian effo.is to return the
ousted shah and his wealth to Iran.
Asked during a visit to Paris if the
United States had met any of the Iranian
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Ocean Spray nears opening
Cranberries from New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, British line at the Sulphur Springs plant is scheduled to go into
Columbia, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia should be moving into the operation by mid-March.
154,000 square toot Ocean Spray plant soon. The first production * _stall Photo
Commission eyes ordinances
Tliree ordinances will be up for final
readings and one for its first reading when
the City Commission meets Tuesday at 7
p.m. at the Municipal Building.
Also at the meeting, a lease purchase
plan on a bulldozer will be considered and
authorization to advertise for bids is ex-
pected on the Front Street project under
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development’s Community Development
Block Grant Program.
Public hearings will be held on an or-
dinance to prohibit the sale of alcoholic
beverages within 300 feet of a church,
school or hospital and on Ordinance 820
concerning the use or consumption of
alcoholic beverages where a pool table is
installed.
The final public hearing of the night will
be on an ordinance making it illegal for
anyone to explode fireworks within the
corporate city limits of Sulphur Springs.
All three public hearings will be on the
second and, final readings of the or-
dinances.---
Homicide stumps
Franklin officers
MOUNT VERNON - “This one here -
course any homicide has us concerned
but this one has really got us disturbed,”
id Franklin County Sheriff Don Qualls
iturday morning after the body of 68-
tar-old Gay Joyner was found Friday
ternoon.
Qualls said the woman was last seen
»'.it 6 p.m. Thursday. “She didn’t drive
night and we think she was going to help
mebody,” Qualls said, “she was always
tlping somebody.”
Neighbors who became suspicious
tea use of the woman’s car being missing
id lights being left on at the house con-
cted the Franklin County Sheriff’s
spartment early Friday morning and the
arch began about 8:15 a.m.
Texas Ranger Lloyd Johnson of Sulphur
irings was called to assist in the in-
stigation.
A Department of Public Safety
tlicopter was called in to search from the
r but nothing was found until about 4:05
m, when Deputy Randy Lynn found the
Oman’s car stuck in the mud on a dirt
ad at Lake Cypress Springs.
Qualls then searched about V«-mile down
e same road and found the woman’s
)dy on the side of the road. He said the
oman was believed to have been shot in
the head.
Mrs. Joyner’s body has been sent to the
forensic laboratory in Dallas for an
autopsy according to Qualls.
Friday’s discovery of the murder victim
is the second in seven months. On July 13,
the body of Clarence Giles, 60, of Route 1,
Mount Vernon, was discovered at 1:06
a.m. in a pasture where his late model
luxury car had hit a tree after he was shot
twice in the head.
No arrests have been made in that
homicide to this point according to the
Franklin County sheriff.
However, Qualls said that the two
homicides were not believed to be related.
“We’ve even checked out a robbery-
assault that happened here recently but it
doesn’t look like any of it’s connected.”
Sheriff Qualls said that Mrs. Joyner had
been active in volunteer work at Franklin
County Memorial Hospital. “She was
always cooking for somebody or doing
something to help others,” he said. “She
was real friendly and everybody knew her.
She had to know the guy who did this or
she'd never have gotten in the car with
him. She had to have been going to help
somebody.”
“We're just hoping something will turn
up today,” Qualls said Saturday.
An ordinance specifying the type, size
and location of water mains will be con-
sidered on first reading.
The Front Street project will again be
before the commissioners who took no
action at their last meeting due to what
were called “engineering problems”.
A new engineering firm (Kindle Stone
and Associates of Longview) was hired at
the last meeting to take the place of a
Tyler firm that had been working on the
CDBG project.
Commissioners are expected to approve
advertising for bids for the street's paving
knd curb and guttering.
Following their last meeting, City
Financial Director Travis Owens
presented a proposal to the commissioners
showing that a new D-6 Caterpiller could
be bought on a lease-purchase plan
cheaper than maintaining the present
equipment now at the sanitary land fill.
Commissioners are expected to take
action on that proposal at their meeting
Tuesday night.
Other items on the agenda for Tuesday
include a request for a pool hall permit
from Tony Cooper, consideration of ap-
pointment of a rehabilitation committee
for the CDBG and discussion of second-
year Texas Department of Community
Affairs planning grants.
conditions for release of the hostages,
Ghotbzadeh replied: “Nothing has been
done so far.”
“Until now, everyone has been talking
about the hostages and not about the
Cause,” Ghotbzadeh complained to
reporters on his arrival at Orly Airport
Fridayvft was his first return to France
since he helped religious leader Ayatollah
Ruhoilah Khomeini engineer, Iran's
Islamic Revolution from his exile in a
Paris suburb a year ago.
Bani-Sadr, who has said he believes
Khomeini will go along with his plan to end
the U.S.-iranian crisis, paid a 26-minute
visit to the ailing revolutionary leader in
his Tehran hospital.
“I have not seen him so jubilant since
his illness, and his health condition is
better than before,” Bani-Sadr said. He
refused to discuss details of his bedside
meeting with Khomeini who is
recuperating from a mild heart attack
suffered late last month.
At the United Nations, Waldheim’s
spokesman Francois Giuliani told
reporters late Friday that not only the
timing but the composition of the proposed
U.N. commission remained undecided. He
said the appointments could come
Saturday but he would not rule out “an
announcement Sunday or Monday.”
But even before he began his briefing,
well placed diplomats were spreading the
word that the commission would consist of
five lawyers:
—Mohamed Bedjaoui, Algeria’s U'.N.
ambassador, member of the U.N. Com-
mission on Human Rights and former
minister of justice.
—News
The cos© of the
phantom roping
Suppose everybody showed up for a
steer roping and didn't have a place to
rope?
That’s a possibility here, and it has
Hopkins County Civic Center Board
members and county officials con-
cerned.
An advertisement currently ap-
pearing in a California publication,
placed by a man identified as Otis W.
Mitchell, claims a roping event will be
held in the civic center arena April 26-
27, board members report.
The problem is that neither the
promoter nor his agent has contacted
the local board about renting the
arena - and the fine print in the ad
disclaims any responsibly for refund
of the $250 entry fee, along with other
expenses, due to default or damage.
County Judge Joe Pogue has con-
\ tacted the magazine, board chairman
Millard Bennett said, notifying th<?
publication that the local arena has
not been rented to Mitchell for the
event.
Tower tops state
birthday salute
WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS,
Texas (AP) — U.S. Sen. John Tower
will be the speaker at the March 2
observance of the 144th birthday of
Texas.
Tower's selection was announced
Saturday by George A. Butler, board
chairman of the Washington-on-the-
Brazos State Park Association.
A 2,000-seat ampitheater also will
be dedicated during the celebration
that will begin at 10 a.m. and continue
through a 2 p.m. program during
which Tower will speak.
The Texas Declaration of In-
dependence from Mexico was signed
at Washington-on-the Brazos on
March 2,1836.
—Adib Daoudy, assistant for foreign
affairs to President Hafez Assad of Syria
and a,U.N. General Assembly delegate in
the 1950s.
—Abu Sayeed Chowdhury,, former
president of Bangladesh, who had been
chief justice of the East Pakistan high
court in Dacca and kept that post as it
became the high court of Bangladesh on its
independence in 1971.
—Andres Aguilar, former minister of
, justice of Venezuela, former head of the
Organization of American States’ human
rights commission, a current committee
chairman in the intermittent U.N. Con-
ference on the Law of the Sea and a
professor of law at two Caracas univer-
sities.
—Edmond Louis Pettiti, former
president of the Paris Bar Association.
Sean MacBride, Irish ex-foreign
minister, winner of both the Nobel and
i.enin peace prizes and recent visitor to
-Iran, Was reported left off the list although
he said Friday he probably would be on the
commission.
Well placed sources said both Iran and
the United States considered his opinions
too close to Moscow's, although MacBride
said in an NBC television interview Friday
his political views “are pretty well
balanced.”
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Empty playground
The swings in the park swung quietly in the wind Saturday morning as children
stayed in the warm indoors while light snow blew about the park. The mercury
dropped nearly 50 degrees overnight Friday from a high of 71 to a low of J7 as a
Canadian cold front swept through the area.
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County shivers under
fresh blast of winter
Mother Nature may not have been
fooled, but she was certainly confused over
a period of a few hours beginning Friday.
The temperature soared to a balmy 71
degrees Friday afternoon, but by 5 p.m.
Friday the mercury had begun to skid.
From the high Friday the temperature
dropped nearly 50 degrees in just a few
hours to an overnight low of 27 degrees and
at 8 a.m. Saturday, with the wind gustbig
between 15 and 20 m.p.h., the temperature
remained below the freezing mark at 29
degrees. Later in the morning a brief snow
flurry swept into Sulphur Springs.
Snow, sleet and freezing rain fell across
much of the northern half of Texas early
Saturday after a cold front moved
southwestward across the state, bringing
cold Canadian air to almost all of Texas.
Light snow flurries danced across
Hopkins County Saturday morning as the
front passed through the area.
The cold weather is not expected to last
long, however, according to the forecast
prepared by the National Weather Service.
Concert membership drive opens
After reporting a successful patron
drive campaign in late January, the
Hopkins County Community Concerts
Association will kick off its first annual
membership drive Tuesday. It will run
through Feb. 22.
“We would like to make the patron
the backbone of the organization,"
Patsy Johnson, association official,
said. “But it takes the combined efforts
of both patron and member to obtain
quality entertainment we would
otherwise not be able to obtain.”
Memberships are being sold for $7.50
for students, $14 for adults and $35 for a
family of two parents and any school-
age children living at home.
“The unique thing about the initial
membership fee is that it also enables
the member to see concerts in neigh-
boring towns as well if there is
something there he or she wants to see,
and for a family of four or five this is an
inexpensive way to provide good en-
tertainment,” Eddean Roberts,
Association president, said.
Concerts already scheduled, based on
budget and timetable compatability,
are Floyd Cramer, Oct. 2, 1980; the
Ronnie Brown Trio, Feb. 27,1981; and
the Texas Boys Choir, March 30,1981. A
fourth concert will be chosen and
scheduled at the Feb. 21 board meeting
at 7 p.m. in the Sulphur Springs State
Bank community room.
Posters are being distributed to
several local businesses in Sulphur
Springs concerning the membership
campaign.
Selling memberships insures a
controlled concert audience; there will
be no sale of tickets, only memberships.
The goal of the Association is to sell
out the 1,500 seats in the Regional Civic
Center auditorium.
Even though the patron drive is of-
ficially over the Association is still
accepting donations. " }
Skies should be mostly cloudy Sunday
but temperatures are expected to be
slightly wanner — in the upper 30s.
The clouds will remain in the area
Monday but skies should begin to clear and
fair skies should return by Wednesday as a
warming trend moves into the area.
The high temperature reading Monday
should be near the 60 degree mark and
should be in the lower to mid 60s Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Ex-gridder
killed in
auto crash
MOUNT VERNON - A former Winn-
sboro football player died here early
Saturday morning in a one-vehicle ac-
cident.
According to DPS Trooper Steve Blake,
David Jack Donaldson, 19, of Route 2,
Mount Vernon was the driver of a 1979
four-wheel drive vehicle that was east-
bound on FM-900 when it left the roadway
on the left side about 12:45 a.m.
Blake said that the driver then tried to
pull back onto the roadway and the vehicle
overturned, ending up in a ditch on the
right side of the road near the Purley
community.
Donaldson was pinned beneath the
vehicle and was pronounced dead at the
scene.
Blake said that the Donaldsor. family
had recently moved to Mount Vernon from
Winnsboro, where Donaldson was a Red
Raider football standout last year.
Donaldson’s body was taken to the Sam
B. Harvey Funeral Home in Mount Vernon
where services were pending Saturday.
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