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Thursday
Sulphur Springs
, ;
Saturday
election
poll sites
Saturday’s election will see Hopkins
County residents turning out to cast their
votes at various locations.
Democrats will cast their ballots at 18
different locations while Republicans can
vote at two polling places.
Democrats of Precinct 1 will vote at the
* Lutheran Church while Precinct 1-A will
vote at the Saint James Catholic Church.
Precinct 2 voters will go to Bowie
School; Precinct 3 will be at People’s
National Bank; Precinct 4 voters at the
Civic Center. The Precinct 4 box normally
votes at Sulphur Springs State Bank but
due to the construction there, the voting
box has been moved to the Civic Center.
Precinct 5 balloting will be at the Saltillo
Community Center; Precinct 8 at the
Reilly Springs Community Center; voting
Precinct 11 at the Cumby City Hall;
Precinct 12 at the Sulphur Bluff School;
Precinct 13 at the Como Community
Center and Precinct 14 at the Pickton
Community Center.
Other Democrat voting places are:
Precinct 16, Miller Grove School; Precinct
17, North Hopkins School; Precinct 20,
County Barn office; Precinct 23, Weaver
Baptist Church; Precinct 24, Dike Com-
munity Center; Precinct 25, Brashear
Community Center and Precinct 36 at the
Arbala Community Center.
Those wishing to vote in the Republican
primary will vote at either Bowie School or
at 626 Church St. at the offices of Dr.
Starkey and Dr. Vaculik.
Republicans in Precincts 1,1-A, 2, 8,13,
14,16,25 and 36 will vote at Bowie School at
1400 Mockingbird Lane.
Precincts 3, 4,5,11,12,17, 20, 23, and 24
will cast Republican ballots at the Church
Street location.
Exchange of ideas
Tommy Allison (right), local attorney, contemplates comments from Ambassador-
at-Large Bob Krueger concerning President Jimmy Carter's re-election bid.
Krueger addressed about 20 people who were present Wednesday afternoon at
Peoples National Bank outlining Carter's achievements while in office and his
qualifications to be re-elected. Krueger is also the Coordinator for Mexican Affairs.
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Ambassador backs president
Krueger applauds Carter
efforts in local appearance
By JIM MOORE
News-Telegram Staff
Bob Krueger of New Braunfels, recently
appointed Ambassador-at-Large to
Mexico, was in Sulphur Springs Wed-
nesday afternoon campaigning for
President Carter.
On the aborted rescue attempt in Iran,
Krueger said that it was a considerable
achievement that the press did not know
about the attempt before it occurred.
“President Carter didn’t blame others,
he took the responsibility himself,’’
Krueger said. “He’s got a plaque on his
desk that says, ‘The buck stops here’.”
That slogan was made famous by
President Harry Truman.
“He’s (President Carter) faced a lot of
tough issues,” Krueger said, “and I’ve
differed with him on a lot of those same
tough issues.”
Krueger, a former Congressman and
unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senator
against Republican John Tower last year,
said that one of those issues where he
disagreed with the president was de-
regulation of natural gas.
The primary issue of disagreement, he
said, was that he personally favored
compete de-regultion while the president's
actions did not go to those lengths.
Krueger said that Sam Rayburn,
deceased speaker of the house, and the
late President Lyndon Baines Johnson
, WASHINGTON (AP) - Serious crime,
which soared nationwide last year after a
three-year letup, is growing faster in
smaller communities and in the South, the
FBI says.
As measured by preliminary data
released Wednesday, serious crimes
reported to police increased 8 percent in
1979 — the biggest jump since 9.8 percent
four years ago. The crime index decreased
1 percent between 1976 and 1978.,
The FBI said the figures showed that the
number of serious crimes rose 11 percent
in cities of less than 50,000 population and 8
percent in larger cities.
Overall crime rose 10 percent in the
South, compared with 9 percent in the
Northeast, 8 percent in the West and 7
(while stilt a Congressman) had suc-
cessfully passed de-regulation but
President Eisenhower vetoed it.
“Nixon placed price controls on the
economy, Ford continued them but
Jimmy Carter reduced them,” Krueger
said. “He’s de-regulated airlines and the
fares haven’t gone up as much as the cost
of fuel and he’s making a movement for
less regulation in the trucking industry.”
“ 'The ambassador at large and cq6r-
dinator for Mexican Affairs said that
Carter has tackled the tough issues of
energy, inflation and produced “the first
balanced budget in years.”
He said Carter has made sweeping civil
service changes, not as much as had been
desired, “but he brought more respon-
sibility into the civil service system it-
self,” Krueger said.
He said that the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare had once had
100,000 employees but the director and
President found that they could only
eliminate 33 employees prior to the civil
service reform act.
“He’s had to address a lot of very tough
issues,” Krueger said, "he’s not a savior
but Is the person responsible for the
nation. I feel very deeply this is the man
qualified for the position.”
Krueger said that Texas has a long
history of power in the Congress.
He cited the leadership in the Congress
percent in the North Central states.
Nationwide, violent crime was up 11
percent from the ydar before, with forcible
rape and robbery each up 12 percent and
murder and aggravated assault each up 9
percent.
Property crime increased 8 percent,
with a 10 percent increase in motor vehicle
theft, a 9 percent rise in larceny-theft and
a 6 percent rise in burglary.
The preliminary figures cover only
crimes known to police agencies. The
Justice Department’s Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration has found in
recent years that large numbers of certain
crimes, like burglary, do not get reported
to the police.
and said that after the census is com-
pleted, “Texas will be the third largest
state in the Union.”
Krueger said that the Texas primary
ballot Saturday wil not indicate the
number of committed delegates. “That
will be done at the precinct conventions,”
he said, “We’ve got to go that evening
(after the election) and we’ve got to care
that much.”
V-? After his comments to the group of
about 20 persons at Peoples National Bank
Wednesday, Krueger spoke with media
representatives.
By way of anticipation, he said that a
committee is to report to Congress on the
illegal or undocumented alien situation.
He said that he did not expect any action
until at least March, 1981 when the
committee was to report to the legislature,
but said one of the recommendations of
that committee is expected to be sanctions
against employers of undocumented
aliens.
“Mexico is comfortable with the present
situation,” Krueger said,“there’s more
money being sent home than the capacity
of the workers to make.”
He said that half of the Mexican
population is 15 years of age or less and
that the work force is presently over-
manned. “When that younger work force
becomes working age, their problem will
be multiplied," he said.
Krueger said that the U.S. is slipping in
productivity, resulting in its losing its
position of leadership in the world
economy and in prestige.
“In the ’50s we had a 3.2 percent in-
crease in productivity. In the ’60s it was
only 2.7 percent and in the ’70s less than
one percent,” Krueger said, “that gives us
less economic clout.”
"A strong military is something to be
valued,” he said of the present situation
with the U.S. Armed Forces.
“President Carter is prepared to take
stands,” he said, citing the embargo of
grain sales, the boycott of the Moscow
Olympics and the draft.
Krueger said Carter’s support of draft
registration will have the respect of the
people and that the support is better now
than before.
“What we need is a universal draft —
across the board,” Krueger said, in-
dicating that no exemptions should be
made because of wealth.
Asked if women should be included in
the draft, Krueger indicated he would be
strictly speaking for himself but said
emphatically, “I would.”
Crime rate soars in
South, small towns
Grocery bill jumps
By LOUISE COOK
Associated Press Writer
Grocery bills went up by a full per-
centage point during April, according to-an
Associated Press survey which shows the
increases spread across almost all the
shelves in the supermarket.
More.than half of the items checked rose
last month in at least four of the 13 cities
surveyed by the AP. Less than a third of
the items declined in four citie's or more.
The AP drew up a random list of com-"
monly purchased food and non-food
products and checked the price at one
supermarket in each of 13 cities on March
1,1973. Prices have been rechecked on or.
about the start of each succeeding month.
The latest survey showed that the
marketbasket total went up during April at
the checklist store in eight cities and
, decreased in five cities. Overall, the
marketbasket totals were an average of 1
perctnt higher at the start of May than
they were a month earlier.
In March, in contrast, the marketbasket
declined at the checklist store in eight
cities and rose in five, leaving the average
bill unchanged, according to the AP
survey.
Although the April increases were
widespread, they hit hardest at non-foods.
The non-foods represented 23 percent of
the items checked, but accounted for 30
percent of the increases. Fabric softener
went up at the checklist store in nine cities
— more than any other item. Pork chops,
paper towels, butter, eggs, detergent, milk
and sugar also increased at the checklist
store in at least four cities. "Kj
The good news last month came at the
meat counter. The price of a pound of
chopped chuck went down at the AP
checklist store in eight cities. Beef
production is still lower than it was a year
ago, but output during the rest of 1980 is
_
Nice weekend
weather4 set
Despite the possibility of scattered
thunderstorms tonight and Friday, a
pleasant weekend appears to be on -
tap for Hopkins County, the National
Weather Service said in its Thursday
morning forecasts
Daytime highs should be near 80 on
Saturday and a few degrees warmer
Sunday and Monday, the weather
service said. Skies should be partly
cloudy all three days and overnight
low temperatures are expected to be
on the mild side.
The outlook for Friday is for mostly
cloudy skies and a chance of thun-
derstorms, with a daytime high in the
70s and a morning low in the 50s.
Wednesday’s high at the official
weather observation station in
Sulphur Springs was a mild 74
degrees. After an early morning low
of 58, the mercury had climbed to 62
degrees by 8 a.m. enroute to an ex-
pected high in the mid to upper 70s
during the afternoon hours.
expected to be close to 1979 levels.
Prices for pork chops and eggs — two
alternatives to beef as a source of protein
- have gone down over the past year
because of abundant supplies, but the
April picture was mixed. The AP survey
showed pork chops went up in six cities
and down in four; eggs went up in six cities
and down in six. The only item besides
chopped chuck, pork chops and eggs to
decline in at least four cities was frank-
furters, down last montlr at the checklist
store in five cities. "v
The AP did not try to weight the survey
results according to population density or
in terms of what percent of a.family’s
actual grocery outlay each item
represents. The AP did not try to compare
actual prices from city to city. The only
comparisons were made in terms of
percentages of increase or decrease.
The items on the AP checklist were:
chopped' chuck, center cut pork chops,
LONDON (AP) — Arab gunmen holding
the Iranian Embassy in London freed a
British hostage today and let two death
deadlines pass for their dozen or more
Iranian captives. They gave no immediate
indication of their next step in the tense
showdown with Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini’s regime.
As British authorities sought to resolve
the day-old standoff peacefully, several
hundred pro-Khomeini Iranian demon-
strators clashed with London police in
nearby Hyde Park.
The three Arab-Iranian gunmen are
supporters of autonomy for Khuzestan,
Iran’s Arab-populated oil province, and
were demanding that the Khomeini
regime free 91 Arabs imprisoned there.
They had threatened to blow up the em-
bassy, themselves and the Iranian
hostages if their demand was not met by
noon today — 7 a.m. EDT.
The gunmen have promised not to harm
non-Iranian hostages. At least three non-
Iranians were reported among the total of
19 hostages.
The British Foreign Office said it was in
contact with Tehran but refused to provide
details. British news reports quoted the
Foreign Ministry in the Iranian capital as
saying, however, that Iran rejected the
demands and held Britain responsible for
the safety of the hostages.
Before the first deadline passed, Iranian
Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told
the gunmen by telephone that Iran would
not meet their demands and that if em-
bassy hostages were harmed an equal
number among the 91 Arabs would be
executed, the official Iranian news agency
Pars reported.
The noon deadline passed without in-
cident, and 45 minutes later the gunmen
issued another ultimatum for 2 p.m. — 9
a.m. EDT — demanding that Iran
acknowledge by then that it had begun
negotiating with the British government.
frozen orange juice concentrate, coffee,-. . ...»
paper dowels, butter, Grade-A medium
white eggs, creamy peanut budter,
laundry detergent, fabric softener, tomato
sauce, milk, frankfurters and granulated
sugar. The cities checked were:
Albuquerque, * N.M., Atlanta, Boston,
Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles,
MiarttT, New York, Philadelphia,
Providence,, R.I., Salt I^ake City and
Seattle.
In Dallas, the bill for 13 available items
want from $17.46 to $18.51, up 6 percent.
Eggs, on sale at 49 cents a dozen at the
start, of the month, rose to 71 cents.
Frankfurters went from $1.33 to $1.85 a
pound. Pork chops, peanut butter, fabric
softener and sugar also rose. Chopped
chuck and orange juice declined. Paper
towels were temporarily out of stock at the
start of April and so could not be included
in the total. The other five items were
unchanged.
“This is not a sign of weakness but of
humanitarian duty,” the trio said in the
statement, which was telephoned to police
who then read it to reporters.
A Foreign Office spokesman told
reporters after the second deadline was
set, “We are in close touch with the
Iranian authorities about the handling of
the situation in London.”
By 2 p.m. there was no new public word
from Iran. But as the deadline passed
there also was no indication the death
threats had been carried out.
Earlier today, the gunmen freed one
non-Iranian, Chris Cramer, 32, a British
Broadcasting Corp. producer who was
applying for a visa when the embassy was
taken over. Police said he was freed
because of a stomach ailment, which the
BBC said he contracted on a recent
foreign assignment. Hunched over as
though in pain, he was taken off to a
hospital.
In addition to Cramer, the non-Iranian
captives in the embassy included at least
two other Britons and a Lebanese . But the
gunmen telephoned out a statement that
the “British hostages, as well as all other
non-Iranian hostages, would not be har-
med.”
This raised the possibility that more
than four non-Iranians were in the em-
bassy just before noon when the three
Arabs slipped in a back door and took over
the mansion on a fashionable residential
street a block from Hyde Park.
Cramer said Wednesday that in addition
to the prisoner release, the Arabs
demanded autonomy for oil-rich
Khuzestan, where Arabs are the majority
ethnic community; that the 91 prisoners
be flown to London, and that the prisoners,
the embassy hostages and themselves be
flown out of Britain to an unannounced
destination.
Death deadlines pass
in embassy showdown
GOP candidate raps incumbent
By JOHN GORE
News-Telegram Staff
The GOP candidate for the district 10
state representative seat in Austin leveled
a blast at incumbent Rep. Smith Gilley
Wednesday at the Kiwanis Club luncheon
in the Womans Building.
In taking Gilley’s voting record to task,
Jack Whilden, a Commerce car dealer who
is running for office for the first time, told
the Kiwanis Club members, "Smith Gilley
is a very liberal representative who
always votes for the liberal cause, against
the small businessman and doesn’t
represent you and your interests in
Austin.” *
The Republican candidate went on to
say, “If I don’t beat Gilley, I hope that
Lowell Cable does. We must have a change
in representatives...”
A 30-year old businessman, Whilden
graduated from Texas A&M University
with a degree in mechanical engineering.
He claims not to be a politician, but a
conservative who is tired of big govern-
ment and wants to help the conservative
cause.
Whilden claims that a check of Gilley’s
voting record “proves” that Gilley is
liberal and “doesn’t really represent the
people” of this area. " '
“He voted to use state money to fund
abortions,” Whilden said. “He voted
against a bill that would have stopped
granting bail to habitual criminals; he
voted to retain the current punishment and
fines for prostitues instead of raising the
punishment, and he voted against the
wiretap bill that would have allowed law
enforment agencies the opportunity to
slow down the drug traffic in this state.
For some reason I don’t think that
represents the average citizen in the
district."
The candidate continued, “I doubt many
of you are for prostitution, or turning
habitual criminals back out into the street.
I just don’t think you are getting the proper
kind of representation in Austin.”
Whilden charged that Gilley has brought
out only the lightweight issues in this
campaign.
“Gilley keeps talking about keeping
seniority in Austin, and that is not right.
Seniority doesn’t have much to do with
committee assignments. The speaker of
the house makes the assignments and
Gilley doesn’t get along with the speaker of
the house; therefore he hasn’t been ap-
pointed to any of the really important
committees,” Whilden said.
Whilden told the audience that is was
time to get back to a more conservative
stance.
“How many of you vote Democratic just
because you always have?” he asked.
“Try voting for a conservative for a
change. I feel like if you think about it you
are probably more conservative than you
are liberal and the Republican Party
represents the conservatives. ”
On other issues, Whilden said .he was
against bigger government. “We have
enough government now. What we need is
less government and taxes, certainly not
more.” He is for raising teachers’ salaries
because, hi his word?, “teachers are
grossly underpaid for the job they do."
As the unopposed GOP candidate,
Whilden will run against either Cable,
Gilley, or Louis Marshall in November.
“My campaign won’t really get un-
derway until July or August since the big
election isn’t until Nnvemher . ”
...District 10 GOP candidate
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