Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 196, Ed. 1 Monday, August 18, 1980 Page: 1 of 18
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Columnist's report of planned Iran invasion stirs controversy
WASHINGTON (AP) — A column by
Jack Anderson claiming that the United
States plans a military invasion of Iran
— a charge denied by the ad-
ministration — prompted fresh con-
troversy today Several newspapers
which normally carry the column did
not run it.
Defense Secretary Harold Brown.
asked about the report, said Sunday:
“No, that’s not true."
(The column in question appears on
Page 4 of Today's News-Telegram.)
An Associated Press spot check
showed that the New York Daily News,
The Washington Post, the Arkansas
Democrat and the Atlanta Constitution
did not carry the column.
An editor's note in the Daily News
said, in part: "The Jack Anderson
column does not appear today because
we could not independently verify his
sensational claim that the Carter ad-
ministration is planning an invasion of
Iran.”
Manv of the newspapers which ran
ran added an dinar's mite
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i on hew many papers were
using today ’s column on Iran.
Brown, appearing Sunday on ABCs
Issues and Answers,” refused to say if
there would he another attempt to
rescue theSffU.S. hostages held in Iran.
A previous try faded last spring and
eight American servicemen were
kilted.
“1 will not either confirm that or deny
it That is the kind of thing I just would
not want to talk about” Brown said.
Anderson's column, scheduled for
release today but made public over the
weekend, says the invasion is planned
for mid-October.
The White House has denied that an
invasion is planned.
Sulphur Springs
VOl. 102—NO. 196.
Nrius-Sclegram
Monday
15 C«nts
AUGUST II, 19M.
Nominee defends Vietnam involvment
Reagan issues call for
massive arms buildup
ftrOOUG WILLIS
fawcuM Pm*
CHICAGO CAP# - Deflemtag Annemca’s
role in the Vjrflmaam War as "'a noble
cause," Itopafaihrm pnernitonrtliail Biltmne*
Ronald Reagan today caledl for a nruaaiv*
rebuilding eff US. muiMary forces and
denounced Pmesiwleai Carter far
* 'betrayal" uf SSae mSaum's wtarams.
In remarks prepared far drftraery to> the
Veterans cf Fanegju Wars annual con-
vention, wtev he was tta» accept the VFV s
formal endcrseameni for presntent. Reagan
attacked Carter’s faraga ptacy as -me of
weakness, mounsatemey . vasilatwn and
bidL”
It was me of Beagam 's stonangest pro-
military speednes, amd id nmartat the first
time in the DM rarnpagpi that Reagan
gave his -awpmMttwit endorsemueBt to the
United Stakes’ aarubnenniHM m the Via
War.
n’s mwatob- is Vietnam was not
war, brt tasks* to wt tt,
Reagan said.
"For too fang. we tone fawd with; the
Vietnam syahremf." Reagan® said "As
the years dragged on. we were told that
peace would ©anar tf we would smupiy stop
interf ering and go tame
“It is fanw* we reougmrad that ouirs was.
New high school teachers
New teachers at Sulphur Springs High School reported to work
Monday to begin preparing for the first day of school on Aug. 2S.
Joining the high school staff are, seated from left, Mrs. Barbara
Perritt, Miss Laura Stephens, Mrs. Laura Teer, and Miss Gail
Herman; standing from left, Mrs. Virginia Marabie, Gordon
Bench, Edward Kranz, and Ronald Byrd.
New teachers saluted
Teachers new to the Sulphur Springs
system were honored with a breakfast
Monday, followed by a meeting to orien-
tate them with policies and operational
procedures.
There are about 30 teachers new to the
Sulphur Springs system this year. The
breakfast was staged at Lamar School
cafeteria, with central staff members,
trustees and principals also in attendance.
In-service for all professional and
paraprofessional staff members will begin
Tuesday at the Civic Center. Coffee will be
served beginning at 8:30, with the general
session in the exhibit hall to start at 9 a.m.
Superintendent Ed Stevens will give an
address after a welcome from Mrs. Patsy
Johnson, president of the school board.
Dale Smith, minister of Shannon Oaks
Church of Christ, will address the teachers
on the topic, "Praise the Bridge.”
Campus staff meetings will be held
before the teachers return to the high
school cafeteria for lunch.
During the afternoon, various subject
area curriculum meetings will be held.
One of the features at the high school will
be a discussion of the teaching of writing
skills at the secondary level. A section also
has been set aside to discuss the role of the
substitute teachers.
In-service programs will continue
Wednesday and Thursday before the
teachers engage in a work day on Friday
to prepare for the opening of classes on
Monday, Aug. 26.
Students in grades 6 through 12 new to
the district should register as soon as
passible.
On Friday, students in Middle School
should pick up their class schedules during
the morning.
At the high school, seniors and juniors
schould pick up their class schedules
between 9 and 11:30 am., while freshmen
and sophomores should get their schedules
between land 3 p.m.
All fifth grade students who attended
school here last year are pre-registered
and will be issued their schedules on
Monday, Aug. 25. However, fifth grade
students who are new to the Sulphur
Springs district should register at Douglas
School between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m.
Friday.
All students in grades kindergarten
through four are asked to register at their
assigned school between 8:30 and 11:30
a.m. Friday.
Parents of students in grades K-4 whose
child has not been assigned a school should
visit the elementary school nearest the
child’s residence.
The first day of classes and normal
services for all students will be Monday,
Aug. 25.
Wind, clouds,
and still dry
Hie wind taw, amd pfatHy of clouds
moved around Hue area over the
weekend, but the OTmtamatMa dufaT
1
Hie forecast, prepared! by the
National Weather Smut, n calling
for much uf tie atone.
Skies be partly dtaod? through
Tuesday with Strong souflherty winds,
the weather serenes says. Tem-
peratures are expected to remain m
the gyc Ms «flth wemmigt® lows in
the mid 70s
The extended forecast calls for
dear to partly dowdy skies through
Friday with a tarn chamce of widely
scattered thundershowers m the hate
afternoon or early evenamg
The high reading Sunday at the
cfficsal ohservatkm station in Sulphur
Springs was tt degrees It (dropped to
35 degrees lor an owenmeght low and at
8 am. Monday the temperature stood
at 76.
HOUSTON (AP) - Federal prosecutors
were expected to use transcripts of
secretly taped conversations today to
convince a federal judge Texas House
Speaker Billy Clayton and three other
defendants in the Texas Brilab sting
operation were not entrapped
U.S. District Judge Robert O’Conor was
to consider 50 defense pre-trial motions
that prompted prosecutors to make use of
the transcripts while filing 17 answers.
Clayton, LG. Moore, a Deer Park labor
leader, and two Austin lawyers, Randall B.
Wood and Donald W. Ray, are scheduled to
go on trial before O’Conor on SepL 8.
The defense contends the tapes were
obtained illegally and cannot be used
against the defendants and contends the
indictments should be dismissed in that
the defendants were entrapped in a con-
spiracy orchestrated by an FBI informant,
Joseph Hauser, and others.
The June 12 indictments charge ex-
tortion, racketeering, baud and con-
spiracy and allege Clayton accepted $5,880
in cash and was promised M08AM more.
The government contends the money
talk took place as Hauser, aided by Moore,
posed as a representative of a fictitious
insurance agency that was seeking a
valuable contract on insurance for state
employees.
Clayton has said he received 15,080 from
Hauser and Moore but planned to return
the money.
One of the transcripts prosecMors
released quotes Clayton, upon receiving
the (5.000, as saying, “We appreciate the
heck out of it.” Of the PM,MO, Clayton is
quoted as saying, “I want to tell yon it sure
would help pay some of my bills.”
During the Nov. 8 meeting. Hauser is
quoted as telling Clayton, “I hear in the
rumbles you got a good shot to be the next
governor”
Clayton is quoted as responding, “I feel
like we’ve got a good shot,” adding later
that “... our only position is we dw* want
to do anything that’s illegal or anything to
get anybody in trouble and you all don't
either.”
Hauser agrees “That’s the last thing in
the world I need.”
And the transcripts have Clayton an-
swering, “this is just as legitimate as it
can be
Moore Yus can save
Clayton : Where yon (
in truth, a noble cause. A small country,
newly free from colonial rule, sought our
help in establishing self-rule and the
means of self-defense against a
totalitarian neighbor bent on conquest,”
he said.
"There is a lesson for all of us in Viet-
nam. If we are forced to fight, we must
have the means and determination to
prevail,” Reagan said, adding that "We
dishonor the memory of 50,000 young
Americans who died in that cause if we
give way to feelings of guilt as if we were
doing something shameful.”
Reagan also recited a string of alleged
Carter injustices to veterans, describing
the president's treatment of veterans as
unconscionable," “regrettable and in-
sensitive,” "hypocrisy” and a “betrayal.”
"This present anti-veteran ad-
i has stacked the duck against
you through the vast power of the White
House,” Reagan told the VFW convention.
“It has not escaped me that the Carter
administration has cut the Veterans Ad-
ministration budget each and every year
of its incumbency with respect to the
federal budget.. .Where has the money
denied our deserving veterans gone?
Surely not to our national defense, which is
in shambles, ” Reagan said.
Speaking of Vietnam veterans, Reagan
said the Carter administration has been
shabby” in the benefits it has given them.
“It is the height of hypocrisy for the
administration in high-sounding words to
repeatedly tell us how much we owe our
Vietnam veterans and then, only in this
ejection year, recommend a stingy 10
percent increase in the GI Bill when these
>*•
veterans have not had an increase since
1977,” Reagan said.
“It is a breach of faith that com-
pensation for those with service-connected
disabilities has not kept abreast of in-
flation,” he added.
Reagan said he believes the best hope of
maintaining peace with the Soviet Union
“is to convince them they cannot win at
war,” repeating his willingness as
president to spend "whatever it takes to be
strong enough that no other nation will
dare violate the peace.”
“We’re already in an arms race, but
only the Soviets are racing" while the
United States is falling dangerously
behind, Reagan said, describing what he
saw as a pattern of direct and indirect
Russian-backed aggression in
Afghanistan, Africa, Central America, the
Middle East and elsewhere.
“All over the world, we can see that in
the face of declining American power the
Soviets and their friends are advancing.
Yet the Carter anxfinistratian seems
totally oblivious” to that threat, he said.
“World peace must be our No. 1
priority,” Reagan said. “But it most not ba
peace at any price. It must not be a peace
of humiliation and gradual surrender. ”
Reagan also repeated a familiar cam-
paign assertion that America must work to
regain the trust and confidence of its
allies, and he voiced concern at what he
described as the Soviet attempt “to en-
circle and neutralize the Peoples Republic
of China.”
But at the same time, Reagan repeated
his willingness to negotiate an arms
reduction treaty with Russia.
State highway death
toll up, travel down
Tapes top Brilab hearing
show me how we can help to save the state
sonue money. Fa gong to go to bat lor H”
Eartier in the conmsationi, Clayton was
quoted as saying. “''Anytime job can show
i save the state
Moore. "That's aB we war* you to do.”
Clayton: Wefl. by God. IU go to batik
for you"
first of two parts
The Department of Public Safety has
released its preliminary report of traffic
accidents for the first six months of 1980
mdkatmg 210,972 accidents which resulted
in the death of 2,000 persons and injuries to
88,824 others.
According to the report which covers
January through June, 1900, the fatality
rate was up three percent from the same
period of 1979.
The injury rate was down, however, with
30,143 mjured m 1979 as compared to the
S8 &24 injured this year.
There were 294 persons killed in
pedestrian related accidents compared to
*7 Last year; 883 in accidents in which two
or more vehicles were involved, up from
MO from the previous year; and 50 in-
volving car-train accidents as compared to
M for the same period of 1979.
Deaths involving parked motor vehicles
were down from 57 for the first six months
of 1979 to 39 in 1900 and fatal accidents
involving bicycles were down to 20 from
the 1979 figure of 27.
Vehicles winch struck fixed objects such
as bridges or buildings involving fatalities
were up to 478 for 1900 from 481 in the first
six months of 1979.
More accidents occurred on Friday
during the evaluation period (31,097
wrecks with 300 fatalities) but more
fatalities were recorded on Saturdays
(35,427 accidents with 343 deaths).
As usual, the most accidents occurred
during the early afternoon hours and most
fatalities occurred during the hours of
darkness.
There were 120 people killed during the
hour of 1 a.m., 115 diving the 2 a.m. hour
and 113 died during 10 p.m. with 1M killed
during both 11 p.m. and at 5 p.m.
The total numbers of accidents from I
p.m. to 11 a.m. were less than 10,000 for
each hour timeframe and in excess of that
number during the noon hour through 7
p.m.
The high period for accidents was at 5
p.m. (17,744) followed closely by 4 pm.
(16,452), 3 pm. (14,625) and 0 pm.
(12,013).
Overall, the death rate per 100-million
miles was up three percent as was the
death rate in motor vehicles.
The number of miles driven in the state
was down by 100,000 miles.
Drivers in Texas drove 5QJ62-miBim
miles during the first six months of the
year as compared to 50.3C2-mUUon in the
same period of 1979.
The injury rate per 100-million miles was
down by two percent as was the traffic
accident injury rate.
Atlantic keeps her hold on
NEW YORK (API - Rough seas mi abject “the right length, right width and
right height of the Titanic.”
of a group searching far the tragic ship The object was discovered 12,000 feet
Htsae, fast the grasp's backer says he wifi down on toe ocean floor by a sonar sled
ther boat next that bad picked up five targets - three of
them radts - in an area 15 mites by 20
** ELW. Fay. nates before poking up the outline the Fay
TV aud still-photography cameras to take
a closer look at the object
“We were unable to get the cameras
down,” Harris told The Associated Pretss
However, winds gusting to more than 50
sapb and warn more than 10 feet high
prevented from sending down
He said the decision to end the i
came about 2:45 am. Sunday, New York
time. The boat had reported Saturday that
it was miming low on food oad fuel
It is expected to return to!
Thursday or Friday, 10
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