Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 60, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 11, 1980 Page: 1 of 10
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Hostage situation
Xa?'
back to square one
—Compiled from Wire Reports—
The Carter administration today groped
for a new strategy to gain the release of
American hostages in Tran, but officials
doubted any negotiations could succeed
“under the present circumstances. ”
Clearly at a loss over the collapse of a
U.N. panel’s plan to ease the 129-day
crisis, they sharply criticized Iranian
authorities and indicated it was unlikely
the special commission would return to
Tehran after the New York ‘‘con-
sultations" for which it was returning
today.
A senior adviser to President Carter told
reporters at the White House Monday
night that “a serious question has arisen
about the ability of the Iranian govern-
ment to function as a government.”
The plan, which had the ad-»
ministration’s blessing, called for the
Moslem zealots at the U.S. Embassy to
turn over their estimated 50 American
captives to the Revolutionary Council. But
the militants balked and won the support
of their spiritual leader, Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini.
Setting tough new conditions, he barred
the commission on Monday from seeing all
of the hostages unless it released a report
of its findings while in Tehran, called for
the interrogation of some of the Americans
and vowed Iran “will fight against the U.S.
government until death.”
With the panel’s mission and U.S. hopes
unraveling, Carter held a series of
meetings Monday with Vice President
Walter F. Mondale, Secretary of State
Cyrus R. Vance, Defense Secretary Harold
Brown and congressional leaders.
Carter made no public appearance or
statement, although his views were con-
veyed through “background briefings” for
reporters. They were told that everyone
including U.N. Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim had expected the commission to
see all the Americans held at the embassy.
American officials have stressed that
they cannot be certain the 50 believed
taken captive on Nov. 4 remain in the
compound because no outside observer
has seen them all.
The United States has understood the
U.N. commission’s ground rules to
preclude the issuance of a report on its
findings unless it sees all the hostages.
Indeed, Waldheim said in New York late
Monday that the panel “is not now in a
position to submit its report,” although
adding that “it is...prepared to return to
Tehran in accordance with its mandate
and the instructions of the secretary
general when the situation requires.”
But a close aide to Carter, refusing to be
identified by name, said that “as a result
of that commitment not being fulfilled, a
serious question has arisen about the
ability of the Iranian government to
function as a government and to fulfill
commitments that it makes.”
The official added: “This situation
threatens the work of the commission.
Every possibility is now being explored to
determine whether the work of the com-
mission can be salvaged.”
The U.N. investigating commission left
Tehran for New York Tuesday without
seeing any of the American hostages after
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini endorsed
demands made by the hostages’ captors
which the commission rejected.
The five members of the panel took a
plane for Switzerland, en route to U.N.
headquarters in New York. They an-
nounced that because of their failure to see
the hostages, they would not issue a report
on their investigation into Iranian charges
against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Iran’s ruling Revolutionary Council,
reacting to Khomeini’s vow to “fight
against the U.S. government until death,”
backed off its demand to take custody of
the approximately 50 captive Americans
who on Tuesday were spending their 128th
day as prisoners of Moslem militants
occupying the U.S. Embassy.
Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh met with the five U.N. com-
missioners for four hours in an un-
successful effort to persuade them to
extend their stay. He told reporters early
Tuesday the commissioners, who arrived
in Tehran Feb. 23, “have been here for 17
days and they couldn’t stay any longer.”
School year smooth,
but changes in wind
Assistant principal at Sulphur Springs
High School, Lewis Rogers assessed the
current school year as one of the
smoothest in recent memory Tuesday
morning.
“I guess about the only real headache we
have right now is the change over from the
quarter system to the semester system,”
Rogers said.
“We are having some problems deciding
how much credit to give students for
certain classes they have already taken,
but we will work it out,” he added.
The quarter system, which has been in
use for about the last four years, was
designed to give students the opportunity
to attend a full quarter of summer school if
they wished to graduate early from high
school, or pick up additional credits.
“The quarter system is all right,”
Rogers said, “but most schools didn’t have
the funds to operate a year-round school
system so we are going back to the
semester system next year.”
Rogers said that other changes in the
times students attend school might be in
the wind somewhere down the road.
“The energy situation might become a
determining factor in when students at-
tend school,” he said.
“The cost of heating school buildings is
going up at a tremendous rate. It costs
more and more each year to produce the
same amount of heat. It is conceivable that
sometime in the future, if the energy
situation continues, we could have kids
going to school only during the months
when it is not necessary to use great
amounts of energy to heat or cool the
classrooms. That is probably a long way
down the road, but it is possible.”
An important by-law change, the lease
or purchase of an ice machine, curtains for
the arena and vents for the kitchen area
will be on the agenda for members of the
Hopkins County Civic Center’s Board of
Directors at their noon meeting Thursday
at the Civic Center.
The by-law change includes requiring
deposits on large events to defray costs
during such events and a change requiring
bonding to guarantee prize money and-or
damages for events where -a certain
amount of prize money is being offered.
Civic Center Manager Bert’Whorton said
that such bonding Requirements are
common at larger such facilities and that
the board will be asked to approve such an
arrangement at the Hopkins County Civic
Center.
Whorton reports that Patsy Johnson has
been in charge of a committee looking into
the possible advantages of leasing or
purchasing an ice machine and she will
make her report to the board so that it can
take action.
The ventilation for the ranges in the
kitchen will also be the subject of a
committee report with the board expected
to take action to purchase such items if the
report reflects the economic feasibility.
A proposal has been received by board
members to install curtains behind the
auctioneer’s stand in the livestock arena in
such a manner as to shield the area behind
the stand from the viewing area.
Whorton said that the board of directors
will consider such a plan at the meeting.
Board members will also establish a
schedule for working in the concession
stand during the Professional Rodeo
Cowboy’s Association Rodeo set for April
2-5.
The Civic Center has retained the
concession rights and board members will
be furnishing the labor with the proceeds
to go to the Civic Center.
The commissioners had been on the
verge of leaving last week, but were
persuaded to stay after it appeared a
weekend meeting with the hostages was
possible.
Waldheim's statement said the com-
mission, “in the light of recent develop-
ments and after consulting with the
secretary general and Iranian authorities,
has decided that it should suspend its
activities for several days.”
Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh,
who saw the commission off at the airport,
said he hoped the panel would return to
Iran to finish its work. But he reiterated
the regime’s position that freedom for the
hostages will be decided by Iran’s new
Parliament, which won’t convene for
another month.
Ghotbzadeh got into a heated discussion
on the runway with one of the militants
who arrived unexpectedly to turn over a,
package of documents from the embassy
files to the U.N. commission. What the
argument was about was not immediately
known, but the militants have accused
Ghotbzadeh of being a liar.
The embassy captors, after setting
conditions last week for a meeting between
the hostages and the U.N. group which the
latter rejected, announced Thursday they
were ready to give the Revolutionary
Council custody of the captives and let it
proceed with the meeting. Then over the
weekend they set new conditions for the
transfer of custody and demanded
Ghotbzadeh’s replacement as the council’s
representative in the transfer.
The council then went to Khomeini, the
79-year-old religious leader of the Iranian
revolution, but he backed the embassy
militants, reviving their conditions that
the U.N. panel rejected previously.
— News briefs —
Center board mulls
new equipment, rules
Top names due
for ET seminar
COMMERCE — The program and
several of the guest speakers for the
Sixth Annual Sam Rayburn Public
Affairs Symposium at East Texas
State University April 7-9 have been
announced by Dr. John Cawier,
chairman of the symposium com-
mittee.
The theme for the 1980 symposium
is “Energy for Life: People, Power
and Public Policy in the 1980s.”
Carrier, dean of ETSU's College of
Liberal and Fine Arts and the unof-
ficial “founder” of the symposium,
said that the speaker list includes
Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms.
Magazine; Marshall Loeb, senior
editor of Time Magazine's business,
economy and energy sections; R.
Buckminster Fuller, an inventor and
the discoverer of energetic-synergetic
geometry; and Daniel Yergin, author
of "Energ^Future.”
Carrier said other speakers will be
announced soon.
The symposium is an annual tribute
to ETSU alumnus Sam Rayburn, the
late speaker of the U. S. House of
Representatives.
Rain chance
in forecast
A chahce of scattered thun-
derstorms exists for Hopkins County
tonight and Wednesday, according to
forecasts issued Tuesday morning by
the National Weather Service.
A weak frontal system approaching
from the west intensified slightly
during the afternoon and evening
Monday, bringing a chance of rain to
the North Texas area today and to
Northeast Texas a few hours later.
Temperatures should remain mild
Wednesday and Thursday, warming
, Rightly Friday and Saturday, the
weather service said.
The outlook is for daytime highs in
the 60s, warming to the 70s by
Saturday. The possibility of showers
should end locally by Wednesday
afternoon, according to forecasts.
Monday’s high at the official
weather observation station #• in
Sulphur Springs was a mild 79
degrees, with a Tuesday morning low
of 42 recorded. At 8 a.m. Tuesday the
mercury stood at 49 under mostly
cloudy skies.
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The fruits of the crime
Sulphur Springs Police Officer Helen Boles shows Sgt. Robert
Stidham a jacket allegedly taken by a Tyler couple in a
shoplifting spree in Sulphur Springs late Monday afternoon.
Garry Hall, an employee at one of the stores hit by the pair,
spotted their car on South Broadway about 6:30 p.m. Monday,
I'/i-hours after items were taken from Carothers Brothers,
resulting in the arrest by police officers and the recovery of
clothing valued in excess of $1,000 from at least three local
stores. The Tyler couple remained in jail late Tuesday morning.
—Stiff Photo
Store clerk's work sets up
arrest of shoplift suspects
By JIMMOORE
News-Telegram Staff
A Tyler couple have been arrested and
charged with felony theft following a
shoplifting spree in at least three local
stores.
Garry Hall of Carothers Brothers at 124
Main St. reported the theft about 5 p.m.
Monday after four men’s leather jackets
valued at $120 each had been taken. He told
Sulphur Springs Police Patrolman David
Free that he had just shown the jackets to
a customer and had placed them on a
counter. He said that when he turned
around, the coats were gone.
He reported that he watched the couple
get into a early 1970s model car that he
described as “distinctive” and leave.
That was the beginning of a search that
ended at 6:32 p.m. when Hall spotted the
car containing Sharon Ann Morgan, 25,
and Charles Ray Black, 25, both of Tyler,
at a service station on South Broadway.
He called the police department with
Free and Patrolman Jimmie Emersen
responding to the call with assistance from
Hopkins County Deputy Doug Stutts.
Hall reportedly identified the couple and
the car and when the trunk was opened,
the four leather jackets, approximately 26
dresses, four suits, a shirt and a gift
wrapped box with a false bottom were
found.
After placing the two under arrest, the
officers took the merchandise to the Police
Department where it was inventoried and
found that some of the merchandise had
come from LouNell’s Fashions and J.C.
Penney Company.
Officer Helen Boles said that the
woman’s child was with the two suspects
at the time of their arrest and was turned
over to child welfare workers until
relatives could arrive from the Tyler area.
Officers said late Monday evening that
they were unable at that time to say where
some of the clothing had come from.
Carothers Brothers was the only store
that had reported a shoplifting incident.
Police Sgt. Robert Stidham said that the
couple used the gift wrapped box to put the
clothing into, with the clothes stuffed in-
side providing enough weight to close the
false bottom.
Stidham said that a conservative
estimate of the value of the clothing
recovered Monday night was in excess of
$1,000.
Assistant Police Chief Donnie Lewis said
Tuesday that both suspects had been
arraigned before Municipal Judge Roy F.
Johnson who set bond at $25,000 on charges
of felony theft on each.
Lewis added that other charges could be
filed against the couple as the in-
vestigation continues.
Officers said it is believed that the
couple had been responsible for earlier
incidents in Sulphur Springs as well as
other cities in the North East Texas area.
Hall commented Monday night that he
had noticed the couple in the store with the
box. “I thought to myself at the time that it
was a sloppy gift wrapping job," he told
police.
Street value of stolen
drugsnear$l8,000 mark
Police Chief Delbert Harrell reports that
a complete inventdry of medications taken
in the early Monday burglary of the
Medicine Chest South Pharmacy reveals
that 7,400 pills which a narcotics agent said
had a street value of almost $18,000 were
taken along with approximately $900 in
cash and checks.
The inventory showed that 2,250 five-
milligram Valium tablets, 800 Valium of
the 10-milligram size, 500 10-milligram
Librium, 1,000 each of tfe-grain, 1-grain
and I1**-grain Phenobarbital tablets, 350
Phenaphen No. 4 tablets and 100 50-
milligram Seconal tablets were taken.
Also taken were 168 100-milligram
Seconal tablets, 100 each of the 50 and 100-
milligram Preludin tablets; and 32 300-
milligram Quaalude tablets were missing
after the burglary. . „
Most of the drugs taken are depressants
with only a few stimulants being missing.
The pharmacy was found burglarized
about 2 a.m. Monday by Sulphur Springs
Patrolman Mike Reeves as he made
routine checks of buildings. Officers
surmised at the time that the burglar or
burglars had seen him approaching as he
made checks of other businesses in the
area.
Texas voters to air views on presidential race
By GARTH JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas
Democratic voters get a chance May 3 to
say who they think the Democratic
presidential nominee should be.
Or they can vote “uncommitted. ”
The 35-27 decision was made Monday by
the State Democratic Executive Com-
mittee after nine months of indecision.
The non-binding voter opinion poll wilL
have no direct affect on selection of
national convention delegates who will
choose the nominee.
In some ways the
balances a similar
Republicans, although tl
directly affects selecti
convention delegates
Backers of the Democratic referendum,
including supporters of
Kennedy, claimed the po]fl was necessary
to gain voters' views.
Opponents, including/many supporters
of President Jinufiy Carter, contended it
had np. practical value and would just
■auty contest"
11 by Texas
GOP straw vote
of national
divide the party.
As a result, the May 3 Democratic
primary ballot will ask:
“From the following, who is your
preference for the Democratic Party's
1980 nominee for President?
“1. Jimmy Carter.
“2. Edward Kennedy.
“3. Edmund G. Brown.
"4. Uncommitted.”
The order on the ballot was decided by a
drawing at the committee meeting.
The “uncommitted” choice was added
by a 34-28 vote.
State Democratic Chairman Billy
Goldberg, an avowed backer of Carter,
said he had spent the last 10 days checking
“grassroots” sentiment and found "little
or no enthusiasm for a poll on the ballot...
there have been no requests from any of
the candidates.” 1
Goldberg said he thought the question
should be decided on the basis of “what is
best for the party .. we are not depriving
anyone of a right to vote. They can come to
the conventions and discuss the candidates
all they want.”
“This is an opportunity for the people of
Texas to take part in the Democratic
process," said Richard Solo, Dallas, a
Kennedy supporter.
“This will lead to bitterness in the end, it
will confuse the voters, it is very
dangerous and detrimental to the party,"
said Bob Hauge, Houston.
“A presidential primary may be
cosmetic but it will get the people out to the
polls and that is what politics is all about,"
said Frank Thompson, Houston.
The drugs would have a cost value of
$580 according to owners of Medicine
Chest South.
However, a Department of Public Safety
narcotics agent said Tuesday morning that
the drugs would have a street value on the
illicit drug market of between $17,781 and
$17,996. He said that the street prices vary
depending upon how and where the drugs
are sold. He explained that illicit drugs
cost more in a major city like Dallas or
Houston while they will be cheaper in
smaller towns.
The undercover agent said that the
Valium, Librium, Phenobarbital and
Phenaphen have a present street value of
about $2 each while the Seconal tablets will
sell from $2.75 to $3 each on the illicit drug
market.
He said however that the Preludin and
Quaalude are much more expensive in the
drug scene. He said that the Preludin
tablets will sell for about $16 each and the
Quaaludes will sell for $4 to $6 each.
“That’s a pretty good mark-up from the
legal cost to the illegal value,” Chief
Harrell said Tuesday morning, “we’re
going to see if we can’t keep them off the
street if there is any way possible.’’
All of the drugs taken in the burglary are
described as depressants with the ex-
ception of the Preludin which is described
as a stimulant of the amphetamine family.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 60, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 11, 1980, newspaper, March 11, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824234/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.