Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 116, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1980 Page: 1 of 18
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Dividing a horse by three proves a puzzlement...
By JULESLOH
AP Special Correspondent
NEW YORK (AP) - A farmer had
three sons and 17 horses.
In his will, he bequeathed that the
horses be divided among the sons, the
eldest to get half of them, the second
son one-third, the third son one-ninth.
How did they divide the horses?
Stick around for the answer.
It’s one of the puzzles designed to
tease some of the nation’s best brains.
It appeared in a little publication called
“Inside AIP,” the newsletter of the
American Institute of Physics.
“We have about 900 names on our
circulation list and they include Nobel
laureates as well as school kids in the
mail room,” Audrey Likely, the editor,
explained. “We try to strike a balance,
some for the PhDs, some for the school
kids.”
Here’s one for the PhDs:
Letters have been substituted for
numbers in this addition problem:.
XEBHLLNL plus XRBNGLNL plus
XEPNWLNL equals XXXGNNNHN.
The same letter stands for the same
digit wherever it appears — except for
one. One letter is wrong. Which one?
Here’s one for the kids:
Tim, Joe and Sam are digging
identical holes in a field. When Tim
works with Joe, they dig one hole in four
days. When Tim works with Sam, they
dig one hole in three days. When Joe
works with Sam, they dig one hole in
two days. When Tim works alone, how
long does it take him to dig one hole?
The puzzle editor for “Inside AIP” is
Ethel Brauer. She professes not to
enjoy puzzles particularly, except for
crossword puzzles, at which she is a
whiz.
Only once in her ..memory, she said,
and it happened just last week, has she
printed a bum puzzle.
“Can’t be done,” an irate physicist
wrote her. "Neither Joe nor Ted nor
Sam nor Sue c(ould have won the French
prize." Just so. Apologies will be made
next issue.
“Inside AIP” is chock full of erudite
information of* special interest to
physicists in various branches — op-
tics, acoustics, rheology* (“things that
flow," a rheologist explained, 'think of
catsup"), astronomy, crystallography
— but the puzzle, according to editor
Likely, is a favorite feature of all of
them.
"Some of them phone us to confirm
their answers because they can’t wait
until the next issue," she said.
"One physicist, a vice president at
Douglas Aircraft, sent his answer in the
form of a limerick. I guess thejnessage
is that physicists like to have fun, too.”
All right, end of suspense. Here come
the answers.
It takes Tim, a,slowpoke, 24 days to
dig a hole alone.
The wrong letter, obviously, is the
first X in the answer. It should, of
course, be a W. The sum, clearly, is
155,622,272, That’s enough. Figure out
for yourself the three numbers that add
up to that. -""T"-'
Oh, yes, about those horses. Borrow a
horse from a neighbor and make the
division among 18 horses: nine, six and
two. That adds up to 17. Just right.
Return the borrowed horse. Simple.
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First of two
Debra Neal was honored Wednesday at the Sulphur Springs Kiwanis Club meeting
when she was selected from 11 outstanding SSHS sophomores as Sophomore of the
Year. David Baucom presented Miss Neal with a plaque denoting her achievement,
and she was told at the meeting that she had also already won at the division level,
earning a trip to Oklahoma City to compete for the District title and a $200
scholarship in July. Baucom said that another plaque for Miss Neal for her division
win and certificates for each of the 11 finalists would be presented as soon as they
arrive. This is the first year for the award which sponsors hope to stage as an annual
event.
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Members of the Hopkins County Com-
missioners Court will consider the ex-
penditure of about Vi-million dollars
Friday when they reconvene their session
held open from Monday.
The session recessed last Monday will
reconvene at 10 a.m. Friday in Judge Joe
R. Pogue’s office.
The only items left on the agenda are the
swearing in of the commissioners and
Judge Pogue as the members of the 1980
Board of Equalization and to consider bids
received last Monday for work at the Civic
Center.
The bids were among some of the more
unusual.
Fitzgerald’s Heating and Electrical of
Sulphur Springs bid $19,053 for the com-
plete installation of fans and electrical
Soph scores a double
Doubly good news came Wednesday for
Debra Neal at the weekly session of the
Sulphur Springs Kiwanis Club.
At the noon meeting held at the Ramada
Inn, Miss Neal was named as the
Sophomore of the Year by Committee
Chairman David Baucom.
Prior to his naming Miss Neal as the
winner, Club President Rod Henderson
told those present that he had been in-
formed at a Kiwanis meeting in Paris
recently that the Sulphur Springs High
School student had also been selected as
the division winner — even before she
knew that she had won the local com-
petition.
Baucom said that recognition usually
goes to the students during their junior or
senior years at school.
“This year there were 216 sophomores at
the beginning of the school year,” he said,
explaining that each of the final 11
students considered for the award were
judged on their leadership, character and
development of leadership ability.
The award is new and each Kiwanis Club
selects one representative.
The local winner then faces competition
in the division level where nine local
winners are compared and a division
winner is picked.
Then, at the, Texas-Oklahoma district
meeting in Oklahoma City in July, 10
young studehts-Will have a chance to win a
$200 scholarship for college.
Miss Neal will go to Oklahoma City in
search of such a scholarship.
The 11 students selected locally for the
general competition were Shaun Brewer,
Laura Diamond, Dana Durham, Lorie
Farler, Kellie Galyean, Becky Gossett,
Tina O’Brien, Marc Poskey, Brad Taylor,
Honah Tran and Miss Neal.
Miss Neal received a plaque for her local
win Wednesday and Baucom said that
another was on the way for the division
level honor.
Henderson said the other 10 students will
receive certificates for being included in
the final local judging.
Grand jury supboenas local
bank, school, county records
By JIMMOORE
News-Telegram Staff
At least two local banks, the City of
Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County have
been subpoenaed to attend a Juhe 25
session of a federal grand jury to be
convened in Tyler at 9 a.m.
Interim City Manager Travis Owens
said Thursday mpming that he had been
served with a subpoena Wednesday about
10 a.m. and has been told to bring
documents that concern the award of bids,
the basis of those awards, and the term of
the awards of city funds in local banks.
He said that the records are to be from
Jan. 1,1970 to the present date and must
include the identification of all councilmen
who voted on the awarding of bids for the
city depositories, balances in various
accounts and interest paid as well as in-
formation concerning the depositing of
federal funds.
Tommy Allison, city attorney, said that
he plans to “submit the documents under a
certificate through the Department of
Justice” to that grand jury.
Apparently the investigation is
surrounding allegations that the banks
conspired to fix the rates in bidding as the
depository for the funds of various
governmental entities.
Allison said that by taking the matter to
the federal grand jury, “it’s a way to
dispose of the charges once and for all.”
He said that to the best of his knowledge,
there was nothing to indicate any
Americans flee Cuba
MIAMI (AP) - A 727 jet whisked 17
Americans — diplomats and their families
— out of Havana to a Miami hideaway
early today to wait out a “virulent and
continuing anti-American propaganda
campaign" in Cuba, State Department
officials say.
The sudden evacuation was prompted by
fears that an anti-American demon-
stration on Saturday might endanger the
Americans.
“We simply think it would be
irresponsible for us not to pare down our
staff and not withdraw our people,” said
State Department spokesman David Nall.
“A virulent and continuing anti-
American propaganda campaign is un-
derway there and a nationwide anti-
American demonstration is planned for
Saturday,” he said.
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State Department officials expected the
evacuation of the diplomats, who work at
the U.S. Interest Section in Havana, to be
brief.
Some U.S. officials remained in Cuba,
according to State Department spokesman
Mark Sawolski, but he could not say how
many boarded an Eastern Airlines jetliner
left Miami Wednesday night, returning
with the diplomats Just after midnight.
Two U.S. Customs agents boarded the
Boeing 727 so the group could avoid the
busy Miami International Airport ter-
minal, said airport spokesman David
Vine. An Eastern bus took the passengers
to an undisclosed spot.
The route of the demonstration Saturday
passes the waterfront UK. mission at the
Swiss Embassy.
work in the livestock arena, while East
Texas Air Conditioning of Sulphur Springs
bid $11,840 for the same work.
Fitzgerald’s bid $13,990 was for the fans
and installation only, without the electrical
connections.
Floyd Moss Electric of Sulphur Springs
bid $5,063.06 for the electrical work only on
the installation of the fans and Orr Electric
of Sulphur Springs bid $5,852.50 for the
same work.
Based upon the bids and combinations of
bids, East Texas Air Conditioning is the
apparent low bidder for the fans, their
installation and electrical work in the
arena portion of the Civic Center Complex.
For electrical work in the kitchen area of
the Civic Center, the Moss firm bid $3,432
while Jerry's Electric of Sulphur Spring*
bid $7,000 for that same work.
Only one bid was received for the cur-
tains, lighting and sound equipment for the
Auditorium and that was from Houston
State Equipment Corporation for a total of
$230,525.49.
A stage improvement bid without the
light and sound package was $123,936.14,
and the bid for the stage lighting system
only was $106,589.35.
The Houston firm’s bid included various
items that could be deleted, with the
amount for each item taken away to be
deducted from the general bid.
By using the low bids where available
and the complete bid for the curtains,
lights, sound and other equipment for the
auditorium, the total cost to purchase and
install the various equipment would be
$239,020.55 - just $10,979.45 under the
maximum amount authorized by the
Commissioners Court.
The Commissioners Cdurt had originally
agreed to issue certificates of obligation in
an amount not to exceed $150,000 when
they f irst considered the improve ments.
However, at the time the court agreed to
advertise for bids, the certificate total was
increased to an amount not t o exceed
$250,000.
Millard Bennett, chairman of the Civic
Center Board, had requested co[ ties of the
bids at the Monday session and the board
is to make its recommendatio ns to the
commissioners Friday.
Storms soak area
The National Weath?r Service issued a
flash fH^d watch for much of north central
and east lexas Thursday as a heavy line of
thunderstroms rumbled through the area.
The storms, which covered most of the
state, are not expected to end until
sometime Friday.
Rain and showers have dominated the
weather picture all week in the Hopkins
County area, and that condition intensified
somewhat Thursday morning.
Two county commissioners had op-
posing view about the rain. L.T. (Son)
Martin argued that the area was getting
too much rain, especially since he had hay
on the ground. Mervin Chester, on the
other hand, described the moisture as a
good, general rain. Chester recorded 1.3
wrongdoing by the banks.
“It is routinely referred to the grand
jury,” Allison said, “at least that’s my
impression."
S.T. Garrison of Peoples National Bank
reported that he had been served with a
subpoena on Wednesday and that he too is
to bring records.
“It’s ridiculous,” Garrison said, “that
they don’t have any more to do.”
Billy Jones of City National Bank said
that he had been served with a subpoena
Wednesday; that it was eight pages long
and “hard to read".
“We’re trying to figure it out now,”
Jones said.
County Attorney John Perry reported
that County Auditor Marvin Stubbs had
been served Wednesday just before Stubbs
and Deputy Auditor Bobbye Adair left foi*
a convention in Austin.
Rick Palmer of First National Bank
reported that he had not been served with
a subpoena.
"Probably we haven’t been open long
enough,” he explained, “and we don’t have
anything to report”
Sulphur Springs’ newest bank opened
Jan. 28,1980 and was not in business at the
time of most of the bids to select
depositories were being decided upon.
Allison said that he felt sure that the
Sulphur Springs Independent School
District had also been served with a
similar subpoena, attempts to contact
school district officials were unsuccessful
Thursday morning.
Gerald Prim of Sulphur Springs State
Bank was unavailable for comment, as
was Leonard Senerote, of the Anti-Trust
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
in Dallas, who is reportedly heading up the
investigation into the matter.
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Power problem
Texas Power and Light employees were kept busy Thursday morning when elec-
tricity along Church Street went off. At one location on Church, an insulator broke
end two wires bumped together, shorting out the electrical feed to several blocks in
that area. The lights were out at The News-Telegram and several other businesses
and homes for about 25 minutes as crews worked to seperate the lines and check for
other problems in the system.
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inches of rain near his home in Dike
overnight while Martin estima* ed about s
half an inch fell at his home in the Posey
community.
The official observation station in
Sulphur Springs recorded only .50 of an
inch of rain by 8 a.m. Thursday, but
showers continued throughout the mor-
ning.
The News-Telegram gauge near
downtown recorded .38 of am inch of
moisture by 8 a.m. Thursday and an ad-
ditional .25 of an inch shortly be fore noon.
As the storms hovered over Sulphur
Springs, several Texas Pownr & Light
customers found themselves without
electricity around 11 a.m. Thursday
although the outage could not be traced
directly to the weather.
According to a TP&L lineman, part of
the problem was that an insulator on a
power pole near the 1200 block of Church
Street cracked and let one pow ier line come
into contact wit another. The touching
lines caused a short, blacking out a section
of Church Street for about 25 minutes.
A TP&L spokesman was unsure at press
time if the broken insulator caused an.y
other problems. "We are checking several
different reports of problems,” the
spokesman said, “but we are not sure
exactly what the problem is a t this time.”
Other areas of the city reported brief
power outages during the Thursday
storms.
Forecasters are calling Ifor continued
rain and thundershowers through Friday
for Sulphur Springs. High daytime tem-
perature readings are expected to be in the
high 60s to low 70s. Overnight lows are
expected to be in the mid to upper 50s.
Skies should begin to clear Saturday and
the temperature should rise back into the
upper 70s both Saturday and Sunday.
Elsewhere, thunderstorms rampaged
across much of Texas today, packing hail,
heavy rain and gusty winds. Minor
flooding was widespread and there were
some evacuations.
West Texas took the brunt of the mid-
morning storms, with Snyder in Scurry
County getting four to seven inches of rain.
Iran charges
saboteur drop
By The Associated Press
Iran claims 96 armed American
saboteurs and assassins and 19 Iranian
exiles are on the loose after being landed in
the mountains by helicopters and says two
other Americans have been arrested for
taking part in the unsuccessful attempt to *
rescue the 53 UK. hostages.
The White House today termed Iran’s
claim “ridiculous”. /
Meanwhile, revolutionary leader
Ayatollah Rohullah Khomein [called today
for a purge of Iranian radio and television.
He said radio-tv contained “deviationist
groups which had ties with the former
regime (of Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi) *r were in it service and those
which are corrupt and cause corruption,”
Radio Tehran reported.
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