Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 170, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1980 Page: 1 of 24
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation’s
economy tumbled at an annual rate of 9.1
percent from April through June, equal to
the worst quarterly decline during the last
recession in 1974-75, the government said
today.
The steep decline in real gross national
product — the inflation-adjusted output of
goods and services — proved even greater
than Carter administration economists
initially predicted.
They had expected a drop of between 8
percent and 9 percent, seasonally ad-
justed.
During the first quarter of 1980, the gross
national product rose 1.2 percent.
Despite the precipitious plunge last
quarter, administration economists point
to new signs the economy will begin to
recover soon, including a sharp increase in
housing starts, lower interest rates and
easing inflation.
Nevertheless, private and government
economists now see unemployment
reaching about 9 percent and then
remaining somewhere around 8.5 percent
through most of next year. Moreover,
signs of industrial lag continue with
production at the nation's factories ex-
pected to continue declining for several
more months.
The Commerce Department reported
that before adjustment for inflation, the
nation's output from April through June
stood at an annual rate just exceeding
$2.52 trillion, slightly above the first
quarter level.
However, when adjusted for double-digit
inflation, the nation’s output was at an
annualreteof $1.-41 trillion.
An annual rate figure indicates what
would happen over the course of a year if
this quarter’s economic conditions con-
tinued for three more quarters.
Inflation, as measured by the so-called
implicit price deflator, rose 10.4 percent in
the second quarter, compared with a 9.5
percent increase in the first quarter, the
department said.
The decrease in real output last quarter
was attributed to a sharp 9.6 percent falloff
in final sales, following a 1.5 percent rise in
the first quarter, the department said.
The sales plunge occurred primarily in
the consumer sector, where people cut
back purchases in the housing and auto
sector.
The output figures are preliminary and
will be revised in coming weeks, the
department said.
The decline in the GNP reported today
was identical to the worst drop during the
last recession, when the gross national
product fell at an annual rate of 9.1 percent
in the first quarter of 1975.
But George Schultze, chairman of the
president’s Council of Economic Advisers,
predicted a recovery from the recession
will begin soon, although he said it would
be a slow recovery.
Schultze pointed to indications that the
housing slump has bottomed out and auto
sales — while still down — are improving.
The Commerce Department reported
Thursday that the long-slumping housing
industry turned around in June, with
construction starts surging 30.4 percent
and building permits up more than 28
percent.
Starts of privately owned single- and
multi-family houses rose to a seasonally
adjusted annual rate of 1.019 million units
last month, compared with 913,000 in May,
the department said.
While June’s figures clearly mark a
turnabout in the depressed industry, last v
month’s activity still was far below levels
of a year earlier, the Commerce Depart-
ment reported.
Department officials said the 538,600
single- and multi-family housing units
started during the first six months of this
year were down 38 percent from the 867,000
during first half of 1979.
Last June, housing starts stood at an
annual rate of 1.91 million units.
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Messy job
Sitting knee-deep in a 10-foot deep hole full of muddy water trying to repair a
broken i-inch water main is not necessarily a pleasant way to spend the morning.
The heat wave and drought is giving water treatment personnel some serious
headaches not to mention many hours of overtime. The soil is so dry that it is
bursting water mains almost as fast as workers can repair them. Mark Fleming,
preparing the repair sleeve, and Wayne Campbell were working on the break at
Moore and Main Street around 8 a.m. Friday morning. They had just gotten off
workaround 6a.m. after repairing a leak on Houston Street that sent water 30-feet
into the air when it broke about 7:30 a.m. -s«*n Photo
News briefs
Records, thermometer are broken
The official Sulphur Springs
thermometer is broken according to a
spokesman from the water
treatement facility who monitors the
observation station.
For the past several days the
thermometer has been giving false
readings because of a hair line crack
in the instrument. A new ther-
mometer has been ordered according
to the spokesman, but it will be 10 to 14
days before it arrives, so daytime
maximum readings will continue to
be several degrees below the actual
temperature.
The current Texas heat wave
became the worst heat wave ever for
the Dallas-Ft. Worth area as the
mercury climbed past the 100 degree
mark for the 26th consecutive day
Thursday.
The official high temperature
reading in Sulphur Springs Thursday
was 98 degrees, but with faulty
equipment the real high temperature
is difficult to determine.
Wildlife conference scheduled
The role of wildlife in the revised
Cooper Lake Project will be explored
July 29 at a meeting sponsored by the
Army Corps of Engineers in Fort
Worth.
Col. Donald J. Palladino, district
engineer, notified principals that the
session will be held in the Fritz
Lanham Federal Building beginning
at 10:30 a.m.
Participants will include
representatives of the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, the Corps of
Engineers, the Sulphur River
Municipal Water District, the North
Texas Municipal Water District and
the City of Irving.
Col. Palladino wrote Walter Helm,
president of SRMWD, that Jerome
Johnson, field supervisor of the Fish
and Wildlife Service, and members of
his staff will present their position on
the issue, including procedures being
used to determine mitigation
requirements for Cooper Lake.
Other principals in the meeting will
be Carl Riehn, NTMWD general
manager, and Jack D. Huffman, city
manager of Irving. Riehn is a former
city manager of Sulphur Springs.
Helm said he regards the fish and
wildlife issue as a key area in the
revisions needed to obtain release of
the Cooper Lake project from a
federal court injunction prohibiting
construction.
Hospital changeover in progress
Directors of the Hopkins County
Hospital District were told Thursday
night at their regular monthly
meeting that installation work for the
new air conditioning system is ex-
pected to be completed within the next
three to four weeks.
The conversion of the air con-
ditioning system from gas to elec-
trical is the final major capital ex-
penditure budgeted for the fiscal year
ending Sept. 30, Glenn Kenley,
hospital administrator, observed.
The new system is expected to be
more economical to operate and will
have an estimated two and one-half to
three-year payout. When the hospital
was constructed, natural gas was less
expensive. The new system has a cost
tag of about $100,000.
The directors reviewed engineering
drawings for the widening of the
street in front of the hospital as well
as the expanded parking lot to the east
of the building. The street will be
widened so that parking on both sides
can be accommodated. The expanded
parking lot near the emergency en-
trance will handle 23 more cars.
Kenley and the directors reviewed
the personnel policy. This is an annual
procedure. The policy had a few
expansions added.
The directors accepted the low bid
of Texas Floors of Dallas for new floor
covering for the dining room. The bid
was $3,164. The other bid was from
Duncan Interiors of Richardson for
$3,325.
Current bills were authorized for
payment and other routine business
matters handled during the meeting.
Kenley reported that Dr. Phil
White, ophthalmologist, had set up his
practice in Sulphur Springs and is now
seeing patients.
Reagan pledges to wage crusade
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DETROIT (AP) - Describing the
Republican Party’s apparent unity as “a
dream come true,” Ronald Reagan spent
his first day as the official GOP
presidential nominee in a round of thank-
you meetings and receptions.
With vice presidential nominee George
Bush at his side, Reagan met with groups
of party and campaign officials to express
his appreciation and rally support for his
fall campaign against President Carter.
“It is a crusade, and this time, as never
before, I think we’re ready for it,” Reagan
told members of the Republican National
Committee.
He praised party leaders and his
defeated rivals for the nomination for a
campaign and convention free of the
devisiveness of the past, saying the new
party unity “is a dream come true for a
great many of us” and for hopes of a
Republican victory in November.
Earlier, Reagan and Bush had breakfast
with Detroit Mayor Coleman Young,
Michigan Gov. William G. Milliken and
General Motors Chairman Thomas A.
Murphy to thank them for their roles
hosting the convention.
Reagan and Bush fly to Bush’s home city
of Houston for a rally on Saturday. Later
that day, Reagan plans a final rally in his
own home city of Los Angeles and a few
days rest in California before resuming
campaigning.
Water ample; treating runs shy
By JIM MOORE
News-Telegram Staff
Sulphur Springs is not out of water. But
it is out of the ability to treat amounts
being demanded by consumption levels
recorded this week
That is why city officials this week or-
dered a series of staged cutbacks in water
usage for its customers. At midnight
tonight an ordinance banning outside
watering between 6 and 10 a.m. and 6 and
10 p.m. becomes effective. Further
restrictions are possible.
Travis Owens, interim city manager,
says that the city is actually facing a
combination of about three or four
problems.
“Number one is the need for tran-
smission lines from the lake (to the
treating plant),” he said.
Plans dated 1971 indicate that there were
two lines running from a pump station
built in conjunction with Lake Sulphur
Springs to the old pump station at White
Oak Reservoir.
City crews dug in vain searching for the
line Thursday before it was determined
that the lines had never been laid.
Owens said that the city is planning
“right now” to put in lines to complete
those original plans to increase the amount
of raw water that can be pumped to the
water treatment plant.
The proposed lines would cost ap-
proximately $50,000 to $60,000 based on
estimates of pip$ costs and would be in-
stalled by city crews or possibly a con-
tractor.
Owens said that the work would take a
week to 10 days to complete.
Maxie Chester, quality conrol super-
visor, and Owens agree that more water to
the plant is only one of the problems.
Chester said that more water filters and
underground storage are also needed as
well as more treating capacity.
A preliminary report on water facilities
as part of the Comprehensive Plan that
was paid for jointly by the city and the
Texas Department of Community Affairs
(TDCA) has already been prepared this
year.
In that report, which is presently un-
dergoing revison into a final report to be
forwarded to TDCA, it is indicated that
there is plenty of water at Century Lake
and Lake Sulphur Springs for the duration
of the planning period which stretches
until the year 2000.
The report states, “when all existing
raw water pumps are operational, firm
capacity will be adequate until 1990.
“Existing raw water supply line
capacity, high service pumping capacity
and ground storage capacity are deficient
for 1980 needs.”
The Comprehensive Plan does not stop
there but offers recommendations.
Recommended are the extension of an
existing 10-inch raw water supply line to
the pump station to upgrade the reliability
of raw water delivery, a 5-year im-
provement program and a computerized
analysis of the water distribution pipe
network to determine the capability of
meeting fire and peak hour demands.
Although only a preliminary plan, the
engineers are recommending enlargement
of the treatment plant to put out 11 million
gallons per day of treated water from its
present 6 million gallon capacity — which
is estimated will be reached in 1982.
It also recommends adding 1.13 million
gallons of elevated storage and 2 million
gallons of ground storage.
Chester said Friday morning that at
least a million gallons of ground storage
was needed and Owens had expanded that
need to either one or possibly two million
gallons of that same type of storage being
needed.
Included in the recommendation was the
increase of raw water pumping capacity to
11 million gallons of water per day.
The water plant is presently pumping
about 5.5 million gallons per day to the
plant which then produces about 4.5.
million gallons of treated water.
Both Chester and Owens agree that
probably the next step after the com-
pletion of the additional raw water line
would be addition of filters and the ground
storage.
Chester says that the filters have to be
“back flushed" after about 4.2 million
gallons of water have gone through them
which requires up to 130,000 gallons of
water and several hours.
Additional filters would keep the plant
from having to shut down to wash filters
and would allow increased production of
treated water.
The construction work presently in
progress at the water plant will provide for
an additional million gallons of raw water
to be stored, but does not provide for ad-
ditional treatment.
“The lake is down about 15 inches,”
Chester told The News-Telegram Friday
morning, “but we’ve got plenty of water
out there. That’s not the problem.”
Owens and the engineers agree.
Post office ready for signup
The weeks of July 21 and July 28 will be
important to all American and resident
alien males bom in 1960 and 1961.
Under federal law, that’s when the
young men of the United States will be
required to register with the Selective
Service.
Jim Collins, Sulphur Springs post-
master, said that his office has the sole
function of providing a place for the
persons to register in the city.
The law does not provide for a draft of
the youth of the country into the U.S.
Armed Forces, but only for a registration
system.
Collins stressed that his personnel have
no information on anything other than the
actual registration.
Under the registration system, the in-
dividual will go to a post office window
clerk and receive a card to be filled out.
Collins said that examples will be posted
to show how to fill out the cards and when
the card is returned to the window clerk,
identification will be required.
Each registrant will be given a receipt
and a pamphlet on the Selective Service.
Later the registrant will receive a letter
from the Selective Service verifying the
information placed on the card.
The information is to be placed in the
Selective Service files but no registration
card will be issued.
The letter will serve as proof of
registration.
If the letter is not received within 90-
days, the registrant should write to the
Selective Service at 600 E Street Nor-
thwest, Washington D.C. 20435.
To ease the possibility of lines or crowds
at post office windows during the signup
period, suggested dates for registering by
birthday have been given. It is suggested
that those born in January, February or
March of 1960 should register on Monday,
July 21.
Those born in April, May or June of 1960
on Tuesday, July 22 and those bom in July,
August or September of 1960 on Wed-
nesday July 23.
For those born in October, November or
December of 1960, the day to register is
Thursday, July 24.
Those born in January, February or
March of 1961 should register on Monday,
July 28.
Those bom in April, May or June of 1961
on Tuesday, July 29 and those bom in July,
August or September of 1961 on Wed-
nesday July 30.
For those born in October, November or
December of 1961, the day to register is
Thursday, July 31.
Collins says that those are suggested
days and there will be no problems as long
as the youths affected register during the
weeks provided for registration.
Persons who are late in registering can
do so at the post office.
“We don't have anything to do with it
other than the registration," Collins said
and stressed that those that do not register
on time will have to resolve their problems
with the Selective Service.
One of the many Hopkins County youths that will bo in the U.S. Post Offices around
the area to register with the Selective Service next week, takes a long look at an
example of how to fill out the registration card. Although there is no present plan
for a draft, all males born in 1N0 and INI are required by law to register with the
Selective Service during the weeks of July 21 and 28.
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