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VOl. 102—NO. 101.
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APRIL 21,1980.
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Injured commandoes get hero's welcome
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Carter visits wounded
Petals to the sun
Regardless o< what the thermometer said over the weekend, flowers of all types
were turning colorful faces to the bright sun Monday morning across Sulphur
Springs. Two consecutive nights of record-setting or record-tying temperatures,
atop spring frosts not long ago, have failed to deter the brilliance of springtime. And
a strand of barbed wire makes a good perch for the climbing blossoms...
-StiH Photo
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -
President Carter arranged a visit to Texas
today to visit the five servicemen injured
during an ill-fated attempt to rescue the
American hostages in Iran, the White
House has announced.
The official, who asked not to be iden-
tified, said the president would leave
Washington in mid-morning, arrive here in
early afternoon and return to the White
Holise before dark.
Bexar County Democratic Chairman
Joyce Peters said the White House called
her Sunday night Jo tell her of Carter’s
plans.
Carter’s itinerary called for him to fly to
Kelly Air Force Base, then go to the
Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam
Houston in San Antonio. Four of the
commandos, burned in the crash of a
helicopter and a transport plane in the
Iranian desert, are at Brooke.
The fifth injured commando is at Wilford
Hall Hospital at Lackland Air Force Base
with an injured knee. Carter is to visit him
after seeing the burn victims, Ms. Peters
said.
Several of the servicemen spent Sunday
visiting family members and reading
newspaper accounts of the aborted rescue
mission that killed eight of their comrades.
The five received a hero’s welcome upon
their return home before they were
whisked to hospital beds Saturday.
After lengthy examinations, the director
at the Brooke Army Medical Center burn
unit said there is a “better than 50 per-
cent” chance all four servicemen who
sustained burns will recover.
A Brooke spokesman Sunday reported
Air Force Staff Sgt. Joseph J. Beyers III,
37, Charleston, S.C., in critical condition;
Marine Maj. Leslie B. Petty, 34,
Jacksonville, N.C., in serious condition;
Air Force 1st Lt. Jeffrey B. Harrison, 26,
Warren,, Ohio, in satisfactory condition;
and Marine Maj. James H. Schaefer Jr.,
36, Los Angeles, in satisfactory condition.
Airman 1st Class William Tootle of Fort '
Walton Beach, Fla., was hospitalized in
good condition with an injured knee at
Wilford Hall
Col. Basil A. Pruitt said he planned to
move two of the burn victims to a con-
valescent floor at the unit today because
they require a lesser degree of care. They
probably will remain hospitalized eight to
10 days, he said.
Pruitt would not discuss individual in-
juries, although he said he was satisfied
with the progress of the four men.
“The individual patients' burns range
from 2 percent to 44 percent of the total
body surface,” he said. “One patient is in
what is called our intensive care section
and I would anticipate he would be there a
matter of three to five days if all goes as
anticipated."
He said the men who were able to do so
read newspaper stories and watch
television accounts of their drum-and-
bugle corps welcome at Kelly Air Force
Base Saturday.
Marine Sgt. Bob Torres, who visited the
unit Sunday afternoon, said Petty and
Schaefer were covered with a special burn
cream and in side-by-side beds.
Torres said Schaefer was able to shower
and visit with his wife, who declined to talk
to reporters, but Petty was still sedated.
Beyers' step-brother, Robert Hobbs, of
North Augusta, S.C., said doctors reported
Beyers suffered second-and third-degree
burns over 40 percent of his body.
“He will be all right, they say," Hobbs
said. “He’ll live.”
Beyers was a radio operator stationed at
Hurlburt Field in Florida.
Hobbs said he and other family mem-
bers brought the Marine’s five children to
San Antonio to he close to their father.
Beyers is divorced and has custody of
the children, ages 10-16, Hobbs said.
Despite his family responsibilities, Hobbs
said he thought Beyers volunteered for the
mission in Tehran “because he is a career
soldier and he felt it had to be done. We’re
real proud of Joe.”
In Warren, Ohio, Lois Harrison said she
was told her son Was in good condition,
burned over 5 percent of his body.
Harrison, a 1976 graduate of the Air
Force Academy, was stationed at Eglin
Air Force Base in Florida
“I’m very proud of him,” Mrs. Harrison
said. “I'm sure he was very proud to have
been in on it (the mission)."
Petty’s wife said the Marine major is a
helicopter pilot stationed at New River
Marine Air Station in North Carolina. She
said she did not know where her husband
was until she was told of his injuries, which
she would not discuss.
“This was a secret mission, so none of us
wives knew," she said.
Bum treatment is a specialty at Brooke
where researchers have pioneered
techniques in temporary skin grafts and
infection fighting.
Court tables tax board funds
Vance quits state post
By BARRY SCHWEID
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cyrus R. Vance,
a tireless voice for moderation and con-
ciliation inside the Carter administration,
is quitting as secretary of state following
his solitary opposition to the ill-fated at-
tempt to rescue American hostages in
Iran.
Vance’s resignation, confirmed Sunday
night by two high administration officials,
came as a shock even though he had
planned to leave at the end of President
Carter’s current term. It left a vacancy in
the management of U.S. foreign policy at a
time of considerable international turmoil,
with the nation embroiled in disputes in-
volving Iran, the failed rescue mission and
the Soviet move into Afghanistan.
One U.S. official, who declined to be
identified, said Vance wqs the only
member of the National Security Council
who opposed the rescue operation as too
risky. “They had a good relationship,” the
official said of Vance and Carter, “but
both concluded it was impossible for him
to function as secretary of state.”
Earlier, another official, who also
declined to be identified, said that while
Vance was troubled recently with the flu
and gout, he intended to quit as a result of
policy disagreements. “Anything can
happen at the last minute, but that’s the
way it looks now,” the official said.
It was not known who would replace
Vance, but speculation centered on
Warren Christopher, the deputy secretary
whose role grew as Vance's declined.
Over the past 3Vz years Vance has seen
some of his priority projects, including
arms control and detante with the Soviet
Union, pushed to a back burner as the
administration hardened its stance toward
Moscow. His principal antagonist in the
struggle for Carter’s ear was Zbigniew
Brzezinski, the national security adviser
with pronounced anti-Soviet views.
The disclosure that Vance disagreed
with the military rescue attempt was, in
itself, surprising. Usually, once a
presidential decision is reached — par-
ticularly one that doesn’t work out — the
ranks around him close with no one
acknowledging disapproval.
Characteristically, Vance favored in
most overseas ventures a careful ap-
proach based on compromise in
preference to confrontation. His attitude
was shaped partly by his Wall Street
lawyer background and also the U.S. in-
volvement in the Vietnam war, which
Vance as deputy secretary of defense first
supported and then began to doubt.
He was impassioned about a transition
to black rule in Rhodesia, and saw that
fulfilled through with British diplomatic
intervention. But his support of a new
stretegic arms limitation treaty with the
Soviet Union was subsequently over-
shadowed by renewed superpower ten-
sions. The treaty was signed but never
submitted to the Senate for ratification.
The night the failure became known,
Vance worked quietly in his office over-
seeing the dispatch of cables abroad and
briefing* key congressional figures by
telephone. But Carter, Defense Secretary
Harold Brown and Brzezinski were up
front speaking for the administration on
television. Briefings at the State Depart-
ment were conducted by others.
Hopkins County Commissioners Court
members decided to put on hold the fun-
ding request of the Hopkins County Tax
Appraisal District until about the middle
of next month, when they can meet with
other taxing entities to discuss the matter
of the budget.
“We don't have nothing set up in the
budget," said Precinct 4 Commissioner
L.T. (Son) Martin of the appraisal
district’s request for $6,432 from the
county.
County Judge Joe R. Pogue told com-
missioners that the district’s $30,000
budget was to organize the office.
Martin had questioned the potential
salary of the chief tax appraiser and
wondered what would occur if the other
entities decided not to pay the requested
amounts for the six-month period.
Pogue said that the $30,000 requested for
the ^-year’s operation would include
office equipment, supplies, a possible
secretary or other office help and office
space for the new entity.
Martin questioned as to what would
happen if the request was not honored and
Pogue replied that it would be voluntary in
1980 but after that, it would be an
assessment to each taxing entity.
Precinct 3 Commissioner Mervin
Chester requested a meeting of city of-
ficials and those from all of the school
districts with the commissioners to discuss
the expenses along with representatives
from the appraisal district who could
explain the needs and reasons for the
$30,000 budget.
Judge Pogue set the meeting for May 12.
A1 Griffin Jr. of Greenville was present
to give the commissioners a report bn
costs to repair the Tax Office which
burned April 15.
The insurance adjustor said that repairs
would cost approximately $25,503.39 but
after depreciation of $3,514.05, the in-
surance would pay $21,989.34.
He said that Tax Assessor-Collector Jeff
Taylor had given him a list of the contents
Monday morning that were burned —
amounting to $5,001.11 - and that the list
would have to be gone over to determine
what would be allowed.
Pogue told the commissioners that
others had said it would cost much more to
fix the building and that the court would be
hearing those reports at a later time.
In other action before the Com-
missioners Court, a road near Emblem
was left open as the court rejected a
petition to close the county road. The
burial of four telephone cables was ap-
proved.
The cables are in Precincts 1,3 and 4.
Precinct 2 Commissioner J.D. Hatley
commented, “They’re not burying these
cables deep enough...It’s creating a
hardship on some of the people out there
when we cut those cables.” •
The commissioners also approved bonds
for Susan Bassham of the District Clerk’s
Office and for David Jackson of the
Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Board.
Iranians to surrender
raid casualty bodies
Record Texas price, paid
Matter Beauty Candy, owned, brad and developed by Weldon and Jana DeWitt of
Sulphur Springs, brought 117,900 at the Blue Bonnet Sale in Haslet on Saturday. It
was the most ever paid for a Jersey cow in Toms. Buyer was the Billings Farm of
Woodstock, Vt. Classified excellent 92, the cow produced 14,564 pounds of milk with
741 pounds of butterfat in a 145-day period. On the March 20 tost, the cow milked
100.4 pounds of milk testing 4.9 percent, fat. She milked 95.4 pounds of milk April 17.
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News briefs
Dual benefit play on tap
A dual-benefit staging of the
Sulphur Springs High School state-
bound one act play, “The Bald
Soprano”, will unfold at 8 p.m. today
in the Regional Civic Center
auditorium.
Admission price will be $1 per
person, with tickets sold at the door
only. Proceeds from the event will be
divided between the high school’s
speech and drama fund and the Lisa
Smith benefit fund, high school drama
coach Karen Mclntire said.
Miss Smith, a senior at Sulphur
Springs High School, remains
hospitalized in Paris, suffering from a
rare form of paralytic virus. Several
events have been staged to raise
money for the Lisa Smith Fund to help
defray expenses of the family, but
much more is needed, fund officials
say.
“The Bald Soprano” cast has
carried the one-act play to zone,
district and regional championships
to advance to state University In-
terscholastic League competition in
May.
Along the way, several cast
members have won high honors for
role portayals in the comedy.
Front rewrites records
The cool front which brought
another surge of nasty weather to
Sulphur Springs late last week con-
tinued to make its presence known
over the weekend as record lows were
set or tied both Sunday and Monday
mornings.
Sunday morning the mercury
slipped to 42 degrees at the official
weather observation station in
Sulphur Springs, eclipsing by one
degree the previous record low for an
April 27. The prior record was
established in 1887.
Then, on Monday morning, the
temperature dropped to 44, tying the
all-time record for an April 28, first
established in 1965, according to
records maintained by The News-
Telegram-
Effects of the cool front were" ob-
vious during the daytime hours as
well, as Saturday’s high reached only
58 degrees and Sunday’s official
maximum was 69.
The Sunday-Monday morning
readings marked the fifth time that
minimum record lows have been set
or tied during the month, while one
all-time high April markkas been
established to date. I
The warming trend which set in
Monday morning is expected to
continue through most of the week,
but overnigt lows should remain cool,
the National Weather Service said in
its forecast for the Northeast Texas
area. ,,
Tuesday’s high is expected to nudge
into the upper 70s, and the long-range
outlook is for similar daytime
readings Wednesday through Friday.
Overnight lows should be in the near-
50 range, the weather service says,
wltlj^rtiy cloudy skies.
The storm system, which brought .
sightings of funnel clouds in the area
as it whipped through Friday, brought
the monthly rainfall total to 4.68 in-
ches and boosted the year’s moisture '
accumulation to 17.16 inches.
By The Associated Press
The bodies of the U.S. commandos killed
in the abortive operation to rescue the
American hostages in Iran will be handed
over to representatives of Pope John Paul
II, the International Red Cross and the
Swiss government, Tehran Radio reported
today.
The timing of the turnover was not
known. The eight bodies were taken to
Tehran’s morgue after they were
displayed in plastic bags Sunday on the
ground at the U.S. Embassy and reporters
and TV camera crews were called in to see
them and photograph them.
The Swiss ambassador, the Red Cross
respresentative in Tehran and the papal
representative were not available im-
mediately for comment. Switzerland
represents U. S. interests in Iran since
Washington broke diplomatic relations.
Meanwhile, some of the hostages were
reported transferred from the embassy in
Tehran to the former U.S. consulate in the
northern city of Tabriz and the holy city of
Qom, south of the Iranian capital.
“As there is no guarantee that the U.S.
administration will return the bodies of
the Americans killed in the abortive
operation to their families, we decided to
hand them over to representatives of Pope
John Paul II, the International Red Cross
Organization and the Swedish govern-
ment,” the broadcast said, citing a
statement from the office of President
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
The bodies of eight American ser-
vicemen killed in the failed rescue mission
Friday were displayed at the embassy
Sunday. An attempt to demand ransom for
the bodies was indicated, but the Carter
Administration said it won’t pay.
Meanwhile, a group of the hostages
arrived in Tabriz, the restive capital of
Azerbaijan province 60 miles south of die
Soviet border, while another group was
sent to Qom, the Shiite Moslem holy city
100 miles south of Tehran, the militants
occupying the embassy announced Sun-
day.
President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr said
Saturday the bodies should be returned
“with no conditions attached.” But the
newspaper of the hard-line Islamic
Republican Party, Jomhori Island, said
President Carter should be made to
ransom them by releasing the $8 billion in
Iranian assets he froze in November in
retaliation for the hostage seizure.
Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, the
party’s head and the secretary of the
ruling Revolutionary Council, said the’
council should decide what to do with the
bodies.
Defense Secretary Harold Brown ruled
out bartering for the bodies. “This is
something in which we do not propose to
engage,” he said on CBS-TV’s “Face The
Nation.” J
“We’re not in the body-buying
business,” said Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Carter’s national security adviser".
Local man critically
hurt in cycle mishap
DPS Trooper Jack Counts was still
trying to piece together the details
surrounding a motorcycle accident that
critically injured a Sulphur Springs man
sometime early Monday morning.
Counts reported that Ricky Wayne
Hayes, 25, of 273 S. Locust was found in a
ditch about 5 a.m. Monday by a passing
truck driver about four miles west of
Sulphur Springs oa$H-U. . *
‘It was a fairly deep ditch and the
headlight (of the motorcycle) was bralNn
out,” Counts said.
He said Hayes, an employee at Rockwell
International, had borrowed the 1,800-cc
motorcycle before midnight Sunday and
had not been seen since that time.
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“He ran off the road and hit several
fence posts,” Counts said, “the bike was
cold when he was found.”
Counts said that information available,
indicated the accident occurred between
12:30and 1a.m. Monday.
Hayes was taken to Memorial Hospital
by ambulance where he wm reported in
“critical” condition with head injuries.. ..
Ha. was then transferred to Baylor
University Medical Center in Dallas.
Hayes was still being treated in the
emergency room at Baylor at D:I5 son.
Monday. Hospital officials there i
it would be some time before a
report could be issued aa Hayes i
undergoing*
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