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VOL. 102—NO. 189.
Sunday
AUGUST 10,1980.
15 Cents
THREE SECTIONS
—News briefs-
Local delegate
backing Carter
Perry F. Bradley of Sulphur
Springs, a delegate from the First
Congressional District of Texas to the
National Convention of the Democrat
Party, will depart Sunday for New
York City committed to help
renominate President Jimmy Carter.
“I am committed to Carter,”
Bradley said. ‘‘I was elected with the
understanding that I would vote for
Carter and I plan do that. ”
He said, with a chuckle, that he had
been asked by several television news
correspondents what it would take to
change his mind.
"After a state funeral,” he declared
was his pat answer. He has been
contacted by ABC, CBS, Channel 1’s
Clarice Tinsley, CBS News, and the
Los Angeles Times, among others,
within recent days.
Bradley says his second choice
behind Carter would be Fritz Mon-
dale.
Bradley will be a roommate of Bob
Slagle of Sherman, another district
delegate, in the New York Hilton
Hotel. Slagle is a candidate to become
party chairman in Texas, and
Bradley said he plans to campaign for
his election during any free time at
the convention.
Among the early events at the
convention will be a reception hosted
by U.S. Senator Lloyd Bensten and
wife, B.A. Bradley said he has been
invited to the event and will attend.
Storm's impact
expected soon
Although Hurricane Allen is
causing flooding and wind damage
along the Texas coast, the effects of
the second worst hurricane of the
century have not yet reached Sulphur
Springs, but are expected to before
Monday.
Forecasters with the National
Weather Service are calling for
mostly cloudy skies through Monday
with the possiblity of rain or thun-
derstorms increasing as Allen moves
inland.
Temperatures are expected to be
slighty cooler through Sunday as well.
Daytime high readings are an-
ticipated to reach the lower to mid
90s, with overnight lows in the lower
70s.
The extended forecast is calling for
considerable cloudiness and a chance
of thunderstorms through Wednesday
with continued cooler temperatures.
State clout
in Congress
to increase
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen suggests that the Texas
congressional delegation may grow more
than expected when reapportionment
takes place following the 1980 census.
The Texas Democrat said early feed-
back he has received from the Census
Bureau indicates the state may receive
three additional seats in the House.
Previous. Census Bureau projections,
based on 1979 estimates, indicated that
Texas might receive two new seats.
“The Texas delegation is known as the
most cohesive delegation in the entire
Congress,” Bentsen said in an interview
prepared for Texas television stations.
“That (a third new seat) means that
Texas’ voice, Texas’ muscle, would in-
crease just that much more.”
The outcome will not be known until the
official census figures are completed later
this year, but estimates have indicated
that Texas’ delegation would become the
third largest in the House either way.
Census Bureau projections have in-
dicated that Pennsylvania, which has the
third largest delegation, and Illinois, tied
with Texas as the fourth largest, both will
lose seats after the 1980 census.
Texss currently has 24 seats in the
House.
California and New York have the
largest delegations.
The House is limited to 435 members, so
seats are shifted from state-to-state after
each census to accomodate the moving
population.
"Another state like Florida is talking
about possibly getting three instead of just
two,” Bentsen said. “But that really
means that you are going to see the Sun
Belt influence increase some more.”
Oil tanker in serious trouble
Twisters, rain escort
Allen to Texas shore
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Tor-
nados struck this southernmost Texas city,
floodwaters closed coastal escape routes
and an oil-laden tanker with 37 crewmen
aboard foundered in heavy seas as the
leading edge of deadly Hurricane Allen,
the strongest Atlantic hurricane in 45
years, buffeted the Texas coastSaturday.
Spiral bands of drenching rain, each
band more intense than the one before,
pounded onto the coast with 50 to 60 mph
winds in advance of the storm shortly
before noon Saturday.
The National Hurricane center in Miami
said the center of the storm was expected
to have moved across the extreme South
Texas coast by sundown. Forecasters said
as much as 15 inches of rain would spread
inland ahead of the hurricane track
Saturday night, with possible inland
flooding.
Coast Guard Lt. Lawrence Fontana in
Corpus Christi said an 840-foot Liberian
tanker filled with 280,000 barrels of oil was
disabled about five miles off Padre Island
and drifting toward some offshore oil rigs.
“The ‘Mary Ellen’ is adrift and bearing
down on some oil rigs that are in the Gulf.
All I can say is it’s a very bad situation."
He said the tanker left Port Aransas on
Friday, intending to clear the Gulf ahead
of the storm, but lost power. Fontana said
three tugboats were dispatched to help the
drifting tanker, but were driven back by
hea$y weather.
“It’s an extremely critical situation,”
said Coast Guard Lt. Steve Sparks, “but
unfortunately there’s nothing we can do
for them.”
An estimated 150,000 Texans have fled
Allen’s fury, said David Wells of the state
emergency operations center. The
vulnerable coastal towns of Port Isabel,
Port Aransas, and South Padre Island
were completely evacuated before being
cut off by rising tides.
Shortly after 6 a.m. Corpus Christi
Mayor Luther Jones urged residents to
remain inside their homes. U.S. Highway
181, which crosses Corpus Christi Bay, was
closed because of heavy rains. Tides in the
bay were three feet above normal at 7 a.m.
Brownsville City Manager Neil Haman
urged residents who planned to evacuate
to do so before 7:30 a.m.
Across the Rio Grande, in Matamoros,
Mexico, Gen. Manuel Sanchez Rocha,
head of disaster relief, estimated 40,000 of
the city’s 300,000 residents had gone to
shelters. Federal troops were posted
throughout the city.
Tides were two feet above normal at
Brownsville, and four feet above normal at
Galveston, nearly 300 miles up the coast.
No injuries were reported in the dawn
Brownsville twisters that destroyed five
homes and damaged three or four others,
police said.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami
predicted tides 15 to 20 feet above normal
near the center of the storm when it made
landfall, and tides elsewhere would range
from 8 to 15 feet in the hurricane warning
area.
The upper Texas coast could fall victim
to heavy squalls and tornadoes as far as
100 miles inland, the weather service said.
Allen killed at least 87 in a rampage
through the Caribbean.
Allen, with sustained winds of 170 mph
and gusts to 200 mph, was rated an “ex-
tremely dangerous” storm by the Miami
center which gave it the highest possible
hurricane rating, Category 5.
Hurricanes in that category have
pressure less than 920 millibars and winds
in excess of 155 mph.
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Campaign '80...
...An AP News Analysis
By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
AP Political Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - President Carter,
his grip on the 1980 Democratic
presidential nomination looking firm, is
keeping watch on Democratic con-
ventioneers from the solitude of Camp
David, while Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
tries to turn the tide with on-the-scene
lobbying.
Before flying to the presidential retreat
in Maryland on Friday, Carter said “I feel
confident” about the nomination.
But Kennedy, who arrived in the con-
vention city on Friday that he believes he
has “a real chance to win this
nomination.”
The Massachusetts senator told in-
terviewers he expects to have “some
surprises” during the open days of the
convention.
The Democrats are scheduled to con-
vene their National Convention at 4 p.m.
EDT Monday in Madison Square Garden
and move quickly to debate a party rule
that requires delegates to abide by the
results of state primaries and conventions
during Wednesday night’s balloting for the
presidential nomination.
If that rule is upheld, Carter is assured
renomination. He will enter the convention
with 1,986 delegates to 1,234 backing
Kennedy. A total of 1,666 delegate votes is
required for the nomination.
In addition, an Associated Press survey
that reached 2,889 delegates found an
overwhleming majority of those elected to
support Carter are backing him in the
rules fight. They also said they would back
his renomination regardless of whether
there was a rule requiring them to vote
that way.
Fifty-five percent of the delegates in-
terviewed said they support the binding
rule and 96 percent of Carter’s delegates
said they would vote for his renomination
even if that rule is rejected.
Kennedy told a street rally just off Park
Avenue that he’s narrowing the gap.
“We have closed the gap in the polls in
the past few months and in the next few
days, we’re going to close the gap in the
delegates," he said.
Robert Strauss, Carter’s campaign
chairman, told reporters Friday that he
expects to win the fight over the rule “in a
very substantial way...Our lead for the
nomination is far more substantial. We
can’t find a delegate we’re losing.”
“We’re not really running against
Senator Kennedy, now," added Strauss.
“That race is over.”
Strauss also insisted that if the rale is
affirmed, Carter has no plans to release
his delegates in a unity gesture. He said
such a move was discussed and rejected.
However, Carter Campaign sources also
said they doubted they would try to strictly
enforce the rule.
School trustees^plan
12-cent tax rate hike
Trustees of the Sulphur Springs In-
dependent School District are expected to
approve a 12-cent hike in the tax rate at
their 7:30 p.m. Tuesday meeting in the
Administration Building. Earlier, they had
served notice of their intent to increase the
tax rate and held a public hearing. There
were no visitors to the hearing.
The rate will increase from $1.25 to )1.37
based on each $100 valuation of real,
personal and mixed property within the
district.
The district leaders propose to increase
the division of the ad valorem tax from 88
cents to $1.03 for local maintenance and
from 34 cents to 37 cents for debt service,
bonded indebtednesses, interest and
sinking fund.
At the meeting, the trustees also will
consider raising the lunchroom prices.
Five different proposals have been sub-
mitted for consideration as expenditures
for the operation continue to increase.
The lunchroom program is expected to
involve expenditures of almost a half of
million dollars during the upcoming year.
Approval of the amended 1979-80 budget
will be asked at the meeting and the 1980-81
budget will be up for adoption. Bids
have been requested on air-conditioning
five school kitchens and cafeterias and are
scheduled to reviewed. Bids on milk and
bread products also are slated to be
received.
Trustees will be asked to approve the
resignations of five teachers and confirm
the employment of at least eight others,
along with other support personnel.
Superintendent Ed Stevens will make a
series of administrative reports and other
matters, mostly of routine nature, will
require board action during the meeting.
Court eyes budget change
Unwanted river...
Major water line breaks continued to plague the city Saturday
when an eight-inch line on Ardis Street ruptured. The broken
line pushed water up through the ground like an artesian well,
forming a fast-flowing river as it surged down Ardis Street
towards Front Street (top photo). Once the torrent covered the
block and a half to Front Street it emptied into the roadway to
form a small pond (center). An earth mover working on the
Front Street improvement project, was forced to back up and go
around the deepening hazard to get to the other side, where work
is continuing on the block 9rant project (bottom).
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Amending the budget for Precinct three
and approving payment for curb and
gutter work at the Civic Center are among
the items on the agenda for the Hopkins
County Commissioners Court when it
meets in regular session at 10 a.m. Mon-
day in the office of the County Judge.
In addition, the court will consider
clearing the title to abandon city lots in
Weaver, approve the payment to Price
Ford for the difference in year model
pickup and open and award bids for blinds
for the courthouse.
The court is also scheduled to consider a
resolution to quit-claim the state’s interest
in surplus right-of-way easements, ap-
prove the bills and tend to any additional
business or resolutions which may come
before the court. Before adjourning, the
court will hold a general discussion with
the public.
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