Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 222, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1980 Page: 1 of 20
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News briefs
Wildcats serve
up extra stew
There will be more Hopkins County
Stew available for sale Saturday at
the Civic Center than might have been
the case had Sulphur Springs lost a
football game last week.
But because the Wildcats defeated
Athens 34-15, the stew was saved for
local consumption. That’s good,
because a stew sell-out is expected
here Saturday at the annual world’s
championship cookoff.
Local consumption of black-eyed
peas proved to be big in Athens in
August at that city’s annual festival,
too.
“Unfortunately, the Chamber of
Commerce did not have any cans of
black-eyed peas with our special
promotional label,” writes Dan
Dwelle, co-publisher of the Athens
Review. But Dwelle, who wagered
that city's peas against Hopkins
County Stew put up by Clarke Keys,
publisher of The News-Telegram, on
the outcome of last week’s game, did
not back out.
He forwarded a book that includes
all the winning recipes for preparing
black-eyed peas since the inception of
the jamboree in Athens, along with a
ceramic pea symbolic of the Black-
Eyed Pea Jamboree.
“I know you will want to keep it in a
prominent place on your desk,”
Dwelle wrote to Keys.
Chamber ballot
deadline set
A deadline of Monday, Sept. 29, has
been established for returning ballots
in the annual election of directors for
the Hopkins County Chamber of
Commerce.
Eight new directors are due to be
chosen in voting by the general
membership of the chamber, to take
office in January to begin 3-year
terms.
Ballots will be mailed to all
members-in-good-standing of the
chamber, according to David
DuPriest, president.
After the deadline, the ballots will
be audited, results will be announced
and newly elected directors will begin
attending board functions for
familiarization.
Candidates selected by a
nominating committee include Mark
McClendon, Dub Murphy, Herb Flora,
Tex Nowlin, Tommy Allison, Dwight
Alexander, Ron Lummus, Janie
Crump, Gene Neal, James Diamond,
Rick Palmer, Gerald Prim, Joe
Kennedy, Doug Moore and Ed
Stevens.
Directors whose terms expire in
December are Millard Bennett, Bob
Gideon, Lewis Helm, Bobby Price,
Kirby Pickett, Coy Vicars and Gene
Watson. One vacancy exists on the
board.
Festival finale
not like fall
Weather for the big finale of the Fall
Festival Saturday should be pleasant,
but hardly fall-like.
The National Weather Service
forecast is calling for clear to partly
cloudy skies and warm temperatures
through Sunday. High temperature
readings Friday and Saturday should
be in the mid to upper 90s with early
morning lows in the upper 60s.
The mercury reached 95 degrees
Wednesday for the official high
reading. Early Thursday morning the
temperature dropped to a mild 65
degrees for an overnight low, and at 8
a.m. Thursday the mercury stood at
75 under partly cloudy skies.
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New school official
Marvin Utecht, 3), who has been connected with the Duncanville school system, has
arrived here to assume duties as assistant principal at Sulphur Springs High School.
Utecht succeeds Lewis Rogers, who resigned to become superintendent at Van
Horn. Utecht and his wife, also a teacher, have two children. He holds a B.S. degree
from Howard Payne University and an M.E. from Stephen F. Austin University in
Nacogdoches.
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Digit-dizziness lurks
in longer Zip Codes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite com-
plaints Americans will be driven “digit
dizzy,” a U.S. Postal Service official says
ZIP codes will be expanded to nine
numbers for all the nation’s 79 million
addresses by the end of next year.
Michael S. Coughlin, assistant post-
master general, told a House Government
Operations subcommittee that a major
benefit of the longer code will be increased
efficiency and “longer periods of time
between rate increases.”
“We hope!” was the skeptical reply of
Rep. David Evans, D-Ind., who chaired the
hearing into the ZIP code change.
The Postal Service plans to begin
distributing new code assignments -
adding four new digits to the present code
— next February. Large-volume mailers
are first on the list, with home addresses to
be included by the end of the year.
“Z stands for Zip-posterous,” declared
Ray Geiger, editor of the Farmers’
Almanac, who has spearheaded a
nationwide campaign to zap the new ZIP.
ZIP stands for Zone Improvement
Program.
“What you’re telling us is to zap the nine-
digit code to keep us from getting digit
dizzy,” said Rep. Richardson Preyer, D-
N.C.
Geiger, in his blast against the expanded
ZIP codes, also said that if any of the
complicated computers needed to read the
longer code ever broke down, mail would
be sent flying pell-mell across the country.
Geiger said the firm that publishes the
Farmers’ Almanac, which has a cir-
culation of 6 million copies in the United
States and Canada, also has mailing lists
for other products. He estimated it would
cost Geiger Bros, up to $30,000 to change
the ZIP codes.
Coughlin said the new code will enable
post offices to process the mail more
easily, more quickly and more accurately.
The four new numbers are intended to
direct each piece of mail to the ap-
propriate letter carrier by pinpointing the
destination right down to the street
location.
Assassination 'holiday'
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — “Like a
sudden holiday,” thousands of
Nicaraguans jammed the streets of
Managua, dancing, singing and
celebrating the bold and bloody
assassination of Anastasio Somoza, the
ousted ruler who dreamed of restoring his
grip on this Central American nation.
Leaders of the Sandinista National
Liberation Front that overthrew Somoza
toured the streets shouting joy over the
deed.
Somoza, his chauffeur and a financial
adviser were killed Wednesday in Asun-
cion, Paraguay in a machine-gun and
bazooka ambush that left the former
leader’s limousine a mass of twisted
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wreckage. Paraguayan authorities are
pressing a countrywide manhunt for six
guerrillas believed to have carried out the
attack.
The Sandinista National Directorate
assembled in the dictator’s old fortress for
a celebration, then issued a statement
“confirming the killing of genocidist
Anastasio Somoza Debayle. We join in the
popular rejoicing of the people of Sandino
that sees its dream of justice fulfilled. ”
Augusto Cesar Sandino was the
Nicaraguan revolutionary general killed
by Somoza’s father after leading a
guerrilla campaign against U.S. Marines
in Nicaragua in the 1920s and 1930s. The
Sandinistas take their name from him.
Sulphur Springs
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SEPTEMBER 18,1980.
Hijackers returned
MIAMI (AP) — The Castro government
said today that two hijackers would be
returned to the United States for
prosecution, and the U.S. government
promptly dispatched a plane to Havana to
bring them back.
It is the first time in the 20-year history
of United States-to-Cuba hijackings that
the Cuban government has returned
hijackers to face immediate prosecution in
this country.
Federal Aviation Administration
spokesman Dennis Feldman said a
Lockheed Jetstar carrying two pilots, a
flight technician and an FAA sky marshal
left Washington this morning. It was
scheduled to arrive in Havana this af-
ternoon after a stop in Atlanta to pick up
two more sky marshals and a U.S. mar-
shal.
The hijackers would then be flown to
Columbia, S.C., to be arrested in the
hijacking early Wednesday of a Delta Air
Lines flight carrying 111 people from
Atlanta to Columbia.
“This is a real breakthrough," Feldman
said. “Never before has Cuba volunteered
to return a hijacker. By denying them
asylum, this should bring to an end the
current rash of hijackings.”
Ten planes have been hijacked to Cuba
since Aug. 10. Most have been blamed on
disenchanted refugees.
Fall Festival
Event Calendar
Friday
8 a.m.: Barrow Show, arena.
8:30 a.m.: Tractor Driving Contest,
south of Civic Center.
8:30 a.m.: Youth Hay Hauling
Contest, site to be announced.
8:30 a.m.: Children’s Barnyard
opens near arena.
9 a.m.: Carnival opens, school
grounds.
9 a.m.: Outside Educational
Exhibits, stew area.
1 p.m.: Fire Department Rescue
Unit, stew area.
2 p.m.: Cookie Monster Contest,
stew area.
3:30 p.m.: Ice Cream Eating
Contest, stew area.
5 p.m.: Judging, Beef, arena.
7 p.m.: Tots on Parade, civic center
auditorium.
Saturday
Quoting the newspaper Granma, the
official organ of the Cuban Communist
Party, Havana radio said today the return
would be a “drastic measure” needed to
show that “no one can play with the word
and the honor of the Cuban revolution.”
Granma announced a get-tough policy
with hijackers two days ago.
Following 87 aircraft diversions between
1961 and 1973, the U.S. and Cuba signed an
anti-hijacking agreement. But neither
nation ever forced the return of anyone
involved in the few hijackings that oc-
curred during the 50 months the accord
was in effect.
Havana radio said in a broadcast on
Monday that the 120,000 Cubans who took
boats to the United States in the “Freedom
Flotilla” made “one-way trips” and could
not return. It said any who resorted to
hijackings to return would be severely
punished in Cuba or even sent back to the
United States,
The Delta Air Lines plane was en route
from Atlanta to Columbia, S.C., with 111
people aboard on Wednesday when It was
commandeered.
The two Cubans told a passenger that
they hijacked the plane because thair «ew
life in New York was wearing them down
and they wanted to return home no matter
what the consequences.
The hijackers, who said they had been
living in New York for four months,
“wanted to go back home to their
families,” said Air Force Staff Sgt. Frank
Edwards, who acted as an interpreter for
the Cubans.
The hijackers said they “were tired of
New York,” Edwards said. “They also
said they didn’t care about the con-
sequences.”
The Delta flight was commandeered by
two men who spilled a liquid on a flight
attendant and the floor and threatened to
ignite what they said was gasoline. The jet
refueled in Columbia and flew to Havana,
where Cuban authorities handcuffed the
hijackers and sent the Boeing 727 back to
the United States.
J980 output 31 million tons
State official sees
lignite role growth
Dawn-1:30 p.m.: Hopkins County
Stew Contest, stew area.
8:30 a.m.: Children’s Barnyard
opens.
8:30 a.m.: Hay Hauling Runoffs.
9 a.m.: All Exhibits open.
9 a.m.: Rabbit Show, arena area
9 a.m.: Small Children’s Games,
back yard of chamber of commerce
building.
9:30 a.m.: Steer and Barrow
Auction, arena.
9:30 a.m.: Horseshoe Tournament,
chamber back yard.
10:30 a.m.: Washer Tournament,
chamber back yard.
1:30 p.m.: Cow Chip Throwing
Contest, chamber back yard.
2:30 p.m.: Domino and 42 Tour-
naments, chamber back yard.
3:30 p.m.: Checker Tournaments,
chamber back yard.
7 p.m. and 9 p,m. (two per-
formances) Brenda 'Lee and Jacky
Ward country and western music
concerts, civic center auditorium.
Additionally, the carnival and food
booths will be open from morning
until lOp.m.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Railroad
Commissioner James Nugent offered the
hazy prediction today that Texas — the
nation's leading oil and gas producing
state — may rely more on lignite than oil
and gas in the year 2000 to produce elec-
tricity.
The major redistribution of the use of
energy resources will be a good thing,
Nugent told oil and gas executives,
because lignite cannot be hauled very
economically and “those damn Yankees
can’t get it up to the Northeast. ”
Nugent addressed the statewide oil
allowable hearing after the commission
routinely set the market production factor
for October at 100 percent.
October will be the 100th month for
virtual all-out production since a 100
percent allowable was first ordered in
April 1972.
As usual, however, the huge East Texas
Field was restriced to 86 percent
production to avoid possible waste.
Nugent said although major buyers of
Texas crude oil asked for 9,000 more
barrels a day for October than this month,
Council reschedules meeting
Sulphur Springs City Commission
Chairman Lewis Helm said Thursday
morning that the council session originally
scheduled for last Tuesday has been
rescheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in the
council chambers at City Hall.
The council was unable to seat a quorum
for the Tuesday night meeting, missing a
regularly-scheduled session for the first
time in recent history. Three members of
the five-member council were unable to
“we have no indications that there is a
leveling off or reversal of the production
decline in Texas. Other energy sources are
an absolute necessity.”
Since 1970, he said, lignite coal
production has gone from just over two
million tons to 31 million tons this year and
is expected to reach 50 million tons by 1983.
In 1978, he said, oil and gas was used to.
produce 72 percent of the state’s elec-
tricity. Imported coal and lignite produced
28 percent. There was no nuclear power
generation.
By 1985, nuclear power is expected to
produce 8 percent of the state’s electricity,
with oil and gas furnishing 54 percent and
coal and lignite 38 percent.
By the year 2000 - “looking through a
smoky glass” — the commission projects
major redistribution of power sources for
electricity generation: nuclear 8 percent,
imported coal 25 percent, Texas lignite 40
percent and oil and gas down to 27 percent.
Major buyers of Texas crude requested
2,617,096 barrels a day in October, an in-
crease of 9,163 barrels a day from Sep-
tember.
attend.
Councilmen Gerald Bowers, Millard
Glover, and Dee Mabe were all absent
from the meeting due to illness.
Monday night’s session includes a 13-
item agenda, with the possibility the
commission will set the stage for a water
improvement bond issue. Planned im-
provements to the wastewater treatment
plant also are expected to be discussed at
the meeting.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 222, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1980, newspaper, September 18, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824300/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.