Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 126, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1980 Page: 1 of 10
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Arson Cisourooti hothabstained.
In tie v jb* te approve the interest rate
df sever percent for the certificates of
ouhgaii'x to be uaec to pay for the Civic
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a second inra; Ctestor - again after a long
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and the minutes were made to reflect a
split 3-2 decision.
Donnie Wisenbaker was present to notify
the court that he is presently circulating
petitions throughout the county asking for
the issuance of $250,000 in certificates of
obligation to be put to a vote by the people
and an issuance of bonds be used instead —
if such a bond issue is passed.
Wisenbaker commended Judge Pogue
for his openness in handling the matter but
said it was the first time that he had ever
taken such a public move.
"I just decided it was time for me to
speak out,” he said.
The awarding of bids for the work at the
Civic Center has been delayed until the
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lobby end new office spaces. One of the striking things about
construction is that with all the advances that have been made
in technology over the centuries is that no one has come up with
a substitue for string to make straight lines and a man with a
shovel to make the final adjustments to the soil.
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Stalking Big foot,,.
..East Texas couple on trail of a legend
payMMi wtdeoot that Bigfoot might exist.
‘Tm deal antti direct lies, mistaken
identity toad facto,” said Throneberry, 31.
So tor no facto. Nothing backs up any of
tae tenet teve beard in Texas.”
Wise tbe Thrcneberrys and their
have discovered is that some
■ reaeardien included - will go tc
am* tega for publicity.
There are a iot of people who are self-
attyiec Bigtoot researchers that don’t have
any toad sf background or any kind of
tomtoedge about anything that has
acwtomig to da with this field who will get
out there and make an opinion,” said
Throneberry, an anthropology student at
East Texas State University in nearby
Commerce.
When so-called researchers aren’t
discrediting the business, the media are,
they say. \ •
“Back in the ’60s, the media gave the
researchers a bad time,” Mrs.
Throneberry said. “They couldn’t be
objective and write a story. They had to
put their little one-liners in there. They
were indirectly telling the public not to pay
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Traffic ton H leers rescued from volcano
KrtototeWtai
itotecayfar ate had filmed the crater in
‘tm per* art like angels," one of the
itoM the copter crew,
i helicopter was nearly forced
to ton hadk hy tad weather when the
•potted, said Maj. Wayne
sane ao badly blinded by the
a* toey tad totaled by hand aboard the
' i sate AO. suffering from
. ar esyiware, were taken to
June 13th meeting of the court when the
bids for the steel work will be received and
awarded.
Civic Center Board Chairman Millard
Bennett said the cost of the steel work
would have to be known before the other
bids could be properly trimmed to be sure
that the costs did not exceed the $250,000.
Also at the session, the commissioners
voted to give the go ahead to the Young
Farmers for a milking parlor to be added
to the civic center facilities.
Herb Flora told the court that through
donations of both cash and materials, the
milk parlor will not cost the county
anything.
David Jackson, Travis Owens, Arnold
Alsobrooks, J.P. Shull and Lowell Cable
were named to the North East Texas
Economic Development District Board
and commissioners awarded a low bid of
$4,665 to Gober-Merrell Chevrolet, Inc. for
a new Vj-ton pickup.
Price Ford Sales, Inc. had bid $4,780 for
the pickup with a trade-in for Precinct 4.
Commissioners approved the ad-
vertising for bids for a new copying
machine to be included in next year’s
budget and approved the expenditure of up
to $4,000 for the filming of records in the
office of County Clerk Mary Attlesey.
The burial of a telephone cable in
Precinct 4 by Continental Telephone
Company of Texas was approved and the
bond of William G. White Jr. as a public
weigher was also approved.
Power rate hike
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goes into effect
By JOE WOOSLEY
News Telegram Staff
Texas Power & Light Company
customers in Sulphur Springs arj| Nor-
theast Texas started paying higher rates
Tuesday. J. P. Shull, local district
manager, said that the general increase in
revenues earlier approved by the Texas
Public Utility Commission went in effect
May 27.
The increase would have been larger
than the 10.1 percent increase if the PUC
had not changed its original order of April
29. The original order approved an $83.4
million boost, but later trimmed that
figure to $81.8 million system-wide.
The company had requested a 15.35
percent increase amounting to $124
million.
Under the amended order residential
rise by 9.74 percent.
The increase in rates will hit customers
who switched on air conditioners this week
as the temperatures soared to record highs
in Northeast Texas.
Shull said that even though TP&L
disagrees with the amount awarded by the
commission, the company needs to put the
new rates into effect as soon as possible,
which meant today.
“We have been feeling for quite some
time the effects of rapidly escalating costs
of generating and delivering electricity to
our customers,” Shull said. “We are
feeling the effects of rising costs of
maintenance and operations and the costs
associated with our massive construction
program to convert to less expensive
lignite and nuclear fuels."
Shull concluded, “The reason we put the
rates will increase by approximately 10.76 rates in effect the same date is to Insure
percent or $4.30 per month based on an that all customers, systemwide, are
average annual usage of 11,753 KWH. treated equally and have the same rates at
Commercial and industrial rates will the same time.”
Anderson finds hope
in Bush withdrawal
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) - Rep.
John B. Anderson, the independent
presidential candidate, believes there is a
direct benefit for him in George Bush’s
withdrawal from the Republican race.
Anderson, campaigning in Bush’s home
state, said the former U.N. ambassador
was benefiting from protest votes against
Ronald Reagan in recent primary vic-
tories and narrow losses in Michigan and
Texas.
“I really believe many of the people who
voted for Mr. Bush ... it was a vote against
Mr. Reagan,” Anderson, himself a
Republican, said.
"Certainly, among those people were
many who were simply opposed to Mr.
Reagan being the nominee,” the Illinois
congressman said.
At a news conference, Anderson said his
campaign workers would begin assessing
the best ways ^attract former Bush
supporters to his mofependent quest for the
presidency outside the two major political
parties.
In Dallas on Monday, Anderson kicked
off a two-day campaign to obtain 41,000
signatures by June 14 to get his name on
the November general election ballot in
Texas. At a rally in Dallas, Anderson was
given one of the most enthusiastic
receptions of his month-old independent
candidacy.
Noting that many young people in the
audience were shirtless, in 90-degree
steaming weather, Anderson said he
regretted that he had to keep on his three-
piece suit “to look presidential.”
He termed Bush’s withdrawal from the
GOP race “the inevitable recognition by
the Bush campaign of the inevitable
outcome of the GOP primary process."
attend? fortunate to get
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djrtaddtape."
The other men were identified by state
officials as Russell Johnson, 30, Joel
Turgesn, 33, Dale Peterson, 31, all of
Seattle, and Mike Lienau, 21, of Klamath
Falls. Ore.
The men said the ash was above their
knees. “It was like walking in wet
cement,” one said.
The hikers were listed as missing
Monday after last being seen Saturday
when they were cited by Skamania County
authorities for refusing to leave the
restricted zone around the volcano. At that
time they refused a helicopter ride out of
the area.
Fireflies to shed light
on celestial mystery?
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Scientists are
looking to the lowly firefly to help shed
some light on the question of life in
outer space.
Thousands of firefly catchers from
Missouri to Pennslyvania - glass jars
in hand — launched their annual
assault on the incandescent insect this
month.
“We got 2 million last year, and that
was a pretty good year,” said Jerry
Kunkel, an official with the sponsoring
Sigma Firefly Scientist’s Club. “But we
had a great year two years ago when we
got 3 million. We hope to surpass that
this year.”
The club pays a penny for each
firefly. Kunkel said a first-rate firefly
catcher can bottle 100 insects .in an
hour.
The club is a division of the St. Louis-
based Sigma Chemical Co. Kunkel says
the company wants the firefly because
it is the only source of luciferin and
luciferase, two chemicals useful in the
search for extra-terrestrial life. They
also are used in cancer research and in
testing polluted water.
Fireflies turn “on" when luciferin
and luciferase react with another
chemical, adenosine triphosphate or
ATP, which is present in every living
cell.
In connection with some
sophisticated electronic gadgetry, the
two chemicals can be plunked down on,
say, Mars and if light results, the
scientist knows some ATP is around
and, therefore, that life recently passed
by the spot.
The same theory is used in cancer
research and testing for pollutants.
Scientists know how much light normal
cells give off and that something’s
amiss if they get more or less.
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