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Harry named
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Billy W. Harry, Sulphur Springs oil
dealer and rancher, was elected
president of the International
Brangus Breeders Association at the
organization’s annual conventjrffrr^.
Saturday in Houston.
He had completed a term as first
vice president of the association.
Harry has been in the Brangus
business for 15 years and has
developed one of the state’s top herds.
His primary farm is west of th city on
Interstate 30.
He previously has served as
president of the Pines & Plains
Brangus Breeders Association and
the Texas Brangus Breeders
Association.
The international organization has”
members in all parts of the" United
States, Mexico, South. Africa,
. Australia, New Zealand and several
countries in South and Central
America.
It maintains permanent
headquarters in San"Antonio. As part
of last week’s convention and show,
the group raised $133v700 for its
buiilding fund through*^! auction of
items contributed by members.
Harry was one of the leaders in the
campaign to construct the Hopkins
County Regional Civic Center and has
been responsible for scheduling
Brangus shows for the new facility.
Phone bill
rates waited
E.R. Richardson, division manager
in Sulphur Springs for General
Telephone, said Monday the 37 per-
cent increase listed as being sought in
Texas by that utility would not result
in a boost of that amount for in-
dividual customer bills.
“Percentages for individual
customers will vary according to the
communities in which they live and
other factors,” he added. “No long
distance rates will be affected.”
Richardson explained that proposed
new local rates will be available in the
near future.
General Telephone Company of the
Southwest announced last week it
intends to file a rate case this week
with'the Texas Public Utility Com-
mission. The company said it will
seek to equalise monthly basic service
rates by grouping cities based on the
number of primary telephones that
can be called without a long distance
charge.
Previously the utility company filed
rate structures on a city-by-city basis.
National
Kramer, Jazz
top Oscars
HOLLYWOOD (APT - “Kramer
vs. Kramer,” a story of a Manhattan
family torn apart by divorce, and “All
That Jazz,” a musical about a
director's brush with death, captured
top honors in the 52nd Academy
Award nominations today with nine
apiece.
“Apocalypse Now,” a searing
account of the Vietnam War, followed
with eight nominations.
The preliminary skirmishing,
which saw studios spend hundreds of
thousands for trade paper ads and
other attention-getters, now is over.
Competition will be focused on five
nominees in each category.
“Kramer vs. Kramer” has already
collected the lion’s share of pre-
Academy awards — Golden Globes,
New York and Los Angeles film
critics, etc.
Johnny Carson will return as emcee
for the 52nd Academy awards at the
Los Angeles Music Center April 14.
ABC will telecast the ceremonies
starting an hour earlier this year — 9
p.m. EST.
O'Hair case
is cleared
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Supreme Court today cleared the way
for-a state court trial of Madalyn
Murray O’Hair, perhaps the nation’s
most famous atheist, on charges of
disrupting a city council meeeting in
Austin.
The justices, without comment,
turned down Mrs. O’Hair’s arguments
that her trial on the charges should be
conducted in a federal rather than a
state court.
Mrs. O’Hair, whose lawsuit was one
of two that led to the Supreme Court’s
1963 ban on Bible reading and
recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in
public schools, was arrested at an
Austin city council meeting Nov. 3,
1977.
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VOL. 102—NO. 47.
Kennedy fighting long N.H. odds
By WALTER R MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
COftCORD, N.H. (AP) — George Bush
accused fellow Republicans of working in
league to cut him down, while Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy battled to stay within hailing
distance of President Carter on the eve of
New Hampshire's presidential primary
election. *
After one final bid for votes today,
Kennedy left the last-minute efforts to his
organization, family campaigners and
house-to-house canvassers.
A poll published by the Boston Globe
said Carter was preferred over Kennedy
by New Hampshire Democrats, 55 percent
to 30 percent.
Vice President Walter F, Mondale,
campaigning for Carter, said the race,
nevertheless^ would be very close. “We’re
taking nothing for granted,” said Mondale,
making a final appearance today in Berlin.
Kennedy has said for days that he trails
the president, the better to brace his
campaign in case he does lose in the state
next door to his Massachusetts home.
Except for a speech in Nashua, Kennedy
was doing his election-eve campaigning in
Massachusetts, preparing for its March 4
primary.
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.,
rated a far-back third in the poll, worked
his way across New Hampshire in a 12-
hour campaign windup. He says Carter
cannot win re-election,,insists that Ken-
nedy has flopped as a challenger, and -
argues that he should be the choice of
Democrats dissatisfied with the president.
Seven Republicans are running in New
Hampshire, and Bush said the others were
getting together to try to head off his bid
for the nomination. The Globe poll rated
Bush and Ronald Reagan almost dead
even.
Bush, a former U.N. ambassador, won
earlier Republican outings in Iowa and
Puerto Rico.
The current Republican debate is about
debating. Bush's rivals fumed that he had
barred four of them from his confrontation
with Reagan in Nashua Saturday.
They called it raw politics, arrogant and
Kabul government
said in shambles
By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH
Associated Press Writer
KABUL, Afghanistan (API — Soviet and
Afghan troops and bands of heavily armed
civilians patrolled the Afghan capital
today, but President Babrak Karmal's
Soviet-backed government appeared to
have virtually broken aown.
Government ministries were paralyzed
for a third day by a strike of civil servants
and office workers, who ignored repeated
broadcasts ordering them to return to
work, and a general strike of shopkeepers
continued for a fifth day.
The martial law proclamation issued
after the start of last week’s general strike
placed government authority in the hands
of the Soviet military commander, an
unidentified army general, and Soviet and
Afghan troops apparently were placed
under a joint command in the face of the
continuing rebellion throughout the
country.
That gave the Soviets the last word on all
military and civilian matters affecting
Afghanistan.
(Reports reaching New Delhi today said
gunfire rattled through the streets of
Kabul through Sunday night.
(A Frenchman in Kabul told a Paris
radio station during a telephone interview
that shots could still be heard on the out-
skirts of the city but that the center of the
city was calm The wife of a French of-
ficial said, “We cannot move about. We
are constantly being stopped. There are
streets we cannot enter and all the shops
are still closed. There is no way of buying
provisions or even to communicate with
food merchants.”) ,!
Reliable medical sources said more than
300 civilians died in six hours of bitter
slieet fighting that began Thursday. An
unknown number of Soviet and Afghan
soldiers also were killed, but most of the
dead were believed to be anti-communist
Islamic “Moudjahidine” (holy warriors.)
Radio Kabul called them “mercenaries,
saboteurs and imperailist agents.”
At the height of the battle, involving
Soviet and Afghan tanks, armored cars,
helicopter gunships and MiG fighter
bombers, the government proclaimed
martial law and threatened the death
penalty to anyone found in unauthorized
possession of firearms.
Following the martial law proclamation,
Kabul television announced on important
speech by Karmal, but viewers were
shown a week-old speech on Afghan farm
policy.
Karmal has not been seen in public for
three weeks. Unconfirmed reports said he
took refuge in the heavily guarded Soviet
embassy during the fighting.
Official attempts to order the
storekeepers to end their strike have been
ignored. The only stores opened Sunday in
this city of 600,000 persons were those
selling perishable foodstuffs,
Quake shakes lower
California regions
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - An ear-
thquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter
scale rolled through a wide area of
Southern California early today, rattling
windows and waking residents from the
desert to the ocean, authorities said.
There were no immediate reports of
damage or injury.
The quake struck at about 2:47 a.m. PST
and was centered 65 miles northeast of San
Diego and 15 miles southeast of Lake
Hemet at the base of the San Jacinto
Road survey shows
no interest in bonds
Hopkins County residents appear
satisfied with the county roads they now
have, County Judge Joe R. Pogue said
Monday morning. His comments came
after the regular session of the Com-
missioners’ Court, when he said that
results of the recent county road survey
had been compiled.
He said that tpe returned surveys in-
dicated that of 451 persons responding,
slightly less than half said that the system
is inadequate but most said that they
would not donate property, money, or
materials nor would they support any type
of road bond.
He noted that the other issue included in
the survey, the possibility of a one percent
' county sales tax, was favored by about 50
percent of the people responding.
He said that there was a good cross
section of the county represented with
responses from all four precincts as well
as a fair city-rural area balance.
“We appreciate the people that did
respond to the survey,” Pogue said, noting
that the biggest response came from those
55 years of age or older.
Commmissioner L.T.r. (Son) Martin
commented, “It shows the feelings of the
people and if the people are satisfied, I’m
satisfied.”
Complete survey results will be carried
in the Tuesday News-Telegram.
high-handed. Reagan, who invited the
other four to join the debate, said the whole
thing “was kind of a fiasco.”
Bush spent Sunday and Monday at his
Houston home, saying he didn’t want to
distract his organization from get-out-the-
vote efforts. He insisted all he had done
was play by the rules set by the debate
sponsor, the Nashua Telegraph.
Reagan, however, paid the bills - about
$3,500 - because of the federal ban on
corporate campaign contributions. He said
that entitled him to invite the others.
Under pressure from them and the
Republican National Committee, he did?
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Members of three area Future Farmers of America chapters
and the Hopkins County 4 H clubs have combined efforts this
week for a trip to the Houston Junior Livestock show. The
groups leased a tractor trailer rig from Larry Don Deaton
and are moving 45 head of cattle and 11 hogs on the one
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vehicle. The 40 students going to Houston will leave early
Tuesday morning and return to Sulphur Springs late Sunday.
Students were ouf early Monday morning loading bales of
hay and feed from one pickup to another for the haul to
Houston. st<n Phoio
Employee added for tax office;
Court accepts, rejects bids
mountains, according to Jim Black, a
spokesman at the California Technological
Institute Seismology Lab in Pasadena.
The quake was felt in Los Angeles,
Orange, Imperial, San Bernardino,
Riverside and San Diego counties. \
The Richter scale is a measur^algrtund
motion as recorded by seismographs. A
quake measuring 4 can cause moderate
damage, 5 considerable damage and 6
severe damage.
Hopkins County Commissioners ap-
proved an additional employee for the Tax
Office and purchased two patrol cars for
the Sheriff's Department, but then
rejected bids for two dump trucks at their
meeting Monday morning.
Jeff Taylor, County Tax Assessor-
Collector, told the commissioners that he
needed an additional employee for the next
six months to “get our records set up for
the state requirements.”
He said included in the work to be done
by the additional employee would be the
correcting of homestead exemptions to
meet the new state laws. Taylor explained
that only houses are allowed on the
homestead exemption and that barns and
such other property would have to be
removed from them.
Taylor said that some problems had
developed in the computer system when
the change in valuation ratios was made
from 19 to 30 percent of market value and
that the employee would be working on
these problems as well as working on some
areas where the market values in the
county are “out-of-kilter.”
In reviewing vehicle bids, Cornissioner
Mervin Chester said, “I don’t know that
they’ll get any cheaper but 1 think my%
truck might be better than I thought.” He'
referred to bids offered by Gober &
Merrell Chevrolet, Inc. and Price Ford
Sales, Inc, for two-ton trucks. Precinct 4
Commissioner L.T. (Son) Martin agreed
and the court rejected the bids.
Gober & Merrell bid $10,212 per truck
while Price Ford bid $10,290 each.
Joe Mack Gober was present and told
the court that the truck sold to Precinct 1
in January was one that had been on hand
at the time and that the bid at the last
session of the court ($9,512.04) had been
based on prices at that time. He said that
today’s bid was based on what the trucks
currently are costing.
On patrol cars for the Sheriff’s Depart-
ment, Gober & Merrell bid $7,120 each
while Price Ford bid $6,989 per vehicle.
Bobby Price told the court that an
overdrive automatic transmission could
be added for $156 and that it would
probably save the county money on fuel
consumption due to the number of miles
driven.
The addition of the overdrive tran-
smission ran the price to $7,145 and
commissioners approved that bid in a
unanimous decision.
The 1978 patrol car with 106,000 miles
that was to have been traded-in and a
camper-trailer that had been abandoned
will be auctioned off by the Sheriff’s
Department at a later date.
Neither automobile firm had included a
trade-in with the bids.
Commissioners approved Precinct 1
Commissioner J.D. Hatley's request to
advertise for bids for one or more used
motorgraders and approved bonds for
Janet C. McWilliams, Patricia A. Deaton
and Alice P. Bradley of the Tax Office and
for Donald C. Partridge of the Sheriff's
Department.
Judge Pogue announced that road oil
had gone up in price to $22.60 per barrel
plus $1.80 per barrel for delivery.
Hatley explained that even with the
increase, road oil is becoming more scarce
and that one supplier had told him that it
was causing the firm to go out of business.
Memories last for Olympians
By HAL BOCK
Associated Press Writer
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) - The
1980 Winter Olympics — 13 days that
belonged to a speed skater named
Eric Heiden and a U.S. hockey team
that played over its head and with all
its heart — now belong to the record
books. Today Americans are savoring
the golden moments.
The 20 young hockey players, a
motley collection of college kids and
minor leaguers who never played
together until last September,
traveled today to Washington and a
White House meeting with President
Carter. With them for a luncheon
were Heiden and other members of
the U.S. Olympic team and party.
“This is just a team of destiny,”
said defenseman Bill Baker. “...It just
seems things were supposed to
happen this way.”
Vice President Walter Mondale,
who attended the game, jumped up
and down during the contest, slam-
ming his fist in the air after each
American goal “This is one of the
greatest moments I've been through
in my life,” he said later in the locker
room.
Goalie Jim Craig was draped with
an American flag after the victory,
and later said his unbeatable net play
— 15 goals in seven games — was a
tribute to his mother, who died three
years ago of cancer.
In New York, the crowd at Radio
City Music Hall sang “The Star
Spangled Banner” when the win was
announced. In Kansas City, Mo., the
cheering throng interrupted a Kansas
City Kings-Milwaukee Bucks
basketball game for the anthem. And
in Memphis, Tenn., demonstrators
picketed the local ABC-TV affiliate
which opted to carry a religious
program rather than the hockey
game.
In Minnesota, where more than the
half of the American players live,
people honked their horns as they
drove along the highway, and cheers
erupted in most bars and restaurants.
The U.S. victory followed its 4-3
upset Friday of the highly touted
Soviet team, which defeated Sweden
on Sunday 9-2 to gain a silver medal.
Sweden took the bronze.
But through all the politics, Heiden
of Madison, Wis., kept tearing around
the speed skating oval, setting record
after record. He won the 500, 1,000,
1,500, 5,000 and 10,000-meter tests,
becoming the first athlete to claim
five gold medals in a Winter Games.
Leah Mueller of Dousman, Wis.,
added two speed skating silvers but
Eric's sister, Beth, had to settle for a
single bronze in the 3,000-meter race.
Charlie Tickner of Littleton, Colo.,
won a bronze and Linda Fratianne of
Northridge, Calif., took a silver in
figure skating events.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 47, Ed. 1 Monday, February 25, 1980, newspaper, February 25, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824514/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.