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Sulphur
Springs
VOL. 101.—NO. 65.
P.o. BOX 45436
DALLAS,TX. 75235
COMP.
Kmus-fScirnrant
Sunday
MARCH 18. 1979.
FOUR SECTIONS
15 Cents
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Top officials called
for identification and also will be
driving automobiles bearing the of-
ficial TP&L insignia, he added.
The survey by the utility firm, part
of an effort to maintain dependable
service, will provide an inventory of
information on service requirements
designed to make possible more ef-
ficient planning for installation of
transformers and distribution
facilities, Preuss said. Similar sur-
veys are being conducted throughout
the TP&L service area.
Grooming tor sale
Wayne Townsend of Salado grooms one of his Herefords prior to the Hopkins County
Hereford Association spring sale Saturday at the Civic Center. According to Charles
Strickland, a member of the association, 84 head of cattle were put on the auction
block around noon Saturday.
Taking of the United States census
is still a year away, but crews in
bright yellow caps will be scurrying
through Sulphur Springs neigh-
borhoods for the next several weeks
on a survey of another kind.
E. H. Preuss, manager of Texas
Power & Light in this area, notes that
the utility firm will begin making an
inventory of all customer service
lines, transformers and meters in the
Sulphur SpringS distrjct this week. As
a result, Preuss said, the crews will be
working in residential neighborhoods
as well as commercial areas and will
be checking service lines and meters
at individual homes.
Ten 2-man crews will begin working
the Sulphur Springs district this week,
Preuss said. The TP&L employees
will be wearing the bright yellow caps
Sizing it up
Jerry Brantley, farmer of the future, checks the fit of a tractor at the recent sixth
annual Farmers Equipment Exchange in Cooper. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Brantley of Cooper was having a good time while serious buyers pitted their
checkbooks in bids for a variety of equipment, See today's Discovery page, Section
2, for a study of 'the body language of bidding,' by staff writers and photographers
Jan Blake and Jim Moore.
to energy summit
WASHINGTON (AP) -' President
Carter is summoning his top energy and
economic advisers to Camp David to
discuss ways to turn around the nation’s
worsening energy problems.
The high-level meeting is scheduled
Monday at the mountainside retreat
where Carter has been resting following
his Middle East travels in search of an
Egyptrlsrael peace treaty.
Carter and his advisers will discuss
ways to offset the loss of oil imports from
Iran, according to a White House official
who asked not to be identified.
Iran, which formerly supplied 5 percent
of the nation’s oil, is only now beginning to
restore production which was halted
before the overthrow of Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi.
The administration source wouldn’t rule
out the chance that the Camp David
meeting also would consider decontrol of
crude oil prices after May 31.
Other reports said inflation in general
also would be discussed, as suggested by
the list of advisers scheduled to attend the
conference.
Administration officials summoned by
Carter include Vice President Walter F.
Mondale, Energy Secretary James R.
Schlesinger, Treasury Secretary W.
Michael Blumenthal, Labor Secretary
Ray Marshall, Commerce Secretary
Juanita Kreps, Director James T.
McIntyre of Office of Management and
Budget and anti-inflation chief Alfred
Kahn.
Also, chief economic adviser Charles T.
Schultze, domestic policy assistant Stuart
Eizenstat, and Julian Katz, assistant
secretary of state for economic and
business affairs.
Despite the loss of Iranian oil and
Carter’s request that Americans try to
conserve fuel, the petroleum industry
reported Friday that Americans are using
more and more gasoline.
The American Petroleum Institute said
gasoline consumption was up 5.4 percent
during the first 10 weeks of this year,
compared with the same period in 1978.
The Iranian cutoff also helped to drive
the price of crude oil to as high as $23 a
barrel on the open market in February —
nearly $10 over the base price set by the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries. Those prices have since
dropped to under $20, as a result of Iran
resuming some exports and a decline in oil
company purchases.
OPEC is meeting in Geneva March 26
and experts predict the cartel may hike
prices by 9 percent April 1.
The Lundberg Letter, an petroleum
industry newsletter, says rising oil prices
are continuing to hurt American
Militants threaten war
if peace treaty signed
By The Associated Press
Arab militants threatened terrorism
and all-out war as a U.S. delegation
arrived in Saudi Arabia Saturday to try to
win approval for the Egyptian-Israeli
peace pact.
The Kuwait newspaper A1 Siyassah said
Palestinian guerrillas want to reactivate a
Black September strike force against U.S.
targets and Arab moderates supporting
the treaty. Black September claimed
responsibility for the 1972 Munich
Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes.
The paper said the move came from
hardliners of Yasser Arafat’s A1 Fatah,
regarded as the parent of Black Sep-
tember. Black September was formed
after King Hussein ousted the guerrillas
from Jordan following fierce fighting in
September 1970.
The Syrian government newspaper
Tishrin said signing of the treaty will force
Syria, Iraq and Jordan to go to war to
prevent its implementation, and Arafat
himself warned “the whole Middle East
will explode” if Egypt signs the pact.
A senior Egyptian official dismissed the
report as “Syrian humbug.”
motorists. The newsletter said that since
February, the price of a gallon of unleaded
gasoline at full-service pumps has risen an
average 2.3 percent, from 73.8 cents to 75.5
cents a gallon. Gasoline sold at self-serve
pumps has gone up even more, the letter
said, from an average of 70.3 cents to 72.8
percent, an infcrease of 3.6 percent.
Brashear
water meet
scheduled
Final plans in an effort to expand
service will be formulated Tuesday
night by officials of the Brashear
Water Supply Corporation.
The corporation board is acting at
the request of approximately 35
property owners south and east of
Brashear for water service to their
homes and farms. As a result of the
requests, the Brashear board recently
voted to petition the Texas Utilities
Commission for authority to expand
the present system.
Tuesday night at 7 the corporation
board will meet with representatives
of the Farmers Home Administration
and an engineering firm to draw up
the application for a loan and a grant
to cover the construction costs.
All property owners interested in
obtaining water from the proposed
expansion are urged to attend the
meeting, which will be held in the
Brashear Community Center, a
spokesman for the water firm said.
The present Brashear Water Supply
Corporation network serves 150
customers, 11 of which are dairy
farms. *
City sales
tax receipts
buck trend
Sulphur Springs’ revenue from the local
option city sales tax bucked the Texas
trend during the first three months of the
year. Across Texas, the rebates to Texas
cities fell slightly behind the first quarter
of 1978, but in Sulphur Springs the net gain
was up two percent.
The 1979 rebates distributed by Comp-
troller Bob Bullock’s office to Sulphur
Springs to date amount to $114,654.02 as
compared to $111,673.52 for the
corresponding period in 1978.
The March rebate to Sulphur Springs
amounted to $71,693, while last year the
month brought a check for $77,604.69.
Bullock said late returns that have not
hit the Comptroller’s accounting system
and not sluggish retail sales during the
reporting period seem to be the chief
culprit for the downturn in rebates.
Cumby is the only other town in Hopkins
County collecting the city sales tax. For
the first quarter, Cumby has received a
single rebate of $798.46 as compared to
$643.41 in 1978, reflecting a gain of 24
percent.
Lonely days
Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport Manager Dick Caldwell
surveys the empty taxi strip and deserted fuel pumps outside
the main building window as air traffic activity slows to a crawl
pending completion of the new runway and other airport im-
Anybody
up there ?
By JOHN GORE
News-Telegram Staff
“The loneliest man in town,” is the tag
line for a current washing machine ad-
vertisement—and Richard Caldwell,
manager of Sulphur Springs airport, can
identify with the poor repairman who
never gets a call.
Winter weather has slowed construction
of the new mile-long runway and other
improvements to the airport to a snail’s
crawl.
“Traffic at the airport has dropped
substantially over the past few months,”
Caldwell said. “With our old runway cut
just about in half we can only handle the
small single engine planes. The bigger
twin engines fly on to another airport,” he
said.
The lack of traffic has cut down on fuel
sales as well according to Caldwell, and
that has hit him in the pocketbook.
“Things are getting a little tight,” he
says with a slight smile, “but we are not
too worried.”
All is not gloom at the facility, however,
according to the airport manager.
“Most of the dirt work is finished on the
runway and as soon as the weather breaks
the crews will be able to get back to work.
If everything goes right we should have
the new runway in operation in six weeks
to two months,” Caldwell said.
Electrical work has just about been
completed, Caldwell said, with runway
lights already in place. A new beacon
tower has been erected, but the lights have
not been installed yet.
“I would say that the construction is
behind schedule, but if the weather clears
and the ground dries out soon I feel like the
expansion and improvements can be
finished inside the deadline set for com-
pletion which is around the end of May or
early June,” Caldwell said. “At least I
hope so.”
provements. Caldwell may be facing some more lonely days
before the work is completed at the end of May or early June,
weather permitting.
—Staff Photos by JOHN GORE
Looking for a friend
The absence of air travelers at the Sulphur Springs airport can sometimes even be
depressing to a dog, as airport manager Richard Caldwell's best buddy seems to be
thinking — but at least the most comfortable chair in the place is usually available...
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Power firm schedules
city service census
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