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Seniors bid farewell
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to high school years
By JOHN GORE
News-Telegram Staff
• The dark blue gowns shimmered almost
as bright as the faces of the seniors
wearing them Thursday night in the Civic
Center auditorium. For members of the
Class of 1980, Thursday was their night to
graduate from high school.
The auditorium, where the graduation
ceremony was held, was full to over-
flowing. Scores of proud parents,
relatives, and friends were forced to stand
at the back of the huge auditorium
throughout the two-hour ceremony.
Another two to three dozen milled outside
the auditorum in the banquet hall.
The 210-member graduating class
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marched down the aisle, thru the throng of
family and friends in the auditorium to the
strains of “Pomp and Cicumstance”
played by the high school band - all ex-
cept one graduate, Lisa Smith.
Miss Smith was escorted down the aisle
in her wheelchair by her father, Joe Smith.
Miss Smith, who was stricken with a
mysterious paralyzing ailment in early
April has been hospitalized since that
time, checked out of her hospital room in
the Carruth Rehabilitation Center in
Dallas Thursday morning to attend the
graduation ceremony.
When Miss Smith was wheeled across
the stage by her father to receive her
diploma from Mrs. Patsy Johnson,
president of the school board, the .seniors
and the rest of the nearly 2,000 people in
the auditorium rose to their feet for a
standing ovation.
Having received her diploma, a hand-
shake and a kiss from Ed Stevens,
superintendent, Lisa raised the diploma in
the air and waved to thundering audience.
Prior to the presentation of diplomas
Deneen Reynolds delivered the valedic-
tory address to her fellow classmates.
“There are three goals you might want
to set for yourself as your future unfolds,”
Miss Reynolds said.
“First of all do the best you can and give
the best you can in every fitustion
Inflation rate cools off
By EILEEN ALT POWELL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumer
prices rose 0.9 percent in April, the
smallest monthly rise in more than a year,
as the costs of goods and services
moderated across the board, the govern-
ment reported today.
The increase in the Consumer Price
Index last month was a marked im-
provement from the 1.4 percent increases
registered in each of the first three months
this year.
If prices continue to rise for the next 11
months at the same rate they did in April,
the year will end with an inflation rate of
about 11 percent, compared with 13 per-
cent last year.
Prices had been going up at a com-
pounded annual rate of 18 percent in the
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preceding three months of 1980.
The Labor Department report credited
“smaller price increases for energy items,
particularly gasoline" and less rise in the
cost of food, clothing and home financing
rates.
“About half the slowdown can be
directly attributed to gasoline prices,
which were unchanged in April following a
nearly 4 percent increase in March,” said
Patrick Jackman, a Labor Department
economist.
“With interest rates continuing to come
down and food stable for at least another
month, I’d expect next month’s inflation
rate to be the best we’ll see in a while,” he
added.
In another report, the Labor Depart-
ment said the inflation-adjusted average
weekly earnings of Americans fell 1.2
News briefs-
City gears for holiday
As Hopkins County residents
prepare to observe Memorial Day
Monday, a quick check around
Sulphur Springs indicated some
workers will get a three-day weekend
and some will not.
A spokesman at the Post Office
reported there will be no mail
delivery Monday, and while windows
will close for the day, mail will be
sorted and placed in the boxes. Local
banks will also close Monday and will
open for business at their regular
times Tuesday.
The City Municipal Building will be
closed and personnel from most of the
city departments, including the City
Sanitation Department, will also
observe the holiday. Consequently,
Monday’s city trash pick-ups will be
rescheduled for Tuesday.
Offices at the Hopkins County
Courthouse will also be closed and will
reopen at regular times Tuesday.
However, most city businesses will
be open as scheduled.
The News-Telegram will publish as
usual on Monday.
Rain back in forecast
National Weather Sefvice
forecasters have changed the forecast
for the long Memorial Day weekend
and are now calling for rain on
Saturday.
If the forecasters are as accurate
about the rain Saturday as they have
been on prognostications earlier this
week, local residents can expect
plenty of sunshine.
If it should rain Saturday, Lake
Sulphur Springs will probably fill
again to overflowing, according to a
spokesman from the water treatment
facility which monitors the lake level.
“We heard some reports that people
thought we had messed up and opened
a flood gate and forgot to close it,
heavy runoff of White Oak Creek. The
lake as of Friday is just six inches
below the spillway. The lake have
been about 10 inches above normal for
several weeks and people just got use
to seeing it high. AU it will take is one
good rain and the water will be over
the spillway again,” the spokesman
added.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy
skies and warmer temperatures
through Monday with the possiblity of
widely scattered thrunderstorms
spreading across the area.
Temperatures through Monday
should range from daytime highs of 90
to overnight lows in the 60s.
The high temperature reading in
thereby lowering the level of the lake „ Sulphur Springs Thursday was 77
by two feet. That isn’t the case at all,” degrees according to the official
the spokesman said. observation station. The mercury slid
“We opened the gate to lower the to 56 for an overnight low and at 8 a.m.
level of the lake to compensate for the Friday the reading was 61 degrees.
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Secondly, keep learning. Your education
isn’t over; you still have a whole life to
learn new things. And finally, take time to
enjoy life, don’t become a slave to one
thing. Save a little time just to enjoy all
that is around you,” the valedictorian said.
The commencement speaker, John
Barron, senior editor with Reader’s Digest
magazine and a former resident of Sulphur
Springs, related a little history of the time
he lived in this area in the late 1940s and
told the students that although poor,
people were not unhappy then.
“I guess the times were different then,”
he said. “Even through we were poor we
weren’t unhappy. We weren’t full of self
pity. We taught it was right to work and
work hard.”
He went on to tell the students that they
are “indeed lucky” to be graduating from
high school. According to Barron many
children around the world never get the
opportunity to receive a high school
diploma.
Acting as a ‘ ‘trail guide by virtue of age”
Barron asked the students to respect each
human being as unique; develop a concept
of the United States, and be proud of the
nation.
“America is the land of hope and glory,”
he said. “Be brave young men and women,
never give up, and have fun as you go
f.hm> h it if lives ind you will succeed."
Diploma presentation
President of the Sulphur Springs Independent School District
Patsy Johnson leans over to hug graduating senior Lisa Smith
Thursday night during the commencement exercises.
Paralyzed since April, Miss Smith is working to recover from
her mysterious ailment. When Lisa was wheeled across the
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percent from March to April. The decline
came as inflation outpaced a 0.3 percent
decrease in hours worked and no change in
hourly earnings.
Spendable earnings - what a married
worker with three dependents would have
left to spend after federal income tax and
Social Security deductions - also dropped
1.2 percent from March to a level 6.7
percent below April 1979.
The April increase matched the 0.9
percent rise in January 1979 and was the
smallest since a 0.6 percent increase in
December 1978.
The report gave these breakdowns:
- Food prices went up 0.5 percent last
month, compared with a 1 percent in-
crease in March.
- Housing costs rose 1.3 percent in
April, compared with 1.6 percent in the
preceding month. “Mortgage interest
rates rose less than in March, but house
prices rose more," the report said. It
added that home heating oil prices went up
0.5 percent, "the smallest increase since
the summer of 1978.”
— Clothing costs advanced 0.3 percent in
April after rising 2 percent in March, when
many women’s clothing prices were
boosted. „
— Transportation prices went up 0.6
percent last month, compared with 1.7
percent in March and 2.8 percent in
February, as gasoline prices held steady
and used-car prices fell.
Treasury Secretary G. William Miller
told The Associated Press in an interview
earlier' this week that he was confident
double-digit inflation would be tamed by
year’s end.
A similar forecast Has come from Data
Resources Inc. of Lexington, Mass. The
nation's largest forecasting company
predicts prices will rise at an annual rate
of 8.5 percent in the final quarter this year.
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stage by her father, Joe Smith, to receive her diploma she
received a standing ovation from her fellow classmates and the
crowd of more than 1,500 parents and friends at the graduation
ceremony.
—SUM Ptiotos by JOHN GORE
City pool to
open Monday
It will officially become the "Summer of
1980” in Sulphur Springs at 1 p.m. Monday.
That's the official time of Splash Day
when the Sulphur Springs Municipal
Swimming Pool opens for this year.
Although the exact date for the fail
closing of the pool has not been ‘
established, it will open Monday at the
designated time and remain open until 9
p.m.
Those hours will apply each day, seven
days a week.
Increased rates will be in effect when the
pool opens.
City commissioners approved the in-
creased rates last Tuesday.
Individual season passes will cost $8 this
year and a family season pass will cost
$27.50 for all members of the same family
The daily-rates will be 75 cents for
students and $1.25 for those over 16 who
are not students.
A change in the rates this year will allow
senior citizens to swim at no cost
A special day will be established later
for senior citizens to utilize the pool by
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Determined graduate
Although paralyzed since April by a mysterious ailment, Lisa Smith, with her father
Joe Smith's help, |oined the processional line Thursday night in the Civic Center
auditorium tojraduate from Sulphur Springs High School with her classmates. Miss
Smith checked out of the Carruth Rehabilitation Center in Dallas Thursday morning
and returned to the center Friday to continue her therapy.
New hostage freedom bid set
By The Associated Press
European socialists were reported
preparing to launch a new initiative to free
the American hostages in Iran, who spent
their 202nd day in captivity today. The
militants holding the hostages said again
the captives will not be released until the
deposed shah and his “plundered wealth"
are returned to Iran but added "any other
decision” will be up to the Iranian nation.
Meanwhile, Iran reported two more
executions, raising to 31 the number of
people killed by the revolutionary regime
in two days.
The Spanish socialist headquarters,,in
Madrid said Spanish socialist leader
Felipe Gonzalez would fly to Tehran
Saturday where he would join other
European socialists for an effort “to
mediate the conflict over the American
hostages."
A spokesman said the Socialist In-
ternational, an organization of socialist
political parties,, ,,, had planned the
mediation effort for some time. He did not
elaborate.
Unconfirmed reports said the other
Europeans might include Austrian
Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and Swedish
socialist leader Olof Palme.
In Vienna, Austrian officials clamped a
■news blackout on the socialist project, but
they hinted it was unlikely Kreisky would
leave the country on such short notice.
In a statement broadcast by Tehran
Radio, the militants who seized the U.S.
Embassy in Tehran last Nov. 4 said;
“Once again,... we declare... that until the
traitor (shah) Mohammad Reza (Pahlavi)
and his plundered wealth are returned to
Iran, the hostages will not be released.”
“Any other decision will be up to the
Iranian nation, and the representatives of
the nation,” the statement continued. This
presumably referred to the inauguration
of the newly elected Iranian Parliament.
In reporting the latest executions, the
Iranian news agency Pars said two
members of the defunct Moslem People's
Party were executed in Tabriz and a third
was sentenced to life in prison.
Four contests
face Democrats
County-wide, there will be four
races to be decided in the June 7
Democratic run-off primary in
Hopkins County. Three of the run-offs
involve state level positions and the
fourth is for the three-county state
representative's post
In addition, voters in Precinct 3 will
nominate and, in effect, elect a count)
commissioner. Voting boxes in the
precinct are at the Peoples National
Bank, Saltillo, Sulphur Bluff, Weaver
and Dike.
Lex Fite and T.M. (Mervin) Chester
are bidding for the county com-
missioner’s post, which Chester holds
by appointment. . "
I x)well Cable and Smith E. Gilley
are seeking the Democratic
nomination for State Representative,
District lO-'
In the state level races, there are
run-offs in three court positions. John
C. Phillips and James P. (Jim)
Wallace are it) the run-off for
Associate Justice Supreme Court,
Place 1. W.T. Phillips and Mike
McCormack are competing for the
nomination for judge, Court of
Criminal Appeals, Place 2. Tom Davis
and Edith Roberts are asking for the
Democratic nomination for judge,
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3.
On a purely local level, voters in the
Pickton precinct may write in their
choice for precinct chairman.
No other write-ins are counted.
Absentee voting begins Wednesday.
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