Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 184, Ed. 1 Monday, August 4, 1980 Page: 1 of 10
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Registration dates set for new arrivais to iocal school system
Students new to the Sulphur Springs
-“Independent School Districtm grades sDt
through 12 and who have not previously
registered are urged to do so as soon as
possible.
Students in grades six through eight
should go to Middle School on Bell Street to
register. Students in grades nine through
12 may register at the high school off
HonstonStreet. --------------- ——
Dan Durham, assistant superintendent-
instruction, said that the offices in Middle
School and High School will be open from
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays for the
registration of new students.
Students within the district last year are
pre-registered.
All students in the six through 12 grade
levels should pick up their class schedules
on Friday, Aug. 22.
Students in grades six, seven and eight
should pick them up Friday morning, Aug.
22.
In high school, seniors and junior should
pick up their class schedules between 9
and 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 22. Freshmen
and sophomores may pick up their class
schedules between 1 and 3 p.m. Friday,
Aug. 22.
Fifth grade students new to the district
should register at Douglas School between
8:30 and 11:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 22. All
fifth grade students who attended school
here last year are pre-registered and will
be issued their schedules on Monday, Aug.
25, the first day of school.
All students in grades kindergarten
through four are asked to register at their
neighbhood schools between 8:30 and 11:30
a.m. Friday, Aug. 22.
Parents of students in grades kin-
Sulphur Springs
VOL. 102—NO. 184.
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dergarten through four whose child has not
been assigned a school shopld visit the
elementary school nearest the child's
residence ami discus the matter with the
principal or contact Mrs. Patsy Bolton,
director of elementary education, 5-8061.
The first day of school for students will
be Monday, Aug. 25.
Monday
AUGUST 4,1980.
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Award winners
As the beginning of school draws closer, speciality organizations
such as the cheerleaders have already begun working on new
routines for the coming season. The Sulphur Springs High
School varsity cheerleaders, Lisa Latimer, Kim Owens, Sheila
Morris, Stephanie Campbell, Dawn Woinarowicz, Tracy
Ferguson, Cheryl Filak, and Lorie Farler attended the
Universal Cheerleaders Association camp at East Texas State
University last week and captured two spirit sticks, four
superior ribbons, two excellent ratings, and a gold superior
ribbon.
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Iran threatens spy trials
By The Associated Press
Iran’s Parliament speaker, in angry
reaction to the detention of Iranian
students in the United States, declared
today that the Parliament debate on the
American hostages is being postponed and
preparations for their trial as “spies”
might soon begin, Tehran Radio reported.
Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
called on the detained Iranians, mean-
while, to resist deportation by U.S.
authorities, “so that they have to drag you
into the planes” if necessary.
Alleged police mistreatment of the 193
young Iranians, who were arrested during
a demonstration last week in Washington,
touched off a series of bitter protests in
Iran, where many demanded that the
threatened trial of the 52 American
hostages as “spies” begin immediately.
Revolutionary leader Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini has decreed that the
fate of the hostages, who today began their
10th month in captivity, is in the hands of
the Iranian Parliament, or Majlis. Almost
200 U.S. congressmen recently wrote to
Majlis Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani
asking that the issue be given top priority.
But today, speaking at the morning
session of the Majlis, Rafsanjani was
quoted as saying: “Our reaction (to the
Iranians’ detention) is to postpone the
discussion on the letter of the American
congressmen. In this respect the Majlis
has suggested a plan that the Supreme
Judicial Council should be asked to
prepare the grounds for the trial of the
hostages.”
The statement was reported by state-run
Tehran radio in a broadcast monitored in
Ixmdon. It could not be determined im-
mediately how firm the trial plans were.
Many members of the Islamic
Republican Party, which controls the
Majlis, favor putting the Americans on
trial for alleged espionage, and then either
“punishing” or expelling them.
The radio also quoted Bani-Sadr as
saying in a letter to the Iranian Islamic
Society-in America and Canada that the
U.S.-detained Iranians should “stand
firm.”
"If they are going to deport you, resist as
far as possible, so that they have to drag
you into the planes,” he reportedly wrote.
Many of the detained Iranians, being
held in New York prisons, are on a hunger
strike.
U.S. officials said all 169 men held at a
federal prison in New York State were
examined Sunday by an Iranian doctor
from New York City who found less than a
half-dozen injuries, all of them minor.
Officials said about 40 Iranians had been
treated for the effects of their hunger
strike and said charges injured demon-
strators were locked up without treatment
were "categorically untrue.”
U.S. immigration authorities said
deportation hearings could begin within a
week for the 169, along with 20 Iranian
women demonstrators held in a New York
City federal detention center. Four other
men are hospitalized — three in New York
and one in Washington.
They were arrested in Washington July
27 when their demonstration in support of
Khomeini’s regime turned into a violent
confrontation with anti-Khomeini counter-
demonstrators and police.
Council eyes plans for future
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City Commissioners will be taking a look
at the final draft of the Comprehensive
Plan, which deals with the 12-month future
planning outlook for Sulphur Springs, at
the regular meeting of the City Com-
mission Tuesday night.
The plan, to be presented to the com-
mission by Kindle Stone & Associates, an
engineering consultant firm from
Longview, deals with the projected im-
provement needs for the city during the
next year, including the waste water and
water treatment plant, city parks and city
streets, to mention a few.
A spokesperson for interim City
Manager Travis Owens' office said
Monday the preliminary details included
in the plan have already been reviewed
and approved and Tuesday night’s
presentation was just the final step toward
making the plan official. "After we (City
Commission) approve the plan,” the
spokesperson said, “it will be submitted to
the appropriate state sgency for funding
action.”
The Front Street improvement project,
now being utilized, is part of an im-
provement plan from last year and is not
to be confused with the pending Com-
prehensive Plan.
The water treatment plant has also been
the topic of much discussion recently after
the city’s alert sirens sounded July 14 to
signal a local emergency; water levels in
the storage tanks were down dangerously
and water was being consumed at a faster
rate than it could be replaced. A major fire
would have placed the city in an
emergency situation, city officials said at
that time.
The City of Sulphur Springs
initiated a review process of tentative
federal census figures Monday.
The city prepared to file
notification, over the signature of
Mayor Lewis Helm, of an intent to
review the preliminary population
figures supplied by the Census Bureau
last week. The notification is required
to implement a 45-day review period
The situation prompted imposition of an
outside watering curtailment, which was
met with a good voluntary public com-
pliance, resulting in a demand drop of
almost two million gallons per day on the
average.
City officials also remind Sulphur
Springs residents the curtailment is still in
effect, with outside watering restricted
between 6-10 a.m. and 6-10 p.m., seven
days a week.
in which the city may come up with
evidence to support claims that the
census count is too low.
The City Commission has scheduled
the appointment of an official review
board to make that study.
Preliminary census figures for
Sulphur Springs set the city’s 1980
population at 12,525. Local estimates
of the population have ranged from
14,000 to 17,000.
Storm system cools county
—News briefs-
City initiates census review
Senate opens Carter-Libya hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate in-
vestigators, formally opening hearings
into Billy Carter’s ties to Libya, are
examining the oil-rich Arab nation’s role
in world affairs, including its history of
supporting terrorist groups.
Meanwhile, speculation continues over
whether President Carter will ask to
testify this week in order to get his version
of events fully on the record before the
Democratic National Convention begins a
week from today in New York.
The president was finishing work today
on a report to the Senate panel of the Billy
Carter-Libyan affair and White House
involvement in it.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., chairman of the
special committee, says he wants to
conclude all major areas of the in-
vestigation by Labor Day, the traditional
opening of the fall presidential election
campaign.
—Related Stories, Page 4—
The committee is opening with two
background hearings, one on Libya itself
and the other on enforcement of the law
under which Billy Carter registered July
14 under Justice Department pressure as
an agent of the Libyan government.
Committee lawyers said this week’s
background hearings will take the panel to
the “threshold” of Billy Carter’s in-
volvement with Libyan causes. A full
exploration of that involvement is to come
later, beginning the week after the
Democratic convention.
Staff investigators will intensify their
work next week while Congress is in recess
for the convention, where the president is
seeking renomination.
Libya is the third largest-supplier of oil
to the U.S., a relationship the committee
intends to explore this week.
Witnesses include David Newsom,
undersecretary of state for political af-
fairs, and Henry Schuler, a former foreign
service officer who has written about
Libya.
They are expected to be asked about
Libya’s policies on such issues as support
for terrorist groups, a peaceful resolution
of the Middle East dispute, the holding of
American hostages by Iran and the Soviet
intervention in Afghanistan.
The panel is likely to concentrate on
Libya’s attempts to secure delivery of
eight C-130 aircraft for which it has paid
$30 million.
Powerful thunderstorms moved
through the Texas Panhandle early
Monday causing temporary power
outages and some roof and window
damage in Lubbock.
The storms, which moved into the
state from New Mexico shortly before
midnight, brought just over an inch of
rain to Lubbock while other storms
roamed the mountains of southwest
Texas and the lower Pecos valley.
Closer to home, Sulphur Springs
kept slightly cooler Sunday as the
leading edge of a storm system moved
into the area providing a cloud cover
most of the day Sunday.
The mercury climbed to 95 degrees
Sunday under the cloudy skies,
dropping to 78 degrees early Monday
morning for an overnight low.
The National Weather Service
forecast is calling for partly cloudy to
mostly cloudy skies Monday and
Tuesday with a good chance of late
afternoon and evening thun-
dershowers.
The cloud cover and the southerly
winds gusting from 10 to 15 m.p.h.
were helping to keep the temperature
pleasant Monday. At 8 a.m. the
mercury stood at 80 degrees and had
only risen three degrees to 83 shortly
before noon.
The extended forecast calls for the
cooler weather and the clouds to move
out of the local area by Wednesday
bringing back the clear skies and hot
temperatures.
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Money misery measurement: the inflidletax index
By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) - The trouble with
the misery index — that’s a com-
bination of the inflation and jobless
rates — is that it doesn’t tell just how
miserable things really are. It doesn’t
measure taxes.
An improvement, it seems, would be
the inflidletax index, a simple com-
bination of inflation, idleneness and the
rate of tax increases.
President Carter might not like that,
but he is the one who started the whole
business when, as a candidate in 1976,
he devised his misery index to show
how poorly Gerald Ford was handling
the economy.
Back then the index stood at about 12
percent. Under Carter it soared to as
much as 24 percent and even now
stands at 19.7 percent, enough for him
to wish he had never been so clever in
the first place.
But, clever as it was, the misery
index failed to take into account those
tax increases, which in recent years
have been a growing cause of
discomfort, regardless of all that
puuucal talk about tax cuts.
In the period from 1976 to the fall of
1979, for example, it appears that
federal income and Social Security
taxes, to say nothing of other taxes,
rose faster for most families than did
prices as a whole.
In many cases, however, this
knowledge was hidden from the public
because there has been no easily un-
derstood measure of tax pain, as there
is for the discomfort of unemployment
and inflation.
Instead, you might recall, we blamed
our vague distress on the middleman or
unions or corporate greed or unfair
foreign competition or a malaise of the
spirit or a dozen other scapegoats.
Finally, however, an easily un-
derstood measure of tax increases has
been developed by economists at the
Tax Foundation, thus filling in the
important missijig ingredient in the old
misery index.
You may, therefore, add to the 12
percent inflation rate (as measured by
the consumer price index), and the 7.7
percent jobless rate, a 13 percent
taxflation rate, for an inflidletax index
of 32.7.
For the time being, it is probably best
to round those numbers off, for a couple
of reasons. First, inflation and
joblessness are fluctuating. Second,
that 13 percent is really the rate for
1979.
However, the rounding won’t change
the picture. It is unlikely that inflation
or idleness will improve much over the
next couple of months, and it is unlikely
also that 1980 tax increases are less
than in 1979.
Later this year it will be possible to
use a more precise figure for taxes,
because the Tax Foundation promises
to compute its index on a quarterly
basis in order to allow more up-to-date
comparisons.
As of the end of 1979, the foundation’s
index of federal, state and local taxes
stood at 336.4, a jump of 39 index points
or 13 percent over 1978. The base year
of 1967 was given an index of 100.
From 1975 through 1979, it reports,
the upward sweep of taxes has been
enormous. “The tax index jumped 65
percent, more than twice the 30 percent
rise in prices, and over three times the
21 percent rise in the real output of the
private business sector,” it states.
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