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2—THE NEWS-TELECRAM, Sulphur Spring*, Texas, Friday, June 6,1980.
Toe injury
saves life
DALLAS (AP) - Enola
Sheeley says God was looking
over her when she took a fall,
hurt her foot and decided to
skip an ill-fated bus tour of the
Ozarks that ended in tragedy,
r The bus, loaded with 33 North
Texas tourists, skidded off a
mountain road and plummeted
down a ravine in Arkansas
early Wednesday, killing 20
persons.
“I sure thank the Lord I
wasn’t on the bus,’’ said Mrs.
Sieeley, 75, who decided not to
take the trip because she in-
jured her foot in a fall a week
before the tour left.
“I slipped and fell...and
almost broke my big toe. I
wasn’t able to walk, is why I
didn’t go,’’ she said.
Her name apparently was
never removed from the trip
roster, causing authorities to
spend hours searching the
underbrush for a woman they
thought was missing.
Her close friend, Elizabeth
Jacobs, had arranged the 4-day
tour of the Ozarks and was
among those killed.
“Elizabeth called me on
Sunday and insisted on me
going with them," Mrs. Sheeley
said.
"That’s a wonderful trip. I’d
been on this trip several times
but I wanted to go again,” she
said.
For $190, she would ride in an
air-condiditioned bus through
the picturesque Ozarks,
visiting places like Eureka
Springs and the Silver Dollar
Gty theme park.
But while shopping at a
-grocery store Tuesday, She fell
and injured herself. It now
seems providential to her.
“I just thank the Lord that 1
did fall," she said. “He takes
care of you, you know.”
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Rescue workers try to tree victims ot a bus crash that killed 20 Dallas area residents and
hospitalized another 13 in the pre dawn hours Thursday near Jasper, Ark. The bus left the road on
what is known as 'suicide curve’ and plunged 50 teet down a rocky ravine alongside Arkansas
Highway 7 near Jasper. The group had left Dallas early Wednesday for a trip to Branson, Mo., and
Epreka Springs, Ark.
—AP Photo
Driver hailed as hero
Pollution
suit filed
HILIiSBORO, Texas (AP) —
A state suit seeks more than $2
million in damages from a
manufacturing firm here
suspected of violating the Clean
Air Act.
The suit, filed by the attorney
general’s environmental
protection division, alleges
Texas International
Technology Corp. operated its
plant for almost four years
without proper state permits
and emitted potentially
dangerous amounts of a
chemical suspected of causing
cancer.
Residents near the plant have
suffered headaches, nausea
and skin irritations from
inhaling plant emissions, the
suit says. The company is
accused of releasing furfural —
a colorless, sweet-smelling
substance — into the air.
JASPER, Arkansas (AP) —
Veteran bus driver Jimmy,
Thigpen lost his life in the
tragic accident that killed 20,
but his skill saved 13 others
from mutilating death,
authorities say.
Thigpen, a driver for 30
years, used the rocky ravine
where the Central Texas Bus
lines tour bus crashed to slow
the vehicle after the brakes
apparently failed Wednesday.
“I’ll teU you one thing: he
was one hell of a bus driver,"
Newton County coroner C.J.
Easley told the Dallas Morning
News. "He laid that bus in on
an embankment to stop it. He
eased it in there on an angle...If
he hadn’t done that, all of them
would have been killed.”
Easley and Newton County
sheriff Ray Watkins conducted
an all-day investigation
Thursday after the early
morning crash and concluded
Thigpen gave up his life to save
his passengers.
The coronor said every
person sitting on the right side
of the bus was killed as the
bolted seats were wrenched
from the floor by the impact.
The entire right side of the bus
was a mass of jumbled metal.
"I’ve never seen so much
mutilation in my three years as
a coronor,” said Easley, who
has lived in Jasper for 57 years.
Federal investigators from
the National Highway Safety
Board and the Federal High-
way Administration are also
looking into the cause of the
.accident.
Ross Goodwin, vice president
of Central Texas Bus Lines
Inc., said Thursday that the
brakes had been inspected last
week. But he declined further
comment until he inspects the
site and the wreckage.
Watkins said it appeared
Thigpen missed an off-ramp on
treacherous Highway 7 that
was under construction and
designed to help drivers whose
brakes fail on the steep grade.
Thigpen was apparently
aiming for the ramp, officials
said, but skidded on the
shoulder, left the highway and
crashed into the ravine.
of 2123 Cartwright, Irving,
Texas.
The Arkansas state police
released late Thursday this list
of identities of the people killed
earlier in the day in a bus crash
near Jasper.
The spellings of names and
addresses are as provided by
Maj. Buren Jackson of the state
police.
James Jefferson Thigpen, 60,
of 125 East 6th Street, Lan-
caster, Texas, the driver of the
bus.
Vera Bull, 63, of 3109 Em-
mett, Dallas, Texas.
Majorie Stinson, 52, of 2732
West Colorado, Apt. 152,
Dallas.
Gladys Gray, age
unavailable, of 2732 West
Colorado, Apt. 149, Dallas,
Texas.
A. G. Fate, age unavailable,
Ina Ardoin, 91, of 911 St.
Joseph, Apt. 616, Dallas, Texas.
Bertha Grizzle, 76, of 911 St.
Joseph, Apt. 314, Dallas, Texas.
Anna Gray Cook, 79, of 611
Tennyson Memorial Drive,
Dallas, Texas.
Marie Powers, 76, of 611
Tennyson Memorial Drive,
Dallas, Texas.
Louise Bobbitt, age
unavailable, only address
available is Dallas, Texas.
Helen Ixirance, 61, of 510
West Mount, No. 108, Dallas,
Texas.
Lottie Lee Lorahce, 81, of 213
North Winnetka, Dallas, Texas.
Elizabeth Jacobs, age
unavailable, of 1133 Horseshoe
Bend, Irving, Texas, the tour
director.
Nancy Jacobs, age
unavailable, of 1133 Horseshoe
Bend, Irving, Texas.
Barbara Hockett, 45, of 4018
Greenway, Garland, Texas.
Oby Staffa, 75, of 221 North
Waverly Drive, Dallas, Texas.
Edna Gilliland, 68, of 523
Frank Kelser, Duncanville,
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Eva Cosby, 75, of 2817 West
Brooklyn, Dallas, Texas.
Pauline Emmett, 63, of 2621
Deep Hill Circle, Dallas, Texas.
Josephine Interrante, 64, of
6431 Wood Crest, Da” ">xas.
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Security Council
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -
With the United States ab-
staining, the U.N. Security
Council condemned the terror
bombings that crippled two
West Bank Arab mayors,
criticized Israel lor failing to
adequately protect Palestinian
civilians living under its oc-
cupation and urged it to
compensate the victims.
Meanwhile, in another move
sure to infuriate the Israelis,
the Common Market was
reported ready to declare
publicly for the first time that
the Palestine Liberation
Organization should be directly
involved in Mideast peace
negotiations and any set-
tlement.
The 15-member U.N.
Security Council voted 14-0
Thursday night for an Arab-
sponsored resolution con-
demning the bombings and
demanding Israel end its 13-
year-old occupation of Arab
lands "including Jerusalem.”
The United States abstained,
balking at three references to
Jerusalem in the resolution.
"The resolution contains a
number of provisions which we
cannot approve and as a whole
it is incomplete,” U.S. Am-
bassador Donald McHenry told
the council.
Three months ago, President
Carter disavowed the U.S. vote
for a similarly worded Security
Council . reference to
Jerusalem. Carter said the vote
March 1 had been a mistake
because he had wanted all
mentions of Jerusalem deleted.
Then-Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance took responsibility for
what the administration called
a breakdown in com-
munications with McHenry.
McHenry, commenting on
Thursday’s vote, noted that the
sad situation reflected in the
resolution “and the equally sad
murder of Israeli citizens at
Hebron” were "part of a
broader tragedy — the con-
tinuing Arab-Israeli conflict.”
Palestinian terrorists killed six
Israelis in Hebron May 2.
"The council has the
responsibility to keep in mind
in its action the range of these
events and other factors
bearing on the dispute, a fact
which, regrettably, is not the
case in the present resolution,”
McHenry said.
The resolution "condemns
the assassination attempts on
the lives of the mayors” and
"expresses deep concern” that
Israel failed to adequately
protect civilians in the occupied
territories.
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STATE REPRESENTATIVE
SMITH GILLEY
During my three terms in the Texas Legislature, I have worked to be
an independent and effective voice for all the citizens of the 10th
District.
My opponent, however, seems to be committing himself to the
Austin political machine. He has received over 60% of his contributions
from the Austin Lobby (Secretary of State's Office, financial reports). We
cannot let those special interest groups buy our seat in the Texas House
of representatives.
My only interest has been you; and because I have refused to let
powerful lobbies control my vote, they are pouring thousands of dollars
into my opponent's campaign to defeat me. We cannot allow the Austin
Lobby to buy our vote in the Texas Legislature.
LET’S KEEP IN INDEPENDENT VOICE
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 135, Ed. 1 Friday, June 6, 1980, newspaper, June 6, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824833/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.