Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 56, Ed. 1 Friday, July 9, 1982 Page: 1 of 12
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Mineral wells index
A Newspaper Dedicated To The People It Serves
Twenty-Five Cents
Mineral Wells, Texas
One Section 12 Pages
82nd Year Volume No: 56
PLO wants out
Israeli forces
push assault
on Thursday •
Former Index staffer
killed in plane crash
weeks of the 5 - week • old
Inside
INDEX
Weather
(Larry Crump Photo)
Joseph F. West Jr.
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said the PLO wants to go
from Beirut to Syria, but the
group’s military leader, Saad
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MINERAL WELLS AREA
— Partly cloudy and warm
Saturday with Ipw tonight in
the 70s. High Saturday in the
mid 90s.
Sunday through Tuesday
the forecast calls for clear
nights and partly cloudy days
with seasonably warm
temperatures. Highs in the
L 90s. Lows in the 70s.
Gainesville. Va., and Lt. Thomas A.
Vonnegut of Honolulu, an instructor
-pilot. ------------------------
The victims in the Squadron 28 plane
were identified as Lt. Cmdr. Curtis
Raymond Barkdull of Warner Robins,
Ga., Ensign Robert Bernard Bamett Jr.
of tauderhill, Fla., and Ensign Jefferey
Allan Edwards of Raleigh, N.C.,
Barkdull was the instructor and the two
ensigns were students.
whether all tax collection services for
some 16 taxing agencies in the district
will be performed by the county tax
office under the direction of Countv
Tax Assessor - Collector John Winters.
The election was mandated when the
board validated a petition containing
the signatures of more than 1,100
county voters requesting the issue be
presented to voters. Sponsor of the
petition, Mary Jane Birdewll, has said
she feels the consolidation will save
county taxpayers money now spent
maintaining several tax offices.
A simple majority of voters must
approve the consolidation for it to
become effective.
Winters has said he could perform tax
collection services for agencies for 1
percent of collections.
The consolidation effort is opposed
by several agencies, including the City
of Mineral Wells and the Mineral Wells
ISD, whose board members and officials
feel Winters’ estimate of collection costs
is too low and that tax collection will be
less efficient.
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Fax board expands vote
Sky ■
sites to '19' precincts
Navy officials say it may take
investigators six months to determine
tiie deadly mistake that sent the two
Navy planes hurtling into each other.
“It’s like putting together a puzzle,”
said Lt. Cmdr. Mary Wilson, a
spokeswoman for the Naval Air Training
Command.
Dr. Joseph Rupp, the Nueces County
Medical Exam.ner. said the badly
burned bodies of the five men and one
woman were pulled from the twisted
wreckage that landed on either side of a
mobile home.
An on - sight inventory of the
-<Ei)RI WORTH. Texas < on tenants
from San Antonio and the Fort Worth
arPa were winners in the second night of
preliminary judging Thursday night at
the annual Miss Texas Pageant.
M>ss San Antonio, Monique Woody -
Zummo, won the second night of
swimsuit judging. She is a 22 - year - old
sophomore at Lamar University and is
(Larry Crump Photo) from Beaumont.
Miss Hurst - Euless • Bedford, Cindy
Green, won the second night’s talent
contest by playing a classical piece on
the pianof Miss Green, 19, a junior at
Texas A&M, played the Piano Sonata
Fourth Movement by Ginastera.
Ms. Green won out over a strong field
Thursday night including Miss Palo
Pinto County, Gloria Gilbert.
Ms. Gilbert has competed in the
evening gown and talent competitions
and will perform in bathing suit
competition tonight. Miss Mineral Wells,
Sonna Warvell, has competed in talent
and bathing suit events and will be in
the evening gown competition tonight.
Mineral Wells pageant officials were
optmistic that one or both local
representatives will make the “Top 10”
Saturday night in which case they will
perform again for the judges.
Both preliminary winners Thursday
night were awarded $200 scholarships.
The third night of preliminary
judging will be held tonight and the
finals will be held Saturday night at the
Tarrant County Convention Center
theater.
AfZss Mineral Wells
Sonna Warvell performed her trick rope act during Wednesday night’s preliminary competition in the 1982 Miss Texas Pageant
at Tarrant County Convention Center. Wednesday night’s talent phaae waa won by Mias Greenville, Belinda Motehnd.wbo
played a classical piano number. The finals of the 1982 pageant will be held Saturday night.
Miss HEB tops
talent field
debris, scattered over a one - eighth mile
area, was completed Thursday and small
pieces were taken to a hangar at the
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station for use
in the investigation, Mrs. Wilson said.
Larger metal pieces will be analyzed
for stress and metal fatigue at an
engineering laboratory, she said.
Investigators, she said, also are
reviewing voice transmissions recorded
before the crash.
Assistant Fire Chief E.E. Irwin said
witnesses said one plane came apart in
the air and the other was mostly in tad
when it hit the ground, exploded and
burst into flames.
“It just fell. It exploded two or three
times,”*said Elena Rodriguez, who
could see one of the planes crash from
her home 200 yards away.
“It was like slow motion. It was like a
movie. The plane dove straight down tn
the ground,” said Nina Wilde, 33, whc
saw one of the planes fall.
Navy crash trucks put foam on the
burning wreckage and extinguished the
fire quickly, said Irwin.
The planet are propeller • driven
aircraft the Navy uses to train advanced
students, Hermans aid.
He said the collision was two miles
south of Cabanis Field, an auxiliary
landing site south of the air station. He
said the field is used for touch and go
landing training for T-44A student
pilots.
An NAS spokesman said both planes
were operating under visual flight rules
and without positive radar control.
The collision was the worst air crash
involving naval aircraft at Corpus Christi
since 1957 when nine persons died in a
seaplane crash near Gregory.
West, a native of Graham, graduated
from Graham High School and attended
Texas Tech University, graduating with
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As a senior In high school, he was
awarded the first National Right to
Work scholarship in recognition of an
**5*^ he wrote. He also had received a
scholarship from the Graham Lions
Club.
Joseph F. West Jr., former advertising
manager for the Index, was among six
l!„S, Navy personnel killed in the’crash
of two training planes in Corpus Christi
on Thursday.
West, 25. was employed at the Index
from July 1980 to March 1981 when he
left to join the Navy. He was one of two
# students aboard a training plane that .
collided with another training plane in
flight.
I’he Beechcraft T44A turboprops fell
in flames into a grain field after the
collision, killing the instructors and four
student pilots aboard the aircraft.
' In addition to West, the other victims
of the Squadron 31 plane
identified as Ensign Cary P. Jones
more voters would be apt to turn out
for the election if the boxes were more
conveniently located, and former
director Bela James said, “'rhe increase
in the number of votes will overshadow
the cost” of the election.
Meyers had told the board it ‘may
cost $7,000 to hold the election if all 19
boxes and the absentee voting box are
used. He said the board could set a rate
of $4 per hour for a maximum of $48
for clerks and judges manning the polls,
and said a maximum of 97 poll workers
would be needed.
The district will have to bear the cost
of the election, which is an unbudgeted
expenditure. But Chief Appraiser
Harold Quillen said some of the cost
could be shifted from unused funds
budgeted for additional employees.
The board also approved a list of
election judges and alternates provided
by Meyers and a list of polling sites for
the election boxes, and approved quillen
as absentee voting clerk to send out and
receive ballots.
The special election will determine
There was no comment on the
reported dropping of PLO conditions
either from Israel or the Palestine
Liberation Organization, which has been
negotiating through Salam and Lebanese
Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan to
arrange a pullout of the estimated 8,000
guerrillas to stave off an assault by
Israeli forces.
Israel invaded Lebanon June 6 to
rout Yasser Arafat’s guerrilla army. The
Israelis have demanded that all PLO
guerrillas leave Lebanon, where they
have been based for the past 12 years.
Israelis have demanded that all PLO
guerrillas leave Lebanon.
Arafat rejected Reagan’s offer and
Israel welcomed it. But the PLO chief
did not reject a future peace - keeping
role for U.S. forces in Lebanon.
In Washington, Reagan
administration officials dismissed a
Soviet warning to keep U.S. troops out
of Lebanon, but expressed doubt
whether all parties involved could agree
“The PLO and its leaders are resolved to on ground rules for a U.S. presence
stay on in Beirut and Lebanon even at there.
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Dear Abby .....
Bridge..........
Crossword Puzzle
Astrograph.....
Lifestyles........
TV Log .........
Obituaries......
(AP) The PLO has dropped its the cost of martyrdom.” . .
demtads for a political and military m*. *
presence in Lebanon - apparently When Israeli invaded June 6 it was
eliminating the last major obstacle to a believed the operation would be a
guerrilla pullout * but Israeli Defense limited to pushing the guerrillas back
Minister Ariel Sharon still wants to ^om the border, but Israel’s deputy
storm west Beirut, a key mediator said chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Moshe Levy,
today. said Thursday that Israeli forces were
“They have dropped the conditions,” girding for a long stay, possibly through
former Prime Minister Saeb Salan told winter.
The Associated Press at his west Beirut
mansion. “The more they drop,
however, the more Sharon asks. Sharon
is totally intent on his military plan. He
wants to exterminate the PLO and
thousands of people in Beirut.”
As he spoke, Israeli tanks and
guerrilla, rocket launchers exchanged
barrages around Beirut’s paralyzed
airport and the nearby Bourj el Barajneh
camp. The Tel Aviv command said
Israeli forces also traded sporadic
gunfire with Syrian troops in eastern
Lebanon.
Most of the 30,000 Syrian troops
dispatched to Lebanon six years ago to
police the armistice that ended the 1975
- 76 Moslem - Christian civil war have
regrouped in eastern Lebanon following
bloody clashes with the Israelis during
the first
invasion.
Salam
overland
guerrilla
Sayel, told the Voice of Palestine radio:
BBy Sue Sterling
Staff Writer
alo Pinto Appraisal District board
F Members agreed Thursday night to
expand voting sites for the Aug. 14 tax
Collection consolidation election to all
19 regular Democratic voting boxes.
j- The board had previously decided, in
lhe interest of economy, to establish
only seven voting boxes to coincide
with the school districts in the appraisal
district boundaries.
However, County Democratic
Chairman Frank Meyers Jr. appealed to
the board to consider “the geopolitics”
gf the election, and to establish more
boxes for the convenience of voters who
. otherwise would have to go travel some
dbtance to vote.
For instance, he said, voters in the
Pickwick box, with a potential of 500
votes, would have to travel more than
SO miles roundtrip to vote if that box
were consolidated for the election.
( And he said the large number of
' voters in the city of Mineral Wells would
also require more boxes to handle the
volumn.
Directors said they had decided on
the seven boxes established at the last
“ meeting in order to conserve funds and
because of what board chairman Dick
Reed termed the “disgustingly low
turnout” of voters for recent elections.
However, members of the audience
attending the meeting indicated that
Miss Palo Pinto County
Gloria Gilbert, the 1st runmYup in the 1981 Miss Texas Pageant, is shown as she appeared in evening gown competition in
Wednesday nights 1982 competition. Gloria performed in the talent phase Thursday night, finishing behind talent preliminary
winner Miss ll-E-B, Cindy Green, a classical pianist.
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