Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1982 Page: 1 of 12
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Rainfall Report
Rainfall reports from the Mineral
Wells area over the 24 - hour period
ending at 8 a.m. today are as follows:
SEMW ......................75
SWMW .....................60
NWMW ....................76
Westover Hills................55
Progress ....................70
Reports from around the county
were unavailable this morning due to
telephone problems in those areas.
Inside
INDEX
' Classified................6-8
Sports...................3-4
Comics...................9
Dear Abby ...... 12
Bridge....................9
Crossword Puzzle........12
Astrograph...............9
Lifestyles.............10-12
TV Log..................9
Obituaries................2
Weather
MINERAL WELLS AREA
— Possibility of continued
thunderstorms today with 60
percent chance for rain
tonight Partly cloudy with
chance for a few showers
Saturday. Highs upper 80s.
Sunday through Tuesday -
partly cloudy, general
warming trend. Highs near
90s. Lows mid 60s to low
70s.
Jail escapee
being returned
(Index Photo)
to face charges
British ships to return
POWs
Many without water.
phone service in area
Man assessed
probation in
mercy killing
Israelis drive on PLO trenches
army
under
escape occurred.
According to a sheriffs department
spokesman, Barelo escaped from his cell
between midnight and 7 a.m. on Aug.
13, 1980, after he broke out a 6 • inch
by 15 - inch window in his jail cell and
crawled through it nude.
Barelo managed to reach the Possum
Kingdom Lake area where he broke into
the home of an elderly woman, tied her
to a chair and stole some clothes, her
1980 Oldsmobile, a butcher’s knife and
her purse containing money and some
medicine.
The victim, Estes Weldon, managed
to free herself shortly after Barelo left
her house and she ran to a neighbor’s to
telephone authorities, but Barelo eluded
roadblocks and a manhunt in the area.
He was captured by FBI agents at a
relative’s home in New Mexico about
two weeks later after officers in that
state received information from Texas
about his possible hideout.
Barelo is the only prisoner who has
escaped from the new county jail, which
was completed in 1978.
Lt Harmon Watts said Barelo has
been indicted here on 11 counts of
aggravated robbery and one count of
felony escape.
Sheriff’s officers said officials here
have been attempting to extradite
Barelo from New Mexico to try him on
charges in 29th District Court, but said
New Mexico authorities have refused
until now to release him.
Palo Pinto County officials will have
temporary custody of Barelo until he is
tried, after which he will be returned to
New Mexico to be tried on escape
army and its
junta, despite
said was only
him among
three - man ruling - junta of army, navy
and air force chiefs. His departure from
the presidency was considered certain
from that time.
Meanwhile, Britain said it was given a
guarantee of safe passage for British
ships to return Argentine prisoners from
the Falkland Islands directly to
Argentina, and a spokesman for Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher said the
ships were expected to sail later in the
day.
However the spokesman said no
assurance had yet been received that
Argentina considered hostilities in the
Falklands at an end. Lacking that
•bout 5:30 a.m. when city crews
cracked the cable during a water -
on the British ship Canberra clapped
and cheered when they heard of
Galtieri’s ouster, the British
Broadcasting Corp, reported today.
Gen. Cristino Nicolaides, 57, a
hardliner who heads the Buenos Aires -
based 1st Army Corps, succeeds Galtieri
as commander of the
representative on the
what military sources
partial backing for
influential officers.
Interior Minister Alfredo Saint Jean,
an army general, will succeed Galtieri as
interim president under the Argentine
constitution’s rule of succession.
hugh army.” Arafat, the chairman of
The forward Israeli positions were
within sight of Syrian army checkpoints
on the west side of the green line, but
there was no show of hostility between
them. As Israeli - Syrian cease • fire has
been in force for the pest week.
In other parte of the shrinking
Palestinian base, guerrillas were raising
earth barricades across main avenues
There was no comment on today’s
advance from the military command in
TM Aviv.
Israel Radio said, meanwhile, that the
Israeli government has decided to reject
an urgent request by U.S. Secretary of
State Alexander M. Haig Jr. to
pressure the Christian Phalangists to lay
down their arms.
Valley, Southwestern Bell and the city
of Mineral Wells were at work on the
breaks Friday morning, and it was
projected that both water and telephone
service would be restored by 11 a.m.
Complaints about water service began
to reach the City Hall and Brazos Valley
switchboards at about 3 p.m. Thursday.
But the break, which was caused by a
washout of Pollard Creek, was
Haig’s proposal apparently was aimed
at preventing the Christians from
storming west Beirut as surrogates for
the Israelis.
inch water line.
In addition to the nursing homes,
Palo Pinto General Hospital is
connected to the Brazos Valley line, but
• reserve tank prevented a shortage of
water for patients, it was reported.
The telephone cable is part of the
Southwestern Bell system, but links into
•n exchange with the Palo Pinto
Telephone Company west of Mineral
p.m. Affected were 271 customers,
including residents on the west end of__ _
Mineral Wells and outside the city related'ctean - ouTop^retion Ln Pdlird
Maintenance crews from Brazos Hmita. who are hooked to the eight -
Tightening their stranglehold on the of east Beirut in armored personnel
bunkers of Yasser Arafat’s besieged carriers and parked near checkpoints
where civilian traffic moved unimpeded
to and from west Beirut.
Black • berated Lebanese
commandos checked identities
the watchful eye of the Israelis.
Most of the traffic was from west to
east, as families sought to flee from a
feared Israeli drive to crush the nerve
center of the Palestine Liberation
Organization in west Beirut.
assurance, a number of higher - ranking
prisoners would remain British
prisoners, he said.
There was no indication which port
would be the destination for the
Canberra, carrying some 4,000
Argentine prisoners, most of them
young conscripts, and the Norland, with
another 1,000 aboard. Officials said the
ships would have to make other runs to
complete the repatriation of more than
10,000 prisoners taken when the
Argentine garrison on the Falklands
surrendered Monday.
Four thousand Argentine prisoners
waiting to leave the freezing Falklands
no contest to a murder charge.
Jurors recommended punishment
Wednesday of 10 years probation and a
$7,500 fine.
’’There was not a trace of ill will in
the court,” said David Cunningham, a
criminal investigator for the Hood
County district attorney’s office.
“Everybody loves him to death. Both
sides agreed he’s certainly no danger to
society.
"You couldn’t help but feel sorry for
the man. He had led a model life. But
you just can’t shoot your wife aa you do
a hone that’s got a broken leg." The
victim’s daughter and sister both
testified for Gryder, saying ho loved his
wife.
Hundreds of west side residents,
including patients of Palo Pinto Nursing
Center and Mineral Wells Health Care
nursing homes, were without water late
Thursday and early Friday as a result of
a line break in the Brazos Valley water
system next to Pollard Creek bridge on
Highway 180 West.
Palestinian guerrillas, Israeli troops
moved into Christian east Beirut today
and advanced to the "Green Line’’
frontier with predominantly Moslem
west Beirut
The Israeli infantrymen pushed closer
to the guerrilla trenches in the west one
day after Arafat challenged the Israelis
to attack, vowing he would turn the
Lebanese capital into their graveyard.
Meanwhile, sporadic shelling resumed
around hastily - built guerrilla reboubts
near the Beirut International airport on
the southern edge of the dty.
Phalangist Christian militiamen, who
have held the eastern half of Beirut
since this nation’s 1975 * 76 civil war,
guided their Israeli allies to the
demarcation line, witnesses said.
The troops drove through the streets
Officer Injured
Patrolman Danny Bums of the Mineral Wells Police Department was injured early driven by John Chrenben, 26, of 1410 8X 11th St., skidded into the back of the
Thursday morning when his patrol car was struck from behind when he stopped to patrol car, knocking it into the back of the stalled vehicle driven by Oscar Horton,
resist a stalled motorist in the 2200 block of S.E. 1st Street According to Bums was the only person injured. He was treated for injuries at Palo Pinto General
Department of Public Safety reports, Bums had puHed up behind a car stalied'fiK ** Hospital and diienlured
the inside traffic lanes and had turned on his flashing lights when a pickup truck
Galtieri quits presidency
(AP) -r Gen. Leopoldo F. Galtieri,
ousted as army commander because of
the Falklands defeat, said he will quit
today as Argentina’s president.
Interior Minister Alfredo Saint Jean
takes over as interim president, but
expectations are he will be succeeded
either by the foreign minister or the air
force chief.
“The generals. . . want me to resign,
which I am willing to do today to
maintain the unity of the army and the
armed forces,” Galtieri told reporters at
4 a.m. before retiring for his final night
in the Pink House, the presidential
palace in Buenos Aires.
__Galtieri’s ouster Thursday as army
commander cost him his seat on the
Also, some 2000 customers in
Possum Kingdom, Graford, Santo and nn ..------ -----, ----— --------
Palo Pinto were without toll telephone ^L°r A!L?*?jloca^d ab°u _walla. The break allegedly took place at
service early Friday because <of a related
cable breakdown.
A robbery suspect who escaped from
the Palo Pinto County jail in August
1980 will be returned to the county
next week from New Mexico to face a
dozen" indictments pending against him
in 29th District Court, sheriff’s officers
said Thursday.
Toby Sammie Barelo Jr. has been
held in prison in Santa Fe, N.M., since
his capture in Albuquerque about two
weeks after he fled nude from the Palo
Pinto County jail.
Barelo, had also escaped from a
Roswell, N.M. minimum security
institution where he was serving a
sentence for burglary after riots at the
New Mexico state prison forced officials
to place convicts in other facilities.
He and another escapee, Victor
Corrillo, and a woman companion, Sofia
Salas, were taken into custody in Parker
County after a shooting, robbery and
theft spree through Eastland, Palo Pinto
and into Parker County in June 1980.
The trio allegedly stole gas, and
vehicles, robbed residents at gunpoint
and held up a service station on
Interstate 20 during the several - hour
escapade. They also fired several shots
inside the service station slightly
injuring two persons.
The trio evidently split up after
stealing another vehicle at the service
station, and Salas fled north while the
two men continued east into Parker
County where Department of Public
Safety troopers stopped them and
apprehended them after a brief scuffle.
Though the men were heavily armed,
no shots were fired during the arrest.
Salas was later apprehended in
Muenster in Cooke County where she charges there,
had registered at a motel.
The three were charged with auto
theft and aggravated robbery in Parker
County and with several counts of
aggravated robbery in Palo Pinto
County. Salas pled guilty to one charge
of aggravated robbery in Palo Pinto, and
Corrillo and Barelo were awaiting trial
in the Palo Pinto County jail when the
GRANBURY, Texas (AP) — A manv
who shot his ailing wife of 33 yean has
received probation from jurors here.
„ . Oscar Gryder, 69, fatally shot his
and planting minefields with the help of broadcast by the Voice of Palestine sic|(t bedridden wife Janie in the head
pneumatic drills. the day after Thanksgiving 1981. He
»—t ‘ jU,t it was a mercy kUling, but pleaded
beginning. - - r
“Beirut, the graveyard of the
invaders, shall be the Stalingrad of the
Arabs,” he said, referring to the Soviet
city where thousands of Russians died
fighting to repel the Nazis in World War
IL
Israel has said it does not want to
invade Beirut because of the bloodbath
that would almost certainly result from
house - to - house fighting. But Israeli
troops and their right -wing
_____ Christian allies have ringed the capital
"A battle they want, a battle they and are poised to move against the
•bril get, and so many times a small guerrillas entrenched in mostly Moslem
band of devout warriors vanquishes a west Beirut.
hugh army,” Arafat, the chairman of Arafat admitted his 6,000 fighters
the Palestine liberation Organization, were outgunned and outmanned, but he
mid Thursday in an emotional speech dared the Israelis to come in and fight.
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Mineral Wells, Texas
Twenty-F ive Cents
A 10 - year - old boy sustained over a
dozen stab wounds during a struggle
with an attacker on the creek bed of
Pollard Creek late Thursday, police said
early Friday.
Medical reports listed the boy in
stable condition at Palo Pinto General
Hospital after coming out of surgery at
about 11 p.m. With the assistance of
sheriff’s deputies, officers arrested a
white x male whom Chief of Police
Donald Fairrel referred to as “a prime
suspect.” The subject was still being
held for questioning in the city jail as of
Friday morning, and charges of
attempted murder may be pending, it
was reported.
The youngster allegedly met a man
who was fishing along Pollard Creek,
southwest of the 300 block of
Southwest 11th Ave., at about 7:35
p.m. The boy was reportedly stabbed 13
times in the back and at least once in
the neck while resisting sexual advances.
After the stabbing, the victim was
said to have walked home to his parents.
suspect taken
into custody
A pocketknife was apparently used in
the assault, and both of the youth’s
lungs were punctured.
Investigating officers said that a long
trail of blood was left in the victim’s
path to his home. Transfusions were
reportedly given during surgery to dose
the wounds.
During a police reconnaissance of the
area a call was received by a family who
said that their son was accosted last
week by an individual similar to the one
described in this case. The parents
reportedly gave directions on how to
find the person’s residence,, but the
suspect was allegedly found fishing on
Pollard Creek beside Union Hill Rd. at
about 11 p.m. No resistance was
encountered in the arrest, it was said.
Earlier this month a case of
solicitation of minors was reported on
N. Oak Ave., in addition to the case that
allegedly took place last week. It is not
known at this time whether or not that
incident is in any way related to the
stabbing.
To The People It Serves
June 18, 1982
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