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RUNNER ON THE ROCKS - Sarah Massey, 10, isn’t a runner in trouble as the phrase might be con-
trued as meaning. The girl is literally running on the rocks - the rock fence around Tarleton State. She
is pictured running along MCDhaney St. (E-T Staff Photo by Jim Crawley)
Three-Way homecoming, Three-Way
school, 12:00 noon.
Tarleton Campus club sundae party, Dr.
and Mrs. Trogden's home, 3-5 p;m.
Inside
Morgan Mill 4-H garage sale, U.S. 281, 9
a.m. to 5p.m.
Freshman band practice, SHS, 8 a.m. - 12
noon.
Stephenville VFW and ladies auxiliary, Post
home on East Road, 8 p.m.
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TELEPHONE TALK - Lou Ann Johnson, of the local Gulf
States-United Telephone office, conducts one of several
classes held on the Tarleton campus in preparation for
converting to a new communications system. The GTD-
1000 PABX computer system Is expected to be operable on
the campus by Sept. 1.
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Dear Abby...
Dublin Dolus.
Obituaries ...
Sports.......
Bingo, Stephenville Senior Citizens Center, 7
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Tri-County Porcelain Art Club meeting,
Church of Christ annex on hi way 108,9:30 a.m.
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Nancy Landes, age 9, Stephenville
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Cross Tinjbers Basin - Partly cloudy, chance of thunder-
showers through Saturday. High Friday near 90, low
Saturday near 70, high Saturday upper 80s. Chance of
precipitation: Friday, 20 percent; Friday night, 40 per-
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By GLENN HITT
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WASHINGTON (APi The
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sends fSU back to school
downgraded after tests
However, Parker said
preliminary test indicated ■
adult shrimp, crabs and
spotted sea trout have a
relatively high tolerance to
the contaminated water.
‘The bad news is that it was
somewhat toxic to the fish
eggs and newly hatched fish,”
said Parker, who added it was
to early to determine the long
range impact on the fishing
and shrimp industries.
Carl Posey, a NOAA spokes-
man, said Thursday that a 40-
mile long tongue of 6il jutting
out from the main spill still
drifted parallel to Padre .
Island. But he said the sheen
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mander Capt. Roger Madson,
who added he is optmistic the
beaches will not become much
more soiled.
Madson said the spill had
been broken up by gulf cur-
rents and partially dis-
integrated in the salt water.
The U.S. task force was set
up here as the oil neared U.S.
waters and threatened to kill
wildlife in the lush Laguna
Madre, damage offshore
shrimping and fishing and put
an economic dent in the
coastal tourist industry at the
height of the season.
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By GREG THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas
(AP) — Scientist say tests in-
dicate the world’s largest oil
spill, weathered, jj^uted and
broken down by its two-month
advance on the Texas shores,
is less deadly than first feared
for the lush, delicate ecology
of the Gulf Coast.
“The results are pretty en-
couraging. We did not find
that the oil was significantly
toxic. This oil has changed
drastically. What we tested is
much less toxic,” said Dr.
Patrick Parker, director of
the University of Texas
Aransas Pass Marine
Laboratory.
Texas Gov. Bill Clements
_ was to fly over the South
Texas coastline today to make
a firsthand survey of the oil
spill.
Clements was to fly from
Austin to Brownsville and take
a helicopter tour over the la-
guna Madre, South Padre
Island beaches, the Mansfield
Cut, Brazos-Santiago Pass
and gulf waters.
The governor planned a
news conference at the U.S.
Coast Guard station at Port
Isabel following the aerial
tour
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Signs installed
Stephenville motorists traveling on Frey St should be
aware of the installation of four-way stop signs at the in-
tersection of Frey and Garfield streets. The intersection is
adjacent to Chamberlin Elementary School.
The signs replace a traffic light which had previously
.controlled the intersection. The traffic signal will remain and
be set to flash red, Mike Watkins, Stephenville police chief
said. City crews installed the signs Thursday morning
• The signs were installed before school started so motorists
would be familiar with the new signs by the time the school
year begins. •
The campus members will also be divided into groups,
which will allow call pick-up so any station in the group
can be answered from any other phone in the group
The university will be provided with 32 frequently-
called numbers which will fall in the speed-calling
category and will permit callers to place calls much faster
using an abbreviated code.
The three system of conference calls include three-way,
progressive conference, and meet-me conference With
the three-way call a person may hold one party on the line
while dialing the third party. Under the progressive con-
ference up to seven stations can be used with the
originating party placing the calls while holding the
previous calls on the line. With the meet-me feature, up to
seven stations can be used by simply punching three digits
at a giVen time to-establish the network.
The “brain" of the GTD-1000 Digital PABX system is
located in the Math-language building. It is a general pur-
pose computer that reads and executes the instructions
stored in the.program. Described as “today’s most ad-
vanced conununications technology " the new system will
provide capabilities in keeping with the growth and ex-
pansion of the university.
In addition to individual pushbutton telephones
throughout the campus, a console is located in the office of
Student Personnel Services which will operate as a "cen-
tral" number for the university. The operator can route
calls when the calling party does not know specific
numbers and can provide general information about the
university.
Ixju Ann Johnson, of the local telephone office, and
Marie Wallace, of the Tyler general office, are instructors
for the orientation sessions being held on the campus
A supplemental telephone directory, listing the new
numbers at Tarleton will be distributed in the
Stephenville-Dublin-Hico areas in the near future, aceor
ding to a telephone company spokesman
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He said the main body of oil,
about 50 miles offshore near
the border between Texas and
Mexico, moved only slightly
north Thursday, pushed by
southeasterly breezes that
pick up slightly in the af-
ternoons.
Robinson and other officials
said they could not predict
where it will drift.
Divers found a small
amount of tiny tar balls
floating behind the boom
strung across the Port
Mansfield cut Thursday. But
Posey said that no oil has been
detected in the I-aguna Madre.
It was back to school this week for faculty and staff at
Tarleton as the university prepared for conversion to a
new telephone system by Sept. 1.
The system, GTD-1000 Digital PABX, is being installed
by United Telephone System and will provide a max-
imum 1,000 lines on campus. In addition to increasing the
number of available lines, the new system will include
several innovative services not previously available on
the local system. Among these special calling features are
call transfer, station cajnp-on call back, call park, call
hold, call pick-up, call9waiting signal, speed-calling, and
. three systems of conference calls.
With the call transfer it will be possible for calls on the
campus, or coming onto the campus from outside, to be
transferred from one number to another. With the existing
system, it is not possible to transfer calls which has fre-
quently been an-jrritation to persons making long distance
calls to the campus
The station camp-on call back is a feature which
eliminates recalling a number when a busy signal is
received. By punching the proper code, the system will
automatically ring the number, when the called station is
no longer busy and will also ring the phone of the person
making the call.
Gall park is a feature which permits a personTo place a
call on hold, and then complete the call from any other
phone in tne building or on the campus. While in the call
park position, the phone on which the call is parked may
still be used to pldte or answer calls.
With call hold it will be possible for a person to place a
calling party on hold and at the same time receive or
. originate other calls.
The call waiting signal is a short one-time signal tjiat in-
dicates to the person that another party is calling his
number. The calling person can place the original call on
hold, take the incoming call, and then return to the
original caller.
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Soviets mock' U.S. Navy
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Meanwhile, the leading
edges of the oil from a
runaway Mexican offshore
well 500 miles south of Texas
continued its unpredictable
drift several miles off the
white resort beaches of
southern Texas.
Those tourist-laden benches
have only had light spotting by
small globs of tar carried in by
the surf
"I would have expected a
little more impact by now,”
said Dr John Robinson of the
National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration. "The
impact has been very light —
unexpectedly light.”
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A government official work-
ing on the Chrysler project
said the company will need at
least $500 million in loan'
guarantees to see it through
the next nine months to 12
months. '
- Miller. <U a press con-
ference, said. “The ad- '
ministration will explore
conditions under which it [„
might recommend^ubject to
congressional app/Wal. finan-
cial assistance to Chrysler in
' the form of. or equivalent to,
loan guarantees^'
He said the Treasury
Department will work with
( hrysler to develop a proposal
( ongress could consider after
it returns from , its summer
recess on Sept. 5. »
The federal aid, said Millen,
would be limited in time,
amount and risk to American
taxpay ers " It likely would re-
semble ^he loan guarantee
package to Ixickheed in the
early'1970s.
Chrysler Chairman John
was Riccardo called Miller's stand
a "strong expression of
support
Union,administration
reject bail-out plans
Treasury Secretary G.
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William Miller said Thursday
the administration would
consider only loan guarantees
support of loan guarantees to . “considerably less" than $1
Chrysler Corp, falls far short
of the automaker's bail-out re-
quest, but the company's
chairman says___he's "ex-
tremely encouraged"
Less encouragingAyas union
rejection on Thursday of a
twoyear wage freeze Chrysler
proposed as one way to battle
the deteriorating auto sales,
costly federal regulations and .
waning ’investor confidence
that threaten the No.. 3
automaker's survival.
The union rejection came as
Chrysler continued to roll
back' 1980 production
schedules and lay off more
workers. The nation's y)th
largest industrial corporation
placed 4,600 hourly employees
on indefinite leave Thursday.__
bringing the total number on
such layoffs to 23.-800, ac-
cording to -company
spokesmen.
At full—employment.
Chrysler has .sightly more
than 130.000 workers.
The' company, which suf-
fered a $207 1 million loss in
the second quarter,
"seeking $1 billion in federal
tax credits over two years, but
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Doggett, Denver. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 310, Ed. 1 Friday, August 10, 1979, newspaper, August 10, 1979; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1284199/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.