Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 112, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1979 Page: 1 of 10
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Vol. Ill, No. 112
FIRST DAY IN A NEW BUILDING- Employee* at Cree* Timber* Savtog aad
Loan got a new borne Wednesday a* a Christmas presort. The new bofldiag to
. located at 2207 W. Washington, near the Stephenville Plain Shopping Center-The
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- BAND REUNION- Foor former Stephenville High band member* dust off their horns in preparation
for the animal SHS band reunion, Saturday, Dec. 20, at 1:15 a.m. in the Stephenville High band hall.
The former bend member* are (from left) David Kincannon, Philip Weems, Tim Thompson and
David Tomlinson. All former band member*, friends of the band and their families are invited to the
remdoa. Planning to attend the reunion is longtime band director Jim Harwell. (E-T Staff Photo by
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federal regulations. This is
especially true in TP&L’s
program to construct new
generating plants that use
lignite coal and nuclear
fuels.”
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tough,” Coffin told reporters
before leaving Tehran. “If one
side decides to be a little more
gracious, the other side has
the freedom to be a little more
gracious.”
The clergymen, who con-
ducted emotional Christmas
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The Empire-Tribune urges Cross
Timbers Basin resident to fly their
flags on New Year’s Day as a
reminder of America’sdinity during
the current seizure of the U.S.
Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
By flying the flag - the stars,
Carter blasts Soviets
Inside
Classified ads ;
Comics...
DearAbby
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At the same time a
Japanese newspaper quoted a
Council member as saying
Iran expects to release the
Day 54
Day services for the captives
at the occupied U.S. Embassy
m Tehran, left for New York
where they were scheduled to
arrive at about 8 p.m. EST.
During a Pans stopover, the
archbishop of Algiers, who
assisted at the Christmas ser-
vices in Tehran with the
Americans, said he found Ira-
nian authorities and public
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but are apea to the public. An apea bauae 1* piaaned wttMa a lew week*. (E-T
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will also come along.
“Foreigners can easily
make us surrender by just
closing their exports to us if
our economy is a dependent
one. Now they have threaten- ■
ed us with an economic
boycott. Many governments
have approved this. Bid the
peoples do not approve.
“While in my view these
noises have no reality, if we
give a very weak probability
to this, we should be equipped
You are in a war situation, an .
economic war whidi is in itself
a struggle between Islam and
paganism,” he said.
Khomeini referred to
America's request that the
U.N. Security Council impose
economic sanctions against
Iran in a bid to force the
release of the hostages, who
were grabbed Nov. 4.
0Tn7', INC.
for *
FLY THE FLAG
which display the unity of the
nation’s 50 states and the stripes,
which remind everyone of the
nation’s historical beginnings -
Americans can silently display their
feelings during an otherwise joyous
holiday season.
opinion “favorable to an act of
clemency.”
Though he said he had not
received any “exact pre-
mises,” Cardinal Etienne
Duval told reporters at Orly
Airport he had reason to hope
for the “fastest and broadest
possible measure of clemen-
cy” for the hostages.
Duval arrived with the three
American clergymen, who re-
mained aboard the flight and
did not talk to reporters.
The State Department had
no immediate comment on
Khomeini’s latest prediction
of war between the United
States and Iran.
In a speech Wednesday loan
Islamic anti-drug addiction
group, the Iranian strongman
said: “Now we are at war, a
political and economic war. It
is likely that the military war
of captives also deepened.
Meanwhile, fresh evidence
emerged today that some rul-
ing Revolutionary Council of-
ficials are pushing for the im-
minent release of some U.S.
hostages, provoking more
angry contradictions from the
students occupying the U-S.
embassy. A Foreign Ministry
spokesman told The
Associated Press of an official
“suggestion ” that three
hostages of Mexican, Indian
and Portuguese descent be ~ the other side a little, more
men” driving what he thought
was a red car.
Roberts said Roberson was
heavily sedated Wednesday
and unable to give them any
more information on the at-
tack. The sheriff said he would
try to talk to Roberson again
today.
Officials theorize two of the
— victims were outside their
vehicle at the time they were
stabbed and that the third was
sitting in the car or attempting
to get out.
Roberts declined to say if
authorities had any more
suspects in the double slaying,
but said the incident was still
under investigation.
Haynes, Kilgo and Rober-
son, all former Hico residents,
worked in Waco and were
reportedly spending
Christmas in Hico. They were
reportedly returning to Hico
from a Christmas shopping
trip in Waco when the incident
increase 20.1 percent and
commercial and industrial
12.7 percent.
“With the effects of inflation
and with the need to build
power plants that use fuel
other than gas and oil, present
revenues are going to be
inadequate to meet our costs
of providing services in the
future,” Singleton said.
The Power Plant and In-
dustrial Fuel Use Act of 1978
requires that utilities cannot
use gas as a boiler fuel except
under certain exemptions
after Jan. 1, 1990. Texas
Power & Light is producing SO
percent of its electricity with
lignite coal at this tipe.
And that figure is due to rise
as the Company has five
lignite-fueled units either
The overall request is an - under construction or plan-
average for/all classes of
customers The increase will
vary from one raid class to
another.
- For example, the average
monthly residential bill, based
on 11,440 kilowatt hours per
year, would increase 18.04 per
month or 20.6 percent Rates
for municipal services would
DeVonnaLee
Cross Timbers Basin - Mostly cloudy and
chance of rain this afternoon, tonight and
Friday. Not so warm; high this afternoon
lower 50s; lows tonight around 40. High Friday
lower 50s. Winds mostly light and variable.
Probability of rain 20 percent this afternoon;
30 percent tonight and Friday. High Wed-
nesday 71, low was 45.
Stabbing deaths
suspect arrested
By PEGGYE SWENSON Clifton hospital listed in “good
E-T Staff Writer condition.”
According to Justice of the
Peace W.R. Lively of Clifton,
the suspect surrendered at his
attorney's office in Waco late -
Wednesday and was arraign-
ed about midnight in Clifton
City Hall. He is being held in
the Bosque County Jail in
counts of first degree murder - Meridian,
and one count of assault with
intent to commit murder. The
• murder counts each carry a
bond of $100,000 and the
assault charge carries a bond
of $25,000. '' -
Ervin Byron Haynes, 23,
and William Michael Kilgo, 23,
were)
ton Hospital following —
altercation that occurred at
the intersection of Farm
Roads 56 and 1637, approx-
imately one mile northeast of
Valley Mills, between 6:30 and
6:40 Monday evening. Clinton
Loyd Roberson, 22, is still
I Texas Power & Light
I Company will file Jan. 4 with
I the City Council of Stephen-
I ville and the Public Utility
I Commission of Texas a
| request for a $124 million,
I 15.35 percent systemwide
I increase in revenues, Jerry
I Singleton said today.
Singleton said that the rate
increase is being sought
“primarily because of the
effect of inflation on all areas
of the Company operation. We
I are also experiencing more
costs as a result of increasing
ned.
The Company also is joint
owner in the Comanche Peak
nuclear power plant near Glen
Rose that is estimated to have
the first of two units on line in
1981.
“As supplies of natural gas
and oil become less available,
and much more expensive, the
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No witnesses to the incident
have been found. Law officer*
were alerted by a passer-by
who came upon the scene.
No motive for the stabbings
has been established. Accor-
ding to the Bosque County
________________ . Sheriff Dave Roberts, the
pronounced dead at dif- pick-up truck the victims weie
Hospital following an->* riding in was not forced off the
road and they were not robb-
ed. ‘
Lively indicated that Rober-
son, the lone survivor of the at-
tack, has been unable to give
investigators an accurate
_ description of his assailants,
under medical observation at He said it was “two or three occurred.
TP&L seeks increase
use of lignite and nuclear fuels
will continue to help ensure
that our customers will have a
dependable supply of elec-
tricity at a reasonable price,”
Singleton said.
“Inflation is TP&L’s most
serious problem,” he said.
“We also know that inflation is
hurting our customers, and we
understand why no one wants
another rate increase.”
— We have to ask for ad-
ditional rate relief at this time
if we are to meet our
obligations to our customers
and to continue our present
construction schedule, con-
verting from gas to lignite and
nuclear,” Singleton said.
“It has been two years since
we have asked for a rate in-
crease and this request is in
compliance with the
. President's voluntary price
guidelines. But I must em-
phasize that, this increase is
the minimum we feel is,
necessary to continue our
program to utilize the less
expensive and more abundant
fuels to supply electricity to
our customers."
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Clergymen urge compromise
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — released. The student
Three American clergymen spokesman would not confirm
today urged compromise in or deny it.
- the the U.S.-Iranian crisis and
a French archbishop said he
expected “clemency" for the
American hostages even as
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini hostages after an interna-
raised the possibility of war. tional tribunal investigates
The mystery over the number the crimes the United States
allegedly committed in Iran
over the past 30 years.
The Revs. William Sloane
Coffin, Thomas’ Gumbleton
and William Howard flew
home today at the end of a
three-day Christmas mission
with messages from a number
of the captives to their
families and a plea for con-
ciliation by both sides in the
54-day-old standoff.
“If one side (fets a little
more tough it tends to make
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MERIDIAN-A suspect has
been arrested in connection
with the Christmas Eve stabb-
ing deaths of two former Hico
residents and the assault of a
i third near Valley Mills.
Marvin Vaughn, 30, of
Waco, is being held on two
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Doggett, Denver. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 112, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1979, newspaper, December 27, 1979; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1284637/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.