Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 280, Ed. 1 Monday, November 28, 1983 Page: 1 of 8
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city youth
Winter storm
chills area
1-30 mishap
is fatal to
A Sulphur Springs youth was struck by a
truck and killed Sunday afternoon as he
rode a bicycle on Interstate 30 east of
Cumby, according to a Department of
Public Safety spokesman.
Billy Wayne Johnson, 17, of 220 League
St., was pronounced dead at the scene of
the accident .8 mile east of Cumby by
Peace Justice V.D. Romans Jr., DPS
Trooper Gene Barnett said.
The youth, riding an unlighted bicycle,
was struck from behind at about 6:20 p.m.
by a truck driven by Richard Watson, 46,
of Arlington.
No citations were issued, Barnett said.
Funeral arrangements are pending with
Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home.
He was bom July 21,1966, in Terrell and
was employed with a construction firm. He
lived in Sulphur Springs two months,
moving here from Greenville. He was a
member of First Baptist Church in
Greenville.
Survivors include his mother, Betty
Ruth Johnson; three brothers, Gary
Johnson and Eddie D. Johnson, both of
Greenville, and Ernest Johnson of Sulphur
Springs; four sisters, Billie Ruth Johnson,
Opal Johnson, Frances Sue Johnson and
Gladys Johnson,all of Sulphur Springs. He
was preceded in death by his father,
Melrose M. Johnson.
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The news in brief
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Condo probe
With the wind chill lector registering around 4 degrees above zero Monday morning,
Texas Power * Light crews were out putting up Christmas decorations around the
square. But linemen Blake Leake, on Mie ladder, and Scott Sprague, standing at the
foot, wore philosophical about the chore. It would have been colder up on a utility
pole, according to the linemen.
DALLAS (AP) - A glut of con-
dominiums east of Dallas threatens
savings and loan associations across
might have been caused by a stuck
landing gear.
Six employees of KOSA-TV in
Odessa, the pilot and another
passenger died instantly early
Saturday when the plane plummeted
onto a ranch adjacent to the Midland-
Odessa Regional Air Terminal and
burst into flames.
A Federal Aviation Administration
investigation indicated the twin-
engine Beechcraft 100 turboprop’s
landing gear was “in the up position
and locked,’* said Tony James of
Odessa, an FAA accident prevention
counselor. He said he did not think the
landing gear was up because of pilot
error.
Court to review ruling
on federal milk prices
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme
Court, in a case pitting the government
against consumers with hundreds of
millions of dollars at stake, today agreed
to review a ruling on milk pricing.
The court said it will hear government
arguments aimed at overturning a ruling
consumers say could lead to significantly
cheaper milk.
At issue is a complicated system of
government regulation of milk prices,
adopted in 1937 and modified in 1964.
A federal appeals court here ruled last
January that three consumers were en-
titled to a full trial to challenge a major
aspect of the regulatory system.
In seeking Supreme Court review,
government lawyers said the consumers
have no right to a trial because Congress
intended that the system of milk
marketing orders not be subject to judicial
review.
The Agriculture Department was em-
powered in 1937 to regulate the price
farmers receive for their dairy products
when they sell them to handlers, who
process the products. The handlers pay
into a regional pool from which producers,
or farmers, are paid uniform prices.
The system was designed to place a floor
under milk product prices to prevent what
had been considered ruinous competition
in the Depression. '
In 1964, the Agriculture Department
amended the system to cover recon-
stituted milk products, which are made
from milk powder purchased from far-
mers by handlers.
If a handler does not use all of the
reconstituted milk to make butter, cheese
or dry milk powder, he is required to
compensate the farmer for the remainder,
which is presumed to be used to produce
reconstituted fluid milk.
Consumers, citing government figures,
say that if the compensatory payments
were eliminated the reconstituted fluid
milk could be sold more cheaply. They
contend elimination of those payments
would mean a saving of $186 million a year
to consumers.
The same government report also
estimated, in apparent contradiction, that
eliminating the compensatory payments
could cost farmers $576 million a year.
Japan - election
TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister
Yasuhiro Nakasone dissolved the
lower house of Parliament today and
called for general elections Dec. 18 in
a move to end a boycott by opposition
lawmakers critical of his party’s
political ethics.
The decision to hold elections six
months before the current term ends
stems from the Oct. 12 bribery con-
viction of former Prime Minister
Kakuei Tanaka til the Lockheed
aircraft payoff scandal. Tanaka, 65, is
an influential member of Nakasone’s
Liberal Democratic Party.
Staff and Wire Report
Below freezing temperatures crept into
Hopkins County Sunday night causing
residents Monday morning to rumage
through closets for heavy coats, woolen
caps and warm gloves.
In Sulphur Springs, a low overnight
temperature of 28 was reported at the
city’s water department The last similar
cold snap chilled the area in March when
the mercury stood at 27 degrees.
Sunday, the 33-degree low failed to reach
freezing by one degree. However, a light
rain brought .43 inch to a still-thirsty
ground.
While Hopkins County residents
shivered with their cold weather, a bliz-.
zard building snowdrifts up to 9 feet high
virtually shut down the middle of the
nation today, stranding thousands of
travelers and raising the death toll from
two snowstorms in a week to 56.
Two-foot snows driven by 50-mph winds
and the wind chill as low as 40 degrees
below zero made travel across the region
impossible this morning.
Authorities closed major highways
across seven states, including Colorado,
Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, South
Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. Drifts were
up to 9 feet high in southwestern Nebraska,
8 feet and western Kansas and about 4 feet
near the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St.
Paul.
With snow scattered from Oklahoma and
Colorado to the Great Lakes this morning,
the weather service said, “It cannot be
emphasized enough that this is a
dangerous winter storm. People should be
prepared for the worst when attempting
any travel during the next 24 hours.”
Temperatures were near zero across
western South Dakota and Wyoming with
lows of 8 below recorded at Alamosa and
Gunnison, Colo.
Thousands^ travelers, many returning
from Thanksgiving visits, sought over-
night lodging in motels, truck stops antf
emergency shelters, many forced to bed
down on floors. Power lines were downed
by ice, airports were closed and classes at
schools and universities were canceled for
today.
“There just isn’t anything going on out
there because you plain can’t move," said
a dispatcher for the Nebraska State Patrol
this morning.
National Guard armories were opened
for stranded travelers in the Nebraska
towns of Sidney, Ogallala and York. Three
churhces in Oglalla also opened their
doors.
Sioux Falls, S.D., was ata standstill with
a foot of new snow whipped into hip-high
drifts atop a layer of slick ice. The blowing
snow closed streets as soon as they were
plowed and authorities asked everyone to
stay home except in emergencies. The
airport was closed.
Some other accumulations included 26
inches at at Greeley in central Nebraska;
19 inches at Goodland in western Kansas;
11 inches at Mankato, Minn., and 9 inches
at Minneapolis where more than a foot was
expected.
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - A
federal aviation official says a private
plane crash that killed eight people
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Columbia flies again
on scientific mission
Fatal wreck
Mother charged
They will use powerful telecopes to study
stellar objects and will attempt to answer
questions such as whether certain stars
are dying and whether the energy output of
the sun varies.
Sixteen of the more than 70 experiments
are in the life sciences field, including
investigations of the space sickness
phenomena which has affected nearly half
the 26 shuttle astronauts. The inner ear
and balance systems of the mission
specialists will be studied to determine
how the body reacts in weightlessness
Blood samples will be drawn and analyzed
throughout the flight, and some of the crew
will be spun in a rotating chair.
Three Spacelab furnaces will be used to
conduct processing experiments in crystal
growth, fluid physics and metallurgy -
experiments that could lead to orbiting
factories where exotic metals and pure
pharmaceuticals are manufactured.
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HOUSTON (AP) - A woman ac- ’
cured of flinging her infant son to the
floor during a fight with her mother
has been charged with murder.
Aunita Michelle Osborne, 17, was
held in lieu of $10,000 bond Sunday.
Her 1-week-old son, Stephen James
Bryant Jr., died early Saturday in a
local hospital.
The preliminary finding of the
county medical examiner’s office was
that the child died of “blunt trauma to
the head,” said Sgt. George Sturgis of
the Harris County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment.
In other court business Monday, Judge
Scott introduced the new county auditor,
Donald J. Rea. The 25-year-old accountant
replaces Marvin Stubbs, whose contract
was not renewed.
Rea said, “I’m happy to be here and I’m
looking forward to working with these
commissioners.
The court also approved a bond for
Deputy Sheriff Ronald Hardman with
Western Surety Co.
The court also approved minutes of the
previous meeting and monthly bills.
This week, the court will meet in a work
session beginning each day at 8 a.m. No
official business is scheduled to be con-
ducted. •
Editorial
Ann Landers
Personals
Community Calendar
Sports
Classified :
Sulphur Graphs
Obituaries
Comics
TV Log
Crossword
Astrograph
Commissioner Martin has been absent
from meetings because of an illness.
Commissioners Chester and Hatley have
said they verbally agreed to the proposal.
Judge Scott opposes the building razing
until other offices on Jefferson Street can
be renovated. Glenn has said he agrees.
Sanderson told the court Monday, "We
don’t feel this was voted on satisfactorily."
He said he would agree to the court’s
decision "at a later date when it does meet
in full session regardless of who the court
is.”
Judge Scott agreed the issue could be
reconsidered when the court meets again
with all members present. “I have no
opposition at all,” he said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Six
astronauts, the largest space crew ever,
rode the shuttle Columbia into orbit today
for nine days of round-the-clock science
experiments in the European Spacelab.
The crew includes a West German, the
first non-American launched in a U.S.
spacecraft.
It was a race against time and the
weather, and NASA won, completing a
perfect countdown right on time at 11 a.m.
EST as a storm front moved in from the
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“It’s super up here, just beautiful,”
exulted Commander John Young as the
ship soared 155 miles high at 17,400 mph.
“Things don’t change any; it’s really
something," added Young, who at 53 is
making a record sixth trip into space.
In the most extensive manned science
flight yet undertaken, the astronauts will
probe the Earth, sun, stars and their own
bodies in the billion-dollar laboratory,
built and donated by Europe. A "virtual
bonanza” for scientists is how NASA
spokesman Hugh Harris described the
mission.
The blazing liftoff was viewed by one of
the smallest crowds ever to witness a
manned space launching. Sheriff’s
Department officials estimated only about
50,000 people were at viewing sites along
highways and rivers, far below the 250,000
who assembled to watch the first night
launch of a shuttle in August. As many as
half-a-million have gathered for other
liftoffs.
As the shuttle flashed to life, it punished
the launch pedestal with a waterfall of fire
and rose swiftly on 7 million pounds of
thrust generated by its powerful engines.
It darted straight up and then veered off to
the northeast, disappearing in clouds a
minute afterliftoff.
At 2 minutes 6 seconds, the 100-ton
Columbia ejected its two 149-foot booster
rockets, hurling them toward a parachute
landing in the Atlantic where ships recover
them for reuse.
The astronauts continued driving up-
ward on the power of three main engines.
The weather front loaded with thun-
derstorms earlier had threatened to delay
this ninUi and longest shuttle mission,
which was twice postponed because of
technical problems. But the front slowed
during the night over the Gulf of Mexico,
and was over Central Florida as Columbia
blazed into a partly cloudy sky.
Working with Young at the controls is
pilot Brewster Shaw, a 38-year-old space
rookie.
The four astronauts who will work Tn
Spacelab, which is mounted in Columbia’s
cargo bay, are mission specialists Owen
Garriott, 53, an electrical engineer, and
Robert Parker, an astronomer, and
payload specialists Ulf Merbold, 42, a West
German physicist, and Byron Lichten-
berg, a biomedical engineer at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Merbold and Lichtenberg are the first of
a new breed of space travelers who are not
career astronauts. These pay load
specialists are selected by their scientific
peers for a specific mission, train for six
month or more, and after the flight return
to their regular jobs.
Spacelab is a cylinder 23 feet long and 14
feet in diameter. The astronauts, working
in shirtsleeves, transfer between the
station and Columbia’s cabin through a 19-
foot tunnel.
By MARY GRANT
News-Telegram Staff
The issue of razing a building adjacent to
the Hopkins County Courthouse rose again
at the commissioners’ court Monday when
razing proponent T.L. Sanderson asked the
court to reconsider its earlier decision
because the court voted with Com-
missioner L.T. “Son” Martin absent.
"At the time this matter was considered
by the court, one of your members was
absent and unable to represent not only
himself but more importantly his con-
stituents, the taxpayers of Hopkins
County.
"As a result of his failure to vote on this
proposition, the idea was turned down,”
Sanderson stated in a letter presented to
the court at Monday’s regular session.
Sanderson’s statement refers to action
taken by the court Nov. 14 when the im-
mediate demolition of the building in
question was denied in a tie vote.
Voting against the proposal were County
Judge Wayne Scott and Commissioner
Murray Glenn. Voting for the motion were
Commissioners Mervin Chester and J.D.
Hatley.
Sanderson presented the letter to the
court, saying, "I have a letter of request to
be read before the court this morning if
Mary (County Clerk Mary Attlesey) would
read ft.”
In the letter which Mrs. Attlesey read to
the court, Sanderson stated, "During the
Commissioners Court, an item of great
importance not only to myself but to most
members of Hopkins County was acted
upon. That issue involved whether or not
this court would reflect a positive and
progressive attitude in its policy making
authority, by razing the former justice of
the peace building, an eyesore to an
otherwise beautiful and historic downtown
area.”
The razing of the building, formerly used
as a justice of the peace office and now
housing the American Red Cross and
Northeast Texas Opportunities, first
became a subject of the court last year
when Sanderson asked that it be razed and
a park area added in its place.
The commissioners agreed, but did not
take an official vote. Since that time, the
court members have changed with the
election of Judge Scott and his ap-
pointment of Commissioner Glenn.
the Southwest which hold millions of
dollars in notes for the developments,
according to banking officials.
The Dallas Morning News reported
in a copyright story Sunday that the
condominium developments along
Interstate 30 east of Dallas were built
on land whose value was artificially
inflated, drawing in investors who
face foreclosure on loans.
The financing behind the con-
dominium ventures is under in-
vestigation by the FBI, Texas Savings
and Loan Department and the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the
News said.
Clear and cold tonight. Lows in the
mid 20s to lower 30s. Clear to partly
cloudy . The high temperature
Tuesday is expected to be in mid to
upper 40s.
The high Sunday was 63-degrees
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SMITHVILLE, Texas (AP) - A
Kansas woman died in a car wreck
less than two blocks from her
daughter’s house on her way into town
for her son-in-law's installation as a
church pastor .-
Police said Eleanor R. Markley, 61,
of Augusta, Kan., was pronounced
dead at the scene of the two-car wreck
on Highway 71 late Saturday. Mrs.
Markley’s husband, Kenneth, suf-
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County to reconsider
razing old building
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Holiday toll
By The Associated Press
Traffic accidents claimed 335 lives
over the long Thanksgiving holiday
weekend.
The counting period extended from
6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday
local time.
The National Safety Council
estimated that traffic deaths over the
four-day weekend would be between
460 and 500, about the same as for a
non-holiday four-day weekend at this
time of year.
During the Thanksgiving weekend a
year ago, authorities reported 417
traffic deaths.
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