Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 246, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1985 Page: 1 of 30
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By The Associated Press
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and a Palestinian arrested in Genoa
before the cruise began Oct. 3.
Klinghoffer’s badly decomposed
body was identified in Damascus,
Syria, on Wednesday and flown to
Rome for an autopsy. Officials said
the body had two bullet wounds.
Maj. Gen Ehud Barak, chief of
Israeli military intelligence, said
Klinghoffer “was chosen by the
Jewish sound of his name and
overboard However, he declined to
provide details
Authorities have said the hijackers
were traveling on false documents,
and have not identified them. But
By JIM DRINKARD
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has endorsed a
$28.1 billion farm and food bill for the coming year and
now goes to work to iron out its differences with a less
expensive House version. .
Approved Wednesday on a 81-14 vote, the bill provides
money for the 1986 fiscal year for farm subsidies,
agricultural research and extension, conservation
programs, food stamps and other nutrition programs,
rural development funds and various Agriculture-
Department functions.
It also contains money to run the Food and Drug
Administration and the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
The Senate spending figure, while it appears to be far
below the $36 4 billion approved earlier by the House,
leaves out an estimated $9.4 billion that will be needed to
maintain the Commodity Credit Corporation, the
government enfitjhvhich pays farm subsidies.
Instead of specifying an amount for the CCC, the
Senate bill gives open-ended spending authority in an
effort to prevent a recurrence of last July's funding
crisis. At that time, the CCC ran out of money and had to
suspend operations temporarily because supplemental
funds could not be approved in time.
Anticipated bumper grain crops this year are likely to
cause heavy loan forfeitures to the corporation, and
that, coupled with other factors, makes it difficult to set
a specific spending figure, the Appropriations Com-
mittee said in justifying the unusual “indefinite”
spending. .
ActuaJ fiscaM986 spending, jf the CCC estimate were agrtctirtlifal research and extension. $314 million for
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Israel’s military intelligence chief
and an Italian prosecutor both say
they know who killed an Ar
passenger on a hijackea
cruise ship: Neither identified the
killer, but the Israeli said it was the
youngest of four Palestinian pirates.
In Rome, politicians predicted that
Socialist Premier Bettino Craxi
would announce the resignation of his
coalition government Thursday
Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini
and two other Cabinet members from
the Republican Party withdrew
Wednesday to protest Italy’s decision
to release a Palestinian accused by
the United States of planning the
hijacking.
Prosecutors in Genoa also said
Wednesday that all seven
Palestinians detained in connection
with the hijacking of the cruise ship
Achille Lauro had been charged with
murder and kidnapping in connection
“I am convinced that the bill represents fiscal
restraint on the one hand, and will provide needed ,,
assistance for distressed farmers and for food
on the other ” said Sen Thad Cochran. R-
Miss., chairman qf the Appropriations agriculture
subcommittee
The spending levels “will permit! (farmers) to work
their way out of their current economic difficulty,”
Cochran said.
Overall spending in the bill is $185 million below last
year’s figure, Cochran said, adding that it contained a
particularly painful 40 percent cut in rural housing
money for the Farmers Home Administration
The Senate rejected two attempts to cut the bill's
spending levels. One, by Sen William Proxmire, D-Wis.,
would have cut 4 percent from the measure across the
board, a reductionof about $1 1 billion That attempt lost
on a 65-29 vote .4
Another, by Sen Jesse Helms, R-N.C., would have
eliminated $18 billion in spending for farm and rural
credit and food stamps. Helms claimed the bill was over
budget by that amount, but he lost, 68-27
As it worked on the bill, the Senate adopted an
amendment requiring the FDA to complete by June 1,
1986, a study on the safety of sulfites as food additives
v Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., who proposed the amen-
dment, said the chemicals have been linked to 21 deaths
in people who are hypersensitive to it, and another 1
million Americans are at risk
Among major items in the spending measure were
$12.7 billion for food stamps. $4 1 billion for child
nutrition programs, $1.5 billioq for the Women, Infants
and Children feeding program, $1.2 billion for
COMMERCE, Texas - When fitC
homecoming at East
University, it’s time ta
At least 17 dinners, breakfast^,
receptions and cookoffs are'
scheduled for the week of October 21-
26 including two of the biggest af-
fairs: the homecoming luncheon and
the Hall of Fame Banquet.
This year’s theme is “Homecoming
'85: A Roundup of E.T. Heritage.”
The traditional luncheon will once
again draw together all ETSU
alumni, students, faculty and staff.
Thie gathering will honor the two
Distinguished , Alumni inductees:
Garland Button and Fred Allen
Tickets are available for the lun-
cheon for $6.50 through the ETSU
Alumni Office at (214 ) 886-5765.
Button was instrumental in many
key actions for ETSU including ob-
taining its university status,
restoration of its doctoral programs
and creation of a separate Board of
Regents.
Allen currently serves on the
university foundation board of
directors and its executive com-
mittee
The luncheon will be held in the
American Ballroom of the Sam
Rayburn Memorial Student Center
beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday,
October 28
Saturday night, beginning at 8:30
p.m. in the Texas Ballroom of the
MSC, wiU be the Hall of Fame
Banquet.
This year’s inductees for the
athletic honor include Autry Beamon.
Elizabeth Huggins and Craig Metz.
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Tickets are also $6.50 each and are
Texas Sipte/ available by contacting the Alumni
Office.
Beamon was one of the first ETSU
football players to receive All-
American honors four straight,years
Ms. Huggins created women’s
athletics at ETSU. in her 34 years with
the institution. Metz let ETSU to its
first NAIA gold. Championship in
1965.
Tickets for both events may also be
purchased at the MSC Activities Desk
as well as the Alumni Office.
Young terrorist accused
with the death.69-year-old I>eon Barak said a Portuguese cleaning
Klinghoffer. ' worker and the ship’s hairdresser
The seven include the four were forced at gunpoint to push
hijackers, two unidentified fugitives Klinghoffer’s body over the side of
the Achille I .a uro. and then to clean
the blood stains off the ship. ”
Prosecutor Dolcino Favi told a
news conference in Genoa early
Thursday after the Achille I .auro
returned to its home port: We have
reconstructed the killing of the
American in all the details."
He said prosecutors were certain
who shot Klinghoffer, why he was
dragged against his will to thtejedge of killed, and, who threw the body
the ship’s deck. The youngest of the * J
terrorists shot him in the head once or
twice.”
He said Israel’s information about
the death was “determined con-
clusively by the evidence taken from criminal complaint filed against^
the people on the ship.” He did not them in the United States identify
identify by name the hijacker who them as Hallah Abdalla Al-Asan.
allegedly shot the partially paralyzed Maged Yussef Al-Malaki. Hammad
Al-Abdulla. and Abdel Atif Ibrahim
Fatayer.
Italian news agencies have said
that a hijacker they identified as
Hallah Abdullah Alhsan is 192Jears
old, and that the three other hijackers
range in age from 20 to 23.
Judicial sources have said the four
deny killing Klinghoffer.
Barak also played a tape recording
on Israel television of a conversation
in Arabic that he said was conducted
Oct. 9 between PLO official
Mohammed Abbas and the four
hijackers, the same day they
“surrendered
Abbas heads the Palestine
Liberation Front, the PI X) faction to
which the hijackers claimed they
belonged, and was with the four
hijackers on the Egyptian airliner
U.S. Navy jets diverted Friday to a
NATO base in Sicily.
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All items that will be auctioned,
which are donated by local
businesses and merchants, will be on
display, and door prizes will also be
given away during the auction.
were given merchandise vouchers
Wednesday to distribute to local
merchants for auction donations.
The Kiwanians will take
Boy Scouts from Troop 69, from left, Bruce Lockhart,
Tommy Sheer and John Holloway put up the United Way's
fundraising thermometer in front of the Hopkins County
Courthouse Tuesday afternoon. The United Way goal for
this year is $92,000. Troop 69 is sponsored by the First
United Methodist Church in Sulphur Springs.
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Kiwanis plans
to get some new money and keep Its* l Fl
By BOBBY BURNEY — welfare and civic programs spon-
sored by the service club, according
to Kiwanis officials.
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meet tonight
A plethora of needed captial im-
provements and dearth of ready cash
has the Sulphur Springs City Council
searching for ways to acquire more
money.
One method undergoing close
scrutiny is bond refunding, and the
council will decide at an emergency
meeting Thursday night if they want
to persue that technique.
The city’s financial consultant, Dan
Almon, senior vice-president of the
Dallas investment banking firm of
Schneider, Bernet & Hickman, was
on hand at the regular meeting of the
City Council Oct. 15 to discuss bond
refunding procedures-and options.
The council has been seeking S way
current debt payment the same,
without increasing utility rates. By
refunding existing bonds, the city
could generate about $1.1 million and
maintain its current debt payments News-Telegram Staff
Gearing up^or their annual stew
and auction, Kiwanis Club members chairman, said that the money will be
... . returned to the community in various
ways. “The money that we raise will
go back into the area through the
welfare programs we participate in.
The main program we’re looking at
right now is the Empty Stocking.”
The Empty Stocking is a project
designed to fill the stockings and
needs of needy families^t Christmas.
According to • Auction Chairman
Doyle McKinzie, the work and
preparation put in by the Kiwanians
of rounding up the items that will be
auctioned is worth the results. l‘The
Empty Stocking program is really
the main item we’re working for right
now. The distribution of the vouchers
and contacting the donors is the time-
consuming part of the whole auction,
but it helps get results. ”
The auction is the major money-
making project by the Kiwanis Club,
with the proceeds being funnelled into
everyday civic activities as well as
charity programs, Moore said.
“We’ll use the money for softball,
baseball and scouting, too,” he ad-
ded, “because we also sponsor those
activities. This (the auction) is our
big ticket item.”
Tickets will be sold for the stew, but
Moore said that ticket sales are not
the main revenue maker of the
evening. “The purpose of selling the
tickets,” he said, “is to get people at
the stew so they will stay for the
auction.”
Adult stew tickets will cost $2.50
and children’s tickets will cost $1.50.
The stew will begin at 5:30, with the
auction following at 6 p.m. in the
Civic Center.
Mckinzie said that all four of the
local auctioneers have been invited to
the auction, but he was unsure how
many would actually attend. “Of /
course, we’ld like for all of them to be
there,” he commented.
Tickets can be obtained from any
local Kiwanian.
Compiling some of the merchandise vouchers for the an-
nual Kiwanis Stew and Auction are club members, from
left, Kerry Law, Jerry Epting, and Marvin Snodgrass. The
fund-raiser that helps raise monies for such programs as
the Empty Stocking will be Nov. 2 at the Civic Center.
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by extending payments on the 1982
bond series nine more years, Almon
said.
Councilmen will meet at 5 p.m.
Thursday to discuss the issue and
decide if they want Almon to begin
the paper work. The Kiwanians will take the
City Manager David Tooley said vouchers to area businesses to accept
the issue is somewhat urgent because donations for their charity benefit
a possibility exists that Congress will scheduled for Nov. 2.
Proceeds from the stew and auction
will be used to fund the various
cease all municipal bond refunding
aftefc Dec. 31 of this year.
The city of Sulphur Springs
recently received a $62,652.14 check
from the State Comptroller’s Office
for the city's 1 percent August sales
tax receipts.
The August check brings this year’s
sales tax total up to $814,555.65, a 4.31
percent increase from last year, and
about 11 percent the same month last
year. ’ .
Other cities in Hopkins County
receiving checks were: Como, $570.32
add Cumby, $643.43.
Nearby cities receiving sales tax
checks this menth include Greenville,
$99,637.30; Commerce, $23,223.19;
Paris $126,873.86; Tyler, $486,821.93;
Mount Pleasant, $68,410.29; Rock-
wall, $52,118.71 and Texarkana,
$196,100.21.
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