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89th Year, No. 68, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Tx.
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Watkins sees N-waste battle
dump is completed in 1990 or 1991.
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Watkins said he had received a
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‘There’s no way I’ll accept any
Radioactive waste equivalent to
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Oct. 6,1989
Hereford goes for a sweep of defending state champion
Dumas at 3 p.m. Saturday at the HHS Gym.
and hip injuries while Debra Parker, 120 Quince, suffered
multiple lacerations to her face and a badly broken ankle, it
is learned from the investigating officer. Witherspoon was
admitted to Deaf Smith General Hospital. Parker was to be
transferred to Amarillo sometime today.
Two injured
Officers and emergency personnel prepare to transport one
of two victims of a major traffic accident which occurred at
9:20 a.m. today on Park Ave. near West Park Cemetery.
James W. Witherspoon, 1712 Plains, received neck, back
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“They think he can walk on
water,” he said.
Potter, known as “Maximum
Bob” for handing out lough prison
terms and fines, scheduled senten-
cing for Oct. 24.
On his release, Bakker waded
through a crowd of reporters to a
the radio reported. cited a possible figure of 10,000 to
The ZDF television said the 11,000.
In Prague, 200 East Germans left
Idaho had been storing part of
i the Rocky Hats waste, but Gov.
but Cecil Andrus closed his state’s
has been hampered by a scries of borders Sept. 1 to further shipments
environmental, technical and to protest the Energy Department’s
Pre-tour tour
Pete Holcombe, left, of Arrowhead Mills, Inc. recently gave a brief tour of facilities at the
plant to Mayor Wes Fisher, center left; Keith Ann Gearn, center right; and Donna West,
right, who were both there as representatives of the Chamber of Commerce. Arrowhead
Mills is included in a series of tours slated for Saturday as pan of a reception for new
families in the city of Hereford. The equipment being viewed is part of a new addition to
the plant which now permits the facility to process com flakes.
the people and use television and
the mails to get them to send you
money,” said prosecutor Deborah
Smith, a Justice Department fraud
specialist. “It doesn’t matter who saying his fraud had been preserved
you are or how well known you are, on videotapes of “PTL Club”
you simply can’t do it.” broadcasts in which Bakker appcal-
Bakkcr’s attorney said he would cd for SI,(XX) donations in exchange
appeal the verdict. for yearly slays at the retreat and
“We’ve lost a battle, but we’ll theme park near Fort Mill, S.C.
win the war,” lawyer George T.
Davis said. “There was so much
negative pretrial publicity that he between 1984 and
was unable to get a fair trial in this
community."
Bakker took off his glasses and
I stared straight ahead as the verdict
The government said more than
152,903 partnerships were sold
1987 when
Bakker had only 258 rooms avail-
able, and partners testified they
were able to use their lodging
benefits.
“some informal indications” from
unspecified slates that they might
consider dropping their opposition
if a multi-state agreement was
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welled with tears.
Outside the courthouse. Mrs.
Bakker serenaded a crowd of
hundreds with a verse of “On
Christ, the solid rock, I stand. All
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The
Hereford Brand
Hustlin' Hereford, home of Josie Martinez
Mexico would not be ready lo open 49 boxcar loads - about 4,900 cubic plutonium, which remains radioac-
by March, when Colorado’s unilat- yards - would have to find tempo- live for 240,000 years, cr.d :s
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their ministry. Bakker will be
required to meet with his probation
prison and S5 million in fines for officer daily.
Trial testimony showed PTL
paid S265.000 lo Jessica Hahn to
cover up a 1980 sexual encounter
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he's innocent
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Jim was read. His wife, Tammy Faye,
Bakker maintained his innocence sat quietly behind him; her eyes
and said he was “sad but encourag-
ed in God” after a jury found the
PTL founder guilty of using his
television ministry to bilk followers
of $158 million. , . .
“I went into this courthouse other ground is sinking sand,
several weeks ago saying I was
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rary storage over the next two years, generated at the Rocky Flats wca-
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1 retired nuclear
weapons and reprocesses it to make
Gardner that said, in
“Don’t look my way.”
other waste than what is already in jatcr, however, that he had received
this state for temporary storage,”
Carruthers said two weeks ago.
The waste is contaminated with
. if a multi-state agreement v.-~
and js reached to spread the waste burden.
train goes West
HELMSTEDT, West Germany aging hard-line leaders how they
(AP) - A train carrying hundreds of plan to handle the westward flight
East German refugees rolled across that is draining much of the East
their homeland to the West today, a Germany’s work force.
day after a similar exodus was Poland contributed two extra cars
disrupted by thousands trying to to a six-car East German train sent
board the freedom trains. to carry the refugees to West
Authorities said a train carrying Germany, which grants them
the 633 refugees, some chanting automatic citizenship and helps
“Deutschland!” pulled out of a them start new lives.
train station in Warsaw, Poland, late The train left Gdansk Station in
Thursday on a journey through northern Warsaw Thursday evening,
Poland and East Germany to West and West German railway officials
Germany. said the train had crossed into East
Those aboard had crowded West Germany by early today.
Germany’s embassy in Warsaw in Freedom trains that left Czecho-
hopes of joining more than 46,000 Slovakia brought 7,600 East Ger-
East Germans who have made their mans to the West Thursday after a
way through Hungary, Czcchoslo- trip plagued by delays and disrupted
vakia or Poland since mid-Scptcm- by a riot in Dresden, East Germany,
bcr. witnesses said.
West German radio and tclcvi- West German officials have not
sion reported early today that more said whether they overestimated
East Germans had entered the how many East Germans would join
embassy in Warsaw. “The number the exodus from Czechoslovakia’s
at the embassy is not yet known,” capital of Prague, having initially
the radio reported. cited a possible figure of 10,000 lo
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would-be emigres “heard the train in Prague, 200 East Germans left
had left, and arc also hoping to the West German Embassy late
emigrate.” Thursday and headed home with
The journey comes as East promises from their government of
Germany, deeply embarrassed by legal emigration within months,
the exodus, begins two days of Sources said about 10 East Germans
celebrations marking the communist still were inside the mission,
country’s 40th anniversary. Czechoslovak police used riot
Among those flying in to attend police to seal off the embassy from
the festivities is Soviet President more East Germans. East Germany
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who is restricted travel to Czechoslovakia
expected to ask East Germany’s earlier this week.
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a Colorado nuclear weapons plant Flats could be forced lo close. The
in several states until a permanent 364-acrc plant near Denver is a vital
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“People arc going to say, ‘Not in complex because it is the only scheduled to open
W1UkinS l01d wSeadf PlUt°niUm tri88CrS e^o^S^echnical and to protest ihe Energy Department’s
The retired admiral suggested he Watkins said he had not decided regulatory problems. Wre ItolaSilm Pr^St 'n""°n
• • • . Eddie Binder, a spokesman for Was*c isolation riiot rrojcct.
^TwMk’wi^slate^gwernore^tiiat Co^ New Mexico Gov. Garrey Carruth- Watkins said he had received a
ww* w.u> suuv 7 ers, said the governor’s position had letter from Washington Gov. Booth
of not changed. Gardner that said, in essence,
crucial Rocky Hats nuclear wca- the department’s main weapons There s no wav I 11 accent anv D°n t look my way. He added
pons plant operating. facilities. The two other nearest
Watkins told the Senate Energy states with nuclear weapons sites
and Natural Resources Committee a arc Texas and California.
permanent waste repository in New
2 2_ Then she said, “It’s not over till
innocent of the charges against it’s over.”
Later, U.S. District Judge Robert
Potter released Bakker on $250,000
out still innocent of the charges bond after expressing concerns that
r ™., hjs followers might try to help him
But the jury foreman said money flee the country.
corrupted Bakker, who prosecutors •••«,»., >hinc ™
said took $3.7 million in ministry
funds and spent it on vacation
homes, Rolls-Royce and Mercedes
cars and unusual luxuries like an
air-conditioned doghouse.
“He was called by God. But
eventually the money became too
much for him,” said Ricky Hill, waiting white Cadillac and said: “I
who said during jury selection that fccl sad but encouraged in God.”
he was a Christian. “We kept —1 -- — -
looking for something from the Orlando, Fla., where they moved
defense and we never saw it.”
Bakker faces up to 120 years in
his conviction on all 24 counts of
fraud and conspiracy. He was
charged with raising $158 million
by overselling lodging guarantees, wjth Bakker that led to his rcsigna-
callcd "lifetime partnerships,” at tion from PTL in 1987.
his Heritage USA retreat. “I’m sorry I don’t have a song to
“The message is you can’t lie to sjng like Tammy but I know this is
God’s amazing grace,” Ms. Hahn
said after the conviction.
Prosecutor Smith called Bakker
“the government’s star witness,”
Newcomer reception Saturday
Hcrcford-area newcomers will be the reception is a "test" for anyone ers on the 12-qucstion test will win reception at 2 p.m. on Saturday. The
treated to a reception and a tour of who would like to participate. The $50 in Hereford Bucks. The ans- tcst questions appeared in
points of interest in Hereford on person with the most correct answ- wers should be submitted at the Sunday s Brand.
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The newcomers’ committee of
the Deaf Smith County Chamber of
Commerce will host a reception for
new families at 2 p.m. Saturday at
the Hereford Senior Center.
The event will also include a
look at points of historical interest
and some of Hereford’s leading
industry.
The public is invited to attend
the reception, said Keith Ann
Gearn, chairman for the event, to
welcome new Hereford residents
and to participate in the tour if they
choose.
The tour will include Arrowhead
Mills at 2:30 p.m., M&W Carrot/-
Lifcsprouts at 3 p.m., and Hereford
Feed Yard at 3:30 p.m, the old
prisoner of war camp and chapel at
3:30 p.m. and the Deaf Smith
County Museum at 4 p.m.
Margie Daniels, director of the
Hereford Senior Citizens Associa-
tion, will give a glimpse of the
group’s activities and plans and a
look at Hereford as a future retire-
ment center.
Hereford’s car dealers will be
j providing transportation for the
newcomers, and anyone else who
would like to take part in the tours
is welcome.
Newcomers who have not yet
been contacted by the newcomer
committee should call the chamber
office at 364-3333.
An added incentive for attending
WASHINGTON (AP) - Energy orally imposed waste storage limit
bracing for stiff resistance to his Thus, temporary storage sites
me," a smiling Bakker said after
posting bond Thursday. “I come
against me. I put my faith in God.
plan to store radioactive waste from must be found by March 1 or Rocky tcrc^ *n completing the Waste ' .
pian io sioiu luuiuuvu . ----- / --------- Isolation Pilot Project near Carls- triggers for new ones.
bad. N.M.
The New Mexico repository was
1 a year ago
Watkins told Congress maker of plutonium triggers for 1 . .
warheads environmental, technical
Watkins said he had not decided regulatory ^problems.
would propose in a private meeting which states to approach. The most
seven states share the waste-storage Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada and
burden in the interest of keeping the Washington, which have some cf
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Brooks, John. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 68, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1989, newspaper, October 6, 1989; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1348551/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.