The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 202, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1980 Page: 1 of 50
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Democrats Complain About Election Rule
Clements Says Texas Economy Strong
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Census Returns Better
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Requested by President
Government Falls
Companies Mum
In Liberian Coup
Formby New
On Price Freeze
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candidate Bill Sarpalius. The event, held at the
Community Center, also had several other
entertainers. Sarpalius emphasized that he was
off their
generators.
Officials
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
(AP) — As tourists danced
and sang by candlelight in
high-rise San Juan hotels.
Puerto Rican police probed a
possible terrorist link in the
blackout that plunged this
to ask for $25 million to finish
the once-every-10-year job.
The bureau had hoped to
get back 80 percent of the 86
million forms it sent out at
the end of March. But of-
ficials now predict returns
may hit 85 percent.
S By O.G. I Speedy I Nieman —
That feller on Tierra Blanca Creek says his neighbor has
been practicing patience-he goes fishing but doesn't use
bait.
National Guard forces.
Hotels, hospitals and San
Juan's international airport
ran some or all of their lights
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Erma Bombeck .
Newspaper Bible
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Senior Citizens provided special entertainment Friday night at
a fund-raising chili supper for State Senate
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80th Year, No. 202 Hereford, Teias, Sunday, April 13, 1980
seeking grassroots support. Approximately 400
people attended the $5-a-plate supper.
Hereford has two candidates in the Democratic
primary for the senatorial seat, with Gerald
McCathern being the other candidate.
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And then there were the two fishermen sitting on the
bridge with their lines in the water who decided to make a bet
on who'd catch the first fish. One of them got a bite on his line
and got so excited that he fell off the bridge.
"Oh, well." said the other, "if you're going to dive for
them, the bet's off!"
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America correspondent, who
said the coup leader was
identified on the radio as a
Staff Sgt. Matthew Doe.
During the broadcast, a
man identifying himself as
the sergeant said he was.
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By GARTH JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —
Texas Gov. Bill Clements
says unhappy Democrats
should go to court if they
think a decision by Secretary
of State George Strake will
hurt them at the May 3
primaries.
"I think we are doing more
or less what has been done in
the past," Clements, the
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Even more Americans are
returning their completed
census forms than the
government had hoped for.
So many, in fact, that the
Census Bureau says it is
dropping contingency plans
state might pick up.”
— He has no plans to see
GOP presidential candidate
Ronald Reagan on Reagan's
April 17-18 visit to Texas but
he understands Reagan
would visit him personalty
about April 24. Clements
said he was sure Reagan
knew he was neutral in the
Republican presidential race.
— He thought the people
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government "to eliminate
corruption." After he spoke
the radio went dead
great extent
island into darkness.
The lights went out across
the U.S. Caribbean com-
monwealth at 7:30 p.m. EST
Friday and hours later power
had been restored only at the
western end of the island.
emergency lighting in most
public areas of the hotel,
which was about 85 percent
occupied when the power
failed.
The guests took it in stride,
singing and dancing in the
halls and drinking and
playing games' by can-
dlelight. a hotel cashier said.
“They've been real good
sports about the whole
thing,” he added.
Other hotels on the resort
island reported similar good-
natured responses from their
guests.
Police reported a handful
of minor "smash and grab”
looting incidents in San Juan,
the capital, and there were
unconfirmed reports of
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scheduled to say next week if
there will be a change in his
previous stand.
Clemnts also said he felt
that Texas would be a
"bright spot” in any severe
national depresssion.
“I'm bullish about Texas.
I’m optimistic," he said.
He said Texas in the past
“has been immune to the
national economic factors to a
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state's first Republican
governor in 104 years, told a
news conference Friday.
Several Democratic county
chairmen gathered in Austin
Thursday to protest Strake's
ruling that election expense
funds appropriated by the
•1979 Legislature would be
dispensed according to voter
participation in the 1978
governor's race, when
Clements was elected over
Hilton said
Bank Deposits
Healthy Here
Total deposits in Hereford's two banks amounted to
almost $100 million at the close of business March 31. This
was up $12.9 million over the same time a year ago.
First National Bank showed total deposits $64.561.000 at
the end of March, up $6.9 million over a year ago. Loans
amounted to $43,195,000 -a figure which was down only
$172,000 from last year.
Hereford State Bank had deposits of $35,326,000 This
reflected an increase of $5.9 million over the same
reporting period last year. Loans were listed at
$22,563,000 an increase of about $1 million over last year.
Total deposits for the two banks was in excess of
$99,887,000 at the end of March. Deposits last year at the
same time were $86.9 million.
James Sears, presidentof First National Bank, thinks
the "attractive interest res" are a big reason for the
large increase in deposits. “Inflation is a part of it. too.
because it just takes more mpney to operate."
Jeff Carlile. HSB president pointed to the same factors,
adding that “profits from azgaroducts sure didn't eguse
the increase." He said time deposits had inseased much
more than demand deposits. Carlile said the banks may
have picked up some deposits ftom savings and loan
associations.
taking control of
Gov. Carlos Romero
Barcelo declared a state of
emergency and activated an
island-wide contingency
plan, that included callups of
off-duty police and firemen
and an alert for the island's
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Democrat John Hill.
Democratic Party officials
have claimed expenses
should be dispensed ac-
cording to the 1976
presidential election, when
Jimmy Carter carried Texas:
“I have no plans in that
direction.” Clements said
when asked if he planned to
change Strake's instructions.
Strake, who is studying the
Democratic complaints, is
Clements said some ex-
perts have predicted Texas'
economy may increase 50
percent by 1980. “It will
bring on problems but it also
will do much for our
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Despite President Carter's
personal request, chemical
company executives and a
spokesman for the industry's
trade group are refusing to
commit themselves to a
price freeze or to a post-
ponement of planned price
increases.
Emerging from a meeting
Friday at the White House
with Carter and several top
presidential advisers, the
head of the Washington-
based Chemical Manufac-
turers Association. Robert A.
Clint Formby of Hereford
was named president of the
Broadcast Education Asso-
ciation during the organiza-
tion's annual meeting in Las
Vegas. Nev., Friday.
The association is com-
posed of representatives
from broadcast journalism
departments of junior col-
leges. colleges and all major
universities.
Formby, owner-manager
of K PAN Radio, is also on the
board of regents at Texas
Tech University.
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IT’S BEEN A BUSY NEWS WEEK around Hereford, but
not all of the reports have been factual. There have been
plenty of rumors floating around in connection with several
happenings.
Although no formal announcement has been made by
Safeway, it appears the supermarket will be leaving Hereford
unless last-minute negotiations are worked out on the lease of
the building on E. Park Avenue. An informed source says that
is not likely to happen. There were plenty of rumors, too.
about the type of business that would move into the Safeway
building. However, no definite word was available on that
situation.
There have been numerous reports that a chain hamburger
store will be built here-in the site where an old house is being
razed near the intersection of Park Avenue and Hwy. 385. The
Brand has been unable to confirm that story.
An announcement is expected Monday on the sale of a
business to new owners here in Hereford. A new barber shop
is reportedly moving here, but no announcement has been
received from the Amarillo-based firm.
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WE'RE SURE THE FOOD STAMP program has been very
beneficial to some of our citizens in the United States, but
despite its good points the program must be of the greatest
boondoggles ever invented by politicians to get votes.
It started 10 years ago to help really needy persons.
temporarily--at a cost of $264 million.
Now. the food stamp program has grown beyond belief at
the expense of the taxpayers--now hitting a cost of $6.4
billion. The number of persons receiving food stamps has
jumped 449 percent to 17.7 million people.
Maybe you saw the AP article the other day where a
coalition of social activists claimed more than a million Texans
would go hungry and some might die if Congress doesn’t
pump $2.3 billion into the food stamp program.
Speakers for six organizations at the news conference
urged Texans to write their congressmen for support of the
money. These organizations are part and parcel of an
ever-growing subculture in this country that feeds, exists,
and keeps on expanding on grants from the federal
government.
It's hard to believe all these folks will be going hungry in a
state where unemployment hovers at the 3.5 percent rate and
employers all over are crying for more workers!
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economic activity," he said.
On other subjects,
Clements said:
— He had received no
more word on how a decrease
in revenue sharing funds
would affect Texas. "Sooner
or later we will have to
consider this but to say
anything now is premature.
We do not know which funds
will be cut and which the
By The Associated Press
A coup led by a national
guard staff sergeant toppled
the government of Liberian
President William Tolbert,
Liberia’s state radio said
Saturday.
There were unconfirmed
reports that Tolbert was slain
in the coup, the first in the
133-year history of the
African nation that was Tolbert, 66, was
feunded by former Am ericam dountry’s 19th presidamt i
elaves." was the curren presiden
The Liberian broadcast the Organization of Af
was monitored in Abijan. Unity which held its I
capital of the neighboring meeting in ‘
Ivory Coast, by a Voice of Liberak ca pit
“The public is responding
much more favorably than
many people thought they
would,” Deputy Census
Director Daniel B. Levine
said Friday.
While the actual rate of
return at the end of Thursday
was 83.9 percent. Census
Director Vincent Barabba
predicted the final figure
could top 85 percent.
All households except
those in sparsely populated
rural areas were asked to fill
out and mail the forms back
two weeks ago. Rural
Americans were asked to
keep the forms for collection
by census workers.
This response means the
bureau will not be asking for
a second $25 million sup-
plemental appropriation it
had contemplated
requesting, Barabba said.
The total cost of the census is
expected to be slighty more
than $1 billion, or about $4
for every American counted.
Deputy Commerce
Secretary Luther H. Hodges
Jr. said the mail-back rate
“directly determines the ...
cost of the foltow-up job.
A late winter continued.to- i
exert its presence in ihe-
Panhandle Friday night as an
arriving cold front brought I
snow flurries to the Panhan-
dle and South Plains and
touched off showers and
thunderstorms across South |
and Southeast Texas. " I
Snow fell in Hereford after I
9 p.m. Friday although there I
were no measurable accumu- |
lations. A report received i
from Dimmitt.’ however. ;
indicated that snow covered
the ground in that neighbor-
ing Castro County city.
Brief rainshowers accom-
panied by gusty' wind
followed the arrival of the
cold front, but only a trace of
moisture was received lo-
cally.
AWhile most of the effects of
tf local storm were fel in
the form of lower tempera l
ture and blustery winds a 1
lingering storm dumped
more than a foot of snow on I
the foothills east of Denver. J
and New Mexico officials
were reporting high winds
and snow.
Flooding was expected as a
result of the storm in
Mississippi.
Strong winds and heavy-
snow forced closure of
Interstates 25 and 40 in some
portions of New Mexico
Friday night and winds
fanned a forest fire out of
control near Cloudcroft,
where some 50 acres of pine
in the Lincoln National Forest
were reported burned.
In Texas, large hail was
reported in the Del Rio
vicinity.
The long-range forecast for
North Texas calls for mostly
fair conditions to return by
Monday with a warming
trend toward midweek.
Highs Monday in the
Panhandle are expected to be
near 60 ranging to the low
80's in the Big Bend country
Temperatures are expect-
ed to warm to the low 70's in
the Panhandle by Wednes-
day.
Lows in the area are
expected to be in the 30‛s
Monday.
The latest cold snap will
delay the soil warming
process in the area, with the
soil temperature already slow
in coming up this year.
A considerable degree of
crop planting activity in the
local area awaits warmer
subsoil temperatures.
of Texas were "fed up with
the namby-pamby policies of a
President Carter on Iran"
and Carter's latest efforts
would do nothing to free the
hostages in Tehran
Clements repreated previous
statements that if the U.S.
blockaded the Persian Gulf to
cut off all transport of oil
from Iran. “this is the only
thing that would make them
release the hostages.”
similar outbreaks in three
other cities. Some shooting
also was heard in the
darkened streets of the
capital, but no casualties
were reported.
About 200 families were
evacuated from their homes
in the Tokio district of south-
western San Juan because of
a gas leak at an ice cream
factory and a fire nearby.
A spokesman for the state-
owned Electric Energy-
Authority said early today
that the cause of the blackout
had not been established, but
efforts were underway to re-
start the island's generators.
Although. power was
restored at the western end
of the island, there was no
official word when all of
Puerto Rico's 3 million
residents would have then-
power back.
reasonable that Texas
would not feel the effects of a
deep recession as severely as
the rest of the country. Our
economy may be the
strongest in the nation.”
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The Hereford Senior Citizens
Roland, refused to say
whether any of the com-
panies represented might do
as Carter asked and
voluntarily reduce price hikes
to help the administration
fight inflation.
He did tell reporters,
however, that “the con-
census ... was we will
continue to do everything we
can" to stay within existing
anti-inflation guidelines.
During a brief portion of
the session open to
reporters. Carter told the
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Sims, Paul. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 202, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1980, newspaper, April 13, 1980; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1422139/m1/1/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.