The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 41, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 29, 1982 Page: 3 of 32
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Our
People
Drum Heads
Drum Sticks
Music Books
Local Resident Wins Painting
David Alvarado, an employee of Plains In-
surance, won an original Western painting by
well-known Hereford artist Charles Lyles at
the Jubilee of Arts, held in the Community
TRUMPETS
DRUM KITS
SAXOPHONES
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Oboe Reeds
Bassoon Reeds
Happiness is...
a beautiful carpet
eye. the shape of the cornea is
not perfect, so the rays of
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Center last weekend. Pictured with Alvarado
is Norma Hendon, president of the Hereford
Fine Arts Association. (Brand Photo by Linda
Caudle).
If a cake it to be cut while hot, use unwaxed dental
floss instead of a knife.
and in a letter she wrote East
and another cellmate shortly
after her arrest.
The letter said. in part.
These white folks are trying
down to about one-fourth to
one-third of what we're used
to and this happens - bang'
— just like that "
We're going to have to
make some arrangement to
pay the bills, buy food and so
on - this is a shock and we
haven't adjusted to it yet.”
said Hulton's wife, Adele
McDonald's attorneys filed
their request to block
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Wise homemakers know that simple
housecleaning methods are not enough to insure
long lasting beauty and cleanliness.
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Guitar Strings
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ended Aug.
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the highest
rage of 612.
ring" which has been iden-
tified as belonging to Miss
Sears.
Miss Martin stood by her
testimony through grueling
cross-examination by court-
appointed defense attorney
Larry Robertson, although
she admitted she had lied in
five earlier sworn statements
artment said
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employment
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any other place in town!
We want you to feel welcome and wanted
here at our bank, and I think more of our
customers can sense the fact that a positive
attitude is alive here.
Smiles don't cost a thing here at our bank
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the retina. In the astigmatic changed.
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Ex-Girlfriend Turns State’s
Evidence Against 18-Year Old
to send me down for
something I didn't do ... I
don’t know what happened
that night because I was
home in bed.”
four pensions and turn them
over to a federal agency for
future administration
However, retired Braniff
Airways pilot W.P. McDonald
on Friday asked a federal
judge to block such a ruling,
saying Flowers does not have
jurisdiction to decide whether
Braniff can do away with its
pension plans.
Braniff suspended opera-
tions May 12 and filed for pro-
tection under Chapter 11 of
the Federal Bankruptcy Code
the next day. On Aug. 20, tlx
company asked permission U
reduce payments to pen-
sioners and, eventually, get
nd of its pension plans.
The Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corp., established
by Congress in 1974, said it
was prepared to assume
responsibility for the four
pension funds, but at reduced
benefits.
More than 100 former
Braniff employees crammed
into Flowers’ courtroom
Thursday and Friday as com-
pany officials testified reduc-
ing the pensioners' payments
was the only way to
guarantee all participants
would receive some payment
Braniff Treasurer and Vice
President Robert Ferguson
said liabilities of the four
funds far outstripped assets.
Under the Braniff proposal.
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WHAT IS ASTIGMATISM ?
QUESTION What is light do not come together at
astigmatism" I can barely the same point
pronounce it, can't unders- The fact that there are two
land it - but I have it. points of focus does not mean
ANSWER Astigmatism is that astigmatic people see
an optical error caused by a double The effect is simply a
variation in the shape of the blur if the astigamtism or
cornea The normal comea is discomfort from eyestrain is
shaped like a perfect bad enough, corrective lenses
hemosphere This makes the are the only solution since the
rays of light come together at error is in the shape of the
a single point on their way to cornea which cannot be
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Flowers’ ruling with U S.
District Judge Eldon Mahon,
who will be on vacation until
Monday
Meanwhile, the pension
benefit agency in Washington
said it would give former
Braniff employees an
unusual opportunity to com-
ment on the future of the pen-
sions plans, which represent
machinists, pilots and ex-
ecutives.
ABILENE, Texas APi — side to find East struggling
The capital murder case with the elderly artist.
against Wayne East took a “He took her into a
dramatic turn when a former bedroom and put her in a
girlfriend said she saw the chair. At first, he was mess-
-year-old defendant stab an ing with this drawer, then
elderly woman in the throat while she was in the chair, he
with a knife, then ransack her stabbed her in the neck.”
home for valuables to steal. When she saw the knife go
The state rested its case in her neck, it affected me
after Friday's testimony very badly My mind was
from Dee Dee Martin, 18. who blank like I was in shock,"
also had been charged with Miss Martin said.
murder in the Nov. 23 killing She said East sent her to
of Abilene artist Mary Eula the front door to gel nd of a
Sears, 77. visitor. She relumed to the
Miss Martin spent five bedroom to find East "digg-
hours on the witness stand ing through a dresser
after prosecutors offered her drawer" when Miss Sears
a plea-bargain. She agreed to looked up and asked for help
a 20-year prison term, with a That is when she left the
favorable probation recom- house, she said.
mendation, on a reduced Later that day, she said,
charge of burglary. she saw East carrying "a
She told the court she was wad of money and a diamond
in "shock or some kind of
daze" after she saw East
plunge a hunting knife into
Miss Sears’ neck as the elder-
ly woman sat in a chair
"Wayne had his left hand
over her mouth" and was
holding the knife at her
throat.
"Wayne cut her . with the
hunting knife . and hit her on
the side of the face," she
testified.
“Can you live with
whatever happens to Wayne
East, based on your
testimony?" special pro-
secutor Rusty Ormesher ask-
ed.
"Yes, sir. It's the truth."
she said.
The night before the inci-
dent. she said, she was with
East, whom she had known
for about a month and a half
They injected drugs and
drank beer, she said, and
later that night East told her
he was planning a bu. glary to
get more money for drugs
"The person was not sup-
posed to be home," she said.
The next morning, "about
sun-up," they went to the
Sears house, she testified
Miss Martin said she stayed
outside in the car until she
heard a scream. then went in-
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FORT WORTH, Texas retired pilots' monthly
I API — A bankruptcy judge checks would be cut from
is taking the weekend to $3,000 to $1,000. McDonald
ponder the proposed shut- said such sharp reductions,
down of Braniff International without prior notice, would
Corp s pension funds, but one work a hardship" on those
of the pensioners filed suit to involved.
try to keep him from ruling -We have enjoyed that
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge retirement for,
in my case,
I John Flowers promised a nil- for a year and a half," said
i ing by Tuesday after hearing retired Braniff pilot John
I two days of testimony in Hutton "Now. it's being cut
1 Braniff’s plan to dissolve its emmomm
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