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White delighted by two
PUC panel resignations
Brand
The Hereford
Hustlin’ Hereford,
home of Jimmy Bell
12nd Year, No. 160. Hereford, Ti Deaf Smith County
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Working Together
See HU ACK Page 2)
Woman battles
Soviet missile test fuels debate
Unemployment up
almost everywhere
unemployment
rate
Hinckley back
at hospital
Motion seeks dismissal
of murderer's indictment
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Wednesday
Feb. 16, 1983
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.4 member of most families in
Hereford and Deaf Smith County
The West Texas Vegetable Conference here
Tuesday was where Gary Matthews, left, of
the Burroughs Corp in Amarillo and Fred
Stevens of Stevens Data Systems in Portales.
N M . could show off their hardware and soft-
ware Their joint exhibit on farm computer
advantages was one of several at the Com-
munity Center for the 105 vegetable growers to
WASHINGTON AP -
Unemployment rose in nearly
90 percent of the nation's ma-
jor metropolitan areas during
1982. Labor Department
figures show
Nowhere was joblessness
higher than in Johnstown,
Pa , where depressed condi-
tions in the steel and allied in-
dustries sent that city's
charges that the Soviets may
be preparing to violate the
agreement
Intelligence sources said
late last year the United
States had evidence that the
Soviets were developing four
types of advanced land-based
missiles
Two were described as pro-
bably unproved versions of
current Soviet weapons, the
powerful and highly -accurate
Ss-18sandSs-19s
A third missile mentioned
by the intelligence sources at
the tune was the medium-
sized solid-fuel missile tested
in October The fourth missile
they discussed was identified
as a small solid-fuel weapon,
which appears to fit the
description of the missile
reported tested last week
The Soviets long have
powered their land-based and
submarine-launched
strategic missiles with liquid
fuel while the United States
switched to solid fuel about 20
years ago
Missile specialists say solid
fuel is more reliable, less cor-
rosive. safer to handle and re-
quires less maintainance
housewife for the panel.
The governor said he called
PUC Chairman Moak Rollins
and asked him "if I should
wait for the mail or did he
have something to tell me."
Id like to be batting 3-0 to-
day That would be fine."
White told reporters
Rollins said he's not ready
to go now, but would not talk
about his future plans
"I don't believe the gover-
nor asked me to resign I did
have a conversation with him
today and he asked what my
intentions were I responded I
didn't think it was necessary
for me to make any choices at
this tune," said Rollins, who
has 2% years remaining on
histerm.
Asked if he would quit
before his term ended, be
said. I won't respond to that
question "
The governor blames the
commission for Texas' in-
creasing electric. water and
telephone rates In January ,
he asked lawmakers to
change the PUC to an elected
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By CAM ROSSIE Associated
Press Writer
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico
(AP A former Iranian Air
Force pilot who blamed
America for turmoil in his
homeland calmly threatened
to blow up a Rio Airways
plane he commandeered but
had to scuffle with soldiers
before he took control,
passengers said
Everybody was pretty
calm because he was pretty
calm after a while said Sgt
Baron Liggins, 24. of In-
dianapolis. one of those
aboard during Tuesday's hi-
jacking
Hussein Shey Kholya. 37,
demanded to be flown to
Cuba, but laggins and 15
other passengers, two flight
attendants and two pilots
were freed unharmed several
hours later, after the plane
had been diverted to the air-
port at this Mexican city, just
across the border from
Laredo, Texas
Rio Airways' Flight 252 was
seized Tuesday morning
halfway through its one-hour
flight to Dallas from the .Ar-
my town of Killeen in Central
Texas
The hijacker assembled a
submachine gun after taking
it from a briefcase and ap-
At Cowden's surprise an-
nouncement. made at an
Austin Rotary Club luncheon,
the commissioner defended
his efforts:
“Those who think it's easy
to work out these problems,
those who froth at the mouth
to be appointed to this com-
mission will have that oppor-
tunity," said Cowden
"I can hardly wait for our
rates to go down," he crack-
ed.
Cowden later said ne was
quitting because he is "tired
of irresponsible statements,
of folks saying things they
don't know what they're talk-
ing about "
“I've decided the best thing
to do was let somebody else
try to do it for a while," he
said. "I guess it's an ac-
cumulation of a lot of things. I
just have kind of grown tired
of it. I decided it was tune to
go."
Smith, appointed last year
by Gov Bill Clements, said
he was leaving because there
(See PUC, Page 2)
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Iranian winner in scuffle.
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more than 120 days after the
offense
District Judge James Clack
set a pre-trial hearing on the
motion for 9am Friday
Sharp, 28. is accused of kill-
ing Brenda Kay Broadway
after abducting her and her
two daughters from a Kermit
car wash
The former toolpusher was
convicted in Lubbock on Nov-
17 and sentenced to life in
prison for the murder at
Christie Elms. 8 The bodies
of Ms Broadway and her
daughter were found in
shallow graves near the
Winkler-Ector County line
Liggins. a soldier stationed
at Fort Hood, near Killeen,
had just been transferred to
Germany and was on his way
to Dallas for a connecting
flight to St. Louis.
laggins. sitting two rows
behind the man later iden-
tified as Kholya. was
unaware that the man had
just told flight attendant
Katie Springer. "I have a
bomb.' But he and two other
Army men leaped to their
feet and began fighting the
man after they saw him
strike the other attendant.
Conna Hallmark, on the head
when, after alerted by Ms
Springer she turned to move
quickly to the rear of the
skyrocketing to 22.7 percent
of the labor force in
December in contrast,
joblessness was only 4.0 per-
cent of the labor force in
Stamford. Conn
The largest over-the-year
nse in unemployment, based
on the Bureau of Labor
Statistics report, was in West
Virginia, heart of the Ap
palachia coal-mining coun
try The jobless rate in that
state spurted to 17.8 percent
in December compared t<
10.0 percent at the same time
a year earlier
The report showed that bet-
ween December 1981 and last
December, unemployment
rates rose in all states except
Alaska. Delaware and
Maryland Joblessness was
at double-digit levels in 107 of
the 210 metropolitan areas
surveyed
Some 45,000 members of
the United Mine Workers,
many of them residents of
West Virginia, have been laid
off, and union president
Richard Trumka is pushing
for government programs to
return the miners to their
jobs
Altogether, twenty-two
states had double-digit
joblessness in December up
from nine a year earlier
KERMIT. Texas AP
The state's attempt to
strengthen a capital murder
case through a re-indictment
of Michael Eugene Sharp in
the June 11. 1982 stabbing
death of a Kermit woman has
brought a protest from
Sharp's attorney
Glen Williamson. appointed
last month to represent
Sharp, filed a motion seeking
dismissal of the latest indict-
ment on grounds it violates
the state's Speedy Tnal Act
Williamson. an Andrews
lawyer, noted that the
Winkler County grand jury
action last Nov 24 came
NRA opposes
ban on bullets
one of the sources
The missile propelled four
warheads, the sources said it
was not known how many
warheads were aboard the
missile that failed in October
The text of a letter signed
by then-Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance, submitting the
SALT II treaty to President
Carter on June 21, 1979, says
the treaty permits each par-
ty to flight test and deploy on-
ly one new type of it BM
Last December, State
Department spokesman Alan
Romberg said that if the
Soviets begin to test another
new type of ICBM this would
conflict with the terms of
SALT II
While there was no formal
comment from either the
State or Defense depart-
ments. officials cautioned
against jumping to the con-
clusion that the Soviets have
violated the SALT agree-
ment. to which the Reagan
administration has said it will
abide so long as the Soviets do
likewise
Speaking privately . State
Department officials said
they were not aware of any
"There’s an old saying
about heat and the kitchen
and maybe that's what hap-
pened." White said of the
resignations. His initial reac-
tion was. "I think it's
delightful."
The two new PUC members
will include one old one and
the housewife White promis-
ed during his campaign
Al Erwin, 38. of Houston
was an original member of
PUC, appointed by Gov
Dolph Briscoe when the com
mission went to work in 1975
WASHINGTON < AP -
John W Hinckley Jr ,
recovered from his third ap-
parent attempt at suicide
since he shot President
Reagan, is back at St
Elizabeths Hospital under
24-hour watch by attendants
Wayne Pines, a spokesman
for the institution, said Hin-
ckley was returned to the
ward where he had been
before he swallowed a toxic
substance Sunday Pines
declined to say what Hinckley
had taken that caused him to
fall semi-conscious from his
bed
Hinckley has been confined
to St Elizabeths since he was
acquitted last June on
grounds of insanity in the
shooting on March 30. 1981 of
Reagan, his press secretary.
James Brady, a Secret Ser-
vice agent and a Washington
policeman
’dozer, and wins
; AUSTIN. Texas AP - When Dorothy Richter saw i
what a bulldozer had done to her beloved pecan tree, all
she could think of was stopping it in its tracks, which se i
did.
She planted herself in front of the bulldozer and refused
to budge
"I told the foreman that I was not going to let them
work. " Mrs Richter told the Austin American-Statesman
Tuesday I told them. You re not going to take another
cupful of dirt away from here
When they kept coming, I got in front of the machine I ;
said. I mean what I say You'll have to scoop me up.
too .'"
The workers were building a parking lot Monday on the
east side of Fire Station No. 9 at the comer of 43rd Street
and Speedway as part of a renovation project While
preparing to pour asphalt, the workers cut into the tree's
roots. I
The huge tree, listed on the City Registry of Trees, is the
biggest pecan tree in Hyde Park and perhaps the city,
Mrs Richter said.
Mrs Richter, 62. one of the founders of the Hyde Park
Neighborhood Associatin, learned of the parking lot con-
struction Monday and went to investigate ;
It just made me ill to see what they had done," said
Mrs Richter, who fears the tree may have been ir- '
reparably damaged When she realized the workers in- '
tended to pour asphalt, she deeded to stop them
How was the tree going to get its future nourishment?"
shesaid. "I am concerned about the future of that tree '
While workers took a lunch break, she convinced
several city officials to meet her at the fire station to talk;
about the situation
But by the time she returned to the construction site, the
crew was preparing to begin work once again That's'
when Mrs Richter made her stand in the bulldozer’s path
I didn't know what else to do," she said it wasn t
very dramatic ,
The foreman was very nice, she said He kind of kid-
ded me He asked me if I would feed him when he was out
of work "
When city officials arrived, they decided to call off work
on the parking lot until they had studied the matter
'' I hope we haven t damaged the tree,'' said James Pet-
ty. assistant administrator of the Fire Department That
certainly wasn't our intention
At Mrs Richter's suggestion,city planners are exaining
cost estimates of alternative parking lot surfaces that
might be acceptable to her and her neighbors. Petty said
The woman led a fight in the early 1970s to stop the city
from closing the fire station
The station and that tree are a rallying point for the en-
tire Hyde Park area, said Mrs Richter Every October,
the neighborhood holds a festival underneath the tree to
celebrate the victory in keeping the fire station open, she
i said
But if the city decides to proceed with construction of
the parking lot, It won't be without a fight
Mrs Richter, who says the incident illustrates the need
for an ordinance to protect trees, said she won I be the on-
ly one standing in front of the bulldozers if they show up
again
"I wouldn't have been the only one out there Monday if
we had realized what was going on,” she said
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But, he wants clean sweep
since the overthrow of the
late Shaw Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi in January 1979 and
it has been fighting a border
war with Iraq since
September 1980
He wanted to prove his
point He was an Iranian, he
said He asked for no money
He made it clear he had no
regard for his own life.
Flores said.
He threatened to blow up
the plane if his demands were
not met, but I didn't think
he'd do it,” the co-pilot add-
ed.
The flight was above Lake
Whitney, about 75 miles north
of Killeen, when trouble
began aboard Rio Airways'
DCH-7, a turbo-prop De
Havilland
The bureau's unemploy-
ment rates were calculated
from raw labor force
statistics in the 50 states and
the District of Columbia.
Joblessness in Alabama,
Arizona and Nevada,
likewise, soared by four
percentage points or more
from December 1981 to
December 1962
Those figures compared
with a seasonally unadjusted
national unemployment rate
that jumped 2.2 percentage
points — from 8.3 percent to
10.5 percent over the same
12 months
proof) vest at five feet."
Chambers said
I don't know of any sport-
sman that wants to kill a
police officer," added
Richard Behan. director of
the Texas State Rifle Associa-
tion
The bills by Reps IJoyd
Criss. D-La Marque, and Bill
Ceverha, R-Richardson, were
sent to subcommittee A
similar bill has been approv-
ed by a Senate committee
Richardson Police Sgt
DE Golden told the commit-
tee that teflon-coated bullets
can penetrate bullet-resistant
vests worn by police, and we
do not get paid to take un-
necessary risks This is a
very real threat to our
safety”
Jerry Spain representing a
policeman's organization,
said The bullet simply does
no good for anybody "
Austin Police Chief Frank
Dyson, who showed results of
tests on the teflon-coated
bullets, said the ammunition
is a dangerous threat to of-
ficers "It's made for one pur-
pose and one purpose only."
he said
see Speakers on all areas of vegetable farm-
ing updated growers on latest production
trends The conference was sponsored by the
Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Deaf
Smith County Extension Vegetable Crops Pro-
gram Planning Committee, Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas
Tech University.
peared to be carrying a
Molotov cocktail-type bomb
in the pocket of his "jungle-
like" pants, the co-pilot said
Kholya. accompanied by
two immigration officials,
flew on a Lear jet late Tues-
day afternoon from Nuevo
Laredo to Mexico City, where
officials said they were seek-
ing to have him accepted by
one of the countries he
wanted to go. They said they
had guaranteed him safe con-
duct out of Mexico
A statement from Mexico's
Intenor Ministry identified
Kholya as a former Air Force
pilot and an Iranian activist
who had opposed the late
Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi
The hijacker told Rio Air-
ways chief pilot Michael
McNeil and co-pilot Frank
Flores he hijacked their
plane because he wanted
Americans to be made aware
of what was going on in Iran.
Kholya produced three
copies of a statement that
said 26,000 Iranians have
been killed for no cause" and
said he would blow up the
plane unless the statement
was distributed to the
American news media,
Flores said
Iran has been in turmoil
Erwin. a former reporter,
quit in 1979 and has written a
book and worked in public
relations since then He will
replace Cowden, also a
Briscoe 1975 appointee
Smith will be replaced by
Peggy Rosson, 47. an El Paso
houswife who serves on that
city's Public Utility-
Regulatory Board Last year.
White slammed Gov Bill
Clements for saying there
was not a housewife in Texas
qualified to serve on the PUC.
White promised to find a
AUSTIN AP i A bill to
prohibit possession of cop-
killer bullets should be re-
jected by Texas lawmakers
because the legislation also
would encompass ammuni-
tion used by sportsmen for
hunting and target practice, a
legislative panel has been
told
A spokesman for the Na-
tional Rifle Association
testified Tuesday that his
organization agrees with the
danger that teflon-coated
bullets pose to policemen,
even with bullet-resistant
vests
Herb Chambers of Gran-
bury said the bill should in-
clude the brand name of the
bullet that law enforcement
officers are most concerned
about
1 wo bills being considered
by the House Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee
refer to ammunition which
can penetrate a specific
thickness if bullet-resistant
material
The writing of the bill is
the danger here it includes
■n awful lot of other ammuni-
tion that is around Birdshot
will go through a bullet
By KEN HERMAN
Assoctated Press Writer
AUSTIN (AP) - Gov.
Mark White delighted that
his criticism of the Public
Utility Commission helped
persuade two members to
quit, now wants the lone re-
maining commissioner to
leave
White look only four hours
to find replacements for
George Cowden and T G
Smith, who told the governor
Tuesday they will leave PUC
on March !
commission He said the ap-
pointed commission has
become a “captive hand-
maiden" of utility com-
panies
"Were going to tighten the
reins on these utility com-
panies and let them quit runn-
ing roughshod over the people
of Texas," he said after the
resignations
After announcing his ap-
pointments. White would not
promise lower rates, but said.
We’re going to have honest
utility bills "
WASHINGTON AP
The lest 'f a new Sov let inter-
continental ballistie missile,
reported by U S intelligence
sources seems likely to kin-
dle debate over whether
Mose a is trying to cheat n
the unratified SALT II
nui leaf arms limitation trea
ty
The intelligence sources
said Tuesday that a small
missile powered by solid fuel
and launched Feb 8 from
Plesetsk appears to be a new
weapon with a number of
characteristics different
from what they described as
a Soviet medium-sized solid
fuel missile tested last Oc-
tober
The medium-sized missile
was re ported to have failed in
the October test
According to the sources,
who spoke on condition they
remain anonymous, a
preliminary analysis sug-
gests the Feb 8 launch may
have been the first successful
test of a second new Soviet
ICBM
It was a missile we
haven t seen before," said
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