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More hearings scheduled
DOE to make site nominations
soon
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DOE spokesperson here tonight
Brand
The Hereford
Candidates offer
views at forum
Opposes federal jail standards
County passes pair of resolutions Monday
Blue law battle
opens
HISD sets
Police arrest
I
set for senate vote April 6
(See PUC, Page 2)
Sarpalius named
to committees
Getting Ready
Kiwanians Truman Hazelrigg i left) and Dean
Herring were busy early this morning getting
items staightened out for the club's annual
Mop and Broom Sale, which is being held at
the Price Less parking lot today and Wednes-
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Tuesday
March 29, 1983
82nd Year, No. 189. Hereford, Ti. Deaf Smith County
RON
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AUSTIN (AP) - The 1983
battle of the Blue Law opened
with echoes of arguments
from years gone by, plus an
emotional plea by a man who
blames his daughter's death
on the monkeys pushing
for legalized Sunday shopp-
ing.
Harold Marshall, a Dallas
salesman, said the forces
working for repeal of the Blue
Law are raping our school
system" by making students
work late and weekend hours
These monkeys are work-
ing kids unconscionable
day. All items in the sale were made by the
Lighthouse of the Blind, and proceeds will go
to benefit local charities. (Brand Photo).
Mississippi, and the Vacherie Salt
Dome in Louisiana, Bennett said
He said the hearings have been ter
tatively scheduled for April 25 in Tulia
and Hereford and April 26 in Austin.
Texas; April 28 in Richton and April
29 in Jackson, Miss.; May 3 in Mun
ticello and May 4 in Salt Lake City.
Utah, and May 10 in Minden, lai.
In Texas, the energy departmen
has delayed action on a recommenda
tion by a private contractor that a
16-square mile area of Deaf Smith
County be proposed for nomination
Bennett said.
Bennett said the department had
been prepared to accept the recom-
mendation but changed course aftei
Texas objected that more time was
needed before reaching a decision. He
said Texas wanted broader areas of
both Deaf Smith and Swisher counties
considered during the hearings.
money-changer
have been tentatively scheduled in the
four states to obtain citizen comment
on the proposed nominations.
Bennett said letters are expected to
be sent out this week informing gover-
nors of the four states of the pro-
stable in all Texas counties
with less than 30,000 popula-
tion.
The Deaf Smith County of-
ficials felt that the present
system of allowing each coun-
ty governmental body to set
up those districts was better
than the proposed change,
and their action supported a
resolution drawn up recently
Hustlin’ Hereford.
home of Marilyn Brazell
AUSTIN I API - A com-
promise bill that would keep
the Public Utility Commis-
sion a three-member ap-
pointed body has been ap-
proved by the Senate State
Affairs Committee and set for
Senate debate April 6
The 134 vote Monday was
in opposition to Gov. Mark
White's frequent demands for
an elected PUC.
White has said he will per-
sonally lobby with senators
and representatives before
the measure is debated and
may take his campaign to the
public via radio and televi-
sion.
The compromise bill, which
makes numerous changes in
PUC operations, was approv-
ed after 10 days of negotia-
tions among legislators, con-
sumer representatives and
by the Panhandle County
Judges and Commissioners'
Association opposing the
measure
In other action Monday the
court heard a presentation
concerning optional in-
surance coverage for county
employees The court approv-
ed the presentation of plans
offered by the American
sideration as the nation's first perma-
nent repository for high-level nuclear
waste, an energy official says
William Bennett, director of the
department's geologic repository
division, said Monday that hearings
posals.
The department has already pro-
posed nominating sites in Washington
state and Nevada as possible loca-
tions for the repository
Under a 1982 law, five sites must be
nominated nationwide for further
detailed studies, to be reduced to
three by January 1985.
However, the department is plann-
ing to dramatically accelerate that
schedule and recommend by next fall
the three sites for detailed study
Following the studies, the president
must by March 1987 choose the site for
the first repository, a deep
underground mine where high level-
nuclear waste would be stored for
thousands of years.
Seven sites have been under con-
sideration in Texas, Utah. Mississippi
and Louisana.
Bennett said the department had
originally hoped to propose three of
At POWER meeting
them for nomination before the hear-
ings. to complement the two sites pro-
posed in Washington and Nevada. But
he said final guidelines for the site
selection process have not been com
pleted.
We had been prepared to make a
recommendation on three- sites i
earlier until it became clear to us that
the process laid out by the (law) real-
ly required us to wait until we had the
guidelines, and rightly so," said Ben-
nett.
So he said hearings would be held to
receive comment on all seven sites
and a decision made on which to
nominate after the site selection
guidelines are finalized
The sites are in Swisher County and
Deaf Smith County in Texas, at Davis
Canyon and Lavender Canyon in
Utah, at the Richton Salt Dome and
the Cypress Creek Salt Dome in
A former boyfriend went to
his ex-girl's home and knock-
ed out the windshield of her
car, then went to her sister's
house and did the same to her
vehicle.
Police also had three small
theft reports, a criminal
mischief call, and a domestic
case
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on emotional level
In the city races Wes
Fisher is unopposed for
Mayor, while Melvin Jayroe
is also unopposed for the
Place 1 city commission seat
Incumbent Ed Coplen faces
challenger Lynn Jones for the
Place 2 commision position
Anti-White PUC measure
Local voters will get the op-
portunity to meet those per-
sons running for publie office
tonight when the Deaf Smith
County Chamber of Com-
merce's Legislative Affairs
Committee hosts a Meet the
Candidates' night at the
community center
The event is set to begin at 7
pm, according to committee
chairman Dr Milton Adams
All city, school, and hospital
board candidates in the
Saturday, April 2 election
have been invited lu attend to
present their views Each
candidate will be allowed to
make a statement regarding
their qualifications and
plans, if elected.
Time will also be set aside
for questions from the crowd
from among those who sub-
mitted questions in written
form to the chamber of com-
merce
Candidates in the school
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three co-authors of the com-
promise. The others are Sens.
Kent Caperton. D-Bryan, and
Loyd Doggett, D-Austin.
"I assure you it took a lot of
give and take on all sides."
Farabee said. "No one can
say: 'I won it.’ ”
All major attempts to
amend the negotiated com-
promise in Monday's com-
mittee session failed.
An amendment by Caper-
ton to make PUC a three-
member body, elected
statewide, failed 2-10.
Another amendment, by
Doggett. for a six-member
commission elected from
geographic areas failed 3-9.
An amendment by Sen
Hugh Parmer, D-Fort Worth,
to have a six-member ap-
utility companies
The bill would create a
public counsel to represent
residential consumers, and
some small businesses, in
rate cases before the PUC.
It also would prohibit
automatic fuel cost adjust-
ment clauses, another prime
issue in White's campaign for
governor
The bill does not include
regulation of the new
telecommunications in-
dustry. which handles mostly
long distance telephone calls,
and it leaves all regulation of
natural gas rates to city
governments, with appeals to
the Texas Railroad Commis-
sion.
This is a product of input
from all different segments."
said Sen. Ray Farabee.
D-Wichita Falls, who is one of
Hereford police made an
arrest and have another pen-
ding after two men pulled a
money-changing scheme on a
third man The trick involved
a staged argument and recon-
cilliation, while one man ask-
ed the innocent party to hold
some money When the two
men left, the third man found
some of his money missing
and the handkerchief sup-
posedly containing the money
was full of newspaper
On Monday's blotter
police:
-Filed a report on 3400 of
tires and wheels stolen from
the back of a pickup parked in
the 460 block of Avenue G.
-Checked a residence at
452 Avenue F where a door
was broken.
-Went to 307 Bradley for a
complaint about a knocked
out windshield.
-Checked a civil dispute
between a landlord and a te-
nant
-Investigated a city acci-
dent. resulting in the arrest of
a person for driving while in-
toxicated.
During the weekend, police
arrested a shoplifter at
Thriftway, Fifth and Main,
and the subject was found to
be in possession of a controll-
ed substance.
A man lost 34 800 in tools
and a toolbox while his pickup
was parked at a local church.
Linda McClain of the
Department of Energy
i DOE i will be the featured
speaker when People Oppos-
ed to Wasted Energy
Repositories i POWER i holds
an informational meeting
beginning at 8 p.m. tonight at
the community center Ms
McClain is expected to pro-
vide an update of activities by
the DOE as the search for
repositories of high-level
nuclear waste continues.
She will also be available to
answer questions posed by
those in the audience
POWER, headed by Dr Tim
Revell, was organized here
recently in a move to oppose
the location of such a
repository in Deaf Smith
County or the immediate
area.
The organization presented
views by Steve Frishman of
the Texas Energy and
Natural Resources Advisory
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special
meeting
A special meeting has been
called by the Hereford in
dependent School District
board to consider two items
Business will begin at 6 30
p.m Thursday in the ad-
ministration bulling
The board will conduc t a
hearing for several expelled
students wishing to return to
school and call for bids for
razing of a house on the cor
ner of Union and Whiteface
The house lot will be used
for parking space
board race include in-
cumbents James Gentry and
Paul Ramirez, along with
Dale Pierson, Cal Jones.
Trini Gamez, and Marilyn
Culpepper Those six persons
are seeking one of two HISD
seats available, while Paul
Mason is unopposed to fill out
the unexpired term of former
trustee Bobb) Greigo
Hospital board candidates
include incumbents Dr
Gerald Payne and Eddie
Reinauer. Jr , along with
challengers Dr. Charles
Allison and Jud) Neumayer
Three openings exist in the
hospital board election
in other matters Monday
the court
-Purchased a pick-up truck
for Pct. 4 from Stagner-
Orsborn Buick. Pontiac.
GMC for $9,052. The only
other bid submitted was for
$9,3)4.53 from Stevens
Chevrolet.
-Approved a request from
James Fangman to cross a
county road in Pct 4 with a
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Council TEN RAC i at their
meeting last Tuesday
Frishman said then that
one of TEN RAC’s goals is "to
slow down" the DOE, which
has indicated that it will ac-
celerate its timetable for the
selection of the location of the
first repository
According to an Associated
Press story today , the DOE
will soon propose nominating
sites in Texas. Utah,
Mississippi, and Louisiana
it was ann unced that tht
DOE plan hearings in
Hereford and Tulia on April
25 lu gather public comment
on the possibility of the
repository being located in
either Deaf Smith or Swisher
County
BY BOB NIGH
MANAGING EDITOR
Deaf Smith County officials
passed a couple of resolutions
Monday and took a stand on a
proposed constitutional
amendment when the com-
missioners' court met in
regular session at the cour-
thouse
The count) fathers passed
a resolution okaying the par-
ticipation of the city of Follett
in the Panhandle Regional
Housing Finance Corpora-
tion. and approved another
resolution backing interven-
tion by the Texas Association
of Counties • TAC • concerning
federal standards being im-
posed upon Texas jails
The second measure ap-
proved support of the TAC ac-
tion in the form of $500 to help
pay for the legal battle to be
taken up by that association.
The county fathers felt that a
move to have federal jail
standards binding on county
jails is not in the best interest
of local governments.
The court went on record
opposing HJR 91, which
would ammend the constitu-
tion to provide for one justice
of the peace and one con-
for such consideration The
DOE has already proposed
sites in Nevada anu
Washington for lo at ion of a
repository
Family Life Assurance Com-
pany to county employees,
provided the presentations
were done by county time
The court also heard a
presentation from I Jen Ser-
vices representative Ray
Robi Robi proposed his
finn's bacteria control" ser-
vice in the courthouse s
restrooms at an annual cost
water conservation pro-
grams
in addition. Sarpalius has
been appointed as a member
of the Agriculture and Rural
Development Committee and
the Southern Growth Policies
Board of the Southern
legislative Conference. Sar
palius will be working as a
liaison for Congressional
Districts 13 and 19 it will pro-
vide a quick response
mechanism for state and
federal issues of concern to
Texas
I am very pleased with the
appointments." Sarpalius
said it provides us with a
great opportunity to address
the most pressing state and
federal policies which need
our attention I look forward
to serving on the committees
and working on the issues
that will affect all of us
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20 Cents
of $4,438.
The commissioners agreed
to consider the expense when
they begin preparing the
county's 1983-84 budget over
the next few months
The court received an early
invitation to ride in the Town
& Country Jubilee parade,
which will be held Aug 13 by
Jubilee co-chairman Sallie
Strain. Mrs. Strain also said
that preliminary plans call
for this year's county fair to
be held in the community
center instead of the bull barn
as in the past in order to have
that activity located closer to
other jubilee events, which
are concentrated in the
Dameron Park and com-
munity center area.
The court was spared
another round of discussion
on the use of the Bull Barn
when Margaret Formby,
representing the Hall of
Fame Rodeo Association,
was unable to make the
meeting due to an out-of-town
commitment Mrs Formby
was scheduled to make a re-
quest regarding the use of the
Bull Barn for a dance by her
organization in August
hours," he told the House border counties
Committee on State Affairs Despite the impressive
on Monday prediction. Ceverha said.
The committee is looking at Right now. we don't have
several bills aimed at repeal- the votes" to get his bill out of
ing the law banning the sale committee. All the Blue Law
of 42 items on both days of a repeal bills were referred to a
weekend As in past years, subcommittee Monday
witnesses for repeal said the Committee member Gene
1961 law is an unfair restne- Green. D-Houston. said Blue
tion on free trade, and Law opponents should con-
witnesses who like the law centrate on revision rather
said it provides a needed day than repeal, because,
of rest "Repeal is probably not going
Despite testimony that no to happen this session and
employees would be forced to maybe not next session "
work Sundays if the stores Anti-Blue Law witnesses
opened. Marshall said including a judge who ruled it
workers — particularly unconstitutional - said the
students — would have no law is archaic.
choice. State District Judge Dee
He said his 16-year-old Brown Walker of Dallas, who
daughter died in a car wreck struck down the law, called it
after being forced to work a "continual irritant to the
late hours in a Dallas super- people" of a "a 24hour,
market seven-day society " Walker's
These yahoos would run ruling is on appeal. a process
over their own grandmothers that could drag on for two
for a dollar," he said of the years.
anti-Blue Law forces. Robert Goodfriend, a
"There's ample hours to Dallas lawyer who fought the
shop now Who is having trou- Blue Law in court, said his
ble finding enough time to clients are baffled by the law
spend money", "he asked "What you have done is
Rep Bill Ceverha. make legitimate business
R-Richardson, said he got his men in this state operate in
repeal bill to the House floor continuous legal peril," he
in 1961, where it was narrow- testified
ly defeated This year. armed Goodfriend also argued
with an impressive fiscal that the intent of the law has
note, he's trying a local op- become a reason to repeal it.
tion repeal bill The statute says the intent is
Comptroller Bob Bullock s to promote the health,
fiscal note on the Ceverha bill recreation and welfare" of
says legalized Sunday shopp- Texans.
ing would raise $28 million in The shopping center has
sales tax in the next two become a recreation center,"
years. even if shopping was he said "it's like the park us-
legalized only in urban and (See BLUE. Page 21
AUSTIN - State Senator
Bill Sarpalius, District 31. has
been appointed to key posts
within both the National Con-
ference of State legislatures
and the Southern legislative
Conference for 1983-84 The
appointments were made by
13 Governor Bill Hobby
Sarapalius will serve on the
Agriculture, Food Policy and
Nutrition Committee of the
National Conference of State
legislatures This committee
has jurisdiction over export
of agricultural products,
farm credit. Farmers Home
Administration, farm prices,
costs and price supports,
federal and state meat in-
spections. foreign ownership
of farm land, insect infesta-
tions and animal disease,
rural development and the
farm economy. rural
transportation and soil and
By T. LEE HUGHES Asseiated
Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP> - The
Department at Energy will soon pro-
pose nominating sites in Texas. Utah,
u—■—tppi and Louisiana tor con-
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