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McQuigg took car show honors
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Two strap ‘bomb' to banker
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Replicars-1.
Reagan
from page one
Prince
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21 jobs in five years.
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he went to the bank.”
Republicans ask SS vote
Chevrolet
category.
—"Adjust the financing of
Social Security without mak-
dreamer with a peaceful
nature and said jurors who
recommended the death
Street Rod, Closed Top-1.
1926 Ford Coupe, Rusy Nasta,
Hereford; 2. 1934 Ford Vic-
toria, Glen Warrick, Well-
At the trial, friends and co-
workers testified O'Bryan
showed unusual interest in
cyanide and how much was
needed to kill. A chemical
week a Mr 4,1s.
O.G.Nlemas
BebNi•
Winners will be chosen on the basis
of the best costume depicting the city
where they want to go, the airline said
Wednesday. The costumes will be
judged at Page Field here.
Ken Rogers' 1936 Cord was
the featured car at the show
this year.
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - In a
Halloween costume contest here Sun-
day, Continental Airlines will give
away 50 round-trip tickets to any of
the 65 cities where the airline flies.
Home.
Mr. Williams died Tuesday
at St. Anthony’s Hospital in
Amarillo after brief illness.
He was bom Dec. 12, 1898.
in Texas and was a veteran of
World War I. He was a retired
carpenter and a member of
the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Survivors include two Sons.
Don of Nashville, Tenn.; and
Jim Lee of Corpus Christi;
and several grandchildren
Mercedes, Bill Kester,
Hereford.
1930's Division-1, 1936
Buick, Jay Evans, Amarillo;
2. 1926 Plymouth, Rene
Ramirez, Hereford.
1940's Division-1. 1947
Studebaker, Jim Duden.
knowledge of his wife. There
were also other policies taken
out a few months earlier.
TME NNAND was estebiitehed M •
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GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Open-
ing arguments were to begin today in
the second capital murder trial of
Eroy Edward Brown, an inmate ac-
cused of drowning a prison warden.
The trial was to start at 8:30 a m.
before visiting State District Judge
Darrell Hester of Brownsville.
It took attorneys seven days to pick
the eight men and four women who
will decide if Brown acted in self-
defense when he drowned Warden
Wallace M. Pack in a prison farm
U.S. District Judge Ross
Sterling denied the request
for a stay of execution Oct. 20.
saying O'Bryan's arguments
had no merit.
said resident Nancy Tully.
The community has 14,000
residents.
The school — called the Ar-
mand Hammer United World
Angeles traffic Sgt. Harry
Ryon.
Both Ms. Brennan's legs
were broken, and she suf-
fered skull and facial frac-
tures and possible internal in-
juries, Ryon said.
Miss Hawn, her co-star in
the film version of “Private
Benjamin,” was not injured.
The two women had left a
restauramt in the beach com-
Guy Vander Jagt, R-Mich.,
attacks the Democratic
record on Social Security.
Recipients of the letter are
asked to fill out “ballots” to
let the National Commission
on Social Security Reform
know their opinions.
Enclosed with the letter
were three "ballot cards”
with these options:
—"Make Social Security
voluntary.”
—"Split off the welfare
aspects of Social Security into
a separate fund."
1955-56-57 Ford-1. 1957
Retractable Hardtop Conver-
tible, Jim Jones, Amarillo; 2.
1955 Crown Victoria, Harold
Manning, Hereford.
1960's, Open Top-1. 1965
Ford T-Bird, Ron Series,
Roswell, N.M.; 2. 1962 Ford
T-Bird, Harold Manning,
Hereford.
1960‘s, Closed Top-1. 1966
Chevelle, Harry Jones, Dim-
mitt; 2. 1965 Chrysler Im-
perial, H.C. and Delight
Williams, Hereford.
Best Original Upholstry,
1932 Auburn, E. Horn, Sayre,
Ok.
Best Special Upholstry,
1926 Ford Coupe, R. Nasta,
Hereford.
Reagan was spending only
two working days at the
White House this week, and
one of them. Wednesday, was
devoted primarily to political
activities.
He met with small business
The "Dress For Destination” con-
test will inaugurate Continental's new
service from Fort Myers to Houston,
which begins the same day.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
Actress Eileen Brennnan,
who plays the cranky captain
in television’s "Private Ben-
jamin," was in critical condi-
tion today after being struck
by a car, police said.
The 48-year-old actress was
hit at 11 p.m. Wednesday
while walking across a
Venice street with actress
Gordie Hawn, said Los
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Singapore, Swaziland and
Italy.
The prince's visit to this
northeastern New Mexico
area has excited the local
population, many of whom
braved the cold weather for
nearly two hours for a glimp-
se.
In the appeal, lawyers
characterized O'Bryan as a board meets
Clovis, N.M.; 2, 1949 Willis
Jeepster, Robert Caddell
Dimmitt.
1955-56-57 Chevy, Open
Top-1. 1957 Convertible, Bill
Warrick, Dalhart; 2. 1957
Convertible, Dan Warrick.
Hereford.
1955-56-57 Chevy, Closed
Top-1. 1956 Del Ray, Gary
McQuigg, Hereford; 2. 1955
Bel Air, Noel Esqueda,
Hereford.
The conviction was appeal-
ed to the U.S. Supreme Court,
which refused to review the
case.
from page one
ditch on April 4,1981.
Brown, whose first trial ended with
a hung jury voting 184 for acquittal,
also is charged with murder in the
shooting death of Prison Farm
Manager Billy Max Moore. He has not
been tried yet in Moore’s death.
The deaths of Pack and Moore oc-
curred in Walker County, but the trial
was moved here on a change of venue.
. A motion to move the trial to a third
county was denied following the first
trial. <
Brown's first trial lasted almost two
months and court officials expect the
retrial to last about as long.
Freeman Marina Hospital in
Marina del Rey where she
was in the intensive care unit,
said the hospital nursing
supervisor who would not
identify herself.
Ms. Brennan also appeared
in such films as "The Sting."
"The Last Picture Show."
"Divorce American Style,"
“The Cheap Detective" and
"Murder by Death."
She won an Emmy and a
Golden Globe award for her
role as the hard-nosed Capt.
Doreen Lewis in “Private
Benjamin.”
: executive director John Dun-
can criticized White for op-
. posing the stay.
"We find it reprehensible
- and deplorable that White has
chosen to again attempt to ex-
ecute an inmate before the
November election," Duncan
: said, adding that White went
to the U.S. Supreme Court on
Aug. 17 opposing a stay of ex-
ecution for another Texas
death row inmate.
The appeal* court also
; agreed to declare O'Bryan a
; pauper.
O’Bryan's lawyer had
brought the case to the New
Orleans court on Monday —
just five days before the
: scheduled execution by lethal
’ injection.
The execution would have
been the first in Texas since
1964.
When the Halloween execu-
tion was ordered, State
District Judge Michael T.
McSpadden told O’Bryan he
picked the date because
: O'Bryan "ruined Halloween
for everyone ”
Evans said the officers
were taking the man back to
Waco, but Waco Police Sgt.
Dennis Kidwell said he did
not know if the man was be-
ing brought back.
“He might be a crackpot,
for all I know,” Kidwell said,
addhng that he had no further
information.
The man, who appeared
about 23, told officers he kill-
ed three teen-agers in a
lakeside park in Waco, police
said.
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from page one
West Texas — Partly cloudy and
cool with widely scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Fair and cold
tonight and warmer Friday. Highs 60
north to 75 south. Lows near 30 north
to 42 extreme south. Highs Friday 65
from page one
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O'Bryan permitted his son to
eat one piece of candy before
bed and that the boy selected
a Pixy Stix, a powdered con-
fection in a plastic tube.
Timothy complained it
tasted bitter and drank some
Kool-Aid to wash it down.
Within moments the boy
became ill, O'Bryan told
police. The father said he
held his son as he went limp
and died within an hour.
Medical tests showed
Timonty died of cyanide
poisoning.
later, detectives learned
O'Bryan had taken out life in-
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WASHINGTON (AP) - On the
whole, farmers may see their finan-
cial trouble* continue at least through
much of 1983 as the agricultural sec-
tor shifts to a more conservative
strategy for survival.
An outlook report by the
Agriculture Department said Wednes-
day that “the most favorable finan-
cial strategies are much less expan-
sionary, involve less reliance on debt
financing and avoid exposure to cash-
flow shortages.”
Unlike most of the 1970s, farm
assets are not increasing enough to of-
fset negative cash flow caused by
short-term expenses exceeding cash
income. Consequently, lenders are
less willing to refinance farmers in
that situation.
"During the rest of 1982 and 1983,
farmers likely will continue to face
low crop prices, reduced rates of
return, high real interest rates, and
cash-flow problems," the report said.
Farmers and investors cannot
quickly adjust their debts and assets
when economic conditions change
Nor can they easily anticipate when
changes are about to occur.
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the time to switch from an expan-
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— Two gunmen strapped a
"bomb" to a bank president
and tied up his family today
in an attempt to extort more
than 9100.000, police said.
Beaumont Police Lt.
Charles Henderson said the
gunmen, who wore women’s
stockings over their heads
and appeared to be in their
20s, forced their way into
Lamar State Bank President
Lonnie Weir's home in an af-
fluent westside neighborhood
before 9 a.m.
The men bound Weir's wife
Richards insists Bullock's
budget outstrips increased
collections.
"If the current trend con-
tinues." Richards told a news
conference earlier in the
campaign, "by the year 1990,
Bob Bullock will be spending
more money than he
Closed Top Maynard, Dimmitt.
nobody can hold back this
dawn.
And, if and when sunshine
becomes our nation’s
primary energy source.
Southwest states will have a
new bonanza. Indeed, least
desirable desert areas of our
country will become most
desirable; large fields for
sunlight collectors.
The future of hydrogen can
not be calculated - for fer-
tilizers and for plastics as
well a* for fuel for cars,
trucks, planes and factory
furnaces.
Everything that goes into it
is inexpensive and plentiful.
Byproduct oxygen is worth
money to industry.
You're going to be driving
your car on tasteless,
odorless, colorless flam-
mable air What a time to be
alive!
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without the
sionary to a conservative financial
strategy was about 1978 or 1979, when
famers could have reduced their
debts before the 1981-81 period,” the
report said.
"The time to switch back to a more
expansionary strategy will be just as
difficult to anticipate. Those farmer*
who were hesitant to make large
changes in the late 1970s — and hence
have little debt - may be in the best
position to purchase farm assets at
bergain prices when prospects start
to brighten."
Airline offers free
tickets in contest
the state’ is the race close?”
"If we had to be in trouble
in several states, we’re in
trouble in the right states —
where the president can
help," he said. "He can but-
tress and fortify these races
and give everybody two or
three points at the end."
He said that in the Rocky
Mountain tour. Reagan was
visiting states where "his
popularity remains the
highest.”
In addition, he said that in
such states "a president of
the United States has a lot
more wallop. A president
can't move a state the size of
New York or Michigan." but
in the states he is visiting to-
day his tour is "front-page
news for three days in a
row.”
In Wyoming, Republican
Sen Malcolm Wallop is being
challenged by Rodger
McDaniel. larry Williams is
challenging Democratic Sen.
John Melcher in Montana.
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update ■
thursday
Long distance
rates increased
munity west of downtown Los
Angeles when Ms. Brennan
started to cross a main street
and was struck by a car
traveling north, Ryon said.
The driver of the car, a
29-year-old Venice man,
stayed with Ms. Brennan
after the accident, he said.
The man was not arrested,
but a speeding complaint
may be filed in the next two
days, Ryon said. Skid marks
on the road indicated the car
was traveling about 50 mph in
a 30 mph zone, he said.
Ms. Brennan was taken by
ambulance to Daniel
ing any fundamental change
in its structure.”
Galen said that the commit-
tee mailed out 420,000 of the
ballot letters in the first two
weeks of September as a test.
It got back 40,000 replies, only
10 percent of which included
any money. The checks were
"substantially lower than our
typical contribution of 925."
said Galen.
On the three ballots, 10,372
people voted for making
Social Security voluntary;
24,893 for splitting off its
welfare aspects, and 5,226 for
making financial ad-
justments such as higher
taxes or lower benefits.
Vander Jagt was cam-
paigning in his district and
unavailable for comment.
Democratic Party officials
say the letter is hypocritic*)
because the GOP has criticiz-
ed Democratic fund-raising
letters, including one sent out
in an official-looking
envelope marked “important
Social Security notice
inside.”
The entire arrival
ceremony lasted less than 30
minutes.
Most celebrities expected
to visit with Prince Charles
will see him Friday night at a
ball in Albuquerque. Among
those scheduled to attend are
singer Frank Sinatra and ac-
tor Cary Grant.
‘Private Benjamin’ co-star injured
leaders who praised his ad- College of the American West
ministration's economic per- — is housed in a resort com-
formance, despite a growing plex that includes the once-
number of corporate failures, posh Montezuma Castle,
Reagan then welcomed which drew notables like
George Spigler, who had just Theodore Roosevelt and
won the Nobel Prize in Ulysses S. Grant late in the
economics. last century to its soothing
Moments after Spigler hotsprings.
chatted with the president, he Attending the school now
was escorted to the podium of are 110 students from 55 coun-
the White House press brief- tries, who participate in a
ing room by White House selected curriculum that is
aides. To their chagrin, he the equivalent of the last year
said that Reagan's supply of high school and the first
side economics were “a gim- year of college.
mick, a slogan that was used The campus is the sixth in
to package certain ideas.” the United World College
And Chic Hecht is trying to
unseat Sen. Howard Cannon,
a four-term Nevada
Democrat.
supply house salesman iden- penalty did not give enough
tified O’Bryan as a man who consideration to his peaceful
had inquired about buying nature.
cyanide. “There is no evidence that
Relatives, including his Mr. O'Bryan had a prior
wife, said O’Bryan discussed criminal record or that he
before the boy was buried ever comitted an act of
how the insurance money violence in the past," the peti-
would be spent. tionsaid.
O’Bryan's attorneys con- The petition said that
tend the state was able to pre- O'Bryan had the best interest
sent only circumstantial of his family at heart.
evidence and never proved The appeals court judges
O’Bryan actually bought that one member of the panel
cyanide. - who was not named —
The jury deliberated less thought that the mitigating
than an hour before returning evidence should be con-
a guilty verdict June 3,1975, sidered on appeal.
ington
Foreign Sports Car-1. 1963
Jaguar XKE, Lonnie Car-
dinal. Hereford; 2. 1964
Jaguar XKE, Ron Weishaar,
Hereford.
American Sportscars-1.
1977 Corvette, Alex Serminp,
Hereford; 2. 1956 Ford
Thunderbird, Dale Smith,
Friona.
Late Model Pickups-1.1957
Chev. Cameo, Kenneth
Johnson, Littlefield; 2, 1956
Ford. Donnie Higgins,
Roswell N.M.
Ford Model T’s-1. 1926
Model T, S.C. Bruton,
Hereford.
Ford Model A’s-1. 1928
Model A, Jerry Harris,
Amarillo.
Classics, 1. 1932 Auburn,
Eddie Horn, Sayre, Ok.; 1929
Packard, Orie Jones,
Farwell.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -
Southwestern Bell’s 1988 rate hike re-
quest, which went to the courts, has
finally ended with a 10 percent in-
crease in intrastate long distance
rates.
Public Utility Commission
spokesman Rick Hainline said
Wednesday the increase would give
Bell the 916 million in additional
revenues the courts said was justified.
The 10 percent increase on in-
trastate calls, which covers only call*
made from non-coin telephones, was
effective Monday when the commis-
sioners approved the agreed plan.
Bell asked for a 9326 million in-
crease in 1980, but the commission ap-
proved only 9114- State District Judge
Harley Clark of Austin ruled the PUC
order was 916 million too low.
The 10 percent surcharge will re-
main in effect until a decision is
reached in the rate hike case now
before the commission, Hainline said.
Second trial of
Brown to begin today
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waist, telling him it was a
bomb. They demanded ran-
som money, Henderson said.
"From what this
president's reporting, they
held his family hostage while
Gary MeQuigg’s 1956 210 Other special prizes award-
Del Ray Chevrolet claimed ed included trophies to Eddie
the bulk of honors at the Hom of Sayre, Okla. for far-
Hereford Rotary Club Anti- thest distance traveled by an
que and Special Interest Car entrant to the show, and to
Show last weekend at the Bull Jay Evans of Amarillo for
Bam. According to Rotarian best display.
Roland Saul, 41 entries were Also, Kelon McAlister of
featured in the show this year Hereford won a 9100 savings
making it "The best show bond as part of special draw-
we’ve had so far as quality ing for door prizes at the
and variety.” show.
McQuigg's black chevy Following is a list of win-
took the People's Choice ners in the show by category:
award as voted by those at- Street Rod. Open Top-1,
tending the show, and won 1926 Ford Touring car, Dan
Best Paint, Best Engine and Warrick, Hereford: 2. 1927
first place in the 1955-56-57 Model T Roadster. Wayne
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The National Republican
Congressional Committee
scrapped a fund-raising letter
that asked people to cast a
straw vote on whether to
make Social Security volun-
tary because the appeal did
not bring in enough dollars, a
committee spokesman said
today.
"This was not a terribly
successful letter and it was
stopped,” spokesman Rich
Galen said.
The letter, mailed out by
the National Republican Con-
gressional Committee and
signed by its chairman, Rep.
Bullock calls Richards' Man admits killings
charges "hogwash." He says ____ n * ne.
Richards' figures do not take turns himself in
into account population in-
creases which automatically KERRVILLE, Texas (AP)
increase the cost of collecting — A man who claims to have
taxes. killed "four or five people,”
"To be criticized by a man including three teen-agers
who did nothing but vote for whose throat* were slashed in
your appropriation time after Waco, has turned himself in
time is rather ludicrous," to police here,
said Bullock Kerrville Police Chief Scott
Evans said the man walked
into the police station about 9
or 10 p.m. Wednesday and
confessed to several killings
in Waco. Waco police were
c . _ notified, and a homicide
Committee progress detective and • lieutenant
reports and formal approval questioned the man today,
of election results are on the *
agenda this afternoon for the n L • •
regular monthly meeting of // HITI IP FIPQ
the Deaf Smith County UUILUUI IGO
Chamber of Commerce board
of directors. JIM WILLIAMS
The board meeting is Services for Jim Williams.
scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. 83 • father of country-western
at the C of C office. Directors singer Don Williams, will be
will also discuss a report on at 3 Pm- Friday at.. Rose
the dues structure of the Chapel of Gililland-Watson
chamber. Funeral Home with Elder
Included on the committee IJoyd (Reddoch) of Amarillo
reports are the annual Phea- officiating.
santHunt,co-sponsoredhz Burial wil be i" West Park
the chamber and the Kiwanis co-i-" .Nr dimotin n
Club and the next Fun Cemetery under di recti on of
Breaktast. Gililland-Watson Funeral
O'Bryan was convicted of Detectives also learned
giving poisoned candy to his O'Bryan was short of money.
8-year-old son Timothy, who His car was about to be
had returned home with his repossessed and he was
father and sister, Elizabeth, behind on several other loans,
now 13, after trick-or-treating His wife, who later divorced
Oct. 31,1974. O'Bryan, told investigators
Evidence presented at the her husband had held and lost
flow of energy along the wire
between - but a sufficient effi-
ciency ratio of produce
"Dollar-a-gallon hydrogen
fuel” for your car is still two
decades away.
But now...
Along comes a Texas Aggie
researcher. Dr. John
Bockris, with a breakthrough
which produces solar energy
from cheap silicon cells. It
promises that dollar-a-gallon
fuel with 10 years!
Why 10 years?
Oil companies are not going
to get behind this until they
have to.
Manufacture of the fuel in
enough quantity and distribu-
tion of the fuel to enough ser-
vice stations and modifica-
tion of cars will take time.
It will be ironic if the
substitute for gasoline should
come from Texas - but
What an exciting time to be Billings proved hydrogen to
alive! be save, efficient and
It may be rough on reac- ultimately clean fuel,
tionaries who prefer the But the cost of producing
status to remain quo, but if hydrogen by electrolysis or
we can keep our intellectual from coal remained
arteries sufficiently pliable to phohibitive.
adapt to and accept in- Now, within one month we
evitable change, what a learn of three separate suc-
thrilling decade this will be! cessful techiniques for split-
I have been fascinated by ting water molecules into
the development of optional hydrogen gas using sunlight
fuels since long before the to do it!
Arab oil embargo. Bell Laboratories produced
I watched race cars runing hydrogen using photocells
on alcohol for 14 years and made of indium phosphide;
wondered why your car still too expensive.
didn’t. , The University of Califor-
I was an early investor in nia, Berkeley, focused
Billings Energy when Roger sunlight on tiny discs of iron
Billings pioneered the oxide submerged in water
development of hydrogen with a salt-like solution of in-
energy. expensive sodium sulfate.
Hydrogen energy means
your car can run with nothing The sun, shining on the
in the gas tank but water! discs, does create a steady
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