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begin hearings today on a bill to require the odds keep improving.
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YES WE CAN - Sipriano Saucillo, Javier Jilenez, and Jose
Jimenez found a way to beat the high cost of summer and clean
up Stephenville as well. The trio is picking up cans to be
By RICHARD E. MEYER
Associated Press Writer
in favor of taking the students already
being bused to Chamberlain in the fourth
and fifth grades and busing them to
Ceqtral in the fall, and opening up two new
sections for the first and second grade at
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While urging some form of horizontal
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recycled on the first day of summer. Javier says that they have
already made over $8.20 for their efforts. (Empire-Tribune
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water development board, the Texas
Water Quality Board and the Texas Water
Rights Commission.
Each agency's executive director is a
candidate to run the new commission.
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would bar the leasing of public lands to
"integrated" energy companies.
Under the bill sponsored by Udall and
Rep. John Seiberling, D-Ohio, oil
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what was best for the community"". Lohrmann:
In other action, the board voted to accept
Gilbert stated earlier in the meeting that the report done by Dr Bradberry and the
from looking at the growth patterns he Southern Association visiting team, and
could see that the main-area of growth in accepted the educational goals and goal
the elementary schools was presently indicators in accordance with the Texas
In a separate report, the Labor
Department said the increase in workers’
income offset inflation and the purchasing
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Ten new teachers were hired last
night at the Stephenville School Board
meeting, although Supt Ben Gilbert
noted some positions were left open for
the time being.
Employed as elementary teachers
for the coming school year were Jean
Elliott, Shirley Manley and Carolyn
Hampton. Virginia Carothers was
hired as an elementary migrant
Lavinia Lohrmann. who voted against interested in doing something that is so stated, "This may not be the.time to do this superintendent Gilbert
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School board approves partial busing
The Stephenville School Board voted 4-2 Chamberlin, in its Monday night regular things thats happened to our community. I school board and the other member of the Ike to know what we're looking at in that committee for the 77-78 school year,
session meeting. really do. When a community people are so voting body going against the measure situation," Mrs. Lohrmann questioned • After hearing a report from Lee Gandy,
the board also voted to inform Indico Sales
d Lubbock, after the July meeting, they
will receive the bid on the new classroom
furniture for the elementary schools.
The school board also discussed the 77-78
school budget. "We hope that in the July
meeting we can give you a more realistic
looking budget," said les Gandy, alluding
to the uncertainty of the present school
finance bill. "The fact of the matter is we
just don't know where we are yet," school
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BEING A KING of beasts to
no guarantee against
boredom, which could be
Hscoe’s problem at the
animal farm to Charleston
Township; Ohio, where he is
the star attraction. Or
- maybe he’s just resttag up
for the busy season and
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roundabout campaign, hoping to bypass bogs down in committee, supporters may companies with other energy holdings
what they see as an unresponsive try to take it directly to the floor as an would be banned from drilling on the Outer
Judiciary Committee by pleading their amendment to other energy legislation Continental Shelf. Only coal-producing
case before a more sympathetic Interior Although, admitting that winning companies could remove coal from federal
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David Gilbreath and Jan Newberry
were employed as music instructors.
with Gilbreath eyogned to elementary
classes.
Milton Selz was hired as Middle
School coach and social studies
teacher.
At Stephenville High School, Roger
McQueary was hired as basketball
reorganization plan
Committee. approval of any form of divestiture
An interior subcommittee planned to remains an uphill battle, supporters say
crops and fuel supplies. The Labor Department said that prices
Government eecomists predict that rose six-tenths of one per cent in May if Prices also dropped for fresh fruits, eggs
spiralling food costs will slow down later food and energy items were excluded, and beef hut rose for' poultry, pork, sugar
this year, easing the overall pressure on shout the same as in each of the and dairy products. The cost of restaurant
coach and science teacher, while
Kathy Cranford Gaines will be
teaching business and English
following- the board's action.______
Robert Williams, Jr., and Jerry
Thornton were employed for the
career development center. Williams
will teach general mechanical repair
and Thornton will teach auto
mechanics.
consumers' pocketbooks, preceeding three months. , meals and snacks increased one per cent.
The Labor Department said ita._______ ' Among nonfood items, gasoline and
consumer price index for April_stood at Prices for commodities other than food motor oil rose eighttenths of one per cent,
180.6 of the 1967 average of 100, meaning rose fourtenths of omipei cent-hlSt month, xand new cars were up ni
that goods priced at $100 ten years ago costmatching the March and April figures and per ent.
$180.60 last month, considered by economists to be an“
Consumer prices in May were 6.7 per acceptable increase. ' The average price for a gallon of regular
cent higher than in April 1976. - ’ Economists looked to prices of nonfood grade gasoline rose 1.1 per cent in May to
can expect the Texas sun to live up to where the thunderbumpers rambled
expectations with an afternoon high about at random. - ——.
in the 90s. I .
- Partly cloudy skies covered most of Forecasts called for partly cloudy
the area-the remnants of West Texas skies over most of the state with a
thunderstorms from last night-but chance of some thunderstorms
the National Weather Service station mainly in South Texas. Locally heavy
in Stephenville forecasts no rain for thunderstorms are expected in
the era Southwest Texas tonight. -
the measure stated, “I have to say that important to them.. I can just hardly because it is so late in the year," he said "I don't have those particular figures."
this makes me sadder than anything I can beueve it,” she said. Ben Gilbert, superintendent, and Gilbert replied
imagine I think it’s just one of the worst James Young, vice president of the presenter of the plan, commented after the "It seems to me there’s not that many
meeting that he felt the board was "doing dollars and cents involved." stated Mrs.
commodities for evidence of the 62.6 cents per gallon. Premium prices also
underlying rate of inflation in the rose 1.1 per cent and averaged 67.6 cents
economy, since these are less volatile than per gallon.
food prices which are subject to wide All percentage figures are adjusted to
votes in both houses of Congress. divestiture.
In the House of Representatives, If the legislation, expected to be offered
divestiture proponents are mounting a by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.,
tax on gasoline to replace its proposal for a revenue,” Rostenkowski recalls, but some means rejection of its 5-cent proposal.
standby 5-cent tax killed in Congress two congressmen said some of the money self-divestiture by energy companies that They point to a greater awareness in Carter has been cool to the idea since tak-
weeksago. . ... . should be used f°r public transportation: n:1I Ai want to bid for federal leases on the Outer Congress of the sprawling nature of the Ing office.
"Wehavenot comp letely come to grips None of the money would have gone into Hill TO OPpedI Continental Shelf or for other federally nation’s big oil and gas companies. These White House energy adviser James R.
with the best way to deal with it, an rebates. ,M . . . held resources. firms control close to half of all U.S. coal Schlesinger said the administration
administration source said Monday night. The committee rejected Rostenkowski s TWRC decision And senators who want to check the and uranium reserves and have major opposes diverstiture legislation at this
"But we’re considering some form of the measure on ai25-ll vote the same day it - growth of these huge energy stakes in oil shale, synthetic fuels and time. But once Congress enacts a national
‘Rostenkowski 3-center that failed the turned down the Carter proposal. AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — With one member conglomorates, which include 10 of the 20 solar and geothermal power. energy program, "We will watch closely
first time — getting that re-introduced. One reason for the defeat was concern calling it blackmail, the Texas Water biggest U.S. corporations, arefallying be- Also, recent congressional whethertheenergycompaniesarecom-
The source said the administration has by representatives from niraI areas that Rights Commission has voted 2-1 to allow bind legislation that would ban oil reorganizations have placed in key petitive or not and if they are not, we will
not decided what new variation of the13, much of the money would go to big cities the South Texas Nuclear Project to pay the companies from owning and developing leadership positions members of Congress give serious consideration to supporting
cent tax to propose. The tax was suggested with mass transit systems, like Chicago Lower Colorado River Authority for the energy sources other than petroleum. who favor divestiture. These lawmakers some kind of divestiture legislation.” "
originally by Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D- and New York. river water that will cool its generators. - .
By ROBERT A. DOBKIN Food prices, which have sparked this said. Wholesale coffee prices declined last Adjusted for the rise in consumer prices, The cost of services rose seven-tenths of
AP Labor Writer year’s surge of inflation, jumped another month but the drop has not been reflected the real average take-home pay of a one per cent in May, a somewhat slower
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sharply higher seventenths of a percent in May. Although at the retail level. . factory worker increased one-tenth of a puce than the eight-tenths of one ger cent
food and fuel prices pushed consumer the increase was about half the rise in The May increase in consumer prices, per cent last month. However, real gain in both March and April. The cost of
prices up six-ten ths of one per cent in May, April, it exceeded the increases posted in equivalent to an annual rateof7.2 per cent, earnings of the same worker were down medical care and transportation each rose
the fifth consecutive month of big price every month of 1976 except one — the is still above the six per cent level that four-tenths of one per cent over the year nine-tenths of one per cent last month,
hikes, the government reported today. eight-tenths of one per cent gain in May a administration economists regard as the ' because of higher taxes and inflation. while mortgage interest rates increased
The increase, following April’s rise of year ago. 1 nation's underlying rate of inflation, half a per cent.
eight-tenths of one per cent, shows Prices for ground coffee jumped another During the first three months of the The May increase in consumer prices Grocery prices were up seven-tenths of
inflation is continuing but not 10.3 per cent last month, while instant year, inflation rose at a nearly 10 per cent followed an eighttenths of one per cent one per cent in May, compared with 1.6 per
accelerating. coffee rose seven per cent, the government annual rate, largely because of surging gain in April, six-tenths of one per cent in rent in the previous month. The slowdown
___________ food and energy prices that reflected the March, one per cent in February and was largely due toa.13.5 per cent decline in
effects of the severe winter weather on eight-tenths of one per cent in January, fresh vegetable prices.
coming from the Chamberlain area,______ Education Agency and submitted them to - board president M.C. Brandon comment-
"Yes, but how much is it going to cost, the agency for accreditation. <ed
that’s what I'd like to know. Dollars and The board also voted to designate Bin final action before the board went into
cents for your recommendation, dollars superintendent Gilbert as the represent- exetutive session, they approved the
and cents for other recommendations. I’d ative to serve on the region XI joint schoodistrict’s opera tions for May, 1977.
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Two of the three Monday it probably would be a month
men who want to be Texas’ "water czar,” before the board chooses the executive di-
as some call him, have urged the Texas rector of the Texas Department of Water
Water Development Board to make the Resources.
appointment quickly. The department begins operation Sept.
But board chairman A. L. Black said 1, merging tasks and staff members of the
Today is the first day of summer, Rainfall amounts were generally
and Cross Timbers Basin residents less than a half inch in West Texas
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As an alternative, Rostenkowski, a assuming this would be the allocation in
member of the House Ways and Means any Carter proposal. “We’re just starting
HL, as a measure to conserve gasoline and Although the ways and means panel Atty. Gen. John Hill said he would
finance mass transit and energy research, report on its action makes no mention of appeal the decision to the courts if the
Carter’s standby tax was rejected 27 to specific revenue allocation, the adminis- commission refuses to grant a motion for
10 by the House Ways and Means (ration source recalls that one penny of the rehearing and nullify the order.
Committee on June 9. It would have added Rostenkowski tax would have gone for Board member Dorsey Hardeman voted
5 cents a gallon to the present 4-cent mass transit; 1% cents for the states, “No.”
federal gasoline tax each year the nation whose gas tax revenue would drop as The order approves a contract for the
failed to reach the President’s gasoline was conserved, and a half-cent nuclear power plant to buy up to 102,000
conservation goals. for nonnuclear energy research and acrefeet of water per year from the
Carter proposed rebating the tax development. Colorado River below the LCRA dams for
revenue to energy savers. But the source cautioned against $10 an acrefoot.
swinsrsfrom month to mont
An AP Energy Report This is known as "horizontal’’ include Kennedy as chairman of the
By TOM RAUM divestiture. Senate antitrust subcommittee and Rep.
Associated Press Writer Backers claim such an approach has Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., chairman of the
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates of better odds of passage than the more House Interior Committee.
plans to break up giant oil companies, radical surgery of splitting up oil com- A backdoor approach to divestiture, the
weary of congressional inaction, are panies Into drilling, refining and retailing till before the interior subcommittee
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Carter Committee, suggested the 3-cent tax in- to regroup,” the source said, referring to
administration- is considering a new crease, effective in January. “We really work left to be done on the
variation of a rejected 3-cent per gallon didn’t get down to how to distribute the administration's response to the ways and
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Nichols, Skip. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 260, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 21, 1977, newspaper, June 21, 1977; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500991/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.