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DENTON, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBERS, 1978
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76TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE — No. 58
Prison strike
Officials admit inmates hit
• OOMOT Mr
Good Clean Fun
Mideast truce holds
despite sniper attack
Index
Weather outlook
DENTON AMD VICINITY — Party
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City Council to consider fuel charge listing
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Columbus, Erikson
share honors today
it s still warm enough for youngsters to relish a romp in the suds —
especially when H 's for a good cause The St Andrew Presbyterlan
Church eighth grade Sunday school class spent Saturday washing cars
on the front lot of Western State Bank netting $140 for local hunger
relief through the Denton Food Center Above a young lady doesn’t
seem to mind catching a soapy sponge in the face At right, lads apply
elbow grease Some of the kids came out as clean as the cars
good afternoon
Tax office open again
Tueseay Migh bom days mar ss
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If you got turned owoy from the Denton County tox office you can
now try ogoin the office is officially open for business today The
office was temporarily shut down to close out books through Thur-
sdoy when a court-ordered temporary suspension of tox assessor
collector George Losater wos effected and pending now completed
bonding procedures for interim tox assessor-collector Jim Taylor
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Strikers have demanded to talk
with newsmen, saying they are
seeking publicity for the lawsuit.
Taylor said the situation at the
Ellis Unit. 18 miles from Hunt-
sville. was under control and no
action was-planned. "Things-are
calm As long as it stays that well
just wait with them,” be said
The Syrian-held bridge is on the
supply route to east Beirut from the
Christian port of Jounieh, 11 miles to
the north
is going to fuel in their bill will be able
to figure it out h's a thorn that's still
there if someone wants to snag it.”
board member Bill Davis said
The method of no longer totaling the
fuel charges on bills has been adopted
in Bryan, Greenville and Garland — ■
sister cities-to Denton in the Texas
Municipal Power Agency.— with a-
Consequently. If fuel cost was below
projections, customers would be
paying the higher. estimated cost,
instead of the actual cost.
Amusements
Classified
Comics
Crossword
Editorials
Helen Bo ri el
Ho r ok o pe
Notepad
Sports
Weather Map
being considered as alternatives.
Ernie Tullos, assistant director of
utilities for Denton, said he did not
feel the projected average fuel coat
method of rate setting would be (air to
utility consumers.
In projecting the coot of fuel, be
said. utilities would base rates on the
maximum they thought the fuel could
cost them for the year.
By JESS BLACKBURN
Staff Writer
That thorn. the fuel adjustment
charge, which is causing so much pain
in the paw of Denton electric utility
customers, may receive a shot of pain
killer Tuesday night if the Denton
City Council chooses to follow the
recommendations of the Denton
Utility Board.
The council will meet at 7 p.m in
the civil defense room at City Hall
Meeting two weeks ago, the utility
board recommended the city no
longer itemize the fuel adjustment
charges on the utility bill .
WEATMER REPORT
Lew eday
mign Sunday
Law Sunday
WASHINGTON CAP) - Today is
Columbus Day, thanks to Congress,
but the Oct 9 date it occurs on te the
least felicitous since passage of the
Monday Holiday Act.
Last year's Oct 10 was much better
Along with other holiday switches,
the historic date of Oct. 11 was
changed to the second Monday in
October to give workers a longer
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weeKend
But the 1978 calendar is unkind to
Columbus
For one thing Oct. • is also Leif
Erikson Day. His backers say be
reached North America around 1000
AD . 492 years before Columbus Leif
got a special day while the national
holiday went to Columbus
Erikson’s Norwegian countrymen
don't like that, much less having to
share his holiday with Columbus
Also. 486 years ago today the
Genoan had little to celebrate
about fuel charges
“We quit showing the fuel charges
separately on the bill and complaints
on the fuel adjustment charge stopped
immediately,” Mayor Bill Elkins of
said. . — - "
but returned to their cells last
week
Officials in the other cities voided
similar results
The move toward consideration of
no longer showing the fuel charge
comes at a time when the Public
Utility Commission, which regulates
private utility companies in Texas, is
looking at ways to drop the fuel ad-
justment charges in rate setting
entirely
in a report issued last week by the
commission, which followed a six-
month study and three weeks of public
hearings, methods such as projecting
fuel costs for a year and then basing
rates on an average fuel coat are'
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High last year
The sun sets today af 7:
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Totaf for month
Total for year
Normal for month
Lest year 4* date — —
The Darrington incident is the
only physical confrontation prison
authorities hove had with inmates
since the striking began last week.
Taylor said
‘nmatesare sympathizing with a
suit being heard in Houston The
class action suit alleges cruel and
inhuman treatment of prisoners
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -
Texas penitentiary officials who
previously denied reports of
violence now say they were
mistaken and three prisoners were
wounded by a shotgun blast from a
guard last week during a strike
action
"I had been calling those reports
total and' absolute lies,” prison
spokesman Ron Taylor said
Sunday "I'm sorry. I was asked to
re-check the information, and I did
and it is true "
Meanwhile 108 prisoners carried
on with the strike Sunday at the
Ellis Unit, refusing to eat or leave
the exercise yard where they have
• been since Thursday But 300 of
their number gave it up during the
weekend and returned to their
mUa, as have prisoners who
protested at two other units
Christian radio station, said the city
had its second quiet night in a row
after 10 days of heavy fighting bet
ween Syrian troops and Christian mi-
litiamen But it said that early th!,
morning "Syrian snipers " killed three
persons and wounded another in the
Qarantina Bridge area while they
were trying to enter East Beirut
The only cease-fire violation
reported Sunday was sniper fire that
broke out at the bridge as hundreds of
fleeing Christian families were trying
to get acron* it After that flurry of
shots, all main crossroads between
Christian and Moslem areas were
closed, and the Syrians blocked
supply columns bound for the
Christian areas
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The strike is in sympathy with a
suit filed in federal court by
prisoners protesting living con-
ditions within the Texas De-
partment of Corrections
Taylor said no lying was in-
volved when he denied the shooting
incident at the Darrington Unit,
near Angleton. Texas, saying a
communications breakdown
caused the mixup
Taylor said the incident hap-
pened Thursday as 21)9 Darrington
- inmates stopped working in a field
and began moving en masse
toward guards He said two
warning shots were fired — one
into the air and the other into the
ground
“‘One prisoner received a su-
perfieui mhigh wound and it
definitely was caused by buck-
shot." Taylor said Two other
On Oct 9, 1492, the crews of the
Nina. Pinta and Santa Maria were
close to mutiny An Oct.7 "Land Ho'"
had beer. a dud Never had the men
voyaged so long without sight of land
And despite Columbus’ urging to "Sail
On'" the situation looked grim
Next day. Columbus persuaded his
crew to stick it out for three more
days On Oct 11 the adventurers
landed on an island he called San
Salvador
But Oct 9? Columbus might have
preferred to forget the day rather
than commemorate it.
The traditional Oct 11 and the
second Monday in October will
coincide in 1992, fortuitously marking
the NOth anniversary of Columbus’
landing in the New World
But not so fortuitous will be the
millennium of Erikson's arrival, eight
years later in 2000 It's due for
n celebration on Columbus Day, too.
Instead of showing the base rate about equal to the base rate charges
charge for electricity plus the fuel The charge has been misunderstood
adjustment charge on the bill, the bill in the community, board members
would show only the total amount due said. and repeated explanations have
for electricity not cleared the confusion
The fuel adjustment charge is a The thorn will not be removed if the
fluctuating amount which allows the council follows the board's advice,
city to recover its cost for fuel used in only the pain of it deadened
electric generation each, month The city will t} have the flue _
without having to change electric tuating chargerea"morfh to cover - considerable decrease in complaints
men received superficial wounds,
but it can't be determined whether
they were caused by buckshot or
ricocheting gravel.”
The man wounded by the shotgun
blast was James Richardson,
serving two years for forgery from
Harris County. Taylor said The
other two wounded men were
Thomas Shelby, serving 99 years
for aggravated robbery from
Guadalupe County, and Charles
Shaw, serving 20 years for
aggravated robbery from
Washington County.
All three prisoners were treated
in the prison hospital and released
One was wounded in the chest, one
in the leg and one in the arm.
Another group of priSui>ei s at the
Ramsey Unit south of Houston had
also joined the strike movement.
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rates each month the costs of fuel, and the board has
la the past year, as the cost of recommended the fuel costs per
natural gas used to operate the city's killowatt-hour of electricity still be
generators increased, the fuel cost shown on the bill
portion of the bill has increased as “Those people who are really
well In some cases the fuel costs were concerned about the percentage that
Warm
Tuesday Warm
Wednesday Warm
Thursday Warm
Friday Cooler
BETRUT. Lebanon (AP) - Sniper
fire killed three persons trying to
croea a Syrian-held bridge into
Christian east Betrut today, it was
reported, but the Syrian Christian
cease-fire generally appeared to be
holding for a second day
Lebanese President Elias Sarkis
meanwhile, ended three days of
urgent talks in Damascus with Syria's
President Hafez Assad and left for
Saudi Arabia and meetings with Saudi
eaders
Sarkia, whose Damascus talks
produced the cases fire. is trying to
work out a permanent solution to the
conflict here between the Christians
and the Syrian-dominated
peacekeeping force in Beirut, which to
trying to assert control over and dis
- arm the Christian militias A token
contingent from Saudi Arabia la part
of the Arab League force
« The Voice of Lebanon, Beirut s
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