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DISD students equal U.S. norm on tests
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Charles Sipple an accountant add
management, consultant for Touche
Ross a Co, said savings and loan
associations are squeezed between
Texas 10 percent usury rate and the.
neither took action to send them out
tor floor debate
scoring below their grade level, ac
cording to the normal bell curve
T. "Kink" Bridges
AUBREY - Funeral
services for Thurman
of Decatur, who were honored recently on
their 50th onniversary.
knifepoint rape of a Denton woman at
an Oak Street apartment
Denton County commissioners
voted Monday to pay a $10,000 bill for
THE FORECAST — Tonight, rain will fall over parts of California, nor-
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‘and jurors
County Auditor U H Bailey said he
has also received a bill from co
defense attorney Rusty- Duncan lor
$10,000 that he is holding to pay at a
future date
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the McCrory trial Hie most -t xpeusive
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Testimony in the aggravated rape
trial of Wendell Berg. 31. ot Azle was
scheduled to begin at 9 this morning in
Judge Sam Houstons 211th District
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-price they -must pay for money
As a result. Sipple zaid, finanemg
tor new homes is drying up
He said a 30 percent decline in new
home construction would eliminate
150 000 jobs and $600 million business
activity from the Texas economy
Peter von Wupperfeld. an Austin
tealestate man, said qualify mg for a
Kin 000 loan at 12 percent with a 30-
year payout would require a $2,057
monthly income compared with
54,755 for a 10 percent loan
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Eastman Kodak
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Exxon
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General Eiectr<c
General Mills
General Motors
General Tei
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IBM
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Officer Waddill responded to the
bulletin, Lynch said. encountering the
man, driving a red 1978 Cougar on the
Interstate 35 service road The man
exited on Avenue D. with Waddill in
pursuit, and wrecked the Cougar at
Avenue D and Highland, where ra
second police unit had attempted to
set up a roadblock. Lynch said
- — After jumping out of the wrecked
vehicle, the man began firing at
attorney Bill Woods services a A- beginning of what
court appointed defense counsei ID the
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Denton Independent School District creditation by the Texas Education
McCrory murder trial bill costly for county
interest offered by Firn Denton -Nah
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a report submitted to the school board
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Erv in Williams of Hurst
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tendent of curriculum said
Although the study was critical.
Superintendent Robert McGee said
it gives us some real direction for
the future "
in response to the test festfits,
restructuring of basic skills courses
hasbeengivertop prior ity in the five
The bills represent only the
depository from First State Bank of
Denton to First Denton National
Hank The move was made alter bids
taken every two years showed ac
_snedLainterest would be higher
First Denton National .
Hailey said the difference in the bids
came from the daily compounded
an average student taken from a
national sample
However, the study also found many
DISD students deficient in reading
composition and mathematic skills
More than 13 percent of students in
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■ In a closed executive session
comimissioners heard reports on the
progress of the pending suit on the
conditions of the county tail
County Judge Jerry John Crawford
declined to comment on the nature of
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the county paid $217 in motel bills
for Iwo nights That coat included
rooms for defense and prosecuting
attorneys
Hailey said he thinks the county will
also be liable tor any appeals that
might tie tiled on Mcerory’s behalf
In other action, commissioners
'he sexist and racist constraints
—owietv has nmtilled in its youth and—
furn out concerned, loving people
instead, you have more of those
racist v alues when you leave college
than when you entered, he said
There is more alcoholism, drug
addiction and suicide among college
graduates than among fourthgrade
dropouts
Gregory criticized food processing
techniques today which fil food full
of chemicals and carcinogens
“Know what .is going into your
body and quit filling it with alcohol,
cocaine and heroin.’ he said
He criticized cover up attempts of
what truly happened in the
switch she counts
Jonestown. Guyana mass suictde * -
"There is no way 900 people could
commit suicide from cyanide After
the first few died and others saw
their reactions to the poison, doctors
say no one could have taken cyanide
then," he said
Gregory offered no explanation
for the Guyana occurrence except
that the country “is a CIA
stronghold"
decided to
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich AP> - Two
men are being hunted in Michigan
today in the slaying of an 11 year old
school crossing guard who ws
dragged into a car then dumped about
a mile from her elementary school
caliber revolver taken from officer
Miller Waddill returned fire. Lynch
said, killing the man
Lynch said investigators also are
checking into the possibility that a
yellow compact car seen at the
location where the man’s vehicle was
stopped by officer Miller may have
been driven by an acquaintance of the
man.A bulletin for the vehicle and. us
iriver, described as a woman in her
Austin Texas (API — Sponsors of
bills raising the maximum legal in
terest rate on home loans say
homebuyers should have a chance to
back out of high-interest loans when
rates drop . .
Both Rep Nub Donaldson, D
Gatesville, and Sen Bill Meier D
Euless, made the first gesture toward
compromise of the heated issue in
hearings Monday
Their bills would raise the ceiling
from 10 percent to 12 percent But they
submitted amendments that would
s9 persons aboard were killed
• Rhodesian troops surrounded the
wreckage Monday night hours after
the four engine Viscount went down in
the same area where another Air Rho
desia Viscount was shot down in
september by a guerrilla missile
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capital murder trial ot John W
McCrory
The court also voted to pay more
than $400 in telephone bills from
Wichita Falls to Denton that were
Linda Vanderveen. IL * sixth rader
at Mulick Park Elementary School
and daughter of the eity » personnel
director fought desperately - as she
was forced into a car Monday mor-
ning. a witness said
OVER THE
COUNTER STOCKS
Quetations from the National
Association of Securities Deaiers are
representative interdealer prices as of
10 00 a m New York time interdealer
market change mhrvghou retai markup
markdown and commissions
SALISBL RY Rhodesia AP
Military and aviation officials say
they are certain a heat seeking
missile fired by black nationalist
guerrillas brought down a d mestic
airliner that crashed in northwest
Rhodesia shortly after taking off All
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Fot the earlier Wichita Falls
session which lasted one court day
Lewisville. and he died
Feb 7 at a nursing home
in Grapevine
He is survived by a
, daughter, Doris Jones of
Dallas, one brother,
Henry Redmon of
Grand Prairie; two
grandchildren and one
great-grandchild:
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attorney .and said Ray was only part
of a full conspiracy to kill Martin
Luther King Jr
"It was . this book which led
Congress to reopen the in-
vestigations into the Kennedy and
King assassinations, " Gregory said
The results of the investigations'
were released around Christmas
and the congressional committee's
findings indicate more than one gun
was fired in Dealy Plaza when
President John Kennedy was kihled
in 1963 _
"But the committee is quick to tell
us the CIA and the FBI were not
involved," he said "I say they were
the ones who did it
"Basically, were not an honest
country You youngsters have got to
turn it around and you don't have
much time The country is morally
and spiritually bankrupt and the
burden is on you to change it/" he
said I
Gregory said the universities
should in four years break through
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enable a borrower to pay oft a loan of
over 10 percent without penalty in
order to refinance if interest rates fell
below that level
Also in the substitute bills presented
by Meier and Donaldson was a
provision authorizing variable in
terest rates which would be adjusted
every six months in response to mon
ey market changes
The Senate Economic Development
Committee and House Financial
Institutions Committee heard
testimony on the identical bills but
Rudd of Missouri.
Barbara Hurst ot
Whitney and Linda Sue
Strobel of Fort Worth.
11 grandchildren and
one great-grandchild
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"Kink ” Bridges, 60, will
be held W ednesday at 2
pm at the Aubrey.
Assembly of God
Church, with the Revs
Horton McDonald of
Broken Bow. Okla and
Richard Martin of
Aubrey, to conduct the
services Burial will be
at Sweetwater
Officials believe guerrills shot down airliner.
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Cemetery in Wise Coun-
ty
Mr Bridges was born
July 25, 1918, in
Decatur, where he
married Marguerite
Blythe Jan 27,1937. and
he died Sunday in
Aubrey
He was a contract
painter and had resided
in the Aubrey area since
1950.
He is survived by his
wife, Marguerite
Bridges of Aubrey: six
sons. Thurman Bridges
of Krugerville. Bobby.
Jerry, Dennis and
Jimmy Bridges, all of
Aubrey and Ricky
Bridges of Valley View;
four daughters, Ann
Jameson of Krugerville.
Darlene Kirby of
Aubrey and Sherry
Graves and Barbara
Coffey, both of Pilot
Point; three brothers.
Glenn Bridges of
Monk Clearman.
Harold. Kenneth and
Danny Alexander. Joe
Foster and Josh Allen,
and Buster Gibbs,
George Ritter. Bates
Whitlock. Jeff Fox.
Robert Taylor and John
George will serve as
honorary pallbearers
grades 7 IL did - nat -demonstrate
sufficient mastery of language arts to
< T from Page one — Waddill with an Ml carbne. Lynch move to the next higher levet i the
Continued from Pagel sard When that gun apparently program
and was shot twice in the left leg jammed, Lynch said. the man began it look- like a high figure —but
Despite her wounds Miller ran to the firang at the officer with either a 32 realistically we expect 30 percent
station and dhspatched a bulletin for - caliber automatic revolver or a 38-
Wichita Falls, Ralph
Bridges of Denton and
Billy Bridges of
Decatur; four sisters
Pearl Hudson of
Decatur. Eula Cham-
bless of Wichita Falls
and Inez Murphy and
The family will be at
the Beck Funeral Home
in Pilot Point Tuesday
from 7 to 8 p m for
visitation
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RI RAMEY KING & MINNIS
We are not going to rush said
Donaldson, who explained there was
no point' forcing House members to
take a stand unless preliminary
polling showed The bill could pass
servedin the U S Army and Joe Ray Williams at
and was a member of Kamay. five daughters
the Baptist church Gertrude Clabaugh of
Formerly a farmer? <'regon Shirley Irwin of
Mr Willams was a Arlington. Annie Mar
Wichita Falls motel where
prosecuting and defense attorneys
stayed and charges from Wichita
Alvin L. Harder
AMARILLO -
Funeral services for
Alvin L Harder 51
formerly of Decatur,
were held Saturday at
the SI Joseph Catholic
Church, officiated by
the Rev Michael
Pintacura Burial was
at Llano Cemetery
Prayer services' were
held Friday at the
Schooler Garden
Colonial Chapel in
Amarillo
Mr Harder died
Thursday in Amarillo
He was born in
Decatur and moved to
Amarillo in 1961 from
Tulia He was chief
contractor and
procurement agent w ith
the Bureau of Mines
Helium Operations in
Amarillo for 17 years
He was president of the
Tascosa -Lions Club
High Plains Eve Bank
Survivors include his
wife. Rosemary Harder
of Amarillo; his mother.
Ruby Harder of
Decatur, one daughter.
Karen Harder of El
Paso: one sister. Oleta
Jacobs of Decatur; and
Carter moves suirkl to work with Iranians
Mark E. McCoy
SANGER - Funeral
services for Mark
Everett McCoy. 59 of
205 Southland Drive,
will be held Wednesday
at 2 p m at the Coker
Funeral Home Chapel
Officiating the services
will be the Rev Ed
Seale Burial will follow
at Sanger Cemetery
Mr. McCoy, born Nov
15. 1919, in Kanias, died
Monday morning at
Westgate Hospital in
' Denton
He married Geraldine
Clover June 19, 1946, in
Flagstaff. Aiz. He was
a heavy equipment
operator
Survivors include his
wife, Geraldine McCoy
of Sanger, one
daughter, Brenda J
Thompson of Betaluma.
Calif.; one sister,
Esther Williams of
Sanger; and two
grandchildren
Pallbearers will be
Gaylene Snow, Tom
Garrett. Beary Woods
Jr., ' Benny Bridges,
Richard Muir and C.F
Johnson
an aunt. Pauline Gage
of Decatur
Sam Williams
Funeral services are
pending at the Schmitz
Floyd Hamlett Funeral
Home Chapel for Sam
Williams. 60015 W
Pleasant Ridge Row in
Arlington
Mr Williams died
Tuesday morning at,
Mimosa Manor nursing
home
He was born Aug 19.
1899, in Kansas City.
Kan., and married
Orpha Moore in
Arkansas in 1922 He
J.B. Redmon
LEWISVILLE -
Funeral services for
J B Redmon. 79. were
held Sunday at the
Macedonia Baptist
Church, officiated by
the Rev Alvin Turner
and the Rev Alonzo
Stephenson Burial was
at Macedonia
Cemetery, under the
direction of the Dalton
and Son Funeral Home
Mr Redmon was born
Dec. 15. 1899, in
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year plan for the school district
Other priorities include improving
programs for gifted students and
renovating school buildings in ac
cordance with the study’s findings
in other business the board
: ec eived ah engineer s
Congress Junior High School one of
. the kchools scheduled for renovation
The report recommended a change
in the drainage* around the
muttipurpose classroom building on
the campus to prevent water from
collecting" under i’
Board members also approved
purchase and installation of partition!
in the building to close in open
classroom* The permanent walls will
cost approximately $3 000
The board also set Feb 21 as the
date for the preliminary textbook
hearing The date was moved back
from Feb 15 due to a dei<v in the,
arrival of the sample textbooks
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WASHINGTON AP rhe Carter know • dgt d so • resistance to the
admnistration s seeking to quickiv United States which supported 'he
establish normal diplomatic relatic : -•
with the new Iranan regime ment spokesman moding Carter said
we art ■ - \ • g toward normal dip
A White House .official ac lomatic relations
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