Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 28, 1981 Page: 1 of 34
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MICROFILM SERVICE SALES
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DALLAS TX 75235*
Sulphur Springs
VOL. 103—NO. 152.
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Sunday
JUNE 28,1981.
20 Cents
THREE SECTIONS
Streets to be tied up
by long railway ribbon
At some point in time next week many
Sulphur Springs motorists, while driving
across town, may come to the conclusion,
“That you just can’t get there from here”.
The reason for that conclusion, the
possible confusion and frustration will be
work on railroad tracks through the city.
Beginning Tuesday work crews from the
Kansas City Southern railroad will be
replacing the old track with new track.
Normally installing new track would not
cause too many problems since only one
railroad crossing at a time would be
closed.
But this time "ordinary” track is not
involved. The installation of the new track
will cause some problems because each
piece of track is 1440 feet long, or ap-
proximately a quarter of a mile.
It is part of a KCS project to improve the
roadbed on its line from Texarkana to
Dallas. Work has been progressing in rural
areas of Hopkins County for the past
several weeks. Late this week the crews
began moving east of Loop 301.
Installation of each section of the
"ribbon rail" must of necessity be ac-
complished in one maneuver. It will
require the closing of multiple crossings
when the quarter-mile span stretches
across those close-together streets.
To minimize the problem, the city will
set up barricades well in advance of each
closing and provide an alternate route for
motorists.
“I’m sure we are going to have some
angry and frustrated drivers next week,”
said Bill Fowler, director of public works.
“But other than providing detours there is
really very little else that can be done,” he
Wall Steet fights off
surprises in 6-month span
ByCHETCURRIER
AR Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — For anyone who
thrives on sudden surprises and high
drama, the first half of 1981 on Wall Street
is about to go into the books as a disap-
pointment.
There were no near cataclysms like the
silver crisis involving the Hunt brothers in
Dallas in the spring of 1980. No powerful
market rallies like those of early 1975 and
1976. No scandals like the collapse of
Equity Funding Corp. of America in 1973.
No dreary spectacles like the energy
shortages of 1974 and 1979.
Away from the world of finance, there
were the shocks of the attempted
assassinations of President Reagan and
Pope John Paul II. But neither had more
than brief effects on the markets.
The closest thing to a financial thun-
derbolt came in the very first week of the
year, when a “sell everything” bulletin
from investment adviser Joseph Granville
touched off a drop in stock prices.
Almost six months later, however, the
severe declines Granville predicted have
yet to materialize.
Approaching mid-year, the Dow Jones
industrial average shows a modest 32.88-
point gain since Dec. 31, and is still
hovering around the 1,000 level it first
challenged 15 years ago.
In the past week, the widely recognized
average of 30 blue chips dropped 3.32 to
992.87.
The New York Stock Exchange com-
posite index rose .42 to 76.97, and the
American Stock Exchange market value
index climbed 8.10 to 378.71. Big Board
volume averaged 44.69 million shares a
day, against 54.32 million the week before.
If things looked stagnant on the surface,
however, a closer look suggested that
there was in fact quite a bit going on.
Within the stock market itself, noted Lee
H. Idleman, director of research at Dean
Witter Reynolds Inc., there occurred "one
of the most massive and startling rever-
sals of leadership in modem times.”
“The one-wgy surge into energy stocks
leading up to a fourth-quarter 1980 peak
has given way to an equally fierce
stampede to avoid this sector," he said.
“On the other hand, the rise in anti-
inflation (and anti-energy) stocks over the
same time span has been nothing short of
spectacular.”
Oil stocks typically showed losses of 35
World Briefs
percent to 50 percent. Bank, insurance,
and some electric utilities, at the same
time, were racking up gains of 25 percent,
35 percent and more.
Gold, as high as $875 an ounce in
January 1980, sank into the $440s and ert-
swhile “gold bugs” defected in droves.
Caught in a squeeze created by high
interest rates, savings institutions
struggled to survive. Money-market
mutual funds, which had grown from $10
billion to $74 billion in the past two years,
attracted an additional $50 billion from
savers and investors — growing at a pace
of about $2 billion a week.
One part of the picture remained the
same. The White House, Congress and the
Federal Reserve Board were engaged in a
fierce struggle to set the economy on a
more stable course, with the money
markets showing scant enthusiasm for
their efforts.
Top seeds advance
Petitions out
at area spots
Petitions addressed to Gov. Bill
lements requesting the unification of
iopkins County in one state
igislative district will be distributed
iroughout the county this week.
D. M. Jones, one of several citizens
orklng on the*project, said that the
etition blanks will be placed in all
>ur Sulphur Springs banks and in a
umber of locations in rural com-
iunities as well. “We will try to have
etitions available in almost every
ublic place in the county,” he said.
Supporters of the movement hope to
btain from 3,000 to 4,000 signatures
n the petitions.
The petitions read: “To The
lonorable Governor Clements: We,
he Citizens of Hopkins County,
aving the common interest as the
sading dairy county in our nation,
espectfully petition to keep Hopkins
Jounty, geographically whole as a
oting entity in State Representative
indSenatorial elections.”
Hot season
to continue
The days are beginning to run
jgether, weather wise, where one
ay Is pretty much like the next.
The National Weather Service
jrecast is calling for clear to partly
loudy skies with warm to hot af-
:moons and mild nights through
Wednesday.
Very little day to day change in the
reather is expected over the next
sveraldays.
Afternoon high temperature
eadings are expected to be in the mid
Ds with overnight lows in the 70s.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Chris
Evert Lloyd, favored to capture her third
women’s singles title at Wimbledon,
demolished 18-year-old Claudia Pasquale
of Switzerland 6-0, 6-0 Saturday in the
shortest match of the tournament thus far.
Lloyd needed only 36 minutes to advance
to the quarterfinals.
“It’s not quite my fastest win,” she said
as she came off court. “I have won 6-0,6-0
before, and once I believe I got there in 35
minutes.”
Martina Navratilova, twice a champion
here and this year’s No.4 seed, scored a
revenge victory over American Betsy
Nagelsen6-3,61.
Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia and
Tracy Austin of the United States, seeded
second and third, respectively, also won in
straight sets.
Violence shakes Iran
By SCHEHEREZADE FARA-MARZI
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A booby-
trapped tape recorder exploded in a
Tehran mosque Saturday, wounding
Hojatoleslam All Khameini, a senior
Iranian clergyman who has sharply
criticized fugitive ex-President
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Tehran radio said.
The state radio said Khameini suffered
“slight injuries to the lungs and wind-
pipe,” in the assassination attempt but he
was in satisfactory condition in the Tehran
heart hospital and there was “no cause for
concern.”
Khameini is a top aide to Iran’s supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and
the ayatollah's representative on Iran’s
supreme defense council.
Reached by telephone from Beirut, a
mosque employee who saw the explosion
said the 42-year-old Khamenei was
bleeding from the left shoulder as he was
taken to a hospital, where he underwent an
operation. His condition was not known.
“He bled a little but stayed on his feet,”
the man said.
The witness, who declined to give his
name, said that about 4,000 to 5,000 people,
many of them women, had gathered at the
Abu-Zar mosque in south Tehran for a
post-prayer question-and-answer session
with Khamenei, known as the “Friday
Imam” because he leads prayers on
Friday, the Moslem Sabbath.
He said a number of cassette tape
recorders had been placed in front of the
microphone where Khamenei was
speaking and one exploded. No one else
was injured, the witness added.
Khamenei is a leading spokesman for
the Islamic Republican Party, which
spearheaded the campaign by the nation’s
fundamentalist Moslem clergy to oust the
liberal Bani-Sadr,
Tehran radio reported two more
“counter-revolutionaries” were executed
at daybreak in the central Iranian city of
Isfahan, raising the toll to 54 since Bani-
Sadr’s ouster.
Trio escapes boat fire
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Three men
narrowly escaped injury by jumping from
a burning pleasure cruiser onto an oil fig
in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, Coast
Guard officials said.
A 30-foot Fiberglas cruiser known as
“The Pirate” caught fire shortly after
midnight about five miles off shore from
the Galveston jetties, said Coast Guard
spokesman Matthew Walter.
The trio, after seeing smoke come out
from the the engine cover, tried un-
successfully to extinguish the blaze before
docking at an unmanned oil rig, Walter
added.
Since the rails are so long in most cases
several railroad crossings will be closed at
one time, according to Fowler, which will
make it difficult, but not impossible, to
make a north-south transit in town.
According to the time scheduled
provided by the railroad, Gladys
Alexander Drive, League Street and
Moore Street will be closed from 7 a.m.
Tuesday until some time after noon.
Wednesday the same streets will be
closed during the same time period.
"The way the railroad people explained
it to me,” said Fowler “is that they will put
down one rail one day and one rail the
next. So that the same intersections will be
closed two days in a row.”
Thursday and Friday will probably
cause the most confusion and frustration,
according to Fowler.
“On Thursday and Friday, Main,
Locust, Magnolia, Davis, and Gilmer
Streets will be closed from 7 a.m. until the
rail is installed,” the director said.
“We plan to have barricades set up in
such way that motorists don’t have to back
up and find another street to go down. We
will have flagmen posted at the barricades
with detour instuctions," Fowler said.
The railroad work crews will take a
three-day holiday over Fourth of July and
will resume work Tuesday July 7 on Oak,
Jackson, Carter and Lamar Streets.
“The most difficult days will be Thur-
sday and Friday just before the long
Fourth of July weekend,” Fowler said.
“But I think we have it planned out pretty
well, and although the motorists will be
inconvitnced to a certain extent, it should
not be an impossible situation to live
with,” he addfed.
One long rail
Old type railroad track came in 20 foot sections. The Kansas City Southern Railroad
will be replacing all that track next week in Sulphur Springs with new rails that are
M40 feet long. Since each rail is so long various intersections across town will be
closed as the new track is installed. A complete list of closings is listed in today's
News-Telegram.
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Bolivian coup beaten
By JOHN ENDERS
Associated Press Writer
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Rebel troops
massed tanks and sealed off the city
Saturday in an attempt to oust President
Luis Garcia Meza but an army general
who claimed he helped plot the coup was
under arrest and admitted defeat.
“It has failed in La Paz,” Gen. Lucio
Anez Rivera, the army chief of staff, told
The Associated Press by telephone from
the army headquarters.
He said he and Gen. Humerto Cayoja,
Bolivia’s army commander, were under
detention at the army headquarters on
orders of the president, who himself took
power nearly a year ago in a military coup
that ousted the civilian government.
“It failed (in La Paz) because of the
treason of some and the bribery of others,”
he said, but insisted district commanders
outside the capital were loyal to the in-
surgency. He said he and Cayoja planned
the coup to name a new president, but did
not say who they intended to name.
Early in the day, tanks and troops
massed around the presidential palace and
a military communication announced
Garcia Meza had been relieved. The
transmission said the army “has taken
appropriate security measures in order to
guarantee order and tranquillity among
the population of the interior of the country
... The military garrisons are aware of the
decision and have transmitted to the
military high command their full sup-
port.”
There were no reports of bloodshed in La
Paz, although movement was strictly
controlled and travel by automobile
prohibited. No reports were received from
the provinces.
Garcia Meza, 52, earlier had announced
he would step down on Aug. 6, after a year
in office. That would be a long run by the
standards of Bolivia, where there have
been 190 governments in the past 156 years
and six changes of government since 1978,
including four successful military coups.
Military authority had already passed to
Cayoja, 47, who replaced Garcia Meza as
commander of the army and as the army
member of the threeman governing junta
on May 26, after the president had
weathered two coup attempts by
disgruntled army officers in less than a
month.
Garcia Meza seized power on July 17,
1980, ousting Interim President Lidia
Gueiler in a military coup
Pope faces
long stay
ROME (AP) — Pope John Paul II, who
was in satisfactory condition, will stay in
the hospital for at least another week and
possibly as long as three weeks while he
recovers from a virus, his doctors said
Saturday.
Dr. Giuseppe Pallank, spokesman for
the Gemelli Hospital, said the pope has not
had a fever since Thursday night and he
was building up antibodies against the
cytomegalovirus, a virus that has symp-
toms similar to mononucleosis.
Pallank said even if the pope’s fever
returned in the next few days, there was no
cause for alarm, because a slight fever is
to be expected with the disease.
, said.
The men cut the boat loose after clim-
bing onto the rig and the Coast Guard was
summoned by the crew of a nearby oil rig
that saw the burning cruiser, the
spokesman said.
The Coast Guard cutter "Dorado” at-
tempted to fight the blaze for about 15
minutes before the cruiser burned to the
waterline and sank, Walter said.
The cutter rescued the three men,
. identified as Charles Witt and Craig Witt,
both of Texas City, and R. McGaffey of
Galveston.
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On the firing line
Members of the local National Guard unit, Co. B, 3rd Bn., 144th sharping up their shooting skills. The unit is spending two weeks
Infantry, spent two days last week on the rifle range at Ft. Hood, at Ft. Hood for annual summer training excerdses.
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