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Sulphur Springs
&fjE‘ui0-3TcIpgram
FEBRUARY 21,1989.
TWO SECTIONS
25 CENTS
VOL 111—NO. 44.
Q1 ha Echo Publishing Co Inc 1984
Ambassadors being
recalled over book
Weighing in
iben of Cab Seoul Pack 44 watch with
anticipation as (be weight of JJ). Crow’s pine wood
derby racer cones op oa the scales. Each entry in
the aaaapl event could not weigh more than 142
the aaaanl event
City
grams. About 75 scoots participated in this year’s
derby, held Saturday morning. From the left are
Brandon Barks, Bradly Burks, Crow and Ron
Paulson, pack committee chairman.
—SUIT photo by Richard Hail
ity manual almost ready
for printer after revisions
By DANA L DURHAM
News- Tele gram Staff
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Development
Director
Community
Roger Powell said.
The Development Management
Manual has undergone a number of
modifications since early October,
modifications dm Powell claims
will more generally align it with
current practices and needs of the
am city staff. City
Council members. Planning rod
Zoning commissioners and local
developers have contributed to the
of the manual that
is being reviewed by
Powell said
The review of the manual that
outlines municipal development
policies and uniform construction
standards included a close scrutiny
of each paragraph and every sen-
tence. “It was a general review of
the entire document," he said.
Among die modifications were
changes in definitions, specific
document requirements and hme
schedulings
“The impact of the changes, we
hope, will be a better understanding
of what it is,” Powell said, refer
ring the manual's primary purpose
of fostering growth.
He cited the regulations imposed
on developers through the manual,
but mid, >rIt's not at all intended id
inhibit growth, but rather to support
growth of a quality that is consis-
tent with the standard of living wc
have already.
“When something occurs in Sul-
phur Springs, we want it to be a
d be added, and quality thing, rod this is how we
will ** 2JuJbihmH
drafted sections for
add whatever
enforce that
Describing the manual as a quali-
ty control document, Powell added.
"It gets as from paper plans to the
facility an the streets and ensures
the quality of it once it gets there.''
The manual primarily consists of
ro basic pans, including the sub-
By JEFF DONN
Associated Press Writer
Iran recalled its ambassadors
from Common Market countries
today, a day after the 12 European
countries recalled their envoys
from Tehran to protest Ayatollah
Khomeini’s death decree against
novelist Salman Rushdie.
The move was in direct reponse
to the Common Market foreign
ministers’ decision in Brusaeu,
Belgium, on Monday to recall their
ambassadors from Tehran. Iran's
official Islamic Republic News
Agency reported.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a
communique that Khomeini’s
week-old order for the death of
Rushdie, whom he claims blas-
phemes Islam with his book “The
Satanic Verses.’' was a “consensus
judgement of all Moslem leaders
throughout the world,’* IRNA said.
The Iranian Embassy in Den-
mark said the ambassador would be
leaving, while those in Portugal.
Spain, France, the Netherlands, and
Belgium said they could not im-
mediately confirm their ambas-
sadors' travel plans.
The travel plans of the Iranian
charge d'affaires in London were
also not immediately released and
Iranian embassies in other
European capitals could not be
reached for comment.
In issuing the order. Iran’s For-
eign Ministry said respect for Islam
and its values will remain an in-
violable principle in relations be-
tween Iran and other countries.
IRNA said
Britain, where the Indian-born
Rushdie lives, said Monday that it
was pulling out its entire embassy
staff out of Tehran. The two coun-
tries had only just resumed
diplomatic relations in November
after a 17-month break.
The Common Market foreign
ministers, who met in Brussels,
Belgium, also said Monday that
they would suspend high-level
diplomatic exchanges with Iran.
Foreign Minister Hans-Dictrich
Genscher of West Germany said the
nations might, in addition, limit the
movement of Iranian diplomats in
Europe.
Today, Iran’s official Islamic Re-
public News Agency reported that
the Moslem fundamentalist leaders
in Tehran want reblions with
Britain to be cut “as soon as pos-
sible.’’
“British colonialism and the
Great Satan (the United States) had
played a basic role in tasuliing the
prophet Mohammed," the religious
leaders were quoted as saying.
IRNA said the leaders issued their
statement late Monday.
The statement called Rushdie's
novel "slanderous" and asked the
world’s Moslems to carry out
Khomeini’s week-old order that the
author be killed.
Iranian clerics have put a SS.2
million bounty on the author's
head. Rushdie is reportedly in
hiding under police guard.
Many Moslems say ‘‘The
Satanic Verses" portrays the
prophet Mohammed's wives as
prostitutes and suggests that he —
rather than God — wrote the
Koran. Islam’s holy book.
The novel has been banned in
Pakistan. Bangladesh, Iran, India.
zoning
Oliver North trial
getting under way
WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury
of nine women rod three men was
swam in today to hear evidence
that Oliver L. North covered up the
Iran-Contra affair, the Reagan ad-
embarrassing
Judge Gerhard A. Gesc 11 told the
panel as the trial of the former
white House aide and decorated
Marine officer got under way. “It’s
going lobe your job to decide what
the frets in this caw are. You are
foreign policy debacle the sole judge of the facts."
“You're now judges. you’re r^n administered the oath to
judgea of the frets." U S. District ^ ^ Sm Francisco law
yer John Keker, head of a team of
Optical dime
. ■ been tracking North's activities for
plan advances more than two yean.
■ Some 100 lawyers, reporters rod
Visions of a new optical clinic members of the public began lining
began lo focus Monday afternoon up outside the courtroom for open
two basic parts, including u
division ordinance and the
ordinance.
Although in existence for many
yean, the two major components
were not bound in manual farm un-
til about three yean ago The sub-
division ordinance was adopted by
the City Council in January 1985.
and the zoning ordinance passed in
April 1986.
“So. what was done was that we
had three yean experience with
this book, and some changes
I to be made." Powell said of
the recent modifications.
“We hope the modifications will
continue he said, “because this
book’s not meant to be static _.
We're always looking at population
growth, methods of development
and different styles of develop-
aHAAt **
mcnL
He mid the users of the manual,
along with the public, are the city's
“clients.” adding. “We work for
our clients through the develop-
ment of the community, and we
want to provide continued
control lor the
for.’
people we
quality *
t work
and Turkey have canceled plans to
publish it and it has been pulled
from bookstore shelves in Japan.
Many U.S. bookstores have also
Driver hurt
when pickup
‘broadslides’
A 19-year-old Sulphur Springs
man was injured Monday in a one-
vehicle accident at about 11 a m. on
FM 1536 in the Tira community
Shaune Flanagan was taken by
ambulance to Hopkins County
Memorial Hospital, where he was
admitted overnight and released
Tuesday morning
Department of Public Safety
Trooper Roger Maynard said
i was injured when he ap-
hit his head against the
glass of the 1986 Nissan
pickup track he was driving.
Flanagan had run off the road in
a curve and oversteered back onto
the roadway, causing the truck to
"broadslide.” Maynard said.
“He spun around and struck a
tree with the rear end of the
vehicle, and apparently, his head
was slammed against the rear
glass," he said.
I IWJW
Flanagan
patently I
back gta
removed the novel from display.
The novel has also prompted
Moslem protests around the world.
In Pakistan and India earlier this
month, seven people were killed in
protests against it.
On Monday, Iranian leaders met
at Khomeini’s home to reaffirm the
execution order and Iranian televi-
sion showed the fundamentalist
patriarch sitting impassively on a
balcony above a crowd of several
hundred men who,, waved clenched
fists and chanted “Death to
America!" and "Long Live
Khomeini!"
At Monday’s Common Market
meeting. Foreign Secretary Sir
Geoffrey Howe of Britain called
Khomeini’s death threat against
Rushdie and his publishers “un-
warranted interference" in Britain’s
internal affairs.
Smugglers
like Texas
over Florida
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The
markings on a $28 million cocaine
shipment seized at San Antonio
have led officers to theorize that a
major national cocaine distribution
nng has moved into South Texas to
escape the legal heal in South Flor-
ida. authorities say.
The 715 pounds of cocaine had
the distinctive fiberglass and surgi-
cal bandage wrappings and “USA
smuggling crackdowns in Florida,
investigators said Monday.
The cocaine was seized Sunday
and two men were arrested at San
Antonio International Airport by
officers who surrounded a small
plane when it landed
JJ. Johnston, aviation branch
chief for the San Antonio U.S. Cus-
toms Service office, said it was the
largest air interdiction catch ever
made at San Antonio and ranks
second only to a local seizure of
2,000 pounds of cocaine worth $91
million at a local warehouse last
June.
Air traffic controllers in Houston
and San Antonio upped off drug
agents when they noticed a plane
flew out of San Antonio Saturday
morning with its radar transponder
turned off despite a heavy cloud
cover, Johnston said. The Cessna
210 returned to San Antonio the
same way Saturday night.
The plane did the same "strange
things" Sunday when it again (lew
out of Sro Antonio, Johnston said.
Customs planes spotted the plane
(lying near Kerrville Sunday eve-
ning and followed it to San An-
tonio.
Federal invesugators said they
did not know where in Mexico the
plane picked up the cocaine, but
ssumed the drug was from Colom-
bia.
Duane Allen helping ETSU raise funds
Sulphur Springs Planning
ing Commission itcon-
that the City Council ap-
: final plat of the Kennedy
Allen, lead singer and
president of country music's Oak
Ridge Boys, hat been named an
honorary chairman of the “Shared
Visions" capital campaign at East
Ttatas Sure University
“Shved Visions" has a goal of
rvsuig between $1.9 Bullion and
$3.7 million for ETSU over the
ETSU officials
pleased Allen is
honorary
said they are
The crash of qrectaun prompted
court officials lo
only IS scats would he set aside for
*“ * ‘ “ ame aide* to
[is high
lo the
of the capital
c*^ ■*,,« *. d— ai-
ten has endorsed oar efforts hi the
Shared Visions campaign. His I
profile will add distinct inn
: imp sign. He has displayed his
commitment to ETSU by "PP^
mg our scholarship program He
haau’t forgotten us rod we are
grateful.“ Lvry Goddard, director
of development, i
i
SLPoSZ?-?
In 1975, the Oak Ridge Boys
creased ova from gospel by adding
country songs to their act In 1977,
the Oaks' “Ya'U Come Back
Saloon” rose to the top of the coun-
try charts.
Since “Ya'U Come Back
Saloon.*' the Oak Ridge Boys have
produced several other hit songs,
including “Sail Away.” “Lcavmg
Louisiana m Broad Daylight.
"You’re the One." "Trymg to Love
TWo Women, and "Dream On "
In addition to their music. Allen
and the Oak Ridge Boys have
volunteered their time to participate
in various , activities benefitung
children, b >981, they served as
official ^vkesmer, for die Boy
Scouts of America
They ateo have wppuned child
Music" which was published
1971. He have been awarded an
honorary degree from Victory Bible
Institute of Lewistown, Ohio, md
was listed in the 41st edition of
"Who’s Who in America "
The singer and his wife, Nora
Lee, are the parents of a
and a son.
dte Oak F vs to 1964
1960a md early 1970a. be
; aay to
^ wad max songs md to be co-
author of “The History of Gospel
i
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 44, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1989, newspaper, February 21, 1989; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816707/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.