Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 69, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 1980 Page: 13 of 26
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Gasohol arrives
The first station in Sulphur Springs to offer gasohol, the Road Runner station on South Broadway,
introduced the product Friday morning in an informal ceremony with a ribbon cutting. Mayor
Millard Glover cut the ribbon as David Du Priest; Glenda Shelton; Jack Thompson, sales
manager of southern division of the company; and Rex Duncan, advertising manager, looked on.
The gasohol is selling lor *1.19 a gallon at present, but Duncan says he feels the price will come
down as more alcohol is produced.
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Whistle blows dull note
for new Friday series
By PETER J. BOYER
A P Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Of
his new Friday night series,
“When the Whistle Blows,’’
President of ABC En-
tertainment Tony Thompoulos
recently said:
“It is a very unique, exciting
idea. It is an eight o’clock
comedy-adventure show that
deals with the celebration of the
American working man, men
who are blue collar workers;
family men, who believe in
traditional American values of
the work ethic, giving their time
for the money they earn.”
It sounded so right, so attuned
to the American mood. But it
came out so wrong — a phony-
baloney exploitation of the blue-
collar chic.
“When the Whistle Blows" is
as much a celebration of the
American working man as
“The Dukes of Hazzard” is a
celebration of Shakespeare.
They gathered a few drug-
store hardhats, threw in some
hijinx and low humor and came
up with yet another prime-time
hour of human cartoons.
Hardhats should sue.
“Where the Whistle Blows”
made its debut last Friday
evening. It went something like
this:
Our heroes work on a Los
Angeles construction crew and
have names like Buzz, Bulldog
and Hunk. There is also a girl
hardhat, Lucy. They are all
television cute, and manage to
keep their clothes clean and
their coifs neatly arranged.
Dolph Sweet is their foreman,
the token ugly man. He is ABC’s
imitation of Karl Malden (as in
“Skag”) and is supposed to
embody the package containing
the work ethic, guts and high
values that made America
great. Instead, he competes
with the youngsters in the
silliness department.
They try to win the rodeo
contest at their saloon hangout.
This endeavor involves the
riding of a mechanical horse
and arm wrestling with former
San Francisco end Cedric
Hardman.
They win, and are im-
mediately challenged to a real
rodeo by three strangers. They
accept the challenge before the
barmaid has a chance to warn
them that the strangers are
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visiting rodeo.
They proceed to practice calf
roping by chasing each other on
motorcycles and exchanging
Starskyesque insults. Isn’t this
fun?
I think it’s wonderful that
television is beginning to
acknowledge the existence of
people who aren’t doctors or
lawyers, and I suppose it’s only
fair that hardhats be treated
with the same light super-
ficiality accorded to the white
collars.
With “When the Whistle
Blows,” at least, ABC will not
be able to pull out that tattered,
patronizing line, “It’s what
people want.” The premiere
show finished in the bottom 20
percent for the week. This
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Hostages to get FRANK AND ERNEST by Bob Thaves
new year treats
but no freedom
By The Associated Press
The 50 American hostages in
the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
will get Iranian new year treats
but not their freedom until the
shah is returned, a spokesman
for the Moslem militants said
today.
“We will give them goodies
and cookies,” the spokesman,
reached by telephone from The
Associated Press office in
Nicosia, Cyprus, said. “It will
be a simple ceremony.
“Tonight you will understand
what we will do. We will give
prizes to a couple of them.” He
did not describe the prizes.
Asked whether this meant
some of the hostages — who
began their 139th day in cap-
tivity today — might be freed,
the captor said:
“No, none of them will be
released. They will not be
released until the criminal shah
is returned to Iran.”
As freedom for the hostages
looked farther and farther
away, U.N. Secretary-General
Kurt Waldheim cautioned the
United States against military
action in Iran.
“If you think you can solve
this problem by force you are
wrong” because that would
jeopardize the lives of the
captives and “create an ex-
plosion” in the entire Middle
East, Waldheim told a news
conference Thursday.
Waldheim, in Washington for
a meeting with Secretary of
State Cyrus R. Vance, was
concerned about a call by
Senate Republicans for the
Carter administration to
consider a naval blockade and
mining of Iran’s ports.
Waldheim praised President
Carter’s “restraint and firm-
ness.” He said he was confident
“patience and perseverance”
will lead to the release of the
embassy hostages and the three
American diplomats who are
prisoners at the Iranian
Foreign Ministry.
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