Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 91, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1981 Page: 1 of 24
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Mid-Am reports
'fabulous' year
Mid-American Dairymen enjoyed a
"fabulous” business year in 1900,
Howard Graham, local manager, told
the Rotary Club Thursday.
Sales exceeded )1 billion with 240
different items now handled.
Mid-American is owned by more
than 11,000 milk producers in 12
states, Graham said, and profits are
cycled back to these association
members.
W.T. Allison II presented trophies to
high school speech students who were
finalists in the club’s recent public
speaking contest. They are Paul
Miller, first place winner; Matt
Starkey, Roy Davis and Randall
Holland.
Guests at the meeting included
Donna Hatcher, Miss Sulphur Springs
in the 1981 Miss Texas pageant.
Jacobsen keeps
top board post
Allan Jacobsen, long-time member
of the Hopkins County Hospital
District board of directors, was re-
elected president of the group at
Thursday night's regular monthly
meeting at Memorial Hospital.
David Jackson was named vice
president and Rayford Stinson was re-
elected secretary in the annual
reorganization meeting. Jacobsen,
Stinson and Harold Arnold were re-
elected to the board in the recent
county-wide vote. The incumbents
were unopposed in Ok election.
Holdover directors are Jackson and
Charles Gilreath.
In other action, the board voted to
replace a delivery room table which
over the years has served to bring
many area residents into the world.
The obstetrics table had been in
service for about 32 years, and of-
ficials said the equipment had been in
use at least since the old hospital was
built in 1949, and possibly before that
in private practice.
Board members accepted a low bid
from American Sterilizer Company of
$7,476 to replace the old two-piece
delivery table with a modem one.
The board also accepted a low bid of
$7,149 from Price Ford Sales for the
purchase of a four-door sedan for
hospital use, and routinely reviewed
bills and financial statements of the
hospital.
Clouds try, but
efforts feeble
Clouds which have dotted the skies
above Sulphur Springs over the past
few days haven’t exactly gotten their
act together so far.
Despite continued calls for showers
from the National Weather Service,
the best those clouds have been able to
provide was a paltry .03 of an inch of
rain recorded at the Sulphur Springs
observation station in the 24-hour
period ending at 8 a.m. Friday.
To date, only 1.44 inches of moisture
has accumulated during April, well
below the seasonal average for
Hopkins County. For the year, the
official weather station has recorded
just 8.53 inches of rainfall.
But the weather service remains
insistent. The forecast issued Friday
morning calls for scattered afternoon
and evening showers through
Saturday and possible thunderstorms
Monday and Tuesday.
Daytime highs should remain
warm, however, with the mercury
reaching into the 80s on .Monday and
Tuesday as the annual Hopkins
County Dairy Festival week begins to
unfold. Mild overnight readings in the
near-80 range are forecast through
Tuesday.
Thursday's high at the observation
station here was 79 degrees, with an
overnight low of 56. At 8 a.m. Friday
the mercury stood at 71 under mostly
cloudy but so far unproductive sklea.
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Easter, Passover and deliverance
Weekend festivals link
faiths in hope, history
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No-name days numbered
This caricature, which has served as the symbol of the Hopkins County Dairy
Festival for the past two years, will finally have a name this time around. The
winner of the ‘Name the Cow' contest for youngsters will be announced on Tuesday,
festival officials say. The salute to the dairy industry opens with a 10 a.m. Monday
reception for Hopkins County dairymen at the First United Methodist Church and
continues a week-long run ending Saturday, April 15, with the coronation of the INI
Dairy Festival Queen. A number of events are scheduled for this year's celebration,
including the return of the dairy show. Details of the festivies will appear In Sun-
day's edition of The News-Telegram, with photos and features throughout the week
highlighting festival events and the dairy industry.
Missing miners
dead by rescue teams
By GEORGE W. CORNELL
AP Religion Writer
Both the older faith, Judaism, and its
offspring, Christianity, celebrate their
major festivals of hope this weekend,
Passover and Easter.
They’re linked in history and also hold a
comparable meaning — deliverance.
For Christians, that deliverance is
pioneered for humanity in the resurrection
of Jesus from death, a triumph celebrated
this Sunday.
For Jews, the week-long Passover ob-
servance starts Saturday evening, com-
memorating deliverance of their people
from slavery in Egypt.
“Let my people go!” Moses demanded,
and they got away.
"He is risen!” the excited report spread
about Jesus, and his followers concluded
that with him nothing could beat them, not
even dying.
The concurrence of the Passover-Easter
observances “provides an interreligious
mutuality founded in brotherhood,” says
David Hyatt, a Catholic and president of
the National Conference of Christians and
Jews.
Both occasions, he points out, have a
timeless quality, focusing not just on past
events, but on their continuing
significance for the present and the future
"... Next year may we all be free! ” goes
a prayer of the Seder meal of Passover.
The words “speak to us with perennial
truth,” says Rabbi Arthur J. Ldyveld,
president of the Synagogue Council of
America, citing continuing oppression,
persecution and brutalities in the world.
“May we renew our vow to labor for... a
world of justice, peace, freedom and
love.”
found
By NANCYTRAVER
Associated Press Writer
REDSTONE, Colo. (AP) — Rescue
workers found the bodies of 15 coal miners
early today, a day and a half after an
explosion ripped through the Dutch Creek
No. .1 mine in the Colorado Rockies, a
spokeswoman for the mine operator said.
The discovery of the 15th body just after
sunup today concluded the search for those
killed in the explosion Wednesday af-
ternoon, said Marvin Meyers, personnel
director for Mid Continent Resources Co.,
which operates the mine 30 miles west of
Aspen.
The cause of the explosion was not
immediately known, but there was
speculation that the miners might have hit
a methane gas pocket, which triggered the
blast. Miners say being near a methane
exposion in a mine shaft would be like
being in an exploding gun barrel.
Nine bodies were discovered in the main
tunnel just before midnight Thursday, and
five more were found about three hours
later in a branch corridor about 1,000 feet
from the first group, said spokeswoman
Mary Boland.
Meyers said the last miner, identified as
Kelly B. Greene, 25, of New Castle, was
found 34 hours after rescue workers found
the second group of bodies.
Pilgrim throng flocks
along tortured path
JERUSALEM (AP) - Pilgrims from
around the world flocked to the Via
Dolorosa this Good Friday to retrace the
tortured path of Jesus Christ to the skull-
shaped hill called Calvary where he was
crucified.
Many brought heavy wooden crosses to
carry along the narrow alleyway that
leads from the place where Pontius Pilate
condemned Christ, to the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre, traditional site of his
crucifixion and entombment.
Jerusalem was bathed in warm spring
sunshine as hundreds gathered for the
annual pilgrimage that marks the saddest
occasion in the Christian calendar.
Israeli troops kept an inconspicuous but
watchful guard to prevent any possible
Palestinian guerrilla attacks.
With Easter and the Jewish Passover
holiday partly coinciding, some 100,000
tourists have flocked to the Holy Land, and
police are issuing pleas to the public to
look out for suspicious objects.
The military said it strengthened its
alert along the Lebanese frontier following
an attempt by guerrillas Thursday to fly
into the Jewish state from Lebanon in a
hot-air balloon. Israeli troops shot down
the balloon and killed the guerrillas.
At the Garden Tomb north of the city
walls, where many Protestants believe
Christ was crucified and entombed,
prayers were conducted throughout Good
Friday in German, Dutch, EhgUsh and the
Scandinavian languages.
Senate fixes farm title hangup
AU8TIN, Texas (AP) - The Senate has
approved a proposal to allow three Leon
County families to own the land they have
lived oa for more than 50 yean without,
presumably, knowing they lacked legal
title
“We’ve taken action aa swiftly aa
wttghed heavily on the minds of the Jaaaie
the Ray Benges, the
McAdamses and others fer quite some
time, I am pleased that the Senate has
acted with due speed in this matter,
without prolonging the issue and the
anguish felt by those taroiliee,” said Sen.
Kent Caperten, D*Bryan.
The Issue was first publicised when Rep.
Senfronia Thompson, ^Houston, accused
the General land Office of trying to take
away Jessie Johnson's land.
Johnson, 61, bought 180 acres In Leon
County in 1MI and finished paying for it 40
years ago, but the state still owns it
because of a 140-year*old defect in the
original seller's title.
Caperton's proposed constitutional
amendment would authorise the School
land Board to Issue patents-or titles-if
a person acquired school tend without
knowing the title was defective.
The Easter celebration also holds up a
vision of the ultimate victory of goodness,
of a world in which even death is over-
come, as heralded in history by God's
emissary.
"Easter does not come and go. It comes
and stays," says Episcopal Presiding
Bishop John M. Allin. “It is more than a
season. Resurrection ... embraces and
supports our life in Christ."
It is “a truth that lives with us each day
of our lives.”
Besides the shared implications and
aspirations of the two holidays, they also
are connected historically both in the New
Testament view of extending the older
prophetic vision, and sharing in its
heritage.
“I have earnestly desired to eat this
Passover with you before 1 suffer,” Jesus
said as he reclined with his apostles at his
last supper, a Jewish Seder, before his
crucifixion.
Re-enacting that supper became for
Christians their central act of worship,
Holy Communion, in which Christ still is
regarded present with them, the guarantor
that life finally wins despite the travail.
“Abide in me, and I in you,” he said, “to
the world you have tribulation, but be of
good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
The Jewish rejebratkn of Pssesrrr
strikes similar notes of pentotence, hope
and ultimate victory over the destructive
farces of the world.
It “points the way to the future,” ays
Maynard L Wishner, pwident of tte
American Jewish Committee, to a time of
"cosmic liberation” aa gymMtaai
in Scripture, “the wolf shaB dweB wtt the
lamb.” when “the dry bones” of thorn
"thought to be utterly destroyed by the
wicked will live again.”
Passover is seen as foretokening that
dream, a sign of God’s mama caring hr
humanity. Other such signs aba are aeon,
including the choosing of (llrslnan‘i
people, the giving of the Ten Com-
mandments, the prophets.
Christians, too, affirm those revetotinaa,
but see Jesus as the capstone of them, “aw
Passover.”
“The Lard is my strength ssNl my smg,
and he has become aj salvation,” gnes
th» o|g «nng tj wiiUUii Wftf tht JfMfc
escape from bondage to Egypt “Than has
led in tby steadfast love the people atom
thou hast redeemed.”
“Christ,” the Apostle PM wrote, “ton
set us free.”
Ms. Boland said Mid-Continent
President John Reeves was with the
rescuers who discovered the first nine
bodies, and he reported that the victims
appeared to have been killed instantly by
the explosion.
The first nine victims were identified as
Kyle Cook, 33, of Silt, Cok>.; Richard
Lincoln, 22, Glanwood Springs; Loren
Mead, 35, Rifle; Ronald Patch, 34, Car-
bondale; Terry Lucero, 28, Glenwood
Springs; Glen Sharp, 31, El Jebel; John
Ayala, 40, Carbondale; John Rhodes, 29,
Carbondale, and Robert Ragle, 29, New
Castle.
Meyers released the names of the five
other victims: Thomas Vetter, 24; William
E. Gutherie, 32; Daniel Utwiller, 21; and
Hugh W. Pierce Jr., 20, all of Glenwood
Springs; and Brett Tucker, 30, Car
bondale.
He said the bodies were being removed
from the mine district office to Famham
Richardson Mortuary in Glenwood
Springs.
“It’s so heartbreaking,” he said. “1
hired some of those guys and sent them
into the mine, and look what happened.”
Some of the miners’ families were
huddled around campfires near the gate at
the mine road entrance when someone ran
up shouting, “They’re all dead! They’re all
dead!"
Members of the family of one miner
jumped up, their bodies racked with sobs.
Ramona Luna of Colorado Springs,
sister of victim John Ayala, hugged
another relative and said, “Johnny just
didn't make it. He just didn’t make it He's
down there.”
There were 22 men inside when the blast
occurred Wednesday afternoon. Seven
men made it out immediately after the
explosion. Three were hospitalized tor
’'bum, bruises and shock.
Ralph Lewis, a public information of-
ficer fw the U S. Mine Safety and Health
Administration in Arlington, Va., said
three of the first nlno bodies were found in
one aroa and six to another - all noar the
end of the T,II0 toot main tunnel of the
Dutch Creek No. 1 mine, which is 21 miles
west of Aspen.
Delaney said the rtwwi had been
moving slowly bocauae of “rather con-
servative" federal rescue procedures that
requirt craws u> outw • ptm at ettan
tlr"aathay approach an accldont alto.
Springtime soft
The sott caton of spring continue to abound «l
keep greening and bleomlng under toe Influence el e siring el i
Among the brighter Manama neuron dhpley across toe area ere r
and colors, complementing a wide variety at ether spmg flowers -
and wild—painting away toe drab greys at winter
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House approves water
project fund proposal
ByLti JONES
Associated Prees Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Rap. John
Bryant. DDaBas. says Speaker BO)
Clayton's proposal dedkattof state
“rainy day” eenargency toad nil compel
But
Houae, which apprewtd Clayton's con-
amandmant!
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sday and seatftta the Senate,
Clayton says chances “toek pretty teed
to the SMtoto," where a twothhtb
majority is needed to send the aMMuee to
the voters to Nawamhir tor a Baal
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 91, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1981, newspaper, April 17, 1981; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth870691/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.