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In addition, House and Senate
negotiators finishing work on the
spending bill Monday voted to allow
senators to earn an extra $7,510 a
year in speaking fees and opened the
door to a 1987 pay raise for all
legislators.
Critics decried the increase in
senators' speaking income when
spending for many programs was be-
ing cut to reduce federal deficits.
Sparkman, all of Hereford.
The family requests memorials be
made to Giristown.
REJECTED ........
The overnight lapse in spending
authority was not expected to cause
any disruption of government opera-
tions.
In the push toward adjournment,
legislators have scrambled to use the
urgently-needed spending bill as a
vehicle for pet projects that other-
wise would not be enacted.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Paid attendance at the National Finals
Rodeo topped 142,000 Sunday to set a new record, rodeo officials
said.
The previous record of 117,000 was set last year in Oklahoma City,
according to Gene Bryan, promotions director for the event.
The rodeo began in Dallas in 1959, then moved to Los Angeles for
three years before shifting to Oklahoma City.
las Vegas officials wooed the rodeo away from Oklahoma by
doubling the prize money, offering $1.79 million to lit contestants
The 10-round event ended Sunday at the Thomas and Mack Center
on the University of Nevada-Las Vegas campus.
In Austin, for example, private
companies and organizations have
donated space, equipment and other
aid to the Austin Teen Pregnancy
Awareness Project, which already is
helping about 40 young women, of-
ficials said. ‘
Vera Jones, a project official, said
the young women and their parents
are counseled. Day care services
also are available so the girls can
return to school, she said.
"We’ve been successful in enroll-
ing teen-age mothers back in school.
Our hope is that they will become
self-sufficient and independent and
be able to function without the use of
welfare at some point in their lives,”
she said.
Ms. Jones said adult volunteers
are being recruited to serve as role
models and counselors for young
women who are pregnant.
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Administration will pursue dumping case
AUSTIN (AP) — Community
leaders in several Texas cities are
"For us to sneak it in or for us to
appear to have snuck it in does us a
disservice," said Sen. Dennis DeCon-
cini, D-Ariz.
The provision would allow
members of the Senate to earn as
much as 40 percent above their
$75,100 congressional pay in outside
honoraria. The current limit is 30
percent, and the increase would lift
the cap from slightly over $22,500 to a
little more than $30,000 annually, ef-
fective Jan. 1.
Bounty Winner
Johnny Wali, left, won the second Annual Big Brother-
Big Sister Pheasant “Bounty Hunt.” He said he found
the pheasant out on South Progressive. Alva Lee
Peeler, right, presents Wall with a $500 check and
noted this was their first year to pay the winner.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige
says the Reagan administration remains firm against what he says
is heavy pressure from Japan to drop an unfair trading complaint
against low-cost Japanese computer chips.
The complaint, alleging that Japan is "dumping” sophisticated
memory chips in U.S. markets at below-production costs, will be fil-
ed formally later this week, Baldrige said Monday.
He disputed a published account that the White House was backing
away from the investigation or that he had overstepped his authority
in announcing the scope of the probe.
Baldrige said that since he announced the dumping case earlier
this month, Japanese interests have been lobbying hard to get the
president to renounce it.
According to the Texas Depart-
ment of Human Resources, some
1,181 girls between 13 and 19 gave
birth in Travis County in 1983,
department spokeswoman Sally
Griffin said.
"We feel like this is a community
problem. We’ve got to have
everybody involved I trying to
make a difference. None of us can
just sit by and let this continue to
happen,” she said.
Rep. Bob Richardson, R-Austin,
said the combination of public and
private help hopefully will help
"break the cycle of poverty” into
which many youths fall.
Many Texas families on welfare
are headed by women who had their
first children while still in their
teens, he noted.
“This type of program combines
the things I like to see, which are
government assistance combined
with donations and assistance from
the private sector,” he said.
Conviction
upheld
The Seventh District Court of Ap-
peals in Amarillo has upheld a con-
viction previously ruled in Deaf
Smith County’s 222nd District Court.
The court denied the appeal made
by Victor Duran on a conviction of
delivery of marijuana.
District Judge David Wesley
Gulley heard the case in Deaf Smith
County.
The appeal was heard by John T.
Boyd, Associate Justice.
Rubble of propane explosion searched
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Firefighters searched the
smoldering rubble of a leveled two-story gas company today for a
missing person after a propane tank explosion and fire that killed 11
people and injured 13.
Twenty-seven employees of the Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Co.
in this west-central Colorado town were believed to be in the building
when the explosion occurred Monday morning. Two people escaped
injury.
A welding torch that was lighted near an almost empty
1,000-gallon propane tank apparently triggered the blast in a garage
where repairs were done, said Les Sitter, a company vice president
at its Denver headquarters.
Fire still burned under the wreckage at nightfall.
Company president Don Parsons refused to speculate on the cause
of the blast, and said he would wait for an investigation. He confirm-
ed that a propane tank on a flatbed trailer apparenty was undergo-
ing repairs. “I doubt if the tank was full, but I expect it had some
propane in it,” he said.
No natural gas was stored at the building in an industrial park at
the western edge this resort town of 5,000, police said.
The combination billing office-maintenance garage was reduced
to rubble by the (:16 a.m. explosion. •
Austin pondering smoking ban
AUSTIN (AP) — The Austin City Council will hear public
testimony this week on a proposed ordinance that would limit smok-
ing in public buildings and private workplaces.
Supporters of the ordinance say passive exposure to tobacco
smoke - breathing smoke from someone else’s cigarette — is a
hazard to nonsmokers.
Limiting smoking in offices, restaurants and other gathering
places would follow action taken by Dallas and several other major
cities, backers say.
"The ordinance operates under the basic premise that everyone
has the right to breathe clean air," said Councilwoman Sally Ship-
man. who proposed the ordinance along with Mayor Frank Cooksey.
"I want to start the public hearing and get some reaction,” she ad-
ded A public hearing has been scheduled for Thursday evening.
The plan submitted by Ms. Shipman and Cooksey would forbid
smoking in all public buildings and private workplaces, except in
areas designated for smoking.
The effort is supported by Friends of Austin Nonsmokers and other
groups, including the local chapter of the American Lung Associa-
tion.
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■ The old 30 percent cap would re-
" main in effect for House members
k\ unless they took a separate vote to
change House rules.
Another section of the bill would
require that both houses of Congress
pass legislation to block any pay
raise expected to be proposed in late
1986 by a federal pay commission.
The bill also would permit defense
spending to rise to at least $282.5
billion next year while freezing or
- cutting many domestic programs.
Reputed mob boss shot down in street
NEW YORK (AP) — The daring rush-hour street shooting of the
reputed boss of the nation’s most powerful crime family and his
bodyguard could "determine the future of organized crime in this
country” and touch off a battle for control within the Mafia,
authorities said.
Paul Castellano, the reputed mob boss, and Thomas Bilotti, a
reputed captain in the Gambino crime family, were shot in the head
and body by three men who-walked up to their car, pulled automatic
weapons from under trenchcoats and opened fire, said Chief of
Detectives Richard Nicastro.
Both died where they fell Monday evening, lying face-up in pools of
blood within feet of the black Lincoln sedan Bilotti had driven.
It could be the beginning of a crime war. But only time will tell
that,” said FBI organized crime expert Thomas Sheer. “This un-
doubtedly will trigger some sort of reaction. It’s a part of the chang-
ing of the guard that’s been going on for the last 25 years.”
Castellano, 73. and Bilotti, 45, were walking from the car when
they were shot outside Sparks, a midtown steak house, Nicastro
said.
The gunmen ran into the rush-hour crowd after the 5:28 p.m.
shooting just blocks from Grand Central Terminal and drove off in a
car parked a block away, said Nicastro. The street was littered with
shell cases. No weapons were recovered.
’ What we have here was the assassination of the head of the
largest and most powerful organized crime family in the United
States,” Sheer said.
Police said many of the Gambinos' 200 to 250 members were in-
creasingly involved in legitimate concerns in the food, entertain-
ment and jewelry businesses as well as illegal pursuits.
During the closed caucus,
Republicans took a signed secret-
ballot straw vote on whether to sup-
port the bill. It was unclear whether
the pessimistic assessments of GOP
leaders actually reflected rank-and-
file sentiment or whether Reagan
ted the president to go to the Capitol
Monday, where he put his prestige on
the line and pleaded his case. "The
president was very nice, very con-
ciliatory ... but he was not very con-
vincing,” Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn.,
told reporters.
Top GOP leaders offered little
reason for optimism. Barring some
changes in the bill itself, said Rep.
Jack Kemp of New York, chairman
of the Republican Conference, “I
don't see the votes right now for the
bill."
Less than three hours later, Baker
was emerging from the office of
Republican Leader Robert Michel of
Illinois with the announcement that
O’Neill had been promised the 50
GOP votes. Republicans were
assured:
—The House will vote on not only
the GOP substitute but a Republican
amendment to it that would keep
present-law tax treatment of pen-
sions. The Democratic bill would
raise taxes on many pensions, in-
cluding those received by millions of
retired federal, state and local
workers. But there is virtually no
chance the GOP bill can pass, so the
amendment would be meaningless.
The Democratic pension provision
would still stand.
—The president will write a letter
promising to veto any final tax bill
that has an individual tax rate over
35 percent (the present top rate is 50
percent; the Democrats' bill sets 38
percent), that imposes that rate on
any taxable income under $70,000
(the Democrats' top rate hits single
people whose taxable income is over
$60,000) and that does not offer ade-
quate tax incentives for business in-
vestment.
—If the House passes a tax bill, it
will consider a resolution stating the
House favors making most tax
changes effective Jan. 1 1987. The
Democratic bill has several different
effective dates.
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JULIA GERTRUDE WELTY
Julia Gertrude Welty, 88, died 12:15
p.m. Dec. 14, in Grand Junction,
Colo.
Services will be Wednesday at 10
a.m. at Wesley United Methodist
Church under the direction of
Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
Welty was born May 28, 1897 at
Hico. She was married to Herman C.
Welty on Dec. 26,1915, in Luders. He
preceded her in death on Oct. 10,
1965. Welty was a resident of
Hereford for 41 years. While living
here she was a school cook and at
King's Manor Retirement Home.
Welty was also a seamstress and a
member of Wesley United Methodist
Church.
Survivors include one daughter,
Lucy Derryberry of Grand Junction,
Colo.; four sons, J.D. Welty of
Oraville, Calif.; D.L. Welty of
Hereford; Everett Welty of North
Platt, Neb.; and Jack Welty of Grand
Junction, Colo, and 23 grandchildren
and 40 great-grandchildren.
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had won votes with telephone lobby- making headway in helping girls and
ing after his 50-minute stay at the their parents learn about the pro-
meeting. blems of teen-age pregnancy, state
officials said.
Even with that agreement, Michel Rep. Wilhelmina Delco, D-Austin,
said, he could not vote for the said Monday that community
Democratic bill. He and most other leaders in Austin, El Paso, Houston.
Republicans in the House say the bill Dallas and other cities are getting in-
would damage the economy by im- volved in counseling programs for
posing an additional $140 billion in young women.
taxes on corporations over the next "There is a great deal of concern, a
five years. That money would be us- great deal of awareness and an in-
ed to cut individual taxes. The shift creasing circle of involvement with
to corporations would total about both public and private sector
$101 billion under the GOP bill. effort," Ms. Delco said.
to leave her child again in a sitter’s He said the tipster became
care. suspicious when a woman left
FBI agent Woody Specht said Houston for a trip to Dallas and
authorities were led to the baby by a returned “with a baby whose sudden
person who tipped the National presence she was unable to
Center for Missing and Exploited reasonably explain to friends and
Children. relatives.”
Hungary is seeking more trade PLO leader Mohammed Abbas in Oc-
with the United States to improve its tober despite a U.S. request that he
economy and help maintain a be detained on charges of master-
market system relatively free of minding the Achille Lauro cruise
Soviet control. For that reason it ship hijacking.
wants its most favored nation trade Yugoslavian officials are expected
status renewed for five-year periods, to raise economic issues. Mrs. Plan-
rather than annually. nic’s government, grappling with
Snultz said he did not think Con- high inflation, unemployment and
gress would approve, adding, "It is foreign debt, wants to increase ex-
not really an issue." The State ports to the United States.
daughter, Doris Jean Andrews of new published hereim
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Counties benefit from registration hike
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas counties are benefiting along with the
state from increased motor registration fees, according to the Texas
Good Roads-Transportation Association.
Texans registered 13,966,188 motor vehicles in the year ending
Aug. 31, an increase of 3.52 percent over the previous year.
However, as a result of an increase in motor vehicle fees voted by
the 1984 special legislative session, net registration fees divided by
the state and county are up 51.95 percent, the association said.
The state highway fund received $473,124,091 from registrations
last year while county road and bridge funds received $73,203,874.
In addition to retaining a portion of the license fees, the counties
received $27.8 million in fees for registering the vehicles, and 182 of
the state’s 254 counties also collected a $5 county registration fee.
The 1984 change made registration fees based on a vehicle’s age,
not weight. The fee on a new mid-sized car went from $25.50 to $46
and the fee for small cars under three years old went from $15 JO to
$46
The Good Roads Association said the counties with the most
vehicles are Harris County with 1,992,122 and Dallas County with
1,698.563.
Tarrant had 945.300 registrations, Bexar 838,542, Travis 489,896, El
Paso 355,952, Nueces 226,169, Jefferson 214,486, Hidalgo 190,633 and
Lubbock 183,204.
A total of seven counties have more than 100,000 vehicles each.
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meeting Premier Milka Planinc, who Department has given Hungary
“made a tremendous impression” relatively good marks in human
during her May visit to the United rights and renewal of its most
States. Shultz also recalled a favored nation status has been swift
meeting with Josip Broz Tito, the each year.
late president and founder of comm- “But I think it would, at some
munist Yugoslavia who engineered point, in the Congress be propitious
his country’s break from Soviet orbit to deal with the question, because it
In Hungary on Monday, Shultz sug- to have the certainty,” Shultz said,
gested that Congress “at some "It helps in the conduct of trade and
point” consider dropping annual business and investments.”
reviews of Hungarian human rights As he did in all six countries on his
performance, currently a condition 10-day tour, Shultz was expected to
for special trading rights. , tell officials in Yugoslavia the U.S.
Shultz told a news conference that positions in arms control negotia-
he conducted “exciting" talks with tions with the Soviet Union.
Hungarian Communist Party leader Officials planning for the trip said
Janos Kadar, and the trade issue earlier this month that Shultz might
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