Times Record News from Wichita Falls, Texas (2024)

March 14, 1983

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Times Record Newsi

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Wichita Falls, Texas

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Monday, March 14, 1983

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rTTvTT "Monday Weather I A) Index Wichita County Junior Livestock Show under way 3A Houston Arkansas go to NCAA tournament 1A Increasing cloudiness Monday Partly cloudy Monday night High hear 80 Low in mid-SOs Winds light and southeasterly AmwtmenU 56 Editorials JA Aaalysis JA Utetyfct Aaaljndrrs 1IA Obituaries Aanren 1IA Sparts Ctessifieds l-UB TVLeg Cwairs JB Weather tlA 4A MB A (A ttax 'y Vol LXI No 227 Phone 767-8341 Wichita Falls Texas (78307) Monday Morning March 14 1983 32 Pages 25 awuiHH Withholding rider i Israeli withdrawal debated WASHINGTON (AP) Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted Sunday there must be on security matters between Lebanon and Israel before his country will withdraw its troops from Lebanese soil Following a meeting with Secretary of State George Shultz Shamir told reporters the Lebanese government not be able to control the security of its territory by its own forces" it is our conviction that there must be a close cooperation between us and Lebanon" Shamir said Without such cooperation he said Israel fears it would again become the target for terrorist attacks across the Lebanese border The issue of whether Israel will continue to have security control in southern Lebanon is a key sticking point in the deadlocked troop withdrawal negotiations US officials said Shamir largely restated existing Israeli positions in a 44-hour meeting with Shultz who has become directly involved in the negotiations for the first time (Israel) made a presentation and we had an exchange but it was basically their presentation" said a senior US official who insisted on anonymity Another offical said there was in the jobs bill to subsidize state unemployment benefit payments Budget Director David Stockman has told Congress that if the bill is not enacted soon some states could begin feeling the crunch by Tuesday As many as a third of the states might be affected by week's end In other action the Senate is scheduled to begin debating a Social Security rescue plan on Tuesday or Wednesday but the logjam on the jobs bill could delay that debate The bill resembles a 8165 billion Social Security measure passed last week by the House and Senate leaders were predicting easy approval The legislation would curb some Social Security benefits increase payroll taxes impose a levy on a portion of the benefits going to more affluent retirees and raise the retirement age above 65 in the next century On Wednesday the House was to vote on a proposed nuclear weapons freeze The resolution calling for a and verifiable freeze and reductions in nuclear was approved 27-9 last week by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Its passage by the House was anticipated by leaders Congressional committees will continue their investigations this week into the Environmental Protection Agency despite the resignation last week of EPA Administrator Anne McGill Burford And panels in both the House and Senate planned to scrutinze request for increased military aid to El Salvador holds up WASHINGTON (AP) A battle over an amendment favored by the banks is holding up congressional action on a multibillion-dollar Senate jobs bill which also contains money needed to pay unemployment benefits The legislation was designed to produce more jobs but the impasse raised the possibility that as early as Tuesday some states would be unable to pay jobless benefits Resolving the dispute topped the agenda for congressional action in a week in which the Senate was also to vote on a Social Security bailout bill and the House was to debate a proposed nuclear weapons freeze President Reagan has threatened to veto the Senate jobs bill if it contains an amendment to repeal a 1982 law requiring financial institutions to withhold for federal taxes 10 percent of a depositor's interest and dividends The banking community supports the amendment Senate leaders were expected to try again Monday to defeat the withholding repeal amendment But its sponsor Sen Bob Hasten R-Wis still claimed to have at least 51 senators a majority of the chamber behind his effort The withholding provision has been the target of an intense lobbying campaign by the banking industry a campaign Reagan blasted in a news conference last Friday He accused bankers of having and the issue The anti-recession legislation in addition to providing 838 billion for public works jobs includes $5 billion Draggin' a line Adam Phelan sails In the committee boat Sunday In the Green Beer Regatta a contest between Wichita Falls media representatives at Lake Arrowhead Tele vision station KFDX finished first followed by radio station KKQV and tbe Record News Times (Photo by Dick Kettlewell) Mauro eyes lease changes Vernon man killed in highway stabbing Mattox another who received contributions frofn Manges has involved the state in the suit on behalf of its mineral interests under 33000 acres of Manges' Duval County ranch Mauro said on lands where the state owns the mineral rights but not the surface the surface owner negotiates the leases and gives the state a 50-50 split on royalties He maintains surface owners and the state may not have the same interest and that landowners in return for hidden concessions or payments might not drive a hard enough bargain for the state The land commissioner said other leases have served to tie up drilling rights on a lease For example he said he is considering renegotiating a lease of 18000 acres on a South Texas ranch where no drilling has taken place on 9000 acres He said that in the past land- terms of payment to the The land commissioner contends if he is succeeds in settling or renegotiating some of the major leases he could add 8100 per Texas public school student to the state public education support payments But at the same time the changes would help his largest campaign contributor wealthy South Texas rancher-banker Clinton Manges Mauro told the Dallas Morning News in a story Sunday that the interest of the state and Manges are parallel and his efforts have nothing to do with the 860000 campaign contribution from Manges He said his interests go beyond a lawsuit Bled by Manges to invalidate four oil company drilling leases on his land and involve a variety of problems Mauro found in existing state leases Texas Attorney General Jim berry said Lewis had been stabbed three times once in the abdomen and twice in the upper rhest He died at about 5 pm after being transported to Wilbarger General Hospital Quisenberry said Chief Deputy EN Morris said Lewis had been driving about a half mile after he was stabbed with the driver's side tires slashed before he stopped in the southbound lane of US 287 Morris said an autopsy was ordered by Justice of the Peace Ruth Gobin Electra Police Department detained a man who fit the description of the hitchhiker on US 287 at Texas 25 overpass Three Vernon residents said they saw him get into Lewis' car Morris said Sherriff's Department deputies transported him to Wilbarger County jail at about 6:30 pm By LINDA STEWART Correspondent VERNON Texas (Correspondent) Two separate stabbing incidents Sunday left a Vernon man dead and another man in stable condition in Wilbarger General Hospital Wilbarger County Sheriff's Department arrested an unidentified hitchhiker in connection with the stabbing death of 52-year-old Donald Lewis of Vernon Lewis 52 was found by truck drivers and another driver lying behind his red late-model Volkswagen Rabbit on US 287 about 44 miles north of Vernon according to sheriffs department deputies Wilbarger County Sheriff's Department deputy David Quisen- Mauro owners have tied up production on acres shared with the state while drilling on neighboring land and effectively oil from beneath the state land AUSTIN (AP) Land Commissioner Garry Mauro says Texas could save hundreds of millions of dollars it loses each year if it would change the way it handles oil and gas leases changes that also would help his largest campaign contributor He said the state accepts oil and gas lease arrangements that no private businessman would tolerate and he said that some including ones negotiated 50 years ago are invalid Mauro said oil and gas is not being developed on the leases in a way that brings a good yield to the state and he haa ordered a systematic-review of 18000 leases on state-owned land prudent businessman would not accept some of the leases we have in our filet" he said convinced that with a tight economy like we have now revising some of these leases can make a significant difference in Baby bust turns to boom EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of articles appearing in the Monday Record Newe on changes in Wichita Falls area By KAREN BALL Staff Writer More people are having babies and those babies will live longer than any US generation the 1980 census indicates The stxalled baby bust of the late 1960s and early 1970s is leveling off as more baby-boomers bom in the 20 or so years after World War II are choosing to have families In Wichita Falls people between the ages of 5-24 make up the largest percentage of the population 36 percent The smallest percentages of the population are See BABY Pago 2A Dog sled racing Teams rush across Alaskan tundra Births by the numbers The birth rate per 1000 people: of usher Joe May of Trapper Creek who "talked" with the late legendary Leonhard Seppala during a stormy night in the 1979 race Seppala was one of 19 mushers who carried diphtheria serum to the stricken city of Nome in a desperate 600-mile sleg dog relay from Nenana in 1925 Almost 50 years later that exploit inspired leaders of the Alaska mushing community to begin the modern race Iditarod is the name of an old gold mining boom town and is also the name given to the network of trails that connects Anchoorage and Nome The race is an adventure but it is wrought with tedious chores Most of the musher's waking hours are spent caring for his dogs Every few hours the musher must rest and feed his team of as many as 18 See DOG TEAMS Page ZA IDITAROD Alaska (AP) Over the frozen tundra of the great white nothingness to the north of the peaks of the Alaska Range 66 dog teams are racing for Nome For 11 years they have done this chasing after a purse that has swelled to 8100000 to be split among the top 20 finishers in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race The winner of the 1137-mile trek from Anchorage to None this year will pocket 824000 Before all the mushers reach Nome they will have spent two to four weeks on the trail enduring temperatures as low as 40 below zero and battling subarctic blizzards Frostbite and snpwblindness stalk the trail and a mind-fogging fatigue rules the lives of the men and women who seldom sleep more than three or four hours out of every 24 Over hundreds of miles of trail the line between sleep and consciousness dream and hallucination blurs Those who fed low the race still tell the story Sxndd MHnpdili StiHMcl Aim fndudes WidriU aad CUy COMUtfc Sam: US Ohmm Hoard Mom OnfMekp 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