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410 FMPTPP MT- t-HFIRE MIUROFILM CO BOX 81642'? DALLAS, TX 1 271 Local Group supports ring tab ban "See Page 2A Nation M6re bad weather pummels deep south City in rate hike vote Canyon's busy athelete, Page 9A New Braunfels Herald New Braunfels, Texas Vol. 95-No. 52 Thursday March 13,1986 25 Cents 20 Pages-2 Sections Youth livestock show jEjUju Loeffler files pipeline brief If LILLIAN THOMAS Staff wriltr Rep. Tom Loeffler (R-Hunt) filed a friend of the court brief in U.S. District Court in Midland today, asking for All American Pipeline not to be exempt from Texas jurisdiction.

Residents along the route have voiced concerns about the effect of the pressurized, heated 30-inch pipeline which will carry a highly sulphured crude oil from California to Webster. The pipeline company is asking the court to exempt the project from Texas state laws, claiming it is an interstate pipeline carrying interstate commerce. However. Loeffler said in court that last year in a meeting with the pipeline company officials, they contended that the portion of the pipeline to-be built from McCamey to the Texas coast was an "intrastate pjpline wholly within Texas, and therefore not subject to federal regulations. "All American's position is that these were two separate and distinct lines, one interstate (from Santa Barbara, Calif, to McCamey) and one intrastate (from McCamey to the Texas coast refineries)," Loeffler told the court.

"These representations were made to federal officials in an attempt 10 get them to refrain from taking some action against All American," the brief stated. Loeffler reminded the court in the See PIPELINE, Page 12A Goodyear invited to talk AUSTIN (AP) A group of unhappy Central Texans sent the president of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. a plane ticket Wednesday and invited him to come talk with them. At stake is the route of a proposed pressurized, hot-oil pipeline that under present plans would cross the environmentally sensitive Edwards Aquifer. "We are not opposed to your pipeline," said a letter to Robert Mercer Goodyear chairman, See GOODYEAR, Page 12A DERYL ALD-ZEITUNG This week more than 300 youthful exhibitors will show entires of breeding and market animals and poultry in the Comal County Junior Livestock Show.

Pictured above, any participant of the stock show must master the classic art of "pen setting" and Charles Ruhl and Margie Williams demonstrate that form, while below, left, Hal Barriy washes his pig and betow, right, Eugene Moeller weighs in a swine for the show. The annual show will be held today, Friday and will culminate Saturday with an auction and sale. See more photographs, Page2A. 76 indicted by County Grand Jury DEUIE DeLOACH Staff writer A Canyon Lake couple was among 16 individuals indicted by the Comal County Wednesday. Harold Veron and Dorothy Forse Poole of Star Route 2, Box 208B, Canyon Lake, were indicted for hindering secured creditors, in connection with a Jan.

9 transaction involving boats and motors. The victim was listed as Canyon Lake Bank. Investigator Dudley Ives with the Comal County District Attorney's Office said a floor-plan loan was made on the property, which the couple was supposed to sell and then use the money to pay off the loan. The property was sold, Ives said, but the couple failed to give the money to the bank and the buyers, in turn, cannot get a clear title to the property. John Olson of Route 6, Box 582, New Braunfels, was indicted for indecency with a child, stemming from an alleged Jan.

3 incident with a nine- year-old boy. A burglary of a habitation indictment was returned against Jose Trejo of 1354 W. Katy, in connection with a house burglary on North Hackberry on Oct. 31,1985. David Alberto Martinez, Van Wilkerson and Edith Annette Woods, all of Seguin, were each indicted for burglary of a motor vehicle, while forgery indictments were returned against Arvin Brehm of 409 E.

Zipp, Robert A. Carter of Route 1, Box 86C, Marion; and Kelly Lee of 8727 Huebner No. 909, San Antonio. Kirk Wayne McBride of 101 Rodriguez, who was arrested inside the local store after closing See INDICTMENTS, Page 12A Sohn charges 'polities' in City Council rate hike vote DEIBIE DclOACH Staff Three City Council members played politics with a proposed electric rate adjustment last Monday night at the expense of New Braunfels' future. That's how Utilities Manager Bob Sohn sees the 3-3 council vote on March 10 that killed the rate adjustment and ended six weeks of con- troversy and open criticism.

Or did it? "It would seem that the impetus for criticism this utility has experienced the last six weeks could not be anything but politically- motivated," Sohn said Wednesday. Tnose exact sentiments were echoed by Councilman Ed Scian- tarelli, who favored the rate adjustment and suggested those who didn't may have been soliciting votes for the April 5 election. Mayor Pro-tern Betty Lou Rushing and Councilman Jose Espinoza are running for re-election, but justified their "no" votes with repeated inefficiencies on the Utilities' part. Espinoza said it was time for NBU to "go back to the drawing board," and Rushing said she's tired of getting calls to come look at eight Utilities crewmen digging a trench. "It happens time and time again," she added.

"How do we say, 'OK, it's happening, but we want to raise rates 28 The third "no" vote came from Mayor Barbara Tieken, saying there was more "trimming to be done" in an effort to implement a "new cost- conscious ethic." Yet Sohn said she voted for the rate adjustment as a Utilities trustee on Jan. 9. "My deep concerns center around those that seem to have been forgot- Soviets send up the first manned space shot since Challenger explosion MOSCOW lAP) The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts into space today in the first manned space shot since the space shuttle Challenger exploded Jan. 28, killing all seven astronauts aboard. Breaking with a tradition of secrecy, Soviet television carried apparently live coverage of Soyuz T- liftoff (8:33 a.m.

CST). The sleek red-and-white craft streaked into a slightly overcast sky above the Baikonur Space Base in Kazakhstan, Soviet centra) Asia, carrying commander Leonid Kizim and engineer Vladimir Solovev. The cosmonauts hold the endurance record for time spent in space 237 days. The official news agency Tass said they are to link up with the Soviet space laboratory, the Mir (Peace), in two days. The Mir was launched without a crew Feb.

20 and, is designed as a permanent space platform with docking faculties tor' six spacecraft. Soviet television viewers could hear Kizim and Solovev reporting back to Earth 50 seconds alter their craft blasted into the sky trailing orange flame. In footage shown on Soviet television, Kizim and Solovev could be seen strapped in their seats, with Kizim reading what appeared to be sheets of instructions. A television announcer said the pictures came live from inside the craft as it headed for orbit. Before the launch, Soviet television showed the cosmonauts undergoing final medical check-ups and heading out to their craft.

Kizim, 44, an air force colonel, was shown saluting to an unidentified space official not seen on camera, and reporting that bis crew was "ready to fulfill its tasks." The two men then boarded a bus and clambered into the rocket. The Soviets announced Wednesday that Soviet television would carry the launch Ijve on the nation's main evening news program. The launch also was televised in the United States. Disclosure of the names of the cosmonauts and the planned launch time marked a break with the usual secrecy applied to Soviet space missions that do not include foreigners. See SPACE SHOT, iu ten by the politicians Mayor Tieken, Mayor Pro-tern Rushing and Councilman Espinoza on the long- range impact to all of the citizens of this community," Sohn stated.

"Members of council who have actively criticized our operations have done so with such vigor without any concern of the impact on our bonding capacity, ratings, and eventual interest ratings, which could cost us millions in the future. "In the planning of our systems, we've been on the forefront of conservation and water usage programs. We've supported the Edwards Water Task Force. We've studied surface water supply options so necessary to the growth of this community," he added, "not in an effort to build empires, but to try to be the leader in the development of those water resources with our neighbors, and know our children and grandchildren will have an adequate water supply. "We were instrumental in proposing a wastewater treatment plant program to GBRA (Guadalupe- Blanco River Authority) and the City of Schertz at a savings to most of the entities, eliminating the effluent from entering toto the Comal River," Sohn said.

He added that proposal and others are now on the skids, "due to the damage to the credibility of (Ms utli- ty and the mayor's continued attempts to represent this utility as not being efficient, lean and responsive." In voicing her displeasure with Utilities personnel, Sohn said Rushing "doesn't point out during the many storms and outages, those people are out in the mud, in the sleet and in the rain fixing things. See RATE HIKE, Page 12A Inside Today's weather Sunny and warm days are predicted for today and tomorrow with a high for today in the low 80s. Tonight should be fair and cool with a low near 50. Wednesday's high was 78 and the low this morning was 42. Sunset today will be at 6:38 p.m.

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