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4 Peril Jan. 3, 1979 Clements says he's on same eave length as most legislators AUSTIN. Texas (AP) Bill Clements thinks he's on the same wave length with most Texas legislators, as he was with Texas voters on Nov. 7. "I think that most of the legislature understands that most of them were elected by the same people that elected me." Clements said in an interview with the Associated Press.

"They feel a responsibility to be responsive to what I am talking about. There is not one set of voters out there who elected me and another set svho elected the legislature. These are one and the same people. "You would be amazed how many legislators have told me they fully understand that." Clements, who talks fast and moves fast, does not take office until Jan. 16 ir.

what may be the most eleborate gubernatorial inauguration in several decades. But he has beer busy since the general election votes were countec in a small 10th floor office ol a downtown office building. after day, and some nights, there has been a constant stream of visitors and job hunters to the small office where the 61-year-olc self-made multi-millionnaire sits behind a bare wooden desk. Clements' plan for dealing with the predominantly Democratic Legislature is simple follow the aggressive personal contact method that was so successful when he was Deputy- Secretary of Defense in Washington. "I have met with four groups that constituted more than 100 members of the Legislature," he says proudly.

"In addition I have met with a large number ol committee chairmen and people like that on a one-on- one basis I intend to develppe these personal relationships with the legislators and be fully sensitive to their needs and their responsibilities to their own constituents I represent all the people of the state. I'm where this whole process comes together as being the highest elected official statewide and I intend for us to have a legislative program that is responsive to this state." Clements will make an inaugural address on Jan. 16 and present his proposed state budget about Feb. 1. But there will be no big unloading of his entire program at one time.

"We've got several months before we end up with definite answers to these questions and I'm not going to cut off the process half way through or even before it starts," he said. The big issues of the session are easy to point out. "You have to put tax reduction No. 1 and no. 2 undoubtedly is the issue of improving the quality of our education.

Between those two there is the school finance problem, a separate issue but a part of both." Next, Clements says, are our relations with Mexico. He has plans to meet with Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, at a date to be announced later, and discuss three subjects that also are of interest to the Texas Legislature. "Illegal aliens, that's a problem that's got to be solved." he said. There's not any question whatsoever that Texas has a role to play in this. For us to be in default and abrogate our position is absurd." Clements favors a return of some form of the old bracero program where Mexican workers would be admitted under temporary work permits.

"President Lopez Portillo and I are in complete agreement on this," he said. "By Mexico and Texas agreeing to this puts enormous pressure on Washington and puts aside this nonsense of an amnesty program put forth by President Carter." Another matter to be discussed would be the border drug traffic. And third would be Mexico's new oil and gas reserves. "It is absolutely necessary that we now commit to market some reasonable amount of Mexico's gas and oil for our energy -requirements in the United States and allow us here in Texas to conserve our national resources in a technical and reasonable basis." "Talking with Mexico about these three main things would set the tone for what the United States does at the national level," Clements declared. Clements says he is not only optimistic of his relations with the legislature, but he is not afraid of the strongly entrenched Democrats either.

"I feel strongly that the people of Texas have spoken, they have said what they want in approving the tax relief amendment by 85 percent. And as governor I feel a strong responsibility to see that constitutional amendment is fully implemented, both to the letter and in spirit," he said. "If the Legislature in its wisdom sees fit to do otherwise and violates the will of the people and does not carry it out to the letter and the spirit, I will veto it." Clements says he pays no attention to speculation the Democratic legislators might pass a state spending bill early so they would have time left to override any gubernatorial veto. "I'm not afraid of that," Clements says with a smile. "I see no sign of that." Neither does Clements see any big obstacles from Lt.

Gov. Bill Hobby, presiding officer of the Senate, and House Speaker Bill Clayton. Hobby has been publicly doubtful of Clements'chance of getting a $1 billion tax reduction. "The speaker in effect has agreed with me that we must have a tax reduction," Clements said. ''Clayton saying it could be several hundred million dollars There's going to be a tax reduction.

I think it's going to be amazing how flexible Mr. Hobby is going to be. He's going to have a flexibility that people around Austin wouldn't believe." Clement's enthusiasm and optimism shows clearly when he talks about the beginning of his administration. "There have been no signals that I receive from any place to indicate there are any big problems. Everything is going along very, very well," he says, and chuckles happily.

"In all of these 100-plus members of the Senate and House I have talked with I have found no nonsense nor obstructionist views. I don't find anybody yet who is just taking the voice of opposition in order just tn he opposed." Lawman says JFK shooting tape didn 't come from his cycle DALLAS (AP) A Dallas motorcycle policeman has denied his microphone was the source of a tape recording that led House assassination committee members to conclude conspirators "probably" were behind the murder of President John F.Kennedy. Committee members said their conclusion last week was based on new acoustical evidence that Vietnamese divisions advancing to throttle Cambodian capital high probability that fired at President "establishes a two gunmen Kennedy." That evidence included an analysis of a tape recording made during the assassination, that the panel determined was a stuck transmitter on officer H.B. McLain's motorcycle. "That wasn't my motorcycle," McLain said Thursday, "there would have been a siren on that Channel 1 all the way to the hospital.

Everybody had their sirens on you would have heard it on Channel 1." Motorcycles assigned to the presidential motorcade were supposed to be transmitting on Channel 2. The recording was made of a transmission over Channel 1. Photos of his motorcycle parked at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital show the radio tuned to Channel 1. But McClain said he believes the radio was switched by a passerby while he svaited in the emergency room. McLain said he now remembers hearing then Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry instructing motorcycle patrolman, while they were still in Dealey Plaza, to accompany the motorcade speeding the mortally wounded president to Parkland Hospital.

That transmission was only sent on Channel 2. McLain said when he testified before the committee that it could have been his motorcycle, he had not heard the tape. He listened to the recording Thursday and now denies it could have been his microphone. "If I had been on Channel 1, from the time he said 'let's go to the hospital," you would have had a siren screaming three times as loud as you hear on the tape," McLain said. "There was about six or eight of 'em (sirens) that was going at the same time they was just said McLain.

Capt. Jim C. Bowles, who made tapes and transcripts of the recording for the assassinations committee, said the motorcycle with the stuck microphone was no where near the site of the assassination. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Vietnamese divisions were reported driving north, south and east of Phnom Penh today in an apparent move to throttle the Cambodian capital. "I would not be surprised if Phnom Penh was evacuated soon and the government took to the countryside," one European diplomat in Bangkok said.

Other Bangkok analysts said the Vietnamese bypassed Kompong Cham, 45 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, and may have moved 19 or moe miles west of the Mekong River to a point near the dead center of Cambodia. They said the Vietnamese also opened up a major front in the extreme south of the country, and that three divisions were driving westward near the coast. It was believed they would try to cut the highway from Cambodia's only deepwater port. Kompong Som, through which China ships military supplies to the Cambodian armv. The analysts said T.akeo, a provincial capital 37 miles south of Phnom Penh, had been taken by the Vietnamese, who were believed to have moved most of a 100.000-man force into Cambodia.

Vietnam's rebel Cambodian Communist proxies claimed they seized Svay Rieng in the Parrot's Beak area along Highway 1 leading to Phnom Penh from the Vietnamese border. The insurgents of the month-old National United Front for National Salvation said six provinces of eastern Cambodia, about a quarter of the country, were now under their control. However, Bangkok analysts believe' the Vietnamese are doing the major fighting and leaving the mop-up and victory claims to the estimated 20,000 rebels who broke with the Communist regime in Phnom Penh. Weather LOCAL U.S. Weather Bureau information for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m.

Friday, courtesy of Observer W. J. Thomas: High temperature Thursday 32, low 28, overnight low 31. Temperature at 8 a.m. Friday 32.

Temperature range for this date last year 57-32. Record high for this date 74 in 1927, record low 5 in 1942. Rainfall in the past 24 hours 0.47 inch. Rainfall to date this year 0.65 inch. Rainfall to this date last year 0.02 inch.

The sky was cloudy at 8 a.m. Friday. Lake Pat Mayse conditions as of 8 a.m. Friday: Elevation, 449.15 feet (normal elevation 415 feet); lake condition, calm. FORECAST North Texas: Winter storm watch west and north tonight and Saturday.

Travelers advisory central and west today and west and north tonight. Occasional drizzle today, changing to freezing drizzle or freezing rain west and north portions by evening and continuing through Saturday. Colder west and north today and over area tonight and Saturday. High 22 northwest to 45 southeast.Lows 15 northwest to 36 southeast. High Saturday 20 northwest to 40 southeast.

OUTLOOK North Texas: Mostly cloudy and cold with a chance of rain southeast and freezing rain or sleet northwest through Tuesday. Lowest daily temperatures will range from the mid to the upper 30s southeast and highs from mid 30s northwest to mid 40s southeast. Paris police probing break-ins Police investigation continued Friday morning in connection with the burglary of K's Thrift Center, 1445 Clarksville which occurred between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday, police said.

Officers who initially answered the call said they found the front door of the business was pryed open but manager Ken Brown was unable to find anything missing from the store. The burglary was the second time in one week that the store had been broken into, officers said. New Year's Eve someone broke into the store and took $8,800 in clothing and cash. Police roundup said. Reports indicate patrol personnel found the basement and west entrance doors of the store had been pryed with what appeared to be a tire tool but the burglars were unable to gain entrance to the building.

Officers said the attempted burglary occurred sometime between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday. $1,000 each at her residence. Two hours after she reported the burglary to police the chinchillas were returned to Mrs.

Young by friends of the burglars, officers said. charging him with disorderly conduct, deputies said. A 20-year-old Paris man was in the county jail Friday morning on a warrant for revocation of probation after he was stopped by Alcoholic Beverage Commission officers checking for violations of liquor laws, officials said. PARIS POLICE reported making no arrests over the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Friday.

OFFICERS were also investigating an attempted burglary at Belk's Department Store, 21 S. Plaza, Friday morning, officials LOUIE YOUNG of 779 E. Tudor reported a burglary at her residence around 7:30 a.m. Thursday said. Ms.

Young told officers she saw two black men stealing two chinchillas valued at LAMAR COUNTY Sheriffs deputies reported making only two arrests during a day of light activity Thursday. A 46-year-old. Paris man was" placed the Lamar County Jail Thursday after he was arrested on a warrant Deaths and funerals PARIS FIHK Department officials said firemen made the following calls: THURSDAY where power lines were downed. 50 minutes. p.m., the Ardon Birdsong residence on U.S.

Highway 82 E. where firefighters assisted Reno Volunteer firemen extinguish a blaze, believed caused by faulty wiring, which did moderate da mage, one hour and 40 minutes. FRIDAY a.m., 1460-6th SE where minor damage resulted from a flue fire, 20 minutes. Town talk (AND THE DINNER HORN) Published Daily except Saturday by NORTH TEXAS PUBLISHING CO. Box 1079, Paris.

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The telephone number is 785-0723. MR.S RANDY (Becky) Skidmore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Geer of Pattonville has been dismissed from Baylor Medical Hospital in Dallas after suffering head injuries in a horse riding accident Christmas Day. She was taken to the Truett Unit at Baylor Hospital where she was hospitalized until Jan.

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Saturday at the Fry Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel, conducted by Dr. James Sempie. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Mrs. Vickers was born Feb.

21, 1920, in Paris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Golden. On May 5, 1945, she married John Vickers in Paris.

They lived in Paris until 1952 when they moved to Fort Worth. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Patricia Ann Vickers and Judy Katherine Vickers, both of Fort Worth; one son, John Ardee Vickers II of Saginaw; three grandchildren; and one brother, Hubert Golden of San Antonio. The family will receive friends 7 to 8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home.

Emerson funeral Funeral services for M.D. Emerson Sr. of Rt. 5, Paris, were held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church with the Rev.

Carl Vogel officiating. Burial was in Hickory Grove Cemetery by Fry Gibbs Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Monty Dave Emerson, Marion Day Emerson III, Kevin Night Emerson, George Christopher Emerson, Earl Wayne Usery Jr. and Charles Thomas Emerson. Mr.

Emerson died at St. Joseph's Hospital Monday at Billy G. Belcher Paris Newsservice TAIXX) Billy Gerald Belcher, 53, died Wednesday at 2:30 a.m. at his home east of Talco in the Maple Springs community. Services were to be at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Bates- Cooper-Weems Funeral Home Chapel in Mount Pleasant. Burial was to be in Belcher Cemetery at Maple Springs. The Rev. Alvin Blalock and the Rev. Johnny Mack Brown were to of- ficiate.

Mr. Belcher was born in Red River County on March 5. 1926. Survivors include three sisters. Mrs.

Mary McKelvey of Talco, Mrs. Anna Bell Falzar of Oklahoma City and Mrs. Lorene Walters of Corpus Christi: and one brother. Warren Belcher of Irving. Johnson services COOPER Funeral services for Mrs.

Margaret Gertrude Johnson, 83, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday in the First United Methodist Church at Cooper. The Rev. Terry Atkinson will officiate and Delta Funeral Home will have charge of burial in Oak Lawn Cemetery. Mrs.

Johnson died Tom C. Hicks HUGO. Okla. Tom C. Hicks of Tulsa died Thursday at St.

Frances in Tulsa. Services are pending with Lampton-Mills Funeral Home. Mr. Hicks was born Feb. 27, 1895, inDeQueen, Ark.

He was a former Hugo resident and a U.S. Army Veteran of World War I. Survivors include his wife, Irene; one daughter, Mrs. Jim Hunt of Defiance, Ohio; one sister, Mrs. Helen Miller of Hereford, Texas; a sister- in-law, Mrs.

Joe Palmer of Hugo; and four grandchildren. Howard L. Loyd Howard L. Loyd of Rt. 1, Powderly, died at 6:35 p.m.

Thursday morning at Birch- Thursday at McCuistion wood Manor Nursing Regional Medical Center. Home. Services will be at 2:30 A lifelong resident of Delta P-m- Saturday at the Gene County, she was born April 7, 1895, a daughter of William J. and Lula E. (Armstrong) Wester.

She married J. L. Mr. Loyd was born Dec. 4, 1907, in Lamar County, son of Francis Loyd and the former Mary Ray.

He was married to Gladys Hargroves on July 27, 1935. He was a member of Ramseur Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife; two sons, David Loyd of Blossom and Harold Loyd of Powderly; three daughters, Mrs. Billy (Virginia) Hall of Mesquite, Mrs. Ronnie (Barbara) Stephens of Dallas and Jerry Grimes of Mesquite; one Edgar Loyd of Fort Worth; and 10 grandchildren.

Mrs. Elva Cannon Mrs. Elva Lindsey Cannon of Rt. Bogata, died at 8:10 p.m. Thursday at McCuistion Regional Medical Center.

Steele and Thomas Funeral Home will transfer the body to Good Dunning Funeral Home in Plainview for services. Mrs. Cannon was born May 6, 1907, a daughter of Joe Lindsey and the former Hester Boges. She was married to Frank Cannon. Survivors include her husband: one son, Cecil Cannon of Bogata; two brothers, W.

B. Lindsey of Tucumcari, N.M., and John Lindsey of San Antonio; and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Modglian of San Antonio, and Mrs. Leonard Tillison of Uvalde. Classified Ads Get More Results TAXI 784-6666 YELLOW CAB CO.

Sons Funeral (Jake) Johnson in Jan. 1926. He died Feb. 29, 1968. She is survived by one sister, Mrs.

Claude Pickens of Cooper and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Annie Houston ANTLERS, Okla. Mrs. Annie May Houston of Clayton died in the Antlers Nursing Home Wednesday.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Mills-Coffey Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ronnie Jacobs officiating. Burial will be in Oddfellows Cemetery. Mrs.

Houston was born in Esau, on Feb. 23, 1886. She was 93 and had lived in the Clayton area for the past 72 years. She was the daughter of William Andrew Tolson and the former Cornelia A. Booker.

She was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include three sons, Melvin Johnson of Clayton, Clyde E. Johnson of Eugene, and Jessie A. Johnson of South Pasadena, one daughter, Mrs. Jess Wigginton of Antlers; 10 grandchildren; and 15 great- grandchildren.

Roden's Chapel. The family will receive friends 7 to 8 tonight at the funeral home. A LASTING MEMORIAL. Docwto pooli In int nwcnwy of a tond to Paris Public Library Call 784-2758 Auto Repair Service ROAD SERVICE MECHANIC ON DUTY ARCHER TEXACO Tillmtn A Owners 6 CLARKSVILLE ST. 785-0645 THE MONEYSAVER IS COMING TO PARIS Wednesday, January 17th WATCH FOR EXCITING VALUES BEING OFFERED BY PARIS MERCHANTS DURING THIS CITY-WIDE SAVINGS EXTRAVAGANZA! IN THE PARIS NEWS JANUARY 17th! I.