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Seaweed piles up on many Texas beaches Page 5A MONDAY JULY 3, 1989 Vol. 81, No. 78 Kerrville, Texas' 18 Pages 25 Cents SPORTS The senior division of the Kerrville Little League begins all- star action on July 10 with a 7:30 p.m. game with Wimberley. Photos of Avery's (shown aoove) and Schreiner Bank teams are on page 8A.

Ingram council to meet tonight Ingram city councilmem- bers will continue their discussions on a request to form a taxing district to fund the local volunteer fire department when council meets in regular session at 5:30 p.m. tonight at Ingram Muncipal Building, 409 Texas 27 West. Council also is expected to discuss further the proposed $8 million central wastewater collection and treatment system for the city at the meeting. Closings scheduled for Fourth of Ji'Jy Area financial ii stitutions, governmental and utility services will be closed Tuesday in observance of the July 4th Independence Day. At Kerrville City Hall, both the general offices and water department will be closed, though garbage collection will continue as scheduled.

The Kerr County Courthouse, the Upper Guadalupe River Authority offices, and area school district offices also will be closed, as will Schreiner College. Kerrvilte's utility services will shut down for the holiday as well, with the exception of emergency services, said spokesmen from the Kerrville Public Utility Board, the Kerrville Telephone the Lone Star Gas Co. and Dimension Cable Services. The U.S. Post Office also will be closed for the official federal holiday.

HOT Partly cloudy tonlgh't, with a 20 percent chance of 'derstorms, low InMhjMow 70s, Tuesday: Partly cloudy' with a 20 percent chance of in'the niid to upper Sunday's high was? 100, the overnight 74, INDEX Classifieds 1 5B Comics 6B, 4A R-, Living, -3A 1 Horoscope 7A LM, Boyd Obituaries 12A Sports 6B Weather 2A BIBLE VERSg, It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statues. -Psalm 119:71 (KJV) RICKY McMAHAN "SOLD WITHIN 10 MINUTES AFTER IT CAME OUT!" KERRVILLE DAILY TIMES DOES A TREMFNDOUS JOBI Move your merchandise with Classified. Call 896-7000. Miss Your Daily Delivery In Cily Phone 896-7000 Sat. p.m.

Hot Fourth, large crowd due Tuesday Picnic-goers should dress cool, prepare for chance of showers Persons who plan to attend Tuesday's Fourth of July Celebration and Picnic in Louise Hays Park, might want to bring an umbrella as there is a 20 percent chance for thundershowers Independence Day. National Weather Service officials in San Antonio also warn July 4 revelers to dress cool as temperatures Tuesday should get into the mid- to upper 90s. "It's definitely going to be hot on the 4th," said NWS meteorologist Jud Ladd. Despite the possible thundershowers, organizers said they expect a large crowd in the park for the July 4 festivities being sponsored by Tiptori Distributing and the Women's Division of the Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce. The fifth annual Independence Day celebration will kick off this year with a colorful kite- flying contest from 3 to 4 p.m.

Trophies will be given for the smallest homemade kite, most colorful commercial kite, highest-flying kite, and to the best two-line precision acrobatic kite during the second annual event. A "Boom Box Parade" follows Neighboring towns plan celebrations INGRAM The Old Ingram Art Village will be the site of the first annual Show 'N' Sell Market Day on Tuesday July 4 as artists and craftsmen from throughout the Hill Country assemble on historic Old Ingram Loop to show and sell their goods. Entertainment will be provided at the event along with a variety of food and drink booths. Proceeds will go toward the purchase of a piano for Ingram Tom Moore High School and some of the funds raised will help the Ingram Volunteer Fire Department. Old Ingram Art Village, five miles west of Kerrville off Texas 39, consists of art galleries, crafts, fashions, antiques, guns, jewelry and southwestern pottery.

For more information call 238-4595. MOUNTAIN HOME The third annual July 4 Parade in Mountain Home will kick off at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Mountain Home on Texas 27 northwest of Ingram. Old vehicles and community members dressed up for the occasion make up the parade, said Susie Haynie. Jim Haynie, Susie's father, is organizer of the (Continued on Page 12A) DPS hoping area repeats 1988 July 4 traffic toll: 0 Holiday traffic expected to take 52 lives in Texas Traffic fatalities are expected to claim 52 Texas lives during the long July 4 holiday but the Kerrville area may be one of the safer areas, according to Sgt.

Charles Seale. Ten people had died on Texas roadways by Saturday afternoon in Fourth of July holiday traffic accidents, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety and newspaper accounts. "We haven't had any fatalities so far," Seale said this morning. Seale, highway patrol supervisor out of the DPS regional office in Kerrville, said his seven-county area also avoided any fatalities last July 4. "But we did make a large number of DWI arrests," said Seale.

Eighty to eighty-five percent of traffic accidents in the seven county area involves some type (Continued on Page 12A) in the park at 4:30 p.m. The parade will include as participants, children of all ages, dressed in patriotic clothing, bicycles and tricycles decked out in red, white and blue, kazoo players and "boom box" bands. Kerrville's Guadalupe Jazz Band will take center stage from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Following the band's performance there will be a flag raising, to be followed by several daring feats performed thousands of feet in the air by a group of area sky divers. One of the free-falling sky divers will attempt to set his parachute down in front of the specially constructed stage about 7:45 p.m., where he will hand a baton to Kerr Pops Orchestra director Dan Long.

Long will lead the 50-member group of San Antonio, Austin and area musicians in almost two hours of music. The orchestra also will perform selections from famous movies, Broadway and television shows as well as a offer musical salutes to Walt Disney, the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkle and George M. Cohan. No July 4 celebration would be complete without the music of John Phillip Sousa, and Long promises to play some of the march king's most famous compositions. The orchestra's last selection, "Stars and Strips Fore- ver, will lead into a colorful fireworks display to begin about 9:30 p.m.

"This will be a full concert, with only a 10-minute break," Long said. Visitors to the celebration and SPEC. 4 MARY MUCK up at the end 1ST SGT. JAMES LEA RECEIVES ARMY AWARD National Guard exercises at Fort Hood Citizen-soldiers The 60 men and women of Kerrville's Texas National Guard unit Company A of the lllth Forward Support Battalion, 49th Armored Division returned from active training exercises at Fort Hood last week. Company A supported eight battalions in the field at this year's exercises, producing or delivering meals for 4,000 people three times a day, and pumping more than 100,000 gallons of fuel for exercising Army units.

Six Guardsmen were recognized with awards for their performance during the 1989 exercises: 1st Sgt. James Lea and Sgt. Jose Rodriguez, Army Achievement Award; Sgt. 1st Class Jose Guajardo, Staff Sgt. Cole Morris and Sgt.

Donald Culwell, Adjutant General Award; and Staff Sgt. Leonard Moreau, Most Outstanding Soldier Award. Times Photos by Jody Rhoden SPEC. 4 GILBERT YBARRA AND SGT. RODRIGUEZ Wash down an Army truck with cleaning equipment picnic may park free at River Hills Mall parking lot.

There also will be large selection of food and beverages to choose from, organizers said. For more information call the chamber at 896-1155. Ruling limits right to abortion By RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A deeply divided Supreme Court today provided states with new authority to limit a woman's right to abortion. The court, ruling on one of the most contentious issues of the decade, stopped short of reversing its 1973 decision legalizing abortion. In a series of votes, many of them 5-4, the justices restored key provisions of a Missouri law that a lower court had invalidated for unduly interfering with the constitutional right to abortion.

Significantly, the court appeared to invite further challenges to its 1973 decision, prompting an angry dissent from its author, Justice Harry A. Blackmun, but exultation from anti-abortion activists. "We are smiling. We are thumbs up all the way," said John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee. In his dissenting opinion, Blackmun said, "For today, at least, the law of abortion stands undisturbed.

For today, the women of this nation will retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows." In today's decision, the justices restored several Missouri abortion regulations. Overall, the effect was to allow Missouri to restrict the use of public money, medical personnel or facilities in performing abortion procedures. One ruling requires doctors to determine, when possible, whether a fetus at least 20 weeks old is capable of surviving outside the womb, by testing lung capacity and conducting other tests. The ruling will affect women far beyond Missouri because other states now may follow Missouri's lead.

A majority of the justices said they were unwilling, in this case, to overturn or even reconsider the court's landmark, 16-year- old decision in Roe vs. Wade. Reaction across the nation was swift. "This is an outrage," said Judith Widdecombe, founder of Reproductive Health Services, the abortion clinic in Missouri that was party to the case. "There's a movement in this country that will not tolerate this.".