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Irving Today's City Vi itIi Tomorrow's Future VOLUME 16 68 IRVING, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1975 0 lb ones needed HOMES ARE NEEDED for students from foreign countries who will be living in Irving next year as participants in For a high school exchange program approved by the U.S. Department of State. Students will arrive in the United States in August, so homes must be arranged by the end of May, says Lois Perna, a coordinator for the association. The students will live here until July Persons interested in providing homes in the MacArthur High School area should call 256-1105, in the Irving High area call 254-3562 and in the Nimitz High area call 253-8613. Film presentation a film based on the book by Alvin Toffler, will be shown tonight at 7:30 p.m.

in the auditorium of the Irving Public Library central library, 915 N. Road. The film is narrarated by Orson Wells and focuses on the challenge of man keeping pace with the rapid changes within society. Admission is free. Hand concert NIMITZ HIGH School Concert and Symphonic Bands will present a concert tonight utilizing a tape recorder as an actual instrument of the band in a contemporary setting filled with sounds very much reflective of the society in which we say school officials.

Selections to be performed will include by Bielesa, on by Charles Ives and other music, including traditional marches and lighter popular selections. Due to the nature of the music requirements, the concert will be in the Irving High School auditorium It will begin at 7:30 p.m. Booster club THE IRVING HIGH School Tiger Booster club is sponsoring an end of the year get-together Friday night after the and game. All players, students, friends and parents are invited, say club officials. Class reunion MEMBERS OF THE MacArthur High School class of 1970 are having a reunion May 31 from 11 a m.

to 2 p.m. on the patio at MacArthur High School. All 1970 graduates are invited, say school officials. Each person should bring a picnic lunch, and refreshments will be available. There will be a charge of SI to cover postage and advertising for the reunion.

For more information, call Pam Willis at 253-9707. On the inside N-arms pact discussed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reports progress toward a new treaty limiting strategic nuclear weapons in talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Page 2 THE CREW OF the Cambodian patrol boat that seized the Mayaguez reportedly later mutinied and sailed to Thailand. Page 2 JOE NAMATH is just about ready make the decision on whether )r not to jump to the World Football League, and league president Chris Hemmeter is Page 9 Comics Horoscope Vn Local sports CIRCUS IN cus unload the bright, left, Daily News Photos hv Kl( NEAl TOWN handlers and roustabouts of George Great lr- Manna'takes a cat horses, lions and elephant and begin to put up the big top tent tor the start oday ot plat companion. Weekday shows are stheduled at 4:10 and swa: ssfAXSimS, aKr.srrwSmJAS General Telephone rate increases llevemie total two times city figure By LARRY TOTH The $2.4 million total revenue increase sought by General Telephone Co. of the Southwest in its proposed rate increases here is more than two times greater than the City of preliminary estimate of what the telephone revenue requirement should be.

This was one of the key items to emerge from a two-hour closed-door session yesterday between city and General Telephone officials in what appears to be the first in a series of major negotiation meetings to come to an agreement on the requested telephone rate increases, which have been pending since last October. The preliminary of total revenue increases needed by General Telephone, presented to three telephone compare officials yesterday at the meeti. with the Irving City utilities committee, is some $1.1 million about 46 Woman's slaying Testimony in murder trial starts Trial of an 18-year-old Irving man charged with the January murder of a 55-year-old woman in a vacant house across the street from her home in Southwest Irving started today in Criminal District Court No. 5 in Dallas. Donald Maurice Davis, 18, on trial for the Jan.

27 murder of Jo Ella Liles, 1709 Meadowbrook, was formally charged the day following the slaying. Rickey 1 nn Payne, 20, an alleged accomf ice, will be tried at a later date. Irving Detective Capt. John Looper, Detective Jimmy Nickell and Cpl. Jim Stambaugh are scheduled to testify during the trial and offer photographs related to the murder as evidence.

Irving postman Robert Clark, who discovered Mrs. body after hearing moans coming from the house while on his mail route, is expected to testify today and throughout the week. Clark alleges that he saw Davis and Payne leaving the vacant house shortly before Mrs. Liles was found dead there. Cause of the death, according to the Dallas County medical examniner, was a knife wound to the throat.

The medical examiner also reporte the victim sustained a in the chest and showed evidence of having been beaten about the head. The jury in the trial was selected yesterday during a two-hour session. Davis and Payne have been held in Dallas County Jail in lieu of the $50,000 bail set by Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Tom Naylor at a preliminary hearing in Dallas in January. per cent of General proposed $2.4 million revenue requirement. General Telephone Metroplex Manager Lowell R.

Newman told the Daily News following the meeting that his company not basically in agreement with that. not pleased with the economic rewards talking about, but pleased with their professional approach (to analyzing the rate-increase he said, indicating that he expects an agree- men may be reached on the increases in the coming month. Newman, who attended the meeting with Bob Doan, Irving area manager for General Telephone, and Richard Funk, revenue requirement director from the headquarters in San Angelo, spent much of the session yesterday with the utilities committee in what was termed a of what types of telephone users should bear the weight of the proposed rate increases. An analysis of General proposals made earlier this year by the City of Irving showed that, across the board, residential telephone subscribers would provide the largest portion of the requested $2.4 million total revenue requirement. Members of the utilities committee, however, expressed concern yesterday that the proposed rates would cause undue on residential telephone users here.

While specific proposed telephone rates were not discussed in detail yesterday, the three General Telephone officials agreed to provide alternate proposed rate structures for their next meeting with the utilities committee on May 29. General rate-in- crease proposal stalled for more than six months while the city has been examining the phone financial position and telephone tariff structure across the board calls for increases averaging some 42 per cent to achieve an 8.9 per cent rate of return of the operations and capital investment in Irving. Under the proposals, the monthly base rate for one-party residential service would be increased from $7.60 to $11.60 an increase of 50.2 per cent. Similar increases are proposed for business telephone service The rate-increase request here is part of a general rate-hike proposal announced Oct. 16 by General Telephone for the 16 cities it serves in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

One of those cities, Garland, which with Irving comprises the two largest area cities served by the General Telephone, last week formally approved a schedule of increases for the telephone company. Granted to General Telephone in Garland was a $1.4 million total revenue increase which sawr one-party residential telephone rates increase 17 per cent from $7.60 to $8.85 and two-party lines from $6.15 to $7.20. The increases were approximately 50 per cent of what the telephone company had originally been seeking. Representing the city at meeting with the three General Telephone officials were Mayor Pro-Tern Harry Field, chair man of the utilities committee, Councilmen Cliff Shasteen and Marvin Randle, City Manager Jack Huffman, City Atty. Don Rorschach and Asst.

City Manager for Finance Ralph Ellis. Balloting today Turnout light in bond election LIGHT TURNOUT Elizabeth Jackson, left, signs in to cast her vote in Precinct No. 158 balloting at Fire Station No. 2 in today's $170 million Dallas County road bond election only the second person to vote in the first hour this morning at the fire station. Assisting her are Judy McDonald and Billy Myers while precinct judge John Jennings looks on.

Dallas County voters trickled to the polls for $170 million county road bond election that is expected to see only some 50,000 ballots cast. The expected low turnout for the bond program which includes some $20.4 for 12 projects in Irving was evident here this morning, where some city precincts reported fewer than five persons casting votes in the first hour after the polls opened at 7 a.m. The turnout, however, was predicted to see an upturn this evening at the 25 voting sites before the polls close at 7 p.m. If voters approve the bond election, which has been endorsed by the City of Irving and the Irving Chamber of Commerce, it will mean funding for 120 proposed construction and improvement projects for Dallas County roads, highways and bridges. The proposed bond program is listed on the voting machines in two propositions one to authorize some $168.15 million in bond funds for roads and bridges and another authorizing $1.85 million for open space projects and a sanitary landfill site.

Of the $168.15 million to be used for road and bridge projects, $20.4 million has been earmarked for 12 projects in Irving. Another $19.4 million will be allocated as the share of right-of-way purchases for state highway projects projects that will result in some $105 million additional funds from the state and federal governments. County officials estimate that passage of the bond election will require a county property tax increase of 27 cents per $100 valuation, pointing out that this increase would mean an increase of about $12.56 a year on a house valued at $20,000. The largest chunk of the $20.4 million to be allocated for projects in Irving if the bond program passes some $7.65 million will go toward right-of-w'ay purchases for the west leg of Loop 9 between the Worth Airport and western Irving. Another major project included under the bond program is the improvement of the Irving Boulevard- Airport Freeway-Belt Line Road interchange, the only project from the 1969 bond program that was not completed.

EPA okays sewer grant first phase The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday approved a $97,500 grant for the first phase of a $4.5 million request filed by the City of Irving for installation and upgrading of certain sewer lines in Irving, according to City Manager Jack Huffman. The funds will be used to prepare an mfiltration-inflow analysis of the existing sewer system, an environmental assessment and a schematic facility plan, according to Huffman. The city manager says these preliminary planning projects must be completed before the EPA will approve full funding for actual construction..