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"Serving Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma" February 16,1981 110TH YEAR NO. 192 Classified 785-5538 Paris, Texas 75460 Phone 785-8744 TWENTY-FIVE CENTS TEN PAGES Weekend fire hits third Tyler school High school, middle school fires linked, 3 teens arrested TYLER, Texas (AP) School officials discovered today that a fire was set in a middle school over the weekend and tied it to a fire which destroyed nearby John Tyler High School. Authorities said Boulter Middle School, about a quarter-mile from John Tyler, suffered damage in its music room when sheet music was set afire. The blaze apparently -burned itself out. The school had been broken into and obsenities alluding to John Tyler High School were written on the walls, police said.

The Saturday fire at John Tyler destroyed three fourths of the school's classrooms and 90 percent of its office space. Fire at a third school, Rice Elementary, was put out Saturday afternoon. Fire officials said some young boys were seen running away from, the school. Damage was restricted to a restroom. Officials said Sunday the Rice and John Tyler fires were not connected.

John Tyler's 2,300 students will share facilities with the 2,400 students at Robert E. Lee High School. Three teen-agers, two of them former John Tyler students suspended in December, were arrested Sunday in connection with the high school fire and police said there may be one or two more arrests. School officials confirmed that those students held in the John Tyler fire, which is a definite case of arson, had attended Boulter. Martin Dale Wingard, 18, and Arthur Gene White, 17, were charged with first-degree arson late Saturday.

Justice of the Peace Ray Day set bond at $50,000 each and both remained in the Smith County Jail. The third teen-ager was 15 years old, a juvenile under Texas law, and authorities would not release his name. He was held on juvenile delinquency charges. Fire Chief Gerald Weaver said White and Wingard were indefinitely suspended by the Tyler school board after a Dec. 12, 1980, incident in which an assistant principal at John Tyler said he was attacked and beaten by two male students when he told them to stop drinking beer in the school parking lot.

One of the seven firemen injured fighting the three-alarm blaze, first reported about 4 a.m. Saturday, remained hospitalized late Sunday. As investigators put the three teenagers behind bars, the school board met to decide what to do with the displaced John Tyler students. After lu hours of debate, board members voted that all 4,700 high school-age students in Tyler would attend Lee on a split-day basis, with Lee students in class from 7 a.m. to" noon and the John Tyler pupils attending from 1 p.m.

to 5 p.m., beginning Wednesday. The school board heard reports which said only 34 of John Tyler's 101 classrooms could be made useable" immediately, and that rebuilding the school would take a minimum of 18 months. Board members said fire damage would probably exceed $7 minion. However, an insurance adjuster said most of the loss was covered. Weaver said the first clue in the arrests came when a man who lives near the school said he saw three boys watching the Saturday morning fire, and heard one of them say, "Ain't that pretty?" The 15-year-old was arrested shortly after noon Sunday.

Weaver said he had given investigators a statement concerning the fire. The other two were taken into custody later in the day, Weaver said. Bomb blast mars Pope's Pakistan visit POPE MAKES THE PAPERS A Filipino newsboy sells afternoon papers Monday which banner the impending arrival of Pope John Paul II, slated to arrive Tuesday morning in the capital of the Philippines, Manila. The Pontiff will preside at the beautification of 16 Catholic martyrs, including one Filipino. Newspaper headlines call for prayers by readers.

(AP Laserphoto) KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) An explosive device went off at Karachi's national stadium packed with 100,000 people today, minutes before Pope John Paul II arrived to celebrate a Mass. A doctor said the blast killed one man and injured two others. The pope, making a brief stopover in this Moslem nation on his 12-day Far East trip, was apparently unaware of the explosion, in a stairwell leading to seating for foreign diplomats. The doctor, who treated those injured, said "it was an explosion but we don't know what it was." American vice consul Tim Kane was in the area, and took off his shirt in the blood-spattered concrete stairwell to cover one of the victims. Witnesses said they appeared to be Pakistani men in their 20s.

The pope arrived at the stadium, normally used for cricket matches, under heavy security after a 21-gun salute and honor guard greeting at Karachi's international airport. There, the 60-year-old pontiff told diplomats, church leaders and Pakistani president Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq: "I pray that the mutual understanding and respect between Christians and Moslems will continue and grow deeper and find still better ways of cooperation and collaboration." His major gesture of good will to the world's 800 million Moslems continued in the 90-minute stadium homily. John Paul told the cheering faithful Christ "alone is the source of life" but that their evangelical effort must be conducted "in a spirit of dialogue and respect to those in your country who do not know Christ." Through such dialogue, the pope said, "We have come to see more clearly the many, values, practices and teachings which both our religious traditions embrace our belief in the one almighty and merciful God, the creator of heaven and earth, and the importance which we give to prayer, almsgiving and fasting." The pope made the brief stopover in Pakistan, which has 750,000 Catholics, en route to the Philippines, Guam and Japan on the ninth and most grueling trip abroad in his year pontificate. Union plansfight on budget ex U.S.

Supplies BAL HARBOUR, Fla. CAP) nation's capital, especially with federal budget for fiscal year 1982. Classified 8 WH i T.pno TCirlrlanri fvintrnllintf tho Whifo hairo caiH Paacran of gasoline up BAL HARBOUR, Fla. (AP) AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland the federation's 35-member executive council are opening discussions aimed at strengthening their political clout and plotting strategy to resist Reagan administration budget cuts in many of their most cherished federal programs. The annual meeting beginning today in this Florida resort city comes amid concern that the once- mighty labor federation has lost much of its lobbying influence in the nation's capital, especially with Republicans controlling the White House and the Senate.

In an interview about a month after the fall elections, Kirkland acknowledged that the AFL-CIO's political machinery was in need of a tune-up, or perhaps an overhaul. He called for improved lines of communications to Republicans, as well as to the federation's own state and local affiliates. That could be particularly pertinent as the Reagan administration tries to slash up to $50 billion from the budget for fiscal year 1982. Sources have said President Reagan will propose massive cuts this week in $11 billion worth of programs covering public service jobs and unemployment benefits. Several key Republicans were invited to discuss those cuts with the AFL-CIO leaders.

Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, was to meet privately with the executive council today and Edwin Meese III, a Cabinet-level counselor to Reagan, was expected to attend later in the week. Ambulance 2 Calendar Classified Comics 6 Deaths 2 Hospitals 4 Fire Calls 2 Dr. Lamb 4 Sports 1 Women's News 3 Weather Sunday's high: 64 Overnight low: For cast: Partly cloudy Details, Pg. 2 Goodland holds open house By ANTON RIECHER Regional Editor GOODLAND, Okla. An open house at Choctaw County's historic Goodland Presbyterian Children's Home Sunday is the first attempt by the home's administration to seek publicity in many years, according to acting director DeAnn Cox.

"Publicity has not been a priority," Ms. Cox said. been at least five years since anyone in this area was invited." The home, located only a few miles south of Hugo, is a small complex of houses, dormitories and other buildings surrounded by rolling countryside and thick woods. Established in 1850 by the Rev. Oliver Porter Stark, the home served as a Presbyterian mission for the Choctaw Nation after their migration from Mississippi to Oklahoma.

"Rev. Stark set up the mission and his wife kicked off a school here," Ms. Cox said. "That slowly evolved into an Indian boarding school." In the years since its inception, Goodland has been known as the Goodland Industrial School in 1912, the Goodland Indian Orphanage in 1944 and, in 1970, the Goodland Presbyterian Children's Home. Added to the name today is the extra title of Goodland Presbyterian Children's Home and Family Service Agency.

"We offer services people in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas," Ms. Cox said. "We've been here since before the state lines were drawn." In the 1960s, with more money available for services for Indians, the school's enrollment stood at 200 students ranging from six to 18 year- olds. "The school tore down the rustic old dormitories in the late sixties," Ms. Cox said.

Today, the home consists of a boy's dormitory, a girls dormitory, a gymnasium, a school building, counseling offices and a chapel building. "We are licensed to handle 21 children with our facilities," Cox said. "Presently we have 20 children here." The enrollment at Goodland now consists of older teen-agers who for reasons of emotional trauma or financial hardship have ceased living with either of their parents! "In the late 1960s the children we took care of were more emotionally disturbed and many eventually See GOODLAND, Pg. 2 LOS ANGELES (AP) United States' rapidly growing reserves of gasoline are so great that refineries may be forced to slow down or shut down and gas prices eventually may drop, an oil industry analyst says. Dan Lundberg said oil-production runs at refineries are at "uneconomic rates" and gasoline stockpiles, fast approaching a record-breaking inventory, are so great that "the industry may have to drink it." But his Lundberg Letter, a weekly oil industry periodical, stressed that "regardless of surpluses, certain increased costs must get through to the pump, so a decline in prices is not a reasonable prospect at this time." The letter said consumer conservation of gasoline and bontinued production of fuel oil for winter heating were combining to create stocks of 277 million barrels of gas at refineries, in pipelines and at large terminals throughout the country.

Another oil industry publication official said Sunday that the nation has begun to control its consumption of petroleum products and could be on the way to easing the energy problem "without fully realizing it." German Chacin, editor of the Energy Detente newsletter, said the U.S. economy has improved its energy efficiency 12 percent since the Arab oil embargo of 1973. He said that translates into a savings of 4.9 million barrels of oil a day. "Since the petroleum price increases of 1973-74, entered the scene with a vigor that many wouldn't have thought possible back in the 1960s and early 70s," Chacin said. Energy Detente is a bilingual, twice-monthly publication that studies the energy situation in the Western Hemisphere.

It is affiliated with the Lundberg Letter. The Lundberg Letter, published Friday, said refinery production runs dropped to 72.7 percent of capacity in January from an already low 76.6 percent in December. Refiners, who generally like to run at about 90 percent capacity, are faced with "even greater slowdowns, perhaps shutdowns," the letter said. Area Roundup Out Beulahland way ByEdBryson Cruising down curving FM 411 the other day, I came into what used to be called the Beulah community, and the sight took me back to 1919 when I attended Fulbright school about two miles to the west. Beulah was a well-known place then, and I recalled thinking of it as Beulahland, a phrase from an old gospel song I had heard in church.

Anyway, I pulled over to the verge of the road when I came in sight of the Carl Gene Baker home. It stands where the old Beulah school or church once -stood. And so it seems that Beulah has lost even the ground it once covered: Looking around for some visible sign of the old place, I saw a great upthrust of earth, with clods as large as small clouds. Beyond the embankment was water, and I learned later that Carl had his old pond deepened and widened with a dragline last summer or fall. I've an idea he'd welcome a three-inch rain to full the pool to the rim and melt the huge clods of earth.

Joe Ford of Bogata told me a few years ago that pupils from Gintown, a settlement to the south, once waded the black mud to Beulah. That was before the school bus came along. Families now living in what might be called the old Beulah community limits include the Bakers, the Duggers, the Andersons, Froeliches, Rozelles and Adams. I'm sure I have overlooked some others. Rolling on to Fulbright, I stopped near the Travis King store and gas pumps, a place I prefer to call the Key Store.

Travis has too many other fish to fry to spend all his time at the store, so he had extra keys made for his customers. They open and close as they please when he's not there. Travis came out of the door puffing his pipe, and we stood in that cold wind and had a little talk. When I said something to Travis about his ever-hot pipe, he grinned and reached for another match. Then he wanted to know if I had been watching the televised strikes talks in Poland.

Hesaid he was impressed by the man who heads up the union over there and that he called his wife's attention to him. "Just.look at that fellow," he told her. "He's always his pipe or reaching for a match or lighting it. He looks like perpetual motion. He's the only man I've ever seen who is as bad with a pipe as you say I am." I was about to ask Travis what his wife said about that, but I thought better of it when he knocked the dottle out and it fell on my shoe.

Sam Embry has a mystery tree at his place in Fulbright. His mother, who died last fall, planted some cherry seed, or pits, from cherries given her a few years ago by a grandchild. Later, a tree was born and grew to fruiturity last. See BRYSON, Pg. 2.