Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 1

Reporter- Ngws sazL'sssssss Without or with offense to friends or foes we sketch your world exactly as it 63 PAGES IN 4 SECTIONS ABILENE TEXAS THURSDAY EVENING APRIL 17 1980 25 CENTS Carter halts food to Iran rjThe Happening World Your chance to quiz Carter Family in crunch of vice I'd like to ask Mr Carter the questions which most interest readers of this newspaper Please address questions to me at the Reporter-News Box 30 Abilene Texas 79604 Dick Tarpley Executive Editor What would you like to ask the President? Here's your chance Editors from Harte-Hanks newspapers have been invited to the White House for a briefing all day Wednesday I will represent the Abilene Reporter-News By the Auoclited Preis WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter has decided to impose a total ban on US food shipments to Iran as part of a new packet of sanctions aimed at escalating his campaign to win freedom for American hostages held in Tehran Carter was expected to furmally announce the fresh retaliatory moves at a nationally broadcaat news conference Thursday afternoon An administration official who asked that he not be named said the president had embraced a total embargo on food shipments and might also cut off exports to Iran of medicines and pharmaceuticals However the latest US government figures show medical exports to Iran were worth a mere $220000 in February and that there were no shipments of food thanks in good measure to a refusal by union longshoremen to load food aboard Iran-bound ahipa by western merchant mariners and to discourage consumption of Iranian cavier by those Americans who ran afford it Although the figures on recent exports of food and medicines to Iran might suggest Carter's new steps would have little practical effect White House press secretary Jody Powell hinted broadly that the new sanctions could foreshadow steps Carter will ask US allies to take After declining Wednesday to specify sanction options open to Carter Powell was asked whether they might not prove meaningless The questioner cited a possible food embargo as an example "You might consider the point" Powell said "that quite often unilateral steps on our part do indeed point you toward steps which we will be asking others to take also" Meanwhile in Iran a firing squad today executed four alleged saboteurs one of them a woman after they were convicted in a string of bombings and attacks on officials in Iran's oil-rich southwest Tehran Radio reported Iranian authorities charged WICHITA Kan (AP) Phillip Jason left a 622500 annual salary in New Jersey 18 months ago to bring his wife and six kids to an economic pearl in a country of dull pebbles Today Jason has a rented home full of empty stomachs 8224 in the pocket of his faded blue jeans and no job Pg 8D they had been trained in Iraq der West Texas cowboys: winning photo series The Revolutionary Court of Khuzestan province handed down the sentence Wednesday the same day that six persons were killed and 31 others were injured in the latest attack in the province a bombing in the refinery city of Abadan on the Iraqi bor- Iran and Iraq are locked in a tense border confrontation but the government radio did not say immediately whether Wednesday's bombing which destroyed several shops was believed to be the work of supporters of Iraq Other anticipated sanctiona ranged from moves to discourage visits to Iranian ports Trouble flares again in county jail The boots of cowboy Sonny Edgar of the Pitchfork Ranch in West Texas show thel By SANDY TEST Staff Writer Tobey jury deliberates Pg 14A wear of years of her-j cattle ding cattle the scuffle then pulled the first inmate away from Solis The two jailers then separated and isolated the five prisoners who were yelling and shouting Cheek said For the second time in six weeks trouble has flared on the maximum security floor of the Taylor County Jail and for the second time William Battee Jr awaiting trial for capital muider was apparently patches have patches" Edgar says See Dallas Times-Her-ald photographer Erwin Haglers Pulitzer prize-winning photo series Pg 14B (AP Laserphoto) Jail administrator Glenda Aldridge said Battee was being isolated because he was up the Ms Aldridge said Battee was not a danger to other inmates but had given jailers trouble It was Battee who took a jailer hostage for 15 to 20 minutes March 9 and demanded his release in exchange for the hostage not neen involved in the scuffle "He was in court at the time" she said Battee is also i-harged with Tobey's murder The only other trial in a district court here Wednesday ended that morning In the March 9 hostage situalkni Battee released the jailer unharmed after he was told his demands for release would not be met In the Wednesday afternoon incident Kersey said the two inmates jumped Freddy Solis and Gary Cheek about 12:30 pm When Solis and Cheek asked the four other prisoners to leave the cell they refused to move Cheek said tried talking them out (of the cell) for several but the prisoners were uncooperative Check said Then one of the inmates jumped up and grabbed Solis Cheek said Cheek moved in grabbed a second inmate who joined the The prisoners involved in the incident were threatening Wednesday to file charges against the jailers Kersey said "(Solis and Cheek) didn't use excessive force" to subdue the inmates according to Kersey In her opinion the prisoners' complsints are unfounded she said No charges are expected against the prisoners but after completion of an investigation Kersey said she would make a suggestion to the jail administrator on possible discipline Solis suffered bruised ribs and Cheek a bruised arm Both were back on duty today Kersey said Jail and sheriff's officials have refused to release the names of the two prisoners who jumped two jailers Wednesday afternoon but Deputy Sheriff Debby Kersey said the between the jailers and the prisoners had taken place in Bailee's cell Four other prisoners were in the cell at the time the incident occurred she said The prisoners refused to move out of Bat-tee's cell upon request and had to be forcibly removed Kersey said Kersey said the names of the inmates involved would not be released because it could jeopardize an ongoing trial in Taylor County District Court but she said Clifton Charles Russell 18 on trial for capital murder in the death of Hubert Tobey had Inflation being felt in bond improvements Inflation is cutting deeper than expected into some capital improvements projects approved in a December bond issue a prospect which has City Manager Ed Seegmiller concerned Pg 14 A KTXS firm moving HQ to Abilene Homebuilders see little chance for relief By WILLIAM WHITAKER Staff Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The housing industry is deteriorating at a rate reminiscent of the nation's last recession in 1974 and even a drop in interest rates won't relieve builders or homebuyers anytime soon says the chairman of thd Federal Home Loan Bank Board Pg 5D Prima Inc the new owners of KTXS-TV in Sweetwaler-Abilene and its sister station in Lubbock will be headquartered in Abilene with plans calling for beefing up the news staff and buying new equipment 'Crime in the to get closer look No changes in personnel are anticipated but new reporters will be added and programming will be reviewed said Sam Spivey Prima vice president and director of stations operations WASHINGTON (AP) Big Business is being thrust into an unwanted spotlight across of critics inau- the nation today as a coalition At one point Spivey even suggested the possibility of a local variety show to spotlight entertainers in this talented He said no other station features local performers regularly gurate a campaign to shackle corporate giants Pg 3D WARMER The main direction of the station will be toward greater involvement in the area he said "The long-range plan is to develop a property that will enhance the community of Emphasizing an "in-depth market research project" to find out what people want on TV Spivey said the way we can grow is to support the growth in this Weather i I Fair and warm Prima Inc should officially own KTXS-TV and KLBK In Lubbock by May 15 after the 45day period" required by the Federal Communication! Commission for sny finsl protests Spivey said Cuban wrath (Weather Map and Temperatures Pg 3A) passes hut they must run the gauntlet of insults from the crowds that have gathered outside the security cordon Sec story Pg 2A (AP Laserphoto) ABILENE AND VICINITY (10-mile radius) Fair and warm this afternoon and Friday Fair and cool tonight High this afternoon and The strain shows on the face of one of the refugee women as she is jeered by the crowd as she transits the security checkpoints near the Peruvian Embassy in Havana People have been allowed to come and go with safe conduct See NO CHANGE Back page this section Friday near 80 Low tonight mid 40s Winds northerly 10-20 mph diminishing tonight Scott's 71 Oscar still in the wings John Shelton heads centennial project The Light Side Page 3B After watching "Pstbui" my friend and I were talking shout George Scott I said he woo Oscar for his performance and she said he didn't that he'd withdrawn his name from the nomination Which of us is right and If it's her why did he do that? LITTLE LEARY "It's going to be a big he said at a press conference this morning "and it's going to require a lot of work from a lot of people" Plans for the Centennial are only in the beginning stages but it is anticipated 'hat 1981 wil1 sec the construction of an artual oil rig in the city Shelton said Commemorating the oil interests that spurred Abilene growth the rig will demonstrate the workings of rig to those unfamiliar with it but dependent on its output he said The year also will see a return visit of the successful Texas Opera Theater recognition nf Abilene historial markers and possibly a sperial library section of books boor about Abiicnians hr said Noting that thix Abi'cnr in nnmrri after Action Line By WILLIAM WHITAKER Staff Writer John Shelton an investments executive who was raised in Abilene and graduated from Abilene High School In 1951 will head the much-heralded Abilene Centennial project in 1981 The project coordinated by Shelton and his committee and overseen by the Cultural Affairs Council will include an intensive five-week celebration of Abilene's past present and future March 15 through April 19 1981 March 15 1881 was the dale of the town lot sale the city's beginning he said A You are both right but you're a little more right than she is In February 1971 two months before the Academy Awards were presented Scott asked thit his name he withdrawn from the list of nominees In April 1PT1 the academy awarded him the Osrar for brat actor anyway saying it would be hold for him in rase he rhanged his mind TM was Scott's second time to spuni an Academy Award In 12 he rejected a nomination for an Oscar for his supporting rule in "The Hustler" Scott has berm quoted ar saying "Peculiar as it may By Judy Bargainer SURE ILL-BUY nr wife a MINK IF SHE PROMISES to Keep ITS CAGE CLEAN I Wn Actmt lino AbiW Stpartar Nt feu 10 Abihn Ttui 7M04 Sec ACTION LINE Bark page this section Ph: 676-3111 I See GUESTS EXPECTED Back page this section jT.