Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 1

friday It's Time For Rehab 79 Mis Outlook Is Jolumv Ham Home to Glory gt IV- 1C' JONES Pg IB biltvtt JUporttr offense to friends or foes we it --llyron ABILENE TEXAS FRIDAY MORNING JANUARY 5 1979 SCEULZ 36 PAGES IN 4 SECTIONS Transmitter clean Unruly Iran Students ace Deportation "Without or with lip WASHINGTON (AP) The Carter administration upset by a bloody anti-shah demonstration by Iranian atudents in California promised Thursday to deport any foreign student who takes part in illegal violence in the United States The warning was made by Attorney General Griffin Bell one day after he was instructed by President Carter to review possible steps the government might take participants in such violence will be deported to the extent the law permits or Bell said The attorney general said he was studying legal options" that could lead to revocation of student visas for the Iranians other visitor to our country who is here to obtain an education and resorts to violence contrary to law should be on notice that we will initiate appropriate legal proceedings to see that their stay in the United States is he said stern warning and Carter's order were prompted by an anti-shah demonstration in Beverly Hilla Calif Workmen remove the twisted remains of the KTXS-TV transmitting tower from the roof of the transmitting building in Trent on Thursday Station officials said that crews were working 24 hours a day to restore power to channel 12 and 20 CENTS More on Iran situation Pg 7C Tuesday in which protestors stormed the mansion where the shah's sister and mother are residing About 500 students were repulsed by police after a 45-minute melee in which 35 demonstrators were injured and at least eight persons were arrested The protestors burned air automobile smashed the windows of police cars and set small fires in shrubbery surrounding the home Sen Lloyd Bentsen D-Texas and Rep Robin Beard R-Tenn had asked Bell and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in separate letters to see that lawbreakers among Iranian or other foreign students be deported immediately Bell appeared to go beyond that request Thursday He said his review also would be aimed at expelling Iranians who no longer are students if their See BELL WARNS Back page this section Mrs Harmon said she can properly close the furnace blower door and change the air filter Any more complicated maintenance needed she said calls for a reliable and reputable service man A misplaced blower door figured in the death of Jim Boyd and the violent illness of the rest of his family this week It fell to Lucia new on the job after a New transfer from Fort Worth to Abilene to go out to the Boyd home to check what went wrong The improperly closed blower door of the Boyds' furnace "looked like it was leaned up against it" (the furnace) Lucia said The blower door connection Mrs Harmon said "was designed and built for customer safety" only one way to get it back on there" If someone had replaced the Boyds' See MAINTENANCE IMPORTANT Back page thla aection in Cisco At one point he lost the Abilene hotel but later retrieved it in 1934 after reor- See 1st HILTON Back page this section ndt Repair of Tower Makes KTXS Play Wait- See Carbon Monoxide Watchword For Safety: Ventilate sketch your world exactly as two to three days before a cause be determined (Staff Photo by mitting building and had succeeded in patching up the smashed-in roof Several crews have been working on See REASON FOR Back page this section More Ice statement from Fort Worth the cold air deepens over northwest Texas a change to freezing rain and sleet is expected" Abilene forecasters are predicting a chance of drizzle changing to rain on Friday Sleet and freezing rain is forecast for Friday night and Saturday High Friday should be in the upper 30s with the low Friday night near 25 degrees weathermen predict high should be near 30 Probability at precipitation is 30 percent Friday increasing to (0 percent Friday night School will not be held in McCaulley (teachers' workday) Aspermont and Hobbs Hamlin studenta will have school but the buses will be late In Snyder school will be held both on Friday and Saturday The First Conrad Hilton the small town boy who became a 235-hotel magnate and who died Wednesday night in Santa Monica Calif opened his first hotel in West Texas A native of New Mexico the fl-year-old Hilton came to the West Texas oil fields during the boom of 1919 and Invested his life savings of $5000 in his first hotel in Cisco That hotel called the Mobley was sleeping oil field workers in three shifts The two-story red brick Mobley Hotel contained 50 rooms In his biography Be My Guest Hilton recalled Mobley when I first saw it looked like a convenient place to sleep Nothing more" But he bought it after the owner said tied down here to this glorified boarding house when I ought to be out there in the oil field making real money" The Mobley is still standing and was bought last year by a Houston trust It isn't known what the trust plans to do with the hotel by Katharyn Duff If Wishes Were Weather Be Warm Dry Long-range weather forecast: Abilene and Vicinity Clear to partly-cloudy through Monday with balmy days and cool nights Daytime highs in the 50s nighttime lows upper 30s Winds variable 3 to 5 mph That ia a personal forecast made in behalf of the West Texas Rehabilitation Center and of all plumbers everywhere With such a forecast the Rehab Center can escape the weather worries which so often beset it early in January when it stages its annual Telethon Perhaps also a few such pleasant days would allow the plumbers (including one so desperately needed at our house) time to service their frantic calls But alu and alack The weathermen (my those fellows See MYSTERIOUS JR Back page this section that it would most likely be for the tower collapse can David Leeson) asked not to be identified also got the (transmitting) building all cleaned up" The news official said that clean-up crews had removed most of the wrecked tower that lay sprawled across the trans Fog Means Just as the Big Country is beginning to melt weathermen are predicting more ice storms for the weekend Fog which enveloped Abilene Thursday night was a sign of the cold front coming from the north At 1:30 pm the front was south of Wichita Falls and north of Lubbock said Jerry of the Abilene office of the National Weather Service Warm air overrunning the cold air near the front caused the fog and drizzle he said Eastland had fog and 03 inch of precipitation and Dublin had 01 inch Thursday Thursday night the National Weather Service in Fort Worth issued a winter storm watch for Friday night and Saturday for the northwest portion of Texas a for rain should increase behind the said a special weather V' Arrpho) CONRAD HILTON it all began in Cisco By BILL MINUTACUO Staff Writer Tune in tom morrow to see if KTXS-TV will be back an the air the news as far as KTXS-TV employees are concerned as they anxiously await the completion of repair work on their felled transmitting tower The top two-thirds of the 1000-foot tower took a tumble Monday evening and crashed into an adjacent transmitting building knocking KTXS-TV and KORQ-Radio off the air at 7:42 pm KORQ rents space on the tower Thursday construction and engineering crews were at the tower site about five miles southwest of Trent near the Nolan County line Assistant station manager Hal Kemp said that the cleanup crews have been working around-the-clock but he still sure when channel 12 will be back on the air He added that it will also be two to three days before KTXS-TV will learn what caused the tower to snap Kemp said KTXS-TV officials and engineers from US Steel were at the tower on Thursday to examine the possibility that a faulty guy-point may have had something to do with the crash Meanwhile was restored today (Thursday)" said a member of the KTXS-TV news department who tate transaction in business by acquiring the Statler Hotels chain" said Jacques Cosse a spokesman for the Beverly Hills-located Hilton Hotels Corp which handles the domestic Hilton Hotels operation The renowned Statler Hotels were transformed into the Statler Hiltons in major US cities In 1964 Hilton International spun off from the domestic company to become a separate entity and later became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trans World Airlines in 1967 The domestic firm presently operates 185 hotels in the United States and the international company manages 75 hotels in 45 countries said Alan Gould a spokesman for the International cargo- See WALDORF WAS Back page this section By JERRY REED Staff Writer Carbon monoxide has been called the silent killer because it's a colorless tasteless and odorleas gas If you can't see it taste it smell it or feel it how do you know there? Perhaps the question should be altered a bit: What must you do to be assured that it isn't there? Lone Star Gas Co district manager Marthe Harmon and district service supervisor Frank Lucia offered several specific tips that seem to settle into two major categories proper ventilation and preventative maintenance on equipment of us have overworked some heating equipment" said Mrs Harmon It's easy to Ignore a gas-burning furnace shut up in a closet if it's putting out heat and isn't making some strange noise she said needs to be serviced before it is used" says Lucia That means before each heating season he explained Hilton Was From his success in Cisco Hilton bought a series of small hotels in Texas and finally built one in Dallas The first building to bear his name as a Hilton Hotel was in Abilene: The current Hotel Windsor at North Fourth and Pine The Windsor operated under a lease with the Hilton name from its opening in 1927 to 1945 When the Hilton opened in Abilene it had 10 floors a penthouse and 275 rooms said Louise Richards the present manager "We recently have gone to luxury apartments but still have some transient rooms as well as permanent residences" she said Hilton also had hotels in Fort Worth Dallas Corsicana Waco Marlin Plain-view San Angelo Lubbock and El Paso The Hiltoa Hotel in San Angelo is now the Cactus Hotel The real test of Hilton's business acumen came during the Depression when II percent of the nation's hotels fell into bankruptcy At one point he was $500000 in debt with no income Conrad Hilton Hotel Baron Dies I SANTA MONICA Calif (AP) Conrad Hilton was once known as man who bought the Waldorf When he died of pneumonia late Wednesday his name had become a synonym for hotel The hotel magnate who was born on Christmas day in tiny San Antonio NM 91 years ago was board chairman of a hotel chain estimated to be worth more than half a billion dollars Through a series of shrewd business deals he acquired the Town House in Los Angeles and in 1945 he purchased the 3000-room Stevens in Chicago But it was in 19(9 that he scored a major coup He arquirqd operating control of the fashionable Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City for $3 million Hilton the son of a successful merchant took another giant step in 1954 when he "pulled off the biggest real es 1.