Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 8

8-A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NETS Ab3cMTnuTtoM MoreSept 231980 KWKC KORQ Bought By Amarillo Company Rainfall Cools Off Abilene eooliiig rain Monday washed nmmcr away and baptised leniana to autumn Temperatures feil firm an afternoon high of degrees at I pm to T4 degrees at I pm Pan fen into Abilene at 4:03 pm Jerry the National Weather Senriee at Abilene Munic- ipal Airport reported While tm inches of rain eras reported In Coahoma in Howard County only a traee wu recorded at the airport and at the fteparierAfew MO Cypress A percent chance for rain caiats Tuesday decreasing to 10 percent neo-day night the weather senriee reported Rain which began falling about here 7:43 pm wu brought in by a cold front extending from about Dallu to Juet west of Del Rio The cool air brought seatr toted showers throughout the Big Country Others reporting rain were Market a trace and StephenviUe JO inch The weather service reported Isolated showers fell Juet northwest of Snyder Scurry County Sheriffs spokesman reported no rain had fallen however A Use of light showers and thunderstorms woe indicated by radar from the northwest part of the DMtaa-Port Worth Metroptex to StephenviUe to AbQene The chance of thunderstorms should continus through Tuesday evening the cold front moves deeper into the state and dissipates acrou south and southeast Texas according to NWS Recorded rainfall remains well below the year to date normal of Inches in Abilene The dty hu received only 1U1 this year and Ilf inebes during September the weather service said Skies should begin to dear Wednesday with temperatures climbing back into the mid-Ms Tuesday's highs should retch degrees with overnight temperatures plunging to the low Ms By DARRYL ENRIQUEZ StaffWriter The ute of radio stations KWKC-AM and KORQ-FM wu amwuneed Monday" by its new owners Adams-Shelton Communications of Amarillo The "$1 minion phis" transaction with the stations' previous owner Frontier Broadcasting Ine wu completed Sept 12 following three months of negotiations ASC nit Rnmors of Frontier's desire to sell began circulating ia late February The appointment of a new station manager Ben Wimberly and in evaluation the facilities' worth by a brokerage firm sunned the sueeulition An official from parent company Mithun Enterprise! Inc of MinnupMis uid then the station wu not actively for sale but that a good otter would be considered The sale still must he approved by the Federal Communications Commission before being finalised-a process which usually three months Keith Adams and Jim Shelton ASC partners wen in Abilene Monday talking with community leaden and gathering "community ascertainments" A community ascertainment to a study of local needs problems and intents Tbs FOC requires broadcast stations to submit a plan on how it will enhance the area it serves ASC's ascertainment also must receive FCC approval part of finalising the Mis ASC owns AM stations in Odesu and Plainview and formerly owned AM and FM stations in Amarillo Shelton uid ft also owns Accent Wat Mtgutae and Lakeview Office Park a teal estate development in Amarillo Both ban lived in Amarillo tor nearly 17 years Adams uid Shelton uid they purchased the station because of their familiarity with its '24-hour format of country and western music on AM and soft rock on FM Shelton said JDf SHELTON impressed with staff facility 0 vestigatton into allegedly conducting private business on stats time Bruce Campbell is chief engineer for KWKCKORQ and a sates representative for KWKC Ha said he win continus workinx it tbs stations -Shelton said tha neither station's format nor Its personnel would be changed comfortable and Impressed with the be uid Tbs area of concern to Shelton and his partner is in promotion advertising and management "I see any weaknesses in the station but through past experience we've learned we eould bring in strength by doing things (promotion and advertsing) that haven't tried" Wimberly will continue station manager he said "1 think (the ownership change is) going' to be good because professional broadcasters who have a lot of experience" Attempt to revive Police and paramedics atr tempt to revive Charles Arthur Grey 62 of 502 Simmons who apparently Buffered a heart attack Monday afternoon before1 losing control of his car Heart Attack Kills Driver The car jumped a curb ran through a hedge and hit a tree before coming to a stop Grey later died at Hendrick Medical Center (Staff Photo by David Kent) KEITH ADAMS million pins" Their previous Amarillo station had the same format Shelton uid Their two other AM stations are country and western Shelton uid the Abfien market and its potential is similar to Amarillo and Odesu which also led to their being reassured about the purchase familiar with the market sin and potential' he uid No problem is foreseen in obtaining FCC approval Shelton said ASC sold its Amarillo stations in September 1978 a sals that wu approved that Decemeber ft purchased this two AMs in September 1971 and thou acquisitions were approved three months later he added Wimberly laid ASC purchased the Plainview and Odeua stations from Ralph Wayne former chief deputy to State Comptroller Bob Bullock Wayne wu no-billed earlier this month following a Travis County grand jury in- Home will be tried later Tha labor loader in a secretly taped conversation with Hauser uid "If we eu get tiie speaker I think wa ean put this thing together One of the wins is tho speaker I will start finding out where all the wins is in the state Moon wu speaking of a state employee health insurance package with annul prominnu of between and $71 million Under emu examination Hauser admitted he had been paying off labor Mfi- dais since 19(3 to get union Insurance business And he added "Thou an the facts of life In my experience nobody in Amer- fee does any business with union without paying for it No one ean be sue-eesaful without bribery when dealing with tabor Defense attorney Roy Minton asked repeatedly if Hauser thought Ms friend insurance executive Bernard Witness Says Clayton Hawley Residents Split Over Womack Decision ilawns befon hitting a tree and coming 'to i itod doHc uid Officer Victor Vduques identified the man Bytir-Md Charles Arthur Grey of 302 Simmons Grey'a car Jumped a curb and traveled through lawn for 101 fed befon going through a hedge and hitting a tm at the home of Pat Walker 1301 Willis Police and panmedics attempted to revive Grey befon ho was taken to Hendrick Medical Center by Abilene Emergency Medical Service Justice of the Peace Boland Dimwody pronounced Mm dead at pm An at tending physician said Grey suffered a heart attack police uid Police mU his death will not be counted as a traffic fatality Poll Gives Carter Lead in Texas AUSTIN (AP) Gov Bill Clements uyt he does not agree with a statewide poll released Sunday that shows Prest dent Jimmy Carter leading Ronald Reagan by sight points in Texas Clements head of the Reagan-Bush campaign in Texas said the Texas Monthly magazine poll wu "blatantly in error" because two other recent polls show Reagan luding Carter by nine points la Tent oman Offered 2nd Shot at FORT BRAGG NC (AP) Capt Kathleen Wilder hu been offend another chance to become the first woman to wear the Army's eoveted green hart hut would have to retake fatiguing three-week field test that she wiihee to void 1 The offer to retake the test wu mado hy Brig Gen Joseph Luts who upheld the Special Forces' recommendation in not awarding a green beret to Ms WU-dttr lids agreed on Friday that Ms Wilder should have a second chance to urn her beret by being allowed to retake the' An Abilene man who died Monday after he lost control of his car in the U00 block of South Willis suffered a heart attack police reports said The car traveled 174 feet through "You have to be careful who you talk to" uid Eddie Bon 23 a 1173 graduate Hawley High School people here are pretty much split with about half who think Womack's guilty (of mismanagement) and half who think innocent" ho uid I have confidence in Mr Womack a superintendent and a person" Pete Barbee a friend of Womack for 33 years and a former board member said charges were completely unwarranted If the board look at the budget and see for themselves the extra $90000 not his fault" In tht last six to eight yean the relationship between the board and Womack bar been "ml Barbee uid aying that new members are added to the board then teems to be a trend to get rid of Mm (Womsek)" board's decision Monday met with applause from some 30 community members gathered for the proceedings Immediately following adjournment Jack Earle of Hawley told "Georgs yon did what people uM be done" "The eur hu fallen" Eerie said' Two women who asked not to be identified said they wen with the decision" and "glad they got rid of Mm" fed tbit the school board hu done what they fed is the best thing for the Hawley school system" said DL Brit too of Hawley reaction wu mixed Saying he wu diuppointed he satisfy everybody in the district he went on to say ho hu had long long enjoyable tenure with the school and worked with lot of wonderful people been great" Cable Movies from viewing it" he uid MeGtaun found the pictures of semi-nude women in the SST brochure mailed to subeeriben particularly offensive He thinks tha brochure approach might work if the photographic content to censored properly But tar the free SST being transmitted Into all the homes of cable subscribers he thinks "ft is the wrong approach for selling a new serviee" Brockman contacted about complaints be uid he would be among tho first to agree with MeGtaun that aS movies sre not for the kids But he uid "The decision hu been made and the programming will continue "I want to know what tho public likes and dislikes and I encourage them to write he uid Some of the R-rated movies which have been shown during the test period re "North DaUu Forty" and Warriors" Iran Airport killed "innoeent people" Thick smoke rose over the airport and the thunder of the midday attack rocked tho eapttaL American-made fighters retali-atod by bombing Iraq's Wuet Province 100 mites east of Baghdad end Basra Iraq's southernmost port according to communiques from both nations Iran warned all ships entering the Persian Gulf through Hbrmus that they would suffer dire consequences if they uited closer thin a prescribed distance from the Iranian coast No Target Rapoport used bribery to get union eon-iracts Hauser answered "I say Bernard Rapoport paid the bribery but 1 think tho insurance agencies that do business with Bernard's companies pay -i Rapoport of -Waco hu been men- Honed often during tho trial tho indi-vidual who first suggested Hauer contact Harold Grnbbs education director for the Pipe Fitters Union local 2U of Houston Tbs investigation tod from Grubbs to Hoore to Ray and Wood and then to tho speaker Rapoport win be ealted later a tense witness 'Hauser also testUad that he gave Hoot $2000 during a Sept 20 1979 nesting and that the tabor leader put the money la Ms pocket Earlier Hauer said he gave Grubbs $1000 who in turn poised the money tang to Moore Add training exercise Ms Wilder however -Indicated through her attorney on Monday that she may reject the offer Benny Deese uid Ms Wilder is 'considering filing an Internal military grievance or going to federal eourt to force the Army to make her i Green Beret without retaking tho exercise Tho 29-yearold Louisians native wu the first woman ever admitted to the sehooL She completed the 13-week eoum last month only to lean she had failed the final phase a field exercise in which tactical combat concepts are stressed Percy said in Washington Persian Gulf oil cutoff could triple the price of 42-iDon barrel of erode ofi to $100 or more He said Ms prediction wu based en the experience with the 197 Arab Ml embargo which "wu accompanied by bad gas Unes and quadrupling of erode Ml priees within a yew" Iraq tha seeond-targest OPEC member produces 33 million barrels of Ml day and exports an estimated mini of the total Even if its Persian Gulf port fadlltiei woe eut off by the fighting Iraq stil could uae pipelines aerosi Syria and Tur key to carry as much twotirirds of it exports to Mediterranean Sea ports om source laid Iru is said to produce LS minion bar reta a day and export half its output Be fort tho overthrow of the late She Mohammad Rexa Pahtavi Iran was tb No I member of OPEC producing minted barrels day and axportinn million of the totaL US economist! and OPEC official have said on production in the noo-Con munlat world is running mini a million barrels a day below eoi sumption According to Patnkm Intelligent Weekly world oQ supplies art cxpecte to reach 5LI billion barrels this fan million barrels shove normaL The newi tatter said WesteA Europe hu hrftt 1 a four-month oQ supply while Japu hi muted a UMay inventory and tt United Statu a 2U-month stock HOUSTON (AP) FBI Informant Joseph Hauser testified in federal court Monday that he eome to Texu hi an effort "to target" House Speaker Billy Clayton and the politician'! name wu brought into the Brilab probe by a labor leader Hauser the key government witneu in the Texu Brilab trial said "the first I aver heard of tho speaker or of Donald Ray or Randall Wood wu when their names wen mentioned by LG Moon regional dinctor of the International Operating Engineen Union took Hauser to meeting with Wood and Ray both Austin attorneys later with the speaker -v Clayton Wood Ray and Moon wen indicted June 12 hy a federal grand on eharges of extortion racketeering eonspirsey and bribery in an alleged in-surance kickback scheme The speaker and the two lawyen an now on trial befon US District Judge Robert rally In Miami Tomorrow he will fly to Penaacola to complete nil trip in Florida (AP Laserphoto) Continued From Pg 1A be served if Mr Womack remains available at the request of the District an adviser and consultant during the next few months of transition in the school system the statement sail Womsek is to serve in his new capacity until Dee it which time tbs board reserves the option to end or extend Ms servlet Bob Martin termer principal of Hawley High School hu been appointed interim superintendent The prepared statement included a denial that the board hu ever suspected or believed that Mr Womsek was engaged In criminal mis- management of school funds" Earlier this month Womack had said he wu suspended "for not adequately interning the board" of a $90000 surplus in the llM-tl school budget which ho said wu caused hy a coding error But when contacted at Ms home Monday Womack uid that wu not the basis for his reassignment "I believe yon eould even say that wu the Womsek sail The statement read by Hicks echoed Womack's remark stating tbs board hu never "considered seeking criminal investigation of or eriminal charges against Mr Womsek with regard to Ms management of school tends or any other averts of Ms servieo to the District" As the trustees Womack and attorneys met behind eiosed doors Hawley residents commented that Womack's suspension hu been a particularly divisive issue in this small Jones County community Abilenian Raps with the policies practiced by other networks well movie theaters A theater will not let anyone under 17 years of ags Into R-rated movie and other networks will censor an R-rated movie befon putting it on the airwaves ho said "I Uriah Cable TV should take Into account their moral responsibilities public MeGtaun said MeGtaun said the R-ratod movies an not a problem in Ms horns bseaue he does not allow Ms ehfldna unrestricted television viewing but he knows that is not the east in other homes Sometimes children will tone in Just out of curiosity when left to watch television on their own ha said "Folks need to know that (SST is) on tha air andTestrict young children Planes Strike Continued From Pg 1A installations Although reports conflicted both tides uid air bases in Tehran Ahvu Ham-adan Tabrii and Bouskehr were attacked Iranian officials added Dexftil and Toiumbeh Sabs to the Hit and an Iraqi spokesman added SMru and Isfahan 1 Foreign Ministry said Iraqi at- tacks on "airports and residential of Percy Says Oil Cutoff Could Quadruple Prices Continued From Pg 1A ih Tehran last year Iranian oil output dropped nearly to sen for seven weeks during the country's revolution in late 1978 and early 1979 and subsequently resumed at the current rate The Iranian oil shutoff sparked worldwide scramble for oil supplies Just as oil companies wen starting their normal seasonal inventory buildup As result of the scramble the Organ- taattan of Petroleum Exporting Countries hiked priees 147 percent between December and today The sharp rise in prices tad to decrease in ofi use in the West and allowed Industry Ml invtntortes to swell to unusually high levels Several sources uid they were concerned however that the Iraqi-Iranian fighting at the Shaft M-Arah waterway at the Gulfs north end might spread to nearby Kuwait a major ofi exporter which sells nearly all of Its L3 minion barrels-a-day petroleum output To south is Saudi Arabia the largest oil exporter which products ls million 43rttao barrels of ofi day Saudi Arabia supplies I percent of UJ oil needs A disruption in the fiow of oil from the Persian Gulf stemming from the fighting between Iru and Iraq eould lead to a cutoff of oil exports that might result in quadrupled erode Ml prices $3-s-galton gasoline end home heating Mils of $1600 a month uid Sen Charles Percy R- Hats off to Reagan! Mark Redmond 4 tit atop hie father'd shoulders during a Reagan rally Monday night in Fort Lauderdale Reagan first spoke to a.