Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 18

MMt ISA Abilene Reporter-News Fit Eve Sept 13 1965 i Sales Continued from Page 1A gross sales quarter Former analyst tells of report to Reagan against Nicaragua 2271SJS7 14880832 Taxable for first being mmiIiuH oo an individual basis by City Manager Jim Blagg he sail If the sales tax shortfall cannot be recovered from other sources and the general fund comes up short liter the books are closed the staff would go to the council to transfer funds probably from reserves which ironically were built up partly from sales tax booms hi 19U and 1982 is a fairly significant shortfall McDa- aid sail This final check of the fiscal year which began last OeL 1 gives Abilene a total of million compared to $803 million last year The staff using state projections Of results of the new sales tax law estimated f8J million originally for this year then sealed that down to $85 million at midyear Exactly where the sales tax shortfall is coning from is dWHeuif to say and sales tax rebates through the state have been unusual this year McDaniel sail "The whole tiling is screwy this he sail A gross taxable sales report from the state covering January February and March shows the biggest drops in agriculture down 2SJ per cent from 1901 durable wholesale goods down 119 percent retail bunding materials down 17 percent and hone furnishings down 149 percent Sane of the decreases could be attributed to reporting errors a spokesman at the state sail Durable goods Non-dutaUe goods Building materiel General merchandise Chart ww The report showed taxable sales in The Associated Press THE HAGUE Netheriudi A former intelligence anilyit for the CIA tokt the world Court today that in llU the agency prepared a plan for Preaident Reagan to deatabOixe Nicaragua 'a leftist regime Speaking during the accord day of a caae brought by Nicaragua again the United State in the Workf Court David Macmlchael waa aiked by Abram Chayei a lawyer for Nica-i: you advised of a plan prepared for the United States lent calling for covert action against Nicaragua?" I replied Macmichael who worked a a contract employee for the Central Intelligence Agency from March llU until April lSO Earlier a Nicaraguan official testified that at least 11 American eWm were working with antMSandinista Contra forces and claimed captured Contra prisoners said they dean with Americans identifying themselves as CIA agents The United States is boycotting the proceedings claiming that the panel officially known as the International Court of Justice is an improper forum for settlement of the Rodeo Continued from Page 1A States and Canada appearing at two to three rodeos per week tite hardest thing I did when I went with Coots was mowing down to one a she said The confident young woman was approached by Coon about halfway into her reign Miss Rodeo America and like the way they do business and I like what they do for So she and another woman joined the Coots circuit of 50 rodeos per year They along with their boss picked the 50 and split them up so each would appear at half Her job includes working with the local rodeo committee and the doors distributor in each town doing aueh things ordering the appropriate streamers and other promotional items for the rodeo plus meeting the press and working at the rodeos themselves That can lead to some surprises she sail have to get on horses we even know Like last week in Austin I got a hose that broken at ailf My legs are Mack and blue from noting the fence finally had to run Mm headfirst into the chute to stop And had some stranger experiences like eating alligator tall in Florida and having to judge a rodeo queen horsemansnto event while wearing a miniskirt blouse and sandals because Administration wants of trucking The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Reagan administration which hu been criticised for not moving quickly enough to deregulate the trudmgtadustryTtt telling Congreu time to let truckers compete freely without gow-eminent interference Deregulation administration officials argue will meu lower rates and better service for shippers both in urban areu and small towns The Transportation Department late Thursday submitted a fafanH legislative package to Congreu calling for of inter Economy Continued from Page 1A sonally adjusted 9009 billion tiie week ended Sept 2 from 98084 MUion SEPTEMBER AP Laiarphoto color of coat tempting disaster with spilled salt and a broken mirror time because viewers also watch cable programming anl in fringe areas stations in other Shares quoted are audience measurements for a 22-county area Milstead said he like to the reasons for gains in news audience are produet and the fact that viewers are sampling the program and that they like what see estifi Southwestifultimedia ritfafait said they planned no personnel changes Pat Brown is news director and coanchor of tiie station Brown has been in Nashville at a news convention this week said a member of the news staff Catclaw Communications Co parent company bought 1B(f Channel 13 the AL Sweetwater and Abilene from Prima Ine in March 1983 When Moore announced duue in 1993 he said tmudeatiou Co is pleased to bring-the corporate ownership of -TV to Abilene For many yean the corporate ownership hu been absentee having been owned by Grayson Enterprises and then by Prima Inc" The station had been sold several times since the late 1070s Prima pur-hcased the station from Grayson under distress sale muHHum of the FCC in 1980 Southwest Multimedia operates broadcast stations hi several mar-kets and hu construction permits for additional stations The KTXS sale wu the second of a local broadcast station announced this week On Wednesday sale of radio station KEAN-AM and FM to a Nashville coiporation for $305 million wu announced also pending FCC approval tered thundershowers elsewhere Saturday 60s and 70s moun-with 70s and 80s lower elevations Lowi tonight 30a and 40a mountains and northwest to the 50s and 80s elsewhere Louisiana Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms Highs 80s north to near 90 south Fair tonight Lows 60s north to about 70 south Chance of thunderstorms south portion on Saturday Otherwise partly cloudy Highs in the 80s told the court that in the fall of ISO a plan was discussed in the Latin American Affairs Office of the CIA to send a covert force of 1500 armed men into Nicaragua Macmichael told the 15-judge tribunal the judicial arm of theUnited Nations that the plan was forward as a program to destabmxe the Nicaraguan government or reduce the menace Nicaragua posed to the Asked hy Chayes whether President Eeayrn approved Jhe plan Macmi- I responded: The57-yeirrid former CIA analyst eNI- said the agency expected that the caraguan government would respond to the proposed actions with pursuit across its international borders a clampdown on civil liberties and ultimately the harassment of US Embassy personnel in Claiming he held a top secret security clearance at the time Macmi-chael said that the CIA assumed the Sandinista reaction serve to demonstrate that the Nlearaguan government was inherently aggressive and a menace to its neighbors and' would possibly allow for sanctions against Nicaragua under the (Organisation of American States) her an had been misplaced by Without her boots and sure people wondered is this? She know anything about Then there was the fire in Missouri was ready to go to Idaho" ahe sail I had jut gotten out of the shower at my hotel when there was an announcement of a fin in the building So I put on the sweat suit rd been wearing and walked down So I put on wearing and seven flights of stairs they kept downstairs so long I go back up to my room before I had to leave on the So off she went to Idaho safe but a bit rattled That night however she wu appearing as usual aa if her life were one after another She does admit had little time for romance partly because she doesnt date cowboys business and professional sides mix with the she sail But she has mMMwi of settling down someday have a lot of things opening up now in the public relations area But when I do finish with this I win find cation teach school and have a lot of Idds is just the foundation of my career She may sign a new contract with Goors for next year she sail But if she it be because the year hu been too do get tired and there are when I jut go into my room and cry but always something to give me an Shaded areas show temperature range as of 7 am showers north with widely scattered thundershowers far south Widely scattered thunderihowers all aectkmi Saturday Highs Saturday in the mid 90s north to the low 90s south Lows tonight near 70 north East Texas Tonight scattered thunderstorms with a 30 percent chance of rain Low temperature in the mid 80s Wind becoming light northeasterly Saturday mostly cloudy with a ugh temperature in the upper 80 Light east wind Rata trad 1811317 20731223 43038412 434064 73735 1003138 187021 S043B 28182 478783 283118 468018 down 17 up 8 up 2 down 1 up 4 down 148 up 28 up 2 down 87 down 7 up 827 up 18 4tooa2sa ama aalai Mr Kaa Wat art awtacr la aaha Iwi the Abilene MSA transportatioiHttili-ties Industries were down from 75 million in 1981 minion this year That to be a error the spokesman sail The correct figure is $7LI million Another had durable wholesale goods fag 113 percent however so the two errors canceled each other out Major drops for some industries also can be seen in other cities the quarterly report ahows In San Angelo for example agriculture taxable sales are down 31 percent and construction is down 17 percent However the report shows San sales classified "other" are up 315 percent For Abilene is marked with an asterisk for both 19M and UK The report says an asterisk means "no data reported cannot compute or ommitted to avoid disclosure Why the asterisk wu there for Abilene and not San Angelo could not be ex-gained by the spokesman tiris mora- state trucking and removal of laat economic on the industry The proposal ia expected to be fought by the trucking Industry wefl the Teamsters union and its prospect for quick passage is uncertain at best according to congressional sources who spake only on condition of anonymity carriers wm be permitted to carry whatever com modtiu they choose over whatever routes they choose at whatever rates are mu-tuiUy agreeable to them and to their said Transportation Secretary EUnbeth Dole For the latest 13 weeks Ml aver- aged $5914 bflUon a 111 percent seasonally adjusted annual rate of gain from the previous 13 weeks 77 dr Park a Tied 70 dr 14 to dr Rama 77 dr Sun Juan a a dr lanflapa a aedy 45 I7cdy a 4acdr a dr 04 dr a TJedy TalAvto 77 in Tokyo 01 a dr Taranto 54 dedy Vaneauvar 04 aeoy 71 7edy a II dr a a dr a Tlcdy 40 dr a Body 71 41 edy a 70 a a a a dr 40 dr 77 dr a a in a a ra 74 a dr 01 aedy Weather 695-7711 Temperature and forecast 24 hours a'day Oh no! What a day for an 1 black cat! Friday the 13th and this feline not only has the wrong KTXS Continued from Page 1A west Multimedia revealed more details of the transaction but did not disclose a sales price The seller and buyer said Federal Communications Commission ap-proval is expected the near future" Southwest Multimedia nflfafaii said they will continue cnmmftmmii to strong local The company will operate the station it wu operated under Catclaw ownership the officials sail In a statement accompanying the news release Moore praised the prog- made ress the KTXS news team hu in recent months historically the news hu shown to be in third place I feel we have the most professional news people available and the ratings continue to climb evidenced Hy the May and July audience measurement Moore said Clay Milstead station aales manager said the 6 pjn KTXS news report gained 22 percent in its share of audience from the May to July audience surveys and 40 percentin its iharefpr its 10 pm news shares were 11 percentage points stgjm and 14 points at 10 pm he A station's share is that percentage of an television viewers in the market who are tuned to that station The other two stations' shares at 6 Pjn were KTAB-TV 39 prints and KRBC 29 points At 10 pm their shares were KTAB 45 points and KRBC 19 prints Milstead uil Percentage points for the local stations do not add up to 100 at a given Oklahoma Scattered thunderstorms statewide tonight with thunderstorms most numerous northcentral and northwest Locally heavy rainfall possible Partly cloudy Saturday with widely scattered thunderstorms mainly west High Saturday in the 80s Lows tonight lower 80s Panhandle to near 70 southeast New Mexico Continued fair skies northwest through Saturday with widely scat temperatures 47x k)y (l SSam it w-a a Oh aa iW UaSavI Abilene 'V a A 1 Forecast A 40 chance of thundershowers this aftenoon otherwise mostly cloudy with a high in the mid 90s South wind 10 mph A 30 percent ehanee of thunderstorms tonight Also cloudy with a low in the upper 90s Saturday mostly cloudy with a high in the upper 90a light east wind Temperatures TlwnMrfjii 7:00 K- 4 5:10 01 4:00 IMMI to dale: 1715 felt Normal rainfall: 1501 too High and Mr tor 14 houn ondna 11 am 71 Hint daft IM var: and IS luraal IM night: 7:51 innrtoa today: 7:: tonight: lunrtoa tomorrow: 7:77 Mwnttor at 11 am: 7070 ha Humidity at 11 am: 71 pet Pollen Count Fungus Rag 90647 (7(5 5112 10284 Total North Texas Scattered thunderstorm entire area moat numerous across western 12 of area Thunderstorms central and northeast tonight Partly cloudy west and central Saturday scattered thunderstorms southeast Lowi tonight 66 to 69 Highs Saturday 96 to 88 South Texas Mostly cloudy west and central partly cloudy over the rest of south through Saturday Scattered thunder- Texas Won taw ftp Rto Milana 00 71 JO pan Mice to 7S Amarillo 70 Of J4 04 77 JO 01 77 JO 05 71 JO 00 JO 01 77 Ml 00 Jl Cerpua 00 74 JO Mhart 70 50 Jl -Lufkin National International MLuWlhr Cmovu 00 S4c Hum 04 41 dr HMkUd 77 Hung Kang -a Tie JuMn a dr jrbura 71 54 dr Ktou 4 a epy Unw OortiM Mora Panin Owmnda aedy UHan 04 Bedy LunOM 44 Madrid 11 a ra Manila a 00 dr Maiden CNy-a a 'Alma Cuira i 'i 01 Be to Neman -a 41 dr Men 71 40edy Otto 5.