San Angelo Standard-Times from San Angelo, Texas • 3

SAN ANGELO TIMES- Thursday January 12 197S-3A GeEsdOmb CHECKUP Free 8P tests The Medicine Shoppe a prescription-only pharmacy at 2431 Sherwood Way will sponsor a free hlood-pressure screening open to the public from 9 am to 6 pm Wednesday The local chapter of the American Red Cross will participate in the screening KIXY Chicagoans buy station Walton Foster president of Solar Broadcasting Co Inc announced Wednesday that KIXY and KIXY-FM radio stations of San Angelo have been sold to three men who are principals in CDIAbaris Communications Associates of Chicago 111 Purchasing the station tor $575000 are John Higgins Don Wiskes and Gerald Mikitka Higgins who said he will be acting as the direct contact for the firm told the Times the purchasers expect to make no changes in format or personnel at the two radio stations when CDI assumes ownership When the sale has been completed he said Bob McClellan will be named general manager McClellan now holds the title of vice president of Solar Broadcasting Foster said the sale which must be approved by the Federal Communications Commission is expected to be concluded in May or June Foster said he will remain with the station pending FCC approval Ownership of station KRUN in Sonora differs from that of the two KIXY stations and is not involved in the ssie the San Angeloan said Higgins said that CDIAbaris is involved in securities real estate and communications The corporation is in the process of concluding negotiations for purchase of a radio station in Michigan and operates five cable-TV systems in Illinois he said The FCC recently required radio stations operating both AM and FM systems to divide those systems into two separate units both for personnel and programming In complying with these requirements stations have faced the costs of remodeling their facilities and making changes in the use of personnel MIAs Local chapter meets The San Angelo chapter of Operation MIA-POW will meet at 7 pm today in the Navy Reserve Training Center at 410 Ave The group plans to complete plans for a training course to be held in February and for the Jan 27 ceremony for installation of new officers Officers for 1973 will be Craig Pugh chairman Joseph Doyle III vice chairman Cherri Ward secretary Robert Palmer treasurer and James Burrows chaplain POSTPONEMENT Correction This Concho Valley Council of Governments Executive Committee meeting was postponed due to inclement weather Earlier reports of the postponement were incorrect as to the time and place of the rescheduled meeting That meeting will be held Wednesday Jan 19 at a lime and plaee to be announced Ellen Brown CVCOG human services coordinator said the scheduled public hearing on Volume 1 of the Water Quality Management Plan of the Middle Colorado Study Area will be conducted during the Jan 16 session HISTORIANS Society meets A paper concerning the life and times of George Washington DeLong will be read by Katharine Tweedy Waring during a meeting Monday of the Tom Green County Historical Society The Tweedy and DeLong families were contemporary pioneers in West Texas with both families aking notable contributions to the development of this area A business session and social hour will precede Mrs Waring's presentation which will begin at 7 pm in Fort Concho Officers Quarters No 1 READING Schools join plan Four area school districts have joined the state-wide Right to Read effort this year bringing the total number of Right to Read school districts within the Education Center-Region XV area to 23 The new school districts are Bangs Eola Grape Creek-Pulliam and Robert Lee A total of 93 Texas school districts and private schools joined the program this year boosting its membership to 404 Right to Read is designed to help schools improve elementary and secondary reading programs It is funded under the Reading Improvement Act This year a $158000 block of federal funds authorized under that act will be divided among the state's 20 regional education service centers to support staff development and technical assistance for participating schools LVHS Contests due soon ByBOBBECKNELL 8U1I Writer FIRE Faulty wiring blamed CARLSBAD (TNS) Fire believed earned by faulty wiring destroyed a mobile home in Carlsbad Wednesday San Angelo and Grape Creek firemen dsed about 15G0 rallons of water in a futile attempt to save the home Boatwright owner of the home tokl fire officials the blaze erupted in a bedroom shortly before 7 pm There were no injuries and no other structures damaged by the fire officials said ASSAULT Man wounded MARFA (TNS) Two men remained in Presidio County Jail today in lieu of bond on aggravated assault charges filed in Mar- Sheriff Rick Thompson said Luis Rodriguez of San Antonio was jailed Tuesday in connection with a shooting incident at a Southern Pacific Railroad yard in Marfa Injured in the incident was Ruben Marques who suffered a gunshot wound to his toot Rodriguez was arraigned before Peace Justice Richard Elmen-dorf who set bond at $5000 Also in jail is Raul Rojo of Alpine He was arrested Wednesday night in connection with a cutting incident at a Marfa night spot Thompson identified the victim as Albert Garcia 24 of Marfa who suffered knife wounds to his left rib cage and left hand Garcia was treated and released at Big Bend Memorial Hospital in Alpine Thompson said Rojo was arraigned today before JP Elmendorf Bond was set at $10000 ARRESTS Wednesday summary Summary of Wednesday arrests by San Angelo police officers and charges filed on unicipal Court criminal docket Number of persons arrested: 5 Charges filed: Driving while intoxicated 1 failure to control speed 1 failure to stop and leave information 1 disorderly conduct-affray 1 drunk 1 city traffic warrant 1 theft Class 1 drunk-aggravated 1 EMERGENCIES Daily summary Summary of Emergency Service Ine and San Angelo Fire Department activity Wednesday: 11:11 am ESI went to an auto accident at Lake Nasworthy Bridge and took one patient to Shannon Hospital 12:20 pm ESI went to Grape Creek and took one person to St John's Hospital 2:17 pm ESI went miles out on US $7 West and took one person to Shannon 4:45 pm ESI went to Loop 306 and US $7 South and took a person to Shannon 4:56 pm Firemen went to Loop 301 and UR 17 to assist with an overturned car 5:55 pm ESI made an empty run to 3205 Rockbrook Road 6:10 pm ESI transferred a patient from Shannon to St John's 726jm Firemen went to a trsilerhouse fire in Carlsbad 7:15 am ESI transferred a patient from Shannon to San By MARICELA TORRES and TOM A DDELL Sperial Correspondents Galen Blake Lake View High School senior will play third chair tenor trombone io the All-Region Band Concert The concert will begin at 7:30 pm Saturday in the Ector High School auditorium in Odessa Math Club Members of the Math Club will travel to Pecos on Saturday to compete in a math contest Math students in other West Texas schools are to compete also Speech Club Lake View speech students will compete in a tournament Jan 20-21 at Robert Lee High School in Midland The club will compete in standard debate duet acting humorous interpretation extemporaneous speaking dramatic interpretation prose and poetry HUD Rio Concho seeks funds again LINCOLN Fundraising plans set Concho Valley Medical Associates of which Dr Weatherby is board chairman Also during Wednesday's meeting Jan 26 was announced as the date of the annual CC-BCD banquet at which the San Angelo "Citizen of the will be named Dr Rex Kyker professor and head of the department of communications at Abilene Christian Universty will be the guest speaker at the dinner which will be at 7:30 pm in the Houston Harte University Center at Angelo State center will be the training ground for 12 physicians preparing to become specialists in the family practice field The program which will have liaison with the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio is to be a joint community effort on the part of the three hospitals members of the Tom Green Eight County Medical Society and Concho Valley residents Dr Weatherby told the board Official sponsorship will be under the newly Incorporated HUD approval "We have anything solid but still working on Augustinus told the Times we give up till we get it" Augustinus said he is going to Washington next week to folk with HUD officials about the application Also during Wednesday's CC-BCD meeting Dr Karmen Weatherby outlined plans for the Family Practice Residency Center to be established in San Angelo beginning in July Ml The An application for federal funds to be used for expansion of Rio Concho Manor will be resubmitted this month to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Robert Augustinus Manor manager told directors of the Chamber of Commerce-' Board of City Development during their noon meeting Wednesday at Ole Coach Inn So far requests for funding of the long-sought expansion which would include 60 rooms for personal care 100 high-rise apartments and 30 garden apartments have failed to set By JOE YONAN and TINA HAWKINS Special Correspondenta The Lincoln Junior High School student council is selling pencils as a fund-raising project Priced at 10 cents each the pencils may be bought from any student council member Last Friday the Lincoln Wsrriors sod Braves basketball teams played each other with the Wsrriors coming out abcid of the BrtvtM 1 3 i iMom save lOc and malice friends witifi T' I By SHIRLEY ALFORD Action Time Editor a cow NEW YORK (AP) The stock market struggling to end a seven-session slide eked out a narrow gain 5oday on some favorable inftation news The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials off more than 55 points since New Year's to a 33-month low at Wednesday's close showed a 52 advance at 77642 by noontime today Gainers held a very slight lead over losers among New York Stock Exchange-listed issues Before the market opened the government reported that the wholesale price index rose 05 percent in December down from 07 percent the month before Analysts said the news helped encourage some buying and covering of previous short sales by traders with the Dow at its lowest level since the spring of 1975 But the market still faced the obstacle of continued pressure on the dollar in foreicn exchance markets Weyerhaueser led the active list off at 25H A 402300share block traded at 2544 The NYSE's composite index of more than 1500 common stocks was unchanged at 4952 On the American Stock Exchange the market value index was up 30 at 12003 Volume on the Big Board came to 957 million shares by noontime against 896 million at the same point Wednesday A young person with carnations for sale knocked on my door Sunday She wore button with her picture and the words "Unification printed on it I didn't know the "Moonies" were in town WM San Angelo A Neither did people In the city manager's office know the "Moonies" ire in town Apparently the "Moonies" followers of the much-criticised Rev Sun Myung Moon failed to register with the city before beginning their rounds City records show the last time the "Moonies" registered was in October when permission was given for them to solicit sales in the city for a few days only During previous visits I'm told problems arose when tried to mike Mies inside some local busineas bouses When yon want to know whether any auch kind of telling ia being done with a legal city permit ft may be possible to find out from the Sin Angelo Police Department 653-5961 It helps to know the name of the perion doing the soliciting said a spokesman at City Hall Ui Why does one of the new grocery stores in this town never have enough checkout lanes open at any one time? There is always a big buaineta and it takea to long to get checked out I've quit shopping there even though I live nearby That store is really hurting its own business by not providing enough checkers JGH Sen Angelo LABOR Egyptian visit set WASHINGTON AP) Two AFL-CIO officials will go to Egypt on Friday to explore possible cooperation and assistance between the labor group and the Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions AFL-CIO President George Meany said Wednesday the invitation came from the head of the Egyptian labor movement The US labor officials are Sol Chaikin an AFL-CIO vice president who is also president of the International Ladies Garment W-orkers Union: and AFLCIO International Affairs Director Ernest Lee MIGRANTS Money committed WASHINGTON (AP) Labor Secretary Ray Marshall who believes command el language is a job skill is committing $500000 to tearh English to migrant farm workers The contract was signed Wednesday with Cesar Chavez' United Farmworkers of America Chavez said skilled experienced workers could be given supervisory positions on farms if they spoke fluent English AID New York's share big WASHINGTON (AP) New York received the biggest share of federal aid in the financial year that ended last September followed by California Pennsylvania and Illinois All 50 states received $694 billion from the US Treasury which spent $4019 billion in the financial year The figures for the top four: New York $74 billion California $6J billion Pennsylvania $34 billion and Illinois $32 billion FCC Refunds coming WASHINGTON AP) The Federal Communications Commission staff in devising the best way to refund some of the $163 million in feet that a court said were collected unlawfully The foes were charged to broadcasters and others for processing licenses An appellate court and the Supreme Court said the FCC was charging too much and should make refunds A refund procedure for fees over $20 could be devised by May staff officials said Wednesday It will take longer to work out a plan for more than 10 million persons who paid lower amounts Including amateur radio operators and users of citizens band radios A public relations person in the grocery chain's district office in Dallas told the Times: If checker has more than one or two people witting in line the usual procedure it to call for Mother checker The goal i to have no more than one cuitomer waiting while another customer la being checked There are one or two express lanes ilwiys open to customers who have nine items or fewer to cheek Checkers have other duties in addition to punching the cash register It costs money to have say 10 checkers lined up not doing anything The problem of long waiting llnet ia a management situs-tion Union regulations state that workers have to be schedul-ed at leaft a -week in advance This it done by the local manager who tries to anticipate when the store will have the most customers snd schedules the checkers accordingly The hours from 3-6 pm are busy for example because that's when masses of people get off from work and atop in for groceries on the way home The store's manager contacted Monday taid local managers are allowed only a certain number of employee working hours per week and can work only a certain number of clerki Sometimes it is not enough The 5-4 pm after-work rush hour can be anticipated otherwise it it difficult to predict when the greatest number of people will shop he commented (During our phone conversation at mldafternoon the store manager was talking to me and also serving as checker on the express lane) After work Tuesday I dropped by the store for the first time to do some grocery shopping I pushed my csrt to the cheek-out counter at 5:20 pm a predictably busy time when the largest number of employees are likely to be in the store I realize and the checker began working on my order at 5:25 pm My groceries were checked sacked end stacked in the cert in a short period of time I did notice a lack of carryout personnel however.