Wichita Falls Times from Wichita Falls, Texas • 5

rave a TuKF Mo iM wuwil FIIe liUClim ji ail Ltimf Senate OKs Nicaragua aid jects In its civil war-torn cities The aid includes $5 million in grants and $70 million In credit loans for Nicaragua to buy US goods either the House or Senate could take the Nicaragua money out The $75 million is for restoration of Nicaragua's commercial trade and reconstruction pro Water slide death reported gress has dumped In the executive Zorinsky said He and Sen Richard Lugar R-Ind argued that the $75 million in aid for Nicaragua is the only hope America has to sway that country away from Cuban and Soviet communism "I believe the situation in Nicaragua is not hopeless" l4igar said "Nicaragua has not become a Marxist But Sen Jesse Helms R-NC- asked "Are we really go ing to send $75 million to a communist regime? "How can the United States send aid to set up another Cuba at the same time that thousands upon thousands of people are trying to escape Cuban communism?" Helms asked Despite the Senate approval Lugar (old reporters later he does not know whether both the House and Senate can he persuaded to appropriate the aid money It already is Included in an $6 billion foreign aid appropriation bill ready for final action but WASHINGTON (API President Carter has Congress' authority to send Nicaragua million in US aid Now all he needs Is the money The Senate on a 44-35 vote out maneuvered the House and gave final approval Monday to a bill authorizing the $7S million for Nicaragua plus $5 million for Honduras But Congress has yet to appropriate the fAO million with a separate bill and Senate sup porters said they could not predict whether it will House opponents had blocked separate House and Senate bills from being worked into a single bill for Congress' final action So the Senate simply approved the House hill and sent it to Carter Sen Edward Zorlnsky D-Neb called the House bill "a legislative wreck" but urged the Senate to pass it anyway to get the Nicaragua aid authorized will not be the first legislative wreck that the Con CITY BRINGS IN $40993 Bidders shelled out tractor About 300 persons turned out to look over 18 S40895 at the City of Wichita Falls motor vehicle sedans 12 pickups nine trucks two vans two auction Monday Prices ranged from $300 for a 1972 tractors and a shop saw (Staff Photo) Plymouth police car to $2875 for a John Deere Petition drive started Royalty owners protest windfall tax den got over the barrier and into the pumping tank Hayden was apparently sucked feet first through one of the pumpe Hayden's parents worried because their son had not returned home were unable to find the youth when they searched the facility late Saturday night The owner also unsuccessfully searched the park But when the pumps were reversed for cleaning later that night the youth's severed upper torso floated to the surface The water slide facility was to be closed until a protective screen can be installed to prevent a similar occurrence authorities said It was not known when it would be reopened The owner of a similar facility on Interstate 35 north of San Antonio said preventative measure! also were being taken there SAN ANTONIO Texas AIM A local water slide amusement facility has been temporarily dosed by its owners because of the freak weekend death of a 13-year-old youth whose body was mangled when he was sucked into the pumping machinery Bexar County Deputy Medical Examiner Dr Nina Hollander ruled Sunday that Eric Hayden had drowned late Saturday night before his body was severed et the hips by the blades In pumping mechanism Super Water Slides in north San Antonio features four water-filled flumes running down a 58-foot hill Patrons ride down the stream of water on rubber mats and into a 3-foot-deep landing pool Police Patrolman Donald Bocock said Hayden apparently crawled through an 8-inch opening at the top of a concrete duct which carries water from the landing pool to a covered tank leading directly into the huge pumps The pumps circulate the water back up to the top of the hill Authorities said it was not immediately clear how Hay felt when they received their May checks They are taxed at the same rate as major oil companies under the windfall profits tax Independent producers get a tax break generally on the first lflno barrels of BclZICy tO SduTCSS rGtl T60 OTt I C6 TS daily production By BRI CE FISHER Businm A Energy Editor A DUNCAN Okie About 250 royalty owners signed petitions here Monday night to relay their anger to Oklahoma legislators over what the windfall profits tax has done to their monthly royalty checks SG Mctaury president of Oklahoma Mineral Owners Association met with members and guests of Stephens County Land and Mineral Owners Association to talk about how drastically royalty owners have hem affected by the windfall profits tax The royalty owners estimated that the tax which was taken out of their checks for the first time at the beginning of May cut royalty checks by an average of 35-40 percent The Stephens County group has about 160 ducs-paying members More than 100 guests attended the Monday night meeting Although more than 70 percent of the crowd was gray-haired the tone of the meeting was actively rebellious There was talk of a five-state "shutdown" to halt oil production in the US Oil Belt or at least in the Midwest as a protest over the windfall profits tax "Before it's over we will probably be asked to Join or lead the five-state shutdown" McLaury said McLaury would not specifically name who he suspects will ask royalty owners to participate in the shutdown After the meeting he hinted that various groups representing major oil companies and independents privately would back such a move Mctaury warned that the windfall profits tax is "the first if not the last step toward nationalizing the oil Royalty owners voiced the shock they at 8:30 pm in Sheppard Air Force Base Officers Open Mess Newly elected chapter president retired Col Bruce Buechlcr will preside over the meeting Other 1380-81 officers are retired Maj Morrow Knun vice president retired LL Col William Smallwood treasurer and Mrs Dorothy Krum secretary MaJ Gen Robert Bazley commander of Sheppard Technical Training Center Tuesday will be guest speaker at a meeting of Wichita Falls chapter of Retired Officers Association The subject of Bazley's address will be "Today's Air Force and National Defense" The spring meeting will begin McLaury urged members of the audience to sign the petitions to be carried to Oklahoma City Friday where they will he presented to legislators in a meeting with Oklahomans including US Sen David Boren and US Sen Robert Dole of Kansas After the meeting people waited in line to sign the petitions Dozens of people said they planned to attend the Oklahoma City meeting and McLaury urged them attend and speak your The meeting will be from 9 am to noon Friday in Hardeman Auditorium on the Oklahoma Christian University campus Small Shop Around an Opan Court Yard lammiicwit of an OU loon Square at 10th and Scott Steinway Month liberal Trade fos Post members to get state positions OLD TOWN CM PMM McMM St tttatia Lighthouse has birthday Members of Wichita Falls Post Travelers Protective Association were elected to state offices in the association last weekend at the TPA State Convention Officers are David Box second vice president and state director Charles Box membership committee Jesse Hoff publicity chairman Eldridge Hankins welfare chairman Carl Kuehn executive committee and Elmo Sampson costale director The next post meeting will be ai 6:30 pm May 27 at Holliday Inn Downtown For reservations call 723-5892 ROBERTO ZAM0RAN0 MD FAAFP Diplomats American Board of Family Practice MAY Annouces his return to full time practice Office hours: Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm recently installed The Lighthouse organized five years ago by the Beacon Lights Social Club and the Junior League provides vocational evaluation on-the-job training and sheltered employment to handicapped persons grateful there have been so many people to carry on what a small group started" Wallace said Travis Reagan presiding at the board meeting announced that financial statements showed a profit in April appears we'll be in good shape for the forthcoming he said Beacon Lighthouse for the Blind celebrated its fifth anniversary Monday with a luncheon at its regularly scheduled board meeting efforts are appreciated by all of the blind people here" said George West of the State Commission for the Blind "I see it every day on a grassroots level" From a start in the old Washington Elementary School building as a four-room five-employee operation Beacon Lighthouse has grown to its present location at 300 Seventh with 42 employees and sales exceeding $700000 A government-contract hydraulic press to manufacture floor scrubbing pads has also been H-fl BWwn FiWrfUii 723-SM1 322-3165 2502 10th Street Christian Science talk set Thursday "What Christian Science TCaches About Intelligence" is the topic of a lecture scheduled at 8 pm Thursday in First Church 1 of Christ Scientist 2156 Avenue IL The lecture will be Iglven by TAINSH Jean I Tainsh a member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston Mass Mrs Tainsh was born and reared in Australia and was graduated from Melbourne University She taught school until entering the full-time practice of Christian Science in 1974 Panel plans for incidents action complaints as well as individual complaints Mrs Ora Little president of Wichita Falls chapter of NAACP criticized newspaper accounts of the commission's last meeting but could give no specific criticisms of human rights violations Several members of the corn-mis ion stated Wichita Falls could suffer violence similar to what is occurring in Miami Fla unless the human relations commission arrives at overall plans to handle class- The American Way Wichita Falls 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