Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - July 20, 1975, Abilene, Texas Abilene Without or with offense to friends or foes we sketch your world exactly as it 74 PAGES IN 6 SECTIONS ABILENE TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING JULY First Grader Predicts Long Dresses for Fall By JUDY BARGAINER For soon lo be first grader Michelle McCurdy back o school fashions are strictly feminine and hemlines arc way down I like long she said I'm going lo wear a long dress to school the first day Michelle daughter of Mr and Mrs Jim McCurdy 2800 S will be in the first grade at St John's fall After shopping spree with her mother Michelle was asked to give her views on fashion shopping and other vital issues I like long she said Sometimes I have to wear pants because B tips Pg my mother wants me to but I can play in dresses without messing them up You just have to play real careful and not sit down in the sand For accessories Michelle likes hair ribbons to match her clothes and patent leather slippers that are not baby dolls because they are more pointed When we go shopping I pick out what I like and my mother buys what she wants she said with amazing cheerfulness I don't go shopping much going to be like asking what's But she has happy memories of kindergarten and is looking for ward to school School Is fun and friends I had a she said but I didn't kiss him Great success with the male sex is in Michelle's future Particularly if she uses the same technique she used on photographer Don Blakley during the taking session He's good Michelle said in a stage whisper Not she added but good looking 4 She's not too sure what the first grade is Have you ever seen a grown man hair ribbons should match MICHELLE McCURDY FIRST GRADER in FALL 1 like long dresses but sometimes I wear pants Stall in Don Blakley 1 do like long dresses Postal Strike May Be Averted Sportsmanlike conduct In uniform Richard Gafford Jr hugs his mother right fielder Patsy Gafford of the Banner Chevrolet Softball team of Baird during a break in action at the Women's State Amateur Softball Assn slow pitch Softball tournament at Nelson Park Saturday Story Right fielder Patsy Gafford of 3101 Wenwood Abilene puts a baseball cap on her son Richard at Nelson Park Saturday during the slow pitch Softball tournament Staff Photos by John Best WASHINGTON AP Postal union leaders said Saturday they would be willing to extend the contract to avoid a mail strike if satisfactory progress was made in negotiations before the midnight Sunday deadline Both sides were eager to avoid a walkout and the union leaders urged postal workers to report to work as scheduled Monday unless they received different instructions from the leadership If certain things can be accomplished by Sunday the will agree to short extension of the said President Francis of the member American Postal Workers Union the largest of four involved in the talks And James Lapenta chief negotiator for the mail handlers division of the Labor International Union also said an extension would be sensible for a day or two if an agreement seemed near Nobody wants to he added W J Usery Jr President Ford's top labor said that serious differences separated the parties requiring hard bargaining and some tough decision that will have lo be made by both sides He said if it was not possible to get a settlement Sunday night then he was hopeful of a preliminary agreement on which union and management negotiators could shake hands by Sunday Both sides would like very much to reach an agreement because a strike would have a very very serious effect on the he said Two major issues remaining to be tled along with the final wage package was continuation of the clause demanded by the unions and management's right to dictate work rules to increase productivity in Postal Service The chief management negotiator Brown newsmen that wide and important differences remained over these issues but added that we're going to stay at it in order to reach an agreement within the short time that remains The average clerk postman or pickup truck driver now makes aboul per year al top scale plus fringe benefits Papers Delayed Lightning struck West Texas Utilities feeder line in Abilene just before p.m Saturday cutting power to the and other parts the city for nearly an hour The power delay the paper to be late off the press early Sunday morning an unavoidable delay which the paper The Beginning of a Great Human Journey Storms Move j Into Area I Heavy thunderstorms moved into the Big Country Saturday afternoon and remained in the area resulting in as much as three inches of rain flood watches the j sighting of a tornado and gusty winds in the storm areas There is a slight chance of more activity Sunday and Sunday night with a 20 per cent probability of I more precipitation The winds will be from south 20 mph Abilene received 29 inch of ram early Saturday morning The thunderstorm activity resulted in a tornado warning for Haskell county about p.m following the sighting of a funnel j cloud by the public The funnel was reported lo miles j See RAIN j Back page this section Where It Rained l i By HARRY F ROSENTHAL Associated Press Writer SPACE CENTER Houston AP On this day six years ago when Eagle landed on the moon America looked across the sea and smiled smugly at the Russian bear It was one small step for a man a giant leap for mankind Now an American astronaut and a Soviet cosmonaut have in space and the Russian called it only the beginning of a great human journey into Their words at the celestial summit were eloquent But no more so than the images that lingered from the political space flight called A world attuned lo men in orbit and no longer stuck with awe had a new triumph lo a bright flash of two-nation cooperation where once there had been only the darkness pride and suspicion Americans went to Baikonur Russia's secret launch site for i Is death-dealing missiles to see cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri lofted Russians who never before would come Spaceships separate Pg to Cape Canaveral for fear they would have to extend similar privileges were there to walch Thomas P Stafford Vance D Brand and Donald K Slayton lift off in pursuit of Soyuz Richard M Nixon who three years earlier signed the agreement that brought the spacemen together no longer was in office But his successor Gerald R Ford joined with Leonid Brezhnev to praise effort Detente was alive and well in Washington and Moscow still Six years earlier Neil Armstrong's soundless footfall certified man as an interplanetary traveler This time around the display of the Stars and alongside Hammer and Sickle in- he may be able after all to bridge the continents and jealousies of earth From the first unearthly beep of Spulnik in 1957 the two countries had gone their qwn way in space The race to be pre- eminent in that forbidding environment was as costly in money and effort as the hostile environment of the cold war Our peoples and our governments want to work together in spirit of said Leonov from space This work became possible in the climate of de- tente Through television all of mankind could see the friendship lhat permeated the little summit chamber in from America and the Soviet Union grinning and holding up the flags of their two nations side by side A man from Oklahoma and a man from Siberia clasping each other in a sign of brotherhood Russian borscht and American cranberry sauce gracing the table as the space rivals broke bread together who learned one another's language for better un- No Ugly American or pounding Russian was on An American ship in hot pursuit of a See DETENTE Back page this section Ford to Veto Cutting Oil Prices WASHINGTON AP President Ford intends lo velo on Monday a rolling back the price of U.S oil to a barrel a spokesman announced Saturday Press Secretary Ron Nessen said President believes strongly this piece of legislation is unacceptable and would increase U.S reliance on foreign imports by as much as barrels a day Nessen made the announcement following Ford's meeting with energy advisers whom the press secretary said unanimously recommended that the legislation be vetoed The which won final congressional approval Thursday would continue the President's authority lo control oil prices but would roll back the price of new oil to a barrel New oil currently sells on world market at a barrel The would also leave the price of old oil oil produced from wells in existence prior to 1972 at a barrel and in- crease from five days to 30 days the time for Congress lo review new price decontrol plans Nessen said Ford wants Congress to go along with his proposal lo phase price controls on old oil over a period The alternative Nessen said would be a complete lifting of all price Controls on Aug 31 when the petroleum allocation act expires However Nessen said it appears likely that Congress will vote on Tuesday to block the President's plan Although White House advisers have been unable to provide the President with an accurate nose speaking the outlook is not Nessen said ABILENE Municipal Airport Total for Year Normal for Year 2041 Butternut ALBANY ANSON ASPERMONT AVOCA BIG SPRING BLACKWELL COLORADO CITY COMANCHE DE LEON GORES HAMLIN HASKELL JAYTON KNOX CITY LAKE KIRBY LUEDERS MUNDAY NOODLE OLD GLORY ROTAN RULE SEYMOUR SNYDER STAMFORD SWEETWATER TUSCOLA WESTBROOK THROCKMORTON 29 12.31 13.62 90 30 i 10 60 1.50 1.00 Tr Tr i 92 15 20 15 2.00 03 1.00 40 1.50 Tr 1.10 10 1.60 30 1.70 Tr 3.00 Tr 20 50 20 S 1 Inside Today Bob Lilly Calls It Quits Bob Lilly a star at Throckmorton and later TCU before becoming the first draft choice of the Dallas Cowboys in 1961 announces his retirement from pro football Pq 1C Haggard And a Fan Merle Haggard will be performing in Abilene July 30 Staff Writer Jim Conley remembers how he became a fan of the singer when he was here a couple of years ago HUMID Complete Weather Pg Abilene Events Austin Notebook Berry's Business News Classified Crosswood Hospital Setting 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