Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - August 20, 1982, Blytheville, Arkansas ARK. 72315 88 85 15 CENTS 32 PAGES AUGUST 20,1982 2 Fish On - Patrolmen Melvin Allen and Joe Valliant Jr. are the two policeman who were dismissed by the Civil Service Commission after a hearing last CSC Chairman Charles Campbell said this He provided the information in a phone call to the Courier News upon his return today from an out-of-town The two policemen had been with the force about two an by the Arkansas State and the two patrolmen were sent letters informing them of the Aug. 13 hearing and were invited to Both officers were Campbell reasons have been given publicly for the dismissals nor have the results of the investigation been The probe apparently led to the recent of four other police whose identities have not been made were and at least three others wounded today when a gunman fired on people in the office of a northwest Miami machine police Md. The largest supermarket chain in the Washington area will give to the poor the food it normally throws Food Inc. spokesman Barry Scher said Thursday the company will join with the Capital Area Community Food Bank in a test program to provide and foods under carefully controlled week 28 many of them members of the Community for Creative were arrested for trespassing when they refused to leave Giant's corporate headquarters in protest of the company's refusal to allow people to look for food in store trash In the group held a Capitol Hill banquet with discarded food for about 150 including members of Mass. - The amount of oil lost worldwide in ship sinkings and fires fell 63 percent last year because of stricter less consumption and just plain researchers Center for Short-Lived Phenomena said 55 million gallons of oil were lost in 147 incidents last In 1980, 149 million gallons of oil were lost in 199 the center said Richard Golob said the drop in the number and size of oil spills last year continued a trend begun in the year In 1979, 328 million gallons of oil was lost in 210 including an oil well blowout in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico in which 140 million gallons of oil was lost during a 295-day 14-17 TV Listings 20-21 6 2 2 2 8-9 3 Loses GLORIA Staff Mississippi County Sheriff George Ford today confirmed that a deputy resigned in late July after failing a polygraph News was told of the incident about two days after it occurred and contacted Ford on Aug. 3. Ford said at the time that a deputy had resigned but that the resignation was not connected with a polygraph test. He stated that the officer had been with the sheriff's department about six a Courier News reporter asked Ford about the matter this Ford said must have misconstrued what I said a couple of weeks I think that at the time that I talked to the twy that resigned was taking the polygraph test. it was pointed out that the deputy had already resigned time of the first Ford weren't to cover anything up It was during a period of time while he was in Jonesboro taking the polygraph test said that the sheriff's department had received information that the deputy may have been involved m drug use and transported him to accompanied by a superior State Police officers administered the polygraph flunked it and when he came he submitted his Ford that time he left the said this morning that the deputy had been with the depart ment about four months and that this was his first job in law enforcement He had a radio was asked if the polygraph test had indicated that the deputy may have been a marijuana He replied can't say James Sell of Blytheville Police Department directed traffic yesterday in front of West Junior High D. B. assistant superintendent for drivers to remember that school has started again and to be on the for school HEDRICK 1982 Times News The uphill victory on the billion tax probably the most crucial vote of his bolsters President Reagan's political leadership and his hopes for spurring economic a key to the Republican Party's showing in the November president had made his leadership and the need for economic momentum the central issues of the battle over one of the largest tax increases in and it was these two issues that proved decisive with many of the wavering Republicans and Democrats in the final hours before the vote in the House of of both parties insisted that the 226-to-207-vote victory would strengthen business confidence and demonstrate to the financial markets that the administration and Congress could take the politically unpopular decision to bring down the deficits and thus help bring down interest rates and ease the path to vote is good for the said Bob the jubilant House Republican going to see those interest rates Nobody thought that in an election year we could pass a tax that would raise so much This vote shows the money markets and the smart people out there who watch what we do that we mean business on holding down those as well as Republicans acknowledged that Thursday's when the prospects had seemed gloomy even Thursday was the vindication of political gamble by the restoring his reputation for political mastery of Congress despite recent slippage in public opinion abandoning ideological consistency and shifting away from pure supply-side Reagan not only gave a more moderate tone to his economic policy but risked an open breach with and rebellion by Republican who had been the backbone of his congressional strength last under pressure from Democrats for a good Republican the president managed to carry 103 with him against the 89 Republican many of whom broke with him Thursday for the first time on a major maintained his reputation for an unbroken string of legislative victories on the most crucial economic test votes by accepting compromise and collaboration with the House Democratic leadership with which he had clashed so often in the last 18 it was Thomas P. O'Neill the speaker of the House and the president's most reknowned political who made the most moving plea for Republican support of the president in Thursday's House He reminded many of the younger Republicans that the Reagan victory in 1980 had carried them into 30 of you are here because of President O'Neill you going to follow the leader who elected helping the the Democratic leaders have now significantly blunted the White House charges that were blocking the Reagan economic program and even stalling recovery and have diminished the president's own prospects for attacking them in the fall for being blamed for economic collapse is what brought many of those Democrats around to vote for the said a House deputy whip who voted against the a fear of economic The Democrats felt they could not be viewed as causing Democrats contend if the passage of the tax helps improve the economic it will help Democratic incumbents as well as Republicans in the fall political fallout on all incumbents depends on what Israel - Two Israeli prisoners held by the FLO were turned over to the Israeli army at Beirut's port Israel army radio said in a live broadcast from the It gave no immediate further but said were safe and well and would arrive by plane in Tel Aviv at 6 p m said Rep. Charles a Texas the economy goes they'll all be better and if the economy goes they'll all be worse common defeat would have been a disaster for the crippling not only the public view of his ability to lead economic policy but his capacity to push legislation through Congress in the would have been the effective end of the Reagan presidency in said one Republican close to the Senate The Associated Press Partly cloudy tonight with widely scattered thundershowers Partly cloudy Saturday with widely scattered thundershowers except in the extreme south Lows tonight 65 Id 71. Highs Saturday 85 to 95 Saturday Partly warm Sunday warm Monday warm Tuesday 6:51 p m. Sunrise 5:33 following figures were provided by east Research and Extension Center in Keiser and are based on data collected daily at 8a m Last 24 Hours none High temperature 88 temperature - 64 8am temperature - 71 2 inch high soil temp 96 2-inch low soil temp 72 4 inch high soil temp 93 4-inch low soil temp - 75 Page 9 ^^T^ X 1 Leaders Probe GIs assigned to Blytheville Air Force Base are the target of a probe by 97th Security Police investigators and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations for alleged off-duty use and-or possession of public affairs office said to the public affairs in sensitive positions have been suspended from such pending completion of the Additional details of the investigation will be released as they are the public affairs office 37, of died shortly after midnight today when he was struck bv a van on 1-55 four miles south of Arkansas State Police driver of the David told troopers he was driving north in the interstate when he noticed a vehicle parked on the shoulder of the He slowed and saw Wisdom standing in the right Wonn said he swerved to the left and applied his but failed to avoid hitting was pronounced dead at the site and his body was taken to Indicts ROCK A federal grand jury has charged four northeast Arkansas men with conspiring to defraud national food companies of thousands of dollars through the illegal redemption of discount indictment accuses Harry E. 46, of and Everette E. 35, of Manila with scheming between 1978 and 1980 to obtain at least 29 checks totaling from two coupon clearing is charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud and nine counts of mail indictment said they obtained contracts with Inc. of Knox and Redemption Inc. of Memphis by stating that they owned or managed grocery They also rented a post office box in Monette to receive redemption and Dunkin advertised in newspapers for coupons and paid customers a fraction of the the indictment another the grand jury indicted Johnny Rye of Tyronza and Billy D. Brewer of with working a similar scheme in taking in at Least on 55 checks from the same two clearing House of Blytheville reported to police that he was robbed last House said that he was walking home from a grocery store when a young man engaged him in conversation As they approached House's residence the man allegedly pushed him against a wall and took his wallet which contained from The assailant was described as a black man about 20 years wearing blue jeans and a white speckled baseball Lewis of Blytheville was to Hospital early this morning with a gunshot wound in the Lewis told police that her husband was showing her how to handle a gun when the firearm discharged injury was not classified as serious and no charges have been police burglary at the Anthony Bunch residence on Highway 77 south of Manila was reported Wednesday night to sheriff's deputies Bunch told deputies that he returned to his trailer at 5 p m to find that the front door had been pried open A two shotguns and a rifle with a combined value of were stolen car belonging to Paulette Sullivan of Blytheville was recovered in Memphis at 11:10 p.m. Blytheville police said that Sullivan's car was stolen about 5 p.m yesterday from 1615 W. 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