Del Rio News-Herald (Newspaper) - August 29, 1974, Del Rio, Texas OIL RlO YEAR NUMBER 139 f Kfl IWC tft 45434 7781861 DEL RIO TEXAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AUGUST 2t 1974 customs Soviet Cosmonauts Down Safe Reds Mot Saying What Went Wrong Agents Hunt Milling Art DETROIT Cus toms agents are searching for Renoir masterpiece which dis appeared somewhere on Its way between London and its owner in Minneapolis Investigators said the trans atlantic air passage took less than a day But more than a week elapsed before the carry ing case in which the Renoir was shipped reached its desti nation The painting an oil known as the Lady in a Flowered is valued by its owner Min neapolis attorney Samuel Mas ion at more than He said it is insured for The carrying case in which he painting was packed left London on Wednesday July 31 and arrived at Detroits Metro Airport about on the same day aboard a Pan American World Airways flight The canvas measuring 12 inches by 16 inches was to be transferred to a Northwest Ori ent Airlines plane for the final leg journey to Min neapolis Authorities said the crate ap remained at Metro airport until S ajn the next day The carrying ease arrived at International airport on Aug 1 and was held in a bonded area for a Week before being delivered to Maslon tors in that city reported Following prescribed dure for costly imports cus toms officials were present in apartment when he opened the case on Aug 8 and found it empty Customs officials at Metro declined to speculate where and when the painting was removed from its carrying case They also were reluctant to discuss the delay or say how they handled the carrying case Maslon said he had sent the painting to London for possible sale at Christies a world re art auction house Maslon said the painting had not been sold and was being re turned to him He refused to say how much he had asked for the Renoir or even if there had been an offer for the painting at Christies ZONING PLAN of the Amigos de Amistad organization for development around Amistad Reservoir this morning presented 450 copies of the Land Use Order for the Val Verde County Zones Area which the organization is contributing to the County Clerks Office County Clerk Fitzpatrick foreground said the copies will be available to the public particularly parties in the Amistad Zoned Area for each Comstock residents can write to the county office for a copy From left are Amos Humphrey Val Verde County Judge Sergio Gonzalez Sol E Arledge and Mike Stool Photo Forms in West Charter Panel Meets Tonight The Dei Rio Exes of San Jose California have formed a club and elected officers with an eye at throwing an annual reunion around May or June of next year At the clubs organizational meeting Aug 11 the following Del Rio District High School were elected into the officers circle Bob Clubb president Ruben Bejarano Viola Gonzalez Alicia Garcia recording secretary Oscar Charles and Julia T Folsom historian Art Espinoza was elected as chairman of the Alfredo Charles Scholarship committee Alfredo Cervantes chairman of the steering committee and Joe Gonzalez reporter and social director Trustees include Evangelina Mickie Rodriquez Alfredo Cervantez and Joe Gonzalez The scholarship fund being established by the Del Rio Exes is for an annual scholarship award to a Del Rio High School graduate The selection process will be made through the local United Civic Organization as designated by the Exes Club The fund is in memory of Alfredo Charles a Marine from Del Rio who lost his life in the Korean War in 1951 Queen candidates for the Exes club will be introduced at the Oct 19 Gran Baile Ranchero in San Jose designed as a fund raising affair for the new organization The local UCO queen Miss Mary Gloria Fernandez may be included in the coronation event in California The exes queen candidates include Miss Nereida de la Rosa daughter of Mr and Mrs Armando de la Rosa Miss Eunice Cardenas daughter of Mr and Mrs Evangelina Mickie Rodriquez Miss Doris Clubb daughter of Mr and Mrs Bob Clubb The Del Rio Exes organization reports a membership of 40 and rising The City Charter Revision Commission tonight will be taking a look into Article 2 of the City Charter Article 2 is the part dealing with powers and functions of the City Manager his subordinates and powers and functions of the City Council The commission meeting is slated at the San Felipe Neighborhood Facility at 7 It will be the fourth meeting of the commission since it was established at a special meeting in the Civic Center the night of May 29 Member Mrs Jane Hodge reported today that the commission was a little hung up on their discussion of Article 2 at their last meeting However the commission did put away Article 1 for the meantime That article deals with Incorporation Form of Government and General Powers of the City As for Article 2 Mrs Hodge said The way the present charter is written how they the council expects a person to do what he is designated to do in the present charter is rather odd to She directed her wonder towards the city managers position He is designated as wearing so many different hats she said The same Article 2 the commission will deal with tonight applies as well to the list of city officers under the direction of the City Manager and relations of the City Council to the manager What were doing now is discussing each article and then reviewing it The changes will be incorporated later Mrs Hodge said She said she expected to see the commission finish up Article 2 tonight and go on to the third article of the 1969 Del Rio City Charter Nominations and Elections Article 3 according to Mrs Hodge does not have the recommended changes as specified by the attorney of the Texas Municipal League Rlley Fletcher So that may speed up the review pace on that article The commission evidently will be pacing itself reviewing the charter article by article inserting changes as they go along conforming to Fletchers own review of the charter The attorneys findings were made public over a month ago and each councilman received copies of his findings They were that a good portion of the document is in conflict with state laws and was too wordy in instances The commission was appointed by the City Council during a May 30 meeting at the Civic Center Nixon is chairman Leo Martinez and Mrs Wilson secretary Mrs Hodge commented also that she win be taking a hard look at the Conflicts of Interest section of the charter Conflicts of interest related with city officers is one of the main points of interest with some members of the commission Mrs Hodge said she thinks the conflicts of interest section needs to be defined and written more directly with a little more teeth into it City Councilman Mike Gonsalez the councilman who spoke the loudest for revisions in the charter will also be present at the commissions meeting tonight By ROGER Associated Press Writer MOSCOW Tarn re ported Hith apparent relief day that the tno IS were feeling nell after their mission Has out short and they were forced to make the first night landing In the history of the Soviet apace program Something evidently nent though Soviet officials nere not saying it Has The flight by cosmonauts Gennady Sarafanov and Lev Demin lasted only 4 8 hours in contrast to the 16 days two er cosmonauts Here up in yuz 14 last month 15 also did not link up Hith Salyut 3 the Orbiting space laboratory that the 14 men spent two Keeks aboard although initial said Sarafanov and Demin Here continuing the Hork of the earlier And the customary reference to of the mission nas absent from the report today on Soyuz 15 A further indication that something nent Has the landing at night in said nas a The Soviet agency said 15 came donn late Wednesday night in northern Kazakhstan several hundred miles north of the usual landing area Although said this Has the predetermined it added The search and cevery complex ensured in a difficult meteorological atlon speedy detection of the descent module and the evac of the Medical examination ried out on the landing site has shown that Sarafanov and min are in good it added In its earlier announcement Wednesday that tin flight Has belhg terminated said approached the space many but did not dock A British schoolteacher monitors space shots at a hobby laid he observed the tno ships early Wednesday visually and the smaller yut 15 Has quite tanoe ahead meaning of course that It had This speculation that Sarafanov had exhausted his fuel reserve in maneuvering Trio Noil VA Chiefs Door WASHINGTON AP The Incoming chief of the Veterans Administration has been given a hammer as a souvenir from three persons barged into his office and nailed roe door shut so they could personally protest cutbacks in a GI educa tion MIL The three Here arrested after the Incident Wednesday and spent the night in jail charged Hith destruction of government property police said Richard Roudebush nomi by President Ford to be VA administrator said he talked Hith the Intruders tno men and a woman for half an hour and then asked them to unnail the door They complied and Here arrested as they left There Has no violence of any type They didnt harm Roudebush said How ever he said the trio broke a couple of chairs and a picture in nailing the office door shut Police identified the three as Ellen 0 Hawkins 26 and zalo 31 both of New York City and John R Smith 31 of West Hartford Conn Judge Has Not Ordered Stockyard Investigation County Judge Sergio Gonzalez reported today that he has not yet directed a sanitation check on the stockyards located on Highway CHARGED WITH MARIJUANA DELIVERY Around Town By IMA JO FLEETWOOD Two More Airmen Busted MRS HARLEY HUMPHREY of Houston and her twins Bobby and Bonnie have been guests of her aunt Mrs Antinone in Del Rio They have returned to Houston THE ALBA CLUB in the midst of planning the Little Miss Alba contest and ball will not hold a regular meeting again until Sept 30 At that time the members will meet in the home of Miss Munoz 305 E 7th St MRS ANTINONE has had as her guests her soninlaw and daughter Mr and Mrs of Mesa and their children Danny Julii and Scotty They spent a week visiting in Del Rio and have returned to their home in Mesa NO WRITTEN invitations required for friends and acquaintances of Ben and Gall Bonnet to attend the oper house given for them Sunday afternoon at the Roswell Hotel They said all Mends are included in the invitation issued to the affair when her parents Mr and Mrs Wehner and the five sons of the Bonnets will be the hosts A NEW meeting place has been announced by the Kennel Club It will be Holiday Inn The club will bold a novice obedience orientation class In the Hospitality Room of Holiday Inn Sept 5 at CITIZENS will meet tonight st In the John Rowland Community Center TOPS Take Off Pounds Sensibly will meet at oclock tonight at the cafeteria at HicksPonder for weighin and a meeting at oclock tonight THE DEL RIO Chapter of the National Association of Retired Federal Employes will meet Sept 2 at 4 in the John Rowland Community Center Mr and Mrs Ray Ross and Mrs Riggs will be the 1 hosts for the social hour which will follow the business meeting Officers said all retired federal employes are invited to attend NORTH Association will hold a meeting for members of he executive board and all former chairmen of committees tonight at oclock in the Val Verde County Courthouse MRS JESSIE CUNNINGHAM celebrated her birthday anniversary Tuesday afternoon in the home of her soninlaw and daughter Mr and Mrs Luther Wipff Several friends called to extend their good wishes on the occasion Birthday cake was served to the callers THE DEL RIO Mental Health Clinic will hold a celebration Sept 3 to mark the fourth anniversary of the clinic The celebration is planned for Sept 3 in Hie Ssn Felloe Neighborhood Facility st 200 Bridge Street Games with 20 prizes will be and refreshments will be served State and area representatives for mental health are expected to attend Two more Laughlin Air Force Base airmen nave been added to the list of persons arrested here in connection with a lengthy investigation into Del Rio drug dealings Enrique 19 of Payne Village today became the 15th suspect when he was picked up by an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Police Detective Lt Herman Schafer Hurricane Becky Poses No Threat MIAMI Fla A cane Becky and her Hinds of 100 miles per hour into the open Atlantic day and said the seasons first hurricane poses no threat to land Becky Has centered about 250 miles north of Bermuda and moving northeast on a warrant charging delivery of marijuana The 14th suspect Donald Lee 18 was picked up Monday afternoon by a deputy of the Val Verde County Sheriffs Department also on a warrant charging delivery of marijuana Gallineau was released Tuesday after posting a bond The two were among several persons named in sealed Indictments returned by a grand jury on Aug 1213 A list of names of others previously arrested and Indicted and their charges follows Larry Gene Elkins 21 and Bryan Lee Graham 19 bonds each Denise 19 Patrick Dennis Gonzalez 17 Guillermo 26 Timothy A Smtih State Seeks Say In Nuclear Plants AUSTIN Gen John Hill Mid Wednesday ha Hants the state to have a say in the consideration of three to build nuclear poner plants in Texas Hill asked the Atomic Energy Commission Wednesday for permission to intervene in on the application of Houston Lighting Power application to build a nuclear poner plant OR Allens Creek IB Austin County Hill said a also would ask permission to intervene in liar on the cation of the Texas Utilities Generating Dallas Power and Light Texas Electric Service Co and Texas Power Light Co to operate a plant near Glen Rose in County and the application of Houston Lighting Power and the cities of San Antonio and Austin to operate a nuclear power plant on the Colorado River in Matagorda C The attorney general stressed that the right to intervene does not require the state to take a for or position in order to participate Weather DEL RIO AND VICINITY Partly cloudy and warm this afternoon tonight and Friday with a slight chance for afternoon and evening ers Winds from the southsoutheast will blow at 8 to 18 miles per hour this afternoon Minimum temperature tonight near 70 maximum temperature Friday in the low 90s Probability of thundershowers 20 per cent this afternoon 20 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Friday Maximum temperature Wednesday 85 minimum 72 Minimum temperature this morning 70 degrees Rainfall in past 24 hours 11 of an inch Time of sunset time of sunrise Amistad Report Amistad elevation this morning was an increase of 04 over Wednesday Depth of water at Amistad Dam was feet down 04 Water storage this morning was acre feet a decrease of acre feet Water measured acres down 34 acres Downstream flow was cubic feet per second flow Wednesday was cubic feet second 22 Atwood 19 Charles Henry Cutaia 22 all charged with delivery of marijuana all placed on bonds Joe Luis Diaz 17 charged with delivery of marijuana and delivery of heroin bond Rudy A Mendiola 27 charged with delivery of bond and Thomas Leis 20 charged with delivery of marijuana bond Another suspect arrested on delivery of marijuana charges was released shortly after his arrest pending filing of a petition with juvenile authorities The reportedly was a juvenile at the time of the alleged incident Tot Falls From Car Freddie Lomas son of Mrs Teresa Vasquez Lomas 302 Esquivel was treated for minor injuries at Val Verde Memorial Hospital Wednesday afternoon after he reportedly fell out of a moving car Mrs Lomas and the child were taken to the hospital by Patrolman Carlos Padilla at about minutes after the child fell out the window of the auto on Ogden Street near the Avenue F overpass Tom Santry hospital administrator said the child suffered minor bruises and was released after treatment 90 East The judge had told a citizen who complained about conditions in the pens that he would instruct the county health officer to determine a health hazard ruling But the judge reported today that he had been unaware that the Sanitation officer was ill The issue of the health hazards created by flies and insects at the stockyards belonging to Southwest Livestock and Trucking Co was brought to the attention of the county commissioner at their Monday meeting by a local citizen She reported that the conditions at the stock pens that hold and transfer sheep and goats are distracting more desirable business establishments along the highway portion She also brought it to the attention of the County Commissioners Court that the county owns part of the land used around the stockyards and a check into the situation revealed that the county is not collecting any revenue for the use of the lots The citizen claimed the county could be party to aiding and abetting a health Explosion Rocks Ghetto CHATTANOOGA Tenn AP Half a block Has left in flaming rubble today after an explosion claimed at toast one life ripped through a ghetto area ing tno night spots and a church At least IS other persons Here injured Im sure that it Has not a bomb but I dont know just caused Fire Chief Harry Jett said of the blast I can confirm that they found at least one body in the said Police Sgt aid Burnett Thats all I know right The victim a turn was not Immediately identified The body Has discovered as workmen began searching the rubble of four buildings Here ravaged by fire following the blast The early morning blast was heard four miles away A customer at a nearby restaurant said the two night spots leveled by the blast were open for business at the time Hospital said It had given 13 persons emergency treatment releasing all but one There was fire said Patrolman Don Weller oni of the first at the scene The buildings were just There were three or four people scattered in the street blown out onto the street blown out or carried said Police Lt Herbert Parker The fire was contained to four buildings but the flames kept emergency workers away from the rubble for several hours Fire Chief Harry Jett said the blast cut a swath of destruction through the area The blast destroyed the Starlight Lounge the Cactus dub the St James Baptist Church and a barber shop The explosion sent splintered bricks sailing through the area damaging cars parked on nearby streets Im sure that It was not a bomb but I dont know just exactly what caused Jett said of the explosion The flames kept firemen policemen and other emergency workers from the rubble The buildings hit by the blast and fire were brick structures vim businesses and upper level apartments
