Grand Prairie Daily News (Newspaper) - May 16, 1976, Grand Prairie, Texas GRAND mm TEXAS CITY nu GRAND PRAIRIE DAILY NEWS Grand Prairies Newspaper Since 1908 CIRCULATION PHONE 2621329 VOLUME 68 NUMBER 168 GRAND TEXAS MAY 1976 PRICE DAILY SUNDAY Peace conversion march set here By JIM STEWART Staff Writer An organization known as the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice will be in Grand Prairie Wednesday promoting peace conversion during a walk from the Marshall LTV plant to the Jefferson LTV The Walk is part of a tour that began 31 in San Francisco and is scheduled to conclude in Washing in About 25 per sons representing various organiza tions nationwide are walking the entire Grand Prairie was chosen as part of the route because of its two large defense Bobby a Dallas man in charge of the local said a group will begin the walk at the Marshall LTV handing out leaflets to workers as they drive into the plants parking We just want to talk to them about peace Slovak Were not asking people to quit their Were saying to continue working through unions and start supporting a plan which would which would utilize the defense in dustry for manufacturing nonwar related The workers are the ones who make the and they are the ones we hope will relate antide fense feelings to representa tives in Slovak We will start out with only five persons and hope to pick up more along the The Continental Walk for Disar mament was patterned after marches conducted by the War Re sisters League in the The peace movement is taking a new said In the demonstrations were in the streets and were based on After the people formed more permanent groups to Work for a per manent There are actually more antiwar groups now than in the A handout distributed by the group lists the organizations opposi tion to the arms The has Daily News Photos by Bob Bocell CHAMPION Bob Carmichael of bottom prepares to take his Pitts Special Aerobatic air craft aloft over the skies of Grand Prairie to prepare for an air show at Grand Prairie Municipal while an uni climbs into the back seat of a Stearman Carmichael will be joined by world champion aerobatic pilot Charlie Hillard and 10 other pilots in the show set to begin at 2 The admission fee will help finance the team in their trip to Kiev for world Air show is today World champion aerobatic pilot Charlie Hillard and past na tional champion pilot Bob Carmi chael will join ten other aerobatic pilots in the skies over Grand Prairie to stage an airshow which will benefit the Aerobatic The scheduled to begin at at the Grand Prairie Mu will feature ele ments of the Confederate Air Forces World War II aircraft along with an assortment of home and aerobatic air Admission to the show is per a carload and chil dren under Proceeds from the show will go toward financing the Aerobatic Teams trip to the world aerobatic championships in the Soviet Grand Prairie Municipal Air port is located on Arkansas Because of road construction on Great Southwest the airport is accessible by turning east on Arkansas Lane at its in with State Highway Texas delegation is liberal By PATRICK CONWAY Austin Bureau AUSTIN The Texas delegation to the Democratic National Conven tion will be the most liberal in the states promoting one vet eran warhorse for Ralph Yarbor ough to opine that the former senator could be elected chairman if he wanted to but Yarborough would have to readjust his stance from uncommitted to a supporter of Jimmy and even then it is unlikely that the Carter camp would switch support from Dolph according to a campaign John the ener getic statewide coordinator for the says Carter has no objections to Briscoe as the Texas noting that was e greatly appreciative of Briscoes kind words even though the governor had made an early to Lloyd then favorite son But a lot could happen before the June 19 State Democratic Conven tion in Houston to change the meet ings hue from to color as various groups maneuver for more political clout on the state admits that if every one signs for Carter a lot of things could The delegates named in the May 1 primary and those selected at the state convention will elect the chair man of the Many of the Carter delegates are former active supporters of Yarbor ough in his numerous Texas political But insists they will re main pragmatic and do whatever is best for He ticked off a few of the dele gates names Dan Dallas Communications Workers of Amer ica representative Lufkin housewife Audry Tatum Stephen Austin professor Brophy Liberty housewife Karen Friend Corsicana judge Jim Tiger Sewell Tarrant County labor chief Frank Barren Houston black Nash a union or Baytown attorney Richard Manne Houston fire fighter Den nis Holder Dallas city council woman Juanita Craft Galveston State Ed Harris Temple State John Bigham Dallas congres candidate Martin Frost West Texas State professor David comptrollers department employe Tom There may be many he for one thing you dont see any executive vice presidents for Tenneco on that The senatorial and county con held Saturday also showed a strong turnout for uncommitted de and since Yarborough is among their he will join De National Committeewoman Billie Carr of Houston in a leader ship One of the surprising senatorial conventions was held in District IS in Houston which encompasses the con servative Montrose Heights River Oaks Memorial That dis elected veteran liberal labor lawyer Chris Dixie as There was a time when Dixie couldnt even get into that conven and had to be part of rump de legations to the state So the strength could be there if there was a sentimental bid to res tore one of Yarboroughs past but even the former senator said this as Yarborough predicted the un committed state convention dele gates may capture as many as eight or 10 delegates to the national con This he would hardly be a power base to challenge the overwhelming Carter And thats what expects the Carter forces to be over Before the county and senatorial district conventions he was speculating that Carter may capture all 130 Texas delegates to the national and that could easily become a By the time of the state conven the national primaries will be and Carter may have a clear cut path to the Democratic nomina If that is the it would be similar to a parade of lemmings if the Bentsen support ers and Wallace supporters decided to stick to their guns in hopes of some devine intervention of the New York Old political feuds could be re at the state Democratic con and Carter forces will try to prevent They need every Demo cratic faction they can get to carry Texas if Carter gets the Pat president of the Har ris County may have summed it up best I think the Democrats are so hungry for a vic tory that liberals and con servatives are willing to Too much cuttin up will make things fall Get away from the crowd go the second You havent lost the game until youve lost the spirit of the nuclear enough to wipe level every major Soviet city 36 the group the Department of Housing and Urban es it would take about bil lion to decent housing to all Americans now living in ard less than one half of one years military spend Slovak said the organization sug gests urgent alternatives to defense such as energy research and transit systems and rebuilding the reail The group will be in Grand Prai rie from 8 until 5 Walkers also planned to make Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth among its stopping GP city employes may get raise if council oks Grand Prairie city employes may be in store for a midyear raise if the city council approves a budget revision this City manager Cliff Johnson pro poses the 406 people who work for the city be given a per month cost of living raise out of an antici pated budget The budget surplus came about because of higher than anticipated collection of City col lection on various projected to run at 96 per cent of all came out over 96 per cent or over and above projected Of those an increase in gas and telephone utility boosted gross receipts tax In an increase in the franchise tax for Southwestern Bell from two per cent to four per cent of gross receipts also accounted for an increase in utility According to the city collected additional gross re taxes from Southwestern Bell additional from the Texas Electric Service Company and additional taxes from Lone Star Retail sales tax income jumped over and above All other personal and real property taxes and other revenues ars inline with first of the year pro said Water and Sewer service sales decreased by under projected Police nab suspect Police arrested a 21yearold Dallas security guard here Thurs after the suspect allegedly left a gas station without paying for his He was identified by the station owner and later questioned by The suspect was charged for resisting arrest and theft under In other investigations this police took a report on a house on Egyptian which had been burglar of more than in household The victim of the bur glary said he left to go to a school board meeting Thursday When he he discovered the house had been ransacked and several including a diamond tie tac had been No suspects were apprehended in connection with the Automobile burglaries were fre quent during the past ac cording to police In addition to the usual number of citizens band radios a new item was popu lar among At least four sets of hubcaps were reported stolen during the On the inside SUMMER RECREATION activities have been scheduled at Crockett Recreation page 4 A WOMAN in Texas could shoot and brand bet ter than her page 11 SCOUTING INVOLVES more people than is often page AJ WOMEN WHO wave goodby to their last working or college bound child often face page 13 WHO IS the Blue and why is he saying all those things about page 13 THE TEXAS commission on crime has come to a conclu sion crime in the state is big and page 10 DALLAS COUNTYS auditor blocked insurance for reserve deputies page 9 TEXAS WILDCATTERS say their biggest enemy is the Federal Power 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