Midland Reporter-Telegram (Newspaper) - January 5, 1977, Midland, Texas I HOME EDITION THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLAR Box TEXAS Dally Sunday JANUARY 1977 4 28 PAGES in in By JUDY JOHNSTON Last year was a record year for building permits in City building official Keaton said that more than million worth of building permits were issued in exceeding the previous record of million issued in Even with adjustments for in the 1976 total is the greatest ever Keaton A total of for December brought the years total to more than more than doubling the 1975 total of The largest valuation of permits was issued in for a total of followed by with In permits for new residences rose about million over for a total of nearly as com pared to million in New commercial permits increased more than for a total of up from million in During there also were million worth of permits issued for residential alteration and repair and million worth of commercial alteration and repair The greatest single permits amounted to million for com alteration to add 16 floors and a parking garage to the existing First National Bank 303 Wall new commercial permit for was Issued to Midland A million permit was issued for a apartment complex with 120 units at 3329 Wadley The permits was issued to Sunnyvale Building Another permit was issued to First National Bank of Midland for to construct a new motor bank at 405 American Care 2800 Midland received a permit for in September for a new nursing Also during a million permit was issued to Pace and Associates for an apartment complex at 700 Scharbauer Continued on Page 4A 3600 Garfield for the colleges Center sports WASHINGTON AP Democratic leaders of the 95th Congress are starting work on Presidentelect Carters jobs program without waiting for his At the same Congress is ex to shelve President Fords new taxcut proposals and instead await Carters tax due to be disclosed later this After heavily Democratic Congress convened the first component of Carters economic a expansion of an works program was G artist Charles Mitchell of Atlanta works on the presidential seal that will hang above the podium at the inauguration of Jimmy Mitchell was commissioned by the architect who is building the WEATHER Cloudy and colder tonight with a chance of Low High lower Complete details on Page AP A special camera lens captures the breadth of the House of Representatives as the 95th Congress opened Tuesday quickly Democrats say the program could produce as many as Robert chairman of the House subcommittee handling the had 175 sponsors for the measure when it was He predicted there would be more than enough sponsors in the next few days to provide at least a House majority House Speaker Thomas ONeill of Massachusetts said the first priority of who now control both the legislative and executive branches after eight years tri of divided must bo to put Americans back to House leaders are to gather Friday in to discuss the rest of Carters economic package with the That package is expected to consist of some billion in economic combining programs intended to create tax cuts to boost individual buying power and tax Incentives for industry to expand plant and There were indications so far at Democratic congressional leaders are satisfied with Carters performance on his pledge to confer with them as ho develops his legislative The jobs was a congressional creation and Carter adopted it as part of his Ford sent his own version of a tax reduction to where it is virtually certain to go Fords proposal combined a billion personal Income tax cut with reductions in corporate taxes and an increase in Social Security The package was nearly Identical with one Congress rejected last As the Congress set Itself up for business Robert Byrd of West Virginia won his ex victory to become leader of the majority Democrats In tho Hubert Humphrey of Min withdrew from tho com leaving Byrd ONeill had been chosen earlier by the House Senate Republicans staged an upset by choosing Howard Baker of Tennessee as their leader by a one vote margin over Robert Griffin of Griffin had been expected to move up from tho assistant leader nt with ch awoke this morning to discover the years first cold front arrived while they were bringing with it a 50 per cent chance of snow Cloudy and colder weather Is ex tonight and Tonights low should be in the and Thursdays high in the lower Winds should be 5 to 10 mph from the northeast the National Weather Service at Midland Regional Air Terminal This mornings low reached 30 degrees and Tuesdays high 65 Below freezing temperatures and cloudy skies were reported this morning in Big Lake and Snow fell in the Texas Panhandle and South Plains and motorists were warned that accumulations up to 3 inches were making travel hazar the Associated Press Forecasters looked for the in some places mixed with to spread farther south in West Texas during the day and to extend across the northwest half of North Texas by At the same time fog and drizzle plagued coastal areas for a third straight dropping visibility close to zero in It was expected to persist until a gathering trig gering the reaches the Gulf of Mexico The norther was ad through Central Texas this Official observers cautioned travelers to be on guard against dangerously slick roads through Thursday Light snow first started from around Lubbock northward past Dalhart and westward across the state line to near It was whipped about by north winds to 20 miles per In South a com bination of fog and drizzle shrouded areas embracing Port Ar Houston and It was drizzly also around McAllon in the Lower Rio Grande Temperatures dropped rapidly as the cold front system Near dawn tho readings ranged from 18 degrees at Dalhart in the where most other points had marks in the up to 58 at the southernmost point in the Ahead of the frontal system thermometers registered mostly In the 30s and Ford wants veto power over Grand Utopia lies not in classroom I WASHINGTON AP dent Ford wants veto power over the selection of a new chair man of the Republican National but probably wont push his own candidate for the White House aides The problem of filling the key GOP post is one of the topics likely to be discussed when Ford meets today with top party Vice President Nelson former California Ronald Reagan and former Texas John Connally were scheduled to attend todays White House their se cond In a The Republican leaders ed talks on the OOPs future and Fords role In the party after he leaves office Ford is known to have some favorites of his own for national committee but has declined to make his preference The committee itself has got to make the a White House official As to whether the President will come out hard and endorse a par thats still an open INDEX Allout search under way for missing oil tanker Grand Page Rebels Midland loses in District 54A Page Ull iU Womens The Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON The long expected appointment of Warren a Los Angeles lawyer and former Justice Department of in the Johnson to be the 2 State Department of under Cyrus Vance was made official who served as deputy attorney general under Ramsey Clark and also represented President Lyndon Johnson during urban rioting in Newark and explained in an interview that he the job of deputy secretary of state more as alter to than as a in any one area of foreign The present deputy Charles specialized in international economic especially the evolving relationship between the United States and the poorer Robinson in private life was presi dent and managing director of Mar cona Corporation of San an international mining and resources development company with widespread Interests in the Third He said Tuesday he has no plans to return to Marcona after it was learned that Presidentelect Jimmy Carter and Vance intend to combine the of the Arms Control and Disarmament a quasi independent body housed in the State with the post of chief negotiator for a strategic arms limita tion agreement with the Soviet The combined post has reportedly been offered to Paul a former deputy secretary of defense in the Johnson administration who was earlier in the running for secretary of defense under who was opposed for the Pentagon slot by hardliners because of his supposed advocacy of strict arms declined to comment on this but said the situation would clarify later in the Combining the ACDA directorship with chid SALT negotiator would be regarded as step by the arms control community A report card marks the classroom progress of a right probably most everybody who has gone through the anxiety of awaiting his or her card and then nervously contemplating It may have some qualified misgivings about The variables are so many and are so complex that a score of disser tations could be and likely on what influences a teacher to mark or whatever between the cards And who but the Supreme In can fully know and un the meanings behind those weighty marks What Is the Impact And do those marks truly reflect the student Are they in the best Interest of the student Any general answer or answers would be And the issue is not Witness principal at Rusk Elementary School has passed along an essay on the Impact of the First Report message in this in allegory begs consideration and The setting of this thought piece is long at the First School at an unnamed Characters are the First First Child and First In the the teacher gave the report card to the child in gave it to the The presumably loving and caring parent was perplexed by the markings on her sweet childs f It was late on a Friday when parent approached weary do not understand the markings on this she i H J ROUSTIN ABOUT with Todd t And First more out of courage than offered an explanation First Child can sing so sweetly that all the birds stop to All the children are his He Is quicker to run than all the but slower to read than any he is not UP TO First Teacher said more r Unless he works and very he will not And he cannot even a little so although he Is so happy and so and although In time he will grow to read and he Is not an AVERAGE v I i i m Those remarks saddened Firsts I she could not give him a Good Report 1 The time of reckoning was at hand First Mother severely scolded the her because he could neither red nor add as well as the other First Child wept and soon became He resented the other they could read and add very First Child was puF L r T aside hif mu Continued on b j H
