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Wednesday, January 20, 1962
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News Briefs
Elementary school exo'osion
kills four children, one adult
SPENCER, Okla. (AP)-A
natural gas explosion ripped through
the kitchen of an elementary school
as it was being evacuated Tuesday,
and authorities said six people were
killed and 35 injured.
Helicopters were brought into the
parking lot of a store across the street
from the one-story brick Star
Elementary School to airlift the more
seriously injured to hospitals.
Ambulances and enforcement of-
ficers rushed to the scene of the blast
in Spencer, east of Oklahoma City.
Jeff Gauthier, head of the AM-
CARE ambulance organization, said
the body of one child was removed as
soon as rescue operators arrived at
the school. He said the five other
bodies were discovered in the rubble.
Four of the dead were children and
one was an adult, he said. He said it
was not confirmed immediately
whether the sixth victim was a child
or adult.
Initial reports said the explosion
occurred in the cafeteria after people
inside smelled gas. Witnesses said fire
alarms had been sounded to evacuate
students when the explosion occured.
Several Oklahoma Natural Gas
Company trucks had been seen near-
by with crews working on the lines
during the morning.
A reporter on the scene said about
10 children were lying on the
sidewalk being treated for injuries.
Students coming out of the school
were reported to have cuts on their
arms and heads.
The Star school is part of the
Oklahoma City School District, but
is located in Spencer.
/Man held for church killings
hangs self with jail towel
DAINGERF1ELD, Texas (AP) —
Alvin Lee King III, accused of charg-
ing into a church in a bloody 1980 at-
tack that left five dead and 10
wounded, was found hanged in his
jail cell Tuesday, authorities said.
“Clearly, it was suicide,” said Morris
County Attorney Jim Stanley, who
said his office and Texas Rangers
would conduct separate investiga-
tions into the death.
Sheriff Joe Skipper said King, held
under heavy security since his
transfer to Paingerfield in December,
was found at 5:25 a.m. dangling from
a crossbar in his cell. He apparently
tore a jail towel in half and tied the
pieces together and around his neck,
Skipper said.
City Manager Larry Moser said
King’s death was unfortunate but he
added that reaction in Daingerfield
has been "mostly relief... All these
months we've been in limbo, but now
a conclusion’s been made."
King, a 46-year-old former high
school math teacher with a doctorate
in psychology, appeared in state dis-
trict court Monday for a hearing on
whether to move his trial out of the
county. State District Judge B.D.
Moye had planned to rule on the
venue change Tuesday.
King was accused of being the
gunman who yelled, “This is war," as
he broke down the First Baptist
Church door and begin firing into the
congregation. King, who shot himself
in the forehead after being wrestled
from the church, was charged with
live counts of murder and 10 counts
of assault.
Rusk State Hospital officials ruled
King competent to stand trial in
December after 17 months of obser-
vation. King's attorneys, Percy
Foreman and Dick DeGuerin of
Houston, had planned to base their
case on an insanity defense.
Church secretary Mary Allen ex-
pressed relief that the families of the
victims would not have to endure the
ordeal of a trial.
“We’ve got mixed feelings about it,
because our people are not going to
have to go through all of that,” Mrs.
Allen said. "Our other emotion is by
him doing this no one will be allowed
to reach him for the Lord. Our first
reaction is ‘Oh good,’ but his suffer-
ing is really just beginning. It’s so
sad.”
Court orders officer to pay
HOUSTON (AP) — A policeman
has been ordered to pay more than
$19,000 to a former Arkansas
salesman who says he was beaten five
years ago by officers at a southwest
Houston restaurant.
U S. District Judge John V.
Singleton ruled patrolman D.R.
Camden must pay $13,635 in
damages and $55,455 in attorneys
fees to Willie Dobson of Higden,
Ark.
Dobson, 52, claims Camden and
two other policemen beat him outside
a Denny’s Restaurant during a
business trip he took in 1977.
Attorney D. Reid Walker, who
represents Camden, said the
judgment — only the third ever as-
sessed against a Houston policeman
for civil rights violations — probably
wouid be appealed.
The restaurant earlier agreed to a
c in nnn out-of-court settlement
Camden, who still is on the police
force, and officers J.W. Harris and
J.D. Gregory, at the restaurant’s re-
quest, arrested Dobson and beat him
repeatedly because he had spent a lot
of time in the men’s restroom, said
Lovell W. Aldrich, Dobson's at-
torney.
Dobson suffered a broken ankle
and other injuries and spent nine
days in a Houston hospital, Aldrich
said.
Walker, however, argued only
enough force was used to subdue
Dobson and the officers were not
responsible for the injuries. He said
Camden punched Dobson in the eye
after the salesman kicked him.
A jury ruled last June that Camden
used excessive force in the incident.
The jury awarded Dobson $25,000
in damages, but the judge reduced the
award in his order issues Monday.
The only other civil rights judg-
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were a $25,000 judgment in 1978
against four officer5 >n the beatings of
four Mexican-Americans and a $1.2
million verdict in the slaying of Ran-
dall Webster, 17, of Shreveport, La.
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owner, Bruce Gibson, Richardson junior.
Alumni group sets goals
NT’s alumni group, NT Exs, installed
new officers for 1982 on Jan. 15.
New officers are Rich Sorrells, presi-
dent; Phillip Glauben, vice-president;
Erika Smith, secretary; and Terry
Hornberger, treasurer. Amelia Phillips
of the Alumni Association said she
believes 1982 will be a good year for the
group. She said, “The officers are all re-
cent graduates from NT (within the past
four or five years) and are a young and
dynamic group."
The group has one chapter as of now
and is looking toward adding four more
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TYLER, Texas (AP) — A psy-
chologist testified Tuesday that Rex
Cauble’s ranch foreman was incapable
of conducting an operation the size of
the so-called Cowboy Mafia—a mari-
juana smuggling ring Cauble is accused
of financing.
Had Charles “Muscles” Foster been
in charge, the ring would not have been
a long-range success, said Dr. Donald
Wayne Whaley of NT.
Federal authorities contend that
Foster used hundreds of thousands of
dollars in loans to operate the smuggling
ring. Although Foster was targeted as
the ringleader in the scheme, he was ac-
quitted by reason of insanity in 1980.
Cauble, a Denton multimillionaire, is
accused of financing and profiting from
a dope-smuggling ring that brought I06
tons of marijuana from Colombia into
Texas during 1977 to 1978, He is
charged with racketeering, conspiracy
and embezzlement.
Whaley testified that psychological
tests showed Foster suffered brain
damage from the shock treatments he
received for his mental problems And as
of early 1975, he said, Foster remained
very insecure and was convinced no
woman would have him.
Under questioning by defense at-
torney G. Brocket! Irwin, Whaley said
he had approached U.S. Attorney David
Baugh to ask that Foster be
hospitalized.
Foster’s sister, Jo Ann Wells, also
testified she oiscussed her brother’s
deterion'ing mental condition with
Caub’* before Foster opened a
restaurant for which the rancher had
loaned him money.
A bank official testified Monday that
he would not have lent money to Foster
if Cauble hadn’t asked him to. He said
the loans had been repaid.
Betty Ford lauds law
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ new
iaw requiring neaitn insurance poiicics
to cover alcoholism treatment is a
“tremendous stride forward in the
recognition of alcoholism,” former first
lady Betty Ford said Tuesday.
Ford, who had publicly admitted her
own alcohol problem, visited the Capitol
to attend a re-enactment of the bill sign-
ing and to thank Texas legislators for
passing the measure last year.
“For a long time, there was a question
whether alcoholism was a disease ui
merely a lack of will power,” Ford said.
“Coverage of alcoholism as far as in-
surance is concerned has varied, but this
type of legislation makes it mandatory.
“We were the first state to get out in
front and pass this legislation,” Gov.
Bill Clements said, giving Ford credit for
rallying support for the bill.
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and has been active for about I8
months,” she said. “We’re going to try
to add chapters for Fort Worth, San An-
tonio, Houston and Austin this year.”
The installation began a one-half day
retreat at the Alumni Center, where new
officers set goals for the year, Phillips
said.
The primary goals for this year are to
expand the chapter base and add new
chapters to the group, she said.
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Ball, Karen. The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 56, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 20, 1982, newspaper, January 20, 1982; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003829/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.