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Page 2-The Hereford Brand-Tuesday, December 30, 1980
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Obituaries
Are Prisons too Comfortable?
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Weather
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West Texas — Fair and warmer
through Wednesday except partly
cloudy north. Highs 60s. Lows upper
20s to mid 30s. Highs Wednesday low
50s Panhandle to upper 60s Big Bend.
him once in the head, chest
and stomach.
Witnesses said McGuire ar-
rested one of the four men in
the car. put him in handcuffs
in the patrol car, radioed for
assistance, then went to take
the other three into custody,
police said.
it’s an important step in
research,” said Niederkorn.
Eye cancer, which claims
about 500 victims a year in
the United States, generally
their necks by hit-and-run
muggers - perhaps there
should be an ordinance pro-
hibiting the wearing of gold
neck chains!"
with the department, com-
pleted the course of general
law enforcement
Both have been employed
with the department for ap-
proximately six months and
are assigned to the county jail
according to Travis McPher-
son, DC Sheriff.
beverages and arrested two
juveniles for shoplifting over
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At Uncle Sam
ROSCOE, Texas (AP) - Mayor
B.P. "Beep" Cain says when his West
Texas hamlet was ravaged by floods.
Uncle Sam became a penny-pinching
Scrooge.
"There is no Santa Claus here or in
Washington, D.C., when it comes to
cold, hard cash for people in trouble,"
Cain said.
Twenty inches of rain knocked out
the city sewer system, which backed
up and flooded the area even more.
Cain says he has yet to see "a red
cent” of aid promised by the Federal
automobile Christmas night
for allegedly running a red
light. When additional police
units arrived, however, they
found McGuire dead.
He had been kicked and
beaten, then shot three times
with his service pistol, of-
ficers said. Bullets struck
Emergency Management Agency in
Washington.
The agency has "supposedly ap-
proved" *300,000 in federal aid and
another *120,000 of state money to
help Roscoe rebuild, he said.
City Hall has been forced to borrow
(50,000 for "partial, token payments
to the small business people who
responded in our time of need,
because they are no position to carry
us on their books," Cain said.
"The people who saved our town
during our great emergency have
been left holding the bag thus far by
bureaucrats who appear to have no
understanding nor sympathy for suf-
fering citizens,” he added.
NEW DELHI, India (API
— The United News of India
says an American “military
adviser” was shot to death in
Afghanistan while accompa-
nying Moslem rebels about
200 miles southwest of the
Afghan capital of Kabul.
The agency quoted official
sources in Kabul as saying a
camera and some documents
were found on the body of the
dead American, who was
wearing the traditional
pajama-like Afghan dress.
It said he was killed near
Qalat, capital of Zabul Pro-
vince. No further details were
available. It was the first
report of an American killed
in Afghanistan since Soviet
forces intervened a year ago
to fight Moslem rebels battl-
ing the communist regime.
The United States has
never said it has military ad-
visers in Afghanistan. In
Washington today, State
Department spokesman Joe
Reap said the department
Afghan exiles around the
world have been staging pro-
tests since Saturday, the first
anniversary of the Soviet-
backed coup that formalized
Moscow’s military interven-
tion in the Central Asian
country.
Niederkorn thinks the
reason for that is the unique
link between the spleen and
the eye.
"There is a direct pipeline
from the spleen to the eye,”
he said.
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Civil Rights
Case Dismissed
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) —
The civil rights case of John W. Mc-
Crory, convicted of the rape-murder
of a 17-year-old woman, was dismiss-
ed Monday by U.S. District Judge
Eldon Mahon.
McCrory, of Argyle, was convicted
here in February 1979 of the rape and
strangulation of Jeanna Melissa
Walker of Roanoke.
McCrory's attorneys filed a writ of
habeas corpus in federal court claim-
ing their client’s civil rights were
violated. The attorneys said they
waited 20 months for a typed record of
the trial to be made and proofed
before they could file an appeal with
the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Mahan said he dismissed the case
because McCrory had not exhausted
his appeals at the state level.
Attorney M.P. Duncan said he
would continue appealing the case at
the state level, but that he wasn’t sure
what action he would take at the
federal level.
McCrory’s lawyers had argued that
court reporter Holly Hanks Mobley
unjustly delayed McCrory’s ability to
appeal the murder conviction
because she had taken so long to
make a typed record of the trial.
Mrs. Mobley testified the trial
record filled 6,000 pages in 28
volumes.
McCrory's lawyers also argued she
hadn't properly proofed the record
and could not swear to its validity.
minorities.
He also credited many
strides made by minorities to
Sen. Edward Kennedy,
D-Mass.. outgoing chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee. He labeled the com-
mittee's incoming chairman.
Strom Thurmond. R-S.C.. as
“lukewarm.”
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Batchelor then transferred
Revill from intelligence to a
"less critical" area in the
personnel division. Batchelor
wrote Hoover. Batchelor
apologized and said "such
unethical and unauthorized
use of information obtained
from another police agency-
does not have the approval of
this department.”
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Ronald Reagan?
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) -
"May I have your name?” asks the
man taking a pizza order.
"Ronald Reagan," comes the reply.
"Oh, yeah? I’m Jack Benny.”
But it really was Ronald Reagan,
though not the president-elect, order-
ing pizza in Walnut Creek.
This Reagan is a 40-year-old inven-
tor and accountant for the Central
Contra Costa County Sanitary
District.
Having the same name as the GOP
politician has produced some "com-
ical" situations, he says.
In the late 1960s, Reagan lived in
Sacramento when the governor was a
man named Reagan. And Reagan,
CPA, kept getting the governor s
mail.
"It was addressed three ways —
either Gov. Ronald Reagan, the
Honorable Ronald Reagan or Ronald
Reagan. If it came to me the last two
ways, I opened it,” he said.
Once, very early in the morning, he
got a long-distance telephone call
from Sweden asking where campaign
contributions could be sent.
replace Curry, Shanklin
wrote Hoover that Batchelor
"has been very cooperative
with the bureau and he was
not involved in any of the con-
troversy arising over the
assassination.”
Hoover responded that if
Batchelor "runs the Dallas
Police Department with a
firm hand, you may resume
normal cooperative relations
with that department. This
includes the extending of
training assistance locally,
and the nomination of
qualified candidates to future
sessions of the FBI National
Academy.”
loiter in 1966, the FBI forc-
ed Batchelor to take action
against Revill, the other
Hoover nemesis from the
assassination.
Shanklin told Batchelor and
Jonsson that Revill and
another officer copied an FBI
report listing the names of
suspected Mafia members in
key U.S. cities, including
Dallas, and forwarded it to
Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment intelligence officers.
ROBERT R JACKSON
Services will be held
Wednesday for Robert R.
Jackson. 93. a long-time
Hereford resident, in the
Church of the Nazarene. Ser-
vices will begin at 3 p.m
Wednesday with the Rev Bob
Huffaker. pastor, officiating,
assisted by the Rev Wallace
Kirby, Westgate Nursing
Home chaplain.
Burial will be in West Park
Cemetery under the direction
of Gililland-Watson Funeral
Home.
Mr. Jackson died Monday
at 1 p.m. in Deaf Smith
General Hospital after a
lengthy illness
Born Jan. 11. 1887 in Cooke
County. Mr Jackson married
Lillie Mae Sayer Dec. 23,1908
in Erick, Okla. She preceded
him in death in June of this
year.
A resident of Westgate Nur-
sing Home for several years.
Mr. Jackson came to
Hereford in 1925 from Lefors.
He was a fanner and a
member of the Church of the
Nazarene.
Survivors include two sons,
Clinton of Hereford and Billy
Bob of Salt Ijke City, Utah:
four daughters, Mrs. Robbie
Seed of Hereford, Mrs. Em-
ma I-ong and Mrs. Edith
Hicks, both of Austin, and
Mrs. Naomi Tucker of
Killeen; two sisters, Mrs
Atnye Ritter and Mrs.
Mayme Cavin, both of
Amarillo; 19 grandchildren;
46 great-grandchildren: and
six great-great-
grandchildren.
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no comment.
Last June, the Soviet Union
accteed the United States of
supplying the Afghan rebels
with arms. The United States
denied it was aiding the
rebels.
Rioters rampaged through
the streets of Kabul Monday,
and Western diplomatic
sources said the protesters
were Afghan policeman
angered over the non-
voluntary extension of their
two-year period of service.
The informants said about
40 uniformed policemen beat
an unpopular view AU of us
have heard so many horror
stones about prisons that, im-
agining ourselves or our lov-
ed ones in such a situation, we
have recoiled in terror.
We all know there
something wrong There is
too much violence
Vet the best option the New
York Times has had to sug-
gest recently is that, since so
many New Yorkers have had
gold neck chains jerked off
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Charlene Brownlow
DALIAS (AP) - Former
FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover, incensed over in-
sinuations of an agency
cover-up, directed a vendetta
against the Dallas Police
Department after President
John F. Kennedy was
assassinated here, a Dallas
newspaper said today.
The Dallas Morning News
quoted FBI documents ob-
tained under the Freedom of
Information Act as saying
Hoover ordered his agents to
stop teaching at the Dallas
Police Academy and refused
to invite Dallas officers to the
FBI National Academy in
Washington for more than
two years after the assassina-
tion.
But only months after
Police Chief Jesse Curry
resigned in 1966, the
newspaper said. FBI agents
returned to the Dallas
academy and a Dallas officer
was invited to the FBI school.
Curry said his blood
pressure increased as a
result of “the continued
pressures and tensions of the
offfice" when he resigned. He
died of heart problems last
June 22.
In 1964 and 1965 Hoover in-
structed Dallas FBI agent-in-
charge J. Gordon Shanklin to
• tell Curry his agents “just
. don't have the manpower to
take on additional training
commitments at this time,”
Complete Course
Herman Benavidez, deputy
for Deaf Smith County-
Sheriff's Department, was
named Salutatorian of the re-
cent graduating class of the
Amarillo Police Academy
Benavidez completed the
two-month course with a 92.5
grade average.
Roy Trahan, also a deputy
A Western diplomatic
source in Islamabad,
Pakistan said the only public
ceremony in Kabul marking
the anniversary was a speech
by President Babrak Kar-
mal. He said a call by
Moslem insurgents for a
general strike in the capital
Saturday was largely ig-
nored.
spleen has given researchers
new perspective into the
body’s defense against
cancer and could alter
methods of combating the
dread disease.
Dr. Jerry Niederkorn, a
University of Texas Health
Science Center im-
munologist, said two recent
studies indicated removing a
cancerous eye could foster
the disease’s spread
throughout the body while
removing the spleen could
kill the disease entirely.
_________ r "It’s too early to say, ‘Let’s
up their officer and then at- change our treatments,' but
tacked passing vehicles and
shattered windows of the
Ministry of Information and
z
Reported to Police
told police that someone had
stolen a wire hubcap from her
car Value was set at $68
A roll of 35-inch-wide hog
wire was taken from the
truck bed of Mike Brumley.
Route 5.
Several acts bf vandalism
were reported to police over
the weekend Kenny Gearn
Machine Works reported $30
damage from a mailbox that
had been knocked down, and
several mailboxes and other
debris were deposited on the
yard of the Tierra Blanca
school on Sunday.
Randy McDonald. 800
Union, reported that someone
smashed the left headlight of
his car Sunday evening caus-
ing about $60 in damages
The State Department of
Highways and Public
Transportation. N Hwy 385
reported damges to road
signs Sunday
Police answered 32 calls,
issued 23 traffic citations,
made two driving while intox-
icated arrets, arrested five
persons on charges related to
about comments by several
Senate members toward pro-
grams such as affirmative
action, billingual education
and extension of the voting
rights bill.
Bonilla charged such
“regressive political
rhetoric" threatened to
obliterate advances made by
Researchers injected
laboratory animals with a
begins with development of a virus that causes eye cancer,
small black tumor on the sur-
face of the eyeball. When the
tumor enlarges it can push
the eye out of the socket.
“It’s not a very attractive
sight and can cause some
serious problems if not
detected early," said
Niederkorn.
Niederkorn is working with
scientists from Harvard and
the University of Illinois in
studying the development
the News quoted FBI
documents as saying.
The boycott was triggered
by a statement attributed to
FBI agent James P. Hosty Jr.
by Dallas police Lt. Jack
Revill the day of the
assassination, FBI memos
show.
Revill, now assistant chief,
said at the time that Hosty
told him the FBI knew before
the assassination that Lee
Harvey Oswald was "capable
of committing the assassina-
tion of President Kennedy."
Hosty, however, denied mak-
ing the statement.
The next day, Curry said on
television the FBI wanted to
cover up information that it
was aware of Oswald's
presence in Dallas and had
not notified police. He
retracted the statement after
Shanklin challenged him to
prove it.
Later in 1964, Curry wrote
Shanklin a letter stating that
no FBI source "ever asked
me to cover up' the fact that
the FBI knew l«e Harvey
Oswald was in Dallas" before
the assassination.
On April 28, however,
Hoover wrote Shanklin that
he "and personnel of your of-
fice are to deal at arm’s
length with Dallas Police
Department personnel. We
will not extend training
assistance, nor will we accept
candidates from that depart-
Three ' short-change"
cases were reported to police
Sunday and Monday involv-
ing about $95
Police report that two black
males were suspects in all of
the cases, and an arrest was
pending
Taco Villa. 1200 W Hwy 60.
Mr Burger West, 812 W
Park, and Westside Shell.
Hwy 385 and W Hwy 60.
reported losses of $50. $20 and
$25 respectively
A burglary Monday night at
Shirley School, 239 Ave H,
netted 122 candy bars and an
undetermined amount of soft
drinks for the burglar A
broken back window was the
entry point Police said they
had no suspects
Several thefts were
reported to police Monday
Mack Berryman, 239
Beach, said his car radio
valued at $150 was stolen
from his vehicle which was
parked at the Family medical
Clinic.
Benino Rios. 602 Blevins,
reported that two Western
Flyer bicycles, valued at $85. the consumption of alcoholic
and *95 respectiely were
stolen from his home
Patti Duncan. 213 Higgins.
By The Associated Press
With only three days of rest, Texas
highway patrolmen must return to in-
tensive patrols of state roads Wednes-
day as Texans hit the highways again
for the New Year’s holiday
The traffic death toll for the
102-hour Christmas holiday period
was 51, as compiled by the Depart-
ment of Public Safety and The
Associated Press. The deaths —
seven fewer than the DPS had
predicted — came in 41 separate ac-
cidents between 6 p.m. Wednesday
and midnight Sunday.
But another holiday driving period
begins New Year’s Eve.
We will have every available
trooper out on the job, trying to help
local law enforcement agents take the
drunks and reckless drivers off the ci-
ty streets and highways,” DPS
spokesman Richard Grimmett in
Austin said Monday.
"I^ast year,” he added, "we set an
all-time record for traffic fatalities in
Texas when 4,229 people died. During
the first 11 months of this year, we
have been running 3 to 4 percent
ahead of the same period last year.”
Fourteen of the fatal Christmas ac-
cidents involved only one vehicle,
Grimmett said.
"There is no state law requiring a
blood test so we don't know how many
of those accidents were alcohol-
related,” Grimmett said. “But we
believe that drinking and speeding
were the two major causes of the fatal
accidents over the Christmas
holidays."
In addition, seven pedestrians were
struck and killed, and one bicyclist
died. A woman was killed when a
freight train hit her car at a crossing,
and a state trooper died during a high-
speed chase.
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ming two sections which - at *800 an acre (current value i-
means he has about *1,924,000 invested in real estate."
. Sears added that “he's probably operating with around
*200,000 worth of machinery and. while he won’t put every
' acre into crops each year, he’ll have around *225,000 in
operating expenses.”
The article outlines the agribusiness composition of the
’. area, explaining the feedlot and vegetable operations It goes
on to report that "most of the population since 1960 is new,
virtually all of it has turned over since 1940, when there were
; only 2,500 inhabitants."
, The story quotes Sheriff Travis McPherson, a 17-year
• resident, as saying “there are not a lol of oldtimers here
. now.” The author also points out that McPherson “shatters
one's cowboy image of a Panhandle sheriff."
• The article also touches on the large number of Hispanics
in the population and how media attention was drawn to
' Hereford with the arrival of the Texas Rural legal Aid
•. (TRALI office.
But. unlike many liberal-oriented articles, this one does not
’ attempt to stir up a racial controversy Instead, it reports the
; problems that exist and suggests that "the two sides have
butted heads often enough to realize they both are working
• toward what may be the only homogeneous goal in Hereford:
; Betterment of the agricultural community."
n
Tass attributed the riots to "a
certain number of mercenary
criminals and subversive
elements, dressed in Afghan
military uniforms."
No injuries were reported
in the riots. Tass said militia
and security forces took "ac-
tive and timely measures" to
break up the riots and detain
those responsible. It gave no
figures for arrests.
Western intelligence
sources have reported
massive defections from the
Afghan army, which has been
fighting anti-communist
Moslem rebels with the help
of an estimated 85,000 Soviet
troops.
Somewhere between
forgiveness and the firing
squad is a way to make our
decrepit criminal justice
system effective again I
don't know what it is, but it s
time to listen to some dif-
ferent points of view
All the demonstrators were
arrested by Afghan riot
police after Soviet and
Afghan security forces sealed
off the area, ending the inci-
dent which began about 10:30
a.m. and lasted about two
hours, they said. Military
helicopter gunships passed
low over the area and most
stores in the business center
remained closed for the day.
The Soviet news agency
Spleen May Be Key
To Cancer Treatment
Military Adviser Shot
Culture and stores, including
the Soviet bookshop. Several
private cars and two jeeps,
possibly belonging to the
Soviet occupation forces,
were damaged.
removed the stricken eye
from half the animals and
gave no treatment to the
other half.
Niederkorn said 93 percent
of the animals that had the
surgery developed cancer
elsewhere in their bodies,
while only 33 percent of those
that escaped the scalpel con-
tracted cancer in other parts
of the body.
____ He said in almost all cases
and treatment of eye cancer here the spleen was removed
in laboratory animals. from the animals, the disease
"The eye is a great organ to did not spread.
study. You can watch exactly
what's happening.” he said.
"And what's happening is
very exciting.”
We.are likely to respond to
frustration with anger
From mourners for the late
John I-ennon I am hearing
angry demands for gun con-
trol.
New York City boasts "the
toughest gun control law in
the nation."
But that did not prevent
this.
Such is the backlash from
recent senseless murders
that I hear from one district
attorney that perhaps our ter-
rible prisons are not terrible
enough'.
Houston: A federal judge
calls Texas prisons places of
misery, degradation and
pain
Chicago: The Illinois prison
population outnumbers
prison beds
Miami: Jails are jammed
with an influx of Cubans;
there are mattresses in cor-
ridors.
Yet inevitably aware of the
conditions in our prisons and
jails - drugs, bestiality,
homosexuality, sadism and
murder — Shreveport, Loui-
siana's Dist Atty Paul Car-
tnouche says it could be that
jails are not bad enough:
They don't seem to scare
people any more."
The DA says more and
more prosecutors are seeing
the same faces in court per-
sons with two and three and
more burglary convictions on
their records Many are will-
ing to go to jail because "life
behind bars is more comfor-
table than what they're ac-
customed to outside
I queried some Ixiuisiana
lawmen for their reaction to
the DA's remarks
They believe he's right
They remember when Loui-
siana's Angola State Prison
used to be self-sustaining -
with inmates producing
sugar cane. produce, so forth
Now. say the more cynical,
"inmates in Angola play
sports, get furloughs home,
enjoy TV. or sit around and
smoke pot.”
With little or no barbed
wire, it's more like a hospital
ward than a prison
Compared to life in a ghetto
or barrio, 18 months in a
"country-club prison" is a
piece of cake!
When the slum kid is fed.
clothed and comforted more
in jail thanout. confinement is
not the deterrent it used to be
They and I are aware this is
FBI Vendetta Against Dallas
Police Department Alleged
ment to the (FBI) National
Academy.”
On Jan. 19, 1966, Hoover
wrote Shanklin, Dallas
Mayor Erik Jonsson visited
his office and “asked to
discuss the serious breach
between this bureau and the
Dallas Police Department, if
one exists.”
"I informed Mayor Jonsson
that a breach in relations
with Chief of Police Curry
and his department does ex-
ist," Hoover wrote. "I made
it perfectly clear actions and
statements by Chief Curry
and some of his personnel
with respect to the bureau
clearly indicated they are in-
competent, blabbermouths
and, in some instances,
liars."
Hoover said Jonsson
assured him he would “lay
down certain guidelines
under which Curry will be ex-
pected to operate,” including
“orders that Curry shall be
certain of his facts in any
statements made, establish
tight discipline in his depart-
ment and be circumspect in
his remarks to the press.”
He said training assistance
would resume if the demands
were met within two weeks.
Jonsson said recently he
recalls meeting with Hoover,
but he did not remember
“any comment about Curry
or the Dallas Police Depart-
ment."
When it was announced
that Charles Batchelor would
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