Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 270, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 1977 Page: 1 of 26
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Brownwood Bulletin
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Reluctant witness to
face Korean probers
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forecasts indicate the next major chance for precipitation is five
days away.
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Conditions at Rusk hospital
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THURSDAY
Al-Anon meeting
slated Saturday
Students preparing
for opening bell
CLOUDY—Storms brewing in the skies around Brownwood
Wednesday lent an air of drama to the sunset However, none of
the storms brought any rain to the Pecan City and weather
GOOD
AFTERNOON
RUSK — A former nurse
and her husband tell of bad
conditions at Rusk State
Hospital, which fired them
earlier this summer.
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partially nude male friend.
Prosecutors blocked the post-
eraize photo from admisslon as
evidence but the defene in-
dicated it would renew its ef-
forts later to get it to the fn.
Although not visibly disturbed
by the photo, Mrs. Davis broke
into tears during the clostng
moments of testimony as she
recalled events leading up to
her brush with death.
The event to being sponsored
by the Browntowner AlAnon
Family Group. Al grim who
are interested or who have a
problem with alcoholam in
their homes are urged to attend
Junior high and elementary-opened
their doors for registration today. The
only registration Wednesday was for
10th grade students at Brownwood
High.
At BHS registration to continuing in
the auditorium. Seniors register this
afternoon from 1 to 3 p.m. while 11th
graders registered this morning.
Approximately 100 persons
are expected Saturday for the
District 7 meeting of Al-Anon
Family Group workshop to be
held at 205 North Flak from 1 to
5 p.m.
Today marks the busiest day in the
fall registration schedule for Brown-
wood public schools.
Elsewhere, students in De Leon,
Richland Springs and Rochelle schools
returned to the classrooms today while
classes for students in Cherokee and
Santa Anna begin Friday.
Classes in 11 other area schools begin
killed her lover Stan Farr in a
midnight ambush last August at
the Davis mansion in Fort
Worth.
However, Davis is on trial
only for the slaying of Mrs.
Davis' daughter Andrea, 12,
whose body was found lying in a
basement utility room.
Haynes took the state's star
witness through a day-long ex-
amination Wednesday of her
friends, acquaintances, lovers,
lifestyle and her previous testi-
mony.
He touched on topics ranging
from drugs to gum and set off a
flurry of courtroom excitement
when he produced a color
photograph of Mrs. Davis with a
AMARIUjO, Tex. (AP) -
Sometimes tearful but not wa-
vering, Priscilla Davis faced a
new round of vigorous cross ex-
amination today In the capital
murder trial of her estranged
husband, Cullen.
The shapely blonde witness
for the prosecution was making
her fourth appearance in as
many daye and all things point-
ed to the stormiest con-
frontation to date.
Her adversary: Richard
"Racehorse" Haynes, the most
flamboyant of the crack Davis
defense team.
Mrs. Davis has repeatedly
named Davis, 43, as the gunman
in black who wounded her and
At BJHS. eighth grade students
register from 1:30 to 4 p.m. today in the
cafetorium while ninth graders register
from 0 a m until noon Friday. Thia
morning at BJHS seventh graders
registered.
Elementary school students continue
registration in their respective
buildings. Students in the fourth, Mb
and sixth grades register from 1 to 4
p.m today while the younger clames
registered this morning.
Big Flame students and those in the
Early Childhood classes registered this
morning.
All Brownwood Public schools will
open their doors Monday for the tall
semester. Teachers have be* at-
tending In-service programs since
Monday.
She steadfastly maintained
that Davis was ths man in
black, wearing a shoulder
length woman’s wig, who
stepped from e stainrail, said
"Hi* and shot her in the chest
Dinner will be served at the
same location with an open
meeting scheduled for 7 p.m.
Speaker will be an alateen, an
al-anon and a member of
Alcoholics Annonymous.
meeting today with Com-
munist party Chairman Hua
Kuo-feng caps Secretary of
State Cyrus R. Vance's four-
day visit to Peking.
the home was "living hell.”
“The ones who were out of
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
Former Watergate special
prosecutor Leon Jaworski
says lawmakers have a
strategy for obtaining the
testimony of Tongsun Park,
the central figure in an
alleged South Korean in-
fluence-peddling scheme in
Congress.
some five months he spent at said five men
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AMARILLO — Sometimes
tearful but not wavering,
Priscilla Davis faces a new
round of vigorous cross
examination today in the
capital murder trial of her
estranged husband, Cullen.
used a single gal- and made them start hitting
toilet each other. He made them
No registration iw I,
required. For further in-
formatton those Interested may
contact 648-8828,
WHARTON, Tex. (AP) - An
Air Force veteran who was
among 13 persons found in an
unlicensed "rest home" in a ru-
ral area near here says the
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their heads were the lucky of Van Nuys, Calif., was being were all crying and asking him
ones," said Larry Ukkestal,31. held in the Wharton County Jail to stop.”
Speaking from his room at the on 12 counts of false imprison- Ukkestal, an Air Force veter-
Veterans Administration ment. Bond was set at 360,000 an released on partial dis-
Hospital at nearby Houston Authorities sought Lillian Go- ability, said the Journey to
Wednesday, told of filth, short- bert, 35, also of Van Nuys, who Spanish Camp began last April
age of food, confinement and is charged with seven counts of at another rest home operated
abuse at the hands of keepers false imprisonment by a woman in Van Nuys.
while at the home which inves- Kemp said the patients were "She came in one day and
tigators claim was really a held prisoner in the home while said she had to shut down
. prison for mentally disabled Mrs Gobert administered their quick,” he said "She gave
persons disability and pension checks, some of us tranqullizers and
Jack Kemp, an investigator. “I know about those guys packed eight of us in a camper,
said the 13 patients were at the locked in the garage, too," said We went all night and day and
rural three bedroom home in Ukkestal. "They never got to the next night we got to Spanish
the Spanish Camp community wash or shave. They all had bad camp.”
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Park Thomson, the retactant Tongsun Park despite his raw '
witness in the House investiga- not to cooperate. Her lawver said she was involved nothune nauoom
tion of alleged South Korean at- Jaworski called Part's testi- asked whether she knows of interest
tempted influence-buying, ar- mony "highly significant" and "payotfs" by Park orformer The Horae committee and the
rived on Capitol Hill today, re- said the committee has a South Korean ambassador Kim Justice Department are to-
portedly ready to begin answer- strategy-which he reused to Dong Jo to members of Ora- vestigating whether cash caw-
ing questions. spell out — to get IL green plus what she knows of a tributions,gifs and tavors Park
The former secretary to re- But Jaworski, the former Wa- 1975 congressional tip to and other Koreans gave
tired House Speaker Carl Albert tergate special prosecutor, Korea. ’ UA congresamen were part of
planned to meet in a closed-door added, "I don't belleve his too- Ma Thomson gave parties at- a scheme to buy infhuence In
session with investigators for timony is something that is el- tended by congressmen and Ko- Congress for the South Korean
the House Ethics Committee in ther going to make cases or to rean officials and ted an affair government
an attempt to head off a con- fatal to cases." with one congressman then un- _ . .. .. ____ , _
tempt of Congress citation, her Ms. Thomson tea said she der investigtioninconnecton *' a
lawyer said knows nothing about any wih the alleged influence-buy- enee In Seoul on Wednendey
She appeared with her lawyer scheme to buy congressional tn- ing tathe."oudunotcooprrat
and a young woman described fluence with any American inveotlgo-
as her niece. She ted no com- The committee's investiga- But she has denied any in- tor, including Jaworski.
ment but her lawyer said she
might talk to reporters later.
Investigators had sought to /
question her earlier, but she in-
sisted on answering the com-
mittee's questions only in pub-
lic, saying she feared secret
testimony would be distorted
against her.
Sources said the committee
held off deciding on a cotempt
action Wednesday after the
lawyer, Phillip Hirshkop, prom-
ised that Ms. Thomson would
answer all questions about the
Edwin T. Cooke, was "red. the three former employes have Mrs. Cooke told of a patient BROWNWOOD AREA-
Another physiciafQ. >es been rescheduled for next who had voluntarily committed Clear to partly cloudy and
O’Hara, was also disn%D. He month at the request of the himself but was unable to leave warm through Friday with
claims it was because he was trio’s attorney. when he wanted. She said the high temperatures near 100,
friendly with the Cookes. Mrs. Cooke said the "goon patient wrote a letter request- overnight low in the mid-70s.
The trio’s allegations include squads' or “bully boys,” as ing discharge but it was de- High Wednesday 96 ( 37C),
stroyed by staff persons. low this morning 71 (23C).
"When a person admits him- Sunset today at 8:10 pm
. । self or herself, anytime after sunrise Friday 7:06 a.m.
Bell secretary says quest to be discharged and the
Gravitt tried advances xkSS? Another stormy day for Mrs. Davis
others and then the doctors at • •
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) — tion into alleged sexual miscon- the hospital have to begin
A former Southwestern Bell duct by Bell officials. commitment proceedings, ” the
secretary testified today that Mrs. Hughes said toe incident said 5”’
the late T. O. Gravitt made occurred when she and Gravitt D Cooke said conditions at
sexual advances toward her had a drink at the San Antonio the hospital were “shocking.”
when he invited her to his San airport. She said Gravitt later 5 just didn’t believe condi-
Antonio apartment. took her to his apartment and tions such as this could exist in
The testimony was offered by the two sat on the couch for a the 20th centurv » Dr Cooke
Norma “Toby) Hughes, now while and Gravitt “kissed me said..
employed by Mountain Bell in several times” before inviting At his press conference, Dr.
Albuquerque. She testified for her to see the bedroom Shelton said proper investiga-
the defense in the $29 million Gravitt sat on the bed and in- tions had been conducted when
damage suit filed by Gravitt’s vited her to sit down saying: abuses were reported and em-
family and dismissed South- "Come on, let’s try it ouL" ployes have been discharged,
western Bell executive James She put her arm up to block The superintendent also gave
HaAshey: atm, qmayit his advance, she said. specific denials to allegations
The suit claims that Gravitt concerning lack of doctors at
was hounded to suicide and She said she later told a Bell the hospital and missing or
Ashley dismissed wrongfully security agent about the in- mishandled narcotics,
following an internal investiga- cident.
He said some of toe patients and all.
were found locked in a garage “One day those guys started
without sanitary facilities He fussing and the man came in
Brownwood, Texes 76801 Eighteen Poges Today Two Sections
described as 'shocking'
RUSK, Tex. (AP) — Some tales of abuses at the facility they are known at the facility,
next week.
All Brownwood schoois-highachool.
patients are held in solitary including mishandled drugs, 11- are encouraged to discipline alleged influence-buying,
confinement without doctor's legal confinement of patients, fellow patients. But Hirshkop said Ms. Thorn-
orders for up to 18 days at the understaffing and "dehumantz- Dr. Cooke said, “It’s simple, son did not intend to answer
Rusk State Hospital, according ing” procedures. toe staff knows that they cannot questions about her personal
to a former nurse who claims Dr. Robert Shelton, superin- strike a patient, but it causes no ife.
she was fired after trying to re- tendent at the hospital, denied problems if another patient In another development, spe-
port incidents of patient abuse, the allegations in a Tuesday does." cial committee counsel Leon
Mary Cooke, who was fired in news conference. He also said a Dr. O’Hara said since he ar-
June, also said this week that Department of Mental Health rived at the hospital in October
patients at the East Texas fa- and Mental Retardation lawyer 1975 14 doctors have left — in
cility are organized into “goon in Austin advised him not to eluding seven psychiatrists. He
squads" to discipline fellow state why Mrs. Cooke had been said they were “pushed out” or 0.%o).
patients. fired. “Just got fed up” with condi- V VVE4/4c4
Mrs. Cooke’s husband. Dr. Hearings set for this week for tions at the 950 patient hospital. • ” “
WHARTON - Deputy
sheriff says conditions at a
“rest home" raided by
authorities near Wharton
made him sick when he first
inspected the home.
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