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Denton Record- Chronicle
75TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE -- NO. 281
DENTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 28, 1978
40 Pages in 6 Sections
Bakke:
High court
rules school
discriminated
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme
Court today ordered a California
medical school to admit Allan Bakke,
deciding that the school had illegally
discriminated against him because he
is white.
The court, in a splintered decision
at yielded six separate opinions,
.•uled that the University of California 's
medical school at Davis is not barred
from taking race into account in a
future admissions program.
15 Cents
udge denies
bond reduction
for McCrory
By NITA THURMAN
Regional Editor
John William McCrory remains in the
"Did your son tell you he killed that
girl?”
"No, he did not,” Mrs. Smith an-
swered sharply, while Wood was still
raising objections to the questions.
Scofield overruled the objections on
county jail in lieu of $150,000 bond on the
capital charge of murdering Jeana
Melissa Walker Judge Bob Scofield . --------
denied a motion to reduce bond grounds the testimony would “go to the
yesterday and overruled motions to
Bakke successfully sued the
university after his application to the
university's medical school at Davis
was rejected in 1973 and 1974
He charged that the medical school ’s
special admissions program which
reserved 10 of the 100 openings in each
entering class for "disadvantaged"
students was really only an imper-
missible racial quota
Under it, Bakke charged, less
academically qualified blacks,
Hispanics and Asian-Americans were
admitted ahead of him
Bakke, a 38-year-old civil engineer
who lives in Sunnyvale, Calif., and
works for the nation's space agency at
the Ames Research Center in nearby
Palo Alto, never had to prove that be
would have been admitted if the school
had not had a special admissions pro-
gram
The university conceded that it could
not prove Bakke would have been ex-
cluded if the program had not existed.
A state trial court ruled that the
special admissions program violated
the Constitution’s guarantee of equal
protection and also the portion of the
Civil Rights Act of 1904 that outlaws
racial discrimination by institutions
receiving federal funds.
The California Supreme Court upheld
the trial court's ruling in favor of Bakke
on the constitutional grounds only,
choosing to ignore the federal law
question
Bakke’s vigil has not been a lonely
one The ruling was anxiously awaited
by civil rights leaders and con-
stitutional scholars who claimed it
■ quash the indictment.
9 That indictment was superseded.
I however, by a new indictment returned
■ , by a special session of the grand jury
1 called in at 6 p m yesterday.
McCrory is charged with raping and
strangling the 17-year-old Lewisville
High School Junior June 2.
The only change in the new in-
dictment is that he is accused in a
second count of strangling her with a
belt, according to County-Distritt
Attorney Jerry Cobb, while the
previous indictment cited strangling by
means unknown.
The new true bill also includes a prior.
conviction against the defendant for a
June 8, 1973, burglary in Denton
County.
Scofield denied the bond reduction
and overruled the motions to quash the
indictment filed by court appointed
defense attorney Bill Wood in a hearing
yesterday morning.
Wood claimed the grand jury com-
mission that selected the prospective
grand Jurors acted without legal
authority, because one of the five-
credibility of the witness." The next
question concerned Mrs. Smith's
written statement that she had been on
FM 407 with her son the night of Miss
Walker's death.
could be the court’s most important
edict on race relations since
segregation was outlawed 24 years ago
At stake, they said, might be the
future note racial minorities play in
American society as well as billions of
dollars worth of programs in govern
ment, education and private business
aimed at making up for past injustices
Bakke s case, one of the most
publicized ever to reach the nation’s
highest court, began in 1*74 when he
sued the University of California
Rejected as an applicant to the
university's medical school at Davis in
1973 and 1*74. Bakke charged that he
had been turned down solely because he
is white
John McCrory, right; his mother, Mrs. Travis Smith; and L Jim Neal of the sherir, .: ST" PNOT * JIM MAHONEY
ter McCrory’s bond was upheld at $150,000 on a capital murder charge. ***** of-
person commission was absent when
the selection was made, and that the
grand jury later selected was not
legally impaneled.
In one of the few surprise moves at
the hearing, Mrs. Travis Smith, mother
of the defendant, underwent some
sharp questioning from Cobb, who told
the court his questions could lead to
Mrs Smith being taken before a grand
jury on an accusation of perjury
In cross examination of the witness,
Cobb asked her, in relation to
statements she made to the sheriff.
"I was not there with him,” Mrs
Smith told Cobb in response to his
question about the truth of that
statement.
According to testimony given earlier
at McCrory's arraignment, Mrs. Smith
said in the statement that she and John
saw Miss Walker's stalled car but saw
no one around it. McCrory looked under
the hood of the vehicle and touched it in
several places, possibly leaving
fingerprints, she said in the statement.
Mrs. Smith was initially called by
Wood as a witness to testify that
McCrory has no money to raise the
$150,000 bond, but that she and her
husband could possibly post a $5,000
bond.
Wood contended in his motion that the
$150,000 bond is “grossly excessive"
and was ordered to avoid a hearing in
which evidence would have to be
submitted to uphold the capital charge
against the defendant
Cobb, chief felony prosecutor Fred
Marsh, and Scofield, all called by
Wood, testified that there had been no
discussion between the prosecutor and
the court of any “considerations
regarding the bail "
The judge approved one motion by
Wood asking for authorization to hire
an investigator and expert witnesses
Wood announced he will appeal the
ruling denying a reduction in bond In
apparent anticipation of the new
indictment, he also Mid he would refile
his motions contesting the grand jury
1MYA bond attorneys voice optimism
By MIKE CINELLI Still on the front burner of the TMIPA • A
stove is settlement of the Grime^
County Taxpayers Association suit
against TMPA
Staff Writer
Bond attorneys representing the
Texas Municipal Power Agency paid a
visit to Denton yesterday afternoon and
left behind the impression that set-
tlement of the agency’s litigation
problems could be close at hand
On top of the visit, word from TMPA
beadquarters in Arlington is that
tomorrow’s 9 a.m board meeting could
be "extremely important to the future
of the agency.".
the issue with the Grimes County
taxpayers concerned up front money,
and when it would be paid to the tax-
good afternoon
Inside today
Clifton Duone Sosbee was indicted yesterday for capital murder in the
shooting death of Motthew Roberts whose body was found June 21
near on Interstate 39 service rood in Lewisville. An indictment was
also returned charging Sosbee and another man with the April 8 at
tempted hold-up of a gas station. Page Page 2A
Improvements continue at Denton municipal airport the runway is
being extended and a new lighting system is expected to be com
pleted in approximately two weeks Page 5A
Today’s tip:
The North Texas State University summer concert band will present its
annual outdoor concert at 8 pm tonight at the Civic Center swimming
pool Directed by Dr Robert Winslow, the concert bond will perform
some old favorites some novelty works and some modern classical
selections
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Horoscope
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Notepad
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Sunny
102 B DENTON A ND High last
1-6E VICINITY — Clear * Low last year
ac partly cloudy and The sun sets today at
continued hot through •« n rises tomorrow
4C fomerrow Highs M the al 6:28.
4A upper 90s; low tonight
a * RAINFALL
P Last 24 hours 0
6A WEATHER REPORT Total for month •
3.4B Low today 77 Total for year 19.17
High yesterday 9 Normal for month 3.03
Low yesterday 77 Last year to date 17.48
MB
Last week it appeared the two parties
had a settlement readied for an
nouncement, but it never materialized
instead, attorneys for the association
and TMPA went back to the bargaining
table to iron out what one TMPA official
Mid was "a minor point ”
Bob Murphy, acting public relations
director for the agency Mid Tuesday
| Matamoros
i calms down
after rioting
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) -
Minor skirmishes dotted the streets
here early Wednesday as helmeted
soldiers, posted on street corners and
patrolling in trucks, restored an uneasy
quiet in this border city
Officials Mid three persons were
killed and $0 others injured during four
hours of violence Monday night Two
teenagers were gunned down as
swarms of students mobbed the town
plate protesting the alleged beating
death last week of a 15-year-old student
who had been in police custody
Three Matamoros police officers
have been jailed in connection with the
incident, but the students dragged
Mayor Antonio Cavazos Garza into the
plaza and demanded that Police Chief
Emiliano Del Toro also be fired
Del Toro submitted his resignation
Tuesday morning but city officals
refused to accept it instead, they
agreed to suspend Del Toro pending the
outcome of an investigation by State
General Attorney Even Garza
payers of the county
"They would like payment im-
mediately," Murphy Mid “But the
board is concerned with having the
payment of the money tied into the
ability to finance it along with the bond
payment period "
One of Demon s representatives on
the TMPA board. Bill Nash. Mid he is
becoming more concerned as the days
pass about the problems confronting
TMPA
"I want someone to tell us just where
we stand." Nash Mid "I get the idea
that board members are totally un-
aware of the predicament they are in.
" At meetings they just sit and hassle
among themselves We need to get
someone on the board who's interested
in accomplishing something, and who is
willing to spend the time it takes to do
It "
After meeting with Nash and Elinor
Hughes, Denton's other representative
on the TMPA Board, TMPA bond at
torneys left behind a bond prospectus
calling for $250,000,000 worth of bonds to
be placed on the market July 1, 1978.
"All they did at the meeting thia
afternoon," Nash explained, “was to
advise us on what effect the settlement
of the lawsuit would have on the sale of
bonds, and what it would coat the
agency to have the front end money for
the Grimes County taxpayers tied in
with the bond payment period ”
+
1 4€ Weather outlook
SA
_, Thursday , Hot
_ . - Funeral Friday Hot
Home Phoms 382-2214 and 387- Saturday Hot
6300.Sunday Hot
75
78-100
78-99
Mascorro into the student s death
Neither Garza or Del Torn could be
reached for comment late Tuesday
A third death was reported from
Monday night's violence when officials
discovered charred remains in a
judge’s office in the city jail building
U.S Consul Francis Arenz said he
talked with eight U.S citizens who are
being held in the jail The Americans
reported they were unharmed but said
A - Ate__a a- UPi Telephoto
11 dier stands guard in Matamoros, Mexico, after a riot was quelled in this border town Monday night. City Hall
pobsrintetienaard were **t ofire by student protestors angered by the alleged police beating of a 15-year-old
jail guards panicked and fired
haphazardly when the turmoil began
Monday night
Jail official Antonio Perez Trevino
said 10 prisoners escaped and four were
injured during the fracas
‘It’s Matamoros turn to catch hell,”
Arenz said, referring to recent similar
violence in other northern Mexican
towns
A spokesman for Tamaulipas Gov
Enrique Cardenas Gonzales Mid the
show of military force, combined with
the suspension of Del Toro, apparently
calmed the agitated students
Local union members called for a
general strike Tuesday to show support
for the city administration Some stores
were closed but it was business as usual
in sections of town popular with
American tourists.
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