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J udicial commission to hear jurors
By NITA THURMAN
Associate Editor
A group of former Denton County
grand jurors still contesting a judicial
gag order will leave early Monday
morning for Austin for a 1 p.m.
meeting with the Texas Commission
on Judicial Conduct.
Dr. Jim Danielson, who was
foreman of the grand jury that was
disbanded in June when 151th District
Judge Bob Scofield prohibited its
planned public report on county
government, said Saturday the
group will include “five to seven, plus
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attorneys.”
The group will leave early,
Danielson said, "and we are an-
ticipating a long, full and arduous day
... I have no idea how long something
like that will last.”
At a press conference Thursday, the
former grand jurors said they would
appear before the commission to
discuss issues surrounding their
controversial legal battles against the
gag order, but Danielson declined
Saturday morning to comment on any
specific information that will be
submitted to the commission Monday.
Following that press conference, the District Court. -
former members of the panel ap- According to Lon Darley, attorney
peared at the Carroll Courts Building * for the former grand jurors, motions
were under consideration Friday to
attempt to remove Cobb as a defen
to testify before a current grand jury,
precipitating a series of legal
maneuvers that resulted ip the ap-
pointment of Robert H. Caldwell as a
special prosecutor to work with the
group. That action came after the
former jurors asked that District
Attorney Jerry Cobb be removed from
the grand jury room during their
testimony, primarily on grounds that
he has been named as a defendant in
the federal petition now on file in U.S.
dant in the federal lawsuit.
Darley said he was notified by at-
torney George Preston that motions
on behalf of Cobb were being
prepared, asking he be freed from the
federal suit on grounds operations of
his office were being hampered by the
litigation and also because immunity
granted the grand jurors and
dismissal of contempt charges
against them would prevent their
prosecution.
Initial plans were moving toward an
emergency hearing Friday afternoon,
Darley said, but he was later notified
that the federal judge could not bear
the motion until at least 4 p.m.
Tuesday.
, Neither Preston nor Cobb was
available for comment Saturday.
The former grand jurors filed the later dismissed the federal lawsuit,
initial federal petition in August ruling that state legal recourses must
charging the judicial gag order first be sought, but ordered a ruling
violated their First Amendment See GRAND JURY. Page 2A
constitutional guarantees.
The 12 persons were later named in
petitions charging them with contenpt
of court on grounds information
released publicly in the federal
petition violated the order issued by
Scofield. The contempt petitions were
filed by three county commissioners.
Bill Switzer, C.R. “Happy” Salmon,
and Chester Sparks.
U.S. District Judge William Justice
Conned into riding
Park death has
12,000 soldiers
guarding Seoul
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The
South Korean government appealed
for calm Saturday and stationed more
than 12,000 soldiers at key points
throughout Seoul jo guard a capital
shaken by the slaying of President
Park Chung-hee and uncertain of the
immediate future.
As officials paid their respects at
the closed coffin holding Park’s bullet-
riddled body, the Korean people were
still unsure of just how or why their 62-
year-old strongman president was
shot to death Friday night.
The government said he was shot by
Korean Central Intelligence Agency
chief Kim Jae-kyu when Kim began
firing a pistol during a heated argu-
ment at' dinner. Park’s chief
1 bodyguard and four other security
men were also killed.
The government said the
president’s death was an accident, but
rumors and speculation were ram-
pant Saturday that the killings were
, part of an assassination plot. In
I Washington, U.S. officials said
Staff photo by Steve Castleberry
It started 48 years ago as a yearly form of entertainment for prisoners Sundays in October. On Page 6A of today’s Record-Chronicle, award-
throughout the penal system, but today the Texas Prison Rodeo at winning journalist Steve Castleberry takes an inside look at the ex-
Huntsville plays to tens of thousands of spectators for each of the four travaganza with a special photo essay, "Eight Seconds of Freedom.”
without an obvious successor to the
man" who ruled with an iron fist for
more than 18 years.
An estimated full division of 12,000
to 15,000 soldiers guarded the capital
and thousands of troops were posted
in other major cities across the
country.
Prime Minister Choi Kyuhah, 60,
named acting president in an
emergency Cabinet session four hours
after Park’s death, went on nation-
wide radio Saturday morning to ask
for calm.
Carter administration officials said
they had been told by South Korean
government sources recently that
there was growing dissatisfaction
with Park’s regime. Park had
recently imposed martial law in two
southern cities to subdue anti-
government riots.
South Korean forces were on
emergency alert Saturday against
any attempt by communist North
Korea to take advantage of the con-
privately they doubted it was ac- fused situation, ba U.S. officials said
cidental. -there was no indication of military
activity north of the demilitarized
Martial law was in effect, schools
were closed and tanks surrounded the
capitol building as officials grappled
with a crisis that has left South Korea
zone. The 38,000 U.S. troops here were
ordered into the lowest stage of alert,
just one step up from normal status.
South African sees nuclear blast as Soviet submarine accident
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP) — South Africa’s naval chief
said Saturday that the navy was
checking the “real possibility” that an
accident aboard a Soviet submarine
may have caused what U.S. in-
telligence reported as a nuclear ex-
plosion.
U.S. officials had suggested that a
bright flash detected by a spy satellite
Sept. 22 may have been a South
African nuclear bomb test. But the
government here has heatedly re-
jected that explanation.
In Washington on Saturday, U.S.
officials said they had no new in-
formation on the incident, and as yet
no “corroborative evidence” even to
prove conclusively that it was a
nuclear blast. They had no comment
on the South African theory about a
submarine accident.
The Soviet Foreign Ministry in
Moscow also had no official comment.
But some Western military sources,
who asked not to be identified, were
highly skeptical of the South African
theory. South African navy chief Vice Adm.
The sources said that if a reactor J.C. Walters said Saturday that he
meltdown had occurred aboard a ship, was surprised reports of the incident
it would have triggered different did not focus on the "real possibility”
signals than a nuclear blast, and that of a shipboard disaster.
in the highly unlikely event a nuclear "It is a matter of common
weapon had exploded, it would have knowledge that there was during the
been general knowledge within the period of September, for instance, a
intelligence community much earlier. Soviet Echo II class nuclear sub-
marine in the vicinity.
Washington officials said the U.S.
reconaissance satellite detected the
flash in the general area of the South
Atlantic and Indian oceans and
suggested it might have been from a
nuclear test device detonated by
South Africa,-long thought capable of
producing an atomic bomb.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: In this series the
Record-Chronicle shares with Its
readers ghost stories from area
contributors. If you have a personal
story of haunting, call the Ghost
nights, with a bright blue sky, full of
stars," Laurie said. She wanted to
enjoy the night and went to the back
window to look out when she got home.
Even though it was perfectly still, the.
Writer at 387-3811. Ghost stories . swing in the back yard was moving
back and forth, Laurie said. Then she
continue in the Record-Chronicle
through Halloween.
By THE GHOST WRITER
“My ghost is my grandmother,”
says Laurie Ray, who grew up in a
haunted house in Denton.
Before she knew who the ghost was,
it frightened her. "I knew it was there
and I could feel it and it scared the
devil out of me,” she said.
Besides the grandmother’s ghost,
the J.T. Penner household has
poltergeists, which open drawers,
turn on lights, alarms and timers and
have even answered the telephone.
Back in 1971, Laurie and some
friends had been snowskiing and got
caught in a snow storm while driving
back, putting her home around 5 a.m.
“It was one of those icy blue still
saw an image get up and walk behind
the garage.
Shortly after that, while staying at a
friend's house, Laurie woke suddenly
at 3 a.m. She tried to go back to sleep
but couldn’t.
“I kept tossing and turning and I
finally lay on my stomach with my
sheets (pulled up over my shoulders), barking. I turned on the radio and the
I got ready to turn over again and I TV — I was never so glad to have to
couldn’t open my eyes, couldn’t speak go to work in my life!"
and couldn’t move a muscle. I was After finding out from a local
trying to with all my might —‘ it psychic that the ghost was her
seemed like it lasted forever — but it grandmother and was a “guardian
was probably 30 seconds. All of a angel," Laurie has begun trying to
sudden she was gone and I could communicate with the spirit
move. “Even though I was scared at first,
"I could hear someone walking but I’d try lo think questions in my mind,
couldn’t see anyone. The dog started gee GHOST, Page 2A
What are ghosts?
Seeing is believing
for Denton psychic
By JANE RAGSDALE
Staff Writer ,
Seeing is believing, and that’s probably the reason most
folks don’t believe in ghosts.
But for Rev. Louise Hawk, a Denton psychic, dealing
with ghosts is a common occurrence that began during
her childhood in Tennessee. .
While visiting her grandmother, she and her young
See Chappell Hill ghosts, page 8A
aunts would walk by an old nailed-up house on their way
to the store. "Every time we walked by, I would see a
woman in the window upstairs. My aunts couldn’t see
her,” Mrs. Hawk said, adding that her grandmother, also
a psychic, agreed the house was indeed haunted.
As Denton’s leading athority on the spirit world, Mrs.
Hawk says there are several kinds of ghosts.
“Poltergeists are the noisy ghosts, who move objects
around,” she said. "Earthbound ghosts are the spirits of
suicide or murder victims or other people who were
thrown into the spirit world too quickly and haven’t
realized they’re dead yet."
See SPIRITS, Page 2A
REV. LOUISE HAWK
Local psychic describes ghosts
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Due to press problems, today’s edition of the Record-Chronicle was
printed by the Sherman Democrat and the Gainesville Register. A
large number of Friday’s newspapers were delivered late, and
delivery schedules may be affected for several days by the press
problem. The Record-Chronicle regrets the inconvenience to its
customers and appreciates the cooperation of the Sherman
Democrat and the Gainesville Register.
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DENTON AND VICINITY - The
National Weather Service forecast
calls for partly cloudy skies, clear
and cooler temperatures Sunday
and Monday with so herly winds at
15-25 mph. Highs in me upper 70s;
lows mid 50s.
..WEATHER REPORT
High Saturday 80
Low Saturday 4 54
High last year 73
Low last year 44
The sun sets today at 6:47, II rises
Monday at 6:46.
Turn the clocks back
Last night was the night to change your clocks and watches
Daylight savings time ended at 2 a.m. this morning. Time pieces
should be set back one hour today if you failed to give yourself that
• extra hour’s sleep by delaytag your wake-up alarm when you went
to sleep last night.
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