Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 73, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1981 Page: 4 of 24
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4—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Tuxos, Friday, March 27,19SI.
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Texas and Texans
overview:
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people, politics and pocketbooks
Wood investigation continues
By MACK SISK
Associated Press Writer
'SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP)
A federal grand jury
thered for its third con-
e session today as the
I confirmed it may be
aring the end of a lengthy
nvestigation into the
issassination of U.S. District
iudge John H. Wood Jr.
Theresa Starr Jasper, 23, of
loupton, was subpoenaed as
the 10th (
grand jury witness this
rede. She is the stepdaughter
h,
nvicted hired gun Charles
I the the grand
and
— empaneled Wednesday
pparentty is retracing
revious evidence in
paration for indictments,
he 23-member grand jury
k over the case from a
1 grand jury that had
i?eq investigating Wood’s
nth since June 17, 1900, but
ihkh reportedly was “talli-
ed" by erroneous evidence and
irosecutors dissolved it to
nake sure any indictments
oufcd stand up to court
hallenge.
In Washington, meanwhile,
’BI director William Webster
aid Thursday, “we are very
lose to a solution" of Wood’s
tiling on May 29, 1979.
Mi don’t think it's wise for me
o project indictments, but we
re very dose to a solution,”
Webster said during a White
House briefing. “We intend to
solve this. We believe it’s close
to solution. We already know
the players."
Webster said he did not want
to be “tied down” on any time
element for indictments.
Nearly all the witnesses
heard in San Antonio the past
three days also testified to the
previous grand jury. The in-
vestigation appears to be
concentrated on Harrelson,
convicted in 1973 of the $2,000
contract killing of a Central
Texas grain dealer, Sam
Degelia Jr.
Appearing Thursday were El
Paso businesswoman Virginia
Farah, who employed
Harrelson as a bodyguard
while he was a fugitive from
state narcotics and weapons
charges last summer; Hamp-
ton and Joann Robinson of
Houston, described as
acquaintances of Harrelson,
and three persons believed to
be alibi witnesses who,
Harrelson claims, saw him in
Dallas the day Wood was killed
in San Antonio.
None of the witnesses nor
their attorneys would comment
on substance of their ap-
pearances.
Harrelson, convicted drug
dealer Jimmy Chagra and El
Paso attorney Joe Chagra,
Jimmy Chagra’s younger
brother, have been named as
“key suspects” in the Wood
investigation, the young
Chagra brother has said.
In addition, Harrelson’s wife
and stepdaughter and a lifelong
acquaintance, George Edward
“Pete” Kay, have been
questioned by the grand juries.
Kay appeared for five
minutes Wednesday and
pleaded the Fifth Amendment,
his attorney said.
Mrs. Jasper, who testified
last December, appeared at the
federal courthouse at 5:30 p.m.
Thursday in response to a
subpoena and was served with
a government “notice of
potential conflict of interest.”
However, in a brief hearing
Friday, Chief U.S. District
Judge William S. Sessions said
the notice was “premature”
and should be taken up again
today after she met with the
grand jury.
Wood, the first federal judge
murdered in more than a
century, was gunned down May
29,1979, outside his San Antonio
apartment.
He presided over many of the
narcotics cases prosecuted by
Assistant U.S. Attorney James
Kerr, who survived a barrage
of bullets on Nov. 21, 1978.
Federal investigators have
said for months they believed
the attacks on both men,
considered tough on drug
dealers, were ordered by the
same high-level narcotics
traffickers.
The Dallas Times Herald
reported Thursday that the FBI
secretly recorded a coh-
versation at a federal prison in
which Jimmy Chagra told Joe
Chagra that he hired Harrelson
to kill Wood.
The newspaper said a federal
judge authorized the electronic
eavesdroppings in a sealed
order and the tape was made
last year while the two Chagras
met in an interview room at the
federal prison in Leavenworth,
Kan., where Jimmy Chagra
was serving a 30-year term.
He since has been tran-
sferred to the high-security
prison at Marion, 111.
At the time Wood was killed,
the judge was scheduled to hear
Jimmy Chagra’s trial cm a
narcotics-related charge of
continuing criminal enterprise.
The investigation into the
attack on Kerr, who has been
secreted at an undisclosed
location for nearly two years,
concentrated on members of
the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
However, federal sources
have said a special Justice
Department task force that has
handled the case since
December 1980 wanted to
return indictments first in the
Wood case to avoid jeopar-
dizing the investigation.
Reagan cuts hit Texas
By GARTH JONES
''‘Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -
exas legislators need to cut
2.5 billion from state spending
he next two years to cover the
|ms of federal funds undo1
asmm
at what we can reasonably
expect from Washington,” he
told a news conference Thur-
sday.
Clements said Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby and Speaker Bill
Clayton were “in agreement.”
'Texas will loae^owt half its
usual federal funds, or about
laments says.
We have to reorder our
nwities and get off this ‘letter
) Santa Claus’ basis and look
per cent, we may have to make-
do with a 10 percent increase,”
Clements said. “We may have
to hold our 1982-83 budget to
$23.5 billion instead of the $26
billion we had anticipated
would be available in revenue
during the next two years.
“1 repeat that we are not
$2j6 billion, thrntxt two years, talking about cutting the
the governor said.
“Instead of increasing our
biennial appropriations by 20
ongress scared to
say no to budget cuts
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HOUSTON (AP) - Fear will practically
Congress to approve
90 percent” of President
:eagan’s proposed budget
its, predicts Arthur Burns,
irmer chairman of the
ederal Reserve Board.
Bums, who serves as an
gnomic adviser to Reagan,
lid “congressmen on both
des of the aisle” realize the
-esident’s plan to revitalize
lueconomy, reduce Inflation
id build up the nation’s
dense “fits the nation’s
ood.”
"His budget cuts are very
amatic, but he’ll probably
it 80 to 90 percent of what he’s
i ked for,” Bums said. "Even
t e most liberal Democrats
1 tely will approve them, not
I cause they like them or
I Cause they believe in them,
I it because they're fearful if
i s not successful, they’ll be
I lined.”
However, Bums Said, the
esident probably will have
ore difficulty with the
oposed tax cut.
Although be predicted a tax
t ultimately will be ap-
oved, Bums said, “It will be
IM more toward business
an the individual.”
Burns, who outlined the
esident’s economic package
mrsday night to local
sinesa and civic leaders, said
e Federal Reserve Board will
ain feel the burden of
hting a hefty inflation rate
if Congress fails to ap-
ove a practical economic
IRT
“to the past few years, the
dyral reserve has been
alone^
abandon the anti-inflation
policy, the budget cuts ... the
problem will once again en-
tirely — or at least very largely
— to the federal reserve. That
would be unfortunate,” he said.
Bums admitted be expects
“a fair amount of skepticism”
because the credibility of the
president in recent years has
been questioned.
“The credibility of the
president has been so low in
recent years — looking back to
Lyndon Johnson, Richard
Nixon and Jimmy Carter —
that investors can’t be sure,”
he said.
present state budget, but rather
reducing the amount of the
anticipated increase ... ”
He said Comptroller Bob
Bullock considers federal funds
when estimating the state’s
income for the next two years.
"I plan to talk with Comp-
troller Bullock the next few
*.......
If we likelihood he may decrease the
revenue estimates he has
made,” Clements said.
Bullock said later he saw no
need to reduce the state’s
revenue estimate “just because
the governor thinks it’s a good
idea.”
Bullock said he would be glad
to meet the governor “to hear
him out on why I should reduce
by estimate because I don’t
recall having met with him
since January, but I’m not
going to be panicked into a
wholesale revision of the
estimate on the basis of some
rumor floating around
Washington.”
Clements said he had no
suggestions where the cuts
should be made.
“I am just saying it is the
responsibility of ' • the?
Legislature to look-It these
programs and I think the
legislators are pefectly capable
of making these cuts,”
Clements said.
Clements added he is “totally
in favor of Mr. Reagan’s
program of budget economy,
and it is obvious the U.S. House
and Senate are also hut jual
•mow.
Clements also said:
— “I am absolutely opposed
to a special session for this
purpose. I want the Legislature
to address it now.”
— “There will be no new
taxes. We are not going to have
a tax increase. We are going to
reduce the budget.”
— "I have thought about a
one-year appropriation bill but
have discarded the idea.
History tells us it does not work
very well. However, it is still an
open option.”
Feds pull plug on
cable TV network
DALLAS (AP) - Five Dallas
suburbs have lost 15 of their
cable television channels after
the Federal Communications
Commission determined the
channels might leak into
aeronautical radio frequencies
and endanger airplanes in
flight.
FCC officials ordered Storer
Cable TV — which operates in
Garland, DeSoto, Grand
Prairie, Lancaster and Cedar
Hill - to cease operating on 15
of its 35 channels until the board
determines whether the
company violated federal rules
by using the frequencies.
The company could face fines
of $2,000 a day, not to exceed
$20,000, if the FCC determines
Storer violated its regulations.
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Our Daily Bread
Friday-March 27 Read: Psalm 1
CHOOSE HIS WAY I
For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the
way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalm #6
T HE stark contrast between the path of faith in Christ and
1 the way of unbelief came to my mind when I read the
newspaper reports of the death of Jean Paul Sartre. This well-
known atheistic philosopher died as he had lived-without
hope! And he left behind him a host of bewildered and
despairing followers. In a recent study of a Haight-Ashbury
group called the “bearded followers of Sartre,” it was found
that only a few of the 51 strongest members were living fairly
successful lives. Though their ages ranged from 35 to 50, an
unusually high percentage had already died. Of those who
remained, some walked the streets of San Francisco like
zombies, and others lived in a make-believe world as pseudo-
intellectuals. The majority, however, were in mental institu-
tions. What a sad commentary on the futility of a godless
philosophy!
By contrast, I was happy to learn recently that many who
were young people in the churches I pastored during the
1950s and early 1960s are productive members of society
today. Most are happily married and are conscientious
parents. They attend church faithfully and are respected
citizens of their communities. When I was told this, I said to
myself, “Christ truly does make a difference!"
Friend, you must decide between two ways. If you choose
the wisdom of the world, you will be like wind-driven chaff,
and you will be lost for all eternity. But if you accept Christ as
your Savior, you can be like a securely rooted, fruitful tree.
Let me urge you to choose His way—trust Him today!
—H.V.L.
Well the Lord will guard the righteous,
For their way to Him is known;
But the way of euitdoers
Shall by Him be overthrown. -Psalter
THOT: Life with Christ Is an endless hope; without Him K is a
hopeless end.
H«Mrt Vandar Lugt; Copyright 1981, Radio BIMa Clan,
Grand Rapldt, Michigan. Usad By Parmltslon.
Artist hopes
to aid victim
identification
HOUSTON (AP) - A
forensic artist has painted
portraits of 27 people, most of
them victims of traumatic
deaths and buried in pauper’s
graves, in an effort to help
Harris County medical
examiners ''Identify the
remains.
Harris County Medical
Examiner Joseph A.
Jachimczyk distributed
photographic copies Thursday
of the paintings done by artist
Mary Mize, of La Porte, who
created the portraits from
photos of the victims.
“We hope that by publishing
these ... we might get some
additional clues” to establish
the identities from some of the
people,” Jachmiczyk said.
The medical examiner’s
office commissioned Ms. Mize
to do the 27 pastel paintings so
likenesses of the victims would
be suitable for publication,
Jachmiczyk said.
"In the past, we’ve taken
photographs and had sketches
which were published in the
newspapers... but I don’t recall
anything this lifelike that shows
expression in the eyes and
other facial characteristics,”
he said.
Ms. Mize said each painting
took about 90 minutes to
complete. She received $15 for
each painting from funds set
aside by the Harris County
Commissioner’s Court.
Ms. Mize, a housewife, began
taking art lessons in 1976 and
completed 40 hours of study in
composite drawing and skull
sculpture in preparation for
work with the police.
> Her biggest challenge will be
to reconstruct facial features of
25 other unidentified victims
whose remains are merely
skeletons, said Ms. Mize,
recommended for the job by
homicide investigators.
. "I volunteered to draw for
them after T saw & compsite
drawing of a suspect on
television. I thought I could do
better,” she said.
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