Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 199, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1980 Page: 15 of 16
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THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphu Springi, T*xa», Thursday, Aug. 21,19M—IS.
Texan eyes Titanic safe
BOSTON (AP) - Texas
millionaire Jack Grimm, who
[ spent SI million to find the
sunken luxury liner Titanic,
says he’s willing to leave it in
its cold grave. But he’s also
willing to spend another $3
million to get to its safe.
His searchers, aboard the
H.J.W. Fay, were heading for
dock in Boston today carrying
evidence that convinced them
they have located the 68-year-
old hulk of the proud British
ship 350 miles off Newfoun-
dland.
Grimm said Wednesday he
was convinced enough by the
search party’s findings to
spend $3 million to reactivate a
51-foot submarine with 9-foot
robot arms to cut through the
Titanic’s hull next May or June.
“We just want to recover the
safe in the purser’s office,”
said Grimm, 55, of Abilene. The
purser was an officer handling
money and valuables aboard
ship.-
“I don’t know what’s in the
safe. One English magazine
reported the safe contained a
8125 million shipment of
diamonds,” he said, adding
their worth could be nearly $300
million at current exchange
rates.
He said the search already
has cost him in excess of $1
million. /
"It’ll cost approaching $1
million to outfit the submarine
Aluminaut and another $2
million to conduct the dive,” he
said.
“My banker is looking at me
very closely.”
The American search party
aboard the H.J.W. Fay
reported Friday that a sonar
scanning sled submerged
beneath the Atlantic located
what appeared to be the sunken
ship’s outlines at 12,000 feet.
Stormy weather prevented
the searchers from lowering a
television camera, and the
mission was called off Sunday.
"With the sonar images, we
can prove this is the right
ship,” said Grimm. “We had
the configuration of the ship,
882.5 feet long, 95 feet wide, 175
feet tall from keel to stacks. It
was one of a kind.
“I’ve already laid claim. We
will be filing papers in the
United States, Canada and
England.”
Grimm said he planned to be
on the Aluminaut when it dives
next summer. He said its robot
arms will cut a hole with a
torch in the starboard hull and
lift out the safe and other items.
Even if the safe doesn’t
contain diamonds, Grimm is
sure it will contain the
Hit men linked to killing
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP)
— An ex-convict says hired
gunmen from San Antonio shot
and killed U.S. District Judge
John H. Wood.
Sonny De La Fuente, who
appeared Wednesday before 4,
special federal grand jury
investigating Wood’s
assassination, told reporters
the grand jury is attempting to
verify information given them
by Robert F. “Comanche”
Riojas, a convicted murderer
and heroin dealer.
The special grand jury also
continued its inquiry into the
harboring of Las Vegas
gambler Jimmy Chagra after
he had jumped bond following
his conviction on drug
smuggling charges last year.
Two of Chagra’s relatives,
his brother, Joe Chagra, and
Jimmy Chagra’s father-in-law,
Leon Nichols, appeared before
the grand jury Wednesday.
Both men said they could not
see how the harboring of
Jimmy Chagra had anything to
do with Wood’s death May 29,
1979.
Calling the grand jury in-
vestigation of his brother “a
witch hunt,” Chagra said “This
grand jury has one job —to
indict Jimmy Chagra for Judge
Wood’s murder.”
De La Fuente said he was
questioned about information
supplied FBI agents by Riojas.
De La Fuente said he believes
Riojas knows who killed the
judge.
Riojas has told federal
authorities that the men who
shot Wood are from San An-
tonio, De La Fuente said. He
said Riojas also said he talked
with them shortly before the
attempted assassination of
Assistant U.S. Attorney James
Kerr Nov. 21, 1978.
He said the subject came up
at a party attended by Riojas
and the men Riojas claims
killed the judge and attempted
to kill Kerr.
Storm victims fibbing
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas
(AP) — Almost half of the 9,000
South Texans who have sought
disaster aid for damages
caused by Hurricane Allen
apparently are giving false
information to relief workers,
federal officials say.
The disturbing pattern was
noticed Wednesday morning
during a meeting of directors of
the six federal aid centers.
“In at least two of the six
federal aid centers ... in-
terviewers are being beseiged
by alleged victims who all
claim they lost exactly $200
worth of food while electrical
power was out,” federal
coordinating officer Dale
Milford said.
Federal officials refused to
specify the two centers.
“We have indications that as
many as half of those visiting
the disaster assistance centers
are telling something less than
the truth about their disaster-
related losses,” Milford said.
In some cases, federal em-
ployees sent to verify property
damage have found home
addresses turned out to be
vacant lots, he said.
Suspected fraud cases will be
turned over to the FBI and
state officials for investigation
and prosecution.
As of Wednesday morning,
more than 9,000 South Texans
had registered with centers
operated by the Federal
'Moon/e' trial opens
Father finally finds
daughter - in court
CONCORD,N.H. (AP)-For
five years, Don Kieffer has
been fighting to see his
daughter. His wish came true
in U.S. District Court here —
but she was testifying against
him in a $1 million suit he filed
against the Unification Church.
Kieffer’s civil suit contends
the church recruited his
adopted daughter, now 21,
when she was a minor, exer-
cised “mind control methods”
over her and “wrongfully
deprived him of his natural
parental right.”
Jana Kieffer’s court ap-
pearance Tuesday and Wed-
nesday satisfied one of his
goals: “to bring her into court
and see if she’s all right.”
But she disputed his claims.
“I don’t think brainwashing
goes on. ...You can’t control
somebody’s mind. That’s
ridiculous,” she told Judge
Shane Devine.
She said she still is a member
of the church founded by the
Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a
Korean industrialist and
evangelist, and its affiliate,
Collegiate Association for the
Research of Principals.
Miss Kieffer left her New
Hampshire home in June 1975,
joining her divorced mother at
the Unification Church
seminary in Barrytown, N.Y.
Gloria Kieffer had joined the
church after she was divorced
in 1973 from Kieffer, who won
custody of their four children,
including Jana and another
child from her previous
marriage whom he had adopted
in 1962.
Miss Kieffer said her mother
introduced her to the church
and she joined because “I just
felt very insecure living where
I was. I just didn’t see anything
happening to my life that I
could look forward to.”
Kieffer refused his daughter
permission to join the church,
but he was “totally unaware of
how to retrieve her. I tried to
keep it as a family matter, tried
to resolve it by writing to her
and phoning her. But she
seemed to be quite hostile to
me.”
When he tried to visit her in
August 1975, he was told she
wasn’t there.
“In early 1977,1 met my first
ex-Moonie and she just stood
my hair on end with the story of
what had happened to her,”
Kieffer said.
Legal action began that year
after his ex-wife, then
remarried, moved to Man-
chester and tried to contact his
two younger children, Kieffer
said.
Fearing she would try to
bring the other children into the
church, Kieffer sought to
cancel his ex-wife’s visitation
rights and have his daughter
produced in court.
The visitation rights were
canceled in late 1977, but the
Hillsboro County Superior
Court said it could not compel
the church to produce Miss
Kieffer.
After amending his suit to
seek damages against the
church, the trial opened here
this summer.
So far, ex-members of the
church, a psychiatrist, and
Kieffer’s ex-wife have testified,
and the trial is expected to last
through the week. ^
Asked about seeing her
relatives for the first time in
five years, Miss Kieffer said,
“The whole thing is just very
upsetting.”
Emergency Management
Agency.
The aid offices in Corpus
Christi, Alice, Brownsville,
Harlingen, Edinburg and Port
Isabel are “one-stop” centers
with representatives of federal,
state and local agencies in-
volved in relief efforts.
An office in Port Aransas
operated a week but was closed
to move workers to Lower Rio
Grande Valley locations.
Jack Simpson, director of
FEMA centers, said federal
interviewers are skilled at
detecting fraud cases but must
process them anyway.
Misrepresentation cannot be
documented until a verifier
visits the site, he said.
Bill McAda of FEMA said
fraud cases always turn up
after a disaster but not in the
numbers found in South Texas
this time.
“Maybe we’re naive, but
we’ve never encountered this
kind of situation,” said McAda.
“From the American tax-
payer’s point of view, he’s not
going to lose anything because
nothing will be given out
without the verification,” he
added.
De La Fuente said, however,
that he does not believe Riojas’
story and said Riojas “con-
cocted” the story in hopes of
getting a special deal from
federal authorities.
Riojas is serving 20 years for
his state murder and heroin
convictions and 25 years on a
federal conviction for hiring
five Bexar County Jail inmates
to kill jail prisoner Hugo Ellis
Saenz in 1977. Riojas is under
the federal witness protection
program and his whereabouts
are unknown except to federal
authorities.
De La Fuente is on parole
after being convicted on a
charge of conspiracy to
distribute heroin. Judge Wood
sentenced him to eight years in
prison, he said.
U.S. District Judge William
Sessions granted Nichols, 51,
immunity from prosecution for
his grand jury testimony.
Nichols told reporters U.S.
Attorney Jamie Boyd
threatened him with perjury
- charges three times because he
could not tell the grand jury
about his son-in-law’s travels
during the five months he was a
federal fugitive.
Joe Chagra, who was in the
federal courthouse here
Wednesday representing
Nichols, was subpoenaed while
Nichols was testifying.
He told reporters he told the
grand jury that their focus on
his brother, who is now in
federal prison, is “unfair.”
“Wood wasn’t murdered, he
started committing suicide
years ago,” Joe Chagra told
reporters.
“A million people hated
Judge Wood” because of his
stiff sentences. Wood was
known as “Maximum John”
because of stiff sentences he
gave persons, primarily drug
offense defendants, convicted
in his court.
“When you step on people
every day of your life,
something’s going to happen,”
Chagra said, “He was not a fair
judge.”
Our Daily Bread
Scripture Reading for Todav: Luke 8:41-56
RIDICULE-THE DEEPEST CRUELTY
And they laughed Him to scorn.
Luke 8:53
/\ NE of the crudest weapons we can wield against
^ J someone is ridicule. It inflicts the deepest wounds
upon highly sensitive people. For example, when
some literary critics scorned the works of the poet Keats,
his heart was broken. His kind and gentle spirit could
not stand this harsh treatment
Since lesus was the only perfect Man in history, His
finely tuned nature must have been deeply hurt when His
contemporaries scorned Him as "the carpenter's son" from
Nazareth. Even His own brothers rejected Him. He felt
more than physical agony when the Roman soldiers
pressed a crown of thorns on His head, placed a purple
robe on His bleeding back, and mocked His kingship. As
His tormentors called upon Him to come down from the
cross, their jeering remarks must have been crushing to
His spirit. Those verbal barbs were undoubtedly more
painful than the nails driven through His hands and feet.
Deriding others is always cruel. Christians should never
engage in it—no, not even when referring to religious
cultists who are way out in left field. We best serve the
cause of truth when we use gentle logic and act respect-
fully toward the people we are trying to correct. I haye
met men and women scarred for life because someone
poked fun at them or laughed contemptuously at some-
thing they said or did.
Beware of ridicule! It was one of Satan's favorite weap-
ons in his battle against Christ. Don't stoop to his tactics.
As disciples of lesus, let's treat everyone with kindness
and respect. —H.V.L.
A careless word may kindle strife;
A cruel word may wreck a life;
A bitter word may hate instill;
A brutal word may smite and kill. —Anon.
THOT: Though words break no bones, they can break hearts.
Herbert Vender Luqt; Copyright 1980, Radio Bible Class,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Used By Permission.
FRANK AND ERNEST by Bob Thaves
valuables of its passengers,
who included some of the day’s
most prominent society
figures.
The Titanic, the largest of its
day at 46,328 tons and billed as
unsinkable, struck an iceberg
on its maiden voyage April 15,
1912, and sank. A total of 1,517
of the 2,200 aboard perished,
including both pursers.
“We’ll never raise the
Titanic,” said Grimm, who has
launched searches for the Loch
Ness monster and Noah's ark.
“It’s a tomb for 1,500 people. It
would cost $200 million using
modem technology and take
years to raise.”
Grimm wouldn't reveal how
riches aboard would be shared
among the searchers, saying
only, “I’ve put up the money ...
and the man who has the gold,
makes the rules.”
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 199, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1980, newspaper, August 21, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823826/m1/15/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.