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Despite protests, judge seeks new trial site
HOUSTON Ten of 15 persons
questioned at a pretrial hearing in the
mass murders case that Elmer Henley,
17, testified he cannot get a fair trial
in Houstton now or in the near future.
The witnesses were called by the
prosecution to buttress a change of venue
motion District Court Judge William
flatten is considering.
Both state and defense lawyers
agreed Tuesday that Henley, accused in
six of the 27 deaths of teen-agers, killed
by what police described as a homosexual
torture-murder ring, cannot get a fair
trial here at this time.
Judge Hatten said he wanted to hear
testimony about whether the trial should
be moved to another Texas city. Defense
lawyer Will Gray is opposing a venue
change.
“It would be fruitless to move the
trial at this time,” he said. “We’ve got
the same situation elsewhere.”
Following a quick closed meeting with
lawyers, Hatten said the case most likely
will be moved to Austin, Corpus Christi
or San Antonio, depending on where a
judge can be found to take the trial.
The defendant in the sensational case,
Henley, began screaming and yelling fol
lowing Hatten’s decision. Henley was
placed in a holdover cell near the court
room where he banged his head against
the cell bars and continued his tirade
against the ruling.
“I was born in Harris County, raised
in Harris County and I have a right to
be tried in Harris County,” he screamed.
Hatten has been conducting pretrial
hearings in the case, primarily centered
on the admissibility of oral and written
statements Henley gave police following
his arrest. Henley is charged with six
of the 27 slayings of young men police
have termed victims of a sadistic homo
sexual torture-murder group.
“The court will grant a motion for
continuance at this time and will also
grant, on its own motion, a change of
venue,” Hatten told lawyers in the case.
Will Gray, Henley’s lawyer, objected
to the sudden change in trial sites. “The
defendant still belives he has a right to
be tried here in Harris County,” he
protested.
Hatten said: “It is incumbent upon
the court to make a selection for a new
site but I have not yet made any arrange
ments to talk to any other court about
receiving this trial.”
Also, he said, he will rule Friday on
motions to suppress Henley’s statements
to police.
At the same time, he set a hearing
for Tuesday for pretrial motions in the
case of David Owen Brooks, 18, charged
in four of the slayings.
Brooks’ lawyer, Ted Musick, said he
will, at that time, ask for a continuance
and a hearing to determine Brook’s com
petency to stand trial.
Just prior to Hatten’s unexpected
ruling, 10 of 15 witnesses questioned
had testified they did not think Henley
could get a fair trial in Houston.
Gray claimed Henley could not get
a fair trial at this time but he opposed
moving the trial altogether.
To back up his contention, Gray
issued subpoenas Wednesday for city
editors and news directors of major
newspapers and broadcasting stations in
Dallas, Fort Worth, Beaumont, Austin,
Waco, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and
El Paso. They were directed to bring
copies of what they had published or
aired on the case.
Henley is due to go on trial first in
the death of Charles Coble, 17. When
that trial will start is not known.
Another defendant, David Owen
Brooks, 18, is charged in four of the 27
deaths and will stand trial later.
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•A*) — Independent truckers in
several states blocked service sta
tion pumps or parked-in at truck
stops today to protest increasing
fuel costs and low speed limits.
However, there was confusion
over the timing of the shutdown,
which leaders predicted would be
nationwide. Some truckers said
it was set for midnight Wednes
day while others said it was to
begin at midnight tonight.
WASHINGTON (iP)—The gov
ernment disclosed plans today to
create a special warning system
designed to minimize radiation
casualties in the “highly unlike
ly” event of a major accident in
a nuclear power plant anywhere
in the country.
The atomic energy commission
said the system would involve a
centralized, computer - equipped
facility that would be linked with
nuclear reactor facilities across
the nation.
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whelming “yes” despite a last-
minute peace proposal from Prime
Minister Edward Heath. Returns
are expected to be in by Sunday;
results are to be announced Tues
day, and the strike would start
Sunday, Feb. 10, if the necessary
55 per cent affirmative vote is re
ceived and the government doesn’t
open the way to a satisfactory
wage settlement.
ing the government’s 100 per cent
increase last week in the price of
a number of staple foods, but
Banzer claimed they were de
ceived by Communist agitators.
HONG KONG (A*)—An Ameri
can and five South Vietnamese
servicemen captured by Chinese
soldiers 11 days ago in the Para
cel Islands left Hong Kong today
after their release by China. The
American, Gerald Emil Kosh, 27,
of Lafayette Hill, Pa., walked un
aided across the border river
bridge although he had been re
ported suffering from hepatitis.
He was flown to Clark Air Force
Base in the Philippines for treat
ment, and the South Vietnamese
were flown to Saigon.
MOSCOW WP) — Young Ana
toly Karpov, the choice of some
Soviet experts to take the world
chess title from Bobby Fischer
next year, has two of the three
victories he needs to defeat Soviet
grandmaster Lev Polugaevsky in
the quarter-finals of the elimina
tions to pick Fischer’s challenger.
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cedent of past presidents “of nev
er doing anything that weakens
the Office of the President of the
United States or impairs the abil
ity of the presidents of the future
to make the great decisions that
are so essential to this nation and
the world.”
Noting he had been elected
President “for the purpose of do
ing a job and doing it as well as
I possibly can,” he said, “I want
you to know that I have no inten
tion whatever of ever walking
away from the job that the people
elected me to do for the people of
the United States.”
WASHINGTON <A>) _ Energy
chief William E. Simon says it’s
still too early to step up gasoline
production, although stocks of
crude oil are creeping upward.
In another three weeks, it
would be safe to decide wheth
er to increase gasoline production
in anticipation of summer trav
el, Simon said Wednesday.
International
LONDON <A>) — Britain’s 280,-
000 coal miners are voting today
and Friday on whether to strike.
Their leaders predict an over-
LA PAZ, Bolivia <A>) _ Presi
dent Hugo Banzer’s military re
gime claims it has put down a
peasant rebellion in central Bo
livia after 10 days of sporadic
clases in which five peasants were
killed and more than a dozen in
jured. The peasants were protest-
Exa Ellis wins
Newspaper Fund
foundation award
A coed majoring in journalism
has been selected to participate
in the 1974 Newspaper Fund
editorial internship program.
Exa Ellis, a senior journalism
student from Bryan, is one of
46 journalism students selected
from hundreds of applicants
throughout the country to par
ticipate in the prestigious train
ing program.
The Newspaper Fund, Inc., is
a foundation supported by Dow
Jones, Inc., with the purpose of
encouraging careers in journal
ism. The annual program offers
selected students an intensive
three-week course in editing, fol
lowed by summer-long employ
ment at a major U.S. newspaper.
Ms. Ellis will attend the edit
ing short course at the University
of Nebraska, then will report to
the Arkansas Gazette in Little
Rock for on-the-job training in
newspaper editing.
Following the summer train
ing period, she will receive a $700
scholarship for continued studies
until her December graduation.
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Legislation to restrict crime
files to protect individuals
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Nixon administration’s privacy legislation
harnesses federal and state crime files to specific legal restrictions for the first
time.
But it leaves enough loopholes to stir opposition from critics
demanding still tighter limits.
In his State of the Union address Wednesday night, Nixon promised an
effort to establish “a new set of standards that respect the legitimate needs of
society, but that also recognize personal privacy as a cardinal principle of
American liberty.”
It was a promise from an administration that has been accused of
widespread invasions of privacy through wiretapping, bugging and burglary.
A key element of Nixon’s privacy protection program is a bill drafted
largely under the supervision of Elliot L. Richardson, the attorney general who
resigned after refusing to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox.
That bill, developed in the Justice Department and circulated among
other Cabinet agencies, would restrict the distribution of crime records to law
enforcement agencies except in specified circumstances.
The draft has not been made public and Nixon mentioned no details,
but The Associated Press obtained access to a copy.
These are some of the key features:
—The restrictions would apply to any criminal justice information
system operated or funded by the federal government and any other system
exchanging information with federally operated or financed systems. It would
cover both computerized and manual systems.
—The legislation would add the strength of law to the present policy
restricting the distribution of crime files to law enforcement agencies unless
specifically authorized by federal or state law.
—The legislation would prohibit the distribution of arrest records for
anything except law enforcement purposes if the individual were not
convicted of the charge and if there were no pending prosecution. But the
provision allows certain exceptions.
—The legislation would require that an individual’s files be sealed from
the normal distribution channels from five to seven years after his last troubles
with the law.
Positions
open at ‘Y,’
GSC, Senate
Applications are available for
seven Student Government posi
tions through 5 p.m. Friday.
Public Relations chairperson,
vacated by Ron Bento for aca
demic reasons, is one of the major
positions open. Public Relations
chairperson is responsible for a
SC newsletter, telephone sur
veys and program publicity to
name a few.
Two graduate seats on the judi
cial boards are also open.
Four senatorial seats are avail
able in the following areas: col
lege of geosciences at-large, col
lege of engineering at-large, col
lege of education at-large and one
graduate off-campus.
All of the above listed positions
require a 2.25 over-all GPR.
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Graduate students interested in
serving fellow students and
TAMU may apply for one of three
open positions on the Graduate
Student Council.
The vacancies are in the Col
leges of Agriculture, Business
Administration and Veterinary
Medicine.
For further information, con
tact GSC President Bennie Leeth
at 845-4035 (day) or 846-4207
(night).
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The Student Y Association has
three positions open for the
spring semester.
Applications may be picked up
between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the
YMCA desk in the Student Pro
grams Office in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
The Y will also sponsor a girl
in the Cotton Pageant this year.
All entry fees will be paid and
applications may be picked up in
the Student Programs Office.
Applications are also open to
all males who wish to be on the
Viewpoint panel which discusses
questions on dating submitted by
female students.
Livingston named to new post
Kenneth B. Livingston has been appointed affirmative action officer for
the Texas A&M University System, announced TAMU President Jack K. Williams.
As affirmative action officer, Livingston will represent the TAMU System
throughout the state in its contacts with the Governor’s Equal Employment
Opportunity Office, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Wage-Hour Division of the
Department of Labor and other state and federal agencies.
Livingston moves into the newly created position on the president’s staff
after serving three years as TAMU’s assistant personnel director. The appointment
is effective Feb. 1.
“While this formalized position is new, we have had for several years a
viable affirmative action program,” Dr. Williams said. “This program has
continually grown and has reached the point where more extensive administration
is needed for it. We are pleased that Mr. Ken Livingston can accept these larger
responsibilities.”
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