Page 2 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1975
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By JIM EARLE
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The first issue of The Battalion
was published on Oct. 1, 1893.
In that issue Editor in Chief E. L.
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today as it was in that first issue 82
years ago.
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This summer our production
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tion problems aside we will have
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Organized crime
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AUSTIN — Organized crime was
a billion dollar business in Texas last
year, with bookies, $1,500 a week
prostitutes, fences, car thieves and
drug pushers part of a vast operation
that even included motorcycle
gangs.
That is the conclusion ol the an
nual report of the Texas Organized
Crime Prevention Council.
Intelligence reports indicate that
bookmaking on both college and
professional football and basketball
games “continued to be the biggest
organized criminal activity in Texas
during 1974,” the council said.
Texans placed an estimated $1
billion in bets with illegal bookies in
1974, yielding a $120.8 million pro
fit, the report said.
It said subpoenaed records indi
cate that bookies in the Belton,
Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dal
las, Fort Worth, Galveston, Hous
ton, Midland, Odessa and Wichita
Falls areas were in daily contact
with other bookmakers in 117 cities
located in 78 Texas counties and 119
cities in 36 other states.
And “these bookmakers repre
sent . . . less than 5 per cent of the
total of bookmakers known to be
operating within the state,” it said.
The council said that the Texas
Department of Safety Organized
Crime Unit had identified 1,628
prostitutes, 535 procurers and 89
bawdy house madames between
January 1968 and December 1974.
“Intelligence reports revealed
that the average income of prosti
tutes was $1,500 per week. Assum
ing that all of the identified prosti
tutes made at least the average
amount per week, the estimated in
come to organized crime from pros
titution would amount to approxi
mately $126.9 million a year,” the
council said.
A prostitution ring working out of
Corpus Christi was identified in
1974, the report said, with a circuit
that extended into Austin, Houston,
LaGrange and San Antonio.
“The Dallas Area Organized
Crime Task Force identified 200
prostitutes working in 50 massage
houses during the calendar year,” it
added. “This operation was further
identified as part of a prostitution
ring which included tbe cities of
Dallas, Houston and San Antonio,
Tex.; Miami and Pompano Beach,
Fla.; New Orleans, La.; and Hon
olulu, Hawaii.”
The council said Texas law en
forcement agencies have not been
able to positively identify any Texan
as a member of La Cosa Nostra.
The so-called “Dixie Mafia’ has
213 alleged members or associates
in Texas, the report said, including
seven who were “known to he pilots
and were believed used to fly as
sociates and members to various lo
cations when desired.”
The Dixie Mafia was described as
“a group of highly mobile criminals
operating throughout the states of
Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and
other southeastern states who
specialize in extortion, burglary,
robbery, murder, theft and numer
ous other criminal offenses.
While several outlaw motorcycle
gangs were present in Texas, the
Bandidos were the largest and most
organized, with chapters in most of
the state’s cities as well as several
other states, the report said.
“Intelligence reports have iden
tified 858 individuals as dues-paying
members of this organization ....
They do not belong to any legiti
mate motorcycle association or or
ganization. They claim to be ‘one
per centers’ — the one per cent that
does not fit or does not care. The
term ‘one per cent’ refers to that
portion of the total population who
are earning their living through un
lawful means,” the report said.
It said the Bandidos were in
volved in armed robbery, burglary,
murder, murder for hire, narcotics
and prostitution.
Another motorcycle gang, the
Conquistadors, began to challenge
the Bandidos for a portion of the
South Texas prostitution business,
the report said, and “this activity of
the Conquistadors has been ex
pected to result in acts of violence
that could develop into open war
fare between the two organization-
s. ”
The council recommended sev
eral new laws, including legalized
wiretapping and a statute providing
greater penalties for offenses com
mitted as part of an organization
than by an individual.
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