THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1978
Page 5
idopt-a-Horse
rogram underway
f I'nitod Press International
WBYVILLE — Thirty-nine
r tseardi Ihorses of all sizes, ages and col-
orgajjj, irrived by truck this week from
or incoir, ada and will be distributed by
national^ ederal government to residents
Ips stud# ast Texas and Louisiana who
es, Toilet, ' ec * ^ )r ^ u 'm and are willing to
for transportation and feed,
vocatiosj horses were rounded up on
aid, thei Ik land in northwestern Nevada
ith two tip the federal government’s
ype hei opt-A-Horse Program,” started
Phis type iduce an over-abundance of wild
expectaj ies ancl b urros on sparsely-
<nowledfi |etat(‘cl public lands in western
ft horses are given free to per-
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49. Santa Fe, N.M.
Those who adopt an animal are
r nired to pay the transportation,
‘ Bnarian and other fees which
,1 [total about $100 at the perma-
K tKirbyville Wild Horse Distri-
d ""'“ ion Center, located about 40
)n ' ' es north of Beaumont. This
ized i mmts to a h ,out half the average
lemic f, a domesticated horse in the
es a t- ^| area -
‘ | 5LM spokesman John Gumert
1 * there are an estimated 70,000
orses and 5,000 to 6,000 bur-
aming on public lands in the
I. He said 8,000 horses and bur
ros had been adopted in the pro
gram nationwide.
Gumert said the number of mus
tangs has increased from 7,000 in
1971 when Congress approved legis
lation protecting the animals. Under
the Wild Horse and Burro Protec
tion Act, as horse numbers increase
and the rangeland becomes over
crowded excess horses and burros
may be rounded up and given to in
dividuals.
The horses remain the property of
the federal government and may not
be used for commercial purposes or
sold, Gumert said, but their off
spring belong to the persons who
adopted them.
“The horses that are wild out in
the West stem largely from the De
pression,” Gumert said. "Back in
those days a lot of the ranchers in
the Western states went broke and
went to town and turned their stock
out. So these horses are roaming on
public land in Nevada, Wyoming,
Montana, so forth.
Although the horses and burros
irre available to those who pay the
nominal fees, Gumert admitted
they may be quite unruly after
roaming untended.
“They’re wild. They’re unbroken
animals. It takes a little handling, a
little care to get them in shape, he
said.
Racketeering trial ends
as sheriff pleads guilty
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Battalion photo by Lee Roy Lescnper Jr.
nted
use
esult of horseracing
ote still is criticized
The coooool way to work
Sophomore engineering student Mike Vasquez isn’t relaxing
in his favorite pool — he’s working for the University
facilities department cleaning mud and algae out of Rudder
Fountain.
Justice moves court session
under tree, away from noise
United Press International
TYLER — In a surprise plea
bargaining arrangement, Fannin
County Sheriff Raymond Taylor has
ended his federal racketeering trial
by changing his plea to guilty and
now could be sentenced to 29 years
in prison.
After meeting briefly with prose
cutors during a Tuesday morning
recess, Taylor agreed to plead guilty
to bribery and narcotics charges in
exchange for dismissal of 13 counts
of a 16-count indictment against
him.
The plea change came in the
seventh day of the widely publicized
trial. The veteran East Texas sheriff,
who was suspended from duty fol
lowing the filing of the indictment,
had claimed he was innocent of all
charges.
Before accepting the new plea,
U.S. District Judge William M.
Steger warned Taylor that a plea
bargain arrangement acceptable to
the prosecution was not necessarily
binding on his court. He also
warned the sheriff those charges he
pleaded guilty to could net him a
$70,000 fine and 29 years in prison.
Steger set a June 23 sentencing
date and Taylor was allowed to re
main free on a $100,000 bond.
Taylor refused to discuss his plea
bargaining agreement other than to
tell reporters “everything’s fine. ”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff
Baynham, the prosecutor in the
case, had few comments other than
“justice has been served here. ’
“I feel this case has put on notice
law enforcement officers who
choose to violate the law rather than
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enforce it,” Baynham said.
The testimony Monday of former
prostitute Linda Strahan was repre
sentative of the stories which dam
aged Taylor’s credibility.
“We (she and her husband) heard
we could buy the sheriff there (in
Fannin County) so we moved
there,” Ms. Strahan said.
“When we first opened, Taylor
was there two or three times a
week. We were to pay Sheriff Taylor
$200 per month at first.”
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[fISTIN — The State Demo-
Executive Council has made
results of the May 6 horseracing
„ ....nr , frftnclum official, but the issue
Christercl!' 4 ' ' ,andl,n S • st,n are be,ng
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|nt on pari-mutuel betting was
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Warwick Jenkins of Jacksboro,
isaid he was not a horseman,
lized what be called “tbe lack of
hity” of the pari-mutuel re-
endum, saying there might have
en problems with the petition
atures needed to get the re-
ndum placed in the ballot,
in Bock of New Braunfels also
ited the pari-mutuel referen-
m results, saying there was a
jtion as to whether the votes
ere counted correctly.
State Democratic Party Chairman
aim Guest said the SDEC had
■nt memos to the, 254 county
lairmen and asked them to send in
if
ennonite
ettlement
Investigated
United Press International
SEMINOLE — The settlement
550 Mennonites in West Texas is
Subject of an internal investiga-
m by the U.S. Immigration and
aturalization Service.
She Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
|bted INS investigator Frank Cos-
js as saying the internal investiga-
on will check into allegations that
ji.INS officer recommended an El
||o attorney to help the Menno-
:es prepare the paperwork to im-
ate to Seminole from Mexico
Canada.
ftVhenever we hear of anything
iat we feel should be looked into
v our internal investigators, we do
i said Verne Jervis, INS public in-
irmation officer in Washington.
Members of the religious sect,
Ho entered the United States last
ear without the proper papers,
ave survived the threat of deporta-
on at least another year because of
mgressional and local support for
leir settlement.
They bought 6,400 acres of rolling
inchland to farm and eventually
lan to develop it into a major set-
feinent of 2,000 to 5,000 families.
final tallies. The SDEC did not ask
the county chairmen to recount the
votes.
Other results officially proclaimed
John Poerner winner in the June 3
runoff for railroad commissioner
against Jerry Sadler.
Poerner, who was appointed to
the Railroad Commission by Gov.
Dolph Briscoe when Jim Langdon
resigned, garnered 527,927 votes to
231,295 for Sadler. Poerner faces
Republican Jim Lacy of Midland in
the November election.
The SDEC also announced final
results in four congressional races.
Marvin Leath of Marlin polled
40,261 votes to 33,029 for Lane Den
ton of Waco in the District II race.
In District 14, Rep. Joe Wyatt,
D-Bloomington, defeated Rep. John
Young, D-Texas, 36,409 to 28,905.
Young has served for 22 years.
Phil Gramm of College Station
defeated Ron Godbey of Duncan
ville, 23,762 to 21,169, to-gain die
Democratic nomination in District
6. Charles W. Stenholm of Stamford
defeated A.L. “Dusty” Rhodes in
District 17, 46,599 to 22,865.
Jupfnam&a
Eddie Dominguez ’66
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PORT ARTHUR — Justice of the
Peace Asa Traham got tired of hav
ing to yell over the loud noise of jack
hammers and construction equip
ment, so in a flurry of frustration he
ordered a change'of venue — to a
local park.
Using a marble slab as bis bench
and a tree branch as bis gavel,
Traham reconvened his court Tues
day under the shade of an oak tree.
Both prosecutors and defense attor
neys took their posts at a nearby
picnic table.
Witnesses sat with the judge on
the marble slab.
Traham decided to move the
hearing because of construction
noise in the Jefferson, County Cour
thouse. He said he tried unsuc
cessfully to secure a municipal
courtroom for the preliminary hear
ing of Charles Crittis, charged with
murder.
“I can go anywhere I feel it’s
necessary to hold court, he said.
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