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THE BATTALION Page 11 MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1979 Airlines allowed to raise prices again United Press International WASHINGTON — The Civil Aeronautics Board agreed Friday to allow the nation’s airlines to raise their fares by up to 3.7 percent on Thursday because of the skyrocket ing price of fuel. The increase was the fourth this year authorized by the board. The total of the four increases is 25.9 percent. A board spokesman said the latest increase authorized was “mostly due to fuel, no doubt about it.” The cost of airline fuel has risen from about 37 cents a gallon at the beginning of the year to an average of 67 cents in September. Fuel costs now account for about 24 percent of the airline’s total cost of service. The increase comes as some of the nation’s largest air carriers are re porting third-quarter losses, or dras tically reduced earnings, compared with the third quarter of 1978. The board also said it will not condone chaotic conditions in the industry caused by airlines raising their fares to the new level without properly informing the public. When fares were increased Sept. T, the board said, it was deluged by complaints. The CAB has been making ad justments in airline fare ceiling twice a year since 1977. However, because of the fast-rising airline fuel prices, the board changed its policy over the summer and began readjusting the fere levels every two months instead of every six. it 5:15 p m : ; ds to cut on iceting at 8:Ii .Michael Cooli portunities il attend at 1 p.i tures will be la b will be set: g Center. 510, Rudde; ienior RingDfl A COMPLETE CATERING SERVICE LET US CATER YOUR NEXT BAR-B-QUE FUNCTION $ 2 95 per plate WE CATER TO ALL CLUB FUNC TIONS — DORMS, SOSORITIES, FRATERNITIES, CORPS, DANCES, PICNICS. HOT OR COLD BUFFETS CHARBROILED STEAKS 779-6417 2700 Texas Ave. - Bryan 822-6417 Lucille Newcomb, left, shows some handiwork on sale during Saturday’s Brazos Valley Senior Citizens Olympics and Festi val. Newcomb, a member of the Brazos Valley Senior Citizen Festival Association, was one of some 400 area elderly people participating in the day-long event. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Small town recalls l se(l cars serve as n, ' sl vchic,cs Rudder, i • _ J } •ff • invite ties kilting United Press International “T onuldn’t sec nnhnr eet at 7:3(1 p.: ' win United Press International DIMM ITT, Texas — For those itify memben ester activite ; an organim ;et for discuss in Room 302, io recall the shooting death two t for Eid-Ul years ago of a pretty Mexican- American girl and the arrest of two professed witches, the return of Halloween brings nothing but raw- nerved tension. )The traditional symbols — a sal low moon, a straw-littered, har- Jrested cornfield, batches of confec- ftions — are easy to spot. It’s the I haunting memory of a dead girl and ] the invisible threat of violence and lan and Bil) tretaliation that stir anxiety in this low Safe?’at; otherwise peaceful Panhandle town. ■ “We re sitting on a powderkeg up 956 musics ^ ere > sa V s Castro County Sheriff i RudderTk Granville Martin, a reference to tension that has existed between the tBwn’s 4,327 white and Mexican- ;terinan lK '-' American residents since Roxanne fifasas was shot to death Oct. 31, t 7:30 p.m. i 1977. , students an® Like some of her Dimmitt High xx)k. School classmates, the sophomore had heard of Loy and Louise Stone, self-described flamen and flamenca [eepers of the flame) of the Church Arianhu, one of five chartered anches ofWicca. Some even knew it 9 p.m. ini'] how to get to the the Stones’ small pme house on Easter Road, IVi lies northwest of town. Two weeks before, the Stones ffiere in an Amarillo television udio to announce an upcoming ture on their beliefs. The couple’s brief television ap- arance was enough, however, to wch the curiosity of high school students in Hereford, north of Dimmitt. They soon appeared in their cars outside the Stones’ small house, laughing and jeering. The disturbance prompted a somplaint from the Stones to Sheriff Martin. Ultimately, several stu dents were taken into custody, given a stiff lecture and at least one ^as fined $100 for fleeing from an officer. But as Halloween approached, some of the 425 students at Dimmitt High School discussed taking the short ride north along U.S. 385 to the Stones’ house. Like their Hereford counterparts, an officer said later, “they thought fhey d see a witches’ ceremony or devil worship.” About dusk, cars and trucks laded with students began plying the two-lane dirt road in front of the Stones’ house. Some of the drivers pulled into the curved gravel drive- fay that led to a door marked by a jscript “S” — for Stone. I Some of the kids laughed and [ventured guesses that the “S” stood fcr “spook” or “Satan.” Loy Stone telephoned authorities in to complain. Although the call was given to a deputy and Martin was headed east [toward Nazareth, the sheriff de- fcided to take the call himself and turned .around, recalling earlier trouble with the teen-agers. | Near the Stones’ house, Martin feicountered a carload of Hereford youths. ] “I stopped them. They had heard .there were witches. I told ’em, iDon t come back down here,’ and I [turned ’em loose and they went gome.” I Martin, meanwhile, drove the phort distance to the Stones’ house PLAZA r 11 ^ shined his car lights into the li “I couldn’t see nobody there or nothing going on,” he said. “I backed out and went west. ” Arthur Herrera, driving a brand new red Ford pickup, was on Easter Road that night, squashed against the driver’s door by the four passengers in the front seat with him. j With the 18-year-old driver were Andriana Rangel and Maria Tre vino, both 15; Carlos Garza, 18, and Roxanne Casas, three months short of her sixteenth birthday. Herrera, who has since left Dim mitt, to the dismay of prosecutor Jimmy F. Davis, drove his pickup into the Stones’ driveway, past a concrete block well house. He was turning around, spraying gravel, when two blasts echoed from a shot gun. One of them struck the bed of the truck. A second shattered the passenger window and sent buckshot into Roxanne Casas’ right temple. It also hit Carlos and Maria, inflicting minor wounds. About an hour later at 8:45 p.m. Roxanne was pronounced dead on arrival at Plains Memorial Hospital 7% miles from the Stones’ house. A nurse phoned Police Chief Joe Ben Mitchell and told him, “We have a dead child here.” The report was relayed to Martin, still in the vicinity of the Stones’ house, and he requested a backup from the highway patrol before con tinuing alone. “I generally back myself up with my pistol and my shotgun, ” a hatless Martin quipped recently, his tan cowboy boots propped on the desk of his office. Martin pulled in at the Stones’ house for the second time. “I seen a man and a woman and some car had pulled in. ‘That was the one,’ I heard a man down the road say. I told ’em I’d had a call, (about a shooting),” Martin said. He said a man told him he had fired a single shot to “scare them kids off. ” new model. Cost is their main reason for buy ing used vehicles, Welty says. 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