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State briefs
mountain climber rescued
United Press International
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK — A 20-year-
old Texas Tech student stranded on a cliff for more than eight hours
showed signs of stress once the ordeal was over but suffered only a
bruised knee, park officials report.
The student, Davis S. Tarr, became stranded Saturday on the face
of a 150-foot cliff in the rugged mountains along the Texas-New
Mexico border. He was rescued Sunday by a team of park rangers.
Tarr was hiking in the Guadalupe Mountains area Saturday with
four other companions on a weekend outing when they decided to
scale Guadalupe Peak. On their way down from the Peak, Tarr left
the group and tried to take a short cut.
The short cut turned out to be a 2-foot wide ledge on a cliff from
which he could neither descend or ascend.
Spa cited for deceptive trade
AUSTIN — Attorney General Mark White said Tuesday a perma
nent injunction against a Houston-based health spa business had
been entered in Hidalgo County for violations of the Deceptive Trade
Practices and Consumer Protection Act.
The attorney general said Larry G. McGeehee and David Heavin,
operators of Shapely Lady Figure Salons, has mispresented the pro
motion, advertising and sale of weight reduction and physical fitness
exercise programs to about 2,500 women in three salons in McAllen,
Harlingen and Brownsville.
White also alleged the defendants h^d failed to disclose to its cus
tomers before selling them memberships that the Shapely Lady Fig
ure Salons had gone out of business, closed its doors and sold six such
salons in Houston and Kingsville without refunding the unexpired
membership purchase price to its consumers.
The injunction, issued by State District Judge Joe Cisneros in
Edinburg, restrains the salons from representing that they have been
in business for five years and from telling consumers they may pur
chase only the “pre-opening special during their first visit to a salon.
Extra
taken
precautions
at murder trial
United Press International
BROWNSVILLE — As four
marksmen armed with automatic
rifles kept watch on the roof of the
Hall of Justice, prosecution and de
fense attorneys Tuesday began
selecting a jury to try wealthy
Pasadena physician Dr. Archie
Herman Burkhalter and another
man on attempted capital murder
charges.
Law enforcement officers, fearing
possible violence at the trial, took
extraordinary security precautions
to protect 197th District Judge Dar
rell Hester, prosecutors, jurors and
witnesses.
Burkhalter, 51, and Scott David
Minnick, 21, are being tried for con
spiring to murder the man now mar
ried to Burkhalter’s ex-wife.
Persons going in and out of the
courtroom were screened through a
metal detector and numerous uni
formed and plainclothes officers
were stationed near the courtroom
as more than 70 prospective jurors
were ushered in and out of a back
entrance to keep them from viewing
the stringent security measures.
John Hensley, 40, was shot
through the eyes and blinded last
Feb. 15 outside his condominium
on South Padre Island. He was a key
witness last July in the trial of S.J.
Wilburn, 56, uncle of Minnick, who
was convicted as the hired gunman
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Prosecutor Joe K. Hendley al
leged Tuesday that Burkhalter of
fered Wilburn and Minnick a new
Cadillac and $15,000 in cash to kill
Hensley, who had been scheduled
to testify against Burkhalter in a
kidnapping case.
Hensley’s wife, Laurita, was
taken from South Padre Island to
Pasadena on Oct. 13, 1978, and
Hensley had to obtain a court order
to gain her release from Burkhalter’s
Pasadena hospital.
At the opening of jury selection
Tuesday, defense attorney Warren
Burnett of Odessa unsucessfully
moved for a mistrial on grounds that
Hester improperly explained the
three-count indictments against
Burkhalter and Minnick to the ven
iremen.
Hester predicted it would take at
least two days to impanel a jury and
he planned to recess court Thursday
and begin testimony on Friday. The
judge said testimony could take
more than a week.
In Burkhalter’s trial, witnesses
testified that Wilburn fired a single
shot from a .22-caliber rifle which
passed through both of Hensley’s
eyes. Prosecutors contended the
sbot was fired through a gunport cut
in the trunk of a specially equipped
Cadillac.
Wilburn was arrested minutes
after the shooting in nearby Port
Isabel and Minnick, driving a Cadil
lac registered to Burkhalter, was
taken into custody a short time
later. Officers recovered a rifle from
the bottom of Laguna Madre near
the place witnesses said they saw
Minnick and Wilburn parked in
separate automobiles after the
shooting.
Burkhalter was convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment for
arranging the death of the co-owner
of the Pasadena hospital on Dec. 9,
1966, but the conviction later was
overturned on appeal. After two
more trials, a jury acquitted Burk
halter.
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jone Star Gas losing money
Natural gas price hike sought
United Press International
AUSTIN — Lone Star Gas Co.
itabout $1 million a month during
Brazos Cm e y ear ending in April because the
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Railroad Commission has lim-
Ithe amount of increased natural
costs the utility can pass on to its
icga servicefe l stomers > a to P executive of Lone
3 for two weft 9t said Tuesday,
snarerhanopi Dou g*as Williams, senior vice
lents and ks ss ^ ent Lone Star, made the
gjQQ raiments as the commission
• the United lenec ^ bearings on the company’s
quest for a $40.9 million rate in
ease in gate rates it charges 421
xas cities for natural gas.
In prepared testimony to be pres
sed to the commission during the
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arings, which are expected to last
two weeks, Williams said the pro
posed rate increase would raise the
average residential customer’s
monthly bill by about $28. The rate
would affect about 1.1 million cus-
tomers in North Texas and West
Texas.
“Lone Star must earn enough to
assure the reliability and dependa
bility of service. We must earn
enough to pay competitive wages, to
buy the supplies and all the other
things necessary to get gas to our
customers on a dependable, high
quality basis,” Williams said in his
statement.
“Right now, as we will prove to
the commission, we are short of
earning enough to do all that should
be done to assure first class, quality
service. That is why we are request
ing this increase.”
Williams said Lone Star currently
is allowed to pass along to its cus
tomers 85 percent of the cost of gas
above $1.18 per thousand cubic
feet, plus 30.81 cents.
The average cost of gas to the
company in June was $1.78, he said.
“But since Lone Star has the 85
percent limitation on the cost of gas
above $1.18, the company in effect
loses 9 cents for every thousand
cubic feet of gas sold that month,”
he said.
Williams said the company was
not able to recover more than $12
million in gas costs for the 12-month
period ending in April.
“To buy gas knowing you cannot
recover your full cost is a bad busi
ness decision, but the only other al
ternative is not to buy gas at all,
which ultimately leads to going out
of business. We are not interested
in going out of business. ”
Lone Star s proposed rate in
crease is being opposed by the cities
of Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton,
Waco, Abilene and a number of
other cities.
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claims ‘fear in Seadrift ,
uring testimony at murder trial
sfaction is
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'xas Ave.
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United Press International
SEGUIN — A Vietnamese ref
lee who witnessed the shooting
th of a Texas fisherman during
si ummer’s crab war at Seadrift
stified Tuesday he feared for his
mily’s safety because of animosity
ward Indochinese settlers in the
klf Coast fishing village.
Sen Van Nguyen, 37, a father of
ii, told a jury he did not know how
mg he could live in Seadrift, where
c operates a crab boat, because
iere is fear in Seadrift.”
My fear stems from the fact that
if children are harrassed in the
teets, ” Van Nguyen said under de
nse questioning. “I cannot tell you
to is harrassing us because I’m
raid that if I say names, I might
ave to go away from ^Seadrift.
Van Nguyen, no relation to the
tfendants, appeared as a state wit-
ssin the trial of Sau Van Nguyen,
, and Chin Van Nguyen, 20,
tothers accused of murdering Bill
KAplin Aug. 3.
Speaking through an interpreter,
Nguyen said he watched an ar-
raient on the dock in which Aplin
wed a knife and chased one of
defendants. He said the two
[ietnamese brothers left and later
•tamed, at which time he saw Ap
lin, 35, strike one of the brothers
and heard “two or three” gunshots.
In his opening statement Tues
day, the Calhoun County district at
torney said he intended to prove
that the two brothers and other
Vietnamese refugees repeatedly vio
lated local fishing customs in Sead
rift prior to the murder. The killing
of Aplin occurred at the height of a
squabble between the Indochinese
fishermen and Gulf Coast natives.
Defense attorney Pat Maloney,
who won a change of venue to Se-
guin, protested Tuesday that the
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city was “full of rednecks" and ques
tioned whether his clients could re
ceive a fair trial.
Maloney, who said during the
eight-hour jury selection Monday
that Aplin was “a bully who got what
he deserved,” said be would base
his case on self-defense.
“He (Sau Van Nguyen) came back
(to the fishing dock) to protect the
only two things he had — his boat
and his relative,” Maloney said. “He
did shoot him. He feared for his life
and his property.”
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