THE BATTALION Page 5
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1979
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tolen trucks
\eld in West Texas
Department of Public Safety
Motor Thefts Services officer Bill
Priest said he is awaiting the arrival
of New Jersey Retail Co. investiga
tion who reportedly are missing a
shipment similar to the one reco
vered Friday.
Crockett County deputy Gene
Cooper discovered the truck about 3
a.m. Friday, 6 miles east of this
southwest Texas town, Priest said.
New Jersey authorities subse
quently recovered another semi
trailer truck worth $20,000, believed
stolen in the same operation.
Authorities said the first truck
apparently was stolen before some
one contracted with the New Jersey
clothing firm to haul the clothing to
San Francisco
United Press International
OZONA — Authorities Tuesday
d they would await the arrival of
1 1 jresentatives of a New Jersey clo-
' ng firm before unsealing a stolen
miltrailer truck and inventorying
i ^ 11 load of women’s clothes worth an
Shifted $200,000.
ml W |, ra .A truck driver has been arrested
\FB IT Icharged with second-degree
j , ony theft of the $28,000 truck and
; acmne I clothes, following the discovery
u | rr :he rig on Interstate 10 last Friday.
Held in Crockett County Jail in
Hof $100,000 bond is Willie Clin-
a ' nin Ki i. Wilson, believed to be in his
tekiaiy 20s. Authorities said they had
Ssn Aii* e n unable to determine Wilson’s
rmanent address,
w IrankE
Irainim;
Mother demands
jf jxhumation of son
United Press International
IAN ANTONIO — The angry mother of a Holmes High School
homore who died during a beating last month demanded Tuesday
t her son’s body be exhumed and re-examined by a panel of doctors
cause of death.
)r. Ruben Santos, Bexar County medical examiner, said that Billy
work olBarnett Jr., 15, died of a congenital aneurysm that happened to burst
fandartiimultaneously with the beating. He ruled death by natural causes.
Kl’m a zombie,” Gail Barnett, the boy’s mother, said Tuesday. “I
gation Jon’t eat. I don’t sleep. I don’t laugh. I don’t cry. I’m most angry.
■ facts Before I can get over my anger or grief, I need to know what happened
“We — Kvhat caused his death.
laintenaBlf it were an aneurysm and Billy dropped dead on the bus; well, it
d teebwopld have been a terrible thing. But tbis.”
nodermWitnesses said that Barnett, a member of the “kickers” clique at the
>us care )igh school, was knocked to tbe ground and kicked by six members of
try. B rival “pot heads” clique who followed him from a school bus on
tion tA- 22.
ew FAt Police arrested one 18-year-old and five juveniles and charged them
howeveiBh murder despite Santos’ ruling on cause of death. All six youths
rtunitnfince have been released from jail,
with tbef
itizens hack attack
jjjk shah protesters
it vS
United Press International
IN ANTONIO — City staff
\WpeTS reported Tuesday they
ve received numerous calls from
'nssupporting Councilman Van
isnry Archer’s call for deportation
Intenufoi 4 g r0U P of Iranian protesters
0 _ lltoding San Antonio College.
nouncetfAs far as I’m concerned, they
w jll fn’t have a right to demonstrate if
lay® ey re not citizens,” Archer said. “I
Iia lCii ink we’ve had enough of them.”
jtelanc Archer, upset over a march by Ira-
an students fast Friday protesting
rights e shah’s presence in the United
dPou.iaj
leader. L #
wate tries
;s, saili
States, insisted that Mayor Lila
Cockrell investigate the possibility
of requiring persons who receive pa
rade permits to pay for their own
pofice protection.
The mayor said she would ask the
city staff for a report on the incident
and some recommendations on para
de permit rules.
Attorney Gerald Goldstein, rep
resenting the American Civil Liber
ties Union, said Tuesday the Ira
nians had the same freedom of
speech and assembly as Americans.
to enter
etters as evidence
United Press International
BROWNSVILLE — The attemp-
jd murder conspiracy trial of Dr.
A/e Herman. Burkhafter and
tt David M innick bogged down
its second day Tuesday as the state
lj ttempted to introduce into evi-
SJl ence a series of letters and docu-
j# / lents allegedly written by con-
■Ojcted hit man S.J. Wilburn.
|i^The papers were identified by
ouston television newsman Bob
son as the same ones left in the
I uQ| |t ont seat of his automobile in Hous-
' || after he received an anonymous
Fofiph one call.
The letters, written by Wilburn
yhile he was in jail awaiting trial
ier this year, were introduced
>ew [Ao Wilburn’s trial last July. Tbey
‘ e tbe key evidence leading to bis
iviction on attempted capital
CA\V i T ^ e,: charges in tbe shooting of
Bureau
orders end
to offer
United Press International
SANTA FE, N.M.— A Hous
ton-based cosmetics corporation
and an Albuquerque couple were
ordered Tuesday by state Secur
ities Bureau chief A. M. Swarth-
out to stop offering $10,000
shares in a “joint venture agree
ment.”
The securities bureau head di
rected his cease and desist order
at the People Power Association
Inc. and Victor and Phyllis Che-
noweth of Albuquerque.
The association is shown in the
order as a corporation organized
under the laws of Delaware. The
Chenoweths, according to the
order, do business as “Aloessence
of New Mexico.”
Swarthout identified Leland
Wray DesCombes and Steven
W. Perram as principal officers of
the association, and the Che
noweths as “area distributors” for
cosmetics supplied by the asso
ciation.
The order said the association
held two “seminars” in Albuquer
que aimed at getting 15 persons
to invest $10,000 each in a “joint
venture agreement.”
Under the agreement, Swarth
out said, $120,000 of the money
raised would be used to purchase
an inventory of cosmetics from
the assocation, $10,000 would be
paid to the Chenoweths, and the
balance would be used for “va
rious administrative expenses.”
The securities chief said the in
vestments constitute securities
under state law, and neither the
association nor the Chenoweths
have registered the securities or
been licensed as securities sales
men in New Mexico.
He said DesCombes was the
subject of a prohibition order
from the Wisconsin securities
commissioner about 10 years ago
when DesCombes operated an
Illinois-based corporation known
as House of Wray Inc.
John Hensley, 40, on Feb. 15 at
South Padre Island.
Wilburn, 56, a cancer patient at
BrnkbafreT S Pasadena hospital, and
Minnick, 21, Burkhalter’s nephew,
allegedly were hired by Burkhalter
to shoot Hensley, who is now mar
ried to the wealthy physician’s ex-
wife, Laurita.
The letters were ruled admissible
by District Judge Darrell Hester in
Wilburn’s trial.
In the letters — written by Wil
burn to his woman friend, Emma
Maldonado Velasquez from the
Cameron County jail, and in a diary
he kept — Wilburn described how
he stalked Hensley for weeks before
a .223-caliber bullet was fired, pierc
ing both of tbe South Padre Island
man’s eyes and blinding him last
Feb. 15.
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