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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1979 Page 11 the state Students surrender to police in Sherman shooting incident Funds depend on slower speeds Wi abt United Press International AUSTIN — Texans don’t want to drive a maximum of 55 mph, and ijersuading 40 percent of them to do it before a federal deadline will be most impossible, experts say. Joe E. Milner, chief of the Texas epartment of Public Safety’s traffic w enforcement division, told a Na- onal Highway Safety Advisory jommittee Task Force Wednesday pas barely met the September 779 federal requirement that de- landed 30 percent of the state’s loroHsts not exceed 55 mph,and have a hard time meeting the September 1980 deadline for 40 percent compliance. Texas stands to lose $8 million in highway construction money if it does not comply. “There is a lack of public support and respect for the law, and a lack of adequate numbers of highway patrol troopers to enforce it,’ Milner said. “We’ve got about 1,400 troopers. It would probably take double that to ensure 100 percent compliance with the 55 mph limit.” Texas A&M researcher Charles J. Keese, also a transportation profes sor at the Texas Transportation Insti tute, said, “There is little hope that the speed curve can be reversed and highway speeds reduced as rapidly as the federal government specifies. “To do so will require both a mas sive enforcement effort requiring significant increases in enforcement personnel and equipment, along with a major change of attitude on the part of the motorists.” Milner and Keese questioned the fairness of federal threats to cut high way construction allocations to states that do not meet compliance dead line. “The federal statute has no flexi bility in it,” Milner said. “It doesn’t allow for a tolerance. It’s not practic al to enforce speed limits without a tolerance.” Milner said because of possible errors in equipment readings and other human factors, the DPS tells patrolmen to stop motorists only in “clear cut and substantial” speeding cases. “We don’t want to arrest people for going 1 or 2 or mph over the speed limit,” he said. Milner said the federal statute in correctly presumes all states started from the same point in their efforts to reduce highwspeeding. “That’s just not true,” Milner said. “We all started from a different plp.ee.” Keese questioned the wisdom of cutting federal grants for highway construction, saying it is the Depart ment of Public Safety that has au thority to do something about speed ers, not the Highway Department. United Press International SHERMAN — Two 18-year-old Sherman High School seniors sur rendered to police in connection with a shooting incident Tuesday at the home of assistant trincipal Charles Byler. Byler was not in jured. The students, identified as Billy Mack Wiey and Bobby Lynn Hardy, surrendered to police investigators Wednesday afternoon. They told police the shooting was a prank. When they realized the se riousness of their actions, they said they decided to surrender. Both men were charged Thursday morn- Rx STEREO ing with criminal mischief, a ClassA misdemeanor. They were released from the Grayson County jail on $500 bond each. A police department spokesman said Wylie and Hardy have clean police records both as adults and as juveniles. Both men gave voluntary state ments concerning their involvement in the shooting. Police said Wylie shot the 12- gauge shotgun, which he had taken from his father without permission, while Hardy drove. The shooting occurred shortly af ter 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. is dealing the way you like! OPEN FINALS WEEK 9-9 EVERYTHING ON SALE! 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The two were named in a 24-count, 30-page indict ment Wednesday by a federal grand jury. The indictment named former maintenance su pervisor Richard A. Winger and former employee Aubrey Gene Hester and accused them of scheming to defraud the school district of almost $58,000 in bogus bills submitted by Air and Energy Control Co., an Irving air conditioning firm. The firm s owner, Leland Burnell Hall, was also indicted. Winger headed the school district’s heating venti lation and air conditioning maintenance section. He was named in 24 counts of the indictment, including one count of conspiracy, one count of obstruction of justice and 22 counts of mail fraud. Hester, who testified Wednesday before the grand jury, was named in a single consiracy count. Hall also was charged with a single count of conspiracy. The indictment was returned in Fort Worth, sources said, because it was the only federal panel in north Texas that was in session at the time. According to the indictment, the three formed the air conditioning firm specifically to defraud the school district, dividing the profits among them. It said Hall received more than $24,000 from the opera tion, while Winger and Hester each got more than $12,000. United Press International LONGVIEW — A district court judge has ruled the mother of an in fant found near a church nativity scene manger has no rights to the child and the boy, dubbed “Timothy Christmas,” may be adopted. Judge William Martin said a hear ing completed Tuesday established the identity of the child’s mother, but he refused to release the young woman’s name and woild not indi cate why she abandoned the infant. The newborn has been in custody of the state since he was found about a week ago in the Christmas display outside the First Baptist Church. He las discovered lying in a cardboard box on top of a note that said: “I’m Timothy — pleas take care of me. He was believed to be about 2 days old when he was found. 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The shah, recuperating from can- er surgery and treatmnt at Lackland Ur Force base in San Antonio is eheduled to be questioned by Clif- Ord Jefferson, the court reporter in udge Albert White Jr.’s 236th dis- Kict court .' i vS aooo i ^Lawyers for 69 pilots — fifed by “ Bell Helicopter International in 1975 i luring a dispute over union organiz- jj! ngatlsfaham, Iran — requested the !! Reposition from the shah. "j The pilots’ attorney, Jim Lane of ji Fort Worth, is seeking to ask the i deposed monarch about his know- 'd ledge of the incident, u Asked whether the deposition would be taken from the shah, a base w spokesman said, The Air Force cer- j* tainly will not interfere in any action nor will we have any role in such .action. Our only role in the thing is to clear the person into the base and into the area. Then it’s strictly be tween the parties.” The exiled monarch was sub poenaed last Friday, and Jefferson said Wednesday the subpoena had not been returned. A spokesman at Lackland initially refused to confirm whether the shah received the sub poena and did so only after San Anto nio Sheriff Rudy Garza said the sub poena had been served. Initial attempts were made to de liver it under the shah’s full name, Garza said, but when a sheriff went Hi to Wilford Hall Air Force Hospital on the base, he was told no one by the shah s full name was listed as staying there. Garza said it was not until he re ceived a call from Lane that anyone realized the subpoena was for the deposed shah of Iran. The subpoena was served Wednesday to an aide of the shah, Garza said. Jefferson said the shah would re spond only to “written interrogator ies because he is not particularly strong following the chemotherapy treatment.” He said he considers himself “very lucky” to be handling the deposition in the civil ease. The plaintiffs in the suit said they were among 141 pilots who con tacted the professional helicopter pilots association after Bell allegedly violated the terms of their contract to train Iranian military recruits. Claiming training conditions were unsaf, they staged a "sick-in” to press their demands. Bell fired them. Joe McAnally, a spokesman for Lackland, said the Air Force would “obviously provide security” for the ailing former ruler during any de position. “The shah is a guest here at Lack- land,” he said. AGGIE RING DIAMOND $85°o The perfect Christmas gift! w diamond brokers international, inc. W 10 point, full cut . just 693-1647 693-1658 In the George Green Bldg. PCKWG CHlNCSC RESTAURANT STlDEiVT SPECIAI, NOON BUFFET 2.95 SUNDAY EVENING BUFFET 3.55 All you can eat SPECIAL COMBINATION DINNER Open Oaily 3.50 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. 5:30 p.m. to 0:30 p.m. 1313 S. 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