state
No indictment this week instate
investigation of bribery scandal
United Press International
HOUSTON — The U.S. attorney
leading the Texas phase of the feder
al investigation of a labor and govern
ment bribery scandal Wednesday
said no indictments would be re
turned this week.
In Austin, lawyers for House
Speaker Bill Clayton said he would
not appear before the Houston panel
until Friday, and possibly not at all, if
they could obtain a judge’s order to
quash his subpoena.
“I do not expect anything from this
grand jury this week,” J.A. Tony
Canales, U.S. attorney for the south
ern district of Texas said.
Canales said he did not know
when the indictments would come.
He speculated all scheduled non-
FBI witness testimony could be
completed by Friday afternoon, but
said, “there’s a lot of work to be done
after that.”
The grand jury has been hearing
testimony since at least Monday.
Canales said it would be unfair for
him to characterize the natire of the
investigation, although two witnes
ses have admitted they were asked
whether they took money in ex
change for help in arranging multi-
million-dollar insurance contracts for
state employees and union mem
bers.
One union official named by
Clayton as the donor of an unolicited
$5,000 contribution sidestepped a
grand jury subpoena Wednesday,
possibly providing Clayton’s lawyers
with the impetus to try the same
maneuver.
Century-old ship finds
friends in Galveston
Mike Ramsey, a lawyer for L.G.
Moore, the regional director of the
International Union of Operating
Engineers, said the government’s
“secret police” had leaked damaging
information about the case, denying
his client due process of law.
Ramsey appeared before U.S. 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals Justice
Reynaldo Garza in Brownsville early
Wednesday and obtained a tempor
ary stay of Moore’s grand jury sub
poena. Ramsey asked Garza to con
vene a three-judge federal panel to
hear his arguments forquashing the
subpoena.
“My basic position on all this is
when the secret police come into
Texas and operate, then they’re
obliged to present their product to a
constitutional forum, namely a grand
jury, and not simply broadcast their
version of what they claim happened
to the citizenrh at large,” Ramsey
said.
Details of the scandal first
appeared in the Los Angeles Times
and were attributed to well-
informed sources and government
sources, Ramsey said.
“The one thing I really object to is
in a part of the Times story they talk
about a Houston labor leader intro
ducing a crooked insurance agent to
(reputed Louisiana crime boss) Car
los Marcello. Then deeper into the
story, they talk about a high official of
the Operating Engineers Union and
attribute other actual wrongdoing to
him,” Ramsey said.
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1 GALVESTON — Almost a cen
tury ago the British barque Elissa
was a graceful sailing ship. Now the
Elissa, the oldest ship listed in
Lloyd’s of London Registry of Ship
ping, is a pitiful hulk.
Gone are the three wooden masts,
spars and sails. Her clipper bow has
J been chopped off, the work of a pre-
■vious owner who disguised her in
order to smuggle cigarettes from Ita
ly to Yugoslavia. Rising from her
temporary deck is a grimy diesel en
gine housing.
* But slowly the ship is regaining
her prime due to the work of a pri
vate historical foundation and hun-
.dreds of volunteers.
1 Later this year she may be open
for viewing and possibly in two years
she will sail Galveston Bay for the
first time this century.
“This is not only the restoration of
an old ship,” says Don Birkholz,
assistant restoration director, “but it
is also the restoration of sailino tech
niques that we seem to have lost.
This also awakens us to another way
of life that we know only in books. ”
Birkholz was one of four volun
teers who quit their jobs and
traveled with restoration director
Walter Rybka to Piraeus, Greece, in
1977 to make the Elissa seaworthy
again and sail her to Galvston.
“We grossly underestimated the
work to be done and the money
needed to get her in shape,” said
Rybka.
Rebuilding the hull, using steel
instead of its original iron, was
accomplished in Greece before
money ran out and the decision was
made to have the once proud ship
towed 7,000 miles to Texas.
According to records, the 200-foot
Elissa was crafted by Alexander Hall
& Co, in Aberdeen, Scotland, and
launched in October, 1877. She was
selected by the foundation to be Gal
veston’s maiden because of her au
thenticity, her previous visits to Gal
veston and her price tag, $39,000.
A barque is a sailing vdssel with its
two forward masts square-rigged and
its rear mast rigged fore and aft.
Rybka said records were pre
served of the Elissa’s travels but its
cargo on its second and final trip to
Galveston in 1886 was not known.
“Probably it was in ballast, with
sand in the bottom to keep it from
foiling over ."It was only in Galveston
a couple of weeks, indicating there
was no cargo. That was not enough
time to offload and load,” he said.
Presently, private companies have
been contracted to rebuild the deck,
rigging and sails. About 30 percent of
the work has been done to get her
seaworthy, Rybka said.
The total cost will be about $2.5
million, with the Department of In
terior’s National Trust for Maritime
Preservation kicking in $500,000.
Another federal agency has
approved spending $27,000 for the
foundation to develop a sailing
program.
“We envison using the Elissa as a
school and as a museum, depending
on the season,” Birkholz said.
Rybka cited the Cutty Sark in En
gland and the Star of India in San
Diego as similar projects, but he
said, “the Elissa was much more
ambitious because we are making it
seaworthy. A numbr of times we
have been told we were foolish.”
The restoration parallels the city’s
ambitious rebuilding of The Strand
district, which before 1900 was
known as the “Wall Street of the
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1980
Almanac
United Press International
Today is Thursday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 1980 with 321 to follow.
This is Valentine’s Day.
The moon is moving toward its new phase.
The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius.
On this day in history:
In 1886, the West Coast citrus industry was born as the first trainload
of oranges left Los Angeles for eastern markets.
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed a law creating a
Department of Commerce and Labor.
In 1933, an eight-day bank holiday was
eclared in Michigan in a Depression-era move to avert a financial
panic, and $50 million was rushed to Detroit to bolster bank assets.
In 1979, armed Iranian guerrillas rushed the U.S. Embassy in
Tehran and trapped Ambassador William Sullivan and 100 of his staff;
Ayatollah Khomeini forces freed them. Adolph Dubs, U.S. ambassa
dor to Afghanistan, was abducted by Moslem terrorists in Kabul and
was shot to death in crossfire during government rescue attempt.
A thought for the day: Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president,
said, “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. ”
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