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If you remember how to build
the kites your dad may have
helped you with as a child, you
may be ready for some competi
tion.
It’s kite weather again this year
and kite builders and flyers will
. have a chance to show their ta
il lents in the College Station Parks
and Recreation Department’s
The contest will begin at 2 p.m.
on the grounds of A&M Consoli
dated High School at 701 West
Loop in College Station.
First, second and third place
awards will be given for the high-
st flying, best decorated,
largest, smallest, most active and
strongest kites and youngest and
oldest kite flyers, said Marci Rod
gers, recreation superintendent.
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an rewindingsti-S”HOUSTON - A woman who sur-
cal car repair st; vived a car crash in which seven
Kith anniversan: members of her family died 18 years
ago has accused a mortician of reneg-
> deeply invol ing on his promise of free burial and
ster the trainre of threatening to dig up the bodies
hanics ami unless she pays the bill,
ly in the autoii»i.lHDeborah Jackson Green, 28, a
onsunicrui Texas Department of Human Re
ar part designs sources employee, filed suit in state
aufacturing district court Wednesday making the
s a crime tothicharges against E.J. Butler Jr., own-
rtor when the raflf
he said.
There will be two age divisions:
children 15 and under and indi
viduals 16 and over, Rodgers
said.
Susan Edens, a Texas A&M
student will be one of the judges
of the contest, Rodgers said.
Edens has attended several kite
contests in Austin, where the idea
of a kite contest for College Sta
tion originated.
Participation from A&M stu
dents is expected Rodgers said.
“One student told us he is getting
his dorm floor involved in the
contest,” she said.
This year’s competition Rod
gers said, is the second kite con
test sponsored by the Parks and
Recreation Department in Col
lege Station.
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CORPUS CHRISTI — U S.
beaches are safe from new washups
of Mexican oil this year if reports are
true that the flow from a runaway
well has been reduced to 400 barrels
per day, the chief U.S. scientist
monitoring the spill said Thursday.
“If the 400 barrel per day number
is correct, we’re out of the woods, ”
said John Robinson, a Commerce
Department scientist who has
observed the oilspill since last sum
mer. “We re not going to have any
more problems.”
Robinson said his prediction was
safe despite reports Coast Guard
pilots Thursday spotted a 40-mile-
long oilslick floating in the Gulf of
Mexico only 78 miles from the
mouth of the Rio Grande.
The Coast Guard’s chief oilspill
coordinator, Capt. Gerald C. Hin
son, said he was surprised by the
appearance of the 200-yard-wide
slick but was not alarmed because
southflowing currents would not
give way to a northward flow until
late April.
But Coast Guard Capt. Gerald C.
Hinson and Robinson said it was im
possible for U.S. authorities to know
the precise amount of oil flowing
from Ixtoc I in the Bay of Campeche
because the Mexican government
continued to prefer to handle the 9-
month-old blowout themselves.
Last summer the Mexican govern-
oman, mortician battle
over free burial promise
er of Paradise Cemeteries.
She asks unspecified damages for
“harassment” and a court order
blocking Butler’s alleged threat to
dig up the bodies of her mother,
father, three sisters and two
brothers, and re-bury them in a com
mon grave.
Green also asks that Butler be
ordered to let her place grave mar
kers and flowers on the graves. She
said Butler has allowed her only to
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|ing a tax increase rather than tax
relief next year. Speaker Bill
gClayton warned Thursday.
Clayton said he is dubious of
prospects for the $600 million to
|$1 billion tax relief program Gov.
Bill Clements has said he will
propose.
The state’s third highest official
said he fears the 1981 Legislature
may be forced to raise taxes rather
than lower them.
“I don’t see where we could
/find any monies at this point in
time for any tax relief,” Clayton
said. “I would hope it would be
so. I just don’t see it.
I don’t think we re going to
gravevard off®I-have enough projected surplus ...
to take care of inflationary needs
unless the comptroller comes up
with some different projections,”
Clayton said.
He said the state’s financial
situation will be clearer in August
when the Legislative Budget
Board begins hearings on state
agency spending and Comptrol
ler Bob Bullock updates his re
venue projections.
The comptroller in January re
vised revenue estimates down
ward, predicting $324 million in
the state treasury at the end of the
1979-80 biennium. However,
Bullock said about $200 million
will be unexpended balances,
leaving only $124 million of actual
surplus.
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visit the graves.
She said he gained favorable pub
licity by promising free burials and
hould be held to the bargain.
Butler admits the re-burial threat
— “I might have mentioned that I
have the right to do that, but I was
just trying to get my money — but it
could not be done without unlikely
permission from the Harris County
medical examiner.
Butler denies promising free bu
rial. He said an insurance company
promised to pay the $3,015 bill but
reneged, so “the only thing I could
do was try to get my money from the
only remaining family member. ”
Butler said he trid to collect from
Green’s only surviving brother, Cary
Jackson Jr., 7, but was unsuccessful.
Jackson, a former aide to Houston
Mayor Jim McConn, was shot to
death in a freeway incident last year.
District judge frees 3 men,
rules they were held illegally
ment reported the oil flow was at
30,000 barrels per day, but said half
that amount was burning off at the
wellhead.
Capping and wellblocking efforts
were unsuccessful until Pemex, the
Mexican national oil company, com
pleted drilling two relief wells now
being used to funnel brine and mud
into the main well.
Pemex had been plagued by bad
weather but Hinson said a 72-hour
period of stable conditions could re
sult in the capping of the well.
“This is the first time I’ve been
encouraged,” Robinson said. “I’ve
been a pessimist since day one. But
we re now to an extent corroborating
(by overnlight observations) the in
formation that the oil flow has been
reduced.”
Robinson said Pemex had slowed
the flow previously only to see it
spurt back out of control.
Hinson said Texas beaches had
been hit by tarballs of weathered oil
throughout the winter but said milit
ary and civilian clean-up crews had
kept pace with the impact, leaving
beaches “in as good a shape now as
they ever are.”
Last summer repeated washups of
oil on Texas beaches spoiled the
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tourist trade and created serious
financial problems for Padre Island
hotels and shops.
Gov. Bill Clements, after touring a
portion of the oily Texas beach, said
the publicity about the pollution was
“a big todo about nothing.”
The state and federal governments
as well as beachfront businesses and
property owners subsequently filed
damage suits amounting to hundreds
of millions of dollars.
SEDCO, the drilling firm founded
by Clements and which made him a
millionaire, owned the Ixtoc I rig.
After the blowout the rig was towed
into the Gulf of Mexico and sunk.
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ODESSA — District Attorney
John Green pledged Thursday “jus
tice will be done” despite a judge’s
ruling to release three men charged
in the recovery of more than three
tons of marijuana and the seizure of a
DC-3 airplane.
Released were Jesse David New,
33, of McAllen; Humberto Pablo
Nunez, 46, of North Bergen, N.J.,
originally from Havana, Cuba, and
Richard Morley Stewart, 42, of Nor
man, Ark. A fourth man, Robert Lee
Ross, 39, of Harlingen, was arrested
separately on Feb. 25 but was not
released.
70th District Judge Gene Ater
ruled they were held illegally be
cause of discrepancies between the
criminal complaint filed and the
search and arrest warrants.
Green disputed Ater’s ruling
saying it is not necessary to allege the
same offense in the search and arrest
warrants and the complaint that eve
tually is filed.
Green indicated the three men
had left the state.
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