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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1980 Page 5 |- state Domestic areas hurt in budget lements criticizes senionj lerican ( d Acad] LE AA funding cuts 2 will alsi! ■siness si ;nt award; for/ is to be sell 2 •Meinen: -enter, uj Power, pply imi ^ues a United Press International AUSTIN — President Carter urned his back on the needs of local md state law enforcement by recom- nending a $400 million reduction in nding for the Law Enforcement ssistance Administration, Gov. Bill lements said Thursday. Clements sent letters to police hiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors and ther law enforcement officials hroughout Texas pointing out Car- ter’s recommendation that LEAA assistance to state and local govern ments be terminated, and called on the officials to try to persuade Con gress to override Carter’s recom mendations. Carter recommended $177 mil lion for the LEAA program but re commended deletion of $400 million to be used to assist state and local “In doing so, he turned his back and shut his eyes to the critical needs of law enforcement with full know ledge of the crippling impact it would have,’’ Clements said in the letter. “His recommendation is tanta mount to giving aid and comfort to the criminal who knows his chances of getting caught are even less.” the poor and elderly, the most preyed on victims of crime.” Clements noted Texas has 644 miles of coastline and a 900-mile bor der with Mexico and is a major area for drug shipments into the United States. He said Carter failed to real ize Texas law enforcement efforts to control drug traffic also benefit the rest of the nation. lesigned sy will lei Clements said the president’s ac tion makes it obvious that Carter does not recognize that higher infla tion will result in higher crime rates. progams. “Everyone else seems to recog nize these facts, and had he recog nized them he could have struck a blow for law enforcement,” Cle ments said. “Further, he ignores the fact that the people who will be most adversely affected by his actions are “Now that the president has de clared himself and abandoned the federal government’s committment and responsibility to law enforce ment, the ball is squarely in Con gress’ court to right this wrong,” Cle ments said. He called upon the local and state law enforcement officials to contact the state congressional delegation to encourage votes to restore the full LEAA funding. at noon edforq*! Jniversift, San An tonio College nt Com o sponsu nning atip unds probe delayed VK United Press International AUSTIN — The House General , Investigating Committee postponed ‘until next week a decision on 'whether it will investigate allega tions of misuse of public funds at San Antonio College. ; in the a uicd inlaj ; 1970tk| were toki ise. r up Wilt 'But wtr attitudi Rep. Dick Slack, D-Pecos, chair man of the committee, said he was reluctant for the committee to de cide on an investigation of San Anto nio College until after Saturday’s trustee election. “At least we should wait until after the election so under no circumst ances could we be accused of politic al involvement,” Slack said. “A com mittee such as this has to be extreme ly cautious. We can destroy innocent people unless we re extremely care ful in what we do. ” Rep. Ron Bird, D-San Antonio, appeared before the committee Thursday to ask the panel to investi gate the allegations concerning San Antonio College and the San Antonio Independent School District. “My concern in making this re quest to the House is so we can go there’s Jailer guilty of using clout SELL YOUR BOOKS FOR MORE! iys, Tliii lot youri to get sex ed some rejsclit markets gether ® e, not' r, much i n ore wot' \sical set ing suit ting. nal.We. tional i* tingaw)' 1 /e wanl ; OU gOW ; ■rtain vo* Willi Foot AY :CIAI United Press International LUBBOCK — An ex-county jailer was convicted Thursday of two counts of official oppression by a jury that decided he used his clout as a public servant to coerce a woman inmate into having sex with him. Miguel Guerra, 32, was convicted of the misdemeanor by a four- woman, two-man jury that deliber ated slightly more than two hours. Guerra’s punishment will be de cided by Judge J.Q. Warnick, in whose county court the defendant was tried. Warnick scheduled an April 17 hearing to determine Guer ra’s punishment that could range up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine. Guerra was accused of threatening the woman with solitary confine ment unless she agreed to engage in oral sex and sexual intercourse. The state said the sex acts occurred de spite bars that separated the pair. The inmate, a convicted robber, has been in the county jail since last September. She said the sexual liaison occurred on Jan. 9, but was reported more than a month later when she learned she was pregnant. Attorneys for Guerra contended during the trial the woman making the accusations stood to profit from her pregnancy, by possibly gaining a new trial or better conditions in inlHl jyi tafia University Book Stores NORTHGATE 409 UNIVERSITY DR. CULPEPPER PLAZA . NEXT TO 3C-BBQ prison. 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She said the Defense Department is the most inflationary government branch but that it is not being asked to trim its budget. “Fiscal responsibility demands a better balance between our current defense needs and our urgent needs for effective social legislation,” she said at a Capitol news conference. “One-sided slashes in domestic programs not only ignores social re sponsibility, it strangles our most vulnerable citizens — women, minorities, the elderly and chil dren,” Ireland said. She said that women earn only 59 percent of what men earn and comprise the majority of the poor. Ireland said that on Wednesday the Senate had reduced the federal food stamp program by $1.6 billion. She said the reduction will affect 80 percent of food stamp recipients during fiscal 1981. She also said federally supported health services, especially family planning, have been reduced by $10 million in 1980 and President Carter has recommended an additional $15 million reduction that will curtail services to 250,000 patients. She also disputed assertions that a balanced budget is necessary to curb inflation because the manuever would only reduce inflation by 0.3 percent. Ireland also announced that TWPC had endorsed Jim Hightower in his Democratic primary race against Railroad Commissioner Jim Nugent. Ex-convict sentenced to death in stabbing United Press International GROVETON — An ex-convict, who reacted violently to the deci sion, has been sentenced to death for the rape and scissor-stabbing mur der of a Livingston housewife last October. Johnny Paul Penry, 23, of Living- ston was sentenced to death Wednesday after being convicted of the Oct. 25 killing of Pamela Moseley Carpenter, sister of Washington Redskins placekicker Mark Moseley. Three months before Carpenter was killed, Penry had been released from the Texas Department of Cor rections on after serving 2 1 /z years of a five-year rape sentence. In one of his statements to police, Penry said he killed Mrs. Carpenter because he was afraid she would re port him for the rape, during which she apparently grabbed scissors in defend herself “The issues that the Railroad Commission deals with on a daily basis are issues of concern to women in Texas,” she said. “Endorsing Hightower for his commitment to Texas consumers helps the TWPC in its endeavor to improve the condi tions of women in our state. ” ALTERATIONS' IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING - 1 SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND ALTERATIONS ’ DON'T G/VE UP — WELL MAKE IT FIT!" AT WELCH'S CLEANERS WE NOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE SPE CIALIZE IN ALTERING HARO TO FIT EVENING DRESSES. TAPERED SHIRTS, JEAN HEMS. 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