OO-year-old ship found
irtifacts well preserved
United Press International
BERWICK, La. — Calling it “the most exciting
; marine archaeological find” in the Gulf of Mexico,
Loirisiana Gov. Dave Treen Wednesday disclosed
ll] almost 70 pounds of gold and silver have been found
-'ll in the wreck of an 18th Century sailing ship.
ff The valuables, perhaps worth millions of dollars,
are merely the first haul from the ship, an uniden-
^ nor ■ tified tall-masted sailing vessel of mid-1700s vintage
°rtli ifethat was discovered by shrimpers this year. The
Snored ^state plans to start an archaeological exploration of
the site, which is under heavy guard next week,
er sccL “How much more gold and other precious metals
•eWar&eTl find we just don’t know,” Treen told a news
“ earlvM ,n ^ erence at shipyard of Berry Brothers Gen-
„ eral Contractors, the salvage company that will try
to recover the booty.
He held up 3-and 5-inch discs of gold, part of a
-pound haul of gold, found when Berry Brothers
ought up just one dredge-bucket full of artifacts.
“We have in our possession 24 pounds of it, worth
out $250,000,” Treen said. “This is the most
, £ exciting marine archaeological find, certainly in the
r state of Louisiana, and I think anywhere in the
of mgEilf”
y*P The shiny gold and gray-colored silver discs were
taken to the shipyard in a cardboard box, guarded
A'hose * by y° ur uniformed state troopers,
file *1 * n a( ^^* t ' on to gold and silver, Treen showed
ikeFil
off a 10-foot anchor, 9-foot cannons, cured turtle
shells, pieces of Aztec ceramicware, leather hides
and huge green discs of copper recovered from the
shipwreck.
The ship was discovered 1.5 miles off Cameron
Parish in southwest Louisiana by shrimpers. The
water is 15-18 feet deep off the Rockefeller Wildlife
Refuge and Game Preserve.
Diver Stephen Smith, one of the first men to
explore the sunken ship, said shrimpers have been
catching nets on rocks around it for a long time.
“People have been hanging on it for years,” he
said. “We found net lead weights they don’t even
make any more.”
The shrimpers and salvage crews that first ex
plored the wreck contracted with the state to
excavate the site under the direction of archaeolo
gists and split the proceeds, with the state retaining
title to all artifacts and receiving 25 percent of the
proceeds.
Visibility at the site is only 8 inches, so the ship is
not especially striking visually, but it is well-
preserved — probably better than any wrecks found
off the Florida coast, Treen said.
“The impervious sand preserved the artifacts in
remarkably good condition,” Treen said. “The
Louisiana wreck is covered in non-porous ‘Beau
mont clay’ which has inhibited oxidation. ”
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United Press International
CHMOND, Va. — A federal
als court Wednesday over-
/on't urned the murder conviction of Dr.
ey MacDonald, the former
ibanc ,reen ® eret °® cer convicted of
i B ■dering his pregnant wife and
1 wo young daughters, because he
e m ! m denied a speedy trial.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, ordered
he case returned to the district
with directions to set aside
Donald’s convictions, vacate
sentence and dismiss the indict-
t against him.
ere were two lengthy delays in
murder case. The murders took
at Fort Bragg, N.C., in Feb-
1970. The Army investigated
case, but did not try him. But
MacDonald’s former father-in-law
later financed a private investigation
that led to a grand jury indictment
in 1975. The delay between indict
ment and trial was the result of
defense attempts to have the
charges dismissed.
“The offending delay, imposed by
the government, was not the time
between the indictment and trial,
but the lapse of time between the
military arrest and trial” the court
said.
The former captain was convicted
of the second degree murder of his
wife Colette and one of his children,
and first degree murder of his other
child. He drew three consecutive
terms of life in prison for the convic
tions.
“Under the 6th Amendment a
showing of unreasonable delay, plus
substantial proof of prejudice man
dates a holding that the constitu
tionally guaranteed speedy trial has
been denied,” the appeals court
said.
“The fact that the delay was un
due and resulted in prejudice suf
fices, in MacDonald’s case, whether
or not the delay and consequent
prejudice were so agregious as to
amount to deviation from ‘funda
mental concepts of justice,’” the
court said.
MacDonald, who is serving his
sentences at a federal prison at
Terminal Island, Calif, maintained
during his trial his family was killed
by four drug-crazed “hippie” types
who also attacked him.
to cost
billions, Eckhardt claims
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The adminis-
ition’s oil price decontrol policy
uld eventually cost the nation at
st $53 billion — more than triple
iitial Energy Department esti-
ites, Rep. Bob Eckhardt, D-
'exas, charged Wednesday.
; Eckhardt also told a hearing of his
louse Interstate and Foreign Com-
nerce subcommittee that the agen
ts claims of domestic oil produc-
jpn increases from decontrol have
|oven as deceptive as its cost esti-
lates.
The Energy Department, which
timated the cost of phased oil
ontrol at $16 billion when the
ogram began in June, 1979, today
Jpially boosted its estimate to
7.4 billion.
,, : During the same period, agency
• jstimates of the amount of addition-
1 domestic oil production
rsial Emulated by price decontrol by
id ttif 1985 sank from the 740,000 barrels
fer day cited by former Energy
Secretary James Schlesinger last
„ ' fear to a current 516,000 barrels.
illy C
1 “Estimates have been pretty wide
the mark in the past, ” Eckhardt
Id Energy Secretary Charles Dun-
, the hearing’s star witness.
Eckhardt noted that 77.5 percent
396,000 barrels of decontrol’s
limed daily benefit in added pro-
iction comes from newly dis-
^ered oil. He concluded that the
ment'hulk of the production bonanza
limed for decontrol could have
come without it.
The chairman also cited his staff
projections of $53.4 billion as the
total cost to consumers of President
Carter’s decontrol policy.
The figure is $5 billion higher
than even the latest Energy Depart
ment estimate, which was revised
upward by $31 billion from an initial
projected cost of $16 billion.
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the state’s youngest college of medi
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The students were selected from
almost 600 applicants, more than
ever before, said officials.
Ten of the entering students are
women, an all-time high for any of
the four classes which have begun
study at Texas A&M campuses here
and in Temple. The university ex
pects to graduate its first group of
physicians next year.
The Texas A&M College of Medi
cine — designed to produce pri
mary care doctors for small towns
throughout the state — operates on
an accelerated program which al
lows students to be admitted as
early as the end of their sophomore
year in college.
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far, and a fourth of the 1984 graduat
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