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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1981
State / National
New prison bill passes house
United Press International
AUSTIN — House members tentatively
approved with stunning speed Monday an
emergency $35 million appropriation to fund
the immediate construction of three new pris
ons to accommodate 2,880 inmates now forced
to sleep on the cell floor because of prison
overcrowding.
“Most members get up there and talk for 15
minutes, and I just got up and said it and
moved that it pass, and it went,” said Rep.
Rodney Tow, D-Conroe, the sponsor of the
bill.
Tow admitted he was surprised that the bill
passed its first test on voice vote without dis
cussion or opposition. House members re
fused, however, to suspend constitutional
rules to allow the bill to be finally passed Mon
day and sent to the Senate, meaning it will face
one more House vote on Wednesday.
Senators, meanwhile, gave their final
approval to House changes in a bill designed to
prevent persons who voluntarily quit their
jobs or are fired for misconduct from collecting
unemployment benefits until they find
another job.
The bill by Sen. Roy Blake, D-
Nacogdoches, would allow workers in such
circumstances to collect the benefits only after
they have found another job and worked for six
weeks.
Blake initiated the bill after complaints an
employee of an East Texas donut shop quit her
job because she was “tired of working”, and
collected state unemployment benefits. The
proposal now needs only the governor’s signa
ture to become law.
Blake said a series of House changes in the
bill had not done significant to harm to the
original intent of the bill.
Senators also approved 30-0 and sent to the
House a bill by Sen. Walter Mengden, R-
Houston, attempting to end social promotions
in public schools and requiring students in
each grade level to meet a certain level of
proficiency in order to be promoted.
The proposal still would permit school dis
tricts, however, to promote mentally hand
icapped students or those with problems
speaking English even if they failed to meet
the established standards of proficiency.
The prison construction plan tentatively
approved by the House had been recom
mended by Gov. Bill Clements in an effort to
meet demands of a federal court decision re
quiring Texas to relieve overcrowding in
prisons.
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ATLANTA — A minister who
believes Atlanta’s black child kil
ler has called him at least seven
times — the last time just hours
after the 20th victim’s body was
found near his church — pleaded
on television for his peaceful sur
render.
The Rev. Earl Paulk appealed
to the killer Sunday to turn himself
in before the reign of terror ends
in a “barrage of bullets.”
“I’m interested in saying to him
that if he wants to say something,
he doesn’t have to say it with a
dead body,” Paulk said.
Paulk described the caller as
“very mature” and a “man who
knows what he wants and is in con
trol of himself. We sifted through
many calls and there was a
businesslike fashion in the way he
spoke that lent some credibilty.”
During the televised churph
program on Sunday, which Gov.
George Busbee proclaimed a
statewide day of prayer for all
children, Paulk told the killer he
would be “protected” and
“covered.”
He said his last contact with the
caller was last Friday, just after the
body of 13-year-old Curtis Walker
was found in the South River in
Dekalb County, less than a quar
ter mile from Paulk’s church, the
Chapel Hill Harvester Church.
“He called saying he wanted to
see if my telephone lines were tap
ped," said Paulk. “I told himtfc
to my knowledge they were not
He said he expects the mar.
call back.
Paulk last month had public
asked the slayer or slayers tow
tact him through the church’s i-
hour help line.
He feels the killer responded:
the publicized plea by place
Walker’s body near the churd.
Some police sources agree wi
this theory, pointing out that
body of Terry Pue was found a
Sigman Road after Rockdil
County police announced tk
had received threats to childit
who live on the road,
body of Patrick Baltazar was
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