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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1981
Tough anti-litter bill
would work offenders
United Press International
AUSTIN — Judges could sentence litterbugs to labor on Texas
highways removing roadside trash if a bill by a central Texas legislator
is approved.
Cleaning up highways and roads is just one aspect of a bill by Rep.
Bennie Bock, D-New Braunfels, creating a statewide comprehensive
litter abatement and recycling program. Current laws have left cities
mostly on their own to enforce litter ordinances.
Under Bock’s bill, a three-time litter offender could find himself
doing up to 40 hours labor on highways. A person convicted of violating
any provision in his legislation or of a Class C misdemeanor also may be
ordered to remove litter from highways.
Bock says it is everybody’s business to eliminate litter and the state
has made it a business to the tune of $10 million.
“The highway department is spending $10 million a year picking up
litter, ” Bock said. “A (soft drink) can is readily visible, but that’s not all
that’s out there.”
He said a survey indicated cans and bottles amount to only 29
percent of what is picked up highways. The rest was tires, chairs,
couches and paper products.
“It strikes me that litter is a problem broader than just one isolated
instance,” he said. “I think people can prevent it.”
Bock’s bill also would require cars to have litter bags in order to pass
inspection just as they have blinkers, horns and lights.
His legislation also offers tax credits as incentives to control litter.
Bock, a five-term legislator, admits the bill may be creating some
litter of its own. The bill establishes a division within the governor’s
office to coordinate litter abatement and recycling and a 25-member
advisory commission.
Juror disqualified
in Daniel child suit
United Press International
LIBERTY — A 58-year-old
woman was dismissed Monday
from the jury that will decide
whether Vickie Daniel is an unfit
mother to her two sons by the man
she is accused of killing, former
House Speaker Price Daniel Jr.
That left only 11 jurors to de
cide the custody tug-of-war over
Franklin, 3, and Marion, 1.
Daniel's sister, Jean Daniel
Murph of Richardson wants the
boys taken from their mother.
Mrs. Daniel claims she shot her
husband Jan. 19 in self defense.
Judge Sam Emison announced
Monday the dismissal of Annie
Mae Searles, whose husband was
believed to have sought legal rep
resentation from Daniel and
whose mother was believed to
have once worked as a maid for the
Daniel family.
The oldest juror on the panel
and the least educated, Mrs.
Searles denied she herself had
ever sought legal representation
from Daniel or that Judge Sam
Emison spoke to her about her
removal. She has a sixth grade
education.
“Mrs. Searles has become dis
abled and cannot continue to
serve on the jury,” Emison told
the court. “The remainder of the
trial will held by you eleven
jurors.”
Following Mrs. Searles’dismis
sal, one of Daniel’s secretaries tes
tified Mrs. Daniel once asked her
whether she and Daniel were hav
ing an affair.
Pam Locke, 19, who worked for
Daniel for about 18 months, testi
fied that during the dedication of
Daniel’s law office in June 1979,
Mrs. Daniel asked whether she
was sleeping with Daniel.
“She said Price liked young
girls with long hair,” she said. “I
was very shocked.”
Locke said Mrs. Daniel was six
months pregnant at the time.
Locke also testified Mrs. Daniel
asked her to watch a co-worker’s
home to see if Daniel was having
an affair with the woman.
“She said she wanted me to
watch Mary Cain’s house to see if
she and Price were having an
affair,” Locke said. “I didn’t say
anything. I just listened. I didn’t
do it either.”
She also testified that the night
of Daniel’s shooting, she got a call
from Cain to meet Daniel's cam
paign manager for his attorney
general’s race, Carl Pickett, at
Daniel’s office. She said they gave
him the key to Daniel’s home.
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Farmer without land titlC<
gets help in keeping fan
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United Press International
AUSTIN — Land Commission
er Bob Armstrong said Monday he
will support a proposed constitu
tional amendment permitting the
state to relinquish its claim to land
an 81-year-old East Texas farmer
has farmed since 1928 in the belief
he owned the tract.
Armstrong met privately Mon
day with Speaker Bill Clayton,
Attorney General Mark White,
representatives of the governor’s
office and legislators interested in
resolving the dispute concerning
legal ownership of a 120-acre tract
bought 52 years ago by Jessie
Johnson of Jewett, Texas.
Johnson and several other Leon
County landowners believed they
had clear title to the land and did
not learn until 1978 that the state
had never surrendered ownership
to the land 127 years ago.
“Generally, everybody is look
ing for the best remedy that we
can come up with that will help
people like Mr. Johnson and Mr.
Benj (another of the landowners),”
Armstrong said.
“I think most people felt it is
going to take a constitutional
amendment.”
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Armstrong said Clayton sug
gested he work with the attorney
general to prepare a proposed
constitutional amendment that
would allow the land commission
er, for a limited period of time
such as two years, to grant patents
or surrender the state’s claim to
contested land tracts under cer
tain circumstances.
Armstrong said the proposal
will probably require that persons
seeking to obtain clear title to
land claimed by the state must
have lived on the land, believed
they were the legal owners, and
held the land “under color of
ownership.”
Such guidelines would include
Johnson, whose story has
attracted nationwide attention.
“If they could come in and show
the equity of their situation, we
could either issue them a patent or
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