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Gun lobbyist once involved in killing
United Press International
LAREDO — Gun lobbyist Har
lan G. Carter, a National Rifle
Association executive, was once
convicted of killing a Hispanic
teen-ager whom Carter wanted to
question about a theft, court re
cords showed Tuesday.
Carter, then 17, was convicted
in a Webb County (Texas) court for
the March 13, 1931, murder of
Ramon Cassiano, 15. He was in
dicted on March 21, 1931, con
victed on April 16 and sentenced to
a three-year jail term for the
killing.
Carter appealed the murder
conviction that was eventually
overturned by a Texas appeals
court.
The 67-year-old executive vice
president for the NRA was re
elected Saturday at the gun group’s
national convention in Denver. He
was elected NRA executive vice
president in 1977.
The Laredo Times first reported
Carter’s murder conviction, and
Times managing editor Odie
Arambulano said the decision to re
vive the murder trial was made be
cause Carter is an important public
figure.
“When you have a person in a
high position calling the shots, you
should know his entire back
ground,” Arambulano said. “When
Carter applied for his job with the
NRA, I doubt whether he told
them he had killed a man.”
Arambulano said reporters disc
overed Carter’s previous murder
conviction while investigating re
ports of alleged Border Patrol
abuses against illegal aliens. He
said the anti-gun lobby was not in
volved in the story about the 50-
year-old murder.
The Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals overturned Carter’s con
viction in December 1931, saying
the lower court had not given a fair
hearing to Carter’s plea of self-
defense, court records show.
The late State District Judge
J.F. Mullally dismissed the mur
der charge against Carter on Jan.
19, 1933, and accepted the self-
defense plea.
Carter, a former U.S. Border
Patrol chief, could not be reached
Tuesday for comment.
According to accounts of the
slaying in 1931 editions of the Lare
do Times, Carter had returned
home from school when his mother
told him she had seen three or four
teen-agers hanging around a family
shed near their house. The Carter
family car had been stolen a few
weeks before the shooting, and
Carter said his mother was con
cerned about an attempted theft of
the family cow.
three-day trial that he le|||
house with a shotgun and),
fronted four youths, including!-
siano, as they were returning! I
a local swimming hole.
Carter, whose father was al;
Border Patrol officer, said heij
to force the youths to his hoimi I
be interrogated by his mother,!]
Cassiano drew a knife. I
Carter testified during the
“You think I won’t use tin
Carter said, telling thecourtrfl I
warning to Cassiano. He saidj
fired the shotgun from point-big
range and hit Cassiano iij
shoulder.
‘Store wars’ predicted for the future
United Press International
DALLAS — Groceries will be
in such fierce competition in the
1980s that raiding customers will
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of the Food Market Institute
Tuesday.
The “store wars” will be the
result of a saturated market. Jay
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Miami, Fla., said. Kurtz also told
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competition.
“The only way a store can grow
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more business from a competitor
than he takes away from you,”
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“If you aren’t prepared to fight
for what you have, you will lose it.
The key concern today is competi
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Kurtz’ presentation was built
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Strong No. 2 competitors must
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be it prices, service or quality, he
said. Less competitors should
“flank” the leaders by seeking
areas where their following is
weak and move in. The “guerrilla”
strategy requires finding a small
market segment that can be de
fended, but can provide a quick
escape if necessary.
Leo Kahn, chief executive!
Boston-based Purity-Suprei
Co., said the winners
stores that offer consumers!
best opportunity to stay witii
their established food
Kahn’s groceries are
house” stores that offer i
E rices in lieu of sacks,
oys, free bags, check cashings:
vice and variety.
“Despite inflation,” he!
“consumers are still deten
not to spend more on food,’
Vietnamese lawsuit questioned
United Press International
HOUSTON — Ku Klux Klans-
men and Texas fishermen Tuesday
asked a federal judge to dismiss a
lawsuit by Vietnamese shrimpers
seeking government protection
from hostile Texans who want the
refugees to leave the coast.
The defendant Klan members
and fishermen also asked U.S.
District Judge Gabrielle K.
McDonald, a black woman, to
withdraw from the case because of
alleged “bias” in favor of the Viet
namese.
The Vietnamese filed the law-
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suit April 16 complaining of
harassment and threats of violence
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fishermen seeking to reduce what
has become stiff refugee competi
tion in Texas coastal waters.
In documents filed Tuesday,
lawyers for the Klan and the Texas
fishermen denied threatening vio
lence against the refugees and
charged the lawsuit was filed in
bad faith because the Vietnamese
complaint was "speculative.”
The defendants said the Viet
namese can fish in peace when the
season opens May 15.
“There are no immediate or
past threatening or dangerous acts
which defendants have engaged
in,” the defendants’ documents
said.
“Plaintiffs are currently fishing
and selling catch without any in
timidation, threats or interference
from defendants.”
The defendants’ request that
the judge turn the case over to
another judge made no mention of
her race. Rather, lawyers focused
on an occurrence in the federal
building Monday.
They charged the judge sent
her law clerk to ask
whether Louis Beam’s wi
white Klan robes to thedeposil
hearings bothered them
said the judge did not infomiJ
fendants of the inquiry and sail
showed bias.
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requested special protection fra
the U.S. attorney general and i
FBI, complained in the law;
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fugees with violent expulsion
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