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Flag waving practice
Staff photo by Brian Tate
Tim Goggin works out with his Corps out
fit’s flag in preparation for Final Review,
which is to be held Saturday on the drill
field in front of the Memorial Student Cen
ter. A freshman majoring in mechanical en
gineering, Tim is in Company F-l.
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' United Press International
; r NATCHITOCHES, La. — The superintendent of
2111 j 11 , JJ ^schools here said Tuesday the closure of seven rural
an , ™ ■ high Schools was piily one nietho^ beipg«studieida&£..
means of satisfying a federal judge’s desegregation
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The school board decided Monday to consider
closing seven of the parish’s 11 high schools to avoid
forced busing.
The 7-6 vote, taken during a heated five-hour
The"saidi meeting, was in response to federal Judge Nauman
. . . jji .Scott’s order that all public schools in the parish be
defeated by fell . „ ., ^ .
It was not a vote to close anything, said Superin
tendent Levy Thompson. “A board member offered
a motion to look at the concept of four high schools
instead of 11.
Levy said he didn’t think there was any finality in
the motion, since it didn’t name the schools which
ould be closed.
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Rural members of the board fought the closures,
which were suggested in a package of preliminary
guidelines. They feared many of the parish’s rural
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schools in Natchitoches proper.
Most of the rural high schools considered for clo
sure handle students from kindergarten through
12th grade.
The board received Scott’s order over the
weekend and officials said they would do everything
in their power to comply. They asked Scott, howev
er, to stand by his promise to use busing only if other
methods fail.
Scott will call all the parties involved in the integ
ration suit against the school board into his cour
troom in Alexandria on May 21.
The judge’s order said nine of the 24 schools in the
parish were more than 90 percent one race.
United Press International
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
New Mexico Gov. Bruce King has
granted a conditional parole to a
prisoner who reportedly talked
with a man who claimed responsi
bility in the slaying of federal
Judge John H. Wood Jr., a televi
sion station reported Monday.
Wood, who was shot to death in
San Antonio, Texas, on May 29,
1979, was the first federal judge
killed in the line of duty. A special
San Antonio federal grand jury in
vestigating the Wood case is in
recess.
KOAT-TV said the executive
order granted parole to Jerry Ray
James, 42, in exchange for his tes
timony before the grand jury and
in all other court proceedings in
the case.
New Mexico became involved
in the Wood case at a Feb. 11,
1981, meeting in King’s office of
representatives of the U.S. attor
ney’s office, the FBI and the attor
ney general’s office, the station
said.
According to the governor’s
order, the station said James “at
great personal risk’ permitted
electronic eavesdropping by the
government in his cell at the
Leavenworth federal prison in
Kansas, where he was transferred
after the 1980 New Mexico prison
riot.
“The surveillance provided the
federal government with direct
admissions from an individual who
admitted responsibility for the
murder of Judge John H. Wood, ”
the order said.
The Dallas Times Herald re
ported earlier James met con
victed drug dealer Jimmy Chagra
at the federal prison and allegedly
heard Chagra “brag of a role in
slaying” Wood.
KOAT said James, who is being
kept at an undisclosed location
outside New Mexico, is “an im
mediate target for potential vio
lence,” the station reported.
James, who was sentenced to
life in prison on New Mexico con
victions of armed robbery and
being a habitual offender, is re
quired under the conditions of his
parole to testify “truthfully” be
fore a federal grand jury and all
other chu rtproee edingSr e kf6 cl‘f o
the killing of Wood, the station
said.
He also must agree never to re
turn to New Mexico, not violate
any state or federal felony sta
tutes, not violate any condition of
the parole and remain in federal
custody until he has fulfilled the
conditions of the agreement.
A Justice Department official
confirmed in March James was
being “protected by the United
States” under the government’s
Witness Protection Program.
Chagra, a gambler from El
Paso, was awaiting trial in Wood’s
court when the judge was killed.
Chagra later was sentenced to 30
years in prison for drug dealing.
He jumped bond, but was
arrested and taken to Leaven
worth. On Jan. 29, 1981, he was
moved to the federal prison at Ma
rion, Ill.
Chagra’s attorney brother, Joe,
also reportedly is a target in the
investigation. He has said
whenever his brother was in diffe
rent jails, inmates often would be
come friendly and ask about
Wood’s slaying.
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