State
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1981
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Repeal of tax may hurt non-UT, A&M schools
United Press International
AUSTIN — Texas legislators convened in spe
cial session at noon Monday to resume work on
five major issues left unresolved in the regular
session, and senators agreed informallv before
the opening gavel to attempt to act on all five
issues within the first week of the session.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby and Speaker Bill Clayton
gavelled the Senate and House to order at 12
noon in accordance with Gov. Bill Clements
order for a 30-day special session. There was
immediate speculation that additional special
sessions could be required to resolve the politic
ally explosive congressional redistricting issue,
but senators planned to move quickly on that and
other subjects.
But Hobby indicated repeal of ad valorem
property taxes could constitutionally mandate
that a construction fund be created for the state
colleges and universities that are not under the
systems of the University of Texas and Texas
A&M University. Ad valorem taxes currently are
used to finance renovation and new construction
at colleges and universities not included in the
Texas and A&M systems.
“We re going to take the same position in the
House,” Clayton said.
The speaker will try again to pass his pet pro
ject, creation of a water trust fund with state
surplus revenue. Clayton has said the legislation
is needed to alleviate future water shortages in
the state.
The legislation died in the Senate during the
final moments of the regular session. Hobby indi
cated Monday that he is still not in favor of the
water trust fund.
“I’m less enthusiastic about it than Speaker
Clayton is,” Hobby said.
The initial agenda for the session includes only
congressional redistricting, extension of the
Medical Practices Act that regulates the practice
of medicine in Texas, creation of a water trust
fund, repeal of the state property tax, and refine
ments of the Property Tax Code.
“We re going to meet this afternoon as a com
mittee of the whole, take any testimony anybody
has, and I would hope we would vote a (redis
tricting) bill out of committee this afternoon and
be ready for the full Senate to vote on it tomor
row, Sen. Jack Ogg, D-Houston, said as the
session began.
“We e going to try to see if by Thursday we
can’t have everything over to the House, or at
least have all five bills out of the Senate.
Postal union wants old contract replaced
United Press International
DALLAS — The American Postal Workers Union is not
planning to strike and is only interested in securing a new
contract to replace the old one expiring on July 20, the
general secretary of the union said.
“We want a contract, it’s just that simple,” said Douglas
C. Holbrook, who was in Dallas Sunday to dedicate the
union’s new office. “We are not making any plans at all (to
strike).”
U.S. postal workers, numbering about 600,000, have
been bargaining for a new contract since June 16 but
Holbrook said Postmaster General William Bolger has not
responded to the proposals submitted by his union and the
National Association of Letter Carriers.
Holbrook expects the U.S. Postal Service to announce its
first wage offer this week. The unions are seeking a 5
percent salary increase every year for the next three years.
They also want an additional 2.7 percent hike in the first
year to make up for some cost-of-living increases.
Holbrook said union workers also need safer working
conditions.
Youth to be tried
in civil court on
charges of murder
United Press International
DALLAS — Two counts of delinquent conduct were to be filed
Monday against the 14-year-old son of ARCO Oil and Gas Co. Presi
dent William A. Keeler who was shot to death along with his wife in an
apparent domestic argument, a spokesman for the Dallas County
district attorney’s office said.
If convicted in a civil court of killing his parents, the juvenile could
not be held in custody later.than his 18th birthday, the spokesman
said.
Earher in the day, police spokesman Ed Spencer had said that the
boy would be charged with murder.
Riding his bicycle, David Keeler, described as an “All American”
boy, approached a policeman in suburban Addison, several miles from
the Keelers’home in wealthy north Dallas about 1:30 p.m. Sunday and
said, “I just shot both my parents with a shotgun.”
The boy was being held at the Dallas County Juvenile Detention
Center prior to being charged.
Police spokesman Bob Shaw said the young Keeler could not be
certified as an adult by “mandate of the state Legislature. ” He said
following the filing of charges, the youth would be taken before a
juvenile judge who would determine whether he should be released to
the custody of “a responsible adult or held at the youth detention
center until he reaches the age of 18.
Assistant District Attorney Hal Gaither, who said that the youth
under law must be tried in a civil court, said: “Years from now, even
with a conviction, he could honestly say he’d never been convicted ofa
criminal felony.”
Investigators found a . 12-gauge Remington semi-automatic shotgun
and seven spent cartridges at me scene.
The bodies were discbVered by their ddujjlitei', Barbara, 27. The
body of William Keeler was found at one end of a hall at the residence
and that of Mrs. Keeler a few feet away from her husband, Spencer
said.
Police had not determined the date the gun was purchased or to
whom it had been registered.
The daughter told investigators she arrived at the Keelers’ home
about 12:30 p.m. and found her mother and father had been shot. She
was unable to detect a pulse when checking her father’s wrist. The
daughter then went to her mother’s side and heard her say, “David did
it.”
Police said the daughter believed the shootings could have stemmed
from an incident Saturday in which David and two other youths were
accused of shoplifting while at the Six Flags Over Texas amusement
park in nearby Arlington.
Homicide investigator James Shivers, who interviewed David, de
scribed the youth as “not hysterical, but upset.”
He said the shooting appeared to be “a family situation from the
start. I ”m not certain exactly what did take place. It’s an ongoing deal
and this is the culmination of it.
Investigator Jim Gholson said, “It’s like a lot of killings. You ask why,
but a lot of times there’s not a really logical reason.
Police said the Keelers and their son had just returned from attend
ing church when the shootings occurred shortly after noon.
ARCO spokesman Rick Osier said Keeler had worked his way
through the parent company, Atlantic Richfield, which he joined in
1949 as a petroleum geologist in Midland, Texas.
Keeler was named a vice president in 1973, and became group vice
president in 1980. In May, Keeler was appointed president of ARCO
Oil and Gas, Atlantic Richfield’s crude oil subsidiary.
Company officials said they would issue a statement later in the day
about naming a successor to Keeler, who started his career with the
company in Midland.
The couple had four children — three sons and a daughter — of
whom David was the youngest.
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