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qFormer official pleads jguilty
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THE BATTALION Page 5
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1981
United Press International
TYLER — Former Bowie County Commissioner
Carlos Eugene Tidwell, charged with accepting
^ bribes and submitting phony invoices to the county
^ government, pleaded guilty Wednesday to failing to
^ report a felony offense on three different occasions in
Sl978.
A* U.S. District Judge William M. Steger ordered
\ y tuthorities to submit an investigation report on Tid-
0* ivell before sentencing him on Sept. 14 in Texarkana.
0] The federal charges accused Tidwell, who had
Z' been county commissioner for 24 years, of accepting
in bribes on three different occasions and then approv
al ing invoices for payment for road and bridge mate-
^ rials which were never ordered nor delivered to
m Bowie County.
The charges against Tidwell, other northeast
1 Jfexas county commissioners and salesmen for road
yjind building materials and equipment, resulted
Tom a lengthy investigation authorized by U.S.
Attorney John H. Hannah of Tyler and conducted by
the FBI in Tyler.
Others accused in the case are schedueld to go on
trial in Judge Steger’s court in September.
Wednesday's guilty plea by Tidwell was on a gov
ernment information report which was offered in
place of the indictments under a plea bargain
arrangement between Tidwell’s attorney, Charles
Hall of Texarkana, and Assistant U.S. Atttomey
Chris Harrison.
The information charged that on June 30, 1978
Tidwell accepted a $436 bribe from road and bridge
materials salesman Dallas Thompson and then
approved a phony invoice from Thompson in the
amount of $872.80.
In the next three months, the information
charged, Tidwell accepted two more bribes in the
amounts of $543 and $454 and approved invoices of
$1,087.68 and $908.88.
As part of the plea bargain, Tidwell issued a check
for $6,000 Wednesday to Hannah as restitution. The
money will be returned to the county, Hannah said.
NOW leader says tornado
support needed for ERA
r
ft United Press International
B | DALLAS — The president of the world’s largest
■jBminist organization is reminding President Reagan
B|e will be in power at the time the Equal Rights
■ unendment is ratified or killed.
"I want him to concentrate real heavy on these 11
| nonths,” said Eleanor Cutri Smeal, head of the Na-
■ ional Organization for Women.
Hi “He is standing in the doorway and blocking
quality for half the population of which he is presi-
lent. We will not let the Republican Party forget it in
'lovember 1982 or 1984,” she said Tuesday night.
With just 11 months left to get three more states to
atify the Equal Rights Amendment by June 30,
982, for it to be part of the Constitution, Smeal said
omado-like support was necessary.
“Political leaders are always testing the political
vinds,” she told about 500 people attending a ERA
Countdown Campaign meeting.
“I want them to think there is a tornado — I am in
mado country aren’t I — and that they dare not
|tand in the way of women’s equality,’’ she said.
Although the NOW leader blasted President
eagan throughout her hour-long speech, she just as
uickly warned Democrats to “not be so smug’’ be-
use they are in control of many of the legislatures in
e 15 states yet to ratify the amendment.
“The ERA clock is ticking, ticking, ticking away,”
)meal said. “We have 11 months to change the legal
dtuation and status of wommen in our country.’’
The feminist said she is amazed that almost 60
'ears after the idea of equal rights for women was
first introduced, “millions of people do not know the
text of the amendment.”
She pointed to the banner behind her which
quoted the first section of the amendment: “Equality
of rights under the law shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any state on
account of sex.”
Smeal accused the Reagan administration of roll
ing back gains made by women during the past 15
years and also blasted Reagan’s proposed cuts to the
Social Security system.
“Social Security is the major reason I am fighting
so hard for ratification of the Equal Rights Amend
ment,” Smeal said.
She described the system as “sex discriminatory”
because it does not provide equal benefits for men
and women. She vowed the minute ERA passes, “we
will go to court and challenge the existing Social
Security System.”
Smeal, a fulltime homemaker until her election as
NOW president, said if the Reagan adminstration
remains in office much longer “homemakers are an
endangered species.”
Sixty percent of women on Social Security have
that as their only income, she said.
“It is the lifeblood of our mothers and grand
mothers,” Smeal said. “It is a very cold cruel world if
you are over 65 years of age and taking home $3,700 a
year.”
NOW is trying to raise $15 million to campaign for
ratification of the ERA, she said.
2 men rob
Ft. Worth
Tcity official
United Press International
^ FORT WORTH — Two men
(Tl
vearmg ski masks entered the
tome of former mayor pro tern
Margaret Rimmer, tied her and
ler husband up, and took about
>100,000 in valuables from the re-
idence, police said.
Rimmer and her husband, Dr.
R.J Rimmer, told police they were
matching television late Monday
>vhen the bandits broke in through
m unlocked window and pointed
pistols at the couple.
“They told us to lie down and
be quiet or they’d shoot us,” Rim
mer said. “We did as we were told
because you never know what
people might do.”
Police said the robbers bound
heir victims’ hands with neckties
ind covered Mrs. Rimmer’ head
vith a blanket and her husband’s
vith a coat. Most of the valuables
:aken in the robbery were
liamond jewelry and the couple’s
xrin collection.
The two struggled free after the
robbers left and called police. Au-
horities have no suspects so far.
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