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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1981
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Protests professing belief in God
O’Hair fights Texas oath law
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A federal
appeals court is studying a request
from atheist Madalyn Murray
O’Hair that a Texas law requiring
public officials to profess a belief in
God be struck down.
0 Hair, president of the Socie
ty for Preservationists based in
Austin, did not enter the cour
troom Monday until after opening
ceremonies invoking God’s favor
on the judges.
Once she entered, however.
she assisted in arguing her own
case.
“I’m an atheist,” she told
judges of the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals. “Take a good
look. One hundred and seventy
pounds on the hoof. I am one of an
excluded class.”
She said that even if she wanted
to hold office in Texas, she could
not because of the oath that public
officials and judges must take
swearing their belief in God.
O’Hair said the same require
ment would bar her from serving
on a jury.
The law she attacked is part of
the 105-year-old Texas constitu
tion. She claimed it violated the
U.S. doctrine of separation of
church and state.
O’Hair and her society filed suit
attacking the law in 1978 but U.S.
District Judge Jack Roberts dis
missed the case. On Monday she
asked the 5th Circuit to overturn
that decision.
Susan Bradshaw, a lawyer with
the Texas attorney general’s
office, asked the court to reaffirm
Roberts’ ruling, saying the law was
seldom, if ever, enforced.
“Everybody on the federal
level from the president on down
has taken a religious test” by tak
ing oaths that end “so help me
God,” she said. “They are part of a
ritual. It is simply part of our his
tory. ”
Teens lose claim to cash
believed tied to drugs
United Press International
HOUSTON — Three teena
gers who found a suitcase with
more than $22,000 while rabbit
hunting lost their court fight
and claim to the cash. The dis
trict attorney’s office said the
money appeared to be the pro
duct of a drug deal and should
go to the state.
State District Judge Reagan
Cartwright ruled Monday the
Harris County District Attor
ney’s office investigative fund
will get the cache. The teens
made their claim to the money
because they said they followed
fresh footprints last Sept. 9 to an
old barn and found the locked
suitcase in a freezer.
The teens said they shot off
the lock and found $22,000 in
cash plus a pound of marijuana,
a bag of cocaine, more than
1,000 methaqualone pills, a bot
tle of Valium and other assorted
pills.
They grabbed some of the
money, but got scared when
they heard voices. They then
reported the incident to police.
Prosecutors said the teens
had no claim on something they
took from another person s
property.
Officials said the money will
be used to purchase special
equipment such as a surveill
ance van and special radios to be
used to investigate drug cases.
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Officer kills hostile hog
United Press International
CHICAGO — A police officer
shot and killed an irate 400-pound
hog that had kicked his partner in
his shin.
The hog, which had escaped
from the American Meat Packing
Corp., was spotted Monday racing
down a street and the officers
chased it to an alley several blocks
away.
Patrolman Jerry Kostlny shot
and killed the hog after it kicked
his partner, Floyd M. Gills, in the
left shin when Gills attempted to
stun the escaped porker with a
blow from his baton.
The general manager of the
packing company said the animal
would not be fit for human con
sumption because the bullet
might have shattered and gun
powder was poisonous.
Gills drove to Mercy Hospital
for treatment of a bruised leg.
A few good dogs
United Press International
BOSTON — The Department
of Defense is looking for a few
good dogs.
Instructors from the Pentagon’s
Dog Center at Lackland Air Force
Base in San Antonio, Texas, are
coming to the Boston area next
week with recruiting on their
minds.
The center, which trains
canines for security patrols at
military installations worldwide,
needs about 50 new German
shepherds.
“They needn’t be purebreds or
registered, but they must look and
act like German shepherds,” said
Sgt. Michael Blackshear, canine
training coordinator at the Texas
facility. “We re looking for a dog
with aggressive traits who will
protect himself and his master.
“They must he between 1 and 3
years of age, stand at least 23 in
ches high at the shoulder and
weigh at least 60 pounds,” he said.
Dogs who pass the initial eva
luation for desirable traits and
alertness will be given a physical
evaluation, he said, before under
going a 10-week training course.
Owners may donate their pet or
name a price up to $250.
Motherly gorilla
United Press International
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mama
was so loving and protective of her
newborn it took officials almost a
full day to determine the sex of the
latest lowland gorilla born at the
Columbus Zoo.
The zoo, where the first lowland
gorilla was bom in captivity 25
years ago, Monday announced
Toni, 9, had given birth to her
third baby, a healthy 5-pounder.
Dianna Frisch, keeper of the
zoo’s great apes, said the baby was
born shortly after noon Sunday
but its sex — female — could not
be determined until Monday.
Life in Dire Straits
United Press International
NEW DUNDEE, Ont. —
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau’s pledge of government
relief only for those “in absolute
dire straits” has led some 40 enter
prising residents in the tiny town
of New Dundee, Ont., to take
matters in hand.
The group has repainted a sign
that normally reads “Welcome to
New Dundee” to read “Welcome
to Dire Straits.”
Although the name change is
not official, the suggestion has put
the small southwestern Ontario
hamlet of 900 on the map.
“I don’t think these people real
ize what they have got me into.
Grant Swartzentruber, the clerk-
administrator for the township of
Wilmot, in which New Dundee is
located, said Monday. “All day
long I’ve been getting phone calls
from people wondering what is
going on.”
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