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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1981
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By Scott McCulk
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Religion is
in the eye of the beholder, say
police, who often have strange en
counters with an assortment of
ethnic and religious customs, in
cluding voodoo rites.
Reports of Haitian refugees
practicing voodoo or gypsies put
ting the evil eye on people are not
unusual in a community with a di
versified ethnic population and re
ligious beliefs, a member of the
city’s Crime Prevention Bureau
said.
But the practices are deemed
harmless unless an illegal activity
is involved, Sgt. Rafael Lopez said
Tuesday, following a local nursing
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voodoo men approaching elderly
residents with offers to halt the
process of old age through magical
potions.
“She wanted us to check into
one of her patients who had some
voodoo dude come up there and
tell an old man that ... he could
keep him from getting older,’’
Lopez said.
But, Lopez said, the man’s
family did not complain so the
police never investigated it.
Between 1,000 and 2,500 gyp
sies reside in San Antonio and
complaints sometimes crop up ab
out gypsies putting the evil eye on
people and selling mystical mix
tures and potions, Lopez said.
“They (gypsies) have got a regu
lar tribe here, a clan,” he said.
“But for us to conduct an investi
gation into them or any other
group, we would first have to
prove there was some illegal
activity.
“If it’s a cultural belief or reli
gious belief or whatever and peo
ple are willing to put out money
for it, what can we do?”
Most voodoo
said.
is harmless, he
“There are gypsies and Haitians
with voodoo, and the Mexicans go
to ‘curanderos,’” Lopez said. “The
curanderos have a love potion or
prayers for the dead. They tell you
to go buy herbs and make tea and
carry an eyeball of a deer or what
ever. That’s a going thing.
“I don’t think there’s anything
negative about that. I’ve been a
patient of it.”
He described a Mexican custom
of placing an egg in a bowl of water
beneath the bed of a suspected
victim of the evil eye. If the egg
was cooked the next morning, it
meant the evil was gone.
“It can’t hurt; it just wastes an
egg,” Lopez said.
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AMARILLO— Randall County
Democratic chairman Mel Phil-
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pay raise for election judges hadn’t
come through, laid the blame on
former Secretary of State George
Strake.
Phillips blasted the former sec
retary of state in a statement Tues
day, saying Strake was “running
for another office instead of tend
ing to business.”
The secretary’ of state’s office
has informed county chairmen
that the Legislature did not
appropriate enough money to cov
er both the pay raise of election
judges from $3 to $4 an hour, and
increases in other election costs
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due to inflation.
Now chairmen from both par
ties face a shortage of almost $1
million in funds to pay for the May
1 primary election.
Vic Terry of Austin, director of
financial management and plan
ning for the secretary of state’s
office, said Tuesday the state is
short about $913,IKK) of what it
would take to cover the increased
pay of election judges.
“What it amounts to is that
George Strake didn't go and ask
for the supplement that he was
supposed to,” Phillips said. "Its
totally unfair for our election offi
cials to have to take less than >
has been allocated for them
cause the secretary of state al“j
time neglected to do what hi
supposed to do. ’
Strake, a Republican, resis
about a month ago to seel
office of lieutenant governor
was replaced by David Dean
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dull counties said they will!
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HOUSTON — A city health de
partment spokeswoman says a
panel investigating an outbreak of
suspected cyanide poisoning
should complete its review of test
results by the end of the week.
A general practitioner who dis
covered the 12 non-fatal poison
ings said he suspected cyanide was
leaking into the Heights neighbor
hood sewer system and mixing
with chemicals resulting in poiso
nous hydrogen cyanide gas.
But, city health officials have
criticized Dr. Tim Oesch’s find
ings, saying he made his diagnosis
prematurely and did not perform
adequate tests.
“The committee will provide
additional expertise and objectiv
ity to the cyanide investigation,”
spokeswoman Shirlene Bridgewa
ter said Tuesday. Health depart
ment air, soil, water and blood test
results were turned over to the
committee, she said.
“The committee will review all
lab results, analyze data and pre
pare a statement to be issued with
in 24 hours upon receipt of all
data,” Bridgewater said.
The committee, made
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health department,
said.
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Jeffery C. Pheiss, anenvirom
tal science specialist, Dr. Fn
Weir, associate professor of
icology, James Hammond, as
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and Dr. Darwin Labarthe
ate professor of epidemiote
Oesch, meanwhile,
leave Houston because he
blood tests revealed he had a.'
four times more poison in
than the worst of his patient
“I need to go and recoveral
bit,” Oesch said. “This
threatening. 1 am gettingven
and I need help now.”
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