^age 6
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January 20, 1982
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rroup initiates plan
to save wild burros
United Press International
jBEAUMONT —G.VV. Bis-
Imp and his wife, Pamela,
|ve turned their air condi-
ning company office into
| adoption agency for some
of the burros that the Navy’s
tina Lake, Calif., Weapons
liter is trying to get rid of.
“We just want the Navy to
te us a chance to do what we
n to save the burros before
eykill them,” Biscamp said.
Biscamp, 27, his wife, 28,
d some friends have orga-
zed Equine Rescue Inc. For
0, people can adopt one of
e 3,700 to 5,000 burros the
avy doesn’t want.
The Navy, which killed 648
irros last year and allowed
mane groups to round up
6 more, has not yet agreed
Equine Rescue’s plan, but
le Biscamps hope to con
vince the Navy their plan is a
good one.
The Biscamps contacted
Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas,
and are organizing a cam
paign in schools and daycare
centers to have children draw
burros, write “Please don’t kill
them” on the bottom and send
them to the Pentagon.
The burros, descendants
of burros used by prospectors
and traders in the California
mountains, run wild around
the weapons center.
It costs much more than
$50 to catch a burro in Cali
fornia and truck it to Texas.
And the Biscamps are trying
to raise the extra money, in
addition to seeking new
homes for them.
“I don’t think it will be any
problem to raise enough
money,” Mrs. Biscamp said.
“Some people who can’t
take a burro, or who don’t
want one, but don’t want them
to be killed have donated
money,” Mrs. Biscamp said.
“We’re hoping that if other
people around the country
see that we can place 50 bur
ros here in Beaumont they
will decide to do the same
thing.”
Adoptees will have to let
Equine Rescue inspect the
burro’s new home.
“A burro is not a dog,” Bis
camp said. “We don’t want
people putting them in a dog
run.”
Mrs. Biscamp said: “They
can be very gentle and lov
able.”
Biscamp added: “But don’t
expect them to be that way the
first few weeks.”
[roposed Reagan plan to give states
loney, control of social programs
photo by Peter 1
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United Press International
Washington — President
an is embracing a far-
hing plan that would give
tand local officials control ol
Io40 transportation, editt a-
tand welfare programs now
led by the federal govcrn-
|U. sources say.
he “turnback” plan — part
lleagan’s “New Federalism”
ef that Washington should
pmoreauthority to state and
1 governments — will he the
[terstone of the president’s
26 State of the Union
Iress, congressional sources
I Monday.
[Under the plan, programs
1 be transferred f rom fed-
Itostate or local control and
[ided through a huge trust
fid. one source said.
[The trust fund would be cre-
in part, by combining the
J lij billion general revenue
ring program with Com-
linity Development Block
[antsand Urban Development
tion Grants, for which Con
fess has authorized about $4.1
billion in fiscal 1983.
Sources say the president will
propose a doubling of federal
excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco
and gasoline, and any new re
venue generated would also be
added to the trust fund.
The nation’s governors have
lobbied for a tax turnback to
compensate for cuts in federal
aid over the last year. But the
transfer of additional spending
obligations to state and local au
thorities under the Reagan plan
makes it unclear whether they
would emerge net winners.
Sources declined to name spe
cific programs that would be
turned over to state and local
authorities, saying only they
have to do with transportation,
education and welfare.
The revenue-generating part
of the plan, such as which excise
taxes to increase and by how
much, was very fluid and could
change between now and Jan.
26, one source said.
The turnback proposal may
be submitted to Congress sepa
rately from the 1983 budget,
which will be presented Feb. 8,
sources said.
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BURLINGTON, Ill. —
Alfred Perkins and his wife left
the city five years ago to escape
urban crime, but didn’t know
they would be victimized by a
caper that could only happen in
the country.
Someone stole their out
house.
Perkins said the two-seat out
house, which stood next to a
small guest house near his
home, was stolen while he was
on vacation between Dec. 12 and
Dec. 28.
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Prosecutors use dog hair, carpet fibers
to link Williams with Atlanta victims
United Press International
ATLANTA — Prosecutors
set up a slide projector and a
huge screen in front of the jury
box Tuesday to show the dog
hairs and carpet fibers — pro
viding the major physical link
between Wayne Williams, 23,
and his alleged victims.
The first witness to testify on
fibers in the state’s painstaking
murder case against the black
photographer was expected to
be an expert from the Du Pont
chemical firm.
Williams is on trial for the
murder of Nathaniel Cater, 27,
and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, two
of the 28 young blacks abducted
and killed in Atlanta in a 22-
month-long series that ended
when Williams fell under suspi
cion last May.
Witnesses in pre-trial hear
ings said fibers f rom rugs in Wil
liams’ home and hairs from his
family’s dog Sheba, matched
those found on the bodies of Ca
ter and Payne.
Williams’ voice was heard in
the courtroom Monday for the
first time in the trial, now in its
fifth week. It came via a tape
recording made of a news con
ference Williams called after his
nine-hour interrogation at FBI
headquarters June 3, nearly
three weeks before his arrest.
Williams complained of harass
ment by law enforcement offic
ers, insisted he knew none of the
victims and said he survived the
interrogation bv FBI agents only
because “I’m a hell-raiser, a born
rebel.
Earlier, the FBI agents por
trayed the session — during
which he tvas actually ques
tioned for about three hours —
as a relatively mild one.
The final witness Monday was
Richard Ernest, a microanalyst
at the state crime lab, who led a
nine-hour search of Williams’
station wagon while the suspect
was undergoing his interview at
the FBI offices. a brown paper bag as containing
Ernest identified ice cream sweepings removed from the
cartons, several plastic bags and car.
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