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alion/Pagei Iy15,1 state Battalion/Page 3 July 15, 1982 ouston cop killed in traffic check I • ■ United Press International lomesticoiii* H ouSTON — One of two e U.S. wiil(Ben in a car stopped for a but all of Jntine traffic violation shot and plomacyisjBled a police officer, then cri- iing(totheSp ca 'b' woun< ^ e ^ a passerby who present do 1 happened upon the scene, mpleoft[rf Wednesday. Vi' i B An hour later 1 uesday night, ' n »Hce were seeking two suspects ici majoral who fled the scene of the slaying. “ r are ofteii® ne 0 f the two men was then i the risks Hot and killed by the police, natural gaspho were investigating the first vill satisfy® snooting. leir overallM Several eyewitnesses said tngry as thtH^ watc hed the gun battle and threatens if high um Europe. icen to piti [st count of how many bullets id been fired. J Officer L.J. Trepagnaer was founded in the stomach, chest, m and side during the second .oodng incident. He under- estern h ivteM surgery Wednesday and 1, as nationiHas listed in critical condition at d capitals, i |ermann Hospital, pipeline oB The man killed in the ex- iomiesand|p an g e of gunfire with police i ill in ever! 35 uot ^ een identified, but his . • | Himpanion was taken into cus- |J ' a< ‘I' 1 ' J rady. Dlicy has ngB s [ a i n police officer was )unterprod.|l ent if iec j asJ.D. Harris, 29. He Has patrolling the neighbor- is strained pod with his dog when he stop- suggest ik Polish cai lar policy di ped the car and was shot. He died at the scene from a bullet in his head. The passerby was identified as Joe Arnijo. He was listed in critical condition at Ben Taub Hospital with a chest wound. Police said Harris stopped a car with the two men in south east Houston about 10 p.m. Tuesday. As Harris attempted to search the two, one ran and the other pulled out a gun and shot the officer. Police said then one of the two men fired a shot through the windshield of Arnijo’s car. Arni- jo’s 10-year-old son Jose witnes sed the shooting. “They shot my father,” the boy said. “These two guys shot through the window and shot my father. They started running and one dropped his hat. They just took off.” Within an hour, when police were called in to search a house for the two suspects in the Har ris shooting, one of them began shooting at police, who returned fire, killing one of them. Harris’ gun and ammunition were found on the killed sus pect, police said. ouston solves one in ten crimes United Press International HOUSTON — Only one in ten major crimes in Houston are Ived by the city police, which is jbout half the clearance rate for 'the rest of the state. The national clearance rate, teases closed, is about 20 per- lent, according to the FBI. But ouston’s 10.8 percent last year is a five-year low for the city. “Detective work is primarily Iking to the people, but if you ^on’t have time to talk to them, ou don’t have a case,” said de- ective K.D. Porter. Many Houston police say they ear their clearance rate will Irop further because of U.S. listrict Judge Carl Bue’s recent ruling that police must release suspects within 24 hours if no charges are filed. By comparison, large cities in Texas have a clearance rate of 16 to 28 percent. Dallas police reported clear ing 28 percent of its cases in 1981. In San Antonio, the clear ance rate dropped from 24.4 percent in 1980 to 16.9 percent m 1981. Burglary and theft cases are the most difficult cases to solve because there generally are few, if any, witnesses. Capt. J.W. Ful- bright said property taken gen erally cannot be recovered be cause few citizens properly iden tify their merchandise. Nuke to be finished, project manager says Sea rial United Press International BAY CITY — The South Texas Nuclear Project — which was supposed to have been finished a year ago — can be successfully erected despite con tinued construction delays, in creasing costs, and design prob lems in changing contractors, the project manager said. “I’m very confident the pro ject can be built successfully,” said project manager David B. Barker of Houston Lighting & Power Co. j “I am convinced ... that prob lems will be minimized in the fu ture,” Barker said, i Barker, who is managing the over-budget project for a con sortium of utilities in San Anto nio, Austin, Corpus Christi and Houston, made his comments Tuesday after revealing that en gineers had found significant ( design problems in changing from one contractor to another. :roops), wki keirut is led man who tble in the I that destroj “ring Arab 1 y intensify d increase the Israelii' 1 Al-Khotf Class o rickffli “I’d say we’re looking at half a dozen problems that we really have to deal with,” Barker said. “We’re looking at a gradual resumption (of work) and we’ll have a fairly large work force by the end of 1983.” Bechtel Power Co. and Ebas- co Services Inc. recently re placed Brown 8c Root Inc. as project architect and construc tor respectively. Last month, after a year of virtually no work, the firms re sumed non-safety related work. Barker hopes to begin safety re lated work, whic^) is defined as anything crucial to nuclear safe ty, in September. Some 2300 personnel were at work on the project Tuesday — 1800 of them on site, the rest in *H’s The Great Price Slasher! 9 Just when you thought it was safe to stay away from stereo stores . . . THE GREAT PRICE SLASHER has returned to CUSTOM SOUNDS!! © He’s savagely ripped into every stereo price — slashing, chopping and tearing home and car stereo prices to bits. Now the only thing you can do is come pick up the pieces — AND SOME GREAT STEREO SAVINGS!! o 6 O r~> O * Must LooH at These Slashed Stereo Prices! 9 Houston. At its peak, the project employed 4700. Brown & Root originally targeted completion of the plant for 1982 at a cost of $ 1.1 billion. Its latest estimate pushed the completion back to 1988 for an estimated cost of $4.6 billion. Barker refused to discuss the final cost and impact of the change from Brown and Root to Bechtel and Ebasco. He said up- to-date estimates on the project would be released in Houston Aug. 4. However, Barker said the twin-reactor, 2500 mega-watt plant would increase in price and be further delayed because of design problems Bechtel found in the heating and air conditioning system, the emergency power building and in some electrical work. Bechtel and Ebasco confronted pre viously discovered problems with Brown & Roofs work, in cluding sub-standard beam and column connections in the 250- foot high pair of partially com plete reactor containment domes. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1979 fined HL&P $ 100,000 for quality con trol and construction violations. It later fired Brown & Root as the builder. In spite of millions of dollars of costs and years of work, the 10,000-acre site 10 miles south west of Bay City looks about the same as it did three years ago. The 7,000-acre cooling water re servoir is finished but unfilled. 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