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state Battalion/Page 5A September 3, 1982 Lake Houston a sewage dump? for foci imes. iding^.. Iasi \t Hopefi ties (os attendj its 3 How much did you say? staff photo by David Fisher One of the not so pleasant but unavoidable tasks each semester is buying the books required for classes. Bill Jamda looks at Ashley Cook as if the price of his books has put him in shock. Lam da is a senior from Lubbock studying Engineering Technology and Cook is a senior from Dallas studying Health Education. United Press International HOUSTON — Lake Hous ton, one source of drinking wa ter for the city of Houston, con tains a higher than normal level of fecal bacteria and could be closed to swimming and other forms of recreation, KPRC radio station reported Thursday. City health officials are con sidering closing Lake Houston, located north of Houston within Harris county, to contact recrea tion because city and state water samples have shown a high level of coliform bacteria in the water, the station reported in a copyr ight story. High levels of coliform bac teria indicate the presence of high levels of animal or human feces in the water, which usually means other viruses that could cause stomach disorders, dysen tery, hepatitis or typhoid fever also could be present, the report said. Ricky Quevedo, chief of pub lic health engineering for the city health department, said one possible source of the pollution is the large number of small sew age treatment plants which dis charge their treated sewage into the lake, creeks and rivers that feed Lake Houston. “If our numbers reveal that indeed we have a significant problem as indications are (now), I would have to make re commendations to our public health director to minimize or eliminate contact recreation activities on the lake,” Quevedo said. Quevedo Said he intends to conduct intensive sampling of the lake over the next few weeks to confirm the findings of pre vious samples. Lake Houston covers about 12,000 acres and supplies drink ing water for about one-half of the city. TWIN CITY FURNITURE says DON’T RENT FURNITURE!!! 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She said Cranford told her she was drunk, and drove her home in her van while Henson followed in a patrol car. On arriving at her house, Cranford told her he would take her to jail if she did not have sex with him, she said. He then told her to strip from waist down, had sexual intercourse with her and left. The woman’s roommate said the woman came into the house naked from waist down, weep ing and saying raped by a police officer she had been She said she and the woman went to Richardson police to file a com plaint. Henson told investigators he waited no more than two mi nutes while Cranford and the woman were alone in the van. Henson is not charged in the alleged incident. Ex-convict found strangled, shot United Press International AUSTIN — Benjamin Boyd Smith, once called the “baddest man in town,” met his match Monday and police investigating associates of the debt collector found strangled and shot to death. Police said they had no sus pects in the gangland-style slaying of Smith, whose bullet- riddled body was found stuffed into the trunk of a car registered to a Houston oil company. An autopsy revealed he had been strangled with a cord and shot twice in the head with a .22- caliber weapon. An Austin police investigator said Smith, 54, may have been connected to convicted hitman Charles Harrelson, the accused triggerman in the 1979 slaying of federal Judge John Wood Jr. in San Antonio. “He was a very tough custom er and alleged (debt) collector for Las Vegas,” San Antonio De puty Police Chief Marion Tal bert said. “He had a lot of con nections. I didn’t expect him to die of old age.” Harrelson’s lawyer Tom Sharpe Jr. said he had no know ledge ol Smith. Federal prosecu tors in the Wood case refused to comment on a possible link be tween the two. Smith was a San Antonio police officer for two years in the 1950s. 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