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United Press International
PORT ISABEL — At least 28
people were injured and several
campers were missing in a torna
do that struck a popular beach on
the southern tip of Texas
Wednesday.
Johnny Castillo, spokesman
for the Cameron County sheriff’s
office, said 90 mph winds and a
tornado hit a mobile home park,
causing “a lot of damage” on
South Padre Island.
Officials fear several campers
were swept away by the rising
tide, he said. Twenty-eight peo
ple were treated at Valley Baptist
Hospital in Harlingen and Dolly
Vincent Hospital in San Benito.
“ I he tide really came up and
the Coast Guard and the Parks
and Wildlife officers are looking
for them,” he said.
“We knew that there was a
norther coming in and a 20 to 30
percent chance of showers, but
we didn’t expect anything like
this. It just hit us and that’s it,” he
said.
Six amendments added
Texans increase welfare
ly
United Press International
Texans added six amend
ments to the state’s 106 year-old
constitution, voting overwhelm
ingly in favor of propositions to
increase welfare payments, re
peal a $1 billion state property
tax and exempt farm equipment
from sales taxes.
Other amendments would
raise the interest ceiling on state
bonds, abolish two county
treasurer offices and set terms
of office for certain commis
sions.
The approval of the six prop
osals Tuesday brought the num
ber of voter-endorsed changes
to the 1876 constitution to 253.
None of the six amendments
had generated organized oppo
sition.
Voters adopted the welfare
amendment, which was en
dorsed by at least 60 organiza
tions, with 65.83 percent of the
vote.
The amendment will raise
the ceiling on welfare expendi
tures from a flat $80 million to 1
percent of the state budget — a
move supporters said was cru
cial to help needy residents keep
up with inflation in Texas,
wnich ranks 49th among the
states in welfare payments.
The property tax proposal
was approved with 7 1.92 per
cent of the vote. It will repeal the
state property tax that was estab-
lishecf in 1947 as a means of
financing construction at state
colleges that did not receive
shares of the Permanent Uni-
Chagra testifies
against hitman
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — El Paso
attorney Joe Chagra testified
Tuesday that convicted hitman
Charles Harrelson vowed to kill
his wife and stepdaughter to
keep them from implicating him
in the assassination of Federal
Judge John Wood.
The stepdaughter, Teresa
Starr, spent six months in jail
before she testified to the grand
jury investigating Wood’s death,
but her testimony apparently
cinched indictments against
Harrelson, who is believed to
have pulled the trigger, and Jim-
, my Chagra, who allegedly hired
him.
She said she picked up
$250,000 for Harrelson in Las
.Vegas a month after Wood’s
death. Prosecutors believe it was
Harrelson’s payoff from
Chagra.
In other action, jurors wore
stereo headphones and followed
along in a transcript as they lis
tened to Jimmy Chagra’s visits
and telephone calls with his wife
Elizabeth and with Joe Chagra,
who had been unaware they
were being recorded by the FBI.
The long-awaited tapes dis
appointed courtroom spectators
who could understand only
snippets of conversation. The
prison visiting room tapes were
garbled by the noise of other
visitors and their children
nearby.
Joe Chagra, 36, was on the
stand for the second day to ela
borate on the tapes and to testify
against Harrelson. His testi
mony against Harrelson is part
of a plea bargain in which he
entered a guilty plea on conspir
acy to murder charges in return
for a light sentence.
Harrelson, 44, is on trial for
murder, and Jimmy Chagra will
be tried for murder later. Jimmy
Chagra, 39, is accused of paying
Harrelson $250,000 to kill
Wood, who was shot in the back
as he left his San Antonio apart
ment May 29, 1979.
Joe Chagra, who also acted as
Jimmy’s lawyer, testified Mon
day he had encouraged Jimmy
to kill Wood rather than take his
chances on getting a life sent
ence from Wood — nicknamed
“Maximum John” — in an up
coming drug smuggling trial.
Wood was killed the day Jimmy
Chagra was originally to have
been tried.
The high-rolling Las Vegas
gambler was tried later for drug
smuggling, sentenced to 30
years without parole and sent to
Leavenworth, Kan.
During the fall of 1980, as the
FBI made its tapes, Joe and Eli
zabeth Chagra gave Jimmy
almost daily updates on the gov
ernment’s investigation into
Wood’s death, the tapes showed.
Chagra and Harrelson had been
suspects from the start.
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versity Fund, which benefits the
University of Texas and Texas
A&M University.
The tax has not been col
lected since 1979, when the Leg
islature voted to reduce it to
such a negligible level that it was
unfeasible to collect. But Mid
western University, one of the
17 colleges that benefited from
the tax, filed suit claiming the
legislative action was unconstitu
tional, and lawmakers met in
special session last May to
approve the proposed amend
ment.
1Q J„ en , tativ e Plans call for the
1983 Legislature to devise an
alternate formula to provide
construction funds for the 17
universities.
Voters approved the amend
ment exempting farm imple
ments from state sales taxes with
66.49 percent of the vote.
Other tallies included 59.64
percent in favor of the amend
ment increasing the maximum
interest rate on state bonds;
80.75 percent in favor of the
amendment that sets terms of
office for water, conservation
and reclamation districts; and
73 09 percent in favor of abo-
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