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HOUSTON — A former
Texas college professor and
two Colorado gun shop own
ers pleaded innocent Wednes
day to charges in the $15 mil
lion Gulf chemical plant ex
tortion case.
The pleas before a magis
trate formed the final battle
lines for a multidefendant
trial Dec. 28 in which the fed
eral government will pit the
testimony of one contrite ex
tortionist against evidence
concerning four suspects.
A lawyer for one of the
four said he was considering
asking that the trial of Ted
McKinney, 45, be severed
from the others because of the
difficulty in representing
McKinney in the trial where
there are conflicting interests
of defendants and a confes
sion introduced from one.
“I’m toying with the idea
because I would be concerned
about trying the cases
together if a confession is in
troduced and a defendant tes
tified against the others,”
lawyer George Secrest said.
McKinney, a former pro
fessor at the University of
Texas-San Antonio who re
cently ran a pack saddle ex
cursion business in Durango,
and gun shop partners
McBride and Worth all
pleaded not guilty before U.S.
Magistrate Frank Waltermire
during arraignment
Wednesday.
A fourth defendant, Jill
Bird, 36, of Durango, pre
viously pleaded innocent.
The fifth person indicted in
the case, former Durango re
serve police officer Tim Jus
tice, 30, has pleaded guilty to
two of the 12 charges in ex
change for his testimony and
for a prison sentence not to
exceed 15 years.
Five bombs were found in
Gulf Oil Chemicals Co.’s
Cedar Bayou plant near
Baytown, Texas, after Culf
officials received an extortion
letter. The bombs were de
fused or exploded harmlessly.
Worth asked Wednesday
for a reduction of his $l mil
lion bond, and a hearing was
set for Monday.
Attorneys for McKinney
and McBride said they might
also ask for bond reductions.
None of the three Wednes
day waived his right to a
speedy trial within 70 days of
indictment.
McBride was represented
at the brief arraignment by
court-appointed attorney
Mike Canahan, who said he
had convinced McBride not to
represent himself in the trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Ron Woods told Waltermire
he expected the trial to take
three weeks.
Textbook censors criticized
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AUSTIN — As members of
the State Board of Education
prepared for three days of tex
tbook adoption hearings, an
anti-censorship advocate ac
cused two fundamentalist tex
tbook critics of opposing books
that don’t fit their religious phi
losophy.
Nationally-noted fundamen
talist textbook critics Mel and
Norma Gabler of Longview
were scheduled to appear be
fore the board Thursday.
The State Board of Educa
tion’s textbook adoption pro
ceedings, scheduled to run
through Saturday, follow last
summer’s weeklong public hear
ing by a 15-member textbook
committee. The committee
heard hours of protests from the
Gablers and others.
Members of the Texas Insti
tute of Letters, People for the
American Way and the Texas
Civil Liberties Union, who will
not be allowed to testify at the
hearings, voiced their opposi
tion to censorship Wednesday
night at a news conference at the
University of Texas.
“If you look at those who are
raising the biggest ruckus about
what is on the shelves of school
libraries, they’re coming from a
very narrow spectrum of the
fundamentalist Christian right,”
John Duncan of the Texas Civil
Liberties Union said.
“Essentially what they’re
attempting to do is purge public
schools of all books which do not
meet the criteria of their very
narrow religious philosophy.”
Michael Hudson, of People
for the American Way, said his
group won the right this year for
the first time to submit written
comments in opposition to the
protesters. But, unlike those
who object to the books, he said
citizens who want to defend
ideas in the books or the books
themselves will not be heard at
the public hearing.
“The process favors the Gab
lers because under the present
system, the State Board of Edu
cation refuses to hear testimony
in favor of books, in favor of
including certain ideas or allow
ing people who desire to dis
agree or refute the Gablers,”
Hudson said.
During the news conference,
members of the groups read ex
cerpts from some of the forbid
den books.
Beverly Lowry of the Texas
Institute of Letters said any
attempts at censorship were des
tructive and decried efforts in
various cities across the nation to
ban such books as “Huckleberry
Finn,” “Mary Poppins” and
“The Diary of Anne Frank.”
“The banning of one book,
the lifting of one book from a
library shelf, the tossing of one
book into a bonfire affects us
all,” Lowry said.
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Consumer group
wants counsel
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AUSTIN — A consumer
advocacy group will ask a com
mission reviewing the opera
tions of state agencies to estab
lish a “public counsel” within the
Public Utilities Commission to
represent residential customers
during rate hearings.
Rebecca Lightsey, director of
the Texas Consumer Associa
tion, said once the PUC estab
lishes higher rates in a utility
rate case hearing, residential us
ers have no voice in how that pie
is divided up.
“They wind up paying more
than they should,” she said.
She said the group will ask
the Sunset Commission, which is
reviewing the operations of state
agencies, boards and commis
sions, to establish a “public coun
sel” within the PUC to represent
residential rate payers during
rate hearings.
; The Sunset Commission is
conducting week-long hearings
including sessions dealing with
the PUC 8
Lightsey said an independent
public counsel and staff could be
funded at the PUC through the
gross receipts tax already im
posed on utility companies.
The consumer group, she '
said, will also recommend the j
PUC conduct management au
dits on utilities, restrict the I
amount of construction costs |
passed on to customers and re
design rate structure to give re
sidential customers a break.
While the PUC can audit utili
ties’ books, Lightsey said, the
PUC never looks into how well
’the utilities are actually being
run.
. “There is no ongoing record
of whether management costs
are higher than necessary,” she
said.
Lightsey said the current rate
design used by the PUC “is con
trary to a fair system based on
equity and energy efficiency.”
The largest users — industry
— pay the cheapest rates, while
residential customers pay the
highest, she said.
Lightsey said the consumer
association will also lobby the
full Texas Legislature for a bill
that would convert the PUC into
an elected rather than
appointed panel.
Legislation has been pre-filed
Now you
know
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in the House and Senate to ex
pand the PUC and make it an
elected commission.
“No race would be more
clearly understood by the aver
age voter than the election of a
utility commissioner who will
vote on their utility rates,” she
said.
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