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£ Battalion/Page 5 November 17, 1982 state Accused in Dallas when Wood killed? United Press International SAN ANTONIO —A hair stylist, a bank clerk and a doorman have testified they saw Charles Harrelson in Dal las the morning Federal Judge John H. Wood was kil led in San Antonio. Hair stylist Ralph Mitchell testified Monday Harrelson, the accused hitman, stopped by his Dallas salon as early as 9:30 the morning Wood was killed. Harrelson is accused of shooting Wood in front of his apartment as thejudge left for work about 8:30 on May 29, 1979. Harrelson has maintained he was sleeping in his Dallas apartment when the judge was killed, but prosecutors have pointed out the 275-mile flight from San Antonio to Dallas can be made in about one hour. Mitchell, who said he often drank and gambled with Har relson, testified Monday that Harrelson stopped at his salon in north Dallas as early as 9:30 the day Wood was shot. “I said, ‘What in the world is he doing up this early?’ I’d never seen him up before noon,” said Mitchell, a con victed bookmaker and inter state auto thief. Mitchell told jurors Harrel son delivered his share of the winnings in one of their rig ged card games. Prosecutors sought to dis count testimony from a bank teller and a doorman who said they saw Harrelson in Dallas before 11 a.m. that same day. Sheryl Mendoza said she issued a $600 cashier’s check to Harrelson at Greenville Avenue Bank and Trust and A. V. Piper Sr. said he recalled parking Harrelson’s blue Lin coln at the Preston Towers. Mitchell said Harrelson was driving his white Lincoln that morning. Mendoza recalled Harrel son paid for the transaction with a $20 check and used an Oregon driver’s license for identification. She said it was later discovered his check was bad and after he was called he returned to the bank and paid cash. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray Jahn hinted that during cross- examination he would call bank officials who could tes tify bank records showed Mendoza did not write any checks on May 29, 1979, using an Oregon driver’s license. Pressed by Jahn on cross examination. Piper said he be lieved he told FBI investiga tors it could have been Mon day when he parked Harrel son’s car. But in a later exchange with Jahn, Piper said he was sure it was Tuesday and placed the time between 8 and 11 a.m. Milk good for heart? Bomber’ tells of suicide pact United Press International DALLAS — A Minnesota medical researcher believes fresh milk contains a protective element that helps prevent rheumatic heart disease, and if it could be extracted and given to patients, the incidence of the disease could be lowered. Dr. John Murray studied the diet of an African tribe that sub sists almost entirely on a diet of fresh milk and seems to be pro tected from rheumatic heart dis ease. Thousands of Americans die of rheumatic fever and rheuma tic heart disease each year, even though penicillin is an effective treatment, he said Monday at the American Heart Association convention. And within less de veloped countries, the mortality rate is much higher. In India, he said, there cur rently are 4 million people who need heart valve surgery to re pair damage done by rheumatic heart disease. But the disease is virtually un known among the Mans^i l of Kenya. Their diet is than 90 percent raw milk daily consumption V ’ Wlth from three to six dn g>ng Murray, his nutritionist wife Anne and their son, Dr. Nigel Murray, studied the Maasai and compared them to members of a nearby farming tribe whose diet was not heavily dependent on milk. The scientists found no RHD among the Maasai, but 17 cases among the farmers. “I don’t think we could ever convince anybody to change to an all-milk diet,” said Murray, professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medic al School in Minneapolis. But he said scientists might be able to extract the special ele ment from milk, then use it as medication against rheumatic heart disease. For decades scientists have known fresh milk destroys streptococcal bacteria, which can cause rheumatic heart dis ease, and Murray said the Maasai drink their milk fresh without altering it. He believes raw milk contains by Octavio Cr he cold: -. The pli , Thursdi in Rudde iCOl en outcome nd donate i ie BigEW ?contes( autograph* &M iootte Feb. 2i his and® ■t to answ ’s "ca ultyatTes s of Dr II partici profit vo s. 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A 12-count indictment charges McKinney and four others with conspiring to extort $15 million from Gulf Oil Che micals Co., in exchange for not blowing up the huge chemical plant. Five bombs were found at the plant, but they were either defused or detonated safely. Also charged in the case are Jill Bird, 34, John McBride, 46, and Timothy Justice, 30. Justice may be aiding prosecutors in the case. T he FBI blew up the gre nades Worth described and showed Waltermire photo graphs of the damage done by the explosives. Worth said the grenades were stashed under a cactus plant near the place where Gulf offi cials were to deliver the extor tion money. Worth said that McBride had promised to be “the fall guy” if the plan failed. Slx Hearts Top Drawer from Basics to Designers • Lee - Bill lein - Ocean Levis - Sedgefi 5 ,d » - Calvin S c ' Jockey - Stanley - Sst. r re ; ^ • HERPES... Suppressed Information Booklet of UCLA research. 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