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Federal aid possible
for Kickapoo Tribe
Warped
United Press International
EAGLE PASS — A tribe of
Kickapoo Indians who fled to
the Texas-Mexico border more
than a century ago to preserve
their religious freedom now are
eligible for federal aid to ease
their impoverished conditions.
The 600 Kickapoos have
lived for years under the Inter
national Bridge that links Eagle
Pass with Piedras Negras, Mex
ico, building “wickiups” out of
cardboard and sharing just one
water faucet.
They have no electricity and
their only sanitary facilities are
portable toilets installed by the
city, said City Manager Isidro
Garza. Health conditions are
abysmal, he said.
Under legislation signed
Monday by President Reagan,
the tribe now may receive feder
al aid, apply for citizenship and
establish a reservation.
Twice a year the Kickapoos
travel to Nacimiento, Me;xico, to
pray to their god at holy
grounds set aside by Mexican
President Benito Juarez earlier
in this century.
It is this freedom of religion
that brought the band of Kick
apoos to Eagle Pass.
The U.S. Army forcibly re
moved the entire Kickapoo tribe
from virgin forestland along the
Great Lakes in 1823 and left
them at a reservation in Kansas.
But in 1840, a small band of
Kickapoos fled to Mexico be
cause they believed Christian
missionaries were interfering
with their native religion.
The descendants of that band
now live under the bridge in
Eagle Pass.
Since they are now a recog
nized tribe, the Eagle Pass Kick-
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4 suspects arrested
United Press International
AMARILLO — Police cap
tured four of the five men who
allegedly burst into a restaurant,
robbed seven people at gun
point then locked their victims
in a walk-in freezer, authorities
said.
Capt. Jimmy Davis said Mon
day police were still searching
for a fifth suspect in the robbery,
which occurred at 12:35 a.m.
Sunday at the Tumbleweeds Re
staurant.
The five suspects, wearing
dark ski masks and armed with
shotguns and pistols, took about
$1,000 and some credit cards
from the victims, then locked
them in the freezer.
Deputy’s trial starts
HOUSTON — Jury* selection
has begun in the trial of a former
deputy constable charged with
civil rights violations in the beat
ing death of a burglary suspect.
Billy Hampton McCreight,
44, is charged in the death of
Steven G. Barnette, 17, who was
taken into custody March 19 and
died March 20 in a hospital of a
ruptured spleen.
Two sheriff’s deputies, Wil
liam Gordon and William
Whigham, also were charged.
Gordon was prosecuted in state
court and sentenced to five years
probation. Whigham plea-
bargained and is awaiting sen
tencing.
U.S. District Judge Ross
Sterling scheduledjury selection
to begin Monday, but recessed
after he read the indictment and
passed out questionnaires to
potential jurors.
Plane lands safely
HOUSTON — A Western Air
lines plane that took off for
Albuquerque, N.M., turned
around and made an emergency
landing, unloading 57 passen
gers on a taxiway without injury.
Western official Phil Kemp-
ton said Flight 375 for Albu
querque, Salt Lake City and
Portland, Ore., was airborne ab
out four minutes Monday when
the pilot got a warning light.
and
shut down one engine
turned around to land.
He said a duct that warms the
fuel and the oil had broken.
Taxiing on one engine after the
return landing caused the
Boeing 727’s air-conditioning
system to overheat, filling the
cabin with smoke even though
there was no fire.
Chronicle files suit
HOUSTON — The Houston
Chronicle has filed suit in state
court demanding that Police
Chief Lee Brown release certain
records of people placed in the
city jail.
The lawsuit filed Monday,
which also names Mayor Kathy
Whitmire as a defendant, arose
from a Chronicle request Jan. 5
to look at the list of 'people
placed in the jail since last June.
Brown has said he was not
releasing the records because he
feared some of them might not
be public record under recent
court decisions limiting disclo
sure of criminal histories of indi
viduals.
System offers info
AUSTIN — A sophisticated
computer system and a toll-free
telephone line will give Texans
access to instant information on
the status of bills introduced in
the 1983 Legislature.
The Legislative Reference
Library in the Capitol building
has installed video terminals
that allows people to call up
copies of bills at the touch of a
key.
Those living outside of Au
stin can call 1-800-252-9693 to
get reports on legislation. More
than 70,000 phone calls were
processed during the 1981 ses
sion.
Reports also are available on
committee schedules and House
and Senate floor agendas.
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apoos will be eligible for prog
rams and federal money already
available to other tribes, said Ray
Apodaca, executive director of
the Texas Indian Commission in
El Paso.
Once a list of tribe members
has been submitted to the secret
ary of the interior, the Kick
apoos will have five years to app
ly for American citizenship.
That will ease their semi-annual
passage to Mexico, which until
now has been based on military
papers issued in the 1800s.
They also will have a reserva
tion someday, although the land
was not included in the bill
signed by Reagan. Instead, a na
tional fundraising drive is under
way to collect $200,000 to
$300,000 to buy 100 acres of
land for a reservation, Garza
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Man guilty of stealing surgery
United Press International
HOUSTON — An unem
ployed, uninsured man who
posed as another person to
undergo surgery on a bleeding
ulcer was sentenced to five years
in prison for stealing a medical
operation.
Daniel M. Rudolph, 25,
pleaded guilty Monday to the
charge of theft and was sent
enced to prison as part of a plea
arrangement with prosecutors.
The operation and bill from
Hermann Hospital was $3,023.
On Jan. 2, Rudolph checked
into the hospital under the name
of his friend Robert Prater and
claimed Prater’s medical insur
ance policy as his own, prosecu
tor Jack Millin said.
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