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state Areas of state OK bingo United Press International PASADENA — Voters, in light turnouts across the state, have approved legalized bingo games within several communi ties. Voters Saturday in the Hous ton suburb of Pasadena — where Baptists lobbied heavily against the measure — approved bingo by a 2,945 to 1,640 : vote. In Bowie County, a justice precinct including Texarkana recorded 699 lor and 412 against bingo. In San Angelo, the vote was 2,046 in favor and 385 against. In Denton, the game was approved by a 437 to 165 vote. The elections were added to those previously held in 306justice precincts, counties and cities in the state which have approved bingo since January 1982. The state comptroller had received 2,318 bingo license ap plications and issued 2,132 as of Thursday. In Pasadena, it was the second time in f ive months that a bingo petition had come up for a vote in this oil refinery town. A similar vote in August was defe ated by 254 votes. Anti-bingo forces claim legal ized bingo will pave the way for hard core gambling, but propo nents say legalized bingo is a harmless, f un way for nonprofit charity groups to raise money for charity. Carlene Ashworth, member of the American Legion Auxili ary Unit 521 in Pasadena, said a telephone survey taken this week indicated 60 percent of the voters polled were against legali zation of bingo. “We don’t feel bingo playing will cause people to participate in other gambling. These people know they are not going to win and they know so much of the money goes toward charity and good things in the community,” Ashworth said. The new state law authoriz ing bingo for non-profit groups sets a $2,500 maximum on win nings that the groups may pay out during one session. Ashworth said bingo games operated by her group during the past five years have raised more than $123,000 that has been donated for cancer re search, hospital equipment, col lege scholarships and other charitable projects. Opponents in Pasadena say legalized bingo will lead to moral decay in the mostly bluecollar, strongly Baptist community. $^09 Now Only Open Everyday 7-Midnight Cathys' 1 vf^ORMER Now you know United Press International The brain monitors bodily ox- if carbon dioxide concentrations ygen levels so closely that it will in the blood rise by as little as order respiration rates to double 3-10ths of 1 percent. MONDAY & THURSDAY NIGHT Professional Male Dancer Night! From LaBares in San An tonio and Houston. Male Dancer Night! 4 For 1 Highballs! 7-8 p.m. Doors open to the men at 10 p.m. s 2 Cover from 7-8 p.m. $ 3 8-10 p.m. DALLAS NIGHT CLUB IN THE DEUX CHENE COMPLEX BEHIND K-MART, COLLEGE STATION 693-2818 For optimal satisfaction: Read at least once daily. Ingredients include: Worldwide News/International Business, Finance and Energy Reports/Fashion/ Travel/Entertainment. —Guaranteed to satisfy your special interests— Subscription prescribed for: SPECIAL SAVINGS To TexasA t M Students, Faculty & Staff V2 Price Jan. 17-May 13—$13.50 (excluding spring break) To start your Chronicle subscription for the spring semester CALL 693-2323 or 693-7815. Houston Chronicle mama Chagra: Wood have suspected might L United Press International JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Did U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr. of San Antonio, Texas, believe in March 1979 that Jamiel “Jimmy” Chagra might try to murder him? Kathryn Wood, thejudge’s widow, testified Friday he never mentioned any such fear to her. But late Friday afternoon in Chagra’s trial for the mur der of Wood, Chagra himself was quoted in a March 28, 1979, af fidavit as saying he be lieved that that was exactly what the judge thought. Chagra, a convicted narco tics trafficker, is accused of paying $250,000 to convicted hitman Charles V. Harrelson to kill Wood, who had been scheduled to hear his trial on narcotics charges. The gov ernment contends Chagra was fearful of getting a life sentence from Wood, known for giving maximum sent ences. Wood was shot in the back with a high-powered rifle as he was leaving his home at the Chateaux Dijon Townhomes in San Antonio on the morn ing of May 29, 1979. Seven months before. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Kerr’s car was sprayed with rifle fire in San Antonio. Kerr hugged the floor and escaped serious injury. Then, two days before Christmas 1978, Lee Chagra, Jimmy Chagra’s brother, was murdered in his El Paso, Texas, office. As Chagra’s Las Vegas, Nev., attorney Oscar Good man put it in his opening statement Thursday, there was a lawless atmosphere in west Texas. On Friday, Grace Sampsell, Wood’s court clerk in 1979, testified that Chagra filed 33 motions in an effort to get Wood to remove himself from his case. All were denied, as was an appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Sampsell then was asked by government prosecutor Ray Jahn to read from an March 28, 1979, affidavit Chagra signed in support of the appeal. “I have been advised,” Sampsell quoted Chagra as af firming*“and upon such in formation believe, that Judge Wood has written a letter to at least one, and perhaps sever al, judges of the Western Dis trict of Texas, to the effect that 1, and-or my brother, Lee, and-or other members of my family were responsible for the attempted assassina tion of the aforementioned Jim Kerr.” Saying he abhored vio lence, Chagra denied the pur ported allegation. “I have been further advised anti lielieve that rumor had it that there was some nexus between the inci dent involving Mr. Kerr and what could happen to Judge United Press 1 US’l IN — Wood, and 1 believet ,ia ^ is cleal1 situation, in and of iu t l idate ' P ;“T ates an atmosphere ) le ur £ ed t which would beimoos' to ( ? v lawmaker me to receive a fair “ wrote. inst Republic Chagra pointed nfc, assignment of U.S., I ^e agret to guard Judge Wo ll l’ t ° the c< the attempt on Kerrs l f est . ate r pai corroboration ofhislx?F nd ;. in , a ' Sam|,sai sa idC hl S> let ° K “ bl gmally indicted inFtt|; ia ’ , 'W9 on ntarpafcP- cocaine smuggling c ; N Lnl e and ordered held on JHf S1Snm ^ lion bond,la«r. asra ,’!!'«“ <> " a j: on the sttmc charge,® r "cdn n t «»1 operating a coniinui:|- f K :,. r y-i-.-hi filin', ■bled t Wood was known as » m ' s obv . io ' inui m John," she said,I conservat i \ t of the sentences he g We feel like fendants in Iris coun Texas shou maximum for whateefl to assist charge was.” Bn at in tl imm,” Slagl She described hear ir | v j s Dan K the Chagra case in \tB courtroom as “explosmR said when Wood refuF remove himself at an: 1979, hearing, “than the room (Chagra’s)wil upset.” Mrs. Wood testifiediL-v/—i several months beforeB f husband’s death heasle;B^ his hodvguard of U.S fl shals Ik* removed bea«h n ;,»a p ress just didn’t want themii AN ANTOf him every place.” pcouplesai for the Uni' f! “alth Science tonio’s new ‘ Bam. The San Ai join one in I handful of United State Asch, who is o" fertilizatie run oveLst, .vork with 50 ,/ next year at Baby will I Couple by polii 50 or 60 test ieved to have United Press Internalio ide since Lo HOI SI ON — A pok itei\ed in a 1 er on his way to a crinjel,^ anc j was b fatally injured two PyBAlan Tro who reportedly stepped | rm . A ustra f ront of his patrol caron<l]yp p roces street early Saturday, “It isapparei ities said. Assistant Police Chifi j Bales said of ficer C.E. j————— struck and killed an uni® fied man and woman ® 12:30 a.m. on Westheimer® couple tried to cross thesu® busy traffic. ,B Bales said officer Cl son tried swerve his patrol car ting the couple. Jackson was involved® department’s task forct drunk drivers and was resfj ing to another call at then r 1 the accident, Bales said. 1 Bales said no char^l filed against (he officer *| investigation would 1 ducted by both the accident internal affairs divisionsn| police department. 1 . 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