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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.
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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
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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 ’ ,
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maximum for whateefl to assist
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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^
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struck and killed an uni®
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12:30 a.m. on Westheimer®
couple tried to cross thesu®
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son tried
swerve his patrol car
ting the couple.
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department’s task forct
drunk drivers and was resfj
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the accident, Bales said. 1
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filed against (he officer *|
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. T he identities of tnej
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