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Tent City rejects free rent
United Press International
HOUSTON — A woman who
offered free rent on part of her
property to 200 unemployed
people living in tents at a high
way rest stop got a quick rejec
tion and some neighborly
! knocks for her attempt at
; charity.
Juanita Adcox offered some
!. of her acreage in Crosby to the
Tent City dwellers who for the
last five months have lived on
the banks of the San Jacinto Riv
er 30 miles east of Houston.
The community started as a
temporary shelter for transient
job-seekers, but has evolved into
a place for freeloaders.
“I really thought it was an
opportunity for them to prove
to the community they were not
what people say they are. But it
appears they are what people
say they are,” said Adcox, 44, an
Exxon Co. USA employee in
Baytown.
Tent dweller Darlene Collins,
whose husband is a spokesman
for the group, said the group
had refused the offer of 15 acres
to grow vegetables, raise chick
ens and keep a milk cow because
there was no assurance they
wouldn’t be evicted after
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Adcox drew up a contract for
use of her land and had writer
and Tent City dweller Tom
Stevens present it to residents
Monday. It contained the same
camp rules which the squatters
abide by now, but gave her the
right to evict them at a'ny time.
“Tom said 30 people had
signed the agreement when this
other fellow came into the camp
and began to tell them not to go
with the contract as it reads,”
Adcox said.
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“They wanted a year’s lease
even though they weren’t going
to have to pay anything. I’m not
asking for any money. I just de
manded they keep the premises
in order and continue to look for
jobs,” she said.
She said there was no way she
would sign away her right to
evict them if their settlement got
unsanitary or rowdy.
Adcox persisted with the
offer despite complaints from
neighbors and from renters who
live in a house on her property.
Across Scralla Road from
Adcox, Ruth Owen was angry.
“It would just ruin our prop
erty,” Owen said. “My husband
has worked long and hard all
these years. We’ve paid off our
house and this land. We don’t
want everything ripped off.”
Hilda Eilers, 71, whose 80
acres border Adcox’s land on
the north, said the news shocked
her.
“I don’t like it because this is
such a quiet neighborhood,”
Mrs. Eilers said.
The neighbors found out ab
out the offer Sunday when ren
ters Elton Miller, 27, and his
wife Yvette, 21, were told the
tent people might move onto
land several acres behind their
house.
“It’s like a bad dream,” Mrs.
Miller said. “How could they
move these people in my back
yard? These people have been
helped so much they won’t do
anything for themselves now.
All they want is a handout.”
The offer was rejected even as
state legislators in Austin pre
pared a bill that would remove
the homeless people from a
roadside park they have occu
pied for five months.
Some people have said Tent
City has turned into an unsanit
ary eyesore despite organization
of residents and imposition of
strict living standards.
Shell credit up
two million
United Press International
HOUSTON — Shell Oil Co.
said its recent campaign to in
crease the number of Shell cre
dit card holders has resulted in 2
million new accounts, twice as
many as expected.
“Consumers like the safety
and convenience of credit
cards,” W.J. Bittles Jr., Shell’s
vice president for retail sales,
said Tuesday. “Prices for credit
sales at Shell stations have gen
erally been the same as competi
tive discount-for-cash prices.”
Bittles said consumer re
sponse was so great at one point
the company had to hire 400
temporary employees in the
580-person Tulsa, Okla., credit
card center. Shell now has
approximately 8 million credit
accounts.
He said 4.6 million inquiries
were received and 2 million new
accounts were created as a result
of the campaign.
Shell said it was the first to
introduce a program to encour
age holders of other oil com
pany’s credit cards to use them
at Shell stations.
At the same time, Shell in
vited holders of other credit
cards to apply for Shell credit.
The credit card campaign be
gan Sept. 15 and ended Dec. 31
in selected areas east of the
Rocky Mountains. It will end
Feb. 28 in selected areas west of
the Rockies.
“We expect that most Shell
stations will continue to offer the
same price for cash and credit
card purchases, even though we
are no longer accepting other oil
company credit cards east of the
Rockies,” Bittles said.
Shell now plans to hold its
first large-scale product adver
tising campaign since 1972-73.
It will feature television ads with
customer testimonials of satis
faction with Shell products.
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United Press International
GALVESTON — A nursing
home once accused of murder
ing patients by neglect withdrew
their plea bargain Wednesday ,
and the new Galveston County
prosecutor said he plans to take
the case hack to a grand jury.
Autumn Hills Convalescent
Centers Inc. withdrew from the
plea bargain approved by visit
ing state District Judge Larry
Gist after District Attorney Mike
Guarino questioned the legality
of the deal worked out by his
predecesor James Hury.
At a hearing today, Guarino
asked Gist to cancel the deferred
adjudication granted Autumn
Hills as part of the Dec. 27 plea
bargain and go ahead and find
the firm guilty in the 1978 death
of a patient at its Texas City
home.
Guarino indicated before the
hearing that Texas law
appeared to prohibit probation
for corporations, and that the
deferred adjudication — in
which Gist told Autumn Hills he
would give them a clean slate if
they had no violations for 10
years — appeared to be a form
of probation.
However, Gist did not have to
act on Guarino’s request. Au
tumn Hills lawyer Roy Minton
of Austin asked the judge to let
Autumn Hills withdraw its no
contest plea to involuntary man
slaughter and to get back the
N<
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of the plea bargain. I
Minton called totht j
stand corporation pi Li
Robert Gay, who tfitii
would never agree to pik a_
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company was guilt) B
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ton's request andGistplact'd .
in ef fect cancellingthe[l)U|om
gain worked outbvl exasl,
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months. >ould-l
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hearing that he plann«l|lA i
evaluate evidence gadiiiexas
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decide later what hisrt he Pi
elation would be. Butb§5l),()<
expected to presenttlnH Fc
another grand jury aslodnty
possible. dthtb
An earlier grandjunBj < ' 1 "’
returned murder ' n
against Autumn Hillsaffj ,)si
employees in the deatbjr'J P
patients during the
period. Cast dismissed if a | e 5
dictments on a techniuR| c
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bargain was^
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looking into the AutulSreek,
case, which the USlgwfcn (j
described as a “horror
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United Press International
DALLAS — rhe League of
United Latin American Citizens
asked two state legislative com
mittees to investigate sentencing
in Dallas County criminal cases.
The league’s protest this
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National Sorority
proudly announces their
week was in response^
article in the Dallas Ul jj
Herald, which reported a niail
minals who attack ortf p 0c [ e
r eceive harsher putflid jg
than those who attadW
blacks and Hispanics. fc-pi,
Those who attacked^B
nics generally were treat|| e] j
least severely by the t JF,
minal justice system,
said. md I
Attorney Ruben Be'Bud
general counsel for E
wrote letters of prote* 1 ®
Sen. Oscar MauzyofP^
to state Rep. Frank T.
Antonio. Mauzy chairs
ate Jurisprudence C®
and Tejeda is chairni3 !
House Judicial Affai 15
mittee.
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Interested Women call;
696-3771
696-3285
“LULAC finds itH
and repugnant to
damental notions of 1 !
and justice that Hispan'l
be treated with impuff
they turn to thejudic |jl J
for relief,” Bonilla!
Mauzy.
Bonilla also wrote
Dallas County District J
Henry Wade calling ^
the term “wetback"in*
view with the newspf]
professional, insulting
meaning to our
citizens.”