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United Press International
I HOUSTON : — A prosecutor
said charges should not have
been filed against a man who
told police he shot his comatose
father in the head to end his suf
fering.
s Billy Ray Clore, 25, was freed
■rom jail after posting $10,()()()
fond on a charge of attempted
murder in the shooting of his
p3-year-old father, Robert.
The elder Clore, a longtime
tire dealer in the Houston sub
urb of Spring, was in critical con
dition in a Houston hospital
from a gunshot wound to the
head.
Harris County Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Terry Wilson de
cided to charge Clore with
attempted murder even though
“Assistant Doug Durham recom
mended they await a grand
jury’s decision.
“I felt there really was an
ethical dilemma,” Durham said.
|“On the one hand my sym
pathies have to go with the fami
ly. I think it does a lot to them
psychologically when their
lather is in a coma.
“But by the same token,”
Durham said, “you don’t give
someone the authority to take
someone’s life away. There’s al
ways a chance of a medical
miracle.”
Durham felt a grand jury
should decide if a charge should
be filed.
Bob Clore, 30, Billy Ray’s
brother, said doctors had told
the family the prognosis for the
elder Clore’s recovery was grim.
Police said Billy Ray Clore
entered a Humble nursing
home Monday afternoon and
shot his dad. No witnesses
observed the shooting. Clore
waited for police to arrive.
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‘Fear prompts
claims’ - solon
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United Press International
DALLAS — Allegations that
seven white New Orleans police
man beat witnesses in seeking to
track down the killer of a fellow
officer in a predominately black
neighborhood were generated
by fear and greed, a defense
attorney argued in a federal civil
rights trial.
The seven-woman, five-man,
all-white jury was to begin de
liberations Thursday in the fed
eral civil rights trial that began
March 7 after it was moved from
New Orleans because of pre
trial publicity.
Dale Bonura, Stephen Far
rar, John McKenzie, Ronald
Brink, Stephen Reboul, Thomas
Woodall and Richard LeBlanc
were all accused of felony con
spiracy. Each man also faced at
least one misdemeanor count of
deprivation of rights.
The maximum penalty on
the conspiracy charge is 10 years
in prison and a $10,00 fine, and
on the others, one year in prison
and a $1,000 fine.
The charge arose from the
complaints of four men — Clar
ence Green, Ervin Hughes,
Robert Davis and Johnny
Brownlee — that they were
forced from their homes at gun-
>oint, held in custody for many
tours although they were never
charged with a crime, and
beaten and threatened to make
them give information they said
they never possessed.
The government alleges the
incidents began after patrolman
Gregory Neupert was found
shot to death — apparently the
victim of a drug dealer — in a
ditch in the Algiers neighbor
hood on Nov. 8, 1980.
Protests cancel
rabbit skinning
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Oil service firm
buys lignite plant
United Press International
DALLAS — A rabbit skinning
contest was canceled because of
protests and a threatened law
suit by animal protection
groups.
The Texas Rabbit Breeders
Association planned the contest
this weekend, but faced intense
criticism from groups such as
the Fund for Animals and the
Dallas Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals.
Wilma Wilson, president of
the breeders association, said
the event was called off to avoid
controversy.
The animal protection
groups said the contest would
have been inhumane because
youngsters would skin rabbits as
quickly as possible — perhaps
before they were dead. They
also threatened a lawsuit.
“When you get into a contest
skinning a live animal and speed
is important, the likelihood of
that animal dying in a humane
manner is very, very slim,” said
Jerry Owens, president of the
Fund for Animals at Brown-
sboro in East Texas.
Wilson attributed a public
outcry against the contest to mis
information.
“ I t’s a commercial demonstra
tion only by our membership,”
she said. “They kill the rabbits
instantly” before skinning by
striking them across the back of
the head or breaking their
necks. -
United Press International
DALLAS — In an effort to
settle its lawsuit with the owners
of the South Texas Nuclear Pro
ject, the Halliburton Co. has
agreed to an option to buy in
terest in a lignite-fired electric
power generating station under
construction, a statement said.
The Dallas-based oil field ser
vices and products equipment
company Wednesday said it
would buy into the plant as part
of a settlement of a lawsuit filed
against Halliburton and its sub
sidiary by the owners of the
South Texas Nuclear Project.
Brown & Root was general
contractor on the Bay City facil
ity, but was fired because of con
struction problems and cost
overruns in the project.
Houston Lighting & Power
Co. and other partners in the
STNP sued Brown 8c Root for
alleged poor construction work.
A statement from Hallibur
ton said the company had en
tered an agreement in principle
with Texas Utilities Service Inc.
for an option to purchase from
Texas Power & Light Co. and
Aluminum Company of Amer
ica an interest in 75 percent of
the net power generated by the
Twin Oak Steam Electric Sta
tion, Unit No. 1, a lignitefire
electric power generation sta
tion under construction in
Robertson County in Central
Texas.
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Durham quoted Clore as
saying, “I felt my father was suf
fering. I felt my shooting him
would stop his suffering.”
Bob Clore said his brother
was his dad’s closest friend. The
two ran the tire dealership
together until recently when the
elder Clore became ill and semi-
retired from business.
He said his father had often
expressed a fear of becoming
terminally ill.
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