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Texas ad makes 200
show up for fake job
United Press International
NEDERLAND — An esti
mated 200 people showed up to
apply forjobs at Head and Guild
Equipment Co. Inc. Monday,
but the classified ad they
answered was a hoax. There
were no jobs.
“Someone using my name
called The Enterprise in
Beaumont and The News in
Port Arthur and placed this ad
wanting to hire a number of em
ployees of certain types,” said
James Guidry, manager.
Word spread fast. Job hun
ters came from as far away as
Arkansas and eastern Louisiana.
But Guidry had sad news for
them.
“I just told them it was some
sort of a prank someone was
pulling on us,” Guidry said.
“There were no jobs. We’re not
hiring anyone, and I told them I
apologize for someone using
our name to do this. There were
just no jobs.
“Some of them were really
upset. Some just turned around
and went stomping off. One guy
said, ‘Well this sure does make
your company look bad, doesn’t
it.’ I said, ‘Yes, it does, but we
had nothing to do with it.’”
Guidry called the Jefferson
County sheriffs office — which
sent deputies out to help him
break the news and convince the
job hunters that there was a
hoax on Guidry as well as on
them. But there was no trouble.
Guidry called the newspapers
and found that someone had
used his name to apply for the
ad and had given all the right
answers to all the questions, in
cluding supplying a phony pur
chase order number.
The ad sought crane oper
ators, truck drivers, mechanics,
mechanics helpers, welders,
laborers, cleanup crews.
Guidry had read the ad in the
Sunday paper and tried to call
the newspapers Sunday to fi
gure out what to do. He could do
nothing.
“It’s a terrible thing to pull
this day and time, with so many
people out of work. I think it’s
someone that’s sick in the head,”
Guidry said.
“Some of the people drove in
from Jasper, Houston, and one
said Baton Rouge — from all
over.
Estimated 50 left in wild
Rare wolves at Texas zoo
United Press International
VICTORIA — A pair of rare
red wolves, once native to Texas,
Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Louisiana but reduced to an esti
mated 50 animals remaining in
the wild, apparently have ad
justed well to being on display at
the Texas Zoo.
Rufus and Sasha, who were
bred from red wolves captured
by biologists to preserve the spe
cies, today begin their 16th day
on exhibit at the 10-acre facility.
The wolves have been pushed
near extinction by interbreeding
and increased land usage.
Sasha is 2 years old and
weighs about 50 pounds. Her
mate, Rufus, which means red in
Latin, is 1 year old and weighs 55
pounds.
“The red wolf is one of the
most endangered mammals in
the United States,” said Dresner.
The two wolves, products of a
government breeding program,
were born in captivity at the
Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma,
Wash., she said. The breeding
effort seeks to replenish the
stock of endangered species and
relocate them within their his
toric habitat.
“In the early 1970s, when the
red wolves were facing extinc
tion, biologists went through
east Texas and trapped every
species they could come across
and pulled out all the pure red
wolf and they’ve been breeding
them ever since,” Dresner said.
Biologists estimate only 50
red wolves, which are greatly in
terbred with coyotes, remain in
the Texas and Louisiana wild.
Dresner said Arkansas and
Oklahoma have lost all their red
wolves.
“Their numbers declined
when the coyotes moved in,”
Dresner said. “They interbred
with the coyotes and destroyed
the blood lines. The only way
you can tell the red wolf is by a
cranial X-ray. They’re more
reddish in color and a bit smaller
than timber wolves.”
Bandits stage saloon holdup
United Press International
HOUSTON — A man named
Jesse, who police said stormed
into a nightclub dressed as an
“Old West” bandit, was charged
with several felony counts in a
shootout that left his younger
brother James dead.
Jesse Gomez, 30, was charged
with two counts of attempted
capital murder and one count of
attempted capital murder of a
police officer in what investiga
tors said was a bold attempt early
Sunday to rob as many as 70 pat
rons of the Zenteno pool and
dance hall in the southeast sec
tion of the city.
Police said Gomez also faces
two counts of aggravated rob
bery in the incident, which left
two patrons and the club owner
injured.
“These guys just walked into
the place and said it was a stick-
up,” police Detective M.E. Doyle
said. “There were at least 70
people there. It was a pretty
tough place to hold a stickup.”
James Gomez, 26, died in the
shootout that developed when
one of the patrons escaped and
alerted authorities, officials said.
“We’d like to charge his
brother, too,” Doyle said, “but
that won’t be possible. We’re just
lucky none of the patrons inside
were killed. It was quite a
shootup.
“The bandits wore knit hats
and bandannas across their
noses like crooks in the Old
West. They carried automatic
and semiautomatic weapons, in
cluding an AR-15,” the civilian
version of the military’s high-
powered M-16 rifle.
Police said the brothers
ordered Zenteno customers to
turn over their valuables and
cash and lie on the floor.
“The first on the scene were
two park policemen and a Hous
ton police officer,” Doyle said.
“They kicked the nightclub door
closed when the crooks tried to
escape.”
The bandits shot through the
door at police until it was riddled
with holes, Doyle said.
Within minutes police rein
forcements arrived and sur
rounded the club, he said.
The two club patrons were
treated and released from a
nearby hospital. Owner Leo
Correa underwent surgery at
Hermann Hospital and was re
ported in stable condition late
Sunday.
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athletics, etc., please come by our of
fice or call 845-3051 between the hours
of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
★ NOW IS THE TIME
TO GET INVOLVED
Aggie Parents of the Year
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The Aggie Parents of the Year for
1983-84 are Mr. and Mrs. William
Osborn, of Bryan. The Osborns
receive a plaque from Denis Davis,
Parents’ Weekend chairman.
Monday’s Battalion, the photo captioi s ' l y
of the Parents of the Year was incot
rect. The Battalion regrets the error.
GTE wants rate hike; )a
PUC hears protests
United Press International
AUSTIN — Customer pro
tests to an $85.5 million rate hike
request by General Telephone
of the Southwest opened Mon
day before the Public Utility
Commission, with one consum
er calling her service “a night
mare.”
The phone company, which
serves 1.4 million customers in
more than 300 Texas cities, in
cluding Bryan and College Sta
tion, is seeking the rate boost to
maintain service at current
levels. The PUC staff has recom-
of only
mended an increase
$31.7 million.
In opening testimony Mon
day, Crosby real estate agent
Carol Foster said she had ex
perienced a multitude of service
problems with GenTel since last
June.
“The experience has been a
nightmare,” Foster said. “I have
to go through a ritual to use my
telephone every morning.
“My rates are already exorbi
tant. I do not think this company
should get a rate increase until
they can provide good sem
I’ve had no promise of relid
litali;
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Frank Ball, a Plano resii )ALL
who has a business in Garlipiff
said he had filed morethi
reports of phone trouble
10 years he has been aGTEn idem
tomer. He said his corapls iiday
ranged from no ring whea Autl
dials a number to static and# itrol <
tiple conversations on oneli n e f,
“I enjoy listening to theRi dla.i
and I am afforded that off ’ u '° (
tunity by General Telepljj
over my telephone,”^ ”
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GRANITE CITY, Ill. — Dr.
Hector Zevallos, who last sum
mer was held captive with his
wife by three anti-abortion
zealots, says he wants state kid
napping charges filed against
the Texas trio.
The men — Don Benny
Anderson, Matthew Moore and
his brother, Wayne — have been
convicted on federal charges of
attempting or conspiring to ob
struct interstate commerce by
threats of violence.
Anderson, 42, of Pearland,
was sentenced in February to 30
years in prison. The Moore
brothers, both of New Caney,
are awaiting sentencing.
Zevallos, owner of an abor
tion clinic, said his abductors
should be punished.
“I would like to see the kid
napping charges because it was
the most violent, the most severe
form of violent act they commit
ted against us,” he said.
Zevallos said he would keep
open his Hope Clinic for
Women in Granite City, where
abortions are performed.
He said the abduction did not
change his conviction that legal
abortion is better than
abortion.
Zevallos, 54, and his"
Rosalie Jean, 46, wereabh'
Aug. 12 from their home
Edwardsville, Ill. They"
bound and gagged for nu* 1
their captivity and release*
week later.
The experience was soei
tionally trying that Mrs.Ze'i
has moved out of the hoiise.
doctor said.
“As long as she’s out of 1
area, she’s OK,” he said "
she doesn’t even want to s®
the St. Louis area at all.
Culprit sought in December
theft of riding lawn mower
A red riding lawn mower was
stolen from under H.F. Lloyd’s
carport at his residence on Car-
rabba Road between Dec. 2 and
Dec. 4. A steel cable which se
cured the 10-horsepower Mont
gomery Ward mower appeared
to have been cut with bolt cut
ters.
Anyone with information on
the persons responsible for this
theft or the location of the mow
er should call Crime Stoppers at
775-TIPS. If the information
leads to an arrest and a grand
jury indictment, Crime Stoppers
will pay the informant$l|*
cash. Special coded numbfB
assigned so informants
have to reveal their identic
Crime Stoppers also P
cash for information aW 1
solved felony crimes or
lives.
Police beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department on April 16 and 17:
THEFTS:
•A portable MGA television
and stereo, from Dorm 7, on
April 17.
•Two 14 by 24 paintings,
from the Soil and Crop Scien
ces—Entomology Center, on
April 17.
HARRASSMENT:
•Phone calls, to a reside*
Keathly Hall on April 16.
•Phone calls, to a reside* 1
Hobby Hall on April 16.
•Phone calls, to a reside* 1
Hughes Hall on April 17.