5 age 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, July 13, 1983
Birthday party goes awry
Two die in balloon crash
United Press International
AZLE — Investigators said it
may take weeks to determine
what caused a hot-air balloon re
nted for a birthday celebration
to hit a power line and crash,
occurred Monday shortly after a
boy who received the balloon
flight as a gift for his 12th birth
day disembarked from the craft
so his mother and grandmother
could take a ride.
Azle in north central Texas and
fell about 50 feet to the ground
near where Brian Bersano stood
watching.
killing the pilot and a woman
whose son watched from the
ground.
Authorities said the accident
The rented balloon was
punctured by the 7,000-volt
power line that stretched over
a.n empty piece of property near
“The balloon didn’t look too
damaged to me,” said Azle
police Lt. Ronnie Mackey. “I
didn’t see any burn marks.
Apparently it just hit the power
line and electrocuted them.”
Pilot Richard Conn, 36, of
Fort Worth, and Connie Bersa
no, 35, of Fort Worth, were kil
led in the accident. Mackey said
officers tried to revive Conn
with heart massage.
Mrs. Bersano’s mother, Nor
ma Green, 54, of Arlington,
Texas, suffered only minor in
juries in the crash, authorities
said.
Houston elections investigated
United Press International
HOUSTON — Campaign re
cords from every city and county
political race in last November’s
election are in the hands of a
Harris County grand jury inves
tigating contributions to a num
ber of politicians, a Houston
radio station reported Tuesday.
The grand jury probe began
with a review of campaign re
cords from Harris County Con
stable Tracy Maxon, station
KTRH-AM reported in a copyr
ight story. But three weeks ago
the panel probing illegal corpo
rate and labor union contribu
tions sent a team of special crime
investigators from the Harris
County District Attorney’s office
to retrieve campaign records
from all political races on the
ballot.
Law enforcement sources
said the probe has uncovered a
number of questionable contri
butions in at least three Harris
County constable races, at least
one county commissioners race
and a number of judicial con
tests.
Contributuions from labor
unions and corporations must
come from registered political
action committees. It is a third
degree felony for a candidate to
knowingly accept contributions
directly from corporate or un
ion funds.
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Angry patient fires
after loosing tooth
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DALLAS — A man became
angry because he felt a dentist
pulled the wrong tooth, so he
pulled a gun in the dentist’s
office and fired bullets until he
was subdued.
Nobody was injured.
“I don’t have the slightest
idea what got into him,” said de
ntist William Jenrette. “He
thinks I may have pulled the
wrong tooth. But I don’t just
think it was the right tooth, I
know it was.”
The assailant, Robert Lopez,
24, came to Jenrette complain
ing of a cavity, and Jenrette pul
led the tooth he felt was causing
the problem.
“He was as nice as any human
being on earth could be,” said
Jenrette. “He hadn’t said one
bad work to me, not one bad
word.”
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traction struck a nerve.
“He got up, went to the door,
looked around and told his
mother, T am going to kill him.’
Then he fell out (fainted), just in
front of the door,” Jenrette said.
Paramedics were called to
Jenrette’s office, but not before
the man picked himself off the
floor, pulled a gun and began
firing.
He missed everybody, but put
bullet holes in a dental chair and
the wall. Paramedics eventually
restrained him and police took
Lopez into custody for investiga
tion of aggravated assault.
“It scared me worse than I’ve
ever been scared in my life,” Jen
rette said. “Let somebody start
shooting at you and see if you
aren’t scared.”
Jenrette said he received no
money for the extraction.
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These Hyacinth Macaw Parrots are
a part of a breeding colony being
in
established here
The breeders hope
College Station,
to reduce the
harvesting of wild birds
supplying the pet market
domestic ones. They also
Military and Scarlet varieties.
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Grandmother convicted
of peddling marijuana
United Press International
BALCH SPRINGS — A
grandmother, 80, was sentenced
to two years in prison for selling
marijuana to undercover agents
for the third time in a year.
Authorities said Monday that
Tanzalear Hughey was a savvy,
fearless supplier of marijuana to
high school students in the Dal
las suburb.
Hughey said she was “used”
by teenagers who persuaded her
to deliver packages whose con
tents were a mystery to her.
“I don’t know what mari
juana smells like,” she said.
Hughey, a retired seamstress,
was identified in police reports
as “Big Mama” or “Grandma,”
an active drug dealer.
She sobbed after state district
judge Pat McDowell denied her
request for probation.
Hughey’s lawyer, Jim Moore,
said he would appeal and pre
dicted the white-haired woman
would never go to prison be
cause she would die before the
appeals process was over.
She contended that teenage
marijuana peddlers had duped
her into acting as a conduit for
her marijuana sales.
Hughey already was on prob
ation for two convictions on
charges of selling marijuana
when she was arrested last De
cember for delivering mari
juana to two undercovw i
officers posing as students;
Grady Spruce High Schott
Dallas.
Moore had urged probfl
saying in linal arguments,1
ety is not going to be served
by putting this 80 yeai
woman in the penitentian
there are any criminals,thtl
the 18 and 19-year-old kids
intentionally used her
their dirty work.”
Prosecutor Rider Scott
Hughey was not a naive
pant and urged the coitit
deal with this dope sellet
would deal with any dope
The defendant is hiding
her age.”
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