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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, October 13,1983 Bush announces grants to border communities United Press International WASHINGTON — Vice President George Bush, head of the Southwest Border Action Group, Wednesday announced federal grants totaling $17 mil lion were awarded to border communities in the past week. The grants included $133,357 from the Department of Interior that went for con tracts to eight firms in Cameron County, Texas, and Yuma County, Arizona. Other awards included $4.3 million from the Small Business Administration to be divided among loan applicants and fed eral contract holders in Texas, Arizona and California. The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded grants totaling $8.2 million to provide for the con struction of approximately 2,000 units in Texas, New Mex ico, Arizona and California. The Environmental Protec tion Agency allocated $4.1 mil lion for a wastewater treatment plant in Las Cruces, New Mexico. 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He also thought it unncessary to leave him there nearly an hour after TDC first got word of the stay by Justice Byron White. “I think it was unnecessary for them to put me on that table at 11 o’clock. If they’re going to execute someone, they should take them in there at 12. It doesn’t take five mi nutes to put you on that gur- CUSTOM SOUNDS & (U>PIOI\)(EeR BRING VOU PI0N€€R TflP€ D€CK Cl€fiRfiNC€! €V£RV PION66R TflP€ D<ECK IS ON SRl£ [\|OtU AT FANTASTICALLV R6DUC6D PRICES! CT-4 'SOFT TOUCH DOL8V B&C 'MUSIC SCRRCH cr-5 TV reg $200 Cl€flRflNC€ PRIC€D *129. 95 Mnxcil XUI-S90 $3.99 co UMIT€D SUPPLV • SOldNOD CONTROLS • DOL8V B&C •MUSIC S6ARCH •AUTO TflP€ S6NSING Reg $280.00 NOUJ ONLV 189. 95 CT-6R •SOL6NOID CONTROLS •AUTO RCVCRSC •MUSIC SCARCH RCG $350.00 SRl€ PRIC6D 219. 95 CT-7R > SOLENOID >AUTO RCVCRSC ►RECORDS PLAVS FUJI FX-I 60 $1.00 eo ONLV fl F€Ui l€FT! PRIC6D TO GO RT BOTH DIRECTIONS $ocn 95 259. 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It just doesn’t make any sense to put you on that table and leave you there for an hour or so.” Autry said he first got word of a stay about 11:45 p.m. and was not taken off the gurney until 12:25 or 12:30 a.m. GE Sovit „ ... -unde 1 le said it was minuteslt t 0 br that TDC told him hehaj ‘temporary stay.” Autry’s account of the tim ing of events differed some what from the official version given previously by Texas De partment of Corrections offi cials. Autry and TDC agreed intravenous needles carrying a preparatory saline solution were placed in each arm about 11:05 p.m. Autry, 29, sentenced to death for the 1980 robbery slaying of Port Arthur con venience store clerk Shirley Drouet, 43, a mother of five, said by the time news of a stay came he already had resigned himself to dying. But he admits he was frightened. “It surprised me thaili one, and sparked a liltldj but it was about 15 later that they told mellii: Nitze indefinite stay,” Autry s “After they told me I hij temporary stay, that’sti | time just seemed to stop.' lay there forever.” TDC spokesman Rick Hartley had said TDC re ceived word of the stay at 11:32 p.m. and informed Au try at 11:39 p.m. that officials were trying to clarify news of a stay. Once the indefinite post ponement was confirmed, Hartley said Autry was re moved from the gurney at 12:13 a.m He thought it was un necessary for officials to put him on the death gurney and connect the needles an hour before his scheduled 12:01 a.m. execution. After he was removedft the table, Autry said: “ relieved. I was shocked, just so happy to be oil table. I couldn’t believeitl happened and I coulil understand why Byron if had given me a stay.' 1 He knew White the day fore had voted againstjiii him a stay on diffeti grounds. “I was laying there think- ig, ‘I’m not going to ever get fft;' atm ■ In ^ . - - off this table again by myself.’ I asked the chaplain how much time was left and he told me 16 minutes. I almost had a heart attack,” Autry said. Autry said since thesSi: has fired his court-appoia attorney, Charles Cantn Port Arthur, and is pita | the the American Civil lilJkhe Union has become involttt i Leb, trol t; ferre Wed medi in Eu Cl ir BI milit mad batth Leba Syria ed a Bein 1 clou Ami his case. Task force reviews confessed killings T fato | set a peat nam and R ties mor the arra Sun United Press International MONROE, La. — Law en forcement officials Wednesday reviewed evidence from some OFF THE CUFF BY BOB DODSON A father is a person who spends several thousand dol lars on his daughter’s wedding, then reads in the paper that he gave the bride away. Industries seem to find it as hard to give up smoking as people do. An optimist wipes off his glas ses before starting to eat grapefruit. One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him. Or ride him to Heritage Men’s and Boyswear for a good look ing tweed jacket-it’s a classic ’83. THE VALUE PLACE HERITAGE •• \s\\i \k»h<>wvr\k mIiun n Ki \ .in 165 murders spanning the seven-year homicidal trek of a confessed mass murderer. Sgt. Jay Via of the Ouchita Parish Sheriffs office said au thorities have linked between 26 and 30 murders in Florida, Texas and possibly California to drifter Henry Lee Lucas and his alleged accomplice, Ottis Elwood Toole. Lucas, 47, and Toole in Sep tember admitted to the 1981 abduction and murder of a northeast Louisiana woman. Lucas’ confession to that mur der and 165-200 others spawned the formation of the Special task force hosting the three-day meeting. About 80 officers from 20 states including Texas, Alaba ma, Florida, Arkansas, Missis sippi, Oklahoma, Colorado and California Wednesday reviewed the long list of murders police have been unable to link to Lucas despite his claims. Texas Ranger Phil Ryan and Jacksonville, Fla., police officer Buddy Terry described travel patterns, methods of operation and evidence surrounding the murders, Via said. “If what they are saying is vali dated, it probably would be a re cord-breaking figure in the number of people they’ve killed over a period of time,” Via said. Via said investigators believe Lucas committed some of the murders with Toole, some alone and others with an unspecified number of accomplices. Lucas earlier this month pleaded guilty to killing 80-year- old Kate Rich of Ringgold and was sentenced to 75 years in prison. He 1 aces seven other mi charges in Texas, oneinMi and is linked to eight dead Florida. Lucas, a former menli tient, was scheduled to fj trial Oct. 17 in Dento charges he stabbed anddial bered 15-year-old rail Frieda Powell in Denton 1 23, 1982. In a hearing in Denioul day, state District Judgel Houston saw a videotaped! fession by Lucas, in whitll suspected mass killer desol arguing with Powell, whoa met in Jacksonville, Fla Lucas said he thenrei stabbed the teenager, intercourse with her mernbered her body. pro ight por cou a gg He told authorities he pi the girl’s body parts in lowcases and spread them» 50-yard area in a field nton. He said he returnedit th< ot two w r eeks later andbi b wh re girl near a tree. The confession was tape : en JI Montague County June li eral days after Lucas arrested on a weapons clui! ? Houston ordered Lucas, previously served time Michigan prison and me hospital for killing his 7d-« old mother, to undd tire sev sho fail psychiatric testing to detenf? whether he was insane. 1 Toole, 36, is serving timtp Florida prison for seC" degree arson and hasbeetl dieted for first-degree n# in Jacksonville, Fla. 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