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More money granted
for Eroy Brown trial
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE — Walker
County, drained from the ex
pense of two previous trials of
former Texas prison inmate
Eroy Brown, will use a $45,000
state grant for Brown’s third
trial in the death of a prison
farm manager.
Gov. Mark White approved
the grant Tuesday for Brown’s
third trial, which is scheduled to
begin in December in Edinburg.
Brown will be tried on a
charge of murder in the April
1981 shooting death of Ellis
Unit farm manager Billy Max
Moore.
He was scheduled to be tried
on capital murder charges, but
Walker County Prosecuter
Frank Blazek said that reducing
the charge to murder — which
eliminates the death penalty —
would cut the cost and the length
of the trial.
“The fact issues of the case
have not changed,” Blazek said.
Brown, 32, of Waco, also was
charged with capital murder in
the April 1981 shooting death of
Ellis Unit Warden Wallace Pack
at the unit near Huntsville. He
said he killed Pack and Moore in
self defense.
Brown’s first trial for the
death of Pack ended in a hung
jury in Galveston in March 1982.
He was acquitted of charges of
Pack’s drowning last November
Brown is now in the Hidalgo
County Jail awaiting trial. He
had been serving a 12-year sent
ence for armed robbery but was
placed on mandatory super
vision, a type of parole, on Sept.
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Discrimination charged
Is Ma Bell a sexist?
United Press International
AUSTIN — Insinuations that
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co.’s contributions to charity
discriminate on the basis of sex
were raised Wednesday during
a Public Utility Commission
hearing.
At the hearing on the com
pany’s proposed $1.7 billion rate
increase, Carol Barger, director
of Texas Consumers Union,
said an analysis of the utility’s
donations to charity showed a
“severe disparity” between the
amount of money given to wo
men’s organizations and men’s
groups.
Barger cited figures that
showed Bell in one year contri
buted $33,545 to boys’ organiza
tions, while giving only $2,000 to
girls’ organizations. Also, she
said, Bellgave $79,000 to Texas
YMCAs and only $3,800 to
YWCAs.
“I’m appalled and my clients
are appalled at what we view as
sexism in your giving,” she told
Bell Vice President Paul Roth,
the company’s first witness in
the hearings that began
Monday.
But Roth denied the com
pany practiced any form of dis
crimination in its charitable con
tribution program.
“We don’t have guidelines
that say so many dollars ought to
go to men and so many dollars
ought to go to women,” he said.
“What we attempt to do is to res
pond to the needs of the com
munity as it is presented to us.’’
Roth defended Bell’s charit
able donations in general, saying
the company wants to help
“worthwhile endeavors that we
feel we need to be part of, along
with the rest of the business com
munity.”
He also said such donations
are an appropriate business ex
pense tnat should
along to consumers
be passed
Barger and Roth disagreed
on the total amount of charitable
donations the company is seek
ing from ratepayers in its cur
rent case. Barger said the figure
is $2.3 million, but Roth said it is
only $900,000.
Barger also questioned Roth ab
out contributions made to orga
nizations in Austin and Laredo.
Despite Laredo's high unem
ployment rate, she said, Austin
organizations received 17 times
as much money from Bell as
Laredo groups, evem
Austin is only five dints!)
than the border city.
Roth responded ihatij
ference "may reflectm
activity on the part ofoi
lions in Austin.”
In earlier testimony It)
dav, Roth said South
Bell is considering sevenil
ness ventures unrelated;!
telephone business afterif
vestiture Jan. 1 from Ant
Telephone & TelegrapM
But he said the comp
concentrate initiall) on
telephone service.
Some of the
imes Roth mentionedinc
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Cocaine worth $2 million
seized by El Paso officers
United Press International
EL PASO — Nine people sus
pected of running a coast-to-
coast cocaine distribution net
work have been arrested, and
cocaine valued at $2 million has
been seized, El Paso Police and
Department of Public Safety
officers said Wednesday.
The DPS charged the nine
with aggravated possession of a
controlled substance.
Persons arrested late Tues
day are: Daniel Delgado, 27;
Roberto Diaz; Rosa Diaz, 29, all
of El Paso; Josefina Serra, 32, of
Los Angeles, Calif.; and five
Cuban citizens from Miami, Fla.
— Ester Rivera Brito, 19, Alber
to Maytin Rodas, 32, Luis Mora
Sarmiento, 47, Raul Fernando
Chang, 33, and Josefina Rodas
Maytin, 26.
Federal drug agents said the
arrests point to the increased use
of El Paso and Interstate High
way 10 as a major drug link be
tween Florida and California,
despite multi-agency crack
downs against Caribbean and
South American drug smug
glers.
The nine were arrested after
more than a month of negotia
tions and meetings with under
cover agents, police said.
Cocaine bought and seized
amounted to 7.5 pounds with a
street value of $2 million, offic
ers said.
Capt. Guadalupe Doe
of the Police Special Iw
t ions Group said thedniji
at ion began Oct. 2 »ltt!
u ndcrcover SIC dett:
negotiated to buy cocaint!
two of the suspects.
Each man is being M
$500,0iM) bond, and
woman is being held forji?
bond. A justice of the]
added $50,000 to each Ixi
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Officials
seek stop
to burnii
United Press ImernitiM
AUSTIN - AlW
General Jim Mattox anda;]
state senator asked die
two U.S. senatorsWedi
help stop the burningoll
dous wastes off the Texati
The Environmental f’
lion Agency has grantedat
live permit that will alb
mical Waste Managemtt:
of Oak Brook, III., to
two incinerator ships
of Mexico.
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Public hearings on tit
are scheduled Not '
Brownsville and Nov,
Mobile, Ala., thetwoddO
which the ships would
•Dolby f
Mattox and Sen. I
Uribe, D-BrownsvilleJ
Sens. Lloyd Bentsen w!I
Tower to intervene »h|
EPA.
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I n a letter to the west
the state officials said sign
questions remain con®
the dangers posed totM
life in the Gulf and tohp
along the Gulf.
Mattox said he is con®
filing suit against the EP, l:: I
t he proposed burning d
gerous wastes suclt ad !
PCBs and dioxin.
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operates two indnerai | ! ,!
which together can l '"'
much as 1.5 mil
toxic wastes per voyaf
burns in 1981 and 1®^
that the two vessels ® s '
troy 99.99 percent of
pumped into the in® 1
NC
A f inal permit
ober;.ue in the u-
wi Id not be issued
ary and the actual^
would not begin until !l
permit is issued,
said.
T exas Gov, M;
cized the EPA action 4
saying the granting oh
approval before ptiMjJ
raised questions aboo |1 l !,
cy’s credibility,