Tuesday, November 15,1983/The Battalion/Page 7
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, Warped
by Scott McCullar Presidential candidate
THIS IS PERMIT TENWIW6S WITH
THE WRPP "A/EWS BEHIND THE
HOUR." STERLING C. EVANS LI&RARI
OFFICIALS TOPAV REVEALED THE
TRUE REASON THE LABEL SCANNER
METHOD OF CHECKING OUT BOOKS
WAS ADOPTED. TOO MN/ COW-
Boys WERE CARRyiNG OR FORGET*,
ING THEIR D/P CANS W THE BOOKS
OLD CARP ROCKETS.
TODAV IN SBI5A A 6R0UP OF
VERY CONFUSED STUDENTS
ENGAGED IN A CANNED FOOD
FIGHT. CASUALTIES AND DA/AAGE5
WERE HIGH, AND AFTERWARD
THOSE INVOLVED, ALL FRESH A EN,
TOLD POLICE, "WE PONT SEE
HOW THIS EVER GOT POPULAR
AT TOLIFAF "
ENTERTAINMENT. AFTER A LONG
STRUGGLE TO SUCCEED, TAKE'S
GIANT GOLF CLOSED ITS DOORS
LAST WEEKEND. INJURIES TO
PATRONS, MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS
AND THE PLAIN STUPIDITY OF
THE GAME , INSPIRED By MINI
ATURE GOLF, CONTINUED TO
/MAKE BUSINESS GO IN THE
SPORTS. THE ANNUAL HIGHWAY
SIX TRACK-AND-FIELD-EVENT
WILL NOT BE TELEVISED BY
WRPP AGAIN THIS YEAR, DOE.
TO THE FACT THAT RUNNERS
RUN BOTH WAYS, UP AND DOWN
HIGHWAY SIX , MAKING IT
IMPOSSIBLE FAR OOR CAMERA
MEN TO KEEP TRACKOF.
says Mondale will fade
Convicted swindler moves
from jail to halfway house
United Press International
BIG SPRING — Convicted
swindler Billie Sol Estes was
slated to be transferred from a
f ederal prison to a half-way
ouse in Abilene early Tuesday
until his parole becomes effec
tive Dec. 15, a prison spokes
woman said.
She said Estes was slated to
spend the next 30 days at the
Salvation Army Halfway House,
vhich the Salvation Army
itarted in conjunction with the
'ederal prison system five
uonths ago.
Estes, 58, was convicted in
979 on two felony counts of
faud and tax evasion in a
cheme involving non-existant
>il field equipment cleaners. A
otal of 22 charges were filed
igainst Estes and Abilene busi-
lessman Raymond Horton.
The government said the two
eased oil Field cleaning equip-
nent to oil companies, but the
leaners did not exist.
A federal jury in Dallas ruled
istes and Horton were guilty of
vading $10 million dollars
worth of taxes and said they had
used the mail to promote their
scheme.
But the jury was unable to de
termine if the pair bilked leasing
companies on non-existant
cleaners. Most of the charges
against the pair were dropped.
Estes was sentenced to 10
years in prison for conspring to
defraud investors. The U.S.
Parole Commission last year re
jected Estes’ request for early
parole, leaving intact the Dec. 15
parole date.
Salvation Army Capt. Dan
Turner, halfway house director,
said Estes would be the sixth
man to participate in the prog
ram, which includes four men at
once. The halfway house is a
large room with four beds con
nected to the Abilene Salvation
Army headquarters.
Turner said the prison system
kept Estes as long as possible,
adding officials can release in
mates to a halfway house six
months before they are to be
paroled.
Halfway house participants
must find and keep a job to stay
at the halfway house. Turner
said participants sign in and out
on their own, but must obey a 10
p.m. curfew.
“I’m sure he’ll find one of his
own,” Turner said of Estes’ pos
sible job. Turner said he would
ask Estes what kind of employ
ment he wanted upon his arrival
at the halfway house.
“Other than introducing the
individual to the employer all
these guys have gotten jobs on
their own. Most of them already
have a job arranged when they
come here. We’ve gotten white-
collar fellows so far,” Turner
added.
One overnight pass is granted
each week if the participant has
family he can stay with and if he
is saving at least 20 percent of his
paycheck, Turner said. Federal
probation officer Billy Johnson
of Abilene also consults with the
halfway house participants.
“It’s the kind of thing where
they can walk off if they want
to,” Turner said, adding every
participant had to be accounted
for everyday. “If they waif off or ^
don’t report in (from an over
night pass) then we call the fed
eral marshal and back they go”
to prison.
“This is just the next step to
getting them involved with their
family,” Turner said.
United Press International
AUSTIN — Democratic pres
idential candidate Ernest Holl-
ings said Monday that Walter
Mondale’s current support
among Texas party leaders was
illusory and would fade as voters
become more involved in the
1984 elections.
Hollings, a U.S. Senator from
South Carolina, came to Texas
to pay a courtesy call on Gov.
Mark White and to drum up
support for his campaign
among influential party leaders.
Although recent polls show
him trailing both Sen. John
Glenn, D-Ohio, and Mondale in
Texas, Hollings said a different
picture would emerge as voters
become more interested in the
campaign.
“I’d say 95 or 98 percent of
the voting public could not care
less this very minute about a
presidential race next year,” he
said. “They have their minds on
the Texas football team, Thank
sgiving and Christmas. If I can
prove my efficacy in New
Hampshire (primary voting) I’ll
have no problem in Texas.”
Hollings discounted a survey
of the Texas Democratic Party
Executive Committee that
showed Mondale a clear favorite
among the party leaders. Holl
ings said Mondale’s early sup
port was based primarily on
name recognition, not any stand
on issues.
“I would have the people
committed to Mondale switch
over to me by having them stop,
look, listen and sober up,” he
said. “We can nominate Fritz
Mondale, but he can’t be elected.
He can’t carry Texas or South
Carolina or any other Sun Belt
state. You’ll find that support
about a mile wide and a half an
inch deep.”
Hollings said he expected to
be “right up at the top” in the
New Hampshire primary March
6, and chided the news media
for giving too much attention to
Glenn and Mondale.
“Three and a half, four
months before we really get into
this thing and they’re wanting
everyone else to get out,” he
said. “They’ve tried to put it
down to that name recognition
factor and say its just a two-man
race.”
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In a show of support for strik-
ng bus drivers and terminal
said Monday it will challenge a
tatewide fare increase
approved last week for
Greyhound Lines, Inc.
At an Austin rally attended
by about 40 striking members of
the Amalgamated Transit Un
ion, state AFL-CIO president
darry Hubbard said union
awyers would ask the Texas
lailroad Commission to recon
sider Greyhound’s rate hike.
The state regulatory agency
last Wednesday approved a 6.4
lercent increase for regular
ares and charter fares in Texas.
The strike-bound company had
asked for a 15 percent increase.
Hubbard said the union
vould use Greyhound’s prop
osed wage and fringe benefit
Jackage to persuade the com-
nission that the carrier’s fares
should be reduced in Texas.
“If Greyhound can reduce its
abor cost as dramatically as its
proposal contemplates, then it
mainly will not need a fare in-
rease,” he said. “In fact, the
lailroad Commission may be
shown that it should reduce
Greyhound Fares.”
Local and state AFL-CIO
leaders staged a rally at the Au
stin Greyhound station to de
monstrate support for local un
ion members.
Austin AFL-CIO president
Walter Timberlake said local
union members would help
ATU members by providing
manpower for a 24-hour picket
and helping find temporary jobs
for striking bus employees.
“If Greyhound intends to op
erate its buses through Austin, it
can expect to find a picket line
around the station day and
night,” said Timberlake.
Meanwhile in San Antonio,
strikers outside the Greyhound
terminal threw away letters
The
Battalion
from the carrier informing
them they were fired as of noon.
“We all put them in the trash
can,” said picket Merrill Mox-
son. “There were 110 people
here. None of them went back.”
Gene Freabe, vice chairman
of union Local 1313 in San
Antonio, charged that
Greyhound was trying to break
the union. “I feel like I’ve been
stabbed in the back,” he said.
Hubbard said the Texas AFL-
CIO would support the strike by
asked Texas’ 650,000 union
members to boycott the bus ser
vice. “We have also asked the
AFL-CIO to put Greyhound on
organized labor’s official ‘Do
Not Buy’ list and we are confi
dent that that will be done quick
ly,” he said.
An official of the internation
al ATU poked fun at the com
pany’s plan to replace striking
workers and resume bus service
on a limited basis to 27 states,
including Texas, by Thursday.
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