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Tuesday, November 22, 1983/The Battalion/Page 11 Four men indicted in deaths of teens United Press International WACO — The McLennan County grand jury Monday in dicted four men on capital mur der charges in the 1982 stabbing death of three Waco area teena gers. Named in the indictments were David Wayne Spence, 28; Gilbert Melendez, 28; Tony Melendez, 24, and Muneer Mohammed Deeb, 24. Spence and Gilbert Melendez were already in prison for an earlier conviction of aggravated sexual abuse. Tony Melendez was jailed in Nueces County on a robbery charge. Deeb was in McLennan County jail in lieu of $250,000 bond. District Attorney Vic Feazell, who vowed when he took office this year to clear the case, said each suspect had been charged with three counts of capital murder. Officials found the bodies of Kenneth Franks, Raylene Rice and Jill Montgomery in a wooded park on the shores of Lake Waco July 14, 1982. All three had been stabbed a number of times. The girls had been sexually assaulted, auto psies revealed. m c □ leheoai mndad Grinding away Dave Scott, Battalion staff Toby Selcer makes sparks fly as he works on a block of metal in the research and Instrument Shop located in the Engineering Laboratories Building. Selcer is employed as a research instrument specialist. NEXT DAY BIKE REPAIR BICYCLES •ACCESSORIES • CLOTHING • PARTS 846-2453 403 UNIVERSITY DR. (NORTHGATE) otton yields unusually high re irrestef -dismil al auilf 1 United Press International i LUBBOCK — Many cotton ■mers in a 25-county West lexas area report a bigger yield han had been believed possible im fit' ' ' fields battered by a sum mer drought and fall thunder- >#ms, a cotton specialist said Vlonday. a MW Extension cotton specialist [amesSupak said the area might duce 1 million bales of cotton miz phis harvest, a total he had be- deral ieved impossible until the last ecaus 10 days. i basei “Right now some of the initial ;ondi! feedback shows that it’s turning isodaiwt a little better,” than ex- ; arreSpcted, Supak said, adding “the |i.to 7-inch rain didn’t hurt us parol ihat much tonnage-wise.” ista’fR I Lubbock received more than [ inches of rain in about 30 lours last month, causing flash ^fjfcding that damaged many an, tl 11 city homes and that gave weath- 11 er-damaged cotton another :atl011 beating just as the harvest ianf ' ;: started. iait | i , f“The grades are terrible, |re is a lot of staining and what 3531 lhave you,” Supak said, adding the cotton was very dirty and also contained bark as farmers report the plants falling apart during harvest. Supak said gins reported cot ton was running about two grades below average. Rain and wind pounded sand and dirt into the bolls, but he added not as much cotton was forced to the ground as had been expected during heavy rains. Don Lawson, office manager of Liberty Co-op Gin, said the gin expected to produce 12,000 bales this season, a lower figure stemming from reduced acreage through,the Payment- In-Kind program and also from weather problems. Supak said the harvest, at ab out 66 percent complete, was ahead of normal schedule and probably would have been finished except for rain delays. He added low-yield predic tions were holding true for fields that had been pelted by hail and high winds this fall. He said that included northern Lubbock, Hale and Hockley counties. Coore Light Congratulates Clash i Come Test the Taste of Sweetlix FREE 411 University Drive HOURS : Monday thru Sunday 11 A.M. to HR M. and its trainers the H-2, Company s the winner of th Underwood Silver Bullet Turtle Raee Hall