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Accused of injuring baby
Nurse pleads innocent
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Nurse
Genene Jones pleaded innocent
Wednesday to charges she in
jected a 4-week-old child with a
blood-thinning drug.
Jones, wearing a blue dress
and appearing to have lost
weight during her stay at the
Williamson County Jail, stood
before District Judge Pat Priest
as he read the Nov. 21 indict
ment charging her with injury to
a child.
The one count indictment
alleges that on Jan. 2, 1982,
Jones injected 4-week-old Ro
land Santos with heparin, caus
ing the infant to bleed excessive
ly. The child survived and was
later released from the hospital.
The indictment resulted
from a I O-month investigation
on infant deaths in the pediatric
intensive care unit at Medical
Center Hospital, where Jones_
_ _ was employed.
District Judge Pat Priest sche
duled Jones’ trial for Feb. 27.
At Jones’ request, Priest
ordered that she be returned to
the Williamson County Jail in
Georgetown, where she is sche
duled to go on trial for murder
Jan. 9 for the death of 15-
month-old Chelsea Ann McClel- -
lan of Kerrville.
Prosecutors claim the infant
was injected with a muscle-
relaxant drug in Sept., 1982 at a
Kerrville doctor’s office. The
case was transferred to George
town on a change of venue.
Priest gave Jones the option
of staying in the Bexar County
Jail for several days in order to
consult with her court-
appointed attorney, Royal Grif
fin of San Antonio.
“I’d just as soon go back (to
Georgetown),” she told the
judge.
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — General Dyna
mics Corp. said Wednesday that
reports it has overcharged the
Air Force for tools needed to re
pair the F-16 Falcon fighter are
“blown out of all proportion.”
Congressional sources said an
investigation found the com
pany proposed to sell a four-
inch wrench to the Air Force for
$9,600. The Air Force also has
acknowledged that it is investi
gating “possible fraudulent acti
vities” by General Dynamics, but
declined to give details.
“General Dynamics categor
ically denied recent reports that
the company engaged in any
fraudulent activities in connec
tion with the sale of support
equipment or spare parts for the
F-16 fighter aircraft,” the com
pany said in a statement released_
from its St. Louis headquarters.
“The allegations of over
charging on spare parts and
support equipment have been
blown out of all proportion and
give no consideration to the de
tails of the procurement proces
ses established by the armed ser
vices which frequently distort
costs of individual parts.”
General Dynamics said it is
“particularly concerned” about
a report it charged $2,043 for a
“reverse back spotface cutter.” A
congressional committee re
ported that it called the manu
facturer of the part, ATI Indus
tries of Galifornia, and found it
cost $13.
“There are indications that
the specialty house may have in
creased the price significantly
over the price charged by the
manufacturer without the
knowledge of General Dyna
mics,” the company said.
General Dynamics added
that it is attempting to deter
mine “whether any individual
employee was aware that the
price was inflated, br personally
profited in any way.”
The company continued: “If
this investigation determines
that any employees were in
volved, the company will coop
erate fully with the justice de
partment in prosecuting those
involved.”
General Dynamics, which
builds the F-16 at its facility in
Fort Worth, got $5.9 billion
worth of defense contracts dur
ing fiscal year 1982, making if
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plier.
Trade zones set
at Mexico border
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Four
areas along the financially be
leaguered U.S.-Mexican border
have been granted foreign trade
zone status, allowing deferment
on U.S. customs duties on va
rious goods, officials said
Wednesday.
A foreign trade zone is an
area outside U.S. Gustoms Ser
vice territory where importers
or manufacturers may bring in
goods exempt from Gustoms
duties until they are officially
imported into the United States.
The goods also may be exported
again.
The Gommerce Department
pushed through approval of ap
plications for foreign trade
areas in Del Rio, Eagle Pass,
“These cases were ex
pedited because the
border is suffering
from severe prob
lems”
Laredo and Rio Grande Gity in
response to the economic prob
lems the border is suffering as a
result of Mexican peso devalua-
[tions.
“These cases were expedited
ecause the border is suffering
from severe problems,” said De
nnis Puccinelli, an anaylst for
he Foreign Trade Zone Board.
“The president’s task force on
border problems said this
number of : should have a priority as there
ssed tlie* 11 are some ai'eas with upwards of
‘l topped If 30 percent unemployment in
, ,, 71;Ihose towns because of the peso
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ecause of their backlog of ap
plications it could lake five
months to process the border re-
uests following a hearing held
Sept. 8 in Laredo.
Foreign zone status already is
held by seven other Texas areas
— Brownsville, McAllen, Gal
veston, El Paso, Dallas-Fort
Worth, San Antonio and Harris
Gounty. There are 97 foreign
trade zones nationwide.
Eagle Pass was granted a zone
adjacent to the Eagle Pass Gus
toms port of entry. The zone in
cludes five sites totaling 1,380
acres, including 1,100 acres at
the Maverick Gounty Airport,
and will be operated by the non
profit Maverick Gounty De
velopment Gorp. Prospective
uses include warehousing-
distribution, and the processing
of construction materials and -
apparel.
The non-profit Starr Gounty
Industrial Foundation will oper
ate a 42-acre zone On three Starr
Gounty sites near the Rio
Grande Gity and Roma Gustoms
ports of entry. Planned uses in
clude warehousing-distribution
of machinery and equipment,
and liquor.
Del Rio will establish a 422-
acre zone on four separate Val
Verde Gounty sites near the Del
Rio Gustoms port of entry. The
largest site is 220 acres within the
Del Rio International Airport.
The zone will be used for ware
housing and distribution of ap
pliances, appliance parts and
house slippers.
Laredo will establish a 221-
acre zone three sites in Webb
Gounty near the Laredo Gus
toms port of entry, two of them
at the Laredo International Air
port. Firms want to use the zone
for warehousing and distribu
tion of products such as luggage,
tile, electronic equipment,
handicraft items, textile pro
ducts and valves.
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