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Inmate wants jail wedding
United press International
AMARILLO — Condemned
killer Charles Rumbaugh may
want to get married but Potter
County Jimmy Don
Boydston said the ceremony will
not take plate in his jail.
Rumbaugh, subpoenaed with
three other convicts as defense
witnesses in a trial beginning
next week i n Amarillo, was sche
duled to be transferred from the
state prison i n Huntsville to the
Potter County Jail this weekend.
Rumbaugh was sentenced to
death for the 1975 murder and
robbery of an Amarillo jeweler.
DJ. Stubben, who wrote a
book on Rumbaugh, said the
convict had hoped to get mar
ried while in Amarillo because
couples are not allowed to hold
hands during such ceremonies
in the state prison.
His fiancee was not identi
fied, but was described by Stub
ben as a 32-year-old divorced
mother of three.
“He is a whole different per
son. He cares for other people
now,” said Stubben.
But Boydston said no wed
dings would be held in his jail.
“Rumbaugh is a temporary
inmate. He is a regular inmate of
the state prison. He can get mar
ried in Huntsville,” Boydston
said.
In a federal courtroom in
Amarillo earlier this year, Rum
baugh shcluted he would set his
own execution date and was shot
by a U.S. marshal as he lunged at
the officer with a pick-like
weapon.
He was testifying at a com
petency hearing arranged by his
parents at the time of the attack.
His parents requested the hear
ing to prevent his efforts to wave
his right of appeal and force his
execution.
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Court allows Zenith
to review fire report
United Press International
AUSTIN — An appeals court
Wednesday revived Zenith
Radio Corp.’s claim that it is enti
tled to see a fire marshal’s report
on a Feb. 6 fire that killed one
person and did nearly $3 million
in damages to the Texas State
Capitol.
The state attorney general’s
office is suing the Glenview, Ill.,
manufacturer, claiming a defec
tive Zenith television set in Lt.
Gov. Bill Hobby’s private
second-floor apartment caused
the pre-dawn fire.
Travis County District Judge
Harley Clark on July 5 denied
Zenith access to an investigative
report written by Fire Marshal
Ernest Emerson, who also re
fused to answer questions dur
ing a pre-trial hearing.
But the 3rd Court of Appeals
ordered Clark to withdraw his
earlier order, examine Emer
son’s report and determine if
rules of evidence would prevent
its disclosure to Zenith.
Feed to be offered
at discount prices
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Depu
ty Agriculture Secretary
Richard Lyng Wednesday put
in motion a program that will
make g o v e r n m e n t - o w n e d
livestock feed available at a
discount price to livestock
producers hurt by this sum
mer’s drought.
Lyng also stirred up a con
troversy by announcing that
much less corn was available
than was previously believed.
In an announcement, the
Agriculture Department said
27 million bushels of corn
would be available to livestock
producers. That figure was
considerably less than the 83
million bushels of corn that
had been consistently men
tioned in discussions of the
drought relief.
Gene Hemphill, a depart
ment spokesman, said the 83-
million-bushel figure was
based on an August inventory
and the 27-million-bushel fi-
inventory
gure was from
made last week.
“Between August and last
week we had the payment-in-
kind entitlements come due,”
he said. He said that although
the low-grade corn in question
was not generally used for
payment-in-kind, some far
mers opted to take a larger
die department^expai,,,
to. the difference it, a v *i
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Department,
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is located in Texas,
Iowa, Minnesota,
Nebraska and Illinois.
urging officials to '‘g 0 j
and redo their inventon
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quantity of low-grade corn in
stead of better quality corn.
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cated in Texas, Iowa, Minne
sota, Nebraska and Illinois,
the department said.
Jack DeVore, a spokesman
lor Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-
Fexas, who attached the
drought relief provision to
dairy legislation, questioned
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A fierce price war pitting a na-
tional supermarket chain
against smaller, regional stores
has proved costly to two princip
al combatants, officials said
Wednesday.
Golub Corp. of Schenectady,
owner of the 58-store Price
Chopper chain in eastern and
central New Y o i k , M a s-
sachusetts, Pennsylvania and
Vermont, revealed plans to de
lay pay raises for its 8,700 em
ployees for five months, effec
tive Dec. 1.
The move comes as the chain
fights Grand Union Co., a na
tional chain which plans to in
vest SI 10 million in a price-
cutting move to improve its mar
ket share — despite reporting a
$46.3 million loss from April to
October. The company lost
$36.5 million from July through
October while sales climbed by
7.3 percent.
Food prices have remained
steady while operating costs
have increased, analysts said.
“We Ye come off a very difficult
year,’’ said Elaine Solomon,
spokesperson for Golub. “We’ve
put a lot of our profits back into
the company.”
Price Chopper employees
have supported the company’s
move, Solomon said, describing
the move as “a preventive mea
sure” to avoid financial prob
lems later. The company re
mains profitable, she said.
Price Chopper also cited de
flation of food prices as a major
reason its operating margins
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United Press International
SAN MARCOS — King John
of England, described by one
historian as “bad news” and “a
total loss,” incurred the wrath of
medieval nobles with his con
tinued refusal to honor age-old
rights and practices of law.
Butonjune 12, 1215,atRun-
neymede, the barons forced the
king to sign the Magna Carta, a
document many scholars call the
cornerstone of British and
American law.
Four of the original 20 docu
ments still exist, and one of them
— the Lincoln Exemplar — went
on display Wednesday at South
west Texas State University.
When it was signed 768 years
ago, the Magna Cana was little
more than an agreement be
tween a bad king and England’s
rich aristocrisy.
But it was eventually extended
to common people, providing
protection for “the man in the
street and the field,” said Dr. J.
Norman Parmer, professor of
English history at Trinity Uni
versity in San Antonio.
“The barons were saying-
,’Look, we have certain rights,*”
Parmer said. “Things had never
gotten so bad since the Normans
came to England in 1066. King
John was such a total loss. It is
very hard to find much good ab
out King John. He managed to
get himself in all kinds of trouble
with the EugJvsL yveople myA vl\c
church.”
For Pavuvev, tLe Cav-
la, or the Cheat Charter, was the
most important of several char
ters between the people of Fug-
la nef anti their kings, although it
did not contain any new or radic-
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