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Vlrs. Lof:'4 WOODVILLE — Union Oil
i penalt' ::| Co. of California has made a sig-
nd a $lt!| nificant natural gas discovery in
an exploratory well on the Ala-
lama-Coushatta Indian Reser-
lation, which could mean up to
6 million in royalty payments to
e reservation over the next 20
fjtears, officials said Wednesday.
I The initial tests indicated
. . ri f 13.5 million cubic feet of natural
Jas and 12 barrels of 42.6-
k and se«P e S ree g rav i l y condensate a day.
DiningbM/ reservation, which is
fiomw .home a | )0ul gOO Indians, is
is l |ceil “ located 75 miles north of
vehtdep: Houston,
lain Hall'I
-speed b| Indian tribe leaders said they
ylebikerajare looking to the energy re-
)-speedi venues to help make up for the
lall bikcriloss of federal aid in recent
icsignsf years. Union Oil has leased
[iparkedil 1,500 acres on the 4,000 acres
udent Oiteservation for oil and gas ex
ploration.
ms stolen® Ray Apodaca, superinten-
ues BuW °f Texas Indian Com-
i mission, said Indian leaders will
is arresief mcet Thursday to work out a
l! plan to spend the expected
m yalty revenues.
“We want to be ensure what
Polish that dome
Kevin P. Dworaczyk, Battalion photo
Raul quietly polishes under the
surprisingly warm Tuesday
afternoon sunshine
United Press International
TYLER — An federal jury
Wednesday convicted two men
on involuntary servitude
charges for the enslavement of
illegal aliens hauled from south
Texas in an enclosed trailer to
work on a tree farm.
The jury deliberated two
hours before convicting Steven
Crawford, 20, of Center and
Randall Waggoner, 22, of
Nacogdoches on 19 counts in
volving conspiracy, transporta
tion of aliens and involuntary
servitude.
U.S. District Judge William
Steger set sentencing for Feb. 6.
The men face maximum
penalties of five years in jail and
a $10,000 fine for a charge of
conspiracy to transport illegal
aliens, five years and a $2,000
fine for each charge of trans
porting aliens and five years and
$5,000 fine for each of charge of
involuntary servitude.
The two were accused of
paying $50 each for 19 illegal
aliens and taking them 400 miles
from Rock Springs on the bor
der to Crawford’s east Texas
tree farm.
Prosecutors said the men
promised the aliens $25 a day
for their work, but then gave
them little food and kept them
working at no wages, sometimes
under gunpoint.
In closing arguments
Wednesday, Defense attorney
Jeff Baynham asked the jury to
consider the ages of the defen
dants.
“They have learned their les
son if there is a lesson to be
learned here,” Baynham said.
“They were two young men not
making smart decisions.”
But Susan King, one of two
attorneys from the civil rights di
vision of the Justice Department
in Washington, said Crawford
and Waggoner knew exactly
what they were doing.
“Both (of the defendants) in
timidated the workers. They
wanted to make money off the
Mexicans,” Ms. King said.
Prosecutor Criselda Ortiz
said, “Crawford knew what he
was doing and you do not rent a
U-Haul for humans.”
Waggoner testified in his own
behalf Tuesday and said he
worked for Crawford about 45
days last winter supervising
Mexicans. He admitted driving
to Rock Springs to pick up 19
Mexicans at a prearranged
meeting place.
“I was only doing what I was
told to do,” he said.
A Mexican testified Tuesday
he and 13 other illegal aliens fled
last February from the back of a
pickup truck driven by a rifle-
toting Waggoner.
Julio Martinez Rios said they
jumped from the back of Wag
goner’s pickup in Center but
were forced back in at riflepoinU
by Waggoner. Moments later
when the truck stopped at a red
light, the aliens again leaped out
and ran to nearby stores where
they got help.
Jose Armando Gonzalez, 29 J
testified Monday that he hid the’
aliens in a chicken coop near the
Texas-Mexico border for two or ||
three days until Waggoner and ■ (
Crawford picked them up.
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has happened in the past does
not happen again. Too many
times when a reservation comes
into money suddenly it is spent
and then they wind up with no
thing left,” Apodoca said.
“The money will be used to
start helping out the health and
human needs on the reserva
tion,” he said.
It could be another three to
six months before the Union Oil
well will begins producing.
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