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Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, December 9, 1983 Fri Half of goal in stored oil United Press International NEW ORLEANS — The Un ited States is halfway to its goal of socking away enough oil in underground storage units to spare itself a severe shortage if foreign oil supplies are dis rupted, an energy official said Thursday. U.S. Energy Secretary Don Hodel said the government had pumped 375 million barrels of oil into the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That amount is about half of the 750 million barrels U.S. officials planned to inject into the stor age facilities. “When the first oil was deli vered to the SPR in 1977, we were importing 8.5 million bar rels a day and 750 million barrels was determined to be the total amount necessary to provide PEKING GARDEN MilttOX doSCS Clime se Restaurant AIX TOP PAT EAT Friday, Saturday and Sunday Evening Buffet 6-8:00 p.m. 84.98 Weekly Noon Buffet x 3” 8 Buffets include: egg roll, fried rice, fried wont on soup, chicken lou mein, sweet and sour pork, and beef with broccoli. ISO OPEN DAILY: 11:30 a.m. to Id p.m. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 1313 S. College 822-7001 United Press International LUBBOCK — The Texas attorney general’s office shut down a second unlicensed nurs ing home in about a week Thurs day, getting a temporary res taining order against the Inez Retirement Center of Shallo- water. judge. hearing was scheduled concern ing the Inez home. An unlicensed Lubbock nurs ing home operated by Goldie Wilson was shut Nov. 30. A Fri day afternoon hearing was slated for a temporary injunc tion to keep it closed. Lawyers from the attorne general’s Austin and Lubboc offices received the order from a boo^ery Autograph Party! Dr. Ann Fears Crawford, Author of Women in Texas, will be our guest from 3 until 6 p.m. Monday, December 12. Please join us and meet the author! 10-8 Mon-Fri 10-6 Sat Samson s Bookery Culpepper Plaza College Station 693-6207 693-BOOK The actions were part of a statewide effort by Attorney General Jim Mattox against un licensed homes and also licensed homes failing to meet state health codes, Mattox press aide Elna Christopher said. Euna Wright, a nurse sur veyor for the Texas Health De partment’s Lubbock office, told state district court officials she inspected the Shallowater home Nov. 21 and found 16 clients there. V - ' Tooting Murk Spicer, She said all residents needed services that require more than an unlicensed facility could pro vide. “I’m tooting my horn for KAMU-FM” says Joseph Mitchell’s sign Thursday as he encourages people to support the Public Broadcasting Station on campus Mitchell received his PU in educational administration fra Texas A&M recently. Forgery court date moved United Press International LOS ANGELES — Arraign ment of a woman charged with forgery of a will from Howard Hughes, the billionaire aviator and movie maker who died in 1976, was postponed Thursday because of illness. Martha Jo Graves, 54, was arrested Tuesday in Houston and returned to Los Angeles Wednesday. She was placed in the hospital ward of Sybil Brand Institute for treatment of an un disclosed medical problem, offi cials said. Her arraignment was post poned until Friday. Deputy District Attorney Mitchell Harris said Graves was the “formulator of the forgery, producer of the will and signer of the will.” Her co-defendant, Harold Mallet, 52, of Canyon Country, was scheduled for a preliminary hearing Dec. 20 on charges of conspiracy to commit grand theft, forgery, perjury and pre paring false evidence in the case, lallet Mall et and another man allegedly signed the document as witnesses. The third suspect was granted immunity from prosecution in return for sup plying information to author ities. Graves and Mallet, who was vice president of Aspen Airlines* were accused of trying to pass off the four-page document as a genuine will of Hughes. Since his death, about 50 such pur ported wills have surfaced in California, Texas andS but all have been found forgeries. The Graves-Mallel queaths 80 percent of B; estate, valued at bettvetr. million a $1.1 billion tolki ward Hughes MedicalIi and 20 percent to Acme Co., an inactive corpor f ounded by the late Earl tower for whom Graves* as secretary. Letter bomb explodes, seriously wounds sisten iS United Press International GLADEWATER — A bomb in a package delivered in the mail exploded as a Gladewater woman opened it Wednesday night, seriously injuring her and a sister, police said Thursday. Police Chief Jim King said the small package was delivered through normal mail service to Rhonda Fox, 22, Wednesday. As she opened it about 8:30 p.m., a bomb exploded, spraying shrap nel on Fox, her 8-year-old sister, Melinda, and four others. Fox was in critical condition at Goodshepard Medical Center in nearby Longview. King said she had lost one eye and could lose her other eye. She also had lost one finger and might lose two more and had sustained a punctured lung, he said. Melinda Fox was listed in fair condition Thursday following surgery. King said another sister, Julie Fox, 15, received minor injuries and a friend, Sherry Dolan, and her two children, Laurie, 2, and Leslie, 14 months, did not re quire hospitalization. The bomb did verv little structural damage to the resi dence, King said. “We have not arrested any one. Right now, we don’t have a motive,” King said. King said remains of the bomb would be shipped to the Postal Inspectorskkd Washington late Thum “I can’t tell youififsa sophisticated. We’ll have I them look at it first,”htn George Eller, agentinfi for the Postal Inspectors would “rather not fasl type of explosive devitfj now.” He said there wasai! address on the package,!) there were no suspects The Bureau of Alt^ Tobacco and Firearms p to enter the investiga a spokesman with said. The holiday season is a time for giving. Give yourself a break. Call Domino’s Pizza for dinner. 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