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Emergency postpones
Lucas’ pre-trial hearing
United Press International
GEORGETOWN — A pre
trial hearing scheduled for to
day for confessed mass murder
er Henry Lee Lucas was post
poned because the judge hear
ing his case was called aw
mg ms case was called away on
an emergency.
Lucas, 47, is awaiting trial on
charges that he killed an uniden
tified female hitchhiker in 1979.
His pre-trial hearing was resche
duled for Jan. 13 because Dis
trict Judge John Carter could
not attend Tuesday’s hearing.
Lucas, a former mental pa
tient who was convicted of kill
ing his mother in 1960, more re
cently has been sentenced to life
in prison for the stabbing death
of his 15-year-old common law
wife and 75 years imprisonment
for the murder of an elderly
North Texas woman.
Lucas has told police he killed
as many as 150 people -— mostly
woman — during his wander
ings across the country. In addi
tion to the Williamson County
murder, Lucas faces seven other
murder charges — six in Texas
and one in Louisiana.
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Drug trafficking studied
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI — The
chairman of a congressional
committee drawing up a new
narcotics control and abuse
program said Monday that
traffickers are operating
“with impunity” in South
Texas and that no one seems
to be doing too much about it.
“It’s an open day for drug
dealers,” Rep. Charles
Rangel, D-N.Y., said after
hearing 6 Vs hours of almost
non-stop testimony from fed
eral and local law enforce
ment officials and agency per
sonnel involved in prevention
and treatment of drug abuse.
“It’s a shocking example of
what’s happening throughout
the country,” he said.
Rangel, chairman of the
committee, and other mem
bers of the House Select Com
mittee on Narcotics Abuse
and Control hotly questioned
panels of federal and local law
enforcement officials. Their
questions dealt with why con
certed steps are not being
taken to combat the more im
portant role that the “Texas
Connection” has begun play
ing in international narcotics
smuggling now that a crack
down has been launched in
Florida.
Nueces County Sheriff
James Hickey testified that his
agency has made only 25 nar
cotics arrests this year, which
he termed “less than 1 per
cent, very slight.” He said nar
cotics are being sold on the
streets of Corpus Christi with
little hindrance from law en
forcement.
“Why aren’t you screaming
with outrage?” Rangel asked.
“I’m afraid it’s the mood of
too large of a section of socie
ty,” said Hickey, who has only
three or four of his 148 offic
ers working narcotics cases
full time.
Hickey, Corpus Christi
Police Chief Bill Banner and
Brownsville Police Chief
Andy Vega, under heated
questioning from committee
members, all said they need
more personnel, better train
ing and more money if they
are to put a dent in the in
creasing supplies of heroin,
cocaine and marijuana being
smuggled into and through
their areas from Mexico.
Rangel and Reps. Solomon
Ortiz, D-Texas; Kenth Hance,
D-Texas; Sam Hall, D-Texas,
and Benjamin Gilman, R-
N.Y., were particularly harsh
in their questioning of Five
federal agency heads respon
sible for intercepting narco
tics along the Texas-Mexico
border and along the 500-mile
long Texas Gulf Coast.
Donald F. Kelly, regional
commissioner of the U.S. Cus
toms Service headquartered
in Houston; U.S. Attorney
Daniel K. Hedges of Houston;
Rear Admiral William H. Ste
wart, commander of the
Eighth Coast Guard District
and coordinator of the new
National Narcotics Border In
terdiction System; J. William
Carter, deputy regional chief
of the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service, and
Marion Hambrick, agent-in
charge of the Drug Enforce
ment Administration in
Houston, all initially said their
agencies were doing adequate
jobs.
But after Rangel and the
other members got through
asking them heated questions,
they all agreed that they
needed more men and money
to have any signficant effect
on the problem.
Under questioning by
Rangel, Kelly said his agents
have confiscated only 7
pounds of heroin over the
past four years in Corpus
Christi, where earlier testi
mony indicated 1,250 to 1,500
heroin addicts reside and
where seven drug overdose
deaths occurred from Janu
ary to October.
“Heck, we seize more than
7 pounds on the corner where
I live, anually,” Rangel shot
back.
Gilman said he was dis
turbed about "overlapping in
telligence gathering” by the
various federal agencies.
“Why do we need separate in
telligence gathering if the
NNBIS is doing such a good
job? Why isn’t this coordin
ated in one single group?”
Hall said he was concerned,
also, that despite testimony
that U.S. officials were receiv
ing cooperation from Mex
ican officials, the number of
narcotics arrests in Mexico
were decreasing at the same
time drug smuggling from
Mexico was increasing.
Rangel and Gilman said na
tionally it is estimated that 30
to 50 percent of all crime is
narcotics-related but that the
three local law enforcement
heads testifying were commit
ting only 3 to 6 percent of
their personnel to drug cases,
Rangel said that narcodcs
agents estimate 34 percent of
all the heroin in the United
States comes from Mexico, but
nothing is being done to halt
increasing amounts of the
drug being brought across the
border by individuals and in
vehicles.
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AUSTIN — Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co. will likely
join the Public Utility Commis
sion’s consumer counsel in
appealing a PUC examiner’s re
commendation that it receive a
$653.3 million interim rate hike,
a spokesman said Monday.
lawyers and executives are re
viewing their options in terms of
the recommendation made pub
lic last Friday by PUC Adminis
trative Law Judge Jacqueline
Holmes.
company, American Telephone
and Telegraph Co.
distance revenues when itii
separate from AT&T.
The PUC is not expected to
rule on that request, which has
been pending since June, until
he
“We’re going to have to make
one (decision) pretty quick,”
“The fac
next
spring.
But Holmes’ recommenda-
would fall heaviest on long
distance carriers, there were in
dications that appeals would also
be filed by specialty companies
s. such as MCIy Sprint and U.S.
Telephone. —JW
, Southwestern Bell spokes
man Dale Johnson of Dallas said
Monday that his company’s
Johnson said. “The fact that it
(Holmes’ recommendation) is
$320 million less than what we
indicated strongly that we
needed indicates the strong pos
sibility of an appeal,” he said.
The company is seeking a
permanent $1.32 billion rate
hike to buffer the effects of the
Jan. 1 divestiture of its parent
lion on temporary rates would
go into effect Jan. 1.
Johnson said Southwestern
Bell will probably make a deci
sion on whether to appeal to the
three-member utility regulatory
commission by the middle of this
week.
The increase recommended
by Holmes is about $250 million
less than the amount the com
pany claims it will lose in long
Aside from some intrastate
service, most long-distance ser
vice will Ixe taken over by AT&T
and ot her long distance special
companies.
PUC public counsel Jim Boyle
promised earlier that he woiiH
appeal Holmes’ plan becausere
sidential rate-payers would
eventually pay for the entires
hike.
Any appeal filed by Bellt
other parties to the rate cat
apparently would not be talc
up by the commission untilDft
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Bodies can’t be identified
99
United Press International
PANHANDLE — One of two
women killed by gunshot
wounds to the head had a motor
cycle T-shirt and four tattoos,
Carson County Sheriff Connie
Reed said in asking the public
for help identifying the bodies.
The two bodies were disco
vered Friday morning along a
fence beside a rural blacktop
road about 7 miles north of
Groom. Reed said he planned to
release drawings of the victims
to the media early Tuesday.
One victim was found with
her hands and feet tied and her
clothing partially removed,
Reed said. He described her as
white, 5-foot-6, 140 pounds with
dark medium-length hair and
brown eyes.
She had a scar on her left
shoulder and another on her left
leg. She also had the following
tattoos: the letter R in blue on
her upper back, the number 69
in blue located inside her left leg
just above the ankle, a heart out
lined in blue on her outer left
arm and the word Harley out
lined in blue on her left index
finger along with a faded letter
that Reed said was probably an h
The victim wore a black T-
shirt saying Ivey’s Cycles Acc.
Ponca City, Okla., with a Har-
vey-Davidson emblem. She also
had pinstrip jeans and blue and
white tennis shoes, Reed said
The second victim was
5 feet 6 inches, between 1'
pounds with brown hair and
eyes. She had a small mole ontlx
left side of her lip and wore)
purple blouse, blue jeans ad
white socks. She was barefoot
Reed said.
Willie Nelson’s mother
dies of cancer at 70
United Press International
YAKIMA, Wash. — Myrle M.
Harvey, the mother of country
singer Willie Nelson, died of
cancer Sunday at the age of 70 at
Yakima Valley Memorial Hos
pital, where she had been a pa
tient for some time.
The mother of the well-
known country singer was born
and raised in Pindall, Ark. She
moved to Yakima in 1974 after
living many years in Eugene,
Ore.
Harvey is survived by hti
son, Nelson, of Austin; ad
ter, Syble Young, also of Austin;
a sister and brother, eif
grandchildren and six gn
grandchildren. Her husband
died in 1977.
Funeral services willbehdd
Thursday afternoon at
Keith & Keith Terrace Hei
Chapel in Yakima. The bi
will take place at Terratt
Heights Memorial Park.
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