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Page lO/The Battalion/Friday, January 26, 1984 Jury deliberates cowboy's death United Press International AMARILLO — Attorneys for the city of Borger and three Panhandle counties rested their case Thursday without present ing witnesses in the $5 million civil trial concerning the fatal shooting of a 6666 Ranch cowboy. U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson scheduled closing arguments for 9 a.m. Friday. She spent Thursday afternoon with attorneys preparing in structions for the jury. The three-man, three- woman jury heard about three weeks of testimony in the wrongful death trial of James Grandstaff, 31, shot near his home by authorities who mis took him for a fugitive they were hunting. His widow Sharon Grand staff filed the suit against the city of Borger and the counties of Hutchinson, Carson and Gray. Mrs. Grandstaffs attorney Jan Fox of Houston’s Haynes Sc Ful- lenwider law firm rested her case shortly before noon Thursday. Testimony indicated Grand staff was shot once in the back early Aug. 11, 1981, as he approached six officers on the north camp of the 100-acre ranch east of Borger. Police had chased I onnie Cox, wanted on a theft warrant in Oklahoma, from Borger into the country when Cox drove his pickup truck through two ranch fences and ran into a pasture near Grandstaffs home. Mrs. Grandstaff said her hus band had been sleeping, but noises of the chase woke him up and he got a gun and went to help authorities. None of the six officers present have admitted to firing the shot that killed Grandstaff. Houston steel mill closes down today United Press International HOUSTON — The mood Thursday at Armco’s Houston Works Was somber, the day be fore one of the nation’s largest steel mills finally closed down and the last of the more than 3,000 workers were laid off. The company announced in October it would shut down the OOOOOOQOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOO ★T*T*T~* ★. 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During the first 10 months of 1983, the Houston Works oper ated at less than 20 percent capacity ad lost nearly $40 mil lion, said George Hansen, area vice president of Armco. The plant had operated in the area for more than 40 years. “The mood has been like someone who was sick has died in the family,” said United Steel Workers of America Local 2703 president Early Glowers. “We kind of expected it, but is sad anyway.” The last load of steel was made at the plant in November. A skeleton staff of about 75 workers will remain at the facil ity to handle the last few ship ments and do maintenance work. Hansen said all plant activity will be completed by the end of March. The facility has not yet been sold, although there have been several companies interested in the prime land location, which includes 76 miles of on-site rail line and a mile of frontage along the channel. Glowers blamed the closing on the “government’s inability to address the imported steel prob lem." Hansen agreed. B Univ< “We did everything we could to keep it operating, but the ongoing impact of cheap fore ign imports made it extremely difficult to be compctitivej virtually impossible to be p able," Hansen said, Thei in our pi incipal inaikf, energy industry, durinpfll two years was the final si Glowers also there* of good managem'enM part of die company whic! nave aided in thedosurt admitted that the steel were among the Jiigheli union members in them “A lot of people said reason the company foldeil because of high labor cos', our costs were not higheis to put a multimilliondollatl out of business,” Glowers J About 2,000 workers! been lakPoff duringthepani years; the closing of the a will idle another l,100woil« ene Howrsri, some of the t^eTexas .die.ids louud jobs. ^Safety’s h Glowers said a ibb ar program, funded wiih$: men t s i r in tedel.d ■ h Jl.ii \ lus h« 00 p er union members prepare] selves tor other jobs. fhepiiLf^y jqp r.un is m»i .u iimI |ob ira^J a || v gj V) but one ot eounselinganiii.m Jlslanc jj mg to write resumes,' F, 0 y ears ami apphiug for jobs p j e ol ‘We’ve been rather n „ w ski is 1 ul, but we have not! approached helping every Glowers said. “We’-ve helpe out 600 people findjoj Goodyear, Houston Lighti Power Co. and others,’’ , Hansen said as of Mot 197 workers had urulr Movie H formal job search training Station o another 50 will enter begin broke ou outside tl award. On De riding wit trooper, in a high them to ses soon. pi c in th able to t Rescuers to make “ final recovery try Dc United Press International LANGTRY — Rescuers will make one final attempt Friday to recover the body of man buried in a landslide in the rerjiote Amistad Recreational Area, a national park official said Thursday. Rescuers Thursday rigged a complicated system of high*- pressure water pumps‘to wash debris from an area believed to hold the body of Joe Edgar Dor- roh, 45, of San Antonio, who was buried in a landslide Saturday in the national park. “I think it’s pretty fair to say that if this doesn't work, it’s done,” assistant park superin tendent Don Goldman said. Unitei Rescuers trvitig’lo te Don oil's body were tic || HOU the loose slope Wcdn David “ when an aerial suru Thursda unstable material all months l mold ii iggi-i anotherlandi®' a bon< The landslide that signed tc Dot roh and a secondslkkljHEficiem da\ that covered the sear; ing cells. I epn scnu il "oiilya^ljjW ••\Ve what . ..ol.I JalL (.oldgwiMjsive e Kestutis iuday. wij|uit* ant w£ system of four pumps H- we haver water on the slope to extlMill no t Dot roh s body. William' ‘ We’re dealing with Ij legist at i rock and some serious gn c i ne problems,” he said. '' “Wei keei ■ping our lingers tu"'. are bein this one.’ DWI basis, bu months 1 make a Shearer (Continued for page 1) measure of a person’s level of intoxication. The tests are based on presumptions about people’s chemistry which may not apply to everyone, which causes re sults to vary, he said. 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