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r % TALENT NEEDED for the annual Moses Hall Talent Show Sunday, April 15, 2:00 p.m. prize money sign up by April 9 Flynn Adcock 260-6793 Steve McNair 260-3384 Page 16/The Battalion/Friday, April 6, 1984 Lucas may have Florida job excuse United Press International SAN ANGELO — Two men testifed Thursday that Henry Lee Lucas was working with them on a roofmgjob in Florida at the time an unidentified woman was killed in Texas. Payroll records from South east Color Coat of Jacksonville, Fla., show Lucas was working on a roofing job when an un identified hitchhiker’s body was NOTICE: Summer's Just Around THE CORNER — PREPARE YOUR CAR FOR HOT WEATHER NOW! •CHECK AIR CONDITIONER SYSTEM •add freon and •leak test $0 50 Labor Only, Freon Extra •FLUSH RADIATOR COOLING SYSTEM add anti-freeze as needed $9 50 Labor Only - Anti-freeze Extra Sale Thru 4-14-84 •ENGINETUNE LABOR ONLY 4 cyl 6cyl 8cyl $-| 2 00 8 W0 $22°° Tune up parts Extra University Tire & Service Center 3818 S. College Ave • 846-1738 (5 Blocks North of Skaggs) gogoTyear Owner Lonny Scasta found Oct. 31, 1979, along In terstate 35 in Texas. Roofing supervisor Fred Winters Ellis signed an Oct. 30, 1979, timecard stating Lucas worked for him in Jacksonville. The community is nearly 1,300 miles from Oklahoma City, which is where Lucas said he picked up the woman he later strangled and dumped in a culvert. Lucas pleaded innocent Monday, but he has confessed to more than 150 killings across the country. Lucas was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his com mon-law wife Frieda “Becky” Powell, 15, and to 75 years in prison for killing an elderly Ringgold woman. But the trial for the slaying of the unidentified hitchhiker is the first to bring a capital mur der charge against Lucas. If convicted, Lucas faces a sen tence of life in prison or the death penalty. Defense attorney Parker Mc Cullough said Lucas falsely con fessed to the slaying, and is ex pected to argue he was insane. Since testimony started Mon day, jurors have heard various portions of taped confessions in which Lucas described killing the woman, and dumping her body. Ellis testified he had not ac cepted payment to falsify timecards as suggested by Ken Anderson, Williamson County assistant district attorney. State District Judge John Carter allowed Anderson to question Ellis in front of jurors about convictions Ellis has for writing worthless checks. “I did some time for some checks,” Ellis said. He had ini tially denied having prior con victions. Former roofing company su pervisor Mack Caulder ad mitted he also had served time in stale prisons in California and Alabama for forgery con victions dating back to the 1960. Jurors were absent when Caulder described his criminal record. McCullough objected to the mention of both Caulder’s convictions beforti jury- t _ Anderson said he ned time to study whether Caulj convictions were timely enoj to he presented to jurors. Anderson asked Caulde front of jurors if Lucas and tis Toole, Imcas’ former in ing companion servingtimt Florida prison for arson, him hall their paychecks to] sify work records. “I’m saying under oatt anything else, that is a Caulder replied. A supermarket owner,S|( Yazgi, testified that Ln Toole and a woman used shop at his store in Jackson] Collision with birds doesn’t slow satellite repair mission takeoff Now Under Younger Management to further serve the needs of the Students of Texas A&M. We have changed our atmosphere and format. Now Open till Midnight 7 d United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two shuttle astronauts skipped their final tune-up jet flights Thursday because of a takeoff collision with a flock of birds, but the countdown ticked unin terrupted toward today’s blast off to start Challenger in hot pursuit of a wobbling satellite. James van Hoften and Terry Hart were not injured in the collision and they resumed their prelaunch activities with their three crewmates — Robert Crippen, Dick Scobee and George Nelson. The shuttle was primed for the scheduled 7:58 a.m. liftoff for the six-day mission intended to prove the shuttle’s capability for orbital rescue and repair. Challenger will blaze into an orbit higher than a shuttle has flown before to allow the astro nauts to corral and overhaul the broken Solar Max satellite 300 miles above the Earth. The re storation will cost $45 million. On the 10 previous missions, shuttles have gone no higher than 214 miles. To help achieve the extra height, the shuttle’s three main engines, packing 37 million horsepower, will fire an extra three seconds during lift off. On their flight, the astro nauts also will launch the largest satellite ever put into orbit by a shuttle. On their (light, the as tronauts will launch the largest satellite ever put into orbit by a shuttle. Van Hofien’s aborted takeoff in a T-38 jet trainer was the only unplanned incident Thursday. His jet was streaking down the Kennedy Space Center run way at 161 mph when one of the plane’s twin-engines flamed out. Van Hoften slammed on the brakes to stop his takeoff about one-third of the way down the 3-mile runway. Hart, who was following in another plane, stopped also. Both flights were called off. NASA spokesman Rocky Raab said the remnants of birds were found on the nose landing gear on van Hofien’s jet. A similar incident occurred on Oct. 31, 1964, when Astro naut Ted Freeman was killed as his T-38 collided with a goose as he was coming in for a landing at Ellington Air Force Base near the Johnson Space Center in Houston. For the Solar Max mission, one of the jetpacks used on the last shuttle flight will fly about 200 feet from Challenger and link up with the satellite. Once the satellite’s slow rotation is stopped, it will be snagged by the shuttle’s 50-foot robot arm and brought into the cargo bay for two days of repairs. Project officials hopethi conditioning work will res the precise positioning! Max needs to accurately itor radiation outbursts ti solar flares. If the repain successful, the crew will pm la i Max hack in orbit. If not, satellite will be brought bad Earth. The satellite, which « cost $235 million to replacti its positioning system il three fuses blew nine after it was launched Feb 1980. Scientists are eager tol the Solar Max operat so they can study solar 11 one of w hich produces as ener gy as the United Statu quires for 1,000 centuries. The first repairs on Si Max are not scheduled tol place until Sunday. Onlhei ond day of their flight, iIk tronauts will launch thej Duration Exposure Facili 21,400-pound satellite pa with trays that contain 5i perirnents. a week Checkout our new pool tables & video games! -Grand Opening Special- Texans being ’set up' for tax hike; state inefficient, says GOP leader Beer Pitchers $ 1. 43 Cup of Beer 480 United Press International AUSTIN — Texas Republican Party Chairman George Strake lashed out Thursday at advo cates of a state tax hike, saying Texans were being set up for a tax increase before cuts in gov ernment spending were even considered. Strake made the comments in response to a presentation last week by state budget analysts in which lawmakers were told Texas faces a revenue shortfall of $500 million to $4 billion in the next biennium — and possi bly more if higher teacher pay and educational reforms are considered. “Apparently state budget people have not even been in structed to search for ways to cut inefficient programs, re duce unnecessary expenditures or abolish obsolete agency pro grams,” Strake said. “It seems that state officials are setting us up for a big tax in crease by convincing us the state is broke — without even consid ering ways to cut government waste.” Strake said that since the state last raised taxes 13 years ago, spending and income rose 424 percent compared to a 156 percent increase in the U.S. Consumer Price Index. “In other words, the Texas state budget has risen nearly three times the rate of inflation, but the population of the state has only risen 40 percent in those years,” the Houston busi nessman said. Strake said the state could save $327.7 million by limiting the number of state employees to 100 workers for each 10,000 citizens. He said the current level is 115 employees per 10,000 population. Other cost-cutting measures proposed by Strake included: — Reducing the cash bal ances of the state’s medical schools, resulting in a 516 lion savings. — Reducing Senate opes nal spending, which he sap creased 78 percent in “ 1984-1985, for a $10.9 ui savings. — Eliminating redund; search and state increases! Texas Railroad Commissifl a $3.9 million savings. — Refraining from am acquisition and related pel riel for a savings of $3.9mi At his weekly news ence, Cov. Mark White sai was encouraging state a to be economy minded, rejected House SpeakerGl wis’ call for a no-growth budget. up something cool and refreshing. 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