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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
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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]
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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
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Texans being ’set up' for tax hike;
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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!
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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.
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