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»( Tuesday, April 10,1984/The Battalion/Page 11 New Mexico could require $25 million for new prison > begin playiJ ive in Atlanta, i is about 12 when now I’m weight." o was 15-8 eason, had e months sinaj 9 when he stopped by i leaving a ' agents said gram ofcocai milted pc bslance but a en to him by am mian in Atlam meone else 1 what it was. charged 1’ drug trafiidi dual court j guilty of the harge. United Press International SANTA FE, N.M. — A Cor rections Department spokes man says unless sentencing laws are changed, the state will need $25 million to $30 million next year for a new prison. Corrections spokesman Da vid Roybal said Monday deter minate sentencing, where an in dividual serves a set number of years for certain crimes, is con sidered the chief factor causing New Mexico’s prison popula tion to grow by 19 inmates month. At that growth rate, the state will need a new prison by 1986 and will need space for another 1,000 inmates by 1990, he said. Lawmakers failed during the last session in Santa Fe to pass new laws that would allow the Corrections Department to re lease prisoners near parole in emergency overcrowding situa tions. Legislators also killed a bill that would have allowed parole for inmates after one-third of their term had been served. The remainder of the prison er’s term would have been served under parole. “The Legislature determines how fast the population rises. When they come back in Jan uary, they are either going to have to change the law or come up with the money for a new prison,” Roybal said. A U.S. Justice Department report shows New Mexico has 2,013 inmates, including 103 being held out of state, and ex perienced a 17.2 percent growth rate in 1983, signifi cantly higher than the 5.9 per cent national average. Lawrence Greenfeld, a spokesman in the department’s Bureau of Statistics, said Mon day that the West, as a whole, “showed much higher growth than any of the other regions.” Greenfeld said the advent of determinate sentencing legis lation in the West may have led to the growth there in prison populations. He said the Northeast showed a prison inmate in crease last year of 9.1 percent, the northcentral part of the country had a 3.9 increase rate and the South’s inmate popula tion increased by 3 percent. That compared with the West’s overall increase of 12.6 percent, Greenfeld said. The nation’s penal institu tions as a whole were 10 percent over capacity at the end of the year, according to the Bureau of Statistics report. “The prisons have been oper-;* ating at about 110 percent of ca- .* pacity since roughly 1978,”.; Greenfeld said. Roybal said New Mexico pris ons have a capacity for 1,754 in mates and now house 1,717. * Texas, which previously had; led the nation in the number of" inmates, had a prison popula-- tion at the end of 1983 oT 35,259. California had the most; inmates in a state system —^ 39,360, Greenfeld said. The prison population ini,' Texas declined because of a; “good time” law passed there.£ AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group , 3400 S. College 823 8051 Escapee kidnaps, rapes young girl uider coach Al lon’t count usi what had to bob Bourne. 1 y confident ati Photo by JAMES DANEN Pouty pup Gary Kniffin, a fourth year Veteri nary Science student from College Station examines his patient Suizuie. The small brown dachshund was brought into the animal clinic after being struck by a car. Suizuie’s two back legs were injured but are healing correctly. United Press International SAN ANTONIO — A Michi gan jail escapee fleeing from police told an apartment house resident that he was a security guard, then allegedly kidnap ped and raped the woman’s 10- year-old daughter, authorities said Monday. Live Oak Police Chief Mark Jackley said the suspect, How ard Ort, 24, was charged with kidnapping, aggravated rape of child and indecency with a child following the ordeal Sunday. Jackley said Ort, an escaped prisoner from Pontiac, Mich., was allegedly burglarizing a bar in suburban Live Oak early Sunday when he was con fronted by the manager. He said Ort escaped through a hole in the ceiling and ran to an apartment complex across the street. Ort allegedly told a woman who lived in the apartment complex that he was a security guard and needed to borrow some womens’ clothing to inves tigate a rape, Jackley said. He said the woman, who was partially deaf, went to a neigh bor’s apartment for help. When she returned, Ort and her 10- year-old daughter were gone. Jackley said Ort allegedly took the girl to a construction site across the street and raped her three times. Ort was arrested and the girl rescued several hours later. ond period,! s of Bs :hing Ti Nassau' N.Y, lire’s on them, J. “I’m very la over the first fc Jury selection begins In hangar murder case United Press International ff series beW a North Stars# SHERMAN —Jury selection k Hawks is Tuesday in the capital one” battle all firder trial of a 36-year-old niter in \ uesday night, jetting astruj jjlooiiii emical salesman accused of four men — including a sheriff and a former po- ;orTi's°Divisioi email — in a hangar in North *d at two g best-of-fivc s j rallied for st eight minutfl ita 4-3 Sunday mother very I sjorth Stars Lester Leroy Bower Jr. of Ar- gton has been held in the ayson County jail in lieu of 00,000 bond since he was ar- sted in January. JBower is charged with four sud"“Bothif# 16111118 °f capital murder in the with tremend# jet. 8, 1983, gunshot slayings I don’t expe cl! I the four men, whose bodies [re found in a barn that was Hie advantage edas an ultralight hangar, nr own buil* [The victims were Deputy ositjve si# Isriff Phillip Good, 29, who lS a ^ Id been with the department [ly eight days; former Sher- ian policeman Ronald Mayes, 37; Jerry Mack Brown, 51, a -employed house remodeler tn Sherman, and building ntractor Bob Tate, 51. Investigators said the victims t Coiniskey P 1 named the as the Amerf r of the week o became er to throw a; [im Bunnings also beat Mi» pri! 3 and "J iithan0.56 j equaled/I* arliest rm i season ; ■sch no-hit Alb* 79. were all killed with a silencer- equipped .22-caliber weapon. A search of Bower’s home re vealed three ultralight tires with the name “Tate” inscribed in side the hubs, court records showed. Deputies also found manuals for making gun silencers and .22-caliber ammunition, but no weapon of that caliber. State District Judge R.C. Vaughan has placed everyone connected with the case under a gag order preventing them from talking to the media. Before the order was im posed, Bower was described by defense attorney Jerry Buckner of Weatherford as “a model citi zen, a man who has probably led a cleaner life than either you or I.” The Tulsa, Olka., native is a leader at his Baptist church and had no past criminal re cord, Buckner said. Deputies said they were led to Bower because he had an swered an ad Tate placed to sell an ultralight aircraft. One of the small planes, valued at about $4,000, was missing from the hangar where the four men were found shot to death. The bodies of three of the men were found underneath a small pile of carpet. Mayes’ body was near the doorway of the small tin hangar, about 35 feet from the others. Grayson County Sheriff Jack Driscoll said Mayes apparently tried to escape and was shot twice in the head. He said nine .22-caliber shell cases were found at the scene, indicating the weapon was an automatic. The sheriff said the bodies had been moved inside the 45- foot by 45-foot hangar, located in a pasture about a quarter of a mile off the road in the commu nity about 60 miles north of Dallas. Driscoll said robbery was ruled out as a motive because one of the victims still had $100 in his wallet and the others had from $13 to $40 on them. GAAP GREATER ANNUAL ACCOUNTANTS PLAYDAY IS COMING! Thursday, April 19 SPONSORED BY THE ACCOUNTING SOCIETY & Beta Alpha Psi ★ ACCOUNTING & BUSINESS MAJORS THIS IS YOUR DAY TO MEET AND HAVE FUN WITH ACCOUNTING PROFESSIONALS. EVENTS: GOLF glO TENNIS 8 5-KRITN 7 BANQUET 8 WE NEED LADIES TOO! Signup • in Lobby of A&A. .. Now! and Jvlul \>y tOlIIiam Shukisp&art Ivis+niii By TAUT XI Tli&aira Afis April 10 - M 000 rm 7ich*i Info: 8i5-291S Astronauts take second shot at struggling solar satellite r ;, ~' — "" . • — L = SLLJ University Committee Applica tions are now available in Room 219 Pavilion and Room 216 MSC. Deadline: April 13, Room 219 Pavilion. 1984 in r.3o io* c All Odd* ( R) 5-9:50 (P 0 ! Stone Mold'’I 1 *! United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL — hallenger’s crewmen con- ml fuel Monday for a sec- id shot at snagging Solar Max id were given a “fighting lance” of success if their gas does not drop too far imng rendezvous with the niggling satellite. If the crew can haul the sun- azing observatory aboard with le shuttle’s 50-fool mechanical rm Tuesday and if the propel- nl in the forward nose jets olds out, Challenger’s flight light be extended until Friday. That would allow t wo of the ironauts to try to repair the lellite during a cargo bay acewalk Wednesday and put back in space Thursday. “We stand a fighting chance hulling it off,” flight director iv Greene said Monday from lission control in Houston. There are no guarantees. “The tricky part is to do a mdezvous without using any the gap to about 25 miles by the time the rendezvous maneuvers begin. The drift was started with the tail rockets because the nose rockets had only 21 percent of their normal fuel supply left. The nose rockets will not be needed for Challenger’s return to Earth, but are crucial to the close-in part of the second ap proach to Solar Max. The satellite was knocked more out of whack then ever by Nelson’s failed attempt to stabi lize it during his untethered spacewalk Sunday. But ground controllers managed to still the satellite’s tumble and gave it a new lease on life by pointing its solar panels toward the sun to recharge its batteries. “The opinion down here is that Solar Max is back,” Jerry Ross told the astronauts from mission control in Houston. “That is outstanding news,” replied Crippen. The satellite was so stable that the redemption retrieval attempt was delayed from Mon day to Tuesday so Solar Max could be rotated very slowly to put it in the right position to be grabbed by the shuttle’s me chanical arm. Crippen will park Challenger underneath the satellite and Hart will use the snare on the end of the robot arm to latch onto a grapple fixture on the side of Solar Max. He made four unsuccessful grabs for the satellite Sunday after Nelson was foiled by a faulty docking device. Solar Max is expected to be an easier target now that it is stabilized. Once Hart makes his catch, the arm will lower the satellite into a frame at the end of the shuttle’s cargo bay. If the repairs proceed. Nel son and van Hoften will try to squeeze what was originally scheduled to have been two days of space mechanics into one. Their key job is to replace So lar Max’s attitude control box so scientists can again precisely point it toward the sun. They also are scheduled to swap out one instrument’s electronics as sembly and put a cover on an other on the satellite that has been working at only partial ca pacity since November 1980. If they cannot do the tuneup job, Solar Max will be stowed in the work frame to hitch a ride back to Florida. ON TOP OF THE WORLD • 12 COUNTRIES MAVIS - JUNE 15 •^ITOO CHINA • B MAJOR CITIES • MAV 17 - MAY 30 • s 2100 Deadline April 20 FOR MORE INFO CONTACT MSC TRAVEL AT 345-^515 I J