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Petition urges teaching
of evolution in schools
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United Press International
AUSTIN — Science profes
sors, religions groups and tea
cher organizations signed a pe
tition sent Monday to the State
Board of Education, urging the
repeal of a rule that restricts the
teaching of evolution in Texas
public schools.
People for the American
Way, a national anti-censorship
group, organized the petition
drive in advance of Board Of
Education meetings Friday and
Saturday in El Paso.
Board members will discuss
in executive session, PAW’s
threat to sue the board if it fails
to repeal the rule, which was
deemed unconstitutional last
month in an opinion by Attor
ney General Jim Mattox.
“The courts will be the next
resort if the Board does not re
peal the rules and comply with
the attorney general’s advice,”
PAW state coordinator Mike
Hudson said Monday.
“Hopefully, the state board
will demonstrate its concern for
the school children and its re
spect for the law and avoid un
necessary litigation that could
cost the taxpayers of Texas
hundreds of thousands of dol
lars.”
The rule requires that evolu
tion be taught as “only one of
several explanations of the ori
gin of humankind.” Mattox said
it was unconstitutional because
it was motivated “by a concern
for religious sensibilities rather
than a dedication to scientific
truth.”
Up to 75 people helc[ captive in Kerrvilje
Authorities search for slave farm hitchhike
United Press International
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Monday searched for a hitch
hiker, described as being
“scared to death,” who left a
Hill Country ranch where six
people were allegedly lured and
forced into slavery, the sheriff
said.
Kerr County Sheriff Cliff
Creeson said the unidentified
hitchhiker was run off the
ranch about two weeks ago and
related his story to a motorist
who bought him a cup of cof
fee.
“He was scared to death,”
Creeson said. “We’ve got a few
leads and we’re going to try to
find him.” He said authorities
may try to locate some 75 other
people who worked at the
3,500-acre cattle, goat and
sheep ranch last year.
Officers armed with a search
warrant Friday found five men
and one woman, ranging in age
from mid-20s to the late 40s, liv
ing in a barn at the secluded
ranch about 75 miles northwest
of San Antonio.
The six were being kept in
protective custody Monday and
declined to disuss their experi
ence.
Wesley Ellebracht, 53; his
son, Wesley Ellebracht Jr., 31;
and the younger man’s wife
Joyce Ellebracht, 29, were
charged with aggravated kid
napping and were being held in
lieu of 4100,000 bonds.
One victim said he was forced
to burn the body of a dead
worker, and authorities sent
charred bones found on the
ranch to Department of Safety
labs for testing.
“Due to the condition of the
evidence, we’re going to have to
use some more laboratory tech
niques to determine if the bones
are human,” said DPS spokes
man Larry Todd. “We going to
utilize the services of a forensic
anthropologist and the analysis
may require several more days.
Its a very lengthy, scientific
process.”
Creeson said members of the
well-known Kerr County family
allegedly drove up and down
Interstate 10 and picked up
hitchhikers, “offering them a
hot meal or something to get
them in their pickup.”
He said the victims were
forced to dig ditches, cut fire
wood and made to live in an old
barn with a dirt floor and dirty
mattresses.
“If they tried to leave they
would be chained up at night
time,” he said. “It was hard to
run. I think there were some
held at gunpoint. Some of them
said they had cattle prods used
on them.”
Discover better music through chemistry
The search warrant w|
sued after a worker escap
ranch March 28 ami call
thorities in Lampasas.
Leona Ellebracht, 81, m
of the elder Ellebracht,
the charges.
“It’s a he from top 10
tom,” said Ellebracht, when
a store at Mountain Home.'
(son) always wanted 101
good deed. Those people^
happy out there. They i
given money and food,
a good meal like meat, 1
bread and milk. They
same things my kids ate.”
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — A chemist says
he has rediscovered a long-for
gotten chemical treatment to
make a common fiddle sound
like a Stradivarius, although a
group of music critics say only
time will tell.
A St. Louis string quartet per
formed Sunday with its own in
struments, then played those of
Joseph Nagyvary, a chemist at
Texas A&M University. Nagy
vary claims to have reproduced
the wood treatments of Antonio
Stradivari and other great violin
makers.
The American Chemical So
ciety, which is meeting this week
in St. Louis, arranged the infor
mal contest.
“I noticed a more uniform
blend, a more characteristic
blend,” said Kent Perry, a pro
fessor of violin at Southern Illi
nois University at Edwardsville
and one of four judges for the
event.
“I can only give praise to
their overall quality,” added Da
vid M. young, owner of a Stra
divari violin and a chemical en
gineering consultant.
Fewer than 500 of Stradiva
ri’s 1,500 instruments survive.
Stradivari lived from about
1644 to 1737 in Cremona, Italy,
where he developed a style for
the violin that set the standard.
Craftsmen long have tried to
copy his techniques.
Nagyvary, 49, is a native of
Hungary who began playing
the violin as a child and fled his
homeland when the 1956 rebel
lion was crushed by Soviet
troops. He came to the United
States in 1964.
He said Stradivari’s “secret”
was in the use of wood-preser
vation methods common to his
era that were abandoned by
woodworkers later in the 18th
century. He said the old
method opens up wood cells, af
fecting the instruments’ vibra
tions in ways that newer preser
vation methods do not.
“Preservation techniques
have improved, but acoustics
suffered,” he said.
Nagyvary said he was
claiming to make instrument
good as Stradivari, if onlvi
cause violins improve witha
But he said bis methodw®
perior to other contempoi
techniques, and said hisiraf
ments are concert-worthy
mediately.
he
“No one ever would su!
instruments that are
weeks old for a concert,as
are,” he said.
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Former First Lady
are good for the
says wildf lowers
economy, soul
United Press International
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. —
Lady Bird Johnson told garden
ing enthusiasts Monday the na
tion’s wildllowers can provide
an economic boost to the coun
try and “feed the soul.”
The former first lady and
longtime conservationist ad
dressed the 38th annual Wil
liamsburg Carden Symposium
and talked about her work at
the National Wildflower Re
search Center in Austin.
Mrs. Johnson opened the
center 15 months ago on her
70th birhday. At the time, she
said she decided to “throw my
hat over the windmill” and do
nate land and money to fund
her dream. Actress Helen
Hayes co-chairs the center with
Mrs. Johnson.
So far, Mrs. Johsnon has in
vested more than $125,000 of
her own money and built a labo
ratory where scientists hope to
find ways to propagate some of
the nation’s 25,000 species of
wild flowers.
Mrs. Johnson talked of her
girlhood in Texas, when she
said “my favorite pastime was to
walk through the woods ” and
view the changing panorama of
wild flowers and grasses.
“I have a love affair with na
ture that I have never ceased to
savor,” she said.
She said wild flowers are a
“free gift of joy” and “can feed
the soul.”
Although she admits it is eas
ier to convince citizens of the
aesthetic value of wildllowers,
she said the Texas Highway De
partment has also reaped eco
nomic benefits by preserving
the plantings.
She said the highway depart
ment mowed right-of-ways four
times a year at a cost of about
$32 million dollars. But now of
ficials are experimenting with a
modified mowing operation to
allow wildllowers to bloom and
then go to seed.
The mulch from those plant
ings is then transferred to other
areas for seeding.
“We can plan to keep some of
this bounty in public places,”
she said. “We need the gallant
per sistance of these paltils,’
Although Texas is a pioi
in wildflower research, she
other slates such as Georj
Oklahoma and New Mfl
have expressed interest
highway program.
Her daughter, Virginiai
lady Lynda Robb, said ihe'
ginia Highway Departmeni!
also had discussed the #1
lower project with her mol
and research center officials
Mrs. Johnson express
hope that this year’s bnf
Texas winter, followed h
drought, would not endaii!
the center’s first experimetf
crop.
“My heart lies in those27
plots,” Mrs. Johnson said.
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Missing girl found unharmed
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DALLAS — A 5-year-old girl
reported missing from a family
outing at the city zoo was dis
covered unharmed at a babysit
ter’s home Monday and police
charged the child’s father with
making a false report, officials
said.
Delfino Guiterres was held at
the city jail Monday and the
child, Reyna Guiterres, was re
united with her mother.
Guiterres told authorities
Reyna was last seen at a balloon
stand at the Dallas Zoo at about
4 p.m. Sunday, but during a lie
detector test Monday, he broke
down and told officials he knew
where the child was, police*
“We treated it as a bonaf (
legitimate criminal case fw
hours,” said police spokesc
Ed Spencer.
“She was found at about!
p.m. Monday at a babysitter
turned out to be familydisf 1
over custody,” Spencer said
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