age 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 24,1984 Man charged with not returning library books R. by Paul Dirmd tiELlO. HELLD. IS THIS THEMJn?. MEAN DO yOU... UH... YoO mttT TO TALK TD 6— A district attor- icy’s spokesman said charges A^ere being prepared Monday tgainst a businessman sus pected of keeping a total of 844 xxiks checked out of the El Paso Public Library over the aast five years. Police said they found 842 overdue books at the man’s nonie and two more at his of fice. “Those are the ones we in ventoried,” said Detective Car os Gonzalez. “I suppose there :ould be more we don’t know tbout.” Gonzalez said the man will be charged with theft over $750, a third degree felony. Assistant District Attorney Richard Jewkes said the man’s identity has not yet been re vealed since charges have not yet been filed. Jewkes said he will probably receive the case from police on Wednesday. “The man told us he’s an avid reader and he just kept the books,” Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said the 844 books included fiction, sports, techni cal “do-it-yourself,” biography, history and other topics. All had <***************************£ \<^/fcjCjL£.Ccincl L Bofe ssioria QecretarieQ April 24—30 Show Your Secretary She’s Appreciated! Call and let us create some thing special! £ 846-5825 * 846-8169 -************#’Me************** 209 W. Univ. Next to Deluxe * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * been checked out of the main El Paso Library from 1979 until police first contacted the sus pect a week ago. Chief Librarian Nathan A. Josel said the books had an av erage value of $23 each and the total “could be worth more than $19,412.” Gonzalez said the collection of library books was discovered by authorities after a visitor in the suspect’s house mentioned the books to someone else, who alerted library officials, who asked police to investigate. Josel said the library keeps a record of unreturned books. City Council drastically cut the library’s operating budget in 1980, Josel said, and librarians discovered it was costing $56,000 annually to mail over due notices. “We were only collecting $20,000 a year in fines,” he said. “The fine rate has gone up since then, but so has the cost of mailing notices.” Pointing out that 844 books kept by a single borrower “is a rarity,” Josel said librarians got lax about keeping up with over due books, since notices were not being mailed out. He said the El Paso library loses an average of 1,500 books a year checked out and not re turned, about 5 percent of its inventory. He said the El Paso figure is half the national .li brary loss average. THIS IS EU1D0. tvMATSC&tt DtDW HMEIAJ MIND? POC/SCi 207. ^ f Homr> or Re&olM? PEoaJR- m)M0CHfORA 8?. r WfMuYmM /nwMooKm mM'CLV&rm MnA\£im, Prison manager shot in face Inmate witnesses murder United Press International Gonzalez said the books have been returned to the library, ex cept for $750 worth to be used as court evidence and returned after the suspect’s trial. EDINBURG — A state prison inmate testified Monday he watched former convict Eroy Brown fire three shots at point- blank range into the face of prison farm manager Billy Max Moore. James Edward Solomon, 50, a Shelby County native who has spent 18 years in prison on six felony convictions, demon strated in Brown’s murder trial how the defendant allegedly held Moore’s collar with his left hand and fired a snub-nosed .38-caliber pistol into Moore’s head as the pair grappled be hind a car. Walker County District At torney Frank Blazek called the eyewitness to the stand after distributing to the jury dozens of pictures of the site of the kill ing near Turkey Creek Bridge, and of Moore’s corpse lying in pool of blood. Over continuous objections by defense attorney and Sen. Craig Washington, D-Houston, Blazek also showed the all-His- panic jury photographs of the body of Texas Department of Corrections Warden Wallace Pack, who was shot in the arm and drowned in the same April 4, 1981, incident at the Ellis Prison Farm near Huntsville. A Galveston jury in 1982 ac quitted Brown, 32, a Waco na tive, of a capital murder charge in the Pack slaying after Brown testified he acted in self-de fense. His first trial in Pack’s death ended in a hung jury. Brown’s lawyers Monday be gan developing the same de fense in Moore’s slaying by elic iting on cross-examination from James A. Williamson, the first prison official on the scene after the killings, that neither Pack nor Moore was on duty when they were killed. Williamson added that prison guards were forbidden to bring weapons inside the prison com pound. The two prison employees were killed just outside the com pound, near a garden shop where Solomon was working. The shop was located on a road that leads to an area known as “The Bottoms.” Brown, who was serving a 12- t 'ear armed robbery sentence he las since completed, testified in the Pack case that he feared the two men were taking him to The Bottoms to torture him. Under defense questioning, Williamson said Brown was not wearing shoes and had been shot in the fool when William son subdued and handcuffed him after the killings. Solomon testified that Moore’s pickup truck, con taining Moore and Brown, drove up near the bridge and was joined by an automobile driven by Pack. “Mr. Moore left the pickup and went back to meet Pad his car. Eroy got out of pickup and started runnng to them. One of the show •Stop. Get back in that trad,' the inmate testified. "He (Brown) kept com and there was a scufflebetw Eroy and Mr. Moore.” Solomon said Moore a Brown then got in the bad* of the car and he heard ash and saw Pack fall. Then Moore and Browns out of (lie car on oppsitestt and met behind the veto where three more shots >c til ed, he said. | Fre dec fro g the shoulder and shot. Wt Eroy shot, Mr. Moore fell mi knees. He pulled him fora and said, ‘I’m tired of vours- I he only thing I could seer nan s l a i fire jumping from the pis m u l tra mon said I heard three shots,”SI Monday (Moving Yourself? Before you decide to move yourself, check out North American Van Lines' \X/E-DRIVE program. The concept is simple: you pack, you load, and a professional North American Van Lines' driver moves your belongings to your new home in a custom-designed "air ride" van. 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It looks like a circus.” These incidents have been reported in the area: — A prostitute reached through a car window and grabbed the pants of a pastor as he pulled his car into the church parking lot after mid night. — Prostitutes have ap proached women customers of a car dealership in front of the showroom and told the custom ers to move on because that was their territory. — A prostitute distracted motorists by pulling her pants down during rush-hour traffic. Freudenberg said most of the prostitutes along South Con gress tell police they are from Dallas, California, Nevada or New York. “They think Austin is just wide open because there are low fines, and they are not hassled too much,” he said. “Until the penalties are raised to the point where it’s not prof itable to them, they’ll continue to do it.” Associate Municipal Judge Harriet Murphy said the aver age fine imposed for an offense called loitering in a roadway is $112 to $124. Suspected prosti tutes are often arrested for loi tering in a roadway because there is no need to verify that an offer of sex for money was made. The fine for the same\i lion in Dallas is $200. “If we stay steady on (arrests) for a couple of nijli then the problem said Freudenberg minute you let uponthemif slide right back in.” Wi tei Unite SHER vhen he ind dro Texas ra >ody anc Bobbii The Rev. Jim Colley,pi } , 2< i v:,*,,.Leu* rimnr- ;r uuu ’ ^ Christ, says a woman him as he pulled into his cli« parking lot. And he said he observeda other woman pull down '/ pants during rush hour. Pearce Johnson, theownff ltK i was irst day oy Bow ho is cf jpf capita The v 22-calib ng coni vho owi: Co lc | e f man elt-emp erry Me Tate [one to nan to vere bu COCKOAlt- 4o(JR em- IAH. FRIPAY, APRIL 5-30 PH AAP-IRPAY, APPIL 2& We Buy Used Books Everyday! 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