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Authorities study
possible bribery
for prison escape
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE — Texas Rangers
are investigating reports that two
guards took a payoff to assist a
fison inmate to escape from the
offield Unit of the Texas Depart
ment of Corrections.
■ TDC spokesman Charles Brown
, confirmed Monday that Texas
■angers are assisting in an internal
investigation at the Coffield Unit of
the escape last Tuesday of Roy
Wayne Bevan.
Bevan, 28, serving a 50-year sen-
:nce for aggravated rape and two
icapes in Cooke County, was a
justy at the Cof field Unit, said
Brown. The inmate slipped r.way last
Tuesday from the prison unit near
ennessee Colony and authorities
do not know how he escaped.
I “We still don’t know how he got
it,” said Brown. He said this is one
lason the Texas Rangers, a TDC
investigation team and the Ander-
Ton County Sheriff's Department
are investigating the possibility of
bribery.
The Palestine Herald-Press
quoted a source in the Anderson
County Sheriffs Department as say
ing there was a possibility that two
guards “cut a deal" with Bevan to
“let him out the back gate for a sum
of $30,000.”
Brown said he could not confirm
a specific sum in any bribery, nor, he
said, were there specific guards un
der investigation.
Authorities quoted in the Houston
Post said the residences of two
guards were searched following the
search, but there was no report on
what, if anything, was found.
Coffield warden Jack Garner said
investigators are checking out infor
mation, mostly coming from other
inmates, about Sevan’s escape.
“We’ve heard everything from he
walked out the front gate, to he was
let out the back gate to he climbed
over a fence,” said Garner. “Any
thing is possible.”
State judge criticized
for restraining press
Membership in Aggie Scouts dropping
By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Staff Writer
For 75 years, the Boy Scouts of
America have been helping little
old ladies cross the street. But,
while enrollment in the Boy Scout
program is increasing nationally,
membership in Aggies for Scout
ing has dropped.
Now there are only 10 mem
bers in the seven-year-old pro
gram, says Aggies for Scouting
President Ross Mattern. The or
ganization is based on scouting
ideals, Mattern says, and com
bines both service and social func
tions for its members.
“The social part of it just allows
people that have Scouting ideals
to get together on a large campus
like A&M,” Mattern says, “and
participate in get-togethers, bar
becues and pizza parties. The
service part is when we go into
the community and help local
troops, whether it be Boy Scouts
or Girl Scouts, in things such as
merit badge workshops.”
Part ot that service involves as
sisting local Scout leaders plan
and carry out Scouting programs
such as camp-outs.
Scout, Mark Brown, a senior history
major, leads the scouts of Troop 802
Photo by FRANK IR WIN
through the closing ceremonies of a meeting
Monday night.
participate
uld as an at
te as
any other adult would as an adult
Scouter,” Mattern says. “You
might be on the troop committee
or you might be an assistant Scout
master, like I am, or just partici
pate in other capacities that help
the troops.”
Yet, Mattern is not sure how
much longer the Aggies for
Scouting program will survive.
Work and school responsibilities
prevent many people from join
ing, he says.
“The problem we have is that
quite a few people are interested,”
Mattern says, “but it’s so low on
their priority lists that we’re find
ing it hard to justify the organiza
tion at all l ight now.”
Regardless of whether Aggies
for Scouting survives, Mattern
says, the national Scouting orga
nization will grow. He believes
the Boy Scouts of America pro
vides an education that cannot be
received in the classroom.
“It teaches some of the moral
ideas that aren’t taught anywhere
else,” Mattern says.
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Associated Press
I DALLAS — The board of direc-
, . Jjirs of the Freedom of Information
his page!-bp oun{ j at j on (> f T exas Monday crit
ic his craiiBtj/ed State District Judge Olen Un-
ous diaryJMerwood of Conroe for what it
ed that sucj termed “gross ignorance” of First
m, nil | p- Amendment prohibitions of prior
eerfullv S straint on the P re , ss -
.. . i Earlier this month, Underwood is-
' |NI 1' sued a temporary restraining order
Oi ks withliiB)n n ing a 3-year-old weekly newspa-
inspiratior per, the Potpourri News, from pub-
ist as absuripishing any material embarrassing to
ntld waitftn Montgomery County Commissioner
I l u, Weldon Locke.
’ . J Locke Filed a libel suit against the
th°ugi'l“* ews pap er f or publishing a letter to
mill they"ii editor concerning him.
iths. ! Bronson Havard, president of the
he is anWOI Foundation, said Underwood’s
32 years fll’estraining order was shortlived he
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cause he failed to take further judi
cial action to make it permanent.
But the temporary action, he said,
“underscores Judge Underwood’s
lack of understanding of the First
Amendment of the U.S. Constitu
tion.”
“No judge in the country can con
stitutionally prohibit a newspaper
from publishing,” Harvard said. “It
is a basic freedom of America.”
Havard said the foundation’s ac
tion did not constitute any comment
on the merits of the libel suit.
The FOI Foundation is a non
profit organization that focuses on
issues involving the First Amend
ment, Texas Open Meetings and
Open Records statutes, and related
media matters.
Child care workers may face record checks
Associated Press
AUSTIN (AP) — A Senate com
mittee Monday approved three bills
allowing the Texas Department of
Human Resources to obtain criminal
history records of people seeking
employment in child care facilities
ana state schools.
The bill allowing the department
to check prospective child care fa
cility employees possible criminal
convictions was sponsored by Sen.
Ted Lyon, D-Mesquite. The current
law gives the department the right to
check the history of child care li
censee only.
Federal funds provide $800,000
for this type of research, the bill says.
Brenda Whiteaker of Austin told
the Senate Health and Human Re
sources Committee her two sons,
ages five and nine, were molested by
a day care facility employee who had
a criminal conviction.
The employee, who was convicted
and sentenced to serve 10 years in a
state peniteniary for abusing her
children, had previously performed
sex acts in public, Ms. Whiteaker
said.
“Had his criminal record been
checked and this law passed four or
even two years ago, this would have
never happened to my sons,” Ms.
Whiteaker said.
She said her nine-year-old son has
become very withdrawn and is re
quiring psychiatric treatment be
cause of the molestation incident.
Carlos Colburn, however, says the
new regulations would be costly and
have a time factor burden.
Colburn, director and owner of
Joyland Child Care in Amarillo, said
the cost of having the criminal re
cord checks qould cost $100 to $150
per prospective employee.
“I have a private day care center.
I’m not funded,” Colburn testified.
He said he is already having to con
tent with $4,000 of liability insur
ance.
Sen. Hugh Parmer, D-Fort
Worth, told Colburn, “I don't think
you should be in the business unless
you spend some money.”
Colburn said the time factor in
getting clearance from the depart
ment would be a burden because of
the high turnover rate. But Parmer
said nothing in the bill would delay
hiring.
Colburn also said less than one-
tenth of 1 percent of child abuse oc
curs in day care facilities, most abuse
occurs in the home, he said^
The new regulation doesn’t re
quire perspective employees from
listing three references, a require
ment Colburn says is most effective
in hiring.
Jan Crouch with the Texas Coun
cil of Child Care Board said the bill
“won’t solve all the problems but at
least it’ll help a little.”
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