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By Jim Earle
"He's made a major break through — he knows how to pick up TV on
his computer monitor"
Court OKs placement
of anti-abortion ads
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme
Court on Wednesday let stand a de
cision allowing a Fort Worth anti
abortion agency to be listed in the
Yellow Pages under “Abortion In
formation and Services.”
A lawsuit was instigated by three
unmarried, pregnant women who,
after seeing a Yellow Pages listing,
went to Mother and Unborn Baby
Care of North Texas in Fort Worth.
The women said they thought
they were going to an abortion clinic.
Instead, they were given tests, asked
personal questions, lectured about
the “dangers and evils” of abortion
and shown an anti-abortion film,
court records say.
Among their allegations, the
women said they were misled be
cause the agency’s ad appeared in
Yellow Pages listings that indicated it
was an abortion clinic or referral
agency.
Earlier this year, State District
Judge George Crowley of Fort
Worth issued a temporary injunc
tion barring the agency from being
listed in the Yellow Pages under
“Abortion Information and Serv
ices” or “Clinics-Medical.”
But the Fort Worth Court of Ap
peals in May overruled Crowley.
The Fort Worth appeals court ex
pressed sympathy for the women’s
plight ancl criticized the agency’s list
ing, but said the injunction was im
proper.
“this opinion is not to be con
strued or considered in any manner
as approval or sanction of (the agen
cy’s) camouflage tactics evidenced by
tne record in tnis case,” Justice Wal
ter Jordan said.
Popular Dallas
DJ to commute
to Chicago job
Associated Press
DALLAS — Disc jockey Tom
Joyner, a popular fixture in morn
ing drive-time in Dallas-Fort Worth
for the past two years, has decided
that he’ll return to the air in Chi
cago. ...
That doesn’t mean he’s giving up
his highly rated program in Texas.
He’s signed contracts that will
keep him on the air in the morning
at KKDA-FM and have him hosting
an afternoon drive-time program at
WCCI-FM in Chicago.
In between, he says, he’ll be
spending a lot of time in the air.
Joyner confirmed this week that
he has signed multi-year contracts
with both stations.
“We’ve been negotiating these
contracts a long time and we would
not have entered into them without
a lot of research, thought and the
certainty that what we’re doing is not
only possible but will work out for
everyone’s benefit,” Joyner said.
Joyner will remain on the air daily
at KKDA-FM, where he has worked
for the past two years, from 5:30 a.m
to 9 a.m. Beginning Oct. 15, he also
will handle the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. show
Monday through Friday at WCCI-
FM.
Both stations air urban contempo
rary formats focusing primarily on
black rock artists. According to Arbi-
tron ratings surveys, Joyner’s show is
among the top morning programs in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
He worked at WVON, WBMX-
F’M and WJPC in Chicago before re
turning to KKDA-FM two years ago.
He initially went to Chicago from
Dallas-Fort Worth.
Joyner said he has been working
on tne logistics of commuting be
tween Dallas and Chicago daily for
the last month with area travel
agents.
According to his game plan,
Joyner will head to the airport when
he gets off KKDA-FM at 9 a.m. and
catch one of several commercial
flights that will get him into down
town Chicago by noon.
Joyner said he’ll have time for
lunch and a possible health dub
workout before going on the air at
WCCI-FM.
“We researched weather condi
tions and we found that had I been
doing this last year, there would
have been only three days all winter
where we might have run into some
weather-related problems,” he said.
“And two of those days were on this
end, when we had ice storms.”
Joyner said he and his family will
continue to live in the Dallas area.
Inmates: prisoner’s death
was his ‘ticket to freedom’
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE — Charles Rum-
baugh, who spent a decade on death
row for killing a jewelry store owner
when he was 17, was executed early
Wednesday after saying he was “re
ady to begin my journey.”
“About all I can say is goodbye,”
Rumbaugh, 28, said as he lay
strapped to a gurney with needles
inserted into his arms. “For the rest
of you, even though you don’t for
give me for my trangressions, I for
give you for yours against me.
“That's all I wish to say. I’m ready
to begin my journey.”
Rumbaugh’s friends on death row
said Wednesday they were saddened
by his death, but believed he now
would be happy.
“I got the impression this was his
ticket to freedom,” said Jim Vander
bilt, who was arrested on a murder
charge in Amarillo within a week of
Rumbaugh’s arrest there. “Charlie’s
punishment is over. He’s free now.”
But the next man facing execu
tion,John Michael Lamb, was critical
of other death row inmates who
voted to leave televisions on and con
tinue about their routine.
“It was like everybody didn’t
care,” said Lamb, who has an Oct. 7
execution date. “Most are more in
terested in TV now. It bothers me.”
Rumbaugh became the first per
son in more than two decades to be
put to death for a crime committed
while under the age of 18.
Texas Attorney General Jim Mat
tox, asked whether such crimes by
“More people are con
cerned aboul Pete Rose . .
. than with this man's
death here. ”
— Death penalty oppo
nent the Rev. Thomas
Sheehy
juveniles should merit the death
penalty, noted that Rumbaugh’s case
went before two juries.
“Each determined he should be
punished by death,” Mattox said.
A group opposed to executions,
Amnesty International, contended
Rumbaugh’s death would violate in
ternational agreements — never
confirmed by the Senate — which
bar execution of people convicted of
crimes committed when they were
under 18.
About a dozen death penalty op
ponents carried candles outside the
prison during Rumbaugh’s execu
tion.
“More people are concerned
about Pete Rose breaking a baseball
record than about this man’s execu
tion here,” said the Rev. Thomas
Sheehy, a Roman Catholic priest
from Houston.
Rumbaugh spent his last day visit
ing with friends and relatives but re
jected any lavish final meal, choosing
instead a flour tortilla and glass of
water.
Five youths charged with death of laborer
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Five teen-agers
lured a 19-year-old laborer to a field
behind a cemetery where they tor
tured and killed him because “they
wanted to watch someone die,” in
vestigators said.
Charged Tuesday with the mur
der in the death of Dennis Keith
Medler were John-Michael Trim
mer, 17; Michael Gene Cravey, 19;
and Harold Glenn Smith, 17, all of
Houston.
A 16-year-old boy also has been
arrested in the case, but because he
is a juvenile, he must be certified as
an adult before he can be charged.
He is being held in the Harris
County Juvenile Detention Center.
Investigators also are searching
for a 16-year-old girl who reportedly
was presenf when Medler was killed.
Medler’s decomposed body was
found Aug. 14 in a field behind the
Resthaven Memorial Gardens ceme
tery in Houston.
“They just walked out there and
killed him for no other purpose than
they didn’t like him and wanted to
watch someone die,” sheriffs detec
tive Mike Parinello said.
Investigators said each suspect
took turns slashing Medler’s throat.
Medlar also had been choked with a
scarf, stabbed with a pipe and knife,
and beaten, authorities said.
Detective Max Cox said Trimmer
had turned to the slain man and
said, ‘“It’s nothing personal, we just
wanted to see somebody die.”’
Parinello said the youths were all
friends who “don’t work or go to
school or anything.”
Cravey, who was arrested Tues
day near New Orleans, also is
charged with murder in the death of
Ronald Monahan, 25, who was
found stabbed to death Saturday in
his north Houston apartment.
trimmer was arrested and
charged Sunday with attempted
murder after he allegedly tried to.
rob an acquaintance. He is being
held in the Harris County Jail in lieu
of $1 million bond.
Rumbaugh left instructions that
his body be cremated and the re
mains be placed in a tiny coffin he
constructed himself of matchsticks
lined with velvet and a red bandana.
“He was destined to end up where
he is tonight,” said DJ. Stubben,
who wrote a book about Rumbaugh
and visited with him Tuesday. “If he
hadn’t killed Mr. Fiorillo, he would
have ended up killing someone
else.”
Michael Fiorillo, 58, was slain by
Rumbaugh during the 1975 holdup
at his Amarillo store.
Besides Stubben, three sisters and
a brother-in-law visited him. Rum
baugh’s mother, Rebecca, came to
the prison but decided to not see her
son. The family members declined
to talk to reporters.
Rumbaugh’s troubles with the law
started at age 6 with a break-in. He
committed his first armed robbery at
12. He spent most of his life in re
form schools, mental institutions
and jails.
While awaiting trial, Rumbaugh
attempted to take his life by slashing
his wrist with a razor blade and later
by taking an overdose of drugs.
He also tried to hasten his own ex
ecution during a February 1983
competency hearing by pulling a
makeshift knife and attacking a U.S.
marshal, who shot and wounded
him.
He became the 10th prisoner to
be put to death since the state re
sumed executions in December
1982.
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