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Driver of hijacked bus
utilizes common sense
Elderly woman
convicted on
assault charge
Associated Press
DALLAS — Jurors convicted a
65-year-old woman of aggravated
assault Monday for shooting a high
school student after what she de
scribed as years of abuse she suf
fered from pupils at his school.
Stein, who acted as her own de
fense attorney during the trial, could
be sentenced up to 10 years in
prison. t
The July 24 shooting occurred
outside Highland Park High School,
across the street from her house,
when Ward Huey III left after tak
ing a summer school Spanish test.
Huey, 18, testified the woman
shot him after he cursed her for tell
ing him he should be arrested for
noisily spinning his car’s wheels as he
left his parking space on two occa
sions during the day.
Stein testified the school’s stiv
dents have taunted her for years,
and that she only meant to shoot out
the tires of Huey’s car.
When she took the stand in her
defense, she referred to students as
“little degenerates,” “sadists” and
“little communists.”
She was cited for contempt of
court when she called Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Jim Nelson “stupid"
and “you simple-minded thing."
Moye asked the jury to leave the
room before announcing the con
tempt ruling.
Associated Press
DALLAS — A security guard
who was disarmed and forced to
drive a hijacked Greyhound bus
more than 50 miles says he consid
ered escape but decided it would
be too risky on the busy highway.
Mark Showers, 30, of Irving,
said the only things he could think
of doing, such as swerving sharply,
might have caused him to lose con
trol of the bus and endanger other
motorists.
“A lot of things went through
my mind; however, common sense
prevailed,” he said.
Showers, a security guard at the
Greyhound bus terminal in down
town Dallas, was abducted at gun-
loint shortly after 7 p.m. Satuiday
iy an armed man who said he
wanted to go to Oklahoma City.
After an 80-minute chase in
volving a Dallas police helicopter
and more than aO officers from
five departments, the abductor
surrendered just before the empty
bus reached a roadblock near V al
ley View in Cooke County.
Joe Louis Ozuna, 30. of Dallas,
was being held on $100,000 bond
in Lew Sterrett Justice Center on a
charge of aggravated robbery.
Investigators Monday still had
not determined a motive for the
hijacking.
“A perfect description would be
Dr. JeLyll and Mr. Hyde,” Showers
said of his abductor. “Part of the
time he was a perfect passenger
and the rest of the time he was vei
ling and screaming at me . .. The
last part of the trip all he would say
to me was ‘Keep driving; dont
stop.’ ’’
As they neared the roadblock,
the man handed Showers both
guns — his own and one bed
taken from Showers — and waited
silently on a bus seat for police,
Showers said.
“A great load had come off my
shoulders," the security guard
said.
TDC chair: Prison rodeo will continue
‘‘Td like to see us look not whether to keep the rodeo,
but how to structure it, keep costs down and whether
we need outside help. ”
— Texas Board of Corrections Chairman Alfred
Hughes
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE — Texas prison
officials said Monday the state
prison rodeo last month made about
a $100,000 profit, and the chairman
of the prison board predicted the
54-year-old tradition would con
tinue for at least another year.
“I’d like to see us look not whether
to keep the rodeo, but how to struc
ture it, keep costs down and whether
we need outside help,” Texas Board
of Corrections Chairman Alfred
Hughes said.
Commissioner James Parsons sug
gested, and the board agreed, to set
up a committee to look at the rodeo
and report the findings to the full
board in January.
Hughes said the board “will vote
to keep the rodeo” when the matter
comes up the first of the year.
The rodeo, held on the four Sun
days of October, was given a man
date this year to show a profit or face
extinction.
“The bottom line is that we had a
$100,000 profit, which may change
by plus or minus 10 percent,” James
Lynaugh, deputy director for fi
nance, told the board at its meeting
Monday.
Lynaugh said exact figures should
be available after the state auditor’s
office reviews the rodeo finances
and takes into account new practices
which make the rodeo comply with
the fiscal year instead of the cal
endar year.
Lynaugh, after receiving compli
ments from board members, attrib
uted the rodeo’s success last month
to “a whole lot of luck.”
Meanwhile, he said prison offi
cials have asked four firms to pro
vide estimates on what it would cost
to repair the rodeo arena adjacent to
the Walls Unit in Huntsville. An
other firm is being asked to estimate
the cost of installing aluminum
bleachers capable of handling
30,()()() spectators.
Hughes said any study of the ro
deo’s future also should consider
how much time the rodeo takes from
normal duties of prison officials and
staff.
Some thought also should lie
given to the possibility of moving the
rodeo away from the Walls Unit lie-
cause the prison “desperately needs
recreation land” there, Hughes said.
In other matters, the board ap
proved several construction projects,
including a new $60 million, 2,250-
inmate prison at Coffield and an
$11.7 million expenditure for ex
pansion of the system’s Diagnostic
Center in Huntsville.
Coffield was selected as site for
the new unit earlier this year. The
new prison will be paid for with
money from the sale of department
land.
Mexican border midwives exist in shadows
EDI FOR'S NOTE — Hundreds
of mid wives, “patterns, ” exist in u
sort of shadow world along the Mex
ican border, following codes and
customs of their own. Officials esti
mate that about hall of their patients
are Mexican women from south of
the border. That's because a babv
born in the United States is automat
ically a U.S. citizen.
Associated Press
BROWNSVILLE — A month
ago, Mrs. Irma Ramirez walked
heavily up a dirt path to a small
house typical of many in this border
town. Sne had come to give birth to a
child, her ninth, and was well on the
way.
The woman who greeted her,
Mrs. Eufemia Lopez, was likewise no
stranger to childbirth.
Outside the one-story, clapboard
Lopez house, scrawny chickens
pecked at tufts of thin grass beneath
a sign that said: “Se Atienen Partos.”
In the local idiom: “birthing done
here.” Lopez is a “partera,” a mid
wife.
She is one of the more experi
enced in the American towns along
the Rio Grande. She calculates she
has assisted at more than 2,000
births — about 150 a year for 14
years. Her fee, $200, is about aver-
age.
Midwives flourish along the bor
der for a variety of reasons, mostly
to do with poverty, but also with pol
itics, for a simple reason.
Immigration, generally illegal, is
at a historic high along this very po
rous, 1,950-mile border. Congress is
trying yet again — for the fourth
time in four years — to write a law to
control it. Authentic L.S. citizenship
has never been more prized.
Well, a baby born in America is
automatically a U.S. citizen. So if a
Mexican mother times it right, she
can give that precious gift to her off
spring with no more trouble than a
brief trip across a bridge. Records
are unreliable, but the best estimate
in this one Texas county, across the
river from Matamoros, Mexico, is
that up to half the midwife deliveries
are to Mexican nationals.
Ramirez’s nationality was not re
corded. Tragically, it doesn’t matter.
Ramirez died giving birth to her
ninth child. So did the child, a boy.
“How many babies are buried in
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backyard graves we have no way of
knowing,” said Antonio Zavaleta.
“I do know,” he added, “that His-
panics have the highest birthrate in
the nation and the lower Rio Grande
valley has the highest birthrate
among Hispanics. The problem of
untrained, unregulated midwives is
going to get worse unless something
is done.”
Zavaleta is a 38-year-old professor
at Texas Southmost College in
Brownsville. He is also the chairman
of the city’s Lay Midwife Advisory
Board, which he started eight years
ago as a way of getting something
done.
“Until then,” he said, “nobody
gave midwifery a second look. It was
just sort of accepted, the way things
were.”
Zavaleta grew up in Brownsville.
But he had been away from home,
away from the border and its cus
toms, for 10 years. He returned not
only with a doctorate in anthropol
ogy (his specialty: folk medicine) but
also a fresh look at old ways.
He persuaded the city commission
to enact an ordinance requiring lay
midwives, parteras, to complete a
course of training and to pass a test
to get a license. It also sets out proce
dures. One is to require the expec
tant mother to he first examined oy a
doctor.
These requirements, however,
end at the city limits of Brownsville.
Lopez, after a hearing, lost her li
cense — not necessarily because of
the deaths but for failing to follow
prescribed procedure. This, how
ever, will be nothing more than an
inconvenience.
“I will move outside the city to the
county,” she said. “I don’t want to do
that, but I will have to.”
When she does, it will leave only
seven licensed lay midwives in the
city compared with about 40 in the
county — and hundreds more all
along the border where require
ments for a license are no more than
filling out an application and paying
a fee.
To prove the point, Zavaleta
dropped by the courthouse one af
ternoon and picked up one himself.
“Cost me live bucks,” he said. “All
I need to do now is rent a house tra
iler, park it outside the city limits
and hang up a sign. I could make a
lot more money man by teaching in
a junior college.
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