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Mattox replied that “since the board has chosen not to carry out its responsibilities” the attorney gener al’s office “will use every power within our authority to do this job.” Olson told Mattox earlier in the day that the board has no immediate plans of calling a special public hear ing on the liability insurance crisis, as Mattox requested. “The State Board of Insurance is proceeding in accord with our best judgment and within the constraints of our authority to seek solutions to today’s liability insurance problems and to assist Texas consumers in finding coverage,” Olson said in a letter to Mattox. “We believe that we are moving properly and success fully.” Mattox asked the board March 7 and again March 19 whether it was going to call a special public hearing to investigate why many small busi nesses and local governments are be ing red-lined out of liability insur ance coverage. Mattox said in a news release that many small businesses, such as day care centers and nursing homes, and professions, including ministers of the gospel, are being denied cover age despite the fact that no claims have ever been filed against them. Olson said in his letter that the board has received no specific facts about any Texas insurance compa nies violating state laws regarding unfair competition and unfair prac tices. "Your letter mentionsfaiiil have come to your knonli juld you forward none,” Olsonlt you have specific infomyi |/~'j your possession which board action, please fonrM information immediately gy Jean Olson also said it washAy standing that the attornr >e not onl bad authority to prosecuti ielding k I .m t rade practices. ftnd in fat "I believe that theauornt trated by al’s of fice has f ull potversi a Texas anti-trust statutes and othi psycholoj bring c lun ges where theeiKimorial Si indu.mtl. ()l\<>n uml. 1 jCharlene stand that you have authoi eldiscussi 11.He (.III I unlink visits m cj panel in that authority. i, a date Olson said no special heari Hope, ti planned on liability insurar fM Stude formation could be submi nd Lt. Be upcoming hearing on the ®Station made" policy in contmerci ehlenhan insurance. :e ni of dal ' have s Court orders company to rehire farm worker AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Su preme Court ruled Wednesday that a Hidalgo County company must re hire a union farmworker who was fired after her complaints about san itation facilities brought county health officials to the fields. The United Farm Workers called the decision a significant victory. “It provides the workers with a strong moral backing for their ef forts to bring about humane work ing conditions in the fields,” said James Harrington of Austin, who represented Maria Guadulupe Vas- quez in the lawsuit. Vasquez was fired by La Joya- based Bannworths Inc. on Nov. 5, 1982, after two Hidalgo County Health Department officials came to check on her complaints. She had become an organizer for the UFW earlier that year. In her complaint, she said all Ban nworths workers were required to share a single drinking cup and that the portable toilets in the fields were filthy. Vasquez had worked for Ban nworths periodically since 1973, usually laboring in the fields for 10 hours a day and always at minimum wage, according to court records. She won the lawsuit, but appealed when Hidalgo County Court-at-Law Judge Richard Garcia refused to or der Bannworths to rehire Vasquez. She was awarded $3,000 to cover wages lost in the period from when she was fired until she filed the law suit. The trial court also barred Ban nworths from discriminating against Vasquez if she was ever rehired. The Corpus Christi Court of Ap peals affirmed the trial court, but the Supreme Court said Wednesday the lower court decisions fall short of remedying the harm. “The trial court abused its discre tion in failing to order Mrs. Vas- quez’s rehiring because, in effect, the court’s order allows Bannworths to continue to discriminate against Mrs. Vasquez by refusing to hire her because of her union membership," Justice Sears McGee said in his opin ion for the unanimous court. Bannworths officials were not available for comment after the Wednesday ruling. Harrington praised the Supreme Court ruling. “This is another example of the Supreme Court putting bite into union laws that exist to prevent re taliation,” he said. Harrington said he expects Vas quez to return to work at Ban nworths this summer. She has been working part-time. He said she would continue to aggressively mon itor conditions in the company’s fields. ring majo Sheriff says=r and i voluntar watch out; violence Knn sees Sandiniste”; though t iay a wor BROWNSVILLE - i^ ysno to si Reagan has warned that en'are m Texas county is in thefn H she wai should Nicaraguan troopvfIf a wo into the United States ^Inot bel authorities are resolutel o fight h what has to be done —w ays a wor ing to keep straight faces. , but inst ( amei<in < omits Nher:jinto it. Perez s stalwart boys alrea i’t believe a half-dozen L’zi subn rards.” guns .uni ,i st.K k ol M-ltis inn, an a It only he could (dsaid she county commissioners tear her rii for a dozen or so riothelr he host r shields, the sheriff quippwto kill he deputies willingly wouldirq told her trenches as a first lined ed the se against any Sandinistainvaif County commissioners, f ever, on Monday turned# 1 Perez’ request to purctap dozen riot helmets, shieli 1 shotguns. Turned down locally, sent President Reagan a Wednesday requesting Jl!)! in “equipment aid” tobeetii department. The sheriff said he had ins* planned to telegram the P word request because of it gency, but opted to sendfi mail because of the $25J gram cost. 5 escaped prisoners still at larg GAINESVILLE — Five escapees from the Cooke County Jail, including a man described as part of a modern-day “Bonnie and Clyde” team of bank robbers, remained at large Wednesday, authorities said. Authorities regarded the men as armed and danger ous, Sheriff John Aston said. Lawrence Byrom, 56; Thomas Bromfield, 25; Steven Dooley, 22; Patrick Lewis, 17; and Ismail Bruno, 17, es caped between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Monday after sawing a 19-inch-wide hole through the bars in a dayroom sky light, Aston said. He said he believes they used five hacksaw blades found at the scene. The men, who Denton County deputies said may have taken clothes and two rifles in a house burglary, also are believed to have stolen a van, authorities said. Officials said the men could have had outside help in the escape, speculating that someone might have handed the blades through the skylight. The jailer dis covered the escape while on regular hourly rourir ton said. Byrom pleaded no contest last July to fourbai r bery charges. His wife, Alice Elizabeth Mariei f pleaded no contest to two of the heists. Byrom* 1 cused of 14 North Texas bank robberies than I $572,592, authorities said. Byrom was sentenced to 50 years in federal I and was awaiting trial in Gainesville on a statet charge. Mrs. Byrom is serving a 25-year sententi [. At the time of their arrest, authorities corapi f case to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a IP I of bank robbers. Authorities said it was not the first time than had escaped from the Cooke County Jail. 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