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Elna Christopher, press secretary to Mattox, said, “Either Crowder dreamed this thing up or he must have played football too long with out a helmet.” Mark McKinnon, campaign spokesman for White said, “This ap pears to be his latest addition to his creative catalogue. Crowder said he had talked to sev eral statewide office holders over the weekend who told him they were afraid that the governor, if renomi nated, is going to pull down the en tire slate. Crowder said Mattox expressed such fears about two days ago. “Jim Mattox told me on the basis of polls that had came out in the Houston papers there was a great deal of concern about the governor’s voting strength to carry the whole ticket,” Crowder said. Don Gordon, Williamson County Republican chairman, said, “At the grass roots, people don’t start think ing about state races until after their local races on April 5,” Gordon said. “In my county, most people won’t make up their minds until tne last 10 days.” HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Jeffery Allen Barney, who asked that no ap peals be filed in his name, was exe cuted early Wednesday for the 1981 rape-strangulation of the wife of a. minister who had befriended him. Attorney General Jim Mattok, who witnessed the execution, said Barney died at 12:22 a.m. CST. “I’m sorry for what I done,” Mat tox quoted Barney as saying. “I de serve this. I hope Jesus forgives me.” Barney’s execution at the Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections followed by about 13 hours that of Daniel M. Thomas, 37, who was electrocuted shortly after noon Tuesday in Florida for mur dering a man and raping his wife as her husband lay dying. Barney, 28, a native of Dayton, Ohio, told the judge who last month set the execution date: “I’m guilty of what I was convicted of. I just wish that the sentence be carried out.” He was the second Texas inmate to be executed this year and the 12th since the state resumed executions in 1982. Outside the prison, about 30 Sam Houston State students demon strated in favor of the death penalty. Mattox said Barney looked ner vous as he lay on the gurney to be in jected with lethal drugs. Barney, who could select up to five people to watch him die, picked only two — Freddie Wier and Nich ols C. Amrhein, both Harris County Jail chaplains. “He feels very bad about it,” said Wier, who saw Barney on Monday. “He said he is guilty and has made it right with the Lord and has to pay his debt with society.” Barney was driven by van Tues day the 15 miles from Death Row to the Texas Department of Correc tions Walls Unit, which houses the death chamber. He arrived about 9 a.m.i - • >b os Prison spokeswoman Sarah Gri sham said, “His mood was calm. He requested tobacco and matches.” Barney was arrested in Dayton on Nov. 28, 1981, driving the Cadillac owned by Ruby Longsworth, 54. She had been killed four days earlier, a microphone cord wrapped tightly around her neck. Her husband, John, was a min ister who helped Barney get a job af ter his release from a prison term for auto theft. Computer finds unlicensed physicians S i .WMWHSr* .W $ FORT WORTH (AP) — In less than 43 seconds, a computer can track down doctors who are trying to escape records of disciplinary action by moving to a new state. The computer at the Federation of State Medical Boards takes that long to search for a doctor’s name, and all predictable aliases, among the 15,000 errant physicians stored in its memory. Dr. Bryant Galusha, executive vice president of the federation, said the computer has helped stamp out the “conspiracy of silence” and the “good ol’ boy club” that have allowed some doctors to continue practicing after losing their licenses. The computer prints out any re cord of infractions, ready to be sent to the requesting licensing board. The record is forwarded to the American Medical Association and included in monthly reports the fed eration mails to its membership. The computer has been in opera tion for about a year. It can be used only by medical boards, some hospi tal staffs and the military. In Texas, 24 doctors lost their li censes between September 1984 and August 1985. Ten cases were re ported for the same period a year earlier, according to the Texas Board of Medical Examiners. Galusha said, “It’s next to impossi ble for them to get a new license or endorsement without a tarnished re cord being known.” Police look for rape-murder clues EL PASO (AP) — The deaths of four women, found floating in the Rio Grande River after they were raped and strangled, may be connected, an official said Tues day. In the latest incident, the bodies of two women were found Saturday near the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, which separates this border city from Juarez. A third body was found about a month ago, also on the Juarez side. Those three murders are being investi gated by Mexican officials. El Paso County Sheriffs office is investigating the death of a woman found on the U. S. side March 25 in a canal fed by the Rio Grande. Sheriffs Capt. Paco Aguirre said, “It’s possible she was dumped in the river and drifted into the canal. To morrow we’re sending a couple of detectives over to Juarez.” The detectives will pool information with their Mexi can counterparts and compare notes. A fifth woman, found floating in the river last week, drowned, but was not sexually assaulted, police said. Police identified her as Laura Elena de Rodriguez, 20, of Juarez. None of the other women have been identified. The woman found in the canal was in her late teens or early 20s, and was dressed only in a black bra, Aguirre said. Similarly, the two women found Saturday were in their teens or early 20s, and dressed only in black bras. He said it’s possible the women were illegal aliens or maids crossing from Juarez to work in El Paso. Aguirre declined to speculate whether the rape- strangulations were the work of one person. “But let me tell you this,” Aguirre said. “There are sections of the Rio Grande we hear where women pay a quarter to be taken across. “Once they find out they have money, they rape and rob them. 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