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DALLAS (AP) — U.S. Att<»r-
lev Marvin Collins says a special
rand jury is needed to sift
hrough an increasing number of
lederal drug cases being filed in
[he Northern District of Texas.
I Collins, who said drug traffick-
ng was the 100-countv area's
most serious problem when he
:ook his post 14 months ago, said
he number of cases involving
Jrug dealers and users is sir.du
ng the capacity of the district’s
ive grand juries.
He has proposed that a sixth
rand jury, which would deal
ostly with drug cases, be estab-
ished in October or November.
“We were and are operating at
la,high rate of efficiency, but the
[caseload is such that another spe
cial grand jury is needed to han
dle the increased volume of nar
cotics cases,” Collins said.
A special grand jury would
give prosecutors an increased
ability to take away the two things
that keep drug dealers in business
— assets and their personal free
dom, Collins said.
Under federal law, accused in
dividuals can be jailed without
bond if they are considered a
danger to the community.
“Drug dealing is one item that
creates the presumption of dan
ger to the community,” Collins
said.
Before the pretrial detention
law was passed, major drug viola
tors could be released on bond,
permitting; some to increase their
illegal activities in order to pay
their lawyers and stockpile
money. Collins said.
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Jired 50 new school buses that will
equipped with seat belts and
Igh-backed seats, of ficials say.
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if delivered in nine to 14 months,
ill replace older buses, hut that no
friends. Tit Icision has been made on which
to accomff putes or age group will he using the
few buses.
Besides the belts, the
new buses
will have high-hacked seats designed
to reduce head and facial injuries
and to prevent children from being
thrown over seats in case of acci
dents.
The new buses will cost about
$33,000 apiece — $1,000 to $1,100
more than buses without belts, Rob
erts said. The cost was included in
the budget approved last month by
trustees.
Roberts said the effectiveness of
belts on school buses is still being de
bated.
Roberts said drivers and students
will he instructed on using the belts
before the new buses are put into
service.
Map shows
speed trap
locations
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Motor
ists who have trouble keeping their
speed below' the 55 mph legal limit
have a new guide — a map showing
Texas speed traps.
Produced by a San Antonio busi
nessman, the Official Trap Map of
Texas shows drivers 44 locations
which it says are likely to have radar
traps.
The map includes designations
for different areas such as “highly
patrolled” and “rigidly enforced.”
J.D. Boggus, president of Trap
Map Inc., told the Sun Antonio Ex
press-News that the map encourages
drivers to stay within the speed limit.
“We could be making the high
ways safer,” Boggus said.
He said his company was not try
ing to predict where speeders would
lie in the most danger of a visit from
the law.
“We're not going to say you are
getting a tic ket if you speed in these
(radar-detecting) areas,” he said,
“but they are designated because if
you speed in these areas you stand a
better chance of receiving a ticket.”
Boggus said the idea for the map
came from a combination of things.
“Due to the decline of the oil busi
ness in Texas, the next (source of
revenue) to look at was tourism,” he
said. “I asked myself, ‘What could
tourists use in Texas?’ ”
“We talked to frequent travelers,
truckers and lawmen,” he said. “But
we got most of our information from
state traffic fine records.”
Texas Department of PublicT
Safety Sgt. John Narramore said the
maps wouldn’t affect DPS opera
tions.
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ARLINGTON (AP) — To
John Gavia, it’s more than a place
to work. It’s a place that keeps the
boy in him alive.
This year, Six Flags Over
Texas celebrates its 25th anniver
sary. So does Gavia, who has been
working there since the day it
opened.
“It's kept me young,” Gavia
says. “Look at me. I’ve found my
fountain of youth.”
He's seen every show and rid
den every ride that’s ever been
there — except one. “I won’t ride
the Spinnaker,” he says. “It’s just
too coldblooded for me. But my
kids love it.”
Six Flags opened in the boon-
docks on Aug. 5, 1961. T he Dal-
las-Fort Worth Turnpike (Inter
state 30) had recently opened, but
there were no paved roads to the
amusement park. A converted
cow pasture served as the parking
lot. On rainy days, half the excite
ment was trying to keep from get
ting stuck in the mud.
“It was hard to imagine what it
would become,” Gavia recalls.
"People couldn’t even keep the
name straight. They called it Six
Flags Under Texas, Texas Over
Six Flags, or Texas Under Six
Flags.
“They didn’t know what to ex
pect,” he adds. “Some of them
thought it was a museum, and
they would come out here in their
Sunday best expecting to see ex
hibits. Or they would think it was
some kind of picnic grounds.”
It was hard to imagine
what it would become.
People couldn’t even keep
the name straight.
— John Gavia, worker at
Six Flags Over Texas
The park was the brainchild of
the late Angus Wynne, a busi
nessman Gavia remembers as a
very special person.
“He was truly a very nice, very
strong person,” Gavia says. “He
could remember your name out
of hundreds of people. He acted
no different than the people who
paid to ride the rides. Fie would
stand in line and wait his turn,”
Gavia recalls. “Fle’d ask you how
you were doing, how things were
going and what he could do to
make your job easier.
“He knew what he wanted,”
Gavia says. “The end product was
to have anyone who came out
here to be satisfied. Orientations
were to the point, no beating
around the bush. He told us we
were here to sell fun. We were to
smile. A smile was part of our
uniform. We were to let people
know we were their friend and we
were here to help them have fun.
With someone that considerate,
how could we go wrong?”
Gavia was fresh out of high
school in 1961 and trying to make
up his mind where to go to col
lege to study art. His neighbor,
Harry Gambino, talked him into
going out to Six Flags, where
Gambino was to be one of the
gunfighters at the Crazy Horse
Saloon.
Gavia became a regular at the
park even before it opened, and
as luck would have it, the opera
tor of the FTesta Train in the
Mexico secton quit a few days be
fore opening day. Gavia’s friend
helped him get the job, and he
was hooked.
In those days there were far
fewer rides, he says. Wynn hired
roaming musicians to entertain
the visitors waiting in lines. There
were longhorn steers and buffalo
to look at and goat-drawn carts
and burros to ride.
“Skull Island really was an ad
venture back then,” Gavia says.
“You could really get lost on it.
Sometimes we found people who
had been out there two or three
hours trying to find their way out.
“We also had a puppet wagon,”
Gavia says, “ but it’s gone now.
Such things are not considered
real cool for kids to see anymore.”
Gavia, who still takes his family
and friends to the park three or
four times a year, favors the rol
ler coaster over all the other
rides. But there’s still a soft spot
in his heart for the now-gone La
Salle Expedition, a canoe ride
along a lagoon lined with trees,
Indians and various wildlife.
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