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Church, along with the accompanying gear for a
Christian soldier, as he plays on ajungle gym.
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for slain girl
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Celeb
rities rallied around the family of a
Texas girl killed in gang violence,
with stuntman Evel Knievel offering
a reward and boxer Muhammad Alt
a scholarship for her sister.
Police continued to search on
Tuesday for the suspected street
gang members who gunned down
Tonya Hughes, 15, of Texarkana,
from a passing car after a weekend
party in Watts. Police said she was an
innocent bystander in an apparent
territorial conflict.
Another teen was killed and seve
ral people were injured in similar
shootings in Watts and other
blighted neighborhoods in South
Los Angeles.
“Unfortunately, it’s not that un
usual,” police spokesman Lt. Dan
Cooke said of the so-called drive-by
shootings.
“Most generally they are gang-re
lated and most generally they are
drug-related. It’s the territorial im
perative,” Cooke said. “They start
spraying (gunfire) and somebody
else is going to get hit. People get hit
in their houses.”
There have been no arrests in
Hughes’ death, and Knievel, a mo
torcycle stuntman, said he wants to
offer a $10,000 reward for informa
tion leading to the killer’s arrest and
conviction.
“The people responsible for (her)
death should be put to death when
they’re caught,” Knievel said.
Ali, former world heavyweight
champion, set up a scholarship fund
for the girl’s 5-year-old sister, Kei-
sha.
“I’m relating as another parent,”
said Ali, father of eight children.
“These gangs must be stopped.”
Ali and Knievel also are forming a
national foundation to keep children
off drugs.
Thursday
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Grand jury will seek
answers to choking
of Dallas pastor’s wife
DALLAS (AP) — A grand jury
will begin an investigation Wednes
day into the near-fatal choking of
the wife of a Dallas minister, who has
refused to talk to police about the
case for 14 weeks.
The Rev. Walker Railey, former
senior pastor of First United Meth
odist Church of Dallas, is one of
seven people subpoenaed to appear
before the panel.
But Railey’s attorney, Doug
Mulder, has not said whether he will
allow Railey to testify before the
panel.
Railey has refused to talk to inves
tigators since the day after he found
his unconscious wife sprawled on the
floor of their garage April 22.
Margaret “Peggy” Railey, 38, has
been in a coma since the assault and
is now being cared for in a Tyler
nursing home.
Railey has said he returned home
from studying at a Southern Meth
odist University library and found
his wife about 12:40 a.m.
But police said they have “indis-
E utable evidence” contradicting Rai
d’s account of his whereabouts that
night.
Police investigators, unable to get
Railey to tell his story, turned to
prosecutors in ah attempt to get him
to talk to a grand jury.
Norman Kinne, Dallas County’s
chief criminal prosecutor, said that
the use of a grand jury as an investi
gative tool in an attempted murder
case is extraordinary.
But, he said, “This is an unusual
case.”
Texas law requires all subpoenaed
witnesses to appear before the grand
jury, but a witness has the constitu
tional right not to give any evidence
that might be self-incriminating.
Nine days after the attack, Railey
took an overdose of pills in a hospital
room near his wife, just before po
lice investigators were schedulecl to
question him. After recovering from
the overdose, he voluntarily ad
mitted himself to Timberlawn where
he underwent six weeks of treat
ment.
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ABILENE (AP) — “Cadillac Jack”
Grimm, a high-stakes poker player
and an oilman, is taking another
gamble with the salvage of the Ti-
; tanic — but he’s holding his cards
close to the vest.
Grimm, founder of Grimm Oil
Co. in Abilene, acknowledged in an
| interview with the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram that he is involved in the
salvage of the luxury liner. But he
would not comment Tuesday on his
role in the operation, how much he
is spending, or any other aspect of
the project.
Last February, the oilman out-
!; lined plans for the salvage operation
and said, “I’m going to toss $3 mil
lion into this try for the jackpot.”
It isn’t the first time the 62-year-
old millionaire has gone for the jack
pot. The white-haired gambler with
piercing black eves earned his for
tune in the oilfields, where every
well is a risk. And he has played sev
eral times in the World Series of
Poker, the richest poker game in the
world.
Henry Bollinger, spokesman for
Binion’s Horseshoe, the Las Vegas
casino that holds the annual tourna
ment, said, “He’s a terrific poker
player. Unfortunately for him, he’s
tried but never won it.”
Grimm has lost other gambles,
too. He spent millions of dollars in
the 1970s looking for Noah’s Ark
and the Loch Ness monster. He also
paid two photographers to look for
Bigfoot in western Canada. None of
the searches was successful.
When Grimm married 39 years
ago, he and his wife, Jackie, spent
their three-month honeymoon pros
pecting for gold in the Sierra Ne
vada in California.
“We were lucky,” Mrs. Grimm
told the Associated Press Tuesday by
phone from the couple’s Abilene
home. “Gold was selling for $35 an
ounce back then, and we earned
about $10 a day.”
Mrs. Grimm, 58, said her husband
has been different all his life.
“He’s always been very adven
turesome and a dreamer — a suc
cessful dreamer, fortunately,” she
said.
Last summer, Grimm announced
his plans to retrieve artifacts from
the Titanic, which struck an iceberg
late on the night of April 14, 1912,
and sank early the next morning.
More than 1,300 died.
Marine salvage experts have said
any objects recovered from the
wreck, however small, would be
worth a fortune.
Houston phone repairman
saves life of drowning baby
HOUSTON (AP) — A tele
phone repairman’s quick thinking
is credited with saving the life of a
9-month-old girl who nearly
drowned in a bathtub, authorities
said.
Robin Mercy said she was giv
ing her daughter, Janeyia, and
another daughter, Jasmine, 4, a
bath about 10:30 a.m. Monday
when she left them unattended to
gd to the kitchen.
Mercy said she panicked when
she saw her daughter turning
blue in the tub a few minutes
later.
-The telephone was not work
ing so she told her 16-year-old
daughter to have the telephone
repairman working on the phone
lines outside to call for help.
Martin Baker, a Southwestern
Bell repairman, responded to
Mercy’s plea for help.
Baker, 47, said the baby
needed immediate help so he be
gan cardiopulmonary resusita-
tion while the teen called from a
neighbor’s home.
Stock disclosure rule for corporate raiders gets early test
j NEW YORK (AP) — T. Boone Pickens
Jr.’s interest in Boeing Co. stock has run up
against a new federal requirement for
speeding disclosure of corporate takeover
bids — a rule that Pickens’ past corporate
raids helped create.
The rule, which took effect July 3, elimi-
I nates a loophole through which corporate
I raiders such as Pickens and Sii James Gold
smith launched profitable, if unsuccessful,
I takeover bids for such companies as Phillips
Petroleum Co. and Goodyear Fire & Ruo-
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Dayton Hudson Corp., both of which say
they have been notified of possible takeover
bids, is uncertain because their suitors’ ulti
mate intentions are unclear.
Boeing revealed Monday that Pickens’
Mesa Limited Partnership, based in Am
arillo, had notified the federal government
on June 29 of its intention to acquire more
than $15 million worth of Boeing stock and
to seek permission to raise its holdings to as
much as 15 percent of the company’s out
standing shares.
The announcement came just three days
after Dayton Hudson, the Minneapolis-
based retailer, reported that a partnership
controlled by the Haft family of Maryland
had made a similar notification.
Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust
act of 1976, investors who intend to acquire
more than $15 million worth of a compa
ny’s stock must notify the Justice Depart
ment and the Federal Trade Commission
before they make a takeover attempt. Such
investors then must wait for up ' '’O days
to proceed with a takeover, so the ?rn-
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