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A delightful afternoon of music and theatre under the
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Tickets can be purchased at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234
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Sheriff debate
turns out to be
one-sided talk
By Kimberly Motley
Reporter
A debate scheduled for candi
dates for Brazos Valley Sheriff
Tuesday turned out to be more of a
one-sided discussion by Sergeant
Choya Walling.
Incumbent Sherif f Ron Miller was
not present because of a misunder
standing, said Deputy Sheriff John
LeFlore, who represented him at the
debate.
Walling, an A&M graduate, dis
cussed topics from drugs to com
puter technology, with little com
ment from LeFlore.
This is the first time two Republi
cans have ever run for sheriff, so it is
the first time a debate for the posi
tion was held in this county, said me
diator Jim Kuboviak, county attor
ney and A&M professor of political
science.
Walling said the most important
problem in Texas right now is drug
abuse. It is a statewide problem that
affects housing conditions in jails.
‘ “The Texas Department of Cor
rections is supposed to be like a wa
ter purification plant,” Walling said.
“You run dirty water through it,
clean it and flush out pure water.
But when you start putting through
more than the system can handle,
the plant flushes out dirty water.”
The TDC is not adequately help
ing criminals with drug and alcohol
problems, Walling said, so they go
back on the streets to commit more
crimes and end up back at the
county jail.
Education is vital to helping this
problem, he said.
Photo by Fredrick D. |»
Sergeant Choya Walling, Class of ’74, speaks at a debate Tuesday in
Harrington Education Bldg. The other Republican Sheriff candi
date, incumbent Ron Miller, did not show up.
LeFlore, Miller’s representative,
said the drug problem is 99 percent
peer pressure.
“I want to bring all drug abuse
agencies together in the area schools
so all the schools are doing the same
thing,” he said. “This way, if stu
dents transfer, they’ll still be ex
posed to the same program.”
“All crimes stem from drug or al
cohol abuse and I would like to see
stiffer penalties,” LeFlore said.
process for police officers thai
more involved than just sendi
someone to an academy and hirii
him on that basis.
But Walling said stiffer penalties
are not the solution.
Walling also said if elected as sher
iff, he would like to establish a hiring
He said he would like to run!
sheriffs department like a bus™
and require mandatory training))!
grams for employees.
LeFlore also said training p
grams are important.
Shootout in car lot leaves
one man dead, two injured
HALTOM CITY (AP),^A father
and son remained hpspitalized
Tuesday with injuries suLTtfed in. a
shootout with a man whQ-,i;eturned
to their car lot shortly after they
fired him, authorities said.
The former employee was killed
in the gunfire Monday, said Haltom
City police, who declined Tuesday to
release the dead man’s identity.
Tarrant County medical office in
vestigator J.L. Kirkpatrick said the
man died of a gunshot wound to the
chest.
Aubrey Stamps, 57, a former Hal
tom City councilman and owner of
the used car lot, was in good condi
tion Tuesday at Harris Hospital in
Fort Worth. His son, Tommy
Stamps, 30. was in critical condition
at the same hospital, of ficials said.
Haltom City Police Lt. R.W. Mc-
Queary said the fired employee re
turned to the garage ana first got
into an argument with another
worker.
Several shots were exchangt
witnesses told police. When t
shooting stopped, the former ci
ployee managed to get into his
and pull into the street, where
vehicle jumped a curb, rammed!)
cars in a automobile repair si
parking lot and knocked over a
ural gas meter.
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The men then went into the main
office, where Stamps and his son
confronted the former employee,
who was armed with a pistol.
Police found two revolvers ai
scene, but said late Monday
have not determined who owned
weapons or how many shots)
fired. They would not release
other details Tuesday.
U.S. study shows
rising poverty rate
among Hispanics
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Poor
Hispanics are becoming poorer and
the Reagan administration’s federal
budget cuts in the early 1980s con
tinue to hurt many of them, re
searchers said Tuesday.
A study, which compiled pub
lished and unpublished U.S. Census
Bureau data on Hispanics, indicated
that the poverty rate among Hispan
ics rose from 21.8 percent in 1979 to
27.3 percent in 1986.
It also showed that in 1979, anti
poverty government programs
helped lift 35.4 percent of n
iclped lift 35.4 percent of poor His
panics out of poverty, but the figure
dropped to 20.1 in 1986.
Among Hispanic children, the
poverty rate increased steadily since
1978, hitting an all-time high of 39.9
percent in 1985, the study said.
Dubbed “Falling Through the
Safety Net,” the study was compiled
jointly by San Antonio’s Southwest
Voter Research Institute and the
Washington-based Center on Bud
get and Policy Priorities.
Dr. Robert Brischetto, executive
director of the voter research insti
tute, said there are 18.8 million His
panics in the United States and that
in 1985, 5.2 million of them lived be
low the poverty line of $ 11,203.
Brischetto said the current federal
budget needs to be balanced, but
that the poor also need attention.
Government “benefits have not
been increasing to keep up with in
flation and as a result we are finding
an increasing social problem and un
less we deal with it we are going to
need more drastic measures,” he
said.
The study also indicated that the
poverty rate among Hispanics in
1986 was slightly less than the rate
among blacks and one-half times the
proportion of poor whites.
Willie Velasquez, president of the
voter research institute, said the
study was conducted so that voters
would be informed to pose tougher
questions to presidential candidates.
All Democratic presidential hope
fuls have asked for the study. Vice
President George Bush was the only
Republican who requested the re
port.
Grand jury
subpoenas
deputies
TYLER (AP) — A grandjun
scheduled to consider whethfl
murder charges should be filed is
the death of an East Texas jailin
mate, subpoenaed two sheriffs
deputies already indicted onchii
rights charges in the case.
A Sabine County grandjuryot
Jan. 4 indicted three white off
cers for allegedly violating tin
civil rights of Loyal Garner Jr.,
black Louisiana truck driver wlit
was arrested Christmas Day on
traffic violation, taken to tin
county jail in Hemphill and dief
two days later.
After being jailed, Garner, 31
suffered head injuries and
transferred unconscious to tf<
Sabine County Memorial Hosf
tal.
He was later taken to the Tylfl
Medical Center in Smith Count'
where he died.
Two friends arrested withGai
ner, Johnnie and Alton Maxit
claim Garner received a fatal jail
house heating. The indicted
cers have repeatedly refused
comment.
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