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SAN AUGUSTINE (AP) — A Jas
per attorney who successfully de
fended one of three white Sabine
County lawmen charged with violat
ing the civil rights of a black jail in
mate has been indicted for theft and
misapplication of trust property.
A San Augustine grand jury in
dicted Floyd W. Addington for mis
appropriating a $103,000 chec .
drawn on Home Life Insurance Co.
of Texas while he acted as closing at
torney in a 1985 real estate trans
action.
Addington was indicted Sept. 7
for allegedly failing to use the check
to pay off liens against the property
and not returning the money to the
owners. Home Life Insurance Co. of
Texas was the lender in Feb. 22,
1985 real estate deal.
A second indictment in connec
tion with the same incident alleges
Addington received the check with
out the effective consent of the own
ers and with intent to deprive the
owners of the property.
Addington has been indicted for
theft and misapplication of Fiduciary
property in both Jasper and An
gelina counties.
Addington successfully defended
Sabine County Sheriffs Deputy Billy
Ray Horton in a federal civil rights
violation case in July in Hemphill.
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Week to stress farm, ranch safe!
By Jodi Drake
Reporter
President Reagan has declared
this Sunday through Saturday, Sept.
18-24, National Farm Safety Week,
and Gov. Bill Clements has ded
icated the same dates as Texas Farm
and Ranch Safety W T eek, said
Thomas D. Valeo, an extension agri
cultural engineer with the Texas Ag
ricultural Extension Service.
Because farming and ranching
are among the most hazardous ma
jor industries in the nation, it is nec
essary to set aside a saftey awareness
week, Valeo said.
“Nationally, there have been
1,600 farm-related deaths a year,
and that’s compared to mining and
construction,” he said. “Their fatal
ity rate has reduced over the past
four to Five years; we have main
tained ours.”
In Texas, farm-related accidents
are responsible for about 100 fatali
ties and an estimated 10,000 disa
bling injuries a year, Valeo said. Dis
abling injuries include the loss of a
Finger, hand or toe, or a broken leg.
“We are doing better though, no
doubt,” he said. “In 1966 there were
216 fatalities a year, in 1976, there
were 169, and in 1986, about 90
were recorded.”
Fatalities have been reduced by 50
percent in the last 10 years. Valeo
said he attributes 90 percent of the
reduction of fatalities to improved
machinery design, added to the
modern farmer’s use of protective
devices and their awareness that
safety is important.
The increase of female workers in
the farming industry has also had an
effect on improved safety measures,
Valeo said. Women tend to Ik* more
safety-conscious and are more inter
ested in incorporating safety devices
into agricultural programs, he said.
The theme of this year’s aware
ness week, “Ensure Your Future
with Farm Safety,” is oriented pri
marily toward children. About 20
children die in farming accidents
each year, and nationally, 14 percent
of those involved in farming acci
dents are less than 10 vean
said.
Two Texas children—a
old and a 6-year-old—died
ing accidents in July, Valcos.
Most accidents cxcur wh
dren are riding on tractorsn
parents, he said. "Children
Ik* familiar with tractors ar
flow to operate them, but ti
have one seat,” Valeo said.
“Overall, the teal damage
disabling damages — loss oil
vision, mobility and back
that hap|K*n every dayonthi
he said. "We need toconcem
efforts on reducing those an
we do. we will also help to ret
fatalities.”
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PECOS (AP) — Bill Peiser proba
bly knows the area “above the rim”
between the Rio Grande and the Da
vis Mountains as well as any man al
ive.
He’s driven a truck, ridden a mo
torcycle, or walked over most of it,
his eyes plastered to the ground,
looking for some telltale sign of the
targets he was tracking.
Small marks in the sand which
most people wouldn’t notice, or
would pass off as unimportant,
Peiser reads like the pages of a book.
The 54-year-old senior U.S. Bor
der Patrol agent has chased illegal
aliens and drug smugglers for 27
years, all but three in the Marfa sec
tor.
Peiser’s tracking skills aren’t used
as often as they once were, partly be
cause the number of illegal aliens
passing through the area has
dropped.
Border agents working the Marfa
sector caught about 24,000 illegal
aliens in 1986, the last year before
Congress revamped the nation’s im
migration law. With Fiscal year 1988
nearly over, agents in the sector have
intercepted only 5,000 illegals.
The Marfa sector covers 92,000
square miles, over 77 counties in
Texas and 18 in Oklahoma.
“It’s probably just as good I don’t
have to track as much as I did,”
Peiser said, adjusting the glasses he
has had to wear the past few years.
“My eyes were about as good as any
body’s, but I’m convinced cuttin’
sign all of the time has got me to
where I have to wear glasses. Riding
along a track, hanging my head out a
window and straining my eyes to
spot something that’ll give me a clue
“It’s probably just ns good I don’t have to track as
much as I did. My eyes were about as good as any
body’s, but I’m convinced cuttin’ sign all ol the time
has got me to where I have to wear glasses. Riding
along a track, hanging my head out a window and
straining my eyes to spot something that 'll give me a
clue is bound to he had for my eyes. ”
— Bill Peiser, Border Patrol Agent
is bound to be bad for my eyes,” he
said.
A proven method for spotting
people trying to sneak across the
border to jobs further north has
long been “cutting for sign” on a
“track.”
The “track” is a dirt road scraped
parallel to U.S. 90 west of Marfa.
Peiser explained how the aliens
come into Texas, and how the Bor
der Patrol catches them.
He pointed to the south, to a dark
expanse of low mountains. “They
cross the river and then lay up on
the rim and rest about a day,” he
said, indicating the peaks.
The rim is an area along the Rio
Grande, where the land rises from
the river bed. South, or below the
rim, the land is rough and cut by nu
merous small gullies. North, or
above the rim, the land becomes flat
and canyons and ravines give way to
open cattle country.
“You can’t tell it from here, but
that’s some bad country there,”
Peiser said, stretching out an arm
made bronze by nearly three de
cades tracking men under the desert
sun.
He points to a range of mountains
to the south. “Some places along
there, it’s 1,000 feet straight up and
down. There’s places where you can
cross, but we have sensors on most of
them, so they’ve got to where they go
somewhere else,” he said.
On the Texas side, the country be
low the rim has the advantage of
providing numerous hiding places
for illegal aliens headed north,
Peiser said.
“They’re afraid of this Hat,” he
said, indicating the stretch of about
40 miles between the rim and the
foothills of the Davis Mountains.
“There’s no cover out here, so
they try to cross it in a day using
some remarkable hiding places,” he
said. “They’ll wrap around a clump
of bear grass and pull up grass and
cover themselves, and you can walk
right past them.”
“We drag this track every evening
and cut sign (look for footprints or
other marks in the dirt) every morn
ing,” he said.
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times have been made and k
the oil industry in CookeCaa
The hopes and dreams of ia
have been fulfilled. Otherst
failed and never gave up.
I Iw \ ii Millri nl Valle' 'a
has never given up hopefw
Anne Miller No. 1.
Miller’s father, W.C.
died at the early age of 32
grandfather, John SwadlenalJ
urged the widowed AnnieW
to purchase 117 acres of ii]
with dividends from a lifeinsj
ant e policy.
“Grandfather saw what
thought was oil in the waterofj
little brook, and told moth#
buy the farm, there was oil
derneath,” Miller said.
Years passed. The mo™
was paid, and in 1957 theCd
nental and Sohio Oil Cow
drilled a well nearly ]0,000fj
deep, the Anne Miller No. 1.;
The No. 1, at first, gavethd
pression of a good well will
accumulating in the tank bam
Drilling deeper into otheroil:
mations proved futile, and
tempts to make the well Oj
again failed. Finally it was!
dared a dry hole.
In recent years, twoattetnm
re-entry into Anne MillerVl
were made. Again oil wasp]
duced for a short time, butdj
lers were Finally forced to at]
don the hole.
Miller still believes thereN
under the 117 acres and]
maybe, someday, somehoM
will (low from the Anne 311)
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