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Trustee claims
oilman’s assets
unaccounted for
FORT WORTH (AP) — A trustee
representing creditors of Fort
Worth oilman T. Cullen Davis said
millions of dollars once counted
among Davis’ assets are unaccounted
for in bankruptcy records.
“They (the assets) were there,
according to certain records, and
according to bankruptcy records,
they’re gone,” trustee Twalla Du-
Priest said. “Where did it go? The
creditors have a right to know.”
DuPriest told U.S. Bankruptcy
Judge Massie Tillmon in a court doc
ument the assets include proceeds
from stock sales and rare art objects
that were once counted among Da
vis’ assets.
Davis, who has been waging a le
gal battle for more than a year to de
clare bankruptcy and escape paying
an estimated $865 million in debts,
suffered a setback in court Wednes
day when a federal bankruptcy
judge ordered his attorney to pro
duce financial records detailing the
one-time billionaire’s income over
the last several years.
DuPriest accuses Davis of failure
to explain satisfactorily his loss of as
sets in a list of assets he filed when he
declared bankruptcy. She’s fighting
to have the bankruptcy permanently
overturned, and claims Davis ille
gally gave away or concealed assets
in order to qualify for Chapter 7
protection from his creditors.
DuPriest alleges the missing assets
includes $10 million Davis received
for the sale of his southside mansion
in late 1984, $9 million in personal
income from business holdings in
1984 and 1985, $50,000 from the
sale of oil and gas stocks back to their
parent company and art objects, in
cluding a lapis cigarette case, antique
violin and a miniature racetrack.
The documents also claim Davis
illegally failed to disclose donations
of art pieces and hundreds of acres
of real estate to religious organiza
tions, paid up utility bills in advance
and bought a new car, which is pro
tected from seizure by creditors, just
before filing for bankruptcy. At the
time he Filed, Davis listed a net worth
of $ 1.8 million.
The judge granted a request by
trustees that he postpone until next
March a trial to decide whether the
bankruptcy will be allowed.
Decision expected
Friday in FBI case
EL PASO (AP) — A federal judge
is expected to make a decision Fri
day morning in the discrimination
suit against the FBI.
Lawyers for El Paso agent Ber
nardo “Matt” Perez, who filed the
class-action suit in 1987, says a favor
able ruling could affect Hispanics in
all levels of government agencies
and private industry.
P^rez said he hopes it will improve
promotional policies within the
agency.
“We have great expectations but
Wheat fields
hold secret
of proposal
ABILENE (AP) — For Tim
Wood of Tulsa, Okla., proposing
to his girlfriend was a tough row
to hoe.
In big block letters, 140 feet
high and perfectly straight,
Wood, an airline pilot, spelled out
his proposal to Michelle Bryan of
Abilene on 1 1 zcres of her fa
ther’s wheat field near Winters,
about 45 miles soutIt of Abilene.
Then he heaced for Abilene to
pick up Michelle after she got off
work, and they went up in a
rented plane for what purpor
tedly was a pleasure flight.
Naturally, .hey wound up over
the Bryan fa/m. After circling the
plane into reading position,
Wood instrtcted Michelle to look
down.
“I have a question that I’ve
been wanting to ask you for a
longtime” he told her.
It tool Michelle only seconds
to find frr message.
"WIL_ YOU
MARRY ME
MICHELLE?”
“All )f a sudden, the lettersjust
poppel out,” she recalled.
It took her only a moment
longe to respond. “Yes!” she
cried
Wih the help of his future fa-
therm-law, Sealy Bryan, and a
farn worker, Wood designed,
sureyed and directed the project
lastweekend.
t took the three men eight
heirs to lay out and flag the let-
tes and another two to three
burs to plow, Wood told the
Ankne Reporter-News.
“We started work on this Fri-
cay afternoon and spent the bet-
Er part of two days working on
f,” said Wood, an airline pilot
who Hies for Abilene’s American
Eagle Airlines.
Bryan plowed the letters with a
20-foot chisel plow, Wood said.
The proposal covers an area
larger than 10 football fields on
her father’s farm, but is readable
only from the air.
Wood’s novel way of popping
the question didn’t affect Mich
elle’s answer — she would have
married him anyway, she said.
But it was still worth all the
bother to Wood.
“I just wanted some way to
show her how special she was,”
said Wood.
Only about one bride in a mil
lion gets such an imaginative pro
posal, he said. “And she’s cane in a
million.”
we won’t know until the judge ren
ders his decision,” Perez said
Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton
presided over the three-week trial in
August. The class-action suit, which
includes 311 agents from across the
nation, alleges that the agency dis
criminates against Hispanics in its
promotion policies. It seeks $5 mil
lion in damages.
Bunton told the El Paso 'Times be
fore the end of the trial that he ex
pected to make a decision by Oct. 1.
The trial involved 90 witnesses,
including 60 FBI agents. Agents tes
tified about being subjected to racial
slurs, about having to do tedious as
signments because of their Spanish
speaking ability and about being
overlooked for management posi-
tions.
Some agents also said Hispanics
are more likely to be sent to danger
ous or less desirable assignments.
There were also hundreds of doc
uments, including an analysis by a
University of New Mexico sociologist
who testified that Hispanic agents
were not being promoted according
to their numbers. There are 437
Hispanic agents in the FBI, about 4
percent of the agencies 9,574 agents.
The study by Gary LaFree said
that 15 percent of Hispanic agents
with at least five years experience
have management positions, com
pared with 21 percent of non-His-
panic agents with similar experience.
Weapons case
hangs jury,
ends in mistrial
WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge
on Thursday declared a mistrial in
the weapons-possesion case of syndi
cated columnist Carl T. Rowan after
the jury reported it was hopelessly
deadlocked.
Earlier in the day, Judge Arthur
L. Burnett of District of Columbia
Superior Court had re-read his in
structions to the jury alter the 12-
member panel said it was unable to
reach a verdict.
Rowan has been charged with us
ing an unregistered handgun and
ammunition to wound a teen-aged
intruder in the backyard of his home
last June. He faced a maximum pen
alty of two years in prison and a
$2,000 line if convicted.
Burnett said he was convinced
that further deliberations would not
lead to a verdict. The jury had delib
erated about nine hours over two
days.
One juror, who declined to be
identified, told reporters the panel
had been in favor of acquittal by a 9-
3 margin. A unanimous verdict was
required.
As Burnett announced his deci
sion, Rowan, who was seated at the
defense table, smiled at his attorneys
and then at his wife Vivian. He has
no comment as he left the court
room.
Claude Bailey, a spokesman for
city Corporation Counsel Frederick
Cooke, said city officials had not dis
cussed what action to take if the trial
ended in a hung jury.
Rowan, 63, shot 18-year-old Ben
jamin Smith in the wrist after Smith
and friends had taken an uninvited
swim in his backyard pool.
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