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by Kevin Thomas
U.S. Supreme Court to hea
Texas death penalty cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — Among
the most significant criminal cases
that will come before the U.S. Su
preme Court when it convenes for
its 1988-89 session Monday will be
two Texas death penalty appeals.
The justices will decide whether
Texas can execute a mentally re
tarded murderer who has the rea
soning capacity of a 7-year-old, and
if a black man sentenced to die by an
all-white jury was afforded due
process of the law.
Johnny Paul Penry, described by
his attorneys as an illiterate man with
the mind of a 6- to 10-year-old was
convicted of the October 1979 rape-
murder of Pamela Carpenter of Liv
ingston. Carpenter, who was stabbed
with a pair of scissors and beaten,
described her assailant before she
died and Penry later confessed.
Penry’s attorneys argue that exec
uting the mentally retarded consti
tutes cruel and unusual punishment.
They also argue that the Texas law
does not permit juries to consider all
mitigating evidence during the pun
ishment phase of the trial, such as
the fact Penry often was beaten se
verely as a child by his mother.
But Assistant Texas Attorney
General Charles Palmer said safe
guards are currently in force to pre
vent the execution of the insane or
those who do not understand the
charges against them. Penry, he said,
passes all the current tests designed
to protect those who have some
mental disease or defect.
Meanwhile, attorneys for Phillip
Tompkins are challenging the re
quirement to sentence a capital mur
derer to death or life in prison with
out considering lesser offenses as
unconstitutional.
Tompkins was sentenced to die
for the January 1981 robbery and
suffocation of Mary Berry, 24, a
pharmacist at a Houston hospital.
Tompkins’ attorney argues that his
client intended only to quiet the
woman, not to kill her. Thus, the
jury should have been allowed to
consider involuntary manslaughter
or criminally negligent homicide
charges.
the session are a church-stati
tions case prompted bytheTa
Legislature granting taxexempi
for religious periodicals; anabo
rights case sparked by a Ha
anti-abortion group whichchii
constitutional rights toduept
were violated when the group
ordered to limit its picketing.!
clinic.
Still other Texas cases lobt
sidei ed include the highlypu
removal of South Oak Clifts
coach, Dallas' attempts to rtf
juveniles’ access to dance!
adults access to adult booL
and the first cases stemminf
the state’s banking crisis.
In addition, Tompkins’ attorney
argues that three blacks were struck
from the jury for racial reasons, a
charge denied by the prosecutors
and rejected by the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals.
If the high court overturns Texas
law in either case, it could have na
tional ramifications in capital cases,
attorneys said.
Among other Texas cases to be
considered by the high court during
Two non- l exas cases couldk
significant impact on theLont
State. In one, the justices
agreed to decide whetherasiat
prohibited from taxing inti
earned f rom oil and gas extrac
on the outer continental <
cision that could mean i
dollars to the state treasury.Aik
involves a Louisiana case seekinj
extend the Voting Rights Acitoji
cial elections, which could rffl
lionize the way judges are eletit!
Texas by requiring single-mei
districts forjudges.
Some small telephone companies
don’t require PUC rate approval
HOUSTON (AP) — Although
most small telephone companies are
twice as profitable as the big compa
nies, some have never had to appear
before the Public Utility Commission
for rate approval.
Southwestern Bell spends millions
of dollars to win new rates from the
PUC, but it is the small companies
that sometimes stand to gain the
most from the increases, the Hous
ton Chronicle reported Sunday.
Before the PUC was created in
1975, the small companies were reg
ulated by local government and their
profit margins were regulated by
state law. Today, the commission al
lows the 60 small companies in the
state to live in the regulatory shadow
of Southwestern Bell, charging the
same rates even though they may
have different costs and overhead.
The Chronicle’s review of the
1987 financial statements of 17 small
Texas telephone companies shows
that light regulation has helped
many a company provide lucrative
returns for the family or investors
who own it.
Of those 17 small companies, 15
showed profit margins of from 18
percent to 38 percent. By compari
son, the 10 largest U.S. telephone
companies earned just less than 10
percent last year.
“The small, privately owned com
panies have been able to do ex
tremely well,” Tim Raven of the
Texas Telephone Association said.
“But how do you define too profita
ble?”
Most of the small companies de
clined to list salaries in their required
annual financial statement to the
PUC. But some of the companies
that did showed that a job with a
family-owned phone company can
be very profitable.
Fort Bend Telephone paid
$503,596 in salaries and other com
pensation to five members of the
family that owns the company in
1986, including $238,620 to its pres
ident.
Over the last four years, Fort
Bend Telephone has paid out
$579,000 in stock dividends to own
ers of the company.
earned $ 160,930 last year.
Some small telephone compfl
pay out significant stock divide
Will • * * m • l l t aivzv.i\
San Marcos Telephone Co. f
$7.3 million in dividends Iasi 1!
while it brought in $15.71
operating revenues.
Telephone companies of
spread money around the coM
nity, writing checks to a widen
of civic causes. But somesf
siderably more on company pe^
Lake Dallas Telephone Co., which
serves about 4,100 customers near
Dallas, paid its two top managers
$99,596 each last year, an expense
that comes to $50 per customer.
United Telephone of T f!
which serves about 103,000oi5 !
ers in (he Tyler area, spent®'
on civic causes such as4-Ha»
YMCA, while it spent $37,W'
year on country club metnW I
and various chamber of conn#
dues, including $5,621 fora' 5
membership in Hollytree C01 5
Club and 15 other private elute-
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The president of Contel of Texas,
the third-largest phone company in
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Texas with 157,000 customers,
Telephone companies
of-town owners send profits 1 ® I
parent company. CentralTeM !
of Texas, which serves 1 ;
117,000 customers in the f
area, sent $17 million of tfc>
million it made last year to^
Corp.
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