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After the above deadlines, discuss your academic plans with a Liberal Arts departmental advisor. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Page 8 jhe Battalion Wednesday, November 2,1988 Bullock: State will investigate ‘crooked’ bingo HOUSTON (AP) — State Comptrol ler Bob Bullock said his office will help investigate reports of rigged bingo games that illegally steal money from legitimate charities. Attorney General Jim Mattox called for an investigation into the allegations after the Houston Chronicle cited dozens of apparent violations of state law in volving bingo games. The report cited rigged games, alleged cash skimming, and operators illegally offering to pay charities a small cut of the bingo proceeds in exchange for run ning the games in the charities’ names. Bullock’s office will look into any complaints received by Mattox, said Bullock spokesman Tony Profitt. The comptroller also will require bingo halls to post notices that any sus pected irregularities should be reported to the state office. “If there’s anyone out there with information, they need to come forward,” Profitt said. Star East Bingo, faces charges of violat ing Louisiana’s charitable gaming laws and illegal gambling, both misdemea nors, authorities said. Also charged with Dore were Dale Stanley Woodard, 40; David Lusk, 43; Judy Hastie, 46; and Scott Landry, 31, of Lake Charles, La., officials said. Rose Ann Reeser, head of the Texas Attorney General’s charitable trust divi sion, said that when she receives official confirmation that a Texas bingo licensee is suspected of breaking laws in other states, she will take a close look at the Texas operation. The Houston Post reported Tuesday that a Seabrook woman and three Hous ton men, including one who runs games in Houston, have been charged in Loui siana with violating that state’s bingo laws. William “Bill” Burton Dore, 47, president of the corporation that runs All Bingo games in Texas have generated nearly $1.4 billion since the Legislature legalized them in 1981, and they have produced nearly $7 million in state taxes and $25 million in taxes for cities and counties. Commercial bingo operators, how ever, are threatening to put small, char ity-run games out of business, and they may be skimming money that legally should go to non-profit groups, the Chronicle reported. Despite the increased questions over bingo operations, parlor owners say the majority of those games operated in Texas are operated legally. Federal judge denies stay for Texas convict HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A federal judge in San Antonio on Tuesday denied a request from attorneys for convicted killer Donald Gene Franklin that the longtime death row inmate be spared from his scheduled execution later this week. Franklin, who has had three trials and at least five execution dates, faces lethal injection early Thursday for the 1975 ab duction-slaying of a San Antonio nurse. U.S. District Judge H.F. Garcia, who was assigned the case Monday after a state judge and the Texas Court of Crimi nal Appeals refused last week to grant Franklin a reprieve, on Tuesday also re fused to block the execution. “We’ve already got our 5th (U.S.) Circuit Court (of Appeals) brief sent in and we’re prepared to go to the next level of court,” Franklin’s attorney, George Scharmen, said. Franklin’s case virtually halted all Texas executions for about a year when the U.S. Supreme Court last year agreed to consider his opposing viewpoint and his challenge to the Texas capital punish ment law. In June, the court ruled 6-3 to reject his claim that jurors were not allowed to consider mitigating circumstances when deciding his punishment. In this latest appeal, attorneys again are raising the issue of mitigating cir cumstances — specifically, testimony from Franklin’s mother about him grow ing up in a broken home — and hope the high court’s review of another Texas death row case involving inmate Johnny Penry will mean a reprieve for Franklin. Group discusses return of nationals AUSTIN (AP) — An effort to estab lish a way to return illegal alien juvenile offenders to Mexico for incarceration was discussed at a Tuesday meeting at the Texas Youth Commission. “Why should we keep a Mexican na tional child in our institution when they have one in Monterrey?” asked Ron Jackson, commission executive director. “We obviously spend a substantial amount of state dollars taking care of Mexican nationals. ’ ’ Mexican officials also are interested in the return of youthful offenders to that country, said Jackson. Jackson estimated about $2 million a year in state funds is spent on Mexican juvenile offenders. In fiscal year 1988, 150 of them were committed to the com mission, said Mario Garza, commission liaison with Mexican officials and assis tant superintendent of the West Texas Children’s Home in Pyote. There are now about 50 Mexican youths under the commission’s author ity, with 40 of them in the West Texas Children’s Home and the remainder in various facilities, Garza said. Each of fender has an average stay of six months at a cost of about $72 per day, he said. Garza and other commission staff members met with Mexican juvenile services officials Tuesday and have been meeting with representatives from other U.S. states in an effort to establish pro cedures for returning juvenile offenders. A treaty signed in 1979 by President Carter enabled the legal return of adult and juvenile illegal aliens and immi grants, but procedures never have been put in place for juvenile offenders, according to the commission. “We believe that to serve their pop ulation best, we would be doing both countries a service by returning their kids home, and also (sending) American ju venile offenders in Mexico back to the United States,” Garza said. “We feel that both of these client pop ulations can be best served in their natu ral habitat, with their supporting family structures and within the community they’ll be reintegrated back into,” he said. Campaigning senator opposes negative talk AUSTIN (AP) — With all this neg ative political campaigning, one state senator fighting for re-election says there ought to be a law against it. State Sen. Robert “Bob” Glasgow says he’ll introduce that legislation. The Stephenville Democrat said de ceit, deception and lies are becoming campaign staples causing good, moral people to steer away from politics. “The state of political campaigning in Texas is absolutely at an all-time low, and it’s absolutely disgraceful,” Glas gow said. “It’s Republicans, it’s Democrats. It has got to stop,” He said. Glasgow, who faces Republican Jesse Coffey in the District 22 race in North Central Texas, said if he wins, he will in troduce comprehensive election reforms to regulate campaign ads and other pub lic statements by politicians and their media consultants. Glasgow, an attorney, acknowledged it would be tough to draft such legis lation without something interfering with the First Amendment right to freedom of speech. But, he said, it can be done by setting the standard that the person knew a statement was false and inaccurate when he made it. The senator complained of his own opponent’s campaign tactics. One of Coffey’s consultants dismissed Glasgow’s protests, although he said he was glad to hear them. “We take it as a good sign. I think he knows he’s in the political fight of his life,” said Huck Henning, a consultant to Coffey. Glasgow particularly takes issue with Coffey campaign literature using the “Texas Political Report,” which says the senator favors granting parole for heinous criminals and broadening the sales tax. Glasgow said he told the interviewer for the publication that discretion should be used in parole, and broadening the sales tax could be used as an option as opposed to other kinds of tax increases. But Henning said this isn’t negative campaigning. “We’re running a hard, tough campaign, but we’ve never brought his personality into this,” he said. “What he’s saying in my estimation is that a challenger shouldn’t be able to run against an incumbent,” Henning said. 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Another 15 ve ing licenses for tracks, and threi about Class 3 trat ters have been su spective greyhou Tuesday was I plications could tracks, those wh tuel horse racing Applications for taken until Dec. other classes of later. Fisher said tl about Class 2 li Bandera, Blana Goliad, Harris, J ion, McCullough rant and Travis c< Letters regard been received fre Guadalupe count Letters on Cl which will race — were recervec and Kimble coun ENJ< MSC corny.