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CALL PAULL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 776-0400 Savings firm in San Antonio loses millions SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San An tonio Savings Association, founded by a former mayor 77 years ago, suf fered multimillion-dollar losses in its 1988 third quarter, forcing the thrift into technical insolvency, officials said Wednesday. But SASA officials were quick to point out that customers’ accounts were insured by the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp. and that they hoped to have a remedy soon for the thrift. The institution is touted as the city’s largest thrift with $2.9 billion in assets. W.W. “Bo” McAllister III, SASA’s chairman of the board and chief ex ecutive officer, said in a statement that the thrift lost $51 million in the third quarter and that its deficit in the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles capital was about $12 mil lion. The thift, which conducted its own audit and was being examined by the Federal Home Loan Bank, also will have to write off at least an other $100 million in bad loans made in the real estate industry, McAllister said. The losses would reduce SASA’s regulatory capital to $57 million, well below its minimum regulatory requirement of $101 million. The SASA announcement comes on the heels of federal banking offi cials predictions that the country’s S&L crisis cleanup eventually may cost up to $100 billion. More than 140 thrifts have failed or have been forced to merge this year. But McAllister remained opti mistic that his institution would bo unce back. “We have been actively pursuing various avenues of attracting invest ment capital. There is considerable enthusiasm on Wall Street to recapi talize Texas financial institutions un der the auspices of the Southwest Plan,” McAllister said. “Many options are open to us and we will not lose sight of our obliga tions to our customers,” said said McAllister, serves on the board of the Federal Asset Disposition Asso ciation, which sells the troubled as sets of failed thrifts taken over by the FSLIC. SASA, founded in 1921 by former San Antonio Mayor W.W. McAllis ter, has 53 offices in San Antonio and South Texas and employs about 1,100 people. James J. Horan, SASA’s chief fi nancial officer, said in an interview that the thrift’s options are numer ous. “In the coming weeks and months we are going to have to find inves tors who are willing to recapitalize us and bring our net worth back to what is required by federal law,” Ho ran said. “That situation may involve a merger or it may involve investors just looking at SASA alone,” he said. He said, however, that customers should not be worried. “As far as the customer is con cerned, this means absolutely noth ing,” he said. “All deposits are feder ally insured. It’s totally transparent to the customer.” Couple attends Delta trial to get answers IRVING (AP) — Some had come because it was like seeing a mystery novel unfold, hoping they would find out who or what was responsi ble for the crash of Delta Flight 1141. Others were scribbing notes fu riously, stocking new nuggets of knowledge for the day the inevitable trials begin. But Helen and Paul Bare, of Tro phy Club, Texas, were not like the rest. They came to watch the public in quiry into the crash of the Boeing 727 at Dallas-Fort Worth Interna tional Airport, hoping to uncover answers they fear are buried along with their daughter, their son-in-law and their granddaughter. On the hearing’s first day, they heard something they had never heard before about the crash. “Someone had tried to get the back door open,” Mrs. Bare said, her eyes tearing up and her voice break ing. “But the door didn’t open.” Robert R. Coester, who also had been a passenger aboard the flight that left Dallas bound for Salt Lake City, told the federal investigative panel how he had tried in vain to reach passengers he knew were trapped by flames in the back of the plane. Court OKs appeal for man claiming discrimination AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday granted a hearing for a black Death Row inmate who, his at torneys argue, was falsely convicted of the rape-murder of a white teen age girl in a racially biased investiga tion in Montgomery County. Clarence Lee Brandley, 37, was convicted in 1981 and sentenced to die in the Aug. 23, 1980, death of Cheryl Dee Fergeson, 16, of Bel- Iville, who was killed while attending a volleyball tournament at Conroe High School. Brandley, who worked as a janitor at the school, was convicted in a sec ond trial by an all-white jury after his first trial ended in a hung jury. In October 1987, the state district judge who conducted a hearing into the case at Galveston recommended that the Court of Criminal Appeals grant Brandley a third trial and that it be held outside of Montgomery County. Many of Brandleys’ supporters have alleged the case against him was racially motivated. Attorneys for Brandley, who was a janitor at Conroe High School, said other janitors in the school at the time were responsible for killing Miss Fergeson. Prosecutors have said a new trial would be difficult because so much physical evidence has been lost. The Court of Criminal Appeals scheduled oral arguments for Jan. 18 on three points, including Brand- ley’s claim that the death penalty, as applied in Texas, unconstitutionally discriminates against blacks. “In Texas, the most likely person to die by lethal injection is a black man convicted of the rape-homicide of a white woman,” Brandley’s atto- reys contended in a written motion to the court. The appeals court also agreed to hear arguments on Brandley’s claims that he was denied a fair trial because critical evidence was lost or destroyed while in the possession of the state and that the pretrial investi gation was conducted in a way to cre ate false testimony and manufacture circumstantial evidence against the defendant. Brandley, whose case has received national exposure, testified at his first trial that he was in his office smoking a cigarette when Miss Fer geson disappeared. He didn’t testify at his second trial. “The litany of events graphically described by the witnesses, some of it chilling and shocking, leads me to the conclusion the perversive shadow of darkness has obscured the light of fundamental decency and human rights,” visiting State District Judge Perry Pickett of Mid land said in urging a third trial for Brandley. Pickett presided over an evident iary hearing in Galveston in which Brandley’s attorneys accused the state of conducting a shoddy investi gation that could have revealed oth ers as the killer. Officials look at expanding state roads AUSTIN (AP) — The state high way department will look at the pos sibility of widening two north-south routes that intersect in Abilene. The highway commission has in structed the department to look at a route including parts of U.S. 87, U.S. 84, U.S. 183, U.S. 290, Inter state 610 and Interstate 45. Of the approximately 850 miles from Tex- line to Galveston, about 130 miles are two-lane highways. The other route to be studied ex tends along U.S. 277 from north of Wichita Falls south to U.S. 83 and on to Brownsville. Of the approxi mately 755 miles in this route, 520 miles are two-lane roads. Local officials and civic groups from West Texas have asked the highway commission to widen two- lane roads on the routes to four lanes. Nominate Your Parents for Aggie Parents of the Year APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE AT MSC SPO STUDENT GOV. OFFICE GUARDROOM LIBRARY Due February 10, 1986 conviser-duffy-miller review GET THE CONVISER CONFIDENCE • Course Materials Include 5 Textbooks • 3 Month Format • Payment Plan Available/Major Credit Cards • Exam Techniques Clinic 76% PASS RATE □ Enclosed is $95.00 enroll me at the TAMU Student (with currentLDi discount tuition of $645 (Reg. tuition is $895.00) □ I would like more information about your course. 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