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Date: January 19
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Lodge
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Date: January 21
Time. 2.00 p.m.
Place: Lodge
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Date: January 24
Time: 600 p.m.
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Time: 8:00 p.m.
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Houston official
released on bond
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HOUSTON (AP) — The North
Forest Independent School District's
interim superintendent was released
from jail Thursday after posting
bond orb a felony theft charge accus
ing him of stealing $5,000 from the
school district.
Robert B. Jones. 55. was on freed
on $2,000 bond after a brief court
appearance. Jones was arrested
Wednesday at a convenience store,
prosecutor Jim Lindeman said.
The felony complaint, which
claims that the theft occurred Dec. 5,
stems from an ongoing investigation
into district finances, Lindeman
said. The charge carries a maximum
punishment of 20 years in prison
and a $10,000 fine.
In a Dec. 12 memo from the dis
trict’s Texas Education Agency-ap- *
pointed master. Joe Randow, Jones
was warned to repay a $5,000 salary
advance and other expenditures to
the district.
Lindeman, while declining to
elaborate on the charge against
Jones, cautioned against assuming
that it relates specificallv to the sal
ary advance.
But the Houston Chronicle re
ported Thursday that a source said
the charge does stem from the salary
advance Jones received in Septem
ber,
spokeswoman
who nad no comment
Hollis
District
Hood,
Jones’ arrest, said the interim super
intendent had repaid $750 of the ad
vance.
Randow's memo also directed
Jones to make restitution for an au
tomobile he leased from a Bavtown
car dealer and didn’t use for school
business, for gasoline company
credit card charges that were made
in Jones' name out someone else's
handwriting, and for $300 in long
distance phone calls Randow said
were unrelated to school business.
The TEA cited several instances
of “inappropriate expenditures of
school funds for personal use”
among other violations by the dis
trict when it appointed Randow as
master for Nortn Forest earlier this
month and lowered the district’s ac
creditation.
Randow, as masterT'h^s broad au
thority over district affaKr North
Forest is one step away frotnyjoss of
accrediution. wnich would lestd to
cancellation of state funding.
On Tuesday, the district’s school
trustees voted 5-2 to hire Charles
Matthews as the district’s new super
intendent. Trustees hope to bring
Matthews on board within the next
few weeks.
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Jail-overcrowding suit
may expand statewide
AUSTIN (AP) — If a jail over
crowding lawsuit against the state by
Nueces County goes forward, all 254
1'exas counties should be included,
an assistant attorney general told a
state judge Thursday.
The move — which is opposed by
Nueces County — is needed “to
avoid a multiplicity of lawsuits for
the stale with varying or inconsistent
results,” Assistant Attorney General
Bob Ozer said after the hearing be
fore State District Judge Joe Hart.
Ozer said inmates who have been
sentenced to the Texas Department
of Corrections and are “allegedly
backlogged in county jails” also
should he added to the suit.
But Nueces County Attorney Car
los Valdez and Steve Bickerstaff, an
Austin attorney who represented
Collin, Lubbock and El Paso counr
ties at theheartng. called the propo*
sal a delaying tactic. -
“This lawsuit doesn't need that,”
Bickerstaff said. “We feel the only
reason the state is trying to add all of
these unnecessary parties is simply
to obstruct the case.”
Bickerstaff, who was granted per
mission to file a friend-of-the-court
brief, estimated there are 11,000 in
mates who should be in TDC but are
being held in county jails.
TDC, which is under a federal
court order because of crowded con
ditions, limits the number of admis
sions with a quota system for coun
ties. The suit says the state has a duty
to take its prisoners.
The judge also heard motions by
Nueces County and the state, which
both asked for a ruling in their favor
without going through a full trial.
Hart could rule as soon i
month, Valdez said.
“We are reouired to comply with
Ruiz (the feaeral lawsuit),” Ozer
said. “And the only way to comply
with Ruiz is to develop a reasonable,
rational, proportionate admissions
Suspect stays
under scrutiny
after release
as early next
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DALLAS (AP) — Dallas County
sheriffs officials said Thursday their
investigation of a seven-year-old
double slaying remains a “high
priority case” despite the release of
their prime suspect.
Sheriffs Department spokesman
Jim Ewell said the investigation into
the 1981 slayings of a North Dallas
woman and her 5-year-old son is still
open.
However, he said officials re
leased Mose L. Collins, who was ear
lier charged with killing Roxann J.
Jeeves and her son Kristopher
Koper, for lack of sufficient evi
dence.
“After submitting what findings
we did have in the investigation of
Mose Collins, the district attorney
agreed we had insufficient evidence
to indict at this time,’’ Ewell said.
Collins, 34, was arrested Nov. 30
in Junction City, Kan. after an eye
witness placed Collins at Jeeves
north Dallas apartment complex the
day of the crime, but there was no
evidence to tie him directly to the
deaths, Lt. M.E. Shaddox told the
Dallas Morning News.
- The bodies of Jeeves and her son
were found in a southeast Dallas
County field on Dec. 23, 1981.
Collins had been held in jail in lieu
' of $ 100,000 baiL
Collins' defense attorney Brad
Loliar says his diem is still a suspect
in the case and he believes Collins’
release was for other reasons.
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policy for the Texas Department of
Corrections. We can’t take all the in
mates that the counties are trying to
send to us.
“A favorable ruling for Nueces
County will mean even-handed
chaos throughout the state of Texas,
at least at the gates of TDC.”
But Valdez, who estimated it is
costing his county more than $2 mil
lion a year to hold more than 167
prisoners who should be in TDC,
said the state must act.
“The only ultimate answer is to
build more prisons, to build them as
soon as possible,” Valdez said. “This
f roblem should’ve been addressed
0 years ago, and it wasn't, and that’s
why we’re in this predicament at this
point.”
i 4 •
"Valdez said his county’s action is
needed because, "If somebody
doesn’t push the state, which is what
we’re doing, it'll never get done.”
Supporters
want end
to elections
AUSTIN (AP) — Supporters of
replacing direct election of Texas
appeals court judges with a modified
appointment plan say they now have
decided to add state district courts in
bigurban counties to their plan.
The Austin American-Statesman.
quoting unnamed legislative sources,
Thursday reported that Gov. Bill
Clements “has indicated he will sup
port the expanded plan.”
Rep. Terral Smith. R-Auslin, said
he and other key supporters of
“merit election” of judges agreed
this week to include district judges in
the state’s six biggest coiinties —
Bexar. Dallas, El Paso, Harris, Tar
rant and Travis — in the plan.
Under merit election, according
to its proponents, a judicial candi
date would be nominated by the gov
ernor but be subject to voter appro
val.
Currently, Texas judges are
elected in direct, partisan elections,
and critics of tne system have
blamed that system for election to
the bench of some unqualified
judges, especially in larger counties
which might have more than 50 dis
trict judges.
Previously, however, merit elec
tion backers had planned to concen
trate their push for state appellate
courts, including the Supreme Court
and Court of Criminal Appeals.
Defenders of partisan elections
say they guarantee that judges are
accountable to the people.
According to the American-
Statesman, merit election backers
decided to expand their plan after a
federal court decision last year, and
two pending lawsuits, that could re
quire the slate to alter its partisan
election system for state courts by
dropping at-large races in favor of
ainne-judge districts.
For example, the 13 state district
judges in Travis County now run
countywide for their seats, and vot
ers cast ballots for all 13. Under a
single-judge district system, the
county would be divided into 13 dis-
tricts with a judge elected by voters
in only that district. But the judge
would continue to hear cases from
all over the county, not just those in
volving someone in his district.
Rep. Bruce Gibson. D-Godley,
said a merit election system could re
tain at-large voting and preserve the
right of voters to pass judgment on
ail judges they might meet in a
courtroom.
Jan. 19 MardiGras
Jan. 21 Penthouse Party
Jan. 22 * Superbowl Bash
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Jan. 24 ‘Import Smoker
Jan. 26 Informational
Jan. 28 Deadman’s Party
Jan. 29 ‘Formal Dinner
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