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Don’t mess up Texas any more,’ ” Tom Smith, director of Public Citizen-Texas, said. The Don’t Mess Up Texas Coalition also dis tributed a memorandum addressed to the Senate Nominations Committee opposing Gov. Bill Clements’ appointment of Jay Reynolds, man ager of uranium for Chevron Resources Inc., to the state Radiation Advisory Board. The appointment, if confirmed by the Senate, would be “the classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse,” the coalition said in the memo, Chevron has a uranium-processing facility in Panna Maria in Karnes County, and the coalition said there is “growing evidence” that its opera tions are “contaminating the groundwater in the area and endangering the health of residents in the area.” The approximately 35 demonstrators gath ered on the Capitol steps, displaying plastic sacks of soil they said was tainted in different parts of the state. The coalition said Reynolds has shown “disre gard for environmental safeguards and proper regulatory oversight.” Reynolds countered, “I think Chevron’s done an excellent job, and I feel good about myself.” He said he was appointed as an industry rep resentative to the board and added, “I feel I’m very well-qualified in that area.” Reynolds said Chevron has complied with the law and that most workers at the facility are na tive Texans. “We take a lot of pride in the work we do, and we would certainly not jeopardize our own fu ture and that of our neighbors, f riends and rela tives,” he said. The coalition said Reynolds’ appointment is an example of the need for reform in state agencies that are supposed to guard against pollution. People from around the state joined in the rally, carrying signs. One sign, topped with a skull-and-crossbones drawing, said, “Warning: Gov. Clements’ appointees may be hazardous to your health.” “We think he is an outstanding appointmem,'; said Reggie Bashur, the governor’s press seat tary. “He’ll be fair and balanced and provi cellent service for all the people of Texas.” In separate action, consumer groups sait there has been some good news for consumtn this legislative session, but battles remain ODi sues such as protections against deceptive trait practices. 707 Te: Suite Across fro Medigap legislation to protect purchasers)! supplemental Medicare policies and insura® reforms are among measures that would bentf consumers, said Karen Lindell, spokesmanfe the American Association of Retired Persons. But AARP joined groups including PublicCt- zen, Consumers Union, Gray Panthers an: Texas Consumer Association to announceoppi. sition to three measures expected to be at- dressed this week in the House or Senate. One bill would allow manufacturers great leeway in avoiding liability for marketing defa live products, while another would weakencot sumer protections under the Deceptive Trail Practices Act, they said. Investigators follow crime trail to Miami LONGVIEW (AP) — It’s the stuff of television police shows — small town private eyes track down stolen merchandise and wind up in the big city of Miami, where they encounter drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, and contracts put out on their lives. All the elements were there for a first-rate crime story, but for Long view private investigators Barry Hig ginbotham and Jimmy Lancaster, fiction became reality. Higginbotham and Lancaster flew back to Longview last week from Florida with about $110,000 worth of movie sound equipment, which was stolen from a moving van E arked at a Longview motel in Octo- er. The theft was similar to several others recently investigated by Longview police Detective Roy Bean, in which a theft ring would cruise Interstate 20 at night looking for moving vans parked at motels. Once a van was spotted, the thieves would hot-wire the truck, drive it to an isolated area of East Texas and steal its contents. According to Higginbotham, the sound equipment was stolen from Vestron Pictures of Stanford, Conn. He said the movie crew had finished filming the movie “Little Monsters” in North Carolina and was headed back to California for editing when they stopped overnight in Longview. “The next morning one of the guys walked out and found their truck gone,” Higginbotham said. “The truck was later found down around Henderson, but all the stuff, about $637,000 worth of sound equipment, costumes, puppets and other stuff, was gone.” He said Bean worked the case for a while, but when he wasn’t able to devote his full time to the theft, he advised a representative of Fire man’s Fund, the insurance agency carrying the policy on the stolen merchandise, to hire a private inves tigation agency. “That’s how we got involved,” Higginbotham said. “The theft oc curred in October and we got the case on March 30, about six months later.” Higginbotham said they first tracked down a Longview man who had been arrested in connection with several other moving van thefts and obtained some names, which he, Lancaster and their partner Ron Walker began tracking down. “The guy from Longview had skipped out of town, but we found him in Miami,” Lancaster explained. “We talked to him and found out he and two other guys had stolen the van and took the stuff to his broth er’s nightclub in Liberty City, an area of Miami that isn’t your most desirable area of town. As a matter of fact, the cops down there told us we were crazy to even go down in that part of town.” Higginbotham 'and Lancaslti took their information and contacting other people who hat been associated with the stolei movie equipment, boundng bati and forth from Miami to Fort Lau derdale for five days and nights Southern Baptists face internal feud at meeting NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —- Whether the next Southern Baptist Convention president is a conserva tive or moderate could hinge on the choice of the gamblers heaven, Las Vegas, for the church’s annual meet ing, ministers say. ends at the convention. Consera- tives favor a literal interpretationof the Bible and removing liberal f cies from the denomination, incl ing SBC-run colleges. The 14.8 million Southern Bap tists, who make up the largest Prot estant denomination in the nation, are in the midst of a family feud over whether moderates or conservatives should control the body and its con siderable influence and holdings. Moderates believe the consent' lives are simply power hungry.Trut SBC liberals — people who denytht divinity of Christ — don’t exist, said David Currie, coordinator for Bap tists Committed to the SBC, a group that hopes to overturn the new con servative leadership at the Las Vegas meeting. A conservative, the Rev. Jerry Vines of Jacksonville, Fla., is the cur rent president whose one-vear term The meeting June 13-15 is ex pected to be attended by less than 20,000 faithful. The E FAMOUS FIRSTS FIRST AIRPLANE The Wright Brothers began experimenting with kites in the 1890’s and in 1903 became the first to sustain flight for 852 feet over the beach at Kitty Hawk. FIRST LOVE She was the only one who didn’t laugh when you fell off the jungle gym and broke your leg. She even let you win at checkers. What a woman! FIRST CAR The world's first motor car, the Lenoir, named after its inventor, ran at an average speed of 4 miles per hour. In 1863 the 1 1/2 horsepower vehicle made its first drive of 6 miles in only 3 hours. UNIVERSITY TOWER It’s time to introduce another Famous First, University Tower. In August, the privately-owned and managed property will open as a dormitory. At University Tower you’ll find 24-hour on-site security, a huge bedroom and private bath, full meal plans, an exercise and weight room, study rooms & com puter room, an indoor pool, a sport-court, a volleyball pit, laundry facilities, housekeeping service, and a shuttle bus to campus. It’s the first and only dorm of its kind at A&M. Call or come by for leasing information for Fall/Spring '89-'90! The Private Dorm of the 90's University Tower 410 South Texas Avenue (409) 846-4242 1-800-537-9158 University Tower is managed by one of the most experienced student housing management company in the United States. 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