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Two Texas proj ects cut by Senate
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the Senate panel for Sematec
matches what President Bush re
quested, but is $20 million short of
both what the House and the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee
have approved.
The subcommittee's move to
slash V-22 funding caught the
Texas congressional delegation off
guard.
Though disappointed, the law
makers said they remained hope
ful funding would be restored.
"Texas took a double hit," said
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas. "But
we've still got a good chance to
put things right and I'll be making
an all-out effort."
Bentsen and fellow Texas Sen.
Phil Gramm planned to work to
get the full Senate Appropriations
Committee, of which Gramm is a
member, to restore the funds.
"Short of that, we'll come back
for another bite of the apple later,
certainly in the conference with a
House committee which is strong
ly committed to a robust V-22 pro
gram," Bentsen said.
Rep. Pete Geren, D-Fort Worth,
said there had been no hints that
the subcommittee was planning to
pare the V-22 money.
The embattled aircraft for years
has been attacked by the Pentagon
as too costly, but until Wednesday
had never suffered a funding cut
in Congress.
"I was real surprised and dis
appointed," said Rep. Pete Geren,
D-Texas, whose Fort Worth dis
trict is home to one of the devel
opers, Bell Helicopter Textron.
The aircraft takes off like a heli
copter but flies like a plane.
Geren speculated that the Sen
ate subcommittee may have elimi
nated funding as leverage to use
in negotiations later with the
House.
"I'm hopeful it's just an effort
to take a hostage for the confer
ence, but it was a very disturbing
development and one we sure
didn't expect," he said.
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AUSTIN — The Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals reversed two death sentences
hlfcoA^ r e dnesday but upheld four other capital mur-
ler cases, including that of a man convicted of
killing a Dallas police officer in 1988.
I In one reversal, Michael Wayne Richard
liill get a new trial because the court said the
calfRoyceil|j lir y was not gi ven a chance to consider the de-
■ndant's background of child abuse when de-
prmining his culpability.
I Richard was convicted in the Aug. 18, 1986
fatal shooting in Houston of Marguerite Lu-
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In the other reversal, the case of Michael
Steven Jones was sent back to the trial court
because the Criminal Appeals Court said pros
ecutors misled one of the jurors on the defini
tion of intentional murder.
Jones was convicted in Jefferson County of
the Oct. 9, 1987 fatal stabbing of Faye Larry
during a burglary. In the police officer's mur
der, the court rejected the appeal of Vincent
Edward Cooks who was convicted in the fatal
shooting of Gary McCarthy. McCarthy was
working off-duty when he was gunned down
Feb. 26, 1988 during a robbery attempt of a
west Dallas grocery store owner. His killing
was the third of a Dallas police officer during a
six-week period. Cooks alleged the evidence
was insufficient to support his conviction, that
the trial judge allowed numerous errors in the
jury selection process, and improperly allowed
him to be shackled during the trial.
The Criminal Appeals Court rejected all his
appeals.
Other cases affirmed by the court were:
— Emanuel Kemp Jr., who was convicted in
Tarrant County for the murder of Johnnie
Gray on May 28, 1987.
— Sammie Felder Jr. was convicted of capi
tal murder for the stabbing death of James
Hanks, a paraplegic, during a robbery on
March 14, 1975.
— Thomas Joe Miller-El, for the Nov. 16,
1985 fatal shooting of Douglas Walker during
a robbery of the Dallas-Fort Worth South Holi
day Inn in Irving.
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HUNTSVILLE A'25-year-
old Mexican nartictnal was
scheduled to die early Thurs
day for the 1985 slaying of a
motorist who had given the
condemned man a ride near
Brownsville.
Attorneys for Irineo Tristan
Montoya had asked a state
judge in Brownsville to grant a
stay, but no ruling had been is
sued as of early Wednesday af
ternoon.
Montoya was scheduled to
die shortly after midnight, but
the Texas Attorney General's
office said he probably would
receive a stay because his case
has not yet been through the
full appeals process.
In addition to the request for
a stay, the head of Mexico's Na
tional Human Rights Commis
sion has asked Texas Gov. Ann
Richards to commute Mon
toya's death sentence on hu
manitarian grounds.
Montoya was convicted by a
jury in the Nov. 17, 1985 stab
bing death of John E. Kilheffer,
who gave Montoya and a friend
a ride. Montoya has claimed the
other man — who was impris
oned but not sentenced to death
— did the stabbing.
According to court records,
Montoya gave police a confes
sion in which he admitted that
he and another man robbed Kil
heffer after Kilheffer had picked
them up hitchhiking to
Brownsville.
Montoya admitted holding
the victim while the second
man stabbed him, court records
showed.
Meanwhile, a federal judge
Tuesday granted a stay for
David Martin Long, 39, who
also was scheduled to die early
Thursday for the 1986 hatchet
slaying of a 64-year-old blind
woman in Lancaster, a Dallas
suburb.
Dalpha Lorene Jester and
two other women, including a
cousin, were hacked to death in
their home Sept. 27,1986.
Prosecutor claimed Long,
who had lived at the house for
about a week, killed the women
because he was tired of hearing
them argue.
During his trial. Long called
the triple homicide a 'Satanic
experience" and said he would
kill again if not given the death
penalty.
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Voting plan to bring
better representation
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DALLAS — After three years of legal battles, elections and ap
peals to the U.S. Justice Department and Supreme Court, Dallas had
a new voting district plan that provided better minority representa
tion.
The plan was first put into use last November when a 15-mem
ber city council was elected under the new boundaries.
So city officials were a little shocked this week when a confiden
tial memo from City Attorney Sam Lindsey said that another elec
tion was needed to approve the plan, known as 14-1, to satisfy state
law.
"I was stunned when I saw the memo," said Mayor Steve
Bartlett. "It was a cold sponge in the face."
Now, city officials are trying to come to grips with the possibility
that the plan could be rejected by voters.
If voters don't approve 14-1, it would not mean a return to the
old 8-3 system, where eight council members were elected from a
district and three, including the mayor, were elected at large.
However, City Councilman Glenn Box, who opposed 14-1 when
he sat on the old 8-3 system, said that if voters don't approve 14-1
this time, the matter could return to U.S. District Judge Jerry Buch-
meyer.
Under 14-1, all 14 members of the council are elected from dis
tricts and the mayor is elected at large.
Voters rejected the 14-1 system by less than 400 votes in Decem
ber 1990. That vote came after Buchmeyer had ruled the 8-3 system
was unconstitutional.
Bartlett predicts a special election would cost taxpayers about
$400,000.
"At best, it was a huge miscommunication that is very costly and
very unfair to the taxpayers," Bartlett said.
Late cold front extends
hope of cotton growers
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COLLEGE STATION - The
cold front predicted to hit Texas
will be delayed until next week,
leaving a warm, dry forecast for
cotton harvesting, the Texas Agri
cultural Extension Service reports.
The western trans-Pecos region
should receive showers Wednes
day, and two tropical waves
should bring showery weather to
the coastal region. The rest of the
state will enjoy dry weather with
highs in the 90s and lows in the
upper 60s, said Dr. Mickey Flynn,
meteorologist at the Southwest
Agricultural Weather Service in
College Station.
"The cool weather predicted
for this week has been delayed,
but it is coming," he said. "A big
high-pressure system should
push the cold front into Texas. It
will be just north of the state on
Saturday and should bring signifi
cantly cooler weather early next
week."
Cotton producers in Southwest
Texas, who have over 80 percent
of their Upland cotton picked, are
hoping the weather will hold off
until all of it is harvested.
"Our main concern is the dry
ing time," said Dr. Noble Kear
ney, Extension agronomist in
Uvalde.
Kearney said Southwest Texas
frequently experiences morning
cloud cover that delays picking
until one or two o'clock, when the
cotton is sufficiently dry.
"It doesn't take much. One
shower can put a stop to the day's
picking," he said.
Kearney said an afternoon
shower bringing as little as a
quarter-inch of rain would delay
picking until the next day.
"If the weather holds off, we
should be finished by Saturday,"
he said.
The front should affect most of
the state, and temperatures could
drop significantly, Flynn said.
"In Montana Saturday they are
expecting lows to be 16 degrees
below normal and highs to be 28
below normal," he said.
Texas may also see some rain
next week associated with the
front, Flynn said.
Producers in northeastern Ma
son County are busy repairing
water gaps and damage from two
cloudbursts that startled residents
on Sept. 1 and Sept. 10.
"The Sept. 1 cloudburst
brought six to seven inches of
rain," said Arlan Gentry, Exten
sion agricultural agent in Mason.
"Some areas had a lot of rain and
some didn't get too much. One
place had a lot of damage, possi
bly from a whirlwind or a torna
do."
Gentry said trees were uproot
ed, tin roofs were blown off old
barns and property-separating
fences across creeks were easily
washed away.
"When the creeks rise, they
will flow pretty fast and the de
bris will knock the fences out.
This'll happen if you have a hard
rain. It may only be an inch or so,
but it doesn't take much to knock
them out," he said.
Despite the cloudburst. Gentry
said, rain has been spotty, and
producers haven't received a gen
eral rain since spring.
"We're split between ranchers
and farmers," he said. "The
ranchers could use rain all year
long."
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