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Lubbock landfill yields findings
Preliminary digs produce evidence of
life, activity almost 10,000 years ago
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LUBBOCK — Archaeologists
say preliminary digs in Lubbock's
landfill have revealed animal
remains and evidence of humans
living there between 8,000 and
10,000 years ago.
David Brown, an archaeologist
for Austin-based Hicks & Co.,
said experts are now conducting a
laboratory analysis of the
findings.
"The field work basically
confirmed our suspicion that it
was a significant archaeological
site," Brown said. "We know that
people were there. What we have
Is bison bones, bones from small
mammals and debris from stone
tool manufacture.
"What we don't know is how
all these things interrelated."
Brown said the early humans
who left the debris could be the
same group documented as
inhabiting the Lubbock Lake
Landmark site as far back as
12,000 years ago. The landmark
was declared a state historical
park in October 1990.
"We don't even know for sure
what their range in the Lubbock
area would have been," Brown
said. "Whether there was a
resident band in the Lubbock
area, or whether they just
wandered around, we don't
know.
"That's why we feel like this
site is important — you have so
many questions to ask and such a
blank slate to start with."
Hicks & Co. was hired by the
city to excavate a portion of the
landfill after bison bones were
found in a preliminary
archaeology study needed for a
state expansion permit.
The company is scheduled to
complete its laboratory work in
February, at which time officials
will decide if the site should be an
archaeological landmark. That
would mean closing an acre of the
city landfill.
Brown said archaeologists still
must determine whether the
artifacts represent the location of
an intact gathering place or
whether they were washed there.
He said the findings were
buried 30 feet underground near
sediment that appears to be a
former riverbank.
"We suspect that it was a little
bit marshy there, and, if that is the
case, the deposits might have
represented a kill site rather than
a camp site," Brown said.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — The FBI office in Dallas has
established a white-collar crime unit devoted
exclusively to computer fraud.
A staff of three, headed by Special Agent
Bill Eubanks, was created in August in
response to complaints by company executives
who say their computer systems are becoming
more susceptible to attacks from computer
hackers.
The squad is targeting fraud including
industrial espionage, theft, destruction of
product information and stealing long
distance codes.
Hackers include not just the stereotypical
"computer nerds" who get their thrills simply
by gaining access to a corporate computer
system, Eubanks said, but sophisticated
criminals whose goal is profit.
"We sense there's a problem out there,"
Eubanks said. "Just about everyone now has a
computer."
Under several federal statutes, the acts of
illegally entering government or private
computer systems and tampering with,
stealing, damaging or misusing information
are punishable by prison terms and fines.
No such cases investigated by the FBI have
yet been prosecuted in Dallas. But FBI agents
say they are conducting several investigations
here spurred by complaints from Corporations.
"We're definitely concerned with people
trying to hack into our computer networks,"
said Detlef Eurich, head of corporate security
for Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems
Corp., a computer and information services
company.
"With the expansion of the use of
information technology, the opportunity for
abuse for criminal purposes is on the rise,"
Eurich told The Dallas Morning News.
Dallas' computer systems may have
experienced some of the most sophisticated
attacks in the nation, FBI agents said. They
declined to discuss specifics.
"Dallas is a major financial center of the
Southwest," Eubanks said. "We want to
approach this from an aggressive standpoint.
It hasn't been aggressively pursued in the
Dallas division."
It is only in the last two years that computer
fraud cases have received national attention.
In July, five New York City-based hackers
were indicted on federal charges. They were
accused of breaking into corporate computer
systems and stealing confidential credit
reports, telephone long-distance codes and
other information, which they sold for profit.
Among the companies whose computers
were invaded were Southwestern Bell
Telephone Co. and the TRW credit reporting
agency.
Survey reveals increase of child abuse in Texas
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HUNTSVILLE ~e Nearly 1
million Texas children are at risk
of growing up in homes where
abuse is common, according to
estimates made by a Sam Houston
State University survey.
The Sam Houston survey of
941 Texans, when applied to the
state population, shows that child
abuse has nearly doubled in Texas
from 1978 and 1991.
In 1978, only 7.7 percent of
parents surveyed by Sam
Houston said at least one child in
their family had been mistreated.
In 1991, 16 percent of the parents
surveyed reported at least one
child had been mistreated.
Results from the survey, done
in conjunction with the Children's
Trust Fund of Texas, were
published in the Houston
Chronicle on Sunday.
Researchers did not define
child abuse or neglect in the 32-
page questionnaires distributed to
the Texans surveyed, who were
selected randomly from a list of
licensed drivers in the state.
Instead, they gave survey
participants a list of behaviors in
four categories —- neglect and
physical, sexual and emotional
abuse — and asked them to
decide which constituted abuse.
Using the answers from those
surveyed, researchers also
estimated as many as 2.5 million
adult Texans suffered some form
of abuse when they were
youngsters.
Other major findings included:
— Emotional abuse showed the
biggest increase, with 11.1 percent
of adults saying they had children
who had been locked in a closet,
cursed, forced to sit in a corner or
otherwise emotionally abused.
Incidents of sexual abuse also
increased, from 1.1 percent in
1978 to 5.3 percent last year.
— Nearly 19 percent of the
adults said they had been victims
of abuse or neglect as children,
compared with 14 percent in 1978.
"Everyone has been saying
that child abuse was increasing,"
said survey director Raymond
H.C. Teske Jr., a Sam Houston
State criminal justice professor.
"But we were surprised to see
how much it had increased. We
never expected it had doubled."
Even more alarming to experts
is the small number of incidents
of abuse and neglect reported to
authorities. Twenty-one percent
responding to the questionnaire
said the abuse was reported.
But in half the reported cases,
no action was taken against the
abuser.
Less than 8 percent of the
offenders were arrested, and even
a smaller percentage — 3 percent
— landed in jail or prison.
"Everyone has been saying that child abuse
was increasing. But we were surprised to see
how much it had increased. We never expected
it had doubled."
-Raymond H.C. Teske Jr.,
Sam Houston State criminal justice professor
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DALLAS — Allowing people to drink in
downtown Dallas during the Texas-Oklahoma
estivities is an invitation to problems, says the
ather of a teen-ager shot to death during this
year's revelry.
Wayne Crump of Carrollton says police
hould have foreseen that violence would
rupt, despite a heavy police presence
hroughout the party area downtown.
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irink down there at all," Crump said. His son,
fhomas Justin Crump, was fatally shot late
h riday night after a minor traffic accident on
the west side of downtown.
Police reports indicate that there were at
least three other shootings and two stabbings
in which victims were taken to local hospitals.
Several fights were reported, including one
in which a man was hit repeatedly with a
hammer. During a fight at a restaurant, four
men fell through a window.
Allowing revelers to drink "just invites
trouble," Crump said. "When I was a kid, it
was fist fights and drinking, now it's knives
and shooting."
City leaders said that although police were
prepared for the usual crowd control
problems, they will have to devise a plan to
prevent a repeat of Friday night's violence.
"It was a whole different level of problems
than we've ever seen at Texas-OU," said
Mayor Steve Bartlett.
"At 11 o'clock, all hell broke loose," he said.
"I think it shocked us all. It is not clear what
we do about it, but it is clear that we will have
to deal with it in a different way," Bartlett
added.
The violence prompted talk of enforcing the
city's ordinance against public drinking, which
traditionally is waived during festivities the
weekend of the football game between the
University of Texas and Oklahoma University
at the Cotton Bowl.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEBSTER, Texas — The anxi
ety ended Sunday for a woman
'vho had waited for days to hear
from her husband, an American
|bomb-disposal expert arrested by
Iraqi authorities in a border dis
pute.
Chad Hall, 50, was returned to
Kuwait on Sunday, a day after he
was released by Iraqi authorities.
And his wife, Susie Hall got the
telephone call she had been
iwaiting Sunday morning.
"I didn't even look at what
ime it was," Mrs. Hall said from
ler suburban Houston home.
The phone rang, and somebody
'aid, 'Hang on.' Then his voice
:ame over the phone and I was
very pleased. '
Mrs. Hall said her husband
"was doing great." However, she
declined to discuss any details
about what her husband had told
her about his captivity.
Hall was arrested Thursday af
ternoon in a disputed section of
the Iraq-Kuwait border.
The retired U.S. Army major
was released Saturday after two
days in Iraq. The United Nations
took custody of him in Baghdad
on Saturday and flew him to their
border headquarters at Um Qasr
for a medical examination Sunday
before flying him to Kuwait.
On Sunday, Hall blinked back
tears as he described his terrifying
ordeal to reporters at the U.S. Em
bassy.
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Topic: How to get a job in the exciting
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Monday, October 12,1992
Memorial Student Center
Room 224
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