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^Controversial judge fines Spanish-speaking defendants
WESLACO (AP) — Municipal Judge Joe I. Carde
nas hands out some controversial advice along with
the fines in his courtroom, telling some Spanish
speaking defendants they should take English
lessons.
“Even here in the [Rio Grande]
Valley, you’re much better off if
you speak the language of the
country,” Cardenas said yester
day. “It might determine if you get
a job or don’t get a job.”
Though Cardenas describes it as
helpful advice, critics said he is out
of line and is intimidating people
vho come before him on misde
meanor charges like traffic viola
tions or other minor crimes.
“1 don’t see that it’s his place
to tell people to learn English,”
Weslaco Commissioner Oscar Rios, who publicly
criticized Cardenas at a recent commission meeting,
said. “If you’re bilingual, it’s better, especially here
in the Valley, but 1 feel that if a person wants to learn
a second language, let it be voluntary.”
“Even here in the [Rio
Grande] Valley, you’re
much better of if you
speak the language of
the country.”
— Municipal Judge Joe I. Cardenas
Cardenas never makes learning English a re
quirement — he does not even check if someone is
taken a class. From time to time he informs defen
dants about English classes taught at the local library
if he thinks they would benefit
from it, he said.
“If they don’t speak English, I
will conduct the hearing in Span
ish, but I would prefer that they
know English and that the forum
is conducted in English because
we are in the United States of
America,” he said.
But it might as well be a court
order, say some of Cardenas’ de
tractors. Coming from a judge,
suggestions carry the weight of
authority, they said.
“It is a humiliation for the
judge to try and tell us that we should learn Eng
lish,” Luciano Rodriguez, district director for the
League of United Latin American Citizens in Hidal
go County said. “We have many things to do besides
learning English.”
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HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A former
state hospital worker headed to
the Texas death chamber last
night for his part in a 1984 shoot
ing spree that left three members
of a family dead in their East
Texas home.
James Beathard, 42, a former
psychiatric technician and sub
stance abuse counselor at the
Rusk State Hospital, would be the
second Texas inmate in as many
days to be put to death and the
33rd this year. Two more execu
tions are set for next week and at
least seven already are scheduled
for January.
Beathard was convicted of the
death of 14-year-old Marcus
Hathorn in an Oct. 9, 1984 shoot
ing rampage that also left the
boy’s parents, Gene and Linda
Hathorn, dead.
Another son, Gene Hathorn Jr.,
also was convicted of the Trinity
County killings and sentenced to
death. His case remains on appeal
and no execution date for him has
been set.
“I know whatever I
have to go to has
got to be better
than [death row]”
— James Beathard
Death-row inmate
“I’ve had 15 years to prepare,”
Beathard said in a recent death-
row interview. “I know whatever
I have to go to has got to be bet
ter than this.”
But he said he worried about his
mother, wife and a 20-year-old
daughter, whom he saw earlier this
year for the first time since she was
an infant.
“I would endure 10 times the
worst living than what I am going
through now for them,” Beathard
said. “So in that sense, no, I am not
ready to go.”
The younger Hathorn and
Beathard worked together at Rusk
State Hospital until Beathard went
to college in Nacogdoches, where
he earned more than 100 credit
hours at Stephen F. Austin State
University.
Court records indicated
Hathorn supplied Beathard with
illegal drugs for him to sell on
commission and during their
friendship Hathorn talked about
his desire to kill his father, step
mother and half-brother.
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Holiday
economy
accelerates
DALLAS (AP) — Post-Thank
giving spending and strong per
formance in manufacturing gave
the Texas economy a boost over
the last two months, according
to a widely watched Federal Re
serve report.
Known as the Beige Book, the
report released Wednesday shows
the Texas economy grew in the six
weeks that ended Nov. 30 at a
slightly faster clip than it did dur
ing the previous six weeks.
Another factor contributing to
the accelerated growth was the
high price of crude oil, which
meant a bit more demand for the
state’s oil-field industries.
Reigning in the state economy
was slower construction activity.
Experts gave a lot of the credit
for continued growth to out-of-
state migration, which has re
plenished the state’s labor pool.
“That is one of the reasons
that the Texas economy has con
tinued to outperform the nation
as a whole throughout this ex
pansion,” Steven Brown, an
economist with the Dallas Fed
eral Reserve said. Brown told
The Dallas Morning News that
without the migration, Texas
would have exhausted its own
labor supply.
The Texas economy has out
paced the nation’s as a whole
for seven of the last 10 years, of
ficials said.
Experts attributed some of the
strong performance to the state’s
growing high-tech sector and its
high volume of trade under the
North American Free Trade
Agreement.
Overall, the Fed said the U.S.
economy was expanding at a
“moderate to strong” pace in Oc
tober and November. Little sign of
either inflation or economic cool
ing was found, the Fed reported.
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