All right, two minutes after eight
o'clock in the morning on Capitol Hill,
thank you,
Statler Brothers,
and good morning once again, ventilatory
in the Kamia helicopter.
Merrily I lay on TV if you're going
northbound on Stebbins and you need the
exit to go north of Dallas, North Toll
Road, there's a stalled car on the way up
right about halfway between Stemmons and
Henry Hyde.
Otherwise, that stalled car has been
removed. The northbound Thornton, as we
told you about the reunion arena.
So traffic is at its normal stack
up there right now.
From up here, you can see home
Dallas Fort Worth, one of the
few metropolitan areas where we still
come for the good life, good
jobs.
Good homes.
Good entertainment.
Everyone wants part of the good life,
and that makes it harder to keep
because in Dallas Fort Worth, getting
to the good life means traveling by car
and sometimes traveling by car means
not going anywhere at all.
Tonight, we are all stuck in a growing
traffic jam, burning up our
time and our money
down payments on the final price,
giving up the good life.
The KBI helicopter.
All right, thank you.
A little traveling music for a Wednesday
morning on KBIO
Dam, this traffic jam.
Now, I hate to be late.
It hurts my motor.
Go so slow down this
traffic jam jam again.
All my stuff will be cool.
Yeah,
well, I love my job about five o'clock.
It took 15 minutes to go three blocks
just in time to stand in line with
freeway. Looking at parking lot.
Oh, I'm living
the good life for the Domingo's
family, it's in Plano.
She wants to do is get where the carrot
is, fresh air and space.
Is that a feeling of remoteness?
Only a few miles from the office of Dom
Domínguez in downtown Dallas was there.
But the important question is not how
far, but how long.
I have a nine hour commute
basically to get in to
work, and that's just about my
limit. I personally had
a very somewhat
difficult decision to make when I started
working downtown,
because concurrent with that, we moved.
And, you know,
the question was whether we were going to
move closer or stay out in the country
where we enjoy the open spaces
and the horses and that kind of thing.
And with the kids in the school system
and other things, I opted
to stay out there
and go ahead and fight Central Expressway
for an hour every morning.
Happiness is when you don't
have any backups or accidents on Central
Expressway.
Central is infamous but not unique.
The roads, big and small, are tied up in
many places in the midst cities
in Fort Worth.
Robert Gibbs, the owner of a.
Jim Soulsby lives south of Fort Worth and
works downtown.
I would say it's getting a little bit
worse, and I know that the problem
in the next few years is going to be
considerably worse than what it is now.
It looks like a solid row of automobiles,
nobody going anywhere because they're not
going to be able to go.
I have been driving this road probably
for six years
or 10 years now, and it has
increasingly gotten
more congested daily.
Tonight, there are about two million
cars in Dallas Fort Worth.
Every day there are 250
more, but there are no new
highways.
And planning for new highways is slowing
to a stop.
What we have today is what
we will have tomorrow.
Well, I think we're going to be choking
ourselves off if we don't start
addressing those issues.
I think the Metroplex area, the downtown
area, we're
going to be stunting the growth.
What frustrates you is when
you see it getting worse and you don't
really feel anybody cares or is doing
anything about it.
Dallas Fort Worth is the largest
metropolitan area in the country without
a mass transit authority.
Whether we have one in the future is up
to us.
There is a plan for a transit authority
that would cover all of Dallas County,
most of Tarrant County and some outlying
cities.
The plan is promoted by a temporary
government body called the Lone Star
Transportation Authority.
Basically, a group appointed by local
city councils and county commissioners.
August 9th, we will vote on whether
to make the authority permanent.
So you have shampoo to get the
authority could cost us a lot of money
if approved, it would collect a one
cent sales tax on almost everything
we buy.
So before we buy, we should
understand some of the problems with
plans like this.
Houston has a similar plan,
but the Houston traffic holocaust is
only getting worse.
And a lot of people there say they have
spent millions of dollars for nothing.
I've got to tell my girlfriends I'm
going.
Myself, cowboy.
See ya later.
The search for the good life is leading
the nation's imagination west to
Texas,
where the cowboy hero is back in style
in a new frontier, you.
I was.
Houston, big oil boom
boomtown growing as fast as
the price of gasoline where there
isn't a skyline,
there soon will be
Houston image of the good life.
Every day, hundreds more want to belong.
They come here as they do to Dallas and
Fort Worth for the Texas lifestyle and
the jobs.
But once they get here, they and the
people who've lived here for years find
that it's not always that easy to do what
they want to do
or to go where they want.
What's the traffic doing now?
It's building right around town,
just about everywhere coming into the
loop, but it's really not too bad.
Right now, we've got no accidents on the
freeway.
This is what Houston calls not too
bad.
Four lanes of interstate jammed
at four 30.
Some of the people trapped in their cars
decided to look for a better way.
You usually hear it called mass transit
here in Houston, it's called the Metro,
the Metropolitan Transit Authority,
a regional transit system using
busses and paid for with a one cent
sales tax similar
to the Dallas Fort Worth transit
proposal.
Metro is Houston's second attempt
at mass transit.
The first proposal was rejected by the
voters in 1973.
It took five years to organize another
proposal in 1978.
The voters approved it,
but the late start has hurt Metro.
So far, it hasn't been able to get into
high gear.
Some towns in the district have not
received any bus service at all,
and now some people say they've been
cheated,
paying millions for nothing.
One million, five hundred plus
dollars. So it's a million and a half
dollars. And this is a tax
that they've taken out of this area.
And I guess
we have just gone into their general
fund and how they spend
their money, I don't know.
But the people here just resent
being taxed for something
and they're not getting anything in
return for it.
MTA admits it promised too
much
in the heat of the campaign.
I think it just got to a point
that it appeared that these were
promises, for instance, film, and it was
not possible.
Being lucky enough to have a bus come
to your neighborhood doesn't mean you can
catch it.
Metro Park and ride lots are full,
the busses jam.
I think a few more of us is running in
the morning. In the afternoon would be
quite helpful to all of us.
And there's a great deal of standing that
takes place in the mornings during the
the peak times. And it would be helpful
to have another bus.
As soon as we put them out on the street,
they get filled up, the parking lots have
been filling up, the busses have been
filling up.
So I see it as a very strong
latent demand for mass transit.
That's the limiting factor
right now, is our ability to provide
it.
Metro can't provide more service
because it can't keep its present fleet
on the road, Metro's
main maintenance facility was built in
1930 to service trolley
cars at one time
last year.
The maintenance bottleneck kept half
of MTA busses off the road.
A new maintenance facility is being
built, but Houston is growing faster
than the Metro, and one transit
planner says the system may never catch
up with its passengers.
Today, Metro is not only caught
up in controversy, but also
caught up in the traffic, it's supposed
to reduce to late
and then perhaps too little.
Two of the reasons for Houston's
transportation problems, like
anything else.
Mass transit seems to be easier to learn
if you do it before your full grown.
That's what happened in the Mile High
city of Denver.
And that may offer some clues as to how
we might help ourselves in Dallas and
Fort Worth.
We'll check that out next if we can
get through this traffic to the airport.
Each of us has our own idea about
the good life for the
people in Colorado.
This is it.
But the good life here is being
threatened and the people here have
decided to do something about it.
People in Denver are
able to see what's happening
to their environment better than the
people are in Dallas or Houston.
This is not the image most people see
when they think of the Rocky Mountains
and it's nobody's idea of the good life.
But this is Denver,
famous for its proximity to white slopes,
the Clear Lakes.
But also infamous for this brown sky.
Eighty percent of this pollution is
caused by cars,
somewhere between 50 and 59
percent of the people
are ready to vote for a one percent tax.
And I think you have to attribute
that to the to the fact that
they can actually see their quality of
life crumbling around them.
This is what the tax money buys
the ride, Denver's regional
transportation district.
The ride, Coloradoans hope, will take
them back to the good life.
Betsy Habour and David Teamsters Search
for the Good Life led them from Dallas to
Denver last year.
Betsy is a geologist who graduated from
SMU in Dallas.
Betsy faught Central Expressway every
day.
But in Denver, Betsy has given up driving
for the ride.
The first thing
that impressed me was the fact that
people were trying to use the busses.
They were.
Conserve energy.
I don't know whether it's gas prices or
were promoted him to
do it, but it was a very good system.
It worked and people were using it.
It's kind of funny. You get into a habit
and I get on the bus and I read
and I've gone through a lot
of books and it's pretty enjoyable.
It's not
bad.
The system Betsi now enjoys has been
10 years in the making, it is funded
by a three quarter sales tax
similar to our Metroplex transit
proposal.
There's probably not a transportation
system in the country that moves a lot of
people that doesn't have problems.
And Denver is no exception.
But many of Denver's problems are not
caused by the fact that the system hasn't
worked, but by the fact that the system
has worked too well.
Five o'clock downtown Denver.
More than 300 busses working a one
square mile area.
Still, there are more passengers
than seats.
I don't like no, so I didn't come on a
bus. I want to find a taxi.
I'll show you how I get in.
We actually are leaving people standing
on the street. There just isn't any more
room on the busses.
No more room and no more money.
Denver busses run on ready.
Each loses between 80 and 100
thousand dollars a year.
The bulk of the sales tax is now being
used solely to support the operation
of the system.
We simply are at a point where we can't
add any additional busses.
We can't afford to get them.
Change here.
Denver can't afford them because they
are no longer efficient.
They move people too slowly,
making passengers want to drive their
cars. But cars are
the very reason the busses are slow.
There's only room for so many wheels.
One solution is to eliminate the cars
by changing the city.
That's what Denver is doing with a main
downtown street.
16TH Street is being changed into
a 14 block pedestrian mall,
landscaped and beautified only
pedestrians and busses, along
with no competition.
The busses are more efficient.
More than 20 minutes of a suburban
commuters travel time used to be spent
crossing downtown.
The 16th Street mall has cut that time
by 10 minutes.
Of course, this can't be done with
all the streets.
There's only one other way the system can
continue.
A more efficient vehicle,
rail.
This is what Denver has to have, what
Houston hopes to get, and what we in
Dallas Fort Worth will be asked to by
the train belongs to Atlanta.
It was expensive, 11 miles
or one billion?
Forty three million dollars.
The people of Atlanta were lucky.
They didn't have to pay for it.
The federal government did.
But we can't expect the same treatment.
Uncle Sam has lost too much money in the
rail business and has warned other cities
not to expect federal money to grease
their rails.
An attack. Denver planners told the
voters the bus and rail system could be
completed with the original three quarter
cent sales tax.
I think it was seen as the ultimate tax.
It was felt that the federal government
would join in
the effort
this summer.
Denver voters will be asked for another
penny on the dollar to fund the rail
system.
The tax will be dropped when the rail
system is complete.
We've seen two transit systems that are
in many ways similar to the one the Lone
Star Transportation Authority is asking
us to buy for Dallas Fort Worth,
Houston, too little, too late.
A place where the busses are running 10
years behind schedule.
And Denver, a city that tackle
this problem early, only to find itself
suffocating and success with only
one way to keep the system growing.
More money from the taxpayers.
Dallas Fort Worth will probably run into
some similar problems, but we also
have some things here that give us a head
start in the transit game.
Look at the tax plan for your future
is next.
That's a parking lot.
Uh, Central Expressway, bumper to
bumper.
If Dom Domingo's had left for work at the
beginning of this program, he'd only be a
third of the way there now.
But commuting is costing him a lot more
than time,
I'd say, with gas and parking
insurance and what it takes to run this
car.
I'm spending better than thirty
five hundred dollars a year going to
work.
And like the man says, you know, pay me
now or pay me later.
I'm not an economic student, but
the only thing I remember from economics
is that there ain't no free lunch.
So if we're going to use it, we're going
to have to pay for it.
If we the voters by the EPA
proposal, it will cost us one cent
on the dollar for everything except food,
cars and houses.
The EPA expects that will come to one
hundred seventeen million dollars a year.
On the shopping list are twice as many
busses as now run in the Dallas transit
system and in Fort Worth, Citroën.
Thirty five park and ride lots and
expanded maintenance facilities
later, the transit authority will buy
land to be used at some future date
to install a rail system.
The Transportation Authority wants our
money, but doesn't want to say when
we will get our money's worth.
There is no timetable for the master
plan.
Planners don't know how soon the job
can be done.
You cannot start a program
like this and expect the next morning
to have busses going everywhere.
It'll be a gradual implementation
of word of advice.
If we do it again would
be to outline a plan of things to
do, but to outline it in a in a framework
that says these are things that may be
done and they probably will
be done, but they will be done over an
extended period of time and not
overnight.
One problem with transit systems is they
take a long time to complete, as
in Houston, some suburban cities in the
Metroplex may find themselves paying for
something they don't use, at
least for a few years.
They will have to have some patience.
It's not pleasant and it's not desirable,
but it's essential.
With the passing of time comes the
shrinking of the dollar and uncertain
changes in federal funding in
Denver. That meant going back to the
voters for more tax money.
The critical thing is to have
your community together so that you know
what it is you want to do and have the
money there so that you can get busy and
do it.
The more they can get in now,
the more the more they're going to get
for their dollars.
Dallas Fort Worth may be one of the best
suited communities in the nation to
undertake a project this large and
this expensive because our
area is growing rapidly.
Sales tax revenue is expanding
the tax that would pay for mass transit.
We also have a head start with the Dallas
transit system and Fort Worth Citroën.
They are considered to be two of the best
managed city bus systems in the country.
The resources are available, but so far
there has been nothing to pull these
resources together.
So thousands of us like Dom
Dominguez and Jim Soulsby are left
tonight with one alternative to
the car.
For most of us, it's the only way to get
to our jobs, our homes
and to the good life.
But in Dallas Fort Worth, the vehicle
has become the barrier
and the good life lies just beyond
it.
And this traffic jam,
how I hate to be late.
Here's my motor to go so slow
down this traffic jam
time I get home, my stuff will cool.
Yeah, just kind of
how I used to think that I was cool
running around on fossil fuel
until I saw what I was doing was
driving down the road to ruin.
Routine gets kind of monotonous.
You'll have something interesting,
creative and satisfying to do,
so put a smile
in your home with Krafts.
Bino.
Well.
Just one example of the kind of candles
we're going to make today.
Did you know there was many variations
of candles there? Just candle candles,
but always got some interesting ones
to show you.
About.
When a bond hearing is asked for
capital murder, indictments have been
handed down
in order to hold a person
without bail, which is a
very valuable constitutional right,
it must be shown very clearly by
the state that if the case
were tried to a jury, a jury
would in all likelihood return
a death penalty.
Then Bond may be withheld,
so in effect, what you're saying is
a jury would likely reach
the verdict on the death penalty in the
Andrea will be murder, but maybe not in
the stand State
Department? Yes, that's
essentially what I'm saying and
essentially what the decision involves
under the law.
That's the way it's defined under the
law. That was what I was required to do.
If you recall, the extensive rains
we had earlier brought about the
necessity for increased monitoring and
surveillance that was incorporated
in this area.
In addition, we intensified efforts early
in May of identifying the sources
where these mosquitoes could be present,
the numbers, and in addition,
mosquito spraying has been done
even to the point that we've had
complaints from people who had bees and
things of this nature.
But this has been stepped up ever since
May in anticipation that this problem
could arise. And based on our previous
experience now that starting it earlier
than we usually started and it is
continuing longer than we usually have,
how is the disease transmitted to man?
Well, the disease is transmitted by a
mosquito, the kulaks ueli
X variety, the mosquito
feeds upon birds, bird
families who have what we call a viremia.
That is, they have an active viral
infection at the time.
They have that the mosquito feeds upon
them later, feeds upon man
and then infects man at that time.
Just.
A lot is for this year, is that correct?
That's correct. We have two documented
cases that have been confirmed this
afternoon. Were those?
The confirmation came from.
If you recall, the extensive rains
we had earlier brought about the
necessity for increased monitoring and
surveillance that was incorporated
in this area.
In addition, we intensified efforts early
in May of identifying the sources
where these mosquitoes could be present,
the numbers, and in addition,
mosquito spraying has been done
even to the point that we've had
complaints from people who had bees and
things of this nature.
But this has been stepped up ever since
May in anticipation that this problem
could arise. And based on our previous
experience now that starting it earlier
than we usually start it and it is
continuing longer than we usually have.
Period. Yes, that's correct.
Well, this hearing have any bearing on
the way
that the trial and the.
When a bond hearing is asked for
her capital murder, indictments have been
handed down in
order to hold a person without
bail, which is a very valuable
constitutional right, it must
be shown very clearly by the state
that if the case were tried to a jury,
a jury would in all likelihood
return a death penalty.
Then bond may be withheld
for.
I think what
I would
like to know
certain other aspects of the case,
all the legal discussion in.
We have already given notice of appeal to
the Court of Appeals in Austin, and we're
going to ask them to
review this matter and to set bond
on what grounds, grounds that
the judge was incorrect in his finding
and that the evidence
was not proof evident type
strong and convincing what
needed to be done now?
Medal count for count.
I would tell you that he will plead
guilty, not guilty, period.
Will there be more room to.
Well.
And.
And I'd like to see myself hitting and
if I'm going well, I like to look and see
what I'm doing right now, if I'm going
bad, I can always refer back to the times
I was swinging about well, and try and
make some adjustments.
How often do you try to use it?
Is there any particular point in your
game that you feel that you need to go
to? Does that it or how do you work that?
Well, if I'm having a little trouble, I
say you're hitting the ball to right
field. Then I look back at some
film, I'm hitting the ball, getting
basis, the right field and see what I was
doing right. And then I'll go ahead and
take some batting practice and they can
form it. And then we can kind of work
work on it on a day to day basis and
try and correct things.
They like to know what they're doing
wrong and if they're doing something
right, they like to know that too.
I like to see old game films when they
have been hitting in a groove after
they've gone out for 10 or something.
So, uh, as far as one enterprising is
concerned, our primary interest in the
land and improvements here is the
development of a surfing facility.
Uh, this is contingent on many things
that have not come to pass yet, but,
uh, we're still working on it.
How would this surfing facility
differ from talk of the surfing
facility they had out here a couple of
years back
with the group from Tempe?
Well, this is a much improved system.
It's easier to build.
It's cheaper to build.
It's, uh, much, uh, cheaper
to operate.
And the product is a much better product.
Uh, it is it lends itself to
what you're trying to do, create, uh,
esthetic beach environment with a,
uh, terrific surf, a natural surf
one that, uh, can be used
by the experts as well as people that
don't know much about surfing at all.
Take the reins of
the registered nurse volunteers
who have signed up to help with the
immunization program are to attend
one of several orientation sessions
scheduled this week at the Public Health
Building in Dallas.
About 100 nurses attended the first
session this morning learning how to
operate jet injector guns,
which will be used to administer the
swine flu vaccine.
State public health officials, acting as
technical advisers, told the nurses
that the guns, which cost about 13
hundred dollars each, utilize
a hydraulic pump and compression system
to force the vaccine through a tiny
opening and into the patient without
using the familiar needle and syringe.
The nurses examined the guns, studying
the operation and maintenance, then
practiced pulling the trigger.
You know.
Officials claim the jet injector
operation will be less painful and less
traumatic than a shiny needle, although
the jet injector has been in use for many
years, to most of us, it will be a new
experience and it gives an entirely
new meaning to the phrase getting
a shot.
Doug Adams, Area five news.
We had.
Jake Pace, chairman of Kimberlin Inc.,
announced the sale during an afternoon
news conference.
He said the 1969 Tax Reform
Act forced the Kimbal Art Foundation,
which holds about 80 percent of the
stock, and Kimberle Inc.
to dispose of its private business
interests.
The purchase was made by Winn-Dixie
Stores, a Florida company president
Berdella Thomas said the firm owns about
1000 retail food stores
in 11 southeastern states and in the
Bahamas and had sales for the last
fiscal year exceeded three and a quarter
billion dollars.
The transaction involves a host of
facilities owned by Kimball.
The most familiar the bodies
supermarkets.
The food stores also operate under the
names of Food Way and Hajee in
Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico,
135 in number.
Kimball will retain 42 retail
store locations but will lead them to
Winn-Dixie.
20 thrifty drugstores owned
by Kimbal were not involved in today's
sale. But Pace said an announcement of
their sale may come within a week or 10
days.
Today's transaction does involve three
distribution centers, including the one
at Luppi, twenty and thirty five in Fort
Worth, plus packing and processing
plants for meat, dairy products,
beverages and other foods.
Winn-Dixie officials say they plan to
remodel and enlarge some existing stores
and build new ones, as one official put
it, on any corner where our marketing
department says to the sale
was finalized today and Winn-Dixie has
assumed operation of all facilities,
no purchase place was disclosed.
But it was a multimillion dollar deal
involving cash assumption of Kimballs
liabilities.
Plus Winn-Dixie notes payable over
a 10 year period.
The majority of the proceeds will go to
the Kimball Art Foundation and
placed in investments with profits going
to the Kimball Art Museum.
The will of the late Kate Kimball,
founder of the Kimball firm, provided
for construction of the museum and
purchase of most of its artworks.
Hicks Area five news.
The Kimbell Art Museum opened nearly four
years ago and has gained an international
standing for its innovative building and
multi-million dollar art collection
acquired over a 30 year period by the
late Kay Kimball, he amassed
a fortune in oil, grain, food
and grocery products.
Another portion of the Kimbal firm's
holdings was sold today, and
the Kimbell Museum will further benefit
from a majority of these proceeds.
Kimbal Inc sold a number of its
stores and plans to a Florida based
retail food store firm, Winn-Dixie
Stores.
Included are Kimballs, one hundred thirty
five retail food stores in Texas,
Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Among them the familiar buddies,
supermarkets, Kimballs, 20
thrifty drugstores were not included in
the deal. But an announcement of their
sale may come within a week or so,
when Dixy also purchased Kimballs three
distribution centers plus processing
and packing plants for meat, dairy
products, beverages and food.
The transaction rates is one of the
biggest in Fort Worth history, although
no purchase price was given.
It runs into the millions of dollars
in cash and Winn-Dixie notes
payable over a 10 year period.
Most of the net proceeds going to the
Kimbell Art Foundation.
Kimball chairman J.C.
Pace said about 80 percent of the
Kimbal stock was owned by the foundation.
But the 1969 Tax Reform
Act prohibits foundations from owning
private businesses, thus the necessity
for today's sale.
Winn-Dixie president Bert Thomas said the
firm plans to remodel and expand some
of its new acquisitions.
As for new stores, Thomas said will
put a new store at any location where our
marketing department tells us to
build six area five news.
Lee Elsesser, news director here at TV5,
and this is a vehicle you're going to be
hearing a lot about.
It's our Live on Fire van, one of
the newest examples of television
technology.
It will give our Texas news reporters the
capability of bringing you a story from
the place of is happening live.
While it is happening for us,
it's going to be a complex and technical
process for you.
It's going to mean faster and better news
coverage. But then that's what the
Texas News has always meant.
We'll have the early take place in 1977.
So I asked for a
budget revision or it
might be handled with a way that
it's not acceptable
in internal affairs, investigations
are dealing with misconduct.
It's really more than we can,
uh, we can measure.
Change begins from
and did not recommend the implementation
of a personnel service bureau.
It's in our best judgment that one of our
real challenges ahead
is to develop
our army officers who began to
volunteer for those teams.
Phasing in means we will take one
segment of the city and begin
tailoring a team policing organization
within that segment, we'll capitalize,
for instance, on some of the strengths
of the program,
which was, in a sense, a team policing
effort. And in that respect,
that's been very successful.
The attitude of the community about
having officers assigned closely
in a neighborhood, so capitalizing
on what we've learned in an
area, we will begin to expand
that sort of service throughout
a sector of the city.
Now, that'll be approximately one third
of the city.
And with that in mind, we will begin
designing some police
teams, some additional police teams
in a particular sector.
We think it will probably be in
the south and
and southeast portion of
the city contiguous to incept.
And I want to emphasize, though, that
incept will remain
as it is throughout the remainder of the
grant for at least another year.
And we will just be adding other
team areas
around it and it.
I think the tour
began in the area where prisoners are
admitted and the required paperwork is
filled out.
Reporters were shown how prisoners
are fingerprinted.
The workers in white uniforms are jailed
trustees, inmates who do much of the
actual work inside the jail.
Jail director Tom Craig served as
tour guide.
He pointed out the general cleanliness of
the jail and stressed the security
measures in effect to prevent inmates
from making or receiving contraband
weapons.
The tour included stops at the jail
hospital and the kitchen area where
all inmate meals are prepared.
Craig said that eating utensils such as
forks and spoons are carefully
inventoried before and after all
meals. Should any of the utensils
turn up. Missing guards searched the
prisoners and jail cells,
Craig said. Officers conducted a
shakedown of some jail tanks on the 11th
floor this morning, anticipating
the possibility of trouble during the
media tour.
The shakedown produced three spoons,
which could be fashioned into weapons.
But as reporters pass that same tank
this afternoon, inmates shouted
for their attention and displayed two
more handmade weapons, apparently
fashioned by inmates.
Since the shakedown, inmates
said they wanted to show reporters how
easy it was to conceal weapons in the
jail. But jail director Craig said
he wasn't embarrassed by the incident and
repeatedly claimed the jail is safely
and efficiently.
Robert Bennett.
Last stop on the tour was the cell where
20 year old Coppinger was beaten and
stabbed to death.
Six inmates have been charged with a
homicide, but no weapons have been
recovered.
Relatives of the dead man have filed a
five million dollar civil suit against
Sheriff Clarence Jones and a Dallas
County probation officer claiming
negligence and carpenter's death.
I want to give.
On television.
And.
Jail director Tom Craig played host
for the tour, showing reporters how
a prisoner is processed through the jail
and answering questions about facilities
and procedures.
The tour included a stop on the sixth
floor of the old jail where 20
year old Kenneth Coppinger was stabbed to
death by inmates on August 8th.
Craig emphasized security measures,
including a careful inventory of kitchen
utensils, which could be fashioned into
weapons, anticipating possible
trouble from some inmates during the
media tour.
Jail officials conducted a shakedown
of some Celltex this morning,
finding three spoons in one take.
But during the afternoon tour,
prisoners in that tank shouted to
reporters that they had two more
handcrafted weapons, saying they
had made and conceal them to show
the laxity of security in the jail.
Jail director Craig said he wasn't
surprised at the prisoner's action.
That contraband that was shown
earlier that that passed on to me just
a few minutes ago.
And I will say that
our third investigation, we did not find
these items, which is an indication
that, again, either trusties
or other inmates pass these on to these
individuals, which is exactly
what is this?
This is the this is the part of the
ringer from the mop bucket.
This is the handle from a from a spoon.
And you can see it's relatively fresh.
And things like this was an indication
that this this has not been in that tank
for a long period of time.
As you can see that the string that
they have used to wrap this this handle
with is fresh.
It's clean again.
So it's an indication that that has not
been in that tank very long.
Craig said the discovery of the weapons
was obviously planned to embarrass jail
officials, but he added that the incident
didn't really bother him and he
repeatedly said he has nothing to hide
at the Dallas County Jail.
Doug Adams Area five News.
We may ask for a budget revision
or that may be handled with
with with approximately the same
amount of cost.
Think Young did not recommend the
implementation of a personal service
bureau.
It's our best judgment that one of our
real challenges ahead
is to develop
our main resource and
that throughout.
For instance, take a.
A segment of the community that's highly
industrialized strategy,
if we do a good job, we can
we can deliver a better service.
With approximately the same amount of
cost.
Now, if we're talking about team
policing.
Lend themselves to making a success
of this new organizational structure.
Now living in a remote and
we still have about four on
Kenyan.
Moderator. Halbreich.