Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1977 Page: 1 of 16
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Stephenuille Empire
Gribune
Thursday, October 13, 77
Three Sections
Vel. 109, Ne.50
Stephenville, Texas 76401
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an invalid by age 30. She replied, “We'll provide helpful information.
Mrs. Martin rides a bicycle, (two or
three miles a trip), walks some, and bothered off and on with arthritus. When
Reverse bias case heard
Hand-made quilts displayed
months to quilt. Also, a quilt called and corded on hand
By WILMA HALL
special admissions program made him a
"You’re
all depends on how you look at it."
preferential treatment to blacks and other
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trial of millionaire Cullen Davis.
evidence of drugs and only a trace of
in the slaying of Stan Farr.
time
Mrs. Davis, who was wounded in the shock and massive bleeding.
State District Judge Arthur Lsher
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including one in the neck.
fashionable River Oaks home in 1972.
The wounds and the projection of the Robert Hill, 17, Connie Hill, 37, and Myra
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By RICHARD CARELLI
Associated Press Writer
By RICHARD SALTUS.
AP Science Writer
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Furthermore, the murder weapon was
Miss Bess" doesn't take medicines. She
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The tailcone had been used on three
previous test flights .to make the
Enterprise a better glider, extending its
flight time and also making it ride more
smoothly atop the carrier plane that
launched it in midair.
But when the shuttle actually returns
from space it will not have the tailcone,
and it was necessary to test the shuttle in
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E-T Staff Writer "mohawk trail," which was more than 95 almost as much time as the quitting. Mrs.
The first annual Senoir Citizens quilt years old, was on display. Golda Scott had on display a pair of batts
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Charges formed
By ROB WOOD
Associated Press Writer
HOUSTON (AP) - Attorneys in the
seven-week trial of a 37.6 million wrongful
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"reverse discrimination" case:
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arguing about keeping victim of illegal racial discrimination.
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never recovered. Therefore, Shiller's bullets were consistent with the Hill, 75, the son, widow and mother of the
testimony is critical to the state's case, eyewitness account of the shooting that slain doctor allege in the legal action that
which is technically circumstantial. Mrs. Davis provided jurors during her Robinson arranged Hill's death to avenge
The defense contends the shootings testimony. the death of Robinson's daughter, Joan
evolved from a "society drug caper” that Robinson Hill. She was Hill’s first wife and
went awry and that investigators ______ ♦ j Robert’s mother. _:
overlooked, obliterated or disregarded LOWS Crmicized When he was shot to death by a masked
evidence crucial to Davis. AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Texas laws are gunman. Hill was awaiting a second trial
A Fort Worth medicaTexanuner testified grossly inadequate" for protecting the on charges he killed Joan Hill through
on cross-examination Wednesday he did civil rights of the citizens of this state, says medical neglect in 1969 A first trial ended
not perform tests that might have Attorney General John Hill in a mistrial.
pinpointed the times when Farr and Miss Texas should should lead the way in the No criminal charges have been filed
Wilborn died. Soyth and Southwest on protecting civil against Robinson and he has testified he
"I do not feel the exact times can be rights and outlawing discrimination. Hill had nothing to do with Hill’s murder.
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By .MIKE COCHRAN ” " determined.” said Dr. Feliks Gwozdz, a told the Austin Legal Secretaries
Associated Press Writer Polish-bom pathologist. Association Wednesday.
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors Gwozdz, speaking in a distinct Slavic The maximum penalty in Texas for a
summoned a Fort Worth criminologist accent, said the “basic" cause of Farr’s violation of a person’s civil rights that
today to provide perhaps the most im- death was “gunshot wounds in the ab- leads to death is one year in jail and a
portant testimony in the capital murder domen and chest" and that he found no 32,000 fine, he said.
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Excelsior Springs, Mo., were valuable in exercises on the different machines that this happens, she concentrates on calcium
turning the tide of ill health to good health, she has at home. . and Brewer s yeast. There are vitamins
It’s a pity more hospitals don’t do that She is busy also in eommunity activities, that canhelp most ittnssMi if people just1
now ." Mrs. Martin commented She teaches the TEL Sunday School will read and find out what they are, to her
This energetic lady takes all the class in the First Baptist Church, teaches a theory.
vitamins from A to E.-She takes them in Biblezclass once a week, to president Of the rasked her ifshe minded telling her age.—-
amounts large enough to do some Home Demonstration club, to active in the She said. l have lived 129 years since
good-such as 1,000 milligram tablet C and Rebekah I xxige, and helps with the Senior 1900". (That to to say she has had an extra . ,
200 to 400 units of vitamin E. She takes the Citizens (both groups) in Stephenville. She full life). No, I don’t mond. I'm 77,"
minerals, too. "Cod liver oil contains both and her husband were instrumental in * Bees Martin ended, the intrview by
A and D,“ she says. Brewers yeast to a helping organize several Senior Cititen admonishins metotbe sure to say that I '
good source of all the B vitamins." she dubs in towns where they lived. (Mr. have the beet neighbors in the world-all of
added. Martin died a few years ago). "Senior ’em are so good to me." A healthy body
Foods Mrs. Martin avoids as much as Citizens is more beneficial to elderly and a healthy outlook make for a happy
possible are whaite sugars, white breads people than any other thing they can life.
try to be profiteers
By WALTER R. MEARS He recalled that in proposing the plan On another topic. Carter said he waa
AP Special Correspsadrut initially, he had described the energy giving tentative thought to an economy:
WASHINGTON (AP) - President crisis as the moral equivalent of war "I stimulating tax cut next year and that it
Carter said today the oil and gas haven’t changed my mind," he said. "In would be "tied with a tax-reform
companies are try tog to become the war fact, the seriousness of the energy crisis to package."
profiteers of the energy crisis, and warned even more acute than it was then. "The rapidity with which the tax cut
that the nation faces the danger of "the could be instituted would be tied to the
biggest ripdff in history." ’But as is the case in time of war, there state o the economy," the President said.
Carter keynoted his new campaign for is potential war profiteering in the energy He added that "we won’t really know
Ms embattled energy program with a crisis, he said. "Thia could develop. . .aa about that until January or February."
head-on attack on the industry, saying the the biggest ripoff in history." Carter said his visit last week to the
administration plan would provide The President said the oil and gas South Bronx slums to Now York "certainly
enormous profits "but the oil companies industry is not part of the free enterprise did have an impact" on his thinking about
apparently want it an." system “because prices are not a new urban policy
free "Carter said the question now to "It’simportantfor me to demonstrate i.
Carter told a nationallybroadcast news whether energy price controls and taxes my deep concern about urban
conference that he intends to devote "most are to be enacted as part of a fair and deterioration" and to "inform the
of my time in the next few weeks" to equitable program, or whether the American people that these places exist in
reassembling the administration energy industry is to gain enormous windfall our country," the President said of the
plan, virtually dismantled by the Senate. profits. tour
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the National Guard Armory Saturday committee which includes Nicki Jones, —— ... .
night to climax a full day of activities for Deanna Glasgow, Sena Leese, Carol Trice, The Span^ShutUema pessMHS mo*^^
Karsell Bates and the Basin Street Six The dance is scheduled from 8:30 p.m. that space agency officials had feared
will play for the dance which is open to all until 12:30 a.m. and will honor classes might not be possible in the shuttle 8 final
former students and the public. from six years who will be holding form. _ . .
Bates and his Dixieland group have been reunions during homecoming. "It went better than most of us had
playing chibs in the Fort Worth area for a Tickets for the dance will be 33 each and expected, ” said Donald Slayion, manager
number of years and were featured at the will include hor d’oeuvres. - .of the 8tests Wednesday after the bulky
opening of the plush Hulen Mall at Fort Members of the APO at Tarleton will be cargo carrier made a gliding, 22minue
Worth in a week-long engagement in the in charge of the set-ups. descent from 20,500 feet without its
Central Court. The band also plays at the Tickets may be purchased at the Alumni streamlined tailcone-.
- De Cordova Bend Country Club near Association office in Davis Hall, the Slayton added that with the flight behind
Granbury;andrecently completed a series registration desk at the Tarleton Center, them, shuttle officials can look forward to
of performances with vocalist Jo Ann or at the door. the first mission into orbit of the craft, set
Mrs. Martin enjoys every day
BY MARGARET DOVE and white flours. She concentrates on belong to, ’ she declared.
E-T Staff Writer fruits, vegetables, fish and chicken Mrs Martin travels a lot, driving alone
Mrs. Bessie T. Martin, who lives at 560 Everybody can learn about nutrition most of the time Among other tripe, she
Charlotte, is enjoying life - every day now. I read the magazines on the subject, makes an annual visit back home",
Mrs. Martin attributes her glowing good and the newspapers often have articles Kentucky, stopping along the way to see
health to vitamins, healthy eating habits, pertaining to it" People should read these kinfolk*, friends, and kids she and Mr.
exercise and work. She began trying to currently as there are new discoveries Martin helped to raise. She estimates that
changer her health for the better over 40 every day. Mrs Martin believes She also she has been a visitor in about sixty homes
years ago. A doctor told her she would be thinks the Home Demonstration Chiba there and back (going different routes).
Frank Shiller, director of theFort Worth alcohol in the body.
crime lab, was expected to tell the jury the , He said the bullet that killed Andrea
bullet that killed Davis’ stepdaughter was penetrated the main body artery and that
fired from the same .38-caliber pistol used she most likely died “in a very short
MAKING PANS-Fa piana MV min betel made for the Neat Gutrie, Dav Cayu, rtbe
Stephenville Championship Jackpot Roping and Match MM
. shootings, testified nearly two months ago He told the jury Farr was struck by four scheduled final arguments for Friday
she saw her husband, dressed in black and bullets, two of which he removed from morning.
wearing a woman’s black wig, kill Farr. Farr's body and identified Wednesday for The defense rested its case Wednesday
She and the bearded Moot-10 Farr were the jury. after Robinson, 79, completed his
_____ living together at the mansion when the Gwozdz testified that Farr was struck testimony?
shootings occurred Aug 2, 1976. ' twice bybullets in the left chest and thigh. The legal action was filed by th* 2
Davis is on trial only in the slaying of once in the right chest and once in the survivors of Dr. John Hill, a plastic
- Andrea, and there were no eyewitnesses to back. There were two exit wounds, surgeon who was shot to death at his
Andrea Wilborn, 12, and Farr, 30, died in Gwozdz, who performed the autopsies, death civil damage suit against oil million-
the midnight camage last year at the 36 pointed out on schematic drawings the aire Ash Robinson were to confer today to
million hilltop mansion Davis built for his entry and exit wounds that killed Farr and write the charges the seven-man, five-
now-estranged wife, Priscilla, 36. Miss Wilborn and said the girl died of woman jury must answer.
How Marshall and the court’s eight other minority members to overcome past in-
members view the case argued before equities and meet a need for more
them Wednesday may determine the minority physicians, nevertheless violated
future of hundreds of so-called affirmative Bakke's constitutional right to be treated
action programs in education and equally,
business. The California court's decision came
Civil rights leaders say the court’s after university officials conceded that
decision, due sometime before the end of they could not disprove Bakke’s contention
its term next summer, could determine the that he would have been admitted if the
course of the nation's race relations. special admissions policy had not existed.
Capacity crowd expected
for homecoming dance
A capacity crowd is expected for the Miller at the Granbury Opera House,
alumni homecoming dance to be held in Betty Whitacre is chairman of the dance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court admission to the university’s medical
Justice Thurgood Marshall interrupted school at Davis.
Allan Paul Bakke’s attorney with an He successfully argued before the
assessment of the precedentsetting California Supreme Court that the school’s
somebody out," Marshall said. “The other The state court said the admissions
sideisarguingaboutgettingsomeonein.lt policy, although aimed at giving
SEEK CROWN-Tarleton State University students will vete shown to Adrianne Stephens, sophomore from Duhlin. He queen
today on the Homecoming Queen for 1977. Four of the nominees will be crowned at the bonfire Friday night and will be
are (L to R) Lisa Corsi, sophomore from Burnet; Connie recognized at halftime of the homecoming football game
Brooks, senior from Abilene; Sande Eisen, junior from €ranfills Saturday afternoon.
Gap; and Sandee Lawry, sophomore from South Lake. Not
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sale was conducted Tuesday at 1M E. The quilts on the sidewalk, which were which she still uses. She also had a bag of
------------- —.College with more than M hand-made for sale, were made of both cotton and knit cotton she hand picked more than 47 year*
s — quilts on display. Many were priceless materials, each a lovely masterpiece. The ago for a quilt she brought for display. -
_A.L antiques and many more were for sale. club also doee custom quilting with a very Housewives of long ago seemed to have
WVTOCK EOPOIIVV One of the moot interesting quilts was reasonable rate, depending on the more time than we do today.
hand pieced and quilted in 1996 by Mr*, material and amount of time required to Mr*. Lavonia Lohrman, director at the
A two-car collision occured Wednesday Lena Tatum’s mother. The tiny, intricate quilt. Center, lasued an invitation to anyone
at 3 25 p m in the intersection of Overhill pieces, no larger than ■ postage stamp, Although many senior citizens enjoy interested in quitting to drop by for free
and Lydia police reported were in perfect unison to create the chosen quilting, the younger generation seldom instructions. The members quilt every
Lavetta Gaye Pack and Dannie Pegues pattern. finds time for the art. The materials day. Also, quilts wil be for sale at the
Graves both of Stephenville, were the Another beautiful quilt on display was needed to create a quilt today are Center, just in time for Chriatmas gifts,
drivers’in the accident They were not pieced by Mr*. Pat Arnold of Merkel in the available in the stores. In the past, the The quilt aate will be an annual event at
injured. 1930‛s and took approximately three cotton, used for the filter, was often picked the Center
Officer Ronnie Myers investigated.
front row, from fee loft.
Commerce. Gathered to make plans
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