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DENTON TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 28, 1979
Suit urges probe of county officials
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Winfree Brown
Giving his all to serve his school
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Workers prepare to tow away a 1972 Volkswagon
in which an unidentified woman and a young child
were killed early today. Investigating officers said
the driver of the car lost control of the vehicle and
was thrown in front of a truck travelling south on
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Low this morning
High Monday
Low Monday
High last year
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era I Home. Phones 382-2214 and
387-6300.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)
— The British and Irish governments
hunted the IRA killers of Earl
Mountbatten, 18 British soldiers and
three others today as the Irish
guerrillas promised more escalation
of their 10-year-old war to drive the
British from Northern Ireland and
unite it with the Irish Republic.
The toll from the bombings Monday
rose to 22 as the Dowager Baroness
Brabourne, the mother-in-law of
Mountbatten's elder daughter, died in
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a Sligo hospital.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
who lost one of her chief advisers to
IRA bombers five months ago, vowed
that the British people would “wage
war against terrorism with relentless
determination until it is won.”
Ireland's deputy prime minister said
no effort would be spared to bring the
killers to justice.
But there was no indication that
By CAROLYN BARNES
Staff Writer
In a federal lawsuit filed Monday,
former members of the Denton
County grand jury are seeking to urge
an investigation of County Auditor O.
H. Bailey and to discuss with the State
' Commission on Judicial Conduct the
actions of "one or more judicial of-
ficers of the county.”
broad, and an abridgement of the
members’ constitutional rights to
freedom of expression and to petition
the government for redress of
grievances
The suit also asks that Article 20.02
of the Texas Code of Criminal
Procedure, which states that any
a fine of up to $500 and a maximum 30-
day jail sentence, be held invalid as
"construed and applied" in Scofield’s
ruling.
The suit specifically asks that the
former grand jurors be allowed to:
• Address Scofield and district
judges W.C. Boyd and Sam Houston to
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The grand jurors also allege that
one or more county officials may have
hindered the criminal investigation of
suspended tax assessor-collector
George R. Lasater by leaking in-
formation to him, and that certain
officials may have committed perjury
before the panel when testifying about
the “suspected disclosure."
Filed Monday afternoon in the
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The wn sett today at 8:03; it rises
Wednesday at 7:04.
RAINFALL
Staff Photo by MIKE SMITH
FM 156. The driver of the truck, James C. Van-
bebber, Jr., of Gainsville, was also killed. A
passenger in the truck, Ted Joseph Endres of
Muenster, was seriously injured and taken to
Westgate Hospital.
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Clements on a list of appointments to
be made. It said, "I want Win on the
NT board." Brown said he never
asked for the job, but was pleased,
and told Ms. Howell he would enjoy
the assignment.
Brown said he has been told
"everything you can dream up" about
the controversy that has engulfed the
university in recent months, but as a
county commissioner he has learned
not to rely on hearsay but to await the
facts.
"I want to see the college built up.
That is everyone’s goal, to be one of
the’best in the state. We've had our
problems, but I think we will wind up
getting there in our particular fields,”
he said. •
If Clements can-apply business
practices to’ running state. ■ govern-
ment. Brown said, he doesn't see why
they can't apply to running a state
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77TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE — NO. 22
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Index
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Classified
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Editorials
Lifestyle
Notepad
Sports
Stock Markets
Weather Map
LAKE LEVELS
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blew up Lord Mountbatten's fishing
boat.off the west coast of Ireland Mon-
day, killing the 79-year-old cousin of
Queen Elizabeth II, a 14-year-old
grandson and another teen-ager, and
a few hours later decimated two
truckloads of soldiers just inside the
border between Northern Ireland and
the republic.
The Irish Republican Army’s
Provisional wing said Mountbatten,
As new chairman of the NTSU board of regents,
Winfree Brown looks for, managerial ability in the
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Nations hunt killers of WWII hero, 21 others
Britain must seek from the Irish
Republic “a total clampdown on
terrorists." If the response was not
positive, it must "reconsider” its
relations with Dublin, the paper
didate for the regents to vote on at
their next meeting in October.
"The faculty group (on the
screening committee) has done a
great job ... I take my hat off to those
three gentlemen," he said.
Brown wants to see a person with
managerial ability in the president's
office "If we get that one attribute, I
believe the academic community will
benefit from it."
Brown was one of eight regional
chairmen for Clements in his election
campaign last year. He was in charge
of 49 counties from Eastland to El
Paso
Ironically, Brown had been helping
the Clements staff with appointments.
Linda Howell of the governor's staff
asked him one day where he went to
school. “I was dumfounded and
surprised. I asked her why she wanted
to know ” She shuffled seme papers
and came up with a note from
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Mountbatten, the World War II
allied commander in Southeast Asia
and the last viceroy of India, died
when a powerful bomb blew his 29-foot
vacation boat apart as he and five
members of his family set out from
Mullaghmore harbor, near his
vacation home on the northwest coast
of Ireland.
Killed with him was one of his 14-
year-old twin grandsons, Nicholas
Timothy Knatchbull, and a 15-year-
old boat boy.
member of the royal family
assassinated within memory, was
"executed ...to bring the attention of
the world to the British occupation of
the six northeast counties of Ireland.”
Two adults and a child were killed
and a man injured in a car-truck
collision on FM 156, several miles
northeast of Krum about 9:15 this
morning
Dead at the scene was James C.
Vanbebber Jr of Gainesville, the
driver of a 1977 Dodge truck. Also
killed were the female driver of a 1972
Volkswagen and a small child who
was in the car. •
Officers at the scene were not able
to immediately identify the woman
andechild.
Ted Joseph Endres of Muenster., a
passenger in the truck, was seriously
injured and taken toewestgate
Hospital.
Department of Public Safety officer
Michael J Melton, the investigating
. officer, said the driver of the
Volkswagen was traveling north on
156, about 1 >4 miles off Interstate 35.
when she lost control of her car.
throwing her in front of the south-
bound truck.
“Apparently she bent down to get
something in the floor or looked off the
road and when she did she ran off the
pavement,” be said.
"She tried to correct her mistake
and turn back on the road. When her
wheels hit the pavement she skidded
in front of the truck," Melton said
Both vehicles were going about 55
mph when the collisfon occurred, he
said.
Melton said a witness of the ac-
cident pulled the child out from under
the dash of the Volkswagen. All three
persons were believed to have been
killed instantly, he said.
The accident occurred about 9:15
a m and DPS was notified about five
minutes later, Melton said.
The front end of both the truck and
car were caved in. “When the point of
impact is dead center like this was, all
of the energy is expended there,"
Melton said, explaining how the
■ vehicles were damaged so severely.
bombing of the troops vowed the
guerrillas would step up their attacks
on the 13,500 British troops in Nor-
thern Ireland.
In a front-page editorial under the
banner headline "These Evil
Bastards," the Daily Express said
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DENTON ANO VICINITY — Partly
cloudy and continued warm through
Wednesday. Temperature*
gradually warming through the
remainder of the week, with partly
cloudy days. Temperatures will
range from the low 70s into the
upper 90s.
WEATHER REPORT
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the men who planted the bombs that World War II heroes and the first
The Guardian urged high-level talks
between the two governments, with
“all ancient and modern
recrimination forgotten,” to try to
find a solution to the conflict that has
taken nearly 2,000 lives in Northern
Ireland in the past decade.
PEKING (AP) — Vice President agreements on cultural exchange and
Walter Mondale announced today that cooperation in development of China's
Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng), China's hydrelectric newer
premier and Communist Party Mondale told Hua when he first met
chairman, will visit the United States him today that he thought the process
next year and President Carter will of Sino-American normalization was
visit China, “well under wav."
Mondale said at a news conference Hua said to Mondale he was aware
after a meeting with Hua that China's , it was his first visit to China and the
top leader accepted Carter's in- first by such a high-ranking American
vitation “with delight" He said the since diplomatic relations were es-
dates for Hua's and Carter's visits had tablished Jan 1.
not been set. “So I extend you a special welcome
The vice president also announced because of these two firsts," he said,
he would open a U.S. consulate in “It is a beginning not an end," be
Canton, “the first consulate we’ve had added
in China in over 30 years," when he Asked how he was adjusting to
visits south China's biggest city dur- China, Mondale smiled and said, "I'm
ing his tour. He said it would have a now part Chinese. I am an expert on
staff of seven or eight headed by Chinese food.”
Richard Williams, I nen he‘■xpressed gratification that
The Chinese government will open his speech Monday at Peking
consulates in Houston and San University was covered in such full
Francisco, he said, detail in Peking newspapers.
Mondale said his visit to China has Mondale announced in the speech
"laid the basis of our relationship in that a strong China is in America s
the 1980s and given real meaning to interests and offered the Chinese
the word 'normal,'” economic partnership in the 1980s and
The vice president also signed a $2 billion line of credit.
Sherman division of the United States which attempted to present a public
District Court for the Eastern report on its investigation into county
Division of Texas, the suit names the operations, asks that the gag order
12 former members of the grand jury placed on the panel be voided, and
as plaintiffs, and 158th District Judge that the judge be enjoined from citing
Bob Scofield, who placed a gag order panel members for contempt of court
on the panel, as the defendant. for communicating any information
Both Scofield and Bailey declined to stemming from their probe
comment on the lawsuit. The petition maintains that
The now disbanded grand jury, Scofield's ban is vague and over-
fly KEITH SHELTON
Managing Editor
Not many alumni have the op-
portunity to serve their alma mater as
Winfree Brown is doing
A 1951 NTSU graduate, Brown is not
only getting to serve as a regent for
his school, but he is also helping select
a new president for it. And Friday, he
was elected by his fellow regents to be
chairman of the board.
The Midland oil broker and county
commissioner was appointed by Gov.
William P Clements Jr. to the board
effective May 23 With Kenneth May
of Lubbock and Edward V. Smith III
of Dallas gone. Brown is the only
NTSU graduate left on the board.
Brown is impressed with the way
the presidential selection process is
going
“We have some very good ap-
plicants," he said. He thinks the
committee will try to have a can-
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