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THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS 7-A Lawmakers charge 55-MPH states face unfair penalties GOP Candidate Lewis Parker 38, is a candidate for Precinct 3 County Commissioner in the March 8 Republican Primary. A Texas City minister and businessman, Parker received his doctorate and master's degrees in theology from Gulf Southern University, a bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Houston and an associate degree from College of the Mainland. He is an evangelist minister of the Church of Christ and founder of HUHH Industries a non-profit charitable organization. Parker is director of the Republican Community Development a member of the Minority Republican Center, the International Clergy Council for Human Progress, International One World Crusade, Texas Foster Parents Association, and an advisory board member of the National Coalition for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C. He also is founder of the West Texas City Community for Better Schools, spokesman for the Concerned Citizens of Texas City, a member of me Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles, the National Church and Social Action Council and the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C.

Parker received the CAUSA International Foundation for Lasting Peace Award in 1984 and the Outstanding Young Men of America Award in 1981. 1984 and 1986. WASHINGTON (AP) Lawmakers from states that have retained the 55 mph speed limit expressed anger Wednesday over new laws that help states with 65 mph limits avoid federal penalties triggered by motorists who drive too fast. The legislators promised to try to thwart a pair of laws enacted in the last nine months that allowed states to increase speed limits to 65 mph on rural highways, but did not extend compliance requirements to the faster roads. Under the 1974 law that established the national 55 mph speed limit, states can be penalized up to 10 percent of their federal highway funds if more than half their drivers are found to be driv- ing faster than the 55 mph limit.

All but 12 states have increased legal driving speeds to 65 mph on rural highways under the two law's passed in April and December. The 12 can each be penalized millions of dollars if more half their motorists are found to be driving over the limit. "It is outrageous to penalize states that have retained the 55 mph speed limit," Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, said in a statement.

New York, which has kept the 55 mph limit, could be penalized $21.5 million because of excessive numbers of speeding drivers. "And I'll go even further," Moynihan said. "I can categorically state that those states will not be penalized, that New York will not lose $22 million, and that this quirk in these regulations will be worked out." Rep. James Howard, chairman of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee and a long-time foe of the speed limit increase, said: "I intend to hold hearings on the whole speed limit situation. I want to repeal what was done last month, and the changes that were made in the spring." Moynihan, who is chairman of a Senate transportation subcommittee, and Howard were among ouse-Senate negotiators last spring who worked on the speed limit legislation.

Missing dog's body identified ST. LOUIS (AP) A Dutch tourist who went on a hunger strike when his dog disappeared during an airport stopover learned Wednesday that his pet had been killed in traffic after escaping from its cage. Leo Koewe identified the body of Loekie, a female terrier-poodle mix, at Lambert Airport here. "For the dog, it is over but not for me," Koewe said later. "When I was looking, she was there.

Then she was gone. Everything I see reminds me of Koewe had changed planes in St. Louis on Thursday while traveling from Dallas, where he visted a sister, to Los Angeles. "Somehow the dog got out of its cage we're not yet sure how ran up the ramp and disappeared," said Trans World Airlines spokesman Don Morrison. "When we learned it was missing, westarteda massive search." Police departments were notified and Humane Society workers and TWA employees began scouring the area.

Koewe canceled his return to The Hague and went on a hunger strike at the TWA terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, vowing not to eat until he and his dog were reunited. On Tuesday, said Morrison, a TWA employee spotted a dead dog along a road near the St. Louis airport. "From the description we had, we were pretty sure it was Koewe's," saidMorrison. Koewe flew into St.

Louis early Wednesday and identified the remains. "Mr. Koewe was pretty broken up," said Morrison. "That's only natural." "It was flattened," said Koewe. "The TWA official said to go to St.

Louis and get my dog. I knew then that I wanted to have the dog back. He said, 'It will be too much for "But I said to the TWA official that it doesn't matter to me. I wanted every piece of my dog, because as long as I know that it is my dog, I needed it." Come visit my ihep end let me pertonaliit your Christmas Shopping. University Floral 609 Univvnity 76S-6900 UNDA EVERETT DISHWASHERS ON SALE AT WORTH LEY'S Dueling law is invoked in California Shootout SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP) Bud and Elmer drew their guns and faced each other across the dance floor at the Country Comfort Lounge, the final act in a tense drama that began hours earlier. Within seconds, Kenneth "Bud" Spanos. 30, was dead. Now his alleged killer, Elmer Roy Southern, faces trial under a seldom-invoked, 19th century California law that prohibits dueling, a ban stemming from the gunfights once endemic to the Wild West. The Shootout last April 28 at the popular suburban nightspot also left a bystander wounded and forced a young svoman who had just been introduced to Spanos to dive under a table for protection.

"Dueling has never been charged here in my lifetime," Ken Peterson, an assistant Sacramento County prosecutor, said Wednesday. "It just hasn't been done." But in nearby San Joaquin County, two men were acquitted of dueling in 1967. stemming from a shooting before hundreds of people at a baseball game. A third man was killed. 16 charged in attempt to escape DENTON, Texas (AP) Denton County authorities charged 16 jail inmates in connection with a foiled escape attempt involving a makeshift welder.

Sheriff Randy Kaisner said Wednesday the men, occupants of one 16-bed cellblock, apparently planned to cut through a skylight, then escape to the jail's roof, possibly with outside help. "This is the second serious attempt in the new jail by inmates to escape through these windows," said Kaisner, who had criticized the skylights before the jail was occupied. The prisoners had removed two of three layers of laminated Plexiglas windows and opened a 3- by 6-inch hole in the outer layer before an alert guard discovered the escape hatch. Kaisner said Deputy Dale Chegwidden saw a wire dangling from the skylight Monday night. Inmates had built a crude awl and arc welder from pieces of a broken intercom speaker and an aluminum wire from a television antenna, the sheriff said.

He said inmates plugged the makeshift welder into the television outlet to generate a spark, heated the awl and melted a row of perforations in the skylight. "Give them a high score for initiative but this is not the kind of activity we condone," Kaisner said. "We knew we were expecting to see problems in this jail. We had been reporting to county commissioners about them." All 16 men were arraigned Tuesday before State District Judge Charles Davis, who set bonds at each. On Tuesday, Municipal Judge Kenneth Hake ordered Southern, 37, to stand trial in Superior Court, charged with "causing death by dueling," which carries a maximum four-year prison term.

Hake issued the ruling at the suggestion of Southern's lawyer, J. Patrick McCarthy, who sought the little-known charge instead of murder or manslaughter, which carry longer prison terms. But Peterson said Hake's ruling is not binding, and authorities will decide within two weeks whether to accuse Southern of voluntary 1 or involuntary manslaughter, murder or dueling. Witnesses said Spanos and Southern had argued during the evening, and at one point Southern told Spanos: "I don't want to talk to you about that. I'll talk to you outside." Southern left the tavern, then returned a short while later, standing in the doorway and propping the door open with his shoulder.

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