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Thursday, July 10,1986 The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise f-, STATE Men charged with having bomb AUSTIN (AP) A private in the Texas National Guard and his cousin arc free on bond today after being charged with possessing a homemade bomb discovered in a carry-on bag at Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. Authorities said the device could have started a fire aboard a plane or blown off the hand of someone holding it had it detonated. "These particular guys, I don't think they realized what they had with them, how much danger they were carrying on board. It was just a severe case of dumbness," said Jim Neilson of the Austin Police explosive ordnance disposal unit. Charles Thomas Watts, 24, of Austin, and his cousin, Scott H.

Clark, 25, of Bowie, were charged with possession of a prohibited weapon Wednesday. Each posted a $5,000 bond and was released. Clark, who police accused of carrying the luggage containing the bomb, allegedly was taking the bomb to his home in Maryland and planned to use it as a burglary prevention mechanism, Neilson said. Lawyer withdraws drug funds EL PASO (AP) More than $4.2 million in suspected drug funds was withdrawn from two local banks by a Phoenix, attorney who knew the money was subject to tax liens, according to a U.S. Justice Department suit.

The money had also been linked to a Mexican drug lord, a prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, said a federal official. The civil suit, filed in U.S. District Court here, named as defendants Merwin Grant and the Phoenix law firm of Beus. Gilbert, Wake Morrill.

It alleged Grant took more than $2 million from El Paso National Bank and more than $2.2 million from First City National Bank of El Paso. The suit, filed Friday by Michael E. Greene, an attorney in the Justice Department's tax division in Dallas, alleged Grant knew there were tax liens on the money when he withdrew it in early July 1984. PUC asked to reopen Bell case AUSTIN (AP) Consumers Union today asked the Public Utility Commission to re-open the Southwestern Bell rate case to take a close look at whether ratepayers' money is used to finance unregulated subsidiaries. "The telephone company is nothing but a cash cow for the corporation, a captive pool of money the corporation milks to fund its acquisitions," said Carol Barger, southwest director for Consumers Union.

The PUC approved a $35.4 million revenue hike for Southwestern Bell on June 25. The company wanted a $277.1 million increase. During the rate case, the PUC refused Consumers Union's request to conduct a study of Southwestern Bell's subsidiaries. Southwestern Bell officials in Austin were not available for comment after Ms. Barger's news conference.

Larry Schneiders, the company's chief spokesman here, was in a meeting, according to his office. WTSU should follow guidelines HOUSTON (AP) West Texas State University benefits from federal funds and therefore should follow federally mandated rules that prohibit sex discrimination, an attorney said. Suzanne Meeker, who represents the six women who filed a class-action suit against the school in 1980, Wednesday told a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Houston that WTSU's intercollegiate athletic programs receive federal aid through revenue sharing, work study funds and the use of buildings constructed with federal money. The suit charges the programs unfairly favor men by giving male athletes more money, better facilities and better game and practice times. U.S.

District Judge Robert Porter of Dallas ruled in favor of the university in Canyon, near Amarillo, on June 19, saying its intercollegiate athletic programs don't receive a direct benefit from federal aid and therefore Title IX sex discrimination laws do not apply. NATION Burning tank car spews toxic cloud MIAMISBURG, Ohio (AP) A railroad tank car burned unchecked today alter it exploded during salvage efforts, spewing a toxic cloud that injured at least 92 people and forced thousands from their homes for the second time in two days. "We're saying it will now be out by daylight." said Dave Bush, trainmaster in Dayton for CSX Transportation, the railroad on which the tanker derailed Tuesday. "Right now, it's just a waiting game. It's just unfortunate that so many people aren't in their homes," At least 80 people were treated at six hospitals Wednesday night after the tanker exploded for the second time in two days, sending a poisonous plume over the parts of three cities that had been evacuated Tuesday night, officials said.

Twelve people were treated at a Red Cross shelter in Dayton. Inmates set fires in prison LORTON, Va. (AP) Prisoners at the overcrowded Lorton Reformatory set fires in 13 buildings today in what authorities called an organized effort to "burn the place down." Three buildings at the District of Columbia's suburban prison were heavily damaged; the roofs on two collapsed. As fast as some fires were brought under control, others were set. At one point, 120 firefighters were battling the blaze.

By 7 a.m., however, nearly seven hours after the first fire was reported by a passing motorist, all the fires were under control. Authorities said many of the facility's prisoners could not be accounted for. But none were believed to have escaped. WORLD Jury convicts ship's hijackers GENOA, Italy (AP) A jury today convicted 11 people accused in the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking and sentenced three of them to life in prison, including alleged hijack mastermind Mohammed Abbas. The panel of two judges and six civilians acquitted the four other defendants for lack of evidence.

The jury had deliberated for three days under tight security. Judge Lino Monteverde entered the underground courtroom, stood in front of the court and quickly read the verdict. Four defendants were present when the verdict was announced. They shouted "Long Live Palestine!" in Arabic from their steel-barred courtroom cages. Their shouts were translated by a courtroom interoreter.

Vietnamese leader dies in Hanoi BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Vietnamese Communist Party leader Le Duan died in Hanoi today, the official Voice of Vietnam announced. He was 78. The Vietnamese radio made the announcement in a broadcast monitored in Bangkok. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Duan was secretary general of the Vietnamese Communist Party and a member of the 14-rnember Politburo, the nation's highest decision-making organ.

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Reagan was to fly to the southeastern corner of Alabama today to plug tax changes in a luncheon speech before the Chamber of Commerce in Dothan, a community of 52,000 people that proclaims itself the peanut capital of the world. The chamber sold nearly 1,600 tickets for the luncheon at $25 apiece. "The main point of his speech is that individual rates must be held down," said presidential spokesman Larry Speakes. "The president wants to make his views known to the (congressional) conference, indicating that he wants to make sure it (the tax package) is fair, it is simple, and that those who should pay, do pay taxes," Speakes said. He said Reagan would specifically give his endorsement to the top individual rate of 27 percent, as approved by the Senate.

A separate tax bill passed by the House prescribes a maximum individual rate of 38 percent, but there is a growing consensus for the 27 percent figure in the Senate bill, along with acceptance of higher business taxes approved by the House. Reagan's own tax plan had proposed a top rate of 35 percent. Currently, the top individual rate is 50 percent. Speakes said Reagan would trace his involvement in tax reform back to 1980, before he became president, when he argued that the problems of low economic growth, high inflation and spiraling interest rates were the result of people being overtaxed. Tax-rate cuts proposed by Reagan were approved by Congress with some changes in 1981.

"Inflation dropped from 12 percent to under 2 percent and more than 40 months of (economic) growth was the result, as well as the creation of over 10 million new jobs," Speakes said. Reagan's speech was billed by White House chief of staff Donald Regan as "the stage setter" for administration involvement in the weeks-long struggle that will begin next week as House and Senate negotiators begin reconciling dif- ferences in the bills passed by the two chambers. Regan said Treasury Department officials will be on hand at the congressional meetings "to reconcile the differences or help to reconcile the differences between the two to come up with a tax bill that can be passed and on the president's desk by Labor Day." He said administration officials will encourage the tax writers to seek to retain the deduction for Individual Retirement Accounts at least for workers who are covered by employer pension plans but are not yet vested and thus do not qualify for retirement benefits. The Senate-passed bill would do away with IRA deductions for everyone covered by a pension plan. Olympic torch CITY COUNCILMAN Rocky Contreras reads a greeting from Mayor Betty Jean Jones during a ceremony Wednesday afternoon in Central Park.

The occasion was the running of the Olympic torch through the city which was coordinated by Reggie Williams, city parks and recreation director. The torch is being carried through numeious Texas cities and towns on its way to Houston for the U.S. Olympic Festival '86 scheduled to begin July 25 The torch's route through Seguin included the Texas Lutheran College campus and the downtown business district. (Staff photo) Texas chain pioneered fast-food industry BEAUMONT (AP) Dallas businessman J.G. Kirby furnished the idea.

Dr. R.W. Jackson had the money. Together they formed Pig Stands and opened the nation's and perhaps the world's first drive-in restaurant in September 1921. That original Pig Stand, a little wooden stand offering "pig sandwiches" on the outskirts of Dallas, had immediate success.

Before long, there were more than 100 Pig Stands from New York to California. Two years after the first Pig Stand opened in Dallas, the company opened Beaumont's first stand, at the corner of Highland and Port Arthur roads. "The restaurants were very popular," says Richard Hailey, owner of the restaurant chain. "Unfortunately, when the Depression hit, it was hard to get supplies, and the company consolidated its operations in Texas." The first Pig Stand sat on a corner lot, allowing waiters the convenience of running to the curb and hopping onto a car's running board to take or deliver orders. Those actions created the terms "carhop" and "curb service." The car's driver and passengers never had to leave the vehicle for service.

"The idea of curb service was an immediate success," says Hailey. "People loved it." Today, there are 10 Pig Stand restaurants, three in Beaumont, the rest divided between Houston and San Antonio. While Kirby and Jackson were the brains and money behind the Pig Stand concept, pigs made the ultimate sacrifice. "It all started with what the founders called a 'pig Hailey says. "The sandwich barbecued leg of pork was so popular they named their restaurant Pig Stand." The family-owned business is old hat to Hailey, who worked as a Pig Stand dishwasher when he was 16.

"My father, Royce Hailey, started with the company in 1930 as a carhop, when he was 13," Hailey said. "He worked his way through the ranks and in 1955, became company president," In the early 1960s, Royce Hailey and several other people acquired the company's stock and eventually, the elder Hailey became sole owner. In 1983, Richard Hailey, 37, took over ownership. "My father created the chicken fried steak sandwich in the 40s," Hailey says. Hailey says he believes the restaurants are popular because "people are getting a good value and good food." "We are the forerunners of today's giant fast-food industry," Hailey says.

"And we have been able to adapt to meet the competition. We also put the customer first." In the 1930s, Pig Stands began offering dining-in service and began to evolve into family-style restaurants with full-service menus. "The Calder Street restaurant, which is now the oldest Pig Stand in Beaumont, still offers curb service," Hailey says. The city's first stand last year was torn down to make way for a highway improvement project, Hailey says. Hailey says Pig Stands are a tradition in Beaumont.

"Some of our customers have been coming to eat here for 25 and more years," Hailey says. "When the older customers start talking about the past times they had at one of the Pig Stands, they get this faraway look in their eyes." In some families, Hailey says, three and four generations have eaten at the restaurants. "It's neat when we get a grandpa in here with a grandchijd or great-grandchild," he says. "Grandpa will tell his grandchild about meeting grandma after school for a soda or something right in this same restaurant." The restaurants, Hailey says, have a history of firsts. "In 1931, we had the first drive-through window," he says.

"And in 1927, we offered franchises. And in 1941, right here in Beaumont, Texas, Pig Stands created Texas Other firsts include using neon and fluorescent lighting and air conditioning, and offering fried onion rings, Hailey says. "We also were one of the first chains to offer our employees profit sharing," he says. Circulation Department Hours Monday 8a.m.-5p.m. Tuesday-Friday 8a.m.-7:30p.m.

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