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SUff Writer a discovery was which later tested and defeated the investigative process of the Lubbock Police Department and state and law enforcement agencies. On Aug. 25,1975, Doug Williamson found the mutilated body of his wife of three months, Deborah Sue Agnew Williamson, stabbed and provocatively displayed at their South Lubbock home. It was a crime which embodied all the beautiful young victim, a normally peaceful setting, a totally unexplained and unexpected make (hose citizens who normally felt assured of Year Woman's Murder Still Not Solved their own safety take a second look over hut their own safety take a second look over their shoulders. And one year later, with'perhaps another murder by the same killer now history, the backward glances may have lessened, but the assurance of personal safety and the rage inspired by such an act have not.

The killer is still free. With the words, "My wife, she's been raped," the victim's husband reported his grisly 1:14 a.m. discovery to police, and with the arrival four minutes later of the first police unit, the investigation of what officers later termed "our unsolved murder of the year" got off on the wrong foot situation caused by too many feet. A source outside the police deparment but close to the investigation said the murder scene was deluged by officers and detectives who by their sheer numbers and resulting confusion overlooked, moved and even destroyed evidence. "In all my years experience with law enforcement, it was the worst, sloppiest, on the scene investigation I have ever seen," the source said.

Officers arriving at the scene found the body of the 18-year-old newlywed face up in a pool of blood where it had been dragged 27 feet from the point of attack in the carport. Detectives theorized the victim was attacked between 10 p.m. Aug. 24, 1975, as she prepared to enter her Bullock Claims Refund Possible car and drive to a restaurant where her husband worked. Although she was not raped, Mrs.

Williamson's clothes had been pulled and disheveled to partially expose her. She was lying on a crossword puzzle book. A pen and car keys were found lying near the body. A door to the carport was opened, but locked, and a kitchen window glass had been broken. Missing from the scene were the victim's purse which contained about $120 cash and a wedding album.

Clutched in her hand was a strand of hair which later became a focal point of the investigation. No witness or murder weapon was uncovered and this led one detective to comment two days aft- By PRESTON LEWIS Staff Writer Sounding like a potential candidate for Texas governor, state comptroller Bob Bullock said Tuesday increased collections of delinquent sales taxes under his administration have meant money in the pocket of the average taxpayer. Bullock told a Lubbock Lions Club audience, "The better job I do as state comptroller, the more money the City of Lubbock will have to pave your streets, to hire additional firemen and policemen to protect you, to lay a sewer line or water main." Although the comptroller's office is responsible for paying state bills and writing checks, it was the office's top-priority job Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1976 Recreation Expanded At Tech A new aquatic center, backpacking, canoeing, kayaking and racquetball are part of the expanded Texas Tech University recreational sports program, expanded from and now including intramural sports. The aquatic center, which is under construction and should be finished by, mid-September, is on the west end of the Texas Tech campus, near the commuter lot.

The facility will be a 50-meter-by-25-yard, indoor-outdoor pool with an adjacent grassy sunning area. It will be open to students with a valid identification card. No entry fee will be charged. Some of the events scheduled the pool include beginning swimming class, Oct. class to improve swimming strokes, Nov.

2, 9 and 16; midnight swim. Sept 18; recreational early morning swim, Oct. 11,12 and 13; synchronized swimming demonstration, October date to be announced; and all- university water play day, Dec. 5. Registration for basic canoe instruction will be Oct.

1-2 at the pool. Recreational clinics scheduled are intermediate-advanced tennis, Sept. 14 and 16; beginning tennis, Sept. 11; and bowling, Sept. 17.

A backpacking seminar will be held Oct. women's fitness and exercise, Sept. 13 or 14; and beginning racguetball, Sept. 9. which Bullock concentrated in his speech.

Bullock previously has indicated he might run for governor in 1978. Sales taxes for both the state and individual cities are collected by Bullock's office. Bullock said when he took over as comptroller Jan.l, 1975, there were more than 60,000 sales tax permit holders delinquent on about $60 million. In an effort to decrease those delinquencies, Bullock said he instituted a series of seizures, allowable under state tax law, to recover the tax money retailers had neglected to send to the state. He said more than 300 seizures for delinquent taxes has made retailers aware of his office as the state's tax collecting better job we do in our office, the less that comes out of your pocket locally," Bullock said.

"Seizure has been the best therapy for those that might have delayed paying their taxes," he said. Bullock estimated sales tax collections for 1976 and 1977 will be $3.1 billion. Bullock said the comptroller's office also had intensified its enforcement of delinquent auditing companies doing business in Texas. Bullock said in a news conference after the speech that the state was in excellent financial condition. "To tell you the truth, Texas is rich," he said.

"Texas is rich in natural resources. As long as oil and natural gas production stays high, as long as taxes are tied to market value, it means more taxes to the state." He said the possibility of the state having a surplus in excess of $1 billion the next two years was excellent. Numerous suggestions have been made about what to do with the money, he said. "The suggestion has been made that possibly we should reduce the tax burden in Texas by maybe 1 per cent for say two years," Bullock said. "I much prefer that over the proposal of putting it in a bank and letting it sit there and draw interest.

Let's put it where it can work and that is in the person's pocketbook." Bullock, whose term ends in 1978, has indicated in the past he might run for governor that year. "There has been some speculation on it and it is not really speculation," Bullock sai'd. "There is a statement I made some time ago. I said I would do one of two things. When the time came, I was either going to run for re-election or I was going to run for governor of is just as simple as that," he said.

the murder, "Without a break in the next week, this case will almost be impossible tosolve." The purse, album and murder weapon have never been found. No witness has come forth. No arrest has been made. The break never came. Why? After the sloppy investigation of the Williamson murder, a near-perfect investigation of the similar murder of Mrs.

Elizabeth Price at Lubbock Regional Airport April 10 produced the same fact which has led police and observers to believe they are dealing with an unusual killer. Termed "schizophrenic" by Del. Capt. Wayne Love, the suspect is believed by detectives to be an average-appearing member of the community, a suspect difficult to locate. Although 15 to 20 "strong" suspects haye been questioned, polygraphed and cleared, detectives have yet fo find a person with any substantial information about the crime.

Numerous" leads have been followed, they say, and suspects ranging from family members to suspicious persons merely in the area have been questioned. Hundreds of man hours and pages of reports have placed police no closer to the murderer than they were a year ago. As the investigation unfolded in a media which Police Chief J.T. Alley termed detri- See PROBE Page 14 FINAL SPRAY-Haida, a four-ton killer whale at Victoria B.C.'s, Sealand aquarium, doesn't take lightly to seagulls robbing all his fish, so it takes to the attack, with the aid of a mouthful of water. (AP Laserphoto) Health Unit Cuts Rejected BV JIM BIJSBV tn falro it or By JIM BUSBY Staff Writer City-county health board members Tuesday tossed their well-worn monetary time bomb back into the hands of the city by refusing to recommend health department program cuts.

As the fiscal year dwindles to one month, the health department is faced with an optimistic ballpark figure of 547,000 less than its $804,176 requested the city accepts roughly $95,000 in county funds. Solidly supporting board member Dr. M.L. Barrington in his contention that asking the board to make program cuts would be "like asking the board to commit suicide as far as its aims are concerned," the six board members present agreed they could not support program terminations. Even at full budgeting, the health department is maintaining the "status quo," Barrington said, and later called the proposed $804,176 funding a "maintenance budget." Board chairman A.

C. Bowden said he doesn't want to "cut loose programs" without an agency to adopt them and said that with another year of sufficient funding, "we might be able to work with someone to take it over Following the decision to return the budgeting problems to councilman, the board agreed to send Barrington to the council's Thursday meeting to recommend the city seek other sources of as the city's general bring the health budget to the $804,176 mark. City public services director Al Couch called the notion to add last year's underruns to the upcom- ing budget "a very optimistic solution." Board members were basing their $47,000 shortage estimate largely on the assumption that the city will rechannel about $56,000 in welfare funds, tentatively assumed by the county, into the health department budget. Couch told the board that even if the city brings the budget up to the requested amount, "it might be illegal" for the city to pay for indigent medical care. Couch was referring, in part, to a legal contest initiated by the city seeking to determine the hospital district's obligation to the health department.

While the city claims the hospital district owes the department $99,550, the LCHD says it will pay only $10,450. That case is awaiting a hearing in Judge Thomas L. Clinton's 99th District Court here. Joe W. Burks To Direct Private School In City Local 'Meals On Wheels Receives $12,000 Grant Lubbock's Meals on Wheels program will keep on rolling at least temporarily, after members of the Lubbock Community Services Commission Tuesday voted to give the service $12,000.

The action, according to Archie Bottoms, director of ihe city's Community Services Department, is in line with the commission's stated priorities of assisting the poor with housing, education and health-nutrition services. Mrs. Mary Williams, coordinator for Lubbock Meals on Wheels appeared before the board to make the request. "We're in trouble," Mrs. Williams said as she explained the program's financial resources were the lowest they had been since the program started in 1971.

The program currently serves 121 hpmebound elderly a hot, nutritional meat five days a week. The program is aimed at those with low incomes who otherwise would not have a nutritional meal each day. About 140 volunteers deliver noon meals to the elderly, who pay for them on an "as can" basis. "We have been feeding more than have the ability to pay," Mrs. Williams said.

Under the commission action, a subcontract with Meals on Wheels will be initiated to provide the same type service it now operates. Mrs. Williams said the money would see Meals on Wheels through two more months and its current financial drive. The program is supported by donations from local civic clubs, churches and governmental entities. The $12,000 gift will come from a $17,000 surplus created when the Federal Community Services Administration sent the city's community services department an operating grant in excess of the department's needs.

The federal agency based the grant on the wrongful assumption that the city department had been operating at a deficit. The $17,000 was to cover supposed deficit, but since there is none the money can be used for other activities to assist the poor. The Community Services Commission is an advisory board overseeing the city's Community Services Department, which coordinates Lubbock's antipoverty programs. Commission members also heard outreach supervisors Mrs. Carolyn Gilbert and Mrs.

Rosetta Moore outline their normal activities in trying to assist the poor. Mrs. Moore told the commission donated space north of 4th Street was needed so an office or outreach center could be established to better facilitate the poor coming in for assistance. Currently, residents north of 4th Street must go to Lubbock City Hall. "With municipal court here," she said, "some people a bad connotation about coming over to city hall." In a lighter moment, Lubbock County Judge Rod Shaw, a commission member, said.

"That's the way I feel about it," in a reference to the current city-county squabble over the joint funding of certain services. Joe W. Burks, 43, of Lubbock has been named superintendent of Lubbock Christian Schools. In accepting the position, Buries ends a seven-year asocia- tion with the Lubbock State School, where he most recently was assistant superintendent. He will make the job transition on Sept 3.

At Lubbock Christian Schools, Burks is replacing Harold Wade as Wade, who held the post for four years, tendered his resignation to pursue a private business interest and to work for the Lubbock public schools. While expressing regret at losing Wade, Lubbock Christian College President Dr. W. Joe Hacker Jr. said he was happy to find a replacement wjih Burks' qualifications.

"With his impressive professional experience and dynamic personality, Burks will be a welcome addition to the LCC family, "Hacker said. Burks termed his experience at the Lubbock State School as extremely rewarding and satisfying. "I'm looking forward to the personal contact I will have with students at Lubbock Christian Schools in addition to my new administrative duties." As a part of Lubbcck Christian College, Lubbock Christian Schools has approximately 550 students in kindergarten through the 12th grade. Burks said he plans to continue programs launched by his predecessor in continuing to upgrade the quality of education offered at Lubbock Christian Schools. Another duty of the new superintendent will be to oversee construction of a $120,000 building on the high school campus.

It will include a 250-seat auditorium, music center and four classrooms. The father of three daughters, Burks was valedictorian of the 1950 class at Ropesville High School and earned a B.S. and M.S. from Harding College, Searcy, Ark. He has taken additional graduate studies in education for the deaf and mental retardation and is now a candidate for a doctorate in education at Texas Tech.

Burks previously was a teacher and coach at Lubbock Chris- tian Schools from 1961 to 1966. Before joining Lubbock State School in 1969, he taught deaf children in Midland and taught courses in deaf education, mental retardation and speech pathology at Texas Tech. Joining the Lubbock State School as a principal, Burks was named administrator of technical programs in 1971, director of programs in 1973 and assistant superintendent in 1975. CRytTfifflkToR" Ang. Accidents 1,307 Deaths Injuries Same date Accidents Deaths Injuries fa Perforated banana on crepe.

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Meanwhile, a letter has surfaced in which state officials threaten to withhold loan monies for continued construction of the Health Sciences Center Hospital unless the shared services negotiations are resolved soon. Sources said Caraway's proposed answers to this crisis which has threatened the new hospital with bankruptcy could be available in 30 days or less. Regents chairman Dr. Judson F. Williams said today hospital district and Tech will split the costs of hiring the accountant.

Williams indicated regent J. Fred Bucy had been negotiating with hospital district board chairman Marshall Pennington to hammer out some type of agreement on the shared services. Regents instructed Bucy to take whatever steps he thought necessary, subject to approval by the full board of regents, to come to some agreement. "The point is," Williams said, "we are going to solve the shared services problem." The arbitrator will project the costs of the teaching hospital and see how they compare with those of a normal community hospital which is less expensive to run. After the figures are completed, the regents and the hospital district will seek to resolve the funding difficulties.

One possibility is for the university to temporarily charge the hospital district for shared services at a rate closer to that in a community rather than teaching hospital. Hospital district board chairman Marshall Pennington said last week negotiations between the district and Tech through a joint liaison committee have been declared dead. Pennington instead had been meeting alone with individual university regents to discuss the subject of shared services. He was unavailable for comment Tuesday. But hospital board chairman pro tern Jack Strong told The Avalanche-Journal, "We have agreed to hire Max Caraway to come up with what the cost of shared services should be." Hiring the CPA was discussed at an Aug.

16 meeting of the hospital district board, Strong said. Minutes of the session, though, reflect no such discussion. Strong said Pennington discussed the idea of employing an independent arbitrator with regents and "he said it was suitable to them." Two of the regents contacted, Don R. Workman and Bill E. Collins of Lubbock, said, however, they had never heard of the proposal.

County commissioners have called a 10 a.m. meeting Friday to discuss the plan to bring in Caraway to make recommendations on the shared services problem. They will be joined at 11 a.m. by representatives of the university board of regents and the LCHD board of managers to sign an agreement and make an announcement. The amount Tech decides to charge the hospital district for these auxiliary services at the Health Sciences Center Hospital will determine whether the $22 million facility will be a multi-million dollar debt to local taxpayers when it opens in September, 1977.

Tech has proposed selling these include clinics, X-ray and lab work, emergency and operating rooms, and pharmancy and cafeteria about million a year. Hospital district officials say this figure is double what other teaching hospitals are charging. If it's implemented, they say they'll go broke. A letter obtained by the A-J shows that on April 1 of this year, the Texas Department of Health Resources said contin- See ARBITRATOR Page 14 BACK TO WORK? Tired of staying at home? Is inflation ruining your budget? Are you good with your hands (sewing, crocheting, building models, do-it-yourself hobbies)? Texas Jnjfr in lubborl, hat the hiring tMte Jurrt, mwly Wffltty, A.O. Suiw Mtortwn su- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.