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tN GALVESTON 5Q Mmv VOL. 139, No. 121 Member, United Press International Otdert Newspaper. Established in 1842, To The Growth Progress of Galveston and All of Galveston County A GREAT FISH STORY Monday GALVESTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8,1978 County's Only 7-Oay Paptr 25c Daily, 50c Sunday Briscoe Asked To Help Special Tax Session Stalled A RARE ALIGNMENT of Venus and the moon in western sky presented this spectacular sight after sundown Monday for stargazers in the Galveston area. Astronomers at the McDonald Observatory in west Texas reported they were observing the phenomenon through an 82-inch telescope in at- Pope's Death tempt to gather more data on the unusual oc- curence.

A McDonald spokesman said the phenomenon would not occur again tonight because the two heavenly bodies will have moved from the Monday night positions. (Staff Photo By Alan Van Zeifden) VATICAN CITY (UPD Italy shrouded itself in mourning Monday for the late Pope Paul VI while the world's cardinals began their journeys to Rome for the awesome, age-old ritual of selecting a new pontiff to lead the world's 700 million Catholics. Pope Paul suffered a heart attack and died Sunday night at his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo, in the Alban hills 15 miles south of Rome. The Vatican announced that his body will be moved in a cortege Wednesday to St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican.

The pope's body will lie in state in the basilica Thursday and Friday in front of the main altar, and then on Saturday it will be buried after a requiem mass. After the burial there will be nine days of requiems in the basilica celebrated by nine cardinals who will take part in electing the new pope the 263rd successor to St. Peter, the first pontiff. Pope Paul, sealed in a three-layered coffin, will first be placed in the grottoes beneath St. Peter's until a tomb is built.

Nearly 20,000 bereaved Italian Catholics thronged the tiny lakeside village of Castel Gandolfo to view the 80-year-old pontiff's body lying in state. Officials said another will pass the bier before. the body is moved to St. Peter's. The mourners braved battering winds and rain to stand for up to four hours in lines that stretched a quarter of a mile.

Many in the crowd fainted in the heat as they filed up five flights of stairs to the room where the pope lay. As news of the pontiff's death spread through the Eternal City, barely 1,000 pilgrims made their way to St. Peter's square sharp contrast to the hundreds of thousands who sobbed their grief on its cobblestones upon the death of Pope John in 1963. Vatican officials tried to explain away the small crowd of mourners, most of them tourists, by pointing See POPE'S Page 2A By LINDA J. WESTERLAGE News Staff Writer been called a "waiting game" by some and a "hopeless situation" by others but regardless, the guts of this special session of the Texas Legislature are still in the hands of a conference committee which recon venesatSa.m.

today. And Rep. Wayne Peveto, D-Orange, a member of the committee, called on Gov. Dolph Briscoe to "get involved and give us some help if this special session is going to accomplish anything meaningful." The legislature has until midnight tonight to pass tax reform legislation acceptable to the governor or face the threat of being called back into another 30- day session. The conference committee, which is attempting to come to a compromise on constitutional amendment resolutions passed by both houses, met Friday, Sunday and twice Monday with little success.

If the compromise is reached, both houses would have to concur and the proposed constitutional amendment would go to the voters for approval. Both houses have passed resolutions providing homestead exemptions, redefining guidelines for taxation of agricultural land, requiring equal and uniform taxation of all real and tangible property, giving legislature the option of taxing intangibles, granting exemptions on household goods not used for income, granting homestead exemptions for the elderly and defining "truth in taxation" requirements. Conference committee chairman Rep. Tim Von Dohlen, D-Goliad, said Monday he feels some progress is being made except in the three major areas that are included in the House version but not in the Senate version. The House version makes an action mandatory, while the Senate version gives the legislature the option of taking such an action.

The House version also has language mandating See TAX Page 2A Health Plan Seen As Intrusion Into Private Medicine By SUSAN BURNS News Staff Writer Testimony in the aggravated kidnapping and assault case pending against Eddie Galvan, 30, estranged son of Galveston Police Chief Ernest Galvan, began Monday in 56th District Court with one of the officers allegedly shot by Galvan taking the stand. John Carstarphen, 37, who was shot twice, once in Begins lii Galvan Case Passing Parade By TERRY MacLEOD L.E. Oehlert is putting out the call to all veterans of the famed 36th Division of the U.S. Army to remember that the group's 53rd reunion will be held at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio Aug. 30 through Sept.

3. Oehlert says he's planning to attend and hopes that his 36th Division buddies will do the same. Weddle professional actor from Texas City, will be seen Wednesday on ABC's "General Hospital" and on "Barney Miller" Thursday. He is the son of Vernon Weddle Sr. and Grace Weddle of Texas City.

Frances Hargis came home from the Knights of Columbus bazaar Sunday with enough groceries to start a corner grocery store of her very Malcolm Olds is home after a stay in St. Mary's Hospital and he is doing just great. News staffer Dave Randeli, whose hobby was going fishing at Alligator Hole in Livingston, has turned back on a career in journalism and will enter Tulane School of Law in New Orleans later this month. of the benefit fund project for Ralph Giusti are J. L.

Chrlstensen opwho won the hog and Joe Termini who walked off with the batch of shrimp, according to T. Frank Cynthia Collins had a 3.5 grade point average for the spring semester at Sam Houston State University where she is majoring in business administration. Also, she was inducted into the freshman honor society, Alpha Lambda Delta, and was selected for the national dean's list. Cynthia is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Collins Sr. and Mrs. Juan Ramirez are back from Anchorage, Alaska, where they visited with their son, T-Sgt. Ronnie Dominguez and his family and brought home with them some salmon they caught themselves. Pat Bodine Drummond of Bradford, is visiting with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. L. Eodine in Texas City. She is a song writer and recording artist and her latest, "Blue Jean Baby" is available at the Apex Record Shop.

The Ursuline Alumnae is holding its annual covered dish supper today at 6 p.m. in the Junior High Cafeteria and all members are encouraged to attend and bring their favorite Celebrating a wedding anniversary are Linda and Glenn kids are Rhodessla Amerson who is 81 years young, Shirley Robinson, Klmberly Snyder, Joseph Mrs. Eunice Haskins, Perry Archer, Victoria L. Anderson, Mrs. Pearl Coleman, Phillip' Simon Taylor Carlene Bean, King Stephens, George Celestlne, Gary Freed, Delias Sims, who is 86 years young, Sherry Mencacci, Mary Ann Caballero, Margie Ann Moore, Janie James, Catherine Church the side and once in the arm, told the eight-woman, four-man jury, that he was on a lunch break about 11:30 a.m.

April 20 when he received a general alarm call asking all units to be on the lookout for a man believed to have been involved in a disturbance at a bar on Postoffice Street. He said he saw Officer John Mitchell, who was also shot in the incident, at Mechanic and 17th Streets, talking to a suspect. He added that the suspect began to run and Mitchell left his patrol car on foot in pursuit. Carstarphen said he caught up with the two in the Magnolia addition. As he approached, he said, he saw that the suspect had a gun and he started to draw his gun.

At that time, before the gun was drawn, the suspect shot him in the side, he said. According to testimony, Carstarphen then fell to the ground, and was shot again in the hand. Intersection To Be Closed Beginning today, the intersection at 45th Street and Avenue will be closed to eastbound traffic on Avenue and southbound traffic on 45th Street. This condition is expected to exist approximately four weeks while Southwestern Bell workmen reconstruct a man hole. Directional signs will be installed, according to a city hall spokesman.

Testimony was also given by two employees of the bar where the disturbance complaint originated. The trial was recessed late Monday and will begin again at 9:15 a.m. today. According to police reports, Galvan was arrested April 20, after the shooting incident in which the two officers were injured. Lt.

Walter Lacy, who headed the investigation, said that Galvan allegedly fled the scene of the shooting, commandeered a truck and held Gene Lucas hostage during a chase. Galvan was arrested on FM 3005 after the truck he was driving reportedly flipped. Lucas is expected to testify for the state today. Galveston County District Attorney James Hury is prosecuting the case. ByPAULWATLER News Staff Writer Most of the speakers at a public hearing Monday night on a proposed 10-year health plan for the Houston- Galveston area said the document may open the way a dangerous encroachment of the government into private medical enterprise.

Others, including the president of the University of Texas Medical Branch and the administrator of St. Mary's Hospital, said health officials; and the public had not been given ample opportunity to consider and comment on the plan. The document, known as the Health Systems Plan, was prepared by 15 committees, study groups and task forces of the Houston- Galveston Area Council's Health Systems Agency in response to a 1974 federal law mandating its development. "The tenacles of the federal bureaucratic octopus are reaching out to grasp every nook and cranny of our life," said Dr. Hal Boone, a private physician, who said he objected to sex education being included in the plan.

Another sneaker, Brown Boone, s-id the plan makes no provision for dismantling the agency after the goals of the document are achieved. "I demand that there he some he said. UTMB President Dr. William C. Levin said the plan needed more input from health care consumers and providers before being finalized.

"The process thus far has not provided ample time for sufficient input," Levin said. Among the items Levin said he was concerned with after preliminary review of the plan was the "implied entry of the HSA in medical student selection." Sister Anastasia, St. Mary's Hospital administrator, said she could not "respond intelligently" to the proposal because she See HEALTH Page 2A Check These ANWAR Sadat to resume direct peace talks with Israel. PageSB. COMATOSE girl dies while debate her fate.

Page 7A. Other Amusements 4B Bridge 4B Comics 9A Crossword Deaths 2A Horoscope Markets Police Beat 2A Sports i TV Viewpoints 8A WantAds Weather SB Jury Selected In Murder Trial A jury has been chosen and testimony is expected to begin today in the murder trial of Harold Tarter, 33. Tarter is accused of the shooting death of Ed Hopkins Dec. 11, 1977 in a Bacliff bar. According to police reports, Hopkins turned up missing Dec.

11. Witnesses at the Bacliff bar said that they saw a man shot and loaded into a car by his assailant who said he was on the way to the hospital. The Houston man's body was found three days later in the trunk of an car which had been abandoned in Texas City. Tarter was arrested Dec 18, 1977 in Patterson, after a check reportedly showed that the car he was driving was stolen. A 20-year-old Galveston woman, Barbara King, was also arrested in connection with the incident.

King was allegedly in the car with Hopkins and Tarter, and she surrendered to police the day after the shooting occurred. "wuovuu man a uuuy OCCUITeu. 2 New Storms Form As Bess Heads Toward Mexico MTAMT TVnninoi ohnut 1 i -e TT i MIAMI (UPI) Storm Bess suddenly turned south and began picking up strength Monday, sideswiping the central Gulf coast of Mexico with 50 mph winds and heavy rain. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center, meanwhile, began watching two newly formed tropical depressions in the Atlantic ocean. One was found by an Air Force hurricane hunter plane about 300 miles east of Barbados; the other was located by satellite photos Classified Ads I Get FAST Re suits!) "I sold the truck to a man who didn't even look at it.

He called and said he wanted it, and later he brought the money!" says CYNTHIA MATTES of 511 Ave. in La Marque, after selling a 1955 Chevrolet pickup advertised for $350. "It only took two days, too." Over three-quarters of all La Marque residents looking for an automobile turn to The Galveston Daily News classified ads, according to a survey of 500 persons. Call one of our Ad- Visors today at 744-3611 to start your ad about 1,100 miles west of Africa. Bess was centered at 5 p.m.

EDT near latitude 21 north and longitude 96.5 west, about 50 miles east of thecityofTuxpan. It was moving south at 5 to 10 miles an hour. But hurricane forecaster Gil Clark said its movement was Hkely to be slow and erratic at least until dawn on Tuesday because Mexico's mountains were interfering with the storm's counter-clockwise wind circulation. An Air Force hurricane hunter found Bess' highest sustained winds at 5 p.m. to be 50 miles an hour, an increase of 5 mph in three hours.

''Some further strengthening is still likely, "Clark said. Small craft were urged to remain in port from Tampico southward. Forecaster Joe Pellissier said conditions were favorable for continued strengthening of the hew depression located east of Barbados. "There is a good chance it will develop further but it still has to generate some weather. It looks like it doesn't have a lot of heavy shower activity along with said.

He estimated the depression was "still 24 hours away from Barbados and the Windward Islands'' "It looks now like it might pass to the north of Barbados, "he said. The depression, located 1,100 miles west of the African coast was moving west-northwest at 15 mph. Hurricane forecasters said conditions also appeared favorable for strengthening of that system through Tuesday. "Bess is a pretty wet storm and it's definitely- going to cause some flash flooding in the mountains," Clark said. "We don't know the status of warnings along the Mexican coast because communications in Weather GALVESTON area warm days and fair nights through Wednesday.

Highs today and Wednesday in the upper 80s. Low tonight in the low 80s. BOATING and recreation winds 6 to 12 mph through Wednesday. Bay waters slightly choppy. FISHING-Fair.

BEACH water degrees. that area are a problem. "A lot of people live up in the mountains along the coast, but I guess they're used to flash flooding and are pretty wary of storms by now because they've had a lot of storms over the last 50 years, "Clark said. Tides along Mexico's Gulf coast from Veracruz northward to Tampico were expected to rise two to four feet above normal, but Clark said this would cause no serious problems. Bess grew out of a tropical depression that formed in the north-central Gulf of Mexico last Friday.

By Sunday, the depression had developed sufficiently TEXAS. -VSjHarllngen to become the season's second tropical twister. Bess began moving southwestward Sunday away from the Texas coast, which is still recovering from heavy flooding triggered when Tropical Storm Amelia sloshed ashore at Brownsville Julv 31. 100 MILES MEXICO Gulf of Mexico Ciudad Victoria San Luis Potos i TROPICAL STORM BESS headed for the northeastern Mexican Gulf coast Monday as its winds grew to 45 miles per hour. The storm blew up out of a low pressure trough in the Gulf of Mexico.

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