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The Tomorrow's Forecast Fair Details, Page 2A LZ3 A FREEDOM NEWSPAPER Vol. 54-No. 149 Odessa, Texas Tuesday May 29, 1979 28 Pages-4 Sections Judge Wood fetal If shot i Son Anton so Federal judge shot This Is a flit photo dated January, 1971, of the U.S. District Judge John H. Wood, who was shot and killed this morning outside his apartment In San Antonio according to San Antonio police.

West Texas cities by the VS. Attorney's office in San Antonio. However, it wu not known if this was related to his death. One such case was that of professional gambler Jimmy Chagra, who is charged with federal drug violations. Wood was to preside over Chagra's trial, due to start in Austin July 23.

The trial originally had been scheduled to start today. Chagra's lawyers, in a pre-trial hearing in Midland in April, asked that See JUDGE, Page 2A The judge was then shot at close range. Police sought the man, believed to be driving a small red car. A police radio report said the car had been seen in the area the past several days. An early report from the scene first indicated the assailant may have been a sniper.

The judge was found face up. He had been shot once in the lower back and there apparently was no exit wound. Wood apparently had tried to start his car and had stepped out of it when the shooting occurred. No weapon was found at the scene. Wood had been assigned protection by federal marshals since an assistant U.S.

attorney was shot at in November. But the judge recently called off his protectors, saying they were not needed. However, his landlady at the Chateau Dijon apartments said Wood told her recently that he felt his life might be in danger. Wood, 63, was appointed to the federal bench by President Nixon, taking office in January 1971. Police would not comment on any possible reason for the killing.

Wood had been presiding over drug cases developed in El Paso and other (AP wiriphstol FAA action as a roun i U.S. DC-1 0s SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr. was shot and killed outside his apartment this morning on the city's north side, police said.

He was dead on arrival at 9:30 a.m. at Northeast Baptist Hospital. Police quickly sealed off the area and rounded up several persons thought to be eyewitnesses. One witness was Jim Spears, son of U.S. District Judge Adrian Spears of San Antonio, who lived in the same apartment complex.

Jim Spears told police he saw a young man with curly hair, apparently in his late Ms. confront the Judge. Murder stuns legal community The death of U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr.

today outside his apartment in San Antonio has deeply shocked the judicial community in the Odessa-Midland area. In Odessa, 70th District Judge Joe Connally said he knew Wood to be a fine judge and a good man. "I think this (the shooting incident) is just terrible," he said. Wood, federal judge for the Odessa-Midland area, last held court in Midland the week of May 14-18. U.S.

District Court Clerk Bobbye Pieper, who worked closely with Wood, told The Odessa American this morning she "was in a state of shock" after hearing of the judge's death. "He was a very nice, gentle man," she said. i Wood had served on the federal court bench in Midland about two years, taking over the position held by D.W., Suttle. As federal judge, he came to Midland for one week each month, Pieper said, to handle "regular cases, nothing really outstanding. He currently was involved in the Jimmy Chagra case." "I liked him a whole lot," she said.

Another person who worked closely with Wood was Jack Swan, federal probation officer. Swan said, "I am very numb, very shocked and very hurt He was a very, very good judge," he said. Jim Bobo, a practicing attorney in Odessa and former VS. magistrate under Wood, said the incident "is terrible. He was a very, nice gentle man.

I can't say enough nice things about him. It's hard to believe that this has happened. He wu an honest, straight-forward man." Wood was scheduled to preside over the trial of Jamlel Alexander "Jimmy" Chagra, who is charged with federal drug violations. Chagra, brother of slain El Paso attorney Lee Chagra, wu indicted on drug conspiracy charges in Midland In March. Chagra's lawyers asked, In a pretrial hearing, that Wood remove himself from the case, but he refused.

Chagra was indicted on charges of conspiracy to Import marijuana and cocaine; conspiracy to possess marijuana and cocaine with the intention to distribute; and aiding and abetting the possession of cocaine. The trial was due to start In Austin July 23. I Am0- (AP WrtptwM) Scene of shooting Federal Judge John H. Wood, shot and killed this morning outside his San Antonio apartment, Is shown being loaded Into the ambulance by San Antonio police. WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Aviation Administration today grounded all Unregistered DC-10 aircraft because of "grave and potentially dangerous deficiencies" in the assembly that holds the plane's engine to the wing.

-s The action was taken a result of investigation of last Friday's crash of an American Airlines DC-10 in Chicago that took at least 273 lives. FAA Administrator Langhorne Bond said the order would remain in effect until all of the engine assemblies could be checked. The grounding order also covers U.S.-regiitered A-300 Airbuses, a Europeanmade wide-bodied twin-engine jet Bond told a news conference that he learned of the results of the visual inspections of the assemblies that hold the engines on the aircraft about two hours before ordering the DC-lOs grounded. "I have no choice but to ground all U.S. DC-lOs immediately," be told reporters.

Bond indicated the trouble involves more than just the bolt that gave way on the American Airlines DC-10 that crashed in Chicago. Informed sources told The Associated Press earlier that the planes would be grounded because of the discovery of "metal fatigue." He said the government Is quiring an inspection of "the entire system that links DC-10 engines to the wings." He gave no indication bow long it would take to carry out the inspections. Even so, he said, the FAA will require that the planes be inspected every 10 days or every 100 flying noun whichever comes first until new maintenance procedures are developed. Just before Bond made his announcement, McDonnell Douglas manufacturer of the DC-10, issued an "alert service bulletin" calling for immediate additional inspections of the engine pylons of all the planes before they are flown again. The company said this was being done because of a crack discovered in a pylon on a DC10 that was being inspected in Chicago.

"No DC-10 should fly until this inspection is made," McDonnell Douglas spokesman Ray Towne said in Long Beach, Calif In Chicago, meanwhile, United Airlines said it is grounding all of its DC-lOs immediately. "Metal fatigue" implies a weakening of metal parts or structures because of extended use, vibration, other stress or faulty manufacture. The eight airlines, besides inspecting the bolts, were ordered to look for cracks in the fitting that attaches the pylon to the wing structure, FAA official Al Garvis said in Los Angeles. The order calls for mechanics to "visually inspect the inside forward flange of each wing engine pylon aft bulkhead." Elwood Driver, the vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board who is conducting the Chicago investigation, said some of the focus of the inspections would be on the "aft fitting" because "there are Indications that there could have been problems in that area." CBS News reported investigators were looking for "evidence of unusual engine vibration in the seconds before the crash vibration that might have increased stress" on the bolt Bond told Monday's news conference that American's Flight 191 wu doomed the moment it left the runway. He said he thought not even the most skilled pilot could have gained control of or landed a plane with a missing engine.

But Driver disagreed. Saying again that investigators feel a DC-10 should fly with only two engines attached, he added, "Tbe proof of it is that it did go from ground zero to 600 feet, and It did not leap up there on rubber bands." Some airlines said they would inspect See AIRLINES, Page IK Holiday was a real gas By PETER MACKLER Associated Press Writer Americans were prepared to scrounge, scramble and wait for gasoline over the Memorial Day weekend, but most found that the Great Gas Crunch of '79 had taken a holiday. It may not have been cheap and in some places was available only at the end of long lines, but poliee and tourist groups throughout the country reported gasoline supplies adequate in most areas. Some officials said bad weather over much of the nation kept would-be travelers at, or close to, home. Others noted heavy use of public transportation for example, some Amtrak riders had to stand in the aisles on trains taking them home Monday.

Whatever, the reasons, the number of traffic deaths over the three-day weekend also appeared to fall below predictions. The National Safety Council had projected between 500 and 600 people would die in car accidents over the weekend that ended at midnight Monday. By early today the figure was just over 440. Drivers entered the holiday steeled against the nightmare of an empty tank with no place to fill up. Most found their fears unwarranted.

Oscar Miranda of Phoenix packed a 55-galIon drum of gasoline in the back of his truck when be went camping near the town of Show Low, in Arizona's White Mountains. When he arrived, he found plenty of gas. "I ditai't want to get up there and not be able to get back," Miranda said. "I should have bought all that gas in Show Low and carted it back to Phoenix." Dick Clancy, a realtor who bought a service station in Richmond, to make room for an office building, gave away 10,000 gallons of gas stored in underground pumps "to help people in a jam." In Kansas, two Good Samaritans loaded with emergency supplies of gas patrolled the roads for hours in search of stranded motorists whose cars had run dry. But they found no takers.

"The only thing I've seen were a couple of flat tires and a couple of overheated vehicles," said Bill Brockman, a Highway Patrol trooper who cruised Interstate 70 between See HOLIDAY, Page 2A inside Israeli navy ships go through Suez Canal Clements plans to call session 'at worst time' CAREERS CLASSIFIED 3-7C COMICS 2D DEAR ABBY IC DOCTOR'S COLUMN 6B ENERGY 5D ENTERTAINMENT 3D FINANCIAL NEWS 4D COREN ON 60 HORSE SENSE 6D JUMBLE 3D OPINION 4A SOCIETY NEWS IC SPORTS 1-38 TEEN FORUM 3A TV LOG 3A WORRY CLINIC YOUR HOROSCOPE 6D the decks and waved back. The Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty guaranteed passage for Israeli shipping through the Suez. The first Israeli-flag ship through the canal, the freighter Ashdod, made its passage April 21 with a crew of 22 but no cargo. The three landing craft, which had departed from the Israeli navy base at Sharm el Sheikh in the Sinai, were scheduled to complete their 15-hour voyage through the canal by midnight tonight and continue on to the Israeli port city of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast. In another step of the unfolding peace between the two countries, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said Monday that foreign airlines can begin service between Tel Aviv and Cairo whenenver See ISRAELI, Page IA AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Gov.

Bill Clements claimed a .760 batting average in his rookie encounter with the Texas Legislature but reminded lawmakers he will call them hack to bat sometime before 1981. "It will probably be at the worst possible time I can dream up." Cements said. His special session agenda certainly will include initiative and referendum and possibly other matters. "Of the 17 Kerns which I ranked as priorities for my leg-islative team during the final two months of the session, a to-Related Stories, Pagt 3A tal of 13 passed," Clements told news conference after the Legislature adjourned at midnight Monday. "Only four initiative and referendum, electronic surveillance, power for the governor to name commission chairmen and provision for proficiency testing of students failed," the Republican said of his efforts in the overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature.

"Obviously, 1 did not meet with overwhelming success la my first encounter with the Legislature," he added, "but neither, contrary to some reports, was my program ever In shambles." Clements claimed victory in passage of: -Single, countywide tax appraisal offices. Abolition of the 10-cent state property tax. -Budget execution powers for the governor, as bead of a seven-member committee. -Enabling legislation implementing the 1978 Tax Relief Amendment and returning $430 million to taxpayers. la addition to his four priority items that faltered, Clements mourned failure of a ban on state income taxes and back-to-basics programs for public education.

He said he would accept the 5. 1 percent salary increase for teachers along with Incremental raises as teachers reach See CLEMENTS, Page IA By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Three Israeli navy ships steamed into the Suet Canal today to cheers of "Shalom!" from Egyptian workers on the canal banks. They were the first Israeli military vessels to use the 101-mile waterway. "I would have never believed it if I wasn't seeing it," Yitzhak Davidl, commander of the Israeli landing ship Ashdod, told reporters on the ship after he welcomed an Egyptian pilot aboard. The landing ships Achziv and the Ashkelon, also loaded with trucks from the Israeli occupation force in the southern Sinai, followed the Ashdod through the entrance at 1:30 a.m.

for the northward passage. Egyptians rushed to the banks of the canal to see the Israeli vessels and shouted "Shalom!" Hebrew for "peace." Israeli crew members lined I quipster First guy said he'd lust teen a machine that can tell when a man's lying. Second guy said, shucks, that's nothing, ha married one..