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Dame 30 LSU Pitt 20 Auburn 6 KnnQM cftftH up A Freedom Newspaper i'Win' for xas a 'my Dukakis: NRA distorts" record pivotal issue for Texans 3 nil nn i ir.ii.n -111r i ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis is trying in advance to take the steam out of what he says are planned National Rifle Association radio in North Carolina distorting his position on gun control. "It's another outrageous distortion of what I believe," Dukakis said. "I've always supported the right of hunters and sportsmen to have weapons and use them, and people to defend themselves in their homes subject to state law." He added, "What I'm concerned about is teen-agers with AK-47s and Uzis that are driving around cities in this country killing people, and cop-killer bullets and undetectable plastic guns which are threatening the An analysis Carl M.Cannon land Nolan Walters News Service LONGVIE.W If George Bush had the time to ride around for a day out here in his Ford Bronco listening on KYKX-FM to the country and western music he says he loves, times a day he'd hear Charlton Heston attack Michael i Dukakis as a bleeding heart. "As governor, Dukakis op-! posed mandatory jail time for drug pushers, the death penalty I for cop killers and gave mur-derers weekend vacations from prison," Heston says in an ad paid for by the National Rifle Association.

"He also did ev-. erything he could to take guns away from honest citizens." Resume worries Dukakls6A safety of people." Dukakis discussed the gun-control issue in an interview Friday after delivering a campaign speech in this mountain city. His state campaign spokeswoman, Amy DeHart, said Dukakis wanted an opportunity to clarify his stand on gun control before Monday, when DeHart said the NRA ads would begin running. "They've made a major buy (of air time) for these ads total distortions of the governor's position," DeHart said. Please see DUKAKIS3A Bush also supported furloughs7A Here in East Texas, this is no laughing matter.

Dave Osborne, an electronics technician at the local Stroh's brewery, recalled that he was on a jury panel here of 120 people who were asked who among them did not own a gun. Two people raised their hands. "One of them was a young girl and the other was an old Baptist preacher who was anti-everything," he said, adding that his co-workers "don't see beyond that (gun) issue." Texans' love of their guns, not to mention their support for Please see TEX AS3A AP Lrprot Bush totes a gun on quail hunts near Beeville. Murders remain ystery v- I 1 viL.Si Wf 'i 1.1 1i AP LerpnoTD Worshippers shown during 'miracles' back in August. By John Conway The American The killing of Brenda Kay VanGinkle creates a puzzle for Ector County Sheriff's Lt.

Jerry Davis. So does the brutal slaying of Joseph Lee Jimenez, 22, and the shooting death of James Neal Jennings. Although the number of missing pieces varies with each case, Davis remains hunched over an assorted collection of clues intent on forming a clear image of those people responsible for each of the three separate homicides committed in 1988 in Ector County. Of the three deaths, the Jennings case was perhaps the simplest to piece together, Davis said. "It was the easiest because the killer lived with the victim, came to Odessa with the victim and had the victim's vehicle afterwards," he said.

Jennings' charred body was found about 9 p.m. Feb. 28 lying in a heap of burning Please see MYSTERY2A Church rejects 'visions 1 v.r A The Odessa American: Ceasar Maragni Linda Jimenez and her son J.J. in front of their home. i' LUBBOCK (AP) A study committee of the Roman Catholic Church found no evidence of miracles at St.

John Neumann Catholic Church, where worshippers, say they have received messages from the Virgin Mary during Monday night rosary services. "Lubbock isn't Fatima, Lubbock isn't Lourdes and Lubbock probably isn't even Medugorje," Bishop Michael J. Sheehan said Friday, referring to the two church-approved shrines and the Yugoslavian village where reported apparitions are still under study by the Catholic Church. Please see VISIONS4A For 102-year-old man, life is still too short ju- 1 13 i Pro-life rally ends with 40 more arrested ATLANTA (AP) Police arrested 40 abortion protesters Saturday at the end of a five-day "Siege of Atlanta" that landed more than 450 demonstrators in jail but it was not clear who, if anyone, 1 won. "They'll be back and we'll be here i every day they are," predicted Police Maj.

Kenneth Burnette. Police were crit-: icized for rough handling of demonstra-; tors on the first three days of the week's protests but used gentler tactics on the last two days. More than 1,100 anti-abortion demon-; strators have been jailed in Atlanta since a group called Operation Rescue began picketing and blocking entrances to abortion clinics during the Democratic National Convention in July. The group has called a national "Day of Rescue" for Oct. 29 and hopes to have i demonstrations in 100 cities.

Operation Rescue said it would file a i civil rights suit next week in U.S. Displease see PRO-LIFE2A and stockman for 78 years. In 1986, at the age of 100, he led the Texas Sesqui-centennial Wagon Train through his old hometown. He was married nearly 71 years to the same woman, Birdie Walters Howell, until she died two years ago. He said he called her "Sugar" since the day they wed Nov.

28, 1915, in Brownfield. Howell, who has one son, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, said he moved to Odessa in 1980 to be closer to his family. Ector County commissioners designated his birthday this year as "H.B. Howell Day." Displayed by his rocker in his home at 406 E. 57th the county proclamation states: "Tremendous changes in the world have taken place during Mr.

Howell's lifetime. He has remained acutely aware of these changes and stays politically informed our community is richer for By Kristi Glissmeyer The American sk Henry Belton Howell about 0 life and he'll teU you it's too Lrlshort. The 102-year-old farmer from Tahoka, who has outlived two life-insurance policies bysurviving the mortality rate and spotted both passings of Halley's Comet, said there is no secret to a long life. "I don't think there's any formula to it. I've been around this long by the grace of God," Howell said this week.

"This lifetime is one little drop of water in a big ocean. It'3 too short." Fondly known as "Grandpa" Howell in Ector County where he has resided for the last eight years, the native Texan was born Sept. 9, 1886, in Comanche County. In 1902, a 16-year-old Howell traveled by covered wagon to the Panhandle city of Tahoka, where he lived as a farmer Bridge 11B Business 14-18B Classified 20-28 Commentary 12-13B Crossword 11 Dear Abby 11 Entertainment 26-27Aj Horoscope 11 Living 1AA-6BB Obituaries 18A Sports MOfll Stocks 14-15B Youth Pages 4BB Fair Please see Weather2A I fir Odessa Airn-rtcrfn Maragnt Howell relaxes in his favorite chair. Please see LIFE2A.