Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • Page 41

Study shows criminal at fault By ROBERT PEAR tMr WASHINGTON Two doctors at St. Eliza- Hospital, in a major new study of the criminal personality, conclude that mental illness a poor home environment are simply excus- for criminal conduct. What is needed to stop crime, they say, is not so'much better housing or conventional therapy, but an offender's "conversion" to a whole new lifestyle and a rigorous moral education. Alter spending thousands of hours with criminals, Samuel Yochelson and Stanton E. Same- now say they reluctantly abandoned the search lor the causes of crime, discarded mental illness as a factor and threw out "psychologic and sociologic excuses." Rehabilitation, they concluded, requires "a 'conversion' to a whole new lifestyle a total destruction of a criminal's personality, including much of what he considered the 'good' parts." The doctors' conclusions ring true to some criminologists and moral theologians.

But some psychiatrists said they would not generalize from this study because the criteria for selecting patients were not clear. For the first five years, using traditional psychiatric methods, Yochelson met only with frustration. "The criminals made fools of us," Yochelson, now 70, recalled in an interview. "They turned us around and in their usual way, exploited us for their own purposes." Thus, Yochelson and Samenow. who is 34, abandoned their relatively permissive attitudes for a firmer, direct approach.

Instead of trying to allay feelings of guilt, as they would with a normal patient, they tried to bring out and sustain the criminal's disgust with himself. They outspokenly condemned his way of life, while at the same time indicating a willingness to work with the criminal. Each criminal acknowledged to Yochelson and Samenow that during his life, he had committed "literally thousands of crimes." Thus, the doctors assert: "The 'first offender' notion is a mistaken one. The criminal gets away with far more than is ever known by anyone else. By the time he is apprehended, he has more than likely committed hundreds, if not thousands, of offenses." Man wounded A 20-year-old man who appar- got into an argument with a woman was shot in the stomach last night and admitted to Memorial Medical Center.

Roberto Trevino, 2303 Laredo was found lying wounded behind a gas station on the 4500 block of Ayers about 12:30 a.m. today. Witnesses said Trevino had gotten into an argument with a woman and she shot him in the stomach while they were behind the service station. Gang shooting An apparent gang 'fight early Saturday morning in Cole Park left at least three persons injured, two with gunshot wounds. Lorenzo Garza, 22, of 2102 Karen, said he was in the park about 4:30 Saturday and began talking with some other people when four persons suddenly jumped him.

He managed to squirm away and heard gun shots. He was hit in the right leg by a bullet. Lee Valdez, 20. of 1902 Rockford, also caught a bullet in his hip. Carlos Molina, 19, of 3808 S.

Port, told police he jumped to the aid of Valdez when Valdez was jumped. Sgt. Curtis Roberts of the homicide division said, "At that time in the morning, it doesn't take any- i but somebody to look at somebody else the wrong way to start a fight." All the persons involved said they would not file charges, at least one claiming he could take care of himself. Police said no arrests were made. 30 pass test A total of 30 persons have passed the oral interview stage for police applicants.

Interviews were held for the past few weeks for the 135 persons who had passed the written exam and other obstacles. The next test is the physical endurance course. That test will begin tomorrow. There are at least two female candidates for the anticipated 14 or 15 police openings. Checks stolen A Harlingen man told police his attache case containing $15,000 worth of signed payroll checks was stolen from his car early Saturday morning.

Frank Hernandez, 36, said sometime between midnight and 1:30 a.m. Saturday his car, which was parked at a local downtown hotel, was broken into and the checks, drawn on a Harlingen bank, were stolen in addition to a CB radio and two suits. The checks were from the F.R. Hernandez Construction and Supply Co. in Harlingen.

Man wounded An argument outside a local bar apparently led to the shooting yes- a of 4 5 a Harold Jones. Jones, 1806 Glenfield, was outside a bar on the 4700 block of Angela about 2 a.m. yesterday when he got into an argument with another man. The man returned with a shotgun and Jones received a wound to his lower right leg. Women fight Two women in their mid-20s got into an argument this morning in the 1500 block of Armada Park, apparently about a man.

The argument got so tense that the women took to fighting. One woman told police she lost a one-inch square of flesh on her left thigh after the other woman bit her. CORPUS CHRISTI TIMES, Aug. 16, 1976 NB Registration time is here Students in the Corpus Christi Independent School District will begin registering tomorrotf morning for the fall term, with seniors going first. School officials expect several hundred more students this year than at the close of last year Approximately 45,550 students are expected to 3 enroll in the city's largest district during four-day registration this week.

At the close school last spring 39,759 students were in the dis- trict. Some schools in the area conducted registra- tion last week and others will do so this Most teacher convocations are scheduled this week, and two school districts will begin fall classes this week Calallen on Thursday and West Oso on Friday. All other districts in the area Corpus CHristi, Flour Bluff, Gregory-Portland, Robstown and Tulosq-Midway begin classes Aug. 23. Registration, by school districts, will be as folw lows: j' (Photo by George Tuley) Back to 'school' Eighty new teachers for the Corpus Christl Independent School District were welcomed to the city during the annual opening convocation held today at Memorial Coliseum.

Among them were Ms. Nancy Kilgore (left to right) of Ray High School, Dr. Jean Andrews of Wynn Seale Junior High School and Martha Camp of Calk Elementary School. Some 2,000 teachers will be attending in-service training alt week. Superintendent, board members to testify Supt.

Dana Williams and six school board members will testify here tomorrow before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The one-day hearing on school desegregation p'roblems will get under way at 9 a.m. in Exposi- 'tion Hall before two members of the commission, Arthur Flemming and Ms. Frankie Freeman.

This is the second chapter In the commission's study of the local response to the federal court orders on desegregation. In May, the Texas state advisory committee held hearings here but Wil- 'liams refused to testify. He and other staff members have been subpoenaed for tomorrow's session. Purpose of the hearing is to "complete the record regarding the status of school desegrega- tion and equal educational opportunity in Corpus Christi," said Mimi Hartley of the commission's public information staff. None of the 25 witnesses who appeared at the May hearing has been recalled.

The commission is a fact-finding agency which issues reports and recommendations to Congress and the President. The commission has been studying desegregation in 29 U. S. cities, including Corpus Christi. Williams will testify at 9:30 a.m.

followed by the three assistant superintendents. Dr. Dwayne Bliss, Dr. Gene Bryant and J. M.

Pearce. At 11:30 a.m. the following school board members will testify: Mrs. Bruce Darlington, Dale Hornsby, Franklin Bass, Dr. James Albright, W.

Glenn Hutson and Dr. Cornell Barnard. They will be followed by two Texas Education Agency officials, Commissioner M. L. Brockette and Dr.

Scrvero Gomez, assistant commissioner. The final witnesses will be two Department of Health, Education and Welfare officials. Dr. John Bell and Edward J. Baca.

The Most Rev. Patrick Flores of San Antonio will speak during the opening of the hearing. He is chairman of the Texas advisory committee to the national commission. A statement will be made by Milton Tobian, a member of the state committee, who chaired the May hearing here. The meeting is due to end at.2:30 p.m.

Anne Dodscn Corpus Christi Independent School District Students will register at their respective schools. Tuesday 8:30 a.m. Grade 12 7 9 a.m. Grade 7 1:30 p.m. Grade 8 Wednesday 8:30 a.m.

Grade 11 9 a.m. Grade 9 Thursday 8:30 a.m. Grade 10 9 a.m. to noon Kindergarten though Grade 6 Robstown Independent School District Here are dates students pick up schedules: Tuesday 9 a.m. to noon Grade 12 1 to 3 p.m.

Grade 11 Wednesday 9 a.m. to noon Grade 10 1 to 3 p.m. Grade 9 Thursday 1 p.m. Orientation for Grade 9 in high school gym. Friday All day Students who withdrew during 1975 school year and all new students may go in for scheduling.

New students in sixth and seventh grades may- register Wednesday and Thursday. New eightfi' grade students may register Wednesday from 8, a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration for elementary students was held, last week. Tuloso-Midway Independent School District Thursday 8 a.m.

Grade 12 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Grade 5 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Elementary school 12:30 p.m. Grade 11 1 to 3:30 p.m.

Grade 6 Friday 8 a.m. Grade 10 All morning Grade 7 12:30 p.m. Grade 9 All afternoon Grade 8 Registration for new students was held last week. West Oso Independent School District Wednesday 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. New Grade 7 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

New elementary students 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. New Grade 8 Thursday 8:30 to 10 a.m. Grades 12 and 11 10:30 a.m. to noon Grade 10 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Grade 9 Registration was held week for Calallen, and Flour Bluff school tricts.

Prices worry you? Shop for bargains In Tha Times. Every Day Man left hanging still 'needs'people JGNESBORO, Ark. (AP) -John Henry Young, who gave a ride to i i and ended up by a rope from a road sign, says he i may continue i hitchhikers despite his un- tippy experience. doti said Young from his hospital bed. "The way I feel about people I've always felt for 'the need for other people." Young, 40, is an uncmplbycd me- driver from Tyronza, u.

Northeast Arkansas community 500. was about five miles from his home when he picked up two hitchhikers. Young told authorities tlje two were smoking something "didn't, smell quite right." Young said his passengers asked "for some rope "to tie their bags up." Then they asked him to buy them a drink. When he said he had no money, one pulled a knife. Young said.

He said he stopped the car and they tied his hands and feet and roughed him up. Then, he said, they put a rope around his neck and strung him up to a sign pointing the way to Tyronza. He said he was able to reach the ground with his tiptoes and did so for as long as he could, but then passed out. "The officer in Tyronza said I hung there maybe 20 minutes or so," he said. "Everytime I moved the rope, it would get tighter.

When I knew anything, I was here in the hospital." "Only God could have done this to help me get through and keep going that long," he said. He was freed by Tyronza Police Chief Chester Ford after a passerby saw him and called the police. Poinsett County deputies said Sunday no arrest had been made in the case. Enormous fish almost sinks 35-foot cabin boat PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) An enormous ocean sunfish floating on the waves off Race Point, "sort of sunning itself." nearly sent a cabin cruiser to the ocean Coast a spokesman said.

"The Idle Hour," a 35-foot pleasure craft out lor a day's fishing, lost a 12-incl) piece of her wooden hull Sunday when she smashed into the deep-sea a which may have been as large as five feet in diameter. Asked how a sunfish, without any sharp appendages, could have done such damage, the spokesman at Boston Coast Guard headquarters said only: "I'm sure the fish is hurling too." Only quick action by another pleasure boat and Coast Guard of- licers aboard a helicopter and a utility boat kept "The Idle Hour" afloat. "When I arrived, one of the guys was standing on a piece of plywood using his weight to try and stop up the hole," said boatswain's mate Kelly R. Conaty of Point Const Guard station! who was aboard the utility boat. "They were using a given them by another boat, but it wasn't doing much good," he said.

Two more pumps soon lowered the water level inside. Her owner, Michael Lewis of Revere, and his three guests were unhurt. Funeral Notices PYRON Mr. Cecil F. Pyron, 69, of 10812 Annaville Road, died at 6:40 p.m.

Saturday in a local hospital. He was born in Lockney, Texas and had been a sales manager tor Dittlinger Roller Mills Company in Robstown. He was a charter member of the Jackson Woods Presbyterian Church, where he also served as a charter Elder. Survivors include his wife, Doris; one daughter, Mrs. Wendell (Sally) Smith, Corpus Christi; one son, Jerome Pyron, I i i a children.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in the Jackson Woods i a Church, with Rev. A. Arnott Ward, officiating. Burial i in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Burke Hill, Jack Nichols, Paul Ennis, Bubba Hart, Robert McKinley, V. T. Allison, William Carter, and Leon Kirksey. Honorary pallbearers will be Elders of the Jackson Woods Presbyterian Church. Under the direction of Cage-Mills Downtown Chapel.

BARRIENTOS ROBSTOWN Funeral Mass for Mrs. Juanita Barrientos, 83, of 412 Moore Street, who died Saturday was celebrated at 9 a.m. Monday at St. A a i Church. Burial followed in St.

Anthony's Cemetery. Ramon Funeral Home in Robstown. DAVIS Mrs. W. A.

(lla) Davis, 80, of Uvalde, died at 2:15 a.m. Saturday in a Corpus Christi hospital following a long illness. She is i by three daughters, Mrs. C. J.

Ondrusek, San Antonio, Mrs. R. B. Willoughby, Uvalde, and Mrs. I.

B. Magee, Port Aransas; two brothers, O. L. Richardson, Bishop, and Travis Richardson, Hebbronville; three sisters, Mrs. Jim Ross, Bishop, Miss Eunice Richardson and Miss Beulah Richardson, both of Alice; 'five grandchildren; four great- grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church in Uvalde, with burial to follow in the Hillcrest Memorial Park in Uvalde. Under the direction of Rushing-Estes Funeral Home in Uvalde. FLORES Abel M. Flores, 57, of 9061 Scapular, died at 3:15 p.m.

Sunday in a local hospital. He was born In Mission, Texas and had resided 1 here most of his life. He was a veteran of WWII. He worked for Corn Products for 25 years until his retirement on August 1st, 1976. Rosary will be recited a-t 8 p.m.

Monday at the Angelus Chapel. Funeral Mass be celebrated at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Clark wood. Burial will foltow in Memory Gardens.

A a Home. GARCIA ROBSTOWN Funeral Mass tor Mrs. Cleotilde Garcia, 85, ot 507 West Avenue who died Saturday will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Monday at St. A a i Church.

Burial will follow In Robstown Memorial Park. Ramon Funeral Home in Robstown. GARZA Leopoldo Garza, 78, of 4130 Teresa Street, died at 11:15 p.m. Saturday in a local hospital after a short illness. He was born in Mexico and resided here for the past two years.

Rosary was recited at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Angelus Chapel. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 3:30 p.m. Monday at Nuestra Senora Del Pilar Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

A a Home. NAYLOR CALLIHAM Melvin C. Naylor, 63, died at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in a Pleasanton hospital after a sudden illness. He was a rancher and a i of McMullen County for 16 years.

He lived in Calliham, Texas since 1948. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Mae Naylor, Three Rivers; his wife, Mrs. June Naylor, Calliham; one daughter, Mrs. Leale Slate, Lafayette, Louisiana; one son, David Naylor, Calliham; one brother, Kenneth Naylor, Three Rivers; four grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Live Oak Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will in Three Rivers Cemetery. i Oa a Home in Three Rivers. NUNEZ DRISCOLL Funeral Mass tor Pedro Nunez, 81, who died Sunday, will be celebrated at 4 p.m.

Monday at St. James Catholic Church. Burial will follow in De La Luz Cemetery in Driscoll. Ramon Funeral Home in Robstown. TUMLINSON James E.

Tumlinson, 64, of 4038 West Van- derbllt, died Saturday. He was born in Dimmitt County and had lived in Nueces County since 1938. He was a retired salesman for Rain- a a i for 33 years. Survivors include two sons, Johnny Tumlinson, Houston, James E. Tumlinson, Christi; two daughters, Mrs.

Sue Scarbrough, Mrs. Dianne Perez, both of Corpus Christi; ten grandchildren; seven brothers, Edward Tumlinson, Rockporf, Pete Tumlinson, Crystal City, Jurd Tumlinson, Uvalde, i a i Musleshoals, Alabama, Bob Tumlinson, Corpus Christi, Loft Tumlinson, Uvalde, Don Tumlinson, Uvatde; one sister, Mrs. Cora Lee Goodyear, Rockport. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Clifford Jackson Chapel on Kostoryz with Rev.

Samuel a i Temple officiating. Interment will follow in Memory Gardens. Clifford Jackson Funeral Home on Kostoryz. VILLARREAL A Corpus Christi man, Felix C. Villarreal, 27, of 1415 Southgate, died at Saturday, when the car in which he was riding was struck by a 8 other car at the section of Lathrop arid the east freeway service i road In Houston.

He was born in Corpus Christi and lived here all his life. 5 Survivors include hfS parents, Mr. and Mrs. Santiago Moreno Villaf- reai. Corpus Christi.

Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m.'Monday at the Angelus Chapel. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Christ the King Catholic Church. Burial will 1 low in Rose Hill Merrio- rial Park. A a Home.

VILLARREAL 3 Mrs. Guadalupe 5 larreal, 81, of 909 1 Street, died Friday eve- 2 ning in a local after a short illness. 3 Funeral Mass will bei celebrated at 10 a.m. 8 Monday at St. Joseph's" Catholic Church, with 8 M.S.F.

pastor as -cenp- brant, officiating. Buriilj will follow in MomonyS Gardens Cemetery. Pallbearers will fee5 Robert Villarrea), Simqn Garcia, Felix Vela, Rudy! Gomez, Armando Gutierrez, and A i Recio. Maxwell P. Dunne Funeral Service, Morgan at Tenth.

FLOWERS BY JAN, in R'e- membrance. Telotlorlitj member. Aransas 3)24. CLAUDIA'S show respect and lovje. FTDJ MEMBER, 1001 Blucher.J 113-4441.

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