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14, 1977 Final Hill Trial Arguments Delayed HOUSTON (UPI) Final arguments in the $7.6 million wrongful death suit against oil Robinson will not be heard until next week because lawyers have not agreed on jury instructions. Attorneys Thursday met privately but (ailed to reached a on proposed instructions. State District Judge Arthur Lesher ordered the attorneys lo continue working on the instructions today. The Instructions will tell the jury what evidence they may consider and the procedire for ruling on various points of the lawsuit to determine facts or damages. Ivesher also set final arguments in the lawsuit for 9 a.m.

Tuesday. Attorneys representing the survivors of plastic surgeon Dr. John Hill claim Robinson paid $25,000 lo have Hill stain to avenge the death of Joan Robinson Hill, the doctor's first wife and Robinson's only daughter. Joan Hill died of a mysterious virus in March 1969, and Hill was awaiting trial on murder charges when he was killed. Mareia McKittrick, a former porstitute serving 10 years in prison for her role in Hill's slaying, was the plaintiff's chief witness.

She was the only participant in the crime to link Robinson to the murder contract. A second woman, Lilla Paulus, is currently serving 35 years in prison for hiring the gunman. No criminal charges have ever been brought against Robinson, 79. Robinson's defense centered on characterizing Hill as an unethical doctor and a woman- chaser. Robinson portrayed himself as a grandfather denied the custody or opportunity to maintain a relationship with his only grandson, Robert Hill, '17.

In the trial's most dramatic moment this week, Robinson told his grandson he had nothing to do with his father's murder. He has previously stated he was anxious to end to the five-year estrangement clouding the lives of Robinson and his wife, Rhea Robinson. Author Claims Hill Couldn't Have Perpetrated 'Perfect Crime' 'NTO an improvised eha el a uard be married under a liberalized policy at the Walla at the Washington State Penitentary are Phil Owens Walla prison, and Lynda Teafatiller. The couple was the second to DALLAS I UP!) Dr. John Hill wasn't smart enough lo have murdered his first wife, who died of a "mysterious, massive infection" in 1969, according to the author of a testselling book about Hill.

Thomas Thompson, author of "Blood and said Thursday his eonclifiion was based in part on Hill's being a plastic surgeon. "I a studied doctors considerably in my years as a journalist," said Thompson, who also wrote "Hearts," a book about the men who the researchers are the ones with probing, thinking minds. "Had John Hill beai an internist, then perhaps I believe he could have been capable of doing away with his wife and not leaving any evidence. But he wasn't, he was totally uninterested in any research other than in music and I just don't think IE had the intelligence to pull off the perfect crime." Doctors have been able to establish only that Mrs. Hill died of a "mysterious, massive infection." Hill, a Houston plastic surgeon, was charged with murder by omission in the death, but his trial ended in a mistrial.

While Hill was awaiting a second court date, he was slain by paid asassin Bobby a Vandiver. Vandiver was later killed by a Longview, policeman. Hill's survivors contend Mrs. Hill's father, Houston oilman Ash Robinson, paid J25.000 to have the plastic surgeon shot to death because he beliewd i his only daughter. A $7.6 million death civil suit against Robinson is being heard in Houston.

Thompson, in Texas promoting the paperback version of his book which has now sold 160,000 copies in hardback, said he inilally had difficulty convincing publishers the Hill case was anytliing more "than a provincial crime story." "But it was more than just a crime story. It was a terrific mystery and still is. We will never know how Mrs. Hill died, we will never know for sure whether Hill killed her and we may never know for sure who paid to have Hill killed," he said. "I saw the Hill case as a terrific vehicle for me explore the Texas character, the whole fiber of what is Texas life," said the former Texas journalist.

"I wanted to use the Hill case as a clothesline for me to hang my feelings of Texas on. And I believe I did." are not Ihe inlellectuals of medicine. They are Ihe carpenters while the internists and Trade Work Brings Economics Nobel Libel Suits Upset 'Creative Ability' Sweden The 1977 Nobel International i incomes." Nations in Geneva, member in medicine to three DALLAS WPlt Author Thomas Thompson says he is being hampered by three libel suits over his best-selling book "Blood and Money'' although he for economics was awaided today lo two professors from England and Sweden for their "pathbreaking" work in international trade. nur i i /M.I- iiduuiis in ueauva, VIUE- uieuicute UUB; uiwutiiiumuiiey diuiuugniie classic work OUm's major work appeared and later head of the British A i a including a cbes not expect any of thesuils was I i a and in 1933 and Meade's in 1951-55. c- 8 moTM.TM,,,*,,TM,,/ regio International Trade." The Academy said Meade, "has demonstrated lire effects of economic policy on foreign in 1933 and Meade's in 1951-55.

a a importance of Ohlin's and Meade's contributions have, however, not become obvious Economic Secretariat, and a professor ot foreign trade at the Lonbbn School of Economics. Royal Academy of trade and penetrated the until (he 1960s and 1970s in Ohlin, a.former leader of the Sciences awarded $145.000 problems of slabilizalion poli- conjunction with the growing Ul3e ral Parly and minister of prize lo Professor James cies in 'open' economies." a a i University, of England, and Professor i i professor emiritus of the Stockholm School of Economics. The award cited "Ihtir contributions to the the Uiefary ot international tnde'and international capital Meade, best known for the work "The Theory of Open economies are those thai are greatly dependent on foreign trade. Ohlin, 78, "developed a theory a demonstrates which factors determine Ihe pattern of foreign trade and international division of internalionalizalion of the i syslem," Ihe Academy said. The Academy said Meade was "the leading pioneer in the field of international macrolhe- ory and international economic policy." Meade, who fives in labor on the one hand, and on Cambridge, was professor of the other, shows what effect economics there; from 1957-S8.

He a previously 'had been a member of the Economic foreign trade has on allocation of resources, price relations and the i i i of commerce in 194445, recehed his doctorate at Ihe Stockholm School of Economics in 1919. He was a professor at the University ot Copenhagen (1924-29), and professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929-65. He was Liberal Party leader from 1944-67. On Thursday, the Caroline Institute awarded the Nobel woman, for their work tracing hormones and helping man "understand a part of the link between the body and the soul." Half the $145,000 medicine prize went to Dr. Rosalyn Yalow, 56, of the Veterans A i i a i Hospital in New York City and the other half was split between Drs.

Roger Guillemin of the Salk Institute in San Diego, and Andrew Schally of the VA Hospital in New Orleans. Mrs. Yalow was the second woman lo win Ihe medicine prize and only Ihe sixth woman to win in any Nobel category. to ever reach court. "Obviously I don't think any of the suits have a molecule of merit, but they have upset me in thai 1 am having my crealive abilily drained by hours of depositions and lawyers," Thompson said Thursday.

"I don't Ihink any of them will even get to court. "I have been a joumalisl for numerous years, a professional writer for 10 years and authored four books and never have I even been accused of even misspelling a name until now. "Blood and Money" covers the life of Dr. John Secretariat at the League of Davis Trial Gun Showing Due By MIKE COCHRAM AmcUlcd Press Writtr AMARILLO, Tex. (AP) their key bullets in evidence, prosecutors were poised today to show lhal the same gun lulled Iwo persons last year at Cullen Davis' Fort Worth mansion.

Fort Worth Crime Lab Director Frank Shiller Hill testify the bullet that killed Davis 1 stepdaughter. Andrea Wilborn, was fired from the same caliber pistol used in the slaying of Stan Farr. shot her and then fired four bullets into Farr, 30, her lover. The fourth victim, Gus Gavrel 22, and his girlfriend Beverly Bass both have identified Davis as tlie "man in black" who triggered the Aug. 2,1976, assaull.

Four bullels inlroduccd into evidence Thursday were recovered from a breakfast room area where Farr and Mrs. Davis were shot anda fifth was retrieved in the basement where the girl's body was found. A Fort Worth melical exam- It is crucial lo the state's case to show Ihe bullets were fired from Ihe same weapon inc earlier identified Iwo bul- because Ihe gun was never lets removed from Farr's body recovered and their were no eyewitnesses to the shooting of the 12-year-old Miss Wilbom. Davis, a millionaire industrialist, is on trial fee his life in the slaying of Miss Wilbom, who was killed in a prelude to a and those projectiles already were in evidence. Prosecutors overrode a flurry of defense objections Thursday and hammered the five bullets into evidence.

Defense lawyers contended midnight shooting spree lhal t), "integrity" of the bullets left Farr dead and Iwo others W3S impugned because tbey gravely wounded. The defendanl's estranged wife Priscilla, 36, testified previously it was Davis, who lay for a period of hours in an evidence locker "left open and unattended." There was a "hiatus in the chain of custody," one attorney argued. State District Judge George Dowlen scultled thai objection and others as he allowed the bullets, a tallered plastic garbage bag and nine wig fibers into evidence. The Ihree surviving eyewitnesses all testified the gunman concealed his hands and his pistol in a dark bag and plastic fragment were recovered at each ot Ihe four footing sites. Mrs.

Davis said her assaHanl wore a shoulder-length woman's black wig. Sliillcr testified the synthetic fibers found on the garbage bag were Mrck and ranged in length from to 2V inches. Shiller said the bag also contained evidence of bloodstains and gunpowder and that he lifl- ed from it five fingerprints lhal lacked sufficienl detail for identification. He did say one of the priits was "whirl" pattern, ore of three patterns experts look for in i i i fingerprints. Davis' prints are "whirls," testimony has shown.

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Over KCTA Houston plaslic surgeon, who was charged wilh murder by omission in Ihe mysterious 1963 death of his wife, an heir to a Texas oil fortune. Hill's trial ended in a mistrial and while awaiting a second court dale, he was slain by a paid asassin at his fashionable home. Hill's survivors contend Mrs. Hill's father, Houston oilman Ash Robinson, paid to have the plastic surgeon shot to death because he believed Hill his only daughter. Robinson, a police officer who shot Hill's alleged killer and Hill's second wife filed the libel suits against Thompson.

"John Raymer (a Longview, policeman who killed Dr. Hill's alleged murderer) Ls upset because I said he looked like a hardboited egg," said Thompson. "I thought became out a heroic figure in the book. "Ann Kurth (Hill's divorced second wife) tried to ride the coaltails of my book with her own. She even used the name of my book on the book jacket of hers, and then underlined it.

Now she thinks she is libeled. "And Ash I handled Km as carefully as possible. even gave him the last chapter to Tlayraale' Says It Wasn't Worth It SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (UPI) Tha exposure brought Lou Zivkovich a lot a free weekend in Hawaii, $1,000, the friendship of Mae West, offers of movie and television roles and Miss Arizona. But it also brought a divorce, a running battle to keep his job as a high school gym teacher, a court fight over $8,000 in back pay and a $2 million lawsuit of his own against Playgirl magazine.

That was where Zivkovich got his exposure. As the nude centerfold in July, 1974. The muscular Zivkovich, 35, went over big with the readers, and was selected Playgirl's "man of the year," but has been less than happy since, a i continue. A hearing was scheduled in Superior Court today on his suit against the school board of Apple Valley, a small town in the Mojave Desert about 75 miles a of Los Angeles. Zivkovich complained he lost $8,000 in pay because, in the conlroversy over his appearance in the nude, lie lost the extra pay duties that went with his job as a gym teacher at Apple Valley High School, chairman of the physical education a and coach of the tennis team.

He said that before accepting the Playgirl offer $1,000 and an expense paid weekend in Hawaii lo model unclothed on the rocks and beaches he asked a school district official whether there would be any objection and was told that "what a teacher does on las own i is his own business." But, in October 1974, the board voted unanimously lo fire Zivkovich. He appealed and in January, 1975, a three-member hearing panel upheld i saying that although he may have shown poor judgment he was "a responsible individual fit lo serve as a teacher." deny any accusations lhal said he had a a in the assassinalion of Hill." Thompson said he spent 18 months on research, talked to more than 500 persons and interviewed Kobinson "at least 12 or 15 times." "He is an interesting man, a flatterer, a tease, who will inject Longfellow and Shakespeare into his conversations," he said. "At times he seemed ready to spill the whole story to me. and then I would realize lie was just teasing. He was an extremely com plicated character." (Elif ffiroumsuillc jHrralb Founded on July -1, 1S92.

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