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Page B2 Austin, Texas The Austin American-Statesman Wednesday, June 22, 1977 6 justifications9 asked vtt 4 NO AUIOHOIM CfNTCK WIRE EU If WOUJ0 lie tvnrtt to be your favorite store Levy, publisher of Texas Monthly magazine, said he was speaking "for myself and not directly for other members of my committee." Last week, Levy, who was appointed to the EMS team by City Manager Dan Davidson, challenged city management over the safety and condition of EMS vehicles. Beatty wrote a detailed response to Levy's criticisms and said his arguments were not based in fact. In Tuesday's letter, Levy reinforced his criticism of the condition of EMS vehicles, citing "anonymous" comments from a city Vehicles and Equipment Department employe. "The maintenance program is shot They won't let you repair the ambulances They hold back," Levy quoted the employe as saying. Levy called for further comments from the city management on a Jan.

2 incident in which Lever reportedly visited EMS stations while intoxicated. He also called for further city comments on Lever's borrowing money from EMS personnel. Beatty and City Manager Dan Davidson have both commented to the press on these incidents, saying Lever was "consulted" and "counseled" about these occurrences. Levy also raised again the issue of the number of EMS employes who are joining a labor union, which he said, "In my opinion is a reflection of their frustration in attempting to deal with their department head in a rational, intelligent manner over issues that substantially affect the basic quality of the EMS program." In the last exchange between Levy and city management, Davidson and Beatty cautioned Levy about advising them of his concerns before he released his letters to the media. Levy's Tuesday's letter was sent simultaneously to the media and city officials.

By ABBY KAIGHIN Staff Writer Emergency Medical Service Quality Assurance Team chairman Mike Levy Tuesday called on the city manager's office to "justify" its "continued confidence" in Bill Lever, head of the Emergency Medical Service program. In a letter to Assistant City Manager Andrea Beatty, Levy reviewed some critical points concerning the EMS Department and Lever's personal behavior and asked for direct comments on each point. Mayor Carole McClellan said Tuesday she also has made some inquiries about the EMS department to city management. She said she returned one response for more information. "I am sure that the council and the community would like to know how the city manager's office can justify its continuing to retain William Lever as EMS director," Levy wrote in his four-page letter to Beatty.

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Rick Evans, manager of the mall, has declined to say exactly what plans are in the works, but has dropped broad hints that an announcement will be forthcoming later this summer. City engineering department, officials confirmed earlier this week that some preliminary plans for the new mall have been received. According to Brian Schuller, land where the mall is to be built was re-zoned "local retail and office" in May 1975. Building inspection department officials, however, said they only have "heard" about the planned shopping center. "All we've done is heard about it.

We haven't seen any plans for it yet," said Armando Ablanedo. Highway users said top bill 'lobbyists9 By JOHN SUTTON Staff Writer The powerful highway lobby responsible for passage of the $528 million "emergency" highway appropriations bill early on in the recent legislative session was identified Tuesday by State Highway Commissioner Charles E. Simons of Dallas. The key lobbyists in the appropriations battle, he told a meeting of Rotarians, was the person on your right, the one on your left and the one in the middle. Simons, a long-time Texas Good Roads Association-executive, said the highway commission heard "month after month" from people pointing out the need for road improvements and new projects in the state.

Finally, the commission realized the highway department was facing not only bankruptcy but also the possibility of not having enough money for matching funds to get federal money, he said. Simons said he concluded that the highway department faced the possibility of becoming a maintenance organization instead of a road builder. The highway bill that was passed, some say at the expense of other legislation, provides a long range plan for financing future highway construction, Simons said. By 1990 a $11 billion "back-log" of highway projects will be whittled to $3 billion, he said. The first priority for about $200 million of the appropriation is to rebuild those roads damaged by the last two winters in northern sections of the state and to repair the highways washed away in the South Texas floods a year ago, Simons said.

He said each district engineer is currently, formulating a project program to be considered later by the highway commission. By DAVID FRINK Business Writer The major shopping mall being planned for Southwest Austin reportedly will contain more than one million square feet of retail space and parking slots for nearly 6,000 cars. Sources say the Fort Worth leasing agent for the mall, Sid Uberman, is negotiating with five department store chains to be anchors in the two-level center. The five reportedly are J.C. Penney, Sears, Joskes, Dillards and Montgomery Ward.

Representatives for J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward declined to comment on the reports. Regional and national officials of the three other department store chains could not be reached Tuesday. The new mall, to be developed by Melvin Simon Associates of Indianapolis, on a 104-acre site on Loop 360 just beyond where the southern extension of MoPac is planned to intersect, has been tentatively dubbed Barton Creek Square. If the mall is built with one million square feet of shopping area, it could be the biggest enclosed retail center in Austin.

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Wednesday at Hyltin-Manor Funeral Home. TAYLOR, Fred, 44, 6403 Linda Lane, died Friday. Services were Tuesday. (Cook-Walden) THONIG, L.C., 76, 3028 Rogges Lane, died Tuesday. Rosary 7 p.m.

Wednesday at Condra Funeral Home in Taylor. Mass 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Taylor. Survivors: wife, Thekla Thonig of Austin; daughters, Mrs.

Ed (Marie) Krause of McAllen, Mrs. Charles (Cecelia) Hannan of Fort Worth, Mrs. Joe W. (Anne) Pustejovsky of Austin, Mrs. Danny (Loretta) Leonard of San Antonio; son, Ralph T.

Thonig of Austin; sister, Mrs. Louie Wilson of Round Rock; brothers, Willie Thonig of San Antonio, Arno Thonig, Reuben Thonig, both of Taylor; 17 grandchildren. WASHAM, Whitney Kathleen, 5, 102 Canyon Circle West, died Tuesday. Services 11 a.m. Thursday at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd.

Survivors: parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. Washam of Austin; sister, Merideth Washam of Austin; brother, Reynolds Washam of Austin; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

L.J. Quick of Austin, Trudie Schef fler of Dallas. CARNLINE, Marvin J.W., 49, 2913 Ellon Road, died Tuesday. Services pending at Cook-Walden Funeral Home. DAVIS, Maude, 73, of Austin, died Monday.

Services pending at Fuller-Sheffield Funeral Home. GARCIA, Raul Hector, 30, 8807 Silver Arrow Circle, died last week. Graveside services 10 a.m. Monday at Ft. Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso.

(Cook-Walden) HUMPHRIES, Mrs. Ella Higgins, 76, of 1405 Meander Drive, died Sunday. Services 3 p.m. Thursday at Union Hill Baptist Church. (Fuller-Sheffield) LOPEZ, Santiago, 83, 2400 Willow, died Monday.

Services were Tuesday. (Mission) McSPADDEN, James Earl, 82, 910 E. 54th died Monday. Services 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Weed-Corley Funeral Home.

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Survivors: husband, Ricardo Rivera of Austin; daughters, Janie Mas-carro, Connie Rivera, Christine Rivera, Ofelia Ramirez, all of Austin; sons, Richard Rivera Benny Rivera, both of Austin; parents, Ignacio Salazar of Mexico, Ofelia Salazar of Joliet, grandfather, Tomas Hernandez of Joliet, WHITEHILL, David 28, 907 Retama, died Sunday. Mass 10 a.m. Wednesday at Hampton-Vaughn Funeral Home in Wichita Falls. (Hyltin-Manor) WILLIAMS, Frankie Lane Knapp, infant son of Sherrie Williams and Frankie Lane Knapp of Austin, died Monday. Graveside services 2 p.m.

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Graveside services 2 p.m. Thursday at Mound Valley Cemetery in Thomas, Okla. Survivors: wife, Mildred M. Luczynski of San Marcos; daughter, Mrs. O.B.

(Betty Jo) Howard of San Marcos; two grandchildren. (Pennington Funeral Home, San Marcos) MICULKA, Edward 76, of Smith-ville, died Monday. Services 3 p.m. Wednesday at Marrs-Jones Funeral Home in Smithville. Survivors: brother, Raymond L.

Michulka of Smithville; sisters, Lydia Merrem of Weimar, Sylvia Knape of Temple, Albina Janca of Austin. PERRIN, Jules, 71, of Coleman, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Wednesday at Crofts Funeral Home in Blanco. Survivors: wife, Ann Perrin of Coleman; daughter, Juliet Perrin of New Orleans, La.

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