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B4 Austin American-Statesman Monday, August 30, 1982 Ex-legislator turns setback into power as speaker's top aide 17 -year-old dies in crash on Loop 360 A 17-year-old Austin girl was killed early Sunday when she was thrown from a Jeep that apparently swerved to miss a cat on Loop 360. Elizabeth Hughes Hoey of 7350 Bee Caves Road was a passenger in a Jeep driven by Michael Scott (men tone I 5 A. V' f. il A 1 ple," he said. "On the other hand, there's so much bitterness, cheap shots, animosity and pettiness in it "Disillusioned is not the word, disenchanted is not the word.

But the 'Camelot' side of (elective politics) was gone. "I don't know how much longer I could have continued working for $600 a month (as a House member), then return to Waco to try and rebuild a real estate or insurance business." He said he knew he wanted to be a politician after he first saw the Capitol during a junior high school trip. "It was like Yankee Stadium is for a ballplayer," he said. "Everything for me happened under the aura of government." Crenweldge, 18, of 3506 Purple Heron Drive. They were westbound on the loop near Bee Caves Road when the accident happened.

"They were driving along and swerved to miss a cat," said Hoey's sister Sarah. "Elizabeth flew out of the car and hit her head on the guardrail. She suffered massive head injuries and died instantly. "He (Crenweldge) swerved again and the Jeep overturned," Sarah Hoey said. Crenweldge re-ceived minor scratches.

Hoey died at the scene. Hoey would have been a senior this fall at Garri-. son Forest High School, a private school in Maryland. She was to leave for school Sept 12, her sister said. AP By LAYLAN COPELIN American-Statesman Staff It took a political defeat to catapult Joe Gibson from a one-term legislator to the right-hand man for Texas House Speaker Billy Clayton.

Gibson, 43, traded his political base in conservative Northwest Waco for his behind-the-scenes role at the Capitol 19 months ago. He expects to be the "bridge" between the Clayton era and the Gib Lewis years. Lewis, a Fort Worth legislative veteran who's the favorite to follow Clayton as speaker, has asked Gibson to remain as his executive assistant. Gibson said he's delighted to continue doing what he does best: talk. Gibson sees himself as an open-minded negotiator searching always for common ground between competing interests.

"Sure, I'd rather negotiate than live or die by the sword," he said. "I don't think there is that many causes which are that black and white." That attitude, Gibson said, may have contributed to his defeat in the 1980 Democratic primary by Waco lawyer Doug Henager. Misreading the political winds, Gibson campaigned very little, saving his money for a Republican challenge that eventually derailed Henager. Now Gibson considers himself lucky. "There's a certain amount of warm strokes in representing peo 7'f Mentone left its mark in history, but few people are left to disturb the future in the least-populated county in the continental United States.

Love's labor lost Young people flee Loving County embrace A native Austinite, Hoey attended Westlake High School through the 1 1th grade. "She was very athletic," Sarah Hoey said. "She played on the soccer team in 10th and 11th grade." The funeral is scheduled at 4 p.m. today at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church under the direction of Weed-Corley Funeral Home. Survivors include her parents, Anne and William Hoey and one other sister, Catherine Hoey.

He went to Baylor Law School but never pictured himself as a practicing attorney. Later, he sold real estate and insurance while serving four years on the Waco City Council. His first try at state politics was to challenge State Sen. Grant Jones of Abilene in 1976. He lost, but two years later Gibson won his lone term in the House and began compiling a conservative record as a member of around the mesquite-covered yards and fields.

But Mrs. Jones said there is little chance the county will have enough children to reopen Its school. The elementary school was closed four years ago when it was consolidated with the Wink school district 31 miles to NEW MEXICO Paso XjJ Loving County Vv TEXAS MEXICO V. 4P Gun accident hurts 3 youths in Creedmoor Clayton's team. Today, Gibson prefers to stay on "the cutting edge" of the power that flows from the speaker's office.

The next speaker, with Gibson's help, will have 14 of 31 committee heads to select and 50 or so new members to size up. Ayala From B1 MENTONE (AP) There's no grocery store, no school, no church, little to do and hardly any water to drink in Loving County, so the young leave the nest and keep this the least-populated county in the continental United States. Even the trailblazer the county was named for didn't live here. "We lose our young people, which is sad," says county appraiser Mary Belle Jones, 51. "They won't live here because it's so far from the grocery store and because you have to haul water.

It took me two years to learn to like it." Mrs. Jones and her husband, Sheriff Elgin Jones, 55, moved to Loving County in 1953 and raised five children, only to watch them move away, one by one in search of a better life. "We had a son who was 30 just before he moved -out, but he had to move," Mrs. Jones said. "There just wasn't anything here for him." The departures of the Jones children and others like them have further thinned Loving County's already low population.

A revised 1980 census found 91 people in the county, which covers 647 square miles, and only a smattering were young people. There is only one town, Mentone, which is unin-: corporated. Its population is listed as 44, but Mrs. Jones said only about a dozen people actually live there; the rest are absentee landowners who have kept their names on the voting rolls. The county, which borders southeastern New Mexico, has no doctor, no hospital, no grocery or drug stores, no restaurants, no hotels, no nightclubs and no laundry.

The school and the only church are closed. A building marked "cafe" serves only snacks and often is closed. "It's a great place to raise kids," Mrs. Jones said. "There's plenty of room for them.

There's more than six square miles per person." The land is rich in oil and, with a valuation of more than a $300 million, the county brings in $491,000 a year in taxes at the low rate of 16 cents per $100 valuation. "That's more than enough to keep everything operating," she said. But she also said, "Women don't like to live out here. That's the main reason we have so few people. Their wives just don't want to come out here." Resident Debbie Decker is expecting a baby this month, and Mrs.

Jones said the entire county is excited about the prospect of little feet pattering Meanwhile, Ayala's father blames himself for much of his son's troubles. "If anybody has to be sent to jail, I wish it would be me," Ayala said. "I just didn't know. I had to rely on my instincts. You don't know.

If I had known that pushing him beyond his limits would create this type of problem." iTony Ayala Jr. first stepped into the ring when he was 5. In training at age 13, his first goal was to make the 1980 Olympic boxing team. When the United States didn't send a team to Moscow, El Torito Spanish for "The Little Bull," a reference to his hard-punching boxing style turned professional like his two old-, er brothers, Mike and Sammy. case just like any other, later backed down from that promise.

Zlotucha dismisses the special treatment assertions, saying it is routine for a defendant to waive arraignment. But Van Archer, a two-term San Antonio councilman, said Ayala and scores of other drivers have been treated with kid gloves by the municipal court system. The councilman used the Ayala case to dramatize his objections to the longstanding policy of dismissing tickets followed by Presiding Judge Robert Lozano and his four judicial colleagues. Court records indicate San Antonio municipal judges dismissed almost 28 percent of the traffic cases filed in their court during the first six months of 1982. Of the 19 traffic tickets issued to Ayala, 11 were dismissed for various the east.

The only civic organizations are the Rondo Mills 4-H Club and the Loving County Historical Committee. The county was named for trailblazer Oliver Loving. The worst deficiency is the lack of drinkable water. Sheriff Jones said there are only four decent wells in the county and, of course, there's no village water system. The residents drive tank-trucks 20 miles to Kermit and Pecos to get their water.

"You have to be a unique kind of person to haul your own water," Jones said. "People out here learn the value of water. When they get too old to haul water, then they have to move or get someone to haul it for them." But the residents take pride in other deficiencies. There is no welfare, no one on food stamps and no federal aid. The government keeps sending money, but the county won't spend it.

The Loving County map in Mrs. Jones' office looks as if someone sprayed it with a leaky fountain pen. Each dot represents an oil or gas well, most on land owned by the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The county had its oil boom in the 1930s, raising the population to 285 by 1940. But the figures have been smaller in each census since.

There is also ranching here, but most ranch and oil-field workers either are single or commute to work from other towns. The other major employer is the county, which pays the salaries of 17 people. Jones said he is trying to keep some young people in the county by hiring them. Delma Renteria, 23, works in Mrs. Jones' office and her sister works in an office down the hall.

"If each county official did this, there'd be people who wouldn't move away," Jones said. By JOE VARGO American-Statesman Staff Three young cousins were wounded Sunday when a handgun accidentally discharged while they were visiting relatives in Creedmoor, authorities said. Delores Reynero, 10, Anita Aleman, 7, and Guadalupe Omero, 2, were taken to Brackenridge Hospital with minor wounds. Reynero was wounded in the left hip and Ale-man in the left hand. Omero suffered powder burns in the right shoulder.

Reynero and Omero were treated and discharged. Aleman was reported in stable condition late Sunday. The shooting happened at 6 p.m. in the kitchen of a Creedmoor residence.at Vonquintas Road and Maha Loop, said Travis County sheriffs deputy Mike Leisman. The pistol was being held by an uncle when it went off once, striking the children.

Authorities did not release the names of the residence's owner or the uncle, Leisman said, and no charges were expected. The three children were all injured by the single shot, Leisman said, but authorities have not determined the path of the bullet or which child was hit first "We're still trying to figure out where everyone was when the shooting occurred," he said. Neighbors said the children were spending the weekend with relatives. After the shooting, Paula Reynero rushed her daughter and the Aleman child to her home at 6601 East Riverside Drive where she called police and emergency medical service personnel. An EMS ambulance brought Omero to Brackenridge.

The Creedmoor home did not have a phone, said Julie Castro, a neighbor of thr Reyneros. "When I saw the two kids, they had blood on them and they were wearing bandages," Castro said. An Austin police car responding to the call was involved in an accident in the 5500 block of Riverside Drive. No one was injured. He was a top contender for a gold medal.

Today, he is considered a good-money bet to be the world Ju- nior middleweight champion, if he reasons and he was found not guilty gets me cnance. Although he devoted all his time to training his son to be a fighter, the senior Ayala says he ignored an important part of Tony's education how to adapt to changing social status. "His life in the ring was to fight to attack, to kill," Ayala said. "But when he was out of the ring, he didn't know how to adjust to the limelight He didn't know how to handle the Deaths and Funerals in six others, Archer said. Last week, Ayala paid the fine for one ticket The other case is pending.

"I'd say that anyone who paid a ticket would think that he received favorable treatment," said Archer, who tried unsuccessfully earlier this year to get all five council-appointed municipal judges fired. San Antonio newspapers took up the issue, writing editorials in favor of a municipal-court cleanup and raising questions about the Ayala case. "When I've brought up these cases before, there would be a lot of publicity for a day, then nothing," said Archer. "But this has really blown up a storm. He (Ayala) is a prominent person, I guess that's the reason." Lozano contends that Archer's ani- -mosity toward municipal court stems from his conviction for disorderly conduct last year for using abusive language in the City Hall parking lot Archer says he was set up for the disorderly conduct charge by municipal court "cronies." The furor has forced Lozano to take steps to reduce ticket, dismissals.

World deaths beer and the social problems." When the Ayala family moved from the Mexican-American barrio in San Antonio, El Torito often sought the security of the old neighborhood, Tony Ayala Sr. said. "Whenever he found himself pressured, he wanted to get away, to disguise himself. So he would go back to the barrio and to his friends there. Well, his friends there had the same patterns of existence.

They would sit around, drink beer and get into trouble. It was like he was living two lives. One life in the ring and one outside." 7:30 p.m. at Mission Funeral Home Chapel. Requiem Mass will be offered Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.

at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Officiating Rev. Father Jerry Burnett O.M.I. Burial will follow at Assumption Cemetery. He is survived by his parents: Ramon and Lupe Villarreal of Austin; one brother: Charles Villarreal of Austin; five sisters: Rosemary Domlnguez; Sylvia Rodriguez; Mary Helen Rodriguez; Lori Villarreal; and Cathy Villarreal all of Austin.

Harold N. (Buddy) Jungmichel Harold N. (Buddy) Jungmichel 62, of Austin died Saturday. Mr. Jungmichel began his football career at Thorndale High School, Kllgore College, and the University of Texas.

He played football at San Diego Navel Air Station while in the Navy. He played Pro-Ball for The Miami Seahawks. Mr. Jungmichel was a former Freshman and Varsity football coach at the University of Texas. He was a member of St Peter the Apostle Catholic Church and employed at Superior Dairies at the time of his death.

Funeral service are 10:00 a.m. Monday, at St Peter The Apostle Catholic Church. Rev. Fred Bomar officiating. Burial will follow in Austin Memorial Park Cemetery.

Survivors: wife, Adele Jungmichel, Austin; daughter: Susan Boyd, San Ange-lo; stepchildren: Susan Meischen, Houston; Jeff Stephens, Houston; Robert Stephens, Denver, Colorado; five grandchildren; brother: Charles Jungmichel, La Grange; sister, Jerry Booth, Austin. Arrangements by Weed-Corley Funeral Home Ltd. Thomas Villarreal Thomas Villarreal, 20 years old, 1511 E. 2nd Street died Saturday. Rosary will be recited at Elizabeth Hoey Elizabeth Hoey, 17, of Austin died Sunday.

Funeral services 4:00 pm Monday, Episcopal Church of The Good Shepherd with Rev. Cannon Samuel H. Baxter, Jr. officiating. Survivors: parents: Mr.

Mrs. William L. Hoey, Austin, Sisters: Sarah Hoey and Catherine Hoey, Austin; grandparents: Mrs. F.F. Knight, Austin, Mrs.

William T. Hoey, Austin. Memorial contributions in lieu of flowers to Elizabeth Hoey Memorial Scholarship Fund St Andrews Episcopal School. Arrangements by Weed-Corley Funeral Home. Ltd.

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