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Page 3-B PASO TIMES, Wednesday, April 23, 1986 Carlsbad witness arrested again El Paso roundup said. Gregory, who pleaded guilty to bribing Johnson, testified for the prosecution during the preliminary hearing. Johnson and Gossett were charged in March after an investigation into the defunct counseling center and its state funding. The center closed last September. Johnson was charged with seven counts of demanding or receiving a bribe and one count each of racketeering, conspiracy, fraud over $20,000, soliciting or receiving kickbacks and unlawful interest in a public at the preliminary hearing Friday for Johnson and Carlsbad businessman William Adair Gos-sett.

District Judge William Schne-dar found Gregory guilty of the contempt charge Monday morning and sentenced him to the time he already had spent in jail. The judge then ordered him released. Shortly thereafter, Gregory was arrested on the Houston warrant, which stems from a felony conviction of theft by worthless checks, Eddy County Sheriff John Lewis said. Lewis said he discovered the warrant from Houston when he CARLSBAD AP) A key witness in the preliminary hearing of former Health and Environment Secretary Joseph Johnson on bribery charges has been arrested a second time. George Gergory, former bookkeeper of the Carlsbad Area Counseling and Resource Center, was picked up Monday on a fugitive warrant from Houston, Texas, stemming from worthless-check charges, authorities said.

The arrest followed Gregory's release Monday from the Eddy County Jail, where he had spent the weekend on a contempt-of-court charge for failing to appear was checking for outstanding warrants under Gregory's real name. George Clifford Walcoff. Pamela Robicheaux, fugitive warrants clerk for the 262nd Dis-, trict Court in Texas, said that as Walcoff, Gregory was arraigned in Houston Sept. 26, 1980. She said the warrant was issued March 25, 1983, when Gregory allegedly violated terms of his probation.

Gregory was arraigned on the Texas warrant in Magistrate Court in Carlsbad Monday afternoon and was released from jail on $10,000 bond. A preliminary hearing was scheduled May 21 on the Texas warrant, authorities 540 teachers may be released NM rated from Albuquerque next year fairest Brochure expected to boost tourism remainder of this fiscal year and ALBUQUERQUE (AP) A travel brochure listing the 10 hottest vacation spots in the world for 1986 says New Mexico is the most beautiful state in the country. grams for gifted students. "It we cut some of these programs another 10 percent, there is going to be very little left of them," said Lenore Wolfe, president of the Albuquerque Board of Education. "We can't get blood out of a turnip, and we're at the turnip stage." The Albuquerque board has not discussed specific programs in the proposed cutbacks because there is considerable uncertainty about what revenues the district will receive from the state, officials said.

However, state officials have told local school districts they have may to cut expenditures by as much as one-half percent the ALBUQUERQUE (AP) The president of the Albuquerque Board of Education said Tuesday a proposed 10 percent across-the-board cutback in services next year would virtually eliminate many programs. Officials in the state's largest school district also have begun notifying 540 non-tenured teachers their contracts may not be renewed next year because of the financial crisis facing the district. Albuquerque School Superintendent Lillian Barna, who is proposing the 10 percent cutback, said the cuts would affect all departments, including pro up to 5 percent next fiscal year. APS officials said those figures would amount to a $1 million cut this budget year and another $11 million next year. During its meeting Monday night, the APS board instructed Barna to send letters to 540 non-tenured teachers, notifying them their contracts may not be renewed next fall.

The school district's contract with teachers requires that instructors be told by May 1 whether they will be rehired. Non-tenured teachers are those who have worked for a district for less than four straight years. New Mexico and nine other hot spots like the Soviet Union Billboards issue open-ended exhortation The billboards beg for help for President Reagan, but don't really say what to tell him. That's because the issue is big enough to be obvious, said Jim Huff, president of Bauman which put up two Interstate 10 boards Monday. Bauman is the biggest billboard company in town.

The patriotic-colored signs urge passing motorists to "Call! Write! Wire! President Reagan. He needs your Huff wants El Pasoans to send Reagan a message regarding terrorism, Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy, and the U.S. assault against Libya. "I felt that the president wouldn't get a strong enough message from the majority of the people that American people support him in this," Huff said about his billboards.

"Usually it's the minority that makes a racket and distorts what the majority of the people feel." The interstate billboards are near the Piedras exit in central El Paso and between Executive Center and Sunland Park exits on the West Side. Insurance vice squeezes out elderly aid El Paso has become the first city in the nation to terminate one of the three federal Older American Programs because of the potential risk of a lawsuit. After a heated debate at Tuesday's City Council meeting over whether to go ahead, with the Senior Companion Program, which Mayor Jonathan Rogers vetoed last week, a measure to override his veto was defeated with one vote by East Side city Rep. Ed Elsey. The rising cost of protecting the city from liability lawsuits remained uppermost in the minds of council members Tuesday as they reluctantly voted to spend $480,000 more for insurance.

Last year, the city paid $138,000 for liability insurance to cover the Public Transit Administration, which operates Sun City Area Transit. Annual party also feels liability crunch The El Paso Festival may be falling victim to the same plight of many community organizations across the United States: a tough insurance market. The Arts Alliance, sponsor of the annual party in honor of El Paso, was expected to unfold festival plans at the Tuesday board meeting of the El Paso Independent School District but delayed the action for about two weeks. Alliance Chairman Jackson Curlin asked instead to be given more time so that contracts still being negotiated between the school district and the arts group could be reviewed in full by the Arts Alliance board members. County considers buying utility building Three El Paso County commissioners said they liked what they saw Tuesday after touring the Downtown building for sale by El Paso Natural Gas Co.

The 17-story structure with the blue flame on top was the subject of a closed-door County Commissioners Court meeting Monday. County Judge Pat O'Rourke said he has negotiated the purchase of the blue-flame building, the International Building across the street, all the office furniture and three-fourths of the block bounded by Texas, Myrtle, Kansas and Campbell from the gas company for $10 million. He wants to buy the properties to house many county administrative offices now in the City-County Building. More than 200 arrested in investigation Juarez officials say more than 200 people have been arrested in the past 10 days for questioning in the rape and strangulation deaths of four women. Both the Juarez City Police and State Judicial Police have had extra patrols on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande since April 12, when two of the four bodies were discovered.

But despite the arrests, spokesmen for the two Juarez police departments said they have no definite suspects. O'Keeffe's family challenges will and Tanzania are listed in a brochure by Arthur Frommer, who wrote "Europe on $5 a Day" two years ago. The 1986 brochure could mean a banner year for New Mexico's tourism industry, said Valerie Gerard, an aide in the state Economic Development and Tourism Department. Even without Frommer's endorsement, state officials have predicted an increase in tourism because of cheaper gasoline and fears of terrorism abroad, Gerard said. Frommer's brochure defines a hot spot as one "with all the attributes of a superb destination.

But it hasn't been inundated by mass tourism." New Mexico is "the most foreign, most beautiful state in the country, and it's inexpensive," Frommer said. "The whole state of New Mexico is a hot spot," he wrote. "Although it is well known and thousands have been there, it's not traveled to the degree it deserves." New Mexico is listed in al pending dispute between the state and the O'Keeffe estate over the will. Sebring, represented by Santa Fe attorney Tim Garcia, contends in her challenge that O'Keeffe was not able to understand the will she signed in 1979 and that the will does not adhere to O'Keeffe's stated intentions. O'Keeffe died March 6 in Santa Fe at age 98.

"Her intentions to her sisters and members of the family were not placed in the will," Garcia said. "I don't think they want to go so far as to assume fraud but there is some question as to her capacity and of undue influence. "There are real questions about how her will was read to her. The potential for influence in those situations is much higher," Garcia said. Santa Fe attorney Charles Olmsted represents O'Keeffe's sister Catherine Klenert, the sis SANTA FE (AP) The will of the late Georgia O'Keeffe is being challenged by relatives of the famed painter.

O'Keeffe's niece, June O'Keeffe Sebring of Hawaii, is challenging the 1979 will and two codicils, or amendments, dated Nov. 2, 1983, and Aug. 8, 1984. And O'Keeffe's sister and the sister's daughter and grandson are challenging the 1984 codicil. District Judge Patricio Serna accepted the will for probate Monday, subject to the challenges.

Serna gave attorneys representing the relatives until Friday to file their objections. The challenges were filed at about the same time that state officials and Juan Hamilton, the executor of O'Keeffe's estate, said an agreement had been signed for the state to receive up to six of O'Keeffe's works with a total appraised value of $1.5 million. The agreement resolved an im ter's daughter Denise Krueger, and grandson Ray Krueger. Their challenge is to the 1984 codicil that cut the state out of the will. "They want the interests of the institutions represented in this case," Olmsted said.

O'Keeffe left the bulk of her estate to Hamilton, who had been her protege and companion during the last years of her life. In the 1979 will she named Hamilton as the executor of her estate and gave him the discretion and duty to distribute one or more works of her art to the University of New Mexico and the New Mexico Fine Arts Museum. The 1984 codicil revoked that provision of the will. Under the agreement signed Monday between the state and Hamilton, the state waives any rights it might have in the estate under provisions of the will in return for up to six of O'Keeffe's oil paintings. phabetical order, along with Alaska; Australia; Buenos Aries; the Maldive Islands; Minneapolis-St.

Paul, Orlando, the Soviet Union; Tanzania; and Vancouver, British Columbia. U.S. attorney challenges golden eagle ruling look wheat IVe roped inS at up off!" eagle in January 1985 for use in a religious ceremony. Lutz said Abeyta's claims to religious freedom should not have been considered because he lacked a permit from the U.S. Department of the Interior possess the eagle parts.

Richard Hughes, an Albuquerque attorney who represents Indian litigants, said Burciaga's ruling is a "real milestone," especially if it is affirmed by a higher court. "It's one of the few examples of where Indian religious practices have been upheld against some asserted federal or state interest," Hughes said. Jack Trope, an attorney with the New York-based Association ALBUQUERQUE AP) U.S. Attorney William Lutz says he might appeal to a higher court if a U.S. district judge upholds the dismissal of charges against an Islcta Pueblo man who killed a golden eagle for a religious ceremony.

Lutz said his office filed a motion Monday asking U.S. District Judge Juan Burciaga to reconsider his April 10 dismissal of the criminal charge against Jose Abcyta. The judge ruled that prosecuting Abeyta on a charge of possessing parts of a golden eagle without a permit would have violated his constitutional rights to religious freedom. Abeyta said he killed a golden on American Indian Affairs, said Burciaga's ruling appears to be the first of its kind upholding the taking of a golden eagle solely on religious grounds. But the U.S.

Supreme Court might address the religious issue when it rules on a South Dakota case. John Cross, special agent in charge of law enforcement for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Albuquerque, said his agency would not revamp its enforcement guidelines solely on Burciaga's decision. "I will continue to say no (to the killing of golden eagles for religious purposes without a permit) until the Supreme Court tells me to say yes," he said. HOO! I've rustled up some excit ing low prices on these popular Reeboks! The best-selling men's and women's styles you've been looking $6 to $8 below suggested retail.

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