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8-A THE ABILENE KEPORTER-NEWS Abilene.Texi9.Wed. 12,1977 Outlook Bright for Taylor By JERRY REED Stiff Writer There's hope yet for the half-century-old Taylor County jail, county commissioners learned Tuesday. With remodeling here, patching up there, a bit of administrative study ind a variance or two, the existing physical plant cm be brought up to existing state standards. That's the opinion of Bob Viterna. And Viterna's opinion should count for something, because he's first assistant to Guy Van Cleave, who heads the staff of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.

Viterna spent 1V4 hours Tuesday morning going over jail standards the Taylor County facility didn't meet when inspected last spring by jail standards staff members. The commissioners court, Sheriff Jack Landrum, Chief Deputy Jack Lowe, architects Jimmy Tittle and Jack Luther and Ken Williams of Ross Tippett 4 Associates, heard and questioned Viterna during the session in the commissioners' courtroom. Almost at the outset, Viterna sought to assure the local officials and consultants the jail standards commission is'not out to cram arbitrary standards down their throats. "I would like to think that the Texas jail commission doesn't do that," he said. Other CommiMkxxn' Action Pg.

3C It's the federal judiciary that's the moving force behind the stiffer standards for local jails, he said. And it's being done in the name of Constitutional rights for prisoners, he said. "Their feeling is, if you can't jail a man constitutionally, don't jail him at all." "Depriving a man of his liberty that is his punishment. Anything else is cruel and unusual punishment," Vi- terna said was the view of the federal courts. Therefore, he slid, the courts find that a jail inmate is entitled to three meals a day, clean flush toilets and adequate lighting and heating the same comforts enjoyed by the average person on the outside.

The jail standards commission's goal, Viterna said, is to help the counties upgrade their jails in the most economical manner "without getting them into the federal courts." Once it reaches the courts, he warned, the judges are likely to respond "that's too bad" to pleas of poverty from the counties, he said. He listed Dallas, Lubbock and El Paso counties as examples of the consequences of being hailed into court. Dallas faces a bond issue for the construction of new jail. Lubbock County must build i new jail, but in the meantime must renovate the current jail, he Slid. And El Paso forced to add extra personnel to Uke prisoners out for exercise daily, he Slid.

Reducing the jail'i capacity and coming up with "a good operational plan" for classifying and segregating the prisoners might satisfy the 30 percent single-cell requirement, he said. In some cases, the 30 percent standard may be relaxed, he said, if the jail authorities can classify, and segregate the prisoners as required with a smaller percentage of single cells. Classes of prisoners that must be kept separate include males from females, adults from juveniles, felony defendants from misdemeanor defendants and convicted prisoners from those awaiting trial. Reduction of the jail's capacity could help solve several problems, he said. The number of single cells can be increased, and space requirements for multi-prisoner cells can be met by reducing the capacity of those cells, he said.

Aboitt inmates a day are handled by the jail now, said Chief Deputy iowe. He remembered 121 intutn prisoners detained in oat day. The jail's capacity DOW is Viterna taid the county could expect variances from the state requirement'on safety'corridor width (4 feet, ai compared to 3 feet I inches in the Taylor jail) and on floor: drains under inmate living space. There's no feasible way to increase the corridor width, he said, and it it not worthwhile to rip up structural concrete to add the floor drains. But existing floor drains should be put in workiiig order, he said.

A (120,000 Economic Development Administration grant the county has accepted for plumbing and wiring improvements is being put to good use, Viterna said. Several electrical problems can be handled in the rewiring, suggested. He advised county officials to consult the fire marshal to. plan fire safety measures, such as smoke ejection and smoke detection systems and fire extinguisher Luther said he expects plans for specific wiring and plumbing improvements to be completed within (0 days to' bids can be taken. Construction must start, under terms of the grant, within 90 days of acceptance of the grant on Sept.

27. Labor Official Silent in WASHINGTON (AP) A Florida labor union official Tuesday invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify. when asked if he helped steer insurance business to a firm which provided him with a $60,000 fishing boat. Appearing before a Senate government operations subcommittee, Sal Tricario of Fort Lauderdale, refused to. answer 16 consecutive questions about -his connection to the operations of a California insurance man who obtained millions of dollars in policies from union locals in eight states.

Previous testimony has shown that Joseph Hauser of Beverly Hills, diverted millions of dollars from insurance premiums paid by union members to various purposes unrelated to his insurance business. All of Hauser's firms have since gone out of business, and he has been convicted of bribing California union officials. The biggest union trust fund in the nation, the Teamsters Central States Health and Welfare Fund may, lose up to (7 million paid to one Hauser's firms. Members of the subcommittee staff have identified Tricario as the business agent of a West Palm Beach Laborers Unjon and national organizing officer of the union. "I respectfully refuse to answer that question based on my Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination," Tri- cario said in response, to each question by Sen.

Sam Nunri, D-'Ga. John J. Walsh, an investigator for the subcommittee, testified just before Tri- cario appeared that the union official arranged in July 1974 to buy a 36-foot Hatteras Sport Fisherman boat from a Fort Lauderdale boat-dealer. The purchase, was made a few months after Tricario's union decided to award several insurance contracts to the Farmers National Life Insurance firm controlled by Hauser. Walsh said Tricario actually picked out the boat and kept it at his residence, ownership was retained by a Miami firm controlled by Hauser.

The investigator said Tricario prevented existence of any documented evidence of his connection to the boat. In April 1976, the boat'was sold to a business associate of Hauser, Mel. Adler, of'Miami. Walsh quoted Adler as saying he had trouble'taking possession of the When Adler took the boat from the mooring at Tricario's residence, Walsh said, Adler "received several anonymous threatening calls warning him to return There were threats of violence described in testimony by John A. Boden, a former executive of Hauler's firms.

Boden, a native Irishman is now a 'federal witness living under protection of the Justice Department, said Hauter fell, behind in money owed two associates, Joseph Vaccaro of'Boston, and George Wuagneux, of Miami. On one trip to Washington for testimony before the Securities and Exchange Commission, Boden said Mauser called police to his hotel because two men were threatening Hauser with physical One of the men, Boden testified, was only "Odd, Job," and worked as Wuagneux's bodyguard and-chauffeur. CIA Studied Kids Secretly, Study Says PROPOSED DISTRICT WATER RESERVOIR SITE area ihowi location of 554,000 acre-foot lake Permit for Reservoir In Concho-Coleman County Area Sought AUSTIN Representatives of the Colorado River Municipal-Water District (CRMWD) Tuesday morning applied for a permit to create a 554,000 acre-foot lake reservoir on the Colorado River near the Concho-Coleman county line, southeast of Ballinger. If approved by the Texas Department of Water Resources the ISO- million project would serve as a source of municipal and industrial water for the region, a district announcement stated. Fast Trip Saves Day for Longhorns Continued from Pg.

1A terback, they seemed to have the game iced away. Late in the fourth quarter, Steve looked at his watch. "Oh, no," he exclaimed, jumping to his feet. "It's I've got to pick up the kids at the skating rink." "Sit down," Jim demanded. "The game isn't over yet." Steve smiled and headed for'the door.

Julie Rose, Jim's wife, intercepted him. "He's not kidding, you know," she said. "He's really superstitious," Steve still did not understand the gravity of the situation. He reminded Rose that the 'Horns had a 13-6 lead and were holding Oklahoma 75 yards away with four minutes left. "Go on then, you traitor," Rose fumed.

"If we lose, it'll be your fault." Now, Suttle is no athletic newcomer. He was an all-conference quarterback at Washington and Lee University before returning Texas to study law. He knew that games are won on the field, not around TV sets or radios. "Or, are they?" he got to thinking, as he switched on his car radio on his way for the kids. Oklahoma was on the move.

The Sooners got a first down. Another. And another. As OU got into Texas territory, Suttle made a U-turn and headed back to Rose's house at a speed to rival that of Lam Jones. He pulled to a stop, jumped out, sprinted to the door and plopped down in a chair just as OU was coming to the line of scrimmage on foi'rth-and-one at the Texas five-yard-line.

The Longhorn line held. There was rejoicing, a wild celebration of UT's first win in seven years. When there was a lull, Rose turned to Suttle. "Don't you EVER do that again!" he said. Then he broke into a smile and said, "Go get your boys.

What are you waiting for?" The reservior site is 19 miles north- northeast of Eden and due east of Paint Rock. The project cost estimate includes a dam, reservoir, engineering, rights-of- way, pipelines and pump station. It will be paid for by revenue bonds payable solely from water sales contracts. P.C. Harbour of Odessa, district president, said arrangements have been made for financing so the district will be ready to proceed with final engineering and contracts when a permit is issued.

A public hearing on the project will be scheduled later, DWR officials said. "The steady and often-times rapid development of this territory has narrowed seriously the margin between safe yield of existing reservoirs and-actual consumption. This sector of West Texas will need the water by or well before the time we are able to deliver," Harbour said. The area from Ballinger and Coleman to Sweetwater, Snyder, Odessa and San Angelo would be served by the reservoir. Service outside the area would be considered should an urgent need for water arise, officials said.

The U.S. Study Commmission, the Texas Water Development Board and the Governor's Long Range Water Plan pinpointed the site, Harbour said. Plans for the project include a 140-mile pipeline lifting water .1,460 feet through a series of pumping stations. Among customers for water will be Texas Utilities Services Inc. (TUSI), which proposes to erect a coal-burning electric generating plant near the new lake in the future.

TUSI acts as agent for Dallas Power and Light Texas Electric Service Co. and Texas Power and Light which provides power to a major portion of the area. NEW YORK (AP) Central Intelligence Agency -'secretly studied youngsters at two European summer camps to identify potential recruits for the agency and paid for a study of adolescents in three Texas cities between 1958 and 1960, NBC reported Tuesday night. NBC said children some of them as young as 11 were studied at camps in Honefoss, Norway, and Vienna, Austria, in 1959 and 1960 as Sub-project 103 of the CIA's top secret MK Ultra program. The camps were run by.the Children's 'International Summer Village, program designed to bring children from around the world together for a better understanding of one another, but camp officials did not know of the CIA study, NBC said.

It quoted a CIA document as stating that the study "will assist in the identification of promising young foreign nationals or U.S. nationals who may at any time be of direct interest to the company," which the network said meant possible CIA Dr. Doris Twitchell Allen, American director of the camps, told NBC she was "stunned and saddened" to learn of the CIA studies. She said she was not allied with the CIA, "I was being used." NBC said the studies of adolescents in San Antonio, Austin and "El Paso took place in 1958 and 1959 as Subproject 102 of MK Ultra. The network said 462 children in seven-secondary schools were studied to see how young people behave without adult supervision.

Carolyn Sherif, one of the authors of the study, was unaware that her work was being paid for by the CIA, the new- said. just feel and. lied to by one's own government," she told NBC. have been an academic all my adult life and a researcher and feel that I've really'been duped and taken, misled, in a totally unwarranted way for no reason that I can see. "Our research couldn't possibly be of any value to the CIA and if they wanted to read about it, it's all been published.

You can get it at the library:" "As a taxpayer, it disturbs me enormously. What were they doing going around using taxpayers' money to support this research under some kind of cover?" NBC said it was unable to determine the CIA's objectives in the studies. It said both the summer camps and Texas schools research were financed by the Society-for. the Investigation of Human Ecology, which it said was a CIA front until the mid-1960s. The network did not say how much money the CIA spent on the James Monroe, executive director of the society, was quoted as telling NBC that the purpose of the studies was "to gather fundamental knowledge of human beings." Man Surrendered To Authorities In Mason Continued from Pg.

1A had not been issued at the time of Underwood's death. Mrs. Underwood had been represented in the suit by Abilene attorney Bob Hanna. "Her husband's T.M.; Reid, also has his office, in Abilene. Underwood, a retired Army staff sea- rgant, is a 1950 graduate of Wylie High School.

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Underwood, live in Abilene at 1397 Pecan- After graduation'from high school, Underwood joined the Air Force and served in the Korean War. He enlisted in the Army in 1955 and served two tours of duty in Vietnam as an airplane me-, chanic.

While in Vietnam, he was wounded in action while rescuing a downed helicopter. He later was awarded a Bronze Star for pushing a companion out of "the line of fire while he received two wounds to the Mrs. Underwood was a native of San family moved.from 1 Devine to Sweetwater four years and was employed by the Sweetwater Independent School District; Services for the Underwoods are pending at the McCoy Funeral Home in Sweetwater. Rosary will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the McCoy Chapel of Memories.

Mrs. Underwood's survivors include her. three sons; two sisters, Susie Cerda of Sweetwater and Nancy Guitierrez 'of San Antonio; a brother, Melecio Luna' Jr. of San Antonio; and two grandchildren. Evangelina, a student at Reagan Junior High School, is survived by her brothers.

Eclipse Viewing Holds Dangers, Doctor Warns The Abilene Astronomical Society will provide four telescopes for public use during much of the solar eclipse Wednesday Society secretary Russell Grantham said telescopes will be set up on the south side of Abilene: High School and the public may take turns viewing the eclipse from' to 3:30 p.m. S)f The-eclipse'lasts from 2:01 to 4:01 p.m. Society members will be using the telescopes to take photographs during parts of the eclipse, Grantham said. Grautham warned that people should not look directly at the eclipse because of potential eye damage. Dr.

James Tucker, an Abilene ophthalmolgist, said looking directly at a partially-eclipsed, sun is as dangerous a) viewing the sun at full brightness. frared rays from the sun-keep streaming through during an eclipse while the bright rays are temporarily dimmed, he explained. The painful glare is reduced, leading (be sun-gazer to a false sense of security, Dr. Tucker said. He advised anyone out.

during the eclipse period to take no more than a glance at the sun for a fleeting second. Looking at the eclipse can result in damage to the retina of the eye, Tucker said. "The eye acts like a magnifying glass (for the sun's rays)," he explained. Infrared rays knife right on. through the eyeball to the retina, the deU-' cate back layer of the eye which transmits Images to the brain, he said.

Burns to the retina are incurable and can produce a blind spot in the area needed for reading and other close vision, he added. Sunglasses, smoked glass filters or homemade viewing devices cannot give the eyes 100 percent protection from the harmful rays, Society for the Prevention of Blindness officials warn. An authority from the Houston Museum of Natural History recommends the telescope on the sun by using shadows, and then moving a card back and forth behind the eyepiece until a focused image appears. The image will look better if the card is shaded from all sunlighUexcept; that coming through the authority said. Anyone watching the eclipse-through binoculars should place a filter between the potics and the sun, Abilene Astronomical Society 'president Al Schroeder said.

Several layers of exposed and developed can be used as a filter, he said. Pictures be taken with a telephptoMens and dark red or Polaroid filter. slowest film available, the fastest shutter speed and the smallest f-stop; should be used, Schroeder said. The camera filter does not make it safe to use the viewfinder for looking at the eclipse, society officials said. IsraeHs JERUSALEM 1 (AP) The Israeli cabinet accepted "without any dissenters or a proposal for reconvening a Middle East peace conference at Cabinet Secretary Alien Naor said Tuesday night.

Prime Minister Menahem Begin said the cabinet meeting: "The decision was unanimous." Naor said the text of the U.S. proposal, known as a "working paper," would not published in order to avoid undermining progressrduring current negotiations. The working paper now goes to the Arab countries for their consideration. "The government approves the working paper on suggestions for the resumption of the Geneva peace conference," Noar said. It already had been agreed upon by President Carter, Secretary of Peace Plan State Cyrus R.

Vance and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. In Washington, a State Department -spokesman welcomed the decision and said the United States will transmit the working paper to the Arab governments. We believe the Israeli government decision is a further step toward working out practical procedures for convening the Geneva conference by the end of this year," the spokesman said. Dayan, who carried the U.S.\proposal to Israel, Tuesday after his two-week visit to the United reporters before the 4V4-hour cabinet meeting that he had recommended its Minutes after, the cabinet meeting ended, a top Israeli Foreign Ministry official informed the United States of the Israel government's action. Mystery Palm Print Identified as Maid's AMARILLO (AP) An expert state witness testified Tuesday fingerprints lifted from Cullen Davis' Fort Worth mansion did not match those of the millionaire capital murder defendant; He did, a mysterious palm print as that of a former maid and said a second bloody print lacked sufficient detail for identification.

Jim Slaughter, a civilian employee of the Fort Worth Police Department's Identification Bureau, was called by the state to identify 44 prints found at the mansion after a bloody 1976 shooting spree. Davis, 44, on trial for the slaying of his young stepdaughter Andrea Wilbora, 12, is also accused of wounding his estranged wife Priscilla, 36, killing her lover Stan Parr, 30, and firing the bullet that crippled Gus Gavrel, 22. Slaughter told the jury Tuesday he sought to match up the mansion prints with those of some 85 persons fingerprinted by investigators in' the bizarre case. He said his examination showed seven belonged to Farr, six to Mrs. Davis, two to police lieutenant C.

R. Davis, and one, the palm print, to the former maid Arlelia Cooper. Twenty of the prints could not be iden- tified because of insufficient detail while eight others were good prints, but did not match those of the 85 persons fingerprinted. There was no attempt to explain the eight unidentified prints. Prosecutors made a special point of noting that none of the prints belonged to W.

T. Rufner, Horace Copeland or. Sonny Fortner, three -names frequently mentioned by the defense. Rufner once shared the master bedroom with Mrs. Davis, Copeland was a one-time business associate of Farr, and Fortncr and his wife were frequent man- sion visitors after Davis and his wife separated in 1974.

Fortner's blue Corvette was parked in the mansion's garage the night of the shootings. Until Slaughter's testimony, the palm, prints provided an element of mystery to the case. They were photographed on a door facing leading down to a basement where the child's body was found. But the prosecutorial drama turned out to be closer to a charade. Prosecutor Joe Shannon had focused considerable attention on (he palm prints and a defense lawyer argued for nearly an hour Tuesday in an attempt to block Slaughter from identifying the maid's print.

"We had reason to believe the-prose: cutipn'would suggest that the print was- similar to Cullen's palm print," defense lawyer Phil Burleson explained liter. Shannon meanwhile defended the "sig-, nificance" he attached to the print by? saying: fe "It was just a matter of 1 If we didn't explain it, then somebody could have jumped up and said, 'Aha, that's the killer'. If they now want to claim the maid did it, let them claim the maid did it.".