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SAN ANTONIO Friday Datpmbgr 5 3A 30 motions filed for Franklin Hr JOHN w. GONZALEZ Attorneys for Donald Gene Franklin filed 10 pre-trial motions Thursday. The suspect in the Julv abduc- Uon-slaying of nurse Mrs. Mary Margaret Moran requested a relocation of his trial away from Bexar County. He also asked for a sweeping protective order to regulate news coverage of his upcoming trial on the capital murder charge.

The motions are set for hearing Dec. 12. Fearful of a carnival atmosphere when the trial is held, the three court-appointed defense lawyers likewise requested strict rules be placed on courtroom audiences. Other motions asked 186th Dtst Judge James E. Barlow to reject indictments returned against Franklin because the grand jury which indicted him had a conspicuously large number of blacks.

Franklin is black. Pretrial publicity In requesting a change of venue, lawyers said pre-trial publicity will prevent a fair trial for the 23-year-old defendant. publicity involved herein has been great in volume and its accessibility universal. reached and entered the consciousness of the overwhelming majority of prospective Bexar County the motion stated. Among the four citizens who signed affidavits endorcing the venue change request was San Antonio Bar Association President John Iafolla.

An 11-point district court order was requested to: Bar publication of the names of witnesses who identified Franklin in connection with alleged crimes; Bar publication of names of prospective witnesses and jurors; Bar publication of testimony of an already held bond hearing, and all other pre-trial hearings; Order news media to issue only factual reports about the case; Bar all courthouse broadcasting; Prohibit any recording devices in the courtroom; Prohibit any photography at the courthouse, especially of Franklin, witnesses and jurors; Prohibit courtroom sketches by media artists; Allow for an equitable allotment of courtroom seats to the news media among the seats; and Prohibit news media representatives from examining any trial Another motion asked Barlow to prohibit spectators from entering or leaving the courtroom while testimony is in progress. Weapons searches were also suggested. The motions attacked the grand jury which indicted Franklin as being unrepresentative of this community since it contained too many blacks and too few jurors aged 18-30 years. COL. JOSEPH B.

DODDS for star COL. HARRY FALLS JR. tapped for promotion Two get the nod for star Two Air Training Command officers at Randolph AFB have been nominated by President Ford for promotion to the rank of brigadier general. The two are Col. Joseph B.

Dodds, ATC comptroller, and Col. Harry Falls assistant deputy chief of staff for operations at ATC headquarters. Both officers are command pilots. Before coming to Randolph, Falls commanded the 47th Flying Training Wing at Laughlin AFB, Del Rio and had previously been an instructor pilot. Dodds served as comptroller for both the Air Defense Command and North American Defense Command at Colorado Springs, before being assigned to ATC.

Anti-mall signature count slows down By DEBORAH WESER The official anti-shopping mall petition count slowed Thursday after some 14.000 signatures were disqualified and 6.000 more set aside temporarily as illegible. Rejected signatures came from non-San tonians or persons who did not turn up on city voter registration lists, Acting City Clerk Garland Jackson said. Jackson will not be able to give City Council a completed count Friday as he originally hoped to do. City Councilman A1 Rohde, meanwhile, proposed an alternative to the mall referendum. Suicide ruled in strangulation Suicide by strangulation was rilled Thursday in the death of Mrs.

Anna Then-t arets, 81, of 311 S. St. St. Dr. Ruben Santos, county medical examiner, made the ruling after Mrs.

Then- arets was found by neighbors earlier Thursday in her bathroom at the Granada Homes. Police said Mrs. Thenar- ets had apparently made a noose out of a nylon stocking and a belt and suspended one end from a hook on the bathroom door. ROBERT T. CONLEE, center, inspects his work in restoring the Ursuline Tower dock.

STAFF PHOTO BY BUSTER DEAN New life for old clock in Ursuline tower Pigeons in downtown San Antonio now have one-less roost because the old clock at the Ursuline Academy Tower has been restored. For some 14 years the pigeons have nested atop the timepiece but now clockmakers Earl E. Cureton and Robert T. Conlee have restored it as a Bicentennial contribution. It seems no one knows exactly when the old clock stopped, or why.

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every American did one small thing, the Bicentennial could be one of the most significant events in American Cureton said. He added pigeons left a worth of stuff they usually reserve for statues. The machinery was so cyated it had to be dipped in a boiling solution to enable cleaning. Cureton had a deeper motive for restoring the old clock: clock, especially a tower clock, that is not operating is a constant source of worry not real worry, but a nagging sort of thing. Repairs 1974 the nagging got the best of me and I made arrangements to restore the clock.

In August 1975 Conlee and 1 agreed to restore the old clock without charge to the new owners, the Southwest Craft Sister Genevieve says the academy, built in 1851, went without a clock for 15 years. 1866, Father later Bishop Jean Dubuis, had the clock brought from France. It came to Galveston by sailing ship. oxcart brought it overland to San she said. clock had only three faces, east, south and west.

was no north be. i'1. 1 liTiTi' i. Christinas showboat cause San Antonio was just a village then and no one predicted it would grow to the north. says it had no north face because of the Yankees, but this is not true.

It was because no one foresaw The nun who wound the clock and the old caretaker had to mount a ladder to reach the top of the tower. There they would crank the 200-pound weight up the shaft of the tower where it would drop second by second, controlled by the clock. He wants council to initiate a wholly new zoning case for land on which the 120-acre mall is to be built. In return, however, Rohde wants petition sponsors to halt their referendum efforts immediately. Jackson Thursday afternoon indicated his count shows a 1,500 signature shortage after going through 41,000 of the 47,000 names submitted last week.

However, by the time city staff stopped work late Thursday night, the petitions were only 940 names short. It was not known how many of the illegible signatures remained to be checked. A valid petition needs 26,906 names or 10 per cent of registered city voters, Petition sponsors, however, under the City Charter rules, will have 20 days (after official certification) to produce the total required signatures. Additional signatures That additional signature effort is what Rohde wants the sponsors to forego. The shortage may be wiped out this weekend, however, if staff can find the needed number among the 6,000 signatures still to be checked.

Those could not be read on first inspection and the staff intends to try other identifying techniques, Jackson explained. The petition drive, initiated by the Aquifer Protection Association, drew significant help from Communities Organized for Public Service. Both groups met briefly with Jackson Thursday to review procedural steps of the referendum process. Both also urged Jackson to conduct manual check of any questionable petition signatures to assure use of all eligible names. The entire process to date has been handled through a new computer system.

Council, meanwhile, Friday may repeal its original 5-4 zoning vote that cleared the way for mall development. Allowing mall construction at FM 1604 and San Pedro Avenue, that vote prompted the public outcry and petition drive. The 129-acre project is to be developed on land the recharge zone over the sole water source, the Edwards aquifer. Opponents claim it will speed contamination of the underground water supply by allowing urban runoff to seep into the underground reservoir. Supporters of the mall claim existing controls are adequate to prevent contamination by surface seepage.

Rohde, in his alternate proposal, urges an impartial study of what, if any, development should take place over the aquifer. The study should be initiated by council as a requisite for adopting firm ground rules for strict pollution control enforcement, Rohde added. Patience, strength and a good deal of humility were needed to perform the task. So did the task of taking out the clock, which Cureton and Conlee did by disassembling the gears and taking it apart piece by piece. After the nuns moved in 1961, the chore of keeping the clock wound went unperformed.

The mystery of the nonworking clock was solved. The clock is repaired and will be in the tower at the first of the year for the Bicentennial. CHEST winning tmmberst LOOK FOR TODAYS LUCKY NUMBERS FROM THE EXPRESS NEWS TV NOW MAGAZINE DATED NOV. 30 IF ONE MATCHES YOURS EXACTLY. YOU WIN THE AMOUNT SHOWN IN CASH.

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P.O. Box 2171. San An- toiuo, Texas 78297 and be postmarked by deadline. Hale ellers making suckers out of Texans My Stinson If, as T. Barnum said, a sucker is born every minute, half of hem must somehow wind up in Texas.

Sometimes it seems Texans will swallow anything, especially if its diguised as a swat at those dadburn liberals in Washington The latest evidence of gullibility is the widespread dissemination of an anonymous circular which, among other things, implies that the federal Government is plotting to take away children if they force them to take out the garbage. If you think that sounds ridiculous, you hear this apparently, a lot of people around the state have not only road the circular. but believed it! Which only proves that the Good Lord apparently missed a host of Lone Star State citizens when he passed around common sense. Deluge Texas congressmen have reported a deluge of letters from their constituents who think their kids are going to be kidnaped by I he government. The basis of their fear is a document being passed around the state and in many cases distributed by churches and schools, including at least one Bexar PTA group which purports to be an attack on the Child and Family Service Act of 1975 now pending in Congress.

According to the unsigned circular, the piePe of federal legislation would provide that in the judgment the State are not doing a good job, a specialist appointed by the government wouJd enter the home and direct the education. And if the parent objects, the authority of the home would be transferred (to the government Garbage Believe it or not, at points, the circular is even more incredible than that. Some excerpts: the proposed act) children have the right to protection from any excessive claims made on them by their the mother or father asked child to take the garbage out and the child want to, the parents have no right to insist upon could not insist on children attending church or Sunday School or Synagogue. The parent could be reported to authorities for expressing himself in his own home before his own children regarding politics and re-( ligion if the child reported this to the bill would weaken the American Family by committing the vast moral authority of the national government to the side of communal approaches to child rearing over against the family- oriented The fact that such ridiculously false propaganda has been distributed under the guise of concern for the family surprising. hate mongers have never let a little thing like lying get in their way.

It is amazing, however, that in 1975, a large percentage of citizens are still fair game for the charlatans and demagogues in our society who prey on people who are ignorant and easily duped. Tragedy The real irony and of the matter is that the legislation being attacked so maliciously is designed to strengthen the family. The hild and Family Services Act would improve child-care programs for working mothers, provide prenatal medical help for poor mothers, improve food and nutritional care for poor children and provide help for children with physical handicaps and special learning disabilities if parents requested such help. Indeed, the act stresses that the services offered by the government would be available only on a volun tary basis when parents or legal guardians requested them. And it specifically prohibits any practice which would upon or usurp the moral and legal rights and responsibilities parents with respect to the moral, mental, emotional.

physical or other development of their So why the campaign of vilification against an act which would give unborn babies a chance to live, poor youngsters food to eat and crippled children an opportunity to develop to their fullest capacity? For the same reasons, 1 suppose, that some people torture pets, beat up babies, rape women and shoot policemen in the back. There are just a lot of folks in this world who get their kicks hurting others. And apparently there are a lot of suckers including a host of Texans who gullible enough to help them. One lane of 111419 will be closed Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

at the following locations: Eastbound at Honeysuckle Lane. Eastbound at San Pedro Avenue. East and westbound at Blanco Road. Westbound at Cherry Ridge Drive. Westbound at Hi 10.

Westbound at Fredericksburg Road. One lane of the following IH410 cross streets will be closed Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.: North and southbound Honeysuckle Lane under IH419. North and southbound West Avenue under IH4 North and southbound San Pedro Avenue under 111410. Northbound Blanco Road over IH410.

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