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National Guard Helicopters Four More Tvler C'ourlerTimeN WEDNESDAY, APRIU7J985 Sec.1 Police Report Tyler Man Hospitalized SHUTTLE- Continued From Page 1 tion 30 feet from the Syncom communications satellite, astronaut Margaret Rhea Seddon carefully guided the 50-foot arm so that makeshift "flyswatter" tools on the end brushed against the side of the slowly rotating payload. A live television shot showed the device twice snag a four-inch power lever only to pass over without budging it. One rung of the three-rung plastic device broke under the pressure. Ms. Seddon had only a six-minute period, or "window," in which to do the job.

When that time passed, Hilmers radioed, "The window is closed, perform the separation maneuver." "We had hard physical contact on at least two occasions," commander Karol Bobko reported. "It was a ereat job," Hilmers re After Being Assaulted A Tyler man found bleeding and unconscious late Tuesday night on the front porch of a residence in the 2000 block of North Grand was reported in stable condition in Mother Frances Hospital this morning. According to reports, police answering an aggravated assault call found the victim, Bobby McKenzie, 22, 2004 N. Grand, around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday.

A witness to the assault told police a man who McKenzie was shooting dice with struck McKenzie in the face causing him to fall and strike his head on a pipe, reports show. Police said McKenzie was transported to the hospital by ambulance suffering from multiple lacerations and a severe concussion. No arrests have been made in the assault, reports show. Woman Arrested At Clothing Store Tyler police arrested a Louisiana woman Tuesday afternoon after she attempted to steal two dresses from a clothing store. Reports show Kathryn Simmons, 27, Shreveport, was apprehended after trying to leave New Yorker, 4601 S.

Broadway, without paying-for two dresses, valued at $424. Simmons remains in Smith County Jail under a $500 bond for theft set by Justice of the Peace Mrs. Leon Hicks, reports show. Power Saw, Cement Mixer Stolen Danny Willis of Willis Masonry 5901 Plantation, told police someone stole a power saw and a cement mixer from his business, reports show. The theft, which occurred between Sunday and Tuesday, resulted in an estimated loss of $2,500.

Motorcycle Reported Taken Terry Snyder told police his motorcycle was stolen Sunday or Monday while it was parked at a friend's house on South Donnybrook. Reports show the cycle was valued at $700. Another Motorcycle Stolen, Then Recovered A second motorcycle theft was also reported at 118 E. 25th, though officers later recovered the cycle in some nearby woods. According to reports, Charles King reported that someone broke into his house and stole the cycle, valued at $500, Tuesday It was found undamaged hidden under some brush nearby.

WORKSHOP Continued From Page 1 'Neo-Nazi' 27, of Florida, and Randall Evans, 29, of Los Sheriff's deputies in Bentonville, arrested Frank Lee Silva, 27, another member of Tate's group, Monday night at a campground where he earlier had been seen with Tate. Silva was charged with concealing stolen money, transporting it across state lines, and harboring fugitives. Biele said Tate and Silva could involved in local paramilitary groups in the Ozark area. "You'd have to be kind of naiive surmise that these guys are vacationing in the Ozarks," Biele said. "But we don't know for sure what they were doing in the area." Linegar was killed in a burst of submachine-gun fire after authorities say he stopped Tate's car.

Trooper Allen Hines, 36, of Branson, arrived seven minutes later and was shot three times. A hospital spokeswoman said he was listed in fair condition Tuesday. IRS Compounds Woman's Error With Its Own BEAUMONT (UPI) When Joyce Ratley sent in her 1040EZ federal income tax form, she expected to get a $100 refund. Instead, she got a letter from the Internal Revenue Service telling her she owed $382,810.69. "I was shocked," said the department tore clerk.

"I only made $7,922.70." Ratley, 53, said she had made a mistake on the form and put the amount withheld for Social Security in the place where she should have entered the amount withheld for income taxes. An IRS computer compounded the mistake by slipping a decimal point a couple of places. The computer indicated she had made $792,270. She said she called the IRS service center in Austin and they told her to send the form back for reprocessing. Houston Police Probe Shootings Of Dancing Teens HOUSTON (AP) Houston police today were investigating the shooting and wounding of at least seven young people as a private security guard attempted to quiet a group of teenagers dancing in the swimming pool area of an apart-ment complex.

Two of those wounded in the Tuesday night incident were listed in stable condition at Ben Taub Hospital. John Buchanan, 18, was shot in the back and Joseph Metheyer was wounded in the abdomen, said Virginia Scott, a hospital spokeswoman. The other five were undergoing treatment and were expected to be released, Ms. Scott said. Ages of the victims ranged from 13 to 20.

The 38-year-old security guard who allegedly fired the shots was taken into custody. His name was not released. Houston police spokesman J.C. Mosier said detectives believed three shots were fired and that more than one of the bullets rico cheted or hit more than one person. Estimates of the number of youths in the group ranged from 25 to 50.

"First he pointed down, then he just started shooting everywhere," Jolin Matthews, 14, a witness, said. "I guess he was scared. I saw one person on the ground and then I hit the ground and covered my head." The apartment manager, who refused to be identified, said the guard was hired less than a month ago after residents complained about large numbers of youths who copgregated around the pool area playing loud music. Many of the youths did not live in the complex, he said. The guard managed to move the group away from the pool area and into a nearby parking lot when an argument erupted and the shooting began, according to another witness, Carold Farris, 22.

IRS Disallows Man's 'Pentagon Hammer' As Full Tax Payment MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) The Internal Revenue Service has rejected a couple's attempt to pay their tax bill with a $738 "Pentagon hammer." "We're sending it back," said Eric Roberts, an IRS spokesman. Hubert Van Tol and his wife, Lois, took the hammer to IRS offices in Memphis saying it should more than cover their outstanding tax bill of $276. Van Tol said he based the value of the hammer on, reports that the U.S. Army spent hundreds of dollars for one pretty much like it.

"They ought to give us credit to carry over next year," he said. But Roberts said Tuesday that the IRS was not amused by Van Tol's offer. "These people could be subject to a $500 fine for filing a frivolous return," he said. Van Tol and his wife, accompanied by a small group of tax protesters, delivered the hammer Monday to Jerry Kaufman, IRS district director in Memphis. Join Search For BRANSON, Mo.

(UPI) With National Guard helicopters joining the hunt, police today enlarged the search for a submachine gun-toting white supremacist who killed a state trooper, wounded another, and then vanished in dense Ozark woodlands. The four helicopters including two combat helicopters were added to the intense manhunt for David C. Tate, 22, of Athol, Idaho, and three of his associates. Trooper Jimmie L. Linegar, 31, of Reeds Spring, was killed Monday night after stopping Tate's car.

Another trooper was wounded seven minutes later arriving at the scene in southwest Missouri. Because of the rugged, mountainous terrain, officers said the search could take days. "We've got thousands and thousands of acres to look at and we can't walk it all," said Highway Patrol Lt. Ralph Biele. "Psychologically; it will be a good thing.

It's going to reassure the citizens, let them know that more than just the Highway Patrol is involved. It will also make Tate start thinking." Ernest McCutchen, another Highway Patrol sergeant, said Tate was armed with an 9mm Ingram Mini-MAC submachine-gun, capable of extremely rapid fire. He and is associates were considered extremely dangerous. "We do think he will try to resist," Biele said. "In fact, we know he will.

That's the kind of group he is associated with. You can definitely assume that other people may be hurt." Authorities this morning arrested a man wearing a red-checked flannel shirt, the same garb Tate was believed to be wearing. "At first, it sounded good," Biele said. "But we don't think this guy is it." Treasury Department weapons experts joined the FBI, Arkansas and Missouri state patrolmen and local police in a search that some authorities say could last for days. "We're playing the waiting game now," said McCutchen.

"There's nothing more we can do. We have had no calls to give any indication as to where he is. In this kind of situation that's what we depend on and that's what's hurting us now." The number of law enforcement officers was reduced to 75 late Tuesday, but would be increased to 150 Wednesday morning, McCutchen said. Tate was one of 24 members of a neo-Nazi group named Monday in a federal indictment for continuing criminal offenses. He also is a suspect in the killings of a Denver radio announcer and an Idaho white supremacist.

Police circulated photos and biographical information about three of the indicted neo-Nazis who authorities believe could be in the area. The three associates were identified as Thomas Bentley, 57, of Hay-den Lake, Idaho, Richard Scutari, Lone Star Steel Directors Told DALLAS Lone Star Steel Company Tuesday announced its new board of directors when Lone Star becomes an independent, publicly held company in the next few weeks. The distribution of Lone Star's common stock to stockholders of Northwest Industries Inc. was announced previously as part of the proposed acquisition of the rest of Northwest Industries by Farley Industries. The chairman and chief executive officer of Lone Star is William Howard Beasley III, 38.

Beasley will resign as president, chief operating officer and director of Northwest industries when Lone Star is spun off from Northwest Industries. He joined Northwest Industries in 1975. Beasley said other directors were chosen to join him as directors "for their outstanding personal achievements as entrepreneurs and business managers in a broad range of industries were: J. Douglas Gray, 40, president, chief executive officer and director of Swift Independent Corporation of Chicago since 1983; Frederick B. Hegi 41, president of Valley View Capital Corporation of Dallas since 1982; Ray L.

Hunt, 42, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Hunt Oil Company and chairman of the board of Hunt Investment Corporation, Woodbine Development Corporation and Southwest Media Corporation; Elvis L. Mason, 51, managing partner of Mason Best Company, Dallas merchant bankers, since 1984; William D. Sanders, 43, founder and chairman and chief executive officer of LaSalle Partners Chicago, specializing in corporate real estate services; James E. Devitt, 54, retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer of The Mutual Life In- surance Company of New York; Gaylord Freeman, 75, retired chairman of the board of The First National Bank of Chicago and its parent First Chicago Corporation; James E. Chenault 57, Lone Star president since 1980.

George A. Wilson, 75, former Lone Star president and chairman is the honorary chairman of the board. He is a director of Northwest Industries, Philadelphia and Reading Corp. and Texas Employers Insurance Association and a trustee of the Texas Pacific Land Trust. be to Arrested On Welfare Fraud Smith County Sheriff's Department has arrested four more welfare fraud suspects named in sealed indictments and warrants as of noon today, investigators said.

These latest arrests brings to 26 the total of welfare recipients suspected of swindling approximately $80,000 in federal and state funds through fraud. Fourteen others remain at large. Arrested and charged late Tuesday and early today were: Hazel Crumpton, 38. 1007 N.N.W. Loop 323, No.

253, $1,000 bond; Marilyn Hudson. 29, 405 W. Har-pole, $1,000 bond; Yonne Snoddy Pierreaugust, 1622 N. Central, $1,000 bond; and Barbara McNeal Boswell, Gladewater, $1,000 bond. According to jail records all four suspects have been released after posting bond.

The arrests followed a routine investigation by Department of Human Resources which is responsible for distributing food stamps and Aid to Families with Dependent Children. A DHR spokesman said most of the 40 cases occurred during the last five to seven months and were referred to investigators by caseworkers. Twenty-three of the suspects were named in sealed indictments returned by a Smith County grand jury last week. The other 17 were arrested on warrants some dating back to 1983, officials said. Investigators said suspects re-.

maining at large are believed to be in Oklahoma, Louisiana and other counties throughout Texas. INCOME Continued From Page 1 level with which later quarters are compared. The IRS refund snafu added another special circumstance to any analysis of the economy, already muddled by the temporary closing of savings and loans in Ohio earlier that appeared to prompt caution among consumers far beyond the state. If confirmed Thursday, the tentative GNP projection in late March of a weak 2.1 percent GNP growth would mean the year got off to a bad start, virtually ruining hopes the year could turn out as good as the White House hopes, with 3.9 percent annual growth. The savings rate in March was the lowest since June 1983, department analysts Said.

The 0.5 percent decline in disposable income was especially serious since it followed a revised 0.8 percent decline in February. The income declines made it easier to understand the massive installment borrowing in February, earlier reported by the Federal Reserve to have added $10.4 billion to the total loans being paid off monthly, as borrowing that was prompted by need rather than consumer enthusiasm. The decline in personal spending was the first setback of any size in that broad indicator of consumer purchases sifce October and the largest decline since February of last year. It confirmed the figures reported last week that retail sales, covering merchandise but not services, fell by the most in more than seven years. The figures showed that income before accounting for income taxes gained almost across the board, with farm income the only negative.

Factory income posted a small March gain after a decline in February. Income from interest on investments and bank accounts also posted a small gain as interest rates crept up. Personal income, at an annual rate, would be $3,156 trillion based on March activity, seasonally adjusted. Inflation-adjusted disposable income, reported with a one-month lag, was down a full 1 percent in February. Despite the low inflation rate, spendable income has not been keeping up with price hikes and is below what it was a year earlier.

RepublicBank Corp. Said Tops In State DALLAS The RepublicBank Corp. was announced as Texas' leading bank holding company Tuesday during the annual stockholders meeting in Dallas. Gerald W. Fronterhouse, Dallas, was also named as the new chief executive officer of RepublicBank replacing James D.

Berry. Berry will remain as chairman of the board of RepublicBank Corp. until July 1986, when he will retire. Berry has been chairman and chief executive officer since 1977. RepublicBank Corp.

is the parent organization of RepublicBank Tyler. Fronterhouse joined the RepublicBank organization in 1962 in the management training program. He was named president of Republic-Bank Corp. in 1978. "Our return on assets and equity were again in the top 10 of the 25 largest holding companies in the United States," Berry said.

The corporation ended the year ranked 19th in assets and 15th in net income, he said. For the first quarter of 1985, the net income of RepublicBank was 135.4 million with total assets of $21.8 billion as of March 31, which makes RepublicBank "number one" in Texas." plied. If power had been switched on on the Syncom communications satellite, an antenna on top would have extended after 80 seconds and the payload would have spun up to 33 rpm after 6 minutes. But astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman said: "We have to report, the omni (antenna) never did come up and the spin rate still is less than 2 rpm." Throughout the morning, Bobko and pilot Don Williams had guided Discovery to the rendezvous, closing in to 30 feet from a distance of 46 miles. "Tally, ho, the target," Williams exclaimed as Syncom came into view.

The astronauts did a 90-minute flyaround inspection of the $80 mil lion satellite to make certain all was safe. They reported it was spinning at a comfortable one revolution every 36 seconds and that the power lever was partially extended, to an elevation of about 90 degrees Mission Control said 'the lever would not trip on the electrical power until it reached 110 degrees, and told them to proceed with the operation. The later analysis showed that it appar ently was fully extended. Bobko and Williams then held the shuttle steady at the 30-foot distance and Ms. Seddon extended the arm with the crude tools on the end.

The failure of the lever to move indicated it may had jammed. It was a major diappointment to Mission Control and the astronauts who had worked long hours to devise a rescue plan and to construct the makeshift tools. Ms. Seddon had two six-minute periods, 90 minutes apart, in which to turn on the switch. But controllers had told the crew to quit the effort if they made hard contact during the first first contact, regardless of the result.

"There will be no further attempts to trip the lever with the flyswatter," said Mission Control commentator Steve Nesbitt. After Discovery pulled away from Syncom, controllers gave Bobko a choice of returning to Earth today or staying up until Friday. Bobko said he would like more time than the three hours available today to complete cabin stowage work. "We'll stay up," the commander said. Under the original plan, the flight was to have ended today, after five days in orbit.

Controllers said the attempt to salvage the satellite would add one or two days to the mission. Landing at a runway here is scheduled for 7:17 a.m. Friday. The tools were crafted by the astronauts out of pieces of plastic, a windowshade, tubing, tape and other items scavenged from the shuttle's cabin. The flapping part of the tools, 8'2-by-ll inch plastic sheets, each have three rectangular holes.

The hope was that the power lever was sticking out far enough to be snagged by one of the holes as Ms. Seddon brushed a flap against the eight-ton satellite. Discovery's two payload specialists. Sen. Jake Garn of Utah and Charles Walker, a McDonnell Douglas engineer who is operating a drug processing machine, did not participating in the operation.

COURT- Continued From Page 1 lations are not automatically entitled to attorney fees for work done in optional state administrative proceedings. The court said judges should use their discretion to decide whether time spent by attorneys was "reasonably expended to enforce the rights" protected by anti-discrimination law. The ruling affirmed the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which said legal fees only can be awarded for services rendered in preparation for a federal lawsuit. The appeal was brought by Leonard Webb, a black tenured teacher in the Dyer County, school system, who said was fired in 1974 because he spanked a white student.

ARB- Continued From Page 1 limited duration one day of hearings," Barnett wrote. ARB is chaired by Jamie Boring. Vice chairman is John Hammond and members include Mack C. Turner, George Davis, Willie Johnson, Don Hill, Lowell Starling, Eugene McElroy and Lionel Riley. ARB hearings will be held in the meeting room, Smith County Appraisal District offices, 245 S.S.E.

Loop 323. but it will involve some belt-tightening," he added. The City of Tyler received $872,536 in revenue sharing funds from the federal government in 1984. Gwyn said most of those funds are used for "recurring capital outlays," like replacing motor vehicles. The city manager also showed council members comparative financial data from Texas cities with populations ranging from 50.000 to 120,000, including tax rates, property valuations, sales tax and general obligation bond debts.

"When we look at these all together, we are in a very good position," Gwyn said. "The tax rate is kept down because of our sales tax rate." But Gwyn said Tyler needs to work on its assessed valuations, which stood at $1,631,221,329 in 1984, with $21,606 percapita. To increase valuations, he said the city needs to "move toward more industrial development." "But in the long run, we must do that without increasing-tax rates," Gwyn said. He praised the city for the number of services provided to residents, something "the general public expects." SCHOOL Continued From Page 1 can offer the low price to other entities is to continue paying the same price for county collection and "piggyback" collection for other agencies. SCAD is still the only agency in the county that can assess the value of property and provide a list of property owners, Hayes said.

If the county is selected to collect the taxes, SCAD will then provide the county with the list, and the county will bill the property owners. Hayes said single collection seems to be working well in other counties, such as Travis and Brazos counties. "They seemed to be having better luck in collecting overall," he said. Current tax assessor-collector Louella Jennings is retiring this year after spending 39 years with the district. Also during the meeting, a group of nine parents appeared to ask trustees to consider employing another band instructor to help the students next year.

Gary Davis, who read a letter to the board on behalf of the group, said the 19 cheerleaders have their own teacher, while 24 members of the color guard and majorettes and 11 members of the percussion group train themselves and pay for out-. side lessons. The parents said they were not complaining or arguing, only making a request for the board to consider. Davis said the district currently has about 80 high school band students, about 90 junior high band students and two band teachers. Board President Jim Cunningham said the board would take the matter under advisement and refer it to the administration.

In other action, trustees voted to advertise for bids for a school auditor, discussed and paid bills for capital improvement projects and tabled action on maintenance of the school grounds until the next The district currently contracts for the maintenance work, and the contract expires Aug. 31. Trustees received seven bids for the job this year, ranging from a low bid of $27,995 to a high bid of $86,000. Trustees, amazed at the approximately $60,000 difference in bids, tabled the matter for further study. Johnston suggested the district begin to provide maintenance for the grounds in-house, and he estimated it would cost about 121,000 annually, not including start up costs for equipment.

ence of Prairie Creek and Black Fork Creek, the water quality is often below standards, Mallory told the council members. The engineering studies reveal there is no way to prove that upgrading the Westside treatment plant will improve the quality of the stream, he said. Gwyn said Tyler's first step-to solve the disagreement is to meet with the EPA representative "to see if there's any way they'll back off" or compromise with the city. Freeman asked if the city had called on any area elected representees or senators, and Gwyn called that action the second step. He suggested a third step, if the city and the regulatory agencies cannot work out their differences, would be litigation.

"We've done everything' we believe professionally that we can do," Mallory said. Gwyn said the city could live without revenue sharing funds. "If it is eliminated, it will present a challenge to offset that loss," Gwyn said. "But if revenue sharing is reduced or eliminated, we can live with it. "We won't have to cut people, LUCAS Continued From Page 1 not anyone else has assisted him in that kind of untruthfulness, Mat-toxsaid.

This week, a Dallas newspaper quoted Lucas as saying most of his confessions were bogus a hoax to show up authorities. Lucas told the newspaper he really killed just three people. The 48-year-old drifter has claimed responsibility for as many as 600 killings nationwide. "He has led us to believe that he did no commit a very large number of these crimes Clearly he did not commit 600 murders," Mattox said. Mattox said the grand jury was not investigating a special task force that has been coordinating investigations into slayings Lucas has claimed responsibility for.

"Our purpose here is not to investigate the task force," he said. "Our purpose is to try and determine whether or not Henry Lee Lucas committed some of these crimes and whether or not he committed those in McLennan County." On Tuesday, Mattox said he would ask the governor's office to fund a special investigation of Lucas' confessions. Mattox said the new investigation is needed because the Texas Rangers Homicide Task Force, which has been investigating Lucas' confessions since 1983, did not believe it was its responsibility to determine the validity of the statements. "Much of the investigation has been an effort to establish that (Lucas) did commit certain crimes," Mattox said. "And perhaps we need to look at it from the other perspective and see what crimes he did not commit." Col.

Jim Adams, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told an Austin news conference Tuesday that Lucas' latest claim that he killed only three people is "ludicrous." "I don't think we'll ever know," Adams said, "and I don't think he will tell or ever remember everything." Adams said police nationwide currently attribute 189 murders to the one-eyed drifter. But Adams said in Austin that Lucas provided investigators with details only the murderer could have known about numerous killings. "In over 100 cases we know of, he took (officers) to the scene of the crime. And some of these read like a whodunit as far as the detail he was able to give them," Adams said. "If he is claiming only three people, I think that assertion is ludicrous." But Adams said some police agencies may have been too quick to credit Lucas with killings to clear pending cases of the books.

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