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Lucas Associated Press HUNTSVILLE Confessed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas says he's innocent but won't plead for a reprieve from the executioner's needle next week for raping and strangling an unidentified woman known only as "Orange Socks." "I'm not going to beg for my life," Lucas, 62, said Wednesday from death row as the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles began collecting votes on his request for clemency. "I'm not going to do it. "I have no life left. It's been destroyed already so why should I get down on my knees and beg somebody and say: 'Oh, please save my I'm not going to do it. I believe there's a God and I believe he will protect me." Lucas, the one-eyed drifter who once confessed to 600 killings nationwide but recanted all of them, says he lied when confessing to the Oct.

31, 1979, rape and strangulation of "Orange Socks," so named because the socks were the only items of clothing she was wearing when found in a ditch off he won beg for life t-J Thursday, June 25, 1998 Interstate 35 near Georgetown. "1 don't even think about June 30," Lucas said of Tuesday's scheduled execution. "I've got no reason to think about June 30." Earlier this, month, Lucas asked the. parole board to recommend Gov. George W.

Bush commute his senterice. The board could finish voting by today, chairman Victor Rodriguez said. Ten of the 18 board members must vote to recommend clemency before Gov. George W. Bush has the option of sparing a convict's life.

Under state law, if the parole board rejects clemency, the only choice.for Bush is whether to grant Lucas a onetime, 30-day reprieve. "I would tell (Bush) to believe the truth," Lucas said. "I know he can't believe me but at least believe the truth. There's been so much evidence given to him showing that I couldn't have possibly been in the state of Texas when this girl was killed." As for his confessions to her killing and the others, he responded; "The confessions ain't nothing. It's a piece of paper." Bush last week asked the parole board to review the Lucas case, but one of the'prosecutors who sent Lucas to death row insisted Wednesday the conviction arid sentence were solid.

"Lucas is a coldblooded monster who killed many people After 14 years of legal review, it's time for his sentence to be carried out," Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson said Wednesday in a column in The Austin American-Statesman. Lucas has eight Texas murder convictions, but the "Orange Socks" case is his lone death sentence. Each parole board member received Lucas' clemency petition and all other pertinent information, Rodriguez said. Voting is conducted by overnight mail since board members live around the state. The chairman said among items submitted to his fellow board members was a 1986 report compiled by then- Attorney General Jim Mattox Convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas is escorted back to his cell by Texas Department of Corrections officers after speaking to the media Wednesday in Huntsville.

that concluded Lucas didn't kill "Orange Socks" and that he was in Florida at the time, working as a roofer. Anderson, however, said trial evidence disputed the alibi claims. "The conviction has been reviewed for 14 years by 23 different judges," he added. "Every court has reviewed the record and upheld the conviction." Lucas told reporters he was confident he would around next Wednesday for the regular media day on death row. "I will be here," he said.

"I'll never give up." Gore travels to Texas to raise money Associated Press WASHINGTON Vice President Al Gore will be raising both money and issues during a two-day swing through Texas. During appearances in Houston, El Paso and San -Antonio, Gore is to raise campaign money for two fellow Democrats, address the state party convention and talk about wildfires, child safety, welfare and education. In Houston, Gore was scheduled to be a guest of Friendswood High School for today's panel discussion on school violence, youth crime and children's safety. The appearance makes good on a longstanding request by Rep. Nick Lampson, D-Beaumont, for a Gore visit.

children became a after a 12-year-old Friendswood girl, Laura Smither, was kidnapped and murdered last year. "Anytime he can bring the issues of child safety to the national forefront, he's thrilled and honored to do so," said Lampson's special assistant, Jacquelyn Davis. From children's issues, Gore was making the jump to campaigns, headlining a Houston fund-raiser for freshman Rep. Jim Turner of Crockett. The luncheon is expected to bring in $100,000 for the East Texas lawmaker's re-election, said campaign manager Russell Langley.

Then it was on to West Texas for a University of Texas at El Paso forum this evening on education and a fund-raising dinner for Democratic guberna- torial'candidate Garry Mauro. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-E1 Paso, welcomed the vice president's attention to education issues. "I believe we must invest heavily in the greatest resource El Paso has to offer our children," Reyes said. "We must work toward the goal of providing these children 21st century schools to excel and succeed in life." The Mauro dinner, expected to bring in $150,000, comes just two days after President Clinton and Hillary Clinton sought to provide a boost to the campaign of their longtime friend, who is lagging substantially behind Gov.

George W. Bush in the polls and the money chase. The twin Clinton events were exected to net his cam- Lawmaker pushes later school day start I Fly predator a natural alternative to pesticides Associated Press WASHINGTON waking up teen-agers at the crack of dawn, and they just might make better grades and stop committing crimes after school, lawmakers said Wednesday. Referring to medical research suggesting that teens have a physiological need for extra sleep, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, introduced two bills to make it easier for schools to start and end later in the day.

Her proposals would urge schools to start classes after 9 a.m. and offer grants of up to $25,000 to help cover operating costs related to the change. Lofgren, the mother of two teen-agers, said she came up with the idea after reading about how adolescents' biological clocks change as they age, increasing their need for sleep, particularly in the She said many American high schools begin classes by 7:30 a.m., which forces pupils with long commutes or who must meet school buses to stumble out of bed continued from IB "On a dairy, it's different," he said. "Milk producers get them together two or three times a day. They might use back rubs, ear tags and sprays." It is the bringing together of large numbers of animals that caused the need for pesticides, Bogdanoff said.

"When man began congregating animals, we threw off the balance," he said. "What fly predators do is make a return to the balance." Chemical pesticides, Bogdanoff said, "have been around a long time, and they no longer work. We need to go back to biological control. Flies become become resistant to pesticides rather quickly. Fly predators, however, are not resistant to pesticides.

Spalding recommends that pesticide use be stopped in areas where poisons could land on the predators. Recommended supplements include ear tags, baited fly traps, electric and black light traps, dust bags and sprays aimed at areas that do not contain manure. "Fly predators go'after the manure-type fly," Bogdanoff said. "We sell mostly to stables, dairies and poultry facilities." Tests by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the effectiveness of fly predators in specific areas.

In a 1975 test, fly predators completely suppressed a group of houseflies within 30 days. In a test at a poultry farm, all house flies were suppressed, and all fly cocoons collected had been para- sitized within four weeks. At a calf bam, fly control using predators ranged from 83 percent to 93 percent. "Pesticides are never 100 percent effective against flies," Bogdanoff said. "You knock them down and they're back again.

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