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2A 1985 FORT WORTH STAIVIELEGRAM SI THURSDAY MORNING AUGUST 29 1985 Fort Worth Star Telegram I it 7 tot otton7 A 0) you it' 4 000'V1i1 '-t0i i 4--1 0 4 e3 0 fi i ''Ph I 4 -0 1 edif0011A 45'V Continued from Page 1 says is true but she is sure the man was Lucas The scrap of paper on which she wrote down his license number was not saved "I feel he is very cunning that he enjoys toying with people" So lano said "Via ien I saw him (on television) saying he only killed his mother I just went off the deep end" Up to that point she had asked that her name not be used So lano then a 21-year-old nursing student was traveling on Interstate 25 from Denver to Taos where she planned to meet her husband to go skiing About 8 pm near Trinidad Colo she pulled off and turned back under the highway to buy gas at a convenience store She noticed that another car did the same thing When she went in to pay for her gas the other driver did too "I didn't notice him until he came in the door and glared at me" she said "He was about four or five feet from me I could see him just fine One thing I noticed was the deviated eye I thought he was about 5-foot-I0 to 6 feet medium build He had a hired-hand look to him rough gruff" Outside again she noticed that his old "bluish color" car had Michigan plates and wrote down the number Both cars got back on the road about the same timeand Solano said that for the next few hours the other driver "played cat and mouse with me" riding beside her for long stretches exiting at least twice then getting back on the freeway and coming up behind her again After the stranger's car had passed her and gone on ahead Solari() took the turn for the rather desolate mountain road to Taos Then car lights came up behind her "I thought 'Oh good' because it was a lonely road But it was Lucas I had talked myself out of (believing he was purposefully following) until I knew he had to backtrack" to come find her "I started to get panicky" Solari() said She pulled off the highway at a lumbermill the night watchman called the police The officer who responded made light of her fears Solano said but he got on the radio and found two fami (UPS 206460) Combining the Fort Worth Star established Feb 1 1906 the Fort Worth Telegram purchased Jan 1 1909 the Fort Worth Record purchased Nov 1 1925 Second closs postage paid at Fort Worth Texas Published daily xcept twice on Wednesday at 400 West Seventh St Fort Worth Texas 76102 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM PO BOX 1870 Fort Worth TX 76101 TELEPHONE NUMBERS Circulation Department 335-4837 (Just dial DEL-IVER) Classified Department 737-8587 (Just dial RES-ULTS) All Other Departments 390-7400 Subscription Rates: Monthly by carrier Delivery Morning or Evening only $595 Morning and Sunday or Evening and Sunday $795 Morning Evening and Sunday $995 Weekend editions plus six holiday copies $595 Star-Telegram Plus issues published each Wednesday $395 per year included in obove rates Single copy: Morning or Evening 25 Sunday 75 By mail in US and possessions Doily and Sunday $1475 per month or $17700 per year Doily only $1075 per month or $12900 per year Sunday only $875 per month or $10500 per year All prices include postage For missed copies call your carrier or distributor or Customer Service Deportment 335-4837 (DELIVER) 6 am to 9:30 am or 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm Daily am to 10:30 am am to 11:30 am "Already have 15- 20 calls so far y'all really get results!" RAN THIS STAR-TELEGRAM CLASSIFIED Cement contractor needs experienced finishers laborers in quality residential flat work 000-0000 Just Dial R-E-S-U-L-T-S 737-8587 ently The grand jury wasn't empowered to investigate Lucas' cases all over the country "If the grand jury) had been empowered to do more they would have" he said Bob Lemons who rejected the conclusion of Lubbock police that Lucas killed his daughter is willing to say it more strongly "All these cops are not bad They haven't all gone out and pinned things on Lucas purposefully" said Lemons who with his wife has spent a year looking into Lucas' background "But in a lot of cases the task force fed enough information to Lucas that he could confess" Texas Ranger Bob Prince who headed the task force said the Rangers never provided information improperly to Lucas Rather Prince said he and Ranger Clayton Smith always cautioned investigators not to provide him too much information They suggested providing Lucas with a picture of the victim before the slaying or a photo lineup and letting him take it from there The investigators interviewed by the Star-Telegram invariably praised Prince and the task force staff for their help Smith sometimes did the initial questioning of Lucas on cases in which information was mailed in by an agency that wanted the Rangers to find out whether Lucas knew enough about their cases to make a trip to Georgetown worthwhile In a memo to Cot Jim Adams director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Smith said he had questioned Lucas in about 175 such cases 20 of which eventually were cleared Smith said he told Lucas only the geographic area he was interested in the type of offense that had occurred and sometimes the sex and race of the victim Smith also said he sometimes showed Lucas crime scene pictures but only if needed only if that were the only type of picture contained in the file he was sent and that he only did so after covering up "with a piece of paper or other object" any parts of the photograph that might give away "pertinent facts" about the case Smith said he taped all such duction of the Sgt York after 65 of a planned order of 618 weapons had been purchased The gun is manufactured by Ford Aerospace Communications Corp which employs 1900 people at its Sgt York facility The Department of Defense has spent $18 billion for the Sgt York so far and the Army had wanted Weinberger to approve $4175 million for the next 117 guns But the Pentagon chief turned Advertised price good through Saturday August 31 No commercial sales Quick-buy plan blamed for costly Sgt 0:41 ire ea ticv sessions after the first few if Lucas was able to give any information the tape was sent to the investigating agency Smith said If Lucas said he knew nothing about it at all the tape was erased "The message we tried to convey to each officer is you believe what you can confirm" Prince said "It's unimportant what Henry has said in the past or what he will say in the future What is important is what you can confirm" Prince and his superiors in the Ranger ranks and Department of Public Safety have continued to explain that the Lucas task force never was intended as an investigative body It was put together to coordinate the things the actual investigators ie the local police agencies were doing to keep track of convictions charges confessions and bacliground information The Rangers did not decide whether to clear cases but listed them as cleared based on what they were told by the investigating officers The tracking system was developed as it went along and was always rather informal no one had ever tried to coordinate investigations and Charges involving that many jurisdictions before "It's not been our responsibility to go to another state to check an alibi for another state's case" Prince said "It's not our responsibility to see if he was with Aunt Gertrude somewhere" None of the alternatives for explaining Henry Lucas is very plausible: neither that he killed 150 to 200 people nor that he was able to convince police officers he did those crimesif he really didn't Reed Lockhoof says he is still "confused" over the answer Bob Prince still scratches his head over the cases Lucas described minutely but that turned out to have been committed while Lucas was in prison Clemmie Schroeder a Catholic lay minister who possibly is Lucas' closest friend says she doesn't believe she knows the truth yet Lucas once told a relative of traveling companion Ottis Toole "If you play your cards right and you act crazy enough you can beat any rap" York gun down that request after a new round of tests were completed in May and June Weinberger determined that the Sgt York lacked reliability and sufficient range The usefulness of those tests was questioned last month by John Krings director of the Pentagon's new Office of Operational Test and Evaluation who suggested that they did not fairly represent the Soviet threat against the new gun TA Soils 0 Continued from Page 1 dure known as "concurrency" under which the three major stages leading to the deployment of a weapon research and development testing and production overlap Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announcing his decision Tuesday to cancel the SgL York acknowledged that the process "is a somewhat more expensive way of trying your best to get what you 0 Ster-Tolegram narrass law enforcement people he had the tools to do it" McLennan County District Attorney Vic Feazell whose criticism of the handling of Lucas has made him major part of the Lucas circus believes Lucas killed three people at most Lucas' attorney Gary Richardson has said a lie detector test run on Lucas tended to show he was telling the truth about having killed no more than three people Feazell said he is willing to conclude that law enforcement officers both accidentally and intentionally are responsible for providing the grist for Lucas' confession mill He said he believes that even in cases in which Lucas'conf essions were taped Lucas may have gotten key information from conversations held before the tape started running Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox and Feazell both said the McLennan County grand jury that finished its work in July was not investigating the Texas Rangers homicide task force that coordinated the law inforcement interviews with Lucas Mattox has said that the grand jury found no evidence of "inappropriate or illegal conduct" by the Rangers But Feazell says it a little differ need as great as this you do have to use all the methods you can to fill that need as quickly as possible" Weinberger said But a congressional source speaking on condition that he not be named commented that under this system "by the time we get around to an operational test we've bought half the units" Weinberger's decision brought to sudden and unusual halt the pro overhaul this year but will result in annual savings of $250 million The shutdown of petrochemical and metals plants as part of a wider $865 million write-off of inventories and other assets Carbide also will try to sell $500 million in "non-strategic businesses and assets" possibly including some of its uranium mining operations in the West The company would not identify which operations are targeted for closure or sale The purchase of 10 million shares of its common stock to be financed in part by the reversion of $500 million in surplus pension funds to the corporation Carbide currently has $1 billion in surplus funds in a total pension program of $29 billion Leviton said The buyback of stock industry sources say is most directly related to the company's defensive strategy against a potential takeover "Real Cheap" CLASSIFIEDS Lines Days 110 $100 a day! 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TO reach thousands of Star-Telegram classified buyers every day Ad may be cancelled but no refunds Real Cheap rates apply to the following counties: Tarrant Johnson Dallas mood Parker Wise Erath Eastland Palo Pinto Stephens Jack Denton Montague Cooke and Grayson Dial: RES-ULTS 7378587 110 Carbide announces Henry Lee Lucas in his cell in 1984 lies in recreational vehicles with whom she could travel ''One of the families put their kids in the car with me" and the caravan continued toward Taos "Probably 10 minutes on Lucas was waiting on a turnaround He had been stalking me" she said If one accepts the idea that Lucas killed dozens or hundreds of people over an eight-year period then his initial vagueness and confusion over individual cases is understandable For those who don't believe he is a mass killersuch things are more indication that Lucas had no information of his own to provide and was simply fishing to see what he could get officers to tell him "If (Lucas) is guessing then he's the best guesser I've ever known" said Covington La police Detective Dennis LaRocca And indeed if Lucas did patch together all of his confessions from good guesses generalities and hints dropped by officers he is more intelligent than people originally thought "Henry's a lot smarter than what he's been characterized in the past" said Texas Assistant Attorney General Reed Lockhoof who has been investigating the Lucas story "I promise you he can read as well as you or If his intent was to em need as quickly as you can" But he said a slower process under which all testing could be completed before a decision to produce a weapon is made is "a luxury of time" not available to the United States in its effort to field an air defense gun capable of shooting down the most sophisticated Soviet missile-carrying helicopters and low-flying planes "on occasions where you have a restructuring and consolidation of Carbide operations had been anticipated for some time Even before its problems stemming from the Bhopal disaster the Danbury Conn- based company had experienced disappointing earnings related to excessive overhead outmoded plants and a bloated work force The program announced by Carbide Chairman Warren 'Anderson is expected to achieve $300 million in annual cost savings for the company but will result in a onetime charge of $990 million against 1985 pretax earnings and will lower Carbide's after-tax earnings by about $8 a share Among the steps announced are: The reduction of 4000 white-collar jobs that will shrink the company's domestic salaried staff 15 percent by early 1986 This will cost the company $70 million in severance pay and inducements to retire meet recall service visit Battleship Cove in Fall River to watch the rededication of PT 617 which was nearly destroyed in Korea but was rebuilt with $600000 in donations from PT boat veterans and their families They will also pay tribute to James "Boats" Newberry of Memphis Tenn the founder of PT Boats Inc Organization and Museum which sponsors yearly reunions Newberry was a chief boatswain's mate on a PT boat with Kennedy The Boston reunion is the 21st for the veterans Many said they came to renew friendships and memories "We sometimes fought like brothers amongst ourselves" said Charles Lukens 67 of Marion III "But when someone on another boat said something about us we'd all take up against them" that's not prosecuted On Wednesday Ho Infield said he had been misquoted and that sodomy cases will be tried if arrests are made and the prosecutor brings such a case to court would remain about the same or be even lower according to Johnny Kennedy chairman of an ad hoc committee that is promoting creation of an independent water district a a Target has your kind of Coke at a great low price cans 11029 29 Stock up on your favorite Coca-Cola taste: Classic Coke New Coke cherry Coke diet Coke caffeine-free diet Coke Sprite and sugar-free Tab also on sale All in easy-carry 6-packs of 12-oz cans Continued from Page 1 done partly to avert a takeover They could have done these things piecemeal but 1 think they were forced into biting the bullet and doing everything at once with the threat of a takeover" Some industry analysts believe that the New Jersey-based GM' controlled by real estate magnate Samuel Heyman has launched a corporate raid that could lead to a takeover of the company by GM' or other raiders "Heyman has got a gun pointed at their head" said Paul Leming a chemical industry analyst with Kidder Peabody "They're scared to death somebody is going to make a run take them over and then auction off the company This is called management preservation They're looking out for their own necks" But industry analysts also say a Veterans of PT boats Associated Press BOSTON Forty years after the end of World War II hundreds who served on PT boats gathered Wednesday to recall their days of combat and camaraderie aboard the Navy's smallest fastest and most vulnerable combat vessels More than 1200 Patrol Torpedo boat veterans were expected to attend the four-day convention including several who served aboard the famous PT 109 with the late President John Kennedy The 80-foot boats with their wooden hulls and high-octane gasoline engines were designed for quick attacks on larger ships and were considered highly vulnerable to attack About 16000 men served aboard the boats during World War On Sunday the veterans attending the convention are scheduled to Clarification In Wednesday's Star-Telegram Fort Worth Municipal Judge Dan Hollifield was quoted as saying that a revived state law against homosexual activity will be "another case in our courts" Correction An article in Wednesday's edition incorrectly reported that the average monthly water bill in Rendon would increase by $27 if the town formed its own water district Actually water bills a' '11131M--11111111mup ra -VW----- --1 1--- Entootom-- alit 4-wwpook i eoboadhoo 411101104 1044 le lit 1101141:044 riat3 iiPPea :11) 1 1' 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