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i Brilab defense attorneys open arguments today HOUSTON Attorneys for House Speaker Billy Clayton and two other Brilab defendants have indicated they would ask today that several charges against their clients be dismissed for lack of evidence. Prosecutors wrapped up their case Tuesday afternoon after presenting several witnesses whose testimony was friendly to the defense. Government attorneys also played reels of secret FBI tapes to federal jurors in the bribery-extortion trial of Clayton and Austin attorneys Donald Ray and Randall Wood. Clayton, Wood, Ray and labor leader L.G. Moore were indicted June 12 by a federal grand jury for extortion, bribery, conspiracy and racketeering, charges arising from an alleged insurance kickback scheme.

Moore, regional director of the International Operating Engineers Union, will be tried later. Assistant U.S. Attorney" Ron Woods, the chief, prosecutor in the case, concluded his testimony by reading a section of the Texas standard of conduct for legislators and officeholders to the five-man, seven-woman jury. Woods told jurors the code says no legislator or public offical should accept or solicit any gift that would influence his official conduct or interfere with his freedom of judgment on any issue. A former state official testified Tuesday that he believed Clayton had been "boxed-in" when labor leader Moore offered a $5,000 campaign contribution.

Under cross-examination, Bob Johnson said that Moore put Clayton in an impossible position because "he needed labor support and there is no way, knowing the speaker, that he was going to keep that money." Johnson is a former legislator and during the Brilab investigation was a member of the Texas Employees Retirement Board, the agency that awards lucrative; insurance contract for state employees. Johnson said if Clayton had wanted to influence the awarding of the multimillion dollar-a-year insurance policy, "he would have contacted other members of the retirement system board." There are six members of the board, three elected by the various state agencies and three appointed. Johnson was named to the board by Clay ton. The government claims Clayton accepted a $5,000 bribe, with a promise of more, if the bids were reopened and the contract went to Prudential Insurance Co. Joseph Hauser, FBI informant, had posed during the Brilab investigation as a representative of Prudential and offered kickbacks to various political and labor" officials.

The speaker acknowledged he received $5,000 from Moore during a Nov. 8, 1979, meeting but thought it was a campaign contribution and planned to return it later. Secret FBI tapes made during the meeting revealed that Hauser had counted out the money, given it to Moore," who passed it along to the speaker. Johnson was asked, as a four-term member of the legislature, if he would have turned down the offer. He answered, "No way, especially when you may need labor support.

Tfcere was no way the speaker was going to keep that money. There is no way the speaker would accept any illegal from anyone." Tlw Paris News, Oct. 3.198U ISA Trooper slaying suspect apprehended in Kansas PARENTS OF SLAIN DPS OFFICER Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Davis of Lubbock grieve during the graveside services held Tuesday for their son, Department of Public Safety trooper Jerry Don Davis.

Officer Davis was killed Oct. 5 near Slaton while stopping and checking a vehicle. (AP Laserphoto) Chip Carter defends father's campaigning LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) The day a slain state trooper was laid to rest here, the suspect who had eluded police throughout Texas was apprehended and arrested in a rural Kansas town. Texas and Kansas authorities were negotiating Tuesday night to transport Billy Wayne Alexander Jr. back to Texas after he waived extradition.

The suspect, wanted in the shooting death of Jerry Don Davis, offered no resistance and was unarmed when he was arrested early Tuesday evening in Liberal, Department of Public Safety officials said. Alexander, 21, had been named in a capital murder warrant issued Monday morning by a justice of the peace in Lubbock. A couple from Lowell, was in the car with Alexander at the time of arrest, DPS officials said, but said the couple had not been charged. Police withheld all other information. Davis, 25, was found slumped over the wheel of his squad car in Slaton, near here, Sunday night with a bullet wound in his head.

His service revolver was still in his holster. One of the two ministers delivering the eulogy in the small Lubbock church packed with hundreds of mourners quoted scriptures supporting punish- ment for the trooper's "assassin." Law enforcement officers from Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico attended the service. One-third of the seats were reserved for DPS officers. Davis' mother was presented with the United States flag that had been draped over her son's coffin. A seven-man honor guard fired a 21-gun salute and a lone trumpeter played kips.

Authorities had combed the state for two days and issued a tri-state bulletin looking for Alexander, whose drivers license was found in Davis' car, DPS officials said. Davis had notified his dispatcher by radio that he had stopped a vehicle for speeding, and "that was the last contact, 11 Todd said. The trooper had radioed in the license plate of the stopped vehicle, a car with stolen plates later found abandoned by DPS officers. PREGNANCY TERMINATIONS Freo Pregnancy Testing Counseling North Central Woman's Center Dalles, Texas 75243 1 Resale Shop We Good Used Clothing Take Clothes on Consignment. Sizes Baby Thru Teerss I I STORE HOURS: OPEN 2:30 5:30 (MONDAY THRU SATURDAY) Llmir (Across from Braum's) 78S-5MO Paris, TX.

Nancy Morgan Fire prevention film available to schools Rich Hostel, owner of Paris' Burger King restaurant, says he has copies of his company's fire prevention film, "Snuffy's Fire Safety Brigade," available on a free-loan basis to area teachers and leaders of children's clubs and organizations. "Fire is the number one killer of children under 14 in the home," Kostel said this week, "The sad fact is that most of these deaths could have been prevented; had the children learned the proper preventive measures, and life-saving techniques for these fire emergencies." The Burger King program, Kostel said, is designed for children in kindergarten through the sixth grade and attempts "to teach them how to get out of the bouse, what to do if their clothing catches fire, how to tell if a fire is on the other side of a door and how to escape a smoke-filled room." In addition to the film, Kostel says he has an educational unit, "You're Big Enough for Fire Safety," which includes a teacher's resource guide, flash cards, duplicating masters of various classroom and home exercises and a game board- poster. The program has been endorsed by the International Association of Firefighters, the National Volunteer Fire Council and the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters, Kostel said. DALLAS (AP) Chip Carter defended re-election tactics of his president father against Republican allegations of running a of inuendo" by saying that "dad hasn't slung anymore mud" than Ronald Reagan has. It is difficult hate a "nice campaign" because President Carter and Reagan "totally disagree" on most issues, said Carter.

The president's son made a campaign stop at the Community School Action Center in south Dallas. There he told about 150 supporters that Texas, New York, California and Illinois were four crucial states in the president's bid. He said Reagan's election would be "detrimental to our country" and he called the Republican economic policies "sugar-coated poisons." Republican vice presidential nominee George Bush in Midland Tuesday criticized the president for his "irresponsible use of divisive rhetoric in this campaign" and Reagan charged Tuesday that the president's campaign was "reaching a point of hysteria." Reagan was referring to comment by the president on Monday that Reagan's election could result in separating "black from white, Jew from Christian, from south, rural from urban." But Carter, 30, said Tuesday that his dad was trying only to say that Reagan, as president would be "divisive" for the nation. "You can't endorse and have the endorsement of The Moral Majority and be president of all the people," said Carter. $coo FOR THE1 st WEEKS RENTAL! RENT APPLIES TOWARD OWNERSHIP CREDIT PROBLEMS? CALL US No Creditors Checked NO DEPOSIT SERVICE INCLUDED NO OBLIGATION LARGE SELECTION ORDER BY PHONE COLORTYME; TV RENTAL 1321 Clarksvitle 785--0940 Pads, Texas ,1 Notes on your Social Secu rity Defining income By RAY HUDSON District Manager 1 Parts Social Security Office If you receive an SSI check you should report any change in any additional income you have.

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