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Wlayton In By SAM ATTLESEY tall state San, Antonio to the rear microphone on the'tloor'of the Texas House of Representatives. He cleared his throat and began to argue in favor of an amendment to a bill being debated. His words, however, were quickly drowned out by whistling and chirping from felJow lawmakers. The representative is named Ron Bird. That wis one of the clowning outbursts from the representatives on the House floor during the current.session.

Improving the of the House the way it appears to visitors' sitting behind the double brass rails at the; edge of the gallery was one of Speaker Bill Clayton's pet goals before the 64th Legislature started. And, although the decorum of members has improved, some members continue to clown and engage in rambunctious activities in full view of Visitors, including grade' school' students and Texas tourists. Qne longtime'observer said decorum is no better, perhaps worse, than the 1973 Legislature. 'Comments from gallery visitors reveal shock at the chaos on the floor. What they see includes representatives strutting up and down the aisles, slapping each other on the back, joking with each other, laughing and shout- ing at each other from one side of the floor to the other.

Tlie 'visitors witness their elected lawmakers doling off while, leaning; back in the big and solons talk- ing'on the'floor phones while apparently giving' no attention to debate' on legislation. They notice the representatives talking to reporters sea-ted 'behind two Wooden tables to the left of the speaker's'rostrum, and other members huddling together, making deals, then shouting across the floor to "vote yes" or no." Before the session convened, Clayton, the Springlake farmer, proriiised, "If we try to achieve one goal in our administration, it would be to try to raise the dignity and respect of legislators in the eyes of the public." He algo this would be a session of "hard work and There has been plenty of hard work but not that much austerity, according to observers. Clayton has mad.e improvements, according to loyal group of South Plains representatives, including not allowing solons' staff members on the floor during sessions. "At least it doesn't look like a madhouse down there, 1 commented one observer from the gallery. Most of the time, Clayton attempts to keep order, on the floor as stands stiffly behind the speaker's podium, gripping his gavel and glaring at rowdy members.

He is fast approaching breaking the gavel-cracking record set by Speaker PTKM Daniel Jr. duning the. 19T3 Legislature. And when he pounds bis gavel three or four times apd demands order, floor. smMenly sounds Hke snake's idfn.

Many of the members respond to Clayton's command by (hissing, "shhhh shhhh sKhh." 'Clayton replies with another crack of the gavel and some semblance, of order upturns to the House floor. At least until Rep. Bird attempts to speak. LUBBOCR AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Vol. 49, No.

33 14 Pages Lubboclc, Texas, Sunday Morning, April 27, 1975 Price 35 Cents Full Leased Wires: (API, (UPI) THIRTY FIVE CENTS 'Clunker' Autos May Assist In Crime Fight By KYLE MORSE Avalanche-Journal Staff POLICE CHIEF J. T. Alley Jr. is looking into the possibility of using abandoned vehicles in surveillance work, mainly with the tactical squad. The plan of using the older cars prior to an auction sale is similar to a successful program that has been in use for four years in San Antonio.

In San Antonio, the plain clothes officers use "old clunkers" for surveillance according to Police Lt. Jim Hodges, head of the S. A. Task Force. "I wouldn't trade it," Hodges said, "they (the older cars) fit right in with the Alley indicated he plans to talk to City Attorney Fred O.

Senter this week about legal problems in- vohod in using the abandoned vehicles. "I think it's a great idea," Alley added. suggestion to use abandoned cars came up after Capt. K. O.

Stuart, head of the patrol division, requested the purchase of several older cars for surveillance work with the tactical squad. Several officers in the squad have been to law enforcement schools with officers from -other cities that are using ttlis plan. Stuart said. By using the abandoned vehicles, the initial cost of purchasing a car is avoided, thus saving thousands of tax dollars, he said. And the plan offers an almost unlimited number of different combinations to the plain clothes officers.

"We try to ge nondescript cars, ones that don't stand out. If it has a crumpled fender, straighten it and slap on a new paint job if a door is a different color," Hodges said of the San Antonio operation. some of the cities, if a patrol car gets wrecked, they take the engine and transmission and put them in an old car," said one of the tactical members. "We've looked into the possibility of using lease cars before, but that too, gets too expensive," Alley said. But the problem of blending in with the other cars on the street continues to plague the plain clothes officers.

As one'veteran 10-year-old kid on the street can pick out an unmarked police car." The need for cars, pickup trucks and other vehicles that blend in with the scenery will be acute if the city council approves adding 10 additional men and sergeant for a daytime tactical squad, Capt. Stuart said. During January, the tactical squad was moved temporarily to days to help with the rocketing number of house burglaries. While the "tac" squad patroled during the day, there were only 10 house burglaries in an area which had been hard hit, according to Stuart. The first week the squad worked during the day, four burglars were caught.

However, the second week wasn't so productive had got around. This year the squad had anonymity using a more expensive model car, but that didn't last long, one veteran observed. As one, undercover narcotics agent said recently, ''You can't have enough different looking vehicles for surveillance work. South Vietnamese Here Seek To Help Families By CELESTE LOUCKS Avalanche-Journal Staff IT WILL be painful. But put yourself shoes.

in Dung Ngoc Do's Do received a letter from his father in Saigon explaining he and Do's mother will commit suicide if the Communists get in before they can get out. "With the record of pro-Am i a n. anti-Communisf they've he explained, "my parents don't have any chance In The A-J Today Amusements 5-7 Classified -M5 Dr.tths 13 A Editorials 4 Furrn News 7 Horoscope 4 OK 6 SiHHiS 1-7 ram 5 Church News 8 Business News 1-3 Fine 1-4 School Menns 5 COMIC DICTIONARY "When the automobile becomes extinct we'll be left, with a pretty nice network of wide sidewalks across the country." Jobs Rally Abruptly Halted JL By Angry Union Members of survival over there." His soft brown eyes arg dry. Do speaks quietly, without bitterness. Only occasional winces of tension betray his pent-up desperation.

Do is among 23 South Vietnamese students at Texas Tech University who have watched desolation of personal dreams and impending dissolution ol family ties with the Common ists' march southward. Time for these students is measured from newscast to newscast. Hope balances on getting their families out ol Vietnam. Do's father worked for South Vietnamese intelligence. His mother was employed by the U.S.

Army in Saigon for 10 years. "My parents are as loyal as they can be," he said. "The Communists know ybout it. Recently Do went to a Lubbock bank and wired his his parents, to help pay for passports and visas. "It's just about wiped me out," he admitted.

But if his parents make it to the United States, an American friend has a home and job waiting for them'in South Fulton, Tenn. "It is everything they need," Do said softly, "They deserve a little peace. From, the- time: they were bom until now, all they know is ffghting." While Do's parents have been trying to leave the country for See SOUTH VIETNAMESE Gas Curbs Trouble Industry Hydrogen Sulfide Rules Too Tough? By HOWARD SWINDLE Avalauclic-Journal Staff HYDROGEN SULFIDB gas the silent killer that stalks West Texas oil fields, has been Drought under tighter controls by the Texas Railroad Commission. Some in the industry term the board's action "very.tough," arid "too stringent':" The oil and gas regulatory agency's nine-point special order, returned about two months after nine persons were gassed to death near Denver City, establishes for the first time regulations governing gas injection wells containing the lethal hydrogen sulfide gas. The provision is directly linked to the Feb.

2 tragedy in Denver City in which an AUan- tic Richfield gas injection well ruptured, spewing deadly gas in a wide area -about the well site. Nolice Required Hydrogen sulfide gas, which paralyzes the respiratory center and generally causes death in two breaths, is inherent in West Texas oil and gas as an impurity. Generally, experts say, by the time a person discovers the gas, it's too late to flee. According to the amendment by the commission, "Any fluid injection operation containing a concentration of hydrogen sulfide in excess of 100 parts per million will be approved only after due notice and hearing." At the time of the Denver City incident, there were no laws governing the use of gas injection systems. According to the revision, operators of several gas injection projects already underway in West Texas will have until Aug.

1 to clear their projects with the commission's district offices. Critical Provision But perhaps the provision causing" most corporate concern in oil company board rooms is the requirement forbidding hydrogen sulfide-handling facilities or pipelines within 500 feet of residences or public roads without commission approval. The J.C. Patton residence, where eight of the Denver City deaths occurred, was located See HYDROGEN Page II A FATHER'S ANGUISH Tfae -Rev. Rafael.

Rodriguez, kneeling in center, is comforted by two friends as firemen in the background lift the body of his 14-year-old son, Nefthali, Youth Drowns In Effort To Swim Lake from the waters of a lake near the South Plains Mall Saturday afternoon. Willis Walt, left, and'Elmer M. Wells, are with Rodriguez. (Staff Photo-by Terry Davis) TKV 1 UfO lates Historic AN ANXIOUS on the bank of father stood a 'playa lake north of the South Plains Mall for almost an hour Saturday afternoon, then collapsed in grief when firemen pulled the body of his 14-year-old son, Nefthali, from the water. The Rev.

Rafael Rodriguez, of 5020 53rd stood with the water lapping at his pants and mud-covered sox as firemen searched with grappling hooks for his son's body. The youth's body was pulled from 12 feet water and brought to shore at 4:50 p.m. Kesoiie Effort Failed The youth evidently was attempting to swim across the 100-yard expanse of water, according to three youngsters who watched in horror as, See YOUTH Page 14 Dy BEN STEVENS Avalanche-Journal Stuff UNIDENTIFIED Flying jects have been mutilations and UFO sightings color. Somewhere inside there go hand-in-hand. Washington Speakers Chased Off 'We Want Protesters ChanL WASHINGTON (AP) A union-sponsored "RaJly For Now" was forced to an abrupt halt Saturday when hundreds of participants moved onto the field of Robert F.

Kennedy Stadium and drowied out the voices of platform speakers. About 45,000 persons had converged on the nation's, capital for the rally in an effort to get the government to help lower the nation's unemployment rate of 8.7 per cent. But halfway through the program, hundreds jammed the stadium aisles and crowded the field "We want jobs." The protesters resisted police efforts to have them return to their seats. Our Jobs' They waved placards saying. "Get the recession off our back." "We want to work," and "Save our' jobs, save our 1 Rank and file union members took over the platform, displacing union and congressmen come to address the group.

Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D- and Rep. Barbara Jordan, were drowned out when they attempted to gpealt. Senl Richard Schweiker, R- left the stadium without addressing the crowd.

"They Ob-j "This has been going on for a time," said Horvath. "A was a pr hnJ Bopped the 'official speaking blue glow that shot out na every few minutes." The investigator who reported part of the program," he said. The crowd's movement onto the field was apparently incidents of cattle mutilation! farmer in Kansas in 1897 told of tjj at FO sighting asked that taneous. Unable to hear the for almost 100 years -and: a FO stealing one of his cows cent similar reports certainly i and butchering it. race, warrant investigation, says Alex Horvath, a member of the staff of the Texas Tech University Planetarium.

Horvath said he referred to statement of a West Texas lawman quoted in last Sunday's Avalanche-Journal that cattle New Sponsors Seek Entries For Miss Lubbock Contest ENTRIES are being accepted for the 1975 miss Scholarship Pageant, slated May 31 in Municipal Auditorium. The event is being sponsored.by a newly-formed organization, the Miss Lubbock Scholarship Foundation, headed by Cecil D. Caldwell. Entry blanks are available at Luskcy's Western Wear, 2431. 34th The University Center at Tech, and the Intimate Apparel Shop.at 1401 University Ave.

The deadline tor entering is midnight. May 10. The local- pageant is sanctioned by the Miss Texas Pageant, Caldwell said. Other officers of the new sponsors include Bobby. Day, vice' president, and Mrs.

Glenda Robertson, secretary-treasurer. Mrs. Maxine E. Caldwell will direct the pageant. Other officials include Mrs.

Rose Marion Day, codirector; Mrs. Janis Geddes, producer; Mrs. Sherry Malone, entries chairman; Bill Rice, program chairman; Caldwell and King Barrier, advertising; Jack Geddes, judges and awards chairman; and Bob Hudrial, special activities. A former Miss -Texas, Judy Mallett, will emcee the pageant which will have as its theme "Lubbock Country, U.S.A." Contestants' must be between the ages of 17 and 28 and never' married. Further details may be obtained from Mrs.

Caldwell at 795-7506. Lubbock sponsors of the pageant last year. Cow "Lassoed" Horvath said tne a statement sworn on April 21, 1897, said a cigar-shaped vehicle appeared hovering over his cow The statement recounted how the farmer, his More Muggy Weather Due A-J News Services SULTRY weather prevailed over the South Plains Saturday, and late evening thundershowers dotted parts of Southcentral and West Texas as the day drew to a close. Weathermen indicated there was a 30 per cent chance for rain here today, and a 20 per cent chance for rainfall tonight. The temperature in Lubbock Saturday climbed to a muggy 89 degrees, and temperatures in tile middle 80s under cloudy skies are expected here again today, weathermen said.

Wink copped the honor or the state's hot spot Saturday with a 93-degree reading. Thunderstorms erupted-in the southeast and central parts of the nation Saturday. Despite the summery weather, frost warnings were out for valleys in northwest Utah, and snow was expected-in higher elevations in the Rockies. Freezing temperatures also were expected in New Jersey and Maryland, weathermen said. Additional 'snows also were forecast for Maine and parts of New England.

Saturday snowfalls in the mountain's of Colorado were packed -with high winds, hail and flooding his name not be used. He said i 'i ersjjbecause a it was one of many UFOs he had seen in the area not; far from Lubbock and the site of numerous cattle mutilations. Horvath said the planetarium public address system, several individuals ran across the field. When poUce tried to return them to their seats others moved from the stands. John J.

McNamara, president son and a farm hand charged toward the pen with axes but not before the object "lassoed" one of the cows, slowly rose and disappeared. The following day the hide, legs and head were found by another fanner but he was unable to find any tracks at the! scene, even though the ground was soft. Horvath points out that the 1897 description of the UFO was remarkably similar to those reported in modern times. The 'ormer described the vehicle as being a glowing red color, brilliantly lighted on the inside and it was equipped with some sort of light that could bathe the entire area or pinpoint a single spot. Calls Numerous Compare that 1897 report, with this description provided by the lawman and published in last Sunday's Avalanche-Journal: gets as many as six phone calls 1 of the Fireman's and.

Oilers Una week from persons who have: ion, said- he was disappointed See UFO Page See UNIONISTS Page 11 Viet Cong Rockets Kill Six In Saigon Attack "The dome glowed red-orange. About two feet up on the sides of the saucer it appeared to be off-white aluminum in Prayer FATHER, Thank You 'for the bountiful blessings we-overlook in cur daily rounds. Help us to be ever watchful for the little and big blessings You send way. Guide our paths- so we may be instruments of Your blessings to others. Protect our government leaders and give them wis- 'dom.

'Amen. An Jdalou Reader. SAIGON (AP) Comminust- led forces fired rockets into the center of Saigon before dawn Sunday attacks and launched ground that could signal the beginning of their final offensive against the capital. The Saigon military command reported North Vietnamese tanks and infantrymen advancing within 20 miles of gon after a week-long lull in the! fighting. Four 122mm rockets fell in downtowta Saigon in the first such attack since a cease-fire agreement was signed in January 1073, They killed six persons', wounded 22 and set fires that burned put more than 200 houses, leaving thousands homeless.

President Tran Van Huong, trying for last-minute negotiations spare the capital, summoned his top advisors for a Sunday morning conference and sources said he was to resign. It is expected that the National Assembly-will then name Gen. Duong Van "Big" Minh to replace him. Minh is considered to be a neutralist and leader of the so- called Third Force who might be acceptable to the Viet Cong for talks. Saigon military spokesmen reported four North Vietnamese tanks were destroyed in the fresh fighting.

They reported clashes at the Long Thanh district capital 20 miles east of Saigon and at Ba Ria 30 miles to the southeast. Viet Cong gunners fired See VIET Page 14 30 Weather Map Page 2-A Lubbock and vicinity: Mostly cloudy today with the high likely to be in the middle 80s. The low tonight should be in the middle 50s. Prooability of precipitation set at 30 per cent today and 20 pep cent tonight. 72 72 70 2 A.M.

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