Corpus Christi Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 16

CORPUS CHRISTI TIMES Wad April 14 1M2' ISA blotter Informalton tor tfUa column coma from pokoa raoonta primarily tha btattar a coHacUon I raporta tram An- vaattgaHnq attleara and tram paSca apokaaman Bay front master plan needed council says 12X2)12) ramsdell Baseball season opens A Coke Street woman was glancing out her window Monday when she saw two men slowly drive up to her father's car As the two approached the parked vehicle the passenger leaned out drew a baseball bat and smashed the windshield The woman recognizing the batmen alerted her father and brother The three family members confronted the smashers and a fight ensued Three people were arrested for disorderly conduct Changing his tune to the tune of $91 When police arrested a young man for climbing on the Harbor Bridge last week the man said he was 17 and identified himself But when he appeared before a municipal court judge and found he would be fined $91 the youth changed his name and said he was only 15 The second tale turned out to be true The 15-year-old had escaped from a San Antonio halfway house days earlier She didn't brake for animals A woman cited brake failure as the reason she ran into the front of a Southside pet shop yesterday The woman said she was pulling up in front of the Pampered Pet Center 4342 South Staples when he brakes and the aquarium We have to find out the fastest most expedient way to come up with a plan because we do know this getting into problems without one" He referred to a council decision last week to allow nine shrimpers to continue docking at the L-head as long as they don't replace their boats now docked in those slips Eventually the shrimp boats would be phased out at the L-head to separate them from pleasure boats docked there but shrimpers are protesting the move Mrs Turner asked that any action be postponed until one of the shrimpers decides to change boats and the issue will be reconsidered "A long-range plan is needed which deals with the estimated traffic on the T-heads space for new boats and what other proposals are coming before the council which will affect the bayfront" she said Kennedy said "We go on indefinitely without creating some monsters not in the best interest of the city" But Councilman Cliff Zarsky said "I don't think a master plan is an automatic solution" Mrs Turner said the in-house committee would come up with a flexible plan and review the Chamber of Commerce bayfront survey other city reports on the bayfront and the Aquarium Association report The council voted unanimously to organize such a committee to review all existing plans and develop the first phase of a master plan for the bayfront drove into the front door of the about 1500 damage Police arrived that it was indeed brake malfunction caused the mishap action by a local woman saved her purse yesterday The 43-year-old the Third Street law office where she stepped out momentarily noticed a man leaving the office "What are you doing?" the That question elicited 'tod response woman yelled "Thief" After dropped the purse and ran He was a short time later and taken to Secretary strangled corpse dumped later Staff Writer pm on Dec 2 1981 Construction workers found Miss Bruce's body in the culvert about 7 am Dec 3 Rupp testified Miss Bruce's body bore marks on her face neck wrists and ankles which indicated she hud been bound and gagged The marks on her face and neck were more visible Rupp said because those bindings were pulled much tighter than those around her wrists and ankles In his opinion Rupp said the bindings on her face and neck were the direct cause of her strangulation "Any prudent person applying such ligatures would know the results would be death" Rupp said Morin has been indicted for capital murder in the death of gave out She shop causing and discovered that Quick verbal from losing her woman was at she works when Upon return she with her purse woman asked So the that the man captured by police jail- By JO ANN ZUNIGA Staff Writer 'A "master for the bay-front is needed before the scenic area is turned into a "monster" mish-mash of development with no coordination or design council members agreed today I'We need some sort of consensus plan I feel like not moving forward with a plan We need to establish an in-house committee made up of council members who will devote the time to review all existing plans for the development of the bay-front and propose the first phase of a muster said Mayor Pro Tern Betty Turner Councilman Charles Kennedy agreed and said "It's a known fact that the city's getting into problems without any type of plan the shrimpers' situation Teenagers to receive secret aid By BETTY ANNE WILLIAMS WASHINGTON (AP) -Planned Parenthood said today it will continue to offer minors contraceptives in confidence even though the government says their purents should be notified "Under any circumstances we will continue to provide confidential services to people who seek them" Faye Waltlcton president of the national organization told reporters adding that the organization could lose up to $30 million in federal aid because or the decision Ellen Kramer an attorney for the organization said a legal challenge is being prepared to proposed Department of Health and Human Services regulation requiring parental notification if adolescents under 18 are given prescription contraceptives at federally subsidized clinics Planned Parenthood has 188 affiliates and 118 of them receive tcderul subsidies for providing family planning services in 42 slates and the District of Columbia The budget for the national organization and all of the affil-ales is $150 million and includes 'he $30 million from Title 10 the law authorizing the family planning program Ms Wattleton estimated that the affiliates serve 500000 teenagers including 185000 under 18 She also estimated that 668000 minors nationwide would be af-lected by the proposed regulation "Planned Parenthood has a long and distinguished history of providing confidential services to millions of Americans regardless of age race sex financial circumstances or disability" Ms Wattleton said in a prepared statement to he delivered at a news conference today "We will not abridge that policy of 'confidentiality government regulations notwithstanding" she added The Planned Parenthood Federation of America a major supplier of family plann services in the country has 1 community-based affiliates which run 700 family planning clinics in 42 slates and the District of Columbia Some of them receive federal funds III1S Secretary Richard Schwciker and Majory Mecklen-berg the deputy assistant secretary for population uffairs have endorsed the regulation that was published in the Federal Register earlier this year Public comments on it are being accepted through April 23 Mrs Mecklenberg said earlier her staff would evaluate the comments and might revise the proposal before it is implemented in final form So far HHS has received about 17000 comments but no breakdown on the numbers supporting and opposing the regulation was available An Original Classic By TlaldWh) Better than brass HEADBOARDS Bernstein Conductor Leonard Bernstein rehearsed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra In London yesterday He will conduct the orchestra In 'Englma Bodies of By LINDA CARRICO Staff Writer BEAUMONT The body of Janna Bruce was cither dumped or thrown into a shallow Padre Island culvert after the woman was strangled by bindings tied around her face and neck the Nueces County Medical Examiner testified here today An autopsy performed on the body of Miss Bruce 21 of Corpus Christi showed she died of "asphyxiation as a result of ligature strangulation "Dr Joseph Rupp told the jury Rupp testified in the punishment phase of Stephen Peter Morin's capital murder trial which was moved here on a change of venue from San Antonio Morin lust week pleaded guilty to the capital murder of Carrie Marie Scott 21 formerly of Corpus Christi in the parking lot of a north San Antonio nightspot After hearing four days of testimony the jury yesterday affirmed Morin's guilt The five-man seven-woman panel deliberated for 10 minutes before returning the verdict State law required the prosecution to present corroborating evidence ufler Morin's guilty plea in order to seek the death penalty Rupp said Miss Bruce was already dead where her body was dumped in the culvert contradicting the defense's contention that Miss Bruce may have been alive when she fell in Under cross-examination by defense attorney Keith Alaniz Rupp said abrasions on Miss Bruce's body were the result of "being thrown into the pit" He udded there were numerous pipes in the culvert and the body was wedged among them "The body was thrown or dumped in there The body was not alive und fell inside (the culvert)" Rupp said "We could tell this by the position of the body that this was a dump-job" In addition Rupp testified no water was found in Miss Bruce's lungs indicating she did not drown Rupp characterized Miss Bruce's slaying as "a fresh death" which probably occurred sometime between 5:30 and 8 ART COMMUNITY CENTER 902 Park Avenue 884-8406 victims reco vere Miss Bruce a Hilton Inn administrative assistant Corpus Christi police believe Miss Bruce was abducted on Dec 2 from the Hilton Inn parking lot a few minutes after she left the office where she worked In testimony yesterday Don Bruce identified his daughter Janna from a photograph taken of her body at the Nueces County morgue Bruce who broke down in tears apologized to the jury Realizing Bruce last saw his daughter at a Corpus Christi funeral home Bexar County Assistant District Attorney Susan Reed apologized to Bruce for making him relive his personal tragedy on the witness stand 199 414S STAPLiS ALSO IN ALICS 122 MAIN ouipmenO limbers up Variations' at the Royal Festival Hall today and will also give the European premiere of his Associated Press 27 crash near the village of Gevencik 55 miles west of the city of Erzincan a Turkish military spokesman said There were no survivors of the crash which occurred at 2:12 pm local time yesterday the spokesman said Kemal Guchan governor of Erzincan province said the force of the explosion and the crash spread debris from the airplane und bodies of the victims in a radius of almost a mile in the foothills of the Kizildag range A spokesman for the Turkish 3rd Army headquarters in Erzincan said militia and army troops protected the wreckage Cannot Tarnish Cannot Rust Cannot Peel Cannot Pit YOUR CHOICE TWIN FULL SALE QUEEN 3MLC kino PRICED ANKARA Turkey (AP) A US military team today recovered the bodies of 27 Americans killed in the crash of an Air Force transport in mountainous eastern Turkey official sources said A US Embassy spokesman said four civilians were among the dead and the Air Force said six were from a Strategic Air Command unit from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs Colo that was assigned to evaluate overseas military 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