Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 8

8-A THE ABILENE KEPORTER-NEWS AbileneTexasThur Mom Aug 111977 Protest Greets Queen in Ireland BELFAST Northern Ireland (AP) Hundreds of Roman Catholie extremists protesting the arrival in Northern Ireland of Queen Elizabeth II marched behind a banner calling her "queen of death" and battled British troops and police Wednesday At least 15 persons were injured including an old man felled by club-swinging soldiers during the ha If -hour clash During the disturbances the British sovereign was 12 miles away at Hillsborough Castle where she knighted several prominent Ulstermen and held a garden party to open her first visit to the war-tom province in 11 years Police repotted 20 rioters were arrested as they hurled bricks and bottles at troops The Belfast march was illegal The marchers had planned to go through the center of Belfast to City Hall to hold a rally At first they paraded silently behind a banner proclaiming (Elizabeth Regina) Queen of Death 1969-77 1900 dead" an approximation of the death toll in eight years of sectarian warfare here Troops and police blocked the march in the narrow street that funnels into the city center from the Falls Road an Irish Republican Army stronghold A police inspector ordered the marchers to disperse and they replied with a barrage of bricks and stones Then troops moved in from three sides beLlnd screens of armored cars and sent out squads" of troopers who grabbed ringleaders directing the bombardment The soldiers fired volleys of six-inch plastic bullets from riot guns and several of the young demonstrators fell screaming to the rubble-strewn ground The army finally herded the crowd back up the Falls Road but IRA gunmen later began sniping at troops in the area A small bomb exploded without warning on the marchers' planned route 30 minutes before the riot erupted Two persons were injured police said It was not known who planted the bomb The march was organized by Sinn Finn the political front of the outlawed IRA to protest the visit which they claim reaffirms British sovereignty over the disputed province The IRA and other Catholica want to unite Northern Ireland with the largely Catholic Irish Republic in the south but the majority Protestants one million strong support continued British rule McMurry Grant to Aid Renovations proposed project is worthy they make a grant" During the past 54 years Kresge Foundation created through the gifts of the late Sebastian Kresge has appropriated more than $283 million to institutions of higher education health services the arts social welfare and the care of the young and the aging Construction and renovation of facilities ere the foundation's primary concerns and grants are usually made on a challenge basis The $100000 grant will boost $107 million for Excellence" Dr Kim uid The seven-year "Thrust for project which began in November 1975 includes the renovation project construction of a pro-poaed $2 million campus center strengthening of the McMurry endowment and sustentatkm of the the college's teaching program Dr Kim said last Possible components of the project include central air conditioning and heating units in Gold Star and President Hall dormitories new windows in Martin and Hunt dormitories as well as painting furnishing and carpeting Both Gold Star the oldest residence hall and President Hall the original residence hall for women presently lack central air conditioning The other two dormitories are more modern but also need some fixing Dr Kim said Work to modernise the Old Main Building which was the original administration and classroom building for the college has already begun The building will be used by the media center and will house administrative and faculty offices Dr Kim said the choice of a construction company and a beginning date for renovating dormitories should be made by May Unrest in Belfast A British Army soldier falls amidst stone-throwing young demonstrators as the rival factions clash in the Falls area of Belfast after the arrival of Queen Elizabeth in Northern Ireland (AP Wircphoto) Youth Says He Was Forced to Become Drug Informant By BRIAN HOWARD Staff Writer A 1100000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation has brought a proposed campus renovation project tor McMurry College another step closer McMurry President Dr Thomas Kim said Tuesday The grant from the Troy Mich foundation which was announced July IS would leave the school only $110000 short of its proposed $800000 project to renovate the four McMurry campus dormitories and the Old Main Building Since the Kresge grant has been made on a challenge baais McMurry now must raise another $100000 by May 31 1978 to receive it Then only $10000 would be lacking to fulfill the goal of $800000 the total $800000 already raised what amounts to $690000" Dr Kim said not going to fail on the me definitely not to tell no one" that he was working for him know I done wrong when I was helping him" the juvenile said didn't know which way to turn He'a (Bailey) the law and Miss (Joyce) Talbott (the assistant probation officer aasigned to his case) is the law" MIm Talbott wu warning him that if he used drugs he would be sent to the TYC while Bailey was threatening see to it that I went to the TYC" if he did not continue to cooperate be said Originally referred for police fin burglary and fleeing a police officer the youth had been placed under supervision at age 15 In April of this year he was placed on probation About a month after being placed on probation the youth said Special Services Bureau agents stopped the car he was driving (a and found roach" under the Mat It was at police headquarters that night he charged that Bailey me if I had any connection with dealers said I did and he asked me if I would help him I told him it didn't suit me it was too dangerous He told me if I didn't help him he file that charge against me and see that I went to the TYC I agreed and he let me go" he Mid He said Bailey gave him two telephone numbers and told him to call him at a the time comes we will draw up the specifics for the domitories" he Mid He Mid the best time for the project would be the summer when the buildings are used leu dormitories are in pretty good shape at the moment" he Mid "But we can improve on them Our students take a lot of pride in taking care of The project has been in the planning stage for about two years uid Dr Kim who is in his eighth year as president of McMurry The school has raised about $330000 tor it from Individual pledges and contributions and received a $280000 grant from the Mabee Foundation of Tulsa Dr Kim Mid McMurry wu on the application list for a grant from the Kresge Foundation for several years before being selected for its first grant review proposals for various colleges sod he Mid they believe in the institution and think the he tried to he Mid Bailey told him better stay in touch or do to the TYC" only thing I was to do is work with Ron" he Hid was instructed to say he was a cousin from out of town" Meanwhile an older married aiater learned of the juvenile's involvement with Bailey and reported her probation violations to Maxwell Asked if she believes Ms story she told Judge Strauss "If I felt like he'd made it up I'd never have gone to George and turned him Maxwell said he checked with city juvenile officers and was told that "someone from Special Services had been to the office and gotten permission'' to use the youth as an informant didn't understand why no one had ever contacted Maxwell Mid I went to talk to Pat Elliott (the assistant criminal district attorney most experienced in juvenile matters) She said she had talked with them about the can and didn't see anything wrong with it But she said she did tell them to get permission from the juvenile officer before they did anything Well no one has ever asked me for any permission to do this If they had that request would have been Miss Elliott said she remembers talking to either Bailey or another SSB offi are several juveniles in TYC as result of the drug buys he made for Bailey and at least one of them already haa threatened him with a gun Maxwell indicated that he believes the youth's story testifying not trying to esuse heat on anyone at the police department but these things are very seriousThis boy's problems are all drug-related If he is going to be released then allowed to atari dealing with them again how are we going to help him?" Human Relations Center Counselor Steve Haehtman testified that the youth repeatedly failed to give urine specimens as required by his probation order and aaid the testimony he heard from the youth for the first time to fit as an expiation better than anything I'd thought of" Continued from Pg 1A informed him the following day that he had into the matter with all of the people concerned and that they had assured him this was not true He Hid it all could be refuted and it would be his (the youth's) word against Contacted after the hearing for comment on the youth's testimony Maj An-gleton said that neither he nor Bailey would have any comment this is He did My that he would stick for what he told Maxwell earlier but did not want to be put in the position of commenting on a court issue which still is pending Although the youth admitted to Judge StrauH that he had violated terms of his probation before his arrest by Bailey and countless times since then in what he felt was the line of duty the judge did not immediately decide his fate At the request of his court-appointed attorney Randy Wilson the Judge took the case under advisement to allow the lawyer and juvenile officials more time to fry to locate a juvenile facility out of state The youth said he would rather return to Taylor County Jail where he has been held in the juvenile detention facility since June 19 than he released back on the streets because he fears being harmed by drug dealers who know now he is an informant And he added there certain time about a week later The telephone numbers introduced into evidence on a piece of yellow paper were those of the police department and of a pawn shop which Bailey has a financial interest in The youth said Bailey then instucted him to meet him at a parking lot on Butternut where he introduced him to a "Ron and wu told "This is who you'll be working with Your beer eats cigarette moneyjust tell him and he'll take care of He said Bailey gave him a beer at that time The juvenile aaid he wu afraid of Crosby beeauM he heard he was an exconvict and beeauM he knew he carried an automatic piatol in his rear pocket On that first night the youth said made some scorea bought some bags of marijuana Ron gave me the moneyand we smoked two from the marijuana they had cut from what they would turn over to Bailey later met him about every night of the week" he continued "Everybody I scored from take down the names and addresses" to give Bailey He uid they would make three to four sales a night "then he'd (Crosby) take me home give me $5 or $10 to spend and half ot whatever (marijuana) he took He said he became frightened after "friends" suspected he was an informant and started threatening him But when Asked by Asst Criminal Dist Atty James McMillon if it would be wise for a policeman to trust someone with a drug problem to make drug buya for him Haehtman Mid don't think it would work People on diets shouldn't work at bakeries We try to get drug users a new circle of friends to get them completely out of the drug The youth testified that he refused to give the urine specimens because he knew they would show a positive reaction for drugs then it would be reported to probation officials He Mid Bailey Automakers Say Guzzling Tax Would Hurt Family Car cer about the particular case and said she was emphatic that they okay the plan with Maxwell She said she did not give any not my place to do In his closing argument Wilson charged that all the evidence it appears that Wayne Bailey "has intimidated a child who under the law does not know the difference between right and wrong I'm concerned about this not only as an attorney but a parent and a taxpayer" Then he asked Judge Straus to take the case under advisement give us a chance to find a place as far from Abilene so he can avoid the arm of the SSB and the narcotics community of Abilene" Asked later if he will order a probe of the allegations Judge Straus Mid judical canons prohibited him from commenting on a case under consideration but indicated that the matter will not be dropped Maxwell Mid he decided to place the youth in the county detention facility his protection" on June 15 but that the youth jumped from Miss Talbott's car and escaped on foot He has been detained aince he was caught again four days later and uid he now feel safer in custody although he said he wu threatened once and assaulted once while in the jail Iirptien lyalaia Wyinlyil ftheiart alien ThanaaHai Can (felled Tawparamra Width Frailer Cam-pennant I CawatlMa GMa-aat Snivel Chit-lar Tray Plea 1 ka Tray hit tiarapa MaynNc OeeF 11 inwavee reem CibNi Nlfh 301 Nria t9 Owp Shipping Waighi- MODEL TF 10 Pnrf cHy lanwwtad Warier and Tahta Tap Ouct him Mariya Mvnrjy Wtde Art Faed Sadm Fall ttereye Meynil Dear Sapar Freeie Ntyh OeniifyAf CeMpriiftor Opatiad h- Nyh Daap Mnppny WaiyM 19995 whik- 14 Lwl-k downturn jc 617 IMSE -k 673-AIM said Chrysler vice president Terry uid his company plans family cara which will get 21 and 22 mites per gallon in the 1980s good by today's standards But the tax he Midi prohibit us from keeping the family car in the picture" Despite the arguments there were strong indications the guzzler tax would be a part of the Senate version of President Carter's energy program ought to put a tax on large cars so consumers won't buy so Hid Sen Russell Long D-La chairman of the Finance Committee And when the automakers said the tax could lead to reduced sates and job layoffs Long Mid: "We'll help you with any unemployment You come and see In another energy development Federal Energy Administrator John O'Leary said a proposed Calif ornia to WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's big three automakers told a Senate committee Wednesday that taxing gas-guzzling automobiles would punish Americans who want a big family car Representatives of General Motors Ford and Chrysler told the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee that federal fuel economy atandards already on the hooka are more realistic and will lead to the improved conservation that President Carter ia seeking "Contrary to the public image associated with the term gaa guzzler it is the standard family car on which most of the taxes would be levied not the luxury cars" Mid Ford vice president Fred Serrest GM vice president Roger Smith contended many mo-torista may choose to stick with old gu guzzlers rather than pay a higher tax for new ones This would mean more rather than less gasoline would be consumed he McElwaine Mid the energy committee's standards would have the effect of halting most sates of Mercedes Jaguars and BMW and all sates of Ferrari Maseratls and Rolls Royces PORTABLE REFRIGERATOR SALE! I MODEL KA-38 it cl At- Ca Moray yacrfy tapir Ceil Texas pipeline would transport Alaskan oil cheaply and efficiently to the East and Midwest However O'Leary stopped short of endorsing the proposed pipeline from Long Beach Calif to Midland Hying the government haa no general regulatory authority to select oil pipeline routes He also said the Carter adminiatration believes affected statea ahould have an equal voice in determining whether any particular project is worth the environmental cost they will have to bear The automakers told the Finance Committee they also opposed legislation to ban 1980 model cars which fail to get 16 milea per gallon or better The cutoff would be pegged to 21 mites per gallon by 1985 The American Imported Dealers Association represented by Robert McElwaine also opposed the gas guzzler penalty and the energy committee ban which has been approved by the Senate Energy Committee Panama Canal Negotiators Reach Agreement on dealt with" The American negotiators Mid legal specialists would continue working to draft the principles into treaty PANAMA CITY (AP) The United States and Panama announced agreement Wednesday night on all major issues at a new canal treaty that will turn the waterway over to Panama by the year 2000 In a written statement announcing agreement on baaic principles governing a new treaty the two chief US negotiators said the resulting document not only protect but strengthen" American national security interests A new treaty would replace the one aigned by Panama and the United Staten in 1903 giving the United States perpetual control of the 10-mile-wide strip across the Isthmus of Panama The new agreement has been 13 years in the making Negotiators convened here Monday and labored under an official Wednesday deadline but they insisted they being rushed US Ambassadors Sol Linowitx and Ellsworth Bunker said they would present the basic agreement to President Carter on Thursday Romulo Escobar Bethancourt chief Panamanian negotiator said have tried to reach a negotiated solution which meets the aspirations of our people" One Panamanian negotiator who asked not to be identified Hid: "We are dismantling a foreign government (in the canal zone) in installments If we were doing it overnight it would be simpler But what we're doing is deciding what will happen moment-by-moment The problem involves private entities and human beings All must be Hearing the sale of KLBK to Gulf Life Holding Co of Jacksonville Fla In May a contract for the sate was signed but the transaction can not be official until the liceiue litigation is settled Only the Lubbock station and none of the others was involved in the sate Ms Schmeltzer in the FCC office in Washington said that of the station can be made to anyone until approved by the commission Jackson agreed Hying that everything concerning the sate has been done and only the FCC approval is lacking Hey! Remodeling! However we are still open for Please Use Our Side Door Watch for our New Front Door Abilene Printing Stationery Co WKSTOATK 120 SO P10SKKK 692-2891 Involved in cent of the programming originates from Sweetwater Jackson said KTXS' operations wont be affected by the outcome of the hearing either way If the FCC refuses to renew the licenses he said two or three appeals are available through the FCC and then the matter could be taken to the court system Jackson noted a television station in Phoenix Ariz has been operating 10 years while appealing the non-renewal of its licenM Another aspect of the proceedings Is 4 Stations Continued from Pg 1A Abilene end the station wanted it changed to Abilene-Swcetwater The city of license for the station was Sweetwater Ms Schmeltzer said Jackson said the designation question came up Mveral years ago and is now being challenged by legal means The television station was originally KPAR and went on the air in January 1958 In July 1966 the call letters were changed to KTXS when Grayson Enterprises became owners of the station Jackson Mid KTXS has a studio in Abilene and Sweetwater now and that 51 per HAROLDXRAWFORD 111 CEBM BOWHTIWI 111-2171 i.