Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 14

14-A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS AbilawTexuWed MornDcc 1Q19B0 Suspect Signed Name to Time Sheet Continued From Pg 1A David Geffen president of the company Lennon recorded for "Double which featured: Miu songs wu Lennon's first re-' cording effort in about five years Dur- ing that absence from recording Lennon eared for young Sean cooked and kept houw at the couple's homes in southern -Florida upstate New York Long Island and Manhattan Geften noted that the couple's relationship had been blamed by many for dissolution of the Beatles in 1970 was very much in love Geften uid he was excited she wu getting the recognition she In an RKO radio interview recorded hours before Ms duth Lennon spoke about Ids wife He said he hoped to die before Miu Ono because he cany without her JKNO- the wiu! fleer Peter Cullen A preliminary autopsy examination Tuesday by Chief New York Medical Examiner Dr Elliot Gnu indicated that Lennon wu shot four times Two bullets passed through his body one lodged in his body and another wu found in Ms leather coat Grou said In several recent interviews Lennon had expressed utisfaction with his family life grown more secure in the years since 1972 when UR authorities tried to depot him because of a 4-year-old British conviction for possession of hashish Immigration officials dropped the deportation effort after numerous hearings and a public campaign in support of Lennon Lennon also said he was pleased with the early success of his new album which he recoded with his wife said called Lennon!" and standing with feet apart and both hands on his JAcaliber revolver fired four bullets into Lennon's back teg and arm authorities uid Lennon yelled and staggered up several steps into a guard's office where he fell face down on the floor Officers who responded to a distreu call found Chapman standing outside the Dakota They said he had dropped his gun which had been kicked away by the Dakota's doorman and grabbed for an elevator operator Chapman ottered no resistance they said Lennon wu taken by police cruiser to Boosevelt Hospital where he wu pronounced dead Upon being told of her death Miu Ono screamed me it true!" according to Of duth elicited dismay and anger bloody terrible bloody said John Chambers head of the local Beat-ln' Fan Club Police said Chapman had visited the gate of the Dakota on Saturday and Sunday asking the doorman and others about Lennon At dusk Monday seven hours before the shooting Chapman approached In-non ashewas leaving for a recording session and had Lennon autograph the album police uid When Lennon returned to the building shortly before 11 pm he and Miu Ono walked from a limousine across the sidewalk and into the Dakota's large arched gateway Police uid Chapman wu waiting in a vestibule on the left After they walked past Chapman stepped out locking pate fold reporters at his Busses farmhouse in southern England that "John wu a great guy He is going to be missed by the whole world" McCartney who feuded with Lennon before and after the breakup in 1970 said be paying my respects Another former Butte George Harrison also was said to be deeply upset and to have cancelled a recording session Bingo Starr the former Beatles drummer and his fiancee actress Barbara Bach slipped into the Dakota under heavy guard Tuesday to visit with Lennon's widow and son Outside on 72nd Street near Central Park a crowd that fluctuated in size from 100 to 500 sang Beatle songs prayed Ut candles and demanded vengeance for Lennon's death In native Liverpool Lennon's copy of Lemun'i new album during a morning March of Chapman's mid-Manhattan hotel room According to police Chapman waited in the shadows of the wrought iron gateway of the Dakota and shot the musician four times he returned from a recording session Monday night Chapman wu a musician himself according to people who knew him in Georgia where he grew up and in Hawaii where he lived worked and bought the gun police say killed Lennon A former high school classmate bom Decatur Ga Tommy Morris said Chapman was real devout Buttes fan" Beatles co-founder Paul McCartney Lennon Suspect York City police uid it was the gun usa to kin Lennon Chapman wu born in Fort Worth on May 10 1955 His tether David Curtis Chapman wu a staff sergunt in the Air Force stationed at Carswell Air Force Base at the time everyway" were Sony to see Mm (Chapman) he added "He uid he wu resigning for personal reasons He uid he wu going to London" Chapman apparently traveled widely between his youth in Georgia and Ms arrest in New York City He lived in Hawaii for at least two years and got married Six weeks ago the Honolulu Advertiser uid Chapman bought a 38-uliber handgun at a shop a block away from the Honolulu Police Station New Tim elder Chapman an employee of an Atlanta bank uid Tuesday be had been told about his son's arrest but I no further comment wifej Gloria 28 wu in seclusion In Honolulu nau had wife lulu) I Commission Grants WTU Request for Rate Increase By The Associated Pku Mark David Chapman wu in grade Khool in Atlanta when Beatlemania swept the United States in the 1980s He wu in high school in Decatur Ga when the Beatles broke up in 1970 Friends say he wu devout Beatles and a member of a local rock group His yearbook shows Mm with a Buttes haircut On Tuesday Chapman 25 wu in Jan accused of fatally shooting John Lennon the former Butte got out of a limousine in front of Ms Manhattan apartment late Monday night Assistant District Attorney Mm Hogrefe said Chapman had borrowed money to get to New York to kill Lennon Chapman had come to New York from Hawaii where he had worked a security guard for a Waikiki condominium building until resigning on Oct 23 uid Joe Busts monte building manager at the day he left he signed the log sheet instead of 'Mark Busts monte said Tuesday notice that until today when we went back to Bustamonte described Chapman who worked at the condominium building from December of 1979 until this October very good worker normal in West Texu Utilities customers will get a charge a higher one Monday for their electricity became of the Texu Public Utilities unanimous adoption Tuesday in Austin of WTU's increased rate request Customer cities affected by the rate hike are Abilene San Angelo Clyde Childless Knox City Hamlin Wellington Stamford Munday Anson Ballinger Bronte Eden Haskell and Cisco The defeated candidate the Norman Rockwell painting the president presented to Strauss entitled Defeated (AP Laserphoto) President Carter shakes hands with Robert Strauss the manager of his unsuccessful re-election campaign at a White House reception Tuesday Mrs Robert Strauss examines Court Rules Prosecution May Seek Stiffer Sentences These cities are members of the Texu Municipal League Other West Texu cities also affected ere Rolan Iraan Eldorado Sterling City Aspermont Hawley Rising Star Lueders Jaytoo Robert Lee Matador Dickens Lakeview Roby Putnam Moran Menard Junction Chillicothe Baird Talpa Lawn Buffalo Gap Merkel Paint Rock and Albany Because the Abilene City Council hu original jurisdiction in rate-setting Tuesday's action does not finalize the rate increase here Abilene City Attorney Harvey Cargill hu recommended a pub- lie hearing before deciding whether toj observe the commission's order A pub-t lie hearing is set for Dec 18 The thru PUC commissioners issued i final otter based on the rate proposal! terms which had been negotiated signed by representatives of WTU commission staff dtlu retail merchants and consumers The terms call for WTU to recover 397 million more in rates ant nually Early settlement in the case! which was expected to end late an February will allow WTU to collect! about 31 million more over the next six weeks Residential rates will have an overall bureau of about 6K5 percent Making only one relatively minor) change to the proposal to allow WTU toj keep a 25 percent discount for its em-j ptoyees PUC Chairman George Cowden recommended adoption Fellow commissioners Garrett Morris and HM Rollins accepted the proposal without comment satisfied with the settlement and we think to the public uid WTU Vice President Holman King of Abilene after hearing King said he did not know when WTU would ask for another hike The proposal Just adopted is the first WTU systemwide rate bureau store the PUC began regulating -electric companies to 1978 Existing WTU rates were set by local governments and most took effect six or seven years ago King said be able to stay away (from the PUC) nearly long in the future" he said citing inflation higher fuel costs and a caning five-yesr 3500 million construction program BOB BEARD off the air DON SMITH mew news director against Jeopardy" The appeals court struck down as unconstitutional a federal law that allowed prosecutors to appeal sentences in cases of special But Supreme Court decision reinstated the law and discounted any constitutional problem? double Jeopardy considerations that bar re-prosecution after an acquittal do not prohibit review of a Justice Harry A Blackmun wrote for the slender majority government's taking a review of (DiFrancesco's) sentence does not in ftp self offend double jeopardy principles just because its success might deprive (Mm) of the benefit of a more lenient Blackmun said The court's decision allows federal prosecutors to make such appeals when some law specifically allows them to do so Whether a state prosecutor enjoys the same legal right will depend on Individ- WASHINGTON (AP) Prosecutors may seek stiffer sentences for convicted criminals they believe got off too lightly the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 vote Tuesday In a separate decision the justices split in ruling that police officers may not be sited on charges of violating civil rights if the police tactics were eondoned in a previous criminal trial Both rulings disappointed civil libertarians who had urged the court to reach opposite conclusions in each case The sentencing decision allows federal prosecutors to seek a longer prison sentence for Eugene DiFrancesco convicted for his rote in a Rochester NY arson-forhire ring When prosecutors first sought to appeal what amounted to a one-year sentence for the conviction the 2nd UR Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that allowing such an appeal would violate DiFrancesco's constitutional protection Corpus Newsman To Replace Izzard ual state law but ruling removes any constitutional hurdle from extending the privilege to state prosecutors as well Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justicea Potter Stewart Lewis PoweU Jr and William Rehnqulst Joined Blackmun's opinion Justices William Brennan Jr Thur-good Marshall Byron White and John Paul Stevens dissented "An unconstitutional punishment need not derive exclusively from a second prosecution but may stem from the imposition of more than one Brennan wrote for the four In its second decision the court closed off access to the federal courts to some criminal defendants who believe their rights were trampled by police The ruling blocks a 31 million lawsuit a SI Louis man convicted of heroin pot-session and assault with intent to kin had filed against the city police officers who arrested Mm and searched his apartment Willie lawsuit wu based on an often-used 1871 civil rights law stating that his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable police searches had been violated The Supreme Court ruled however that because a state court had ruled during McCurry's criminal trial that the police search of his apartment was lawful McCurry could not subsequently file a civil lawsuit seeking damages growing out of the same search McCurry unsuccessfully sought to have evidence seised during the search ex-eluded from his criminal trial on mauds that the search wu unlawful Fair Housing Bill Killed by Filibuster Eastland Grand Jury to Hear Scuffle Evidence forcement of a 1968 civil rights law that banned discrimination in housing White House press secretary Jody Powell said certainly very much regret that action in the Goodfcllows Donations By PRESTON LERNER Staff Writer Promising more aggressive news coverage and a revamped program look 9-year televiaion newa veteran Don Smith succeeded Bob Izzard KTXS-TV newa director Monday Smith 36 a San Antonio native who left an assistant news director post at Km-TV in Corpus Christi also will begin achoring the news a couple of weeks" KTXS-TV vice president Sam Spivey said lizard whose face voice and plaid sports jackets had been a fixture in Big Country homes during nearly five years as Channel 12 anchor and weatherman no longer will appear on-screen Spivey said However he will remain at the station where he assumes positions as assistant news director and editor and producer of the news broadcasts at 5 and 10 pm news Spivey said "He hu pledged me Ms total and complete support for Don Spivey uid In a Met telephone interview Izzard echoed Spivey's words saying he wu with the new arrangement The new arrangement is a step along KTXS-TVs into the Spivey said "We have been getting outselves geared up to do news he utd Don Smith is the first Smith's plana for Channel 12 news also involve a tweak with the past going to make it into a real live newscast not the joke you see he uid Tuesday during Ms second day on the job "There will be an absolute and complete change one day in Although the newscast set will be altered dramatically he uid the most important changes would be seen in reporting "There is very little local orientation here But there is a great deal of news being generated in Abilene" he said "We're going to be pounding the pavement to ferret out those Asked if he feared competition with Abilene's two other local newa broadcasts on KTAB-TV and KRBC-TV Smith said benefits everybody especially the viewers I would be disappointed if I have good competition" Central to his plana are new equipment which he Bald already has been purchased though not yet delivered and an expanded staff And he uid he hu the support of the station's owners Prims Inc Prims which assumed ownersMp of KTXS-TV and KLBK-TV of Lubbock on July 17 purchased the stations from Grayson Enterprises of Lubbock earlier this year in a Federal Communications Com mission-approved "distress a sale to minority-owned firms at test-than-market value prices Crayton was foxed by the FCC either to undergo hearings concerning alleged violations of FCC rates by broadcasting too many commericate or to submit to the distrus ute The firm chose the latter course selling its Abilene and Lubbock stations to Prima a company composed primarily of blacks for 3111 mti Since July when ownership wu formally transferred after delays In the ap-poroval process few changes have been made at KTXS-TV Spivey uid thnngti it been because the new owners were pleased with what they saw on the screen "KTXS has not been doing what it should have been doing in news" Spivey said And now despite the hiring of Smith which came after a search that bgn in September he warned that be doesn't expect major dividends to be paid until early February "You don't wave a magic wand" Spteey uid "It wont happen overnight Smith's arrival in Abilene signal overnight success A veteran of radio news from 1964 to 1971 with an interlude of UK Army service in Viet Nam worked on television news broadcasts in Corpus Christi San Antonio Galveston and Orlando Fla WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate refused Tuesday to break a conservative Republican-led filibuster against "fair housing" legislation killing a civil rights Mil that Democratic liberals took for their swan song at the 98th Congress The vote on a motion to choke off debate was 54-43 six shot of the 80 required Immediately afterwards Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia fulfilled his pledge to withdraw the measure from Senate consideration That doomed the bill for the current session of Congress Senate Republican leader Howard Baker who takes over as majority leader when the GOP-Senate convenes next year pledged he would try to a (fair housing) MU esrly in the next session And a pod MU not just a MU in name he said Sen Orrin Hatch R-Utah a leader of the filibuster and incoming chairman of a key Judiciary subcommittee offered the ssme pledge He said he would try to pass a "reasonable and workable" meat-ure that will "treat all people in a responsible and reasonable Hatch said the defeated measure was "another one of those last-gasp ultra-liberal under a Democratic majority But Sen Edward Kennedy D-Masi the floor sponsor of the MU uid the outcome represented major retreat by the Republican Party in Sts commitment to civfi rights" The MU was designed to improve en EASTLAND An Eastland County grand Jury will hear evidence Wednesday concerning an incident which occurred October 11 following a football game between Eastland and Dublin The grand Jury convenes at 9 am Wednesday and will be presented all the evidence to the cau uid District At-j tomey Emory Walton Walton said he will brief grand jurors on every possible charge that could be filed ranjng from a maximum of aggravated asuult to a minimum of affray The encounter occurred shortly after Dublin had lost the game to Eastland 26-21 when a controversial penalty eliminated what would have been a game-winning Dublin touchdown on the last play at the game On Nov 24 a civil rights lawsuit seeking to excess of 3250000 wu filed in fed-eral court to Abilene against the City of Eastland and six policemen by five Dub- lto men who were arrested to the to- i eidenL The plaintiffs in the suit are Bill Bryant head football coach at Dublin assistant coaches James Ward and Charles Everett Bill Greer a Dublin businessman and Dick Zachry a Dublin rancher The defendants are Eastland Police Chief Bobby Arriola and policemen Robert Harbin Terry Harbin Raymond Lindsey David Sancillo and William Seago 1 4 i.