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A 4 1 6 I tl' j( 'I M' 1 5 i 'i' 4 1 i i 11' it's 'I Texas Abilene Reporter-News Monday April IS 1991 3A ACU hosts Read Aloud Festival Man killed by officer linked to fire I 4 i I I 'It I officer waa out directing traffic he signalled for the car to atop and the car just struck said police Sgt James Chandler Hager fired his pistol six times through the windshield as he was transported 800 feet on the hood of the car Chandler said Chandler said Hager was in uniform and wearing an orange reflective vest Poynor had been wanted on outstanding warrants alleging felony arson in Austin and theft criminal and indecent exposure in Dallas County authorities said Austin police said the arson warrant stemmed from a Dec 8 1990 fire in the bathroom of a church youth center In September 1988 an officer saw Poynor amid the burned ruins of the Grand Prairie Wax Museum He was jailed on a charge of stealing a ledger that police theorized held key evidence in the arson and earlier deaths of a museum co-owner and employee Poynor was later convicted on a reduced charge and authorities said they link him to the other crimes But Grand Prairie Deputy Chief Rick White said his interest was piqued after he heard the circumstances surrounding death guy is White told the DoUom Times Herald in editions had a lot of connections out of the country that were just strange There was nothing on the surface that was wrong but when you put them MJgBvUBi sociation president Gary West and library director Marsha Harper Tuesday at noon ACU students Stephen Bailey and Brandon Thomas present a musical reading of Wednesday at noon ACU students Kelly Pannelly and Jana Brooks will read At 10 am Wills Patterson member of Friends of ACU Library will read for pre-school age children At 2:30 pm Patterson will rrfad for children from ACU ChildDe-velopment Center Thursday pm the annual National Library Week reception is scheduled in the library atrium Friday at noon Franklin Middle School ALPS students taught by Linda Case will present a Theatre in the library atrium A library display illustrating the theme can be viewed in the foyer It features photographs of readers toddlers to adults and their favorite books featuring collages by eighth-grade ALPS students will be exhibited on the first floor The students created their own works of art after studying elements of creativity and analyzing art in local museums Loveland said Abilene Christian binary will present a Study Hall Read-Aloud Festival this week featuring campus and community participants including Abilene Mayor Gary McCaleb and a group of Franklin Middle School students The program is a celebration of National Library Week which began Sunday and continues through Saturday The activities are linked by the of the Lifetime which is an invitation to all readers to become involved and take an active role in the literacy issues of today said Erma Jean Loveland special services librarian Loveland will participate in one of the national activities scheduled Tuesday in Washington DC Library delegates from across the country will gather there for ALA Legislative Day All ACU library activities are free and open to the public Loveland said library is interested in both literacy the ability to read and understand what is read and information literacy ability to access locate and use information The events include: Monday at noon Readings by Mayor McCaleb ACU vice president and dean of campus life Mrs William Teague wife of president As states for gun funneling Texas tops DALLAS (AP) Texas is one of the top five states where handgnw are purchased and then illegally funneled to New Yak one of the toughest places to buy a gun in the nation a newspaper reports says New York City Police Commissioner Lee Brown former police chief can theoretically be released from an institution for the criminally insane and then go lie about it and buy a Last year alone New York police seized 17000 illegal guns with an estimated 96 percent of those coming from outside New York New York police and federal firearms agents have assembled a joint task force to investigate the growing smuggling problem So far 83 arrests involving 786 guns have been made including DALLAS CAP) A man slain in a weekend confrontation with an off-duty Dallas police officer was once linked tola stolen ledger investiga-tors-suspected held the key to the mysterious deaths of two wax mu seumemployees Stanley Poynor 25 died Saturday afternoon at Parkland Memorial Hospital several hours afte)-he ran his car into Cpl Gordon Hager The officer had been directing at the ninth annual Azalea Run 3 injured as man opens fire Three people were injured early Sunday morning when a nan entered a northside nightclub and and began firing a shotgun Dorothy Smith 19 an Abilene High School student Terry Morgan 17 of Abilene and Cornelius Hardaman 23 of! Seymour were taken by AEMS paramedics to Hendrick Medical Center Morgan and Hardaman were treated and released who was in stable condition at Hendrick was transferred to Medical Plaza Hospital in Fort Worth IHer condition there was unavailable at press time According to a police report witnesses said a black nude 5 feet 11 inches and 158 pounds entered Club Michelle at 4222 N-First St around 2:40 am and was armed with a shotgun The witnesses said the man wait to the rear of the nightclub and began spraying buckshot across the room an unde-termined number of times He then fled the club Federal agents estimate about 75 million retail firearms transactions are made each year Of those about one-half of one percent of those transactions may be illegal US Rep Charles Schumer D-NY chairman of the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice is pushing for a computerized federal registry system for gun sales which is impossible under current laws Schumer backs the passage of the so-called Brady bill which requires a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases black market dealer will think twice before submitting to seven days of police Schumer said in a report last November But the National Rifle Association opposes such measures out of order and federal judges surveyed thought lawyers used the discovery process to intimidate or up the ante for their opponents Jurists like Cook have devised a variety of methods for handling unethical overzealous or rude lawyer The lawyer accused of notebook-stealing offered to withdraw from the case US District Judge Norman Black accepted the offer The lawyer said the item was accidentally put among his files but Black said he would consider imposing monetary sanctions after the lawsuit was resolved the seizure of about 200 guns shipped to New York from the Dallas-Fort Worth area the Dallas Morning News reported Sunday The guns were labeled as auto parts I Figures compiled by the US Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms show that most guns smuggled into New Yak come from Virginia Florida Georgia Ohio and Texas As the discussion of gun-control issues becomes more heated Texas guns continue to move northward Currently New York police are investigating at least three cases that involve the smuggling of more than 300 Tarns handguns Unlike New York which requires up to a six-month waiting period prior to a gun purchase Texas has no such waiting period ball Cook said is not our role Cook says the legal profession has lowered its standards of conduct in the courtroom and during trial preparation think if they can be the meanest rudest ugliest kid on the block get more Cook said In a rum-scientific poll conducted nationwide last year 56 percent of 1018 lawyers questioned cited obnoxiousness as the quality they liked least in their colleagues Another nationwide poll in 1988 revealed that 95 percent of 200 state TEXAS STATE HEARING AID CENTER is now a MANUFACTURER We build and repair what we sel in our Abilene office All make repair also available Why Pay the Middleman? 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