San Angelo Standard-Times du lieu suivant : San Angelo, Texas • 23

Crime Stoppers inds $147000 in cash goods Carr to get $120000 in refunds By KEELY COGHLAN Stall Writer Angelo State Carr Scholarship Foundation is expected to receive about $120000 in state severance tax refunds on oil and gas royalty revenues The savings RELATED By BOB BECKNELL Staff Writer November hai been a banner 1 month for Crime Stopper! Of San Angelo So far this month anonymous citizens concerned about crime pro-vided police with information that "resulted in five arrests and recovery of $147000 in cash and stolen property Information from the Crime Stop pers Hot Line also resulted in the arrest of a fugitive and a felony suspect and clearance of 15 burglaries Cash rewards to be paid in con-: nection with the November cases are being considered by the Crime Stoppers reward committee but at least two of the cases were featured 1 as Crime of the Week qualifying the callers for rewards of as much as $1000 "This has been a record said Crime Stoppers officer John Pounds never been a time since our program began eight years ago that the total money and property recovered in any one month exceeded one hundred thousand Pounds attributed the success to unknown citizens who took the time to make telephone calls "Our callers are real heros but they will never get the credit they Pounds said While law enforcement officials may have eventually solved the ASU burglary in which more than $154000 was stolen from a vault Pounds said the anonymous person whose information helped solve the case saved the university a lot of money The call resulted in immediate recovery of $110000 in cash plus about 120000 in documented but unrecoverable goods and services he said The whereabouts of the remaining $24000 is unknown no telling what could have happened to all that money if our caller had decided not to get involved" Pounds really appreciate what the caller did and wish more people would get Information provided by another caller helped police recover about $12000 in gold Jewelry stolen in a burglary at Miss Antique Shop Another anonymous caller provided information which led to the recovery of $5000 in property taken in 13 residential and auto burglaries Pounds said A Crime Stoppers summary report for the January -October period shows 161 felony cases cleared 78 suspects arrested and indicted and five stolen vehicles recovered Stolen property valued in excess of $55000 was recovered and illicit narcotics having an estimated street value of more than $1 million was seized Cash rewards totalling $6525 has been paid to 39 persons with several additional rewards pending photo by David Branch Wetting it down San Angelo firefighter Raymond Anderson extinguishes a small dumpster fire Friday afternoon at the Sunset Apartments on Sunset Drive on the city's southwest side Foster Communications suing prospective buyers STORIES The Texas State University System Board of Regents approved a bond advance refunding plan that would save Angelo State University $492207 2C SAN ANGELO The Texas State University System Board of Regents Friday approved an average 17 percent increase In Sul Ross State University residence hall room rates at their meeting In San Angelo 2C during the Foundation Executive Committee's annual meeting here Thursday and Friday The Foundation Executive Committee is composed of the entire Texas State University System Board of Regents The Foundation meeting was conducted during the meeting Thursday and Friday Interest on the invested royalties are used to fund academic scholarships at Angelo State University In addition the Foundation board authorized the Foundation to gain exemptions from local property taxes on counties where the Carr mineral interests are located which could save another $183953 ASU already has sent in severance tax refund requests for 1984 and 1985 to the state office aSU President Dr Lloyd Vincent said Friday The Foundation is requesting a refund of $3654721 for 1984 and a refund of $3153891 for 1985 Vincent said University officials are in the process of preparing records to request refunds for 1986 and 1987 and will not pay severance taxes for the current year he said The amounts for those years may be slightly less because of the lower mineral prices he said Committee members received a ruling Thursday from the state offiefe exempting the Carr royalties from the taxes Vincent said The severance tax savings win double to more than $80000 a year when the royalties from Nona estate are added Vincent said He estimated the university win begin receiving those royalties in about two years Mrs estate is till being handled by the executors and is under review by the Internal Revenue Service Vincent said ASU began receiving royalties from Robert estate about 2V4 years after his death Vincent said Foundation Committee members also authorized Foundation attorney PB Shannon of San Angelo to advise aU appraisal districts in the 18 counties where the Carr estates have mineral and royalty interests that those interests are exempt from local ad valorem taxes The Foundation has paid between $40000 and $50000 a year in ad valorem taxes on Mr royalties Vincent said ASU also will ask the taxing entities in those counties for refunds since 1984 The university has paid a total of $131555 from 1985 to 1987 and has $52398 in taxes pending this year that money will end up going back to the students The counties will get more back from the scholarships than they ever spent in Vincent said Ad valorem taxes paid to entities in 1987 ranged from $3191337 to Gaines County taxing entities to $358 to Winkler County Reeves and Loving counties did not receive any ad valorem taxes from the mineral interests records show Please see CARR Page 2C Algae presents risk to Pecos River fish PECOS (AP) State biologists are closely watching a strain of algae that again is threatening to kin large numbers of fish in the Pecos River Texas Water Commission biologist Terry James said a 20-mile stretch of the Pecos River stretching north from Interstate 20 is contaminated with the slgae which is known as Pyrmnesium parvum algae The strain which is unique to the Pecos River and has never been found anywhere else is blamed for the deaths of an estimated 300000 fish in late 1986 and the deaths of about 30000 fish in November 1985 The algae strain becomes deadly when it releases a chemical during its growth that paralyzes the gills of fish suffocating them officials said The toxin released is similar to one that killed thousands of fish in the summer of 1985 along the Gulf Coast during the infamous It also is similar to an algae discovered several years ago in Israel Attempted to buy a total of 11 stations in Texas and Georgia Foster said the prospective buyers failed to fund the $150000 escrow letter needed for the purchase He said the group filed a fraudulent letter of escrow with the broker Thoben Van Huss and Associates Inc Foster also cited tbe group's initial failure to submit an equal employment opportunity report with the Federal Communlcatidns Commission i obviously enter this with any kind of lawsuit in mind and come down to this as a result of the breaches we've cited" Foster said Friday afternoon The corporate defendant in the suit is KIXY Inc the name used by the prospective buyers in Atlanta Ga KIXY Inc is not associated with the San Angelo radio station with the same call letters Foster said Individual defendants are Murchison Joseph Dain Schult Stuart Sundlin John Schneider and his son Thomas Schneider Attempts to reach the defendants were unsuccessful Friday afternoon Foster referred legal questions to his attorney Steve Lerman in Washington DC Lerman could not be reached for comment Friday afternoon By LORETTA MACIAS Staff Writer Foster Communications Co Inc and Foster Broadcasters Inc filed a lawsuit Friday against the prospective buyers of San Angelo radio stations KIXY-FM KAYJ-AM and area stations obviously 1 feel the contract is in breach and petitioning the court for relief said San Angelo businessman Walt Foster Thq San Angelo communications businesses are suing the prospective cor- porate buyer and six defendants for $150000 plus court costs The breach of contract lawsuit was filed soon after it was learned the chief financial -officer of the company that agreed to buy the San Angelo businesses was arrested by the FBI on wire fraud charges Clyde A Murchison 38 of Marietta Ga was accused of using telephones and facsimile transmissions in an attempt to defraud a Washington DC bank The Georgia-based Radioactivity Broadcast Group entered an agreement in August to buy KIXY-FM KAYJ-AM KHOS-AM in Sonora KYXX-FM in Ozona and translator stations in Junction and Big Lake The group Photo courtesy San Angelo Police Department These packages containing a substance believed to be marl-iuana were seized during a warrant-authorized search at a north San Angelo residence Thursday Local drug raid nets 13 bundles State comptroller adopts bingo rules Approximately 15 pounds of a material believed to be marijuana with an estimated street value of $25000 were seised in a drug raid Thursday in north San Angelo Donald Carl Dunn 32 208 17th St was arrested after officers with the Rio Concho task force found 13 bundles of a green leafy substance in a shed behind his home Dunn was arraigned Friday before Peace Justice Ruth Nicholson on a charge of ag gravated possession of marijuana more than five pounds but less than 50 pounds Bail was set Narcotics officers Tom Lind said the contraband was discovered during a search authorized by Mrs Nicholson on information provided to the task force by a confidential source Dunn was asleep when the search party arrived with the warrant about 4:20 pm Lind said Hartt-Nanks Austin Buraau AUSTIN Emergency rules designed to guard against fixed bingo games have been adopted by the state comptroller Examples of shady bingo operators firing games to allow their own people to win have been brought to state Comptroller Bob Bullock in recent weeks Bullock said the amended rules call for: Winning bingo cards to be verified by one or more players other than the winner Allowing players to see the numbers on the bingo balls that remain in the bngo machine if they so request Replacing the bingo balls with new ones every six months Granting comptroller employees the right to inspect bingo equipment at any time In addition Bullock said the regulations now expressly prohibit tampering with or modifying bingo equipment so that numbers are not chosen randomly Also changing numbers or symbols on the face of the bingo cards is prohibited should answer any questions on the spot about whether or not a bingo game is being run fairly" Bullock noted in a written release The office is responsible for regulating charity bingo in Texas St Hospital adds 5 new board of trustees members SL Hospital and Health Center a member of Incarnate Word Healthcare System in San Antonio has announced the addition of five new board of trustees members effective Jan 1 They are Calvin Sugg Jr Len Mertz Dr TK Weatherby Dr Denver Marsh and Dr Richard Stoebner new board members for SL Hospital represent various professions in San Angelo and the Concho said Sister Rosita Hyland board chairperson we are very excited about having San foremost cardiologist general surgeon and gastroenterologist on our board These gentlemen are experienced in leadership management and capable of advancing the mission Please see ST Page SC i hJfcJM.