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1 GOOD Morning Paper fir the GOLDEN West qf Texas 22 Pages it's Tuesday May 16 1978 15 Cents i West Texas TV Hearings Slated The documents said that "information before the Commission raises serious questions as to whether the applicants possess the qualifications to be or to remain licensees of the stations In view of these questions the Commission is unable to find that a grant of the renewal applications would serve the public interest convenience and necessity and must therefore designate the applications for hearing" The chief complaint from the FCC is a practice of running commercials past the alloted time into network programming KLBK-TV KMOM-TV and KTXS-TV are specifically mentioned in the complainta as offenders but Grayson attorney Dan Miller said he thought all four stations were involved The FCC stated that the basis for- the charge is "complaints by listeners to the Commission of excessive By JEANNIE SEVER SUB Writer Four West Texas television stations may be dark" next fall if things don't go their way at a Sept hearing in Abilene before administrative law judge Thomas Fitzpatrick Federal Communications Commission documents show that the licenses of LKBK-TV in Lubbock KMOM-TV in Monahans KWAB-TV in Big Spring and KTXS-TV in Sweetwater are being challenged by the Midland Telecasting Company KLBK-TV KMOM-TV and KWAB-TV are all owned outright by Grayson Enterprises Inc of Lubbock while KTXS-TV is owned by Key Texas Broadcasters Inc a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grayson Enterprises William Kean FCC lawyer handling the cbm recently forwarded several pertinent documents to the Standard including a list of the charges See LICENSES Page ISA Uvalde Police Accused In Suit (Standard Plwto By Hoilia Gritiard) Late Golfer Silhouetted By Setting Sun Cedillo will recommend the city acquire an alternate site for the proposed course which was originally targeted fo? Red Arroyo The setting nun frames-this golfer late Monday on San Angelo's Santa Fa Golf Course Golf will be the big item on the agenda of the City Commission today as outgoing Commissioner Cato Ybarra Elfoaldo Martinez and Victor Crus contends he was beaten without cause by at least one of the accused policemen is an established tradition in Uvalde that police are given open reign to harass and intimidate and openly assault Mexican-American citizens" Jesse Moreno told a courthouse news conference Monday Moreno president of Citizens Organized for Public Action a Uvalde group Mid his organization had "tried the best we can to work within the system" but that nothing had been done Contacted Monday night Moreno Mid the focal police department had called In the FBI to investigate several incidents of alleged police brutality adding that the police prefer to let the FBI investigate becauM the past they never come back with a According to Moreno there are 22 "documented cases of police brutality" Moreno alleged there "was a criminal element that exists within the police department we need to eliminate entirely from the police department Each of the six seeks compensatory and punitive damages of 1150000 They also demand new city policies to prevent police from denying Mexican-Americans their rights SAN ANTONIO (SNS) Six Uvalde residents filed a $900000 damage suit in UK District Court Monday accusing Uvalde policemen of beating Mexican-Americans Three former and present Uvalde police officers and the Uvalde city manager mayor and police chief are named defendants The suit says six Mexlcan-Americans were deprived of equal protection guaranteed by the UK Constitution and were unreasonably Marched arrested and deprived of their freedom by the policemen Mayor Charles Cain Jr City Manager TJi Caffall and Police Chief Vance Chisum and city councilmen neglected the situation despite appeals from citizens the suit added Mayor Cain could not be reached for comment late Monday Chief of Police Chisum Mid he knew only what he had heard from the news media about the suit Chisum Mid Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were in Uvalde several months prior to the suit's filing He added he did not know if the Investigation had been completed He deferred comment on the suit Eaeh of the six plaintiffs Tony Moreno Joe Ortega Rodolfo Aguero Alex Last Ot Four San Angelo Golf Course New Site Proposed lust Miles barber Howard Moore had his emtomer half ahaved when the fire liren founded "You bet I took off" the SO-rear-cdd winked crawling back in the tame chair he'a worked behind for 52 yean "I had Just ahaved one aide of this man'a face and lather waa on the other when the airenbiew Moore aerved for SO years with the volunteer unit driving the pump truck became ahop waa eloaeat to the sta-turn" When he reached the fin home Moon noticed a familiar aoapy face guy I had been ahaving waa then So I told him to lend a hand and grab a hoae" Not all of the veteran barber's cuatomen wen ao cooperative left one old boy in the middle of a haircut to go fight a fin and he got mad Never aaw him in the ahop again" ThatdidntchangeMoon'aoutlook would you feel if it wen your houae on fin? No" ho laughed alwaya anawered the whiatle and I left a many a peraon sitting in the chair EFE AS HE'S KNOWN BY FRIENDS hu been working behind the ume chair at the ume ahop on Miles' red brick main atnet for yean had been going to barber achool in Dallaa and playing boom minor league pro ball back in the "I vu in town one day and the guy who owned thia shop aiked me to run tt for him a few daya He waa going out of town and I hia throe barben wan all kk with the flu" don't have any tools" Moore told the barber "Then use the barber replied walking out the door When the barber returned four daya later he Baked Moore to itay on Moore worked for the man IS yean befon buying him out 1 atumbled upon my life'a work purely by accident" be chuckled AT ONI TUB the ahop waa a wild and wooly place to work Moore remembered would atop in Juat to aee what would happen next nwn flghta in ben Once a man -keeled over and died of a heart attack in the middle of the And a juatiee of the peace who moonlighted the aecond chair barber would hold court in the middle of the (hop highway patrol would bring in a guy for ipeeding and the judge would atop cutting hair go over behind the ease over then and hold court stopped cutting hair to perform weddings in hen too We had five or six of them in the middle of that floor" WIGGLY CDS" give Moon the moat trouble was one little tyearrid feller my gosh he would stand up in the chair and wiggle and twist scared he just wanted to play And then was no way in the world I could cet him to be still" By the time the little fellow was five be had matured substantially he would announce to the barber peering through the door wanna get my hair cut but I'm not gonna ait wanted to kill him" Moon chuckled softly adding he still kids the 'little feller' who hu children of his own now about those days DURING MILES HEYDAY then wen three barbershops and nine barben in town "We would come in at I am some Saturday mornings and then would be half a doxen people lined up at the door waiting for haircuts Sometimes we'd be up hen until2am The depression cut business sharply liked to have starved to death eharg- ing 25 cents a haircut and no one could afford that" Some men would come in just once every week or so for a shave have a beard and tobacco juice in tt It waa some job to scrape tt all off for a quarter" FAB FBOM THE MYTH that barbershops ven a Moon remembers cutting a lot of women's hair when he first started had more women in hen than men in the he figured "That was before beauty shops" Though cutting women's hair wasn't any tougher than men's Moon allowed that females an "harder to please EFE MOOKE cut my grandfather's hair and my gnat-grandfather's too The late Bloody Cross called Moon a tonsorial artist" "Well now I know about -Moon grinned standing as a customer ambled into his shop The quick-witted barber admits his shop is a favorite hangout for conversation-minded Miles men I will say for a fact that everything In this barbershop is an antique including the barber" Outgoing City Commissioner Cato Cedillo will recommend to a new city Commission today that they consider relocating the site of a proposed goU course from the Red Arroyo Park area of southwest San Angelo to site near the city-school shop in the Cedillo said Monday that his last act on the commission will be to recommend the new site have 15 minutes before I leave the commission (at session) and give tt a he said Cedillo the main proponent of the proposed municipal U-hole golf course added a last-minute addendum Monday to today's commission agenda for "discussion of acquisition of land for golf course pur- eluded 115 acres city shop took in 15 acres Wa're talking about MO-150 acres for a championship golf course" He also Mid River Drive could be extended to the proposed site should the new commission decide to relocate to another golf coune site Cedillo Hid the owner of some NORM acres of land that adjoins city property has expressed an interest in such a proposition but so far no committment has been made Contacted Monday evening the landowner Mid discussions on the matter had ben but added tt was premature to begin talking about a golf course on his land See Grif Course Page 12A east of the city shop would be for the new eourse and a recreation complex He noted that the new posposed site would preclude the neccessity by goiters to cross any streets and In addition would not require water due to the proximity of the Concho River The site In southwest San Angelo would require water new council will make a (foal) decision" at some future date Cedillo Mid must making a recommendation on switching from the westside of town to the eastside of town because something needs to be done on According to Cedillo the city-owned land located just east of the Bell Street Crossing originally in- Barnes Given Fine Probation Seriate Endorses Sale government predator trapper Andrew Allen was dropped as part of Monday's proceedings in federal court Allen Real County Commissioner Lanny Lelnweber and ranch foreman Norman Pape were convicted last December of conspiring to kill golden eagles They were fined at the time of sentencing The UK attorney's office agreed to SAN ANTONIO Texas (AP) A Uvalde businessman was fined 15000 and placed on three yean probation Monday for Illegally killing golden eagles Alva Dale Barnes is the last person to be sentenced in connection with the killing of golden eagles from a helicopter over the rugged sheep and goat-raising country of Real County in west central Texas In addition to Barnes' punishment UK District Court Judge John Wood Jr fined South Texas Helicopter Service $5000 Barnes is manager and vice president of the helicopter service A perjury charge against former of us can now concentrate our full attention on finding a sound and just basis for permanent peace" he Mid in a statement issued at the White Houae "We will intensify our effort to help the parties nar-row their differences" But the Israeli government reiterated its "deep about the jet Mle to Saudi Arabia and Egypt regard with deep concern the supply of advanced weapons systems including modern aircraft to countries maintaining a state of war with an Israeli Embassy spokesman Mid shortly after the vote The sales will send 75 F-16s and 15 F-15s to Israel 00 F-15s to Saudi Arabia and 50 leu sophisticated F-5Es to Egypt In an effort to secure congressinal support Carter also promised to sell Israel another 20 F-13s for delivery in 10SM4 Sens Jacob Javits R-NY a leader of the opposition to the Mies declared: we have done is we have severed a commitment that had lasted 30 years that the Israelis are going to get what is necessary for their survival" The administration had argued that Saudi Arabia believes it needs the jet-fighters to defend itself against a number of potentially dangerous neighbors WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate on Monday night endorsed President plan to Mil jet fighters to Israel Egypt and Saudi Arabia transactions the president called vital to achieving peace in the Middle East On a vote of St to the Senate rejected a resolution which would have blocked the 55 billion arms sales package Opponenta to the sales would have needed majorities In both the House and Senate to prevent them President Carter who lobbied hard for support for the Mies Mid he was gratified" by the vote drop perjury charges against Allen when Barnes and his helicopter service pleaded guilty in March to the killing of the federal- ly protected golden eagles Ranchers in Real County say the eagles 1 are predators which kill their livestock Inside Laredo Police Probed CURTIS DICKEY robbed of title at the SWC meet Story on Page IB PRIMITIVE TRIBE found in Philippines Story on Page (B GENERAL TELEPHONE proposes plume credit Story on PageSA A 19N investigation by US Customs special agents turned up indications of more serious violations "These allegations Involve the possible smuggling of commercial quantities of cigarettes and liquor into the United States extracting eash payments from Mexican citizens attempting to export various commodities and the illegal export of firearms to Mexican territory for resale" the report Mid A customs source Mid no conclusive evidence on the allegations was collected The findings of the investigation were included in a letter from Jesus Martinos special agent in charge to then-Police Chief William Weeks Weeks had asked the special agents to look into the ease of a policeman who reportedly had taken cigarettes from a Mexican woman at a border duty free store According to Martinez' letter the woman claimed that officer Ray Pena wm cartons of cigarettes away from here on a daily basis" When approached by a customs officer about the allegation Pena reportedly Mid "everybody knows we do it and nobody does anything about it Why do you want to be the only me to do this to me?" The letter also states that Pena threatened the customs man "Down here you may be the boss but out there (printing toward town) you are mine going to get you" he reportedly said When contacted recently about the incidents Pena refused to comment See LAREDO page 12A By KEN HERMAN Associated Press Writer LAREDO Texas (AP) An investigation of the Laredo Police Department may result in criminal charges against some of its officers according to a highly placed department source The source said the Internal investigation is focusing on suspected "customs violations" by officers along the border An assistant UK attorney here Mid previous Investigations of the department have shown that officers frequently take cigarettes or liquor from persons legally crossing the border of the Laredo police have taken this up as a way of life here" Emilio Davila Mid adding that the viola tiona seem to be restricted to a small segment of the force Index Abby 5A Police 3A Com les i)iiii(iii IA Records 12A Crossword IA Society AA Editorials 4A Sports 1-3 Entertainment 7A Want Ads 4-6B Family 5A 1 I.

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