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Plge 2, Mineral Wells Index, Tuesday. June 22,1982
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Obituaries
Marion Franklin Zinn
Southwestern
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Florida sinks
ERA chances
Officials regain control of prison
or eight cellblocks.
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$9.10. Also missing were
seven packages of Marlboro
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and beds, and burned clothes
and blankets, officials said.
When officials pledged over
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Jane Hemphill of Route 3,
Mineral Wells, reported to the
Palo Pinto County Sheriff’s
office the burglary of the
Country Store at Route 3,
Box 313.
According to reports, a
suspect entered the store
between 1 aan. and 4 aan. on
June 18 and took a case of
Budweiser beer valued at $11,
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The uprising began with a
confrontation between an
inmate and a prison guard at
about 9 a.m. Monday that
was joined in by several other
inmates, Weldon said.
“It was a chain reaction,”
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held in El Paso
after being found
a burglary of a
charge stemming
Oct. 22, 1979
citizens* band radio was
stolen from his 1976 Chrysler
Cordoba between 10 p.m. on
June 19 and 8 a.m. on June
20, while the vehicle was
parked in his garage.
Louie Wayne Ellis of 5100
Laurie Dr. reported that a .22
• caliber rifle was stolen from
his pickup truck while the
vehicle was parked at his
residence between midnight
and 10:30 a.m. on June 18.
The truck was said to have
been unlocked.
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where the thieves bent a
screen to force the window. •
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He was sentenced to a 5 -
year probated term on that
charge, but aftgr being found
in violation of probation by
failure to report to his
probation officer and accused
of commiting the April 5
burglary of a building owned
by Mary Lewis, he was
ordered committed to the
Texas Department of
Corrections to serve the 5 •
year - term.
here since 1976. He was a
retired construction worker.
Survivors are two sons:
Stan Zinn, Duncanville,
Marion Zinn, Fort Worth; his
mother: Oma Zinn, Mineral
Wells; two granddaughters:
Stacy Zinn, Duncanville and
Lisa Zinn, Fort Worth; two
sisters: Nona Gordon, Bossier
City, La. and Faye Marsden,
Mineral Wells; eleven nieces
and nephews.
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Contrary to law, he has
recommended that the
“power, right, and authority”
of his council is superior to
that of each taxpayer. He
recommends in writing that a
board
official, such as himself,
knows
wants more than the taxpayer
himself, even though the
voters have petitioned to vote
on this issue of consolidation
of collection of taxes in the
county tax collector’s office.
Unfortunately, not
knowing the law and whipped
to fever pitch by rhetoric
which it did not understand,
this council adopted this
resolution, not having read
Section 1.02 of the State
Property Tax Laws. It reads
as follows:
“This title supercedes any
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found guilty of violating
conditions of his probation.
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lost at the Holiday .Inn
between 11 a.m. on June\5
and 8:50 a.m. on June 1$.
The ring had a center
diamond and three others on
each side, and was valued at
$900. The necklace was
valued at $450.
Otis Jefferson Rucker of
1808 S.E. 20th St. was
reportedly backing out of his
driveway northbound in his
1979 black Ford F-150
Custom pickup truck when
his vehicle was struck from
the rear by a westbound 1977
white Datsun pickup driven
by Victor Kyle Spears. The
accident occurred at 9:03
a.m. on June 19. Spears was
cited for failure to display
valid registration.
Edward Lester Toler, Jr.
was cited for failure to yield
the right - of • way at a stop t
sign after his 1982 brown
Chevrolet Silvarado pickup
reportedly struck a 1967 blue
four - door Ford Galaxie 500
driven by Wayne Frankie •
Miles at 8:20 a.m. on June
18. Toler, eastbound at the
200 block of Van Story
Street allegedly stopped at
the sign at the intersection
with Lee Road then turned
north on Lee without
noticing the oncoming-
southbound vehicle.
Gerald Wayne Yest, 25,
was arrested on two
outstanding city warrants
after being stopped for a
routine traffic check on June
19. Bond was set at $250.
Other police cases during
the weekend included a
suicide attempt, three cases
of criminal mischief, three
cases of public intoxication, a
case of driving while
intoxicated, a case of
disorderly conduct and
abusive language and a simple
assault.
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executive manager of the
Association.
The SFFMA represents
most of the volunteer and
paid fire departments in the
state. It serves its membership
by distributing training
manuals, sponsoring training
schools and seminars, and
promoting legislation of
interest to firemen, such as To the Editor:
bills requiring sprinkler
Drug Abuse Prevention
Coordinator Edna Caliman
was a keynote speaker at the
Texas
Association
Conference
June 13-16.
The conference was
attended by some 600 Texas
parole officers and probation
officers and
professionals
corrections field including
U.S. marshals and
probation and parole officers.
A Graham woman was
injured early
morning when
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superceding the laws of the utilize municipal - level ■
initiative and referendum to'
set a tax rate, level of •
spending, or limitation on tax
increase for that'■
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My dear citizens, you still •
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SANTA ROSA, N.M. (AP) the U.S. and key mem ben traffic west into the West
— Three men arrested near
the spot where smugglers
dumped 214 pounds of
cocaine are being questioned
about the drug seizure
customs officials call the
largest in the Southwest,
authorities said.
New Mexico State Police
Capt. Al Miller said two
Colombians and a Mexican
were arrested Monday as they
roamed a field near where
customs agents found the
cocaine valued <at $55 million.
Miller said the two
Colombians, a father and son,
and the Mexican seemed to
be looking for the drug agents
found Wednesday packed in
plastic bags and concealed in
duffle bags apparently
dropped from an airplane.
“The seizure represents a
major setback for an
international drug smuggling
organization that involves top pressure being applied in
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Officials canceled prisoners of glass as inmates broke into
but the control booth in one of
the cellblocks at the start of
the disturbance at about 10
a.m. Monday. The guard was
not hospitalized.
Mrs. Englade estimated
damages in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars, but said
that ail cell blocks, including
two that were heavily
probation of
women, some in tears,
changed “Vote them out!”
and “Well remember in
November.”
The Florida Senate voted
22 - 16 against the proposed
constitutional change on
Monday, keeping the state
aligned with 14 others whose
lawmakers have blocked
adoption of the amendment
that would prohibit
discrimination based on sex.
Thirty ■ five states have
‘Well approved the amendment.
National ratification requires
approval by three more states
this month.
Eight days before the
deadline, the ERA’s prospects
were dim in the states where
supporters have lobbied most
actively this year.
prison litigation for Georgia of Fort Worth told police
that her 14 - karat yellow •
Graveside services for
Marion Franklin Zinn, 65, of
216 S.E. 6th Avenue will be
at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at
Woodland Park Cemetery.
Rev. Jimmy Nicks will
officiatie with Baum
Carlock Bumgardner in
charge of arrangements.
Zinn died Monday at 7:30
p.m. in a local nursing center.
He was born July 8, 1916 in
Mineral Wells and had lived
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emphasized the task of
corrections professional
the coming yean
increasingly complicated
community demands
protection, court orders to
reform institutions and fiscal
imperatives
spending.
The Texas
Association
specifically
yean conference to education
and training. The conference,
included 20 different ■
intensive training workshops,
one of which was the
“Cultural Awareness in
Counseling, conducted by Ms.
Caliman.
Gulf area and
states."
Miller said investigators
believe the
dropped from a plane June 7
as it approached the airport
in this town about 115 miles
east of Albuquerque.
Authorities met the plane
but did not find any drugs on
board. A state police officer
tracing the route of the
aircraft, found the cocaine
nine days later in a field near
the airport.
Miller said a federal grand
jury will soon be asked to
indict four men, who were
arrested when the plane
arrived, on charges of
possession and importation of
a controlled substance.
Conroy said the
investigation began May 15 in
Houston and involved federal,
state and local law
enforcement agencies ____
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of a high level cocaine
connection in Colombia,”
said Charles Conroy, a
spokesman for the regional
Customs office in Houston.
“Additional multiple
arrests are expected as a
result of the investigation,"
said Conroy.
Another federal official,
who asked not to be
identified, told the Dallas
Morning News authorities are
pursuing leads that are
expected to incriminate the
U.S. crime bosses who
supported the smuggling
operation.
“These people aren’t from
any one place. They are from
all over,” said the official,
who added it “would take
awhile” to make cases against
American ringleaders.
Conroy called the seizure
an example of how “federal
plane -
ccontinued on to Santa Rosa,
N.M. where the drug seizure
was made. <
The airplane was not
seized, said Conroy.
“The aircraft was rented
and the owners had no
knowledge that it was going to
be used illegally,” Conroy
in said. “We returned it to the
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Conroy said a Cessna 441
was being kept under
surveillance in Albuquerque
and it took off in early June
and flew to La Junta County,
Colo., then to Pueblo, Colo.,
and then to Colombia.
“It was tracked on radar
across the Gulf of Mexico,”
Conroy said.
On June 7 the U.S.
Customs radar in the Houston
area found the plane over the
Laredo area and tracked it
northwest to Fort Stockton,
Texas, he said.
He said the
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ABILENE - Chief and
Mrs. Eldred Fryer, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Don James, Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Fryer and Lt. John
Gilbert of the Mineral Wells
Fire Department were
delegates to the 106th annual
conference / convention of
the State Firemen’s and Fire
Marshals* Association held in
Abilene June 12-16.
State Comptroller Bob
Bullock and Carl Holmes of
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work schedules,
otherwise ordered a return to
normal at the 1 - year - old
facility.
Authorities were unsure
how many of the prison’s 740
inmates were involved in the
takeover. Each cellblock
houses 100 to 124 prisoners,
said Puala Putney, another
department spokeswoman. damaged, remain habitable.
Warden John Weldon said ~
some inmates will be
transferred, some will receive
disciplinary reports and
others probably will end up
with longer sentences as a
result of the disturbance.
charges stemming from the The only reported injury he said.
The rioting inmates Legal Services Inc., blamed
destroyed windows, lights the uprising on overcrowding.
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Renah Anne Flatt of 702
S.E. 3rd St. reported that her
1970 red Ford two - door car,
bearing an expired 1980
Texas license plate no.
CHM-98, was stolen from a
driveway at 929 S.W. 1st St.
some time between noon
June 18 and noon June 19.
The vehicle, reportedly
valued at $750, was not in
running condition and was
believed to have been towed
from the area.
Gary Acker of 611 S.W.
4rh Ave. reported
than $600 worth
equipment was stolen from
his garage some time during a
30 - day period prior to the
report on June 18. No sign of
forced entry was found.
L.D. Damron of 701 S.E.
23rd St. told officers that a
tool box with some $150
worth of assorted hand tools
was stolen from the bed of
his pickup truck between
9:30 p.m. on June 18 and
6:30 pan. on June 19, while
the truck was parked at his
residence.
— .w 1LN. Howard of 2105 S.E.
review inmate complaints, the 6th Aye. said his Royce
inmates began leaving one cell *“•“* — n
block at a time to go to a
dining area for their first meal
since breakfast.
While the inmates were
eating, guards searched the
cell blocks and found several
weapons such as homemade
knives, Weldon said.
The guards re-established
control of the prison by the
time the last group returned
from dinner around 10:30
p.m., Weldon said.
Bob Cullen, who handles
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the Oklahoma Fire Service systems In high - rise recommended to Ms council in this title invalidates or
were keynote speakers at the
convention. The convention
included five days of exhibits,
business sessions and
workshops in such areas as the
legislative process,
certification of volunteer and
paid firemen, industrial fire
prevention and
education.
“The annual
affords us
opportunity each
face to face
members and
concerns of the firemen in control of her vehicle on
State Highway 337 northwest
of Graford.
According to Department
of Public Safety reports,
Mary Mayes, 57, was traveling
southeast on the highway
about 6.5 miles northwest of
Graford when she lost control
of her 1979 Chevrolet and
skidded sideways into a ditch,
striking a concrete culvert
She was taken to the
Graham Hospital for
treatment of injuries.
Florida’s rejection of the
Equal Rights Amendment has
all but sunk chances for
national ratification by the
June 30 deadline, but
supporters say they won’t
abandon their goal and will
seek revenge at the polls in
November.
“It looks like we’re just
going to have to start all over
again,” said Sen. Alan
Cranston, D • Calif., one of
the original cosponsors of the
ERA a decade ago.
reintroduce the amendment,
and next time I predict the
ERA will be ratified.”
Pro - ERA voters say
they’ll seek try to beat
lawmakers who blocked
ratification. After the Florida
Senate vote, crowds of angry
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Officials canceled work or eight cellblocks. struck in the eye by a shard
schedules today at the
Coastal Correctional
Institution following a 12 •
hour uprising that left one
guard injured and denied
charges that overcrowding
contributed to the melee.
The Monday disturbance
ended with authorities
promising to address every
issue in the inmates’ list of
demands for better living
conditions and to “make
changes immediately where it
is feasible,” said state prisons
spokeswoman Sara Englade.
Authorities, however,
refused to grant prisoners*
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will hold their regular meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday June 22 at
the post west of city park. President Charlsie Brock urges all
members to attend for urgent business.
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