The 4-County News Bulletin (Castroville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 26, Ed. 1 Monday, October 3, 1977 Page: 1 of 15
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EMT on each ambulance run to make.)” ,
To sum it up, Thurmond said.
emergency which requires the guarantee that the outlying towns
mayor to exercise emergency police will take on any of this monetary
authority in accordance with Texas responsibility, even though most of
statutes the calls are coming from outside the
And, lastly, the amendment citylimita.
Thurmond said the city has no
power to make other areas pay their
fair share, but the county does, "la ,
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all-Anglo jury about 11p.m. .. , ... .
Thursday, Sept. 29. Hayes could get want to know more." She also
a life sentence and Mrs. Hayes and testified she sat in a pasture near the
Mrs. Baldwin could get 10 years burial site while her sister dug a
each. shallow grave and buried Morales.
The charges against the 3 arose
THE EMOTIONS certainly run high at Medina Valley
football games, for the players and cosehse, but for
the coaches' Lamily and friends, as well. Head Coach
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from the Sept. 14, 1975, slaying of
Richard Morales, on a dark,
deserted country road northwest of
Castroville.
After the Verdict was read in the
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etc. left in the hard-fought game. repeated again this Friday when
QB Louis Kempf connected with MV plays atCotulla in a district tilt
Collier for 8 yds. and the winning at 8 p.m. that will be tough, no
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Chief U.S. Dist. Court Judge man who goes to church. A man like shooting was accidental and oc-
Adrian A. Spears has set Oct. 28 as that doesn’t change i
the date for the sentencing of former ; blood-thirsty killer ' overnight. ’ ’
Castroville Police Chief Frank Hayes Miller contended that Hayes whs
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PANDEMONIUM REIGNS at
Ro-Hawk . Stadium where MV
Flanker Allan Collier (32) is
mobbed by teammates (fore-
join in the bedlam as MV upset the
highly regarded Hawks 6 3 with 1
ground] after hauling in the powerhouses: Other MV players,
winning TO against undefeated, coaches and fane [background]
__________ —_____- - Hall All citizens in Castroville, ;
fact that we are paid 43c per hour; < the LaCoste areas, Mico, Rio
hardly enough to pay the babysitters Medina and other local areas
we must hire to care for our children serviced by the Castroville-based
so we can aid our fellow citizens. ambulance are urged to attend this
(EMT drivers are paid 315 per call, very important meeting. -
and the other EMT in the ambulance [Related Story, P-4. ]
influenced by individuals or groups in the area? This ambulance is
other than the acting council, he responsible for calls in the Macdona
will receive, at the least, a written area, LaCoste, Castroville, Mico,
reprimand from council. Rio Medina and areas above Medina
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council and the mayor are the L.Figuren fromcastroviteCiyHal
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be issued by the council, acting as a operation, Thurmond pointed out,
body, to the chief of police. The only Castroville will be heldresponsible
exception will be a bona fide civil for this deficit, for there can bo no
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? Attorneys Are Retained
By City, Medina Co.
In Civil Rights Suit
Comm, of Pct. 2 Leon Tschirhart
has reported that Medina County
commissioners definitely are taking
seriously the 31.5 million civil rights
suit filed in federal court by the
mother, father and widow of slain
Castroville construction worker,
Richard Morales, against former
Castroville Police Chief Frank
• Hayes, members of his family, the
City of Castroville and Medina
County.
The county has retained the
services of County Atty. Hunter
Schuehle, who will be aasisted by
attorneys Joe Briscoe of Devine and
Hugh Meyer of Hondo. They have
reserved the right to retain other
attorneys should they feel' It
"The“City of Castroville "has
Antonio," it was reported.
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Waco courtroom, Mrs. Mike
Morales of San Antonio, mother of
the dead man, tearfully said that
after 2 years and 2 weeks, her son’s
death finally has been vindicated.
Morales’ widow, now Mrs. Maria
Morales Balderama, said that the
verdict meant "justice has finally
been done."
Chief defense attorney Marvin
Miller of San Antonio, in final
arguments before the jury, said
Hayes is "a man who is peaceful, a
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Castroville could be subject to
higher city taxes to pay for other
cnena’medicaleervene."
. Also, Thurmond said,to make the
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HAYES SENTENCING SET FOR OCT. 28
g Mrs. Hayes, last year, pleaded and was assessed a 349.60 fine and a
and become a Icurred while he and Morales were guilty'before Medina County Judge 1year probated sentence for taking ' . '
overnight.’’ struggling for control of the shotgun Jerome Decker to a misdemeanor Morales’ body to East Texas and
with which Morales was killed. charge of tampering with evidence burying it.
B and Hayes’ wife, Dorothy, and her ' 1 doing nothing more than question-
sister, Mrs. Alice Baldwin. , ing Morales about an alleged cattle VOL. 19, NO. 26
H The jury in the trial held in Waco, theft case when Morales was shot. • October 3,1977
m which began Sept. 26, found Hayes However, one of the prosecutors , 16 Pages This Week
£ guilty of depriving Morales of his with the civil rights division of the Published Weekly v
■ civil rights, thereby bringing about Justice Dept, in Washington, D.C., . Castroville Texas 78009 -
| his death. Hayes’ wife and her sister said that it bad been proven during
K also were found guilty by a the trial that Hayes intended to
unanimous vote of the jury of violate Morales’ civil rights, and in 7
I » attempting to cover up Hayes’ crime fact , did. Rinzel referred to _(
L by carrying the body some 400 miles testimony by Hayes' son-in-law,
a and hiding it in a shallow grave in far Dennis Dunford, who told the jury
V East Texas. earlier this week that he had
Hayes, already serving a 10-year accompanied the group to the death
prison sentence in connection with scene outside Castroville where ‛
his conviction last year for the Morales was killed by a shotgun
aggravated assault of Morales, and blast to the chest, ft was during that gmemmpppasmg
his wife and sister-in-law showed no journey that Dunford testified that - "s e
emotion as the verdict was read in ' Hayes told him, "Don’t worry if you
the hushed courtroom 4 days after hear a few shots, we’re just going to ■ | A | | A V An ’
Local Ambulance Operation To Change
rejected a "lesser offense" which Mrs. Hayes came to herSan Antonio 7 z
' was given them as an option by home about 5 hours after the NIAnNicet
Spears. Under the lesser offense, shooting and asked that she By BOBBI SCHOTT service operate in the black, there is paid 310. They receive no pay
the jury could have found that Hayes accompany her to their family farm Publisher-Editor have been suggerg-- - - ' *—
violated Morales’ civil rights but? in East Texas. Mrs. Baldwin said - There are changes being pro- only 1 trained EMT on each
that violation did not result in all ’he knew was what her sister had posed in the operation of the ., ambulance call and using untrained To sum it up, Thurmond said, "It
his death. The lesser offense would told her: "There had been an ambulance service throughout Me- volunteers to work with the 1 EMT. is a service for the county, and the
have been a misdemeanor carrying a accident and she (Mrs. Hayes) dina County, changes that already "We, the EMTs, -feel this is not county should be responsible, not an
sentence of only 1 year. thought that Frank (Hayes) had shot are causing quite a "stir” locally. right, nor even safe. We don’t want individual city. And, furthermore.
Under the federal court verdict, a man.” Comm. Leon Tschirhart said the responsibility of someone’s life what guarantee do we have that the
reached by the 6-woman, 6-man ■ She said she did not question her county officials, instead of covering when we don’t have sufficient county won’t change its mind about
sister further, "because I did not any loss incurred by the operation of trained personnel on the ambulance donating the 34000 each year, as it
want to know more." She also the system, will, in the future, just for every call. You need no less than did about not reimbursing the cities
make an outright donation of 34000 2 EMTs to work with each heart for operating in the red?”
per year to Castroville, Devine and attack victim, drownings, and even . ' These are just a few of the
____ _____ Hondo—the 3 cities where the r«r accidents
Hayes had testified that the ambulances are located. This money For the amount of time that each
can only be used to replace an am- area EMT has spent on call and on
_ _ bulance and buy insurance. the ambulance, it amounts to the
DAIz,AmzN 13 Tschirhart said he believes this m-uu‛ mou
1 01 ICS"vOVIICII new plan will work better for each
community involved, for that city
D.l.a2.m.L2m will have money to replace the ve-
K6IOT/OUSnIDi , hides. Then, each city can use its
.c" 1 own funds to buy whatever
The Castroville chief of police and equipment it can afford, without the
police officers will be required to other communities complaining to
bring to the attention of Castroville the county that they want equal
City Council any attempt by equipment.
individuals or groups to influence „ However, there are many whobe-
police operations in which they are lieve this new system is not fair,
involved. Castroville s ambulance coordina-
This clause was only part of the tor,Neal Thurmond, and other
amendment to the police depart- EMTegftrainedumedicaltechnicians
ment policy adopted Sepe. 13 in an been made and it was found that the
attempt to clarify the relationship of ambulance assigned in Castroville
the police chief, police department picks up nlmot twice Tasmany
and city council. patients from outside the city limits
The clause continues by adding than within. So why should
that if any policeman or the chief of Castroville residents have to carry
police allows police policy to be the financial burden for other towns
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Schott, Bobbie. The 4-County News Bulletin (Castroville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 26, Ed. 1 Monday, October 3, 1977, newspaper, October 3, 1977; Castroville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585238/m1/1/: accessed May 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Castroville Public Library.