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jdifeest v ? Execution may be 1 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? A death row scheduled March 14 execution televised Gov, Mark White says he wouldn't wan the event and doesn't think it is "prope James David Autry's execution would nilKlir in A 1 *;/?orc Dnf Kn puvnv AAA VTA /VOl J. UUV LII^, 3iait pi ldUU UkJ unanimous" against the idea, board Gunn says. The board will vote on it M Autry said recently if the public is "s< the death penalty as a deterrent, they sh see it." Attorney General Jim Mattox issued 2 ing, "I have no objection to the bros execution." But White said he didn't think an exec propriatc use of television. Frankly, thei grams on television today that I don't wa watching - my children - and this woul characterization." The last public execution in Texas w when Rnv Mitrhpll fitm *> > .. ..? * M ^ ^ J tTdiVIIVUf VV1IT1VIVU V/ I live 111 U from a gallows adjacent to the McLenn Waco. Mattox said if the board should de coverage of the execution, "strict gui< established, such as allowing only one c disruption as possible. The board also whether the broadcast should be live or But Gunn said he thought televising th 1 ( ( ' ? f-.li-- ' uc in awiuny poor lasie. 'Wild Man' evidenc PEKING (AP) ? The Chinese Wild I stitute claims there is new evidence of at 1 tuan, hairy creatures roaming the fores vince ? the elusive "wild men" of histc Known in Chinese as 44 Ye Ren," the wi described as 10 feet tall, with tufts of r< hopping five-toed feet. Some say they ha' others claim they have bills, like giant di In most accounts, the wild man walks u do. As with America's Big Foot and Scot monster, witnesses have failed to pr< photos or other absolute proof. Areas w1 are said to roam are off-limits to foreigr I The search for these purported m started hundreds of years ago and is Chinese history books and poems, occasi by China's state-run Communist press. Li Jian, secretary-general of the Ch Research Institute in Wuhan, Hubei's c his claims in an article in the Friday Woi Saturday in Peking. Li claims researchers at Wuhan Medica examined "hairs of eight kinds of red-h i i _ J _ r ? ? ? A. - anu coriciuueu eigni 01 me creatures e country of Hubei, a province of central Dr. Seuss joins arn NEW YORK (AP) ? Dr. Seuss, wh< told children all about "The Cat in the Ha Grinch Stole Christmas," says even he ii classify his newest work, "The Butter B; The book is the story of an escalating ? the Yonks, who eat their hread hutter Zooks, who like it just the opposite. Thei the Utterly Sputter and the Big-Boy Boc 4<I don't know if this is an adult book children's book for adults," Theodore ! writes under his middle name, told Para^ interview published yesterday. The author, who turns 80 on March 2 as a lieutenant colonel in World War I choose between two Hollywood actors t< ior an Army mm. Birds sense impendi GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) ? A s number of birds roosting under Con River Bridge may have been an early wa ture's collapse, according to the Audub The bridge collapsed iri early 1983. Th ty, which records annual Christmas birc as many as 120,000 starlings roosted through 1978. However, it says the numl 1979 and only six in 1980. pSC to4sy . atafs lit 7 m& 8:30 ?,nt. firw. r-r ?v w' ~ ~ 'v%WfWW ^WWlCw rvfUlvt COfttHU ft*y in Cwrtfri Amtricn R?ion," ? 8 p ^ -)i r " ' ' ','" ' r ' ' "1?r~ r? mmmmmmmmmmmmkmrnmotrni i il > j Ik televised] Pr'SOn By Marit Berg-Bobo t inmate wants his A bill to establish across Texas, but program for nonviok t his family seeing been met with oppos: r for television." House of Representat I be the first made Rep. Malloy Mcl iard is "practically, Florence, said he is afi chairman Robert bill may die this year i an h 12. Rules Committee give ariAHC O V*/\i 11 ncinnr -1 iv/uj uuuui u^iilg Cell Iy UCUdlC. ould let the public It will be difficult t< mittee release the b i letter Friday say- McEachin said, adc adcast of Autry's unlikely. If re-elected, tends to reintroduce tf ution was "an ap- General Assembly in 1 e are a lot of pront my family to be THE OPPOSITIO d fall in the same Timothy Brett, R-Grei to the bill "on face vai 'as July 30, 1923, has neither studied the irders, was hanged ched the issue enough. an County Jail in ed to the program <4pl "South Carolina ha: cide to allow TV taken an approach delines should be prison overcrowding amera for as little prisoners early inste; i could determine good prisons and hirinj videotaped." Brett said, pointing t e execution would "some middle grounc prison overpopulation While the bill wot :e found m vlan Research In- igf east eight gargan- im3rH|y ts of Hubei Proiry and legend. ild men have been ed hair and clod- J| ve ape-like heads, ^ jck.5. nj ipright as humans JfeMflBBB&Rll land's Loch Ness 3vide convincing here the wild men BRr aSfa an-beasts, which .>'/j 4..{ recorded in old $ljk' Mjjm onally is reported inese Wild Man il :apital, published |*^* rker's Daily, seen ?Mw * %j .1 College recently' v *" laired wild men" . xist in the^back side up, and the ; ry includes From the to| ; for children or a Gary Smith of the Univ Seuss Geisel, who Band Clinic and Conduci ae magazine in an _ , also relates how, I j [1 jj ji [j I, he once had to " " d do the narration BAL HARBOUR, AFL-CIO leaders, n tin Hnnm criticism of labor's liy UUUIII Mondale's presidenti; trying to savor his iharp drop in the drawing much att necticut's Mianus ? IVUI1I1VVUUU. These labor leaders on Society. accusations of a ur ic Audubon Socie- Mondale campaign si 1 counts, says that e(j as sour-grapes 1 under the bridge didates who sought >er fell to 12,000 in _ tfce AFL-CIO end< But federation 1 - J refused this past we< lor Mondale's victo caucuses. CtodhyOrM* tftafc, And while spurrin, get union members Mondale in Tuesday'! jot with "fLmm-irnri primary, the leadei m u * - " liamI minimize the AFL-< wiPWIW IfWl campaign. i i - . Criticism of the dorsement of Mon< ttelinE release bill fai violent prisoners to work in tl i a work-release munity under the supervision ;nt prisoners has state Department of Correcti ition in the S.C. mediately after sentencing, the ives. law allows them to be releas< Eachin Jr., D- work program after serving on< aid the amended or one-fifth of the sentence, de unless the House on their record and behavioi s it a chance for violent prisoners include b embezzlers, and persons conv 3 make the com- driving while intoxicated, ill this session, However, because the work ling that it is law of the mid-60s is vaguely wi however, he in- has been widely interpreted. ?e bill in the next are so many laws floating aro 1985. there," Rep. Joyce Hea Richland, said, "and public op N leader, Rep. so strong (against early release) enville, objected need a year or so to sort all I lue." He said he grams out." ; bill nor resear- BUT McEACHIN sees but he is oppos- mediate need for this bill. "If > lilosophically." do something about the oven 5 for many years prisons now, the federal cour to solving the very well try to take over cont by releasing said. ad of building McEachin said the state is i g more guards," in four federal lawsuits bee 0 the need for overcrowded prisons, adding 1 to relieve our federal courts might decide to ." S.C. courts unless the prison lid allow non- tion is reduced. ** ** ^PsP^PrT m t ? ersity of Illinois conducts the Smith Symphonic Band in reh tors' Symposium. downplays Mon Fla. (AP) ? come principally from Sen lore sensitive to Glenn of Ohio and Gary Har role in Walter orado. two of his Demnrrat al campaign, are has been somewhat muted i success without days. ention to the But federation leaders kn have not heard the last of ac< ; say they believe that Mondale is a captive of b lion-orchestrated "I expect that the Republi lould be dismiss- try to give Mondale that ki aments by can- label, but I don't think it will - but did not get tive," said John Sweeney, pre orsement. the Service Employees Inte leaders publicly union. ik to take credit Labor's sensitivity to ch a! * >iy in inc town KingmaKing was illustrated public comments of AFL-C1 g labor i activists dent Lane Kirkland and to the polls for remarks by the head of 01 5 New Hampshire largest affiliates. ship sought to The day after Mondale s< ^IO role in his impressive victory in Iowa, said "I don't diminish the AFL-CIO's en- labor played." Jale, which has But he insisted that Mom ses opposition he com- Rep. Parker Evatt, R-Richland, said of the the bill would be "only one of many ons im- solutions to our prison problems." current The bill, he said, would "make official id on a what is currently being done. It is :-fourth basically a probation and (it is) very pending similar to the present furlough r. Non- program." urglars, Corrections Department spokesman icted of Tony Strawhorn agrees. "This would confirm officially what has been at:-release tempted." he said. "I feel it (the bill) is ritten, it a good program that is psychologically "There more beneficial to the prisoners. It is und out better for nonviolent orisor. ? to be rn, R- working than in prison with .ardened >inion is criminals," Strawhorn said. that we BESIDES, HE added, the bill would the pro- provide an "excellent means for freeing up beds for violent criminals" as an im- well as being "more cost effective" ve don't than the present system because "it :rowded would get these people off welfare and ts might on paying taxes," he said. rol," he McEachin confirmed the savings. "There would be an initial (contrucinvolved tion) cost savings of $14,000 per bed ause of and $3,487 per bed per year in that the operating costs by building the needed operate minimum-security rather than medium popula- - or maximum-security prisons," he said. st mmmu <*** * Photo by Sohail Khwaja uarsai ror yesieraay s conceri inai ended U5U s dale connection s. John because of his "broad appeal across! t of Col- the whole range of the constituency of ic rivals, the Democratic Party." n recent Kirkland replied snappishly when asked if Mondale had called him after ow mey ine resuus were reported: "I hope he's :usations on his way up in New Hampshire, >ig labor. working there. I don't want him cans will wasting time on the telephone to me." ind of a , Two days later, Gerald McEntee, be effec- president of the million-member sident of American Federation of State, County rnational and Municipal Employees, said Iowa showed "organized labor in general, arges of and AFSCME in particular, stil! has f in the, political musclc." ,w rresi-i bui ne maac that statement during a private' closed-circuit, internal union satellite le of its TV program beamed to some of his activists in Manchester, N.H. cored an Asked about this, McEntee said, Kirkland "We don't want to gloat (over Iowa) role that because that would give ammunition, to the Harts and the Glenns of thd dale won world.