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A Journal of Free Voices June 3, 1983 75\( Wr. ‘a p ho to by Ala n Pog ue TETCFAI3SERVER Friday morning in Kyle questions of inequality. Justice Central Texas Style By Geoffrey Rips New Braunfels w 6 6 E HAVE NOTICED,” Ezequiel “Cheque” Torres said, choosing his words carefully, “a disparity of justice in New Braunfels.” Sitting in the business office of the auto repair shop and bailbond ser vice of Cristina and Nayo Zamora, located just off Interstate 35 on New Braunfels’ south side, the silver-haired and mus tached Torres was discussing recent events in New Braunfels surrounding the trial of Pfc. William Dale Savage and the deaths of the four members of the Ruben Sauceda family during New Braunfels’ Wurstfest in October 1982. The probated sentence received by Savage in April of this year led Torres, the Zamoras, and several other Mexican American families to organize the Committee for Justice for All. Thirty miles to the north, Joe Garcia sits with his wife Eva and their two-year-old daughter in a small frame house on the edge of Kyle, waiting for the June 6 trial of Alan Holt, one of two Anglo youths riding in a pickup truck that struck Garcia as he was riding a bicycle on a country road. Holt, 17, is the grandson of Kyle Justice of the Peace James Holt. For almost a week, while Garcia lay in a coma in Austin’s Brackenridge Hospital, no charges were filed by Hays County District Attorney Bill Rugeley against Holt or Michael Dees, 15, who was also in the pickup. Even after the only witness to the event, Mary Susan Villareal, 17, had given a statement to Rugeley implicating the Holt and Dees boys in a purposeful assault on Continued on Page 8 In This Issue: Scenes from the Session * DOE Protest * The LBJ Biographies