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1AU0 are six com: »spotted s Wre cliic| cart. os « golf Is mend cased car; i, "t Blue ft v effices si anted in p "’ey. The pi this exjM THE BATTALJON Wednesday, March 8, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 5 Judge orders arrest of editor for publishing trial verdict TEXARKANA, Ark. (^—Cir cuit Judge John Goodson ordered the arrest Tuesday of a news paper editor who published a story on a trial verdict in defiance of a court order. Harry Wood, executive editor of the Texarkana Gazette and News, began an hour later try ing to arrange to surrender. No arrangement could be made im mediately because Goodson could not be found. Wood wanted Goodson located before he surrendered because the judge refused to set bond in ad vance and Wood faced remaining in jail until the judge reappeared. Goodson issued an arrest war rant after Wood failed to appear at a hearing to answer a con tempt citation issued by Goodson Friday. Wood was represented at the hearing by lawyer W. H. Arnold, but the presence of counsel did not satisfy the judge. Wood did not appear on the advice of Ar nold, who tried unsuccessfully to fight the contempt citation with four motions, all overruled by Goodson. Wood declined to comment on the case, saying he did so on Arnold’s advice. He spent the afternoon in his office, smoking one cigarette after another, hand ling routine business, and com plaining because of the delay in bringing the case to a head. The Texarkana Gazette on Feb. 17 published a story about the rape conviction of Eugene E. Sumler of Texarkana. The ver dict was returned in open court Feb. 16, but Goodson first asked a reporter and then ordered Wood not to print the story in the next morning’s Gazette because re lated cases were scheduled for trial the next day. Although actions in open court generally have been regarded as public information, Goodson said in the contempt citation that he did not consider this verdict to be a public record. He did not explain why he took this view. The judge chastised Arnold at the start of the hearing because Arnold had not complied with a court rule that all motions must be submitted to the judge 15 min utes in advance of a hearing. “ . . . As you knew when you sat on this bench,” said Goodson to Arnold, who was Miller County circuit judge until 14 months ago. Arnold first moved to have the citation dismissed on the grounds that it was improper for an Ar kansas deputy sheriff to serve it on Wood in the Gazette offices, which are on the Texas side of this border city. Goodson held that Wood had been adequately notified of the contempt proceeding. He then overruled a motion asking him to disqualify himself on grounds that he was “directly and person ally involved” in the case. Arnold sought to have the ci tation dismissed on grounds that a SKAGGS DRUGS & FOODS ECONOMY SIZE SALE..!! SPECIALS GOOD WED. 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W i 49‘ PILLSBURY BISCUITS BUTTERMILK ^ OR COUNTRY O STYLE ^ 8 OZ. ,y Goodson, an Arkansas judge, lacked jurisdiction to cite a resi dent of Texas in connection with an article printed in a newspaper located in Texas. “Overruled,” snapped Goodson. Finally, Arnold filed a formal answer to the contempt citation, declaring that Wood and the newspaper had a perfect right to print the offending story under the First (freedom of the press) Amendment to the U.S. Consti tution. This, too, was overruled. “Anything else?” asked Good- son. When Arnold said, “No,” Good- son directed the sheriff to arrest Wood and said he wanted to be notified as soon as Wood was in custody “even if it is 4 o’clock in the morning.” Arnold asked the judge to set bond, but Goodson replied, “I’ll set bond when Mr. Wood is in custody.” The judge apparently recog nized some kind of jurisdiction problem but he instructed the sheriff’s office not to try to ar rest Wood in Texas. Wood, 33, has been a news paperman for 14 years. He came to Texarkana a year ago after three years as editor of the Sen tinel Record-New Era at Hot Springs, Ark. Prior to going to Hot Springs, he was state editor of the Standard Times at San Angelo, Tex., for three years. Simon presents Thursday talk Dr. Herbert A. Simon of Car- negie-Mellon University closes out A&M’s 1971-72 University Lectures Series with a Thursday presentation entitled “Is There an Information Explosion?” The professor of computer sci ence and psychology will speak at 8 p.m. in the Zachry Engineering Center auditorium. Dr. W. A. Landmann, Univer sity Lectures Committee chair man, said the College of Business Administration will host Dr. Simon’s admission-free presenta tion. Dr. Simon is considered a na tional authority on the use of computers to simulate human thinking. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration and serves in the President’s Science Ad visory Committee. New dorm wing named for Dunn A&M has designated one wing of its new $8.5 million dormitory complex the “J. Harold Dunn Residence Hall” in honor of the Amarillo businessman, civic lead er, rancher and 1925 A&M gradu ate. Dr. Jack K. Williams, TAMU president, noted in his announce ment that Dunn is one of the university’s most dynamic gradu ates who started at the bottom of the ladder and worked his way to commanding heights. Dunn was chairman of the board of Shamrock Oil and Gas Corp. from 1960-66 and chairman of the executive committee of Diamond-Shamrock Corp. from 1966 until his retirement on May 1, 1969. His current interests are ranch ing and investments. The new dormitory complex in cludes two four-story residence halls, one named for Dunn and the other still unnamed, and a one-story student commons with dining and recreational facilities. The 948-student complex, sched uled for completion this summer, is located across from the golf course north of the 12-dorm Corps of Cadets area. Jones chosen for award Mark H. Jones, A&M aerospace engineering major of Dallas, has been selected among eight stu dents nation-wide for Sigma Gama Tau’s 1972 National Honor Undergraduate Student Awards. The senior student will later be presented a $100 honorarium and certificate documenting the award. Students were nominated by each chapter of the society. Jones has a 3.88 grade point ratio in the 4.0 TAMU system. He also is secretary of the A&M chapter of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, serves on the senior class council and is a member of Phi Eta Sig ma, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi.