THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1978
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Davis’ lawyer says
iew trial doubtful
United Press International
FORT WORTH — An attorney
rT. Cullen Davis said Wednesday
ie doubted the Texas millionaire
jiild ever go to trial on charges he
^Ihot his wife and slew her lover.
|‘|lt has been our position all along
it (the charges) is collateral es-
pel — which is a form of double
ardy — and that cases in the
reme Court will bear that out,”
ttbrney Phil Burleson told re-
ers following a hearing delaying
e criminal action against his
Ithy client.
nA^There is no question about it. It’s
LTJoublc jeopardy for this man.”
Pavis was found innocent of a
njrder charge in a highly pub-
igkcd, sensational trial last year in
njimarillo.
”*“the Fort Worth socialite had
accused of slaying his 12-
-old stepdaughter, Andrea Wil-
n, during a 1976 shooting spree
jhis Fort Worth mansion, then
gging her body into the base-
Int.
His estranged wife, Priscilla
Jvis, and a family friend, Gus
avrel, were wounded in sub-
UnitdRuent shooting and his wife’s
jpvd, Stan Farr, was also killed.
curre:|Although acquitted of murder
oftimtHrges in the Wilborn shooting,
„ dshas remained charged with at-
1311 jmpting to murder his wife, Gav-
178, tk >1, and Farr.
S 3 mi [ There has been considerable
culation in past months that
e nmiBse charges might eventually be
• OnoBpped. But prior to Wednesday’s
erelyrfearing, Tarrant County district at-
i set lot jney Tim Curry had not said
! COSt Hi
not even to his closest friends —
what he planned to do.
Prosecutors announced in district
court they were ready for trial. Had
they asked for a delay, Davis’ attor
neys could have demanded a trial
under the recently passed “Speedy
Trial Act,” which goes into effect
July 1, and thus forced the state
either to try Davis immediately or
drop charges.
Following the opening gambit,
Davis attorneys requested — and
were given t— a waiver.
“In effect, there will not be any
trial next week because of pending
litigation (Davis’ divorce trial) which
we feel will be resolved favorably,”
Burleson said in explaining his legal
maneuver. “Our availablilty for
other litigation will be set for some
time in the future.”
Burleson said he felt the prose
cutors were considering prosecution
of the case, but said he doubted the
ethics and legality of it.
“I think they are looking at it from
a legal standpoint. I think they are
studying it,” he said.
County legal adviser Marvin Col
lins, one of the prosecutors in the
Amarillo trial, has maintained re
cent Supreme Court decisions con
cerning double jeopardy would
seem to have further weakened
chances of retrying the Texas mil
lionaire for any of the shootings.
Collins said if prosecutors at
tempted to try Davis on one of the
three remaining felony shooting
charges pending against him, the
Supreme Court might well decide
Davis was being tried again for a
crime which he already had been
acquitted.
Campus Names
Calhoun given second
term on Marine Council
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr.,
executive vice president for pro
grams for the Texas A&M Uni
versity System, has been ap
pointed by Gov. Dolph Briscoe
to another six-year term on the
Texas Coastal and Marine Coun
cil. Calhoun has served on the
Dr. John
Calhoun Jr.
council since it began in 1971.
The 15-member advisory panel is
composed of legislators, indus
trial and business leaders and
key university officials from
throughout the state. The group
meets eight times each year to
provide marine-related advice to
the governor and various state
agencies.
Zentgraf one of few
offered pilot contracts
Melanie S. Zentgraf of San
Antonio has been chosen in a
select group of women offered
pilot allocation contracts in the
Air Force ROTC program. Ms.
Zentgraf is one of 14 women
selected in the United States. Air
Force Col. Kenneth Durham
said the Texas A&M cadet will
officially go under pilot category
contract for an officer’s commis
sion Aug. 28 with the start of fall
semester classes, if she accepts
the contract. Ms. Zentgraf, a
junior biomedical science major
with a 3.9 GPR, has other com
mission options.
Chiou to assume
duties Aug. 1
Dr. George C. Y. Chiou will
assume duties as head of phar
macology and toxicology in the
Texas A&M College of Medicine
Aug. 1. Chiou is presently pro
fessor of pharmacology and
therapeutics at the University of
Florida College of Medicine,
Gainesville. In addition to teach
ing, he heads research teams
working on treatment of
glaucoma and cancer
chemotherapy with support from
the National Institutes of Health,
American Cancer Society and
Merck, Sharp and Dohme Re
search Laboratories.
Hoyle appointed
to commission
John Hoyle, associate profes
sor of Educational Administra
tion, has been appointed to the
State Commission of School Ac
creditation. The commission,
which meets quarterly in Austin,
acts as a policy and advisory body
to review the accreditation plans
of public schools in Texas.
Hoyle, who was appointed to the
nine-member board by commis
sioner of education Dr. Martin
L. Brockette and the State Board
of Education, will serve at his
post through 1980.
Hayes superintendent
of Maritime Academy
Retired Navy Rear Adm.
Kenneth G. Hayes will officially
become superintendant of the
Texas Maritime Academy on July
1, announced Moody College
President William Clayton. The
new superintendent’s duties will
include teaching and preparation
of the academy’s annual summer
cruise which is currently on its
way to the Caribbean. Part of
Haynes’ duties also involve plan
ning the itinerary for next year’s
nine-week cruise.
Journalism student
wins McGill award
Andrew Williams of Waco was
one of thirteen southern college
students awarded scholarships
by the Ralph McGill Scholarship
Fund. The fund offers schol
arships to students who have
completed at least two years of
Andrew
Williams
college and who have demon
strated a firm interest in the
news and editorial phase of
newspaper work. Williams is a
junior journalism and English
major at Texas A&M and is em
ployed this summer as an intern
on the Waco Tribune-Herald.
Hurricane hunter
sights low pressure
United Press International
MIAMI — An Air Force hur
ricane hunter plane flew out over
the Gulf of Mexico on the opening
day of summer Wednesday to inves
tigate the first area of suspicion to
develop in the three-week-old 1978
tropical storm season.
In its noon tropical weather out
look, the National Hurricane Center
in Miami said a low pressure trough
— from which tropical storms some
times develop •— extended from
Florida to the Yucatan Peninsula.
Forecasters said the trough was ac
companied by considerable shower
activity and was almost stationary.
They predicted that any de
velopment of the system would be
“slow to occur.”
Dr. Neil L. Frank, director of the
center, said it was “the first low
pressure trough this year that is sig
nificant enough to send a plane out
to investigate, but it is not unusual
this time of year for a low pressure
trough to develop in that area of the
Gulf or Mexico, or in the western
Caribbean. ”
He said the aerial reconnaissance
was ordered not because of the loca
tion of the system but because of its
size and type.
Should the winds and clouds ac
companying the showers begin cir
culation, the trough could become a
low pressure center, the final step
before development of a tropical
storm.
If the trough should eventually
strengthen into a tropical storm with
sustained winds of 39 miles an hour,
it would be named Amelia,
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exican-American leaders critical
|f Carter s meeting invitation list
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Three
Ixfcan-American leaders have
Jicized President Carter’s invita-
list to a Houston meeting of
jspanics Friday, saying Carter’s
llitical backers were invited while
Bmps most active in the police
litality issue were omitted.
g'Attorney Ruben Sandoval, active
for several years in seeking prosecu-
tion of police officers who killed
, Mexican-Americans; Joaquin Avila,
)t j an attorney for the Mexican-
^ 1 American Legal Defense and Edu-
, 1 cation Fund, and Victor San
Micuel, head of the local Brown Be-
1 " rets Chapter, told a news conference
" l ; tLt not one person who attended a
y 23 meeting in Dallas on police
itality was invited to the Friday
ieeting by Carter’s staff.
The groups attending the Dallas
peting wrote Carter requesting he
ime to Texas to discuss human
fights, sending a list of at least 56
ftes of police abuse the partici-
■nts said they had documented in
} Texas.
f) But Sandoval said it appeared the
1 persons invited to Houston mostly
were Mexican-American Demo-
|“We’re not trying to cast disparag-
g remarks on those who were in
vited. They are leaders in their own
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“What I’ m trying to say in essence
is this: We feel the meeting in
Houston Friday should not be and
must not be held in lieu of the one
we requested,” he said. “Perhaps
this is more of a political meeting
than a conference on human rights
and then we should denote it and
make no mistake what it is.”
Organizations not represented at
the meeting include the Texas
League of United Latin American
Citizens, the oldest and largest or
ganization of Spanish-speaking per
sons in Texas; MALDEF; IMAGE,
an organization of Mexican-
American federal workers; La Baza
Unida Party; the American GI
Forum; the U.S. Catholic Confer
ence’s Office for Hispanic Affairs;
and the Alianza de Pueblos Fibres of
New Mexico, Sandoval said.
“We’re not on an ego trip,” San
doval said, “but I do believe if
they’re going to be sincere about
coping with this (police brutality)
problem, they should have invited
and they must invite in subsequent
meetings some of the people named
in our letter of May 31. Those who
have been invited are near strangers
to the police brutality issue. We
really need someone to meet with
the President and the attorney gen
eral who is versed in this area.”
Bonilla has been critical of Carter
since his election, saying the Presi
dent turned his back on Spanish-
surnamed persons who voted 88
percent for Carter in 1976.
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