National
THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1981
Page 7
Teamwork tames traffic
Movin On
Staff photo by Brian Tate
Lewis Wheeler zooms his B-modified sports racer around a
turn in Zachry Engineering Center parking lot. The Texas
A&M University Sports Car Club turned the parking lot into
a racing course for a rally held Sunday. Wheeler, a mecha
nical engineering professor at the University of Houston, is
a member of The Sports Car Club of America, and competes
in many races in the Houston area. His son, David, is a
sophomore civil engineering major at Texas A&M.
United Press International
BATON ROUGE, La. — State
trooper Brad Stewart smiled
slightly as a Citizens Band channel
crackled to life, sizzling with re
ports of “Smokeys thick as fleas.”
“Truck drivers have a pretty
good network,” Stewart said, ad
justing the volume on his radar
scanner. “And they have fuzz bus
kers. We never have to worry ab
out getting lost because they al
ways know where we are.”
A double line of 18-wheelers,
cars, pickups and vans edged wari
ly down Interstate 12 Saturday as
two troopers drove side by side,
holding traffic to 55 mph.
Farther back in the line of traf
fic, troopers on motorcycles
darted between cars and trucks
like cowboys on a cattle drive.
“Two bears coming at you, two
bears coming at you,” warned a
wary trucker in singsong jargon.
Louisiana’s first border-to-
border, rolling roadblock was
aimed at holding traffic to the
speed limit on 1-10 and 1-12 from
the Mississippi border to the
Texas state line.
State police decided to try the
plan after a rash of accidents —
some with multiple fatalities and
injuries — on the interstates. A
similar roadblock was planned in
the future for 1-20 across north
Louisiana.
Much of the CB chatter was
peppered with public opinion.
“The only reason the speed
limit was dropped was to get more
revenue for the state,” said one
motorist.
“I can remember when law en
forcement officers were respect
able,” added another. “Now thev
don’t do anything except make
outlaws out of innocent people.”
Still another trucker found the
slower speed gave him enough
time to make a little time — with a
CB-chatting female motorist.
“Well,” said the trucker, “if }
had you riding up here with me I
wouldn’t mind all this.”
“Yeah,” she answered. “But
you’re going the wrong way. ”
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Society
lues. March 10 Harrington 204
7:30 p.m.
Elections and Constitutional Revision.
The tour of Baylor Medical and Houston
Dental Schools (March 26) will be discussed.
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Atlanta man sees car, fears for life
a# United Press International
ATLANTA — A musician who
admits he is now afraid for his own
life said he saw a suspicious car in
the area where firemen found the
body of Atlanta’s latest slain child.
The body of 13-year-old Curtis
Walker was discovered Friday in a
river near downtown Atlanta by
firemen who saw it floating in the
water as they were driving across a
bridge. Walker, like 10 other of
the victims, died of asphyxiation,
officials said.
“I work late. I was coming
home at 3:50 a.m. (Friday),” the
musician said. “There was a car
out there. He was on the wrong
side of the road. That’s what struck
me. His headlights were out, but
he cut them back on. ”
The musician told police Satur
day he could not see who was in
the car. He said after he drove
across the bridge, the car took off.
He described the vehicle as an
early model Chevrolet, a descrip
tion that tallies with an earlier re
port of a car that was seen near the
spot ; where the body of another
victim was found last month.
The musician talked with a UPI
reporter, but asked that his name
not be used. “He (the slayer) is
killing children now. I don’t want
to be the first adult he’s starting
on.”
About 600 volunteers con
ducted a further search of the area
whqre Walker’s body was disco
vered, looking for the last of 21
missing Atlanta black children.
The other 20 have all been found
slain.
The string of child killings has
been going on in Atlanta for 19
months, but since the first of the
year, one child has vanished near
ly every two weeks.
The only child still un
accounted for on the list of a spe
cial task force that has been set up
to investigate the baffling crimes is
10-year-old Darron Glass, who
disappeared last September.
Another black youth, 15-year-
old Joseph Bell, has also been re
ported missing, but police have
not turned his name over to the
task force because they believe he
is a runaway.
Walker disappeared Feb. 19,
when he disobeyed his mother
and left their northwest Atlanta
housing project apartment and
went to a gunshop looking for
work. An eagerness to earn money
has been a characteristic of many
of the victims and an employee at
the gunshop said Walker would
have been particularly yulner-
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“Curtis was such an eageficid^
he might have gone out or gotten
in a car with anybody who said he
could make a few bucks,” the gun
shop employee said.
Officials said Walker’s body was
not “badly decomposed, ” but re
fused to speculate on how long he
had been in the water.
Nor would they say whether
Walker was clothed. Investigators
believe it is significant that in
some cases articles of clothing
have been removed from the
bodies, but they have refused to
elaborate on their theories.
Walker’s body was discovered a
quarter of a mile from the Chapel
Hill Harvester Church, whose
pastor, the Rev. Earl Paulk, ran an
advertisement in local newspap
ers in early February urging the
killer to surrender.
Paulk said he had received
numerous calls since then, and
feels two of the contacts may have
a bearing on the case. He said one
of the callers apparently was a
white man and the other black.
The minister said after Wal
ker’s body was discovered near his
church, he received a call from a
man who sounded like the pre
vious white caller.
“It’s hard for me to believe that
this was an accident,” said Paulk.
“I think we may have surfaced the
man.
“My hope and prayer is that he
is very desperately seeking to
bring this to an end.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s version of the Scopes “monk
ey trial” has ended with a decision that left both the state Board of
Education and Christian fundamentalists free to claim victory.
Although the fundamentalist attempt to change California’s guide
lines for teaching science — especially evolution — was rejected
Friday, Bible-believing creationists were happy with part of the ruling
handed down by Superior Court Judge Irving Perluss.
Perluss declared the state must observe Darwinian evolution is not
absolute. He said the state Board of Education must include in future
guidelines a 1973 policy statement, long dormant in its files, that
Darwinism be taught as theory — not dogma.
The fundamentalists contended the state guidelines required
teaching of Charles Darwin’s 19th-century theory of evolution as fact
and, thus, violated the rights of children who believe the biblical story
of creation.
The suit came 56 years after the celebrated “monkey trial” in
Dayton, Tenn., in which high school teacher John Scopes was fined
$100 for teaching evolution in violation of state law.
“I think this will stop dogmatic teaching in the schools,” said Kelly
Seagraves, the plaintiff. “The implications are very far-reaching. ”
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