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Child drowns
as flood waters
sweep local area
By GARY BARKER
Battalion Staff
An 18-month-old boy drowned in
north Bryan about 10:30 Wednesday
morning when flood waters swept him
out of his parents’ mobile home.
Brandon Russell Gustavus, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Galen Gustavus of 4413
N. Texas Ave. #36, was carried down
the street by the water and trapped in a
culvert after his 2 1/2-year-old sister
opened the door of their trailer home,
Bryan police Sgt. Mark Ricketson said.
The flash floods also caused major
street flooding in parts of Bryan, Ricket
son said. Parts of South College Ave
nue, Esther Boulevard, Coulter Drive,
Williamson Drive, Carson Drive, East
23rd Street and East 29th Street were
flooded. Sue Haswell Park in Bryan and
a portion of Highway 21 East Bypass
were also under water.
Cars were stalled on many streets and
one major traffic accident at East 29th
Street and Main Street was caused by
the flooding.
Several houses in the Wheeler Ridge
and Pecan Ridge additions were dam
aged by the rain.
Parts of Bryan received up to 6 inches
of rain during the storm Tuesday night
and early Wednesday morning, while
the Texas A&M campus got 1.2 inches.
Charlie Brenton of the meteorology de
partment said the majority of the storm
had passed over the Bryan-College Sta
tion area by Wednesday afternoon.
The Brazos Valley was not the only
place in Texas affected by flooding.
Rains of up to 18 inches created serious
flooding across a large section of north
and central Texas, claiming the lives of
three people in Tarrant Country and an
elephant in Gainesville and leaving
hundreds others homeless.
The huge storm system, which
stretched from Abilene to Gainesville
and south to Waco, was a remnant of
Hurricane Norma which struck north
ern Mexico.
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Water rose to over two feet on Spence Street in front of the building.
The flooding subsided in time for 8 a.m. classes.
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By RANDY CLEMENTS
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oel Aniceto Quintans, convicted of
Sluntary manslaughter in the April
fcbbing death of Frederick Axel
[pungberg IV may appeal that verdict.
Quintans was sentenced Sept. 25 to
years by a jury in the 272nd District
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Although Doug Mulder, Quintans’
jtorney, said conditions are favorable
r an appeal, no decision has been
ade to appeal the case. He said the
isisforan appeal is an error in the trial,
at, he said he doesn’t know if errors in
the Quintans’ trial will justify calling for
a retrial of the case.
If Quintans does appeal he will be
eligible to be released from jail on bond
while the appeal process is conducted.
An appeal is an expensive undertak
ing, and if ordered by the appellate
court, it could take up to two years be
fore a new trial is ordered, he said.
Since Quintans was convicted of the
lesser charge of voluntary manslaugh
ter, reduced from capital murder, Mul
der predicted there would probably be
less exposure in a retrial of the case than
there was in the initial trial.
If Quintans is granted a new trial,
Mulder said, the most his client can get
is 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine
— the maximum penalty for voluntary
manslaughter.
“A risk in getting a new trial is he
could receive the maximum,” he said.
‘‘However, he could be found innocent.
“We’ll just have to wait until the
smoke clears and see what our chances
for a favorable appeal will be.”
Quintans is in the Brazos County Jail
pending 272nd District Court Judge
Bradley Smith’s formal sentencing,
scheduled for Friday.
The sentencing, originally scheduled
for Oct. 9, was postponed because Mul
der was going to be out of state.
The defense attorney said the deci
sion whether or not to appeal will be
made before the sentencing date.
Quintans, formerly a freshman pre-
med student at Texas A&M University,
contended he was acting in self-defense
April 20 when he stabbed Youngberg 24
times. Quintans and Youngberg, also a
former pre-med student at Texas A&M,
were both from Irving and had known
each other in high school.
United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt — The United States
dispatched two AWACS surveillance
aircraft to Cairo today to reinforce the
region’s defense and said they may be
used in the Sudan where Egypt already
has sent forces to counter threats from
Libya.
Sending the AWACS for an indefi
nite period was a move to assist Presi
dent Hosni Mubarak as he takes control
of the government following his swear
ing in Wednesday, a senior Western
diplomat said.
Egyptian officials said the planes —
converted Boeing 707s with a giant
saucer-shaped radar dome on top —
would arrive around noon at Cairo West
airfield, an air force base previously
used for joint Egyptian-American milit
ary exercises.
The Western diplomat said the Un
ited States had decided on a second me
asure to demonstrate American support
of the new regime that vowed to carry
on the policies of slain President Anwar
Sadat, but that the move has not been
announced.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinber
ger said in Paris Wednesday at the start
Faculty group
to meet today
at 4 p.m.
The creation of a faculty senate or
some similar body to increase the fa
culty’s role in University governance
will be discussed during a meeting at 4
p.m. today in Rudder Theater.
Dr. Thomas J. Kozik, professor of
mechanical engineering, and Dr.
Robert E. Stewart, distinguished pro
fessor emeritus of agricultural en
gineering, are scheduled to chair the
organizational meeting.
The move to establish a faculty sen
ate started in May when an ad hoc
committee distributed 1,200 ques
tionnaires asking faculty members
whether they were interested in
establishing such a body.
Ofthe 594 questionnaires received,
538 faculty members (91 percent) ex
pressed support for the idea.
“At this meeting we ll get a consen
sus from faculty members and see
what direction they want to go, ” Kozik
said.
Alternatives include a University
senate which would include resear
chers and staff and a bicameral senate,
with a faculty senate and the Academic
Council working independently.
Currently, the Academic Council is
the primary University-wide body
dealing with academic matters. The
majority of members on the council
are administrators, deans and depart
ment heads— only 34 of the 167 mem
bers are elected faculty members.
But, Kozik said, the Academic
Council does not reflect overall faculty
opinion nor does it address issues that
pertain to the faculty.
The professor said he favors a
bicameral senate.
But, Texas A&M President Frank
E. Vandiver said he prefers a Univer
sity senate which would include staff
and faculty as opposed to a senate
comprised of only faculty.
Aggie donors needed next week
Organ drive
aids science
By DANIEL PUCKETT
Battalion Reporter
This semester, for the first time, the
Living Bank drive is being held simul
taneously with the Aggie Blood Drive.
The Living Bank, a joint project of
Student Government and Alpha Phi
Omega, seeks individuals who are will
ing to donate all or some of their organs
to science after they die, said Beth Cas-
tenson, of the organization’s public rela
tions committee.
A person wishing to donate his
organs must sign a donor registration
card which states his intentions.
The registration cards are already
being collected, but the main push in
the drive will come next week, Casten-
son, 4 junior education major from Au
stin, said.
A Living Bank table with a video pre
sentation on the bank’s program will be
in the lobby of the Memorial Student
Center the rest of this week and next
week, and people will be available to
answer questions.
Among the most common misconcep
tions about organ donation, Castenson
said, is the idea that consent to the prog
ram is irrevocable. She said if a potential
donor changes his mind about the prog
ram, he can call the Living Bank and his
card will be cancelled immediately.
Furthermore, if the survivors of a
donor are uncomfortable with the idea,
they are not legally obligated to follow
his wishes, she said.
Castenson said that the bank held its
first drive here last semester, when ab
out 300 cards were collected. She said
that more than 30 cards have been filled
Blood drive benefits
Dallas cancer research
By DANIEL PUCKETT
Battalion Reporter
To find a cure for cancer and to save
lives are two reasons to donate blood
next week, Aggie Blood Drive Chair
man Tony LeCara says.
LeCara, a junior chemical engineer
ing major from Friendswood, said blood
collected here is sent to the Wadley
Institute of Molecular Medicine in Dal
las, where it is used for cancer patients
and research in cancer treatment. In
return, the Wadley Central Blood
Bank, through the Aggie Blood Club,
guarantees students, former students,
faculty, staff and their families lifetime
free blood credits.
The drive, sponsored by Student
Government, Alpha Phi Omega and
Omega Phi Alpha, begins Monday and
continues for four days. Bloodmobiles
will be set up in front of Sbisa Dining
Hall and the Commons and will operate
from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday
through Thursday. Another station will
be open in 212 and 224 MSC from 11
a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday through
Thursday.
Most students are eligible to donate
blood, said Bob Mahurin, co-ordinator
of the drive for the blood bank. Students
under 18 need the written consent of a
parent, and students who have had cer
tain diseases, such as hepatitis, syphilis
or cardiovascular ailments, may not par
ticipate.
However, he said, screening is done
at the collection stations, so students
who are not sure of their eligibility can
find out when they come to donate.
Besides helping others, donors can
help their favorite organization win the
Keg Contest by designating the organi
zation to receive one credit. University
clubs. Corps of Cadets outfits or resi
dence halls are among the organizations
which can receive credits.
The organization with the highest
number of credits will win three kegs of
beer. The second-place organization
will win two kegs, and the third, one
keg. All three groups also will win a
plaque.
The Keg Contest is just one part of
what Mahurin calls the most successful
college blood drive in the United
States. Last semester, the Aggie Blood
Drive collected almost 2,000 pints of
blood. This semester, organizers hope
to reach the 2,500 mark. They stress
that donating blood, while not exactly
frm, is not the difficult, painful process
many think.
The donation process has three steps,
Mahurin said. First, the donor fills out a
source card, which contains 30 to 40
questions about his general health and
medical history. The questionnaire
takes about five minutes to complete.
Second, a nurse goes over the card
with the student, then takes his temper
ature, checks his blood pressure,
weighs him, and runs an iron test on his
blood. This takes from 10 to 12 minutes.
Finally, if all the tests are favorable,
the donor lies down on a table. A nurse
inserts a relatively narrow-gauge needle
into his arm, and collects a pint of his
blood. Actual collection of blood lasts
only seven to 10 minutes.
After a 10-minute rest and some juice
and cookies, the blood donor is free to
go, having spent about 40 minutes in
the collection station. As he leaves, he
fills out his organization card and re
ceives a free blood drive <?anholder.
Cairo gets planes
of a European tour that the two U.S.
Advanced Warning and Control System
aircraft “should be helpful in conduct
ing the defense of the whole region.”
He said the planes “probably” will
only be in Egyptian air space but left
open the possibility they would cruise
elsewhere, such as Sudan where Libyan
air attacks last week were reported.
A senior defense official with Wein
berger said the flying radar platforms
might be used in Sudanese air space to
counter Libyan air strikes into western
Sudan.
The official said AWACS in Sudanese
air space could be defended from Li
byan attack by U.S.-built Egyptian
fighters or U.S. fighters from aircraft
carriers in the Mediterranean Sea.
Weinberger said on his Air Force
jetliner the United States will try to
speed deliveries of air defense systems,
radar and tanks to the Sudan before the
end of the year to thwart Libyan attacks.
The U.S. decision to send the aircraft
to Cairo raised the number of the
sophisticated planes in the Middle East
to six. Four are based in Saudi Arabia to
protect their vital oil fields.