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state — Battalion/Page September 2, Mpj' { M I AMI >4 JUNCTION Everything you need to decorate your dorm room or apt. this fall: • Devil's Ivy • Weeping fig trees • Hanging baskets • Scheffeleras and many more to choose from Free ivy when you bring this ad to: 2510 Texas Bryan, Texas run by aggies for aggies - r jj I i ALPHA i national Debt-collector dead; a hitman suspected United Press International AUSTIN — A homicide in vestigator said detectives were looking into a reported connec tion between slain debt-collector Benjamin Boyd Smith and con victed hitman Charles Harrel- son, one of five suspects in the slaying of a federal judge. The body of the former San Antonio policeman and one time heavyweight boxer was | found early Monday stuffed 'into the trunk of 1981 Buick automobile registered to a Houston oil company. An auto psy revealed he had been strang led with a rope and shot twice in the head with a .22-caliber weapon. An Austin homicide detec tive, who asked not to be named, said Tuesday a tipster had pro vided investigators with several names of Smith’s associates, in cluding Harrelson. Police reported no suspects in the case. Harrelson’s lawyer Tom Sharpe Jr. said he knew nothing about Smith. Federal prosecutor LeRoy Jahn declined comment on a possible link between the two. Smith, 54, was a contender for the state heavyweight boxing title while serving two years as a San Antonio police officer in the 1950s. This year, Smith pleaded no contest this year to conspiracy to commit aggravated assault in a widely publicized Corpus Christi incident known as the “baseball bat case,” Nueces County Prosecutor Jack Hunter said Tuesday. Abused boy dies in coma NE’ United Press International LUBBOCK — A comatose boy hospitalized since July 27 with lacerations, bruises and cigarette burns allegedly in flicted by his stepfather died Wednesday without regaining consciousness, officials said. Robert Hernandez, 2, who was placed on a total life sup port system after paramedics found him in a neighbor’s front yard, died at 3 a.m. Wednesday from a cardiac arrest, said Don McBeath of the criminal district attorney’s office. The child’s mother, Amelia Hernandez, and stepL__ rt „i Lee Roy Eicon, gf“ us arraigned Wednesd Hi | ck charges of first degref :^ . injury to a child andrai,.^^ McBeath said. The district attoirogbci request bonds °f rf: Th each, he said. -j ^ He said the child’si ^, aS a ] life support system wasfa tel . tioning properly whe:^ ^ death occurred. g£ use l Licon told police inJ.T 0 h n outh had eaten rat r“ - ut doctors said testro Kh ir’. cheated no poison ha a f u . rt consumed. jjy ,, - Vermont pays $80,000 K Rapist-slayer costs state n FALL RUSH u* it out... Tuesday, September 7 or Wednesday, September 8 Rooms 205, 206 MSC at 7:00 p.m. FREE NACHO PARTY AFTER MEETING ‘Girls and Guys Welcome* United Press International WATERBURY, Vt. — When accused rapist-slayer Jamie Sav age turns 18 on Sept. 10, 1983, and is released from custody, it probably will have cost the state more than $80,000 to care for him. The bill increased this week with word Savage has been taken to a treatment center in Texas for hard-core youthful offenders and deeply troubled youths. Officials at the Social and Re habilitation Services Depart ment Tuesday would not discuss Savage’s whereabouts, citing state law requiringjuvenile cases to be kept secret. But sources confirmed he was taken to the Brown School, which operates seven facilities in Texas. The bill for confining him there until his release in 13 months probably will exceed $50,000. SRS officials estimated the cost of keeping a student at Waterbury — which was in tended as a temporary holding facility — at about $25,000. Sav age spent 15 months there. Savage had been confined at the juvenile detention center at the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury since his arrest in May 1981 for an ambush attack on two 12-year-old Essex girls. The girls were sexually assaulted, tied up, tortured, shot with BB guns and stabbed, and prosecutors called the attack “sadistic” and designed to cause as much pain as possible. Melissa Walbridge died, but her friend survived and identi fied Savage and Louis Hamlin III, 16, as the assailants. We’re Co-ed and University recognized! ! S Declares Every Thursday TACO THURSDAY TACOS 330 Limit 10 Per Coupon Good Only Thursdays. Post Oak Mall 3312 S. College, Bryan Expires 9-30-82 NOW THROUGH Sept. \S«* To celebrate our 25th Anniversai# of serving the rental furniture needs of Texas residents. 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Hamlin has been convicted and sentenced to 45 years to life for rape and first degree murder. Savage, who was only 15 at the time, could be charged only with delinquency, and must be re- leasea when he turns 18. The crime stunned the state and prompted a special legisla tive session that rewrotejuvenile law, so children as young as 10 can be tried as adults for certain serious crimes. Last week, officials at the So cial and Rehabilitation Services Department said Savage was still at Waterbury. Officials had planned to send him to the Northern Tier prog ram in Blossburg, Pa., but pub licity there reportedly prompted the operators of that facility to change their mind about accept ing him. Savage was sent out of state because Vermont now has no se cure detention facility for juve nile offenders. The 1982 LegislaturejljJ rized construction of J lion juvenile jail in work has not yet beeun > W ‘ I . n retun pr 3!£? R . . , un I I he Brown School ; p£chia"ic facility «» ^ 500 students in seven three are residential troE b centers, each with a seanfifech .ill m the Austirfip nu Officials said a youthH age probably would bes one of those. The others are h houses. A spokesman for I School said it would be H unusual” for a Vermont^ ter to be sent there, and; Savage's background malf j^hi an unlikely candidate feB^ nta school. V £j t Social Services DirectorHL ost mas Moore would not Savage, but said Vermoa j t j es , never sent a child tothefl same School. ing l: Texa: troit < those unin chaii) E. Ai ct i etre N Wanted: Airplane for baby gorilla P United Press International ST. PAUL, Minn. — For want of transportation to Minnesota, a baby gorilla is still in the Texas zoo where he was born. The 7-pound unnamed male western lowland gorilla was born June 28 at the Gladys Por ter Zoo in Brownsville. The breeding loan contract between Brownsville and the Como Zoo in St. Paul, HO specified that the babyflHanv would become the proptrllo fr the Como Zoo. chargi smugj Although the baby ii guns ready to travel to St. W said, officials say they need soffip; Kr to help pay for a privatep dent a Director John Fletcher sat sky, p zoo will help pay for fuel< charg proba chargi 'tf en F “ AGGIELAND SCHWINN* CXMd.LGt . S TA TION 696 ( )490 Largest Inventory In Town Schwinn & Eh ■■■ Bicycles Fuji Factory-Trained Repair Service —1 All Makes and All Models Open 6 Days A Week “Just Across The Street From Texas A&M” 81 I S. Texas ODA-949C INQUIRY CLASS to learn more about the Catholic faith MONDAY EVENINGS 7:30-9:00 (starting September 6) ST. MARY’S STUDENT CENTER 103 Nagle, College Station for more information about this class, call 846-5717 36