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Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, March 30, 1983 Death row inmate refused retrial despite new evidence Killer thankful for death date United Press International WACO — A Federal judge has denied a motion for a new trial for Texas death row inmate Thomas “Andy” Barefoot, whose lawyers claimed new evi dence showed their client was wrongly convicted. U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton Monday turned down Barefoot’s petition. His attor neys had claimed a witness against him admitted to lying when she said Barefoot was the man she saw fleeing the scene of a August 1978 shooting in which Barker Heights police officer Carl Levin, 37, was killed. Barefoot’s appeal is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court which April. expected to rule in Dallas. The perfect place to complete your nursing education. Finish your nursing education at Dallas Baptist College and you'll have the opportunity to work and learn in one of the nation's most exciting and dynamic urban environments. And you'll benefit from exposure to a variety of clinical agencies and hospitals, broadening your learning experience. DBC offers: —the Bachelor of Science degree with a major in nursing —a nursing curriculum of two years and one summer term —personal attention and small classes —excellent financial assistance program accredited by the National League for Nursing Let us tell you more. Write School of Nursing, DBC, 7777 West Kiest Blvd., Dallas, TX 75211, or call (214) 942-2971. United Press International AMARILLO — A state dis trict court judge Tuesday set May 2 as the execution date for Charles Rumbaugh, and then received a thank you from the condemned killer who has repe atedly asked to be put to death. Judge George E. Dowlen ordered Rumbaugh killed by lethal injection for the 1975 rob bery-murder of an Amarillo jeweler. It was Dowlen who set Rum- baugh’s original execution date of last July 23, but a Houston federal court granted a stay of execution based on an appeal filed on Rumbaugh’s behalf by his parents and the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU claimed in the appeal that Rumbaugh, 25, of San Angelo, was not mentally competent to make the decision to halt all of his appeals. Howev er, the ACLU appeal was dismis sed last month after a competen cy hearing in Amarillo deter mined Rumbaugh was compe tent. Before setting the new execu- ( tion date, Dowlen asked Rum baugh if had anything to say. “No,” Rumbaugh replied. Dowlen then ordered him put to death at the Texas Depart ment of Corrections at Huntsvil le May 2 at sunrise. Throughout the proceed ings, Rumbaugh showed no emotion. At the end, Rumbaugh merely thanked the judge and was led away, a court clerk said. Rumbaugh refused to speak to reporters who had thronged the courtroom. Rumbaugh, a small man with many jail escapes on his record, was sentencecl to death for the April 1975 shooting death of jewler Michael Fiorello. At the time, Rumbaugh was 18. He was sent to reform school at age 12. Rumbaugh’s lawyers say during stints at the Texas Youth Council homes in the 1970s, he was brutalized. Rum baugh admitted to heavy alcohol and drug use while there. He spent time in a mental hos pital in Big Spring, was released at age 17 and shot Fiorello five months later. Woman takes baby to revive marriage United Press International DALLAS — An Oklahoma woman arrested on kidnapping charges says she took a 2-day-old baby from his mother in a Dallas hospital last week with hopes the child would revive her troubled marriage, an FBI agent said. The agent, who asked his name not be used, told a Law- ton, Okla., television station Norma Jo Smith said she took Harold Patterson from his mother last Thursday at Park land Memorial Hospital hoping to create a bond with her estranged husband. She said the couple had ex pected a child this month, but she miscarried a few weeks ago, the agent said. Dallas police spokesman Bob Shaw said Smith’s husband be lieved the child was theirs. “He told our investigators the last time he saw her she was very, very pregnant. We told him she lost the child in California and the child she brought to him be longs to a teenage girl from Palestine,” Shaw said. Smith was arrested in Lawton Monday. She received an initial appearance before U.S. Magis trate Sam Joyner and had her bond on kidnapping charges set at $20,000. The child was delivered a week ago by Caesarean section. On Thursday, a woman dressed as a nurse entered Gretchel Pat terson’s room and said the boy had to return to the nursery be cause she was running a fever. But the boy was not found in the nursery. CUSTOMER INFORMATION FROM GENERAL MOTORS HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH TO DRINK IF YOU'RE DRIVING? USING THIS CHART MAY HELP YOU KNOW YOUR LIMIT First, you should under stand that drinking any amount of alcohol can impair your abil ity to drive. The generally accepted way to measure intoxication is by your Blood Alcohol Concen tration (BAC). In most areas, the legal definition of intoxication is .10 percent BAC and above. However, long before you reach .10 BAC, your judgment and motor skills deteriorate rapidly. In fact, some states include the definition of impaired driving ability, which usually begins at .05 percent. Important factors to keep in mind are how much you’ve drunk in a given period of time, how much you weigh and whether you’ve been eating. Your age, individual metabolism and experience with drinking are also factors. However, it sim ply is not true that beer or wine is less likely to make you drunk than so-called "hard” drinks. A 6-ounce glass of wine, a 12-ounce can of beer or \V> ounces of 86-proof whiskey have about the same amount of alcohol and will have about the same effect on you. How to estimate your Blood Alcohol Concentration. Although the effects of alcohol vary a great deal, the average effects are shown in the accom panying. chart prepared by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Find your weight in the left-hand column and then refer to the number of drinks you have had or intend to have over a two-hour period. For example, if you weigh 160 pounds and have had four beers over the first two hours you’re drinking, your Blood Alcohol Concentration would be dan gerously beyond .05 percent, and your driving ability would be seriously impaired—a dangerous driving situation. Six beers in the same period would give you a BAC of over .10 percent—the level generally accepted as proof of intoxication. It is easier to get drunk than it is to get sober. The effects of drinking do taper off as the alcohol passes through your body, but the drop is slow. In the example above, the person who Even if you’re not drink ing, other drivers may be. Your best protection is still the seat belts in your car. Accidents do happen, and wearing lap and shoulder belts doubles your chances of coming through one alive. DRINKS (TWO-HOUR PERIOD) Weight 1 1 '2 o/.s. 86° 1 Aquoror 12 ozs. Beer 100 1 2 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 120 l 2 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 140 I 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 160 C:T2\f,A 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 n 12 180 'T. .' " A' - .. i: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 n 12 200 IT/!/''3 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ii 12 220 T ^ - 2 : - ■ 3 ■ . 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 n 12 240 ' 6 7 8 9 10 n 12 BE CAREFUL DRIVING BAC TO .05% DRIVING IMPAIRED .05-.09% DO NOT DRIVE .10% & UP Source: NHTSA The chart shows average responses. Younger people generally become impaired sooner, while older people have more vision problems at night. Tests show a wide range of responses even for people of the same age and weight. For some people, one drink may be too many. had six beers would still have significant traces of alcohol in his blood six hours later. Having a full stomach will postpone somewhat the effects of alcohol, but it will not keep you from becoming drunk. Black coffee, cold showers, or walking around outdoors will do nothing to make you sober. Of course, someone who claims, "I’ll be okay as soon as I get behind the wheel,” may be mak ing a fatal misjudgment. At General Motors, we have developed a device which tests a driver’s reflexes and motor re sponses before it allows the car to start. The Department of Transportation is now testing it in California as a deterrent to repeat offenders. Today, you, the driver, have to know your limits and when you’ve gone beyond them. If you have any doubts, don’t drive. This advertisement is part of our continuing effort to give customers useful infor mation about their cars and trucks and the company that builds them. Chevrolet • Pontiac Oldsmobile • Buick Cadillac • CMC Truck Around tow Accounting firm to give $100,000 The Houston accounting firm of Coopers and Lybrandhas pledged a $100,000 gift to the accounting department inthe College of Business Administration. A public reception hosting company representatives will be held at 4 p.m. April 5 in Room 451 of the Academic and Agency Building. Members of the firm will present the first of four $25,000 installments to the department. Dr. James Benjamin, head of accounting departmentsai^ the gif t will be used to establish a faculty fellowship program named for the firm. Commission to discuss airport needs Airport development needs of seven local counties willbej discussed by the Texas Aeronautical Commission at lOa.mJ Thursday at the Brazos Center. The meeting will consider airport f acility developmentsin] Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Robertson and | Washington counties. Items scheduled for discussion are the availability of statel and federal funds for airport development, information on* area economic development, community goals and objet] lives and preservation of airport facilities. Developments at Fasterwood Airport are not scheduledtol be a major discussion topic for the meeting. However,the 1 meeting will be an open discussion of all inquiries intoSnl airport development. City and county officials, airport board members, airport! managers and representatives from the Brazos Valley De l velopment Council will participate in the meeting. Citizens with an interest in air transportation and airportl development are invited to attend in 102 Brazos Centerl 3232 Briarcrest Drive in Brvan. If you have an announcement or item to submit for tbisj column, come by The Battalion office in 216 ReedMcDoJ nald or contact Tracey Taylor at 845-2665. \ Police beat The following incidents were reported to the University Police Department for March 28. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: •A fire in Dunn Hall. A pap er bag was set afire and tossed into room 106. The fire was ex tinguished when police aura ASSAULT: •( )f a woman in Rul l ower. The male whoassai her was Caucasian, in hisf 20s, approximately 6 feet21 dies tall with long clarkhait.J New Orleans jury conquers ‘impasse United Press International DALLAS —Jurors who con victed three white New Orleans policemen of violating a black man’s civil rights readily be lieved that beatings had occur red, but they could not agree that the other four defendants were involved, one member of the panel said. I he juror, who asked not to be identified, said the all-white, seven-woman, five-man panel had reached an “impasse” Mon day morning in its third day of deliberations, when U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer gave them the so-called “dynamite charge” urging them to try again. Just hours later the jury re turned convictions for felony conspiracy and one misde meanor count of deprivation of civil rights against homicide Sgt. John McKenzie, 40, and detec tives Dale Bonura, 34, and Stephen Farrar, 31. Acquitted were detectives Ronald Brink, 37, Thomas Woodall, 32, and RichaijLj lane, 32, and officer Stephen i boul, 29. McKenzie, Bonura amlf rar l ace up to 10 years in pi and a $10,000 fine on the(ii spiracy count and oneyeann! $1,000 fine for violating rights of Robert Davis. Senti ing was set for May 19. ! Davis, a black resident ofi Algiers section of New said he was beaten, bagged hooked and illegally jail November 1980 following gunshot slaving of patrol® Gregory Neupert in Algiers, Davis was one of three)! and one white man whodaiia they were beaten with fists,! ged” by having plastic bags) over their heads until ijl almost suffocated and “booli by being pounded on thel with a heavy hardbound cil)^ rectory. Defense attorneys said convictions would- be appeal* The officers will remainotf live duty pending thoseapM Bitterness remains despite convictions] United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Despite the conviction of three police man on civil rights charges, lead ers of the black community say bitterness will linger from the mistreatment of people during a murder investigation. City officials, recalling sever al weeks of racial tension, issued a string of no comments after the verdict Monday finding three policemen guilty of civil rights violations. A jury in Dallas found four other officers innocent of simi lar charges, relating to the 1980 investigation into the slaying of officer Gregory Neupert. Four black citizens in the Algiers neighborhood died as police hunted Neupert’s killer. Rose Loving, a black com munity leader from Algiers was instrumental in calming the community in the wake of the shootings. She said although residents of New Orleans acted responsibly, bitterness in towards police* linger. But it can lie overi| with time, she said. None of tht seven policed I involved in the two-week 0® was charged in any of thef shootings that foil Neupert’s death. The chafl related to allegations of bruaj during questioning of citizens who appeared prdi tion witnesses. T he trial was movedtoDi> because of publicity. “It’s always been ourcasf^ this is not an isolated case,' systematic of how police I been operating,” saia KaWl Salaam of New Orleans,! of the Black Collegian Mij /ine. Salaam led demonstrat and a sit-in at MoriJl’s offiye| lowing the police shooting “The reason we went in mayor’s office was to call ad tion to the whole probwj said.