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Page 12/The Battalion/Thursday, October 13,1983 Missing children ? Contact Child Find United Press International NEW YORK — A South Carolina teenager abducted almost two years ago returned to her grandparents and leads on five other missing children were received following the broadcast of a television docudrama on missing children, a national agency said Wednesday. Child Find, a 3-year-old agency based in New Paltz, N.Y., said that since the Monday night airing of the NBC show “Adam” — the true story of a missing child — it has received 150 calls an hour from people either re porting leads on missing chil dren or asking for information. Kristin Brown, spokeswoman for Child Find, said the agency had leads on five of the 55 youngsters whose pictures were flashed on the screen following the show. She said another child — not one of the 55 — was brought home this week because someone telephoned Child Find. The agency has located 595 children since its inception. ^First Presbyterian Churcl^^ 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan :pt Alice Byrne, a member of the board of directors of the agency, the largest of its kind in the na tion, said that although the broadcast didn’t change the problem, it did touch people. “We needed a good storytel ler,” Byrne said. The toll-free number of Child Find — 800-431-5005 — was also flashed on the screen fol lowing the telecast about Adam Walsh, a child from Hollywood, Fla., who was killed in 1981. The flood of calls and the first success came soon after. 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30AM & 11:00AM Church School at 9:30AM College Class at 9:30AM I Bus fromTAMU Krueger/Dunn 9:10AM Northgate 9:15AM I Youth Meeting at 5:00PM Nursery: All Events i R £ TEXAS AVE s ** g s CARTER CREEK PKY First 4- Presbyierian * Church Valerie Stockie, 15, of South Carolina, missing for almost two years, is now back with her grandparents in Arkansas, Brown said. “She had allegedly been abducted from her mother’s home by two male friends of the family,” Byrne said. “She read about the program in TV Guide. Then she called Child Find." Byrne said 80 percent of the calls into Child Find have been from people giving information on the whereabouts of missing children. The other 20 percent, she said, are from parents who want information. Parking problems Otl staff photo byCuy# Rtt Handicapped students have had problems with cars parking too close to handicap parking spaces. Here, Carla Kassler moves A&M’s Handicap Service van to allow Jeff Scott to enter. Scott said that often non-handicapped students park in handicap spaces. Pumps And CITIES ‘TORINO” in Black, Teal, Berry, Brown, Navy Th€ Shoe Store Texas Ave. So. at Southwest Parkway 696-6976 Co/lej'e Station’s f inest Shoe Store Parkway Square Amei'ican Express. Master Charge Visa. Gift Certificates and Layaway *rr led ref jg: Doctor spends birthday hoping for another trial me II tea IT d t United Press International BASTROP — Former Green Beret physician Jeffrey McDo nald marked his 40th birthday in prison Wednesday, hoping for a new trial in the brutal 1970 murders of his wife and two daughters at a North Carolina Army base. McDonald is serving three life sentences at the Federal Cor rections Institution at Bastrop for the February 1970 stabbing and beating deaths of his pre gnant wife, Colette, and his two children, Kimberly, 5, and Kris ten, 2. The Princeton-educated McDonald, who was first cleared by Army investigators at Fort Bragg, was not indicted for the crimes until 1975 and was even tually convicted in 1979. McDonald has maintained from the beginning that his family was killed during a Charles Manson-like rampage by four hippies, who also attack ed him. But federal prosecutors claimed he flew into a rage over a recurrent bed-wetting prob lem with his oldest daughter, kil led his family and then inflicted wounds on himself to cover up the slayings. McDonald went to prison in March 1982 and his conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court 10 months later. “It’s really an insane system of justice in this country,” McDo nald said in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman. “They twist everything.” McDonald, who was director of emergency services at a Long Beach, Calif., hospital before his imprisonment, has a lawyer and two private investigators work ing to turn up new evidence in the case. He says he’s hopeful of filing a motion for a new trial based on new evidence later this year. McDonald’s lawyer, Brian O’Neill of Santa Monica, Calif., says he believes his client is inno cent. “I just hope the new evidence AGGIELAND =AWA R D S ENGRAVING Trophies • Plaques • Ribbons • Badges Plastic Signs & Nameplates l846-2376 SKAGGS CENTER PROBLEM PREGNANCY ' Are you considering Abortion? Confidential Free Pregnancy Testing & Referrals Call (713) 524-0548 Houston, Texas V is sufficient for a new trial■ ' said. “We’re shooting for cember filing with the trialjiff,^ back in North Carolina ojT )a necessary, the appeals coii« n , Virginia.” K-p McDonald’s story is the | ^ ject of a newly released I«jq “Fatal Vision," in whichtkH. m thor, Joe McGinnis, a free-liB| y journalist, concludesthatMT ] ( nald is guilty. I b But McDonald, who wip # ceive one-third of the botj profits, is harshly crilic:|L 0 McGinnis’ work, calling "!lE Vision” a "trashy book." | e | |( “1 opened my life td(M(m nis) and in return he has:. # ciously and willfully not JT shaded the truth but in faaP 1 manufactured lies,” he said “In several recent intern# no attempt whatsoever; made to print the truth on facts,” he said in a lettertol in which he declined tobeifi viewed. “I am astounded by thelad backbone and integrity am members of the press whos I too willing to climb on an® | journalists’ (McGinnis) vec of the truth,” he added. McDonald, who was Iran: red from a California fed(^ prison in late 1982, prison day with a loudspe wake-up at 6 a.m. Authorities at the prison, out 25 miles east of Austin fuse to allow him to prafi medicine but, otherwise,!! him like any other convict said. “I can’t complain about thing except the transfer (i the California prison),” McDonald. “Except that jus be here when you’re innotf really messes up your ' (C A F E ) really fina aats Dominik Drive / College Station-BY-THE-SEA 764-8064 «0ALKMBA with over 75 schools. In one place. In one day. Here’s a rewarding opportunity to meet with representatives from many of the country’s leading graduate management schools. # Discuss admissions, curriculum, financial aid, career development, and placement. # Attend workshops on school selection, MBA and PhD careers, and the GMAT. # Obtain admissions material and catalogs. Plus the free booklet. The MBA and Yoa. Daily registration for Forums and workshops: $5 at the door. Friday. 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