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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, February 16, 1984 Geter suspect because of one elderly informant R.l. by Paul Dirmei United Press International DALLAS — A policeman tes tified Wednesday that engineer Lenell Geter became a robbery suspect only because of infor mation given him by an elderly woman upset about Geter’s car being parked in front of her house. Greenville police Lt. James Fortenberry testified for the second day in a pretrial hearing for the South Carolina engineer who is facing retrial April 9 on an armed robbery charge. Geter was serving a life sen tence. Geter’s lawyers are seeking to dismiss the case on a unprece dented motion filed “in the in terest of justice.” They claim Geter was deliberately singled out by a racist police system and his pictures were circulated in an unfair and unconstitutional manner as a robbery suspect. Fortenberry said he devel oped his theory based on infor mation of a license number of Geter’s car given him by Jewel Peavy, a 68-year-old Greenville resident. Peavy testified Tuesday she noted down the car number be cause she had become “uneasy and upset” about a car being parked in front of her house and a “colored man” frequently visiting a park in front of her house. In his testimony Tuesday, Fortenberry said that a sheriff in Geter’s home state of South Carolina had told him Geter was a “bad character” and an “outlaw” but the sheriff has denied making such statements. Defense lawyers again ques tioned Fortenberry Wednesday to establish their claim that it was Fortenberry who initiated the theory that Geter and five of his colleagues from South Carolina working for E-Systems in Greenville were a gang re sponsible for a string of rob beries in the Dallas area in 1982. Geter’s attorney Lee Bowers implied in his questioning of Fortenberry that the detective hid favorable evidence from the defense and that he built his en tire case on the information supplied by Peavy. Asked about how he devel oped the information about the six South Carolina men being involved in the robbery, Forten berry said: “I developed that in formation in Greenville. I de veloped that from an informant. I did not get infor mation (from anywhere else). The only information I re ceived from Mrs. Peavy was the license number which led to Geter.” Bowers said Fortenberry cir culated pictures obtained from a security guard at E-Systems for lineups to develop his the ory, though the detective main tains he obtained the photos from another police depart ment. “It is only after he talked to all the police agencies that Get er’s pictures were circulated in a suggestive manner,” Bowers said, adding that Geter had been cleared by witnesses in two robbery cases filed against him in Greenville. Geter was arrested on Aug. 24, 1982 for a fastfood restau rant robbery in Garland VIDI TELL YOU-WMO bOVtU/T AAEMCAR 7 ! NO BUT I'M 5ML /MtoM How about rr. /TSAMCEoME! Am THERE'S ACS MAJOR FOR Tou! •\ Dallas art district underway with a $50 million museum ROLL TOUR ; DISCOUNT Lucky Days” Consolidation SALE All mens’ and ladies’ fall and winter merchandise from our Waco store has been brought to College Station for the season’s final clearance sale. Roll one of our giant dice and save 30, 40, or 60 percent! Select groupings at 1/2 retail (no matter what you roll). -/■ Get Lucky Thursday, Friday & Saturday February 16,17 & 18, 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. tour r lucky day 1 'extends all the^ [way to MIDNIGHT] on Thursday! Bring your rabbit’s foot to shellenberger's Fine Men's and Women's Apparel 520 University Drive East United Press International DALLAS — Texans like to dream big. So it should come as no surprise that the city’s new, $50 million Dallas Museum of Art is considered only the first step in a 60-acre downtown arts district scheduled for comple tion by the year 2000. In addition to the museum designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, which opened Jan. 29, the new arts district will include a concert hall designed by I.M. Pei, a theater, and office, retail and residential structures. The museum was built with a $24.8 million bond issue ap proved by Dallas voters in 1979. The amount represents the largest funding ever raised by public referendum for a cultu ral project in the United States. “That the majority of people voted to build a new museum with public funds, I don’t know that there are too many other cities where that would have passed,” said museum director Harry Parker. “I think the whole project was made possi ble by the community spirit we take for granted in Dallas, but which is really quite excep tional.” Private sources donated an other $27.6 million for the building, considered the cor nerstone of a project expected to add vigor to the already booming downtown area. The museum is surrounded by skys crapers, most of which did not even exist 10 years ago. Unlike other urban projects such as the Baltimore inner har bor and San Francisco’s Ghirar- delli Square, the Dallas arts dis trict was not intended to be an urban renewal project. The dis trict, however, did upgrade that area and the land is now prime real estate. “A lot of cities would have put a new museum in an af fluent suburb,” said Barnes, the New York architect who de signed the Indiana limestone building which features two theaters, a 1.2 acre sculpture garden and a terraced restau rant, as well as skylights and massive windows to take advan tage of the city’s abundant sun shine. “It’s wonderful that this is in the center of the city." Parker, a former Bostonian who took the helm at the Dallas museum in 1974, said the new museum’s cosmopolitan, under stated architecture —which leans more to the classical than the regional — reflects an atti tude which he considers typical of Dallas. ANNOUNCING THE TEXAS A&M ! 1 < V'v POETRY CONTEST f v J , > d ENTRY: Any Texas A&M Undergraduate may submit three poems by 5:00 p.m., March 23 to Blocker 205. Participants should submit poetry in a 9 Vz by 12 W' envelope. Do not write your name on the poetry. Include your name and phone number on a separate piece of paper. JUDGES: Dr. Christensen, Dr. M c Cann, Dr. M c Dermott, and Dr. Stanford. AWARD: Winners will be announced April 16th in the Battalion and posted at the En glish Department. The top 10 poems will be read at Rumors on April 18th and on display in the MSC starting on April 18th. The top ten poems will beprinted and distributed with special consideration given to the top three. sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta “I don’t think it hasaven gional feel, although ihe brown limestone might ren you of the color of adobei the low-slung quality is tyji of a lot of Southwest ardi lure,” he said. “Dallas sees itself as more thani gional city and strives forai ternational feel. Parker said the museum act as an anchor forthearti trict. “It’s a particular respou ity of the museum to prove people will come downlom enjoy cultural programs, said. "We need toconviira pie that there is an exciten to being part of an urban ronment. UCLA prof to lecture here today George F. Kneller, profs emeritus at University ofO fornia at Los AngelesandaF low of the National Councf Learned Societies, will si the proper study of educa: tonight at 7:30 in 301 ~ Tower. Kneller’s speech is thefo the Aikin-Stinnett Lcctur ries sponsored by the Ed ucat ion. After speaks, Dr. John J. McDent a professor of Philosophy Humanities at Texas AS3I comment. The lecture series wass'l lished to honor two staietn of education: A.M. Aikin,jl mer Texas state senator i strong supporter of improjl education, and Dr. Timi nett, a professor emeritusofi ucational administration Texas A&M. During his more than years of public office, ^ sponsored or co-sponsored' | ery piece of major legislate 1 improve Texas education,T! | let! the 63rd Legislature name him the official fathet modern Texas education. Stinnett, whose careert in the 1920’s in the school * tern in Arkansas, is a formed itor of the Journal of Teat- Education. 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