Page 6AThe Battalion/Monday, March 19, 1984
Jury selection resumes
in Lucas murder
Warped
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SAN ANGELO — It’s impos
sible to predict how long attor
neys might take to pick seven
more jurors needed for the
capital murder trial of Henry
Lee Lucas, defense attorney
Max Parker said.
“When we get to the ninth or
10th juror it’s going to be pretty
selective,” Parker said of the
selection process that includes
naming two alternate jurors in
addition to the 12-member
panel.
Lucas, who has confessed to
more than 150 slayings across
the country, received a change
of venue to stand trial for the
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strangulation of an unidentified
woman hitchhiker near George
town.
The woman’s body, clad only
in orange socks, was found
along Interstate 35 near
Georgetown on Halloween
night 1979. Lucas was indicted
by a Williamson Gounty grand
jury of killing, sexually assault
ing, robbing and kidnapping the
woman.
Attorneys last week selected
seven women as jurors while
narrowing a list of potential
jurors from 300 to about 100.
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By KARL PALLMEYER
Reporter
In the basement of the che
mistry building, there is a glass-
blowing shop where bottles,
tubes, pipes or any other special
glass devices needed for scien
tific experiments at Texas A&M
are made.
Starting with raw materials
like glass tubing, jars and stop
cocks, the glass shop builds any
thing a research scientist needs.
The shop fills anywhere from
100 to 300 orders a month, most
of which are for glass equipment
that will be used in experiments
by the chemistry department or
by agricultural research stations.
In the glass shop is a small lab
that the glassblowers call the
“lamp shop,” which is cluttered
with boxes of tubing, glass-
cutting equipment and tables fil
led with all types of glass-
blowing equipment. It is in the
“lamp shop" that all the glass
blowing is done by hand.
Jack H. Shannon is the senior
glassblower for the chemistry
department. He works with two
other glass blowers, one of
whom is his brother Jerry. His
son John is an apprentice. Shan
non, who has been a glassblower
for 33 years, came to Texas
A&M in 1961 and set up the
glass blowing shop.
“A glassblower is usually a
jack-of-all-lrades,” Shannon
says. “He must know mechanical
and electrical sciences, he must
be creative and artistic, and he
must have the patience of Job.”
Shannon says a glassblower has
to have high mechanical and en
gineering aptitudes since he
usually assists in designing, as
well as making, the equipment.
Shannon says he alwajj
been interested in glassbl
so after deciding years amiib
he couldn’t support a faraikt
teacher’s salary, hegotajoiii;
glassblower for the Dow
mical Go. in Freeport. Hew
ed for Dow for eight ye
then went to Oklahoma
University to teadt
blowing.
Shannon now teachesa
blowing course here whn
open only to chemistry studc
The class familiarizes the^
dents with glass-blowing tec:
ques and the design ofgt
ware. Most of the studei
go into research, and ki
now to make their owji
menl could save them lirat
money, he says.
Funding for the glass^
comes from the chemistry:
partment’s operating bud,':
Shannon says, but the $1
hour the glass shopchargedt
its work replaces those func
“We’ re not here to ki
money,” Shannon says. Vt
here to service the peopfeojl
pus-wide by saving themiSy
ping charges and givingagtl
turnaround.”
In the 23 years he's befit
Texas A&M. Shannon sawl
has built many strange!
including roacn traps, anttit
and a naval olive, a deviceu
in the therapy of people*
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gels satisfaction from biii
something that has never
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