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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, September 6, 1984 Man accused of sexual abuse JiWIUtY COLLICTiOH IMMIm SAPPHIRE SEPTEMBER'S GEM Regal blue, flre<J with diamonds, from our Miss U.S.A, ® Collection, Many other sapphires from which to choose. Come find a favorite! $495 ea. $495 ea. $235 ea. of paraplegic United Press International DALLAS — A man, adopted as an orphan 20 years ago, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old severely handicapped girl in the same foster home where he grew up, police said. The arrest of Tommy Lee An thony, 36, brought relief to his foster mother. Birdie Jackson, a 64-year- old widow, who has raised 435 or phaned children at the home in the past 40 years. The man was arrested without in cident at a residence where he was staying, police said. “We can relax better,” said Jack- son. “I feel sorry for him because he is sick.” Police worked on the description provided by Jackson and others who witnessed the attack on the young girl Tuesday, and had recognized the assailant as an orphan who had lived with her 20 years ago. “All I can tell you, is it (the assault) hurt more (because the assailant) was one of my foster children. You give him all the love, a place to stay and try to make a better person out of him, but he turns around and does this to a child because she is a child in mind. She cannot walk, she cannot move and can’t do anything unless you move her. She can’t even get a drink of water. “It hurts, very very much. He is supposed to be a man and then he does something like this.” The girl, one of nine such or phans at the Birdie Jackson Founda tion, is a victim of cerebral palsy. Jackson said she was awakened early Tuesday by the screams of one of her girls and said she ran to the child’s bedroom. She said she saw her 27-year-old daughter struggling with a man who was assaulting the 17-year-old girl. Jackson said she, her daughter, and another adult in the house fought with the man but could not hold him for police. Jackson said she recognized the man as a foster child she had shel tered for less than a year when he was a teenager in the early 1960s. She said he was removed from her home and sent to a juvenile deten tion center for stealing. “He would always come by here every time he got out of the pen (prison),” she said. “He’d come asking for money, and we’d just tell him to get going because we didn’t want him around here.” A Dallas police officer, who has worked with Jackson in the past, said, “As far as I’m concerned, she’s one of the few saints we have left.” This is not the first shock Jackson his suffered. She said on previous octasions former foster chilaren had retimed to burglarize the home. At the same time, she said, other chilcren grew up and became pro ductive citizens. Governors continue fight over gas revenues issue Slo United Press International AUSTIN — Two Southern governors, Wednesday, sug gested the Reagan administra tion’s refusal to negotiate a fair division of billions of dollars in federal offshore oil and gas reve nues could become a campaign is sue in their states this fall. Govs. Mark White of Texas and Edwin Edwards of Louisiana, both Democrats, said they would use the issue to campaign against President Reagan if a fair set tlement was not reached. “People should bear that in mind when going to the polls be cause it’s a pocketbook issue in Louisiana that transcends most of the other issues in the national election," Edwards said. “If we do not get some fair and equitable treatment by that (elec tion) time, then 1 think it’s appro priate for us, as governors, to tell our respective people of that, so they can see what attitude is com ing out of Washington,” he said. White said, “I certainly intend to bring it to the attention of the people of Texas.” White and Edwards joined two other governors, George C. Wal lace of Alabama and Bill Shef field of Alaska, to plan strategy in their fight with the Interior De partment. The slates are at odds with the agency over the interpretation of a federal law that says the federal government and the states will share revenues on oil and gas leases along the border between state-owned and federal-owned submerged lands. The governors, along witli[( resentatives of Mississippi, I) ida and California, agreedtoi for a meeting next week in Wj ington with Interior Secrr, William Clark. Clark, in an Aug. 8 lettn five of the states, proposed^ ing one-sixth of federal revenues from the dispu. Outer Continental Shelf trt with the states. The letter was not seni Texas and laniisiana bea;. those stales have already filtdj over the dispute. Mostofthtp ernors said they Ixdievea30ft cent share would l>e a fairstui; point for negotiations. At issue is about $25 billioc revenues derived f rom lews; (.X^S tracts located withintl* miles of state offshore boumb and containing at least oncoi E ts geologic structure tomroot >th federal and state offsb lands. Clark's settlement offer, has been rejected by all but 0 fornia, is worth about $1 billicr the seven coastal states. The Interior Departments there is at>oui $17./ billion must be shared, but offidalis revenues from leases alreah: place could eventually readf billion. Of the $ 17.7 billion, Louit has been of fered $-100 nuk Texas, $210 million; Califon $200 million; Alaska, $180 a lion, and Alabama, $40ini]iiot “Die/ they i ding.. INSTANT CREDIT! £TT EQ ARRANGKD KOR ANY BUDGET EVEN It YOU VE NEVER HAD CREDIT BEFORE' Rush parties attract students to frats Ask about our Young American Charge Plan AT 4-9-03-30 Gordon^ 1 JEWELERS AND NOWHERE ! ELSE! IN COLLEGE STATION — SA/OP AT GORDON’S: Post Oak Mall, 1500 Harvey Road • Also in Austin, Killeen, Temple, Waco and 28 stores in the Greater Houston area • Shop Gordon's Coast to Coast. By TRACY PROBST Reporter For the next few weeks, fraternity rush offers Texas A&M students a series of parties to acquaint them selves with active members from each of the groups, Interfraternity Council President Mark Edwards said. The parties, given by the individ ual fraternities, have drawn large crowds and much interest in rush, he said. Kappa Alpha Order Rush Chair- an Andy Ramzel 9 Miss U.S.A. is a registered trademark and service mark of Miss Universe, Inc man Andy Ramzel estimated be tween 800 and 1,100 people at tended their first rush party last Thursday. “It was one of the biggest turn-outs we’ve had,’’ he said. Interiraternity Council Vice Pres ident G<ry High said interest in fra ternities and membership has in creased substantially since Sigma Phi Epsilon, the University’s first na tional fraternity, was chartered in 1973. He estimated about one thou sand students now are involved in fraternries. Edwa'ds, a member of Sigma Al pha Epsilon, said his fraternity has doubled in size during the past five years. He said membership has grown because the University is changing and students are looking for more ictivities to be involved in. Travis Irwin, past president of the IFC anca member of Sigma Chi, said membership has increased be cause “fraternities are more well-re ceived each year.” The Interfraternity Council, the organizing body for the fraternity system at Texas A&M, recognizes 19 national fraternities. Sigma Phi Epsi lon and Kappa Alpha Order are the biggest fraternities, each having about 100 active members. High said. However, the fraternities are not recognized on campus. All the fraternity houses are lo cated in Bryan, although the City of College Station will allow them in special zones, said Kirn Johnson, as sistant zoning official. Johnson said the zones are de signed for the development of high density units, such as apartments, but fraternity houses may be built Bit< thi Unite with the approval of a “coo use permit. A developer spedfiaflf the land on "Sorority Row'i density zone so sorority house: be built on it, but no such be been purchased for the cons j, | p ^ of fraternity houses Johnsot^,^ h . u j ; John Fields, a ‘reshma ^ |()k1v al from Fyler, said he would fc oun , ne a member to expcnenceilir v , . erhood and make lifelong! j Fields said that joining a would lx* Y heb.ihv sf i- r!z Dr Juan release (1<| pressures of school. lenteria. 2 .. . , .... . jlaufhter, J Edwards said female stuor j , also part of rush becauie bu: gg.^ ,j lc . s the fraternities are looking fee | )I<)U sisters at (his time. \ AGGIE THIS IS THE STORY OF A SMALL TOWN THAT LOST ITS DREAMS AND A BIG-CITY KID ’ WHO BROUGHT THEM BACK. The music is on his side. 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