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Page 14AThe Battalion/Friday, November 2, 1984 sup Friday INDIA ASSOCIATION: is having a memorial service for the late Indira Gandhi at 6 p.m. in 102 Zachry. TRADITIONS COUNCIL: will be selling long-sleeve Howdy T-shirts for $6 in the MSC through 4 p.m. today. AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: is having a square dance from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in 212 MSC. The cost is $6 per couple. The class comes free. PUERTO RICAN STRUDNET ASSOCIATION: is meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: is having Bible studies at 6:15 p.m. in the MSC lounge and at A&M Presbyterian Church. TAMU CHESS CLUB: is meeting at 7 p.m. in 407 Rudder. Players of all strengths are welcome. VOICE OF PROPHECY CLUB: Bill Fitts will continue the Bible study on getting to know Jesus Christ at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder. WOMEN’S RUGBY: is playing in a tournament in Houston this weekend. Saturday AGGIE BONFIRE: This is a cutting weekend for bonfire. Come out to the site. OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: are meeting at 8:30 a.m. on Dun can Field to go out to the cutting site. Bring a lunch and wear boots. Cutting cards are available. LDSSA: Don Lind, NASA astronaut, will speak free to the student body about Science vs. Religion. Sunday AGGIE BONFIRE: This is a cutting weekend for bonfire. Come out to the site. OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: are meeting at 8:30 a.m. on Dun can Field to go out to the cutting site. Bring a lunch and wear boots. Cutting cards are available. LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT: is meeting for a Bi ble study at 5 p.m. in University Lutheran Chapel. TEXAS A&M JAYCEES: is discussing “Brainstorming” at the weekly meeting at 8 p.m. in 401 Rudder. MARANATHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: is meeting at 10 a.m. in Rudder Tower. Check the screen for room num ber. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battal ion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to desired publication date. Bankruptcy World’s Fair in financial trouble despite improvements United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Gov. Edwin Edwards’ representative on the com mittee that controls World’s Fair fi nances said Wednesday the exposi tion probably will declare bankruptcy after it closes Nov. 11. Bankruptcy would let the courts decide how to settle an estimated $140 million in debts that probably will remain despite recent im provement in fair financies, Bob d’Hemecourt said. Lee Randall, the fair’s chief finan cial officer, said increased atten dance in the closing weeks of the six- month expo has generated more than enough money to pay weekly bills. Randall said the fair collected $2 million last week and now has $2.6 million available to pay bills. Fair ex penses are declining, he said, be cause many employees are quitting. The independent financial com mittee said the fair will pay $3.2 mil lion in back taxes it owes New Or leans and also will pay its October and November taxes on time. The committee also authorized fair officials to pay Spartan Building Corp. of Mandeville about $203,000 of the $500,000 that is owed them. The money will come from pay ments to the fair by the Rouse Co., which is planning a shopping and entertainment complex on part of the fair site, panel officials said. Spartan, which is suing the fair, is the only major contractor that did not sign an agreement that prevents fair contractors from suing while the fair is open. Committee members said the money owed New Orleans — sales, amusement and special admission taxes for August — will be paid out of a $5.5 million account the fair cre ated to ensure it had enough money to pay its taxes. D’Hemecourt said the city might use part of the money to helprt move fair structures surroundin; the New Orleans Convention Ceme: before its first convention in Jat uary. But he said he expects Mayor It nest Morial to use the tax money lot clear streets. Morial last week askec Edwards to give the expo $1 millk from a fair emergency account to re store streets surrounding the con vention center, which is part of die exposition. The city needs to restore streets surrounding the convention center by Jan. 31, when a convention is scheduled. Deputy race separation is ‘by choice United Press International GALENA PARK — An east Har ris County constable said Thursday his reserve officers are separated ra cially into companies by choice, and the system will not change unless an officer challenges it. “They’re separated because they want to be,” said Constable George Larkin. “They just call them two dif ferent units. They do the same thing, they have joint meetings. They’ve got their own officers in the blacks and their own officers in the whites, and that’s the way they want it.” Larkin has been constable of Pre cinct 2, which covers Galena Park, Jacinto City and part of Pasadenk, for 32 years. “It has never been an issue in my office since I’ve been there,” he said. There has never been an objection to the separation of whites into Com pany A and blacks into Company D, Larkin said. Capt. Lloyd Brown, who heads the 18 Company D reserve officers, said separation into companies is all that separates the deputies. “Actually, we don’t even think of it as two companies,” Brown said. The companies do everything from patrol duties to social events to gether, he said. Precinct 2 Deputy Fred Taylor, who is in charge of reservist coordi nation, said the separation is a sort of tradition, but if any reserve offi cers expressed dissatisfaction, the situation would be changed. “If this is a problem we would do it in a second,” he said. The black of ficers “have done too much for Har ris County to slight them in any way, certainly not intentionally.” A former reserve officer for Lar kin, who is now the only black con stable in the county, said he sug gested a change years ago, but tht j chief deputy at the time did not wan;: just one unit. He said he didn’t men tion the idea to Larkin. “I didn’t make any waves," said A.B. Chambers, who became a con stable in 1973. “I’m greatly opposed i to separation of deputies on the basis j of race, but I had no control over if Larkin’s precinct is the only oneof j the eight precincts to separate i “ cers by race. He also said he would I be willing to change the situation if ii j is requested by the reserve officers. Race fight hurts 9, police set curfew Robbers use copter to escape from bank United Press International PLAINSVILLE — Two men in custody in Nevada were indicted Thursday on state charges in the robbery of a Valley View bank in which a helicopter was used as an es cape vehicle. The Cooke County grand jury re turned aggravated robbery indict ments against Russell Auzton, 36 of Conroe and Charles Ray Holden, also in his 30s. Auzton was arrested in Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 5 for the September rob bery of the Valley Bank of Nevada in Overton, Nev. Holden surrendered to Texas authorities Oct. 12. Both men are being held in lieu of $500,000 bonds. The two men are believed to be part of a gang of former military pi lots who have robbed at least three banks in the past year, according to FBI agents. George Lyford, an FBI agent in Las Vegas, said the gang operated the airborne bank theft ring from the Houston area. Helicopters used in two of the three holdups were sto len near Houston. In July, a precision squad of rob bers descended by helicopter on the Valley View National Bank, 60 miles northwest of Dallas. The gang held customers and employees at gun point and then escapied with an un disclosed amount of money. Earlier this week a federal arrest warrant was issued in Sherman for James Richard Little, 40, and Mar vin Rodgers, 38, of Houston in the July 20 robbery in Cooke County. United Press International FRANKLIN, Tenn.— A dusk-to- dawn curfew was in effect Thursday after Halloween night racial violence left at least nine people injured, in cluding one critically beaten, offi cials said. “People were just wild,” said Franklin police officer Barbara Der ricks. “Then, boom, boom. Someone starts shooting and people start fall- in s” Authorities said the violence started about 11 p.m. when two white youths allegedly fired a shot gun and struck four black men after their car window was smashed by a rock. The shooting triggered a series of other violent incidents in the city, 30 miles south of Nashville, that left three whites beaten and two with mi nor shotgun wounds. Dirk Pewitt, 18, of Nashville, and Darin Brothers, 17, of Franklin, were charged with four counts of at tempted murder, police said. Lisa Palmer, 19, of Monticello, and Lisa Davis, 16, of Franklin, were charged as accessories. Bond was set at $50,000 each for the males and $ 10,000 each for the females. The wounded blacks, Willis Har rison Jr., 16, Phillip Scruggs, 22, James Taylor, 21, and Johnny Christman, 21, were treated and re leased at Williamson County Hospi tal. Also treated and released were two white teenagers, Timothy Gala- vin and Richard Tidwell, who had been wounded later by shotgun fire in separate incidents. Two more whites later told police they were beaten in front of a cafe. The violence then spread to a nearby street where a group of about 10 black men dragged Donald Donoho, 22, from his car and beat him on the head with bricks and rocks. Police said they found Do noho lying in the street about 30 minutes after the shooting at the cafe. Donoho, who had not regained consciousness, underwent brain sur gery Thursday at Vanderbilt Hospi tal in Nashville where he was listed in guarded condition, said his fa ther, Donald Donoho Sr. Galavin and Tidwell were wounded about a mile from the orig inal shooting. One was hit by shot gun fire from a passing car. The other was hit by eight pellets in the abdomen, head, arms and legs. Police said they were not seriously injured. 4 inmates stabbed United Press International Texas Department of Correc tions officials Thursday were in vestigating separate stabbing inci dents at two prison units that left four inmates nospitalized. The incidents at the Coffield and Darrington units brought the number of inmates stabbed at TDC prisons to 327 this year. Nineteen of the victims have died. The violence at the Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony late Oct. 31 happened about 5.5 hours before the stabbing of an inmate at the Darrington Unit in Rosharon. Four Coffield inmates attacked the three victims at about 11 p.m. Wednesday as they were being locked in their cells for the night, said TDC spokesman Charles Brown. The men suffered multiple stab wounds and were in serious condition at Anderson County Memorial Hospital in Palestine. One of the victims of the Cof field stabbing was George Guerra, 22, who is serving a life sentence for capital murder in Medina County. The second vic tim was John Anthony Ryan, 21, who is serving five years for theft and burglary in Collin County, and possession of a prohibited weapon and unauthorized use of a vehicle from Dallas County. Tlie third victim, Luckey Mar shall Wright, 41, is serving 15 years for possession of marijuana and cocaine in Tarrant County, and conspiracy to commit mur der in Parker County. The suspects were placed in prehearing detention. They were Mike Chavez, 24, serving 30years for murder from Harris County; Ruben Barragan, 23, serving 12 years for aggravated kidnapping in El Paso County; William Goolsby 26, serving 20 years for aggravated rape in Lubbock County; and Donnie Momanjr., 23, serving 20 years for aggra vated robbery in Franklin County and three counts of burglary in Hopkins County. The victim at the Darrington Unit, Youree McDonald,30, was in stable condition Thursday at Angleton-Dansbury Hospital with four stab wounds he re ceived when he was attacked. He was stabbed by Ernest Rosco Gallon Jr., 28, who was serving 15 years for two counts of murder in Harris and Eastland counties. Cdlton was placed in prehear ing detention pending an investi gation by the TDC and Brazoria County deputies, Brown said. A&M Student Leaders Speak Out We, the following student leaders at Texas A&M University, would like to thank State Representative Neeley Lewis for his service to Texas A&M and Brazos County. Neeley Lewis stood up for Texas A&M during the special session this summer when he fought an ill- conceived tuition increase and we know he will continue to work for us. All students can thank Neeley Lewis for keeping Aggies’interests at heart. We know that he is a tight-fisted conservative who has earned our vote. We urge all Texas A&M students to join us in voting for Neeley Lewis for State Representative. For Halloween fun and excitement MSC TOWN HAIX/BROADWAY presents the Pat Wood Mike Cook David Klosterboer Mike Kelley Wayne Roberts Steve Lord Denis Davis Melissa Romine Eric Thode Johnny Hatch Kimberly James JayT. Hutchens Mary Lou Mauro Jerry Rosiek Mark Monroe Laurie Johnson Steve Griner Tom Urban David McAlpin Martha Bellens Jim Schicker Weydan Flax Cindy Green STRAIGHT THROUGH THE HEART’ CONTEST Wed. Oct. 3111-1 p.m. Rudder Fountain Win 2 free tickets to the thrilling DRACULA appearing on Nov. 5 Lewis RE-ELECT NEELEY STATE REPRESENTATIVE your advertising donors ilo better in. Paid tor by tha Neelay Lewis Campaign. Stuart F. Lewis. Treasurer 4500 Carter Creek Parkway. Bryan the classifieds