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By TRENT LEOPOLD
Staff Writer
Push continues as the 75th-anni-
ersary Texas A&M bonfire nears
completion.
J Scott Strom, head redpot, said
some wood remains on the ground,
but if a lot of workers come out to
work on the stack, it should be com
pleted by Thursday evening.
“Things were fairly slow during
the Thanksgiving holidays, but we
Jeally got a lot of work done Sunday
night,” Strom said. “Most people
went out of town for Thanksgiving,
but quite a few civilians came out
Sunday night and we got some work
done.”
Strom said four Corps outfits,
dtaout 180 cadets, are scheduled to
vork on the bonfire stack tonight
( and tomorrow night.
“We have two shifts scheduled to
york on the stack during night
dours,” Strom said. “The first shift is
from 6-12 p.m. and the second shift
is from 1-6 a.m.
“We expect to have a fairly large
crowd working on the stack, but we
need everyone we can get in order to
get the stack done by Thursday
night. Quite a few logs remain on
the ground and need to be moved.”
Head football coach and athletic
director Jackie Sherrill also will be
working on the stack tonight begin
ning at about 7 p.m.
“Sherrill usually comes out each
year and works on the stack for a
couple of hours,” Strom said. “He
will be on the fourth level of the
main stack, working with others to
wire logs together.”
Although a spokeswoman at the
athletic office said Sherrill will be
working on the stack, she was uncer
tain late Monday if any football play
ers are planning to be there.
Strom said everyone is invited to
the bonfire site on Duncan Field
whether they plan on working or
not.
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a good time,” Strom said. “Several
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HOUSTON — Several lawmen, a
medical examiner, a reporter and a
judge brought together by the death
of a man they never knew now will
serve as his pallbearers — 20 years
after he was murdered.
A farmer found the body June 11,
1964, about 5 miles north of Rich
mond on the edge of Farm Market
369. The man had been dead only a
few hours. His head was cut off at
the shoulders, his hands severed at
the wrists and his legs sheared off at
the knees.
The rest of the man’s body never
was found. He never was identified
and never claimed. Leads in the case
have slowed to a trickle, and Harris
County Medical Examiner Dr. Jo
seph Jachimczyk recently suggested
he be buried.
Jachimcyzk, a Catholic deacon,
will conduct the ceremony Wednes
day in Richmond. Pallbearers will be
Lt. R.L. “Tiny” Norton, who was
Fort Bend County sheriff when the
murder occurred; Cecil Wingo and
David Gary, investigators in Ja-
chimczyk’s office; Texas Ranger Mil-
ton Wright; former newsman Will
Sinclair; and Sam Robertson, an as
sociate justice of the 14th Circuit
Court of Civil Appeals, who was a
prosecutor in 1964.
The murder victim was dubbed
Stubby by the men who tried to find
his killer. There were few clues to his
identity — he was Caucasian, around
50 years old, about 5-foot-6 and 160-
175 pounds.
He had a fractured sixth right rib,
some adhesions on his lungs and a
cyst.
“We did not find a cause of death
in the part of the body that we’d got
ten,” Jachimczyk said. “We obviously
know this is a homicide, but we don’t
know the cause of death.”
Stubby was embalmed and kept in
a refrigerated vault in the county
morgue. Many people viewed the
torso, but he never was identified.
One woman who claimed she knew
the man later recanted her identifi
cation.
“We had numerous people that
tried to claim or identify him, but we
never were able to determine just
who he was,” Norton said. “We were
able to determine a hell of a lot of
people who he wasn’t.”
That apparently was the reason
the body was dismembered, and
Norton and Jachimczyk believe the
murder was a mob killing.
campfires are burning on the field,
and people can come out to sit
around the fire and have a good
time.
“We welcome anyone who just
wants to watch as well. Girls espe
cially are invited to come out and
give some moral support.”
Strom said although torches prob
ably will not touch the stack Thurs
day night until after 8 p.m., seniors
will begin gathering around the
stack about 7:30 p.m.
“Traditionally the bonfire is sup
posed to start at dark-thirty,” Strom
said. “It is hard to say when the
torches will actually be thrown on
the stack to begin the actual burning
of the 75th-anniversary fire, so those
people wishing to see the bonfire at
Duncan Field Thursday should be
there by 7:30 p.m.”
In addition to the traditional festi
vities planned for the burning of the
bonfire, a 9 p.m. concert by country
singer Willie Nelson has been sched
uled in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
be buried
his killer
“At that time they were having
quite a bit of underworld problems
up north, and my own personal
opinion is that he was found down
here by some of the mobsters and as
sassinated,” Norton said.
“This has all the earmarks of a
gangland killing and a deliberate at
tempt that the body be found imme
diately, but not be identifiable,” Ja
chimczyk said.”
The man’s legs may have been re
moved because they could have pro
vided a clue to his identity beyond
footprints — a scar or tattoo or de
formity of the leg below the knee.
Officials had planned all along to
bury Stubby, Jachimczyk said, but
investigators involved in the case
were convinced a solid lead would be
found. One assistant medical exam
iner who since has died once vowed
he would not die until he had identi
fied Stubby.
“We had intended to do that
(burial) all along, but we had con
stantly worked on it off and on and
we still had hope,” he said. “We’ve
exhausted all leads. We followed
many, many leads over the years. We
think we’ve gotten as far as we can,
and we hopefully now can give him a
Christian burial.”
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ERASERHEAD
A film by David Lynch,
director of DUNE and
The Elephant Man.
Crossguard recounts
city streets' rural origin
By Brittany Millholland
Reporter
Most people expect a frustrat
ing battle with the morning traf
fic on the way to work. But for
70-year-old Charlie Banks bat
tling the morning traffic is work.
Armed with a stop sign, a orange
vest, and red helmet, Banks is fast
becoming a landmark of sorts as
he provides safe passage to all
school children crossing the busy
intersection of Jersey Street and
Texas Avenue.
One of College Station’s most
recognizable figures to area mo
torists, Banks is known as an affa
ble man who takes his job se
riously.
Banks, a native of College Sta
tion and a City of College Station
employee, has been working at
this location for two years. Banks
remembers when the two streets
were dirt roads traveled on exclu
sively by horse drawn wagons.
Banks said that being a cross
guard “is an enjoyable job for an
old man, and it gets me out of the
house. If I can make a person’s
day better by talking to them it
makes me feel better.”
As Banks talked, a group of
kids approached the intersection.
He excused himself and then
greeted the kids with a warm
“Howdy!” While waiting for the
light to change. Banks exchanged
a greetings with the children who
responded with smiles and
laughs.
One student passing by said,
“Mr. Banks is the greatest, he’s
kind of like a grandfather to all
the kids. He’s always friendly and
always smiling. He has a flawless
safety record. He states that ‘any
way I can protect the children I’ll
do it’.”
Banks thinks that traffic is ex
ceptionally heavy in College Sta
tion now. “The traffic is twice as
bad as last year,” he said. Amazed
by the growth of College Station
and of Texas A&M, Banks clearly
recalls when College Station was
strictly a rural farming commu
nity and the University consisted
of only a few buildings.
Banks, the father of seven chil
dren, describes himself as a “10th
grade scholar.” He said, “When I
was growing up, education wasn’t
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70-year-old Charlie Banks stops traffic at the intersection of Jersey
and Texas Avenue to allow students to cross Texas Avenue on
their way to school.
as important as it is today.”
One of the few problems
Banks encounters as a crossguard
is that “some of the college stu
dents, especially, think that they
can cross the street without me.
When a young child sees them
going across they follow. I’m here
for everyone’s protection. I
promise if everyone will be pa
tient I’ll get them across as soon
as possible and much safer.”
Banks said that another prob
lem is that a lot of foreigners
don’t understand English. “T hey
can’t read my stop sign and they
think I’m going to mug them or
something when I come up to
their car.”
Banks advises mothers and tea
chers to remind their children ev
eryday of the danger of cars.
“You can never tell them enough
to look both ways before crossing
every road,” he said.
Banks said he plans to work,
“as long as I can still get out of the
road quick enough.”
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