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TDC inmate
dies from
stab wounds
Associated Press
ROSHARON — A 25-year-old
convicted burglar was fatally stabbed
by his cellmate Tuesday, the 15lh
homicide this year inside the Texas
Department of Corrections, the na
tion’s second largest prison system,
authorities said.
Pedro Izanga Ruiz, serving a 5-
year sentence at the TDC’s Darring-
ton Unit for burglary of a habitation,
robbery and sexual contact with a
child in Grayson County, died about
8:50 a.m. of multiple stab wounds to
his upper body, said prison spokes
man Phil Guthrie.
What s up
Wednesday
MSC GROVE 85: presents “Who’s Killing the Great Chefs of
Europe” at 8:45 p.tn. in The Grove. Admission is $>1 with a
student ID and $1.50 for i ton - s tu dents.
BCAUS: the Brazos County Atari Users Society will meet at 7
p.m. in 102 Teague.
Friday
TAMU CHESS CLUB: is meeting at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
MSC GROVE 85: presents “City Heal” at 8:30 p.m. at The
Grove. Admission is $1 with a student ID and $1.50 for
non-students.
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Houston officials expec
benefits from Navy port
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dez, 27, also suffered a superficial
tp.
wound near the lower rib
Guthrie said.
cage,
Houston cor dealer fined
for bait-and-switch ads
Associated Press
A 40-year-old inmate who shared
a cell with Ruiz in the administrative
segregation wing was being ques
tioned about the attack, Guthrie
said. The suspect was serving a 20-
year sentence for aggravated rob
bery in Atascosa County, he said.
It was the 5th homicide this year
at the unit, located about 25 miles
south of Houston.
Guthrie said Ruiz was stabbed as
Hernandez was preparing to take
him to the shower.
Guards confiscated an 8-inch
piece of metal apparently broken off
the screening over cell doors, the
spokesman said.
In addition to the 15 homicides,
there have been 140 non-fatal stab-
bings throughout the prison system.
HOUSTON — A Houston Chev
rolet dealer must pay $60,000 in
fines, the highest civil penalty ever
assessed, for running a bait-and-
switch advertisment, a Texas Motor
Vehicle Commission official said.
Henri ten Brink, assistant director
of enforcement for the commission,
which regulates car dealers in Texas,
said Landmark Chevrolet used bait-
and-switch tactics “with alluring and
insincere offers made to attract peo
ple to the store in order to sell them
a product at a higher price.”
Jim Johnson, manager of Land
mark, replied to the commission’s
action in a prepared statement and
ref used to answer any questions.
“We feel this fine pays our dues
for aggressively entering the Hous
ton market,” Johnson said. “Our
sales have more than doubled in the
nine months since we’ve purchased
Landmark. Our auditors have docu
mented the facts that we have saved
consumers hundreds of thousands
of dollars during this period with
our low price-trading policies.”
The commission also entered
agreed judgments against nine other
Houston-area dealers for advertis
ing violations and assessed each pe
nalties of $500, the minimum under
commission rules, ten Brink said.
HOUS TON — Even though the
Houston-Galveston port didn’t get
named as the homeport for the L’SS
Wisconsin, officials say their pitch
for the base has spurred local port
development business.
“Obviously we would have like to
have had it here,” said Dick Bryant,
a spokesman for the Houston Eco
nomic Development Board who
spearheaded the Houston proposal.
But we’re thrilled for Corpus Christi
and that it came to Texas. We think
there will be an economic trickle
along the Gulf Coast.”
Bryant said he expects the Corpus
Christi port to establish a network
for other ports of which the Hous
ton-Galveston port will more than
likely be a part.
He said the half million dollars
donated by Houston businesses for
the homeport bid has enabled the
port to start aggressively competing
for business worldwide.
The proposal presented by Hous
ton officials was the best feasible
plan to Itlre the Navy Department to
choose the Houston-Galveston port,
Bryant said.
“We feel very good and we still
feel it’s the best plan,” Bryant said.
Paul Mabry, press secretary for
Houston Mayor Kathy Whitmire,
agreed with Bryant, in saying Hous
ton officials had offered a complete
and luring proposal full of incen
tives.
“We offered the most cost effec
tive proposal with a financing mech
anism, and a guaranteed price with
buy back option,” Mabry said. The
Houston proposal also would have
allowed the Navy to take overall
tire wing of a University of It
hospital instead of them buil4
their own health facilities, he said
Mabry said Houston will (
nitely feel an economic boost!
the homeport. He expects the
million in construction required
Corpus Christi will involve com
itive bidding from Houston build
Mabry said the port’s waterde
was not a critical factor early o
the homeport selection. He
Navy officials originally had
quested a water depth of 50 feet;
Galveston port measures a dept
42 feet.
Although the Houston-Galves
port was overlooked as the h#
port it did, however, gain two
ales and three mine sweepers.
Former hostage is reunited with relatives
Associated Press
The nine dealers assessed penal
ties include: Bob Marco Buick; Mar
cus Jones Buick; A1 Parker Buick;
Hub Buick; DeMontrond Buick;
Ben Reading Buick; Vance & Sons
AMC Jeep, Renault and Ron Carter
Chevrolet.
HOUSTON — Former TWA hi
jacking hostage Allyn Conwell was
reunited with a brother and sister
Tuesday in Washington before an
ticipating a flight back to Houston
later in the day.
Carma Little and Ron Conwell
were flown by TWA to Washington
to greet their brother when he
landed at Andrews Air Force Base
from Frankfurt, West Germany.
President Reagan welcomed the for
mer hostages when they landed.
Gonwelf’s mother, Lois Conwell of
Houston, and his wife, Olga, were
on hand in Frankfurt when the 39
hostages arrived Sunday from Dam
ascus, Syria after their 17-day or
deal.
The Conwells were to be greeted
by another brother, Mike, and other
relatives when they arrive at Hous
ton’s Intercontinental Airport at
1 1:41 p.m.
“I think he’s probably tired of be
ing in the spotlight, but 1 don’t think
he realizes the impact he and the
others really had in the United
States,” Little, said Monday. “1 don’t
think he’s aware just how great a
part they played.”
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