The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 09, 1985, Image 5

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 09, 1985, Image 5

Newspaper Page TextTuesday July 9, 1985/The Battalion/Page 5 Earie Zebra shot to death in San Antonio Associated Press I SAN ANTONIO — A San Anto nio family has lost a pet zebra to a gim-wielaing assailant, the fourth j;uch attack on their pet zebras in a year. ■ The 5-year-old male zebra, Bamed Zeke, was found dead early Sunday on a ranch owned by Robert ind Judy Bilderback. The animal, worth about $10,000, had been dead about two days. B Police said another of the male ze- Bras is ill and a bale of hay is being analyzed. I Bilderback said she believes the attacks are being made by someone vho wants to force them into selling Iheir 15-acre ranch. “At this point, the zebras are for Hale,” she said. ‘‘The property is for |ale.” I The Bilderbacks have raised ze- |pras on the property for eight years. I “We don’t want any more to be Itilled,” Bilderback said. Judge: seeing man executed was ‘shocking’ 1 teken i Fender Bender Photo by GREG BAILEY A two-car collision at the corner of Ross and Biz- zell streets Sunday night resulted in the severe damage of one automobile, leaving it crippled on the adjacent sidewalk.Neither driver was injured. '©neuc provide] ln g a busy s >s and, et] complete titl la t though |j P'ogram, soJ A Kgie Game] uave resuiJ >e of TEES'J phen the | iucation in fl 11 he extensha •on and serai their ediJ aid. “Them dovement ss as well as J 'g-" iyone can ct^ ’ “Look, thin L ’ but most have beemii Tarleton State student makes first find Scientists unearth dinosaur fossils Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — State District Judge Roy Barrera Jr. says he still fa vors the death penalty, although, he found the execution of Jesse de la Rosa a shocking sight. He also says that other judges should watch their sentences carried out. Barrera sentenced de la Rosa, 24, to die by lethal injection for a conve nience store slaying. The San Anto nio man was executed May 15 in Huntsville. “This experience was a shocking experience,” he said. “I was taught to and do believe in God and in the sanctity of life. “We have a law, however, that I swore to defend and uphold as a criminal district judge.“That law al lows the state to take life in certain situations. I think the penalty of death is ajust penalty in some cases.” Barrera was the first in Texas to witness an execution since the state resumed the practice in 1980. He had refused to talk about the experi ence immediately after the execu tion and was put under sherifTs de- pa rtment protection after authorities received a death threat against him. Barrera broke his silence in an in terview with The San Antonio Ex press-News. The judge said he believes other criminal court judges and prosecu tors should witness executions. “Those judges who preside over death penalty cases would benefit from the experience I had on May 15, and certainly I believe the pros ecutors and district attorneys across the state should be required to wit ness that punishment, which is abso lute, which is irreversible, that they themselves decide upon when they seek capital punishment indict ments,” he said. “They (prosecutors) are the men and women who really decide who will live and who will die. The power they have in deciding when the death penalty should be sought is an awesome responsibility, which frankly, is used with little concern for the victim or the defendant.” Associated Press ■i STEPHENVILLE — Students and geologists :from Tarleton State University were among a Ream of experts who have discovered the remains of dinosaur-like creatures dating back 100 mil lion vears and previously unknown to scientists. I The remains have been uncovered at a flood Iplain in central Texas. Experts said the remains include rare fossils from an age from which few Ifemains have been found. I Rusty Branch, a Tarleton State University Sophomore, discovered the first of the remains during an early June excavation project in an an- lient Flood plain on the western pan of Lake froctor in Comanche County, about 75 miles louthwest of Fort Worth. Dr. Philip Murry of the Tarleton State Physical iciences Department said, “The thing that is im- rtanl about this discovery is that these fossils are from dinosaurs and other critters of an age that we know little about.” Murry and Dr. Louis Jacobs of the Shuler Mu seum of Paleontology at Southern Methodist University headed the excavation. Jacobs describes the project as monumental be cause of its contributions toward creating a more complete view of how the earth and animals have changed. The team, made up mostly of Tarleton State and SMU students, uncovered six dinosaur skele tons. They speculate that substantial remains are still buried. Murry said the site is unique in the quantity of fossils uncovered and the quality of the findings, several of which have been reclaimed intact. Calling the findings “new dinosaurs” because they are unlike any other creatures previously de scribed by science, Jacobs and Murry said the ske letons display characteristics of a couple of known specimens. The skeletons recovered thus far are of a small ornithischian, or bird-hipped species. At least one probably represents a previously unknown type related to the camptosaurs, a of plant-eating dinosaurs that usually the teir hind legs, Murry said. group walked on The camptosaurs excavated at the site are rela tively small. The largest skeleton does not exceed 10 feet and the smallest is less than three feet long. He said that the type of dinosaurs prevalent at the Lake Proctor site walked on two legs but went down on four legs to browse. Also uncovered was a skeleton of a creature with strongly recurved claws', probably a dro- maeosaur, a small meat-eating dinosaur. Texas group planning ‘pirate’ radio station Associated Press DALLAS — A Texas group plans to bring country and western music to the government-controlled Euro pean airways through a so-called “pi rate” radio station on a ship in the North Sea. The group’s proposed Wonderful Radio London (WRL) is not the first attempt ait establishing a pirate sta tion, which are considered illegal by Great Britain and other European governments. “We’ve seen lots of stations an nounced, but only a few actually started,” said Chris Edwards, editor of Off-Shore Echoes, which covers the only two floating North Sea sta tions now operating. The Dallas Times Herald re ported Monday that the principal organizer of WRL is an Arlington man who goes by the name John En gland, but some acquaintances say he is actually Merv Hager, a British citizen. England portrays his venture as a blow for freedom against the restric tive government-run broadcasting monopolies in Europe. ! something ’ho have i ions," he said i 't'ogram is) at TEES is | iaid. “A wail ies in busiHj solve probls ind is " 1 ►day lonscringa n 6 p.m. to i Iryan. The automobile fee is $20, ; nd groups, vorks i thedirec- of the de in Rudder Election of uist, James *ral public. ' 1* BURRITO SUPREME WITH PURCHASE OF ONE AT REGULAR PRICE. THRU SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1985 Limit one coupon per person per visit: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Not good with any other offer Valid only at Bryan/College Station Taco Bell^restaurants TOCO BElib LOUPOT’S HAS SHOP EARLY & SAVE WITH USED BOOKS FROM LOUPOT’S Why pay more? 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