Tuesday 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’
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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.
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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.
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