Thursday, September 26, 1985/The Battalion/Page 5
Court upholds
conviction of
truck driver
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Student interaction
with business world
club’s goal for year
'l w ^| By ANDY RICHARDSON
Reporter
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Interaction, a key to any club’s
success, is one of the main goals
mressed by the Texas A&M Land
^Development Club this year. Matt
Moore, the club’s president, says it is
’ e 'M planning several events to help stu-
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dents relate to each other an d with
the business community.
■ The Land Development Club is
an interdisciplinary organization de
voted to Quality real estate devel
opment in building the cities of tom-
morrow, Moore says.
■ This semester the club is hopim
ping
tjo get a data base started from which
ung. pnembers can get information about
insider it job opportunities around the state,
an sa y s -
\ tou M I!, B'‘T| 1 i s club really has great poten-
" , Jtl,” Moore says. “There are mem-
dS ‘ !lr bers from almost every college on
udenti tt
campus.
t Rusty Snell, a senior agric ultural
/’vWA1t econom ‘ cs ma j or f rom Houston,
W'UW avs th 31 h e was interested in the real
^ %ate phase of land development
ondemnat <md that the club sounded like it
o makero would really be beneficial to him.
Project Bln the past, the club brought in
several speakers to give the students
! (he hot 1 better understanding of the real
and tetJpdd-
toGeneBpF° r example, Charles Jakobies,
r, whosaid#' Jt bor of books used in some of the
rk on thi rea l estate law classes at Texas A&M,
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has spoken to the club, and Moore
says he is hoping to invite him back.
James Northrup, a Dallas broker,
and Bob Pardue, a commercial bro
ker from Houston, already have ac
cepted invitations to speak to the
club.
Membership involves more than
speakers and $10-a-year-dues. Mem
bers are planning a possible field
trip to Tne Woodlands, a satellite
city • ‘ built in the early 1970s
by George Mitchell, a former A&M
student.
Moore says he feels that students
in the club can better understand the
whole process of land development
by talking to people who are in the
field and seeing how they relate to
each other on the job.
Moore says the club’s goals this
year are to get more interaction be
tween the members and the business
community. Members also are
looking for recognition from the
real estate community around the
state to make it aware of the club.
Also, Moore says he hopes to get
some “joint venture” parties to
gether with different clubs. He says
this would give students an opportu
nity to get to know people, which
could be used for future contacts.
Anyone interested in finding out
more about the club can call the De
partment of Urban Regional Plan
ning, which sponsors the club, at
845-8756 or Matt Moore at 693-
8473.
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals upheld Wednes
day a six-year prison sentence given
the driver of a truck whose vehicle
crashed into a West Texas school
bus, killing five high school students
on the way to a basketball tourna
ment.
Twenty-one others were injured
when the bus, carrying the McCaul-
ley High School boys and girls bas
ketball teams, was hit by the 15-ton
truck about 1:15 p.m. on Dec. 8,
1978.
Attorneys for the driver, William
Clarence Dixon Jr., unsuccessfully
argued that the verdict of a Mitchell
County jury, which heard the case
on a change of venue from Fisher
County, should be reversed because
the indictment was vague and indefi
nite.
“The trial, from beginning to end,
was hard fought by both the pros
ecuting attorneys and the defense at
torneys, and the trial judge appears
to have done all within his power
and wisdom to have seen that the ap
pellant received the fair and impar
tial trial that the law mandated that
he was to receive,” the appellate
court said.
Dixon, who was found guilty of
involuntary manslaughter, was driv
ing an oilfield service truck weighing
more than 30,000 pounds on Farm
Road 611 in Fisher County.
At an intersection of the farm
road with U.S. 180, the truck col
lided with the bus, which was taking
the basketball teams to a tournament
in Hermleigh. The bus was driven
by the school superintendent.
The appeals court opinion noted
that the bus contained all but eight
students of the McCaulley High
School student body, which consis
ted of just 33 youths.
“Photographs of the bus reflect
that it was literally cut in half and
was totally demolished as a result of
the collision,” the court said.
“The evidence also reflects that
prior to entering the intersection,
(the truck) passed another vehicle
within approximately 100 feet of the
intersection, that he had failed to
read a ‘stop ahead’ posted sign, that
he had failed to stop at a posted stop
sign, and that he had failed to stop in
obedience to a flashing red traffic
light that was hanging over the inter
section,” the court said.
“There was also evidence that not
too long before the collision oc
curred appellant had consumed two
beers,” the opinion said.
The appellate court said it found
that the indictment was sufficient for
the conviction.
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