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ige 8/The Battalion/Friday, November 22,1985 /arped by Scott McCuliar IVILL ARNOLD EVER TURN /MTO A REAL 'v/f shall see/ HOE /ai.,rM60PRv.wr mi JU5T HAVE TO ETTLE K>fZ "HAPPV 1RTHPAV, RHOPA by Jeff MacNelly Law enforcers’ turkey shoot to use targets, not live birds By CRAIG RENFRO Stuff Writer The Brazos County Peace Offi cers Association is holding a turkey shoot Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 4692. Post Commander John Velasquez said the public is welcome to attend. Snacks, refreshments and beer will be available. The VFW iiost, located one mile north of the Texas Hall of Fame on FM 2818, will provide 15 target-fir ing lanes for contestants, Velasquez said. “A lot of people have the wrong idea what a turkey shoot is,” Velas quez said. “We aren’t going to shoot turkeys. Instead, each person will shoot once at a target and the shot closest to the center wins.” The contestant with the best shot will have a choice of receiving either a turkey, brisket or ham, Velasquez said. The entry fee is $1.75 per round and contestants can enter as many rounds of competition as they de sire, Velasquez said. Contestants can bring their own guns, but the VFW post will provide some guns for public use, he said. Only .410 to 12-gauge shotguns will be allowed in the competition, Velas quez said. “This is an annual event that has been going on for several years,” Ve lasquez said. “This is a community service we do for them (BCPOA). “We loan them our facilities, mi crophones and equipment, and all of the proceeds go to the BCPOA.” BCPOA President Robert Dona- hoo said the proceeds will be used to pay for educational law enforcement programs and speakers. “The BCPOA has no other type of fund-raising activities besides this turkey shoot,” Donahoo said, "last year we tried a circus, but that didn't work because we spent too much money advertising.” The BCPOA has open mem bership to every law enforcement or ganization in the county, Donahoo said. The organization draws its 150 members from the Bryan and Col lege Station police departments, the county sheriffs office, the Texas De partment of Public Safety, the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation and the Texas A&M University Police. Three injuries cause girl’s death Associated Press HOUSTON — An 11-year-old Baytown girl whose body was found nine days after she disappeared while trick-or-treating was stabbed, strangled and asphyxiated by an ob ject forced down her throat, the Harris County medical examiner says.. Mary Stiles’ death was caused by a combination of those three types of injuries, Medical Examiner Dr. Jo seph Jachimczyk said Wednesday. The child disappeared Oct. 31 from the Baytown apartment com plex where her family lived. Her body was found in a shallow grave behind the complex on Nov. 9. No arrests have been made and Baytown police have said little about their investigation. An autopsy showed she had been stabbed four times in the neck and also had stab wounds in her right hand and forearm, Jachimczyk said. The arm wounds probably resulted when the girl trieu to ward off her assailant, he said. Jachimczyk also said the girl had been strangled and was asphyxiated by an object stuffed down her throat. The girl’s mother, Vicki Fellers, said Wednesday that officials told her some of the details of her daugh ter’s death several days before the official autopsy report was released. “I knew she had l)een strangled and stabbed, but I didn't ask any de tails,” Fellers said. “I didn't want to know.” awyers seeking to get Delta crash lawsuits combined Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Lawsuits mining from the crash of a Delta r Lines flight in Dallas should be isolidated for pretrial action in e federal judicial district, lawyers d a panel of judges Thursday. A Delta lawyer and lawyers for tims and survivors of the Aug. 2 ish at Dallas-Fort Worth Interna- nal Airport argued for consolida- n of the cases before-the U.S. Ju- iat Panel on Multidistrict igation. The seVen-ju,dge panel considers motions involving cases in more than one district. The crash in a severe storm left 137 people dead. At least 35 lawsuits have been filed in Texas, Florida, California, Utah and New York by survivors and families of victims, at torneys said. Most have been filed in Floriaa. Wind shear has been cited as a possible cause of the crash, but the board is not expected to make a rul ing before next year. Most of the lawyers, including Delta attorney John Martin, favored consolidation in the Northern Dis trict of Texas, in which the crash oc curred. Several others, representing victims and survivors from southern Florida, asked to have the cases con solidated there. It would be most efficient and economical to hear pretrial matters in Dallas, where most witnesses to the crash and the storm are living, Martin said. “The bulk of the documentary ev idence, the eyewitness evidence ... is in the Northern District of 'Texas,” said Wendell Turley of Dallas, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys. However, Chicago attorney Ste phen Walker, who represents seve ral victims’ families, said the airline easily can afford to send its witnesses to Florida for depositions, but many of the survivors and relatives of vic tims cannot afford to go to Dallas. Lee Kreindler, a New York attor ney representing the estates of seve ral victims, said most of the cases will focus on problems on the ground, such as the availability of weather in formation at the airport, rather than defects in the aircraft. As a result, pretrial action should be in Dallas, Kreindler said. The Texas district also has a shorter backlog of cases than the Florida district, Turley said. Florida attorney John Krupnick said a large number of the plane’s 153 passengers were from southern Florida, and noted that three judges recently added to the Florida district are expected to lighten the backlog ofcases there. Kreindler said he expected to panel to issue its decision within about two weeks. 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