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By CRAIG RENFRO
Staff Writer
Filing for city council elections in
Station opened Monday
a city council member and a
Imer council member seeking the
lyor’sjob.
arry Ringer, a statistics professor
Texas A&M, has filed as a candi-
to succeed outgoing mayor
r Halter.
^nger, who served as a College
City Council member from
6-83, now serves as a member of
[A&M Faculty Senate.
1‘When I was a council member, I
: people felt I was someone they
could talk to and someone who was
willing to listen to other people’s
ideas. Ringer said.
Ringer said he considered filing in
1984, but did not feel like running
against Halter.
“When Gary (Halter) indicated he
wouldn’t run again, I listened to
people and felt support in the com
munity and decided to run,” he said.
If elected, Ringer said he hopes to
see many community development
programs continued.
“I would like to see College Sta
tion continue to plan for the future,”
Ringer said. “I have no big crusades
planned, I just want to continue
some current programs and encour
age innovative ideas.”
Also filing for the mayoral race is
Place 6 Councilwoman Lynn Mcll-
haney, whose term expires this
spring.
Mcllhaney, who has served on the
College Station City Council for four
years, said she understands how the
city council works and, if elected, will
tackle issues pressing the city.
Mcllhaney said if elected, she will
be able to put more time into the po
sition because she does not have a
full-time job.
“The mayor’s position is one of
working with the council to address
problems facing the city,” she said.
“We have a public relations aspect in
for
that we are also responsible
keeping the citizens informed.”
Halter, a political science profes
sor at A&M who has served three
terms as mayor said he will not run
for re-election, but pursue other in
terests.
“You begin to lose enthusiasm for
it (the mayor position), and I need to
do other things with my academic
career,” Halter said.
Halter said College Station is very
efficient from the standpoint of.
management and provides good
service to the people of the commu
nity.
The deadline for filing is Feb. 19
and the election is April 5.
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AUSTIN — An office-retail
oject has a new twist that its de-
loper hopes will get the atten-
m of brokers and potential ten-
its — gifts of a safari in Africa, a
ip on a French barge canal and
Caribbean cruise.
The marketing promotion
irted by developer Jim Ray has
:en offering such added incen-
/es to sign leases of 5,000 square
et or more at his North Austin
roject, The Exchange.
Jan Estlow, a broker with
enry S. Miller Co., said Ray
me up with the idea because he
anted to stay ahead as others in-
easingly turned to such gim-
icks to distinguish projects in a
owded real estate market.
“I think it’s an added entice-
ent because there’s so much
ace available,” Estlow said. “E-
ryone’s very competitive. And
you know, there’s lots of free
nt going on.”
The Exchange has 27,000
juare feet of office space and
1,000 square feet of retail space,
alf the retail space is leased, but
ay still hasn’t signed leases for
:e office section of the building,
hich was finished in November.
Ray said he thinks the trips are
way to stir interest in his project.
His promotion started late in
ctober, but no prizes have been
warded. He said he will continue
util April.
Estlow said she has noticed the
creased spending by other de-
lopers who have held fancy
ien houses w-ith money given
y each hour and one with a
,000 door prize. She said some
e started offering 6 percent
mmission for brokers instead
the regular 4 percent, or other
icentives.
Former principal gave alibi
without being asked for it
Associated Press
LIVINGSTON — A former ju
nior high school principal accused of
killing a football coach over the af
fections of a school secretary gave
authorities an unsolicited alibi be
fore he was charged, prosecutors
said Monday.
“I wonder why would somebody
produce an alibi when he hadn’t
been charged,” prosecutor Peter
Speers asked the jury of 10 women
and two men during opening argu
ments.
Hurley Fontenot, 48, former
principal of Hull-Daisetta Woodson
Junior High School, is charged with
murder in the shooting death of
Billy Mac Fleming, who had coached
and taught math and science at the
school.
Speers contends there was “bad
blood” between two men over the
relationships with Laura Nugent, 36,
a teacher’s aide and school secretary.
‘7 wonder why would
somebody produce an al
ibi when he hadn’t been
charged. ”
— Peter Spears, Polk
County district attorney.
“The motive (for the murder) is
jealousy and hatred, but love is not
all there is to it,” Speers told about
200 spectators who packed the cour-
toom in this tiny East Texas town.
According to Fontenots
statement, he gave Fleming a ride
from the school to his pickup truck
and then got gas at a filling station.
After stopping at the post office, he
drove to Houston’s Hobby Airport,
where he was to meet his daughter,
Vanessa, and help her move furni
ture to Austin, Speers said.
But his daughter never arrived,
and Fontenot drove across the city to
Houston’s Intercontinental Airport,
Speers said. When he found his
daughter wasn’t there, he made a
long-distance call and then left,
Speers said.
Speers said, however, that Fonte
not’s daughter never planned to visit
Houston to get any furniture and
that he never called her from the air
port as he had told authorities. Ms.
Fontenot will testify as a prosecution
witness, he said.
Fontenot’s fingerprint was found
on the original bill at a Houston-area
motel where Nugent and Fleming
had spent the night, the prosecutor
said.
Copies of the bill, along with “very
derogatory” anonymous letters,
were mailed in March to Fleming’s
estranged wife and members of the
school board, Speers said.
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Associated Press
FORT WORTH — Navy Cmdr.
Robert Engelmann says he turned
down most interview requests when
he and 51 other Americans were re
leased from captivity in Iran so he
could return to a normal life and re
sume his career.
But now, on the fifth anniversary
of freedom from the 444-day ordeal
at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, it’s
easier to talk, he said.
“If you wanted to,” Engelmann
said, “you could relive the experi
ence every time you accept one of
these offers to speak, write, or con
duct an interview. As you do that, it’s
more and more difficult to place it
behind you. You have to get on with
your life.”
His parents, Ardo and Mariam
Engelmann of the Fort Worth sub
urb of Hurst, steadfastly refused any
comment while their son was being
held hostage, as well as after his re
lease. They also discouraged any lo
cal celebrations after he was freed.
His parents refused again this
week to talk about the situation, but
Engelmann granted a telephone in
terview with the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram from his home near the
U.S. Marine Corps Air Station in Ka-
noehe Bay, Hawaii, where he works
as a supply officer.
Engelmann said the thing he re
members most about the first days
after the Jan. 20, 1981 release was
media coverage that followed the
hostages from one parade or cere
mony to another.
“I don’t think any of the hostages
were prepared fnr- uusiages
P rea tor the magnitude of
the welcome home or the impact the
whole Iranian situation had made on
the United States,” Engelmann said.
He said he returned to a normal
life more quickly than he had ex
pected after his release.
“I was kind of surprised at how
easy it was to get back to your job
and your life as you left it,” he said.
“When you’re experiencing some
thing like that in Iran, you think
about high moralistic standards and
tend to put the material world be
hind you.”
Upon his return to the United
States in 1981, he described the days
in captivity as “long hours of tedium
occasionally punctuated by moments
of sheer terror.”
Engelmann said he hasn’t suf
fered any harmful psychological ef
fects because of the experience.
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