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idnesday, February 26, 1986AThe Battalion Page 3 ^ — State and Local CHIMNEY HILL BOWLING CENTER 40 LANES League & Open Bowling Family Entertainment Bar & Snack par 701 University Dr E. .260-9184 exas party hairman pects GOP lominance By SONDRA PICKARD Staff Writer The Republican Party will have e largest voter turn-out in his- in the upcoming Texas pri- , and the Republicans may me the dominant party in the itefcy the early 1990s, Texas ■blican Party Chairman orge Strake told the members the Aggie GOP Tuesday night. K in’t tell you how important r you to register to vote,” ake said. “We’re going to get percent of the vote if we just r homework and continue resent the principles that [stands for. W< cannot win in November 1 we’re all together.” ke said A&M has done jor his confidence in Amer- l.i than any other single univer- ?/^-by playing a critical role in the “^Trioin rejuvenation of the I By since the Vietnam W'ar. A&M students provided the ■is to get Sen. Phil Gramm ■■l, Strake said, and have Brazos County, which H to be a county of “rock-solid a minats,” into a Replublican fBhold. IBiere you sit today,” he said, of had an effect, not only on IB, but a dramatic effect on S ilody in the world who ps what Gramm-Rudman is.” lake said the state is faced nan extremely difficult finan- crisis as a result of falling oil ;es, which will have a definite |on voter preferences. Tie dominant issue in this i,Wmaign in the fall,” he said, recenwbe what candidates — Re- was$B ns or Democrats — are liable to cope with the very dif- lilland trying times Texas is ngiobe faced with.” ice,liMe Republican Party has dure iwn by leaps and bounds in the , ef l\ 110years, Strake saicJ, and has ep college students some good Tings about America. ifulta hinisel n pol' 1 A&M former student chosen to speak Muster to be broadcast worldwide By TRACEY BABER Reporter Aggie Clubs around the world will be able to watch a live satellite broadcast of Muster ’86. A.W. “Head” Davis, Class of ’45, 1983 president of the Association of Former Students and a local Bryan lawyer for Davis 8c Davis At torneys, will speak at the annual Muster ceremony. Rodger Lewis, program director for KAMU-TV, said, “This is really an exciting thing. When we went to the former students with the idea, they went bananas about it.” Lewis said he will know soon on what satellite and what channel the ceremony will be broadcast April 21. The telecast will not take the place of the smaller ceremonies around the world, Lewis said. “The telecast will be integrated into their local ceremony,” Lewis said. And Lewis doubts the campus ceremony will be broadcast locally. “We want to encourage people to attend the campus ceremony,” Le wis said. The broadcast will be sent from A&M on the new microwave trans- A.W. Davis mitter being installed by Western Union. The signal will be sent by micro- wave to Houston or Dallas to be broadcast by satellite. The Association of Former Stu dents will sponsor the telecast un less another sponsor is found, Le wis said. “Davis was real emotional when he was told about being selected,” said Michael Alston, co-chairman of the Muster ’86 Speaker Selection subcommittee. Davis said, “After all the elation, surprise and excitement, you start to wonder what you are going to say. It’s a great thrill.” Alston said Davis was selected be cause he had the best recommenda tions from University administra tors. “Administrators told the commit tee he adds a little humor to his speeches, ” Alston said, “He keeps his speech postive and upbeat.” The Student Government Mus ter Committee began the speaker selection process last semester. Susan Aycock, Muster committee chairman, said the committee gets a list of candidates from the adminis tration and from the Former Stu dents Association. The committee narrows the list to 10 candidates and more re search is done. The committee talks to former students who knew the candidates while they 'were attending Texas A&M. Committee members obtain as much information as they can,, from such sources as the archives and old yearbooks. The selection committee meets with University officials such as A&M President Frank E. Vandiver, A&M Vice President for Student Services Dr. John Koldus III, Asso ciation of Former Students Exec utive Director Randy Matson, Asso ciation of Former Students Associate Executive Director Jim Jeter and others. Aggie Muster is a worldwide cel ebration, with roll calls held in each Muster location. During the ceremony, a friend or relative answers “here” for those who have died. The name of the deceased Aggie is called at the Muster closest to where the Aggie lived. The first Muster was held in 1883 as a social event for alumni to relive their college days. Muster gained worldwide recog nition in 1942 when 25 Aggies sta tioned at Corregidor Island in the Philippines held a Muster during intense Japanese fire. The first campus ceremony was in 1943. The campus ceremony has always been the largest and the most elaborate Muster. Aggie Cinema and the Agriculture and Liberal Arts Project present Shane starring Alan Ladd Wednesday February 26 7:30pm $1. 50 Order Your TAMu Commemorative Dinner Plate , Maroon & white, approximately 10” in diameter. $14 9S plus 2.50 shipping, handling and tax 20% of 14 9S will go to the TAMU General Scholarship Fund Send check or VISA/MASTERCARD number to: Texas Collections P.O. Box 9834 College Station, TX 77840 Jury continues deliberating in Fontenot trial Associated Press LIVINGSTON — A state district court jury resumed deliberations at 9 a.m. to decide whether a former junior high school principal killed a football coach out of jealousy over his relationship with a school secre tary. State District Judge John Martin sequestered the jurors Tuesday, but after three hours they adjourned. Jurors began deliberations after prosecutor Peter Speers alleged that Hurley Fontenot asked coach Billy Mac Fleming for help, shot him twice in the back of tne head and then drove around for nearly 10 hours to set up a phony alibi. “Lies — that’s what this case is all about. Lies,” Speers said. “The truth is Hurley Fontenot killed Billy Mac Fleming.” Fontenot, 48, former principal of Hull-Daisetta Junior High School, is charged with murder in the April 12 shooting death of Fleming. Speers said Fontenot lured Flem ing to his pickup truck, then shot him and drove to Houston, where he had told others that he was going to pick up his daughter and move some furniture back to Austin for her. Speers said Fontenot drove to Houston, then to a racetrack in Louisiana, then to a densely forested area near Livingston and dumped Fleming’s body off an isolated log ging road. But Fontenot’s attorney, Dick De- Guerin, said prosecutors had not proven Fontenot’s guilt and when ever any evidence failed to prove the prosecution’s case, they “destroyed it, misplaced it or simply swept it un der the rug,” DeGuerin said. DeGuerin said investigators lost the victim’s clothing that might have proved who last came in contact with the coach and failed to collect sam ples from the scene. In earlier closing arguments, prosecutor David Walker told the jury contradictions existed between Fontenot’s statement, given prior to the discovery of Fleming’s body, and trial testimony. “Nobody else brought in a written statement about what they were doing on April 12, 1985,” he said. Fleming had dated Laura Nugent, a 36-year-old school secretary, and they planned to marry last summer. But prosecutors allege Fontenot, who earlier dated Nugent, was jeal ous of Fleming. 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