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PUTNAM (AP) — A Pecos man
was killed and nine youths injured,
one possibly seriously, Wednesday
when their vehicle overturned on
the way home from a state Little
League baseball tournament in
Waco.
The accident occurred about 1:30
p.m. just west of Putnam, 35 miles
east of Abilene.
The victim, Chano O. Prieto, 41,
was driving through a well-marked
construction zone on the westbound
lanes of Interstate 20 when the vehi
cle drifted off the road, Department
of Public Safety Trooper Bill Russell
said.
Prieto apparently lost control of
the vehicle when he tried to jerk it
back onto the highway, Russell said.
The most seriously injured pas
senger appeared to be Chano Prieta
Jr., 16, the victim’s son, who was re
ported to be in undetermined condi
tion in Hendrick Medical Center in
Abilene.
The other injured boys were 11-
and 12-year-olds.
SPCA warns againsthaste
Pets bought on impulse
By M.K. Pfeifer
Reporter
Impulsive buying is the most com
mon reason people get pets that they
can’t properly care for, said Angela
McCoy, vice president of the Brazos
Valley Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.
Between 8,000 and 10,000 pets
are turned in to the Brazos Valley
Animal Shelter each year.
McCoy said many people, not just
students, buy pets on the basis of
“isn’t it cute and cuddly.”
“That’s when someone should
step in and say, ‘Wait! Get a stuffed
animal instead,’ ” she said.
McCoy worked for the local Hu
mane Society when it was in exis-
tance five years ago and said she she
noticed a great influx of animals at
the end of the semester.
She said the summer is a double
problem not only because the semes
ter ends, but because all the animals
are going through a breeding cycle.
Charles Huneycutt, College Sta
tion animal control officer, said he
attributes the increase of abandoned
animals at the end of semester to the
large number of college students
that live in College Station and go
home for the summer or graduate.
Huneycutt, who has been a dog-
catcher for 10 years in Brazos Val
ley, said he feels that people do not
abandon their animals maliciously,
but thinking the animals will easily
find a new home.
McCoy agreed. “People have good
intentions when they get a pet,” she
said. “It’s just then they discover that
having a pet is a big financial respon-
siblity, including shots, boosters and
neutering.”
Kathy Ricker, executive director
of the Brazos Valley Animal Shelter
which takes in animals from seven
different counties, said the shelter
asks people who want pets to fill out
an application.
“All applicants fill out a form that
gives us a full background of where
they live, the history of their pre
vious pets and the kind of animal
they are looking for,” she said.
A 24-hour waiting period lets the
staff review the application and lets
the applicant consider the responsi
bilities of a pet.
Ricker said she hopes this will pre
vent impulse buying. The shelter
also gives gift certificates so a person
can come in and pick out a pet,
which prevents the shelter from giv
ing away an animal someone might
not want.
Ricker said when the shelter first
opened they asked people why they
were surrendering their pets.
“We got any reason from they
couldn’t afford the pet deposit at
their new apartment to the cat didn’t
match the new furniture,” she said.
Thursday, August^, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3
"What’s .
Thursday
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: Any junior and senior in the de
partment of biology, chemistry, mathematics or physics
who entered his current major prior to catalog 107 and
who has not previously taken the English Proficiency Ex
amination should plan to do so this semester. The exam
will be administered by the English department today.
Please contact Mrs. Marilyn Radke in 152 Blocker for de
tails. Advance registration is required.
COMMODORE BRAZOS USERS’ GROUP: anyone inter
ested in free tutorial on Commodore 64 or 128 systems can
call David Gruben at 845-8889.
STUDENT SERVICES BOOK EXCHANGE: will be held
from August 18-29. Go to the second floor of the Pavilion
to sell your used books and save money buying books. For
more information call 845-3051.
Friday
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: will sponsor an international
dinner in the BSU. For more information call 846-7722.
Monday
AGGIE SPACE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY: will show vi
deo highlights of the report of the National Commission
on Space at 7 p.m. in 604D Sterling C. Evans.
Tuesday
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will have a dive planning meeeting at
7 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center lounge by the pi
ano. For more inf ormation call Jeff, 696-2163.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de
sired publication date.
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AUSTIN (AP) — A psychia
trist imprisoned last year for ille
gally distributing narcotics is
working at the Austin State Hos
pital.
Dr. Clarence J. Coombs, 56,
also pleaded guilty in 1985 to de
frauding the Medicaid program
by submitting false bills.
Kenny Dudley, the state hospi
tal superintendent who hired
Coombs for the $58,000-a-year
job, said he hired Coombs be
cause he previously worked at the
mental hospital and “did a good
job for us as a psychiatrist,” he
said.
“I don’t know about all the
things that took place in his fel
ony trial,” Dudley said. “As long
as he’s got a Texas license and has
done a good job for us, Pm not
going to worry about the other.”
Maryland jurors last summer
found Coombs guilty of four fel
ony counts of possession with in
tent to distribute narcotics and
one felony count of being a public
nuisance through illicit drug ac
tivities in a Washington suburb.
Suzanne S ch n eid e r , a
spokeswoman for the Montgom
ery County state attorney’s office
in Maryland, said Coombs was
dispensing large quantities of
narcotics to drug addicts even
though he did not have a license
to operate a drug therapy pro
gram.
L. Leonard Ruben, the
Maryland judge who sentenced
Coombs to five years in prison
said at the time, “He has wreaked
havoc upon people he says he was
helping.”
Coombs said Wednesday he
saw nothing improper about
Working at the hospital.
“I’m a licensed physician,” he
said. “I’m doing the job here.”
Coombs was sent to the Rox-
bury Correctional Institution, but
the sentence was suspended in
March when Ruben allowed him
to enroll in a residential drug
abuse program in Richmond, Va.
Texas parole officers will be
notified that Coombs is in the
state, according to Harriet Pau
ley, Ruben’s secretary.
Coombs began work July 17 at
the state hospital’s acute care
unit, working with adult psychiat
ric patients. He had worked at the
mental hospital for one year be
fore he returned to Maryland for
the trial.
The Maryland Commission on
Medical Discipline in November
1983 issued findings that said
Coombs presented “an imminent
threat to public health and safety”
because he prescribed excessive
amounts of narcotics.
By doing so, he “created or se
riously threatened to create drug
dependency in those patients,”
the commission said.
Coombs declined to comment
on whether his job could be in
jeopardy because of the
Maryland convictions.
Telephone registration to begin in fait
By Bob Grube
Reporter
Beginning in November 1986,
Texas A&M students may no longer
have to stand in long registration
lines at the Pavilion hoping to get the
class they need or saying a prayer
that the computer won’t go down.
Starting with the Spring 1987 pre
registration period in November,
students will be able to take advan
tage of a new system that will enable
them to register by touch-tone tele
phone from anywhere in the world.
Robert Lacey, A&M registrar, said
he is pleased with the new system,
which he says will greatly reduce the
headaches of registering at the Pavil
ion because the students can register
at home.
“We’ve been testing the system
with incoming freshmen during the
summer orientation conferences,”
he said. The system will also be used
during delayed fall registration so
upperclassmen can try it, he said.
“We want comments on the sys
tem so we can make the procedural
instructions as clear as possible,” La
cey said. “Clear instructions are the
key to the success of the system.”
In April 1984, Brigham Young
University implemented the first
university touch-tone registration
system in the country. A&M’s system
is modeled after BYU’s program.
Lacey said a team of A&M admin
istrators went to BYU to study its
system and to decide whether or not
that type of registration system
would work at A&M.
While the two systems are similar,
A&M’s system will be more complete
than BYU’s, he said, because it will
handle all fees, not just tuition and
class schedules.
Doug Bell, director of registration
at BYU, says there’s no comparison
between the old standing-in-line sys
tem and the new touch-tone system.
“Prior to this, the University dic
tated to the students where to be and
when to be there,” he said. “Now,
the students can register when and
from where they want to.”
Bell said the biggest advantage of
the system becomes clear when the
computer goes down.
“It is not a catastrophe,” Bell said.
“A student trying to register while
the computer is down will not get an
answer on the phone; he just calls
again later.”
While there is a $50 registration
deposit required at BYU, Lacey said
there will be no such fee at A&M.
However, Lacey said, any blocks
that prevented students from regis
tering under the old system will re
main in effect with the new system.
Lacey did not know the cost of im
plementing the system, but said the
only cost being incurred by the Uni
versity was the one-time equipment
cost, which he said worked out to
about 25 cents to 50 cents per stu
dent.
He said the human labor costs will
be greatly reduced when the new
system is put into use because there
will be no need for the computer ter
minal operators who currently help
the students register. He said the
new system will save the University
about $50,000 per year in computer
terminal operator costs.
Lacey added he did not yet know
whether or not a priority registra
tion system (seniors first, then ju
niors, etc.) would be used. He also
did not know whether or not the sys
tem would be used during the drop-
add period.
“Our goal was to offer the stu
dents the most complete registration
package available,” Lacey said. “We
wanted to eliminate the central proc
essing point from the registration
process.”
Police chief selling ‘souvenirs’ from manhunt
BIG SANDY (AP) — A law officer
says he had a good reason for de
signing a limited edition of posters
and T-shirt transfers commemorat
ing last month’s search for an es
caped murder suspect.
Big Sandy Police Chief Richard
Lingle says the drawings will thank
the more than 300 law officers who
helped capture Jerry Walter McFad-
den, commonly known by his self-
proclaimed nickname “Animal.”
But Upshur County Sheriff Dale
Jewkes doesn’t agree.
“That’s in poor taste,” Jewkes said
Wednesday. “I don’t know what the
reason behind it is. I just don’t think
a law officer should do that. I think
it’s commercializing.”
McFadden escaped from the Up
shur County Jail in Gilmer after
overpowering two guards and taking
a third hostage. About 50 hours
later, he was apprehended without
resistance in a vacant house in
nearby Big Sandy. The hostage es
caped unharmed.
Lingle, who was a commercial art
ist for Woolco department stores be
fore becoming a law officer, said,
“It’s kind of one of those things just
try and see if its works.
“I had gotten some feedback from
the community, people who appre
ciated all the people and the depart
ments who were involved.”
Under the headings, “I Survived
the Big Sandy Manhunt” and
“Texas’ Largest — The Big Sandy
Manhunt,” the drawings show heli
copters, police cars, tactical officers,
canine patrols and mounted officers.
It also lists 59 police agencies in
volved in the search.
McFadden and Deputy Rosalie
Williams, who was taken hostage, are
not pictured on the posters. Williams
declined comment. McFadden was
unavailable for comment.
Lingle said the $3 posters and $5
transfers are “great gifts and souve
nirs” and a “very limited offer.”
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