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Wednesday, January 28, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5 Ixecution eld off ^^SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A a stui: federal judge granted a stay of loot I execution Tuesday for a man [ONE twice condemned for the slaying "t of a warehouse manager. odhelHjohn R. Thompson, who "Wet turned 32 Tuesday, was sched uled to die today for the fatal SION shooting of Mary Kneupper, 70, on May 21, 1977. U.S. District 'tied Judge D.W. Suttle granted the ober. stay to give him time to review an Krnal. appeal, a court clerk said. Hg, ■ Kneupper, the manager of a I^Horage warehouse, was shot once irj the neck with a .45-caliber pis- jdH. Thompson has insisted the death was accidental. e B Thompson’s attorney, Mark ’^Bevens, said the appeal included | 1 ^Begations that Bexar County prosecutors reneged on an offer 1^ of a lile sentence il I hompsc>n |y would agree to plead guilty. The execution date was the ^Hcond for Thompson, who had ^j^^Ben out of prison just three °f '*|m uuhs after serving two years of ■six-year term for robbery. The lirmer laborer also has a record of arrests for auto theft, robbery, Heapons possession and burglary. ■ The Texas Court of Criminal ■ppeals threw out Thompson’s fn >t conviction. He was convicted agiin in 1982 and sentenced to d< ath. ■ Thompson would have been Be 21st Texas inmate to be put to ejeath since the state resumed ex- Butions in 1982. gran. t'bttE iblist; ill Ul: d tod dllbei and a :onterj tsoarc: atioit ’ Regents grant contract for work at Easterwood By Amy Couvillon Staff Writer The Texas A&M Board of Re gents awarded a $869,464 contract Monday for the construction of a taxiway and an aircraft parking apron for the proposed north termi nal at Easterwood Airport. Bandas Industries Inc., of Temple, received the contract, which includes construction of light ing for the taxiway and parking apron, as well as an access road con nection, Bandas spokesman Jeanie Johnson said. Bandas will attend a pre-construc tion conference at A&M Feb. 6, Johnson said. H.E. Raisor, A&M manager of aviation services, said A&M received $750,000 from the Federal Aviation Administration early this month for this part of the improvements at Eas terwood. Phase I of the north terminal pro ject has two parts, Raisor explained. The First part, which is nearly completed, was contracted to Young Brothers Inc., and includes utilities and an entrance road from F.M. 60, at the former location of the Quon- set Huts. “We’re working toward a Final in spection on that (phase I, part 1) now,” Raisor said. The contract awarded Monday to Bandas was for phase I, part 2, Rai sor said. The January FAA funds will be used for this part — the apron, taxi way and access road connection. Funds also will come from Bryan, College Station, Brazos County and A&M. The new terminal building itself — still in the planning stage — is part of phase II, Raisor said. This Final phase also includes an east road and the automobile park ing area. A contract should be awarded for phase II sometime next year, he said, and the entire north terminal project should be completed in the spring of 1989. “The new terminal will bring added growth to the Brazos Valley,” Raisor said. He said the north area terminal will be much larger than Eas- terwood’s existing terminal, and it will be used for commercial flights. “The first one is very much too small,” he said. “It’s overcrowded; it doesn’t handle even the current air traffic.” James Lawson, a taxi driver at Easterwood, says the terminal tends to get crowded on busy days, and he can see a need for a larger facility. “I’ve seen it so packed you can hardly get through,” said Lawson, who has operated an airport taxi service at Easterwood since the early 1970s. When the new terminal is com pleted, Raisor said, the old terminal will be converted to a fixed-base op eration for general aviation, which includes military, business and pri vate air traffic. 3 resign, 1 fired in Dallas jail sex scandal DALLAS (AP) — Three Dallas County detention center officers re signed and a fourth was fired after all admitted to giving cigarettes to female inmates in exchange for sex ual favors, officials said. Jim Ewell, a spokesman for the Dallas County SherifFs Department, said an investigation into the alleged activities began Jan. 17 after jail offi cials heard rumors among inmates about the sexual activity. Ewell said Lt. John Slovak, a watch commander, saw a jailer and a female prisoner enter an elevator and was curious because the officer was not assigned to escort prisoners. Slovak told investigators he took another elevator to the second floor and waited for about 12 minutes for the jailer and his prisoner to arrive. Ewell said the prisoner told inter nal affairs officers she had inter course with the jailer in exchange for cigarettes. She also told investi gators she had sex with another offi cer on March 3. The incidents took place at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, the cen ter of the county jail system, and in volved 24 different women on 25 separate occasions, officials said. No charges have been filed against the officers who resigned Sunday and Monday, officials said. Fraternity becomes ‘adoptive parent’ A&M organization does part in Adopt-A-Highway program M. By Debbie Monroe Reportet snout y anv: i way i itain a it of % lowevK omeos: tiavetoJ; ng in [Ini' jr Deni drug-® )f the': embers of Alpha Gamma Rho, an agriculture fraternity at Texas A&M, have become adoptive par ents, of sorts, to a stretch of Well born Road south of College Station. ■Through the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transporta tion Adopt-A-Highway program, the fraternity pledged to keep a two- mile section of F.M. 2154 litter-free, stil ting south of the College Station rify limits. ■Brad Goodbread, Alpha Gamma Rho public relations co-chairman, said the group is committed to com munity service and wants to be more than a stereotypical fraternity. H“I think fraternities ought to do things that aren’t expected of them, like adopting a highway,” Good- bread said. ■Twenty-five Alpha Gamma Rho members and pledges spent the first Satuiday in December collecting trash along their section of Wellborn Road and will repeat the cleanup twice each semester. Public relations co-chairman Johnny Wilson said the stretch of Department of Highways and Public Transportation office. Maintenance construction fore man Delmar Smith works closely with groups that volunteer for the program. Crews that are paid to pick up “I think fraternities ought to do things that aren’t ex pected of them, like adopting a highway. ” — Brad Goodbread, Alpha Gamma Rho public rela tions co-chairman road was a long two miles for the pledges. “They thought two miles was a lot shorter than that,” Wilson said. “They thought they went 20 miles.” The Adopt-A-Highway program is administered by the local Texas trash can cover more ground be cause they can skip sections of road maintained by volunteers. Smith said. Five organizations in Brazos County have joined the program and Smith said two more plan to enl ist soon. 00 Special: 2 Shrimp Dinners for $5. Hash Browns with any Crescent Breakfast purchase good thru Jan. 4 OPEN 24 HRS. 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SCHROEPPEL, O.D., P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D College Station, Texas 77840 1 block South of Texas & University DRyCLEANUSA. '■MMI Skaggs Center Jean’s Special Starch or Dry Clean any 4 jeans, pay for 3. Expires 3/31/87 846-2155 SCHULMAN THEATRICS 2.50 ADMISSION 1. Any Show Before 3 PM 2. Tuesday - All Seats 3. Mon-Wed - Local Students With Current ID’s. 4. Thurs. - KORA “Over 30 Nile” •DENOTES DOLBY STEREO PLAZA 3 THEATRE GUIDE 226 Southwest Pkwy uttlTShBF i QF HORRORS 693-2457 PG-13 *THE GOLDEN CHILD pa-13 * CRITICAL CONDITION r MANOR EAST 3 7:20 8:40 As of Dec. 31, 850 groups statewide were a part of the cam paign and more than 1,500 miles of roadway were being kept clean by volunteers. John Cagle, a Highway Depart ment public information officer, said the purpose of the program is to get people involved with the litter problem. “It’s a snowball effect,” Cagle said. Volunteers talk about their cleanup efforts to friends and fam ily, and soon everyone in a commu nity gets to know about the problem with roadside litter, he said. Goodbread said getting up close and personal with trash certainly changed a few attitudes among members of Alpha Gamma Rho. “I talked with some of the pledges when we got done and they said they weren’t going to litter anymore,” he said. 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