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College Station, Texas
Thursday, February 26, 1987
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1987 Tour of Homes
ormer employee arrested
n slaying at CS restaurant
By Carolyn Garcia
Staff Writer
A former employee of Julie’s
I Place restaurant was arrested
I Wednesday in connection with
I the Jan. 15 murder of Beatrice
I Hiding.
Terry Washington, a former
Idishwasher at the restaurant
where both he and Huling
[worked, is being held without
[bond and will be charged with
[capital murder, Lt. Ervin Todd
[of the College Station Police De
partment, said.
College Station police officers,
[assisted by Bryan police, ar-
[rested Washington, 23, at a
[Bryan residence about 10 a.m.
[Wednesday.
Julie’s Place manager Scott
[Milton said Washington contin-
[ued to work at the restaurant
[until last weekend, when he was
[fired.
Assistant manager Wade
[Clark confirmed rumors that
[police asked the management to
[keep Washington employed.
The restaurant called to no-
jtify the police that they were
[going to fire Washington, Clark
(said.
Police refused comment on
[Clark’s report.
Huling was killed after fin-
jishing her shift as night manager
[of the restaurant. Police said a
[caller reported finding Hiding’s
[purse near the restaurant.
Investigating officers found
[the restaurant locked, and when
[Milton arrived to unlock the
[doors, Huling’s body was found
lying in the doorway of the res
taurant’s office. She had been
[stabbed repeatedly and disem-
jboweled, police said. All the
doors were locked and more
Jthan $500 had been taken from
(the restaurant.
Washington, of Rt. 5, Box
1124 in College Station, had
[been employed by Julie’s Place
restaurant for about six months,
| Milton said.
Milton said Huling had prob-
[lems with Washington’s work
performance.
NCAA hits SMU
with one-year
ban on football
Sgt. Larry Johnson transfers murder suspect Terry Washington to the Brazos County Jail.
Photo by Dean Saito
“They (Huling and Washing
ton) had their differences in the
past with his getting to work on
time, and he had been caught
drinking on the job one time,”
Milton said, “but these things
were a couple of months before
this all occurred and they had
pretty much blown over.
“He was terminated because
he had missed a shift.”
Milton said Washington was
not as visibly shaken by the mur
der as the other employees were.
“The rest of us up here were
horified and had a lot of ques
tions to ask,” Milton said. “Terry
didn’t seem horified and he
didn’t ask any questions about
what happened.”
card disputes Reagan statements
lower commission soys U.S. sold arms to Iran for hostages
I WASHINGTON (AP) — The Tower commis-
[sion will report that the United States sold arms
to Iran to win the release of American hostages,
[despite contrary statements by President Reagan,
but the panel could not determine how profits
Ifrom the deal were diverted to Nicaraguan re-
t bels, a source said Wednesday.
■ Concluding a three-month investigation, the
gthiee-member board headed by former Sen.
John Tower, R-Texas, will deliver its findings to
ic president today and discuss its report at a
ws conference.
On the eve of the report’s release. White
ouse spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Reagan
d sent the board a letter last Friday as it was
mpleting its work, because “he simply felt
icre were other recollections and clarifications
wanted to provide the board.”
Jin two meetings with the board, Reagan made
|nflicting statements about when he authorized
Te first shipment of U.S. weapons to Iran,
cording to published reports. Current and for
mer White House aides have disputed each other
on when Reagan approved the transaction.
An administration source said Reagan’s letter
offered yet a third version — that he simply had
no recollection of when he approved the ship
ment and that he may have allowed himself to be
influenced by the recollection of others.
Meanwhile, a source at the Tower commission
said the panel concluded that an arms-for-hos-
tages swap was at the center of U.S. contacts with
Iran.
While the idea of trying to establish ties with a
strategically, important nation “may have been in
the president’s thoughts,” the source said, “we
didn’t accept the notion of it being the driving
force. That does not appear in fact to be what
drove the program.”
Neither of the sources would comment except
on condition they not be named.
Reagan has insisted that a trade was not in
volved. “Let me say it was not my intent to do
business with (Iran revolutionary leader Ayatol
lah Ruhollah) Khomeini to trade weapons for
hostages, nor to undercut our policy of antiterro
rism,” the president said in a radio address Dec.
6.
Underscoring that argument, Fitzwater said,
“The primary purpose was to try to make con
tacts with certain elements in Iran that would be
favorable or friendly to the United States in a
post-Khomeini government . . . not arms for hos
tages.”
The Tower board, which interviewed nearly
60 witnesses — including arms dealers Adnan
Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar — was
not able to determine how profits from the arms
sales were diverted to Contra rebels in Nicara
gua, according to the source.
“Our evidence (of the funneling of arms sales
proceeds to the Contras) is primarily circumstan
tial,” the source said, adding that the investiga
tion of that point was frustrated by the refusal of
former White House aides John M. Poindexter
and Lt. Col. Oliver L. North to testify.
DALLAS (AP) — The NCAA abo
lished football for the 1987 season at
Southern Methodist for “abysmal”
repeated violations, but fell short of
the full measure of a two-year so-
called death penalty in Wednesday’s
announcement.
The harshest football penalty in
NCAA history was accepted without
rancor or plans to appeal by SMU
officials, who had worked hand-in-
glove with the NCAA to uncover a
slush fund for players.
“Not only is Southern Methodist
University a repeat major violator,
but its past record of violations is
nothing short of abysmal,” said the
NCAA report made public Wednes
day.
The probation, SMU’s record-ty
ing seventh since 1958 and the third
this decade, lasts until 1990. The
Mustangs can play only seven South
west Conference games in 1988 —
none at home — and are barred
from television or bowl appearances.
“It will have a long-range impact
on the program,” said NCAA en
forcement director David Berst, who
announced the sanctions in Dallas
Wednesday.
“We intentionally only made it
seven games so the conference and
SMU will have to work together and
face the problem,” Berst said.
SMU loses non-conference games
against Oklahoma and New Mexico
this year and Oklahoma and Notre
Dame in 1988 at an estimated cost to
the school of more than $500,000.
The Mustangs also are limited to
one head football coach and five
full-time assistant coaches until Au
gust 1989, and can award only 15
scholarships in 1988. Off-campus re
cruiting is prohibited until August
1988.
The NCAA report said an un
named booster paid 13 football team
members $47,000 during the 1985-
86 academic year and that eight stu
dent-athletes continued to receive
payments from September through
December 1986, totaling about
$14,000.
Berst said the NCAA agreed to
grant anonymity to those involved so
the full scope of the payoffs could be
determined.
“We decided to accept this with
out question because SMU was going
the extra mile,” he said.
The NCAA report said the case
presented “some unique circum
stances that arguably call for the
committee tq exercise its discretion
to impose less than the mandatory
penalties.”
The NCAA enforcement staff
had recommended against eliminat
ing the program, but the Committee
on Infractions opted for stronger ac
tion.
“SMU views the wrongdoings
which have been done in its name
with regret and with embarrass
ment,” interim President William
Stallcup said Wednesday.
Former SMU linebacker David
Stanley’s confession of cash pay
ments after the Mustangs had been
strapped with a three-year probation
in August 1985 triggered the NCAA
investigation.
Stanley said it was P.J. “Bootsie”
Larson, a former assistant coach who
was fired in August 1985, who paid
him $25,000 and initiated monthly
payments that continued after SMU
was placed on probation.
A joint investigation by the school
and the NCAA uncovered monthly
payments to football players ranging
from $50 to $725 from September
1985 through December 1986.
“This date was very significant,”
Berst said. “It made SMU eligible for
the new NCAA ‘death penalty’ legis
lation,” because SMU continued to
commit NCAA violations even while
it was on probation.
SMU’s 52 scholarship football
players are free to transfer immedi-
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ately to other schools without loss of
eligibility, Berst said.
The latest sanctions tie SMU with
Wichita State for the number of
times on probation, but the Mus
tangs hold the record outright as the
most penalized school.
Under the “death penalty” rule,
the NCAA may suspend the pro
grams of repeat offenders for up to
two years, prohibiting competition,
recruiting, coaching or scholarships.
After the latest recruiting scandal
broke in November, SMU President
L. Donald Shields took early retire
ment and Athletic Director Bob
Hitch and Coach Bobby Collins re
signed.
6 attorneys
appointed
in local trial
By Daniel A. La Bry
Staff Writer
State District Court Judge Caro
lyn Ruffino appointed six local attor
neys Tuesday to represent two men
and one woman accused of capital
murder in connection with the Feb.
18 slayings of two Bryan residents.
Gary Allen Penuel, 20, of 204
Edge St. in Bryan; David Michael
Clark, 27, of Route 5 in Bryan; and
Mary Gober Copeland, 25, also of
Route 5 in Bryan have been held
without bail in the Brazos County
Jail since their arrests Friday.
The three defendants were ar
rested in connection with the shoot
ing deaths of Charles Gears, 21, and
Beverly Jean Benninghoff, 25, both
of 408 Foch St. in Bryan.
Ruffino appointed Travis Bryan
III and Glen Douglas to represent
Penuel, Hank Paine and Robert
Orozco to represent Clark, and Wil
liam W. Vance and William Burdett
to represent Copeland.
Oroz;co said whenever a person is
charged with an offense in which the
person can lose his life, two attor
neys are appointed to assure the per
son competent representation. He
said the trial is more technical than
usual and requires additional work.
The defendents were charged
with capital murder under a new
Texas law defining capital murder
to include cases when more than one
murder takes place during a single
event.
i yilipinos celebrating
eople’s revolution’
■ MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Fil
ipinos cheered and danced Wednes-
ioay in the same streets they filled a
^ar ago, facing down tanks with
leople power” and driving Presi-
pt Ferdinand E. Marcos into exile.
Bands played. Some people
peed on cars and rooftops. The
[owds cheered “Cory! Cory!” for
ttrazon Aquino, the widow of an as-
Issinated opposition leader. She
as thrust into his role and became
Resident.
JAn enormous cheer arose as the
Ight sky blazed with fireworks at
|05 p.m., the time on Feb. 25, 1986,
] which Marcos and his wife Imelda
[ft the presidential palace in an
[merican helicopter. They were
|ken to Clark Air Base, then to Ha-
aii the next day.
I Aquino was swept to power by a ci-
[ian-military uprising that followed
the fraud-tainted Feb. 7, 1986, presi-
■ntial election, which the Marcos-
controlled National Assembly said
he had won.
The revolt culminated in a four-
day confrontation in which hun
dreds of thousands of Filipinos filled
the streets, urged on by Cardinal
Jaime Sin, the Roman Catholic arch
bishop.
When the crowd of people
formed a shield around a camp of
rebel soldiers and dared loyalist ar
mored units to run them down, the
tanks stopped.
Marcos and Aquino were sworn in
last Feb. 25 in separate ceremonies,
but Marcos gave up that evening and
ended 20 years of autocratic rule.
“We have restored freedom in this
country,” Aquino told the crowd of
an estimated 500,000 to 1 million af
ter an open-air Mass. “Now, we have
to continue with the same ‘people
power’ spirit of selflessness and ded
ication to achieve our other goal . . .
alleviation of mass poverty.”
Humana Hospital nears completion;
expanded CS facility to open in April
By Robert Morris
Staff Writer
After 15 months of construc
tion, the new Humana Hospital-
Brazos Valley officially will open
for business in April in College
Station.
The move from the present lo
cation on Memorial Drive in
Bryan to 1604 Rock Prairie Rd. in
College Station was largely the re
sult of a need for expansion, said
Marsha Herring, public relations
director for Humana.
The hospital will, in most ways,
simply be a revised version of the
smaller Humana hospital. Her
ring said. Facilities will be ex
panded but the professional staff
will remain basically the same.
However, about 50 new jobs will
be created because of the addi
tion of nursing staff for the ob
stetrics department.
The addition of the obstetrics
department was a major reason
for the move, Herring said.
Previously, only St. Joseph
Hospital offered such care in the
area.
The new obstetrical unit has a
15-bed capacity and will offer a
free OB education program,
called the “Cradle Club,” to all ex
pectant mothers beginning in late
March.
Cardiac catherization is also a
new service for Humana, as well
as a helipad for emergency pa
tients.
All other services Humana for
merly offered, such as laser sur
gery, CT scanning and Xero
mammography will continue to
be available with the only differ
ence being the added space given
each department.
The $20.4-million, 100-bed fa
cility will begin taking patients
April 18.
Photo by Tom Ownbey
Humana Hospital Brazos Valley in College Station.
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