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By Ed Holtgraver
Reporter
There are no stuffy, closed-in,
indowless classrooms at the Peacea
ble Kingdom School. Nor are there
Jasses crammed with 300 students
taught by cranky professors with re
arch on their minds.
Instead, one finds horses, pigs,
hickens, dogs, acres of land, herbal
gardens and lots of friendly people
at this school in Washington County.
I Located three miles north of
Washington-on-the Brazos, Peacea-
|ple Kingdom is a non-profit, feder-
pilly chartered school concentrating
on arts and crafts. It is located on
|52 acres of rolling farmland, and
e land is as much a part of the
arning experience as the classes.
The wide variety of things found
at Peaceable Kingdom, such as the
nimals and gardens, help serve the
ain reason Peaceable Kingdom ex-
ts, which is to make the maximum
se of one’s own resources and to
encourage this attitude in others.
I The founder of Peaceable King
dom is Elizabeth Winston. The
Houston native is a graduate of the
International School of Geneva. Be-
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HOUSTON (AP) — A dozen
gang leaders were released on pa-
Jrole after serving a small portion
■ of their sentences, and some are
■ continuing their gang operations
I outside prison walls, officials said.
Four of the 12 inmates who
were released from maximum se
curity cells without serving any
time at halfway houses have since
committed other crimes includ
ing murder, aggravated robbery
and drug possession, authorities
said.
“They are operating outside
the prisons, but how strong they
are, no one knows,” David Weeks,
a special state prosecutor familiar
with prison gangs, said Wednes
day. “When you take an organiza
tion as dangerous and vicious as
they are, it would be foolish to
think they are not operating on
the outside.”
The 12 inmates were among al
most 600 state inmates who were
released after being given gener
ous amounts of “good time.” The
extended periods of “good time”
were given out as part of an at
tempt by the Texas Department
of Corrections to alleviate prison
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prison gang Texas Syndicate.
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the investigation has cleared, two
murders of Texas Syndicate
members and two aggravated as
saults involving gang members.
Deputies also made about 10
drug-related arrests, he said,
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said there is no connection be-
ween the released gang leaders
ind the Tuesday drug bust in
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dealers and started making nar
cotic transactions,” Warren said.
n-They started utilizing (the
drugs) and drawing a tab. We saw
a lot of violence in the collection
of the money.”
Winston also is a lecturer who speaks
on the growth and use of herbs,
flowers and vegetables.
Classes are conducted on week
ends from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A typical
one-day class at Peaceable Kingdom
costs $45, Winston says, and includes
an intense training regimen on na
ture subjects. Lunch also is included
in the fee, and often includes sam
ples of plants the students are study
ing.
If students are really interested in
studying a particular subject, there
are $80 weekend-long classes that in
clude an overnight stay, she says, as
well as breakfast and lunch the sec
ond day.
The school’s instructors have a
wide variety of educational back
grounds to help students advance
their skills. The staff has knowledge
in organic gardening, floriculture,
animal care, homesteading, art, mu
sic and more. AH the staff members
work together to enhance their skills
and increase the total output of the
group.
Among the gardening methods
used at the school is the practice of
organic gardening — growing plants
without the use of any chemical fer
tilizers or pesticides.
Growing plants organically is a
little more difficult at first, but after
a short while a far better product is
produced, Winston says.
“We sell a lot of our herbs to res
taurants in Houston,” Winston says.
She also says she can tell whether
a fruit or vegetable has been grown
organically seconds after eating it.
To date, the Peaceable Kingdom
staff has documented more than 450
native plants in their herbarium.
Though the school is a non-profit
organization, it doesn’t get any state
funding.
“We don’t get any money from
the state, but we really don’t expect
any,” Winston says.
Much of its money comes from
private donators, she says, people
who have spent time here and en
joyed themselves. Most of the struc
tures in Peaceable Kingdom were
built by volunteer labor.
It is that kind of volunteer behav
ior that is promoted here, and makes
it possible for the school to function,
she says.
Peaceable Kingdom is located on
County Road 101. It’s open to visi
tors from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednes
days through Sundays. For more in
formation, call (409) 878-2353.
Students lose projects
os computers stolen
By Sue Krenek
Staff Writer
Thieves broke into the Lang
ford Architecture Center during
spring break, making off with
$14,000 in equipment on loan
from a computer company and
leaving some students in the
lurch with unfinished projects.
Edwin R. Hoag, assistant dean
of the College of Architecture,
said that although students have
designs stored on disks, the infor
mation is as good as lost without
the stolen computer-aided design
equipment.
Hoag said the stolen equip
ment was on loan from Tandy
Corp. in an experiment that put
computers in the design labs
where students do most of their
work. The two systems in the lab
were used mainly by third-year
design students, he said.
The architecture college has a
rash of petty thefts about this
time every year, Hoag; said, but
both he and A&M University Po
lice director Bob Wiatt said the
thieves were careful and precise.
“This was not a student stunt,”
Hoag said. “Apparently someone
had it all laid out. The place was
completely wiped clean.”
Wiatt said police have no sus
pects in the burglary. The bur
glars entered a locked design lab
in Building C of the center by re
moving ceiling tiles, Wiatt said.
After disconnecting two micro
computers and related equip
ment, they took them to a vehicle
waiting at the building’s loading
dock.
Hoag said college officials
aren’t sure if the computers will
be replaced.
“We’re waiting to see what
Tandy wants to do,” he said. “E-
veryone is still scrambling to see
what can be done.”
Up to 1 million Texas aliens
may apply for citizenship
SAN BENITO, Texas (AP) — As
many as 3.9 million illegal aliens
could apply for amnesty under the
new immigration reform act, with
one-fourth of them seeking cit
izenship in Texas, a regional com
missioner for the Immigration and
Naturalization Service said Thurs
day.
Stephen H. Martin, who was in
the Rio Grande Valley to attend a
conference sponsored by area may
ors on the eve of the act’s implemen
tation, said the INS is prepared to
begin accepting amnesty applica
tions May 5.
Aliens who have lived contin
uously in the United States since
1982 are eligible for amnesty begin
ning May 5 and citizenship later un
der the act, which President Reagan
signed into law Nov. 6.
Martin, in Charge of the INS in
part of the Caribbean and 13 states
from Florida to North Carolina to
New Mexico, said as many as
800,000 to 1 million aliens could
seek citizenship in Texas alone.
“It’s hard to get close because
there’s quite a shadow community,”
said Martin, who works out of Dal
las.
The INS is setting up nine legali
zation centers across the state and
hiring 400 people to process the ap
plications, Martin said.
He warned aliens to shy away
from fraudulent documents and
unscrupulous people when trying to
prove their case for amnesty.
The INS will begin accepting the
applications the same day federal
agents can begin citing employers
who hire illegal aliens.
Employers will be warned first
and then will be subject to civil sanc
tions for subsequent offenses during
the first year of the bill being in ef
fect. Beginning May 5, 1988, em
ployers who violate the law will be
fined immediately and will not be
given warnings.
Civil penalties range from $250 to
$10,000 for each illegal alien hired.
Martin said the INS and its law
enforcement agency, the Border Pa
trol, would target “notorious em
ployers” for sanctions.
“I have no preconceived notion of
who that will be,” he said.
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