Friday, June 12, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
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and {pcxas A&M University police officer, Bert
inplace Hretzschrnar, displays a drug identification box
designed to familiarize laymen with the appear-
wehaif lahceof drugs. The Bryan police display is one pre
sented at the Home Security and Safety show. The
show will be held from 6-9 p.m. tonight at the Bra
zos center. The show is open to the public. Admis
sion to the show is free.
arade to mark beginning
of B-CS Juneteenth festival
/
By Jill Kami
t|f Reporter
)cal residents will join thousands
Hither T exans in celebrating the
22nd year of freedom for blacks on
tine 19, or Juneteenth as it is com-
nonly called.
Marion Haynes, a Bryan histo-
ian. said the celebration of June-
feenth is returning statewide.
“It kind of faded out once, but it is
eviving,” Haynes said. “It is a spe-
|al day for us and we would not
yam to let it fade out completely be-
ause we want out children to know
ibout it.”
The Emancipation Proclamation,
vhidi freed all slaves in the parts of
America still in rebellion against the
Jnion, was issued on Jan. 1, 1863,
)y|'President Abraham Lincoln.
However, the news did not reach
fexas until June 19 when Gen. Gor
ton Granger arrived in Galveston to
inform Texans of black freedom.
Festivities celebrating Juneteenth
in Bryan-College Station, sponsored
by the Brazos Valley Juneteenth Cel
ebration Committee, will start at 9
a.m. Saturday with a parade at
Kemp School, located at San Jacinto
and Martin Luther King Jr. Boule
vard. The parade is an annual event.
The parade will proceed down
Martin Luther KingJr. Boulevard to
Thomas Park in east Bryan, where
certificates will be awarded for the
best floats.
The winner of the contest will re
ceive a $100 cash prize. The award
for second place is $50 and the
third-place prize is $25. The two
best-decorated vehicles and march
ing units will be given trophies.
There will be a “splash” party on
Wednesday with free swimming
from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Haswell
Pool, located at Haswell and 25th
streets in Bryan.
A GospelFest is scheduled for
Thursday at 7 p.m. at Thomas Park.
Gospel choirs from the local area will
provide entertainment.
On Thursday, there will be a con
cert at the park featuring Terrance
Simien. His group specializes in zy-
deco, the regional French dance mu
sic featuring accordion and frottoir
(metal washboard). Simien and his
group were named Band of the Year
at the 1986 Louisiana Zydeco Festi
val. The Mallet Playboys, a band
from Louisiana, and local jazz and
popular music group Solid Founda
tion also will perform.
Live soul music will be played by
The Soul Brothers on June 20 at the
Lincoln Recreation Center, at 1000
Eleanor. The program will begin at
5:30 p.m., and Dr. Alvin Larke Jr.,
an assistant professor of agricultural
education at Texas A&M, will be the
guest speaker.
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Couple seeks release of records
of testimony about son’s death
.(jticks 1 ' lUSTIN (AP) — If ajudge would
ithit e ^i ase sea lcd transcripts of grand
, jnijiry testimony, a Dallas couple says it
)l ‘ l volld help them answer agonizing
11101 juestions about the alcohol-poison-
ng death of their son.
1 rHlark Seeberger, 18, a pledge of
SOinf' Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the Uni-
Jseedjeility of Texas, was found dead in
/sick pisnormitory room last September.
^■uthorities said he had swallowed
J Mid borii 16 to 20 ounces of rum during
itt| e h»l|l|raternity outing known as a
mtersfr”
sni# Bkie youth’s father, Jeff See-
s ' Jeiter, told State District judge Bob
1 b^H'P'kins, “We’d really like to find out
dial happened that day, that night
lC0 tnd afterwards. Just for peace of
mind.”
j A grand jury empaneled by Per
il 801 ' kins reviewed Seeberger’s death and
and' (blind that even though he was
| Hdcuffed during the fraternity-
'ponsored ride, he was not coerced
my nift drinking the rum.
thy.ffij the pledge’s parents \
[to ,,o(i|in the sealed transcri
. ijoiiilB'djury investigation in which ap-
11 proxiniately 20 people were ques-
iioiied.
want to ob-
pts of the
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Jeff Seeberger’s testimony came
during a hearing requesting those
records Wednesday. Perkins delayed
a decision until June 25.
Prosecutors in the Travis County
District Attorney’s Office oppose re
leasing the transcripts.
Although the grand jury declined
to return indictments in the case, it
issued a report critical of fraternity
“We’d really like to find
out what happened that
day, that night and af
terwards. Just for peace of
mind. ”
— Jeff Seeberger, Mark s
father
leaders who “engaged in an effort to
suppress cooperation by witnesses to
the incident toward investigative au
thorities.”
Because no charges were filed in
the case and because grand jury pro
ceedings are secret, there has been
no public testimony about the
pledge’s death.
During the hearing, Seeberger-
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allowed him and his wife to read the
transcripts and take notes from
them after the investigation was
over, questions remain.
He said that of the transcripts he
and his wife had time to read, he was
particularly alarmed by what he
called the “Watergate approach” of
some of the people involved in try
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his son’s death.
Jeff Seeberger said he and his
wife wanted the transcripts because
none of the people with their son the
night he died would tell them what
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those people because of what they
were going through.”
Connolly said that release of the
transcripts would erode the grand
jury process that is based on secrecy.
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