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All the Pizza, and Beer you can hold only 5 75 Included Males 4 so .n^dcd Women If anyone's enjoyment exceeds relaxed merriment, DoubleDave's reserves the right to cease serving them. —Participants must be at least 21 years old. t Plxzwortcsj Judge will rule if kids can testify against mother HOUS ION (AP) — A judge is ex pected to rule Wednesday whether the surviving children of a woman who allegedly threw six of her seven children into a downtown bayou should testify in her attempted capi tal murder trial. George Parnham, the lawyer rep resenting the children’s maternal grandmother, is asking State District Judge Eric Andeli to issue an injunc tion against the district attorney’s of fice to prevent the children from be ing called as witnesses. Andeli is a juvenile court judge who has jurisdiction ovet the chil dren of J uana Leija. Jury selection for Leija’s trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday in visiting State District Judge Jimmy James’ court. She is charged with murder in the deaths of two of her children and witli four counts of at tempted capital murder. She currently is being tried for only one count of attempted capital murder, her attorney, Dick DeGue- i in, said. Two of Leija’s children, a 5-year- old girl and (i-year-old boy, drowned in the bayou April 18, l ( .)8f>. Down town workers hearing screams res cued four other Leija children from die muddy waters. Parnham says having the children testify in their mother’s trial would cause them irreparable harm. Prosecutor Garol Davies said she has subpoenaed three of the surviv ing children but likely will rely mainly on testimony from 11-year- old Eloisa Leija, who walked about one block to the police station and alerted of ficers. “Any detriment was caused by the mother putting the child in this cir cumstance by having seen such a horrible act,” Davies said. DeGuerin also opposes Parnham’s efforts to keep the children away from die witness stand. DeGuerin is planning to present an insanity de fense. “It’s unfortunate the child has to he put in the position to testify in the case, hut the fac t is she is a witness,” DeGuerin said. Juana Leija, 30, is living at a home for battered women after having been hospitalized in a mental ward lor several montlis. Two of the f ive surviving c hildren are living with their maternal grand mother, Esperanza Elores. One of Leija’s daughters, Eloisa, is staying in DePelchin Eaitli Home and another daughter is living at Gase de Espe- What’s up Thursday KANM STUDENT RADIO: a disc jockey meeting will t<| held at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. The [to the inent Moncki HAI • A Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days bt fore desired publication date. Judge orders council office to pay $225,000 to agenq lenil st I water v lycle Ir [slated jlaughei la picku Lie was lof apoli TER • A [receive Iwas ad\ planted SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The chief financial of ficer of the San An tonio Urban Council lias been or dered to pay the agenc y $325,000 al ter lie allegedly transferred organization money to his hank ac count, officials said. Presiding Civil District Court Judge John Cornyn signed a judgment Monday, ordering Ed ward W. Thames to pay the counc il $75,000 in actual damages and $150,()()() in punitive damages. Thames was sued for the money after reports surf;iced in March that as much as $180,000 in funds lie- longing to the social service organi zation was missing. Cornyn stated that based on ad missions of fact, Thames “willfully and fraudulently” took at least $75,000 from the council. George Spencer Jr., an aitornev representing (lie round «i miinal complaint was I hnincs. who could not hci'I loi comment because liistdf|l was disconnected. He wasfirtj his post in Eehruary. Slate* 1 Jisirict |ticlge RaiilRi | Marc h approved <111 orderlof I hames’ hank account alter it ol the missing moneysuilactiil Urban Council lawyers Eli .lines began taking the m l rails I08(), occasionallv pJ mones hac k into council kT cover his tracks. S|x*ncei said the jud}, , iiieiiil l0lll<l ls , a ih< 1 I h.mics 1 cl used ll ' 1111 " • 11 in the i ml Mill. H' 1 I 1 ''" ' Thames pleaded the tH | ( \meiidmcnt ilmuiidiniiM Milonoied . proceedings. ()nl\ his afliinit W"’' 1 l '' 1 ssard DcWces |i . ,i|i|ic.iieil: B 1 '" 1 ■ ship in ( ral Ads isi [SAN A Him peop as the judge issued his order Austin research group to announce first hi-tech product for market sale iijg a Hi (jidiru Cisnerr Bary Alii |g in N; sard sva: ‘‘All of pi ule in d =. 7* fov* I OJUs vvJuu • Ci S 7^ fbv I OJX vvJUL) • e S 2- -fbr 1 ^ AUS EIN (AP) — The MGG high-technology research group and NCR Corp. next week will announce the first commercial product horn of research conducted at the Austin-based MCC re search consortium. Officials of the two companies said they will unveil “the first commercial product based on technology transferred from MCC” and an nounce a “significant advance in tfie commercial application of artificial intelligence to the design of computer chips.” A news conference is scheduled for Tuesday at the Hayden Planetarium Sky Theater in New York’s Central Park. The announcement will he a milestone for MCC, the Microelectronics and Computer Tech nology Corp., which was formed four years ago to conduct cooperative research projec ts. Although MGG has given researc h findings in several areas to member companies, this will be the first time a company lias built a marketable produc t around MCC-developed technology. Both MGG and NCR declined Mondav to com ment f urther on the upcoming announcement. Grant Dove, MGG’s new chairman and chief exec utive officer, will address the gathering. He is to he joined by Malcolm Baldridge, secretary of the U.S. Commerce Department; Charles Exley, chairman and president of NCR; and James Van Tassel, vice president of NCR’s microelectronics division. The announcement will be made two weeks IxTore Dove takes over as MEC’s dim: I new duties of finally Ix-gin Julyl). Dovti^j veteran ol I exas Instruments liic.,succw| Inman, MCC’s firsl director, who left in] J to liecome head of a new defense dwi holding c ompany, NCR. based in Dayton, Ohio, was out j fntindersof the* M(X! consortium.Theoal produces a variety of computers, ranM personal computers to meclium-si/ednuri systems. While* M( 1C 1’s charle 1 was drawn upil research work didn’t begin in earnest 111J 1984. MGG has seven research prognini)| way, a stall ol about 470 and a budgetoff lion. n ty, and 0 ed to re lion,” (lisi |ciiy «»H old I lisp; Ex| (lONRC Civil jury steps out to name verdict in suit against Davis Lawyers offer final arguments, close case PORT WORTH (AP) —- One of Texas’ most sensational murder mysteries was put into the hands of a civil court jury Tuesday after at torneys wrapped up closing argu ments in (he wrongf ul death trial of millionaire Cullen Davis. Jurors retreated to begin deliber ations at 4:30 p.m., but reappeared minutes later to announce they were breaking for (lie night. The process was to resume this morning. In closing arguments, a plain tiffs attorney portrayed Davis as a cold, cruel, vengeful killer and said the evidence shows he was the man in black who gunned down four people at his hilltop mansion in Au gust 1976. ‘This case screams for justice,” Austin attorney Bob Gibbins said in his final summation in (lie wrongf ul death suit that seeks $15.5 million from Davis for compensatory, pu nitive and exemplary damages. He reminded the panel that an expert witness described the shoot ings as an act of “anger, revenge and cruelty.” Gibbins then testified that a psy chological profile of the killer fit Davis “to a T.” Responding for the defense, Dal las lawyer Steve Sumner said there is no physical evidence linking Da vis to the shootings and no evidence to suggest that something triggered a “blind rage” that day. “Much of the evidence is incon sistent with Cullen being anywhere near 4200 Mockingbird Lane that night,” Stunner said. But Gibbins said the defense of fered little more than Davis’ own testimony and that of two alibi wit nesses, one a close personal friend of (he defendant and the other his former girlf riend and now his wife, Karen Master Davis. Karen Davis, 38, says she awak ened at 12:40 the night of the shootings and that Davis was in bed beside her. Gibbins pointed out that Karen Davis neglected to mention the “mysterious” 12:40 awakening to investigators or grand jurors in 1976 hut testified about il in Davis’ 1977 murder trial. An Amarillo jury acquitted Davis in Andrea Wilborn’s death 10 years ago, but that verdict lias no legal hearing on the civil suits. According to the eyewitness testi mony, a gunman dressed in black and wearing a crude black wig wounded Priscilla Davis and killed her boyfriend, Stan Earr, 30, and her 12-year-old daughter, Andrea. Bubba Gavrel, then 22, was par tially paralyzed by an assailant’s bul let. His teen-aged date that night, Beverly Bass, escaped unharmed. 11 was Priscilla Davis, Bass and Gavrel who identified Davis as the Prisc illa Davis also fudged a per sonal injury suit against her former husband. The first and foremost issue lac ing die jury of eight women and four men was the identity of the child’s assailant. If the panel rules against Davis, it must then determine die amount of damages he must pay the plaintiffs. Davis accused Priscilla Davis and Wilborn of filing the suits out of greed, hut they said this case was not about money but justice. Unlike the Amarillo criminal trial, the jurv was instructed to reach its verdict on the “preponder ance ol the evidence” as opposed to the more difficult burden of “be yond a reasonable doubt.” Also, the jury could render a ver dict upon the vote of 10 of the* 12 jurors. mansion gunman. The slain child’s parents — Pris cilla Davis and her second husband, Jack Wilborn, 66 — are suing Davis for millions in a pair of consol idated wrongful death suits. A criminal case demands a unan imous verdict. In his closing summation, Gib bins suggested that Davis was in an “uncontrollable rage” the night he killed his stepdaughter’s kitten and in a similar state of mind the night of the shootings. “Maybe they can sweep a little kilteU under die carpet hut you can’t sweep a little girl under the carpet,” he said. Gibbins said he respected Davis’ 1980 conversion to (Christianity hut said that “he admitted on cross-ex amination the Lord wasn’t with him that night and he wasn’t with the Lord.” coiion ind City official Bar shoul |sl two dc 111 said 1 wanfs (Mdoir'i ; vice presic ton Coum tional (Cot “I am so e> puf on mai ANGLE EON (Al’J—Am fc "The ii commissioner is wonderinp coitou arc* his hometown of Cluteiv; (hr hillion ing from the Rodney'I)ani{««[s|ardi by syndrome — it getsiiorespeft Chite, a < ity of 10,01)0po [is Imili. this solid f Sears sa lion f or I Ik Brie has been left of f the in«saic in Brazoria (Comity (Couitl* built in 1940, at a linitol ( lute had existed loi idyeait though it wasn’t iiudipiralHl “No one ran lell me*t l (Glutc) was left olT," (in sioner Ronnie Bmaddus | Mondav, after 1 ec|iie.stiiij'ilii® i 'j a commissioners’ emm mtf V , < ii» I* iiK'ild. f K ",J ■ map .md designated in Lake Jackson is there. 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