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State and Local
■Former Student Association
ets $1.75 million ‘surprise’
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By Carolyn Garcia
Assistant City Editor
The Texas A&M Association
of Former Students received a
Heasant surprise Saturday —
H .75 million dollars.
■ Midland rancher and oilman
(layton Williams, Cdass of ’54,
presented the board of directors
with the check, completing his
SB.5 million pledge to the build-
■IK of the University’s new
alumni center, which bears his
nli me.
■ The final installment came as
a surprise to the board, said
Jlmes Jeter, associate executive
director for the association.
I “He was not due to pay off his
Hedge until 1989,” Jeter said.
■ “He just surprised everyone at
the board meeting. It was a sur
prise— a pleasant surprise.”
I Jeter said Williams pledged
the money to the University be
fore there was any mention the
building would be named for
him.
I “We were looking for a prin
ciple underwriter,” Jeter said.
I “We knew it would take a
large committment,” he said.
^■We (hoard members) went to
Hlidland and asked him, and he
Bgreed.
I "It was not discussed that the
Building would be named after
him.
I “Board members got together
liter and discussed it.”
I The 130,000-member associa
tion plans to move its offices
'from the Memorial Student
lenter to the new facility in Au-
lust.
[The center is 60,000 square
■eet and will provide office
space, meeting and banquet
Jog ms for use by alumni, stu-
lents and faculty.
Dedication ceremonies for the
Tlliams Alumni Center will be
ept. 5 before the Aggies kick
ft their 1987 opening football
ante.
Photo courtesy of Association of Former Students
Clayton Williams at a ground-breaking ceremony.
Man with 18 DWI convictions gets
5-year sentence after 25-car crash
AN AH U AC (AP) — A man with
18 drunk driving convictions
pleaded no contest to a charge of fel
ony driving while intoxicated in con
nection with a 25-vehicle crash that
killed five family members.
Samuel LaRoy Hargrave, 60, of
Anahuac, was given a five-year sen
tence and fined $500 Monday by
State District Judge Carroll E. Wil-
born J r.
“You have been convicted more
times than I can count of felony of
fenses,” Wilborn said in sentencing
Hargrave. “But for the peculiar
quirk that does not allow you to be
indicted as a repeat felony Or habit
ual felon, the maximum punishment
this court can allow is five years in
TDC (Texas Department of Correc
tions).”
Wilborn prosecuted Hargrave for
drunken driving four times.
“You have shown to this court . . .
absolutely no desire to rehabilitate,
to quit drinking or even not to drive
a vehicle when you are unlicensed,”
Wilborn said.
Hargrave, who has not had a valid
license since 1966, admitted he con
tinues to drive although the state will
not issue him a license.
Texas Department of Public
Safetv troopers said Hargrave was
the driver of a station wagon that
stalled on Interstate 10 in the middle
of the fog-shrouded Old River and
Lost River Bridge.
Fog and his stalled car triggered
the chain-reaction pile-up Jan. 28
that killed five members of a Rock-
port family and injured six other
people, of f icials said.
Hargrave had 0.1 1 percent of al
cohol in his blood at the time of the 9
a.m. accident, a blood sample
showed. A person is considered in
toxicated in Texas if his blood-alco
hol content is 0.10 percent.
District Attorney Mike Little said
prosecutors allowed Hargrave to
plead no contest to the Chambers
County DWI charge as part of a plea
bargain that called for him to plead
guilty to a Feb. 10 drunken driving
charge in 1 -hfM-tv Countv, and admit
he has violated his probatioii lor a
past DWI conviction.
Defense attorney Walter I*. Konie-
not said Hargrave accepted die plea
bargain because “he wants to get it
all behind him.”
Little said the law should lie
changed so habitual drunken drivers
can be sentenced to life in prison like
other repeat felony offenders.
Last week. State District judge
W.G. “Dub” Woods Jr. sentenced
Hargrave to five years in prison and
fined him $500 after he pleaded
guilty to DWI in Dayton on reb. Id,
13 days after the fatal crash.
Hargrave is expected to plead
“true” this week to probation revo
cation charges alleging he violated
his probation by driving while intox
icated July 30, 1985, in Chambers
County, failed to report to his protiu-
tion officer and failed to pay Ins pro
bation f ees, Fontenot said.
Hargrave now is serving a six-
month sentence in the Lilierty
County jail on a probation revo
cation charge for driving witltout a
license or liability insurance.
McFadden sentenced to death by jury
after being found guilty in murder trial
BELTON (AP) — Jerry “Animal” McFadden was
sentenced to die by lethal injection Tuesday after a jury
found him guilty of capital murder in the strangulation
slaying of a Hawkins teen-ager.
The jury took about 35 minutes to return the verdict,
which was announced shortly after 7 p.m.
The tattoo-covered convict is already serving a life
sentence for aggravated robbery.
McFadden showed no reaction when his conviction
was announced before the month-long trial’s punish
ment phase began Tuesday af ternoon.
Attorneys had wrapped up closing arguments at
12:10 a.m. Tuesday. Jurors got the case later and took
about four hours to reach a decision.
Prosecutor Arthur Eads told jurors they should look
at the whole case and that “there is horror in this court
room, there is death in this courtroom.”
But defense lawyers had said prosecutors did not
present any direct evidence linking McFadden to 18-
year-old Suzanne Harrison, the woman he is accused of
killing on May 4, 1986.
“Mr. McFadden is on trial for capital murder amt the
state can’t show you that Mr. McFadden did what they
say he did, so (hey are trying to have to convict him
other matters,” said defense lawyer Vernard Solomon.
Harrison’s partially clothed body was found atop
Barnwell Mountain in Upshur County the day alter rel
atives reported she hadn’t returned from a G»ke Hawk
ins outing. A grand jury ruled she had been lieaten and
strangled with her underwear.
The bodies of two companions who accniu|Miiied
Harrison to the lake — Gena Turner 20, ami Bryan
Boone, 19 — were found 5 days later. McFadden hasn't
been indicted in their deaths.
Jurors earlier heard a taped statement from a faifor
who testified she was abducted at gunpoint by McFad
den last summer.
In the tape, Rosalie Williams quoted McFadden as
saying, “Rosie, they’re trying to give me the needle for
something I didn’t do. 1 didn’t even know those three
kids.”
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