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“If it wasn’t important, I wouldn’t
like it,” he said.
Students in Merkel battled to see
who most resembled some of histo
ry’s most important people.
Characters from the founding fa
thers to Civil War generals to Chal
lenger astronauts attended school in
this town eight miles outside of Abi
lene to show American spirit. Even a
green Statue of Liberty joined in the
bicentennial festivities, which in
cluded history trivia questions.
At Beaumont Christian High
School, students released 1,200 red,
white and blue balloons after watch-
“One of things that hit
home the most was the
lack of freedom. I don't
think you realize what you
have in this country, this
state, until you’re without
it. ”
— Sam Johnson, former
prisoner of war
ing the national ceremony for the
Constitution. In a ceremony at the
Hill Country Middle School in the
Eanes School District students were
treated to a 4‘/a- by OVa-foot cake
decorated like the U.S. flag.
Students in Central Texas talked
with an actor portraying William
Jackson, secretary of the 1787 Con
stitutional Convention. Third-,
fourth- and fifth-grade students in
Round Rock asked Jackson to an
swer questions such as why everyone
wore wigs, what kind of feathers
were used to write and were there
any women back then.
In Dallas, hundreds of schoolchil
dren joined city leaders in celebrat
ing with recently nationalized Amer-
ican citizens from Taiwan,
Indonesia, Ethiopia, Vietnam and
Honduras, who led the crowd in the
Pledge of Allegiance.
Joe Sherrill, a 12-year-old Dallas
student, said the Constitution means
freedom for everyone.
“One of the kids in our class
couldn’t come today because of her
religion — she’s not supposed to
pledge allegiance to the flag because
it’s like making it God,” he said. “But
if it wasn’t a Constitution, she would
have had to come.”
;eting strategy
for beer may violate
laws for liquor control
(AP) — Texans young and old
pfcu ked the 200th anniversary of the
ning of the U.S. Constitution with
leeches, special studies and salutes
s week.
Numerous bicentennial activities
wtre scheduled around the state
Thursday, including a re-enactment
of the signing of the Constitutition at
Ri( liland College in Dallas with U.S.
District Judge Barefoot Sanders and
swearing-in of 300 new citizens
on the Southern Methodist Univer-
f isity Law School quadrangle.
Bin Fort Worth, former prisoners
^ olwar told of their increased appre-
^ Wition of how fortunate Americans
jgT'Onc <>l tilings that hit home the
was the iac k ol Iteedom," Sam
■A] John son said of the mote than six
^P^fSars he was a prisonet in Vietnam.
“I don’t think you reali/e what you
in this country, this state, until
jjr^l^Bu’re without it.”
I^Bjohnson, who now is a state rep-
^^Kenative from Plano, gave the key-
f-^Bte address at a bicentennial cele-
( bration of the U.S. Constitution in
* Hwntown Fort Worth Wednesday,
■bout 400 people attended the two-
Hur ceremony.
■Texas schoolchildren joined in
the nationwide celebration with as
semblies and costume contests.
■Many students in the Lone Star
Stau tuned in when President Rea
gan led the nation’s schoolchildren
in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
■)m Washington, D.C., at about 1
p.m. Wednesday.
,uillU M For stU( ients in Jayton, the tele
vised Pledge of Allegiance is only the
blginning of a full year of activities
tied to the Constitution. Through
out the year they will study about the
document and in the spring all stu
dents in the district will combine for
aConstitution program.
^Elementary school pupils in
Pampa started their crash course in
the study of the Constitution by writ
ing a school constitution.
They lined up Wednesday to sign
the document, which included seven
' ‘'l articles that called for reciting the
^Kdge of Allegiance every day and
"taking pride in the school’s appear
ance.
■First-grader Danny McPherson
said not only does the Pampa school
T need a constitution to follow but the
country needs its Constitution “so we
can have a government of the peo
ple.”
■ SAN ANTONIO (AP) — South-
: land Corp. changed a statewide mar
keting strategy for its 7-Eleven stores
in matching beer prices after state
officials said the policy could violate
liquor control laws.
WB Gabriel’s Discount Liquor, Beer 8c
Wine stores in San Antonio Monday
advertised 12-packs of Budweiser
and Miller Lite for 99 cents each
“while supplies last.”
pi The supplies didn’t last long and
Gabriel employees began referring
stomers to 7-Eleven convenience
stores, which had a policy of match
ing any advertised beer price,
i Southland Corp.-owned 7-Eleven
stores withdrew their policy Tuesday
after the Texas Alcoholic Beverage
Commission said the policy poses
“potential problems.”
“The TABC (Texas Alcoholic
Beverage Commission) has notified
us there was a problem with our pol
icy, so we decided to withdraw our
guarantee,” said Elena de la Garza, a
spokesman for Southland,
y Milton Brown, who heads the
commission’s local enforcement of
fice, said the problem with the
Southland policy is that customers
are required to bring in a compet
itor’s advertisement to receive the
lower price.
“If an ad is presented for pay
ment, it’s a coupon,” Brown said.
“You cannot offer such an induce
ment to buy an alcoholic beverage in
Texas.”
Kenneth Fries, district manager
for San Antonio 7-Eleven stores,
said the commission apparently had
not noticed the stores’ policy before
Monday.
“Occasionally we’d have to match
an H.E.B. price or a Kroger price,”
he said. “But with all the attention
(the 99-cent price) brought to us, the
TABC started to notice.”
Gabriel said he would offer the
99-cent price once again to the first
400 customers who come in each of
the five area stores between 5 p.m.
and 8 p.m. Wednesday.
But only one 12-pack would be
sold at that price to each customer,
he said.
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DENTON (AP) — The last of
four Texas inmates who escaped
from a prison south of Houston
early this week was recaptured
Thursday in Denton, authorities
said.
Kelley McFarland, 38, serving a
life term for aggravated robbery in
Dallas County, was arrested as he
Walked out of a bar at a Denton mo
tel. Texas Department of Correc-
tibns spokesman David Nunnelee
said.
B Nunnelee said McFarland was
captured without any injuries and
without a real struggle by Denton
police and Texas Rangers.
■ “His weapons — two pistols —
were still in his room,” he said.
[ McFarland allegedly abducted a
man Wednesday in Montgomery
County, just north of Houston, and
demanded the man drive him the
more than 200 miles to Denton,
north of Dallas. Nunnelee said the
man, whose name he did not know,
drove all the way back to Montgom
ery County before informing police.
McFarland and three other in
mates escaped from the Retrieve
Unit by climbing over a 10-foot
fence Monday evening. Two inmates
were recaptured a short distance
from the pxison and a third was
picked up the following day within a
mile of the Brazoria County pr ison.
McFarland, however, managed to
evade authorities by allegedly ab
ducting an Angleton attorney, Rich
ard McElya, and demanding he be
driven to Houston. Wednesday af
ternoon, he fled from McElya’s
truck in downtown Houston and got
into a taxi.
That was the last police saw of him
until officers staked out the Desert
Sands Motel along Interstate 35 at
the south edge of Denton.
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