Tuesday, September 22, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5
nTTexcis A&M illustrator’s artwork
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By Janice Riggs
Reporter
I Dancing flamingos and a talking
l x toucan inhabit the College of Medi-
»ne lobby.
/ 2A The talented birds are the works
— " of Helen J. Finney, an illustrator
and drafter for the Texas A&M
Bniversity Geology and Geophysics
departments.
■ Finney’s many different styles
and techniques are reflected in her
exhibit.
■ “I appear to be two artists in
one,” Finney said.
■ “On one end of the spectrum is
my detailed fossil and specimen
work,” she said. “At the opposite
end are my whimsical graphics.”
1 Her scientific illustrations are an
outgrowth of the English botanical
Achings she studied while she
learned to draw.
■ Finney chose botanical subjects
because of her love and apprecia
tion of nature.
“I don’t try to portray social or political ideas with my
work. Give people a break. For me, commercial art and
graphics are just a big gag. The funny thing is, the art I
don’t try my hardest on is usually the public’s favorite. ”
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“I guess I’m a closet scientist,”
Finney said, “but I don’t really like
the research and experimentation.
I like the glamorous side — illustra
tion.”
Finney believes fossil and speci
men reconstruction drawings make
nice pieces of art and also contrib
ute to the public’s scientific knowl
edge.
“But don’t get me wrong,” Fin
ney s^iid. “I’m not trying to push sci
ence on the public. I draw so people
can have fun and have something
to look at.”
Finney said she reveals her hu
morous side in many of her graph
ics. Birds are often her favorite sub
ject for the large paper cutouts she
does.
Finney said the pieces are an
amusing way to experiment with
color and shape.
“I don’t try to portray social or
political ideas with my work,” Fin
ney said. “Give people a break. For
me, commercial art and graphics
are just a gag. The funny thing is,
the art I don’t try my hardest on is
usually the public’s favorite.”
Pam Hensley, information rep
resentative for the College of Medi
cine, said Finney’s work has been
enjoyed by students, faculty and the
public because it is uncontroversial
and has proved to have something
for everyone.
“We had one art exhibit that
raised some eyebrows,” she said.
“Helen Finney’s has gone over real
well.”
In the last six months Finney has
exhibited her work at many places
including the Arts Council, Bryan,
the MSG Gallery and the Brazos
Arts Council.
Finney has received many
awards for her work including sec
ond place and honorable mention
in the 1986 Brazos Valley Art
League Juried Show.
The lobby of the Medical Sci
ences Building is open to the public
Monday through Friday from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. Finney’s works will be
on display until Sept. 30.
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■ CONROE (AP) — A state district
judge, citing an atmosphere of fear
in Montgomery County, broke legal
pound Monday by moving the site
of a hearing for Texas death row in
mate Clarence Brandley.
Brandley, who turns 36 this week,
is hoping new evidence will merit
him a third trial on capital murder
charges stemming from the 1980
rape-slaying of 16-year-old Cheryl
Ftrgeson.
(His case has triggered allegations
of racial discrimination and demon
strations by supporters who insist
the only reason he was convicted and
sentenced to death was because he is
black and the victim was white.
Defense attorneys, who succeeded
in getting visiting judge Perry Pick
ett of Midland to preside at Mon
day’s hearing, presented five wit-
Blesses who testified Brandley could
not get a fair trial in the county di-
jpectly north of Houston.
■ “There exists here a volatile ex
plosive situation, not conducive to
the fair administration of justice,”
Pickett said. “There seems to be an
atmosphere of fear. The ends of jus
tice dictate that this case be trans
ferred to Galveston County.”
Pickett set the hearing for Sept.
28. Galveston is about 90 miles south
of Conroe.
As he was being removed from
the courthouse, Brandley said he
had nothing to say about the case.
Brandley’s attorney, Mike DeGeu-
rin, said, “Getting some distance
might allow us to see this case a little
more clearly.”
District Attorney Peter Speers
said, “I’m not going to take issue
with the judge’s ruling. I deny
judges are all in league with prosecu
tors to convict people.”
The change of venue for an evi
dentiary hearing was unprecedented
in Texas.
DeGeurin’s witnesses included a
former secretary to State District
Judge John Martin, who presided
over Brandley’s second trial in 1981.
William Srack, who was the lone
juror to vote for acquittal in Brand
ley’s first trial in 1980, said he was
bombarded with telephone calls to
his home harassing him.
“I would say they would be in the
thousands,” he said. “One after an
other. Every five, 10, 15 seconds.”
Speers said the atmosphere
around the courthouse, where about
50 Brandley supporters slept outside
overnight, was more likely to intim
idate state witnesses. About 100 peo
ple, many wearing T-shirts and Dut
tons that proclaimed their support
for Brandley, jammed the court
room and cheered as the judge an
nounced his decision.
When Brandley arrived in court,
they all stood in unison.
Brandley was one of several jani
tors working at Conroe High School
Aug. 23, 1980, when Fergeson was
found raped and strangled.
Brandley’s attorneys contend he
was singled out because of his race.
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ce libran wi®i ARLINGTON (AP) — The owner of a newspaper
mts and facrln t ^ at uses ac * sa * es to help unemployed veterans com-
d albums plained that his business has suffered because of confu-
Des t h (W sion with another, similarly-named operation.
>r know aboulfl Johnnie Jaynes founded the Veterans News four
l u sii ue in months ago to print veteran-related news and help job
less veterans.
However, he says, advertisers are confusing his busi
ness with the Veterans News Digest, which the U.S.
j ' Postal Service alleges has billed small businesses in seve-
noim of vif* ra ' states f° r unsolicited ads that never ran in any publi
cation.
I “Business people thought it was me doing this and
some have stopped placing ads,” said Jaynes, who solic
its contributions and $10-f20 ads to finance his newspa
per. “Even though 1 do all 1 say I do, they are afraid
that I could be bogus and lying.”
I The 28-year-old ex-Marine said he distributed 9,000
i copies of the first edition on Sept. 10 for free, but the
r/PA $700 printing cost and food purchases for veterans con-
/ sum ed all the proceeds from ads.
| J “People are now reluctant to buy an ad,” he said. “I’m
being hurt and so are a lot of hungry veterans because
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The owner of Veterans News Digest, Paul Necessary
of Conyers, Ga., has been unavailable for comment
since postal authorities won a court order on Sept. 10
temporarily stopping incoming mail to his Dallas mail-
drop. His wife, however, said her husband has done
nothing wrong.
The Postal Service initiated its investigation last
month after Jaynes reported receiving numerous com
plaints contending that he had wrongly billed the busi
nesses for ads, Jennifer Broussard, a Dallas postal in
spector, said.
But Jaynes said the mistaken identity won’t force him
to give up a dream realized after years of thinking
about ways to help fellow veterans.
Cookie Rogers, executive secretary for the newly
formed Veterans Council of Tarrant County, said
Jaynes tries to help anyone in need.
The Veterans Council, made up of veterans associa
tions and organizations in Tarrant County, has en
dorsed Jaynes’ newspaper, Rogers said. The paper also
is a member of the council, she said.
“When people find out I’m for real, things will go
better,” said Jaynes, who plans to expand his upcoming
December edition to 40,000 copies. “I’d be happy if I
could make a $200-a-week paycheck and use the rest of
the money to give to veterans.”
Police arrest
ex-convict
after assault
HOUSTON (AP) — An ex
convict was ordered held without
bond Monday on charges of kid
napping and sexually assaulting a
doctor whose husband was left
bound inside their burning
home.
Thomas Patrick Monaghan,
37, was charged Sunday with ag
gravated kidnapping, attempted
capital murder, two counts of ag
gravated robbery and two counts
of auto theft, police said.
Houston homicide detective
Mike Kardaztke said the at
tempted capital murder charge
stems from the house being set oh
fire with the husband inside.
Brookshire Police Chief Joe
Garcia said his department filed
an aggravated sexual assault
charge against Monaghan.
Other charges are pending.
State District Judge Frank
Price on Monday ordered that
Monaghan continue to be held
without bond on the charges.
Monaghan is accused of ab
ducting the doctor from her
Houston home and taking her to
a motel in nearby Brookshire
where he allegedly assaulted her.
The 11-hour ordeal began
Thursday night when the 32-
year-old woman was abducted at
gunpoint by a man who had
posed as a doctor to get in the
couple’s home, police said.
Police said Monaghan appar
ently met the doctor when she
was with the Texas Department
of Corrections’ health service di
vision and he was serving 15 years
of a 40-year term for sexually as
saulting two women. He was re
leased from prison July 18.
Police said the man tied up the
husband, set fire to items in the
house and fled with the woman.
They said the husband managed
to escape unharmed by breaking
out a window and calling for
help.
Police said that after driving
around for hours with the woman
in a Porsche 944, the man then
took her to a Brookshire motel.
He taped her wrists to a bedpost,
but the woman managed to es
cape Friday morning when he left
the room to get food, they said.
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