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Page 8/The BattalionThursday, October 8, 1987 Complete Styling Salon MEN-WOMEN-CHILDREN 00 Cut w/coupon Walk-ins Welcome expires 10/7 704 Rosemary 846-6364 (Across from Luby’s) Martins Bar B Que S. College North of Chicken Oil October Specials All Dinners $2" including Ribs Combo plate $3" Chopped Sandwich 980 Dinner $2 25 Fries 600 All bottled beer 900 Serving Aggies since 1925 Tues.-Sat. ll-9p.m. Chimney Hill Bowling Center Inc, "A. Family Recreation Center" Phone: 260-9184 Open Bowl With Us On Weekends Mon.-Fri. 9am-5:30pm Saturday 10 am to Close 8:30-Close & Sunday 12pm to Close Contact Lenses Only Quality Name Brands (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hinds-Hydrocurve) *$79 00 ■ STD - DA,LYWEARSOFTLENSES $99. $99. 00 -STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES 00 -STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES DAILY WEAR OR EXTENDED WEAR Call 696-3754 For Appointment Same day delivery on most soft contact lenses ★Eye exam and care kit not included CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D College Station, Texas 77840 1 block South of Texas & University YOU ARE INVITED To Meet Mike Bynam 11:30 to 1:00 Friday Oct. 9th When he will autograph his book BEAR BRYANT’S BOYS OF AUTUMN in the Patio Bookshop, Lower Level MSC Register for six free tickets to the Louisiana Tech football game to be drawn at the conclusion of the Bynam Auto graphing Tickets courtesy Brazos Periodicals. Bookstore employes not eligible Court OKs appeal; death-row inmate will get new trial AUSTIN (AP) — The death sen tence of a man convicted in a San Antonio rape-slaying was over turned Wednesday by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which said it had to order a new trial al though it did not want to. Caruthers Alexander had been convicted of capital murder in the April 23, 1981, strangulation of Lori Bruch, who was attacked after leav ing her job as a waitress at 3 club. Presiding Judge John Onion said in the majority opinion in the 5-3 de cision on the Alexander case, “We are reluctant to reverse a conviction of this nature, but action of the state and the ruling of the trial court leave us no choice in view of our oaths.” The conviction was overturned because the trial judge allowed pros ecutors to ask Alexander why he told a gun salesman he had no criminal convictions when, in fact, he had been convicted of arson in 1972 and involuntary manslaughter in 1975. No gun was used in the Bruch slaying and the appeals court said the questions about the gun pur chase were extraneous. Onion was joined by Judges M.P. Duncan, Sam Houston Clinton, Mi chael McCormick and Marvin Tea gue in voting for reversal. Judges W.C. Davis, Chuck Miller and Charles Campbell dissented. Judge Bill White did not partici pate in the case because it is from Bexar County, where he formerly served as district attorney. Also Wednesday, the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the death sentences of Phillip Daniel Tomp kins, found guilty in a Houston rob bery and slaying, and Allen Wayne Janecka, convicted of being a hired hit man in a Houston case. Tompkins was convicted in the January 1981 suffocation of Mary Berry in Harris County. Berry was a pharmacist at Hermann Hospital in Houston. Janecka was indicted in the July 5, 1979, shootings in Houston of Diana Wanstrath, her husband John, and their 14-month-old son, Kevin, but was tried and convicted only for kill ing the infant. A dissent, said the indictment failed to provide Janecka with suffi cient notice of the accusation. “The question that this court must answer in this case is not how amoral or immoral (Janecka) might have be- “We are reluctant to re verse a conviction of this nature, but action of the state and the ruling of the trial court leave us no choice in view of our oaths. ” — Judge John Onion, Texas Court of Appeals come, or how far he had fallen in his lifetime from being a good Catholic boy to a hired executioner, but, in stead, is whether (he) was deprived of any of the many legal rights that our law guaranteed him before he could be . . . sentenced to a prema ture death,” Teague said. Death Row inmate Markham Duff-Smith was a suspect in the Wanstrath killings, but he was never tried in the case. Mrs. Wanstrath was Duff-Smith’s sister. Duff-Smith was convicted in 1981 of arranging the October 1975 slay ing of his adoptive mother, Ger trude Duff-Smith Zabolio, who was found strangled in her home in Houston’s wealthy River Oaks neighborhood. Testimony indicated Duff-Smith arranged the slaying to inherit her estate. Duff-Smith had been sched uled to die early Thursday, but a federal court has stayed that execu tion. Texas growers seek extended quarantine against Florida citrus McAllen (AP) — Rio Grande Val ley growers told federal officials Wednesday to keep Florida oranges and grapefruits out of Texas be cause the incurable citrus canker dis ease could wipe out the recovering industry here. “I submit to you that the risk is too great, not only for Texas but for the entire U.S. citrus industry,” Alvin Cannady, a grower and grove care manager from Mission, told federal officials at the second of three hear ings on a proposal to lift the Florida quarantine. Citrus canker is an aggressive bac terial disease that causes defoliation and other damage to leaves and stems and creates lesions in the fruit. The disease also can cause the fruit to drop from a tree before reaching maturity. Shipping fresh citrus from Flor ida to other citrus-producing areas has been banned since a 1984 citrus canker outbreak. The U.S. Department of Agricul ture proposed allowing fruit deliv eries to resume, subject to inspec tions and other precautionary measures. But Texas growers, still recov ering from a 1983 freeze that wiped out their crops, told the USDA there is too great a risk for biological disas ter. “If citrus canker is unintentionally or inadvertently introduced here, it would affect the lives of thousands of people from the workers in the field, to the packers at the sheds, to the secretaries in the offices, the chemical company employees and, of course, the grove owner himself,” said Laura Coffman, executive di rector of Citrus World, which rep resents 58 growers on more than 2,000 acres in the Valley. The USDA scheduled the hear ings upon publishing the proposal in the Federal Register last month. The first hearing was Monday in Los An- ? ;eles, while the third is scheduled or Friday in Lake Alfred, Fla. Ray Prewett, executive vice presi dent of Texas Citrus Mutual, a McAllen-based growers’ group, called for an 18-month extension of the quarantine. “It is generally agreed that it may take 18 months, in some cases up to three years, before a canker infec tion manifests itself and can be de tected by visual inspection,” Prewett said. But Robert Griffith, chief of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, said his state has a thorough inspection proc ess. He said Florida citrus inspectors made more than 76,000 visits last year. Mike Moeller, Texas’ deputy com missioner of agriculture, questioned the inspectors’ ability to detect the disease in Florida, and said the cause of the disease, which has at least three strains, remains unexplained. “Once confirmed, the only control for the disease is complete destruc tion of all infested trees,” Moeller said. “This action, as has been pointed out continuously to us this morning, would result in the death of our citrus industry which is at tempting to recover from the dev astation of the 1983 freeze.” Texas businessmen indicted in $100 million fraud scheme WASHINGTON (AP) — The heads of two Texas savings and loan associations and five other business men were indicted Wednesday for allegedly conspiring to inflate the va lue of Texas real estate to fraudu lently obtain more than $100 million from five thrift institutions, the Jus tice Department announced. Four of the five S&Ls involved in the alleged fraud scheme have gone out of business, the department said. The agency said the two S&L chiefs also were charged with racke teering. They are Spencer H. Blain Jr., chairman of the board of Empire Savings and Loan Association in Mesquite, and Paul Arlin Jensen, 38, formerly of Dallas and now of Og den, Utah, former chairman of Lan caster First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Lancaster. Three real estate promoters and developers and two land appraisers for the S&Ls also were indicted. The seven businessmen were ac cused, in an 88-count federal grand jury indictment returned in Dallas, of using their own and other thrift institutions to make loans at inflated values to the developers, with $100 million in proceeds from the loans diverted for the defendants’ per sonal profit. The government said that the ac cused developers, David Faulkner and James Toler, both of Garland, assisted Blain in buying stock in Em pire, where Blain became board chairman. The Justice Department has been investigating allegations of fraud in savings and loan institutions in Texas for the past four years, result ing in 92 convictions. Hey Ags John Stone Needs Your Help Your donations are urgently needed to help cost for a liver transplant he needs A table will be set up in the MSC to take yourdoi tions today thur Friday. 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