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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.
Come by and help another Agg
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