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Thursday, October 29,1987/The Battalion/Page 5 What’s up v /£.> t “ Thundcniomi I “ Driule i “ Freezing Rjij tales will continue it high pressure.41 for days off the > rain into there! land has moved inn ulses aloft will prodi estern Great Lakes iture climbing it in the upper literature of tion of current i radical proble Thursday LCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 12:15 p.m. Call 845-5826 for the location of the meeting. 0501301WRITING OUTREACH: Celia Ellery will discuss “Punctuation: Accessories to the Word” at 6:30 p.m. in 110 Blocker. OCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: Gene Zdziarski will discuss time management at 6 p.m. in 105C Zachry. SC JORDAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS: will present “International Aid — are we helping or hurting?” at 7:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder. HE ASSOCIATION FOR SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT: will meet at 6 p.m. in 131 Blocker. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM: will discuss local events at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder. COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE: Dr. Dan Levine will discuss “The Parable of the Watchmaker Revisited: Principles of Neural Network Ar chitecture” at 5 p.m. in 510 Rudder. OLLEGE STATION BIBLE CONFERENCE: Herman H. Mattox, Th.M., will discuss “Make Christ-Centered Deci sions Rather Than Self-Centered Decisions” at 7:30 p.m. at the College Station Community Center, 1300 Jersey St. DULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m. in 145 MSC. [SC PAGEANT: applications are available through Nov. 13 in 216 MSC. LPHA PHI OMEGA: will have Prof/Faculty Night Out. Volunteers will babysit for professors and faculty from 6:30 p m. to 10:30 p.m. in 701 Rudder. They also will pass out “Don’t Mess With Texas” bumper stickers and trash bags from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Commons, MSC and all residence halls. and counselors are available throug floor of the Pavilion. Friday Ppli h N. Nov. 6 on the second |GGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will begin I setting up their haunted house at 3:30 p.m. in the Corps 1 Quadrangle Lounge B. The house will open to the public 1 at 8 p.m. OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet for yell practice at 11:30 ■ p.m. at Mt. Aggie. |STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have a financial aid infor- ■ mation meeting at 2 p.m. in 504 Rudder. harlict Meteoi ease pJNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have a Bible study at I 6:30 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Church and a peanut- ■ butter fellowship at 11:30 a.m. at Rudder Fountain. COLLEGE STATION BIBLE CONFERENCE: Herman H. | Mattox, Th.M., will discuss “Fulfill your spiritual destiny” ■ at 7:30 p.m. at the College Station Community Center. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, H 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be fore desired publication date. Foster father role for officer causes emotional tangles FORT WORTH (AP) — A mother is fighting attempts to strip her of parental rights over her daughter, who became a policeman’s foster child after he investigated claims that the girl was forced into prostitution. Capt. Jerry Lee Blaisdell led the investigation of James Earl Davis, a former safecracker who was accused of forcing the girl, then 11, into prostitution. The 1984 case against Davis was dismissed late last year after Blais dell became the girl’s foster father. Court records indicated that Davis succeeded in convincing prosecutors to spare the girl from the trauma of testimony. The girl’s name has been withheld because of her age. Since the case was dismissed, Shir ley Littlejohn, the girl’s natural mother, has filed a motion to dismiss the state’s lawsuit seeking to termi nate her parental rights. Her motion is scheduled to be heard by a district judge in Tarrant County later this month. She was known in the 1960s as the “Cinder ella Bandit” after she left a tell-tale slipper in the lobby of a motel she robbed. “It was a conflict of interest for him to take her into his home like that because he was the primary in vestigator on the case,” Littlejohn said Monday. “He didn’t only jeop ardize it, he gave it away.” Blaisdell has spent 21 years with the Fort Worth Police Department and has been praised many times for his dedication, politeness and law enforcement savvy. Colleagues have dubbed him “Captain America” beause of his enthusiasm and hard work. When Blaisdell was investigating the accusations against Davis, Little john signed an agreement temporar ily allowing Blaisdell to arrange care for her daughter. At the time, she said, she was un able to care for the girl and was wor ried about a pending drug case against her that was later dismissed. Blaisdell initially placed the girl with another family and then with the Lena Pope Home for Children. “She continually ran away,” Ted Blevins, Lena Pope Home executive director said. The girl, friends with Blaisdell’s daughter, asked to stay at their home and quickly became a member of the family. “She became our daughter,” Blaisdell said. “It’s not something that happened overnight.” At Blaisdell’s home, the girl com pleted her first year of school and excelled in sports. She began to refer to Blaisdell as “daddy.” The Blaisdells became licensed foster parents in 1984 and the girl “It was a conflict of inter est for him to take her into his home like that because he was the primary inves tigator on the case. He didn’t only jeopardize it (the case) he gave it away. ” — Shirley Littlejohn, child’s natural mother stayed with the family until spring 1985, when she went to live with her mother. By the summer of 1985, she wanted to return to Blaisdell’s home. Littlejohn, meanwhile, was ar rested on firearms violations and sent to the Federal Correctional In stitution in Fort Worth for a five- year sentence. That’s when child welfare workers began trying to ter minate Littlejohn’s parental rights, court records show. The girl was sent back to the Lena Pope Home, which returned her to the Blaisdell’s. Blaisdell and his wife began hav ing marital problems. Carol Blaisdell eventually moved out, but indicated she would return to their home to help care for the girl, Blaisdell said. Mrs. Blaisdell said the couple was afraid of moving the girl because she was just becoming settled. Ilistic tests to determine gun used in killing said he and Carta land was available;: le decided hottoletl inue to lease the pffi alleged overgiazin; ronicle reported tk r ials admitted theti Ttisements about tin at was not unusui stle, however, sail up and took" tit i he had spent year ale money building fences and deed stle said, ‘‘They sad He put theblamf rught that lasted fat MIDLOTHIAN (APj — Ballistic sts should determine if the gun led to kill an undercover police of- jtrj belonged to a Dallas officer lose son is charged with capital ttrder in the case, authorities said ednesday. George William Raffield Jr. was a ireotics officer posing as a student Midlothian High School when he is shot to death Friday. Richard seglin, 17, and a 16-year-old sus- ttare being held on capital mur- rcharges. Sources told the Dallas Times erald that authorities suspect a .38- iber pistol owned by the 16-year- i's father was used in the slaying. Ballistic-test results will be sent to the Ellis County Sheriffs office, Chief Deputy James Ledbetter said. He said he did not know when they would be sent. Meanwhile, Goeglin’s father said his son may have been in the area of the shooting, but that the youth told his mother he did not pull the trig ger. “He said he just wanted to run and to get out of there,” the elder Goelgin said. “But he is new here, and he didn’t know where to run.” Raffield’s body was found Satur day with two bullet wounds, lying face down beside his truck in a field. He was buried Tuesday in Waxaha- chie, where fellow officers, family and friends gathered for the service. ippened that night... I don’t know what he ... is guilty of,” the elder Goeglin told the Dallas Morning News. “The boy was there, and he may well be an accom plice, but he didn’t kill anybody.” Dallas lawyer Brad Lollar said Goeglein gave Midlothian police a statement Saturday night in which he accused the juvenile of killing the officer. Lollar said he was asked by Goeg- lein’s mother to counsel him on his legal rights until an attorney is ap pointed to represent him. “He (Goeglein) said the first time he met the officer was Friday night. He said he had seen him in the hall at school but had never met him. . . . said the lease wash /el. Apparentlyafw I abused that lad’ staff recommended' it lease. So the staffs around to find so: d lease and spends: unt of time tobrifj 't, who prepared ale: that would have)* 50 per acre for I 1 $1.50 an acre foil cl the property did: because it was ins: t said he never 6 >n because he wait e employee that* that the the land" The statement that he gave impli cates him to some degree, but clearly delineates that he was not the gun man,” Lollar said. The family moved to Midlothian in August from Arizona. Acquaintainces of the two boys say they were troubled youths, and some said the Goeglin was involved in devil worship. “He likes to prick his finger and dr^w pentagrams and write words like ‘slayer’ in blood,” said Michele Karr, a Midlothian High Scool ju nior. “He told us that in his devil- worshiping group he went by the name of Richard Dark.” Geoglein’s mother, however, called her son “a good boy.” touston mayor foresees easy victory in race HOUSTON (AP) — Mayor Kathy Whitmire ipears to be coasting to an easy fourth win, de- te Houston’s depressed oil-driven economy itinlsome sectors might be reason for an over- mlatCity Hall. Whitmire faces no strong opposition from six tie-known and under-funded candidates run- itginthe non-partisan election Tuesday. "While the (economic) environment might be jit for a challenge, there just wasn’t a candi- fe,” says David Hill, a Houston political Ulster. The mayor’s opponents include Richard fck” Dimond, Shelby B. Oringderff, Bill An- tson, Mary J. Pritchard, Glenn Edward Arnett Jr. and Don W. Geil. None has raised much in campaign contributions, financial disclosure re cords show. “It’s hard to raise money in this economy,” Di mond says. Anderson agrees campaign money has been difficult to find. Both say they have been campaigning at civic and church functions and trying to get support from minority groups. “I’m going after it full blast and trying to make a runoff,” Anderson says. Analysts, however, doubt one will occun Unlike two years ago, this mayoral race seems destined to remain low-key. In 1985, former Mayor Louie Welch heated up a humdrum campaign against Whitmire by inadvertently making a wisecrack over a live tele vision microphone that one way to halt the spread of the deadly disease AIDS was to “shoot the queers.” The gay community was enraged. And Welch, who had held the city’s top job for 10 years be fore retiring in 1974, had to don a bulletproof vest after getting death threats. Whitmire, who subsequently defeated Welch by a 3-2 margin, says she always is concerned about an election, but acknowledges this cam paign has been easier. road Aid f CHUNKING^ | CHINESE RESTAURANT ^ ^ DAILY LUNCH SPECIAL Different Special Each Day. DINNER SPECIAL 15 % Off Any Dinner Menu Item Expires 11-30-87 With This Coupon SUNDAY BUFFET $ 4 25 All You Can Eat Menu Changes Weekly 11:30-2:00 5:00-8:00 We serve beer and wine. 1673 Briarcrest Drive At Ardan Crossing Across From Steak and Ale 774-1157 Open 7 Days a week Lunch 11-2 Dinner 5-10 iwi mm'Jiim ? nwyi fS ■MBl nan Arena 2818 STUDENT GOVERNMENT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY UNITED WAY Pick Your Favorite Yell Leader HELP THE STUDENT BODY PICK THEIR FA VORITE YELL LEADER. COME BY THE UNITED WAY TABLE AT THE MSC AND DO NATE A DOLLAR TO YOUR FAVORITE AG GIE YELL LEADER. SUPPORT THE UNITED WAY! 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