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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
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|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.
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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.
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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. . . .
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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.
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