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Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, December 1,1987
A&M students win
national honors
in animal judging
By Annette Primm
Reporter
Five judging teams from the
Texas A&M animal science depart
ment earned national championship
honors this year. Dr. Howard Hesby,
an animal science professor said.
A&M teams won nationals in
horse, livestock, meat, poultry and
wool judging.
A reception to honor the judging
teams will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at
the Kleberg Animal and Food Sci
ence Center. The reception will take
place by the building’s atrium and is
open to the public.
Students on the teams judge the
animals and rank them by score,
Hesby said. Then the team members
are graded by the official judges on
the accuracy of their decisions.
The students also are quizzed
orally on the reasoning of their deci
sions, Hesby said.
In the past 15 years, the horse
judging team has won 11 national
championships, said Dr. Gary Pot
ter, a team coach and animal science
professor.
The horse-judging team won na
tional and international champion
ships this year. Potter said.
He said these contests included
the All-American Quarter Horse
Congress on Oct. 23 in Columbus,
Ohio, and the World Championship
Quarter Horse Show on Nov. 18 in
Oklahoma City.
About 30 teams competed in the
national contest, and 21 teams par
ticipated in the international contest,
he said.
In each competition, the A&M
team won the reasons award.
Winning these contests shows a
high degree of study and compre-
hemi'^ Potter said.
“It is a stepping stone for students
who want to judge when they get out
of school,” he said.
Sam Jackson, coach for the live
stock judging team, said participat
ing in this the contest can be a begin
ning of a successful career.
“People who have won these con
tests are industry leaders today,”
Jackson said.
Each horse team has 10 members,
but only five get to partcipate in each
contest, Potter said.
“They work out just like a football
team,” Potter said. “Those who do
good in practice get to play.”
Potter said the team has 11 classes
tojudge, two of which are mares and
quarter horses.
Each class contains four animals,
he said, so there are 24 different
ways to rank the horses.
The A&M livestock judging team
won the National Collegiate Judging
Livestock Contest Nov. 16 in Louis
ville, Ky. This year 39 teams partici
pated in the contest.
The students judged cattle, sheep
and hogs, Jackson said. The 12
classes contained market steers,
bulls, heifers, rams, market lambs
and bores.
Livestock team members prac
ticed three days a week during the
year to prepare for contests.
The meats judging team won five
of the six contests it participated in
this year, Dr. Jeff Saveli of the ani
mal science department said. The
team won the international contest
Nov. 22 and placed second in the
American Royal contest last spring.
There are 14 members on the
team, and four members participate
in each contest, Saveli said. They
judge beef, pork and lamb in the
form of carcasses and cuts.
4^ ■ Ice Pellets ^7 - Rain Shower - Freezing Rain
Sunset Today: 5:23 p.m.
Map Discussion: High pressure will produce fair and mild weather over
the south-central United States, while an upper level trough of low
pressure and associated surface front produce rain and snow showers
through the central and northern Rockies. The snow over the Great
Lakes will shift southeastward to the central Appalachians. Rain
showers over southern Florida will be widely scattered and weaken with
time.
Forecast:
Today. Partly cloudy and mild with a high temperature of 64 degrees and
winds northeasterly at 7 to 12 mph.
Tonight Partly cloudy and cool with a low temperature of 43 degrees and
winds easterly at less than 5 mph.
Wednesday. Partly cloudy with a warming trend and a high temperature
of 68 degrees. Winds will be east-southeasterly at 5 to 10 mph.
Weather Fact Climatic records produce the following for December:
Record high temperature 89 degrees (1922)
Average daily high 62 degrees
Average daily low 42 degrees
Record low temperature 11 degrees (1983)
Average precipitation 3.0 inches
Freeze days 5
Prepared by: Charlie Brenton
Staff Meteorologist
A&M Department of Meteorology
Galveston insurance heir convicted
of defrauding family’s charity funds
HOUSTON (AP) — Galveston in
surance heir Shearn Moody Jr. was
convicted Monday of defrauding his
family’s charitable foundation of
nearly $1.5 million and now faces up
to 85 years in prison for the crime.
The federal court jury deliberated
27 hours over five days before con
victing Moody on all 17 counts of
mail and wire fraud he faced. He
showed no emotion as the verdict
was read, and later said he was not
surprised at the verdict.
“I have felt this thing was pro
grammed for a long time,” Moody
said outside the courthouse, appar-
(AP) — Texas escaped relatively unscathed
from the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season, which
ended Monday.
“This season has been very mild, including the
number of storms, the dollar amount of damages
and no lives were lost,” said Bob Case, a hurri
cane specialist with the National Hurricane Cen
ter in Coral Gables, Fla.
The season runs from June 1 through Mon
day. The dates were chosen decades ago because
of statistical background on prior storms and
when they were likely to hit.
There were only seven named storms and one
unnamed tropical storm this year, Case said.
He said a normal hurricane season produces
several named storms, including six hurricanes,
two of which would strike a coastal area.
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endy meaning he believed the gov
ernment had plotted against him.
Moody did not elaborate because
his lawyer, Marian Rosen, ended the
conversation with reporter^ and the
two got into a waiting vehicle.
Outside the courtroom, Moody
shook hands with co-defendant
Howell Willis of Dallas, who was ac
quitted on all four charges he faced.
“I’m very glad you got out — glad
on all four (counts),” Moody told
him.
Rosen said she intended to appeal
the conviction to the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
Moody, ousted earlier this year as
Moody Foundation trustee, could
also be fined as much as $4.5 million
when he is sentenced Jan. 5. U.S.
District Jud^e Ross Sterling allowed
him to remain free on bond pending
sentencing.
Jurors resumed deliberations
Monday morning after Sterling sent
them home Wednesday for the
Thanksgiving holiday. Deliberations
began Nov. 23 after six weeks of tes
timony.
Moody was accused of helping
channel money from the Moody
Foundation to organizations that
otherwise would not have gotten
grants and then receiving kickbacks
to help pay his mounting legal ex
penses.
Defense attorneys had contended
Moody was duped by a con man,
William R. Pabst, who is a fugitive on
the charges.
Willis had been charged with
helping in the scheme. He said he
was not surprised he was acquitted.
“I always felt I would be found
not guilty,” he said. “I wasn’t guilty. 1
had an exceptionally good lawyet
who brought out the truth. Thank
goodness for him and thejury.”
Moody still faces similar charges
in a second indictment against him.
That case has not yet gone to trial.
Texas escapes damage in hurricane season
Only three of the 1987 storms were hurri
canes: Arlene, which developed and died in the
open waters of the Atlantic Ocean; Emily, which
ravaged the Dominican Republic and Bermuda;
and Floyd, which dumped up to 5 inches of rain
on Florida, causingjust $500,000 in damages and
lasting only 12 hours.
The 1987 unnamed storm was the first of the
season, sweeping through Southeast Texas on
Aug. 10.
Case said that at the time, it was classified as a
tropical depression, but further study of the
weather system produced evidence that it actu
ally had been a tropical storm.
It passed through Texas, Louisiana, Missis
sippi and Alabama, causing $7.5 million in dam
age.
Fred Wesley, a weather specialist with the Na
tional Weather Service in Port Arthur, said Gulf
Coast states got off lightly in 1987.
“I believe the cold fronts that pushed through
the area in June, which caused us to receive
about three times the normal amount of rain for
the month, ended the hurricane season for us,”
Wesley said.
A westerly flow at the beginning of the season
also kept storms from developing, Wesley said.
Hurricanes normally develop when there is an
easterly flow in high pressure areas persisting
over the Atlantic and Pacific shifting to the
north.
In June, upper-level winds shifted to the west,
tending to suppress hurricane activity in the Ca
ribbean and Gulf waters, Wesley said.