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Police free girl
held hostage
for nine hours
About 1:45 a.m., police entered a
bathroom adjacent to the bedroom
and then entered the bedroom only
to find the man and child in a closet.
“Apparently, the suspect heard a
)ise because he came out of the
noise oecause
closet,” Turner said. “At that time
they found the girl was in no imme
diate danger and they were able to
stun him with the Taser (gun), ren
dering him momentarily motion
less.”
Corporation
OKs buyout
of store chain
The offering, which was amended
three times, had met resistance from
many potential investors, who wor
ried that the value of the company’s
assets may have fallen sharply after
the stock market collapse and that
the company would be unable to pay
off the debt.
What’s up
HOUSTON (AP) — A man held a
10-year-old girl hostage in her apart
ment for nine hours before police
freed her early Tuesday by shooting
the man with a stun gun.
The suspect, Donald Ray Harris,
35, claiming to have a gun, held Nat
alie Brown in a bedroom closet of
the apartment in southwest Houston
after her mother, Juanita Brown,
came home just before 5 p.m. Mon
day and found the man there.
The man threatened Brown but
she managed to leave and call police.
When police arrived they found
Harris and the girl, a fourth-grader,
barricaded in a bedroom of the sec
ond-floor apartment.
Uniformed officers got inside the
apartment but didn’t go into the
bedroom for fear that the man had a
weapon and would harm the girl.
Officers called the SWAT team and
the apartments adjacent to the
Brown residence were evacuated.
Officers, still in the apartment,
could hear sounds coming from the
bedroom and SWAT negotiators
talked to Harris but were unable to
persuade him to surrender.
Harris claimed he had a pistol but
no guns were found when he finally
was subdued and arrested, Houston
police spokesman Dan Turner said.
DALLAS (AP) — Southland
Corp. shareholders Tuesday ap-
E roved a $4.9 billion leveraged
uyout, putting the world’s largest
convenience store chain in private
hands.
The buyout by the company’s
founding Thompson family is ex
pected to be closed Tuesday, South
land spokesman Markeeta McNatt
said. Approximately 150 people at
tended Tuesday’s 10-minute share
holders’ meeting. The approval fol
lowed the pricing of $>2.2 billion
high-yield junk bonds. The buyout
also involves bank loans of $2.6 bil-
\ lion, McNatt said.
On Monday, Goldman, Sachs &
Co. and Salomon Brothers Inc., the
Thompson’s investment bankers,
said they priced $2.2 billion in high-
risk, high-yield, junk bonds needed
to complete financing.
Sale of the bonds was announced
Tuesday, McNatt said. The com
pany will receive $1.5 billion from
the bond sale.
The Thompson family controlled
73 percent of the common shares be
fore Tuesday’s meeting, after acquir
ing them this summer through the
purchase of 66 percent of common
stock. The family also bought 97
percent of outstanding preferred
shares this summer.
In the merger, each outstanding
share of Southland common stock
will be converted to the right to re
ceive $61.32 and 0.6672 of a share of
a new series of preferred stock. Each
share of a series of Southland’s pre
ferred stock will be cancelled and ex
changed for the right to receive
$90.27, the company said.
Goldman, Sachs and Salomon
Brothers had struggled for more
than a month to find buyers for the
debt issue.
Wednesday
SPORT PARACHUTE CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in
Rudder.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at
p.m. in 402 Rudder.
Thursday
PHI KAPPA PHI HONOR SOCIETY: Scholarship applica
tions for graduate study are available in 219 Engineering
Physics Building. For more information contact Dr.
Thomas Kozik at 845-2410.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days k
fore desired publication date.
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Thundersloin
- Drizzle
Sunset Today: 5:23 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday: 7:11 a.m.
Map Discussion: The weak cool front that passed Bryan-College
Station last evening will be paralleling the Texas coast with widely
scattered showers ahead of the system. Elsewhere, a deep low pressufij
system and associated fronts in Quebec will produce rain and snow
activity from the western Great Lakes to New England and southward!: j
the higher elevations of eastern Tennessee. The front in the Pacific
Northwest is less active than the systems of the past week, producing than
light showers.
Forecast:
Today. Partly cloudy and mild with a high temperature of 63 degrees art
northerly winds of 10 to 16 mph.
Tonight. Expect increasing cloudiness and cool. The minimum
temperature Thursday morning will be near 40. Winds north at seven jood
mph. ast'
Thursday. Mostly cloudy and cool. Maximum temperature 56 degrees, ton ,
with northeasterly winds of eight to 14 mph and a slight chance of an the s
isolated shower.
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Prepared by: Charlie Brenl?
Staff Meteorolog*' inTe
A&M Department of Meteorolo?
Father faces 90-year tem Ji
for smothering his children
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WAXAHACHIE (AP) —A for
mer upholstery worker who said he
feared his two young children would
grow up to resemble him or his es
tranged wife faces 90 years in prison
for smothering them.
Jimmy Ray Franks, 24, a high
school dropout living in Palmer, an
Ellis County community south of
Dallas, was sentenced Monday after
pleading guilty to two murder
charges in return for the dismissal of
capital charges that carried a possi
ble death penalty.
Ellis County District Judge Gene
Knize sentenced Franks to two 90-
year terms to be served concur
rently. District Attorney Mary Lou
Shipley said she agreed to drop the
capital murder charges for a guilty
plea to murder because Franks had
no other history of violence.
Defense attorney Ron Bunch por
trayed Franks as a caring young fa
ther troubled by a failed marriage
and apprehensive about the future
of his 2-year-old son, Jeremy, and 4-
year-old daughter, Tammy.
The children were suffa ues
during their sleep the night of Jenn
20, authorities said. les J
T wo days later, the bodies’ ’K :
found in trash bags hidden’
thicket of honeysuckle glowing ^
road in Ellis County. .
Franks first reported his chi# le
were missing, but latei, as I# J .
grew suspicious, Flanks
statement and led authorities
bodies.
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In an interview following hi^
tencing, Franks told the
Morning News that the
haunt his sleep in a recuirinrf Qg
mare with a white hearse ^
pleasant dreams of the boy an]*
dancing. He said his wakingf]
are dominated by thoughts ®
children.
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killed the children he loved <”1
what he described as a fear that]
would “turn out like me ot r
mother.”
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