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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, March 2, 1988 The Formal Uiearhouse Come shop our selection of formal attire at drastic re ductions 50-70% off original retail of long, short and tea length dresses and accessories...shoes, purses and hairpieces. Special hours Monday - Friday 3- 7 Saturday 10-6 The Formal Uiearhouse Texas Ave. South at SIV Parkway • Next to Winn Dixie HAVE A PEPSI PARTY/ YOU CAN WIN 3 NIGHTS LODGING AT SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, SPRING BREAK “PARTY CENTRAL!’ PLUS $150.00 SPENDING MONEY. r To Win; bring this entry blank to' H.E.B. 1102 Speight Deadline March 9,1988, winner announced March 10,1988. Entries at this store only! “I Must be 18 to win. Name. Address. Phone. Age. l iTimTfT i ii .i rn t m 11 n. ^ in n m m m mrn i »i m httu . t i fiattii > n»t rmi 11111 it m * i imrlff *^^**^*****?**S*'i'•*/ Direct from Lynchburg, Tennessee it's the Hometown Homecoming featuring MR. JACK DANIEL’S ORIGINAL SILVER CORNET BAND A delightful afternoon of music and theatre under the gazebo with “The Perfessor” and his thirteen piece band. Tickets can be purchased at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234 and Dillards Ticketron. Sunday, March 6 at 4:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium MSC Opera &nd Performing Arts Society stts Memorial Student Center • Texas AfirM I niversity • Box J-l • College Station TX 77844 9081 l^ESSkaiBS^I "* gjrafsiciSfSJSMSlSMSfc j agjgjgigjgjajgjgfgfgigia Sheriff debate turns out to be one-sided talk By Kimberly Motley Reporter A debate scheduled for candi dates for Brazos Valley Sheriff Tuesday turned out to be more of a one-sided discussion by Sergeant Choya Walling. Incumbent Sherif f Ron Miller was not present because of a misunder standing, said Deputy Sheriff John LeFlore, who represented him at the debate. Walling, an A&M graduate, dis cussed topics from drugs to com puter technology, with little com ment from LeFlore. This is the first time two Republi cans have ever run for sheriff, so it is the first time a debate for the posi tion was held in this county, said me diator Jim Kuboviak, county attor ney and A&M professor of political science. Walling said the most important problem in Texas right now is drug abuse. It is a statewide problem that affects housing conditions in jails. ‘ “The Texas Department of Cor rections is supposed to be like a wa ter purification plant,” Walling said. “You run dirty water through it, clean it and flush out pure water. But when you start putting through more than the system can handle, the plant flushes out dirty water.” The TDC is not adequately help ing criminals with drug and alcohol problems, Walling said, so they go back on the streets to commit more crimes and end up back at the county jail. Education is vital to helping this problem, he said. Photo by Fredrick D. |» Sergeant Choya Walling, Class of ’74, speaks at a debate Tuesday in Harrington Education Bldg. The other Republican Sheriff candi date, incumbent Ron Miller, did not show up. LeFlore, Miller’s representative, said the drug problem is 99 percent peer pressure. “I want to bring all drug abuse agencies together in the area schools so all the schools are doing the same thing,” he said. “This way, if stu dents transfer, they’ll still be ex posed to the same program.” “All crimes stem from drug or al cohol abuse and I would like to see stiffer penalties,” LeFlore said. process for police officers thai more involved than just sendi someone to an academy and hirii him on that basis. But Walling said stiffer penalties are not the solution. Walling also said if elected as sher iff, he would like to establish a hiring He said he would like to run! sheriffs department like a bus™ and require mandatory training))! grams for employees. LeFlore also said training p grams are important. Shootout in car lot leaves one man dead, two injured HALTOM CITY (AP),^A father and son remained hpspitalized Tuesday with injuries suLTtfed in. a shootout with a man whQ-,i;eturned to their car lot shortly after they fired him, authorities said. The former employee was killed in the gunfire Monday, said Haltom City police, who declined Tuesday to release the dead man’s identity. Tarrant County medical office in vestigator J.L. Kirkpatrick said the man died of a gunshot wound to the chest. Aubrey Stamps, 57, a former Hal tom City councilman and owner of the used car lot, was in good condi tion Tuesday at Harris Hospital in Fort Worth. His son, Tommy Stamps, 30. was in critical condition at the same hospital, of ficials said. Haltom City Police Lt. R.W. Mc- Queary said the fired employee re turned to the garage ana first got into an argument with another worker. Several shots were exchangt witnesses told police. When t shooting stopped, the former ci ployee managed to get into his and pull into the street, where vehicle jumped a curb, rammed!) cars in a automobile repair si parking lot and knocked over a ural gas meter. “Wt diff unit that it « we and T day Bii The men then went into the main office, where Stamps and his son confronted the former employee, who was armed with a pistol. Police found two revolvers ai scene, but said late Monday have not determined who owned weapons or how many shots) fired. They would not release other details Tuesday. U.S. study shows rising poverty rate among Hispanics SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Poor Hispanics are becoming poorer and the Reagan administration’s federal budget cuts in the early 1980s con tinue to hurt many of them, re searchers said Tuesday. A study, which compiled pub lished and unpublished U.S. Census Bureau data on Hispanics, indicated that the poverty rate among Hispan ics rose from 21.8 percent in 1979 to 27.3 percent in 1986. It also showed that in 1979, anti poverty government programs helped lift 35.4 percent of n iclped lift 35.4 percent of poor His panics out of poverty, but the figure dropped to 20.1 in 1986. Among Hispanic children, the poverty rate increased steadily since 1978, hitting an all-time high of 39.9 percent in 1985, the study said. Dubbed “Falling Through the Safety Net,” the study was compiled jointly by San Antonio’s Southwest Voter Research Institute and the Washington-based Center on Bud get and Policy Priorities. Dr. Robert Brischetto, executive director of the voter research insti tute, said there are 18.8 million His panics in the United States and that in 1985, 5.2 million of them lived be low the poverty line of $ 11,203. Brischetto said the current federal budget needs to be balanced, but that the poor also need attention. Government “benefits have not been increasing to keep up with in flation and as a result we are finding an increasing social problem and un less we deal with it we are going to need more drastic measures,” he said. The study also indicated that the poverty rate among Hispanics in 1986 was slightly less than the rate among blacks and one-half times the proportion of poor whites. Willie Velasquez, president of the voter research institute, said the study was conducted so that voters would be informed to pose tougher questions to presidential candidates. All Democratic presidential hope fuls have asked for the study. Vice President George Bush was the only Republican who requested the re port. Grand jury subpoenas deputies TYLER (AP) — A grandjun scheduled to consider whethfl murder charges should be filed is the death of an East Texas jailin mate, subpoenaed two sheriffs deputies already indicted onchii rights charges in the case. A Sabine County grandjuryot Jan. 4 indicted three white off cers for allegedly violating tin civil rights of Loyal Garner Jr., black Louisiana truck driver wlit was arrested Christmas Day on traffic violation, taken to tin county jail in Hemphill and dief two days later. After being jailed, Garner, 31 suffered head injuries and transferred unconscious to tf< Sabine County Memorial Hosf tal. He was later taken to the Tylfl Medical Center in Smith Count' where he died. Two friends arrested withGai ner, Johnnie and Alton Maxit claim Garner received a fatal jail house heating. The indicted cers have repeatedly refused comment. 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