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Please elect Jean Williamson
Justice of the Peace
Republican Primary Tues., MarchS, 1988
* 80% of the J.P. cases in College Station are Student/landlord disputes
^ • My opponent is a major landlord in College Station
“I will serve Texas Aggies, not exploit them”
Admitted to the Texas A&M Graduate College, 1969 and is still attending school
here
Please elect one who loves Texas A&M
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Man injures four
during shootout
in San Antonio
Phone No.
696-1827
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A man
toting two guns and “acting like
John Wayne” leaped from a taxicab
near the Alamo Wednesday and ran
domly shot four people before being
gunned down by lawmen, authori
ties said.
Todd Tarble, 20, who was waiting
for a bus near the shooting scene
about three blocks from the Alamo,
said he begged onlookers to stay
back after the shooting started about
9:30 a.m.
“He got out of the cab. He just
started shooting,” Tarble said. “All
hell broke loose. He had two guns in
his hands. I’ve never seen anything
like that. The guy was acting like
John Wayne. This guy was crazy.”
John Wayne starred in the 1960
classic “The Alamo,” and ironically,
this week marks the 152nd anniver
sary of the fall of the mission to Mex
ican troops.
The suspect, identified as Marvin
Duncan, 55, has been arrested nu
merous times since 1973 on a variety
of violent charges and was expected
to be charged with six counts of at
tempted capital murder. Police
Chief William O. Gibson said at a
news conference.
“As to why the suspect began
shooting, we don’t know why, with
the exception that he wanted to gain
some attention,” Gibson said.
ried,” Ortiz said.
At about 9:30 a.m., as the taxi ap
proached the corner of Houston of
Losoya streets, about three blocks
from the Alamo, the man began fir
ing randomly out of the window, Or
tiz said.
Ortiz said the gunman got out of
the cab and continued shooting.
Ilian Niaves, 17, who was walking on
the sidewalk, was struck in the right
leg. The gunman then walked to a
car and continued shooting, Ortiz
said.
The gunman then walked north
on Broadway Street and continued
firing. A passenger in a car, Toni
Longoria, 16, who also is seven
months pregnant, was shot in the
right thigh as she was stepping out
of the vehicle, Ortiz said.
Experts will discuss nuclear power
The gunman, whose shooting
spree was cut short by a lawman’s
gunfire, was shot once in the left
thigh and was in good condition at
Medical Center Hospital, hospital
spokesman Inez Eisazadeh said.
His most seriously wounded vic
tim, Deborah Reyes, 29, who had
opened her car door and was trying
to hide from the gunfire, was shot in
the chest and stomach, Ortiz said.
The other victims suffered rela
tively minor gunshot wounds, offi
cials said.
Homicide Lt. Albert Ortiz said the
man was picked up by a taxicab at his
home and asked to be taken down
town.
“From the time he was picked up
at his residence, throughout the
shooting he remained calm and his
actions were deliberate, not hur-
Another passenger in another car,
Alton Watson, 16, of Midland, suf
fered a graze to his right ankle, Ortiz
said.
As passers-by dove for cover, offi
cer Donald Kawazoe, a downtown
foot patrolman on his way to work,
saw the man and ordered him to
stop.
After the two exchanged gunfire,
the gunman ran and was confronted
by Park Ranger Bennie Burley
Those two also exchanged gunfire
before the gunman was appre
hended and two large-caliber weap
ons were recovered, Gibson said.
Gibson said the gunman suffered
a gunshot wound to the left thigh,
but he was not certain which officer
shot him. The man has an arrest re
cord dating back to 1973 and in
cludes robberies, assaults and shoot
ings.
Another witness, Juanita Gubillos,
said she tried to help Reyes.
By Lyneen Johnson
Reporter
A public forum titled “The
Economics and Safety of Nuclear
Energy” will present opposing
views on various issues surround
ing the use of nuclear energy to
night at 7:30 in 201 MSC.
The forum, sponsored by the
A&M Green Earth Society, re
sulted from the society’s concern
for public education, Gilbert
Gonzalez, Green Earth Society
president, said.
“We hope to give the public an
opportunity to get direct answers
to their questions,” Gonzalez said.
Donald Pisani, faculty adviser
for the club, said the forum is de
signed to be a representation of
opposing viewpoints to increase
public awareness about the dan
gers of nuclear power. The de
sign, planning and implementa
tion of the group’s activities are
handled completely by the stu
dents, he said.
Program coordinator Victoria
Zabaras said the speakers will in
clude Kenneth Peddicord, A&M
nuclear engineering professor;
Bryan Baker, president of the
Committee for Consumer Rate
Relief; Dr. Frank hidings, a pro
fessor emeritus affiliateu with the
Committee for Energy Aware
ness; Tom Smith, state director of
Public Citizen; and Dr. George
Zabaras, an expert in gas-liquid
two-phase flow.
Also scheduled to speak are
Jell Pruitt of River Bena Nuclear
Station and Stephen Fenberg, a
Houston businessman who writ
ten articles concerning nuclear
energy for the Houston Post and
the Houston Chronicle.
Zabaras said, “With a broad
scope of ideas, from journalists to
environmental experts to nuclear
specialists, there is the potential
for controversy, but it shouldn't
get out of hand.”
Uie forum, structured to give
each speaker a five- to seven-min
ute opening comment and two
minutes of rebuttal, is expec ted to
continue for about an hour and a
half, Gonzalez said.
“We will spend about 40 to 50
minutes with the speaker presen
tation, but the majority of time
will he for a question and answer
session,” he said. “If necessary,
we will close the formal segment
and adjourn to the back of the
room to provide the public witha
chance to ask questions on a per
sonal, conversational level.”
The Green Earth members are
intrigued and excited about the
range of topics to be covered,
Gonzalez said.
“One question that we plan to
ask is about the decommissioning
of nuclear power plants,” Gonza j?
lez said. “No one is sure of the ®
lifetime of the plant, hut we know
that they don’t last forever. . a
lifetime may be anywhere irom
30 to 50 years.
“We do know that they have to
!>e cased in concrete and this is a
more expensive procedure and
contributes to high employee
turnovers due to radiation expo
sure. The disposal of wastes is
also a concern.”
Learning about any new tech
nology would help to answer a lot
of the public’s concerns, he said.
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Commission will offer
rides to Padre Island
“I went over there to help her be
cause she was shot bad,” Gubillos
said. “She said just to take care of
her purse. I was scared that he was
going to shoot me, too.”
Niaves was in good condition at
Medical Center Hospital, Eisazadeh
said. Watson was treated and re
leased from Downtown Baptist Me
morial Hospital, said a hospital
spokesman who daclined to give her
name.
AUSTIN (AP) — The Railroad
Commission has granted emergency
authority to Island Express Inc. of
Brownsville, allowing it to offer bus
service between Brownsville and
South Padre Island for the next 45
days.
Commission Chairman James Nu
gent said the bus service is designed
to make it safer for students on
spring break to travel from the pop
ular beach area, Padre Island, to
Brownsville..
“Unfortunately,” Nugent said
“many students drive that routt
while intoxicated, endangering oil:
ers as well as themselves.”
Nugent said last year 15 peopltj
died in DWI-related traffic accidents
along the Brownsville-South Padre
Island corridor dut ing spring break
He also said 1,200 traffic citations
were issued.
The temporary bus fare one was
would be $5, Nugent said.
Scientist: Acid rain a problem in East Texas
DALLAS (AP) — Acid rain, once
believed confined to the industri
alized Northeast, is on the verge of
killing trees and fish in rural East
Texas and is already causing respira
tory problems in urban areas, a sci
entist said.
Pollutants, including coal-fired
power-plant fumes and vehicle emis
sions, have combined to produce
rainfall about 10 times more acidic
than normal since at least 1979,
when a state acid rain monitoring
station was set up in Tyler.
“It is a problem which has existed
for at least that long and is steadily
getting worse every year,” said Dr.
George W. Crawford, a Southern
Methodist University physics profes-
The pollutants create acid-form
ing molecules, the third leading
cause of respiratory disease because
they damage tissue and reduce lung
capacity, he said.
Crawford, who set up his own
monitoring network, claims the
problem is worse than state and fed
eral regulators’ data indicates be
cause of inaccuracies in reporting air
pollution and acid rain data.
“We’re too dumb to learn from
our own mistakes,” Crawford said.
“We’re going to wait until trees are
dead and then officials are going to
say, ‘Hey, something’s wrong. Let’s
lock the barn.’ It’s tragic.”
A big pollutant is sulfur dioxide,
and tens of thousands of such emis
sion sources exist in Texas — more
than in any other state — Texas Air
Control Board officials said.
Winds bringing sulfur dioxide
from lignite-fired power plants that
lie in an arc through East Texas,
combined with nitrous oxide and di
oxide from vehicle emissions, are
producing sulfuric, nitrous and ni
tric acid rain in Dallas.
East Texas is particularly vulnera
ble both because of its 14 coal-and
lignite-fired power plants and natu
rally acidic soil, which does not tend
to neutralize acid rain when air
borne.
But acid deposition is a statewide
phenomenon, a Texas Air Control
Board official said.
Monitors show, as an annual aver
age, that “acid deposition — both
wet and dry — is occurring through
out the state, but more frequently
and with lower pH in Northeast
Texas,” said Dr. Thomas H. Porter,
environmental quality specialist in
the TACB research division.
Dallas has serious air pollution
problems because of ozone, sulfur
dioxide and nitrous oxide and diox
ide, said Crawford, and all pollut
ants are at higher levels during dn
periods than during wet ones.
The nitrogen oxides react with
hydrocarbons in sunlight to produce
ozone, a prime component of smog.
Elderly people and those with res
piratory problems are most at risk
from acicl deposition, and breathing
sulfur dioxide or ozone creates le
sions in lung tissue, Crawford said.
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