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Page 6AThe Battalion/Thursday, March 31,1988 with &HUCK REDDEN 6-IOam listen to. . . L I. PONT KNOW - world’s formost authority on women and other worldly wonders WILLARD D. WISE - forcast updates from Snook •learn about the performing arts •get involved on campus •help bring Broadway and classical artists to A&M •have fun/keep off the streets Information Sessions: Tues. April 5, 7:00 pm, 308 Rudder Wed. April 6, 7:00 pm, 510 Rudder Applications are also available in 216 MSC for more information call: Paul at 268-8682 or 845-1515 ^Memorial Student Center Opera and Performing Arts Society Recreation class saves f family after canoe sinks By John H. Neill Reporter Eleven A&M students rescued a family of four from the upper Gua dalupe River last weekend after the family’s rental canoe capsized in the Rock Pile Rapids. The students, fulfilling a require ment for an outdoor recreation class, were canoeing near New Braunfels when they were forced to use the rescue techniques that they learned in Dr. Mickey Little’s class, said Gordon Hiebert, a senior from Ft. Worth. According to Hiebert, the A&M students had passed through the rapids, above Canyon Dam, in front of the family. Fortunately, the A&M’s sixth and last group of ca- noers looked back to see if the family had made it through safely and real ized the family’s canoe had capsized, Hiebert said. Linda Marak, a junior recreation and parks major from Houston, said the river was 30 feet to 40 feet wide and the water level was low, causing more rocks to stick out of the water. That made the rapids more danger ous. Marak said when the canoe hit the rocks, the family had their center of gravity too high and leaned up stream instead of leaning over the rocks. This caused the canoe to fill with water and turn over, she said. “They (the family) didn’t handle the rapids correctly,” she said. Hiebert, an industrial engineering major, said the family swam through the rapids to calm water. Two of the swimmers continued to the bank while the other two climbed into an A&M canoe and were carried to safety. After getting the family to the bank of the river, the students used the Z-drag technique, a technique which doubles the pulling strength, to pull the damaged canoe to shore. A rope was tied to a tree on the bank and another was connected to a pulley. Two ropes were latched to the canoe and the students, along with two other cancers who stopped David Peyton, junior wildlife and fisheries major, drags a canoe from the Guadalupe River after he and some other students rescued a family who had capsized last weekend to help, pulled the canoe from the rock it was wrapped around, Marak said. These rescue techniques were learned from Little, a professor in the Health and Physical Education Department. “I was quite pleased with their ability and the way they handled the situation,” Little said. “My students really jumped to the cause . . . every body helped in the process." Marak said the family had not planned for an accident, therefore, they did not have any dry clothes or food. She said the children were very cold and frightened. The students gave the children some food and two of their dry shirts for warmth. After getting the family to the riv er’s edge, the Aggies went down stream to. get first aid equipment, Hiebert said. The woman had scraped her knee on some rocks, but there were no se rious injuries, he said. "It makes you feel good to somebody," Marak said. “Hopeil they (the family) will do a littlf j search to find out more about| noeing before the next timeJ g° ”. , . . 1 Little supported the idea of j noeing only with proper expencj “The people who owned tltti noe followed the family downi river because they (the ownen)«iJ uneasy about the family’s safcl Little said. Marak said the woman and i dren walked around the rapid I the rest of the trip. Hiebert said, “It’s kindofnea'j cause we learned these canoe ret! techniques in class and wegotloi ply them in a real situation. It's a tunate that we were there.” Little said, “It makes meproucj see my students apply things t learned in my class. They wen per.” physi< i ture v ; than t Coverage by press causes transfer of trial from Houston BROWNSVILLE (AP) — A Ten nessee man accused of soliciting con tract killings through Soldier of For tune magazine has been transferred to Brownsville for trial after intense publicity drove his case from a Houston federal court. Richard Michael Savage, 39, was moved into the Cameron County Jail on Monday, according to jail re cords. Gary Cobe, the assistant U.S. at torney in Houston who will pros ecute Savage, declined comment Wednesday on the case. Savage is set to face trial in Brownsville Monday on charges that he arranged a grenade attack on a Pasadena house at the behest of a terminally ill widow. Alice V. Brado, 48, allegedly hired Savage through a Soldier of Fortune advertisement to kill former Pasadena resident Dana Free. Sav age had been scheduled for trial ear lier this month in Houston until U.S. District Judge James DeAnda ruled Savage could not get a fair trial in Houston after a federal jury there on March 3 levied a $9.4 million judgment against Soldier of Fortune in an unrelated civil case. A federal jury, in that case, found the magazine negligent when it pub lished a classified advertisement that led to the slaying of a Bryan woman. Savage was not implicated in that killing. All but five of 66 potential jurors called for Savage’s trial said they read news accounts of the civil law suit against the magazine, prompt ing DeAnda to grant a change of ve nue in the criminal case. Savage was indicted in October 1986 along with several others in connection with a murder-for-hire scheme reportedly initiated by Brado of Aurora, Colo. Brado allegedly hired Savage through an ad in the magazine to ar range the death of Free, whom she said absconded with her $300,000 life savings. She later pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the scheme and told investigators she wanted to collect a $300,000 life insurance policy she said Free had taken out as a guar antee he would invest her savings. Brado later died of emphysema in a Kentucky prison while serving a five-year term in the case. The indictment stated that Brado paid Savage $20,000 to arrange Free’s murder, to have been carried out by William Clayton Buckley, 36, and Sherry Lynn Breeden, 22, both of Knoxville, Tenn. The pair allegedly tried to bomb Free’s car in Atlanta during June 1985, but Free escaped and fled to Pasadena. On Oct. 12, 1985, two grenades were thrown through his living room window, but no one was injured in the attack. Buckley and Ward C. Lambeth, a 61-year-old co-defendant, also have pleaded guilty to charges in connec tion with the grenade attack. Meanwhile, Savage is serving a 40- year prison term in Florida for ar ranging the 1985 beating death of former West Palm Beach Assistant City Manager Anita Spearman. The attack also was arranged through an advertisement in Soldier of Fortune, the Brownsville Herald reported Wednesday. Spearman’s husband, Robert Spearman, is serving a life term for soliciting his wife’s murder. Officials fired after vehicles not delivered I An | tioned a Batti it a di he MS “I fc min is non,” "orum :olumi ire bet Chil Hen speake uate si Histor ropear resiste dently tant pi DALLAS (AP) — Two Fire Department supervise have been fired as an investf tion continues into reports tit the city paid more than " for ambulances that were nett ind is delivered. Karl Henry, 41, and Schaefer, 56, who supervisedik department’s maintenance cility, were fired for helping thorize payments to Select Amt genan lance Inc. for five ambula® invited that were not delivered, said Tuesday. Two other employees weref- l* 65 ? 011 on administrative leave wii while investigations by thecity® ditor and Dallas County attorney continue. None of the four have te charged with criminal wroni doing, but the district attornt! investigation could result in cnf inal charges against themandSf lect Ambulance owner Otto beck. T he company allegedly to deliver two refurbished Department ambulances ft which the city paid $88,000® three new ambulances for -wW the city paid $134,913. Schaefer and Henry werefi® for breaking city and fire dep® ment rules of conduct, Assist®] Fire Chief J.L. Hatcher said. Fire Chief Dodd Miller, in» ters of dismissal, accused the® of breaking numerous rules*] conduct, including indifferes* toward work, dishonesty, dist* gard of public trust and cool of interest guidelines. Henry was with the firedep® ment for 16 years and Schaefe was there for nine years. The city employees have accused of cooperating with fl beck, who allegedly received fU ment for the five ambulances. Her respor colum: resign! “I n rial sta respor columi when ment a with i false? Teen accused of stealing Einstein notes AUSTIN (AP) — An arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for a man identified as former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal’s grandson after a missing page of Albert Einstein’s notes was found at the teen-ager’s home. An investigator said the page of handwritten notes, owned by the university, was found Tuesday in a photo album in Samuel K. Royal’s west Austin residence. Royal, 18, had not been arrested by 6 p.m. Wednes day, UT police Lt. Roland Thomas said. The page was reported missing last week from a locked glass display case in the Peter T. Flawn Aca demic Center on the university campus. Six pages were on display from a series addressing Euclidean rotation. Investigators from the district attorney’s office and the UT police department recovered the manuscript late Tuesday evening, District Attorney Ronald Earle said. The investigators searched the duplex on a tip provided by Crime Stoppers, he said. UT Police Sgt. Jimmy Moore said in an affidavit for a search warrant that he met with Mack Royal, who iden tified himself as Darrel! Royal’s son, Friday. MackR* said his son was Sam Royal, Moore said. The arrest warrant was issued for felony theft. The missing page is part of an archive of 60or* pages “upon which Einstein wrote the notes reprw ing his thinking as he was trying to work out histti® 11 near the end of his life,” said John Chalmers, lil for UT’s Harry Ransom Humanities Research Cent**] The university has owned the papers for 25 )* Einstein apparently wrote the notes in the early 195 It appears that the manuscript taken from the 1 play suffered minor damage before it was recover Chalmers said. The display case was locked and the glass unW | when the theft was discovered. It is unclear whether® | person who took the document had a key to thecas' was able to remove the document in some other* Chalmers said. “For all of us, it’s a piece of our heritage, and it is* to be replaced. In that sense, it has no price,"Chair said. CH