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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
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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