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Judge changes
scheduled date
for execution
LUFKIN (AP) — A state district
judge delayed the scheduled execu
tion of convicted killer Willie Mack
Moddon after defense attorneys
filed lengthy documents in the case,
officials said.
Moddon, 40, was to die by injec
tion before dawn Thursday, but
state District Judge David Wilson re
scheduled the execution date for
Dec. 8, 1988.
Wilson’s action came after defense
attorney W. Alan Wright filed a peti
tion for writ of habeas corpus con
taining 25 claims for Moddon’s re
lease. Wilson ruled late Friday that
he did not have adequate time to ex
amine the more than 150 pages of
documents and respond prior to the
scheduled execution date.
The petition questions Moddon’s
mental competency both now and
during the time of his trial, claiming
that his confinement, conviction and
death sentence are illegal and un
constitutional, Wright said.
Although Wilson approved the
stay of execution, the state Court of
Criminal Appeals will still have to
decide the merits of the defense pe
tition, District Clerk Jimmie Robin
son said.
Moddon was convicted of the July
29, 1984, death of Deborah Daven
port, a Lufkin gas station clerk who
was stabbed 16 times with a pocket
knife during a robbery.
Storms in Gulf
responsible
for brownings
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (AP)
— Officials are blaming strong cur
rents from the storms in the Gulf
and dangerous undertow for the ap
parent drownings of two people on
South Padre Island this week.
Tracy D. Wall, 22, of Lubbock was
pronounced dead Tuesday at a park
on the beach by the local justice of
the peace.
The woman was in the water
about 20 minutes near a jetty at Isla
Blanca Park, Justice of the Peace
Bennie Ochoa III said.
Wall was vacationing with her fi
ance, Ochoa said.
A 20-year-old San Benito man has
been missing from the same area
since Monday, a U.S. Coast Guard
official said.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Kurt
Karow said storms in the Gulf of
Mexico and the undertow from the
jetties made swimming dangerous.
Local Briefs
Student IDs to replace library cards
Beginning Sept. 19, Texas
A&M library cards will be filed
away and not recalled for future
reference.
The library will switch to a
completely automated system of
using student identification cards
to check out books and reference
materials, says Sherrie Schmidt,
assistant director for collection
and bibliographic services in the
Sterling C. Evans Library.
“In the past, we found it nec
essary to issue a separate library
~ard in order to get an optical
character readout of the student: H
card number,” she says. “By
now, since we realized food sen .fj
ices was using a magnetic striper k||f learn
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read student information, wede ippssible
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easier to keep up with one an)HDurut)
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The Bangladesh Student Asso
ciation has started a fund raising
drive for the victims of flooding
in Bangladesh.
Association President Hasan
Imtiaz Chowdhury said all do
nated funds will be used to help
those left homeless by the flood.
Donations can be sent to the
MSG Student Finance Center,
P.O. Box 5688, Aggieland Sta
tion, College Station, Tx. 778H
The association also will take do
nations at a booth in the Memo
rial Student Center on Friday.
The Associated Press has rt
ported that at least 21 niilfo
people are homeless as a resultol
the flooding.
Officials discuss local interests
Texas A&M and College Sta
tion officials met at an informal
lunch Wednesday to discuss is
sues of mutual interest.
College Station City Manager
Ron Ragland said the discussion
includecT the possibility of A&M’s
occupying the Woodbine office
building in College Station, the
success of A&M’s satellite parking
program and potential sites for a
College Station train platform.
The representatives discussed
letting A&M use College Staiioc
park sites to expand the Universi
ty’s new satellite parking pro
gram. Ragland said.
Among those represemint
A&M at the informal meetint
were Robert Smith, vice preside
for finance and operations, and
Gen. Wesley E. Peel, vice duo
cellor for fac ilities planning and
construction.
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Gov. Bill Clements will be in
College Station today to deliver
the keynote address at a confer
ence on economic development.
Clements will begin the 38th
Annual Texas Industrial Devel
opment Conference at 9 a.m. in
the ballroom of the College Sta
tion Hilton.
The conference, sponsored by
the Texas A&M University Sys
tem, the Texas Engineering Ex
tension Service and the Texas In
dustrial Development Council,
will present ideas for economic
leadership during the next dt
cade.
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TIDC will learn about new ap
proaches to economic dew
opment. Presentations will bt
given on research, marketing and
fundraising, computer applio
tions and education and relate:
legislative issues.
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Bradley, director of the engi
neering extension service. Brad
lev was one of the founders of the
TIDC in 1961.
Federal grant program gives
A&M sea research funding
By Holly Becka
Staff Writer
The Texas A&M Sea Grant College Program, the
only sea grant program in Texas, was awarded a federal
grant of $1.58 million for continued marine research in
1989.
A&M is in its 21st consecutive year as a member of
the program and is one of 29 coastal and Great Lakes
state institutions to receive the annual award from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The money is awarded to individual faculty research
ers.
“A&M received the top money because we have more
researchers and a very successful research program,”
Program Director Thomas J. Bright said. “But this is
not an exclusive A&M program. Funding is provided to
other universities as well as Texas A&M.”
About 150 schools submit a research summary and
cost proposal to A&M’s Sea Grant program every two
years. A&M selects those it is willing to support — about
half — and asks for full details on each project. After it
receives all of the proposals, A&M sends an institutional
proposal to Washington D.C. for evaluation by re
searchers and scientists.
The top 29 proposals from around the nation are
awarded grants.
The $1.58 million A&M received this year is the sec
ond grant from a funding cycle for 1987-1989. The
university already has spent the $1.7 million it received
for 1987-1988.
This grant money is being “trickled” down fr
A&M to Texas A&M at Cal vest on, the Universit)
Texas, the University of Houston and others univei
ties that submitted an approved proposal to A&M.
“We’re currently working on the next cycle," Bn:
said. “We’ll have to go through the process again*
propose for what we’re going to do for the next:
years. It takes about a year and a half to evaluate fori
next cycle.”
Bright said the money will be used to support to
and applied marine research.
“The money will go toward maricuiture, tflcludi
research on biology, genetics, ecology, reprodm
and other questions as to suitability and performance
a marine subject, of shrimp, redfish, oysters, dams a
others,” he said.
“It will also go toward fisheries issues - research
shrimp, oysters and finfish, which are important
sport and commercial fisheries,” he said. “We’reah
primarily interested in ecology of fisheries sped
stock identification, recruitment and larval transport
Environmental studies, coastal engineering and
cial, political and policy studies also are among thep
mary research programs.
About $36 million is spent on the sea grant progra
nationwide.
“We get our fair share,” Bright said.
Apartments violate gas regulations
AUSTIN (AP) — Thousands of
apartment complexes statewide vio
late Texas and U.S. safety regula
tions regarding natural gas, one
state official said, adding each has
the potential for an explosion.
State inspectors found numerous
violations of natural gas safety regu
lations during their last inspection at
a Southeast Austin apartment com
plex that was heavily damaged by a
gas explosion over the weekend, au
thorities told the Austin American-
Statesman Tuesday.
A September 1986 evaluation of
the Candlewick Apartments by
Texas Railroad Commission inspec
tors found more than a dozen gas-
related safety violations, including
numerous hazardous leaks, Milton
Fegenbush, director of pipeline
safety for the agency, said.
Gas to the complex was turned off
for 20 days until safety regulations
were met, officials said.
The Railroad Commission eval
uates and inspects gas metering sys
tems at apartment complexes, mo
bile home parks and housing
projects, Fegenbush said.
An explosion Sunday at the com
plex blew up most of a 46-unit build
ing and sent six people to hospitals
in San Antonio and Austin.
and Railroad Commission enipkj
ees were trying to pinpoint
The explosion occurred after sev
eral tenants said they repeatedly re
ported gas leaks to maintenance
workers, who failed to correct the
problem.
Candlewick Apartments rep
resentatives said the company is con
ducting its own investigation. They
said reports of leaking gas are of
paramount importance and should
be resolved immediately. They said
they believed maintenance workers
responded to such reports.
Fegenbush said violations of
safety regulations in apartment com
plexes that use natural gas is com
mon.
“There are an extremely large
number of apartment complexes —
the vast majority — not in compli
ance with safety regulations,” Fegen
bush told the newspaper. “I’d say 75
(percent) to 80 percent violate the
law.”
Austin Fire Department officials
source of the explosion.
Fegenbush said the Austin coi
plex is one of as many as 40
apartment complexes, housing
velopments and mobile homepaf
in Texas that use what are known
master meter operations. Such opt
ations purchase gas from a maj
supplier and redistribute it to the
customers.
That makes them, in esseff
small gas companies, Fegenbtf
said. He said apartment com]
are responsible for the maintenan 8
of all pipelines within the com
Fegenbush said the 28 state i*
spectors assigned to evaluate mast 1
meter operations cannot keep «|
with the thousands of complex®
developments and mobile hoi
parks. He said state inspectors try
evaluate each site every two to lot
years.
The Candlewick complex
owned by Southwest Savings,wB
foreclosed upon the 584-unit coi
plex in June.
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