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Thursday, January 19,1989 The Battalion Page 9 ln< t senioj ii the tnotj ^ you get’ specially t || 11 took fo ri f anher aD ) )on - In W "ns actua i •eie severl H'SV lilies,! 'g the y la n class- include [i ten enroll] he inexpe- students d ; s confusie o register. • 'Nut I an, Husband charged with murder after shooting at day care center McKINNEY (AP) — The es tranged husband of a woman fatally shot at a day care center where she had driven to pick up her children was arraigned today on a charge of murder. Ricky Lynn Newman, 30, ap peared before Collin County judge Glen Swaner who left bond at $100,000. Newman remains in Col lin County Jail. Newman, accompanied by his at torney, gave himself up to Collin County sheriffs officers Tuesday without incident. Laurie Lee Newman, 25, died Monday from a single gunshot wound to her right side. Newman was booked into Collin County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond on a murder warrant issued by Plano Municipal Court Judge Toni Bag gett for his arrest, sheriffs Lt. John Holton said. “There was no problem,” Holton said of Newman’s surrender. “He walked in and said, ‘I’m Richard Newman. I understand you are looking for me.’ We heard he would be here at 4 p.m. and he showed up at 4:15 p.m.” Newman, pursued by the gun man, had driven about five blocks from the shooting scene at La Petite Academy to a howling alley. She was then taken to a hospital where she died of her wound. Before she died, Ms. Newman provided information about her as sailant, said Plano police. Newman “was very subdued. He has been very calm,” sheriffs Lt. Bobby Clark said.“He has not been saying very much. He has just kept his head down” since his surrender. Newman, of Richardson, was wounded Monday afternoon as she tried to pick up her two children. The gunman drove up in front of her, left his vehicle and fired a large- caliber handgun five times, Jon Gid- dings, a police investigator and pub lic information officer in the North Dallas suburb, said. The shooting was six weeks after a similar attack at a day-care center in Dallas resulted in the deaths of a Dallas woman and a Dallas County deputy sheriff who had driven her to the Day Place Development Child Center to drop off two of her chil dren. Police said Christen Corliss Sims, 30, and Deputy Jim Hughes, 41, died in the attack Dec. 1. The woman’s ex-husband, Billy Ross Sims, was arrested 10 days later after an intensive manhunt. Sims is awaiting trial on charges of capital murder. In both shootings, witnesses told officers the assailant had waited near the day-care centers for some time before the victims arrived. McKinney is about 12 miles north of Plano. seniesie, cuts havei c\ current ration.” >t ration si tnge, meat to regisij item starts I this caust e the nun 1 the office I • started 11 v stem," Mi i, it 845-nuu I an advaj 1 ed from 11 1 easier tha: I in a 260*i 1 a advantaJ nge or ar, ike this svl ial reeistnl I INS postpones decisions HARLINGEN (AP) — The Immigration and Naturalization Service has postponed issuing de cisions for those who sought political asylum here under a travel-rest i ic ting procedure that a fed eral judge blocked last week, an INS official said Wednesday. The delay affects 2,0f>4 asylum applicants fil ing claims between Dec . lb and Jan. 9 under an INS procedure designed to keep applicants, pri marily Central Americans, from working or leav ing southern Texas for the 30 days it would take to decide their cases The procedure apparently caused a marked increase in the numbet of homeless, jobless Cen tral Americans camping out in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to await their adjudication by the INS. Immigration attorneys filed a class-action suit against the procedure on Jan. 6. U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela on Jan. 9 granted a tempo rary restraining order until a full hearing could be held in the case. The judge’s order freed hundreds and maybe thousands of Central Americans to leave the Lower Rio Grande Valley and pursue their claims for ref ugee status elsewhere in the United States. Bus companies last week brought in extra vehicles and drivers to accommodate the extra northbound passengers, including some who went directly to Miami. A hearing has been set for Jan. 31, at which lawyers for the INS are expected to defend the on asylum travel-restricting procedure. But the first decisions under the now-blocked procedure were due Monday . Virginia Kice, INS spokesman for the Har lingen District covering the southernmost part of Texas, said those applicants showing up for word on approval or denial of their claims will be asked to return again in two weeks or report to the im migration office nearest their intended U.S- resi dence. “We wanted to make sure that w'e obey the temporary restraining order both in spirit and in fact, and our attorneys are still analyzing the thrust of the order,’’ Kice said. “We want to make sure that we follow it to the letter.” Navy officer agrees to hearing regarding dereliction of duties CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — The commanding officer of Na val Air Station Corpus Christi has agreed to accept a non-judicial disciplinary hearing on his role in the treatment of a Navy “whis tleblower,” an official said. Capt. Craig L. Reynolds is one of 10 people for whom discipli nary hearings were ordered after an October court-martial verdict against Bryan Sims was thrown out Jan. 6. The 10 are suspected of der eliction of duty in connection with improper parts procure ment and maintenance practices. Sims, a rescue swimmer and helicopter mechanic was exoner ated on Jan. 6 of military rules in fractions. The charges were filed after Sims refused a 1986 order to take untested parts from a wrecked helicopter and install them on two working helicopters. Sims maintained that the charges, unrelated to helicopter maintenance, were brought be cause of his refusal to install the untested parts. Vice Adm. John S. Disher, chief of Naval Education and Training in Pensacola, Fla., on Jan. 6 threw out the October court-martial verdict and ordered disciplinary action for 10 supervi sors in Corpus Christi. Reynolds was one of those charged with dereliction of duty, the Navy has said. Nine of the individuals were given the option of non-judicial hearings, in which thev report to a superior for discipline, but Lt. Dennis Hessler, a spokesman for Disher in Pensacola, said only Reynolds had accepted the non judicial hearing by Tuesday’s deadline. Hessler said the advantage of accepting a non-judicial hearing over a court-martial is the milder punishment. “The penalties (of the non-ju dicial hearing) are a lot less se vere,” Hessler said. “A conviction with a court-martial could carry a stigma that would stay w r ith them.” Hessler said the non-judicial hearings probably would be held within a month and that courts- martial might be scheduled within three or four months. In the event of a court-martial, he said the maximum penalties for officers would be 60 days’ base restriction, forfeiture of two- thirds of base pay for six months and loss of promotional opportu nities. Officers at the non-judicial hearings could lose half of base pay for two months and face re striction to the base or their quar ters for 30 or 60 days. Sims, 27, who has served 10 years in the Navy, has said he was harassed and received death threats after refusing an Oct. 1986 order to install onto two he licopters some crucial, untested parts from a search-and-rescue helicopter that crashed in 1985, killing three crew members. He was transferred from the Corpus Christi base to Houston this month, at his request. iior Imam# peed, n, Renea s too man >t having i like weusetl , t nave i]evt|.. egistratiwi .•in but thei ier to getti idle Allaitl from Loa|' -large havP don't see ill ; been veil . . . FOR HER mmm '' > " ^ ■A; f_ , , ,s# r ..p v ; ■ - v Y.-U-. -• ftc ' : t -. > ; ’•y/V:,. •% ENTIRE STOCK II H Jockey for Her® all-cotton intimates in basic, pastel and bright colors. Made in U.S.A. The collection, reg. 4.00-13.50, sale 3.00-10.16. Shown: hi-cut #1507. Sizes 5-7. Reg. 5.50, sale 4.13. Selec tion varies. Intimate Apparel. 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