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f MICHAEL E. JONES, M.D. Class Of ’SO announces the opening of his office for the practice of FAMILY MEDICINE (including obstetrics) in the BRAZOS VALLEY MEDICAL PLAZA, SUITE 100 1602 Rock Prairie Road, College Station (409V693-1500 dm Wilio \ Leaning Tower Pizza FREE DELIVERY 846-8268 Leanin * PIZZA ower Special $4.99 PIZZA limit 4 |Mf coupon 12" 3-topping pizza & one Free 16 qz. Coke FREE DELIVERY 846 8269 /*U' lunch. Oumot Cheese * i*«* Bread poTcoupon Sticks 12" $5.11 16** $6.89 Ranch (Vesting 4 Alfa Sauce free /loricufcure-Omamental Horticulture Club FOH Plant Sale Saturday, January 21, 1989 10:00am - 2:00pm Dress up Your Room with Some Great Plants!!! Floriculture Greenhouses (across from Heldenfels) ujirasr: Phi Delta Theta Spring Rush *89 Rush ghairmgn Landon Perry Marc Caldwell 696-6522 U2 Can Rattle and Hum w/Xit Date: January 19 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Lodge Barbecue at the Lodge* Date: January 21 Time. 2.00 p.m. Place: Lodge Smoker t Date: January 24 Time: 600 p.m. Place MSC Rm 201 Lodge (9 803 WeHbom Rd. President John Jeffery 846 9658 Comedy Club ♦* Date. January 26 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Lodge Date Optional Barn Dance w/ KKf * Date: January 28 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Lodge An Added Attraction* Date: January 30 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Lodge •invitation only ♦ coat & tie FRIDAY BACK TRAX ROCK H'ROLL 9:30-1:00 m/ drinks FUN SATURDAY LAST CHANCE 9-1:00 So <p° ~~ SC6 ° Friday, January 20,1989 Tha Battalion Papa 7 • Wa Dallvar • 846-5273 • W* Dallvar • 848-6273 • Houston official released on bond ^Oq HOUSTON (AP) — The North Forest Independent School District's interim superintendent was released from jail Thursday after posting bond orb a felony theft charge accus ing him of stealing $5,000 from the school district. Robert B. Jones. 55. was on freed on $2,000 bond after a brief court appearance. Jones was arrested Wednesday at a convenience store, prosecutor Jim Lindeman said. The felony complaint, which claims that the theft occurred Dec. 5, stems from an ongoing investigation into district finances, Lindeman said. The charge carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. In a Dec. 12 memo from the dis trict’s Texas Education Agency-ap- * pointed master. Joe Randow, Jones was warned to repay a $5,000 salary advance and other expenditures to the district. Lindeman, while declining to elaborate on the charge against Jones, cautioned against assuming that it relates specificallv to the sal ary advance. But the Houston Chronicle re ported Thursday that a source said the charge does stem from the salary advance Jones received in Septem ber, spokeswoman who nad no comment Hollis District Hood, Jones’ arrest, said the interim super intendent had repaid $750 of the ad vance. Randow's memo also directed Jones to make restitution for an au tomobile he leased from a Bavtown car dealer and didn’t use for school business, for gasoline company credit card charges that were made in Jones' name out someone else's handwriting, and for $300 in long distance phone calls Randow said were unrelated to school business. The TEA cited several instances of “inappropriate expenditures of school funds for personal use” among other violations by the dis trict when it appointed Randow as master for Nortn Forest earlier this month and lowered the district’s ac creditation. Randow, as masterT'h^s broad au thority over district affaKr North Forest is one step away frotnyjoss of accrediution. wnich would lestd to cancellation of state funding. On Tuesday, the district’s school trustees voted 5-2 to hire Charles Matthews as the district’s new super intendent. Trustees hope to bring Matthews on board within the next few weeks. iR&li Steakhousef 2 5pm-9pm 108 Coll*9« Main, Northgata • Cheeseburger Platter 1/2 lb burger w/cheese, fries, tea S $3.« Exp<fM 1 22 88 Dine in onlv Jail-overcrowding suit may expand statewide AUSTIN (AP) — If a jail over crowding lawsuit against the state by Nueces County goes forward, all 254 1'exas counties should be included, an assistant attorney general told a state judge Thursday. The move — which is opposed by Nueces County — is needed “to avoid a multiplicity of lawsuits for the stale with varying or inconsistent results,” Assistant Attorney General Bob Ozer said after the hearing be fore State District Judge Joe Hart. Ozer said inmates who have been sentenced to the Texas Department of Corrections and are “allegedly backlogged in county jails” also should he added to the suit. But Nueces County Attorney Car los Valdez and Steve Bickerstaff, an Austin attorney who represented Collin, Lubbock and El Paso counr ties at theheartng. called the propo* sal a delaying tactic. - “This lawsuit doesn't need that,” Bickerstaff said. “We feel the only reason the state is trying to add all of these unnecessary parties is simply to obstruct the case.” Bickerstaff, who was granted per mission to file a friend-of-the-court brief, estimated there are 11,000 in mates who should be in TDC but are being held in county jails. TDC, which is under a federal court order because of crowded con ditions, limits the number of admis sions with a quota system for coun ties. The suit says the state has a duty to take its prisoners. The judge also heard motions by Nueces County and the state, which both asked for a ruling in their favor without going through a full trial. Hart could rule as soon i month, Valdez said. “We are reouired to comply with Ruiz (the feaeral lawsuit),” Ozer said. “And the only way to comply with Ruiz is to develop a reasonable, rational, proportionate admissions Suspect stays under scrutiny after release as early next COVER CHARGE • 1521 Texas Ave. • Culpepper Plaza DALLAS (AP) — Dallas County sheriffs officials said Thursday their investigation of a seven-year-old double slaying remains a “high priority case” despite the release of their prime suspect. Sheriffs Department spokesman Jim Ewell said the investigation into the 1981 slayings of a North Dallas woman and her 5-year-old son is still open. However, he said officials re leased Mose L. Collins, who was ear lier charged with killing Roxann J. Jeeves and her son Kristopher Koper, for lack of sufficient evi dence. “After submitting what findings we did have in the investigation of Mose Collins, the district attorney agreed we had insufficient evidence to indict at this time,’’ Ewell said. Collins, 34, was arrested Nov. 30 in Junction City, Kan. after an eye witness placed Collins at Jeeves north Dallas apartment complex the day of the crime, but there was no evidence to tie him directly to the deaths, Lt. M.E. Shaddox told the Dallas Morning News. - The bodies of Jeeves and her son were found in a southeast Dallas County field on Dec. 23, 1981. Collins had been held in jail in lieu ' of $ 100,000 baiL Collins' defense attorney Brad Loliar says his diem is still a suspect in the case and he believes Collins’ release was for other reasons. _•_¥¥• P#llvr • 846-S273 • P»Mwr • B46-8273 • I MAKE US YOUR CHOICK FOR VIDEO CNTERTAINMKNT I The Paramount Theatre Movies on Tuesday & Thursday including NEW RELEASES 693-5789 • VHS 6 BETA • Fra* Mambarships a Playars A Camcordars Also Avallabla Located on the comer of Texas & SW Parkway in the Winn Dixie Center. College Station PHI KAPPA THETA policy for the Texas Department of Corrections. We can’t take all the in mates that the counties are trying to send to us. “A favorable ruling for Nueces County will mean even-handed chaos throughout the state of Texas, at least at the gates of TDC.” But Valdez, who estimated it is costing his county more than $2 mil lion a year to hold more than 167 prisoners who should be in TDC, said the state must act. “The only ultimate answer is to build more prisons, to build them as soon as possible,” Valdez said. “This f roblem should’ve been addressed 0 years ago, and it wasn't, and that’s why we’re in this predicament at this point.” i 4 • "Valdez said his county’s action is needed because, "If somebody doesn’t push the state, which is what we’re doing, it'll never get done.” Supporters want end to elections AUSTIN (AP) — Supporters of replacing direct election of Texas appeals court judges with a modified appointment plan say they now have decided to add state district courts in bigurban counties to their plan. The Austin American-Statesman. quoting unnamed legislative sources, Thursday reported that Gov. Bill Clements “has indicated he will sup port the expanded plan.” Rep. Terral Smith. R-Auslin, said he and other key supporters of “merit election” of judges agreed this week to include district judges in the state’s six biggest coiinties — Bexar. Dallas, El Paso, Harris, Tar rant and Travis — in the plan. Under merit election, according to its proponents, a judicial candi date would be nominated by the gov ernor but be subject to voter appro val. Currently, Texas judges are elected in direct, partisan elections, and critics of tne system have blamed that system for election to the bench of some unqualified judges, especially in larger counties which might have more than 50 dis trict judges. Previously, however, merit elec tion backers had planned to concen trate their push for state appellate courts, including the Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals. Defenders of partisan elections say they guarantee that judges are accountable to the people. According to the American- Statesman, merit election backers decided to expand their plan after a federal court decision last year, and two pending lawsuits, that could re quire the slate to alter its partisan election system for state courts by dropping at-large races in favor of ainne-judge districts. For example, the 13 state district judges in Travis County now run countywide for their seats, and vot ers cast ballots for all 13. Under a single-judge district system, the county would be divided into 13 dis- tricts with a judge elected by voters in only that district. But the judge would continue to hear cases from all over the county, not just those in volving someone in his district. Rep. Bruce Gibson. D-Godley, said a merit election system could re tain at-large voting and preserve the right of voters to pass judgment on ail judges they might meet in a courtroom. 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