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Thursday, February 9,1989 The Battalion Page 7 Accident traps man in car for 63 hours in ice storm FRIENDSWOOD (AP) — A man trapped in his overturned car in freezing weather for some 63 hours was in serious but stable condition Wednesday, hospital officials said. Ronald Schroeder, 44, of Friendswood, whose car had plunged into a ravine, finally was rescued Tuesday morning when three men driving by spotted the ve hicle. He remained at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston with circula tion problems and a puncture wound in his left arm and hand. Authorities had been searching for Schroeder since Saturday night, when his wife reported him missing, Friendswood Sgt. Ross Eliason said. Schroeder’s ordeal began Satur day at 6 p.m. when he left his Hous ton suburb home to go to the store. He later called his wife, saying he could not find what he wanted and was going to a different store in nearby Webster. Police said Schroeder witnessed a two-car accident involving two young drivers on a bridge about 8:35 p.m. Saturday. In swerving to avoid the accident on Farm Road 528, Schroeder’s car plunged off the bridge and flipped over. The passenger door flew open, Schroeder’s wrist was pinned under the car’s roof, and he blacked out. His car was surrounded by foliage. Schroeder told police he regained consciousness to see the lights of emergency vehicles, but his cries for help were not heard. For more than 60 hours, he re mained pinned in the car during a period of record-breaking lows for the area and was not rescued until 11:50 a.m. Tuesday. He used a cup to catch rainwater to drink. Eliason said he had checked the area where Schroeder’s car was lo cated Sunday night, searching for ice, but saw no trace of the car or the man. Conservationists try to breed red wolves to prevent extinction lools nion urse luation. ademic year is; rar experimem ■ course as anet iooIs presidem.li S. Supreme Co; ack wrote in itlawing prayei hat “the Bibli for its literary! iign begins md in El Chico's Haswdl Parkin dll go to Brat* o promote req jrs open 'A and VT220ii d ACT-5A >use 24 terminal; niter rooms ate . to 11 p.m. GLEN ROSE (AP) — Almost 10 years after red wolves lost their last wild foothold in Southeast Texas, their howls echoed among tree- studded hills here as conservationists tried to breed the species from the brink of extinction. Eight of the 84 red wolves left in' the world were moved Tuesday from carrying cages into mating rens, 45 miles southwest of Fort Worth. The native Texas species is reing rejuvenated at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center. “The only hope of saving them as been to put them in captivity,” aid Ronald Smith, who accompa nied the animals by plane from their rrevious breeding home in Tacoma, Wash. Government-sponsored bounty lunting of the sleek animals, de- truction of their habitat and dis- ases such as heartworms decimated heir population after the turn of the entury. Wiatt i, said the sek uiry is aboutfui leaching. n there was aa 1 of Mattox’s 1! d been, doing; :ne,” he said of funding am i the Schools. rict attorney fa ivorked with other protests in the iblem with bon South, eventually leading to the end funded,pop )f “separate-but-equaF’ facilities for equired ofthei jlacks. tstees, Wetzelk Wiatt said these protests and dem- mmends chaif lustrations drew the Ku Klux Klan oard would ha« er. “This is a big deal for Fossil Rim,” said Smith after the animals were re leased into their 100- by 150-foot pens. “It will be a tremendous help in the recovery of the red wolf.” Officials at Fossil Rim have set up one of the largest red wolf breeding programs in the U.S., second only to the program run by the Point Defi ance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma. Fossil Rim is an exotic game cen ter dedicated to saving endangered species. It has programs for chee tahs, Grevy’s zebras, white rhinocer oses and numerous herd animals, but all are native to other nations. “There are fewer red wolves than whooping cranes or evert giant pan das,” Bruce Williams, director of the non-profit center, said. “The red wolf is the most endangered mam mal in the United States.” The four male and four female wolves were placed in large pens, and will live in dog houses and eat dog food. Foundation officials hope the wolves will have offspring this spring and that the pups can be re leased into the wild. After passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service developed a program to capture the few remain ing wolves. The 40 wolves were put in a captive breeding program at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. The last remaining group was found along the Sabine River in Texas and Louisiana, near Beau mont. A trapping program began in the 1970s and the last of the wolves were captured by 1980. From a pool of 40 animals, the numbers have risen to 84 in the Ta coma program and at several zoos across the nation that have taken a pair or two. Smith said he expected the num ber of wolves to almost double by next year because of expansion of facilities for breeding. m nto rodeoing, i ■d until the At le Army expert! out to be Stet! ise. e driving a tnttlj got to go all over! ;aly and Spain of the artwork >ut. I saw 's work that watt .van He was looked real totj liter 1 gothome. s from real liifj le Bible to of the lateststt| rom his childhr tub full ofclolM Beside her is a has picked forli i beside the boy £ With Love.” I tek was reportc Commons Dinit t reported tfc ner purse, whii le MSC Lounge rorted that sot# io controlled c® essories front k SCHIEF nts reported out a window < mptied a fire S several rooms (Continued from page 1) The protests in Huntsville spread hroughout the state, and were net- ,K nto this area to appeal to those who resisted integration. “The Klan would come up in their obes . . . from Houston, Beaumont, Grange, Alabama,” he said. “The Crand Dragon even showed up. hey had numerous rallies.” One of Wiatt’s major duties was to Jtevent the Ku Klux Klan from or ganizing in his territory, which in- :luded Brazos and 12 other coun- ies. “They tried to set up shop in Trinity County and in Madison County — which is right next to Bra ns County -— and a couple of )thers,” he says. “They had cross lurnings and so forth. “I dogged the Ku Klux Klan. Ev- rytime they would come to have a )ig rally, I was there. I was taking lown license plate numbers of par- icipants for further investigation.” The FBI’s efforts actually pre rented some local counties from ’orming Ku Klux Klan organiza tions, Wiatt said. “We just wiped them out before hey got started,” he said. Wiatt said that like in “Mississippi Burning,” local law officers often (Were the ones inflicting much of the ’ acial violence. “They were reflecting the views of he people who put them in their position,” he said. “I had to conduct investigations on numerous sheriffs departments and police agencies for alleged violations of civil rights.” Wiatt encountered much resent ment from local police officers be cause they knew he was investigating them for allegations of civil rights vi olations. Another incident that brought at tention to Wiatt was the assault on notorious drug-runner Fred Gomez Carrasco during his attempted es cape from the Huntsville prison. Gomez had been involved in seve ral shootouts with police before going to prison, and claimed to have killed 40 to 100 people in South Texas and Mexico. Gomez and two other prisoners took 16 hostages, and held out in the prison library for 11 days — the longest prison seige in the country’s history at the time. Wiatt was the first federal agent at the scene, and was responsible for the negotiations with the prisoners. The prisoners tried to walk out of the prison using the hostages as a barricade. The ensuing 22-minute shootout left two of the hostages dead and another seriously wounded. Wiatt almost was one of those counted among the dead. He was knocked unconscious when the bul lets hit his bulletproof vest. “I got back up after a few minutes and ended up shooting one of the convicts,” he says. “Carrasco ended up blowing his brains out.” The third convict still is on death row, Wiatt added. Wiatt once placed himself in the position of being a hostage when he traded himself for another hostage in Caldwell County. He also solved the murder of fed eral Judge John Wood, who was shot in 1979. Wiatt was forced to leave the FBI at the end of 1980 because of a man datory retirement age of 55. After working two years for the district attorney, Wiatt was offered a job as head of A&M’s police depart ment. He said he thought this would be a nice little retirement job. But it has been anything but that, he said. In his six years at A&M, Wiatt has' received plenty of attention. For five years, he was the person in charge of enforcing parking regu lations on a campus with almost twice as many parkers as parking spaces. He’s even had the University presidents’ cars towed more than once. Wiatt conducted a controversial investigation into the 1984 hazing death of Corps member Bruce Goodrich. He’s responsible for 48 certified officers and other support person nel at A&M and is in charge of secu rity for visiting officials and foreign dignitaries — not an easyjob. Wiatt said he doesn’t know how long he’ll stay at A&M, but added , that he enjoys his job and wants to stay awhile. He takes a great interest in young people and students, he said, be cause of the death of his 18-year-old son from Hodgkin’s disease in 1976. He enjoys helping students with anything he can. “It invigorates me and keeps me young,” he said. ■Hi LATE NIGHT HAPPY HOUR EATERIES CANTINA; 9:30-11:00 Thursday Night FREE TACO BAR $1 Draft $1 50 Margaritas $1 25 Well Drinks 764-2975 On Harvey Road Behind Safeway - CALL BATTALION CLASSIFIED 'Mike. 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