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The Battalion STATE & LOCAL 3 Monday, February 27,1989 If Sharon Maberry meanl Id turn e on our niets,too? STAFF WRITER Amy Hopkins, a sophomore elementary education lajorfrom Hurst, was chosen Miss TAMU at the 1989 lissTexas A&M University Scholarship Pageant Satur- f Hopkins and 17 other contestants, who were chosen November in a preliminary screening, were judged [interview, talent, swimsuit and evening gown catego- s. The talent competition comprised 50 percent of con stants’ total scores. The other 50 percent was distrih- ted evenly among the swimsuit, evening gown and in- rview categories. Interviews were conducted before ie pageant and focused on local, national and world rents. The talent competition included singers, dancers and istrumentalists. Rhonda Jo Horn of Seymour was first runner-up. ina Fuhrman of Kilgore was second runner-up. Paris orth of DeSoto was third runner-up and LaDonna ePriest of Conroe won fourth runner-up. Sharron Melton of San Antonio w,* fho non-finalist son iost about the La- tave bumpedoB n New England their antics, thei ats., The k ides did. something aboal eath threat to tit !' who was myas- dy who threatens <1 and a wimp.So ie of fice here and med harm to am come there f riends and wl niture, theirlegt and noses, and their chests. 1 sputtered k tal acts. I agreed tyway and take -loving jury. Am heard from ili prison LaRoudi be sent to. finds its way should know til i their midst. And among themdt rpropriate. Media Services,h ophomore from Hurst (aims Miss TAMU title Train hits truck after driver tries to make it through intersection udges select Amy Hopkins from 18 contestants !! Juliette Rizzo STAFF WRITER talent winner for singing “Believe in Yourself’ from the movie “The Wiz.” Shelli Inmon of Etdess was the non finalist swimsuit winner. The 10th annual pageant, titled “A Decade of Dreams,” also was a time for recognizing former win ners of the pageant, who were invited to attend. Among the five judges were two former Miss TA- MUs, Sheri Ryman and Cindy Green Weber. Ryman was chosen Miss TAMU in 1981 and won the Miss Texas title that year. Weber, first runner-up for 1981 Miss TAMU, assumed the role after Ryman won Miss Texas. The other three judges, R.L. Mclntire, Genny Law rence and Michael Alexander, have had extensive expe rience with pageants, Executive Director of the MSG Pageant Committee Roy Dealy said. Mclntire, an associate with Professional Investigators & Associates, Inc. in Fort Worth, has worked with pag eants for more than 25 years. Lawrence, a vice-presi dent and loan officer at a Fort Worth bank, has worked with pageants for more than 10 years. Alexander is the director of music for the Spring Branch Christian Church in Houston and produced and directed the 1989 Miss Houston Scholarship Pageant. Crime victims’ rights group decries sentence of man who killed toddler AUSTIN (AP) — A crime vic tims’ rights group is decrying the life sentence given a man who beat and eventually killed a 15- month-old girl and who could be eligible for parole in as few as five years. In a hearing that took about one minute, state District Judge Mace Thurman on Thursday sentenced Hugh James Gallagher in the August crime that the pros ecutor said was among the most heinous and cold-blooded he had ever seen. Gallagher could be eligible for parole in five years because he didn’t use a deadly weapon such as a knife or a gun when killing Casey Joan McManus. Even though parole eligibility doesn’t ensure his release, a spokesman for a statewide crime victims’ rights group said the pos sibility that Gallagher could serve that short of a sentence was “sick ening.” Joyce Isaacs, spokesman for the People Against Violent Crimes, said the group endorses a task force recommendation for legislation to require that all peo ple convicted of murder — re gardless of the deadly weapon finding — be required to serve one-fourth of their sentences or 15 years, whichever is less, before being considered for parole. “I think this case must send a signal to the Legislature to change the law,” Isaacs said of the McManus case. “This child was murdered in the shadow of the Capitol. The E arole board doesn’t make the iws and the Texas Department of Corrections doesn’t make the laws. The laws that govern crimi nal punishment are made in the Legislature right in the middle of this town, and (legislators) need to be held accountable for them. “I personally think the term deadly weapon is ridiculous,” she said. “If someone is dead, some thing is deadly.” Buddy Myer, an assistant dis trict attorney who handled the case, said it bothers him to know that Gallagher will be eligible for parole consideration in such a short period of time. A pickup truck was broadsided by a train late Friday night after the driver tried to beat the locomotive through an intersection at F&B Road near Wellborn Road in Bryan, a Bryan Police Department spokes man said. The passenger, Jimmy Foster, of Bryan, was treated and released for minor injuries at St. Joseph Hospi tal, and the driver, Martin Lee Stew art, 22, of Bryan, was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated. Sgt. Mike Hallmark of the BPD said the crossing arms at the inter section were down at the time of the collision. Hallmark said the conduc tor of the Union Pacific train told him a couple of drivers went around the arms, and then the driver of the truck tried to make it. “They were going real slow, about 7 mph, on this part because of all the train wrecks they’ve had there,” Hallmark said. The train hit the truck on the pas senger door and dragged the vehicle about 40 yards from the intersec tion. The collision occurred about 11:20 p.m., and Texas A&M stu dents reported hearing the collision from as far away as the north side of the A&M campus. Stewart was released on a $500 bond Saturday after being charged with the class A misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated, for the second time. Photo by Tim Dorney Martin Lee Stewart of Bryan answers questions from a Bryan police officer after driving his truck in front of a northbound train at an intersection of F&B Road near Well born Road. Stewart had successfully dodged a southbound train before he was hit by the northbound train. Father puzzled after son arrested for murder LAKE JACKSON (AP) —The fa ther of a 19-year-old youth accused of killing his mother and grand mother said he has no idea what prompted the fatal shootings. Larry Strauther said his son, Lar- nell, gave no indication that any thing was wrong shortly before he was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder in the deaths of his mother, Linda White, 35, and grandmother, Mazie Williams, 54. The youth remained in jail in lieu of $200,000 bond. Both women’s bodies remained in a bedroom of their house for 12 days before being discovered, Brazoria County Sheriffs officials said. The jailed youth’s father said things seemed normal before the ar rest. “He was not the kind of kid who would do something like that,” Strauther said Thursday. “Someth ing must have snapped in his mind.” He said he still is puzzled about what happened Feb. 9 at his ex-wife’s home. 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