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By Juliette Rizzo
STAFF WRITER
Nine children were neat enough
for Dr. Patrick L. Hubert and his
wife Goldie of Riviera. At least their
youngest son, John, didn’t think so.
John, the last of nine Aggie chil
dren in the Hubert family, nomi
nated his parents for Aggie Parents
of the Year. To their surprise, they
now have a whole new family of Ag
gies they can call their own, at least
until next year.
“Whether it’s nine or 39,000,
there’s not a whole lot of differen
ce,” Mr. Hubert said. “Now, we are
father and mother to all the Aggies.
We love them all.”
Attending A&M is a tradition in
the Hubert family. After Mr. Hubert
graduated from A&M in 1951, all
nine of his children followed in his
footsteps.
Having at least one child at the
University since 1974, both Huberts
consider College Station their sec
ond home.
“In anticipation of grandchildren
attending the University and plan
ning ahead, we bought a house in
College Station,” Mrs. Hubert said.
“After all, when we thought about it,
Police Beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department from April 9
through Monday:
ASSAULT:
• A handicapped student re
ported that he was pushed after
he blocked a car illegally parked
in a handicapped space. He said
the driver pushed him aside in his
seat so he could roll the car out of
the way. The man then drove
away.
• A man reported that he was
assaulted by another man while
watching the Texas A&M-Uni-
versity of Texas baseball game
from the railroad tracks.
THREAT TO ASSAULT:
• A man reported that he was
threatened by a student when he
tried to enforce the golf course
shirt policy.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• A student reported that
someone glued two plastic fork
blades into the door locks of his
vehicle.
• Someone set fire to the
training platform in the Quad.
Two gasoline cans were found
near the platform.
• Someone cut a hole in a win
dow screen at the Langford Ar
chitecture Center.
• A student reported that
someone broke out the rear win
dow of his car.
• A Crocker Hail resident re
ported that someone threw some
thing through his window.
• Three people each reported
that someone punctured a tire on
their car while it was parked at
Easterwood Airport.
• Someone broke a window in
the Harrington Classroom Build
ing.
TERRORISTIC THREAT:
• Someone called in a false
bomb threat to the Zachry Engi
neering Center.
• The Corps Guard Room re
ceived a call that a bomb would go
off in the Corps area. No bomb
was found.
MINOR IN POSSESSION:
• Three minors were charged
with having alcohol at the A&M-
UT baseball game.
• Two other minors were
charged the next day with having
three bottles of beer in their car.
HARASSMENT:
• A student reported that she
received several annoying phone
calls.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• Four bicycles, a bicycle wheel
and one backpack were reported
stolen from various locations
around campus. Another bicycle
previously reported stolen was
found.
• A student reported that
someone stole the license plate
from her moped.
• A student reported that
someone stole his calculator from
the Halbouty Building.
• A man reported that some
one stole the stapler from his
desk in the Academic Building.
• A student reported that
someone stole his textbook from
the Blocker Building.
• A student reported that
someone stole a pair of his jeans
from a washer in Dunn Hall.
• Another student reported
that someone stole eight pairs of
jeans and three pairs of shorts
from an Aston Hall laundry
room.
• A student who previously
had reported that someone stole
her purse in the Sterling C. Evans
Library reported that she found
it. She said she had misplaced it in
the stacks.
• A pizza delivery man re
ported that two men grabbed his
pizza while he was delivering at
the Commons.
we figured it would be worth the
money. If all our children lived in a
dorm, we could have bought the
dorm.”
The Huberts are dedicated Ag
gies and try to attend every tradional
event hosted by A&M.
“We’ve been attending everything
we could at A&M since before Doc
(her husband) graduated,” she said.
“‘Everything’ then consisted of
sporting events. That was our social
life.”
Mrs. Hubert didn’t seem to mind
attending sporting events, especially
baseball games since Mr. Hubert
pitched for the Aggies.
“I’ve always had an interest in
baseball,” he said. “Growing up in
Riviera, we had no team, so I played
ball on weekends with local boys.”
He said he never thought about
playing ball in college, because until
1947, he never thought of going to
college. He said he knew he would
need a scholarship to attend a uni
versity and did not know how to get
one.
However, Dr. George Stricken-
hausen, a local veterinarian who
graduated from A&M, recognized
Hubert’s baseball talent and inspired
him to go to A&M.
Two weeks after school started,
Hubert left the Texas hill country
with a goal to make the A&M team.
“I told the coach I needed a schol
arship,” Hubert said. “He asked me
where I played ball and, after I told
him. 1 knew he doubted my abili
ties.”
“You make my freshmen team,
and I’ll find you a scholarship,” the
coach told him.
Hubert proved himself and made
pitcher for the Aggies.
“My fondest memories are from
the times I played ball,” he said.
Hubert played baseball at A&M
for the 1949 to 1951 seasons and was
All-American in 1951.
In 1951, Hubert’s senior year,
A&M won the College World Series
in Tucson, Ariz.
“It was one of the most memora
ble experiences of my life,” he said.
“The excitement of our 3-2 victory
was a great feeling, but it was the
train ride home that I will never for
get.
"When the Sunbeam Special
pulled into the College Station de
pot, 500 to 1,000 Aggies were there
to congratulate us. It was a large
turnout for May, especially since the
entire student body consisted of only
8,500.”
Hubert was inducted into the
A&M Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.
“The announcement during a
football game against Rice was a sur
prise to me,” he said. “It was quite an
honor.”
Mrs. Hubert’s fondest memory is
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Prison escape attempt fails
‘You can’t blame a guy for trying,’ convict say:
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HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Their “freedom” lasted only
about two hours, but two condemned men said
Wednesday a month-long escape plan that included
construction of elaborate dummies, squeezing through
a 1-foot-square air vent and sawing their way out of
death row was worth it.
“You can’t blame a guy for trying,” James Paster said
a week after he and cellmate Noble Mays wiggled out of
their cell and into a utility corridor where they tried to
saw through a ceiling exhaust fan.
“I felt like I was doing something for myself instead
of waiting for relief from the very people who had sent
me here,” Paster added.
“You just try to work as fast as you can and as quiet as
you can,” Mays said. “I wasn’t out to hurt anybody.”
Paster, 44, a former lounge singer and Elvis Presley
impersonator, is awaiting death for a 1980 contract kill
ing in Houston. Mays, 35, was sentenced to die for a
19/9 robbery and stabbing death in Wichita Falls.
Guards noticed the pair was missing in the early
hours of April 11 when a nurse who was supposed to
give Mays some medication could not awaken him from
outside the pair’s cell.
When guards opened the cell door, they discovered
the men in the bunks really were dummies made of
clothing stuffed with newspapers and tobacco cans.
They also discovered the tiny vent to a pipe corridor be
hind the cells was really cardboard.
Mays and Paster were apprehended as they hid
above the pipes, about 15 to 20 feet from their cell.
With Paster acting as lookout, Mays was trying to saw
through bars that blocked a large exhaust fan to the
roof of their wing of the Ellis Unit of the Texas Depart
ment of Corrections.
The two are now confined in separate cells known as
administrative segregation, the maximum security on
the Texas death row. They also have been barred from
participating in the death row work program.
Prison officials say no inmates ever have successf ully
escaped from death row at the Ellis Unit. That fact,
however, did not stop Mays.
“What are they going to do to me?” he said. “We
weren’t out to hurt anybody. Neither of us had weapons
or anything.”
Asked if he would try again, Mays shrugged his
shoulders.
“I’m sure everybody would love to pull something
like that off,” he said.
Both men laughed about the scene that night as they
struggled to fit through the tiny vent that led outside
their cell.
Paster said Mays went through the hole first — and
then got stuck.
“I greased him up while he was caught up in there,”
Paster said. “After I quit laughing so hard, I finally de
cided to grease him up.”
He said he used several bottles of hair tonic as the lu
bricant.
Paster said they came up with the idea to flee about a
month ago while playing chess.
“Noble said it was my move,” he said. “I said I had a
better idea.
Other inmates said since the attempted break, guards
now make a point of rapping their nightsticks on the air
vent covers in cells to make sure the metal covers are se
cure.
“I think we amazed most folks because nobody knew
about it,” Paster said of the escape attempt. “And it’s
hard to keep secrets here.”
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