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p a g e 4 The Battalion
Police say slain man
robbed, kidnapped
HOUSTON (AP) — A 42-year-
old man slain in a gun battle with of
ficers during a bank robbery, had a
history of extortion, kidnapping and
drunken driving, investigators say.
John Wayne Young, who report
edly idolized Chuck Norris, was
killed Friday as he attempted to rob
a TeamBank near Interstate 45, po
lice said.
He had dressed in fatigues and
packing several guns, a knife and
more than 100 rounds of ammuni
tion.
Young also listened to a stereo
headset playing a homemade self
hypnosis recording which inter-
This is not your normal
admiration for things
military.It’s more like an
admiration for things
violent.”
— Greg Neely,
homicide
spersed the words “alert,” “aware,”
“cool,” and “calm” with his own
humming and announcements of
each 15-second interval, police said.
“This is not your normal admira
tion for things military,” said homi
cide Lt. Greg Neely.
“It’s more like an admiration for
things violent.”
While trying to escape with bank
employee Donna Robbison as a hos
tage, Young fired more than 50
shots at officers, wounding Po
liceman Mike Glasco.
Young was shot in the head.
Robbison, 25, suffered wounds to
the hand and chest in the gunfire.
Glasco, 34, was shot in the foot,
hip and neck as his father, who was
visiting from Florida and accompa
nying the officer on a ride-along,
watched.
Both Robbison and Glasco re
mained hospitalized in fair condition
Sunday at Hermann Hospital.
Young, an unemployed former
pizza delivery man, had been sought
in Lake Jackson since April on two
warrants for driving while intoxi
cated and violation of probation, a
Brazoria County Sheriffs Depart
ment official said.
Young had been sentenced to 10
years in prison and fined $5,000 by a
federal judge in Dallas in November
1978 for attempting to extort bank
funds between Oklahoma City and
Dallas.
Under a plea bargain agreement,
prosecutors dropped four related
bank extortion charges against
Young.
The charges stemmed from
Young’s involvement in the kidnap
ping of Marvin Hancock Jr., presi
dent of NorthPark Bank on Nov. 16,
1973.
He also was involved with the kid
napping of Nelda Pittman, wife of
the president of the Commonwealth
National Bank on Dec. 9, 1977.
In addition, police connected him
with the kidnapping of Jack W.
Evans, chairman of the board of the
White Rock National Bank on Feb.
3,1978.
Hancock was found in a motel
room after a $50,000 ransom was
paid.
Pittman freed herself and escaped
before a $200,000 ransom was paid.
Evans was found unharmed in a
North Dallas motel after a $100,000
ransom was paid.
Police also are trying to determine
if Young was the man who robbed a
Houston bank in late January.
In Clute where Young lived until
October, officers searched his stor
age locker and found a bag that con
tained three large knives, a laser
sighting scope, and books on survi
val and how to make a silencer.
They also found equipment for
reloading ammunition.
Officers also planned to search a
Houston apartment where Young
had been staying.
“Judging from what we’ve found
so far, we expect to find several
weapons there,” Neely said.
Monday, November 27,
What’s Up
Monday
MSC SPRING LEADERSHIP TRIP COMMITTEE: applications are available
216 MSC.
MINORITY ASSOCIATION OF PRE-HEALTH AGGIES: will host Stephari
Hamilton of the UT Allied Health Science Center at 7 p.m. in 223 MSC
For more information, call Angel Allen at 847-0432.
MSC HOSPITALITY: will hold a tree lighting ceremony and holiday fasto
show at noon in the MSC flag room.
MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will present the video “Was Islam Spree:
by Sword?” at 8:30 p.m. in 228 MSC. For more information, contact Ye
hya 846-7426.
DELTA UPSILON: will have its weekly meeting for actives and pledges at SX
p.m. in Rudder. Check the screens for room number.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at noon. Calltte
C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more information.
Tuesday
STUDENT GOVERNMENT SENATE: will have a meeting open to all interestec
students at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Harrington. Call Ty Clevenger at 845-305'
for more information.
RUSSIAN CLUB: will hold an official meeting at 5:30 p.m. in 123 Academic.
MSC RECREATION: will meet at 5 p.m. in 124 MSC. Call Kristie Buchmari
847-0266 for more information.
CO-OP CLUB: will meet at 6 p.m. in 105A Zachry. Call Don at 822-4405'tr
more information.
TAMU WRESTLING CLUB: will have a dual meet at 4 p.m. in Deware gym.
UNITED STATES STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a general meetingi
7 p.m. in 308 Rudder. Call Rhonda at 774-0455 for more information.
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES: will sbo«
"The Black Book” at 7 p.m. in 228 and 229 MSC.
CATHOLICS STUDENT ASSOCIATON: will take yearbook pictures at 8:15pr,
in the Zachry lobby.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at 8:30 p.m. Cal
the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more information.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at noon. Calltti
C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more information.
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have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Salvation Army gears up for fund-raising
HOUSTON (AP) — The Salvation Army has
begun jingling its annual bells for charity, but ad
ministrators say the donations are small change
compared to the government grants needed to
keep the programs running.
“The kettle program still is a very vital part of
our Christmas collection program,” Maj. Rolan
Chambless, Salvation Army area commander,
said. “It’s a tradition and it keeps the Army be
fore the public.”
But only about 40 kettles will be scattered
throughout Houston this year and the people
ringing the bells will be hired for minimum wage.
Chambless said the kettle operation barely breaks
even.
Like many homeless shelters and service char
ities, the Salvation Army depends on holiday do
nors to set the pace for their annual funding.
Together, the Houston-area shelters plan to
raise and spend more than $6.5 million through
the coming year — much of it acquired during
the holiday season.
“There are a number of reasons for that,”
Jerry Collins, spokesman for the new Maranatha
Family Shelter, said.
“We get in a giving spirit. It begins getting
cold. People know how much they can give away
because of their taxes.”
Collins is trying to raise $226,000 for Marana-
tha’s opening year budget. But a newspaper ad
soliciting gifts to “help feed the battered home
less on Thanksgiving” could be the first defeat.
The ad, which ran for five days, cost $1,760 and
was expected ®to bring in $50,000 in donations.
Instead, it will barely pay for itself, Collins said.
Open Door, another shelter, also is using a
holiday newspaper ad campaign to raise its
$300,000 annual budget.
The ads, featuring worn-looking men and
asking readers to “Help Feed Them a Hearty
Thanksgiving Dinner,” began running before
Thanksgiving. Agency directors hope they will
raise nearly twice what is needed.
“The ad campaign is expected to raise about
$500,000 throughout the whole year,” Open
Door director Kent Gassaway said. Additional
ads are planned for Christmas and Easter sea
sons.
“Our plan is to increase our lodging capacity to
at least 200 beds,” Gassaway said. “Our second
goal is ... a new building.”
But Gassaway acknowledges the men pictured
in the ads do not stay at the Open Door mission.
“They’re taken from other missions in other
cities,” Gassaway said. “If you were a homeless
man in Houston, would you want your picture in
the paper?”
Many of the shelters must apply for govern
ment grants to keep their programs running.
Star of Hope mission recently reported a $4.1
million 1989 budget that included $768,1
from United Way, $665,000 from governs
sources, $560,000 from sales of goods andse
ices, $ 121,000 from program fees, and $1.99e
lion from individuals, businesses, churches
foundations.
The Salvation Army receives some additm
funding from the United Way.
While most United Way agencies are prot
ited from making their own direct mail M
paigns, the Salvation Army Christmas App
has a special exemption.
“The Christmas mailing is one of our bigful
raisers,” Chambless said, adding the mail
netted $468,000 last year.
“It’s a time we can raise sufficient fundstotil
care of our Christmas expense, because fromt!
Christmas funds, we purchase toys, andwepu
chase food for needy families.
“We give a lot of Christmas baskets,” Chait
less said.
“I believe last year we helped about 3,OOOf)J
ilies with Christmas baskets, and I don’t reii
know how many children we helped withm
Christmas toys.”
In addition to individual food and moneyi
nations, the Salvation Army also collects tf
from U.S. Marine Corps’ Toys for Totsci
paign, gift donations from Wish Tree local®
and change from its kettle*.
Topless club’s billboard ad
quotes convention recruiter
HOUSTON (AP) — Convention recruiter Jordy
Tollett’s words have come back to haunt him.
His explanation for why he spent $2,000 wining and
dining male clients at a topless restaurant have turned
up on a freeway billboard for the club.
Printed in large yellow letters at the bottom of a 40-
foot-by-20-foot billboard for Rick’s restaurant and bar
is Tollett’s explanation turned endorsement: “Our cli
ents want to go there!”
The billboard also features endorsements from Ro
bin Leach of “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous” —“The
place to find your champagne wishes and caviar
dreams!” — and “Penthouse Magazine” — “The kind of
club George Bush would have felt comfortable fre
quenting!”
But it’s the appearance of the Houston Civic Center
director’s words that has embarrassed Tollett and an
gered Mark Henry, the new president of the Greater
Houston Visitor and Convention Bureau.
Henry has complained repeatedly and Tollett has
left two phone messages, one owner of Rick’s said.
“I have limited sympathy for their discomfort be
cause I’m very proud of my business and the city of
Houston’s better off for it,” Robert Watters, an owner
of Rick’s, said.
In September, the Houston Post reported Tollett
had spent more than $2,000 entertaining male clients at
the club with bureau funds — 75 percent of which come
from tax revenues.
The Civic Center department, with a $26 million
budget, oversees the George R. Brown Convention
Center, among other facilities.
In his defense, the mayoral appointee said he was
wooing convention business from out-of-town officials.
“Unfortunately, Rick’s just happens to be something
that’s very well-known,” Tollett said at the time.
“They (clients) just wanted to go there. I couldn t say,
‘You can’t go there,’ ” Tollett said.
Tollett was admonished privately by Mayor Kathy
Whitmire and subsequently promised never to take cli
ents there again.
But there were sore feelings over the matter at Rick’s,
which boasts an expensive and sophisticated atmo
sphere and takes umbrage at being compared with slea
zier operations.
“It’s the same old hypocrisy thing,” said Watters, who
t&i
I have limited sympathy for their
discomfort because I’m very proud of my
business and the city of Houston’s better
off for it.”
— Robert Watters,
cabaret owner
said the convention bureau solicits its membership each
year and privately acknowledges that conventioneers
flock to the cabaret.
But publicly, he said, bureau officials complain about
the club.
Watters said two months ago, at a cost of more than
$6,000 a month, Rick’s erected three billboards at two
locations — one of which has signs posted back to back.
He said at first, the endorsement was attributed to
the bureau itself.
But after Henry called several times to complain,
Watters said the sign was changed to reflect Tollett as
the correct author of the statement.
“No press is bad press,” Watters said.
Sea Worli
celebrate!
birthday
Baby Shamu acts
solo at first party
SAN ANTONIO (AP)-TI
four-day party for Baby Sha® 1
ended Sunday with the kif:'
whale celebrating her officiald#
of birth by extinguishing a caad
on her own birthday cake with 1
playful squirt.
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weekend here with her,” sai ;
Thad Lacinak, director of aniu*
training for Sea World of Tefl 1
“She’s been doing her own sho*
every day the last four days.
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ham. We have a segment in ihi
show where we give her a birth
day cake and let her squirt outlh 1
candle, and it seems like she wait 1
for that part.”
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Texas’ first infant and the w
killer whale born at Sea Worlds^
California and Florida. Theblad
and white whale weighed 0
pounds at birth.
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creasing signs of independent'
during her first year, LaciiU*
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stage alone.