HANNA & ASSOCIATES
696-3818
Family Law • DWI • Criminal Law
Traffic Violations • Public Intoxication
Annette K. Hanna Dana L. Zachary
Attorneys-at-Law
Not certified by Textu Board Legal Specialization
Renee's Nails etc.
Sept. Special
Full Set Acrylic Nails
$15.00
Refills
$15.00
764-5988
(call for appt.)
110-Lincoln Ste.107
(Inside the N.O.I. Bldg, behind Red Lobster)
HP Calculators
for business and
finance.
Come try one today.
HP Calculators - the best
for your success.
Model List: SALE
HP 10B $ 39.95 $ 32.00
HP 17BH $110.00 $82.00
HP 19BII $175.00 $129.95
HEWLETT
PACKARD
UNIVERSITY
BOOKSTORES
Off Campus to Serve You
N orthgate- Culpepp er-Village
If You Have Something To Sell
Remember:
Classifieds Can Do It
Call 845-0569
The Battalion
RESfARCH
Panic
VIP Research is conducting a
research study on Panic
Disorder. Individuals with
symptoms of panic attacks
are being recruited to
participate in a 3 to 9 month
study of an investigational
medication for the treatment
of panic disorder. If you
would like more
information, call VIP
Research. Up to $400.00
will be paid to individuals
who qualify and complete
this study.
Fever blisters /
Cold Sore Study
VIP Research is seeking
individuals 18 years and
older with a history of
recurrent fever blisters or
cold sores for a research
study with an investigational
topical medication.
Individuals who qualify and
complete the study will
receive $150.00 for their
participation. An active fever
blister is not required to
qualify for this study.
Fungal Toenail
Infection
If your toenails are
discolored, crumbling, and
or thickened , you may have
a fungal infection of the
toenaih VIP is conducting a
research study with a paint-
on-lacquer that contains an
investigational anti-fungal
agent. Individuals who
qualify and enroll into this
study will participate for up
to 16 months and receive
$300.00 for complcteing the
study.
upcoming facial
acne study
VIP Research is screening
individuals 12 and older with
mild-to-moderate facial acne
for upcoming research
studies. Call now for more
information.
(409) 776-1417
(800) 776-1417
(24 Hours A Day)
Cafe
Live entertainment (upstairs)
Local and out of town bands
Featuring Sneaky Pete
every Wednesday night
250 beer 8-9 p.m.
every night
$1.00 Daquiries
all night
State
Page 4
The Battalion
Friday, September 3,1993
Robbery takes life of last Vidor black
The Associated Press
BEAUMONT — William Simpson was the
last black to move from all-white Vidor, saying
he had enough of racist taunts, obscene ges
tures and threats of lynching.
Hours after returning to Beaumont, he was
gunned down, an apparent victim of random
street crime.
The 7-foot, 300-pound bearded man, de
scribed by friends as a taciturn gentle giant,
was killed Wednesday night by
suspected gang members who
demanded money, authorities
said.
"It's just a loss. There's no
other way to put it," said Beau
mont businesswoman LinMarie
Garsee, who befriended Simp
son and rented him a house af
ter following his plight through
the media. "Everybody is
shocked. I mean, total shock."
Simpson, 37, was walking with Lydia
Washington when the four men drove up and
confronted them, police said. He tried to flee
and was shot five or six times with a 9 mm pis
tol.
Simpson died a short time later at Baptist
Hospital in Beaumont. Washington was shot
in the leg and hospitalized in stable condition
at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
Washington, reached by telephone at her
hospital bedside, said she doubted the shoot-
"So far we don't have any indication that it had
anything to do with the Vidor situation. We can't
put the blame on Vidor."
- Sam Bean, president of the NAACP Beaumont chapter
A 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday
for the slaying, police spokesman Bute
Pachall said. Capital murder charges were
pending.
The suspect and three accomplices still be
ing sought by police were believed to have
committed another robbery in the same area
earlier Wednesday night. A victim in that
crime and a woman who was with Simpson
when he was slain both identified the same
man, Pachall said.
ing was related to Simpson's moving in and
out of nearby Vidor. The assailants were black,
she said.
"It was just three guys," she said. "They
asked me for my wallet and I didn't have it.
They just shot."
The FBI said that if asked, the agency
would investigate whether the killing was
racially motivated. Police civil rights groups
said there was no reason for that.
"I don't think these people knew who they
shot," police spokesman John O'Quinn said.
"Mr. Simpson unfortunately is a victim of a lot
of what we're seeing in Beaumont — random
robberies."
"So far we don't have any indication that it
had anything to do with the Vidor situation.
We can't put the blame on Vidor," added Sam
Bean, president of the NAACP Beaumont
chapter.
Bean noted, however, that Simpson
wouldn't have been in Beaumont at all if he
had not been driven out of Vidor.
Simpson and another man,
John DecQuir, were the first
black residents of Vidor in at
least 70 years when they
moved in six months ago. They
also were the last blacks to
leave Vidor this week, citing
fear after too many instances of
harassment.
A federal judge last year or
dered Vidor, about 85 miles
east of Houston and home to 11,000 whites, to
desegregate its 70-unit public housing com
plex. It was one of 170 public housing projects
in 36 east Texas counties — some all-white and
some all-black — that U.S. District Judge
William Wayne Justice said must be desegre
gated.
While no one has physically attacked him in
Vidor, Simpson said in an interview Sunday
with The Associated Press that the derisive
yells, the threats and the oppressive fear had
become too much to bear.
151-year-old Texas
newpaper to alter
name in November
The Associated Press
GALVESTON- The oldest
newspaper in Texas is changing
its name.
Beginning Nov. 1, The Galve
ston Daily News will be known
as The Galveston County Daily
News, said Dolph Tillotson, edi
tor and publisher of the newspa
per.
"We are changing the name
for a simple reason: The Galve
ston County Daily News is what
we are," said Tillotson. "It is
what we truly have been for
some time. And it certainly is
what we must be in the future."
The Galveston Daily News,
with a daily circulation of 29,854,
began publishing on April 11,
1842 and has had four name
changes since, Tillotson said.
The first name was simply The
Daily News.
"One of this newspaper's
strongest traditions is a tradition
of innovation," Tillotson said.
Tillotson said the name
change was one of a number of
improvements readers could ex
pect in the next year.
Cancer victim marries day before death
The Associated Press
happ}
DALLAS — On Sunday Erika Olivares Valdez
realized one of her fondest dreams — to be mar
ried in a white dress. On Monday, Erika died.
Erika, 15, found strength after years of battling
leukemia to marry 19-year-old Adamson High
School senior Joaquin Valdez, a young man she
had met last spring.
"We figured a lot of people would think we
were crazy to let such a young girl get married, but
she was a good girl," said her father, Israel Oli
vares. "We did everything we could to make her
•Z; frail girl danced with her father and her
husband. She tossed her bouquet and posed for
pictures with the many friends and relatives who
attended the ceremony.
A funeral Mass for the Sunset High School
freshman was held Thursday at Santuario Santa
Maria de la Salud Catholic Church in Oak Cliff, the
church in which she was wed.
Erika became sick with an ear infection at age
12. But when she continued to complain about oth
er ailments, doctors couldn't figure out what was
wrong with her and repeatedly sent her home
from the emergency room.
A blood test finally showed leukemia, which
placed her in radiation and chemotherapy treat
ment for 21 /2 years.
"She would dress up for her hospital visits as if
she were going to a party," said Dora Nelly Oli
vares, Erika's mother. "She always wanted to
match her clothes. She never cried and rarely
spoke of being afraid."
Last December, Erika was told that her treat
ment had been successful and that she had beaten
the disease. She began to plan her "quinceanera,"
a Mexican tradition for celebrating a girl's 15th
birthday. She marked the occasion with a Mass
and small party.
Soon after the encouraging health reports, she
began to feel ill again. Doctors told her she would
need a bone marrow transplant which she got
from her five-year-old sister, Fabiola, and greater
quantities of chemotherapy and radiation.
A friend introduced her to Valdez last spring.
"She started falling in love with him after he
visited her every day for seven weeks," Mrs. Oli
vares said. "She said, 'Mom, this boy has no rea
son to like me. I look like a monster/ But the boy
said he liked her for who she was. She was a very
beautiful girl.'"
The morning after her wedding Erika woke her
parents and said, "Today I am going to die."
"No," her father said. "Why do you say that?"
"I am. I know I am," she said, as they sum
moned an ambulance.
At the hospital, surrounded by her brother,
three sisters and husband, Erika sat up in her bed
and said, "Thank you, everybody, for helping me.
The angels are calling me."
She told her parents she heard a chorus. She
spread out her arms to embrace her "Mami" and
"Papi." And she kissed them goodbye.
I
Half Price
Books
Half Price
Sale.
ON LPs AND POCKET-SIZE PAPERBACKS.
For four days only, LPs, pocket-size (W x 674") paperbacks and magazines
will be on sale for half of our already half price. You’ll also find great bargains
on a variety of in-store specials. Come to Half Price Books
Half Price Sale this weekend and save a bundle. Sale prices
effective September 3, 4, 5 & 6.
fSJeg
3828 Texas Ave. S. • 846-2738
10am-9pm Mon-Sat. • 12pm-9pm Sun.
(Discounts or coupons do not apply to sale merchandise.)
i
i
f
Wfe’ve
been ,
accused
of being
fresh.
And we’re proud of it. At
The Black-eyed Pea, we’re serving over a dozen freshly prepared veggies
every day. And our delicious homemade wheat rolls, cornbread and taste-
tempting desserts are always fresh-baked.
.( ^ 10 f f
I Unv enfree>
Sunday Night Special
UOff
.any entree>
i
L
Offer good for $ 1 off any entree on Sundays after 3pm only.
All entrees include your choice of two vegetables, wheat rolls
and cornbread. Beverage, gratuity and tax not included. One
coupon per visit. Not valid with any other discount or offer.
EXPIRES 10/4/93.
Xohe Black-eyed peat
RESTAURANT
Home cooking worth going out for. 5
201 E. University (at Texas)
260-1092
Take Out Service Available
1