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Longtime Texas lawman dies of cancer
Boutwell famous for trying to stop UT tower sniper, arresting Henry Lee Lucas
The Associated Press
GEORGETOWN — Longtime lawman Jim
Boutwell — who buzzed University of Texas
Tower trying to stop sniper Charles Whitman
and made national news after arresting ac
cused mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas — is
dead at 66.
Boutwell, who retired as Williamson County
Sheriff in October, died of lymphatic cancer
Tuesday night at Georgetown Hospital, officials
said Wednesday.
He was elected sheriff in 1978 after working
as a pilot for the Department of Public Safety,
a Texas Ranger and a deputy sheriff in
Williamson County.
While a reserve Williamson County
deputy in 1966, he piloted an airplane that
flew around the UT Tower — carrying an
armed Austin police officer — in an attempt
to stop Whitman and reconnoiter the situa
tion, said Department of Public Safety
spokesman Mike Cox.
The plane was hit twice by Whitman's bul
lets before officers who climbed the tower
shot Whitman.
Nearly two decades later, Boutwell's 1983
arrest of Lucas in the murder of a woman
found north of Georgetown began an episode
that put Boutwell in the national spotlight.
Lucas confessed to more than 360 slayings
nationwide during interrogations by Boutwell
and others. But the confessions were ques
tioned, and there were allegations that Lucas
had been coached by some officers.
Lucas recanted nearly all his confessions,
but Boutwell remained convinced Lucas com
mitted numerous murders.
"We know that he lied on occasion and
would take a case he didn't do because we
tested him," Boutwell said. "But he would also
voluntarily, on many occasions, tell us about a
case that we weren't familiar with."
In an interview with the Austin American-
Statesman last month, Boutwell said he had
planned to retire in 1996, but he didn't count
on a second bout with lymphatic cancer.
The original diagnosis in 1991 came as a
shock, Boutwell said. "But once you accept it
you say, 'Well hell, let's go ahead and see if we
can lick the problem."'
The cancer went into remission and
Boutwell ran unopposed for re-election in
1992. The illness resurfaced this year, sending
him into retirement.
"Why it came back I don't know. I really
suspect probably stress had a certain amount
to do with it," he said.
State District Court Judge Billy Ray Stub
blefield said that with Boutwell's death,
"I've lost a good friend and Texas has lost a
great sheriff."
Police object to rapper 's planned
participation m charity game
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Rapper Snoop Doggy
Dogg's planned participation in a charity
basketball game has received mixed re
views even before the event.
Snoop Doggy Dogg, stage name for
22-year-old Calvin Broadus, has a top
selling rap album and a murder indict
ment. The combination is what has some
people concerned.
"Kids think, 'Oh I want to be like Snoop
Dogg,'" said Marcus Davenport, a Grand
Broadus Prairie former gang member who now
sings for a spiritual rap group.
Snoop Doggy Dogg and two of his bodyguards have been
charged in the death of a suspected gang member, with the
singer accused of driving a getaway car. The three have
pleaded self-defense, saying the dead man had been threaten
ing Snoop Doggy Dogg for months.
Snoop's first solo album, "Doggystyle," debuted as No. 1.
on the Billboard magazine chart. His music, a successful ex
pression of controversial "gangsta rap," is said to glorify vio
lence and degrade women.
"It's not an issue so much about the quality of the music
but the message of the music," said Derrick Harkins, pastor
at New Hope Baptist Church in Dallas.
Football, graduation weekends
see increase in local hotel rates
By Jacqueline Mason
The Battalion
Students who invited relatives to
recent Texas A&M home football
games probably felt the effects of in
creased hotel prices, and though the
prices have since declined, they will
increase again for graduation because
of the high demand for rooms.
Ronald Fulton, Hotel/Motel Asso
ciation president for Bryan and Col
lege Station, said that while not all
hotels raise their rates on busy week
ends, the majority do.
"Hotels in seasonal markets do the
same thing," he said.
It is a matter of supply and de
mand, he said. When people come to
Bryan and College Station during
football game weekends, hotel occu
pancy is 100 percent, Fulton said.
During the summer and Christ
mas vacations, however, hotels are
not full, and they must make up for
lost revenue, he said.
But, Arline Ashby, general manager
of Holiday Inn in College Station, said
Holiday Inn has experienced a consis
tent rate of occupancy every month,
except December.
"In the summertime, you have
other activities," she said. "We're
still busy."
Holiday Inn is one of the few ho
tels in the area that does not change
its rates during busy periods, such as
graduation. But, she said she can un
derstand why other hotels change
their prices.
"Each hotel has their own guide
lines to follow," she said.
On average. College Station hotels
will hike room rates by $24 per night
during graduation weekend, Decem
ber 17-18.
For those people who have at
tempted to reserve a hotel room for
graduation, they may have discov
ered that most hotels have already
filled up. For help in finding avail
able rooms, people can call (409) 260-
9999 to find out about hotel and mo
tel vacancies.
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