State & Local
Monday • June 13, 1994
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Bryan welcomes first city marshal
Caddell to issue warrants for overdue traffic violation fines
Darrin HIII/The Battalion
Roger Caddell, Bryan’s first city marshal, bears his latest badge.
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
The Bryan City Council hired a city
marshal this month to help eliminate the
backlog of more than 7,000 arrest war
rants, many of which are for students of
Texas A&M University.
Roger Caddell was sworn in June 1 as
Bryan’s first city marshal and will issue
warrants for individuals who have not paid
fines for Class C misdemeanors dating
back to 1983.
Class C misdemeanors are crimes such
as traffic violations or city
ordinance violations.
When tickets for Class C
misdemeanors are issued,
people receiving tickets have
until a certain date to pay
the ticket or take some other
form of action. If people do
not take action by that date,
warrants are issued for their
arrests.
“1 was hired to try to take care of these
outstanding warrants,” Caddell said. “This
many warrants is going to keep me really
busy.”
Caddell will notify people about their ar
rest warrants and encourage them to pay
the fines by a certain time. If the fine is
not paid, he will arrest them.
“Instead of putting people in jail, we
prefer to arrange for them to pay their
fines,” he said. “Arresting people is the fi
nal thing we want to do.”
Caddell said that most people don’t re
member about the ticket or assume they
had taken care of it.
“Mostly, people have forgotten about the
ticket or have forgotten to take defensive
driving,” he said. “Occasionally, there are
people who just will not pay the tickets,
and those are the ones we have to arrest.”
Mary Galloway, Bryan city secretary,
said if people know that they have out
standing tickets, they should take care of
them soon.
“If people have gotten a ticket in Bryan
since 1983, they need to take care of it,”
"If people have gotten a ticket in Bryan since 1983,
they need to take care of it or Caddell will be coming
to issue them a warrant."
—Mary Galloway, Bryan city secretary
she said, “or Caddell will be coming to is
sue them a warrant.”
Bryan Police Sergeant Christopher Jad-
lowski, said Caddell’s work will give the
police department more time to deal with
other crimes.
“Someone whose main job is to issue
these warrants will ease our work load in
that area and free us up to take care of
more pressing issues,” he said.
Galloway said that eliminating these
outstanding warrants will make the city
more efficient by clearing out a great deal
of time- and space-consuming paperwork.
Galloway said Caddell’s work will bring
money into the city as well.
A conservative estimate of the 11 year's
worth of fines is $2 million, she said.
“That’s a lot of money,” she said. “Cad
dell will more than pay for his salary.”
After the state receives its share of the
fine money, the remainder will be put into
the city’s general fund.
Caddell said he will be working with ju
veniles and plans to talk to driver’s educa
tion classes about actions people need to
take when they are issued a
ticket.
“We want to help the juve
niles know the laws,” he said,
“and let them know what
they have to do with a viola
tion.”
Juveniles who are issued
tickets have the option of do-
ing community service in
stead of paying a fine. Cad
dell said he will be monitoring this commu
nity service to make sure it is done.
Caddell, 41, has been in law enforce
ment for about 15 years. He started as a
jailer for the Tarrant County Sheriff De
partment. He received his peace officer
training from the Texas A&M University
Extension Service in Arlington and was a
patrol officer in Lacy Lakeview, outside of
Waco.
He was also the deputy city marshal ir,
North Richland Hills, northeast of Fort
Worth.
CS voices support
for events center
The College Station City Council
approved Thursday the purchase of
18 lots of land to be used for a parking
lot near Wolf Pen Creek.
The $189,000 purchase for the
land off of Colgate Avenue was ap
proved to be financed by the
Hotel/Motel tax fund.
Ron Fulton, president of the Brazos
Valley Hotel/Motel Association, argued
that the fund should not be used.
The Hotel/Motel tax fund states
that revenue from the hotel/motel tax
may be used only to promote tourism
and allows it to be used for improve
ments on “convention center facilities.”
The fund allows civic centers, audi
toriums, exhibition halls and coliseums
to be considered “convention center
facilities.”
Fulton argued that the Wolf Pen
Creek amphitheater is not a conven
tion center and therefore the funds for
the parking lot cannot legally be taken
from the hotel/motel tax fund.
Mary Margaret Sexton, junior city
attorney, said an amphitheater is an
outdoor auditorium and falls under the
fund’s use for convention center im
provements.
The Council also unanimously ap
proved a resolution supporting Texas
A&M University’s Board of Regents’
efforts to request a special events
center.
College Station City Council has no
financial obligation to assist the Board
of Regents with the convention center,
Ringer said.
A&M senior wins
$1 million in lottery
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A Texas A&M International Univer
sity student won $1 million in the
Texas Lottery Friday.
Carmen Valdez, a senior account
ing major from Laredo, picked up her
check Friday after scratching off the
winning ticket the week before. The
ticket was bought at a Diamond
Shamrock in Laredo by her father.
She is the first instant millionaire in
the state’s 2nd birthday instant game
lottery. After taxes are deducted, she
will receive the entire $720,000 at one
time, not in installments.
Campus water safe,
free from pollution
Texas A&M University’s water
supply has officially been deemed
safe from contaminants by the Texas
Natural Resource Conservation
Commission.
The cppimission, the state agency
responsible for regulating and protect
ing public drinking water, conducts an
nual inspections and supervises rou-»
’tine testing of water supplies.
A new program also has been ini
tiated to test the underground
sources of drinking water to ensure
that they are sufficiently protected
from contaminates.
The campus drinking water supply
originates in a well field north of
Texas A&M’s Riverside campus,
which contains two well sites, each
of which was tested for any potential
harmful pollution.
As a result of the water supply’s
safety, the water system will not have
to pay for testing for the 1993-96 peri
od, saving thousands of dollars in un
necessary sampling costs, commis
sion officials note. However, campus
authorities say they will continue to
conduct monthly tests to further en^
sure safety. /
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A&M chemistry prof
joins Royal Society
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Dr. F. Albert Cotton received his
second major honor within two weeks
on Thursday, when he was voted inti
membership in the Royal Societyo'
London.
Cotton, distinguished professoro :
chemistry, was named recipient of i
prestigious Robert H. Welch awardr
Chemistry on June 1. He shares this
award with Dr. Jack Halpern of the
University of Chicago.
The Royal Society, founded in 166C
is dedicated to the promotion ofthenat-j
ural sciences. Its membership include-!
internationally recognized scholars.
He is known for his research o r
multiple bonds between molecules.
Branch Davidians to be sentenced
Prosecutors seeking 30 years
Cancer rates rise near nuclear plant
WACO (AP) — Prosecutors say they’ll seek min
imum 30-year prison terms for seven Branch Da
vidians scheduled to be sentenced this week for
their roles in the 1993 shooting deaths of four fed
eral agents.
In a brief submitted Friday to U.S. District
Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. of Waco, prosecutors
claim that weapons charges reinstated against the
Davidians should bring stiff sentences.
Eight Davidians return to court Thursday and
Friday in San Antonio, where 11 followers of
doomsday preacher David Koresh were tried earli
er this year.
The Davidians were accused of murder-con
spiracy in the shooting deaths of four Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents on Feb.
28, 1993. The agents were attempting to arrest
Koresh on weapons charges. Six members of the
religious group were killed in the gunbattle.
Five of the 11 defendants were convicted of vol
untary manslaughter and three others were con
victed of various weapons charges. Three defen
dants were acquitted of all charges.
Smith initially said he would throw out the ju
ry’s conviction of Renos Avraam, Brad Branch,
Jaime Castillo, Livingston Fagan, Kevin White-
cliff, Graeme Craddock and Ruth Riddle for carry
ing a firearm during the commission of a crime.
The convictions were invalid because the jury had
found the Davidians innocent of the superseding
murder conspiracy charge, Smith said.
But Smith reversed himself after prosecutors
provided case law showing that inconsistent ver
dicts are legally valid.
Those seven now face a minimum of 30 years in
prison.
FORT WORTH (AP) — Cancer rates in coun
ties surrounding the Pantex plant have risen,
leading residents to suspect a link between the
disease and the nuclear weapons facility, the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in Sunday’s
editions.
In Carson County, just a few miles east of the
Pantex plant, the leukemia death rate among
6,800 residents was twice the statewide rate be
tween 1981 to 1991, the Star-Telegram reported,
citing Texas Department of Health statistics.
“If they are valid, they are clearly alarming,”
Dr. Steven Galson said. “Elevated cancer rates of
that order of magnitude warrant further investi
gation as to the cause.”
Galson is the chief medical officer in the U.S.
Department of Energy environmental, safety and
health office. The department oversees the
16,000-acre Pantex Weapons Plant, the nation’s
primary assembly and disassembly plant for nu
clear weapons located 17 miles northeast ol
Amarillo.
To the west, in Potter County, thyroid cancer
death rates among women were the highest in
the state, the Star-Telegram said.
Tom Walton, a DOE spokesman at the plant,
said he doubts the plant is responsible for the
cancer rates.
But nearby residents aren’t so sure. They are
marking maps with colored pins to note neigh
bors who have died of cancer.
Jeri Osborne’s Carson County map has 235
pins.
To the south, retired schoolteacher Dorothy
Bell has used Armstrong County death certifi
cates to plot 71 cancer deaths she found in the
county of 2,100 residents.
Federal studies are under way at the national
atomic laboratories in Los Alamos, N.M.; Rock}’
Flats, Colo.; and Hanford, Wash.
AGGIE RING ORDERS
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 1994
Undergraduate Student Requirements:
1. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 credit hours reflected on the
Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is
repeated, cannot count twice as credit hours.)
2. 30 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University. If you did not
successfully complete one semester at Texas A&M University prior toJanuary 1,1994,you
will need to complete a minimum of 60 credit hours in residence. (This requirement will be
waived if your degree is conferred and posted with less than 60 A&M hours.)
3. You must have a 2*Q cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University.
4. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript
blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
Graduate Student Requirements:
If you are a August 1994 degree candidate and have never purchased an Aggie ring from a prior
degree year, you may place an order for a '94 ring after you meet the following requirements:
1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information
Management System; and
2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript
blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
If you have completed all of your degree requirements prior to June 10,1994, you may
request a “Letter of Completion” from the Office of Graduate Studies and present it to the
Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted.
Procedure To Order A Ring
1. If you meet the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than
Wednesday, June 15,1994, to complete the application for eligibility verification
(requires several days to process).
2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring by September 7,1994,
you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, Visa or Mastercard
n<? later than June 17,1994.
Men’s 10KY-$306.00
14KY-$415.00
Women’s 10KY -$172.00
14KY- $200.00
Add $8.00 for Class of ‘93 or before. White Gold is available at an extra charge of $10.83.
The approximate date of the ring delivery is September 7, 1994.
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