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Monday • September 30,
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Bryan police look for
accident witnesses
Gay activist parade
causes Waco protest
Bryan police are looking for wit
nesses to the Sept. 15 accident
on Highway 6 that killed one Texas
A&M student and injured nine.
Witnesses who saw the vehicle
roll over and the events leading up
to the vehicle leaving the roadway,
or those who remember being
passed by the vehicle on the high
way, are encouraged to contact
the Bryan Police Department at
822-0066.
Sgt. Choya Walling of the Bryan
Police Department said the re
quest does not include those who
drove up on the accident scene
shortly after it happened.
Walling said he is requesting
additional witnesses only and not
those who have already given
statements to the police depart
ment in reference to the accident.
Correction:
In a front page article in Fri
day’s paper, an editing mistake
was made. The article should
have said that the Sept. 15 ac
cident on Highway 6 killed one
Texas A&M student and injured
the remaining nine.
WACO, Texas (AP) — After three
years of peaceful rallies, gay rights
activists in Waco decided the time
was right for a full-fledged parade.
Some 100 marchers, including
men in evening dresses and suits,
parents supporting their homosexual
sons and daughters and a few Con
federate flag-waving protesters, hit
downtown Waco streets Saturday.
All along the route, crowds clus
tered on street corners shouting
words of encouragement — and
protest.
Organizers said they were im
pressed with the participation they
estimated at about 150 by the pa
rade’s end.
Organizers with the Gay and Les
bian Alliance of Central Texas, Par
ents, Family and Friends of Lesbians
and Gays, and other groups had
talked about having a march four
years ago when the first Central
Texas Pride events were organized in
Waco. But they scrapped the idea
for fear of community reaction.
Indeed, some residents of the
central Texas town were not happy
to see the marchers.
“Waco is not ready for this,” said
Marsha Whitney, who was holding a
sign that read “God loves you, but
hates your sin.”
Four young men waving a large
Confederate flag trailed the parade
in a white truck but insisted they
were there as peaceful protesters.
“I was just raised different than
that,” said Mark White, gesturing to
ward the parade.
killings in 1993.
Since then, homicides have fall
en off dramatically — from 194 in
1994 to 140 last year, the lowest
figure since 1978, when 136
killings were reported.
D-FW airport to
Murder count in
open new runway
San Antonio drops
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — After
peaking in 1993, the murder count
in San Antonio this year might end
up as the lowest since the city be
gan counting 21 years ago.
Through Sept. 25, 84 murders
were reported for 1996, down from
101 murders through the same date
in 1995, police records show.
The drop mirrors a national
trend. Among Texas’ 10 biggest
cities by population, homicides in
the first six months of 1996 de
clined in Houston, Dallas, San Anto
nio, El Paso, Austin and Fort Worth.
Officials expect this year’s slow
er pace to continue.
“I’m not just being optimistic,”
said Sgt. Joery Smittick, a depart
ment spokesman. “Realistically,
we could be under a hundred mur
ders this year.”
That kind of improvement was
almost inconceivable in the early
1990s, when the count regularly
exceeded 200. There were 229
IRVING, Texas (AP) — After
eight years of planning and fight
ing with its neighbors, Dalias-Fort
Worth International Airport will
open a new $300 million runway
expected to help ease the nation’s
congested airspace on Tuesday .
The 8,500-foot runway, dubbed
17 Left/34 Right, was constructed
over the past three years with
enough concrete to build a 2,200-
mile sidewalk from the airport to
British Columbia.
Federal transportation officials
say the strip, which gives DFW
seven runways in all, will make the
airport the nation’s busiest —
busier even than Chicago’s O’Hare
— by the year 2000.
It will also add 18 percent to
the nation’s airspace capacity, re
lieving airborne traffic jams that
now stretch up to 600 miles, offi
cials say.
“The new runway will be a won
derful development in transporta
tion,” said Federal Aviation Admin
istration chief David Hinson.
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