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Wednesday • January 15,195
► Campus
Student dies of
severe asthma
William “Trey” Walker III, a
freshman biomedical science ma
jor and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
pledge, died of asphyxiation from
an acute asthma attack on Jan. 8.
Walker and other pledges volun
teered to clean the fraternity
house that night. Around mid
night, Walker complained he was
having trouble breathing.
Phi Gamma Delta president
David Bethel said fraternity mem
bers are trying to cope with Walk
er’s death.
“We have lost a good brother,”
Bethel, a junior finance major said.
“He’s a great guy who’s humble
and sincere, and our condolences
go to the family.”
Funeral services were held Jan.
11 in Beeville, Texas.
► National
Tabloid returns
leaked photos
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A super
market tabloid that ran crime-scene
photos of slain 6-year-old beauty
queen JonBenet Ramsey agreed
Tuesday to return the pictures, along
with two others it didn’t publish.
In return, Boulder County
agreed to drop a lawsuit that
sought to block The Globe from
publishing any more of the crime-
scene photos, said Mike Kahane,
a lawyer for the tabloid.
The weekly Globe ran five pho
tos in its issue that hit news
stands on Monday. The photos
show a garrote — a cord-wrapped
stick that may have been used to
strangle JonBenet — and a rope
around one of her wrists.
► State
Police testimony
stirs Routier trial
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Life
insurance policies and other family
records were found near the bod
ies of Darlie Routier’s two sons af
ter they were stabbed to death, a
police officer testified Tuesday.
Officer David Mayne also testi
fied marijuana was discovered at
the Routier home. Defense attor
neys immediately objected. Mrs.
Routier appeared to smirk and ju
rors were quickly ushered from
the courtroom.
State District Judge Mark Tolle
said he would instruct jurors to
disregard the officer’s statement
about marijuana. A seven-woman,
five man jury will decide Mrs.
Routier’s fate in her capital mur
der trial.
► This day in history
Dave House, Tm; Battaiiok
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Stephan Fafatas, a senior accounting major, scrapes the ice off his windows before leaving campus Sun
day. The ice was left by a major winter storm that plagued most of central Texas all this week.
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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of
1997. There are 350 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1559, England’s Queen Elizabeth I was
crowned in Westminster Abbey.
In 1870, the Democratic party was represented
as a donkey for the first time in a cartoon by
Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly.
In 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
was born in Atlanta.
In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon,
headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.
In 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the
Green Bay Packers of the National Football League
defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American
Football League, 35-10.
In 1973, President Nixon announced the suspen
sion of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam,
citing progress in peace negotiations.
In 1976, Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life
in prison for her attempt on the life of President
Ford in San Francisco.
One year ago: Risking the lives of more than 100
hostages in an effort to wipe out their Chechen
rebel captors, the Russian military hurled rockets
Today
Tonight
Today's birthdays
Highs & Lows
Today’s Expected High
44°F
fonight’s Expected Loi
36°F
and shells at the tiny village of Pervomayskaya.
Actor Lloyd Bridges is 84. Singer Don Van Vliet
(aka “Captain Beefheart”) is 56. Actress-singer
Charo is 46. Actor-director Mario Van Peebles is
40. Singer Lisa Lisa (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam) is 30.
Actor Chad Lowe (Life Goes On) is 29.
Cloudy and cold.
Mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain.
Mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain.
Tomorrow’s Expected
High
54°F
Tomorrow Night’s
Expected Low
38°F
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