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Call for information: J&S Studies 846-5933 The Battalion Classified Advertising • Easy • Affordable • Effective For information, call 345-0569 The Battalion TRTE Tuesday • July? Former Air Force cadet faces tri Jones NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) — Four months after his ex-fiancee was convicted of capital murder, former Air Force Academy cadet David Graham was in court yes terday to face the same charge. Graham, 20, faces life in prison if convicted in the slaying of 16-year-old Adrianne Jones, who was shot to death near a lake in Tarrant County in December 1995. Some 250 prospective jurors arrived at the Comal County courthouse complex for ques tioning this morning, with the same number scheduled to arrive in the afternoon. A jury is expected to be seat ed and opening statements are scheduled to begin by July 15. Graham's ex-fiancee, former Naval Academy cadet Diane Zamora, was convicted in February in Fort Worth and sentenced to life in prison. At the request of the victim's family, prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty in either case. Defense lawyers argued Graham would not get a fair trial in the same city where Zamora's case attracted so much news media attention and where her defense team portrayed him as domineering, violent and solely responsible for killing Jones. “The publicity generated about this case has been so wide spread, inflammatory, adverse and prejudiced as to raise a stib- stantial doubt that the defendant can obtain a fair trial in I arrant County, Texas," Graham's attor ney, Dan Cogdell, argued in a court motion. State District Judge Don Leonard moved the case to this Central Texas town of about 30,000 people more than 200 miles south of Fort Worth. The judge also issued a gag order, and attorneys on both sides have said little publicly lately about Graham's trial. Clearly, much of the same evidence presented in Zamora's trial will surface again. Perhaps the most damaging item for Graham is a confession he spent two hours typing while detained in a military lockup in Colorado nine months after the Dec. 4, 1995, slaying. According to the statement, Zamora hid in the back of her parents' car while Graham, her high school sweetheart, drove Zamora Jones to an isolated lake. 1 hen Zamora hit Jones over the head with a dumbbell weight and Graham allegedly shot Jones when she tried to flee. Prosecutors contend Zamora became jeal ous after Graham admitted to having a one time fhng with Jones and ordered him to kill the girl. The two weren't arrested until the following September after they'd both left Texas to attend their respective military academies. Confiding in another Naval Academy midshipman, Zamora admitted to the slaying and described Jones as a “tramp" who "deserved to die," accord ing to testimony. Though Cogdell tried to exclude Graham's confession from the trial, the judge ruled in an April hearing it was admissible. "This man must have had some clue when they started talking to him about Adrianne Jones' murder," the judge said. “He knew they must have been focusing on him." Cogdell did not return tele- Remembering tragedy A decade after a disastrous building collapse, Brownsville citizens rell phone calls fromTheAsJ Press. But he told T|| ( l Morning News in a ; | story that he plans to (I two pronged doenv- "attach the accuralpJ t .raham's lengthy (v * * fession, as well as the® that police used toobta; Graham wrote that Jones had sex whenlif her home f rom Mansfiems | ‘-n hool at ter a Xover Lai ■ mtrv medic teehl C as ting doubt on rnn v fessiei; t . m.dell said Jous/I pi'osei utuui w itnessar.jjtrcml team unite el lones wh gted| tify that she — notGra-M d ro\ e lones home. ;an | "That means the w rorC of David's statementsclerij a lie-, and that wouldpl.-Mmj into my hands," CogdtB|e adding that the witneHiii ret used to speak withf -p \| la) b| "That goes right ,ii ude, im defense." lly''T 1 ead pres, , it .ear if Parrish declined to disctBiell new witness, u ha .. jfc( a I naed by prosecutor'- J6)ml original Graham trial*3>h| hst was released in ApniB gJ "I'm not going tonuiB--o| comment about a witr jiri I has not already testif ure I told The News. jr.lt el : On han 11 iles a I ;uage| turferl hey a | Jl Km nl BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The scene at 13th and Elizabeth Streets a decade ago this week following the collapse of La Tienda Amigo remains etched in the memories of those who participated in the drama of a round-the-clock rescue effort. Fourteen people were killed on July 7, 1988, when water built up on the roof of the discount clothing store from a sudden downpour, caus ing it to collapse: two men, eight women and four children. Forty-seven more people were injured. One of the men killed, Juan Rodriguez Pena of Old Military Highway, Brownsville, had just finished inspecting the roof drains and was on his way down, police said. Then the three-story building collapsed from the weight of the rain water, exploding into a pile of rubble. One key player in the city's response to the disaster was Andy Vega, then police chief and later assistant city manager and then city manager. Now retired, Vega vividly recalls how events played out that day 10 years ago. "There were a number of department heads in a meeting with the city manager (Steve Fitzgibbons). At that time, somebody got a phone call into City Hall ... they had had a report a roof had collapsed." He then got a call from the police station, Vega said. "Apparently a number of people had been trapped beneath the rubble. ... We were only a couple of blocks from there. There was about a foot of water all over the street down there. We went as fast as we could in that direction." Sighing as he recalled the massive task of organizing the rescue and cleanup efforts, Vega said he was astounded at the immediate support from police, fire departments and emergency medical services all over the Valley. Four doctors arrived on the scene and began treating people at once. Bill Young, a veteran newsman who is now public relations officer for the city of Brownsville, was then a reporter for KRGV-TV. "I heard about it over the (police) scanner in the Channel 5 news bureau," he said. "I heard a chilling remark over the scanner from then- Sheriff Alex Perez who said excitedly, 'We're going to need everybody.' ... It was still raining when we got down there. Nothing had been done. There was still chaos, there was still screaming. I remember cars in front of the building, squashed by the bricks and didn't know at the time if there were bodies in those cars. There was weeping." Keeping rubberneckers out and making it possible for rescue workers to get in was diffi cult, Vega said. "Although it was raining quite hard, there were a number of people trying to get into the area. There were live (electrical) wires, the possibility of further cave-ins was imminent, so we were trying to keep people out of there as much we could." During his 27 years on the police department, 17 of that as chief, he never saw anything like that it I remember cars in front of the building, squashed by the bricks and didn’t know at the time if there were bodies in those cars.” — Bill Young Public relations officer City of Brownsville day, and the days that followed, Vega said. Volunteers jumped right in to help profes sionals with the job of finding and rescuing those still trapped under the debris, he said. Customs officers brought trained dogs. Border Patrol officers, state troopers and all manner of law enforcement agencies arrived to help. Six people were pulled from the rubble alive. Supermarkets and fast food restaurants joined the Red Cross and Salvation Army, bringing food and drinks for rescuers working in the fierce summer heat. Walter Plitt, who owns a crane company, took charge of removing rubble so rescuers could free people trapped in the collapsed building, Vega said. Huge slabs of concrete had to be gently moved so as not to further It is I Come s| injure people trapped underneath. |rewi| A crew from California brought! >nejki| equipment that allowed a special caiBne i move around inside the buildingtoBAnci survivors. search! One volunteer \\os verv ettectivL’k |ill \ iJ his small size rather than strong backUfound I "We had one ineident w here m'T'kirtefJ tleman that is what we call 'little ptw ^ou sel were able to get him down throuawWRd \| was created and he was a lot of nelpURvVorl able to get do\\ n there end seen |ueti\J pening," Vega said. "He was smallwBjjejJ go through there and look around (TO®3j n jJ tom floors and see what was going or p 0rno ^ destined to do something like that^Bch f| was not afraid. He was determined tom there." I Reporters, including the lave id Star's, arrived immediately after the inR and went right to work. . t tian ki "We set up ,ind I did n kn e shot a we got there," Young said. "VVedkLi irlt | about a half a block from the scene ■'I 1 half block from Gateway bridge. W eS6 W I the street, did a live shot in the rao' U \ v | rubble and chaos and pathos behind us. BA ml "My interview subject for that first 0 Brownsville Herald photographer na ^kW, S .' s L Padilla who was standing across tb na o tl saw it go down. He was in shock. sor | an interview with him, got it all, then "MPbe a I to flesh it out and do the six o'clock pie® ■re bel One amazing encounter for Young"ftcific| find the La Tienda Amigo owner sti I said. "I noticed the store owner... Bernie ‘Kny si was standing there, staring into s P ace ’,md sexl learned an amazing story. He had e ^iuseii| the store, he was in the middle or , iecomij where his cash register was. The store ®By ac j c " lapsed around him. He wasn't sera Jg er j . had climbed over the rubble and wass there in the middle ol the street. ..MU The heroism of volunteers, ordinary | cws bl pitching in to help the police, .JfedmJ paramedics touched him d ee Ptyk ^^Bhis ei many people brought their expertise 3 " J T ment to the scene without even be |n 8‘ ,. I t 1 The Amigo store disaster affected jP everyone who was there, 531 vP J was nothing to compare to it,' unles been in a war or something." UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEE’S* America’s fastest growing, Women’s fitness & wt. loss franchise! J $25 Enrollment Fee 12 month minimum cd program *Univcrsity employees only rxk Curves® v -'*fv for women “30 min. fitness & wt. loss ctrs” KW\ 846^4153 I / "V Town &. Country Center / f 3811 East 29th Street, Bryan Baylor considers mascot chanf WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor University is considering phasing out its tradition of using a live bear as its mascot. In the past when we retired bears we found new homes for them at zoos and wildlife parks," Baylor spokesperson Larry Brumley said. "Now we're run ning into challenges finding acceptable places for the bears to retire to. That's part of what's driving this." Baylor has used live bears as mascots since World War I, when a bear named Ted was given to the university by the Army's 107th Engineers after they received orders to leave Camp Mac Arthur in Waco. The two bears now acting as mascots are Ginny, 2 1/2, and Bill Boyd, 9. Traditionally, Baylor has trot ted out the bears at football games, both at home and away. However, the school's entry into the far- flung Big 12 conference has restricted the mascots' traveling in recent years. Brumley also said athletic directors are increasingly refusing to let live mascots into stadiums for liability reasons. Placing a bear is not like plac ing a dog," Rosie Roeg ner, nongame permit coordinator for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said. "Black bears require a special diet — you just can t go down to the store and get bear chow — and special facilities. They're not easy to place." Baylor used to send its former mascots in zoos and wildlife parks such as the defunct Texas Safari in Clifton. However, oegner said such sites are no longer hungry f or ° u ^ a J 7 or bears since they a re n0 B ' P c attraction for zoo vislU ’?. nl ivf'. Ve In 1940, the Baylor Cl^Jeir p e Commerce, the camp L ' s / , 1 'i da tion that looks aft er e fj r ;ij es ' c * ei raised $2,500 to build the J Slt to < manent home for the vf il 0rrn ° J The so-called Bear ' & J$ k ' s tioi in 1977 to a plaza sa | n ' ted ‘ student center that lea I Even roaming area, a waterfa 1 luncer, viewing area for speda Baylor bears have n » aiI ^ s t' homecoming parades, B r °bje tographed with g° ve ., Re* 3 !.™ 3 even a president. R° na [1 )|. e m helped Abner the Bear d jlnitedf Pepper during a 1980 |untry t^oral stop in Waco. hi s, Brumley told the ^ w (ie^ a ards Herald that a decision c tdindi