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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, in
Flames
scorch
building
VAN ALSTYNE(AP) — An ear
ly-morning tire destroyed a historie
downtown building in this North
Texas town Tuesday.
More than 25 firefighters tried
to extinguish flames at the Cannon
Building. Fire shot from the up
stairs windows and threatened a
restaurant, a drug store and the city
hall next door.
“It looks like the fire started with
a space heater on the second floor ol
the building, where a man was liv
ing,” Van Alstyne Fire Chief Robert
Lewis told the Herald-Democrat of
Shennan-Denison.
“There was a lot of paper in
there, from the floor to the ceiling. It
went very quickly.”
Lewis estimated the fire caused
$650,000 in damage.
Betty Norwood, w ho runs the
Van Alstyne Historical Museum,
said the tire w ill change the down
town landscape forever. Built in
1890, the building is one of the old
est in town. It has housed drug stores
and doctor’s offices but has been va
cant lately.
“The historical buildings, that’s
one of the town’s biggest draws,”
she said, shaking her head.
Van Alstyne, which is home to
about 2,200 people, is 45 miles
northeast of Dallas.
Meal on Wheels
nestk
Angela Painter, a freshman business administration major, gazes at an out ol " 1 JLah
on the Northside. Outbound dining has been put In place to help out over popu a
Ing areas due to the closure of Sblsa.
Government fails to meet evidence
deadline in Branch Davidian case
WACO(AP) — Government attorneys failed to
meet a deadline to turn over all evidence sought by
relatives suing for wrongful death in the Branch Da
vidian inferno.
U.S. Attorney Michael Bradford said the govern
ment sent 50 boxes of materials to plaintiffs’ attor
neys over the holiday weekend, beating Tuesday’s
deadline.
But he said an additional 2,500 pages of docu
ments must be declassified first.
He said government attorneys also must repro
duce and hand over items from 31 boxes of materi
als, including photographs and computer disks,
which were surrendered to the Waco federal court
last fall at the direction of U.S. District Judge Walter
Smith.
A private contractor the government hired had
overlooked the materials and was making copies for
delivery today, Bradford said.
The Justice Department had sought a two-week
delay, but Smith rejected their request last week.
Smith has set a May 15 trial dale.
Lead plaintiffs' attorney Michael Caddell has
asked Smith to compel government lawyers to an
swer more completely the question of whether any
government personnel — military or civilian
fired shots during the deadly siege’s final hours.
The Justice Department and FBI long have
denied that federal agents fired shots on April
19, 1993.
But the government’s sworn answer to the plain
tiffs’ question of whether “any person under the em
ployment, agency, control or direction of the U.S. or
any other government, agency or organization fired
shots is incomplete, Caddell wrote.
The deadly standoff began Feb. 28, 1993. when
federal agents raided the rural compound of Branch
Davidian leader David Koresh and his followers.
The siege ended in a fire that killed Koresh and
about 80 followers, some of whom were shot.
The government said the Davidians died by their
own hands.
Officials try to ban arrested student from school
BLANCO, Texas (AP) —School
officials vowed to fight to keep the stu
dents arrested in connection with a pipe
bomb found at Blanco High School
banned from coming back to the school.
“1 met with the principal and su
perintendent and tried to elicit a
guarantee about that, and I think I
did,” said school board president Jim
Pepper, about the ban.
His comments came Monday
night, as some 250 people filled Blan
co High’s cafeteria to discuss school
safety with the hoard, prosecutors and
police officials.
“Those students under arrest at this
time will not be allowed to enter our
building. I don’t know if that’s legal, but
we will find out if we have to.” Pepper
told the San Antonio Express-News.
Superintendent Mike Adkins said
he would stand behind the ban, even
though the district may be on shaky
legal ground. As of yet, a conviction
had not been handed down against
the pupils.
“We will still fight it,” Adkins said.
“We will pressure as much as we can to
keep these children out of our school.”
The school’s 300 students have been
evacuated three times in the past two
weeks because of bomb scares.
"Those students
under arrest at
this time will not
be allowed to en
ter our building."
— Jim Pepper
school board president
In the second incident, a small pipe
bomb was found in a bathroom Jan. 10,
and three students were arrested, ac
cording to the Express-News.
Two of the students, both 16. wen
charged Thursday with helping plant
the 7-inch pipe bomb and were ordered
to be held in juvenile jail for 10 more
days. Two others Justin Byars and
Nancy Garcia, both 17- were also ar
rested and are being charged as adults.
The high school was emptied again
Friday after a threatening note was
found in the same bathroom.
No arrests have been made in that
incident, and police said Monday it
wasn’t related to the earlier cases.
However, a fifth student was ar
rested Monday, Sheriff Bill Llsbury
said. He refused to discuss further de
tails in the case.
School officials said they will con
tinue to modify their security plans in
the wake of the bomb threats, including
a possible plan to hire more security
guards to patrol the school grounds.
The district has already enacted a
plan to evacuate students to area
churches in the event of another threat.
Fires burn
through stm
Texas town
RANC>iiR(AP) I iitf
houses and a hay bam hurocci
mg the night around this rid?
Knun town in what aulhorO*
may relate to a protest owxa
crackdown.
Three grass fircsikobumfc |
around Ranger, and authentic!
suspect all I 2 fires ucrcdeliK'
ately set.
Police CliielTom Million ^
there’s a “good possibilit) fej
fires are related to a protedMfll
night at City I kill. rhea*, he
“ sc\ erul known criminalsavi <
known felons” called for the#
resignation.
Million said that since belt*
came chief about a year ago. kg
partment has tried to rid theH
a dnig problem. 1
Se\ era I people were quest 1 '
about the fires, but Millionstfj
one had been arrested.
Fire (’hief I Jarrell Fox said5
of the buildings were total loss
Some of them were abandoned
dilapidated.
Hie town of2,800. about S’:
miles west of Fort Worth.has-
100 vacant buildings, includint
businesses and houses. Fox sat
The barn, packed with mi'
than 1,000 large bales ol hay
tinued burning today and fire
fighters decided they wouldn't!
able to extinguish it. 1 he bale
hay are each valued at about
$ 150, Fox said.
“It may bum fora week,'FI
said. “The guy had just built it*
tilled it with hay.”
Fifty-three lirelighters frotf
eight fire departments joined^
battle.
An approaching cold front"!
expected to bring increased winf
threatening to spread any remaii|
flames.
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Texas A&M University
Women’s Week Awards Nomination
Women's Week 2000 Committee is accepting nominations for Women's Week Awards. The
awards are designed to honor Texas A&M University students, staff, faculty, and administrators
who encourage and promote the sensitivity to and awareness of issues that relate to women.
Award recipients will receive public recognition, an award piece and a $100 U.S. Savings Bond.
The awards will be presented at the Women's Week Awards Luncheon on March 21 at the Bush
Conference Center.
For more information and nomination forms, check the Women's Week website at
womensweek.tamu.edu. Send nomination letters and nomination forms to: Nicole Pottberg,
Chair, TAMU Women's Week Awards Committee, Engineering Program Office - MS 3126.
Nomination deadline is February 7.
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