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AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: wiH meet from 7 p.m.~S;_ „
for < lass and 8:30 p.m.-lO p.m. for dub at the Pavilion.
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Business attire is requested.
CO-OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m in
504 Rudder. Dr. Kurt Ritter of the english department WiH
speak on interview techniques,
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203 MSC.
TAU BETA PI: will meet at 7 p.m. in 103 Zachry for pledge
test and bent inspection.
Tuesday
AGGIE ALLIANCE: will meet at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
Frank Thomas willspeak. ;
ALPHA PI MU: will meet at 7 p.m in 137A MSC
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Rudder. This is a mandatory meeting for worKera of Ag-
gieCon 16.
SIERRA CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 401 Rudder, A slide
show will be shown on the environmental view Of the nu* ;
dear arms rare.
STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICE: will hold a dual-ca
reer workshop 6:30 p.tn.-8 p.m. on decision making. Loca
tions vary. Interested couples call 845-1651.
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209 Pavilion. Anyone interested is welcome.
WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS: will meet at 6:30 p.m.
in OH Reed McDonald Jane Brust will speak on theseatfrife '
for a first job in public relations.
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Can a city keep them out?
Homes for the retarded
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Su
preme Court will hear arguments to
day to determine whether a Cle
burne, Texas ordinance that
excludes a residential facility for the
mentally retarded is discriminatory.
In accepting the case last fall, the
court agreed for the first time to
consider the rights of the mentally
retarded to live in a group facility,
and a city’s authority to keep them
out.
At stake is a modest four-bed
room home that Ian Hannah and
Bobbie Northrop, longtime Johnson
County residents, bought in Cle
burne for $59,000 in July 1980 with
the intention of providing 24-hour
care for 13 mildly and moderately
retarded people.
Following protests from residents
in the neighborhood, the Cleburne
City Council refused three months
later to grant a special use permit re
quired by the city ordinance for
homes for “the insane or feeble
minded.” The state had approved
the facility.
Two women who planned to op
erate the facility Filed suit in Dallas
federal court, where U.S. District
Judge Robert Porter ruled against
them in 1982.
However, a three-judge panel of
the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals in New Orleans ruled last year
that Cleburne’s action violated the
equal protection clause of the U.S.
Constitution.
The full appeals court refused by
an 8-7 vote to review the ruling, and
Cleburne appealed to the U.S. Su
preme Court.
“There was not any desire on our
part to keep the mentally retarded
out of Cleburne,” City Manager
Lloyd Moss said. “This case deals
with the sanctity of a city’s zoning or
dinance. It’s our contention all along
there’s basically no discriminating
intention, period. Never was and
never will be.”
Among the reasons the council
cited in refusing to allow the facility
at the proposed location four blocks
from the town square was opposition
from neighbors. The council said
the facility was a safety hazard be
cause it was situated in a 500-year
flood plain.
Council members also said they
opposed the facility because it was
across the street from a junior high 1
school, which has about 100 special
education students, many of whom
are mentally retarded.
“They decided what they wanted
and then tried to back that up with
arguments, rather than the other
way around,” said Hannah, who said
she has worked with the retarded for
18 years.
She and Northrop operate three
smaller homes serving a total of 24
mentally retarded adults
boring towns.
neigh-
Elliott W. Atkinson Jr., a Baton
Rouge, La., attorney, represents 66
Louisiana subdivisions involved in
similar cases. He calls the issue “a na
tionwide problem that is beyond ev
eryone’s comprehension in magni
tude.”
Experts say hundreds of neigh
borhoods across the nation have
faced similar disputes since mental
health institutions and state schools
have come under pressure from
courts to return mildly or moder
ately retarded people to commu
nities.
Joe Marchbanks, who lives three
doors away from the proposed fa
cility in Cleburne, is one of the resi
dents opposed to the home.
“With retarded people, you don’t
ever know when they’re going to do
something,” he said. “The older
women are fearful of this thing.
There are a lot of older women in
this neighborhood, and they don’t
want these people around.”
Hannah said the type of people
who would live at the home would
have no violent tendencies. The resi
dence would have no curfew or secu
rity system, she said.
Frank Hyde, principal of the ju
nior high school across the street,
said he accepted Hannah’s assur
ances, but was worried about the re
action of some students.
“Seventh- and eighth-grade kids
might not always be the kindest peo
ple,” Hyde said.
Jim McKenna, director of admin
istration for the Association of Re
tarded Citizens, said the case is cru
cial to efforts to move patients out of
institutions and into communities.
If the court rules against Hannah.,
he said, “it could have a serious im
pact on our efforts.”
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New pesos
a problem
for vendors
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Laundro
mats along the Texas-Mexico
border are getting taken to the
cleaners by a new Mexican peso
that is the same size and weight as
a U.S. quarter but only worth a
half-cent, says U.S. Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen.
Bentsen, D-Texas, says the pe
sos could become a serious prob
lem along the border and spread
into the rest of the state.
In Washington, where the
coins have already appeared, they
so far are only “an irritation,” said
D.C. Vending Co. vice president
Bill Deourdes.
“I have pocketfuls of them,” he
said. “We get them in cigarette
machines. Laundry machines
take them, too. But we find them
mainly in cigarette machines.”
Bentsen said, “Some of the ma
chines can discriminate between
the new Mexican peso and our
Q uarter, but others like this laun-
romat cannot do so.”
Deourdes said only more so
phisticated machines, such as coin
changers, can tell the difference,
but most vending machines are
fooled by the peso.
Bentsen said the border, al
ready in a depression because of
peso devaluations, “doesn’t need
this kind of problem.”
He wrote last week to Secretary
of State George Schultz, asking
him to negotiate with the Mexi
can government about minting a
new coin.
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