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hristian schizoid r y that, 'hard M, died,, I c '"ig d«n -'rabble. ar y is opt, 1 weeltt J 6 p 's read Library m to ni bbursdai Saturdu Sunday. 11 an ■r froDii] ys. Tlie ‘round | d a doda led. irvices i, i tests, bysiealj its. the htii’: >me, fa United Press International AUSTIN — The 13-year-old son of former presidential press secretary George Christian will enter a private psychiatric hos pital today for treatment of a condition doctors said led him to shoot and kill his junior high English teacher. John Daniel Christian was ordered committed to Timber- lawn Hospital in Dallas for treatment of latent schizo phrenia. Psychiatrists who tes tified at a hearing last week concerning his mental compe tency said the treatment would take at least two to four years. Distict Judge Hume Gofer, who ordered the Christian boy committed to the hospital, said all costs will be paid by his par ents. Hospital officials have said the cost at Timberlawn is $129 per day — almost $50,000 annually. Christian walked into his English classroom carrying a .22 caliber rifle on May 18, and fired three shots that killed his teacher, Wilbur Rodney Grayson. Psychiatrists said the youth hid in a closet that morning until his parents left home, and carefully considered killing himsell before carrying the rifle to school during what one de scribed as a “psychotic episode.” John was, in terms of psychiatric statements, in a state of depersonalization,” said Dr. Daniel Mathews. He was standing outside himself watching this happen.” Both Mathews and Dr. Richard Coons told the juvenile court hearing the Christian boy probably had suffered from schizophrenia most of his life, but had been able to avoid problems because of. his superior intellect. Both doctors said they con sider the boy a high suicide risk, particularly when he be gins to deal with feelings con cerning the shooting of his teacher. George Christian was press secretary to former President Lyndon B. Johnson and two Texas governors, and most re cently his public relations firm was involved in the unsuc cessful re-election campaign of Gov. Dolph Briscoe. The juvenile court retains jurisdiction over the Christian boy until he reaches 18 years of age. Travis County District At torney Ronald Earle, who in itially indicated he would rec ommend the boy be committed to the Texas Youth Council, agreed at Friday’s hearing the TYC has no facilities adequate to treat Christian’s mental problems. J Government to give Texas $3 million United Press International WASHINGTON — The govern ment Monday announced $64 mil lion in scholarship grants to help states send 255,000 students to col lege next year. California will get the lion’s share at $10.2 million because distribution of the federal Office of Education money is based on past college at tendance. New York will receive $6.2 million. The money will be provided to all 50 states and territories on a match ing basis, meaning at least $128 mil lion in federal and state money will be available to undergraduate stu dents this September. The funds are only a tiny part of several federal programs which aid college students. During the cur rent year, the government is provid ing some $2.5 billion in direct and supplemental student grants. But this matching grant program is important,” said an Office of Edu cation spokeswoman. “It gives the states incentive to keep their own scholarship programs going.” The funds have already been sent to the 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and other trust territories. Texas and Illinois will get over $3 million each. An estimated 13,531 students will receive part of Texas’ $3,382,659 in grant money. THE BATTALION Page 5 TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1978 ENT Bergland suggests waiting before allowing meat import rOOm [H; United Press International 3 g fJli'ASHINGTON — President Car- t«r is expected to rule soon, perhaps ’’ y today, on a proposal to lift the re- '420 01 straint on importing beef to deal with the rising cost of meat. Press secretary Jody Powell said tjiat in making his decision Carter ADTcl ould consider the difficult years Mr I JBeef producers have had recently as , well as the rapid growth of meat tation prices. II “He is very much aware of the very difficult past couple of years for livestock producers and their con- “ Jp ern - This year is the first in several unfui they are beginning to get a decent return on their investments and Kpme chance to recover some very JjMrious economic losses in the past,” ^Howell said. I He is very aware of the cyclical v . ^feture of that business and what we mMA would like to do is to be in a posi- i yBjlon, as he said during the campaign LIMvout the farm products, to dampen the boom-or-bust nature of agricul tural production. t At the same time, he is also very ‘keenly aware of the rapid growth of prices (and the effect) that it can have not only on consumers but also on production — that sort of wide swing in production and supply.” Under the existing voluntary re straint agreements for 1978 made under the meat imports act, up to 1.3 billion pounds of beef are being let into the United States. That is about 7 percent of U.S. consump tion. If the amounts allowed in under the restraint agreements are al lowed to increase or if all quotas are suspended, about 250 million more pounds of beef would be allowed into the country. That represents about one pound per person, less than 1 percent of U.S. per capita consumption. A Bureau of Labor Statistics economist said beef accounts for 1.4 percent of the urban cost of living index. Last Friday, Agriculture Secre tary Bob Bergland, Presidential As sistant Stuart Eizenstat, inflation czar Robert Strauss and chief eco nomic adviser Charles Schultze and others met to discuss three options: —To wait and see what happens to beef prices. —Lift the amount allowed into the country under the voluntary re straint agreements. —Lift beef import quotas. The second and third options would have about the same result because there is not a worldwide surplus of beef. After the Friday meeting, Berg land said, “1 think the preferred al ternative was somewhere between a postponement for a while and re negotiating the voluntary import limits.” Bergland’s recommendation, based on a prediction that beef prices might rise more in June and then fall after the summer, was to wait for 60 to 90 days. He said it would be “catastrophic” to the cattle industry, which is mak ing money for the first time in nearly four years. He predicted they might sell off more cattle and slow down the re building of herds, keeping the sup ply down and the price high longer. Firemen learning sign language to assist deaf during emergency United Press Internationa] WICHITA, Kan. — Firemen re sponding to calls and unexpectedly terS encountering deaf persons soon will 1 |pe better able to assist them [ through the use of sign language. K ^ their first lesson a dozen fire- |nien in Station No. 1 painstakingly formed symbols with fingers at the Birection of Paul Laughlin, an in structor with the Deaf and Hard- of-Hearing Counseling Services. The quick course, which will be given to all 423 city firemen, in cludes 12 common phrases such as “Do you need to go to the hospital?” and “I will help you.” “What you want to be sure and do is talk at the same time you are sign ing,” Laughlin told the group. “Don’t exaggerate lip movements or >ols Oil company abandons well >m ding United Press International STAMFORD, Conn. — Conti- 9 u/nme' n f nta l OH Co. is abandoning and Plugging the first exploratory oil oms well to reach target depth off the Last Coast. The well, in the Balti- ■nore Canyon 77 miles east of Atlan- j pc City, was dry. jy 9-6 Conoco spokesman John Lord iunday* saic | 57 days of operation failed to I indicate the presence of natural gas . . I ff 1 " Produce a single drop of oil on the 11 .1 B Iock 590 site. “This experience demonstrates the high odds against discovery in a frontier area and the high financial risks involved in the search for new petroleum supplies,” said Michael B. 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