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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.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1978
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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. Morris, Conoco executive vice
president for worldwide explora
tion.
Conoco spent more than $4 mil
lion since April 10 drilling the oil
hole to a depth of 12,000 feet with
the semi-submersible rig New Era.
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you will look like a fish gaping. ”
The course is the first such train
ing for firemen in Kansas and Dep
uty Fire Chief Tom Page, who coor
dinated the program with the Par
ents Association of Hearing Im
paired Children, says it may be the
first in the nation.
Page said once Ron Flickinger,
president of the parents’ group,
proposed the course, “it hit me like
a bolt of lightning that we were play
ing with luck” in not having offered
the sign language instruction be
fore. “It was just a matter of time. ”
Laughlin acknowledged that
some deaf people might answer
firemens’ questions in sign language
too quick for them to understand.
“You will be asking him if he
needs to go to the hospital, and this
guy will say, Yes, my doctor’s name
is so-and-so, his phone number is, I
want to go to Wesley (Medical Cen
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