Page 10 THE BATTALION
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1978
‘Old Sparky’ gone,
but more may die
HUNTSVILLE — Changes in
Texas’ death penalty law have
brought changes at the place of
execution. Death row is growing
again, but “Old Sparky” has quietly
retired to be replaced by a lethal
syringe.
Texas has not executed anyone
since a 1964 Supreme Court ruling
voided most capital punishment
laws. For a while, the death row
population was relatively stable. But
under new law, it’s growing again.
And appeals are running out.
“We originally had the one
cellbloek. Texas Department of
Corrections spokesman Ron Taylor
said. “We’ve had to expand to
another cellbloek and when we
reach 120, we will have to expand to
a third cellbloek.”
Tbe Texas inmate-built electric
chair, in which 361 capital criminals
died between 1924 and 1964, has
been crated and stored without fan
fare somewhere at TDC’s
Huntsville headquarters.
Mary Lou Anderson, 35, of Lake
Charles, La., currently is the only
woman in Texas on death row. She
is being housed in a special section
of the Goree Women’s unit five
miles south of Huntsville.
Taylor said currently 98 men are
on death row at Ellis, but at least 11
more have been sentenced to die
and are in county jails around Texas
waiting to be sent to Huntsville.
“The officials are trying to keep
track of the announced death sen
tences, which we have not re
ceived,” he said. “We originally had
the one cellbloek. We’ve had to ex
pand to another cellbloek and when
we reach 120, we will have to ex
pand to a third cellbloek.’’
All inmates on death row are in
dividually housed.
Taylor said the state’s first death
by injection could come “some time
in 1979.
“It will be the consequence of
timing, rather than a shift in
philosophy,” he predicted. “It's
simply a matter of the inmates on
death row. They are getting to the
point where their appeal oppor
tunities are severely curtailed.
“There’s a fairly high probability
that in 1979, there could very well
be an execution in Texas.”
Keeping his eye on the ball?
Student Scott McKercher isn’t being hit by a
tennis ball, as it appears here. The camera
just happened to catch the ball at the moment
passed in front of his face after his serve. He
was playing tennis Sunday morning at the
Bryan High School tennis courts.
Entire town celebrates end of 8-year battle
11-year-old boy survives, conquers leukemia
United Press International
SHEEP RANCH, Calif. — The
whole town sipped champagne
Saturday as it watched the ceremo
nial burning of 40 left-over syringes
to commemorate the victory of an
11-year-old boy over the leukemia
he has battled for eight years.
seen in a century of existence.
The hero was Stephen Kenning, a
towhead whose lymphoblastic
leukemia was discovered just in the
knick of time.
It was a celebration of life unlike
any party this Mother Lode com
munity in the Siera foothills has
"The doctor told us that if we had
waited much longer, it would have
been too late,” said the boy’s
mother, Nancy Kizer. “One cell, if
untreated, can kill a rat in 60 days
and a human being in six weeks."
Ever since then, until three
months ago, Steve has undergone
chemotherapy. From now on, the
treatment will only be occasional
bone marrow tests to determine if
his remission is holding.
I think lies got a better than 50
percent chance, and maybe as high
as 80 percent, of being in perma
nent remission,” Dr. William
Thayer said.
Except for nine arm and leg frac
tures, caused by drugs that
weakened the bones, Steve has led a
near-normal life. He earns money to
buy photographic supplies with a
parttime job feeding horses.
“He deserves the biggest party 1
can think of, Mrs. Kizer said. “I
decided that if he made it, I was
going to throw one heck of a party
for h im because he’s just a super
kid."
For the occasion, the population
of Sheep Ranch was swelled from 50
to 250 by guests milling around the
100-year-old Pioneer Hotel playing
horseshoes and nibbling homemade
ice cream, apples, cheese and tur
key cassarole in flower pots they can
take home.
For Steve, there was only one
slight disappointment. Because the
big event was coming, he didn’t get
his normal birthday party in July.
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Aggielands
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Anyone who has paid for the book may pick up his or her copy
starting TOMORROW, Tuesday, Sept. 25, — at Building G (second
barracks off Ireland Street, adjacent to University Drive). 9 to 4
You MUST have your Student ID card for identification.
No one will be allowed to pickup a book other than his own
EXCEPT for members of the immediate family, and even then, the
person making the pickup MUST have the Student ID card of the
person who has paid for the book. There will be no other exceptions.
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Jan. 15-Jan. 20
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500 believed
in GSA fraud
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WASHINGTON — About 500
government employees and their
associates in at least 20 cities are be
lieved to be involved in the snow
balling corruption scandal at the
General Services Administration,
sources said Saturday.
The sources predicted the list of
cities would lengthen in the weeks
ahead and the number of persons
involved in the investigation would
more than double.
"We believe the real count will be
between 1,100 and 1,300 people
when this whole thing is opened
up,” one congressional investigator.
GSA Special Counsel Vincent
Alto has estimated the agency is los
ing more than $66 million a year be
cause of fraud. He said the figure
soars to more than $100 million if
mismanagement and waste is in
cluded.
Based solely on the amount of
money involved, tbe widespread
GSA corruption is believed to be
the single biggest scandal
governments history.
Grand juries are'investiw
charges in Baltimore, Wasfi
and Boston Manchester ’
New York City, P„e rto ^ 1
Bayonne and Newark, N.j
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corruption for more than
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kickbacks and other fraudulent
ties include stealing GSA supi
payment for work never
corrupt contractors and
use of government credit
federal employees.
UTS A coed mayt^
be released soon
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TEL AVIV — Tlie lawyer for a former University of Texas at Sa
Antonio coed convicted on spying charges said Saturday she
her client will be set free in the near future.
"I do not know, but I hope it is true,” said Felicia Ganger,\i
defended one-time Kuwait airways stewardess Terri Fleener inatnj
that resulted in a five-year sentence.
She said she expects to hear by Monday of the fate of the 23 yeii
old from San Antonio, who has been in jail since her arrest at Bn
Gurion airport last Oct. 25.
Fleener was convicted of conveying information to the enemy,
conspiracy and rendering service to an illegal organization.
After the verdict and sentence were upheld by a higher court,
Langer appealed for clemency to President Itzhak Navon.
She said she asked congressmen from Texas as well as Ohio and
Kentucky, where Miss Fleener’s parents live, to send petitions of
their own.
“I am sure they did so,” she said. “She really hasn’t done anytbj
wrong.”
Fleener was convicted Jan. 9, 1978 by the Tel Aviv district couit
after a secret trial. She was accused of intending to take pictures
part of a scouting mission from Arab guerrillas.
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Cancer-causer DES
cannot be reduced
in animals, judge s»
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WASHINGTON — A Food and
Drug Administration judge has
ruled that the growth-stimulating
chemical DES causes cancer and
there is no way to reduce the animal
feed additive to safe levels.
FDA administrative law judge
Daniel Davidson issued the ruling
Friday, but the agency said it would
give DES producers 50 days to re
spond. After that, FDA Commis
sioner Donald Kennedy will make a
decision.
The FDA has been trying for six
years to ban DES as a feed additive
and implant since 1972, but the
U.S. Court of Appeali
Washington ruled that (lief
could not act until it held a tel
Davidson held the hearing a
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