omb scare in Frankston
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1980
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| FRANKSTON — A call telling
Frankston State Bank officals there
was a bomb in the building Wednes
day forced a rapid evacuation, but
hours later a bomb squad found a
p package containing nothing but rail
road flares.
Bank officials said the building was
cleared at 1:30 p.m. after the call was
received. A bomb squad from Fort
Hood was helicoptered to Tyler and
then traveled to the city 30 miles
away to dismantle the device.
Officials said the package was
found in the men’s room.
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COMMERCE — An East Texas
State University professor is going
outside the realm of the university to
educate prospective employers in
the attractiveness of hiring people
with learning disabilities — people
he describes as intelligent and hard
working.
“I’m talking about people with
perceptual distortion, auditory per
ceptual distortion and haptic (motor
skill) distortion,” said Dr. John R.
Moss, a member of ETSU’s special
education faculty.
“The term most commonly associ
ated with learning disability is ‘dysle
xia’,” he said.
Moss said he decided to do some
thing to help adults with learning
disabilities — who he estimates com
prise 10 percent of the nation’s popu
lation — after discovering that in the
past few years ETSU seemed to be
enrolling more and more students
with such handicaps.
“We must have 75 to 100 of these
students enrolled at ETSU now,”
Moss said recently. “These are stu
dents with the intelligence, the
maturity and the experience to suc
ceed in the classroom and on the job.
“Many have above-average intelli
gence — I mean they are really
bright. But each has a unique learn
ing style that must be developed.
“These students have to work
twice as hard in the classroom as the
average student,” Moss said. “It
takes real discipline and good study
habits. And because of the discipline
factor, they are often more successful
than the average student when they
get into their careers.”
But, said Moss, such people often
are overlooked by employers and
colleges because of handicaps —
something Moss set out to change
with a meeting held two years ago.
“Adults with learning disabilities
might be the largest untapped group
of potential college students and em
ployees in the world,” he said.
Moss organized a meeting of
adults with learning disabilities and
those interested in the problem.
That led to LAUNCH — an acronym
for leadership, action, unity, nur
ture, citizenship and harmony.
A year ago, the organization
gained state incorporation and the
group of about 100 now has received
federal tax exempt status.
“We want to provide a platform for
learning disabled adults — help
them into postsecondary education
and into careers,” Moss said. “We
want to make the public aware that
adults with learning disabilities can
contribute to their communities.”
He said the group’s goal is to have
a chapter in every community in the
state. Chapters currently exist in
Dallas, Houston and Austin.
Business Week last October pub
lished an article about the organiza
tion and Moss said it prompted hun
dreds of inquiries.
“Since that article appeared,
we’ve had inquiries from all over the
United States and from all over the
world,” he said. “I guess we’ve had
between 400 and 500 inquiries.
“We’re one of the few groups
doing anything for adults with learn
ing disabilities.”
Moss said some inquiries were
from people wanting to establish
LAUNCH chapters, while others
were curious about what services
were provided for adults with learn
ing disabilities.
A consultant in making up a direc
tory of higher education institutions
and training programs for those with
learning disabilities and recently
named to President Carter’s Com
mittee on Employment of the Hand
icapped, Moss said only about 150
colleges and universities in the Un
ited States provide services for
adults with learning handicaps. He
claims ETSU has the best program of
all.
“ETSU is the best. Of course, I’m
prejudiced, but I think our Mach III
program makes ETSU one of the
best schools for the student with
learning disabilities.”
He said the school has a staff that
works strictly with disadvantaged
students, providing tutoring and
other one-on-one learning situa
tions.
“They’re able to work with each
student to meet his or her unique
needs,” he said. “Also having
LAUNCH — an organization of peo
ple interested in learning disabilities
— helps ETSU meet the needs oi
these particular students.”
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Court upholds death sentence
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AUSTIN — The Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals Wednesday up
held the death sentence of a Houston
man for shooting an ice cream store
owner, overruling the man’s conten
tion that the shooting was self-
defense.
William Prince Davis was con
victed of the June 2, 1978, murder of
Richard Walter Lang, 60. Lang’s
son, Michael Lang, testified he and
his father were closing the Red Wing
Ice Cream Co. when Davis entered
the building and robbed them.
Lang said Davis then ordered ev
ery person in the building against the
wall, and then shot his father.
Davis claimed he shot Lang be
cause the store owner started to
wards him and was attempting to
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retreating when he was shot. The
court concluded:
“Where the defendant intends to
commit a robbery and actually does
so, the shooting of the victim, even
though accidental, is still unlawful
killing.”
The criminal appeals court also
ordered that Cliff Clark of Houston
be provided counsel to appeal his
murder conviction because his for
mer lawyer did not adequately de
fend him.
Clark was convicted of stabbing to
death Stephen Byron Smith on Aug.
20, 1978, and given a life imprison
ment sentence.
The court also upheld the 50-year
aggravated rape conviction given to
Benjamin Harrison Ballard of Dallas.
The defendant claimed the victim
did not properly testify that he was
not her husband. But the court held
that the woman testified her hus
band was dead, and that was suffi
cient evidence that Ballard was not
her husband.