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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1981
Page 9
exas product liability
draws Senate static
United Press International
| AUSTIN — A proposed pro-
licts liability bill pending in Sen-
k committee would benefit
lanufacturers and plaintiffs
iattorncys, but neglects the in
vests of many citizens, defense
iattorncys told the Economic De-
iyilopment Committee Thursday.
Kleber Miller of Fort Worth,
It presenting the Texas Associa-
ti|m of Defense Counsels, said the
loposal sponsored by Sen. Bill
eier, D-Fort Worth, abandons a
K 73 compromise concerning
cunparitive negligence in damage
suits and allows plaintiffs to collect
even though they are 75 percent at
fault for their own injuries.
“We came to this session hop
ing for products liability law re
form. Now we are looking at what
was presented to us as a comprom
ise, but we cannot support it be
cause it goes far beyond products
liability,” Miller said.
“We believe the bill creates far
more questions than answers.”
The products liability compromise
was worked out earlier in the ses
sion, and the bill passed the
House with surprising ease.
Meier has made some changes in
it during Senate committee de
liberations, but it remains essen
tially the same as the House ver-
Charles B. Jones, a Lubbock
attorney, objected to provisions
he said would allow plaintiffs in
some instances to collect more
than 100 percent of their damages,
and to the comparitive negligence
provision allowing plaintiffs to col
lect damages even though they
were 75 percent at fault.
Makes home for 100 children
Special mother takes a bow
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MISSION — With the approach of
Mother’s Day, it is fitting that Lorie Blair
take a bow. And it is also fitting that her
husband, Dan, join her.
The Blairs moved from Wisconsin to
South Texas 18 months ago to manage the
Rio Grande Children’s Home dairy farm,
and since then have been mother and father
to a hundred eager, and emotionally dep
rived children.
The children assist with the daily feeding
and milking of the home’s 60 Holstein cows
and Mrs. Blair believes the work has
helped many of the youngsters — some just
neglected by their parents, others aban
doned — readjust.
“Dan and I want the children to feel a
part of the dairy,” she said. “We try to
explain how the farm operates and why
their jobs are important.”
She was somewhat apprehensive when
she and her husband, head herdsman for a
large Wisconsin dairy, decided to move to
the home.
“I really didn’t know if I had anything to
contribute. The older ones were nearly as
old and Dan and me. But I soon realized the
kids needed mostly simple things, things
like a pat on the back, encouragement, and
someone to talk to about what is important
to them — even if it’s a momentary thing. ”
The dairy is part of a milk marketing
cooperative, so the children are exposed to
both an individual dairy and how numerous
dairymen work together. Mrs. Blair said
some of the children already have become
so interested they ’re considering becoming
dairy farmers when they grow up.
Klan plans fundraiser for trial costs
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[SANTA FE, Texas — The Ku
x Klan plans a Saturday fish fry
[d crossburning — but no boat-
ching — to raise money to de-
idthe Klan and Texas shrimpers
nst a lawsuit by Vietnamese
ermen, organizers said.
Among speakers scheduled is
Paul Smith of Maiden, N.C.,
Ian member acquitted of mur-
Jr in a Nov. 3, 1979, shootout
■Wtween Klan and Nazi Party
ftmbers and Communist Work-
,ers Party members in Greens-
jboro, N.C.
| City officials said Thursday
[Texas Klan leader Louis Beam
fined the $60 rally permit papers
as sponsor. The fee is calculated
by multiplying 20 cents liability
for each person expected. Beam’s
$60 fee would cover 300 persons.
“It’s just a fundraiser, boiled
shrimp, fried oysters and fried
fish. Just a big old party, open to
the public,” said Joe Collins, who
owns the 30-acre site where the
rally will be held.
“They (the public) are not gonna
have to pay. We’d like to have
some donations to help with our
lawyer fees. Our lawyers cost us
about $200 an hour.
“We don’t have the Southern
Poverty Law Center representing
us. They donate their time and
money free for the Vietnamese.
We’ve got to pay our lawyers.”
Collins said that, in addition to
Smith, Beam, Gene Fisher of the
Seabrook-Kemah Fishermen’s
Coalition and the Rev. Richard
Butler of the Aryan Nations
Church in Idaho were scheduled
to speak.
At a rally Feb. 14, Beam and
Fisher called for government ac
tion to remove Vietnamese re
fugees from the overcrowded
coastal fishing industry. They
warned vaguely of trouble and
ceremoniously burned a boat
labeled “S.S. Viet Cong.”
Partly as a result of hostile
speeches and actions at the rally,
the Vietnamese, aided by the Ala
bama-based Southern Poverty
Law Center, filed a federal court
suit April 16 seeking a court order
forbidding violence and seeking
the protection of U.S. marshals.
Collins said no boat would be
burned Saturday.
“They’re ain’t no boat gonna be
burned. I think the boatburning
got all out of proportion last time.
The Vietnamese thought it was a
threat to burn their boats, but it
really wasn’t.”
Three Vietnamese boats have
been burned in Galveston Bay,
but Collins said the mock burning
was to show how the Klan would
have burned the boats if it had in
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in as he lew Health officials are warning
: piers to be immunized for red
the brutality ! jjasles before going to epidemic-
y can stop (dii Sicken South Texas and El Paso,
Jim Harriazts id they are worried the disease
ts,’ Brand sji: By be carried to other parts of
t AmericanCivi le country hy migrant farm
ttomey, hasref orkers.
untiffs who ll More than 184 cases of red
:s against the citfiasles — including the nation’s
ment. Rt fatality from measles — have
ia, Casso’smpn reported in Texas so far this
laid was encottik more than the total number
>ry of Henry (leases in the state last year, said
intonio, theSripll Smith, a Texas Department i
ealtlvimmuni'/.ation .specialist.
‘We re stepping up vaccination
grams all over the state,”
ith said. “If someone is plan-
g to go in these areas or go
fough the areas, they should
|ve protection before they go. ”
El Paso health officials have
fdertaken an immunization
gram because of 83 red
asles cases since last Friday,
iut those infections seemed to be
limited to teen-agers.
mt/1 t The epidemic is still on and we
ct it to last another 10 days or
wo weeks before we declare it
said Dr. Bernard Rosenb-
um, city-county health director at
Paso.
IA Hidalgo County child, 11
months, who died last month in a
Galveston hospital, was the na
tion’s first measles death of the
year.
In Harlingen, a specialist from
the federal Center for Disease
Control in Atlanta said the CDC is
working on a plan with Texas and
local health officials in four South
Texas counties to stop the out
break.
“It (the measles outbreak) has
national implications because it
involves migrant workers,” said
Dennis Olsen. “They (workers)
will be moving across the United
States.”
Dr. Alan Bloch, a CDC epide
miologist in Harlingen, said at
least one-third of those who have
contracted the disease have been
hospitalized and half of those hos
pitalized have developed
pneumonia.
Bloch said about 1,100 measles
cases have been reported nation
wide this year, and only an out
break of 110 cases in Philadelphia
has outnumbered the frequency of
Texas cases.
At least another 45 cases are
suspected in the lower Rio Grande
Valley, but those incidents have
not been medically confirmed,
federal health officials said
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Beam could not be reached for
comment.
Santa Fe Police Chief Bryan
Lamb said he would have all six of
his regular officers and eight re
servists on duty. He said the Gal
veston County sheriffs depart
ment and Texas Department of
Public safety would help provide
security.
“I don’t expect any problems,”
Lamb said. “I think they (the Klan
and fishermen opposed to the
Vietnamese) have so many prob
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