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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1981
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HOUSTON — Night people — instead of
watching television or roaming the streets —
may be able to channel their energies in the
classrooms of a midnight high school.
For biological, personality or financial
reasons, some people are night people and Hous
ton Independent School District officials consid
ering midnight high school classes say those stu
dents might be lost to the system without special
officials consider ‘midnight school’
“Some people have different rhythms,” says
psychiatrist Harvey Rosen stock, who suggests
that students given the opportunity of night class
“will opt for school rather than roam the streets. ”
Rosenstock said he has worked with teen
agers who are night people for biological reasons.
One girl went from being an A student to failing
because she stayed awake at night and had trou
ble going to school.
HISD officials say other students are night
people by preference or because they work. Both
often sleep through classes and eventually fail or
drop out.
The HISD has used enriched program “mag
net” schools to attract white students into minor
ity schools, and officials are studying a possible
midnight magnet school.
They will need school board approval, but they
suggest classes from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. might keep
more students in school and even reduce van
dalism.
“We have some involved in drugs ... others
involved in minor transgressions ... (we) even
had some fire-setting,” Rosenstock said. “Let’s
see if a number of these kids couldn’t be helped. ”
Faye Bryant, assistant HISD superintendent
for magnet schools, pointed out HISD has one of
the largest magnet school programs in the coun
try, operating 61 magnet programs as part of its
desegregation effort.
“We constantly try to find ways to get them
(students) back into the system, she said.
Rosenstock said HISD suffered $750,000
worth of vandalism last year and might reduce
the figure if some of the “roamers” were in class
at night. The HISD might also increase average
daily attendance — increasing state funds, he
said.
Rosenstock, who has volunteered to be a con
sultant, said the program should be tested with
about 25 students. If it proves out, it might
attract several hundred students, he said.
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AUSTIN — A leading Texas Democrat says Rep.
Phil Gramm, D-Texas, the point man in President
Reagan’s battle of the budget, is failing to act like a
Democrat.
State Democratic chairman Bob Slagle said Mon
day other Texas Democrats who voted for Reagan’s
budget cuts should not be criticized, but Gramm
deserves the heat he’s getting for promoting the
Reagan program.
Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Texas, is calling for party
(ague l sanctions against Gramm, and Reps. Kent Hance,
I9f>0 w Charles Steinholm and others who supported
arepi' Reagan.
me rew Slagle said Gramm once promised to vote and act
Hoem ^ te a Democrat in exchange for an appointment to
l|mz the House Budget Committee.
officiabt “While many Texas Democrats are distressed that
\ r .. . a number of the Democratic congressmen from our
, |77 state did not vote with the majority of House Demo-
crats on the budget last week, I would point out that
ic cotin it rnere ^y reflects our diversity as a party and that
still t ^ ere are important distinctions to be drawn in judg-
( II ing each Democratic congressman’s vote and role,”
I Slagle said in a statement.
Although not naming Gramm, Slagle said all but
1 “ one of the Democratic congressmen from Texas had
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openly supported and campaigned for the party’s
ticket in 1980, and all but one had cooperated in
party events and fund raisers.
Slagle said Stenholm, Hance, and Reps. Jack
Hightower and Richard White, who voted for the
Reagan budget cuts, all participated in a Democratic
fundraiser in Abilene in April.
“This is typical of all of our Democratic congress
men but one,” Slagle said. “That one is being lio
nized in the press and media for being a leader of
Republican causes. I, for one, find this media atten
tion offensive as he is the one who received his post
on the Budget Committee of Congress by giving his
word to the majority leader, Jim Wright of Texas,
that he would vote and act as a Democrat in Con
gress.”
He said the average businessman in Texas, when
he agrees to a transaction, keeps his word.
“A businessman in Texas usually refuses to have
further dealings with a fellow who welshes on his
word,” Slagle said.
“But we in the Texas Democratic party can decide
whether we believe Majority Leader Jim Wright, as
to receiving such a pledge of conduct from Phil
Gramm. And we can decide whether Congressman
Gramm’s subsequent conduct fulfiills that pledge. I
believe that most Texas Democrats will conclude
that Gramm’s conduct falls far short of his promise. ”
$1 million bond set for Texan
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SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — A Texas man is being
held under $1 million bond on charges he piloted a
(plane loaded with 600 pounds of South American
cocaine to the Sevierville airport. He was arraigned
Monday before a circuit court judge and ordered
moved to a nearby jail.
Clarence Dennis Newell, 51, of Kemah waived
the reading of his indictment and entered a plea of
not guilty.
The $200 million in cocaine was seized in March
denur by federal, state and local law officers. The plane was
nasu found abandoned at the airport, which is located
couldii about 25 miles from Knoxville.
^toston Newell was moved front Texas to Tennessee last
' .Jen. week after waiving extradition. He is charged with
possession of cocaine for resale.
asolinf No trial date was set.
I thin* f orrner Texas International Airlines pilot was
' csn ordered moved to Jefferson County on a request by
•ton District Attorney General Al Schmutzer. The attor-
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ney general sought the move because Sevier County
Sheriff Carman Townsend said he was having diffi
culty keeping Newell separated from inmate Charles
Leslie Kageler Jr., 24, a Lubbock man also charged
in the case.
Due to the construction of the jail, it was impossi
ble to keep the men separated, Townsend said.
Judge Ken Porter first refused, then granted the
motion on the move. Porter had denied the motion
because Newell’s attorney was reportedly en route to
the hearing and not able to speak for his client. But,
following a discussion with Schmutzer, the judge
reversed himself.
Newell, arrested in Houston May 18 on a Tennes
see warrant issued in Sevier County, was moved to
Jefferson County about 10:30 a.m.
Two others have been charged in sealed indict
ments returned by a grand jury, but their names
have not been released.
Kageler, whose father also is being sought in the
case, is charged with possession of cocaine for resale
and with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
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RED OAK — Texas' lone
",' female police chief took office
1111 Monday, climaxing a meteoric rise
in her 2-year-old police career.
Chief Judy Ransom — 37-year-
n ^ a old mother of two, who technically
outranks her husband, a police
corporal in nearby DeSoto — says
--^he is supported by most of Red
^ Oak’s 1,800 residents.
OP “I’m sure there are people who
don’t think I can handle the job,”
QjU she said. “But 90 percent of the
people back me.”
Ransom, who served as a re
serve officer nine months before
joining the department as a regu-
* on lar in September 1980, said she
n(js grew interested in police work
.ciithrough her husband, and struck
out on a new career “as soon as the
^kids were old enough to make
—^sandwiches for themselves.”
Mayor Lester Watkins said
^^Ransom was picked for the job be
cause “she’s a leader, and she’s
been doing a good job.
“Being a woman really didn’t
enter into our decision to select
her,” Watkins said.
I'j Not that the new chief s gender
”*goes unnoticed, however.
... “People expect some big old
husky broad,” Watkins said.
A “They didn’t know they were get-
1 ting a trim, good-looking woman. ”
- Jjji But from her four-man depart-
o ment, responsible for patrolling
,Jof,the town’s 36-mile stretch of high
ways, the support is strictly cop-
n fto-cop.
“She’s a professional, ” one offic-
'gllier said. “She runs the department
just like any other chief.”
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