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Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1981 State Water fund impact not known, legislator say United Press International Trust Fund would do to state AUSTIN — If voters under- spending, the proposed constitu- stood what the creation of a Water tional amendment would be over-' 18 yr.-olds Admitted! Every Thursday Night!! 8 till 12 p.m. TEXAS HALL OF FAME Music by Admission Debonaires *2°7person STAR SEARCH SUNDAY!! TEXAS HALL OF FAME!! Fun and Dancing From 1 -Midnight Come Listen to Brazos Valley’s Top Talent!! COMING OCTOBER 27th! Johnny Dee & The Rocket SB’s! whelmingly defeated, an East Texas legislator says. Proposition 4, which was au thored by Speaker Bill Glayton and is supported by Gov. Bill Cle ments, would dedicate half of the state’s excess revenue to a Water Trust Fund to guarantee bonds for local governments seeking to de velop water projects. Rep. Bill Keese, D-Somerville, said a poll released Tuesday by opponents of the proposition shows voters favor it only because they do not have knowledge of its full fiscal impact. A poll conducted by Opinion Analysts Inc. of Austin showed 38 percent of the voters favored Proposition 4 on the Nov. 3 re ferendum, 17 percent were against it and 44 percent were un decided. “If the fiscal impact of the prop osed water tax amendment is even partly understood, however, the voters would overwhelmingly re ject this proposal,” Keese said. Keese, a member of Citizens Against Water Taxes, said passage of Proposition 4 would violate the constitutional amendment passed in 1979 that limits the increase in state spending to the same rate as state growth. “Today the same people who proposed that ‘spending limit’ are attempting to subvert and effec tively repeal this spending limit with the water tax amendment,” he said. Keese also said passage of Prop osition 4 would necessitate more taxes, despite contentions by the proposition’s supporters that fu ture tax increases would not be needed. “Texas has avoided new or in creased state taxes for the past de cade only because there have been surpluses in each budget period, which have been used to keep up with inflation and unex pected emergencies,” he said. “If those excess taxes are already spent, the Legislature will have no alternative but to impose new taxes — possibly a personal or corporate income tax—on ally reduce needed servicn as aid to public educate highway maintenance.” Stuart Henry, a spokesi the organization opposing osition 4, said thegrouptaii rs more than $10,000 to Hgk ^ amendment. He said three or four would travel around thestate paigning against the propos “But we don’t have the j for a paid media campaign,' ry said. Mistaken use of experimental drug Hospital backs care of dying man ( United Press International HOUSTON —M.D. Anderson Hospital stands 100 percent be hind the care given a leukemia pa- N ient who received a mistaken continuous dosage of an ex- perimental drug and later died, a spokesman said Wednesday. The Washington Post, in a series on cancer drug develop ment, reported the case of electri cian Marvin Williams, 27, of Fort Worth, as an example of the diffi culties of cancer drug develop ment. 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Doctors then decided to give Williams a standard drug by infu sion, continuous injection into the blood stream. However, by mis take, Williams received deoxyfor- mycin by infusion, a procedure not approved by the government. Hospital spokesman Steve Stuyck said the mistake was disco vered 12 hours later, but it was decided to continue the deoxyfor- mycin because Williams’ condi tion had improved for the first time. “A decision was made at that time to, even though the mistake was made, continue that course of treatment until the first evidence of some toxicity. Then the treat ment was stopped,” Stuyck said. On Nov. 23, 1979, Williams died of leukemia and pneumonia. Stuyck said the hospital did not concede the experimental drug mistake hastened Williams’ death. Williams’ wife, Susan, said Anderson doctors never informed her or her husband of the mistake, a fact Stuyck concedes, although he says they were informed Wil liams’ leukemia was advanced and experimental treatment was a drastic step. “He was informed it was ex perimental,” Stuyck said. “He (and his wife were) not informed that the error had been made. He had been on several experimental protocols because he had re lapsed. “People do not go into phase one (experimental) studies unless they have very advanced disease and are essentially close to death. “We looked at the medical care after the fact and thought it was excellent. We felt that he received the most compassionate and the best medical care we could pro vide.” Anderson’s Dr. Robert Ben jamin, who directed a deoxyfor- mycin study for the Nation cer Institute, said tellins Williams about theerrorcoij have done her any good. “The patient doesn’tnd informed of what the dod thinking,” Benjamin said. M rs. 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