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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-
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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.
Williams’ leukemia relapsed in
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November 16
October 1979 after a year of remis
sion and Anderson doctors gave
him federally approved spot injec
tions of an experimental drug cal
led deoxycoformycin without re
sulting improvement.
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. Williams said ski
Dr. Michael Keating, whoira
her husband, after a Post re|i
told her about the mistake
“He was upset about this,
said. “He more or less tolii
what I had already heard-
there was an error.
couldn’t 1 have been
Although Stuyck spote
the general quality ofWi
care, he could not speak
what was said between K
and his patient or the family,
ing has not commented
“We’ve got 200 doctors™^-
and what is said between to
and patients is as differentasl
200 doctors, " Stuyck said,
tor see 35 to 40 patients adaj
can’t monitor every single
that’s said.”
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