Page 6 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1981
Local /State
Candidate attacks water bill
United Press International
AUSTIN — Garry Mauro, a
Democratic land commissioner
candidate, is split in his opinion of
two land-related amendments
under consideration by Texas vo
ters in next week’s election.
Mauro told a Capitol news con
ference Tuesday that Amendment
4, which creates a state water trust
fund, is fiscally irresponsible be
cause it removes spending limits
on water projects.
“Amendment 4 would in effect
repeal (the state’s) spending limit
by pledging one-half of our state
surplus to a multi-billion-dollar
water plan,” he said.
Mauro said he favors develop
ment of a comprehensive water
plan for the state. But he indicated
that financing for any plan must be
approved by voters, not by
bureaucrats in Austin.
The plan, devised by Speaker
Billy Clayton, would increase the
state debt by 50 percent, Mauro
said.
He added: “And the people of
Texas would have nothing to say
about it. It’s a bureaucratic dream
and a taxpayer’s nightmare.”
Mauro is the only announced
Democratic land commissioner
candidate, but Clayton is ex
pected to oppose him in the
primary.
“I didn’t decide to oppose this
because Billy Clayton was the
sponsor, but it did enter into it,”
he said.
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10 Texans pilot planes
Hying medical missions
Keith Lindsey is a pilot with
a dream. He would like to join
with other pilots around the
state to help in medical
emergencies by starting a Texas
chapter of Air Life Line.
AirLifeLine is a non-profit
volunteer organization made up
of pilots around the country
who help with medical
emergencies, such as delivering
vital organs for transplantation
and rare blood types for transfu
sion.
AirLifeLine was founded in
Sacramento, Calif., three years
ago by businessman Tom Good
win. It occurred to Goodwin
that pilots have a unique situa
tion — they not only enjoy
flying in their spare time, but
they must fly in order to keep
up their skills and meet licens
ing requirements. Why not also
utilize the time spent in a very
expensive hobby to help
others? Thus AirLifeLine was
born.
Birth does not mean growth,
however. It took a plug from
“Dear Abby” to really get Air
LifeLine going. Abby said in
her nationally syndicated col
umn that she read about the
project in a California paper and
contacted Goodwin. Believing
the project to be a good cause,
she wrote a column on the
effort, as well as printing Good
win’s thank you letter two
months later.
Not only did individual pilots
respond around the country,
but also donations to pay for fuel
and plane rentals were sent to
the organizations.
And thanks to “Dear Abby,”
Lindsey, who lives in Fort
Worth, learned about AirLife
Line. Not only has Lindsey
signed up for the organization,
but he also has volunteered to
coordinate a Texas branch.
A television story about the
new coordinated transplant
program at the University of
Texas Health Science Center at
Dallas caused Lindsey to won
der whether help was needed in
the area. A call to the station got
him in contact with the health
science center. Learning there
was a need, he began seeking
out other pilots who might like
to volunteer. So far, nine others
have said they’d like to help.
“The development of such an
organization operating out of
Texas could be an invaluable
asset not only to the state but to
the whole Southwest,’saysDi
Charles R. Baxter, professor!!
surgery at the health sciemt
center. Baxter also is in chargt
of the Parkland Memorial Hoi
pital Burn Unit and is direct#
of the UT/Lions Transplant
Program in Dallas.
The UT Health Science Get
ter’s coordinated bankable
organ transplantation program
opened recently. Bankable
organs are those capable of
being stored for transplantatioa
at a later time.
The institution’s effort bring
together transplant work for
skin, burn and other trauma vie
tims; corneas and sclera, tissues
from the white of the eye; joints
for patients with certain bone
and cartilage problems; anil
transplantation of the iliac crest
a portion of the upper pelvic
hone often used for fusions. Hit
program’s skin bank is tbe
largest in the country.
The program already utilires
another volunteer group hits
work. A network of ham radio
operators helps the transplant
program by coordinating na
tional needs on a daily basis,
especially for skin and corneas,
Church ejects woman,
libel-slander suit follows
FINALS START IN 7 WEEKS
United Press International
TULSA, Okla. — A woman
seeking $600,000 in damages from
a fundamentalist church says
church officials harassed her at all
hours of the night and sent letters
calling her a fornicator because
she was dating a divorced man.
Attorneys for Marion Guinn,
34, filed a libel-slander lawsuit
against the Church of Christ of
Collinsville, Okla., three church
elders and a former pastor.
Guinn, who denied the accusa
tions, said church representatives
confronted her several times and
sent letters ordering her to admit
“your sin of fornication ’ and re
pent or be excommunicated.
When she refused, the threat was
carried out, she said.
“Our purpose in exercising this
discipline is to save your soul,”
one letter said.
“They were blackmailing me,”
Guinn claimed. “I don’t care if it is
in the church. It’s still called
blackmail.”
Much of the conflict stemmed
from her friendship with a di
vorced man and a weekend job
that decreased her church attend
ance, said Guinn, a registered
nurse.
“They want to give the third de
gree to anyone I have ever dated
to make sure he is the proper
mate for me, even though I have
no intentions of getting married, ”
she said.
“They didn’t like the person I
was seeing and they said he had an
unscriptural divorce, she said,
adding thdt the Church of Christ
recognizes divorces granted only
on grounds of adultery.
Guinn, a divorced mother of
four who has been a member of
the church for seven years, said
she was barred from the church
and other members were ordered
not to communicate with her.
The excommunication promp
ted some church members to dis
obey the order and visit her sec
retly, Guinn said, and other long
time members have discussed ter
minating their church ties.
The practice of accusing church
members of unsavory activities is
not new in the Collinsvillechurct
Guinn said.
Church members have open!
confessed to acts they didnotem
mit, she said, so they would is
forgiven and not he excoipm®
cated. However, women weit
more commonly singled out
men, she said.
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elders Tuesday declined to con fJQ
ment on the lawsuit.
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community standing.
Guinn contended the elder I
once confronted her at a laundroj
mat and insisted shg go to ]
church to meet with then
Another time the men converged
on her car as she arrived at boil
late one night, she said.
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