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3 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1981
Local
T-shirt sales to fund animal shelter
By GARY BARKER
Battalion Staff
Animal lovers have a chance
this week to help their furry
friends by buying a T-shirt.
The Veterinary Services Orga
nization is sponsoring a T-shirt
sale today and Thursday in front of
Rudder Fountain. Proceeds from
the sale will go to the Humane
Society of Brazos County to help
build the Brazos County Animal
Shelter.
The sale coincides with the 8th
Annual Animal Control Confer
ence that is under way this week in
Rudder Tower. The conference is
expected to draw more than 150
animal control administrators and
technicians from around the
country.
Conference aims to improve
competence in animal control
There’s much more to animal
control than being a dogcatch-
er, and 150 animal control spe
cialists are on campus discus
sing just that.
The 8th Annual Animal Con
trol Conference is being held
this week in Rudder Tower.
The conference, sponsored by
the College of Veterinary Medi
cine, will run through Friday.
The purpose of the confer
ence is to improve the profes
sional competence of animal
control administrators and tech-
from several states will attend
the conference.
nicians.
The conference includes
programs and lectures on anim
al birth control, Texas animal
control laws, animal capture
techniques, animal sterilization
and animal adoption.
Dr. W.J. Kilpatrick, coordi
nator of continuing education
for the College of Veterinary
Medicine, said 150 persons
Dr. Craig Carter, a VSO
member and a veterinary clinic
al associate with the Texas
Veterinary Medicine Diagnos
tic Laboratory, said the confer
ence is designed to erase the
stigma of the dogcatcher.
“Animal control is much
more than just throwing a loop
around a dog’s neck and putting
him into a truck,’’ he said.
The VSO sold about $1,500
worth of T-shirts at a sale in early
August. Betty Blackburn, presi
dent of the Humane Society of
Brazos County, said she hopes
more shirts will be sold now since
more students are on campus and
visitors are attending the animal
control conference.
The shirts cost $6.50 each. VSO
members are selling 28 styles of
shirts featuring various animals
and slogans. The sale runs from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Blackburn said the Humane
Society has over $15,000 that will
be donated to the construction of
the animal shelter.
A plot of land at 2200 Pinfeather
Road was donated by Bryan as the
site of the animal shelter.
Although the ground has been
broken at the site, no date has
been set.to begin construction.
Both the cities of Bryan and
College Station, as well as Brazos
County, have agreed to help fi
nance the shelter. College Station
has appropriated $30,000, Bryan
has promised to appropriate
$30,000 and the county has don
ated $5,000.
The City of Bryan is waiting on a
bid from a contractor for the con
struction of the shelter.
“It’s harder to come up with a
contractor to work with donated
labor and materials,” Blackburn
said. “There’s just a lot of red tape
holding it up. ”
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state ‘gag’ order
United Press International
LUFKIN — An East Texas
newspaper and major newspap
er chain have petitioned a fed
eral judge to overturn a state
court ruling that says the media
may be barred from pre-trial
civil suit hearings.
“I think the impact is ob
vious,” said Joe Murray, editor
and publisher of the Lufkin Dai
ly News, which filed the suit in
conjunction with Cox Enter
prises Inc. “This would set a big
precedent and be one more area
that the public simply is kept in
the dark about. The judge ruled
that the public — which in
cludes the news media — could
not walk into public court.’”
The ruling was made last Au
gust by Longview State District
Judge Marcus Vascocu on a mo
tion by attorneys for Lufkin’s
Texas National Bank. A group of
bank stockholders had filed a
civil suit action over a manage
ment dispute with controlling
stockholders.
The hank attorneys success-
lully argued that national hank
ing laws permit the exclusion of
the public from a courtroom if
sensitive or complicated finan
cial matters are to be discussed.
Vascocu also suggested that
lawyers not discuss the case
with the news media. Murray
contends the judge’s suggestion
was a gag order.
Cox attorneys pressed for an
injunction against Vascocu,ina
petition to the Texas Supreme
Court, hut the court refused to
hear the plea.
“We re prepared to go totk
U.S. Supreme Court to get this
thing settled, ’’ said Roger Moss,
an attorney for the newspaper
group. “Neither our side nor
the other could find any casein
this state where the public had
been precluded from civil pre
trial hearings.
“The issue is simply this:
Does the public have the right
to watch the judicial system in
action?"
A hearing on the petition was
scheduled for Thursday before
U.S. District judge Willia
Steiger at 9 a.m. in Tyler or
Marshall, Moss said.
Vascocu said he could not
comment on the case since he
was the subject of litigation.
However, in previous state
ments he said he felt such mat
ters as hank correspondence or
audit reports might be mis
understood or misinterpreted if
released to the public during a
pre-trial hearing.
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