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t I I 1 ! i ( t i t k ! state Battalion/Page I February 23,1! Watchful parents can help kids’ ills A Texas-sized Howdy staff photo by Irene Mees Barry Parks, left, and Trey Beazley secure the “O” representatives of Aston Hall planned and made the outside their window at Aston Hall. The freshman 4’ by 8’ letters to commemorate Howdy Week. United Press International HOUSTON — Parents who notice early warning signs could save their children the unhappi ness of not being able to con ceive their own children later on, two experts say. “People need to see the long term in these matters,” says Dr. James Gullett, a gynecologist who specializes in fertility. “Peo ple are just not used to thinking in the early years about preserv ing their ability to have chil dren.” Dr. Emil Steinberger, chief of reproductive medicine at the University of Texas Health Sci ence Center, also says young people often are so concerned about preventing pregnancy that they ignore early signs of fertility problems. “They (can be) serious dis orders and should not be shoved under the rug just because a per son is not wanting a baby right now,” Steinberger warns. Culiett and Steinberger says males need to be more aware that they, as well as females, can suffer fertility problems and should watch for early warning signs and seek treatment if needed. I he doctors says unde scended testicles in males should be corrected before age b or t hey could be a problem. This is a new approach and many medic al books in the past have recom mended waiting until puberty, Gullett says. Mumps vaccine, which is routinely given when a baby is 15-months-old. is another step to prevent possible fei problems in males. Mumpt cause testicular infections! 1 fet ing with sperm produn capability. Young girls af menstrual age should sis pin sician to have their inti immunity checked,thed® s.n v Measles can darajgeil or end a pregnancy turely. 1 he doctors say t othei warning signs of poll problems in young female I hey listed excessive growth, acne, reaching a usual age with no mensim or sexual development, plained menstrual inta lions, breast milk secretions 1\ <inset of pubertyande® obesitv in early rears. Study: Budget one-third short United Press International DALLAS — The National Center for Policy Analysis con cluded that because one-third of all government spending is re moved from the official budget, the report is not a true guide to the nation’s finances. The NCPA, a Dallas-based think tank, said in a study re leased Monday that as a result of the high off-budget spending, the official budget has become a useless guide for assessing the effects of government finance on private investment in this country. The study said that at the fed eral level, no agencies were placed off-budget until 1973. It also said that since then an in creasing number of organiza tions such as the U.S. Postal Ser vice, the Synthetic Fuels Corp. and the Strategic Petroleum Re serve have been removed from the official budget. The study was written by James Bennett and Thomas Di- Lorenzo, economists at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. “Off-budget entities have been created to finance school buildings, airports, parking lots, recreation centers, courthouses, subways, bridges, electric utili ties and hundreds of other acti- vites,” Bennett said. “At last count, there were about 26,000 of them operating in the country.” “Spending by these agencies,” the study said, “has grown from SI00 million in 1973 to $23.2 billion in 1981, an increase of more than 23,000 percent in less than one decade.” The study said the impact on the nation’s economy is substan tial. The federal government borrowed $ 1 1 1 billion in 1982 to finance the official deficit. But, the study said, another $50 bil lion was borrowed by off-budget entities. “As a result, the federal gov ernment borrowed over 40 per cent of all credit advanced in the capital market last year,” the study said. The study said the phenome non has been largely ignored at the state and local levels, where the problem is worse, because widespread abuses in state and local finance in the 19th century resulted in states imposing con stitutional restrictions on the debt level of the state budget. Verdict OKs man for parole United Press International DALLAS — The man nick named “Snow White” by federal drug agents is happy with the convictions that could send him to jail for up to 171 years, be cause the one count that would have made parole impossible was thrown out by a federal judge. John Russell Webster Jr., 40, and three other men were found guilty Monday in federal court on a total of 34 counts of buying and selling cocaine brought to Dallas from Florida, Georgia and other Southern states in the past four years. The jury that had deliberated the case since last Thursday, af ter six weeks of trial testimony, declared itself deadlocked, however, on the so-called “king pin statute.” That charge, alleging Webs ter was the ringleader, would have sent him to prison for 10 years to life, without parole, and allowed the federal government to confiscate his extensive prop erty, including an expensive home and luxury automobiles. U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer declared a mistrial Monday on that continuing cri minal enterprise count. The government could choose to re try Webster on that charge. For his convictions on the other 20 counts, Webster faces up to 171 years in prison — but with a chance for parole — when he is sentenced March 31. “I’m just extremely happy that the jury had the same doubts as the judge did (about the conspiracy count),” said Webster. “He’ll never be found guilty of it,” added defense attorney Dick DeGuerin of Houston. “It’s a ridiculous charge. This has been a show trial from the begin ning.” Webster and three other men were among 35 people indicted last fall in what federal author ities called the biggest drug bust in Dallas history. Thirty-one of them pleaded guilty and many testified in this trial. “Obviously it’s a very fair ver dict,” said a prosecutor. “To get 12 people to agree on anything is difficult.” Services planned for slain reverend United Press International AMES — Parishioners had planned a wake Tuesday and a funeral mass today for the Rev. Henry Bouchie, who was shot to death in an apparent weekend robbery that left investigators few clues. Sheriff s deputies were await ing autopsy results for possible leads in the death of Bouchie, 68, whose body will be sent to his hometown of Dorchester, Mass., for burial. Bouchie was found shot to death Saturday in the rectory of Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church off U.S. 90 between Beaumont and Houston. Inves tigators said that the rectory was ransacked, but a Bouchie associ ate said he doubted that the thieves got anything. “The thing about Father Bouchie was he never ever had money in the rectory. Every thing was by check,” said the Rev. Raymond Woodka. “I don’t think Father Bouchie ever car ried more than $10 or $15. There was nothing of value there.” Investigators said the killing apparently occurred sometime between mass Friday night and Saturday morning, when Ethel Chargois, the rectory manager, found Bouchie’s body. E V Env Age whc poe Ellit staf be i tee said mat met she EP/ SOU] mg was Pub fuse Hen tee ell,