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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.
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menstrual age should sis
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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,
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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.
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