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eading for those who can’t
Taping opens books to blind
United Press International
DALLAS — Sometimes the
:n is not mightier than the
oken word. An agency in
Etas proves that point in
jens of weird accents and mil-
ns of words each month.
The Dallas Taping for the
— one of only a half-
:ensuch agencies under con-
ict with the Library of Con-
:ss—has opened the pages of
reasure Island” to blind chil
li in hospitals, computer
anuals to hi-tech buffs and
lancial reports to blind stock-
|ders.
We help anybody who can’t
id the printed word,” said
ncy director Edward Sterne,
lat means the blind, the
rningdisabled, the handicap-
person who is incapable of
ilding a book.”
He said the agency’s produc
tions, based on the voices of 130
volunteers, run the gamut.
“We tape trade publications
We help anybody who
can’t read the printed
word. That means the
blind, the learning dis
abled, the handicapped
person who is incapable
of holding a book. —
Edward Sterne, agency
director.
and financial reports,” he said.
“We do a lot of textbooks, docu
ments for graduate students,
newspapers, books on pesti
cides. We have an American In
dian who gives us scads of In
dian books.”
The service has filled the lib
rary of a local children’s hospital
with classics including “Trea
sure Island,” “Alice in Wonder
land,” “Tom Sawyer” and “Little
Women.”
Sterne said the service issues
about six books a month under
contract with the Library of
Congress and tapes another
2,022 publications monthly by
local request.
But the work is time-
consuming and difficult.
“For ‘20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea,’ ” he said, “we made
eight cassettes of 90 minutes
each. A volunteer gives us only
two hours a week. When one
volunteer is through reading,
we move in another so taping
goes on all day long. So that’s a
lot of volunteer time in a single
book.”
He said the printed word
sometimes can cause problems
when it’s vocalized.
“In current novels there are a
lot of four-letter words,” he said.
“It’s one thing to read some
thing in the privacy of your liv
ing room and quite another to
read it out loud.”
Sometimes the objections are
political or religious.
“We have two people who re
fused to read a book by Jane
Fonda because they didn’t like
what she stood for,” he said.
“Another reader wanted to
put a disclaimer on a book we
were assigned by the Library of
Congress,” he said. “This is the
Bible belt and the book was ab
out atheism, an anti-God trea
tise. That was tough.”
He said the assignment was
given to another.
“We have to be flexible,” he
said. “These are volunteers.”
He said the readers must be
given hours of training and
many cannot qualify in taping
national publications.
“The Library of Congress
doesn’t want to hear Texas or
Southern accents,” he said.
He said the Dallas agency
pioneered a new field of word-
talk.
Now, he said requests for the
computer tapes are flooding
from New York, Chicago, St.
Louis and elsewhere.
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Gramm opposes proposal
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United Press International
AUSTIN — Rep. Phil
lamm, of Bryan-College Sta-
, has been quoted by one
te representative as being
ongly opposed to a redistrict-
plan that would take some
lets from his current district
ive him some in House Ma
li} Leader Jim Wright’s dis-
The reapportionment prop-
al, which will go to floor de
les in both the House and Sen-
:next week, would take away
publican Gramm’s consti-
ents in southwest Dallas Coun
ty and put them in Dallas Demo
cratic Congressman Martin
Frost’s district.
To compensate for the loss,
primarily Democratic voters
from House Majority Leader
Jim Wright’s district would be
shifted into Gramm’s district.
Sen. Oscar Mauzy, D-Dallas,
who is sponsoring the plan, de
nied it is an attempt to punish
Gramm for resigning his seat as
a Democrat and successfully
being re-elected as a Republican
in February.
“The two changes are basical
ly a wash. They cancel each
other out,” Mauzy said Monday.
But Gramm supporters con
tend the primarily white and
conservative voters in Dallas
County gave Gramm 79 percent
of the vote in the special elec
tion.
“According to him (Gramm),
it (the changes) would make it
much tougher for him to get re
elected,” said Sen. Buster
Brown, R-Lake Jackson. “The
net effect of the two changes
causes trouble.”
In addition to the changes in
Gramm’s district, the proposal
also would alter freshman U.S.
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