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\ggie project to help
Warped
by Scott McCullar
landicapped girl speak
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Three Texas A&M University
igiileering students are de-
jloping a device that may allow
15-year-old cerebral palsy vic-
m to speak.
Jearching for a worthwhile
deal engineering design
project, the students
ed of Rachael Raatz, the
aughter of an art designer on
unpus. Born with cerebral pal-
icomplicated by brain damage,
^Hael cannot walk, feed her-
jlf or perform many of the
Isks most people take for
raated.
^■She’s dependent on her
for everything,” her
ithtr, Jim Raatz of the Texas
ngineering Experiment Sta-
onlsaid. “That wouldn’t be so
hard to bear if only she could
talk.
“Sometimes when she’s
trying to tell me what she wants,
I can’t figure it out fast enough.
She gets frustrated, I get frus
trated and the whole situation
falls apart,” he said.
Students Spencer Shawhan,
Scott Rich and Lee Ziegenhals
have developed a voice-
synthesizing machine that util
izes a hand-held keyboard and a
microprocessor. A speech synth
esizer chip generates appropri
ate sounds.
The basic machine design and
programming have been com
pleted, and the students are
working on the keyboard. Simi
lar machines are on the market,
they said, but the compact size
and low price tag — about $ 130
so far — make the students’ de
sign unique and well suited for
the handicapped.
Computers like the one the
students have developed will
play a major role in helping
handicapped persons overcome
barriers in the everyday world,
Raatz said.
“One of the first things pa
rents of handicapped children
discover is that the medical pro
fession can do little beyond diag
nosis of the problem,” Raatz
said.
"Parents finally end up hav
ing to go to adaptive people who
can provide the appliances to
help their children function in
the everyday world. Those peo
ple are engineers,” he said.
Texan ending 1,650 mile run
fant death investigated
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ALSTIN — Officials from
ncEialMr anc i Kerr counties re-
:ived $25,000 in state funds to
mtinue their investigations of
pa liiild and infant deaths,
n frJjhe $25,000, donated by the
secutive funding committee of
overnor’s Criminal Justice
Division, was released to the Ala
mo Area Council of Govern
ments at its meeting in Austin
Monday.
A nine-month grand jury in
vestigation resulted in a murder
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Genene Jones for the death of
15-month-old Chelsea Ann
McClellan of Kerrville.
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run from Dallas was turned
down for sponsorship by the
Muscular Dystrophy organiza
tion, but the family of the run
ner has been happy to help.
Thomas Holodak, 29, was
due to complete his run
Tuesday.
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money for cancer research.
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on June 10. His favorite charity,
Muscular Dystrophy, refused to
sponsor him, his mother said.
He was last spotted Monday
on Route 46 in New Jersey.
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we’re going to give money to
charity anyway,” Eleanor Holo
dak said.
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not to have the trip be in vain,”
she said.
“Since I decided to do that,
relatives, friends, even my
daughter-in-law’s parents have
decided to contribute,” Mrs.
Holodak said.
She said Thomas, a physical
education teacher and track
coach at a Dallas high school, will
decide which charity should get
the donations when he finishes
the run in Elmsford, his home
town.
“The money will probably go
to Muscular Dystrophy, who he
asked to sponsor him in the first
place,” Mrs. Holodak said.
“They said the trip was too
dangerous for them to be in
volved. They said if he wanted to
run somewhere locally (in Dal
las), they would be glad to take
part,” she said.
Holodak has been averaging
40 miles a day and has lived on a
daily meal and plenty of fluids,
his mother said.
Stockyard aiming
for tourist center
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FORT WORTH — Las Vegas
entertainer Wayne Newton is in
vesting $16 million to develop
the historic Fort Worth Stock-
yards into an entertainment cen
ter expected to draw 2.5 million
tourists a year.
Newton, one of five investors
in the $45 million deal, owns
half interest in the project
announced Monday by Billy
Bob Barrett, owner of the Billy
Bob’s Texas night club in Fort
Worth and one of the investor.
Plans for the development in
clude a turn-of-the-century
county fair featuring carnival
rides and an upgraded Cow-
town Coliseum, which is owned
by the city, said project spokes
man David Lindsey.
ment of Housing and Urban De
velopment to provide them with
a $12.5 million grant.
HUD would make a decision
on the grant by October, Lind
sey said, and if it failed to
approve the money, he said the
project would be revised.
“We’re not making this into a
Disneyland or a Big D-type de
velopment,” Lindsey said. “The
charm of the Stockyards is that
they’re real.
“It’s a large-scale area that
should be developed very sensi
tively. It’s going to be a real au
thentic western center,” Lindsey
said.
“I have fallen in love with the
Stockyards and with Fort
Worth,” Newton said. “I think
we have a great opportunity to
build a major tourist, entertain
ment and commercial center in
this historic setting.”
Newton and the other inves
tors have committed $32.3 mil
lion to the project, and they are
counting on the U.S. Depart-
The other investors are all
Fort Worth businessmen, in
cluding William F. Beuck II, a
developer; Holt Hickman, pres
ident of Pacific Cruise Systems
Inc., manufacturer of auto
mobile cruise controls; and
Steve “Cowboy” Murrin, a real
estate investor.
Lindsey said the development
was expected to draw 2.5 million
tourists a year and projected it
would generate 1,600 perma
nent jobs.
Murder trial fund
request dropped
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AUSTIN — A Walker County
Judge says the county withdrew
its request for $150,000 in state
assistance for the capital murder
trial of prison inmate Eroy
BroWn because it knew the
appropriation would not be
approved.
Judge Ralph Davis said Mon
day he withdrew me request for
the funds after being informed
that both Comptroller Bob Bul
lock and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby
planned to vote against award
ing the aid.
Hobby, Bullock and Gov.
Mark White comprise the advis
ory council that approves distri
bution of funds from the Cri
minal Justice Division of the
governor’s office.
Davis said the county, which
contains a large part of the
state’s prison system, had hoped
to use the state assistance for a
future trial of Brown, who faces
a capital murder charge in the
death of Ellis Unit farm mana
ger Billy Max Moore.
As yet, no date has been set
for the trial.
Brown has been tried twice
for capital murder in the killing
of Ellis Unit Warden Wallace
Pack. The first trial resulted in a
mistrial, and Brown was acquit
ted in the second trial of charges
stemming from Pack’s death.
Nearly $500,000 was ex
pended in Brown’s first two
trials, and Walker County au
thorities have said they cannot
proceed with a third trial with
out more money.
“It’s up to him (the district
attorney) to decide what he
(Brown) will be charged with,
but it’s up to the county to pay
for it.” Davis said.
White said if Brown eventual
ly goes to trial for Moore’s death,
he would try to provide legal
assistance through the attorney
general’s office.
State Sen. Craig Washington,
D-Houston, who served as
Brown’s attorney in the first two
cases, has opposed a third trial,
saying there has been no new
evidence.
Brown admitted that he shot
Moore and drowned Pack, but
said he did so because he feared
the two planned to kill him in an
area of the prison grounds
known as the bottoms. -
Soviet officials barred
from space center
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HOUSTON — Four high-
ranking Soviet officials came to
Houston as guests of a sister-city
association, but one place they
really wanted to visit is off limits
to them, State Department offi
cials said.
The mayors of Baku, Minsk
and Voronezh, plus the admi
nistrator in charge of Moscow
had asked for permission to see
the Johnson Space Center but
were turned down by the State
Department Monday.
U.S. reciprocates by limited
Soviet travel to about 24 percent
of this country, said Judy Jame
son, with the State Department
in Washington.
“Actually the Soviets only let
Americans see about 2 percent
of their country, since what is
available to American tourists is
basically inhospitable territory,”
Jameson said.
Officials also said all military
installations are off-limits to the
Soviet visitors.
Since the Soviet Union offi
cially allows Americans to see
only 20 percent of its nation, the
The organization which
brought the men to Texas is cal
led the Houston — Baku Sister
City Association. Baku, like
Houston, is a city whose for
tunes are tied to petroleum.
The visitors also toured Ten-
neco, department stores and
River Oaks mansions. They will
leave Houston Wednesday.