Aide says renewal unwanted
TSU contract ‘unnecessary’
United Press International
HOUSTON — A highrank-
ing aide to Gov. Mark White told
three Texas Southern Universi
ty regents the governor does not
want them to renew TSU presi
dent Leonard Spearman’s con
tract, a Houston newspaper re
ported Tuesday.
Regent Winston Webster told
The Houston Post that White
aide Leroy Beck called him and
said the governor would like
him not to renew Spearman’s
contract. But Beck did not say
White wanted to oust Spearman.
Beck is White’s special assis
tant for internal affairs and
head of the governor’s Equal
Employment Opportunity
Office.
Because the talks between
Beck, Webster, Regent Percy
Creuzot and a third board mem
ber were supposed to be con
fidential, Beck said he did not
care to discuss them further.
However, he did not dispute the
publicized versions of the con
versations.
The governor’s spokes
woman, Ann Arnold, said White
does not want Spearman to have
a contract because it is unneces
sary.
“(At) other state universities,
the presidents serve at the plea
sure of the board (of regents)
and do not have contracts. He
was concerned about why it
would be handled differently at
TSU,” Arnold said.
Spearman’s appointment was
supported by former Gov. Bill
Clements in August 1980, and
Spearman’s wife was an active
supporter of the former Repub
lican governor.
Most of the regents contacted
say they favor keeping Spear
man as president of the pre
dominately black university.
M.D. disputes stroke claim
United Press International
DALLAS — A neurologist tes
tifying at Sheriff Don Byrd’s
drunken driving trial disputed a
defense claim that Byrd suf
fered a mild heart attack before
his traffic accident in April.
Byrd’s lengthy trial has be
come a battle between medical
experts.
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Dr. Kenneth Pool, a prosecu
tion rebuttal witness, said Mon
day he found no evidence of
medical problems that the sher
iffs attorneys contend caused
Byrd to crash his car into the
base of a traffic signal.
Pool said Byrd’s medical re
cords, even while ignoring a dis
puted blood test, showed poss
ibly heavy alcohol consumption
before the accident.
Hospital records showed that
Byrd suffered temporary liver
damage and had a low level of
sugar in his urine that might
have been caused by alcohol
consumption before the acci
dent in the posh suburb of Uni
versity Park.
However, the sheriffs per
sonal physician, Dr. Maynard F.
Ewton, said he believed Byrd
suffered a mild stroke before
the April 17 accident.
Ewton said he considered the
blood test, which showed a
blood-alcohol level nearly twice
the legal limit of intoxication,
not “medically relevant” to his
treatment of the sheriff.
Ewton said he suspected Byrd
suffered a mild stroke when
Byrd complained of inappropri
ate mood swings, amnesia,
sleeplessness, depression and
weakness two weeks after the
accident.
But Pool said Byrd could not
have exhibited symptoms of a
mild stroke for more than 24
hours.
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MINNEAPOLIS — A team of
University of Minnesota doctors
planned to fly to Denver Tues
day to find out whether the liver
of a boy, 3, who drowned can be
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from liver diseases waited fpr
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month-old Ashley Bailey of
Clyde, who is in critical condi
tion and has little time to live
without a new liver.
Dr. Nancy Ascher, who
headed the team flying to De
nver, said there is a possibility
the Denver child’s liver will be
acceptable for a transplant for
waiting.
But a university spokesman
and Ashley’s parents said the liv
er probably will be too large for
Ashley, who weighs only 11
pounds.
The Denver boy, Chris Cross,
was found floating face down in
a swimming pool in Thornton
Monday and died in Denver’s
Children’s Hospital.
“We do not know if the donor
is acceptable yet,” the University
News Service quoted Ascher.
Ashley has been deteriorat
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Annette Bailey Gossett. She is
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agreement will occur
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DETROIT — Chrysler Corp.
said Tuesday it was optimistic an
agreement could be reached on
the demand by the United Auto
Workers for a share of the firm’s
newfound profits for 47,100
U.S. workers.
Chrysler Vice President Tho
mas Miner told an impromptu
news conference he does not
know “if it’s possible or not” to
meet the union’s 5 p.m. Wednes
day deadline for completion of
the talks.
However, he said there was
optimism an agreement could
be reached.
Miner said Chrysler bargain
ers tried to dispel expectations
Monday that the firm, which re
cently announced plans to repay
its federally-backed loans, has
an unending supply of money.
“We tried to dispel that no
tion,” Miner said. “I don’t know
whether we did, but common
sense could tell you that, and I
think there’s a realization that
there’s an end to it.”
Miner would not elaborate on
the firm’s response to the un
ion’s bid for an immediate $ 1 an
hour raise for Chrysler workers.
UAW President Owen Bieber
said Chrysler told the union not
to be mislead by its record
second-quarter profit and loan
repayment announcements.
Talks also opened Monday in
Toronto on a similar wnge hike
demand by the Canadian UAW,
which represents 9,600 workers
at Chrysler Canada. Concurrent
but separate one-year pacts cov
ering the Chrysler workers ex
pire in January, and talks nor
mally would begin in November.
The early negotiations were
prompted by Chrysler’s
announcement of its plans next
month to pay off the remainder
of $1.2 billion borrowed three
years ago to avoid bankruptcy.
Chrysler last week also
announced a record $310.3 mil
lion profit for the second quar
ter. This came on top of a pre
vious record $172.1 million pro
fit in the first quarter.
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make $2 an hour lesst
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tion.
Firebombing suspect served
I Lincoln
with two arson indictments
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FRANKLIN — -A Robertson
County grand jury handed
down two arson indictments
against a Houston man, 34, for
the July 5 fires that damaged
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