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HOUSTON — Harris County
voters will consider today a $900
million revenue bond to build
three toll roads which hopefully
will relieve the city’s crowded
freeways.
County Judge Jon Lindsay said
Houston’s freeways are operating
at double their designed capacity
and called the toll road plan demo
cratic since only users would pay
for them and not taxpayers in gen
eral.
Voter turnout is expected to be
better than in June when 12 per
cent of the registered voters over
whelmingly rejected a Metropoli
tan Transit Authority plan for a rail
system. The entire county will
vote this time as opposed to the
smaller Metro service area.
The proposed roads total 49
miles in length. One is a 21.6 mile
Hardy Street toll freeway be
tween the North Loop and Inter
continental Airport. The other
two roads would be toll-supported
links in the Beltway 8 system,
which has been planned since
1954.
Absentee voting on the propos
al for toll roads ended Friday, with
1,648 ballots being cast in person.
Harris County Clerk Anita
Rodeheaver said 1,118 absentee
ballots were cast in the Metro rail
election.
Metro has gone back to the
drawing boards to try to come up
with a mass transit plan voters will
accept. Meanwhile, General
Manager Alan Kiepper has dire
cted continued improvement of
historically inadequate bus ser-
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A little canine tutoring
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Scott Speck, a senior agricultural economics
major from Rock Spring catches up on
studying, with a little help from his constant
canine pal Liz. They were caught
studying near the System Building on a
typical Aggie dog day afternoon.
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PLAINVIEW — Some 1,000
spectators watched helplessly as a
stunt pilot lost the wings of his
plane and crashed to his death
while his wife described the air-
show routine he was attempting
over a public address system.
Wes Winter, 46, of Mesa,
Ariz., died Sunday while perform
ing a stunt at 250 feet during an
airshow at the Plain view Municip
al Airport.
Spectators said he had com
pleted two passes in his Partenavia
P-68C, making rolls and a figure
“8 On his third pass, Mrs. Win
ter told the crowd her husband
would perform a loop in the twin-
engine plane which she said was
not designed for aerobatic stunts
and had not been modified.
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CHICAGO — Children today
ire being'eroticized” by overexp-
isure to sexual materials, often
eading to incest, and are making
narijuana a regular part of their
ives, doctors say.
Parents are no longer the prime
itiiluenee in their child’s life after
age9and are deluding themselves
if they think they are, Dr.
DomeenaRenshaw said Sunday at
a conference on "Impact of Lifes
tyles on Child and Adolescent
i Problems,” cosponsored
hytheAmerican Medical Associa
tion.
"We have to learn desexualized
affection,” she said. ‘‘Grandpa
rents can he loving but they can
also be oversexualized.
"Grandmothers seduce grand
sons,” she said, citing a case of a
woman who slept with her young
grandson over a six month period.
Who thinks of a grandmother as
icing a sexual offender?
"Boys get seduced by older
women in and outside the family. ”
Rape usually is associated with
ds because of the consequences
of pregnancy. However, she said,
boys also must he protected when
leave home because “boys
also are raped. ”
"Kids are exposed to an enor
mous amount of sexual materials, ”
she said.
Children may be highly “eroti
cized” by available X-rated cable
or cassette television programs,
said Renshaw, a psychiatry profes
sor at Loyola University Stritch
School of Medicine in Maywood,
111.
On Saturday, Dr. Kenneth
Schonherg, director of adolescent
medicine at Montefiore Hospital
in the Bronx, N.Y., told the con
ference: “What we re seeing in the
rise in the use of marijuana is here
to stay.
“It is not a trend. It is not afad,
he said. “It will become ingrained
within us.
Once a month, one-third of high
school seniors become intoxicated
with alcohol — and between 15
percent to 20 percent with mari
juana, National Institute of Drug
Abuse statistics showed.
“There is clearcut evidence
smoking marijuana interferes with
the ability to learn,” Schonherg
said.
An adolescent smoking mari
juana while attending school may
experience short-term memory
impairment, poorer oral com
munication and may not he able to
recall information gained while
under the influence of the drug.
Marijuana use also impairs
motor coordination — slowing
reactions — interfering with abil
ity to perceive lights and sounds
and altering sense of time, he said.
The leading cause of death for
young people in 1979 was acci
dents— and more than 60 precent
of them were alcohol-related car
accidents, Schonherg said. The
19-year-old driver is in the most
danger, followed by 18-, 17-and
16-year-olds.
Unfortunately, Schonherg said,
adolescents do not perceive their
alcohol and drug use as a problem.
Five percent of adolescents are
in “deep trouble’’ with alcohol
abuse, meaning they run the risk
of suicide, pregnancy, running
away from home and dying in a car
accident, he said.
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