Page 1Q/The Battalion/Friday, October 21, 1983
Women voters support
garnishment proposal
R.I.
by Paul Dirme
United Press International
AUSTIN — A controversial
proposal that would allow gar
nishment of wages to help en
force court-ordered child sup
port payments will be backed by
the Texas League of Women
Voters.
The league announced
Thursday that it supports five of
the 11 proposed constitutional
amendments that will be on the
November ballot. However, the
league opposes a proposal allow
ing the governor to suspend
constitutional law during enemy
attack.
The league said garnishment
— which could occur only if a
parent is late by at least three
payments — is “a fair and effi
cient way to provide regular,
timely child support payments.”
Texas’ constitution prohibits
wage garnishment for any
reason.
The league also is in favor of
taking away the governor’s veto
power over parole decisions
made by the Board of Pardons
and Parole.
In addition, the organization
endorses using the Permanent
School Fund to guarantee
school district bonds, allowing
small counties to have fewer
than four constables and four
justices of the peace, and au
thorizing probate-court judges
to hear cases in counties other
than l heir own.
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Suit filed over vitamin B-6 advice
United Press International
DALLAS — A business
woman who claimed massive
doses of vitamin B-6 damaged
her nervous system and left ner
unable to even hold a fork filed
an $11.5 million suit Thursday
against several health food
manufacturers and distributors.
excess fluids in the body.
The suit, filed by Diane Cald
well in Dallas County district
court, seeks $500,000 in lost
wages, $1 million for pain and
suffering, and $10 million in
punitive damages.
The suit names as defendants
William T. Thompson Co. of
Carson, Calif.; Nature Plus
Health Foods Ltd. of Farming-
dale, N.Y.; Natural Organics
Inc. also of Farmingdale; Roy’s
Nutrition Centers Inc. of Dallas;
Abundant Life Health Food
Stores of Lewisville; Tom
Thumb Stores Inc. 4)f Dallas,
and Gides Nu-Life Inc. of
Anaheim, Calif.
Morgan said the state law says
that someone is considered to be
’practicing medicine if that per
son treats or offers to treat any
disease or disorder and charge
for it.
medicinal and safe, both of
which are incorrect."
The suit charges the manu
facturers and distributors
violated the Texas Medical Prac
tices Act by representing large
doses of the vitamin as a cure for
“Mrs. Caldwell originally
went into Roy’s Nutrition and
complained of swelling of the
ankles because of an excess of
fluid,” her attorney Dr. Melvin
Morgan said. “They repre
sented to her that vitamin B-6
would be curative of her swell
ing problem.”
“They’re represent
ing that various pre
parations they sell are
medicinal and safe,
both of which are in
correct. ”
Morgan said the misrepresen-
tation constitutes a misde
meanor under Texas law.
“When you break the law,
you’re automatically negligent,"
tie said.
“That’s exactly what these
health stores are doing,” he said.
“They’re representing that va
rious preparations they sell are
Some medical experts claim
the body needs only 1 or 2 milli
grams of B-6 daily. Recent re
search has connected B-6 doses
of several thousand times the
minimum requirement to the
loss of sensory response.
Caldwell, 33, said she began
taking B-6 tablets last spring.
She said she took 15 of the 1-
gram tablets daily as a diuretic
and began to lose feeling in her
feet. A gram is 1,000 milligrams.
She said that as her condition
worsened, she increasei
dosages of vitamin B-6,
it might help her. in]®]
stopped taking the vitamsi
was improvin
learned Dr. Herbert
lx*rg of the Einstein
Medicine in New York
ported that loss of feel
caused by megadoses of
bi
Caldwell said her 1
the B-6 overdosages cam
to lose her business and ki
"If I got $5 billion I v
go through what I'veil
through," Caldwell said j
thing can compensiatefiK|
I’ve lost."
Morgan predicted tltt|
would lead to health situ
moving B-6 tablets ini
doses from their shelves 1
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Many Americans hungry
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WASHINGTON — More
low-income Americans are seek
ing food assistance, despite the
economic recovery, and there is
evidence of increased health
problems related to hunger,
Congress was told Thursday.
He said the number of chil
dren in soup lines in Mas
sachusetts has increased in the
past six months. Soup kitchens
that keep age data report that
children make up 15 percent of
the people they feed.
So teachers report an in
crease in hungry students, and
physicians report concern about
The House agriculture sub
committee met Thursday in the
latest in a series of congressional
hearings on hunger in America.
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J. Larry Brown of Harvard
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health told the subcommittee
the Salvation Army in Boston re
ports an alarming 200 percent
increase in the number of peo
ple in need of food this year.
Brown estimated that the
364,000 Massachusetts residents
dropped from federal nutrition
K rograms because budget cuts
ave lost 132.9 million pounds
of food per year. Yet, he said,
food banks expect to distribute
just 3 million pounds of food this
year — about 2 percent of the
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Teachers report an
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