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United Press International
TYLER — A governor’s task
force heard that pregnant
women loo poor for private care
get no prenatal treatment from
the Tyler-Smilh County Health
Department, which sends them
more than 200 miles away to
Galveston when they go into
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The Governor’s Task Force
on Indigent Health Care took
five hours of testimony from 27
fitnesses Tuesday in one of sev
eral public hearings planned
cross the state in the coming
year.
| “For a long time we’ve had
wealthy cities and counties that
tvould absorb most of the cost of
indigent health care,” panel
tiertiber Jim Spearly said. “But
because of unemployment and
bther changes in the state’s eco- _
nomy over the past five years,
they can no longer absorb it.”
The slate has no definition of
indigence, but Mary Lobaugh, a
nurse with Tyler-Smilh County
Health Department, said a fami
ly of five with an income of $237
a week is considered too wealthy
to receive indigent medical care.
Several obstetrics nurses said
there are parts of East Texas
where pregnant women go with
out prenatal care because of
poverty.
They said that when such pa
tients go into labor, they are sent
to the nearest public hospital
with obstetric service for indi-
gents, John Sealy Hospital in
Galveston.
George Pearson, president of
the East Texas Hospital Found
ation and administrator of the
Medical Center Hospital in Tyl-
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United Press International
l| AUSTIN — There is no in
centive for blacks in Dallas
Coutily to be politically active
• under Texas’ new congressional
^districting plan, the president
of the Dallas chapter of the
NAACP testified Wednesday.
I “Most people feel we just
idon’t have a chance,” said Theo
dore T. Watkins, a Dallas
■counlant who testified on be
half of a challenge to the remap-
Bng plan.
I A three-judge federal panel
Bgan hearing testimony in the
i said it ijjwsuit filed by the slate Repub-
directh |i* (:an Party and the NAACP.
new piiBhey contend the plan unfairly
began protects two Dallas-area con-
I the chair Bessmen and dilutes minority
tales voting power.
.me d™ Pj an ’ passed by the
m $jjoii;Bexas Legislature and approved
S8ti5t)f|by the Justice Department this
in, i ;w1y ear ’ was opposed by Republi
cans who wanted not only a
Binority district but also a new
“edominantly GOP district in
lias County.
GOP and NAACP forces
favor a plan to turn the 5th Dis-
n trict, represented by Democrat
John W. Bryant, into a heavily
Republican district, and make
. the 24th District, represented by
I Democrat Martin Frost, pre-
m dominantly black.
I However, Watkins conceded
that the national office of the
-WlACCP in Washington had
Ijgiven Frost and Bryant a 100
•percent rating on votes concern-
urters!«■ , . .. ° .
ing the civil rights issue.
But Watkins said the new
Ian makes it nearly impossible
wra minority to be elected to
Congress from Dallas County
ol > ‘ ! .because white voters
pp j 1 County rarely support
[gone
neni.Ii®l
Dallas
m
a minor
ity candidate.
3i
ty voters vote along racial lines.
He cited the case of state Sen.
Oscar Mauzy, D-Dallas, a white
who won election in a Senate dis
trict that is 65 percent minority.
The battle over the redraw
ing of Texas’ 27 congressional
districts begin in 1980 when the
Legislature approved the GOP
plan. It later was rejected by a
federal court, which redrew the
lines along traditional bound
aries.
er, said that in 1982, Medical
Center provided almost $1 mil
lion in charity care and faced an
additional $1.1 million or more
in bad debts. He said that during
1983, combined charity care and
bad debts have increased to
more than $2.4 million.
Rep. Jesse Oliver, D-Dallas,
who moderated the hearing
Tuesday, said that because
Medicaid provides health care
funds to so few, some method of
providing health care for a lar
ger percentage of the popula
tion must be found.
“(The problem),” Oliver said,
“is very complicated in Texas be
cause we have so many counties
and we have a county-based,
rather than a state-based,
system.”
SEEING IS
BELIEVING
SO WHY NOT SEE
BETTER WITHOUT
THE AID OF
CLASSES
TO DO THIS, CAUL
DR. C. UETUR
AT
What’s up
THURSDAY
MSG VARIETY SHOW Applications are available in 216
Memorial Student Center and are due Feb. 3. Auditions will be
held Feb, 21*23.
STUDENT Y FISH CAMP:Applications for chairman, sub-
cliairman and recreation coordinator are available until Dec. 8
on second floor Pavilion from Janie Metzer. Applications are
due by 5 pan. on Dec. 8.
DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE:Canuses will be offered
Friday from 6 pan. to 10 pan. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. at the Ramada Inn. Pre-register by phone: 693-8178 or
846-1904. There is a $20 fee for the course.
STUDENT Y ASSOCIATIONtChristmas giftwrapping is
available in 211 Pavilion through Dec. 9 fr om 9 a,in. to 4 pan.
Please br ing your own boxes for the gifts you want wrapped.
BAPTIST STUDENT UNlONiThe Tim Sheppard conceit is
lege Station. Tickets
Union.
CO-OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION :The pizza party at Pas
ta’s is Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. All former, present and future co-op
students are invited to attend.
at 8
are
PRE-LAW SOGIETY:AIl members are invited to the Christmas
party on Dec. 2 from 9 p.m. to midnight at the Plantation Oaks
Apartments party room. For more information, call 260-0638.
METHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT :The luncheon and
Old Testament Bible study is at 12:30 p.m. at the Texas A&M
Wesley Foundation. Bring $1 or a lunch.
INSIGHT:Meet at 12:15 p.m. in 502 Rudder Tower for a stu-
dem/faculty discussion about computers and our privacy: “Is
Big Brother Watching You in 1984?“
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE:“The Seven-Percent Solution: A
Fascinating Sherlock Holmes Mystery” will show at 7:30 p.m.
and 9:45 p.m. in 701 Rudder Tower. Tickets are $1.
MOTORCYCLE CLUB:Meet at 5 tonight for a road trip to
Madisonville for dinner.
GUATEMALAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION:Meet at 7
p.m. in 504 Rudder Tower For the monthly meeting and movie.
TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE :Meet at 7 p.m.
in 503 Blocker Building for a seminar on career opportunities
in tire transportation Field. The guest speakers will be Ned
Walton, Matey Wilson and Donald Woods.
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OPEN BAR 7-9 p.m.
No cover for ladies before 9:00 p.m.
$200.00
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Now-Domr mss this n
1 con [ e ® "1 think it purposely diluted
U " 1 1 the minority voting strength,”
f , 1, ‘ al , 1 ' he said. “I really think it’s a di-
us, " vide-and-conquer-type situa-
enii^ B n ..
ie Maro-4 yy al j c j ns predicted the redis-
g. M”' 1 tricting plan will make it difficult
•v imtfl • to register black voters and to get
g ) cal them to the polls.
it isinnifV
ioiiamlu “There is no incentive for us
to get the first-time voter to the
Its,” he said.
But Assistant Attorney Cen
tal Dave Richards argued there
is no evidence that Dallas Coun-
Houstonian
could be
pardoned
United Press International
1 AUSTIN —The Texas Board
of Pardons and Paroles asked
the governor Wednesday to
/rV, 'grant a full pardon to a Houston
man who served more than four
years in prison for a crime he did
/ j not commit.
/ I Johnny Binder, 29, was con-
ivicted in August 1979 of stealing
$400,000 worth of valuables
1 from a Houston jewelry store.
He maintained he was innocent
t and was charged with the crime
ionly because he drove a yellow
Cadillac similar to one used by
the robbers.
Binder was ordered freed
from prison earlier this month
by a state district judge in Hous
ton when a Califoria prison in
mate who participated in the
jewelry heist said Binder was not
involved in the crime.
Under the Texas Constitu
tion, the Board of Pardons and
Paroles must recommend a par
don before it can be granted by
the governor. A board spokes
man said the pardon recom
mendation should reach Gov.
1 Mark White’s desk by the end of
the week.
PAUL
McCartney
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