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Officer cited for bravery
By Ed Ahmis
Reporter
I University Police Officer
Gene Wilganowski has received
the Texas Department of Public
Safety’s highest award for brav
ery — an outstanding achieve
ment since he is not a DPS
take
trooper.
I The Department of Public
Safety Director’s Award is nor
mally given to DPS troopers for
outstanding acts of bravery, but
two years ago it was opened to
people outside the DPS. Wilga
nowski is the first police officer
outside the DPS to receive the
award.
I On Dec. 18 Wilganowski was
riding with a friend who is a DPS
trooper. They became involved
in a high speed chase which led
them to the Golden Girl Mini
Movie House south of College
Station on Highway 6. A fire
broke out, trapping seven peo
ple in the building. Five were
able to escape on their own.
While the DPS trooper called for
assistance, Wilganowski rushed
into the flames to save the other
two. He managed to pull one vic
tim to safety, but the other could
not be saved.
DPS Director Col. James B.
Adams presented the award
Tuesday night in Hearne, Wil-
ganowski’s hometown. The
award recognizes “significant
service to the mission of law en
forcement,” and fellow officers
readily agree that Wilganowski
has uncommon dedication to his
job.
Wilganowski was nominated
for the award by the DPS troop
er at the scene of the fire. The
nomination was then presented
to a reviewing board before final
approval. It was only the third
award to be given in a period of
more than two years. The award
is given only when it is merited,
rather than on a periodic basis.
Wilganowski says he was very
surprised by the award, and is
glad he was able to save a life.
United Press International
SPACE CENTER, HOUS
TON — Johnson Space Center
Director Jerry Griffin said
Thursday JSC will be heavily in
volved in the space station prog
ram proposed by President
Reagan, but employment will
not increase dramatically.
“We will obviously be one of
the major players,” Griffin said.
“I think in the near term it’ll be a
very modest impact in terms of
people because we re going to
kind of ramp this thing up in a
way that makes sense.”
JSC and Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville,
Ala., NASA’s manned space
program leaders, have been en
gaged in a friendly rivalry to be
lead center in space station de
velopment. JSC directed the
shuttle program.
NASA Administrator James
Beggs said in Washington a lead
center will be selected late this
year or early next year and
NASA personnel will be
realigned to strengthen the
directing center.
Griffin said it will not make a
significant difference which
center leads because all centers
are going to be involved.
“This is one program where
we’re going to insure we use all
the talent in NASA that we can
muster, and I think we will see a
great deal of all installations in
NASA involved,” Griffin said.
JSC now employs about 3,500
government workers and
another 6,500 contract em
ployees are involved either at
the center or in off campus. At
the peak of the Apollo moon
program, government and con
tract workers totaled about
15,000.
With the shuttle program
graduating from development
to operations, JSC needed a new
development program to keep
some of its people occupied.
JSC has proposed a modular
manned system. Marshall’s
plans have been oriented toward
unmanned platforms, JSC
spokesman Steve Nesbitt said.
Griffin said the biggest be-
nefit of President Reagan’s com
mitment is that, if Congress goes
along, it will give NASA and JSC
a new, longterm program to
make use of existing engineer
ing talent.
“I think we’re talking about a
development period of eight to
nine years and then an opration-
al period that might span
another 20 or 30,” Griffin said.
“It depends, again, on how well
we are able to design life into this
thing.”
Photo by Bill Hughes
Gene Wilganowski
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were ulkcB HOUSTON — Doctors for
pc V\edn D av id “the bubble boy” said
I survtv i Thursday it will take a few more
rial at Ik months to determine the success
noiher! of a bone marrow operation de-
ide thai signed to provide the immune-
ioihImi : deficient boy with disease fight-
d .Ik- » ing cells.
iikasiijp “We have not yet have con-
G ' elusive evidence that the trans-
irjay will ik plant was successful, however,
pumps to we haven’t had any indications it
lope tonui w m nol be successful,” said Dr.
William T. Shearer, an immuno-
iling "itli li legist at Baylor College of Medi-
■ serious f cine.
e said. V “We remain optimistic. Tests
igers ei". are being conducted on a daily
basis, but it could be a few more
months before we will be able to
make a conclusive report,”
Shearer said.
David, 12, has lived his entire
life in a series of sterile, plastic
bubbles because he has no im
mune system to protect him
against illness. He received an
experimental bone marrow in
fusion from his sister Oct. 21
that doctors hoped would pro
vide him with disease-fighting
cells.
Shearer initially predicted
doctors would determine the
procedure’s success within three
to six months of the operation,
but he said Thursday it would
take longer than expected.
“We have had preliminary in
dications that the concentration
of certain immunoglobulins,
which are potential anti-bodies,
and that the number of whilte
blood cells called lymphocytes in
David’s blood have increased.
While these findings are not
conclusive evidence the treat
ment was successful, they are en
couraging signs,” Shearer said.
Shearer previously said about
two of about 12 children who
have undergone the bone mar
row transfusion treatment still
survive, but he said those who
died were near death when the
treatment occured.
“We can only speculate that it
has taken longer because first,
David is much older and much
larger than the other children
with severe combined immune
deficience who previoisly re
ceived bone marrow tranplants
of treated monoclonal anti
bodies,” Shearer said.
“Second, David was not ill at
the time the bone marrow was
transplanted and the other chil
dren were. Third, David’s im
mune system, what little there
was, was not suppressed by
drugs or radiation as was done in
the other patients,” he said.
David, whose full name has
been withheld, has never been
seriously ill because of his sterile
environment. He is shuttled be
tween his “bubbles” at his home
and the hospital by a portable
space-type suit with breathing
apparatus.
He recently suffered a fever
and diarrhea, but Shearer said
David has fully recovered and is
in “excellent” condition.
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hen the« angered by the $44,000 salary
o, vep;"" l( given the new high school foot-
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j the first by the panel since new
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I Etheridge, who left Port
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