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Wednesday, February22 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 other says her son’s early eath was ‘the Lord’s Will’ United Press International IRVING — Friends of Jona thon Lehman called him “the jolden Boy” and the cards piled on the blue carpet at his mother’s feet were a mixture of hope, happiness, love and even- Jlually sorrow. Three-year-old Jonathon llied in a Memphis, Tenn., hos- Btiial Feb. 13, 11 days after re ceiving a liver transplant. For his parents, Darlene and |on Lehman, it was a time to re flect on three years during vhich they watched their “very special child touch the lives of (many people,” Mrs. Lehman Isaid. Their frail, 18-pound son Iliad fought a lifelong battle with liver ailment that left him in desperate in need of the trans plant doctors had hoped would jive him a chance for a normal fife. During the past year, waiting Ifirst for financing, then for a donor, the Lehmans watched Jonathon’s health lead him jfrom one hospital to another. Residents of the Dallas area raised the money to pay for the surgery. “The Lord provides a sup port family through the church,” Mrs. Lehman said softly. “Without that support, you might not make it.” Though Jonathon was only a child, the cards that flooded into the home spoke of a child who had an effect on families across the nation. Among them was a telegram from Texas Gov. Mark White. “In a world filled with suspi cion and hate, he taught many to care,” one man wrote. Another family wrote, “Jona thon touched our hearts, changed our lives. We thank you for sharing him with us.” Mrs. Lehman said strangers have stopped her and ex pressed the effect Jonathon had on their lives. But none of their kind efforts can soften the shock of their son’s death, she said. When word finally came that the long-awaited donor liver was at LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Jonathon, riding on his father’s shoulders, boarded a flight with his parents on Feb. 2. “I was anxious and excited,” Mrs. Lehman said, pausing slightly. “I was never afraid. We didn’t prepare ourselves for what happened, didn’t consider the possibility. It was a shock.” The operation took place Feb. 3 and doctors had thought he was responding well to the treatment. “I had just gotten a report that morning that the liver was functioning perfectly. This was the start of his recovery. It was almost too perfect,” she said. Mrs. Lehman arrived at the hospital for her daily visit Feb. 13 and “when I saw the doctor’s face and he put his hands on my shoulders, I knew he was telling me something bad,” she said. Dr. Gene Whittington, also shaken by the: turn of events, told her Jonathon had suffered a cardiac arrest. Mrs. Lehman said things happened quickly after that, but said she was sure the doctors and nurses did everything they could. “They were devastated, shocked and crying and felt that they had failed Jonathon, that they had failed us. And I needed to tell them they hadn’t, that it was the Lord’s will the way things happened,” she said. “If I could say something to parents going through the same things we went through, it would be that it’s not over with the operation. Too many other things can happen.” Mrs. Lehman said the family was making plans to return home just before Jonathon died and had not expected anything to go wrong because the new liver was “functioning per fectly.” Mattox has no objection to televising execution United Press International AUSTIN — Attorney Gen eral Jim Mattox said Tuesday he has no objection to tele vision coverage of killer James David Autry’s sched uled execution, but prison administrators reportedly are not receptive to the idea. A Beaumont District Gourt judge has set a March 14 exe cution date for Autry, whose scheduled execution on Oct. 5, 1983, was halted by a stay from the U.S. Supreme Gourt just 31 minutes before he was to die by lethal injection. After his new execution date was set recently, Autry said he wanted the proceed ings televised. “It’s not all that real to the public if they don’t see an ex ecution,” Autry said last week. “If they are serious about using the death penalty as a deterrent they should let the people see it.” Mattox spokesman Elna Ghristopher said Mattox read of Autry’s request and de cided to write the corrections board and inform its mem bers they had the authority to allow television broadcast coverage and to issue strict guidelines on how such cov erage would be handled. “He just felt the world is changing, with the broadcast media being so much a part of that change,” Ghristopher said. “It’s not so much that he thought it (the coverage) would be a deterrent.” The Department of Gor- rections already allows lim ited press coverage of execu tions but has never allowed still camera or television cov erage. Despite Mattox’s letter, TDG public affairs spokes man Jay Byrd said prison of ficials did not plan to grant Autry’s request. “I don’t know if the board has discussed it or not but it is my understanding from my superiors that we would not allow it,” Byrd said. Senate to discuss grad student dorm a special ef: ]■ I was poor4i B y Mar X Frances Scott ty education.(t. Reporter ege hereon™ A bill recommending that a lid 1 receive B c * orm ' tor y r eserved for grad- ., , , iHuate students will be introduced 11 \ e i° • ■T 0 Slutiem Senate tonight. I, scholasticsaiB phjiQgQphy professor Dr. John trierrf. /WcOermolt requested that the education I Senate look at this proposal as a nvown. ■solution to two problems: the ■ over 700 vacancies in on-cam- Btpus housing and the graduate Texas AM■ ^udents’ desire for on-campus olarships avaigj housing. ecause weldB At present, graduate stu- seems thank'll dents are not considered for a financial« dorm s P ace ,,ntil a11 freshman, transfer, and returning stu dents who request a spot have been placed. And even then the space is not guaranteed for the following semesters. The Senate a\so wiU hear committee reports on a bill con- cernine the placement of easy- to-read maps around campus for the benefit of visitors, and on a bill proposing that instruc tors put all course requirements in writing at the beginning of each semester, instead of just announcing them orally. The meeting will be held at 7:30 tonight in 204 Harrington. 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