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'<■: n-College Station Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, PA 1701 Briarcrest Dr. Suite 100 Bryan, Texas 77802 Page 12AThe Battalion/Monday, Septembers, 1984 Linda S. Dutton, C.N.P. Texas spent $6,951 per inmate last year As a certified nurse practitioner in women's health care, she provides an alternative choice for confidential, comprehensive routine physical exams, birth control & minor gynecology problems. By appointment Prison budget nation’s loweS (409) 775-5602 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday United Press International LINGERIE SALE 20-25%OFF through Saturday yLacfte* 764-8289 900 Harvey Rd. Open til 7p.m. every night DALLAS — Texas prisons oper ated on less money than any prison system in the nation last year, according to statistics compiled by a national corrections organization. Statistics from the Criminal Jus tice Institute Inc. of South Salem, N.Y., show Texas spent $6,951 per inmate last year — far below the na tional average of $16,245. Alaska spent $36,493 per inmate, more than any other state. The Texas prison system had one guard for every 8.1 inmates as of the first of this year. Only three states had fewer guards per inmate, the non-profit of fit group said. And corrections olticers in Texas received less than half of the pre-service training of their counterparts across the hation. State officials have blamed prison understaffing for this summer’s in crease in prison violence. “When there is a shortage of guards there are problems,” Phil Guthrie, a prison spokesman, said. “It definitely increases the potential for violence.” Already this year there have been more than 260 stabbings in Texas prisons and 12 inmates have been killed by other prisoners. Almost twice as many guards were assaulted in the first half of this year, compared with the same period last year. Prison officials said the state used to be able to operate with less guards by using a “building-tender” system in which selected inmates acted as guards. In his sweeping prison reform or der, U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice forbade the use of building tenders in the state’s pris ons after prisoners claimed they were brutalized. Prison officials said the resulting vacuum contributed to the violence. “Six months ago, wedidi control,” said Jack Garnet, of the Coffield Unit in Eat “The inmates were tryingto they wanted to do.” On July 18, the unit’ssht guards became most acute veteran officer was seriousli in the prison’s third stabb guard in three days. SI B > A j Coffield’s guard stall I jumped f rom 375 to 520. “T hings are better now, Gabbard, a Cast field correct cer, said. “You just don’i much tension thesedavs." Texas ^ 3-17 vice u t you c< the Agg From a jses bein Baby elephant fatally gores worker MSC - TOWN • HAUL to fres t f a ns ^APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE . t.3-7 hmen and oil JsC2te JcntS W5-1S4S MSC TOWN —W“ FTAT/L United Press International MIAMI — A 1,500-pound baby elephant fatally gored an employee of an animal trading company who harassed the elephant by prodding it with an ax handle, police said Sun day. The 3 Vi-year-old African el ephant, a female named Charlie, pinned William David Sharp, 27, of Grand Prairie against the side of its reinforced plywood pen. The elephant gored Sharp at least twice in the abdomen with its four- inch tusks, breaking the aorta, said Metro-Dade County homicide detec tive Woody Geisler. “The animal was being harassed and he was just protecting himself,” Geisler said. “The elephant was just trying to butt him away.” Sharp worked for Animal Track ers, a Dallas-based company that bought two elephants from Dr. Ber nard Levine, a Miami veterinarian who owns the animal compound where the goring took place. “They had loaded this animal into a crate once. The crate fell over, so they released the animal and it went back into its pen,” Geisler said. “They came back later, but this ani mal at that point in time was not going to go back into that crate. “The victim tried to change the animal’s mind with an ax handle,” Geisler said. “He just got backed up against there. The elephant put it’s head down and rammed him — gored him — two or three times.” Levine keeps numerous exotic an imals for sale to pet shops and zoos. He said up to six elephants have been housed in the compound in separate pens measuring about 12 feet by 25 feet. Levine said Saturday it was the first time he had ever heard of a baby elephant killing someone. He could not be reached for comment Sunday. “As far as we’re concerned it was an accident. This is not a rogue ani mal or anything like that,” Geisler said. Sharp was pronounced dead at Baptist Hospital. supervise sne had "When we rather startles nursing shif t; Kilt.in said past Levine's; an area southwest of many horse stables ; and noticed there wer mals” there. arne pro .* ie Ags h; T he ii ddeiit v- jckie She ie tenni s 1. *TN<>l v KThe ioi i aid ou’i e iic i tc ectations mimal romp.i Sherril 1 got the I. Dorot Among pound an 1 the oomes mimats at 0 >ai, three and three llamas. One of Kesslt Levine’s as very ncident. >ut the ‘I'm not aware ol neighlMM'hood.’ Space-camp hopefuls vie for spot at sc hoc United Press International HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A week IN THE 845-2611 after announcing a program to give adults a three-day simulated space shuttle exerience, the earth’s largest space museum already had inquiries from 600 would-be astronauts, and the requests keep coming. Alabama Space and Rocket Cen ter officials in north Alabama say they suspect many of the applicants — ranging from grandpas to house wives — see the program as a way of being chosen for the real space shut tle — and they may be right. The rocket center last month an nounced an adult version of the popular U.S. Space Camp, a five-day program about space that in three years has attracted 4,000 children from across the United States. The first adult version will be Oct. 19-21 and is a trial run. Twenty adults — for $200 each — will train at the space camp’s simulated mis sion control and take part in a three- hour simulated space shuttle flight. Center director Ed Buckbee says the children who have participated in the popular U.S. Space Camp have probably sparked the interest of adults. That program is for chil dren 12-16 who spend five days at the camp and are housed in dormi tories. The children are taught the his tory and mechanics of rocketry, work with robot arms and run through four shuttle mission simula tions. “I think we found out that all that enthusiasm has fired up an interest in adults,” Buckbee says. “Six hundred people in the last week have contacted us," said rex ket center spokesman Lee Sentrll. ‘T hey’ve ranged from housewives to (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) personnel.” The center has sent out question naires and will select a cross-section of the population in the next week or so, he says. “One woman wants to give it as a birthday present for her husband, who’s 61,” Sentell says. “And a pilot in New Jersey offered to fly down with a check immediately.” Sentell says there’s little doubt folks asking about the space hope to one day get on the real tie, and he admits the experience could help their chances. “Anyone wanting to go on the shuttle will explore this possibility, he said. “It would not hurt their chance “Our t how th Hi If you had SpHCC c (for th mp, you wouk he shuttle progr ‘It would be a plus.” The P dult densed with < four and with the on historical factor! amp diut- On the first day, the tation session and an in rocketry and life-supj Adult space campers wi suits and tour NASA fa Marshall Space nei ter. 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