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Page 12/The Battalion/Thursday, December 6, 1984
Couple opens
hearts to needy
United Press International
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A New Jersey
couple who have opened their home
to hundreds of troubled youngsters
— taking on those “that no one else
wants” — enjoyed the sound of
laughter Wednesday from three dy
ing children.
Carl and Marion Banghart accom
panied their adopted children Billy,
3, John, 6 and Christopher, 6, on a
complimentary excursion through
Disneyland arranged by the Hous
ton-based A Child’s Wish Comes
True Foundation.
The Bangharts were forced to
leave another adopted and dying
child at home because the 5-year-
old, named Melissa, “does not adapt
to strange places.”
Also accompanying them on the
Southern California trip were Heat
her, 11, their only adopted child
who is not physically ill, and two
mentally retarded adopted adults,
ages 55 and 25.
While raising five natural chil
dren, the Bangharts also gave tem
porary care as foster parents to
about 225 troubled teenagers sent
them by the juvenile court system.
“We considered at one point —
when we moved to Massachusetts be
cause of my husband’s work —just
relaxing for a while,” said Marion,
58. “But every night when Carl came
home, he said, ‘Gee, it’s so quiet
around here.’”
A short time later, the first call
came from the New England Medi
cal Floating Hospital in Boston.
“They had a state child who had
to be pushed out. There was nothing
left to do for him medically,” Marion
said. “He was four months old and
had four holes in his heart. We went
and got him.
“Four months later, they called
again with a a 5-pound, 8-month-old
with fetal alcoholic syndrome. They
were just words to me then, but I was
willing to find out what they meant.”
The third call was another 8-
month-old.
“I told them on the phone that I’d
take her,” Marion said. “They said,
‘But you haven’t seen her. You don’t
know if she has two heads.’ But I
don’t care, as long as she needs me.”
When the family was asked to take
2-month-old Billy, an abandoned in
fant not expected to live more than a
year because of severe birth defects,
the Bangharts ended up in the cen
ter of a highly publicized court fight
in Boston to keep him connected to a
respiiator.
Ultimtely, the respirator was re
moved at the court’s direction, but
Billy beat the odds.
Heather is the only child without
medical problems, but she came to
the Bangharts a troubled youngster
with severe emotional problems. To
day, she is an “A” student.
“I plea bargin with God a lot,”
Marion said. “I say, ‘If’ll you just
help me out this one more time. I’ll
try to be a better person. And he lis
tens a lot. We couldn’t do it other-
e joys of being a
;d and
wise.
“I’m here to tell the
parent of handicapped and retarded
children. Too many people shut too
many doors on these little ones.
They need so much and have so
much to give.”
The Bangharts have taken guard
ianship of Melissa, adopted Billy,
John and Christopher and are in the
process of adopting Heather.
ABC reporter mad
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — ABC News White House correspondent Sam Don
aldson Wednesday blasted President Reagan for being unavailable to the
media and charged that presidential aides have effectively “kidnapped our
cameras and microphones.”
Donaldson, assigned to the White House since 1977, said relations be
tween the Reagan administration and the press are bad and getting worse.
He accused deputy press secretary Larry Speaks of using the “don’t
bother me, boy” technique to fend off reporters’ questions to the president,
and said Reagan was more concerned with staged photo opportunities than
addressing the issues.
“We’re kept so far away from him (Reagan), I hardly think I know him
anymore,” Donaldson told the 39th Annual Radio and Television News Di
rectors Association Conference. “They’ve effectively kidnapped our cam
eras and microphones. It’s come to a point where clearly we will have to do
something about it.
“We’ve got to do something to put pressure on Ronald Reagan to an
swer questions from the press.”
Consultant fees
cost Texas millions
United Press International
AUSTIN — The state of Texas
paid nearly $60 million in fiscal 1984
for advice from private consultants
in areas such as engineering, medi
cine and management, according to
a report released Wednesday.
“Texans may think all their tax
dollars go to pay a bunch of bu
reaucrats in Austin,” said state Com
ptroller Bob Bullock. “But slices of
the state’s budget pie went to almost
16,000 private consultants last year
for their expert advice in specialized
fields.”
The report compiled by Bullock’s
office said more than 60 percent of
the state’s outside consultant fees
went for engineering, medical and
architectural services.
The single largest payment, $1.3
million, went to the Kansas City,
Mo., engineering firm of Howard
Needles Tammen & Bergendoff for
work done for the state Department
of Highways and Public Transporta
tion.
The highway agency also paid
fees of more than $ 1 million to engi
neering firms in Nebraska, Florida
and Texas.
The report said engineering ad-
th«
vice cost the state $15.4 million last
year, while medical services cost
$13.2 million and architectural fees
were $8.4 million.
Ten state agencies, led by the
highway department, accounted for
about 60 percent of all fees paid in
1984.
The highway agency spent $14.7
million; Texas Department of Cor
rections, $4.3 million; the Attorney
General’s Office, $4.1 million.
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Attorney General Jim Mattox’s of
fice paid the Austin law firm of
Gray, Allison 8c Becker $147,714 for
legal advice. The same law firm also
collected fees of $781,905 from the
Department of Corrections, $21,197
from the state Department of Public
Safety, and $1,850 from the Board
of Private Investigators-Security
Agencies.
The report said payments for pro
fessional services amounted to less
than 1 percent of the state’s total ex
penditures in fiscal 1984, with the
average consultant contract costing
the state $3,679.
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