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Waldo Thursday, October 3, 1985/The Battalion/Page 9 by Kevin Thomas WALDO/ T GOT TURN TO THC TODAY'S BATT/ CARTOONS/ THAT'S ( ^ THE BEST PART/ Nurse testifies Autumn Hills patient was being starved Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — A nursing home placed an elderly patient on a starvation diet before she died at the facility, a nursing consultant testified in state district court Wednesday. Dolores Alford, a gerontological nursing consultant from Dallas, said Autumn Hills nursing home records showed Elnora Breed was being fed only 600 calories a day. “Anything under 700 calories would be starvation,” Alford said. “It means they were starving the pa tient.” The testimony came in the mur der trial of Autumn Hills Convales cent Center Inc. and five of its cur rent and former employees. They are accused of murder by neglect in the Nov. 20, 1978, death of Breed. The 87-year-old woman died after living at an Autumn Hills facility in Texas City for 47 days. Alford testified a doctor gave a written order that Breed receive 600 cubic centimeters of liquid nourish ment each day. But there was no designation of what kind of food she was to receive. The records, she said, showed the nursing home was giving Breed about 600 calories of nourishment each day. Any order for such a diet is illegal “and a nurse cannot carry it out,” Alford said. She said the nursing home re cords show Breed’s diet was boosted to 250 cubic centimeters of nourish ment six times a day, six days before her death. In earlier testimony Wednesday, Alford testified a culture from a bedsore on Breed’s body turned up bacteria found in feces and urine. “It means the patient had to be ly ing in feces and urine for it to infect the pressure sore,” Alford said. The nursing consultant earlier had testified Breed suffered at least three bedsores. At least one of them had reached advance stages and the flesh was rotting. “Nursing failed this lady,” Alford said. “They abandoned her.” Defendants in the trial are Cas sandra Canlas, 31, former director of nursing services; Autumn Hills president Robert Gay, 58; vice presi dent Ron Pohlmeyer; Mattie Locke, 42, a nursing consultant; and Vir ginia Wilson, 62, former administra tor of the Texas City nursing home. The trial has been moved to San Antonio on a change of venue. Five death sentences upheld by court Associated Press AUSTIN — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday upheld five death sentences, includ ing that of an ex-convict found guilty of killing the wife of a minister who had befriended him. Jeffery Barney was convicted in the Nov. 25, 1981, strangulation of Ruby Longsworth at her Pasadena home. Mrs. Longsworth’s husband John is a minister who had helped Barney win parole from prison, where he had been serving an auto theft sen tence. According to court records, Bar ney, then 23, strangled Mrs. Longsworth with a microphone cord while her husband was out of town. The victim also was sexually as saulted. Longsworth testified on Barney’s 7 behalf during the punishment phase of the trial, a fact that puzzled Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Marvin Teague. Teague, in a dissent that said there were problems in Barney’s trial stated: “Given the facts of this case, it is difficult to understand or compre hend why the husband-victim testi fied ... on behalf of (Barney), unless there is more than meets the eye than what is stated in the majority opinion.” The majority opinion, written by Judge Chuck Miller, overruled all appeal points raised by Barney. “This deliberate and brutal mur der coupled with (Barney’s) subse quent callous conduct evidences a to tal lack of regard for the sanctity of life, ownership of property and re spect for the personal dignity of in dividuals who had gone out of their way to help him,” Miller said. In another Harris County case, the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the death sentence of Mi chael Goodman. He was convicted in the Oct. 16, 1979, shooting death of Jackie Ouin at a lounge. In a Dallas case, the appeals court affirmed the capital murder convic tion and death sentence of David McKay in the March 4, 1982, shoot ing death of Bobby Hill. The appeals judges upheld the death sentence of Robert Streetman, convicted in Hardin County in the Dec. 17, 1982, shooting death of Christine Baker. Also affirmed was the death sen tence ordered for Jose Guzmon, convicted in Navarro County in the Feb. 4, 1984, death of Henry Finch. Musical success story of a generation.." Schonberg^he New York Times Charles Wadsworth, Artistic Director The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Tuesday, October 8, 1985 8:00 p.m./Rudder Auditorium Under the artistic direction of Charles Wadsworth, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has lured a brand new audience to experience chamber music which previously was an art reserved for an elite few. Wadsworth introduces music and performers as one might share intimate chit-chat with family gathered for a southern-fried chicken dinner. Wadsworth sports a “Dennis the Menace” cowlick and boyish appearance which serve to put his audience at ease to enjoy chamber music in relaxing atmosphere. Wadsworth plays the piano, harpsichord and organ. He will appear with violinists Ik-Hwan Bae and Ida Kavafian, clarinetist Gervase de Peyer, violist Walter Tfampler and cellist Fred Sherry. As an added attraction, a Lagniappe Lecture previewing the night’s performance will be conducted by Franz Krager in Rudder Theatre at 6:45 p.m. . Tickets for the Chamber Music Society performance are on sale at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234. eid Variable presents MSC HOP FpxahY, ptt.DCT y 7 PA^ & TnuRMfrMtNT 5ATuRDAY, 05. OCT ir pM &0a5P fibMXFFlOA/ hUTH TA/ 350 M5C I’ll change your oil and filter for $9.95!” -Gary Stevenson, Quality Dealer. OIL & FILTER SPECIAL $9.95 (Including 5 quarts oil and filter change. Gasoline cars and trucks only.) 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