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Thursday, July 17, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Uninsured parents win award in son's death ■ A U S T IN ( A P ) — A Brownsville hospital must pay cl.images to the parents of a boy Iho was refused treatment be- imse his family did not have riioney or insurance, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Wednes- lay. I Fermin Gracia Jr, 9, died Aug. 1, 1979, of complications that ap- larently developed after he was licked in the stomach, according tu court records. I T he Supreme Court, without writing an opinion, said it found no reversible error in the Corpus llhristi Court of Appeals decision Upholding a trial court ruling. I The ruling granted S850,()()() |o Fermin (.racia Sr. and his wife I'Liadalupe of Brownsville, par- *'ents ol the boy. I I he (u ac ias took their son to a llatamoros, Mexico, hospital July (i, 1979, after he was injured, fter four days, the parents took lim to Brownsville Medical Cien- jcr. I Dr. Elias Lorenzana examined [lie child at the hospital’s emer- lencv room and recommended that his parents take him to a pe diatrician the next day, according to court records. On Julv 23, the Gracias took their son to Valiev Community Hospital in Brownsville, where he was diagnosed as having possible pancreas and liver injuries that could require surgery. But a hos pital social worker determined that familv had no hospital insur ance and did not qualify for a fi nancial assistance plan, according to court records. According to records, the so cial worker told the parents the boy would be taken to John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, which she described as “the place where we usually send people that cannot afford to pay." Experts differed on the cause of death. Jurors ruled that Brownsville Medical Center and Valley Com munity Hospital were 90 percent responsible for the death. Loren- zana was held 10 percent liable. Mock trial of JFK’s killer to be filmed ODESSA (AP) — U.S. District Judge Lucius D. Bunton says he will preside over a televised mock trial of Lee Harvev Oswald when filming begins next week in London. Bunton said Tuesday he does not expect the trial to be especially chal lenging and said the event will give historv buf fs a chance to take a sec ond look at the 1963 assassination in Dallas. London Weekend Television offi cials announced Wednesday they are negotiating with witnesses who testi fied before the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination. “I don’t think it hurts us to look at events that created big changes in our historv and trv to make that de termination ('about the presidential assassination) in our minds,” Bunton told the Midland Reporter-Tele gram. An of ficial with the London tele vision company said Oswald will be represented bv an empty chair. Os wald never was tried, having been shot dead two days after his arrest while being moved from one jail to another. The Warren Commission con cluded that Oswald was Kennedy’s lone assassin. Bunton, 61, said the prosecutor will be Vincent Bugliosi, the man who prosecuted Charles Manson. The defense attorney will be Gerry Spence of Jackson, Wvo., the judge said. Bunton said the filmed event is a semi-documentarv. He said the pro ducers initially asked a federal ap peals judge to preside at the trial, but when he could not make the trial because of previous committments, Bunton was asked to step in. “Any judge would tell you it is a pleasure to try a case with good law- vers," said Bunton, who was ap pointed to the judgeship in 1979. He said the trial offers a good chance to reconsider it historic event. “You have got to realize that this event occurred almost 23 years ago there are people who are married and have children who were not even alive at the time of the assasina- tion," he said. “I just think it is good for history buffs.” Bunton said in 1963 there was no federal law applying to presidential assassinations and the case would have been tried in state court. But he said the producers decided to follow modern law making assassination a federal crime. Officials said the program will be modeled on the company’s recent mock trial of England’s King Rich ard III, who is suspected of ordering the murders of his two young neph ews in the 15th centurv. Commission may lower Texas oil, gas production rate AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Rail road Commission voted Wednesday to consider two oilmen’s request to lower the oil and gas production rate to less than full production for the first time since 1976. The production rate has been at 100 percent — with the exception of two months in 1976 — since April 1972. The allowable has been slightly lower in some fields where the commission felt full production could produce w aste. In their petition, Dallas oilmen H.S. Bennett and William Burrow said full production has produced waste throughout the state. They asked the commission to set the pro duction rate at 90 percent for most wells. “The state, the country and the world is in the state of overproduc tion," Bennett said in a telephone in terview from his Dallas office. “It just seemed to us that if the state of Texas showed some leadership to bring some order out of what is chaos in the oil and gas business, the Railroad Commission could cut the allowable a reasonable amount that would not make much difference but would give a signal . . . and in doing so might give QPEC a little en couragement that the states recog nize overproduction and were trying to do something to alleviate the situ ation.” Commissioners Mack Wallace, Clark Jobe and Jim Nugent voted unanimously to refer the reduction request to an examiner for a full hearing. No date was specified. Also Wednesday, the panel set a 100 percent August production rate for almost all Texas fields. 2\ Spreading word on A&M all in a day’s work By Jeanne Isenberg Staff Writer spacea®Ye X as A&M University breeds try tlun ws stories bv the barrelful, and the s on a Office of Public Information does its avingaJist to spread tbe word — locally, the pat' statewide and nationally, lie bcJLine B. Stephenson, director of .He Office of Public Information, i jB) 5 * ie ' s selling A&M primarily on a ‘ J 0111 state and national level because lo- • • Illy, The Br\nn-College Station Ea- p gie and The Battalion already cover "" le University in detail. ■ “If you don’t toot your own horn, you don’t get recognized,” Stephen- -oom aclson says. “But you must have some- irinalWhing significant to say, and you he urifli| ust present it in an interesting i the fc| man l#J§ fie uriwi convert convert to bodij law m manner. Fortunately, there’s a lot going on here.” The office sends out about 15 dif ferent news releases per week, he says, ranging from short announce ments to more in-depth stories on such subjects as research programs. Information comes to the office through a variety of sources, and Stephenson says he has organized his staff in much the same way as a newspaper’s beat system. Staff members cover designated areas around the campus, such as the different colleges and depart ments, and handle campus news ex cept for sports and agricultural re search and extension activities, he savs. The OPI doesn’t just send out re leases to publicize stories about A&M. It also publishes a book of possible news sources at the Univer sity. The book lists names and num bers of people who can provide ex pert opinions on subjects from A to W. When the space shuttle Chal lenger exploded on Jan. 28, Ste phenson says, the office received scores of phone calls from the media because of A&M’s known affiliations with NASA. Stephenson says another method used to generate interest in the Uni versity is a tip sheet the office mails out. Containing a number of brief. interesting story ideas, the tip sheet gives the media people the chance to develop an angle that a news release might have overlooked, he says. Stephenson says his office has worked hard to build a reputation for telling it like it is and telling it quickly. Editors receive so many re leases daily that they have become less receptive, he says, and when a source such as the University has de veloped a reputation for brevity, clarity and interesting ideas the edi tors are more likely to pay attention. But despite his experience Ste phenson says he can never tell what the media will find interesting enough to print. 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