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.
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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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