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HOUSTON (AP) — Five Houston
art groups will receive more than 10
sercent of the $21.5 million in chal-
enge grants from the National En
dowment for the Arts, allowing the
city to replace New York as the top
grant recipient, officials announced
Tuesday.
Two of Houston’s art museums,
its ballet, symphony orchestra and a
theater will share $2.35 million, En
dowment Chairman Frank Hodsoll
announced Tuesday in Houston.
“They are the best of the best,”
Hodsoll said. “All of this is a tribute
to Houston. 1 would simply like to
thank Houstonians for their efforts
to make the United States a better
place to live in.”
The NEA grants are given to the
country’s leading art organizations
to help them achieve long-term fi
nancial stability, he said.
Every year, panelists of artists,
critics and administrators, judge
hundreds of applicants, he said.
Endowment spokeswoman Ellen
Kotzen said, “The competition is
really stiff. It’s really unusual for
Houston to be getting more money
than New York.”
New York is thought of as the na
tion’s cultural core and has led other
cities in receiving the grants since
they were started in 1977, she said.
This time, 10 New York art organi
zations will share $2.15 million,
Hodsoll said.
Hodsell said the Houston groups
will have to raise more than $7 mil
lion above their usual budgets in
three years to keep the awards. NEA
requires groups to triple the awards
with non-governmental donations,
he said.
Hodsoll said matching the grants
could be difficult, considering Hous
ton is suffering from an oil-related
recession.
But he added that he was confi
dent Houstonians would dip further
into their pockets to ensure the five
organizations’ success.
Texas justice pushes
merit judge selection
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Supreme
Court Chief Justice John Hill says he
will step up his campaign to over
haul the state’s process of selecting
judges, despite the refusal of the
State Bar’s directors to take a stand
and opposition f rom the governor.
Texas now elects its judges, but
Hill and others want a system they
call “merit selection.”
At a news conference Friday, Gov.
Mark White said he favors allowing
voters to continue to select judges.
However, Hill said he has the sup
port of Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby and
Speaker Gib Lewis, who earlier this
summer proposed that he head a
special committee to produce a
“Texas plan” for choosing judges.
Hill said he approved the State
Bar board’s decision to poll the
state’s lawyers to find out what they
think about the method.
“I would expect it (merit selection)
to carry overwhelmingly,” Hill said.
Other Supreme Court justices and
the president of the State Bar, Wil
liam Whitehurst of Austin, have not
taken a stand on the issue.
Hill said his committee would
start consideration of a plan under
which a 15-member commission
would submit three nominees for a
judicial vacancy to the governor,
who would choose one to appoint.
After the judge has served two
years, he would be subject to appro
val by voters, but would run without
an opponent. Voter approval would
mean a new six-year term. Voter dis
approval would result in the ap
pointment of a new judge.
Dallas reports outbreak
of rare venereal disease
DALLAS (AP) — Health officials
say there has been an outbreak of a
•rare, curable, sexually transmitted
disease usually associated with the
tropics.
Dallas County Health Department
officials say there have been 175
cases of chancroid reported since
May, mostly in the city of Dallas.
Usually, only two or three cases of
the venereal disease are reported
each year in Dallas County, Dr.
James Randolph Farris said Mon
day.
Health officials were astonished at
the number of cases diagnosed, Far
ris said.
“When we were up to about 20
cases, we went ahead and contacted
the medical society and the hospi
tals,” he said.
Bob Williams, senior public health
adviser for the sexually transmitted
diseases control division of the
Texas Department of Health, said
no other Texas city has reported an
unusual number of chancroid cases.
Farris said chancroid can be cured
with antibiotics. The disease is char
acterized by painful genital ulcers.
Men are 10 times more likely than
women to contract the disease.
Chancroid may look like herpes
or syphilis, and the only way to con
firm the disease is by growing a cul
ture of the bacteria, Farris said.
Outbreaks usually last between
1 '/a years and two years, he said.
Officials with the Texas Depart
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Disease Control are helping to estab
lish a tracking system to try and find
the source, Farris said.
Senator: Agency needed
to keep Texas coast clean
AUSTIN (AP) — A state senator
representing Texas’ largest coastal
district said T uesday that lawmakers
need to put a single state agency in
charge of keeping beaches clean.
Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus
Christi, said the 1987 Legislature
should create a state agency that
would be “responsible for the coast”
. or give “one of the existing agencies .
. . direct responsibility in this area.”
Truan was joined at a news con
ference by Sen. Carl Parker, D-Port
Arthur, in support of a statewide
beach cleanup Saturday.
The three-hour cleanup by volun
teers is sponsored by the Center for
Environmental Education, a non
profit marine conservation organiza
tion.
“ At a time when it is obvious that
oil is declining as a great resource . . .
we need to tap other resources,” Par
ker said.
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resource to be tapped is the natural
beauty of Texas,” he said.
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