Tuesday, March 10, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 5
S worker plans benefit run
liver transplant patient
By Cray Pixley
Reporter
A College Station postal worker
Hopes to raise $150,000 with a bene
fit run to help pay for a 6-year-old
girl’s liver transplant.
B Margie Morris is working with the
■ty of College Station to organize
the run to raise money for Myranda
| Murchison of Jewett, who was born
With biliary altresia, a malfunction of
the liver.
Morris, who is related distantly to
Murchison, says she realized Mur
chison would need financial aid for
the upcoming transplant surgery af
ter seeing a television newscast about
her.
“Myranda was in the hospital at
the start of 1987 for about a month
with peritonitis,” Morris said. “She
was released from the hospital, but
doctors told the family Myranda
would soon need a liver transplant
— that she couldn’t go for much
longer before her liver failed.”
Murchison currently is on a list of
Barton works to raise funds
for 6-year-old's transplant
By Cray Pixley
Reporter
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton announced
^Monday that he is working to raise
$100,000 toward the liver transplant
„ for a 6-year-old Jewett girl.
Barton also asked citizens of Bra-
VBos County and surrounding areas
■) help raise an additional $25,000
Heeded for Myranda Murchison’s
Hansplant.
uncoiwH Murchison, who suffers from bil-
ke SrHiry altresia, a chronic liver disease,
jhavtnHill have to undergo a liver trans-
s. LacuHlant if she is expected to live.
BsenH “The Murchison’s insurance will
UXtriHay $50,000, and $25,000 has al-
IrunrHeady been raised from various con-
adediHibutions and f und-raisers,” Barton
Bud in a press conference. “I am
Hoiking with the Murchisons to get
j Medicaid to make up the difference
Hbove $ 100,000.
■ “There was a national organ
transplant act passed in Congress in
|984, but it did not set a payment
Schedule for liver transplants.”
I The liver transplant surgery,
Hhich will be performed at Chil-
JU |P ren s Medical Center in Dallas, will
Host about $200,000, Barton said.
Hhe hospital has agreed to accept
Gov Hlurchison as a patient if a deposit of
on( j. | $100,000 is made,
billstofl Some transplants are covered au-
gunatically by Medicaid or Medi-
ire, but because liver transplant op-
m
erations are new, they do not yet
have automatic coverage, Barton
said.
“The bottom line is that $25,000
must still be raised for Myranda’s
surgery even if we do get the money
from Medicaid.
“I’m asking everybody in this area
to pitch in and help Myranda and
her parents to raise the additional
$25,000 as soon as possible.”
Barton made a special plea to
Texas A&M students to help in the
fund-raising activities.
“I think this would be a great pro
ject for A&M students to underta
ke,” he said. “It would show tremen
dous Aggie spirit by helping to raise
money for the surgery.”
Several events have been ar
ranged in March to raise money for
Murchison, Barton said.
“Myranda Murchison Day is
scheduled for March 21, and there
will be a barbecue at Harriman Park
in Buffalo,” he said. “I plan to be
present at the barbecue.”
Contributions toward Murchi
son’s surgery may be sent to the
Community Benevolence Fund P.O.
Box 125 Jewett, Texas 75846. Con
tributions should be marked for
Myranda Murchison.
“We are working with the Internal
Revenue Service to try to qualify the
contribution as tax deductable,” Bar
ton said.
patients needing liver transplants,
but setbacks could come up, Morris
said.
“Anytime Myranda is hit with an
infection, the doctors must remove
her from the list of possible liver
transplant candidates,” she said. “As
soon as she is clear of infections, her
name is re-entered on the list. She is
in good health now; her feedings are
supplemented with high protein
oils.”
But the cost of the liver transplant
also is an ominous problem, she said.
“Children’s Medical Center in
Dallas, where the transplant surgery
would be done, charges $200,000
for the operation,” Morris said.
“The Murchisons’ insurance will pay
$50,000. That leaves $150,000 to be
raised for Myranda’s surgery.”
Morris said she and her husband
got the idea for the benefit run when
they were discussing what could be
done in College Station to raise
money for Myranda’s operation.
“The idea of a run just caught on,
and I began checking with the city of
College Station about what would be
involved in the organization of a
run,” she said.”
The run is scheduled for April 11
and probably will begin at Central
Park, although the route has not yet
been chosen, she said.
The run, which is being co-spon-
sored by the Coca-Cola Co. and the
city of College Station, will consist of
two races — a six-kilometer walk and
a 10-kilometer run. A $10 entry fee
will be required, and T-shirts will be
given to all participants.
A jazz festival has been scheduled
at the same time as the run, Morris
added.
Any organizations interested in
having game booths at the jazz festi
val to raise money for the transplant
surgery can contact Sheila Mason,
program supervisor for College Sta
tion Parks and Recreation Depart
ment.
Morris said she is trying to enlist
volunteers to help organize and op
erate the run.
Any contributions towards Myr
anda’s operation can be made to
Myrandathon, P.O. Box 9351, Col
lege Station, Texas 77840.
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of the
le fioK
adio station asks listeners
to give programming ideas
KTSR 92 changes formats from KTAW 92
By Lisa Vandiver
Reporter
First there were build-your-own
jjalads, then build-your-own tacos
and now KTSR-Star 92 FM is featur-
Rnga build-your-own radio station.
I The former Bryan-College Sta
tion KTAW radio station changed
Ownership in February, resulting in
ghumerous changes in the station’s
■ormat.
I The changes in format are com-
Sng from a “master file” created by
The listeners of the station. The lis
teners are asked to send in their
pomments and suggestions pertain
ing to what they want in a radio sta-
Jion.
“This file does not necessarily
[nean that if I get 25 letters telling
ne to play Bob Seger that I’m going
Jo be featuring Seger every hour,”
famous Amos, the station’s program
lirector, said. “Basically, I’m getting
jhe feel for the market. I think we
pan create a radio station which un-
ierstands the complexion of the
market to the point where we can get
peryone to spend a little part of his
Bay listening to us.”
The response has been quite over-
vhelming to Amos, who refused to
give his real name.
“In 16 years of doing radio, I’ve
never, ever gotten this much mail,”
ylAmos said, as he slapped a file of let
ters on the desk.
p pH The transformation from one sta-
■•"^fion to another occurred Feb. 5
I ’when the station played more than
two hours of “You’ve Got to Fight
for Your Right to Party,” the rock hit
by The Beastie Boys.
At about 3 p.m., when the song
played for the last time, a voice on
the radio said, “Star 92. KTSR. The
noise is gone.”
“Basically, we have taken a lot of
flack for changing the format,”
“Basically, we have taken a
lot of flack for changing
the format. I listened to
this radio station before,
and it really wasn’t very
much of anything. ”
— Famous Amos, KTSR
92 program director
Amos said. “I listened to this radio
station before, and it really wasn’t
very much of anything.”
Although he has received many
complaints about the change, Amos
is not worried about the new format.
“The rock ’n’ roll roots the pre
vious station had were a) not very
deep, and b) had disintegrated into a
kind of a nondescript Top-40,”
Amos said.
Star 92 is playing basically the
same music, he said, but is doing it in
a more professional and streamlined
manner. The station is trying to
change its audience to focus on more
than just the 14-year-old audience
targeted by KTAW, Amos contin
ued.
“You can’t exist in an economy
such as this one on a diet of 14-year-
old listeners,” Amos said.
But the changes have created
some controversy on the Texas
A&M campus.
Karen Gribschaw, a sophomore
business major said, “I like the music
they’re playing and I think it’s a
good change of pace for the Bryan-
College Station area. It’s great to
have something new and different.”
Senior journalism major Frank
Hada disagreed.
“It’s typical of the redundant pro
gramming style prevalent in College
Station,” he said. “It’s all pop-
oriented garbage designed to make a
profit.”
But Dawn Burch, a junior recre
ation and parks major, likes the mu
sic.
“I really like it,” she said. “It’s a
really great alternative to the other
junk on the radio.”
Mike Rhymes, a sophomore gen
eral studies major said, “I think it’s
sad. I wish they would do more con
temporary stuff. I think they play
too many oldies.”
Other station changes include
new disc jockeys, new owners and
new staff members. Amos said the
entire FM staff is new, including the
news directorj Gary Mason.
Mason said, “We are coming in
because we want to work with Bill
Hicks, the new general manager,
and the assembled talent. Hicks is
like the rising star in radio right now
and it is a good opportunity to work
for him.”
lements: Texas behind in race
for supercollider research project
| AUSTIN (AP) — Texas can win
the competition to lure the $6 billion
Ifsiipercollider” research project, but
the state is trailing now, Gov. Bill
Clements said Monday.
| “Our competitors are Illinois and
California,” Clements said. “They
both have advantages over us.
There s no question about that.
1 “They have federal laboratories
that are in place. They have a head
start on us. So we’re coming from
behind.... But that doesn’t mean we
Can’t come from behind and not only
Catch up, but win this race.”
I The governor’s remarks came in a
speech to the Texas National Re
search Laboratory Commission, the
panel which will write the state’s for
mal proposal for the massive project.
Designed for use in high-energy
physics, the superconducting super
collider would be the largest piece of
scientific research equipment ever
built, officials say.
When completed in 1996, the su
percollider will be housed in a 52-
mile-long underground tunnel. The
project is expected to employ 3,000
people and have an annual budget
of $270 million.
Clements said the project would
be bigger than the NASA operation
at Houston.
“This is indeed a very, very im-
E ortant project,” he said. “It could
e the most important project that
we in Texas have ever received and
put into place.
“It could mean more jobs; it could
bring into Texas a larger continuing
investment than the NASA installa
tion that is such an asset to the Hous
ton area.”
Clements and U.S. Rep. Jake
Pickle, D-Texas, both told the panel
that although several sites in the
state hope to attract the supercol
lider, all Texas officials eventually-
will have to push for a single loca
tion.
“I don’t know of any place in
Texas that doesn’t want this pro
ject,” Clements said. “Every poten
tial site at this time is still potential.
Nothing has been eliminated.”
Pickle said, “At some point, I
think our state probably will have to
come up with a site. As soon as we
can, we need to concentrate.”
Clements said he expects that all*
members of the Texas congressional
delegation will join in the effort.
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