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v ool and rainy onditionsof lorida where ees and )W re in the low in the average ;re from the than they are :ess of heat is trie and aarlie Brenton Meteorologist f Meteorology efs les bert W. Rino tianity and ed by Dr. ofessor of this technolog •ogresses thett ;e to speak out =s too far,” lit i igion from tht do not conOitt land.” 3 i Supreme Court grants convict execution stay HUNTSVILLE(AP) — Convicted tiller Donald Gene Franklin, who faced death by injection later this week for the abduction-slaying of a San Antonio nurse more than 12 years ago, won a stay of execution Wednesday from the U.S. Supreme Court. Franklin, who turned 36 last week, had pinned his final hopes for a reprieve on the high court. He was scheduled to die early Friday. His attorney, Mark Stevens, was challenging the conviction on eight grounds, including improper com ments by prosecutors to the jurors. Similar arguments were rejected last week by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Franklin has had three trials and four execution dates. He has been on death row nearly 11 Vs years. He was convicted of the abduction and subsequent death of Mary Mar garet “Peggy” Moran, 27, who was taken July 25, 1975 from the park ing lot of a hospital where she worked. Moran’s mother, Patricia Craw ford, said, “I can’t believe this. This just goes on and on. I guess with ev erything that has transpired, it doesn’t surprise me very much.” Police arrested Franklin several hours after Moran’s abduction, but he refused to acknowledge any role in her disappearance. Several of the woman’s personal items were found at his home along with a bloody pair of pants. He insisted he loaned his car and the pants to a friend. Moran was found six days later, nude and barely alive in a Field near the hospital, suffering from shock and loss of blood due to multiple stab wounds. She died the next morning. Her disappearance had triggered a massive search and made the Franklin case one of the most noto rious ever in San Antonio. Thursday, October 1, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5 Warped by Scott McCullar 3: lfA'JE. TH£ PM5T/C A VP CAKWARP SUPPORTS IH '£M. HOW DO Y0U NANAGE. TO LOOK *0 SHARP IN JDST A NEW SHIRT? Waldo by Kevin Thomas I SETE YOU WROTE OFF A TRIP TO HAWAII UNDER "BUSINESS EXPENSES''. / JUST KIDDING/ SCARED YOU, DIDN'T I ? HEY, DR. GLADSTONE/ I WAS GOING THROUGH YOUR TAX RECORDS.' ...SO I REPORTED IT TO THE IR5 ! ieo) "T L Joe Transfer by Dan Barlow A&M Veterinary College offers device to restore dogs’ hearing By Bridget Harrow Reporter Older dogs unable to hear their master’s call, car horns or just the bark of fellow dogs now can have their hearing restored with the help of a hearing aid available through Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Patricia Luttgen, the only board-certified verterinary neurolo gist in the state, said she is trying to inform people about the hearing aids. She said she receives about four or five phone calls a year from dog owners who ask about them. “Dogs are living longer lives be cause of better veterinary health care,” she said, “and they are getting up there in years where the deafness is going to start to show more than it used to. “We have the diagonistic equip ment to determine which dogs need them, and in which dogs the hearing aid won’t work. Just sticking the aid in a deaf dog is not a guarantee that the dog will hear and benefit from it.” To determine how much hearing loss a dog ha's and of what nature, auditory-evoked potential testing is administered. A series of tones and clicks are set off in each ear to deter mine if brainwaves are generated from the sound. Luttgen said the college is looking for dogs that have conduction deaf ness, in which the nerve is fully or partially intact, but needs help so it still can send messages and signals to the brain to consciously perceive sound. This type of deafness can be treated with a hearing aid, she said. “Dogs that are nerve dead, where there is permanent damage to the hearing nerve, or in young puppies that are born just without the nerve cannot be helped,” Luttgen said. Another way dogs lose their hear ing is from infections that extend into the inner ear, she said. Conduc tion deafness usually begins when dogs are about 9 or older, she said. Luttgen said her dog was about 12 when she noticed his significant hearing loss. The dog hearing aid, made in Hu ron, Mich., has the same electronics as a regular human hearing aid, she said. It runs on a watch-size battery and has a volume control, she said. However, she said, the dog aid will be less expensive than human hearing aids because they are mass produced. “The difference in the dog hear ing aid is that instead of each aid having to be molded specifically for the ear configuration of each dog, all of them are made with a straight stem,” she said. For size adjustment, there is a compressible foam and the aid is run through the center of it, she said. The foam is selected for the size of the dog’s ear canal and then com pressed to a small ball, she said, but once inside the ear, the foam ex pands to fill in any excess space. The aid will work in any dog that weighs 10 pounds or more, Luttgen said. For smaller dogs, the outside bulb of the aid is too big, she said. The aid costs $250 plus state tax, and the basic exams and testing, which take about a day to complete, are no more than $100, Luttgen said. The foam and the batteries are the only replacement costs, she said. Luttgen said the foam currently lasts up to several months and costs just a few dollars for a month’s sup ply. The batteries last about two weeks if the hearing aid is used only during the daytime hours and a week if the aid is used 24 hours a day, she said. Since dogs have to be trained to wear the aids, Luttgen recommends a basic four-week training program. The first day should be spent keep ing the hearing aid in the dog’s ear for 15-minute periods, while re straining the dog from immedi- atedly shaking his head or pawing the aid out, she said, and the periods should gradually increase to 30 min utes during the first week. By the second week, the dog should wear the aid three contin uous hours a day at an increased vol ume, she said. During the remaining two weeks, the wearing time is increased until the dog can wear the aid all day, she said. “People who are very willing to work with their dogs and are home enough to do it have a good sucess rate,” Luttgen said. “We are getting about an 80 percent success rate with the first few dogs.” Luttgen said some dogs are too tempermental to tolerate the aid. “They are the kind who probably never had their feet in wet grass and have never been disciplined in their life,” she said. “And getting them to tolerate anything in their life has never been forced upon them ei ther.” Luttgen said she doubts that a dog-whistle hearing level can be re stored to any dog wearing the aid. “Even though hearing is not re stored to the original level, I think dogs like to hear the human voice,” she said, “even if it is saying ‘No, don’t do that.’ ” “Even though hearing is not restored to the original level, I think dogs like to hear the human voice even if it is saying ‘No, don’t do that. ’ ” — Dr. Patricia Luttgen, board-certified verterinary neurologist 2 ministers testify at hearing of convicted killer Brandley Technology could expand oil production DALLAS (AP) — A huge po tential exists to expand produc tion in U.S. oil fields, but experts said overworked fields will re main top producers only if the in dustry puts a priority on techno logical advances. During the boom times, “no one needed to do it better,” said Frank Schuh, president of Dril ling Technology Inc., at the an nual meeting of the Society of Pe troleum Engineers. “The problem is that 80 per cent of all the wells drilled in the world have been drilled in this country,” Schuh said Tuesday. “We’ve found it all.” If the industry is going to “sur vive on these crummy fields,” sev eral new methods of drilling will have to be explored, such as ad vances in drilling technology, he said. Robert C. Mills, vice president of Mobil Exploration and Pro ducing Services Inc. said the in dustry’s rededication to technol ogy is just as necessary as its consolidation and retrenchment. GALVESTON (AP) — Two min isters testified Wednesday they at tended the first two trials of con victed killer Clarence Brandley and said a hostile racial attitude was pre sent. “When you passed by a deputy or when you spoke to or asked a ques tion, you could tell you weren’t a welcomed guest or a first-class citi zen,” said the Rev. C. Anderson Da vis of Houston, director of the Na tional Emancipation Association. When prosecutor Rick Stover asked Davis if his assumption was a subjective opinion, Davis said a Montgomery County sheriffs dep uty told him during the trial that the case had been rigged. The prosecution asked Davis to identify the deputy if he could, but defense attorneys objected, saying they didn’t want to allow it if it meant the deputy would lose his job. Visiting State District Judge Perry Pickett ordered a closed hearing with attorneys and Davis so he could further describe the deputy. Tran scripts of the closed meeting will be sealed and sent to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Pickett is considering evidence at the hearing moved to Galveston af ter defense attorneys complained that witnesses would feel intimidated in Montgomery County, Brandley’s home county 90 miles to the north. The judge must recommend to the appeals court whether Brandley should be granted a new trial, his third. Brandley, 36, was convicted in 1981 of the August 1980 rape- strangulation of Cheryl Fergeson, 16, who was slain while at Conroe High School with her Bellville High School girls volleyball team. She was the team manager. The Rev. J.J. Roberson, of Hous ton, who also attended Brandley’s first two trials, said there was a prej udiced atmosphere, especially with an all-white jury. Brandley is black, Fergeson was white. “We tried to sit there and look at the jury and try to find one face that might be favorable to Brandley, but we couldn’t find that face,” he said. Defense attorney Mike DeGeurin asked Roberson if he thought things in Conroe had changed since 1930 when a black man was burned at the stake on the county courthouse lawn. District Attorney Peter Spears ob jected, saying the question was irrele vant, but was overruled. Defense attorney Don Brown tes tified he thought former Montgom ery County District Attorney Jim Keeshan tricked defense attorneys by saying if Brandley would go be fore a grand jury he wouldn’t ask for high bond. His bond was set at $30,000. Then Keeshan turned around and filed a motion to revoke Brand ley’s probation for possessing a sawed-off shotgun, which was den ied, he said. Sheldon Ekland Olson, a Univer sity of Texas associate professor in sociology, testified that he did a study of Texas’ death penalty in 1982-83 focusing on the first 10 years of its existence. He said the most likely person to receive the death penalty is a black defendant with a white victim in a rape-homicide case. 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