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Toddler needs
more surgery
on right foot
MIDLAND (AP) — Nineteen-
month-old Jessica McClure will un
dergo more surgery on her right
foot the day a parade is held to
honor those who helped rescue her
from an abandoned well, doctors
said Tuesday.
The toddler was in serious but sta
ble condition Tuesday following sur
gery Monday on the foot, Midland
Memorial Hospital spokesman Sue
Ristom said.
Meanwhile, thousands of West
Texans were expected to sign a huge
get-well card bound from San An
gelo for Midland and Thursday’s
celebration.
The 6- by 6-foot card is being
touted as the largest get-well greet
ing in Texas and includes a huge
Winnie-the-Pooh on the front and
the following message on the inside:
“You brought hearts together
from all over the world. Our hearts
go out to you.”
The card, sponsored by radio sta-
spe
tion KIXY, will be on a float that fea
tures hundreds of teddy bears and
other stuffed animals sent to Jessica
from around the world.
Friday morning, syndicated talk-
show hostess Oprah Winfrey will
tape her show in Midland. Officials
said the program will focus on the
efforts to save the toddler, who
turned 19 months old Monday.
During the one-hour operation
Monday, doctors cut away dead tis
sue from the side of the right foot
and heel, Ristom said. It is a process
that will be repeated Thursday.
Jessica injured the foot when she
fell into an abandoned well in Mid
land almost two weeks ago. The foot
was wedged between the well and
her body during the SSW-hour or
deal, cutting off the blood supply.
Doctors will have to cut away dead
tissue several times before they graft
skin from the girl’s thighs onto the
injured foot, Ristom said.
Jessica is eating well, playing often
and undergoing three pressurized
oxygen treatments daily, Ristom
said. The oxygen treatments are in
tended to help the body replace
blood vessels in the damaged foot.
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Sunrise Thursday: 7:37 a.m.
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and mild day through the center of the nation, although
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during the early morning hours.
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A&M De partmentofMetra I
A&M researchers develop
new teaching certificatio
By
By Jeffrey L. Jones
Reporter
College graduates can get the
skills needed to be certified as a tea
cher in Texas with an alternative tea
ching certification program devel
oped by researchers at Texas A&M.
Dr. Jon Denton, a professor of
curriculum and instruction in the
College of Education, said the pro
gram tries to train individuals for
their certification without repeating
courses they have already taken.
Denton said many of the people
who have gone through the pro
gram were professionals who de
cided to change to the teaching field.
“The first year (1986), most of the
candidates were from the petro
chemical field,” Denton said. “Oth
ers were recent graduates who had
prepared to go into various indus
tries, but for whatever reasons
changed their minds.”
The research began in 1985 when
Denton and his colleagues re
sponded to a proposal by the federal
government expressing the need for
such a program. Denton said A&M
is one of 29 institutions in the United
States that received this grant.
“Our first group came through in
June 1986,” Denton said, “and our
second group started in June of this
year.”
The popularity of programs like
this may be increasing with the pas
sage of a Texas law saying Texas
universities can no longer offer an
undergraduate degree in education,
Denton said.
Many students caught under the
law will receive a degree in some dis
cipline other than education and go
on to earn a master’s degree in edu
cation. Denton said this program will
provide these students with an op
tion other than a long graduate pro-
gam.
Denton said it takes 15 months to
complete the program, which has
two summers of classwork at A&M
and a year of internship at a partici
pating school district.
During the first summer, courses
include topics such as teaching
methods, classroom management
and instructional planning. The sec
ond summer is made up of more ad
vanced courses dealing with curric
ulum development and instructional
analysis.
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the avc
rgoing
rchers f
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school district. The . f A ‘ vM ari
(four class periods eadidiB P ai 1
a mentor teacher. 6!? 0 r ? ru S
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that the program hasbeer f ^ ,' v ar
in providing qualified edit ■
end-of-year tests admins' R '5 A&M
students of both theinien ; E ^ <aIl i 1 ^?
eran teachers, students anc ‘ *
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dents of their more ess If ra P u ^
counterparts. ed at a rate
"Much of the successffi! Di Georg
uted to the mentorteacte -A&.M, sai
ton said, “who give thenas aths were
and assistance.” itnshot woi
T he only disappoin'|°bile accid<
Denton is that he has k* pOrty-eigh
getting more school id drug-rel;
volved. j* se( l to the
“We tried to get sevt I 0111 cancer
more districts involved accidents,
said, “but they backed aw’ Simpson s
While 16 people passe: % prompt
8ase in
“The program assumes the stu
dents have had all the necessary
courses for their professional field,”
Denton said. “It results in cutting
out probably 15 to 20 undergrad
uate hours in courses they’ve proba
bly already had and aren’t essential
to their teaching certification.”
The internships are spent in
school districts such as Conroe,
Spring, Tomball and lola. As in
terns, the students are paid one-half
the starting teacher’s salary by the
atment ce
ess to become a
program, only six were pin
sitions, he said, possfi
school districts are war)
part of such a new progs
“Our biggest frustrate
said, “is having
not being able to
Denton said they are
ways to remedy ttii
through means such
program, which would ;’K^ ts
id internships similar PI? whic
“uies seen
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study wa
he said
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atment.
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Sources: Teens charged in dei
of officer were troubled youth!
•lecied
fse factors
iquent
oup of indi
He said
MIDLOTHIAN (AP) — Two teen-agers charged
with slaying an undercover police officer were troubled
youths, one a policeman’s son who considered drop
ping out of school and the other a self-professed Satan-
worshipper who delighted in scribbling the word
“slayer” in blood, acquaintances said.
The two Midlothian High School students, one 16
and the other 17, have been charged with capital mur
der in the shooting death of George William Raffield
Jr., who was posing as a high school student while inves
tigating drug use and sales.
The 16-year-old, whose name was not released be
cause he is a juvenile, is the son of a 18-year veteran of
Dallas’ police force, and his school guidance counselor
said he was considering dropping out of school.
The 17-year-old, Richard Geoglein, moved to the
area over the summer and was still making friends, ac
quaintances said. But others who knew him said the
youth boasted that he worshipped the devil.
The 16-year-old’s lawyer, Jim Jenkins, said that at
least two police officers told him that in the statement,
Geoglein implicated the 16-year-old as the one who ac
tually shot Raffield.
“He (the 16-year-old) told me he hasn’t signed any
thing or said anything,” Jenkins said. “He may not even
have been there — I don’t know. My defense will be
that he is not mature enough to realize the conse-
quences of his actions and should be tf e |
child.”
Geoglein can be tried as an adult beca^l
and a district attorney says she plans to k
year-old certified to stand trial as anadulu 5 '!
[ Ranger
‘T his is a very serious offense, and 1 p American re
ecute it to the fullest extent of the law,"' tiffin t 0 U
District Attorney Mary Lou Shipley said. Tuesday in j
Raffield, who authorities believe was Pleading hu
identity was discovered, was found deadEvador,
field eight miles south of Midlothian,aOJ'Tt repres
Fort Worth. He had been shot twice in tbf : K we dor
.38-caliber revolver. fesident J
Midlothian students said they had su^gNernrnent
field, 21, was planted at the school as an Balvadorar
narcotics officer. Bi^iers as
Raffield's fiancee, who asked notto^ ^ad 1479 tc
said one student threatened the officer k
“One of those kids told him about a "' jfikf'bert Ei
know you’re a narc and so does mydad I' Hie Sah a
your brains out,’ ” the woman, 19, said. Emission ,
But Texas Ranger George Turner said/ n dav nion :
had known his cover was hlowm, he'd ba (f Unknown «
signed.” JPP niostl ’
Vaughn also said his department was fld'FJt 20 staza
dents had identified Raffield. Grande, ^