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TAMU ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY: Dr. David Meltzer
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Wednesday
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fore desired publication date.
Legal Aid group
seeks depositions
to find relief funds
PECOS (AP) — Texas Rural Legal
Aid plans to take depositions from
Reeves County officials to ask them
what happened to some of the
money and materials donated for
Saragosa tornado relief, a Legal Aid
spokesman said Monday.
Testimony from the depositions
could be used in any future lawsuits,
the Reeves County attorney said.
People nationwide sent donations
following the May 22 tornado that
killed 30 people and destroyed more
than 60 buildings. Some Saragosans
have voiced concern that some of the
cash and building materials were sto
len or lost.
At least two thefts involving Sara
gosa relief donations have been re
ported. In July, someone looted a
Pecos warehouse containing do
nated clothes and appliances, re
cords indicate.
In late September, district clerk
Juana Jaquez reported someone
stole her purse containing $4,000
cash in relief donations she said she
had planned to distribute in Sara
gosa. She has promised to repay it.
The Saragosa Foundation, a pri
vate organization that has collected
and distributed some donations,
asked Legal Aid last month to review
financial records from the sheriffs
office, the Pecos Jaycees, Jaquez and
the Saragosa Relief Fund Finance
Committee, which was appointed by
county commissioners.
Legal Aid’s Open Records Act re
quest netted some records, such as
deposit slips and copies of checks.
But after reviewing the records for a
week, Legal Aid attorneys want
more, spokesman John Muir said
Monday by telephone from his Wes
laco office.
“There’s a feeling it (the county’s
response) is inadequate and there
are continuing questions,” Muir said,
adding that foundation members
are concerned about who got how
much and on what basis the dona
tions were distributed.
County attorney Scott Johnson
said Legal Aid’s action is a step to
ward filing a lawsuit.
“What it amounts to is they want
to have judicially supervised deposi
tions,” he said.
Tony Gallego, head of the Sara
gosa Foundation, said one such ques
tion Legal Aid wants answered has
to do with a $200 check given to
jailer Sandy Kelly.
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Estimates of what the Texas pop
ulation will be in 1990 and 2000
have been revised by demographers
because fewer people are moving to
the state, said a Texas A&M rural so
ciology professor.
Falling prices of gas and oil and
the farm crisis have stopped many
people from coming into Texas, so
ciologist Dr. Steve H. Murdock said.
“A survey of 10 public and private
sector forecasts shows the average
projected population for 1990 is
17.6 million,” Murdock said. “For
2000, the average projection is 20.5
million,” he said.
After the 1980 census, it was pre
dicted that Texas could have as
many as 20 million residents by 1990
and 25 million residents by 2000.
At the time, these estimates
seemed reasonable, but immigration
to Texas has fallen from about
350,000 people per year in 1980 to
1982, Murdock said. Now it stands at
about 100,000 people per year.
“The growth rate has slowed sub
stantially,” he said.
He attributed this sharp decline to
problems with the oil and gas indus
try and agriculture. Gas and oil con
cerns are the state’s largest industry,
he said, followed by agriculture.
Houston and the Midland-Odessa
area have suffered the most from
the gas and oil industry, he said. The
Dallas-Fort Worth area, however,
still is growing.
During the 1970s, the population
of Texas grew about 2.7 percent per
year, Murdock said. From 1980 to
1982, it grew 3.6 percent per year.
From 1984 to 1986 the state’s
population growth slowed to 1.8
percent primarily because the num
ber of persons migrating to Texas
decreased, he said.
“Historically, the state’s popula
tion has grown by natural increase,”
Murdock said.
However, from 1970 to 1980, 60
percent of the state’s growth was due
to immigration from other states, he
said.
In the 1980s, two-thirds of the
state’s population growth occurred
by natural increase again, but the
rate of growth is still more rapid
than the nation’s growth, Murdock
said.
“The state is growing twice as
rapid as the country as a whole,” he
said. “The nation’s current growth
rate is .9 percent.”
Murdock said although Texas still
is growing, the increase has leveled
off since 1982. Demographers say
immigration will be similar to the
1982-1985 level and slightly higher
than that level until 2000.
“Most people doing estimates are
doing them more cautiously now, re
vising downward,” he said.
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of state visitors
expected to rise
AUSTIN (AP) — The number
of “Winter Texans” visiting the
Rio Grande Valley is expected to
rise to 125,000 this year, officials
from the Texas Tourist Bureau
in Harlingen says. The visitors
had a $154.4 million impact on
the area last year.
The tourist bureau is register
ing 500 to 700 winter visitors per
week, a 6 percent to 7 percent in
crease over last year, Linda Rath
of the Harlingen Chamber of
Commerce said Monday in a re
lease from the Texas Department
of Commerce tourism division.
“Our count depends on the
weather in the Midwest, but the
weather isn’t bad and the holidays
are not here yet,” she said. “We’re
not sure what the higher count
means —- if they’re coming earlier
or there are more people.”
Rath predicted a 7 percent to 8
percent jump in the number of
Winter Texans, residents of
colder climates who travel south,
usually between November and
April, to live temporarily in South
Texas.
Chuck Snyder of the McAllen
Chamber of Commerce said,
“This looks like a good year. Win
ter Texans are arriving earlier
than last year and in sizable num
bers.”
The McAllen Amigos Center
where Winter Texans register
their arrival in the city, opened
Nov. 9. Its count for the first
week was well above last year’s
Snyder said.
At its welcoming party for
Winter Texans on Nov. 5, the
Brownsville Chamber of Com
merce registered 100 more par
ticipants than a year ago.
Steve Bosio of the Brownsville
chamber said, “Both our infor
mation center and our mobile
home parks are ahead of last
year. And I expect the drop in
the peso will have a positive effect
on tourism.”
More than 75,000 Winter Tex
ans were counted in Valley recre
ational vehicle parks at the peak
of the season last year in a study
by Pan American University at
Edinburg.
Gilberto de los Santos, who
compiled the study with Vern
Vincent, said that figure is not
complete since Winter Texans us
ing other accomodations and
those not in the Valley in Feb
ruary were not counted.
Attempted murder charges
filed against wounded man
FORT WORTH (AP) — Police
filed attempted murder charges
Monday against a man accused of
stabbing five worshippers at a Ro
man Catholic Mass, before being
critically wounded in a struggle with
ushers.
The suspect, Pavel Dragonirescu,
28, remained in critical condition at
John Peter Smith Hospital Monday.
Two of the victims also remained
hospitalized.
The charges were sent to the dis
trict attorney’s office Monday, Sgt.
Paul Kratz of the Fort Worth Police
Department said.
A parishioner who was late to
Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Sun
day said he was the first to be
wounded in the scuffle.
Rudy Galvan, 55, who said he
usually arrives 10 minutes late for
Mass, said he stepped into the aisle
after seeing an usher pursue a man
with a bag, which Galvan mistakenly
thought contained church funds.
“The usher said, ‘This guy’s cre
ating a disturbance,’ so I just sort of
grabbed the man and said, ‘Come
on, let’s go outside,’ ” Galvan said.
After the man refused to leave, “I
grabbed him by the back of the
coat,” Galvan said. “I just said, ‘We’d
better go out.’ He apparently got me
on the hand right then. I was the
first one he cut and I didn’t even
know it.”
Officials said the knife-wielding
man cried, “Oh God, oh God, oh
God!” as he was wrestled to the floor
of the cathedral, and police specu
lated that he fell on the pocket knife
used in the stabbings.
Police Sgt. Ken Francis said, “He
had gone berserk inside the church
and stabbed several people before
being subdued.”
The Rev. Gonzalo Morales, who
was conducting services at the cathe
dral, said a disheveled man arrived
for the 8 a.m. service, the first of
three morning Masses at the down
town church, which operates several
programs for the homeless.
Shortly after the 11 a.m. Mass be
gan, Morales said, the man stood
and hurried up the middle aisle, car
rying his bag and something con
cealed in paper.
The man was well known to offi-
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less, police officers said. He was
charged with assault last month and
was a robbery victim on Nov. 4, po
lice said, refusing to elaborate.
Galvan said he did not realize the
man had a knife.
He said the man quickly walked
away from him and then went up to
(usher John Sheedy) and gave him
“a thrust to the stomach.”
Sheedy, an 80-year-old former
prizefighter who was stabbed in the
rib cage, was listed in stable condi
tion Monday, and David A. Yaniko,
54, who was wounded in the abdo
men, was in good condition at Fort
Worth Osteopathic Medical Center,
spokesman Tulisha Langford said.
Felix Lozano, 45, was treated at
Harris Hospital for an abdomen
wound, while Galvan and an uniden
tified man were treated elsewhere
for less serious cuts, officials said.
Galvan said the attacker was
tackled by about a half-dozen peo
ple.
“I must have been there because
God put me there, I don’t know,” he
said. “I felt afterward that I was very
glad I was there.”
UT ophthalmologist says infection
can cause blindness in AIDS victims
AUSTIN (AP) — An infection that causes a bad cold
in healthy people is blinding many AIDS sufferers,
according to a University of Texas ophthalmologist.
Dr. Gary Cowan, a physician, retinal specialist and as
sistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of
Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, said eye
problems associated with AIDS are so new that many
doctors do not consider the possibility of AIDS in their
diagnoses.
“But an eye disorder may be the first sign that AIDS
has begun in a patient infected with the human immu
nodeficiency virus,” he said. “Diagnosis is further com
plicated by the fact that the eye disease symptoms may
mimic those caused by other diseases.
“We now have a significant number of patients who
are going blind a long time before they die. So their
quality of life is further diminished.”
During a recent fellowship at the Jules Stein Eye In
stitute at the University of California, Los Angeles,
Cowan saw many AIDS patients with eye problems or
severe blindness.
He said eye disorders in patients with acquired im
mune deficiency syndrome, which cripples the immune
system, often stem from organisms that would cause
only mild, temporary symptoms in people with healthy
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rus, or CMV. In healthy individuals, Cowan said, CMV
might remain dormant or cause no more illness than
the symptoms of a bad cold. In AIDS patients, however,
it can cause retinitis, which can lead to blindness or
other severe disorders that would not necessarily occur
without the AIDS virus involved.
Prior to the spread of AIDS, “these infections were
seen only in transplant patients whose immune systems
were compromised by the drugs they were taking to
prevent organ rejection,” Cowan said.
Dr. Ken Blair, an Austin physician who has treated
many AIDS patients, said he has had patients whose vi
sion was threatened by cytomegalovirus. He said the
disease also complicated their treatment with AZT, or
azidothymidine.
AZT is the only federally approved drug for AIDS
patients. It has helped prolong the lives of some pa
tients, but it is not a cure. He said some of his patients
have been willing to accept going blind rather than
stopping treatment with AZT.
“People always say that if they get AIDS, they’ll just
go ahead and check out,” Blair said. “But you never
know what you’d do unless you’re in those shoes. Even
blindness gets pretty philosophical. Each day is a pre
cious commodity.”
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