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lering a request from the Univer-
of Texas at Arlington to start a
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The cat’s meow
The lioness Delilah, fangless and clawless, lets out
a blood-curdling yawn from inside her cage at the
veterinary school. Delilah is currently being used
Photo by David C. Elmer
as a surrogate mother in an project that involves
embryo transfer. The project is being done at
Texas A&M.
Survey shows Texas gives less funding
or AIDS research than 45 other states
AUSTIN (AP) — Only four states
:nd less than Texas in Fighting
DS, even though Texas has the
don’s fourth-largest population of
ferers of the killer disease, a sur-
shows.
Texas will spend $581 in state
nds per diagnosed AIDS case in
87-88 on education and health-re
ed services, according to a survey
funding. That amount does not
dude hospital costs.
nly Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania
Iowa spend less on each case of
pired immune deficiency syn-
ome than Texas, according to the
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By Cindy Milton
Staff Writer
The funding of higher education
has been a challenge in the Texas
Legislature for the past few years,
but Texas Rep. Richard Smitn said
the issue will be stressed in the next
legislative term.
Smith, R-Bryan, announced
Thursday his intentions to seek a
third term in the state House of Rep
resentatives.
He said his past experience would
lead him to more leadership roles in
the House, including the issue of
funding for higher education.
Smith is an A&M graduate and
former mayor of Bryan.
Smith said his past leadership in
the community and in the Legis
lature shows his ability to work for
the best interests of Brazos County.
Smith has served on several com
mittees in the Legislature, including
the Business and Commerce Com
mittee and the State Affairs Com
mittee.
He also served as interim commit
tee chairman for the House Select
Committee on workers’ compensa
tion — the only freshman legislator
to hold such a position.
He said regaining funding for
higher education, which decreased
disproportionately after the eco
nomic boom in 1985, is one of his
main concerns for the next session.
“We need to try to get back to the
’85 levels,” Smith said.
The restoration of funding, he
said/is an essential part of maintain
ing the community.
He said that the restoration is eco
nomically tied to A&M.
In the current session, Smith was
able to regain some funding for
higher education.
For example, he played a big part
in getting pay increases for A&M’s
faculty, Kent Martin, chief of staff
for Smith’s political affairs, said.
In his press conference, Smith
said he plans to support job creation
in the state.
“Signs in the Texas economy show
that there’s a rebound underway,”
he said. “This is indicative (that)
there has been a turnaround.”
He said factors in the economy
will spawn a whole range of jobs, and
Texas is blessed with natural re
sources, but it needs to get back in
the competitive game with other
states.
Martin said Smith has been in
volved in a tri-state committee with
Florida and California to discuss the
states’ mutual problems.
This involvement, he said, should
help Texas in solving common state
issues.
Finally, Smith said he plans to
continue the support of improving
the prison system in Texas.
sory Commission on Intergovern
mental Relations.
Between 1983 and August of this
year, 2,699 AIDS cases were diag
nosed in Texas, the study said. The
Texas Department of Health now
lists 3,260 cases.
The study found that when state
expenditures on AIDS education
and social and health services are ex
amined on a per capita basis, Texas
spends 9 cents per person.
The U.S. average is 53 cents. New
York, California and Florida —
which have the three largest popula
tions of AIDS patients — and New
Jersey, which ranks fifth, spend
$1.31 per capita.
“The state Legislature was as slovy
as molasses” in providing AIDS
funding, C.E. Alexander, head df
the health deartment’s AIDS bu-..
reau, said. The Legislature ap
proved $2.1 million for AIDS-re-
lated services, education and
support activities for 1987-88. The
state previously spent only $147,000
on staff and support activities for
AIDS, the study found.
The study also contends that
Texas does not get its fair share of
federal money, although Alexander
disputes that.
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Texas received $4 million in fed
eral Public Health Service funding
for 1987-88. That means the state
received only 1.9 percent of the
funding available, even though it has
6.6 percent of the nation’s AIDS
cases.
“The cause of the lack of funding
in Texas is the state’s lack of aggres
siveness in applying for funding,” lo
cal health officials told those prepar
ing the study.
But Alexander said the state is ag
gressive in seeking funding from
public and private sources and re
cently got a portion of federal AIDS
money amounting to about 6 per
cent of the funds available, which
would be Texas’ fair share.
The health department has re
cently reorganized and created a
separate unit to deal with AIDS.The
information compiled by the unit
will be used by the Legislative Joint
Committee on AIDS.
Group says chemical leak
more toxic than thought
WICHITA FALLS (AP) — A group of home-
men who had lived in a cluster of shanties
[ged their tents, mongrel puppies and cans out
their makeshift homes after city officials
ced them out and razed the shelters.
Officials said the buildings were torn down be-
use they were contributing to a possible crime
oblem and leveling the ground prevented a
tentially harmful situation.
"Somebody’s got to be the bad guy,” Wichita
11s code enforcement supervisor Jim King said
er city workers destroyed the shanties
ednesday.
“We’ve been observing these folks for some
time and we’ve been advising them (that) this is a
temporary thing and they should take heed of
what they are doing,” King said.
Officials said nearby residents had complained
to the city that the men often were intoxicated
and fighting and would openly relieve them
selves on houses.
“Where are we supposed to go?” asked Vance
Stone, 49, one of several men who lived in the
area and were displaced by the city ground-clear
ing. “Can we camp in your backyard?”
Stone said he was a native of Hedley and has
been unable to work his usual truck-driving jobs
because of knee injuries, emphysema and high
blood pressure.
By mid-afternoon Wednesday, all that was left
of the shanties was a 5-foot-tall mound of items
that had been discarded by the men as they left.
Stone, Phillip Johnson, Rusty Goode and seve
ral who had been living there carried out every
thing they considered worthwhile.
Johnson said he was a Michigan native who
had left home about 10 years ago because it was
too cold. Goode, 50, salvaged two cans of barbe
cued chicken from the mess and talked about
feeding it to his Beagle-mix puppy, Rounder.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An envi
ronmental group warned Thursday
that the chemical involved in a Texas
refinery spill in October is 100 times
more dangerous than previously
thought.
The chemical is hydrogen fluo
ride, also known as hydrofluoric
acid.
Millions of pounds are used every
year in refining, metalworking, ura
nium enrichment and the manufac
ture of other chemicals, notably the
chlorofluorocarbon compounds
used as refrigerants, solvents and
foam blowing agents.
On Oct. 30, a crane dropped
equipment on a tank of hydrogen
fluoride at the Marathon Corp. re
finery at Texas City, breaking a pipe
on top that permitted the chemical
to escape as a gas.
Three thousand people were
forced to evacuate their homes,
some for several days.
If piping at the side or bottom of
the tank carrying liquid hydrogen
fluoride had been broken “and liq
uid had gushed out of this, we would
have had our Bhopal,” said Fred
Millar, hazardous materials specialist
for the Environmental Policy insti
tute. He was referring to the acci
dent three years ago in Bhopal, In
dia, in which more than 2,000
people were killed in the leak of
methyl isocynate gas from a Union
Carbide Corp. plant.
Tests conducted by the Energy
Department’s Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory for Amoco Corp. in the
Nevada desert last year showed that
wind spread all 1,000 gallons of the
hydrogen fluoride from the site, 20
percent as hydrogen fluoride gas
and 80 percent as an aerosol mist.
Correction
In a story Thursday, The Bat
talion reported that freshman ca
dets faced a hearing over possible
violations of state and University
hazing laws.
The cadets were under investi
gation for state assault laws, not
hazing laws, and the state has
withdrawn from the investiga
tion. The hearing will concern
only the possible violation of Uni
versity hazing laws.
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