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Leaders in the two cities cannot reach agreement on which comes first — restoring the monument or placing a historical marker at the site. Bill Turner, a Fort Worth busi nessman and student of Worth’s life, likens the war hero’s markerless monument to “an American battle ship without Old Glory flying.” But Paul Gunther of New York’s Municipal Art Society thinks the monument needs to be repaired be fore a marker is placed at the site. Erecting a new marker at the run down monument, he said, is like “gilding a pigsty.” Worth, born in 1794 in Hudson, N.Y., was seriously wounded in the War of 1812. He was promoted to major for bravery and later became the first commandant of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His students included Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Then in 1842, Worth was respon sible for ending the Seminole War in Florida. In the" Mexican War of 1846-48 he led the conquest of Mex ico City. Shordy after he died of cholera in 1849, an outpost on the banks of the Trinity River was named Fort Worth in his honor although Worth had never visited the area. Earlier this year, New York City officials began an adopt-a-mon- ument program that tries to locate groups to pay for restoration, and targeted 20 statues near ruin, in cluding the William Jenkins Worth Monument. Repairs for the monument, near the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, were estimated at $150,000. Turner helped create a trust fund for the repairs and, in June, he de livered a cneck for $1,000. But a let ter arrived later suggesting that $1,000 doesn’t get much done in the way of a marker and asking for de sign specifications. Since then Turner has returned a letter, waited three months and got ten a request to fill out a 30-page ap plication for erection of the marker. Opposition remains and the trust’s money is still unspent, but Turner is undaunted. “You need to label a product be fore you can sell it,” Turner said. “That monument needs a label.” Hazing leads to suspension of fraternity SAN MARCOS (AP) — A Southwest Texas State University fraternity chapter has been sus pended for two years after mem bers admitted a hazing incident that included a mock burial of a pledge. The 20-year-old Tau Kappa Ep silon pledge wasn’t injured. But the incident “had the poten tial for causing him emotional harm,” said John Garrison, dean of students. Tuesday’s action marks the sec ond time in three weeks that a three-member panel of university officials has suspended a fraternity chapter for participating in hazing, officials said. “We certainly take no pleasure” in the suspensions, Garrison said. “We do mean business,” Garri son said. “We will not tolerate hazing.” The pledge was forced into a car, handcuffed, driven to a rural area northwest of San Marcos and told he was going to be buried. Garrison said. Fraternity members removed the handcuffs, sprayed his chest with red paint, tied his hands with a bandanna and made him lie in a wooden box, nailing the lid shut. Garrison said. The box, which had air holes, was placed in an 18-inch-deep hole, he said. “They lowered him into a low place in the ground and kicked some dirt on top of the lid,” Garri son said. The fraternity members then left, but another pledge was in structed on how to help free the trapped pledge. “I’m convinced they did not in tend to hurt the guy or emotion ally scar him,” he said. “It was still reckless and danger ous,” Garrison said. “They were playing mind games with him.” The 15-year-old fraternity chapter will lose its recognition as a university organization and will not be allowed to recruit or partici pate in school functions during the suspension. Official calls dropout rate dangerous ‘ticking bomb’ AUSTIN (AP) — The state and nation must address the dropout problem or face serious economic consequences, Education Commis sioner W.N. Kirby told a legislative panel Wednesday. “I see it as a bomb, ticking,” Kirby told a meeting of the Joint Special Interim Committee on High School Dropouts. “Unless we make some changes, unless people become well-educated and productive, the quality of life in this country is going to deteriorate,” he said. As the population ages, fewer Americans will be of an age to work, so it is important they receive an ed ucation that will help them find jobs, he said. The problem is dramatically dem onstrated in the changing Texas economy, Kirby said. “We used to be able to get by with large numbers of our people drop ping out, because they could always find a job in the cotton patch or the oil patch,” he said. “The jobs are not going to be there in the future, either in the oil industry or agriculture, for our un dereducated,” he said. “If we want them to be able to make a living in this state, they’re going to have to have at least an ad equate education,” he said. Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby urged com mittee members in a letter to work with the Texas Education Agency to develop a dropout reduction pro gram “that is second to none.” Thirty-five percent of Texas stu dents do not complete high school, Hobby said. Nearly two-thirds of the state re cipients of Aid to Families with De pendent Children, a welfare pro gram, and 85 percent of prison inmates did not graduate, he said. The State Board of Education, in its long-range state plan, has a goal of reducing the state dropout rate to 5 percent in 1997-98. A new state law also requires the education agency to develop a drop out program that includes standard ized, statewide records and evalua tion of remedial and support programs for students who are at risk of dropping out of school. [Redmond Terrace (next to Academy) TOOl •cut here I Defensive Driving Course Dec. 15,16 College Station Hilton Pre-register by phone: 693-8178 Ticket deferral and 10% insurance discount I cut here I s N N D.K. ARENA Specials for Students STALLS FOR RENT Lighted arena • Roping stock furnished For info contact: DEE WOODWARD 2715 S. Texas Ave.. 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