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fore desired publication date.
Restoration efforts
on monument stall
as officials argue
FORT WORTH (AP) — Officials
in this city named for Maj. William
Jenkins Worth have run aground in
their negotiations to restore a dilapi
dated monument marking his New
York City burial site.
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.
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out of school told the lawmakers
about programs that worked for
them.
Vivian Scales, 18, is working to
earn her high school equivalency di
ploma at the Creative Rapid Learn
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Scales, who dropped out of school
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school partly because of concerns
over child care.
Michelle Maldonado, 16, went
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high school that is associated with
the learning center.
She said the program helped her
regain confidence and focus on
school work after having missed
school in the ninth grade after a
knee injury. Maldonado said she was
unable to catch up with her ninth
grade school work after the incident.
“I was scared to raise my hand be
cause I was afraid everybody in the
class was going to laugh at me if I got
the answer wrong,” she said. “I felt
bad about myself.”
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