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Professionals
say hospitals
violate rights
AUSTIN (AP) — If not for a
concerned psychiatrist, Margaret
Allen never would have known
what drugs she was given in a pri
vate mental hospital in San Anto
nio 10 years ago.
The hospital’s policy was to
withhold such information from
patients, but Allen’s doctor chose
to tell her what he had pre
scribed.
Such violations of patient’s
rights occur all too frequendy
when people with mental illnesses
do not speak up for themselves,
Allen and other mental health ad-
[vocates say.
The advocates said the Mental
I Health Consumer Caucus, sched
uled in Austin Saturday, could
help change that.
Falla, Rodrigo, Torroba, Granados,
de Torrijos and Villa-Lobos. He also
performed pieces by Bach. Guitarist
David Brandon came on stage half
way through the second half of the
performance to play several duets
with Parkening.
From the beginning of the eve
ning, Parkening’s virtuosity was evi-'
dent. He played difficult works with
conf idence, allowing only occasional
grimaces to betray their difficulty.
The grimaces ceased as the perfor
mance progressed with Parkening
playing even better and with greater
feeiing.
As befits the true virtuoso, Par
kening did not scruple to change the
scheduled performance, and his first
change provided one of the high
lights of the evening. Instead of
playing a variation on a theme of
Handel, he announced that he
would perform “Variations on a
Theme of Mozart,” a piece often
performed in concert by his great
teacher Andres Sergovia.
Parkening dedicated the piece to
Sergovia, who died last year. Show
ing himself to be a master of his mu
sic, he played confidently and with
feeling as his hands moved rapidly
along the frets from one end of the
guitar’s neck to the other. His
inspired performance earned him
prolonged applause.
Several duets performed with Da
vid Brandon, a former student of
Parkening, comprised the last seg
ment of the program. The duets had
Spanish themes and beautifully in
tricate melodies that enabled the
performers to fully display their tal
ents. At times Parkening was picking
melodies and harmonies with both
hands at once. Brandon, too, distin
guished himself.
Following the concluding piece,
the audience gave Parkening and
Brandon applause rising to a stand
ing ovation. This brought the per-
fomers back for a dramatic encore,
which the audience again richly re
warded. Parkening and Brandon
played another ’ encore and then
took their last bows to another stand
ing ovation.
University receives books
owned by U.S. presidents
SAN MARGOS (AP) —Southwest
Texas State University officials have
received 34 books owned by U.S.
presidents from George Washington
to Ronald Reagan.
Some of the books in William
Crook’s $350,000 collection are bat
tered and some are like new, but
each hears the signature of its presi
dential owner.
The collection includes works of
religion, poetry, history and presi
dential memoirs.
A volume of Moliere’s plays, in
French, includes Thomas Jefferson’s
eccentric method of signing books
by writing his initial T in front of a J
in the text, and writing a J after a T.
The oldest book, a 1678 copy of
Isaac Barrow’s “Sermon’s Preached
Upon Several Occasions,” belonged
to John Adams.
The collection includes a life of
Henry Clay given to Abraham Lin
coln by Stephen A. Douglas in 1852,
six years before the debates between
them that gave Lincoln such a boost
toward the White House.
“I’m not sure I could read any of
these books if I was stuck in an air
port,” said Crook, a retired business
man and former U.S. ambassador to
Australia who now lives in San Mar-
“It’s the thrill of holding in your
hand something from George Wash
ington’s library, knowing that he
read it and liked it enough to keep it
and pass it on to his heirs,” Crook
said.
A dozen letters to Reagan pro
duced repeated promises from his
staff of a book, but none came.
Crook said the same letter was sent
to Nancy Reagan, and a copy of Rob
ert Service’s poetry signed by the
president arrived 10 days later.
The collection is unique, although
lacking hooks owned by four presi
dents, including Andrew Jackson
and James Madison, according to
Austin rare book dealer John Jen
kins. He assembled the collection
from private sources.
Southwest Texas President Rob
ert Hardesty said that when com
pleted, the collection would be
“priceless.”
Crook said he wanted the books at
Southwest Texas because it was Lyn
don Johnson’s alma mater.
Murder of woman
leads to suffering
for town in Texas
KINGSVILLE (AP) — A jury
has decided the fate of Richard
Lewis Brimage Jr., but the pain
over the woman he murdered
lives on in this South Texas city of
28,000.
Mary Beth Kunkel, 19, a popu
lar Texas A&I University fresh
man and former H.M. King High
School homecoming queen, was
found dead Oct. 7 in the trunk of
a Cadillac parked at the Kings
ville home of Brimage’s parents.
Kunkel’s suffering became ob
vious as the crime story unfolded
in the courtroom, but so did the
pain of the Kunkel and Brimage
families.
“I just have to wait to heal my
pain,” said Kunkel’s mother,
Frances, during the seven-day
trial in New Braunfels. “I love my
daughter very much. I miss her.”
Brimage, 32, was convicted last
week of capital murder and sen
tenced to die by lethal injection.
Brimage’s father, Richard, a
U.S. Air Force pilot, testified of
the guilt he felt for spending too
much time away from his son.
“I’m having one heck of a time
not putting this on myself,” Brim
age’s father testified during the
punishment hearing. “I really
didn’t get to spend much time
with him. I was too ambitious.”
At one emotional point in his
testimony, Brimage Sr., said, “I’d
like to tell Mrs. Kunkel how sorry
I am that this has happened.”
The apology brought tears to
members of the Brimage and
Kunkel families.
Leonel Molina, 32, of Kings
ville, was convicted of murder for
Kunkel’s Oct. 5 slaying, and sen
tenced to 50 years in a plea bar
gain.
The crime and subsequent dis
coveries also brought grief to the
witnesses and some of their fami
lies.
Wendy Scarborough, 18,
granddaughter of Kleberg
County Sheriff Jim Scarborough
III, testified that she attended a
“coke (cocaine) party” on Oct. 3
with two other girls, Brimage and
Molina.
Scarborough said in an inter
view with the Corpus Christi
Caller-Times he was “horrified”
when he found out his grand
daughter had used cocaine with
Brimage.
“The people of Kleberg
County have been very support
ive,” Scarborough said. “They
know I don’t have any control
over her.”
Wendy Scarborough’s testi
mony prompted discussions
about the availability of drugs in
Kingsville, several residents said.
Businessman Clyde Allen said
he did not excuse Brimage’s be
havior because of drug addiction,
but hoped that future drug-re
lated crimes could be avoided.
Allen, chairman of Citizens for
a Safer Kingsville, said the Kun
kel case was the impetus that
brought many citizens together to
question the Kingsville Police De
partment’s handling of crimes.
Allen’s group found itself
pitted against other citizens when
the district attorney’s office and
the police made contradictory
statements over whether Kunkel
had been sexually assaulted.
Kingsville real estate developer
Fil Garcia, who leads a pro-police
group, accused Allen's group of
generating hysteria over the Kun
kel case, and said the police han
dled the evidence correctly.
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