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Tuesday, March 29, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7 roup wants education on donor merits SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An elected to head a na tional transplantation organiza tion said his group needs to edu cate physicians about the positive asjpects of donating organs. ■ EricC. Sutton, who was named to head the American Council on Irbnsplantation, said his son, ■chard, died at age 2 in 1986, partlv because a donor could not be obtained in time for a liver transplant. ■ Sutton said Sunday that his group should target physicians, who could tell families about the positive side of donating organs. ■ Organ-procurement organiza tions frequently complain that physicians fail to realize organ “nation often benefits the fam- by imparting a sense that some od had come from a death. “The general public is well-ed- ated, but where we have been is in educating the medical of'ession,” Sutton said. Wife of state senator faces charge of attempted murder TYLER (AP) — A Louisiana law maker’s wife, accused of shooting her husband in the chest, was ar rested in Tyler Monday and agreed to return home to face an attempted murder charge, authorities said. A justice of the peace denied bond Monday for Subrena Lynn Arter- berry Tarver, and Louisiana author ities moved to return her to Shreve port to answer charges that she shot Louisiana state Sen. Greg Tarver. The 41-year-old senator was in se rious condition Monday, but was im proving and may be released from the hospital by week’s end, a spokes man said at the Louisiana State Uni versity Medical Center. 1 arver, one of four blacks in the 39-member Louisiana Senate, was shot in the chest Saturday less than an hour after he returned from the special session in Baton Rouge. Tyler Police spokesman Gary Middleton said Mrs. Tarver, 30, was arrested without incident at 1:22 a.m. Monday by a patrol sergeant and two patrolmen acting on a tele type message from Shreveport po lice. She was booked into Smith County jail on an aggravated battery charge because Texas does not have an attempted second-degree murder charge, Middleton said. Middleton said Mrs. Tarver was not armed when she was arrested. A clerk for the Caddo District Court Judge W.E. Coates said in Shreveport that Mrs. Tarver had waived extradition, agreeing to re turn to Louisiana to face charges of attempted second-degree murder. Shreveport Police Chief Charles Gruber said officers talked to Tarver several times after he was shot. It was Tarver who identified his wife as his assailant, but he did not say why she did it, Gruber said. The senator said Saturday he did not want to press charges, Gruber said. A police spokesman said Mrs. Tarver apparently called the hospi tal on Sunday to ask about her hus band’s conditiom Shreveport police have not yet questioned her about Saturday night’s incident, the spokesman said. Department spokesman Rick Ware said it isn’t unusual for people involved in domestic disputes to ask police not to file charges, but he added that detectives would con tinue their investigation despite Tarver’s request not to file charges. “We’re going to continue until we can justify what took place,” Ware said. Caddo Parish District Attorney Paul Carmouche said that although Tarver did not file a complaint, the decision on whether to file charges is left up to his office based on infor mation gathered by police. “Any time somebody shoots some one, the probability is good that someone is going to be arrested,” he said. chool boards hear plea for AIDS education theli JEW ORLEANS (AP) — School rd members from around the country heard an impassioned plea for AIDS education Monday from a former school superintendent who has the deadly disease. BThe need is critical and the price ilhigh,” John Washburn told mem bers of the National School Board Aiociation. “Sure death is a high price indeed to pay for ignorance.” sHWe don’t like to admit it, but mam people have survived from the d|iease of a lack of a formal educa tion,’ Washburn, who recently re tired as superintendent of the Brigh ton School District, said. “None. None. None. None, have survived AIDS.” Washburn said programs to teach young people about the dangers of acquired immune deficiency syn drome also must discuss issues many people would rather avoid — homo sexuality, safer sex and drug use. He said to the applause of a stand ing ovation, “We cannot ignore the sexuality of our adolescents. We can be most effective teaching about safer sex before sexual habits are es tablished.” Experts say AIDS, which over throws the system which protects the body from disease, is most often transmitted through sexual contact. Other means include sharing con taminated hypodermic needles and transfusions of contaminated blood, though blood banks now test blood to avoid contamination. “Education, for the time being, is the only vaccine available,” Wash burn said. “Not to confront these is sues will ensure debility and death for many of our young ones and heartbreak for their families.” During a forum before Wash burn’s speech, the audience was told that about 1.5 million people are in fected with the virus that can cause AIDS, about 60,000 of them have been diagnosed as having the disease and about 30,000 have died. “By 1991, more than 270,000 will be diagnosed as having AIDS and 179,000 will have died,” said Lloyd Kolbe, chief of the Centers for Dis ease Control’s office of school health. i I our;: life her I Tver: evti will : dp sank lonii" H ized >tofi don /e« con MSC Political Forum ' The Soviet Space Program; Past, Present & Future by Alexander Khmrkovsky Soviet Emigre Former Writer for Vokrug Sveta Soviet Engineer Tuesday, March 29 7:30 p.m. 212 MSC 'Speciai Olympics' Texas* SPECIAL OLYMPICS STILL NEEDS YOU!! 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