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Toyota Only Expires 6-30-88 $9. 95 UIMIVSRSITV TO VOTA ^ ■ 1 A Commitment iotxciilence 775-9444 TEXAS AT COULTER Prairie View student’s death prompts demands for hospital in Waller Casual Sex Sat & Sun 2:05 4:05 7:05 9:05 Post Oak III Milagro Bean Field ,r, Sat & Sun 2:00 4:15 7:00 9:00 Cinema III Blood Sport (R) Salsa Sat & Sun 2:00 7:00 Sat&Sun 2:00 7:00 Post Oak III Cinema III Dead Heatm Critters ^.,3, Sat & Sun 4:00 9:00 Sat&Sun 2:10 4:10 7:10 9:10 Post Oak III Cinema III The Last Emperor ^ Two Moon Junction m Sat&Sun 2:105:108:10 Sat & Sun 2:05 4:20 7:05 9:20 Post Oak III Cinema III PRAIRIE VIEW (AP) — The death of an asthmatic university stu dent who had to be transported more than 20 miles to a hospital has renewed calls for an emergency medical facility and a hospital in Waller County. “We feel that situations are hap pening so fast now, we need emer gency care for Prairie View and Wal ler County,” Prairie View Mayor Ron Leverett said Wednesday. “I do know of two other people who ex pired en route to a hospital.” Memorial services for Brad D. Wright, 18, a computer science ma jor from Chicago, were held Tues day at Prairie View A&M University. Wright was pronounced dead Monday afternoon shortly after his arrival at Bohne Memorial Hospital in Brenham, about 21 miles from the Prairie View campus. He died from respiratory distress after an asthma attack, officials said. Waller County’s only hospital closed in Hempstead in 1985 be cause of financial problems. Al though a temporary emergency room operated at the facility for a few months, it also closed. Attempts to create a hospital district in the county also have tailed. “We’re trying to do anything we can to get a medical facility,” County Judge A.M. McCaig said. Leverett said it may take emer gency funding or a federal grant, but officials must do something im mediately to provide some form of emergency care in the county. “He had a long historyo(j| asthma,” Dr. Emery Owenil “He was getting his medicalio: home, and apparently herantj Wright was in his dormitory room Monday afternoon when he started having trouble breathing. Two friends got him in a car to drive him to the campus clinic, while another one alerted the center. Clinic physician Dr. Glenn;, said he began resuscitation ■ when the student arrivet Wright was comatose. A t paramedic and ambulance, called to transport him to Brel in Washington County. The doctors said it is unlilt . , | cv patient’s life could have beer,A™ 0J Q U even if there was an erne; room or hospital nearby. Lawmaker: State officials ignored ways to change school financing AUSTIN (AP) — A special sub committee heard from a lawmaker Thursday who said his plan for fi nancing public schools had been ig nored by the Legislature until a state judge ruled the current system un constitutional. “This is a problem that has cried out for solution for more than a de cade in this state, but which we have tried to evade and to avoid and to live with,” said Rep. Jack Vowell, R- E1 Paso. Testifying before a subcommittee of the Select Committee on Educa tion, Vowell described school financ ing as a “social difficulty (that) doesn’t have one and only one di rect, correct answer — it may have a number of solutions.” finance public education totally, which would require very high state taxes. Or, Vowell said, the state can try to find an equitable system which might discard “some cherished con cepts” but would preserve “the most central element — equal treatment under the law” for students, school districts and taxpayers. Vowell said Texans have three op tions if Austin Judge Harley Clark’s ruling holds up on appeal. They can amend the Texas Con stitution to keep the present financ ing system, which Vowell said is ineq uitable: or thev can allow the state to Vowell’s plan would direct the State Board of Education each bien nium to estimate how much revenue would be needed to finance an ad equate Foundation School Program, and would authorize the board to es tablish a state property tax rate to fi nance at least 25 percent of that pro gram. The remaining 75 percent would come from legislative revenue sources, he said. Local school districts would collect the state tax money and keep what ever they needed to meet the estab lished per-student allotment. Surplus collections would be turned over to the state comptroller for redistribution to propel ly-poui school districts that could not raise enough from the uniform tax rate to meet the student allotment. “We are, in fact, giving legislative power, in a sense, to a state agency,” Vowell said. But he reminded the subcommittee that the Board of Ed ucation is an elected body and re sponsible to the voters. “Some districts would lose money from the state, (but) most which are having problems would be at least as well off,” Vowell said. "Admittedly, this would raise problems for tax- rich school districts.” Vowell said his plan, which would require a constitutional amendment, is not a new idea, and he predicted there would be “variations upon va riations” of school finance proposals before the 1989 Legislature con venes. He said he first proposed his plan in June 1984, and it has been before the Legislature three times but was ignored until Clark’s decision a year ago. Grand jury to hear mop on jail deal LIBERTY (AP) - A jury is scheduled to more testimony Friday Iron enforcement officers invi the arrest of a man who died five hours in the Cleveland Jail. Liberty County District! ney Michael Little dedined: who will testify. Seven Cleveland police cers, two deputy shenffs state troopers were qin Wednesday by grand juron cerning the events leading March 16 death of Kenneth Simpson, 30, of Cleveland Simpson was arrested fe: orderly conduct, officials sat ter he quarreled with Ot Tom Y’ates. Officers said they stni$ with Simpson after they fe him smoking marijuana i cell. They said they found• dead in his cell five hourslatr State 2 n 26 I just wanted to be thin beautiful.. .perfect.” didn’t realize how much I was I harming my body. When I looked in the mirror, all I saw was fat. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with what I was doing. 1 just wanted to be thin and beautiful. I promised myself this would be my last binge. Tomorrow I would stick to my diet. But it kept happening again. And again. No one knew the terrible game I was playing with myself. Not my parents. Not even my best friend. Until Mom and Dad noticed how un happy 1 was. Then they knew I had a problem. They risked confronting me. 1 denied I had a problem. But I knew it was a lie. I saw how my obsession had hurt my relationships with my friends and my family. I wasn’t close to anyone anymore. 1 didn’t trust anyone. I felt so alone. I couldn’t stand it anymore. I was tired of spending my life constantly obsessed with food. That was the worst part. Discovering the physical effects of what I’d been doing. I never thought binging and purging was doing such serious damage. I’m lucky my family got me help. If you or someone you know is in tensely afraid of being overweight, has chaotic eating patterns, exercises ex cessively, or has other symptoms of an eating disorder, call us. You’re not alone. 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