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By Lucinda Orr
Reporter
Thomas Edison would be proud.
Artificial lighting has long been ne
glected as a element in architectural
design, but a new laboratory at
Texas A&M will seek to correct that
problem.
Under the direction of Brenda
Ryan, a lecturer in building con
struction who has studied lighting at
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and Harvard University’s
graduate school of design, an artifi
cial illumination laboratory should
be ready by the fall to integrate light
ing studies into the architecture pro
gram.
Students previously have studied
aspects such as plumbing, electricity,
illumination and acoustics in a
“pieced-together” environmental
systems course for architecture and
construction science students. Last
year Ryan and Dr. Lester Boyer de
veloped and team-taught a course
specifically for the study of lighting.
Ryan now is organizing efforts to
assemble the lab, which will be in the
Langford Architecture Center.
“We are getting support from the
industry, mainly the Illuminating
Engineering Society, as well as man
ufacturers of lighting equipment . . .
to establish a laboratory on campus,
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specifically in the College of Ar
chitecture,” Ryan said.
The lab, which will serve class
room, research and interdisciplinary
research purposes, compares to pro
totypes such as those at Pennsylvania
State University and the University
of Colorado.
“We want to do the same kinds of
research here,” Ryan said. “Espe
cially research into areas like: ‘How
does artificial illumination in hospi
tals and health care facilities affect
recovery rate?’ ‘The impact of shad
ows, glare, excessive brightness,’ etc.
“To do that, we need a place that
we can set aside as a classroom fa
cility . . . because lighting is a really
abstract kind of thing to study. It’s
the last thing one notices in an inte
rior space, but lighting does have
significant impact on your psycho
logical perception of that space —
you just don’t think about it.”
In her own work with lighting de
sign on campus, she used “zonal cav
ity calculations” (the customary
method), found poor results and de
cided that quantification was not
enough and quality should be stud
ied. This is more difficult because in
stead of plugging numbers into a
formula, she must start again.
“It requires you to look at the
space, who’s in the space, the activity
and the biological needs of the per
son,” Ryan said. “This can’t be satis
fied by a purely ‘number-crunching’
kind of thing.
“The architect is trained to know
about the kinds of things that make
people feel good in a space, but
they’ve just been leaving out the
lighting. So even though he doesn’t
design for that, he can become
aware of that in school. That’s what
we’re trying to bring to the architect
and the construction people — some
awareness of other things that are
important.”
Ryan expects construction of the
lab to progress in stages and to de
pend on the amount of space allo
cated. More than $5000 and possibly
up to $20,000 of equipment has been
promised, but funding still is needed
for installation.
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Officials say
state didn’t get
funds from fees
PATTON VILLAGE (AP) —
Local officials launched an inves
tigation to determine what hap
pened to more than $21,000 in
traffic citation and warrant fees
that records show was not sent to
the state as required.
State officials said that $21,485
that should have been forwarded
to the state from failure-to-ap-
pear warrants and traffic citations
were unaccounted for during an
audit of city marshal and munici
pal court records spanning late
1985 through the present, Mayor
Robert Devaney said.
“At the very least, w^’ye talking
shoddy bookkeeping,” Devaney
said. “At the worst, embez
zlement. If the state didn’t get its
percentage, there’s a good possi
bility we didn’t get ours.”
Devaney met with officials
from state Comptroller Bob Bul
lock’s office Monday.
“They’re not saying the money
is missing and neither am I at this
point,” Devaney said. “They’re
just saying they don’t have a re
cord of receiving it.
“It’s up to us now to go over all
the records and try to chase this
stuff down.”
The Patton Village City Coun
cil disbanded the marshal’s de
partment in May, and the munici
pal court was shut down the same
month by Devaney for an audit
and criminal investigation.
Police chief denies
killing black inmate
HEMPHILL (AP) — Suspended
Police Chief Thomas Ladner
Wednesday again denied causing
the blows that led to the death of a
black county jail inmate and said he
first noticed blood on the victim
when the man tripped on a chair.
Ladner and two other suspended
officers are accused of violating
Loyal Garner Jr.’s civil rights by
beating him Christmas night while
he was in their custody. If convicted,
they face up to life in prison.
Garner, a 34-year-old black man
from Florien, La., died Dec. 27 at a
Tyler hospital, two days after alleg
edly being beaten while in the Sabine
County Jail.
The white lawmen — Ladner, 41,
and Sabine County deputies James
“Bo” Hyden, 35, and Bill Horton,
58, — were suspended after being
indicted in Garner’s death.
Ladner said he hit Garner, who
had been picked up for drunken
driving, only after the man had
struck him twice — once on the left
ear and again on the neck — as he
and Hyden entered the drunk tank.
But he denied hitting Garner back
repeatedly.
“You hit him on that side of the
head and top of the head and other
side of the head?” Prosecutor John
Hannah asked Ladner.
“That is a lie,” Ladner replied.
“How did he get the blows?” Han
nah asked.
“I don’t know,” Ladner said. “I
did not hit Mr. Garner but one
time.”
And that blow, according to
Ladner, was a glancing one because
Garner held up his arms to defend
himself.
Later on Christmas night, Garner
was taken to a room to make a phone
call but changed his mind, Ladner
said.
“He might not have wanted me in
there when he was making the
E hone call,” Ladner said. “I told
im: ‘Sir, we’re going to have to go
back to the cell.’”
Ladner said Garner became abu- -
sive and went for a nearby flashlight.
“He probably was going to use it
on someone,” Ladner said.
“All I saw was Mr. Garner trip and
fall. I did not have a hold of Mr.
Garner. He got tangled up in a
swivel chair. He stumbled on it.”
Asked if the fall left some blood,
Ladner said it did, but he denied
seeing a pool of blood in the cell
where Garner was kept.
He also denied hearing other in
mates say Garner needed medical at
tention.
On Tuesday, Ladner testified
Garner hit him in the left ear and
side of the neck and the chief de
fended himself by hitting the inmate
once with a blackjack.
The three officers were scheduled
to stand trial on murder charges
Monday in Tyler.
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By Kelly S. Brown
Reporter
Reaching out and touching someone by telephone is
not always financially possible for elderly disabled Tex
ans whose income is below the poverty level.
But in response to recently passed legislation, state
officials and telephone representatives created a plan
wherein those qualified will have their basic monthly lo
cal charge cut 65 percent.
The program, which does not include installation,
touch-tone, custom calling, long distance or similar
charges, requires participation from all 66 telephone
companies serving Texas, said Marlin W. Johnston,
commissioner of the Texas Department of Human
Services (TDHS).
Mike Mason, administrator for the policy devel
opment-program division at TDHS, said the reduced
rate will allow people who previously did not have a
phone to get one.
“It also will help the elderly to live alone indepen
dently,” Mason said. “They need phones in case of an
emergency, as well as for basic contact with the outer
world.”
Mason said requirements for participant in the pro
gram must be:
• at least 65 years old.
• disabled.
• living in Texas.
• head of the household.
• have income at or below the federal poverty level.
Currently 450,000 Texans eligible for the service.
The 1988 poverty level for a one-person household is
$480.83 per month. The income limit for a two-person
household is $644.16; a three-person household,
$807.50; and a four-person household, $970.83. Add
$163.33 per month for each additional person.
John Wallace, division public affairs manager for B-
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gram and is being considered for approval by the Texas
Public Utility Commission, which is responsible for
rules governing participation by the telephone compa
nies. If it is approved, local eligible residents will be pay
ing $8.78 less on their local phone bill.
Information and application forms are available by
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