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Page 67The Battalion/Monday, August 29, 1988
Inmates may be provided
with alternative to prison
FORT WORTH (AP) — A deci
sion by a state district judge nearly
two months ago could provide an
exit lane for many of those caught in
the state prison inmate traffic jam,
several lawyers said in a published
report.
Lawyers in Fort Worth and Austin
told the Dallas Morning News that
they intend to ask judges to follow
the example of District Judge John
Bradshaw, who released a 26-year-
old Oklahoma woman from Tarrant
County Jail on “shock probation” al
though she had never officially
served the time in a state prison fa
cility.
Gina Beth Carter should have
served between 60 and 180 days in a
state prison to qualify for shock pro
bation, which can be offered to well-
behaved state prisoners convicted of
less serious offenses who never
served time in prison previously.
The theory is that the inmate is
“shocked” by the short stay in prison
and won’t return to a life a crime if
released.
The probation is different from
the early release program, which is
granted through the state parole
board. Shock probation can be
granted by a state district judge at
the judge’s discretion.
Bradshaw’s release of Carter is the
only known case in which a judge
turned someone loose without that
person actually setting foot in a state
facility in the 10 years since the
shock probation law was passed,
according to state probation officials
and prosecutors.
Bradshaw told defense and pros
ecuting attorneys he did “not know
what real authority” he had to grant
her shock probation because “the
Art exhibit
may bridge
racial gap
DALLAS (AP) — A Mexican art
exhibit, making its only stop in the
United States after a European tour,
is being touted by officials as a signif
icant cultural event that also could
help bridge racial barfrers.
“It makes a statement that we ex
ist, and we must be lAPognized for
the contributions we have made in
history,” said Michael Gonzales, an
advisory committee member of the
Dallas Museum of Art, where it
opened Sunday.
“Images of Mexico: The Contri
bution of Mexico to 20th Century
Art,” a free exhibit of 350 works by
60 Mexican artists, will run through
Oct. 30.
Oliver Farres, consulate general
from Mexico in Dallas, told the Dal
las Times Herald that the exhibition
may help erode stereotypes about
Mexicans as well as increase Mexi-
can-Americans’ knowledge of their
heritage.
“It leaves you speechless,” said
Farres, who has seen the exhibit. “It
really gives you a sensation about the
many souls of Mexico.”
Exhibit catalogs have been
printed in both English and Spanish,
and bilingual guides will conduct
tours.
Letters promoting the exhibit
were sent to Hispanic chambers of
commerce around Texas, and a
group of doctors from Monterrey,
Mexico and Mexico City will arrive
in October to tour hospitals and see
the exhibit.
It is being called by museum of fi
cials the largest unveiling of Mexican
art works in 30 years.
law is not clear.” Later, he said he
wanted to give her a “fair shake.”
“This woman had enough time
for parole already, under the gen
eral view of what we see with people
getting out on parole, but she did
not want a final conviction on her re
cord,” Bradshaw, former 90th Judi
cial District judge in Fort Worth,
told the Associated Press.
“1 was open-minded to it because
I feel with probation, the supervi
sion is for a longer time, with the net
effect, on probation than on parole,”
he said, “plus the factor that if she
had the innate decency not to want a
final conviction on her record, to
give her a shot at it.
“Under this situation, since site
had been in jail a substantial period
of time, she had nothing to lose and
I thought it appropriate under the
circumstances,” Bradshaw said Sun
day.
David Spencer, general com
for the Adult ProbationCommisij
in Austin, said he knows of no|
requiring someone to actuallysn
time in a state prison before beet;
mg eligible for the shock probai
and believes oilier judges may foil
Bradshaw’s example to relieve)
and prison overcrowding.
Fort Worth lawyer Layne Hi
well, who plans to request shod;]:
hat ion for one of his clients win
awaiting transfer at the Tarn
County Jail, said he will worktodi
ify the law.
“I’m drafting a change tot
shock probation law saying thaif
person can’t get to TDC, thentli
60 days would start in the coin
jail.” Harwell said. “Hopeful),i
c an get it passed at the next Lej
lature.
Child AIDS cases
rapidly increasing
BOSTON (AP) — He is 3 years
old, wearing a red T-shirt and
boasting how his dad had taken
him to see the fireworks. His little
sidekick sucks on a Popsicle and
shows off his purple tongue.
“You can’t get me, Daddy,”
shouts one of the boys as he races
playfully down the hallway of the
hospital wing.
The illness that put them there
is masked by their innocence and
perfectly normal ways.
They are the children of AIDS.
Not all are so f ree to run and
play. Some come into the world
prematurely and drug-addicted.
Many have swollen glands,
sometimes enlarged livers and
spleens. Their bodies are
wracked by diarrhea and nausea,
burning with fever and wet from
night sweats.
More than 500 of them across
the United States have died of
AIDS and 3,000 are infected,
according to Dr. James Oleske,
medical director of the children’s
AIDS program at Children’s Hos
pital in Newark, N.J.
Their numbers are growing at
an alarming rate in a nation ill-
equipped to care for them; in
many places, hospitals must serve
as expensive baby sitters while
foster homes are desperately
sought for the infants.
Dr. Martha Rogers, chief of pe
diatric and family studies for the
AIDS program at the federal
Centers for Disease Control in
Atlanta, estimates about 10,000
children under the age of 13 will
he infected with the AIDS virus
within a few years.
That’s the low end of Oleske’s
estimate; he foresees 10,000 to
20,000 infected children by 1991.
“I estimate that one in every 10 to
15 hospital beds for children in
the United States will be occupied
by a child sick with (AIDS) infec
tion,” he said. “That is a frighten
ing statistic.”
About 13 percent of the child
victims got AIDS through tainted
blood transfusions.
Almost all the others, however,
were doomed before birth, born
to mothers infected with the
AIDS virus through intravenous
drug use or through sex with a
drug user. Six out of 10 of these
children die by age 2 or 3, Oleske
said.
The tragedy is compounded
when the mother is a single par
ent and unable to care for the in
fant because of her drug habit or
because she is incapacitated with
AIDS herself. A grandmother
may care for both, watching boih
daughter and grandchild deterio
rate and die.
With family members unavail
able to help in many cases,
“Where are ihe increasing num-
hers ol children horn with AIDS
going to he cared for?” Oleske
asked. “Who’s going to care for
them?”
One answer may lie in thees-
tahlishment of siate-supporied
transitional group homes that
provide temporary care for out-
patient children until fosrer
tomes can he found. Several have
been set up in the last 18 months,
including homes in Boston, Al
bany, N.Y., and Elizabeth, N.J.
More are being planned.
At Boston City Hospital, a ren
ovated wing known as Dowling 5
South can house four children.
Among current residents are the
two boys whose fathers cannot
care for them full-time but who
take them on outings like the
Fourth of July fireworks.
Since the Dowling wing
opened in February 1987, the
mothers of two children living
there have died. <.
“Give me two weeks," pleaded
one mother -— ana she held on
long enough to make arrange
ments for the care of her child.
Anne Murphy, a 31-year-old
social worker at Dowling 5 South,
has seen dying mothers “just
coming in ana spending rime
with their kids, playing witlr
them, putting them to bed, feed
ing them supper, some of the da
ily routine kind of tilings that I
think take on so much more
meaning when you leehhatyour
time could he limited.”
For many of the chidren, how
ever, the warmth of mothers and
fathers is absent, and nurses try
to comfort them when they cry
out with withdrawal pains.
Some of the older children, un
able to understand what is hap
pening to them, turn to their toy
doctors’ kits and play out their
own tragic lives.
“They give us fake shots and
take our blood pressure,” Mur
phy said. “They play outalotof
the things that happened to them
in the hospital . . . and kind of
deal with the experience removed
from it in a way.”
Many potential foster parents
are reluctant to consider children
with AIDS — fearful or ignorant
of the disease or unwilling to
commit the extraordinary
amount of time and energy re
quired.
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‘King’ of Ludlow Hobo Club
retires after 23-year reign
LUDLOW, Ky. (AP) — Even a hobo can get too old
for his profession.
Harry Messer, “the king” of the Ludlow Hobos, is ab
dicating. He’s going to kick back and take life even eas
ier.
Messer, 71, has been king, or top hobo, of the Lud
low Hobo Club for 23 years.
“They appointed me king for as long as I could prove
myself worthy,” he says.
Soon, another hobo will get that chance.
In the main, the Ludlow hobos are knights of the
road in spirit only.
They come from all walks of life, many of them hold
ing blue-collar jobs. Their common thread is the
fellowship found at Hobo Springs.
Since the mid-1960s, when Messer and the late Duke
Botkin founded the hobo club, the leisure-hour hobos
have been coming to the springs to have a few brews,
maybe some homemade soup or barbecue and carefree
talk.
The club, nestled in this Ohio River town in Kenton
County, has about 150 members, some being non-active
membership card holders.
In a ravine, and within earshot of passing trains, the
springs attracted hobos and drifters in decades past and
provided water for Ludlow during the 1937 flood.
It’s the steep climb out of the ravine, whether by con
crete stairway or up the banks, that pushed Messerinio
retirement.
A former bartender and cook who traveled as a hob
some, Messer said his health is in decline, and hisdoctoi
has recommended he avoid climbing.
One of the king’s duties is to be judge of a kangaroo
court. The charges against members were anything
Messer could think of.
“They were always guilty, but the top fine was 5 1
cents,” he says.
The Ludlow hobos lease their clubhouse, whereMes
ser lives, and picnic grove from the Norfolk & Southern
Railroad.
Messer plans to move back to his hometown ofWesi
Union, in Adams County, Ohio, where several of he
children live.
He plans to return to Ludlow for future hobo event)
“if I’m able.”
Along with a few dollars in the hobos’ treasury, Me)
ser is leaving the club his chickens — a tough
rooster and eight hens.
It’s hardly a rich inheritance, but, as Messer says,
hobo isn’t supposed to have too much anyway.”
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