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KINGSVILLE (AP) — U.S. Educa
tion Secretary Lauro Cavazos returned
Tuesday to where he learned to read and
write, and he called on all Americans to
involve themselves in solving “grave
deficits” in the nation’s schools.
Cavazos, in his first major university
speech since he was confirmed by the
Senate less than a month ago after his
nomination by President Ronald Reagan,
decried the high drop-out and illiteracy
rate in the United States.
“The American dream is more like a
nightmare for adolescents who don’t fin
ish high school,” Cavazos said in the
keynote address at a meeting at Texas
A&I University, where he began his col
lege education after returning from serv
ice in World War II.
He also cited the need for remedial in
struction even among students who fin
ish high school, and an impending short
age of scientists and engineers.
The education secretary was born on
the vast King Ranch south of Kingsville,
where his father was a foreman. He
learned to read and write at the Santa
Gertrudis School on the ranch.
Cavazos, the first Hispanic member of
the Cabinet, greeted a group of students
from the Santa Gertrudis school and later
visited H.M. King High School, where
he graduated from in 1944.
“It is a clear message that I really
want to give to all of our country, and
that is to raise the awareness of the peo
ple in this country to the serious deficits
we have in school,” Cavazos said in an
interview Tuesday.
Nearly 50 percent of Hispanic students
and 33 percent of Anglos and blacks
drop out before finishing high school,
Cavazos said.
But Americans also are concerned
more about education than ever before,
he added.
“This nation has engaged in the most
ambitious effort to improve education in
its history,” Cavazos said.
The report “A Nation at Risk” pro
duced five years ago by the National
Commission on Excellence in Education
started a massive school reform
movement, he said.
Cavazos cited last year’s education-
oriented bestsellers “Cultural Literacy”
and “The Closing of the American
Mind” as further examples of the pub
lic’s growing interest in education.
Americans can help improve the
schools by remaining interested and per
sonally encouraging students and educa
tors, the education secretary said.
Cavazos also has been campaigning
on behalf of the presidential race of Vice
President George Bush, who has said he
wants to be known as the “education
president.”
Cavazos on Monday helped inaugu
rate the Republicans’ “Adelante Con
Bush” (Forward With Bush) office in
Corpus Christi, but said he could not
speculate on whether he would remain in
the Cabinet when President Reagan’s
term expires Jan. 20.
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AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas death row
inmate, convicted in the 1974 slaying of
a Port Arthur couple, was denied an exe
cution stay Tuesday by the Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals.
Attorneys from the University of
Texas Capital Punishment Clinic in Aus
tin filed an appeal on Walter Bell’s be
half with the appellate; court last week
asking for a reprieve, court spokesman
Rick Wetzel said.
Attorney Eden Harrington said Bell is
mentally retarded and should not be exe
cuted as scheduled early Friday.
The case is now before U.S. District
Judge Sam Hall in Marshall.
The state attorney general’s office is
arguing that Bell, whose 13 years and
four months on death row ranks him
third in seniority among the approxi
mately 260 condemned inmates in
Texas, should have brought up the men
tally retarded issue before, spokesman
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Bell, as well as other death row in
mates, are relying on a case pending be
fore the U.S. Supreme Court involving
the legality of executing mentally re
tarded people.
The nation’s high court agreed to re
view the case of Texas death row inmate
Johnny Penry after attorneys contended
executing the 32-year-old would be cruel
and unusual punishment banned by the
Eighth Amendment.
Penry, whose IQ has been estimated at
between 50 and 60, and who had the rea
soning capacity of a 7-year-old, was sen
tenced to death in 1979. He was sen
tenced after being found guilty for the
rape-slaying of a Livingston woman in
her home.
The Supreme Court is not expected to
rule on the case until late spring or early
next summer.
Bell was first sentenced to die in De
cember 1974 for the rape-slaying of
Irene Chisum, who was a Port Arthur
housewife.
Chisum, 59, and her husband, Ferd,
50, were killed July 19, 1974, after be
ing tied up in their home and robbed.
Bell’s conviction in Mrs. Chisum’s
death was vacated in January 1984 and
he was given a life sentence in May
1984.
The conviction was vacated because
he had been interviewed by a state psy
chiatrist without being warned that the
psychiatrist was gathering information
that later could be used against him in
court.
Prior to the commutation in Mrs.
Chisum’s death, Bell was convicted of
captial murder in Ferd Chisum’s death
and was given the death penalty.
Bell had been employed by Chisum at
his appliance repair store, but had re
cently been fired.
He was arrested after trying to cash a
check on the Chisums’ bank account.
Nine other Texas death row inmates
have executions scheduled over the next
four months.
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Sibling saves brother,
receives certificate
AUSTIN (AP) — Heather Lopez-Ce-
pero discovered the flames in the hall
way on that April evening after the
power to her tape player shut off.
She dashed outside and ran to a neigh
bor for help.
But it was her quick decision to smash
a window with her hands and rescue her
brother, Tony, that earned her a certifi
cate of commendation from the Austin
Fire Department.
During a ceremony Monday to an
nounce promotions and present other
certificates for outstanding service, Fire
Chief Bill Roberts honored the 15-year-
old Austin High School student for he
roic actions that saved the life of her
brother.
Tony turned 7 years old on Tuesday,
thanks to the brave and thoughtful efforts
of his sister.
Heather’s mother was working late,
and her brother was asleep in their moth
er’s room of their South Austin home
when the fire was discovered about
10:30 p.m. on April 10.
“I opened the hall door, and flames
were all in the hallway, ” Heather said.
“I went outside and got a neighbor.
They thought I was saying that a robber
had gotten back in the window,” she
said.
But her brother’s safety was what oc
cupied Heather’s mind.
“I was trying to find a rock to punch
the window with,” she said.
“I couldn’t find it, so I punched it
with my hand,” she said.
After the window was broken, she
pulled Tony outside the window and
saved his life.
Jean Lopez-Cepero, their mother, said
her bedroom door was described as
“framed in flames,” and fire had spread
into a bathroom.
The door was next to the window
where Heather rescued her brother, she
said.
Heather suffered several small cuts on
her hand after striking the glass window
twice.
Heather said, “I didn’t notice it till
about 10 minutes afterward.
“They said if Tony had been in 10
minutes more, he would have been done-
in from smoke inhalation. ”
The fire damaged 60 percent of the
house, which has been rebuilt.
Firefighters said the blaze started in a
hallway furnace.
Fire Lt. Stephen Cook, whose job in
cludes teaching fire prevention, said few
firefighters knew of Heather’s heroism
until her school principal called him
about her actions, having overheard talk
from students.
Cook said Tony actually would not
have survived for two or three more min
utes, rather than 10, before Heather res
cued him.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that
she saved his life through her actions,
and that’s why we recognized her for this
award,” Cook said.
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