Monday, November 14,1988
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Another
rattle has erupted over the Alamo,
vith state lawmakers firing questions
ibout the monument’s fiscal opera-
S on at its stewards, the Daughters of
le Republic of Texas.
Hwo state representatives want
nore information about a $1.8 mil-
ion budget surplus, which was gen-
jrjited largely by souvenir sales to
he 3 million people who visit the
\laiiioeach year.
|tate Reps. Orlando Garcia amd
lefty Beauchamp, both San Antonio
Democrats, vow to urge the legis-
ature at its next sesson to put the
DRT and the state-owned mission
rompletely under state oversight.
■This issue is not the No. 1 prior
ity of state business next session,”
Gwcia said. “But it will be brought
up. We’re serving notice that the
Iphno isn’t their exclusive shop.”
Meanwhile, state agencies are try
ing to determine who has responsibi
lity for the mission while avoiding
being caught in the cross fire.
In 1905, the state made the DRT
official custodians of the Alamo cha
pel and grounds.
For Majorie Hardy and Peggy Di-
brell, officers of the DRT’s Alamo
Committee, the legislators’ questions
are a challenge to DRT stewardship
of the Alamo.
“We don’t quarrel with state over
sight, since we’ve always been under
the state,” Dibrell told the Dallas
Morning News. “We’ve always filed
an annual fiscal report to the gover
nor’s office and the Texas Historical
Commission.”
“If the governor wants to send
someone down to check our books,
we’ll welcome him — but not every
member of the state legislature,”
Hardy said.
Members of the DRT are descen
dants of the heroes and pioneers of
the Republic of Texas. The key bat
tle in Texas’ war of independence
from Mexico was fought at the
Alamo in 1836, when a force of
about 186 volunteers held the Mexi
can army at bay for 13 days.
The DRT has paid for mainte
nance and renovation of the Alamo
without state or federal funds since
1905. All proceeds come through
sales to tourists and DRT members
volunteer their work at the mission.
State agencies including the His
torical Commission, the State Ar
chives and the governor’s office have
begun searching for annual financial
reports the DRT says it has filed with
them.
By late last week, the only report
found by the governor’s office was
dated Oct. 27, 1988, after the con
troversy began.
^ Adoptive families fight to win
right to abused youths’ records
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)ALLAS (AP) — A judge’s ruling
there is no constitutional clause or
Hal precedent requiring the state to
tell parents everything about the
children they adopt will be appealed
■seven adoptive parents of abused
children.
Budge Barefoot Sanders ruled
Wednesday on a suit filed by the
parents, who want the Department
of Human Services to disclose all re
cords about the children they adopt.
■The parents also want help with
gSl&ggering medical bills that came
with their children’s emotional treat
ment.
V Photos and information the state
provided about the abuse a child suf
fered from her biological parents
gave the girl’s adoptive parents, Rev.
Bob and Cherry Chandler of Dallas,
their first clue about the depth of
their adopted daughter’s emotional
problems.
B“We were told if we’d be patient
and give her lots of love, she’d be
OK,” Mis. Chandler said of her
adopted daughter, Tina, now 13.
“We didn’t know that we needed
that information in the records, and
we didn’t know she would need it
one day.”
Tina shook when, earlier this
year, she saw police photographs of
a battered and bruised toddler and
learned it was her.
The Chandlers and five other
adoptive parents of abused children
sued the state in U.S. District Court
in Dallas last May to make informa
tion that is availble on a “special
needs” basis easier to obtain.
Now the families say they’ll appeal
Sanders’ ruling and lobby legislators
for help.
The Chandlers, like many families
who adopt abused children, suffered
through their daughter’s violent
rage without knowing how to help
her.
When Tina joined the family in
November 1978, the 3-year-old col
ored her new parents’ walls and car
pets with black marker.
As her anger grew, Tina stole
money and jewelry from the Chan
dlers and their two sons.
Knives disappeared from the
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raced through the house, ripping up
furniture in a rage.
“She was so full of hate,” said Mrs.
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another piece of furniture would be
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Fearing for their lives, the Chan
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in therapy when she was 10. Since
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The Chandlers sought more de
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For the first time, the Chandlers
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and physically abused since she was
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