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I FORT WORTH (AP) — An el-
lerly Fort Worth woman may have
ti pay several hundred dollars in
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. “wan Farris, 80, since July after her
leighbor complained the three cats
■ave dug up his shrubs and used his
|,ird and van as a litter box.
I One citation charges one of Farris’
lats with “walking on a car in the
■900 block of Roanoke Street.”
Farris must appear in Municipal
Court Tuesday to answer the cita-
W ions.
“The whole thing is about the sil-
?j iest thing I’ve ever heard of,” Farris
®™aid.
“This thing is crazy, and I don’t
enow why it’s happening. And I
an’t afford to pay all this money
hey’re talking about.”
Her attorney, Charles Baldwin,
vrote a letter to the city attorney’s
office seeking dismissal of the cita-
ions.
Baldwin wrote: “I would appre-
.1 small ui j t jj- ,i ie g r eat city of Fort Worth
pie werecelclii - 0U ld find in its heart to show mercy
and dismiss these tickets, as I don’t
oelieve a conviction in this case
would serve as a deterrent to other
cats with a compulsion to violate the
aw.”
“Unfortunately, there is a viola
tion involved — animal at large —
and it is normally our policy to pros
ecute,” a spokesman for the city at
torney told the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram.
The neighbor, Ralph Neal, said he
lives in a neighborhood overrun by
cats and didn’t see any humor in the
situation.
“All I want is for my property to
be left alone,” he told the Star-Tele
gram last summer. “I have a right to
plant shrubs without getting my
hands in cat stuff.”
Neal has since obtained an un
listed phone number.
In Advance
Black history teleconference airs in Rudder
A national teleconference ti
tled “Beyond the Dream: A Cele
bration of Black History” will air
in 701 Rudder at 3 p.m., 5 p.m.
and 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The teleconference, sponsored
by the Black Awareness Commit
tee, will serve as a national kickoff
of February as Black History
Month. It will be two hours long
and will focus on contributions of
blacks in the fields of education,
politics, economics, the military,
the arts, sports, entertainment
and social issues.
The program also will feature
young black men and women
who represent the next genera
tion of black leaders in the United
States.
Admission to the program is
$2.
Several prominent speakers
will be featured during the tele
conference, including Rep. Car-
diss Collins, D-Ill.; Dorothy Gil
liam, a columnist for the
Washington Post, Mary Hatwood
Futrell, president of the National
Education Association; and Terry
Cummings, forward for the Na
tional Basketball Association’s
Milwaukee Bucks.
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Austin joins research
into high-definition TV
AUSTIN (AP) — Central Texas
high-tech experts, including the Mi
croelectronics and Computer Tech
nology Corp. consortium, are join
ing a national research effort aimed
at producing the next generations of
advanced television sets.
The research centers around
high-definition televisions, or
HDTV. Experts say it could put
Austin in the middle of an industry
expected to grow to $40 billion in
sales in the next 20 years.
The new television sets, with clear,
crisp pictures and compact disk-
quality sound, have become the dar
lings of the U.S. electronics industry
as it tries to recapture a market over
taken by the Japanese in the 1970s.
In addition to producing TV sets
with 10 times the detail of current
ones, HDTV research is expected to
boost domestic computer chip pro
duction, since the sets will be micro
processor driven; increase VCR and
cable sales; and help transform a
bevy of industries — from medical
testing and military systems to pub
lishing.
In Austin, MCC officials are nego-
Camp, flood victims’ families
reach out-of-court settlement
KTRRVILLE (AP) — Out-of-court settlements were
reached Monday between the operators of a youth
camp and the families of four teen-agers who drowned
near the camp when their bus was swept into the rain-
swollen Guadalupe River in 1987.
Teniis of the deal were sealed by State District Judge
V. Mnrrav Jordan. Jury selection began Jan. 23 and tes-
tirnom began last Wednesday.
Attorney s negotiated all day Monday before reach
ing a settlement late in the day.
fen children died and 33 others survived when a bus
and van Irom the Seagoville Road Baptist Church in
Balch Springs, a suburb of Dallas, were caught in flood-
waters alter the Guadalupe River overflowed its banks
on julv 17, 1987, near Comfort.
1 he campers, along with others from other parts of
the state, were leaving the Pot O’ Gold Ranch Camp en
route home.
The families of John Bankston Jr., 17; of Leslie Gos
sett. 1 4; and of sisters Stacey Smith, 16,. and Tonya
Smith, 14, had filed negligence lawsuits totaling $11.75
million.
Defendants in the suit were the camp; its operators,
Huisache Avenue Baptist Church in San Antonio; and
two camp administrators, the Rev. Claud Bonam Sr.
and his daughter-in-larv, Zelda Bonam.
The families contended that the camp administrators
were warned the morning of July 17, 1987, that the
Guadalupe River yvas rising to dangerous levels after
nearly 12 inches of rain fell in the area.
However, numerous church buses leaving the camp
were not warned of the dangers, the suit said.
Defense attorney s argued that the flood that caused
the accident yvas a natural disaster and that their clients
were not to blame.
A fire department dispatcher in Comfort, about
three miles northyvest of the camp, testified Friday that
she could not recall yvhether she told Mrs. Bonam in the
early morning hours that there yvas flooding at the
headwaters about 10 miles upstream.
John Bankston Sr., father of a teen-ager who saved
numerous lives before he disappeared under the Gua
dalupe River, said he hoped the suit and settlement will
prevent am type of accident from occurring again. The
body of Bankston’s son was never recovered.
Bankston said flood warning systems could have pre
vented the deaths.
“It's hard to explain how hard it’s been,” Bankston
said at a neyvs conference. “It’s something that we
would rather not have gone through, but through all of
this, all these c amps will take this measure to ensure the
safety ot the people at these camps because children
can't make up their minds like a groyvn-up can.”
Bonam told reporters outside the Kerr County
Courthouse that changes will be made at the camp to
avoid future flood problems, but he declined to say the
camp w as at fault.
We regret most deeply that such a flood came our
wav.” Bonam said. “Most importantly, we are working
with the Sons of Hermann Lodge, the adjacent land
oyy ner, to have an alternate route out.”
The Bonams’ attorneys said they preferred exonera
tion for their clients in court, but felt a settlement was
the most appropriate thing.
Def ense attorney David Stephenson of San Antonio
said the settlement prevented the parents whose chil
dren died from testifying and the defendants from hav
ing to hear that they were negligent.
"From a human point of view, it was good for both
fides, " Stephenson said.
" But we never got a chance to put on our side of the
show and, personally, I don’t like stopping trials in the
middle and I would have liked to put on our case,” he
said.
Several other families of victims and survivors have
filed lawsuits against the camp, but trial dates for those
cases have not been set.
City Of Los Angeles
Department of Public Works
Bureau of Sanitation
Will be recruiting at TEXAS A & M for
SANITARY ENGINEERING ASSISTANTS
Friday, February 17,1989
If you will have your BS or MS in Engineering by
Mid-1989 ; and would like to work for the City at the
forefront m sanitation, come talk to us.
INTERVIEWS MAY BE SCHEDULED THRU YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE
An Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer
ALPHA EPSILON
DELTA
THE PREMEDICAL AND PREDENTAL HONOR
SOCIETY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Requirements:
1. Overall and Science GPA of 3.2
2. Completed 45 Hours
Pledge Information
Meeting
Feb. 1, 1989 7 p.m.
402 Rudder Tower
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'Available November 1988
hating with an arm of the U.S. De
fense Department to produce a com
prehensive HDTV study.
A Baylor University research lab
already is examining new applica
tions for HDTV, even though the
technology still has not passed the
drawing-board stage.
“This is the next evolution in tele-
x vision’s histdry,” said Corey Carbon-
ara, project director at Baylor’s New
Video Technologies Lab and the
former HDTV project manager for
Sony Corp. “I don’t think anybody
familiar with these issues cannot at
least stop and take a second look.”
Experts say HDTV’s magic is in
the number of scanning lines used to
produce the picture. Traditional
U.S. televisions use 525 scanning
lines, while Europeans use 625.
HDTV, under current proposals,
would use 1,200 or more, with the
result being a picture unblemished
by tiny gaps between the lines and
one that looks more like 35mm film
than traditional television.
Sandy Dochen, a spokesman for
MCC, said the high-density tele
vision could apply to a cross section
6f the computer consortium’s work..
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Implications of Soviet Involvement
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