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Abortion
(Continued from page 1)
to people I know,” Cuthbert said.
“I’ve just been asking people if
they’re interested in being a pro-
choice activist.
“Collectively, I think there have
been about 200 sent in from A&M
because of the ones who went
through (my professor). Pro-choice
Aggies, NOW and myself. (My pro
fessor) and I got about 60 or 70
signed.
“I don’t necessarily support abor
tion, but I think the right should al
ways be there. The marchers on
Washington who carried coathang-
ers — I think that symbolizes the
whole reason why I’m doing it. I
don’t want it to have to go back to
that for people who need and want
abortions.
“I think sending the letters can
make a difference, especially from
here because A&M is such a conser
vative university. The more letters
there are against overturning it, the
more the attorney general is going to
have to think about it.”
Lisa Bordeau, assistant to the
ACLU director of the Reproductive
Freedom Project, said the ACLU
sent the letter all over the nation to
pro-choice organizations and their
affiliates.
The Reproductive Freedom Pro
ject is devoted to trying to preserve
privacy and reproductive rights for
all people. The ACLU works to de
fend the Bill of Rights of the U.S.
Constitution.
Bordeau said the ACLU head-
uarters in New York has received
00,000 of the form letter^.
“They’ve come from all over the
country — we’ve even had foreign
ones,” she said.
“We don’t know if this will change
anybody’s mind, but I think we all
want to show we’re against the justice
department revoking Roe vs. Wade.
We think this would be a gross error
and we just want to voice an opi
nion.”
Lucy
(Continued from page 1)
when she was operated upon, Dr.
Robert Kass said.
Kass, who performed the opera
tion, said at the time the tearing in
Ball’s aorta “progressed all the way
down into her abdomen.”
Ball, with her fire-engine red hair
and siren wail, was considered the
queen of situation comedy and a pi
oneer of the sitcom format.
“I and 100 million others will miss
her,” comedian George Burns said.
“But we haven’t lost Lucille Ball be
cause she’s still with us 6n television
and we can see her on and on.”
“Her red hair, her antics on the
screen, her timing and her zest for
life made her an American institu
tion,” former President and Nancy
Reagan said in a statement. “Just the
mention of her name brings a smile.
. . . We love Lucy and will miss her
deeply.”
“It’s a shock after working very
closely with her and loving her for
over 35 years,” Ball’s frequent side-
Donor
(Continued from page 4)
provide information and answer any
questions they might have. We don’t
pressure or try to persuade them in
any way.
“Whenever I talk to people about
being organ donors, I use myself as
an example. I’m a registered organ
donor. To me, it’s neat to think that
when I die, my body can be used to
improve the quality of life for other
people.”
The Transplant Services Center
creates awareness by giving presen
tations to health personnel.
“We do them mainly because
there’s many new people coming
into the fielci of medicine,” Mathieu
kick, Gale Gordon, who was in Ed
monton, Alberta, said.
While in the hospital, the come
dian was deluged with thousands of
cards, letters, flowers and phone
calls from fans as far away as Austra
lia and Europe.
Ball and her late former husband,
Desi Arnaz, starred in “I Love Lucy”
from 1951 to 1957 and have been
seen since in widely syndicated re
runs. The late Vivian Vance and
William Frawley played their neigh
bors, Fred and Ethel Mertz.
Her split-second timing, wide
mouthed wails and exaggerated
pratfalls made the “I Love Lucy”
show one of the most popular in
television history.
Bridge clubs and bowling teams
changed their meeting nights to
watch Lucy and Ethel cook up still
another ridiculous scheme that
would push their long-suffering
husbands to exasperation.
Ball’s real, onscreen pregnancy
marked a milestone in television,
and an estimated 44 million viewers
— more than for the inauguration of
President Eisenhower — tuned in on
Jan. 19, 1953, to watch Lucy Ricardo
nave Little Ricky.
said. “Nurses are our liasons in con
tact out in the field. Without them,
we wouldn’t even do a fraction of
what we do. They’re the ones that
approach the families of people who
are deceased or brain dead on the
option of organ donation.
They also create awareness
througn campaigns and get free
publicity as in the case of Lucille
Ball’s heart valve transplant last
week.
“We got quite a few calls after that
from people wanting information
and wanting to be donors,” he said.
For more information about be
coming a donor, call 1-800-433-
6667. The Transplant Services Cen
ter will send information as well as a
donor registration card.
Six inj'ured
in fall from
bridge pier
DALLAS (AP) — Six construction
workers were injured — two crit
ically after falling 52 feet — when a
bridge pier over the Trinity River
bottom collapsed Wednesday.
A dozen workers were using ma
chinery to smooth concrete atop the
pier when the accident occurred
about 1 p.m., said crane operator
Frank Jurica, who lifted nine of the
workers to safety.
“I was looking right at them when
all of a sudden I heard a loud crack
and saw the guys fall to the street,”
Jurica said. “It happened that quick.
“1 knew I had to get the others off
so I raised the man basket and
brought down four or five the first
time and the rest the second time,”
he said. “They were pretty shaken.
We all were.”
There were unconfirmed reports
that the pier had been accidentally
struck by a crane in the past.
The “super-plasticized” concrete
had been poured on the deck about
20 minutes earlier, said bridge su
perintendent Jeff McKinney, of
Traylor Bros. Inc. in Dallas.
Traylor Bros, was contracted by
the city in 1987 to build two three-
lane bridges at a cost of $11 million
to replace the antiquated two-lane
Westmoreland Road along the river
bottom, which occasionally floods.
The deck supports and pipe
braces, called “overhanging false
work” or “skeleton work” that is
taken down when the concrete is
dry, gave way inexplicably as the
men worked to smooth the concrete,
McKinney said.
Westmoreland was closed to traf
fic while investigators from the
county and the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration probed
the accident Wednesday.
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