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Students seek funding reforms in letters to officials
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AUSTIN (AP) — School children are
among the scores of people who have filed
briefs with the Texas Supreme Court, trying
to persuade the justices to change the way
public education is funded.
“I think all schools should be equal in fi
nancial support,” said Clinton Kasprzyk, a
fifth-grader in the South Texas school district
of Kenedy, in a letter to the court.
“You see, Kenedy doesn’t have enough
money to get the supplies they need,” he
wrote. “Just like it says, ‘All men are created
equal,’ all schools should be too.”
A lawsuit by poor districts challenging the
public school finance system is pending be
fore the court, which last month heard argu
ments from attorneys.
The court has received about 400 pages of
legal briefs from the lawyers, and about 70
fnend-of-the-court briefs from interested
parties. Those parties range from state offi
cials to school board members to students, the
Austin American-Statesman reported Tues
day.
In the students’ letters, the grammar is not
you.’ Just please do us as you like us to do to
you,” said Alice Cortez, also a fifth-grader in
Kenedy, which is in Karnes County.
Just because a school is
smaller and has fewer students
shouldn’t mean fewer
opportunities for the students
attending.”
— Dusty Cooper,
high school freshman
A kindergartener named Stephen, from
the Sanger school district in Denton County,
signed a letter saying, “I think I am just as im
portant as a child who goes to school in a big
city and my school is just as special as the
schools in Dallas.
“The state of Texas should be fair to every
child and every school,” the letter said.
Janice Stalder, an English teacher in the
Copperas Cove school district in Central
Texas, told the court she had been a student
in Calhoun County.
always perfect, but the message is clear.
“You know the Golden Rule where they
say, ‘Do to others as you like them to do to
“The difference between Calhoun and
Copperas Cove is a four-letter word —
CASH,” she wrote. “Today, our (Copperas
Cove) drama teacher and students would be
glad to have access to an auditorium that Cal-
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Dusty Cooper, a high school freshman!
Kenedy, wrote, “Just because a school
smaller and has fewer students should -
mean fewer opportunities for the student!;
tending.”
A1 Kauffman, an attorney with the Me ^
can American Legal Defense and Educate!
Fund, said the friend-of-the-court briefsh®|
show the breadth of interest in the case, p ^
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HOUSTON (AP) — Thirteen pt
plucked from capsized fishing vessels Tuesday in
the stormy Gulf of Mexico by Coast Guard heli
copter crews as Hurricane Chantal moved to the
Texas coast.
Also this morning, the Coast Guard sent a pa
trol boat and a jet into the storm to bring water
pumps to two shrimp boats in trouble, one about
a mile north of the Galveston jetty and the other
about 50 miles from shore.
Coast Guard spokesman Mark Kennedy said
emergency crews received a call about 5 a.m.
about a capsized boat off the West Sabine jetty.
Two helicopters were launched in the severe
weather ana found five people clinging to a tire
attached to the boat, which was lying on its side.
“They were able to hoist two people and take
those two to shore,” Kennedy said. “Then they
came back and took the other three.”
The second chopper found two other people
in the water about a quarter mile from the cap
sized boat.
eluded an accurate location, so rescuers had trou
ble finding the craft.
Divers wait to n,
search for cm
of capsized rig
“It’s lucky they found them,” LaRochelle said.
“Visibility out there is only about a half-mile, at
best, and there’s blowing rain and fog.”
“Incredibly enough, we got all seven people,”
Kennedy said. “One reason is they all were wear
ing lifejackets.”
Another report came in about 9:30 a.m. today,
>le
epor
was being escorted to shore by a Coast Guard pa”
trol boat, which brought a water pump to keep
the small vessel afloat, LaRochelle said.
Lt. Scott LaRochelle said. He said three peopl
were lifted from the water by helicopter about an
hour later. Their boat was capsized nearby.
LaRochelle said the distress call had not in-
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ter being blown into the Galveston jetty, LaRo
chelle said.
High Island residents work to brave hurricane
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HIGH ISLAND (AP) — Some
le spent the night in cars, others
‘ in a makeshift shelter and
some woke to find water in their
homes as Hurricane Chantal swept
ashore Tuesday.
“I stepped out of my bed into
standing water,” Helen Church, who
was taken from her beachfront
home to a shelter set up at the High
Island High School, said. “It was the
first time that had ever happened to
me. I called in and asked if anybody
was being evacuated and they of
fered to come and get me.”
Hurricane Chantal packing winds
of 82 mph came ashore over High
Island about 8 a.m. before being
downgraded to a tropical storm late
Tuesday morning.
Doug Considine, with the Galves
ton County Sheriffs Department
Beach Patrol, said area roads were
passable although debris was scat
tered across several sections where
water topped the highway.
John Richardson and Peggy How
ard spent the night in his car after
fleeing from their Gilcrest home.
The only thing visible in the car was
a pillow and blanket and a row of
family pictures stacked on the win
dow.
“I’ll be glad when this is over,”
Richardson said. “I don’t know if
there’s anything left there to get
back to but I’m sure ready to find
out. I managed to get a couple of
hours sleep but I’m running on
fumes.”
Bucky Faggard, 48, knew from
the hurricane’s strength that it
would not be too threatening.
“You go through so many of them
that you learn not to start worrying
too much with the winds like this,”
Faggard said. “When they get up to
175-200 (mph), that’s when I start
worrying about it.”
Faggard said he stayed when Hur
ricane Carla blew through in 1961
and caused a great deal of damage,
He also waited out Hurricane Alicia
in 1983.
“With Carla in ’61, we were com
pletely surrounded by water and
were isolated for about five days, but
I don’t expect anything like that
from this,” he said about the time
the storm’s eye came ashore. “We’ve
been through a bunch of these and
you don’t ever really know what’s
going to happen so we always pre
pare.”
During the storm, George E.
Kahla managed to relax in a rotted
easy chair inside his self-proclaimed
trading post, emblazoned with a sign
“We buy and sell good junk.”
“I’m going to sit here and play it
cool and not get too excited about all
this,” he said.
“That’s the beauty of this busi
ness. If it blows over, you just pick it
back up later. ”
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AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Parks and Wildlife De
partment has proposed a management plan that a
spokesman said Tuesday could make the $186 million-
a-year shrimp industry more lucrative.
The plan’s primary goal is to increase the value of
shrimp being landed, said Gary Matlock, director of
fisheries for the department. For example, closing state
waters at certain periods would allow shrimp to grow
larger before harvest.
From 1983 through 1987, shrimpers reported land
ing an annual average of 87 million pounds of shrimp.
While the averat
While economic considerations are an integral part
of shrimp industry management, the department also
must look at such other factors as preventing depletion
of shrimp, the plan notes.
“It is clear tha
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$186 million, it had a $580 million annual economic im-
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AUSTIN (AP) — The top official
of the Southwestern Medical Foun
dation has been appointed to the
Texas Higher Education Coordinat
ing Board to fill the unexpired term
of a board member who resigned in
protest.
Gov. Bill Clements on Tuesday
announced the appointment of Dr.
Charles C. Sprague of Dallas to the
board that oversees public higher
education in Texas.
Sprague is replacing John Samuel
Carroll III of El Campo who re
signed to protest a bill passed by law
makers that would have created a
new, four-year state university in
Killeen.
At the time of his resignation in
May, Carroll said the creation of
Central Texas University unsurped
the higher education board’s author-
ity-
In a special session that ended last
month, the Legislature adopted a
measure that would make establish
ment of the university subject to ap
proval by the higher education
board.
Jay Rosser, deputy press secretary
to Clements, said the governor is ex
pected to sign that bill into law.
Sprague will serve the remainder
of Carroll’s term, which expires
Aug. 31.
Sprague currently is board chair
man and chief executive of the
Southwestern Medical Foundation,
after having served a one-year stint
as president of the institution.
From 1972 to 1986, he served as
president of the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Dallas as
well as a professor of internal medi
cine at the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical School in Dal
las.
In 1986, he became president
emeritus at both institutions.
Prior to coming to Dallas, Sprague
served as a faculty member or ad
ministrator of university medical
schools both in and out of Texas
since 1952.
Clements said, “Texas stands to
benefit greatly from Charles Spra
gue’s working knowledge of higher
education ...”
pact, according to the proposed plan. That includes the
purchase of goods and services by shrimpers and the
distribution of wages through the economy.
The plan has been sent out for public comment. The
Parks and Wildlife Commission will consider adopting
it after any changes are made.
Lawmakers ordered development of the plan in
1985, when they gave the commission authority to reg
ulate shrimp fishing in Texas. The Legislature in the
past has managed the industry.
The commission, which meets periodically through
the year, can react more quickly to changes than the
Legislature, which meets in regular session every two
years, Matlock said.
lat the statute directs the department to
recognize that shrimp are to be treated similarly to
other natural resources managed by the state and coun
try, like oil, gas, or timber,” it says.
An “increasingly important” problem in shrimping is
the accidental capture of endangered sea turtles in nets,
said the department in the plan. Shrimpers have pro
tested federal rules that would require the use of de
vices to keep the turtles from getting tangled in the
nets.
Periodic closing of state waters can cut down on the
capture of turtles, fish and other marine creatures,
Matlock said.
The average amount of fish that is accidentally
caught and discarded by shrimpers has ranged from
328 million pounds to 977 million pounds per year over
the last 10 years, according to the plan.
The department proposes managing the shrimp in
dustry primarily through such periodic closings. It says
individual shrimpers’ catches should be managed by
regulating shrimping methods.
NEW ORLEANS (AP)-li
vers waited Tuesday for therein
nants of Hurricane Chantal»
stop whipping up seas aroundr gettin
capsized rig so they could searril 0 “[ t
for 10 crewmen missing since tilt I 0
accident Monday in the Gulf oi| anc j l e
Mexico.
Chevron hired the diven lo
search the rig it leased fromi
Louisiana company.
“We understand the seas an
still very high and conditions an
very dangerous in the area," Ion
athan Lifa, spokesman for Cher
ron, said. “Tne captain will male
the decision about when it is safe
to go to the area and begri
searching again.”
Chantal hit land on the soutl
east Texas coast Tuesday mom
ing.
It weakened as it headed in
land and was downgraded to I
tropical storm before noon.
The Coast Guard would noire'
sume its search for the missm;
men, Seaman Kelly King said.
“With the weather conditions
the way they are out there nowno
one can search, but we will notbe
renewing our efforts when it
clears,” King said. “We don’thave
qualified divers for that kind of
search. There’s nothing morefor
us to do.”
The self-propelled rig Avcon
with 14 people aboard was
headed to shore early Monday
when it capsized about 20 miles
off the Louisiana coast, nearMor i
gan City, Lifa said.
“Although it is not a Chevron
vessel or Chevron employees or
on a Chevron location, we feel
out of humanitarian efforts we
have to help,” Lifa said.
The rig was leased by Chevron
from Avis Bourg Co. of Folsom
and was returning to shore from!
a Chevron worksite because Hur
ricane Chantal was forming.
Three survivors were taken Ej!. ern ' ^
aboard the fishing vessel Spar fusand
Royale, and a fourth was taken by ,
helicopter to Grand Isle. . J l< t “ e
Rescued were Jesse Morton, | lea
29, of Franklinton; Tony Cruz, a p c ha
24, of Houma; Kevin Cooly.ZOof 0 n ^ w '
Lafayette, and Edward Ducett, * coac h>n
age and hometown unknown, the
Coast Guard said.
Cruise was in stable condition
and Cooly released after being
treated at Terrebonne General
Medical Center, according to a
spokesman at the Houma hospi
tal. Morton and Ducett appar
ently were not hurt.
The 10 missing workers were
not identified immediately.
Ti
The
Nun shot in El Salvador
makes 6 miracle’ recovery
HOUSTON (AP) — A 73-year-
old American nun, shot in the face
and seriously wounded during an
apparent robbery attempt in El Sal
vador six weeks ago, will be released
from the hospital this week, doctors
said Tuesday.
Sister Mary Stanislaus Mackey, a
member of the Sisters of Charity of
the Incarnate Word, would be
moved to a Houston convent to con
tinue her recuperation, doctors said.
“We’re real pleased with the pro
gress sister has made,” said Dr.
James Baker of St. Joseph Hospital.
“There appears to have been some
damage to her optic nerve and we’re
not sure how much sight she will re
cover in her left eye. All she needs at
this point is continued strengthen-
ing.”
“Sister Stan,” as she is called, was
working at an orphanage in El Salva
dor on June 21 when she was shot
with a .38 caliber gun fired from a
pickup truck as she rode in another
vehicle with two other Roman Cath
olic nuns.
The bullet shattered her cheek
bone. After initial treatment in San
Salvador, she was airlifted to Hous
ton, where her religious order is
based.
Physicians in Houston performed
a craniotomy June 26 to remove a
bullet fragment that lodged in her
brain and to relieve swelling in her
brain.
A second operation was per
formed July 8 to reattach the retina
in her left eye.
“I want to thank everyone for
their interest and their prayers,” Sis
ter Mackey said in a brief statement
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STUDENTS OVER TRADITIONAL AGE (SOTA): will meet at 7 p.m. in 704 Rud
der.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7:30 p.m. at St. Marys
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approaches miracle stage.
.. she was shot in the
head at close range with a
large caliber handgun.”
Dr. Rob Parrish,
Neurosurgeon
to reporters. “God has taken me
ipletely into His hands, and I
nk
completely into His hands,
thank everybody who has played a
part in my recovery. I especially ap
preciate the good work of my doc
tors, the nurses, priests, bishops and
the sisters of the congregation.”
She declined to answer questions.
Baker said he anticipated no long
term problems with motor functions
although she had some problems
with short-term memory.
Dr. Rob Parrish, the nun’s neuro
surgeon, said,“I think the outcome
approaches miracle stage when one
considers she was shot in the head at
close range with a large caliber
handgun.”
GAY STUDENT SERVICES: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 507 AB Rudder for a room
mate referral session and Hotline training sign-up. For more information contact
Terry at 823-2877.
TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. For more information
contact Stirling Brondel at 846-9183.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information contact
the C.D.P.E at 845-0280.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. For more information con
tact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
Thursday
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANCERS: will meet at 7 p.m. at Rudder Four
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CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION:
Student Center for Fourth Day.
will meet at 6:15 p.m. at St. Mary's
MEXICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8 p.m. at the Wing Joint lo
discuss fundraising tactics.
TEXAS A&M ATARI COMPUTER USERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 138of
the MSC to discuss memory upgrades and accelerator kits. For more informa
tion contact Tom Dodge at 846-4565.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m. For more information
contact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information contact
the C.D.P.E at 845-0280.
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