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2 The Battalion STATE & LOCAL 3 Wednesday, August 6,1989 ts ^Married students join ‘National Night Out’ y Mia B. Moody TAFF WRITER s patcH alberstat st cock)'' ta, so n progres usk nidi itorywasi psy, thti meofilf be repor, ' in thei th Vii Residents of the Texas A&M Mar led Student Housing participated Tuesday in “National Night Out,” a ampaign for neighborhood crime jrevention intended to help create nograms that will make their neigh- lorhoods safer. Sandra Burke, president of the Carried Student Housing Council md a graduate student in educatio- lal technology, said the council de- ided to co-sponsor the National Might Out program with the Univer ity Police Department after resi- lents became aware that their apart- uent complex is not a Utopia. “One of the officers brought The attalion and read the Police Beat nd the residents were shocked to learn the amount of crimes that go n at A&M,” Burke said. “Most of the crimes are petty like slashed tires and stolen bicycles and people walk ing around in other people apart ments. But by the officer reading this report, residents realized that A&M has crime problems.” Students who attended the Na tional Night Out said they thought the program was entertaining as well as useful. A bright hot-air balloon was shot into the air with McGruff “the crime dog” on board, children participated in a coloring contest and students met neighbors to talk about a crime prevention program. Mohamad Saleen, a graduate stu dent in the soil science department, said he was just passing by and saw the crowd and he decided to partici pate in the program. “I think this is a very good idea, especially since most of the residents here are international students,” Sa leen said. “We can take this idea to our homes and we can teach people how to prevent crimes.” At 8 p.m. the residents were told to turn their porch lights on to par ticipate in a contest sponsored by National Town Watch, a crime pre vention agency in Pennsylvania. A satellite was used to judge which neighborhood was the brightest in the United States. Officer Betty LeMay who works in the crime prevention unit at the Uni versity Police Department said the department is working on several programs to decrease the crime rate in residence halls. “We have implemented a Crime line which will give students infor mation about crime on campus and crime prevention tips,” LeMay said. “The Aggie Watch is a program which enables students to report anything that looks suspicious. The last program, operational I.D., en courages occupants to engrave all of the items in their apartment.” McGruff “the crime dog” joins University Po lice Crime Prevention Officer Betty LeMay Photo by Kathy Haveman and Bryan police Sgt. Choya Walling for a hot air balloon ride, part of National Night Out. he U.S. acate Hi th Vietc ncet Hance plans to get nomination Railroad officials say Waco train collision not caused by speed Railroad commissioner plans ‘new vision for Texas’ uncensc: Dt withsi vas alloi ‘clandesi jovernm e reporit to con AUSTIN (AP) — Kent Hance said lis proposals for sweeping educa- ion and criminal justice changes in Texas, coupled with his experience n government, will assure him the ie Kem Republican nomination for gover- censot:, |nor. The Railroad Commission chair man plans to enter the race Tuesday with announcements in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas and Lub bock, campaign press secretary Mark Sanders said. Hance then will embark on a two-week tour of 29 other cities. In a Monday interview with the Dallas Morning News, Hance pro posed that the state education com missioner be elected, rather than ap pointed by the State Board of Education. The change would make the com missioner more accountable to Tex ans, said Hance, who added that he would stress local control in the edu- His announcement makes him the third GOP candidate to enter the race to succeed Gov. Bill Clements, a Republican. Former Secretary of State Jack Rains of Houston, Texas A&M Class of ’60, and Midland businessman Clayton Williams, Class of ’54, al ready have announced. Corporate takeover artist T. Boone Pickens of Amarillo has said he will decide by Tuesday whether to enter the race. Among the Democrats, State Treasurer Ann Richards has an nounced her bid for governor. At torney General Jim Mattox is ex pected to challenge her in the Democratic primary. Hance touted surveys that show him the front-runner in the race for the GOP nomination. His campaign released partial re sults of a survey by its pollster, Lance Tarrance, that indicated Hance was 20 points ahead in the GOP field. The poll of 500 GOP voters was conducted July 31 through Aug. 2. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. Some of Hance’s detractors have said the reason he is ahead in the early surveys is that he has more name identification than the other Republican hopefuls. This will be Hance’s fourth statewide race since 1984. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat that year, then became a Republican in 1985. iclusion: n the u ie misi o the« s, who ell all enated ie Koi iews con ipport by 15 ] U.S, '10.” in an i not de icmsel'i lington from ft 1 inent ^ : publit lepric* r for* Social workers place AIDS victim in custody after reported sex abuse cation system. Hance said he would support the death penalty for drug dealers and a constitutional amendment denying bond for pushers. He advocated mandatory jail time for all users of il legal drugs. Hance also vowed to work for tax breaks for businesses. In his quest for nomination, Hance said he will spend $3 million and his campaign theme will be a “New Vision for Texas.” SAN ANTONIO (AP) — State social workers have taken custody of a 9-year-old AIDS patient they say was sexually abused and who reportedly was injected with drugs as punishment. The San Antonio girl, who probably will remain in state custody until she dies, has been placed in foster care with a family who knows her, said David Reilly, re gional director of the Texas Department of Human Services. “Everybody just wants to give her the best we can give her in the time she has,” Reilly said Monday. “She is with the person she wants to be with, and, if that works out, there is no reason to move her.” The girl is believed to have been sexually abused at a young age and been given drug injections as punish ment, according to a report filed in the child’s case. “From everything we can determine from the cir cumstances, it appears to be she got it (the AIDS virus) from abuse,” Reilly said. Authorities held a closed-door hearing Monday con cerning the girl in state district court. District Judge Tom Rickhoff said the hearing was closed to the public because of a law requiring confidentiality in AIDS cases. Among the issues believed to have been discussed in the hearing was whether the girl should attend public school. “As far as we’re concerned, she’s going to go to school,” Reilly said. “I don’t think we have an obligation to tell the school (about her disease). In fact, we may be precluded (by law) from telling them.” WACO (AP) — Engineers driving two freight trains involved in a fatal collision near a candy factory Tues day appeared to have been operat ing the engines at legal speeds, a Union Pacific Railroad spokesman said. “There was a grain train pulling 99 cars southbound which collided with a switch engine pulling 16 cars in the opposite direction,” Alex Tice said. “The engineer of the grain train was killed. Waco police Sgt. Roy Halsell iden tified the man killed as Frank Lewis, 37, of Fort Worth. Five other crewmen were treated for injuries at Hillcrest Baptist Medi cal Center. Three were treated for minor injuries then released, and the other two were in stable condi tion, hospital spokesman Mike Beaty said. A firefighter called to the scene after the wreck also was injured, Waco assistant fire chief David Walsleben said. He was treated for a back injury then later released from Providence Medical Center. Investigators are trying to deter mine why the two trains, both travel ing under 20 mph, collided, Tice said. Waco Fire Department officials said the accident occurred shortly af ter 6 a.m. near the M&M Mars fac tory. “The situation was stabilized in about an hour,” Fire Chief Robert Mercer said. “Most of the flame and smoke was from diesel, ruptured fuel tanks on the engines. “There was no hazardous materi als involved, other than the diesel fuel spill.” The grain train was destined for Corpus Christi, and the switch en gine was going to a siding about a mile from where the collision oc curred, Tice said. “That particular area was re stricted to cars going 20 miles per hour or less,” Tice said. “But you take the momentum of a locomotive and combine it with a switch engine and the impact is still going to be pretty significant.” Tice said he did not know how long it would take to repair the dam aged tracks, but said officials had asked for about 480 feet of new rail panels. Work crews are expected to con tinue working today to reopen the line, Tice said. 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