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DALLAS (AP) — A half-mile
stretch of an industrial area in
northwest Dallas was evacuated and
about 30 people were taken to hospi
tals Sunday after a 55-gallon drum
of a noxious chemical ruptured on a
trucking company’s loading dock.
Three firefighters were among
those who complained of difficulty
breathing after the incident at Yel
low Freight in the 4500 block of Ir
ving Boulevard, about three miles
southeast of Texas Stadium, officials
said.
The chemical was described as
ethylene diamine, a highly flamma
ble liquid used in photographic proc
essing.
A city bus transported 18 people
to Methodist Medical Center, and
other people were taken to Parkland
Memorial Hospital, said Capt. Jack
Hickey, assistant fire chief with the
Dallas Fire Department.
Nineteen plant employees were
taken to the hospital after they com-
f ilained of nausea and weakness, of-
icials said. None of the injuries ap
peared serious, hospital officials
said.
Authorities evacuated about 71
people in a stretch of Irving Boule
vara between Mockingbird Lane
and Regal Row north and northwest
of the plant. The Trinity River is
only three blocks from the plant. Al
though the area is mostly industrial,
there are a few residences in the |
area.
Fire department officials saidH
sand was being used to absorb the
leaking chemical.
A vapor cloud formed, but ofli I
cials said those upwind of therhemi
cal were in no danger.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Poverty con
tinues to fuel the city’s infant mortal
ity rate, and the public health system
is inadequate to deal with all the haz
ards that poor women and their un
born babies face, a newspaper re
ported Sunday.
“Infant mortality is our failure,”
Dr. John E. Arradondo, the city’s
health director, told the Houston
Chronicle in a copyright story.
A Chronicle computer study ana
lyzed Texas Department of Health
data tapes linking birth certificate in
formation to the death certificates of
2,842 Houston infants who died be
tween 1980 and 1986 — the most re
cent period for which the tapes are
available.
According to that analysis, there
was a strong relationship between in
fant mortality and factors indicating
poverty, the newspaper reported.
That relationship has not changed
significantly since 1986, said Joe Ru
bio, local director of community
services for the March of Dimes, a
non-profit group that raises money
to fight birth defects and infant mor
tality.
The analysis showed that mothers
whose infants died were far less
likely to have received adequate pre
natal care than were those whose ba
bies lived; babies with teen-age or
unmarried mothers were at in
creased risk; black babies died at a
rate almost double that of white and
Hispanic infants; and babies who
died were nearly 10 times more
likely to have low birth weights, an
other indicator of poor prenatal
care.
Rubio said those factors are all
considered indicators of poverty and
give credence to the argument that
babies die in Houston because they
and their mothers lack adequate ac
cess to health care.
Houston’s infant mortality rate
has not decreased significantly since
1982, averaging about 11.5 infant
deaths per 1,000 live births. The rate
is even higher in the inner city —
more than 13 per 1,000 — and in
some census tracts, in which about
3,000 people live, rates have ap
proached 30 per 1,000.
Many women who live in these
areas look to public clinics for their
preventative care, but that has
proved difficult in recent years with
repeated cuts in budgets and per
sonnel.
In 1987, the city of Houston
Health Department recorded
142,448 visits to family planning,
f irenatal and child-care clinics. That
igure dropped to 113,848 in 1988
and are projected to be no more
than 109,900 this year — a result of
a series of city budget cuts.
1988 and 1989, Rubio and .otkl
health experts expect this perctml
age to go even higher.
The Chronicle’s analysis showed
that from 1980-86, almost 40 per
cent of women whose babies died re
ceived inadequate prenatal care. Be-
fe
cause clinics saw Fewer patients in
Arradondo said he is trying toii-
crease staff and strengthen (it
health department’s ability to met!
the need for prenatal care. But lit
department, he said, “is unable
provide adequate service levels aii(
meet federal, state and local im£
dates.”
Arradondo does not deny than: 1
fant mortality strikes mostoftenll
group he is charged to serve—(I
poor.
News director creates group
to fight post-polio syndrome
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LUBBOCK (AP) — When C.A.
“Skip” Watson swaggers toward
one of his reporters with that no-
nonsense look on his face, some
one’s usually in trouble.
Watson is news director at
KCBD-TV. His tough demeanor
comes from his intolerance to
careless mistakes. His swagger is
the result of a bout with polio and
eight operations by the time he
was 16.
The effects of polio —the limp
in his walk and the ineffectiveness
of his right hand — are becoming
worse. Watson, like more than
300,000 others who contracted po
lio as children, is suffering from
post-polio syndrome.
Post-polio syndrome is a newly
diagnosed condition. It strikes one
four polio survivors, robbing
them of the movement for which
they had worked so hard.
People who contracted polio
during the epidemics of the 1940s
and ’50s — before the vaccine was
developed — are finally coming of
age. The syndrome was first diag
nosed as a part of growing old. Re
search is indicating it may be much
more serious.
Many experience extreme fa
tigue as well as increased pain and
deformities in their joints. They
also feel the effects of the normal
aging process 15 to 20 years earlier
because of the nerve damage
caused by polio years ago and the
extra strain put on other muscles
and joints.
Polio attacks about 50 to 80 per
cent of the neurons. As people
age, they lose approximately 20
percent of their motor neurons
without much loss of function. For
post-polio patients, the loss during
the aging process erases their al
ready small supply of neurons.
“I’m not going to let it bother
me until I find some answers,
Watson said, > J 'V‘9-mile walks,once,
a pleasurable yyay to relax, are too
painful for Watson.
He said he doesn’t know of any
doctor in Lubbock who can diag
nose and treat the condition. Wat
son and about 25 others are form
ing Lubbock Polio Survivors, a
group that will bring in speaker)
knowledgeable about the progres
sive disease.
Watson was 3 when he woke up
with what his family believed wasa
cold. He had a fever and his tied
was stiff. The family physician
prescribed medication and seni
him home.
The next day, by his mother’s
account, he got out of bed and fell
fiat on his face. “My legs gave out
To this day, Watson’s legs occa
sionally become like jelly while
walking.
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New Fort Bend County sheriff
works to fill void left by George
RICHMOND (AP) — The death
of Gus George, a long-time law en
forcement of ficial and the well-liked
sheriff of Fort Bend County for five
years, has left a void that some local
residents believe will be hard to fill.
Perry Hillegeist, the late sheriff’s
hand-picked successor, shares that
notion.
“No one will ever walk in Gus
George’s boots,” said Hillegeist, who
had been George’s chief deputy.
“Gus George was a legend, and I
wouldn’t make a pimple on his arm.
I understand that.
“But just for him to have touched
my life and given me some of his ex
perience is really going to be benefi
cial to me from now on. I have to
walk in my own shoes.”
At 38, Hillegeist is younger than
most of his top staff in the 180-mem
ber department. He started his ca
reer as a corrections officer in the
Texas prison system and left in 1985
after rising to the post of assistant
warden at the Central Unit.
After George was elected sheriff
in 1984, he told Hillegeist he wanted
him for his chief deputy.
George, 68 when he died, was
sheriff here for five years and served
more than 30 years with the Harris
County Sheriffs Department. Peo
ple said his charisma, fairness and
sense of justice were unmatched.
On Nov. 4, he died after a long
battle with cancer.
Aware he was dying, George
wrote letters to county commission
ers, the county judge and the Demo
cratic and Republican party chair
men last month recommending
Hillegeist be appointed as his re
placement.
The sealed, notarized letters were
locked in a safe at the jail and hand-
delivered after his death. Commis
sioners unanimously supported Hill
egeist as interim sheriff and he was
sworn in two days after George died.
“He was quite proud of his depart
ment, and he wanted some continu
ity,” Commissioner R.L. “Bud”
O’Shieles said of George.
By law, the appointed sheriff will
serve until the next general election
in 1990. Then voters will elect a re
placement to serve until the next
scheduled sheriffs election in 1992.
After taking his oath of office,
Hillegeist vowed to carry out
George’s goals.
Some of his immediate concerns
involve the soon-to-be-completed
study of what the Sheriffs Depani
ment needs to do keep pace withli |, |
lure growth in Fort Bend CdUfllfl
Already, the jail has a daily count®!
300 inmates though it’s designedf®H
only 232.
Currently operating on a $6.4niil||
lion budget, the department is refl
questing $7 million in the fiscalyt |! [f
beginning Jan. 1. Most of thoseesfl
penses are “beyond our control I
Hillegeist said, including utilfc!
and fluctuating food costs •
In addition, the department 1
seeking a few more patrol and j.
positions.
Hillegeist said George setuptl -
department almost like a corpotf!
tion, with a staff of eight or ninetofB
people who met weekly.
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DALLAS (AP) — School dis
trict officials in Dallas plan to
turn to parents for help in the
battle to keep gang violence un
der control.
An increasing number of street
gangs and gang-related crimes in
Dallas are prompting more con
cern among school officials, the
Dallas Morning News reported.
The bilingual education de
partment of the Dallas school dis
trict will work with parents next
weekend on dealing with the neg
ative influences of street gangs,
which now number more than 55
in Dallas.
An assistant psychologist at
Skyline High School, Gerald An-
gerstein, said he believes three re
cent deaths of students can be at
tributed to gang-related activities.
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ents in the district do not realize
their children are involved in
gangs. But many of the gang
members dress in readily identi
fiable clothing or have haircuts
that brand them as a member of a
particular group, school officials
said.
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