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Tuesday, April 3,1990 The Battalion Page 9 Mom allegedly stabs daughters with kitchen knife HOUSTON (AP) — A woman allegedly attacked her two young daughters with a butcher knife Monday and may have tried to force them to take some medica tion, police said. The girls suffered multiple stab wounds and were taken to Ben Taub Hospital where they were in stable condition Monday afternoon, officials said. The oldest girl, who is 8, suf fered four stab wounds. Her 5- year-old sister, who was stabbed nine times, underwent surgery earlier Monday. Hospital spokesman Roger Widmeyer said the SO-year-old mother was under observation at Ben Taub. She had some minor wrist cuts that apparently were self-inflicted, he said. “C Ohe’s obviously got some mental problems. We’ll either serve a mental health warrant on her or file criminal charges.” —J.C. Mosier, police sergeant Police Sgt. J.C. Mosier said no charges had yet been filed against the woman. “She’s obviously got some men tal problems,” Mosier said. “We’ll either serve a mental health war rant on her or file criminal charges.” Mosier said the woman also might have forced the girls to take some type of medication be fore they were stabbed. The girls’ stomachs were pumped, but it had not yet been determined if there was any medication in their systems. The oldest girl escaped from the family’s trader house through a window and was taken to a nearby residence by a passerby. The woman then brought over the youngest girl, Mosier said. Allegations about King remain under dispute ATLANTA (AP) — In the days before he was gunned down on a Memphis motel balcony, Martin Lu ther King Jr. was a pressured, wor ried man who found himself the leader of a slowing movement. According to aides, King was on a roller coaster of optimism and doubt. He was still getting criticism for a 1967 speech against the war in Vietnam, and was troubled because he had been unable to keep a Mem phis, Tenn., march from turning into a riot. He worried about young blacks’ new appetite for violence. Nearly 22 years after a sniper’s bullet killed King on April 4, 1968, his last days have generated renewed interest, in part because of his closest aide’s contention that v King spent time with two women on the night before he died. The Rev. Ralph David Aberna thy’s account of April 3, 1968, has been condemned as false by other black leaders and a woman who says she served dinner to King at her home that night. Abernathy stood by his version as true. Abernathy said he decided to re veal King’s alleged activities because he wanted to show King’s human side. But that human side, according to friends and biographers, already was evident by late March 1968. Concerned and troubled by people who were supposed to be close- to him and had been his colleagues but didn’t share his position on the war in Vietnam," said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a former student activist who worked with King. But Lewis said he saw King fre quently in the spring of 1968, and “I never saw him in a state of depres sion. He was looking forward to or ganizing and mobilizing.” King aide Hosea Williams, a for mer Atlanta city councilman, said other black leaders placed “all the pressure in the world” on King for his anti-war position. “He was having some real prob lems. He suffered severely,” Wil liams said. Abernathy said King was de pressed before his death. When a protest he led in Memphis in late March 1968 turned into a riot, King worried that people.no longer would adhere to non-violence as a tool for social change. He wondered if he should step aside and “let violence run ‘its course,” Abernathy wrote in his 1989 autobiography, “And the Walls Came Tumbling Down.” ‘Silent epidemic’ Drug abuse ad campaign targets inhalant abusers AUSTIN (AP) — An ad campaign calling attention to the “silent epidemic” of inhalant use by children will hit the airwaves this fall, representatives of the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse announced Monday. Rep. Bill Blackwood, R-Mesquite, who chairs the Legislature’s Special Committee on Inhalant Abuse, said the campaign will try to bring to light the “under ground problem” of inhalant use by minors. Children as young as 8 say they sniff some of the 400 commercial and domestic products used as inhalants — including liquid paper, paint, glue, gasoline and freon — because they are bored and frustrated, Blackwood said. “The big problem with this is that abuse of these sub • stances is so devastating, (causing) permanent, irrevers ible brain damage,” he said. “Many of these adolescents have died the first time through cardiac arrest and va rious other physical problems caused by inhaling these chemicals.” Statistics on youth admitted to TCADA programs show that inhalant use ranks fourth in drug use among Texas youth, behind only tobacco, alcohol and mari juana. The average age of clients treated for inhalant addic tion is 14 years. Almost one-third of users start inhaling before they reach 11. Twenty-eight percent of all 7th graders in Texas have used inhalants, the figures show. Dr. Cervando Martinez, a San Antonio professor of psychiatry and member of TCADA’s governing board, said cocaine is the only other substance as dangerous as inhalants. “These are toxic substances diffused right in through the lungs into the blood supply and right up into the brain,” he said. Bob Dickson, TCADA executive director, said inha lant use often leads to other drug use, to violent crimi nal activity and to dropping out of school. He said the education campaign — which bears the slogan, “Bringing Texas a new view of human poten tial” — will not tell people just “don’t do drugs.” “We want to lift this whole campaign up to what our potential is if we live healthy,” he said. “This will be a positive campaign about healthy living.” The $750,000, 20-month campaign will kick off with “back-to-school” radio and television spots in Septem ber, officials said. The campaign also will include edu cational materials to be used in schools. School finance Second special session begins AUSTIN (AP) — Texas sen ators began a second special ses sion on school finance Monday by resurrecting their $1.2 billion re form plan and criticizing Gov. Bill Clements’ threat to veto new state taxes. Meanwhile, House members discussed a state lottery and tem porary sales tax increase to pay For court-ordered school finance reform. Sen. Carl Parker, D-Port Ar thur, a leader of the Senate edu cation subcommittee, challenged Clements to present a school funding plan. “If the governor keeps in sisting that we can meet court mandates and do right by the children of Texas within antic ipated revenue ... he has an obli gation to this Legislature and to the people of this state to sit down and list what he considers as fat,” Parker said. The subcommittee approved 11-3 a bill to put $1.2 billion more into public schools in 1990-91. Other senators also criticized Clements, with Sen. Chet Ed wards, D-Waco, saying, “It’s time for the governor to show some leadership.” But Clements’ press secretary, Rossanna Salazar, said the gover nor supports a school funding formula, and reforms aimed at making educators more account able for the job they do, proposed by a task force he created. While Clements has not speci fied cuts in other budget areas eep no-new-taxes pledge and still add education funding, she said, his staff has been actively working on that issue. Lawmakers are struggling to meet a Texas Supreme Court rul ing that the school funding sys tem is unconstitutional because of disparities in funding available to property-rich and -poor school districts. The court gave lawmakers un til May 1 to change the system, which relies on a combination of “I It’s time for the governor to show some leadership.” —Chet Edwards, state senator some federal funds. But Clem ents said he will keep lawmakers in special session until they pass a bill spending no more than $300 million in new education money in 1990-91, which he said could be accomplished without a state tax increase. The $1.2 billion bill is the same one senators passed last/ special session, and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby said he hoped it would win Senate approval again Tuesday. Tanker crash forces resident evacuation BURNET (AP) — About 100 resi dents of two Burnet subdivisions re turned to their homes Monday after being evacuated when a tanker- truck carrying an explosive chemical crashed into a dry streambed. “It went about as smoothly as it could,” Burnet County emergency management coordinator Ed Schaefer said. “The evacuation was a precau tionary thing,” Schaefer said. “No body was really in danger of getting a severe dose of that stuff. There was no danger of a bunch of people getting killed by an explosion.” The residents, who were allowed to return home about 7:15 a.m., were evacuated after the truck, car rying some 6,200 gallons of the chemical vinyl acetate, crashed about 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The crash killed driver David Fer guson, 36, of Texas City, said the Department of Public Safety office at Lampassas. The subdivisions border Texas Highway 29, about five miles west of Burnet. Both were downwind of the crash site and authorities feared the toxic fumes emitted from the tank er’s cargo would drift to the homes. Temporary shelters were set up and the residents were evacuated around 9:15 p.m., Schaefer said. A section of the highway near the crash was closed, he said. Authorities said the crash re mained under investigation Mon day. The tanker had been hauling the chemical from a Union Carbide plant at Texas City to Odessa, Schaefer said. A passing motorist, who pulled the driver from the truck and tried to resuscitate him, was treated at a local hospital after breathing chemi cal fumes, Schaefer said. A fire that consumed the truck’s cab did not spread to the cargo, which is explosive, he said. “A considerable amount of prod uct was spilled,” he said. “This was “T I he evacuation was a precautionary thing. There was no danger of a bunch of people getting killed by an explosion.” — Ed Schaefer, emergency management coordinator bad stuff. It had some pretty harm ful toxic effects.” He said vinyl ac etate is used in the manufacture of plastics, paint and adhesives. Emergency response teams were sent by Union Carbide and the trucking company and transferred the chemical to other trucks. 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