Tuesday, April 3,1990
The Battalion
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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. The
Texas Water Commission and Envi
ronmental Protection Agency dis
patched teams to the scene, authori
ties said.
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