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So 18 months ago, she and some friends founded the Greater Houston Wom en’s Foundation and hoped for a new trend: women helping women. “It was the kind of thing where we found out that Dallas had started a fund five years ago, and we said, ‘If Dallas can do it, why can’t Hous ton?”’ said Foxworth, president of Speakers Unlimited and of the non profit foundation. “The group has come very far, very fast, but that is true around the country.” The organization has 250 mem bers who have paid between $45 and $1,000 to support the foundation. Ms. Foundation for Women, set up in 1973 with profits from Ms. magazine, is credited with beginning the women’s charity trend. Over the years, the Ms. Foundation has do nated about $3 million and has built a $4 million endowment fund. But it wasn’t until the 1980s, when statistics regarding poverty and women wors ened, that similar foundations began and now number about 60 nation wide. Foxworth, Deborah Rose and Thelma Marlowe said some startling statistics prompted them to found their organization: • Many Houston neighborhoods have a higher infant mortality rate than many Third World countries. • Women and children comprise up to 80 percent of all poor Ameri cans. • Twenty-five percent of all women working full-time earn less than $10,000 a year. • After divorce, the average woman’s standard of living drops 73 percent while the ex-husband’s im proves by 42 percent. • Only 4 to 5 percent of charita ble money nationally is donated to groups that specifically help women and children. The United Way gives 18 percent of its budget to such pro grams nationally. “That is still not enough,” Fox worth said. “We weren’t angry so much as offended by the lack of funds going to help women and chil dren — particularly girls, as that is our focus. For instance, why do the Boy Scouts always get more money than the Girl Scouts?” The fund also aims to encourage professional and wealthy women to increase their charitable giving. Even women who have money are often reluctant to take control of it. The Houston foundation has iven $7,500 to two local groups — 5,000 to Advance Family Support and Education Programs, whicn de velops parenting skills in low-income Hispanic families, and $2,500 to Wellspring, which assists temporar ily homeless women. Appeal seeks to spare client from Texas death penalty HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Attor- neys for a death row inmate who was 17 when he allegedly gunned down an Arizona man durine: a Houston robbery hope to con vince a federal appeals court to spare their client from execution in yet another attempt to chip away at the Texas capital punish ment law. Arguments were set for Tues day bef re the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans in the case of Gary Graham, convicted of the 1981 robbery and shooting death of Bobby Lambert of Tuc son, Ariz. The appeal is the latest effort by capital punishment opponents to undo a law that has put 337 men and women on Texas death row while sending 37 convicted killers to the death chamber. Both figures are tops in the na tion among states with the death penalty. The appeal also is linked to similar cases which complain that jurors should have been allowed to consider mitigating evidence in this case — Graham’s age — be fore condemning a convicted killer. “It’s going to take years for it to he decided,” Graham, now 27, says. “It’s going to be quite some time, just because of the compli cated nature of the criminal jus tice system. “The main question deals with the mitigating evidence, the charges to the jury, the jury in structions. We had a lot of evi dence that was not brought into trial that we felt should have been brought in ... definitely, my being 17 at the time.” Already, the federal appeals courts have ruled that jurors should be given special instruc tions to accused killers considered mentally retarded. The victory in that case, how ever, may have been short lived. Johnny Penry, whose conviction and death sentence was the basis for the appeal, was retried last year for the 1979 slaying of a Liv ingston housewife. A similar case is pending now before the Texas Court of Crimi- | nal Appeals, the state’s highest ; criminal court. In that matter, at torneys for condemned prisoner John Lenry Selvage contend ju rors in his 1979 murder case in Houston should have been al lowed to consider mitigating evi dence that could have resulted in life sentences even though his trial attorneys did not ask the judge to allow introduction of such evidence. Nerd House by Tom A. 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McGre gor, 68, a Hillsboro attorney and former state representative, and Clay Jenkins, 26, a Waxahachie at torney. The other Republican on the bal lot was Jim Hollingsworth, a DeSpto businessman and longtime Demo crat turned Republican who served on the State Board of Education be tween 1976 and 1982. Jenkins finished with 4,116 votes; McGregor had 749 votes and Hollingsworth had 495 votes. “This is a major victory for us,” said Jeff Norwood, a spokesman for Sibley’s campaign. “We’re tickled to be where we are now,” Sibley said. “I’m very de lighted with what we’ve been able to do, since the Denton name has been on the ballot in McLennan County for 20 years now.” Denton’s husband, Lane, held her state representative seat before she was first elected in 1976. Denton said she will argue durine the runoff campaign that she would be the more effective senator in Aus tin. “The Democratic senator is going to be the one who can work with the governor, the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the House — all three of them from this 9th District and all three Democrats,” Denton said. “A Republican senator cannot help this district.” TOPPINGS PEPPERON1 CANADIAN BACON JALAPENO GROUND BEEF GREEN PEPPERS ONIONS PINEAPPLE MUSHROOMS BLACK OLIVES SAUSAGE ~