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Bill Ratliff, R- Mount Pleasant, provides a fall back provision in the event that one component Bullock Planning is essential for today's financial indepen dence. as you work toward retirement you need to make the right investment decisions to achieve your financial goals. Free Investment Seminar Speakers: Susan Vernon, Vice President-Investments Prudential Securities Grant McMurry, Managing Director Investment Council Company Clark Randall, Special Agent Prudential Insurance Company of America When: Thursday, January 28th at 6:30 p.m. (Dinner will be served) Where: The Faculty Club Rudder Tower, 11th Floor Don't delay - to reserve your seat, just call Shawn Nicholas at 800-443-2550 or 214-373-2782. Prudential Securities Member SIPC — a constitutional amendment — is rejected. “There is a backup system that would not require a constitutional amendment. We have to have some type of a fail-safe mecha nism to make sure that our schools do not close in September, and this would provide that," Bul lock said. Ratliff, new chairman of the Senate Education Committee, said, "I've been around school fi nance long enough not to call any thing fail-safe, but it's as fail-safe as I know how to design one." Ratliff said his plan would be approved by his committee and before the full Senate next week. If approved by the Senate, it would go to the House where Re publicans, during a pre-Christmas special legislative session, blocked a school finance plan favored by Bullock and Gov. Ann Richards. The Texas Supreme Court has ordered the Legislature to come up with a finance plan by June 1. Earlier court decisions declared the state's funding system uncon stitutional because it allowed dis parities in funding between prop erty-rich and property-poor school districts. To address that, the Legislature implemented a system that redis tributes some local property tax money among school districts within single or multi-county ed ucation districts, or CEDs. But the Supreme Court has said that system violates the state constitution by imposing a statewide property tax, and by levying a property tax without voter approval. Ratliff's proposed constitution al amendment essentially would make this system legal. Like any proposed change to the state con stitution, it would require approval of two-thirds of the Legislature and voters statewide. If the amendment is rejected, either by lawmakers or voters, Ratliff's plan would have the vot ers in each county education dis trict decide whether to authorize the CED tax. If county voters didn't autho rize the tax, school districts within that CED would be limited to the state guarantee of $3,470 per-stu- dent spending level, Ratliff said. But Ratliff conceded that while he is attacking the issue of equal izing funding, the state is still shortchanging overall funding for public schools. "All we're doing ... is sharing the pain," he said. Education officials have said schools will need an additional $958 million in the next two-year budget cycle to cover the cost of enrollment growth. Heart-assist recipient dies from stroke THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON - Mike Temple ton, the longest-surviving recipi ent of a portable heart-assist de vice, died Tuesday of a stroke, Texas Heart Institute officials said. Templeton, 34, had suffered from cardiomyopathy, a slow de terioration and dilation of the heart. Physicians said Thursday that strokes are a common occurrence among patients with cardiomy opathy. Templeton, from Humble, a suburb northeast of Houston, had been awaiting a heart transplant. He had lived the last 16 months with the aid of a battery-powered left ventricular assist device, mak ing him the longest-surviving re cipient of the HeartMate device. "While living at the hospital for the past 16 months, Mike had be come part of the extended family of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute/' said Dr. O. Howard Frazier, chief of cardiopulmonary transplanta tion at the institute and one of Templeton's physicians. “His death is a great personal loss to all of us." Physicians said a preliminary look at the device showed it had performed well. Shortly after he received the pump in a Sept. 3,1991, operation, Templeton said he felt so good he wasn't looking forward to a heart transplant. 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Single Regularly $1.39 SALE $.99 5.25 2 Pack Regularly $1.89 SALE $ .99 Choose the Bookstore Where Purchases Benefit Aggie Scholarships! TEXAS A & M BOOKSTORE REGULAR STORE HOURS: Mon - Thurs 8 am - 6 pm Friday 8 am - 5 pm Saturday 10 am - 5 pm 845-8681 NEW STREET ENTRANCE Summer semesters: Mon - Frl 8 am - 5 pm Sat lO am - 5 pm AGGIE BUCKS ACCEPTED WHEN CLASSES ARE NOT IN SESSION: Mon - Frl 8 am - 5 pm Sat Closed Visa • Mastercard • American Express • Discover THE SHUTTLE BUS STOPS HERE EVERY 15 MINUTES! they say I have to have a trans plant," Templeton said. Templeton was only the second of five recipients of the device. The first recipient, Larry Hein- sohn, 52, of Shreveport, La., died two weeks after it was implanted on May 9,1991. Physicians said at the time that Heinsohn's death was unrelated to the device because other organs had deteriorated during his ill ness. after some 25 years and $50 mil lion worth of research. After 13 months in the hospital, Templeton was permitted to leave the hospital on day trips last Sep tember after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave its ap proval for the HeartMate device. The electric pump, which costs between $40,000 and $50,000, is manufactured by Thermo Car- dioSystems Inc. of Woburn, Mass. Victor Poirier, president of the company and developer of the pump, said the device was created The titanium pump is 4 inches in diameter and 11/2 inches thick and weighs about 2 pounds. It is implanted in the abdomen and a tube connects it to the left ventricle, the main chamber of the heart. The battery pack is carried in a shoulder holster to make the device portable. Previous devices, that were air- driven, had to be connected to a large console, limiting a patient's movements. Kee Like it or ] lent. Last fc Templeton said when he was first approached about having the device he "was apprehensive. It was all new. You don't know ex actly what it was." But he said he became convinced to get it "when they told me I wasn't going to make it." Doctors said Templeton proba bly would not have lived a week without the device. Construction Continued from Page 2 mated to complete it. In addition to weather problems, Williams said train scheduling might also contribute to further delays becausd <!rews would have to stop to allow trains to pass. The department will be providing the traffic control necessary to continue the project. "We are using state forces (employees) to go and close down lanes," Williams said. "The state forces are used to place the various traffic control devices and signs for lane closures." Williams said the railroad was "improving the tracks for vehicular traffic." Motorists are advised to be on the alert for flagmen at the crossing and to drive slowly through the project. Off-campus bus routes will not be affected: Union Pacific Railroad could not be reached for comment. Lid the maj Clinton ^ lay, and sl politic sleep for tl action. 1 :ocess will aids the c ivement iltimately the next 1 Republic, lould not h the Dei ::ized pres |t their pc ’ the Den row too c )bhas just The Am Fh Mi The all-t sing tuiti late hudge inancial ai ijjly head ainority st limary vie In its ann Council on ,500 colie amed Coi Stark Continued from Page 1 1985. He also received the Distin guished Achievement Award for Individual Student Relationships from the Texas A&M Association of Former Students. Stark is survived by his wife, Jean, and two children, John and Sally. A grandson. Drew McGe- hee, currently serves as vice presi dent of the MSC Council. The cause of death was not available. Services will be 2 p.m. Wednes day, Jan. 20 at the A&M United Methodist Church in College Sta tion. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Stark Tribute Find in care of the MSC Director's Office, P.O. Box J-l, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77844. 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