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O State News Briefs
Tilton's ratings
plunge by 84%
DALLAS (AP) - Embattled
televangelist Robert Tilton's
television ratings have
plummeted 84 percent since he
was accused on a national news
program of defrauding his
tlock> according to the latest
ratings report.
The Arbitron Co/s February
report showed 31,000 viewers
tuning into Tilton's Success 'N
Life program nationwide.
That's down 84.4 percent since
November 1991, when 199,000
households were watching.
Tilton's Tulsa, Okla.,
attorney, J.C. Joyce, blames the
drastic drop on ABC's
PrimeTime Live report that
month. The report alleged that
Tilton discarded prayer
requests sent to him by
followers while keeping their
donations.
Pastor mentions
Railey in service
DALLAS (AP) - Former
pastor Walker Railey, who
recently was acquitted of
charges that he tried to murder
his wife, was briefly mentioned
in Sunday's service at his
former congregation.
The Rev. Hal Brady of the
First United Methodist Church
brought up his predecessor's
mm
suffers from fetal alcohol
syndrome.
The best kidney donor is an
identical twin or blood relative.
But because Gentry Lovett —
21/2 years old — was adopted,
that option wasn't open to her.
So doctors turned to
volunteers to see if one of them
met the tough odds of being a
possible donor.
Illl Against I a 11 ■ :|odds, the
winning kidney belonged to
Donna Gayle "D.G." Lovett,
Gentry's adoptive mother.
On Tuesday, Lovett will
undergo transplant surgery to
save her adopted daughter's
life.
"The first one they tested
was me and we matched!"
Lovett said.
Fewer than one person in a
hundred woulo have matched
that closely, said Dr. Kristine
Gugliuzza, who will perform
the surgery.
There is a slightly better than
an 85 percent chance that
Gentry's body will accept the
transplant and that it will work
for at least a year, Gugliuzza
said.
The chances are better than
50 percent that the kidney will
function well for at least five
years.
Family uses home
as reward for info
ie opening of his
name at
sermon.
"I'm sure that everyone here
is aware of the verdict on Dr.
Walker Railey," Brady said. "I
would simply like to remind
you, as you already know, that
ours is a redemptive
community that always comes
down on the side of redemption
and never on the side of
judgment."
Brady did not make any
other mention of Railey during
the service. His sermon was
based on faith, saying people
should be judged on their belief
and not,pn their errors,
^tirady also announced a
special 1 meeting slated for
Monday night at the church
during which a lawyer and
psychological counselor would
answer questions for church
members having difficulty
understanding the verdict.
Mom gives kidney
to adopted child
A
HOUSTON (AP)
Beaumont woman has been
Selected to donate a kidney to
her adopted daughter, who
DALLAS (AP) — A couple is
offering a $50,000 house in
hopes of enticing potential
witnesses to come forward with
information about the 1989
slaying of their daughter.
Tom and Lori Chivers have
been consumed with trying to
find out who killed their
daughter, Terrina "Jade", since
the 22-year-old was beaten and
stabbed to death at her North
Dallas apartment on Aug. 13,
1989.
They have spent most of
their free time and $80,000
tracing leads that led nowhere.
Now the lack of progress has
led them to the unusual
extreme of offering a rental
home they own in;.the. Dallas
suburb of Carrol Item
"We've had a fevy years of not
getting results," Tom Chivers
said. "That makes you a little
bitter."
The couple say they have
been frustrated by the Dallas
Police Departments inability to
solve the case. With the help of a
private investigator, they have
turned up a number of clues and
identified the man, a former co
worker of their daughters, they
believe killed her.
Police, however, say the
evidence is insufficient to arrest
the suspect.
Colleges study ways to
get diploma in 3 years
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — As the cost of a college diploma soars, some Americs
universities are considering reducing the amount of time it takes togj
one.
The idea, cutting the length of an undergraduate education fro;
four years to three, is about to be tested by the nation's largest pub!
university system and one school is ready to advertise it as an optioa
"It's very simple," said S. Fredericlc Starr, president of Oberli:
College. "If I apply to Oberlin at $23,000 or Harvard at $25,000 a
I'm applying for a $100,000 bachelor's degree. If I get through inthres
years, I have reduced my cost by 25 percent.
"If my fourth year is spent working, my salary will equal the pritf
of admission. Now we're up to 50 percent off."
Proponents say advances in technology mean students can learns
their own pace. For some, that can mean meeting degree requiremec:
more quickly.
"We have so automatically assumed that all students should spem
the same amount of time in college," said Stanford president Gerhart
Casper. "Where is that set down in natural law?"
Advocates talk of encouraging high school students to take
college-level courses, streamlining educational requirementsani
lengthening the academic year.
The State University of New York already is planning to implemei
what Chancellor D. Bruce Johnstone prefers to call 'me enhance
productivity of learning."
Unpaid hospital bills
Poor accumulate $23 million in expense;
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON— A typical day in
typi
h la;
lay s
the nation's fourth largest city
sends about two dozen patients to
Ben Taub General Hospital's
emergency room, one of the
area's busiest.
Some of the patients are poor,
leaving taxpayers to pick up the
tab rendered by the da
violence.
Although indigent victims
accounted for less than 10 percent
of Ben Taub's emergency room
patients last year, they ran up
more than $23 million in charges,
based on one month's billings.
The Houston Post reported
Sunday.
That month, November 1992,
was typically bloody at the
hospital police officers refer to as
"The Tub."
Doctors treated 226 severely
wounded people in shock-trauma
rooms: 124 shot, 60 beaten, 41
stabbed, one sexually assaulted.
The bill for November's
violence totaled $1.92 million.
"Unbelievable," says Dr.
Kamal Itani, a surgeon who
operated on many of those
patients. "Unbelievable. You
know, we never think of it that
way.
Ben Taub charged the average
victim of November's violence
more than $8,500.
One of the November victims
was Tony Pesina, an uninsured
teen-ager stabbed through the
heart.
Pesina was the first of 27
casualties of violence to cot
through Ben Taub's emergence
center Nov. 21. Their bills tha
day totaled almost $450,000.
The charges to repair Pesini;
wounds began to moii
moments after he crumpled to his
driveway. In six days, the;
totaled $31,532.05, a tab Pesina
family can't pay.
"There's no way I can pay it,
says Pesina's mother, Alice Alva
35. Her solution: "Tear it up."
But the bill does get paid -
taxpayers.
The Harris County Hospila
District does not specifically chat
the costs of violence. But mu
November's carnage by 12anj
violent acts ran up bills estimated
at $23.04 million in 1992.
Fewer than 10 percent of Be:
Taub's patients wounded
violent acts carry medid
insurance, says hospital distri
spokesman Roger Widmeye;
who calls emergency centers
"bigtime losers."
"Charges become
meaningless," says Robert
Barbier, the district's chiefol
finance.
Unpaid bills have crippled
emergency rooms acres
America. Among the wounded,
Hermann Hospital, Ben Taut)!
neighbor in the Texas Medical
Center.
In October 1989, Hermann
officials determined they could
no longer afford to treat indigent
patients. So they began to tun
away ambulances bearing the
city's severely wounded.
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The Class of1993 Presents
SENIOR WEEKEND
A world renowned university. A quiet, safe community.
Those are two ways many of us like to describe College Station. Unfortunately, recent
reports of violence and crime have made many of us realize how fragile and sacred our way
of life is.
Entitled
"Last Road Trip Through Texas"
David Hickson believes we should look ahead to the future of our community. And, as we
try to focus on the growth of the city, we must keep in mind that we are building a life for
our children...and our children's children.
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And the Course of
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