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Page 3
State News Briefs
foster care cuts
to cause refusal
HOUSTON (AP) - Rale
aits imposed by the Texas De
partment of Protective and
Regulatory Services may make
i!difficult for many foster care
providers to continue serving
Texas children, foster care ex
perts said.
Irene Clements, president of
Texas State Foster Parents, said
her members may refuse to ac
cept new foster children as ear-
as October because they can-
afford to continue their
The Texas Association of Li
censed Children's Services filed
jiawsuit against the state Aug.
Din an effort to block a cut in
the foster care rate.
Texans win big
in rib cook-off
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) - Tex
ans were the winners as an esti
mated 170,000 people turned
out for the four-day Best in the
West Rib Cook-off.
The first place prize of
57,500 went to Texas Brothers
Bar-B-Que of of Dalhart. Char-
tlie’s Texas Pride from Dallas
came in second, winning
53,000.
"It's my brother, Leland,
who deserves all the credit,"
said Dale Heiskell, one of the
two Texas Brothers.
A humble Leland Heiskell,
said, "We're just proud to be
invited to take part in this
event."
"Always the bridesmaid,"
said Wayne Goble of Charlie's
Texas Pride.
Attendance at the event,
sponsored by John Ascuaga's
Nugget, was about 10 percent
higher than last year.
Search continues
(or missing men
AUSTIN (AP) - Divers and
rescue workers searched an
area lake for possible-drowning
victims, marking #t% third such
search in three weeks.
Rescue workers, relying on
sonar and sketchy information,
searched Walter F.. Long Lake
unsuccessfully Monday for two
Austin men presumed
drowned in a swimming acci
dent.
The 1,269-acre lake is located
nine miles east of Austin.
"The biggest problem the
divers have is that they didn't
get an exact spot where to
look," said fire specialist Ken
neth Hoelscher. "It's kind of
like looking for a needle in a
haystack."
Hoelscher said the missing
men are 23-year-old Robert
Davis and 49-year-old Freeman
Thompson. The two were last
seen late Sunday. They had
been boating on the lake, about
200 feet from the shoreline, au
thorities said.
Authorities said Thompson
had gone for a swim and that
the boat's two other passengers
later heard him call for help.
Davis dived in to search for
Thompson and never reap-
peatvd, authorities said.
Fire Department officials
speculated the two may have
become tangled in underwater
weeds. The third passenger,
Thompson's daughter, called
out for help.
School district to
help fund others
JAYTON, Texas (AP) - Vot
ers in the Jayton-Girard Inde
pendent School District consid
ered two options Tuesday that
would strip their oil-rich entity
of $8 million.
Kent County's only school,
90 miles northwest of Abilene,
must scale back its per-student
property wealth from $2.3 mil
lion to $280,000. The election is
part of the Legislature's effort
to equalize the way Texas
funds public education.
Superintendent Gary Harrell
said Jayton-Girard ISD would
send money to Austin and edu
cate students from Spur and
Aspermont, if the measures
pass.
Economic expert
decides to retire
DALLAS (AP) - U.S. Bu
reau of Labor Statistics econo
mist Nic Santangelo celebrated
Labor Day by retiring from the
work force.
Santangelo has been the
voice behind Texas' unemploy
ment rate for the last 14 years.
Through double-digit infla
tion, two national recessions
and Texas' 1980s boom-and
bust cycle, Santangelo ex
plained the state's primary eco
nomic indicators in no fewer
than 2,500 interviews.
"People take economics per
sonally, because it is a pocket
book issue," Santangelo said
"Unemployment means jobs to
the man on the street. Inflation
means money in his pocket."
Government budget cuts
have slashed Santangelo'8 eco
nomic analysis and information
unit to three full-time staffers
and one part-timer, from a peak
of nine in the mid-1980s.
Judge grants
gay adoption
The Associated Press
FORT WORTH - In a land
mark court decision, a Tarrant
County family law judge has per
mitted a lesbian to adopt her live-
in companion's biological daugh
ter.
The 2-year-old, conceived by
artificial insemination, now legal
ly has two mothers. The two Fort
Worth women have shared a
home for the past decade.
"This a landmark case. It's as
far as we know the first one in the
entire South," Austin attorney
Suzanne Bryant, co-chairwoman
of the National Lesbian and Gay
Law Association, said of last
month's ruling.
"I'm thrilled to hear that Texas
is finally coming out of the Dark
Ages," she said.
The Fort Worth couple filed
the adoption petition so the girl
legally can inherit from both part
ners and receive health insurance
and Social Security benefits
through either. If her biological
mother dies, the girl's adoptive
mother may assume responsibili
ty without legal hassles.
The Fort Worth parents, a day
care center employee and an
aerospace worker, asked that
their names not be disclosed be
cause they fear negative reaction.
Records in the Tarrant County
case are sealed, including the
name of the judge. The adoption
was disclosed in the current issue
of "The Alliance News," a
monthly publication of the Tar
rant County Lesbian-Gay Al
liance.
The biological mother said she,
her partner and their daughter
have attended social gatherings
in Dallas for gay and lesbian par
ents.
Since 1985 when a lesbian in
Alaska adopted her partner's
child, about TOO homosexuals
have gained parental rights
through the courts in what is
called a co-parent, second-parent
or same-gender adoption, accord
ing to San Francisco's National
Center for Lesbian Rights.
In Dallas, at least 10 lesbian
couples are raising children con
ceived by one of the partners via
artificial insemination, said Car
olyn Dunbar, a Dallas psy
chotherapist.
Dunbar, a lesbian who gave
birth to a daughter two years ago,
leads workshops and support
groups for homosexuals bringing
up children and trying to get
pregnant or adopt.
Some lesbians use sperm
banks or donors. Others go
through traditional adoption
agencies.
"I tell them which agencies
will work with you and which
will kick you out," the psy
chotherapist said.
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