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HOUSTON (AP) — Sam Houston Race
jirk officials filed for Chapter 11 bankrupt-
protection Monday and announced a
[0.8 million deal to restructure finances
[d keep the troubled fledgling track open.
“This is a milestone for Sam Houston
ace Park and means that we’ll be racing for
jars to come,” said James Noteware, Sam
ouston Race Park’s president. “We won’t
fss a single day of racing.”
1 Noteware said a tentative agreement with
jndholders, still subject to being concluded,
jers cash-interest payments on debt for up
[six years and a $10.8 million infusion, in-
iding $5.8 million in cash.
[The year-old horse track, the first Class I
ack in Texas, defaulted on a $4.4 million
at payment in January and has been nego-
tting with bondholders since late last year.
This new agreement was struck last week
(th bondholders. It includes provisions to
eradicate the $4.4 million debt payment the
track defaulted on in January.
Officials made the announcement prior
to an afternoon news conference to discuss
their plan.
Sam Houston, an $84 million facility in
northwest Harris County, opened last
April 29 with some 16,500 race fans bet
ting $1.3 million on a 10-race card. It was
downhill from there for Texas’ first thor
oughbred track in 57 years.
"This is a milestone ... and
means that we'll be racing for
years to come."
—James Noteware,
Sam Houston Race Park president
Attendance averaged 7,500 with daily
betting handles less than $600,000 for the
initial 45-day thoroughbred meet, far lower
than the expected 10,000 people and $1.2
million in wagering per day.
Because of the results, purses plunged from
a high of $150,000 per day to only $30,000 per
day, which drove away horsemen. That, in
turn, forced the track to cut racing days be
cause there weren’t enough horses.
Track officials admitted they had over
estimated the market for horse racing and
underestimated racing fans’ knowledge of
pari-mutuel wagering. They also blamed a
flawed marketing campaign and fired their
advertising agency.
Investors responded to a cash call from
track management last year and provided
an additional $6.5 million just to make
ends meet.
Sam Houston, however, continues to strug
gle. During the recently ended winter meet,
attendance sagged to under 3,200 per day and
wagering averages dipped to $462,000.
The state’s second Class I horse track, Re-
tama Park, opened April 7 on the outskirts
of San Antonio.
Opening night attendance at the $79 mil
lion track was 29,631, surpassing an expected
capacity crowd of 20,000. Total attendance for
Retama’s three-day opening weekend was
47,722 with a wagering total of $3.84 million.
Refama Park chairman Joe Straus Jr.
said his track would try to avoid the prob
lems that plagued Sam Houston Race Park.
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[tration for general use.
HOUSTON (AP) — A doctor
jnder scrutiny for the last-
hance cancer therapy lie offers
atients nationwide delivered
Bcords Monday to a federal
rand jury in response to a raid
\ authorities on his clinic.
For 12 years, federal and state
fficials have tried to stymie the
ork of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski,
(hose non-toxic, anti-cancer
treatment using “antineoplas-
tons” is legal but unapproved by
the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis
tration for general sale and use.
“It’s such a waste of taxpay
er money,” Burzynski said as
he entered the federal court
house in Houston.
He is frustrated, he says, that
the Food and Drug Administra
tion has both given him permis
sion to conduct his work in a
limited setting and tried to shut
him down at every turn.
“I’m saving people’s lives,”
he said.
Burzynski’s appearance before
the federal grand jury is the
FDA’s fifth attempt since 1983 to
indict Burzynski for alleged viola
tion of interstate commerce laws.
“Maybe when you become a
bureaucrat you lose a certain part
of your humanity and common
sense,” Rick Jaffe, Burzynski’s at
torney, said. “But I mean, no nor
mal person would be worrying
about somebody like Burzynski.”
Said Burzynski: “It’s insanity.”
It’s not clear exactly what
charges Burzynski could face.
The U.S. attorney’s office de
clined to comment Monday. It
also was uncertain how long
the federal grand jury would
take to decide whether to re
turn an indictment.
Burzynski’s medical treat
ment is legal in the sense he
can use it in FDA clinical trials
and for those seeking individ-
require FDA approval. The doc
tor says he is about two years
away from getting the treat
ment approved by the agency.
Burzynski never has provid
ed exact figures on his success
rate, but of the 2,000 patients
he’s treated since 1977, he
claims roughly one-third have
experienced remission over sev
eral years.
This latest whirl of legalities
began March 24. Only hours after
Burzynski appeared
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— Dr. Stanislaw Burznyski featured by other
media sources, his
1 clinic was raided by
FDA and U.S. Postal
ual treatment in Texas through
his Houston clinic.
The treatment, however, has
not been approved for sale on the
interstate market and cannot be
shipped for use outside Texas
except for rare occasions that
Service officials who demanded
his patient files.
The Texas Board of Medical
Examiners is appealing a judge’s
ruling that overturned that agen
cy’s attempt to place the doctor’s
license on probation for 10 years.
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imony proposal would affect few, experts claim
The aim is to help those af-
cted to stay off of public as-
istance following a divorce.
AUSTIN (AP) — The alimony proposal
\/C lopted by the Texas House would affect rela-
V ^ lively few divorcing couples. But it could be a
eat help to those who receive payments,
■ rp mily law experts say.
I I C “In my perfect world, it would be a much
oader piece of legislation. But if we can get a
11 that will help any of these people in these
oblems, it will be better than we have now,”
g around id Austin lawyer Becky Beaver.
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ilves in a situation where there is relatively
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their time at the home raising the children
and not developing their own professional
skills, and there’s not any community prop
erty to compensate,” she told the Austin
American-Statesman.
The House added the alimony proposal
to a welfare reform plan, with backers say
ing it would help people to stay off public
assistance after divorce.
The measure, which still requires Senate
approval, would allow a judge to order alimo
ny payments if the couple had been married
at least 10 years and the spouse seeking mon
ey didn’t have enough property to provide for
minimum needs.
The spouse seeking alimony also would
have to lack the ability to earn a living be
cause of insufficient work skills, an incapaci
tating physical or mental disability, or be
cause the spouse had custody of a child with a
physical or mental disability.
Alimony could be ordered if the spouse
from whom assistance was sought had
been convicted of a family violence offense
in the previous year and placed under com
munity supervision.
Payments could be made for no more
than three years and couldn’t exceed the
lesser of $2,500 or 20 percent of the income
of the paying spouse.
Nationally, alimony is awarded in about 10
percent of divorces, according to Joan Zorza,
senior attorney at the National Center for
Women and Family Law in New York. ,
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