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Saturday, December 26,1992
THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
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Alternative for teens
New foster program developing
Advertiser Photo/E. Perez, Jr.
HEB employees pose behind four baskets of food that the supermarket gave to four needy Bastrop
County families this holiday season. Standing left to right are Service Director Daron Swafford,
Cindy Merino, Store Manager Ron Haass, Market Manager Duane Eichstadt and Susie Meuth.
HEB gives gifts to families in need
Bastrop HEB supermarket Ron Haass store supervisor. needs such as formula for infants
gave four baskets full of food and “We’ve been doing this eight or special dietary needs,
materials to four area families plus years,'’’he added. Haass said that each HEB store
Wednesday.
“We provide families that are Each basket contains some does this every year,
undergoing hardships such as baSjC f00(j stuffs plus items bas- “We have over 200 stores doing
from medical or job loss,” said e(j Upon an individual families this,” he said.
Bastrop inventor develops new device to save lives
Bastrop County teens in trouble
may soon be have more help
available to keep them from get-
ting into more, according to
juvenile probation officials.
With $35,000 from a special
state fund, the four-county
district which includes Bastrop
County hopes to develop a new
foster home program and other
initiatives.
The foster home program will
help the local juvenile courts
serve youth who need a tem-
porary, caring family setting, ac-
cording to Bruce Wilson, assis-
tant director for juvenile services
in the probation department.
Carroll Lanier is coordinating
the effort.
Young candidates for tem-
porary foster home placement in-
clude those who have not been in-
volved in serious law violations.
However, they will come from
situations where their own fami-
ly atmosphere has been disrup-
tive, hostile or neglectful to the
point that care elsewhere is need-
ed, said Wilson.
A 25-year veteran of youth ser-
vice programs, Carroll has work-
ed with Girlstown U.S.A, Cal
Farley’s Boys Ranch in Amarillo,
the state juvenile school in Gid-
dings and Miracle Farm and
Daytop Village in the Washington
County area.
Carroll hopes to line up area
homes where juveniles can find
shelter and supervision until
longer-term arrangements can
be settled.
In some cases that will be a
return to their natural families. In
other cases, courts may seek
placement in a ranch or group
home program, according to
Wilson.
Unless foster homes become
available, the young people must
be held in juvenile'detention
centers as far away as Bryan and
Seguin.
The Cen-Tbx Regional Juvenile
Board will oversee the foster
home project. The board includes
the county, court at law and
district judges of Bastrop,
Burleson, Lee and Washington
County.
The board will certify foster
families for use by the juvenile
courts and pay up to $25 a day for
the care of a child given to a
foster family, Wilson said.
“The lives of many children
and their families get out of con-
trol and need assistance,” said
Wilson. “Foster families allow
that assistance to take place.
Children are able to remain in the
community and local school
district which they know and to be
near the family that loves one
another.”
Individuals and groups in-
terested in the foster home pro-
gram can contact Carroll in
Bastrop at 321-6012 or at the
juvenile probation office at Pecan
and Walnut Street on the Cour-
thouse block.
In another direction, local of-
ficials hope to convert some
space in the Bastrop juvenile pro-
bation building where juveniles
can be detained briefly pending a
court appearance. Now these
juveniles must be driven to
sometimes-distant holding
centers and returned for court
dates.
By E. Perez, Jr.
Special to the Advertiser
A Bastrop inventor has created
a valve which will make recovery
for open-heart surgery patients
easier, safer, faster and cheaper.
James D. Adams of Elgin
created a four way valve which
will give medical personnel a way
to give patients certain types of
blood transfusions more
efficiently.
Adams said post-surgery pa-
tients are often given blood com-
ponents, rather than whole blood,
to speed recovery.
The problem, according to
Adams, is that the blood com-
ponents are typically thick and do
not readily flow through needles
and tubes or the bags that contain
them.
Adams, who worked at Seton
Hospital for 16 years as a techni-
cian, said when post-operative
patients are given blood com-
ponents, such as platelets, the
usual method is to hang the bag
and allow gravity to feed the
blood product to the patient
through an intravenous tube.
“It all doesn’t flow in,” he said.
Adams said that several times
he measured the amount of
material left in the bag and
discovered that anywhere from 40
to 70 percent of the blood product
may be left in the bag.
“This is not intentionally done
by doctors and nurses,” he said.
“Doctors are taught to give so
much platelets,” he added. “They
don’t take account of how much
is left in the bag.”
Because the patient does not
receive the full prescribed
amount, recovery may be delayed
necessitating more treatments,
increased costs and time, Adams
asserts.
Adams’ solution is a valve
which allows a technician to
dilute the blood component so
that it flows more readily while
preventing contamination.
U.S. Patent 4,900,322
End Product
(Pooled
Components)
Individual
Component
Adams
Blood Component Pooling Valve and Kit I
(ABC Pooling Valve and Kit)_I
The valve has four ports. One
port, which is always open, con-
tains a syringe. The other ports
can be closed or opened with the
valve and are connected to a
diluent, the component bag, and
a pooled component bag.
The valve allows the user to
transfer the diluent to the blood
component bag and then to the
pooled component bag in a swift,
easy manner that also reduces
the possibility of contamination.
Adams claims the process of
diluting the components and
transfer to patient can be done in
as little as 20 minutes.
The current gravity process for
undiluted product can take as
long as four hours, he said.
Adams said medical personnel
have not sought another method
before because “nobody cared,”
he said.
“I’m always looking for a bet-
ter way to do something. That’s
the way I am,” he added.
Adams applied for a patent on
his valve and process eight years
ago.
“It took five years and $27,000
(to secure the patent),” he said.
“I haven’t got a cent in my pocket
now.”
Despite the difficulty and cost
involved, Adams feels confident
that his product will more than
return his investment.
“It’s worth millions of dollars,”
he said. “I have an idea once it
goes on the market, the demand
will outpace the production.”
Adams estimate that in Austin
alone the kit could gross $3
million.
Through an attorney Adams is
negotiating with an Oklahoma
company to manufacture the
device.
If the negotiations are unsuc-
cessful, he says he will manufac-
ture his kits in Bastrop colinty.
In light of this, he is applying
for grants from government and
private organizations for develop-
ment and production.
Besides its current planned use,
Adams says he is working on
other applications for the valve
and kit.
Adams is the brother of former
Bastrop County Commissioner
TJ. Adams.
MARY S CANTINA
‘New Year's five Party
Thursday, December 31st
Head First Band
ftp Cover 815 Main 321-9862 Live Music]
The Crocheron Plantation house was beautifully outlined with
lights for the Christmas season. Bastrop has outdone itself this
season and lights have festooned the County Courthouse and
Old Jail, Main Street and many homes all around town.
■
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Clarence W. Leseman, 83
Clarence W. Leseman, 83, of
Elgin, died Monday, December
21, 1992.
Survivors include his wife,
Erica Leseman of Elgin; one
sister, Velma Leseman of Elgin;
two half-sisters, Lillian Leps of
Elgin and Erna Sippel of Austin;
and numerous nieces, nephews
and other relatives.
The funeral service was held 2
p.m. Wednesday at the First Bap-
tist Church in Elgin with burial in
the Elgin Cemetery.
Arrangements by Elgin
Funeral Home.
Rubie Henwood, 71
Rubie Henwood, 71, of Elgin,
died Monday, December 21,1992.
Survivors include her husband,
Jack Henwood; two sons, JD and
John Henwood; one daughter,
Rubie Chase; one brother,
Woodrow Dismukes; one sister,
Lotty Lockland; and five
grandchildren.
Funeral service were held 1
p.m. Wednesday, December 23 at
Cook-Walden/Oak Forest Funeral
Home Burial followed in Cook-
Walden/Oak Forest Memorial
Park.
A CLUB IB A MAJOR ELEMENT Df 80LVUVQ A CRIME,
CALL IT nn
BASTROP COUNTY CRIME STOPPERS
321-5599 OR 1-800-460-8477
Bastrop Independent School District
Combined Statement of Revenues, Expenditures and Changes
In Fund Balance - All Government Fund Types
Year Ended August 31,1992
(With Comparative Memorandum Only Totals for 1991)
10
20/30/40
50
60
83/84
98
97
Data
Control
Codes
General
Fund
Special
Revenue Fund
Debt
Service Fund
Capital
Projects Fund
Governmental
Expendable
August 31.
1992
August 31.
1991
5700
5800
5900
Revenues.-
Local, intermediate and out-of state (Notes 4 and 7)
State program revenues
Federal program revenues (Note 5)
S3 723 454
II 392 870
j 664 786
S -
399 064
SI 070 689
(Notes 7 and 9)
S6 934
S86 266
312 601
444 999
S6 887 343
II 703 471
1 508 849
17 324 483
9 042 459
1 379 388
5030
Total revenues
17 781 110
399 064
1 070 689
6 934
843 866
20 101 663
17 746 330
0011
0012
0021
0022
0023
0023
0031
0033
0034
0036
0037
0041
0042
0051
0032
0073
OOft
Instructional computing m
Instructional administration
Instructional resources and madia servicas
Curriculum and personnel developi
Guidance and counseling services
Health services
Pupil transportation • regular
Co-curricular activities
Pood sendees
Debt services
Plant maintenance and operations
Facikies acquisition and construction
8 756 264
204 300
334 501
797 513
22 352
458 819
112 536
I 00S0I4
689 038
I 113 256
885 617
563 528
I 883 787
733 793
86 400
77 791
336 195
16 090
343
495 533
185 766
15 960
16 049
24 550
676
» 587 992
356 068
334 501
797 513
22 352
660 675
128 839
I 003 014
689 038
1 113 256
885 617
I 661 620
I 899 836
995 883
87 076
77 791
8 214 124
161 765
290 194
266 808
664 477
5 695
535 256
162 140
776 797
591 210
I Oil 119
736 958
I 573 529
I S76 6SO
362 109
91 451
17 704 509
339 064
237 540
20 283 071
Other resources fuses)
394 826
(253 673)
I 140 796
t»7«600)
• 870 000
15 500
(15 500)
II 420 922
(I 243 973)
355 002
(230 447)
165 996
9870 000
124 553
laceoi of revenues sod other resources over expenditures
138 593
9639 394
850 603
• Sspteo
I 420 000
1091 468
Ending fcod balance • August 31
SI 837 634
S9 639 394
SII6878
SI 891 468
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