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The North Texas Daily
News Briefs
Page 3 Thursday, March 30, 1989
STATE
‘Queer-sentencer’
faces ouster petition
AUSTIN (AP) — A Dallas judge,
who told a newspaper he gave a lighter
sentence to a convicted killer in part
because the victims were “queers”
was asked Wednesday to respond to a
petition calling for his ouster.
The Texas Supreme Court, in a one-
paragraph letter to District Judge Jack
Hampton, requested that he reply by
April 12 to the petition filed by a group
of Dallas lawyers. Nearly 20 lawyers
signed the petition that was submitted
to the Supreme Court Feb. 16. In their
request, the lawyers contended that
Hampton's remarks in the newspaper
interview violated the Code of Judicial
Conduct. “We believe that Judge
Hampton cannot be fair and impartial
and should be removed from office,”
their petition said.
Controversy has swirled around the
judge since Dec. 16, when the Dallas
Times Herald published an interview
in which Hampton was quoted as saying
he gave a lighter sentence to convicted
killer Richard Bcdnarski, 18, partly be-
cause his two victims were “queers.”
Hampton gave Bednarski 30 years in
prison instead of a maximum life sen-
tence. Bednarski was convicted of the
slayings of Tommy Trimble, 34, and
John Griffin, 27, who were found shot
to death in a Dallas park.
“I don’t care much for queers cruis-
ing the streets picking up teen-age boys.
I've got a teen-age boy,” Hampton told
the newspaper.
Wildlife official
orders turkey stocking
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas’ top wildlife
official guided two Parks and Wildlife
Commission members on turkey hunts
at a private exotic game ranch, then
later ordered that ranch stocked with
41 turkeys because it “didn't have but
just a very few birds,” the Austin
American-Statesman reported Wednes-
day.
Chuck Nash, commission chairman,
and Commissioner Peter Beck said they
hunted at the invitation of Charles Allen
and killed turkeys during the 1988 spring
season.
Allen, who is the Parks and Wildflife
Department’s wildlife director, said only
that “we went out there and called”
turkeys and that he ordered the January
stocking.
The department paid for the stocking,
as is standard in Rio Grande turkey
restoration projects. The average cost
of trapping and moving a Rio Grande
turkey is almost $70 each, according
to the department.
The turkeys released at the ranch in
Hays County came from Coke and
Schleicher counties, according to docu-
ments obtained by the American-States-
man.
According to the newsapaper, Parks
and Wildlife officials said the stocking
wasn’t on the department's list of plan-
ned turkey restoration projects but was
carried out at Allen's request.
The ranch land is leased for exotic
game hunting by the Y.O. Ranch near
Kervillc and operated as its Onion Creek
Lodge.
Court upholds damages
for ‘whistleblower’
AUSTIN (AP) — A state appeals
court upheld damages Wednesday for
an Ingleside city employee who claimed
he was fired for reporting to the Texas
Rangers what he believed to be criminal
activity in connection with building
inspections and the city’s former build-
ing inspector.
The 3rd Court of Appeals, however,
reduced those damages by $444,(XX),
leaving $2(X),600 for Director of Public
Works George Kneupcr.
Kneuper sued under the Texas
“Whistleblower Act,” and was award-
ed $344,600 under actual damages and
$300,000 exemplary damages by the
trial court, which also enjoined the city
for terminating Kneuper’s employment,
so exemplary damages should not have
been awarded.
The appeals court eliminated $108,OCX)
in damages for retirement and other
employee benefits because Kneuper was
reinstated by the trial court and the
appeals court said those damages would
amount to double recovery.
Soup-spill costs airline
$250,000 in damages
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Supreme
Court Wednesday upheld lower-court
rulings ordering Southwest Airlines to
pay an additional $250,(XX) in damages
to a 4-year-old child who was severely
burned when a hot cup of soup spilled
on her on an airplane.
The high court’s decision upheld the
Travis County district court judgment
awarding the girl, Mara Garduque,
actual damages of $210,000. Trie com-
pany must also pay $11,709 in actual
damages to Liana King, who sued on
behalf of the child, under the district
court ruling as affirmed.
All the awards were earlier upheld
by the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin.
The girl was flying with her mother
and two brothers from Austin to Los
Angeles on Southwest Airlines, accord-
ing to the 3rd Court opinion.
The children became hungry and the
mother asked that the flight attendant
serve them food, the opinion said.
The attendant obtained hot water from
the coffee machine, prepared instant
soup in a styrofoam cup and placed it
on the tray table in front of the girl, it
said
From Page 1
Minority
The new plan does not set numerical
gotds for each university, but rather
suggests procedures to increase minority
recruitment and retention. Hurley said.
As with the old five-year plan, how-
ever, there will be no enforcement clause
to ensure that universities and their
departments comply with the plan other
than self reports.
“There will be enforcement in that
people will have to report their progress
and people like to report positive
things," Hurley said
But some officials cite the lack of
enforcement as one reason the last
five-year plan failed.
Alton Thibodeaux, director of the
Equal Opportunity Office said, “There
HMO
had to stay in the hospital.
Under the University Health Plan,
there is an out-of-pocket maximum of
$1,000 that, Mitchell said, protects
patients from sure financial disaster
when they need surgery.
“I don't make that kind of money,”
Brown said. "We have a lot ol cus-
todial people that don’t make more than
$6 an hour. Do they not have the right
— because they can’t afford it — to
have family insurance?”
“It’s not fair for employees who
make $10,000 a year to pay the same
as those who make $80,(XX)." she said.
"I think I have a good job, and now I
join the thousands who don’t have cov-
erage."
While some employees seem to dis-
approve of the switch. Mitchell said he
has heard more positive than negative
commments about the decision.
Dallas Newell, administrative assistant
for Continuing Education and Con-
ference Management, said she thinks
the personnel office handled the situation
as well as can be expected.
“They got General American to take
all 670 of us no matter what our existing
conditions were," Newell said "And
should have been penalties for those who
didn’t meet their goals and rewards for
people who did. Then they might take
it more seriously. By people, I mean
everyone in the state of Texas.”
But Brown said that the Coordinating
Board believes that the new plan will
be effective despite the lack of a stiff
enforcement clause.
“We believe that it will be much
more effective,” Brown said. "All
the colleges and universities worked with
the first plan and saw what worked
and what didn’t. We believe that
the commitment of the colleges and
universities is stronger now and more
realistic."
Thibodeaux echoed Brown's optimistic-
outlook on minority recruitment and
retention. “We’re getting there. It’s
just going to take a little time."
after the experiences I have had with
Maxicare. I will never get on an HMO
again.”
Newell had problems with Maxicare
between March and November 1988.
The physician’s review board, which
considers whether or not surgery or a
specialist consultation is necessary,
turned her down for further breast cancer
surgery that other doctors said she
needed.
“Luckily, University Attorney
Richard Rales fought it with me and
my husband," she said. “My only
problems have been with Maxicare. I'm
glad we’re out of that.”
Bobby Turner, machinist at the
physics shop, said paying extra to be
on the University Health Plan is worth-
while if he has medical coverage for
his family.
Turner’s 2-year-old daughter was bom
with birth defects that require periodic
treatment by specialists.
“I just can't tmst Maxicare because
it won’t pay for the bills,” Turner said.
Tomorrow: HMOs throughout the
country are facing financial troubles.
University officials say that they will
keep the doors open if an HMO comes
into the Denton area. What does the
future hold for NT employees still in-
terested in an HMO plan?
Anyone interested in growing as a single is more than welcome to S.A.M. (Single Adult Ministries).
SAM offers Bible study, film series, and social activities so that singles can learn that a place in society
doesn't require a better half.
Singles can meet in a variety of ways, but adding Christian values makes SAM so successful.
Current plans include a retreat in Falls Creek, OK and visiting the Ramses II exhibit.
Grace Temple Baptist Church, the supporting church for SAM invites anyone to attend or
call 387-6137
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