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Thursday, June 20.1985
Illicit activities
OUR COLLEGE MAN
The North Texas Daily-Page 5
By JEF RAY
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Officials to combat drugs
By MARC MCDONALD
Staff Writer
Denton Public Schools are “infiltrated”
with illicit drugs, said Randy Welbom,
Denton deputy sheriff, June 13, speak-
ing to Dr. John Eddy’s “Drug Educa-
tion for Counseling and Guidance.”
Welborn and Allen Lewis, Denton
County crime prevention officer spoke
to the class June 13.
Weloom said the Denton Public
Schools have requested assistance from
his agency in dealing with their student
drug abuse problems. In working to solve
the drug problem, cooperation between
the Denton Public Sfchools and the Denton
Sheriff’s Department is essential, he said.
“We can’t just go into the schools and
do locker searches,” Welbom said. "We
have to have search warrants. But the
schools can do searches on their own.”
Using undercover officers in schools
to locate drug sources is a tactic that
would help the drug situation in Denton
County. Welborn said. This method,
which has worked successfully in Dallas
County, involves using juvenile under-
cover officers disguised as students.
However, despite the scope of the prob-
lems in schools, Denton County has not
employed undercover officers, Welbom
said.
‘‘ There are no undercover officers in
this county. There isn’t the time, the
money or the people to do it,” Welbom
said.
On Oct. 1, the Denton County Sheriffs
Department will receive a federal grant
enabling the office to organize an under-
cover drug task force, Welbom said.
The task force, which will employ five
full time officers, will be in a separate
location from the sheriff’s department.
The personel will use rental cars to en-
sure anonymity.
In addition to discovering sources for
drugs, the schools must acknowlege the
drug problems they are having, Welbom
said. In the past, Denton schools have
been reluctant to acknowlege their drug
problems he said.
“School counselors can get the drug
problems out into the open," he said.
“Once the problem is out in the open,
you can do something about it.”
A drug prevention program must also
involve educating students about drugs,
Welbom said.
“You can't blame kids for using drugs,
but you can educate them and tell them
what drugs will do to them.”
The investigation of drug cases should
receive a higher priority in Denton County
because drugs are often the motive be-
hind other types of criminal activity,
Welbom said.
“If your house is burglarized, the odds
are it was drug-related. Drug addicts can
burglarize your house, steal your car and
rob you — you can’t even let your kids
out at night.”
In dealing with drug-related cases, the
real harm to society usually is not the
drugs themselves, but the criminal activ-
ity they spawn.
“When it comes to drug offenders,
they’re usually not bad people — they
just got misled somewhere along the way
and turned to drugs. They became de-
pendent on the drugs and had to turn to
stealing and robbing to support their
habit.”
Because of the criminal activity that
results from drugs, the problem is shared
by society as a whole, not just the drug
abusers themselves, Welbom said.
As Americans are becoming increa-
singly aware of the scope of drug re-
lated criminal acitivity, they arc demand-
ing tougher enforcement of drug laws.
Welbom said.
“Society is beginning to stand up to
the drug problems of today. I think the
pendulum is starting to swing back our
way again.”
Locating drug dealers and making ar-
rests is part of the struggle in the war
against drugs, Welbom said.
“The big question in making drug ar-
rests isn't ‘did the suspect have the drugs,’
it is also ‘were the drugs found within
the limits of the law?’ ”
Lewis said according to a 1984 U.S.
high school survey, 62 percent of all
American young persons (ages 14 to 17)
use an illicit drug before they graduate.
He said approximately 2.4 million young
people have used an illicit drug at least
once.
And of the 43 million Americans who
have tried marijuana, 4 million are un-
der the age of 17, Lewis said.
Alcohol is another drug that is becom-
ing increasingly abused by young persons,
Lewis said. There is now an estimated
one million teen-age alcoholics in the
U.S., he said.
Lewis said the death rate for persons
age 15 to 24 has increased 16 percent
since 1960.
"There is no other age group in Amer-
ica in which the death rate has gone up
since 1960. The primary cause of this is
alcohol-related auto accidents.”
The drug traffic through Denton County
is on the increase, Lewis said.
"As far as Denton County is con-
cerned, it is now probably one of the
heaviest drug trafficking points between
the east and west coasts.”
A factor which contributes to the drug
trafficking problem is that there are two
universities in Denton.
He said other factors include Denton’s
proximity to the Dallas-Fort Worth Air-
port and to Mexico, and that a lot of
people here have a lot of money.
“In the past, law enforcement people
in Denton had the attitude of ‘give us
the money and we ll take care of it.' Now,
because of the scope of the drug problem,
we hope that through educating young
people, wc will prevent the problem.”
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Center evaluates job skills
Handicapped people find jobs through vocational training
Juneteenth beer bash scheduled for tonight
The Progressive Black Student Organization will cele-
brate its first anniversary of Emancipation Day to-
night at the Spark Plug Club and Restaurant at 212 S.
Austin from 8 p.m. until midnight.
Emancipation Day is usually celebrated by Texas Blacks
on June 19 and popularly called "Juneteenth.”
June 20th was chosen for the PBSO’s celebration
“because this particular club opens Thursday to Sunday,
and the City of Denton is holding a parade and we didn’t
want to interfere." said Ron Blakemore, Lubbock senior
and last semester's president of the organization. “Wed-
nesday was midweek and we didn’t think that would be
NT Police to enforce
seatbelt law
The state seat belt law effective in September will
be enforced at NT, said NT Police Chief Dan Martin.
“For a law to be effective it must be consistent. If
the N T police did not enforce the law on campus it
would make it difficult to be enforced on other streets
and highways,” Martin said.
The law applies to all people in the front seat and it
is the driver’s responsibility to make sure their passen-
gers wear belts.
It may not be as important to wear a seat belt on
campus as it is on the highway, because of the slower
speed limit and people’s alertne s to pedestrians, but it
can stu! prevent injuries in case of an accident, Martin
said.
The approach NT police will take to enforce the law
will be that when people are stopped for traffic viola-
tions they can get a second citation if they are not wear-
ing a seat belt.
Martin said his officers will give warnings and ad-
vice when the law takes effect.
too good. We wanted to get as close to the day as possible."
John King, J marketing executive with Xerox in Dallas
is co-sponsoring the festivities.
Money made from the celebration will be applied to-
ward a scholarship for the PBSO member with the highest
grade point average.
The organization celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King’s
birthday last December at the Rock Bottom Lounge, and
Blakemore said he would like to have celerations like
these every year.
The $2 cover charge includes beer, so you must be 19
or older to attend.
By LEONA ALLEN
Daily Reporter
The NT Vocational Rehabilitation Cen-
ter helps about 100 handicapped and disa-
bled people a year evaluate their work
skills and gives them the opportunity to
be productive in the community, said
Sally Sollars, evaluator at the center.
The center, located in Oak Street Hall,
evaluates people who are mentally re-
tarded. paraplegics, those with bad backs
and other disabilities that keep people out
of the work force. A series of tests will
indicate strengths, weaknesses and any
improvements that can be made to help
a person find the right job for himself.
“What we do here is vocational train-
ing,” Sollars said. "We try to ascertain
what job would be the best possible situa-
tion for our clients. We try to see how
they can become productive members of
society.”
Clients learn about these services from
governmental agencies such as the Texas
Rehabilitation Commission. The agency
referring the the client wants to know
where a person can be placed in a work
situation and what types of jobs the per-
son is physically and mentally able to
perform. Referrals from employers with
workers on workman’s compensation are
also common.
Although affiliated with NT, the Re-
habilitation Center generates enough
money to be self-supporting. Clients pay
$500 each for two weeks of testing.
Sollars said this is a small price to pay
to get people into our work force who
can get the job done.
The actual evaluation process is usu-
ally divided into four areas of testing.
The referral information, which in-
cludes health records, psychological and
physical characteristics, is studied first.
General interests tests are then given
to indicate the client’s job interests. For
instance, a person might express an in-
terest in carpentry or masonry.
Keeping the client's interests in mind,
he is then placed in job stations to see
how well he can perform various job
skills.
For example, a client's filing skills can
be tested by putting him in a simulated
environment in which filing would be
done. Mechanical skills are tested in a
simulated automotive shop. Mathemati-
cal skills are tested by giving the client
a list of numbers to calculate. There are
22 different job tasks in all, Sollars said.
Activity tests are given to see how well
the client can physically perform tasks
such as reaching and lifting things above
his head.
When the evaluaton is complete, the
center sends a 12- to 15-page report to
the referring agency recommending im-
provements that can be made in the
client's work goals and skills.
“The center shows the client or gives
him an idea of a job that they can do in
^society. We evaluate proficiency in an
'area that will be beneficial to an em-
ployer.” Sollars said
The center provides hands-on training
for NT students in rehabilitation studies.
In the long semesters, the center does
research work for NT faculty and staff.
It has the equipment and the resources
to do research jobs that go beyond the
regular research facilities at NT.
“We have their goals here.” Sollars
said. “We evaluate and help clients. We
teach students rehabilitation techniques
and do research for the faculty and staff
at NT. It allows for a good mixture of
learning.”
The final product of all the work at
the center is getting people out into the
community for work.
"I would like to see this type <;f pro-
gram done on the high school level,"
Sollars said. “Disabled people should
evaluate their needs before (they reach)
the adult level. Our purpose is to make
productive human beings out of all people,
including the disabled,” she said.
“The saying on the wall sums up best
what we feel here.” Sollars said.
It reads: “Caution: Human beings here,
handle with care.”
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