The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 18, 1979 Page: 1 of 8
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The North Texas Daily
63RD YEAR NO. 9 NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, DENTON, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1979
Affected students, faculty begin
rabies vaccine injection series
Humane society warns of strays
By PEGGY HENDRIC KS
Special Writer
Eighteen students and faculty
members arc receiving a series of rabies
shots at the Health Center after being
exposed to a rabid kitten while
watching the Sept. 6 lunar eclipse.
The Denton Astronomical Society
sponsored the eclipse watch at the
Denton Nike missle base, which is used
as NT's astronomy lab.
Although an astronomy lab of about
90 students met earlier that night, NT
police patrolman Tom Newell said 43
persons were at the site between 4 and 5
a.m. when two kittens were abandoned
at the base.
The kittens were about three months
old, eight inches tall, and 10 inches long,
black with white markings on their
paws.
Diane Bucy, Dallas junior, was at the
missile base during the eclipse and is one
of the 18 receiving the series of shots in
the stomach.
“The kittens were extremely friendly
and kept crawling all over us," she said.
"It was so dark we couldn’t see them to
Dr. Frances Darden, president of
the Denton Humane Society, warned
NT students against picking up stray
animals Monday in an effort to in-
crease public awareness after 18 stu-
dents and faculty who were exposed
to a rabid kitten.
Dr. Darden said two kinds of
rabies exist: dumb and turious.
In the first case, the animal is
mainly quiet and drooling, not foam-
keep them off.
“I was taking notes and a cat jumped
on my hand. I was startled and pulled
my hand away,” she said. The scratch
was enough exposure to cause Ms. Bucy
to take the shots.
On Sept. 9, one of the kittens was ac-
cidently killed by a car. Bill Whidden,
Denton graduate student who lives at
the base, noticed the other cat acting
sick and called NT police.
Officers took the cat to the animal
ing at the mouth. Dr. Darden said
drooling is a misconception.
A “furious” animal acts wild and
will snap at any object it sees, in-
cluding a human hand, it’s own tail
and even an iron bar, she said.
If a wild animal is suddenly acting
tame, there is a good chance that it is
rabid, Darden said. Students should
also watch out for any animal which
lacks coordination or won’t drink.
control center where it died, Newell said.
The kitten’s head was removed and
sent to Austin for rabies testing. Assis-
tant Police Chief Jim Perry said
whenever an animal has been exposed to
humans or domestic animals and acts
peculiar, its head is sent to Austin for
testing.
Tests results received Friday on the
kitten were positive for rabies. The
animal control center notified the NT
police and health center, both which
began trying to locate students.
Friday was the ninth day after ex-
posure to the kitten, making it critical
that students were notified. The last stu-
dent was notified in class Monday,
Newell said.
Those receiving the shots are 10 stu-
dents, three instructors, a police officer
and a non-student. Even of the 18 are
receiving treatment at the Health
Center.
Shelia Meyer, health center ad-
ministrator, said Acting President John
Carter agreed treatment at the Health
Center would be free.
The inital shot of Rabies Immune
Globulin is administered according to
body weight, about .06 cc per pound.
The serum costs $19.08 per cubic cen-
timeter.
A person weighing 150 pounds would
receive about nine cubic centimeters of
serum, costing about $171. Additional
shots cost $3.78 each for 21 days, Ms.
Meyer said.
The total cost per person is about
$250, and for the 11 receiving shots at
the Health Center, the total cost would
be $2,750.
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Photo by EDDY MORRIS
Rabies injection cures patients day by day
Photo by EDDY MORRIS
Trull surveys filled prescriptions at local pharmacy
Health Center
may face theft
By CHERYL TAYLOR
Staff Writer
Prescription pads from the Health
Center may be missing, but Center
officials recently said large-scale theft
of the pads is unlikely, despite reports
that the pads are available on the
Denton black market.
Center officials reacted to the
reports with surprise.
“I didn’t know anything about
this," Sheila Meyer, administrative
officer of the Health Center, said.
"We keep everything under lock and
key, so I don’t see how this could
have happened.”
Archie Wolfe, center pharmacist,
said there are several ways for a
person to obtain a pad. “If someone
took one sheet from a pad, he could
have it run off or printed up,” he
said. "A person wouldn’t have to
steal a whole pad to end up with
one." Wolfe added that illegal pad
printing was "nothing new,”
Security at the health center is tight
according to Ms. Meyer, who said it
would he difficult for pads to be
stolen without coming to attention.
"We have as perpetual inventory in
that we check out pads to each area
(of the center),” Ms. Meyer said. "If
there were always a shortage in one
area, we would know something was
up." Wolfe said if entire pads taken,
they would have to be removed in-
dividually and from different areas of
the center for the theft to go un-
noticed.
Ms. Meyer said as an additional
precaution pads are not left "where
they are in plain sight of the
patients."
Students who have visited the
center disagree. "The doctor (at the
center) left me alone in a room for 15
minutes with a prescription pad sit-
ting on the desk the entire time,”
Janis Thompson, Denton senior,
said. "There was no one else around,
and it would have been easy to take
the pad.”
Even with pads available around
campus, Ms. Meyer and Wolfe said it
would be difficult to pass a forged
NT Health Center prescription in
Denton.
“I can’t imagine any pharmacist in
this area accepting the forgeries,”
Ms. Meyer said. Wolfe said out-of-
town pharmacies might be more will-
ing to accept the prescriptions, but
not Denton drug stores.
"All in-town pharmacists know
our doctors and are familiar with
their signatures,” he said. "We
regularly inform area drug stores of
changes in personnel to keep them up
to date on our doctors."
If Denton drug stores are informed
of health center personnel changes,
the stores' pharmacists are not.
"■ hardly ever know who’s over
there at the center,” Alton Trull,
pharmacist for Skillern’s Carriage
Square store, said. "They don’t ever
tell us who’s there." Six other area
pharmacists contacted concurred
with Trull.
Pharmacists disagreed among
themselves and with Health Center
officials as to the difficulty of passing
forged prescriptions.
Alum pays
dead debt
Not paying a fine and getting away
with it may be the dream of every uni-
versity student.
But a Corpus Christi woman who
recently paid a 32-year-old fine might
feel a bit differently.
The NT School of Music recently
received a four dollar check and a letter
which began:
"Approximately 32 years ago it was
my responsibility to pay for a book that
was lost. But 1 did not take care of that
responsibility."
Although the former student
remembered the amount, she was no
longer certain what the book was,
probably a spiral paperback on Italian
diction, she said.
The penitent alumna first tried to pay
her debt six years after she left NT. She
sent the money but no letter of explana-
tion.
“Now please let me correct that and
pay my debt," she wrote. "Under no cir-
cumstances do I want the check returned
to me, but please cash the check and let
me pay my debt."
There were no records of the long lost
but not forgotten book, so the check was
put into the School of Music Progress
Fund.
The office notified the woman that her
debt was being treated as a donation.
President runs into problems
Professor, Carter jog
By SANDY GALLO
Special Writer
When Dr. Mike Jacobson of the
biochemistry faculty agreed to ac-
company his wife in the 6.2-mile
Catoetin Mountain Park Run near
Camp David, Md., Sept. 15. he didn’t
realize he would run the first half-
mile alongside President Jimmy
Carter.
"It just sounded like a fun thing to
do over the weekend,” said Jacobson,
who was visiting his wife, Elaine, in
Washington.
"I was quite amazed that he (Jim-
my Carter) just climbed right in there
with the rest of us at the starting
line," he said. "There was no to-do
and no special treatment; he was just
a typical jogger."
The president showed up about 15
minutes late for the \ i a.m. line-up
time, jogged around to warm up.
shook a few hands and then disap-
peared into the crowd of 900 runners,
Jacobson said.
The first mile of the "extremely ex-
hausting" course was an uphill climb.
he recalled, and any notion of talking
with Carter was suppressed bv the
more vital concern of fighting for the
next breath. “He ran at a very good
pace, said Jacobson, who jogged
alongside the president for a half-
mile before trotting ahead. "I didn’t
see him again until the awards
presentation after the race."
Carter dropped out of the race on
the advice of his physician after com-
pleting 4 miles of the hilly course.
The president reportedly stumbled to
his knees, exhausted, and had to be
helped off the course.
Jacobson, who finished the run in
46 minutes, said he thought Carter,
whom he described as in good shape,
ran at a faster pace than he was ac-
customed to and became fatigued.
Carter said he had run the Catoetin
course three or four times before.
Jacobson’s next glimpse of the
president came when Carter ap-
peared on stage alter the race to pre-
sent the awards.
"The security was much less than I
had imagined," he said, remarking
that he stood within 10 feet of the
president while he was on stage. “I
never expected to get that close.”
Secret Service agents accompanied
the president, Jacobson said, but he
attributed their relatively relaxed
vigil to the fact that access to the park
was restricted that day to partici-
pants, press and registered guests.
Jacobson, who has been an
amateur jogger for four years, has
been employed at NT' for about five
years, teaching undergraduate and
graduate classes in biochemistry. He
also teaches freshman medical stu-
dents at the Texas College of Osteo-
pathic Medicine.
Jacobson received a B S. in
chemistry from the University of
Wisconsin and a PhD. in
biochemistry from Kansas State
University before becoming involved
in cancer research at the Mayo Clinic
at lhe University of Utah.
His wife, who is a member of the
biology faculty at Texas Woman’s
University, is temporarily residing in
Washington to participate in
a National Institutes of Health grant
program.
City council considers budget tonight
Provision redirects $85,000 from hospital to library
-y BILL CHRISTENSEN
Special Writer
The Denton City Council will con-
sider adopting an ordinance approving
the 1979-80 budget, including changes
made at the last meeting redirecting
$85,000 from Flow Memorial Hospital
to the Emily Fowler Public Library
tonight.
The council stopped city-county joint
funding of the library last week in
retaliation to action by the county com-
missioners cutting funds to the library
by $99,000. The council will set a fee for
county users, but it will not be part of
the budget, and the council will act on it
later. City Manager Chris Hartung, said
Monday.
Two other ordinances the council will
consider include one establishing the
1979-80 tax rate at $1.24 per $100
property valuation and another es-
tablishing a uniform rate for sanitation
collection fees at $4.15.
Also on the agenda is a public 1 earing
in which the council will consider ap-
proval of the five-year capital improve-
ment plan presented last Tuesday.
The hearing is expected to include a
return appearance by downtown
merchants concerning parking problems
on the town square, and an appearance
by representatives of Denton Citizens
Against Radioactive Energy Sources to
comment on the Public Utility Board's
recommendation for an electric power
supply studv.
The council will consider the
renegotiated Aerosmith Denton Corp.
contract, which it conditionally ap-
proved two weeks ago, but has since
been unable to come to an agreement on
(Inal approval.
Included on the agenda at the request
of councilman Roland Vela, is an item
concerning etablishment of a council
policy on conflice of interest.
Other items on tonight’s agenda in-
clude:
• An appearance by Dawn Chapman
representing the Women's Services Pro-
ject of the Denton Area Crisis Center
• An appearance by Linda Peatt con-
cerning funding for the Denton County
Health Unit.
• Consider preliminary engineering
recommendation for Robertson Street
overpass
Weekly amount hits $80,000
Hot checks concern business aide
Checks to the university returned for
insufficient funds and other reasons are
an increasing problem, said James Ter-
rell, assistant business manager.
"Last year, we had $370,013.42
returned to the university that represent
some 4,239 checks returned for various
reasons of insufficient funds or stop
payment," said Terrell. Out of this,
$ 14,963.38 was collected, he said.
Terrell said the problem is not getting
better. According to statistics provided
by Terrell, in the fiscal year ending in
1977, the university received $280,407.49
in returned checks. Of this, $6,842.73
was uncollected. The following fiscal
year ending in 1978, $323,714 was
represented in returned checks.
$12,848.11 of which was never collected,
Terrell said.
Last week alone, 306 checks were
returned for an amount of $81,932.
Terrell said it takes one full-time
employee and a part-time student just to
handle returned checks.
When a check made out to the univer-
sity is returned, the business manager’s
office sends a certified letter to notify
students and to notify their parents if the
student is less than 18 years old or is not
married.
“We give him 10 days after we receive
the returned checks to pay for one
check. If they don’t pay within ten days,
they’re withdrawn from school. Their
transcripts are blocked, and they will not
be allowed to register until they pay,"
said Debbie Kremer, who handles
returned checks.
"If the student does not come in, it is
up to our discretion to withdraw the stu-
dent from school," said Terrell Rein-
statement is possible through the Dean
of Students' office after full payment of
the bad check plus a service charge is
received.
Terrell said most people take care of
their checks. But last fall semester. 150
people were withdrawn.
The service charge on bad checks is $3
for the first and second returned checks
during any one school year. For the
third subsequent returned checks, the
service charge is $10. There is also a rein-
statement charge of $10. The service
charge "is not used to cover any of the
bad debts or bad checks," Terrell said
"Anytime an individual gives as many
as four checks to the university that are
returned for any reason, he is put on a
permanent list and can not issue another
check until the next fiscal year," Terrell
said
\ large number of the returned checks
are made out to the University Store
Terrell said signs explaining the problem
have been put up at the store to "try to
indicate to the student body some of the
reasons why we have some rather rigid
check cashing policies."
"We are losing 10 cents on the check."
he said
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