Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 145, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1979 Page: 5 of 28
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Another funding consideration
brought before commissioners this
A second distribution scenario
would allow the administration to
rewrd professors on a merit basis.
Two Criminal Justice Division
grants totaling $46,700 have been
accepted by county commissioners,
The discovery shows that humans
and apes may be more closely related
than was previously imagined, said
Drs. Donald C. Johanson of the
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
and T.D. White of the University of
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the bill to commissioners, noting that
approximately half the money now
furnished by the county for child
welfare goes to children of families
not eligible for AFDC.
If the bill is passed and the county
elects to participate in the new
program, Watt said, the county still
would be required to fund its child
welfare budget at 1978 levels, but no
additional tax burden would be.
required and “money going now for
food, shelter and clothing can be used
for other services.”
County welfare funds now go to
provide foster. care and medical
compensation for needy children.
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Blanton’s pardoning of 52 inmates.
Katherine Alexander smiles up at Supreme
Court Justice Joe Henry as her father is
sworn in as Tennessee’s 45th governor.
cent hike. But, Conner said, that
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percent pay cut, assuming an 8 per-
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through two-fisted roles in westerns and war
. movies, lost part of his lung to cancer in 1964. Later,
doctors told him he had “licked the big C.” Ten
months ago, he underwent open heart surgery for a
faulty valve.
Wayne’s latest film was “The Shootist” in 1976.
Since then, he has made a number of television
appearances.
The latest cancer showed up in tests that were run
after "nuulUiu gdll DiAdder operation turned into a
marathon surgery lasting 9%2 hours.
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Kehler said the next step is using
the computer to conduct registration
by mail
“In the future, we will be able to
mail registration permits to the
students; they will fill in their course
requests; if there are no conflicts,
we’ll process it; they’ll send us a
check and that's all," Kehler
predicted.
“The future” may be as close asq
year from now, he added.
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salaries which implied he thought the
Legislative Budget Board's recom-
mended 5.1 percent raise was ”fine."
He said he thinks the way the salaries
are distributed, through the merit
raise provision, is "fine," not that 5.1
percent is an acceptable raise.
Nolen listened as Dr. Frank Conner,
math professor, presented him with
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three scenarios * of what the ad-
ministration could de with the money,
if and when a 5.1 percent increase is
approved by the legislature.
One of the ways the adrinistration
could distribute the raise among
NTSU's almost 1,000 professors and '
instructors is strictly as a cost-of-
living increase, giving all a 5.1 per-
CLEVELAND (AP) — An ape-like
creature that strode the savannahs of
Africa 4 million years ago has been
identified as the oldest known direct
ancestor of man, anthropologists said
today.
-The creature. dubbed the Afar ape
man, walked upright with a human-
like body but had the face and brain of
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coordinator for Denton County. 1
The first grant, entitled "De- 1
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$29,048 by state and federal govern- ’
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county. It will be administered
through the Denton County Probation "
Department and is not necessarily !
renewable.
The second grant provides $1,420 in
state funds and $12,782 in federal_____'
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The county is required to contribute to
the program with $3,550 in additional
V information on our student population
than I've ever gotten - before this
soon,” John Tompkins, director of
Afar ape man also proves that sored the research, said Johanson's "
human ancestors were walking on two conclusions wefe important because
feet millions of years before they they suggest that man did not develop
By BONNIE BRADSHAW
Staff W riter
The days of long registration lines
rapidly are coming to an end at Texas
Woman’s University.
Students attending TWU's first
totally computerized registration
Monday and Tuesday were amazed at
the lack of lines.
“It -only took me 15 minutes to
register,” said Grace Williams, a
senior at TWU. “Last fall it took me
an hour and a half ”
Dr. Tom Kehler, director of the
computer center, agreed that the new
registration system is significantly
different.
—"From the student's point of view?
there's a lot less forms to fill out,”
Kehler said: “Last fall, there were
nine forms for them to fill out. This
time there's only one.”
Besides the saving of students’
time, the other major advantage of
TWU’s DEC 2050 computer system is
the almost immediate availability of
information breakdowns on students.
“Ive received considerably more
people who do a good job, "who have
merit,” but who would fall into an
average category.
Not everything can be wrong, Nolen
said, if NTSU ranks third in the state
on average salary paid to all
positions. •
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published by the Coordinating Board,
Texas College and University System,
NTSU is third behind the University of
Texas at Austin and the University of
Houston in average salaries for all
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But Nolen said he is aware that
university faculty members rank at
the bottom of a list of how professions -
have fared against inflation.
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guidance program for juvenile status eligible for Aid For Dependent
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above a large group of competent
Cancer diagnosed
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Wayne’s latest film
role was that of an Old-West gunfighter, dying of
1 cancer. In real life, he’s “licked the big C" before,
and now he’s battling it again.
Cancer cells were found in lymph nodes near
Wayne’s cancerous stomach, which was removed -
by surgeons last week, and doctors said Wednesday
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The Oscar-winning actor has been undergoing
unspecified treatment since surgery Friday. A
spokesman for UCLA Medical Center refused to
elaborate on Wayne’s prospects for recovery.
Bernard Strohm, medical center administrator,
said doctors are consulting on whether more
surgery is needed.
Asked if he could offer reassurances about
Wayne’s future, Strohm said, “I wish I could.
Cancer is the type of disease that just doesn't give
.that option.”
“He’s been down before and he's come back
before,” said Patrick Wayne of his 71-year-old
father.
I Wayne’s general recovery from surgery con-
L tinued to be good, Strohm said. The actor was~told
about the cancer Tuesday night, and took the news .
• in stride, said his eldest son, Michael.
“He’s been down this road’ before,” he said.
“We’re hopeful."
The actor, who became Hollywood’s biggest star
Walter Floyd Herrell Wednesday
became the sixth juror selected in the
capital murder trial of John William
McCrory.
McCrory, 27, is charged with the
rape and murder of 17-year-old Jeana
Melissa Walker.
.Fs. Henrell, 36, a Wichita Falls aircraft
- electrician, was accepted by both the
op- -prosecution and defense during af-
ternoon questioning of prospective
jurors in Judge Stanley Kirk's 78th
District Court.
Herrell joins Lynette F. Carlson,
.Raymend-A: Toth, .Aimee R. Brown.
Frances A. Miller Dunn and John A.
Hund on the panel.
Both the prosecution and defense
each exercised a peremptory
The lymphatic system, which collects and filters
the fluid that carries nutrients from the blood to
cells in most of the body, also produces many of the
white blood cells, which combat infection.
Dr. Richard O’Brien, deputy director of the
University of Southern California Cancer Center,
said lymph nodes trap and attack roaming cancer ,
cells, although "they are not successful--
ultimately.”
O’Brien, who is not involved in Wayne’s case and
did not discuss it directly, said radiation is a
common treatment for such cancers. Drugs also are
used, he said, "but with chemotherapy you or-
dinarily end up prolonging or improving the quality
of life rather than actually curing the patient. ”
the Afar ape man’s bones are from a skulls, jaws and other bones found in
truly new species, arguing that they Tanzania and the Afar region of
are from early direct ancestors of Ethiopia during the"last'.seven years,
modern man. The Afar ape man supplants a ,
Johanson and White will report creature known as Australopithecus
their findings in the journal Science africanus as the earliest known
next week. member of the. family hominids, or
The creature's scientific name is ancestors of man, they said.
Australopithecus afarensis. He was The earlist Australopithecus
identified and named by Johanson and. africanus fossils are about 2.5 million
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By JANIE LEIGH FRANK
Education Writer
North Texas State University
President C.C. Nolen met with
members of the faculty senate
Wednesday to talk about higher
education issues, particularly faculty
salaries, facing the Texas
Legislature, and to answer questions.
.Though faculty salaries was the
most popular topic, the philosophical
and political problem of the lack, of a
spokesman for higher education in
Texas was also discussed.
In opening remarks Nolen said no
- one since John Connally, governor in
the 1960s, has spoken but for higher
education. Now, with the criticism of
research funding and the attacks on
.tenure, higher education is paying for
made stone tools, he said in a straight line from the primates as
Some anthropologists thought it was anthropologists ,*hought until
the evolutionary pressure to free their recently.
hands for the use of tools that pushed The findings are expected to cause
men up from the stooped ape posture considerable controversy in the
scientific community .Radcliffe said
Wednesday.
He said that noted paleo an-
thropologist Mary Leakey already has
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admissions and registrar, said. “It
tells me who our people are. It gives
me access to statistics on how many
married students we have, what sex
they are and what their housing needs
.are. In the past, I didn't receive this
kind of information until the middle of
the term.”
Faculty members said they also
were pleased with the system that
gave them almost immediate reports
on class sizes.
“I was expecting a lot more
problems," Dr. Martha Swain,
chairman of the history and govern-
ment department, said. "Basically,
. I'm opposed to technology. Ithought
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its earlier indulgence, Nolen said.
Nolen agreed to look into a
suggestion by Dr. Elon Smith, faculty
senate president, that the Council of
University Presidents be spokesman
in upcoming legislative fights, par-
ticularly the expected attacks on
tenure.
"We,have a council of presidents.
Tenure is .exceedingly important. Is it
too much to ask the Council of
Presidents to come up with a vocal,
pointed, eloquent stand against House
Bill 145?", Smith asked. i
HB 145 is a proposal to eliminate
tenure for faculty and replace it with
contracts. _____----- —
The NTSU president clarified an
earlier statement he made on faculty
Abandoned baby’s
health improving
The condition of a baby abandoned Dec. 14 in the
restroom of a local service station continues to
improve, said Leonard Watson, administrator at /
Flow Memorial Hospital.
"If he continues to make improvement, in another
week or two we could be at the point he could be
discharged from- the hospital — but that is a big
‘if’," Watson added.
— The infant is termed in fair Condition, but is still
requiring oxygen.
Case workers at the child protective services
offices are prepared for the day the baby can leave
the hospital, •>_
"We have a foster parent waiting, one with a .
nursing background,” the caseworker said.
Ultimately, a court hearing will be scheduled to
place the abandoned infant under the guardianship
of the child protective services, he added, "and then "
we can move into adoptive placement.”
Found wrapped in a towel on the floor of the
unheated women’s restroom at, the Cap McNatt
Exxon service station,’ the newborn baby was given
a poor chance of survival.
He was transferred to the Children’s Medical : '
Centefin Dallas and, when his condition improved,
returned to Flow.
Officers have found no information on the natural
parents of the abandoned child
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NT leaders note lack of education spokesman
challenge, striking a potential juror
for other than statutory reasons, in
gaining the dismissal of two other
prospective jurors Wednesday,
leaving the prosecution with 10 more
such challenges and the defense with
seven
Three.other prospective jurors were
excused from service Wednesday, two
because they said they could not
consider assessing a defendant
charged with murder the minimum
punishment of five years imi
prisonment and another because she -
said she did not believe in the death'
penalty. ,
Individual questioning of
prospective jurors began again at 9
this morning.
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Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 145, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1979, newspaper, January 18, 1979; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1596605/m1/5/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.