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Middle School for registration. The
official start is scheduled for 2 p.m.
The 10K (6.25 miles) walk will
take approximately two hours to
complete. For young children, a 1-
mile Kiddie Walk will be offered.
Anyone interested in hitting the
streets to help feed the hungry,
make a contribution for the effort or
volunteer their time and services for
the walk may contact CROP Walk
coordinator Jeanne Girsch at 727-
1177. Sponsor envelopes are also
available at a number of area chur-
ches.
Money raised from the Northern
Collin County CROP Walk will go
both to local and international hunger
programs. This year, 75 percent of
the funds raised will be given to in-
ternational hunger agencies.
Those local food distribution
agencies in Collin County benefitting
from the walk are Allen Ministerial
Alliance Food Pantry (5 percent),
Samaritan Inn (5 percent), McKin-
ney Food Pantry (5 percent) and the
Collin County Committee on Aging
(10 percent).
“This is one of the finest opportu-
nities we, as a community, have to
fight world hunger,” Girsch said.
Last year’s Collin County CROP
Walk earned over $13,000, with
approximately $3,250 going to local
hunger agencies. Girsch has set the
same goal for this year, since the
City of Plano is hosting its own
CROP Walk.
Special guests at the event will
distribute red ribbons in recognition
of Red Ribbon Week, a city-wide
effort to promote a drug-free lifes-
tyle.
The CROP Walk is one of a num-
ber of efforts sponsored by Church
World Service, the disaster relief,
development and refugee resettle-
ment arm of the National Council of
Churches.
Hightower touts experience,
defends his political tenure
Komen gala, Race for
Cure set this weekend
By JANET WARREN
Harte-Hanks News Service
Supreme Court Justice Jack High-
tower claims a long career as a public
servant well qualifies him for six
more years on the court, while his
Republican challenger said the judge
has spent enough time at the public
trough.
Hightower, a former congress-
man and state legislator who joined
the court in 1988, will face Houston
District Judge John Montgomery in
the Nov. 3 general election.
Montgomery, a district judge
since 1986, said the major issue in
the race is judicial qualifications ver-
sus legislative experience. He said
Hightower has vast experience as a
politician, but little as a judge.
“He began his judicial career less
than four years ago on the Supreme
Court of Texas,” Montgomery said.
Montgomery said Hightower
went to the “public trough” 42 years
ago, right after law school, when he
was elected to the Texas House of
Representatives. Hightower went
on to the Texas Senate and even-
tually U.S. Congress.
“His experience is very deep in
creating and making the laws and not
in following and applying them in the
judicial capacity,” Montgomery said.
Montgomery said his own creden-
tials are better for the court. “My
dedication is strictly to the law. I’m
not a career politician. The only
office I’ve ever sought or held” is
that of a judge, he said.
Hightower said he is proud of his
record.
“I don’t understand the criticism
of someone who devotes years to
public service. If that is something I
should be criticized for, I guess that
is true,” Hightower said.
In Brief: Texas
Supreme Court Place 3:
Duties: One of nine judges on the
state’s highest appeals court for civil
cases.
Term: Six years. Annual Salary:
$91,927.
Incumbent: Jack Hightower, 66.
Democrat. A Memphis, Texas, native.
Supreme Court justice since December
1988. First assistant attorney general,
1985-87. Congressman, 13th District in
North Texas, 1974-85. Texas Senate,
1965-74. Texas House member, 1953-54.
District attorney, 1955-62. BA, Baylor
University, 1949. JI), Baylor, 1951. LLM,
University of Virginia, 1992. State Bar’s
1992 Judicial Poll result: 8,729 votes.
Challenger: John Montgomery, 45.
Republican. A Houston native. District
court judge in Harris County since 1986.
Private practice 1978-86. Law school pro-
fessor. Board certified in family law. For-
mer Houston television reporter, anchor
and producer. Law degree from Universi-
ty of Houston, 1978. Bar poll result: 1,829
votes.
Hightower said his years of ex-
perience give him a well-rounded
perspective.
Hightower said he doesn’t see
himself as a career politician. “I’m a
lawyer. Most of the years I was in
the Legislature I was practicing law,
too. The $400 a month I made during
the 10 years I was in the Senate
wouldn’t have made it possible for
me to raise three girls. I practiced
law and did public service on the
side,” Hightower said.
However, Hightower noted, his
10 years in Washington, D.C. as a
congressmen — a job with a full-time
salary — were spent “exclusively in
law writing.”
Hightower said his performance
during his four years on the court
justify his re-election. “The experi-
ence has been good,” he said.
Montgomery, Hightower said,
doesn't have very broad experience.
“He is a family court judge, which
is a very narrow field of law. Of
course, the Supreme Court deals
with a broad spectrum of law. His
experience has been in that narrow
field.”
But Montgomery emphasizes his
family law experience in his cam-
paign material. He notes that about
half of the civil cases in Texas each
year involve the state’s Family
Code. Yet none of the sitting Sup-
reme Court justices has served as a
trial judge hearing primarily family
law cases, he said.
Hightower and Montgomery each
say they expect to spend about
$200,000 on the race.
Montgomery said it is ridiculous
to spend millions of dollars on judicial
campaigns. He is the only one of the
Supreme Court candidates this year
not to place a $5,000 cap on cam-
paign donations. Montgomery said
he doesn’t do so because such caps
are meaningless. People find ways
around them, he said.
“There are ways to escape, evade
and circumevent that cap. And that’s
not much of a cap to most people I
know,” he said.
Besides, he said, he is running a
low-budget campaign, without a pro-
fessional staff. “I have no office rent.
My father and brother have set up at
their houses. We each have our own
personal computer. We’re hooked
up by modem. We have fax
machines,” he said.
Hightower said he also isn’t put-
ting a lot of money into the race,
perhaps relying on his name identi-
fication built over the years. “I’ve
been active in state politics for a long
time. I know people all over the
state. 1 have friends in all four cor-
ners,” he said.
By SALLY SHULTS
Staff writer
Before there was the Susan G.
Komen Breast Cancer Founda-
tion, there was Susan Komen, a
36-year-old woman who died of
the disease in 1980.
In 1982, her sister, Dallas
socialite Nancy Brinker, started
the foundation that would set new
standards in breast cancer re-
search and education.
This weekend, celebrities,
politicians, doctors, volunteers
and philanthropists will be in Dal-
las for the 10th anniversary
celebration of the Susan G. Ko-
men Breast Cancer Foundation.
On Friday, festivities include a
symposium with the leading can-
cer researchers in the world and a
symposium dinner that night with
Nobel laureate Paul Berg.
Breast cancer is now the lead-
ing killer of women 35-54 years
old. Recent statistics show
180,000 women will be diagnosed
with the disease this year while
46,000 will die of it.
In 10 years, the foundation has
become the third-largest funding
source of breast cancer in the
country, raising close to $15 mil-
lion and funding 111 nationally-
recognized grants.
Much of the fund-raising will
come Saturday as the finishing
touches are put on the “Memor-
ies, Milestones and Miracles”
anniversary gala at the Loews
Anatole Hotel. Tickets are going
for as much as $1,000 per person.
Scheduled guests include Vice-
President and Mrs. Dan Quayle,
Entertainment Tonight host Mary
Hart, Lynda Carter, Robert
Urich, Loni Anderson, Phyllis
George and Larry Hagman.
The black-tie gala starts at 7
p.m. with a cocktail reception, fol-
lowed by dinner, short awards
ceremony and entertainment
from three-time Grammy winner
Kenny Rogers.
The popular Race fo the Cure is
set for Saturday morning,, starting
at the Galleria. More than 10,000
women are expected to partici-
pate in the 5-kilometer race. A
one-mile fun run/walk is also set
for Saturday.
Five-time Olympian Francie
Larrieu Smith, a long-distance
runner, will serve as the race’s
national honorary chairwoman.
Entry forms are available at all
Dallas-area Lady Foot Locker,
Weight Watchers and Pier 1 Im-
ports locations, Galleria mer-
chants, area running stores and
other local businesses.
The cost is $15 before Oct. 12
and $18 after. All proceeds go to
the foundation for research,
education, treatment and grant
programs.
The weekend’s events start at
7:30 a.m. Friday with the Wendy
and Emery Reves International
Breast Cancer Symposium at the
University of Texas Southwest-
ern Medical Center’s Gooch Au-
ditorium. Led by cancer experts,
the seminar is geared more for
those seeking information about
breast cancer, McDonough said.
Funded by a $2 million gift from
Reves, the symposium is free to
the public.
Advance registration may be
made by calling 688-3404.
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would like to see more inmates put
to work on county road or public
works projects, paying them stan-
dard wages that would reduce the
county payroll and then allow the
county to recover the inmate’s hous-
ing or medical costs.
“I would support this if we gave
them some options,” Harris said.
“You are not going to leave these
people with a lot of options other
than going back to stealing.”
The county averages about 450
prisoners daily. Housing costs for
inmates run about $40 per inmate
daily, whether they are housed in-
county or out, said sheriffs Lt. Ran-
dy Clark. He has computed that fi-
gure based on administrative and
maintenance costs associated
directly with jail operations.
That would mean the county
spends about $6.57 million annually
in housing costs. The county has
been receiving $20 for every state
inmate housed daily, funds that are
expended pending further legislative
action.
The county is also implementing
its additional bunking in the current
jail, raising its capacity from 144 to
243 beds.
Sheriff’s Capt. David Hiserote
said the county’s jail population has a
number of inmates who remain jailed
because they can not make bail, an
indication of inmate indigency.
Also, he said jail records show
that no more than 10 percent of in-
mates have an average of $17 in their
“accounts” used for commissary
purchases while as many as 20 per-
cent have between a nickel and 95
cents in their accounts.
“The principle and idea is wonder-
ful,” Hiserote said. “All you can do is
try and see what happens.”
Commissioners also agreed to
proceed with implementing mea-
sures to have inmates pay medical
costs. Commissioner John With-
erspoon noted that several counties,
including Bexar and Harris, are
doing such with their inmates.
But Director of Nursing Jean
Scott voiced some concerns over
that. She said she has talked to jail
medical staff in Harris County and
was told of problems with such cost-
recovery measures among inmates,
including inmates’ refusal to take
medications knowing they will have
to pay for them later.
She said some inmates will refuse
to take medications, such as high
blood pressure medicine, until they
are so sick they must be hospital-
ized.
“I talked to the jail nurse in Harris
County, and her statement to.me
was it was a nightmare and they
were waiting for litigation over it,”
Scott said. “Tyler is in a lawsuit over
the same thing. It isn’t working for
anybody.”
Bob Lindberg, director of admi-
nistrative services, said the county
could implement such a program,
but said additional staff might be
needed.
Neither Lindberg’s or Scott’s
offices could provide specific inmate
medical costs. The county spent
$374,752 for inmate healthcare in
fiscal 1990-91 and about $440,772
for that purpose in 1991-92, of which
67 percent is salary and benefits
costs for the 11 full-time and two
part-time employees.
The county has budgeted
$473,005 for inmate health in fiscal
1992-93.
Lindberg said the county through
its Healthcare Trust Fund board of
directors, comprised of the commis-
sioners court, has stated in the past
a policy that it would not supplement
inmate medical costs with trust fund
monies, used for the county’s man-
dated indigent care programs.
He said screening inmates for in-
digency could impact that fund.
“If it is something that in the long
run is going to cost us more money,
then I want to look at it,” With-
erspoon said. “I don’t want to jump
into it.”
Council
Trees
From 1A From 1A
determine whether tax abatement these things, and preserve out natu-
applications will be considered: ral beauty,” he said later. “(Trees)
value of structure to be added (real are a resource we can’t replace
property), the creation of jobs, overnight.”
financial implications and community Green said that some of his con-
development projections. cern for tree protection arose when
The amended version would add he lost a pecan tree in his front yard
the value of personal property, such that was about 200 years old as well
as equipment to be used in the daily as another large pecan tree in his
operations of a business, to the list of back yard. He explained that this
criterion that determines whether was most likely the result of grading
tax abatement applications will be of his property to reduce the slope of
considered. the land prior to his purchase of the
The council is also scheduled to property. He said the 20- to 24-
consider a process for selection of an inches of soil added to the yard re-
architect for a recreation center and suited in a reduction of available air
the primary structure at Bethany to the roots.
Lakes park. The council sold $1.2 The City of Allen Comprehensive
million in general obligation bonds Plan, adopted in May of this year,
Oct. 1 for the construction of a re- now provides a springboard for tree
creation center. There is already a conservation within city limits
$165,000 budget for the primary through its environmental goals and
building at Bethany Lakes, which is policies. One of the specific goals
included in Phase 1B of develop- mentioned is to “Encourage con-
ment. The Parks and Recreation servation of trees, vegetation and
Department is requesting that the water resources in all develop-
same architect design both facilities, ment.”
In other business, the council is The environmental program laid
scheduled to consider specifications out in the Comprehensive Plan
for police vehicles and a lease purch- promotes tree preservation and the
ase contract. Because no cars were restriction of tract grading. Im-
purchased last fiscal year, the police plementing zoning practices such as
department needs six patrol vehicles clustering residences or providing
this year instead of three, incentives for developers are en-
couraged to further preserve trees.
“The Comprehensive Plan allows
the developer to capture the density
originally desired if the tree stands
are preserved.” Keener said. “If you
have 100 acres in a tract and 10
acres have a tree stand, (the de-
veloper) can have the same density
on the 90 acres as on the 100 acres,
provided the 10 acres of trees are
saved.” -
This progressive approach to sav-
ing trees is a relatively new phe-
nomenon in the United States. “I
don’t know anywhere else in Texas
where this is done,” Keener pointed
out.
“It is not economically possible to
have low density and save trees,” he
said. “We have to find a balance.”
The Parks and Recreation Board
is now considering the offer of the
pecan tree stand on the property
along Cottonwood Creek. Members
will meet at the tree site on 6 p.m.
Monday to look over the property.
The final decision on whether or
not to take responsibility for the
trees by the Parks and Recreation
Department and consider how the
property would best be maintained
will be presented to the Allen City
Council prior to the November city
council meeting.
According to Bill Petty, director
of Community Development for
Allen, there is no blanket tree pre-
servation ordinance for the city.
Calendar
From 2A
second Monday at the municipal
annex.
■ Allen Library Board meets at 7:30
p.m. the first Tuesday of each month
at the library.
■ Allen Board of Adjustments meets
at 7:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each
month at the municipal annex.
■ The city of Allen Sign Control Board
meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Tues-
day of the month at the municipal
annex.
■ The city of Allen Municipal Court
meets at 6 p.m. the second and third
Wednesdays and at 6:30 p.m. the
fourth Wednesday at the municipal
annex.
■ The Allen Fire Department Reserve
meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Thurs-
day of each month at the fire station.
■ The Collin County Commissioners
Court meets at 1:30 p.m. the second
Monday of each month at Collin Coun-
ty Courthouse in McKinney. Call 548-
4631 to verify the time. •
Lucas
■ The Lucas City Council meets at
7:30 p.m. the first Monday of each
month at Lucas Community Center.
■ The city of Lucas Planning and Zon-
ing Commission meets at 7:30 p.m.
the second Monday of each month at
Lucas Community Center.
■ Lucas Volunteer Fire Department
meets at 7 p.m. the second and fourth
Tuesday of each month at Lucas Fire
Station.
Fairview
■ Fairview City Council meets at 7:30
p.m. the first Tuesday of each month
at Fairview City Hall.
■ The city of Fairview Planning and
Zoning Commission meets at 7:30
p.m. the fourth Thursday of each
month at Fairview City Hall.
■ The Fairview Volunteer Fire De-
partment meets at 7:30 p.m. the
second Monday and the last Saturday
of each month at Fairview City Hall.
Candidates
From 1A
really truly wants to carry through
with his good ideas but he has to
have Congress to back him up. You
could tell he was experienced and
that he knew what he was talking
about.”
Clinton on the other hand was
negative and he seemed too serious,
she said.
“Clinton reminded me of a
preacher behind a bullypulpit,”
Wolfe said. “He had nothing positive
to say; he was real negative. He out of paying. Taxes don’t affect the
really believes America is falling poor because they’re already poor.
Debate
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mer were pleased with his debate
answers Sunday. Farmers Branch
lawyer Frank Shor pronounced
Perot the most effective of the three
debaters.
“He’s answering the question and
not going off on a tangent like the
other two,” Shor said while the 90-
minute face-off was in progress.
“But Perot has the easiest role. He
has no record to defend and you can’t
link him to anyone. He has nothing to
lose.”
Randy and Helen Pillifant of Cop-
pell said they would have switched
their allegiance to Perot if the elec-
tion had been held right after the
debate. “I think Perot made a lot of
strides tonight,” said the small busi-
ness owners. “He’s saying what the
common man wants said. He’s voic-
ing what we’re feeling.”
Perot tickled millions of funny
bones Sunday with his terse,
memorable responses. Asked to
comment on his experience qual-
ifying him to hold the nation’s highest
elected office, for example, Perot
deadpanned: “They’ve got a point
apart.”
The most pressing issues during
the 90-minute debate, according to
Wolfe, were the economy and taxes.
Wolfe shook her head in firm agree-
ment when Bush said soaking the
rich with taxes would only hurt the
lower class. She also laughed when
Bush said the stock market fell when
there was a “momentary fear” on
Wall Street that Clinton might win.
“Taxes are always dumped on the
laps of the middle class,” Wolfe said.
“The rich get around from paying
taxes because they pay thousands of
dollars to accountants who get them
there. I have no experience in run-
ning up a $4 trillion debt.”
It was the first stab of humor in an
otherwise serious-minded debate
and the first pearl in Perot’s string of
bon mots and aphorisms.
But not all who watched the de-
bate were charmed by the political
outsider’s slogans. Rose Crouch of
Farmers Branch said she found
Perot “a little silly.”
Democratic candidate Bill Clinton
hinted that his reaction was similar
when Perot outlined all he would do
to turn the country around before he
was inaugurated in January. Re-
sponded Clinton: “It’s not that sim-
ple. You have to take on the
bureaucracies.”
Although nearly 35 percent of the
suburbanites that Harte-Hanks pol-
led Sunday night gave Perot the nod
as debate winner, not all were willing
to translate their personal apprecia-
tion for him into votes in November.
Perot garnered only 20 percent of
the vote from the 120 residents pol-
led Sunday.
At 33 percent, the biggest vote-
getter in the Dallas suburbs was the
candidate named “undecided.”
Republican President George
Bush came in second with 28 per
cent of the vote. Perot came in +‘
Pretty soon the middle class will be
squeezed out of existence.”
The only issue that Wolfe dis-
agreed with Bush on was defense
cuts. She said there are too many
soldiers in Europe and the govern-
ment should cut back on the military
budget.
“I feel we should move the troops
out of Europe,” Wolfe said.
“They’re getting rich off of us.”
Wolfe was surprised the candi-
dates didn’t “lash out at each other
very much.”
“I’m looking to see what they can
do not to hear dirty laundry. I’m sick
of that,” Wolfe said. “A lot of times it
doesn’t affect how the way a candi-
with 20 percent and Clinton finished
last with 18 percent.
Thirty-seven of the 120 residents
telephoned Sunday night did not get
to pick a debate winner since they
had not watched the forum. Several
said they attended church services
instead. Others said they got back
too late from a trip to tune in.
In declaring a debate winner
among those who watched, Perot
came in first with nearly 35 percent;
“undecided” got the second-highest
percentage (19) of votes. Clinton
garnered 18 percent of the Dallas
suburbs’ vote for debate winner and
Bush came in last with 15 percent.
Glenda Marchesoni of Mesquite
was one of those who gave the de-
bate to Bush.
“Bush just appeared the most
assured of the three. I think Clinton
was third. Perot makes a lot of
sense, but I don’t think you can grab
the United States and change it,”
she said. “I don’t think the wheels
can turn that fast. He’s very naive to
think he can go in the first day and
institute all these changes.”
In an interview, Marchesoni
tended to talk more about Perot than
about her chosen candidate: Bush.
That seemed to be true among many
of the suburbanites, regardless of
date can run a country.”
A single mother of two adopted
children, Wolfe joyously clenched
her fist in the air when Bush said
“deadbeat fathers should help the
mothers.” She said American fami-
lies become more financially bur-
dened through tax increases.
“I don’t see how the government
can strengthen the family unless
they help the economy,” Wolfe said.
“The pressures of not being able to
make a decent living cause a lot of
families to break-up.”
Strictly opposed to abortion,
Wolfe said there is no reason to kill a
baby under any circumstances.
“There are plenty of people out
there that would love to have a
their political leaning.
Said Cathy Grygar of Lewisville:
“I’d still have to say I’m still with
Bush, but this is the first time I’ve
listened to Perot. This is not a stupid
individual, and I kind of had that im-
pression before. I’m still not for Clin-
ton, but I wouldn’t be totally morti-
fied if Perot got it.”
Steve and Theresa Glazener of
The Colony might agree with that.
The economy tops the list of impor-
tant issues for the Glazeners and
they believe Bush’s plans for invest-
ment tax credits, capital-gains taxes
and a balanced budget amendment
are the right answers if Congress
will comply.
“The recession is over. Our busi-
ness is healthy. What future do we
have with Clinton as president?
Man, it scares me as a business-
man,” said Steve Glazener. “We’ve
got to pay for it and the well is dry.
For my kids, I don’t know where
(money for) college will be. Growth
of government has got to stop. Bush
needs to be re-elected.”
Helena Walsh, a Plano Democrat
who’s trying to sell her house so she
can join her husband at his new job
out-of-state, couldn’t agree less.
She said she gave the debate to
Clinton because President Bush
baby,” she said.
Wolfe said the media unfairly ridi-
culed Vice President Dan Quayle’s
criticism of the TV show Murphy
Brown. She said she doesn’t think
Quayle attacked single mothers but
instead was trying to convey his feel-
ings against mothers who want
babies out of wedlock.
“I think the media took it out of
proportion,” Wolfe said. “Every-
body loves their families, and I think
he (Quayle) realizes this.”
.Wolfe agreed with Bush during
the debate that malpractice suits are
straining the healthcare system.
“Malpractice suits make it too
easy for rates to go sky-high, and we
have to suffer for it,” Wolfe said.
seemed to be out of touch with real-
ity. “Oh God, he has his head in the
sand,” Walsh said after Bush’s state-
ment that Clinton was trying to make
the economy look worse than it is.
“I would’ve voted for Perot had he
hung in there,” said Walsh. “I think
my doubts were raised when he
dropped out of the race. I am voting
for Clinton kind of half-heartedly. I
don’t think he has the answers
either, (but) I think he’s starting to
come around with answers to some
of the issues.
Walsh ended up describing herself
as a “swing voter” who could poss-
ibly vote for anyone — anyone, that
is, but Bush.
By the end of the first debate Sun-
day, Cindy and Ken Bahr of Carroll-
ton were Bush supporters with
Perot leanings.
“I can’t help but think he (Perot)
pulled in some votes tonight,” said
Cindy Bahr.
“I agree,” said her husband. “I’m
just wondering where he pulled
them from. I’d still stay with Bush
even though I liked Perot’s answers.
I’m not 100 percent for Bush, and I
did like Perot before (he dropped out
of the race.) I’ll just have to listen, I
guess...”
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