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TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13,1987 THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS Medical researcher receives Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Susumu Tonegawa, a Japanese researcher working in the United States, won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering how the body makes millions of kinds of antibodies to fight disease. His findings could help improve vaccines and make organ transplants safer, said the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute, which awards the prize. Hans Wigzell of the institute said Tonegawa's research also be significant in fighting such diseases as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, which destroys the body's immune system. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, where he has worked since 1981, the 48-year-old Tonegawa told reporters: "The problem of how our body can respond to so many different kinds of pathogens was one of the most hotly debated issues in immunology. We did not understand how that happened.

"It turned out that, contrary to what many people thought, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual. That finding was unexpected to many, and yet it answered one of the mysteries of immunology." Asked what impact his work might have on AIDS research, the scientist said: "What we have done and are doing is not designed specifically to solve the problem of AIDS, but it's probable that the information we get will be useful in solving it." Passing Continued from Page 1 tains. Welcome home, Eddie! Happy Birthday Helen Schaper Walker, Alina Valdez, Cleo Simmons, Anthony "Tony" Anderson, Bobby Jo Clack Reginald W. Austin, Patricia Compton, Vera Hibbert, Juahita Levine, Sybil Wilson, Harold B. Collins, Elisa Cardona, Gwen Colwell, George Denton, Sherrie V.

Jewell, Christopher Washington, John Edward Meyer, Vera Hibbeert, Jens C. Jensen Jr. and Madeline Michell Malmstrom. Jean Terry and Gladys Hendon celebrated their birthdays yesterday. Anniversary wishes to Monica and Danny Ott on your 13th wedding anniversary.

Attempted murder alleged GALVESTON Police have charged a 41-year-old Galveston woman with attempted murder after she allegedly stabbed another woman several times Monday. Joyce Delores McDaniels, 901 28th Street, was arrested shortly after the incident and remained in the Galveston County Jail late Monday in lieu of $10,000 bond. According to police, McDaniels stabbed another woman four or five times after spotting the 34-year-old victim sitting with "her" man at 28th McDaniels allegedly charged up to the woman and beat her with a stick, officer D. Lounds reported. When the stick broke, McDaniels then produced a pocket knife and allegedly stabbed the victim several times on the left arm, according to reports.

The victim ran from the scene and was located by an ambulance crew a short distance away. She was transported and admitted to John Sealy Hospital, reports state. Alt LandondiesaMOO TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Alf Landbn, the former Kansas governor whose presidential hopes were swamped in Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 landslide but who became the grand old man of the Grand Old Party in a long life outside politics, died Monday at his home. He was 100.

Landon, the father of Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, wryly described himself "a lawyer who never had a case, an oilman who never made a million and a presidential candidate who carried only Maine and Vermont." He refused to be nettled about his epic loss, and in later years gave his grandchildren ponies named for the two states he won. "They might have forgotten me if it had been he once said. Landon was hospitalized Sept. 28 at Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center after complaining of internal pain.

He was treated for a gallstone and a mild case of bronchitis before returning home Saturday. A hospital bed had been set up in the library of the family home. His wife, Theo, and housekeeper Rita Dwight said Landon simply stopped breathing at As the decades put the 1936 his campaign was symbolized by the sunflower, his battered felt hat and the slogan "Life, Liberty and Landon." He condemned New Deal policies as "dangerous and cockeyed," and pledged that if elected he would "restore our government to an efficient as 'well as a constitutional basis." Landon, who emerged as the GOP's bright hope by being the only Republican governor to Win re-election in 1934, received eight electoral votes. Walter Mondale received 13 electoral votes in 1984, the second-lowest number in modern political history. Dogs Continued from Page 1 AP Laserphoto Alf Landon drubbing further and further behind him, Landon became a beloved symbol of his party, an elder statesman who received President Reagan at his home last month on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

Dubbed "the Kansas Coolidge," officer. He said one problem faced by rabies control officers were refusals by area residents to identify owners of theanimals. "You'd ask them, arid they would just say 'they didn't know." Durst warned in the future rabies officers will use tranquilizer guns to capture such animals. Court festivities are scheduled Highway expansion project upgraded By BILL THOMAS The Daily News LA MARQUE A project to widen State Highway 3 from FM 1764 south to the Texas City Terminal Railroad overpass will move to the state's high-priority four-year plan, Mayor Carlton Getty announced at Monday's City Council meeting. The highway expansion project has for several years remained low on the state's priority list.

The jump to the four-year plan resulted from an agreement by Galveston County to release bond funds for the purchase of right- of-way property beside State Highway3. Inclusion in the four-year plan ensures that construction will begin within four years. In regular business, the council proclaimed October "National Domestic Violence Awareness Month," approved an ordinance to amend school speed zones on several city streets, agreed on a nominee for the Galveston County Central Appraisal District board of directors, adopted a new benefits plan for city employees, and accepted the donation of a County Continued from 1 but favored sending the letter of protest which was approved unanimously by commissioners. Neither CAD Board Chairman Hugh Landrum nor Chief Appraiser Guy Emanis were available for comment Monday. In other business, Holbrook reminded commissioners they had heard a presentation from Tom Mackey last week concerning the possibility of the Mitsubishi Co.

building a copper plant in the Texas City area. Mackey pointed out that several other competing locations have offered tax abatement incentives to firms to locate industry in their area. He suggested the county may want to join Texas City and the Texas City Independent School District in offering some type of state authorized tax abatement. In a letter to commissioners, Holbrook recommended the county "favorably consider joining them (the city and school district) in a tax abatement program to attract new industry, and in particular, Mitsubishi, to Texas City and Galveston County and that it be based on approximately five years in duration and for a minimum new facility of at least $50 million." Holbrook, however, cautioned commissioners that "we are treading in unknown areas and suggest that we should consider employing a competent consultant in the field of tax abatement to advise us on detailed provisions of such a program and, further, that a public hearing be held before any final plan is adopted by the Commissioners Court." He said an abatement program could have an adverse impact on other county tax payers by trans- fering the bulk of taxation to small businesses and homes and this "will possibly be a very controversial subject in the next several months." The judge said he feared that such a program would cause problems with existing industry in the county and "they might want the same break anytime they add a new unit." The commiMtontrs agreed, and voted unanimously to follow Hoibrook's suggestion that they indicate "our support of the general concept and join TCMH City and the Texas City School Bonn! to attract this targe, new industry toGfllTestonCowity." -It ww estimated wi rill I I It -M program conn cm to Ji miHfeN over its Hfe. small parcel of land.

After the council proclamation of "National Domestic Violence Awareness Month," Barbara Quiroz, executive director of the Women's Crisis Center of Galveston- County presented a plaque to La Marque Police Chief Larry Crow. Quiroz thanked Crow "for his part in eliminating domestic violence and assisting with the victims and their The council also agreed to combine its 50 votes for a Central Appraisal District director with those of the La Marque Independent School District. Those votes will be cast for Harold Jay. The council agreed to vote for Jay, rather than for Hugh L. Landrum, for whom they had voted previously, because Landrum has moved from Galveston County to Harris County.

The Texas City commission last week agreed to vote for Landrum, despite an argument from Commissioner Carlos Garza that Landrum no longer lives in the county and that the commission should elect a county resident. The council agreed to accept the donation of a tract of land at the corner of State Highway 3 and Poplar Street. Because the land is of little value, Councilman Pete Rygaard proposed that the land be turned into a "civic corner" and that the city erect a sign containing the badges of the city's civic groups. The council agreed to the proposal. GALVESTON A tour of the county courthouse and a mock family trial are on the agenda for this week's celebration of Court Observance Week.

The proclamation for the week was made by Mayor Jan Coggeshall, and County Judge Ray Holbrook proclaimed Wednesday as "Day in Court." Festivities are all part of the National Association of Legal Secretaries, a group that has sponsored the programs since 1956. Hitchcock OKs resolution to establish line of credit HITCHCOCK The City Commission approved a resolution to establish a $50,000 line of credit with a local bank Monday. Mayor Charlie Clifford said the First Slate Bank of Hitchcock required a resolution to be on file. Establishing a line of credit was approved at the last commission meeting. The line of credit, which does not have to be used all at once, not currently needed to help pay city operating expenses, Clifford said.

City Administrator Bruce Clawson said the line of credit will be good until the start of the next fiscal year, Oct. 1,1988. "These last few months are real lough until the tax dollars start coming in in January," Clawson said. In other action, the commission: Approved a revised personnel policy, which has been undergoing review for the past year. Appointed Commissioner J.D.

Miller as the city's representative to the Houslon-Galveston Area Council, and Commissioner Wade Wallace as alternate. Legal secretaries, legal assistants, students, others employed in the legal field, and the general public are invited to join in the activities to gain knowledge of various departments connected with judicial systems. The Galveston Legal Secretaries Association and the Mainland-Bay Area Legal Secretaries Association are co-sponsoring a tour of the courthouse, observance of a real trial, and a mock family trial. Prom 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday, there will be a tour of the Galveston County Courthouse, beginning in the district clerk's office on the fourth floor. From there, participants will go to the 212th District Court on the fifth floor to observe a trial. From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, the public is invited to observe a mock family trial in the Justice of the Peace Court, located in the Court Annex Building. This will be presented by Galveston County Bar members Baker Olsen, George D.

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off Strand Open 7 Days A Week 10 A.M.-6 P.M. Galveston woman robbed By THOMAS MUELLER The Daily News GALVESTON A Galveston woman was robbed and nearly assaulted by a man who forced his way into her home early Monday, according to reports. The woman, age unknown, was talking on the telephone inside her home in the 2400 block 31st Street when someone knocked at the door at When she opened the door, a man pushed his way inside, twisted her arm behind her back and demanded money, reports indicate. The victim directed him to a bedroom where her purse and money were. The suspect took about $70, then threatened to sexually assault the woman, reports state.

After several verbal exchanges, the suspect fled the house without making good on his threat. As the suspect was fleeing the home, the woman's husband arrived and chased the man, who eventually escaped. The suspect had not been located by late Monday. MAN INJURED GALVESTON A transvestite man suffered a cut on his head after two men attempted to rob him early Monday, according to reports. The 21-year-old man, who was wearing a black dress at the time of the incident, was walking near 37th and Winnie at 12:10 a.m.

when two men approached him and demanded money. When the victim refused to give up his money, the two men chased him and shot at him. He suffered a cut on his head during the incident. However, police were unsure whether a bullet had caused the POLICE injury. Emergency Medical Service ambulance transported the man to John Sealy Hospital, where he walked out after receiving treatment.

KUCKUS SUBDUED SANTA FE A dispute between neighbors and a call to police that hostages had been taken caused a stir in the 11400 block of Sandy Lane Sunday night, accordi ng to reports. The call later proved unfounded, but only after numerous officers with the Santa Fe police and Gavleston County Sheriff's Department had responded to the scene. Police arrested and charged one man with disorderly conduct in the incident and plan to charge a second man, reports indicate. No injuries were reported. HOUSE DAMAGED GALVESTON Firefighters battled an electrical fire that damaged a home in the 3600 block of Sealy late Sunday, fire officials said.

The fire moderately damaged the two-story home at 11:12 p.m., but caused no injuries. The flames either started in the attic and worked their way down an inside wall, or started in the wall and worked their way to the attic, assistant Chief W.T. Jay said. An electrical short apparently sparked the fire, he said. CONDITIONS UPDATED TEXAS CITY An employee at Amoco Oil Texas City refinery and a second worker remained hospitalized Monday, several days after they were injured in an industrial accident there.

John W. Logan 33, of Webster, a superintendent in Amoco's refining division, was listed in critical condition at Gulvcston's John Sealy Hospital. He suffered a head injury in the accident, according to a hospital spokesman. John Karisch, a contract employee working on the unit, was listed in guarded condition at Texas City's Danforth iTospital. IICAKSIIIT GALVESTON Vandals damaged two cars and broke into nine others that were parked near Eighth Street and Seawall Boulevard overnightSunday.

Police reported a variety of items stolen from the cars, which were burglarized between the hours of 6 p.m. Sunday and 6:40 a.m. Monday. Fishing rods and reels, a tool box and several wallets disappeared from the cars, according to reports. JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIPMENT GAS FLOOR FURNACES CALL 763-8551 ASK FOR LUCY SOUTHERN UNION GAS CO.

910 2sth STREET Thought We Forgot? Happy 36th Birthday Mike Moses MEMORIES OF WAR OCTOBER LECTURES Oct. 14 "Modern Medicine Goes to War, Robert J. T. Joy, M.D., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Washington, D.C. Oct.

21 "Beyond Flanders Field: The Literature of Marc Nigliazzo, Galveston College and Stephen Curley, Texas University at Galveston All lectures in the Memories of War series are free and open to the public. They are scheduled for Wednesdays in the Wortham Auditorium of the Rosenberg Library, 2310 Sealy, at 7 p.m. For more information, call Jane Kenamore at the Rosenberq Library, 763-8854. Funded by tho Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund and the Friends of the Roienberg Library. LubyMs jdKdiBuiBydgl QOOO rood iroin joou OPWNGOCl 21,1987 61st Street and Central City Blvd.

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