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8-A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Abilene, Thursday Morning, October 31, 19; House Panel Colls Child Care Problems a 'Crisis' AtTSTIN, Tex. (AP) Defi- Blendes in out-of-home child care have reached "crisis proportions," claims a report released Wednesday by Rep. Carlos Truan, chairman of the House Human Resources Committee. The report is based on a study initiated in June 1873 after a Liberty County grand jury indicted the operator of Pupils Injured In Bus Wreck SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) At least 25 school pupils were treated at hospitals on Wednesday after a school'bus carrying 80 children plunged into a ditch.

Spokesmen said none of the injuries were serious. A shouted warning by bus driver Mrs. Joela Mills, 30, who also was taken to a hospital, was credited by sheriff's deputies with keeping injuries to a minimum. The bus' brakes failed along Campbellton Road near where it deadends into FM 1518, authorities said. STORK NEWS The following births were reported at Hendrick Memorial Hospital Wednesday: Boy to Mr.

and Mrs. Robert N. Williams, Albany, at 2:32 p.m. Girl to Mr. and Mrs.

Terry 1301 Ruswood, at p.m. Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Abilene, at 11:55 a.m. Girl to Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick Williams, Clyde, at 12:45 Artesia Hall, a private childcare facility, for murder in connection with the death of a 17-year-old girl patient. Truan called a meeting here Nov. 12 for the 21-member committee to consider the proposed report to the next legislature. "The 'crisis' in child-caring exists because the legislature joined many others in refusing to notice what was happening for some time--or refusing to do, enough to remedy those problems which we saw," the report said.

The report recommends a moratorium on construction of large institutions for child care and reducing the size or eliminating existing institutions. It proposes a new state agency, the Texas Department of children and Youth Affairs, to replace the present Commission on Services to Children and Youth which, the report says, "has never executed any of the three (responsibilities assigned to it) with any visible success." Other recommendations include: Extending an early health screening program to poor children not covered by federal assistance programs. Revamping the child-care licensing law under which the Department of Public Welfare licenses child-care facilities. Increasing state appropriations for the care and treatment of children. Prohibiting a former em- ploye or board member of a state agency from representing a client before that agency.

The prohibition would also apply to legislators, if they were being paid for the job. Stamford Man Sought in Shooting Touring special ed class Austin, Elementary School was the first stop on Wednesday's bus tour of special education facilities in the Abilene system. About 15 persons took the tour, which included a talk by resource teacher Francis Buzard. Rex Schaffner, a sixth grade tutor and son of Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred Schaffner of 4118 Brookhollow, uses flash cards and other visual aids in working with younger students. The tour, along with another of vocational education facilities, were conducted as part of American Education Week. (Staff Photo by Jonny Gates) A Investigating officers Wednesday were searching for a 30- year-old Stamford man in i with the late Tuesday night shooting death of another local resident. The victim, Identified as Lucas Martinez, 52, was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Tom Nance at 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Wednesday Jones County Sheriff Woodrow Simmons, who is assisting the Stamford Police Department in the investigation, said the suspect is scribed as 5 feet 9,195 pounds with black hair and brown Simmons said he believes the suspect has left Stamford. According to investigators the shooting occurred about 9 p.m. at a northeast residence Judge Rules Against IRS MILWAUKEE (AP)' Earl E. Klotz of Milwaukee died two years ago of cancer at the age of 63. He received a bill for $1,253 in back taxes shortly before he died but chose to use his money to pay medical expenses instead.

Milwaukee County Judge Michael Sullivan ruled Tuesday against the Internal Revenue Service contention that its claim against the Klotz estate had priority over payment of the medical expenses, Sullivan said that when Klotz entered the hospital he "had an option either to use his economic I'esources to fight for his life or pay his taxes. where neighbors said a party was in progress. "When we arrived," Simmons said, "we found the dead man lying on his back with a shotgun wound in the throat. "There was no party going on when we got there," the Jones County sheriff said, adding that no one was at the home when they got there. Simmons also said that investigators have recovered a .410 gauge shotgun, believed to be the murder weapon, from a neighboring house.

Louis Johnson; assistant police chief for the Stamford Police Department, is heading the investigation. Services for Martinez will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the Baptist Mission Church. The Kev. Art Flores, pastor, will officiate.

Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, with Kinney Funeral Home directing. Born Dec. 19, 1921, in Karnes City, Martinez married Floraica Reyna there in 1941. The couple moved to Stamford in 1964 from Kenedy. He was a farm laborer.

Survivors include his wife; five sons, Arnulfo, John, Cedl, Freddie and Jessie, all of Stamford; and four daughters, Mrs. Pat Salas of Kenedy, Mrs. Beneta Barrana of Chicago, 111., and Mrs. Mary Luna and Miss Josephine Martinez, both of Stamford. 673.4U4 FREEZE CARPETS 673.4114 4034 NO.

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31 'CAlt 673-4271 l)t 0ilene Reporter- the moon said Wednesday that the initial exploration phase of space is over and the pioneering phase is beginning. On the horizon is the civilization of space, said Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt, and he foresees the day when students of all ages and nations will attend i i classrooms, Studying everything from nuclear physics to poetry. a geologist, who flew on Apollo 17 two years ago, addressed a conference on scientific results of the Skylab space station program.

He said the Apollo and Sky-. lab projects had proved conclusively that man can live in space and play a useful role there, opening the way for routine flights to earth's new frontier in the space shuttle starting in 1979. "Compressed into the last decade of space activity, history has seen the equivalent of two centuries of exploration of the great American West," Schmitt said. "The first movements into space, which culminated in Apollo, catalyzed our imagination. Skylab gave direction to our imagination.

The space shuttle now gives license to our imagination." The shuttle will be a reusable rocket ship, capable of scores of round trips into space. It is expected to ferry hundreds of researchers from many lands into orbif in the 1980s. Because of Skylab. Schmitt said, "space observatories become possible from which research and services in meteorology, oceanography, geology and environment can be con- and from which brpadscale exploration new earth resources can be carried out." "The greatest discoveries of the future probably lie in investigations of stellar and interstellar Schmitt said. "The nature of gravity, the origin of planets, the limits of our ability to manipulate matter, energy and time and our future as explorers of the universe are all issues at stake." Tile astronaut said large international space a i probably will evolve from the shuttle, "continuing the great traditions of space that bring men and nations together." And, he said, "One can consider a space education facility for students of all disciplines, from the nuclear physics major to the medical student to the poet or novelist." "The stimulation triggered in young minds by a week or summer in space defies the Imagiation." i marked.

"The fact that we can now consider education in space as a rational possibility is a measure of what has transpired in the decade or Apollo and Skylab." At the outset of the conference, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics presented its annual Haley Astronautics Award to the first Skylab crew, Charles Conrad Paul W. Weilz and Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin. They were cited for their bravery in saving the crippled space station so that they and two later crews could inhabit it and conduct experiments for periods up to 84 days.

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