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Page 10 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1978 Embrey’s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. Diamonds Set — Sizing — Reoxidizing — All types watch/jewelry Repair Aggie Charge Accounts 9-5:30 846-5816 A? We Pick Up & Deliver CASUAL FASHIONS for GUYS & GALS TOP DRAWER BUD WARD VOLKSWAGEN INC. 693-3311 Culpepper Plaza ’77 corn climbs to new high Record crop at 6.4 billion For Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 United Press International WASHINGTON — The Agricul ture Department Monday estimated the 1977 corn crop at a record 6.357 billion bushels. 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Suite 407 Dallas, Tx. 75243 (214) 750-0317 in College Station: 846-1322 PLEASE VISIT OUR CENTER CLASSES FORMING NOW for SPRING ’78 EXAMS OPEN MON.-FRI. 9:30-9:30 SATURDAY 9:00-9:30 WED., THURS., FRI., SAT. duction of the livestock feed grain which plays a key role in the outlook for meat, milk and poultry, 1 per cent above the 1976 record harvest of 6.266 billion bushels and 9 per cent above 1975. This was the third consecutive corn production record. The 1977 summary for all crops combined showed that farmers last year produced the biggest volume of crops in history, 29 percent above the 1967 total. The previous record was in 1976 when output was 21 per cent above 1967. Monday s crop report also esti mated the 1977 soybean crop at a record 1.716 billion bushels, up 33 million from a November forecast and 33 percent above a year earlier. Grain sorghum production was estimated at 790.6 million bushels, up 11.3 million bushels from the November estimate and 10 percent above last year. The crop, was, however, 14 percent below the rec ord set in 1973. The bumper crops depressed farm prices sharply earlier in the marketing season and helped touch off a farm strike movement. Despite some price recovery in recent months, the administration is. still considering use of a production con trol program to reduce planting of corn and other feed grains this year. The small decline in the corn es timate from the November forecast, less than a sixth of 1 percent re lieved fears that heavier losses might be caused by storms which delayed the windup of the harvest last month. the big harvest last year earned spite droughts in parts oftheSonil east. Midwest and most of the Wes With big 1977 crops promising ample food supplies for 1978, Ag riculture Department officials have predicted that retail food prices this year will average four to six percent above 1977 following a gain of 6.5 percent last year. Officials said the record corncrj came because farmers got hi; per-acre yields to more than offset slight reduction in harvested acre Overall, however, America farnia last year harvested 331 million act; of major crops, up 2 percent froi 1976 to the highest level in twode ades. Most of the acreage gain cars in soybeans, cotton, oats, barley® sunflowers. Final 1977 summaries of wheat, cotton, rice and a number of other crops were issued earlier. They showed the wheat crop at 2.026 bil lion bushels, down 5 percent from 1976. The cotton crop, however, was estimated at 14.5 million bales, up 37 percent from 1976. Monday’s crop report said that The report said total 1977prodii: tion of animal feed grains - con barley, grain sorghum andoats-ui estimated at a record 222.1 mils metric tons. This compared will 1976 harvest of 213.3 million metr tons. Final per-acre yield estimatesfc leading crops included: Corn 90.8 bushels compared wii 87.9 in 1976; soybeans 29.6bushe compared with 26.1; sorghum bushels compared with 48.9. Lungfish may hold secret to suspended animation United Press International NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Pennsylvania scientists are trying to learn the secret of suspended ani mation by studying an air-breathing fish that burrows in to mud and slows its body functions in deep sleep for up to two years. “Our ultimate interest is repro ducing suspended animation in hu mans,” said Dr. Alfred Fishman, professor of medicine at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. “It’s not beyond the realm of imagination. with little interference from breath ing, heart operation or other functions. Fishman and colleagues have been studying the strange fish for years to see how it slows its metabolic operations and survives for long periods without food or water. The creature is called a lungfish because it can either breathe water > using gills or air using lungs, de pending on the conditions of its often-changing tropical environ ment. “We would like to have a.way by which we could cause a suspension of life at a lower metabolic level. Fishman told an American Heart Association meeting Monday that the potential of suspended anima tion for medicine alone would he great. Life functions of critically ill people could he slowed so doctors could concentrate solely on the ail ment and surgeons could operate Under ordinary circumstances, the African lungfish inhabits the shallow waters of lakes and rivers in central Africa. During hot, dry sea sons the 4-foot creature escapes death by disappearing into mud and hollowing out a chamber in which it may nestle for months until water returns. When encased in its subterranean nest, the lungfish becomes dor mant. Its heart and respiratory rates slow down, its kidneys slop functioning and its oxygen inlalt drops. This process is called aestivation Little is known about it, Fishman said aestivation mayke merely a more intense level hibernation, which appears to be deeper level of ordinary sleep The scientists study lungfisl flown to Philadelphia from Africa, hut the fish also are found in Austra lia and in the Amazon region South America. The fish have been hooked up to instruments to monitor body functions during aestiv ation and the researchers are now seeking biochemical brain factor that may responsible for inducing aestivation. “The ideal thing would he to a factor that you could inject intra venously to just keep the patient under the influence of this sleep — suspended function —until you want to let the patient out when y ou just discontinue intravenous in- I ^ fusion, Fishman said. L e]] Reporter saved from jail sentence United Press International AMARILLO — A state district judge Tuesday declined to jail a television reporter who had refused to reveal sources of information used in broadcasts about corruption in Potter County government. District Judge Arthur Tipps of Wichita Falls, presiding in the re moval trial of suspended Potter County Attorney Kerry Knorpp, had said Monday he would order Mark Baker of KVII-TV jailed five days unless he named his sources as requested by a defense attorney. In 1976 Baker reported a grand jury was investigating misuse of county funds by Knorpp, indicted on the charge several months later. But Knorpp’s lawyer, George Gilkerson, of Lubbock told the judge Tuesday the defense was not in a position to pursue a contempt citation against Baker if the news man appealed. Tipps dismissed the ay a . pa F witness without further question-°. c , e ing. fchecl Baker said the identity of the source “has no relevance at all to this damn case” and said pursuit the issue by attorneys for Knorpp was harassment in retaliation for the reporter’s coverage of the case. B Sun Theatres Baker reported on Nov. 4, 1976, that a grand jury which returned a bribery indictment, hut Knorpp was named in March of 1977 in an in dictment alleging misuse of more than $6,000 in county funds — the charges upon which his removal suit was later filed. 333 University 846 The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week Open 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Sat. 12 Noon - 12 Midnight Sun 846-9808 No one under 18 Escorted Ladies Free BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS Knorpp, whose removal trial started last week, also has been in dicted for attempting to influence grand jurors and has been sued by a West Texas State University frater nity chapter which claimed property jointly owned by Knorpp and the organization was used by the official to secure a bank loan. 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