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Wednesday, March 20, 1985/The Battalion/Page 9 Arnunri tf%uunt% irlka m%*0 K%rWWmm r *icdtions for 1985 Peer Advisers are now available m H)8 VMCA r here is an inf ormation session scheduled For Wednesday at part, in 137 MSC. This will cover peer adviser responsibilities, as well as a description of the total Peer Adviser Program. Anyone in terested in being a 1985 peer adviser is encouraged to attend. After Hours offers driving course r clothes tor hi t money,” Mu making Cindii [Jays for even money. Km s two childrei r. 2, compete; tewide and n* ■ tuers a pageai I weeks, has n 1 ind more that 0 crowns. Bot igned with a; r-old, winntra as at lot of fc really knc nbecksjud.“It to her. Wewei * of monthsag tg but runbri * tage.” ages of beair Iteck and Ife 1 lave developrt dominations are currently being accepted for the George W. Ktmze award for meritorious service to graduate students. This . / award is presented annually by the Graduate Student Council. Any graduate student wishing to submit a nomination should do so hv m artment of Chemistry'. Nominations must be received by 5 p.m. on ferch 25. CPAS and Roadrunners sponsor run MSC OPAS and TAMU Roadrunners wall hold Run for the Arts, a 5K race, on March 30 at 8:30 a.m. beginning at G. Rollie White. Pre-registration is through this Friday and March 27-29 in the main hall of tbe MSC The cost is $6 or $8 on the day of the race. Presidential candidates to debate Candidate for student body president will debate Thursday at 7 p.m, in 801 Rudder. David Alders will moderate. Questions from the audience will be taken aftet the formal question and answer session. n* personalkT les children ii caches them;:? o do to read! Death Proposed budget would limit Texas executions to 5 per year Associated Press AUSTIN — Assistant Attorney I General F. Scott McCown said Mon- l day a no-growth budget for tbe i Criminal Law Enforcement Division f would limit to five the number of ex- ! ecutions in Texas each year. McCown said Texas has 193 peo- i pie on Death Row, and he noted that i the state attorney general defends ; capital convictions in appeals to fed- i: eral courts, including the U.S. Su- t preme Court. In a letter addressed to “Dear Legislator,” McCown said: “One attorney can handle four of these highly complex cases each year. We have 1.25 attorneys work ing on capital cases. The state of Texas can therefore accomplish no more than five executions each year. More executions require more attor neys. More attorneys require more dollars.” Winter cold cuts aloe vera harvest at Ddel 8, 1-8682 Associated Press HARLINGEN — A winter freeze that devastated the Rio Grande Val ley’s citrus industry also hurt several thousand acres of aloe vera, the cac tus-looking plant that local growers say has a “magic potion” for healing cuts, scratches and sunburns. But the future is bright, said Reed Reeve, plantation manager for for ever Aloe Plantations outside of Harlingen. “Aloe seems to have a lot of heal ings products,” Reeve said. “Nobody yet has discovered the magic potion — why it is. It works. The healing properties have been known since Egyptian times. Why it works, we don’t know yet.” Reeve said before the December 1983 freeze there were 4,500 acres of aloe vera in the Valley. Today, about half of that acreage remains productive. The Valley is home to more than 90 percent of the aloe vera industry in the United States. California is ex perimenting with the plant and Flor ida’s few aloe vera acres were de stroyed during a freeze in January, local growers say. Forever Living Products owns about 1,200 acres in the Valley, the most of any single company, Reeve said. “We’re strong,” he said. “We con trol our own market. We sell more than we ever did.” The headquarters of the direct- marketing corporation is based in Phoenix, Ariz., but the operation — growing, processing and packaging — is in Texas. The crop is grown around the Valley without herbicides or pesti cides to keep the plant natural, Reeve said. When the outer green leaf ma tures, about three years after its planting, it is harvested. From there the plant is taken to a processing plant in Mission, a few miles to the northwest. There the plant is washed and the outer leaf is stripped, leaving the gel to be stabilized, sent to vats and then to a tank truck bound for produc tion facilities in Dallas. There the aloe vera is placed into more holding tanks where it will be split for use in external or internal products. Aloe vera is used in numerous products, including external health care products such as moisturizing lotion, body toner, bath gelee, mask powder, suntan lotion, shampoo and conditioner, to internal products as tooth gel, juice, gelatin, a nutritional bar and a diet drink formula. Another Valley aloe vera com pany, Aloe Vera Farms & Manufac turers, has about 110 acres of the plant. Todd Waller, director of research and development, said the company moved its operations to the Valley five years ago to be more efficient. Like Reeve, Waller said the grow ing, harvesting and processing must be done as quickly as possible to get the most out of the plant. He also said the outlook is good, despite the freeze. “Everything’s coming back real well,” he said. “It’s going real well because many companies are looking at aloe because of its natural ingredients.” However, Reeve said the problem today with aloe vera is that some ma jor companies abuse the name to sell their product. He said some major cosmetic companies use very little aloe vera in their products, but still use the name. He believes the aloe vera industry needs to develop standards for its product, such as agreeing on a set percentage of aloe vera that needs to be used in a product. “Our products have to have a high percentage of aloe in product to be effective,” he said. He declined to say how much profit the company can make, but said it costs about $3,000 an acre to grow aloe vera and profits would de pend on the economy at the time of sale. “The future, in my opinion, is great,” he said. 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