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The imported fire ant, small in
size but packing a powerful sting,
is continuing its march through
Texas.
And as infestations are discov
ered, quarantines are being im
posed by the U.S. Department of
jA^riculture in an attempt to
contain the firey pests and to
treat infested areas.
Five new counties were recent
ly placed under federal quaran
tine—Nueces, Smith, Trinity, Vic
toria and Walker. Other counties
under state or federal quarantine
include Angelina, Austin, Bexar,
Brazoria, Chambers, Collin, Col
orado, Dallas, Denton, Fort Bend,
Galveston, Gregg, Grimes, Hardin,
Harris, Harrison, Jasper, Jeffer
son, Liberty, Montgomery, Nacog
doches, Newton, Orange, Panola,
Polk, Rusk, Sabine, San Augus
tine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Tar
rant, Tyler, Waller and Whar
ton.
Officials of the USDA’s Ani
mal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) are treating in
fested areas as well as materials
that might harbor fire ants and
thereby be transported into unin
fested locations. Nurserymen,
Jsoil-moving equipment contrac
tors and many others are cooper
ating in the effort.
The quarantine is designed to
prevent the ants from spreading
long distances by restricting the
movement of articles that might
harbor them, says Reed Green,
entomologist with the Texas Ag
ricultural Extension Service.
Regulated articles include soil,
plants with roots, grass sod, hay
and straw, logs and wood, and
used soil-moving equipment.
These items cannot legally be
transported from infested to un
infested areas until they have
been inspected, treated if neces
sary, and certified to be “pest
Bulletin Board
THURSDAY
Cepheid Variable Science Fiction
Committee will meet in Room 304
of the Physics Building at 7:30
p.m.
Day Care Center Community
Meeting will meet in the Art
Room of the MSC at 7 p.m.
TAMU Skeet and Trap Club
will meet in the Seminar Room
of the Recreation and Parks
Building at 7:30 p.m.
A&M Student Civil Liberties
Union will meet at 8 p.m. in Room
123 of the Academic Building.
The meeting will consist of a lec
ture on the first amendment.
Panhandle Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 303
of the Physics Building.
Beaumont Hometown Club will
meet in Room 3C of the MSC at
7:30 p.m. New officers will be
elected at this time.
Brazos County A&M Mothers’
Club will be at 10 a.m. at the
Hillel Foundation, 800 Jersey
Street, College Station. Charles
Powell, dean of men, will speak.
Members are asked to bring one
or more items for an auction sale
which will follow the meeting.
PAWN LOANS
Money Loaned On Anything
Of Value.
Quick Cash For Any
Emergency.
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Today.
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Pawn Shop
1014 Texas Ave., Bryan
Weingarten Center
A&M Chapter of TACT will
meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the
Social Room of the Memorial
Student Center. Dr. Sara Jones,
Counseling Psychologist of Tex
as A&M, is to be the featured
speaker. All interested faculty
and students are invited to at
tend.
FRIDAY
Student Veterinary Wives Aux
iliary is sponsoring an animal
spook house Friday and Satur
day from 6:30-9 p.m. The spook
house will be located in Cook’s
Discount Center parking lot. Ad
mission will be 25^ each.
SATURDAY
The League of Women Voters,
in celebration of United Nations
Week, will conduct Saturday’s
story hour in the Bryan Public
Library at 10:30 a.m. Mrs. Nau-
gle, representing the league, will
present stories from other lands
and speak from her travels.
The Judo Club will be hosting
the University of Texas Satur
day at 1 p.m. A dual contest will
be held in G. Rollie White Coli
seum, Room 253.
Ag Stumpers
We Challenge You To Be Informed
About The Presidential Election.
A Debate
McGovern
Steve Dunkelberg
Chairman of the
Brazos County
Committee to
Elect
McGovern
NIXON
Bob Edge Comb
Chairman of the
Brazos County
Committee to
Re-elect
the President
Sponsored by the TAMU Philosophy Club
Thursday, Oct. 26—MSC Assembly Room
7:30 p. m.
M.
SENIORS
AND
GRADUATES
Picture Schedule for
1973 Aggieland
Oct. 23-27
Oct. 30-Nov. 3
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free’’ by a federal or state inspec
tor, notes the A&M specialist.
Green points out that fire ants
are a nuisance in both rural and
urban areas. Invasion by the im
ported fire ant into lawns, pas-
turelands, hay meadows, parks,
schoolyards and recreational areas
is annoying and causes unsightly
damage. The most significant ag
ricultural losses are reduced effi
ciency of labor and farm ma
chinery—losses which are hard to
assess in dollars. Fire ant mounds
damage machinery, prevent mow
ing operations and reduce the
value of land in heavily infested
areas.
A&M was recently awarded a
three-year USDA grant of $120,-
000 to study the fire ant problem
in Texas. According to Green,
work is presently under way on
biological control of fire ants
through the use of phermones and
hormones. Survey techniques by
remote sensing and the use of in
frared photography to detect in
fested areas are also being eval
uated.
The cooperation of all agricul
tural producers, landowners, nurs
erymen, soil-moving contractors
and others engaged in transport
ing any of the regulated articles
is essential to suppress the spread
of fire ants, emphasizes the en
tomologist.
Pictures Will Be Taken from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M.
At
UNIVERSITY STUDIO
115 N. Main North Gate 846-8019
(Bring Fee Slips)
BERNIE PONZIO, a member of the TAMU Women’s
Bowling Team, shows her style while practicing for this
weekend’s bowling tournament at Texas Southern Univer
sity. The tournament will be a triangular affair, with Lee
Junior College from Baytown also participating.
THE BATTALION
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Photo Contest Slated Monday
A print contest and display of
photographs from the Camera
Committee’s recent models ses
sion will be held Monday at
A&M.
The 7:30 p.m. contest meeting
in Rooms 2A, B and C of the
Memorial Student Center is open
to interested individuals, an
nounced Chairman Darrell Cobb.
Photos to be judged were made
by committee members at the
last meeting, when Gene Sut-
phen demonstrated portraiture
and fashion lighting and mem
bers of Mam’selles, modeling and
style group of the Host and
Fashion Committee, served as
photographic subjects.
Cobb noted the Monday meet
ing also will feature an auction
of all unclaimed photo supplies
and basic classes on developing.
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