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Stick ’em up! Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1975 Bandits hit Dallas police Tower speaks up Rationing hurts DALLAS (AP) — Ski-masked bandits who robbed the police property room here of several- thousand dollars also may have en dangered the prosecution of some criminal cases, an assistant district attorney said Tuesday. “There is the possibility that some cases might be affected and the recovery of that money could be vital, especially in certain cases where it was the evidence,” said Lem Brotherton. The property room’s records were under audit Tuesday to de termine how much cash was taken by the two ski-masked, western clad bandits who robbed the room’s vault after a pseudo-cop dispatched one of two night attendants on a phony call Monday night. The loss reportedly was more than $21,000. Capt. Jack Davis of the Crimes Against Persons Division said offi cials are investigating the robbery “as if it could be an inside deal, as well as all other angles. This is just one of the possibilities.” Several persons already have taken polygraph tests, Davis said, but he declined to identify them. Brotherton and police attorney Rae Fichtner said the most en dangered cases involve narcotics in which the money had been used by officers to purchase drugs during undercover investigations. Brotherton said prosecutors are awaiting a police report indicating Researchers eliminate oil guesswork A research team at A&M has good news for petroleum consumers. The team, headed by Dr. Ken neth Hall, has found a way to meas ure petroleum products that elimi nates an error of tens of millions of dollars yearly. Inaccuracy in measuring the pro ducts for sale is directly related to the energy crisis. The uncertainty is passed to the consumer as increased retail prices. “Exact knowledge of the densities is important because this is one of the ways of measuring the products for sale,” said Dr. Hall. The process developed by Dr. Hall’s team allows them to accu rately predict the densities of sev eral petroleum distillates/ “Hydrocarbons, or rather fossil fuels, are so valuable to us as chemi cal building blocks it is literally in sane to waste them the way we do, ” he concluded. ERA claims nuclear plant disturbs gators the amount of money and its value as evidence in pending criminal cases. The robbery occurred about 7:15 p.m. Monday when a woman iden tifying herself as an officer told a supervisor she needed a property van to pick up a stereo and compo nents she had confiscated in a case on which she was working. Shortly after the supervisor left, police officials said, two men wear ing ski masks, cowboy hats, jeans, boots and tan jackets burst through an unlocked rear door with guns drawn. Charles Levy, the only attendant left in the property room, said the two men threatened to kill him and ordered him to direct them to a vault where police kept the cash. Unlocking a padlock on the closet door in which the vault was con tained, Levy said he led the men into an unlocked vault. The men grabbed a cardboard box and filled it with envelopes containing money, Levy said. The men left after locking him in the closet. Levy said. There’s a great deal to say about gasoline rationing and none of it is good, said Senator John Tower of Texas in a recent press release. Tower credits the consideration of a gas rationing system in America to liberal members of Congress who are “unwilling to support the President’s energy program and are unable to cDme up with one of their nearly $13 billion and would put several hundred thousand Ameri cans on the unemployment rolls, Tower said. “Almost every conceivable ra tioning scheme would hurt the poor more than the well-to-do,” Tower ■ said. A rationing system that could cut foreign oil consumption by one mill ion barrels per day would also re duce the gross national product by With all the disadvantage of ra tioning, which would cost the fed eral government $2 billion to ad minister, total petroleum consump tion would be reduced only 40 per cent, Tower said. THE AGGIE PLAYERS TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY THE FORI by ARTHUR MILLER RUDDER CENTER FEB. 26-2T-28 MARCH U-U 8:00 pm TICKETS ON SALE AT RUDDER CENTER BOX OFFICE STUDENTS OTHERS $1.50-$1.75-$2.00 $2.00-$2.25-$2.50 HOUSTON (AP) — The En vironmental Protection Agency says the proposed site for a nuclear power plant near Bay City poses a threat to alligators. The EPA suggests further study be given to alternate sites for the plant Houston Power & Light Co., Central Power & Light Co., and the cities of San Antonio and Austin propose to build on the west banjc of the Colorado River 15 miles south west of Bay City. “We have serious environmental reservations about the acceptability of the chosen site, ” the EPA report states. The EPA views were outlined in comments made on an environmen tal draft prepared by the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC concluded the benefits of the plant would outweigh numerous adverse environmental impacts. The EPA said the 12,352-acre project would remove about 27 per cent of the Little Robins Slough watershed and cause a reduced de sirability of the habitat as a nursery for organisms. “Destruction of this habitat will result in diminished animal and plant populations and a shift in biota to a brackish water community, thus affecting animals such as the Ameri can alligator, an endangered species,” the EPA said. “Numerous wading birds, water- fowl and other wetland inhabitants will be adversely affected.” The EPA said about seven miles of the slough, described as a “slug gish creek, run through the plan ned site. “The proposed project will result in a significant impact upon Little Robins Slouth and tidal marshlands within the site boundary, the EPA said. The EPA said the AEC draft statement included only brief dis cussion of features of several alter native sites. “Although we believe location at an alternative site may well prove necessary for this plant, it is impor tant that the final environmental statement address mitigative meas ures that could be adopted if the plant were to be sited as proposed, ” the EPA said. ^liOl UNIVERSITY DR. AT COLLEGE AVE. MON - SAT TAM - 12PM SUNDAY 9AM - 12PM LET US FILL YOUR NEXT ARTISTS SUPPLIES CRAYOLAS 16 BRILLIANT COLORS 16”x20” PRE-STRETCHED CANVAS 3 69 9"xl2” 24 SHEET DRAWING PAD 89 C 2 0Z. LIQUID TEMPRA 49 c 2 OZ. ACRYLIC ARTIST COLORS Jjjc AND BY AQUATEC BABY NEEDS HANKSCRAFT BOTTLE STERILIZER 49 PIECE FORMULA KIT DESITIN DABAWAYS 36s 69° GERBERS COTTON SWABS 180s 69° JOHNSON’S BABY POWDER 14 0Z. 99° PWYTEX DISP. BOTTLES 50s 89° COMPLETE DRUG DEPT. 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