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vs 11 tin, and at oppo- into the used the win the a former liink the ind they White \en want to obert S. C., told >nday in ie major rowth in dent on courage thodsof ivn artists’ ing at a s a man hunting , killing h Israel f Akron, head of lice are me man mg ould he imercial Catholic Bingle” Madrid service Crosby, rosby, a ery near died in rde ie U. S. ■ to land Kennedy all conn hich re airport, nd local ■. “Only d. n closer i a new the two it,” the nwhile, dminis- “an at- inst the Shorts in brain? ^ an Antonio power investigation ordered THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1977 Page 3 United Press International HOUSTON — A University of' Texas neurobiologist says many, mental illnesses are the brain’s reac tion to a chemical imbalance which eventually may be found with machines and corrected with drugs. Dr. Jon DeFrance, associate pro fessor of neurobiology at the UT Medical School, contends specific electrochemical circuits go wild.' causing mental disorders like schizophrenia, withdrawal from reality- With improved medical techniques, DeFrance says, tin- faulty circuits can be pinpointed and fixed. '‘We’re a long way from doing that ,ight now, but the information we can gain on the normal and abnormal functions of the electrical pathways of the brain will help us get much closer to developing a drug which can balance the c hemical levels and actually stop psychotic reaction,” he says. DeF ranee s research has focused on the area of the brain involved in the expression of emotion, motiva tion, learning and memory. It is this part of the brain which many believe undergoes the most apparent changes through certain Wpes ol merttal illness, he says. DeFrance is using computers and new experimental techniques de signed by Dr. j.C. Stanley, a post doctoral fellow at the UT Me dical School, to analyze the brain’s elec trochemical pathways and find spe cific operations. ilc and his associates recently iso lated a specific neurochemical. mechanism which he says may he involved in long-term memory and learning changes. He says further re search could eventually lead to me mory enh anee ment. Grandmothers Inc. put women to work United Press International TULSA, Okla. — A corporation founded four years ago to help older women earn extra money with tem porary jobs will expand to a fourth city this month and the founder is beginning to have dreams of worldwide expansion. The organization is Grandmothers [ne., founded in 1973 in Tulsa by Pauline Black, a accountant who was lired of working. So she decided she would help othe r women find ways :o make some extra monev. Mrs. Black opened the home- based organization Oct. 1, 1973 w ith one customer and one woman who needed a temporary job. Now Grandmothers Inc., has offices at Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Houston and will open one this month at In dianapolis. Mrs. Black said she has doesn t know how many women work for Grandmother s Inc. 7 would just have to guess at it and I would say between 300 and 100, she said. But they come and they go. ” The women — 38 years old or olderearn money by babysitting, bouse sitting, serving as companions to the elderly or by doing light housework. Some work one or two days a week, and others work seven days a week on a live-in basis. Their earnings depend on what tasks are performed and a percent age ol it goes to the corporation. Nowadays, you can’t get minimum wage. Mrs. Black said. Mrs. Black planned to expand her organization into Dallas in 1975, but was struck by' cancer. She had a laryngectomy, which makes speech painstaking. But now she is ready to expand business. Publicity from articles ap pearings in publications such as the National Observer and the Readers Digest has prompted inquiries from around the nation and the world. T am getting quite a few calls from Canada and Hawaii, she said.’”! had. one from the Republic of SD.ith Af rica and one from France. So, it might turn out to be worldwide. Mrs. Black, 59 and a grand mother. said it is suggested” that women wanting temporary domestic employment through Grandmothers Inc. be 38 years old —- but they don’t have to be grandmothers. Wed have no objection to any one 18 years old. she said. If she wanted to be a grandmother at 18, the mi we ll let her. She said the age 38 was suggested because that’s the average low for a grandmother She said she started the organiza tion because many women find themselves divorced or widowed at the- age of 50 or 60 with no skills and trying to live off Social Security or inadequate pensions. “If I had to live off $120 a month. I'd die,’ she said. “These people want their pride, too.” United Press International SAN ANTONIO —- The one mil lion residents of the metropolitan area would not have to worry about a power blackout like the one experi enced by New' York City, San An tonio utility officials said in July. But Monday' those same officials ordered an investigation into an elec tric failure that darkened the nation’s 10th largest city' Sunday night. Compared to New York’s 25-hour midsummer outage, San Antonio residents suffered only a minor ag gravation with very little looting and damage done. The electricity was restored 90 minutes alte r the failure at dusk. City officials said the situation would have worsened the- longer it lasted as food began, to spoil and the threat of crimes and traffic hazards increased. Jack Spruce, general manager of City Public Service, supplier of elec tricity and natural gas to the San An tonio area,' asked the non-profit Southwest Research Institute to conduct an investigation into what he termed “an unknown failure” and how to prevent &ny' further black outs. CPS officials had told the news media last summer at the time of the New York power failure that such a problem in San Antonio was ex tremely' unlikely' because of its re gional network arrangements and backup .system. They said after pow er was restored Sunday night the blackout was caused by (he transmis sion line difficulties and not by an overload such as occurred in New York. Officials said the blackout oc curred simultaneously with tJie burning of power distribution lines at the Calaveras generating plant on the southern edge of the city. It looked like' everything was on fire, said Diana Montoya, who lives across the road from the power plant. I could see the wires and the 1 fire flashing in and around them for what looked like a quarter of a mile.” CPS technicians said all they learned was that a “static line,” one that carries no electricity, crossed power-laden transmission line's at the plant, causing a short circuit. But they also were puzzled why relay switches failed to disconnect the affected lines, causing the prob lem to spread and leaving the city in complete darkness for the 1 first time in 28 years. Reserve, generators ac tivated also CPS said. The blackout began with a dim ming of lights, then television sets, radio stations, traffic lights died across the 300-mile diameter of the city. Power was hack on throughout the city by 10:30 p.m. Mayor Lila Cockrell, who was caught in the 1 dark at a reception of Texas, Municipal League officials, said she found the blackout surpris ing in light of CPS officials recent statements that San Antonio was blackout-proof because of its inter facing arrangements With other South Texas power Companies. “It was quite surprising, she said. “because we were proud that San Antonio had an adequate supply of power. The Texas Public Utility (Commis sion Monday said it also planned to investigate the power-sharing ar rangements between the state '• utilities that intended-to avert black outs such as the one Sunday. Tom Sweafnian', chief engineer for the commission, said the Texas Jn- tereonrieetecl System, composed of generating utilities linked with San Antonio to provide power in such 'emergencies, evidently were ready and capable' of backing up the* San Antonio failure. But he said the blackout threw San Antonio s dispatching ec utci which normally would have notified adjoining utilities of the problem Eddie Dominguez - 6G Joe Arciniega ’74 into darkness, and the dispatching ce nter’s backup system, failed to op erate'. Police Chief Find E. Peters said the depajrtrrtent worked just a little above noi mal in crime ineidenits dur- iug thi outage We espect to find damages, ) obably 'vandalism, dur* th> day fight hours that we may *li;,ye oveiTiokecl during the night. Then were e pot ts oi sonic windows mashed, but I don t think this went SEfi fMC SAU UKZR riOAT ; Jtfawfesmt m £i£ftAi!T I into ‘phase two’ looting.” No arrests for looting were made. All emergency personnel, as well as the citizens of San Antonio, arc' to be congratulated,” he said. “They kept cool during an emergency that could have become a calamity.” Emergency generating systems at hospitals and at the 1 San Antonio International Airport prevented any proble ms with life support systems and air traffic during the outage. MARVEL AS THE AAU UNER RECAPTURE* ALL THE GRACE OT THOSE GREAT PPtt OF YESTERYEAR WITH THE MK-ACTIGW into super dietetic sweetner \ EA5T2V STREET WAREHOUSE 3715 EAST 23th STREET (7li) S^tc-tc J 71 TOWH ? COUNTRY CENTER United Press International WESLACO; Tex. Like an ugly duckling which becomes a swan, a bitter chemical in grapefruit may one day be the salvation of dieters forced to do wfitnout sweetening saccharin. The natural chemical is "narin- gin. which researcher Calvin.Lyons- says accounts for grapefruit s early seasqti bitterness. Dr. Lyons says, however, that after processing the chemical becomes a super sweetener 1,500 times more powerful than sugar. A researcher with the Texas A&M Agricultural Extension Service, Lyons has been studying naringin for several years and says if saccharin eventually is banned by the federal government the fruit substance may make* a good substitute for dieters and a profitable one* for citrus grow- He said recently that on the basis of current prices and yields, the value of naringin lias been calculated at about $40 a ton by Dr. Jim Kester- ton, of the Institute of Food and Ag ricultural Sciences at the University of Florida. Based on South Texas grapefruit production estimates of 138,000 •tons, naringin would have added a value of $5.2 million to the 1975-76 grapefruit crop had it all been recov ered, representing a 28 percent addition to the value of the $18.6 million harvest last year. 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