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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1977
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OUSTON — Stealing grease
fast food restaurants and sell-
it to rendering plants has be-
le a problem in Texas, restaura-
and renderers say-
he businessmen held a seminar
ssdayfor 30 policemen, deputies,
district attorneys. Many of the
rials said they had not heard of
problem and that the solution
might be better grease security:
“I had never heard of it,” said
Richard Trevathan of the Harris
County district attorney’s office.
“Either they’re not having very
many thefts or the restaurant own
ers are not reporting them,” agreed
Detective Lt. J. D. Peyton of the
Harris County sheriffs department.
But one Houston Tenderer said
the thefts indirectly have cost her
company $60,000 this year, and she
guessed the losses run to “several
million dollars” statewide.
Overall, the businessmen esti
mated the theft-loss rate by Texas
renderers is running at 20 percent.
They said the thieves take advan
tage of the fact that grease discarded
after deep-frying is left in 55-gallon
drums behind fast-food restaurants.
Contract renderers, who may al
ready have paid, come around and
pick it up.
All the thieves have to do is beat
the Tenderer to the scene, load up
the drums, and haul them off, the
businessmen said.
The said “hot” grease sometimes
sells for $30 a barrel and that the
drums can be sold separately for $20
more. A busy grease thief can make
up to $200 a night, $50,000 a year.
alpractice filed five years later
in a big city like Houston.
Peyton said increased patrolling
alone will not solve the problem be
cause “we re too short on men to
check every truck at every restaur
ant.”
Trevathan told the restaurateurs
they should consider building lock
ing sheds for their grease. He said
the burglary then involved would be
easier to prosecute than simple theft
anyway.
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iUSTIN — Courts ruled Wed-
on state licensing laws con-
aing child care centers and on a
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emment and the United Nations
ide some guidance and money
ie fight against sickle cell anemia
other “orphan diseases”, mil
ls of people afflicted by these
nents have little hope, a re-
cher said Tuesday.
he problem. Dr. Anthony
ami said, is that drug companies
not interested in the research
production of drugs for the or-
n diseases — genetic and para-
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the constitutional separation of
church and state, the Third Court of
Civil Appeals ruled.
The court rejected the argument
of Harmon R. Oxford, operator of a
Zapata County boy’s home owned
by Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises,
Inc. Oxford contended the licensing
law infringed on his constitutionally
guaranteed exercise of religious lib
erty.
He also contended in his appeal
the legislature had unconstitutionally
delegated authority to the Depart
ment of Public Welfare, (Depart
ment of Human Resources), to
adopt rules and regulations for op
eration of the child care centers.
tudy needs funds
1 Paso site
off-campus
&M program
Paso has been chosen as the
ir the first off-campus program
ticipated in by Texas A&M Uni-
iity’s Center for Education and
earch in Free Enterprise.
John Allen, associate director
he center, and Texas A&M
cator Dr. David Armstrong will
sent a one-day program Nov. 23
Paso teachers as part of the
1 in-service training. Their pres-
ations will be at Bowie High
ool, 801 S. San Marcial.
Hen and Armstrong will explain
characteristics and working def-
ion of free enterprise, a term
has lacked precision in general
They will also lay out specific
hods that teachers can use to
smit the concept to their stu-
he off-campus program comes
it as part of a state law requiring
lie classroom instruction in the
iciples of free enterprise,
he center was authorized by
as A&M System regents last
ng-
neglected by researchers because of
low financial return.
Cerami, An associate professor at.
Rockefeller University, said the job
of tackling orphan diseases such as
diabetes, Cooley’s Anemia and
Tay-Sachs Disease — has been left
to small independent research
groups which lack the financial back
ing and manpower of the phar
maceutical companies.
“Drug companies are still not in
terested in this type of research,”
the biochemist said.
“It still represents a loss from a
financial point of view.
“They’re not really enthusiastic
about putting money into these
compounds. I don t think it will ever
happen. . . Good will doesn’t make
for good income,” he said.
In an address at a seminar of the
Council for the Advancement of
Science Writing, Cerami called for
the formation of a committee con
sisting of representatives from the
National Institutes of Health, the
World Health Organization of the
United Nations, the pharmaceutical
industry and private researchers.
The committee would “become
the foster parents of these diseases, ”
Cerami said.
Cerami heads a team of 30 re
searchers studying the orphan dis
eases which afflict about 5 million
people in Africa, South America and
parts of the United States and the
Far East.
He lists sickle cell anemia, thalas
semia, diabetes mellitus and
trypanosomiasis as the most ne
glected orphan diseases. Cystic fib
rosis, muscular dystrophy and
hemophilia also are high on his list.
Most orphan diseases are ethnic
oriented, he said. Sickle cell anemia
is found among people with African
origins; thalassemia or Cooley’s
Anemia is characteristic of Mediter
ranean cultures, but can extend to
the Far East and a form of
trypanosimiasis affects 7 million
Latin Americans.
The Civil Appeals Court decision
upheld a lower court action, which
in effect had ruled Roloff must com
ply with the licensing requirements
for three South Texas child care cen
ters.
in authorizing the Human Re
sources Department to establish
rules, regulations and minimum
standards for the child care centers.
In a separate proceeding, the
Texas Supreme Court reversed a
lower court ruling ordering a Hous
ton court to consider Tom Watson
assume Weaver’s medical malprac
tice suit against Dr. Raymond Witt.
Weaver, in a suit filed Jan. 16,
1976, contended the surgeon who
performed a hemorrhoidectomy on
him Feb. 1, 1971, had damaged the
nerves and muscles in his rectum,
causing him to lose control of his
bowels.
“We conclude that although Ox
ford claims the Child Care Licens
ing Act violates the free exercise of
religion, it is reasonable to find that
regulation of the child care homes
subject to the act in no way abridges
the absolute freedom of religious be
lief, but that the act is a regulation of
conduct,” the court said.
The court also concluded that the
legislature acted within its authority
A lower court had ruled against
Weaver on grounds he waited too
long to file the suit. The Supreme
Court noted Watson had alleged the
surgeon fraudulently concealed
from him until 1975 that the surgery
could have caused his problem.
The fraudulent concealment alle
gation made the suit acceptable
even though it was not filed until
five years after the surgery, court
ruled.
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