The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 19, 1978, Image 10

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    Page 10 THE BATTALION
TUESDAS. SEPTEMBER 19, 1978
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AND TAPES
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Dirtpile may be
future ski slope
drive
United Press International
HOU STON — It covers five acres
and stands about 60 feet high. It
looms darkly in the sunrise or sun
set, depending on which way one is
crawling in rush hour traffic. And it
is growing.
Otherwise, not much can be said
for certain about the mysterious
mountain of dirt that has risen in re
cent weeks alongside the U.S. 59-
Loop 610 interchange, Texas’
busiest crossroads.
For weeks, trucks have dumped
dirt on the narrow 10-acre tract
owned by Stuart Corp. For weeks, a
tractor has shaped the pile, and
hundreds of thousands of commut
ers have stared and scratched their
heads.
“There’s about 120,000 yards of
dirt in there now,” said a Stuart
spokesman. He said the dirt came
from “people putting in swimming
pools and service stations and office
buildings and apartments and
ditches and streets.”
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Self Defense for Men and Women
History of the Bible
Ancient Hystlc Symbolism In Folklore
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The owner of the firm preferred
to remain unnamed to avoid “calls
from kooky people wanting to
know what he plans to do with the
massive pile of dirt. Truth is, he
hasn’t decided.
“The original impetus was to
build a water slide, but we didn’t get
the dirt in here quickly enough and
the season went by.
“Since that time, we have pur
sued some other concepts, such as
an artificial ski slope. We were
thinking of a miniamusement park.
What that will involve is anybody’s
guess.”
A ski slope?
“Or a revolving nightclub. Or,
from the standpoint of a lookout, it’s
fantastic in the sense that you can
see Sharpstown, Greenway Plaza,
The Galleria, and the Astrodome.
And that interchange is nothing but
pure energy.”
The site may be worth “$5 or $10
million,” he said, “but the reality
might mean you might have to move
the dirt off and it might cost half a
million.”
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FRIGHT
Campus
Meeting of the mascots
9-30-55
STARRING
RICHARD THOMAS
Jayhawk, mascot of the University of Kansas, her favor, 37-10. The Aggie football team was
is smiling over his encounter with the Aggie off last weekend, but it will travel to Boston
mascot Reveille IV. Looking at Rev, one College for a game Saturday,
wouldn’t SUSpeCt that the SCOre Came OUt in Battalion photo by Pat OMaJt)
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THE MSC ARTS PRESENTS
TOAD THE MIME”
Fri. Sept. 22
8:00 p.m.
Rudder
Theater
*2.00
All Students
*3.00
Non-Students
Under 6 Years
Free
EXTRA: Master Mime Class in Room 308 Rudder Tower
Thurs., Sept. 21, 6:30 till 10:30. Price: $2.00
All Tickets At Box Office
At Last Year’s Price, You Will Be Pleased With
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Each Daily Special Only $1.69 Plus Tax.
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Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. — 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
n ar( l W ater aids
heart maladies
MONDAY EVENING
TUESDAY EVENING
WEDNESDAY
SPECIAL
SPECIAL
EVENING SPECIAL
Salisbury Steak
Mexican Fiesta
Chicken Fried Steak
with
Mushroom Gravy
Dinner
Two Cheese and
w/cream Gravy
Whipped Potatoes
Onion Enchiladas
Whipped Potatoes and
Your Choice of
w/chili
Choice of one other
One Vegetable
Mexican Rice
Vegetable
1 Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Patio Style Pinto Beans
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Coffee or Tea
Tostadas
Coffee or Tea
Coffee or Tea
One Corn Bread and Butter
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Residents of
west Texas may have a harder time
washing clothes than other Ameri
cans, but reportedly they also have
the lowest death rate from heart
disease in the United States.
The Federation of American
Societies for Experimental Biology
reported on a recent study which
suggests there may be a link bet
ween the hard water and low heart
disease rates. It indicates that hard
water may protect the heart and ar
teries from high sodium level.
The report, from a group headed
by Dr. Earl B. Dawson at the Uni
versity of Texas Medical Branch in
Galveston, compared metal levels in
urine samples and in the drinking
water of 24 west Texas com
munities. It compared those levels
to cardiovascular mortality rates.
"The Upper Rio Grande Valley
has the hardest water with the high
est lithium content in the United
States, Dawson said in a telephone
interview. “It also has the lowest
cardiovascular mortality rate in the
United States.
The Texas report, earlier printed
in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, was another in a series of
studies from around the world
searching for a relationship between
water hardness and heart disease.
The previous reports have been con-
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Gregory Peck
THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL
Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner
SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE
Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad
Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread
Tea or Coffee
FRIDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
BREADED FISH
FILET w/TARTAR
SAUCE
Cole Slaw
Hush Puppies
Choice of one
vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
SATURDAY
NOON and EVENING
SPECIAL
Chicken &
Dumplings
Tossed Salad
Choice of one
vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
SUNDAY SPECIAL
NOON and EVENING
ROAST TURKEY DINNER 1
Served with
Cranberry Sauce
Cornbread Dressing
Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - ■
Coffee or Tea
Giblet Gravy
And your choice of any
One vegetable
flicting.
The Texas group liypofaW
that high levels of lithimmas,
nesinm, strontium and siliem'k
west Texas water help protect ro
dents against heart and circular
disease by removing excess u*
sodium and potassium frowllif
body.
"Lithium, which seems tok
the greatest effect on cardiovascf
disease, judging from thenumk 1
significant correlations with fe
rates, has been recognized for)*
as a diuretic,” the report stated
The researchers noted thate!cs|
sodium intake has been assctf|
with excess water retention
diuretic promotes the excretion
urine and body salts.
Too much sodium, which wet'j
from eating salt, is considered
ful to heart disease patients. Clini
studies imply that excessive W
sodium can adversely affect
tissue in humans, the federate
said.
Dawson noted that Finland
which has some of the world’s d- icrigl
test water, also has the highest®
diovascular death rate.
"The highest cardiovasculard«*
rate in the country is arow j)65is
Washington, D.C.; New Yorkas a gi
the Piedmont Plateau stretch
from southern Virginia, do* 1
through North Carolina, covedl
virtually all of South Carolina i*
into the southern half of Georgit
he said. “Those are very soft"*
areas.
“Many Americans crave sn-
water because, for one thing
makes better soap suds for wash-
hair and clothing,” Dawson said
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Winner of 3 Academy Awards
Trivia Quiz
What 1968 Movie
A) featured the
youngest actors ever
to play a pair of Shake
speare lovers?
B) was directed by
Franco Zeffirelli?
C) won an Acade
my Award?
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8 p.m.
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Romeo and Juliet
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