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ln Away, 1 ^uneabot be UK I’m givjj ;e Boys, i r Iet turnej tr y since! odd Warn he year hoe : ' U P group s Band, ^ group 0 f (ju an fights r ‘old’ chips United Press International TTLE ROCK, Ark. — There t many citizens laboring in the flow of commerce whose pas te concern is the restoration of wtato chip. t Phil Nelson is such a man. fervor may reshape the indus- tnd Dotij nyone W| during vocal duotj an of picb von previou ! from entei of the yen mer’s cird 1 c 'gar ash mentalisti acs, a baap an dubbed Cmake the very best potato chip world,” he says. "My goal is t them into all the stores. You tsay 1 am a one-man crusade.” product is “Nelson’s Old ion Potato Chips.” Not many, s they live within 50 miles of | e Rock, will have heard of . Chances are one day you will, erein lies the tale, wherein the (enterprise system is not dead, b sir, you’ll find them all right jgjn Phil Nelson and his love af- ith the heretofore unromanced to chip. )ld fashion potato chip, ” Nelson ack to correct. “Because I’m an e old aoe ■asbioned guy.” , a 8 e •hat’s so different about Nelson s irs ago, \n )ersontok on try M® Fashion Potato Chips? Why has ni-cult grown up around them? elson puts back in a step used n potato chips were originally ein small, local plants 40 and 50 s ago: kettle cooking. Kettle bile. “Kiic za went to cooking disappeared when potato chips began to be mass produced because to kettle cook potato chips it was necessary to have a man standing there stirring the potato chips in the kettle. Otherwise the chips would stick together. The man stirring with the rake — because that’s what he uses, an ac tual garden rake or something simi- lar — is also the cook. Just like any one in a kitchen does when cooking French fried potatoes, he decides when they are done and empties them from the kettle. To eliminate this chancy and time-consuming step, large man ufacturers of potato chips wash and rewash the sliced potatoes before cooking. This washes out large amounts of starch, and by doing that keeps the potatoes from sticking to gether while being cooked. Thus, they could standardize a quicker and smoother means of making potato chips and also elimi nate one of the more uncomfortable jobs around: hand cooking chips in a sweaty room where temperatures linger around 100. “However,” Nelson said, “they also eliminated most of the potato - taste and much of the nutrient value. Drilling for the team Freshmen working to stay in the Fish Drill Team do push-ups for sophomores who direct training of the team. The freshmen are on the team unless they quit, and workouts like this one near Kyle Field are common. The fish must keep their rifles with them at all times, even during push-ups. Fish Drill Teams of the past have won several national awards for their per formances. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. "exas ‘black gold’ Brine from oil wells threatens wild birds THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1978 Brain scanner refined United Press International PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Doc tors at Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center reported Tuesday improvements in a brain-scanner technique that will mean signific antly less risk to patients undergo ing certain kinds of brain surgery. Dr. Burton L. Wise, chief of neurosciences at Mount Zion, said refined use of a CT scanner to pre cisely locate lesions deep within the brain will eliminate dangerous tests [previously necessary before sur- |gery. A CT scanner takes hundreds of crosssectional X-ray pictures of the inside of the brain, as if it were sliced in layers. When put together, they provide a three-dimensional look inside the brain. Wise and his associate, Curtis Gleason, Ph.D., developed a com plicated geometrical method of in terpreting the routine CT scan re sults.The method allows doctors to determine the precise, rather than approximate, location of a lesion. Wise, in a report to a Western Neurological Society meeting in Pebble Beach, said the new proce dure would aid hundreds of patients who undergo brain surgery annually at Mount Zion. United Press International fforttogK USTIN — Texas oil wells pro- >urse certi : one third of the nation’s oil, itate Insui they also spew out increasingly me 10 per : volumes of noxious brine that to cyclistu p say is turning some West s is affoii Is lakes into death traps for mig- plete dri« ly birds and contaminating un- Iround water supplies in many Price, _ e problem is graphically illus- at a desolate salt lake three |s southwest of Frankel City in wsCounty where the U.S. In- r Department contends oil anies are violating the Migrat- Bird Treaty Act by failing to inate hazardous substances oilfield wastes. Bie Texas Railroad Commission the cr tjjMe state agency with regulatory rd, insl te structui ational >sts for t it. It’s I nt of drill said of tbl 2 riding la authority over petroleum producing operations — will hold a hearing Oct. 26 on the condition of Whalen Lake. The 300-acre body of water is lined with an ugly black ring of oil sludge two to four inches thick, ac cording to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials. Brine laced with oil and grease from 900 produc ing wells is dumped into the lake at the rate of 200,000 barrels a month. Environmentalists, skeptical state officials will do anything, are con sidering filing suit to force a clean up before peak migratory season brings 500,000 to 1 million birds through West Texas. Railroad Commission officials ex press doubts the “monstrous” clean-up job needed at the lake is a motora /oid emw n emergi n how to e, how low to rail ithout spi s u ranee rd look al ore than wedish poll finds )w reading skills United Press International , jSTOCKHOLM, Sweden — One million Swedes cannot read or e re t U J 0( "l 6 we M en ough to cope with Sweden’s red tape bureaucracy, ac- y J us Jrding to a university study of literacy among adults and students. . I . Every year 20 percent of ninth-grade school students leave with a , erS .j, j !SS ^ an the reading ability required at the sixth grade. They don’t ave the minimum reading ability required to function in society,” lid Eve Malmquist, who headed the investigation. In a literacy test using three standard forms from the health insur- n Hi "^ department and the post office, 83 percent of Swedes of all ages -^Keliy v n0t un derstand the words used. It s not a question of illiteracy in the usual sense of the word — eople can read the spelling of the words but they don’t understand at they mean,” Ulla-Britt Persson, another member of the literacy r °ject, said Monday. The study blamed the Swedish school system for failing to help ' en ts who are bad readers. tudents are uneasy, they go from one classroom to the next and on ” ave t ^ le sar ne teacher for very long, and Swedish language “den!® 1 *” 8 t0 ° gely to olinsons is automi driver’s at went to — man! the street instfl istructe the miili lot 01 b« itional has a the Ci have* mp ca but hash comp 1 .sing wo sch tents; ctorf" ed a‘ y ag 01 ago, g is u| m sai ( T worth preventing the deaths of a few hundred birds. “The commission doesn’t have any jurisdiction over birds,” said Phillip R. Russell, director of RRC field operations. “The commission never had any idea that they were supposed to protect birds or wild oxen or billy goats.” Richard C. Endress of San Angelo, a special agent with the In terior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Servie, took evidence of repeated bird kills at the lake to a federal grand jury last year. “It’s a classic problem,” Endress said. “What is the value of a few migratory birds? Are they vauable enough to cause all these problems for the oil industry or energy pro duction? I fall back on the law. The law says that it is.” The grand jury and federal pro secutors deferred action for the Railroad Commission to consider the situation. The state agency held a hearing in April 1977 and gave Whalen Corp. of Dallas, a subsidiary of Triton Oil and Gas, and other oil companies dumping brine in the lake one year to clean up the problem. Railroad Commission officials say conditions have improved in the past 18 months, but current tests indicate discharges into the lake still contain more than double the mount of oil and grease mixed in the brine that the state agency considers acceptable. “We just told them the other day they were going to have to do bet ter,” Russell said. The Railroad Commission, unlike other state agencies charged with pollution control, does not set specific standards for operators to meet in eliminating contaminants from waste discharges. “It’s against Texas Railroad Commission regulations to place hydrocarbons in open pits; it’s a waste of natural resources. But it’s being done,” Endress said. Russell, however, said “There’s no real law on it (amount of hyd- roparbops allowed in brine dis charges). We have a sort of unwrit ten rule of 20 parts per million. It’s acceptable to have 20 ppm oil and grease and that’s just about as good as you can do. “That much you can’t even see. You’ve probably got that much (oil) in some of the water that you'drink. To skim it any more than that would take forever. We really say no oil and grease but 20 ppm is accepta ble.” Russell said samples taken during a recent visit indicated the brine at two Whalen discharge points into the lake had 46.9 and 51.8 ppm oil and grease. Discharge from a Phil lips Petroleum Co. pipeline was analyzed at 57.9 ppm oil and grease. At last year’s hearing, oil com pany experts’ reports on oil and grease content of brine discharged into Whalen ran as high as 115 ppm. Discharge samples, however, do not indicate the oil and grease con tent in the lake where evaporation concentrates waste residues. “After you put water in a playa lake for 10 years, even if it’s only 1 ppm (oil and grease), it will proba bly accumulate somewhere. It won’t go away. It won’t disperse. That’s what happened at Whalen Lake,” Russell said. Playa lakes, natural depressions in the ground that are drainage col lection points for the surrounding countryside, have a high salt con tent ordinarily. Industry experts reported the lake was six times as salty as sea water before the brine-dumping began in 1967. Disco Shirts ON SALE! Now Only $999 Guy’s Fashion Pants Now $1499 Sale runs through Saturday, Oct. 14 Free Pregnancy Testing Pregnancy Terminations West Loop Clinic 2909 West Loop South 610 Houston, Texas 622-2170 co o o o o o 0 o o 6 8 o 0 o o o b 6 o 0 CN-75- HNAL SOLUTIONS for instant help CHEMISTRY, FOREIGN LANGUAGES, ECONOMICS BIOLOGY, ENGLISH, PHYSICS AND MORE CUFFS KEYNOTE Reviews... are the painless way to help you through difficult subjects in a orry. Self-tests let you pinpoint where you need help the most... lead you right to the basic acts and additional information you need to shore up your weak areas Make every minute count —get the Keynote you need for efficient, profitable review. Available for 24 subjects. 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