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r ** i rit- 0/“» I l ML.IVJ'I'V MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1978 We Buy All Books! WE NEED TWICE AS MANY USED v BOOKS BECAUSE OF OUR NEW STORE IN CULPEPPER PLAZA! Bring your out-of-date books, with your new books & we’ll make you an offer on all your books (including paperbooks). UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE Now 2 Locations NORTHGATE and CULPEPPER PLAZA Khan’s bail hearing today United Press International NEW YORK— Masood Khan, the perhaps-rich Pakistani with a habit of giving out big checks and then stopping payment, spent the weekend in jail awaiting a bail hear ing today. FBI agents arrested Khan Friday when he showed up at a Manhattan police station complaining he had been threatened by four men who recognized him from newspaper stories and asked for a million dollar check. Khan got a lot of publicity last month for his activities in Dallas. First he went on a buying binge, then wrote large checks for a wait ress and contestants in a dance con test he organized in a local disco. He later stopped payment on the checks, although he claimed he was rich and there were at least some confirmations of his wealth. Russian Flu Study Volunteers . .. $ 3 Illness Report Come to one of these places to com plete a brief questionnaire. (Post cards are not ready.) Friday, Dec. 8 Health Center, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Commons, MSC, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11 Health Center, MSC, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Commons, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Corps Lounge D, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12 Health Center, MSC, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Commons, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. United CRAPEV 'ays Conct J own | jng champ; Jheers from the mamr Lgional Aii Ln is expe jncl from Ei Motorists ie airport, igned for Professor up late preparing final? At least one professor has to burn the midnight oil as the semester comes to an end. The second floor office light in the TEXAS ACCIE5 Aggie Plaques Finished 12.95 Unfinished 2.00 Bookends Finished 17.50 Unfinished 3.50 Aggie Umbrella $10.SO See us for all your craft and gift needs Gift-A-Rama Redmond Terrace Shopping Center What does CHRISTMAS mean? ATTENTION GRADUATING SENIORS IF YOU HAVE ORDERED A 1979 AGGIELAND, PLEASE STOP BY THE STUDENT PUBLI CATIONS OFFICE, ROOM 216 REED MCDONALD, AND PAY A $2.00 MAILING FEE ALONG WITH YOUR FORWARDING AD DRESS SO YOUR AGGIELAND CAN BE MAILED TO YOU NEXT FALL WHEN THEY ARRIVE. to a lonely man ... a meal. Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $1.69 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. —4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. CASH FOR USED BOOKS Of Army Lou is paying cash for your used books right now. USED BOOK HDQRS LOUPOT’S BOOKSTORE Northgate - Across from the Post Office 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 8 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 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 Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - I Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable HAMitTiAN OAKS APARTMENTS t • o . “ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED” Furnished & Unfurnished Efficiency, 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments No Escalation Clause or Fuel Adjustment Charge Professional Maintenance Staff (24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE) Two Beautiful Swimming Pools Tennis Courts Party/Meeting Room with Sundeck Health Spas, including Saunas for Men & Women Three Laundry Rooms On Shuttlebus Route Rental office open Monday through Friday 9-5 Saturday 10-5 Sunday 2-5 693-1110 1501 Hwy. 30 693-1011 j Systems Building indicates a professor at work. Battalion photo by Mike St® Space idea dries crops ST. LOUIS United Press International [esig irtjets, as i (ofthe sk; second a] More or ;ainst the ; iproximate the Bran ie arrival ( ft in a s< ights befor egin. Bran iff v omestic air rde unde i tent with 1 'ranee, on mment api fficials sai( head later incorde s nd Europe A Conct )F\V five \ ion cerem icility, bu Space technology has come hack to earth toM til!drew g e onlool Iraniff tern' J er fuselage nto the lor It looks 3 prey, e; Dallas, oung obse: farmers dry delicate crops more efficiently so they can sella quality product. McDonnell Douglas Corp. developed a new microwave vacai system being tested by the Department of Agriculture in a sm} scale facility at Tifton, Ga. The system, known as MIVAC, was., in large vacuum chambers the aerospace firm used in the spacer gram. Water could cause a problem in space, explained Howard F McKinney, who turned his attention in McDonnell's laboratom from the launching pad to the grain terminal in directing develii fT®-. , ment oi Mix \< J[ QW "This drying process is seen as removing an ingredient thatjn don't want water,” McKinney said. "When you think of 14 # w.i\ you get into the space applications. Hj V “When a spacecraft is exposed to the vacuum of space and the! ^ ^ of the sun. you don’t want any residue to result. When you'redms Unite< material such as crops, you’re removing water because it shortensi McCAU I storage life of crops, just as y ou're removing residue from ill aved frien spacecraft.” ] iried the I The first application of the microwave vacuum drying tedmkji udents kill came when McDonnell Douglas helped rescue millions of militii schoolbus records damaged in a fire at the Military Records Center in St. Loa uck, four County several years ago. naciously ispitals. "When you're drying, material such as crops, youreremm The grin water because it shortens the storage life of crops, jmh ° • e ” " you're removing residue from the sjuicecraft, Hoicordl ^ in JJ" McKinney said. ' ' j 0 i ita Pe*,^ ie Sylvest I hen company officials directed the technology to other ara '^ es sout XVith the space program winding down, McDonnell Douglaswaata immunit to diversify, and with the energy crisis looming, the firm wanted! ; neduled help conserve fossil fuel. r Bonnie The tests began in a small microwave oven, then to the vao® ln ; and Bi chambers. It resulted in the current test facility which can dry sew A spokes bushels an hour, a capacity that McKinney said can be expanded! 'charge 1,000 bushels an hour. Testing currenth is scheduled to run throuji era ' s vv< next vear. ! pughout the mou McKinney said MIVAC uses electricity rather than fossil W Meanwh works more quickly and quietly and results in crops that are M ospital ii damaged by' the high temperatures needed in conventional dryers sted 15-y< I he vacuum lowers the boiling point of water and makes itpossik hoofs foo to dry the crops at more moderate temperatures, he said. The a ilconditir crowaves penetrate to dry the crops evenly from the inside out. Tami: Current dryers use temperatures of more than 200 degree! mong th Fahrenheit which result in stress cracking of many grains, Mcft lemoral I ney said. "The vacuum dryer has a temperature between 100 and 111 bilene he degrees.” ell, 30, t In big-money hut dedicate creips such as peanuts and rice,4 itical and difference of having MIVAC means more money for the fanner Rice may ge> through a conventional dryer as many as seven Hi te) keep the temperatures le>w enough and get out as little moisturen possible in any one pass, McKinney said. With MIVAC we can remove all the moisture in a single pass have it come out as dry rice. Even if MIVAC contributed nothing# the quality itself, eliminating the handling of the rice all those Him 1 makes the crop better.” technology” tk# ^ool s b McKinney called MIVAC a “completely new levnuy.-n; ^ should take over most drying within 20 years. 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