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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1979 Page 3 WS ew report i smoking— ill harmful tOOCl United Press International HARLOTTE, N.C. — A new e facility (eon general s report on smoking say the Use released today will make an he existijj stronger case against smoking f inclemec did the 1964 report, according veterinarEYV Secretary Joseph Califano. vill featuiitlifano told The Charlotte Ob- ipreviousser s Washington bureau al trainintday that he woidd not disclose lapata Waiiitpings until Thursday but said limal clinic!,lOO-page document will have la! impact. le 1964 report concluded ciga- i j ji Imoking was hazardous to hland to warnings on eiga- packages and a ban on ciga- groups an advertising on television, ing Cadets think * : ^ e evidence and tests ts may m research results in this report rst wed urn it into a global document, msic officeP#> told The Observer. “There lexer been a report this com- ensive. Kfaid the new report will ad- 6S SCi' topics not included in the first it, such as women who smoke who exp t he effects of smoking in certain lester n)uJ»ttings. It also reviews scien- in Feb research over the past 15 years, i is for tl’.Uy Year gin, managing director he RjchaijBpcntivc secretary-treasurer of , registr Tobacco Growers’ Information iredfon n |ttee Inc., said Monday the ite Collep nation Ewill contain no new informa- of significance. his report will say basically the thing as the 1964 surgeon gen- i report, only Mr. Califano will t in a different manner,” Year- aid. argin plans to be in Washing- ike curled >f 50-I s b e' ie f areas en bodieg e (] it coverr d through “hot spots,” or :tures in the surface. “It appears Mars has vast areas of frozen :r in the subsurface,” he said, ending such permafrost could ; been released by hot spots in subsurface, causing the ice' to o Bryant locally. ;old anC e said the water could have yjU be 4£ n trapped in a pressurized Jr. and a meteor or some other ill be fat day. snt event could have ruptured Ei ^nation e Congress surface and allowed water to i out under intense pressure. 'f the Martian atmosphere were lin as it is today, then probably water could not be sustained as a 'ing flow in the surface very Baker said. “But the very low perature on Mars would cause it eeze even before it could evapo- . So probably the water was jyo’ing with a layer of ice on the Lj Z ace, scouring at its base.” - Andy"f e sa ' t f the ice could have re- .Daviibed to the subsurface, or evapo- j am ied into the Martian atmosphere Ste 1 eventually returned to the sur- .Debbie h as snow. “Some of it may be in polar areas of Mars today,” he cren Roger, ziott Peniaker concedes his theory is con- ■ichelle Sf’ersial, but said theories that the _ee Roy Ninels were formed by volcanic »ne or winds have defects. He said _ . .Doug ^ugh many of the features of the • • •Edfn ne j s C ould be individually ex ited by other hypothesis, “only 0,1 'idea of catastrophic flooding can ^junt for the entire assemblage of ures in the channels.” H«M-/W l , ;i ker will present his conclusions -iti’d by y (X) other scientists at the Second - m7(/m' ll< m,ational Colloquium on Mars -’(I fa/Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 15-18. Folk cures suggest cancer remedies Dark, ancient folk cure rituals may hold the key for treatment of some cancers. Chemist A. Ian Scott of Texas A&M University says centuries-old formulas passed down through word-of-mouth have given modern scientists a good lead on plants that can help fight tumors. Although documentation is next to nil, reported conversations with folk curists and some tales of healing have been enough to suggest to Scott and his colleagues that these plant life remedies may have been successful in treating cancer. Scott is now conducting basic studies with periwinkle from Jamaica and a few Ethiopian plants to see what process accounts for antitumor properties. In addition, he hopes to discover what changes in the process or alteration in the enzymes can increase production of such anticancer solutions, possibly as a basis for cancer drugs. Even so, the search is just beginning. “Only about 2 percent of all the plants in the world have been examined for this antitumor potential, explains Scott. He thinks the invisible world of microorganisms may also have some anticancer enzyme producers, and the National Institute of Health has recently awarded Scott a grant, part of which is earmarked for exploring the possibility. Initial phase of the $169,999 NIH grant, however, is to conduct basic research into antibiotics produced by the penicillin family. Through fermentation, Scott is trying to unravel the methods by which penicillin is made. Our work is not to improve the process with an eye toward boost ing production, but rather to find out the basic techniques through which it is formed,” he notes. “Logically, then, we could improve or modify the kinds of penicillin produced if we knew and could control the mechanism responsible. Houston’s boom may end in bust; prof urges planning improvements Houston’s boom town days could go bust if measures aren’t taken soon, an urban and regional plan ning expert warns. The 1,000 or so people that move into the city each week could just as easily reverse the process and start a mass exodus out, taking business and industry with them, said Dr. Wolfgang Roeseler, head of Texas A&M University’s Urban and Re gional Planning Department. Roeseler believes Houston should be concerned about its future for a number of reasons. “Houston can easily slip into the pattern of New York City and De troit and become unmanageable, said Roeseler. “After a city becomes unmanage able, business gets fed up and leaves. When business goes, the people go with it, he continued. “Most people either get wiped out in the process or walk away when this happens. They seldom come back.” The planning consultant cited the constant breakdown of city services and the unwise development of sub sidence areas as other areas of con cern for Houston. “Obviously, the city should take the lead and say to developers: ‘We are here to give you the best re search available and to prevent these type of things from happen ing. Because if we don’t, you’re going to pay high taxes anyway. “One way of curbing high taxes is by making sure we don’t do ill- advised things that cause us to make costly repairs,” he added, “not by firing 10 policemen.” Roeseler said that having to repair major mistakes in planning judg ment is just one example of how Houston “chases its own tail. One of the ways the city could use its liabilities to an advantage is by building natural drainage ways into the city architecture. “Here are all of these experienced people and all of their know-how, and yet they make decisions that re sult in a building that isn’t operative when it rains for an hour,” he re lated. “Don’t they have anyone who tells them about these problems be fore they build?” Houston s current crop of prob lems are about the worst of all the cities in the United States, Roeseler believes. But, in spite of its prob lems, people find the city is a very nice place to live. “People are discovering that the inner city doesn’t have to be an ugly monstrosity,” he said. “They are going to have to give up some things, however, when they move. “Multifamily structures are in evitable,” he emphasized. Roeseler predicted the present four to six family dwellings per acre soon will be replaced by 10 or 12 family dwell ings per acre. “We will do this by building more townhouses, cluster homes and utilizing things which are really not that traumatic for people to accept, Roeseler added. With multifamily structures, some costs could be lowered, the noted. The most expensive part of preparing undeveloped land for ur banization is construction of urban systems: roads, water and sewer lines, and electrical distribution sys tems. “The future of Houston, as it stands now, is somewhat sad, be cause things will get worse, he predicted, “and when they do, people will get frustrated and alien ated and begin walking away. Auction for KAMU organizing today A special meeting for persons interested in serving as “go-getters ’ for the April 1-3 auction to benefit KAMU, Texas A&M University’s educational and public broadcasting network, has been scheduled for 8 p. m. today at the station. The purpose of the auction, the first of its kind for the station, will be to sell items or services that have been donated by area merchants and apply the revenues from those sales to the operation of KAMU. “Go-getters are volunteers who help to make an auction suc cessful,” according to Jean Herbert-Wiesenburg, development and promotion coordinator for the station. At the first ,stages, they will make either telephone or personal contact with merchants throughout Bryan and College Station and the Brazos Valley concerning donations for the auction, she says. Merchants have already received a brochure concerning the auction. Later on, she explains, the go-getters will collect the merchandise to be auctioned, label it for identification and assist in avariety of other ways. Anyone interested in serving as a go-getter should attend the Wednesday meeting at the station, located in the Joe Hiram Moore Communications Center, or contact Wiesenburg at 845-5611. at mm ijituio iaj iin >▼< ,)n M ), | or re l ease of the report. annual res -. ement nked 18tt| 1 1 " floods caused i 411. Rk: •est rankcT * 1 * lars canals, T prof says United Press International JSTIN — The Martian land- Jnnce was subject to rushing [waters much more severe than OtlUllj- on Earth, giving the planet its jraeristic valley-like formations, isiness Ailversity of Texas geologist says, ise ofdaiil Victor Baker, a guest inves- 'ould makor for the National Aeronautics i the SBA Space Administration who has tertyowne® photographs taken of the he storm,1 surface by the Viking the Greenfcnift, said the floods ravaged e time, anS during a considerable period leavyice K’ planet’s history millions of s ago leaving the channels, h science fiction writers have [sized as canals. iker said the floods lasted only a Hys at a time but often surged flows of up to millions of cubic gpr second — far greater than ige Earth floods. ■said the resulting channels '111 ' n s * ze f rom tbe s cale of streams imense features that are com- , j\ beyond the scale of any on irter plaroj deliverii.y j mmense I mean that they ” e u i! * n great chasms that are a when li | e of kilometers deep and sev- ill on Jan hundred kilometers wide,” he ion twooiB vered the * 1 — iker said Mars apparently vast areas of ice under its ace and the floodwaters d have escaped through “hot s, or punctures in the sur- lil'iPV 16 Viking spacecraft that circled ” 5 for two and a half years sent . pictures of the channels that 1 1 ul 1 r thousands of miles on the < in oiie' et s sur f ace Forms within the 1 t-n e Wls indicate they were cut or hurled i )S j tec j j^y a rapidly flowing liquid as water, Baker said, iker said Mars apparently has of ice under its surface floodwaters could have es- WICKER-LOOK FASHIONS Light and airy wicker-look vinyl brings new charm wherever it is used. 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