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Page 12 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1979 what’s up Tuesday AGGIE PLAYERS: Tiyouts for “Three Penny Opera” will begin at 7 p.m. in Rudder Forum. The tryouts are open to everyone. Wednesday AGGIE CINEMA: “The African Queen,” starring Katherine Hep burn and Humphrey Bogart, will be shown at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. BASKETBALL: The men’s team will play Arkansas at 7:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. BASKETBALL: The women’s team will play Texas Southern Univer sity at 5:15 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Thursday FRESHMAN Zachry. AG SOCIETY: Will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 102, He entered farming by chance Top cattleman feeds ’em indoors MD says c-note cf tl United Press International CHOKIO, Minn. — Lauren Carlson, incoming president of the National Cattlemen’s Association, hadn’t planned to return to the farm after college. He studied plants and soils at the University of Minnesota, got a doctorate in plant pathology, taught for awhile at the university and worked as a specialist at a nursery. His studies included helping on the design of an indoor cattle fattening barn, something not done for beef animals, despite the cold weather in Minnesota. But in the mid-1960s, Carlson returned to western Minnesota and decided to gamble on a cattle feeding venture near Chokio. Now at 42, he will assume the presidency of the 310,000-member cattlemen’s group at its national convention Jan. 23-25 in Kansas City, Mo. “I grew up in this area and liked the country life,” Carlson said in an interview. “I never really figured on coming back to the farm.” Carlson and his wife, Barbara, have eight children, four boys rang ing in age from 11 to 20, and four girls, aged 4 to 18. All four boys, including one who attends a nearby college, help with managing a 375-head cattle feeding business and farming 320 acres. Carlson also has one hired hand. Carlson has a total of eight quarters of land or 1,280 acres, but 960 acres are leased to other farmers and he receives crops in exchange for rent. He concentrates his energies on buying, selling and feeding He dpesn t talk much about his academic achievements. Instead, he prefers to speak about the family farm or ranch and cautions others that the financial risks are high. The £>nly reason we are still in business is the inflated land val ues, Carlson said. “Borrowing on the inflated value of the land is probably the only way a lot of farmers can stay in business. “The farmer definitely has to become more aware of risk manage ment.’* Carlso n found that farming the land in western Minnesota in the mid-1960s failed to return the profits he hoped. He decided to borrow on the value of the land, built silos and a confined cattle feeding barn to fatten cattle indoors, just as he had studied at the university. Carl so n had a degree to fall back on in case his cattle feeding venture failed. He could run a nursery. We didn t have much moral support from neighbors,” Carlson said. “That’s true.” While other farmers were counting the days until his bankruptcy, Carlson vvas making profits on his indoor cattle feeding business, and even opened a plant nursery in nearby Morris. He said the indoor feeding has a lot of savings that are hard to prove on paper, but are obvious to the producer. Time savings is one, he said. It takes only a few minutes each day to feed the cattle using mechanical and electrical equipment. weaken Supe Doctors can now measure heart from the outside’ United Press International BOSTON — Doctors now can measure the size of the heart after an attack, thanks to a new, non- restrictive tool developed in the past decade, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Hospital have re ported. The cardiac team, headed by Dr. Leland W. Eaton, said measuring cardiac dilatation (enlarging of the heart) is called echocardiology. It is a “non-invasive” tool, meaning it can be done on the surface, without surgery or insertion of a catheter. An enlarged heart is dangerous because it decreases the muscle’s ef ficiency and requires more oxygen, and could result in further heart 2nd Anniversary 10% to 50% off Jan. 15th thru 20th ■ -'4^ •&* -AfF • 707 Texas damage. The doctors reported their find ings in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. The research team said studies of myocardial infractions, or heart at tacks, focus almost exclusively on limiting death of tissue around the heart. A myocardial infraction occurs when tissue around the heart is damaged, blocking the flow of blood and oxygen to the muscle. Doctors have always associated coronary thrombosis, a blood clot, with being the primary cause of infraction. However, a team of doctors from Italy reported in last month’s Jour nal the spasms from angina pectoris can sometimes become so severe they cut off the blood and oxygen supply without thrombosis. Beyond tissue damage, however, the article says 72 percent of Johns Hopkins’ patients who die within 30 days of infarction succumb to dilata tion of the affected area. By using echocardiology, the doc tors say, they can detect alterations in “cardiac topography” by examina tion of patients with heart attacks. They can diagnose the possibility of such an enlargement, they said. Dr. Bernadine H. Bulkley, one of the researchers, said echocardiog raphy is a tool now available which can measure the size and shape of the heart in two dimensions. “It doesn’t hurt,” she said. “It’s like an electrocardiogram in that re spect. You don’t have to cut, and it’s harmless.” The process follows structural changes in the days and weeks after a heart attack, and allows the study of a patient’s cardiac patterns. Unfortunately, said Dr. Bulkley, it does not encourage any treatment for an enlarged heart. “Maybe someday we can get into therapy,” she said. Blood Money Students participating in a flu vaccine study being conducted on campus by Baylor College Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. of Medicine researchers Monday were swap ping blood samples for up to $13 each. DOC ^>oc: UNIVERSITY iREFRIGERATORSl Citrusmen see Cuba as threat United Press Internatiwi NEW YORK — The irniicj ing technique described:,i John Diamond in his W| Behavioral Kinesiology” iijv M V m * Row): —Have the subject staira|| right arm relaxed at hissiM arm held out parallel to ^ImMIAMI —/ ellxiw straight. sull in Pasadei —Face the subject and p* s u per Bowl n left hand on bis right sli memorable am steady him. 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Besides the threat of resumed trade with Cuba, only 90 miles off the Florida coast, the industry also faces the possibility of reduced tariffs on frozen concentrated orange juice from Brazil, now the world’s second largest producer of oranges behind the United States. Either governmental action hinges on moves within the Carter administration. Lifting the Cuban embargo re- ^ -nw - XK quires only Carter’s signature on an executive order. The reduction in tariff's would be a result of negotia tions under way in Geneva. Flori da’s citrus organizations are lobby ing hard against both. Cuba’s citrus plantings have in creased tremendously during the years of the embargo, to the point where the island nation is about to overtake Japan as the third largest orange producer in the world. And, although President Fidel Castro has said the production is intended for Eastern European markets, Florida citrus men are leary. If the embargo is lifted, regu lations for the importation of citrus into this country from Cuba would revert back to pre-embargo standards which were set in 1902 and 1903 and would, in effect, mean no tariffs. Both Farmer and Tom Osborne, Mutual’s executive vice president, said lifting the embargo would open Florida to a wave of low priced cit rus. But even worse, they said, would be the potential threat from pests and diseases. “Every bug in the Caribbean is in Cuba,” Osborne said. “Cuba has a tropical climate and Florida has a warm climate so pests and diseases there would feel right at home here, zrxxcr There would have to be quarantines and controls and we don’t know if it could be policed.” “You can always come back from weather,” Farmer said, “but our groves could be wiped out by an unwanted pest.” Brazil’s orange industry surged ahead after freezes caused severe damage to Florida crops. Brazil has since become the largest exporter of frozen concentrated orange juice in the world, moving ahead of Florida. In fact, imports of Brazilian con centrate have increased from about 12 million gallons a year to almost 50 million gallons during the period from Dec. 1, 1977, until March 1979. That does not tell me our tariff is too high,” Farmer said. At the (tariff) rate it is now, when we have ample supply we have some protection. When supply is low it can imported and it keeps our prices from going too high and that the way a tariff should work,” he said. ixk: x»c Brazilian concentrate is blended with top quality Florida concen trate, but the finished product must meet stringent quality control standards imposed by the state xict : 'XK . ->tycz WE BUY 'EM, WE SELL 'EM! 20% OFF SHIRTS :x>c- || Mutual officials said Florida is ex pected to pack 167 million gallons of FCOJ this citrus season, while Brazil is expected to pack about 107 million gallons. Most of Florida’s production is marketed domesti cally. “We re competing strictly on quality,” Farmer said. “We can’t compete in prices. “We’ve got strong competition from Brazil,” he said. “Their indus try is built for exporting. It’s not fair competition. They get tax incentives from their government and no interest loans. “Free trade is wonderful,” he added, “but fair trade is needed.” McGee said lowering tariffs on Brazilian concentrate by 15 percent, the figure being batted around dur ing the tariff talks, would be disas- terous. “If they drop the tariff 15 percent, we re dead,” McGee said. “We will have turned our industry over to Brazil.” Mutual officials said the govern ment should take steps to protect all of agriculture from unfair outside competition. “Agriculture is the biggest single segment of the nation’s gross na tional product that contributes to a favorable balance of trade,’ Farmer said. “Lowering the tariffs would in crease the (trade) deficit.” j, THE PREY ■fes, the NFL “We’re going to be short ionship over tl net but we remember aftertwfjami. As a cr< freeze when prices went so Bowl Most Vali lost freezer space and it passing for 202 seven years to gain it l«(f: Super Bowls borne said. B same city. “We are trying to avoidamVith Sunday of that at all possible cost five Super Bov borne said. “The price ini been the site fo higher than it is now and" luperdome. L< tion I think it’s a good pricrwice in the Co Osborne said the projeclfflll was playe< of 167 million gallons of FOB season will be virtually the| NEXT YEAI the past season. vith the owner But, in an unusual situatwnmal meeting rusmen are not lookingm NFL spokes weather now so much withr isium, the Ros cold as they are to unusual r Seeking the 5 temperatures and dry' conditfiontiac, Mich “The trees are in a ccKingdome. Als< state,” Osborne said, “ferects a dome c wilting and some are blooimotel rooms, th crop is dry causing increased below normal sizing — P a g e , _ and probably a lower juice)ffl “We re back to fighli* weather, only it’s a different^ weather,” he said. ^ew me United Press Looking beyond the tariff and embargo questions. Mutual — which claims to represent more than 16,000 growers — looks for a good year for both the grower and the consumer. “We re going to have a good year for growers, and as for consumers, we think the price (of FCOJ) is going to stay stable,” Farmer said. MSC FREE UNIVERSITY IS LOOKING FOR INSTRUCTORS FOR THIS SEMESTER . When You Buy Or Sell Books! (Now Through January) DISCO DANCE GOURMET COOKING BIKE REPAIR JITTERBUG SPEED READING ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING HOW TO STUDY GUITAR “42” COSMETOLOGY PERSONAL FINANCE UNDERSTANDING THE STOCKMARKET AUTOMOBILE REPAIR YOGA cc _ S £ p < CU Z o o X 55 c/> CM CO 0) > 8 £ 0) o > Z fi O UNIVERSITY If you know of anyone interested in teaching one of the above courses or a course not mentioned contact: MSC Free U at 845-1515 ^^ /t©p L, Into the m/c »C Orange trees normally bio® ing March and April andiji^ losses could be encounteredO is a heavy early bloom, follo»® freeze. 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