THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JANURAY 19, 1979
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pAGIC SHOW TICJKETS: rickets for the Harry Blackstone Magic
Show are currently on sale in the MSC Box Office in Rudder
lower. Blackstone will bring his magical entourage to Rudder
Auditorium Feb. 7. MSG Box Office hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
\ Monday through Friday.
AGGIE CINEMA: The End, in which Burt Reynolds stars as a
dying man trying to hasten the inevitable along, will be shown at 8
p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. (R).
MIDNIGHT MOVIE: Shampoo, starring Warren Beatty, Julie
Christie,and Goldie Hawn in a brilliant sexual farce about the
| frantic life of an ambitious Hollywood hardresser, will be shown in
Rudder Theater. (R).
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Saturday
BASKETBALL: 1 he womens team will play Lamar University at
n 5:15 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
j'BASKE I BALL: I he men s team will play Texas Tech at 7:30 p.m. in
| G. Rollie White Coliseum.
AGGIE CINEMA: The End, starring Burt Reynolds, will be shown
I at 8 and 10 p.m. in Rudder Theater. (R).
MIDNIGHT MOVIE: Shampoo, starring Warren Beatty, Julie
Christie and Goldie Hawn, will be shown in Rudder Theater. (R).
EHILI AND PIE SUPPER: Will be served to the public at Bethel
I Lutheran Church 5-8 p.m. at Bethel Lutheran Church at East
| Lane and lexas Avenue in Bryan. Tickets may be purchased at the
I door — $2 for adults and $1 for children under 10. All proceeds
1 will go to purchase a van that will support church youth activities
| and members of the community.
Sunday
RHOIR PERFORMANCE: The TAMU Baptist Student Union
I Choir will sing at the First Baptist Church in College Station at 7
I p.m. in the church auditorium. The church is located at 200 Col-
I lege Main.
Monday
BASKETBALL: The women’s team will play The University of Texas
at Austin at 5:15 p.m.
BASKETBALL: The men’s team will play the University of Texas at
Austin at 7:30 p.m.
[ASSLE-FREE: Distribution will begin today. There will be a meet
ing and a party at 8 p.m.
|AMU SC.LIRA CLUB: Will discuss the upcoming film festival and
■ All-University night at 7:30 p.m. in Room 404, Rudder Tower.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The former
3p aide to Rep. Daniel Flood,
Pa., conceded to a federal jury
filrsday that he told House inves-
gators last fall he passed a $1,000
'ayoff to the congressman, although
|e actually kept it for himself.
Stephen Elko, the government’s
( lain witness at Flood’s 4-day-old
Ibery trial, was questioned by de
nse lawyers trying to convince the
iry Flood is being framed by his
inner assistant.
But asked by Kleiboemer if he
been telling the truth last fall.
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10:45 Worship for all
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Thousands of fire ants are being ‘milked’
A&M scientists working to cure sting
—changes his testimony
Texas A&M University re
searchers have begun milking
venom from thousands of imported
red fire ants in the first step toward
developing an anti-venom against
the sometimes killer ant.
A fire ant sting is painful and a
single sting could mean death to a
person allergic to the venom.
Dr. Brad Vinson, a Texas A&M
entomologist, and Dr. Barry Pauli,
an immunologist who has conducted
similar studies on honeybees at the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.,
began their work by obtaining blood
samples from allergic individuals
and pure venom from the red im
ported fire ants.
The human volunteers simply
give blood. Milking venom from a
fire ant is a bit more involved.
Vinson explains each ant must be
Counters fly
to take sixth
Soviet census
United Press International
MOSCOW — Using helicopters
to reach the remote parts of Russia,
600,000 census takers this week
began the U.S.S.R. s sixth census
since the 1917 revolution.
The answer to how many people
live in the Soviet Union — the pres
ent estimate is 261.2 million — will
help central economic planners de
cide on everything from the supply
of thumb tacks to the availability of
schoolrooms in the nation with the
world’s largest land area.
The Soviet news agency Tass de
scribed the census as a “momentary
snapshot of Soviet society, with
census takers using helicopters and
planes to count people in many
areas nearly inaccessible by road.
Politicians will lie watching the
results closely, since Soviet leaders
are worried by a steady decline in
population growth. The population
increase in 1960 was 17.8 per
thousand. But it fell to 9.2 per
thousand in 1970, and to 8.5 per
thousand by 1977.
Soviet leaders will also be observ
ing the growth rate in the five Cen
tral Asian republics, which account
for a quarter of the Soviet Union’s
population growth.
held in place by tweezers while a
small tube is attached to the tip of its
stinger and the venom milked
from the ant.
“Literally thousands of milkings
will have to be done to obtain
enough pure venom for tests with
human blood, says Vinson.
Pauli, who has a private practice
in the Bryan-College Station area,
handles the human aspects of the
study. He says volunteers are
needed to undergo a blood test
known as RAST, or radioallergosor-
hent test, to determine what aller-
gins are in the allergic individual s
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blood.
Pauli stresses that the volunteers
are not directly exposed to fire ant
stings, only their blood sample.
The scientists believe imported
fire ant venom includes proteins
that can send an allergic person into
shock. The reaction is known as
anaphylactic shock and can easily
lead to death.
“They can die so quickly that
often it is difficult to determine what
the cause of death was,” says
Vinson. “Essentially, what we want
to do is isolate and identify these
proteins and hopefully produce an
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Elko said: “I made a mistake.”
The former congressional aide,
who frowned and appeared nervous,
also said he destroyed some of
Flood’s files. That means there is no
record of many of the telephone
calls connected with the alleged
payoffs Elko accepted.
Elko was convicted in 1977 of tak
ing kickbacks in the West Coast
scheme and was sentenced to three
years in prison. His sentence was
reduced to two years when he began
cooperating with investigators pro
bing alleged payoffs to Flood.
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