THE BATTALION FRIDAY, JANURAY 19, 1979 Page 5 indry? Ie ' s do itfotj 1 F ranni e n dromat iiereon what’s up Friday 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). -LEAN )NDIII0! 9 81 mai MU ! S. Colli; il Eddie Don4, Joe Arts* lit m 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. K Hwy loocTs former aide .COL AC EC :NBt 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. DARK I p eace Lutheran Church A&M Consolidated H.S. Cafeteria (F.M. 2818-enter Welch St. side) 'AO 9:30 Fellowship and Study 10:45 Worship for all Informal fellowship, variety in music and worship: Classes for young adults & stu- dents: opportunities to become involved ^^ in ministry: Not far from the apartments in , the S.W. Parkway area. Join us this week, i. C0LLEC J 46-6635 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 ‘Bernie 1 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 Catfish & “Clyde” Chicken Have A Special For You ... anti-venom to reduce the severity of reaction. “There are people walking around today who have no idea they are al lergic to fire ants,” he says. “The problem is, for some unknown rea son, a person’s sensitivity will change from year to year. 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