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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1979)
Media may cause shortage of fuel, Clements charges United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Cle ments said Monday he does not believe there will be another gasoline shortage this fall if the news media will quit talking about the prospect. “We have no reason to believe we re going to have a gasoline shortage in Texas,” Clements told an impromptu news confer ence. Clements said he has given no consideration to re-imposing odd-even day purchase restric tions or a $6 minimum purchase requirement. “If you just keep talking about it I’m sure everybody will start topping off their tanks again,” he complained to reporters. Clements also said he is not prepared to propose any further increase in the Texas ceiling on home mortgage interest — even though the legal limit is less than the current prime rate na tionally. “I as governor and I as an indi vidual am strongly of the opinion that these high interest rates are not in the best interest of our state or our nation,” Clements said. “I know that these high interest rates that we now are faced with are causing enormous problems.” Clements said he believes in flation can be countered more ef fectively by changing margin re quirements tor stock purchases or the amount of downpayment required on home mortgages. Nuclear plant hearings start United Press Internationa] HOUSTON — A three-member federal board Monday began the latest in a series of public hearings on Houston Lighting and Power Co.’s proposed nuclear electric generating plant at Allen’s Creek 25 miles west of Houston. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will decide after the hearing which opponents and sup porters of the facility can present arguments at a construction-license hearing. Some 60 persons or groups have petitioned for intervenor status. Among the groups are organizations calling themselves the Allen’s Creek Intervenors and the Mockingbird Alliance. Graham Painter, a spokesman for HL&P, suggested opponents have caused unnecessary delays in Allen’s Creek, which is expected to cost more than $1 billion and generate 1,200 megawatts of electric ity. Allen’s Creek was to be built 25 miles west of Houston. HL&P also is a partner in the South Texas Nuclear Project being built near Bay City. “If we could bum the paper work, we could make a pretty substan tial energy contribution,” Painter said. “There’s been tons of paper going back and forth. We estimate that for each year the plant doesn’t open in the ’80’s, it will cost customers $200 million (because of rising costs).” The Mockingbird Alliance distributed a statement disputing Paint er’s assessment. “The Mockingbird Alliance contends that the real obstructionists here today are HL&P and the NRC, the statement said. “They are trying to obstruct a fair and complete consideration of many of the most important issues on the public’s mind.” Town transcends dental medication DON’T GAMBLE ON THE BIGGEST FILL-IN-THE-BLANK OF ALL: When a resume/application picture is called for, use our professional glossy service. 6 PRINTS — $11.95 FAST 3-DAY SERVICE University Studio Northgate 846-8019 ib RiJiAU) kt-rt ^>«u»oM-> WxlltUJ&LAN. U»ll b*- 4 00 *-- Special Introductory Rate: Order 10 Copies and get 5 free!!! •etPetL too&r vdcowv-10 p»A f*c t FAST 29th STREET WAREHOUSE 3715 EAST Z^tk SIRLET (7li) -4.171 T0WM ? COUNTRY CENTER County’s water helps prevents caviti United Press International DALLAS — Dentists recom mend that if you’re ever in Deaf Smith County, do, by all means, drink the water. Forty years ago two dentists in Hereford, Deaf Smith’s county seat, realized there was virtually no tooth decay among longtime residents and newcomers to the area developed greater immunity to cavities. It was the water. And at a weekend convention of dental assis tants, a jug of water from Deaf Smith County, regarded as the “Plymouth Rock of Fluoridation,” was among the honorees. As Hereford was building its reputation as the “town without a toothache,” the state’s director of dental health. Dr. Edward Taylor, was notified and a random study was undertaken immediately. The cross-section survey failed to turn up a single filling in the mouths of those who all their lives had drunk water from the windmill wells, which contained approxi mately 2 parts per million of fluoride. But those living in areas where the water contained much more fluoride — about 6 parts per million — had dark, mottled teeth with im perfect enamel and much more de cay. That led to more studies and a 1942 article in the Journal of the American Dental Association where Taylor concluded a high degree of immunity to cavities could be de veloped with a combination of fluorides, phosphorus, calcium, vitamin D and "possibly other fee- tors in the food and water intake.” Taylor said “in the neighborhood” of 2 parts per million of flouride was necessary to protect teeth from decay without causing mottling. He said vegetables grown in the area, irrigated from the windmill wells, along with the milk and meat from cattle and the flour ground in Deaf Smith County were additional sources of calcium and phosphorus necessary to build and maintain tooth tissues. brate our 55th year as an or; tion, believe it should be and remembered,” she said. “The role played by this Texas Panhandle town and county in the improvement of dental health has been largely forgotten by dentists and the public alike,” said Lois Mazzucchi of Santa Jose, Calif., and president of the American Dental Assistants Association. She said the convention ( gates, representing approxim 145,000 dental assistants, will toast Hereford, DeafSn; County “and the children wk decay-free, unmottled teeth ( lot to fluoridation." The water is being provided Fish D the aid of the Deaf Smith Coa Barton Chamber of Commerce. “But our members, as we cele- yvliieh ! She said proclamations and practic cial letters of congratulation f President Carter and a several ernors also would be presentai the meeting. Smuggling of 79 aliens alleged against man from Big Spring all. F re tb 01 From • High Quality ON THE DOUBLE United Press International EL PASO — A 29-year-old Big Spring man was arraigned Monday for allegedly attempting to smuggle 79 illegal Mexican aliens into the United States during the weekend for a $40,000 fee. Arraigned on eight felony counts of transporting illegal aliens was Thomas Kirkpatrick, a spokesman in U.S. Magistrate Harry Lee Hudspeth’s office said. Kirkpatrick, driver of a leased semi-trailer grain truck, was ar rested Saturday after U. S. 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C smuggling bust “in terms of dollar Inatior in the El Paso office’s history. an om Arrangements for the illegal tr le siti were made in Juarez, the Bori nan w Patrol said, and resulted in ill coin ft aliens traveling south about 20mil( xl Dr along the Rio Grande boundary t« ’? profe point where the group crossed lit is A&N the U.S. Late Friday, the group w tesear loaded on to the truck’s canvai me pa covered trailer, the Border Pate ndaw; said. each c Kirkpatrick was the lone oaujt e ' ^ vei in the truck’s cab as it approach s UIVU1 ! - 1 ise th the eastbound checkpoint nei Tyler, Texas S. College 846- Corner of College and North 6:00 P.M. Informal Dinner reservations only (Call 10-2:30 Mon., Wed., Fri. 696-7313 evenings call 845-31 77) 7:30 P.M. “Cults, What Do You Think?" HALF PRICE SAI Open to the Public Sierra Blanca, authorities said. Border Patrol officers asked tot en 11 spect the trailer of the grain haA we | e and found five juvenile females,! 161 H ' juvenile males, 10 women and: ' ss ^‘ l men packed inside the trailer, ak , | with provisions for the trip. 1 The truck and trailer, the Boii eui to Patrol said, were leased from Sac ders Leasing Systems ofLongvk ' 0 The seizure followed a simik toyed. cident earlier this year when BorijJsdton Patrol agents discovered a semitruck and trailer filled wil illegal aliens in a truck stop lot in El Paso. The driver of truck was not located, however )r the Foliage and Indoor Plants 2 In. Reg. 15c for 8c Pansies Calendula Joseph Coat 3 In. Reg. 75c for 40c Weeping Fig Jade Cactus Succulents Pepperomia Impatience Swedish Ivy Coleus Lantana Airplane Aloe Vera 4 In. Reg. $1.49 for 75 Jade Jew Grapevine Cordatum Ivy Devils Ivy Sanseveria 6 In. & 1 Gal. 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