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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1979 Turkey price still a bargain United Press International WASHINGTON — With the price of almost everything going up, turkeys are a relative bargain this Thanksgiving holiday sea son. American turkey growers pro duced a record crop this year, expected to total 158 million birds, 13 percent more than they produced last year. Retail prices for turkeys are about the same or lower than last year s prices. Consumers, facing high beef prices, have turned to pork and poultry. Americans are eating cut-up turkey parts and cured turkey products such as turkey franks and turkey hams. “The American public is look ing at turkey as an everyday meal, ” said G. L. Walts of the National Turkey Federation. He said consumers are buying tur key because it is high in protein and low in fat and cholesterol. Pork and chicken producers responded to consumer demand with so much production that they are losing money, but Walts said turkey producers are still making a profit and “the con sumers getting a bargain.” Groceries are able to sell tur keys for less this year even though middlemen and retailers’ costs have gone up 12 or 13 per cent, he said. New offshore oilfield explom rn\ntyiri■ n-n m tyrm i n n n n n n ; n n trn nyn and Turkey cVa^ Turkey breast, sliced and served on your choice of bread and served with potato salad and pickle spear. And, whole cranberry sauce of course. In November, featuring Swensen’s Ice Cream Pumpkin Pie. $4 Value 693-6948 SWENSEN*S Culpepper Plaza ^000^ Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. C P f ♦ J Each Daily Special Only $1.99 Plus Tax. lateteria^^ “Open Daily” Dining:11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.—4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak w/cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea _ THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner (ti ml SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE (~TRR~) Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad Lj^s^J Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w/TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Yankee Pot Roast (Texas Style) Tossed Salad Mashed Potato w/ gravy Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable MSC TOWN HALL present Mon., November 26 8:15 p.m. Rudder Auditoriui Zone I Zone II Zone III for more info, call 845-2916 United Press International ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. — Recent strikes by deep water drilling rigs have industry analysts optimistic that several “middle-sized reser voirs” of natural gas exist in the Balti more Canyon off New Jersey. It is a far cry from the bullish pre dictions that marked early explora tion, but in a nation looking for new domestic resources, a renewed effort in waters 100 miles from the Atlantic City Boardwalk is encouraging for the oilmen. Unfortunately, geologists warn, the new finds are in deep waters above geological zones so twisted by shifts and upheavals that the possi bility of finding large reservoirs has been significantly decreased. When the rigs first went into the canyon area, drilling was concen trated in the relatively shallow wa ters of the Continental Shelf where, geologists hoped, the so-called Balti more Dome would hold a large re servoir of oil and natural gas. But repeated failures sent several major companies packing. “A lot of people feel that area is condemned now, ” said Frank Basile, regional manager of the Bureau of Land Management. But now Texaco and Tenneco, drilling on adjacent tracts off the Continental Shelf to depths below 13,000 feet, have made four recent natural gas discoveries. In a chorus, spokesmen for the oil companies are calling the results “encouraging. ” But they caution that the finds now produce only about 40 million cubic feet of natural gas daily — far short of the 200 million cubic feet needed to turn a profit. A spokesman for Texaco, current ly the only company drilling in the Canyon area, said the company plans to move its rig north to determine the extent of its find. Basile said it appears Texaco and Tenneco have discovered at least a small reservoir but neither company will speculate beyond that. Charles Maxwell, an energy analyst for Cyrus Lawrence Inc., a New York investment analyst group, said, “It is a game of intelligent gues ses, but I think someone out there will make a middle-sized commer cial find.” Maxwell said the depth of the Tex- aco-Tenneco discoveries indicate that commercial finds will be gas, not oil, because oil rarely exists in deep zones because of pressure and high temperatures. So far, the only oil found in the Baltimore Canyon has been crude from a 3-foot zone at the 8,322-foot level in a Tenneco well. In all, the U.S. GeologicalSu estimates there is some 4.1 cubic feet of natural gas and! lion barrels of recoverable oil area. The USGS has also estiir that as much as 15 millionba oil may be hidden in the “\’tl Reef,” an untested formationi 140 miles from New Jersey. Caffeine cause of birth defects? Unite* WASHIN ices so hi; 'eminent pi jhether sai ely replac |els in tin iarine. The Unit with the ide of sail. Both Hso are stu least in part wind. (The U.S. tion, which United Press International WASHINGTON — Thousands of babies may be bom deforme each year because their mothers drank as many as five cups ofcaffe»| filled coffee a day during pregnancy, a consumer group chargf Saturday. The Center for Science in the Public Interest said the safest adv for doctors to give expectant mothers is to swear off coffee, tea an ] other beverages containing caffeine. 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Unite* f STERLIb tribunal dec ly try in a c feminist on tainpaign f ■nendmeni church and ne.” Sonia Job prmon a peared [shops’ con bat she sail ssion. It ies of eve d been in out of the c IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND ALTERATIONS DON’T GIVE UP — WE LL MAKE IT FIT!" AT WELCH'S CLEANERS. WE NOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE SPE CIALIZE IN ALTERING HARD TO FIT EVENING DRESSES, TAPERED SHIRTS, JEAN HEMS, WATCH POCKETS, ETC. (WE RE JUST A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF FED MART.) WELCH’S CLEANERS 3819 E. 29th (TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER^ MEN-WOMEN Good pay for 16 hours a month, and 2 weeks Annual Training. “Controllable factors in our environment — including foods, drum Following and pollutants — may account for a significant number of these k tsaul she was dreds of thousands of individual tragedies,” he said. Bent may b Some health groups also have suggested a warning he putonalcobBjohnson c lie beverage bottles because heavy drinking by expectant mothersc: to go befon cause birth defects, a phenomenon which has been documented j late Friday recent government poll showed most women of childbearing ageauRs to appe aware drinking can harm a fetus. Bo soon, sin The caffeine petition, which cited several animal studies implicafeBther witm the substance as a cause of cleft palate, missing toes and fingers arddetense. other birth defects, said 23 percent of all Americans who drink coffeiKAfter the — including pregnant women — consume five or more cups a day By, Johnso and said the |ew type of ission. She said Ion the chur Essential church’s fe< Fossil of ‘camelops’ I found in Albuquerqm* United Press International ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A nearly complete skeleton of a camel like animal that roamed the South west at least 12,000 years ago has been found in a gravel pit in the northern part of the city. Keith Rigby, district paleontolog ist for the Bureau of Land Manage ment, said the first bones of the OVk- foot-tall, 9-foot-long herbivore, known as a camelops hestemue, were uncovered by construction workers last April. Rigby, Mike O’Neill of the Uni versity of New Mexico Physical Anthropology Laboratory and volun teers then found all but about sis the animal’s hones at the site. L _ “As far as we know, it is the* f ii f\-| complete fossil (of a camelops Ip vi L# 1 North America and probably 1 | • world,” Rigby said Friday duni|Q 1C €1 showing of the reconstnidB* animal. He said the camelops, believed be a female, was about a year when it died. 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