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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1980
“Gramm calls for cut in federal
[ a ’spending to balance budget
By LAURA CORTEZ
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in nrnmmi, » ancecl antl th e only way to do this IS
f| cutting federal spending, Con-
iresented intgj.Lsman phil Gramm says,
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minationoftl,® e nc e) Gramm said that there is
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not lead to a balanced budget.
“We’ve come down to the sad state
of affairs whereby in order to balance
the budget, it’s not going to be suffi
cient to tell new people who want
something from the federal govern
ment ‘no’ — we’re going to have to go
back and look at the growth we’ve
built into existing programs and cut
A&M professor
receives grant
By MERIT EDWARDS
Campus Staff
Dr. John A. McIntyre, a Texas
A&M University physics professor,
has received a $208,762 grant from
the American Cancer Society — the
largest amount ever awarded to a
single Texas researcher by the ACS.
I The two-year grant, which began
Jan. 1, will be used for research in
the improvement of computer
assisted tomography (CAT) scan
ners.
A CAT scanner is a sophisticated
X-ray machine that produces precise
pictures of the body’s internal
organs. The CAT scanner inventors
won the 1979 Nobel Prize in physiol
ogy or medicine.
®’The CAT has revolutionized the
field of medicine,” McIntyre said.
“Pictures of slices through the live
human body can be obtained with
X-rays that are comparable to those
previously obtained by taking pic
tures of slices from human
cadavers.”
I McIntyre said he was awarded the
grant to work toward developing a
gamma ray CAT scanner that will
give pictures as sharp as an X-ray
scanner.
| “A CAT scanner using gamma rays
will give even better pictures once
perfected, McIntyre said. “X-ray
instruments determine only density
of the body, like showing the ribs,
Ihile the gamma rays determine the
l location of the radioactivity in the
body.
1 l^'So we can tag chemicals with
•adioactive atoms then inject them
into the bloodstream and trace their
progress. And we re able to see
where the malfunction occurs.”
McIntyre said the time factor in
detecting disease is important. He
said the motion of radioactive che
micals in the body will be affected by
the growth of a tumor, for example,
before the tumor has grown enough
to change significantly the density of
the body to where it will be visible by
X-ray.
“But gamma ray pictures are 10
times fuzzier than those with X-ray,”
he said. “So what we re trying to do is
get a clearer picture.”
McIntyre and graduate student
James Follin are testing ideas and
working on technical details on a
gamma ray model with the ultimate
goal of developing a CAT scanner
that uses radiocative chemicals in
stead of X-rays.
“We want to make sure, and so
does the Cancer Society, that our
ideas will work before investing a lot
of money in building a scanner,”
McIntyre said.
“M.D. Anderson Hospital in
Houston wants a model big enough
for a mouse when we re through.
That will be probably be about two
years from now.”
A physics professor from Baylor
University, Dr. Ken-Hsi Wang, will
join McIntyre in June as associate
research scientist to help construct
the gamma ray instrument for cancer
diagnosis. Wang, who will be in
volved with the research at Texas
A&M for 15 months, was a student of
McIntyre’s at Yale University in the
early 1960s.
some of these programs,” Gramm
said.
But he said he feels that there is a
realistic chance to balance the
budget this year because it is an elec
tion year and because inflation has
“flamed out of control.”
Gramm said he is working on a
bipartisan coalition, which he and
Congressman Dave Stockman of
Michigan established, to cut federal
spending, and it has already come up
with cuts that range between $15 bil
lion and $30 billion.
He said he is also working with
House Majority Leader Jim Wright
to change the rules of Congress in
order to force the government to
“live on a balanced budget like
everyone else.”
Gramm said that he and Wright
co-sponsored an amendment to man
date a balanced budget during
peacetime and to require Congress
to submit a balanced budget each
year. He said that if changes in the
economy occur in the middle of a
fiscal year and the budget moves out
of balance beyond congressional con
trol, the treasurer would be required
to report to the president an across-
the-board cut in all federal expendi
tures that would be necessary to
Book has home cures
for common ailments
nufi
By SHERRY WOODARD
Campus Reporter
j; The most common ailments of stu-
lents who have visited the health
xnter this year have been sprained
inkles, jammed fingers and the com
mon cold, said Dr. C.B. Goswick,
Beutel Health Center director.
For relieving these and other ail
ments students may have from time
to time, here are some good old
?randma-approved home remedies
pdch appear in “The Dictionary of
Medical Folklore.”
r . . , i To relieve the common cold
° 1Sa , S j CI there’s the common cure: plenty of
H , a j’ <)0 P act rest, lots of liquids (nonalcoholic) and
nd the comm®®/ r, . ^ ., .
, , . aspirin. But another not so common,
“’°, n tJ , u . and probably not so popular, cure
t re . th , e V !led in “The Common Cold and
is icring is j|o mmon Sense” is to eat garlic and
. . Onions. Kaw onions contain elements
'V ' which are antiseptic, while the oils in
garlic have the ability to kill unheal-
listenerswoulWV organisms, without attacking
■xt week. Bull or 8 an i sn is that are vital to the body.
' this week: V Jogging or softball enthusiasts may
nont, and thostP happy to know ice is a good treat-
ave New Ham: me nt for sprains or jammed fingers,
may be nece w h> c h can happen if a ball is caught
of 1984 fortl te wrong way. Soaking sprains in
e of this epic. Epsom salts and water is also be a
good treatment.
eagan won tlu |. Another occasional discomfort of
an primaries many students is indigestion. When
it happens, instead of running to the
store for some “plop, plop, fizz, fizz,”
Gram
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achieve once again a balanced
budget.
He said there will be an opportun
ity to vote on some version of this
proposal in the 96th Congress.
“Having the majority leader as an
ally in this represents real progress, ”
Gramm said.
Concerning energy, Gramm said
the country is facing a long, hard
struggle.
“We have planted seeds that over
the next decade will yield fruit, but
right now we are in a position where
we are being blackmailed by foreign
nations, and our dependence on
foreign oil is dictating our foreign
policy. We’ve got to take some ac
tions today to invest in producing
energy here at home at a price the
consumer can afford to pay.”
He said that steps are being taken
in the right direction in the form of a
synthetic fuel bill, a realistic nuclear
energy policy, the windfall tax bill
and the fast track energy bill (de
signed to cut through red tape.)
Gramm also addressed the issue of
draft registration, and said he sup
ports the president’s decision to
reinstate it. He said that it is “pru
dent policy” to reduce the amount of
time it would take to call up an army
Where the jobs are
& how to get them
SO.fXXi Mimm.T jot-1
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SWING INTO SPRING
AT
LAKEVIEW
FEATURING
DENNIS IVEY
AND THE WAYMEN
try baking soda — it’s a natural
antacid.
And for those headaches — com
monly called hangovers — which
usually result from intakes of too
much alcohol, try hot coffee and
aspirin. Aspirin can relieve the pain,
while the warmth of the steam from
the coffee can help to relax facial and
neck muscles. Also, the stimulating
caffeine in the coffee serves as a pick-
me-up.
A cup of tea can be just the thing at
the end of an exhausting day. It has
fatigue-relieving properties. And
students who have over-indulged in
the recent sunny weather might
want to save the tea bags. Cool wet
tea bags contain an acid which can
soothe burned, irritated, or itch skin
— unless, of course you are allergic
to tea.
A problem that probably not too
many students suffer from is sleep
lessness. But for those who do, try
counting sheep. A study by two
psychologists at Harvard University
indicated it really works. Visualizing
sheep (or whatever you prefer)
jumping over a fence requires the
energies of the right side of the brain
where sleep-preventing thoughts
occur. Therefore, with this side of
the brain occupied with sheep count
ing, no other bothersome thoughts
can be created.
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if the United States were to enter
into a war.
But Gramm said he does not sup
port mandatory registration for
women.
Gramm said that the daft is no sub
stitute for building up the nation’s
defense, and he is concerned that the
United States is falling behind the
Soviet Union in conventional and
nuclear forces. He said that even
though money is tight now, the Un
ited States must build new hardware
because “our nation’s survival de
pends on it.”
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