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v aids ery Monday, November 3, 1980 The Battalion B er Polo tea, nthoAAU^ in Provide;, ction is 1^1 teams. 1 yet availaU L,niv ersih i , Friday __ ^ °n Satard} > the nortfe e loss Rio Grande river lost for time in small town United Press International CANDELARIA — For a while there, the Rio Grande was lost in this small, antiquated ranching community in far west Texas. When several employees of the U.S. section of the International Boundary Commission arrived in the town, they had to use a 10-year-old aerial photograph to find the legendary river. It seems the salt cedar-infested river was so full of silt its bottom was higher than the surrounding pastures where crops had once grown. As a result, the salty water that sometimes flows along the river bottom had seeped through the soil and formed ponds beyond the river channel on surrounding ranchland. “Tve seen it pond there for six to seven months,” said Alfredo V. Brijalba of the Soil Conservation Service in Marfa. The river’s poor condition also kept the land so wet that no crops have grown there since 1966. It was high time for some improvements, and since the middle of the river is considered the international boundary under a 1970 treaty, both the U.S. and Mexico • sections of the boundary commission wanted to better define 170 miles of the Rio Grande. The U.S. and Mexico sections agreed to divide the work in segments in a 200-mile stretch from six miles upstream of Presidio to Fort Quitman. A Houston firm this summer cut a 6-foot-deep river channel, left a ring of salt cedar to hold the bank in place and cut a 56-foot swath through the salt cedar beyond the bank. Although officials said the river improvements would not have an immediate effect on agriculture in the area, “a year of high rainfall” to flush some of the salt from the soil “might make some of that land suitable to use again,” according to area Soil Conservation Service en gineer Claude Thompson. “Eventually they’ll probably be able to get back to where they can grow vegetables and alfalfa,” he said. One of the goals of the river project was to improve, not damage, the area as a habitat for birds and wildlife. The first job at Candelaria was what the IWBC statt called “preconstruction staking” and marking so the heavy equipment operators knew where to cut brush and where to leave the salt cedar. Carlton Schlomach, in aerospace engineering, spends time working on his hobby Photo by Dean Saito radio-controlled airplane flying. Menter teaches basic economics By USCHI MICHEL-HOWELL Battalion Staff |wine students at a specially estab- center at Texas A&M Univer- ty believe the free enterprise sys- m is close to extinction. Center for Research, Educa- and Free Enterprise, estab- |ed in 1977, is a local organization at provides teachers with short ses in basic economics, teachers receive two to three of graduate credit for the 30- typourses, said Dr. Gene Uselton, rector of CREFE. •CaBTexas law requires that teachers Jtroduce economics at all levels indergarten through the 12th IP . jHe) where it is appropriate. But 1 ’ ll11 ' ll! any teachers do not have adequate lionship llowledge of economics, Uselton m. The center’s education courses Ml them comply with the law. pEFE is supported by private ps. In addition to helping area tehers and students, it sponsors re- aturday (No ^ h at other universities, igh-ins areij^We evaluate the cost of govern- ■hile the coP ent regulations, and it would not t 11 a. m. appropriate to be funded by any eeandthep , !f rnment ’” Uselton said, d to attend center is similar to the Amer- an Economics Institute in iashington D.C., the Heritage dgmentj undation an ^ H° over insti- msored advocates a free society RcstauranliF re an ^dividual can do what he and Manor ■ y David F Iramblett. pleases as long as he doesn’t hurt anybody else, Uselton said. “We really are not conservative, but libertarian,” Uselton said. “Free enterprise means conservative to many, but we are libertarian in the “Our central message is that voluntary trade and private ownership cou pled with the limited role of government pro vide the best means of continued prosperity of a democratic society/’ said Debbie Walker, coordinator of student advocates. sense that we want to maximize an individual’s liberty.” Besides its research sponsorship and teacher education, the center has student advocates who promote the free enterprise system in and around the Texas A&M community. Seventeen students entered CREFE last spring. “The advocates are only extremely capable students. It’s a speaker’s bureau,” Uselton said. “There are no special require ments for being a student advocate, but we would like to have high academic achievers and articulate people,” Walker said. Student advocates present lec tures on request to businessmen. “They work on their own topics, dealing with current economic prob lems and free market solutions,” Walker added. “We are not against government, but pro-individual. There is a defi nite role of government, but some times it does too much,” Walker said. The advocates don’t support any one candidate, but believe that free dom is being continually eroded. “There are too many taxes and you can’t choose,” Walker said. “The problem is that people are trying to decide how your life is run.” “If a businessman makes a profit, that means that he is giving a service to his community and that’s like a natural check (on the business),” Walker said. “Inflation is due to too much gov ernment spending,” she added. But Walker and Uselton said that the advocates and the center are trying to be objective on any issue when they give speeches. “We try to be objective with our research, and some conclusions don’t turn out the way we would like them to,” Uselton said. One study that was sponsored by CREFE concerned the impact of the Federal Drug Administration on the pharmaceutical industry, Uselton said. The number of new drugs de clined after government regulation started, and the companies had a strong incentive to go to Europe, where regulation standards are less stringent. But scandals with drugs like thalidomites, which caused thousands of deformities in new borns, showed that FDA protects many people, Uselton said. CREFE’s research function is being put to use in Bryan-College Station, where the center is cooper ating with teachers at all levels. 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