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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1981
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By CINDY GEE
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Some people laugh off roach prob
lems. But roaches are not just var
mints that are part of the woodwork,
they should be dealt with.
Roaches may live in the sewer
drain outside apartments. When
they seek shelter, food or water, they
run across the kitchen counter,
through the silverware drawer, over
the plates, and into the cereal.
But these pests aren’t satisfied
with the simple kitchen life. They’ll
also find their way into desk drawers,
sampling postage stamps, bookbind
ing glue, paper and anything else
they can find.
Yes, they even like the bathroom,
where water ferments. Wherever
the roach walks, it may be leaving
disease-causing organisms behind,
said Dr. Ted Granovsky, project
leader for urban pest management
research at Texas A&M University.
Many cases of nausea and diarrhea
could be caused by an organism that
a roach brought up from the sewer,
he said.
“Their guts are full of various dis
eases that man picks up which may
cause an imbalance of our bacterial
load and we wind up getting sick,”
Granovsky said. “It’s just a matter of
the roach and the disease getting
together and then the roach trans
mitting the disease from one locale to
another. ”
Although roaches prefer dirt, filth
and grime, they will also infest sanit
ary buildings. They can enter a
building in infested boxes, grocery
bags, beverage cartons or furniture.
They also can enter through loose-
fitting doors and windows, where
electrical lines or water and steam
pipes pass through walls, in fire
wood, and through sewer lines.
“Very possibly, with the lack of
concern by most apartment owners
for proper pest control, the apart
ments that Texas A&M students live
in could easily have four or five
thousand roaches per apartment,”
Granovsky said. “It’s basically the
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Girl saves mother with CPU,
school training lauded
United Press International
RICHARDSON — Leslie Maack,
11, was filled with the fear that over
comes a child who thinks she may be
watching her mother die, yet she
acted with the poise and skill of a
professional.
On Dec. 8 Leslie was awakened at
2 a.m. by her sister screaming,
“Grandmother, she’s not breathing!”
Leslie’s mother, Marilyn, had stop
ped breathing because of a ruptured
blood vessel in her brain.
Leslie’s grandmother and sister
apparently didn’t know what to do
but Leslie employed the cardio
pulmonary resuscitation techniques
she had learned at school only a week
before.
“When I saw her at first, I was
upset,” Leslie, a sixth grader, said
Monday. “At first I wasn’t sure what
to do and then something triggered
when my sister said she wasn’t brea
thing. I remembered my CPR,
checked her heartbeat and to see if
she was breathing and then gave her
CPR.
“I was very, very nervous but I
didn’t get excited.”
The chest massage and mouth-to-
mouth breathing worked. Maack
was in a coma for two weeks but is
recovering now in Richardson Med
ical Center. Leslie’s grandmother,
Mrs, Claude Demerest, wanted to
keep the feat secret until it ap
peared Maack was safe.
When I saw my daughter on the
, I thought she was in a faint or
had had a heart attack,” Demerest
said. “I had no idea what to do. If it
hadn’t been for that child and her
coolness, her mother would be dead
now.”
Leslie administered CPR to her
mother while her grandmother cal
led paramedics. After five minutes of
watching, her sister Annette, 23,
learned the technique and took over.
Leslie then called her uncle and ran
next door to ask for help from the two
nurses who live there.
When the ambulance arrived,
Leslie was waiting outside to show
them the way.
“I was amazed,” Demerest said.
“Leslie was sleeping so soundly.
then she was out of bed like a shot.
She was so calm, cool and collected. I
am very, very grateful that she
learned CPR.”
Demerest hopes Leshe’s story will
encourage other schools to add CPR
training to their curriculum.
Leslie’s class studied CPR for only
two days. She was one of only four or
five students who actually practiced
the method on a dummy provided by
the Red Cross.
“Leslie has a maturity beyond her
age,” said Linda Brian, her health
teacher. “She handles adult situa
tions very well. The other kids and
her teachers are all very proud of
her. ”
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as I get the rent.’”
Although roach stomping may be a
good form of exercise, it is not an
effective way to eliminate roaches.
Roaches multiply too fast to combat
on a one-to-one basis. One female
German roach can have up to 35,300
offspring per year under the right
conditions.
Monthly spraying also will not do
the trick, Granovsky said, people
have to do something about the
structural aspect of the building. He
suggested using steel wool to seal the
cracks where pipes go into walls in
the kitchen or bathroom. He said
this will help to eliminate roaches
migrating from one apartment to
another.
A mixture of half boric acid and
half powdered sugar is also an effec
tive way to prevent roaches. The
mixture should be lightly dusted
around base boards, in cracks and
wall voids, under refrigerators and
furniture, and around pipes and tun
nels. This mixture works slower than
most sprays, but is more effective
because it lasts longer.
Granovsky said for the extermina
tion to be effective every apartment
in the building should be sprayed at
the same time.
“The roaches can smell the poison,
and they’ll run like hell to get out of
there,” he said. “After the smell goes
away and the poison isn’t active any
longer, they’ll come back and rein
fest your apartment.”
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