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State THE BATTALION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1981 Page 9 2 latest meningitis cases unrelated United Press International HOUSTON — Doctors say the two latest diagnosed cases of meningitis are unrelated to the outbreak at an elementary school in late January and early Feb ruary. Doctors say a 3-year-old boy who is still hospitalized and a 17- year-old who has recovered are the latest meningitis patients. The two cases, diagnosed Fri day, raised the number in Hous ton and Harris County this year to an unusually high 38. Houston Health Department spokeswoman Shirlene Bridgewa ter said official concern will con tinue to lessen as long as new cases continue to be scattered. Howev er, she said officials will continue to monitor the meningitis out break. Three deaths have been offi cially attributed to meningitis, and the disease has been sus pected as the cause of one other death in Harris County this year. Thirty cases of meningitis were recorded in Harris County last year. Medical officials expressed se rious concern when five girls in one sixth grade class at Dodson Elementary School were di agnosed with the disease between Jan. 29 and Feb. 2. One of the girls died Jan. 31. Rolling into spring Joey Wasilewsky, a senior zoology major, demon- the Texas A&M Roller Skating Club. An strates a freestyle jump for students interested in tional meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. W Photo by Joni Hennigan n- the Texas A&M Roller Skating Club. An organiza- in Room 110 of the Military Science Building, in tional meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday 1 by it adopt i ' stunt the Ref The Bat' iebeg& tchyeat mofit waste rsity dt- jlio'nf s at tk i Heate ysTeiai rivacvd eords is Buckle; Mhasi identstt iwnede yer tbe) needed ■recoidi eviewa ict. ies infa' 'hich tk lows tk director; student: dudes ‘i addrest' countr)) late and ty, raff idy, min ties athletit nee, de ards re malinsk student ding ^ arents # hediref •nttrs -luest* rcijjLa ICP 3RV0B R) New company formed for disasters J United Press International FORT WORTH — A Fort Worth company, likening itself to Red Adair after the fact, is clean ing the damage caused by the re cent fire at the Las Vegas Hilton. "Were the one who goes in after the firemen leave,” said a spokeswoman for Blackmon- Mooring Steamatic Catastrophy Inc. Although the company signed a contract with the hotel Sunday, by Saturday it had hired 250 Las Vegas residents for the cleanup work. More than 700 people re sponded to a one-day advertise ment for the $7 per hour work which Marsha Anderson de scribed as “not pretty. The smell is overwhelming and with wet car pets it’s double indemnity. ” She believes the cleanup work on the 1,500 hotel rooms and con necting hallways will take from two to five weeks, “unless we run into something totally unthought of.” The temporary employees be gan working in two eight-hour shifts Monday and a third shift may be added if the machinery can stand the stress. However, the cost of the cleanup has not been determined. “I wouldn’t dare make a cost estimate yet, it’s a time and mate rials thing,” said company presi dent Scott W. Mooring in a tele phone interview from the hotel. “We haven’t seen the part that’s been burned the worst,” Mooring said Monday. He said a great deal of construction will be needed on several floors above the spot where the fire began on the eighth floor. Eight people died in the blaze. The third through sixth floors have little damage, as well as those at the very top of the 29-story hotel, Mooring said. His company is working in the core of the hotel known as the ori ginal hotel. Mooring said there is little smoke damage in the rooms where doors were shut and not kicked in by firemen. The heaviest damage is on the floors closest to the fire and in rooms in which the doors were open, he said. “We won’t have any idea of the dollar amount until the cleanirig is cdrrlpleteid,” Anderson said. Un skilled labor alone, though, will cost a minimum of $14,000 per day. "We’ve taken our experts from Los Angeles, Dallas, Fort Worth and Lubbock — 35 in all — to Las Vegas and we’ve hired local peo ple to come in and do the detail work, the things you don’t have to be technically trained in,” Ander son said. Technical knowledge is need to operate the company’s carpet cleaning and portable dry cleaning machines as well as cleaning and deodorizing the air conditioning and heating systems, she said. Unskilled workers are needed for cleaning the soot and smut from walls, desks and ceilings, Anderson noted. The disastrous fire at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Hotel in November was the impetus to forming the new catastrophy company. It’s parent company, Black- mon-Mooring Steamatic Inc., has long dealt with cleanups following residential fires. “We’ve been dealing with a lot of arson recently and saw a grow ing need for someone to clean up commercial fires,” Anderson said. “When the MGM Grand caught on fire, we sent one of our guys from Houston up,” Anderson said. “We were very active in the bidding, but they decided to re furbish.” TTe o F > 'riCAi^ Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired 216 N. MAIN BRYAN 822-6105 Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 8 a.m.-l p.m. USED GOLD WANTED! 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