THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1981
Page 3
Local
More stores
set for mall
Seven national chain stores have been added to the list of merchants
College Station’s Post Oak Mall still under construction.
The latest stores to be announced are: Zales Jewelers, Great Hot
Dog Experience, Carlyle & Co. Jewelers, Giovanni’s, Orange Julius,
Motherhood Maternity and Corn Dog 7.
Eugene II. Schimpf III, representative ofCBL & Associates Inc. of
Chattanooga, Tenn. and project manager for the mall, announced the
names of the new stores.
Zales Jewelers will offer a wide selection of fine jewelry, giftware
and watches, featuring diamonds. The store will open in February
1982 when the mall opens and will be one of over 830 Zales outlets in
operation.
Another jewelry operation, Carlyle & Co., will offer diamonds and
gold jewelry and watches from such names as Cartier, Seiko and
Pulsar.
Motherhood Maternity will feature exclusive designer fashions for
the expectant mother. The store will offer sleepwear, lingerie and
n, acci»j fashions from Joyce Ewing Bradley, Lester Hayatt, Judy Loeb and
bathroom other designers.
•ontinued! The remaining four stores cater to shopping-time munchies.
The Great Hot Dog Experience is a hot dog specialty store with a
ll one-price policy and unique store design. Armour hot dogs will be
toldPaleu served on poppy-seed buns with a selection of 10 different toppings at
facilities J no charge.
Corn Dog 7 offers two sizes of all-meat weiners, battered and fried
Mule the customer watches. Side dishes include cheese on a stick,
freshly squeezed lemonade and french fries.
Giovanni’s will offer pizza whole or by-the-slice, fresh salad and soft
Links.
The last of the new outlets is Orange Julius International, a national
franchise which features the Orange Julius, a blend of orange juice and
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The new mall will feature seven national department stores, includ
ing Sears, Dillard’s, Wilson’s and Bealls, and more than 100 smaller
stores.
Schimpf announced last week that Gallenkamp Shoes, Kay-BeeToy
ind Hobby Shop, The Athlete’s Foot and Parklane Hosiery are plan-
ping stores in the mall. He said additional stores will be announced as
ease nogotiations are completed.
Post Oak Mall, located on the southwest corner of the intersection
if Harvey Road and the Highway 6 Bypass, is scheduled to open on
February 17, 1982.
Scientists fight pests
threatening crops
An army of scientists from 16 universities throughout the country
is gone to war against weevils, worms, weeds and diseases in a
jombined effort to defeat the pests that destroy millions of dollars of
American agriculture every year.
Supported by $9 million from the Environmental Protection Agen-
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the assault is being
lirected from Texas A&M University and commanded by Dr. Perry
Adkisson, deputy chancellor for agriculture of the Texas A&M Univer
sity System and Dr. Ray Frisbie, the program’s executive manager.
The scientists say they are looking for a combination of controls
[gainst insects, weeds and plant diseases that will integrate biological
gents, pest resistant plants, better farming practices and lessdepend-
nce on chemical controls.
"The world food crisis, compounded by the energy crisis and a
genuine concern for maintaining a healthy environment, has placed an
enormous stress on our agricultural system,” Frisbie said.
■ Also of concern is the dramatic increase in the use of new and exotic
■gricultural chemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, and increases
[ in the price of petroleum from which many of the chemicals are made.
I “While pesticides have virtually replaced all other tactics of pest
lontrol over the last 30 years, their side effects have been well re
corded,” Frisbie said, “including the development of pesticide-
esistant insects, the disruption of natural biological controls, health
;ards to humans, and, in some cases, irreversible effects on wildlife
ind non-target organisms. ”
In addition to Texas A&M, universities participating in the consor-
tium include: Clemson, Louisiana State, Mississippi State, Pennsylva
nia State, Washington State and the universities of California, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Florida, Arkansas and Kentucky.
Although the development of insect strains that are resistant to
chemical agents presents a severe threat to U.S. and worldwide crop
iroduction, pesticides will continue to play a vital role in the emerging
I ntegrated pest management (IPM) systems, Frisbie said. One objec-
■ve of the consortium is to determine how chemicals can be used
within “an ecologically-based context,” he said, and to determine the
■seof minimum quantities in achieving optimum yields with a mini-
ymim impact on the environment.
didn t“\v c wan t to develop a system that holds pest populations below
|y, the KifRrop damaging densities, is less energy dependent, economically feasi-
•esolution fhle and causes the least damage to the environment,” he said.
| Much of the research focuses on the management of pests attacking
four major crops — cotton, alfalfa, soybean and apple.
I “These crops have several things in common,” Frisbie said.
lAlthough unique in their own regard, the basic methods of conduct
ing research in an organizational, systematic approach to integrated
nanagement can be shared and costs reduced.”
Researchers involved are agronomists, agricultural economists,
put breeders, meteorologists, entomologists, plant pathologists and
ecd scientists.
By polling federal, state and land grant university resources in
learns, in collaboration with US DA scientists, the project leaders said
they believe a wider variety of resources can be focused on solutions.
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New heart drug studied
A new class of drugs called “calcium blockers
promises important advancement in treating irregu
lar heartbeat, high blood pressure and the often
deadly chest pains that accompany angina pectoris —
even though what makes the chemicals work is still
somewhat of a puzzle, says a Texas A&M University
medical researcher.
The drugs, known more technically as antagon
ists” for calcium, open the blood vessels and cause
the heart to pump more evenly, said Dr. George
C.Y. Chiou, head of medical pharmacology and tox
icology at Texas A&M.
Chiou, who conducted privately funded research
on calcium blockers in the past, said the chemicals
act to block tbe influx of calcium into heart cells, an
essential ingredient to the pumping of the heart.
The abnormal influx of calcium leads to arrhythmia
— an irregular heart beat — which can be prevented
by calcium antagonists, Chiou said.
Calcium blockers show great promise in treating
angina, a frequently fatal condition marked by severe
chest pain caused by the blocking of oxygen-rich
blood needed by the heart, he said.
Calcium blockers, he said, relax the coronary
arteries to supply sufficient oxygen and nutrients to
the heart so that the risky surgery can be avoided.
Study could save sea turtles
A sea turtle’s instinct to return
to its birthplace to breed may be
triggered by hormones reacting to
the amount of sunlight received
each day, says a Texas A&M Uni
versity marine biologist.
Dr. David Owens, who has stu
died reproductive systems of
nearly extinct Atlantic Ridley tur
tles for two years for the Texas
A&M Sea Grant College Program,
believes the photoperiod could
help turtles identify the beaches
there they were hatched.
Photoperiod — the proportion
of sunlight each day that affects
the growth of an organism — has
been proven an important cue in
the mating of birds, mammals and
fish. So, Owens says, it seems like
ly the same thing could occur in
large reptiles.
He believes the key may lie in
the secretion of the hormone
melatonin (usually associated with
changes in skin pigment) by the
pineal gland which rests between
the turtle’s eyes and brain.
The pineal region of sea turtles
is among the largest of any verte
brate, said Owens, and his recent
findings suggest a link between
biological rhythms such as those
triggered by the photoperiod and
reproduction. His studies at Texas
A&M show a definite day-night
pattern in melatonin secretion
among loggerhead and green sea
turtles.
“The pineal body could provide
the sea turtle with a system to
translate the length of day into a
endocrine-based biological
clock,” said Owens. Turning the
lights on in his lab during the night
produced a sharp drop in melato
nin secretions from the turtles, in
dicating their pineal system is
light-sensitive, he said.
Owens said his theory would
give sea turtles advantages over
the more widely accepted water
temperature cues.
“The thermal environment of
an inshore marine animal is going
to vary even locally to a consider
able degree from year-to-year, de
pending on rain, currents and wa
ter depth. The photoperiod sys
tem or ‘inner clock’ would be very
regular on the other hand,” he ex
plained.
In any case, he explained, the
system is highly seasonal. “Turtles
have a tendency to stop whatever
else they are doing when the time
for reproduction comes along,” he
said.
Basic studies like the one at
Texas A&M may help the embat
tled Atlantic Ridley sea turtle sur
vive. There are now fewer than
350 female Atlantic Ridleys and
the entire population is estimated
at less than 2,000.
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