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Local THE BATTALION Page 3 TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1981 rCrime Stoppers $1,000 for information tais^ duals t dividiii, I on oii'i plaud jj Russiaii r sunk ? oreautn emusta ipecies; makei i an aft alian e I men. he efts vid D. 5 (Mi By DENISE RICHTER Battalion Stall Crime Stoppers, a program geared toward public involvement in the fight against crime, may be estab lished soon in the Brazos Valley. The program encourages public participation by paying for information leading to the arrest and in dictment of persons involved in felony crimes and by re-enacting a “crime of the week” during a television news broadcast, on the radio and in newspaper arti cles. # The Crime Stoppers program has compiled an impressive set of statistics during its five-year his tory, said Texas A&M University Police Chief Russ McDonald. More than 6,000 felonies have been solved, 2,071 defendants have been brought to trial, 2,059 convictions have been made (a conviction rate of 99.4 percent) and $19.5 million worth of property has been recovered, he said. I. “Most Crime Stoppers programs have gotten started through the local Chamber of Commerce,” McDonald said. “The Brazos County program would have to depend on private donations of money, office span', typewriters and things like that — no city or state money would be used.” McDonald called the Thursday press conference to acquaint representatives of other law enforcement, agencies with the program. He said the program could be started in the Brazos Valley when a civic organization, such as the Chamber of Commerce, volunteers to sponsor it. f_The program would have a civilian board of dire ctors who would oversee the general operation of the program and decide how to administer the reward funds. The county sherifTs office would furnish one cri minal deputy to be the project coordinator. The deputy would be a non-voting member of the board and would serve as a liaison between the police departments, the board of directors and the news media. Initially, the program will deal with unsolved felonies in the areas of homicide, rape, armed rob bery, burglary, aggravated assault and arson, McDo nald said. Each week, a specific unsolved crime would be selected as the crime of the week by the board of directors and a $1,000 cash reward offered for infor mation leading to the arrest and indictment of the criminal. Anyone contacting the Crime Stoppers office with information is given a code number. If the informa tion leads to the arrest and indictment of the crimin al, the board of directors then decides how much to pay the informant. The informant’s code number is broadcast over television, radio and in the newspapers. The infor mant then contacts the Crime Stoppers office again and is told where he or she will be paid. Complete anonymity is guaranteed, McDonald said. The Crime Stoppers program was started in Albu querque, N.M. in 1976. It is now used in more than 90 cities. Texas cities with Crime Stoppers programs include Austin, El Paso, Dallas, Houston, Waco and San Marcos. esearchers on Gyre find hnusual magnetic forces Scientists aboard the Texas A&M University re- eafch ship Gyre, just returning from their search for he Titanic, did not find the sunken oceanliner, but they did uncover scientific evidence that may be just exciting. The search has turned up several man-made ob jects that could be from the ship in an undersea nyon two and a half miles beneath the surface of he Atlantic. Photographs taken at the site must still i/be analyzed in detail, said expedition leader Mike . Harris, but he noted some appear to show large bolts id perhaps even part of a ship’s propeller blade. In addition to the physical debris, researchers said e Texas A&M vessel’s sophisticated deep sea mag- etometers discovered “significant magnetic anoma- es” in the area where the Titanic is believed to have ;one down. Columbia University geophysicist Dr. William .yan said the peculiar magnetic readings in the area ere completely unexpected and would need careful (study to explain their presence. “The readings indicate magnetic objects from the size of watermelons to pieces weighing several hun dred tons,” Ryan said. “They could be parts of the ship scattered through the canyon or they could be magnetic boulders. Either possibility is exciting be cause at this point we can’t explain how they got there.” Video tape and still photographs of the sea floor proved to be inconclusive in identifying the objects. Texas adventurer Jack Grimm, who financed the 24-day ocean search for the Titanic which struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, said he has not decided if he will continue the search for the sunken ship. The Gyre, one of the nation’s busiest and most advanced oceanographic research vessels, left Bos ton almost immediately to resume scientific research in the Atlantic. The ship is operated by Texas A&M’s oceanography department. alathion found safe , Despite the public uproar in California about the jse of the insecticide malathion to control Mediter- anean fruit flies, the material has a proven track ecord of being safe and free of health hazards, says in Agricultural Extension Service entomologist. “Malathion has been with us a long time — since he early 1950s — and is one of the most commonly ised insecticides by farmers, homeowners and gar- J leners,” said Dr. Phil Hamman. Hamman said he has had many telephone calls J iince the California controversy from people wanting o know about the safety of malathion. Tests sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , e j r 0 vilave shown malathion to be both non-carcinogenic )licycL n °B-cancer causing) and non-mutagenic (not caus- trell :,ng genetic changes). According to Dr. Bill Plapp, • | 'esearch toxicologist with the Agricutltural Exten- 1 I >ion Service, malathion is one of the least dangerous are nsecticides in use. tme to* Hamman said: “Malation is routinely used by asing, many homeowners and gardeners to control insects mid mites on trees, shrubs, houseplants, flowers and ng pov vegetables. It is also used to control external para- er „ v . r j ( ;5ites on pets.” ’nlile ^ * n a( ^*fi on ’ h e explained that malathion is used ny state:' to finar ' jovernu® i forsoitf est, mpiWff il straitf widely to control many different insect pests of crops. For instance, it has been used in large area control programs for boll weevils and grasshoppers in West Texas. Another major use of malathion in Texas has been for mosquito control programs, the entomologist said. “Malathion is used almost exclusively to rid urban and suburban areas of disease-carrying mos quitos,” Hamman said. “In 1966-67 and again in 1971, vast areas of Texas, including major cities such as Dallas, Houston and Corpus Christi, were aerially sprayed with malathion to control outbreaks of St. Louis encepha litis and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis, dis eases spread by mosquitos.” The entomologist also pointed out that in all of these uses of malathion, there has been no record of problems involving human health. Of course, Hamman cautions users of malathion as well as other insecticides to follow directions on the product label, avoiding any unnecessary contact with the insecticide, and washing hands after use. 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