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Page 8A THE BATTALION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1981 Features Man, dead kangaroo get laughs, disbelief United Press International TULSA, Okla. — No one be lieved the man who said he’d run over a kangaroo on North Peoria Avenue until he pro duced the corpse. The blond, bearded man swaggered into a restaurant late Monday and announced he had just hit a kangaroo, waitress Marilyn Hollenback said Wednesday. “I brought this guy some cof fee and he looked me straight in the eye and said, T hit a kangar oo on North Peoria, ” she said. “I laughed for 20 minutes. Through giggles and guffaws the employees trudged out to investigate. In the back of the unidenti fied man’s truck was a SVa-foot dead kangaroo, Hollenback said. Apparently the man, accom panied by his kangaroo corpse, was making the rounds. “Another customer came in later and said this guy had just walked into a bar down the street with a dead kangaroo and tried to get served,’’ Hollen back said. Officials at the Tulsa Zoo said they don’t know where the kan garoo came from. The zoo doesn’t have any kangaroos, and all its kangaroo-like animals were accounted for. Pipe looks like leaky garden hose Li Ground tires used for irrigation United Press International NEW YORK — A leaky hose made of ground-up old auto tires conceivably could revolutionize the irrigation of lawns, vineyards, orchards and even field crops. Allan Clark, of Dallas, calls it Leaky Pipe but it looks more like a hose and uses ordinary garden hose fittings. It was invented by Jim Turner, also of Dallas, nearly ten years ago and Clark, who made a fortune in real estate while still very young, has put up a plant to manufacture it. He will be turning out 60,000 feet a day by yearend. He has dis tributors and dealers in Texas, California, Colorado and Florida. Leaky Pipe already is being buried under several thousand lawns in these states and it has been tested successfully in vineyards and fruit and nut orchards in California and Texas. Clark said growth rates were ab out twice as fast as by above ground irrigation methods be cause Leaky Pipe irrigates the plant at the roots, and liquid ferti lizer can be circulated through it. 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Western Union Charge Card Money Order. He said irrigating at the roots instead of from above ground also has the advantage of not fostering weed growth because so many weeds feed primarily through their foliage and have very shallow roots. The pipe is based on an old con cept but one nobody had much luck with until Turner hit on using ground-up auto tires mixed with a polymer to make a long-lasting, porous, flexible pipe that would distribute water underground at very low pressure by capillary attraction. All other soil soakers or drip irrigation systems operate above ground. Clark says they use more than twice as much water as Leaky Pipe, don’t last as long and are expensive to maintain. Clark said Leaky Pipe will last underground at least eight or ten years, won’t freeze, rust or collect dirt. While Clark conceded that Leaky Pipe cannot compete in overall cost and efficiency with natural ditch water irrigation, he said natural ditch water is becom ing scarcer, and he said his pro duct will outperform other types of surface irrigation, particularly the “dragging rain” overhead spray systems that are so laborious to operate and lose enormous amounts of water through evapor ation. Leaky Pipe is not cheap; it re tails at 49 cents a foot and there is the expense of burying it. The tot al cost can run to from $1,500 to $3,000 an acre depending on the nature of the soil and how close together the pipes must be. In some soils, one pipe will irrigate a strip 10 feet wide, in others only four feet. Clark is going after the lawn wa tering market first for two reasons. er o trea in a nevi linei trap S wen sea i He doesn’t yet have caj® make Leaky Pipe in tie quantities that would be to irrigate field crops andie And having tests run at Terns University to determinetb way to use the pipe ft crops on differing soils. Leaky Pipe could find wi in watering golf courses, stadiums with natural ti municipal parks. Clarksa can be used around theftw of a house with insect rej* and in arid regions to moisti ground and thus stabiiu earth and prevent crac shifting of a foundation, The business of grinding auto tries got its startwhei discovered the rubber anil waste material was an idea! additive to give elasticitytoj asphalt. Since then it h other industrial markets. No residents on welfare boasts Texas county of i United Press International MENTONE — Judge Donald Creager says he does not have anything against welfare — “it’s necessary for people who really need it” — but he says he is proud Loving County is the only county in Texas without a single resident on the welfare roles. The 647-square-mile county, with an official population of 98, is mostly oil and gas country in far west Texas, bordering New Mex ico to the north. It is sometimes refered to as “Little Kuwait.” (The judge insists the popula tion is really 110; he says some residents were on vacation during census taking.) But whatever the population, not a single resident takes a penny of welfare money. “I vaguely recall on family who participated in the commodity food program a number of years ago,” Creager said. “As soon as they got a job and were back on their feet financially, they quit the program. “I don’t have anything against welfare. It’s necessary for people who need it. But no one here needs it.” Creager says he is particularly glad Loving County is free of wel fare recipients because of the bureaucracy involved with public assistance programs. And he says he especially has a distaste for the government red tape which flows from Washington, D.C. A few years ago, the county re ceived revenue sharing funds and placed the money in the bank. Creager says if the money was spent, “Washington might get the notion it could come and tell the people how to run the county. The money is still in the bank earning interest and Creager says aspi ship disci thre line: A the by ( mon day, Aqu wate tank I W firms MiibJl Was! vestr brouj offeri be n Reve Tl feren tions teres speci unde roller certif La ed do prom the { nullif the ci STAGE HANDS FOR SHOWS Meeting to sign up to work back- stage for the Theatre Complex during shows will be held Wed. night September 9, 1981 at 7:00 PM in the Auditorium. be is ready if bureaucrats come knocking' door. “The county would give their money back,”It But the federal governmti found a way to “bureaumtia judge. He said he recent ceived a computerized que naire from a federal agenct none of the questions appl Loving County. "It must have been2ofee! — literally,” he said. “Ife me to mail it back to them That thing must haveweig ton. I can’t tell you how postage it took to send tk. back. What a waste of tic money. ” Mentone, the only town county, boasts 35 residents work and live at the courthouse, service station, and handful of houses, Besides not having any* recipients, Mentone and li County have no grocery bank, hospital, doctor or diij)tii water, which mustbehauledp Pecos, 23 miles to the soot from Kermit, 32 miles to thf The county clerk, whoii t oso the the sheriffs wifeandtk i men ty historian, puts it thii “Only those things — aninu I mus ] vegetable — that can wilt > (] ec i £ dry weather, blazing sunari tering wind, survive Loving County. Thatgoeslii pie too.” Christian Survivai IN THE College Communit N1 pc*r/v\cqu££tr IVI How can I survive and make progress as a Christian? Fri. night Sept. 4 7:30 p.m. 601 Rudder sponsored by Oasis Oasis, an on-campus Christian organization, will be explaining their purpose as well as their plans for the semester.