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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
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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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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.
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crops on differing soils.
Leaky Pipe could find wi
in watering golf courses,
stadiums with natural ti
municipal parks. Clarksa
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shifting of a foundation,
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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
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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
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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.