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« THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1981 Page 5 ,ocal 'hurch needs larger home MSC GREAT ISSUES PRESENTS By STEPHANIE WILLIAMS Battalion Reporter ^ftcr 25 years of existence, St. is Catholic Church is ex- riencing growing pains. “We estimate there’s probably people per Sunday,” said Rev. Bill Brooks, St. Mary’s listant pastor. Church capacity Ibout 800 people a service. [Brooks said Texas A&M Uni- sity’s increasing enrollment sled to even more parishioners ending the already over- Iwded church services. | Having to stand in the aisles ring the service makes it diffi- It for families and students to [rship, Brooks said. The Rev. Al Palermo, St. r’s pastor, said, ‘‘It’s getting to i point where they (parishion- ) don’t want to come because they’re standing outside.” In an effort to ease the over crowded conditions, St. Mary’s added a 10:30 a.m. service at the A&M Consolidated High School auditorium. Brooks said, “It’s like an annex of St. Mary’s to grab the overflow of people. ’ The first Sunday ser vice at the high school had a turn out of almost 400 people, he said. To ease St. Mary’s growing pains, plans for a new church are in progress. A census was taken at all St. Mary’s services Sept. 13 to receive comments from the parishioners about the possibility and need for a new parish. Palermo said the census, dire cted at both families and students, requested information such as how many parishioners would stay at St. Mary’s and how many would use the new church. Several questions referred to family and individual income, Palermo said, to discover if stu dents and families could afford and would be willing to help finance a new parish. The results of the census have not been calculated, he said, but funding, land and approval from the bishop all must be acquired before final decisions can be made. “If there is a need for a new parish,” Palermo said, “the next step is to find a way to raise the money for the parish.” Five acres of land near Highway 6 have been donated to St. Mary’s and the parish is in the process of purchasing five more acres. “We don’t want to give the im pression that it’s definite,” Paler mo said, “we haven’t got the land yet but we’re reasonably certain we will.” After all the information is col lected about the establishment of the church, the bishop must approve the building of the new parish in Bryan, Palermo said. And, of course, a new parish will need a new name. One possi bility Palermo thinks would be appropriate is St. Agatha. The church could then be called St. Aggie for short. oisoned ducks edible, prof says .Hoi trch tiff r / l ATexas A&M University wild- Be scientist says the pesticide Bind in ducks in Montana, ■yoming. South Dakota and Col- '‘■ado presents little danger and Bplans to hunt and eat ducks just I before. jurn , !■ “Basedon the amounts of pesti- He found, an average adult ■mid have to eat 15 pounds of Hck meat a day to feel the effects ■ the poison,’ said Dr. Wallace Buss man, head of the depart- awr joi nt of wildlife and fisheries sci- . pies The pesticide has a half-life ». Tt pthree days in laboratory rats, he grest p 1 ' war » State and federal officials have o ’’ht iroiiid ondrin at three times the war: inaxmium safe level for human fast consumption in fatty tissue of iturit dmK' and geese in the four states at th •sited along the Central Flyway. then fltoiit half the birds that use the mes Ijyway, which extends down to the Texas from Western Canada, win ter in Texas. Ip don t feel there is any real 65 Problem for Texas at all,” Kluss- a t “ man said. “The news has blown ings ■ ly. TlJ m solij the episode out of proportion as relatively few ducks have been sampled. The probability of killing a duck in Texas that had picked up the pesticide in the western states is extremely low.” While almost all use of the pes ticide is restricted by the U.S. En vironmental Protection Agency, it was cleared for battle against an army worm infestation in four western states. Klussman said hunters con cerned about levels of the pesti cide found in ducks killed this year can reduce the amount simply by skinning the fowl rather than pick ing them. He said most of the poison would be found in fatty tissue that would come off with the skin. He added that the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Department of Health will be monitoring the situation and will let people in Texas know of any danger. 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