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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1981
Page 5
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'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.
"As for myself,” he said, “I plan
to hunt and eat the ducks just as I
have before.”
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