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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1*. 11
Pag* 5
Water rights battle heats up
l nrtrd Prc\v Inlernatmmat
LAS CRUCES, N M — An El
Paso utility executive has testified
in federal court that the cheapest
way Sor the city to obtain water (t»r
its future needs is to hav e access to
underground basins in neighbor
ing New Mexico
John Hickerson general mana
ger of water utilities for the El
Paso Public Sers ice Board, testi-
Monday during the first dav of
a hearing on the city’s suit against
the state of New Mexico.
El Paso, which seeks to gam
aqcess to two underground liasins
b^ overturning a New Mexkx) law
piiohibiting ths* export of ground-
water. was expected to end its case
Tuesday. New Mexico officials
have said their presentation will
take about a week.
A study of water sources avail
able to the fast-growing Texas city
showed that obtaining water
rights in twro southern New Mex
ico basins would be twice as cheap
as any other source, Hickerson
said.
If the New Mexico law was up
held, the city wpuld have to turn
distances, he said.
Another witness, lee Wilson,
the head of the Sant* Fe, N M.,
firm that prepared the water
sources report for El Riao, said the
alternatives presented other prob
lems besides cost
Piping water for distances up to
150 miles in Texas involves right-
of-way difficulties and an increase
in energy requiremegts, Wilson
' said. The technology for desalini
zation was not reliable, he said
Under cross-examination.
to such options as treating sewage Hickerson said the cily has wells
and brackish water and importing ' drilled into both uudfoyuuud
Texas water from much greater basins with the Texax border and
said no new wells have been dril
led in eithOT area far two years.
He also said no wells were plan
ned for a possible water source
near Canutillo.
El Paso has argu«*d that the New
Mexico law against water exports
is an unconstitutional barrier to
interstate commerce, while New
Mexico said the groundwater
embargo is directly related to the
welfare of the state s citizens
No matter how US. District
Judge Howard Bratton rules, the
losing side is expected to appeal to
a higher court
Drug traffic focus
(PPEitS of crime program
sy-ra
JJjiLd
Texas drug traffickers make
more than $5 billion in illegal pro-
jits every year and must be stop
ped, says the Crime Stoppers
Advisory Cotgicil.
The council, created by Gov.
William Clements and the state
legislature, was formed to assist
local Crime Stoppers programs.
I iky the one in Bra/us County, and
to encourage citizens to provide
erime information anonymously.
Each month, the council plans
to spotlight a certain type of (rime;
for January, that crime is drug traf-
ficking. The council says drugs are
destroying Texans both voting and
old and that the drug problem in
Texas is almost out of control.
The 1981 Texas legislature
apiMrently agreed, and passed
stiff new laws for the prosecution
of drug dealers. It also established
the statewide Crime Stoppers
program in the Criminal Justice
Division of the Governor’s Office
to encourage citizen participation
in crime control efforts.
The Texas Crime Stoppers
Council is paving cash rewards for
information leading to the arrest
and indictment of drug traffickers
The council guarantees callers
anonymity: citizens need not re
veal their names hut will be given
a unique code number for identiti-
i at ion purposes.
The council asks that anyone
having information about major
drug dealing call their toll-frccj
number 1 -800-252-TI PS<
A&M flu research to start
ilbe flu season may be late this year, but it will come, says a Texas
A^tM medical researcher preparing to test influenza treatments on 50
student volunteer* alter the spring seme iter liegins.
Only 10 cases of flu had baen reported by the end of Decemlier in
Houston, where the first evideme <if statewide outbreaks usually
shoivs up.
Dr Johq Quarles, a Texas A Ac M microbiologist, said the tardiness of
flu season this year is unusual, but that it is rare when an entire year
goes by without at least one heavy outbreak of the flu
Quarles downplavtd the South’s previously mild winter — which
quickly ended this week as some of the century ’s coldest w eather hit
the nation — as a factor. Germs, not weather, cause illness, he said
Researcher* with the Baylor College of Medicine Influenza Re
search Center in Houston ami the Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta suspect an outbreak of flu tins year may Ik* of the B-strain
varietv, the mild form that causes lexer, cough aches and a runny
nose
However, other strains of A-type yiruses also might surface this
year, researchers said
Quarles said the Texas AAcM study, latest in a string of major ftu
research projects carried out on campus, is prepared for almost any
outbreak
If the dominant flu ^irus this year is A-strain. student volunteers will
test the drug amantadine in pill form If the virus is A or B, the
scientists will test riluourin in a mist form in acontinuatioa of last year s
successful trials against the Russian-A-strain
If this year s flu is Atvirus only, researchers will do follow-up studies
on as many as 4(X) of the f»40 students who received v act mes against the
Bangkok ffu last year,
Quarles said it is unusual in flu research to have swll a long-term
follow-up with so many people, hut that the close-knit university
atmosphere allowed iesearchers tn keep in touch with most of the
volunteers from previous studies
The amantadine and vaccine studies are funded by influenza re
search grants from the National Institutes of Health, Quarles said
The ribavirin project is funded by Viratek, the California drug
company that made nitional headline's in November by announcing
that ribaviBn administered as a mist could all hut cure a had case of flu
within two days. V irgtek manufacturers the* drug under the* name
brand Virazole
The study noted thgt by the second day of treatment, ribav irin had
significantly reduced lemperatures of randomly selected flu victims
while temperatures 4mmg student volunteers in a control group
remained higher. 1 • . - * i «.
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Caperton seeks re-election bid in senatorial race
State* Senator Kent A ('aper-
Itou. D-Brvau. Ii.o announced lie
canclidacv loi i< dciNion as tin
Utat. scnatoi r< pr< s. nting tin
I Kiftli Senatorial District of T« \
Caperton stressed his eflfcctive-
|nc*ss in passing legislation and Ins
coiiscrs aHv. voting record m
area' of fix. al rcstiauit and limit
ing the growth of Imrcaucfnc) as
|reasons for Ih iiic m . I> . tixJ
"During mv firs! campaign two
Ivcars ago I li't< .1 < dm ati >u uni
law enton > incut as the top two
priorities on tin state s agenda
Caperton said U lul« tin (iTtl,
la-gislatun* did inueb to help in
thesi n * as we still l.av c tar to go
land I remain eommitted to tlw'se
;oals *,
During his first term in the* Scn-
|at. < a|Ma ton served on the Stati
]Affairs jcinsprudenee and Hu-
Campus
Names
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F.C.A. Kuiii^e
Dr E < \ I ^Hungc professor
ami bead "t tin Departmrnl t
oil and ( top StieiK-es at Texas
\Ac\1 was appnnted to tlie State
|Seed and I'lant Hoard for a tvv<*
rc*ar term Ruiige. 47 was reap-
otqt«*d to the Itoard His term
•xtencls to Oct. 6. 198.1
|Kaii(iall I > \\ omi
I)i Hamlall I ) W | . it.
■if hKK'ht'niistry and hiophvsic s at
|r(*xas A&M I niversity lias focn
[lesignated as tin Distinguished
tientist of the Year tor m8l-S2.
In th lexa \AfA1
Lliopter of Sigma XI tin National
jtlonoraiv Schiki Smu ts
Wood olrtamed his Ph-D in
iKKhemistrv tr.nii 1. vas \<\ M is
Il965 He was an \l ( Postd.Kto
pie F< 1 .k Ki.lg. Vsmk i
(ted I mv. rsiti, > „| taught at
Ithe Loyola Urmersitv Medical
chool and if tin l niv. rsitv of
fissouri Sch<K)l of MedKine. He
•ned the Universitv Hkn hc'mis-
Iry and biophysics department m
man Resources committees.
('a|K*rton atU*iicied Caldwell
(Miblic sc IhmiIs, and is a 1971 cum
laude graduate of T^xas "A&M
University, where he served as
studeint body president during his
senior year In 1975, he received
his law degree from the University
of Texas.
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