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— Program results unknown
Turtles take the test
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United Press International
GALVESTON — Although
Kemps-Ridley baby turtles have
a 90 percent survival rate at a
National Marine Fisheries
greenhouse, it may be 1983 be
fore scientists know if their
program to save the endangered
turtles is a success.
Scientist Jim McBey said the
1,700 turtles segregated in aer
ated plastic buckets suspended
in water are what is left of the
fourth group of hatchlings
whose eggs were airlifted in July
from a Mexican beach to Padre
Island in July.
The Ridleys must be segre
gated in captivity because of
their aggressiveness. Almost 40
percent of McBey’s first group
in 1978 died because they in
jured each other.
Scientists are conducting an
experiment to see if the hatch
lings “imprinted” on Padre Is
land will return to a safer nest
ing area than Rancho Nuevo,
Mexico, when they mature.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service undertook the program
to try and save the Ridleys and
experiment with imprinting be
cause in the 1970s the popula
tion was reduced to 2,000. Eggs
laid at Rancho Nuevo were
being stolen by people who be
lieved them to be aphrodisiacs.
McBey said Thursday:
“There’s no return yet of turtles
we released (in 1978) and I don’t
expect any for at least five years
after birth.”
That means the first evidence
the million-dollar project is
working may come in spring
1983.
Each year, when a group of
turtles reaches the age of 1 and
weighs about one pound, they
are banded and released. Tur
tles from the last group, released
off Padre Island last summer,
have been observed from the
Louisiana coast to the Bay of
Campeche off Mexico, McBey
said.
The current group will be the
second released in the water out
of Padre. Previous releases were
in Florida, and scientists found
from there the turtles were har
der to track.
Last summer, the Mexican
government delayed issuing a
permit for U.S. scientists to take
about 2,000 of the eggs laid
from Rancho Nuevo. When the
permit came through, a plane
load of eggs packed in paper was
flown to Padre Island.
The hatchlings were released
at the top of the Padre beach and
allowed to walk into the surf be
fore being scooped up for ship
ment to Galveston. Scientists be
lieve Ridleys may return to the
beach they first touch and re
member.
Stink raised over pollution
United Press International
HOUSTON — A Texas Air
Control Board member recom
mends the state sue Houston
Lighting 8c Power Co. over coal
particulate pollution escaping
from three coal power plants
near Richmond.
Cecil Bradford, TACB en
forcement officer, said efforts to
negotiate with HL&P have
failed and that filing a lawsuit
will force the power company to
develop a compliance schedule
for reducing pollution from the
W.A. Parish Station.
“We think this is the best way
to go,” Bradford said Thursday.
His suggestion would have to be
approved by two higher air
board officials and then be sub
mitted to the attorney general’s
office.
HL&P spokesman Graham
Painter expressed surprise at
Bradford’s suggestion and said
the company “has been trying in
good faith to solve the problem.”
He acknowledged high particu
late emissions were being caused
by the burning of coal from
Western states and because
emission control technology is
not well developed.
Painter said the three coal-
fired plants each have a $25 mil
lion electrostatic precipitators to
control the pollution.
HL&P went to the coal plants
for environmental reasons and
Painter said he found it ironic
to be having pollution problems
with them.
HL&P was cited by the TACB
five times since the first of the
coal-burning plants began oper
ating in 1978 and was called to a
TACB hearing in Austin Nov.
12 over the matter. HL&P re
ported after the meeting it had
hired Bechtel Power Corp. to
study the problem and recom
mend a solution.
Jailhouse blues
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Douglas Britz, an electrical Houston, is imprisoned in a MSC All Nite Fair,
engineering junior from mock prison camp as part of
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Student Art and Craft Competition.
Last day to Enter: March 1,1982
Place: MSC Craft Shop 10 a.m.-IO p.m. daily
Entry Fee: $2.00 per piece (limit 3 pieces a person)
Winning Entries will be displayed in
MSC Gallery
March 2-11, 1982
Judge refuses to stop GM
‘Let’s Get Moving’ rebates
United Press International
AUSTIN — General Motors
/will be able to continue offering
its “Let’s Get Moving” rebate
program allowing customers up
to $2,000 refunds under a
judge’s ruling.
But the state of Texas intends
to appeal the ruling.
General Motors’ rebate prog
ram, which began Feb. 1, had
been halted by a temporary re
straining order requested by
Attorney General Mark White.
White contended that the car
buyer was not getting the full
rebate promised in advertise
ments, since dealers were forced
to pass on their 25 percent share
of the . rebate to the customer.
He said General Motors was
therefore violating the Decep
tive Trade Act.
But District Judge Herman
Jones angrily refused Thursday
to enjoin General Motors from
continuing the rebate program
and dissolved the restraining
order. Jones said General
Motors had contracted with its
dealers to pay for 75 percent of
the rebates, ranging f rom $500
to $2,000, and that contract
must be observed.
“I’m not in the business of tell
ing business people how to con
tract with each otner,” Jones said
angrily. “I will require that the
parties live under that contract
until March 31.”
Jones cautioned that the auto
mobile industry needs financial
help but he said the manufactur
er and the automobile dealers
should not haggle over contracts
they freely sign with each other.
“The automobile industry
needs a lot of things. But one
thing it does not need is a feud
between it and its dealers,” the
judge said.
Assistant Attorney General
Jack Ayres, who presenit
slate’s case, said he would j
Jones’ ruling immediately !
Ayres argued that Gq
Motors should pay the Hi
bate to the consumer andi
hibit the company from coll
ing from the dealers forami
tion of the rebate.
“All the dealers wantisofi
hook,” Ayres said.
Jimmy Perkins, Get
Motors’ assistant nationals
manager, said the com|l
would continue the progra
Texas until the March 31
piration.
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United Press International
DALLAS — Mexican-
American leaders and classroom
teachers have attacked the Dal
las school board, claiming board
policies discriminate against
Hispanics.
Representatives of 10 Hispa
nic organizations Thursday pro
tested the board’s decision to
appeal the recent court desegre
gation order that requires the
Dallas Independent Schools
trict to double the numbtij
Hispanic teachers in thei*
five years.
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resentatives said it is possi# t|e 60th d'
hire enough Mexican-Ainc^ f 0 |j ow
teachers and noted moret •
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