state
Battalion/Page 6
March 29,1982
The Best Pizza In Town! Honest.
INTRODUCES OUR
BUY ONE, GET ONE JUST
LIKE IT AT Vz PRICE PIZZA
SPECIAL!
AT THE PIZZA MAT ONLY
Please Present Coupon 846-3412
COUPON
K
Study of pot plants
in forests nears end
Serving
Luncheon Buffet
Sunday through Friday
DtiSfr iiitAT/i»aour»s fun jj 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m 2^2*.
P $4.50 plus tax 1?
Z
Top Floor of Tower Dining Room 3
Sandwich & Soup Mon. through Fri.
$2.19 plus drink and tax %
United Press International
DALLAS — C.S. Forest Ser
vice officials are awaiting receipt
of a national survey that may
prevent the day they can’t see
the forests for the marijuana.
Results of the survey laun
ched more than a year ago and
prompted by increasing dis
coveries of marijuana being
grown in 151 national forests
are scheduled to be compiled
Wednesday, said Ernie Ander
son director of law' enforcement
for the federal agency.
He said the information will
be used to combat what officials
believe has blossomed into a
clandestine multi-million dollar
business on the government’s
191 million acres of forest.
The forest service is trying to
analyze its policies pertaining to
authorized occupancy of the na
tional forests so that they can be
shared with the Justice Depart
ment, Anderson said.
He said isolated sections of
national forests offer ideal sites
for marijuana cultivation and
officials also are worried about
the safety of tourists stumbling
across the illegal crops.
“When you get that much in
vestment and that kind of value,
you know people get shot at
bank robberies every day for less
than what one of those plants is
worth,” Anderson said. “The av
erage value of the plants grown
in certain areas of California at
harvest is $5,000.”
Authorities report marijuana
patches are discovered each
spring in the 13 million acres of
national forest land in Texas,
Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas
and New Mexico.
Gordon Steele, land manage
ment chief for national forests in
Texas, agreed with Anderson
that few growers are
apprehended.
Law enforcement agencies
“don’t have enough manpower
to sit on a patch until someone
shows up,” Steele said.
Anderson said rangers dis
cover a small percentage of the
illegal crops. Only about
$50,000 in marijuana plants are
discovered each year at Sabine,
Davy Crockett, Sam Houston
and Angelina national forests in.
east Texas.
Forest supervisor John Orr
said one of the “biggest offen
der” areas in the Southwest is a
44,000-acre portion of the
Ouachita National Forest in
southeast Oklahoma.
In their report to the forest
service, McCurtain County au
thorities estimated they have
destroyed $694,700 worth of
marijuana plants since 1978.
Most of Ouachita National is
located in adjacent Arkansas,
but Orr said the southeast Okla
homa terrain drew growers be
cause the area is flat and the land
is better than that in the moun
tains of Oklahoma and
Arkansas.
Jack Boren, special agent in
charge of law enforcement for
the Kisatchie National Forests in
Louisiana describes its mari
juana problems as “a local-
production, local-consumption
type of thing.”
He said the remoteness of
Louisiana’s 597,672 acres of na
tional forests made the secret
harvest “almost like planting
tomatoes.”
Open to the Public
| “Quality First”
Six found dead Saturday
in mountain airplane crash
United Press International
SOCORRO, N.M. —Civil Air
Patrol searchers confirmed
none of the six people aboard
survived the crash of a twin-
engine airplane whose w reckage
was found Saturday in the rug-
1%
Find out how you can improve
your life at an
OUTWARD BOUND
PARTY
Hot dogs & Beer
Arbor Square Party Room
1lj| Friday, April 2 6-8 p.m.
“tljj Outward Bound Alumni please come!
¥
*
*
¥
*
*
¥
*
ged San Mateo Mountains
southwest of Magdalena.
CAP representative Pat Nor-
vell said those on the ill-fated
plane were believed to be Mr.
and Mrs. Jack L. Kerbs, of Drap
er, Utah; a couple named
Anderson; and another uniden
tified couple. Official identifica
tions were being withheld.
A state policeman w'ho asked
not to be identified said the
wreckage was found near mid
day, about l.5 miles north of
Mount Whittington, on a 10,115
foot peak some 20 miles south
west of Magdalena.
CAP aircraft and ground
crews began looking for the
plane, a Beachcraft Baron, late
Friday after being notified that
it had disappeared from aircon-
1% This party is for anyone interested in a trip to the Colorado Rockies that ^
can teach you leadership ana mountaineering.
A newly released film on Colorad') Outward Bound courses will be there. You
be there too! For more info call:Charlie Walter 5-1515 Morris Salge 779- ^
9095.
JEFF’S
PERFORMANCE
CENTER
★ Tune-Ups ★ Carb Repairs
★ Starters ★ Alternators
★ Clutches ★ Brakes
★ General Auto Repairs
★ Performance & Efficiency Mods
★ Stock & Custom Engines
★ Corvette Repairs Of AH Types
★ Hi-Performance Parts & Ac
cessories
★ All Work Fully Guaranteed
81:1-4934
1801 Cavitt — Bryan
trollers’ radar screens.
Officials at the Federal Avia
tion Administration Control
Center in Fort Worth said it was
on a flight from El Paso to Salt
Lake City.
FAA officials said they did not
have the names of those aboard
the craft, but a family spokes
man told UPI that Kerbs was
flying a plane matching the de
scription of the missing one, and
had not arrived in Salt Lake City
as planned.
The spokesman said Kerbs
had been in Sonora, Mexico, on
business, and planned to refuel
in El Paso before flying nonstop
to Salt Lake City.
Norvell said the plane dis
appeared from controllers’
radar screens at the Albuquer
que FAA Center about 4 p.m.,
CST, Friday.
State police said skies were
overcast and scattered light
snow showers had been re
ported in the Mount Whitting
ton area about the time the
plane disappeared.
staff photo by Sumanesh Agrawal
Waiting
Professor Clifford Sherry, who teaches in the
biology department, leans against the fire
hydrant in front of the Plant Sciences Building
reading a book about telephones. Sherry was
waiting for his wife to come by and pick him
up.
Minister rejects
television boycott
United Press International
DALLAS — A Methodist
minister said he rejects a televi
sion boycott being led by by a
Mississippi pastor, but admitted
he believes the clergyman is on
I VALENTINE 11
I SPECIAL W
■SAVE 50% |l
IS ON ANYNEVPROGRAM |r
"1 WITH THISCOUPON
LOSING WcIGHT will never
| 1 Til M.II CUMK
COST Ltov" —— -
ujiiiiitiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiii^
I OFFICIAL NOTICE |
General Studies Program
| students who plan to Pre-Register for the Fall |
= semester in the General Studies Program are 1
1 jjRGED to pick up a Pre-registration Form in |
H j^oom 100 of Harrington Tower from Mar. 29 1
i t pru Apr. 16.
l | iiiii |l , M | ii |||| iiimmi | i | iii ||>|| i ||| i |>| mi ||>| ii ||| im! | imi | m >| i | iiii |||>||| i | m |>|| miHmimmil
the right track.
“People today sense ihl
there is something wrong unk
TV, and they are frustrated be
cause they seemingly can't do
anything about it,” lir. William
F. Fore wrote in the latest issue
of Christian Century, a non-
denominational news magazine.
However, Fore, assistantger-
eral secretary for communica
tions of the national Council o
Churches, said he rejects the
boycott being organized bv Re
Donald Wildmon of Tupek
Miss., leader of the Coalition fo
Better Television.
Fore said the average citizen
misgivings about television wen
focused on surface svmptoni
such as sex, nudity and violenfl
but the flow of demeaning am
distorting messages comm;
from these programs were mur
destructive.
PURYEAR
PLAYBOYS
presents
(N BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION
CALL NOW
846-1727
4MB CARTER CREEK PARKWAY
O NO TASTELESS.
PRE-PACKAGED
FOOD
0 1OSS 14 TO
IMPOUNDS
0 NUTRITIONALLY
SOUND
O NO HUNGER.
STRENUOUS
EXERCISE
I OR SHOTS
EXCLUSIVE
J MAINTENANCE
PROGRAM
A PROGRAMS
yj FOR MEN
BRYAN
WEIGHT LOSS CLINK
CALL Hi - FS. I Ui Tf 9 Pfl 4 SAT. ! BH TV 3 Mi
One Ptione Call can cinge Your Life!!
April 2, 1982 National Guard Armory
9 p.m. -1 a.m. J
Beer, Band, Door Prizes
s 4 00 donation
Tickets available at Sbisa & Puryear Hall