local / state Campus names tes, are ounds e * Dr. Joseph Natowitz, a mem- |Sr of the Texas A&M Uni- C varsity faculty since 1967, has en selected to head the Uni- Irsity’s nationally prominent 'emistry department. Natowitz, 45, assumed his KhinenButiesJune 11. He had served i. If thaiP interim department head jnedtoiB chemistry since Sept. 1, Isi. I Texas A&M’s chemistry program, rated near the top B both size and academic standing, last year attracted Ksearch support totaling $5.3 pillion from outside sources. n g from erthani Josals, :ly Noi rudget a mendi ' border! anging ounced, :oreboi itingap) dy Farmj vith an :o daim ^00 watermelons >ill on highway; it’s real sticky’ ir. E. Dean Gage, 39, has en named associate dean of Veterinary medicine at Texas &M, which has the nation’s rgesl veterinary medicine program. Gage’s appointment was approved by the Texas A&M niversity System Board of .egents Friday. He assumes is duties July 1. Dean George C. Shelton id Gage succeeds Dr. W. W. ay, who is retiring after 17 ((rears with the veterinary rogram. Dr. Zerle L. Carpenter, who was raised in a rural commun ity and rose to become head of the Texas A&M University Department of Animal Scien ce, has been promoted to the position of director of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. The promotion was approved Friday by the Board of Regents. Carpenter, 46, assumes his post Sept. 1 and succeeds Dr. Daniel Pfann- stiel who has accepted a new position in the College of Agriculture. Three retiring members of the Texas A&M University fa culty and a fourth who retired in 1977 have been named pro fessors emeriti. They are: John B. Beckham, chemistry; Bob M. Callaway, civil en gineering; George M. Krise, biology; and Arthur Isbell, chemistry. The Board of Regents took the action Friday in recogni tion of their “long and disting uished service” to the Univer sity. United Press International JOSSIER CITY, La. — The ligate and side of a waterme- m-laden truck worked loose londay, spilling up to 200 idons and forcing police to Jse westbound lanes of Inter- ate 20 for a half hour. [The watermelons were being ansported from Florida to in Worth when the accident lurred. The truck driver, mothy McClellan, 21, of Lake :y, Fla., was charged with car ing an insecure load. “We got the police depart- lent to come up with a front id loader and started pushing le chunks off the interstate Bile the fire department pshed the melon juice and re mains off the divided highway,” said Capt. Quincy Goliher of the Bossier City Fire Department. The watermelons spilled over about 150 yards of highway. Traffic backed up two miles during the 30-minute clean up. “We put approximately 500 gallons of water on it,” Goliher said. “That melon juice, you know, it’s sticky. Once it stayed there a little while and dried a little bit it would have been sticky-slicky. And a little damp ness on it would have made it really slick.” Police said the tailgate of the truck came open and then the side dropped off, allowing the melons to tumble to the pave ment. Today’s Almanac United Press International —I jr 1^ [Today is Tuesday, June 15, it 166th day of 1982 with 199 ) follow. The moon is moving from its it quarter toward its new |(iase. | The morning stars are Mer cury and Venus. ■ The evening stars are Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. J Those born on this date are l,ojotJfd er the sign of Gemini, isnprt Jfl On this date in history: k Dt® ^2, Benjamin Franklin - ke r. demonstrated the relationship n S 0 j&twecn electricity and light- y adW |ing by launching a kite during not ha'jlptorm in Philadelphia with an i to it. iron key suspended from the to this Wing, orgott® In 1904, the excursion steam boat “General Slocum” burst into flames on the East River in New York, taking the lives of 1,021 people. 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GUARANTEED.* J[j| Battalion/Page 3 June 15, 1982 Border bandits, smugglers prey on illegal aliens United Press International LAREDO — Illegal aliens are being snared in the pincers of terror and violence at the hands of border bandits and smugglers who authorities say “thrive on human suffering.” William Selzer, chief of the border patrol in the south Texas border town, said he has re ceived 108 complaints of violent assault since March, mostly deal ing with illegal aliens who were victimized after entering the United States. He said most of the agents like the illegal aliens. “They’re just people trying to improve their lives,” Selzer said. “But the smugglers are the worst kind of criminal. They thrive on human suffering.” Selzer said there is increasing violence by the smugglers and “river rats” who rob, rape, shoot and sometimes kill unwary Mex ican aliens once they cross the border into the United States. “The smugglers will intimi date the wets,” said Selzer. “They’ll take $250 to get them across the water, then brandish a gun or knife and demand more. “And the river rats are worse. They just wait in the brush for the wets to come to them. Rob bery, assaults, rapes and killings. It all happens here. And it’s in creasing.” He said only 10 percent of the of the illegal aliens coming across the border cause trouble. “That means of the 4,000 a month we arrest, about 400 are real pains,” he said. Border patrol agent Joel Gomez said the most violent area is near downtown Laredo, around the two international bridges. “Around sundown, you start seeing gangs of people gather ing at the river, drinking beer and waiting for the wets to cross,” he said. “And if we move in and the smugglers across the river begin shooting, we can’t re turn fire.” Agents patrol the river bot tom, but it is thick with high sunflowers and carrizo, a bam boo-like growth, so the criminals are usually well hidden. MSC Summer Dinner Theater presents A SHOT IN THE DARK June 16-19 ScmUmC A ScmOI (JiliftM Scu