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features Battalion/Page 4B October 14,1982 Now you know United Press International While environmental legisla tion and expensive filtering sys tems can go a long way toward curbing urban pollution, muni cipal planners could take an easier and far lovelier step to purify city air: plant trees. Plant physiologist Bruce Roberts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Delaware, Ohio, has shown that clusters of trees can perform an impressive metropolitan clean-up job. A report in Science Digest magazine explains that the sur faces of leaves are covered with pores and fine hairs which help .combat air pollution. Roberts says the pores easily trap no xious gases, while the hairs cap ture particulate contaminants, holding them until the next rain washes the grime into the ground. Roberts estimates that a 100-year old beach or elm can have up to one half million leaves, allowing a one acre stand to collect more than 20 tons of pollutants in a single growing season. SI off tec shirts with this ad... T-Shirts $ 9 75 Sweatshirts $ 12 75 13 oz. Bar Glasses $ 5 00 each Lined Windbreakers $ 35 00 Caps i $ 5 00 Maroon or White — All Sizes Call: Carolyn White 846-8788 Office 693-0506 Home (The Real Estate Mart) BRAZOS AVIATION Dwayne Bennett, left, an electrical engineer ing major from Humble, Patti Beline, a man agement major from Austin, and Keith NOW FEATURING: FLIGHT INSTRUCTION CHARTER SERVICE RENTAL & SALES 696-8767 Alley cats staff photo by OctavioGi Anderson, an environmental design major from San Antonio, await their turn in bowl ing class while Gary Blizzard finishes his shot. Blizzard is a chemical engineering mi jor from Forney. All are sophomores. Do Something Different Tonight! 120 Walton Drive, C.S. Arizonans keep horses at ‘maxi’ 4 * *5 mini prices MSG-TOWN w - HALL IN CONCERT October 22 8 p.m. G. Rollie White Tickets: $ 6 00 , $ 5 75 , $ 5 00 MSC Box Office: 845-1234 •MSC • TOWN • HALL w United Press International PHOENIX, Ariz. — The dog at Peterson’s Southwest “Mini” Ranch is bigger — much bigger — than the horses. That’s because mini doesn’t refer to the size of the ranch. It’s an abbreviation for Mike and Hermeen Peterson’s registered miniature horses that live in a custom-made world in north west Phoenix. Everything — corrals, feed bins and tack — is scaled down to fit the horses. To meet registra tion requirements, they can stand no taller than 34 inches from the ground to the base of the mane. The Petersons have been col lecting miniatures for two years, beginning with a white stallion, Buttons, and now have 12 ol the horses, the biggest collection in Arizona. The small horses are more popular in California, Texas and Florida, Peterson said. Though small, the horses are pricy. “You might be able to find one for $2,()()(),” she said. They average about $3,000 and the highest price she has heard of is $40,000. Feed obviously is cheaper than for regular size horses — one bale of hay can feed a minia ture for three months — but up keep and traveling to shows is not. “The facilities cost the same as for large horses,” Peterson said. “The stalls cost the same, the horse-shoer costs diei and the vet chargesthea Peterson acknowledges! attires aren’t very pracdd “They’re a novelty,alio she said. “You spend moit with them than other In I he only practicality isgi ' into the breeding business, president of the Interra p- Miniature Associationdes them as ‘the Porschesd horse world. I he Petersons’ first foi spring — which stood at birth — is an Arabtypeiy “Fittie Egypt.” 1 heir stable also Fnclu ma J or black and white pinto i brown and white pinto,T foal, the white stallion' tons," and some greys. Chris VTf