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December 3,1982
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Cut-a-thon planned for Sunday
If you need a haircut and are feeling charitable, Courtea II
and the March of Dimes are sponsoring a cut-a-thon, Sun
day from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. in the Ramada Inn complex.
With every $10 donation to the March of Dimes, Courtea
II hairstylists will cut your hair for free. The Ramada Inn will
be providing refreshments and local celebrities will be there
to serve the champagne.
Appointments are not required.
Education association honors prof
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tration and Director of the Center for Community Educa
tion here, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of
the National Community Education Association.
Berridge will serve a three-year term and will represent
Region IV, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.
He has been director of the Center for Community Edu
cation at Texas A&M for 11 years. During that time, more
than 100 Texas school districts have become involved in
community education.
Parks department offers basketball
The College Station Parks and Recreation Department is
organizing an adult basketball league and would like to
invite any interested group to participate.
Entries will open Dec. 13 and close Jan. 4. The season
begins Jan. 10. The league will have separate divisions for
women, men, and men six feet and under.
An entry fee of $ 125 will be required for teams who want
to participate in the league. For further information call the
College Station Parks and Recreation Department at 696-
4753.
Regents appoint TAES director
Dr. E.W. Trew has been appointed assistant director emer
itus for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. He was
appointed by the Texas A&M Board of Regents.
Trew retired last August after serving as assistant director
and state agricultural program leader for the Extension for
lOyears. Hebeganin 1943asan assistant county agricultural
agent and later served as county agent, agronomist and
pasture specialist.
Workers give to MH-MR gift drive
Texas Public Employees Association is sponsoring a
Christmas gift drive for Mental Health-Mental Retardation.
They are urging all Texas A&M employees to attend a
program in the MSC lounge on Dec. 13 and to bring a gift.
If you are unable to attend, gifts may be left at collection
stations at the Printing Center, Zachry Engineering Center,
the Oceanography and Meteorology Building, the copy cen
ter, or the dean’s office in the College of Veterinary Medi
cine.
The gifts will be distributed by the MH-MR facility.
Appropriate gifts would include toys, handkerchiefs, socks,
panty hose, scarves and wrapping paper.
Today is final day for nominations
Today is the last day that nominations will be accepted for
the College of Liberal Arts Teacher Excellence Awards.
Boxes are on the first floor of the Academic and Agency
Building and the Academic Building to accept nominations.
You need not be a Liberal Arts major to nominate your
favorite Liberal Arts professor.
Debate tournament to start today
The Aggieland Debate Classic starts today with debate
teams from 13 schools participating. The tournament, which
will run through Sunday, is divided into senior and junior
divisions.
Teams participating include: Baylor University, the Uni
versity of Arkansas, the University of Houston, the Universi
ty of Texas, Missouri Southern State University, Houston
Baptist University and the University of Southwestern
Louisiana.
If you have an announcement or interesting item to submit
for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed
McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611.
Defense rests in Wood trial Bt;
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United Press International
SAN ANTONIO —A federal
agent testified Thursday he is
convinced Charles Harrelson
either killed federal Judge John
H. Wood Jr. in 1979 or was sit
ting in a car beside whoever pul
led the trigger.
Mike Taylor, an agent for the
Alchohol, Tobacco and
Firearms Bureau in Houston,
said he had a long conversation
with Harrelson while driving
him back to Houston after Har-
relson’s 1980 arrest in Van
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“There’s no question in my
mind after the trip who killed
Wood,” Taylor said.
Then quoting his own earlier
testimony to a grand jury,
Taylor said, “He convinced us
he was actually present and
either pulled the trigger or was
sitting there when it was done.”
Taylor was called as the last
defense witness for Harrelson,
but as with several other defense
witnesses, the testimony back
fired and proved to be incrimi
nating.
Harrelson’s defense attorney,
Tom Sharpe, rested his case af
ter Taylor testified.
Harrelson’s wife JoAnn,
charged with obstruction of jus
tice, was to call her witnesses
next. Elizabeth Chagra, wife of
Las Vegas gambler Jimmy
Chagra — accused of hiring
Harrelson to kill Wood — is also
on trial.
Taylor said Harrelson
threatened to kill his friend Pete
Kay on the same trip to Houston
because he believed Kay had in
formed on him in an unrelated
was angry
sentenced
because Wood had
i friend of Harrel
son’s to federal prison.
“He said Judge Wood had
done him wrong,” Taylor said.
“He said he never killed anyone
who did not personally harm
him or his friends.”
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weapons case.
Harrelson’s defense has been
that Kay was responsible for the
judge’s death and. is framing
Harrelson.
But Taylor said Harrelson
told him and two other agents
on the trip to Houston that
“Judge Wood was not mur
dered, he had committed
suicide by the way he sent people
to prison.” He said Harrelson
In testimony Wednesday, a
defense witness who was sup-
E osed to place Harrelson in Dal
is when Wood was shot became
frustrated and admitted he was
not sure when he saw Harrelson
that morning.
But the Dallas
wholesaler buckled when id
tinned by prosecutors.
“All 1 know is it was id
morning, and it was before
o’clock,” he finally said.
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vestigating Wood’s death,ri:« , 1 , )l
ing from 9:30 a.m. to noon |r ss ' c iet
When questioned by defense
attorneys, Richard Thomas tes
tified he visited Harrelson in the
gambler’s Dallas apartment be
tween 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. May,
29, 1979, the morning Wood
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have also testified they sawhM ~ ,
relson in Dallas the monff' ^
Wood was shot. Bu, lie if ” i° ,P h l
mas. they left open
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Wood and flown back to Dal
FDA approval expected
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Kidney stone druer found ^
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United Press International
DALLAS — A drug found to
be effective at inhibiting some
kidney stone formation could
receive Food and Drug Admi
nistration approval by Christ
mas, says the doctor who tested
the drug for 15 years.
The drug, sodium cellulose
phosphate, was researched and
tested by Dr. Charles Y.C. Pak,
director of the National Insti
tutes of Health’s General Clinic
al Research Center in Dallas.
Pak said Wednesday his tests
showed the drug successful for
people suffering from severe
forms of absorptive hypercal-
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ciuria, a common kidney stone
forming disorder usually associ
ated with increased absorption
of calcium from food. Sodium
cellulose phosphate is a purified
wood-fiber powder attached to
phosphate, he said.
About a fourth of all kidney
stone sufferers, between 25,000
and 50,000 people, have absorp
tive hypercalciuria, said Pak, a
professor of internal medicine
at The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical School in
Dallas.
“The main thing to remem
ber is that there are many diffe
rent causes for kidney stones. It
is not a single disease,” Pak said.
“It therefore demands many
different modes of treatment.”
About 1 million people in the
United States suffer from the
rough and spiny kidney stones
formed by excessive deposits of
calcium in the urine. The stones
generally become trapped in the
urinary tract, causing excruciat
ing pain.
Pak said sodium cellulose
phosphate has been in use in
Europe since 1963, but his work
defined its effectiveness in treat
ing kidney-stone patients and
provided the necessary research
to obtain FDA approval.
The FDA has indicated
approval possibly will be given
by Christmas, he said.
Mission Pharmacol Co. in San
Antonio will market the drug,
which comes in a powder form
and is mixed with water or juice
and taken at mealtime. Pak said
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cost of the drug, of which} J. ||ntv ^
tient may consume up to j (j( T
pounds per year, had not
estabhshed. 1 to prove
It will depend on theei« he *;. mu
of usage, he said. If iU*^ S()C
used widely it may he ven*^ c || e| . s n
pensive. I hope not. I%|. dead in j
cost does not make it prohiorM Rj c | mU)r
to use.”
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I he procedure for detern| f ^
ing the cause of a person's.—
ney stones requires threeout|B : w ‘ ls su
tient visits to a clinic overall* 1 ut, c '
month period and isabargaiiL „
$500, Pak said. she s;
“Compared with the.5 c ‘! use , (
having a stone removed or■ Social St
ated in the hospital, thecostl* 1 . iernove( (
the initial tests is very reas(* d 11111 se ^
able, about 10 percent of thetT teller sa
for hospitalization,” he said. P sl bity Na
fiend called
NASA increases next
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space walk to 5 days
“We tested the suits. Tkj ha:
failed pretty early. But tni
why we ran the tests. Thafsl
way it goes,” Allen said.
A failure of a fan in Ala ; United Pi
suit and a malfunction in il pliEBUR?
regulator of Lenoir’s suit for«*xas reside
the cancellation of the walk. Pinson Cm
Aside from that one hitch,# lieu of $1
crew of the fifth shuttle fliArged in tl
seemed pleased with tKe residpiler rig ai
of their mission and showed'T bil drillin
movies and slides of their fi# Johnsor
day flight. Aiorneyjof
“We had a super spacecT [> u C1 e
that performed like a chamRl lnvestl !
Two satellites went off withoij! 1!! ln § ^9 U1
hitch, and that tells rnequat f Xas - ’’ e
control is magnificent,’’said®
ssion Commander Van
Brand.
United Press International
SPACE CENTER, Houston
— The space administration has
lengthened the next space shut
tle mission by two days to in
clude a space walk — a make-up
for an aborted walk during the
shuttle Columbia’s fifth flight.
Don Peterson and Story Mus-
grave, two mission specialists
slated for the maiden voyage of
the shuttle Challenger, are
already in training for the walk,
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
announced Wednesday. Their
walk will be the first by Amer
icans in nine years.
“Planning is under way to
conduct an EVA (extravehicular
activity spacewalk). That would
extend the duration of that mis
sion from three to five day£”
NASA spokesman John Lawr
ence said.
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The launch of the Challenger
is tentatively set for Jan. 24.
Peterson and Musgrave will
use the same pair of $2 million
space suits that malfunctioned
on astronauts Bill Lenoir and
Joe Allen. The men were to
make a three-hour walk outside
the Columbia, but that had to be
canceled.
Student
NASA technicians scheduled
a 2 p.m news conference Thurs
day to present findings on the
suit malfunctions.
At a news conference
Wednesday, Allen and Lenoir
both expressed disappointment
about their scrubbed space walk.
The crew comically nan*
a videotape and 40 slides of*
flight, the key satellite
ments and several cabin view 1
themselves hamming it up.
One showed Lenoir catclii
peanuts in his mouth and
wide-eyed Allen spinning
spoonful of fruit cocktail into!
mouth.
“T hese were to show welt
fun, just in case you didn'trfi
ize it,” Lenoir said.
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