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Battalion
Serving the University community
College Station, Texas Thursday, June 2, 1983
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flooding from melted snow spread
i far east as Nebraska today as Na-
(mal Guardsmen with bulldozers
id children with garden hoses
lied ranks to tight a 30-foot wall of
wd that forced 1,100 people from
eir homes in Bountiful, Utah,
■hunderstorms that drenched the
Wing Great Basin area Wednes-
ay night moved into the Central
Bis today. Mountain snowmelt
lust’d flooding all the way to the
ligh Plains of southwest Nebraska,
Be several roads were under water
long Lodgepole Creek.
| Most of the people evacuated in
Btiful, and another 1,000 who
Bo flee new slides in nearby Farm-
igton Wednesday, were back in their
piles by Wednesday night — but
:d to flee again. Ogden residents
sandbags to protect their homes
against the rising waters of the Weber
River.
Utah Gov. Scott Matheson called
National Guardsmen back from sum
mer camp in Colorado to help fight
the “unimaginable” destruction in his
flood-and-mud-battered state. Hun
dreds of homes have been damaged
or destroyed since Monday by the
mud, trees and debris.
Cooler temperatures and lesser
winds helped firefighters from six
states control a timber blaze that des
troyed 405 acres in Idaho’s rugged
Panhandle National Forest.
Flooded streams across Colorado
were closed to boats and rafts
Wednesday after five people were
dumped into the icy Las Animas Riv
er near Durango. All survived.
So far floods and mudslides in the
West have killed three people and in
jured at least 13.
lag to honor
edical school
raduating class
WHOREHIM
By Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
e third class to graduate from
'exas A&M College of Medicine
lave an added honor at Satur-
commencement exercise.
I gonfalon — a specially designed
■— will be presented for the first
at t ^ ie ceremony. A gonfalon is
, MarionnSt ipended from a crossbar at the top
w io keepIV' la ole to hang vertically instead of
i Irani w; • ptori tally.
of a gonfalon has been
iproved for each college at the Uni-
rjjiy. The design, similar for each
lege, will carry the University col-
isand the color representing the dis-
Ipline. A symbol appropriate for the
T* Bee represented also will be c
»st prestigious award given to a
t, he said. The award is pre-
:on the
Bge representec
■
- & Dee Alan Roach, president of the
graduating class, will lead the
[OCession carrying the gonfalon and
jplace it in a central location on
le. The gonfalon, which has a
|ite field surrounded by a maroon
Ber and a green caduceus symbo-
Ig medicine, will be spotlighted
Bughout the ceremony.
■he only award presented during
■ceremony will be the Anderson
jward. The faculty considers it to be
the most
student, he said. I he award is pre
sented to the student judged by the
faculty to be most outstanding in the
graduating class.
Dr. Raymond D. Pruitt from the
Mayo Medical School will be the spe
cial speaker. Pruitt previously has
been associated with the Baylor
School of Medicine and helped start
the Texas A&M College of Medicine.
The administration of the medical
oath — The Prayer of Maimonides —
will be given to 32 graduating physi
cians by Dr. Phillip Cain, assistant
professor in the internal medicine de
partment. The doctoral hoods will be
placed on students by Dr. Joyce Davis,
head of the pathology department,
and Dr. John Montgomery, head of
the radiology department.
Faculty members were chosen by
the graduating class to perform these
honors, Dr. Samuel H. Black, head of
the department of microbiology and
immunology, said.
A student chosen by the class will
speak at the commencement exercise,
which begins at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in
Rudder Theater. The ceremony will
be followed by an informal reception.
Dennis Randolph of Bryan practices his golf stroke on
the driving range near the Zachry parking lot.
Randolph is a University shuttle bus driver.
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Spinning their wheels
staff photo by Peter Rocha
Sion Skroder, 12, and his brother Jon, 7, practice their
roller skating skills Wednesday afternoon. The boys,
whose mother works on campus, are from Bryan and have
enjoyed skating for about two years.
Imposing brucellosis quarantine
could cause $25 million loss
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
Two years ago, a rancher sued the
state of Texas and obtained an injunc
tion that prevented health officials
from testing his cattle for brucellosis.
That action may ultimately lead to
millions of dollars of losses for Texas
cattlemen, a Texas A&M researcher
said.
Brucellosis, or Bangs disease, is a
contagious, infectious bacterial dis
ease that causes cows to abort, bear
weakened calves or fail to conceive,
but poses no danger to consumers of
meat or pasteurized dairy products.
The injunction the rancher
obtained, which was appealed to the
Texas Supreme Court and upheld,
caused Texas to be in non-compliance
with federal health laws. In response,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture is
trying to place a quarantine on inter
state shipment of Texas cattle.
A bill introduced in the Legislature
would have corrected the problem by
forcing ranchers to allow their cattle
to be tested, but was defeated recently
by one vote. The United States De
partment of Agriculture quarantine
was proposed shortly after the legisla
tion failed and would have gone into
effect Tuesday night. But a federal
judge blocked the quarantine with a
restraining order.
That block, however, is only tem
porary; a full hearing on the matter
could be held as early as June 13.
And if the quarantine is imposed,
Texas ranchers stand to lose at least
$25 million, said Steve Amosson, an
agricultural economist for the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station.
Amosson, who is also a doctoral
candidate in agricultural economics
at Texas A&M, has spent the last six
years working on two computer mod
els dealing with brucellosis — one is
an econometric model, the other an
epidemilogical one. Amosson de
veloped the epidemilogical model,
the other was developed by Dr. G. S.
Collins, visiting assistant professor of
agricultural economics.
Using the two in conjunction,
Amosson can predict how a change in
rocedure used in dealing with
rucellosis (such as a state-wide
uarantine) would affect the cattle in-
ustry. k
“We’re talking about a massive',
model,” he said.
He said that $25 million, which is
the least ranchers could expect to
lose, comes in several areas: cattlemen
in general would lose almost $14 mil
lion because of the transportation re
strictions, purebred cattle breeders
would lose about an additional $4 mil
lion and federal aid to the tune of $8
million wpuld be cut off.
And if the state does not compen
sate for the loss in federal aid, “the
producers will end up eating that
eight million,” Amosson said.
However, $25 million is the least
Texas ranchers stand to lose, Amos
son said, adding that, under the cor
rect circumstances, ranchers could
lose as much as five times that much
within a year after a quarantine is im
posed.
In times of severe draught, Texas
ranchers move about 10 to 15 percent
of their stock out of state, Amosson
said. But under a quarantine they
wouldn’t have time to do so, he said,
and those cattle would have to be
slaughtered. If that happened, ran
chers would lose between $54 million
and $108 million, Amosson said.
The reason for the lack of time is
the stringent testing procedures that
would be required to move the cattle
out of state. Under the quarantine,
breed cattle could be shipped out of
Texas only from “qualified herds”
that have passed two tests for the dis
ease 120 days apart. That is too long a
time to. wait, Amosson said.
That shipping requirement would
affect only breeding cattle. Steers,
spayed heifers and other cattle for
slaughter would only have to have a
special brand and be accompanied by
a permit. However, the branding and
permits would still cost ranchers
money.
Third trial for Cuevas
ends in murder conviction
United Press International
HOUSTON — Over the past eight
years, three juries have agreed that
Texas inmate Ignacio Cuevas was
guilty of capital murder for the death
of a prison librarian during the 1974
siege at the prison and he should be
executed for his crime.
His first two convictions — in 1975
and 1979 — and sentences were over
turned by appeals courts for errors
made during the trial. However, pro
secutor Burt Graham said Wednes
day he did not believe any errors were
committed during the latest trial,
which ended in a conviction Tuesday.
The jury deliberated just over
three hours Wednesday before
reaching its verdict in the punishment
phase and sentenced Cuevas to death
by injection. It took only two and one-
half hours to find the Texas inmate
guilty of capital murder.
Cuevas, 52, and the father of four,
was convicted for the death of prison
librarian Julio Standley, 43, one of 13
hostages taken in the 11 -day seige and
one of four killed during the incident.
Cuevas, the only surviving inmate
gunman, did not actually shoot
Standley. But Graham said because
the state proved that one of his co
conspirators fired the fatal bullet,
Cuevas could also be found guilty of
the crime.
Prosecutors estimated the three
trials cost state taxpayers $600,000.
“We don’t think there will be a
fourth trial. Of course every capital
murder case is appealed,” Graham
said.
Defense lawyer Will Gray, dis
agreed, saying he intended to point
out several trial errors in his appeal.
He further claims the verdict violates
a Supreme Court ruling on the death
penalty.
Cuevas, already is serving a 45-year
sentence for a Pecos killing.
The siege at the Huntsville unit be
gan on July 24, 1974 when inmates
seized the top floor of the education
building of the Walls Unit. The in
mates took 13 hostages. Two inmates,
leader Fred Gomez Carrasco and
Rudolfo Dominguez, were killed
along with Standley and Elizabeth Be-
seda during the attempted break out.
Indians rap administration
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WASHINGTON — Indian tribal
leaders say they want to get rid of the
“self-serving bureaucracy” that man
ages their affairs and handle things
themselves, dealing directly with
Congress instead of the Interior De
partment.
Elected leaders of a dozen Indian
tribes released to reporters Wednes
day a position paper written by the
National Tribal Chairman’s Associa
tion, which represents 166 Indian
tribal governments from across the
country.
Leaders said the document was de
livered to the White House and Con
gress late Tuesday.
The position paper described con
ditions of health, housing and educa
tion in Indian country, recommend
wide-ranging reforms and criticized
President Reagan for treating In
dians poorly.
“We’ve gone along with a self-
serving bureaucracy that makes all
our decisions for us,” Newton Lamar,
tribal association vice president, said.
“They tell us how much money
we’re going to need. We have no (say)
whatsoever into the formation of the
budgets,” Lamar said.
Indians aren’t going along with the
bureaucracy anymore because “lately
we haven’t been getting hardly any
thing. There isn’t enough money to
go around. Programs are being cut
drastically,” he said.
Registration
ends soon
Late registration for the first
summer school session will con
tinue through Thursday, June 2.
Thursday also is the last day to add
a course. The last day to drop a
course without a penalty will be Fri
day, June 3. Late registration will
be in the Pavilion.
inside
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Local 3
Opinions 2
Sports 9
State 4
National 8
forecast
Partly cloudy skies today with a
high of 86. The low tonight near
70. Partly cloudy and warmer Fri
day with a high near 89. For the
weekend, partly cloudy and warm
with a chance of isolated thunder
showers.